The San Juan Daily Star, the only paper with News Service in English in Puerto Rico, publishes 7 days a week, with a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday edition, along with a Weekend Edition to cover Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
For the past 16 years, the Organization of American States (OAS) has had before it a complaint that seeks voting rights for Puerto Rico in the U.S. presidential elections, but after holding a hearing in 2018, the OAS has yet to issue a ruling.
“You don’t dare to resolve,” pro-statehood advocate and lawyer Gregorio Igartúa wrote in a letter to OAS Secretary General Luis Leonardo Almagro.
The case is Igartua et. al. v United States #13.154Pet. 776-06, which has been pending final disposition since 2006.
The petition filed by Igartúa involves a demand to achieve equality in voting rights in federal elections for over 3 million U.S. citizens living in Puerto Rico.
The OAS held a hearing on the petition in Boulder, Colorado in 2018, 12 years after the original filing. The complaint accuses the United States of violating international law by denying voting rights to Puerto Rico in federal elections.
Igartúa has written several times since the hearing to request a final disposition of the case this year without further delays, as legally required in cases involving the protection of due process rights.
Also overdue is an order by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (ICHR) of the OAS to the United States to take the required affirmative action to end the discriminatory denial.
Igartúa said the commission appears to be afraid.
“Apparently Mr. Almagro, after 16 years it seems that for unknown reasons the ICHR of the OAS does not dare to dispose of the Complaint,” Igartúa said in the letter.
The letter comes three months after the Puerto Rico Status Act, which seeks to resolve its territorial status and its relationship to the U.S. through a federally binding plebiscite, was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Even though the House passed the bill in December, the Senate never scheduled a floor vote for it, restarting the process of getting the act approved under a new Congress.
The Executive Committee of the Graduate Students Association of the Mayagüez Residential Center for Educational Opportunities, known as CROEM ALUMNI, unreservedly supported on Monday a proposal by Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago to convert into law an initiative to create public schools that use renewable energy in order to economize on the costs of supplying them with electricity, and thus integrate island schools into a comprehensive environmental conservation plan by not encouraging the use of fossil fuels.
“We want to be part of the groups that support the initiative of the Senate president, creating the ‘Renewable Energy Act in Puerto Rico’s Public Schools,’ which seeks to declare as a public policy of the Government the use of renewable energy sources as the first alternative for providing electricity to public schools. Multiple alternatives have
been developed on the planet to face the problem of climate change, environmental protection and of course substantial savings in the payment for electricity service,” said Wilson Nazario, executive director of CROEM ALUMNI. Senate President Jose Luis Dalmau Santiago on Monday introduced the bill seeking to establish the “Renewable Energy Act in Puerto Rico’s Public Schools.” The proposal would declare the use of renewable energy as the first option to provide electricity to public schools.
“It is possible to offer quality services and help the planet simultaneously,” states the preamble of Senate Bill 1256. “Renewable energy is cheaper than that produced by fossil fuels.”
Dalmau Santiago stressed the importance of taking action in the face of the climate crisis.
“Climate change is an urgent issue to address, the survival of Planet Earth depends on the actions that governments take to avoid the negative impact of global warming,” he said.
Rep. Gretchen Marie Hau Irizarry, who chairs the House Transportation, Infrastructure and Works Committee, introduced a resolution Monday for the Joint Committee on Public-Private Partnerships to probe the Luis Muñoz Marín Airport public-private partnership.
The measure calls for a probe into methodologies and the analysis carried out by the Puerto Rico Ports Authority and by the Public-Private Partnerships Authority to comply with the obligation to financially and operationally audit Aerostar Airport Holdings.
“Aerostar began its 40 years of control over Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (AILMM) on February 27, 2013, with the disbursement of $615 million to the Ports Authority and annual payments of $2.5 million in the first five years, 5% of gross income in years six to 30, and so on,” the lawmaker said. “Ten years later, it is
necessary for the private operator to inform the country of its plans, achievements, and challenges.”
“In addition to that, [there have been] complaints about the poor maintenance of the facilities inside and outside AILMM, [and] of the aeronautics areas,” Hau added. “The continuous robberies inside and outside the facilities, the lack of efficient air conditioning, and the alleged continual neglect in roof maintenance, causing leaks and potential problems with passenger safety, among other statements, are complaints that constantly reach the Legislative Assembly.”
On March 14, Aerostar announced the inauguration of Terminal D at a cost of about $14 million.
“There is a lack of substantive audits or other means to audit or confirm obligations under the Aerostar contract,” Hau noted. “The Legislature and the people of Puerto Rico do not have the benefit of knowing how the company has invested funds and whether the amounts
come from Aerostar itself or whether they are federal funds.”
Late last week, La Fondita de Jesús, a nonprofit organization that focuses primarily on helping the homeless and needy by providing clothing, food, housing, education resources and even medical care for vulnerable communities, celebrated Father’s Day at a local activity center in the Barrio Gandul neighborhood of Santurce.
Dozens of fathers who have lived through the experience of homelessness arrived at the community center early Friday to enjoy lunch, motivational speeches, karaoke open mic and even gifts, all provided by La Fondita de Jesús.
“Sharing and celebrating with our participants is something that fills us with joy and excitement, especially because La Fondita de Jesús is a safe place and we receive these folks with lots of love,” said Josué Maysonet, the executive director of La Fondita de Jesús. “Today we wish a happy Father’s Day to all fathers and especially our participants.”
La Fondita de Jesús had a full house starting early in the morning for the Father’s Day activity, which opened with a motivational speech regarding self-esteem. Some of the participants brought up the fact that it can be difficult to maintain healthy self-esteem when others discriminate against them for being homeless and unemployed. Throughout the activity, participants were asked to describe positive things like flowers, the sun and trees and then apply these to themselves, ending
the activity with phrases like “I am beautiful,” “I am light” and “I am essential to life.”
The event culminated with a karaoke session in which many showed off their talents as singers. After lunch was provided to the participants, they received their gifts.
With the arrival of summer, and in particular amid the record-breaking heat wave the island has been experiencing over the past couple of weeks, La Fondita de Jesús has stepped up its assistance activities significantly because many people who are homeless are spending a lot more time in the facilities to cool themselves off, apart from bathing and hydrating
themselves. “Ever since the extreme heat wave began, we have been receiving between 75 and 90 people on a daily basis, looking for basic needs, due to the heat,” Maysonet told the STAR. “Besides offering the basic needs, we are also providing medical and mental health services that include a doctor and a nurse. Certainly, our facilities have become more than a place where these people receive services for survival; they have also worked as a shelter for the homeless to spend the day and protect themselves from the extreme heat. This has significantly raised the usage of our services, especially showers and clothing.”
“Apart from these extreme heat waves, we are in hurricane season,” he added, “which means all organizations need to be filled to the top with materials and food. There is an urgent need for inventory items and shelter, so organizations like ours must be prepared to have all equipment to manage any hurricane emergency.”
La Fondita de Jesús has been serving the community for nearly 40 years, and has been growing in membership since the 1980s, and awareness regarding its efforts to support the homeless community has become greater thanks to the growth of the organization. The nonprofit describes itself as a “dedicated group of individuals dedicated to transforming the lives of the homeless and those who live in vulnerable communities in Puerto Rico.” On top of those efforts to provide the basic needs of those who are homeless and needy, La Fondita de Jesús also provides activities, like the Father’s Day celebration, to make the people it serves feel included in the broader society.
Anyone who wants to work with La Fondita de Jesús can do so by calling 787-724-4051, or by donating directly through ATH Móvil at path/LaFonditaDeJesús.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, Florida, announced Monday afternoon the formation of Tropical Storm Bret over the Central Atlantic, urging the Lesser Antilles to monitor its progress.
According to the NHC, Bret was located about 1,295 miles (2,085 kilometer [km]) east of the South Windward Islands, moving west at 21 miles per hour (33 km/h) with sustained winds of 40 miles per hour (65 km/h).
On the forecast track, the system was expected to approach the Lesser Antilles later this week. Tropical storm-force winds were extending up to 45 miles (75 km) from its center.
Bret’s formation at this time of year is not unusual. During hurricane season, systems can form anywhere in the Atlantic and Caribbean, and are often closely monitored for their potential to strengthen.
In its 5 p.m. advisory, the NHC anticipated that Bret could become a hurricane in a couple of days.
“Interests in the Lesser Antilles should monitor the progress of this system,” the NHC warned.
Meanwhile, Puerto Rican Telecommunications Alliance President Wanda Pérez reported Monday
that companies in the sector have invested significantly in preparing for an increasingly resilient infrastructure.
“Our goal is always to offer the best service,” Pérez said. “In emergency situations, it is vital that authorities, businesses and citizens can count on telecommunications services to stay informed and access essential services.”
A common challenge during hurricane season is the prolonged outage of electric service. For this reason, Pérez pointed out that many companies have developed energy backup systems, including solar panels, batteries, inverters and gas, diesel and gasoline generators at critical sites.
“Access to diesel to keep generators running has been a big concern in the past,” she said. “We maintain close communication with the government so that telecommunications are considered a priority service in the distribution of diesel,” she said.
In addition to the energy issue, Pérez said other measures have been taken, such as the acquisition of equipment to ensure a healthy inventory, the inspection of antennas and fiber optic routes, and cleaning work to avoid damage.
“It is also important to prepare workers in the industry,” she said. “Many companies have implemented emergency plans and measures so that staff are ready to provide support in the event of a service interruption. Our commitment is to handle any eventuality with the greatest urgency to keep Puerto Rico connected.”
The Puerto Rican Telecommunications Alliance will also disseminate educational messages to promote the safe and appropriate use of telecommunications during the hurricane season.
Vieques Mayor José “Junito” Corcino Acevedo announced Monday that the offshore island municipality’s emergency operations center (EOC) is ready for the next atmospheric phenomenon that passes through or close to Puerto Rico.
“The EOC of the municipality of Vieques is ready to deal with any situation,” the mayor said in a press release. “During recent months we have outlined, together with federal and state agencies, a contingency plan in case of being impacted by any atmospheric phenomenon. Our EOC has the highest technology, as well as the trained personnel to handle any event.”
Corcino Acevedo added that if an impact is imminent, the Maria M. Simons school facilities will be enabled to serve as a shelter.
The EOC is located in the former Mercedes de Ruiz School (Milivy) in the Santa María de Vieques neighborhood.
“Our EOC is composed of elements of the municipal police and the emergency corps of the municipality, as well as state agencies such as the departments of Public Safety, Family, Education -- for shelters -- and Health, in addition to the bureaus of Police, Fire and Medical Emer-
gencies,” the mayor noted. “We also have liaisons with the National Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as well as the federal government’s Fish and Wildlife Service. We have first-class radio frequency
communication systems and all-terrain vehicles for emergency interventions.”
The EOC facility, meanwhile, has an emergency electrical generator system of about 30 tons and a second backup system based on solar technology that would provide electricity to the EOC uninterruptedly.
José Corcino Acevedo
Arecibo Mayor Carlos “Tito” Ramírez Irizarry invited all residents of Arecibo and visitors to the north of the island to enjoy and celebrate the traditional Night of San Juan (Noches de San Juan) celebration this Friday in “el Paseo de las Damas” Víctor Rojas, and right beside the Atlantic Ocean and the Arecibo River, starting at 8 p.m.
To the surprise of many, this year’s Night of San Juan coincides with another event known as “Noches de Latin Jazz,” which is offered every third Friday of the month. Since this year the night of San Juan is on a Friday, the two events will coincide, and therefore the northern coastal municipality decided to combine them.
“The goal is for us to create a quality event for the entire family, and provide an opportunity to young talented people to have their chance on a stage, such as the group Ritmo Caribe in collaboration with the experimental jazz group Caribbean Latin Jazz,” José Luis González, Arecibo’s municipal culture director, told the STAR.
The mayor also had some words to add regarding
the event.
“We have prepared a solid and complete itinerary for family enjoyment, with music from Molina and his band Caribbean Latin Jazz, and we will also have interpretations from Ritmo Caribe,” Ramírez Irizarry said of the event organized by Rumba Events and sponsored by 90.FM Capital of Jazz and Arecibo Home Design, Super K 106 and Cabrera Hermanos. “We will also have a tribute to Lizzette Cubero.”
In Puerto Rico, the night of San Juan is also the official grand celebration of the island’s Capital City, which is celebrated every year on June 23 with beach activities taking place all over the island. Just like in other locations of the world, Puerto Rico holds the celebration in honor of St. John the Baptist. While the Catholic community remembers the saint’s birthday, many people of many different religious backgrounds and beliefs come together in their own events to practice ancient customs that are supposed to ward off bad luck.
The most recognized event is at midnight on June 23-24, where people jump into the water on their backs, whether it’s on a river, in the sea or even at a nearby pool. They do this repeatedly until they’ve accomplished three to nine plunges. The number of times people jump into the water varies from person to person, depending on their own personal beliefs. Some shower them with flowers, while others simply enjoy their time singing and dancing with
family and friends.
The team managing the event is more than excited to make it happen, González told the STAR.
“The Noches de Latin Jazz event began at the end of last year,” he said. “Arecibo is rich in terms of its music environment. It is the birthplace of some of the best voices in trios, and the number of orchestras and steel bands that come from the city is astonishing. We are very grateful for the number of young people and not so young people who are assisting through this event and are feeling confident that it’s going to be great.”
Loíza Mayor Julia Nazario Fuentes said Monday that the municipality’s work team and volunteer groups are collaborating on preparations for the traditional festivities in honor of Santiago Apóstol, which are scheduled to begin this Friday and end on Sunday, July 30, with various musical, artistic and cultural offerings from the northern coastal town’s rich Afro-Caribbean traditions.
“Soon we will present the calendar of events, but from now on we remind citizens of the dates so that they have them separated in their calendars,” the mayor said. “In Loíza, these days hold great meaning because [the festival] is a reunion with our traditions and we have many Loiceños of the diaspora who separate those days to be with their families and enjoy community.”
In cultural terms, Don Ricardo Alegría Gallardo, founder of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, was one of the academics who studied the origins and manifestations of the traditional festivals in greater detail.
In 1958, Alegría published in the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras Campus’ Journal of Social Sciences that “in the nineteenth century Puerto Rican society is a complex mosaic where, on a Hispanic basis, characteristic
features of aboriginal and African cultures have merged with lesser or greater force.”
“However, the process of transculturation was not uniform, in some regions the black influence was minimal, while in others, especially in the coastal area, African culture achieved a strong grip,” Alegría wrote.
From there he went on to describe the various manifestations of this Loiceña tradition. There are three images of Santiago, one each for men, women and children. Each
image of Santiago has a day so that it can be honored. Different symbols of the festival can be seen in the parades. There are four types of people in the parades: the knights, the “vejigantes,” the crazy ones, and the old. Each type of person represents something different. The knights represent the European soldiers of medieval times, and use colors like yellow, red and green. Vejigantes represent the bad. Their masks, made of coconut, have many different colors and are appreciated as an authentic artisanal specialty. The crazy ones are men dressed as women who do mischief to entertain and make the participants laugh. The old men represent poor men, and wear paper masks and ragged costumes as they beg for coins.
The traditional festivities begin in earnest with a large caravan on Sunday, July 25, touring the coast from Torrecilla Baja to Loíza’s urban center, and also include the Day of the Absent Loiceños, as well as artistic presentations at night and a 5-kilometer road race, along with parades.
“As soon as we have confirmed all the events, we will publish them in a timely manner so as to celebrate together our culture, which was born in Loíza and with affection we take it to the whole world,” Nazario Fuentes said.
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
One year after Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should reconsider whether the Constitution affords Americans a right to birth control, Democrats and reproductive-rights advocates are laying the groundwork for state-by-state battles over access to contraception — an issue they hope to turn against Republicans in 2024.
Thomas’ argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overturned Roe v. Wade and the right to abortion, galvanized the reproductive-rights movement. House Democrats, joined by eight Republicans, promptly passed legislation that would have created a national right to contraception. Republicans blocked a companion bill in the Senate.
Now, reproductive-rights advocates are pressing their case in the states. Even before Dobbs, some states had taken steps to protect the right to contraception, by either statute or constitutional amendment; 13 states and the District of Columbia have such protections, according to KFF, a health policy research organization.
This month, the movement seemed on the cusp of victory in Nevada, where the Democratic-controlled Legislature passed a bill, with support from a handful of Republicans that would have guaranteed a right to contraception. But on Friday, Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, quietly vetoed the measure. Proponents of codifying such a right saw Nevada as a test case.
“It’s going to be up to Republicans to choose whether they want to protect the right to contraception,” Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., sponsor of the failed Senate bill, said in an interview before the governor’s veto. Markey called the Dobbs decision “a preview of coming atrocities.”
Last Wednesday, Markey and Rep. Kathy Manning, D-N.C., reintroduced legislation to create a national right to contraception. With the House now controlled by Republicans and with Senate Democrats well short of the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster, the legislation is most likely dead on arrival in Washington.
Polls have consistently shown broad bipartisan support for access to contracep-
tion, and although Republicans may not be eager to enshrine a right to it in federal law, neither do they generally want to ban it. Still, some opposition to birth control does exist.
The Roman Catholic Church opposes any form of artificial birth control, arguing that some contraceptives “can cause early abortions.” Some abortion foes claim that two common methods of preventing pregnancy — intrauterine devices (IUDs) and emergency contraception, also known as the morning-after pill and marketed as Plan B — are “abortifacients” that prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in a woman’s uterus.
But the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says IUDs work “mainly by preventing fertilization of an egg by sperm.” And the Food and Drug Administration said last year that Plan B does not prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb, and cannot be considered an abortion pill.
Critics of codifying a right to contraception say such legislation amounts to a solution without a problem — or is purely a political gesture meant to put Republicans in a difficult spot and spur voters into rejecting them at the ballot box.
“Most Republicans saw that as a political vote, not really a serious vote,” John
Feehery, a Republican strategist, said of the vote on the House bill last year. “In the Republican coalition, there is a small but vocal element that is anti-contraception, but the vast majority of Republicans don’t have any interest in making contraception illegal.”
Since the Dobbs decision, debates over birth control have also become increasingly tied up with abortion. Some Republicans who voted against the House bill complained that it would have sent more money to Planned Parenthood, an organization that is a target for many in the party because it is a major provider of abortions. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., described the bill as a “Trojan horse for more abortions.”
Writing for the majority in the Dobbs case, Justice Samuel Alito stressed that the ruling “concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right.” But in a concurring opinion, Thomas said the Supreme Court should reconsider other rulings, including Griswold v. Connecticut, a 1965 decision that established the right of married couples to use contraception. He said the logic of the majority opinion in Dobbs undermined Griswold.
“For years, we asked elected officials around the country to pay more attention to the conflation of abortion and contra-
ception,” said Clare Coleman, president and CEO of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, which represents health providers. “We shouldn’t have to answer the ‘Why are we worried?’ question anymore.”
Coleman and her allies in the movement say that complacency is what cost American women the right to abortion. They also see what they regard as worrisome efforts to restrict access to birth control.
In 2021, Republicans in Missouri tried to ban taxpayer funding for IUDs and emergency contraception. Missouri is one of four states — the others are Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas — that have ejected Planned Parenthood, a major provider of birth control, from their Medicaid programs.
In Washington, there is a ready explanation for why so many Republicans voted against the House bill: Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, an anti-abortion group, decided to include the vote in its score card for lawmakers.
The organization derided the measure as the “Payouts for Planned Parenthood Act” and said it would “trample conscience rights” in states that allow health providers or pharmacists to refuse to provide birth control. The group asserted that the bill’s definition of contraceptives — “any drug, device or biological product intended for use in the prevention of pregnancy” — was overly broad and could be construed to include abortion pills.
“If you’re a Republican, you want to be seen as pro-life, and the Susan B. Anthony group, they help define who’s pro-life,” said Feehery, adding, “I think most Republicans would much rather be on the side of Susan B. Anthony than on the side of Planned Parenthood.”
In the last years of his long and remarkable life, Daniel Ellsberg, the disenchanted military analyst who famously leaked the so-called Pentagon Papers in 1971, wanted to be prosecuted. And he hoped I would help pave the way.
The charge he coveted was mishandling national security secrets under the Espionage Act, and his plan was to give me another classified document he had taken decades ago that he had held onto without authorization all this time. He wanted to mount a defense in a way that would offer the Supreme Court an opportunity to declare that law unconstitutional as applied to those who leaked government secrets to reporters. It is the same law former President Donald Trump is now accused of violating 31 times, though under very different circumstances.
Ellsberg’s disclosure in 1971 of the Pentagon Papers — a classified study of the Vietnam War showing that a generation of military and political leaders had lied to the public — and its fallout left a stamp on history that defined the bulk of his life.
But buried in some obituaries were glancing references to a 2021 episode in which he gave me a top-secret document about American military leaders’ push to carry out a first-use nuclear strike on China in 1958, accepting the risk that the Soviet Union would retaliate in kind on behalf of its ally, and that millions of people would die.
In examining his legacy, the scrutiny he tried to bring to the Espionage Act in making that disclosure also deserves attention.
“I will, if indicted, be asserting my belief that what I am doing — like what I’ve done in the past — is not criminal,” he told me, arguing that using the act “to
criminalize classified truth-telling in the public interest” should be deemed unconstitutional.
The government has various tools to deter and punish unauthorized disclosures to reporters and the public, and for most of American history, it did not try to send leakers to prison. The Espionage Act has been on the books since World War I, but it was not until the second half of the 20th century that the government began trying to use it to charge leakers instead of spies — initially, to little success.
Starting midway through the George W. Bush administration and continuing under presidents of both parties, however, the Justice Department began routinely going after leakers using the Espionage Act. The law carries a harsh penalty — 10 years per count — and defendants are forbidden to suggest that juries acquit by arguing that their disclosures were in the public interest.
Most defendants take plea deals to avoid the risk of lengthy sentences, foreclosing the opportunity for appeals challenging the constitutionality of using the law in such circumstances.
Ellsberg and I had talked about the government’s accelerating use of the law in 2014, when I wrote about how Edward J. Snowden, a former contractor for the Na-
tional Security Agency who leaked secrets about surveillance activities, had joined the board of a nonprofit press freedom organization Ellsberg helped found. (Snowden, whom Ellsberg publicly embraced as a kindred spirit, has been living in Russia as a fugitive from Espionage Act charges.)
“The question — which hardly anyone realizes, I would say, is a question — is whether this application of the Espionage Act to people who are informing the U.S. public, not secretly informing a foreign power like a spy, is constitutional,” he told me. “The issue is hardly ever raised now. It wasn’t in my mind when I revealed the Pentagon Papers — I assumed I was breaking the plain language of that law, as I had been warned. And I was.”
In the years that followed, more reporters’ sources faced Espionage Act charges. And in 2019, the Justice Department under the Trump administration crossed a new line by obtaining an Espionage Act indictment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — not for leaking, but for soliciting and publishing leaks. The department under the Biden administration has kept those unprecedented charges; Assange has delayed a trial by fighting extradition in Britain, but keeps losing appeals there.
It was against that backdrop that
Ellsberg called me on a sunny Saturday afternoon in the spring of 2021. At the time, I was watching a Little League game. I moved away from the low bleachers and lawn chairs to get out of earshot of other parents.
Decades ago, Ellsberg said, he had taken a second classified study based on internal government records, which he had not given to reporters at the time of the Pentagon Papers because it was about a different topic: when Communist Chinese forces shelled islands controlled by Taiwan in 1958, setting off a crisis. It showed that the world had come closer to nuclear war than the public had been allowed to know.
Was I interested in writing about it? I was.
In the weeks that followed, I carefully read the Taiwan study and consulted experts on the history of the 1958 crisis. As I worked on my article, Ellsberg and I spoke repeatedly. He preferred to talk by video call from his book-crammed home office in California. On one lengthy call, his wife, Patricia, joined us.
Part of his motivation, he said, was renewed tensions over Taiwan. He said it was likely that Pentagon war planners were again drawing up contingency plans to use nuclear weapons if China were to attack Taiwan and it appeared that conventional weapons were not enough to repel it. He thought the possibility of any such dire step warranted a public debate.
But another reason, he said, was that in openly confessing to retaining and disseminating the classified document without authorization, he hoped to be charged under the Espionage Act. He wanted to be a test case to put before the Supreme Court the constitutionality of how the Justice Department has used the law to punish leaks.
In short, at the age of 90, he was willing to risk the prison sentence he had been spared when he was 42. But as aggressive as the Justice Department has become in using the Espionage Act, it apparently wanted no part in going along with Ellsberg’s plan. The article published and drew some attention — but to his disappointment, no charges ensued.
“I was looking forward to arguing in court,” he told an interviewer in March, after he announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. “This is before I knew that my life would be shorter than I had expected.”
Bill Barr, who served as attorney general under President Donald Trump, excoriated his former boss Sunday for “reckless conduct” that led to Trump’s indictment on charges of mishandling classified documents, saying that
the case was “entirely of his own making.”
Barr, in an interview with CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” walked through the severity of the charges against Trump. He described Trump’s actions — laid out in a 49page indictment — as harmful not only to the country but to the Republican Party and the conservative movement that Trump leads.
Barr also attacked Trump’s character in extraordinary language, describing him as “a consummate narcissist” and a “fundamentally flawed person” who would always put his own ego ahead of everything else. He added that he believed Trump had lied to the Justice Department about the classified documents in his possession.
“He’s like a defiant 9-year-old kid who is always pushing the glass towards the edge of the table, defying his parents from stopping him from doing it,” Barr said, adding that “our country can’t be a therapy session for a troubled man like this.”
estate, including in a bathroom, an office, a bedroom and a ballroom, according to the indictment.
“Think about how that could be exploited, how that could be used against us in a conflict,” Esper said, adding that “clearly, it was unauthorized, illegal and dangerous.”
Trump, who is accused of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing efforts to retrieve them after he left office, is the first former president to be charged with federal crimes. He pleaded not guilty last week.
Barr and Esper have both become vocal critics of the former president, after opposing Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Esper was fired days after the 2020 election, and Barr resigned the next month.
But Barr was once a staunch legal defender of Trump’s, including during the special counsel investigation into his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia.
Attorney General William Barr at the White House in Washington, on Aug. 3, 2020. The former attorney general, who has become a vocal critic of the former president, also attacked his character in extraordinary language.
Mark Esper, who was a defense secretary in the Trump administration, said Sunday that the former president had committed an illegal act and that his actions had put U.S. national security at risk.
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Esper laid out the risks of state secrets being held at Trump’s Florida
Trump “has been the victim of unfair witch hunts in the past,” Barr said Sunday. But, he insisted, the charges in the documents case were very different.
“This was a case entirely of his own making,” Barr said. “He had no right to those documents. The government tried over a year, quietly and with respect, to get them back — which it was essential that they do — and he jerked them around. And he had no legal basis for keeping them.”
At least one person was killed and 22 others wounded in a shooting just after midnight Sunday at a large Juneteenth celebration in a strip mall parking lot in Willowbrook, Illinois, southwest of Chicago, officials said.
Deputies from the DuPage County Sheriff’s Office heard gunfire around 12:30 a.m. and “responded to an area where a large gathering of people was happening,” said Eric Swanson, the deputy chief of the sheriff’s office, at a news conference Sunday.
He said that some victims took themselves to hospitals and others were transported by emergency medical workers. He declined to provide the victims’ ages and conditions.
Swanson said the motive behind the shooting was unclear. It was also not clear what types of firearms were used. No suspects were in custody.
Juneteenth is an annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. It has been celebrated by African Americans since the late 1800s and became a federal holiday in 2021.
The celebration in Willowbrook began around 6 p.m. Saturday near an apartment complex, the sheriff’s office said in a statement Sunday afternoon. It was unclear if the event was organized or sanctioned by nearby businesses, which could not be reached for comment.
Some police officers were monitoring the event when they received a call about a fight nearby about 12:25 a.m., the
statement said. The officers were heading to the fight when they heard gunshots and then returned to the celebration.
“An unknown number of suspects fired multiple rounds from multiple weapons into the crowd,” the statement said.
The sheriff’s office said 22 people were wounded and one person was killed by gunfire. Several other people were injured trying to flee.
The shooting took place in a strip mall parking lot on Route 83, near Honeysuckle Rose Lane. The sheriff’s office said that businesses in the area would remain closed until further notice.
Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood treated four victims, a spokesperson for the hospital, Carol Eggers, said.
Two people were brought there from other hospitals, including one patient who was still hospitalized Sunday afternoon and one who was discharged. The two other patients, who had taken themselves to the hospital, were also released.
Twanda Carroll, a 51-year-old hairstylist and resident of the Hinsdale Lake Terrace apartments just north of the shopping center, returned to Willowbrook Sunday morning from a stay with relatives in Wisconsin.
Two bullets had entered her apartment, one shattering her living room window and the other her bedroom window. The first bullet went through her clock and into a back wall, and the second traveled through her closet and into the kitchen wall.
She said she had been in Wisconsin for her mother’s birthday, and her daughter joined her there from Arkansas. Carroll had planned to come home Saturday night but decided against it to spend more time with her family.
Being away from the apartment at the time of the shooting was a “miracle,” Carroll said.
She wiped tears from her eyes as she asked: “What if? What if we had been there? Either my grandkids or me and my girl.”
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are racing to establish a presence in space. But what rights and obligations come with that?
It’s not clear what the rules are, even as the $460 billion space industry is growing quickly.
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by Branson, announced Thursday that it would launch its first commercial spaceflight this month, joining Bezos’ Blue Origin and Musk’s SpaceX in sending ticketed passengers to space. But travel is just one emerging corner of the industry, which is mostly fueled by U.S. and international government contracts.
The sector includes companies in the fields of satellites and communications, solar power, manufacturing, and even mining. One, Orbital Assembly, hopes to open a luxury extraterrestrial hotel by 2025.
Citigroup analysts project that space businesses will reach $1 trillion in revenue by 2040.
All this activity raises legal questions.
In theory, space belongs to everyone. In 1967, as the U.S. and the Soviet Union were building up their nuclear arsenals, the U.N. signed a treaty that says no country can claim territory in space.
“We didn’t want to bring the Cold War into space,” Michelle Hanlon, a director of the air and space law program at the University of Mississippi, told DealBook.
Since then, a U.N. space committee has made four more treaties and five sets of
principles covering areas like arms control and liability for damage caused by space objects. All are premised on the notion that space “should be devoted to enhancing the well-being of all countries and humankind, with an emphasis on promoting international cooperation.”
That perspective is about to collide with reality, said Curt Blake, a space lawyer at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and the former chief executive of a space startup.
“Humans have done such a bad job regulating anything of common good, like the oceans and air,” he said. “Are we going
to be better at caring for the moon?”
One upcoming test is a race between China and the U.S. to get to the poles of the moon to mine water, which could make it possible to produce fuel in space. There is little understanding of what will happen when they both get there.
“Will they live on separate sides or dot their bases?” Hanlon asked. “We don’t know because we have these regulatory gaps.”
Another potential conflict is brewing over 170 million pieces of debris like satellites abandoned in the Earth’s orbit, known as “space trash,” because their accumulation makes exploration more difficult and dangerous.
Because nobody owns space, it isn’t always clear whose responsibility it is to clean it up. In September, the Federal Communications Commission adopted rules ordering companies to take down nonfunctioning satellites within five years, down from 25 years.
Lawyers are wrestling with these sorts of issues at gatherings like The Hague Space Diplomacy Symposium last week at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, which focused on cooperation amid rising geopolitical tensions and competition.
The U.S. government has deliberately left some holes. In 2004, Congress imposed a moratorium on safety regulations for commercial space launches, essentially a free
pass, or “learning period,” that is set to expire in October. It has lasted so long because there hasn’t been enough development to base new rules on.
In April, a report from the RAND Corp. recommended against extending again, and the Federal Aviation Administration is planning more oversight.
While recognizing that we need rules, business leaders caution against creating so much regulation that it pushes innovation offshore.
And futurists naturally have a long, expansive view. Many are concerned that we’ll exploit resources in space before we’re able to “access the infinity of the universe,” as Hanlon put it.
“We just need to hold it together for 200 years,” she said.
Companies may not know when employees use AI
Companies including Accenture, PwC and Morgan Stanley announced big initiatives to get their employees to use generative artificial intelligence tools like chatbots and image generators. But even at employers that haven’t introduced these tools, many workers are using them — and they may not be mentioning it.
In a survey of 4,491 white-collar workers by the consulting firm Oliver Wyman, 39% of those who use generative AI tools said they had done so without their employer’s knowledge in the last three months.
There are risks if workers use these tools without training, including that they will share private company data or not understand that AI tools can produce inaccurate work.
But there may also be potential. In a report last week, McKinsey estimated that generative AI could add $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion to the global economy. The research looked at 63 use cases for generative AI across 850 occupations, finding that 60% to 70% of all work tasks could be automated by currently available technology.
“Employee interest, especially amongst the younger generations, is likely ahead of many of their managers,” Ana Kreacic, chief operating officer of Oliver Wyman’s think tank, said in an email. “Some organizations are leading and some are catching up, but it takes time for best practices to evolve across different industries.”
Afew months ago, most investors feared having too much exposure to equities. Now many are worried they may not have enough.
The 15% year-to-date rally in the S&P 500 (.SPX) is pulling once doubtful investors back into the market. Many who had whittled down stock holdings during 2022’s painful decline are shifting gears.
The National Association of Active Investment Managers’ exposure index last week hit its highest level since late 2021, while cash levels among global fund managers surveyed this month by Bank of America fell to their lowest point since January 2022.
Positioning among discretionary investors, a cohort that includes fund managers to individual investors, moved above neutral earlier this month for the first time since February, Deutsche Bank data showed.
Meanwhile, options investors are buying calls - bets on upside in stocks - at levels not seen in years. A record 1.8 million S&P 500 calls traded on Thursday, helping lift the onemonth moving average of calls-to-puts to the highest in at least four years, Trade Alert data showed.
“If you’ve been fighting this market, you’re very likely exhausted,” said Emily Roland, co-chief investment strategist at John Hancock Asset Management, who has been increasing overall equity allocations.
The latest gains are fueled by factors ranging from a U.S. economy that has so far avoided recession despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary policy tightening to growing buzz over advances in artificial intelligence.
Some Wall Street banks are revising forecasts for how high stocks can go. Among the latest is Goldman Sachs, whose strategists raised their year-end S&P 500 target to 4,500 from 4,000, citing expectations the economy is likely to avoid a downturn in the next 12 months. The index ended on Friday at 4,409.59, up 23% from its October lows.
Willie Delwiche, investment strategist at Hi Mount Research, said improving sentiment is poised to support stocks, provided it does not become too extreme.
“Shifting from pessimism to optimism is actually what gives lifeblood to bull markets,” he said. “You run into trouble when you get to excessive levels, but ... we’re not there.”
One measure of sentiment that Delwiche studies, the American Association of Individual Investors survey, showed bullish sentiment outpacing bearish sentiment in the latest week by the widest margin since November 2021.
Continued strength in stocks would be consistent with previous periods when pessimism began unwinding while optimism accelerated, Delwiche said.
History also shows stocks tend to keep rallying after rising 20% above their lows. The S&P 500 has posted a median gain of 18% in the 12 months after clearing the 20% threshold, LPL Financial data showed.
Still, some worry stocks are already getting overheated.
Brent Kochuba, founder of options analytic service SpotGamma, said that while extreme levels of call option buying can support markets, it also warrants caution in the near term.
“The trend is probably higher ... but in the very short term we have gotten over our skis,” he said.
Matt Stucky, senior portfolio manager of equities at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company, believes sentiment - as evidenced in the AAII survey - has soared too quickly. He believes the Fed’s rate hikes are likely to bring on a mild recession late this year or in early 2024. The Fed left rates unchanged earlier this week but said more increases may be necessary this year.
“You’re starting to see quite a bit of evidence that investors are chasing this rally,” he said. “We’re starting to take a little bit off the table.”
Others, however, believe the rally has room to run.
One encouraging signal is that a greater number of S&P 500 stocks are heading higher, in addition to the handful of megacap growth names such as Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Nvidia (NVDA.O) that led gains this year.
Small caps and industrial shares - long-time laggardshave outperformed so far this month, for example, while the number of S&P 500 stocks trading above their 200-day moving average rose to two-month highs this week.
Ken Mahoney, CEO of Mahoney Asset Management, has been adding to positions in Microsoft and Nvidia in recent sessions. Massive call buying, fear of missing out and bearish investors reversing their bets are likely to continue taking markets higher for now, he said.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany reaffirmed support for Ukraine in a war that he said could “last for
a long time,” even as he and the head of NATO underlined on Monday that Kyiv would not be invited to join the alliance at its summit next month.
“We should be prepared that the Rus-
sian war of aggression against Ukraine can still last for a long time,” Scholz said at a news conference in Berlin after meeting with the NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.
Emphasizing that aid for Kyiv had been set aside in the German government’s new budget, Scholz added: “Germany will continue to support Ukraine for as long as it takes.”
Scholz and Stoltenberg held what they described as a preparatory meeting for the NATO summit to be held next month in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The two leaders both said that despite NATO countries’ support for Ukraine, the trans-Atlantic military alliance is not a party to the war that Russia initiated when it invaded in February 2022. Stoltenberg also played down the prospects that Ukraine would join the defense pact in the near future, as it has hoped it would.
“We are not discussing to issue a formal invitation — what we are discussing is how to move Ukraine closer to NATO,” Stoltenberg said, adding that “NATO’s door is open.”
For more than a decade, NATO has offered Ukraine only a vague promise that it would eventually join the alliance, but with no set timetable. Some NATO members on the alliance’s eastern flank, closer to Russia, are pushing to provide Ukraine with a strong political commitment on membership before the summit. But countries including the United States are wary of drawing the alliance into a direct conflict with Russia.
“The most urgent and important task now is to make sure that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, democratic nation in Europe,” Stoltenberg said. He added that supporting its war effort was paramount because “unless Ukraine prevails, there is no issue to be discussed at all related to membership.”
Scholz also said he was pushing German weapons makers to expand their production and repair capabilities, as Ukraine’s counteroffensive gets underway and tanks and other equipment supplied by Western allies are depleted in the fighting. Last week, Germany’s defense minister, Boris Pistorius, said Germany would send another 64 Patriot missiles to Ukraine.
Two days after announcing a plan to turn a 700-pound Nazi sculpture of an eagle holding a swastika into a peace dove, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said that the project had been canceled after thousands signed a petition calling for it to go to a museum instead.
Lacalle Pou said Sunday that in the hours since he presented the idea at a news conference Friday an “overwhelming majority” had objected to the plan to recast the eagle, which was found on a sunken German warship in Uruguayan waters in 2006.
“If you want to generate peace, the first thing you have to do is to generate unity, and clearly this has not generated that,” he told reporters in Cerro Largo, Uruguay. Saying that he still thought it was a good idea, he nonetheless acknowledged, “It is
The 6-foot-tall eagle was on the stern of a German warship scuttled by its captain in the Plata River after it had been damaged in one of the first major battles of World War II.
The eagle has been contentious ever since it was recovered: The private salvaging operation that found the bronze claimed it had the right to sell the sculpture, while the German Foreign Ministry and Jewish groups warned that it should not go to private buyers seeking to glorify Nazism. The bronze stayed in a Uruguayan navy storage unit while legal battles over its ownership wound through the courts. The Uruguayan Supreme Court eventually gave custody of the sculpture to the national authorities.
The project to melt down the eagle and recast it as a dove had been in the hands of a Uruguayan artist, Pablo Atchugarry, but
after it was announced thousands signed an online petition calling for the sculpture to be preserved in a museum. Felipe Artucio, the petition’s creator, wrote, “Remembering the bad, keeping in mind the symbols that represent it, is an enormous responsibility to society, both local and foreign.”
A day after the president’s initial announcement, Guido Manini Ríos, leader of the right-wing Cabildo Abierto party, which is in a coalition with Lacalle Pou’s conservative National Party, came out against the idea of converting the sculpture and threatened to introduce a parliamentary bill to prevent the eagle’s destruction.
Atchugarry, the artist, said that he would continue to work on a “symbol of peace” but agreed with the president’s decision to cancel the idea of using the material of the Nazi eagle.
“A symbol of peace and union cannot
be born out of discord,” Atchugarry wrote on Facebook.
President Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay, referring to the plan to melt down the eagle, said, “If you want to generate peace, the first thing you have to do is to generate unity, and clearly this has not generated that.”
Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of NATO, left, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany at a news conference in Berlin on Monday.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, on Monday in Beijing, as the two governments sought to pull relations out of a deep freeze that has raised global concerns about the growing risk of a conflict between them.
The 35-minute meeting sent a signal, at least for now, that the United States and China do not want their relationship to be defined by open hostility, and that they recognize that their rivalry and their diplomatic efforts carry enormous stakes.
Blinken and Xi held talks at the Great Hall of the People, the grand building on the west side of Tiananmen Square where Xi often receives state leaders. Striking a congenial note at the top of the meeting, Xi praised the two sides for making progress on some issues during Blinken’s visit, saying: “This is very good.”
Blinken told Xi that the U.S. government was committed to responsibly managing its relations with China, according to a State Department statement. “It’s in the interest of the United States, in the interests of China, and in the interest of the world,” he said.
Both Xi and President Joe Biden have been under growing pressure by other world leaders to tamp down their nations’ increasingly contentious stances toward each other. Any armed conflict between the United States and China, whether over Taiwan, the de facto independent island that Beijing claims as its territory, or another dispute, is widely regarded as potentially cataclysmic. The United States and China are the world’s two largest economies, are nuclear powers and are the dominant players in advanced technologies and other critical industries.
Officials in Washington and Beijing increasingly speak of the need to halt the rapid decline in relations. But even as they engage in high-level diplomacy aimed at some sort of détente, the two governments also see the need to demonstrate that they are not compromising on core issues.
In his opening remarks at the meeting with Blinken, Xi hinted at China’s grievances, saying: “State-to-state interactions should always be based on mutual respect and sincerity. I hope that through this visit, Mr. Secretary, you will make more positive contributions to stabilizing ChinaU.S. relations.”
Over the two days of meetings, diplomats did not voice any hope for sudden or dramatic breakthroughs in repairing the relationship. Instead, they focused on trying to rebuild channels of communication that had crumbled in recent months and on bolstering negotiations on smaller issues, such as visas and commercial flights between the two countries.
Blinken held talks Monday morning with Wang Yi, China’s top foreign policy official, who took a tough tone
as he lay the blame on Washington for the recent tensions.
Wang said the United States should cooperate with Beijing instead of “hyping” the “China threat theory,” according to an official Chinese readout. He said Washington must lift sanctions on China and stop suppressing the country’s technological development. He accused the United States of “recklessly interfering in China’s internal affairs” on issues such as Taiwan, which the United States supplies with weapons.
The State Department described Blinken’s meeting with Wang as “candid and productive,” saying that Blinken stressed that the two powers had to responsibly manage their rivalry and communicate better to “ensure competition does not veer into conflict.” It also said the two officials discussed how their countries could cooperate on “shared transnational challenges.” U.S. officials say those challenges include climate change, global economic instability and the control of the production of fentanyl, the deadly opioid.
Blinken, who also met with Qin Gang, the Chinese foreign minister, on Sunday, is the first U.S. secretary of
state to visit Beijing since 2018. His mission is taking place as bilateral relations have plummeted over a half-dozen years to their lowest point in decades. Tensions soared in February when the Pentagon announced that a Chinese surveillance balloon was drifting across the continental United States — prompting Blinken to cancel an imminent trip to Beijing — and then ordered U.S. fighter jets to shoot it down.
Relations were further strained in late February when Blinken confronted Wang on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference to tell him that Washington believed China was considering providing lethal support to Russia for its war in Ukraine. China responded by freezing some important diplomatic exchanges and intensifying antiAmerican rhetoric.
Republican politicians have tried to portray the Biden administration as being soft on China, even though Biden and his aides have enacted tough commercial policies such as export controls to try to limit China’s growth in strategic sectors, notably semiconductors, and have strengthened military cooperation with countries across Asia. Some Republican lawmakers have even criticized Blinken for making his trip to China, saying it amounted to a concession to Beijing. The heated language on China among U.S. politicians is expected to intensify next year, when Biden seeks reelection.
U.S. officials say maintaining regular senior-level dialogue is important so the two governments can quickly talk with each other during any crises that might arise, especially since their militaries are increasingly coming into close contact with each other in the seas and in the air around China and other parts of Asia.
State Department officials said that during Blinken’s visit, the two governments agreed to have working groups and diplomats meet soon on a range of issues, including increased access to each country for journalists, scholars and students. The officials also said the two sides agreed to expand direct commercial flights between the two nations.
terrorist act in Uganda in years, raising fears of resurgent militant activity in a region with a history of disruptive cross-border insurgencies.
The brutal attack made clear the reach and the continued strength of the Allied Democratic Forces, an insurgent group that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, and that the United States has designated a terrorist group.
“Attacking a school is likely part of a desire to recruit,” said Richard Moncrieff, the project director for the Great Lakes region at the International Crisis Group, “but also has a shock value, which appeals to the group’s wider jihadist audience.”
Friday’s attack, he added, “shows that despite nearly two years of concentrated joint operations against the group, it still has significant capacity.”
crieff said.
The Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School was built by a nongovernmental organization led by a Canadian national named Peter Hunt, said Museveni, the education minister.
She did not identify the agency, but research and a local resident both indicate that it is the Partnerships for Opportunity Development Association, a nonprofit that works with local communities across Africa through projects including beekeeping, sewing and gardening projects.
By ABDI LATIF DAHIRThe militants reached the private boarding school compound just before midnight, as students were going to bed, on a partly cloudy night in a small town in the lush western fields of Uganda. First, they shot the school’s guard in the head before they went to the students’ dormitories. When they could not enter the boys’ locked residential halls, they hurled firebombs inside, setting mattresses ablaze and igniting a fire that soon engulfed the building, according to witnesses, government officials and security officers. Petri-
fied, the girls unlocked their dormitory’s doors and tried to flee, only for the assailants to catch up with them and hack them to death with machetes.
When it was all over, the attack on Friday night in Mpondwe, a town near Uganda’s border with Congo, left 37 of the school’s 63 students dead, according to Janet Museveni, the country’s first lady and minister of education and sports.
“This is a difficult time for all of us as Ugandans,” Museveni said in a speech that aired late Saturday night on the state broadcaster. “It’s a terrible tragedy.”
The assailants, members of an Islamist militant group, also burned the school’s library, plundered a food store and kidnapped six students, whom they used to carry the looted goods, military officials said. As they fled the town into the dense forests of Congo, they killed three other people, including a woman in her 60s — bringing the death total to 41.
“The community is devastated and feeling so bad,” said Mumbere Jackson, who was attending a burial for some of the students on Sunday afternoon in the nearby town of Kajwenge. “Many are asking: Where were the security forces? How did these people get here and commit this atrocity?”
The invasion of the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School was the deadliest
It also highlighted the security challenges facing Uganda, even as its longtime president, Yoweri Museveni, deploys troops in conflicts across Africa and receives billions of dollars in development and military assistance from Western countries, including the United States.
Formed in 1995 in opposition to the rule of Museveni, the Allied Democratic Forces has carried out multiple attacks across Uganda, including one on a college in 1998 that killed 80 students. The Allied Democratic Forces has also assaulted communities across eastern Congo, a verdant, mineral-wealthy region blighted by decades of atrocities committed by dozens of armed groups.
In late 2021, the group set off explosions in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, killing three people. That attack prompted Museveni to launch a joint military campaign with Congo in an effort to drive the group out of its camps in eastern Congo. Yet the group has continued to recruit new soldiers into combat, some of them children, and to stage bloody raids, like one in March that killed 36 people in a village in North Kivu province in eastern Congo.
Observers have criticized the Ugandan and Congolese governments’ military approach in the region, saying that to bring lasting solutions, the governments need to focus on state-building and providing better economic opportunities.
“The attack shows that a wider strategy is needed than purely military,” Mon-
On its website, which had been active but went offline after Museveni’s speech, the organization said that the secondary school in Mpondwe was built over a period of 4 1/2 months beginning in October 2010 by a Ugandan crew and Canadian volunteers. The school served students mostly from the surrounding area, who were charged low fees and provided with textbooks and computers through grants.
Museveni said that auditors sent by the aid group to survey the school’s finances had left on Thursday, one day before the attack. She added that there had been conflict between the aid group that built the school and local groups in the district that had wanted to assume administrative control.
Multiple efforts to reach the school administration and the aid group were not immediately successful.
For now, the town of Mpondwe continues to reel from the tragedy. As officials descended on the town Saturday, security officers urged residents to remain calm and vowed to bring the perpetrators to account. Maj. Gen. Dick Olum, the commander of Uganda’s military operation in Congo, said in a news conference they were still looking for the six abducted students and had engaged some of the militants in a fight late Saturday.
Selevest Mapoze, the mayor of Mpondwe, said many residents in the poor farming community fled the town for fear of another attack. Others, he said, were camped at a mortuary waiting for the bodies of their loved ones or taking DNA tests to identify them.
“We are trying to convince them to come back because we are handling the security,” he said in a phone interview. “But it’s tough. The mood is heavy. A heavy silence has taken over the town.”
There were three important deaths recently: Ted Kaczynski, Silvio Berlusconi, Cormac McCarthy. A strange assortment of characters — the murderer who imagined himself a philosopher, the louche tycoon who created modern Western populism, the novelist who traded in biblical cadences without biblical reassurances.
Or maybe not so strangely assorted; maybe the three men were variations on a theme — that theme being alienation, and specifically masculine alienation, from the patterns and rules of late-modern civilization, and the different rebellions that alienation might inspire.
There is a lot of talk lately about a crisis of manhood, manifest in statistics showing young men falling behind young women in various indicators of education and ambition, answered from the left by therapeutic attempts to detoxify masculinity and from the right by promises of masculine revival. The root of the problem seems clear enough, even if the solutions are contested: The things that men are most adapted for (or socialized for, if you prefer that narrative, although the biological element seems inescapable) are valued less, sometimes much less, in the peacetime of a postindustrial civilization than in most of the human past.
In a phrase, when we talk about traditional modes of manhood, we’re often talking about mastery through physical strength and the capacity for violence. That kind of mastery will always have some value, but it had more value in 1370 than 1870, and more in 1870 than it does today. And the excess, the superfluity, must therefore be repressed, tamed or somehow educated away.
So what happens to men who aren’t interested in that taming process? One answer is offered by Kaczynski’s terrorist career: They become enraged and twisted; they fantasize about a truer, freer, more authentic past; they confuse grievance with philosophy (the Kaczynski manifesto has its online admirers, but most of what he’s preaching is packaged more entertainingly by “Fight Club”); they imagine revolutions but deliver empty homicidal gestures. School shooters, religious terrorists, paladins of the meaningless atrocity — these are Kaczynski’s heirs.
Then there is Berlusconi, a very different kind of he-rebel. For the Italian prime minister, modern society’s taming of masculinity allowed him to offer machismo as a form of burlesque, an entertainment, rebellion with a wink, a leer, and a snicker rather than the Unabomber’s alienated rage. In his shtick, the danger of male violence was reduced to the milder threat of male misbehavior, and in his political career you could see how the bad boy politician can thrive in a feminized context — by being just shocking enough to stand out from the crowd, just different enough to draw the discontented to his banner, but always reassuringly performative and cheesy, a bunga-bunga man rather than a killer.
It’s not surprising that other populist leaders have
offered this same kind of masculine burlesque — Donald Trump, of course, but also Boris Johnson with his shambolic naughtiness. It’s also not surprising that for both Berlusconi’s Italy and Johnson’s Britain, the policy results feel like a dead end: If our therapeutic age tends toward a certain kind of stagnation, electing men who make a spectacle of their virility isn’t any kind of magic ticket back to dynamism.
Finally, where Kaczynski represented rage and Berlusconi spectacle, Cormac McCarthy represented — well, call it witness, maybe, or memory, or prophecy, or all three. His novels were intensely masculine, intensely violent, and largely unconcerned with the burdens of being a man under tamed or civilized conditions. He simply left those conditions behind — personally to some extent, leading a life substantially rougher than many of his literary contemporaries, and absolutely in his novels, whether they went out to the violent fringes of our own peaceful world, back into a berserker past or forward into our civilization’s ashes.
In “No Country for Old Men,” not his most important book but one of the best entry points, you get the essential McCarthy vision — a view of the civilized world as a passing thing, enfiladed by shadows, haunted by forces it can deny but not withstand.
In this vision it doesn’t matter how much the world is tamed and softened; violence will always come back, masculinity will always have its day. But not a day of power and domination, of the sort that certain online influencers fantasize about. Instead, as Graeme Wood wrote in The Atlantic, McCarthy placed his men in conditions they couldn’t fully master, “in the crossfire of gods and demigods on a battleground that preceded human existence and will continue long after we are all gone.”
His characters’ admirable manliness, where it existed, consisted in survival, endurance, integrity. His cosmology was pre-Christian, shorn of any liberal optimism, but not entirely purged of hope. But that hope could only be glimpsed, not seized — discovered not in mastery, but mystery.
SAN JUAN – El comisionado del Negociado para el Manejo de Emergencias y Administración de Desastres (NMEAD), Nino Correa Filomeno, reiteró el lunes el llamado que hizo el primero de junio, al comenzar la temporada de huracanes, sobre la importancia de tener al día los planes individuales y familiares.
“La temporada de huracanes comenzó, y estamos vigilantes. Particularmente en el NMEAD, estamos todo el año trabajando para poder reaccionar y ayudar a la ciudadanía de ocurrir cualquier emergencia. Mas reiteramos que lo más importante es que toda persona cuente con su plan individual y familiar. Que tengan su mochila de emergencia, comida y agua para por lo menos 10 días, medicamentos, comida y artículos para su mascota y planes de contingencia”, dijo Correa Filomeno en declaraciones escritas.
SAN JUAN – Ante la incertidumbre que trae consigo la era post-pandemia de COVID-19, así como los embates de huracanes, terremotos y los desafíos con las aseguradoras, el Colegio de Administradores de Servicios de Salud (CASS) se encuentra decidido a capacitar a más de 400 miembros para enfrentar tiempos turbulentos con confianza y éxito.
Así se dio a conocer el presidente del CASS, Lcdo. Jorge Pesquera junto al presidente entrante de dicha entidad profesional, Lcdo. Pedro Barez Clavell, durante una ceremonia donde dieron a conocer la proclama del Gobernador de Puerto Rico, Pedro R. Pierluisi. Mediante este decreto, se establece la cuarta semana de junio, del 18 al 24 de junio de 2023, como la Semana del Administrador de Servicios de Salud, en reconocimiento a su destacada labor.
Esta significativa semana se celebrará con la XXXXIV Convención y Asamblea Anual del CASS, que tendrá lugar del 21 al 24 de junio de 2023 en el prestigioso Hotel El Conquistador en Fajardo. Este evento reunirá a profesionales de alto nivel y brindará una plataforma invaluable para compartir conocimientos y experiencias, fortaleciendo aún más la preparación de los administradores de servicios de salud para afrontar los desafíos del futuro.
“La incertidumbre económica y las fluctuaciones en los recursos financieros y humanos
El Servicio Nacional de Meteorología (SNM) notificó la formación de la tormenta tropical Bret, por lo que hay que estar pendientes a su trayectoria y desarrollo. Al momento, no existen vigilancias ni avisos para Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes.
Según Correa Filomeno, en conjunto a la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA), se ofrecieron adiestramientos a los directores de zona del NMEAD, a los alcaldes y sus directores de las Oficinas Municipales para Manejo de Emergencias (OMME), y tan recientemente como el 12 y 13 de junio, se ofreció a los jefes de agencias y sus coordinadores interagenciales, con la presencia del gobernador Pedro Pierluisi.
Mencionó que, en caso de ocurrir una tormenta, huracán, terremoto o cualquier situación de emergencia, se activa el Centro de Operaciones de Emergencia (COE), donde hay presencia de todas las agencias gubernamentales representadas por sus coordinadores
disponibles para los hospitales requieren que los administradores estén preparados para tomar decisiones estratégicas y eficientes en situaciones difíciles. A esto le sumamos la experiencia debido a la vivencias y frecuencia de huracanes y terremotos, que pueden afectar significativamente las operaciones y la atención médica. Sin dudas, la pandemia de COVID-19 ha demostrado la importancia de tener planes de contingencia sólidos y la capacidad de adaptarse rápidamente a situaciones de crisis, lo que hace que la preparación para tiempos inciertos sea aún más crucial para los administradores
interagenciales. Estas personas son designadas por los jefes de agencia, y son sus representantes al momento de coordinar cualquier ayuda. Las peticiones de alcaldes, refugios, otras agencias, y de la misma ciudadanía llegan al COE, donde se activa cada coordinador interagencial de la agencia que corresponda atenderla. Igualmente, el NMEAD y los Negociados adscritos al Departamento de Seguridad Pública (DSP) junto a las zonas operacionales del NMEAD están activadas para poder atender cualquier emergencia, y están en constante comunicación con los alcaldes.
de hospitales, CDT y Centros de Salud Primaria 330 y otras instituciones. Por último, la creciente demanda de atención médica, especialmente en áreas como el envejecimiento de la población, la salud mental y las enfermedades crónicas, requiere que los administradores de hospitales se preparen para abordar estos desafíos y brindar servicios de calidad en momentos de incertidumbre. Temas que ya hemos ido atendiendo todo este año y ahora en la convención “, explicó Pesquera, quien añadió que más de 400 administradores estarán participando.
La proclama fue recibida en una emotiva ceremonia por el presidente del CASS, el Lcdo. Pesquera, junto al secretario auxiliar del Departamento de Salud, Lcdo. Yasarel Pesante, quien estuvo representando al Departamento de Salud y al Gobierno de Puerto Rico.
“Con el propósito de destacar la función esencial de los Administradores de Servicios de Salud en la planificación, organización, dirección y utilización adecuada de los recursos humanos y económicos de las instituciones o programas de salud en nuestra Isla, el Gobierno de Puerto Rico, en afirmación de nuestra política pública de fomentar las iniciativas que contribuyen a salvaguardar la salud de nuestro pueblo, designa la cuarta semana del mes de junio de este año como la ‘Semana del Administrador de Servicios de Salud’”, dicta el Gobernador Pierluisi en la proclama.
400 líderes en administración de hospitales y servicios de salud se capacitan para desafíos sin precedentes
played by Josh Tower, in confusion questioning Hamilton’s success in life: “How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?”
It is through the words of a killer that the haunting crescendo of this journey begins, revealing the motivations that influence the characters’ decisions during a period spanning from 1776 to 1804.
The characters of the Schuyler sisters, Eliza and Angelica, portrayed by Alysha Deslorieux and Stephanie Umoh, respectively, captivate with simplicity. Their dialogues and complicity
One week after arriving on the island, the musical “Hamilton,” with its Angelica cast, continues to establish itself at Luis A. Ferré Center for the Performing Arts (Bellas Artes) in Santurce with an audience that has supported this second opportunity following the show’s successful tour in 2019.
The main theme of the play, centered around the life of Alexander Hamilton, masterfully portrayed by Edred Utomi, presents an immigrant, orphaned and poor, who perseveres to become the right-hand man of George Washington in the Revolutionary War and later a founding father of the United States.
The magic of the musical, created by Puerto Rican playwright LinManuel Miranda and inspired by Ron Chernow’s acclaimed biography, lies in the precision of the elements that merge to create a unique experience.
Prior to the start of the play, the atmosphere begins to seep into the audience, who enter a room that allows them to immerse themselves in the stage. The absence of a curtain allows the audience to delve into its corners, toward a massive wooden structure with stairs, intense red brick walls, yellow lights, shadow spaces, ropes descending from the ceiling and tied to the balcony handrails, and several wooden chairs.
Like clockwork, the play begins with the imposing figure of Aaron Burr,
convincingly portray the choices made when true love is involved. They also provide a new perspective on the concept of loyalty and women’s role in the progress of societies.
Audiences will be delighted with a perfect blend of drama, romance, comedy and tragedy as the lives of a character and a nation are woven together, accompanied by innovative music that
breaks away from traditional Broadway styles by blending hip-hop, jazz, R&B and other rhythms. Additionally, a group of voices dressed in white and cream dance and move around the characters like unreal, imaginary, or fantastical figures that either distance themselves from or confront the characters on a mobile stage that highlights the passage of time.
“Hamilton” is a universal story about immigrants, human rights, revolution and more. It is a reflection on “who lives, who dies, who tells your story.”
The musical continues its performances through Sunday, June 25. Tickets can be purchased through ticketera.com.
cannibals and other desperate survivors played by the likes of Robert Duvall, Michael K. Williams and, in a brief but indelible and terrifying performance, Garret Dillahunt. John Hillcoat directs like he means it. “The Road” is up there with “No Country” as one of the purest visual distillations of McCarthy’s prose.
‘The Sunset Limited’ (2011) Stream it on Max.
speak McCarthy’s dialogue, and who could blame them? This is some of Jackson’s best work, allowing him to return to his theater roots with a high-wire act of philosophy and feeling. Jones’ direction is workmanlike, but that’s all this material really needs.
‘The Counselor’ (2013)
By CHRIS VOGNARBy turns terse, poetic and baroque, able to find the essence of human nature in the bleakest of circumstances, Cormac McCarthy, who died Tuesday, was widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of his generation. His writing, with its Western landscapes, noir-inflected dialogue and biblical inclinations, proved to be catnip to filmmakers, including the Coen brothers, Ridley Scott and Billy Bob Thornton. Here is a look at how this most distinctive of writers left his mark on the big screen.
‘All the Pretty Horses’ (2000)
Rent or buy it on most major platforms. Probably the gentlest of McCarthy’s Border Trilogy novels, this film adaptation tells the story of John Grady Cole, a young man who high-tails it across the border to Mexico, where he falls in love with a wealthy rancher’s daughter (Penélope Cruz), runs afoul of her family and the law, and navigates the horrors of prison life. Yes, this is gentle by McCarthy standards. Matt Damon, riding the success of “Good Will Hunting” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” plays Cole as a sensitive lad dumbstruck by love. Cruz, a native of Spain, does her best as a south-of-the-border lass. Thornton directs with lyrical respect for the source material, if not a whole lot of grit or imagination.
‘No Country for Old Men’ (2007)
Rent or buy it on most major platforms.
The Coen brothers return to the Texas noir roots of their first feature, “Blood Simple,” for the most successful McCarthy
adaptation to date. It won Oscars for best picture, directing and screenwriting, as well as Javier Bardem’s supporting turn as one of McCarthy’s nihilistic villains, an implacable killing machine who speaks in riddles and engages his prey in fatal rhetorical jousts. But the heart of the movie, about a briefcase full of money and the in-over-his-head opportunist (Josh Brolin) who pilfers it, is Tommy Lee Jones as a small-town sheriff who wants out of the game, which seems to get more sinister and incomprehensible by the minute. He is the old man of the title and the author’s surrogate, a poetic soul just trying to wait it out until it’s all over.
‘The Road’ (2009)
Stream it on Tubi, Vudu and Freevee.
The novel that brought McCarthy’s world to a wide audience (and won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize), “The Road” redeems a postapocalyptic hellscape with the pure love of a father (played by Viggo Mortensen with heartbreaking intensity) for his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee, already a young actor of uncommon instincts). It’s a gray land of digitally enhanced wreckage, peopled by
Sometimes McCarthy likes to take a couple of characters, wind them up and just let them riff on what it all means. His 2022 novel, “Stella Maris,” fits this bill, as does this HBO film version of McCarthy’s play “The Sunset Limited,” about a God-fearing excon called Black (Samuel L. Jackson) and the secular humanities professor, called White (Tommy Lee Jones), whom Black saves from jumping in front of a subway train. Confined to Black’s apartment, they thrust and parry, Black offering a brand of streetwise divinity, White stewing in his own suicidal juices. Both actors clearly relish the opportunity to
Rent or buy it on most major platforms. Ridley Scott directs the only original screenplay on McCarthy’s résumé, an unfairly maligned and misunderstood blast of criminal nihilism that carries the noir direction of “No Country” to its apotheosis. Michael Fassbender plays a glib lawyer whose taste for the finer things gets him in deep with a Mexican cartel. Other players come and go, including Brad Pitt, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Bruno Ganz and Cameron Diaz, who has an amorous encounter with a luxury car that you will never unsee. This is McCarthy and Scott having infectious fun with humanity’s dark side, including two bravura murder scenes notable for their cruelty and creativity.
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Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE LUZ PETRA COTTE ESCUDERO COMPUESTA POR JOSE COTTE, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: CCD2014-0614. (404). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía en Cobro de Dinero dictada el 9 de marzo de 2015 y notificada el 11 de marzo de 2015, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 30 de noviembre de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 7 de diciembre de 2022, en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 21 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Arecibo, Sala Superior, 553 Avenida José A. Cedeño, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno marcada con la letra E del plano de inscripción sita en el Barrio Cotto Norte, del término municipal de Manatí, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 405.13 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: en 23.00 metros, con Isabel Sierra; por el SUR: en 22.69 metros con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE: en 17.91 metros, con la carretera municipal; y por el OESTE: en 17.65 metros, con el remanente de la finca de la cual es segregación. Enclava de una casa de concreto de una sola planta destinada a vivienda. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 150 del tomo
184, Finca 7813. Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Manatí, Finca 7813. Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Inscripción quinta (5ta). Dirección Física: 141 Cantera, Carr. 670 (Solar E), Manatí, PR 00674. Número de Catastro: 08-034090-218-16-001. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $62,400.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 28 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $41,600.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 5 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $31,200.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $54,255.12 principal, intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.25% anual desde el 1 de abril de 2014 hasta su completo pago, más $76.84 por concepto de recargos adeudados desde el día 1 de mayo de 2014 hasta su total pago, la cantidad estipulada de $6,240.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registra! que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar:
a. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Luz Petra Cotte Escudero (soltera) ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, en el Caso Civil Número CCD2014-0614, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $54,255.12 y otras cantidades, según demanda de fecha de 20 de octubre de 2014. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Manatí. Anotación
A. b. Bitácora: Al Asiento 500 del Diario 282, el 26 de enero de 2004, según la escritura número 358, otorgada en Manatí, el 30 de diciembre de 2003, ante la Notario Aida Enid de la Rosa Abreu, para que se inscriba hipoteca a favor de R & G Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, por la suma de $50,000.00, sus intereses a 4 7/8% anual y vencedero el 1 de enero de 2009. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de mayo de 2023. DAISY LÓPEZ SANTIAGO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO, SALA SUPERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante V.
MILDRED EUGENIA PACINI DE LA ROSA, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandada
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00775.
(903). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.
El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 10 de mayo de 2022, notificada el 11 de mayo de 2022, y publicada el 13 de mayo de 2022, una Orden de Ejecución de Embargo emitida el 1 de mayo de 2023 y un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Embargo emitido el día 5 de mayo de 2023, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, procederá a vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, y/o giro postal, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 11 DE JULIO DE 2023; A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Oficina #706. Colinda por el OESTE, en 27’ 2”, con la pared interior que lo separa de la oficina #705; por el ESTE, en igual medida, con la pared interior que lo separa de la oficina #707; por el NORTE, en 15’ 4”, con pared interior que lo separa del pasillo común; y por el SUR, en igual medida, con la pared exterior del edificio hacia su colindancia con la calle denominada “Rolan”. Comprende un área de 423 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, y tiene su entrada y salida hacia el Norte, por el pasillo común con el cual colinda por ese lado. La oficina descrita se separa del quinto piso del edificio denominado Condominio Condado. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes equivalente a un porcentaje del 0.016%. FINCA NÚMERO: 4905, inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 151 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera
de San Juan. Dirección física: 609 Condado St., Suite 706, San Juan PR 00907. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente, según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por la suma de $10,046.40 de principal adeudado, más los intereses a razón de $89.62 mensuales, penalidades por retrasos al 10% mensual, intereses legales al 4.25% desde la fecha de la sentencia y aquellos intereses que se continúen acumulando desde el día 31 de noviembre de 2021, a razón de $13.23 diarios; costas y $1,000.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogados. Esta subasta no tiene fijación de tipo mínimo por tratarse de una ejecución de sentencia por embargo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 31 de mayo de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. JUAN A. SANTANA. GARCÍA, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.
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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. EDNA IVELISSE VALLE AROCHO, SU ESPOSO LUIS GILBERTO
PÉREZ MARTÍNEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: AR2022CV00444.
Sala: 101. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Camuy, Camuy, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia notificado por el Tribunal el día 9 de mayo de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela radicada en el Barrio Corcobado del término municipal de Hatillo, Puerto Rico, con una área superficial de seiscientos metros (600 m), en lindes por el NORTE, en treinta metros (30) con el solar número uno (1); por el SUR, y ESTE, en treinta (30) metros respectivamente y veinte metros (20) con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega propiedad de Félix Toledo; y por el OESTE, en veinte metros (20) con la carretera Estatal número cuatrocientos noventa y tres (493). Contiene edificación. Inscrita en la finca número 9,121, al folio 176 del tomo 173 de Hatillo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Segunda Sección de Arecibo. La propiedad está ubicada, según pagaré, en: PR 493 KM 2 Corcobado Ward, Hatillo, Puerto Rico. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los dere-
chos del acreedor ejecutante: Embargo Federal contra L. Pérez Martínez y E. Valle Arocho, seguro social xxx-xx-3757, por la suma de $1,998.71, notificación número 359147519, Certificación de fecha 10 de mayo de 2019, presentado y anotado el día 11 de julio de 2019, al Asiento 2019-005452FED del Sistema Karibe. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 14 de marzo de 2022, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, en el caso civil número AR2021CV000444, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto rico, contra Edna Ivelisse Valle Arocho y Luis Gilberto
Pérez Martínez, por la suma de $76,610.75 más otras sumas, anotado el día 11 de abril de 2011, al tomo Karibe de Hatillo, finca número 9,121, anotación B y última. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 27 de febrero de 2023, archivada en autos y notificada el 28 de febrero de 2023, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $79,610.75 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 6.5%, anual desde el 1ro de abril de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $10,300.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 1 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Tribunal Superior de Hatillo, Hatillo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $103,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Tribunal Superior de Hatillo, Hatillo, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será
de $68,666.66, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 15 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil localizada en el Tribunal Superior de Hatillo, Hatillo, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $51,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante
Mortgage LTD Vs. Félix Colon Rivera y su esposa María E. Parrilla Olmedo con fecha del 15 de diciembre de 2008 en la cual se reclama el pago de $22,029.26 o en su defecto la venta judicial. Inscrita el 7 de mayo de 2009. F. El remate y/o la subasta es en cobro de dinero en ejecución de la sentencia dictada en el presente caso que asciende a la suma de $32,023.00 por concepto de Principal, costas, gastos y honorarios según la sentencia dictada y se desglosa como sigue: A) Principal adeudado por el Pagaré. $26,800.00. B) Costa, gastos y honorarios según la sentencia. $3,000.00. C) Intereses legales desde emitida la sentencia. (5%). $223.32. D) Gastos de ejecución R. 51.2 de P.C. $2,000.00. Total adeudado a ésta fecha $32,023.00. G. Según la Orden y Mandamiento de Venta Judicial se harán formar parte de la venta judicial los intereses legales que se sigan acumulando desde emitida la sentencia hasta su total pago y solvento en su día. H. Conforme a la Orden y Mandamiento sobre Venta Judicial el remate a efectuarse es en cobro de dinero en ejecución de sentencia y se llevará a cabo a través del procedimiento que proveen las Reglas 51.2, 51.3 y 51.7 de Procedimiento Civil, razón por lo cual no será necesario establecer un precio mínimo (Justiprecio) para la primera y única subasta, según lo resuelto por el Honorable Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico en el caso:
Arkel Ramón Sánchez Torres v. Fundación Dr. Manuel de la Pila Iglesias 2012 TSPR 130. La PRIMERA Y ÚNICA SUBASTA PÚBLICA se celebrará el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2023
A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina. Para obtener más información en relación con la Subasta Pública aquí anunciada pueden comunicarse y/o visitar con cita previa durante horas laborables al Lcdo.
Edmundo Ayala Oquendo, con los números telefónicos (787) 603-4277 y/o con el Depositario Judicial designado Sr. Joseph Lebrón al (787) 470-5966. Y PARA QUE ASI CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por el término de dos (2) semanas en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley. Expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 9 de junio 2023, en Carolina, Puerto Rico. JOSÉ R. CRISTOBAL ORTIZ, ALGUACIL GENERAL.
ENRIQUE VERGÉ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL #960.
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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO
LIME HOMES, LTD
Demandante Vs. AILEEN ROMAN-RODRIGUEZ
Demandados
Civil Núm.: AR2021CV00311.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 21 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 93 en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural San Francisco del Barrio Tanama del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.1225 cuerdas, equivalentes a 493.46 metros cuadrados.
En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle número dos de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela número 96 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela número 93-A de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la calle número uno de la comunidad.
Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa. Consta inscrita al folio 115 del tomo 417 de Arecibo, finca número 16599, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Arecibo. Propiedad localizada en:
39 Calle Rodríguez Olmo, Arecibo, PR 00612. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas
anteriores o preferentes: Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las
siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico por la suma de $15,000.00 sin intereses anuales y vencimiento 29 de agosto de 2011. Constituida por la Escritura 428 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de agosto de 2003 ante el notario Mariano S. Majeraurriola e inscrita al folio 48 del tomo 1285 de Arecibo, finca 16599, inscripción 5a. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $55,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 28 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $36,666.67, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $27,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 5 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $45,350.62 de principal, intereses al tipo del 6.50000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1ro. de mayo de 2014 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $5,500.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica
y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si ésto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los Interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de junio de 2023. ÁNGEL DE J. TORRES PÉREZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS PLACA #770, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO, SALA SUPERIOR.
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Demandante V. SUCESION DE JUAN RIVERA PAGAN COMPUESTA POR OMAYRA RIVERA DEL HOYO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES
Demandado(a)
Civil: CR2022CV00064. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN RIVERA PAGAN.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 4 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente
registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de junio de 2023. En Orocovis, Puerto Rico, el 7 de junio de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. NATALIA BURGOS MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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LEGACY MORTGAGE
ASSET TRUST
2019-CASO GS7
Demandante V. ROMUALDO QUIRINDONGO
ECHEVARRIA SU
ESPOSA ALICIA EUSEBIA GONZALES ROSADO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandado(a)
Civil: AG2020CV00650. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: ROMUALDO QUIRINDONGO
ECHEVARRIA SU
ESPOSA ALICIA EUSEBIA
GONZALES ROSADO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS. DIRECCIÓN
FÍSICA: BARRIO
AGUACATE CARRETERA 110 RD KM 5.0
AGUADILLA, PR 00605; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: HC 7 BOX 39319 AGUADILLA, PR 00603-9240.
P/C LCDA. MARJALIISA COLON VILLANUEVA. P.O. BOX 7970, PONCE,
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de junio de 2023. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 12 de junio de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ZUHEILY GONZÁLEZ AVILÉS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE CAGUAS ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. YOHAN J. COLON AGOSTO
Demandado(a)
Civil: CG2022CV02470. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: YOHAN J. COLON AGOSTO, URB LA HACIENDA, 79 CALLE LA MONSERRATE, CAGUAS, P.R. 00725 / COND AGUEYBANA 897, CALLE ALAMEDA, APTO 804, SAN JUAN, P.R. 00923-2460.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación ge-
neral en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de junio de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 12 de junio de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ BAUTISTA CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY
Demandante V. FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DEL CUAL
Demandados
Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV00860. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÁ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DEL CUAL, O SEA LAS PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS QUE PUEDAN SER TENEDORES DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la presentación de una Demanda en su contra. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través de Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. La parte demandante alega que es el acreedor de una facilidad de crédito
garantizada, entre otros, por el siguiente pagaré hipotecario garantizado por la siguiente hipoteca que se describe a continuación: Pagaré hipotecario suscrito por P.H.D.S. Corporation (la “Deudora”) el 31 de marzo de 2004 a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, autenticado mediante afidávit número 5,155 ante el Notario Público Juan Surillo Pumarada, por la suma principal de $75,000.00, con intereses al 2.0% anual sobre la tasa de interés preferencia “prime rate” fluctuante de tiempo en tiempo prevaleciente en las oficinas principales de Citibank, N.A., en la ciudad de Nueva York, disponiéndose además que en ningún momento la tasa de interés será menor de del 6.75%, y vencedero a la prestación. En la misma fecha y ante el mismo fedatario, Victor Manuel Vázquez Matos t/c/c Víctor M. Vázquez Matos, Guillermo Anibal Vázquez Soto, Frances Esther Vazquez Soto y María Socorro del Rosario Vazquez Soto, constituyeron hipoteca en garantía del Pagaré Hipotecario mediante la Escritura de Hipoteca Voluntaria número 216 (la “Hipoteca”) otorgada 31 de marzo de 2004 inscrita al folio 14 del tomo 277 de Añasco, inscripción 5ta, finca número 5,559, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Mayagüez (en adelante, el “Registro”). La Hipoteca mencionada grava la siguiente propiedad:
URBANA: Solar sito en la Urbanización Reparto Daguey del Barrio Daguey del Municipio de Añasco, Puerto Rico, que lleva el número 11 del Bloque A del plano de inscripción. Tiene una cabida superficial de 445.67 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en 10.00 metros con la Calle número Uno (1) de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en 27.32 metros, con solares de Laredo Homes; por el ESTE, en 31.20 metros, con el solar número 10 de Bloque A de la Urbanización y por el OESTE, en 22.50 metros, con el solar número 12 del Bloque A de la Urbanización. Sobre este solar enclava una estructura que consta de una sola vivienda y contiene tres habitaciones dormitorios, sala-comedor, cocina, balcón, baño y marquesina, construida de hormigón reforzado y bloques, con piso de losetas de terrazo. Inscrita al folio 49 vuelto del tomo 163 de Añasco, finca número 5,559, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Mayagüez. El original del pagaré hipotecario antes mencionado se ha extraviado sin el mismo poder sido localizado a pesar de las gestiones realizadas por la parte demandante y el último acreedor conocido, y por ello comparece a este Honorable Tribunal solicitando su sustitución y/o
reproducción. Que se incluye a Fulano De Tal y a Mengano Del Cual como posibles tenedores desconocidos del pagaré hipotecario extraviado. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO, se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto notificándole con copia de dicha contestación al Lcdo. Luis G. Parrilla Hernández, PO Box 195168 San Juan, PR 009195168 y/o 221 Avenida Ponce De León, Piso 5, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00917; sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de junio de 2023. LIC NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. JAZMÍN SANABRIA TORRES, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE JOSE
LUIS MENDEZ QUINTANA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS GLENDA
LIZ MENDEZ NOA, JOSE
LUIS MENDEZ NOA Y JOSE FRANCISCO
MENDEZ NOA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS YIO
PARTES CON INTERES EN DICHA SUCECION
Demandados
Civil: CG2022CV04254. Sobre:
COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DEHIPOTECA.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN-
CIA POR EDICTO. ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE JOSE LUIS MENDEZ QUINTANA:
URB SANTA ELVIRA, I-20
CALLE SANTA ISABEL, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO
00725
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 13 de JUNIO de 2023 , este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia,
Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de JUNIO de 2023. En CAGUAS , Puerto Rico, el 14 de JUNiO de 2023. F/LISILDA MARTÍNEZ
AGOSTO, Secretario(a) Regional. F/SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE vs. FÉLIX SANTANA BONANO DEMANDADO
CIVIL NÚM.: FA2023CV00435.
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. ss.
A: FÉLIX
SANTANA BONANO
Urb. Alturas de Río Grande
N-637 Calle 12
Río Grande, PR 00745
Dirección postal: PO Box 303312 St. Thomas, VI 00803-3312
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr. salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted
deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, direcc!ón y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P
LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS
RÚA NÚM.: 11416
PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970
TEL: 787- 751-5290,
FAX: 787-751-6155
E-MAIL: eiecuciones@fortuno-law.com
En Fajardo, Puerto Rico a 15 de junio de 2023. Wanda l. Seguí Reyes, Sec Regional. LINDA l. MEDINA MEDINA, Sec Aux del Trib I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN
JUAN.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y SUN
WEST MORTGAGE
COMPANY, INC. COMO
AGENTE DE SERVICIO
DEMANDANTE vs. SUCESIÓN DE SERGIA
ANGELES SARRAGA
CHRISTIANSEN T/C/C
SERGIA SARRAGA DE MÁRQUEZ COMPUESTA
POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS RAÚL
HÉCTOR MÁRQUEZ
SARRAGA, ELLEN MYRA
MÁRQUEZ SARRAGA, IVÁN MANUEL MÁRQUEZ
SARRAGA, ERICK
EDUARDO MÁRQUEZ
SARRAGA, STELLA
DORA MÁRQUEZ
SARRAGA Y KARL
FRANZ MÁRQUEZ
SARRAGA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS Y/O
PARTES CON INTERÉS
EN DICHA SUCESIÓN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2023CV03119.
SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS
EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.
A: IVÁN MANUEL MÁRQUEZ SÁRRAGA, ELLEN MYRA MÁRQUEZ SÁRRAGA, STELLA DORA MÁRQUEZ
SÁRRAGA Y KARL FRANZ MÁRQUEZ SÁRRAGA COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE SERGIA ÁNGELES SÁRRAGA
CHRISTIANSEN T/C/C SERGIA SÁRRAGA DE MÁRQUEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN
Cond. Executive Mansions
Apto. 902 Calle Luchetti San Juan, PR 00907 Dirección postal: PO Box 16696 San Juan, PR 00908 y 1373 Luchetti St. Unit 902 San Juan, PR 00907 POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM 11416
PO BOX 3908 GUAYNABO PR 00970 TEL 787-751-5290, FAX 787-751-6155
EMAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com
En San Juan, Puerto Rico a 16 de junio de 2023. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria. F/ Brenda Hernandez Zavala, Sec Servicio a Sala.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE
CAGUAS CARLOS A. CONTRERAS CLAUDIO
Demandante V. ANA M. ROLÓN RIVERA
Demandado(a)
Civil Núm.: CG2023RF00256. Sala 501. Sobre: DIVORCIO RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: ANA MARÍA ROLÓN RIVERA. 83 MAYER AVENUE, BUFFALO NY 14207. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de junio de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 12 de junio de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SHEILA ROLDÁN RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN RAFAEL ANIBAL TORO COVAS; BELKIS EILEEN MORA ANTONGIORGI; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES Demandante Vs MANDRIS PROVIDENCIA; INES COLOMER, JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV01134. Sala: 504. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: MANDRIS PROVIDENCIA; INES COLOMER; JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE COMO
DESCONOCIDOS. EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de junio de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 14 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. E. DIOMARYS ALCÁNTARA FÉLIX, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS HR MORTGAGE CORPORATION
Demandante Vs. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE (POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2023CV01385.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE Y/O RICHARD ROE. Se notifica que se presentó en esta Secretaría la Demanda de epígrafe sobre Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado Por la Vía Judicial. Se le emplaza y requiere que usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo
que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Deberá notificar con copia de la misma al LCDO. JESÚS
A. LEDESMA AMADOR, PO
BOX 10338, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00922, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Si dejara de hacerlo, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. El pagaré hipotecario objeto de esta demanda, fue emitido a favor de BANCO DE PONCE, o a su orden, por VEINTISIETE MIL SETECIENTOS CINCUENTA DÓLARES
($27,750.00) con intereses al nueve punto setenta y cinco por ciento (9.75%) anual, y con vencimiento el primero (1) de abril del dos mil dieciocho (2018), ante el Notario Público Justino Ferrer Muñoz. Dicha obligación quedó garantizada por una hipoteca voluntaria sobre el inmueble que más adelante se describe, según consta de la escritura número cuarenta y tres (#43), otorgada en Cayey, Puerto Rico, el día diecisiete (17) de marzo de mil novecientos ochenta y ocho (1988), inscrita al folio #33 del tomo #293 de Cayey, finca #9609 inscripción sexta en el registro de la propiedad de Caguas sección Primera. El pago de dicho pagaré se garantizó con hipoteca constituida sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Matón Abajo de Cayey, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de MIL CIENTO OCHENTA Y NUEVE PUNTO NOVENTA Y SIETE (1189.97) METROS CUADRADOS, y en lindes por el NORTE, en tres alineaciones, con un camino público; por el SUR, con Julio Pérez Font; por el ESTE, con la finca principal de la cual se segrega y camino público; y por el OESTE, con Pantaleón Quiles y otro solar segregado de la finca principal. Enclava una casa de madera dedicad a a vivienda. Finca #9,609, inscrito al folio #33 del tomo #293 de Cayey, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas Sección Primera. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 24 de mayo de 2023. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria General. Marta E. Donate Resto, Secretaria Auxiliar.
DÍAZ MORALES, R&G MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV05335. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: R&G MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ. POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso de epígrafe solicitando la Cancelación del Pagare Extraviado a favor de R&G Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $116,000.00, intereses al 7.75%, vencedero el día 1 de junio de 2016, constituida mediante la escritura número 543, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de mayo de 2001, ante la notario Georgette M. Rodríguez Figueroa, e inscrita tomo móvil 4 de Monacillos, finca número 57, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Tercera Sección de San Juan. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son:
ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE:
LCDO. REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZ RUA núm.: 16,393
BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP
Suite 209, 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670
Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
TRIBU-
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN
JUAN SALA SUPERIOR 903
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. ANÍBAL NICOLÁS
EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 09 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ORTIZ SILVA, MELBA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
The only mystery surrounding the top pick in this year’s NBA draft was resolved a month ago. On May 16, the San Antonio Spurs won the draft lottery, giving them the opportunity — or, perhaps more aptly, the obligation — to select Victor Wembanyama with the first overall pick.
Wembanyama, a 7-foot-4 French superstar, is perhaps the most hyped NBA prospect since LeBron James, and for good reason: He shoots the ball like a modern lead guard and blocks it like a classic paint-patrolling center. Within his 8-foot wingspan, Wembanyama has just about every skill NBA teams seek in a franchise player.
“There is no better environment for him than the Spurs,” said Jonathan Givony, a draft analyst for ESPN. He added: “Everyone around him is thrilled for him. I don’t see the Spurs messing this up.”
But while Wembanyama, 19, is the draft’s ultimate prize, there are plenty of potentially franchise-altering prospects throughout the lottery — the celebrated top 14 picks — and even into the second round.
“There are tiers to this draft,” Givony said. “Victor is in a tier of his own. Then it’s Brandon Miller and Scoot Henderson after that. And from there, it really opens up.”
Miller, a guard from Alabama, and Henderson, a guard from the NBA G League’s Ignite, are expected to be drafted within the first few picks.
Here are five other players to know in the 2023 NBA draft (Thursday, 8 p.m. ET, ESPN, ABC).
Anthony Black
6-6, 210 pounds | guard, Arkansas Black’s first college scholarship offers came from football teams. As a sophomore wide receiver for Coppell High School in Texas, Black hauled in 39 passes for 762 yards and eight touchdowns. His play got the attention of powerhouse programs including Arkansas, Baylor and Cincinnati. But basketball was his first love.
“No doubt I would have made it to the NFL if I would have focused on football,” Black, 19, said. “I was pretty raw with it. I didn’t get to reach my potential. Once I started getting basketball offers during my sophomore year, that became my focus.”
Black was born into an athletic family: His mother was a scholarship athlete at Baylor in soccer; his father, in basketball. But they never pushed him to become a Bear, which is how he wound up at Arkansas, where he averaged 12.8 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.9 assists in one season. He became a more confident and reliable shooter as the season wore on, but the reason he is projected as a potential top-10 pick is his defense. He puts great pressure on the ball and can even defend big men because of his strength and size.
“Defense is what I’ve always hung my hat on,” Black said. “I was always the best defender on the team, or in the league or in my area. I sometimes haven’t been aggressive enough on offense so that I could be more active on defense. To me, getting scored on is pretty embarrassing.”
Jordan Hawkins
6-4, 186 pounds | guard, Connecticut
During the 2022 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament, Hawkins watched from the sideline as New Mexico State, a 12th seed, upset his fifth-seeded Huskies in the round of 64. In the postgame locker room, Hawkins told coach Dan Hurley, “This will not happen again next year.”
He spent the summer getting basketball advice from UConn alumni and NBA greats such as Richard Hamilton and Ray Allen. He also prioritized his mental strength, beginning a daily meditation practice with the Calm app. All of that work paid off. After posting one of his worst performances of the season — 5 points on 11 shots — in UConn’s second-round loss to Marquette in the Big East tournament, Hawkins pledged to play better during the NCAA Tournament.
“The best players show up in March,” Hawkins, 21, said. “I wanted to prove that I was one of the best players at my position — and of the best players, period, in the country.”
In the NCAA Tournament, Hawkins was named the most outstanding player in the West Regional after averaging 22 points a game and sinking nine total 3-pointers against Arkansas and Gonzaga. (He shot 38.8% from beyond the arc for the season.)
Before the team’s Final Four matchup against Miami, Hawkins contracted a stomach bug. He threw up more than a dozen times before the game and almost passed out during the first half. But he remembered the promise he had made to his coach. He helped guide the Huskies to their fifth NCAA men’s title.
“That’s what I’m bringing with me to the NBA,” Hawkins said. “I have the confidence that I’m a great defender, and I believe that I’m the best shooter in the draft. But more than that, I know how to buy into my role and work hard and win championships.”
GG Jackson
6-8, 214 pounds | forward, South Carolina
In a seven-month stretch last year, Jackson became the No. 1 player in the class of 2023, committed to North
Carolina, decommitted from North Carolina, reclassified to the class of 2022 and committed to South Carolina. It was a tumultuous time for a player who had yet to turn 18, but by the start of the season, Jackson believed he had made the right decision.
“The coaches told me I had the power to uplift a lot of people in my home state by staying in South Carolina,” he said. “Plus, staying so close to home made my mom happy.”
Jackson posted a respectable 15.4 points a game this season, but he made just 38.4% of his shots. He also publicly criticized his coaches on Instagram Live after a loss to Arkansas in February. Jackson apologized, and he said he owned up to the outburst during meetings with NBA teams. Although he is not projected to be a top-10 pick, he has a combination of size and skill that is hard to find and that could persuade a team to select him in the first round.
“I remember where I came from in basketball,” Jackson said. “I was a frail kid who had to wear goggles. I got to that No. 1 spot, but now I’m starting back over. I’m not the bad guy that people perceive me to be. I’m serious about the player and person I want to become.”
Kris Murray
6-8, 213 pounds | forward, Iowa
While Keegan Murray matriculated to the NBA last June, his twin, Kris, decided to stay at Iowa for another season. When the Hawkeyes came together for a workout a few weeks later, Kris came to a realization: This would be the first practice without his brother.
“I knew I could be an NBA player eventually, but going back to college gave me the chance to make a name for myself,” Murray, 22, said. “Basketball-wise, I got to be the focal point of our team. I got to lead our team, to be on top of the scouting reports for other teams, to be the guy everyone’s trying to stop. That was an invaluable experience for me.”
It was also a successful experience. Murray doubled his points and his minutes over the previous season but maintained his field-goal percentage and improved as a passer and rebounder. His 20.2 points-a-game average were slightly behind Keegan’s 23.5 the season prior.
“He gives me crap, and I give him crap,” Kris said, referring to his brother. “But we really like to gang up on our dad.”
Their father, Kenyon Murray, averaged a mere 9.9 points a game during his four-year run with the Hawkeyes in the mid-1990s.
In April, Kris watched Keegan start for the Sacramento Kings in a first-round playoff game win against the Golden State Warriors. And in May, the brothers got to spend a week together training and preparing for the next NBA season.
“I feel like my player comparison in the draft is pretty obvious,” Kris said. “It might be a little bit lazy, but it’s pretty accurate.”
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Rayan Rupert
6-6, 193 pounds | forward, France
Rupert, 19, was born into one of the best basketball families in France: His father, Thierry, was a former captain of the French national team; his sister, Iliana, won a WNBA championship last summer with the Las Vegas Aces. Thierry died when Rayan was 8, but he instilled in his children a love for the game that he had
dedicated his life to.
“For me and my sister, it’s important to represent the Rupert name,” Rayan said. “I’m very proud of my father. At the same time, I want to have my own career. I want people to know me not only as the son of Thierry, but also as Rayan.”
After playing at the prestigious French academy INSEP for four years, Rupert signed with the New Zealand Breakers as part of the NBL’s Next Stars development program. He was following in the footsteps of his best friend,
Ousmane Dieng, who went from INSEP to the Breakers to the Oklahoma City Thunder as the 11th overall pick in last year’s NBA draft.
He is part of a movement of French players who have turned into first-round NBA draft prospects, and he has known Wembanyama since he was 12. But for now, he is more concerned with making a name for himself.
“I’m very happy for Victor and for all the French players in this class,” he said. “But my goal is to be one of the best players in this league. That’s my only focus.”
not by a platoon of advisers but only by Clark and his caddie, he arrived in Los Angeles having won the Wells Fargo Championship and having earned four other top-10 finishes since early February.
That Wells Fargo win, in May at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina, had come against a foreboding list of rivals whose surnames — McIlroy and Spieth, Scott and Day — were bywords for golfing brilliance even before Clark finished college.
The victory at Quail Hollow, a past and future PGA Championship site, emboldened Clark. He had, he reasoned, beaten major champions on a major-tournamentcaliber course.
“I just feel like I can compete with the best players in the world,” he said last week, “and I think of myself as one of them.”
Clark made a birdie on the fourth hole, the first of five par-3 tests on the course along Wilshire Boulevard, to take him to 11 under. McIlroy was at 10 under, and Fowler at 9. Scheffler, steady but not spectacular, had not changed his score in either direction.
It was on the eighth hole where Clark’s advantage could have fully unraveled, when his second shot landed in green-vicinity foliage that looked more receptive to a scythe than a club. Clark’s first escape attempt went all of 8 inches, according to tournament officials — a sum that seemed about 8 inches too high. He escaped by lifting a shot over the green into the right rough and ultimately saved bogey, his lead shaved to a stroke.
By ALAN BLINDERTwo Tuesdays ago, as the golf world erupted into chaos and fury, Wyndham Clark did not rush to write a shock-and-awe Twitter post. He did not fume in a meeting with the PGA Tour commissioner about the surprise pact with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. He did not moralize or criticize or, really, do much of anything other than play golf.
His chosen course that Tuesday was the Los Angeles Country Club, which would host the U.S. Open, its debut major tournament, nine days later. A member of the club was Clark’s caddie, a friend turned tutor who knew some of the secrets of a North Course only a handful of the game’s biggest stars had ever seen: how a putt might break here, how the speed might vary there, how firm the fairways might become.
The payoff came Sunday evening, when Clark, 29, outlasted Rory McIlroy at the U.S. Open by one stroke and lurched into the hallowed fraternity of major championship winners. Until Sunday, Clark’s best finish in a major had been a tie for 75th at a PGA Championship. His two previous Open appearances were even worse, ending with missed cuts.
But his mother, his “always there supporter” who died nearly a decade ago, used to offer an ambitious admonition: “Play big.”
This tour season, he has, emerging as a perilous foe and suggesting that he, despite his major record, could soon be a power on the game’s greatest stages. With his irons adjusted a few degrees and his swing monitored and finessed
Now he most certainly is.
“There’s been so many times I’ve visualized being here in front of you guys and winning this championship, and I just feel like it was my time,” Clark said during the trophy presentation near the stately clubhouse.
By the time Clark waited on Sunday afternoon in the first tee box with Rickie Fowler, the other half of the Open’s final pairing and a prince of golf’s close-but-not-quite club, he had been adhering to his mother’s creed all week. He had fired a 6-under-par 64 on Thursday, better than many major champions in the 156-man field, and followed it with a 67 and a 69.
It was good enough for a share of the lead heading into the final round, with Fowler and Clark both at 10 under. McIlroy, a four-time major victor mired in a nineyear drought, trailed by a shot at sunrise on Sunday. Scottie Scheffler, the world’s top-ranked player, was three back from Clark and Fowler.
Clark required only four strokes to assume the lead. The first hole, with its wide fairway and a view toward the Beverly Hilton, had been one of his favored spots all through the tournament, ever since he started his Open with a putt of nearly 33 feet for eagle. He did not achieve the same feat Sunday, but his birdie was enough to take lone control of first place after a McIlroy birdie had allowed him to snatch briefly a share of the lead.
Clark’s time on top ended swiftly, when he bogeyed the second hole for the second time this week. Fowler also slipped with a bogey, the beginning of a flameout for a player who on Thursday shot a 62, a single-round record for an Open.
Clark and McIlroy both played the front nine to 34, 1 under. For both, though, the back nine had typically been more bruising. Their positions on the leader board were static until the 14th hole, when McIlroy’s wedge shot sent his ball thumping into the side of a bunker. Granted free relief, he dropped into the fescue near the hole but could do no better than departing the green with a bogey.
Clark’s experience was far more comfortable, his second shot leaving him less than two dozen feet from the par5 hole’s pin, setting up an eagle opportunity. Clark’s putt went just to the right of the cup, but a subsequent birdie attempt dropped, building his margin to three strokes.
It was brief. Clark missed a par chance on the 15th hole when his putt did not sufficiently break, and then his tee shot on No. 16 wound up in a bunker. Despite dazzling wedge play with his third shot, a short putt soon enough lipped out for Clark’s second consecutive bogey.
Down by a stroke, McIlroy, who struggled on the greens for much of the day, barely missed a birdie putt on the 17th hole, his familiar anguish reappearing.
“I’m right there,” he would say in a television interview afterward. “It’s such fine margins at this level, and I just got to keep putting myself in these positions and, you know, sooner or later it’s going to happen for me.”
Finishing at 9 under, McIlroy recorded a par on the final hole, where Clark had made par or birdie during each of the first three rounds. If Clark could stick to that history, the galleries knew, he would be a major champion — just as he concluded last month he was all but ready to be.
Par, to stay at 10 under, to finish at 10 under. His eyes glistened.
“Your mom was with you,” Fowler soon told him. “She’d be very proud.”
He had played big.
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Answers on page 30
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
Feel free to express your independent attitude today, Aries. Break out of any restrictions that might be keeping you from doing what you want to do. Also, make sure you aren’t compromising your own needs for those of others. Things should naturally flow your way, and you should be in a good mood for most of your waking hours. Smile at the people around you.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Feel free to express your independent attitude today, Aries. Break out of any restrictions that might be keeping you from doing what you want to do. Also, make sure you aren’t compromising your own needs for those of others. Things should naturally flow your way, and you should be in a good mood for most of your waking hours. Smile at the people around you.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
You can do no wrong today, Gemini. In fact, you can navigate through the cracks without anyone noticing. You may find that you would rather be up on center stage. This is fine, too, just as long as the choice is yours. Independence is a key theme for you today. You will find that the more you can break free, the better your mood will be.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
You can do no wrong today, Gemini. In fact, you can navigate through the cracks without anyone noticing. You may find that you would rather be up on center stage. This is fine, too, just as long as the choice is yours. Independence is a key theme for you today. You will find that the more you can break free, the better your mood will be.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
The pace will be jumping today and your wit and cheerful words will be welcomed in almost every setting you enter, Leo. Do things with others and see what kind of “trouble” you can stir up together. This is a time to get out and be social. Beautiful things and relaxing music are all favored on a day like this. You can do no wrong by just being your usual, outlandish self!
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
There’s a very caring and compassionate vibe developing, which might inspire you to sacrifice something you hold dear for a cause or even a relationship. As lovely Venus moves into Pisces, you’ll be much more open to other people’s needs and feelings, and if they ask you to help them out, you’ll be more than willing. If you go to the extreme, it won’t help. Balance is necessary.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
Many people may have a great deal to say today, Virgo, but you could find that you’d rather sit and listen. Feel free to do so. A lot of what’s going around is gossip, so you might not want to get involved at all. This is probably a wise move. Keep your nose clean and simply absorb what you hear. Feel free to filter out anything that doesn’t sit right with you.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
If you don’t say exactly what you mean today, Scorpio, you might get into trouble. Don’t compromise your values just to maintain the peace. Love and romance are favorable for you, but only if your attitude is relaxed and carefree. Your emotions will be quite strong, so do your best to balance them with a rational frame of mind.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
Today is apt to be favorable for you, Sagittarius. You should keep the lines of communication open so you can spread your knowledge to others and receive the important information that is due to come your way. Your energy might come in erratic yet powerful bursts. You should find that your ego and emotions are quite strong.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
You might feel a bit restless today, Capricorn. You may want to get the word out to others. Unfortunately, your tongue may be tied and it could be hard for you to express yourself exactly the way you want. Balance is key. You should work to foster harmony among your associates. This is a good time to get out and be social.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
If you keep waiting for things to happen, Aquarius, you may wake up one morning and realize that your life has passed and you never did half the things you dreamed of doing. The time to take action is now. Put your plan into effect. You may need to make some compromises, but you will find that, in general, people will follow your lead.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
Remind your loved ones how much they mean to you today, Pisces. Words are especially powerful. Don’t use them lightly. Be thoughtful about how you treat others. Do your best to maintain peace. It isn’t a good idea to hold grudges or carry hatred for anyone. Good manners and a neat appearance are key elements to the day.
