More Than 7,000 Students Graduate Across Several UPR Campuses
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UPR graduates more than 7,000 students
UPR Aguadilla conferred degrees on 241 students, of which 123 received their degrees with distinctions and honors. In addition, students Derek Bonilla, from the Aeronautical and Aerospace Technology program, and Karelen Z. Ramos, from the Business Administration program, were recognized with the Chancellor’s Grand Prize.
By THE STAR STAFF
The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) this month has graduated 7,000 students as part of the Class of 2024 in 528 academic programs.
“This is a time of celebration of the achievements of students and families who are part of the University of Puerto Rico. Education is a powerful tool for change, and we are confident that these professionals will make significant changes in their community and in the world of work,” UPR President Luis A. Ferrao said. “We are proud to give the country the best talents; these students are members of a generation of heroes and heroines who, with their entrepreneurial initiatives and intellectual abilities, will always raise the name of the country’s university anywhere in the world.”
The day of degree presentations began with the graduation of the Medical Sciences Campus, where this year degrees were conferred on 653 students in the health sciences, highlighting 95 new doctors of medicine among the 222 conferred. Also, UPR awarded 25 doctor of philosophy (Phd) degrees, of which 12 were in biomedicine, 12 in biosocial sciences and one in nursing.
At the graduation ceremonies at UPR Arecibo, degrees were conferred on 486 students. Guest speaker Migdalia Figueroa, president of Telemundo Puerto Rico, invited the students to fight for their desires and never forget their origins.
UPR Humacao, meanwhile, conferred degrees on 401 students, of which 32 students stand out with the highest distinctions, recognizing among them Genesis Pérez González, who is the first to obtain two bachelor’s degrees in the sciences, one in data and other in computational mathematics.
As a great achievement, UPR Carolina conferred degrees to the first class of the baccalaureate in criminal justice online, a unique program of the UPR system, among the 360 university degrees that were presented as part of the graduation ceremony held in the emblematic Río Piedras Campus theater.
UPR Ponce, meanwhile, recognized the achievements of 306 graduates at the Ponce Fair Complex. The class had 144 academic distinctions from departments such as Business Administration and Computer Science, Engineering and Allied Health Studies, among others, and two special recognitions for the most outstanding athlete, the Pachín Vicéns Prize, and for the best accounting student awarded by the Certified Public Accountants Association.
The UPR Mayagüez Campus, as previously reported by the STAR, this year conferred degrees on 1,729 students, in three ceremonies, especially notable among them being the first class, of eight students, of the master’s degree in school psychology, and the first doctorate in mechanical engineering. Some 870 students made the honor roll, of which 15 met the requirements to receive the Luis Stefani Raffucci Grand Prize, graduating with a 4.0 grade point average. It should be noted that this year there was representation of students from 74 of the 78 municipalities of the island and degrees were awarded to 60 international students, from Colombia, Peru, India, Russia, Honduras, Haiti, the Philippines, China, Guatemala, Chile, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
The units of Utuado, Bayamón, Cayey and the Río Piedras Campus (UPRRP) will hold their respective graduations this week, graduating more than 3,200 students, of which more than 2,000 are from the Río Piedras campus.
Among the UPRRP graduates are three students from the University Studies Program for Prison Inmates, and Blanca Pabón Pagán, a 73-year-old grandmother who has earned the admiration of many since she completed her bachelor’s degree in general studies with honors.
Six students from the College of Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus who received the Luis Stefani Raffucci Grand Prize for graduating with a 4.0 grade point average.
González Colón urges US energy secretary to ‘stop talking about solar panels,’ as ‘cool’ as they are
By THE STAR STAFF
Resident Commissioner Jenniffer
González Colón said Monday that U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm “needs to stop talking about solar panels.”
“The Secretary of Energy at the federal level returns to Puerto Rico to talk about solar panels and I believe that it is time for federal and state officials to stop talking about solar panels and talk about generation,” González Colón said in response to questions from the press. “The panels are cool, but how do we generate energy so that Puerto Rico is not turned off? That should be a priority instead of talking about projects that yes, that benefit us and that we agree with.”
Mayors Assn.
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico Mayors Association Pres-
ident Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz demanded Monday that the budget for the upcoming fiscal year include direct funds to increase housekeeping services, road maintenance and school improvements.
“There are three pressing issues where citizens’ complaints are concentrated and the municipalities are struggling to address, but they are urgent needs that demand immediate and recurring allocations from the state government to the municipalities,” Hernández Ortiz emphasized.
The Villalba mayor and island Senate candidate also pointed out that to be effective in those areas, the funds must be allocated directly to the municipalities to combat bureaucracy.
“It has already been proven, and everyone accepts it, that a dollar administered by the municipalities goes further and works faster than when it is administered by the central government,” he said.
Through a press release, the Mayors Association, which groups municipal executives from the Popular Democratic Party, also underscored the 2020 Federal Census Data, which shows that the population of Puerto
“We can’t wait to have a hurricane and the impact of a storm in Puerto Rico and then see what we’re going to do, if we’re going to put in another generator, it’s time, the funds are there,” the gubernatorial candidate said. “How many permits have been requested, and if it’s the federal government through the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] or the Department of Energy that are not complying, they’re dragging their feet. That is why I am also convening the United States Congress, in this case the Committee on Natural Resources in the House, to help us also, to put federal agencies in their place.”
González Colón made her remarks in reaction to LUMA Energy’s request to the Puer-
to Rico Energy Bureau for additional funds.
“I believe that those people at LUMA have lost track of the reality of what the people of Puerto Rico are experiencing,” she said. “When this contract [for operating the island’s electricity transmission and distribution system] was awarded, it was done knowing the conditions of the system, the environmental conditions, the probability of hurricanes on the island. And every time there is a public controversy, a way to solve it arises in which a new charge is imposed. A new charge if the electrical appliances are going to be fixed, a new charge if they are going to cut vegetation, a new charge if a new generating plant has to be installed. And I think it’s no longer funny that this company doesn’t talk about what was programmed when this hiring was carried out. All these things had to be foreseeable.”
González Colón added that in her opinion, with LUMA Energy it “is as if every day they look for an excuse to break the contract.”
demands 3 areas be given priority in budget
Rico is rapidly aging. The demographic shift is placing increasing demands on municipal services, particularly for the elderly population who often live alone, under low levels of poverty and with some disability.
“When these situations arise in families, where people in need go is to the municipality,” the mayor said. “We want to do more, but resources have to be allocated.”
Isabela Mayor Miguel “Ricky” Méndez pointed out that when he became mayor in 2021, “we had 13 housekeepers and with various federal and state programs we right now have 100, but right now we have a waiting list.”
In Salinas, Mayor Karilyn Bonilla Colón manages about 40 housekeepers who are paid with various items, with limitations.
“We have that amount, but the real need is much greater than that,” she said.
Vega Baja Mayor Marcos Cruz Molina, who is an educator, said the importance of having the necessary funds for the maintenance of schools “is an investment that is made in the future of Puerto Rico, at a time when it is necessary to prepare our youth adequately.”
“We mayors know our schools, the staff, the infrastructure and it is proven that
we do the job not out of obligation, but from the heart,” he said. Meanwhile, in Trujillo Alto, Mayor Pedrito Rodríguez pointed out that “particularly in our towns with mountainous areas, municipal public roads require constant attention.”
“We know that the bureaucracy of the state government stifles the good initiatives that municipal governments may have,” he said. “Fair allocation of funds for these three issues will help us be more effective. Hence the call that we mayors make for this new fiscal year 2024-2025.”
Puerto Rico Mayors Association President Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz, with microphone (Israel Morales)
Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón
Fiscal board: Legislature needs to modify its FY 2025 budget
By THE STAR STAFF
The Financial Oversight and Management Board on Monday gave the island Legislature until Wednesday to submit a modified budget for fiscal year (FY) 2025 citing numerous
violations of the fiscal plan.
The Legislature sent the budget to the oversight board on June 18, according to a letter.
“The Legislature’s proposed FY2025 Commonwealth Budget is non-compliant because, among other things, it reallocates the sources and uses of funding in a manner that is inconsistent with the 2024 Fiscal Plan, and amends budgetary control language in a manner that diverges from the Compliant Commonwealth Budget of Puerto Rico for fiscal year 2025 submitted to the Legislature on June 5, 2024,” the oversight board said.
The oversight board provided a list of numerous revisions.
“If the Legislature fails to submit a compliant budget by the deadline, the Oversight Board intends to develop and certify its own revised budget that is a compliant budget on or before June 30, 2024,” the board said.
Areas of non-compliance with the oversight board’s FY2025 Commonwealth Budget included appropriations under the custody of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), the board said. While the Legislature’s request was for an $83.2 million increase, the
oversight board proposed a response for a one-time $102 million increase subject to the UPR showing meaningful progress toward developing a plan for transforming UPR operations and prioritizing investments, the board noted.
“The Oversight Board is committed to supporting the UPR in fulfilling its mission toward students, staff, and the community,” the board said. “As such, this incremental one-time funding request must include clear objectives and goals to support economic development and achieve fiscal responsibility while addressing critical student, faculty, and infrastructure needs. These objectives must be accomplished to gain access to the funds.”
The oversight board also proposed a no funding increase for the first and second phases of archiving documents and the rehabilitation of a center for Antonio Martorell in the UPR Cayey building.
The board also refused to give island municipalities funds from the OMB for municipal road repair. The Legislature had proposed a $25 million increase.
The oversight board also declined to provide money to the Legislature for certain repairs at the Capitol.
Office of the Electoral Comptroller sues candidates to collect unpaid fines
By THE STAR STAFF
Electoral Comptroller Walter Vélez Martínez announced Monday that he will file 22 appeals in the Court of San Juan to collect the fines imposed on applicants, candidates, treasurers and mayors from the New Progressive Party, Popular Democratic Party and Citizen Victory Movement, which amount to $274,000.
The fines were imposed for violations of the Law for the Supervision of Political Campaigns in Puerto Rico.
“We exhausted administrative resources, without success,” Vélez Martínez said. “These [campaign] committees have failed to comply with regulations related to campaign financing and respond assertively to communications from this Office.”
The 22 complaints correspond to 60 administrative fines imposed for non-compliance with information requirements, failure to file reports, income and expenses not reported or not deposited in the campaign account, unidentified donors and deficiencies in internal controls, among others.
Among those sanctioned are six candidates and pre-candidates for legislative seats and seven candidates for mayoral positions. Lawsuits will also be filed against two incumbent mayors and seven committee treasurers.
As the regulatory entity for the financing of electoral campaigns, the Office of the Electoral Comptroller ensures the legitimacy of donations received and expenses incurred by campaign committees to bring political messages to the electorate.
The Office invites citizens to report inappropriate management
of political campaigns through its online services portal.
“It is essential that each of the political components fully comply with the provisions established by Law 222 and the regulations,” Vélez Martínez said. “To this end, we will continue to exhaust efforts to enforce the legislative mandate.”
Among those fined are:
* Yanitsia Irizarry Méndez, candidate for mayor of Aguadilla, with an outstanding balance of $47,052.48.
* Luis O. Flores Santiago, candidate for mayor of Sabana Grande, with an outstanding balance of $16,290.00.
* José Rodríguez González, candidate for mayor of Utuado, with an outstanding balance of $36,212.38.
The complete list of those sanctioned and their outstanding balances is available for public review.
González Colón expects transition of NPP presidency to begin next week
By THE STAR STAFF
New Progressive Party (NPP) gubernatorial candidate Jenniffer González Colón said Monday that she expects to begin the transition of the party’s presidency next week. “I hope, I estimate that by the end of this week, possibly between Friday and Saturday, the general count can be completed in the case of the NPP primary, where I would be given a certification, possibly Saturday, possibly Sunday,” González Colón said in response to questions from the press. “If that is the case, I would be convening the NPP board for next Monday, with the appointments that I could already be making as president of the NPP to begin that process. So those meetings can happen
at any time. I feel that the prudent thing to do is to wait for that final certification and talk to the governor.”
“In terms of the transition, for example, I propose that the NPP have its own headquarters, so these are elements that we have to evaluate and at some point we will meet with both work teams,” she added. “We discussed this in our initial call, so we won’t put a date on it until we have the certification. I know that possibly between Wednesday and Thursday some kind of transition may have begun in the electoral part, but I do not want to get ahead of events until I have my final certification.”
Among the appointments that González Colón will make is that of former Toa Baja Mayor Aníbal Vega Borges as electoral commissioner.
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The transition from Gov. Pedro Pierluisi to Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón as president of the New Progressive Party could begin next week. González Colón defeated Pierluisi in this month’s primary to determine the party’s candidate for governor in the November elections. (Gov. Pierluisi/Facebook)
The Financial Oversight and Management Board is giving the island Legislature until Wednesday to submit a modified budget for fiscal year 2025.
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For Biden and Trump, a debate rematch with even greater risks and rewards
By LISA LERER, SHANE GOLDMACHER, JONATHAN SWAN and MAGGIE HABERMAN
The debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump this week will be the highest-stakes moment of their rematch, plunging two presidents into an extraordinarily early confrontation before a divided and angry nation.
For Biden, the debate in Atlanta offers an opportunity to remind voters of the chaos of his predecessor’s leadership and criminal convictions, and to warn of an even darker future should Trump win a second term. For Trump, it’s a chance to make his case that America has grown more expensive, weaker and more dangerous under his successor.
But the faceoff Thursday also poses significant risks for the two men — both of them the oldest candidates ever to compete in a presidential race — who have been locked in a contentious rivalry defined by mutual hatred for more than four years. That animosity heightens the evening’s unpredictability. A notable misstep — a physical stumble, a mental lapse or a barrage of too-personal insults — could reverberate for months because of the unusually long period until their second debate in September.
“This is a big inflection point,” said Karl Rove, a leading Republican strategist who guided George W. Bush’s two successful presidential runs. “Can Biden be consistently cogent, causing people to say, ‘Well, maybe the old guy is up to it?’ And is Trump going to be sufficiently restrained that people say, ‘You know what? It really is about us, not about him.’”
This presidential debate will be the earliest in the nation’s history and notably different from those familiar to many Americans. Hosted by CNN instead of a nonpartisan commission, it will be simulcast on more than five networks, without a live audience and without opening statements. Each candidate will have two minutes to answer questions, followed by one-minute rebuttals and responses to the rebuttals, and their microphones will be muted when it is not their turn to speak.
The two men are taking strikingly different approaches to their preparation. Biden hunkered down with his aides at Camp David for formal debate sessions, with the part of Trump expected to be played by Bob Bauer, the president’s personal attorney. The former president is taking a looser approach but is participating in more “policy sessions” than he held in 2020.
Trump’s advisers hope the former president keeps his attention on the issues that are widely seen as Biden’s biggest vulnerabilities — inflation and immigration — and is not baited into exchanges over his false claims about a stolen 2020 election and a justice system he claims is rigged against him.
Biden’s team sees an opportunity to focus Democratic and independent voters, and even some moderate Republicans, on how much more radical a second Trump administration might be than the first. Yet they are also preparing for Trump to deliver a more disciplined performance than in the first debate of 2020, when he had a chaotic showing that was likened to a “dumpster fire.”
“This debate is an opportunity to show the American people what those of us who watch Donald Trump all day, professionally, are seeing, which is that he is more unhinged, he is more dangerous, he is out for revenge, and anything that raises those stakes directly with the American people is a net positive for us,” said
President Joe Biden arrives aboard Air Force One at Hagerstown Regional Airport, in Hagerstown, Md., en route to Camp David, on June 20, 2024. The debate between President Biden and former President Donald Trump this week will be the highest-stakes moment of their rematch, plunging two presidents into an extraordinarily early confrontation before a divided and angry nation. (Al Drago/The New York Times)
Rob Flaherty, a deputy campaign manager for Biden.
For his part, Trump is preparing to answer questions about threats to American democracy and his promise to pardon rioters involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. He has told associates he will emphasize that he will tackle the Jan. 6 pardons on a “case by case” basis and will distinguish between those who committed violence and those who didn’t.
The event will be the first time American voters see Biden and Trump in a direct exchange since October 2020, when they met for the final debate of their last race. It is also the first time they have been in the same room since then.
Much has changed in the interim. The country has lived through a pandemic, an uncertain economy, a siege on the nation’s Capitol and the fall of federal abortion rights, and has become enmeshed in two bloody global conflicts. Trump is now a felon, convicted of 34 counts by a New York jury. And Biden has become an unpopular president, facing deep opposition not only from Republicans but also among his party’s base.
And yet polls have shown little movement between Trump and Biden. Both men are widely disliked by broad swaths of the nation and locked in a tight race, though Trump had been largely narrowly ahead in national polls earlier this year.
Almost no one — including some of Biden’s top strategists — expects the debate to immediately upend a race between two well-defined candidates. Biden aides view the debate as the starting bell for the general election, an event that will provide a high-profile opportunity to define the terrain of the contest. They sought successfully to move the debate months earlier to help prod the public to pay closer attention.
“This is going to be a long, close race,” said Molly Murphy, a pollster for the Biden campaign. “Message discipline, persistence and being in front of voters at all times is ultimately going to be what matters.”
Both candidates are, in their own ways, incumbents. Yet the debate reverses their standing from 2020. Four years ago,
it was Trump who was forced to defend his record in the midst of a raging pandemic. Now it is Biden who will face attacks over his stewardship of an economy that, while strong by some measures, has been defined for many voters by high prices and a tight housing market.
Trump is particularly focused on a trifecta of developments he believes portrays his administration in a more favorable light: higher inflation, America’s entanglement in two new foreign wars and a surge in border crossings since he left office. Trump regularly blames Biden’s border policies for domestic crimes.
Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., who is running for reelection in one of the nation’s most competitive districts, said that such a focused contrast could favor Trump. Voters in his district in the Tucson area, he said, can easily compare what their life was like over those two four-year periods.
“You can tune out the news, but you can’t tune out not being able to afford groceries,” Ciscomani said. “From the border to inflation, people feel like they’re worse off today than they were three, four years ago.”
Aides to Biden say the president plans to highlight some of the more divisive proposals embraced by the former president and those close to him, including the possibility of deporting millions of immigrants living in the country without legal permission and imposing a new 10% tax on imports, to paint a bleak picture of what could happen should Trump win reelection.
As Democrats have done for months, Biden plans to cast Trump as a threat to what they see as fundamental American freedoms, such as abortion and voting rights. They plan to pair those attacks with an economic argument that Trump would choose big businesses and billionaires over helping average Americans. In recent days, Biden has signaled a willingness to tie his economic argument to Trump’s criminal record, casting the race in one ad as a choice “between a convicted criminal who’s only out for himself and a president who’s fighting for your family.”
Biden also wants to blame Trump for the fall of Roe v. Wade, which the former president helped usher in with his Supreme Court appointments. Four years ago, Biden warned voters that Roe was on the ballot — a charge that Trump waved off in their first debate, saying, “Why is it on the ballot? It’s not on the ballot.”
Trump is unlikely to dodge the issue as easily this year, after nearly two years of a steady drumbeat not just of abortion bans but of conservative Christian efforts to restrict in vitro fertilization and other broadly popular procedures. Trump has consulted with Kellyanne Conway, his former aide who spent decades polling on the issue, and is likely to repeat the position he has embraced recently: Abortion should be left up to the states to decide.
Democrats have signaled that Biden will push back by arguing that Trump would go further if he regains the White House, by imposing new federal restrictions on abortion access.
Gail Gitcho, a Republican strategist, argued that rhetorical clashes onstage could matter less than usual, given voters’ experiences living under both the Biden and Trump administrations.
“What voters are considering is, how was my life under President Trump, and how is my life under President Biden?” she said. “They are either choosing between presidencies or personalities — and they’re more likely to choose between presidencies.”
Drawn-out heat wave expected to finally let up in many parts of the US
By ISABELLE TAFT
The unusually early heat wave that shattered temperature records across the Northeast, mid-Atlantic states and Midwest last week was expected to subside by Monday, bringing relief to tens of millions of Americans.
The National Weather Service forecast lower temperatures for much of the mid-Atlantic on Monday.
In Washington, the heat index — a measure of how conditions feel with humidity taken into consideration — is expected to reach a high of 87 degrees, down from 102 on Sunday. Philadelphia is also expected to have a much lower heat index value, at 82 degrees, down from 104 on Sunday, forecasters say. And in Trenton, New Jersey — the capital of the state, which climate experts say is warming faster than others in the region — the figure is expected to come down to 82, from 103 on Sunday.
The forecast is welcome news along the Interstate 95 urban corridor on the East Coast, where residents faced especially stifling conditions over the weekend. Places like Baltimore and Dulles, Virginia, broke daily temperature records two days in a row.
But regions in the Southeast and southern Plains are expected this week to remain hot — possibly at dangerous levels — with potential highs in the low 100s, according to the weather service. Parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida are forecast to face extreme risks from heat Tuesday, the service said, taking into account both the weather conditions and how unusual they are for the time of year.
At the heat wave’s peak extent Thursday, nearly 120 million people were under heat advisory alerts from the weather service,
Joseph Glenn places a wash cloth on his head as he cools off at a splash park in Schenectady, N.Y., June 20, 2024. The unusually early heat wave that shattered temperature records across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic States and Midwest last week was expected to subside by Monday, June 24, 2024, bringing relief to tens of millions of Americans. (Cindy Schultz/The New York
and the number of people under such advisories remained above 100 million for at least four days straight.
More than the heat itself, its early arrival shocked some Americans.
“I hoped the weatherman was mistaken,” said Shenay Smith, 44, a wine tasting technician in New Castle, Delaware, where the heat index soared to 107 on Sunday. “Unfortunately, not this time,” she added.
For many, it was a brutal start to a summer that promises to be punishing: According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2024 is on track to be among the five hottest years on record, and there’s a 50% chance it will be the warmest ever.
Climate change is driving more severe extreme heat events around the world, scientists say. In recent years, global warming has made heat waves hotter, more frequent and longer. Daily temperature records were broken in dozens of cities, including Boston, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Chicago, during this heat wave.
The health consequences of this heat wave have shown up in some data and anecdotes: Heat-related illnesses spiked in parts of New England, the Midwest and the mid-Atlantic last week, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s heat and health tracker.
In Philadelphia, the heatline — which directs people struggling to handle the heat to cooling centers and medical attention, if necessary — received more emergency calls than usual, according to Nolan Lawrence, the director of its helpline for seniors.
“It’s particularly brutal out here the last few days,” Lawrence said Sunday, as temperatures in Philadelphia broke the daily record set in 1888.
But not everyone was too bothered by the heat.
Lafayette Collins, 44, a mortgage loan broker, brought his three sons to watch a minor league baseball game between the Aberdeen IronBirds and the Wilmington Blue Rocks in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday. Braving triple-digit heat index figures, Collins and his sons came to Frawley Stadium prepared with umbrellas to fend off the sun and a plastic bag stuffed with towels soaked in water.
“What’s the alternative?” Collins asked.
FBI offers reward for information about New Mexico wildfires
By ALEXANDRA E. PETRI
The FBI is offering an award for information about two wildfires in southern New Mexico that left two people dead, prompted the evacuation of thousands and scorched more than 24,000 acres.
The agency is offering up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the “person or persons responsible for starting the fires” near the village of Ruidoso, the agency said in a statement.
The FBI asked for the public’s help in identifying what sparked the blazes.
Margot Cravens, a spokesperson for the FBI’s field office in Albuquerque, declined to comment Sunday evening but confirmed that the agency was assisting with the investigation.
The South Fork and Salt fires began June 17 amid sweltering temperatures and were still burning Sunday evening. Extreme temperatures, low humidity and heavy rain in the area have complicated efforts to extinguish the fires, which are burning in the Mescalero Apache tribal area, on U.S. Forest Service land and in areas around Ruidoso.
The South Fork fire, the larger of the two wildfires, has burned more than 17,000 acres and was only 31% contained Sunday, according to New Mexico Fire Information, a website run by federal and state agencies.
The Salt fire has burned more than 7,000 acres of tribal land in mostly inaccessible mountain terrain and remains only 7% contained, authorities said.
The two people who died were found June 18 in or near Ruidoso, according to the New Mexico State Police. One of them, a 60-year-old man, was found with burns on the side of a road near a motel, police said. The other victim was found in the driver’s seat of a burned vehicle on a road.
About 1,400 structures have been destroyed, and about 8,000 people from Ruidoso and the surrounding areas were forced to evacuate, authorities said.
Ruidoso announced it would be lifting evacuation orders for full-time residents, permitting them to return beginning 8 a.m. Monday. Some homes may be without gas, water and electricity, and air quality may be poor because of smoke and ash, according to a statement on the village’s website. Residents are being advised to bring a week’s worth of groceries and water.
Some areas will remain off-limits because they are considered crime scenes and are “undergoing recovery efforts,” the statement said.
The wreckage of the Swiss Chalet Hotel, destroyed by the South Fork fire, in Ruidoso, N.M., on Thursday, June 20, 2024. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering an award for information about two wildfires in southern New Mexico that left two people dead, prompted the evacuation of thousands and scorched more than 24,000 acres. (Paul Ratje/The New York Times)
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How AI is revolutionizing drug development
By STEVE LOHR
The laboratory at Terray Therapeutics is a symphony of miniaturized automation.
Robots whir, shuttling tiny tubes of fluids to their stations. Scientists in blue coats, sterile gloves and protective glasses monitor the machines.
But the real action is happening at nanoscale: Proteins in solution combine with chemical molecules held in minuscule wells in custom silicon chips that are like microscopic muffin tins. Every interaction is recorded, millions and millions each day, generating 50 terabytes of raw data daily — the equivalent of more than 12,000 movies.
The lab, about two-thirds the size of a football field, is a data factory for artificialintelligence-assisted drug discovery and development in Monrovia, California. It’s part of a wave of young companies and startups trying to harness AI to produce more effective drugs, faster.
The companies are leveraging the new technology — which learns from huge amounts of data to generate answers — to try to remake drug discovery. They are moving the field from a painstaking artisanal craft to more automated precision, a shift fueled by AI that learns and gets smarter.
“Once you have the right kind of data, the AI can work and get really, really good,” said Jacob Berlin, co-founder and CEO of Terray.
Just as popular chatbots like ChatGPT are trained on text across the internet, and image generators like DALL-E learn from vast troves of pictures and videos, AI for drug discovery relies on data. And it is very specialized data — molecular information, protein structures and measurements of biochemical interactions. The AI learns from patterns in the data to suggest possible useful drug candidates, as if matching chemical keys to the right protein locks.
Because AI for drug development is powered by precise scientific data, toxic “hallucinations” are far less likely than with more broadly trained chatbots. And any potential drug must undergo extensive testing in labs and in clinical trials before it is approved for patients.
Companies like Terray are building big high-tech labs to generate the information to help train the AI, which enables rapid experimentation and the ability to identify patterns and make predictions about what
might work.
Generative AI can then digitally design a drug molecule. That design is translated, in a high-speed automated lab, to a physical molecule and tested for its interaction with a target protein. The results — positive or negative — are recorded and fed back into the AI software to improve its next design, accelerating the overall process.
Drug development has traditionally been an expensive, time-consuming, hit-ormiss endeavor. Studies of the cost of designing a drug and navigating clinical trials to final approval vary widely. But the total expense is estimated at $1 billion on average. It takes 10-15 years. And nearly 90% of the candidate drugs that enter human clinical trials fail, usually for lack of efficacy or unforeseen side effects.
The young AI drug developers are striving to use their technology to improve those odds, while cutting time and money.
Their most consistent source of funding comes from the pharma giants, which have long served as partners and bankers to smaller research ventures. Today’s AI drugmakers are typically focused on accelerating the preclinical stages of development, which have conventionally taken 4-7 years. Some may try to go into clinical trials themselves. But that stage is where major pharma corporations usually take over, operating the expensive human trials, which can take another seven years.
The major pharma companies pay their research partners for reaching milestones toward drug candidates, which can reach hundreds of millions of dollars over years. And if a drug is eventually approved and becomes a commercial success, there is a stream of royalty income.
Companies like Terray, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Schrödinger and Isomorphic Labs are pursuing breakthroughs. But there are, broadly, two different paths — those that are building big labs and those that aren’t.
Isomorphic, the drug discovery spinout from Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s central AI group, takes the view that the better the AI, the less data that’s needed. And it is betting on its software prowess.
In 2021, Google DeepMind released software that accurately predicted the shapes that strings of amino acids would fold into as proteins. Those 3D shapes determine how a protein functions. That was a boost to biological understanding and helpful in drug discov-
lab
ery, since proteins drive the behavior of all living things.
Last month, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic announced that their latest AI model, AlphaFold 3, can predict how molecules and proteins will interact — a further step in drug design.
“We’re focusing on the computational approach,” said Max Jaderberg, chief AI officer at Isomorphic. “We think there is a huge amount of potential to be unlocked.”
Terray, like most of the drug development startups, is a byproduct of years of scientific research combined with more recent developments in AI.
Berlin, who earned his doctorate in chemistry from Caltech, has pursued advances in nanotechnology and chemistry throughout his career. Terray grew out of an academic project begun more than a decade ago at the City of Hope cancer center near Los Angeles, where Berlin had a research group.
Terray is concentrating on developing small-molecule drugs, essentially any drug a person can ingest in a pill like aspirin and statins. Pills are convenient to take and inexpensive to produce.
Terray has partnership deals with Bristol Myers Squibb and Calico Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, that focuses on age-related diseases. The terms of those deals are not disclosed.
To expand, Terray will need funds be-
yond its $80 million in venture funding, said Eli Berlin, Jacob Berlin’s younger brother. He left a job in private equity to become a cofounder and the startup’s chief financial and operating officer, persuaded that the technology could open the door to a lucrative business, he said.
Terray is developing new drugs for inflammatory diseases including lupus, psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis. The company, Jacob Berlin said, expects to have drugs in clinical trials by early 2026.
The drugmaking innovations of Terray and its peers can speed things up, but only so much.
“The ultimate test for us, and the field in general, is if in 10 years you look back and can say the clinical success rate went way up and we have better drugs for human health,” Berlin said.
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at Terray Therapeutics in Monrovia, Calif., on April 19, 2024. Companies like Terray are building big, high-tech labs to generate data to help train artificial intelligence to produce more effective drugs. (Spencer Lowell/The New York Times)
Dow jumps amid broader market rally in countdown to inflation data
Abroad stock market rally pushed the blue-chip Dow to a one-month high on Monday, as investors rotated out of AI-linked stocks and added some laggards to their portfolios, betting on Federal Reserve interest rate cuts this year.
Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab slid for a third session, down 5.4% as market watchers cited profit taking in the semiconductor bellwether after its meteoric rise last week to the world’s most valuable company.
Other chip stocks including U.S. shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing , Broadcom (AVGO.O), opens new tab, Marvell Technology (MRVL.O), opens new tab and Qualcomm (QCOM.O), opens new tab dropped between 2.1% and 4%, dragging the chip stocks index (.SOX), opens new tab down 2.3%.
“The market’s selling some of the winners and buying some of the laggards here,” said Jack Janasiewicz, lead strategist at Natixis Investment Managers. “It’s a little bit of a nod to looking out over the inflation data that is coming out on Friday, as expectations are for a pretty soft print.”
Technology (.SPLRCT), opens new tab and the consumer discretionary were the only two decliners among the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes. Meanwhile, the energy sector was up 2.5%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI), opens new tab jumped over 0.5% intraday, on course for a fiveday winning streak. The small-caps index Russell 2000 (.RUT), opens new tab also hit its highest in over a week, signaling broader market gains.
“If inflation comes in softer, the market could broaden out quite significantly... The breadth will get wider and everything beyond the AI stocks,” said Phil Blancato, CEO of Ladenburg Thalmann Asset Management.
The biggest event on investors’ radar for the week is Friday’s personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index report, the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation, expected to show a moderation in price pressures.
Investors still expect about two rate cuts this year, pricing in a 61% chance of a 25-basis-point cut in September, as per LSEG’s FedWatch. The Fed’s own latest projection is for one rate cut likely in December.
At 02:03 p.m. the Dow rose 225.94 points, or 0.58%, to 39,376.27, the S&P 500 (.SPX), opens new tab lost 6.84 points, or 0.13%, to 5,457.78 and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC), opens new tab lost 147.38 points, or 0.83%, to 17,541.98.
Other data this week include durable goods, weekly jobless claims and final first-quarter GDP figures, the annual Russell index reconstitution. Some quarterly earnings reports also are due.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden will debate Re-
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In Greece, another tourist found dead amid scorching heat wave
By NIKI KITSANTONIS
Greek authorities said Monday that the body of a missing German man was recovered near a gorge on the island of Crete, the latest in a series of fatal incidents involving tourists undertaking demanding hikes in the scorching heat.
At least 10 tourists have gone missing or been found dead this year in similar circumstances, according to Greek authorities. The country has experienced back-to-back heat waves earlier than usual this year, with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) in many areas for several days in a row.
The 67-year-old man’s body was found in “rugged and inaccessible terrain” near the Tripiti Gorge in southwestern Crete, the fire service said in a statement. It was first spotted by a drone Sunday evening. Early Monday, the fire service sent a helicopter, although it took responders several hours to reach the body.
As of Monday, the man’s name and cause of death had not been released.
ted his wife early Sunday afternoon, saying he had run out of water and felt ill. He did not know his location, but authorities traced his cellphone signal.
The Tripiti Gorge is a demanding trek generally undertaken by experienced hikers, Dimoglidou said.
Monday’s discovery was the most recent in a string of tourist deaths in the past month.
An 80-year-old Belgian man, a Dutch man and a Frenchwoman, both 70, died while on separate hiking trips on Crete.
Another Dutch hiker, 74, was found dead on the Greek island of Samos.
On June 9, the remains of a well-known British medical journalist and documentary maker, Michael Mosley, were found on the island of Symi, after his disappearance during a walk in extreme heat.
after so many days are ebbing, Dimoglidou said, while the prospect of even locating their remains becomes increasingly uncertain with each passing day as decomposition accelerates in the intense heat.
Hikers going astray is not a new thing, Dimoglidou said, but they don’t often turn up dead in ravines. “This year, it seems that more people became disoriented in the intense heat,” she said.
On days when extreme heat is forecast, Greek authorities generally issue warnings to older citizens and those with health issues to stay indoors. Those are guidelines, however, and there are typically no bans on hiking or on entrance to historic sites.
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A general view of the village of Loutro on the south coast of the Greek island of Crete, July 24, 2007. Greek authorities said Monday that the body of a missing German man was recovered near a gorge in southwest Crete, the latest in a series of fatal incidents involving tourists undertaking demanding hikes in the scorching heat. (Yannis Kolesidis/The New York Times)
At least three more tourists are still missing after going on hikes, including Albert Calibet, a 59-year-old dual national of the United States and France who has been missing on the Aegean island of Amorgos since June 11. Authorities are still looking for two Frenchwomen, age 73 and 64, who disappeared June 14 on the island of Sikinos.
Any hopes of rescuing the missing hikers
However, because of the extreme heat, Greek authorities closed many schools in Athens earlier this month and restricted visiting hours to several ancient sites, including the Acropolis.
The search for missing hikers is occurring as the Greek fire service also scrambles to douse wildfires in several parts of the country. Days of sweltering temperatures, driedout brush and strong winds have created tinderbox conditions, fueling fires on the Greek islands and the mainland. The San Juan Daily Star
Death toll in attacks in southern Russia rises to 19, officials say
By IVAN NECHEPURENKO and ANATOLY KURMANAEV
At least 15 law enforcement officers and four civilians were killed in two seemingly coordinated attacks by assailants in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, Russian investigators said Monday.
Wielding rifles and Molotov cocktails, the attackers assaulted synagogues and Orthodox churches Sunday night in two major cities of Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim region on the Caspian Sea.
One of the civilians killed was Nikolai Kotelnikov, a priest in the city of Derbent. The attackers also set fire to a synagogue in the city.
For hours, the assailants were on the loose, engaging in shooting sprees with law enforcement, according to statements from the region’s Interior Ministry. Five attackers were eventually killed, local officials said.
Russian investigators designated the attack an act of terrorism, but it was not im-
mediately clear who was responsible.
Local officials declared a three-day mourning period in Dagestan, a multireligious and ethnically diverse region, and said families of the victims would receive special compensation.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday that President Vladimir Putin was receiving regular reports on the attack, but that he did not plan to address the nation about it. Peskov declined to comment on the attackers’ motives.
The attack was the latest in a series of acts of extremist violence in Russia in recent months, underlining the country’s complex security challenges as it remains bogged down in a war against neighboring Ukraine.
In March, four shooters killed 145 people at a concert hall near Moscow in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. And in Dagestan in October, a mob, apparently searching for Jewish passengers, stormed a plane arriving from Tel Aviv, Israel.
Russian officials tried to mask intelli-
gence failures surrounding the Moscow concert hall attack by blaming it on the West and Ukraine, without providing evidence. And initial statements by officials after Sunday’s attack suggested that the government may adopt a similar tactic in Dagestan.
“We understand who is behind these acts of terror,” Sergei Melikov, the top official of Dagestan, said in an address to its residents. He made a comparison between the victims of the assault and Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine, saying they were facing the same enemy.
“We need to understand that war comes into our home,” Melikov said.
Peskov, in his daily news briefing Monday, appeared to draw a connection between the Dagestan violence and a separate attack by Ukraine on Sunday on occupied Crimea. He did not, however, directly blame Ukraine or the West for the attack in Dagestan.
Russia’s antiterrorism committee, a body that coordinates the fight against terrorism in the country, said in a statement that two attackers had been killed in Derbent and
three more in Makhachkala. It said that law enforcement officers were looking for accomplices.
The investigators did not disclose their identities, and their motives were not immediately clear.
The agency also posted a video showing burned cars, guns in pools of blood and heavily armed security service officers chasing the apparent perpetrators inside an Orthodox church. The video could not be independently verified.
Melikov said a search would continue in the republic until “all members of extremist sleeping cells” that were “undoubtedly prepared also from abroad” were caught.
On Monday, he visited the sites of attack in Derbent. He walked through the halls of the local synagogue, home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in Russia. The synagogue’s main hall was burned down as a result of the attack, according to a video posted by the regional government. That video also could not be independently verified.
Pilgrim deaths in Mecca put spotlight on underworld hajj industry
By EMAD MEKAY and VIVIAN NEREIM
More than 1,300 people died making the Islamic pilgrimage of hajj in Saudi Arabia this month, the vast majority of whom the Saudi government said did not have permits. Many walked for miles in scorching heat after paying thousands of dollars to illicit tour operators.
While pilgrims with permits are transported around the holy city of Mecca in airconditioned buses and rest in air-conditioned tents, unregistered ones are often exposed to the elements. In recent days, as temperatures surpassed 120 degrees, some pilgrims described watching people faint and passing bodies in the street.
On Sunday, in an interview on state television, the Saudi health minister, Fahd bin Abdurrahman Al-Jalajel, said that 83% of the 1,301 reported deaths involved pilgrims who lacked permits.
“The rise in temperatures during the hajj season represented a big challenge this year,” he said. “Unfortunately — and this is
painful for all of us — those who didn’t have hajj permits walked long distances under the sun.”
Al-Jalajel’s remarks came after days of silence from the Saudi government over the fatalities during the hajj, an arduous and deeply spiritual ritual that Muslims are encouraged to perform at least once in their lifetimes if they can.
With nearly 2 million participating each year, it is not unusual for pilgrims to die from heat stress, illness or chronic disease. It is unclear if the number of deaths this year was higher than usual, because Saudi Arabia does not regularly report those statistics. In 1985, more than 1,700 people died around the holy sites, most of them from heat stress, a study at the time found.
Pilgrims making their hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in September, 2016. More than 1,300 people died making the Islamic pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia this month, the vast majority of whom the Saudi government said did not have permits. (Diaa
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But because so many of those who died had no permits, this year’s toll exposed an underworld of illicit tour operators and smugglers who profit off Muslims desperate to make the journey.
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The deaths also laid bare what appeared to be a failure of Saudi immigration and security procedures aimed at preventing unregistered pilgrims from reaching the holy sites, including a security cordon around Mecca that locks down weeks before hajj.
Despite those efforts, an estimated 400,000 undocumented people tried to perform the pilgrimage this year, a senior Saudi official told Agence France-Presse, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Saudi officials did not respond to requests for comment.
In interviews with The New York Times, however, hajj tour operators, pilgrims and relatives of the dead described easily exploited loopholes that allow people to travel to the kingdom with a tourist or visitor visa before hajj. Once they arrive, they find a network of illegal brokers and smugglers who offer their services, take their money and sometimes abandon them to fend for themselves, they said.
The number of unregistered pilgrims appeared to have been driven up this year by rising economic desperation in countries such as Egypt and Jordan. An official hajj package can cost more than $5,000 or $10,000, depending on a pilgrim’s country of origin — far beyond the means of many hoping to make the trip.
Marwa, a 32-year-old Egyptian woman whose parents performed hajj without an official permit this year, said they had paid around $2,000 for their journey, facilitated by an agent in Egypt and a broker in Saudi Arabia. They felt they had to go soon becau-
se, as Egypt’s currency loses value, their savings shrink every year, she said. Marwa asked to be identified only by her first name to avoid legal repercussions.
Several countries that recorded large numbers of deceased pilgrims have moved quickly to address the fallout.
On Friday, the president of Tunisia, which counted more than 50 pilgrims among the dead, fired the country’s religious affairs minister. In Jordan, which recorded the deaths of at least 99 pilgrims, the public prosecutor opened an investigation into illegal hajj routes. And in Egypt, authorities said they would revoke the licenses of 16 companies that issued visas to pilgrims without providing them with adequate services.
“There’s so much greed around this business,” said Iman Ahmed, co-owner of ElIman Tours in Cairo.
Ahmed said that she refused to send unregistered pilgrims on hajj packages but that other Egyptian tour operators and Saudi brokers made big money doing so.
Among the dead were at least two Americans.
Maryland residents Isatu Wurie, 65, and Alieu Wurie, 71, had saved for years to make the pilgrimage, paying $23,000 to a local tour operator, said their daughter, Saida. But after they arrived in Mecca, the operator told them to stay in their hotel until permits were issued for them, and transportation they had been promised was not always available, they told their daughter. Her parents were frustrated because they had believed they were going “by the book,” she said.
They were still able to perform some of the initial rituals of hajj, and they were “so excited to see the Kaaba,” the cubic structure that pilgrims circumambulate, she said.
But the last message she received from her mother said that a bus to take them to one of the sites had not arrived, and that they had been walking for two hours instead.
Despite her frustration at the tour operator — as well as the difficulty of locating their bodies, buried in Mecca — Wurie believes her parents were filled with joy in their final days.
“They died doing exactly what they wanted to do,” she said. “They’ve always wanted to make it to hajj.”
President Vladimir Putin of Russia is applauded as he arrives for his inauguration for a fifth term in Moscow on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (Nanna Heitmann/The New York Times)
By SERGE SCHMEMANN
Many years ago, in the 1980s, I went to Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood, then in its heyday as a district of newly arrived Soviet Jews, to celebrate the first year (there would not be many more) of the lively local Russian-language weekly, The New American. It was a grand event, rich in humor and tinged with nostalgia. I asked a middle-aged partygoer for his thoughts on his lost homeland, and his reply has
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It was an apt summary of what waves of émigrés from Russia and the Soviet Union since the early 20th century have felt: a sorrowful sense of loss for a motherland — what Russians call “toska po rodine” — coupled with resentment at the autocratic powers that forced them out. My grandparents were among the “White” Russians who fled the Revolution and moved to Paris in the 1920s. A second wave of emigrants left in World War II. The third, Soviet Jews, started leaving in the 1970s. Vladimir Putin has now created another wave of people fleeing Russia, and many of them may still believe, as my forebears did, that they will one day return to the homeland.
Most probably will not.
It’s hard to say precisely where Russian exiles stand, politically or in their sense of attachment to Russia. The waves of emigrants differ widely one from another, and in the United States, they have not behaved like immigrants from Italy, China or Poland who formed hyphenated-American communities and organizations that have persisted over generations. Russian immigrants to America have, by comparison, melded quickly into the general population. Brighton Beach is one of the few places with any Russian flavor in the United States.
Still, the prevailing attitude I’ve encountered among Russian émigrés is the love-hate expressed by my interlocutor in Brighton Beach. It’s the love of an extraordinary culture, a deep attachment to the expanse of steppes and taiga, along with contempt for the chronic misrule, adventurism, imperial illusions and corruption of the leaders.
for those not mesmerized by Putin’s recidivist claptrap. It’s hard not to feel shame at the evidence of Russians killing and raping people who did them no wrong, people who share so much of their history and culture.
And it has become difficult to feel pride in all the things that Russians can genuinely boast about — the great books, the Bolshoi, the hockey stars, the spirituality — when Putin is dispatching waves of boys to kill and die for his false version of Russia’s manifest destiny and his personal grievances against the West.
This is not necessarily a logical reaction. Tolstoy or Tchaikovsky are not to blame for Mariupol. And most Russians are not directly complicit in Putin’s malice. But Putin rose to power pledging to restore greatness to Russia, and the key to that is the desire among ordinary Russians to feel, again, a sense of belonging to a globally respected power. Russians may have been too caught up in Putin’s chimera to recognize that the seizure of Crimea or the incursions into Donetsk and Luhansk were a precursor of much worse.
When the Russian tanks began their grim parade toward Kyiv on Feb. 24, 2022, Russians, too, were in shock. “We, the Russians living inside and outside of the country, will have to bear the shame of this situation for years to come,” wrote Anastasia Piatakhina Giré, a psychotherapist in Paris, shortly after the invasion. She grew up in the Soviet Union, and many of her patients are displaced Russians. “We can do very little to turn down the volume of this feeling, no matter how many Ukrainian flags we display on our social media feeds or either publicly or privately in our daily lives.”
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At least, that was the attitude before Feb. 24, 2022, when Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Now, I more often encounter, and feel, a new attitude: shame.
The émigrés I grew up with, and those I came to know in America and as a reporter in Israel, rarely felt troubled by the sins of their motherland. Why would they? There were no politics in the usual sense in the Russia they came from, no sense among the vast majority of the population that they had any say in what their self-perpetuating leaders did for them or to them from behind the Kremlin ramparts. The Gulag was not their doing; their Russia was the culture, the scramble for scarce goods, the anecdotes told around vodka in steamy kitchens, the shashlik by a lazy river. Most Russians concentrated on protecting their lives from “them,” as people in the Soviet Union would refer to the leadership and its secret police, a finger pointed to the ceiling, and to survive. Or leave.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine — so cruel, so pointless, so devastating — has changed all this, at least
A year later, another expatriate, Anastasia Edel, author of “Russia: Putin’s Playground: Empire, Revolution and the New Tsar,” wrote a syndicated column about trying to come to grips with the shame and confusion: “As someone who was shaped by Russian and Soviet literature, I have been made to feel like an unwilling partner to Russian crimes. That is why, since last February, I have abandoned any pretense of being a cultural envoy. I have been an envoy of nothing — just another immigrant who came to America in search of a better life.”
That is the tragic irony of Putin’s war. His attempt to “restore Russian greatness” through violence and hatred has tainted Russia’s real greatness for years to come, just as his attempt to quash Ukrainian nationhood has steeled its foundations. We know from the Germans’ postwar history that restoring a battered national identity is a project of decades, maybe more.
In the end, Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky will survive, as did Goethe and Bach, and Ukraine will be rebuilt and incorporated more closely in the West. But for Russians and those of us who identify even a little bit as Russian, something elemental has been destroyed, and a lot of painful soul-searching lies ahead.
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SAN JUAN – Los veteranos de Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes tendrán acceso a servicios de rehabilitación enfocados en tratamiento psicosocial gracias a la inauguración del Programa Domiciliario y Centro Ambulatorio de Recuperación de Rehabilitación Psicosocial del Departamento de Asuntos del Veterano (VA), evento en el que participó este lunes, la comisionada residente Jenniffer González Colón.
“Estas instalaciones se traducen en un mayor servicio para los veteranos que viven tanto en Puerto Rico como en las Islas Vírgenes, en una mayor oportunidad para que reciban la atención que necesitan en Puerto Rico, sin la necesidad de viajar a otra jurisdicción de los Estados Unidos para recibirla. He apoyado y defendido este proyecto desde su inicio porque creo firmemente que las instalaciones del VA deben reflejar el deber y el compromiso que nuestros veteranos han demostrado hacia nuestra Nación. Confío en que este centro continuará con un excelente legado de servicio y dedicación”, expresó González Colón en declaraciones escritas.
El centro, que se espera atienda público a finales de julio, albergará el Programa de Tratamiento Residencial (Domiciliario) – que funciona como un programa de rehabilitación para veteranos; y el Programa de Recuperación Psicosocial (PRRC) – que ofrece intervenciones y apoyo ambulatorio, basado en la comunidad, orientado a la recuperación y desarrollo de habilidades para veteranos con enfermedades
mentales graves y persistentes de abuso de sustancias. En el evento, organizado por VA, estuvieron veteranos y personal de la agencia, entre ellos: Jorge Pedroza, presidente de Vietnam Veterans of America; Erica M. Scavella, MD, FACP, FACHE – Subsecretaria Asistente de Servicios Clínicos y directora médica de la Administración de Salud de Veteranos, Departamento de Asuntos de Veteranos (VA); John D. Thomas – Director Ejecutivo Asociado de la Oficina de Bienes Inmuebles en la Oficina de Construcción y Gestión de Instalaciones del VA; David Isaacks, FACHE – Director de Red, VA Sunshine Healthcare Network (VISN 8) que abarca el sur de Georgia, Florida, Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes; y Carlos R. Escobar BED-Arch, MSHP, FACHE – Director Ejecutivo y CEO del Sistema de Atención Médica de VA del Caribe.
González Colón aprovechó el evento para agradecer el servicio de Carlos R. Escobar quien se acogió al retiro. Escobar también indicó que VA tenía que invertir 28 millones de dólares al año para enviar a veteranos fuera de Puerto Rico, para que pudieran recibir los servicios que se darán en el centro que inauguraron el lunes.
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Para la construcción del centro se generaron 750 empleos directos e indirectos. Se espera que una vez comience operaciones, se deben crear sobre 125 empleos. Su construcción fue gracias 9,529,378.51 dólares en fondos federales.
El Programa Domiciliario está diseñado para ayudar a
los veteranos a reintegrarse en la comunidad a través de un entorno residencial y clínico terapéutico. El centro cuenta con 40 camas y sigue un modelo de comunidad terapéutica de cuidado, que requiere que los participantes se abstengan del alcohol y otras sustancias mientras participan activamente en las actividades de tratamiento y su recuperación. Aunque la estadía promedio es de 40-45 días, se puede ajustar la duración del tratamiento.
Mientras que el Centro Ambulatorio de Recuperación de Rehabilitación Psicosocial (PRRC) se está trasladando desde el Centro Médico de VA en San Juan, también conocido como el Hospital de Veteranos, al nuevo y moderno edificio que alberga el Programa Domiciliario. El PRRC es un centro de aprendizaje transicional de salud mental ambulatorio intensivo especializado. El programa utiliza una variedad de enfoques, incluyendo clases basadas en el currículo, consejería y ejercicios en vivo para ayudar a los veteranos a aprovechar al máximo sus habilidades, fortalezas y talentos.
Su objetivo es desarrollar habilidades, acceder a recursos y ayudar a los veteranos a alcanzar los roles y metas que han elegido en todos los aspectos del bienestar. La misión del PRRC es inspirar y ayudar a los veteranos a recuperar sus vidas infundiendo esperanza y aprovechando sus fortalezas. El PRRC también ayuda a conectar a los veteranos con recursos que apoyan el establecimiento o restablecimiento de una vida comunitaria significativa y autodeterminada.
Municipio de San Germán otorga aumento de sueldo a su plantilla de trabajo
dio cita todo el componente de trabajo de la municipalidad.
SAN GERMÁN – Luego de 19 años sin compensación alguna, finalmente, los empleados del Municipio de San Germán tendrán un aumento de sueldo en su cheque quincenal, a partir del próximo lunes, 1 de julio de 2024, así lo informó hoy el alcalde del ayuntamiento del suroeste, Virgilio Olivera Olivera, en declaraciones escritas.
“Hoy podemos celebrar la gran noticia de que, después de 19 años, les estaremos haciendo justicia y dándole un merecido aumento de sueldo a nuestros respetados compañeros de trabajo municipales”, manifestó con alegría.
“A partir del 1 de julio, todos recibirán su tan ganada reclasificación y retribución, que contó con la aprobación de nuestra Legislatura Municipal”, hizo hincapié en el Teatro Sol Luz Celenia Tirado, donde se
“Estamos sumamente orgullosos y contentos, porque ya hacían 19 años que no se les hacía justicia salarial”, expuso quien indicó “este aumento de sueldo, tendrá un
impacto de $700 mil… Este año hemos sobrepasado el millón de dólares en beneficios para nuestros compañeros municipales”.
“Nosotros les hemos mejorado las condiciones de empleo a nuestros empleados, a lo largo de los pasados tres años y medio, además, les hemos devuelto beneficios que ya se les habían quitado, entre ellos el ‘Bono de Verano’, que este año se les entregará el 3 de julio, y también les aumentamos el ‘Bono de Navidad’, entre muchas otras cosas”, explicó.
“Esto se da luego de que nosotros pudiéramos enderezar el barco municipal y saliéramos del gran déficit operacional, de $1.8 millones”, indicó quien celebró, además, “el aumento en los ingresos que están llegando a las arcas de nuestra amada Ciudad de San Germán”.
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Conan O’Brien breaks free, changing what life after late night can look like
By JASON ZINOMAN
After hosting talk shows for nearly three decades, Conan O’Brien has come to believe that longevity is overrated. The first time he made this point to me was when he proposed that all statues and monuments should be made with durable soap that dissolves in seven years. A month later, he declared himself anti-graveyard.
Asked if this means he wants to be cremated, O’Brien responded, “I want to be left in a ditch and found by a jogger.” Taking up space in a cemetery seems selfish to him. “I say this in a positive way,” he added, shifting to a less jokey tone. “We don’t matter.”
Since leaving late-night television in 2021, O’Brien, 61, has become more reflective about life (and death), given to philosophical flights of fancy that he compulsively alternates with comic tangents. He champions the intersection between smart and stupid, but in conversation, what stands out is how quickly he moves between light and heavy.
I asked him if he was happier now than when he was on television and his response was to question happiness itself. “At best it’s a fleeting moment after a rainstorm when the sun’s coming out,” he said. “Being contented comes in little moments, here and there.”
The only thing trickier than being a late-night talk-show host is being a former one. Some relapse (Jon Stewart). A few vanish (Johnny Carson, Craig Kilborn). Most enter a more modest era (David Letterman, Jay Leno). Since he started writing for “Saturday Night Live” in the 1980s, O’Brien has built one of the most consequential comedy careers. His late-night tenure is beloved by comedy nerds. His postshow work may turn out to be more impressive.
It helps that his brand of joyfully goofy absurdity ages well. His reputation has grown as new generations have discovered his work online.
The other reason O’Brien has done well since leaving “Conan,” his final latenight show (after “Late Night” and “The Tonight Show”), is that he’s always been excited by experimentation. “I enjoyed playing with that form,” he said of the talk show. “The stuff I’m really interested in, there’s so many opportunities to do it now. ‘Hot Ones’ is proof.”
O’Brien appeared on “Hot Ones,” an online show in which the host and guest talk while sampling increasingly spicy sauces, the
same week in April that he returned to “The Tonight Show” for the first time since 2010. There was a time when O’Brien believed that happiness looked like hosting “The Tonight Show.” Then he got the job.
The mess that followed, the final salvos in the late-night war of long ago, led to his losing his time slot, quitting after less than a year and sinking into a depression. But it also cured him of the notion that any talk-show job is the answer to his problems and taught him how to rebuild a bustling career, which he is now doing again.
The most revealing aspect of O’Brien’s return to his old show might have been that it was overshadowed by “Hot Ones.” O’Brien made every other episode look bland, hilariously taunting the host and swigging entire bottles of hot sauce while becoming increasingly unhinged. There was a clownishness and commitment that is hard to imagine any other late-night host pulling off. “Conan O’Brien” trended on social media for days.
The contrast between the muted response to him on “The Tonight Show” and the lovefest generated by “Hot Ones” was not lost on O’Brien. It says volumes about the way culture works in 2024 (online virality matters more than a network spot), but also about his new renaissance.
Stephen Colbert, who, of the current late-night hosts, is closest to O’Brien, argued
that part of his friend’s late-night legacy was expanding the limits of silliness in the form. (“All rubber chicken, no knife” is how Colbert sums him up in an interview.) O’Brien is doing the same thing for a travel show. Every episode of “Conan O’Brien Must Go” (which has been picked up by Max for a second season), includes an early shot of him floating down a river in Thailand holding a rubber chicken. He plays the buffoon, mocked by people in each country he ventures to.
For a late-night host, O’Brien was early to podcasting. His show, “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” which he sold to SiriusXM for a staggering $150 million, set a template for other retired hosts like James Corden and Trevor Noah. The podcast started while he was hosting, and after leaving, it kept him regularly in the culture.
His career hasn’t shifted course so much as been broken down and reconstituted. His new projects reflect a change in how he sees his own gifts, “a huge dividing line” in his life.
His un-
likely talk-show career, initiated when Lorne Michaels plucked him from obscurity to take over for Letterman at “Late Night,” began with a cold open in which he walked through New York while everyone, from girls playing hopscotch to a talking horse, reminds him that he’s under a lot of pressure and that he “better be as good as Letterman.” It’s a comic nightmare of his inner monologue that ends with him considering killing himself.
Many comedians see a connection between misery and their ability to be funny, often citing humor as a survival mechanism. But after considerable therapy and reflection, he has come to believe that so much stress didn’t help him be funnier. “Looking back now, I think some of my best ideas came from just goofing around,” he said. His freewheeling podcast features longer, more searching conversations. And his Max travel series shares qualities with the sketch work and man-on-the-street comedy from his talk shows.
These new projects don’t have live audiences and come closer to the O’Brien who cracks jokes in writers’ rooms, going on what he calls “runs.” Ask friends about his funniest moments and they say how hilarious he is behind closed doors in free-form conversation. Capturing that version of O’Brien on television was the “white whale,” said Robert Smigel, who started with O’Brien on “Late Night” and wrote with him on “SNL.”
In May, at a taping of his podcast in Los Angeles, O’Brien walked onstage to a standing ovation. He poked fun at the opera seats in the theater, played straight man in a sketch, bantered with two sidekicks, interviewed John C. Reilly, talked to audience members and played guitar with his band. Backstage, O’Brien sounded giddy. “I love the freedom of this,” he said, adding, “It’s just me, authentically me, for better or worse.”
Conan O’Brien in Los Angeles in May 2024. O’Brien has built one of the most consequential careers in comedy — but while his late-night tenure is beloved, his postshow work may turn out to be more impressive. (Adali Schell/The New York Times)
Researchers say social media warning is too broad
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When U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy announced last week that he was planning to push for a mental health warning label on social media platforms, he was met with cheers from many parents and teachers, who described a long, lonely struggle to wrench children away from a habit that was hurting them.
He got a cooler reaction, however, from some scientists who study the relationship between social media and mental health. In interviews, several researchers said the blanket warning Murthy has proposed — “social media is associated with significant mental health harms
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for adolescents” — stretches and oversimplifies the scientific evidence.
For many years, researchers have tried to determine whether the amount of time a child spent on social media contributed to poor mental health, and “the results have been really mixed, with probably the consensus being that no, it’s not related,” said Mitch Prinstein, the chief science officer at the American Psychological Association.
What seems to matter more, he said, is what they are doing when they are online — content about self-harm, for example, has been shown to increase self-harming behavior.
“It’s kind of like saying, ‘Is the number of calories that you eat good for you or bad for you?’” said Prinstein, who testified before the Senate on the subject last year. “It depends. Is it candy, or is it vegetables? If your child is spending all day on social media following The New York Times feed and talking about it with their friends, that’s probably fine, you know?”
Like other scientists interviewed, Prinstein applauded Murthy for drawing attention to the mental health crisis. He said he was very optimistic about policy changes that might follow, to keep social media use from interfering with school, sleep and physical activity. After Murthy’s announcement, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California called for a statewide ban on smartphone use in California schools.
“What’s happening out there, and what I think the surgeon general has tapped into so well, is that parents are feeling so incredibly helpless,” Prinstein said. “He’s giving some ammunition to everyone in this conversation to say, ‘Look — I don’t care how much my child may be upset with me, if the surgeon general says this might be harmful, I feel justified in taking away the device at 9 p.m.’”
In his essay laying out the case for a warning label, published Monday in the Times, Murthy leaned more heavily on anecdotes than on scientific research. He cited one 2019 study, which found that adolescents who spent more than three hours a day on social media faced double the risk of anxiety and depression symptoms.
Murthy has ready responses to his academic critics. He says children growing up now “don’t have the luxury of waiting years until we know the full extent of social media’s impact.” When challenged for evidence of social media’s harmful effects, he argues instead that “we do not have enough evidence to conclude that social media is sufficiently safe.”
“The warning label is important until we
For many years, researchers have tried to determine whether the amount of time a child spent on social media contributed to poor mental health, and the results have been mixed. (Robin Worrall/Unsplash)
can get to the point where social media is actually safe,” he said in an interview.
In interviews, several researchers said the proposed warning was overly broad and could backfire.
Even before Murthy’s announcement, a number of researchers were challenging the widely accepted link between social media and the mental health crisis. That debate intensified after the March publication of “The Anxious Generation,” by Jonathan Haidt, a professor at New York University’s business school, which argued that the spread of social media had led to “an epidemic of mental illness.”
The book, which has spent 11 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was panned in the journal Nature by Candice L. Odgers, a professor of psychological science in informatics at the University of California, Irvine. “Hundreds of researchers, myself included, have searched for the kind of large effects suggested by Haidt,” she wrote. “Our efforts have produced a mix of no, small and mixed associations.”
Odgers, who has been approached by so many journalists that she distributes a six-page summary of the scientific literature on the subject, has cataloged large-scale meta-analyses and reviews that have found social media use has small effects on health, among them a 2023 report by an expert committee convened by the National Academies of Sciences.
On June 17, following Murthy’s call for a warning label, Odgers said the nation’s top health official was running the risk of labeling
normal adolescent behavior as “shameful, damaging and dangerous.” This could lead to conflict within families and cause young people to be shut out of spaces where they find support.
Meanwhile, she said, “the real causes of youth mental health problems go on unaddressed.”
“I understand that the government and the surgeon general want to regulate social media companies,” she said. “And they see an opening to do this here, but there is a cost, and children and families will pay for it.”
Haidt and his occasional collaborator, psychologist Jean Twenge, maintain that there is plenty of evidence that more use of social media leads to worse mental health, and they note that young people themselves often point to social media as a major cause of distress.
Twenge, the author of “Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents — and What They Mean for America’s Future,” said the disconnect might come down to the way research psychologists are trained to analyze statistical correlations, often dismissing them as small. Their colleagues in public health may look at the same data and see an unacceptable risk that requires action. For them, not acting may be a more dangerous choice, she said. “What is the risk of having teens and children spend less time on social media?” she said. “If we’re wrong, the consequences of taking action are minuscule. If we’re right, the consequences of doing nothing are enormous.”
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Life in the dirt is hard. And climate change isn’t helping.
By SOFIA QUAGLIA
They’re dirt-dwelling invertebrates, but, in a sense, they’re the real backbone of Earth’s carbon cycle.
Thousands of species of mites and springtails, living in soil all around the world, provide a crucial service by munching organic matter like fallen leaves and wood, transferring its planet-warming carbon into the ground and releasing nutrients that help new plants grow.
But now, a new analysis that combined data from 38 different studies on the organisms suggests that drought in some parts of the world, often supercharged by climate change, are killing them off at alarming rates.
“It is important to take care of these critters in particular because we know so little about them,” said Ina Schaefer, a soil invertebrate ecology researcher at the Loewe Center for Translational Biodiversity Genomics in Frankfurt, Germany.
While some of these organisms live deep within the soil, others spend most of their lives scuttling around on the surface. Scientists don’t fully understand exactly how they break down decaying organic matter, but new molecular research shows springtails actually have special genes for the job.
(That’s not their only talent: Some springtails are about the size of a grain of sand and can fling themselves into the air like circus acrobats, spinning up to 500 times per second. Scientists think it could be a way to escape predators.)
Mites and springtails have not been widely studied, despite their importance, but scientists do know that some of the soft-bodied creatures are very sensitive to moisture in their environment.
When the soil dries up during times of aridity they, too, can dry up, shrivel and die. On average, their populations shrink by a whopping 39% during long stretches without rain, according to the analysis, which was published last month in Global Change Biology.
And, the more severe the dry spell, the more severe the reduction in their abundance, said Philip Martin, a researcher at the Basque Center for Climate Change in Leioa, Spain, and one of the lead authors of the study. Under extreme conditions, “you’re losing way more than just that 39% figure,” Martin said.
Earlier research has indicated that the abundance of springtail populations is broadly linked to heat. Each degree of Celsius increase in temperature corresponds with a drop of springtail populations by almost 10%, according to a 2023 analysis.
“They really do bad,” Gerard Martínez-De León, a doctoral candidate in terrestrial ecology at the University of Bern in Switzerland, said of springtails during heat waves. “If there are very high temperatures for, let’s say, one week, two weeks, one month, this affects them directly. Probably as much as the lack of moisture does.”
Droughts also change and shrink the populations of fungi living in the soil, according to research published in January, which is what springtails predominantly feed on. Yet, there are a few factors playing in favor of soil
An undated photo provided by Frank Ashwood shows a Dicyrtomina saundersi, a small globular springtail, which have been shown to have special genes for breaking down decaying matter in the soil. Heat and drought are taking a toll on the tiny soil creatures that help to lock away planet-warming carbon, according to a new analysis. (Frank Ashwood via The New York Times)
dwellers.
Generally, mites do better in heat than springtails, and studies suggest that some springtail species are better than others at withstanding heat and dryness. When times get tough, some invertebrates will move further down into the soil or travel out to more moist spots in their surroundings, say, under a rock. And, others will pick up new diets and tweak their preferences.
And, the effects of climate change aren’t the same the world over. An increased temperature of, say, 4 degrees Celsius and decreased soil moisture by 20% will have a different effect on a mid-latitude desert, a high-latitude peatland
or a tropical forest, according to Zoë Lindo, a soil biodiversity expert at the University of Western Ontario. Her research has shown that different combinations of warming and wetting, and drying and cooling, affect soil communities differently.
“Many different components interact in ways that are constantly changing,” Lindo said, and these all affect “the richness, abundance and composition of soil biodiversity all at once.”
It’s also important to note that, while some areas will experience more droughts as the climate changes, others are expected to see more abundant rainfall.
There are more than 12,000 known species of oribatid mites and 9,000-something species of springtails, but scientists think those numbers might represent just 20% of their global species richness.
That lack of information might be the biggest problem facing soil invertebrates. More than half of the planet’s biodiversity is somewhere below our feet. In addition to mites, which are arachnids, and springtails, which used to be classified as insects but now have their own group called collembola, there are about 430 million species of bacteria, almost 6 million species of fungi and roughly 20,000 kinds of worms down in the dirt.
But there’s a dearth of data for several large chunks of the planet. Because we don’t fully understand how each species is contributing to the ecosystem, we don’t know what might happen if we lose them.
“Soil has been like a black box,” said Leticia PérezIzquierdo, a terrestrial ecosystems researcher at the Basque Center for Climate Change in Spain who worked on last month’s study. “And we’re now starting to open it.”
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR AGUADILLA
MARIA ELENA
CORCHADO PINO
Peticionaria EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: AG2024CV00688.
Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.
A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA
PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA
PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE
OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.
POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. URBANA: Solar y estructura residencial sito en la Carretera Estatal ciento doce (112), kilómetro tres punto tres (3.3) Interior, Barrio Guerrero del término municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico. Según mensura efectuada y plano de mensura prepa-
rado por el Agrimensor Dennis O. Vargas González, licencia número veinte un mil quinientos ochenta y uno (21,581), el solar arrojó una cabida de doscientos veinte tres metros cuadrados con siete mil seis cientos ochenta y cuatro diez milésimas de otro metro cuadrado (223.7684 m.c.) Colinda por el NORTE en diez metros lineales con cuarenta centímetros de otro metro lineal (10.40 ml) con Callejón Municipal; por el SUR en diez metros lineales con treinta y cinco centímetros de otro metro lineal (10.35 ml) con terrenos de Gin Valentín; por el ESTE en veintiún metros lineales con sesenta y siete centímetros de otro lineal (21.67 ml) con terrenos de Augusto Corchado Pino y terrenos de Francisco Avilés; por el OESTE en veintiún metros lineales con cincuenta y un centímetros de otro metro lineal (21.51 ml) con terrenos de Alicia Henríquez Feliciano. Ubica en el solar una estructura de tipo residencial unifamiliar construida en hormigón. Número de catastro: cero cero siete guion cero ocho cinco guión cuatro dos dos guión cero seis guión cero cero cero (007-085-422-06-000).
El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lcdo. Luis Roberto Santos Montalvo, P.O. Box 1809, Mayagüez, P.R. 00681, 787-833-5466. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 23 de agosto de 2024, a las 11:15 de la mañana, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 30 de mayo de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. ANTONIO IVÁN OCASIO
GUERRERO T/C/C
ANTONIO OCASIO
GUERRERO
Demandado Civil Núm.: AG2023CV01380. 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, Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 3 de mayo de 2024, 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:
URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Condominio Kronos Court de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Apartamento: 304. Cabida: 1,370.74 Pies Cuadrados. Linderos: NORTE, con un pasillo y una escalera comunes y a su vez con una veja del límite de propiedad. SUR, su pared exterior colinda con el área de la piscina del complejo. ESTE, su pared interior lo separa del apartamento 303. OESTE, colinda con el área del gacebo y juegos de niños y a su vez con la verja del límite de propiedad del complejo. Unidad de apartamento individual, construido de hormigón reforzado y bloques. Situado en el municipio de Aguadilla. Identificado con el número 304, localizado en el tercer nivel del complejo de apartamentos Kronos Court. La entrada de este apartamento está ubicada en el tercer nivel del complejo el pasillo con la entrada del apartamento 303. Frente a la entrada se encuentran las escaleras comunes. Esta unidad tiene un área de terraza techada privada de 190 pies cuadrados, además tiene un área de terraza descubierta asignada para su uso exclusivo como anejo de 1,180.34 pies cuadrados. Esta unidad consiste de 3 habitaciones y 2 baños, una entrada principal que da acceso a un área sin divisiones que contie-
ne una combinación de cocina, comedor, sala y balcón. Posee 3 dormitorios con su guarda ropa, de los cuales uno es un cuarto master que incluye un “walking” closet y un baño privado. A este apartamento le corresponde el 8.31% en los gastos y ganancias del condominio como su coeficiente de proporcionalidad e incluye 2 estacionamientos que le serán asignados en la escritura de Individualización y Compraventa. Al apartamento objeto de venta en esta escritura le corresponden los estacionamientos marcados con los 1 y 2. Inscrita en la finca número 35,685, al tomo Karibe de Aguadilla. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Aguadilla. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada en este caso el 5 de marzo de 2024, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $263,392.11 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 4.50%, anual desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2012, 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 $27,714.80 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 9 DE JULIO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, en el área del sótano al final del pasillo, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA
SUBASTA es de $277,148.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA
SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE JULIO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $184,765.33, 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 23 DE JULIO
DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $138,574.00, 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 Artículo 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 continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de junio de 2024.
CAROL CHALMERS SOTO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #526, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.
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Demandante Vs. SUCESION ADA LICIA PAGAN RIVERA T/C/C ADA PAGAN COMPUESTA POR HECTOR JIMENEZ PAGAN, CARLOS JIMENEZ PAGAN; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2023CV07116. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. 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 Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública 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 y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 10 DE JULIO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 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: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Lomas Verdes, situada en el Barrio Minillas de Bayamón, marcado con el número 16 de la manzana “T” con un área
de 323.81 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle 5, en una distancia de 13.00 metros; por el SUR, con los solares 38 y 37, en una distancia de 12.90 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar 17, en una distancia de 25.01 metros; por el OESTE, con el solar 15, en una distancia de 25.00 metros. Existe una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto de una sola planta para una familia y consiste principalmente de sala-comedor, tres dormitorios, un baño, cocina, y balcón.” Inscrita al folio 231 del tomo 232 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 10259, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 623 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 10259, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I, inscripción 4a. Propiedad localizada en: URB. LOMAS VERDES, T-16 CALLE AMAPOLA, BAYAMON, PR 00956. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $181,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 1 de julio de 2077. 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 de mínima subasta la suma de $181,500.00, 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 Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 17 DE JULIO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $121,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudi-
cación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $90,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 31 DE JULIO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 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 $167,922.50 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $8,134.16 en intereses acumulados al 28 de febrero de 2024 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.567% anual hasta su total y completo pago; mas $1,110.00 en adelantos de gastos y honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $18,150.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha.. 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 esto 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 4 de junio de 2024. FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735.
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Demandante V. REYNALDO VÁZQUEZ APONTE
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: NJ2023CV00058. (Salón: 502). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM.
KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANEROKEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM.
A: REYNALDO
VAZQUEZ APONTE.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 DE JUNIO DE 2024, 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 17 de junio de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 17 de junio de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandantes Vs. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, POR CONDUCTO DE LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES;
JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE, PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS Demandados Civil No.: CG2024CV02081. (701). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ.
Por medio del presente edicto se les notifica de la radicación de una Demanda de Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado en la que se solicita la cancelación del siguiente pagaré hipotecario, que se ha extraviado, luego de haber sido saldado por el deudor hipotecario: Hipoteca en garantía de un préstamo a favor de los ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA ACTUANDO POR CONDUCTO DE LA ADMINISTRACIÓN DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES, o a su orden, por la suma de treinta mil cuatrocientos ochenta dólares ($30,480.00), con interés al nueve por ciento (9%), y vencedero a treinta y tres (33) años, según consta de la escritura número doscientos cincuenta y nueve (#259), otorgada en San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, el día doce (12) de diciembre de mil novecientos setenta y nueve (1979), ante el Notario Néstor S. Aponte Hernández, inscrita al folio veintinueve (29) deI tomo ciento setenta y nueve (179) de Juncos, finca número seis mil ochocientos treinta (#6830), inscripción primera (1ª), modificada a la suma de treinta mil seiscientos veintiocho dólares con diecisiete centavos ($30,628.17), con intereses a razón del nueve punto cinco por ciento (9.5%) anual, según consta de la escritura número diez (#10), otorgada en San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, el día veinte (20) de julio de mil novecientos ochenta y seis (1986), ante el Notario Virgen Enid Rivera Torres, inscrita al folio treinta vuelto (30vto) del tomo setenta y nueve (79) de Juncos, finca número seis mil ochocientos treinta (#6830), inscripción segunda (2ª). La parte demandante solicita del Honorable Tribunal que declare Con Lugar la demanda y en su consecuencia ordene al Secretario del Tribunal que expida Mandamiento al Registrador de la Propiedad correspondiente, para que dicho funcionario proceda a cancelar en los libros a su cargo la referida hipoteca dejando la propiedad aquí descrita libre de dicho gravamen hipotecario. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su
alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. 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:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra sin más citarle y oírle y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 572023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, inciso b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2003). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Copia de dicha contestación debe remitirse al abogado del demandante, Lcdo. Ricardo J. Cacho Rodríguez, 54 Calle Resolución, Suite 303 San Juan, PR 00920 Tel: (787) 722-2242; Fax: (787) 722-2243, cachor@microjuris.com dentro del término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la fecha de publicación de este Edicto. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de junio de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Demandante V. SUCN. PRESUNTA Y/O DESCONOCIDA
DE MODESTA URBINA
MERCED COMPUESTA POR FELIPA URBINA
GARCIA Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2021CV03210. (Salón: 202). Sobre: ACCIÓN DE REANUDACIÓN DE TRACTO SUCESIVO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FRANCES MICHELLE APELLÁNIZ ARROYO - FAALAWOFFICE@GMAIL. COM. JAIME RODRÍGUEZ RIVERABUFETE.RODRIGUEZRIVERA@ GMAIL.COM. A: SUCESIÓN
DESCONOCIDA O PRESUNTA DE MODESTA URBINA MERCED. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de junio de 2024, 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 18 de junio de 2024. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 18 de junio de 2024.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ILDEFONSO MELENDEZ
Demandante V. HILDA ILDEFONSO
MELENDEZ, EDILBERTO ILDEFONSO MELENDEZ, NILSIA ILDEFONSO
MELENDEZ, ROSA
MARGARITA ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, CARMEN
LAURA ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, EDNA MARIA
ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, MAYRA LUZ ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, SHEYSA DAVILA
ILDEFONSO, SUCESION
KELVIN GADIEL DAVILA ILDEFONSO COMPUESTA
POR VICTORIA ALANIS
DAVILA CHECO, SUCESION LIGIA
ILDEFONSO MELENDEZ COMPUESTA POR ANGEL VALENTIN SIERRA, SANDRA VALENTIN ILDEFONSO Y LOIDA VALENTIN ILDEFONSO; JOHN DOE
Demandados Civil Núm.: AI2023CV00264. Salón: 003C-LEY 246. Sobre: ACCIÓN CONTRADICTORIA DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R A: SUCESIÓN KELVIN GADIEL DÁVILA
ILDEFONSO COMPUESTA POR VICTORIA ALANIS DÁVILA CHECO.
El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Aibonito dictó la siguiente providencia: “Vista la solicitud para la orden de emplazamiento por edicto, y cónsono con las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal ordena que se cite por edicto a la Codemandada Sucesión Kelvin Gadiel Dávila Ildefonso compuesta por Victoria Alanis Dávila Checo. El edicto se publicará conforme a la Regla 4.6 de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6 (a)(c), mediante la publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de la publicación del edicto, apercibiéndoseles que de no hacerlo se les anotará la rebeldía sin más citarles ni oírlos. 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://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Se exime a la Peticionaria del requisito impuesto por la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Petición y del edicto a la última dirección conocida de aquello Codemandados de quienes se desconoce su paradero. Se ordena a la Secretaria expida el correspondiente Edicto. Dada en Aibonito,
Puerto Rico, a 12 de junio de 2024. PAOLA MORALES VÉLEZ, (FIRMADO) JUEZ SUPERIOR”. Se le advierte que, si no comparece al Tribunal en el presente caso, enviando copia de su posición a la abogada de la Peticionaria, la Lcda. Lizannette Morales Crespo, PO Box 5272, Carolina, PR 00984-5272, tel. (787)9455233, dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación, se dictará Resolución concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, a 14 de junio de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARIBEL AVILÉS RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V. KENN LUGO BABILONIA Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV10081. (Salón: 802 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN -GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: KENN
LUGO BABILONIAURB. RIVIERA DE CUPEY G7 CALLE CORAL, SAN JUAN, PR 00926. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de junio de 2024, 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 20 de junio de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 20 de junio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ELSIE PRATTS MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN MUNICIPIO DE TOA ALTA REPRESENTADO POR SU HONORABLE ALCALDE CLEMENTE AGOSTO LUGARDO
Peticionario Vs. ADQUISICIÓN DE SOLAR DE 7,721.8153 M.C EN EL BARRIO CONTORNO, TOA ALTA, HÉCTOR LUIS RODRÍGUEZ ROQUE Y WANDA ADAMES BÁEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES TOA ALTA, R-G FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DE PAGARÉ
Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: BY2024CV01267. Sala: 403. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: R-G FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK4243 AVENIDA BETANCES, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte peticionaria Municipio de Toa Alta, ha presentado ante este Tribunal, solicitud de Expropiación Forzosa, solicitando el título absoluto de dominio sobre el solar del cual usted es acreedor de una hipoteca que grava el mismo, la cual que se describe de la siguiente forma: Rústica: BARRIO CONTORNO de Toa Alta. Lote: Cabida: 7,721.8153 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, José Luís Rosado Cases y Eugencia Torres. Sur, con Rafael Morales Rodríguez y José Pérez de León. Este, con Rafael Morales Rodríguez. Oeste, con Carretera número 165 y José Pérez de León. Enclava una casa remodelada en bloques y hormigón reforzado. Se forma por agrupación de la finca 976, inscrito
al folio 72 del tomo 51 de Toa Alta y de la finca 11198, inscrito al folio 163 del tomo 235 de Toa Alta. Inscrita bajo la finca 17,741. 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. Representa a la parte peticionaria, la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono es el siguiente:
ISAMAR CORREA RUIZ
Edificio San Juan Towers Ave. Ponce de León 1250 Suite 600 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00907
Teléfono: (787) 370-1700
Email: icorrea. correapartners@gmail.com Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha petición dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 23 de mayo de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN MUNICIPIO DE TOA ALTA REPRESENTADO POR SU HONORABLE ALCALDE CLEMENTE AGOSTO LUGARDO Peticionario Vs. ADQUISICIÓN DE SOLAR DE 7,721.8153 M.C EN EL BARRIO CONTORNO, TOA ALTA, HÉCTOR LUIS RODRÍGUEZ ROQUE Y WANDA ADAMES BÁEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES TOA ALTA, R-G FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DE PAGARÉ
Partes con Interés
Civil Núm.: BY2024CV01267. Sala: 402. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO
RICO, SS.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DE PAGARÉ.
La parte peticionaria ha radicado en este Tribunal una Solicitud para que se declare a su favor, el título mediante el proceso de expropiación de la siguiente finca: Rústica: BARRIO CONTORNO de Toa Alta. Lote: Cabida: 7,721.8153
Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, José Luís Rosado Cases y Eugencia Torres. Sur, con Rafael Morales Rodríguez y José Pérez de León. Este, con Rafael Morales Rodríguez. Oeste, con Carretera número 165 y José Pérez de León. Enclava una casa remodelada en bloques y hormigón reforzado. Se forma por agrupación de la finca 976, inscrito al folio 72 del tomo 51 de Toa Alta y de la finca 11198, inscrito al folio 163 del tomo 235 de Toa Alta. Dicha propiedad encuentra grabada con hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de R-G Federal Savings Bank, por la suma principal de $120,000.00, intereses al 7⅜% anual, vencedero el 1ro. de diciembre de 2023, constituida mediante la escritura 1602, otorgada el 22 de noviembre de 1993 ante el notario Héctor Moyano Noriega, inscrita dicha hipoteca al folio 116 del tomo 357 de Toa Alta. Siendo usted el Posible Tenedor del Pagaré antes identificado, se le notifica que 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. Representa a la parte peticionaria, la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono es el siguiente:
ISAMAR CORREA RUIZ
Edificio San Juan Towers
Ave. Ponce de León 1250 Suite 600 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00907
Teléfono: (787) 370-1700
Móvil: (787) 452-0188
Email: icorrea.correapartners@gmail.com
Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha petición dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 14 de mayo de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NOELIA MATÍAS SALAS, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE
PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE GUÁNICA RENT EXPRESS BY BERRIOS INC Demandante V. JACKELINE MARTINEZ SANTOS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GU2023CV00114. (Salón: 3 SALA MUNICIPAL EN SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ISAMAR ESTRADA DÍAZISAMAR.ESTRADALAW@GMAIL. COM. A: JACKELINE MARTÍNEZ SANTOS - P/C LCDA. ISAMAR ESTRADA DÍAZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de junio de 2024, 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 18 de junio de 2024. En Guánica, Puerto Rico, el 18 de junio de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. JOSE A JIMENEZ MORALES
Parte Demandada Civil Núm. GB2023CV01078.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO
RICO, SS.
A: JOSE A JIMENEZ MORALES - URB MUNOZ
RIVERA 33 CALLE ALAMEDA, GUAYNABO PR 00969.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, 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 sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO
MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de abril de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NOELIA MATÍAS SALAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR CAROLINA PARQUE ESCORIAL RESIDENTIAL OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. AMINE SMAILI HOCHAIMI, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado(s) Civil Núm.: CA2023CV04157. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.
A: AMINE SMAILI HOCHAIMI, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON FULANO DE TAL.
Queda emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero por la vía ordinaria en su contra. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciando este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. 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 represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido termino, 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 sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda radicando en su contra, radicando el original de la misma y enviando copia de su contestación a la parte demandante, Lcda. Ana J. Bobonis Zequeira a su dirección PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908, Tel. (787) 722-3040, Fax (787) 722-3317, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de su publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se le dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de junio de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR CAROLINA
PARQUE ESCORIAL RESIDENTIAL OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Demandante V. AMINE SMAILI HOCHAIMI, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandado(s) Civil Núm.: CA2023CV04157. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.
A: FULANO DE TAL POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON AMINE SMAILI HOCHAIMI. Queda emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero por la vía ordinaria en su contra. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciando este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. 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 represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido termino, 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 sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda radicando en su contra, radicando el original de la misma y enviando copia de su contestación a la parte demandante, Lcda. Ana J. Bobonis Zequeira a su dirección PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908, Tel. (787) 722-3040, Fax (787) 722-3317, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de su publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se le dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de junio de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS
DLJ MORTGAGE
CAPITAL, INC
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ARNALDO NIEVES MARTINEZ T/C/C
ARNALDO NIEVESMARTINEZ T/C/C MARTINEZ ARNALDO NIEVES T/C/C ARNALDO NIEVES T/C/C ARNALDO MARTINEZ COMPUESTA POR JUANITA LEONOR
NIEVES CONDE, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS Y SUCESIÓN DE SAMARIS NIEVES CONDE COMPUESTA
POR JUANITA LEONOR
NIEVES CONDE, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE RAMONA
CONDE WALTON, T/C/C RAMONA NIEVES MARTINEZ T/C/C RAMONITA
CONDE T/C/C RAMONA
CONDE WALTON T/C/C
RAMONITA WALTON
COMPUESTA JUANITA
LEONOR NIEVES CONDE, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS, Y SUCESIÓN DE SAMARIS NIEVES CONDE COMPUESTA
POR JUANITA LEONOR
NIEVES CONDE, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV01179. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE
ARNALDO NIEVES MARTINEZ T/C/C ARNALDO NIEVESMARTINEZ T/C/C MARTINEZ ARNALDO NIEVES T/C/C ARNALDO NIEVES T/C/C ARNALDO MARTINEZ COMPUESTA POR JUANITA LEONOR NIEVES CONDE, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS Y SUCESIÓN DE SAMARIS NIEVES CONDE COMPUESTA POR JUANITA LEONOR NIEVES CONDE, FULANO DE TAL Y
SUTANO DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE RAMONA
CONDE WALTON, T/C/C RAMONA
NIEVES MARTINEZ T/C/C RAMONITA
CONDE T/C/C RAMONA CONDE WALTON T/C/C
RAMONITA WALTON COMPUESTA JUANITA
LEONOR NIEVES CONDE, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS, Y SUCESIÓN DE SAMARIS NIEVES CONDE COMPUESTA POR JUANITA LEONOR NIEVES CONDE, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES. Yo, ALEJANDRO URBINA ROQUE, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #997, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 29 DE JULIO DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que
más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 6 de mayo de 2024. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 5 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 12 DE AGOSTO DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 12 de junio de 2024, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Alturas de Villa del Rey, situado en el Barrio Cañaboncito del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número cuarenta y nueve de la manzana “F”, con un área de doscientos cincuenta y cuatro metros cuadrados con diez y seis centésimas de metros en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número cincuenta y ocho, distancia de doce metros con seiscientos metros setenta milésimas de metro; por el SUR, con la calle número treinta y cuatro-A, distancia de doce metros con seiscientos setenta milésimas de metro; por el ESTE, con el solar número cincuenta distancia de veinte metros con setenta milésimas de metro; y por el OESTE, con el solar número cuarenta y ocho, distancia de veinte metros con sesenta milésimas de metro. Enclava vivienda de concreto para una sola familia. Finca número 22,980, inscrita al folio 57 del tomo 707 de Caguas. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caguas. Dirección de la Propiedad: F-49 34-A ST, Alturas de Villa Del Rey Dev, Caguas, PR 00727. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $101,503.83 en concepto de principal con interés al 2.653% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos
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PR delegation adds 3 qualifiers for Paris 2024 Olympics
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Olympic Committee (COPUR by its Spanish acronym) reported on Sunday the official integration of María Pérez and Adrián Gandía as the 31st and 32nd athletes in the Puerto Rico delegation for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The two judo athletes were part of the announcement made early in the morning that skateboarder Steven Piñeiro will be competing in his second Games.
Pérez and Gandía, both Tokyo 2020 Olympians, earned their Olympic ticket for Paris through the continental quota granted by the International Judo Federation.
This marks the third Olympic Games for Pérez, the standard bearer of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games. The Carolinian made her Olympic debut in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 edition and qualified again for Tokyo 2020. Now she will make her stop in Paris.
Gandía, meanwhile, is going to his second Games. Before Tokyo 2020, the Trujillo Alto native competed in the Nanjing 2018 edition of the Youth Olympic Games.
Judo is one of the disciplines in which Puerto
Rico has had consecutive Olympic representation since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
Piñeiro, the skateboarder from Toa Baja, fulfilled his promise to compete in his second consecutive Olympic Games after qualifying for the world ranking in the park modality at a qualifier held over the weekend in Budapest, Hungary.
COPUR is waiting for possible additional qualifications in beach volleyball, 5×5 basketball, swimming and track & field.
Below is the list of the Puerto Rico Paris 2024 delegation, to date:
Jasmine Camacho Quinn (Track & Field), Sebastián Rivera (Wrestling), Ashleyann Lozada (Boxing), Pedro Luis Fernández (Sailing), Maycey Vieta (Diving), Emanuel Vázquez (Diving), Women’s Basketball Team (12 players), Darian Cruz (Wrestling), Ethan Ramos (Wrestling), Jonovan Smith (Wrestling), Juanma López Jr. (Boxing), Alondra Rivera (Archery), Ayden Owens (Track & Field), Adriana Díaz (Table Tennis), Rafael Campos (Golf), Brian Afanador (Table Tennis), Daniel González (Table Tennis), Yarimar Mercado (Three-Position Rifle Shooting), Steven Piñeiro (Skateboarding), María Pérez (Judo), Adrián Gandía (Judo). The Olympic Games will take place from July 26 to Aug. 11 in Paris.
Juncos improves to 2-0 at Carnival of Champions
By THE STAR STAFF
The Juncos Mules (los Mulos de Juncos) defeated the host Florida Titans (los Titanes de Florida) 3-0 on Sunday in the Double A Superior Baseball League’s Carnival of Champions.
Juncos, which blanked the Cabo Rojo Pirates (los Piratas de Cabo Rojo) 1-0 on Saturday, was the only team with a 2-0 record in the round-robin tournament through Sunday’s games. Florida fell to 1-1.
Star left-hander Luis Cintrón went eight innings, scattering four hits and striking out six to pick up the win for Juncos. Right-hander Héctor Quiñones pitched the ninth inning to earn the save.
A single by Juncos’ Richard Vincent González drove in the first run of the game in the fourth inning. In the fifth inning, González was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to push across the second run, and a ninthinning single by Luis Román drove in the game’s third and final run.
Left-hander Joshua Santiago allowed the first two runs in six innings to take the loss for the Titans.
María Pérez qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics. The judo athlete will compete in her third consecutive summer Games. (COPUR)
Luis Cintrón went eight innings, scattering four hits and striking out six to earn the win for Juncos.
Jonatan Ramos Director Funerario
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