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Judge rules for removal of Torres Rodríguez as a ‘shadow delegate’

By THE STAR STAFF

Judge Anthony Cuevas Ramos ruled in favor Monday of removing Elizabeth Torres Rodríguez as a member of the “shadow delegates” elected to lobby in the U.S. Congress for statehood for Puerto Rico.

Cuevas Ramos ruled that Torres Rodríguez, who was sworn into the position in July 2021, violated Article 12 related to the duties of the delegates contained in Act 167.

The judge examined three reports that Torres Rodríguez was required to submit every 90 days regarding the work she had carried out. He noted that the third report that Torres Rodríguez submitted was in video form, which is not in violation of the law, but did not list any concrete action related to her duties as delegate. Instead, she spent the good part of over an hour of video criticizing the island government.

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“She labels them as small groups of Democrats who hate her for being conservative and for being against the gender perspective.”

The judge said he could not take the criticisms leveled by Torres Rodríguez as a summary of the job she has done.

Last year, the island Justice Department sued to seek the removal of Torres Rodríguez, alleging that she failed to comply with her responsibilities based on the provisions of Law 167-2020.

Initially, in April 2022, Cuevas Ramos had dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that the controversy was a political matter in which the judicial system should not intervene.

“She begins by asking the Governor of Puerto Rico about what he has done for statehood and stating that he is anti-statehood and a leftist leader,” the judge noted. “An image immediately appears that it is a collage of photos of different public figures from the health sector and local politics.”

It is noteworthy that, on the assortment of photos, the word “murderer” appears diagonally, the judge observed. Next starts a montage of various newspaper clippings, in which the image of Torres Rodríguez is shown. The video is narrated by journalists.

Images and videos were integrated with clippings of journalistic notes, which include headlines that “show her displeasure with the Law and the election of Congressional Delegates,” the judge said.

Cuevas Ramos noted that Torres Rodríguez also criticized various members of the New Progressive Party, calling them corrupt or thieves. She accuses them of having hijacked and prostituted statehood and of enriching themselves by selling false expectations. She maintains that the shadow delegation will have no effect that favors the NPP.

“At minute 26:30 she states that in the Report she wants to denounce the political persecution that has Governor of Puerto Rico, the Secretary General of the New Progressive Party and the Director of PRFAA [Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration] have against Mrs. Torres,” the judge said. “She argues that these officials have not stopped accusing her of not doing her job.”

“At minute 29:05 she states that she has filed complaints with the Secretary of Justice against the other Delegates for not doing their job,” Cuevas Ramos added.

However, the Justice Department appealed the ruling, and the appellate court decided to return the case to Superior Court because it said the evidence should be examined and it should be decided whether Torres Rodríguez has complied with her duties as a statehood lobbyist in the U.S. House of Representatives or if she should be removed.

Elizabeth Torres Rodríguez

House approves Senate bill criminalizing the violation of a protection order

By THE STAR STAFF

The island House of Representatives has approved Senate Bill 167, authored by Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera, which establishes a fixed prison period of two years for anyone who violates a protection order under Law 148-2015, better known as the “Law for the Protection of Victims of Sexual Assault in Puerto Rico.”

The measure was co-authored by Sen. Gregorio Matías Rosario.

“We thank the colleagues of the House of Representatives for endorsing this initiative that comes to address a real need for the protection of victims of sexual assault in Puerto Rico. Law 148-2015 was designed to provide these victims with a quick and robust mechanism for their protection through an order to that end,” Riquelme Cabrera said Monday. “However, violation of any order by an aggressor is only understood as a misdemeanor. With this measure approved yesterday, we give

it an additional deterrence mechanism.”

“Before, protection orders were available only in domestic violence cases; there was no platform for a victim to ask for protection directly,” the at-large senator added. “Law 148 came to fill that void, but it had to be strengthened by establishing that a violation of the order would entail a fixed prison term of 24 months.”

The measure amends Section 10 of the aforementioned law to provide that: “Any knowing violation of a Protection Order, issued under this Act, shall constitute a felony; this without prejudice to their criminal liability by any other criminal law, which shall constitute contempt of court, which could result in imprisonment for a fixed term of two years, a fine or both.” Law 148-2015 was enacted to establish greater protections for victims of sexual assault, including the process of applying for a protection order, which is a civil remedy that serves to prohibit the offending party from approaching the victim in any way.

House panel votes to release Genera PR employee & salary data

By THE STAR STAFF

Independent Rep. Luis Raúl Torres Cruz said Monday that Genera PR has delivered information about the number of employees and salaries to a committee in the island House of Representatives after declining several times to do so.

While Genera PR asked that the information be kept under wraps, lawmakers voted to make it public.

The legislator said that last Thursday, the Economic Development, Planning, Telecommunications, and Public-Private Partnerships House Committee held an executive hearing in which Jorge Fernández Reboredo appeared on behalf of Genera PR and presented the reasons for claiming the confidentiality of the required information. Committee members, however, voted to make the information public.

“Given this determination by the Committee, we made public the information on the number of Electric Power Au-

thority employees who agreed to work for Genera PR and the compensation they will receive,” Torres Cruz said. “This, including the hiring of engineer Daniel Hernández as director of operations. Engineer Daniel Hernández is not an employee of Genera PR, but a contractor, with a salary and compensation package of over half a million dollars a year and an initial bonus of $40,000 and possible annual bonuses. The hiring of the engineer Hernández, with an effective date of May 8, 2023, was done through a company that he incorporated in March 2023, under the name of PR Grid Consulting LLC. This raises doubts about whether this company will make other contracts with Genera PR, which may represent conflicts of interest.”

The lawmaker added that, as of earlier this month, PREPA had 815 employees, of which 670 are workers in the power plants and 145 are employees of the central offices in Santurce.

Of the 815 PREPA employees, 510 agreed to move to Genera PR. In addition, Genera PR hired some 58 PREPA

employees who are not employees of the power plants and another 15 were hired from outside of PREPA.

“Among all these, Genera PR reported having hired 619 employees, including engineer Daniel Hernández, who, as we have seen, is not an employee, but a contractor,” Torres Cruz said.

Among those 619 employees, four earn between $200,000 and $299,000, one earns over $385,000, and another earns over $500,000, all annually, the lawmaker said, adding that those figures do not include possible annual bonuses. According to the released information, some 59 employees will earn salaries of between $100,000 and $200,000, some 540 employees will have salaries between $50,000 and $99,999, and about 12 employees will receive a salary between $47,000 and $49,999.

All of the aforementioned salaries will be paid annually with PREPA public funds, which come from what energy subscribers pay for the electricity rate, the legislator noted.

Vowing to fight electricity rate hikes, retailers promote Wednesday march

By THE STAR STAFF

United Retailers Center (CUD by its Spanish acronym) President Lourdes M. Aponte Rodríguez said Monday that the business organization will continue to fight against “disastrous” increases in the electricity bill because, although the Financial Oversight and Management Board has hinted that the increases could be smaller, the ultimate decision will be made by U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain.

“The picture announced by the fiscal oversight board

is not clear and although the increase is minimal, we have said that neither SMEs [small and midsize enterprises] nor the people of Puerto Rico can bear another cost increase in electricity service,” the CUD leader said. “Neither large nor small, we cannot allow any more abuses. The cost of living cannot continue to rise and let our small and medium-sized entrepreneurs lose their businesses. The fiscal oversight board has to look for other alternatives to avoid another economic debacle on our island.”

Aponte Rodríguez added that now it is up to the Puerto

Rico government to identify other sources from which it can meet its pension obligation to its employees, and not sacrifice the people who are not responsible for government actions.

Aponte Rodríguez called on citizens to join the People’s March, from the Capitol to La Fortaleza on Wednesday starting at 4 p.m.

“SMEs represent 95% of the establishments on the island and 43.6% of the jobs generated in Puerto Rico, and we cannot let our country succumb to the abuses of the fiscal oversight board,” the CUD president said.

Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera

‘Protecting nature protects the people’

Activists protest what they say is the illegal construction of a house inside a natural reserve

By RICHARD GUTIERREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

The nonprofit organization Defending the Indian Cave-681 (DIC-681) stood in front of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) headquarters on Monday to protest the approval by Permits Management Office (OGP by its Spanish initials) of what the demonstrators said is the illegal construction of a house within the Cueva del Indio Natural Reserve in Arecibo.

The rocky hillside on which the house is being built is located north of highway PR-681, the activists said, adding that the house has had an order of restriction placed against it by DNER. They said the concrete house will have at least four rooms, and is intended to be constructed in an area where there was a wooden vacation house, with a pool that has been abandoned for six years. The house, which the activists said belongs to the Cardona Campos family, is also being constructed on top of one of the seven arches, a well-known local geological site, they said.

On Jan. 10 of this year, community members organized to denounce the construction of the house. An environmental consultation was approved for the project; however, the organization argues that the approval was made in violation of the DNER order and that the construction poses an economic danger to the community of Arecibo, and therefore must be stopped immediately.

“According to its platform, the OGP approved the Environmental Recommendation Application with the number: 2023477219-PCM-023901 under the project titled: ‘Residence of Dr. René Cardona Campos,’ going against the order placed by the secretary of the DNER, Anaís Rodríguez Vega,” said Lauce Colón Pérez, a spokesperson for the DIC.

The DNER order was the result of a community complaint,

No. Q-AREM-006-23, filed on Jan. 10.

Colón Pérez denounced the construction of the house in violation of DNER regulations and questioned if there were any permits required from the OGP and the Puerto Rico Planning Board. The DNER hasn’t continued its investigation regarding this situation, he said, nor has the agency updated the community on the illegal construction of this house six months after the complaint was filed. According to the permit, the requester describes the reconstruction of the house as a “single-family residential structure made in concrete which was originally built in 1977, and was severely affected by the winds caused by Hurricane Maria in September 2017 …”

Another DIC-681 spokesperson, Alegna Malavé Marrero, told the STAR that “[r]esidents of the surrounding areas have indicated with old pictures that the house was originally built in wood and zinc …”

“Therefore, presenting a permit for the reconstruction of a concrete house is questionable, and that is why they are raising their voices against the agencies,” she said.

Malavé Marrero added that the residents stated that the house was originally used as a vacation home and not for permanent residence, and that the land on which the house is being built is in a district 100% classified as a Resources Preservation District, according to a Planning Board interactive map. According to Section 19.33 of the 2010 regulatory regime established by the Planning Board, Resources Preservation Districts are classified as “specific areas that make up the natural environment.” It states that it is important to protect such areas for scientific research and completely prohibits the construction of any structure that isn’t for scientific use.

“Because of these concerns, we demand an explanation of the environmental research that was supposedly done to approve the Environmental Recommendation Application for the reconstruction of structures right in the middle of a natural reserve,” Malavé Marrero said.

The spokesperson went on to point out some of the possible dangers the construction of the house poses for the Arecibo community.

“How is it possible that an environmental consultation was approved for a project that is obviously illegal and does not follow the active regulation 4860?” Malavé Marrero said. “On top of that, the construction of this house does not follow recommendations of FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] for post-Hurricane Maria reconstruction. This is not just about the construction of a house in a natural reserve, we are also fighting for the community. The house will be built in a high-risk area, which means the insurance policy for this house will be very expensive, and if that policy is expensive that price will be reflected around the real estate market …, making living in Arecibo much more expensive and increasing the price of commercial insurance policies as well.”

“It’s something that is interconnected, it’s not just about the construction of a house in a natural area,” she added. “It’s something that will make the cost of living much more expensive for everyone.”

Malavé Marrero said the DIC-681 is demanding that the DNER, the Planning Board and the OGP issue a demolition order for the illegal reconstruction and that regulation 4860 is honored for the protection of all natural and agricultural reserves.

The activist said further that the Indian Cave situation in Arecibo is not the first of its kind, and that residents have been

prohibited from enjoying the island’s natural inheritance for centuries.

“All throughout Puerto Rico we have been facing the dispute for the right of being in our territory,” Malavé Marrero said. “We were born on a tropical island -- we are used to visiting rivers and beaches. The fact that there are people out there who put fences around beaches and armed guards telling us that we can’t go to a beach or inside a cave, this creates resistance in us because we don’t recognize the people who want to prohibit access to our natural inheritance. The natural environment of this island is for everyone. We have been fighting for these rights since 1952, the year when we first announced ‘the beaches are for the people.’ “However, since 1493 there was a European invasion and since then, our ancestors declared war against them. We are just the next generation fighting for our land.”

Malavé Marrero added that the DIC-681 “will continue to denounce the lack of an active conservation management plan for community assets, with guards assigned as a permanent way to permanently protect areas of great natural and cultural value.”

The environmental organization Defendiendo la Cueva del Indio says a residential construction site in Arecibo is within a natural reserve and is in violation of an order by the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. (Courtesy of DCI)

Defendiendo la Cueva del Indio spokespersons Alegna Malavé Marrero, left, and Lauce Colón Pérez (Richard Gutiérrez/The San Juan Daily Star)

Puerto Rico receives $335 million federal injection for broadband connectivity

By THE STAR STAFF

The federal government has allocated $334.6 million to Puerto Rico as part of the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced Monday.

The multimillion-dollar injection is in addition to some $400 million in local funds to improve connectivity throughout the island, as well as a first disbursement of $100 million, of which $5 million is earmarked for planning efforts to develop projects that help close the digital divide in Puerto Rico.

“Puerto Rico has proven to be one of the jurisdictions with the best results and the fastest pace [with connectivity], which it has achieved thanks to the various initiatives we have promoted under the Smart Island program,” the governor said. “I thank the Biden-Harris administration for recognizing the effort of the Broadband program. This historic allocation represents greater access to funds that will allow us to improve the critical telecommunications infrastructure on the island so that we have a resilient system that provides all of Puerto Rico with high-speed internet access.”

Since the start of the Smart Island program, and in conjunction with municipalities, nonprofit organizations and the federal government, and with the support of citizens through the Connectivity survey, nearly 100,000 localities with specific needs have been identified, such as internet

speed of less than 25 megabits per second. Locations that need superior internet infrastructure for reliable connectivity include mountainous or difficult-to-access regions.

Pierluisi added that the work to achieve the allocation began more than six months ago in conjunction with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Biden-Harris administration.

The executive director of the Smart Island program, Enrique Völckers Nin, who was invited to make the announce-

ment along with President Joe Biden, said “our agenda is undoubtedly ambitious and broad, but very promising.”

“We are completely focused on achieving connectivity for the entire island so that Puerto Ricans have high-speed internet,” he said.

Under the Smart Island program, projects focused on reducing the digital divide in Puerto Rico have been launched, such as the investment of $50 million for the Public Wi-Fi Program (Puerto Rico Wi-Fi Public Access), which will allow, in its first phase, the creation of 190 public Wi-Fi spaces in 46 municipalities of the island. Officials worked to identify localities with the municipalities, ranging from libraries, public buildings used for citizen services, spas, public squares and community centers to parks, linear walks, boat terminals, scenic view sites and market squares.

In addition, the federal government has recognized the extraordinary implementation of the Internet Subsidy program in Puerto Rico, and some $30 million has been allocated for Internet Resilience and Hardening, a program that will provide funds to island internet providers to improve their infrastructure so that it is more resilient in the face of adverse weather and other events. With the funds, providers will be able to purchase equipment such as electrical generators, solar panels and batteries so that, in the event of an emergency, service availability continues. Likewise, in the coming months, officials will start the design phase of a $250 million project to bury optical fiber.

Repaving of runways at Culebra airport to necessitate closures starting today

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

In order to accelerate the repaving of Runway 13-31 and the Alfa runway at Benjamín Rivera Noriega Airport in Culebra, the Puerto Rico Ports Authority has authorized the contractor Desarrolladora J.A. to establish temporary runway closures, which will begin this afternoon and will be scheduled until Oct. 25, Ports Authority Executive Director Joel A. Pizá Batiz announced Monday.

“After several meetings between airlines, contractors, developers and staff from the Department of Health and the [Ports] Authority’s Division of Planning, Engineering and Construction, we decided to establish runway closures for continuous 36-hour periods, which will impact a day of regular airport operations, to accelerate runway reconstruction work,” Pizá Batiz said. “Runway closures will begin at 4 p.m. on June 27, 2023 and continue until 6 a.m. on June 29, 2023 to facilitate the completion of the project by December 2023. This is the first time, in almost 30 years, that a large-scale rehabilitation has been carried out, an action that will benefit, mainly, the residents who make use of these facilities, as well as the economic activity of that island municipality because of the airline and tourism industry.

The ports chief added that the runway in Culebra was in poor condition after decades of neglect.

Senate candidate wants to see mayors included in boards for ports, regional airports

Javier Molina Pagán, an educator from Utuado and New Progressive Party candidate for senator for the Ponce District, said that if elected he would propose to incorporate mayors in decision-making and in boards of directors, in this case, those of the port and airport in Ponce.

Molina Pagán noted that the Ponce airport and port are governed by different laws. In neither case, he added, does the board of directors of those facilities include the mayor.

“The [mayor] is the one who knows the needs of the people, so we have to start legislating laws to incorporate this important figure in decision-making, and we as legislators will continue to be the helping hand to introduce all kinds of legislation that can brings some kind of alliance both for what is the development of the airport and the port, in order to create a land transportation system that we can use at the same time for the complete development of the south and mountain [regions],” Molina Pagán said.

The Ponce District, the largest of the Senate districts, is composed of 15 municipalities: Adjuntas, Ciales, Guánica, Guayanilla, Jayuya, Juana Díaz, Lajas, Lares, Las Marías, Maricao, Peñuelas, Ponce, Sabana Grande, Utuado and Yauco.

Enrique Völckers Nin, executive director of the Smart Island program

Benjamín Rivera Noriega Airport in Culebra

Intensifying rains pose hidden flood risks across the US

By RAYMOND ZHONG

As climate change intensifies severe rainstorms, the infrastructure protecting millions of Americans from flooding faces growing risk of failures, according to new calculations of expected precipitation in every county and locality across the contiguous United States.

The calculations suggest that 1 in 9 residents of the Lower 48 states, largely in populous regions including the mid-Atlantic and the Texas Gulf coast, is at significant risk of downpours that deliver at least 50% more rain per hour than local pipes, channels and culverts might be designed to drain.

“The data is startling, and it should be a wake-up call,” said Chad Berginnis, the executive director of the Association of State Floodplain Managers, a nonprofit organization focused on flood risk.

The new rain estimates, issued Monday by the First Street Foundation, a nonprofit research group in New York, carry worrying implications for homeowners, too: They indicate that 12.6 million properties nationwide face significant flood risks despite not being required by the federal government to buy flood insurance.

The nation is set to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into new and improved roads, bridges and ports in the coming years under the bipartisan infrastructure plan that President Joe Biden signed into law in 2021. First Street’s calculations suggests that many of these projects are being built to standards that are already out of date.

Matthew Eby, First Street’s executive director, said he hoped the new data could be used to make these investments more futureproof, “so that we don’t spend $1.2 trillion knowing that it’s wrong.”

The threats to American infrastructure from intense rain have been on stark display in recent years. In Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, the remnants of Hurricane Ida overwhelmed drains and turned streets into rivers in 2021. In Houston and southeast Texas, flood after flood has shut down highways and stranded people away from their homes.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the agency under the Commerce Department that produces the precipitation estimates used by planners and engineers

across the country, declined to comment.

NOAA’s estimates are “the floor, not a ceiling,” said Abdullah Hasan, a White House spokesperson. “States and localities often consider additional factors best suited to their local geographies when making project decisions.”

Every additional increment of global warming increases the likelihood of intense rain in many places for a simple reason: Hotter air can hold more moisture. But NOAA’s estimates of expected rainfall are only intermittently updated. And, as NOAA scientists described in a recent report prepared in collaboration with university researchers, the agency’s estimates assume that the intensity and frequency of extreme rain hasn’t increased in recent decades, despite ample evidence to the contrary.

The result, according to First Street, is that NOAA is substantially underestimating the risk of severe rain in some of the nation’s largest cities: Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington among them. Other places where there are large differences between First Street’s rainfall estimates and NOAA’s include the Ohio River Basin, northwestern California and parts of the Mountain West.

In other areas, including those east of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range, First Street finds that NOAA is overestimating the likelihood of intense rain, implying that resources there might not be best spent on upgrading

flood infrastructure.

NOAA and its predecessor agencies have been publishing data on expected rain and snow for decades. Its latest estimates, covering nearly every part of the country, are contained in a multivolume publication called Atlas 14. (Another set of estimates, called Atlas 2, covers the Northwestern states.)

Pick any point on the map, and the NOAA atlases tell you the probabilities there of various precipitation events — that is, a certain number of inches falling over a given span of time, from five minutes to 24 hours to 60 days.

But the atlas estimates are based on rain measurements collected over the past several decades, or, in some places, since the 19th century, “in a climate that just doesn’t exist anymore,” said Jeremy R. Porter, First Street’s head of climate implications research.

By contrast, First Street’s peer-reviewed methods for estimating precipitation use only rainfall records from this century, and only ones collected by the government’s most modern weather stations. (First Street plans to publish additional documentation on how it computed its new estimates July 31.)

NOAA is working on updating its atlas estimates to better account for the warming climate. But the agency says its first data for Atlas 15 might be ready only in 2026.

First Street’s rain estimates also raise

questions about the federal government’s guidance on flood risks to homes.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency maps areas of the country that it calculates to be at significant risk in a 100-year flood, or one with a 1% chance of occurring in any given year. FEMA’s maps guide decisions by builders, insurers and banks, and determine whether homeowners need to buy flood insurance.

But First Street’s data suggests that 17.7 million properties nationwide are at risk in a 100-year event. Of those, only about 5 million properties also fall into a FEMA flood-hazard zone. That means millions of other homeowners might be making decisions with an incomplete understanding of the true physical and financial risks they face.

NOAA began publishing Atlas 14 in 2004, which means that any drains, culverts and stormwater basins built since then might potentially have been sized according to standards that no longer reflect Earth’s present climate. But plenty of America’s infrastructure was laid down even earlier, meaning it was designed to specifications that are probably even more obsolete, said Daniel B. Wright, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of WisconsinMadison.

“Certainly, updating Atlas 14 is something that needs to be done,” Wright said. “But the problem is huge, in the sense that there are trillions upon trillions of dollars of things that are based on horribly out-of-date information at this point.”

Flooding on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in New York in 2021.

In Texas, heat that can make you faint

area recording temperatures of just under 100 degrees.

The heat has set or challenged all-time records. San Angelo in West Texas registered 114 twice in June, the highest ever recorded there. The border town of Del Rio hit 115 for the first time.

A reading of 119 degrees on Friday in the Big Bend area of southwest Texas came within one degree of tying the state’s previous all-time high of 120 recorded in 1994, said Dave Munyan, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Midland.

“Heat advisories and potentially areas of excessive heat warnings are expected each day through this week for most if not all of south-central Texas,” the weather service said Sunday.

The extreme heat and humidity is projected to continue in Texas for much of this week, before it spreads into parts of the Southwest and the lower Mississippi River Valley through the Fourth of July weekend.

Cities throughout Texas have opened cooling stations in libraries and other public buildings, many of which have served as shelters for homeless residents. Relief agencies have also accelerated their service. In San Antonio, Pete Barrera, outreach coordinator for Haven for Hope, which works with people who are homeless, drove through the city’s downtown streets on Saturday in a pickup truck loaded with everything from cold water and snacks to food and clothing.

“People are hungry,” he said from his cellphone as he made the rounds. “They’re human beings and they need you. If I can help them, I’m going to help them.”

By DAVID MONTGOMERY and MARÍA JIMÉNEZ MOYA

Kevin Randal, a construction worker in Houston, has his routine.

Randal, 60, who works on air conditioning, roofing, flooring and kitchens, spent Saturday inside an attic, drenched in sweat in 100 degree temperatures, fixing an air conditioning unit.

He takes breaks every 20 minutes, drinks a mix of lime juice, salt and water to keep him hydrated and takes little sips of water to prevent nausea and throwing up, he said.

“If you don’t calculate time correctly, you will faint,” Randal said, adding, “The heat comes and goes, and the jobs come and go with it.”

But for now, the heat is mostly coming and staying.

An onslaught of record heat that shows no sign of easing has united all strata of society with the same fundamental purpose of staying cool, comfortable and safe, while putting particular strains on the poor and those without air conditioning.

And the soaring temperatures are highlighting the risks to Texas, its power grid and its residents as the state and globe continue to warm over time.

In Hutto, a rapidly growing suburb 30 miles north of Austin, Liz Garner and Jona Becerra, Williamson County paramedics, find themselves rushing to an increasing number of heat emergencies from their headquarters at Fire Station

On one recent day, Garner rescued a construction worker in his 20s who had suffered a heatstroke, hurriedly placing him in an ice bath to lower his body temperature after it had climbed to 105 degrees. The heat index that day was 106 degrees.

Outdoor workers and older adults have been deemed particularly vulnerable, but the latest Texas heat wave is gripping everyone in some way. In Houston, residents in the city’s large immigrant community described a broad range of challenges as temperatures began to climb past 100 degrees amid debilitating humidity.

“I have to take it slow so my heart rate doesn’t rise,” said Sandra Tobar, who has worked in landscaping for over 20 years since coming to the United States from El Salvador. She starts working at 6:45 a.m. and typically doesn’t finish until 6 p.m.

“We eat every day so we have to work every day,” said Tobar, who is in her 50s. “If we don’t work, then we don’t have food.”

Advisories from the National Weather Service have hardly pulled punches in forecasting what’s ahead for Texans and residents of surrounding states in coming days, releasing advisories such as “dangerous heat continues” and “excessive heat warning” with projected heat indexes of up to 120 degrees. On Saturday, temperatures exceeding 100 degrees were reported in Austin and San Antonio, with the Houston

Texans generally seem to be adhering to agencies’ advice to drink plenty of water, limit outdoor activities, work early or late in the day and wear plenty of sunscreen. State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, reached at his home in San Antonio last week, reported that he was getting up early and staying hydrated, but he said he worried about the impact on tourism at San Antonio attractions such as the Alamo and the downtown River Walk.

“It’s 100 degrees in the shade,” the Democratic lawmaker said.

Law enforcement officers may be dealing with their own added comfort challenges. Sgt. Edward Mora of the Hutto Police Department was wearing protective gear weighing more than 20 pounds as he drove through the community in his patrol SUV, awaiting normal police calls as well as being alert for any signs of heat-related problems. “You’re just looking to see how people are doing,” he said.

On Austin’s downtown row of nightclubs on Sixth Street, the temperature was 99 degrees at 7:45 on Saturday night, but foot traffic was nevertheless respectably brisk, and compared with the daytime highs, some patrons regarded the latest reading as a welcome cooling off.

Many were wearing shorts and T-shirts, and several said they were following officials’ advice to stay hydrated, though perhaps with a bit of an adjustment. As Angelica Nunez, a real estate agent in Austin, entered a nightclub and restaurant with her husband, Joseph Nunez, she said they were “drinking a lot of water.” She added, “And beer, too.”

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People cool off in the water park area of Klyde Warren Park in Dallas on Saturday, June 24, 2023. Recordsetting temperatures above 100 degrees are expected to linger across much of the state of Texas well into the coming week.

Dancing, jubilation and worries about LGBTQ rights at Pride march

By LIAM STACK and MICHAEL WILSON

An unbroken parade of marchers — some dancing and jubilant, some set with determined purpose — filled Fifth Avenue and the streets of Greenwich Village in Manhattan on Sunday for the New York City Pride March, even as a foreboding backdrop from threats both local and national hung over the day’s slate of events.

The march, with its flags and bright floats, marks the 1969 Stonewall riot that spurred the modern LGBTQ rights movement. It is the largest of its kind in the United States, with 75,000 marchers and roughly 2 million spectators, according to organizers.

The event is even now broadcast on network television, a reflection of the fact that public support for LGBTQ people has never been higher, coming in between 60% and 70% in recent polls.

But backlash to those gains has grown since same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in 2015. In recent years, each successive Pride Month has seemed to go on in defiance of new and ever greater challenges to the LGBTQ community.

Over the past year, states across the country have passed laws banning drag performances and transgender health care, while protests and physical attacks on LGBTQ events and their supporters have cast a pall over gay bars and community centers.

Juli Culling marched with a sign that read, “I march for my daughter” — a fact in more ways than one, having crossed the country with her 18-year-old trans daughter from Southern California in search of a more welcoming home.

“I told her to pick a city,” Culling recalled of the move two years ago, “and she said New York.”

The experience has been deeply rewarding, and her daughter felt comfortable at her new school, Broome Street Academy, but a threat feels attached to any traveling they do.

“We know how the world is right now. It’s scary,” she said. Indeed, her daughter was too anxious to march Sunday, she said.

Rev. Nicole Garcia, the faith work director at the National LGBTQ task force, acknowledged that today’s hostile atmosphere weighs on her: “I’m a queer transgender Latina who is ordained,” she said. But she

sought to put fear aside Sunday, and said her biggest concern was “my arthritic knees.”

Likewise, a veteran in the LGBTQ community standing beside her in a bit of shade on the hot morning, David Rothenberg, 89, focused on the joy of the event. “It has the dynamics of early coming out — it’s complicated, but it’s exhilarating,” he said.

Anania Williams from Chicago, who identifies as gender fluid and uses the corresponding pronouns, has shared their journey to that identity on their popular social media accounts, which has led to backlash online. The parade is a respite, a place to be “queer and happy,” they said.

“Everyone’s allowed to change,” they said.

Conservative-led boycotts against companies that once embraced Pride festivities, such as Target and Anheuser Busch, have led to billions of dollars of corporate losses. The backlash has also entered the 2024 presidential race, as Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has staked his Republican primary hopes on opposition to LGBTQ rights and has clashed with corporations, such as The Walt Disney Co., that support them.

Heritage of Pride, which organizes the march, recognized the worsening political climate in an open letter earlier this month that was co-signed with the organizers of dozens of other Pride events across the country. In it, they warned that the LGBTQ community was “under threat” and criticized “fair weather friends” in corporate America.

“Despite the progress we have made together, we are currently under siege,” the organizers wrote. “An alarming rise in legal disruptions and targeted intimidation by extremist groups at these events, across the United States, is making our celebratory gatherings feel less safe. The threats are becoming tangible, terrifying and can no longer be ignored.”

Those threats have taken many forms.

Across the country, a wave of state legislation has targeted LGBTQ young people in particular, banning transgender health care for minors and barring teachers from discussing gay and transgender topics in schools.

In a report released last week, two civil rights groups documented more than 350 acts of anti-LGBTQ harassment, vandalism

or violence in the United States between June 2022 and April 2023, with more than half explicitly referring to gay or transgender people as pedophiles.

Some of those incidents have been deadly. Last week, a man was charged with plotting a mass shooting and bomb attack on Nashville Pride in Tennessee. Such a plan was carried out by a shooter in Colorado who killed five people and injured 17 more at a gay bar in November, in what prosecutors have said was a hate crime.

That same month, anxieties were high in New York after a gay bar had its window smashed by bricks four times in one month. Weeks later, the office of a gay New York City Council member was vandalized by opponents of Drag Story Time, who then vandalized his home and assaulted his neighbor.

Even the site of Stonewall Inn, the site of the 1969 riots, has not been spared. In the past month, vandals have struck the national monument outside the bar four times, snapping dozens of its rainbow flags in half.

“Pride feels different this year,” said Erik Bottcher, the City Council member whose home and office were vandalized, and who represents the neighborhood that contains the Stonewall Monument.

“In the past year, there has been an increase in the level of venom that is spewed at our community,” he said. “The rhetoric has been ratcheted up online, at school board

meetings and even in Congress. That kind of rhetoric manifests itself in the real world.”

Meanwhile, debates within the LGBTQ community over whether corporations’ embrace of Pride diluted the event’s political roots have given way to a far different reality, as brands back away from that strategy after withering attacks from conservative activists and media figures.

Since April, three companies that released Pride merchandise or partnered with LGBTQ influencers — Target, AnheuserBusch and Kohl’s — have lost more than $28 billion in market value, according to an analysis by Axios.

The Los Angeles Dodgers, which was criticized by both liberals and conservatives as it publicly waffled over whether to honor a drag troupe this month, saw thousands of protesters descend upon its stadium when it decided to invite the drag queens after all.

And after festooning its stores in rainbow bunting for years, Starbucks declined to decorate for Pride this year at stores in 21 states, according to an employee union. New York was one of those states. On a recent tour of Starbucks locations in Manhattan, reporters found no Pride decorations in neighborhoods known for their large LGBTQ populations, including Chelsea and Greenwich Village.

Even the Starbucks one block from the Stonewall Inn was rainbow-free.

People celebrate at the annual New York City Pride March in Manhattan on Sunday, June 25, 2023.

Effects of rate increases on the housing market are starting to slip away

By JEANNA SMIALEK

Gianni Martinez, 31, thought that it would be fairly easy to buy an apartment.

Mortgage rates are now hovering around 7% — the highest they’ve been since 2007 — thanks to the Federal Reserve’s efforts to tame inflation. Central bankers have lifted their official policy rate to about 5% over the past 15 months, which has translated into higher borrowing costs across the economy.

Martinez, a tech worker, expected that to cool down Miami real estate. But instead, he is finding himself in stiff competition for one- to two-bedroom apartments near the ocean. He has made seven or eight offers and is willing to put 25% down, but he keeps losing, often to people paying cash instead of taking out a pricey mortgage.

“Because of interest rates at 7%, I didn’t think it would be this competitive — but that doesn’t matter to cash buyers,” Martinez said, noting that he’s competing with foreign bidders and other young people who show up to open houses with their parents in tow, suggesting Mom or Dad may be helping to foot the bill.

“When there is a correctly priced listing, it’s a madhouse,” he said.

The Fed’s rate increases are aimed at slowing America’s economy — in part by restraining the housing market — to try to bring inflation under control. Those moves worked quickly at first to weaken interestsensitive parts of the economy: Housing markets across the United States pulled back notably last year. But that cool down seems to be cracking.

Home prices fell nationally in late 2022, but they have begun to rebound in recent months, a resurgence that has come as the market has proved especially strong in Southern cities including Miami, Tampa, Florida, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Fresh data set for release on Tuesday will show whether that trend has continued. Figures out last week showed that national housing starts unexpectedly surged in May, jumping by the most since 2016, as applications to build homes also increased.

Housing seems to be finding a burst of renewed momentum. Climbing home prices

will not prop up official inflation figures — those are based on rental rather than purchased housing costs. But the revival is a sign of how difficult it is proving for the Fed to curb momentum in the economy at a time when the labor market remains strong and consumer balance sheets are generally healthier than before the pandemic.

“It’s another data point: Things are not cooling off as much as they thought,” said Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist for Nationwide Mutual. In fact, new housing construction “tells us something about where the economy is headed, so this suggests that things are potentially picking up.”

That could matter for policy: Fed officials think that the economy needs to spend some time growing at a speed that is below its full potential for inflation to fully cool off. In a weak economy, consumers don’t want to buy as much, so companies struggle to charge as much.

The question is whether the economy can slow sufficiently when real estate is stabilizing or even heating back up, leaving homebuilders feeling more optimistic, construction companies hiring workers and homeowners feeling the mental boost that comes with climbing home equity.

So far, the Fed’s leader, at least, has

sounded unworried.

“The housing sector nationally has flattened out, and maybe ticked up a little bit, but at a much lower level from where it was,” Fed Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers last week, adding a day later that “you’ve actually kind of seen it hit a bottom now.”

Higher rates have helped to markedly cool down sales of existing homes, to his point, though demand for new houses is being bolstered by two sweeping long-run trends.

Millennials — America’s largest generation — are in their late 20s and early 30s, peak years for moving out on their own and attempting to purchase a house.

And a shift to remote work during the pandemic seems to have spurred people who might otherwise have stayed with roommates or parents to live on their own, based on recent research co-written by Adam Ozimek, chief economist at the Economic Innovation Group.

“Remote work means working from home for a lot of people,” Ozimek said. “That really increases the value of space.”

Available housing supply, meantime, has been tight. That’s also partly because of the Fed. Many people refinanced their mortgages when interest rates were at rock bottom

in 2020 and 2021, and they are now reluctant to sell and lose those cheap mortgages.

“The most surprising thing about this housing market is how the increase in interest rates has affected supply and demand pretty equally,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. The pullback in demand was probably a bit more intense, she said, but builders are benefiting from a “dire lack of supply.”

As young people continue to bid on houses and inventory comes up short, prices and construction are staging their surprise comeback.

“Demand has hung in there better than we would have expected for that first-time buyer,” said Michael Fratantoni, chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Bostjancic said the recent housing data will probably nudge the Fed toward higher rates. Officials paused their rate moves in June after 10 straight increases, but have suggested that they could lift them twice more in 2023, including at their meeting next month.

If there’s a silver lining for the Fed, it is that home prices will not directly feed into inflation. America’s price measures use rents to calculate housing costs because they try to capture the cost of consumption. Buying a home is, in part, a financial investment.

Rent growth has been stalling for months now — which is slowly feeding into official inflation data as people renew leases.

“Rent growth is taking a nice, deep breath in,” said Igor Popov, chief economist at Apartment List. “Right now, it does not feel like there’s a lot of new heat.”

Still, at least one Fed official has fretted that the pickup in housing could limit the scope of that slowdown. As home prices rise, some investors and landlords could decide to either charge more or to shift from renting out houses and to buying and selling them — curbing rental supply.

“A rebound in the housing market is raising questions about how sustained those lower rent increases will be,” Christopher Waller, a Fed governor, said in a speech last month.

He said that the upturn “even with significantly higher mortgage rates” raised questions “about whether the benefit from the slowing in rent increases will last as long as we have been expecting.”

A biker waits to pass through a construction zone in Miami Beach, on Oct. 27, 2022. Home construction surged in May and prices have ticked up, even with interest rates at a 15-year high; the resilience has surprised some economists.

Wall Street Slips as Investors Eye Russia, More Fed Hikes

U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday, as investors were wary of making riskier bets after Russia’s aborted weekend mutiny.

Investors were uncertain about the implications of the rebellion by Russian mercenaries that raised questions about President Vladimir Putin’s future. While Putin on Monday thanked mercenary fighters and commanders who had stood down to avoid bloodshed, the U.S. State Department said the situation in Russia remains dynamic.

Growth stocks weighed the most on the main indexes, with Meta Platforms Inc, Alphabet Inc and Tesla Inc falling sharply.

Last week, U.S. stocks sputtered after a recent rally, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq snapping its eight-week winning streak after Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled there could be more interest rate hikes ahead.

“It doesn’t feel like the all clear has sounded yet,” said Carol Schleif, chief investment officer at BMO family office in Minneapolis. “Nobody knows what the ultimate power structure in Russia’s going to look like.”

“Traders are having a tough time today figuring out if they want to be offensive or defensive so they’ve got a foot in both camps. They don’t know which way the market’s going to swing,” she said.

With this uncertainty in mind Schleif noted that investors were taking some profits in growth stocks that had advanced sharply this year.

And they were checking out underdogs for the year-todate such as value stocks and small caps, said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer at Independent Advisor Alliance, Charlotte, North Carolina.

“Out of favor themes for 2023 are working for today. Maybe in the absence of a real risk on or risk off day you go bargain hunting,” Zaccarelli said.

According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 lost 18.90 points, or 0.43%, to end at 4,329.43 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 156.74 points, or 1.16%, to 13,335.78. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 6.69 points, or 0.02%, to 33,720.74.

But the S&P 500 energy sector gained as oil prices rose while investors balanced concerns about global demand growth against upcoming supply disruptions that could get exacerbated by political instability in Russia. [O/R]

A slew of economic data including a key inflation gauge, durable goods and University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index is expected this week, as well as Powell’s speech that could throw light on Fed’s rate hike plans.

Most policymakers see at least two more quarter-point rate increases by the end of this year, though traders expect one more hike in July and see the U.S. central bank holding rates steady through the end of 2023, according to CMEGroup’s Fedwatch tool.

Among single stocks, Pfizer Inc fell after the drugmaker said it is discontinuing the development of an experimental

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Prigozhin claims he wasn’t trying to overthrow Putin

By VALERIE HOPKINS

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group who mounted a brief uprising against Russia’s military command over the weekend, broke a long period of silence on Monday to deny, once more, that he had any intention of seizing power with his march on Moscow.

“We went to demonstrate our protest, and not to overthrow the government in the country,” he said in an 11-minute stream of consciousness voice memo published on the messaging app Telegram. The statement renewed his sharp criticism of Russia’s military leadership, both for what he claims was shabby treatment of his fighters and its handling of the invasion of Ukraine.

Prigozhin said the protest was aimed at a move by the Ministry of Defense to force his mercenaries to sign contracts with the government, which he said would have effectively halted Wagner’s activities in Ukraine as of July 1. The fighters, Prigozhin said, were planning to give up their heavy weapons to the Russian army until they were attacked from behind on Friday night, killing at least 30 Wagner soldiers — a claim for which there has been no independent evidence.

That’s when, he said, he decided to send one group of fighters to take the city of Rostov-on-Don, the home of the Russian southern command about 60 miles from the border with Ukraine, and another group to Moscow to register their anger.

“The purpose of the campaign was to prevent the destruction of the Wagner PMC and to bring to justice those per-

sons who, by their unprofessional actions, made a huge number of mistakes during this process,” he said, obliquely referring to the Defense Ministry leadership.

The Wagner founder has spent months assailing Russia’s military leadership, which Prigozhin has long feuded with and accused of mismanaging the war effort. In Telegram posts that mixed self-aggrandizing statements and profanity-laced complaints, he accused military leaders of failing to supply his fighters with ammunition even as they were engaging in one of the

bloodiest fights of the war, the taking of the ruined city of Bakhmut.

But Prigozhin had not been heard from since he called off his mutiny on Saturday, adding to the confusion surrounding an episode that had challenged Russia’s veneer of political stability. Hours after President Vladimir Putin labeled him a traitor and vowed to hold him accountable, Prigozhin ceased his advance on Moscow and agreed to withdraw from Rostov-on-Don under a deal that would drop the investigation of him and allow him to go to Belarus.

His voice memo, some analysts suggest, is a sign he wants to continue to be active in political and military affairs. In it, Prigozhin praised his fighters, saying they had shown professionalism and given the Russian public a “master class” in how the invasion of Ukraine should have been initiated last year. If Wagner had been in charge, he claimed, the completion of Russia’s military goals would have taken mere “days.”

Although the Kremlin said on Saturday that the deal to end hostilities — which Prigozhin again said he accepted in order to avoid bloodshed — would drop the case against him, there were signs Monday that

Prigozhin could still face charges.

According to Russian media reports published Monday, the criminal case against Prigozhin remains open and the charges against him have not been dropped. Kommersant, a Russian newspaper, and the country’s three main news agencies — Tass, RIA and Interfax — all reported that the Federal Security Service, or FSB, continued to investigate.

The publications, all either state-controlled or affiliated with the Kremlin, cited anonymous sources, so their reports could not be independently verified. If the proceedings continue, Prigozhin could face up to 20 years in prison.

Even if the case is dropped, critics of Belarus’ president, Alexander Lukashenko, have raised doubts over whether Prigozhin would be safe there, given the government’s close ties to Putin, who has been a crucial source of support for Lukashenko.

Prigozhin was last seen in public late Saturday, smiling and shaking hands with supporters when he left the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don after he called an end to his brief uprising and turned back the column of soldiers he had sent on a march to Moscow.

Since then, his location has been unknown. On Sunday evening, Prigozhin’s press service told RTVI, a Russian TV channel, that he “says hi to everyone and will answer questions” when he has good cellphone reception.

Despite the severity of Prigozhin’s actions over the weekend, some Russian officials have been reluctant to criticize Wagner fighters, who have proved themselves to be effective, if brutal, in fighting on Russia’s behalf in Ukraine and in other conflicts.

Andrei Kartapolov, the chair of the Russian Parliament’s defense committee, said Sunday that the Wagner fighters who took over the army headquarters in Rostov-on-Don “did not do anything reprehensible” and had simply “followed the orders of their command.”

“They didn’t offend anyone, they didn’t break anything,” he said. “No one has the slightest claim against them — neither the residents of Rostov, nor the military personnel of the Southern Military District, nor the law enforcement agencies.”

Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, leaving Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Saturday.

With resounding win in Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis tightens grip on power

By NIKI KITSANTONIS

Greek voters on Sunday overwhelmingly reelected the conservative New Democracy party, preliminary results showed, setting the stage for its leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to strengthen his grip on power with an absolute majority and what he called a “strong mandate” for the foreseeable future.

With his landslide victory, voters appeared to have overlooked his government’s ties to a series of scandals and embraced his promise of continued economic stability and prosperity.

With 91% of the votes counted at 9:45 p.m., the party had 40.5%, and was poised to win 158 seats in Greece’s 300-member parliament, far ahead of the opposition Syriza party, which was in second place with 17.8%, with 47 seats. The socialist Pasok party took third place, with 12.5%, and got 32 seats.

In a statement from his party’s headquarters in Athens, the capital, Mitsotakis described the results as “a strong mandate, to move more quickly along the road of major changes.”

He also said of those who had voted: “In a resounding and mature way, they put a definitive end to a traumatic cycle of toxicity that had held the country back and divided society.”

Turnout, however, was just over 52%, compared with 61% in the first elections held in May, according to preliminary results. Earlier Sunday, Greek television showed images of packed beaches following a final week of campaigning in which politicians had appealed to voters not to forsake their vote for the waves.

New Democracy won the first election in May by 20 percentage points — the largest margin in decades. But it had fallen short of the votes necessary for an absolute majority in parliament. Mitsotakis, who as prime minister had overseen a period of economic stability and tough anti-migrant measures, opted to head for a second vote conducted under a system that grants bonus seats in parliament to the winning party.

The gambit worked.

Now, with an expected solid majority in parliament, Mitsotakis will have more freedom in policymaking and will most likely spur international credit rating agencies to lift their ratings on Greece’s bonds — which have lingered in junk status — to the much-coveted investment grade, lowering the country’s borrowing costs.

Mitsotakis was brought to power in the 2019 election, when his party also won 158 seats. He served as prime minister until May this year, then stepped aside following the inconclusive vote.

He has vowed to continue focusing on

prosperity, appealing to voters who seemed to overlook revelations about the wiretapping of an opposition leader by the state intelligence service, a fatal train crash in February that killed 57 people and a catastrophic shipwreck off Greece that killed hundreds of migrants as the government was facing fierce criticism for its hard-line migration policies.

“I never promise miracles,” he said on Sunday, “but I can assure you that I will remain faithful to my duty, with planning, devotion and chiefly hard work.” He added that his second term could “transform” Greece with dynamic growth rates that would increase wages and reduce inequalities, and he vowed, “I will be the prime minister of all Greeks.”

Greece’s economy stabilized under Mitsotakis after a decadelong financial crisis that shattered Greek society and shook the eurozone. Growth this year has been twice the eurozone’s average, spurred by his government’s tax cuts, while wages and pensions have risen and large investors are again pumping money into the economy.

These achievements have reassured many Greeks who feared a return to the uncertainty and upheaval of the crisis years, analysts say.

“One should not underestimate what this economic stability and growth means in material but also in psychological terms for a country which has been on the brink of economic collapse in the previous decade,” said Lamprini Rori, a professor of political analysis at the

University of Athens.

Strengthening the country’s international image and position, and bolstering people’s sense of security and national pride, all meant a “positive calculus” for New Democracy, she said.

The center-left Syriza is led by Alexis Tsipras, under whose watch Greece came close to leaving the eurozone in 2015. Tsipras had promised justice and change, calling Mitsotakis arrogant and his government “an unaccountable regime that is a danger to society.”

On Sunday, Tsipras said the election result was chiefly negative for society and democracy. The fact that three hard-right parties were set to enter parliament, along with New Democracy, was a “warning bell,” he said.

Analysts said the opposition had trouble gaining traction amid a rejuvenated economy.

“The opposition’s narrative was ‘down with the junta’ and ‘we’ve become a banana republic,’” said Harry Papasotiriou, a professor of international relations at Panteio University in Athens. “But people saw economic growth.”

With New Democracy’s dominance pretty much undisputed, Tsipras is likely to face new questions about his future, as there is no clear potential successor to the charismatic former communist firebrand.

Syriza also had to contend with increased support for hard-left fringe parties, including Sailing for Freedom, which was formed by former Syriza official Zoe Konstantopoulou and

was poised to gain national representation for the first time. It picked up 3.1% of the vote, or eight seats.

The support for fringe parties demonstrated the failure of both the Syriza and Pasok parties to convince voters that they can offer a dynamic opposition, Rori said.

Apart from Mitsotakis’ strong showing, the small, relatively unknown party, Spartans, did surprisingly well, and appeared poised to enter parliament with 13 seats after winning 4.7% of the votes.

The party, which has a nationalist, antimigrant stance, had not registered in opinion polls until a few weeks before the elections in June, when Ilias Kasidiaris, the jailed former spokesperson of the now-defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, publicly backed it after his own party had been banned from running because of his criminal convictions.

In a televised statement, Spartans’ leader Vasilis Stingas thanked Kasidiaris for his support, which he said had been the “fuel” for the party’s success, adding, “We’re here to unite, not divide.”

Other smaller parties on track to enter parliament include the little-known ultra-Orthodox, pro-Russia, hard-right Niki party, with 10 seats. It started gaining support in the weeks before the May election.

The presence of new smaller anti-systemic parties in Greece’s next parliament will bring more voices into the chorus of criticism against Mitsotakis — but not necessarily in a productive way, according to Rori.

She remembered chaotic sessions involving Golden Dawn and Konstantopoulou, and fears a degeneration of Greece’s political opposition.

“It was all about impressions, stalemates, toxicity,” she said.

Voters seemed to embrace Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s approach to the economy and tough stance on migration, and were less concerned about revelations of spying on the opposition.

What an election surprise in Central America means for democracy

By JODY GARCÍA and SIMON ROMERO

Judges and prosecutors driven from the country. Independent news media under attack. Top presidential candidates barred from running.

Warning signs of the teetering democracy in Central America’s most populous country flashed in the weeks leading up to Guatemala’s presidential election. But the vote on Sunday delivered a seismic jolt: a candidate whose campaign centered on rooting out corruption won enough votes to force a runoff, delivering a stunning blow to the country’s political ruling class.

Bernardo Arévalo, 64, a professorial lawmaker with degrees in philosophy and anthropology, won 12% of the vote, with 98% of votes counted in Sunday’s first round, the electoral authority said Monday.

Sandra Torres, 67, a former first lady considered a standard-bearer for the conservative establishment, came in first with nearly 16% of the vote.

Torres and Arévalo were the top two finishers and will compete in a runoff on Aug. 20, despite claiming such low percentages of the vote, because many Guatemalans left their ballots blank or nullified them.

In fact, the 24% of the ballots that were blank or nullified were far higher than either candidate’s vote total. In addition, nearly 40% of voters did not take part in Sunday’s elections.

Arévalo’s surprise showing and the lack of voter participation show a high level of disenchantment with Guatemala’s political system, election analysts said. The government has come under scrutiny over increasingly authoritarian tactics that have targeted independent news media and forced into exile dozens of judges and prosecutors focused on

fighting corruption.

“We are seeing how the population expresses its fatigue with a system, with a form of politics and government,” said Edie Cux, director of Citizen Action, a nonprofit that was part of an alliance of groups that oversaw the electoral process. “The population is demanding reforms.”

Two establishment candidates who were viewed as top contenders — Edmond Mulet, a former diplomat, and Zury Ríos, a daughter of a former dictator convicted of genocide — finished in fifth and sixth place, respectively.

Before Sunday’s vote, the nation’s electoral authority had disqualified at least four candidates from running, including Carlos Pineda, a mercurial front-runner who had unsettled the political establishment, and Thelma Cabrera, an organizer trying to unify Guatemala’s long-marginalized Indigenous voters.

The campaign was dominated by a handful of recurring themes, including an increase in violent crime and economic challenges in a country with some of the highest rates of poverty and inequality in Latin America.

Torres, who was the runner-up in the two most recent presidential elections, has pledged to address the violence by emulating a strategy used in neighboring El Salvador with the goal of cracking down on gangs.

Still, it was Arévalo, often called Tío Bernie (Uncle Bernie) and a son of a president fondly remembered by many Guatemalans for creating the country’s social security system in the 1940s, who seemingly came out of nowhere to garner enough support to advance. The leadership of his party, called Semilla, or Seed, is comprised largely of urban professionals, such as university professors, engineers and owners of small businesses.

Loren Giordano, 33, a graphic designer and an entrepreneur in Guatemala City, said she voted for Arévalo because his party promotes measures that she supports, including proposed legislation to increase spending on the training of cancer specialists, equipment and medicines. But the measure failed to pass.

Still, Giordano does not have faith that Arévalo’s showing on Sunday will yield tangible improvements, even if he wins the presidency.

“I support Semilla and I think they do want to make a change, but I don’t think the system will allow it,” she said. “It seems utopian to think that we will have a candidate who is not involved in corruption and narcopolitics.”

Styling himself as a progressive social democrat, Arévalo drew attention in his cam-

paign to the legacy of his father, who was also known for promoting freedom of speech and of the press and for encouraging organized labor to play a political role in the country.

Arévalo was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family lived while his father was in exile, after his successor as president was overthrown in a coup in 1954. He grew up in parts of South America until age 15 when the family returned to Guatemala.

Arévalo, despite his unexpected performance, faces an uphill battle against Torres in the coming weeks. She has broad name recognition and is building on her time as first lady, when she was the face of popular anti-poverty programs, including food assistance and cash transfers for poor families.

Torres can also draw on the support of an establishment unlikely to upend the status quo, which is represented by President Alejandro Giammattei, who was barred by law from seeking reelection to a second term. Some other countries in the region, most notably Mexico, have similar laws.

During Giammattei’s tenure, Guatemala has shifted from being a regional model for its anti-corruption efforts to a country that, like several of its neighbors, has undermined democratic norms.

But Arévalo has also skillfully mounted an insurgent campaign, mixing the deployment of memes with serious positioning on issues like improving public health services. He has repeatedly said that he would recruit prosecutors and judges who had been forced to leave Guatemala as advisers to aid him on tackling corruption.

Some prominent establishment figures questioned Arévalo’s showing, arguing that it had less to do with his appeal than other factors.

“Polls are not credible,” Ricardo Mendez Ruiz, president of the Foundation Against Terrorism, a far-right organization that has sought to discredit anti-corruption judges and prosecutors, wrote on Twitter. “The result is the responsibility of those who encouraged nullified votes. Arévalo has to thank them more than his voters.”

Still, in a country where the winning electoral formula often includes deeppocketed campaigns, occupying significant broadcast time on national television channels and the blessings of economic elites, Arévalo had “none of those,” said Marielos Chang, a political scientist at the Universidad del Valle in Guatemala City.

“No one would have believed it when the presidential campaign began three months ago, that Bernardo Arévalo would have enough votes to advance,’’ she said.

People in line to vote in Chimaltenango, Guatemala, June 25, 2023. The election in the Central American nation is marked by the exclusion of top candidates and calls to crack down on violent crime.

The age of spectacle is upon us

By DAVID BROOKS

If I walked onto the field at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and stomped on a Dodger’s uniform on home plate, I hope that the Dodgers and their fans would be upset. This is the jersey that Jackie Robinson wore, along with Dodgers legends like Sandy Koufax, Orel Hershiser, Tommy Lasorda and Roy Campanella. You don’t dishonor other people’s uniforms. In a pluralistic society, decent people don’t dishonor what others find sacred.

This is one reason I think the Dodgers erred in honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence last Friday.

As you might have read, the Sisters are a group of LGBTQ activists who have provided invaluable services to those in their community, especially during the AIDS crisis, but who also dress up as over-the-top nuns, adopt names like Sister Mysteria of the Holy Order of the Broken Hymen or Sister Sermonetta of the Flying Phallus, and who have been known to mock the crucifixion by hosting a re-enactment of it as a pole dance.

They are justified in protesting a church whose teaching doesn’t acknowledge their right to be who they are, but they do it in a way that dishonors the nuns who live in poverty serving the poor. They do it in a sophomoric way designed to cause offense. In a healthy society, we try to assert differences without demeaning one another’s identities.

Besides, the Sisters’ methods are counterproductive. LGBTQ rights have progressed so far over the past decade or

so because members of those communities have displayed their own dignity, not because they’ve denigrated the dignity of others.

The Dodgers were wrong to honor a group that dishonors other people’s uniforms, and the sacred commitments those uniforms represent. But that’s not my real beef with the Dodgers. My real beef is that they should be in the baseball business, not the culture war business. When they cross that boundary, they are eroding something fundamental to a healthy society.

In a healthy society, the early-20th-century Dutch prime minister and theologian Abraham Kuyper observed, there are a variety of spheres, each with its own social function. There is the state, the church, the family, the schools, science, business, the trades, etc. Each of these spheres, he continued, has its own rules and possesses its own integrity and correct way of doing things. Each sphere is a responsible zone of flourishing. You can clarify what any particular sphere’s responsibility is by asking questions like: What is a school for? What is a science lab for? What is a baseball team for?

Society grows unhealthy, Kuyper argued, when one sphere tries to take over another sphere. In our country, the business sphere has sometimes tried to take over the education sphere — to run schools like a business. But if you run a school or university on the profit-maximization mentality, you will trample over the mission of what a school is for — the cultivation of the student, the mission of pure research.

Today, the boundaries between spheres are collapsing. You go into an evangelical megachurch and it can feel like a political pep rally. Some professors now see themselves as political activists. You open your email and find corporations taking political stances on issues that have nothing to do with their core businesses.

Some days it seems every sphere has been subsumed into one giant culture war, producing what Yuval Levin described in Comment magazine as “a vast sociopolitical psychosis.”

I’d add only that it’s not just politics that has taken over everything — at least if you think about politics as arguing over policy. It’s more accurate to say that it’s politics as spectacle that has taken over everything.

Spectacle is the sphere that achieves public titillation through public combat. In Rome, gladiatorial combat was spectacle. Professional wrestling is spectacle. Reality TV is spectacle. Donald Trump — the love child of professional wrestling and

reality TV — is spectacle. Tucker Carlson presented TV news as spectacle. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence perform activism in the form of spectacle.

The point of spectacle is not to resolve differences; it is to attract attention. In spectacle you thrive by offending people. Narcissism is rewarded, humility is forbidden. Inflaming hatred is part of the business plan.

Baseball exists in the sphere of sport, but not spectacle. Players compete to thrill the fans and honor the game, not to humiliate or offend their opponents. Baseball is woven into so many of our lives because it is that sphere where childhood dreams play out and lifetime memories are made, where communities come together in triumph and disappointment.

When the Dodgers embraced the culture war spectacle, even just a little, they eroded the integrity of their sphere. Personally, I think it’s great for teams to honor groups in their fan base, as with Pride Night or Hispanic Heritage Night; but I think it’s wrong for teams to honor organizations that ridicule other groups in their fan base.

It’s a reminder for the rest of us. We’re each entrusted to guard one sphere or another, a trust we violate when we become the brothers and sisters in culture war displays of perpetual self-indulgence.

Panel sobre el FEI no investigará al exsecretario del DRNA Rafael Machargo

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SAN JUAN – El exsecretario del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA), Rafael Machargo Maldonado, no será investigado por un Fiscal Especial Independiente, luego de que el Panel determinará este lunes, que no existe el quantum de prueba suficiente para proceder con una pesquisa a fondo.

El Panel sobre el Fiscal Especial Independiente (PFEI) tomó su decisión al coincidir con la recomendación del Secretario de Justicia, Domingo Emanuelli, de no nombrar un FEI en este asunto.

El caso se inició con un referido al Departamento de Justicia (DJPR) relacionado con un Primer Informe Parcial de la Cámara de Representantes (R. de la C. 150) de 2 de septiembre de 2021.

Precisa la comunicación que en dicho informe se señalaron tres hallazgos como resultado de vistas públicas celebradas y de los documentos sometidos

ante la Comisión. Esto, para investigar un permiso de construcción otorgado para unas instalaciones recreativas cercanas a la zona marítimo terrestre en el Condominio Sol y Playa, en Rincón.

El Secretario de Justicia refirió el asunto a la División de Integridad Pública y Asuntos del Contralor (DIPAC), quien realizó una investigación preliminar.

Surge de los hechos que dan lugar a la investigación cameral que el 17 de mayo de 2021, se presentó una moción de impugnación de deslinde ante el DRNA. La misma fue suscrita por el licenciado José Barea Fernández, titular en el condominio Sol y Playa. En ésta se solicitaba que se dejara sin efecto la determinación emitida por el DRNA.

El informe de investigación de la DIPAC, indica que el licenciado José Báez Martínez Radío, abogado III adscrito al DRNA, investigó las alegaciones relacionadas con la referida impugnación de deslinde. Éste recomendó varias medidas cautelares, incluyendo la protección del carey, y destacó que

Caleb Tirado oficializa el bronce en los 57 kilos

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en el lugar propuesto para la construcción de instalaciones había anidado un ejemplar de tortuga marina.

El informe de investigación preliminar presenta un amplio análisis del Derecho aplicable, particularmente de los artículos 298, 281 y 283 del Código Penal.

Como parte de esa evaluación, se tomó en consideración una serie de hechos y acciones y se entrevistaron varias personas y funcionarios.

Entre sus conclusiones el informe expone que el licenciado Machargo Maldonado compareció a todas las vistas a las que fue invitado, sin reparo alguno para ofrecer sus declaraciones. Sobre los requerimientos escritos referidos a su atención, su ayudante el licenciado Acosta, envió una comunicación al presidente de la Comisión de Recursos Naturales, en la expuso las razones por las cuales no podían producirse los documentos y otra evidencia solicitada por la Comisión.

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AN SALVADOR, El Salvador – El arecibeño Caleb Tirado oficializó la primera medalla de bronce para la Delegación de Puerto Rico en boxeo, en los 57 kilos.

“Mi oponente es sumamente experimentado como yo. Y, de verdad fue un placer un excelente combate, incluso me sentí ganar en un momento. Luego veré la pelea. De verdad, me siento súper bien de representar a la isla”, expresó a su salida del cuadrilátero, Turabo.

El boricua se quedó con el bronce al caer por decisión unánime ante el venezolano, Yoel Finol. Fue en el primer asalto, que el boricua estuvo ganándole a su oponente con velocidad y agilidad. Sin embar-

go, el segundo y tercer “round” fueron para el venezolano que lució fresco, rápido y con marcados golpes hacia Tirado.

“Quiero que cada compañero se acuerde de porque están peleándose, para que eso le dé la gasolina extra para poder esa medalla que tanto Puerto Rico necesita”, dijo el púgil debutante en los Juegos San Salvador 2023.

Puerto Rico tendrá esta noche en cartelera a la medallista de bronce en Barranquilla 2018, Stephanie Piñeiro ante la venezolana Juliannys Álvarez en los 66 kilos; la campeona de Barranquilla 2018, Ashleyann Lozada, en la división 57 kilos contra la dominicana Miguelina Hernández; y, la pugilista Krystal Rosado versus Aylin Jamez, que compite por Centro Caribe Sports (Guatemala), en los 50 kilos.

Kidaisha López alzada de bronce en levantamiento de pesas

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – La carolinense Kidaisha López ganó bronce en la división de los 71 kilos el torneo de levantamiento de pesas de los XXIV Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe San Salvador 2023.

“Le medalla para mí significa sacrificio. Todos los atletas nos sacrificamos por tener una medalla. Es algo que ya, yo sabía que iba a pasar. Es una misión cumplida. Realmente es un orgullo, tener una medalla para el país, Significa demasiado por el deporte, por el país”, dijo la levantadora de pesas que irá en septiembre al Mundial de Levantamiento de Pesas.

La atleta completó su meta medallista con 94 kilos, en la modalidad de arranque para llegar en tercer lugar. En envión finalizó en la cuarta posición con 116 kilos.

“Es impresionante. Todavía no tengo las emociones a flor de piel. Es muy emocionante. Tan pronto hice la alzada que se sabía que era medalla. Es una sensación que al fin lo logré. Al fondo, yo lo sabía”, dijo repetidamente López.

Esta es la segunda medalla que otorga levantamiento de pesas a la Delegación de Puerto Rico. La primera de ella fue de Howard Roche en los 55 kilos. Ambas de bronce.

At attractions about the Titanic, pondering the fate of the Titan

By CHRISTOPHER KUO

Jo-B Sebastian had just entered an exhibit about the Titanic and its more than 1,500 lost passengers when a friend received a news alert on his smartwatch Thursday afternoon: the five people whose submersible had gone missing during a deep dive to explore the Titanic’s wreckage had been declared dead.

“It just felt so eerie to be like we added five more to the tally,” said Sebastian, a 34-year-old musician who lives in New York City, as he took in “Titanic: The Exhibition,” in New York.

Ever since the submersible, the Titan, disappeared in the ocean depths last Sunday, its fate had riveted the world. Many were fascinated by the search and rescue efforts, hoping the missing explorers would be found alive. Others wondered why wealthy people would spend so much money on a dangerous tour of a disaster site. And others were drawn by its connection to the Titanic, whose sinking in 1912 remains one of the most famous maritime disasters in history, still the subject of films, exhibits and shows.

“It kind of feels like a perfect storm,” Sebastian said as he toured the exhibit, which he had bought advance tickets for, before the Titan went missing, as a surprise birthday gift for his friend Stefan Hut, an economist.

The final room of the exhibit featured a row of three screens displaying watery footage of the wreck that had been filmed by OceanGate, the company that operated the Titan, and whose founder and CEO Stockton Rush was among those who died.

Peter Lazard, a 61-year-old consultant from South Africa, sat watching the footage.

“The irony is now you’ve seen what these people were trying to see,” he said. “We’re sitting safely watching this and these people died to see what we’ve seen.”

The deadly implosion of the Titan posed a question for “Titanique,” a campy Celine Dion-heavy retelling of James Cameron’s blockbuster film “Titanic” that is playing at the Daryl Roth Theater at

Union Square: should the jokey show go on, given the new disaster?

Avionce Hoyles, who plays the Iceberg in the show, said the cast held a prayer circle before the Thursday evening performance, praying for the families of the lost submersible passengers.

“We asked that we could bring the audience joy, and hopefully we did that,” Hoyles said. “This show produces medicine and our medicine is laughter.”

There was concern that the audien-

ce would be distracted by the tragedy of the missing Titan. But they decided it felt right to continue with the show.

In the audience that night was Kevin O’Lear, a 30-year-old restaurant host from North Carolina, who, when he heard about the missing submarine, was struck by how history seemed to be turning in on itself.

“There’s this tragedy with these people who just happen to be exploring the site of this other tragedy that happe-

ned over 100 years ago,” he said.

O’Lear had been following the many memes proliferating online about the missing Titan, including some which irreverently mocked the wealthy victims. And it made him consider how people would respond to the loss of the Titanic now.

“I feel like if the Titanic sink happened today, I feel like this is the exact same reaction people would have,” O’Lear said. “They’d be making jokes about sticking it to the billionaires, the one percenters.”

For Sebastian, the fate of the Titan served as another reminder of how human life could be cut short by the ocean.

“When I first heard about it, the thing that really stuck in my mind is, I could never even imagine being stuck in the small little thing at the bottom of the ocean waiting to die,” he said, recalling the early reports, before the U.S. Coast Guard said that evidence of a “catastrophic implosion” had been found. “I feel like the stories that really resonate and have stood the test of time are ones that show that wasted life, what could have been.”

The sinking of the Titanic continues to be explored in exhibitions, shows and films, but those who went to experience them this week had a new tragedy on their minds.

Kennedy Center honorees include standouts of hip-hop, pop and opera

By CHRISTOPHER KUO

Queen Latifah was in her dressing room on the set of the TV drama “The Equalizer” in Brooklyn when she heard the news: she had been chosen as a Kennedy Center honoree.

“I was just in shock for a second,” she said in an interview. “I just sat there and looked out the window at New York City and thought, ‘Wow, can you believe this?’”

Billy Crystal was also caught off-guard when he got the call. “When they said, ‘Hold on, we want to talk to you,’ I said, ‘Oh, am I being audited?’” he recalled.

They will receive the 46th Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievement on Dec. 3 with Grammy-winning singer Dionne Warwick, soprano Renée Fleming and pop singersongwriter Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees.

Queen Latifah, who is only the second hiphop artist to be named an honoree (LL Cool J was honored in 2017), called the accolade an overdue celebration of hip-hop’s contribution to the arts in America. This year’s gala — which typically draws the president and other leading officials — coincides with hip-hop’s 50th anniversary.

“It will allow us a moment to be part of the fabric of America, which is really what we are,” she said. “It will be one night where the people who are in the highest offices in the most powerful nation in the world will honor hip-hop music and one of its daughters.”

The Kennedy Center Honors will be broadcast at a later date by CBS and hosted by Gloria Estefan.

Crystal, the Tony- and Emmy-winning comedian and actor who was a cast member of Saturday Night Live and starred in films including “When Harry Met Sally” and “City Slickers,” said in an interview that he began tearing up when he learned he had been selected as an honoree.

Images from his long career raced through his head: of telling jokes to his parents as a kid, of early gigs as a stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village, of the nine times he hosted the Academy Awards.

“I just thought of all the people I worked with, all the frustrations and ups and downs and middles,” he said. “And it’s all condensed into hearing them saying you are one of the honorees.”

Warwick, who captivated millions with hit songs including “Don’t Make Me Over,” “Walk On By” and “I’ll Never Love This Way Again,” said it was “about time” the Kennedy Center gave her this honor for a lifetime of singing.

“I’ve earned it,” she said. She added that singing “is the gift God gave me, and I’m using it the way he wants me to use it and also the way people want me to use it.”

Fleming, who has sung at the Metropolitan Opera and the world’s leading opera houses and concert halls, as well as at Buckingham Palace, the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony and the Super Bowl, said she was driving back from a shopping trip to Lowe’s when she heard the news that she had been chosen to be honored. She quickly pulled over.

“It’s something you always dream about,” she said.

Gibb, the only surviving member of the Bee Gees, which he formed with his two brothers, said he never imagined he would be an honoree.

The award made him think of his brothers; he recalled telling them when he was 8 years old that he wanted to be a pop star.

“I remember on the street corner telling them that was what I wanted to do, and they said, ‘Oh, can we be pop stars too?’” he recalled. “It was a very simple childish conversation. And that was the decision. That was the turning point for us. We would do it together.

“I wish they were here,” he said, “so they could share this.”

Queen Latifah is one of the latest Kennedy Center honorees.

Billy Crystal said he was caught him off guard when he got the call. “When they said, ‘Hold on we want to talk to you,’ I said, ‘Oh, am I being audited?’ ”

The Grand Canyon, a cathedral to time, is losing its river

By RAYMOND ZHONG

Down beneath the tourist lodges and shops selling keychains and incense, past windswept arroyos and brown valleys speckled with agave, juniper and sagebrush, the rocks of the Grand Canyon seem untethered from time. The oldest ones date back 1.8 billion years, not just eons before humans laid eyes on them, but eons before evolution endowed any organism on this planet with eyes.

Spend long enough in the canyon, and you might start feeling a little unmoored from time yourself. The immense walls form a kind of cocoon, sealing you off from the modern world, with its cell signal and light pollution and disappointments. They draw your eyes relentlessly upward, as in a cathedral.

You might think you are seeing all the way to the top. But up and above are more walls, and above them even more, out of sight except for the occasional glimpse. For the canyon is not just deep. It is broad, too — 18 miles, rim to rim, at its widest. This is no mere cathedral of stone. It is a kingdom: sprawling, selfcontained, an alternate reality existing magnificently outside of our own.

And yet, the Grand Canyon remains yoked to the present in one key respect. The Colorado River, whose wild energy incised the canyon over millions of years, is in crisis.

As the planet warms, low snow is starving the river at its headwaters in the Rockies, and higher temperatures are pilfering more of it through evaporation. The seven states that draw on the river are using just about every drop it can provide, and while a wet winter and a recent deal between states have staved off its collapse for now, its long-term health remains in deep doubt.

The Colorado flows so far beneath the Grand Canyon’s rim that many of the 4 million people who visit the national park each year see it only as a faint thread, glinting in the distance. But the river’s fate matters profoundly for the 280-mile-long canyon and the way future generations will experience it. Our subjugation of the Colorado has already set in motion sweeping shifts to the canyon’s ecosystems and landscapes — shifts that a group of scientists and graduate students from the University of California, Davis, recently set out to see by raft: a slow trip through deep time, at a moment when Earth’s clock seems to be speeding up.

John Weisheit, who helps lead the conservation group Living Rivers, has been rafting on the Colorado for over four decades. Seeing

how much the canyon has changed, just in his lifetime, makes him “hugely depressed,” he said. “You know how you feel like when you go to the cemetery? That’s how I feel.”

Still, every year or so, he comes. “Because you need to see an old friend.”

Eras and epochs ago, this place was a tropical sea, with tentacled, snaillike creatures stalking prey beneath its waves. Then it was a vast sandy desert. Then a sea once again.

At some point, energy from deep inside the Earth started thrusting a huge section of crust skyward and into the path of ancient rivers that crisscrossed the terrain. For tens of millions of years, the crust pushed up and the rivers rolled down, grinding away at the landscape, up, down, up, down. A chasm was cleaved open, which the meandering water joined over time with other canyons, making one. Weather, gravity and plate tectonics warped and sculpted the exposed layers of surrounding stone into fluid, fantastical forms.

The Grand Canyon is a planetary spectacle like none other — one that also happens to host a river that 40 million people rely on for water and power. And the event that crystallized this odd, uneasy duality — that changed nearly everything for the canyon — feels almost small compared with all the geologic upheavals that took place before it: the pouring, 15 miles upstream, of a wall of concrete.

Since 1963, the Glen Canyon Dam has been backing up the Colorado for nearly 200

miles, in the form of America’s second-largest reservoir, Lake Powell. Engineers constantly evaluate water and electricity needs to decide how much of the river to let through the dam’s works and out the other end, first into the Grand Canyon, then into Lake Mead and, eventually, into fields and homes in Arizona, California, Nevada and Mexico.

The dam processes the Colorado’s mercurial flows — a trickle one year and a roaring, spiteful surge the next — into something less extreme on both ends. But for the canyon, regulating the river has come with big environmental costs. And, as the water keeps dwindling, plundered by drought and overuse, these costs could rise.

As recently as a few months ago, the water in Lake Powell was so low that there almost wasn’t enough to turn the dam’s turbines. If it fell past that level in the coming years — and there is every indication that it could — power generation would cease, and the only way water would be released from the dam is through four pipes that sit closer to the bottom of the lake. As the reservoir declined further, the amount of pressure pushing water through these pipes would diminish, meaning smaller and smaller amounts could be discharged out the other end.

If the water dropped much more beyond that, the pipes would begin sucking air, and in time Powell would be at “dead pool”: Not a drop would pass through the dam until and unless the water reached the pipes again.

With these doubts about the Colorado’s future in mind, the UC Davis scientists rigged up electric-blue inflatable rafts on a cool spring morning. At Mile 0 of the Grand Canyon, the river is running at around 7,000 cubic feet per second, rising toward 9,000 — not the lowest flows on record, but far from the highest.

The big problem with low water in the canyon, the one that compounds all others, is that things stop moving. The Colorado is a sort of circulatory system. Its flows carved the canyon but also sustain it, making it amenable to plants, wildlife and boaters. To understand what’s happened since the dam started regulating the river, first consider the smallest things that its water moves, or fails to move.

The Colorado picks up immense amounts of sand and silt charging down the Rockies, but the dam stops basically all of it from continuing into the Grand Canyon. Downstream tributaries, including the Paria and Little Colorado, add some sediment to the river, but not nearly as much as gets trapped in Lake Powell. Plus, when river flows are weak, more sediment settles on the riverbed.

The result is that the canyon’s sandy beaches, where animals live and boaters camp at night, are shrinking. Beaches that were once as wide as freeways are today more like twolane roads. Others are even scrawnier.

Besides sand, the Colorado is failing to move larger objects in the canyon. Cobbles and boulders periodically tumble in from hundreds of tributaries and side canyons, often during flash floods, creating bends and rapids in the river. With fewer strong flows to whisk this debris away, more of it is piling up at those bends and rapids. This has made many rapids steeper and narrowed boaters’ paths for navigating them.

It’s the UC Davis scientists’ sixth night on the Colorado, and the graduate students sit in camp chairs chewing over what they’ve seen. They are preparing for careers as academics and experts and policymakers, people who will shape how we live with the environmental fallout of past choices. Choices like damming rivers.

Yara Pasner, a doctoral student in hydrology, says she feels a duty to make sure the load on future generations is lessened, even if, or perhaps because, our forebears didn’t do us that courtesy. “There’s been a mentality that we will mess this up and the future generation will have more tools to fix this.” Instead, she says, we’ve found that the consequences of many past decisions are harder to cope with than expected.

As the planet warms, low snow is starving the Colorado River at its headwaters in the Rockies, and higher temperatures are pilfering more of it through evaporation.

A 20-minute boxing workout to build strength and endurance

By RACHEL FAIRBANK

Walking into a boxing gym can be an assault on the senses, whether it’s the ringing of a bell, the smell of accumulated sweat or the quick rat-a-tat of the speed bag.

But if you stay for a while, you’ll find that boxing provides one of the most complete workouts available, blending full-body strength training and cardiovascular endurance with exercises designed to improve balance, coordination and reflexes. A boxing workout can help strengthen your back, stabilize your shoulder muscles and even work parts of your legs you didn’t know you had. It will challenge you mentally and physically, while also fortifying your body against injury.

“Boxing workouts will keep you sharp,” said Dwight Pratchett, a boxing coach at Main Street Boxing and Muay Thai in Houston. And you don’t have to actually hit anything (or risk getting hit) to reap the many benefits of boxing — though walloping the heavy bag will certainly release any pent-up stress.

Even without access to a gym, you can still incorporate boxing into your regular workout routine, with minimal equipment required.

Why learn to box?

It’s no secret that boxing workouts can be incredibly challenging. Boxing consistently ranks as one of the toughest sports, requiring a high level of agility, speed, strength, endurance and technical skill. The traditional boxing workout has been crafted over centuries to prepare boxers for the rigors of a fight, with the goal of making them as fast and strong as they can be.

But what many don’t realize is that boxing workouts also help nonboxers improve balance and coordination. Compared with, say, running, boxing is lowimpact and requires a greater range of lower body movement, which develops strength and mobility. That makes it a healthy routine to mix into your weekly exercise.

How to get started

A traditional boxing workout typically starts with jump rope and shadowboxing, followed by exercises that use the heavy bag, double-end bag and speed bag; it ends with body-weight exercises. Workouts are often paced in rounds, with three minutes of work followed by one minute of rest, a rhythm that lends itself naturally to high-intensity interval training.

Getting started can be as simple as shadowboxing at home alongside body-weight exercises. There are a number of at-home resources available, including digital classes such as Title Boxing, BoxUnion and Gloveworx. A jump rope and mat are good initial investments that can later be combined with a heavy bag if you find you like boxing. For a more comprehensive at-home

setup, FightCamp provides a heavy bag, a punch tracker, gloves, wraps and online boxing classes.

How to stand

The power from a punch is generated in the lower body and transmitted through the midsection to the arms, working the lower body, core, back muscles and shoulders, in addition to the arms. “Boxing is a sport that really starts from the ground up,” said Justin Blackwell, a Title Boxing coach based in the Los Angeles area.

But this starts with a proper stance. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, with your lead shoulder facing your opponent (or a mirror), and with both knees bent. Your center of gravity should be just slightly toward your back leg, almost as if you are leaning against the edge of a bar stool.

“If you’re not in that proper stance, you’re going to feel off-balance,” Pratchett said. If you are right-handed, your left hand will serve as your lead hand, with your right leg in back; for lefties, it’s the opposite.

Your fists should be positioned against your face, with your lead hand touching your cheekbone on that side and your back hand positioned against your jaw on the other. Your chin should be tucked downward, with your eyes facing forward. Your elbows should be tucked in against your side. This is your stable boxing foundation — return to it after each combination of punches.

How

to punch

There are six major punches: jab, cross, left and right hooks, and left and right uppercuts. Many gyms label these punches one through six, in that order. For each, notice how your lower body moves with your hands, using the back foot to push yourself forward while punching, or your lead foot to push yourself backward, while maintaining an equal distance between the lead and rear feet. This is known as footwork, and is one

of the most important aspects of good boxing.

— To throw a jab, extend your left hand in a quick snapping motion, fully extending the arm and then bringing the hand back to its place against your cheekbone. Once you’ve mastered the jab while standing, add in movement, forward or backward, while punching.

— For the cross, extend your right hand in a similar quick, smooth motion, twisting the body as you do so until the arm is fully straight. The power of a cross is generated from twisting the back foot and midsection. After the punch, bring your hand back against the lower jaw and return your body to a stable stance.

— When throwing a hook, lead with the fist in an out-and-forward motion at an opponent’s head, with the thumb pointing upward. For the left hook, lead with the left hand, with the elbow following and the left knee turning inward, while lifting the heel of the foot. For the right hook, twist the right knee inward.

— The uppercut is a quick up-and-out motion aimed at either an opponent’s jaw or sternum. Bring the fist out, away from the body, and up, toward the bottom of the jaw, aiming it at a spot that mirrors the midsection of your body. The knee and torso should move slightly inward, toward the center of the body, the heel lifting slightly.

Sample workout

Once you get your punches down, try this workout. Be sure to maintain a good stance and keep your hands up at all times. Your first time boxing can be surprisingly tiring, so go at your own pace, taking care to maintain good form. Each round should last three minutes, followed by a one-minute rest.

And don’t forget to put on some music that pumps you up. If you have the energy, try the boxer skip instead of a rest.

Round 1: Jump rope.

If you don’t have one, try jumping jacks, high knees or the boxer skip. The point is to build lower body agility and speed.

Round 2: Jab/cross.

Work on throwing jabs, either singly or doubly, adding in crosses after the jabs. Alternate between slow, powerful punches and quick, sharp ones.

Round 3: Jab/cross and hooks.

Use three- or four-punch combinations, in which a jab/cross is followed by hooks. You can use a left hook, a right one, or both. Again, alternate between fast punches, thrown with little force, and slow punches, thrown with as much power as you can muster.

Round 4: Jab/cross and uppercuts.

Use four-punch combinations, in which a jab/ cross is followed by left and right uppercuts, just like the hooks in Round Three. You can use a left uppercut, a right one or both.

Shadowboxing in New York, June 2023. One short workout can help you build fitness, achieve better balance and even ward off injuries. No punching bag needed.

Meatballs in tomato sauce get a little lighter

Italian American territory. No one will mistake this zesty, light dish for the heartier traditional version.

Meatballs are flexible by definition, and these are no exception. You can use any kind of ground meat here: pork, turkey, beef, chicken, lamb, vegan meat. Just try not to roll the balls too tightly. Leaving some air in the mix is one key to a buoyant texture. The other is using panko breadcrumbs, which have a light, feathery texture that contributes to their delicacy.

I love these meatballs served over rice or with crusty bread to catch the zippy sauce. But, then again, a little spaghetti never did a plate of meatballs any harm.

1 teaspoon ground cumin, more for serving

1 teaspoon fine sea or table salt, more as needed

1/2 teaspoon ground coriander

1 pound ground pork (or turkey, chicken, beef, lamb or vegan meat)

1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs (or use plain)

2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro leaves and tender stems, more for serving

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

2 cups diced fresh ripe or overripe tomatoes

1 teaspoon fish sauce or soy sauce

4 scallions, thinly sliced

1 lime, halved

Preparation

By MELISSA CLARK

Meatballs in tomato sauce are a comforting thing, a ruddy, garlicky Italian American classic meant to be nestled on a pile of spaghetti and showered in cheese.

This dish is not that.

True, it has meatballs, assertively flavored with garlic and browned in hot oil. And yes, they finish cooking in a savory, brick-red tomato sauce. But that’s where the similarities end. Because these are summer meatballs.

The traditional dish, to my mind, is an ideal winter companion. A cozy mix of canned tomatoes and olive oil bubbling leisurely on the stove, it’s perfect to sit close by when it’s chilly out, as warming as a woolly turtleneck.

Think of this version as meatballs all decked out in their resort wear. Made from

fresh summer tomatoes that are only briefly cooked, the sauce stays juicy and bright — and making it won’t heat up your kitchen. What the dish loses in long-cooked marinara richness, it more than makes up for in sweetness, tang and a fragrant touch of spice. The sweetness comes from seasonal tomatoes so ripe they threaten to burst in your bag on the way home from the market. But you could just as easily use those overripe tomatoes weeping discreetly on your countertop. Because the sauce is cooked so quickly, thin-skinned beefsteaks and heirlooms work better than dense grape and plum tomatoes, which take longer to break down. If you can get a mix of yellow, red and purple tomatoes, your sauce will be pretty, too.

There’s garlic in the meatballs, but not in the sauce, where I substitute grated ginger for a sharper pungency. There’s also cumin, cilantro and lime juice, taking this far out of

Gingery meatballs in tomato sauce

Most meatballs in tomato sauce rely on canned tomatoes for the kind of heady, garlicky recipe that’s typically spooned over spaghetti. But this recipe is made from briefly cooked fresh tomatoes for something lighter and brighter, seasoned with ginger, cilantro, lime juice and a dusting of cumin. It’s a perfect place to use up those overripe summer tomatoes, and it works well with just-ripe tomatoes, too. Feel free to use any kind of ground meat here: pork, beef, turkey, chicken, lamb or vegan meat. Then, serve it with crusty bread or rice to catch all of the zippy, fragrant sauce.

Yield: 4 servings

Total time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

2 tablespoons finely grated or minced fresh ginger

3 garlic cloves, finely grated or minced

1. In a large bowl, mix together 1 tablespoon ginger, the garlic, cumin, salt and coriander. Add pork, panko and cilantro. Using your hands, gently mix everything together, making sure not to overwork the mixture. (Otherwise, the meatballs get tough.) Form into 1 1/4-inch balls.

2. Heat a large skillet over mediumhigh, then add the oil and let it heat up until it thins out. Add meatballs in one layer. Cook, turning and shaking the pan, until meatballs are browned all over, 5 to 7 minutes.

3. Move meatballs to one side of the pan, scraping up any browned bits. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon ginger to the empty side of the pan and sauté for 1 minute. Add tomatoes, fish sauce and a pinch of salt to the empty side of the pan. When tomatoes are simmering, cover the pan, lower the heat to medium, and let cook until the meatballs are no longer pink at the center, about 5 to 8 minutes longer.

4. Uncover the pan. Mix the scallions into the sauce. Squeeze lime juice all over everything, then stir together. Taste, and add salt and lime juice as needed. Serve the meatballs sprinkled with more cumin and topped with cilantro.

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Yo, ALG. HUGO BASCÓ MEDINA, PLACA #807, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:40 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Guay-

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10:40 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la URBANIZACIÓN TINTILLO GARDENS, situado en el Barrio Juan Domingo de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, descrito en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el No. 16 de la manzana “E”, con un área superficial de 563.577 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con “Camp Buchanan”, en una distancia de 19.389 metros; por el Sur, con la Calle No. 8, en una distancia de 15.241 metros; por el Este, con el solar E-17, en una distancia de 31.289 metros; y por el Oeste, con el solar E-15, en una distancia de 34.840 metros. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado, diseñada para una familia. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 129 del tomo 1251 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo, finca número 14186, inscripción 8ª y 10ª. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 8va., en cuanto a que se cancela parcialmente por la suma de $37,000.00, para un nuevo principal que será por $265,000.00 y el interés que será al 4.625% anual, vencedero el día 1ro. de diciembre de 2044, según la escritura número 209, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de noviembre de 2014, ante el Notario Público Francisco J. Del Valle Torres, inscrita al folio 66 del tomo 1517 de Guaynabo, finca 14,186, inscripción 10ma. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Tintillo Gardens, Calle 8, E-16, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $245,401.16 de principal, intereses al 4.625% anual desde el 1ro. de abril de 2019, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $26,500.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $265,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $176,666.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad

del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $132,500.00. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta 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. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública Subasta se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma principal de $87,224.93, contra María E. Álvarez Torres, seguro social número xxx-xx--2065, según Embargo número BAY18-2065, Certificación de fecha 12 de octubre de 2018, presentado y anotado el día 12 de octubre de 2018, al Asiento 2018-008424-EST del Sistema Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma principal de $19,024.70, contra Jaime Acosta Lezcano, seguro social número xxx-xx--8871, según Embargo número GUA22-0056, Certificación de fecha 14 de octubre de 2021, presentado y anotado el día 14 de octubre de 2021, al Asiento 2021-007148-EST del Sistema Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma principal de $10,805.96, contra Jaime A. Acosta Lezcano, seguro social número xxx-xx--8871, según Embargo número GUA22-0403, presentado el día 11 de julio de 2022, anotado al Asiento 2022-006554-EST del Sistema Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas.

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Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 2 de julio de 1998, Carmen Vázquez Ortiz, soltera, constituyó una hipoteca en San Juan, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 1327 autorizada por la notario Yvonne Vergne López en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo testimonio número 5336 por la suma de $60,000.00, a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, devengando intereses al 10½% anual y vencedero el 1ro de agosto de 2013, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Park Gardens, en el barrio Sabana Llana de Río Piedras término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, marcado con el doce (12) de la manzana “D” del plano de inscripción con un

área de 557.36 metros cuadrados, en lindes al NORTE, en 15.36 metros con la calle 7-A; al SUR, en 24.31 metros con solar 10-D; al ESTE, en 29.49 metros con el solar 11-D y al OESTE, en 28.10 metros con el solar 13-D. Enclava edificación. Inscrita al folio 160 del tomo 403 de Sabana Llana, Finca 17240, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 1 tomo 905 de Sabana Llana, Finca 17240, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Inscripción séptima. La parte demandada 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. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 14 de junio de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ENID DÍAZ RÍOS, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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POR: BILLY’ S KARLS

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DE HACIENDA; DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA

Demandado

Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV01689.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S.

A: BILLY’S KARLS PESANTE RECIO Y CRISTÓBAL JESÚS

PESANTE RECIO. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 00936-6603. Tel. (787) 9190073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 02 de junio de 2023. LIC. NOR-

MA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. JOSSE BOBÉ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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PERALTA GONZALEZ

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SS2023CV00386.

Sobre: DESAHUCIO Y SOLICITUD DE ORDEN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

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POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a:

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LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 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 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. Se le apercibe que si dejara de presentar una alegación responsiva dentro del referido término se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediendo el remedio so licitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO

BAJO MI FIRMA Y CON EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, hoy día 20 de junio de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR

DDR ESCORIAL LLC, S.E.

Demandante V.

FIVESTAR ENTERPRISE

T.A LLC H/N/C BOOST MOBILE

Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV04111. (802). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO A TENOR CON LA REGLA 60 DE PROCEDIMIENTO

CIVIL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR

EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO

LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: FIVESTAR ENTERPRISE T.A LLC

H/N/C BOOST MOBILE.

DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA:

904 CALLE MARTI SUITE

A2, SAN JUAN, PR 00907.

Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su con-

tra una Demanda de Cobro de Dinero a tenor con la Regla 60 de Procedimiento Civil. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a:

Lcdo. Roberto A. Cámara Fuertes

R.U.A. Núm. 13,556

Email: rcamara@ferraiuoli.com

Lcda. Elizabeth

Villagrasa Flores

R.U.A. Núm. 16,877

Email: evillagrasa@ferraiuoli.com

FERRAIUOLI, LLC

P.O. Box 195168

San Juan, PR 00919-5168

Te!: 787-766-7000

Abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto Usted deberá presentar alegación responsiva a través del Sistema

Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 16 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JACKELINE ESQUILÍN LUGO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs ALBA CLARISSA

MARTINEZ MAUROSA

Demandado

Civil Núm.: GR2022CV00305.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ALBA CLARISSA

MARTINEZ MAUROSA.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 de mayo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re-

solución, 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 20 de junio de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 20 de junio de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC

Demandante V.

ANA LIDIA VELEZ RIVERA

T/C/C ANA LYDIA VELEZ

RIVERA T/C/C ANA L. VELEZ RIVERA T/C/C ANA

VELEZ RIVERA T/C/C ANA

LIDIA VELEZ T/C/C ANA

LYDIA VELEZ T/C/C LYDIA

VELEZ RIVERA T/C/C ANA

L. VELEZ T/C/C LYDIA

VELEZ RIVERA T/C/C ANA L. VELEZ T/C/C

LYDIA VELEZ; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandado(a)

Civil: FA2023CV00135. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ANA LIDIA VELEZ

RIVERA T/C/C ANA LYDIA

VELEZ RIVERA T/C/C ANA

L. VELEZ RIVERA T/C/C ANA VELEZ RIVERA T/C/C ANA LIDIA VELEZ T/C/C ANA LYDIA VELEZ T/C/C

LYDIA VELEZ EIVERA

T/C/C ANA L. VELEZ T/C/C

LYDIA VELEZ T/C/C ANA

VELEZ. 711 STONEWALL LN, HAINES CITY FL 33844 Y/O COMUNIDAD ESPANTA SUEÑO, 2-A CALLE 17, FAJARDO PR 00738.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el16 de junio de 2023, esteTribunal 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 2023. En FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, el 20 de junio de 2023. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. LA SUCCESSION DE MERCEDES CALCAÑO GUZMAN COMPUESTA

POR FRANCISCO JAVIER DIAZ CALCAÑO

T/C/C FRANCISCO

J. DIAZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00220.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA - IN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FRANCISCO JAVIER DIAZ CALCAÑO

T/C/C FRANCISCO

J. DIAZ HEREDERO DE MERCEDES CALCAÑO GUZMAN

A LAS SIGUIENTES

DIRECCIONES: URB. PARCELAS NUEVAS 346, CALLE 30, GURABO, PR 00778-2924; 172

WOODLAND DR. HARTFORD CT 061051203 Y 21 CHADWICK AVE, HARTFORD CT 06106-1113.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días

siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 20 de junio de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 20 de junio de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

CASCADE FUNDING

MORTGAGE TRUST AB1

Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE JOSE

HUMBERTO GRAU ORTIZ

COMPUESTA POR JOSE

H. GRAU BRULL, NURIS

GRAU BRULL, CAROL M.

GRAU BRULL, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; BLANCA

MARGARITA BRULL JOY

POR SI Y SU CUOTA

VIUDA USUFRUCTUARIA;

CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV03616. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA.

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE

DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribu-

nal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 02 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho titulo, 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 marcado con el número dieciocho en el plano de la Urbanización San Ramón del término municipal de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área de cuatrocientos metros cuadrados con treinta y dos centímetros y en colindancias: por el NORTE, en quince metros noventa y un centímetros, con el solar número cinco; por el SUR, en dieciocho metros, con la Calle “B”; por el ESTE, en veintinueve metros, con el solar número seis de Ramón Abay; y por el OESTE, en veintiocho metros noventa y dos centímetros, con el solar número diecisiete. Sobre el descrito solar se ha construido una casa de concreto de hormigón y bloques. Consta inscrita al folio 64 del tomo 548 de Monacillos, finca número 20,483, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de San Juan.

Propiedad localizada en: 139 Calle Nogal Urb. San Ramon, San Juan, PR 00927. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Federal Attachment against José Grau Ortiz & Blanca Brull Joy, in the amount of $3,184.35, under notification number 195199316, social security number xxx-xx-0412, as per Certification dated January 20, 2016, annotated on February 12, 2016, at Entry 2016-000686-FED of the Karibe System. Federal Attachment against José Grau Ortiz, in the amount of $11,861.47, under notification number 195199416, social security number xxxxx-0412, as per Certification dated January 20, 2016, annotated on February 12, 2016, at Entry 2016-000688-FED of the Karibe System. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $517,500.00, 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 San Juan, el 09 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $345,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $258,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 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 $207,456.42 de principal, intereses al tipo del 5.560% anual hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $51,750.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de agosto de 2023. JUAN A. SANTANA GARCÍA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR.

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ESTADO

SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SUCCESSION DE ADELINA ONEILL TORRES

Demandantes V. HOSPITAL PAVIA HATO REY, INC., Y OTROS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV01619. Sobre: IMPERICIA MÉDICA, DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P. R., SS. A: DRA. VERÓNICA CORDERO FERNÁNDEZ, SU ESPOSO MENGANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Se le notifica por este medio que en el caso de epígrafe, la parte demandante ha radicado Demanda por cobro de dinero en su contra. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza, se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la dirección indicada.

Lcda. Gaudelyn Sánchez Mejías PO Box 1482 Guaynabo, PR 00970-1482 e-mail: sanchezmejiaslaw@gmail.com Tel. (787) 963-1622

Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle más.

EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA

Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de julio de 2023. GRISELDA

RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. NANCY I. GARCÍA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

SUCCESSION DE ADELINA ONEILL TORRES

Demandantes V. HOSPITAL PAVIA HATO REY, INC., Y OTROS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV01619.

Sobre: IMPERICIA MÉDICA, DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LI-

BRE ASOCIADO DE P. R., SS.

A: DR. RODNEY RAMOS QUINTANA, SU ESPOSA JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Se le notifica por este medio que en el caso de epígrafe, la parte demandante ha radicado Demanda por cobro de dinero en su contra. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza, se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la dirección indicada.

Lcda. Gaudelyn Sánchez Mejías PO Box 1482

Guaynabo, PR 00970-1482

e-mail: sanchezmejiaslaw@gmail.com

Tel. (787) 963-1622

Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle más.

EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA

Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de julio de 2023. GRISELDA

RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. NANCY I. GARCÍA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE LUIS

EDUARDO MARTÍNEZ

QUIRÓS COMPUESTA

POR SU VIUDA NANCY

ANA PEÑA PEREIRA

T/C/C NANCY ANA

PEÑA PEREYRA

T/C/C NANCY PEÑA DE MARTÍNEZ, POR

SÍ; SUS HEREDEROS

CONOCIDOS ERIC

LUIS EDUARDO

MARTÍNEZ PEÑA, TANIA NANCYANTONIA DEL CARMEN MARTÍNEZ

PEÑA, IVÁN CARLOS DE LEÓN MARTÍNEZ

PEÑA, AXEL EDUARDO

MARTÍNEZ PEÑA, MICHAEL ELÍAS

MARTÍNEZ PEÑA; FULANO DE TAL

Y SUTANA DE TAL

COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O

PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN; YULISSA CRUZ Y ARLENE ROBERTSON Demandaos

Civil Núm.: CA2023CV00563.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.

EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC-

TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE LUIS EDUARDO MARTÍNEZ QUIRÓS COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA NANCY ANA PEÑA PEREIRA

T/C/C NANCY ANA PEÑA PEREYRA

T/C/C NANCY PEÑA DE MARTÍNEZ, POR SÍ; SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS ERIC LUIS EDUARDO

MARTÍNEZ PEÑA, TANIA NANCYANTONIA DEL CARMEN MARTÍNEZ

PEÑA, IVÁN CARLOS DE LEÓN MARTÍNEZ

PEÑA, AXEL EDUARDO

MARTÍNEZ PEÑA, MICHAEL ELÍAS

MARTÍNEZ PEÑA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN; YULISSA CRUZ Y ARLENE ROBERTSON. BARRIO LAS CUEVAS, SECTOR LOS BARROS

175, TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976. DIRECCIÓN

POSTAL: PO BOX

4887 CAROLINA, PR 00984-4887; CARR. 843 BO. CARRAÍZO

SECTOR LOS BARROS

TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976; AXEL MARTÍNEZ

PEÑA: PO BOX 9756

CAGUAS, PR 00726; TANYA N. MARTÍNEZ:

1949 PINOTAGE NEW BRAUNFELS, TX 78132;

IVÁN MARTÍNEZ PEÑA: 3715 CORBRIDGE

LN ROCKFORD, IL 61107; MICHAEL ELÍAS

MARTÍNEZ: 7643

KESSLER DR. FORT BENNING, GA 31905.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder

utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P.

LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYABO, PR 00970 TEL.: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com

En Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 21 de junio de 2023. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SUBSECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ARTEMIO BURGOS ROSADO, COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA ROSA MARÍA CALDERO FIGUEROA, POR SÍ; SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA MIGDALIA BURGOS CALDERO FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2019CV04578. 702.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que

el 21 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 21 de junio de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 21 de junio de 2023. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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FUNDING LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CRISPULO ROSRIO GALARZA COMPUESTA CARMEN

ROSA RODRIGUEZ, MARITZA ROSARIO ROSA, ANGEL LUIS ROSARIO ROSA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE

DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados

Civil: CG2022CV01412. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECAIN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: SUCESION DE CRISPULO ROSARIO GALARZA COMPUESTA

POR CARMEN ROSA RODRIGUEZ, MARITZA ROSARIO ROSA, ANGEL LUIS ROSARIO ROSA; FULANO DE TAL Y

SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de febrero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 22 de junio de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 22 de junio de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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CARMEN MILAGROS HERNÁNDEZ MIRANDA

Demandante Vs. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE (POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CD2023CV00043. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y/O RICHARD ROE. Se notifica que se presentó en esta Secretaría la Demanda de epígrafe sobre Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado Por la Vía Judicial. Se le emplaza y requiere que usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://

unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Deberá notificar con copia de la misma al LCDO. JESÚS

A. LEDESMA AMADOR, PO BOX 10338, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00922, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Si dejara de hacerlo, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. El pagaré hipotecario objeto de esta demanda, fue emitido a favor de GREAT ATLANTIC MORTGAGE, o a su orden, por CINCUENTA Y TRES MIL SEISCIENTOS

DÓLARES ($53,600.00) con intereses al nueve y un medio por ciento (9 1/2%) anual, y con vencimiento el primero (1) de agosto del dos mil quince (2015), ante el Notario Público Manuel R. Pérez Caballer. Dicha obligación quedó garantizada por una hipoteca voluntaria sobre el inmueble que más adelante se describe, según consta de la escritura número ochocientos diez (#810), otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día veintiocho (28) de julio del dos mii (2000), inscrita al folio #9 del tomo #372 de Cidra, finca #14,091 inscripción segunda y última en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas sección Segunda. El pago de dicho pagaré se garantizó con hipoteca constituida sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación:

RÚSTICA: SOLAR #3. Predio de terreno marcado como lote #3 en el plano de segregación e inscripción radicado en El Barrio Arenas del municipio de Cidra, con una cabida superficial de quinientos setenta y siete punto cero dos (577.02) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto mil cuatrocientos sesenta y ocho (0.1468) cuerda. Linda por el NORTE, con lote #2 a segregarse; por el SUR, con terrenos de Bartolo Urbina; por el ESTE, con terrenos de Ramón Cotto; y por el OESTE, con lote “K” dedicado a uso público. Finca número 14,091, inscrita al Folio 9 del Tomo 372 de Cidra, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segundo (II).

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 15 de junio de 2023. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria General. Vionnette Espinosa Castillo, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO ARCHILLA

BATISTA COMPUESTA

POR: RAY ARCHILLA SALIVA; FULANO DE TAL Y MANGANO DE TAL LOS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y GLADYS SALIVA FELICIANO POR SÍ Y COMO HEREDERA DE ANTONIO ARCHILLA BATISTA DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2023CV00225. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL, LOS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE ANTONIO ARCHILLA BATISTA Y GLADYS SALIVA FELICIANO POR SÍ Y COMO HEREDERA DE ANTONIO ARCHILLA BATISTA. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005), le ordena que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando la herencia de la SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO ARCHILLA BATISTA. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 00936-6603. Tel. (787) 9190073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 02

de junio de 2023. KANELLY

ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA GENERAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

WILMINGTON SAVINGS

FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES

ACQUISITION TRUST

2018-HB1

Demandante Vs.

SUCESION RAFAEL

GENARO GARCIA

ORTEGA T/C/C RAFAEL

G. GARCÍA ORTEGA

T/C/C RAFAEL GARCIA

ORTEGA T/C/C RAFAEL

GENARO GARCIA T/C/C

RAFAEL G. GARCIA

T/C/C RAFAEL GARCIA

COMPUESTA POR

RAFAEL GARCIA PAGAN, RICARDO GARCIA

PAGAN, EDMEE GARCIA

PAGAN, ARTURO

GARCIA PAGAN; JOHN

DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS;

SUCESION ANA DELIA

PAGAN NAZARIO T/C/C

ANA D. PAGAN NAZARIO

T/C/C ANA PAGAN

NAZARIO T/C/C ANA

DELIA PAGAN T/C/C ANA

D. PAGAN T/C/C ANA

PAGAN COMPUESTA

POR RAFAEL GARCIA

PAGAN, RICARDO

GARCIA PAGAN, EDMEE

GARCIA PAGAN, ARTURO

GARCIA PAGAN; JOHN

ROE Y JANE ROE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS;

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO

DE RECAUDACION DE

INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2022CV04477.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO-

TECA. 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 AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: ”Solar localizado en la Carretera Estatal Número 686, Km 12.5, del Barrio Puerto Nuevo del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 469.87 metros cuadrados., equivalente a 0.1195 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle vega Mar, en una distancia de 20.75 metros; por el SUR, con José Enrique Rodríguez, en una distancia de 20.00 metros; por el ESTE, con la Carretera Estatal Número 686, en una distancia de 24.31 metros; y por el

OESTE, con María Cordero, en una distancia de 21.91 metros.

Enclava una casa construida de concreto armado de dos plantas, la superior consta de sala-comedor-cocina, tres dormitorios, dos baños y balcón en forma de L; la primera planta contiene sala-cocina y baño, con un área de estacionamiento.” Inscrita al folio 191 del tomo 443 de Vega Baja, finca 32282, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 191 del tomo 443 de Vega Baja, finca 32282, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV, inscripción 2ª. Propiedad localizada en: PR 686 KM

12.5 BO. PUERTO NUEVO, VEGA BAJA, PR 00694. 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: $288,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 9 de julio de 2088. 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 $288,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 17 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $192,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $144,000.00, 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 24 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 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 219,904.75 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $41,412.35 en intereses acumulados al 25 de noviembre de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $14,070.37 en seguro hipotecario; $4,200.00 en tarifas de servicio; $680.00 de inspecciones; $4,976.30 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $28,800.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. 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 07 de junio de 2023. Frances Torres Contreras, Alguacil Regional. Maribel Lanzar Velázquez, Alguacil Placa #735.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. IRMA ANDÚJAR SANTIAGO POR SÍ Y COMO HEREDERA; LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL NEGRÓN GONZÁLEZ

T/C/C LUIS MIGUEL NEGRÓN GONZÁLEZ COMPUESTA POR: MARILYN NEGRÓN ANDÚJAR; EVELYN NEGRÓN ANDÚJAR; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL LOS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; Y LA SUCESIÓN DE LUIS MIGUEL NEGRÓN ANDÚJAR COMPUESTA POR: ARAMARIE NEGRÓN GUTIÉRREZ, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE LOS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA

Demandado

Civil Núm.: TB2023CV00024.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: FULANO DE TAL POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL NEGRÓN GONZÁLEZ T/C/C LUIS MIGUEL NEGRÓN GONZÁLEZ; MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE

LA SUCESIÓN

DE MIGUEL NEGRÓN GONZÁLEZ T/C/C LUIS MIGUEL NEGRÓN GONZÁLEZ; JOHN DOE POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LUIS MIGUEL NEGRÓN ANDÚJAR; JANE DOE POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LUIS MIGUEL NEGRÓN ANDÚJAR.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que deben contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005), le ordena que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando la herencia de LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL NEGRÓN GONZÁLEZ T/C/C LUIS MIGUEL NEGRÓN GONZÁLEZ Y LA SUCESIÓN DE LUIS MIGUEL NEGRÓN ANDÚJAR. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 009366603. Tel. (787) 919-0073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 16 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA

ZIDNIA IVETTE

AYALA VEGA

Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO,

COMO SUCESOR EN

INTERÉS

DE PUERTO

RICO FINANCIAL CORPORATION; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE Demandado(a)

Civil: GM2022CV00857. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 21 de junio de 2023. En Guayama, Puerto Rico, el 21 de junio de 2023. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA.

MARÍA M. COTTO AMARO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SALA DE SAN JUAN

EDGARDO JOSE

OYOLA TORRES

Demandante Vs. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; FIRSTBANK; JOHN DOE Demandados

Civil Número: SJ2023CV05607.

Sala: 901. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADO UNIDO DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE AOSCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda de epígrafe dentro de los TREINTA (30) DÍAS a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá exponer lo que a sus derechos

convenga en la Ejecución de Hipoteca constituida en Escritura de Constitución de Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré mediante la cual la parte demandante y usted suscribieron un pagaré hipotecario al portador por la suma de cinto treinta mil $440,000.00, vencedero en un año, presentada por la parte Demandante sobre el siguiente inmueble: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento identificado con el Número Ciento Dos (102) ubicado en el Módulo (Unidad) Uno (1) del Edificio “Uno (1)”, en el Segundo Piso del Condominio “Alturas del Bosque”: a su vez localizado en el Barrio Cupey del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida superficial total de mil quinientos noventa y siete punto quinientos (1,597.500) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento cuarenta y ocho punto cuatrocientos diecisiete (148.417) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de once punto veintisiete (11.27) metros lineales, con el Apartamento número Doscientos Dos (202) y área común; por el SUR, en una distancia de diez punto cincuenta y un (10.51) metros lineales, con elementos exteriores; por el ESTE, en una distancia de catorce punto veintisiete (14.27) metros lineales, con elementos exteriores; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de trece punto cero nueve (13.09) metros lineales, con elementos exteriores y área común. Contiene sala, comedor, cocina, “family room”, dos (2) baños, tres (3) dormitorios, dos (2) closets, un “walk-in-closet”, “vanity”, “lineo closet”, “laundry”, “porch’’ y terraza. Su puerta principal de acceso se encuentra en su colindancia NORTE. Le corresponde en su participación en los elementos comunes generales el cero punto cinco cero dos uno uno (0.50211), Le pertenece además el ciento cincuenta (150) y disfrute de dos (2) áreas de estacionamientos, identificadas con los números treinta y dos (32) y tres (33).

Origen Registral: Se separa de la Finca 20619, inscrita al Folio 149 del Tomo 727 de Río Piedras Sur. El inmueble antes mencionado se halla inscrito al Folio 173 del Tomo 727, Finca 20625 de Río Piedras Sur. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Juan, Sección IV. Usted debe presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el

tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

LCDA. PATRICIA BÁEZ RAMOS (RUA 22896)

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Demandante V.

WANDA I. `SÁNCHEZ SERRANO

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2021CV04609. Sala:

504. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: WANDA I. SÁNCHEZ SERRANO. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de junio de 2023. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 22 de junio de 2023. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Vivian J. Sanabria, Secretaria Auxiliar.

A big leaguer lost his fastball but not his will to compete

By TYLER KEPNER

Julio Teheran is a big leaguer. This is a statement of fact, because he pitches for the Milwaukee Brewers now, and not the Staten Island FerryHawks, as he did last season. But it’s also an identity, a presence. Many players wear a major league uniform, but not all have the moxie to go with it.

“He’s been on a major league mound a ton, he was in the big leagues at 20 — some of those things offer clues,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “Sometimes you try these players and, I don’t know. It’s not a knock on other guys, but he’s a big leaguer.”

The Brewers, who play the New York Mets at Citi Field in Queens for four games this week, need all the reliable players they can get. Their offense has been among the worst in the National League, and their normally stout pitching staff has wobbled. They never knew they would count on Teheran, who is scheduled to start tonight, to keep it upright.

Teheran, 32, has made six starts, allowing two or fewer runs in all of them, for a 1.53 ERA. Nine years ago, with the Atlanta Braves, he began the same way: a 1.47 ERA in his first six starts on the way to his first All-Star selection. Another selection followed in 2016.

During that stretch he was one of baseball’s most dependable starters. Only three others besides Teheran — Mike Leake, Jon Lester and José Quintana, a fellow native of Colombia — made at least 30 starts each season from 2013 through 2019.

The trick, Teheran said, was learning to pace himself through the game and the season. He learned that lesson from Hall of Famer Pedro Martínez, who took him to dinner early in his career when the Braves played in Boston. Sometimes, Martínez told him, he should pitch to contact, to conserve energy for when he needs it most.

“He told me that, and I was like, ‘That makes sense,’” Teheran said.

In 2020, though, a nonpitching force sapped Teheran’s energy: the coronavirus, which he contracted at home with

his family in Atlanta during the shutdowns. His new team, the Los Angeles Angels, got a severely diminished version of Teheran.

“I recovered and everything went good, but I lost a lot of weight and had to report to Anaheim,” said Teheran, who shed about 15 pounds. “And they asked me, ‘Hey, how are you feeling?’ I was just happy that COVID ended and I was getting back to the field, so I told them that I was good — and obviously I wasn’t.”

In 10 appearances for the Angels, nine of which were starts, Teheran had a 10.05 ERA, easily the highest mark in the majors (minimum 30 innings) in 2020. He settled for a minor league deal with the Detroit Tigers the next spring, hurt his shoulder after one start in Detroit and never pitched there again.

That winter, Teheran threw for Carlos Castillo, a former major leaguer who now runs a training center in Miami. His fastball topped out at 79 mph.

“I told him to let it rip, and he said, ‘I am letting it rip,’” Castillo said in a phone interview. “His agent said, ‘What do we do here?’ And I said, ‘We’ll fix him or blow him out, one of the two.’ But I think some of it was in his head. He

was stressed.”

Teheran had reached the majors in 2011, before the rise of pitch-tracking data that gives a more precise, individualized strategy for which pitches work best. Driveline training methods helped Teheran recover lost velocity, and Castillo worked with him on understanding the analytics of his pitches.

Trusting Castillo to re-imagine his arsenal, Teheran added a cutter, altered his change-up grip and lowered his arm angle to hide the ball better. When it was still not enough to land even a minor league deal for 2022, off he went to the FerryHawks, a first-year franchise in the independent Atlantic League.

Teheran resolved not to complain, to work diligently and remind scouts he was still around. But his background made him stand out, and the attention embarrassed him.

“To have my teammates telling me, ‘Hey, I used to play with you in video games,’ for them that was cool, but for me it was like, ‘This is how low I’ve been getting,’” Teheran said.

“The team was like, ‘You’re our guy, we’ll throw you on opening day — sixtime Atlanta Braves opening day starter, now he’s starting opening day here!’ And

for me, it wasn’t that exciting, because I didn’t want to do that.”

Teheran made six starts for Staten Island with a 1.60 ERA and more strikeouts than innings pitched. He still got no offers and took that as a sign: Baseball was rejecting him, urging him to quit. Before he did, he thought he would try the Mexican League, purely for fun, without worrying about his future in the game.

“I didn’t care,” he said. “I wasn’t watching MLB. I wasn’t expecting anybody to call me. I was just enjoying being there.”

Maybe the baseball gods needed Teheran to prove how badly he wanted back in — because just when he stopped caring, somebody called. The San Diego Padres gave Teheran a minor league deal in February, and he joined the rotation of the Class AAA El Paso Chihuahuas.

Nobody signed Teheran when he first exercised his out clause, in early May. But by the end of the month, after a rash of injuries, the Brewers took a chance. Teheran allowed just one earned run in two starts at the end of May, and he has stayed steady deep into June.

“This guy was on life support in the game, and to come back is such a huge credit to him,” said Matt Arnold, the Brewers’ general manager. “Those kinds of guys, when they’re back here, it means a lot to them — and it means a lot to our team.”

Teheran still does not throw hard. After his last start — five shutout innings against Arizona on Wednesday — he was one 260 major leaguers with at least 30 innings pitched this season. Of that group, 246 had a harder average fastball than Teheran’s, which putters along at 89.6 mph, according to Sports Info Solutions. But veteran savvy goes a long way.

“He’s given us a chance to win every single one of his starts,” outfielder Christian Yelich said. “He hasn’t been in the big leagues in a little while, and to come back and have some success, it’s cool to see. I mean, really, that’s how you last a long time in the major leagues: keep reinventing yourself and making adjustments and finding ways to succeed.”

It’s how a big leaguer stays a big leaguer, even after a long time gone.

Julio Teheran has a 1.53 E.R.A. in six starts for the Milwaukee Brewers.

‘Everybody in the NFL understands that it’s a violent game.’

By KEN BELSON

When Luke Kuechly retired from the NFL in 2020 at 28, he had played eight stellar years as a linebacker for the Carolina Panthers and had sustained at least three documented concussions.

He joined other star players younger than 30 — including quarterback Andrew Luck and tight end Rob Gronkowski — who had opted to leave pro football largely over concerns about the longterm health implications of playing. (Gronkowksi returned after a season.)

But Kuechly, 32, still keeps close ties to the game, having worked for a season as a scout for his former team and now coaching football for 12-year-olds with his former teammate Greg Olsen.

In a phone interview from his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, Kuechly discussed watching current NFL players such as Tua Tagovailoa receive hits to the head, whether he worries about his cognitive health and what he tells his players’ parents about the dangers of tackle football. The interview has been lightly edited for clarity and condensed.

Q: You visited Congress last month to discuss traumatic brain injury. What did you think the level of awareness was?

A: I think everybody understands the situation around TBI and concussion in the head space. I think everybody understands that there’s stuff that can be done. But the more we can get up there and talk about it and explain perspectives and different ways to look at it and small ways to help to have a positive impact, I think the better off we are.

Q: You joined the NFL in 2012, when the awareness of concussions was chang-

”I think everybody understands the situation around T.B.I. and concussion in the head space,” said Luke Kuechly, a retired N.F.L. linebacker. “I think everybody understands that there’s stuff that can be done.”

ing dramatically. Did you notice that difference?

A: I think everything in the NFL has such a different microscope on it, really, a lot of times in a positive way. There’s a very stringent return-to-play policy, No. 1. No. 2, there’s independent spotters at every game, at every stadium, and there’s multiple ones that their sole job is to watch the game to see if anybody gets hit or acts abnormal. So, the NFL, I think, has done a really good job of trying to keep the players safe on the field and give them the opportunity to be safe in their return to play as well.

Q: You had several concussions. Were any of them harder to deal with than the others?

A: You look at other guys, you learn from other guys, you talk to a lot of guys — and that’s what you hear, is: “Hey, let yourself get better. Once you’re better, you can go back

out there.” So, that’s what I learned, fortunately early on, from our trainers and our coaches and different doctors and guys that I played with who said this isn’t like a sprained ankle where you can just deal with it and get through it and tough it out. This is something where you’ve got to be smart and understand that this is a different situation. You got to let it get better.

Q: Do you think that the culture of stepping away from the game at a relatively young age has changed in the time that you were in the NFL?

A: If you look back on it, Barry Sanders stepped away a couple of years early. Calvin Johnson obviously stepped away. Gronk stepped away. I think it just happens at a different point for everybody. [Sanders and Johnson retired at 30. Gronkowski announced his first retirement at 29.]

Q: You worked as a scout for the Panthers in 2020. Why?

A: I love football, I love being around the game, I love being around the guys. And that was a really good opportunity for me to slowly, over the course of the year, transition away from the team,

but still being able to be around it and be around the game, be involved and to kind of have some impact. And obviously there’s quite a bit of structure involved with that just because we were there pretty much every day working on different projects, checking the waiver wires, looking at free agents.

Q: I assume you watched what happened to Tagovailoa last year. Did that make you cringe a little bit?

A: No. The biggest thing for me is I just want guys to be safe. I want guys to have the opportunity to play as long as they can with the game that they love. But I think everybody in the NFL understands that it’s a violent game. It’s physical, it’s tough. There’s big strong guys running around, and getting hurt is kind of inevitable. I want Tua to play as long as Tua wants to, and I want him to play as safe as he can. But ultimately, it’s kind of the game right now: It’s just big guys running fast, hitting hard, lifting weights. Things happen very quickly out there.

Q: A study was published this month that looked at not just the number of hits that players take over the course of their careers but their cumulative impact. Do you worry about your own long-term cognitive health?

A: I’m not worried about it, but I’m very aware of it. Since I’ve got done playing, I’ve read a lot. I’ve done a lot of homework. I’ve talked to a lot of people. I’m not worried about it, but I’m very aware of like, “Hey, there are certain things that you can do that are going to be beneficial and might as well take advantage of it.”

I think the biggest thing for me is healthy lifestyle. Eat well, sleep well, exercise, be outside, have good relationships with people. Keep your mind active.

Q: When you’re coaching, what do you tell parents who are concerned about the safety of the game?

A: I tell a lot of people, “Hey, you do what you think is best for your child. You’re their parent. You ultimately know what’s best for them.” I just talk about the positives, whether it’s what I’ve learned about toughness, how to fight through things, how to build relationships, the people that I’ve met through the game, the experiences I’ve had with the game.

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

Your artistic nature is especially heightened today, Aries. Your heart and brain are working together to create something great. Use your creative abilities to make a bold statement. Have a good time. There may be a tendency toward laziness. If sitting on the couch is all you want to do, that’s fine. Realize that there’s a great deal of potential energy available to you if you choose to harness it.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Nothing will escape your attention today, Taurus. Your sixth sense is right on target. Your mind is razor sharp and emotions extra sensitive. You will move through this day with your radar fully intact. You’re like a detective cutting through to the core of every issue. You will be able to get quite a bit accomplished with very little effort. Things will naturally flow your way.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

You may feel like you’re ready to get the party started today, Gemini, but for some reason, the people around you aren’t exactly following suit. Perhaps you need to slow down and wait for others to catch up. They may end up not coming around at all. If people say they’re doing fine, don’t necessarily believe them. There’s most likely something brewing beneath the surface that needs attention.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Don’t worry so much about getting things done today, Cancer. Instead, concentrate on your feelings and relationships. A caring, sensitive attitude is needed, as opposed to a harsh, militant way of dealing with things. You will find that by adopting a tender, nurturing tone, people will be much more receptive to you in general.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Don’t get sad if no one is laughing at your jokes today, Leo. It doesn’t mean you aren’t funny. It just means that people may not be in the mood to laugh. Ridiculous as it seems, today is simply a better day to cry. Let out all your pent-up emotions. Talk things over with others. Your heart communicates well through you today.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

Don’t be shy today, Virgo. Express how you feel. The more you share with others, the more they will be encouraged to share themselves with you. Today may be filled with a great many tender moments that are worth documenting in your journal tonight. Your thinking is clear and in line with your deepest and truest emotions. You’re the star of the show.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

Hold your temper today, Libra. No one wants to argue. It may be tough to connect with the people around you, but this isn’t a reason to get upset. Tone things down and speak more softly. Listen to what others have to say. There may be a bit of a disruption in your daily routine. Others may challenge what you’re feeling. Don’t doubt yourself.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Today is an excellent day for you, Scorpio. You will discover many opportunities. You would do well to work with others by tuning into your sensitive nature and chiming in to the energy of the group. Your grounding and stability are exactly what are needed to give order to the fluctuating, indecisive minds you’re working with.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

Today is a good day for you, Sagittarius. New opportunities will abound in your regular routine. Work with a group to accomplish something greater than you could do by yourself. Tune in to the energy of the collective. You have exactly the right qualities that others need today. Use them.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

Your intuition is more reliable than your mind today, Capricorn. This is a terrific day in which you should enjoy a good mood and clear head. Your emotions are high, so take advantage of this energy and share it with others. Your generous, nurturing spirit is in demand. If you had a nickel for every good piece of psychological advice you dispense today, you’d be a millionaire.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

You may feel extra dreamy today, Aquarius. Your moods may fluctuate. It may be hard to get other people to share your boisterous good humor. Trying to get people to jump on your bandwagon of excitement may be difficult. Perhaps there’s something going on with them and their emotions that you simply aren’t noticing. Pay attention.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Pay close attention to your friends today, Pisces. One of them may be going through a tough time and need a little extra support and attention. If you can, gather several buddies together and organize an impromptu lunch or dinner or any other activity that allows you to laugh, bond, and share. Your friendships are a treasure to be cherished and nurtured.

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