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Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Wednesday he is not considering convening a status plebiscite that is not binding on Congress if HR 2757, which calls for a binding plebiscite on the choices of statehood, free association and independence, does not become law.
Pierluisi’s remarks came amid questions at a press conference in which statehood supporters, including former governor Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, reviewed efforts made and to be made in favor of HR 2757.
“It is not under consideration now, a referendum in Puerto Rico,” said Pierluisi, who during his trip to Washington, D.C. this week will be meeting with eight Democratic senators. “We have already held many [of those]. They have all ended the same way, supporting statehood. The ball is in Congress’ court, and it [another non-binding plebiscite] is not under consideration.”
Rosselló Nevares said he was able to feel that position after holding a meeting with the team of Republican Bruce Westerman, chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources.
“We cannot avoid the reality that there is some resistance that has to be broken down. The justification is not adequate,” the former governor said, alluding to Republican concerns about the alleged lack of time to hold public hearings on the measure. “I urge, and we have discussed it with the extended Republican delegation, that we will share that point in particular with the resident commissioner so that she addresses it.”
“[They say] that there are important issues in Congress and that we have to schedule …” he added.
Rosselló Nevares said the members of the Extended Congressional Delegation for Puerto Rico have held 127 meetings to advance the cause.
Pierluisi, who has insisted that Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón will extend her lobbying for HR 2757 to Democrats, said he believed that she had excused herself from the press conference. Rosselló Nevares, meanwhile, acknowledged that there is still resistance from Republicans to endorse HR 2757, a bill very similar to another approved at the end of the previous Congress, but only in the House of Representatives.
During the press conference, Rosselló Nevares thanked Pierluisi “for his leadership” and for allowing all supporters of statehood to move in the same direction.
“With his effort and leadership, the Democratic caucus was tied up on one occasion and this occasion as well,” he said.
Pierluisi, meanwhile, reiterated that the vast majority of Puerto Ricans oppose the commonwealth status and stressed the importance of educating, particularly Republicans, on the subject.
The island House of Representatives passed House Bills (HB) 1101, 1426 and 1427 this week to promote food
security and the Puerto Rican farming industry.
New Progressive Party (NPP) lawmakers voted against the bills authored by Popular Democratic Party Rep. Héctor
Ferrer Santiago and Jorge Alfredo Rivera Segarra.
“Puerto Rico lacks a public policy to address food security and boost the agricultural industry,” Ferrer Santiago said. “Unfortunately, the NPP delegation fell short in defending Puerto Rican agriculture. However, I am grateful to the colleagues who showed commitment to such an important issue.”
HB 1101 seeks to create salary incentives for micro-farmers, while HB 1426 establishes as commonwealth public policy to strengthen the purchase and production of Puerto Rican agricultural and livestock products. It also would redirect government resources so that those agricultural products are acquired by all the programs that supply prepared and unprepared food to the citizens through government agencies, instrumentalities, and municipalities.
HB 1427, meanwhile, seeks to promote food security by creating the Food Security Advisory Council, which would be
attached to the Department of Agriculture.
“The numbers that exist regarding the consumption of local products are alarming, adding to the indifference that has permeated the people in charge of implementing public policy in the government,” Ferrer Santiago said. “These bills are important to begin to address the issue seriously.”
Rivera Segarra stated that he trusts that both the Senate and Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia will allow the three bills to become law and thus promote a responsible and coherent public policy.
“As chairman of the Agriculture Committee, I know that our island is highly vulnerable to a food crisis,” Rivera Segarra said. “The dependence on food imports and [Puerto Rico’s] limited agricultural production is a great threat.”
Puerto Rico produces less than 15% of the food consumed locally, which makes it worthwhile to apply strategies to guarantee sufficient and stable food availability on the island, the legislators said.
The Senate Committee on Human Rights and Labor Affairs, chaired by Sen. Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, held a public hearing Wednesday based on Senate Resolution 209 to investigate the environmental impact on natural resources of projects in various municipalities.
“In this hearing, I believe that we are seeing precisely the community awareness that is being raised in terms of the demand that they are making to the government to take into consideration the reliability of life itself in Puerto Rico, which includes respect and defense of natural resources, respect for agricultural lands, access to beaches and defense of everything that has to do with the sustainability of our life in Puerto Rico,” Rivera Lassén said. “Without that we have no future.”
Kathia Avilés Vázquez, of the El Josco Bravo Archaeological Project, said that during Hurricane Fiona, Highway 861 in the Municipality of Toa Alta, which is under the jurisdiction of the Highways and Transportation Authority (ACT by its Spanish initials), suffered landslides that keep the road closed.
“The municipality and subcontracted companies, without consulting the citizens and without having made a prior notification, entered the lands of the Bucarabones Valley with machinery and heavy equipment, causing damage to the land and crops,” the deponent said.
Avilés Vázquez added that she opposes the construction of a road that would cross the Bucarabones Valley diagonally.
She also asked the ACT and the Municipality of Toa Alta to repair the damage caused by heavy machinery
removing topsoil, knocking down trees and impacting the basin of several streams and the Bucarabones River itself. The senator asked what the food sustainability of cultivating the entire valley would be. The deponent replied that around 250,000 people from several municipalities could have food security with the efficient production of the valley.
In response to questions from the senator, Avilés Vázquez said the mayor continues to defend the need for the alternative route. However, Samuel Acosta of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources said that “before the consideration of the department there are no permits requested, neither in consideration nor approved for the Bucarabones area.”
Meanwhile, Carmen Rosado, participating as a witness representing Cayey Para el Mundo, said “I am motivated by my opposition and that of hundreds of my neighbors to the construction of the connector/exit of Highway 52 that the Municipality of Cayey insists on imposing against the will and well-being of the population of Barrio Las Vegas.”
She said it is “completely false that we need this connector to alleviate traffic congestion on PR-1 and PR-743.”
“I live next to 743 and the argument of the municipality that alleges that there are problems accessing Highway 52 in our rural neighborhood is false,” Rosado said.
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The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) on Wednesday reported new failures at the Aguirre Power Plant in Salinas that will delay repairs and, in turn, the stabilization of electrical service on the island.
“The protection system of the emergency transformer at the Aguirre Power Plant was activated, causing the forced exit of Unit 2,” PREPA reported on its Twitter account.
“The repair of this failure will take time and will require the intervention of additional technical personnel,” the utility added.
The new breakdown was an additional setback in efforts to stabilize the island’s power supply, which have been exacerbated by problems at the AES plant in Guayama.
“The technical staff continues with the repair of the coal crushing system, which keeps the unit limited,” PREPA added.
As of midday Wednesday, 102,490 LUMA Energy customers were without electrical service.
The repair work, which involves technical personnel from PREPA and LUMA Energy, does not yet have an estimated completion date.
As of midday Wednesday, more than 102,000 LUMA Energy customers were without electrical service as breakdowns continued to plague the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s Aguirre generation plant in Salinas.
Island Labor and Human Resources (DTRH) Secretary Gabriel Maldonado González announced Wednesday that data from the latest quarterly unemployment insurance returns confirm, in his opinion, an increase in employment levels since January 2021
“This report presents the state of the labor market for a particular quarter of the year, based on information that emerges from the quarterly forms for Unemployment Insurance that are presented by employers to our agency. That is, it is not statistical information based on a sample, but real and hard data, which in turn validates the statistical data and historically positive trends that we publish monthly,” Maldonado González said in a written statement. “When comparing the first quarter of 2021 with the newly reported fourth quarter of 2022, it shows an increase of 105,406 jobs, of over $2 billion in total wages paid. Similarly, there was an increase of $1,344 in average wages earned per worker and 3,732 additional establishments.”
The Labor secretary noted that for the fourth quarter of 2022, the average employment in Puerto Rico totaled 953,286 jobs,
which is 36,257 additional jobs compared to those reported during the fourth quarter of 2021. The 10 industries with the highest average employment turned out to be: retail trade (134,871), public administration (122,407), health and social assistance services (99,966), administrative services and solid waste (89,044), accommodation and food services (85,478), educational services (85,333), manufacturing (82,991), professional and technical services (41,099), construction (34,618), and wholesale trade (34,019). The 10 municipalities that reflected the highest average employment are grouped as follows: San Juan (256,902), Bayamón (56,338), Guaynabo (56,257), Carolina (51,081), Ponce (47,594), Caguas (46,784), Mayagüez (31,145), Arecibo (22,618), Aguadilla (19,393) and Humacao (17,874).
Maldonado González added that the average salary per worker during the fourth quarter of 2022 reached $8,651, which represents an additional $265 when compared to the same period of the previous year. The industries with the highest average salaries were company and business management, at $14,698; electricity, water and gas, $14,589; finance and insurance, $13,798; professional and technical services, $13,363;
information, $11,761; wholesale, $11,724; public administration, $10,663; manufacturing, $10,411; and transportation and storage, $10,023.
As for the municipalities, the report details that the municipalities with the highest average quarterly salaries per worker were Juncos, at $16,205, Guaynabo, $10,581; San Juan, $10,456 and Aguadilla, $10,105.
Arecibo Mayor Carlos Ramírez Irizarry commented Wednesday on the Justice Department’s decision not to refer him to the Office of the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel (PFEI by its Spanish initials) for allegations of criminal misconduct.
“I have been certain from the beginning of this investigation that the truth would come out,” Ramírez Irizarry said in response to the decision. “I always act with the highest standards and in accordance with applicable
laws and regulations.”
A letter signed by Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández concludes that there is no cause to believe that the mayor engaged in criminal conduct based on the facts investigated, after a complaint filed by New Progressive Party (NPP) Rep. José “Quiquito” Meléndez Ortiz.
The mayor accused the opposition NPP of seeking to “damage my image and integrity” and of encouraging agencies such as the Justice Department and the PFEI to “mobilize their resources and time to address partisan
political grievances.”
The controversy arose in November 2022, when Meléndez Ortiz requested an investigation into a possible conflict of interest on the part of Ramírez Irizarry, alleging that he signed a professional services contract with the Department of Education while serving as mayor.
The letter from the Justice Department states that the evidence collected confirms that neither the mayor in his personal capacity or as mayor, nor the Municipality of Arecibo are parties to the contracts granted to Tito Ramírez
Bus Service Inc. by the Education Department.
It also states that the evidence collected does not demonstrate that Ramírez Irizarry used his position as mayor to obtain unauthorized benefits for himself or others, or that he intervened to gain advantages in the business of the bus service company.
The mayor reaffirmed his innocence and called on opposition legislators to “work on identifying resources for the benefit of Arecibo and stop playing and politicking with government agencies and the resources of the people.”
Given the limited information available on the project, the Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A) has rejected executing a conventional public-private partnership to rehabilitate and run the Camuy River Cave Park.
The agency informed the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) this week that it was not recommending a public-private partnership arrangement to turn the Camuy River Caverns into a major tourism attraction. The caverns are part of an extensive network of limestone caves and underground waterways carved out by the Río Camuy, the third-largest underground river in the world. The caves were discovered in 1958.
The P3A arrived at its conclusions following a feasibility study.
“Although the findings of this study suggest that an alternative P3 model would improve the operation, maintenance, and overall performance of the Cave Park, the Authority concludes that given the limited information available and the size of this project, it should not be procured under a conventional P3 arrangement,” the agency said.
However, the P3A told the DNER to procure a five- to 10-year agreement with a private third party to maintain and operate the Cave Park. Such a procurement would not be done under the public-private part-
nership law.
“A private operator will bring efficiency in the operations and maintenance of the Cave Park, as well as offer insight and know-how as to the infrastructure enhancements needed,”
the P3A said.
The P3A also published the studies on the proposed public-private partnership for the park. It provided a July 3 deadline for comments.
Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) accepted the Hero Award this week on behalf of the Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus for their work in understanding and countering HIV and AIDS around the world through policy and other initiatives.
“These efforts have been transformative, and we owe this incredible progress to countless scientists and researchers, and advocates like you,” González Colón said. “I humbly accept as a promise to you to continue our fight against HIV and AIDS.”
The caucus was recognized by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) for its resilience, on both sides of the aisle, to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States and abroad.
“This year, I look forward to continuing building on the progress we have made, especially on EGPAF,” González Colón added. “Reducing new HIV infections in children -more than 5.5 million -- is one of PEPFAR’s [U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief] greatest accomplishments.”
Puerto Rico has the nation’s 12th highest rate of new HIV diagnoses, and close to 50,000 reported AIDS cases with 59% resulting in death.
González Colón has served as co-chair of the Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus since 2019.
She has supported funding to HIV programs that have reached communities in Puerto Rico; assembled organizations and agencies on the island to discuss common goals, challenges and initiatives to address the Island’s high number of HIV diagnoses; introduced legislation to raise awareness and to eliminate discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS; and participated in forums and briefings to give the issue national visibility and stress urgency on the matter.
Last year, González Colón received the National Minority AIDS Council’s Hill Champion Award for her commitment to fighting toward achieving an AIDS-free generation.
The award was presented to González Colón and Lee by Charles Lyons, president and CEO of the EGPAF at the organization’s 35th anniversary celebration in Washington, D.C.
Agroup of hard-line Republicans hijacked the House floor earlier this week, grinding legislative business to a halt for several hours in a striking display of ire at Speaker Kevin McCarthy for making a deal with President Joe Biden to suspend the debt limit and banding together with Democrats to muscle it to passage.
The mutiny, staged by nearly a dozen members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus as leaders sought to bring up legislation to guard against restrictions on gas stoves and other federal regulations, reflected the bitter acrimony lingering in the Republican ranks after passage of the debt limit measure last week.
It indicated that, even as right-wing lawmakers suggest they are not yet inclined to try to oust McCarthy from his post over the compromise, they plan to use their clout in the closely divided House to make the speaker’s job impossible unless he bows to their will.
“We’re concerned that the fundamental commitments that allowed Kevin McCarthy to assume the speakership have been violated as a consequence of the debt limit deal, and the answer for us is to reassert House conservatives as the appropriate coalition partner for our leadership, instead of them making common cause with Democrats,” Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida told reporters.
He spoke after he and 10 other Republicans took the extraordinary step of voting against a procedural measure to set ground rules for legislative debate — usually a partyline vote — to register their protest, catching McCarthy and his leadership team off guard. Their decision to stage the demonstration was all the more remarkable because the members actually supported the underlying bill.
The move led to chaos on the House floor, where, for nearly an hour, Reps. Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the second- and third-ranking Republican leaders, huddled with the holdouts near the back of the chamber, trying in vain to persuade them to reconsider. Conceding defeat, Scalise eventually switched his own vote to “no” to allow the measure to be reconsidered. The result was that the rule failed by a vote of 206-220, with a dozen Republicans
opposing it, the first time in almost 21 years that such a procedural measure had been defeated on the House floor.
It underscored McCarthy’s lack of control over his fractious conference.
“In a narrow majority, individual members have outsized power,” Rep. Patrick T. McHenry of North Carolina told reporters after the vote, as members of the Freedom Caucus huddled with McCarthy in his Capitol office suite.
Members of the far-right group noted that the speaker had only been able to win their votes in a drawn-out, 15-round election for the post in January because he promised to empower them, and warned that they would continue using guerrilla tactics to disrupt the House unless he did so.
Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina accused McCarthy and his team of trying to “pull the pin on the grenade and roll it under the tent of Republican unity” by agreeing to the debt limit deal, which contained spending cuts only a fraction as large as GOP lawmakers had endorsed in a bill they pushed through in April. “What happens depends on how leadership is inclined to reciprocate.”
A continued protest would weaken
McCarthy substantially, undercutting his ability to pass bills in a chamber where they can normally afford to lose no more than a handful of votes.
Until Tuesday, McCarthy had been able to maneuver his way through that tight margin with last-minute deals and moves to placate holdouts, keeping enough of his party in line to avoid any embarrassing defeats on issues including border security and federal spending cuts.
But Freedom Caucus members took umbrage at the speaker’s efforts to rally Republican votes for the debt limit bill, accusing him of using hardball tactics to try to bully them into backing the deal.
Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia has claimed that leaders threatened to deny him a vote on his legislation to kill stricter federal regulations on pistols with stabilizing braces if he did not vote to advance the debt ceiling bill to a final vote — a charge that GOP leaders deny.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Clyde — who did not join his Freedom Caucus colleagues in the protest vote on Tuesday — told reporters that leaders had promised him that his bill would come to the floor next week. But that was unlikely to quell the fury of right-wing Republicans over the debt limit deal.
“Unfortunately, two weeks ago, a deal was reached and it broke away from what had been working,” Rep. Chip Roy of Texas told reporters, lamenting McCarthy’s decision to negotiate with Democrats instead of working with Republicans to find a deal that would preserve party unity. “It’s going to take a lot to restore our faith that we can do that in light of what happened with the debt ceiling.”
In addition to Roy, Bishop and Gaetz, the other Republicans who joined in the protest vote were Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Ken Buck of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Eli Crane of Arizona, Bob Good of Virginia, Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Matt Rosendale of Montana.
private contractor that arranged sending two planeloads of migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, last year in an operation funded by Florida taxpayers.
The migrants sent to Martha’s Vineyard have since filed a class-action lawsuit against DeSantis and other state officials, saying they had been falsely promised jobs and other assistance when they arrived.
Florida legislators have authorized $12 million for a state program to transport migrants around the country. DeSantis has made immigration a major theme of his presidential campaign, calling for the construction of a wall on the U.S. southern border and criticizing President Joe Biden’s border policies.
Rachel Self, a lawyer representing a number of the Martha’s Vineyard migrants in their immigration cases, accused the Florida governor of using the flights to boost his presidential campaign.
“These are the acts of small people who make themselves feel large by stomping on the most vulnerable among us,” Self said in a statement.
DeSantis is scheduled to hold a fundraiser in Sacramento on June 19, part of a swing through California to meet wealthy donors.
By NICHOLAS NEHAMAS and SHAWN HUBLERAfter days of silence, officials in Florida confirmed earlier this week that the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis had orchestrated two recent charter flights that carried groups of migrants from New Mexico to Sacramento, California. The flights had generated an immediate outcry from leaders in California, who promised to initiate criminal and civil investigations, saying that the migrants had been deceived into boarding the planes. They also sharply criticized DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate. On Twitter, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, suggested that “kidnapping charges” were warranted against those responsible for the flights, on Monday and last Friday.
In a statement released Tuesday evening, Alecia Collins, the communications director for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, said that the migrants’ relocation to California had been “voluntary” and that they had been taken to a nonprofit.
“Through verbal and written consent, these volunteers
indicated they wanted to go to California,” Collins wrote. “A contractor was present and ensured they made it safely to a third party N.G.O. The specific N.G.O., Catholic Charities, is used and funded by the federal government.”
Tuesday evening’s statement was the first time that DeSantis and his administration had addressed the flights since they landed in California’s capital city. At a bill-signing ceremony Tuesday morning, the governor, unusually, did not take questions from reporters. The silence from DeSantis on a high-profile incident drawing national interest was uncharacteristic, especially given the pointed attacks against him by Newsom and others.
In an interview, California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, said it was appropriate that DeSantis and Florida officials were “accepting blame for their reprehensible and morally bankrupt conduct.” The migrants who arrived Friday had been dropped off outside the Catholic Archdiocese of Sacramento, Bonta said, and left “dazed and confused, violated and hurt on the doorstep of an archdiocese that wasn’t even open.”
He said the migrants had told him personally and signed statements saying that they had come to California because the contractor, Vertol Systems Co., had falsely represented the transport as a way to obtain desperately needed employment.
“It was a lie,” Bonta, a Democrat, said. “It was false. You can’t consent based on deception.”
Roughly three dozen migrants have arrived in Sacramento on two charter flights since last Friday. The migrants, most of whom are from Venezuela, said they had been recruited for the flights outside a shelter in El Paso, Texas. Several said they were promised help finding work. They are now staying at motels in the Sacramento area, according to local nonprofits.
Vertol Systems, which is based in Florida, was the same
For years, DeSantis and Newsom have used each other as foils to criticize what they describe as the extremes of their respective political parties. In April, Newsom, a Democrat, visited New College of Florida, a public liberal arts institution that DeSantis is trying to reshape into a bastion of right-wing thought. He also aired a television advertisement in Florida attacking DeSantis.
For his part, DeSantis has often pointed to the number of Californians moving to Florida, spurred in part, he has suggested, by the state’s looser restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic.
On Monday, in the latest volley, Newsom called DeSantis “pathetic,” while accusing him of sending the migrants to Sacramento. Rob Bonta, California’s Democratic attorney general, has said investigators are examining whether any laws were broken. Officials from the California Department of Justice were seen interviewing the migrants who landed at Sacramento Executive Airport on Monday.
Also on Monday, a county sheriff in Texas announced that he was recommending that prosecutors file criminal charges pertaining to the Martha’s Vineyard flights in September, though he said nothing about who should be charged.
Holding anyone civilly or criminally accountable for the flights may prove challenging, legal analysts said.
Collins, the Florida official, pointed out that cities with Democratic mayors have bused migrants to other parts of the country.
“Suddenly, when Florida sends illegal aliens to a sanctuary city, it’s false imprisonment and kidnapping,” she said in her statement. She also released a video showing the migrants smiling and waving on a plane and expressing thanks.
“We have made it to California,” one man said in Spanish. “Thank God. Very thankful to God.”
Anthony York, a spokesperson for Newsom, called the video “exploitative and gross.”
“The attorney general has an active investigation ongoing,” York said. “We’ll see if his findings are consistent with the propaganda being peddled by the state of Florida or not.”
Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey who was eclipsed by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential primaries, announced earlier this week that he would seek the 2024 Republican nomination, setting up a rematch with the former president and expanding the field of GOP candidates.
In making a second run for the presidency, Christie, 60, has positioned himself as the person most willing to attack both Trump, his former friend turned adversary, and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who has been in second place in nearly every public Republican primary poll for months.
Christie, who declared his run on Tuesday evening at a town-hall-style event in New Hampshire, set himself apart from all other Republicans running by going directly after Trump. He called him “a bitter, angry man,” said his record in office was a failure and, in an unusually personal attack, accused Trump and family members of profiting off the presidency, referring to an investment from the Saudi crown prince.
“The grift from this family is breathtaking,” Christie said. “It’s breathtaking. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Kushner walk out of the White House and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis?”
“That’s your money he stole,” he continued, adding, “That makes us a banana republic.”
Over more than two hours, Christie also chided other Republicans in the race as being too timid to criticize Trump by name. Describing a recent appearance in Iowa of other 2024 hopefuls, he mocked their euphemistic swipes at the former president. “‘We need a leader who looks forward, not backwards,’” Christie said, his voice dripping sarcasm. “I get it! You’re talking about the way the 2020 election was stolen. And you won’t say it wasn’t stolen.”
In earlier appearances, Christie has called Trump a loser because of his 2020 defeat, and said that he was unfit to return to the White House after inciting a mob to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Christie has said that if Trump is the nominee, he will not vote for him.
Still, with polls showing Christie to be the most unpopular 2024 candidate among Republican voters, the existential question for his race is, Who will he appeal to?
The audience on Tuesday, at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, appeared to be
almost entirely independent voters. Registered Republicans were hard to find. In interviews, almost everyone disapproved of Trump, which suggested that Christie could activate a small but passionate group of supporters.
“He’s a very capable guy,” Paul R. Kfoury Sr., a retired judge from Bedford, New Hampshire, said of the former governor. “Very centrist. Not a right-wing nut like so many of them, frankly, if I may be candid.” But he was skeptical of Christie’s chances in his party. “It’s a heavy lift,” he said.
New Hampshire’s many independents could play a crucial role in the 2024 Republican primary because there is unlikely to be a competitive Democratic race.
Carolyn Cicciu, 77, from Goffstown, New Hampshire, voted for Joe Biden in 2020 “because I had no choice,” she said. Now, she said she had concerns about Biden’s age.
“Whatever candidate I choose, I want it to be somebody that is not so partisan that they can’t see what’s good about the other side’s position,” added Cicciu, a retired middle-school teacher.
Christie has said he sees a path to the nomination and is not running merely as a “paid assassin” to take on Trump for the benefit of other candidates.
On Tuesday, he cited political punditry about his candidacy in a mocking voice: “Christie doesn’t really care about winning, all he cares about is destroying Trump,” he said. Then he added: “How are those two things mutually exclusive?”
“Let me be very clear,” he said. “I am going out there to take out Donald Trump, but here’s why: I will win. And I don’t want him to win.”
Still, Christie’s path to securing the nomination is complicated. He is a northeastern Republican who has not been enmeshed in the culture wars of the Trump era. His main path would necessarily be through New Hampshire, a state where he waged a fierce campaign in 2016 but ultimately came up short. And to gain traction, he will need to rely on attention from candidate debates.
His campaign will depend heavily on media coverage and a nimbleness to travel to places where that is likeliest. New Hampshire is the state where he will begin his campaign, but not necessarily where he will hunker down.
He still needs to meet the criteria set by the Republican National Committee to get on that debate stage, which includes 40,000 unique donors.
In an intensifying effort to end what the authorities see as the era of lawlessness in the cryptocurrency market, the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this week sued Coinbase, the largest crypto trading platform in the United States, claiming that the company broke the law by not registering as a broker.
The SEC, the nation’s top securities regulator, filed the lawsuit a day after it accused Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency trading exchange, of mishandling customer funds and lying to American regulators and investors about its operations.
With these federal actions against major crypto companies, along with other lawsuits at the state level, regulators have sought to reshape the crypto sector by treating digital asset exchanges like more traditional financial firms, while pushing out individuals and companies that they view as bad actors.
In its filing on Tuesday, the SEC detailed the ways in which Coinbase’s leaders had demonstrated that they knew how the marketing and sale of digital assets should be governed under U.S. laws, even while failing to follow them.
“Coinbase has elevated its interest in increasing its profits over investors’ interests, and over compliance with the law and the regulatory framework that governs the securities markets and was created to protect investors and the U.S. capital markets,” the filing said.
Coinbase went public in April 2021, an event seen as a milestone in crypto’s march into the mainstream. The company handled $830 billion worth of trades last year, with nearly 9 million users making at least one trade per month.
The SEC said Coinbase had made billions easing the sale of crypto assets but deprived investors of significant protections. Its complaint, filed in federal court in Manhattan, claims that the company operated as an unregistered exchange even though it told investors in going public that regulators might deem some of the products traded on its platform to be securities.
Coinbase has argued that its business model got tacit approval from the SEC when the agency approved its initial public offering. The company has said it is willing to work with the SEC but does not agree with its position that all digital assets offered
on its trading platform must be registered securities, which require more strict oversight.
The action is consistent with the SEC’s long-held view that most crypto products are no different from stocks, bonds and other securities. That means the firms that operate as exchanges and provide a platform for trading and selling crypto products must be registered like any exchange or brokerage that facilitates stock or bond trading.
“You simply can’t ignore the rules because you don’t like them or because you’d prefer different ones: the consequences for the investing public are far too great,” Gurbir S. Grewal, the director of the SEC’s enforcement division, said in a statement.
Executives in the crypto industry, which has reveled in challenging the rules and operating outside the heavily regulated confines of the mainstream finance industry, have often argued that digital assets are different and that many of the rules for stocks should not apply.
“The SEC’s reliance on an enforcement-only approach in the absence of clear rules for the digital asset industry is hurting America’s economic competitiveness,” Coinbase’s chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, said in a statement about the suit.
“The solution is legislation that allows fair rules for the road to be developed transparently and applied equally, not litigation,” added Grewal, who is not related to the SEC enforcement officer.
company from selling unregistered securities to investors in their states.
The state regulators said Coinbase must first register to offer those products in their states. Some states, like New Jersey, imposed fines on the company.
The SEC suit and the actions by state regulators against Coinbase touched on a crucial issue that many in the crypto industry have said Congress must address: whether digital asset products are securities or something totally different.
The SEC has said the test to determine whether a crypto product should be treated like a security is derived from a 1946 Supreme Court case that led to what is known as the Howey test. The SEC chair, Gary Gensler, has often said that this standard is clear and that no new laws are needed to determine whether a digital asset is a security. The industry, however, has begged to differ.
The suit, long anticipated by Coinbase, comes as its executives and others in the crypto industry hope to shift the narrative about digital assets. Grewal of Coinbase testified before a House committee on Tuesday about a draft bill regulating crypto. Coinbase has said it welcomes regulation, and wants to cooperate with the SEC.
The SEC lawsuit is the latest enforcement in a multiyear crackdown on the crypto market by the regulator, which has picked up steam after the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange in November and criminal charges against its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.
The lawsuit against Coinbase notably did not include an allegation of fraud, like the complaint against Binance, or a request for a preliminary injunction against the company. The SEC on Monday also sued Binance’s founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao. On Tuesday, it did not similarly sue Coinbase’s CEO, Brian Armstrong.
The SEC took another step on Tuesday that differentiated its cases against Binance from the one against Coinbase. In a new filing, the agency asked the court to freeze assets related to U.S.-based customers of Binance, whose headquarters are outside the United States, and move any such assets back to the United States, arguing that a quick freeze was necessary “given the defendants’ years of violative conduct, disregard of the laws of the United States, evasion of regulatory oversight, and open questions about various financial transfers and the custody and control of customer assets.”
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“The message here is that regulatory clarity already exists when it comes to exchanges and broker dealers,” said John Reed Stark, a former SEC enforcement lawyer and regulatory consultant.
Adding to Coinbase’s legal troubles, securities regulators in 10 states, including Alabama, California, Illinois and New Jersey, filed their own actions on Tuesday seeking to stop the
In the filing, the SEC also asked the court to cut off any access Binance and its senior leaders might have to assets of its U.S. customers. The filing contained a summary of bank account information related to Binance’s U.S. business, which showed that the company had multiple accounts at Axos Bank, a San Diego-based lender, along with an account at the shuttered bank Silvergate.
Coinbase, unlike Binance, does not issue its own crypto tokens, and the company has argued that its status as a publicly listed company ensured that it followed strict rules about its operations.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed in negative territory on Wednesday as investors took profits after a months-long megacap stocks run and ahead of key economic and policy events next week.
The small-cap index Russell 2000 climbed 1.78% as investors kept moving away from megagap and growth stocks after their strong gains.
“Over the past week, we’ve seen a pretty dramatic outperformance of small caps relative to large caps,” said Paul Baiocchi, investment firm SS&C ALPS Advisors chief ETF strategist. “We’re seeing that persist here today.”
U.S. inflation data is expected to show consumer prices eased slightly in May from the previous month but with elevated core prices.
Weighing on stocks, the two-year U.S. Treasury yield and benchmark 10-year yield increased after the Bank of Canada raised interest rates, adding to investor jitters about the Federal Reserve’s next U.S. interest rate decision.
Money market participants now see a 69% chance that the U.S. central bank will skip raising interest rates in its June meeting but will hike in July, down from nearly 77% earlier, according to the CME’s Fedwatch tool.
Recently, U.S. shares have been boosted by a megacap stocks rally and a stronger-than-expected earnings season, with the S&P 500 up almost 20% from its October 2022 lows.
Some analysts expect profit-taking soon in big tech and other major growth stocks.
Meanwhile, CBOE Volatility Index hit the lowest close since Feb. 14, 2020.
Wells Fargo raised the price target on Netflix shares to $500 from $400, the highest on Wall Street, according to Refinitiv. The streaming company ticked 0.12% higher on the news.
Energy index rose 2.65% after oil prices edged higher, while the KBW Regional Banking Index closed at the highest level since March 29.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 91.74 points, or 0.27%, to 33,665.02, the S&P 500 lost 16.33 points, or 0.38%, to 4,267.52 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 171.52 points, or 1.29%, to 13,104.90.
Yext Inc soared 38.44% after the New York-based online marketing firm raised its annual earnings forecast.
Campbell Soup fell 8.91% after the packaged food maker posted a lower fiscal third-quarter gross margin, dented by high commodity and freight costs.
Coinbase shares advanced 3.20% the day after they hit a seven-month low, as the company’s CEO
reassured customers that their funds were safe and blasted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its lawsuit. On Tuesday, the SEC sued the largest U.S. crypto exchange, accusing it of operating illegally, without having first registered with regulator.
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest bought 419,324 shares of Coinbase on Tuesday.
Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.58-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.27-to-1
ratio favored advancers.
The S&P 500 posted 22 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 122 new highs and 40 new lows.
Following their comment, fed funds futures have factored in a 70% chance the Fed will keep rates unchanged next month, up sharply from a 30% probability earlier in the wake of data showing an increase in U.S. job openings.
The Labor Department reported on Wednesday that U.S. job openings unexpectedly rose in April and data for the prior month was revised higher, pointing to persistent strength in the labor market.
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, also showed layoffs declined significantly last month.
Hundreds of exhausted people, some carrying only backpacks, escaped inundated villages Wednesday as a rescue effort pressed ahead across southern Ukraine, a day after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam gave rise to another humanitarian disaster along the front lines of the 15-month war.
Floodwaters engulfed streets and homes, sent residents fleeing on boats and dislodged roofs across dozens of communities on both sides of the Dnieper River, which divides the warring armies in much of southern Ukraine. A total of about 3,000 people had been evacuated in Russian- and Ukrainian-controlled areas, according to officials on both sides — a fraction of the roughly 41,000 residents whom Ukrainian officials have said are at risk.
There were still no confirmed reports of deaths, and the scale of the disaster, which drained a giant reservoir used for drinking water and irrigation, was only beginning to
come into focus. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said that hundreds of thousands of people were “without normal access to drinking water” and that the emergency services were working to rush potable water to Ukrainian-controlled areas.
Even as officials said floodwaters were receding in areas closest to the dam, its destruction has spread further misery on both sides of the Dnieper.
In the Ukrainian-held city of Kherson on the west bank, rescuers completely evacuated a neighborhood submerged in fetid floodwaters, venturing out in boats to pull people from roofs and the upper floors of homes. Information about areas in the Russian-occupied east bank was difficult to obtain, but state television broadcast images of inundated villages and Russian-appointed officials said about 1,500 people had been
evacuated.
Experts said a deliberate explosion inside the dam, which has been under Russian control since early in the war, most likely caused the massive structure of steel-reinforced concrete to crumble. Zelenskyy said Russian forces had blown up the dam to “use the flood as a weapon,” while Russian officials blamed Ukrainian shelling for damaging the facility.
Ukraine’s agriculture ministry warned that the disaster would cut off water to hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland, turning some of the country’s most productive crop fields “into deserts as early as next year.”
The dam’s destruction could also risk diverting attention, resources and personnel from a long-planned Ukrainian counteroffensive that U.S. officials said may have begun this week. Flood-affected communities are calling for large amounts of fuel, water and vehicles — all components that are also essential for military operations — while national guard soldiers are helping with disaster relief.
Pope Francis was recovering from intestinal surgery Wednesday, after a three-hour procedure to treat a hernia that had “no complications,” the Vatican said. It is the second time that Francis has been hospitalized in a little over two months, raising new concerns about his health.
“The Holy Father is well, I think that’s the news that you and the entire world were waiting for,” Dr. Sergio Alfieri, the surgeon who led a team of doctors that operated on Francis, told reporters gathered at the hospital Wednesday evening. “He’s fine, awake and alert, and he joked with me not 10 minutes ago.”
The pope, 86, was resting in a 10th-floor suite reserved for popes at Policlinico A. Gemelli hospital in Rome.
Francis had made an unexpected visit to the hospital Tuesday for what the Vatican said were routine medical checks. During that visit, Francis underwent a CT scan, Alfieri said, and the medical team that cares for the pope determined that surgery under general anesthesia was necessary.
“It was not an emergency situation,” he said, but because it was getting more painful, the pope decided to have the operation immediately, “reorganizing his agenda,” he added. “As you know, he decides everything himself.”
Francis, who became pope 10 years ago, has dealt with a number of health issues, including
major surgery in 2021 in which doctors removed roughly 13 inches of his large intestine because of inflammation that caused a narrowing of his colon. He now often uses a cane or a wheelchair because of knee problems and sciatica.
Francis held his weekly general audience as scheduled Wednesday morning in St. Peter’s Square. He appeared serene, shaking hands with the faithful and allowing several children to board the so-called popemobile while he was driven around the square. The Vatican confirmed that the pope’s audiences would be canceled until June 18 as a precautionary measure.
Doctors operated on what is known as an incisional hernia, typically the consequence of previous operations, which Alfieri, director of abdominal and endocrine sciences at Gemelli, said had been causing painful intestinal occlusions that were getting “continuously more frequent.”
An incision was made into the abdominal wall, and the hernia — which can create discomfort or complications — was treated by applying surgical mesh to the abdominal wall.
Such hernias can occur frequently after abdominal surgery, though other factors like age and weight can increase the likelihood of their development. The hernias can also cause blockages, which can result in abdominal pain, and if they are not treated, they can block the intestine completely.
Prince Harry finally got his day in court against the British tabloid press that he has long reviled, taking the stand in London earlier this week to accuse the Mirror Newspaper Group of hacking his cellphone more than a decade ago.
Through five hours of polite but persistent grilling, Harry stood by his claims that the Mirror Group’s reporters intercepted his voicemail messages and used other unlawful means to dig up personal information about him, creating an atmosphere of distrust and even paranoia that has shadowed him since childhood.
It was a spectacle both extraordinary and ordinary: Harry, 38, the second son of King Charles III and the first prominent royal to testify in more than a century, declared that editors and journalists “have blood on their hands” because of the lengths to which they went to ferret out news about him and his family, not least his mother, Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997 after being pursued by photographers.
Yet for all the celebrity of the plaintiff, the scene in the packed High Court took on the rhythms of any other legal proceeding, as Harry’s cross-examination got underway. A lawyer for the Mirror Group, Andrew Green, repeatedly pressed him for hard evidence that its journalists had hacked his phone. Much of the information that Harry said was illegally obtained was available from other sources, the lawyer argued.
Harry, speaking in modulated and measured tones, insisted there was no way the Mirror’s reporters could have so quickly discovered his whereabouts, or the details of a schoolyard injury, without resorting to illegal methods.
“Are we not in the realm of total speculation?” Green said to Harry about his theory that the Mirror had hacked his doctor’s phone to obtain details about a thumb he broke while a student at Eton College.
“No,” Harry replied, adding, “I’m not the one who wrote the article, so you will have to ask the journalist who wrote the article.”
Still, there were also dramatic moments when Harry was able to make a broader point about how the tabloid press treats people like him. Asked by Green if the public had an interest in knowing about his youthful drug use — an issue extravagantly covered in the pages of The Daily Mirror — Harry shot back: “There’s a difference between public interest and what interests the public.”
There were other clear signs that Harry was no ordinary plaintiff. Photographers and camera crews jostled outside the court as he
arrived. As he took his place on the stand, lawyers caucused briefly over how to address the witness, who also goes by the title Duke of Sussex. They settled on Prince Harry.
Harry is one of four plaintiffs in this case, one of only two lawsuits rooted in the phone hacking scandal of 2011 that has made it all the way to trial. He is the first senior royal to testify in court since 1891, when the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, testified in the case of a man accused of cheating at a game of baccarat.
For the prince, whose reputation in Britain has been tarnished by his bitter rupture with the royal family, the trial was a rare opportunity to take a stand against a news media that has its own checkered reputation. Beyond the charges in the case, Harry views the trial as a platform to call for a sweeping reform of the British press.
In written testimony submitted by his lawyers, Harry said the state of the British press, like that of the British government, was at “rock bottom.” His blunt comment was yet another precedent-shattering move: Royals, by custom, never wade into political commentary.
To prevail on the legal case, however, Harry will have to convince the judge, Timothy Fancourt, that the Mirror Group intercepted his voicemail messages and those of people close
to him, and used other unlawful means to gather information. Proving hacking could be a high bar, given how much time has passed since the Mirror articles cited by Harry were published.
In a filing, Harry’s lawyers wrote that he often experienced “suspicious” activity on his phone, including missed calls or hangups, from numbers he did not recognize or that were concealed. But the lawyers conceded that after so many years, he could not recall the dates on which this activity occurred.
The Mirror denies that it hacked Harry’s phone, or those of the three other plaintiffs, though it admitted in 2014 that it had hacked other public figures and publicly apologized for it the following year. It has conceded unlawfully obtaining information via a private investigator, and said that warranted some compensation to the plaintiffs, though neither side has floated a figure for monetary damages.
In addition to Harry, they are Nikki Sanderson and Michael Taylor, who both appeared in the popular TV series “Coronation Street,” and Fiona Wightman, the former wife of a wellknown comedian, Paul Whitehouse.
Lacking irrefutable evidence of hacking, Harry’s lawyers, led by David Sherborne, are relying heavily on inference. They have submitted, as evidence, 147 articles published by Mir-
ror tabloids that contain information that they claim could only have been obtained through illegal means, either because of the private nature of the material or because only a small circle of people knew about it.
But the Mirror Group’s lawyers countered that the details in those articles could have come from other legitimate sources. Beyond that, they argue that Harry waited too long to file the lawsuit, noting that the alleged misconduct occurred between 1991 and 2011.
Harry was expected to continue testifying for several more hours Wednesday. With the other plaintiffs and Jane Kerr, a former royal reporter for The Mirror, also scheduled to testify in coming days, the trial is expected to last a few weeks.
Most of the exchanges Tuesday focused on the origins of the articles submitted by Harry’s lawyers. Green tried to argue that the information was either supplied by aides in Buckingham Palace or already in the public domain.
On the report about Harry breaking his thumb, for example, the Mirror’s lawyer argued that it was readily available. But Harry pointed to specific details in the Mirror story attributed to a doctor.
“Not only do I have no idea how they would know that, but those sorts of things instill paranoia in a young man,” Harry said, adding that it was possible his doctor’s phone had been hacked to obtain the information (the doctor is not expected to testify).
In the reports about his drug use, Green cited a passage from Harry’s memoir, “Spare,” in which he recalled that aides in his father’s office had decided to cooperate with the tabloids in reporting the story.
Perhaps inevitably, Harry’s love life also figured in the testimony. The prince said he believed The Daily Mirror used a technique known as “blagging” — in which deceptive methods are used to obtain personal information — to access the flight records of one of his former girlfriends, Chelsy Davy, for a trip the couple made to Mozambique.
Harry, who has said intrusive coverage contributed to his breakup with Davy, referred to an article that described his former girlfriend delivering a “tongue lashing down the phone,” after a party at which he was reportedly spotted with another girl.
“I have no idea how anyone would know that,” Harry said of that nugget, adding that it could have been obtained by hacking a phone belonging to his friend. When Green asked why that friend wasn’t called to give evidence, Harry said, “I would want to spare most of my friends from this experience.”
Street demonstrations and transport strikes disrupted France again earlier this week as another day of protests against a widely unpopular pension overhaul took place, in what appeared to be a last-ditch effort to pressure authorities into scrapping the changes.
Tuesday’s protest, the 14th day of nationwide demonstrations since January, reflected the lingering anger at the government’s decision to raise the legal retirement age to 64 from 62 — a move that put France on edge and led to the biggest political threat in President Emmanuel Macron’s second term.
But after months of exceptionally large protests that have failed to budge Macron, and with key parts of the overhaul already enshrined in law, opponents of the reform acknowledge that the chances of turning the tide now are slim and that Tuesday’s actions may be a last stand.
“The game is about to end whether we like it or not,” Laurent Berger, the leader of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor, the largest union in France, said Tuesday as he was getting ready for the march in Paris.
Still, Berger added that the persistence of the protests, even after the overhaul became law, was a sign of lingering “anger and resentment” that may have lasting consequences for Macron’s political fortunes.
What happened Tuesday?
From Calais in the north to Nice in the south, some 280,000 demonstrators marched Tuesday to protest against the pension changes, according to French authorities, while strikes forced Paris Orly Airport to cancel onethird of its flights and slightly disrupted the Paris subway network.
In Paris and other cities, protesters briefly clashed with riot police who fired tear gas, but the number of incidents was far below previous days.
The number of demonstrators was the smallest since the start of the protest movement and a sharp drop from the million who took to the streets in March, a sign that the protest movement, exhausted by weeks of unsuccessful marches, is now running out of steam. In Paris, a fairly sparse and calm crowd snaked along the Left Bank, in stark contrast to the raucous parade that shook the capital just a month ago.
“Clearly, there’s some exhaustion,” said Éric Agrikoliansky, a 56-year-old teacher who
was browsing at a bookstall while waiting to join the march as small groups of protesters walked past him, chatting but hardly chanting any slogans. “Everybody seems to think that it’s the end.”
Marches blocking entire avenues of Paris, to the bemusement of tourists sipping cocktails in nearby cafes, have been a fixture of the capital since the beginning of the year.
But on Tuesday, crowds made it through the Boulevard du Montparnasse quickly. “Finished already?” said a cafe server as the music of the procession faded into the distance.
What is the dispute over pensions?
Macron has argued that France’s pension system, which is based on payroll taxes, is financially unsustainable because retirees supported by active workers are living longer. To balance the system, his government decided to make people work longer by raising the legal age when they can start collecting a pension.
“We have a deficit problem, and we have to plug it,” Macron said in a televised interview last month. “I stand by this reform.”
But opponents say that Macron has exaggerated the threat of projected deficits and has refused to consider other ways to balance the system, such as increasing worker payroll taxes.
Faced with widespread opposition in the streets and in parliament, the government pushed through the overhaul using a constitutional provision that avoided a full parliamentary vote.
The move angered opponents who felt that they were not being listened to. What began with peaceful marches that drew millions into the streets spawned some “wild protests” marked by heavy vandalism and pan-beating demonstrations meant to express people’s discontent and frustration.
Is Macron in political trouble?
The upheaval over the changes to pensions has presented Macron with a harsh political reality.
Having lost his absolute majority in the National Assembly, the lower and more powerful house of parliament, he cannot push through contested reforms as easily as before.
In the Senate, he has no majority at all, making him dependent on the goodwill of the dominant center-right Republicans party with which he has sought, so far unsuccessfully, to forge an alliance.
In March, Macron’s government narrowly survived a no-confidence vote over the pension overhaul after several Republican lawmakers unexpectedly decided to turn against it.
Seeking to move past the troubles, Macron has embarked on countless visits to French cities and towns to announce measures ranging from raising teachers’ salaries to fighting forest fires.
He also gave himself until mid-July to deliver a handful of crucial measures to improve the working conditions of the French and to tackle illegal immigration. A long-awaited immigration bill has been repeatedly postponed, as it remains unclear whether the government can secure a majority to pass it.
Still, Macron’s efforts seem to be paying off.
His popularity, which had plummeted as a result of the pension changes, has risen by 4 percentage points over the past month, according to a recent survey conducted by the Elabe polling firm. The figure has now stabilized at around 30%, slightly below his popularity level in January, before the pension protests started.
What happens now?
Having exhausted most of their options to block the pension changes, including an attempt to allow a referendum on the issue, left-wing forces and labor unions are now pinning their hopes on a provision put forward by a small parliamentary faction to repeal the pension law.
The provision was removed at commission level, but left-wing parties are hoping to put it back on the agenda via an amendment that they would discuss in the National Assembly on Thursday. But the move is expected to be rejected by the house’s speaker, a member of Macron’s party.
Agrikoliansky, the Paris demonstrator, said he no longer believed the pension changes could be reversed. But he added that the way the overhaul had been pushed through had “crystallized a lot of anger, a strong resentment.”
“It’s a victory for the government, but one with mixed results,” he said. “They won, but they also lost a lot in terms of political credit.”
It may be that Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive, which could be in its early stages, will be as fruitless as Russia’s winter offensive. Defenders typically have advantages over attackers in trench warfare, and the Russian army has had months to dig in.
But it’s also possible that the Ukrainians could achieve breakthroughs that could put the end of the war in sight this year. What then? How should this end?
We can start by listing the ways in which it shouldn’t. The first is the one suggested last year by President Emmanuel Macron of France. “We must not humiliate Russia,” he argued, “so that the day when the fighting stops we can build an exit ramp through diplomatic means.” At the time, to “not humiliate Russia” was code for allowing Russia to preserve its ill-gotten gains while it was on the offensive.
Wrong. A crushing and unmistakable defeat is precisely what is necessary to put an end to Russia’s imperialistic ambition. It’s easy to forget now that last year’s invasion was the third time Vladimir Putin had launched a war of conquest, intimidation and annexation against his neighbors, following the invasion of Georgia in 2008 and the seizure of Ukrainian soil in 2014. And that’s not counting cyberwarfare against Estonia,
assassinations on British soil, the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, or the annihilation of Grozny.
Each act of aggression went essentially unpunished, tempting Russia into the next one. If the war in Ukraine ends with Putin having achieved at least some of his goals and suffering no irreparable consequences to his regime, the only “exit ramp” the West will have found is Putin’s on-ramp to his next outrage.
Similarly, if Ukrainian forces break through Russian lines in a way that prompts Putin to seek a settlement — probably through Chinese mediation — there will be those who argue that a cease-fire and armistice on the Korean model is preferable to the risks of a dramatic escalation. The Kremlin may try to encourage this line of thinking by again rattling its nuclear saber, this time even louder.
But while the nuclear threat should never be discounted, it looks empty on close inspection.
The reason Putin hasn’t used tactical nuclear weapons in this war thus far isn’t because of moral scruples that might vanish if he feels cornered. It’s because those weapons, which were originally designed to destroy large concentrations of armor, make little sense on a thinly spread battlefield. And because the Biden administration has threatened unspecified “catastrophic consequences” if Russia uses such weapons — perhaps involving the sinking of Russia’s Black Sea fleet or some other kinetic but non-nuclear NATO response.
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The larger problem with the armistice model is that it freezes the conflict in a way that would allow Russia to resume it once it has licked its wounds and regained its strength. As for Ukraine, it would have to become a garrison state even as its economy has been crippled by the war. Those who make the South Korea analogy neglect two things. First, Russia is intrinsically a more powerful state than North Korea. Second, peace on the Korean Peninsula has been preserved by a large and continuous 70-year U.S. military presence — one that relatively few Americans would have an appetite to duplicate in Ukraine.
The alternative is winning. It is what Ukrainians deserve, what the overwhelming majority want and what they demand from their political leadership. The goal has been both hindered and advanced by President Joe Biden’s fluctuating willingness to provide Kyiv with the tools it needs to win. It has also been stymied by his own ambivalence about the outcome he really desires, other than to not let Russia win and to not blow up the world in the process.
Winning comes in two flavors. The first, and riskier, is to provide Kyiv with the weapons it needs — mainly long-range guided missiles, more tanks, Predator
drones and F-16s — not only to push Russia out of the territories it seized in this war, but to retake Crimea and the breakaway “republics” in the east. This is what Ukrainians want, and what they are morally and legally entitled to.
But retaking Crimea will be hard, and even success will come with costs, primarily in the form of populations that aren’t necessarily eager to be liberated by Kyiv. Hence the second flavor: To help Ukraine restore its pre-February 2022 borders, but no further — with compensation in the form of membership in the European Union and a bilateral U.S.-Ukraine security treaty modeled on America’s security cooperation with Israel.
Would this increase U.S. exposure to Russian aggression? No, it would diminish it, for the same reason Putin didn’t dare attack the NATO-member Baltic States but twice attacked Ukraine: Dictators prey on the weak, not the strong. Would it satisfy Ukraine’s need for security? Yes, both in guaranteed access to Europe’s markets and America’s arms.
And would it humiliate Putin? In the best way possible, by showing him and other despots, within and beyond Russia, that aggression against democracies never pays.
S AN JUAN – En un caso insólito, un testigo del Panel del Fiscal Especial Independiente (PFEI) acudió el sábado a la casa de los padres de la jueza Nerisvel Durán Guzmán, en Villalba, quien denunció a la fiscal especial independiente Zulma Fúster Troche lo ocurrido, por lo que se desistió de continuar con el caso.
“En la mañana de hoy este tribunal se constituyó inicialmente en cámara para discutir con las partes unas incidencias ocurridas el pasado sábado 3 de junio y que esta juez entendió necesario divulgar a las partes. Le voy a solicitar a fiscal fúster que se dirigió al tribunal tal y como nos ha informado”, expresó la jueza Durán Guzmán en sala.
“En horas de la mañana, advenimos en conocimiento por voz de las juez Durán Guzmán, que un testigo de este caso del Ministerio Público, un testigo esencial y principal, dentro de los hechos y de las denuncias presentadas, comparenció a la casa de los señores padres de las juez en el pueblo de Villalba, a los efectos de influenciar indebidamente en este caso. Una vez inmediatamente advenimos en co-
nocimiento de esta información, procedí junto a los compañeros fiscales a confrontar a esta persona que las bueno habia informado había incurrido en esta conducta. Una vez confrontado, el testigo admitió haber incurrido en la conducta que la juez previamente nos había informado”, relató en sala Fúster Troche.
“A esos efectos, en nuestro deber ético, moral y nuestro deber de proteger la integridad de estos procesos judiciales, así como de la oficina que representamos de informarle a este tribunal en el día de hoy, que debido a que esta persona ha perdido total credibilidad dentro de estos procesos, habiendo sido una persona que prestó una declaración jurada dentro de estos procesos y que era testigo principal para nosotros, luego de haber incurrido en una conducta como ésta y de faltarle a todos los procedimientos establecidos, es nuestro deber en este momento solicitamos a existir de la vista de la Regla 6 en Alzada que habíamos presentado, su señoría”, añadió.
El Panel sobre el Fiscal Especial Independiente (PFEI) desistió de la vista de causa para arresto en alzada contra el senador Albert Torres Berríos, del Partido Popular Democrático.
El legislador no se presentó al Centro Judicial de San Juan debido a que está convaleciente de covid-19 y a una situación con su citación.
La abogada de Torres Berríos, Cándida Sellés Ríos, explicó a la prensa que el senador ha estado asistiendo al hospital en los últimos días de forma ambulatoria debido a su enfermedad. Sellés Ríos también reveló que hubo un problema con la citación del senador para la vista, aunque no especificó cuál fue la situación.
La Oficina del Panel sobre el Fiscal Especial Independiente (Opfei) tuvo un nuevo turno para demostrar al tribunal que existe al menos una “cintilla de evidencia” de que el senador cometió los cargos que se le imputan. Sin embargo, la vista, programada para las diez de la mañana, comenzó cerca del mediodía.
El 18 de abril, la jueza Alfrida M. Tomey Imbert determinó que no había causa para arresto contra Torres Berríos por un cargo de soborno, otro por toma de represalias en el entorno laboral y dos por interferencia con testigos. Estas son violaciones incluidas en el Código Penal y el Código Anticorrupción de Puerto Rico.
SAN JUAN – El presidente de la Comisión de Gobierno del Senado de Puerto Rico, Ramón Ruiz Nieves anunció la radicación del Proyecto del Senado 1236 que promueve la adopción de una política pública que facilite la integración de los residenciales públicos en la estrategia de producción de energía renovable, lo cual resulta indispensable para mitigar los efectos del cambio climático y promover la autonomía energética tanto de estas instalaciones gubernamentales como de sus residentes.
“La crisis mundial producida por el cambio climático es una amenaza emergente considerable para la salud pública y modifica la manera en que se debe considerar la protección de las poblaciones vulnerables. Se entiende por cambio climático la variación del clima de la Tierra provocado por los aumentos en la temperatura global atribuibles a actuaciones del ser humano. Este implica, entre muchos otros, la subida del nivel del mar, el derretimiento de los glaciares, la desertificación y numerosas modificaciones en los patrones meteorológicos”, expresó el senador Ramón Ruíz Nieves.
El legislador popular enfatizó que durante la pasada década las iniciativas para promover un incre -
mento en el uso de la energía renovable han ido en constante y marcado desarrollo. Recursos como la energía eólica, la energía solar y el biocombustible han estado han sido parte de las propuestas ampliamente discutidas en nuestro país como alternativas viables para impulsar una sustitución paulatina de la generación eléctrica mediante el uso de los combustibles fósiles. Incluso, se ha aprobado legislación, así como la asignación sustancial de fondos federales a los fines de fomentar el uso de energía renovable en Puerto Rico a nivel gubernamental e incentivar a la población a ser beneficiaria de esta. El buen uso de los recursos, incluyendo el aprovechamiento de la energía renovable, ayuda a mitigar el impacto del cambio climático.
“A raíz de los diversos eventos atmosféricos y terremotos que han afectado nuestra Isla, el Departamento de la Vivienda ha sido beneficiario de sustanciales recursos federales que pueden ser utilizados para realizar mejoras a la infraestructura de Puerto Rico, lo cual permite desarrollar iniciativas modernas de beneficio a largo plazo para garantizar una mejor calidad de vida a la ciudadanía. Una de las iniciativas que debemos encaminar con el uso de estos fondos federales es la instalación de paneles solares en las edificaciones de los residenciales públicos. Esta
iniciativa complementa y agiliza la necesaria transición de nuestro sistema de generación energética hacia fuentes renovables,” reiteró el senador del Distrito de Ponce.
Ruíz Nieves recalcó que el P. del S. 1236 hace requisito la instalación de equipos de generación solar en todo proyecto de construcción, reconstrucción, rehabilitación o modernización de residenciales públicos. La instalación de estos equipos de energía solar tendrá varios efectos positivos, incluyendo que brindará nuevas fuentes de producción de energía, promoverá una mayor autonomía energética a los residentes de estas comunidades y ayudará a reducir nuestra dependencia en los combustibles fósiles para la generación de electricidad.
Testigo del PFEI acude hasta los padres de una jueza para influir en caso contra senador popular Albert Torres Berríos
Desde el 1 de junio de 2021, los sobre 3,000 hombres y mujeres de LUMA han estado decididos a construir un mejor sistema eléctrico para Puerto Rico.
Nunca hemos dejado a un lado esta misión tan importante.
En tan solo dos años, hemos reemplazado sobre 5,000 postes, reparado subestaciones, despejado vegetación de sobre 1,400 millas de líneas eléctricas e instalado sobre 1,400 aparatos automatizados.
Hemos conectado a sobre 54,000 clientes con placas solares y hemos dado inicio a sobre 350 proyectos de FEMA, los cuales representan miles de millones en inversiones. Con estos proyectos modernizaremos subestaciones, reemplazaremos luminarias y construiremos la red eléctrica del futuro.
Para brindarte el mejor servicio, hemos reducido el tiempo de espera de llamadas a menos de dos minutos y hemos ayudado a distribuir sobre $97 millones en asistencia económica.
Todos en LUMA, ATCO y Quanta estamos sumamente orgullosos de lo que hemos logrado y, sobre todo, estamos muy entusiasmados por el futuro energético más brillante que juntos estamos construyendo.
Los hombres y mujeres de LUMA
Astrud Gilberto, whose soft and sexy vocal performance on “The Girl From Ipanema,” the first song she ever recorded, helped make the sway of Brazilian bossa nova a hit sound in the United States in the 1960s, died Monday. She was 83.
Her death was confirmed by Paul Ricci, a musician and a family friend, who said that Gilberto’s son Marcelo had authorized him to announce it. He provided no further details.
Gilberto enjoyed a four-decade recording career, cutting albums with celebrated musicians such as Gil Evans, Stanley Turrentine and James Last, as well as working with George Michael and others. But her biggest success came with “The Girl From Ipanema,” written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, with English lyrics by Norman Gimbel, which she sang on record with American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz.
When Gilberto recorded that song, she was married to João Gilberto, the Brazilian singer and guitarist often referred to as the father of the bossa nova. In 1963, the two of them traveled from Rio de Janeiro to New York City, where he was set to record a joint album with Getz, who had already released three albums that mixed jazz with samba and bossa nova.
Exactly who had the idea to involve Gilberto, an untested singer, on the album, later released as “Getz/Gilberto,” is unclear Some credit its producer, Creed Taylor; others credit Astrud Gilberto. The singer herself credited her husband.
“While rehearsing with Stan,” Gilberto said in a 2002 interview for her official websi-
te, “João casually asked me to join in and sing a chorus in English after he had just sung the first chorus in Portuguese.”
“Stan was very receptive, in fact very enthusiastic,” she continued. “I’ll never forget that while we were listening back to the just recorded song at the studio’s control room, Stan said to me, with a very dramatic expression, ‘This song is going to make you famous.’”
It helped that the version of the song released as a single in 1964 featured only Gilberto’s vocal and not her husband’s. With her sweetly wistful voice to guide it, the record shot to No 5 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and went on to sell more than 1 million copies. It won the Grammy Award for record of the year, and the album that contained it, which included one other vocal track from Gilberto, snagged three Grammys, including album of the year. It was the first album by a jazz artist to earn that distinction and one of only two to ever do so. (Herbie Hancock’s “River: The Joni Letters,” more than 40 years later, was the second.)
“The Girl From Ipanema” became one of the most-covered songs in pop music history. It has been featured in more than 50 films, many of them using the original GetzGilberto version.
Gilberto’s whispery voice, although limited in range and power, had a genuine ache and mystery to it, as well as the ability to evoke images of summers imagined or lost. “Her lan-
guid, affectless voice floated as lazily as a leaf on the Carioca breeze,” journalist and author James Gavin wrote in the liner notes for the 2001 collection “Astrud Gilberto Gold.” “One could almost hear the surf breaking and the sea gulls crying as she sang.”
Astrud Evangelina Weinert was born March 29, 1940, in Bahia, Brazil, to a German father, Fritz Weinert, a language professor, and a Brazilian mother, Evangelina Weinert, who was also an educator.
When Astrud was a girl, her family moved to Rio. There, during her teenage years, she befriended a group of young musicians who later became celebrated in Brazil, among them singer Nara Leão and songwriter Roberto Menescal. She met João Gilberto when she was 19, and they married several months later.
She began singing in private with her musical circle of friends, which grew to include more established names like Luiz Bonfa and Vinicius de Moraes. It was Moraes who wrote the original lyrics for “The Girl From Ipanema,” named after a beachside neighborhood in Rio where he and Jobim used to watch a beautiful woman they pined for walk by.
After the song became a smash hit, Getz and Taylor, the producer, described Gilberto in the press as a housewife they had discovered — a characterization that angered her, given the years she had spent privately singing with her friends and her husband. “I can’t help but to feel annoyed at the fact that they resorted to
lying,” she said in the interview on her website. She was also experiencing tension in her marriage and soon began a brief, fraught affair with Getz. (She and her husband divorced shortly after.) She toured the United States with Getz, billed as a guest singer; the resulting live album, “Getz Au Go Go” (1964), featured her on five tracks.
The success of that album led to a solo contract with Verve Records, Getz’s label. “The Astrud Gilberto Album,” released in 1965, just missed Billboard’s pop Top 40. For her third album, “Look to the Rainbow” (1966), she expanded her sound by working with arranger Gil Evans, best known for his work with Miles Davis.
While her music was respectfully received by American pop critics, Gilberto never earned a parallel response from critics in Brazil, who felt she had lucked into her career. As a result, Gilberto, who had emigrated to America in the mid-1960s, performed in her native country only once.
(Nevertheless, “The Girl From Ipanema” was popular enough in Brazil that it was performed at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro by Daniel Jobim, the composer’s grandson, as model Gisele Bündchen walked across the stage and the audience sang along.)
She also complained of being treated poorly by her record company. “There was a problem collecting what was mine,” she told The New York Times in 1981. “I was doing a great deal of producing of my own albums. I got no credit.”
After releasing eight albums for Verve, Gilberto signed in 1971 with Creed Taylor’s label, CTI Records, and recorded an album with saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.
In the 1980s, she recorded with the James Last Orchestra and began to expand her scope by writing her own material. In 1996, she sang a duet with George Michael on “Desafinado” for the album “Red Hot + Rio,” whose profits went to benefit AIDS-related causes. In 2002, she released her final album, “Jungle,” and retired from public performances. Six years later, she received a Latin Grammy Award for lifetime achievement.
In addition to Marcelo Gilberto, her son from her first marriage, Gilberto is survived by another son, Gregory Lasorsa, from her second marriage, to Nicholas Lasorsa, which ended in divorce, and two granddaughters. Both her sons are musicians who often worked with her. João Gilberto died in 2019.
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Ms. Gilberto in concert in 1985. She began to expand her scope in the 1980s by writing her own material.
An eye-watering and cough-inducing smoky haze from Canadian wildfires smothered a swath of the eastern and northern United States on Tuesday, with officials warning residents with health risks to stay indoors and keep their windows closed.
Health alerts were issued from New York to the Carolinas, and as far west as Minnesota. In New York City, the smoke could be tasted as well as smelled, and it wrapped the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and Manhattan’s other landmarks in a blanket of orangegray haze.
IQAir, a technology company that tracks air quality and pollution, said New York’s air quality was among the worst in the world on Tuesday night; the city usually does not rank in the top 3,000. One fan at the game between the Yankees and the Chicago White Sox being played in the Bronx likened the experience to being inside “one of those old-school Weber grills,” although the game continued without interruption.
The smoke was pouring across the border from Canada, where hundreds of wildfires remain unchecked, and the hazardous smoke conditions are expected to linger through Wednesday and perhaps until later in the week.
“It’s going to be here for a while,” said Bryan Ramsey, a National Weather Service meteorologist in New York. It is possible that conditions could ease Wednesday, he said, before another blanket of smoke descends on the East Coast in the afternoon.
In North Carolina, the state’s Department of Environmental Quality said the state would be under Code Red or Code Orange air quality alerts through Wednesday because of the “rapidly rising levels of fine particle pollution attributed to smoke” from the wildfires. Officials are urging residents, particularly
those with asthma, to stay indoors as much as possible.
In satellite images, the smoke appeared to be particularly thick over portions of Quebec, Ontario and New York.
The worst effects were in Canada, where more than 400 active wildfires were burning, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center, exacerbating an active wildfire season that is expected only to worsen. More than 200 fires, many of them in Quebec, were burning out of control, the agency said. Toronto briefly ranked among the worst 10 cities in air quality on Tuesday.
An estimated 26,000 people across Canada had been evacuated as of Monday, Bill Blair, Canada’s minister of public safety, said at a news conference.
“The images that we have seen so far this season are some of the most severe ever witnessed in Canada,” Blair said.
Hundreds of soldiers were deployed across Canada to help with firefighting efforts. Many Canadians who had to evacuate in recent days had just a few hours to pack before fleeing, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at the news conference.
“This is a scary time for a lot of people,” Trudeau said.
Trudeau said Monday that forecasts indicated that “this may be an especially severe wildfire season throughout the summer.”
There have been more than 2,200 wildfires in Canada this year, according to the country’s fire agency.
Though it is difficult to link any particular fire outbreak to climate change, a landmark United Nations report concluded last year that the risk of devastating wildfires around the world would surge in coming decades as climate change further intensified what the report called a “global wildfire crisis.”
As the air-quality crisis continues, older adults, children and people with heart or lung conditions, including asthma, will be especially at risk, officials warned.
The New York Road Runners, the organization that owns and stages the New York City Marathon, urged runners living in areas polluted by the smoke to consider not running on Global Running Day on Wednesday. Jennifer Stowell, a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University School of Public Health, who has studied the health effects of wildfires, told The New York Times in 2020 that wildfire smoke “may be more toxic” to the lungs than standard urban air pollution.
In Oswego, New York, on Lake Ontario, the smoke created a haze that settled over the city Tuesday and gave the sky a yellowish tint most of the day. By evening, a steady breeze had picked up, but the smell of smoke was still detectable and the streets were mostly empty.
School districts in Oswego County canceled athletic events and outdoor after-school activities. The Oswego Little League said it was canceling all of its games out of an abundance of caution. Even a planned D-Day ceremony in the nearby city of Fulton to honor a soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his actions on June 6, 1944, was postponed.
Though the Yankees played on, their top minor league team canceled a home game in Moosic, Pennsylvania.
In Manhattan on Tuesday evening, some commuters were startled by the smell.
At the subway station at West 86th Street and Broadway around 6:45 p.m., passengers trudged up the stairs and onto the street and gasped. The sky was a strange orange-gray, and the cool air smelled of smoke.
“This morning, it smelled like burnt toast, but now it’s more like campfire,” said Benjamin Lukas, 47, who was on his way to his mother’s apartment to cook her dinner. “It’s just wild.”
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRH’IERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE MARIA MARGARITA
MALDONADO
MALDONADO T/C/C
MARÍA M. MALDONADO
COMPUESTA POR: AMARILIS VIERA
MALDONADO, ANA B.
VIERA MALDONADO, LA SUCESIÓN DE ALEXANDER VIERA
MALDONADO COMPUESTA POR
PERENGANO Y SUTANEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE ALEXANDER VIERA
MALDONADO, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ANTONIO ROSARIO RIVERA COMPUESTA
POR: JAVIER ROSARIO
MALDONADO; PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: BY2021CV04056.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA
POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 9 de septiembre de 2022 y notificada el 6 de marzo de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 20 de abril de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 2 de mayo de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el Cuarto
Piso de la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, ubicado en la Carretera Número Dos (#2), Kilómetro 10.4, Esquina Calle Esteban Padilla, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda
de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad:
URBANA: Solar marcado con el Número dos (2) de la manzana catorce (14) de la Urbanización Sierra Bayamón, situada en el Barrio Hato Tejas de Bayamón, con un área de 332.45 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el
NORTE: con Solar Número uno (1) distancia de 25.00 metros; por el SUR: con el Solar Número tres (3), distancia de 25.00 metros; por el ESTE: con Calle Número catorce (14), distancia de 13 metros, 298 milésimas de metros; y por el OESTE: con The Mall, distancia de 13 metros 298 milésimas de metros. Enclava una casa de hormigón y bloques para una familia. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 246 del tomo 156 de Bayamón Norte, Finca 7334. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita como asiento abreviado al folio 2653 del tomo 270 de Bayamón Norte, Finca 7334. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. Inscripción séptima (7ma). Dirección Física: Urb. Sierra Bayamón, 14-2 Calle 14, Bayamón PR 00961-4434. Número de Catastro: 15-085004-935-02-001. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $50,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $33,333.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado; o sea, $25,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $31,689.73 de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma de 7.25% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2020 hasta su completo pago, más $276.64 de recargos acumula-
dos, más la cantidad estipulada de $5,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Sucesión de María Margarita Maldonado Maldonado t/c/c María M. Maldonado compuesta por Alexander Viera Maldonado, Amarilis Viera Maldonado, Ana B. Viera Maldonado, Fulano y Mengano, Sucesión José Antonio Rosario Rivera compuesta por Sutano y Perencejo de ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil Número BY2021CV04056, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $31,689.73 y otras cantidades, según demanda de fecha de 7 de octubre de 2021. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Bayamón Norte. Anotación A. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta corno bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de mayo de 2023. JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXI-
LIAR PLACA #131, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.
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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
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE JORGE LUIS OLIVERAS REYES COMPUESTA POR ERIC DOEL TIRADO DASTAS EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA Y COMO HEREDERO
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: BY2019CV03490. (504). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia Sumaria dictada el 29 de marzo de 2023 y notificada el 30 de marzo de 2023 , la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 4 de mayo de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 5 de mayo de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Cuarto Piso de la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, ubicado en la Carretera Número Dos (#2), Kilómetro 10.4, Esquina Esteban Padilla, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Apartamento seis guion A (6A) del Condominio Lago Vista de Levittown. Apartamento de una sola planta terrera cuyas dimensiones exteriores son 41’ 6” de ancho por 36’ 6” de largo y un área interior de piso de 1,165.55 pies cuadrados y consta de un sala-comedor, cocina, área de laundry, tres cuartos dormitorios, un cuarto de baño, una terraza y cinco closets. Su puerta principal está localizada en la sala-comedor
Thursday, June 8, 2023
y conduce al solar en el cual está localizado el edificio. Tiene una participación de 2.16414% en las ganancias y gastos comunes y derechos en los elementos comunes generales. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 20 del tomo 205 de Toa Baja, Finca 12588. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección II. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 22 del tomo 205 de Toa Baja, Finca 12588. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección II. Inscripción quinta. (5da). Dirección Física: Cond. Lago Vista I, Blq Monroig, Apt. A6, Toa Baja PR 00949. Número de Catastro: 13-038-050-228-06-013. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $87,975.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $58,650.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $43.987.50. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $63,653.04 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.5% anual desde el 1 de noviembre de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $626.93 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $8,797.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. La Sucesión de Jorge Luis Oliveras Reyes compuesta por Israel Oliveras Pagán, Emilia Reyes Pérez, Fulano y Mengano de Tal y Eric Doel Tirado Dastas, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior
Bayamón, en el Caso Civil Número BY2019CV03490, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $63,653.04 y otras cantidades, según demanda de fecha de 21 de junio de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Toa Baja. Anotación A. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de mayo de 2023.
José F. Marrero Robles, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #131, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA
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JANET CRUZ
BAHAMUNDI T/C/C
SANDRA JEANNETTE
CRUZ BAHAMUNDI
T/C/C SANDRA J.
SMITH T/C/C SANDRA SMITH COMPUESTA
POR GISELLE KRUG
T/C/C GISELLE SMITH
T/C/C GISELLE SMITH
CRUZ, BEVERLY SMITH
CRUZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: AG2022CV00056.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de AGUADILLA , 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 AGUADILLA , el 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 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 radicado en la Urbanización Marbella, situada en el Barrio Borinquen de Aguadilla, marcado en el plano de inscripción de dicha Urbanización con el numero doscientos dieciocho (218) de la Calle F, compuesto de CUATROCIENTOS DIECISIETE
PUNTO NOVENTA METROS
CUADRADOS (417.90 M.C.)
En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle F, distancia de dieciocho punto cincuenta (18.50) metros y la mitad de un arco de dos puntos setenta y cinco (2.75) metros, con una distancia total
de veintinueve punto veinticinco (29.25) metros; por el SUR, con el Solar numero doscientos diecisiete (217), distancia de diecisiete punto diecinueve (17.19) metros; por el ESTE, con la Calle “E”, distancia de veintidós punto cero cero (22.00) metros y la mitad de un arco de dos punto setenta y cinco (2.75) metros, con una distancia total de veinticuatro punto setenta y cinco (24.75) metros y por el OESTE, con el Solar numero doscientos diecinueve (219), distancia de dieciocho punto cincuenta y un (18.51) metros. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado, diseñada para una familia. Consta inscrita al folio 22 del tomo 155 de Aguadilla, finca 6,896, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. La Hipoteca Revertida consta presentada al Asiento 1384 del Diario 849, finca 6,896 de Aguadilla, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla, inscripción 4ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. MARBELLA, 218 CALLE F, AGUADILLA, PR 00603. 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: $139,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 20 de marzo de 2099. 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 $139,500.00, 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 AGUADILLA , el 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $93,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido original-
mente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $69,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de AGUADILLA , el 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 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 $53,224.60 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $43,213.40 en intereses acumulados al 16 de junio de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $12,535.24 en seguro hipotecario; $4,932.84 en seguro; $1,595.00 de tasaciones; $962.00 de inspecciones; $10,952.80 de preservación; $6,120.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $13,950.00, 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 AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de mayo de 2023.
ANTONIA RIVERA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL PLACA #763.
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE CARMEN ADA JIMENEZ RESTO COMPUESTA
POR CARMEN REYES
JIMENEZ, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Y LA ADMINISTRACION
PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES
Demandado (a)
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV06743.
Sala: 508. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTOS.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN
ADA JIMENEZ RESTO.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de abril 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 1 de junio de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 1 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARTHA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
LANZO QUIÑONES, MARIA CONSUELO
Demandada
Civil Núm.: FBCI2016-01055. Sala: 604. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA).
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: MARIA CONSUELO LANZO QUIÑONES; AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL Y A LOS ACREEDORES DE LOS SIGUIENTES GRAVAMENES POSTERIORES:
nóvanas, finca número 9,102, inscripción 10ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 31 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Carolina. En relación a la propiedad a subastarse, la cantidad mínima de licitación en la Primera Subasta será la suma de $71,327.40.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CANÓVANAS EN CAROLINA FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
El Alguacil que suscribe, anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Canóvanas en Carolina, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, de contado y por moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número Ciento Diez y Ocho A en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad rural San Isidro del Barrio Canóvanas del término municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos sesenta y nueve punto treinta y uno metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con Calle de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con parcela número Ciento Diez y Ocho de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número Ciento Veinte de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número Ciento Diez y Ocho de la Comunidad. Inscrita al folio “134” del tomo “188” de Canóvanas. Finca Número “9,102”. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina. Dirección física:118 -A Calle 1, San Isidro, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico 00729. En relación a la finca a subastarse se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $ 71,327.40, con intereses al 4.00% anual, vencedero el día 1 de febrero de 2033, constituida mediante la escritura número 744, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de enero de 2013, ante la notario Leilany Carrión del Toro, e inscrita al folio 34 del tomo 365 de Ca-
Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $47,551.60. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $35,663.70.
Dicha Subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Dicha venta se llevará a efecto, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de su Sentencia, a saber: CINCUENTA Y UN MIL CIENTO SESENTA DÓLARES CON TREINTA Y OCHO CENTAVOS $51,403.62, a 1 de marzo del 2016, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la anterior obligación y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma acordada de CINCO MIL CIENTO CUARENTA DOLARES CON TREINTA Y SEIS CENTAVOS ($5140.36) para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, condenándola además, al pago de cualquier adelanto que haya hecho la parte Demandante, condenándola además, la cantidad por el “PIGGY BAG” de DIECIOCHO MIL SETECIENTOS SESENTA Y SEIS DÓLARES CON CINCUENTA CENTAVOS ($18,766.50) que no acumula intereses, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la Escritura de Hipoteca y del Pagaré Hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de
circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuaran subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el Tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Se informa que la propiedad objeto de ejecución se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 23 de mayo de 2023. GRETCHEN M. JEREZ SEDA, ALGUACIL PLACA #568.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. PEDRO JOSE RIVERA RIVERA; JESUS MANUEL
PADILLA PEREZ
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2018CV01171. Salón Núm.: 408. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.
U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL, PLACA #278, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha del 28 de noviembre de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Carolina en relación con la Sentencia Sumaria dictada en 7 de marzo de 2022, notificada y archivada en autos el 7 de marzo de 2022, y publicada la Notificación de Sentencia Por Edicto en 16 de marzo de 2022, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número
cuatro(4) del Bloque J de la Urbanización Castellana Gardens del Barrio Sabana Abajo de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de trescientos punto quince (300.15) metros cuadrados, colinda por el SUR, en trece punto cero cinco (13.05) metros, con la calle doce (12); por el NORTE, en trece punto cero cinco (13.05) metros, con el solar número “J” guión nueve (J-9); por el ESTE en veintitrés (23.00) metros con el solar “J” guión cinco (J-5); y por el OESTE, en veintitrés (23.00) metros con el solar número “J” guión tres (J-3). Por la colindancia Norte hay una servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. Contiene una casa de concreto armado y bloques de concreto de una sola planta que consiste de sala comedor, cocina, tres dormitorios, dos baños, marquesina y balcón. Consta inscrita al folio 204 del tomo 296 de Carolina, finca número 11,231, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Carolina.
Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico.
b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor de los Estados Unidos de América. d. Servidumbre de paso. e. Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de Carolina. f. Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. g. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación y uso. Dirección de la propiedad: Urbanización Castellana Gardens, J4 Calle 12, Carolina Puerto Rico 00979. Se apercibe a los licitadores para que procedan con la inspección física del inmueble objeto de ejecución previo a la celebración de las subastas. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la propiedad anteriormente descrita y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como
sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 31 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE. PRECIO MÍNIMO:
$120,150.00. SEGUNDA SU-
BASTA: Se celebrará el 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $80,100.00. TERCERA
SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $60,075.00. Las subastas se llevarán a cabo para satisfacer al Banco demandante de las siguientes sumas de dinero adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la Sentencia dictada, a saber, la suma de $94,770.00 adeudada por concepto de principal e intereses vencidos al 31 de mayo de 2018, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, los cargos por
demora vencidos que a igual fecha ascienden a $2,691.62, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, las sumas adeudadas por concepto de seguros y/o contribuciones, la suma de $52.00 por concepto de adelantos (Corp Advances), más la suma de $12,015.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Tribunal de Carolina, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses acumulados hasta la fecha de la subasta según pactados hasta su total y completo pago, en cuarto término, las sumas establecidas para el pago de recargos por demora hasta la fecha de la subasta y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada. Disponiéndose, que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. El inmueble anteriormente descrito se encuentra afecto al siguiente gravamen posterior: ANOTACIÓN PREVENTIVA DE DEMANDA radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, Civil Número CA2018-CV1171, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria de fecha 12 de junio de 2018, seguida por Firstbank Puerto Rico (Demandante)
Vs. Pedro José Rivera Rivera y Jesús Manuel Padilla Pérez (Demandada). Por la misma se reclama el pago de la suma de $94,770.00, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado al Tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 11,231, Anotación A, el cual se refiere al caso del epígrafe en la presente causa de acción. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el
rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, toda vez que el precio de remate no se destina a su extinción. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, durante horas laborables. Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 12 de mayo de 2023. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Vs. SUCESIÓN ES DE IVAN IRIZARRY MEDINA Y DE MARIA GONZALEZ DE IRIZARRY COMPUESTA POR MARÍA IRIZARRY GONZÁLEZ, SONIA IRIZARRY GONZALEZ E IVAN IRIZARRY GONZALEZ (QEPD); SUCESIÓN DE IVÁN IRIZARRY GONZÁLEZ COMPUESTA POR ANA MARÍA IRIZARRY
MENDEZ, IVAN RICARDO IRIZARRY MEND; MARIA ISABEL IRIZARRY CANTONI Y VALERIA IRIZARRY CANTONI, JOHN DOE
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV01640. (908). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO POR SUMAC.
A: ANA MARÍA IRIZARRY
MENDEZ, IVAN RICARDO IRIZARRY
MENDEZ, MARIA ISABEL IRIZARRY CANTONI Y VALERIA IRIZARRY
CANTONI Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.
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 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 1 de junio de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 1 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUCRECIA PAGÁN MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. WILLIAM SANCHEZ RUIZ, MERILYN MELENDEZ SERRANO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESA POR AMBOS, SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE DESARROLLO URBANO Y VIVIENDA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, JOHN DOE
Demandado(a)
Civil: TA2023CV00141. Sobre:
CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ
EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA
JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: WILLIAM SANCHEZ RUIZ, MERILYN MELENDEZ SERRANO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESA POR AMBOS, SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE DESARROLLO URBANO Y VIVIENDA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, JOHN DOE.
(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 24 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 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 1 de junio de 2023. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 1 de junio de 2023.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN 607-609 CONDADO ST., LLC.
Demandante V. LUIS ÁNGEL LÓPEZ OLMEDO Y LA SUCESIÓN DE SILVIA MATOS DE LÓPEZ, COMPUESTA POR LUIS ÁNGEL LÓPEZ OLMEDO, SYLVIA LIZZETTE LÓPEZ MATOS Y SYLVIA BEATRIZ LÓPEZ MATOS
Demandado
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00774. (807). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.
A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL
PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 12 de octubre de 2022, notificada el 18 de octubre de 2022 y publicada el 25 de octubre de 2022, una Orden de Ejecución de Embargo emitida el 18 de mayo de 2023 y un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Embargo emitido el día 26 de mayo de 2023, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de San Juan, procederá a vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, y/o giro postal, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 11 DE JULIO DE 2023; A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Oficina #204. Colinda por el OESTE, en 35’ 8”, con la pared exterior del edificio hacia la Avenida Condado; por el ESTE, en igual medida, con la pared interior que lo separa d la oficina #205 y con pasillo común; por el NORTE, en 20’, con la pared que lo separa d la oficina #203; y por el SUR, en 14’, con pared exterior del edificio hacia su colindancia con la calle denominada “Rolan”. Comprende un área de 546 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente y tiene su entrada y salida hacia el Este por el pasillo común con el cual colinda en ese lado. La oficina descrita forma parte del segundo piso del edificio denominado “Condominio Condado”. Porcentaje en los elementos comunes del edificio de 0.021%.
FINCA NÚMERO: 4899, inscrita al folio 180 del tomo 151 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan. Dirección física: 609 Condado St., Suite 204, San Juan PR 00907. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente, según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por la suma de $18,132.48, más las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Esta subasta no tiene fijación de tipo mínimo por tratarse de una ejecución de sentencia por embargo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsis-
tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 31 de mayo de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. JUAN A. SANTANA GARCÍA, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. GOLDEN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC H/N/C GOLDEN MORTGAGE BANKERS, RICARDO IZURIETA ORTEGA, SONIA BERRÍOS PÉREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2023CV00012. (302). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: GOLDEN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC H/N/C GOLDEN MORTGAGE
BANKERS a la siguientes direcciones: URB BELISA, 1534 CALLE BORI, SAN JUAN, PR 00927-6116, PO BOX 8449, SAN JUAN, PR 00910-0449; RICARDO IZURIETA ORTEGA, SONIA BERRÍOS PÉREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS a las siguientes direcciones: COND. CLUSTER LAS VISTAS DE RIO MAR, APTO 1403, RIO GRANDE, PR 00745, URB. MONTEHIEDRA, 146 CALLE GUARAGUAO, SAN JUAN, PR 009267101. URB CROWN HILLS, 138 AVE WINSTON CHURCHILL PMB 914, SAN JUAN, PR 009266013, 9410 AVE LOS
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 2 de febrero de 2004, Ricardo Izurieta Ortega y su esposa Sonia Berríos Pérez constituyeron una hipoteca en San Juan, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 17, autorizada por el notario Ernesto Rafael Lugo Sotomayor en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo el testimonio núm. 431 por la suma de $300,000.00 a favor de Golden Financial Services, Inc h/n/c Golden Mortgage Bankers, o a su orden, con intereses 5.625% anual y vencedero el 1ro de febrero de 2011, sobre la siguiente propiedad: RESIDENTIAL UNIT
NUMBER 1403: HORIZONTAL
PROPERTY: Residential Unit number 1403 which is part of the Horizontal Property Regime known as Condominio Las Vistas de Rio Mar, located within the Rio Mar Development as the Mameyes Ward of the Municipality of Rio Grande It is three bedrooms, two level unit with a total construction area of approximately 2,203.4 square feet equivalent to 204.70 square meters. The maximum length of this unit is 50 feet and its maximum with is 25 feet. This unit is identified with the number 1,403 of Cluster number 5, located on the North side of the Regime. Its boundaries are by the NORTH, in a distance of 38 feet, with Apartment number 1402; by the SOUTH, in a distance of 50 feet, with Apartment number 1404, by the EAST and WEST, in a distance of 25 feet, with common areas. Its boundaries in the second level area; by the NORTH, in a distance of 42 feet with apartment #1402; by the SOUTH, in a distance of 46 feet 10 inches with apartment #1404, by the EAST, in a distance of 25 feet with common areas and by the WEST, in a distance of 25 feet with common areas; This unit is built as typical two-level model. Its entrance, located on its West side on the fourth floor of the building. On its first level it opens into a foyer which leads to a family room area which leads to two bedrooms with closet and bathroom, a master bedroom with a terrace, a walk-in closet and bathroom, a laundry room and storage closet. Contiguous to the foyer is the staircase which leads to the upper to a hall that leads to a half bathroom, a storage closet, a terrace on its West side, living and dining room area that
opens to a terrace on its East side Contiguous to the living and dining area is the Kitchen. This unit has for its private use three parking spaces numbers 53, 6 and 54 on second level. This unit has a participation of 1.4155 % in the Common Elements of the Condominium. Inscrita al folio 84 del tomo 538 de Río Grande, Finca 28410. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 84 vuelto del tomo 538 de Río Grande, Finca 28410. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Inscripción segunda. 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 25 de mayo de 2023, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ANA CELIS MÁRQUEZ APONTE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC.
Demandante V.
JOSE MIGUEL BERGODERE COLON, RAMONITA BRUCELES LOPEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, MORTGAGE PLUS EQUITY & LOAN CORPORATION, JOHN DOE
Demandadas Civil Núm.: CG2023CV01302.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR
LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: MORTGAGE PLUS EQUITY & LOAN CORPORATION Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ a favor de Mortgage Plus Equity & Loan Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma de $84,000.00, con intereses al 12.85% anual, vencedero el día 1 de junio de 2013, constituida mediante la escritura número 88, otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de mayo de 1998, ante el notario Ismael H. Herrero III, e inscrita al folio 171vto del tomo 1071 de Caguas, finca número 36,328, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Caguas, inscripción 2da. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramaiudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar https://unired. ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son.
ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE:
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393
BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP
Suite 209
500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670
Fax: (787) 523-2664
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este tribunal, hoy 1ro de junio de 2023. LISILDA
MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO,
SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS CONSEJO DE TITULARES DE LA URB. LIRIOS CALA, INC. Parte Demandante Vs. JOSE ANTONIO DAVILA ZABALA Y MARITZA PLAZA DIAZ, AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOC. LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Caso Núm.: EECI201000043. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOSE ANTONIO DAVILA ZABALA Y MARITZA PLAZA DIAZ, AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOC. LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. (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 18 de septiembre de 2015, 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 2 de junio de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 2 de junio de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JESSENIA PEDRAZA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
Demandante V. ANTONIO RIVERA TAÑÓN
Demandado(a)
Civil: NJ2022CV00068. Sala
502. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
(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 30 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 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 31 de mayo de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 31 de mayo de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA I. BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE LUQUILLO ISLAND PORFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE GESTOR DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.
Demandante V. LILIANA TORRES RAMIREZ
Demandado(a)
Civil: LU2022CV00033. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: LILIANA TORRES RAMIREZ. URB. VILLAS DE RIO GRANDE, AL27
CALLE 30, RIO GRANDE PR 00745-2727; PO BOX
1510, LUQUILLO PR
00773-1510.
(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 25 de mayo de 2022, 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 30 de mayo de 2023. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 30 de mayo de 2023. Wanda I. Seguí Reyes, Secretaria Regional. Ana Celis Márquez Aponte, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. IVETTE LÓPEZ RAMOS Y LA SUCESIÓN DE ORLANDO ROSA
FIGUEROA COMPUESTA
POR SUS HIJOS: JIMARIE
ROSA LÓPEZ, IVETTE
MARIE ROSA LOPEZ, ORLANDO FÉLIX ROSA
LÓPEZ Y JACKELINE
ROSA ROSADO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE
COMO HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO
E IVETE LÓPEZ RAMOS EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE IMPUESTOS
MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV07839. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
ORLANDO ROSA
FIGUEROA COMPUESTA
POR SUS HIJOS: JIMARIE ROSA LÓPEZ, IVETTE MARIE ROSA
LOPEZ Y JACKELINE ROSA ROSADO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE
COMO HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO.
LA SECRETARIA 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 Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 60 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 2 de junio de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 2 de junio de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Elsa Magaly Candelario Cabrera, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.
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. MARIA MERCEDES ARROYO RODRÍGUEZ
Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2023CV01646. Salón: 703. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: MARIA MERCEDES ARROYO RODRÍGUEZ.
(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 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 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 2 de junio de 2023. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 2 de junio de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. LEGAL FINAN CE CORP., TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO LEGAL FINANCE CORPORATION; DORAL MORTGAGE LLC, ANTES CONOCIDA COMO DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION; FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC); CANCELLATION SERVICES, INC; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MÁS CUAL
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01687.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE HIPOTECA, REPRESENTADA POR PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: FULANO DE TAL, Y MENGANO MAS CUAL; LEGAL FINANCE CORP., TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO LEGAL FINANCE CORPORATION.
Se emplaza y notifica a ustedes que se ha presentado una demanda en este caso, en la cual en síntesis, la parte demandante alega que se extravió un pagare hipotecario que estaba en poder de “Cancellation Services, Inc.”, y solicita que se ordene la cancelación de la hipoteca que lo garantiza. El pagaré fue librado por el Sr. Roberto E. Galiñanes, y su esposa, la
Thursday, June 8, 2023
Sra. Nélida García, a favor de “Legal Finance Corporation”, o a su orden, por la suma de $31,200.00, más intereses y créditos accesorios, vencedero en mayo del 2005, según surge de la escritura #129, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 8 de abril de 1975 ante el Notario Público Ornar Cancio Sifre. La referida escritura consta inscrita al folio 242 vuelto del tomo 463 de Carolina, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera (I) de Carolina, finca #17,805, inscripción 6ta. Pueden ver la demanda en su totalidad en este Tribunal. Los abogados de la Parte Demandante lo son: Sandra De L. Tous-Chevres y Raúl J. Tous Bobonis, Urb. Santa María, 1789 Calle Diamela, San Juan, Puerto Rico 009276330, teléfonos 751-8834 \ 3824, a quien deberá notificar la contestación de la demanda dentro de los próximos 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los próximos 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), 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 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. Dado bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal y por Orden del mismo hoy 01 de junio de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY M. RAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC
Demandante V.
LA SUCESIÓN DE IDALIA LIVIA SÁNCHEZ
VILLAMIL, TAMBIÉN
CONOCIDA COMO
IDALIA LIDIA SÁNCHEZ
VILLAMIL Y COMO
VILLAMIL
HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV06682. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA - IN REM. 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 Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 5 DE JULIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar sito en el barrio Monacillos del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, identificado con el número 12 en el bloque XB de la Urbanización Jardines Metropolitanos. Tiene una cabida de 325.00 metros cuadrados.
En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle número 24 de la Urbanización en 13 metros, por el ESTE, con el solar número 13 del bloque XB en 25 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número 27 del bloque XB de la Urbanización en 13 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número 11 del bloque XB en 25 metros. Consta inscrita al folio 85 del tomo 3 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, finca número 64, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Quinta de San Juan. Propiedad localizada en: 314 EDISON ST. JARDINES METROPOLITANOS, SAN JUAN, PR 00927. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o preferentes. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra-
vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Metro lsland Mortgage, lnc. o a su orden por la suma principal de $38,000.00 con intereses a razón del 8.25% anual y vencimiento el 1 de septiembre de 2017. Constituida por la Escritura 114 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de agosto de 2007 ante el notario David García Medina. Inscrita el 17 de febrero del 2009 al folio 94 vuelto del Tomo 303 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, finca número 64, inscripción 18a. Posteriormente CANCELADA PARCIALMENTE Y MODIFICADA a la nueva suma principal de $37,020.39 con intereses a razón del 6% anual y vencimiento el 1 de noviembre de 2033 según consta de la Escritura 32 otorgada en San Juan el 19 de octubre de 2018 ante el notario José V. Garbea Varona. Inscrita el 28 de enero del 2020 al Tomo Digital Karibe de la finca 64 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, inscripción 20a. 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 $137,674.52, 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 12 DE JULIO DE 2023
A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $91,783.13, 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 $68,837.26, 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 19 DE JULIO 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 $125,119.28 de principal; intereses al 5.582%, los cuales se acumulan mensualmente desde el 1ro. de octubre de 2020 hasta el saldo total de la deuda para un total de $151,444.48;
$13,767.45 por concepto de honorarios de abogado; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga 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 31 de mayo de 2023. Pedro Hieye González, Alguacil De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De San Juan, Sala Superior.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC.
Demandante V. EDGARDO TORRES COLON
Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: AR2021CV00680. Sala: 401. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: EDGARDO TORRES COLON (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 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 Sen-
tencia, 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 1 de junio de 2023. En ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, el 1 de junio de 2023. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria Regional. Jacquelyne González Quintana, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
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TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE, INC.
Demandante V. LA SUCESION DE ROSENDO CASTRO NIEVES COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2023CV01314. Salón: 703. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA VÍA ORDINARIA.
NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: FULANA Y FULANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ROSENDO CASTRO NIEVES.
(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 1 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 5 de junio de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 5 de junio de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC
Demandante V. DAHIL RIVERA TORRES, FULANO DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2021CV05222. Sala: 505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: DAHIL RIVERA TORRES, FOR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES - URB
RIO HONDO II AE24
RIO ESPIRITU SANTO BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO 00961,FULANO DE TAL, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE, GANANCIALESURB RIO HONDO II AE24
RIO ESPIRITU SANTO BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO 00961.
(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 29 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 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 edic-
to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de mayo de 2023. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 30 de mayo de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
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. SUCESION DE MAGDALY MARTIN PEREZ T/C/C MADGALY MARTINEZ PEREZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2022CV06264. Sala:
502. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: DIANA IBÁÑEZ MARTÍN COMO HEREDERA CONOCIDA DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MAGDALY MARTÍN PÉREZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN, URB. RESIDENCIAS DE MONTE VERDE, F-S CALLE 6, TOA ALTA, PR 00953, DIRECCIÓN POSTAL:
404 BUNKER CIRCLE SANDSTONE, VIRGINIA 23150. (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 2 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 5 de junio de 2023.
En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 5 de junio de 2023. LIC. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN M. PINTADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESION DE LIGIA GARCIA COLON COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS COMO ARMANDO LUIS SOLIVAN GARCÍA, SARA CRISTAL SOLIVAN GARCÍA Y AZAREEL RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN Demandados
Civil Núm.: AI2023CV00163.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: ARMANDO LUIS SOLIVAN GARCÍA, SARA CRISTAL SOLIVAN GARCÍA Y AZAREEL RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LIGIA GARCÍA COLÓN; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN. URB. VALLE ESCONDIDO B-16, CALLE ESPINO RUBIAL, COAMO, PR 00769; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: 300 BEL AIR DR. 190 VACAVILLE, CALIFORNIA 95687 Y 3285 PSC 103 APO, AE 009603.
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 Aibonito, Puerto Rico, 5 de junio de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
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. SUCESION DE FERDINAND BERMUDEZ RIVERA T/C/C FERDINAD
BERMUDEZ RIVERA
COMPUESTA POR
SU VIUDA LUZ DELIA
SANTOS CARABALLO T/C/C LUZ D. SANTOS CARABALLO, POR SI; MAGALY BERMUDEZ PEREZ Y DAGMAPJ
BERMUDEZ PEREZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN LA SUCESION
Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2022CV05172. Sala: 505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O TERCEROS CON INTERES.
(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 14 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 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 5 de junio de 2023. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 5 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA
Demandado(a)
Civil: GB2022CV00942. Sala: 202. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO O SEA, LAS PARTES CODEMANDADAS ARRIBA MENCIONADAS.
(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 30 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 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 2 de junio de 2023. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 2 de junio de 2023. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional Ii. Sara Rosa Villegas, Secretaria Del Tribunal Confidencial I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
LEGACY MORTGAGE
ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1
Demandante V. CMFC, INC. Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Civil: TJ2022CV00497. Sala: 403. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: CMFC, INC.
(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 2 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 2 de junio de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 2 de junio de 2023. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. Lilliam Ortiz Nieves, Secretaria Auxiliar.
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN EDITH MARGARITA PÉREZ MARÍN T/C/C EDIS M. PÉREZ T/C/C EDITH MARGARITA PÉREZ T/C/C EDITH M. PÉREZ COMPUESTA POR ROBERTO GONZÁLEZ PÉREZ, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE IMPUESTOS MUNICIPALES
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV03843. (604). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.
A: SUCESIÓN EDITH MARGARITA PÉREZ MARÍN T/C/C EDIS M. PÉREZ T/C/C EDITH MARGARITA PÉREZ T/C/C EDITH M. PÉREZ COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS. LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 1 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 60 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 2 de junio de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 2 de junio de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Elsa Magaly Candelario Cabrera, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.
Afew weeks after Caleb Martin joined the Miami Heat, he didn’t yet have much social capital with his teammates. But he had been a backup player for most of his career who knew that it was important to get along with the stars — and Jimmy Butler, a six-time All-Star and the team’s leading scorer, was unquestionably Miami’s biggest.
Martin had heard that Butler had an aggressive personality, that he was known to bark at teammates and coaches. But Martin wasn’t thinking about the potential consequences of upsetting Butler during a pickup game on one of those early days. He made a move just as Butler was passing to him, and the ball sailed out of bounds. Martin could tell Butler was frustrated. He marched up to Butler and said, “Anything you got a problem with, come say it to me.”
For a split second, Martin wondered if his boldness would irritate Butler. He wasn’t even on a full-time NBA contract yet. But it didn’t.
“He didn’t view it as disrespectful or nothing like that,” Martin said. “As much accountability as he puts on other people and holds other people to, he holds himself to it. It’s a two-way street. He allows feedback.”
Butler’s reputation for being brash and aggressive is not without merit, and he has called out Martin’s mistakes plenty of times. Butler doesn’t shy away from airing his grievances, yelling in team huddles, at opponents, or sometimes at nothing at all. He’s just as loud with his encouragement.
The Heat’s opponent in the NBA Finals, the Denver Nuggets, have a different type of leader in Nikola Jokic, who is quieter. He doesn’t make speeches or chastise his teammates, and he rarely shows much emotion during games.
Their contrasting styles illustrate ideas that leadership experts have highlighted for decades. The underlying ethos that both players follow seems to matter more than how their leadership manifests.
“It’s such a great example of avoiding this sort of static concept of ‘what does it mean to be the best kind of leader?’” said Peter Bregman, an author and executive coach who works with leaders of major corporations. “Because here you have two completely different people who lead in very,
very different ways, equally effectively. And so it sort of betrays this concept that there’s a best practice in how to do this.”
Professional basketball offers a helpful guide to understanding leadership. The best NBA players make split-second decisions in front of thousands of people live and millions more who watch on television. Their actions off the court are scrutinized, and sometimes they are blamed for their teammates’ mistakes. But no matter the results of their decision-making, they must often return to lead the very same people the next day.
When Nuggets players are asked about Jokic’s leadership style, they say he leads by example, more than with words.
“He’s professional in every aspect of the game,” Nuggets guard Kentavious CaldwellPope said. “Just seeing that, seeing it on the court, makes everybody want to play basketball with him and want to play better.”
When Butler’s teammates are asked about his leadership, they allude to the edge in his personality, but that edge comes from a passion they can understand. They say he holds people accountable, but their collective goal — to be the best team in the NBA — is clear in Butler’s critiques.
He also embraces the responsibility that comes with being the team’s leader.
“He’ll do anything for you,” Miami Heat center Cody Zeller said.
Some scholars might explain those differences using leadership language focused on tasks versus relationships. Afsaneh Nahavandi, a professor of management at the University of San Diego, sees Butler as a more task-oriented leader and Jokic as a more relationship-oriented leader.
“Every leader is getting something done, so everybody has a task in mind,” Nahavandi said. “But do you approach it through
pushing the task and pushing people? Or do you approach it through let’s just kind of let people develop their own thing and focus to make sure that people are happy?”
That leadership framework was developed in the 1960s by psychologist Fred Fiedler, who studied leadership among high school basketball players. Basketball offered a well-controlled way to understand how a group of people who needed to achieve one task together responded to different leadership styles. That research helped him develop the ideas of task-oriented versus relationshiporiented leadership.
Fiedler also found that leaders’ successes are heavily dependent on their environment.
Butler’s style hasn’t worked everywhere. When he played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, his teammates didn’t respond well to his demanding nature, and Butler left the team after insisting on a trade.
But in Miami, the so-called Heat culture demands excellence, commitment and a thick skin.
“My style of leadership works here,” Butler said, making air quotes around “leadership.” He added: “It really is a match made in heaven. I love it here.”
Sometimes Butler’s style leads to explosions, like in March 2022, when Butler and Heat coach Erik Spoelstra screamed at each other during a game and had to be held back by other players. Today, Spoelstra speaks about Butler with reverence.
“I don’t want him to ever apologize for who he is and how he approaches competition,” Spoelstra said. “It’s intense. It’s not for everybody, and we’re not for everybody. That’s why we think it’s like an incredible marriage. We never judge him on that. He doesn’t judge us for how crazy we get.”
The Nuggets demand excellence, too, but the language they use about one another is often gentler. They like to talk about their collaborative nature.
“We have guys that understand that being selfless is a huge part of being a Denver Nugget,” coach Michael Malone said. He added, “You have to have guys that get along — on the court, off the court — and come together and share in a common goal.”
It hints at a culture where a less confrontational style, like the one Jokic adopts, could work.
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Jokic’s teammates seem to respond well to that quieter form of leadership, though some have tried to help him tap into a more commanding demeanor at times.
DeAndre Jordan, a 15-year veteran, pulled Jokic aside during training camp to encourage him to be more vocal.
“At first he was like: ‘Brother, I don’t do that. You have to do it,’” Jordan said.
But Jordan and other veterans kept encouraging him. A few months into the season, they saw him start to assert himself more in huddles and offer feedback to his teammates. He doesn’t take it beyond the bounds of what makes him comfortable, though.
“We don’t want him to be somebody who he’s not,” Jordan said. “I’m sure he doesn’t want to be that as well.”
Though Jokic and Butler use very different styles, they have earned the trust of their teammates.
Chris Adkins saw clues to how they developed that trust when he watched some of their interviews. Adkins, the academic director of leadership development at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, saw a manifestation of research that he said has shown that “ability, benevolence and integrity” are three essential components of fostering trust.
“Their players seem to buy in, whether it’s a more vocal or more quiet approach, because they know deep down this person has high ability, they’re consistent with great integrity, they practice what they preach, they walk the walk,” Adkins said. “But they’re also committed to us, not just to their own ego.”
Jokic is well known as an unselfish player; he averaged 9.8 assists per game this season. He has often said that his basketball ethos came from a coach in Serbia who told him that when you pass you make two people happy, but when
you score only one person is happy. He eschews credit when he speaks to reporters and is quick to praise his teammates.
Butler grew up outside Houston and was kicked out of his home as a teenager. After high school, with little interest from major college programs, he spent a year at a junior college in Texas before going to Marquette. Though Butler makes fewer assists than Jokic, he also plays in an unselfish style, and he instills confidence in his teammates.
Butler has balked at other Heat players being called “role players,” saying he prefers to simply think of them as teammates. When asked if he was too passive in the Heat’s Game 1 loss, when he scored just 13 points, Butler said he wasn’t and that he planned to keep looking for his teammates throughout the series.
Atennis match on clay keeps no secrets. The red canvas is clean to start. Then, with each step, slide and bounce of the ball, two players paint the story. Over several hours, tennis becomes a form of abstract expressionism.
A ball mark at the corner of the service line or a streak cleared of surface level dust could represent any number of outcomes: the heartbreak of a double fault; the end of a dash to a drop shot; the turning point in a match; or the difference between a game or a set won or lost.
Players use words like “organic” and “alive” to describe the brick-colored clay at Roland Garros in Paris. During a match, the earth beneath their feet kicks up and can feel in perpetual motion.
“When you step out on a newly made clay court that is clean, all the lines are perfect. It makes for a very pleasing visual
experience,” Stefanos Tsitsipas said.
“But there’s also beauty when the courts are dirty and messed up and you can see all of the footwork and effort that has been put in and you have a visual of that, of how much work has been put in in order for you to succeed in what you do.”
Tennis is a sport for people with short memories. Players have to focus on the next point, never dwelling on the one that has just passed. It’s easier said than done, especially on clay, where what just happened is imprinted. “A cleansing of the soul,” Tsitsipas said. “A spiritual type of surface,” offering a chance to start anew.
The marks may show a good-looking series of serves for a club player. For a professional at the highest level, though, it’s likely not good enough. Just a little too short, allowing an opponent to jump in and swing.
A dirty baseline is one of Rafael Nad-
It can take Heat newcomers some time to understand how Butler operates.
Kyle Lowry joined the Heat in 2021, two years after Butler did. Lowry was a six-time All-Star guard coming from a leadership role in Toronto, which won a championship in 2019. He made clear he loved Butler’s thirst for winning and his devotion to his teammates, but also said his personality is “very different.”
“He may say some things or he may do some things that you might be like: ‘Oh. Whoa.’ But it’s coming from the best part of his heart,” Lowry said. How does he know?
“We’re around him every single day,” Lowry said, before throwing in a good-natured dig. “Unfortunately. But fortunately.”
al’s pet peeves. Missing this year’s tournament with an injury, Nadal, the winner of 14 French Open titles, was constantly pushing loose clay off the tape. For other players a clay court, like life, can be messy.
A tennis court without lines is a painting without a frame. Marks made by the ball and the pursuit of it are the brushstrokes, telling a story of angles, speed and
power, mistakes and, sometimes, perfection.
The end of each set brings a new beginning on a freshly swept court. “Those rituals, I have seen them over and over again,” Tsitsipas said. “I have done it 1,000 times myself.” No longer of course, but “it’s kind of ingrained in me, and it’s part of my identity.”
“I don’t want him to ever apologize for who he is and how he approaches competition,” Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra said about Butler.
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Answers on page 30
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
You may be pushed around by two very powerful camps today, Aries. Since you’re the kind, diplomatic, and sensitive type, you make the perfect target for the more abrasive and opinionated. You may want to side with the cold, hard facts presented to you, although there is a great deal of emotional power working to stir up the pot. Things may not be as clear as they seem at first glance.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
You’re apt to feel a bit wilder today, Taurus. There’s a wave of powerful energy working to strengthen your ego and self-confidence. Use this boost to the best of your ability. You will need it. There is a strong, fact-oriented force working to combat your aims, and you will find that it’s equally powerful and stubborn. Cut through the fantasy and uncover the truth.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
A good tactic today would be to convert your fears to motivation for positive action. You have a great deal of energy at your disposal, Gemini. Don’t waste it. Be aware that it’s one of those situations when the smallest comment or insult may set off a chain reaction of misinformation. People are emotionally charged, so be careful where you step.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
You’re likely to be faced with conflicting reports today, Cancer. Information may be tainted with emotion, so be careful about going with the choice that shouts the loudest. You may get pigeonholed into a place you don’t want to be in. Heed the internal warnings you pick up. This is a good day to work and play with passion. Take care of any investigative work that needs to be done.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
You may be seduced by fantastic promises that offer wonderful rewards. Beware of lots of bells and whistles, Leo. There may be a great deal of talk but not much to substantiate such wonderful claims. Don’t be surprised if people with intense emotions are stepping up to add their opinions about how you should run your life. Don’t forget who’s boss.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
People are apt to be quite emotional when it comes to the image they wish to project today, Virgo. Be careful where you step. It’s your job to see through the trendy makeup and fashion that hide the true personalities of the people who insist on wearing these masks. The key is to not be fooled by those who hide behind a facade built by society.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
Libra, don’t be surprised if some of your fantasies and dreams are put on trial by a harsh force that cuts right to the truth of the matter. People may be extra passionate, and most aren’t going to be impressed with unrealistic plans. You can try your normal approach of simply ramming straight ahead with your plans, but a better approach might be to think first and be more strategic.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
You’re at an emotionally climactic point now, Scorpio, and you might find that harsh opposition is coming at you for no clear reason. There’s a stubborn, strong force surrounding you, and you should be aware that the more rigid your viewpoint, the harder it will be for any resolution. Compromise is an essential element of the day.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
Be careful to not be too cavalier today, Sagittarius. It would be wise to adopt a more serious tone than usual. You might be inclined to say words carelessly, but people are going to take you literally. Make sure you mean what you say. Your attention to fashion and pop culture may conflict with a force that’s asking you to focus on things of deeper spiritual value.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
You have the sensitivity to pick up on what’s going on in every situation today, Capricorn. Powerful emotions may conflict with extremely strong opinions. Welcome to the battle between the head and the heart! On this day you may be more apt to side with the heart. Realize that this arena is heated and that the forces around you are extremely stubborn.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
The fantasy world that you’ve built for yourself is a pleasure, Aquarius. People frolic in it and have a grand time. Your presence delights people. Today, however, this world may be threatened by harsh realities that are coming in the form of electronic information. This force is powerful and apt to be erratic and spontaneous. Be prepared to stand your ground.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
It may be difficult to stay grounded today with all the information flying around and all the emotion roiling in your heart. Try not to take things too seriously, Pisces. This is the key to maintaining a level head today. Approach the day with passion and take care of any investigative work that needs doing. There are important facts coming from unexpected sources.
