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Puerto Rico Gaming Commission Executive Director Jaime Rivera Emmanuelli announced the approval of two new online sports betting operations, marking the industry’s sustained growth when added to the first approval granted earlier this month.
“A few weeks ago, the commissioners approved the first online betting operation for Casino del Mar and its business partner, BetMGM, which supplies the electronic betting platform. Today, we announce the approval of two other centers: Casino Metro, which will operate in alliance with Caesars Entertainment, and Stadium (DBA Winning), which will use IGT’s betting platform,” Rivera Emmanuelli said.
“With these three operations, we officially start a new phase of sports betting in Puerto Rico, and with it, we will see the growth of this market, which will generate tourist and economic activity and solid income for the government, among others,” he said.
in casinos and electronic bets.
“Until now, the player had to go to a gaming center, in this case, a casino, and from there make his move,” the official said. “Once those betting centers met the requirements of the Gaming Commission, they could move to the new phase of online betting.”
For a company to obtain authorization to operate online, it must obtain the endorsement of the Gaming Commission in two stages.
The first stage is the operator’s licensing, be it a casino or another type of space. In this stage, the entity and its partners or main shareholders are evaluated to determine whether they meet the requirements to belong to a highly regulated industry. They must demonstrate that they comply with their tax obligations and show the corporation’s financial statements, among other requirements.
The Gaming Commission has issued 30 licenses, broken down into five operator licenses and 25 service provider licenses. Of the five licensed operators, two are in the process of evaluating internal operating controls. The licensing of companies will foster the development of professionals specializing in online sports betting, Rivera Emmanuelli noted.
The regulatory entity projects that the island government will collect over $4 million from sports betting during the next fiscal year. Rivera Emmanuelli added that the public’s interest in digital betting platforms is an international trend that Puerto Rico has joined.
“This new form of entertainment offers a wide range of plays in sports such as basketball, baseball, and the NFL, which has the Superbowl event, and possibly special events like Miss Universe, among others,” he said.
The official said the three licensed companies have complied with the parameters established in the internal controls required by law and regulations. This enabled them to launch their operations online and make available to the public the mobile applications that must be downloaded and used to make plays from anywhere and on any electronic device.
“One of the advantages of online betting sites is their high level of security,” Rivera Emmanuelli said. “In Puerto Rico, the Gaming Commission is in charge of regulating, monitoring, and controlling the activities of online betting operators so that users have a satisfying gaming experience.”
He noted the difference between face-to-face bets
The second phase touches on the internal controls of the operator. The Gaming Commission ensures that they comply with some 18 lines of daily operating standards. For example, they must have rules for keeping their books, paying taxes, preventing money laundering, guaranteeing payments to players, avoiding conflicts between players and gambling houses, preventing hacking, and ensuring that players reside in Puerto Rico, among others.
By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com
The Gurabo Senior Center, better known as “Centro Huellitas de Vida,” held a graduation ceremony on Tuesday after students successfully passed a short technology course taught by Dr. Gabriel J. Méndez Valle. The course, which was offered through the Family Department, ran from June 12 to this past Monday, for 2 hours a day for a total of 20 course hours. A total of nine chapters were completed.
Throughout the course, students learned to manage basic tasks such as installing WhatsApp, among other apps. They also learned to build Facebook and Instagram accounts and how to message people in social media.
“This course was given during the time the folks in the community center are taking part in their day games, so a large group of them used the time they spend playing games like bingo and dominos, and talking to their friends, to take the course and learn something new and also important, because these apps are very commonplace in our society, and having them learn to use these applications was very beneficial to them,” Ernesto Ocasio Rivera, the director of the community center, told the STAR.
Through the course, the students first studied theory, which included learning what the app terms were and what their main functions were, then in practice they would use the apps and apply what they learned. They also learned to install applications on their phone.
Apart from the social media and messaging apps, the students learned how to manage their finances online and even how to set up doctor’s appointments online.
There was also a chapter dedicated to online learning. After learning about all the benefits, the students practiced applying the concepts to human relationships.
To many, these may all seem like extremely simple tasks, but the fact is that a lot of the students did not possess the knowledge to manage these applications. According to statistics from Statista.com, Instagram has 1.4 million users in Puerto Rico; however, the largest group of people using the app are between the ages of 25 and 34, meaning not many senior citizens on the island use these apps. But their children and grandchildren are using them, and therefore having the ability to use social media and communicate with their loved ones is essential for them to stay in touch with their family and friends.
Méndez Valle, who taught the course told the STAR: “In this course we taught the students how to manage the internet, messaging apps, how to take pictures, how to record videos, how to make video calls, general use of their cell phones and, lastly, use and management of ATH Mόvil, which is an app that lets people send and receive money from their personal bank accounts, check their balance and even pay for things at the store.”
“The fact is that a lot of these elderly people don’t know
how to use their phones that much and using a cellphone and the internet is almost essential nowadays, so having this course given to them is going to benefit them and their family members as well, considering they’ll be able to stay in touch with them for a while,” Méndez Valle said. “I’ve worked with children and have been a special needs teacher for about 20 years; therefore, having the opportunity to work with the elderly has been a very refreshing experience for me. The best thing about this course is that they personally enjoyed it very much and had an experience like no other.”
Some of the students who took the course confirmed Méndez Valle’s words.
“I feel so blessed to have taken this course,” Carmen S. Bonano Hernández told the STAR. “It’s been very enriching for our knowledge, especially for us senior folks who are usually more behind the times with this stuff, so having these courses I am very satisfied with everything that was taught to me and with the teacher who taught us many things. I am thankful.”
“We learned so many benefits, all the benefits that technology provides,” said Carmen M. Morales, a former English teacher. “It was very beneficial to people my age.”
The graduation ceremony had its fair share of surprises, including the traditional act of proceeding through the hall and receiving their awards for completing the course. The Gurabo municipal guitar group led by director Luli Cruz Pérez provided accompaniment, playing many musical numbers.
Luis Cotto, who recently started attending the community center, added to the musical program by singing in the event.
More than a graduation, the event was indeed a celebration. The students danced and cheered to the music, and those who didn’t take the classes clapped and cheered as their peers received their awards.
Perhaps the biggest surprise for the elders came when Gurabo Mayor Rosachely Rivera Santana showed up to declare them graduates, as they threw their academic caps in the air.
“For the Gurabo Municipality it is very important to work with all vulnerable communities,” the mayor told the STAR. “The elderly is a group of people that I want to attend to with utmost diligence considering there is a huge population of elderly people in this town, and after the recent pandemic it has been a challenge for these folks to come back to a post-pandemic world, to adapt to a new lifestyle after being locked up for so long.”
“Providing the elderly with a community center that gives them a place to be, to learn to develop their skills, is something that is very important to us and I think events like these will continue to bring our elder folks joy,” Rivera Santana added.
Centro Huellitas de Vida is a community center where many citizens around the ages of 60 and up come to spend the day. There is a steady stream of activities and events at the center, apart from the simple act of getting together and playing games. The center also helps residents of Gurabo who have busy lives and perhaps don’t have time during the day to attend to their parents, giving them a sense of relief knowing their parents are in a place where not only are they having a meal in the morning and at noon, but are also enjoying their golden years to the fullest.
After U.S. District Judge Judge Laura Taylor Swain ruled this week that Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bondholders have a $2.38 billion unsecured net revenue claim, a fraction of the estimated $8.3 billion they were claiming, officials said they must focus now on convincing the government to provide funding for PREPA’s pension claims to avoid a 2-cent hike in energy rates.
Under bankruptcy law, pension payments are considered a priority. PREPA’s pension system has a structural deficit of about $4.7 billion, but the head of the PREPA retirees, Johnny Rodríguez Ortiz, has said that if the government pays up some $930 million in total owed to the retirement system since 2014, the estimated fee of two cents needed to pay pensions won’t be added to the rates.
“That is why people should go to the march planned for [today],” noted Tomás Torres Placa, the consumer representative on the PREPA governing board, during a radio interview.
The goal of the march is to protest rate hikes.
Rolando Emmanuelli, a lawyer who represents the PREPA retirement system, said the cut of the bondholders’ debt to $2.38 billion is not enough because the rates required a
fee for pensions. He also noted that bondholders will have priority in payment over retirees, who also must be paid.
“When you include the pensions, you have to increase rates,” he said.
Following Swain’s ruling on Monday, the Financial Oversight and Management Board is amending its plan of adjustment, slated to be filed by July 14, to give bondholders as little as 12.5% of their allowed claim in new bonds.
The judge previously had ruled in March that the bond debt was an unsecured claim that had to be liquidated based on the value of future revenues, which bondholders had insisted was about $8.4 billion. The oversight board had said it was much less, and Swain agreed.
The judge also said bondholders failed to prove that the receiver that they could have appointed outside of bankruptcy would have been able to raise rates enough to cover the debt because it would be limited by Puerto Rico’s laws and the island Energy Bureau, as it would have stepped into PREPA’s shoes.
However, Swain found that Puerto Rico law, and not New York law, governed the appointment of a trustee. New York law limits collections to 20 years. Puerto Rico law has no specific limit. Swain set it at 100 years.
Because of certain risks involved in the appointment of a receiver, the judge cut the bondholders’ claim by 20%, which placed it at $2.38 billion.
By THE STAR STAFF
In a meeting with U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) this week, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia discussed Puerto Rico’s energy transformation and ongoing reconstruction projects with a particular focus on the energy sector.
“The congressman has been aware of the energy transformation in Puerto Rico and what FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] is doing in Puerto Rico,” Pierluisi said Monday. “He had originally asked Congress to appropriate $5 billion for this purpose and it ended up approving $1 billion.”
“They are interested in everything we have to do to have a cleaner, more reliable, more affordable, less expensive, less polluting and more resilient electrical system in Puerto Rico,” the governor added.
Pierluisi noted that there are currently 54 projects under construction related to the electrical system, with 131 more approved by FEMA.
“Basically, the amount of money that FEMA has already obligated for permanent construction projects, permanent work, in our electrical system amounts to $1.6 billion,” he said. “The amount disbursed so far is $330 million.”
The governor expects that by the end of this year there will be obligated projects in the electrical system for an amount of $4 billion.
“This already has momentum that no one can stop,” Pierluisi said.
Among the projects highlighted during the meeting were the construction of a new energy management system, improvements in substations and the creation of a microgrid to cover all the needs of Vieques and Culebra, and the Medical Center in Río Piedras.
Regarding advances in renewable energy, Pierluisi said: “Right now we have 80,000 solar systems installed; they generate about 500 megawatts of energy.”
“And what we’re seeing is that from month to month that’s increasing by 3,000 systems,” he said.
“Vista a El Yunque Fest,” an event that promotes local consumption and environmental awareness, will take place Saturday in the Palmer neighborhood of Río Grande, in the heart of the El Yunque National Forest region.
Raquel Skerret Escalera, the executive director of the nonprofit organization Vitrina Solidaria, which sponsors the event, said the summer festival in which 20 entrepreneurs will exhibit their products will also feature live music and cultural entertainment for the whole family.
“This festival is a great opportunity to exhibit and sell the services or products of entrepreneurs in a place where many visitors who come to the forest are received daily,” Skerret Escalera said. “Likewise, it is an opportunity to continue promoting our values
In order to support student learning and offer students interaction and educational participation from anywhere, the Integrated Municipal Education System of San Juan acquired the new digital platform Estudia y Avanza, aimed at students and teachers of the three municipal schools and others in the Department of Education’s San Juan Educational Region, Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo announced Tuesday.
With the project, in which the Municipality of San Juan invested $1,798,531 in federal American Recovery Plan Act funds, some 10,000 students will be impacted, from elementary school to high school.
“This platform was created at the initiative of our administration for the students of San Juan, according to their identified needs,” the mayor said. “In fact, we are the first mu-
At Saturday’s “Vista a El Yunque Fest” in the Palmer neighborhood of Río Grande, 20 entrepreneurs will exhibit their products, and live music and cultural entertainment for the entire family will be provided.
of sustainable development and a solidarity economy.”
Besides the aforementioned live music, the Vista a El Yunque Fest will also feature a health fair, artisans, food vendors, recreational activities and an unparalleled family atmosphere, organizers said. Environmental organizations allied with Vitrina Solidaria will be informing the public about their initiatives on issues of conservation of natural resources in the eastern region of Puerto Rico.
The event will be held at the Caribbean Trading Company from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Skerret Escalera added that entrepreneurs participating in the festival will also have advertising on social networks and media, collective tent space and free parking. Anyone interested in more details can access the link for the event on the Facebook account: Vista a El Yunque Fest.
nicipality in Puerto Rico to have and use the online platform Estudia y Avanza. We need to expand and improve the skills, learning and execution of students and therefore we decided to provide them with new tools.”
The main objective will be to optimize school performance according to the curricular content and standards for the core subjects of Spanish, mathematics and English for grades kindergarten to 12. The platform has previously designed interactive content with the capacity to grow.
Estudia y Avanza, which can be accessed at estudiayavanza.sanjuan.pr and will officially go into use in the next school semester that begins in August, will add value to all complementary efforts for the continuation of face-to-face and/or distance education, interacting with information within digital content available 24/7, Romero Lugo said.
Judge Elmer Rodríguez Díaz on Tuesday ruled for the release of Edwin Edgardo Rivera Pérez, alias “Bubu,” who was accused of involvement in a triple-slaying in Cataño on Feb. 20 in which a four-year-old boy lost his life.
“The Public Prosecutor’s Office was never prepared for this case,” Pedro Rivera Martínez, Rivera Pérez’s defense lawyer, said in a written statement. “They never had evidence and the right to a speedy trial was violated.”
“If they didn’t have evidence, for professional dignity they shouldn’t have filed the case,” he added. “In a country of law and order, laws and procedures must be rigorously enforced. Every accused person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. In this case, the Prosecution did not carry out its work.”
Prosecutor Mónica Pérez Díaz was in charge of the case.
Rivera Pérez was arrested on May 20 by agents from the Special Arrests and Metro Drug & Narcotics divisions following a motorbike and horse race on National Cemetery Avenue in the Hato Tejas neighborhood, said Inspector Joey Fontañez, the assistant director of the Bayamón Intelligence and Arrests Bureau.
Chief Prosecutor Jessika Correa González said in written a statement that: “The Bayamón Prosecutor’s Office of the Department of Justice filed charges against Edwin Edgardo Rivera Pérez, alias Bubu, with sufficient evidence to prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt and the Court found cause for arrest against him.”
“The case was dismissed because the main witness did not appear at the judicial process, although he was summoned, and the Puerto Rico Police could not find his whereabouts, after making countless efforts. To say that he was released for lack of proof, knowing that it is not correct, lacks truth and ethics.”
The case could be refiled, but the prosecution requires the cooperation of witnesses, in order to prove the charges and have a judge or jury find the accused guilty, Correa González said. All citizens who are called as witnesses must fulfill their social duty in order to do justice, she said.
“Prosecutors do our job of prosecuting criminals, but getting them convicted in our justice system requires evidence, witnesses, documentary or expert,” the chief prosecutor said. “In this case we had it at the time of formulating charges, but the witness did not fulfill his civic duty. Our work will continue to bring justice to Ian Javier Ordoñez Correa, an innocent victim of this crime.”
President Joe Biden has grown confident enough in the economy he leads — despite continuing inflation and high interest rates — that he is campaigning for reelection by eagerly attaching the name “Bidenomics” to his approach.
“Folks, here’s the bottom line,” Biden said as he began a three-week, administration-wide effort to focus on the economy. “By investing in America, we are delivering results. More than 13 million jobs created since I took office.”
In a memo to reporters, two of the president’s top advisers, Anita Dunn and Mike Donilon, credited “Bidenomics” with helping the country bounce back from the pandemic, saying the economy “has recovered more quickly than most experts thought possible.”
The pair repeated the phrase “Bidenomics” nine other times in the 3 1/2-page memo — a sign that the president’s strategists believe that focusing on the economy will help his campaign for a second term.
In their memo, Donilon and Dunn cited polling that shows Americans broadly support some of the president’s key economic policies. But that analysis ignores some dark signs for the president as the 2024 election season begins to heat up.
Independent polls show that large majorities of the country do not believe that the president’s economic policies have set the country in the right direction. In an NBC poll released Sunday, 74% of Americans said the nation was on the wrong track.
Previous polls have shown that much of the concern centers on the president’s economic policies. One Associated Press survey in May found that only 33% of adults approved of his handling of the economy.
On Monday, Biden tried to show that his policies have tangible results. He said more than $40 billion would be distributed nationwide to expand high-speed internet lines — a program he compared to efforts by Franklin D. Roosevelt to bring electricity to rural parts of the country almost 100 years ago.
The disconnect between Biden’s enthusiasm for his accomplishments and poll numbers about America’s feelings on the subject may prove to be the biggest test for the new White House strategy.
Asked Monday whether the president and his top aides were confident that they could change the public’s perception of the economy — and his handling of it — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gave a blunt answer.
“We’re going to try,” she told reporters.
To that end, Biden’s team has collected data that focuses squarely on the positive. One chart distributed by the White House on Monday shows significant improvement
from before the pandemic: a higher household net worth and disposable income, lower credit card delinquency and fewer bankruptcies, and a decline in the number of uninsured and those with debt in third-party collection.
Biden’s advisers — both inside the White House and at the small but growing campaign operation — are quick to offer examples of how things have gotten better: for manufacturing businesses, people who order insulin regularly and local governments struggling with aging infrastructure.
Biden’s aides are also happy to accept comparisons to “Reaganomics,” which has for decades been used to describe the economic policies of former President Ronald Reagan. The president’s advisers argue that Biden’s rejection of tax cuts and his focus on policies that help the middle class are a good contrast with Reagan.
White House officials said Vice President Kamala Harris and many of the president’s top Cabinet officials would travel across the country over the next three weeks to deliver similar remarks on the president’s economic record. On Wednesday, Biden will deliver what aides are calling a “cornerstone” speech in Chicago meant to broadly explain his economic approach.
Now, the challenge for the president and his team
is to find a way for their message to break through with the American people.
On the one hand, the president arguably has one of the biggest megaphones in the world, and his advisers intend to use it. But his message is competing with a war raging in Europe and the political and legal chaos surrounding former President Donald Trump as the government pursues legal action against him.
Will giving his economic approach a catchy name — “Bidenomics” — help? Jean-Pierre said she believed it would.
“I think it’s pretty clever,” she told reporters.
use to help create a justification to remain in office.
“Isn’t it amazing?” Trump says as he shuffles through what he calls “a big pile of papers,” which he can be heard handling on the recording.
“This thing just came up,” Trump says, adding: “This was him. This was the Defense Department and him.”
“Wow,” a woman in the room can be heard saying, followed by a rustling of papers.
“Let’s see here,” Trump says, adding, “Look.” There is a brief pause, during which he appears to show people in the room something, and they start to laugh.
“This totally wins my case, you know,” he says, adding that the papers were “highly confidential, secret. This is secret information.”
“Isn’t that incredible?” Trump says later, adding, “This was done by the military and given to me.”
Then he appears to lean into a suggestion for the book writers. “I think we can probably, right?” Trump says. A woman responds, “I don’t know, we’ll have to see, you know, we’ll have to try to figure out a —”
“Declassify it,” Trump says. “See, as president I could have declassified it, but now I can’t.”
“Now we have a problem,” the woman says, laughing.
“It’s so cool,” Trump says, eventually calling out for someone to bring in Coca-Cola to drink.
By MAGGIE HABERMAN and ALAN FEUERAn audio recording of former President Donald Trump in 2021 discussing what he called a “highly confidential” document about Iran that he acknowledged he could not declassify because he was out of office appears to contradict his recent assertion that the material he was referring to was simply news clippings.
Portions of a transcript of the two-minute recording of Trump were cited by federal prosecutors in the indictment of Trump on charges that he had put national security secrets at risk by mishandling classified documents after leaving office and then obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them.
The recording captured his conversation in July 2021 with a publisher and writer working on a memoir by Trump’s final chief of staff, Mark Meadows. In it, Trump discussed
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what he described as a “secret” plan regarding Iran drawn up by Gen. Mark A. Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Defense Department. Trump was citing the document in rebutting an account that Milley feared having to keep him from manufacturing a crisis with Iran in the period after Trump lost his reelection bid in late 2020.
The audio, which is likely to feature as evidence in Trump’s trial in the documents case, was played for the first time in public Monday by CNN and was also obtained by The New York Times.
Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier, Trump insisted that he was not presenting classified material in the meeting, which was recorded at Trump’s golf club at Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump said he was not referring to any “secret” or “highly confidential” documents, but was rather talking about “newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles.”
But the audio recording of the full encounter suggests that Trump was referring not to secondhand accounts, but instead to a specific piece of paper, or papers, in front of him.
Joining Trump at the meeting at Bedminster were those working on an autobiography of Meadows as well as at least two of Trump’s own aides. Trump, in his own narration, seems to brandish or point to what he described to his visitors as a document — described in the indictment as a “plan of attack” — apparently to rebut a story published a week earlier in The New Yorker that described Milley’s concern that Trump could launch a strike against Iranian interests that he could
In a statement, Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump, avoided commenting on the bulk of the recording’s content related to the candidate’s discussion of sensitive material and instead focused on a quip Trump made during the meeting about former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s role in the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
“The audio tape provides context proving, once again, that President Trump did nothing wrong at all,” Cheung said, adding that Trump was “speaking rhetorically and also quite humorously about” Weiner, and accusing “the media and the Trump-haters” of taking “the bait.”
Some of Trump’s lawyers have been aware of the recording since March, when one of the aides who attended the meeting, Margo Martin, was asked about it during an appearance before the grand jury, according to a person familiar with the events. Investigators working under special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed her copy of the tape after that appearance.
The full clip undercuts arguments made by some of Trump’s allies that he was simply blustering and exaggerating or mischaracterizing the material he described in the recording.
The indictment charges Trump with illegally holding on to 31 individual national security documents and with conspiring with one of his personal aides, Walt Nauta, to obstruct the government’s repeated efforts to reclaim the records.
Nauta is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges in U.S. District Court in Miami on Tuesday. As part of the conditions of Trump’s release from his own arraignment, he was ordered not to speak about the case to Nauta or to a list of 84 witnesses who took part in the special counsel investigation.
Ateenage boy and his stepfather hiking in Big Bend National Park in Texas died as temperatures there rose to 119 degrees Fahrenheit on Friday — the second-highest mark ever recorded in the state — during a triple-digit heat wave that was forecast to spread to the Southeast this week.
“We are in extreme heat right now,” said Thomas VandenBerg, a park ranger at Big Bend, near the U.S. border with Mexico, where another hiker recently died of heat-related causes.
The dangerous early-summer heat wave has broken daily temperature records across Texas and strained the state’s independent power grid. In Oklahoma, the heat scorched a state battered by storms that left tens of thousands, mostly in the Tulsa area, without electricity for much of last week.
By Monday, most power had been restored and temperatures had dropped into the 90s, but they were expected to climb over 100 again later this week.
A stubborn “heat dome” of high pressure has kept the heat index — an indication of how the air actually feels, taking into account humidity — high across much of Oklahoma and Texas for days. The system is forecast to shift slowly to the east during the week, extending the brutally hot weather to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Forecasters say the pattern could continue through the Fourth of July holiday.
The afternoon high of 119 degrees in the Big Bend area Friday came within one degree of tying the state’s high for any date, of 120 degrees Fahrenheit, first recorded in 1936 and equaled in 1994, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
A man was hiking in Big Bend with his two stepsons in the late afternoon Friday, park officials said in a statement, when the younger stepson, who was 14, lost consciousness. His brother, 21, tried to carry the boy back to the trailhead while the stepfather rushed to his vehicle to seek help.
By the time park rangers and Border Patrol agents reached the boy, he had died, officials said. The stepfather, 31, was later found dead in his vehicle, which had crashed over an embankment.
The three had been hiking on the Marufo Vega Trail, which “winds through extremely rugged desert and rocky cliffs within the hottest part of Big Bend National Park,” the officials’ statement said. It added that hikers on the trail did not have access to shade or water, making it “dangerous to attempt in the heat of summer.”
The authorities said the three hikers were from Florida, but did not give their names. The 21-year-old brother who survived has returned home, officials said Monday.
Several other hikers have succumbed to extreme heat in the United States in recent years. The death of two
experienced hikers and their 1-year-old daughter in the Sierra National Forest of California in 2021 confounded investigators for two months, until officials determined that they had died from the effects of heat stroke and possible dehydration in 110-degree weather.
Last July, a 22-year-old man died, reportedly of heat exhaustion, after he ran out of water while hiking in the Badlands of South Dakota. In September, another hiker died, and five more were rescued after suffering from extreme heat in Arizona. In April, a man died on a hiking trail in Lakeside, California, after suffering symptoms of heat exhaustion.
The recent heat has been dangerous in cities, too. Ambulance crews in the Tulsa region experienced their highest daily call volume ever last week, a spokesperson said. And the Dallas medical examiner’s office is investigating whether the heat played a role in the death of a 66-year-old postal worker, Eugene Gates Jr., who collapsed last week during an excessive heat warning.
Gates’ mail route spanned 400 homes and eight miles, said his wife, Carla Gates. On Tuesday morning, he had gotten an early start, as usual, and packed a cooler with ice water. A couple of hours after sunrise, he texted his wife to tell her that it was already 88 degrees outside, she said.
“If you go out, be careful,” he wrote. It was his last message to her.
The early summer heat has been brutal even in places where residents are used to hot summers. At
Main Street Mowing in the northern suburbs of Dallas, business always picks up when temperatures hit the triple digits, said Tanner Maxson, who owns the business. This year, though, the calls are coming in late June, not July or August.
“People are throwing in the towel,” Maxson said. “The phone has been ringing off the hook.”
Temperatures in the Dallas area were expected to reach 103 Monday, with a heat index of about 110. By Wednesday, the National Weather Service expects temperatures to reach about 107. Highs in late June are typically in the low 90s.
While tying a single heat wave to climate change requires analysis, scientists have no doubt that heat waves around the world are becoming hotter, more frequent and longer lasting. The 2018 National Climate Assessment, a major scientific report by 13 federal agencies, noted that the frequency of heat waves in the United States jumped from an average of two per year in the 1960s to six per year by the 2010s.
In Austin, temperatures were also expected to reach about 103 Monday. “No one can survive this,” said Paula Knight, 34, who runs a small business advisory group and tried — only briefly — to get some work done at an outdoor table at a coffee shop Monday afternoon.
Still, some residents said they were accustomed to the scorching heat. While walking Monday morning in north Austin, Petr Obrda, 79, said: “This is summer in Texas.”
Mary Barra and Elon Musk may be intense business rivals, but they sounded like old pals as they chatted on Twitter this month about a deal that could help remove one of the biggest barriers to electric vehicle ownership: not enough chargers.
Barra, CEO of General Motors, had just agreed to follow Ford Motor in adopting the charging technology developed by Tesla, the carmaker led by Musk. The deals will allow GM and Ford customers to use some of Tesla’s fast chargers. Fear of not finding a charger is a main reason some people hesitate to buy electric cars, surveys show.
Barra gushed about the “fantastic” team at Tesla. Musk said it was an “honor” to work with her.
Beneath the surface of those pleasantries were probably some tough corporate calculations. GM, Ford, and numerous charging companies and equipment suppliers have agreed to work with Tesla because they desperately need the company’s help. In addition to selling more electric cars in the United States than all other automakers combined, Tesla operates the country’s largest fast-charging network.
But the decision to work with Tesla comes with big risks for the rest of the auto industry, which will be relying on Musk, a mercurial leader, for an essential technology. Tesla’s proprietary charging system, which it recently began calling the North American Charging Standard, is not overseen by an independent organization as other technical standards are. The company has said it intends to hand off control to such a body, although some competitors are skeptical of how much control Tesla will surrender.
The deal also comes with risks for Tesla. Exclusive access to the company’s charging stations, some of which already had long lines during busy travel times, has helped the company sell cars to customers who might chafe at having to wait behind Fords and Chevrolets.
Battles over technical standards are common with any new technology. The outcomes can be painful for companies or consumers who bet on the wrong horse. Just ask anyone who bought or invested in a video recorder, cellphone or digital music player that later became obsolete.
The stakes with automobiles are much higher: They cost tens of thousands of dollars, and replacing gasoline vehicles with electric models is key to addressing climate change.
Some industry officials fear that the messy corporate jockeying over charging technology could discourage people from buying electric cars.
“It creates confusion,” said Oleg Logvinov, chair for North America of the Charging Interface Initiative. The organization is a forum for manufacturers, equipment suppliers and charging companies using the main rival to Tesla’s standard, known as the Combined Charging System.
Buyers, Logvinov added, “will
probably wait until you can figure out which one wins.”
Ford, GM and most manufacturers other than Tesla have been building cars with CCS plugs, which are the standard in Europe. Charging networks operated by companies such as Electrify America and EVgo primarily offer CCS plugs.
Tesla’s plug is lighter and easier to handle but fits only the company’s cars. Under the agreements with Ford and GM, Tesla will offer an adapter early next year enabling cars from those manufacturers to connect to about 12,000 of its fast chargers in the United States. In 2025, Ford and GM plan to make models designed to take the Tesla plug without an adapter.
The combined clout of Tesla, GM and Ford effectively compels operators of charging networks to install Tesla plugs and may effectively render the CCS plug obsolete — at least in North America — in years to come. Rivian, a smaller electric vehicle company, said last week that it would also switch to
the Tesla plug, and other manufacturers are considering doing so, too.
“For us, it’s important to make sure charging is really accessible and easy for customers,” R.J. Scaringe, CEO of Rivian, said in an interview.
As the Tesla plug becomes dominant, people with cars designed to use the CCS plug will become increasingly dependent on adapters that, for safety, are limited in how much voltage they can handle and will charge more slowly.
Tesla’s system is known for being easy to use and reliable, while CCS chargers can be finicky. Frustration with the existing charging network is clearly one reason Ford and GM decided to throw in their lot with Tesla.
“I absolutely do not think this would be happening if the other networks were more reliable,” said Ben Rose, president of Battle Road Research, who follows the electric vehicle industry.
But one reason Tesla’s system performs well is that the company designs and manufactures the whole system — the car, the software and the charging hardware. Tesla will lose absolute control once other automakers join its network.
Operating chargers that can fuel dozens of vehicles from many different manufacturers is extremely difficult.
“We charge 50 different models,” Cathy Zoi, CEO of charging company EVgo, told an audience in New York this month. Manufacturers sometimes fail to inform EVgo about changes to vehicle software, she said, leading to connection problems. “And the charger gets blamed,” she said.
Competitors are betting that government regulators would step in if Tesla tried to create a charging monopoly. Some are glad that someone is taking the lead to remove a major impediment to sales of electric vehicles.
“We’re really in this accelerated growth curve,” said Brendan Jones, CEO of Blink Charging, which plans to install Tesla plugs in its network. “This is really going to drive the industry forward.”
U.S. stocks advanced and the dollar softened on Tuesday as robust economic data helped alleviate recession fears stoked investors’ risk appetite.
All three major U.S. stock indexes were green from the starting bell, with tech-related megacaps - particularly those involved in the recent AI mania - putting the Nasdaq out front.
An unexpected jump in new orders for U.S.-made durable goods, along with robust readings on new home sales and consumer confidence, helped sooth worries over a looming recession amid the Federal Reserve’s efforts to toss cold water on demand in order to rein in inflation.
“We got a ton of data, shows the economy pretty strong,” said Jay Hatfield, portfolio manager at InfraCap in New York.
“We’re in a trading range as we head into a holiday week and we expect to trade a bit sideways into July,” Hatfield added. “The rally will broaden as we go into earnings season.”
The solid data would appear to pave the way for another 25 basis point interest rate hike at the end of the Federal Reserve’s July meeting.
Financial markets are pricing in a 74.4% likelihood of that occurring, according to CME’s FedWatch tool. The question remains whether the Fed will call it a day or tighten further in September and beyond.
An unexpected jump in new orders for U.S.-made durable goods, along with robust readings on new home sales and consumer confidence, helped sooth worries over a looming recession amid the Federal Reserve’s efforts to toss cold water on demand in order to rein in inflation.
“We got a ton of data, shows the economy pretty strong,” said Jay Hatfield, portfolio manager at InfraCap in New York.
“We’re in a trading range as we head into a holiday week and we expect to trade a bit sideways into July,” Hatfield added. “The rally will broaden as we go into earnings season.”
The solid data would appear to pave the way for another 25 basis point interest rate hike at the end of the Federal Reserve’s July meeting.
Financial markets are pricing in a 74.4% likelihood of that occurring, according to CME’s FedWatch tool. The question remains whether the Fed will call it a day or tighten further in September and beyond.
The greenback softened against a basket of world currencies as the euro and the yen strengthened.
The dollar index .DXY fell 0.22%, with the euro EUR= up 0.43% to $1.0951.
The Japanese yen weakened 0.34% versus the greenback at 144.04 per dollar, while sterling GBP= was last trading at $1.2736, up 0.19% on the day.
U.S. Treasury yields edged higher as strong economic data eased recession fears.
Benchmark 10-year notes US10YT=RR last fell 13/32 in price to yield 3.7678%, from 3.719% late on Monday.
The 30-year bond US30YT=RR last fell 13/32 in price to yield 3.8413%, from 3.819% late on Monday.
Crude prices pared their losses after U.S. economic indicators surprised to the upside, ahead of energy demand data expected later in the session.
U.S. crude CLcv1 fell 0.37% to $69.11 per barrel and Brent LCOcv1 was last at $74.24, down 0.15% on the day.
Gold prices softened as robust economic reports dulled the safe-haven metal’s luster.
Spot gold XAU= dropped 0.3% to $1,917.19 an ounce.
But the S&P 500 energy sector gained as oil prices rose while investors balanced concerns about global demand growth against upcoming supply disruptions that could get exacerbated by political instability in Russia. [O/R]
A slew of economic data including a key inflation gauge, durable goods and University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index is expected this week, as well as Powell’s speech that could throw light on Fed’s rate hike plans.
Most policymakers see at least two more quarter-point rate increases by the end of this year, though traders expect one more hike in July and see the U.S. central bank holding rates steady through the end of 2023, according to CMEGroup’s Fedwatch tool.
Well before Yevgeny Prigozhin seized a major Russian military hub and ordered an armed march on Moscow, posing a startling and dramatic threat to President Vladimir Putin, the caterer-turnedmercenary boss was losing his own personal war.
Prigozhin’s private army had been sidelined. His lucrative government catering contracts had come under threat. The commander he most admired in the Russian military had been removed as the top general overseeing Ukraine. And he had lost his most vital recruiting source for fighters: Russia’s prisons.
Then, on June 13, his only hope for a last-minute intervention to spare him a bitter defeat in his long-running power struggle with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was dashed.
Putin sided publicly with Prigozhin’s adversaries, affirming that all irregular units fighting in Ukraine would have to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense. That included Prigozhin’s private military company, Wagner.
Now, the mercenary chieftain would be subordinated to Shoigu, an unparalleled political survivor in modern Russia and Prigozhin’s sworn enemy.
“This must be done,” Putin told a gathering of government-friendly war correspondents at the Kremlin. “It must be done as soon as possible.”
What happened next stunned the world: Prigozhin mounted an armed insurrection that he insisted was aimed not at deposing Putin but at overthrowing the Kremlin’s military leadership.
The mutiny, however short-lived, has been widely viewed as an ominous political harbinger for Putin’s leadership, one that could presage more instability as the Russian president presses on with his costly war.
But it is equally the personal story of an obstreperous and mercurial freelance warlord who undertook an emotional last-ditch attempt to win by force one of the most extraordinary Russian power struggles in recent memory.
Many powerful Russian figures have come out on the losing end of factional battles during Putin’s 23 years as Russia’s leader, ultimately receding into exile, prison or anonymity.
But with his rebellion over the weekend, Prigozhin chose a different path, allowing his
anguish and anger to play out for the world to see as he took actions uniquely available to someone with a national megaphone — and a well-armed, aggrieved private army.
“Prigozhin’s rebellion wasn’t a bid for power or an attempt to overtake the Kremlin,” Tatyana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, wrote in an analysis of the events. “It arose from a sense of desperation; Prigozhin was forced out of Ukraine and found himself unable to sustain Wagner the way he did before, while the state machinery was turning against him.”
“To top it off,” she added, “Putin was ignoring him and publicly supporting his most dangerous adversaries.”
Prigozhin had built a sizable financial and military empire. But as his political defiance grew, the flow of money from the Defense Ministry and other government contracts was at risk of drying up. And he chafed at the prospect of taking orders from people whom he considered incompetent.
Still, when Putin denounced his actions Saturday as treason, Prigozhin appeared to have been caught off guard, unprepared to be a true revolutionary or continue a march on the Kremlin that he realized would almost certainly end in defeat, Stanovaya wrote.
So, when Prigozhin was offered a chance to end the crisis by withdrawing his forces, he took it.
“Prigozhin’s mutiny was ultimately a desperate act of someone who was cornered,” said Michael Kofman, director of
Russia studies at Virginia-based research group CNA. “His options were narrowing as his bitter dispute intensified.”
Over the years, with his connections to Putin and the Kremlin, Prigozhin was able to secure lucrative contracts to provide food for the Moscow school system and Russian military bases, amassing great wealth. At the same time, he engaged in foreign adventurism through Wagner that suited the Kremlin, advancing Moscow’s aims — and his own — in the Middle East and Africa, where his fighters have been accused of indiscriminate killings and atrocities.
He also shepherded the Internet Research Agency, an infamous St. Petersburg troll farm that interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
So secretive was Prigozhin about his activities that he long denied any association with Wagner and even sued Russian media outlets for reporting on his connection to the group.
All that changed last year with the fullscale invasion of Ukraine.
In September, Prigozhin went public for the first time as the man behind Wagner.
Less than two weeks later, Putin appointed Gen. Sergei Surovikin to lead the war effort in Ukraine, a boon for the mercenary chief, who had worked with the general in Syria. Prigozhin described the new leader as a legendary figure and the most capable commander in the Russian army.
Prigozhin’s own stature was growing,
too, as his fighters appeared to be making progress in the drawn-out battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, while the Russian military had little to show but retreat. Russian commentators lavished positive coverage upon the mercenary group, and a glass tower in St. Petersburg was rebranded Wagner Center. Recruitment posters for the outfit went up across the country.
But by the beginning of this year, Prigozhin’s adversaries in the Ministry of Defense began reasserting their power.
In January, Putin appointed Gen. Valery Gerasimov, to replace Surovikin as the top commander of operations in Ukraine. Prigozhin frequently belittled Gerasimov in his Telegram audio messages, implying that he was an office-bound official of the kind that smothers regular soldiers with bureaucracy.
In February, Prigozhin acknowledged that his access to Russian prisons to recruit had been cut off. The Defense Ministry would later begin recruiting prisoners there itself, adopting Prigozhin’s tactic.
Tension between Wagner and the Russian military — long alluded to by Russian military bloggers — exploded into the open. By the end of February, Prigozhin was publicly accusing Shoigu and Gerasimov of treason, claiming they were deliberately withholding ammunition and supplies from Wagner to destroy it.
At the end of February, Putin tried to settle the feud by calling Prigozhin and Shoigu into a meeting, according to leaked intelligence documents.
But the rivalry would only escalate. No longer able to recruit prisoners, Wagner was forced to rely increasingly on its limited supply of skilled veteran fighters to continue waging battle in Bakhmut, according to Ukrainian and Western officials.
In the days before he led Saturday’s uprising, Prigozhin began expressing feelings of resignation, saying that none of the problems plaguing the Russian military would be fixed. He also talked about the nation rising up, saying that Shoigu should be executed and suggesting that the relatives of those killed in the war would exact their revenge on incompetent officials.
“Their mothers, their wives, their children will come and eat them alive when the time comes,” he said in a June 6 video interview, suggesting there might be a “popular revolt.”
He added: “I can tell you, honestly, I think we have only about two to three months before the executions.”
More than a year after countries pledged to end deforestation by 2030, the world is continuing to lose its tropical forests at a fast pace, according to a report issued June 27.
The annual survey by the World Resources Institute, a research organization, found that the world lost 10.2 million acres of primary rainforest in 2022, a 10% increase from the year before. It is the first assessment to cover a full year since November 2021, when 145 countries pledged at a global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, to halt forest loss by the end of this decade.
“We had hoped by now to see a signal in the data that we were turning the corner on forest loss,” said Frances Seymour, a senior fellow at the institute’s forest program. “We don’t see that signal yet, and, in fact, we’re headed in the wrong direction.”
The report, done in collaboration with the University of Maryland, documented tree loss in the tropics from deforestation, fires and other causes. Last year’s destruction resulted in 2.7 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions, a significant amount that is roughly equivalent to the annual fossil fuel emissions of India, a country of 1.4 billion people.
Tropical deforestation also degrades some of the planet’s richest ecosystems, the habitats for plants and animals and the regulators of rain patterns for several countries.
The Amazon rainforest, the largest in the world, hasn’t faced such enormous destruction in almost two decades, according to an analysis of the World Resources Institute data by Amazon Conservation, a research organization.
Brazil, the country with the largest portion of tropical rainforest, had the highest rates of deforestation globally. It accounted for more than 40% of tree loss globally, followed by Congo and Bolivia.
Bolivia delivered some of the report’s most striking numbers. Forest loss there went up 32% last year, the highest rate on record for that country. It was one of the few tropical forest countries that did not sign the Glasgow commitment on deforestation.
Marlene Quintanilla, a research director at the Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza, a nonprofit group in Bolivia, said a powerful driver of destruction in that country has been a government policy that encourages farmers to clear vast tracts to secure land titles.
“The standing forest isn’t seen as fulfilling
any social or economic function,” she said. The expansion of agriculture appeared to be hurting forests in Africa. In Ghana, the country that lost the biggest proportion of its primary forest last year, small-scale clearing for cocoa production was a major source of deforestation.
Forest clearing is strongly linked to a lack of economic opportunities and basic infrastructure in the Congo River Basin region. In Congo, for example, most people don’t have access to electricity, so the forest is an important source of firewood and charcoal for cooking.
Teodyl Nkuintchua, who works on strategy and outreach for the World Resources Institute in the Congo Basin area, said policies to curb environmental harm would not work by themselves.
“Unless we integrate development priorities in those actions in those countries, we will not be able to address deforestation,” he said.
One of the few bright spots in the report came from Southeast Asia, where efforts to curb deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia continued to yield results. A logging moratorium, efforts to restore peatlands, and corporate commitments to exclude palm oil suppliers linked to deforestation appear to be effective.
And there are signs the trajectory of global
deforestation may change for the better in the near future.
The European Union this year delivered a push in that direction, adopting a law that bans the import of a series of products that contribute to deforestation in tropical countries. China, the world’s largest importer of many agricultural commodities, has recently committed to cracking down on illegal deforestation linked to its trade with Brazil.
Brazil also seems to be changing course. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in January vowing to protect the Amazon
rainforest, and preliminary numbers for the first five months of the year suggest deforestation rates there have declined 31% since January. Deforestation and environmental crime had increased sharply under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.
The report’s analysis focuses on the tropics because forest loss there is usually more permanent and tends to be caused by human activity. Tropical forests also have a greater role in storing carbon and supporting biodiversity. But global tree cover loss beyond the tropics was down 10% last year.
According to the report, the decline was a direct result of fewer wildfires in the boreal forests of Russia. But this could change. Canada is on track to have its worst fire season on record.
El Nino, a climate pattern that is usually associated with more wildfires in the tropics, has also just arrived. There is concern that, even if countries are able to curb deforestation during this period, wildfires could erase some of their efforts.
“An El Nino year will be a test,” Rod Taylor, global director for forests at the World Resources Institute, said, adding that he hoped fires would not wreak havoc. “But we’ll have to see.”
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Voters in Toronto chose Olivia Chow, a left-leaning veteran politician, as their new mayor at a moment when the city is confronting a litany of issues that are also facing other urban powerhouses trying to rebound from the pandemic.
Chow ran on a platform vowing to “build a Toronto that’s caring, affordable and safe,” and she emerged with the most votes of the 102 mayoral candidates on the ballot, a record for Toronto, and one that underscores the public’s discontent with the city’s direction.
“If you ever questioned your faith in a better future and what we can do with each other, for each other, tonight is your answer,” Chow said to a crowd of supporters during her victory speech.
She won with 37.17% of the vote. Her nearest challenger, Ana Bailão, who had been endorsed by the city’s largest newspaper, the Toronto Star, received about 32% of the vote.
The previous two mayors in the city of 3 million people — Canada’s most populous and its financial center — were driven out of office after scandals. In addition to that legacy, the new leader of Toronto will inherit a crumbling transit system, growing homelessness and sporadic violent crime.
For decades, Toronto was known as “a city that works,” lauded as a machine oiled by orderliness and livability, with a robust
inventory of affordable housing, an efficient transit system and many other markers of urban stability.
Now, the city is in crisis after more than a decade of steep budget cuts for social services and the devastating withdrawals of fiscal
support for housing in the 1990s from higher levels of government.
The pandemic compounded these issues with lockdowns that diminished revenue streams.
This election was seen by many as a referendum on the fiscal austerity of Toronto’s two most recent mayors, who were both conservatives.
In February, Mayor John Tory resigned after admitting to an affair with a staffer, leaving Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie in charge.
Chow, 66, will be responsible for reversing the city’s course and restoring the image of the office in one of its most difficult moments.
“The good news is, this is turning into a change election,” said Jennifer Keesmaat, a former chief city planner who served under the previous two mayors. “People are saying, ‘Enough already, you had your chance with the low taxes and the low level of investment.’”
Chow, who lost to Tory in 2014, has proposed to raise property taxes, without saying by how much, and has announced a plan to address affordable housing by having the city build and acquire more units.
She will also face a lengthy backlog of deferred maintenance that will eat up a sig-
nificant share of the city’s revenues, and she will encounter a budget shortfall of more than CA$1 billion, or about $760 million.
The disinvestment in city services increased with Mayor Rob Ford saying he would stop what he called the “gravy train” at City Hall. Years of austerity budgets by his successor, Tory, followed. Both mayors appealed to voters who believed Toronto did too much for downtown residents and not enough for the city’s outlying regions.
Ford, whose four-year tenure ended in 2014 with his admitting to smoking crack cocaine, found ways to reduce the city’s budget by millions of dollars, including by changing service levels for a wide variety of city services and cutting government jobs.
Among the issues most exasperating Toronto residents is the dearth of affordable housing. The average rent in Toronto reached a record high of more than CA$3,000 per month ($2,285), according to a recent report by Urbanation, a real estate analytics company. And the city has a subsidized housing waitlist that is now 85,000 households deep.
Activists say bold policies, such as rezoning some major streets to build up density and reducing fees and taxes on affordable housing developers, are needed to make up for Canada’s limited building of subsidized housing projects in the past 25 years.
“We are so phenomenally behind in our housing supply,” said Keesmaat. “Tinkering at the margins is not going to be how we house the next generation.”
The affordable-housing crisis has been exacerbated by surges in the country’s population, which grew by a record 1 million people last year as Canada raised its immigration targets. A large share of the newcomers landed in Toronto and surrounding suburbs.
The city also had an influx of refugees entering homeless shelters last month, rising to 2,800 from 530 less than two years ago.
Chow has proposed to address affordable housing by having the city act as its own developer to build 25,000 rent-controlled homes in the next eight years, as well as by buying up market value properties and letting nonprofits manage them.
When he attended a campaign rally for Chow one week before the election, Warren Vigneswaran, 76, said he was on the fence about voting for Chow, concerned his property taxes would rise.
But, he added, “her policies are better than anybody else.”
One of our most urgent national problems is addiction to drugs and alcohol. It now kills about a quarter-million Americans a year, leaves many others homeless and causes unimaginable heartache in families across the country — including the family living in the White House.
Hunter Biden, who has written about his tangles with crack cocaine and alcohol, reached a plea agreement on tax charges a few days ago that left some Republicans sputtering, but to me, the main takeaway is a lesson the country and the president could absorb to save lives.
While the federal investigation appears to be ongoing, for now I see no clear evidence of wrongdoing by President Joe Biden himself — but the president does offer the country a fine model of the love and support that people with addictions need.
When Biden was vice president and trailed by Secret Service agents, he once tracked down Hunter when he was on a bender and refused to leave until his son committed to entering treatment. Biden then gave his son a tight hug and promised to return to make sure he followed through.
“Dad saved me,” Hunter wrote in his memoir,
“Beautiful Things,” adding: “Left on my own, I’m certain I would not have survived.”
On another occasion, the Biden family staged an intervention, and Hunter stormed out of the house. Biden ran down the driveway after his son. “He grabbed me, swung me around and hugged me,” Hunter wrote. “He held me tight in the dark and cried for the longest time.”
Last year Sean Hannity broadcast an audio recording of a voice mail message that Joe Biden left for Hunter. Hannity thought it reflected badly on the president; my reaction was that if more parents showed this kind of support for children in crisis, our national addiction nightmare might be easier to overcome.
“It’s Dad,” the president says in the message, and he sounds near tears. “I’m calling to tell you I love you. I love you more than the whole world, pal. You gotta get some help. I don’t know what to do. I know you don’t, either. But I’m here, no matter what you need. No matter what you need. I love you.”
I don’t have family members with addictions, but I’ve lost far too many friends to drugs and alcohol. At this moment, I have two friends who have disappeared, abandoning their children, and when last seen were homeless, abusing drugs and supporting themselves by selling fentanyl. I fear every day that they’ll die from an overdose, or that they’ll sell drugs to someone else who overdoses.
I’m terrified for them and furious at them — but even more, I’m outraged that so many Americans are suffering pain and inflicting pain, yet our policies toward addiction are lackadaisical and ineffective: Only about 6% of people with substance use disorder get treatment, according to the federal government. We should be expanding access, boosting research for medicationassisted treatment, pressing China harder to curb exports of fentanyl precursors and addressing the economic despair that drives some people to substance abuse.
The Bidens benefited from the connections and resources often necessary to access detox and rehab programs; these should be readily available to all.
Some Republicans allege that the president himself was engaged in influence peddling, and that Hunter received favorable treatment from the Justice Department; an IRS whistleblower who assisted in the investigation says that a prosecutor in the Justice Department did indeed interfere on the side of Hunter. Maybe there will be future revelations, but for now, as best I can sort things out: 1) Hunter acted inappropriately to monetize his proximity to the White House, just as Donald Trump and members of his family did; and 2) Joe Biden acted honorably (although I do think it was
a mistake to take Hunter to China on Air Force Two in 2013 when he was pursuing business there, and Biden was flatly wrong to say in May that “my son has done nothing wrong”).
The Biden administration kept on a Trump appointee as U.S. attorney in Delaware, precisely to continue an independent and credible investigation of Hunter. The prosecutors appear to have pored over 15 years of Hunter’s business dealings and have not so far identified any misconduct by the president. And the plea agreement the prosecutor reached with Hunter does not seem lenient. (Most people in similar circumstances, including Roger Stone, have not been prosecuted criminally.)
Congressional Republicans will continue to make allegations. Some Democrats have seemed reluctant to engage, perhaps finding the Hunter saga sordid and likely to taint those who touch it. I think that’s a mistake. What I see is an opportunity for the president to take on the nation’s drug and alcohol problem as forcefully as he took on his son’s. Hunter Biden appears to have come back from the brink, and that can reassure families now in despair; millions of desperate Americans could use that hope.
One precedent: The former first lady Betty Ford’s heroic acknowledgment in the 1970s of her struggles with drugs and alcohol pulled back the curtain on addiction and got many more people into treatment.
Joe Biden undertook a major federal push to combat cancer after it claimed his son Beau; I wish he would transform his administration’s present ineffective effort against addiction into a similar all-out initiative against the forces that almost killed Hunter.
Contact Nicholas Kristof at Facebook.com/Kristof, Twitter.com/NickKristof or by mail at The New York Times, 620 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018.)
CIDRA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia dijo el martes que, a su juicio, el pago a los bonistas de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE) puede bajar más.
“Mientras más baje mejor. Obviamente, lo que pasa es que los que hablan de que sea cero, eso no es un escenario real. En todo proceso de quiebra, algo de deuda, el deudor termina pagando. Eso siempre ha sido así en todos los procesos de quiebra”, dijo el gobernador a preguntas de la prensa.
“Aquí un logro que obtuvo la Junta, y el gobierno la apoyó en todo momento, fue que logró que el tribunal decidiera que básicamente la reclamación de los bonistas no está asegurada. El tribunal ya decidió, la juez Taylor Swain, que no son acreedores asegurados, que el
único colateral que tienen son unos dineros que ha depositado la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica en una cuenta especial que se creó cuando se hicieron las emisiones de los bonos. Eso es lo único que tiene asegurado. Eso ya lo determinó la juez. Y por cierto, en tu pregunta tú dijiste que la juez decidió que la reclamación que pueden obtener es de 2.300, alrededor de 80 millones, ¿verdad? Bueno, esa es la reclamación. Eso es lo que pueden reclamar. Eso no es necesariamente lo que van a obtener. Porque lo que ocurre en el proceso de quiebra, es que se presentan unas reclamaciones, pero después el tribunal, cuando confirma el plan, decide a base de los recursos que tiene esta entidad, pues este que reclamó esta cantidad, la que sea, vamos a decir 2.380 millones, pues no va a obtener eso. Va a obtener un porcentaje de eso. Por eso estar ahora sacando números y diciendo, ah, pues espérate, como bajó de, por decir, 8
mil y pico de millones de dólares, que era la deuda en los bonos, a 2.380, pues ya está. Eso es lo que van a obtener. No necesariamente, pueden obtener menos, pero eso lo determinará la juez en su momento”, añadió.
BAYAMÓN – La Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR) en Bayamón celebró este martes, su Quincuagésima Primera Colasión de Grados y graduó a 348 estudiantes procedentes de los departamentos académicos de: Administración de Empresas, Biología, Ciencias de Computadoras, Educación Física Adaptada, Electrónica, Ingeniería y Tecnologías, Pedagogía y Sistemas de Oficina.
El magno evento académico fue celebrado en el histórico Teatro de la UPR del Recinto de Río Piedras.
Como parte de su mensaje, el Rector de la UPRB, doctor Miguel Vélez Rubio, expuso en comunicaci;ón escrita que “vivimos tiempos difíciles, tiempos de retos que nos obligan a redefinirnos cada día y a crecer. Pero tienes una herramienta principal ya en tus manos, un grado universitario. Esta es la llave para que puedas abrir múltiples puertas en tu futuro. Este es el primer paso en un proceso continuo de desarrollo que te debe llevar al triunfo constante. Todo depende de ti”. En su discurso, el rector también exhortó a los estudiantes a “intentar ser parte integral del desarrollo futuro de Puerto Rico, quedándote aquí, siendo parte de los que luchamos día a día porque nuestro archipiélago supere las crisis que confrontamos. Si tienes que emigrar, pon en alto el nombre de nuestro país, mantén el mayor contacto posible con tu tierra y, en la medida de lo posible, únete a otros hermanos puertorriqueños
para que juntos ayudemos a adelantar nuestras causas. Nunca olvides a nuestra Alma Mater, la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Bayamón, quien te da y celebra contigo este logro”.
Por su parte, la doctora Lenis Torres, Decana de Estudiantes de la institución le expresó a los graduandos que “la toga y el birrete que visten hoy son testimonios fieles de su dedicación. El logo que muestran en su toga, cercano al corazón, debe ser símbolo del amor que siempre los unirá a su Alma Máter. Al igual que cada uno de ustedes, siento un inmenso placer de reconocer que soy exalumna producto de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Bayamón”.
Gran Premio del Rector fueron Melody Yanina Cristina Cartagena Rivera y Zorybelk Gallardo Quintero, ambas del Bachillerato en Administración de Empresas con concentración en Gerencia, y también Fernando Santo Álvez del Bachillerato en Administración de Empresas con concentración en Contabilidad.
CIDRA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia dijo el martes que no tiene planes de llenar, si se convierte en final y firme, la vacante de la delegada/cabildera por la estadidad Elizabeth Torres.
“En cuanto al puesto de la delegada, no me inclino a llamar o a convocar una elección especial. Tenemos a cinco delegados y delegadas haciendo el trabajo, así que
no me inclino a hacerlo. No es una decisión que se ha tomado así de forma final y firme, pero mi reacción es que no me inclino a convocar una elección especial para ese propósito”, dijo el gobernador en conferencia de prensa.
“Porque cinco de los seis delegados y delegadas han estado haciendo el trabajo, y yo espero que lo sigan haciendo hasta el final del año que viene, que es cuando culminan sus gestiones, según la propia ley. Habrá que ver lo que decide el Tribunal de Apelaciones en su mo-
mento, pero hasta el momento, sí, el Tribunal determinó que debe dejar su cargo”, añadió.
El lunes, el juez superior de San Juan, Anthony Cuevas Ramos determinó que Torres debía ser destituida de su cargo, por entender que no cumplía con sus funciones.
Torres ha dicho que va a apelar la determinación judicial, por lo que al momento no es final y firme la destitución.
Puede que cobren todavía menos, dice gobernador sobre decisión de la jueza Taylor Swain sobre reclamación bonistasPOR CYBERNEWS
Hollywood’s track record for portraying people with disabilities has been sketchy at best. There have been inspirational figures, noble martyrs and lovable oddballs — some of these performances garnering Academy Awards — but there aren’t a lot of people simply living their lives.
The search for truly resonant disability representation in the history of cinema is continuing, but over the decades, many scholars keep returning to a perhaps surprising touchstone: a 91-year-old film set in a circus.
Tod Browning’s most widely known work is “Dracula” (1931), starring Bela Lugosi, but the next year, he broke new ground with a movie featuring an extensive cast of actors with disabilities. Browning’s “Freaks” (available on most major platforms) centers on a close-knit group of circus sideshow performers who rally around a friend after he is betrayed by his lover, a trapeze artist.
Despite the sensationalist spectacle, the sense of both community and agency among the characters is noticeable, with a variety of experiences represented (some of them extremely rare on screen). For example, Harry Earles, a little person who plays the betrayed lover, Hans, by some accounts told Browning about the original story, “Spurs,” that “Freaks” adapts; Frances O’Connor, who plays a member of the troupe, was born without arms and had toured with Ringling Bros.; and the performer known as Schlitzie is one of a few cast members with microcephaly.
“It was really appealing to see that they have a recognizable disability culture and they form a community,” Carrie Sandahl, head of the Program on Disability Art, Culture and Humanities at University of Illinois Chicago, said of the film. “They stand up for each other and have their own insights and humor.” Sandahl co-wrote and co-produced “Code of the Freaks,” a 2020 documentary that surveyed disability representation in Hollywood and held up the Browning film as a rare bright spot.
As a hero for disability representation, Browning could be a complicated figure. He came to moviemaking from carnivals, where he had worked as both a barker and a performer, and his interest in the macabre could sound voyeuristic. “Freaks,” for exam-
ple, serves up a lurid revenge plot. But it also explores the quotidian offstage lives of the troupe in the film, and the villain of the story is the toxic trapeze artist, Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova), who is not disabled.
“What’s fascinating is their daily lives,” said Kristen Loutensock, a cinema studies professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton. “We never see their actual acts. We see them doing laundry, eating with each other. It’s this idea of community as family, a space where you can do the things that are necessary for your life — like you can eat with your feet!”
Freak shows had declined by the 1920s after a movement to shut them down, not out of concern for the performers, but with the goal of keeping them from public view. Browning’s film ran into opposition, too: It was reedited after test screenings, bombed at the U.S. box office and was banned in Britain. But in the 1960s and ’70s, it resurfaced as a midnight movie and cult oddity, at a time that overlapped with the beginnings of film studies as a formal university program.
“Freaks” rose to further prominence in the 1990s with the emergence of disability studies as a field and the reappraisal of circus
culture. Sideshows were reevaluated as a possible site for expressing a kind of creative vision, and the film has its own ready-made taglines for solidarity, from the “one of us” chant — when they welcome Cleopatra as “one of” their community — to the group’s code of honor: An injury to one is an injury to all.
The over-the-top aspects of “Freaks” also gained their own kitsch appeal for some viewers with disabilities, Sandahl said.
“Embracing ‘Freaks’ is also about a form of humor called ‘cripping.’ It’s an outsider, edgy embrace of something that is clearly outsider and nonnormative,” she said.
Detractors of “Freaks” and its inherently marginalizing context exist. But its reevaluation seems to occupy an established place in disability studies that does not have any precise equivalents. Scholars I spoke with singled out moments in other films, ranging from the 1978 drama “Coming Home” (which depicts the aftermath of injury in war) to the 2019 “Chained for Life” (which stars Adam Pearson, an actor with facial disfigurements) and even the Farrelly brothers’ hit 1998 comedy “There’s Something About Mary” (featuring a boy with intellectual disabilities).
But none has quite the stature of “Freaks,” and sometimes redeeming other movies can be a reach.
“I’ve appeared with the Farrelly brothers on different panels and we’ve had this argument before,” David Mitchell, a leading disability studies scholar who is a professor at George Washington University, said of their portrayals of people with disabilities. “They say that any representation is good representation and ultimately the films works its way around so you have sympathy for the character. But for me, that’s too low a bar.”
Reid Davenport, a filmmaker who charted his own experiences navigating the world with a wheelchair in the award-winning documentary “I Didn’t See You There,” recognizes the conflicting views of “Freaks.” It might be transgressive and offensive, yet it also demonstrates the agency of its characters in a society that has tossed them aside. (In his own feature, he also laments the sudden appearance of a big-top circus in his neighborhood, and the legacy it brings to mind.) But he maintains that the history of disability representation in film is simply dire across the board.
“There’s really very little to look back upon and say, ‘Oh, let’s keep this,’” he said. “There needs to be a complete overhaul, and I think there are signs that this is happening.”
Davenport’s work points one way to representations that are faithful to the experience of people with disabilities. Mitchell said he believed that the future of disability representation lies in works such as Davenport’s and what he broadly calls independent disability cinema.
“Disability film tends to be about a creative, nonnormative navigation of the universe,” Mitchell said. “And that is a kind of viable alternative ethical map to how to live differently, because disabled lives are so interdependent.”
Viewed in that light, the specific, antiquated world of “Freaks” can continue to spur better ways forward in artistic depictions of people with disabilities.
“That was the thing that really appealed to me: An offense to one is an offense to all. That’s my motto for disability activism,” Sandahl said. “Like, you may not have a ramp for me to get into this store, but it’s not just about me if I complain. You’ve offended all of us, and I’m going to do something about it.”
to trial. Landis, Folsey and three other defendants were charged with involuntary manslaughter, a felony. The trial was a media sensation, promising “some of the splashy drama of a guns-and-action Hollywood film.” Yet, the defendants were acquitted on all charges, thanks to a somewhat bungled prosecution and a seemingly star-struck jury.
There were some consequences for the filmmakers and for Warner Bros., the studio behind the picture, including fines for labor violations and settlements in civil suits filed by the families of the deceased. But in spite of the deaths on Landis’ set, and the troubling stories of his behavior and decisions leading up to it, the industry rallied behind him. Sixteen significant directors — including Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, John Huston, George Lucas, Sidney Lumet and Billy Wilder — signed an open letter of support for the filmmaker. Several director pals also appeared in cameos in “Into the Night” and “Spies Like Us,” two of the features Landis made between the deaths and his acquittal.
By JASON BAILEY
When the anthology film “Twilight Zone: The Movie” opened June 24, 1983, reviews were mixed; The New York Times’ Vincent Canby deemed it “a flabby, mini-minded behemoth,” and that was a fairly representative view. A middling box office performer, the film may well have been forgotten entirely were it not for another news event, related to the picture, reported that same day: the unsealing of the grand jury indictments against five of the filmmakers, including director John Landis, for their responsibility in a stunt gone horrifyingly awry, killing three people during the picture’s production.
It happened at 2:20 a.m. on Friday, July 23, 1982. Landis’ segment — which concerned a loudmouthed bigot (Vic Morrow) who gets a taste of his own medicine when he steps into the Ku Klux Klan-era South, Nazi Germany and a Vietnam War battle, and is mistaken for the very people he had previously derided — was to culminate in a spectacular display of stunts and firepower. Chased by a military helicopter, Morrow’s character was to carry two Vietnamese children across a river to safety as a village exploded behind them. But the sequence was poorly planned and barely rehearsed, and the explosions damaged the rotor blades of the chopper, causing the pilot to lose control. The helicopter crashed into the river, dismembering Morrow and the two children: Myca Dinh Le, age 7, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, 6
(spelled Renee Shinn Chen in the Times’ early reporting).
As investigators examined the crash, they discovered that the children’s mere presence on the set had been illegal. Child labor law regulations prohibited children from working at that late hour; further, no on-set child-welfare worker would have permitted them to work in such proximity to explosions or a helicopter. So, Landis and one of the producers, George Folsey Jr., went outside regulations, casting children of mutual acquaintances, keeping their names out of the production’s official paperwork and paying them in petty cash. A production secretary recalled Landis joking about the scheme, “We’re all going to jail!”
That cavalier attitude carried over onto the “Twilight Zone” set. Landis was described as a “screamer,” prone to temper tantrums and abusive invective, and thus resistant to concerns raised by crew members about the safety of that sequence — or an earlier scene, in which Landis, unsatisfied with the effects achieved by fake gunfire, ordered the use of live ammunition.
Communication among the director, the special-effects crew and the helicopter pilot was all but nonexistent that night. When a stunt performer noted that the explosion was more forceful than expected in an earlier helicopter shot, Landis reportedly replied, “If you think that was big, you haven’t seen nothing yet.”
It took three more years, after the unsealing of those indictments on the film’s opening day, for the case to come
Landis’ career would eventually slow down — not because of the deaths, but because his films stopped making money. In a hearing after the “Twilight Zone” deaths, Art Carter, chief of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, said that while speaking to industry veterans and union representatives about tightening safety restrictions on sets, “No one could recall a single instance in which a given movie or television program could not be made because of safety considerations. Rather, it was a matter of spending the necessary money to assure protections.”
After the “Twilight Zone” deaths, the Directors Guild of America issued formal, firmer safety guidelines, yet the cutting of budgetary corners has continued to put the lives of actors and crew members in jeopardy. The very day the verdict was handed down in the “Twilight Zone” case, a helicopter crash on the Manila set of “Braddock: Missing in Action III” killed four Filipino soldiers. Camera assistant Sarah Jones was killed by a freight train while working on the low-budget film “Midnight Rider” in 2014. And apparent negligence on sets resulted in the shooting death of actor Brandon Lee during the production of “The Crow” in 1993 and of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust” in 2021.
The questions of verisimilitude versus safety, of what risks are permissible in the making of art, have not gone away in the 40 years since “Twilight Zone: The Movie” was released. But the sole public statement on the matter from Steven Spielberg, who directed another of the film’s segments, remains illuminating. His name was conspicuously absent from the open letter of filmmakers supporting Landis, and in April 1983, he summed up the experience in a Los Angeles Times interview: “No movie is worth dying for. I think people are standing up much more now than ever before to producers and directors who ask too much. If something isn’t safe, it’s the right and responsibility of every actor or crew member to yell, ‘Cut!’”
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Camellias were worked into suits, tops, shoes, ho siery and coats. Coupled with Chanel’s interlocking Cs logo, they were also seen in lacy shorts, lace gloves, chain bags, enamel jewelry, hair clips, brooches, san dals and my new object of desire, super fabulous knee high Mod-style boots. Camellias were even arranged and scattered in various sizes on sweaters and cardi gans in what at first appeared to be a polka dot pat tern. Bravo!
By IRIS EDÉN SANTIAGO Special to The STAR
We can buy ourselves flowers. But can we buy our selves these?
In the House of Chanel it is always about the femme suit, the tweed fabrics and the emblematic camel lia. This is meant in a very positive way, of course. After all, why mess with winning combinations?
But Chanel surprised us. Their fabulous Fall-Winter 2023 collection focused on just one element: flowers. Nothing revolutionary; luxury labels never step too far away from their soul. But even within their safety zone, Virginie Viard managed to deliver a new brand of girly with just one flower. The camellia. Cool variations, op art patterns, new fabrics and bright colors suggest renovation, while promoting playfulness and artsy looks. I must admit that this is a ballsy move for the Maison. And I love it.
Chanel’s take on the camellia has always been unique and ultra feminine, but this season the icon ic motif is fun, tridimensional, graphic and colorful. It’s blooming and popping everywhere. Viard presented all kinds of modern versions of camellias: textured, knitted, quilted, embroidered, bejeweled, sequined. Materials include leather, patent leather, lurex, tweed and plumes.
“The camellia is more than a theme, it’s an eternal code of the House,” explained Creative Director Viard in a statement. “I find it reassuring and familiar, I like its softness and its strength. It’s a Chanel code that is outside of fashion, outside of time. It’s a winter flower, too, and this is a winter col lection.”
The color palette began with black, white and gray and then exploded with vivid colors like red, navy, coral, dusty pink, orange and fuchsia. Loving the Bermuda shorts suits, the flounces, the asymmetrical peplums, the beading and the fit ted long jackets.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO
LIME HOMES, LTD
Demandante Vs. AILEEN
ROMAN-RODRIGUEZ
Demandados
Civil Núm.: AR2021CV00311.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE
DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 21 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 93 en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural San Francisco del Barrio Tanama del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.1225 cuerdas, equivalentes a 493.46 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle número dos de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela número 96 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela número 93-A de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la calle número uno de la comunidad. Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa. Consta inscrita al folio 115 del tomo 417 de Arecibo, finca número 16599, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Arecibo. Propiedad localizada en:
39 Calle Rodríguez Olmo, Arecibo, PR 00612. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o preferentes: Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico por la suma de $15,000.00 sin intereses anuales y vencimiento 29 de agosto de 2011. Constituida por la Escritura 428 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de agosto de 2003 ante el notario Mariano S. Majeraurriola e inscrita al folio 48 del tomo 1285 de Arecibo, finca 16599, inscripción 5a. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $55,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 28 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $36,666.67, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $27,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 5 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $45,350.62 de principal, intereses al tipo del 6.50000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1ro. de mayo de 2014 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $5,500.00
por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si ésto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los Interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de junio de 2023. ÁNGEL DE J. TORRES PÉREZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS PLACA #770, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO, SALA SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE ANGEL
GARCIA SOTO Y SUCESION DE PORFIRIA
BURGOS NOGUERAS, COMPUESTAS POR
SUS HIJOS LUIS ANGEL
GARCIA BURGOS, NYLDA LOURDES
GARCIA BURGOS E HILDA ESTHER GARCIA BURGOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2022CV01820.
Sala: (802). Sobre: EJECU-
CIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESION DE ANGEL GARCIA SOTO Y SUCESION DE PORFIRIA BURGOS NOGUERAS, COMPUESTAS POR SUS HIJOS LUIS ANGEL
GARCIA BURGOS, NYLDA LOURDES
GARCIA BURGOS E HILDA ESTHER GARCIA BURGOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM).
Yo, ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 31 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Caguas durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS
10:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS
10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Lote número Uno (1): Parcela de terreno sita en el BARRIO ARENAS del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, tiene dicha parcela una cabida superficial de SETECIENTOS SESENTA Y UNO PUNTO SEISCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y DOS (761.652) METROS CUADRADOS, equivalentes a
CERO PUNTO UNO NUEVE TRES OCHO (0.1938) CUERDA; colinda por el NORTE en veinticuatro punto setenta y uno (24.71) metros, con terrenos propiedad de Don Miguel Santos; por el SUR, en cuatro alineaciones descontinuadas de dieciocho punto noventa y dos (18.92) metros, cuatro punto setenta y uno (4.71) metros, dos punto cero cero (2.00) metros y dos punto noventa (2.90) metros, con lote “K” segregado dedicado a uso público; por el ESTE, en veintiséis punto sesenta y dos (26.62) metros, con el lote número Dos (2) segregado; y por el OESTE, en treinta y uno punto noventa (31.90) metros, con terrenos propiedad de Doña Isabel Soto Santiago. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 165 del tomo 413 de Cidra, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda, finca número 15,144, inscripción segunda. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Lote #1, RD 734, Barrio Arenas, Cidra, Puerto Rico 00739. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $50,900.80 de principal, intereses al 5 3/4% anual, desde el 1ro. de agosto de 2020, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $7,600.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $76,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $50,666.67 y de necesitarse una tercera subasta la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir la suma de $38,000.00. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex-
tinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 14 de junio de 2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE EJECUCIÓN DE SENTENCIAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR CAGUAS.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs. HECTOR LUIS
RODRIGUEZ ACEVEDO
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00133. (705). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: HECTOR LUIS RODRIGUEZ ACEVEDO. Yo, ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 31 DE JULIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad
inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Caguas durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS
9:45 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS
9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Ciento Sesenta y Cuatro (164) en el plano de inscripción del Proyecto UM guión Siete (UM-7) denominado “BUNKER” del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de TRESCIENTOS ONCE PUNTO SEIS CUATRO CUATRO CERO (311.6440) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes: por el NORTE, con los solares números Ciento Sesenta y Uno(161) y Ciento Sesenta y Cinco (165), distancia de cuatro punto doscientos cincuenta y dos (4.252) metros y cinco punto seiscientos tres (5.603) metros, respectivamente; por el SUR, con la Calle Bolivia, distancia de dieciséis punto quinientos veintiuno (16.521) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número Ciento Sesenta y Seis (166), distancia de veintidós punto trescientos cincuenta y cinco (22.355) metros y con el lote número Ciento Sesenta y Cinco (165), en distancia de uno punto quinientos treinta y cinco (1.535) metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número Ciento Sesenta y Tres (163) y el solar número Ciento Sesenta y Dos (162), distancia de trece punto trescientos ochenta y nueve (13.389) metros y doce punto seiscientos cuarenta y cuatro (12.644) metros, respectivamente. Enclava una estructura. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Caguas, Sección Primera, finca número 40,193, inscripción novena. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Bunker, Calle Bolivia, 164, (UM-
7), Caguas, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $66,929.50 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.50% anual, desde el día 1ro. de mayo de 2022, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $7,575.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $75,750.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $50,500.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $37,875.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, 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. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 14 de junio de 2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.
LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA
EDDIE NIEVES FÉLIX
Parte Demandante Vs. FÉLIX COLÓN RIVERA; MARIA ELENA PARRILLA OLMEDO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: CN2022CV00280.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
te EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de junio de 2023. Edwin E. López Mulero, Alguacil Auxiliar, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De San Juan.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO EDWIN
RODRIGUEZ RAMOS
Demandante V.
EMI EQUITY MORTGAGE INC.; BEEWEE
MORTGAGE SAVINGS
COPORATION JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALQUIERA PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR
DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: GB2023CV00223.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: BEEWEE MORTGAGE
SAVINGS COPORATION.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de los siguientes gravámenes: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de EMI Equity Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $160,650.00, con intereses al 6 1/4% anual, vencedero el día 1 de abril de 2014, constituida mediante la escritura número 121, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de marzo de 1999, ante el notario Mario
A. Quiles Rosado, e inscrita al folio 67 del tomo 1429 de Guaynabo, finca número 48,141, inscripción 3ra. b. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Bewee Mortgage Bankers Corp, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $250,000.00, con intereses al 5.5% anual, vencedero el día 1 de julio de 2033, constituida mediante la escritura número 63, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de junio de 2003, ante la notaria Luz Conchita Toro Rivera, e inscrita al folio 67 del tomo 1429 de Guaynabo, finca número 48,141, inscripción 5ta.
2. Los pagaré y sus respectivas hipotecas previamente relacio-
nados afectan la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Lote de terreno marcado con el número B-6 de la Urbanización Chalets de Santa Clara, Barrio Frailes de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos veinte punto quince metros cuadrados (320.15 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Brillante; por el SUR, con Don Rafael Rivera Colón; por el ESTE, con el lote B guión siete (B-7); y por el OESTE, con el lote B guión cinco (B-5). Discurre en todo su frente una servidumbre de cinco pies cero pulgadas (5’0”) de ancho para el servicio telefónico y tiene una servidumbre de tres punto cuarenta y siete (3.47) metros cuadrados en su esquina Noreste a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica. Finca Número 48,141, inscrita al folio 67 del tomo 1429 de Guaynabo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. 3. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. 4. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico y se le requiere para que radique en este Tribunal su contestación y notifique con copia de ella al abogado de la parte demandante la LCDA.
LIZBET A VILES VEGA, RUA: 12536, Urb. Los Sauces, Calle Pomanosa #222, Humacao, PR 00791, Tel: 787-354-0061, Email: lizbet_aviles@yahoo. com y lcdalizbetaviles@gmail. com; dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle.
EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I.
SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. SARA ROSA
VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. ROBERT DOSCHER
Y LA SUCESIÓN DE PHYLLIS DOSCHER, T/C/C/ PHYLLIS TESTA, COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL
Demandado(a)
Civil: VB2023CV00331. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: ROBERT DOSCHER Y LA SUCESIÓN DE PHYLLIS DOSCHER, T/C/C/ PHYLLIS TESTA, COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 21 de junio de 2023. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 21 de junio de 2023. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO-
LINA SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK COMO
AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.
Demandante Vs. ANGEL RODRIGUEZ
ROJAS T/C/C ANGEL
RODRIGUEZ, POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE CARMEN MARGARITA
CARMONA SANTIAGO
T/C/C CARMEN M.
CARMONA SANTIAGO
T/C/C CARMEN
CARMONA SANTIAGO
T/C/C CARMEN
CARMONA T/C/C
CARMEN MARGARITA
CARMONA; LA SUCESION DE CARMEN
MARGARITA CARMONA
SANTIAGO T/C/C
CARMEN M. CARMONA
SANTIAGO T/C/C
CARMEN CARMONA
SANTIAGO T/C/C
CARMEN CARMONA
T/C/C CARMEN
MARGARITA CARMONA
COMPUESTA POR ANGEL
XAVIER RODRIGUEZ
CARMONA Y ANNELIESE
MARIANA RODRIGUEZ
CARMONA; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2022CV04131.
Sala: 409. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA).
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: URB. VALLE ARRIBA HEIGHTS, Q-2 CALLE HIGUERO (54), CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00983 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Valle Arriba Heights, situada en el Barrio Sabana Debajo de Carolina, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número 2 de la Manzana “Q”, con un área de 373.75 metros cuadrados. En lindes, por el NORTE, con la calle número 54, en una distancia de 16.25 metros; por el SUR, con camino sombreado, en una distancia de 16.25 me-
tros; por el ESTE, con el Solar número 3, en una distancia de 23.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con el Solar número 1, en una distancia de 23.00. Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado, diseñada para una familia. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 45 del Tomo 184 de Carolina, finca número 6,625, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $137,591.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $91,727.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $68,795.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 61 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de agosto de 2017, ante el Notario Vicente A. Sequeda Torres y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 6,625, inscripción 18va, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido condenando a la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $132,492.32 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de marzo de 2020, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, Ángel Rodriguez Rojas t/c/c Ángel Rodriguez, por sí y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria de la Sucesión de Carmen Margarita Carmona Santiago t/c/c
Carmen M. Carmona Santiago t/c/c Carmen Carmona Santiago t/c/c Carmen Carmona t/c/c
Carmen Margarita Carmona; La Sucesión de Carmen Margarita Carmona Santiago t/c/c
Carmen M. Carmona Santiago t/c/c Carmen Carmona Santiago t/c/c Carmen Carmona t/c/c Carmen Margarita Carmona compuesta por Ángel
Xavier Rodriguez Carmona y Anneliese Mariana Rodriguez
Carmona; Fulano y Fulana De Tal como posibles herederos desconocidos de La Sucesión, adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $13,759.10.
Además, Ángel Rodriguez Rojas t/c/c Ángel Rodriguez, por sí y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria de la Sucesión de Carmen
Margarita Carmona Santiago
t/c/c Carmen M. Carmona Santiago t/c/c Carmen Carmona
Santiago t/c/c Carmen Carmona t/c/c Carmen Margarita Carmona; La Sucesión de Carmen
Margarita Carmona Santiago
t/c/c Carmen M. Carmona Santiago t/c/c Carmen Carmona Santiago t/c/c Carmen Carmona t/c/c Carmen Margarita
Carmona compuesta por Ángel Xavier Rodriguez Carmona y Anneliese Mariana Rodriguez
Carmona; Fulano y Fulana De Tal como posibles herederos desconocidos de La Sucesión se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $13,759.10 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $13,759.10 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble 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 de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de car-
gas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de junio de 2023.
GRETCHEN M. JEREZ SEDA, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE GEODANNY LUIS
CORREA MIRANDA COMPUESTA POR
RUBEN CORREA, RUTH
MIRANDA; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2022CV03329.
Sala: 403. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA).
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento
de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, sita en el cuarto piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: URB. LEVITTOWN LAKES, BK-8 CALLE DR. JOSE MARTORELL, TOA BAJA, PUERTO RICO 00949 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número ocho del Bloque BK en la Urbanización Levittown en el Barrio Sábana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos cincuenta y seis metros cuadrados con cincuenta centímetros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en veintitrés metros, con el Paseo Público; por el SUR, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número nueve; por el ESTE, en quince metros cincuenta centímetros, con Passive Parkland Cultural Center; por el OESTE, en quince metros cincuenta centímetros, con la Calle Doctor Formicedo (según Plano Calle quinientos ocho). Enclava una casa. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 226 del Tomo 144 de Toa Baja, finca número 8,850, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $137,365.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, sita en el cuarto piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $91,576.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, sita en el cuarto piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior
de Bayamón. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $68,682.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 73 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de marzo de 2016, ante la Notario Rosa E. Permuy Calderóns y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Toa Baja, finca número 8,850, inscripción 17ma, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte co-demandada ascendente a la suma de $128,456.93 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de abril de 2020, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.75% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, La Sucesión de Geodanny Luis Correa Miranda adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $13,736.50. Además, La Sucesión de Geodanny Luis Correa Miranda se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $13,736.50 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $13,736.50 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SE-
CRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble 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 de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presen-
te se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de junio de 2023. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOT ICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. BETTY RODRIGUEZ SIERRA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2023CV02778.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A La Parte Co-
Demandada: BETTY RODRÍGUEZ SIERRA, A
CONOCIDA: (A) PO BOX 616 COROZAL, PR 007830616; (B) URB. CERRO MONTE #1 CALLE A-1 COROZAL, PR 00783. Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma $107,847.22 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $10,980.00. Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $10,980.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $10,980.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 80, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de marzo de 2008, ante la notario Ana V. Piñero-Parés, modificada mediante la escritura número 194, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de junio de 2011, ante la Notario Público Ileana Quintero Aguiló, de la finca número 7,126 Bis, inscrita al Folio 242 del Tomo 138 de Corozal, Registro de la Propiedad Barranquitas. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis-
tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 22 de junio de 2023, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante (a) Vs. MARÍA M. BORIA PÉREZ Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00733. Sala: 803. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: MARÍA M. BORIA PÉREZ.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta
notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 20 de junio de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 20 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KAROLYN RIVERA NAVARRO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff, Vs. ELIZARDO MATOS CRUZ Defendant(s) Civil No. 3:20-CV-01024. (ADC). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: ELIZARDO MATOS CRUZ. URB. CAPARRA HILLS, I-3 CALLE NOGAL, GUAYNABO, PR 00968. THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: On March 10, 2023, this Court entered Default Judgment in favor of Plaintiff, against Defendant. On June 14, 2023, this Court entered Order for Execution of Judgment, stating that Defendant has failed to pay the sums of monies adjudged to be paid under the judgment. The In the Judgment, this Court stated that Defendant has defaulted on the repayment obligation to LIME HOMES, LTD., and ordered to pay the Plaintiff the principal sum of $307,352.52, plus interest at 5.25000% per annum from October 1st, 2017, which will continue to accrue interest at the contractual rate. The defendant also owes, and the Court ordered to pay LIME HOMES, LTD. all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note, including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections, as well as 10% of the original principal balance, or $23,400.00 to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed by the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHERAEAS, Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendant will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: Solar 3 bloque I del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Caparra Hills en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área de 657.636 metros cuadrados. Lindando al NORTE, en 30.670 metros con solar 4;
por el SUR, en 30.00 metros con solar 2; por el ESTE, en 23.809 metros con solar 8 y por el OESTE, en 20.01 metros con Calle 2. Consta inscrita al folio 191 del tomo 186 de Guaynabo, finca número 12779, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico de Guaynabo. WHEREAS: The property is subject to the following lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage Inc., o a su orden, por la suma de $234,000.00 con intereses al 8 3/4% anual y vencimiento 4 de febrero de 2022. Constituida por la Escritura 37 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de enero de 2000 ante la notario Mireya Ocasio García, e inscrita al folio 217 del tomo 1416 de Guaynabo, finca 12779, inscripción 15ª. Senior Lien: None. Junior Lien: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential lien with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential lien to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, lien (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: For the purpose of the First Judicial Sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $234,000.00 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the abovedescribed property be unsuccessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the Second Judicial Sale will be two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the First Judicial Sale, or $156,000.00. The minimum bid for the Third Judicial Sale, if the same is necessary, will be onehalf of the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the aforementioned mortgage deed, or $117,000.00 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Article 104, as amended. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. NOW THREFORE, PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment
herein before referred to, will on the JULY 28, 2023 AT 10:00 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico in accordance with 28 U.S.C. §2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property describes in the Notice will be held on the AUGUST 5 2023 AT 10:00 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the AUGUST 12 2023 AT 10:00 3 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 20 day of June 2023. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, SPECIAL MASTER.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA DE CAYEY
WILMINGTON SAVINGS
FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF FINANCE OF AMERICA
STRUCTURED SECURITIES
ACQUISITION TRUST
2018-HB1
Demandante Vs. MARTA VIRGEN LÓPEZ
RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C
MARTA VIRGINIA
LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ
T/C/C MARTA V LÓPEZ
RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C
MARTA V. LÓPEZ/
RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C
RODRÍGUEZ MARTA
LÓPEZ T/C/C MARTA
V. LÓPEZ T/C/C MARTA
LÓPEZ; Y LOS ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CY2022CV00138.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: MARTA VIRGEN
LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ
T/C/C MARTA VIRGINIA
LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ
T/C/C MARTA V LÓPEZ
Yo, ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el dá 31 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 30 de marzo de 2023. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA; en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 1 de junio de 2023, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número marcado con el numero Dos (2) del bloque “A” de la URBANIZACION JARDINES DEL CARIBE, sita en Cayey, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida de doscientos setenta y nueve puntos cincuenta (279.50) metros cuadrados. Colina por el NORTE, en trece (13.00) metros, con la calle numero Dos de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en trece (13.00) metros, con la franja de terreno dedicada a uso público; por el OESTE, en veintiuno punto cincuenta (21.50) metros, con el solar número uno (1) del
bloque “A” de la Urbanización y por el ESTE, en veintiuno punto cincuenta (21.50) metros, con el solar numero tres (3) del bloque “A” de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa de vivienda de hormigón reforzado. Finca número 9,870 inscrita en el folio 162 del tomo 298 de Cayey, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cayey. Dirección de la Propiedad: A2 Calle 2 Jardines del Caribe Dev., Cayey, PR 00736. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $97,437.43 de principal del préstamo, que con gastos e intereses al 5.060% anual ascendían a $122,606.46 a la fecha de 10 de junio de 2022, más aquellos intereses que se acumulen hasta el total solvento de la obligación, y $9,743.74 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 14 otorgada el día 8 de abril de 2014, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Fernando E. Doval y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Cayey, finca número 9,870, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I de Caguas. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de Estados Unidos de América, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $180,000.00,
con intereses al 5.06% anual, vencedero el día 25 de febrero de 2088, constituida por la escritura número 15, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el dia 8 de abril de 2014, ante la notario Fernando E. Doval, e inscrito al tomo Karibe de Cayey, finca número 9,870, inscripción 8va. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $180,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $120,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $90,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, 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. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la
sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 26 de junio de 2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA ALTA EN TOA
BAJA
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. ARACELIS
MARTINEZ PEREZ
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: TA2023CV00080.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC-
TO.
en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de mayo de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 12 mayo de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
JULIO
MELÉNDEZ ROBERTO
Demandante V. ADALGISA RUÍZ SUERO
Demandado(a)
Civil Núm.: FA2023RF00027.
Sobre: DIVORCIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: ADALGISA
RUÍZ SUERO.
caso, con fecha 22 de junio de 2023. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 22 de junio de 2023. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. NORANGELY RIBOT AGUIAR, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. MARÍA LLAVINA MÉNDEZ
T/C/C MARÍA ESTHER
LLAVINA MÉNDEZ, SU ESPOSO MIGUEL ROMAN
GOMEZ T/C/C MIGUEL
ANGEL ROMAN GÓMEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; AUTORIDAD PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO
Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2023CV00519. 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: MARÍA LLAVINA
MÉNDEZ T/C/C MARÍA ESTHER LLAVINA
MÉNDEZ, MIGUEL ROMAN GÓMEZ
contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, 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, GUAYNABO, PR 00970
TEL: 787- 751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155
E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com
En Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 23 de junio de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SUBSECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN WILMINGTON SAVINGS
FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR THE CSMC 2015-PR 1 TRUST MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2015-PR1 Demandante V. POPULAR MORTGAGE, INC; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS
Demandado(a)
notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 22 de junio de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 22 de junio de 2023. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Vivian J. Sanabria, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE MARIA
GUADALUPE COBIAN
CASTRO T/C/C
GUADALUPE COBIAN
CASTRO; SUCESIÓN DE FRANKLIN CARLOS
MIRANDA, JR T/C/C
FRANKLIN C. MIRANDA, JR T/C/C FRANKLIN
CARLOS MIRANDA
COBÍAN T/C/C FRANKLIN
C. MIRANDA COBÍAN; SUCESION DE ALDO LUIS MIRANDA COBÍAN
T/C/C ALDO MIRANDA
COBÍAN; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL
COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS
Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
cribe le notifica a usted que el 22 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 26 de junio de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 26 de junio de 2023. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Lureimy Alicea González, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
GIL JOSÉ GARCÍA
A: ARACELIS MARTINEZ PEREZ - URB TOA ALTA
HTS 175 CALLE 3, TOA ALTA PR 00953.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.
Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio,
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este
T/C/C MIGUEL ÁNGEL ROMAN GÓMEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. URB. CITY
PALACE H-01 CALLE 5, NAGUABO, PR 00718; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: #460 MCDANIEL DR. APT. 203 JACKSONVILLE, NC 28546-7099.
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
Civil: BY2023CV00825. Sala: 504. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por e dicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta
Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2023CV001084. Salón: 703. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: SUCESIÓN DE MARIA GUADALUPE
COBIAN CASTRO T/C/C
GUADALUPE COBIAN
CASTRO; SUCESIÓN DE FRANKLIN CARLOS
MIRANDA, JR T/C/C
FRANKLIN C. MIRANDA, JR T/C/C FRANKLIN CARLOS MIRANDA
COBÍAN T/C/C FRANKLIN
C. MIRANDA COBÍAN; SUCESION DE ALDO LUIS MIRANDA COBÍAN
T/C/C ALDO MIRANDA
COBÍAN; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS
Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus-
TORRES; NORMA IRIS BÁEZ MERCEDE Demandante V. EX PARTE Demandado(a) Civil: GB2022CV01074. (605). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD, Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO, DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. (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 6 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 16 de junio de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 16 de junio de 2023. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Nélida Ocasio Ortega, Secretaria Auxiliar.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
RAFAEL RODRÍGUEZ
DÍAZ, BLANCA ROSA
REYES ROLÓN T/C/C
BLANCA R. REYES
ROLÓN T/C/C BLANCA
REYES ROLÓN T/C/C
BLANCA ROSA
REYES COLÓN Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: DCD2017-0875. (401). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS (IN REM). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Montecasino Heights, en el Barrio Mucarabo-
nes del Municipio de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, area y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar: B-3; Area del solar: 351.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la Avenida Montecasinos, en 13.00 metros; por el Sur, con la calle número 1, en 13.00 metros; por el Este, con el solar número 4, en 27.00 metros; por el Oeste, con el solar número 2, en 27.00 metros. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 178 del tomo 481 de Toa Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de Bayamón, finca número 20,956. Dirección fisica: Lot.3, Rio Hondo Street, Montecasino Heights Dev. Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, 00953. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad 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. D. Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda de los Estados Unidos de América, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $24,323.53, con intereses al 5% anual, vencedero el día 1 de septiembre de 2046, constituida mediante la escritura número 491, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de agosto de 2016, ante la notario Alexandra M. Serracante Cadilla, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Toa Alta, finca número 20,956, inscripción 8va. E. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $172,555.93, la suma de $4,644.70, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 10 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Bayamón, por el tipo mínimo de $173,606.77. De declarar-
se desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 17 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $115,737.85. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 24 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $86,803.39. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 23 de junio de 2023 en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193.
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 PAULA
VÉLEZ SANTIAGO
Y SUCESIONES DE ABRAHAM
MELENDEZ MELENDEZ COMPUESTAS POR SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA
MARIA MELENDEZ; FULANO DE TAL
Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN DICHAS SUCESIONES Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2023CV01246. Sala:
701. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: SUCESION DE PAULA
VELEZ SANTIAGO Y SUCESION DE ABRAHAM
MELÉNDEZ MELÉNDEZ COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA
MARIA MELENDEZ; FULANO DE TAL
Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN DICHAS SUCESIONES.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que
el 22 de 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 23 de junio de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 23 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA E. COLLAZO, 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. IRIS JEANNETTE LA FOSSE ORTIZ Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2023CV01852. Sala: 403. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: IRIS JEANNETTE LA FOSSE ORTIZ A SUS DIRECCIONES
CONOCIDAS: (A) PO BOX 8883 BAYAMON, PR 00960-8883; (B) URB. SANTA ELENITA, AC-2 CALLE 37 BAYAMON, PR 00957; (C) 4 WATER COURSE OCALA, FLORIDA 34472.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días
siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 23 de junio de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 23 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JANETTE RODRIGUEZ SUAREZ
Demandado(a)
Civil: GM2022CV00789. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JANETTE RODRIGUEZ SUAREZ. (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 23 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 23 de junio de 2023. En Guayama, Puerto Rico, el 23 de junio de 2023. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA M. COTTO AMARO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS ORIENTAL BANK
Parte Demandante V. LUIS ALBERTO
VICENTY SANTINI
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: CG2020CV02706. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, hago saber a la parte demandada, LUIS ALBERTO VICENTY SANTINI; Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 31 de mayo de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: [Solar #22 Calle 1, Barrio Bayamón, Cidra PR 00739] y que se describe como sigue: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Bayamón de Cidra, Puerto Rico. Está marcado con el número veintidós en el plano de inscripción parcial. Tiene una cabida de mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y siete metros y cinco centímetros cuadrados, o sea, trescientos setenta y una milésimas de una cuerda. Mide y colinda por el NORTE, en setenta y un metros y setenta y cuatro centímetros con el solar número veintitrés; por el SUR, en dos alineaciones que suman sesenta y seis metros y cinco centímetros con terrenos de Domingo Rodríguez; por el ESTE, en diecinueve metros y ochenta y seis centímetros con el remanente de la finca principal; y por el OESTE, en dos alineaciones en forma de arco que suman treinta y seis metros y noventa y siete centímetros con la calle Ramal número uno y en quince metros y setenta y dos centímetros con el remanente de la finca principal. Inscrita al Folio 239 del Tomo 226 de Cidra, finca número 9,013, inscripción 14ta, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección 2da. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Luis Alberto Vicenty Santini, soltero, en garantía de un pagare, aff. #6248, a favor de The Money House Inc., o a su orden, por $137,499.00 con intereses al 4% vencedero el 1 de abril de 2046, según
escritura 123 otorgada en San Juan, el 11 de marzo de 2016, ante el notario Priscilla M. Santiago Acosta, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Cidra, finca 9013, según inscripción 15ª. (ii) ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA radicada el 29 de octubre de 2019 en la Sala de Caguas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia en el caso civil número CG2019CV04059, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, demandante v. Luis Alberto Vicenty Santini, demandado. Por la misma se reclama el pago de $129,690.18, más otras sumas, garantizados por la hipoteca que resulta de la inscripción 15ta. Inscrita el 9 de abril de 2020 al Tomo Digital Karibe de la finca 9,013 de Cidra. Anotación “A”. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (ii). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 16 de julio de 2021, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad ascendiente a En dicha sentencia, se determinó que la parte demandada, adeuda a la parte demandante la suma de $129,690.18 de principal con intereses al 4% anual desde el día 1 de mayo de 2019 hasta su completo pago, cargos por demoras, más las cantidades debidas de contribuciones e impuestos, primas de seguro contra riesgo y seguro de hipoteca hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad estipulada de $13,749.90 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 1 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de CAGUAS, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $137,499.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $91,666.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el 15 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $68,749.50. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos
correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. 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. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico hoy 22 de junio de 2023.
AlejandroAll season, Luis Arráez had been in hot pursuit of baseball immortals. His batting average hovered around the vaunted .400 average, a standard not maintained through a big-league campaign since Ted Williams did it in 1941.
Then, in mid-June, Arráez suddenly went three games without a hit. Three games! For him, that amounted to a catastrophic drought. His average dropped to .378.
Arráez, 26, responded with a flurry. Against Washington, he went 5 for 5. Against Toronto, five times up, five more hits. He kept the hit parade going through last weekend’s series against Pittsburgh.
Back to the .400 chase Arráez went.
Major League Baseball’s rules changes, aimed at making the game faster and better, dominated the early season narrative. But Arráez has emerged as a hero in the making — one who has begun to sculpt a season for the ages.
He hits his singles and soft drives in Miami’s mostly empty stadium and is little known. But if he stays above .400 past the All-Star break, his status will change. The pressure will mount with each at-bat, as it did for Williams even in an era reliant on radio broadcasts and the slow churn of daily newspapers to tell the story.
In today’s world, every swing will be digitized, streamed instantly across the globe and analyzed by commentators and fans. Arráez will be known far beyond the domain of baseball aficionados.
Arráez, a Venezuelan who is 5 feet, 10 inches tall, is chasing more than a match of Williams, who finished that ’41 season with a .406 average. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line, which had been in place since the 19th century. No player has ever finished a season batting at or above .400 since MLB became an integrated game.
Pursuing records has a magnetic way of enthralling and drawing us in. Always will, always has.
Consider the ancient Greeks. There were no clocks or stopwatches in the Athens of the sixth century B.C., but the Greeks kept a tally of the unparalleled number of victories achieved by athletes such as Milo of Croton, a wrestler who won gold medals in six Olympics.
And just as we are today, the ancient Greeks were obsessed with reputation.
“Imagine a world with no Twitter, no newspaper or ‘SportsCenter’ highlights,” said David Lunt, an associate professor of history at Southern Utah University. “You just have these reputations, these stories that people tell about you. ‘Oh, my gosh, you would not believe what this amazing athlete did.’ And there were different ways they came up with to commemorate that.”
Poems were created, songs commissioned, statues erected. That’s how everyone knew an athlete had set the limits of performance.
Some things change with time, some do not. Today the record breakers are feted with billion-dollar careers, hundreds of millions of social media followers, and, for the lucky few like Willie Mays and Wayne Gretzky, a statue in front of a stadium.
In February, a LeBron James jump shot toppled one of the biggest, buzziest milestones in basketball: most points scored in an NBA career — 38,387 — a record held by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar since 1985 and long considered unbeatable.
Honoring Abdul-Jabbar allows for memories of other athletic masters and the records they own.
Wilt Chamberlain, with his 100-point game, the most scored in the NBA.
Bill Russell, with his 11 NBA titles, the most any player has won in the league.
Milestones possess a certain kind of magic. They exist on a continuum, honoring unparalleled excellence while beckoning future generations to the chase.
So it is that Margaret Court’s record haul of 24 Grand Slam singles titles evokes Serena Williams’ heart-stirring chase that stalled at 23, which conjures Novak Djokovic, who won his 23rd Slam event at this month’s French Open and could match Court at Wimbledon.
There are records that seem unsurpassable — only to be felled by the wrecking ball of a single stirring, stunning outlier of a performance. At the Mexico City Olympics in 1968, Bob Beamon set such a record in long jump, leaping nearly 2 feet beyond the previous world’s best.
Then, in 1991, along came Mike Powell, who snatched the mark by leaping 29 feet, 4 1/2 inches, 2 inches past Beamon.
It has been 32 years, and Powell’s performance is still the standard. For now.
Then there are milestones which aren’t quite records but have come to seem like them.
When the topic of the elusive .400 mark comes up, you’d be forgiven for thinking Williams was not only the last to meet that average but the first.
You’d be wrong, though. Dozens of major league players, including Ty Cobb, reached that standard before Williams.
But the major leagues of Williams and Cobb, and thus their records, will forever be stained by the scourge of racism. That’s why, if Arráez keeps his hot streak going and hits .400 or more for the season, he should be hailed as the first big leaguer ever to truly reach that mark — a baseball immortal.
Remember Milo of Croton? He was said to have gone to war wearing the olive crowns he’d won for his Olympic records — along with a lion’s skin and a club that made him seem like the god Hercules.
An important detail of that story is probably the stuff of metaphor, said Heather Reid, a professor of philosophy who studies the ancient Greeks and their relationship with sports. The wrestling champion was not likely wearing his Olympic crowns, which in antiquity were made of olive branches for a reason: They disintegrated, a nod to the fleeting nature of life.
And that points to a fundamental connection between ancient and modern sports. Then and now, records represent a “study in the limits of human excellence,” as Reid suggested.
Mortals push the boundaries, which make them seem like gods for a time. Until someone comes along to knock them from the pedestal. That’s why we watch.
Over last weekend’s series against Pittsburgh, Arráez’s average rose as high as .401 as he flicked pitch after pitch for singles and even knocked his third home run of the season. A 1-for-4 Sunday parked him back at .399.
If he can ride the season’s swoons and end up over .400, it will be time for a statue in front of Miami’s stadium. Plus a poem, a song, and perhaps an olive crown.
With World No. 11-ranked Adriana Díaz leading the way, Puerto Rico captured three medals in table tennis on Tuesday at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador.
Díaz became a three-time singles champion, winning her third consecutive gold medal in the women’s event at the Polvorín Sports Complex.
In the same event, junior player Brianna Burgos earned the bronze medal, as she was Díaz’s rival in the semifinals on Monday. Díaz’s cousin Brian Afanador finished with the silver medal in men’s singles.
“I have no words,” Díaz said. “This medal for me was very important. We had a hard week. I competed in all four events. I was really tired, but at the end of the day I said, ‘You’ve done it before, this is the last effort you have to make.’ I prepared myself with everything. I wanted to finish quickly and that’s what I did. I’m
very happy.”
The second of four table-tennis-playing sisters defeated Yadira Silva of Mexico in the final, 11-8, 11-2, 11-3 and 11-5.
Díaz’s overall medal count at the Central American and Caribbean Games, starting with Vera Cruz in 2014, Barranquilla in 2018 and San Salvador in 2023,
is seven gold, two silver and three bronze for a total of 12.
Afanador, meanwhile, once again had to face a well-known rival, Andy Pereira of Cuba. This time it was Pereira who emerged with the gold medal, winning 11-9, 11-6, 11-7, 11-13 and 12-10.
“I was trying to finish the points very quickly,” Afanador said. “At the end of the day we leave with the satisfaction that I had better results than in the past Central American Games (Barranquilla 2018). There was progress. I feel good about myself; I hold my head high. I have the confidence that I gave it my all at the table.”
Afanador’s medal count at the CAC Games grew to four gold, five silver and three bronze.
Puerto Rico’s table tennis contingent finished with two gold medals (men’s team and Díaz in women’s singles), three silver (women’s team, men’s doubles and Afanador in men’s singles) and two bronzes (women’s doubles and mixed doubles), for a total of seven medals in San Salvador.
After Florida forced a winner-takeall Game 3 in the baseball College World Series championship series by scoring the most runs in tournament history Sunday, the Gators took a 2-0 lead over Louisiana State in the first inning Monday and seemed poised to capture the title. That was until LSU’s bats exploded. The Tigers scored six runs in the second inning and four in the fourth on the way to
an 18-4 win over Florida on Monday in Omaha, Nebraska. It was LSU’s seventh national championship but its first since 2009, capping what had been a high-scoring, unpredictable College World Series.
LSU won the first game of the final series against Florida 4-3 in extra innings but couldn’t match the Gators’ historic hitting in Game 2, losing 24-4. The Tigers turned the tables Monday, led by a 4-for-6 performance from their star outfielder, Dylan Crews.
“This is what I’ve dreamed of ever since I was a freshman, holding this trophy,” Crews said in a televised interview after the game. “It’s the best feeling in the world.”
Florida’s pitching staff faltered at the worst time, after having allowed fewer than four runs per game in its five previous games at this CWS. Starting pitcher Jac Caglianone, who also leads the Gators in home runs hit, lasted just 1 1/3 innings and allowed six earned runs. The bullpen fared even worse, giving up 12 runs the rest of the way.
LSU had faced Florida in a CWS championship series before. In 2017, the Gators dispatched the Tigers in a sweep. With the
seven CWS titles, LSU has the second most, behind only Southern California’s 12.
The series featured the three players expected to be selected first in this summer’s MLB draft: Crews; his LSU teammate Paul Skenes, a pitcher; and Florida outfielder Wyatt Langford.
Crews won the Golden Spikes Award on Sunday, crowning him the top amateur baseball player in the country. He proved why Monday, making two dazzling catches in the third inning — including one that required him to sprint to the left-field wall and leap to collect a long fly by Florida second baseman Kade Curland — and hitting a triple in the eighth.
The Tigers sealed their win in the fourth inning by extending their lead to eight runs, but it came with a loss — catcher Alex Milazzo had to be carried off the field after jumping over Gators catcher B.T. Riopelle to reach home plate and make it 10-2.
After committing two errors in Game 2 and struggling to find a rhythm, LSU shortstop Jordan Thompson redeemed himself in Game 3. Thompson was 0-for-9 in the first two games of the championship series, but he collected three RBIs on Monday while
also making a number of defensive plays. By the time he stepped up to the plate in the top of the fifth inning, the crowd was chanting his name.
The Tigers’ pitching also stabilized after a Game 2 to forget. Right-hander Thatcher Hurd allowed a home run in the first but immediately bounced back, shutting out Florida over the next five innings and recording seven strikeouts, as the Gators struggled to hit his breaking ball.
“Probably more impressive than winning the national championship is that they were national champions every single day,” LSU coach Jay Johnson said after the game. “These guys had massive expectations all season long, and they met them. They met them every day.”
When Johnson began managing the Tigers last season, he started a new tradition: taking a team photo after every victory, regardless of the game’s consequence, to emphasize to his team just how hard it was to win a baseball game.
It had been 14 years without a national title win for LSU, but as the Tigers leaped into a dogpile Monday night, cameras were flashing.
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)
Things will flow smoothly for you, Aries. There’s barely a reason for you to lift a finger. You have the good fortune of enjoying this day with very little effort on your part. Keep in mind that if you decide to get something done, you will be extremely successful and able to accomplish quite a bit. You’re in sync with today’s energy.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
People aren’t going to want to be quite as intense as you require today, Taurus. Things are light and airy. You may find that no one is in the mood to delve as deeply as you want to go. Use the day to relax and release control for a while. Take deep breaths and long walks. Go for a bike ride or short road trip. Crazy, unexpected events may crop up throughout the day. Be prepared for surprises.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
It may be hard for you to make a decision about anything today, Gemini. Things may seem wishy-washy and unclear. Don’t worry about it. There is plenty of air to fuel your fire. Be aware that people may pop up from the past and unexpected events may disrupt the flow throughout the day. Best-laid plans are apt to be broken. Don’t sweat it. Just go with the flow.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Things probably aren’t going to go exactly as you planned today, Cancer. Realize that people may act in erratic, powerful bursts, especially when it comes to emotional issues. Your feelings may be a bit distant, and you may find it hard to get in touch with what’s really going on inside you. Do your best to maintain a positive attitude. That’s all anyone can ask.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Today is an excellent day for you, Leo. Events will flow quite smoothly. The only thing to be aware of is that your emotions may seem rather erratic and unwieldy. There’s a great deal of power behind your words and people are sure to listen. They would be smart to do so. What you have to say will be right on target with today’s energy.
You may be indecisive today, Virgo. You may not be able to find solutions you can live with. You don’t need to finalize anything now. Use this day to lay low and gather data. People may seem rather insensitive and erratic. Go with the flow. You have a great deal of warmth and passion to share. You may find that a strong, unpredictable force is affecting your emotions.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
There is plenty of air to fuel your fire today, Libra. You’re able to get quite a bit done. Multitasking is key to accomplishing what you want to do. An element of the unexpected is likely to add a surprising dimension to the day. You’re able to communicate freely, and you will likely be on the same page with the people you meet.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
You may need to make some slight adjustments in order to get through to people today, Scorpio. The pace may be a bit faster than you’d like. Remember that people aren’t mind readers. They won’t be sensitive enough to pick up on your subtle messages. If you want to get something across, state it clearly and succinctly. Feel free to explore the unconventional and bizarre.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
Today is an excellent day for you, Sagittarius. You will receive some bursts of unexpected energy that help you accomplish whatever it is you wish to do. You should enjoy a favorable mood and good relations with others all day. Enjoy yourself and feel free to indulge in things that make you happy. Spend time with your family and let them share in your positive energy flow.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
Things may be moving a bit too quickly today for you to grab hold of anything, Capricorn. There’s an element of the unexpected entering into the equation. Be prepared. The mood of the day is especially light and perhaps a bit superficial. People may not be entirely reliable. If there’s something you absolutely need to do, consider doing it by yourself.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
Enjoy the day today, Aquarius. Take control of the situation and make the most of whatever comes your way. Do it with a smile. There’s a great deal of fun-loving, excited energy ready for you to draw upon. Get your ideas out to others. Communicate your thoughts. Attend a party or two. You’re the epitome of the social butterfly. Make sure to wear your best attire.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
Your flexible nature may get you in trouble today, Pisces. Personalities may clash when no one is willing to lead. Be aggressive without being manipulative. Keep it light. Don’t try to pin anyone down. Your nature is open and expansive. Give other people the freedom they want. Unexpected events may dramatically change the course of the day, so don’t be upset if things don’t go as planned.
