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AU.S. Court of Appeals-D.C. Circuit panel has unanimously affirmed that the San Juan Bay dredging project, which would widen and deepen the channels through which ships travel and allow Puerto Rico’s energy market to increase the use of natural gas, complies with U.S. environmental regulations.
The three-judge panel decided in a ruling last week that neither the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) nor the National Marine Fisheries Service acted “arbitrarily or capriciously in carrying out their responsibilities to evaluate environmental problems.”
The court noted that the environmental assessment of the project considered the dredging project’s facilitation of a potential shift in Puerto Rico’s energy market to increased use of liquefied natural gas (LNG). In the early stages of project planning, and well before the publication of the draft Environmental Assessment, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) informed USACE that it intended to construct an LNG terminal on San Juan Harbor, which would receive and process imported LNG for two existing power plants that would be converted to natural-gas facilities. Due to the size of the tankers used to transport LNG, constructing an LNG terminal and converting the power plants would not be viable unless the harbor was dredged. Based on PREPA’s expressed intentions, USACE recognized in its environmental assessment that “a transition to LNG is a reasonable future assumption.”
Lawyers for the Center for Biological Diversity, representing environmental groups El Puente and CORALations, took the case to the D.C. Circuit court, arguing that USACE failed to properly consider the scope of the dredging project’s environmental impact, how it will affect minority and lowincome communities, and the potential damage to coral.
Although they argued that USACE had failed to consider the consequences of the construction of an LNG terminal
associated with the project and its environmental impact, the panel of judges did not rule on that allegation because the issue did not initially appear in the administrative complaint.
“In fact, the potential construction of an LNG terminal did not appear to warrant detailed consideration due to the uncertainty that construction would occur: at the time the Corps prepared the environmental assessment, PREPA had not submitted a federal permit application or requested any federal action regarding possible LNG conversion; and PREPA itself faced possible privatization, bankruptcy and the debilitating effects of two hurricanes,” said Circuit Judge Florence Pan, who wrote the opinion.
Emily Jeffers, senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in response to the ruling that dredging in San Juan Bay “is already disrupting communities and endangering coral ecosystems, and I am deeply disappointed that the court ruling fails to recognize the threat it poses.”
Jeffers said the “massive LNG infrastructure that dredging will make way for will undermine Puerto Rico’s clean energy future at a crucial time.”
“From start to finish, the department did not give local people enough of a voice in this project, and officials failed to consider the actual risks properly,” Jeffers said.
According to USACE plans, the Port of San Juan dredging project – which will last a year – is intended to facilitate the movement of large vessels such as cruise ships, cargo ships and petroleum tankers that are currently unable to navigate or easily enter the port.
The environmental groups argued in their complaint that the dredging project will “increase air pollution and harm the environment” and impact public health, and that the project “perpetuates and increases Puerto Rico’s dependence on fossil fuels for energy.”
However, USACE “limited the scope of the dredging project to include only the impacts of the specific dredging activities,” even if later, the groups said.
For the organizations, the environmental assessment that USACE issued was initially very limited, and although it was later expanded to include the entire San Juan Bay area, it was only intended to analyze additional dredging activities.
They also argued that the “Corps failed to effectively communicate all expected impacts to local communities” because it did not extend the comment period for the environmental assessment when Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017.
The environmental groups said the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) initially said it could not agree with USACE’s position that the project would not adversely affect bay corals. Still, later, it changed its position and found that the project was unlikely to affect endangered coral species adversely.
The court ruled that the NMFS’s action did not represent a change in public policy.
Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón, who is vying to become the New Progressive Party’s gubernatorial candidate, said Sunday that Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia was using cabinet officials to undermine her performance in obtaining federal funds for Puerto Rico and described island Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López as a frustrated candidate who appears to be “under medication.”
Mellado López said last week in a televised program that the efforts of local lobbying groups such as the Hospitals Association, and members of Congress from the Democratic Party, have been responsible for the federal health funds obtained by Puerto Rico and not González Colón. He also said he only met once with the resident commissioner as Health secretary.
González Colón said Mellado López “probably suffers from amnesia” because he has posted in his own web page about his meetings with her.
“He is under medication. … I think [his remarks] are part of his frustration and [inferiority] complex,” she said. “He wanted to be resident commissioner, and no one backed him, not even the private sector.”
The resident commissioner asserted that Pierluisi is using cabinet members to attack her during the primary campaign and undermine her work. In 2015, she said she met with numerous organizations to discuss her political platform in Washington. González Colón said that before she became a primary candidate, Pierluisi, former Gov. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, and former Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced said she was the best resident commissioner.
Pierluisi asked for her support against Vázquez Garced in 2020, which she provided, she said.
“What happens is that now I decided I was not going to be a rubber stamp to anybody,” she said.
“I am calling for people to support these candidates who will help me do my work,” Jenniffer González Colón said. “I plan on filing my bills on day one. I will not wait until the last minute, and I need a capable Legislature.” (Comité Jenniffer González Colón)
The resident commissioner made her remarks at a news conference in which she announced the names of the lawmakers and legislative candidates she is supporting for election, including former House Speaker José Aponte Hernández and Roberto Lefranc Fortuño for an at-large House seat and Pedro “Pellé” Santiago Guzmán for district representative.
She said she wanted to introduce her slate of candidates because there are already 16,352 ballots from people who requested early voting out there. Some 83,000 people have asked
for early voting.
“I am calling for people to support these candidates who will help me do my work,” González Colón said. “I plan on filing my bills on day one. I will not wait until the last minute, and I need a capable Legislature.”
The resident commissioner declined to say which candidates she will support as House speaker or Senate president because “first we have to win.” She insisted she has not promised anybody contracts or positions.
The Financial Oversight and Management Board has given the Legislature until Tuesday to reverse Act 10-2024, which bans the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB), the electricity sector regular, from conducting a net metering and energy distribution study until January 2030 and from making any changes to the current net metering program until after it completes the delayed study.
The Puerto Rico Energy Public Policy Act of 2019 requires that the PREB operate independently and “free from any direct or indirect political influence or interference.” Such independence is the cornerstone of an effective energy sector, the law stresses.
Act 10 intrudes on PREB’s independence and is inconsistent with the Fiscal Plan for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and the Fiscal Plan for the Commonwealth, the oversight board said.
“We raised these and other concerns in our letter dated April 10, 2024, to which the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF) responded on April 15, 2024,” the board said. “In its letter, AAFAF did not challenge the Oversight Board’s concerns, although AAFAF observed
that the Executive Branch has no authority to repeal or amend legislation unilaterally. While we appreciate AAFAF’s response, the letter does not resolve the issues raised by the Oversight Board.”
“That is why today the Oversight Board again urges the Executive Branch to take immediate action and work with the Legislative Assembly to repeal or amend Act 10 to restore PREB’s full statutory oversight over Puerto Rico’s energy system” the oversight board said. “The system has only just begun to recover from decades of political mismanagement that left the people of Puerto Rico with a failing electric grid.”
As written, Act 10 is significantly inconsistent with the commonwealth and PREPA fiscal plans, constitutes impermissible control over the oversight board’s activities in violation of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act
(PROMESA) and impairs or defeats the purposes of PROMESA as determined by the oversight board, the board said. The government enacted Act 10 to stop any fees or charges on solar panels.
Andrea Rosa Caraballo from Ernesto
Ramos AntoniniSpecialized School of the Arts in Yauco was this year’s winner of the Congressional Art Competition organized by Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón.
The winning entry is titled “Por Amor” (For Love). The artist said the work illustrates her vision of Puerto Rico.
“Many people, when they think of Puerto Rico, they think of things like the bomba y plena, the fiestas and peasants,” the 11th grader said. “But when I think of Puerto Rico, I think of the strong men and women who have built our current future and how they have helped us move forward out of love.”
The work shows a lady rocking in a hammock, and next to her a gentleman playing a güiro. The pair are sitting amidst nature in what looks like the backyard of a home.
“I’m sure our panel of judges had a hard time choos-
Andrea Rosa Caraballo, center, a junior at Ernesto Ramos Antonini Specialized School of the Arts in Yauco, was this year’s winner of the Congressional Art Competition on the island with an entry titled “Por Amor” (For Love), which she said illustrates her vision of Puerto Rico.
ing the winner this year,” González Colón said in a written statement. “The work of these young people was impressive, you can see the talent on our island. I congratulate you all for your dedication and creativity, and especially young Andrea from Ramos Antonini School in Yauco, who will exhibit her work in the federal capital for a year.”
Some 60 young people participated in the annual competition.
Although only one work is exhibited in Washington, D.C., other talented young people presented strong pieces in the island contest. Aolani Vélez Velázquez, a ninth grader at Ramos Antonini in Yauco, took second place with her work “Proud” done in colored pencils.
Third place was awarded to two young people: Fabiola Visbal Rodríguez, an 11th grader at Ramos Antonini, with her work “Mancha e’ plátano,” also in colored pencils, and Jeshuam A. Lozada Vicente, a 12th grader at Colegio Bautista in Caguas, with a woodcut titled “The Birth of Doubt.”
The New Progressive Party minority leader in the island House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, on Sunday defended Law 80-2017, which broke a potential government monopoly through an internet provider, PREPA.NET, and the regulatory body now known as the Telecommunications Bureau.
“This law came to address the great concern that the government has a dual role in the telecommunications market, as a provider (PREPA.NET) and regulator through the Telecommunications Bureau,” the lawmaker said. “Allowing the government to participate in monopolizing the retail market for telecommunications and information services could result in the dissolution of the market because
they would have advantages that the private sector does not have.”
“Today in Puerto Rico there are more than 100 high-speed internet service companies, something that was not thought of in 2017,” Méndez Nuñez said. “Today the map of internet coverage on the island is almost full. All of this has its genesis in Law 80-2017. Leaving the structure as it was would have given PREPA.NET advantages over others. Public corporations and their subsidiaries do not pay taxes. Subsidiaries would be able to use their parent company’s infrastructure at a discounted price or at no cost. The parent company could directly or indirectly subsidize the subsidiary’s operations through cross-subsidies. It would have been unfair competition.”
In the previous four-year government term, the then-House speaker was the author
of House Bill 27, which became the “Law for Fair Competition in Telecommunications, Information and Pay Television Services in
The Humane Society of Puerto Rico has issued an urgent appeal asking for the community’s help in finding temporary homes for several puppies.
The organization needs temporary homes for a period of two weeks, with the
possibility of adoption once the animals have completed a veterinary protocol under the strict supervision of the Humane Society.
For more information on how to become a foster home or proceed with adoption, those interested can contact the organization at (787) 720-6038, by sending an email to adopciones@hspr.org or by vis-
iting the Humane Society’s adoption area before 4 p.m.
The initiative seeks to promote the adoption and responsible care of animals, reinforcing the message that “fostering saves lives” (#fosteringsaveslives).
Humane Society of Puerto Rico is located at Calle 16, Avenida B, in Guaynabo.
Puerto Rico.”
In the preceding 2013-2016 term, a bipartisan effort took place through Senate Bill 1370, introduced by Sens. Ramón Ruiz Nieves, Lawrence “Larry” Seilhamer and Carmelo Ríos, with the purpose of avoiding a fiber optic communications services monopoly in Puerto Rico. The measure was approved in both chambers but was vetoed by then-Gov. Alejandro García Padilla.
“Today we have a vibrant growing telecommunications market where companies with local capital have been able to enter and offer their products and services at competitive prices, for the benefit of Puerto Rican consumers,” Méndez Nuñez said. “That is the legacy of Law 80. We will continue to defend these parameters of free competition and free markets.”
The Humane Society of Puerto Rico needs temporary homes for a number of puppies, with the possibility of adoption.
As tensions flared over disputed territory in the Caucasus region in the summer of 2020, Azerbaijan’s squadron of high-priced Washington lobbyists scrambled to pin the blame on neighboring Armenia and highlight its connections to Russia.
Unbeknown to members of Congress, Azerbaijan had an inside man who was working closely with the Azerbaijani ambassador to Washington at the time on a parallel line of attack, according to text messages released by federal prosecutors.
Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, who is now charged with accepting bribes and acting as a foreign agent in a yearslong scheme, indicated in a text that he planned a legislative maneuver to try to strip funding from Armenia because it hosted Russian military bases.
Azerbaijan’s ambassador responded enthusiastically.
“Your amendment is more timely than ever,” the ambassador, Elin Suleymanov, wrote to Cuellar. “It is all about Russian presence there,” added Suleymanov, who referred to the congressman as “Boss.”
Cuellar’s legislative gambit did not go far. But by the time of the text exchange, his family had accepted at least $360,000 from Azerbaijani government-controlled companies since December 2014, according to a federal indictment unsealed in Houston on Friday.
The 54-page indictment highlights the importance of U.S. policymaking to foreign interests, and the lengths to which they go to try to shape it to their advantage, notwithstanding high risks and sometimes questionable results.
The indictment accuses Cuellar, 68, and his wife, Imelda, 67, of accepting bribes, money laundering and conspiring to violate foreign lobbying laws in connection with efforts on behalf of the Azerbaijani government and a Mexico City bank that paid them at least $238,390.
The Cuellars pleaded not guilty Friday and were released after each paid a bond of $100,000. In a statement before the indictment, Cuellar declared his innocence and suggested that the House Ethics Committee had cleared his financial activity. The Azerbaijani Embassy did not respond to a request for comment.
The charges against the couple suggest that the Justice Department is expanding its efforts to clamp down on foreign influence campaigns, despite recent high-profile setbacks. Juries and judges have rejected cases related to unregistered foreign lobbying by political figures with close ties to former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
The indictment is the second in recent months to charge a sitting member of Congress with violating a prohibition on lawmakers serving as foreign agents. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and his wife received a series of charges starting in October accusing them of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, including gold bars, to help the governments of Egypt and Qatar. Menendez and his wife have pleaded not guilty.
Beyond the payments Menendez and Cuellar are accused of receiving, Azerbaijan, Egypt and Qatar have been heavy spenders on traditional Washington lobbying to maintain the flow of U.S. aid and to win support in disputes with neighbors.
From 2015 to the end of 2023, Egypt spent $14.3 million on lobbying, and Qatar spent nearly $85.9 million, according to analyses by the nonpartisan website OpenSecrets of disclosures to the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA. The disclosures do not include donations to think tanks and other expenditures that wealthy foreign governments use to try to generate goodwill.
Azerbaijan spent nearly $9.2 million on lobbying in that time, according to FARA filings. Arms of the government retained about 20 firms during that time, including ones led by former Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., and former Rep. Bob Livingston, R-La., who served as chair of the House Appropriations Committee. The lobbying efforts also involved firms run by Democrats, such as former Biden adviser Larry Rasky, who died in 2020, and fundraiser Vincent Roberti.
Azerbaijan’s goals included winning support for the reintegration of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory in the Lesser Caucasus, which has been under dispute with Armenia for decades. (Azerbaijan seized full control of the territory in September.) Azerbaijan also wanted Congress to repeal a ban on U.S. aid imposed in 1992 during the first Nagorno-Karabakh war.
While the United States has continually issued waivers to the ban since 2001, the Azerbaijanis consider the durability of the underlying ban “kind of an insult and injustice,” said Richard Kauzlarich, who served as ambassador to Azerbaijan during the Clinton administration.
“I haven’t seen signs of the return on the investment as far as issues that are important to Azerbaijan in terms of their lobbying efforts,” Kauzlarich said. He attributed that partly to continued concerns about human rights abuses by the Azerbaijani government and partly to the lack of an organized, activated diaspora like that which has lobbied for Armenian causes.
“No amount of money is going to be able to counter the number of voters in California and Massachusetts and elsewhere where Armenian Americans live, are active and vote,” he said.
The Azerbaijanis’ courtship of Cuellar came as oil interests in the country, including the state-owned company that prosecutors say funded the payments to the Cuellars, maintained a presence in Texas.
Cuellar and his wife, along with other Texas lawmakers, were treated to trips to Azerbaijan in 2013. He received briefings from high-level government officials and attended a dinner with executives from the state-owned oil company, according
to prosecutors. After Cuellar returned, he was recruited by Azerbaijani officials, who began funneling payments to a pair of consulting firms his wife created called IRC Business Solutions and Global Gold Group, according to prosecutors and Texas corporations filings.
Among the services prosecutors say Cuellar performed at the behest of the Azerbaijanis was pressing the Obama administration to take a harder line against Armenia, trying to insert language favorable to Azerbaijan into legislation and committee reports and having members of his staff urge the State Department to renew a passport for the daughter of Suleymanov.
Cuellar’s efforts on behalf of Azerbaijan mostly seem to have had minimal impact. He withdrew the amendment to strip funding from Armenia after objections from an Armenian diaspora group.
“It was going to be ruled out of order so I withdrew but they are taking credit ha ha,” Cuellar texted Suleymanov. The ambassador responded “they take credit for everything!”
After the indictment of Cuellar was unsealed, the group, Armenian Assembly of America, called for “a broader investigation in relation to these charges and who else may be tied to Azerbaijan’s corrupt modes of operation.”
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) at the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 22, 2023. Federal prosecutors say Cuellar tried to shape policy for Azerbaijan in exchange for bribes. The country has spent millions in the past decade lobbying Washington. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
At least 25 people were arrested Saturday at the University of Virginia, as protests over the war in the Gaza Strip continued to disrupt university campuses and puncture the celebratory atmosphere around graduation ceremonies across the country.
The arrests and aggressive efforts to clamp down on protests underscored just how tumultuous the end of the spring semester has been for universities, many of which are holding commencements this weekend against the backdrop of tense protests on their campuses.
The turmoil has added another complicated layer to graduation for students, many of whom had their high school senior-year celebrations abruptly cut short by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Pro-Palestinian students and their allies, for their part, have signaled that they will continue to challenge their universities over their financial ties to Israel and military companies, to express outrage over the violence in Gaza and to condemn aggressive treatment of protesters on campus.
“We aren’t going anywhere,” said Bryce Greene, 26, an Indiana University doctoral student and one of the protest organizers at the school’s campus in Bloomington. Greene said he believed there would be enough students around campus to sustain the protest over the summer, or until the school agreed to their demands to divest.
The arrests at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, were among the most prominent Saturday, after weeks of unrest across the country. In a news release, the university said the protesters had violated school policy Friday by setting up tents on the lawn and by using megaphones.
But the encampment was not forcibly removed then, the statement read, “given continued peaceful behavior and the presence of young children at the demonstration site, and due to heavy rain Friday night.”
By Saturday afternoon, protesters were met with police officers in riot gear, who took down the encampment. At one point, police used chemical irritants against the crowd to get people to disperse.
The university said it was not immediately clear how many of those arrested were affiliated with the school. All were charged with trespassing, according to a police official.
Dozens of protesters were also arrested at the Art Institute of Chicago, after the school asked police Saturday to remove demonstrators from school property.
Elsewhere, the protests extended from campus demonstrations to commencement ceremonies. Over the last academic year, schools across the country have met the protests of thousands of students in different ways: Some administrations have negotiated with demonstrators over their demands, while others have called in police.
But both Jewish and Palestinian students across the country have expressed fear and discomfort in the remaining days of the spring semester, describing experiences of bigotry and discrimination. And some saw the graduation ceremonies as an opportunity to continue their protests and interject reminders of the ongoing war.
Universities have tried to ensure against major disruptions. Some schools plan to set up designated areas for protests, in a bid to allow the ceremonies to go forward without quashing free speech.
At the University of Michigan’s ceremony, pro-Palestinian supporters briefly disrupted the event and were met by state police. Dozens of pro-Palestinian supporters in kaffiyehs and graduation caps unfurled and held up Palestinian flags in the aisles of the ceremony at Michigan Stadium, as a speaker invoked the school’s
“Go Blue” slogan.
Protesters marched down the center aisle toward the stage, chanting: “Regents, regents, you can’t hide! You are funding genocide!”
One person in the audience could be heard yelling back, “You’re ruining our graduation!”
Overhead, a plane flying the message “Divest from Israel now! Free Palestine!” circled the stadium. Another plane with a banner offered a different message: “We stand with Israel. Jewish lives matter.”
University police blocked the protesters from moving closer to the stage and pushed them toward a section in the back of the venue. The ceremony did not stop. Neither did the chanting, though how audible or distracting it was might have depended on where people sat in the stadium.
At Indiana University on Saturday, protesting students walked out of the ceremony during commencement remarks by the school president, Pamela Whitten. Some shouted “free, free Palestine” as they left.
Whitten made no mention of the protests but instead told the assembled students, “We have been looking forward to celebrating this moment with you.”
Another group walked out, their chants drowned out by boos, when Scott Dorsey, a tech entrepreneur, began to speak. Protesters said they were headed for the encampment on the university’s Dunn Meadow, where earlier they had held their own version of commencement.
“They only acted when things reached a boiling point,” said Gary Taylor, 22, of Indianapolis, and an informatics graduate, defending the protesters before the ceremony.
The U.S. job market may be shifting into a lower gear this spring, a turn economists have expected for months after a vigorous rebound from the pandemic shock.
Employers added 175,000 positions in April, the Labor Department reported late last week, undershooting forecasts. The unemployment rate ticked up to 3.9%.
A less torrid expansion after the 242,000job average over the prior 12 months isn’t necessarily bad news, given that layoffs have remained low and most sectors appear stable.
“It’s not a bad economy; it’s still a healthy economy,” said Perc Pineda, chief economist at the Plastics Industry Association. “I think it’s part of the cycle. We cannot continue robust growth indefinitely considering the limits of our economy.”
The labor market has defied projections of a considerable slowdown for over a year in the face of a rapid escalation in borrowing costs, a minor banking crisis and two major wars. But economic growth declined markedly in the first quarter, suggesting that the exuberance of the last two years might be settling into a more sustainable rhythm.
Wage growth eased, with average hourly earnings up 3.9% from a year earlier, compared with 4.1% in the March report. Swift wage growth in the first quarter, evidenced by a hotter-than-expected employment cost index reading, may have partly reflected raises and minimum-wage increases that took effect in January as well as new union contracts.
The number of hours worked per week sank, another signal that employers need less staffing. A broader measure of unemployment that includes people working part time for economic reasons edged up to 7.4%, from record lows in late 2022.
The findings may be welcome news for the Federal Reserve, which has held interest rates steady as inflation has remained stubborn. Although Fed Chair Jerome Powell said this week that he wasn’t targeting lower wage growth, he added that sustained hot pay gains could prevent inflation from subsiding.
Bond yields fell on the new data, indicating a belief that the Fed may cut rates this year after some doubt that it would do so, and stocks rallied.
President Joe Biden celebrated the report as a continuation of the “great American comeback,” but his presumptive rival in the November election, former President Donald Trump, characterized it as “HORRIBLE JOBS
A crew works at a commercial construction site in Los Angeles, on Sept. 18, 2022. A record warm winter may have allowed sectors like construction and retail to add more jobs than they otherwise might have. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times)
on his Truth Social platform. Under Trump’s presidency, before the pandemic took hold in March 2020, monthly job increases averaged about 180,000 — just a tad higher than April’s gain.
The April showing is in line with other indicators of slackening conditions that have mounted in recent months: Job openings have fallen substantially from their peak two years ago, and workers are quitting their jobs at lower rates than they were before the pandemic. And the hiring figures for February and March, which came in higher than forecast, may have been flattered by an unusually warm winter.
“We’ve seen a significant easing in labor demand, and it’s not a surprise that hiring is also slowing down in this economic environment where interest rates are still elevated,” said Lydia Boussour, a senior economist at consulting firm EY-Parthenon.
Employment growth has been narrowing to a few industries, and that trend held in April’s seasonally adjusted numbers, with health care — which is powered by aging demographics and doesn’t fluctuate as much with economic cycles — accounting for a third of the growth.
Leisure and hospitality employment rose only slightly, arresting what had been fairly swift growth as the industry approaches its prepandemic staffing levels.
The effect of higher interest rates has been clearly visible in manufacturing, a capital-intensive sector in which employment has essentially been flat since late 2022. Federal incentives for the production of semiconductors and clean energy equipment are generating investment, but the employment impact has been muted.
That’s true at Voith Hydro in York, Pennsylvania, a maker of machinery for dams and pump storage facilities, which are a way to manage electricity demand. Some orders have been accelerated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and a tax break in the Inflation Reduction Act recently supported the installation of new equipment.
While Voith signed a new contract with its unionized workers last year with better wages and benefits to remain competitive with nearby employers, its workforce of 350 hasn’t notably expanded.
“There are fewer people entering the trades, and there’s a smaller pool of people to pick from,” said Carl Atkinson, vice president of sales and marketing for the hydropower division. “That simply is challenging a whole group of manufacturers to be more efficient.”
That strategy has contributed to strong productivity growth over the past several quarters, which has helped wages to rise faster than prices. Depending on how many people start looking for work, such efficiencies might also prompt the unemployment rate to drift higher. But so far, the supply of workers has been a critical factor propelling the surprisingly strong employment growth of the past two years.
Part of that stems from the increased flow of both legal immigrants and those in the country illegally, which added about 80,000 workers monthly to the labor force last year, according to calculations by Goldman Sachs, and will add another 50,000 per month this year. Economists at the Brookings Institution estimated that immigration would allow 160,000 to 200,000 jobs a month to be added in 2024 without fueling inflation.
But the availability of workers has also been amplified by women between the ages of 25 and 54 — generally considered prime working years — who set a labor force participation record of 78% in April.
A rising unemployment rate could restrain spending by consumers, who have also been burning through bank balances built during the pandemic but still leave an economy that’s still fundamentally sound.
“We are still forecasting what we’d call a modest slowdown, but we’ve got the picture improving again,” said Stephen Brown, deputy chief North America economist for Capital Economics. “For the average worker, it’s not going to feel like a slowdown.”
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Agauge of global stocks rallied while Treasury yields fell on Friday after a U.S. payrolls report was softer than anticipated, easing concerns the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates higher for longer.
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 175,000 last month, the lowest since October 2023, and short of the 243,000 estimate of economists polled by Reuters.
The 3.9% annual change in average hourly earnings was the smallest since May 2021 and continued a steady decline toward the mid-3% range, which policymakers feel is consistent with their 2% inflation target.
Recent data on inflation and the labor market had fueled concerns the Fed could would be forced to keep rates higher for longer than the market was anticipating, or even raise rates again.
But at the end of its policy meeting on Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell the next move in rates would be down, seeing an unlikely chance of a rate hike.
“The combination of how Powell characterized the committee’s stance on hikes relative to the data they were getting and then today’s job reports, which was good but not super worrisome, especially on the wage side, it’s setting up for kind of what we thought we had at the end of last year,” said Scott Ladner, chief investment officer at Horizon Investments in Charlotte, North Carolina.
On Wall Street, U.S. stocks rallied, with each of the three major indexes up more than 1% and the Nasdaq leading the advance with a jump of about 2%.
Tech was the top performing of the 11 major S&P sectors, getting an additional boost from a jump of about 5.97% in Apple, after the iPhone maker reported its quarterly earnings and announced a record $110 billion stock buyback plan.
Of the 397 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings through Friday morning, 76.8% have topped analyst expectations, according to LSEG data, compared with the 67% beat rate since 1997 and the 79% over the past four quarters.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 450.02 points, or 1.18%, to 38,675.68; the S&P 500 gained 63.59 points, or 1.26%, to 5,127.79; and the Nasdaq Composite gained
315.37 points, or 1.99%, to 16,156.33.
For the week, the S&P 500 gained 0.55%, the Nasdaq rose 1.43%, and the Dow climbed 1.14%.
The Russell 2000 small cap index rose 1.56%
Treasury yields fell, along with the dollar, after the payrolls report as investors increased expectations for a rate cut this year from the Fed in September, with markets pricing in a 66.8% chance for a cut of at least 25 basis points (bps), up from 61.6% in the prior session, according to CME’s FedWatch Tool.
The yield on benchmark U.S. 10-year notes
dropped 6.1 basis points to 4.51%, from 4.571% late on Thursday while the 2-year note yield, which typically moves in step with interest rate expectations, fell 6.5 basis points to 4.8119%, from 4.877%.
The 10-year was down nearly 17 basis points on the week, its biggest weekly drop since mid-December while the 2-year was down about 19 basis points, its biggest weekly drop since early January.
MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe rose 8.67 points, or 1.14%, to 769.19 and was up 0.91% on the week, on pace for its second straight weekly gain.
After one of the strongest indications yet from a United Nations agency that parts of the Gaza Strip are experiencing famine, the Israeli agency that oversees the Palestinian territories pushed back, saying it had “increased its humanitarian effort to flood the Gaza Strip with food, medical equipment and equipment for tents.”
In an interview with NBC’s “Meet The Press,” which released a portion of it late Friday, Cindy McCain, director of the U.N.’s World Food Program, said there was a “fullblown famine” in northern Gaza. She said her assessment was “based on what we have seen and what we have experienced on the ground.”
“It is horror,” said McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain. “I am so hoping we can get a cease-fire and begin to feed these people, especially in the north, in a much faster fashion.”
In response Sunday, the Israeli agency, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, or COGAT, said in a sta-
tement that 350 aid trucks, mostly carrying food, were entering the Gaza Strip each day. About 100 of those trucks were reaching northern Gaza, the most isolated and hardhit area of the territory. It also said April saw a “great surge” in new aid, with more than 6,000 relief trucks entering Gaza, a 28% increase from the previous month.
COGAT also listed several projects to improve conditions in Gaza, including opening the Israeli port of Ashdod for humanitarian aid shipments.
But aid groups say the amount of shipments arriving is far below what is needed in Gaza, where authorities say the war with Israel has killed more than 34,000 people, left roughly 2 million more homeless and destroyed the territory’s infrastructure and economy.
McCain, who became head of the World Food Program last year after a stint as an ambassador appointed by President Joe Biden, is the second U.S. official to say there is famine in Gaza. The first was Samantha Power, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, who made her remarks in
congressional testimony last month. But McCain’s remarks do not constitute an official declaration, which is a complex bureaucratic process that involves both a U.N. agency, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, and the government of the country where the famine is taking place.
It is unclear what local authority might have the power to do that in Gaza. Israel’s goal in Gaza is overthrowing its Hamasbacked government, which was not widely recognized before the war and has lost control of most of the enclave since the fighting began.
Last month, Arif Husain, chief economist for the World Food Program, said the increased levels of aid reaching Gaza in recent weeks were a good start but that they were not enough to address the risk of famine. He said the arrival of increased amounts of aid “cannot just happen for a day or a week — it has to happen every single day for the foreseeable future.”
“If we can do this, then we can ease the pain, we can avert famine,” he said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Sunday that his Cabinet had voted to shut down the Israeli operations of Al Jazeera, a Qatar-based network that is a major source of news in the Arab world and has often highlighted civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip during Israel’s war with Hamas.
“The government under my leadership has decided unanimously: The incitement channel Al Jazeera will be shut down in Israel,” Netanyahu said on X, formerly Twitter. It was not immediately clear whether the closure would be temporary or whether it would affect the network’s reporting in Gaza and the West Bank.
Journalism organizations have said that such a closure, which had been under discussion in Israel for weeks, would be a blow to press freedom.
Israel’s communications minister, Shlomo Karhi, said in a video statement that Al Jazeera “will no longer broadcast here in Israel and its equipment will be confiscated.”
In a statement in Arabic, Al Jazeera con-
demned Israel’s move, which it called a “criminal act.” “Israeli’s suppression of the free press to cover up its crimes has not deterred us from performing our duty,” the network said.
The decision could complicate Israel’s relationship with Qatar, which helps fund the network and has also been helping to mediate cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas. The Qatari government did not immediately comment.
Netanyahu said in a statement that Al Jazeera’s reporters had “harmed Israel’s security” and incited violence against its soldiers. He had previously called Al Jazeera a “Hamas mouthpiece.” Israeli lawmakers passed a bill last month allowing the government to temporarily close foreign media outlets that Netanyahu determined were undermining the country’s national security.
The order to close Al Jazeera’s local operations will initially apply for 45 days, and a district court judge must approve it within 24 hours before it is carried out, according to Avraham Hasson, an aide to Israel’s minister of communications. Hasson said the judge could rule to change the length of the closure. The
government has the option of extending it for another 45 days, but any extension would also need a judge’s approval.
Netanyahu’s government has had a tense relationship for years with Al Jazeera, which has reported extensively from Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas that began in October.
The war in Gaza has taken a toll on the
network’s own employees and their families. In October, Wael al-Dahdouh, the Gaza bureau chief of Al Jazeera’s Arabic-language service, was told live on air that his wife, son, daughter and infant grandson had been killed in central Gaza, where they had been sheltering. In January, his eldest son was killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to authorities in Gaza.
Months after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada accused India’s government of plotting a murder on Canadian soil — plunging diplomatic relations between the two countries to their lowest level ever — the first arrests in the killing, which came Friday, did little to demystify the basis of his claim.
Police didn’t offer clues or present any evidence that India had orchestrated the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh nationalist leader who was gunned down at the temple he led in Surrey, British Columbia, in June. What they did say was that three Indian men had committed the killing and that an investigation into India’s role was ongoing.
Before the arrests, Indian officials had maintained that Canada was trying to drag New Delhi into what it described as essentially a rivalry between gangs whose members were long wanted for crimes back in India.
After the arrests, a report from the CBC, Canada’s public broadcasting corporation, based on anonymous sources, also said the suspects belonged to an Indian criminal gang.
But analysts and former officials said that the possible role of a gang in the killing does not necessarily mean the Indian government was not involved in the crime.
India’s external spy agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, or RAW, has long been suspected of tapping into criminal networks to carry out operations in its immediate neighborhood in South Asia while maintaining deniability.
Canada’s accusation, if proven, that India orchestrated the Nijjar killing — and a similar accusation made soon after by the United
Flags of the Khalistan separatist movement flank the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, where Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot and killed in the parking lot in June, in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, on Sept. 20, 2023. (Jackie Dives /The New York Times)
States in a different case — may suggest that RAW is now extending its playbook of working with criminals to carry out operations in Western countries, analysts said.
U.S. officials have produced strong evidence in their accusation that an agent of the Indian government participated in a foiled attempt to assassinate a dual American Canadian citizen. And Canada and allied officials have maintained that Canada has evidence supporting Trudeau’s claim that Indian agents carried out Nijjar’s killing.
But the Canadian failure to reveal any evidence that India took part, nine months after Trudeau’s explosive allegation, leaves the killing of Nijjar in the realm of accusations and counteraccusation in what is a highly tense
political environment in both countries, analysts said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been flexing his muscles as a nationalist strongman, pitching himself during his ongoing campaign for a third term in office as a protector of India who would go as far as it takes to target security threats.
During speeches, he has boasted about how his government eliminates enemies by “descending in their homes.” While he has made those references in relation to the country’s archenemy — Pakistan — right-wing accounts on social media had celebrated the slaying of Nijjar in Canada as a similar reach of Modi’s long arm.
Trudeau, on the other hand, had been facing criticism of weakness in the face of Chinese election interference activities on Canadian soil, and his getting ahead of the Nijjar killing was seen as compensating for that.
Canadian police announced Friday that they had arrested the three Indian men in Edmonton, Alberta, the same day and charged them with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the killing of Nijjar. The suspects had been living in Canada for three to five years but were not permanent residents of Canada, the police said.
The gang the CBC reported that the hit men are connected to is led by Lawrence Bishnoi, 31, who is accused of several cases of murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking. He has orchestrated much of it from an Indian jail, where he has been held since 2014. His members are seen as being behind the murder of a popular Punjabi rapper, and threats of attacks on Bollywood celebrities.
Analysts and former security officials said that in India’s immediate geographic neighborhood, RAW has often been willing to venture into murky spaces to recruit killers. Senior officials of Modi’s administration, including Ajit Doval, the storied former spymaster who now serves as his longtime national security adviser, have in the past been accused of reaching into the underworld to find hit men willing to go after targets inside the country as well as abroad.
Ajai Sahni, a security analyst who runs the South Asia Terrorism Portal in New Delhi, said the exploitation of criminal gangs by spy agencies to carry out operations with deniability was something that “happens all over the world.”
“It is definitely possible for agencies like RAW to use gang rivalries instead of exposing their own covert operators,” Sahni added. “But just because that is generally how one would expect it to be done, it doesn’t necessarily mean we know this is exactly the case in Nijjar’s killing.”
The failed plot on U.S. soil had some of the sloppy hallmarks of an agency trying to extend an old playbook into a different, unfamiliar space.
A U.S. indictment in November laid out evidence, including electronic communication and cash transactions among the hired hit man — who turned out to be an undercover cop — a boastful middleman, and an Indian intelligence handler whom The Washington Post recently identified as Vikram Yadav.
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Indian security officials have frequently arrested criminals connected to Bishnoi, often with allegations that the gang’s network stretched as far as Canada and overlapped with those promoting from Canadian soil the cause of Khalistan, a once deeply violent separatist movement with the goal of carving out the Indian state of Punjab as an independent nation.
A large Sikh diaspora resides in Canada, many of them having migrated there after a violent and often indiscriminate crackdown by the Indian government in the 1980s against the movement for an independent Khalistan. While the cause has largely died down inside India, it continues to have supporters among some segments of the diaspora. The Indian government has accused Canada and several other Western countries of not doing enough to crack down on the separatists.
The Indian government’s response suggested worry: India’s top diplomat said the action was not government policy, while the government announced an investigation into the matter and promised cooperation with the United States.
Canada’s case has played out very differently. The country has not publicly disclosed any evidence backing up Trudeau’s claim, even as allied officials said in September that Canadian officials had found a “smoking gun”: intercepted communications of Indian diplomats in Canada indicating involvement in the plot.
Indian officials have pushed back against Trudeau’s claims with the kind of aggression that suggested it either wasn’t involved or that it was confident of its deniability.
The Indian government expelled Canadian diplomats and doubled down by putting out a list of individuals on Canadian soil it said were long wanted as part of what it described as a crime and terror nexus.
Let me tell you a medical story; you decide what you make of it. A person has a routine medical experience, the kind that all their neighbors have had as well. But afterward they have weird symptoms, odd forms of pain, fatigue that just goes on and on and on.
The medical system can’t help them, so they join online communities that provide validation but not a cure. And they develop a strong sense of betrayal, a belief that the system knew this was possible and just let it happen to them.
Now, let me give you a few more details. The person I’m describing is an overweight 50-something Indiana man who watches Fox News and refused to wear a mask in the fall of 2020. The routine medical experience that preceded his mystery illness was his taking — because his employer required it — the COVID vaccine.
Are you suddenly forming a theory of what’s wrong with him? Are you inclined toward psychosomatic explanations, thinking that he’s taking the aches and pains of age and blaming them on the liberals and their vax?
Well, hold on, because I’ve deceived you: Actually the person is a 35-year-old college-educated woman living in Brooklyn who works out five days a week, takes anti-
anxiety medication and marched, fully masked, in the 2020 George Floyd protests. Her medical experience was getting COVID itself, despite her multiple vaccinations, and thereafter falling into a long-COVID trough she can’t escape.
Now if you are, like her, a liberal professional, maybe you’re less likely to default to psychosomatic explanations. On the other hand, if you’re a conservative, her description may be what you expect to hear: Another blue-state longCOVID hypochondriac, obsessing over every twinge the way she obsesses over every passing mood, all to justify her desire to keep everybody in a mask.
Maybe you default to neither stereotype, in which case I apologize for stereotyping you. But you probably recognize the interpretations I’ve just presented, the bipartisan tendency to be dismissive of outlying medical cases when they threaten your side’s narrative of the COVID era.
I’m thinking about this because of my colleague Apoorva Mandavilli’s recent article about people who have suffered, or claim to have suffered, life-altering vaccine injuries after getting the COVID shot. These long-haul afflicted naturally feel abandoned by a medical establishment that’s uncomfortable with outlying cases in the best of times, but in this case is especially resistant to conceding anything that might seem to empower antivaccine paranoia.
You should be able to extend sympathy to people with difficult conditions first, before you worry about how that sympathy might threaten your medical worldview or policy regime, Ross Douthat writes. (Bill Armstrong/ CLAMP via The New York Times)
advocates. Likewise with long COVID: I have personally counseled a couple of young, fit, right-wing men embarrassed to acknowledge their long-haul symptoms within a conservative-leaning peer group.
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And no doubt vaccine skeptics will seize on my colleague’s article, while many staunch vaccine supporters will be made uncomfortable at the idea of too much attention being paid to these cases. But again, were this a story about the similar kinds of chronic symptoms that cluster around some people after they’ve had COVID itself, the lines of skepticism could easily reverse. (A figure like Alex Berenson, for instance, the one-man band of dissent from every anti-COVID strategy, is full of warnings about unknown long-term effects of the vaccines and full of scorn for people who claim long-term effects from COVID itself.)
Accepting the credibility of these outliers doesn’t have to overthrow your overall perspective on COVID-era issues. The existence of vaccine side effects, and any incentive there might be to undercount them, doesn’t undermine the evidence that vaccination saved a lot of lives. The risks of long COVID don’t prove that the pandemic emergency should never end.
The outliers should, however, shake your certainty that the mysteries of the human body can fit perfectly into any simple “biopolitics,” and give you more sympathy for the desire to opt out of any given health regime.
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As someone who’s suffered from a controversial chronic illness that isn’t COVID-related, a message that I try to bring to this conversation is that you should be able to extend sympathy to people with difficult conditions first, before you worry about how that sympathy might threaten your medical worldview or policy regime.
Sometimes these people will vindicate your skepticism: Hypochondria certainly exists, ideology and psychogenic conditions no doubt interact.
But often chronic illness falls in patterns that reflect the deep mysteries of the body more than the assumptions of the mind. In my colleague’s story about vaccine side effects, some of the afflicted are exactly the kind of liberal professional people you’d expect to be eager vaccine
You won’t be the outlier, don’t worry, and if you are it’s probably in your head is a natural mode of thinking for healthy people.
But once you’ve been the outlier, or had an outlier in your life, you know the real territory is different from any biopolitical map, and there are more ways than most people realize to get lost.
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SAN JUAN – La presidenta ejecutiva de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AAA), Doriel Pagán Crespo, anunció nuevos avisos de subastas para proyectos de mejoras a la infraestructura de la Autoridad, que será de beneficio para clientes de los municipios de Guayama, Salinas, Naranjito, Villalba, San Juan, Yauco y Caguas, bajo una inversión aproximada de $95 millones.
“Los proyectos próximos a comenzar serán financiados con fondos propios de la AAA, la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA, por sus siglas en inglés), el Programa de Recuperación de Desastres de Subsidios para el Desarrollo Comunitario (CDBG-DR), Programa Estatal de Fondo Rotatorio de Agua Potable bajo las disposiciones de la Ley Pública 104-182- EPA, Ley de Agua Potable Segura y Clean Water Act”, dijo Pagán Crespo en declaraciones escritas.
Los avisos de subastas para nuevos proyectos de mejoras son los siguientes:
Relocalización de la tubería de aguas crudas desde
Carite hasta Guayama, bajo una inversión aproximada de $4.5 millones. Este proyecto beneficiará a clientes de Guayama y Salinas. El mismo será financiado con fondos propios de la AAA y Drinking Water States.
Nueva planta de filtros en el municipio de Naranjito, bajo una inversión aproximada de $46 millones. Financiado con fondos propios de la AAA.
Rehabilitación de la planta de filtros de Villalba, bajo una inversión aproximada de $12.5 millones. Este proyecto será financiado con fondos FEMA, CDBG-DR y propios de la AAA.
Reubicación de la troncal sanitaria en Rexach en el Caño Martín Peña en San Juan, bajo una inversión aproximada de $11.5 millones. El mismo será financiado con fondos propios de la AAA, Programa Estatal de Fondo Rotatorio de Agua Limpia y del grupo Enlace del Caño Martín Peña.
Diseño y construcción para la rehabilitación del tanque de distribución Piazza en Yauco, bajo una inversión aproximada de $2.9 millones. Este proyecto será financiado con fondos propios de la AAA y ARPA.
Troncal sanitaria de Aguas Buenas a Caguas, bajo
una inversión aproximada de $17.4 millones. Este proyecto será financiado con fondos SRF Clean Water Act.
Piden colaboración para encontrar a sujetos que dispararon a policías
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CAGUAS – La Policía solicitó la colaboración ciudadana para dar con el paradero de dos
hombres imputados de tentativa de asesinato y violaciones a la Ley de armas, ocurrida el pasado 12 de diciembre en Caguas, luego de haber realizado disparos en contra de policías durante una intervención por portación de arma.
Los sospechosos fueron identificados como: Héctor M. Cruz Ayala, alias “Gordo Gordo” de 27 años y Jay L. Díaz Del Valle, alias “El Cantante” de 24, ambos vinculados a una peligrosa organización criminal en Cayey.
La investigación del caso estuvo a cargo del agente Reimundo Quiñones, adscrito a la División de Homicidios del Cuerpo de Investigaciones
Criminales (CIC) de Caguas, en unión a la fiscal Inés Escobales y la prueba fue presentada ante la juez Sonya Nieves Cordero, quien impuso fianzas millonarias de $1,500,000 a cada uno.
Se solicita la colaboración de los ciudadanos para capturar a estos sujetos, quienes se consideran armados y altamente peligrosos.
De tener información que ayude a dar con sus paraderos, se pueden comunicar de manera confidencial directamente con los agentes de Inteligencia y Arrestos a los teléfonos (787) 793-0457, 1-800-981-3635 o a la línea confidencial del Negociado de la Policía (787) 343-2020.
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CAYEY – Un hombre murió y varias personas resultaron heridas de bala en un incidente reportado a eso de las 4:48 de la madrugada del domingo, W Social Club, en la calle Luis Muñoz Rivera en Cayey.
Según el reporte de la Policía, una llamada al Sistema de Emergencias 9-1-1 alertó sobre personas heridas de bala.
Al lugar llegaron varios individuos los cuales realizaron múltiples disparos que le ocasionaron
la muerte a Ezequiel Llera Corredor de 26 años y residente en Cayey.
También, tres hombres entre las edades de 25 a 30 años resultaron con heridas de bala. Estos fueron transportados a hospitales del área y al momento se desconocen sus condiciones. Informes posteriores indicaron que uno de los hombres murió en el hospital a causa de sus heridas.
El agente Reimundo Quiñones, adscrito a la División de Homicidios del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales (CIC) del área de Caguas, el fiscal Juan Goyco y personal del Instituto de Ciencias Forenses se hicieron cargo de la investigación.
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Frank Stella, whose laconic pinstripe “black paintings” of the late 1950s closed the door on abstract expressionism and pointed the way to an era of cool minimalism, died Saturday at his home in New York. He was 87.
His wife, Dr. Harriet E. McGurk, said the cause was lymphoma.
Stella was a dominant figure in postwar American art, a restless, relentless innovator whose explorations of color and form made him an outsize presence, endlessly discussed and constantly on exhibit.
Few American artists of the 20th century arrived with quite his eclat. He was in his early 20s when his large-scale black paintings — precisely delineated black stripes separated by thin lines of blank canvas — took the art world by storm. Austere, self-referential, opaque, they cast a chilling spell.
Writing in Art International magazine in 1960, art historian William Rubin declared himself “almost mesmerized” by the “eerie, magical presence” of the paintings. Time only ratified the consensus.
“They remain some of the most unforgettable, provocative paintings in the recent history of American Modernism,” the critic Karen Wilkin wrote in The New Criterion in 2007. In 1989, “Tomlinson Court Park,” a black painting from 1959, sold at auction for $5 million.
Stella, a formalist of Calvinist severity, rejected all attempts to interpret his work. The sense of mystery, he argued, was a matter of “technical, spatial and painterly ambiguities.” In an oft-quoted admonition to critics, he insisted that “what you see is what you see” — a formulation that became the unofficial motto of the minimalist movement.
Over the next five decades, he proved himself a master of reinvention. In the early 1960s, he animated the stripe formula with vibrant colors and shaped canvases. Later in the decade, he embarked on the wildly ambitious “Protractor” series — more than 100 mural-size paintings crowded with overlapping half-circles of brilliant, sometimes fluorescent, color. The paintings, inspired by that simple measuring tool in the title, “carry the whole notion of chromatic abstraction to a point of almost baroque elaboration,” Hilton Kramer wrote in The New York Times.
First exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in Manhattan in 1967, the series made Stella “a god of the sixties art world, exalting tastes for reductive form, daunting scale, and florid artificial color,” critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote in The New Yorker in 2015. Stella’s impact on abstraction, Schjeldahl added, “was something like Dylan’s on music and Warhol’s on more or less everything.”
In the 1970s and ’80s, with great panache, Stella abandoned the flat picture plane, pushing his works away from the wall in assemblages bristling with painted aluminum curlicues, curves and whorls.
These “maximalist paintings,” as he called them, were extroverted, joyous and buzzing with energy, light-years removed from the brooding authority of the black paintings. They served as a calling card for Stella’s next phase, as a designer of
Frank Stella, a dominant figure in postwar American art, at home in New York on Feb. 5, 2019. Stella, whose explorations of color and form pointed the way to an era of cool minimalism and made him an outsize presence, endlessly discussed and constantly on exhibit, died at home in the West Village of Manhattan on May 4, 2024. He was 87. (Christopher Gregory/The New York Times)
large public works, such as the murals for the Gas Company Tower in Los Angeles (1991) and the hatlike bandshell, formed of convoluted aluminum ribbons, that he delivered to the city of Miami in 1997.
Some critics found his work uninviting and programmatic. Harold Rosenberg, writing in The New Yorker in 1970, scoffed at Stella’s ideas as “chessboard aesthetics.”
Reviewing an exhibition of his earliest paintings in the Times in 2006, Roberta Smith wrote that his work since the early 1980s was regarded by many as “inherently corporate.” Schjeldahl, in The New Yorker, dismissed much of the work after 1970 as “disco modernism.”
For most of his career, however, Stella rode a wave of adulation and stupendous commercial success, buoyed by dozens of one-man shows and retrospectives at museums around the world.
Rubin, after becoming the Museum of Modern Art’s director of painting and sculpture, reaffirmed his admiration for Stella’s work by making him the youngest artist ever to be honored with a retrospective at the museum in 1970, when he was 34. In another unprecedented move, Rubin mounted a second retrospective in 1987.
Stella was the first abstract artist to be invited to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lecture at Harvard, in 1983 and 1984. (The lectures were published in 1986 as “Working Space.”) In 2015, when the Whitney Museum of American Art reopened in its new building, in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, the inaugural exhibition was a Stella retrospective.
In 2020, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, presented “Frank Stella’s Stars,” a survey of the artist’s use of star forms in various mediums, culminating in sculptures made in the last few years.
Frank Philip Stella was born May 12, 1936, in Malden, Massachusetts, north of Boston, to Frank and Constance (Santonelli) Stella. His mother had gone to art school and later took up landscape painting. His father was a gynecologist and also a painting enthusiast.
Stella attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where one of his instructors, painter Bartlett H. Hayes Jr., exposed him to the work of Hans Hofmann and Josef Albers.
At Princeton, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in history in 1958, Stella became fast friends with future critic Michael Fried and future color-field painter Walter Darby Bannard.
Again he was fortunate in his teachers. William Seitz, with whom he studied art history, established an artist in residence program under which New York abstract painter Stephen Greene gave the school’s first studio courses in painting and drawing.
With much encouragement from Greene, Stella turned out gestural paintings in the manner of Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning. But after seeing Jasper Johns’ flag paintings at the Castelli Gallery in 1958, he took a cooler, more analytic approach that derived its effects from precision and repetition.
After failing his Army physical — a childhood accident had left him with missing joints on the fingers of his left hand — he settled into a studio on New York’s Lower East Side and began working on the black paintings, supplementing his income by painting houses.
In 1961, he married Barbara Rose, an art history student at the time but soon to become a widely read critic of contemporary art. The marriage ended in divorce in 1969; she died in 2020.
Stella is survived by his wife, McGurk, a pediatrician, and their two sons, Patrick and Peter; two children from his first marriage, Rachel and Michael; a daughter, Laura, from a relationship with Shirley De Lemos Wyse between his marriages; and five grandchildren.
Stella continued to explore his distinctive blend of painting and sculpture in the late 1980s and ’90s in an extended series of 266 mixed-media reliefs based on “Moby-Dick,” whose 135 chapter titles he applied to the works, and in florid, occasionally raucous sculptures like “Kamdampat” (2002) and the computer-generated “Scarlatti Kirkpatrick” series, begun in 2006.
A sculpture of Stella’s called “Jasper’s Split Star” (2017), constructed out of six small geometric grids that rest on an aluminum base, was installed in the public plaza in front of 7 World Trade Center in New York in November 2021.
The full range of his work was on display in the careerencompassing “Frank Stella: A Retrospective” at the Whitney in 2015, an outsize show for a towering if divisive figure, as obsessed as Ahab in his quest to reframe abstraction.
e clunkers, such as a ghastly pileup of cast aluminum painted with wavy, tie-dye patterns, exhibit prodigious, indeed Melvillian, ambition,” critic Jason Farago wrote in The Guardian. “They are the works of an artist unwilling, unable, to sit still.”
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The San Juan Daily Star
Facón, a tourist’s dream shop, offering textiles, artwork and other items that are sourced from local masters as well as some high-design items in the Chacarita neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 18, 2024. Strolling through this once-traditional nook of the Argentine capital, the author found Art Deco houses on cobblestone streets, decadent churros and pizza slices, and whimsy around every corner. (Sarah Pabst/ The New York Times)
By SETH KUGELTo become a city’s coolest new neighborhood, there are certain prerequisites: a crop of cafes that toe the line between cozy and snobbish, chefs combining the innovative with the Instagrammable, and shops so sincere that they are doomed to close when rents rise, which they inevitably will.
But then it must also have quirks. Chacarita, long seen as a low-slung, low-profile neighborhood in north-central Buenos Aires, Argentina, has plenty.
There’s the cafe that doubles as a museum of photography and triples as a jazz club. Two cavernous, mysteriously indistinguishable pizza halls, both opened in 1947, stand side by side near a subway stop and serve thick-crusted slices draped with mozzarella and onions. And then, in Chacarita’s southwest flank, a cemetery has elegant monuments to 20th-century tango legend Carlos Gardel and pioneering aviator Jorge Newbery amid vast fields of simply marked, working-class graves. It plays a pretty good second fiddle to Recoleta Cemetery, one of the top 10 tourist attractions in Argentina and housing the pantheon of the country’s revered former first lady Eva Perón.
Just a 10-stop subway trip from the Obelisk downtown — the fare recently raised to 125 pesos is still under 15 cents even at the official market’s rate of 878 Argentine pesos to the dollar — totally walkable Chacarita is one heck of a great place to shop, eat and simply wander for a few days, which I did this year, both on my own and with my then-19-year-old nephew, Leo, who was studying, or more accurately, “studying,” in Argentina.
Irresistible shops
Chacarita, which means “small farm,” is so-named because its land once served as a kitchen garden and recreational site for Jesuit school students. It eventually became a transportation
hub and working-class neighborhood, roughly 100 square blocks. I was utterly charmed by Chacarita’s cobblestone streets, lined with colonial-style singlefamily homes with interjections of art deco and brutalism. They were the very opposite of late-game Monopoly board monotony, with heavy wooden doors featuring old-fashioned mail slots labeled “CARTAS” and wrought-iron window guards framing the snouts of pet dogs and cats variously curious and agitated by infrequent passersby.
Although many commercial streets still have a working-class vibe, Jorge Newbery Avenue does not. The street, named for the aviator, is the hipster center of gravity, with shops, cafes, vermouth bars and one vegan restaurant, Donnet, serving a tasting menu for about 19,000 pesos per person that revolves almost entirely around mushrooms.
Several Newbery shops are irresistible. What I thought was a bakery because the name means the Pastry Chef’s Boutique, La Botica del Pastelero turned out to be a delightfully mammoth bakers supply shop, selling artsy marble-cutting boards, creative cookie cutters and lots of utensils.
While La Botica is a baker’s dream, Facón is a tourist’s. The shop’s owner, Martín Bustamante, has set out to show that Argentina is much more than Buenos Aires (and the vineyards of Mendoza and the penguins of Patagonia), offering items that are sourced from local masters as well as some high-design items. For 60,000 pesos, I took home a soulful yet playful scarlet-red wooden horse with a wispy mane created by Juan Gelosi, an artist from northcentral Tucumán province.
Burned onions and dulce de leche
The old-school side of Chacarita is wor-
th a wandering, for its more down-to-earth vibe and cheaper eats. Santa Maria’s fugazzetta slice, draped with mozzarella and just slightly burned onions, is 1,600 pesos and well worth it; a churro filled with dulce de leche from Fábrica de Churros Olleros — about 60 years old and looking its age — is only 350. But I particularly enjoyed my steak and fries lunch, costing 3,400 pesos, at Colonia 10 de Julio, the sort of place where the floor looks grimy even after it has just been mopped.
Our best dinner was at Lardito, a legitimately ballyhooed spot with an around-the-world-in-small-plates vibe. At communal tables festooned with lavender and white wildflowers, Leo and I ate beef tataki (thin slices of lightly seared sirloin with oyster vinaigrette and topped with an egg yolk and cauliflower foam) and ceviche for 45,000 pesos. The price did not include wine, which diners choose in the restaurant’s mini wine shop — perfect for those who are better at selecting cool labels than obscure grapes.
Battling against developers
Santa Maria’s fugazzetta slice, draped with mozzarella and just slightly burned onions, is 1,600 pesos, in the Chacarita neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Sarah Pabst/The New York Times)
A cafe that doubles as a museum of photography and triples as a jazz club, in the Chacarita neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 18, 2024. (Sarah Pabst/The New York Times)
There were plenty of signs the neighborhood might be on the road to post-hipster glass-and-steel condos — literal signs. Dozens of “NO AL NUEVO CÓDIGO URBANÍSTICO” (“No to the new zoning code”) — posters hang on residences in protest of a 2018 zoning code overhaul that facilitated the building of apartment buildings in residential neighborhoods, among other things.
My final morning, I met María Sol Azcona and Laura Nowydwor, two women with the organization, Amparo Ambiental Chacarita, which, loosely translated, means “Protect Chacarita’s Environment.” We met in a fancy cafe, which they were quick to point out was overpriced and dotted with foreigners.
Listening to them detail their battle against real estate developers was both hopeful — they helped introduce new legislation last year that would scale back the 2018 code — and depressing. The pair showed me how easy it was to use the city’s 3D online app to seek out what blocks of the neighborhood were ripe and legal for building.
Nowydwor, who studied geography at the University of Buenos Aires, has mapped out 300 construction projects in the neighborhood, including 15 houses that have been demolished. Real estate developers have joined tourists in wandering residential streets.
“You see them walking around, ringing doorbells,” said Nowydwor, “telling the residents ‘We’ll pay you 3 million dollars’ for a 150-square-meter property,” the equivalent of about 1,600 square feet. “Then they build 40 apartments and sell them for $200,000 each.” (Properties in Buenos Aires are often sold for cash in American dollars.)
Luckily, they did not throw me and other visitors under the bus.
“The problem isn’t tourism in and of itself,” Azcona said. “It’s that a big part of the city is being thought of and planned for the sake of businesses. And tourism is a kind of business.”
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Citing rising breast cancer rates in young women, an expert panel last week recommended starting regular mammography screening at age 40, reversing long-standing and controversial guidance that most women wait until 50.
The panel, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, finalized a draft recommendation made public last year. The group issues influential advice on preventive health, and its recommendations usually are widely adopted in the United States.
In 2009, the task force raised the age for starting routine mammograms to 50 from 40, sparking wide controversy. At the time, researchers were concerned that earlier screening would do more harm than good, leading to unnecessary treatment in younger women, including alarming findings that lead to anxiety-producing procedures that are invasive but ultimately unnecessary.
But now breast cancer rates among women in their 40s are on the rise, increasing by 2% a year between 2015 and 2019, said Dr. John Wong, vice chair of the task force. The panel continues to recommend screening every two years for women at average risk of breast cancer, although many patients and providers prefer annual screening.
“There is clear evidence that starting screening every other year at age 40 provides sufficient benefit that we should recommend it for all women in this country to help them live longer and have a better quality of life,” said Wong, a primary care clinician at Tufts Medical Center who is the director of comparative effectiveness research for the Tufts Clinical Translational Science Institute.
The recommendations have come under harsh criticism from some women’s health advocates, including Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., who say the advice does not go far enough.
In a letter to the task force in June, they said that the guidance continued to “fall short of the science, create coverage gaps, generate uncertainty for women and their providers, and exacerbate health disparities.”
Weighing in again on a hotly debated topic, the task force also said there was not enough evidence to endorse extra scans, such as ultrasounds or magnetic resonance
imaging, for women with dense breast tissue.
That means that insurers do not have to provide full coverage of additional screening for these women, whose cancers can be missed by mammograms alone and who are at higher risk for breast cancer to begin with. About half of all women age 40 and older fall into this category.
In recent years, more mammography providers have been required by law to inform women when they have dense breast tissue and to tell them that mammography may be an insufficient screening tool for them.
Beginning in September, all mammography centers in the United States will be required to give patients that information.
Doctors often prescribe additional or “supplementary” scans for these patients. But these patients frequently find they have to pay all or some of the charges themselves, even when the additional tests are performed as part of preventive care, which under law should be offered without cost.
Medicare, the government health plan for older Americans, does not cover the additional scans. In the private insurance market, coverage is scattershot, depending on state laws, the type of plan and the plan’s design, among other factors.
The task force sets the standards for what preventive care services must be cov-
ered by law by health insurers at no cost to patients.
The panel’s decision not to endorse the extra scans has significant implications for patients, said Robert Traynham, a spokesperson for AHIP, the association that represents health insurance companies.
“What that means for coverage is that there is no mandate to cover these specific screenings for women with dense breasts at zero-dollar cost-sharing,” he said.
While some employers may choose to have their health insurance plans do so, it is not required by law, Traynham said.
Kathleen Costello, a retiree in Southern California who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017 when she was 59, said she was convinced that mammograms missed her cancer for many years.
She underwent screening annually, and every year she received a letter saying that she was cancer-free. The letters also told her that she had dense breast tissue and that additional screening was available but not covered by insurance.
Six months after an all-clear mammogram in 2016, she told her doctor that her right breast felt stiff. The doctor ordered a mammogram and an ultrasound.
“In 30 seconds, the ultrasound found the cancer,” Costello said in an interview, adding that she knew because “the technician blanched and left the room.”
The mass was 4 centimeters in size, Costello added: “It’s hard for me to accept that it grew in six months from undetectable to 4 centimeters.”
But Wong said there was no scientific evidence to prove that supplemental imaging, by either MRI or ultrasound, reduces breast cancer progression and extends life for women with dense breast tissue.
There is ample evidence, on the other hand, that supplemental screenings may lead to frequent false-positive findings and to biopsies, contributing to stress and unnecessary invasive procedures.
“It’s tragic,” Wong said. “We are as frustrated as women are. They deserve to know whether supplemental screenings would be helpful.”
But medical organizations like the American College of Radiology endorse supplemental screening for women with dense breast tissue. There is research showing that ultrasound in conjunction with mammography does detect additional cancers in patients with dense tissue, said Dr. Stamatia Destounis, chair of the college’s breast imaging commission.
For women with dense breasts who are at average risk of breast cancer, recent research indicates that MRI is the best supplemental scan, Destounis said, “with far better cancer detection and more favorable positive predictive values.”
The college also recommends annual screening for women at average cancer risk, rather than screening every two years as recommended by the panel. The radiologists group is pressing for a recommendation that all women should be assessed for breast cancer risk before age 25, so that women at high risk can start screening even before they turn 40.
Growing evidence shows that Black, Jewish and other minority women develop breast cancer and die from it before age 50 more frequently than do other women, Destounis noted.
Trans men who have not had mastectomies must continue to be screened for breast cancer, she added, and trans women, whose hormone use puts them at greater risk for breast cancer than the average man, should discuss screening with their doctor. While the panel’s advice to start screening at age 40 is “an improvement,” Destounis said, the final recommendations “do not go far enough to save women’s lives.”
Breast cancer rates among women in their 40s are on the rise, increasing by 2% a year between 2015 and 2019. (Freepik)vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 23 de abril de 2024. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL. ***
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT FINANCE, INC.
Demandante V. N & N ENTERPRISES INC. H/N/C BURGER TOWN Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV00059. (Salón: 504). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JUAN C. FORTUÑO FASJCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW. COM.
N & N ENTERRASES INC H/N/C BURGER TOWN - URB LEVITTOWN LAKES, D33 CALLE MARINA, TOA BAJA, PUERTO RICO, 00949.
N & N ENTERRASES INC H/N/C BURGER TOWN - AVE. F. D ROOSEVELT #1102-1104, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, 00921.
N & N ENTERRASES INC H/N/C
BURGER TOWN - PO BOX 9438 CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00726.
RAFAEL JOSE NEGRON OQUENDO
- URB. LOS MONTES, 334 CALLE ALONDRA, DORADO, PUERTO RICO 00649.
RAFAEL JOSE NEGRÓN OQUENDO
- URB. LEVITTOWN LAKES AA-86
CALLE CERVANTES, TOA BAJA, PUERTO RICO 00949.
URIEL NAZARIO - URB. MARINA
BAHÍA MF 18 PLAZA 32, CATAÑO, PUERTO RICO, 00962.
A: FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON URIEL NAZARIO; FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON RAFAEL JOSÉ NEGRÓN OQUENDO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de abril de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 01 de mayo de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 01 de mayo de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS IVÁN DÍAZ MALDONADO
Demandante Vs. SUCN. DE JUANA MALDONADO ARROYO T.C.C. JUANITA DIAZ Y JUANITA MALDONADO ARROYO COMPUESTA
A SU VEZ, POR LA SUCN. DE ERICK DÍAZ MALDONADO COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA DIANA CRUZ TORRES; Y LA SUCN. DE IVÁN BAUTISTA VÁZQUEZ T.C.C. IVÁN DÍAZ MALDONADO
COMPUESTA POR HENRY DÍAZ ORTIZ Y POR LA SUCN. DE ERICK DÍAZ MALDONADO COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA DIANA CRUZ
TORRES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01383. (705). Sobre: PARTICIÓN DE HERENCIAS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SUCN. DE IVÁN BAUTISTA VÁZQUEZ
T.C.C. IVÁN DÍAZ MALDONADO, COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERO, HENRY DÍAZ ORTIZ - 183 LAKE RD, SAYLORSBURG, PA 18353. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: LCDO. RAÚL TIRADO, HIJO (RUA 8431) APARTADO 1251
CAGUAS, PR 00726 TEL. 787-258-3636/ raultirado1@gmail.com abogado de la parte demandante, cuya dirección es la que deja indicada, con copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, copia de la cual le es servida en este caso de la demanda, dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discresión, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal hoy día 23 de abril de 2024.
LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE GUÁNICA RENT EXPRESS BY BERRIOS, INC.
Demandante V. JACKELINE MARTINEZ SANTOS
Demandado Civil Núm.: GU2023CV00114. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO R 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JACKELINE
MARTINEZ SANTOSBARRIADA ESPERANZA C7 CALLE C, GUANICA,
PR 00653.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza, se le notifica que una demanda de cobro de dinero ha sido presentada en su contra. La parte demandante solicita el cobro de una deuda de $10,164.41 más los intereses legales, y honorarios de abogado, por concepto de arrendamiento de bienes muebles. Por medio de este edicto se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada a: LCDA.
ISAMAR ESTRADA DIAZ, Calle Georgetti #9, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725 y/o HC 05 BOX 55035 Caguas PR Tel.: 787420-0030, isamar.estradalaw@ gmail.com. Se le apercibe que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en rebeldía en contra suya concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin mas citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de abril de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ADELAIDA LUGO PACHECO, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN MYRNA VELÁZQUEZ
CARRASQUILLO
Demandante Vs JUAN SÁNCHEZ
Demandado
Civil Núm.: SJ2024RF00562. Sala: 705. Sobre: DIVORCIO (R.I.). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: JUAN SÁNCHEZSE DESCONOCE.
Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la solicitud del epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere que radique en esta Secretaría el original de la contestación a la Demanda de Divorcio y que notifique con copia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. María Pagán Hernández, P.O. Box 21411, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-1411, teléfono 787-282-6734, abogada de la parte demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Podrá 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 como se explicó anteriormente. Si dejare de hacerlo,
Monday, May 6, 2024
podrá dictarse contra usted sentencia en rebeldía concediéndole el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a 30 de abril de 2024. SRA. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. LUIS GILBERTO
RODRIGUEZ DIAZ, LUZ
ENEIDA RODRIGUEZ
DIAZ, CARMEN IRIS
RODRIGUEZ DIAZ, JOSE
MANUEL RODRIGUEZ
DIAZ Y GREGORIA
FLORES ROLDAN, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
PARTE DEMANDANTE v.
YOLANDA RODRÍGUEZ
RANZ, IVETTE
RODRÍGUEZ RANZ, MARÍA DEL PILAR RANZ, SUCESION DE JUAN
ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ DIAZ
PARTE DEMANDADA
CIVlL NUM. CG2023CV03669 (702). SALA SOBRE: AL AMPARO ARTICULO 183 DE LA LEY DEL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD INMOBILIARIA
30 L.P.R.A.§6282. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: IVETTE RODRIGUEZ RANZ Y SUCESION DE JUAN ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ DIAZ
Por la presente se les notifica que la parte demandante, ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal Demanda donde se solicita se inscriba a nombre de los demandantes José Manuel Rodríguez Díaz y Gregoria Flores Roldán, de manera tal que se conforme la realidad registra! con la titularidad de estos la finca descrita como sigue: -”URBANA: Solar marcado con el número cuatro (4) de la manzana P de la Urbanización Residencial Bairoa Park, situada en el barrio Bairoa de Caguas, con una cabida superficial de trescientos sesenta y uno punto cincuenta y seis (361.56) metros cuadrados. ~n lindes por el Norte, con el solar número cinco (5) en veintiséis punto doscientos (26.200) metros; por el Sur, con el solar número tres (3) en veintiséis punto doscientos (26.200) metros; por el Este, con la calle número sesenta y dos (62) en trece punto ochocientos (13.800) metros; y por el Oeste, con terrenos
de Felicita Corporation en trece punto ochocientos (13.800) metros. Consta inscrita a la finca treinta y tres mil cuatrocientos treinta y seis (33436), folio doscientos noventa (290) del tomo novecientos setenta y cuatro (974) de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera(I).” POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique al: Lcdo. Héctor R. Crespo Milián, RUA 7474, Urb. Paradis, #1 Calle Angel L. Ortiz, Caguas, Puerto Rico, 00725, teléfono {787) 744-4459/7450480, correo electrónico: lcdocrespo@gmail.com; con copia de su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de un término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto. Usted debe presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unircd.ramajuclicial. pr. salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría de1 tribunal correspondiente. Por la presente se le apercibe que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la Demanda, sin mas citarle ni oirle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy dia 22 de abril de 2024. Lisilda Martinez Agosto, Secretaria. Jannette Espinosa Castillo, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. LUIS GILBERTO
RODRIGUEZ DIAZ, LUZ ENEIDA RODRIGUEZ
DIAZ, CARMEN IRIS RODRIGUEZ DIAZ, JOSE
MANUEL RODRIGUEZ
DIAZ Y GREGORIA
FLORES ROLDAN, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
PARTE DEMANDANTE v. YOLANDA RODRÍGUEZ RANZ, IVETTE RODRÍGUEZ RANZ, MARÍA DEL PILAR RANZ, SUCESION DE JUAN ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ DIAZ
PARTE DEMANDADA
CIVlL NUM. CG2023CV03669 (702). SALA SOBRE: AL AMPARO ARTICULO 183 DE LA LEY DEL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD INMOBILIARIA
30 L.P.R.A.§6282. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: MARIA DEL PILAR RANZ Y SUCESION DE JUAN ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ DIAZ
Por la presente se les notifica que la parte demandante, ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal Demanda donde se solicita se inscriba a nombre de los demandantes José Manuel Rodríguez Díaz y Gregoria Flores Roldán, de manera tal que se conforme la realidad registra! con la titularidad de estos la finca descrita como sigue: -”URBANA: Solar marcado con el número cuatro (4) de la manzana P de la Urbanización Residencial Bairoa Park, situada en el barrio Bairoa de Caguas, con una cabida superficial de trescientos sesenta y uno punto cincuenta y seis (361.56) metros cuadrados. ~n lindes por el Norte, con el solar número cinco (5) en veintiséis punto doscientos (26.200) metros; por el Sur, con el solar número tres (3) en veintiséis punto doscientos (26.200) metros; por el Este, con la calle número sesenta y dos (62) en trece punto ochocientos (13.800) metros; y por el Oeste, con terrenos de Felicita Corporation en trece punto ochocientos (13.800) metros. Consta inscrita a la finca treinta y tres mil cuatrocientos treinta y seis (33436), folio doscientos noventa (290) del tomo novecientos setenta y cuatro (974) de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera(I).” POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique al: Lcdo. Héctor R. Crespo Milián, RUA 7474, Urb. Paradis, #1 Calle Angel L. Ortiz, Caguas, Puerto Rico, 00725, teléfono {787) 744-4459/7450480, correo electrónico: lcdocrespo@gmail.com; con copia de su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de un término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto. Usted debe presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unircd.ramajuclicial. pr. salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría de1 tribunal correspondiente. Por la presente se le apercibe que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la Demanda, sin mas citarle ni oirle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy dia 22 de abril de 2024. Lisilda Martinez Agosto, Secretaria. Jannette Espinosa Castillo, Secretaria Auxiliar. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. LUIS GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ DIAZ, LUZ ENEIDA RODRIGUEZ DIAZ, CARMEN IRIS RODRIGUEZ DIAZ, JOSE MANUEL RODRIGUEZ DIAZ Y GREGORIA FLORES ROLDAN, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS PARTE DEMANDANTE v. YOLANDA RODRÍGUEZ RANZ, IVETTE RODRÍGUEZ RANZ, MARÍA DEL PILAR RANZ, SUCESION DE JUAN ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ DIAZ
PARTE DEMANDADA
CIVlL NUM. CG2023CV03669 (702). SALA SOBRE: AL AMPARO ARTICULO 183 DE LA LEY DEL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD INMOBILIARIA
30 L.P.R.A.§6282. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: YOLANDA RODRIGUEZ RANZ Y SUCESION DE JUAN ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ DIAZ
Por la presente se les notifica que la parte demandante, ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal Demanda donde se solicita se inscriba a nombre de los demandantes José Manuel Rodríguez Díaz y Gregoria Flores Roldán, de manera tal que se conforme la realidad registra! con la titularidad de estos la finca descrita como sigue: -”URBANA: Solar marcado con el número cuatro (4) de la manzana P de la Urbanización Residencial Bairoa Park, situada en el barrio Bairoa de Caguas, con una cabida superficial de trescientos sesenta y uno punto cincuenta y seis (361.56) metros cuadrados. ~n lindes por el Norte, con el solar número cinco (5) en veintiséis punto doscientos (26.200) metros; por el Sur, con el solar número tres (3) en veintiséis punto doscientos (26.200) metros; por el Este, con la calle número sesenta y dos (62) en trece punto ochocientos (13.800) metros; y por el Oeste, con terrenos de Felicita Corporation en trece punto ochocientos (13.800) metros. Consta inscrita a la finca treinta y tres mil cuatrocientos treinta y seis (33436), folio doscientos noventa (290) del tomo novecientos setenta y cuatro (974) de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección
demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son:
ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE:
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393
BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ LLP
500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdprlaw.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 17 de abril de 2024. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional Ii. Sara Rosa Villegas, Secretaria Del Tribunal Confidencia L I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. DAVID A DENIZARD HERNANDEZ
Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. CA2023CV03367
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: DAVID A DENIZARD HERNANDEZ • URB METROPOLIS 2M32 CALLE 41, CAROLINA PR 00987-7533.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar
su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera 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@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de febrero de 2024. Lcda. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. Keila Garcia Soles, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs. IVELISSE GARCÍA COLÓN Demandado Civil Núm.: CT2023CV00114. Salón: 402. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: IVELISSE GARCÍA COLÓNURB. MARÍA DEL CARMEN H-3 CALLE 4, COROZAL, PR 00783. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte deman-
dante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO
MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de febrero de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2024. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. María E. Collazo, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VIEQUES SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DEL FINADO SALOMON RIVERA SANCHEZ ET ALS
Demandados
CIVIL NUM.: N2CI2016-00029
SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO
RICO. SS. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Vieques, Vieques, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 18 de enero de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el #514, en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Esperanza del Barrio Puerto Real, del término municipal de Vieques, con una cabida superficial de 344-49 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela #515 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela #513 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la calle #13 de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la Autoridad de Tierras. Inscrita al folio 82 del tomo 83 de Vieques, finca #2734, inscripción 9na, del Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la
certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $15,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2011, constituida mediante la escritura número 700, otorgada en Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, el día 9 de julio de 2003, ante el notario Pedro Mario Rivera Matos, e inscrita al folio 82 del tomo 83 de Vieques, finca número 2,734, inscripción 10ma. Condiciones restrictivas bajo el “Programa La Llave para tu Hogar” por el período de 8 años. b. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 16 de agosto del 2017, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vieques, Caso Civil número N2CI-2016-00029, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, versus Salomón Rivera Sánchez y su esposa Noemí Coronel Rosado, por la suma de $44,859.77 más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 18 de enero de 2018, al tomo Karibe de Vieques, finca número 2,734, Anotación A. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 15 de noviembre de 2023, notificada el 15 de noviembre de 2023, a saber la suma de $44,859.77 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 6.50% desde el 1ro de octubre de 2015; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $5,610.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 3 DE JULIO DE 2024 A LA 1:00 DE LA TARDE, en el Tribunal Superior de Vieques, Vieques, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $56,100.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE JULIO DE 2024 A LA 1:00 DE LA TARDE en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la EGUNDA SUBASTA será de $37,400.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes
del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE JULIO DE 2024 A LA 1:00 DE LA TARDE en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $28,050.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Vieques, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de marzo de 2024. Mildred I. Toro Colón, Alguacil Auxiliar P 197, División de Subastas Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Vieques.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., Demandante v. JUAN MANUEL MELENDEZ REYES; ELIZABETH DIAZ MONTALVO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; RENDON MORTGAGE BANKERS CORP; US DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE; COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DE LOS PAGARÉS
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. SJ2024CV02506. SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: JUAN MANUEL MELENDEZ REYES POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON ELIZABETH DIAZ MONTALVO. ELIZABETH DIAZ MONTALVO POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON JUAN MANUEL MELÉNDEZ REYES.
Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal la Demanda de epígrafe. En la demanda se alega que el pagaré otorgado el 29 de agosto de 2014 ante el Notario Público Pedro J. Caride Cruz, bajo affidavit número 15,194, a favor de Rendon Mortgage Bankers Corp., o a su orden, por la cantidad de $168,792.00, con intereses al 3.50% anual y vencedero a la presentación. En aseguramiento del Pagare hipotecario antes mencionado se constituyó la hipoteca voluntaria en virtud de la Escritura número 228 sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número ocho (8), del Bloque “A” de la Urbanización Riverside Park, la cual está localizado en el Barrio Juan Sánchez del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de DOSCIENTOS VEINTIDOS PUNTO DIECIOCHO (222.18) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros con la calle número uno (1); por el SUR, en trece punto
cero cero (13.00) metros con la calle de acceso a la urbanización; por el ESTE, en diecisiete punto cero cero (17.00) metros con el solar número siete (7) del mismo bloque y por el OESTE, en diecisiete punto cero cero (17.00) metros con el solar número nueve (9) del mismo bloque. Finca numero 6,684 inscrita al Folio 226 del tomo 144 de Bayamón Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fernando Gierbolini; MONSERRATE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radicando el original de la misma 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 Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de abril de 2024. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria. Maria Colon Rivera, Sub-Secretaria.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO PALMAS DEL MAR
HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Parte Demandante Vs. LOUANA J. BURLESON DELERME
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2024CV00300. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: LOUANA J. BURLESON DELERME. POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: GONZÁLEZ & MORALES LAW OFFICES, LLC PO BOX 10242
HUMACAO, PR 00792
TELÉFONO: (787) 852-4422
FACSÍMIL: (787) 285-4425 Email: jrg@gonzalezmorales.com
abogados de la parte demandante, cuya dirección es la que deja indicada, con copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, copia de la cual le es servida en este caso, dentro de los TREINTA (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Debe saber que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 17 de abril de 2024. Evelyn Félix Vázquez, Secretaria. Arsenia Martínez Sánchez, Sub-Secretaria.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA ALTA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v. SUCESIÓN DE ESPARTANIO RIVERA RIVERA T/C/C ESPARTANO RIVERA RIVERA Y ESPARTANIO RIVERA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS JAVIER GERARDO RIVERA GARCÍA, GLORIA ESTHER RIVERA GARCÍA, MARÍA DEL ROSARIO RIVERA GARCÍA, JOSÉ FRANCISCO RIVERA GARCÍA; FULANO(A) DE TAL Y SUTANO(A) DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA Demandados CIVIL NÚM. VA2021CV00149 SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. Yo Freddy Omar Rodríguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico,
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Add that up and you have a star. Throw in his 43 points in a 106-99 win over the defending champion Denver Nuggets in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals on Saturday -- which followed a 40-point performance in a 122-116 victory over the Phoenix Suns on the previous Sunday, which gave the Timberwolves a sweep of their first-round NBA playoff series -- and you start to enter superstardom.
Yet, Edwards, 22, is afraid to go there. For as honest, brash and confident as he is, there is an underlying bashfulness in him when it comes to talking about his stature within the sport.
A year ago, before a first-round loss to the Nuggets, Edwards said he could not consider himself a young star until he “wins in the playoffs.”
A year later, he did it. Edwards, whose nickname is
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Ant, not only won in the playoffs, but he was the alpha in a first-round series that featured Devin Booker and Kevin Durant, his favorite player. Edwards led his organization to heights it had not seen in 20 years, the second round of the NBA playoffs. He did it with rim-rattling dunks, a sweet shooting stroke, gnaw-your-arm-off defense and leadership, all while giving an earful to Durant, a player he has looked up to since he was 5.
It is what stardom looks like.
“Nah, not yet, man,” Edwards said Sunday. “Not yet.”
When you score 40 points in a series-clinching victory, on the road, you’re a star. When you played 79 regular-season games and were the best player for a team that was one game short of having the top record in your conference, you’re a star. When you’re one of 12 players picked to represent your country in the Olympics, you’re a star. When you make everyone laugh every time you’re in front of a microphone, you’re a star.
“He’s the face of the league,” teammate Karl-Anthony Towns said. “He hates when I say it, but it’s true. Like I said, ‘Future so bright, got to put the sunglasses on.’”
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Regular players do not decide to dominate when they have a chance to end their opponent for good. They do not have that ability. Stars shoot 11-of15 from the floor for 31 points in the second half when their team is trailing at halftime, as Edwards did Sunday. Stars get on their other star teammates amid the chaos when they do something wrong, as Edwards did when Towns committed an unnecessary foul with the game in the balance.
Edwards cannot run from it anymore. If he does not want to be a star, he should stop playing like one.
“He rises to the occasion,” Timberwolves forward Kyle Anderson said.
Stars also make their teammates better. That’s the point of having a star. The gravity of one person makes the existence of others more meaningful.
Minnesota assistant coach who filled in for coach Chris Finch after a collision on the sideline in the fourth quarter left him with a leg injury. “And what I mean by that is, they trust him. He’s got some self-humor. You’ve seen all of his interviews. He’s the first one to congratulate and move all of his glory over to his teammates. They all love him.
“When he plays, makes the right play, and they know he cares, not only about himself but the team. He’s done a good job of stepping up in that regard.”
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Edwards picked apart the Suns’ defense as a playmaker. The 40 points will make the headlines, but he also had six assists with only two turnovers in 41 minutes.
There were signs throughout the season, but it was in the series against Phoenix that Edwards blossomed as a creator for others. There were times early in his career when it felt as if he passed because he had to. There was nowhere else for him to go.
Edwards can keep running from the label all he wants, but if he does not want to embrace it out of fear of being content, then it will never go away. His mindset is correct. His intentions are good. But it’s impossible for anyone with two eyes and a pinch of sense not to see a star when looking at Edwards.
There is no point in even asking Edwards about it anymore. He has spoken, with his play and his personality.
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As the season went on, and this playoff series played out, Edwards was welcoming defensive blitzes so that he could create advantages to make the pass to an open man and get his teammates involved in the flow of the game.
But, yeah, Edwards is not a star.
“He is a good person,” said Micah Nori, a
“He’s my favorite player to watch,” Durant said of his star pupil after the Timberwolves’ completed the firstround sweep two Sundays ago. “He’s just grown so much since coming in the league. At 22, his love for the game shines so bright. That’s one of the reasons I like him the most: because he just loves basketball and is grateful to be in this position.
“He’s going to be someone I follow for the rest of his career.”
Anthony Edwards (Wikipedia)
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