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PDP gubernatorial candidate vows to enhance farming incentives
By THE STAR STAFF
Popular Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate Jesús Manuel Ortiz González presented his agricultural platform to the Puerto Rico Farmers Association over the weekend.
“You are an integral part, not only of that farming model, but also an important part of our economy,” said Ortiz, emphasizing the need for a government that recognizes the importance of agriculture and listens to and addresses the needs of the sector.
The PDP president and legislator, in his address to the Farmers Association on Saturday, also pointed out that one of the most significant challenges facing agriculture in Puerto Rico is the lack of a robust government commitment, which translates into insufficient incentives for farmers.
“When a government does not ideologically agree that a country can stand on its own two feet and achieve sustainability, the first thing it will do is not defend with all its might the sector that can make it strong and self-sufficient, and that is agriculture,” Ortiz stressed. “And that translates into many of you suffering.”
As part of his public policy, Ortiz announced the creation of an Agricultural Advisory Group. Comprising leaders of bona fide organizations of farmers, ranchers, professional associations and the academy, the group would provide advice and recommendations.
“A governor must always have his ear to the ground and not be swayed only by his immediate circle,” Ortiz said. “That’s why I must have an advisory group to address issues related to the agricultural industry collectively. Achieving food security for our country is a shared responsibility. I am confident that we can take the necessary steps to direct those efforts by working together.”
As part of such an effort, Ortiz emphasized the creation of a long-term “Food Security Plan.” The plan includes reorganizing the Department of Agriculture and its instrumentalities to execute a vision of regenerative agriculture in a 10-to-20-year plan. Likewise, his government would promote the creation of agricultural cooperatives with access to land, capital and preference in incentive programs, the candidate said.
“As a government, we must be entities of economic development and I firmly believe that agriculture is a vehicle that, in addition to providing food security, promotes more Puerto Ricans establishing their own businesses,” Ortiz said. “Therefore, in addition to promoting the creation of agricultural cooperatives, we will be promoting the expansion of the inventory of land available for agriculture through the protection of land. To do so, we will facilitate the leasing
of public land for agriculture through the creation of a single inventory of land that includes farms with rural and urban agricultural potential. In addition, we will exempt the payment of the rental fee during the first three years for regenerative agriculture projects that work [the land] without the use of chemicals.”
Likewise, the candidate said he intends to amend the Agricultural Tax Incentives Law to add new eligible agricultural activities such as the production and sale of compost and all kinds of bioproducts for soil and pest management.
Additionally, as governor, Ortiz said he would promote initiatives for the marketing of local products, such as the continuation and expansion of family markets and the establishment, along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, of a local “Farm to School” program that provides opportunities for farmers to market their agricultural products in island schools.
The at-large lawmaker also expressed his full commitment to the fishing industry. He said he will equip fish markets with renewable energy systems to guarantee the refrigeration of fish during emergencies.
“I do not have to come to explain to you what the problems that you face are. After all, you are the ones who live them,” Ortiz said. “But I come to tell you that I see you, that your problems are not foreign to me, and that we will find solutions with you. That is the history of the PDP, and as your governor, I will fight for Puerto Rico to have a robust and sustainable agricultural industry.”
Popular Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Jesús Manuel Ortiz González
PDP resident commissioner candidate presents SMEs proposal
By THE STAR STAFF
Pablo José Hernández Rivera, the Popular Democratic Party candidate for resident commissioner, presented his proposal for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) to the United Retailers Center (CUD by its acronym in Spanish) over the weekend.
“For example, I support the proposal of the administration of President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for the SBA [Small Business Administration] to be able to make small loans directly under the 7(a) loan program,” Hernández Rivera said. “In the face of this good measure, you should know that, unfortunately, the Republicans are
opposed to it, because their interests are outside of the realm of the ordinary.”
During Saturday’s meeting with SME members of the CUD, the candidate for the non-voting congressional seat in Washington said he will take advantage of the recent changes to the ethics rules in Congress, which allow sponsoring events for constituents with certain private entities.
“The specific example they give is to hold information fairs for SMEs, so I anticipate that we will see many at the national level in the next Congress, and I will be there defending you, who are a fundamental part of the economic development of Puerto Rico,” Hernández Rivera said.
Fiscal board seeks data on public employee transactions since January
By THE STAR STAFF
The Financial Oversight and Management Board has given the Office of the Administration and Transformation of Human Resources and the Office of Management and Budget until Sept. 16 to turn over information on employee transactions to determine if they align with Civil Service Reform (CSR).
The request, made in an Aug. 30 letter, comes amid media reports that agencies are trying to make “at will” employees loyal to the current New Progressive Party government into career workers, making their removal by the administration elected in November very difficult.
The oversight board began developing CSR in 2022 with a pilot plan at some agencies as it sought ways to improve salaries, change employee evaluations, and standardize the recruitment process.
The board’s letter to Zahira Maldonado Molina, executive director of the Office of the Administration and Transformation of Human Resources, and to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Juan C. Blanco Urrutia, notes that the federal oversight entity has made deliberate, strategic investments in a comprehensive CSR to enhance governance and operational
capacity across all agencies, aiming to strengthen and improve government effectiveness.
“The CSR is essential to ensuring that the Government has a
strong civil service based on merit, competence, and achievement,” the letter notes.
The oversight board asked the agencies to submit, no later than Sept. 16, information and documents related to employee transactions conducted since Jan. 1 of this year. They include a list of all the positions in the agencies, corporations, departments, administrations, boards, commissions, bureaus, offices, divisions, and instrumentalities of the Government of Puerto Rico that have been created, occupied or reclassified since Jan. 1, along with the assigned salary for the position, “and indicate whether the salary is the minimum or 90% of the midpoint of the salary grade.”
The petition also included a list of all personnel transactions made in connection with any of the positions and a list of all positions within the categories of Interagency Coordinator (Coordinador Interagencial) and Government Executive Officer (Oficial Ejecutivo Gubernamental).
The board said the information will allow it to assess how recent government hires align with the current approval processes of the Office of Administration and Transformation of Human Resources and the OMB, and the process the government is implementing under CSR.
PREB gives green light to 3 new renewable energy projects
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) ratified recently the selection of three renewable energy projects totaling 60 megawatts (MW) of solar generation and 60 MW for battery storage as part of the Tranche 2 renewable energy tender.
While the Tranche 2 bid, launched in 2022, sought 1,000 MW of renewable energy and 500 MW of battery storage capacity, the tender’s selection committee selected only three projects, consisting of a 20 MW solar plant, a 40 MW solar plant and 60 MW battery energy storage facility. PREB, the island’s energy regulator, did not reveal the names of the proponents of the projects due to regulations that allowed the information to be kept confidential and which have been criticized publicly for violating transpar-
ency standards.
Tranche 2 is the second of six proposed procurement tenders for renewable energy and battery storage procurement.
“The Energy Bureau has comprehensively reviewed the Selection Committee Report, including its detailed reasons for recommending the approval of the contracts,” a PREB resolution issued last week said. “Particular attention was given to the reasonableness of the proposed prices, ensuring they are competitive and aligned with industry standards. The Energy Bureau has examined the interconnection studies, which provide support for the reliable and safe integration of the proposed net electrical output into Puerto Rico’s electric grid. These studies confirm that integration will not compromise the stability or reliability of the grid, which is paramount for maintaining uninterrupted service to consumers.”
“This alignment makes sure the contracts not only contribute to the island’s energy needs but also support the broader goals of sustainability, resilience, and affordability,” the PREB added. “Based on these findings, the Energy Bureau approves the Contracts, recognizing them as an important step forward in the ongoing transformation and modernization of Puerto Rico’s energy infrastructure.”
The projects, which were approved by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) governing board in June, still need the green light of the Financial Oversight and Management Board to become effective.
In relation to the status of other renewable energy projects, PREPA said it has 16 developers proposing some 1,178MW in projects, of which 435MW are battery storage. LUMA Energy is evaluating other projects, including two solar projects totaling 50MW.
Pablo José Hernández Rivera, right, the Popular Democratic Party candidate for resident commissioner
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11 proposals presented at final NPP platform hearing
By THE STAR STAFF
New Progressive Party (NPP) President Jenniffer González Colón participated on Saturday in the last of the 15 platform hearings to prepare the party’s government plan. “We are the only party that has carried out an initiative like this, reaching out to the people, listening to their feelings, needs and concerns, which will be the central axis of the government platform and which we will put into effect from day one,” the NPP candidate for governor said in a written statement, noting that some 360 proposals were heard over the course of the hearings, where more than 2,000 people contributed. “We thank all the people who have responded to this call and for the trust they have placed in us. We assure you that your voices will be heard and heeded.”
At the hearing, 11 proposals were presented, covering topics related to economic development, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals, nonprofit organizations, artificial intelligence, housing, health and community-based health clinics known as 330 centers, early childhood, entrepreneurship, energy and security.
The first speaker was at-large Sen. William Villafañe Ramos,
the NPP candidate for resident commissioner in Washington, who presented his recommendations for the government plan with respect to the proposed agenda to be advanced in the U.S. capital.
The other speakers were Luis Pizarro, president of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce; Rafael Castro, vice president of operations of the Pharmaceutical Industry Association; Alejandro Ballester, treasurer and member of the board of directors of the Institute for Economic Liberty; Bryan L. Rosa Rodríguez, executive director of the Youth Development Institute; Lucy Crespo, CEO of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust; Víctor Dominguez, president of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, Puerto Rico Chapter; Christian Bravo, treasurer and deputy director of the public policy and governance committee of the Association of Centers for the Care and Development of Children; Dr. Gloria Viscasillas, executive director of “Echar Pa’lante”; Dr. Iván Baigés of Sustainable Wind Energy for Puerto Rico; and attorney Francisco Quiñonez.
“They [proposals] are all being read and considered. The committee behind these hearings has done a titanic job and we are very grateful to everyone for their commitment,” said
Verónica Ferraiuoli Hornedo, executive director of the Luis A. Ferré Public Policy Institute. “We are convinced that, through these proposals, the next governor, Jenniffer González, will be able to address the real well-being of all Puerto Ricans.”
Eleven proposals were presented at Saturday’s hearing, covering topics related to economic development, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals, nonprofit organizations, artificial intelligence, housing, entrepreneurship, energy and security, among others.
Market Square for farmers, artisanal merchants proposed for El Señorial Plaza
By THE STAR STAFF
In order to stimulate economic activity in the Cupey area, San Juan District 4 Rep. Víctor Parés Otero on Sunday proposed a program called “Market Square in El Señorial,” a novel concept that seeks to create a space within El Señorial Plaza shopping center so that farmers, as well as small business owners, can sell their products.
“Our mayor of San Juan, Miguel Romero, has been very effective in promoting small merchants in shopping centers such as Plaza Las Américas,” the lawmaker said. “Taking a page from that book, we are developing the concept of ‘Market Plaza in El Señorial,’ a space where our farmers, as well as those small merchants with artisanal products or products associated with agriculture, can sell, under one roof, their products to consumers who frequent the plaza.”
“This is a model that has been used with great success in multiple jurisdictions and it focuses on identifying a space, in this case in the Señorial Plaza shopping center,
The proposed program, “Market Square in El Señorial,” seeks to create a space within El Señorial Plaza shopping center where farmers and small business owners can sell their products.
to establish a mini market square, with kiosks selling agricultural products, as well as areas to eat and enjoy a multitude of other gastronomic and local products,”
Voltage problems said to have caused house fire in Bayamón
By THE STAR STAFF
Afire was reported in a residence on Saturday night on 28th Street in Bayamón’s Santa Rosa urbanization. According to preliminary information, a call was received through the 9-1-1 Emergency System about a fire in a residence. When the agents arrived, there were two women who had been impacted by smoke inhalation. The women told the authorities that the residence had voltage
problems and a fan that was on in the living room caught fire.
Personnel from the Firefighters Bureau extinguished the fire. Paramedics from the municipal medical emergency corps provided first aid to the injured women and transported them to a hospital in stable condition.
The damages caused by the fire were estimated at $200,750.
Agent Samuel Rosario, assigned to the Bayamón Centro police precinct, took charge of the investigation.
Parés Otero added.
The legislator said he will be communicating in the coming days with the mayor, as well as with Economic Development and Commerce Secretary Manuel Cidre Miranda, and executives of the aforementioned shopping center, to outline aspects of the proposal.
“We strongly believe in gastronomic tourism, whose activities include, but are not limited to, visiting restaurants serving traditional food, visiting markets, such as the one we are proposing, participating in local festivals, and participating in local cooking workshops,” Parés Otero said. “One of the objectives of this tourism is to discover and experience new flavors, aromas and culinary preparations, and having a platform such as the mini market square in the Señorial Plaza is another mechanism to boost the flow of visitors to the area.”
The initiative joins another presented by Parés Otero on the creation of a gastronomic route on the busy Paraná and Winston Churchill avenues in the El Señorial section of Río Piedras.
The occupants of a home in Bayamón told the authorities that the residence had voltage problems and a fan that was on in the living room caught fire.
Criticizing Trump, Harris says Arlington is ‘not a place for politics’
By NEIL VIGDOR and NICHOLAS NEHAMAS
Vice President Kamala Harris excoriated former President Donald Trump on Saturday for his visit last Monday to Arlington National Cemetery, where his campaign’s filming of him in a heavily restricted area caused a confrontation between one of his political aides and a cemetery official.
In her first public comments on the situation, Harris said Trump had desecrated a solemn place that should be free of politics when he appeared there for a wreath-laying ceremony for 13 service members who were killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan during the withdrawal of U.S. troops three years ago.
“Let me be clear: The former president disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt,” Harris wrote on the social platform X.
Harris wrote that she had visited Arlington National Cemetery several times as vice president and that she would never attempt to use that setting for activities related to the campaign.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, at a campaign rally in Eau Claire, Wis., Aug. 7, 2024. Harris and her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, have promised to fix America’s affordable housing crisis, but their plans have drawn skepticism from outside economists. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times)
“It’s not a place for politics,” she wrote. Trump, in recent days, has hit back hard at critics of his visit to the cemetery, saying that families of some of the fallen service members had asked him to take photos with them there. Representatives for the Trump campaign
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did not immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday, but his allies rushed to his defense, including his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio.
“President Trump was there at the invitation of families whose loved ones died because of your incompetence,” Vance wrote on X, responding directly to Harris. “Why don’t you get off social media and go launch an investigation into their unnecessary deaths?”
The Trump campaign has repeatedly criticized the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2021 during the BidenHarris administration, which the former president has sought to cast as weak and dysfunctional.
President Joe Biden made the final decision to end America’s nearly 20-year military occupation in Afghanistan. But it was Trump who clinched a deal with the Afghan Taliban, setting a timeline for the U.S. exit.
At a campaign event Thursday in Potterville, Michigan, Trump said he was honored to take photos with the family members of some of the fallen service members at the cemetery and that Biden and Harris had “killed their children” with their “incompetence.”
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Former Miss Teen USA contestant rebukes Vance for using her flub to attack Harris
By NEIL VIGDOR
Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, who since becoming former President Donald Trump’s running mate in July has been criticized on several occasions for comments demeaning women, found himself again embroiled in controversy this past week when he used a viral clip of a beauty pageant contestant’s meltdown to attack Vice President Kamala Harris.
On Thursday, Vance shared a video clip from the 2007 Miss Teen USA competition in which Caite Upton, who was representing South Carolina, gave a mangled answer to a question about why many Americans could not locate the United States on a map.
“BREAKING: I have gotten ahold of the full Kamala Harris CNN interview,” Vance wrote on the social platform X.
That evening, CNN was set to broadcast the first major interview with Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee. Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. quickly reposted Vance’s post, writing: “This is total Fake News from JD. We all know that Kamala isn’t that articulate.”
In a social media post Friday, Upton objected to Vance’s dredging up the 17-year-old clip of her pageant struggles, remarks that were reported by The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina, and later deleted, after she appeared to have deactivated her account on X.
“Regardless of political beliefs, one thing I do know is that social media and online bullying needs to stop,” she wrote, according to the newspaper.
A representative for Upton, who competed in the pageant under the name Lauren Caitlin Upton, did not immediately
Hiker is found dead in Grand Canyon National Park
By EMILY SCHMALL
The body of a hiker was found on a remote trail in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona in what was the sixth death reported in the sprawling park in August, authorities said.
The hiker, a 60-year-old man from North Carolina, was located by search-and-rescue personnel in a helicopter Wednesday along a route connecting Lower Tapeats Camp and Deer Creek Camp, the National Park Service said Thursday.
The unidentified hiker was on a multiday backpacking trip, officials said.
The Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center, which is the dispatcher for emergency operations in the area, learned of the missing hiker Tuesday afternoon. It “received a report of a solo backpacker who had failed to check in with a family member while attempting the Thunder River Trail-Deer Creek loop,” the Park Service said.
The approximately 25-mile looping hike off the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, along a trail that the Grand Canyon
Conservancy said was carved out by gold miners in the late 1800s, features “booming streams of crystalline water” but also a southern exposure that made the area “infamously hot,” according to a Park Service trail guide.
The Park Service said it was investigating the death in coordination with the Coconino County medical examiner.
A park spokesperson did not immediately respond Saturday to a request for additional information.
The 1.2-million-acre park’s sweeping vistas, sloping, rust-colored canyons and bursts of green along the Colorado River draw millions of visitors each year.
Signs throughout the park warn of the risk of dehydration, often including short narratives about hikers unprepared for the rigors of the climate, who died traversing the steep-walled canyons.
The death was the sixth fatality reported in Grand Canyon since July 31, according to previous park news releases. Others include an unidentified 80-year-old man who died after his boat flipped over in a river; Chenoa Rickerson, a 33-year-old woman whose body was found after a flash flood;
respond to a request for comment Saturday.
In 2015, Upton told New York magazine that the embarrassment she felt over the viral video had led to depression and thoughts of suicide.
When Vance was asked whether he had been aware of Upton’s mental health challenges during an appearance on CNN on Friday, he said that he had not at the time he posted the clip.
“My heart goes out to her, and I hope that she’s doing well,” he said.
Asked whether he wanted to apologize, Vance said he did not have regrets.
“Politics has gotten way too lame,” he said, adding, “I’m not going to apologize for posting a joke, but I wish the best for Caitlin.”
A photo provided by the National Parks Service shows the Colorado River near Thunder River Trail in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, where the body of a 60-year-old hiker was found, the sixth death reported in the sprawling park in August. (M. Graden/NPS via The New York Times)
and Leticia A. Castillo, 20, whose body was found 150 feet below an overlook.
There have been at least 14 deaths in Grand Canyon so far this year, including six fatalities reported over two separate weeklong periods this summer.
Last year, there were 10 deaths in Grand Canyon and approximately 4.7 million people visited the park, according to the Park Service.
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How Brazil’s experiment fighting fake news led to a ban on X
By JACK NICAS and KATE CONGER
As Brazil grappled with a flood of online disinformation around its 2022 presidential election, the nation’s Supreme Court made an unusual and fateful decision: It gave one justice sweeping powers to order social networks to take down content he believed threatened democracy.
That justice, Alexandre de Moraes, has since carried out an aggressive campaign to clean up his country’s internet, forcing social networks to pull down thousands of posts, often giving them a deadline of just hours to comply.
It has been one of the most comprehensive — and, in some ways, most effective — efforts to combat the scourge of internet falsehoods. When his online crackdown helped stifle far-right efforts to overturn Brazil’s election, academics and commentators wondered whether the nation had found a possible solution to one of the most vexing problems of modern democracy.
Then, on Friday, de Moraes blocked the social network X across Brazil because its owner, Elon Musk, had ignored his court orders to remove accounts and then closed X’s office in Brazil. As part of the blackout order, the judge said internet users who tried to circumvent his measure in order to keep using X could be fined nearly $9,000 a day, or more than what the average Brazilian makes a year.
It was the judge’s boldest measure yet, and it left even many of his defenders worried that Brazil’s experiment had gone too far.
“I was someone who was very on his side,” said David Nemer, a Brazilian-born media professor who has studied his nation’s approach to disinformation at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
“But when we saw the X decision, we were like: ‘What the hell? This is too much,’” he said, using an expletive. “It was a warning to all of us.”
Brazil’s yearslong fight against the internet’s destructive effect on politics, culminating in the current blackout of X, shows the pitfalls of a nation deciding what can be said online. Do too little and allow online chatter to undermine democracy; do too much and restrict citizens’ legitimate speech.
Other governments worldwide are likely to be watching as they debate whether to wade into the messy work of policing speech or leave it to increasingly powerful tech companies that rarely share a country’s political interests.
The United States had long largely stayed out of the debate, letting tech companies police themselves and one another. But this year it changed course, passing a law to ban TikTok unless it was sold to a government-approved buyer because of concerns over its parent company’s ties to China. TikTok has sued to challenge the law as unconstitutional.
The European Union approved sweeping legislation in 2022 requiring social networks to adhere to specific rules about what can be posted on their sites. And only days ago, France charged Pavel Durov, the Russian-born entrepreneur who founded the messaging service Telegram, with a wide range of crimes for failing to prevent illicit activity on the app.
But few democratic governments have taken as drastic a step as Brazil’s suspension of X and its threat of fines against
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, center, in Brasilia on Oct. 2, 2022. To combat disinformation, Brazil gave one judge broad power to police the internet. Now, after he blocked X, some are wondering whether that was a good idea. (Dado Galdieri/The New York Times)
people who keep using it.
Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, called the move “absurd and dangerous.”
“The thing that is really disturbing is that increasingly, undemocratic governments can point to democratic ones to justify their actions,” he said. “Where there are narrower ways of addressing privacy concerns or misinformation concerns, governments should use those narrower means.”
There were signs that even de Moraes believed he had gone too far. At first Friday, he ordered Apple and Google to prevent downloads of apps that offer virtual private networks, or VPNs, software that can cause a user’s internet traffic to appear as if it were coming from another country. VPNs are commonly used for privacy and cybersecurity, but can also be used to evade blockades against certain websites or apps.
The measure against VPN apps prompted a swift backlash across Brazil, and three hours later, de Moraes amended the order to drop his demand to Apple and Google.
But de Moraes retained the threat of fining anyone who continued to use X in Brazil via VPN. That move “is absolutely authoritarian, and there is no explicit legal provision that allows for it,” said Thiago Amparo, a prominent Brazilian lawyer and newspaper columnist who has supported de Moraes.
The head of Brazil’s national bar association said Friday that the organization would ask Brazil’s Supreme Court to review the measure about fines.
De Moraes’ support in Brazil has faded as the nation has moved past the acute tensions of the 2022 election. At the time, then-President Jair Bolsonaro was using social media to sow doubts about the integrity of Brazil’s voting systems, des-
pite a lack of evidence, and de Moraes was ordering social networks to remove some of his posts.
After Bolsonaro lost the election, thousands of his supporters blocked highways, camped outside army bases and eventually stormed Brazil’s Congress and Supreme Court in a bid to provoke a military takeover. De Moraes responded by ordering social networks to block dozens of prominent accounts that questioned the vote or sympathized with the attempted insurrection, including some belonging to federal lawmakers.
But since then, as the political temperature has cooled, de Moraes has kept issuing court orders to social networks to remove accounts. The orders are both secret and lack explanations on how a certain account had broken the law, according to leaked copies of orders.
“Moraes’ actions were very much legitimized by the need to protect the constitution,” said Mariana Valente, a lawyer and director of Brazil’s InternetLab, a think tank. “But obviously there’s concern that this is continuing.”
She said Brazil’s full Supreme Court should rule soon on de Moraes’ order to block X. “That is essential to create legitimacy for a decision that’s very extreme,” she said.
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US stock rally broadens as investors await Fed
Abroadening rally in U.S. stocks is offering an encouraging signal to investors worried about concentration in technology shares, as markets await key jobs data and the Federal Reserve’s expected rate cuts in September.
As the market’s fortunes keep rising and falling with big tech stocks such as Nvidia and Apple, investors are also putting money in less-loved value stocks and small caps, which are expected to benefit from lower interest rates. The Fed is expected to kick off a rate-cutting cycle at its monetary policy meeting on Sept. 17-18.
Many investors view the broadening trend, which picked up steam last month before faltering during an early August sell-off, as a healthy development in a market rally led by a cluster of giant tech names. Chipmaker Nvidia, which has benefited from bets on artificial intelligence, alone has accounted for roughly a quarter of the S&P 500’s year-to-date gain of 18.4%.
“No matter how you slice and dice it you have seen a pretty meaningful broadening out and I think that has legs,” said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment officer at Charles Schwab.
Value stocks are those of companies trading at a discount on metrics like book value or price-to-earnings and include sectors such as financials and industrials. Some investors believe rallies in these sectors and small caps could go further if the Fed cuts borrowing costs while the economy stays healthy.
The market’s rotation has recently accelerated, with 61% of stocks in the S&P 500 outperforming the index in the past month, compared to 14% outperforming over the past year, Charles Schwab data showed.
Meanwhile, the so-called Magnificent Seven group of tech giants - which includes Nvidia, Tesla and Microsoft - have underperformed the other 493 stocks in the S&P 500 by 14 percentage points since the release of a weaker-than-expected U.S. inflation report on July 11, according to an analysis by BofA Global Research.
Stocks have also held up after an Nvidia forecast failed to meet lofty investor expectations earlier this week, another sign that investors may be looking beyond tech. The equal weight S&P 500 index, a proxy for the average stock, hit a fresh record this week and is up around 10.5% year-to-date, narrowing its performance gap with the S&P 500.
“When market breadth is improving, the message is that an increasing number of stocks are rallying on expectations that economic conditions will support earnings growth and profitability,” analysts at Ned David Research wrote.
Value stocks that have performed well this year include General Electric and midstream energy company
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Targa Resources, which are up 70% and 68%, respectively. The small-cap focused Russell 2000 index, meanwhile, is up 8.5% from its lows of the month, though it has not breached its July peak.
The jobs report “tends to be one of the more market moving releases in general, and right now it’s going to get even more attention than normal.”
Investors are unlikely to turn their back on tech
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stocks, particularly if volatility gives them a chance to buy on the cheap, said Jason Alonzo, a portfolio manager with Harbor Capital.
Technology stocks are expected to post above-market earnings growth over every quarter through 2025, with third-quarter earnings coming in at 15.3% compared with a 7.5% gain for the S&P 500 as a whole, according to LSEG data.
“People will sometimes take a deep breath after a nice run and look at other opportunities, but technology is still the clearest driver of growth, particularly the AI theme which is innocent until proven guilty,” Alonzo said.
Russians bomb Kharkiv, Ukraine says, after Russia reports wave of attacks
By MARC SANTORA and DAVID GUTTENFELDER
Russia on Sunday bombarded residential areas of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, with ballistic missiles and powerful guided bombs, wounding more than 40 civilians, Ukrainian officials said. The attack came hours after what Russian authorities said was a wave of drone attacks against energy facilities across Russia, including an oil refinery in Moscow.
At least 10 explosions rocked Kharkiv, a city of 1.3 million situated less than 25 miles from the Russian border, local officials said, warning that they expected the number of casualties to rise as emergency crews raced across the city to various blast sites.
The attack on Kharkiv came less than 48 hours after powerful Russian guided bombs hit the city Friday, striking a 12-story residential building and devastating a children’s park. At least six people were killed in those strikes, including a 14-year-old girl. In addition, 59 people were reported injured, with 20 in serious condition and some requiring amputations, Oleh Syniehubov, the head of the Kharkiv military administration, said in a statement.
In the attack Sunday, Syniehubov said that a post office, a sports complex, a shopping center, stores and cars were damaged. “The enemy targeted only civilian infrastructure,” Syniehubov said. In a later statement, he said that at least 41 people were wounded.
The Russian Ministry of Defense did not offer any immediate comment on the strikes in Kharkiv.
The city’s Palace of Sports, which features a 4,000-seat arena, was targeted by four strikes, Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee said in a statement. “The sports complex was destroyed,” the committee said.
Rescue workers searched for survivors in the rubble of the complex throughout the afternoon and into the evening.
Earlier, the Russian military claimed to have largely thwarted one of the largest Ukrainian drone assaults directed at Russia territory since the start of the full-scale war, and said it had shot down 158 drones across 15 regions.
Local officials in Russia reported fires and explosions caused by drone attacks at a number of facilities, including an oil refinery in Moscow and one of the largest energy pro-
Kharkiv on Sunday. One strike site was a shopping area where the blast caused a fire from a gas pipe.
Another strike site visited by The New York Times was a residential area next to the sports complex. There was a massive crater in the middle of a children’s playground, a hole gouged in the earth near battered slides and seesaws.
A burst water main caused flooding across the whole neighborhood and residents scrambled to use the rubble from the blast site to hand build a dam in a futile attempt to stop water from inundating apartment blocks.
Given the advantages Russia holds in terms of troop numbers and firepower in the war, Ukraine has been employing a variety of asymmetric strategies.
duction facilities in the central Russian region of Tver.
Military analysts confirmed geolocated footage showing a successful Ukrainian strike on the Moscow oil refinery in Kaputnya, which is only about 10 miles from the Kremlin.
“The inability of Russia’s air and missile defense systems to protect against relatively crude long-range, one-way drone attacks is surprising,” Fabian Hoffman, a doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo, who specializes in missile technology, wrote on the social platform X.
Many of the drones were directed at targets in the regions of Kursk, Bryansk, Voronezh and Belgorod, all of which border Ukraine, according to the Russian military. The reports by Russian officials could not be independently verified.
In a statement issued Sunday, before the Kharkiv attack was reported, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine did not comment on specific strikes against Russian targets but said, “It is only fair that Ukrainians should be able to respond to Russian terror in exactly the way necessary to stop it.”
The Ukrainian military has repeatedly targeted Russian oil and gas facilities in what it has said is an effort to undermine Russia’s ability to supply its forces with fuel and cut into the energy revenues that fund the Kremlin’s war effort.
It was difficult to assess the effect of the
overnight attacks or the overall Ukrainian campaign. As the number of Ukrainian strikes has increased, Moscow has increasingly limited the information it releases on its oil industry.
Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service stopped publishing data on the production of oil products in the country this past week.
While Kyiv has been attacking oil facilities for months, the campaign has yet to have a demonstrable effect on the fighting inside Ukraine, where Russian forces have made steady gains throughout the summer in the eastern Donbas region.
The Russian advance in the direction of Pokrovsk, a vital logistics hub, threatens to undermine Ukraine’s ability to supply its forces across a broad swath of the front line.
And even as Ukraine steps up its strikes inside Russia, they still pale in comparison to the destruction wrought by Russian attacks on Ukrainian towns and cities since the war began in February 2022. Moscow has directed around 10,000 missiles, 14,000 long-range attack drones and 33,000 guided bombs at targets across Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian military.
In the past week alone, Zelenskyy said, Russia used more than 160 missiles of various types, 780 guided aerial bombs and 400 attack drones to hit targets across Ukraine.
There did not appear to be any military facilities in the vicinity of several places hit in
These include an offensive into the Kursk region of western Russia, grabbing hundreds of square miles of territory in a matter of weeks, in an effort to force Moscow to pull resources from the Ukrainian front to defend its own land. So far, the Kremlin appears determined not to redeploy elements of the military engaged in offensive operations.
Ukrainian leaders have said their efforts to undermine the Russian war effort have been hampered by restrictions on the use of long-range weapons provided by its allies to hit targets inside Russia. The Biden administration has resisted changing the policy out of concern that it could lead to an escalation in the war and draw NATO into a more direct conflict with Moscow.
Ukraine’s defense minister, Rustem Umerov, traveled to Washington over the weekend to press the Biden administration to lift the restrictions, presenting senior officials with a list of military sites that Ukraine would like to hit as soon as the ban is lifted.
Ukraine is also desperate to find a way to limit Russia’s ability to unleash powerful guided bombs from warplanes that can be deployed from the relative safety of the skies above Russia by attacking the airfields where the aircraft begin their bombing runs.
“I appeal to the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany: We need the abilities to really and fully protect Ukraine and Ukrainians,” Zelenskyy said Saturday. “We require both: permissions for long-range use, and your long-range shells and missiles.”
A municipal worker rests while clearing rubble after two missiles struck overnight in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. On Sunday, Russia bombarded residential areas of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, with ballistic missiles and powerful guided bombs, wounding more than 40 civilians. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times)
By VIVEK SHANKAR and GABBY SOBELMAN
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an American Israeli hostage who had been held in the Gaza Strip after being abducted by Hamas and its allies nearly 11 months ago, has died, President Joe Biden announced late Saturday.
“Earlier today, in a tunnel under the city of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered six bodies of hostages held by Hamas,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House, referring to a city in southern Gaza. “We have now confirmed that one of the hostages killed by these vicious Hamas terrorists was an American citizen, Hersh GoldbergPolin.”
Biden’s statement was released hours after the Israeli military announced that it had recovered a number of bodies during an operation in the Gaza Strip, and that it was working to identify them. The announcement immediately led to speculation in Israel that more
An Israeli soldier walks out of a tunnel said to have been dug by Hamas in the Gaza Strip near the Erez border crossing, as photographed during a news media tour with the Israeli military, Dec. 15, 2023. An American Israeli hostage who had been held in a tunnel under the city of Rafah in Gaza after being abducted by Hamas and its allies nearly 11 months ago, has died. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
Israeli hostages had died in captivity, and it amplified calls for an immediate cease-fire so that the remaining 100 or so hostages, both dead and alive, could be returned.
Goldberg-Polin, whose family also announced his death in a separate statement, was among the roughly 250 people who were abducted by Hamas and its allies during their Oct. 7 attack on Israel. He was last seen in a video released by Hamas in April and had been seriously injured during the attack.
“I am devastated and outraged. Hersh was among the innocents brutally attacked while attending a music festival for peace in Israel,” Biden said. “He lost his arm helping friends and strangers during Hamas’ savage massacre. He had just turned 23.”
In his statement, Biden promised to keep working toward an agreement to secure the release of the hostages. But he also issued a warning: “Make no mistake, Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes.”
American Israeli hostage held in Gaza is dead, Biden says Tropical Depression Shanshan soaks Japan, raising flood and landslide risks
By RIVER AKIRA DAVIS, KIUKO NOTOYA and JOHN YOON
Authorities in Japan on Saturday evening braced for the risk of landslides and floods as Shanshan, a tropical cyclone, continued its slow advance back inland, after drenching parts of the country with record
rainfall over three days.
Forecasters predicted heavy rain for several more days from the storm, which made landfall Thursday as the strongest typhoon to hit Japan this year.
It packed maximum sustained winds of about 28 mph Saturday evening, according to the U.S. Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning
Center, which had downgraded Shanshan to a tropical storm Thursday and then to a depression Friday.
The weakened storm had shifted eastward early Friday, raising landslide and flood risks from overflowing rivers in more parts of the country.
The Japan Meteorological Agency on Friday issued flood and landslide warnings in two dozen prefectures, including Tokyo and some as far as Iwate, in the country’s northeast. Officials also warned of high waves and tides in coastal areas, and the potential for lightning strikes and tornadoes.
Officials on Saturday said heavy rain was expected to douse eastern and northern Japan into early next week.
The storm weakened as it moved northeast toward Osaka, roughly in the center of Japan, before dissipating into a tropical depression.
Shanshan has brought nearly 3 feet of rain to parts of Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s main islands. The city of Odawara, southwest of Tokyo, received about a foot of rain Thursday, nearly double the average for the entire month of August, meteorologists said.
A landslide buried a home southwest of
Tokyo on Tuesday, and streets and farmland were flooded in many parts of Japan. Strong winds from the storm brought down trees in Tokyo and in parts of Kyushu, where some buildings were badly damaged. Officials said that about 180 homes had been damaged by flooding and water from the storm.
The storm has left at least six people dead and injured more than 120 others, Japan’s Cabinet Office said Saturday. One person was missing and more than 1 million people were under evacuation orders Saturday, the office said.
More than 1,000 people were using evacuation shelters, the office said, and in Kyushu, more than 42,000 households were without power Saturday. By early Sunday, power had been restored to most households.
Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways canceled many flights that had been scheduled for Friday at dozens of airports along the storm’s path. Both airlines had largely returned to normal operations early Sunday. Service on Shinkansen bullet-train routes was restored Sunday after days of suspensions in most of Kyushu.
Naked emperors and crypto campaign cash
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Once upon a time there was an emperor who loved being fashion-forward. So he was receptive to some fast-talking tailors who promised to make him a suit out of new, high-technology fabric — a suit so comfortable that it would feel as if he were wearing nothing at all. “Fortune favors the brave,” they told him.
Of course, the reason the suit was so comfortable was that it didn’t exist; the emperor was walking around naked. But the members of Congress who made up his retinue didn’t dare tell him. For they knew that the tailors deceiving the emperor controlled lavishly funded super political action committees that would spend large sums to destroy the career of anyone revealing their scam.
OK, I changed the story a bit. But it’s one way to understand the remarkably large role the crypto industry is playing in campaign finance this year.
Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, was introduced 15 years ago and was promoted as a replacement for oldfashioned money. But it has yet to find significant uses that don’t involve some sort of criminal activity. The crypto industry itself has been racked by theft and scams.
But while crypto has thus far been largely unable to find legitimate applications for its products, it has
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been spectacularly successful at marketing its offerings. Cryptocurrencies, which are traded for other crypto assets but otherwise mainly seem suited for things like money laundering and extortion, are currently worth around $2 trillion.
And in this election cycle the crypto industry has become a huge player in campaign finance. I mean huge: Crypto, which isn’t a big industry in terms of employment or output (even if you posit, for the sake of argument, that what it produces is actually worth something), accounts for almost half of corporate spending on PACs this cycle.
Crypto political spending isn’t just huge; it takes an unusual form. While cryptocurrency is associated with libertarian ideology and the industry’s spending has had a partisan tilt toward Republicans, crypto super PACs don’t seem to go after Democrats per se; they single out politicians who have called for greater scrutiny of the industry, including the financial risks it poses and its marketing tactics. Notably, crypto-financed attack ads helped to defeat Rep. Katie Porter, who has been critical of the industry, in the Democratic primary for California senator.
Politicians have taken notice. In 2021 Donald Trump called bitcoin a scam. But last month he promised to turn America into a “bitcoin superpower” and described crypto skeptics as “left-wing fascists.” The Biden administration has taken modest steps toward oversight and regulation of cryptocurrencies, but Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, has declared that “we all believe in the future of crypto” and reportedly has been trying to get crypto industry players to back the Kamala Harris campaign.
The gigantic political spending and influence of an industry that, if anything, destroys value rather than creates it (especially if you consider its environmental effects) is startling. But in a way it makes sense.
Consider those tailors who scammed the emperor. If they had merely clothed him in an ugly suit, they would have lashed out at anyone who dared point out its ugliness. But it’s much harder to silence people when they’re not criticizing the emperor’s fashion sense, but are instead laying bare the fact that he has been completely deceived. In that instance, a campaign against skeptics would have to be far more intense, even desperate.
True, almost every major industry spends some money trying to influence policy on its behalf, and some spend considerable sums trying to suppress criticism. The fossil fuel industry gives a lot of money to politicians who oppose environmental regulation — which at this point means that they overwhelmingly support Republicans — and has over the years provided large-scale funding to efforts questioning the
But critics of, say, the oil industry aren’t likely to precipitate a sudden implosion; oil is, after all, an industry producing stuff with real uses, and many oil companies will probably find profitable niches even if and when we transition to a green economy. Crypto, on the other hand, shouldn’t be thought of as a real industry; it rests on nothing but the perception that someday, somehow, we’ll find a genuine use for its products.
Obligatory disclaimer: Some people I talk to claim that blockchain, the concept that underlies cryptocurrency, can have some real business uses. But this really has nothing to do with the big claims about bitcoin and its rivals.
Back to the politics: We don’t know what will happen if the government gets serious about regulating cryptocurrencies, policing both their criminal uses and their marketing practices. But much if not all of that $2 trillion valuation could simply evaporate.
Hence the explosion of political spending. It’s a demonstration of power, but one that betrays desperation. It’s an inadvertent confession that the emperor has no clothes.
reality of climate change.
Firma medidas sobre privacidad cibernética de menores, promover la salud mental, y fomentar el desarrollo económico y social
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LA FORTALEZA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, firmó varios proyectos legislativos que abarcan la protección de la privacidad de los menores en el entorno digital, la promoción del turismo gastronómico, el fomento de la autoestima y la concienciación sobre condiciones de salud específicas.
El primer ejecutivo firmó el Proyecto de la Cámara 262 que crea la Ley para la Protección de la Privacidad Cibernética de los Niños y Jóvenes, la cual establece estrictas normas para salvaguardar la privacidad de los menores de edad al utilizar redes sociales y plataformas digitales. La ley prohíbe la publicación, divulgación, almacenamiento, venta o retención de información personal de menores sin el consentimiento expreso del menor y de sus padres o tutores legales. Además, se prohíbe el perfilado de menores, salvo en casos donde se pueda demostrar un interés superior para el bienestar del menor. Esta ley será implementada y supervisada por el Negociado de Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico (NET), el cual tendrá la facultad de imponer multas de hasta $25,000 por infracción.
De igual modo, estampó su firma al Proyecto de la Cámara 1862 que crea la “Ley de Internados del Gobierno del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”, estableciendo un programa de internados en todas las agencias gubernamentales para estudiantes universitarios. Este
programa ofrece a los jóvenes la oportunidad de adquirir experiencia laboral relevante, combinando conocimientos teóricos y prácticos para prepararlos mejor para el mundo laboral.
Por otro lado, aprobó el Proyecto de la Cámara 938 que introduce un “Protocolo de Investigación Psicológica” en casos de suicidio, el cual será implementado por el Departamento de Salud en conjunto con varias agencias gubernamentales. Este protocolo se enfocará en investigar las posibles causas y factores asociados a estos incidentes para desarrollar estrategias efectivas de prevención del suicidio en Puerto Rico.
Además, ahora es ley el Proyecto de la Cámara 1180 que enmienda la Ley 284-2018 para declarar el primer viernes de enero como el “Día de la Concientización sobre Autoestima” y designar el color amarillo como el color oficial de esta campaña. La medida busca promover la autoestima, especialmente entre los niños, como una herramienta preventiva frente al suicidio.
En cuanto al desarrollo económico y la promoción del turismo, el gobernador firmó el Proyecto de la Cámara 1787 que designa el Centro Urbano Tradicional y un área del Barrio Bairoa en Caguas como “Zonas de Turismo Gastronómico” La Compañía de Turismo de Puerto Rico será responsable de desarrollar planes de mercadeo y promoción para estas zonas, contribuyendo al crecimiento económico y a la creación de empleos en la región.
Asimismo, convirtió en ley el Proyecto de la Cámara 1567 que establece el primer sábado de septiembre como el “Día de la Concienciación sobre la Malformación de Chiari en Puerto Rico”. Esta medida busca educar a la población sobre esta condición neurológica rara y aumentar la visibilidad de quienes la padecen. Finalmente, firmó las siguientes resoluciones conjuntas en reconocimiento a contribuciones significativas a la comunidad: Resolución Conjunta de la Cámara 461 que nombre la carretera conocida como “Gran Vía,” ubicada en el Barrio Bélgica de la Ciudad de Ponce, como “Roberto Cruz Rodríguez,” en honor a su memoria y legado. Resolución Conjunta de la Cámara 475 que designa a la Escuela de la Comunidad Rabanal del Municipio de Aibonito como “Escuela María del Carmen Soto Hernández,” en reconocimiento a sus importantes aportaciones al ámbito académico, cultural y cívico de la comunidad.
Vega Baja invierte $634 mil en rehabilitación pista atlética de Tortuguero
VEGA BAJA – En un evento significativo, el Municipio de Vega Baja y la Oficina de Recreación y Deportes Municipal llevaron a cabo hoy los actos protocolares de primera piedra para la rehabilitación de la histórica pista atlética de Tortuguero. Este proyecto, que cuenta con una inversión de $634,627.85, es posible gracias a los fondos federales asignados por la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA). Durante la ceremonia, el alcalde de Vega Baja, Marcos Cruz Molina, destacó la importancia de este proyecto y su impacto en la comunidad. “Hoy colocamos la primera piedra de una serie de obras que transformarán significativamente la infraestructura deportiva de nuestro municipio. La rehabilitación de la pista atlética de Tortuguero es solo el comienzo; estamos finalmente viendo la reconstrucción del futuro del deporte en Vega Baja. Gracias a los fondos de FEMA, continuamos trabajando para ofrecer espacios de calidad que fomenten el bienestar y el desarrollo de nuestros ciudadanos”.
La pista atlética de Tortuguero ha sido, durante años, un punto de encuentro para la comunidad vegabajeña, siendo escenario de innumerables entrenamientos, competencias y eventos que han dejado huella en el corazón de muchos vegabajeños. La reconstrucción y reparación de esta pista consiste en la rehabilitación de la superficie con material sintético y estará a cargo del contratista Once and For All Tires, LLC. Esta primera piedra no será la única en Vega Baja. La Administración Municipal también anunció que en los próximos días se celebrarán tres primeras piedras adicionales, ampliando así su compromiso con la mejora de la infraestructura local. El 4 de septiembre se colocará la primera piedra para la construcción de la nueva cancha bajo techo en la Urbanización El Verde. Posteriormente, el domingo 8 de septiembre, se dará inicio a la reconstrucción del Parque Carlos Román Brull. Finalmente, el 11 de septiembre se colocará la primera piedra para la cancha de Villa Pinares. Estos proyectos forman parte de una serie de inversiones estratégicas para revitalizar y modernizar los espacios recreativos y
deportivos en todo Vega Baja.
Con el inicio de las obras en la pista atlética de Tortuguero, se han cerrado las instalaciones desde el miércoles 28 de agosto, para permitir los preparativos y el movimiento de equipo necesario para la ejecución de la primera fase del proyecto. No obstante, el Municipio ha tomado medidas para asegurar que la comunidad no se vea afectada por estas obras.
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‘Reservation Dogs’ showed D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai what is possible
Actors D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai and Quannah Chasinghorse arrive before the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, March 10, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
By KATE NELSON
Much like his “Reservation Dogs” character, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai grew up wondering if he was a good guy.
If his dedication to his craft and his community is any indication, the 22-year-old actor of Anishinaabe, Guyanese and German descent seems to be a pretty upstanding citizen. The day we chat about his Emmy nomination for lead actor in a comedy series, for example, he is visiting his parents in his native Toronto (from his adopted hometown, Los Angeles) and has spent most of the morning chauffeuring his auntie around on a several-hours-long excursion. After all, mothers, grandmothers and aunties are considered the bedrock of Indigenous communities.
That’s a fact any “Reservation Dogs” fan would know. With the groundbreaking FX series, the creators Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo provided a rare look at everyday life on an Oklahoma Indian reservation through the eyes of four teens reeling in the aftermath of a friend’s suicide. Harjo, who also served as showrunner, has said there was only one way to do it: with an all-Indigenous team of writers, directors and regular actors who could authentically tell this story.
Alongside his young co-stars, Woon-A-Tai made uncharted television territory feel warm, raw and utterly relatable, garnering “Rez Dogs” broad acclaim as well as four Emmy nominations this year, including a best comedy nod. His portrayal of Bear Smallhill also earned him an Emmy nomination, placing him alongside Lily Gladstone (“Under the Bridge”) and Kali Reis (“True Detective: Night Country”) as the first Indigenous actors to be nominated in 17 years.
In an interview, he talked about breaking down stereotypes, possibly reviving his “Rez Dogs” character and being a good, healthy Indigenous man. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
Q: Despite critical acclaim, “Rez Dogs” was notably overlooked by the television academy for its first two seasons. What does it mean to you to break through with a best comedy nomination and one of the few Indigenous acting nominations in Emmys history?
A: It feels like what Wes Studi said when he got his Oscar: “It’s about time.” Some people say “Rez Dogs” was snubbed by the Emmys during the first two seasons, but I never really thought of it that way, because we were getting nominated for other awards, like a Peabody and the Independent Spirit Awards. I’m very honored to be nominated but also proud because a bunch of other Native actors are nominated as well.
The first time we went to the Emmys was to present an award in 2021, and if I’m not mistaken, we were the only Native Americans in the room. Right then, it became a goal of ours to help fill that room with Indigenous faces. So this year will be amazing not only because we’re nominated but because there will be more Native Americans in the room.
Q: Working on this groundbreaking show so early in your career must have been formative. What lessons did you glean on set with Sterlin and notable Native actors like Wes Studi and Graham Greene?
A: One of the biggest lessons I took away from it is that any Indigenous project I work on has to have an Indigenous director, writer or producer; the dream would be to have all three like we did with “Reservation Dogs.” When it comes to Indigenous storytelling, it’s so important to tell it with the people that the story actually belongs to.
The other thing “Reservation Dogs” taught me is that you can build a real family on set, which I hadn’t fully experienced before. Usually, the cast and crew don’t mix, but with “Reservation Dogs,” everyone came together and hung out every night. That great chemistry you see onscreen doesn’t start when they say action; it starts when you make these connections.
Q: What did “Rez Dogs” teach Hollywood — and TV audiences — about Native communities?
A: That we’re human. One of the biggest barricades we broke down from the very first episode is that we walk and talk and act like everyone else. Throughout much of North American history, the only time we were represented was in John Wayne films, where we were stereotyped as savage and stoic with dark skin and long hair. From the start, we tore down old stereotypes and built up new images of ourselves.
And that we’re funny. It was really important that [“Reservation Dogs”] was a comedy. Before that, most content that people created about us was just depressing; it just made audiences pity us. But with our show, we showed that Native Americans are happy, loving and funny and that we’re a community.
Q: As a star of the show, you’re a young leader in the Indigenous awakening we’re seeing in pop culture. What responsibility comes with that?
A: We’re all very much just walking pieces of history that has been built up over generations to bring us to where we are right now. I think everybody should feel responsible for carrying their people’s knowledge, culture and heritage with them everywhere they go. But yes, being in the spotlight, I very much feel a responsibility to do things right and be a positive role model for the next generation. I also want to set a strong example of how to be a good, healthy Indigenous man; we need more of that in our community.
Every single day on “Reservation Dogs,” I also acknowledged that there are great Indigenous actors who for 30, 40 years had to deal with these stereotypes and small roles because they wanted to succeed in this beautiful industry and put money on their plate. I’m very grateful for these trailblazers who allow me to be where I am now. This is our time to say, “We’re not going back to that.”
Q: As soon as it was announced that Season 3 would be the last, spinoff rumors started. Would you ever want to return to the “Rez Dogs” story and revive these characters? Or do you think the story ended where it was meant to?
A: The story we set off to tell about grieving for our best friend, our brother, our cousin, Daniel, was told, which is why we ended it. Do I think that Bear, Elora, Willie Jack, and Cheese’s stories are done? No. What’s great about Sterlin’s work is that the worlds he has created are all in the same universe. For example, in his [2015] film “Mekko,” the main character is from Okern, the same fictional Oklahoma town where the Rez Dogs are from. There’s also a scene with a newspaper and if you look closely you see a character’s name is Thomas Smallhill, the same last name as Bear. What I’m getting at is you’re definitely going to be seeing some familiar faces in Sterlin’s new projects.
On the COVID ‘off-ramp’: No tests, isolation or masks
By EMILY BAUMGAERTNER
Jason Moyer was days away from a family road trip to visit his parents when his 10-year-old son woke up with a fever and cough. COVID-19?
The prospect threatened to upend the family’s plans.
“Six months ago, we would have tested for COVID,” said Moyer, 41, an academic administrator in Canton, Ohio. This time they did not. Instead, they checked to make sure the boy’s cough was improving and his fever was gone — and then set off for New Jersey, not bothering to tell the grandparents about the incident.
In the fifth summer of COVID, cases are surging, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported “high” or “very high” levels of the virus in wastewater in almost every state. The rate of hospitalizations with COVID is nearly twice what it was at this time last summer, and deaths — despite being down almost 75% from what they were at the worst of the pandemic — are still double what they were this spring.
People walk past a discarded mask on the National Mall in Washington on Friday, May 14, 2021. In 2024, the fifth summer of Covid, cases are surging again. But for many people, it has become so normalized that they no longer see it as a reason to disrupt social, work or travel routines. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times)
As children return to schools and Labor Day weekend travel swells, the potential for further spread abounds. But for many like Moyer, COVID has become so normalized that they no longer see it as a reason to disrupt social, work or travel routines. Test kit sales have plummeted. Isolation after an exposure is increasingly rare. Masks — once a ubiquitous symbol of a COVID surge — are sparse, even in crowded airports, train stations and subways.
Human behavior is, of course, the reason that infec-
tions are soaring. But at some point, many reason, we need to live.
“I no longer even know what the rules and recommendations are,” said Andrew Hoffman, 68, of Mission Viejo, California, who came down with respiratory symptoms a few weeks ago after his wife had tested positive for COVID. He skipped synagogue, but still went to the grocery store.
“And since I don’t test, I can’t follow them,” he said.
Epidemiologists said in interviews that they do not endorse a lackadaisical approach, particularly for those spending time around older people and those who are immunocompromised. They still recommend staying home for a couple of days after an exposure and getting the newly authorized boosters soon to become available (despite the poor turnout during last year’s round).
But they said that some elements of this newfound laissez faire attitude were warranted. While COVID cases are high, fewer hospitalizations and deaths during the surges are signs of increasing immunity — evidence that a combination of mild infections and vaccine boosters are ushering in a new era: not a post-COVID world, but a postcrisis one.
Epidemiologists have long predicted that COVID would eventually become an endemic disease, rather than a pandemic. “If you ask six epidemiologists what ‘endemic’ means, exactly, you’ll probably get about 12 answers,” said Bill Hanage, associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “But it certainly has a sort of social definition — a virus that’s around us all the time — and if you want to take that one, then we’re definitely there.”
Certain threats remain clear. For vulnerable groups, the coronavirus will always present a heightened risk of serious infection and even death. Long COVID, a multifaceted syndrome, has afflicted at least 400 million people worldwide,
researchers recently estimated, and most of those who have suffered from it have said they still have not recovered.
But the CDC director, Dr. Mandy Cohen, called the disease endemic last week, and the agency decided this year to retire its five-day COVID isolation guidelines and instead include COVID in its guidance for other respiratory infections, instructing people with symptoms of COVID, RSV or the flu to stay home for 24 hours after their fever lifts. The updated guidelines were an indicator that, for most people, the landscape had changed.
Hanage defended the hard-line mandates from the early years of the pandemic as “not just appropriate, but absolutely necessary.”
“But,” he said, “it is just as important to help people onto an off-ramp — to be clear when we are no longer tied to the train tracks, staring at the headlights barreling down.”
In a Gallup poll this spring, about 59% of respondents said they believed the pandemic was “over” in the United States, and the proportion of people who said they felt concerned about catching COVID has been generally declining for two years. Among people who rated their own health positively, almost 9 in 10 said they were not worried about getting infected. That could be, at least partly, a result of personal experience: About 70% of people said they had been through a COVID infection already, suggesting that they believed they had some immunity or at least that they could muscle through it again if need be.
Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said the newfound complacency can as much be attributed to confusion as to fatigue. The virus remains remarkably unpredictable: COVID variants are still evolving much faster than influenza variants, and officials who want to “pigeonhole” COVID into having a well-defined seasonality will be unnerved to discover that the 10 surges in the United States so far have been evenly distributed throughout all four seasons, he said.
Those factors, combined with waning immunity, point to a virus that still evades our collective understanding — in the context of a collective psychology that is ready to move on. Even at a meeting of 200 infectious disease experts in Washington this month — a number of whom were older than 65 and had not been vaccinated in four to six months — hardly anybody donned a mask.
“We’ve decided, ‘Well, the risk is OK.’ But nobody has defined ‘risk,’ and nobody has defined ‘OK,’” Osterholm said. “You can’t get much more informed than this group.”
Asked about how the perception of risk has evolved over time, Osterholm laughed.
“Lewis Carroll once said something like, ‘If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there,’” he said. “I feel in many ways, that’s where we’re at.”
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Scientists discover similar dinosaur footprints on opposite sides of the Atlantic
In an undated photo provided by Ismar de Souza Carvalho, ornithopod tracks are preserved in floodplain deposits at Passagem das Pedra, in Picos, Brazil. Researchers discovered more than 260 footprints more than 3,700 miles apart in Brazil and Cameroon that were preserved in mud and silt. (Ismar de Souza Carvalho via The New York Times)
By ALEXANDRA E. PETRI
Tmoved across the stretch of land between Cameroon and Brazil before Gondwana broke apart, Jacobs said.
Jacobs said his research began in Cameroon in the late 1980s, when he and a team of French and Cameroonian researchers discovered dinosaur bones, fossilized mammal bones and dinosaur footprints. He revisited the findings recently when the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science wanted to publish a volume dedicated to Martin Lockley, a paleontologist who died in November after a career studying dinosaur tracks and footprints.
Jacobs worked with an international team to determine the age of footprints he’d previously found in Cameroon by studying the rocks they were preserved in. They then looked at records of dinosaur tracks in Brazil, where the continents were once joined and where Jacobs knew there were tracks.
hey may be an ocean apart, but dinosaur footprints found in South America and Africa are so similar that their discovery suggests dinosaurs may have roamed a narrow corridor that connected the two continents before they split.
Researchers found more than 260 footprints more than 3,700 miles apart in Brazil and Cameroon that were preserved in mud and silt where ancient rivers and lakes once stood, according to a study published last Monday by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. The tracks were made 120 million years ago, when Africa and South America were still connected as part of a supercontinent called Gondwana, the researchers found.
According to the study, the Borborema Plateau in northeastern Brazil and the Koum Basin in northern Cameroon both contain similar geological structures that preserved dinosaur prints.
The footprints discovered in those areas were similar in age, shape and geological context, said Dr. Louis L. Jacobs, a paleontologist at Southern Methodist University in Texas and the study’s lead author.
It is not surprising to make similar discoveries in regions that were once connected, Jacobs said, but the dinosaur tracks help us understand the geologic history of a region that broke apart millions of years ago.
The paper shows a “specific place at a specific time with specific climatic conditions and environmental conditions” that can help demonstrate how animals may have
Most of the footprints were created by three-toed theropod carnivores, which tended to be bipedal. Some were also made by long-neck sauropods or ornithischians, a diverse superfamily of herbivores, according to Diana P. Vineyard, a research associate at Southern Methodist University and co-author of the study.
“The geology started looking very similar,” Jacobs said. “Even the structures that showed how the continents broke apart were continuous right across from Brazil into Cameroon.”
The team also looked at a paleogeographic model of Earth, which included topography and river valleys present at the time, and a climate model for 120 million years ago. The sediments also contained fossil pollen that was about 120 million years old or older, according to the paper.
The dinosaur tracks help tell the story of our present-day world, Jacobs said.
“Dinosaur tracks tell you things bones won’t,” he said. “It shows how they moved, where they moved, whether they moved alone or with others. It’s a different way of looking at the past because there is different information contained in the footprints.”
Emese Bordy, a sedimentologist at the University of Cape Town who specializes in southern Gondwana’s paleoenvironments and who was not involved in the research, said in an email it was not “unexpected to find” the footprints left behind by theropods dating to this time period.
“While the presence of these types of fossils in this location is not surprising, the fact that
they have been preserved at all remains extraordinary,” said Bordy, who in 2020 published a study about dozens of footprints left by dinosaurs and other creatures in what is now South Africa before Gondwana broke up.
“All geological work is interconnected, and by refining the geological background of this remote area in Africa, the authors help solve a puzzle piece of African Earth history, which contributes to our understanding of Gondwana’s and ultimately the Earth’s history,” Bordy wrote.
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Civil Núm.: BY2023CV04418. Salón: 705. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO, BAJO EL ART. 13 DE LA LEY 118, PROCEDIMIENTO EXPEDITO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: RAMONA VALENTÍN SANTOS INMEDIATOS ANTERIORES DUEÑOS Y/O SUS HEREDEROS DENOMINADOS FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL.
POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Solar con residencia en concreto de dos pisos en la calle estatal PR-867 en el sector El 26 en el barrio de Sabana Seca del término municipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1125.5679 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en una alineación de 13.559 metros con la carretera estatal PR-867; por el Sur en una alineación de 14.196 metros con United States Department of Education; por el Este en varias alineacio-
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Demandados
Civil Núm.: HU2023CV01647. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA).
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: WALTER IVAN MEDINA DIAZ; WANDA IVETTE DIAZ CORTES.
Yo, JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER:
Que el día 17 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Humacao durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 24 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el 1RO. DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en el BARRIO LIMONES del Sector
Poblado Laura de Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, compuesto de TRESCIENTOS CUARENTA Y CINCO PUNTO VEINTICINCO (345.25) METROS CUADRADOS; en lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle El Guano; por el SUR, con Sucesión Inocencio Vega; por el ESTE, con Facundo Isern Moctezuma; y por el OESTE, con Cesaria Arroyo. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 365 del tomo 292 de Yabucoa, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, finca número 5,981, inscripción octava. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción octava (8va.), la cual se cancela parcialmente en la suma de $231.00 para un nuevo principal de $71,019.00 con intereses del mes 1 al 60, al 2.50% anua; del mes 61 al 72 con intereses al 3.50% anual; del mes 73 al 84 con intereses al 4.50% anual; del mes 85 al 96 con intereses al 5.50% anual, del mes 97 al 480 con intereses al 6.375% anual, vencedero el día 1ro. de mayo de
2053. Se modificó además el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta em caso de ejecucion a la suma de $71,019.00, según la escritura número 10, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de marzo de 2013, ante la Notario Público Cristina María Santiago Riutort, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Yabucoa, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, finca 5,981 inscripción novena. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Sector La Laura, Bo. Limones, Km. 1.5, PR 902 Int., Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $64,327.90 de principal diferido, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.375% anual, desde el día 1ro. de mayo de 2023, hasta su completo pago; más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $7,125.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $71,019.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $47,346.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $35,509.50. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad para vender en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que po-
drán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, 7 de agosto de 2024. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO.
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MASSACHUSETTS
MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Demandante Vs. FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE JULIO GOMEZ RODRÍGUEZ; MENGANO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE MARGARITA LEBRON RIVERA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2020CV00016. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 16 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 52-C en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Idamaris Gardens, en los barrios Cañabón y Cagüitas del Municipio de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con la siguiente cabida y colindancias: Cabida de 313.404 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en dos alineaciones que suman 28.902 metros con un área designada para facilidades comunales marcada con el número dos; por el SUR, en 25.00 metros con el solar número 53 de dicho bloque; por el ESTE, en un arco de 10.375 metros con la calle número 22 de dicha Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en 10.50 metros con el solar número 61 de dicho bloque. Enclava en este solar una estructura dedicada a vivienda, construida de hormigón armado y bloques. Consta inscrita al folio 180 del tomo 1148 de Caguas, finca 39762, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Caguas. Propiedad localizada en: Idamaris Gardens, Bloque C-52 Calle 22, Caguas PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por cargas preferentes a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante que se describen a continuación: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de SMN Mortgage Corporation o a su orden por la suma principal de $58,793.00 con intereses a razón del 7% anual y vencimiento el 1 de julio de 2028. Constituida por la escritura 866 otorgada en San Juan el 11 de junio del 1998 ante el notario Radamés Becerra González. Inscrita el 12 de julio del 1999 al folio 184 vuelto del Tomo 1148 de Ca-
guas, finca 39762, inscripción 6ª. CANCELACION presentada al asiento 2024-086476-CA01 se presentó el 29 de julio de 2024 Mandamiento emitido 19 de julio de 2024 por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, en el caso civil número CG2024CV00629, sobre Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado. Por el mismo se ordena la cancelación del pagaré por la suma de $58,793.00; así como la hipoteca que lo garantiza. En adición, en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante que se describen a continuación: AVISO DE DEMANDA radicada el 3 de enero del 2020 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso civil número CG2020CV00016, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; Rushmore Loan Management Services LLC, demandante v. Julio Gómez Rodríguez, su esposa Margarita Lebrón Rivera y la sociedad legal de bienes gananciales compuesta entre ambos, demandados. Por la misma se reclama el pago de $62,675.75, más otras sumas, garantizado con la Hipoteca de la inscripción 7ª precedente. Anotada el 2 de octubre de 2020 al Tomo Digital Karibe de la finca 39762 de Caguas, Anotación “B”. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $99,690.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 23 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $66,460.00 dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $49,845.00 la mitad (1/2) del
precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 30 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024
A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $62,675.75 de principal, intereses al 8.00%, los cuales se acumulan mensualmente hasta el saldo total de la deuda, cargos por mora que continúen acumulándose hasta el saldo de la deuda, más la suma de $9,969.00, todo ello de acuerdo a los términos de la Sentencia dictada, la cual es final y firme. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de agosto de 2024. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.
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Parte Demandante Vs. WILFREDO ORTIZ NAVARRO, SU ESPOSA YOLANDA ORTIZ ROSARIO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES Parte Demandada
solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 21 de agosto de 2024, en Comerío, Puerto Rico. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN I. APONTE FLORES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Demandante Vs. BRUNO LUIS
REYES ILDEFONSO
Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2024CV00757. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte CoDemandada:
BRUNO LUIS REYES ILDEFONSO; A LA SIGUIENTE DIRECCIÓN:
URB. VISTAS DE LUQUILLLO D-17 CALLE V-1 LUQUILLO, PR 00773.
Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $125,135.03 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de marzo de 2024, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.75% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $12,625.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 191, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de marzo de 2023, ante el notario Carlos Martínez Olmo, la finca número 8,322, inscrita al Folio 245 del Tomo
149 de Luquillo, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y 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, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo.
Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 21 de agosto de 2024, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
PETROTEL, INC.
Parte Demandante Vs. GABRIEL PÉREZ ACEVEDO
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00499. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 10 de junio
de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Embargo del 13 de marzo de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 15 de marzo de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2024
A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera PR 1, Intersección PR 189, Kilómetro 0.4, Barrio Bairoa (Entrada norte Pueblo Caguas), al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Mulas de Aguas Buenas identificado como lote “A” con una cabida superficial de siete cuerdas con punto dieciséis ochenta de otra (7.1680) equivalentes a veintiocho mil ciento setenta y tres metros cuadrados con punto dieciséis ochenta y tres de otro (28,173.1683 m/c). En lindes por el NORTE con la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el SUR con Luz Florida Pérez López; por el ESTE con la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el OESTE con la finca principal de la cual se segrega y servidumbre de paso a constituirse. Es segregación de la finca 8237 de Aguas Buenas. La propiedad y la hipoteca constan inscritas al tomo Karibe de Aguas Buenas, Inscripción 3era, Finca 14270. Embargo inscrito en la Anotación “A” al Tomo Karibe de Aguas Buenas. Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta la totalidad de las sumas adeudadas en la Sentencia, las cuales son: $50,000.00 de principal, más intereses por la cantidad de $2,625.00 los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 3.5% anual, más intereses por mora pactados en el pagaré y la cantidad estipulada de $5,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de sentencia, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las
cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de agosto de 2024. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
SUCESION VICTOR
MANUEL VALDÉS
RODRIGUEZ Y SUCESION MARIA
SANTIAGO RIVERA, C/P VICTOR MANUEL VALDÉS SANTIAGO;
SUCESION ALVARO RAMÓN VALDÉS
SANTIAGO, C/P RAMON ALFONSO VALDÉS
CAMACHO, THELMA IRIS VALDÉS CAMACHO, RAMON VALDÉS
CAMACHO, SANDRA ENID VALDÉS CORREA Y ALVARO RAMON VALDÉS CRUZ
Parte Demandante Vs. MARIA ELVIGIA VALDÉS
SANTIAGO, T/C/P
MARIA ELIGIA VALDÉS
SANTIAGO; GLORIA ERNESTINA VALDÉS
SANTIAGO, SUCESION
ALVARO RAMÓN VALDÉS CORREA, C/P ROSE ANNIE
VALDÉS RODRIGUEZ, ALVARO JOEL VALDÉS
RODRIGUEZ, SARAENID VALDÉS CORREA, YARELY VALDÉS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV07308. Sala: 603. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE P.R., SS. A: MARIA ELIGIÓ VALDÉS SANTIAGO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA POR MARIA ELVIGIA VALDÉS SANTIAGO; GLORIA ERNESTINA VALDÉS SANTIAGO; SUCESIÓN ALVARO RAMÓN VALDÉS CORREA, COMPUESTA POR ROSE ANNIE VALDÉS RODRÍGUEZ, ALVARO JOEL VALDÉS RODRÍGUEZ, SARAENID VALDÉS PARSON; YARELY VALDÉS.
Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda sobre Liquidación de Comunidad Hereditaria. Se les emplaza y requiere para que notifiquen a la abogada de la parte demandante: LCDA. MYRNA E. LOPEZ COLON, RUA 8639, COLEGIADA 9897, URBANIZACION VILLA CAROLINA, 127-8, CALLE 71, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00985, TEL. 787-932-5116, myrnaelopezcolon1984@gmail.com, con copia de la contestación a la demanda o cualquier alegación responsiva que proceda en el presente caso sobre Liquidación de Comunidad Hereditaria, dentro del término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del Edicto, apercibiéndose que de no hacerlo así, se dictará sentencia en rebeldía en su contra. Ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual podrá acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/ salvo comparezca por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentarla a la Secretaría del Tribunal de Instancia, Sala de San Juan. Si dejaren de hacerlo o comparecer al pleito, podrá dictarse Sentencia en rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle y/o cualquier otro procedente en derecho, incluido el pago de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Expedido bajo mi firma, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 21 de agosto de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIANA C. PÉREZ SIERRA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
ASOCIACIÓN DE RESIDENTES SAN
GERARDO, INC.
Demandante V. RAQUEL FUENTES
MATTEI POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV01311. (Salón: 803 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MELVYN FONTÁN LOZADAMELVYNFONTAN@GMAIL.COM.
A: RAQUEL FUENTES MATTEL, FÉLIX
ROSARIO RUIZ, AMBOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto 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 23 de agosto de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 23 de agosto de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. KAROLYN RIVERA NAVARRO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. OMAR ENRÍQUE PÉREZ PAGÁN Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SB2024CV00031. (Salón: 0100). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ F. GIRAUD MEJÍASJGIRAUD@MCMLAWPR.COM. RAFAEL FABRE COLÓNRAFAELF@MARYVISA.COM. A: OMAR ENRÍQUE PÉREZ PAGÁN, FULANA DE TAL, SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR OMAR ENRÍQUE PÉREZ PAGÁN Y FULANA DE TAL. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de agosto 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 23 de agosto de 2024. En San Germán, Puerto Rico, el 23 de agosto de 2024. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. SANTA RODRÍGUEZ BONILLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE GESTOR DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.
Demandante V. WILLY SEGURA SENA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2022CV01444. (Salón: 908). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM.
A: WILLY
SEGURA SENA. (Nombre de las partes que se le
notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de agosto de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 26 de agosto de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUCRECIA PAGÁN MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante V. FRANCISCO J. LAZO COVAS Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2022CV09307. (Salón: 908). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.
EDWIN OMAR SERRANO PEÑAEDWIN.SERRANO@ORF-LAW.COM. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: FRANCISCO J. LAZO COVAS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de agosto de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de
circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de agosto de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA
A LOS FINES INLUIR AL SR. FRANCISCO J. LAZO COVAS EN LA NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 26 de agosto de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ANGELA RIVERA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ
LUIS ANTONIO SERRANO RODRÍGUEZ, HILDA ZOE SOTO MATOS
Demandante V. ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION; CITI FINANCIAL SERVICING, LLC.; CITI FINANCIAL SERVICES OF PUERTO RICO, INC.; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MAS CUAL, MAS TODO POSIBLE TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO
Demandado Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV01361. (306). Sobre: PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO DIRIGIDO A LOS CODEMANDADOS: ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION, CITI FINANCIAL SERVICING, LLC., FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MAS CUAL, MAS TODO POSIBLE TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION, CITI FINANCIAL SERVICING, LLC., FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MAS CUAL, MAS TODO
POSIBLE TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante, por conducto de su abogado, LCDA. BARBARA MILAGROS COLON RAMOS con oficina 257 Valles de Añasco, Añasco, PR 00610-9607 y/o LCDO. CARLOS L. SEGARRA MATOS, en 2510 Carretera 100, kilómetro 3.5 de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 00623 y cuyo número de teléfono es el 787851-3582, ha radicado ante este Tribunal una demanda sobre Pagaré Extraviado. Se le apercibe que, si no compareciera usted a contestar dicha demanda, dentro un término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casas (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 secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
LCDA. BARBARA MILAGROS COLON RAMOS RUA: 21276 257 VALLES DE AÑASCO, AÑASCO, PR 00610-9607 787-638-0953 LCDO. CARLOS L. SEGARRA MATOS RUA: 15441 2510 carretera 100, kilómetro 3.5 Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 00623 787-851-3582 clsegarra@yahoo.com
Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 23 de agosto de 2024. LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. ALEXANDRA MARIE LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante MIGUEL NEGRON
GONZALEZ T/C/C LUIS
MIGUEL NEGRON
GONZALEZ POR SI Y EN REP. DE LA SLG COMPUESTA CON IRMA
ANDUJAR SANTIAGO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: TB2023CV00024. (Salón: 702). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE - EJECUCIONES@CMPRLAW.COM.
GUILLERMO A. SOMOZA COLOMBANI - BILLYSOMOZA@ YAHOO.COM.
A: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL Y JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE MIGUEL NEGRÓN
GONZÁLEZ T/C/C LUIS
MIGUEL NEGRÓN
GONZÁLEZ Y LUIS
MIGUEL NEGRÓN
ANDÚJAR, DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de mayo de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ORIENTAL BANK
COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.
Demandante V.
LA SUCESION DE OSWALD LOUIS VERONESE SINTAS Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV03056. (Salón: 702). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. DUNCAN R. MALDONADO
EJARQUE - EJECUCIONES@CMPRLAW.COM.
A: FULANO Y FULANA DE T AL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE OSWALD LOUIS VERONESE SINTAS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de agosto de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 26 de agosto de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
EDWARD JOSEPH FITZGERALD III Y KATHRYN SUSAN
HUBER FITZGERALD
Demandantes Vs. CORPORACIÓN COLÓN PRIETO Y COMPAÑÍA
ASEGURADORA A
Demandada y Demandante contra Tercero Vs. CONSEJO DE TITULARES DEL CONDOMINIO STELLA
MARIS; TIMOTHY PIERSON SLAUSON, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS; PERSONA D; ASEGURADORA XYZ
Terceros Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08480. Sobre: ENTREDICHO PROVISIONAL; INJUNCTION PRELIMINAR Y PERMANENTE; DAŇOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SSS. A: TIMOTHY PIERSON SLAUSON POR SÍ Y COMO PARTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON FULANA DE TAL, CONDOMINIO STELLA MARIS, APTO. 8C, 2 AVENIDA CONDADO, SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO 00907. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
LCDO. ERNIE E. CABAN SANTIAGO Abogado Núm.: 11837 2691 Paseo Anón, Suite 201 2nda. Sec. Levittown Lakes Toa Baja, P.R. 00949 Tel. / Fax. (787) 778-7922
E-mail: lcdo.erniecaban@gmail.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de agosto de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN
JUAN EDWARD JOSEPH FITZGERALD III Y KATHRYN SUSAN HUBER FITZGERALD
Demandantes Vs. CORPORACIÓN COLÓN PRIETO Y COMPAÑÍA ASEGURADORA A
Demandada y Demandante contra Tercero Vs. CONSEJO DE TITULARES DEL CONDOMINIO STELLA MARIS; TIMOTHY PIERSON SLAUSON, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS; PERSONA D; ASEGURADORA XYZ
Terceros Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08480. Sobre: ENTREDICHO PROVISIONAL; INJUNCTION PRELIMINAR Y PERMANENTE; DAŇOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SSS. A: FULANA DE TAL POR SÍ Y COMO PARTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON TIMOTHY PIERSON SLAUSON, CONDOMIO STELLA MARIS, APTO. 8C, 2 AVENIDA CONDADO, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00907.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. LCDO. ERNIE E. CABAN SANTIAGO Abogado Núm.: 11837 2691 Paseo Anón, Suite 201 2nda. Sec. Levittown Lakes Toa Baja, P.R. 00949 Tel. / Fax. (787) 778-7922
E-mail: lcdo.erniecaban@gmail.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA
y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de agosto de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
EDWARD JOSEPH FITZGERALD III Y KATHRYN SUSAN HUBER FITZGERALD Demandantes Vs. CORPORACIÓN COLÓN PRIETO Y COMPAÑÍA ASEGURADORA A Demandada y Demandante contra Tercero Vs. CONSEJO DE TITULARES DEL CONDOMINIO STELLA MARIS; TIMOTHY PIERSON SLAUSON, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS; PERSONA D; ASEGURADORA XYZ Terceros Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08480. Sobre: ENTREDICHO PROVISIONAL; INJUNCTION PRELIMINAR Y PERMANENTE; DAŇOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SSS. A: SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE TIMOTHY PIERSON SLAUSON, FULANA DE TAL, CONDOMIO STELLA MARIS, APTO. 8C, 2 AVENIDA CONDADO, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00907. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic-
tar 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. LCDO. ERNIE E. CABAN SANTIAGO Abogado Núm.: 11837 2691 Paseo Anón, Suite 201 2nda. Sec. Levittown Lakes Toa Baja, P.R. 00949 Tel. / Fax. (787) 778-7922 E-mail: lcdo.erniecaban@gmail.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de agosto de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO AGUAS BUENAS
Parte Demandante V. ARIEL OSVALDO CENTENO TORRES Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01359. Sala: 803. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: ARIEL OSVALDO CENTENO TORRES. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: AGS LEGAL GROUP, LLC Abogados de la parte demandante Lcdo. Ricardo A. Acevedo Bianchi - RUA 20637 Lcdo. José R. González RiveraRUA 13105 Lcdo. Juan A. Santos BerriosRUA 9774 P.O. Box 10242 Humacao, Puerto Rico 00792
Teléfono: (939) 545-4300
Email: rab@agslegaIpr.com o jrg@ agsIegalpr.com POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva, con copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante, dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día su publicación. 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, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el
tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Extendido bajo mi firma y Sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de agosto de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE JUANA DÍAZ ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.
Demandante Vs. CINTHIA L COLON CEDENO
Demandado Civil Núm.: VI2024CV00058.
Salón: 1. 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: CINTHIA L COLON CEDENO - BO JOBITO
CARR. 150 KM 0.5, VILLALBA, PR 00766; 1075 57TH AVE W, BRADENTON, FL, 34207. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan.otero@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA
y el sello del Tribunal, en Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de junio de 2024. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 25 de junio de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. SANTA MELÉNDEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. LUIS A VARGAS LORENZO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AU2022CV00755. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LUIS A VARGAS
LORENZO - HC 60 BOX 12650, AGUADA, PR 00602-9263; 9575 COPPER CANYON LN, COLORADO SPRINGS CO 80925-1500.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en AGUADA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de junio de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
NOEMÍ ROMÁN BOSQUES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.
Demandante Vs. MONICA
MONSERRATE ALVAREZ
Demandado
Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV02884. Salón: 1003. 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: MONICA
MONSERRATE ALVAREZ
- URB HILLSIDE D17 CALLE 3A, SAN JUAN, PR, 00926.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan.otero@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de junio de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 27 de junio de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LAURA C. REYNOSO ESQUILÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. RUBEN MONROIG, ANTONIETTA MONROIG T/C/C ANTONIETTA DE VITO y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ROBERT LOUIS GIAMPA, JUDITH ANN GIAMPA T/C/C JUDITH ANN RUFFALO y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: TA2024CV00920. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ROBERT LOUIS GIAMPA; JUDITH ANN GIAMPA T/C/C JUDITH
ANN RUFFALO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Robert Louis Giampa, Judith Ann Giampa t/c/c Judith Ann Ruffalo y a la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO, se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com), la Lcda. Ashley Anne Clemente Serrano (aclemente@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@ mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación
responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 22 de agosto de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LIRIAM HERNÁNDEZ OTERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. RUBEN MONROIG, ANTONIETTA MONROIG T/C/C ANTONIETTA DE VITO y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES
GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ROBERT LOUIS GIAMPA, JUDITH ANN GIAMPA T/C/C JUDITH ANN RUFFALO y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: TA2024CV00920. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JUDITH ANN GIAMPA T/C/C JUDITH ANN RUFFALO, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES
GANANCIALES QUE ESTA COMPONE - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Judith Ann Giampa t/c/c Judith Ann Ruffalo, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales que esta compone que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TAN-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
TO, se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr. com), la Lcda. Ashley Anne Clemente Serrano (aclemente@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 22 de agosto de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LIRIAM HERNÁNDEZ OTERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. RUBEN MONROIG, ANTONIETTA MONROIG T/C/C ANTONIETTA DE VITO y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES
GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ROBERT LOUIS GIAMPA, JUDITH ANN GIAMPA T/C/C JUDITH ANN RUFFALO y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: TA2024CV00920. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ROBERT LOUIS GIAMPA, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES
GANANCIALES QUE ESTE COMPONE - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Robert Louis Giampa, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales que este compone que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda
por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO, se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr. com), la Lcda. Ashley Anne Clemente Serrano (aclemente@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 22 de agosto de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LIRIAM HERNÁNDEZ OTERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
Se estará realizando una
MENSURA
Sobre una finca localizada en la PR-2, Km 106 en el Barrio Coto del Municipio de Isabela el 13 de septiembre de 2024 a las 8:30 AM
Es imperante localizar a los colindantes de dicho terreno, por lo cual solicitamos que se comuniquen con el agrimensor Alberto Rodríguez Banchs a su número de teléfono 787-645-3539, mediante correo electrónico a: arbanchs@yahoo.com, dirección 1602 Calle Navarra Suite 201 Urb. La Rambla Ponce PR 00730-4052.
Los colindantes del predio de terreno antes mencionado, según información y creencia provista por el propietario son: al Norte, Carmen Delia Ramos Rodríguez, Víctor Mercado, Manuel De Jesús Piñeiro Piñeiro, Alexander Piñeiro Moya, William Piñeiro Piñeiro, Carmen M. Piñeiro Piñeiro; al Sur, Carretera Estatal Número 2, DTOP; al Este, Luis A. Soldevila Ferrer, Leandro Rodríguez Aponte; al Oeste: Morgan Reed Corp., Equis, LLC, PC Puerto Rico, LLC, Sr. Luis González Candelaria.
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Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
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Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
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1. Before, in short
2. "____ help you?"
3. "Inside Your Heaven" singer Bo
4. Opening for a coin
5. Grammy winner Jones
6. House paint varieties
7. Ph.D., for example
8. 2000 Nobelist Kim ___ Jung
9. Paid pitches
10. Kind of truth
11. Thought prefix
12. Machu Picchu's land
13. Warm-up exam for H.S. students
18. Made up
21. Dictionary abbr.
23. Not square
24. Before now
25. Wild ruminant?
26. Sports awards
27. Give ___ (care)
28. Gainesville player
29. CPR provider
31. Ghostly pale
32. Rumba relative
33. Donkey calls
38. Tour of ____
40. Beach souvenir
41. Bag-screening gp.
44. A sibling, briefly
45. Vitamin supplements brand
46. Suffer
49. Congo border river
50. Alley prowler
53. WWII sub
54. Duet
55. See red
Arnaz
70. "Full House" dad portrayer
71. Hot, like a hunk
56. Greek god of love
58. Striplings
59. "The Forgotten" novelist Wiesel
60. Haley or Trebek
61. "Well!"
63. Blvds. and sts.
64. Towing org.
65. "Star Trek: ___"
Cuba Tropicals ice hockey team wins Copa Amerigol in debut
By PHILIP PAINTER Special to The Star hockeypuertorico@gmail.com
The Cuba Tropicals are the Copa Amerigol 2024 men’s ice hockey champions in their international debut.
The motto on Cuba fans’ t-shirts was: “We’re not here to participate -- We’re here to dominate.”
They backed it up. Duro.
Cuba powered through their division, in red and white throwback uniforms reminiscent of another time. Leading the tournament held in Miami in scoring, penalty minutes and fights in the opening round, and eventually taking out 2023 champion Argentina in a double-overtime thriller, the Tropicals defeated last year’s runner-up Greece in the final to win the cup in their first try.
Cuba hoisted the cup in the practice facility of the Florida Panthers, the 2024 Stanley Cup champions, who captured their own first Cup three months ago, playing physical, grind-you-down hockey. Cuba did the same.
“This was our game plan when we were building this team,” beamed Earle Barrington, founder and creator of the nascent Cuban entry; his son Maxwell played a big physical part in the Tropicals’ pedal-to-the-metal game plan. “Play fast and strong, finish every hit.”
His players listened, even though it got difficult, with Cuban fans cheering madly with the pots and pans routinely heard at a Cuban street party.
Cuba’s Brian Brown led league scorers, while Brandon Blair topped the penalty minutes leaders. Goaltender Tyler Terranova, the
finals MVP, backstopped every win, even tallying an assist.
“That’s a play we used at college,” Terranova said on the Hockey TV coverage streamed worldwide.
Terranova played hockey in Alabama. He found out about the Cuban squad on social media last year and got involved immediately.
“I had no idea,” he said. “I quickly found
out how many Cubans play hockey in North America. And how many play well.”
Obviously Cuba, like many other teams, does not have ice or players in their home country, and recruits diaspora living off-island, as do Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico and others.
“Four of our players were born on the island, the rest were scattered around North
Caguas captures National Superior Basketball title
By THE STAR STAFF
The Caguas Criollos became the champions of the National Superior Basketball (BSN by its initials in Spanish) league on Friday night, defeating the Manatí Bears 96-81 at Roger Mendoza Coliseum in Caguas.
“I just thank God for keeping us healthy and leading us here. It is a team effort, from top to bottom,” said Travis Trice after receiving the MVP award. “We have the best franchise, the best managers, the best players and the best fans, who were great for us tonight. Simply grateful.”
The Criollos dominated the seventh game from start to finish. They effectively put Manatí to sleep in the third quarter, outscoring the Bears 26-13 to set up the eventual 15-point margin of victory.
Christian “Cuco” López and Onzie Branch were key on both ends of the court during their team’s first three series victories. On Friday night, two bench players were added to that list, Alexander Kappos and Christian Pizarro, who finished in double figures and had extremely important minutes, helping the Criollos extend their advantage.
Alexander Kappos led the way for
Caguas with 22 points, including four 3-pointers, three rebounds, two assists. Big man Akil Mitchell added another doubledouble to his personal tally with 17 points and 15 rebounds. Louis King finished with 13 points and seven rebounds and Pizarro and Travis Trice scored 11 points each.
For Manatí, Alex Morales finished with 25 points and eight rebounds, followed by Cheick Diallo with a double-double of 12 points and 10 rebounds. Jihvvan Jackson also scored 12 points, while Norris Cole had an offensive night to forget, scoring 10 points on 21% shooting from the field, and dishing out seven assists.
America and beyond,” Bennington noted. “We have brothers here from the Algonquin Native Reservation in Quebec. It really is a look at where Cubans (and all these countries) have migrated in the past 60 years.”
Past winners Argentina, Colombia and Mexico have ice surfaces and roller training facilities. Puerto Rico and Barbados lost their rinks to Hurricane Maria in 2017.
In the pre-Castro era, Havana had the first two ice surfaces in Latin America, the Blanquita and Nacional. Both hosted traveling ice shows and offered public skating. Ice skates could be bought at local sporting goods outlets. There was even a Cuban team in the short-lived Tropical Hockey League, based in Miami in 1938.
They were the Havana Tropicals.
“We knew retaining the original name and logo is part of who we are,” Barrington said. “Winning in Miami makes it real.”
Caribbean Community women repeat as champions
On the women’s side, there was another champion from the tropics, the Caribbean Community (CC) squad. There are 14 countries and territories represented in the CC that have no ice.
It was a repeat of their 2023 title. Head coach and manager Jasmine Miley has been here before; she was captain of the Puerto Rico women’s miracle run in 2021, as was CC goalie Juliana Rodgers. Both won their third Cup.
“The CC gives us a larger talent pool to recruit from: Haiti, Jamaica, Barbados, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans,” Miley said. “We bond together with amistad.”
The Cuba Tropicals used an aggressive, fast-paced game plan in Miami to capture the Copa Amerigol 2024 in their international debut.
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Christian López celebrates after the Caguas Criollos dominated Game 7 from start to finish to defeat the Manatí Bears by 15 points and win the National Superior Basketball championship on Friday night in Caguas.
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