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University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Medical Sciences Campus (RCM by its Spanish initials) incoming chancellor Ilka Ríos Reyes received the support of some 33 faculty members of the Dental Medicine School to occupy the position, according to a letter received by the STAR.
Meanwhile, the father of a minor-aged medical student at the center of a controversy that has caused some sectors of the RCM to reject Ríos, in a sworn statement accused some of the medical school professors objecting to her confirmation of manipulating the truth.
Ríos, who is slated to officially assume the post on Sept. 1, had reached a settlement in July 2022 with the then 15-year-old medical student, who had failed courses and was slated to be expelled, to avoid a lengthy lawsuit against the School of Medicine for failing to provide required assistance the student needed because of her age.
The settlement signed on July 7, 2022, was consistent with a prior one reached with the student in February 2021 by former RCM Chancellor Segundo Rodríguez. As part of the agreement, Ríos authorized the student to drop some of her second year-courses and take three courses, according to documents obtained by the STAR. A document from the registrar said she authorized a process to drop courses and not to change grades.
Ríos has been in hot water over her actions with regard to the student as some professors at the school said it put at risk the school’s accreditation.
Alejandro Franco Fernández, the parent of the minor medical student, said some of the professors at the school promoted actions against his daughter to force her to fail, causing her to seek administrative recourse that went all the way to the school’s presidency.
After the July 7, 2022 settlement agreement was signed, putting an end to the situation with the student, her grades and the school’s inability to help her, he said
three professors, which he identified as Hilton Franqui, Joalex Antongiorgi and Adelaida Ortiz, “created a fictitious crisis, manipulating the truth, abusing their positions and causing damage to my minor daughter and suffering to my wife and myself.”
He said they went to the media for a story that was even published in U.S. mainland newspapers. He said the former interim chancellor, Carlos Ortiz, did not answer any emails seeking to execute the agreement.
“As of today, a year later, the request for compliance of the confidential settlement agreement of July 7, has not been handled,” Franco Fernández said.
Last week, the School of Medicine in a vote asked the UPR governing board, which had confirmed Ríos, to take back its decision arguing that Ríos’ actions put at risk the school accreditation.
Humberto Guiot, a joint associate professor, told the STAR that he convened the meeting, which was attended by some 200 School of Medicine staffers who were concerned about Ríos’ actions.
The STAR received information to the effect that the meeting was originally convened to discuss the medical school’s accreditation and not Ríos’ appointment.
“There was quorum at the start … but at the moment to vote, there were 40 people in Zoom and some 90 in the amphitheater,” a source said.
Two people were killed and another wounded in a shooting by an unidentified assailant in front of the courthouse in Caguas late Tuesday afternoon.
A man and a woman were killed, one said to be a marshal and another a security guard employed by St. James Security. One of the victims was identified
as Ángel Calderón, according to early reports.
The identity of the wounded individual was not reported.
As of press time, a motive had yet to be established, but according to early reports, Ruth Calderón, a sister of one of the victims, said the motive was a dispute over property.
The assailant was arrested at the scene and hustled by officers into the court building.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Tuesday that despite “the fact that they are very late” in approving amendments to the Electoral Code, he will evaluate what, if anything, comes from the Legislative Assembly.
“They are getting later each time, but once again, the ball is not in my court, it is not in the court of the New Progressive Party,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “It really is that what has arisen here is an internal controversy in the Popular [Democratic] Party.”
“It may be that some things have already
been tossed overboard completely. In others, well, if they can be attended to, then they will be attended to,” he added. “We are willing to run the election process under the current Electoral Code. We have said it, we are in the best attitude to improve it. But obviously for that there has to be a negotiation between both parties.”
Pierluisi pointed out that “the vast majority of the amendments that my party agreed to make to the Electoral Code are amendments proposed by the legislators of the Popular Democratic Party; that is, the majority of the amendments.”
“We include some, for example, the age
of 60, that those who are 60 years of age or older can vote in advance, either by mail or at home,” he said. “That comes from us, but there are fewer [amendments] that come from us.”
Pierluisi insisted on staying out of the talks.
“I’m not going to get involved in that,” he said. “I do not have to participate in those conversations that … I imagine [Senate President] José Luis Dalmau and [House Speaker Rafael] ‘Tatito’ Hernández will have with the president of the Popular Democratic Party. It’s their business, but my people are available to help. In other words, when they come with their proposals, then we will attend to them and we will vote in favor or against at the time.”
Montañez said in a written statement.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia withdrew on Tuesday the appointment of Jorge Rafael Rivera Rueda as chairman of the State Elections Commission (SEC) and instead submitted the appointment of Cynthia Enid Irizarry Casiano, but the House of Representatives did not accept it.
“As we have publicly established in recent days, we are open to dialogue to seriously and responsibly consider the appointment to be made to the chairmanship of the State Elections Commission, which is so important for the stability of our electoral system,” House Speaker Rafael Hernández
“We reiterate the call to the Governor to initiate the process of advice and consent, as provided by our current regulations, to reach a consensus around this appointment, as we have achieved on all the occasions that we have sat at the table of dialogue on issues more complex than this,” Hernández Montañez added.
“We will defend, as we have done throughout the four-year term, this institution that shines so much when it protects Puerto Rican democracy, and we will enforce the mandate of the voters who elected the most diverse Legislative Assembly in our history, which resulted in this shared government,” the House speaker said.
The island Justice Department has endorsed Senate Bill 1237, which proposes the creation of the Puerto Rico Human Trafficking Observatory, aimed at establishing a robust public policy to combat all conduct that constitutes exploitation
of persons with the aim of obtaining economic benefit from them.
Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández endorsed the bill through an explanatory memorandum submitted to the upper chamber’s Life and Family Affairs Committee, in which he recommended that the proposed observatory be administered by the Civil Rights Commission.
“The bill seems to us a commendable effort focused on addressing an issue of utmost importance that affects the human rights of citizens, particularly women and minors, worldwide,” the Justice secretary said in the memorandum. “Certainly, the Department of Justice favors any initiative aimed at preventing and combating human trafficking in Puerto Rico.”
“We believe that one of the most effective ways to address human trafficking is from the perspective of the violation of civil rights, which tends to establish a public policy and legislation that safeguards the interests and human rights of the most vulnerable sectors of the population,” Emanuelli Hernández wrote. “Considering the nature of the functions carried out by the Civil Rights Commission and the studies already carried out
by this organization, we recommend that the proposed Human Trafficking Observatory be attached to this Commission. In this way, we believe that the new public policy will be addressed from the most appropriate and complete perspective.”
On Aug. 24, the Justice Department also informed the Civil Rights Commission in writing of state and federal jurisdiction, concurrently, to prosecute cases of human trafficking on the island. In fact, the Prosecutor’s Office is currently litigating a case in the Guayama court.
Because the problem of human trafficking is intimately linked to human trafficking across borders, it was included in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in which the island departments of Justice and Public Safety, the Institute of Forensic Sciences and the U.S. Department of Justice agreed on the mechanism for the referral and handling of these and other cases that are processed concurrently. Under the MOU, which has been renewed since 2010, crimes related to human trafficking under Title 18 of the United States Code are under the primary jurisdiction of the federal government.
Electricity today is almost essential to basic survival -- for refrigerating food, and for powering medical equipment, air conditioning and the overall production and manufacturing of many necessities. When it comes to everyday consumption, it’s not just important to consumers, but also to vendors. Unfortunately, Puerto Rico pays a high price for its electric power -- a whopping 1.299 cents per kilowatt-hour. This price is not only an issue for residents, but also for the small and midsize businesses on the island as well, as they also must pay electricity bills and other expenses. And this is not to mention the blackouts that happen constantly.
As it stands now, the electricity bill is plenty high, but it doesn’t stop there. On Tuesday, United Retailers Center of Puerto Rico (CUD by its Spanish acronym) President Lourdes M. Aponte Rodríguez lamented that unfortunately the increase in the electricity bill will continue to rise just to meet the demands of Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bondholders. Aponte warned that apart from the additional legacy charges, there are also charges regarding the PREPA workers’ pensions that are estimated by the Financial Oversight and Management Board, and which represent a 20% increase in the already skyrocketing power bill.
“Our merchants can only take so much. They are outraged by the situation,” Aponte said at a press conference. “We are dismantling the people and an enterprising sector that moves the economy of the island forward, similar to the pymes [small and midsize enterprises], only to help the PREPA bondholders and pay the pensions that are the responsibility of the government.”
“This is a product of the bad administrative decisions that the government of Puerto Rico has made over the past several years,” she added. “We cannot allow them just to pay for the sinner’s crimes. We can no longer withstand this abuse. The expenses of small businesses in terms of electricity have absolutely no end. It’ll shut down production, employees and services, at a time when it is difficult to pass on the costs to the consumers.”
In other words, the government continues to put a stranglehold on the private sector, the business leader said, and in the current
inflationary economic environment, it is asking too much of customers to pay higher prices when they already have a high cost of living. The CUD president noted further that the current economic conditions also greatly impact the already dire situation of small and midsize businesses. She said many pymes can no longer operate as they used to; hiring is down and dismissals are up, which in turn reduces production and eventually causes the inevitable closure of the company, something that has happened repeatedly across the board in Puerto Rico.
“These decisions don’t benefit the island in the slightest, all they are doing is sucking us dry and eventually we won’t have any more to give,” Aponte said.
Meanwhile, the oversight board may request the rejection of two PREPA collective bargaining agreements in order to cut pension benefits, a status report submitted to the Title III bankruptcy court late Monday said. The oversight board is negotiating with the unions as part of PREPA’s bankruptcy restructuring to reduce pension benefits, which are going to be treated separately. The report says that if no agreement is reached, the board may invalidate the collective bargaining agreements, arguing that the pension funds are underfunded.
“If a consensus on pension treatment is not reached, the oversight board may have to request rejection of two collective bargaining agreements for the limited purpose of altering pensions based in part on the fact that the pension plans are underfunded by billions of dollars,” the status report said.
The oversight board cut bondholder and other creditor recoveries in the third amended plan of adjustment filed Aug. 25.
The CUD president called on Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia to act immediately regarding the determination of the oversight board, which she called nefarious, not only for businesses but also for citizens, and to search for the funds needed to pay the pension costs owed by PREPA, so that neither businesses nor citizens in general are affected. She reiterated that the citizens of Puerto Rico should not sit back with their arms crossed and allow the island to drown in misery.
The press conference was filled with numerous and diverse private sector representatives, one of them being engineer Tomás Torres Placa, the consumer representative on the PREPA governing board.
“This is a 20% increase for the commercial and residential sector and a 22% increase for the industrial sector,” Torres Placa said. “In the end, with these increases the [cost per] kilowatt-hour will be 26.5 cents for some
sectors and for others it’ll be 27 cents per kilowatt-hour. Which would turn Puerto Rico into something other than what it already is.”
He estimated the island’s current annual gross domestic product at close to $114 billion.
“Because of this [electricity cost] increase the economy could change drastically; we would probably have an economy close to Jamaica’s, whose gross domestic product is around $17 billion every year,” Torres Placa said. “We would also have an even greater migration outside of the island because the economy would be focused not on the economic sector but the tourist sector, making us have a smaller economic development. That is why it is imperative to address the adjustment charge by lowering the cost of the electricity bill to 1 cent per kilowatt-hour, thus providing more economic development on the island, and with the economic development that is created, PREPA can cover such costs.”
“There are solutions, but the first thing we must do is attend to the spending that is reflected by the PREPA pensions,” he added. “The [oversight] board actually intends to pass that directly to the consumers with spending of 2.4 cents per kilowatt-hour.”
When asked when the next meeting with the oversight board will take place, Aponte invited members of the press to “come to the commission next Saturday where they will be giving an information dump in terms of the results and the impact the
increase will have on the private sector and the consumers.”
“It will be on that day that the CUD will solicit another meeting with the oversight board,” she said. “They want to show the situation as it is and they have plans and solutions to show to the financial oversight board.”
“The government is already bankrupt, [and] now they are going after us, the private sector,” Aponte said. “This isn’t about complaining; we can complain as much as we want but if we don’t act right now, and quickly, they will bankrupt the private sector as well and we cannot allow this. We need a balance and we need to talk with reality and talk with reality to the people of Puerto Rico.”
“This will affect us for the next 35 years,” the CUD president added. “We have always been willing to work with the government, but unfortunately the government has become an obstacle for the private sector. It’s time for that to stop.”
Ticket vending companies Ticket Center, Ticket Plus, Fastender, Buy a Tix, and several local entertainment producers have sued Ticketera in island court for violating anti-monopoly laws that have resulted in high consumer prices for shows and concerts.
The lawsuit filed Monday -- whose plaintiffs include producers Rafael Muñiz García de la Noceda, Josantonio Mellado Romero, Josantonio Mellado González, Antonio (Tony) Mojena Zapico, Félix Antonio Muñiz García de la Noceda, ORO Entertainment Corp., Edwin Vázquez Ortega, César Sainz Rodríguez, Acisum Group, Inc., Nelson Castro Morales, Rolando Santa Báez and Peter Cruz Pizarro -- contends that Ticketera has 90% of the ticket sales market.
Besides Ticketera, the suit included AEG Management PR LLC, ASM Global Inc., Jorge L. Pérez, TiX.BY LLC h/n/c Ticketera and Manny Morales Lema as defendants.
The lawsuit seeks to obtain compensation for damages and repeal alleged exclusive contracts that Ticketera has with essential concert venues in Puerto Rico.
“Ticketera’s practices have raised concerns about fair competition, repression of the producer class, and limited consumer choice,” explained Roberto Sueiro, legal representative of the group of plaintiffs. “This lawsuit describes the monopoly power and anti-competitive conduct of Ticketera and its impact on the ticket sales market of the entertainment industry.”
Ticketera currently has a market share of more than 90% of ticket sales services for the three main concert halls in Puerto Rico, according to the company’s own admissions in the media, and thanks to exclusive agreements with the co-defendant companies. AEG Management PR LLC (AEG) and ASM Global Inc. (ASM).
The three main halls are the Puerto Rico Convention Center, the Coca-Cola Music Hall, and the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, all owned by the government and managed by the
According to a lawsuit, Ticketera currently has a market share of more than 90% of ticket sales services in Puerto Rico, including for the island’s three main concert halls. One of those venues, José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in Hato Rey, is shown above.
Convention Center District Authority (ADCC by its Spanish initials). The ADCC, a public corporation, granted an exclusive five-year contract to AEG and/or ASM with an automatic renewal of five more years (10 years in total). AEG/ASM, in turn, granted an exclusive contract to Ticketera for the sale of tickets in all the facilities managed by AEG/ASM.
Although Puerto Rico is a small island compared to other regions of the United States, the monopolistic pairing of Ticketera and AEG/ASM occupies 13th place in sales for a main concert hall in the U.S. As a result of the agreement, Ticketera undoubtedly holds a monopoly in the primary ticket sales market for live events in the geographic area of Puerto Rico, the suit says.
“This exclusive agreement for the sale of tickets restricts trade in the market for primary ticket sales services,” the lawsuit reads. “Ticketera’s monopoly power allows it to impose charges for super-competitive services arbitrarily, indiscriminately, and without restriction. These trade entry barriers, coupled with anti-competitive acts, have ensured that Ticketera’s monopoly power is unassailable.”
“Service charges have been strategically and painfully implemented,” Sueiro added. “Ticketera divides its fees into two types of service charges to hide its excessive costs. One cost is for purchasing tickets over the internet and another for the ticket sales service. These charges fluctuate between 20% and 30% of the total cost of the purchase. For example, in the concert of the singer Ricardo Arjona to be held at the Choliseo [José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum], an entrance ticket costs $55.00. Ticketera’s service charges for the sale of the ticket is $11.75, or 21.4% of the total cost of the ticket.”
“There is no real justification for the distinction of these classifications, only doubling the charges,” he said. “The variance in the title of the charge is a smokescreen to tease the consumer.”
The consumer pays the price for the monopoly because the average fan is willing to waive excessive and junk charges to see their favorite artist, the plaintiffs’ lawyer said. Despite the growing complaints from the consuming public over the exorbitant fees that Ticketera imposes on tickets, such fees are inevitable because in the monopoly, there is no other real alternative when it comes to buying a ticket to attend the activity or concert of the artist or event of your choice, which contrasts with markets open to several vending machines where there is competition resulting in lower ticket prices, he said.
“In unrestricted markets, tickets have fewer junk charges,” Sueiro said.
In Puerto Rico, according to the Law of Monopolies and Restriction of Commerce of Puerto Rico, consumers have the right to enjoy the benefits of free and open competition that guarantees the availability of better goods and services at lower prices. The competitive process works when competitors honestly and independently set prices. Price fixing, market allocation, boycotts, and auction rigging, among other forms of collusion, are illegal and subject to criminal and civil prosecution by the Puerto Rico Department of Justice’s Office of Monopolistic Affairs.
By THE STAR STAFF
Dr. Carlos Rodríguez Mateo, head of the Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration (ASSMCA by its Spanish initials), announced on Tuesday the establishment of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Mental Health and Addiction Observatory of Puerto Rico (OSMAPR), which will be in charge of developing a strategic plan focused on preventing substance abuse and promoting mental health among the population, as established in the public policy of Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia.
Rodríguez Mateo noted that the Scientific Advisory Committee was created under Law No. 36 of Aug. 27, 2021, which orders the ASSMCA to create the OSMAPR. The observatory has the mission of collecting and presenting
statistical information at the state, regional and municipal levels, with the purpose of promoting informed decisionmaking for the development of health public policy.
The announcement was made at the conclusion of the first meeting of the members of the committee where, among other topics, the role of each member was discussed, along with the projections of the strategic work plan, as framed by the aforementioned law.
“With this initiative we take another important step on public policy focused on prevention and multisectoral work, from a health perspective, to meet the needs of our communities, and that have an impact on both the mental and physical health of people, as well as the social and economic development of Puerto Rico,” Rodríguez Mateo said. “Through this observatory we are seeing demographically what the trends in addictions are.”
“We’re 3 miles in the Gulf,” she said. “We’ve already been experiencing the tides that come from global warming. We have flooding issues pretty regularly.”
The Big Bend was last hit by Hurricane Hermine, a Category 1 storm, in 2016. The damage was limited, given the small population in the area. One person died. Older storms were far deadlier. A rare winter storm on March 13, 1993, brought rushing Gulf waters into people’s homes. Forty-seven people died, many by drowning. And a deadly 1896 storm known as the Cedar Key Hurricane killed at least 70 people in Florida.
In the warm waters of the Gulf, which set temperature records this summer, forecasters expect Idalia to undergo a process known as rapid intensification Tuesday. The state’s Gulf Coast suffered extensive damage from two other recent storms, Hurricane Ian last year and Hurricane Michael in 2018, that rapidly intensified before striking as major hurricanes, with significant wind speeds and storm surges.
Scientists have shown that hurricanes are likely becoming more powerful because of climate change. And in a warming world, the air can hold more moisture, which means a storm can produce more rainfall, like Hurricane Harvey did in Texas in 2017, when some areas received more than 40 inches of rain in less than 48 hours.
President Joe Biden spoke with DeSantis Monday and approved an emergency declaration for 46 of Florida’s 67 counties before Idalia’s arrival, as warnings about storm surge and hurricane or tropical storm conditions stretched from south of Tampa to the Alabama border.
By PATRICIA MAZZEI, JOHNNY DÍAZ and JUSTIN JONESTropical Storm Idalia, forecast to land in the southeastern United States as the first major hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic season, moved closer to the Gulf Coast of Florida on Monday night, forcing evacuations and rushed preparations across the state’s storm-scarred peninsula.
With memories of Hurricane Ian still fresh, the Category 4 storm that thrashed Southwestern Florida last September and killed 150 people, residents dashed to grocery stores and gas stations and readied their homes for Idalia, expected to hit this morning with winds of up to 120 mph.
“Don’t be complacent. Don’t get relaxed,” Mayor Dan Allers of Fort Myers Beach warned residents during a news conference Monday. The town, situated on Estero Island south of Tampa, bears bomb-like scars from Ian, which made landfall 11 months ago Monday.
Idalia’s track, which the National Hurricane Center predicted would run parallel to Florida’s western coast for much of Tuesday, made it difficult to predict where the storm would come ashore: a little wobble to the east or the west could move the storm’s center from the less-populated region known as the Big Bend toward Tallahassee to the north or Tampa to the south.
“Almost every time they’ve updated this over the last couple of days, they’ve said it’s going to get stronger,” Gov.
Ron DeSantis said. “So buckle up.”
He deployed 5,500 members of the National Guard and said that while emergency utility crews would be ready to fix power lines after the storm, residents across a wide swath of the state should expect to lose electricity.
On Monday, Idalia (pronounced ee-DAL-ya) drenched western Cuba, prompting evacuations in low-lying areas. Forecasters said it could become a hurricane “at any time” as it moved into the Gulf of Mexico, where it could be fueled by abnormally warm waters and “strengthen rapidly” until landfall as a potential Category 3 storm.
Another storm, Hurricane Franklin, also strengthened in the Atlantic Monday, but it was not expected to pose a serious threat to land.
Forecasters said Idalia could cause 8 to 12 feet of storm surge in the Big Bend, a region loosely defined as the area where the north-south portion of the Florida peninsula curves toward the east-west portion of the Panhandle.
In Cedar Key, a conglomeration of tiny islands connected by small bridges in Levy County, about 100 miles up the coast from Tampa, City Commissioner Sue Colson said people who did not want to heed evacuation orders had to prepare for the possibility that the only road in and out of town could be washed out, or that Cedar Key’s 700 homes could be without power, water and sewer service for weeks.
As Monday wore on, county after county along the Gulf Coast ordered evacuations of residents in mobile homes and low-lying areas, and officials opened shelters and closed schools. As far as Jacksonville, in the northeast corner of the state, local officials said they feared that serious rainfall could crest rivers and lead to flooding.
Even if the storm does not directly hit Tampa, which has long been experts’ worst-case scenario along Florida’s Gulf Coast, storm surge during a high tide could be destructive. Between four and seven feet of surge were forecast on Monday for the Tampa Bay area.
“There is a cost to living in a beautiful environment,” said Cynthia Silvestri, 79, a resident of St. Petersburg, south of Tampa, who was planning to leave her home n Tuesday, after finding a handyman to help her and her husband put up storm shutters.
Anticipating major disruptions, Tampa International Airport and St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport said they would close Tuesday, prompting travelers to scramble to change their flights or make other arrangements.
Beverly Cartenuto’s son Albert had his flight into Tampa canceled, and he was rebooked to Orlando, a drive of more than two hours from the family’s home near Sarasota, Cartenuto said.
Her son had left his car at the Tampa airport when he flew out. “Hopefully he parked on a high floor,” she said.
got tired of waiting.”
Local authorities confirmed that Palmeter had worked at a Dollar Tree store in the Oak Leaf area, in Clay County, from October 2021 to July 2022. The sheriff said it was unclear why he had targeted the Dollar General store.
Earlier Monday, schools officials at Edward Waters University said that they believed that the gunman had most likely aimed to carry out the attack there as he parked his car on the campus and donned body armor, gloves and a mask while in the parking lot.
“He could have gone any place in the city, but he came to Florida’s first HBCU first, and so I think you know, circumstantially, we can conclude that this is where he aimed to complete his horrid act,” said the university’s president, Dr. A. Zachary Faison Jr.
Waters said Monday afternoon that he did not believe the university was a target.
In the fallout of the shooting, Faison Jr. said that students on campus were “having a really hard time,” adding that they were afraid and that there was a lot of apprehension.
“This has rocked our community,” he added.
Part of the aftermath has been outrage directed at Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who has been at odds with the Black community in Florida for months and who has come under fire for rejecting the curriculum of an Advanced Placement class on African American studies and for rewriting African American history courses.
By ANNA BETTS and NICHOLE MANNATwo days after a gunman killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, in a racially motivated attack, and as grief and anger reverberated through the community, new details about the gunman’s writings and the timeline of events continued to emerge.
On Saturday, the gunman, identified by authorities as Ryan Christopher Palmeter, 21, from neighboring Clay County, used an AR-15-style rifle that bore swastika markings to kill two shoppers and an employee before killing himself.
At the time of the shooting, his family found a last will and testament and a suicide note in his bedroom as part of more than 20 pages of racist writings, Sheriff T.K. Waters of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said over the weekend.
On Monday, ABC News, citing a transcript of an FBI conference call it had obtained, reported that Sherri E. Onks, special agent in charge of the FBI’s field office in Jacksonville, told state and local law enforcement that the bureau had identified several documents that included “racist writings and rants that depict a
hatred toward African Americans, as well as other groups.”
“One of the primary themes throughout the writings is a belief in the inferiority of Black people,” Onks said, according to ABC News. “And there’s also evidence that he harbored antiLGBTQ+ and antisemitic grievances.”
In a news conference Monday afternoon, Waters said the gunman’s writings indicated that he was acting alone and seemed to indicate a broader focus for his rage.
“He didn’t like government, he didn’t like left or right,” Waters said. “He didn’t like anything.”
It was previously reported that Palmeter was held for involuntary psychiatric evaluation in 2017, when he was 15, and that a year earlier the police received a domestic violence call involving him and his brother. On Monday, those police reports were released.
The documents from 2017 reveal that he had left his family home one day and refused to return. The document says that he left a note indicating that he had left the residence to commit suicide.
He was eventually located by his mother and brought back home. Upon arrival, a police officer spoke to Palmeter, who said that he had planned “to climb the Bank of America tower and jump off of it.”
Based on these statements, the officer took Palmeter into custody and held him for a 72-hour psychiatric evaluation.
At the news conference Monday, Waters gave more details about Palmeter’s actions Saturday before the shooting, with new surveillance footage showing him entering a Family Dollar store before he stopped at Edward Waters University, a historically Black university, and before the deadly shooting that occurred just after 1 p.m. at the Dollar General.
“It looks like he wanted to take action at the Family Dollar,” Waters said. “And he did not because I think he got impatient,
DeSantis announced Monday that he would award $1 million through the Volunteer Florida Foundation to Edward Waters University to “bolster campus security,” as well as $100,000 to the families of the three victims.
In response, state Rep. Angie Nixon, a Democrat who represents Jacksonville, urged the governor to “reckon with the damage he has caused, to apologize for the harm he has inflicted and to actively work towards undoing the racist system he’s helped uphold and grow.” The governor was widely condemned at a protest march Monday night.
The protest came a day after DeSantis was heckled and booed at a prayer vigil for the three victims.
As authorities continue to piece together the timeline of events, the local community is reckoning with what led up to the deaths of the three victims, who were identified as Angela Michelle Carr, 52; Anolt Joseph Laguerre Jr., known as A.J., 19; and Jerrald De’Shaun Gallion, 29.
On Monday, Bishop John Guns of St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Jacksonville, where Gallion was part of the congregation, said in an interview that Gallion had been committed to doing the right thing.
He said Gallion had been a dedicated father who was “finding his way into church, he was doing the best he could, and he’s taken away because someone decided that Black lives don’t matter,” Guns said. “For someone to kill a stranger because of how they look outwardly, that is the epitome of evil.”
In the community there is anger, Guns said, but also exhaustion.
“I pastor on the north side of Jacksonville, so it’s a community that has at times seemingly been left out and ignored or treated inadequately,” he said. “I’ve seen it all. I’ve seen a lot. I’ve witnessed a lot of death.”
“We’re burying our future,” he added.
Afederal judge earlier this week set a trial date of March 4 in the prosecution of former President Donald Trump on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, rebuffing Trump’s proposal to push it off until 2026.
The decision by Judge Tanya Chutkan to start the trial March 4 amounted to an early victory for prosecutors, who had asked for Jan. 2. But it potentially brought the proceeding into conflict with the three other trials Trump is facing, underscoring the extraordinary complexities of his legal situation and the intersection of the prosecutions with his campaign to return to the White House.
The district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, has proposed taking Trump to trial on charges of tampering with the election in that state on March 4 as well. Another case, in New York City, in which Trump has been accused of more than 30 felonies connected to hush-money payments to a porn actor in the run-up the 2016 election, has been scheduled to go to trial March 25.
And if the trial in Washington lasts more than 11 weeks, it could bump up against Trump’s other federal trial, on charges of illegally retaining classified documents after he left office and obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them. That trial is scheduled to begin in Florida in late May.
The March 4 date set by Chutkan for the federal election case at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington is the day before Super Tuesday, when 15 states are scheduled to hold Republican primaries or caucuses.
Chutkan said that while she understood Trump had both other trial dates scheduled next year and, at the same time, was running for the country’s highest office, she was not going to let the intersection of his legal troubles and his political campaign get in the way of setting a date.
“Mr. Trump, like any defendant, will have to make the trial date work regardless of his schedule,” Chutkan said, adding that “there is a societal interest to a speedy trial.”
While Chutkan noted that she had spoken to the judge in the New York case, it remained unclear how the judges, prosecutors and defense teams would address the problem of scheduling four criminal trials next year as Trump is campaigning.
Hammering home the complexities, Chutkan’s decision came the same day that Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff and a co-defendant in the Georgia indictment, testified in his bid to move his case to federal court, a step that could slow down at least some of the proceedings there.
Before a federal judge in Atlanta, Meadows argued that his actions in the indictment fell within the scope of his duties as chief of staff, even while saying often that he could not recall details of events in late 2020 and early 2021. He is one of several defendants trying to move the case; any ruling on the issue could apply to all 19 defendants.
After Chutkan’s decision in Washington, Trump said in a social media post that he would appeal, though it was not clear what grounds he would be able to cite, given that scheduling decisions are not generally subject to challenges to higher courts before a conviction is returned.
The former president has made no secret in conversations
with his aides that he would like to solve his uniquely complicated legal woes by winning the election. If either of his two federal trials is delayed until after the race and Trump prevails, he could seek to pardon himself after taking office or have his attorney general dismiss the matters altogether.
In remarks from the bench, Chutkan, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, dismissed arguments made by Trump’s lawyers that they needed until April 2026 to prepare for the trial given the voluminous amount of discovery they will have to sort through. That extended period, the judge said, was “far beyond what is necessary” to prepare even for a trial of this magnitude.
As part of the hearing Monday, John Lauro, a lawyer for Trump, previewed some of his defense case, identifying several motions that he and his colleague, Todd Blanche, planned to file on Trump’s behalf.
Lauro said he could file a motion as soon as next week arguing that Trump was immune to the charges, given that the indictment against him covers a period when he served as the nation’s commander in chief.
Lauro also said he was considering attacking the charges with a selective prosecution motion. That motion, he said, would argue that Trump’s election interference indictment — brought by a special counsel appointed by the Biden administration — had been filed at least in part as retaliation for the federal investigation of Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, which began in earnest during the Trump administration.
Moreover, Lauro told Chutkan that he was planning to
challenge each of the three conspiracy counts in the indictment brought against Trump early this month by the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith. Those counts accuse Trump of plotting to defraud the United States, to disrupt the certification of the election at a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, and to deprive people of the right to have their vote counted.
“In our view, this is a political prosecution,” Lauro said.
Still, the issues surrounding the schedule of the trial took center stage at the 90-minute hearing, which Smith attended.
Prosecutors working for Smith have said in court papers that the government could take four to six weeks to present its case to the judge, with Trump’s lawyers estimating a roughly similar amount of time.
That timetable would push the trial well past the March 25 date that Justice Juan Manuel Merchan has set for the New York trial and could edge close to or even beyond the May 20 date set for Trump’s federal trial in Florida.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg signaled recently that he would be open to seeing the trial date for the New York case moved, provided Merchan agreed.
Lucian Chalfen, a spokesperson for the New York court system, said in a statement: “Justice Merchan and Judge Chutkan spoke last Thursday regarding their respective upcoming trials. At this time, there is nothing further to impart regarding the People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump.”
A spokesperson for Bragg declined to comment, as did a spokesperson for Fani Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia.
tained and had burned 2,170 acres. The county also reported that two other fires were also almost completely contained: the Olinda fire, which burned 1,081 acres and was 85% contained, and the Kula fire, which consumed 202 acres and was 90% contained.
Hawaiian Electric quickly became the focus of the wildfires on Maui as evidence pointed to its equipment as the cause, angering some who criticized the company for the poor condition of many of its electrical poles and for failing to use the kind of power shut-off program that California utilities have adopted for fire prevention.
Until its statement late Sunday, Hawaiian Electric had left a lot unsaid. The company largely spoke of efforts to restore power in Maui County, where it provides electricity to about 74,000 of its almost 500,000 customers across five of the state’s islands.
The Lahaina fire began about 6:37 a.m. Aug. 8, near Lahainaluna Road on the hill above the downtown, according to the county lawsuit. It was fueled by strong winds that swept violently down from atop Haleakala, a heavily forested, mountainous area known as “Upcountry.”
“We had almost like a wind tunnel,” Rudy Tamayo, vice president of energy delivery for Hawaiian Electric, said in an interview last week before this reporter rode with utility crews working to restore power in the area.
It was those winds that Hawaiian Electric said had knocked down power poles and lines in Lahaina, causing the earlymorning fire. About 6:40 a.m., the power went out, the utility said.
By IVAN PENNEven before the inferno that engulfed the Maui resort of Lahaina is fully contained, local officials and Hawaii’s leading utility are at odds over a fundamental question: Did a single fire break out in the hills overlooking the town on the fateful day, or were there two?
The answer may be crucial to establishing the cause of the disaster and the liability for it.
The utility, Hawaiian Electric, acknowledged for the first time late Sunday that its power lines, buffeted by uncommonly high winds, fell and ignited a fire early on the morning of Aug. 8.
But the company said that by 6:40 a.m. — minutes after the first reports of a fire — the windstorm had caused its lines in the area to shut off automatically. And it noted that the fire was later reported “100% contained” by the Maui County Department of Fire and Public Safety, which left the scene and later declared that the fire had been “extinguished.”
And Hawaiian Electric said its lines were carrying no current by the time flames erupted in midafternoon and quickly consumed much of downtown Lahaina and killed at least 115 people. The cause of that fire, the utility said, “has not been determined.”
That account — referring to a “morning fire” and an “afternoon fire” — was a rejoinder to a lawsuit filed Thursday by Maui County, which criticized the utility for negligence in failing
to maintain its equipment and accused it of not cutting off the electricity. The lawsuit followed several others filed by lawyers for wildfire victims.
“We were surprised and disappointed that the County of Maui rushed to court even before completing its own investigation,” Shelee Kimura, president and CEO of Hawaiian Electric, often referred to as HECO, said in statement responding to the Maui County lawsuit. “We believe the complaint is factually and legally irresponsible.”
John Fiske, a lawyer representing Maui County in the lawsuit, said Monday that the burden remained with the utility to show that its equipment was not responsible for the devastation, given the recognition that the day appears to have begun with a fire caused by power lines. The lawsuit refers to a single Lahaina fire, along with two fires elsewhere on the island.
“To the extent HECO has information of a second ignition source, HECO should offer that evidence now,” Fiske said. “The ultimate responsibility rests with HECO to de-energize, ensure its equipment and systems are properly maintained, and ensure downed power lines are not reenergized.”
Fire investigators with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are working to determine the cause of the fires that burned through the town on Maui’s west side. The agency, which includes members of its National Response Team from Honolulu and Seattle, declined to comment Monday about the status of its investigation.
Maui County reported that the Lahaina fire was 90% con-
“The windstorm caused the power to ‘trip,’ meaning it shut off automatically,” said Jim Kelly, a spokesperson for the utility. “Hawaiian Electric didn’t shut it off manually.”
The potential threat of winds to equipment has been a concern of Hawaiian Electric, which noted in an Integrated Grid Planning Report in May that it was evaluating wind speed design policies. The utility said it had designed structures to withstand wind loads consistent with the standards prescribed in the National Electric Safety Code for 2002.
Jennifer Potter, a former commissioner on the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission who left the agency in November, said upgrades to the electric grid throughout the state should have been made long ago.
“This tragedy should be a wake-up call to the rest of the utilities across the country,” Potter said.
The west side of Maui is powered by three high-voltage transmission lines, a mix of metal and wooden poles that feed into two substations and the poles and wires that connect to homes and businesses.
Hawaiian Electric intends to carry out a number of upgrades, Kelly said, like replacing copper wires with less-brittle aluminum, making poles more fire-resistant, installing sensors and cameras to detect equipment problems, and adding more automatic shut-off mechanisms.
It could be some time before the Lahaina substation gets full repairs, as little plumes of smoke continued to waft from a burn area next to it, with some embers still smoldering.
Equal-weighted exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have attracted record investments in recent months as signs of an improving U.S. economy and towering valuations of megacaps push investors to look for bargains in traditional economy-linked sectors.
An equal-weighted version of an index assigns uniform weight to each constituent regardless of its size, unlike market capitalization-based indexes where bigger companies tend to have an outsized influence.
A dizzying tech rally this year, fueled by optimism over artificial intelligence and hopes that the U.S. Federal Reserve is nearly done raising interest rates, has left money managers increasingly cautious about the euphoria surrounding megacaps.
As a result, investing in equal-weighted ETFs that provide a more diversified approach and offer exposure to old economy-linked sectors such as energy and manufacturing are coming back in favor as investors look to broaden their exposure beyond Big Tech.
Laura Cooper of BlackRock said the company’s “highest conviction call” in the United States is the S&P 500 equalweight.
“Cyclically tilted sectors, that have been lagging more recently, have started to tick higher on soft landing hopes,” said Cooper, a senior macro investment strategist for iShares EMEA at asset manager BlackRock.
“We are seeing disinflation trend persist in the U.S. alongside indicators that suggest that the Fed is likely near the end of their hiking cycle.”
The $42-billion Invesco S&P 500 equal-weighted ETF, which mirrors the performance of the S&P 500 equal-weight index, saw inflows of $8.80 billion from the beginning of June through Aug. 25, according to Refinitiv Lipper data.
In comparison, the much larger $402-billion SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, which tracks moves in the market cap weighted S&P 500, bled $10.88 billion during the same period.
The fund shed about $4 billion in July, its biggest outflow in five months.
“People are clearly allocating to equal-weighted tracker because they think the tech rally has gone too far and they are not comfortable with such concentration in the Magnificent Seven,” Dan Boardman-Weston, CEO at BRI Wealth Management, said.
Shares of Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Google-parent Alphabet, Tesla and Facebook-owner Meta Platforms, the so-called “Magnificent Seven”, have soared this year, prompting concerns about risks from over-concentration.
They represent more than a quarter of the S&P 500’s market value.
Invesco S&P 500 equal-weighted ETF drew $4.85 billion inflows in June, the most since the fund was launched in 2003, followed by $3.53 billion in July, the second highest
on record.
That compares with inflows of $352.9 million in June and outflows of $32.36 million in July in the fund, just a year earlier.
The appetite for diversifying portfolios has improved since June as signs of falling inflation and a resilient U.S. economy raised hopes that the Fed will be successful in bringing inflation under control without triggering a recession.
The Direxion Nasdaq 100 equal-weighted index shares
fund, which has over $800 million in assets under management, has seen inflows of $213.4 million from June to Aug. 25.
That is shaping up to be the best three-month performance of the fund in more than a year, indicating investor preference for smaller tech companies.
For the equal-weighted indexes to continue their outperformance, stocks outside of the trillion-dollar club will have to shine.
“Equal weight needs energy, financials and healthcare to have a chance to push it ahead as we approach year-end,”
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian mercenary chief who died in a plane crash last week, has been buried in a private ceremony in St. Petersburg, his press service said Tuesday, ending days of speculation over how he would be laid to rest.
The announcement on the Telegram messaging app came as a surprise. Hours earlier, the Kremlin said it had no information about Prigozhin’s funeral except that President Vladimir Putin would not attend.
Prigozhin’s funeral “took place in a private format,” his press service said. “Those wishing to say goodbye can visit the Porokhovskoye cemetery” in St. Petersburg.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Porokhovskoye cemetery was being heavily guarded by Russian police, riot police and national guard members, who did not allow people to enter, suggesting the lengths the state has gone to to keep the public mourning for Prigozhin at a minimum.
Details about Prigozhin’s funeral, including the date and whether members of the public would be allowed to attend, were unclear for days. Rumors had swirled about ceremonies at other cemeteries, though Porokhovskoye had not been mentioned, and police had cordoned off some of them and set up metal detectors at the Serafimovsky
Cemetery, where Putin’s parents are buried.
The secrecy reflected the sensitivities surrounding Prigozhin, a longtime ally of Putin who launched a failed mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership in June. He was killed along with nine others, including top leaders of his Wagner private military company, in the crash of a private jet northwest of Moscow last Wednesday.
Prigozhin had received the Hero of Rus-
sia designation, one of the Russian military’s top honors, which generally accords special burials, including an honor guard and a military band.
The confusion was in line with the murky details about the crash. Its cause remains unclear, but U.S. and Western officials believe it was prompted by an explosion on board. Many Western officials have said they think it is likely Putin may have played a role
in having Prigozhin killed as retribution for the mercenary chief’s short-lived mutiny in June.
After the crash, Russian authorities released the plane’s flight manifest, showing the names of the 10 people who were supposed to be on board, and said that all aboard had been killed. That left room for days of speculation about whether Prigozhin was really on the plane.
The deaths were not officially confirmed until Sunday, when Russian investigators said that genetic testing showed that the victims of the crash matched the names on the manifest.
Wagner’s logistics chief, Valery Chekalov, who was also on the plane, was buried Tuesday morning in Northern Cemetery in St. Petersburg, in a ceremony that was not publicized in advance. Several hundred people came to pay their respects.
Some analysts speculated that Russian authorities were seeking to avoid a public outpouring of support for Prigozhin and his top lieutenants.
“It seems that the authorities, as expected, want to avoid a spontaneous rally in memory of the top leadership of Wagner and to do so, have imposed a fog around the burial place,” Farida Rustamova, an independent journalist, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
President Joe Biden will host President Rodrigo Chaves of Costa Rica at the White House on Tuesday as their countries try to rein in a surge of migration in the Western Hemisphere.
Biden and Chaves, who was elected last year, will also discuss economic ties and job creation, administration officials said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the meeting.
The Biden administration’s plan to stem illegal migration in the United States involves cracking down on asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border while working with Central American nations, such as Costa Rica, to develop ways for migrants to apply for protection closer to their home countries.
Costa Rica recently agreed to build two centers where migrants can be processed for such legal protections without crossing the border. About 38,000 migrants from Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala have registered for legal protection through the program. More than 2,000 of those applicants have been referred to the U.S. refugee program. Chaves is hoping the sites will relieve pressure on his
nation’s asylum system as well. Costa Rica, a popular tourist destination, has struggled to handle the number of migrants fleeing violence in Nicaragua and Venezuela.
More than 270,000 migrants were in Costa Rica seeking protection by the end of 2022, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. As the nation struggled with the surge, Chaves enacted various restrictions on the nation’s asylum system, including a 30-day time limit for migrants to apply for asylum as well as stringent rules for issuing work permits.
The number of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border increased in July after a sharp drop the previous month. The more than 99,500 crossings in June was a 42% drop from May, which the Biden administration attributed to a new asylum rule that set a higher bar for a migrant to be eligible to apply for asylum in the United States. Crossings, however, increased to more than 132,000 in July.
The White House considers Costa Rica one of the strongest democracies in a region that has slipped toward authoritarianism in recent years. Chaves, who promised to upend the Latin American political establishment and big business, attended Biden’s Summit of the Americas, which was snubbed by other key nations in the region, includ -
ing Mexico. Biden also hosted a summit for democracy in March with leaders from the Netherlands, South Korea and Zambia.
But Chaves has also initiated attacks against journalists investigating accusations of sexual harassment and financial misconduct, using executive powers to restrict their outlets of revenue. During his campaign last year, he also tried to minimize a World Bank investigation into sexual harassment allegations against him.
Laura Marqués has never been much interested in soccer. She doesn’t watch the Spanish league games or know the names of the players. She didn’t even watch the Spanish women’s team win the World Cup final this month. But after the president of Spain’s soccer federation forcibly kissed one of the players during the medals ceremony, setting off a momentous national debate about feminism, equality and abuse, soccer is all she has been thinking about.
“We’ve been talking about soccer a lot this week,” Marqués, a 26-year-old lawyer, said as she walked in downtown Zaragoza with a friend. She said she considered the unwanted kiss an alltoo-common act of casual aggression, an abuse of power by an authority figure and a shameful eclipsing of the women’s moment of glory by the country’s stubborn, if fading, culture of machismo, the often ingrained sense of masculine pride and entitlement.
“Everything that happened showed what the players have been complaining about for a long time, and nobody believed how serious it was,” she said. “It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
The celebratory and nonconsensual kiss on the lips that Luis Rubiales, president of Spain’s soccer federation, pressed on Jennifer Hermoso, one of the team’s star players, has come to embody the generational and cultural fault line between deep traditions of machismo and the more recent progressivism that has put Spain in the European vanguard on issues of feminism and equality. Some commentators have taken to calling it Spain’s #MeToo moment.
On Monday, Spanish prosecutors said they had opened a preliminary investigation into whether Rubiales, 46, could be charged with committing a crime that could constitute sexual aggression. The group he leads, the Royal Spanish Football Federation, called on him to resign. In a statement after meeting for hours Monday to discuss the issue, it cited “the unacceptable behaviors that have seriously damaged the image of Spanish football.”
Against the politically charged backdrop of recent Spanish elections that largely rejected the nostalgic and anti-gender identity politics of the chauvinistic far right, Spain’s establishment is clearly picking a side. Leading politicians on the left and right, the country’s top cultural figures and even an increasing number of voices from within the machismo culture of Spanish soccer have rallied to support Hermoso — who said she felt like a “victim of aggression” after a nonconsensual and sexist act — and to condemn Rubiales, who has decried “false feminism,” described himself as the victim of a “social assassination” and insisted Hermoso initiated the exchange.
“What happened last week was an epochal moment that will have important repercussions,” said Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán, a professor of political sciences at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She said the immediate condemnation of Rubiales — even by members of Spain’s main conservative party — reflected how far the country’s feminist movement had come. She noted that in the last 20 years, Spain had been a pioneer in gender and equality legislation.
In 2004, it recognized domestic violence as explicitly gender-based violence, and in 2022, after a horrific gang rape, the government passed a law that classifies any nonconsensual sex as rape.
The backlash to the kiss by Rubiales, Martínez-Bascuñán said, showed that the country had no intention of backsliding.
Martínez-Bascuñán said the incident presented “a magnificent opportunity” for Spain’s feminists and progressives to reveal and change the sexism in even the most male-dominated institutions. She said that there was a “generational and gender-based” fault line but that most Spaniards understood why the kiss was inappropriate, and those who did not understand “were not the majority at all.”
Indeed, the denunciation of the kiss, videos and photographs of which proliferated in Spanish social media and across the country’s newspapers and television screens, came from across the political spectrum.
Pedro Sánchez, the country’s acting prime minister and leader of the Socialist party who bet big, and successfully, on his own record of progressive and feminist upheavals in last month’s elections, said that the kiss was “unacceptable” and the subsequent apology by Rubiales was “not enough.”
Irene Montero, the acting minister of equality, described the kiss as “sexual violence,” a statement that prompted Rubiales to threaten to sue her and other left-wing politicians for defamation.
Spanish society has erupted, seizing on the incident as a major moment of reckoning for its clubby and often sexist soccer culture. More than a dozen female players rebelled last year, long frustrated with unequal pay; what they considered overly harsh and controlling treatment by their current coach, Jorge Vilda, including allegations that he rifled through their personal belongings; and a general culture of sexism.
Many were kicked off the team and missed the World Cup, but one of those players, Lola Gallardo, told the newspaper El País on Monday that it was worth the pain of missing the glory. “Ideas are ahead of a medal,” she said.
The entire team and dozens of other players signed a joint statement late Friday saying they would not take the field to play for Spain “if the current managers continue.”
On Saturday, some of the members of the team’s coaching staff resigned, condemning Rubiales’ defensive response to the incident. Two of the women who signed the resignation letter sat in the front row at a Friday news conference where Rubiales announced he would not step down. They later said that they had been told to sit there in a forced show of support but did not say by whom.
The players are seeking to end the days of machismo in Spanish soccer and seal it with Rubiales’ kiss.
El peticionario, Bacardi Corporation, cuya dirección postal es PO Box 363549, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-3549, representado por la Sra. Magaly Feliciano, Safety Quality and Sustainability Lead, ha solicitado al Área de Calidad de Agua (ACA) del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) la renovación del permiso de operación, UIC-84-17-0087, para tres (3) sistemas de inyección subterránea (SIS) Clase VII, bajo las disposiciones del Reglamento para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (RCIS) y la Ley Federal de Agua Potable Segura, según enmendada 42 USC 300f et seq. (LFAPS).
Los SIS consisten de tres (3) tanques de retención (SIS-002, SlS-003 y SIS-004) para el almacenamiento de melaza, cuyas capacidades de almacenajes son 2,500,000, 2,500,000 y 1,800,000 galones, respectivamente. Los referidos SIS están ubicados en Bacardi Corporation, localizado en la Carretera PR- 165, Km 6.2, Cataño, Puerto Rico.
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The United States and China agreed on Monday to hold regular conversations about commercial issues and restrictions on access to advanced technology, the latest step this summer toward reducing tensions between the world’s two largest economies.
The announcement came during a visit to Beijing by Gina Raimondo, the U.S. commerce secretary, who is meeting with senior Chinese officials in Beijing and Shanghai this week.
The agreement to hold regular discussions is the latest move toward rebuilding frayed links between the two countries, a process that had already begun during three trips in the past 10 weeks by senior U.S. officials: Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and John Kerry, the president’s climate envoy.
“I think it’s a very good sign that we agreed to concrete dialogue and I would say, more than just kind of nebulous commitments to continue to talk, this is an official channel,” Raimondo said in an interview after four hours of negotiations with China’s commerce minister, Wang Wentao.
Raimondo said Monday night in Beijing that she had an “open” and “pragmatic” discussion with Wang, and that she had raised the American business community’s concerns about China’s recent actions against Intel and Micron Technology, two semiconductor companies in the United States. The Chinese government has scuttled a large acquisition planned by Intel and has blocked some sales in China by Micron this year.
She said two separate dialogues would be established: One would be a working group that included business representatives
and would focus on commercial issues. The other would be a governmental information exchange on U.S. enforcement of its export controls.
Bilateral talks about trade, technology and other economic issues were once the norm between the United States and China, but those discussions have atrophied in recent years. China halted eight bilateral discussion groups a year ago in retaliation for a visit to Taiwan by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, DCalif., who was House speaker at the time.
The flight of a Chinese spy balloon that traveled across the United States last winter and was then shot down over the Atlantic Ocean only deepened divisions between China and the United States, and resulted in Blinken‘s initially canceling a trip to Beijing.
But relations have begun to thaw as both nations, whose economies are tied to each other, have opened the door to resuming diplomatic ties.
After the meeting, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said in a statement that Wang had expressed serious concerns about U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports, as well as the Biden administration’s efforts to bolster the U.S. semiconductor industry by providing government subsidies. Wang criticized those new subsidy programs, which are designed to lure manufacturing to the United States, as “discriminatory,” and he expressed concerns about U.S. sanctions on Chinese companies.
China is willing to work with the United States to create a sound policy environment for business cooperation between the countries, he told the U.S. side, according to the readout.
Even before Raimondo traveled to China, Republican lawmakers criticized her for planning a “working group” of U.S. and Chinese officials to discuss U.S. export controls. Four senior Republicans contended in a letter last week that it was “deeply inappropriate for our foremost adversary to have any influence over controls on sensitive U.S. national security technologies that the American people charged her to protect.”
Raimondo announced the new dialogue not as a working group, but as an “information exchange.” She said that it had been set up to share more information about U.S. export restrictions on advanced technology, but that the group’s creation did not mean the United States would be compromising on issues of national security. The first meeting of the export enforcement group was scheduled to take place in Beijing on Tuesday.
A senior Commerce Department official who was not authorized to speak publicly said that U.S. officials in the export enforcement group would discuss with their Chinese counterparts how regulations are enforced, but not which products are covered or how the policies are made. Enforcement has been a difficult issue for the two countries, partly because it involves having U.S. officials conduct inspections in China.
China had halted such inspections for roughly two years, but in the past eight months has allowed more than 100 such checks to proceed, the official said. The inspections of facilities in China are aimed at ensuring that the most advanced American technologies aren’t being diverted to the Chinese military or security services. Last week, the Commerce Department announced that 27 Chinese companies had passed such checks and were again allowed to import advanced technology.
Raimondo also said she and the Chinese commerce minister had agreed to meet with
each other at least annually.
He Weiwen, a former Chinese Commerce Ministry official who is now a trade specialist at the Center for China and Globalization, a Beijing research group, said the bilateral agreement to have more discussions showed a mutual commitment to pragmatism.
“It means that both sides share the approach to solve practical issues,” he said.
But in a sign of how politically fraught relations with China remain, plans for a formal dialogue structure between the two countries drew criticism from some China hawks in the United States.
Matt Turpin, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution who was China director of the National Security Council during the Trump administration, described the move as a “real head scratcher.” He pointed to China’s unwillingness to take action to stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States, its alliance with Russia and its hacking of Raimondo’s email account before the trip as reasons China did not deserve such outreach.
“It seems that Raimondo gave a significant concession to Beijing and got nothing in return,” Turpin said.
U.S. officials conveyed the concerns of American businesses and investors, including unfair requirements faced by foreign businesses and a declining transparency in China’s economic statistics. China suspended the release of youth unemployment data this month after the figure reached a record high this summer.
Raimondo said she had spoken to nearly 150 business leaders in preparation for her trip and that they had given her a common message: We need more channels of communication.
“A growing Chinese economy that plays by the rules is in all of our interests,” she said.
As the Chinese economy has faltered this summer, Chinese officials have begun softening their stance on some issues. In the latest measure, the Foreign Ministry announced Monday that starting Wednesday, travelers to China would no longer need to test themselves first for COVID.
Michael Hart, the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, said there had been a change in direction from Chinese officials this summer, with an increased willingness to hold discussions.
“It used to be at every meeting I went to, the first five minutes were ‘Everything is America’s fault,’” Hart said. “It’s definitely toned down now. Government officials understand the importance of U.S.-China trade.”
Recently Dr. Peter Hotez, a leading vaccine scientist and a frequent target of anti-vaxxer harassment, expressed some puzzlement in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. He noted that many of those taunting him were also “big time into bitcoin or cryptocurrency” and declared that “I can’t quite connect the dots on that one.”
OK, I can help with that. Also, welcome to my world. If you regularly follow debates about public policy, especially those involving wealthy tech bros, it’s obvious that there’s a strong correlation among the three Cs: climate denial, COVID-19 vaccine denial and cryptocurrency cultism.
I’ve written about some of these things before, in the context of Silicon Valley’s enthusiasm for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. But in the light of Hotez’s puzzlement — and also the rise of Vivek Ramaswamy, another crank, who won’t get the GOP nomination but could conceivably become Donald Trump’s running mate — I want to say more about what these various forms of crankdom have in common and why they appeal to so many wealthy men.
The link between climate and vaccine denial is clear. In both cases, you have a scientific consensus based
on models and statistical analysis. But the evidence supporting that consensus isn’t staring people in the face every day. You say the planet is warming? Hah! It snowed this morning! You say that vaccination protects against COVID? Well, I know unvaccinated people who are doing fine, and I’ve heard (misleading) stories about people who had cardiac arrests after their shots.
To value the scientific consensus, in other words, you have to have some respect for the whole enterprise of research and understand how scientists reach the conclusions they do. This doesn’t mean that the experts are always right and never change their minds. They aren’t, and they do. For example, in the early stages of the COVID pandemic, top health officials opposed widespread masking, but they reversed course in the face of persuasive evidence, because that’s what serious scientists do.
You can understand how the person in the street might not get what scientific research is all about. But you might think that businesspeople, especially those who’ve made money in technology, would appreciate the value of research and technical expertise. And many do.
But there are forces working in the opposite direction. Success all too easily feeds the belief that you’re smarter than anyone else, so you can master any subject without working hard to understand the issues or consulting people who have; this kind of arrogance may be especially rife among tech types who got rich by defying conventional wisdom. The wealthy also tend to surround themselves with people who tell them how brilliant they are or with other wealthy people who join them in mutual affirmation of their superiority to mere technical drones — what the tech writer Anil Dash calls “V.C. QAnon.”
So, where does cryptocurrency come in? Underlying the whole crypto phenomenon is the belief by some tech types that they can invent a better monetary system than the one we currently have, all without talking to any monetary experts or learning any monetary history. Indeed, there’s a widespread belief that the generationsold system of fiat money issued by governments is a Ponzi scheme that will collapse into hyperinflation any day now. Hence, for example, Jack Dorsey’s 2021 declaration that “hyperinflation will change everything. It’s happening.”
Now, I’m quite willing to admit that monetary economics isn’t as solid a science as epidemiology or climatology. And yes, even noncrank economists argue about some big issues much more than their hard-science counterparts.
But economics nonetheless is, as John Maynard Keynes wrote, “a technical and difficult subject” — one on which you shouldn’t make pronouncements without studying quite a lot of theory and history — although “no one will believe it.” Certainly, people who think they understand
climate better than climatologists and vaccines better than public health researchers are also likely to think they understand money better than economists and to believe in each case that experts telling them that the world doesn’t work the way they think it does are engaged in some kind of hoax or conspiracy.
Sure enough, much of the recent turmoil in the crypto industry has had economists wondering: Didn’t these people look into the theory and history of bank runs? And the answer, of course, is that they didn’t think they needed to.
True, there have always been wealthy cranks. Has it gotten any worse?
I think it has. Thanks to the tech boom, there are probably more wealthy cranks than there used to be, and they’re wealthier than ever, too. They also have a more receptive audience in the form of a Republican Party whose confidence in the scientific community has collapsed since the mid-2000s.
So, in answer to Hotez, the dots are indeed connected. Anti-vax agitation and crypto enthusiasm are both aspects of a broader rise of know-nothingism, one whose greatest strength lies in an intellectually inbred community of very wealthy men.
GUAYNABO – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi
Urrutia dijo el martes que todavía no están en el momento para tener la flota del Departamento de Seguridad Pública con vehículos híbridos y/o eléctricos.
“En su momento, gradualmente nos iremos moviendo. La flota del gobierno se irá moviendo a vehículos eléctricos, vehículos híbridos. Pero eso es un proceso gradual. No necesariamente hay disponibilidad de ese tipo de vehículo para la necesidad que tenemos. Realmente hemos comprado una cantidad enorme de vehículos hasta el momento, y es lo que le debíamos a los policías de Puerto Rico que tengan mejores condiciones de trabajo y mejores equipos del país”, dijo el gobernador a preguntas de la prensa.
Al preguntarle por qué comprar vehículos que consumen tanta gasolina, Pierluisi Urrutia insistió que “bueno, eventualmente, como yo digo, nos iremos moviendo a vehículos híbridos. Vehículos eléctricos son más costosos inicialmente, pero es correcto lo que tú dices en cuanto a mantenimiento, pues posiblemente es más barato, salvo
cuando ya se agota la batería o tienes que hacer un cambio de batería. Pero yo no tengo reparo alguno a ir transformando la flota del gobierno para que sea una verde y así será. Lo que pasa es que estas cosas no ocurren de un día para otro y necesita la policía estar bien equipada. Y hoy nos estamos ocupando de eso”.
Por su parte, el secretario del Departamento de Seguridad Publica, Alexis Torres, mencionó que, por lo que conoce, el estado de Nueva York está en proceso de evaluar si utilizar vehículos híbridos y/o eléctricos les
resulta costo-efectivo.
“Tomando en consideración el tiempo de respuesta que no se vaya a afectar”, expresó.
Torres visitó, con la directora de la Administración de Servicios Generales, Karla Mercado, Nueva York para ver los vehículos disponibles y evaluar la posibilidad de comprarlos para Puerto Rico.
Sus expresiones se dieron durante la entrega de vehículos adicionales para el Negociado de la Policía. Mientras, el comisionado del Negociado de la Policía, Antonio López dijo que “estos nuevos vehículos serán utilizados para complementar las estrategias del Plan Integral de Seguridad del Gobierno de Puerto Rico. Tanto la rama investigativa como la operacional del Negociado de la Policía, recibirán la asignación de los vehículos, con el propósito de darle continuidad a las investigaciones criminales, así como los componentes de prevención. El compromiso del gobernador para que mis policías tengan las herramientas necesarias y garantizar la seguridad de nuestro pueblo es uno firme”.
Las unidades que se comienzan a entregar desde hoy son 311 Jeep Compass 4×4, 204 Hyundai Elantra, 198 Dodge Charger y 204 Ram Pick Up 4×4.
EL CAPITOLIO – La vicepresidenta del Senado y presidenta de la Comisión de Juventud y Recreación y Deportes, Marially González Huertas, denunció en una vista pública que las federaciones no incluyen sanciones ante conductas de hostigamiento sexual o de índole similar.
“En una búsqueda rápida de artículos de prensa, constaté el reclamo de los atletas de que las ligas o federaciones no incluyen en sus reglamentos sanciones ante conductas de hostigamiento sexual, desconocimiento de qué procedimiento seguir para denunciar y órdenes de alejamiento. Como parte de la labor de esta comisión y la rama legislativa, nos aseguraremos de que no se viole derecho alguno de los ciudadanos, y en este caso los atletas”, destacó González Huertas.
Estas expresiones surgen durante una vista pública para atender el Proyecto del Senado 1194 que busca establecer la “Ley deportiva de protección contra el acoso y hostigamiento sexual en Puerto Rico”, así como establecer deberes y responsabilidades al gobierno central y a entidades deportivas para su cumplimiento.
Actualmente, existen tres casos de hostigamiento sexual, pero el director del Instituto Puertorriqueño para el
Desarrollo del Deporte y la Recreación, Juan García Rivera, en representación del secretario del Departamento de Recreación y Deportes (DRD), afirmó que ya están resueltos. La agencia consultó con la policía estos tres casos, pero los padres de las víctimas realizaron las querellas pertinentes. Además, agregó que están a favor de la medida, puesto que están en contra del hostigamiento sexual, tipificado en el código penal y reglamentado en el DRD.
Asimismo, señaló que, para evitar la contratación de ofensores sexuales, todos los entrenadores deben tener licencia, pues para obtenerla deben ser verificados para confirmar que no figuren en la lista de ofensores sexuales en Puerto Rico. También, realizan talleres virtuales para los padres de atletas para que se mantengan pendientes a cualquier cambio o situación que noten.
“Las federaciones cuentan con reglamentos los cuales proveen protecciones tomando acciones cuando se dan este tipo de abusos. De igual manera el DRD, mediante su ley habilitadora busca la protección de toda población las cuales le servimos mediante el deporte y la recreación”, lee la ponencia de Recreación y Deportes.
Por su parte, la presidenta del Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico (COPUR), Sara Rosario, comentó que entiende necesario este proyecto, pues tener un deporte seguro
es tarea urgente para todos.
“Para impactar de manera positiva la protección de nuestros atletas y de la población alrededor, entendemos necesario establecer esta ley con estrategias de aplicación real, educación y promoción sobre la medida, así como la implementación de políticas y procedimientos dentro de toda la comunidad deportiva”, lee la ponencia del COPUR.
Senadora cuestiona que federaciones no tengan sanciones ante conductas de hostigamiento sexual en reglamentos
“En su momento”, dice el gobernador comprarán los vehículos híbridos o eléctricos para el Gobierno
Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” was a big hit last year, but what will that story look like through Sofia Coppola’s lens? The “Lost in Translation” and “Marie Antoinette” director puts her spotlight on Elvis Presley’s wife with “Priscilla,” featuring Cailee Spaeny as teen bride Priscilla Presley and “Euphoria” star Jacob Elordi as the singer. Ava DuVernay has adapted Isabel Wilkerson’s book “Caste” for her new film, “Origin,” which stars Oscar nominee Aunjanue Ellis in an examination of racism and systemic oppression. And though Michael Mann has secured a guild exemption that would allow the cast of “Ferrari” to promote it in Venice, I’m curious whether his new film’s press-shy lead, Adam Driver (as racer-turned-car-magnate Enzo Ferrari), is willing to do a fullblown media blitz for the movie, which hot indie studio Neon is releasing in theaters Christmas Day.
Two years after the release of his Oscar-winning breakthrough “Drive My Car,” director Ryusuke Hamaguchi returns to the festival circuit with “Evil Does Not Exist,” which originated as a dialogue-free short and became a feature-length film about ecological collapse. And two months after releasing his feature-length “Asteroid City,” t director Wes Anderson is opting for something shorter with “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” a 37-minute Roald Dahl adaptation for Netflix.
Harmony Korine premiered his biggest film, “Spring Breakers,” at Venice back in 2012, and he’ll return with the mysterious “Aggro Dr1ft,” which stars rapper Travis Scott and was shot solely using infrared photography. He’s not the only director taking chances: Pablo Larraín, director of “Jackie” and “Spencer,” has set the divas aside for a moment to make “El Conde,” a black-and-white supernatural fable that re-imagines Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a bloodsucking vampire.
By KYLE BUCHANANAyear ago, the Venice Film Festival had enough star power to put even celebrity-worshiping Cannes on notice. Highlights were quickly beamed all over the world, including the notorious “Don’t Worry Darling” kickoff that fueled endless speculation about the film’s director, Olivia Wilde, and her stars Florence Pugh and Harry Styles; the news conference where an unexpectedly sagacious Timothée Chalamet predicted imminent societal collapse; and the tearful Brendan Fraser comeback that began on the Lido and culminated in his best actor Oscar win.
But without all of those celebrities, can Venice still go viral?
The 80th edition of the festival, which begins Wednesday, will be significantly affected by continuing strikes by the Screen Actors Guild (or SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America, since the actors’ union has instructed its members not to do press for any studio movies until the strike against those companies is resolved. That puts Venice in a bind, as it is regarded as one of the best places for Hollywood to unveil starry awardsseason titles. Few major actors will even be permitted to attend this year.
The actors’ strike has already cost Venice its original opening-night film, Luca Guadagnino’s sexy tennis romance, “Challengers,” since MGM delayed it from September to spring in
the hopes that its lead, Zendaya, will be allowed to promote it several months from now when the strikes might be resolved. (A low-profile Italian film is opening instead.) And I’ve heard of a few more starry fall films that were earmarked for Venice but opted for the Telluride Film Festival instead, since that event is less driven by the photo ops and news conferences that are no longer feasible in Italy.
Despite some of those trims, the Venice lineup is still enticing, with an auteur-heavy list featuring directors nearly as famous as their leads. And Venice has proved before that it can adapt to unfavorable limitations: Amid the pandemic in August 2020, the festival opted for a smaller, partly open-air edition that went on to premiere the eventual winner of the best picture Oscar, “Nomadland.”
This year’s program includes two films about assassinsfor-hire: David Fincher’s new thriller, “The Killer,” stars Michael Fassbender, and Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man” features “Top Gun: Maverick” breakout Glen Powell, who also served as a co-writer. I’m curious about the off-kilter comedy “Poor Things,” directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Favourite”) and starring Emma Stone as a sexually curious Frankenstein’s monster. Ditto “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s second directorial effort, after “A Star Is Born.” He’s cast himself as composer Leonard Bernstein, opposite Carey Mulligan as Bernstein’s wife, Felicia, and his decision to wear a prosthetic nose has already set off controversy.
And then there are the chances that Venice itself is taking when it comes to three auteurs: It is premiering “Dogman” from Luc Besson, who was accused of sexual assault but cleared by prosecutors; “The Palace” from Roman Polanski, who was convicted of unlawful sex with a minor but fled before he could be sentenced; and “Coup de Chance” from Woody Allen, who has denied sexual abuse accusations by Dylan Farrow, his adopted daughter.
Venice will also serve as an elegy of sorts for director William Friedkin, who died this month and whose final film, naval drama “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” will premiere posthumously on the Lido. Adapted by Friedkin from the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel by Herman Wouk, it stars Jake Lacy and Kiefer Sutherland.
Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 26 de agosto de 2023
The Apple TV+ series “Invasion” is about aliens attacking Earth, but Season 1, which arrived almost two years ago, took some time getting to … you know, the invasion. It was fine and dandy to meet a bunch of people around the world as they faced weird happenings, but where were the creatures, the cool spaceships, the explosions?
“I was certainly conscious that it wasn’t going to be like a lot of other alien-invasion films and television shows that are sort of rock ’em, sock ’em,” Simon Kinberg, the series co-creator (with David Weil) and showrunner, said recently.
To fine-tune the show’s distinctive mood, he reached back to his experience as a producer on “Logan,” the unexpectedly melancholy film that concluded the Wolverine trilogy in 2017.
“We really slowed that movie down and focused it on drama and relationship,” Kinberg said. “While they weren’t used to the pacing of a movie like ‘Logan,’ audiences were moved and emotionally engaged — with also action and superpowers, the same way that ‘Invasion’ has supernatural mystery.”
Season 2, which premiered last week, picks up four months after Season 1 ended, and Earth is in a bad way. Deadly ink-black creatures are rampaging, and familiar characters are engulfed in the apocalyptic chaos. The brainiac Mitsuki (Shioli Kutsuna), for example, is getting over her grief by engaging in guerrilla warfare against the aliens. In that same span, the well-to-do homemaker Aneesha (Golshifteh Farahani) has further accelerated her transformation into a ruthless survivor.
While the action has amped up, the new season also explores a quasi-psychedelic dimension, most spectacularly after Mitsuki is whisked to the wreckage of a spacecraft downed in Season 1. There, an egomaniacal entrepreneur (Shane Zaza) leads a team that is trying to communicate with a nebulous extraterrestrial presence.
“You realize that it’s not just the war, but it’s also trying to understand the mechanics of the thinking of this alien,” Alik Sakharov, who directed four episodes of the new season, including the premiere, said in a video chat.
A huge science-fiction fan, with “Deadpool,” “The Martian” and several Marvel Cinematic Universe entries on his resume, Kinberg, 50, spoke in a video call from his home in Los Angeles about his preference for an unconventional approach to sci-fi in the show. He also teased a connec-
For “Invasion,” now in its second season, Simon Kinberg, the show’s co-creator and showrunner, said he wanted to blend “something really epic with something really intimate.”
tion between that mysterious black shard and a certain Jedi weapon. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
Q: The alien-invasion subgenre tends to offer either action-driven, “War of the Worlds”-type stories or more philosophical narratives like “Arrival” or “Contact.” Why did you try to combine both approaches in the show?
A: What was exciting to me was creating a new type of tonal template for a science-fiction show, and specifically an alien-invasion story, where you are combining something really epic with something really intimate, something that’s very supernatural and science fiction with something that’s very human and dramatic. I actually pitched the show to Apple as “War of the Worlds” combined with (Alejandro González Iñárritu’s) movie “Babel.” So as you said, “Arrival,” “Contact” and, for me, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” was a huge influence — those are very grounded, much smaller. But I also love telling stories on a big scale, having worked on superhero movies, the “Star Wars” universe, and I wondered what would happen if you could combine the two of them.
Q: In Season 1, the aliens crawling over Earth were lethal shape-shifting beasties. That was bad enough, but they are even worse now.
A: Yeah, we called them the worker aliens in Season 1. We see a few of them in Season 2, and they are evolved or enhanced into the hunter-killer aliens. They are organic,
they are bioengineered — so they’re both organic and inorganic.
Q: At the end of Season 1, we’re told that the aliens are “terraforming.” So they’re involved in some big project?
A: Absolutely. They’re not here to simply kill us — killing us is a byproduct of just wanting our land. It is like most invasions for territory, whether it’s humans invading other humans or aliens invading humans. They’re invading our planet for resources, and they’re just clearing the way so they can have it.
Q: Mitsuki, Caspar (Billy Barratt) and Luke (Azhy Robertson) all have a special relationship with the aliens. Why these three?
A: I remember reading or hearing from people that they didn’t know why these different parallel stories were being told in Season 1, that it felt arbitrary. Season 2 starts to really show what the connections are between these people. We chose them because they are special or touched. I really believe that some people do have ESP, some people have different kinds of, let’s call them powers. There would be people in our midst that are sort of vibrating at a different frequency — and it would be the frequency that the aliens are operating on.
Q: Why are you making the main characters gradually gravitate toward each other?
A: I think that the core of the show is “Can we make connections with other people in time?” The real ticking clock of the show for me isn’t “Are we going to develop weapons that are strong enough to kill the aliens?” That’s not really what the show is about.
Q: Is that why the story plays off the concept of the hive mind?
A: The idea is that, ultimately, our advantage as humans is that we’re able to create community — which you can call a hive mind — whether it’s the internet or cheering for the same sports team or nationalism. You have people that may share a political cause or a love for something or a love for one another as a family. Within that, you have the thing that we inherently bring to any situation, which is our individually unique perspective. And I think that type of individual heroism, when combined with other people, is what makes us able to survive, let alone hopefully overcome a technologically superior race.
Q: In Season 1, Aneesha and her children find a mysterious black alien shard that, of course, surfaces again in Season 2. What can you tell us about it?
A: The shard is something really powerful. I really grew up a “Star Wars” kid, and I thought about the kyber crystals that make the lightsabers. I was always fascinated about where they came from, and so the shard is my sort of kyber crystal for the show.
Q: What do you want viewers to get out of “Invasion” as Season 2 gets underway?
A: It has the peanut butter and jelly that are my favorite elements of my favorite science fiction: You really get to go on a big ride with people you care about.
Alate-summer wave of coronavirus infections has touched schools, workplaces and local government, as experts warned the public to brace for even more COVID-19 spread this fall and winter.
Hospitalizations increased 24% in a two-week period ending Aug. 12, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wastewater monitoring suggests a recent rise in COVID infections in the West and Northeast. In communities across the United States, outbreaks have occurred in recent weeks at preschools, summer camps and office buildings.
Public health officials said that the latest increase in COVID hospitalizations is still relatively small and the vast majority of the sick are experiencing mild symptoms that are comparable to a cold or the flu. And most Americans, more than three months after the Biden administration allowed the 2020 declaration calling the coronavirus a public health emergency to expire, have shown little willingness to return to the days of frequent testing, mask wearing and isolation.
But for Americans who have become accustomed to feeling the nation has moved beyond COVID, the current wave could be a rude reminder that the emerging New Normal is not a world without the virus.
“We’re in almost the best place we’ve been in the pandemic since it began,” said Michael T. Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. “But we are caught in the very uncomfortable area of having left the fog of the pandemic war and trying to understand what the sunrise on a normal post-COVID world looks like.”
In cities across the country, the remnants of coronavirus restrictions still remain, even if they are no longer observed. Retail stores may have signs in the windows requesting that patrons wear masks, but no one inside is wearing them. Years-old stickers asking customers to stand 6 feet apart in line are faded, worn and ignored. The occasional storefronts in major cities advertise free COVID-19 testing, though the spaces inside are empty.
And the virus is still disrupting work, school and politics: A COVID outbreak tied to a City Council meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, this month left more than a dozen people infected, including council members, city employees and at least one reporter. One of the people who tested positive for COVID, Freddie O’Connell, a City Council member who is in a Sept. 14 runoff election for mayor, said it was a stark reminder that the virus had once again taken hold in the community.
“All year long, there have been many COVID spikes in my personal network, but it hasn’t felt like this, where all of a sudden we’re back to events that we used to hear about in 2020, where suddenly dozens of people in one fell swoop all get it,” O’Connell said in an interview from his home, where he had been marooned for a five-day quarantine. “I haven’t really had to think about the phrase ‘superspreader event’ in a long time.”
As students have returned to school in recent days, most administrators have signaled that they are not planning to return to stricter rules surrounding masks and testing, typically only asking parents to keep their children home when they are sick. In Chicago, where COVID-related hospitalizations are still extremely low but
have crept up in recent weeks, the public school district promised to provide free rapid COVID tests to students and staff but did not intend to resume testing in schools.
Even in the face of rising COVID infections, there is a balance that should be struck in schools now, said Hedy Chang, the executive director of Attendance Works, a national group that promotes solutions to chronic absenteeism.
“We got trained to stay home for every sign of illness during the pandemic,” she said. “We actually have to shift norms again, to being judicious and thoughtful about when we keep kids home, and only keeping them home if we think it’s truly a problem.”
Dr. John M. Coleman, a pulmonary and critical care doctor at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said he expected COVID infections to continue to increase this fall and winter, but he noted that the most recent strains of the virus were less severe than those that circulated early in the pandemic.
People who are hospitalized for COVID now tend to have preexisting conditions or suppressed immune systems that make them more susceptible to severe symptoms, he said.
“Moving forward, we have to learn
to live cohesively with COVID,” Coleman said. “COVID is always going to be around.”
Particularly for people who already have health risks, he said, it is crucial to receive the new booster this fall, wash hands frequently and wear a mask if feeling unwell. Throughout the summer, public health officials have stressed prevention and treatment in the face of an increase in cases. The Cambridge, Massachusetts, health department said in a statement this month that it saw outbreaks at nursing homes in the city and urged the public to stay up-to-date on vaccinations.
But some institutions have responded to the recent increase in COVID infections by reinstating pandemic-era rules.
In keeping with an order from the health department in Los Angeles County, the movie studio Lionsgate recently sent a memo to staff members informing them that because of a COVID outbreak among employees, they would be required to wear masks in the office again. (The health department notified the studio Friday that because it had reported no new cases, the requirement was lifted.)
Morris Brown College, a small private school in Atlanta, announced this month that it would require face masks on campus again. The school banned parties and large gatherings on campus for two weeks and said that temperature checks would be administered to students.
The Dane County, Wisconsin, jail suspended all outside visits after 49 prisoners tested positive for COVID, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office announced last week.
And in a few, isolated parts of the country, it can feel as if the pandemic never left.
Louise Tsinajinnie, a spokesperson for the Navajo Nation Parks and Recreation, said that in her office in Window Rock, Arizona, employees still wear masks at their desks.
The Navajo Nation was hit especially hard by COVID during the pandemic, she said, and cases have been on the rise again.
“Many people feel that they don’t want to get sick again,” she said. “It’s a real concern on the Navajo Nation. We do worry about our elders and we don’t want this impacting them.”
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Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION FLOR MARIA
MATOS LUGO T/C/C
FLOR M. MATOS T/C/C
FLOR MARIA MATOS DE CARLE COMPUESTA
POR CARLOS ENRIQUE CARLE MATOS, FLOR JOSEFINA CARLE MATOS, RAFAEL
TOMAS CARLE MATOS, LUIS CARLE MATOS, MARIA JESUS CARLE MATOS; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV06718.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE
DEMANDADA, AL (A
LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso
de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 18 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS
11:00 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 trece (13) del bloque CL radicado en la Urbanización Highland Park, situada en el Barrio Sabana Llana de San Juan, con una cabida superficial de Quinientos Cuarenta y Nueve punto Cincuenta y Ocho (549.58) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el Norte, en una distancia de veintiuno punto ochenta (21.80) metros, con los solares números ocho (8), nueve (9) y diez (10); por el Sur, en una distancia de catorce (14.00) metros, con la calle DL; por el Este, en una distancia de treinta (30.00) metros, con el solar número catorce (14); por el Oeste, en una distancia de treinta y uno punto veintinueve (31.29) metros, con el solar número doce (12). Enclava una edificación. Inscrita al folio 216 del tomo 154 de Sabana Llana, finca 6,835, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca 6,835 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V, inscripción 9ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. HIGHLAND PARK, 733 CALLE CIPRE, SAN JUAN, PR 00924. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga:
N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento:
N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $273,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 8 de junio de 2084. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas
cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $182,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 25 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $121,333.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $91,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 2 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 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 $170,461.41 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $25,550.75 en intereses acumulados al 31 de agosto de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 2.70% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $7,467.82 en seguro hipotecario; $5,705.00 en tarifas de servicio; $758.00 en seguro; $525.00 de tasaciones; $380.00 de inspecciones; $995.00 de adelantos pendientes, para un total de $211,842.98. Además, la parte demandada adeuda el equivalente del 10% del balance de principal original como cantidad líquida para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son líquidas y exigibles. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se
notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de agosto de 2023. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SAN CARLOS
MORTGAGE LLC.
Parte Demandante V. LUIS RUBEN MONTAÑEZ MONTES
Y ELIZABETH MARIE
MALDONADO RUIZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: KCD2015-0596. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada, LUIS RUBEN MONTAÑEZ MONTES Y ELIZABETH MARIE MALDONADO RUIZ y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 10 de abril de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: : 6-E Calle Las Palmas, Urb. Paseo del Prado, San Juan PR 00926 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar Marcado con el número 6 del Bloque E de la Urbanización Paseo del Prado situada en el Barrio Cupey Alto de Rio Piedras, del término municipal de San Juan Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 453.48 metros cuadrados, en lindes: por el NORTE en una distancia de 28.00 metros, con
el Solar 5 del Bloque E; por el SUR, en una distancia de 28.00 metros, con el Solar 7 del Bloque E; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 16.89 metros en arco con los solares 15 y 14 del Bloque E; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 15.50 metros en arco con la calle 3. Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto para fines residenciales. Finca 14,655 folio 201 del tomo 449 de Rio Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i)
HIPOTECA En garantía de un pagare a favor de Scotiabank de PR, o a su orden, por la suma de $507,491.00 interés al 4.50% anual y vencedero el 1 de octubre de 2040, según consta de la escritura número 38, otorgada en San Juan, el 29 de septiembre de 2010, ante notario Myrna Torres Santiago, inscrito al folio 60 del tomo 645 (Agora) de Rio Piedras Sur, finca 14655, inscripción 8va. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 31 de enero de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad adeudada y vencida ascendiente a $474,798.23 perteneciente al principal, más los intereses acumulados a partir de 1 de julio de 2014, recargos por demora, que continuaran acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda o reinstalación, más cargos por demora; más adeudos de sobregiro en la a cuenta de reserva y los que se venzan desde esa fecha en adelante hasta su total y completo pago, otros cargos, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cantidad asegurada por intereses vencidos acumulados y en cantidad asegurada por adelantos, según pactado y de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $507,491.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subas-
ta, o sea, $338,327.34. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 4 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023,
A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $253,745.50. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en
posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de agosto de 2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandate V.
MORALES SANTIAGO
Demandados
Civil Núm.: YB2019CV00164.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 10 de febrero de 2023 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $34,772.73 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 18 de octubre de 2019, y publicada mediante edicto en el Periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 25 de octubre de 2019, vendiendo en pública subasta la propiedad que se describe a continuación: #Urbanización Santa María K20 Calle Dlucas, Yabucoa, Puerto Rico 00767.
URBANA: Solar marcado con el #K-20 del plano de inscripción del Proyecto Santa María, radicado en el Barrio Calabazas del término municipal de Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 216.00 METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar #K-21, en
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.
Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, 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 sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de julio de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 20 de julio de 2023.
F/ Alexis J. Carlo Ríos, Juez Superior. Grismilda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Idalisse Sáez Ortiz, Secretaria Servicio a Sala.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE TOA ALTA EN TOA
BAJA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. JAVIER M
CANABAL A VILES
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NÚM. TA2022CV01331
SALÓN 402 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: JAVIER M
CANABAL AVILESURB TOA LINDA F16
CALLE 4, TOA ALTA PR 00953.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.
Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en TOA ALTA EN TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de julio de 2023. En Toa Alta en Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, el 18 de julio de 2023. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional. Amalyn Figueroa Nieves, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. JUAN C
BERMUDEZ CORDERO
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NÚM. UT2022CV00565
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO. A: JUAN C
BERMUDEZ CORDEROPO BOX 1705, UTUADO PR 00641.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted
deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box
71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico
00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO
MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Utuado, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de julio de 2023. En Utuado, Puerto Rico, el 18 de julio de 2023. Diane Álvarez Villanueva, Secretaria. Yamaris Estronza Maldonado, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE HATILLO
WILMINGTON SAVINGS
FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED
SECURITIES
ACQUISITION TRUST
2018-HB1
Demandante Vs. SUCESION CARMEN
DOLORES MERCADO
ROSADO T/C/C
CARMEN D. MERCADO
ROSADO T/C/C CARMEN
MERCADO ROSADO
T/C/C CARMEN DOLORES
MERCADO T/C/C
CARMEN D. MERCADO T/C/C CARMEN
MERCADO COMPUESTA
POR IVETTE GERENA
MERCADO, CARMEN
GERENA MERCADO, MARIA GERENA
MERCADO, RAFAEL
RIOS GERENA, JOSE RIOS GERENA; JOHN
DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: AR2022CV00435.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
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 Hatillo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, el 11 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar identificado uno (1) en el plano de inscripción radicado en el Barrio Corcobados del término municipal de Hatillo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de ochocientos dieciséis punto cuatro nueve dos siete (816.4927) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar del Sr. Angel Medina Roman; por el Sur, con el solar dos (2) en el plano de inscripción; por el Este, con Camino Municipal; y por el Oeste con calle Municipal. Inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 39 de Hatillo, finca 23,989, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 7 del tomo 450 de Hatillo, finca 23,989, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección II, inscripción 6ª. Propiedad localizada en: SR 492, KM 2.7 INT., BO. CORCOBADOS, HATILLO, PR 00659. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $166,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 10 de abril de 2088. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y
gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $166,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una segunda subasta por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, el 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $111,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $83,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, el 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $122,733.18 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $17,967.01 en intereses acumulados al 19 de abril de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $6,658.46 en seguro hipotecario; $4,080.00 en tarifas de servicio; $560.00 de tasaciones; $120.00 de inspecciones; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $16,650.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un dia-
rio 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 Hatillo, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de agosto de 2023. WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL PLACA #657.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO DAN CHARLES BELSKY, KAREN LIZBETH LÓPEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES Demandantes Vs. HÉCTOR RUIZ COTTO Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2023CV00333. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: HÉCTOR RUIZ COTTO. A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES
CONOCIDAS: A. URB.
QUINTAS DE FAJARDO
I-6, FAJARDO PUERTO RICO; B. 104 CALLE VALENCIA, SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO 00907;
C. URB. VILLAS DE LOÍZA, R-7 CALLE 18 CANÓVANAS, PUERTO RICO 00729; D. COND. ASONIA, 1603 CALLE LOÍZA, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00911. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que se ha radicado una demanda en su contra en este Tribunal. La demanda es sobre ejecución de hipoteca en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria. En la demanda se alega que usted adeuda la cantidad de $126,411.81; $225.00 de recargos por mora y $13,866.18 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra cosa que contenga el pagaré. Que la deuda está garantizada con la siguiente propiedad: “Urbana: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Quintas de Fajardo I, sita en el Barrio Quebrada de la municipalidad de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número seis guión “I” (6-I) con un área de doscientos cincuenta punto cincuenta y cuatro (250.54) metros cuadrados, linda por el NORTE, en nueve punto ochenta y cinco (9.85) metros con la calle seis
(6); por el SUR, en distancia de diez punto veintisiete (10.27) con Baralt Development; por el ESTE, en distancia de veinticuatro punto ochenta y tres (24.83) metros con el solar “I” siete (1-7); y por el OESTE, en distancia de veinticinco punto cero cuatro (25.04) metros con el solar “I” guión 5 (1-5). Enclava una casa de una sola planta para Vivienda de una sola familia de concreto reforzado y torta del mismo material”. “Consta inscrita al folio Karibe, finca número trece mil novecientos 19 (13,919) demarcación Fajardo del Registro de Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Fajardo.” La parte demandante es el actual tenedor de buena fe del pagaré objeto de la presente reclamación, habiéndolo adquirido por valor recibido y/o por endoso en el curso ordinario de sus negocios. Se le emplaza y requiere para que se exprese sobre la demanda en epígrafe dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificado con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Wislander D. Balbuena Garda, RUA 23169 / Colegiado 21298, 350 Vía Aventura Apt 6404 Trujillo Alto PR, 00976, Tel: 787-2068656, e-mail: lcdowbalbuena@ gmail.com. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo así, se celebrará la vista correspondiente y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y con el sello del Tribunal. DADO en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de agosto de 2023. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN LUIS JOEL PEREZ COTTO, ZORAIDA CRUZ LÓPEZ, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
DEMANDANTE (A) VS. ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION, HACIENDO NEGOCIOS COMO CITIFINANCIAL AIHC LLC, JOHN DOE DEMANDADO (A) CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2023CV05656. SALA: 803. SOBRE: ANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NO-
TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS
CORPORATION, HACIENDO NEGOCIOS COMO CITIFINANCIAL AIHC LLC Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ. EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 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 22 de agosto de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 22 de agosto de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KAROLYN RIVERA NAVARRO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. JESUS
FERNANDEZ UMPIERRE
Demandado(a)
Civil: LP2022CV00123. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JESUS
FERNANDEZ UMPIERRE. DIRECCIONES: URB.
LIRIOS CALA 126, CALLE SAN MATEO, JUNCOS, PR 0077-8612 Y PO BOX 1447, LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00771-1447. P/C LCDO.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica para que comparezcan, silo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) 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: https://unired. poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la Secretaria del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la Parte Peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Petición, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: Solar localizado en el Barrio Bajura del término municipal de Isabela, compuesto de mil doce punto nueve mil novecientos noventa y siete metros cuadrados (1,012.9997 mc.), equivalentes a cero punto dos mil quinientos setenta y siete cuerdas (0.2577 cds.). Colindando por el Norte, en dos alineaciones que suman sesenta y dos punto doscientos setenta metros (62.270 rn), con Víctor Parrilla; por el SUR, en una alineación de sesenta y uno punto cien metros (61.100 m.), con Ismael Rodríguez Santiago y Claudette Becerra Lamberty; por el ESTE, en una alineación de veinticinco punto cero cincuenta metros (25.050 m.) con camino privado; y por el OESTE, en una alineación de siete punto seis cientos cincuenta y tres metros (7.653 m.) con Evans Castro Bumbory. La abogada de la parte peticionaria es la LCDA. VIVIAN GODI-
NEAUX VILLARONGA, P.O. BOX 1957, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00726-1957, TELEFONO (787)427-4164, Email: vagodineaux@gmail.com. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 22 de septiembre de 2023, a las 2:00 p.m., mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo
se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a los dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil de 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados, en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a de de 2023. Sarahi Reyes Perez, Secretaria Regional. Ariana Guzman Pabon, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR HUMACAO MARIO
APONTE DELGADO
Peticionario EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: HU2023CV007718.
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: INMEDIATOS
ANTERIORES DUEÑOS., HEREDEROS, DENOMINADOS
FULANO DE TAL Y
SUTANO DE TAL., Y LAS
PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA
PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA
QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA
PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.
POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) 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. RUSTICA: Solar con residencia construida en concreto en el Barrio Tejas Afuera del término municipal de Yabucoa, Puerto Rico con una cabida superficial de QUINIENTOS SETENTA Y SIETE
PUNTO NUEVE CINCO NUEVE METROS CUADRADOS (577.959 M.C). En lindes por el NORESTE en una alineación de dieciséis punto doscientos ochenta pies lineales (16.280 p/l) con terreno perteneciente a Juan Aponte Delgado; por el SURESTE, en una alineación de treinta punto setecientos sesenta y nueve pies lineales (30.769 p/l) con terreno perteneciente a Andrés Serrano Vázquez; por el ESTE, en una alineación de dieciocho punto setecientos setenta y dos pies lineales (18.772 p/l) del cual se desconoce propietario; y por el OESTE en varias alineaciones de tres punto novecientos diecinueve (3.919 p/l); veinte punto ciento cuarenta y cinco pies lineales (20.145 p/l) y dieciocho punto cuatrocientos sesenta y cuatro pies lineales (18.464 p/l) con camino vecinal Los Apontes. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es la Lcdo. Ernesto Rovira Gándara, PMB 767, 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, PR 00966; Tel. (787)-758-3277; Email: erovira@partnerslegalservicespr. com. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 17 de octubre de 2023, a las 10:00 de la mañana, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto,
el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, a 21 de agosto de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE M. MONCLOVA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. EUGENE PAPSCOE HAZIN Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CCD2016-0288. (402). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, ÁNGEL DE JESÚS TORRES PÉREZ, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento Enmendado que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 7 de marzo de 2023 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $114,427.62 de principal para la primera hipoteca y $14,444.68 de principal para la segunda hipoteca, mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 24 de abril de 2017, notificada y archivada en autos el 25 de mayo de 2017, y publicada mediante edicto en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 2 de mayo de 2017, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Manatí, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: Coto Norte Ward, Guayaney Comm., PR 686 KM 1.8, Manatí, PR. RUSTICA: O sea, predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Coto Norte, Sector Guayaney del término municipal de Manatl. Consiste de una cabida superficial de mil ciento treinta y ocho punto ochocientos cincuenta y ocho metros cuadrados (1,138.858 m.c.) Igual a cero punto veintiocho noventa y siete cuerdas (0.2897 cdas.) y en lindes por el NORTE, en
treinta y cuatro punto ochenta y cinco metros (34.85 m), con el remanente de la finca; por el SUR, en treinta y dos punto cincuenta y siete metros (32.57 m) con el predio número dos (2) del plano de segregación; por el ESTE, en treinta punto cincuenta y nueve metros (30.59 m), con Clemente Ayala Rodríguez y por el OESTE, en treinta y siete punto veinticuatro metros (37.24 m), con la Calle dedicada a uso público. Enclava edificación. Consta inscrita al folio 90 del tomo 294 de Manatí; finca número 11,898 del Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $114,427.62 principal, 6.125% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $155.56 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $125.53 de reserva “escrow”, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y para la segunda hipoteca, $14,444.68 de principal, 6.125% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $19.44 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, para la primer hipoteca la cantidad de $128,000.00 y para la segunda hipoteca la suma de $16,000.00 para un total combinado de $144,000.00 para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $96,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $72,000.00. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo. Del Estudio de Título realizado surge el siguiente gravamen posterior
el cual podrá ser cancelado: Embargo Federal contra Gene Papscoe, seguro social xxxxx-7699 por $17,212.66 notificación #680346110 asiento 1 folio 43 del tomo 5 de Embargos Federales, el 30 de julio de 2010. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 25 de agosto de 2023. ÁNGEL DE JESÚS TORRES PÉREZ, ALGUACIL.
REVERSE LLC
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ANDRÉS
PICHS SUAREZ T/C/C ANDRÉS F. PICHS
SUAREZ T/C/C ANDRES
FRANCISCO PICHS
SUAREZ COMPUESTA
POR ROSALINA COLON
GÓMEZ, ANDRES
PICHS, BARBARA
PICHS, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES
HEREDEROS NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV03225.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. MANDAMIEN-
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. Por Cuanto: Se ha dictado en el presente caso la siguiente
Orden: “ORDEN: Examinada la demanda radicada por la parte demandante, la solicitud de interpelación contenida en la misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud acepta la Demanda en el caso de epígrafe, así como la interpelación judicial de la parte demandante a los herederos del codemandado conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2787 y su equivalente el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, edición 2020. Se Ordena a los herederos de los causante a saber, Andres Pichs, Barbara Pichs, Fulano de tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos a que, dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la, Herencia de los causantes Andrés Pichs Suarez t/c/c Andrés F. Pichs Suarez t/c/c Andres Francisco Pichs Suarez. Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados: (a) Que de no expresarse dentro del término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia la misma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante, y por ende, la parte demandante podrá continuar la causa acción, dado por entendido que las partes interpeladas han acep-
tado la herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2785 y su equivalente el Artículo 1587 del Código Civil, edición 2020. Se Ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión de los causantes Andrés Pichs Suarez t/c/c Andrés F. Pichs Suarez t/c/c Andres Francisco Pichs Suarez, incluyen como herederos a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. DADA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de junio de 2023. Por Cuanto: Se le advierte a que dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los causantes Andrés Pichs Suarez t/c/c Andrés F. Pichs Suarez t/c/c Andres Francisco Pichs Suarez. Por Orden del Honorable Juez de Primer Instancia de este Tribunal, expido el presente Mandamiento, bajo mi firma y sello oficial, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de agosto de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, LUZ E., SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ
REVERSE MORTGAGE
FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. ALBERTO JUAN
LUCIANO LAMOURT Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AÑ2022CV00094. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA; PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: ALBERTO JUAN
LUCIANO LAMOURT
T/C/C ALBERTO J
LUCIANO LAMOURT
T/C/C ALBERTO LUCIANO
LAMOURT T/C/C
ALBERTO LUCIANO
T/C/C ALBERTO
LAMOURT POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
QUE COMPONE JUNTO A CONSUELO CRISTINA
RAMPOLLA OJEDA
T/C/C CONSUELO RAMPOLA BOJEDA T/C/C CONSUELO RAMPOLLA
OJEDA T/C/C CONSUELO
Demandados
Civil Núm.: GR2022CV00332.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E. E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, al público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 4 de agosto de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente y/o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Toscana situada en el barrio Rincón del municipio de Gurabo, Puerto Rico. El solar se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización con el numero área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: NUMERO DEL SO-
LAR: SESENTA (60) AREA DEL SOLAR: CUATROCIENTOS
ONCE PUNTO OCHENTA Y SEIS (411.86) METROS CUADRADOS. EN LINDES: POR EL NORTE, en una distancia de veinticinco punto cero (25.00) metros, con el solar número sesenta y uno (61) de la urbanización; por el Sur, en una distancia de veinticinco punto cero (25.00) metros, con el solar número cincuenta y nueve (59) de la urbanización; por el Este, en una distancia de quince punto cero uno (15.01) metros, con los solares número sesenta y cuatro (64) y sesenta y cinco (65) de la urbanización; y por el Oeste, en distancia de diecisiete punto noventa y cuatro (17.94) metros, con la calle número cuatro (4) de la urbanización. En este solar enclava una casa de concreto para residencia de una familia. El expresado solar se halla afecto a la (s) Siguiente (s) servidumbre (s):
SERVIDUMBRE TELEFÓNI-
CA: FRANJA de terreno de UNO PUNTO CINCUENTA (1.50) METROS, que discurre por parte de sus Colindancias
OESTE. Se segrega de la finca número 18163, inscrita al folio 9 del tomo 469 de Gurabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. Dirección física: 60 Calle 4, Toscana, Gurabo Puerto Rico 00778-3900. La finca 20,167 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta
objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Sun West Mortgage Company, lnc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $145,500.00, con intereses al 4.25% anual, vencedero el 1 de abril de 2048, constituida mediante la escritura número 9, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 8 de marzo de 2018, ante el notario Fernando L. Meléndez López, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Gurabo, finca número 20,167, inscripción 2da. La propiedad está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: A. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 23 de diciembre de 2022, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil número GR2022CV00332, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por SunWest Mortgage Company lnc; versus Sucesión Hilario García también conocido como Hilaría García Pérez, compuesta por Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos, CRIM, por la suma de $147,724.24, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 30 de enero de 2023, al tomo Karibe de Gurabo, finca número 20,167, Anotación “A”. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a SunWest Mortgage Company lnc; por la hipoteca de $145,500.00 total o parcialmente. 1. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a SunWest Mortgage Company lnc, total o parcialmente el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 31 de mayo de 2023, notificada y archivada en autos el mismo dia. El importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, asciende a las siguientes cantidades: $147,725.24 de principal al 31 de diciembre de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.25% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda. Además, en la escritura de hipoteca, las partes pactaron la suma de $250.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Asimismo, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente al diez por ciento (10%) del principal para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente al diez por ciento (10%) del principal para cubrir intereses adicionales a los garantizados por ley, según pactado. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue:
PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 2 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO:
$145,500.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 10 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $97,000.00.
TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 17 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $72,500.00. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas o gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se le apercibe a los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquiera derechos que tengan sobre el inmueble, deberán comparecer a la subasta, pues de no hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancelación de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo
de por lo menos siete (7) días entre cada publicación. Se fijará además, en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección que obra en autos. Una vez efectuada la correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspaso al licitador victorioso, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanzamiento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el Tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante o ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. El Registrador de la Propiedad cancelará, libre de derechos, todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 19 de agosto de 2023. Ángel Gómez Gómez, Alguacil Placa #593, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Caguas.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
DEMANDANTE V. WILMER JAVIER
MELETITHE VELÁZQUEZ
T/C/C WILMER
MELETICHE VELÁZQUEZ, SU ESPOSA LIBRADA MARTÍNEZ TORRES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NÚM.: PO2023CV01037.
SALA: 406. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZA-
MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: WILMER JAVIER MELETITHE VELÁZQUEZ T/C/C
WILMER MELETICHE
VELÁZQUEZ, POR SÍ Y POR CONDUCTO DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES QUE COMPONE CON LIBRADA MARTÍNEZ TORRES; LIBRADA MARTÍNEZ TORRES, POR SÍ Y POR CONDUCTO DELA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES QUE COMPONE CON WILMER JAVIER MELETITHE VELÁZQUEZ T/C/C
WILMER MELETICHE
VELÁZQUEZ. 127, BO.
QUEBRADA ADENTRO, SECTOR GUARDARRAYA, GUAYANILLA, PUERTO RICO 00656, Y PO BOX 37166 PANAMÁ CITY, FL 33412.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son:
ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE:
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández
RUA Núm.: 16,393
BERMUDEZ & DÍAZ, LLP
Edificio Ochoa
500 Calle De La Tanca
Suite 209
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 2 de junio de 2023. Carmen G. Tirú, Secretaria General. Mariely Félix Rivera, Sec Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON.
JORGE
GUZMAN ROSADO
PARTE DEMANDANTE Vs. NYDIA MILAGROS RIVERA SEISE
PARTE DEMANDADA
CIVIL NUM. BY2023CV03276.
SOBRE: Ejecución de Sentencia Extranjera (EXEQUATUR).
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A. Nydia Milagros Rivera Seise 400 Whisperson Pine St. Agustine FL, 32084
B. CERTIFICO que este escrito ha sido presentado de manera electrónica a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual emite notificación simultánea a todas las partes correspondientes a través de sus abogados de record a sus respectivas direcciones electrónicas. Dicha notificación constituye una notificación adecuada a las partes, a través de sus representantes legales, en cumplimiento con las reglas de Procedimiento Civil y normas aplicables a la presentación de escritos por via electrónica. Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante, JORGE GUZMAN ROSADO, ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal demanda contra usted, solicitando Ia concesión del siguiente remedio: Ejecución de Sentencia Extranjera
Representa a Ia parte demandante, el abogado cuyo nombre y dirección se consigna de inmediato:
LCDA. MILAGROS RIVERA RIVERA
RUA 20507
P.O. BOX 50823, TOA BAJA, P.R. 00950-0823
Tél. Num. (787) 525-3290
Email:
lcda.riveramilagros@gmail.com
Por Ia presente se le emplaza para que presente at Tribunal su alegación responsiva a Ia demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciamiento este emplazamiento, excluyéndose et día del diligenciamiento, y notificar al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte peticionaria o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema
Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electróni-
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SARA I. PAGÁN RODRÍGUEZ
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This is the first season in Major League Baseball’s modern era in which all teams play each other. It’s about time, really, an easy way to boost the national appeal of a sport that skews regional. Yet some of the matchups still seem a little strange.
Consider the New York Mets’ current homestand, with series against the Los Angeles Angels, the Texas Rangers and the Seattle Mariners. Sure, the Mets abandoned the pennant race a month ago, but the American League West version is flourishing in Flushing.
“Hey, you’re past those dog days,” said Rangers manager Bruce Bochy, who has seen a race or two. “You’re looking at just over 30 games.”
The Rangers spent 140 days with at least a share of first place until Sunday, when they lost for the ninth time in 10 games. The Mariners, baseball’s hottest team since the start of July, overtook Texas for the division lead, with the defending champion Houston Astros close behind.
“We were in first place for many months — it’s good to happen, what happened to us,” said Martín Pérez, who beat the Mets in relief on Monday in Texas’ 4-3 victory. “You look down and you have to come up again.”
Even before this week, of course, the Mets had done their part to impact the AL West standings, sending Max Scherzer to the Rangers and Justin Verlander to the Astros before the Aug. 1 trading deadline. Both have thrived in their first five starts, combining for a 7-2 record with a 2.72 ERA.
The Mets will not play the Astros again, but they welcomed Scherzer back on Monday with a tribute video. Scherzer — who smiled for the scoreboard camera after it played — did his job for the Mets but never expected to leave that job half-done. He was 20-9 for the team and had signed through 2024.
“We were settled here, we liked it here, we enjoyed our time here,” Scherzer said before batting practice Monday. “We thought we had a great organization. It was kind of like, ‘Make sure we’re trying to win in 2024,’ and that’s what I was really trying to use the no-trade clause for.”
Scherzer reiterated that he waived the clause because the Mets insisted they were
scaling back their short-term ambitions. He said he appreciated such honesty from owner Steven A. Cohen and general manager Billy Eppler, who got a top infield prospect, Luisangel Acuña, from Texas in the trade.
Then again, there is nothing precluding Cohen from pivoting. Would anyone be shocked if he explored the market for starting pitchers this winter, with Aaron Nola, Blake Snell and Julio Urías available in free agency? More to the point, would Scherzer be surprised?
“I don’t know,” he said. “I’m not going to speculate on that.”
In any case, Scherzer has moved on, trying to do with Texas what he did with the Washington Nationals: win the first World Series title in franchise history. The Rangers have lost twice — to Bochy’s San Francisco Giants in 2010 and to the St. Louis Cardinals the next fall — and have invested heavily since sinking to 102 losses in 2021.
Middle infielders Corey Seager and Marcus Semien signed for a combined $500 million before last season; both have been terrific. And when last December’s free-agent prizes got hurt — Jacob deGrom had Tommy John surgery in June, and Nathan Eovaldi has missed six weeks with a forearm strain — the Rangers traded for Scherzer and Jordan
Montgomery.
“To see the commitment — the first offseason for bats and the second offseason for arms — it’s really promising as a player in my shoes to be a part of the bad team and now be part of the good team,” said first baseman Nathaniel Lowe, whose two-out, two-run single in the ninth made the difference for Texas on Monday.
“They’re committed, money-wise and effort-wise up top, to addressing organizational needs. Some organizations might wait
or might fly under a budget or have certain caps on what they think they can get out of the group, but it feels like there’s no ceiling for this group.”
Scherzer felt the same way shortly after his trade from the Mets. But a wobbly bullpen and the hitters’ recent struggles with runners in scoring position have tested the Rangers.
“I got traded over and I thought, ‘I’ve never seen a team higher than high,’” Scherzer said. “We won eight games in a row, we were really beating people apart — and then all of a sudden, we went through an eightgame losing streak, and we were getting beaten apart. And that’s just baseball, you’re never as high as you think you are, you’re never as low as you think you are. We’re now at a point where it’s like, ‘All right, let’s see who we really are.’”
The schedule will soon normalize for the Rangers, who play only AL teams in September and will face the Mariners seven times in their final 10 games. Until then, the Rangers hope to build off wins like Monday’s, their first all season in which they won despite trailing after eight innings.
And really, Bochy suggested, things could be a lot worse. At 74-57, the Rangers have already won more games than they did all of last season — and they still have two more against the fading Mets.
“You look at where we’re at this year and look at where the club was last year, which one do you want?” Bochy said. “So you’ve got to enjoy this. This is what we play the game for.”
The last time Frances Tiafoe was playing a match inside Arthur Ashe Stadium in the New York borough of Queens, it was under the lights last year in front of a teeming crowd of 23,000, roaring with every point, as he tried to topple Carlos Alcaraz, the eventual U.S. Open champion and No. 1, in the semifinals.
Former first lady Michelle Obama was sitting in the front row of the President’s Box, urging him on within earshot. There were NBA players in the lower bowl, including Bradley Beal, then a star of Tiafoe’s beloved Washington Wizards, as well as a slew of Tiafoe’s friends and relatives lucky enough to land tickets for the biggest match an American man had played at the U.S. Open in years.
On Monday, Tiafoe, a 25-year-old from Maryland who has catapulted himself into a different level of sports celebrity, experienced something a little different in Ashe Stadium than what transpired a year ago. Opening day at the U.S. Open is an opportunity for tennis fans, even those with a ticket for Ashe, to wander the grounds in search of the up-and-comers, or to take in a tight fourhour match between middling pros at close range.
The result can be a lifeless, half-empty atmosphere in the biggest stadium in the sport, especially for a mostly onesided win such as Tiafoe’s 6-2, 7-5, 6-1 drubbing of Learner Tien, a 17-year-old Californian likely to have better days at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the future. From Tiafoe’s perspective, that was good. The only thing that would have boosted the buzz would have been a match far tighter than Tiafoe, the tournament’s 10th seed and one its most popular players, would have wanted.
And yet, although there may not have been too much buzz in the big stadium, there was plenty pulsing through Tiafoe, who knows this U.S. Open is far different from any he has played before.
“A bunch of new experiences today,” Tiafoe, a favorite for the first time on Ashe, said in his news conference after the match.
That dynamic has consequences, both literal and figurative, good and potentially complicating, since they are
loaded with reminders of Tiafoe’s new status.
It was the first time his team got to sit in the player’s box belonging to the favorite, on the west side of the court, forcing Tiafoe to pivot his head in a different direction for support. As the favorite, he got introduced to the crowd and entered the court after Tien. That meant he sat in the chair on the left side of the chair umpire rather than on the right side, farther from the entrance, where the underdog traditionally walks to.
Everywhere he looked, there was a reminder of who he is now, just as it has been all week as he moved between sponsor events — he has a shiny new Cadillac Escalade in his driveway — and other appearances. And then the tennis began.
“I’ve never played a match before where I was supposed to win on Ashe,” he said.
How Tiafoe handles all this will go a long way toward determining how many wins he can manage at the tournament every American man desperately wants to win. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the last time it occurred, when Andy Roddick grabbed his lone Grand Slam singles title before the rise of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. The expectations are high.
“They should be,” said Martin Blackman, general manager for player development at the U.S. Tennis Association, who has known Tiafoe since his elementary school days.
“It’s a lot,” said Ray Benton, CEO of the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Maryland, where Tiafoe’s unlikely rise to tennis stardom began. Tiafoe’s father, an immigrant from Sierra Leone, was a maintenance man in the early years of JTCC, where tennis pros first noticed how proficient his young son was at hitting a tennis ball against a wall.
Benton was at Tiafoe’s match Monday and has been in contact with him over the summer.
“He’s a little ...,” Benton paused and, with his arms, imitated someone who was experiencing the inevitable weight of expectations, the biggest of which are those Tiafoe has set for himself. “In some ways, all he can do is disappoint.”
As well as the season has gone for Tiafoe, including wins in tournaments in Houston and Stuttgart, Germany, he has fallen short of his own goals at the most important events. He has lost in the third round at the year’s first three Grand Slam tournaments.
He was downright despondent after he played arguably his worst match of the year in a three-set loss to Grigor Dim -
itrov of Bulgaria at Wimbledon on grass, a surface he loves and that would figure to suit his aggressive and creative game.
At heart, Tiafoe, who burst onto the scene in 2019 when he made the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and quickly broke into the Top 30, is a showman, an entertainer who loves to play off the energy of the crowd. One of the challenges from his earliest years has been figuring out how to do that most effectively.
A typical Tiafoe sequence occurred Monday during a tight second set against Tien. With the score knotted at 4-4, Tien rose and twisted and snapped a backhand overhead that looked like a certain winner. Tiafoe chased it down and threaded the needle with his shot, zipping it between the umpire’s chair and the net post to set him up for what seemed like a crucial break of Tien’s serve. Then he did his trademark frozen stare into the crowd, his cue for the fans to get loud. They did.
But then he lost his own serve with a series of careless errors — a forehand into the net and an overhead wide — allowing Tien a chance to draw even in the set once more. Megan Moulton-Levy, a former pro who is general manager of player development at JTCC and has been a mentor to Tiafoe for years, spoke this summer of her long talks with Tiafoe about cracking the code of entertaining and using the energy of his ever growing fan base without burning too much energy or losing his focus.
“He’s such a social guy,” MoultonLevy said in an interview this month. “He has this big beautiful personality, so what he has to do is manage how to turn it on and off through the course of a match. He has to figure out when and how to let it show.”
Tiafoe spoke of his search for balance Monday after his win over Tien; of choosing when to fire up a crowd that will undoubtedly be in his corner during this tournament and that is coming to Queens specifically to see him; and of when to focus on the taxing task of winning bestof-five-set matches.
“I don’t want to gas out in the first set,” he said, noting that it would be important especially as the tournament wore on, and the hype and excitement and the interest of all those A-list names and countless others among the Tiafoe faithful took note of another, he hoped, deep run.
“I have to keep winning so they stay interested,” he said.
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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
Some pressing matters might have you worried that you may have to postpone a much-needed vacation, Aries. You could be tempted to go into a funk over it, but don’t. It could create the very situation you don’t want. If you budget your time and work efficiently, you’ll probably be able to go on your trip as planned and have a wonderful time.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
If you’ve been thinking about investing, Taurus, this isn’t the day to start. Not only would there be delays in processing your investment but it also probably won’t pay off the way you hope. Read about the options open to you and then consult with someone knowledgeable in a few days. Think about it and then if you’re so inclined, go ahead. Don’t do it now!
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
ttempts to reach a potential or current business partner could go awry today, Gemini. Phone messages may not get delivered, emails could get lost, and letters remain unopened. This person is having a hectic day. Don’t think he or she is upset with you. If you really need to reach this person now, you might have to go over there. Technology isn’t going to do it for you today.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
oday you might feel a little out of sorts, Cancer, perhaps because of overindulgence from last night. You might be tempted to stay home in spite of other commitments. This actually might be a wise course of action, though you may feel better by midafternoon. Spend the morning relaxing and taking care of yourself. See what the rest of the day brings.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Today you might be eagerly awaiting a phone call that never seems to come from a current or potential romantic partner, Leo. This could awaken your insecurity and cause you to think the worst. You should be relieved when the call finally comes, probably in midafternoon. Relax, hang in there, and keep busy!
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
A member of your household could be depressed over their job, Virgo. Something may have gone wrong that wasn’t their fault. You might be called upon to distract this person and get him or her going again. You won’t be alone in this. More than one visitor could drop by to bring good news and information, thereby improving the mood. You’ll enjoy this, too!
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
Some letters, checks, or phone calls you may have been expecting for a long time could still be delayed, Libra. There’s no reason to get too frustrated, as the delays are beyond your control. The best course is to find something else to do and let whatever you’re waiting for come when it will. It hasn’t been lost - it will come!
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
Some news about money, perhaps a check in the mail you’ve been waiting for still might not come. This could be frustrating, Scorpio, especially since there isn’t much you can do about it. It will come, so the best thing to do is distract yourself and get your mind off it. Find a good book and catch up on your reading!
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
Delays in accomplishing certain goals could have you feeling down today, Sagittarius. You could wonder if you did something wrong. Chances are you didn’t. The delays probably stem from poor communication. Letters, emails, and other messages might not have been delivered in a timely manner. Hang in there and continue to believe in yourself.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
Today you might feel very low, Capricorn, though you may not have any idea why. Your life is going well, so there’s no real reason for you to feel this way. Chances are that you saw something that triggered an unconscious memory without even being aware of it. Discern what it was and then release it. Find something to do that you love!
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
Today it looks like you might not be able to attend a group activity that you’ve been anticipating, Aquarius. Other pressing matters may demand your immediate attention. This could prove frustrating. However, if you work quickly and efficiently, you might be able to make it after all. Budget your time carefully and get to it!
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
A delay in completing an important project could have you feeling irritated, frustrated, and inadequate, Pisces, even though you’ve done your best. The problem is probably beyond your control. There isn’t much you can do about this but wait. There are probably a lot of other important tasks waiting. Take care of them and get your mind off the other. It’ll get
