Corrections Official: Sentence Modification Allowed Convicted Murderer to Qualify for Release
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The Department of Economic Development and Commerce of Puerto Rico (DDEC by its Spanish acronym) on Tuesday released the study “Evaluation of the Performance of Economic Incentives,” consisting of an analysis of the performance and impact of the different programs covered under the Puerto Rico Incentives Code (Law 60-2019).
“This study reflects the results of the return on investment of incentives. Although the agency had conducted other studies, it had never compiled and created a database as robust as this analysis, which used state and municipal tax returns, payroll reports, annual reports, and beneficiary data,” DDEC Secretary Manuel Cidre Miranda said. “This type of effort becomes an essential instrument for making public policy decisions and monitoring and supervising incentives.”
In the study of the different incentive programs conducted by the firm Abexus Analytics, tax revenues generated a total of $3.2 billion, while those generated by incentivized foreign corporations in the manufacturing industry reached $2.3 billion. The latter figure represents a positive and significant return on investment (ROI), in contrast to domestic entities, whose results were neutral, according to the study. Regarding resident investors (Law 22) and the export of services (Law 20), both incentives positively impacted the return on investment formula, the study found.
In addition to attracting individuals who generate a fiscal impact, the study showed that, under what is known as Law 22, the income paid in 2020 was $130 million, while an increase in collections was experienced for 2022 when $144 million was reported in that line, and the contribution in consumption taxes was double for that period with $24.5 million.
The services export program showed notable results, meanwhile, as the services sector was strengthened and employment and salary figures improved.
“In 2020, more than 11,562 jobs were reported, which increased to 22,192 jobs in 2022,” emphasized Carlos Fontán, director of the Business Incentives Office in Puerto Rico.
The sectors that the report says should re-evaluate their approach are the creative industries and agriculture, which had negative investment returns. In the tourism sector, incentives have led to developing hospitality and entertainment infrastructure, but their historical ROI is neutral, the study found.
Cidre said DDEC will be carefully analyzing the report’s results to determine how to continue strengthening those programs that reflect positive performance and potentially reformulate those that are not performing as expected.
“Although the incentives have had positive impacts in specific areas, it is a fact that there is room to improve their design and application to ensure alignment with the strategic objectives of economic development,” he said.
Using granular administrative information and analyzing data collected through a broad interagency effort, the report addresses a systemic evaluation and comprehensive analysis of incentive programs while considering multiple pieces of incentive legislation from previous years.
DDEC Deputy Secretary Humberto Mercader stressed that “this report sets a new standard in analysis criteria for creating an increasingly useful and complete intelligence tool.”
“It is an important step toward nourishing public discussion about this important pillar of economic development and base the conversation on data that allows us to improve and expand our stimulus efforts for the economy,” he said.
In addition to the extensive collection of data through documents provided through the collaboration of agencies such as the Treasury Department, the Tourism Company, the Agriculture Department and the Municipal Revenue Collections Center, among others, there was a real opportunity cost analysis, which served to accurately estimate the cost of those incentives that grant preferential tax rates. As part of that analysis, a perspective was incorporated from the point of view of international companies to compare Puerto Rico with the countries with which it competes. This type of analysis avoids biases and estimates that do not consider the economic behaviors of the beneficiaries of the incentives, the DDEC secretary noted.
“When studying incentives, for DDEC it is critical not only to look at the return on investment, but also other aspects that are less discussed but are very important, such as their effect on business retention and the economic stability that can represent in the long term,” Cidre stressed. “That is why on this occasion, opportunity cost was contemplated to model what the response of companies would be to different tax burden scenarios.”
The official from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) that signed the document allowing the release of convicted murderer Hermes Ávila Vázquez said Tuesday that his release would not have become a reality if some 10 years ago a judge had not modified his prison sentence to eliminate the phrase “permanent separation from society” from the text.
The Courts Administration, in a statement, acknowledged that while it eliminated the phrase giving Ávila Vázquez a life sentence, the change did not modify the sentence.
However, Celia Cosme, director of the DCR Diversion Program, disputed that contention, noting that the change allowed Ávila Vázquez to qualify for a program that allowed the early release of inmates who suffered from certain health conditions.
Ávila Vázquez was charged with killing Ivette Joan Meléndez Vega in Manatí last month while he was in the free community following his release under the program.
Cosme, who signed off on the release, argued several times during a joint Senate hearing that if Judge Daniel López González had not modified Ávila Vázquez’s 112-year prison sentence for murdering a woman in Caguas, he would not have qualified for the diversion program in the first place.
Rubén Torres Dávila was the judge who had sentenced Ávila Vázquez to 112 years in prison.
However, in a written statement, the Courts Administration said that in 2014, López González merely modified an error
in the sentence issued by the court in 2005.
“He did not alter in any way the term that the convict had to serve as part of this,” the Courts Administration said.
Yet the point that Cosme raised was that that phrase was used, together with other factors such as institutional adjustment and mobility limitation, to determine that Ávila Vázquez did
not represent an element of danger to society if he went out into the streets.
“The modification responded to the fact that a text had been included [that was] incompatible with the agreement presented to the Court and the rule of law at that time under the 1974 Penal Code, in force at the time of the events,” reads the statement from the Courts Administration. “Accordingly, the Judgment should not have included the text permanent separation from society,”
Ávila Vázquez was the one who requested the amendment to the sentence.
According to a court motion, Ávila Vázquez had agreed to plead guilty to murder charges in exchange for the court not taking into account that he was a repeat offender in its sentencing. Torres Dávila, however, sentenced him to 112 years in jail and to life in prison.
Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago said that without the change, Ávila Vázquez would not have been able to go out on the street. Cosme maintained that “historically,” since the administration of former secretary Erik Rolón, the release authority in her case had been delegated under Law 25-1992.
“That sentence was amended and the permanent separation from society was removed,” Cosme said. “If that sentence had been in place, the release would not have been authorized because from the sentence itself it was understood that he [Ávila Vázquez] was a risk to the community. However, that sentence was amended.”
“It left us without the basis that it was a security risk because that is what the court determined,” she added.
San Juan District Sen. Juan Oscar Morales is asking the island House of Representatives to urgently approve Senate Bill 1380, which imposes on LUMA Energy the responsibility of granting payment plans with a maximum deposit of up to 10%.
The measure also establishes a new payment structure for LUMA customers in the event of arrears. If the debt is less than $12,000, the balance would be divided over a period of 24 months.
If the debt is between $12,000 and $24,000, the balance would be distributed over 36 months, and if it is from $24,001 to $34,000, the balance would be distributed over 40 months. If it is greater than $34,001, then the term would be 48 months.
“LUMA cannot expect the recovery of what is owed to be established in such a way as not to allow the consumer the flexibility to be able to make such payments,” Morales said. “Faced with this situation, it is desirable to establish a payment plan, fair for all parties, that allows the recovery of what is owed for electricity service so that it can be complied with, with a reasonable deposit.
“This bill has been pending in the House since April 23 after being discharged,” he added. “I call on the representatives to approve the measure urgently in the face of the reality that service is being cut off and people cannot pay the onerous deposits that LUMA is requesting right now.”
The bill amends Article 1, in addition to adding a new article, Article 5, to Law 39-2020, better known as the “Law to Prohibit the Interruption of Electricity and Drinking Water Services During the Term of OE-2020-023 due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic,” in order to authorize the establishment of payment plans for the amount owed for drinking water and electricity services.
The bill prohibits shutting off services if they are under the parameters of a payment plan.
“Our intention is to be able to offer financial relief opportunities to our communities, so that all customers who receive electricity and drinking water services in Puerto Rico will be able to pay off their debts in a way that is more sensitive to their current economic realities,” the senator said. “The reconstruction of our economy is not only for public finances, but it has to allow our people to be able to get back on their feet, step by step.”
Celia Cosme, director of the Diversion Program in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Teams of students and mentors from Puerto Rico excelled at the recent international “Plant the Moon Challenge,” taking home top prizes for their innovative experiments that support NASA’s future missions to the moon and Mars.
The “Plant the Moon Challenge” is a global competition that challenges students to develop techniques for growing vegetables in lunar soil. The teams used the CLASS Exolith Lab’s lunar soil simulator to conduct experiments over eight weeks, with the goal of understanding how to use lunar soil to provide nutritious crops for future missions.
The NASA Space Grant Consortium, in collaboration with the Institute of Competition Sciences (ICS), facilitated the participation of students and educators from across Puerto Rico, covering the costs of materials and offering professional development for educators.
The ICS hired a panel of program execu-
tives and scientists from industry and NASA to determine the winners of the “Best in Show” award. The teams from Puerto Rico won three international awards:
– Best Middle School in Experimental Design: “Space Cadets of Troop 690” by the Boy
Scouts of America in Camuy, led by José Solís.
– Best High School in Innovative Experiment: “Creative Moon Lab Botanicals” by Creative Homeschoolers Inc. in Mayagüez, directed by Micheline Braffett.
– Best High School in Innovative Exper-
iment: “Jupiter Space Monkeys” by Dorado Academy in Dorado, directed by Veronica Ortiz and Ingrid Ocasio.
Gerardo Morell, director of Puerto Rico’s Space Scholarships program, praised the students and the experience the challenge provided them.
“I am very proud of all the students who participated and their mentors,” he said. “Everyone has improved their science skills and learned to work together as a team to solve this NASA Challenge. I know they will continue to benefit from this experience academically and professionally.”
The “Plant the Moon Challenge” will be offered again in the spring semester of 2025.
More information can obtained by contacting Gerardo Morell, director, Puerto Rico NASA Space Grant Consortium, and Puerto Rico director, NASA EPSCoR Program, by email at gerardo.morell@upr. edu or accessing the portal: spacegrant.pr.
The State Insurance Fund Corporation Employees Union (UECFSE by its Spanish initials) has requested the intervention of Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia due to alleged violations of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) by the new administrator of the public corporation, Noé Marcano Rivera, and his representatives.
In a letter sent to the governor earlier this week, UECFSE President María Medina Domenech detailed a series of grievances related to actions that the union says contravene the CBA, including the non-recognition of the union as the official representative of the more than 1,700 unionized employees, the denial of union leave to UECFSE officers, and the failure to comply with agreed upon stipulations following concurrent actions on May 11, 2023. The union also filed complaints about recruitment practices for union members, staff move-
ments and trade union discrimination, such as the denial of the use of the corporation’s premises for orientation sessions with union members.
“The administrator of the Corporation, Noé Marcano Rivera, has established an environment of extreme hostility toward the unionized employees of the CFSE,” Medina Domenech wrote in the letter. “Among the situations highlighted are: the non-recognition of the Union as the exclusive representative of the workers, continuous threats and lack of respect, and the issuance of guidelines that violate the rights of the unionized.”
Marcano Rivera was appointed administrator of the CFSE in December 2023 and took office in January of this year.
Medina Domenech stressed that the aforementioned practices have been the subject of complaints made to the Labor Relations Board for constituting illegal labor practices, and noted a total non-compliance with decisions and orders prior to the administration of Marcano Rivera.
“Workers at the State Insurance Fund Corporation have been dealing with similar situations for a long time, as the previous administrator also engaged in questionable labor practices,” the union leader said. “The workers I represent demand and deserve an environment of labor peace.
The Puerto Rico Police on Tuesday morning arrested five members of a criminal organization called “Los Viraos” that is linked to multiple murders in the areas of Cayey, Caguas, Cidra and Aibonito.
The arrests were made as part of a series of search warrants under the 100 x 35 Plan. Among those detained is an urban performer known for glorifying violence in his lyrics. Arrested were Jorge Luis Colón Rodríguez, 25 years old; Kevin Xavier Rivera Santos, 19; José Alexis Ferrán Torres, 34; Elmer David Osorio Vázquez, 32; and Kris Yandell Vega González, 24. The latter is an urban performer whose lyrics
advocate violence. All of the arrestees appear as gunmen dedicated to killing their adversaries in the organization charts of the relevant police investigations.
During the operation, illegal substances were seized, including marijuana and cocaine, as well as over $70,000 in cash and firearms. An illegal weapon was seized from Colón Rodríguez, while an altered pistol was confiscated from Vega González. Both Vega González and Ferrán Torres had previously been arrested for violation of the Weapons Law.
“This operation is part of the strategies established in the Comprehensive Security Plan to address the continuous incidents that have occurred in Cayey, Caguas and other towns in the area, as a result of the wars between the arrested
subjects and the organization led by Nelson Torres Delgado, alias ‘El Burro,’” Puerto Rico Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa said.
He added that Tuesday’s raid was the product of confidential investigations carried out by agents of the Drug Division assigned to the Caguas police area, with the objective of removing gunmen from the streets whose function is to assassinate members of opposing organizations.
Col. Carlos Cruz Burgos, director of the Police Bureau’s Special Operations Superintendency, noted that according to a series of investigations by the Caguas Drug Division, the Los Viraos organization is responsible for around a dozen murders in the island’s central region in recent months.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., plans to push forward this week with a second vote on a bipartisan border enforcement bill that Senate Republicans killed this year at the urging of former President Donald Trump.
The measure is almost certain to be blocked again, but Democrats hope to use the failed vote to sharpen an election-year contrast with the GOP on a crucial issue that polls show is a major potential liability for President Joe Biden and their candidates.
Democrats will aim to neutralize the issue by showing voters that they and Biden have tried to get migration at the U.S. border with Mexico under control but have been thwarted repeatedly by Republicans following the lead of Trump.
“The former president made clear he would rather preserve the issue for his campaign than solve the issue in a bipartisan fashion,” Schumer wrote in a letter to colleagues that heralded the bill’s provisions and outlined his plans. “On cue, many of our Republican colleagues abruptly reversed course on their prior support, announcing their newfound opposition to the bipartisan proposal.”
After months of negotiation, Republicans and Democrats reached an improbable immigration compromise in February — one that GOP lawmakers had insisted was a prerequisite for providing additional aid to Ukraine — that appeared to have a chance at passage. But Trump called it too weak and instructed his allies in Congress to vote it down. The measure failed when it fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance in the Senate, with all but four Republicans voting to block it. (In the 50-49 vote, three Democrats and one independent also voted “no,” denying the measure even a simple majority.)
Biden, whose team helped hammer out the deal, urged support for it Monday in a statement from Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, that said, “We strongly support this legislation and call on every senator to put partisan politics aside and vote to secure the border.”
Later in the day, the White House issued its summary of conversations Biden had with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in which he pushed them to “act quickly to pass this bipartisan border legislation that would add thousands of Border Patrol agents and personnel, invest in technology to catch fentanyl and combat drug trafficking, and make our country safer.”
Among other changes to immigration law, the measure would make it more difficult to gain asylum in the United States and increase detentions and deportations of those crossing into the country without authorization. It would also effectively close the border altogether if the average number of migrants encountered by immigration officials exceeded a certain threshold — an average of 5,000 over the course of a week or 8,500 on any given day. The bill also would give the president power to close the border unilaterally if migrant encounters reach an average of 4,000 per day over a week.
While crossings have fallen substantially in recent months, the average number per day over the month of March far exceeded those thresholds, at just over 6,000, according to Customs and Border Protection. Polls show Americans are deeply concerned
about the state of the southern border.
The compromise measure was negotiated by Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla.; Christopher Murphy, D-Conn.; and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz. Murphy joined Schumer at a news conference last week to announce he was reintroducing the bill.
“If Republicans think this situation at the border is an emergency, then let’s give them another chance to do the right thing,” Murphy said.
Republicans quickly signaled that they planned to block the bill again.
“This ‘border security bill’ doesn’t secure the border. In the hands of Biden, it’d make the border far LESS secure,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, wrote on social media. “I’ll be voting ‘heck no!’”
“Should it reach the House, the bill would be dead on arrival,” Johnson and the rest of the House Republican leadership team wrote in a joint statement.
Lankford spoke out last week on the Senate floor against Schumer’s plan to again bring up the bill he had helped negotiate, calling the move political.
“Why are we doing this?” Lankford said. “All the American people see it. Everybody sees this is political.”
Lankford pointed to a memo written by his Democratic colleagues that credited the death of the border bill with helping Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat, flip a seat in New York.
“The bill that I worked with Sen. Murphy and Sen. Sinema on — we’re not going to be able to pass,” Lankford said.
“So let’s find the sections of it that we can pass. The worst-case scenario is doing nothing. That’s what we’re currently doing.” Biden for months has considered issuing an executive order to prevent people who cross illegally into the United States from claiming asylum.
But Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the bill up for a Senate vote this week “provides more tools” than any executive action under consideration and that any unilateral move by the president would run up against a challenge in the courts anyway.
“Legislation provides, therefore, a level of stability, assurance and endurance,” Mayorkas told a group of reporters at the headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security. “So legislation is what is needed.”
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks alongside Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), left, at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, May 15, 2024. Schumer plans to push forward this week with a second vote on a bipartisan border enforcement bill that Senate Republicans killed earlier this year at the urging of former President Donald Trump. (Kenny Holston/ The New York Times)May 22, 2024 6
Nearly eight weeks after it rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, tearing down a Baltimore landmark but becoming a fixture on the horizon itself, the container ship Dali was guided earlier this week by tugboats back to a berth at the Port of Baltimore.
The move was a crucial step in the effort to fully reopen the main channel to the port, which was blocked in the early hours of March 26, when the Dali lost power and hit the bridge. The bridge collapsed on impact, killing six workers doing repairs on the bridge roadway, clogging the Patapsco River with about 50,000 tons of metal and debris, and disrupting the commerce of one of the nation’s key shipping hubs.
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Tugboats maneuver the container ship Dali at the
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Several shallower alternate channels were opened over the past two months, and hundreds of vessels have used them to go to and from the port. But returning the port to its usual traffic requires opening the permanent channel, which is 50 feet deep and 700 feet wide. Authorities aimed to reopen that channel by the end of May, and Capt. David O’Connell of the Coast Guard, the federal coordinator for the response operation, said they were on track to meet that goal.
Moving the 947-foot-long Dali was a complex and risky task, given that the ship was pinned in place by thousands of tons of mangled steel. Cranes removed 182 of the 4,700 containers on the ship, some of which were intertwined with the wreckage of the bridge. Last Monday, crews detonated small charges that had been placed around a massive section of bridge lying across the bow of the
Dali, sending the section sliding into the water beneath a plume of black smoke.
In the week that followed, sonar specialists and dive teams inspected the area around the ship for submerged and unstable wreckage, with cranes removing debris that could pose a risk. The final preparation to move the ship began Sunday afternoon, officials said, and it involved releasing mooring lines and lifting anchors. Early Monday morning, crews also began removing some of the hundreds of thousands of gallons of water that had been pumped into the ship as ballast to add stability.
Though the ship was scheduled to start its 2 1/2-mile journey back to port at 5:30 a.m. — right at high tide — one side of the Dali was stuck on the river bottom, O’Connell said. Some of the ballast onboard was moved to the opposite side of the ship, rebalancing the Dali and lifting it out of the silt. A little before 7 a.m., the ship was floating freely for the first time in 56 days.
About two hours later, the Dali was back at the dock. There, it will undergo further inspection.
Federal investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the accident and who might be at fault. A prelimi-
nary report issued last week by the National Transportation Safety Board found that the Dali had experienced at least two electrical failures hours before it left port. The outages potentially contributed to the accident, which came after the vessel’s electrical circuit breakers tripped, leading to a loss of propulsion and steering capacity, the NTSB said in its report.
The Dali will also be assessed to see what kind of repairs it will need. There is still a significant amount of debris piled on top of it.
“There’s four-lane highway sitting on the front of the ship that needs to be removed,” O’Connell said. He expected the ship to remain in the Port of Baltimore for a month or more.
Eventually, the Dali will head to Norfolk, Virginia, for further repairs, said Darrell Wilson, a spokesperson for Synergy Marine, the management company that operates the vessel. There, most of the containers will be removed and Maersk, the shipping company that chartered the ship, will arrange to have the cargo delivered to its customers by other means.
As for the ship’s crew, most of whom are Indian citizens, they will remain on board for now, to tend to the ship’s operations and because of visa restrictions. “We’re hoping we can work with the authorities to secure some shore leave for them, to give them a break,” Wilson said.
Seagirt Marina in the Port of Baltimore on Monday morning, May 20, 2024, after the ship was freed from wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and refloated. The Dali had been pinned in by the wreckage since late March.Standard & Poor’s has revised the outlook of technology and digital marketing company Red Ventures Holdco to negative from stable on elevated leverage, reaffirming its ‘BB-’ rating.
S&P expects the Puerto Rico-based firm to maintain leverage near a 4x downside threshold over the next 12 months. Red Ventures ended 2023 with an S&P Global Ratings-adjusted net leverage of 4.3x.
“Although we expect the company to decrease leverage to 3.9x in 2024, this remains well below our previous expectations for leverage of about 3x in 2024 and remains close to our 4x downside threshold for the current ‘BB-’ rating,” the credit rating agency said.
The company underperformed its previous expectations due to adverse macroeconomic conditions leading to reduced advertising spending on its portfolio of owned and operated websites. It also led to lower spending in the company’s partnership business (Red Digital) in which Red Ventures advertises directly on behalf of its clients and runs their marketing campaigns.
“Our base case assumes the company is able to increase
its EBITDA [earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization] by about 2%-4% in 2024 given its recent cost reductions and restructuring initiatives,” the credit rating agency said. “We expect leverage to decline back toward the low-3x area by the end of 2025 but our view of the company’s future performance remains highly limited given the short lead times of digital advertising.”
S&P says it expects the company to generate about $130 million of S&P-reported free operating cash flow (FOCF) over the next 12 months. It expects FOCF generation to remain healthy in 2024, despite earnings pressure, because the company has historically been able to convert 45%-50% of its EBITDA to free cash flow. “We expect Red Ventures will continue to maintain a balanced capital allocation strategy between a mix of debt reduction, shareholder returns, and acquisitions,” S&P said. “The company has already reduced the outstanding borrowings under its revolving credit facility by $60 million through the first quarter of 2024, and we expect the company could use excess cash for further debt reduction.”
Red Ventures expects to receive an additional cash benefit from the monetization of its Puerto Rico tax credits, which it believes could lead to around $215 million of cash proceeds over the next five years and could use a portion of those pro-
Standard & Poor’s expects Puerto Rico-based technology and digital marketing company Red Ventures Holdco to maintain leverage near a 4x downside threshold over the next 12 months. (Facebook)
ceeds for debt reduction.
“However, we also note Red Ventures maintains an acquisitive strategy and could use excess cash and revolver capacity to fund acquisitions,” S&P said. “We also expect the company will continue to engage in shareholder returns via either cash distributions or share repurchases. Red Ventures ended its first quarter with about $98 million of cash on the balance sheet, and we believe it is unlikely to take its cash balance below this level because the company typically maintains a minimum cash balance of $100 million.”
Versatile and resilient, the lobster survives by molting, shedding its skin and growing into a new, bigger shell. But eventually, energy runs low and the transformation becomes more difficult.
Red Lobster, one of America’s best-known shellfish ambassadors, has reached this stage in its life cycle: The onceubiquitous restaurant chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
The exterior of Red Lobster at Times Square in New York, Oct. 16, 2013. Facing challenges since the start of the pandemic, the seafood chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protect on Sunday, May 19, 2024, and said it would reduce its locations and sell of most of its assets. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
protection Sunday after more than a half-century as the country’s preeminent seafood franchise.
In court filings, the company said it had more than 100,000 creditors and liabilities of $1 billion to $10 billion. Red Lobster said it planned to reduce its locations as it prepared to sell most of its assets. In the meantime, surviving Red Lobster restaurants will remain open.
It has been a painful, slow end for Red Lobster, whose death throes were telegraphed earlier this year when the company reportedly sought to restructure its debt. After decades as a General Mills subsidiary, Red Lobster was purchased by a private equity firm in 2014, and bolstered by a 2020 investment from a Thai seafood conglomerate. But it faced challenges in the years since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, when industry headwinds, rising costs and changes in dining habits forced the company to close underperforming locations.
The Thai seafood company, Thai Union Group, announced in January that it was abandoning its Red Lobster investment. Last week, dozens of Red Lobster locations began selling off assets through a liquidator, offering up the spoils of a crumbling restaurant dynasty such as industrial freezers, lobster tanks and bar equipment (alcohol not included).
In its heyday, Red Lobster had obtained coveted status among suburban dining options: affordable enough to be accessible, fancy enough to be aspirational. Despite its founding in Orlando, Florida, the chain drew much of its inspiration from Bar Harbor, a tourist destination off the rocky Atlantic coast of Maine.
In its 56-year life span, Red Lobster had seen a host of reinventions. Initially billed as an oyster lounge and cocktail bar in the 1960s and ’70s, Red Lobster emerged in later years as a family-friendly dining choice that, for many, was an introduction to seafood.
It perhaps reached the pinnacle of cultural consciousness with a mention from Beyoncé, who name-dropped the restaurant in her 2016 song “Formation,” and just as swiftly fell from it. Last year, the chain stumbled on an all-you-can-eat shrimp deal that was so popular with diners that it helped push the company to an $11 million quarterly loss.
“This restructuring is the best path forward for Red Lobster,” CEO Jonathan Tibus said in a statement Sunday. “It allows us to address several financial and operational challenges and emerge stronger and refocused on our growth.”
Red Lobster did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Wall Street ended modestly higher and U.S. Treasury yields dipped on Tuesday amid the doldrums ahead of a holiday weekend and a lack of substantial market catalysts.
All three major U.S. indexes advanced and the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq reached all-time closing highs in advance of Nvidia Corp’s quarterly results and in anticipation of the release of the minutes U.S. Federal Reserve’s most recent monetary policy meeting, both expected on Wednesday.
“A lot of people are just waiting for Nvidia to report,” said Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth in Fairfield, Connecticut. “And it shouldn’t have a broad effect, but it will, it will influence on how the market trades.”
“There’s been so much emphasis placed on AI, every company seems to be talking about incorporating it into their operations,” Pavlik added.
Fed Governor Christopher Waller on Tuesday calmed fears of a rate hike, saying recent economic data indicates the Fed’s restrictive policy is working as directed.
Atlanta Fed Chair Raphael Bostic said the central bank needs to exercise caution ahead of its first rate cut to lead to pent-up spending and send inflation “bouncing around.”
Minutes from the Federal Open Markets Committee’s most recent meeting are due to be released on Wednesday, and they will be parsed for clues regarding timing and extent of policy-easing this year.
“(The Fed) is willing to think about rate cuts but we’re not there yet, those are the same thoughts we took away from their last meeting,” Pavlik said. “It’s akin to asking your parents to take you to Disney World and they say ‘we’ll think about it.’ At least they’re not saying ‘no.’”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 66.22 points, or 0.17%, to 39,872.99, the S&P 500 gained 13.28 points, or 0.25%, to 5,321.41 and the Nasdaq Composite added 37.75 points, or 0.22%, to 16,832.62.
European shares ended slightly lower, easing back from record highs as investors, cautious over central bank policy, awaited economic data.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index lost 0.18% and MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe shed 0.03%.
Emerging market stocks lost 0.79%. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan closed 0.91% lower, while Japan’s Nikkei lost 0.31%.
U.S. Treasury yields dipped as investors awaited the Fed minutes, eager for any clues regarding the timing of rate cuts.
Benchmark 10-year notes last rose 6/32 in price to yield
4.4139%, from 4.437% late on Friday.
The 30-year bond last rose 11/32 in price to yield 4.552%, from 4.573% late on Friday.
The dollar held firm against a basket of world currencies, after investors parsed commentary of Fed officials.
The dollar index rose 0.06%, with the euro down 0.01% at $1.0854.
The Japanese yen strengthened 0.05% versus the greenback at 156.20 per dollar, while Sterling was last trading at $1.2709, up 0.04% on the day.
Cryptocurrencies climbed amid signs that the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission may approve a spot ether exchange-traded fund.
Ethereum was last up 6.3%, while bitcoin reversed an earlier gain, inching 0.2% lower.
Oil prices dipped, extending losses as the prospect of lingering inflation and “higher for longer” interest rates raised concerns over dampening demand.
U.S. crude dropped 0.68% to settle at $79.26 per barrel and Brent settled at $82.88 per barrel, down 0.99% on the day.
Gold prices backed away from an all-time high as the greenback held its ground.
Spot gold dropped 0.1% to $2,422.58 an ounce.
People gather to mourn the loss of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash along with 7 others, outside the president’s office in Pasteur Street in Tehran, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)
By CASSANDRA VINOGRADFuneral commemorations for Iran’s president and foreign minister were underway in Iran on Tuesday as investigators looked into the helicopter crash that killed them and the country grappled with the shock of losing two of its most prominent leaders at a volatile moment.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has announced five days of mourning for President Ebrahim Raisi, 63, and Foreign Min-
ister Hossein Amirabdollahian, 60, who died when their helicopter plunged into a mountainous area near the Iranian city of Jolfa on Sunday.
The state news media said the crash had resulted from a “technical failure.” Iran’s Armed Forces said it had begun an investigation and sent a team to the site.
Videos posted by Iranian news agencies showed crowds lining the street behind barriers Tuesday morning under a gray sky in the northwestern city of Tabriz, awaiting a
procession carrying the flag-draped coffins of Raisi, Amirabdollahian and the six others killed in the crash.
Some people held photographs of Raisi; the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported that the country’s interior minister and acting president had been spotted in the crowd.
The funeral procession in Tabriz, the closest large city to the site of the crash, was the first in a series of official events to bid farewell to the president, a hard-line cleric who came of age during the country’s Islamic Revolution and oversaw a deadly crackdown on protesters as the head of the judiciary in 2019 and as president in 2022. He had been widely viewed as a potential successor to Khamenei, 85.
As a truck bearing the bodies of Raisi and the others wound its way through Tabriz, mourners pushed forward and tried to touch the coffins. Videos showed a few people in the crowds weeping.
While some Iranians mourned Raisi, others welcomed the loss of a man they viewed as a key figure in a corrupt regime who oversaw the execution of dissidents, used violence to suppress and kill protesters, and arrested journalists and activists.
After the events in Tabriz, the bodies were brought to the airport, where a military band played as the coffins were carried one by one to a plane that flew them to Tehran, the capital. A line of dignitaries along a red carpet greeted them at the airport, video filmed by the Reuters news agency showed.
Iranian authorities have declared Wednesday an official public holiday, and funeral prayers and a burial procession are scheduled to take place in Tehran. Khamenei is expected to perform prayers over the bodies in the morning, and the events will include an afternoon ceremony attended by foreign dignitaries, according to state news media.
Turkey said it would send a delegation that includes its vice president, Cevdet Yilmaz, and foreign minister; it was not yet clear which other world leaders would attend. The Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said that Moscow would not be sending a delegation, according to Russian state news agency Tass. But Vyacheslav Volodin, the chair of Russia’s lower house of parliament, would attend the funeral, according to the news agency.
Raisi’s burial is set to take place in his home city, Mashhad, on Thursday.
Iran’s leaders have moved to project a sense of calm in the aftermath of the crash,
reassuring the public that the government will continue to function. An interim president, Mohammad Mokhber, and interim foreign minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, were quickly named. A date for new presidential elections — June 28 — has been set.
But apprehension remains about what comes next for the country, which has careened from crisis to crisis. The crash occurred at a particularly fraught moment for Iran, against a backdrop of economic crisis, widespread public discontent and geopolitical tensions that last month pushed Israel and Iran to exchange rare direct attacks.
Analysts in Iran said the stability and survival of the Islamic Republic were not at risk, but many were wary about who would take over as president and who would constitute the next government.
The death of Amirabdollahian also disrupts Iran’s recent flurry of diplomacy with regional Arab countries to forge closer ties, manage the wider conflict with Israel and conduct indirect talks with the United States.
On Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry underscored that its work was continuing uninterrupted. It said that Bagheri Kani had spoken by phone with his Jordanian and Turkish counterparts. The conversations, according to state media, featured condolences over Raisi’s death along with discussions about the need to end the war in the Gaza Strip.
But some Palestinians in Gaza said they were skeptical about whether Iran was truly committed to helping secure a cease-fire.
“From the Palestinians’ perspective, Iran only takes an interest from the Palestinian cause and making use of our cause,” said Faris Mahmoud al-Najjar, 36, a blacksmith in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. “It is only good at selling words to us and other audiences, but many people are not buying it anymore.”
They have a stranglehold on the country’s infrastructure, from police stations to seaports. They have chased hundreds of thousands of people from the capital. And they are suspected of having ties to the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president.
Western diplomats and officials say the influence and capability of many Haitian gangs are evolving, making them ever more threatening to the Kenyan-led multinational police force soon deploying to Haiti as well as the fragile transitional council trying to set a path for elections.
With their arrival just days away, the 2,500 police officers will confront a better equipped, funded, trained and unified gang force than any mission previously deployed to the Caribbean nation, security experts say.
Once largely reliant on Haiti’s political and business elite for money, some gangs have found independent financial lifelines since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 and the collapse of the state that ensued.
“The gangs had been making their money from kidnappings and extortion and from payouts from politicians during elections and the business elites in between,” said William O’Neill, the United Nations-appointed human rights expert for Haiti.
“But the gangs are now much more autonomous and don’t need the old guard’s financial support,” he added. “They have created a Frankenstein that is beyond anyone’s control.”
Aiding the gangs is an arsenal more powerful than any they have ever possessed before, according to two Justice Department officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence assessments. Since February, some gangs have acquired automatic weapons — possibly a mix of arms stolen from regional militaries and others converted from
The home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where President Jovenel Moise was assassinated, Sept 10, 2021. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)
semi-automatic rifles, the officials said.
The gangs have also changed their public posture, posting social-media videos of themselves acting like militias with national ambitions and less concerned with their usual turf wars.
Some of Haiti’s gangs started working together last September, when they announced the alliance called Vivre Ensemble, or Living Together, just days after the Dominican Republic closed its land border with Haiti.
The idea was to unite the gangs to overcome the obstacles that the border closure posed to their drug-smuggling operations, according to two Western diplomats focused on Haiti who were not authorized to speak publicly.
But the alliance fell apart about a week after it was announced, after some 2,000 tons of cocaine was stolen from Haitian gang leader Johnson André, known as Izo, the diplomats said.
Izo’s 5 Segonn gang, or “Five Seconds” in
Creole, is believed to be the largest cocaine trafficker in the country, sending much of its product directly to Europe, according to the diplomats.
In late February, Vivre Ensemble was resurrected. The gangs publicly pledged to overthrow the country’s prime minister and vowed to resist the Kenyan-led security force once it deployed, calling the troops “invaders.”
Days later, the alliance stormed two prisons, releasing some 4,600 prisoners, many of whom joined their ranks. The chaos forced Haiti’s prime minister, who had been out of the country, to resign.
Among the escapees was Dimitri Hérard, according to Haitian officials, the head of the security unit that protected Moïse’s presidential palace before he was assassinated. Hérard ordered his forces to stand down as mercenaries stormed Moïse’s home. He had been in prison awaiting trial on charges tied to the assassination when he was freed in the prison break.
Hérard is now helping organize and advise Izo’s gang and may be providing connections to larger criminal organizations in the region, including drug cartels, according to a senior regional intelligence official and the two Western diplomats.
Hérard could not be reached for comment.
Hérard was also a prime suspect in one of the largest cases the Drug Enforcement Administration ever pursued in Haiti. In 2015, the MV Manzanares cargo ship docked in Port-auPrince with more than 1,000 kilograms of cocaine and heroin hidden among sacks of sugar.
At the time, Michel Martelly was Haiti’s president and Hérard was a senior member of his presidential security force. Hérard was seen by multiple witnesses at the port ordering members of the presidential guard to ferry drugs off the ship and into police vehicles.
“The gangs are more and more linked to
drug trafficking,” said O’Neill, of the United Nations. “And given that some former police officers like Hérard were involved in the drug trade when Martelly came to power, it wouldn’t surprise me if the gangs are now trying to court those ex-security officials.”
More recently, officials with knowledge of the negotiations to appoint a new Haitian prime minister say that Martelly has been lobbying Caribbean leaders and his political allies to try to influence the makeup of the interim government.
His allies on the transitional council have quietly floated a proposal that immunity should be given to the gangs, the officials said, possibly as part of a wider immunity for previous government officials who could be accused of corruption.
“I categorically deny these unfounded allegations of active interference with the transition council,” Martelly said in a statement to The New York Times, calling the accusations politically motivated. “I have never had any relationship with gangs, nor have I made any reference to amnesty for anyone.”
The government of Martelly, who served as president from 2011 to 2016, was accused of rampant corruption, including misappropriation of aid worth about $2 billion from Venezuela. In 2022, Canada imposed sanctions on him and other Haitian politicians for protecting and empowering local gangs, “including through money laundering and other acts of corruption.”
“The idea of an amnesty could add fuel to the fire if Haitians are not consulted,” said Romain Le Cour, a Haiti security analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, “considering the inability of politicians to come together in this moment of crisis and given that the gangs have committed severe human rights violations.”
In her new book “Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History,” Nellie Bowles, a former New York Times journalist grown disillusioned with both the mainstream media and the left, writes about the year 2020, when the combustible confluence of the pandemic, the murder of George Floyd and the prospect of Donald Trump’s reelection made politics and culture go “berserk.” She describes a liberal intelligentsia “wild with rage and optimism,” brimming with “fresh ideas from academia that began to reshape every part of society.” Her name for this phenomenon, often derided as “wokeness,” is the “New Progressivism,” and her book attempts, with varying degrees of success, to skewer it.
There is much about that febrile moment worth satirizing, including the white-lady struggle sessions inspired by the risible Robin DiAngelo and the inevitable implosion of Seattle’s anarchist Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Bowles dissects both in the book’s best sections. She seems to be inspired by the great works of 1960s and 1970s New Journalism about the absurdities of the counterculture, most famously Tom Wolfe’s “Radical Chic” and Joan Didion’s “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.” But “Morning After the Revolution” is undermined by Bowles’ lazy mockery and insupportable generalizations.
“At various points, my fellow reporters at major news organizations told me roads and birds are racist,” she writes. “Voting is racist. Exercise is super racist.” Even allowing for 2020’s great flood of social justice clickbait, these are misleading and reductive caricatures. It’s hardly revisionist history, for example,
to point out that interstates were tools of racial segregation.
But my biggest disagreement with Bowles lies in her insistence that the movement she’s critiquing has triumphed. She describes the New Progressivism as the “operating principle of big business,” as well as the tech sector and academia. This week, speaking on the podcast of her wife, Times Opinion writer turned heterodox media entrepreneur Bari Weiss, Bowles said, “The revolution didn’t end because it lost. It ended because it won.”
It didn’t, though. Even at the zenith of the Floyd demonstrations, the corporate social justice stuff was mostly window dressing; the operating principle of big business is and always was the pursuit of profit. And now, we’re in the middle of a furious reversal.
“Plenty of companies are reining in their rhetoric and in some cases action on issues such as sustainability and diversity,” said a recent Business Insider article titled “Woke No More.” Diversity, equity and inclusion departments, briefly prized, are being dismantled. “The backlash is real. And I mean, in ways that I’ve actually never seen it before,” the head of the Society for Human Resource Management told Axios. In the face of right-wing protests, Target, a company once known for its social justice trappings, has decided to stop selling Pride merchandise at some stores. And as the Times reported, Wall Street donors who were once hostile to Trump have made their peace with him.
On college campuses, both the Gaza Strip protests and the resulting crackdown have shattered the illusion that radical politics can be seamlessly integrated into elite academic institutions. Long-running arguments about speech and sensitivity have been turned on their heads as leftists demand the right to chant slogans that offend their classmates, while moderates and conservatives invoke the need to keep Jewish students safe from emotional as well as physical harm.
A protester at a pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus at University of California Los Angeles, on May 1, 2024. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times)
response to the Floyd protests, the Shenandoah County School Board in Virginia renamed schools that had honored Confederate generals. This month, the board changed the names back.
Even if it could be sanctimonious and grating, I fear we’ll come to miss the progressive urgency that marked the Trump presidency. Bowles writes as if the uprisings of 2020 were sparked by anomie rather than real crises. She describes them with an analogy to allergy science: “When the area around a child is very well disinfected, her immune system will keep searching for a fight.”
In thinking about that period, I also tend to reach for health metaphors, but different ones. America reacted to Trump as if he were a novel pathogen and became inflamed. Now our immune system is exhausted, and the virus is returning stronger than ever.
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Amid this upheaval, the era of content warnings and policing of microaggressions may have come to an end. (Certain progressive shibboleths, like the idea that a speaker’s intent is irrelevant in deciding what speech is problematic, have been undercut by protesters insisting that calls for an intifada be interpreted in the most benign possible light.) Donors and administrators, meanwhile, have lost patience with DEI programs, which they accuse of ignoring the concerns of Jews. Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the highest-profile school to jettison mandatory diversity statements in faculty hiring. I doubt it will be the last.
There are aspects of the New Progressivism — its clunky neologisms and disdain for free speech — that I’ll be glad to see go. But however overwrought the politics of 2020 were, they also represented a rare moment when there was suddenly enormous societal energy to tackle long-festering inequalities. That energy has largely dissipated, right when we need it most, heading into another election with Trump on the ballot.
Bowles writes that her book “is for people who want to understand why Abraham Lincoln is canceled,” referring, I think, to the San Francisco Board of Education’s 2021 decision, quickly reversed, to give new names to a bunch of city schools. But that period now feels terribly distant. Four years ago, in
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SAN JUAN – La Cámara de Representantes del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico aprobó la Resolución de la Cámara 1160, que busca realizar una investigación exhaustiva sobre la determinación de Camarero Race Track Corp. de obligar a los operadores de agencias hípicas a utilizar únicamente la plataforma de apuestas deportivas del Hipódromo Camarero.
El representante Edgardo Feliciano expresó su firme respaldo a esta medida, subrayando la importancia de la transparencia y la equidad en la industria de apuestas deportivas.
“Es esencial que garanticemos un mercado justo y
competitivo para todos los operadores. Esta investigación nos permitirá evaluar si las acciones de Camarero Race Track Corp. han infringido los principios de competencia leal y si están en el mejor interés de los consumidores y de la industria en general”, afirmó Feliciano.
La investigación buscará determinar el impacto de la decisión de Camarero Race Track Corp. sobre los operadores de agencias hípicas y los posibles efectos en la industria de apuestas deportivas en Puerto Rico.
El representante puntualizó que espera que la Comisión de Turismo y Cooperativismo realice vistas públicas y cite a todas las partes involucradas para asegurar una evaluación completa y objetiva de la situación.
Cayey Siempre Verde, iniciativa municipal comunitaria se celebra este sábado en Las Vegas
– El alcalde de Cayey, Rolando Ortiz Velázquez, informó que la iniciativa de servicios municipales denominada Cayey Siempre Verde se traslada este sábado 25 a la Comunidad Las Vegas, donde se ofrecerá una variedad de eventos deportivos y de salud para todos los vecinos del propio barrio Las Vegas, así como de la urbanización Vega Linda, sector Tinito Marín y Sector Los López.
“Este sábado nos vemos en las facilidades deportivas de Las Vegas de 10:00 de la mañana a 2:00 de la tarde, donde tendremos desde clínicas de varios deportes, hasta servicios de salud, bingo y sorteos. Este concepto, que iremos llevando por varias comunidades, tiene un doble interés, el llevar los servicios municipales a la gente y reforzar los lazos comunitarios y familiares”, señaló el alcalde. Entre los deportes a practicarse están
zumba, taekwondo, tenis de campo y volleyball.
Durante el evento, también se distribuirán bombillas de alta eficiencia sin costo, para aportar al ahorro energético de los hogares. Los vecinos interesados en participar deben mostrar su factura de servicio de energía eléctrica para el debido registro. Las unidades lumínicas son tipo Sylvania EcoLed, de 750 lumens, de menor consumo que las bombillas regulares.
Con relación a las clínicas de salud, estarán a cargo del Centro Municipal de Servicios de Salud Mariano Rivera Ramos, que llevará su unidad móvil para las pruebas de presión arterial y glucosa, sin costo para los asistentes. También el Departamento de Salud llevará información sobre el dengue, así los servicios de la Administración de Servicios de Salud Mental y Contra la Addicción (ASSMCA). El Programa de Rastreo Municipal también confirmó su asistencia.
Para información adicional sobre los eventos y ser-
vicios del Municipio, los interesados pueden acceder a Cayey Ciudad Verde en las plataformas sociales Facebook, X, Instagram y YouTube.
SAN JUAN – ¿Qué impacto tiene la inteligencia artificial en la operación diaria y las transacciones de la industria bancaria y cómo esto afecta o beneficia a los clientes? Esas y otras preguntas relacionadas las responderán expertos en la materia durante el XXI Foro Anual de Instituciones Financieras del Colegio de Contadores Públicos Autorizados de Puerto Rico (CCPA), a celebrarse este próximo jueves, 23 de mayo en horario de 9:00 a.m. a 5:00 p.m. en el hotel Royal Sonesta. La CPA Edmy Rivera, presidenta del CCPA, destacó la importancia de este foro, considerando el rol vital que juega la industria bancaria para el desarrollo eco-
nómico del país. “Las instituciones bancarias tienen una responsabilidad que va más allá de las transacciones financieras. Su rol está directamente asociado con la innovación y actualizaciones, por lo que a través de este foro presentaremos un panorama claro de las operaciones diarias de uno de los sectores más importantes de la economía local y cómo se enfrentan a los cambios de estos tiempos, principalmente a los relacionados con la tecnología y los principios contables”, enfatizó la presidenta quien extendió una invitación a contadores y profesionales interesados en el tema a participar.
En el foro también se presentarán las tendencias en el área de cumplimiento en instituciones financieras;
actualizaciones económicas para la industria bancaria; desarrollos recientes en contabilidad y auditoría; nueva legislación que impacta la industria bancaria; entre otros. Como invitada especial estará la Comisionada de Instituciones Financieras, Natalia Zequeira Díaz, quien presentará una actualización de los trabajos que realiza la oficina que dirige.
Interesados en participar, pueden registrarse a través del enlace: https://www.colegiocpa.com/ account/#calendar/event/77382. Para conocer más del trabajo y los servicios que ofrece la institución, pueden acceder a sus cuentas en las plataformas digitales en Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn e Instagram, bajo @colegiocpapr o a su portal www.colegiocpa.com.
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In the new Yorgos Lanthimos film “Kinds of Kindness,” a character played by Emma Stone recounts a dream in which she was the denizen of a bizarre world. “There, dogs were in charge,” she murmurs. “People were animals, animals were people.” But being brought to heel by their canine masters wasn’t as bad as it sounds, she says: “I must admit, they treated us pretty well.”
Compared with how the human beings treat each other in “Kinds of Kindness,” a dark new comedy that just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and is in theaters June 21, the dogs would surely be an improvement.
Comprised of three separate stories with the cast members recurring in different roles, “Kinds of Kindness” begins with the tale of Robert (Jesse Plemons), a corporate underling whose every interaction in life — including what to eat, how to speak or even who to marry — is controlled by a boss (Willem Dafoe) whose decisions send poor Robert into a tailspin. The second story follows Daniel (Plemons again), who becomes convinced that his wife (Stone) is not who she claims to be and coaxes her into insane tasks to prove herself.
And in the third sequence, cult members played by Stone and Plemons search for a woman able to wake the dead, though the whims of their guru (Dafoe) dictate that this mysterious woman also be a certain height and weight and have an identical twin. (Even when it comes to awesome supernatural powers, there are dealbreakers.)
On Saturday afternoon in a hotel here in Cannes, I met with Stone, Plemons and Dafoe to try to make sense of this triptych. According to the actors, Lanthimos isn’t keen to give too much away. “Yorgos says he likes it when people have different takes on the movie,” Dafoe said. “I think that’s the strength of it.”
And as we discussed the film and other Lanthimos projects like “Poor Things” and “The Favourite,” it became clear that to enter the director’s unusual worlds, cast members ought to leave their preconceived notions of meaning behind, too.
Here are edited excerpts from our conversation.
Q: Jesse, you’ve said that Yorgos wasn’t willing to discuss much about the script or these characters. So how do you find your place in the world?
PLEMONS: It’s not a comfortable place to be in, especially in the early stages. Everything is telling you, “No, I have to find a category, a box, I have to make some sense of this.” And then you spend time with people who have done this with Yorgos before, and slowly some atmosphere starts to take over and you loosen your grip on it a little bit and give into it. It becomes a fun exploration.
DAFOE: Characters are revealed through actions. You don’t decide who the character is and then have the experience, because then you’re blocking all kinds of impulses. But having said that, we’ve got a beautiful text. Particularly in the first and second sequences, the writing is just beautiful.
Q: But maybe there’s something appealing about not knowing all the answers. Part of the fun of “Kinds of Kindness” is coming up with your own thematic throughline for these stories.
DAFOE: It’s a living thing that isn’t nailed down, and people are going to come to it with their own experiences. When the
From left, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and Emma Stone in Cannes, France, May 17, 2024. The stars of the new Yorgos Lanthimos film “Kinds of Kindness” explain that when working with the director, the less you know, the better. (Sam Hellmann/The New York Times)
audience has to make their meaning, they have a stake in it. They make the movie with you, and that’s the power of cinema. You’re enriched by the experience and it’s not a passive thing.
Q: In the first story, Willem’s character is not unlike a director in the way he tells people what to do. As actors, do you want a director who takes such a strong hand in molding your performance, or one who leaves you to your own devices?
STONE: The dream is the combination of both. You want a strong hand in knowing what they’re trying to execute and whether it’s right or wrong, not “I don’t know.” But then you want the free will to create the performance and make it your own.
DAFOE: All great artists have discipline and a strong hand, usually. You find freedom in that structure. I like a director who says, “I see this,” and then you inhabit it. Yorgos understands the beauty of committing yourself. He believes in the wisdom and expressiveness of the body, and I do, too. When he throws that your way, it may feel dictatorial or like a restriction, but it’s great freedom because it’s the doing that’s the liberation.
Q: Emma and Willem, did you expect “Poor Things” would connect to the extent that it did?
STONE: No, no.
Q: Emma, you seemed shocked when you won the best actress Oscar for it.
STONE: I still don’t know what that was. That was cuckoo bananas.
Q: So what reason have you come up with that the film struck such a chord with people?
DAFOE: (points at Stone)
STONE: What?
DAFOE: Nothing, dear.
STONE: When you’re living in that experience and making the thing, it’s really hard to think about the ultimate response. My least favorite question of all time — and I understand why people ask it — is, “What do you want the audience to take away from this?” I’m always like, “I don’t know, whatever they feel!” So that’s the way I approach the films that I’ve been lucky enough to get to do: “What do I take from this? If it seems interesting to me, maybe it’ll be interesting to other people.”
I had no idea what people were going to think of “Poor Things,” God’s honest. At the end of every day, we’d be in the film lab and Yorgos would be watching dailies and I’d say, “What did you think about today?” And he’d say, “It’s a disaster.” So it was surreal, and similarly, I don’t know how they’ll respond to this one. I remember seeing “The Favourite” early on at a screening room and thinking, “It’s great, but I wonder if anybody will go see this movie. There’s so much fisheye!”
Q: Maybe that’s why Yorgos’ films catch on: Every person who watches thinks it’s just for them.
STONE: Because it’s just for him. With all the best storytellers, whether it’s authors or directors or painters, you can feel when they’re doing it for them because it’s something they need to express, or when they’re doing it for commercial success and for other people to respond to. He makes films because he’s interested in them and maybe that’ll resonate. I think the more personal something is, the more universal it actually becomes.
PLEMONS: I totally agree with that. To me, it always feels like a shock when a movie is finally coming out, even though that’s the way this works. Obviously, some movie you’re in eventually has to do well or they won’t ask you back, but what I get out of it is the doing of it.
STONE: You know that phrase “Interested people are interesting”? It’s like that: The more interested you are personally as an actor, I think it makes it more interesting. That idea of “one for me, one for them,” I don’t believe in that model at all.
PLEMONS: I don’t, either.
STONE: I don’t think it becomes resonant in the same way. I mean, I get it if you need to do it, but if you have the luck to not have to, hopefully you do what’s interesting to you, and that makes it interesting to other people.
DAFOE: One of the beautiful things about making something and playacting is you can really let stuff go and have these moments of liberation. It’s all pretend, it’s not connected to real-life consequence. If you’re very preoccupied with the result of what you’re doing, that’s a huge consequence and that takes away the joy, the inventiveness and the soul of something.
STONE: Even scene by scene! If it’s “I want to achieve this in the scene today,” that’s a recipe for disaster.
DAFOE: Look, you want people to like it. You want it to be a big success and for everyone to be happy, but it’s really important to not even think about where stuff is going. That’s probably why I can’t be a director. I look at the director and say, “It’s his problem!” (Laughs)
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN MILAGROS
GUZMÁN MERCED Peticionaria EX-PARTE
Civil #: BY2024CV02110.
Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. COD. 171-030046-10-001. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MAS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRA 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 e 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. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, PR 00969-5650, Teléfono 787-720-
9553. A: “RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno de forma irregular identificada como “Solar 1” en el plano de Mensura, radicada en el barrio Guaraguao del término municipal de Guaynado, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de QUINIENTOS TRES METROS CUADRADOS CON CUATROCIENTAS CINCO MILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (503.405 m/c), equivalentes a MIL DOSCIENTAS OCHENTA Y UNA DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE CUERDA (0.1281 cda). En lindes por el NORTE: en cinco (5) alineaciones que suman treinta y tres metros lineales con cincuenta centésimas de otro (33.50 ml) con Samuel Guzmán Moreno; por el SUR: en cinco (5) alineaciones que suman treinta metros lineales con setenta centésimas de otro (30.70 ml) con calle municipal; por el ESTE: en dos (2) alineaciones que suman veintidós metros lineales con sesenta y nueve centésimas de otro (22.69 ml) con Félix Guzmán Merced y por el OESTE: en nueve metros con setenta y ocho centésimas .Enclava estructura para fines residenciales. B: “RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno de forma irregular identificada como “Solar 4” en el plano de Mensura, radicada en el barrio Guaraguao del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de MIL TRESCIENTOS OCHENTA Y OCHO METROS CUADRADOS CON NOVECIENTAS SETENTA Y DOS MILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (1388.972 m/c), equivalentes a TRES MIL QUINIENTAS TREINTA Y CUATRO DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE CUERDA (0.0034 cda). En lindes por el NORTE: en cuarenta y dos metros con cuarenta y una centésimas de otro (42.41 ml) con Wilfredo Guzmán Moreno: por el SUR; en quince metros con noventa y cinco centésimas de otro (15.95 ml) con Félix Guzmán Merced y en cinco (5) alineaciones que suman treinta metros con cinco centésimas de otro (30.05 ml) con Samuel Guzmán Moreno, por el ESTE: en cuatro (4) alineaciones que suman treinta y cinco metros con cuarenta centésimas de otro (35.40 ml) con Sucesión de Ignacio Silva y por el OESTE: en seis (6) alineaciones que suman treinta y cuatro metros lineales con cincuenta y dos centésimas de otro (34.52 ml) con calle municipal.” 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 el edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 2 de mayo de 2024.
LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN MARTA
ALGARIN DE JESUS Peticionaria EX-PARTE Civil Núm.: BY2024CV02005. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: Todos los que tengan cualquier derecho real en la finca que más adelante se describe, las personas ignoradas, naturales o jurídicas, a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción de la finca a favor de la Peticionaria y a las personas desconocidas, naturales o jurídicas, que tuvieren derecho a oponerse o se creyeron con derecho a oponerse a la inscripción del inmueble que se describe más adelante POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal el expediente arriba mencionado con el fin de justificar el dominio a favor de la Peticionaria sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno identificado como solar 3 en el plano de Inscripción Sustituto, radicado en el Barrio Guaraguao Arriba del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 2,013.3746 m.c., equivalentes a 0.5123 cuerdas, en lindes: por el NORTE, en 52.81 metros lineales con terre-
nos de Alberto Sánchez; por el SUR, en 30.49 metros lineales y 10.00 metros lineales con área de viraje del camino que sirve de acceso; por el ESTE, en 76.80 metros lineales con el solar 4; y por el OESTE, en 33.63 metros lineales con terrenos de Alberto Sánchez. La Peticionaria adquirió la propiedad por Compraventa de Rafael Algarín Erazo y Elisa De Jesús Alvelo mediante escritura 11 otorgada el 22 de mayo de 1993 ante el Notario Público Elliot Merced Montañez. La propiedad antes descrita surge de la finca matriz que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Compuesta de 6.1377 cdas., equivalentes a 24,123.4080, ubicado en el Barrio SANTA OLAYA del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, colindando por el NORTE, con el Dr. Alberto Sánchez, por el SUR, con el Dr. Jesús E. Soto, por el ESTE, con el Sr. Baltazar Nieves Rodríguez, y el Sr Federico Sufront y Roberto Mercado, y por el OESTE, con el Dr. Alberto E. Sánchez. Enclava una estructura de hormigón para fines residenciales. La finca fue adquirida en dominio por declaración judicial. Consta inscrita al folio 6 del tomo 1551 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 67,914, inscripción primera y única, del Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón Sección I. SE LE NOTIFICA A USTED que este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite como persona que está en posesión de parte o todos los predios colindantes de la finca descrita, o tenga interés para que haga oposición a este expediente, si se viere perjudicado con la inscripción solicitada; advirtiéndole que de no hacer oposición dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde que fuera notificada esta citación, los Peticionarios podrán obtener que se apruebe este expediente y se mande a inscribir a su nombre la finca antes descrita en el Registro de la Propiedad, sección de Bayamón. 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:// tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial.pr/sumac2018 salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, notificando a la representación legal en la dirección de récord: LCDA. LIZANNETTE MORALES CRESPO PO BOX 5272
CAROLINA, PR 00984-5272
TEL. 787-945-5233
EMAIL: moralescrespolaw@gmail. com
POR ORDEN DEL HONORABLE JESUS SOTO AMADEO, Juez de este Tribunal, expido la presente en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy a 1 de mayo de 2024, bajo mi firma y sello oficial. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA, TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SUB-SECRETARIA, TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN FÉLIX GUZMÁN MERCED Peticionaria EX-PARTE
Civil #: BY2024CV032113. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. COD. 171-030046-10-001. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MAS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRA 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 e 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. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, PR 00969-5650, Teléfono 787720-9553. “RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno de forma irregular identificada como “Solar 2” en el plano de Mensura, radicada en el barrio Guaraguao del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de SEISCIENTOS NUEVE METROS LINEALES CON NOVECIENTAS OCHENTA Y UNA MILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (609.981 m/c), equivalentes a MIL QUINIENTAS CINCUENTA Y DOS DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE CUERDA (0.1552 cda). En lindes por el NORTE: en quince metros con noventa y cinco centésimas de otro (15.95 ml) con Milagros Guzmán Merced; por el SUR: en seis (6) ml) con carretera municipal; por el ESTE: en treinta y cinco metros lineales con veintidós centésimas de otro (35.22 ml) con Sucesión de Ignacio Silva y por el OESTE: en dos (2) alineaciones que suman veintidós metros lineales con sesenta y nueve centésimas de otro (22.69 ml) con Milagros Guzman Merced y en trece metros con cincuenta y seis centésimas de otro (13.56 ml) con Samuel Guzmán Moreno. Enclava estructura terrera en hormigón”. 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, 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 el edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 2 de mayo de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE UTUADO ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs PEDRO EURIPIDES
HUERTAS DE JESUS; FRANCISCO JAVIE
HUERTAS ROMAN; MANUEL ENRIQUE HUERTAS ROMAN; CARLOS ALFONSO HUERTAS ROMAN
Demandado
Civil Núm.: UT2018CV00174.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES POSTERIORES.
YO, RICARDO ACEVEDO RIVERA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Utuado, al público en general, POR LA PRESENTE HAGO
SABER: CERTIFICO Y HAGO
SABER: Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia del Secretario de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos, en mi oficina, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Utuado, el día 4 DE JUNIO DE 2024, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Radicada en el Barrio Viví Abajo de Utuado, Puerto Rico, compuesta de mil ciento noventa y tres punto cero doscientos cuarenta y dos (1,193.0242) metros y en lindes: al NORTE, con área dedicada a uso público; al SUR, con solar segregado de la finca principal; al ESTE, con terrenos de Petra Vázquez; y al OESTE, con área dedicada a escalinata. Finca 23,522, inscrita al folio 134 del tomo 412 de Utuado, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Utuado. En dicha propiedad enclava una estructura según consta de Escritura número cuarenta y siete (47) sobre Acta de Edificación otorgada el 18 de diciembre de 2002 ante el notario Luis A. Torres Rodríguez. La dirección física es: #52, Esteves Avenue, Pueblo Ward, Utuado, Puerto Rico 00641. Los tipos mínimos fijados para la ejecución del bien inmueble antes mencionado lo son las sumas de $235,000.00 para la Primera Subasta; $156,666.67 para la Segunda Subasta; $117,500.00 para la Tercera Subasta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde sea posible, el importe de la sentencia dictada el pasado 3 de agosto de 2018 en
el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $209,413.51 de principal, más $53,927.51 de intereses acumulados hasta el 3 de agosto de 2018, más los que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda, más la suma de $395.37 en cargos por mora, más los que continúen acumulándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda; más $8,561.78 por “escrow”; más la suma de $23,500.00 por costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados pactados. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 11 DE JUNIO DE 2024, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, y el tipo mínimo para ésta será $156,666.67 que es las dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18 DE JUNIO DE 2024, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, y el tipo mínimo para esta subasta será $117,500.00 que es la mitad del precio mínimo pactado para la primera subasta. Cuando se declare desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuere mayor. Todas las subastas deberán ser acordadas y celebradas según lo ordenado por el Tribunal. La subasta antes indicada se llevará a cabo en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. El inmueble antes relacionado NO consta afectado por gravamen preferenciales ni posteriores. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna, continuarán subsistentes; entiéndase que el rematante los acepta y quedan subrogados en la responsabilidad del mismo sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Para la publicación de este edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana, durante dos semanas conse-
tante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad está sujeta a los siguientes gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Sujeta a Condiciones de Subsidio, conocida como “Programa de Subsidio para Vivienda de Interés Social”, bajo la Ley 124 del 10 de diciembre de 1993. El beneficiario tendrá la obligación de reembolsar al Banco y Agencia del Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico la totalidad o una parte del subsidio recibido al amparo de dicha ley, en caso de que decida vender, permutar, donar o de otro modo transferir la propiedad dentro de un periodo de 6 años de la fecha de otorgamiento de la primera hipoteca (ya cancelada). La propiedad no podrá hipotecarse sin la previa autorización por escrito del Banco y Agencia de Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico. La hipoteca será asumible únicamente cuando el comprador subsiguiente sea elegible para un subsidio igual o menor al del beneficiario original y el Banco y Agencia de Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico así lo autorice, según consta de la escritura número 167, otorgada en San Juan el 29 de septiembre de 2001, ante el notario Solagne Morales Morales, inscrita al folio 30 del tomo 421 de Canóvanas, finca 16,697, inscripción 1ra. NOTA: Del Historial no surgen canceladas estas condiciones. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento
de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de MAYO de 2024. Hector Peña Rodriguez, Alguacil De Subastas Tribunal De Primera Instancia Centro Judicial De Carolina Sala Superior. ***
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EDICTO SOBRE RECUSACIÓN DE ELECTORES POR MOTIVO DE DOMICILIO Y OTROS CAUSALES
SAN JUAN 004
CITACIÓN A LOS SIGUIENTES ELECTORES A: HERNÁNDEZ JULITA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6640612, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61928; ORTIZ KEISHALY;, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6721250 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61929; BERRIOS SÁNCHEZ JEANETTE NALIX ,NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6017336 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61930; BURKE JANNETTE, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 3086053 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61931; CANINI MELÉNDEZ AMARILIS, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6017810 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61932; CANINI SANTIAGO MILTON IVÁN, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 3617206 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61933; DE JESÚS VÁZQUEZ CAROL GISELLE, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 3650494 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61934; ESCOBAR QUIÑONES LOURDES, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 2805408 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61935; FIGUEROA ÁLVAREZ RAIMUNDO, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 1696766 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61936; FIGUEROA DE JESÚS EDWIN OMAR, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6648409, NÚMERO
May 22, 2024
DE RECUSACIÓN 61937; FLORES VÁZQUEZ ZAIRA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4254471, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61938; GONZÁLEZ
MERCADO ERIKA M., NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6520526 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61939; GUZMÁN
SIMONS ALFREDO, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6520545 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61941; HERNÁNDEZ
RIVERA CARLOS Y, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6703806 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61942; ISAAC SERRANO YVONNE, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 2712914, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61943; LABOY ROSA BETZAIDA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 2954704, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61944;MONTALVO BÁEZ GLORIA MARÍA NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4537715, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN; 61946; MONTALVO
BÁEZ KATHERINE, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4073409, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61947; MONTALVO
BÁEZ XIOMARA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4537700, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61948; MUÑIZ MÉNDEZ MANUEL, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 3373189, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61949; NEGRÓN FIGUEROA
ROSA MARÍA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4122589, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61950; NEGRÓN TORRES PHILLIP NÚMERO ELECTORAL 2921617, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61951; NÚÑEZ LUGO ELÍAS, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 3599418, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61952; PÉREZ TORRES
ALEX MANUEL, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4014423, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61954; QUEZADA ARIAS TEODORO, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6017779, NÚMERO
DE RECUSACIÓN 61956; REYES GARCÍA JOSÉ JAVIER, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6394680, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61957; REYES GARCÍA MAYRA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4132115, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61958; RODRÍGUEZ ORTIZ ELISABETH, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4278244, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61960; RODRÍGUEZ ORTIZ LAURA ESTHER, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6253807, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61959; ROMÁN FONTÁNEZ LUIS ALBERTO, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4190716, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61955; SANTANA CASTRO ADNIEL OMAR, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4368869, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61961; SERRANO SILVA SARA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 1697761, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61963; SOSA CUEVAS LUIS FELIPE, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6463382 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61920; SOTO RIBOT INÉS M., NÚMERO ELECTORAL 1702510, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61964; SURIEL HERNÁNDEZ CHRISTOPHER, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6640613, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61965; TORRENS RIVERA EDDIE, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4537614 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61921; TORRES RIVERA DIDIMIA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 1702247, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61966; VELÁZQUEZ CÓRDOVA RAMONA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 1644547, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61967; VELÁZQUEZ RAMOS MIGUEL ÁNGEL, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 601749 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61926 . POR LA PRESENTE, se notifica que ha sido presentada una solicitud de recusación de electores por motivo de recusación de electores por motivo de domicilio y otras causales hacia su persona, y se ha señalado
VISTA PARA EL MARTES, 04 DE JUNIO DE 2024 A LAS 5:30 PM EN LAS OFICINAS DE LA COMISION LOCAL, LOCALIZADAS EN: COMISION ESTATAL DE ELECCIONES CALLE ARTERIAL B 550 DE SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918. LA DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA DE LA JUNTA DE INSCRIPCIÓN
PERMANENTE ES CALLE ARTERIAL B 550 DE SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO. EL NÚMERO DE TELÉFONO DE LA JUNTA DE INSCRIPCIÓN ES EL 787 777-8682. SE APERCIBE A LOS ELECTORES QUE, DE NO COMPARECER A LA VISTA EN LA FECHA Y HORA SEÑALADA, SE PROCEDERÁ CON LA MISMA SIN MAS CITARLE, NOTIFICARLE, NI OIRLE. FIRMADA POR HON. MARANYELÍ COLÓN REQUEJO, PRESIDENTE DE LA COMISIÓN LOCAL EL 13 DE MAYO DE 2024.
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EDICTO SOBRE RECUSACIÓN DE ELECTORES POR MOTIVO DE DOMICILIO Y OTROS CAUSALES SAN JUAN 004 CITACIÓN A LOS SIGUIENTES ELECTORES A: ACEVEDO GONZÁLEZ GISELL D., NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4002787, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61884; AQUINO SERRANO FRANCISCO, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4332124, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61885; ARCE MELÉNDEZ ALANA LOREN, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6453134, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61886; COLÓN BONILLA PAOLA ANDREA ,NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6602889, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61887; FABRE ORTIZ NORBERTO CARLOS, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6436046, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61888; MEDINA DÍAZ VIMARA AIMEE, NÚMERO ELECTORAL, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61889; MELÉNDEZ DÍAZ LILLIAM G, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4195373, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61890;OBREGÓN BALLESTER PATRICIA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6639154, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61891; ORAMA MIRANDA TANYA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6436047, NÚMERO DE
RECUSACIÓN61892; PUIG VIRELLA YAMILL, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4137746, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61893; RAMOS LUGO ALBERTO, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4238540, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61894; SERRANO CORA GABRIEL M., NÚMERO ELECTORAL 3602264, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61895; TORMOS BIGLES MARÍA TERESA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61896. POR LA PRESENTE, se notifica que ha sido presentada una solicitud de recusación de electores por motivo de recusación de electores por motivo de domicilio y otras causales hacia su persona, y se ha señalado VISTA PARA EL JUEVES, 30 DE MAYO DE 2024 A LAS 5:30 PM EN LAS OFICINAS DE LA COMISION LOCAL, LOCALIZADAS EN: COMISION ESTATAL DE ELECCIONES CALLE ARTERIAL B 550 DE SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918. LA DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA DE LA JUNTA DE INSCRIPCIÓN PERMANENTE ES CALLE ARTERIAL B 550 DE SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO. EL NÚMERO DE TELÉFONO DE LA JUNTA DE INSCRIPCIÓN ES EL 787 777-8682. SE APERCIBE A LOS ELECTORES QUE, DE NO COMPARECER A LA VISTA EN LA FECHA Y HORA SEÑALADA, SE PROCEDERÁ CON LA MISMA SIN MAS CITARLE, NOTIFICARLE, NI OIRLE. FIRMADA POR HON. MARANYELÍ COLÓN REQUEJO, PRESIDENTE DE LA COMISIÓN LOCAL EL 13 DE MAYO DE 2024.
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EDICTO SOBRE RECUSACIÓN DE ELECTORES POR MOTIVO DE DOMICILIO Y OTROS CAUSALES SAN JUAN 004 CITACIÓN A LOS SIGUIENTES ELECTORES A: ALVAREZ CUEVAS ANGEL RUBÉN, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6358837, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61897; BONIN PÉREZ MARÍA DE LOURDES, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 3933042, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61898; CABÁN FARIÑA COLETTE M. NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4146543, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61899; CABÁN FARIÑA KARLA LUCHEL, NÚMERO ELECTORAL
4332947, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61900; CAMBERO MARTE JOSÉ ANTONIO, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6595043, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61901; CARRASQUILLO COLLAZO ANGÉLICA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6246013, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61902; CASTILLO VILLANUEVA ANTONIO LUIS, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4381906, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61903; CINTRÓN JOSÉ ANTONIO, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 3463803 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61904; DESIDERIO DOMINGUEZ ANGEL LUIS, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6193675 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61905; DONATIU CINTRÓN CARLOS ANTONIO, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 3799264 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61906; GONZÁLEZ FIGUEROA
EDWARD ALEX, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6713849, NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61908; GONZÁLEZ
MOLINA JAHAIRA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 3718967 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61909; JACKSON MEDINA CLEMENT, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4404682 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61907; LÓPEZ PÉREZ ASTRID M, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 2081026 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61910; MONTAÑEZ GONZÁLEZ YADIEL ANTONIO, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 6604580 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61914; NORIEGA MELÉNDEZ ELBA AILEEN, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4034853 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61915; RIVERA ORTA MAGDA LUISA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 1711568 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61917; RIVERA RODRÍGUEZ JESSICA, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4269924 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61923; ROMÁN VEGA MARÍA M.
, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 0528896 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61924; ROSADO CABAÑAS MARIE GRACE, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 3964109 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61918; ROSSY CAMARENO ANGEL FELIX, NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4277241 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61925; SANTANA CASTRO SIGFREDO NÚMERO ELECTORAL 4131941 , NÚMERO DE RECUSACIÓN 61919
POR LA PRESENTE, se notifica que ha sido presentada una solicitud de recusación de electores por motivo de recusación de electores por motivo de domicilio y otras causales hacia su persona, y se ha señalado VISTA PARA EL JUEVES, 30 DE MAYO DE 2024 A LAS 5:30 PM EN LAS OFICINAS DE LA COMISION LOCAL, LOCALIZADAS EN: COMISION ESTATAL DE ELECCIONES CALLE ARTERIAL B 550 DE SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918. LA DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA DE LA JUNTA DE INSCRIPCIÓN PERMANENTE ES CALLE ARTERIAL B 550 DE SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO. EL NÚMERO DE TELÉFONO DE LA JUNTA DE INSCRIPCIÓN ES EL 787 777-8682. SE APERCIBE A LOS ELECTORES QUE, DE NO COMPARECER A LA VISTA EN LA FECHA Y HORA SEÑALADA, SE PROCEDERÁ CON LA MISMA SIN MAS CITARLE, NOTIFICARLE, NI OIRLE. FIRMADA POR HON. MARANYELÍ COLÓN REQUEJO, PRESIDENTE DE LA COMISIÓN LOCAL EL 13 DE MAYO DE 2024.
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LIME HOMES, LTD. Parte Demandante Vs. CLEOFE RUBI GONZÁLEZ, MORAIMA CINTRÓN AVILES Y LA SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: DCD2011-0183. Salón Núm.: (702). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: CLEOFE RUBI GONZÁLEZ, MORAIMA
esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 16 de mayo de 2024. En Utuado, Puerto Rico, el 16 de mayo de 2024. Diane Álvarez Villanueva, Secretaria. María C. Colón Cruz, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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LLACG COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND
Demandante V. SUCESION ELBA
MARGARITA VELEZ
MARTINEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV11657. (Salón: 604 CIVIL). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES. ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM.
A: WILLMAN ENRIQUE
RODRIGUEZ VELEZ, JUAN MANUEL
RODRIGUEZ VELEZ, ELBA MILAGROS
RODRIGUEZ
VELEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION ELBA
MARGARITA VELEZ
MARTINEZ T/C/C ELBA
MARGARITA VELEZ T/C/C
ELBA M. VELEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de mayo de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 16 de mayo de 2024.
En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 16 de mayo de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. RAQUEL DÍAZ LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCN RAFAEL COSME COSME Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CR2023CV00073. (Salón: 001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GUILLERMO A. SOMOZA
COLOMBANI - BILLYSOMOZA@ YAHOO.COM.
A: CARMEN MARIA COSME RIVERA Y RAMONA COSME RIVERA COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE RAFAEL COSME COSME Y LA SUCESION DE JUANA RIVERA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de febrero de 2024. En Comerío, Puerto Rico, el 26 de febrero de 2024. Elizabeth González Rivera, Secretaria. María I. Cruz Ortiz, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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Demandante Vs. FERNANDO REYES ROJAS
Demandado Civil Número: SJ2024RF00557.
Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTEAMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: SR. FERNANDO REYES ROJAS (NÚMERO PRESIDIARIO 42630-069); 101 FEDERAL DR. WELCH, WV ESTADOS UNIDOS 24801. FCI MC DOWELL - PO BOX 1009, WELCH, WEST VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES 24801.
Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la solicitud del epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere que radique en esta Secretaría el original de la contestación a la Demanda de Divorcio y que notifique con copia de dicha contestación a la Leda. María Pagán Hernández, P.O. Box 21411, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-1411, teléfono 787-282-6734, abogada de la parte demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Podrá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://.unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal como se explicó anteriormente. Si dejare de hacerlo, podrá dictarse contra usted sentencia en rebeldía concediéndole el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 6 de mayo de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. DALIA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA SERVICIOS A SALA.
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Demandante V. LUPE Z TORRES ARZOLA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2023CV03387. (Civil: 406). Sobre: COBRO DE
DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERA - NATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW.COM.
A: LUPE Z TORRES ARZOLA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 DE MAYO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de mayo de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 14 de mayo de 2024. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ
APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR FONDO DE INNOVACIÓN PARA EL DESARROLLO AGRÍCOLA DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. JOSUÉ LÓPEZ REYES
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CG2024CV00610. (705). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JOSUÉ LÓPEZ REYES - HC-08 BOX 38535, CAGUAS, PR 00725. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo
que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https.//unired.poderjudicial. pr., salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Andrea Carolina Chaves Figueroa; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; achaves@ esqlegalpr.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 8 de mayo de 2024. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA GENERAL.
MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Demandante V. ROBERTO MELENDEZ HERNANDEZ Y OTROS Caso Núm.: GB2023CV00597. (Salón: 202). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.
KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM. A: ROBERTO MELENDEZ HERNANDEZ - BO AMELIA 66 CALLE SANTIAGO IGLESIAS, GUAYNABO PR 00965; 2272 CENTERRA LOOP, KISSIMMEE FL 34741. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 DE MARZO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los
10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de mayo de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA A LOS FINES DE NOTIFICAR POR SEGUNDA OCASIÓN LA SENTENCIA POR EDICTO A PETICIÓN DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 14 de mayo de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. JAILEEN RIVERA JORDAN
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: RG2023CV00326. (Salón: 301). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANEROKEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: JAILEEN RIVERA JORDAN - URB JARD RIO GRANDE BY421 CALLE 76, RIO GRANDE PR 00745-2522; 31 LAYTON ST, FREEPORT, NY 11520; PARA LAS DOLORES, 325 CALLE ESPANA, RIO GRANDE PR 00745. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de mayo de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted
una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir d e 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 14 de mayo de 2024. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 14 de mayo de 2024. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SHEILA ROBLES HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
When Travis Snider was 11 and playing in the Little League West Region tournament, he started hyperventilating. He had pitched a perfect first inning and hit a home run. Then, in the second inning, he could not throw a strike. His heart rate shot up, and he started crying. He had to be taken out of the game. At the time, the episode was chalked up to sports-induced asthma.
Only much later would he be able to admit that it had been a panic attack.
Snider had been the best baseball player in Washington state since age 9. He reached the majors on Aug. 29, 2008, two years after the Toronto Blue Jays made him the 14th overall pick out of high school. He was one of the game’s top prospects, a can’t-miss player. Until he missed. And missed. And missed.
He spent eight years clawing his way into a major league lineup, playing more than 115 games in a season just once, in 2014. He was demoted to the minors. He lost his confidence. He was traded twice and designated for assignment. By 2016, he was out of the majors for good, playing with his fourth organization, Kansas City. He spent six years bouncing around the minor leagues, with a stint in independent ball, before he retired in 2022.
When Snider looks back at his panic attack now, he can see that having the game feel like life or death from a young age was debilitating. It left him unprepared to handle adversity or failure. And when he became a parent and a coach, he started to see the effect that kind of pressure can have on a child.
“You start to question your value as a human being,” said Snider, whose first demotion from the big leagues to Class AAA sent him into a tailspin. “You’re geared from such a young age to know your slash line, and that’s what you’re worth. You’re 8, 9 years old, and your whole identity is based off of achievements. You’re on the field to not just earn tro -
phies but to earn love.”
Snider, now a 36-year-old father of three, hopes to dedicate his postplaying career to breaking that cycle. Last spring, he started 3A Athletics, a company focused on fixing the broken culture of youth sports through a curriculum geared at helping parents, coaches and athletes. Still in its early stages, 3A offers interactive guidebooks for baseball, softball and soccer, with other sports in the works.
The rising number of 11- and 12-year-olds who are having Tommy John surgery is not youth baseball’s only concern. A 2024 study by the American Association of Pediatrics found that about 70% of participants dropped out of youth sports by age 13, citing things such as burnout, injuries and overtraining.
“We’re so focused on performance, we’ve lost focus on allowing our kids to develop first as human beings, and I was a product of that,”
Snider said. “How we parent our kids in youth sports will have lasting effects on them.”
3A came out of Snider’s relationship with Seth Taylor, a life coach whose clients include professional athletes. Snider started seeing Taylor in 2021 on a recommendation from a friend a few months after Snider’s father, Denne, died. Most of his sessions centered on his unprocessed childhood trauma — having parents who were addicts, being evicted from his home and how that all affected how he coped
when baseball grew difficult.
Growing up, Snider felt as if he were living two lives at times. In one, he was a high school football and baseball star, with great memories of his upbringing. His father was president of Mill Creek Little League. His mother, Patty, helped sell T-shirts. In the other life, he remembers them struggling with addictions. By the time Snider was a sophomore in high school, his mother had been in a coma because of pneumonia and had liver failure brought on by alcoholism. His parents divorced during the two-year recovery, and Snider began to go to anger-management classes.
When he returned from his first full season of pro ball in 2007, he still was angry at his mother. They got into a fight, and he told her to leave the home he had bought for her. She was in a fatal car crash days later. Snider was 19.
“The narrative that I crafted for scouts was that all this prepared me to go out and play pro baseball on my own at 18,” Snider said. “I thought I was mentally tough. But I was just suppressing a lot of this stuff. It would come back later, and I just wasn’t equipped to handle it.”
A few years before Taylor started seeing Snider, he worked with a former MLS player, Pat Ianni, on books aimed at changing the culture of youth soccer. Although Ianni was passionate about the subject, only one team actually brought in the books, and he abandoned the effort. The books, released in 2018, sat dormant on Amazon.
About a year into Snider’s sessions, Taylor mentioned the soccer books in passing. A few months later, Snider barged into his office and asked, “What are you doing with this now?”
Taylor said, “Nothing.” So Snider bought out Ianni and rebranded the soccer workbook for baseball. It became the book “Hero.”
“Travis sees it as a life mission,” said Taylor, who is now 3A’s director of content. “His career was a complete and total failure. He should have made millions and millions of dollars, but he didn’t because of trauma. And he’s the perfect advocate for this because of that.”
Snider and Taylor believe the best way to fix the culture is to target the two central figures in a young athlete’s life: parents and coaches.
“From zero to 9, that’s a fragile time for identity,” Snider said. “It’s difficult to understand how sensitive our kids are at that age and how quickly we can shut them down. We want to help parents who are feeling that pressure understand that. We don’t have to throw our kids in organized sports at age 3. Take them to the park and play. Save yourself the money.”
Taylor has spent his life trying to help people change themselves. But changing a culture?
“It’s an enormous barrier,” Taylor said. “We are so resistant to change.”
When he dreams big, Snider thinks about 3A teaming with larger youth sports organizations. He hired a chief strategic officer for 3A in January: Michael Nealy, a father of four whose oldest son, Colby, played four years in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ system.
“What’s exciting for me is to get kids, parents and coaches to understand what this is all about,” Snider said, “so we can have healthier, happier athletes who have easier transitions than me and the people I played with.”
In August 2022, Snider was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder. He is not shy about admitting he is a work in progress, as a parent, as a husband, as a person. He is still a regular participant in therapy. But he has made peace with his career.
He now sees his struggles in the majors as a vessel to bring awareness to parents that even if your children reach the major leagues or become first-round picks, they can still be broken.
“Do we want to keep putting the idea of achievement on a pedestal without focusing on the life skills of how you act on the field and manage relationships and stress? I overlooked it,” Snider said. “You are chasing the carrot of making X amount of dollars and making an AllStar Game. I want my kids to learn to regulate their emotions, and I don’t care what they want to do, as long as they know that’s not who they are.
“And if we can get more people to really understand and work on that, then we can really start to turn things around.”
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 21
