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Changes to Oil Tax Bill
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ov. Alejandro García Padilla may find resistance in the Puerto Rico Legislature to
his planned changes to the legislation that
hikes the crude oil tax to $15.50 from $9.25.
The governor plans to submit amendments
to the crude oil tax hike, which he is expected to
sign into law sometime before next Tuesday.
While the House leadership says the amendments will be approved, Senate oﬃcials insisted
they have to evaluate them first.
House Majority Leader Charlie Hernández said the amendments were technical ones,
although he did not elaborate on their nature.
Star sources, however, said the amendments
may remove a disposition that conditions the crude oil tax on the approval of tax reform and repeal
the 8.5 percent cap on the interest rate of a planned
$2.9 billion bond issue that will be paid oﬀ with
proceeds from the tax.
The governor also allegedly wants to put back
a clause that allows for
a 1.5 percent inflation
adjustment in the tax.
Those
amendments were introduced in the Senate.
Senate Vice President José Luis Dalmau
said Wednesday that
the areas the governor wants to change
are the same ones that
caused a stalemate in
the approval of the legislation when it was
passed in a special
session in December.
While he said there is
room for discussion,
he noted that the governor could meet re-
sistance to the proposed changes.
Senators do not want to restore to the bill the
clause that allows for a 1.5 percent inflation adjustment in the tax every four years because they
do not want it to go up. They also do not want
Puerto Ricans to have to pay a high interest rate
on the payment of the bond issue.
“We can negotiate the cap in the interest rate
to increase it a little, but we don’t want to repeal it
because if we give space to the Government Development Bank, then they might end up negotiating a high interest rate, which would be bad for
the people,” Dalmau said.
Hernández, however, said the amendments
will be passed because the Legislature wants to
give the island Highways and Transportation Authority the stability it needs to operate through the
bond issue.
“These are technical amendments that need
to be done,” he said. “Our goal is to give stability
to the authority and simultaneously to the Government Development Bank. … I have to feel confident that the amendments will be approved.”
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Camera-Based System Said to Be Issuing Traﬃc Tickets Outside of Lawful Hours
By EVA LLORENS VELEZ
[email protected]
T
he lawyer who recently filed an injunction
against the government to stop the camera-based traﬃc ticketing system, known as
Sistema de Fotomultas in Spanish, claimed Wednesday that Puerto Rico’s Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP by its Spanish
acronym) is now issuing traﬃc fines during hours
not permitted by law to raise money for the ailing
general fund.
Attorney Hiram Torres Montalvo showed a
camera-issued traﬃc fine for $145 given to Lizzia
Ayala in San Lorenzo for speeding in a school zone
on Oct. 13 last year, an oﬃcial government holiday
when schools were closed.
“This is another example of a callous and
ruthless government that since taking oﬃce in
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January 2013 has shoved its hand into people’s
pockets,” Montalvo said. “According to the traﬃc
ticket that Ms. Ayala received, she was driving in a
15-miles-per-hour school zone at 34 miles per hour
on PR-177 across from the Santa María mall on October 13. That day is an oﬃcial holiday. As provided in Section 387 of the Political Code of Puerto
Rico, as amended, October 13, 2014 was Columbus
Day. The speed limit in the area is 40 mph.”
He said that Article 5.02 of the Traﬃc Law
clearly sets a limit of 15 miles in school zones from
6 a.m. to 6 p.m. during school days or other hours
or periods as may be indicated or identified by signs with fixed messages.
“In the case of PR-177, there is only the sign
for the school zone from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. There are
no other signs. Then passersby will think, as they
must must, that this limit does not apply at other
times and that the applicable speed limit is 40 miles per hour.”
Torres Montalvo represents a group of citizens who filed a court injunction recently against
the camera-based system, charging that it is a form
of “entrapment.”
He also charged that DTOP oﬃcials have remained secretive about the new system.
“DTOP and Secretary [Miguel Torres] have a
history of secrecy on this matter,” he said. “People
must realize that this system is a form of economic
opportunism. Since we filed the lawsuit last week,
hundreds of citizens have contacted us via email
and Facebook to denounce the abusive system.”
He demanded an end to the irregularities in
the system.
Puerto Rico Seeks $600 Million
to Dredge Martín Peña Channel
By The STAR Staﬀ
G
ov. Alejandro García Padilla asked the U.S.
congress this week
for $600 million to
dredge San Juan’s Martín
Peña channel, according to
EFE news service.
Puerto Rico’s resident commissioner in the
U.S. Congress, Pedro Pierluisi, said recently in a
press release that untreated wastewater has been
discharged for years into
the six-kilometer tidal canal that connects San Juan
bay and San José lagoon,
and pressed for the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers
to move forward with the
project.
Dredging would also
reduce the risk of flooding
for some 26,000 residents
in surrounding communities.
García Padilla’s administration has allocated $100 million of its own funds to the project.
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Thursday, January 8, 2015
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San Juan, Festival Committee Agree on Stage Use, Sponsorships
By EVA LLORENS VELEZ
[email protected]
A
fter several hours, the city of San Juan and the citizens’
committee that organizes the Fiestas de la Calle San
Sebastián festival reached an agreement Wednesday
in court on the use of the Plaza del Quinto Centenario stage
and on sponsorships for the event slated to start Jan. 15.
The committee, however, told federal Judge Francisco
Besosa that it will move forward with a $1.5 million federal
lawsuit filed against the city last month for allegedly violating its religious and free speech rights, as well as for alleged
trademark infringement and contractual violations.
Besosa, after listening to both sides early in the day,
noted that the real controversy in the suit was that the committee wanted to use the Plaza del Quinto Centenario stage
during certain hours but is unable to do so because the city
also has its own shows. He ordered both sides to meet to reach an agreement on the matter to avoid his having to issue an
injunction.
After several hours, both sides agreed that the committee will use the Plaza del Quinto Centenario for its events
on Jan. 15 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The rest of the plazas in the
walled city will be used by the city.
The two sides also agreed that they will each seek sponsors for the event. The city originally wanted to take control
of the sponsorships because it was spending over $1 million
to provide security and transportation.
Both sides told the judge that they were satisfied with
the agreement.
The trademark lawsuit, filed on New Year’s Eve, accuses San Juan officials of libel in publicly “slandering” the
group, and calls for the court to “enjoin defendants from
using all its trademarks, namely Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián, Fiestas de la Calle and la SanSe, since the plaintiff is
the only owner of the same and has not given defendants any
authorization to use them.”
City Hall then issued a statement saying the festival
was going to go on as scheduled. San Juan Sen. Ramón Luis
Nieves criticized the organizers as a “phantom committee
that must be unmasked.”
“It’s time to unmask this phantom committee that calls
itself the organizer and owner of the Fiestas without paying
one cent, while San Juan residents pay more than $1 million
in public funds to organize the event,” the senator said in a
press release. “This same phantom committee now calls in
its lawsuit for the people of San Juan to pay $1.5 million, in
addition to the $1 million that the event costs.”
Filed by attorney Jane Becker Whitaker on behalf of the
Comité Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián Inc., the suit also targeted the mayor’s husband, Alfredo Carasquillo, the Spanish
Broadcasting Network, which is organizing this year’s musical events according to the suit, and other unnamed corporations, insurance companies and individuals.
The committee on Wednesday asked for the suit against
SBB to be dropped.
The suit charged the municipality and its contractors
with pushing the non-profit group out of its traditional organizing role and of illegally using the committee’s trademarks
for sponsorships that benefit the municipality while attempting to prohibit sponsors from contracting with the committee.
The group’s conflict with San Juan City Hall went public last month, when the mayor aimed to change the name
of the annual festival to the Fiestas de la Calle, arguing it was
more reflective of the festival.
The committee said Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto accused the committee of taking money under the table from
sponsors, which caused them harm.
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The San Juan Daily Star
Thursday, January 8, 2015
PIP Heir, Dead of Cancer, to Lie in State at Bar Association
By PEGGY ANN BLISS
[email protected]
T
he body of independence advocate and proponent of the arts
Gilberto Manuel Concepción
Suárez will lie in state today starting
at 10 a.m. at the Puerto Rico Bar Association, of which he was a staunch
defender.
The son of Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) founder Gilberto Concepción de Gracia, Concepción
Suárez died Tuesday of liver cancer at
71.
“Gilberto was an uncorruptable
independentista who never compromised his ideals,” said former Bar
Association President Carlos Mondríguez, noting that Concepción Suárez
had inherited his intellectual bent
from his father and his mother, professor Ada Irene Suárez Díaz, biographer
of patriot Ramón Emeterio Betances.
Former PIP President Rubén Berríos said his companion in arms was
a true blue independentista, “a faithful heir of his father and of his mother, whose brother was the first Nationalist martyr in the 1930s,” he said
in written declarations.
“My debt is so great and so intimate with Gilberto Manuel that it
would be impossible to communicate
it,” said Berríos. “His memory will be
an integral part of the history of the
party his father founded and that he
[the son] always honored.”
The political heir of his father,
a respected labor leader, Concepción
Suárez militated all his life in the PIP,
where he served as legal adviser and
oﬃcial examiner on the State Elections Commission (SEC). He also served on the SEC ad hoc committee investigating alleged primary fraud in
Guaynabo.
He was part of a committee that
fought to retrieve the memory of actor
Juano Hernández, the first black Puerto Rican to receive the prestigious Golden Globe award for his achievements
in Hollywood. He also wrote the book
“Los días con mi padre” (Days with
My Father), which was filled with
anecdotes about his father.
Manuel Rodríguez Orellana, the
party’s secretary of North American
Aﬀairs, spoke of his friend as “a de-
fender of Puerto Rico’s freedom and
of just causes.”
The two men became friends
through their parents, said Rodríguez Orellana, whose father Manuel
Rodríguez Ramos co-founded with
Concepción de Gracia the University
of Puerto Rico Law School Magazine
“Revista Jurídica.”
“Gilberto was a walking encyclopedia, and a great conversationalist,”
said Rodríguez Orellana.
“The best conversations were not
about politics, but about books and
trips abroad,” said Rodríguez Orellana. “I was always after him to write
seriously about his life experiences.”
Concepción Suárez is survived
by his widow Lilliam Camacho and
his children Ana María, María Elena,
Soledad and Carlos.
The body of Concepción Suárez
will be on view at the Bar Association
until 2 p.m. today. A Mass will be held
at 6:30 p.m. at Ehret Funeral Home in
Río Piedras.
PR-DR Ferry Passenger Charged for Smuggling Heroin
By EVA LLORENS VELEZ
[email protected]
U
.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) field operations oﬃcers have seized 10.1
pounds (4.5 kilos) of heroin concealed inside a decorative table found
inside a cargo van, driven by a male
U.S. citizen arriving from the Dominican Republic.
The estimated street value of the
seized contraband is $250,000, the
agency said in a statement earlier this
week.
Ezequiel Tineo Alcala, 45, appeared in U.S. District Court for charges
related to the smuggling and distribution of narcotics.
CBP field operations oﬃcers
conducting inspections of vehicles
that arrived on board the ferry M/V
Caribbean Fantasy selected Alcala’s
Ford cargo van for a more intrusive
inspection.
A CBP K9 alerted agents to a decorative table inside the van. The table was drilled into, revealing a residue which tested positive for heroin.
The vehicle’s Puerto Rico registration was in the name of the driver,
Ezequiel Alcala.
“Criminal organizations seek
to use the supply chain as a means
to conceal and move narcotics,” said
Marcelino Borges, director of field
operations for Puerto Rico and the
U.S. Virgin Islands. “Our oﬃcers remain vigilant to detect and prevent
any attempts to circumvent the secu-
rity measures that are in place.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special
agents assumed custody of the seized
contraband and Alcala for further investigation.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeanette
Mercado is in charge of the prosecution in the case.
CBP uses sophisticated methods
to identify and target potentially
high-risk passengers and cargo, including advanced electronic information about every passenger and
cargo shipment entering the U.S. before their arrival, canine inspections
and non-intrusive devices.
CBP Oﬃce of Field Operations’
dual mission is to facilitate travel in
the United States while securing U.S.
borders, citizens and visitors from
threats such as terrorists and terrorist
weapons, criminals, and contraband.
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Thursday, January 8, 2015
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Pierluisi Stresses Islanders’ Military Service in Renewing Statehood Push in Congress
By The STAR Staﬀ
R
esident Commissioner Pedro
Pierluisi on Wednesday intensified his defense of statehood when for the 15th time as Puerto
Rico’s sole delegate to the U.S. Congress he stressed the importance of
resolving the status of Puerto Rico
before the full House of Representatives.
Pierluisi addressed his colleagues on behalf of his constituents,
who he said “have made countless
contributions to the American nation
in times of peace and war, having
served in every military conflict since World War II.”
Pierluisi said Puerto Rican soldiers are “fighting today in Afghanistan and other dangerous places in
the same units as men and women of
Florida, Texas and New Mexico.”
“Many have made the ultimate
sacrifice in battle,” he said. “When
they do, their coffin returns to the
United States covered with the American flag. It takes a special patriotism
to fight for a country that one loves,
but not be treated equally.”
Referring to the results of the
status plebiscite held in November
2012, the resident commissioner said
“the people of Puerto Rico said: ‘No
more.’ They realize that they deserve a democratic and dignified status.
Second-class citizenship will be tolerated no longer.”
“They do not want special
treatment,” he said. “They demand
equal treatment. Nothing more. But
nothing less.”
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Pierluisi reminded his colleagues that the will of the people of
Puerto Rico was expressed in the
referendum of Nov. 6, 2012 where
statehood received more votes than
the current territorial status and independence or free association, demonstrating that Puerto Rico has no
desire to weaken the ties forged with
the United States for nearly 12 decades.
Following this result, the Obama administration proposed and
Congress approved an allocation of
$2.5 million to fund the first ballot in
the history of Puerto Rico supported
by the federal government, in order
to resolve the status of Puerto Rico.
“The only thing missing is that
the governor of Puerto Rico make
this query,” said Pierluisi, who had
insisted on the allocation. “However,
it’s been a year and we’ve only seen
inertia and indecision. They talk a lot
and do nothing.”
Pierluisi explained his proposal
to use “available funds to conduct a
federally sponsored ‘yes or no’ vote
on whether Puerto Rico should be
admitted as a state, as were Alaska
and Hawaii.”
This approach, he said, would
provide a definitive result that no
one could reasonably question.
And, he noted, it has broad su-
pport in Congress.
“A bill introduced in the last Congress that incorporates this approach
had 131 co-sponsors and resulted in
the establishment of an identical bill
in the Senate,” he said.
Note that Puerto Rico is home
to more U.S. citizens than 21 states,
who can not vote for their president,
are not represented in the U.S. Senate, and only have a delegate in the
House of Representatives without
the right to vote.
Moreover, he said, territorial
status gives license to Congress to
treat Puerto Rico worse than states
under major federal programs, and
Congress has often used that license.
“Everyone but the champions of
the status quo understands that the
economic crisis in Puerto Rico is the
result of its territorial status,” Pierluisi said. “As a result of the structural
problems that this status has generated, residents of Puerto Rico are migrating to the States in unusual numbers. I know they were heartbroken to
leave the island they love, but many
feel they have no choice.”
The resident commissioner said
he will “continue applying pressure
in both San Juan, and Washington,
D.C., using any strategy and technique that advances the cause of statehood.”
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Thursday, January 8, 2015
Same-Sex Pairs in Florida Say Jubilant ‘I Dos’
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ and
NILA DO SIMON
W
edding ceremonies began
and ended in the middle of
the night in Fort Lauderdale
and Key West, and hundreds of other
marriages played out under blue skies
in Miami Beach and Orlando, as Florida completed its long, arduous journey
Tuesday to become the 36th state to legalize same-sex marriage.
Along the way, the third-largest
state, the home of antigay crusades in
the 1970s, became a vivid symbol of
the extraordinary changes that have
shifted the landscape of marriage in
America. Only six years ago, Florida
passed a constitutional amendment to
ban gay marriage, garnering 62 percent of the vote.
Arms interlocked, about 20 gay
and lesbian couples, too eager to wait
any longer, were married in a fiveminute ceremony at 3 a.m. on Tuesday
at the Broward County Courthouse in
Fort Lauderdale. “Do you take each
other to be your spouse for life?” asked Howard C. Forman, the Broward
County clerk of courts, emphasizing
the word “spouse.” Together, the
couples uttered their individual vows
to each other. “I pronounce you legally married,” Mr. Forman said. With
that, the couples and their families and
friends roared, cheered and clapped,
and Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E” blasted
into the room.
For Florida, the path to “I do”
for same-sex couples is particularly
noteworthy. It was here that Anita Bryant, a singer and the state’s pitchwoman for orange juice, began a highprofile campaign in 1977 to defeat a
Dade County ordinance that barred
discrimination on the basis of homosexuality. Six months later, Mrs. Bryant,
whose antigay views and organization
went national, succeeded when a large
majority of voters in the county repealed the local law.
On Tuesday, opposition to gay
and lesbian marriage, while present,
was mostly muted. Gov. Rick Scott of
Florida, a Republican and an opponent
of same-sex marriage, did not mention
the flurry of weddings crisscrossing
the state during his inaugural speech.
In large swaths of the state, there was
widespread enthusiasm about samesex marriages, both as a human rights
issue and for its economic benefits.
Floridians anticipated a boomlet for
tourism and businesses catering to
weddings and honeymoons.
For others, the excitement was
deeply personal and long overdue. Anthony Butera, 44, and Abdel Magid, 45,
said there was no doubt that marrying
as soon as possible in their home state
was a must. A couple for 12 years, the
two donned wedding finery — Mr. Butera wore a cream tuxedo jacket with
a black handkerchief and Mr. Magid
a black tuxedo jacket with a white
boutonniere — and infectious smiles.
“It’s special to be recognized and
be treated like everyone else,” Mr. Magid said.
Similar late-night ceremonies were
held in Key West and Palm Beach County as scores of jubilant couples exchanged marriage vows and rings. MiamiDade was the first to proceed on Monday
when Sarah Zabel, a state judge there,
lifted her temporary ban on same-sex
marriages after Judge Robert L. Hinkle
of Federal District Court in Tallahassee
clarified his August order ruling samesex marriages as constitutional.
Three hours after lifting her ban,
Judge Zabel oﬃcially married two of
the six couples who had sued the county over the same-sex marriage ban. The
weddings took place at Miami’s civil
courthouse, where the couples exchanged rings.
As of 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, all 67
county clerks of the courts were required to issue wedding licenses to gay
and lesbian couples. Some, like Mr.
Forman, of Broward County, which
has a large gay and lesbian population,
embraced the duty eagerly.
Others, particularly in more
conservative northern Florida, took a
more reluctant approach. While county clerks said they would abide by the
law and issue licenses, some clerks,
including for Duval County, home to
Jacksonville, announced last week that
they would end ceremonial courthouse
weddings so as not to force staﬀ members who object to the marriages to
participate.
The clerk of courts in Duval
County, Ronnie Fussell, told The Florida Times-Union that marriage should
be “between a man and a woman.”
“Personally, it would go against
my belief to perform a ceremony that
is other than that,” Mr. Fussell said.
Florida’s long road to same-sex
marriage ended Tuesday after a temporary ban issued by Judge Hinkle
expired at midnight on Monday. On
Aug. 21, Judge Hinkle ruled that the
state’s same-sex marriage ban was
unconstitutional, as part of a federal
lawsuit brought by the American Civil
Liberties Union of Florida on behalf
of same-sex couples and a gay-rights
group. Judge Hinkle issued a stay, or
a temporary hold, on his decision and
gave Attorney General Pam Bondi until Monday to file an appeal. But her attempts to extend the deadline failed in
the Appellate Court and the Supreme
Court.
After two weeks of confusion over
whether the ruling applied to only one
county in Florida, Judge Hinkle clarified his order on Thursday, saying that
the “constitution” requires that clerks
in all of the state’s 67 counties issue
marriage licenses.
While same-sex marriage is now
legal in Florida, the larger battle on the
merits of the case must still be waged
in the United States Court of Appeals
for the 11th Circuit and, perhaps, the
Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is
expected to meet this week to consider
whether to take up related cases.
As gay couples began to wed, Jeb
Bush, the state’s former governor and
long an opponent of same-sex marriages, struck a conciliatory tone on Monday, saying in a statement that “regardless of our disagreements, we have to
respect the rule of law.”
Mr. Bush, who is considering
running for president, did not indicate any enthusiasm for challenging the
ruling. “I hope that we can show respect for the good people on all sides
of the gay and lesbian marriage issue
— including couples making lifetime
commitments to each other who are
seeking greater legal protections and
those of us who believe marriage is a
sacrament and want to safeguard religious liberty,” Mr. Bush said.
Shortly after sunset on Miami
Beach, a gay-rights stronghold, dozens
of gay and lesbian couples reaﬃrmed
their commitments at the botanical
gardens. Many had run out of patience with Florida and gotten married
elsewhere. Standing in a thick crowd,
Julio Sanchez, 52, and Antonio Gonzalez Sanchez, 56, beamed. They were
married June 11 in New York.
“I wanted to get married for the
longest time,” said Mr. Gonzalez Sanchez, who grew up in Miami, adding
that the two had been together now for
18 years. “We waited and waited and
waited, and it didn’t come through.
Now we got a surprise.”
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Boehner Fends Oﬀ Dissent as GOP Takes the Reins
John A. Boehner, with fellow members of Congress on Tuesday, overcame
a challenge to his job as speaker of the House.
By JEREMY W. PETERS
R
epresentative John A. Boehner beat
back an embarrassing challenge to
his speakership from aggrieved conservatives this week as Republicans assumed control of both houses of Congress,
pledging to restore function and civility to a
body that has become a symbol of disorder
for most Americans.
Two dozen Republicans voted against
Mr. Boehner, and one withheld his support,
clouding what should have been a day of
euphoria for the party on Tuesday after
its definitive midterm election victory. It
was the largest number of votes against a
speaker from members of his or her own
party in at least two decades.
But the defections on the right, which
were double what the speaker withstood
when he was elected two years ago, illustrated the serious challenges Republicans
confront now that they own the political
liability that comes with being the majority
on Capitol Hill at a time when disgruntled
voters are poised to turn against the party
in power.
Addressing the House chamber after
the vote, Mr. Boehner made no overt mention of the discord within his party, but urged his colleagues to set aside their diﬀerences and prove their skeptics wrong.
“They say that nothing is going to be
accomplished here; the division is wider
than ever, so gridlock will be even greater,”
he said, his voice at times breaking with
emotion. “No, this won’t be done in a tidy
way. The battle of ideas never ends, and
frankly never should.”
Despite the choppy start, Republicans
begin the year with a commanding majority. The breadth of their election victories
was on full display in the Capitol as members sloshed through a thick coat of fresh
snow to begin business for the first day this
year.
But even as new members were being
sworn in amid pledges of comity and compromise, a showdown between Democrats
and Republicans had already surfaced.
President Obama has said that he
would veto the item that Republicans have
made their first order of business: approving the long-stalled Keystone XL pipeline.
Senate Democrats quickly followed suit by
blocking a hearing on the pipeline that Republicans had hoped to hold on Wednesday, forcing them to delay the meeting by
a day.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the new majority leader, urged Democrats to drop their objections and let the
hearing proceed. “We all know that one of
the things the Senate is best at doing is not
doing much,” he said. “Why don’t we get
started?”
House Republicans were less restrained, expressing fury about the president’s
threat. “It’s toxic. It’s poisonous,” said Representative John L. Mica of Florida, insisting that the president had dashed hopes
of bipartisan compromise on the first day
of the new Congress. “The truth is he’s playing to his extreme environmental left.”
That anger may carry more force given that Republicans have their largest
House majority since the post-World War
II era, with 246 seats. In the Senate, where
12 freshman Republicans were sworn in on
Tuesday, the party has 54 seats to the Democrats’ 46, including a lone Democratic
freshman. Republicans had not controlled
both chambers at once in eight years.
In some ways, the partisan fissures
were evident even before the new Congress
arrived in Washington on Tuesday. The November election swept out of oﬃce the last
white Democrat in the Deep South and the
last Democrat anywhere in rural Appalachia, both once Democratic strongholds.
By land mass, House Republicans
now represent about 85 percent of the nation as Democrats become clustered in the
more populous metropolitan areas and on
the coasts. As that divide has widened over
the years, polarization in Washington has
increased as well.
The scene in the Capitol on Tuesday
was teeming with ceremony and tradition.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., in his
formal role as president of the Senate, was
on hand to swear in the new senators. He
blended a conventional “Welcome to the
Senate” with a number of humorous personal asides as they stepped up one by one to
the well of the Senate chamber to shake his
hand.
The atmosphere was heavier in the
House. The vote on Mr. Boehner’s fate dragged on for more than an hour as the clerk
read aloud the names of all House members.
A last-minute move by Representative Daniel Webster, Republican of Florida,
to challenge Mr. Boehner hurt the speaker,
most likely costing him more votes than
he would have lost otherwise. Initially
only two Republican congressmen rose up
against Mr. Boehner, both of whom are considered on the fringe of the party and dismissed by leadership as gadflies: Louie Gohmert of Texas and Ted Yoho of Florida. But
the entry of Mr. Webster, a more pragmatic
Republican who has a cordial relationship
with Mr. Boehner, came as somewhat of a
surprise.
Mr. Boehner moved swiftly on Tuesday to punish Mr. Webster for his disloyalty, deciding to strip him of his seat on the
powerful Rules Committee, a top Republican said.
The opposition to Mr. Boehner reflected the palpable resentment the Republican Party’s base harbors toward its
leadership in Washington. Almost since
he first took up the speaker’s gavel in 2011,
Mr. Boehner has faced calls for his ouster
from the far right. Tea Party groups routinely raise money from email solicitations
asking their supporters to help “Fire the
Speaker.”
Tea Party conservatives felt betrayed
anew late last month after Mr. Boehner ignored their pleas to push the government
toward another shutdown by denying funding in the federal spending plan to enforce
the president’s new immigration orders.
But ultimately, Mr. Boehner benefited
from the fact that there was no real candidate to replace him, Republicans said.
“I had a real internal struggle on my
vote today,” said Representative Matt Salmon, Republican of Arizona, a conservative
who has clashed with the party’s leaders in
the past. “If there was a legitimate opportunity to vote for somebody else that could
become speaker, then it’s a diﬀerent story.
But it was clear once the voting had materialized that he was going to be the speaker.”
Representative Mick Mulvaney of
South Carolina, a Republican who did not
vote for Mr. Boehner in 2013 but did so
this year, said the attempted ouster of the
speaker was “poorly considered and poorly executed.” He added, “This was an
eﬀort driven as much by talk radio as by a
thoughtful and principled eﬀort to make a
change.”
The random nature of some of the protest votes reflected how disorganized the
opposition to Mr. Boehner was. One congressman voted for Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, for speaker; another
voted for Senator Jeﬀ Sessions, Republican
of Alabama; two voted for Representative
Jim Jordan of Ohio. Mr. Gohmert received
three votes; Mr. Yoho, two. Each man voted
for himself.
Once the final tally was announced in
the chamber and Mr. Boehner delivered his
speech, the House gave him a standing ovation. Taking a jab at himself, Mr. Boehner,
urging members to be seated, said, “It’s still
just me.”
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Obama Kicks Oﬀ Pre-State of Union Tour with Housing Move
S
eizing on a recent burst of momentum, President Barack Obama kicked oﬀ a three-state tour to unveil what
the White House is calling “spoilers” from his State of
the Union address, starting Wednesday with lower insurance premiums for government-backed mortgages.
Under the proposal, announced as Obama was flying
to Michigan, the Federal Housing Administration will cut
annual mortgage insurance premiums by 0.5 percentage
point, to 0.85 percent. The White House said the reduction
means new home buyers and those who refinance with FHA
would pay $900 less a year than they would otherwise, in a
bid to help more Americans own their own homes.
After touting the auto industry’s resurgence in the afternoon at a Ford assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan, Obama was to fly to Phoenix — a symbol both of the housing
market’s crash and its slow recovery. The premium rate reduction was to be the centerpiece of Obama’s speech there
today before Obama finishes his trip Friday in Tennessee,
where he is expected to tout the state’s new policy to pay for
community college tuition.
All three issues are expected to play central roles on
Obama’s annual address to Congress, scheduled this year for
Jan. 20.
A recent flurry of aggressive executive actions on domestic and foreign policy have energized the West Wing.
With the economy growing and his approval rating creeping
upward, Obama is searching for ways to prevent this spurt
of momentum from being more than just a blip on the radar
of his presidency’s waning years.
Not on Obama’s schedule during his first workweek of
the new year: a meeting with the leaders of the Republicanled Congress, which oﬃcially began Tuesday. That won’t happen until early next week.
“I’m confident there are going to be areas where we di-
sagree and there will be some pitched battles,” Obama said
of the new GOP leadership, though he added that he was
hopeful for a “productive 2015.”
The contours of the first fight were set within hours of
the new Congress being gaveled into session. Republicans
moved forward with plans to advance legislation approving
the Keystone XL oil pipeline - and the White House vowed
to veto the measure.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican Kentucky lawmaker who is the new Senate majority leader, said Wednesday from the Senate floor that Obama’s veto threat just after
the new Congress convened “is anything but productive.”
Beyond Keystone, the Republican priority list for 2015
includes making changes to Obama’s signature health care
law, seeking to block his executive actions on immigration
and rolling back environmental regulations favored by the
White House.
On Wednesday, the White House said the president
would also veto GOP-backed legislation that would increase
the health care law’s definition of a full-time worker from 30
to 40 hours per week.
It should come as no surprise that the president’s to-do
list for the year looks far diﬀerent from Republican plans.
To that end, oﬃcials said the president planned to make
additional stops around the country next week in an eﬀort
to gain traction for his own priorities heading into the State
of the Union.
“Typically, we try to hold all the news until the day of
the speech,” White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiﬀer wrote
in a post on the blogging platform Medium. “But this year,
we figured there’s no time like the present.”
Escaping Washington has long been the Obama White House’s go-to strategy for generating momentum during
tough stretches of his presidency. White House aides say one
of the president’s biggest frustrations last year was his inability to travel around the country in support of Democratic candidates given his party’s wariness of his deepening
unpopularity.
But in something of a surprise shift, the president
heads out on this week’s fly-around with his approval rating showing some signs of strengthening. After dropping
to 40 percent in the Gallup daily tracking poll around Election Day, the latest survey shows 46 percent of Americans
approve of the president’s job performance. The percentage
of people who disapprove of the president has also fallen below 50 percent.
The slightly improving environment for the president
comes amid a surge in economic growth that’s been fueled
by hiring gains, cheaper gas prices and rising consumer confidence. Administration oﬃcials are warily watching slowdowns in other parts of the world, including Europe, but say
they believe the recent U.S. economic gains will be sustained, unlike other periods of progress under Obama’s watch
that proved to be fleeting.
As Power in Congress Shifts to GOP, Lives of Freshmen in Transition
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
T
hree hours after he was sworn in as a new member of
Congress on Tuesday, Representative Ted Lieu, Democrat
of California, stood outside the House chamber looking
bewildered as a colleague breezed past him, asking, “Where’s
Nancy’s thing?” — a reference to the opening day open house
of Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader.
Mr. Lieu shrugged. “I don’t know where anything is,” he
confessed.
It was that kind of day in the Capitol — marked by a
dramatic shift in political power in Washington, fueled by the
arrival of eager, optimistic (and sometimes just plain confused)
newcomers: 58 in the House and 13 in the Senate. For the first
time since George W. Bush was president, Congress is under
full Republican control.
But against the backdrop of that very big story were
countless smaller ones, of lives in transition. For starters, some
new members of Congress had not yet found places to live.
“That’s next,” said Representative Steve Knight, Republican of California, as he stood in a long line of lawmakers and
their families to get his picture taken with Representative John
A. Boehner, the House speaker.
Mr. Knight, a former member of the California Legislature
and a onetime Los Angeles police oﬃcer, said he had been staying in hotels in Washington. So had his fellow Californian Mr.
Lieu, who on Tuesday was in the Capitol with his wife and two
sons, 9 and 11, dressed in matching mint green shirts and ties.
As his wife tried to keep the boys from scuﬄing with
each other, Mr. Lieu said, somewhat sheepishly, that he had
enough points through his frequent flier program to cover
the cost of hotel rooms through April. “I expect to be a wellread member of Congress,” he said, referring to the long plane
flights home.
The first day of a new Congress is a lot like the first day
of school. But instead of being issued new books, new House
members receive packets with the essentials of congressional
life: their electronic voting cards, and the all-important lapel
pins that signify them as members, allowing them to walk past
security oﬃcers without being questioned.
What they really need, though, are maps.
Representative Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, is
a Washington veteran who worked in the White House for Mr.
Bush. But her experience at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue was of little use as she wandered near the House chamber
trying to get to the Rayburn Building, connected to the Capitol
by its subway. (A reporter gave her directions.)
At least Ms. Stefanik now has her House pin. At 30, she
is the youngest member of Congress, which led to some confusion after her election.
“The first time they brought the freshmen onto the floor
for orientation, they said, ‘Spouse?’ ” she said on Tuesday. “I
shook my head no. They said, ‘Member?’ I shook my head yes.
It was almost as if they couldn’t believe it.”
For some, Tuesday was a day to stake out alliances and
make the tough choices that go with becoming a representative of the people.
Representative Mark Walker, a deeply conservative North Carolina Republican and Baptist pastor, said he was under
pressure from his new constituents to vote against Mr. Boehner as speaker. Mr. Walker voted for him anyway, despite hundreds of calls asking him to vote for Representative Louie Gohmert, Republican of Texas, a Tea Party favorite.
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Soaring Bond Prices May Sound an Economic Warning
By PETER EAVIS
T
he United States economy is accelerating, unemployment is falling
and wages are even beginning to
creep higher.
Yet a huge bond market with a
strong track record for predicting economic problems is flashing a warning sign
right now.
The prices of Treasury bonds are rallying fiercely. The slide in oil prices has
elevated concerns about growth in the
global economy, and investors, as they
do in times of stress and uncertainty,
are seeking out the safety of government
bonds.
The rally in global government debt
is pushing their yields, which move in
the opposite direction from their price, to
astonishing lows. The yield on the 10-year
Treasury note — a benchmark for mortgages and other interest rates — fell below 2
percent on Tuesday. Any investor holding
that security would be paid only 1.94 percent each year, for the next 10 years. In
the past, such a return would have been
considered unthinkably slight.
In Europe, where the economies are
weaker than in the United States, yields
are even lower. The yield on the German
10-year note, for instance, fell to 0.44 percent on Tuesday. And Japan’s 10-year government security now yields an almost
nonexistent 0.28 percent.
“Make no mistake, these low levels
of rates are challenging the notion that
we are going to see robust and constant
growth,” said George Goncalves, a bond
market analyst with Nomura.
In other words, the bond market is
raising the specter that a period of economic growth that may have already felt
lackluster to many Americans could be
on the verge of losing steam.
But just how worried should one be?
After all, the bond market’s pessimism
might be overdone.
The United States economy grew
at an impressive 5 percent in the third
quarter of last year. And though the stock
market has fallen from its highs in recent
days, it is still trading on valuations that
suggest investors see few hurdles to continued growth in corporate profits.
Also, this is Wall Street, where investors often stampede into popular trades without giving too much thought
to fundamentals. And the bond market
does not always get its economic predictions right. A vicious sell-oﬀ in Treasury
bonds in 1994 turned out to be a false signal in a decade of almost uninterrupted
growth. More recently, the yield on the
10-year Treasury plummeted to 1.39 percent in 2012, substantially lower than it is
right now, and the economy did not collapse in the following months.
One of the reasons the big economies did not stall badly in 2012 was that
central banks, perhaps taking their cue
from red flags in the bond markets, reinvigorated their stimulus policies. Crucially, Mario Draghi, the president of the
European Central Bank, said that year
that he would do “whatever it takes” to
prevent the euro from coming apart.
And now, once again, bond investors
are hanging on European policy makers
doing more. The economies of the countries that share the euro seem perilously
stuck at low levels of growth. Inflation for
those countries was 0.3 percent in November, a level that appears to have deeply
unsettled Mr. Draghi.
“If inflation remains low for a long
time, people might expect prices to fall
even further and postpone their spending,” he said in an interview last week
with Handelsblatt, a German business
newspaper. “We are not there yet. But we
need to tackle this risk.”
One way that Mr. Draghi can tackle
that risk is to persuade skeptical policy
makers at the European Central Bank to
vote in favor of the sort of all-in government bond-buying program that the
United States deployed. He appears to
be getting closer to gaining such backing
— and anticipation of such a program in
the markets could be driving up the prices of the bonds that the European Central Bank would buy. Analysts say that
the low yields in Europe are prompting
investors to shift some of their holdings
into higher-yielding United States Treasury securities.
But even a big bond-buying program in Europe — and continued stimulus in Japan — might not be enough to
make bond markets optimistic about global economic growth.
Bearishness about growth has been
evident in other markets. Stocks, which
fell sharply on Monday, declined again
on Tuesday. The Standard & Poor’s 500stock index closed down 17.97 points, or
0.89 percent. The more narrow Dow Jo-
nes industrial average ended down 130.1
points, or 0.74 percent, while the Nasdaq
composite index closed down 59.84 points, or 1.29 percent.
Crude oil extended its slide, falling
another 2.11 percent, to $47.93 a barrel.
In the Treasury market, the price
of the 10-year note rose 27/32, driving its
yield down to 1.94 percent. The price of
the two-year note rose 2/32 to yield 0.63
percent, while the price of the 30-year
bond surged 2 9/32, to yield 2.50 percent.
It is in this market where the bearishness appears especially entrenched.
Specifically, investors point out that the
yield on the 10-year Treasury note has fallen by more than the yields on bonds that
mature, or pay oﬀ investors, well before
the 10-year note. This trend, known as a
“flattening of the yield curve,” is often
taken as a sign that investors think that
the Federal Reserve is going to tighten
policy before the economy is ready.
Raising interest rates, the theory
goes, will shore up yields on Treasury
bonds that mature in one or two years.
But increasing rates could stifle growth
and inflation, weighing on the yields on
the 10-year Treasury note, which is substantially more sensitive to such economic
forces. And the Fed has signaled that it
might be ready to raise interest rates later
this year.
“They might end up overthinking
things, being too clever by half, and end
up raising rates too soon,” Jeﬀrey Gun-
dlach, one of the most successful bond
investors, said in a recent presentation.
The action in the bond market,
however, points to a bigger question:
Why haven’t economies managed to
grow more strongly after so many years
of low bond yields? In the past, when the
central bank slashed interest rates and
bond yields fell, it would set oﬀ a robust
revival in economic activity.
Some bond investors say the stimulus from the central banks has a decreasing eﬀect because, each time the stimulus occurs, it increases indebtedness and
stokes speculation in financial markets
that fails to translate into growth in the
real economy.
“The power of additional and cheaper credit to add to economic growth
and financial asset bull markets has been
underappreciated by investors since
1981,” William H. Gross, the famed bond
fund manager, now at Janus, wrote in his
monthly outlook on Tuesday. “There comes a time, however, when zero-based,
and in some cases negative yields, fail to
generate suﬃcient economic growth,” he
added.
Bond market analysts, however,
oﬀer some solace by saying Treasury
bonds are not necessarily forecasting an
actual recession.
“We’re in the seventh inning of a
business cycle and it may be coming to
an end soon,” Mr. Goncalves, the analyst,
said. “It is not calamity but a slowness
that could linger for some time.”
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Intel Allocates $300 Million for Workplace Diversity
By NICK WINGFIELD
O
ver the last year, Apple, Google and other big technology companies have faced mounting criticism by civil
rights leaders about the lack of diversity in their work
forces, which are populated mostly by white and Asian men.
Now Intel, the giant chip maker, is taking more concrete
steps to do something about it.
On Tuesday, Intel said the company’s work force would
better reflect the available talent pool of women and underrepresented minority groups in the United States within five
years. If successful, the plan would increase the population of
women, blacks, Hispanics and other groups at Intel by at least
14 percent during that period, the company said.
In addition, Intel said it has established a $300 million
fund to be used in the next three years to improve the diversity of the company’s work force, attract more women and minorities to the technology field and make the industry more
hospitable to them once they get there. The money will be used
to fund engineering scholarships and to support historically
black colleges and universities.
The company also said it would invest in eﬀorts to bring
more women into the games business, partly as an antidote
to the harassment feminist critics and game developers have
faced in recent months. Intel became part of the furor last year
when, under pressure, it withdrew an advertising campaign
from a game website that had run an essay by a feminist game
critic, a move it later said it regretted.
“This is the right time to make a bold statement,” Brian
M. Krzanich, Intel’s chief executive, said in a phone interview.
Mr. Krzanich announced the plans on Tuesday in a speech at
the International CES, a huge trade show in Las Vegas. “It’s
kind of Intel’s culture. We march by Moore’s Law. We say we’re
going to reinvent Silicon every two years even though we don’t
really know how we’re going to pull that oﬀ.”
Many of the largest technology companies have released
reports showing that roughly 70 percent of their employees are
men and 30 percent are women. Depending on the company,
blacks account for anywhere from 2 to 7 percent of workers at
big tech companies.
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., who has led a campaign to
pressure technology companies on diversity, said Intel was
going beyond what others have done to remedy the imbalance in their work forces by setting more specific goals for
hiring.
“There is no comparison,” said Mr. Jackson, the founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, who has
spoken to Intel about its plans. “It is far beyond at this point. I
think others are going to follow their lead.”
Intel’s goals, though, face the harsh reality described by
many technology leaders: The supply of skilled workers from
underrepresented groups, especially in technical fields like engineering, is limited.
Rosalind L. Hudnell, Intel’s chief diversity oﬃcer, cited
statistics showing that just 18 percent of undergraduate engineering degrees go to women. That makes it especially diﬃcult
to improve diversity at Intel, which leans more heavily on technical employees than other tech companies.
“We hire more engineers; we just do, and that pipeline is
less,” said Ms. Hudnell.
And yet, even with fewer qualified female and minority
candidates for jobs at the company, Intel says it can do more to
recruit employees from those groups. For instance, the company estimates that if the black population with the appropriate technical skills was fully represented at Intel today, the
company’s current population of black workers would grow by
about 48 percent.
Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford University and author of a recent book on women in the technology industry,
commended Intel for announcing its diversity goals. “That’s a
big deal,” he said. “That will put pressure on other companies
to do the same.”
Intel’s employment statistics are fairly similar to those of
its peers. It has published company gender and race statistics
for over a decade. Its latest figures show that 76 percent of its
American employees are male, 4 percent are black and 8 percent are Hispanic.
In October, though, Intel unwittingly became a villain in
a controversy over the treatment of women in gaming, which
has come to be known as GamerGate. A loose-knit brigade of
Internet users lobbied the company to pull an advertising campaign on the game website Gamasutra because it had run an
essay attacking the male dominance of games culture.
Intel, which was caught oﬀ guard by the ensuing controversy over its actions, eventually resumed advertising on the
site. Mr. Krzanich said he used the incident as an opportunity
to think more deeply about the broader issue of diversity in the
tech industry. The issue resonated with him personally.
“I have two daughters of my own coming up on college
age,” he said. “I want them to have a world that’s got equal
opportunity for them.”
US Trade Deficit Hits 11-Month Low; Private Payrolls Increase
BY LUCIA MUTIKANI
T
he U.S. trade deficit fell to an 11-month low in November as
declining crude oil prices curbed the import bill, eclipsing
a drop in exports that could be related to a labor dispute at
one of the nation’s key ports.
Other data on Wednesday showed private employers stepped up hiring last month, a sign the U.S. economy was still sailing along despite slowing growth abroad.
The Commerce Department said the trade gap narrowed
7.7 percent to $39 billion, the smallest since December 2013.
When adjusted for inflation, the deficit fell to $47.8 billion
from $50.1 billion in October, probably not enough to change
views trade would be a drag on fourth-quarter gross domestic
product.
Trade contributed 0.8 percentage point to the third quarter’s
robust 5.0 percent annualized growth pace, which was the fastest
in 11 years.
Growth estimates for the fourth quarter are currently
between a 2.5 percent and 3.0 percent rate. In addition to trade,
inventory accumulation is also expected to restrict growth after
businesses restocked warehouses faster than had been anticipated in the third quarter.
But with lower gasoline prices and a tightening labor market expected to provide a tailwind to consumer spending, the
outlook is bullish for the economy in 2015.
The firming labor market was underscored by the ADP
National Employment Report, which showed private payrolls increased 241,000 in December after rising 227,000 in November,
The report, jointly developed with Moody’s Analytics,
came ahead of the government’s more comprehensive nonfarm
payrolls report on Friday, which includes both public and private
sector employment.
U.S. stock index futures extended gains on the employment report. The dollar was trading higher against a basket of
currencies.
In November, imports dropped 2.2 percent to $235.4 billion, the lowest since last February. The value of petroleum imports was the lowest since August 2009, pushing the petroleum
deficit to its lowest level in nearly 11 years.
A domestic energy boom has enabled the United States
to reduce its dependence on foreign oil, easing pressure on the
current account deficit. In November, the quantity of crude oil
imports was the lowest since February 1994.
The average import oil price dropped to $82.95 per barrel
in November, the lowest since December 2010, from $88.47 in October.
Lower oil prices should help to temper the impact of nonpetroleum imports, which are expected to rise because of strengthening domestic demand and a firming dollar.
Exports fell 1.0 percent to $196.4 billion in November. Both
exports and imports might have been hobbled by a labor dispute
at West Coast ports, which has been cited by businesses as causing delays in the movement of goods.
The decline in exports could also be an early sign that a
slowing global economy was starting to undercut demand for
U.S.-made goods.
Exports to the European Union fell 7.7 percent, while those
to Canada and Mexico - the main U.S. trading partners - also dropped sharply. Exports to Japan tumbled 9.7 percent.
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Venezuela’s Maduro in China Seeking Aid for Stricken Economy
V
enezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro met Thursday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping amid hopes
for new loans to bolster the South American nation’s stricken economy.
Xi reiterated the importance of relations during talks between the two
leaders at the Great Hall of the People
in Beijing, saying the two countries enjoyed a “cooperative strategic partnership” and would deepen cooperation in
all areas.
There was no immediate word on
new Chinese loans.
But after the meeting, the third between the two leaders since Maduro took
power in 2013, the Venezuelan president
said that during the trip, his government
had drummed up Chinese investments
in energy, technology and infrastructure projects worth $20 billion.
“Sometimes there’s a conspiracy to
try and make the world see Venezuela
as bankrupt,” Maduro told journalists,
highlighting the investments as a show
of confidence in the country’s socialist
revolution. “Venezuela is an economic
power in its own right, with a productive population and giant potential.”
China is Venezuela’s largest creditor and has loaned it more than $40
billion over the past five years, some of
which has been paid back in the form
of oil deliveries. While Beijing is eager
to keep relations healthy, it may become
reluctant to continue lending the South
American country large sums if prospects for repayment dim.
Maduro traveled to China on Sunday along with the presidents of Ecuador and Costa Rica for high-level talks
on Chinese trade, investment and financial support in Latin America. On Tuesday, Ecuador said it secured a $5.3 billion
credit line from China’s Eximbank.
China last year loosened its lending terms to Venezuela, extending a
deadline for repayment and ending minimum shipment requirements.
Venezuela is struggling with the
world’s highest inflation rate, a recession and a cash crunch worsened by a
steep fall in the price of oil.
It has so far unsuccessfully urged
OPEC nations to work together to drive
up oil prices, which have fallen by half
in six months. Venezuela depends on oil
for 95 percent of its export income.
Climatologists Balk as Brazil Picks Skeptic for Key Post
By SIMON ROMERO
C
alling Aldo Rebelo a climate-change skeptic would be putting it mildly. In his days as a fiery legislator
in the Communist Party of Brazil, he railed against those who say human activity is warming the globe and called the
international environmental movement
“nothing less, in its geopolitical essence,
than the bridgehead of imperialism.”
Though many Brazilians have
grown used to such pronouncements
from Mr. Rebelo, 58, his appointment this
month as minister of science by President
Dilma Rousseﬀ is causing alarm among
climate scientists and environmentalists
here, a country that has been seeking to
assert leadership in global climate talks.
“At first I thought this was some sort
of mistake, that he was playing musical
chairs and landed in the wrong chair,”
said Márcio Santilli, a founder of Instituto Socioambiental, one of Brazil’s leading
environmental groups. “Unfortunately,
there he is, overseeing Brazilian science
at a very delicate juncture when Brazil’s
carbon emissions are on the rise again.”
Brazil won plaudits for lowering its
annual emissions from 2004 to 2012, largely by slowing the rate of deforestation
in the Amazon. But emissions jumped 7.8
percent in 2013, according to the Climate
Observatory, a network of environmental organizations. Several factors were
to blame, the observatory said: deforestation on the rise again, growing use of
power plants that burn fossil fuels, and
increased consumption of gasoline and
diesel.
Ms. Rousseﬀ, a leader of the leftist
Workers Party, has been speaking strongly about the need to reduce carbon emissions around the world, raising hopes
that Brazil will work harder to preserve
much of its Amazon rain forest. The destruction of tropical forests is viewed as a
major contributor to climate change.
But Mr. Rebelo’s appointment comes as some scientists are questioning
Brazil’s commitment to reducing deforestation and emissions. Environmentalists have also expressed concern over
Ms. Rousseﬀ’s new minister of agriculture, Kátia Abreu, a combative supporter
of industrial-scale farming who worked
with Mr. Rebelo on a recent overhaul of
Brazil’s forest protection laws.
“Old-line Communist Rebelo is on
exactly the same page on climate science
as the hardest of the hard-core Tea Partiers,” Stephan Schwartzman, director of
tropical forest policy at the United Statesbased Environmental Defense Fund, said
in a blog post.
Before the international climate
talks that were held in Lima, Peru, in
December, the Brazilian government
said that the rate of deforestation in the
Amazon had declined by 18 percent in
the period from August 2013 to August
2014. But analysts said the government
had tailored its announcement to exclude a recent resurgence in deforestation.
Imazon, a Brazilian institute that uses
satellite imagery to track the issue, saw
a fourfold increase in November compared with the same month in 2013.
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Suspected Islamists Kill 12 In Paris Attack On Satirical Weekly
H
ooded gunmen stormed the Paris oﬃces of a satirical magazine known for
lampooning Islam and other religions
on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people in the
most deadly militant attack on French soil in
decades.
Police staged a huge manhunt for the
attackers who escaped after shooting dead
some of France’s top cartoonists at the Charlie
Hebdo weekly, as well as two police oﬃcers.
One of the assailants was captured on
video outside the building shouting “Allahu
Akbar!” (God is Greatest) as shots rang out.
Another walked over to a police oﬃcer lying
wounded on the street and shot him pointblank with an assault rifle, before the two calmly climbed into a black car and drove oﬀ.
A police union oﬃcial said the assailants, three in total, remained at liberty and
there were fears of further attacks. The oﬃcial
described the scene in the oﬃces as carnage,
with a further four wounded fighting for their
lives.
Tens of thousands joined impromptu
rallies across France in memory of the victims
and support for freedom of expression. The
government declared the highest state of alert,
tightening security at transport hubs, religious
sites, media oﬃces and department stores as
the search for the assailants got under way.
Some Parisians expressed fears about
the eﬀect of the attack on community relations
in France, which has Europe’s biggest Muslim
population.
“This is bad for everyone - particularly
for Muslims despite the fact that Islam is a fine
religion. It risks making a bad situation worse,” Cecile Electon, an arts worker who described herself as an atheist, told Reuters at a vigil
on Paris’s Place de la Republique attended by
35,000 people.
Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly) is well
known for courting controversy with satirical
attacks on political and religious leaders of all
faiths and has published numerous cartoons
ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad. Jihadists
online repeatedly warned that the magazine
would pay for its ridicule.
The last tweet on its account mocked
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the militant Islamic State, which has taken control of
large swathes of Iraq and Syria and called for
“lone wolf” attacks on French soil.
There was no claim of responsibility.
However a witness quoted by 20 Minutes daily
newspaper said one of the assailants cried out
before getting into his car: “Tell the media that
it is al Qaeda in Yemen!”
Supporters of Islamic State and other
jihadist groups hailed the attack on Internet
sites. Governments throughout Europe have
expressed fear that fighters returning from
Iraq or Syria could launch attacks in their
home countries and may now review their
own security.
“Today the French Republic as a whole
was the target,” President Francois Hollande
said in a prime-time evening TV address, declaring a national day of mourning on Thursday.
An amateur video broadcast by French
television stations shows two hooded men
all in black outside the building. One of them
spots a wounded policeman lying on the
ground, hurries over to him and shoots him
dead at point-blank range with a rifle.
In another clip on Television station iTELE, the men are heard shouting in French: “We
have killed Charlie Hebdo. We have avenged
the Prophet Mohammad.”
EXECUTIONS
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said
the assailants killed a man at the entrance of
the building to force entry. They then headed to the second floor and opened fire on an
editorial meeting attended by eight journalists, a policeman tasked with protecting the
magazine’s editorial director and a guest.
“What we saw was a massacre. Many of
the victims had been executed, most of them
with wounds to the head and chest,” Patrick
Hertgen, an emergencies services medic called out to treat the injured, told Reuters.
A Reuters reporter saw groups of armed
policeman patrolling around department stores in the shopping district and there was an
armed gendarme presence outside the Arc de
Triomphe.
“There is a possibility of other attacks
and other sites are being secured,” police
union oﬃcial Rocco Contento said.
U.S. President Barack Obama described
the attack as cowardly and evil, while German
Chancellor Angela Merkel was among European leaders condemning the shooting.
The dead included co-founder Jean
“Cabu” Cabut and editor-in-chief Stephane
“Charb” Charbonnier. A firebomb attack had
already gutted the old headquarters of Charlie
Hebdo in November 2011 after it put an image of the Prophet Mohammad on its cover in
what it described as a Shariah edition.
France last year reinforced its anti-terrorism laws and was on alert after calls from
Islamist militants to attack its citizens and interests in reprisal for French military strikes
on Islamist strongholds in the Middle East
and Africa.
Dalil Boubakeur, head of the French
Council of the Muslim faith (CFCM), condemned an “immensely barbaric act also against
democracy and freedom of the press” and
said its perpetrators could not claim to be true
Muslims.
Rico, a friend of Cabut, who joined the
Paris vigil, said his friend had paid for people
misunderstanding his humor.
“These attacks are only going to get worse. It’s like a tsunami, it won’t stop and what’s
happening today will probably feed the National Front,” he told Reuters.
The far-right National Front has won
support on discontent over immigration to
France. Some fear Wednesday’s attack could
be used to feed anti-Islamic agitation.
National Front leader Marine Le Pen
said it was too early to draw political conclusions but added: “The increased terror threat
linked to Islamic fundamentalism is a simple
fact.”
Germany’s new anti-immigration movement said the attack highlighted the threat
of Islamist violence. Merkel has condemned
the PEGIDA movement, which drew a record
crowd of 18,000 to its latest rally on Monday
in Dresden.
The last major attack in Paris was in the
mid-1990s when the Algerian Armed Islamic
Group (GIA) carried out a spate of attacks, including the bombing of a commuter train in
1995 which killed eight people and injured
150. A series of bombings of Parisian shops by
Lebanese extremists in 1986 claimed 12 lives.
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Anti-Immigration Movement in Germany Reignites Debate Over National Identity
Muslims gathered for prayers at a mosque in Dresden, Germany, on Monday. Protesters
have been marching in Dresden on Mondays against what they see as the damaging impact
of foreigners, and Muslims in particular, on the nation’s heritage.
By ALISON SMALE and MELISSA
EDDY
T
he appearance of thousands of
anti-immigrant marchers in Dresden has galvanized both sides of
the immigration debate in Germany and
reignited a discussion about national
identity.
Spurred on by a large influx of refugees from the Middle East, Africa and
other areas of war and upheaval, growing
numbers of protesters have been marching in Dresden on Mondays against
what they see as the damaging impact
of foreigners, and Muslims in particular,
on the nation’s heritage. The movement,
known as Pegida, an acronym for the
German version of Patriotic Europeans
Against Islamization of the West, attracted some 18,000 people on Monday.
But the issues that Pegida has raised have been seized on by those who
reject its message and who want to project a more tolerant image for Germany.
In the process, they are raising anew the
question Germany has grappled with for
decades: Who is German?
The business community on Monday stepped up its language against
Pegida, noting that the group’s demonstrations were hurting Germany’s image abroad and would not help Dresden
attract skilled immigrants needed to
fill jobs. Thousands turned out in Berlin, Cologne and other cities to counter
Pegida’s message by voicing support for
immigrants.
And on Tuesday, the best-selling
newspaper Bild said “No to Pegida,” and
devoted much of its first three pages to
statements from 50 prominent Germans,
in an eﬀort to show that Germany’s elites
stand for an open, tolerant and multicultural society.
Anti-immigration and anti-Muslim
sentiments have been simmering throughout Europe, as thousands of refugees
continue to pour in at a time of economic
weakness and amid growing fear created by the Islamic State and other militant Muslim groups.
Despite its standing as the economic powerhouse of Europe, Germany
has not been immune to the concerns
raised by Pegida and others, who say
the immigrants are a drain on public resources and raise questions about such
matters as language, customs and religion — including, as some have argued,
whether only those who speak German
with native fluency can be considered
truly German.
“A rift runs through society,” the
Council for Migration, a group of 80
academics from diﬀerent disciplines
and universities around Germany, said
in a statement Monday. “Every second
person is in favor of diversity, but every
third person also demands more courage
with showing patriotic feelings and thus
excludes immigrants.”
By contrast, all established political parties in Germany have reached a
consensus that immigration is good, and
needed, both to fill jobs and bring in expertise, but also to contribute to diversity. Just in the past month, it has become
possible for the first time for almost everyone born in Germany to foreign parents
to hold dual citizenship.
This is not the first time that identity
issues have surfaced in Germany. After
the Nazis were defeated in World War II,
millions of ethnic Germans were driven
from parts of Eastern Europe. There was
never any hesitation about taking them
in because their heritage was provably
German.
Later, when the new, bustling West
Germany needed workers, Turks, Greeks
and Italians arrived as “guest laborers”
— and many never returned. Instead,
they founded families or brought them
from home, living in tightknit communities largely isolated from Germans except in the workplace. That sentiment of
separation lingers to this day.
In 1990, East and West Germans reunited and discovered how diﬀerent they
were, despite both laying claim to German identity. Almost immediately, record
numbers of war refugees arrived from the
Balkans, complicating the already costly
and diﬃcult task of reunification.
East Germans were unaccustomed
to foreigners: Only 1 percent of their 17
million were foreign. Dresden’s location,
as the only major East German city that
could not receive West German television, reinforced its isolation. The city has
often been a site for right-wing rallies,
and the neo-Nazi National Democratic
Party of Germany has been elected at
least twice to the state legislature.
By 2000, there was a full-throated
debate going on about what constituted being German. The newspaper
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung this
week recalled that in 2001, four years
before she became chancellor, Angela
Merkel endorsed a party political paper
that refused to identify Germany as a
country of immigration. It stipulated
that newcomers could not integrate without accepting “the value system of our
Christian-Occidental culture, which was
marked by Christianity, antique philosophy, humanism, Roman law and the
Enlightenment,” all phrases now heard
from Pegida.
On Monday, the thousands who
marched did so despite an unusually
direct plea from Ms. Merkel to boycott
such rallies, whose organizers, she said,
had prejudice and “even hate in their
hearts.”
It is not just Ms. Merkel, and her
Christian Democratic Union party, who
has shifted markedly in the past 15 years.
According to a new study on the role of
religion and identity in contemporary
Germany, based on the questioning of
8,270 representative Germans by the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research at Humboldt University,
“being German today is something that
can be learned and acquired,” and is therefore no longer a matter of that ethnic
heritage.
While speakers at Pegida rallies insist that they are not against sheltering
war refugees and others in need, their
statements and their supporters reflect a
sense that they have not been included in
the discussion of what 21st-century Germany is, or should be.
Several marchers on Monday said
they were demonstrating to preserve
a Germany they know and recognize.
Marchers spurned the news media, and
few would be interviewed, but those who
did expressed concerns that the country
was being overrun by foreigners. It bothers them, some have said, to hand oﬀ
a changed country to their children and
grandchildren.
But in Dresden, capital of the
southeastern state of Saxony, just 2.2
percent of the population are foreigners,
and even fewer are practicing Muslims.
By comparison, Germany over all has 8
percent to 9 percent without citizenship,
many in cities like Berlin or Cologne,
where counterdemonstrators outnumbered small Pegida rallies.
Germany’s shift toward a mix of
cultures and backgrounds was evident
last summer, when the country’s World
Cup-winning soccer squad returned to
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin with their
trophy. Stars like Miroslav Klose, Mesut
Ozil and Sami Khedira, just three of the
16 million or so Germans of immigrant
background, were a vital part of the team.
The players were feted by the country’s
No. 1 female singing star, Helene Fischer,
born in 1984 — in Siberia.
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New York Times Editorials
No Justice, No Police
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
M
ayor Bill de Blasio has been in oﬃce
barely a year, and already forces of entropy are roaming the streets, turning
their backs on the law, defying civil authority
and trying to unravel the social fabric.
No, not squeegee-men or turnstile-jumpers. We’re talking about the cops.
For the second straight week, police oﬃcers across the city have all but stopped writing tickets and severely cut down the number
of arrests. The Times reported that in the week
ending Sunday, only 347 criminal summonses
were issued citywide, down from 4,077 over the
same period last year. Parking and traﬃc tickets
were down by more than 90 percent. In Coney
Island, ticketing and summonses fell to zero.
The city has been placed in an absurd
position, with its police commissioner, William
Bratton — a pioneer of “broken windows” policing who has just written a long, impassioned
defense of that strategy as an essential crimefighting tool — leading a force that is refusing
to carry it out.
Police union oﬃcials deny responsibility
By FRANK BRUNI
W
for the mass inaction. But Edward Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association,
said oﬃcers had talked among themselves and
“it became contagious,” apparently like the flu.
Call this what it is: a reckless, coordinated
escalation of a war between the police unions and
Mr. de Blasio and a hijacking of law-enforcement
policy by those who do not set law-enforcement
policy. This deplorable gesture is bound to increase tension in a city already rattled over the killing
by the police of an unarmed man, Eric Garner,
last summer, the executions of two oﬃcers in
Brooklyn last month, and the shootings on Monday of two plainclothes oﬃcers in the Bronx.
Mr. Bratton spoke delicately at a news
conference on Monday. He said there could be
other explanations, like oﬃcers being too busy
handling police-reform demonstrations and attending funerals. He promised to investigate
— and to “deal with it very appropriately, if we
have to.”
Mr. de Blasio’s critics foretold doom when
he was elected a year ago. They said graﬃti, muggings and other crime would rush back with a
vengeance. They were dead wrong — crime rates continued to decline to historic lows in 2014
— but now it seems the cops are trying to help
prove them right.
The madness has to stop. The problem is
not that a two-week suspension of “broken windows” policing is going to unleash chaos in the
city. The problem is that cops who refuse to do
their jobs and revel in showing contempt to their
civilian leaders are damaging the social order all
by themselves.
Mr. de Blasio, who has been cautious since the shootings, found his voice on Monday,
saying for the first time that the police oﬃcers’
protests of turning their backs at the slain oﬃcers’ funerals had been disrespectful to the families of the dead. He was right, but he needs to
do more.
He should appeal directly to the public
and say plainly that the police are trying to extort him and the city he leads.
If the Police Department’s current commanders cannot get the cops to do their jobs, Mr.
de Blasio should consider replacing them.
He should invite the Justice Department
to determine if the police are guilty of civil rights
violations in withdrawing policing from minority communities.
He should remind the police that they are
public employees, under oath to uphold city and
state laws.
If Mr. de Blasio’s critics are right and the
city is coming unglued, it is not because of what
he has done. He was elected by an overwhelming vote, because he promised action on police
reform, starting with the end of stop-and-frisk
tactics that corralled so many innocent New Yorkers into the criminal-justice system. The city got
the mayor it wanted — and then, because of Mr.
de Blasio, it got Mr. Bratton.
Mr. Bratton’s faith in “broken windows”
needs rethinking. But nothing will be fixed as
long as police oﬃcers are refusing to do their
jobs.
A video emerged this week of a New
York cop, apparently with nothing better to do,
horsing around on the hood of a squad car, falling oﬀ and hitting his head. It would be hard
to invent a more fitting image of the ridiculous
— and dangerous — place this atmosphere of
sullen insubordination has taken us.
The Man or the Moment
e measure our presidents against not
only our hopes for the present, which
are sometimes unreasonable, but also
our understanding of the past, which can be just
as flawed.
Has a misreading of history informed a misappraisal of Barack Obama?
That’s a question raised, not explicitly but
implicitly, by a new book by the Princeton historian Julian Zelizer, “The Fierce Urgency of Now,”
to be published on Thursday.
Its setting is the 1960s, as the title, a phrase
uttered by Martin Luther King Jr., suggests. Its focus is Lyndon Johnson. And one of its conclusions
is that despite Johnson’s legend as a peerless legislative tactician, he was largely a hostage of
Congress and of forces beyond the presidency.
Zelizer reminds us that many of Johnson’s
signature victories came during a two-year period when Democrats had two-thirds majorities
in both the Senate, where they held 68 seats, and
the House, where they held 295.
Zelizer also reminds us that Johnson’s
trouncing of Barry Goldwater in the 1964 election spooked Republicans to a point where many
fought progressive legislation less stridently than
before, lest they be portrayed as Goldwater-style
extremists.
Those dynamics and others worked powerfully to Johnson’s advantage, and when the climate
and the Congress changed, so did his fortunes. On
the domestic front (as well as on the foreign one),
the final two years of his presidency were a bust, at
least in comparison with what preceded them.
Obama’s name appears just twice in
Zelizer’s book. But it’s impossible not to think of
him more often, given how frequently the yardstick of Johnson’s presidency has been applied to
his. If only Obama were a schmoozer like Johnson. If only he had Johnson’s taste for the muck
of lawmaking. If only he had Johnson’s patience
for minutiae.
Zelizer told me that when he began work
on the book more than five years ago, “I still had a
kind of view of Johnson, as many do, as someone
who really knew how to work the system. What’s
surprising to me is that as conditions in Congress
change, he is really shut down. I didn’t expect
the last part of the book: a president who’s really
emasculated and can’t get anything done even
though he’s trying the same old tricks. It really
became crystal clear to me how Congress deter-
mines the fate of the presidency.”
Republicans currently control both chambers, and have a House majority bigger than before. That bodes disastrously for Obama’s legislative dreams, and it’s the point of reference for his
impulse to wield executive authority.
Zelizer said that instances over the last 50
years of a president truly imposing his will on a
Congress fully or partly controlled by the opposing party are rare. Ronald Reagan got tax cuts in
1981 despite a Democratic majority in the House,
but he’d just shellacked Jimmy Carter in the 1980
elections and Democrats were running scared.
Johnson’s name is popping up a lot now.
This year is the 50th anniversary of many of the
laws grouped under the Great Society, and the
movie “Selma” is drawing complaints for its portrayal of Johnson as resistant to voting rights for
blacks and sharply antagonistic to King.
“It’s not fair to Johnson,” Zelizer told me.
But in his view, Johnson has been considered too kindly by writers who attribute the Great
Society to his wizardry.
“He was cagey, he was smart, he was politically savvy,” Zelizer said. “But that doesn’t explain why the bills passed.”
And Obama can indeed be cold and disen-
gaged. But, Zelizer said, that’s not why he hasn’t
scaled the legislative heights that Johnson did.
Johnson benefited from “a vibrant period
for grass-roots mobilization as a result of the civil rights movement,” he said, adding that there
was pressure for legislation from the bottom up,
which is most eﬀective.
There hasn’t been any commensurate mobilization during Obama’s presidency. Zelizer said that
voters frustrated with congressional inertia should
examine their own exertions — and the ways in
which campaign financing, lobbying and gerrymandering have created a dysfunctional legislative
branch — as much as any president’s character.
Zelizer’s read on things leaves ample room
for Obama to be questioned on foreign policy and
for not making more of his first two years, when
Democrats controlled Congress. It’s also possible
that he should have made less of them, that delaying health care would have spared Democrats
their 2010 drubbing and given him additional
time with a friendly(-ish) Congress.
But it’s undeniable that we treat our presidents as larger than life, simplifying the stories
we tell. They’re not always mighty frigates parting the waters. They’re just as much buoys on the
tides of history, rising and falling with the swells.
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New York Times Editorials
Time for a Pause
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Y
ou could easily write a book, or, better yet,
make a movie about the drama that engulfed Sony Pictures and “The Interview,”
Sony’s own movie about the fictionalized assassination of North Korea’s real-life dictator. The
whole saga reflects so many of the changes that
are roiling and reshaping today’s world before
we’ve learned to adjust to them.
Think about this: In November 2013, hackers stole 40 million credit and debit card numbers
from Target’s point-of-sale systems. Beginning in
late August 2014, nude photos believed to have
been stored by celebrities on Apple’s iCloud were
spilled onto the sidewalk. Thanksgiving brought
us the Sony hack, when, as The Times reported: “Everything and anything had been taken.
Contracts. Salary lists. Film budgets. Medical records. Social Security numbers. Personal emails.
Five entire movies.” And, on Christmas, gaming
networks for both the Sony PlayStation and the
Microsoft Xbox were shut down by hackers. But
rising cybercrime is only part of the story. Every
day a public figure is apologizing for something
crazy or foul that he or she muttered, uttered,
tweeted or shouted that went viral — including
the rantings of an N.B.A. owner in his girlfriend’s
living room.
What’s going on? We’re in the midst of a
Gutenberg-scale change in how information is generated, stored, shared, protected and turned into
products and services. We are seeing individuals
become superempowered to challenge governments and corporations. And we are seeing the
rise of apps that are putting strangers into intimate proximity in each other’s homes (think Airbnb)
and into each other’s cars (think Uber) and into
each other’s heads (think Facebook, Twitter and
Instagram). Thanks to the integration of networks, smartphones, banks and markets, the world
has never been more tightly wired. As they say:
“Lost there, felt here.” Whispered there, heard
here. And it’s now hit a tipping point.
“The world is not just rapidly changing; it
is being dramatically reshaped,” Dov Seidman,
author of the book “How” and C.E.O. of LRN,
which advises global businesses on ethics and
leadership, argued to me in a recent conversation.
“It operates diﬀerently. It’s not just interconnected; it’s interdependent. More than ever before,
we rise and fall together. So few can now so easily
and so profoundly aﬀect so many so far away.”
But, he added, “it’s all happened faster
than we’ve reshaped ourselves and developed
the necessary norms, behaviors, laws and institutions to adapt.”
The implications for leading and operating are enormous. For starters, our privacy walls
are proving no match for the new technologies.
“Now, we’re not only getting X-ray vision into the
behavior of others,” said Seidman. “We’re getting
fine-grained M.R.I.’s into the inner workings of
palaces, boardrooms and organizations and into
the mind-sets of those who lead them.”
So how does anyone adapt? Just disconnect? “Trying to disconnect to avoid exposure in a
connected world is a misguided strategy,” argued
Seidman. “If you do that, how will you create value and get anything done?” The right strategy is
“to deepen and strengthen all these connections.”
But how? “If we’re in an interdependent
world, then the only strategy for countries, companies and individuals is to build healthy interdependencies so we rise, and not fall, together,”
Seidman added. “This comes down to behavior.
It means being guided by sustainable values like
humility, integrity and respect in how we work
with others: values that build healthy interdependencies.” It means shunning “situational ‘values,’
just doing whatever the situation allows.”
The American-Canadian relationship is a
healthy interdependency. The relationship between police forces and black youths today is an
unhealthy interdependency. The relationship bet-
Losing the Tea Party Baggage
By Thomas B. Edsall
W
ith the demographic composition of
the electorate rapidly changing, what
is the best way for Republicans in diverse states to campaign? The election in November of Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado
provides a template for the party on how to succeed in a battleground state with two ascendant
constituencies: well-educated social liberals and
increasingly assertive Hispanic voters.
Gardner prevailed by jettisoning most
of his own conservative baggage. A hard-core
loyalist of the right during his service in the
state legislature from 2005 to 2010 and as a congressman for two terms, Gardner won a tough
election against the Democratic incumbent Mark
Udall by shifting left on both immigration and
social issues like abortion and contraception.
These maneuvers did not cost Gardner support from the Republican Party base. Exit poll
data reveals that Gardner did as well or better
with core party voters than other recent Republican statewide candidates.
Colorado, a rapidly growing swing state,
is a testing ground for competing partisan and
ideological strategies. Obama carried the state
twice but so did George W. Bush. Republicans
currently control the State Senate by one seat, 1817; Democrats have a slim majority in the State
House, 34-31.
Colorado has a sizeable college-educated
population: 37 percent of those 25 and older in
Colorado have a bachelor’s degree or higher,
compared to 28.8 percent nationwide. Just over
one out of five Coloradans is Hispanic, 21 percent, compared to 17.1 percent nationally.
Running statewide for the first time after
representing largely conservative rural voters,
Gardner radically altered his ideological selfpositioning.
He abandoned his past opposition to liberal immigration policies. On June 5, Gardner
declared his support for giving undocumented
immigrants who serve in the armed forces a
path to citizenship. On Aug. 1, Gardner cast one
of only 11 House Republican votes in favor of an
Obama administration program granting work
permits to immigrants brought here illegally as
children.
Gardner’s most dramatic shift was to publicly renounce, on March 21, his own sponsorship, as a member of the House, of an anti-abortion constitutional “personhood” amendment.
That wasn’t all. On Sept. 2, he announced his
support for making oral contraceptives available over the counter without a prescription – a
tactic adopted by several successful Republican
candidates.
In the House, he sponsored bipartisan
water infrastructure legislation and formed a
rural broadband coalition – the type of policies
that the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party
exists to oppose.
How well did these methods serve Gardner? The Colorado Senate contests of 2010 and
2014, both of which took place during Republican “wave” elections, provide the basis for a
nearly ideal comparison of diﬀerent Republican
general election strategies. In 2010, Michael Bennet, a Democrat with no elective experience who
had been appointed to the Senate a year earlier,
ran against Ken Buck, a county prosecutor and
an unwavering conservative. Buck, unlike Gardner, remained an orthodox conservative.
ween Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York and his
police force is an unhealthy interdependency.
But there is another critical part. It’s how
we learn to respond to all the secrets being revealed: the C.E.O.’s email that makes him or her look
foolish, but also reveals that women are being
paid less than men in the same jobs; the video of
a suspect being killed by police; the elevator footage of a football player knocking out his fiancée;
and private photos of movie stars. They all have
diﬀerent moral and societal significance. We need
to deal with them diﬀerently.
“We need to pause more to make sense of all
the M.R.I.’s we’re being exposed to,” argued Seidman. In the pause, “we reflect and imagine a better way.” In some cases, that could mean showing
empathy for the fact that humans are imperfect. In
others, it could mean “taking principled stands”
toward those whose behaviors “make this interdependent world unsafe, unstable or unfree.”
In short, there’s never been a time when
we need more people living by the Golden Rule:
Do unto others as you would have them do unto
you. Because, in today’s world, more people can
see into you and do unto you than ever before.
Otherwise, we’re going to end up with a “gotcha”
society, lurching from outrage to outrage, where
in order to survive you’ll either have to disconnect or constantly censor yourself because every
careless act or utterance could ruin your life. Who
wants to live that way?
The results: in 2010, Bennet defeated Buck
854,685, 48.1 percent, to 824,789, 46.4 percent; in
2014, Gardner defeated Udall 983,891, 48.21 percent, to 944,203, 46.26 percent. Gardner’s victory
is all the more impressive because the state’s
population grew by over 300,000 from 2010 to
2014, according to state estimates. The major
factors driving population growth are Democratic-leaning immigrants from California and the
steadily increasing number of Hispanics.
Comparing 2010 and 2014 exit poll data is
even more revealing.
In 2010, women voted for the Democratic
candidate, Bennet, by a 17-point margin, 56-39;
in 2014, women voted for Udall by 9 points, 5243. Self-identified moderates, who cast over a
third of the ballots in Colorado, backed Bennet
63-32, but were less enthusiastic about Udall, voting for him 53-36.
Perhaps most tellingly, even though Gardner took stands contrary to those of the Christian
right, he won self-identified white born-again
and evangelical Christians by a bigger margin,
70 points, 83-13, than Buck did at 77-19, despite
the fact that Buck had remained loyal to the religious right. At 25 percent of the electorate, white
evangelical and born-again Christian turnout
was actually higher in 2014 than it was in 2010
(when it was 21 percent).
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The San Juan Daily Star
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Ivette Cepeda to Usher in SanSe at Tapia
Cuban Singer Known for Bolero, Fusion, Jazz
By PEGGY ANN BLISS
[email protected]
S
inger Ivette Cepeda will be
standing high at the apex of the
end of one celebration and the
beginning of the other this weekend
as she raises her voice in the capital
city’s historic theater.
Closing the medular year of
San Juan as Ibero-American Cultural Capital 2014 and the opening
of San Sebastián Street Festival 2015,
the Cuban performer will oﬀer two
concerts Saturday and Sunday in the
Tapia Theater.
As the headliner in the theater
at the entrance to Old San Juan,
Cepeda will be preceded Friday by
Adoquín Jamming Night dedicated
to Afro-Antillean music.
“Being Ibero-American Cultural Capital 2014 allowed us to recover
our position among Ibero-American
countries, develop bonds with these
sister countries, and to learn how
those countries deal with matters
that aﬀect us all,” said Mayor Carmen “Yulín” Cruz in a press release.
We also were able to promote our
vision of San Juan as a tourist desti-
nation with a centuries-old cultural
legacy that fills us with pride.”
Cepeda, whose rich, nuanced
contralto voice and total stage presence are much prized, began her career in the 1990s, and is known for
her success with the son, the bolero,
jazz, the bossa nova, and unique
musical fusion.
“I am not a salsa singer, but a
bolero singer,” said Cepeda, educated as a teacher, but not specifically in
music. “I give a slightly new twist to
well beloved songs.”
She has interpreted works by
outstanding musicians and composers such as Joaquín Sabina, Uruguayan Jorge Drexler, Ignacio Villa,
Juan Formel, Marta Valdés, Piloto
and Vera and Frank Delgado.
Cepeda, who performs regularly with the group Reflexión, made
a DVD in 2011 of her well received
concert in Paris
This weekend’s concerts are
produced by Benjamín Muñiz for
San Juan City Hall.
“[Cepeda is] an international
star with a successful career, which
makes seeing her a must,” said the
mayor. “Although she was contracted before President Barack Obama
announced the [thawing] in diplomatic relations between the United
States and Cuba, the visit of Ivette
Cepeda encourages us to celebrate
this occurrence and participate in
the new developments that, without
a doubt, will be seen in the Caribbean, Latin America and the entire
world.”
‘Sweet Keeperʻ is a
Grandmomʻs Treasure
Multi-Media Project Remembers the ‘30s and ‘40s
By The STAR Staﬀ
“D
ulce Vigilante: Remembranzas de la Región Oeste De
Puerto Rico” (Sweet Keeper: Memories of the Western Region of
Puerto Rico) is a literary, musical and
visual record of daily rural life from the
1930s to the 1950s.
The collection of illustrated short
stories and songs based on the life of
Moca artisan Carmen I. Cruz, octogenarian, retired teacher and historian,
conjures up vivid imagery and idioms
in danger of extinction. It was recently
presented in San Sebastian and other island venues.
Daughter of a multi-faceted musician and a seamstress, Aida -- as she is
known -- is the matriarch of a large artistic family.
Her sixth daughter, singer/composer Lourdes Pérez, wrote the songs in the
forms of decimas, seises, aguinaldos, plenas and danzas, and created a sound design that includes the voice of her mother.
Aida’s artist granddaughter, Andrea María Carnaval, has illustrated the
book with ink drawings.
The record also features singer/
songwriter Miriam Pérez--Aida’s eighth
daughter-- on voice and guitar and Tony
Mapeyé (José Antonio Rivera Colón) on
cuatro.
The San Juan Daily Star
Thursday, January 8, 2015
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Top Island Trumpeter Recalled in Aguada
Elliott Feijoo Played with Top Bands
By PEGGY ANN BLISS
[email protected]
A
guada Mayor Jessie Cortés Ramos lauded
his town’s trumpeter Elliot Feijoo, who
died over the weekend.
In a written message, the mayor said his
town had lost its great trumpeter, “the best in
Puerto Rico and an inspiration and pride for his
people.”
He said the musician, who lived in Aguada
with his mother, died of a massive heart
attack.
“Winner of great battles, a great trumpeter and good friend, I will miss you,”
said band leader Villarini, on Facebook.
Humberto Ramírez also spoke of the
loss of his fellow trumpeter.
“Elliot was a great colleague in my beginnings with the Willie Rosario Orchestra in 1985,”
he said in a written message. “He was an excellent trumpeter, and participated in hundreds of
recordings with the best orchestras and singers.”
Feijoo was a member of several orchestras
including those of Tommy Olivencia and Roberto
Roena, with whom he recorded several albums.
He also recorded as a soloist and participated in
several editions of the Heineken Jazz Fest.
Below the Line: The Sounds of ‘Into the Woodsʻ
By MEKADO MURPHY
I
f a tree falls in the forest during “Into the Woods,”
does it make a sound? For one of the film’s supervising
sound editors, Blake Leyh, the answer is a definitive
yes. That noise, along with others like the plodding footsteps of a giant, were meticulously crafted and layered.
Mr. Leyh, who has worked on projects as diverse
as “The Abyss,” “Friday the 13th Part VI” and HBO’s
“Treme,” brought his 30 years of experience to the task
of creating (along with Renée Tondelli, another supervising sound editor, who was in charge of dialogue) an
intriguing aural atmosphere for the film adaptation of
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical. Having
a background in music gave Mr. Leyh an advantage: He
could complement the music or let the songs take over
when necessary.
For general woodland atmosphere and the giant’s
destruction of the woods, Mr. Leyh didn’t rely too much
on his available arsenal of eﬀects.
“I wanted to create a palette of sounds from scratch,”
he said in an interview in New York. So Mr. Leyh traveled the country to record in forests and swamps in California, Connecticut and Louisiana, as well as New York.
He even had a person in Costa Rica record howler monkeys, a sound that he slowed down to create the eﬀect of
creepy swamp animals.
To convey mass forest destruction, Mr. Leyh decided, he’d need to take down some trees. He and a sound
recordist were given access to property that had been hit
with beetle blight, resulting in dead trees. The trees were
about 120 feet tall. “We spent a whole day and had 18
mics of all diﬀerent kinds,” he said. They buried some
microphones where the trees would land, while others
were attached to the trees.
“We had an arborist and we figured out how to do
it without the cutting of the tree being obtrusive to the
sound,” he said. “We wanted to get the cracking of the
tree clean.” One falling tree managed to land directly on
a very expensive microphone. Audiences can hear that
in the movie.
For the bovine Milky White, Mr. Leyh spent a day at
Chaseholm Farm in upstate New York “getting cows to
do everything that cows could do,” he said. He recorded
plaintive moos and burps and the sounds of breathing
and eating.
One of his biggest challenges, Mr. Leyh said, was
the giant’s footsteps. They needed to be varied as they
came from a distance closer into the woods.
“If she takes 15 steps, she walks a mile. So the first
step should sound like it’s a mile away,” he said, “and
the 15th step should sound like a house landing on the
ground in front of us.”
Those steps were made up of a number of elements,
including a low, pure tone created with a synthesizer
along with other sounds recorded over the years.
“I did a recording session for Julie Taymor’s film
‘Titus,’ with a large group of men in boots stomping on
the ground,” he said. For the eﬀect, he also pulled from
his work for “The Abyss” when he spent a couple of days
throwing debris into a mile-long underground tunnel to
imitate the sound of an oil rig tumbling down a cliﬀ. “It
created these huge booms.”
All were combined to build those menacing, destructive steps.
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Thursday, January 8, 2015
Week of Jan. 8 - 14, 2015
FINE ARTS POPULAR CTR HATO REY 1
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
1:00 3:45 6:35 9:25
FINE ARTS POPULAR CTR HATO REY 2
BIRDMAN
12:50 3:35 6:20 9:10 12:05
FINE ARTS POPULAR CTR HATO REY 3
RELATOS SALVAJES
1:00 3:45 6:30 9:20 12:00
FINE ARTS POPULAR CTR HATO REY 4
WHIPLASH
1:30 4:05 6:40 9:15 11:50
FINE ARTS POPULAR CTR HATO REY 5
WILD
1:20 4:00 6:40 9:20 12:00
FINE ARTS POPULAR CTR HATO REY 6
GUTEN TAG, RAMON
1:15 0 6:25
FINE ARTS POPULAR CTR HATO REY 6
ST. VINCENT
4:00 0 9:10
FINE ARTS POPULAR CTR HATO REY 6
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
11:35
FINE ARTS MIRAMAR 1
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
3:10 6:00 8:50
FINE ARTS MIRAMAR 2
WHIPLASH
2:00 4:30 7:00 9:35
FINE ARTS MIRAMAR 3
RELATOS SALVAJES
3:00 5:45 8:30
FINE ARTS MIRAMAR 4
WILD
1:45 4:20 6:55 9:30
METRO 1
TAKEN 3
2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30
METRO 2
THE GAMBLER
1:50 4:20 6:50 9:20
METRO 3
INTO THE WOODS
3:30 6:15 9:00
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 1
ANNIE
9:50 12:35 3:25 6:05 8:50 11:35
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 2
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
11:40 2:10 4:40 7:15 9:50 12:20
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 3
TAKEN 3
10:35 1:20 4:05 6:50 9:35
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 4
THE GAMBLER
10:20 1:05 3:50 6:35 9:20 12:05
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 5
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
11:30 2:45 6:00 9:15
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 6
UNBROKEN
9:50
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 6
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
10:40 2:00 5:20 8:40 12:00
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 7
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
11:30 2:10 4:45 7:15 9:45 12:15
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 8
INTO THE WOODS
10:00 12:50 3:40 6:30 9:25
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 9
UNBROKEN
11:30 2:40 5:50 9:00
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 10
TAKEN 3
11:45 2:30 5:15 8:00 10:45
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 11
INTERSTELLAR
12:35 4:20 8:10
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 12
THE INTERVIEW
10:50 1:25 4:10 6:55 9:40 12:25
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 13
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
9:55 0 2:25
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 13
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
12:15 0 4:35
PLAZA LAS AMERICAS 13
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1
6:45 9:40
PLAZA GUAYNABO 1
UNBROKEN
12:05 3:05 6:10 9:15
PLAZA GUAYNABO 2
THE GAMBLER
1:20 4:00 6:40 9:20 12:00
PLAZA GUAYNABO 3
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
11:50 2:40 5:50 9:05
PLAZA GUAYNABO 4
ANNIE
12:35 3:20 6:05 8:50 11:35
PLAZA GUAYNABO 5
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
12:00 2:20 4:40 7:00 9:25 11:45
PLAZA GUAYNABO 6
INTO THE WOODS
12:40 3:30 6:20 9:10
PLAZA GUAYNABO 7
TAKEN 3
12:10 2:50 5:30 8:10 10:50
PLAZA GUAYNABO 8
TAKEN 3
1:30 4:10 6:50 9:35
PLAZA GUAYNABO 9
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
12:00 2:20 4:45 7:10 9:40 12:05
PLAZA GUAYNABO 10
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
12:05 3:00 6:15
PLAZA GUAYNABO 10
THE INTERVIEW
9:30 12:05
SAN PATRICIO 1
TAKEN 3
12:25 3:05 5:45 8:25 11:05
SAN PATRICIO 2
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
12:15 2:35 4:55 7:15 9:40 12:00
SAN PATRICIO 3
TAKEN 3
1:45 4:25 7:05 9:50
SAN PATRICIO 4
THE GAMBLER
1:35 4:15 6:55 9:35 12:15
SAN PATRICIO 5
THE INTERVIEW
1:45 4:25 7:05 9:45 12:25
SAN PATRICIO 6
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
12:15 2:35 5:00 7:25 9:50 12:15
SAN PATRICIO 7
INTO THE WOODS
12:55 3:45 6:40 9:35
SAN PATRICIO 8
UNBROKEN
12:20 3:20 6:25 9:30
SAN PATRICIO 9
ANNIE
12:50 3:35 6:20 9:05 11:50
RIO HONDO 1
TAKEN 3
1:30 4:10 6:50 9:30
RIO HONDO 2
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
1:15 3:40 6:05 8:30 10:55
RIO HONDO 3
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
1:05 3:35 6:05 8:35 11:05
RIO HONDO 4
INTO THE WOODS
1:00 3:30 6:20 9:10
RIO HONDO 5
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
1:30 3:50 6:05 8:20
RIO HONDO 5
TAKEN 3
RIO HONDO 6
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
1:10 4:20 7:30 0 10:40
RIO HONDO 7
TAKEN
T
3
12:10
1
2:50 5:30 8:10 10:50
RIO
R HONDO 8
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET
OF THE TOMB
S
12:00
1
2:20 4:40 7:00 9:25
11:45
RIO HONDO 9
THE GAMBLER
1:20 4:00 6:40 9:20 12:00
RIO HONDO 10
ANNIE
12:00 2:45 5:30 8:15 11:00
RIO HONDO 11
UNBROKEN
12:05 3:05 6:10 9:15
RIO HONDO 12
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
2:00 5:15 8:30 11:45
RIO HONDO 13
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
2:20 5:30 8:40 11:50
RIO HONDO 14
BIG HERO 6
12:00 2:25 4:50 7:15
RIO HONDO 14
THE HUNGER GAMES: M
OCKINGJAY - PART 1
9:40
RIO HONDO 15
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
12:00 2:20 4:45 7:10 9:40 12:05
RIO HONDO 16
THE INTERVIEW
1:30 4:10 6:50 9:30 12:10
PLAZA DEL SOL 1
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
12:00 2:20 4:45 7:10 9:40 12:05
PLAZA DEL SOL 2
THE GAMBLER
1:20 4:00 6:40 9:20 12:00
PLAZA DEL SOL 3
TAKEN 3
12:10 2:50 5:30 8:10 10:50
PLAZA DEL SOL 4
TAKEN 3
1:30 4:10 6:50 9:35
PLAZA DEL SOL 5
THE INTERVIEW
1:30 4:10 6:50 9:30 12:10
PLAZA DEL SOL 6
INTO THE WOODS
12:40 3:30 6:20 9:10
PLAZA DEL SOL 7
BIG HERO 6
12:00 2:00 0 6:50
PLAZA DEL SOL 7
BIG HERO 6
4:25
PLAZA DEL SOL 7
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1
9:15
PLAZA DEL SOL 8
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
12:10 2:25 4:40 6:55 9:10 11:25
PLAZA DEL SOL 9
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
11:50 2:50 6:00 9:10
PLAZA DEL SOL 10
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
ECRET OF THE TOMB
12:00 2:20 4:40 7:00 9:25 11:45
PLAZA DEL SOL 11
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
2:10 5:30 8:50
PLAZA DEL SOL 12
UNBROKEN
12:05 3:05 6:10 9:15
PLAZA DEL SOL 13
ANNIE
12:35 3:20 6:05
PLAZA DEL SOL 13
ANNIE
8:50 11:35
PLAZA DEL SOL 14
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
1:15 3:40 6:05
PLAZA DEL SOL 14
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
8:30 10:55
VEGA ALTA 1
TAKEN 3
3:00 5:35 8:10
VEGA ALTA 2
TAKEN 3
1:40 4:15 6:50 9:30
VEGA ALTA 3
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
2:15 4:40 7:10 9:40
VEGA ALTA 4
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
2:05 4:30 6:55 9:20
VEGA ALTA 5
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
1:50 4:10 6:30
VEGA ALTA 5
ANNIE
8:50
VEGA ALTA 6
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
1:40 4:50 8:00
VEGA ALTA 7
THE GAMBLER
1:35 4:10 6:45 9:20
PLAZA ESCORIAL 1
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
2:10 5:30 8:50
PLAZA ESCORIAL 2
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
12:15 2:30 4:45 7:00
PLAZA ESCORIAL 2
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1
9:15
PLAZA ESCORIAL 3
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
11:50 2:50 6:00 9:10
PLAZA ESCORIAL 4
THE INTERVIEW
1:30 4:10 6:50 9:30 12:10
PLAZA ESCORIAL 5
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
1:15 3:40 6:05
PLAZA ESCORIAL 5
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
8:30 10:55
PLAZA ESCORIAL 6
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
12:00 2:20 4:40 7:00 9:25 11:45
PLAZA ESCORIAL 7
TAKEN 3
12:10 2:50 5:30 8:10 10:50
PLAZA ESCORIAL 8
TAKEN 3
1:30 4:10 6:50 9:35
PLAZA ESCORIAL 9
UNBROKEN
12:05 3:05 6:10 9:15
PLAZA ESCORIAL 10
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2:
ANGEL OF DEATH
12:00 2:20 4:45 7:10 9:40 12:05
PLAZA ESCORIAL 11
INTO THE WOODS
12:40 3:30 6:20 9:10
PLAZA ESCORIAL 12
ANNIE
12:00 2:45 5:30 8:15
PLAZA ESCORIAL 12
UNBROKEN
PLAZA ESCORIAL 13
ANNIE
12:35 3:20 6:05 8:50 11:35
PLAZA ESCORIAL 14
THE GAMBLER
1:20 4:00 6:40 9:20 12:00
LOS COLOBOS 1
TAKEN 3
1:30 4:10 6:50 9:30
LOS COLOBOS 2
TAKEN 3
12:10 2:50 5:30 8:10 10:50
LOS COLOBOS 3
ANNIE
12:45 3:20 6:05 8:45 11:35
LOS COLOBOS 4
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
12:00 2:40 5:50 9:00
LOS COLOBOS 5
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
2:10 5:30 8:50
LOS COLOBOS 6
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
12:00 2:20 4:40 7:00
LOS COLOBOS 6
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
9:25 11:45
LOS COLOBOS 7
UNBROKEN
12:05 3:05 6:10 9:15
LOS COLOBOS 8
INTO THE WOODS
12:40 3:30 6:20 9:10
LOS COLOBOS 9
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
12:00 2:20 4:45 7:10 9:40 12:05
LOS COLOBOS 10
THE GAMBLER
1:20 4:00 6:40 9:20 12:00
BELZ CINEMA 1
TAKEN 3
1:30 4:10 6:50 9:30
BELZ CINEMA 2
THE GAMBLER
1:20 4:00 6:40 9:20
BELZ CINEMA 3
TAKEN 3
12:10 2:50 5:30 8:10
BELZ CINEMA 4
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
12:00 2:20 4:45 7:10 9:40
BELZ CINEMA 5
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
11:50 2:50 5:50
BELZ CINEMA 5
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
8:50
BELZ CINEMA 6
INTO THE WOODS
1:05 3:50 6:30 9:15
BELZ CINEMA 7
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
11:55 2:20 4:45 7:10 9:35
MONTEHIEDRA 1
THE INTERVIEW
1:30 4:10 6:50 9:30 12:10
MONTEHIEDRA 2
ANNIE
12:00 2:45 5:30 8:15 11:00
MONTEHIEDRA 3
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
1:15 3:40 6:05 8:30
MONTEHIEDRA 3
UNBROKEN
MONTEHIEDRA 4
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
12:00 2:20 4:45 7:10 9:40 12:05
MONTEHIEDRA 5
THE GAMBLER
1:20 4:00 6:40 9:20 12:00
MONTEHIEDRA 6
TAKEN 3
12:10 2:50 5:30 8:10 10:50
MONTEHIEDRA 7
TAKEN 3
1:30 4:10 6:50 9:35
MONTEHIEDRA 8
INTO THE WOODS
12:40 3:30 6:20 9:10
MONTEHIEDRA 9
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
11:55 2:20 4:45 7:10 9:35 12:00
MONTEHIEDRA 10
UNBROKEN
12:05 3:05 6:10 9:15
MONTEHIEDRA 11
INTERSTELLAR
1:10 4:50 8:35
MONTEHIEDRA 12
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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
11:50 2:50 6:00 9:10
MONTEHIEDRA 13
ANNIE
12:35 3:20 6:05 8:50 11:35
MONTEHIEDRA 14
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
1:20 4:40 8:00
LAS CATALINAS 1
THE GAMBLER
1:20 4:00 6:40 9:20 12:00
LAS CATALINAS 2
TAKEN 3
12:10 2:50 5:30 8:10 10:50
LAS CATALINAS 3
TAKEN 3
1:30 4:10 6:55 9:40
LAS CATALINAS 4
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
11:55 2:20 4:45 7:10 9:35 12:00
LAS CATALINAS 5
INTO THE WOODS
12:40 3:30 6:20 9:10
LAS CATALINAS 6
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
12:00 2:20 4:45 7:10 9:40 12:05
LAS CATALINAS 7
UNBROKEN
12:05 3:05 6:10 9:15
LAS CATALINAS 8
THE INTERVIEW
1:30 4:10 6:50 9:30 12:10
LAS CATALINAS 9
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
2:10 5:30 8:50
LAS CATALINAS 10
ANNIE
3:20 0 8:50 11:35
LAS CATALINAS 10
ANNIE
12:35 0 6:05
LAS CATALINAS 11
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
11:50 2:50 6:00 9:10
LAS PIEDRAS 1
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
2:10 4:30 6:50 9:10
LAS PIEDRAS 1
UNBROKEN
11:30
LAS PIEDRAS 2
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
2:40 5:50 9:05
LAS PIEDRAS 3
INTO THE WOODS
1:00 3:45 6:30 9:20
LAS PIEDRAS 4
THE GAMBLER
1:35 4:10 6:45 9:20 11:55
LAS PIEDRAS 5
TAKEN 3
1:40 4:15 6:50 9:30
LAS PIEDRAS 6
TAKEN 3
3:00 5:35 8:10 10:45
LAS PIEDRAS 7
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
1:45 4:10 6:35
LAS PIEDRAS 7
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
9:00 11:25
LAS PIEDRAS 8
UNBROKEN
3:15 6:15 9:15
LAS PIEDRAS 9
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
2:10 4:35 7:05 9:40 12:05
LAS PIEDRAS 10
ANNIE
2:45 5:30 8:15 11:00
DORADO 1
TAKEN 3
1:40 4:15 6:50 9:30
DORADO 2
THE GAMBLER
1:35 4:10 6:45 9:20
DORADO 3
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Thursday, January 8, 2015
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
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UNBROKEN
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
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DORADO 6
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
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INTO THE WOODS
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ANNIE
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FAJARDO 1
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THE GAMBLER
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TAKEN 3
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INTO THE WOODS
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THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
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ANNIE
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ANNIE
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THE INTERVIEW
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UNBROKEN
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THE GAMBLER
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THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
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ANNIE
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THE GAMBLER
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THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
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ANNIE
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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
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PONCE TOWNE 1
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THE GAMBLER
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THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
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UNBROKEN
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THE INTERVIEW
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ANNIE
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PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
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PLAZA DEL CARIBE 1
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UNBROKEN
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INTO THE WOODS
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PLAZA DEL CARIBE 4
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
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PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
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THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1
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ANNIE
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EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
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THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
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THE GAMBLER
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YAUCO 1
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
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YAUCO 3
ANNIE
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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
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THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
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SAN GERMAN 1
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THE GAMBLER
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TAKEN 3
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INTO THE WOODS
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THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
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SAN GERMAN 7
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
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SAN GERMAN 7
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
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WESTERN PLAZA 1
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THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
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ANNIE
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ANNIE
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THE GAMBLER
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INTO THE WOODS
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EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
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WESTERN PLAZA 8
THE INTERVIEW
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AKEN 3
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UNBROKEN
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
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BARCELONETA 1
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
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BARCELONETA 2
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
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BARCELONETA 3
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
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BARCELONETA 3
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
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BARCELONETA 4
UNBROKEN
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BARCELONETA 5
INTO THE WOODS
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BARCELONETA 6
TAKEN 3
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
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ANNIE
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ANNIE
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THE GAMBLER
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ARECIBO 1
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ARECIBO 2
INTO THE WOODS
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ARECIBO 3
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
ECRET OF THE TOMB
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ARECIBO 4
ANNIE
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ARECIBO 5
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2:
ANGEL OF DEATH
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ARECIBO 6
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
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ARECIBO 7
THE INTERVIEW
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ARECIBO 8
THE GAMBLER
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ARECIBO 9
UNBROKEN
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TAKEN 3
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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
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ARECIBO 11
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
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PLAZA ISABELA 3
ANNIE
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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
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THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2:
ANGEL OF DEATH
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AGUADILLA MALL 1
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AGUADILLA MALL 2
INTO THE WOODS
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AGUADILLA MALL 3
THE GAMBLER
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AGUADILLA MALL 4
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
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AGUADILLA MALL 5
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE ARMIES
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AGUADILLA MALL 6
ANNIE
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SANTA ISABEL 1
ANNIE
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SANTA ISABEL 2
UNBROKEN
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TAKEN 3
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SANTA ISABEL 4
TAKEN 3
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THE GAMBLER
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THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2:
ANGEL OF DEATH
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SANTA ISABEL 7
INTO THE WOODS
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
SECRET OF THE TOMB
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SANTA ISABEL 9
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
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The San Juan Daily Star
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Carlos Delgado’s Hall of Fame
Elimination Should Force Change in Vote
By David Lariviere
T
here were plenty of winners Tuesday when
the results of the Baseball Hall of Fame voting
were announced. But the biggest loser was former Toronto Blue Jays slugger Carlos Delgado, who
failed to get the five percent necessary to stay on the
ballot in his first year of eligibility.
Despite belting 473 homers and driving in 1,512
runs, Delgado received only 3.8 percent of the vote.
His best year was 2003 when he smacked 42 homers
and knocked in a major league-high 145 runs. His 473
homers are 31st in history and he had 10 straight seasons of more than 30 from 1997-2006 and 11 overall.
Those numbers seemed worthy of further consideration but Delgado won’t get that opportunity
because of a stacked ballot and the arcane rule that
limits voters to 10 spots on their ballot. In any other
year, Delgado probably would have gotten at least
the five percent. It’s not his fault that this year there
were four elected for the first time since 1955 and that
many writers, including myself, placed the maximum
of 10 players on their ballots.
If there were no limits, I would have put Delgado on my ballot which begs the question of why
the cap exists? It is something that needs to be lifted.
There is no good reason for it. The removal of the cap
might have also enabled Mike Piazza, who missed by
only 28 votes, and Jeﬀ Bagwell to get inducted. We’ll
never know.
For those who dismiss Delgado’s numbers, consider this: the Braves’ Chipper Jones, who will be
eligible in 2018 and is widely considered a lock for
induction, hit 468 home runs and drove in 1,623 runs,
stats not all that diﬀerent from Delgado’s. So where’s
the disconnect?
Eliminating the limit would allow players such
as Delgado to get a well-earned second and third
look particularly when the amount of time on the ballot was reduced from 15 years to 10 this year. He still
might never have gotten in but his career deserved
that much.
Jayson Vélez Targets
Title Shot Against
Jhonny González
Tennis Rising Star Mónica Puig
Is Still a Winner to Many
M
onica Puig is one of tennis’ hottest sensations, and the 21-year-old star is also one of
the hottest talents to ever come out of Puerto
Rico.
Tennis is a tough game, though, and Monica Puig
learned that during the first round of the ASB Classic,
as she lost to longtime doubles partner Marina Erakovic in the first round.
Puig still put on an impressive display. Marina
had to do some serious rallying to come back–and it
was probably a very respectful match, considering
that Monica and Maria had already won as a doubles
team just the day before.
We’re still okay in admitting that we were rooting
for Monica–who’s always had a top position in our
own women’s tennis rankings. That puts her up there
with stunning players like Anna Kournikova, Elena
Vesnina, Mandy Minella, Genie Bouchard, and even
Alexandra Daddario.
We’re pretty sure that Monica Puig will keep
having a good 2015, too. She’s still fresh oﬀ winning the WTA Rising Stars Invitational in Singapore.
By Victor Salazar
J
ayson Velez, fresh oﬀ his draw with Evgeny Gradovich,
is looking to get back in the ring in 2015 and against the
best. According to Hector Soto of Miguel Cotto Promotions, a fight being discussed would be against WBC Featherweight Champion Jhonny Gonzalez.
Soto told ESPN Deportes that he reached out to Gonzalez’ promoter, Pueblo Promotions for a possible showdown
between the two fighters. Gonzalez knocked out Abner Mares to win the belt and has been waiting for a possible rematch. Mares, who is managed by Al Haymon says he wants
the rematch. But with much of the future of Haymon client’s
uncertain, Gonzalez may be moving on to another bout while we wait to see how the Haymon situation plays out.
“We’re happy to move forward with this plan for Jayson,” stated Soto. “He should be fighting for a world title to
start oﬀ the New Year. We’re looking for a fight with Gonzalez or a possible rematch with Gradovich. We’re talking to
both promoters and we’ll move forward with them soon.”
The San Juan Daily Star
Thursday, January 8, 2015
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Sports
Carmelo Anthony’s Return Plan Includes London and a Warning
By Marc Berman
L
ondon is calling for Carmelo Anthony.
Anthony says he plans to make his return from a sore left knee Jan. 15 when
the Knicks play their showcase game at O2
Arena in London against the Bucks, feeling
the roughly two-week break will get him close to 100 percent. But Anthony warned if he
returns for a few games and still does not feel
great, he could shut it down again or undergo
surgery.
Anthony has called surgery “a last, last
option.’’ He referred to the injury as “a pebble
in his shoe,’’ a possible indication he could be
dealing with loose or torn cartilage.
“As of right now I expect to be coming
back in London,’’ Anthony said at the Knicks
morning shootaround at Verizon Center before Wednesday’s game against the Wizards.
“I thought these two weeks would really help
me out to see if rest is really the issue or if I
[need to] take proper precaution or get something done.’’
Anthony missed his third straight game
Wednesday since last playing on New Year’s
Eve, and admitted it’s “sad’’ to miss a game
near Baltimore, where he moved from Brooklyn in junior high.
“Some days are better than others, sometimes it’s not [painful],’’ Anthony said. “It’s
kind of like having a little rock or pebble in the
shoe. Some days it’s not.’’
President Phil Jackson blew up the
Knicks roster Monday by trading J.R. Smith
and Iman Shumpert — probably the two players Anthony is closest with — to the Cavaliers. Jackson also waived center Samuel Dalembert.
“Cleveland is getting two good players,’’ Anthony said.
Anthony said both players were broken
up over the trade, when they heard the news
in the locker room 20 minutes before Monday
night’s tip-oﬀ in Memphis.
“To see them guys, it was a state of confusion,’’ Anthony said. “I got a chance to talk
to both of them, talk to J.R. They were really
hurt. I had to try to calm them down and let
them know everything will be all right. You
have to move on and get past it.’’
Anthony had played with Smith dating
to their Denver days. When Shumpert was
a rookie, Anthony was his best friend on the
club.
“That’s tough to deal with from a nonbasketball standpoint,’’ Anthony said. “To
lose two friends, a guy in Shump, he was my
rookie when he came into this league. A guy I
kind of put under my wing and talked to and
got him through his darker times. J.R., we’ve
been together almost 10 years. To see my like
my brother, it’s more than basketball from that
standpoint. Me and J.R. have been rocking
with each other since our Denver days. And
one day it’s over from being teammates.’’
Anthony hasn’t spoken to the Zen Master about the trade, but trusts it was the right
thing, though the Knicks didn’t get any tangi-
ble assets, a sentiment he first shared in a firstperson video published Tuesday night.
“When I first committed back to New
York, it’s something I always said I have to
trust they know what they’re doing,” Anthony
said Wednesday. “That was one of the reasons
I wanted to come back. So here’s an opportunity with the trust. Everything starts now.”
The Knicks have decided against keeping Thunder forward Lance Thomas, and will
waive him along with the two other non-guaranteed players acquired in Monday’s deal.
Thomas is known as a good locker-room
guy with limited skills. It’s an indication the
Knicks may be able to use one of their trade
exceptions gained in the trade to bring in another player.
Kobe Bryant Could Be on Trade Block, Goran Dragic a Target
T
he Los Angeles Lakers are the center of
trade rumors that indicate the face of the
franchise may be on the move, and some
big names are in the team’s sights.
Reports indicate the team could be looking to make a mid-season shakeup by trading
Kobe Bryant to a team that could better use
his services. Bryant has said publicly that he
has one more year in the tank, and his scoring
output could help a team on the edge of title
contention.
In return, rumors indicate that the Los
Angeles Lakers could be targeting big names
like Goran Dragic or Marc Gasol.
ESPN.com’s Marc Stein reported that
the Lakers have already contacted the Phoenix
Suns about a potential deal for Dragic. The
Lakers already lost out on target Rajon Rondo
after they reportedly oﬀered only Steve Nash
and a lower level draft pick, and may be more
aggressive in future deals.
And the Lakers may not be done angling for Rondo just yet, Sports World Report
noted.
The Lakers reportedly are interested in
Rondo and Marc Gasol in free agency next
summer and even through Rondo was traded
to the Mavs already, they are expected to go
after him. Rondo has said that he plans on hitting the market, although he said that Dallas
has the advantage at signing him since he was
traded there and they gave up players and
picks for him. That won’t stop the Lakers from
at least trying and the Knicks are also a team
that could be interested in both Rondo and Gasol on the market.
The Los Angeles Lakers are reportedly
looking to upgrade their point guard position,
with Nash declining due to age and out the entire season with injury, and Jeremy Lin performing below expectations. Brandon Jennings
and Deron Williams are also rumored targets.
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The San Juan Daily Star
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Cristiano Ronaldo Could Follow Steven Gerrard and
Move to America, Says Real Madrid Star’s Agent
By Elliott Bretland
C
ristiano Ronaldo could follow in the footsteps of
David Beckham and Frank Lampard by moving
to the United States, the Real Madrid star’s agent
has hinted.
Insisting Ronaldo is the best player of all-time, Jorge
Mendes suggested there is a chance the Portugal international could move to America when his deal runs out in
2018.
As Steven Gerrard closes in on a move to LA Galaxy at the age of 34, Ronaldo will be one year youn-
ger than the Liverpool captain when his Madrid
contract runs out and may decide to make a similar
switch.
Speaking to Telefoot, Mendes said of Ronaldo: ‘This
is the best of all time. No one will be like him.
‘Maybe he will go to the USA [after finishing at Madrid]. God will decide.’
Rumours in the past have linked Ronaldo with a
return to Manchester United and moves to Chelsea and
Paris Saint-Germain, but Mendes was quick to rule out a
move to the French champions.
‘In all cases, he will not go to Paris,’ said Mendes.
Djokovic Eases into Doha Quarters
W
orld No. 1 star Novak Djokovic was an easy
second-round winner Wednesday at the seasonopening $1.22 million Qatar Open on Tuesday.
The Serbian star blew past Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-2, 6-1 in 61 minutes on the hardcourts at Khalifa International Tennis Complex.
Up next for the Wimbledon champion Djokovic will
be 6-foot-10 Croat Ivo Karlovic.
In other action involving seeds, No. 4 David Ferrer
took care of fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6-3, 6-2
and a No. 7 Karlovic topped Georgian qualifier Nikoloz
Basilashvili 7-6 (7-3), 6-3.
Also on Day 3, Dustin Brown grounded fellow German Jan-Lennard Struﬀ 7-6 (11-9), 6-4, Italian Andreas Seppi erased Brazilian Joao Souza 7-5, 6-2 and Croat Ivan Dodig handled left-handed German Michael Berrer 7-6 (7-1),
6-2. The qualifier Berrer stunned defending Doha champion Rafael Nadal here on Tuesday. Brown will meet Ferrer
on Day 4.
Doha serves as a tune-up for the Australian Open.
Lionel Messi: Barcelona Coach Luis Enrique Quiet On Reports
B
arcelona manager Luis Enrique has declined
to comment on reports of a fall-out with Lionel Messi, describing him as “the best player
in the world”.
Reports in Spain suggest that La Liga’s all-time record goalscorer, 27, is unhappy playing under
Enrique.
But Enrique said: “I don’t think I should be asked to confirm any, or deny any, of these rumours.
It would stir up more problems than it would solve.”
Messi started on the bench as Barcelona lost to
Real Sociedad at the weekend.
The defeat meant they remained second in the
table, a point behind fierce rivals Real Madrid.
In November, Enrique insisted Messi was “delighted” to be at Barca after reports linked the Argentine with a move away from the Nou Camp.
Talk of a transfer has resurfaced in recent days,
with rumours Messi could be interested in a move
to English Premier League side Chelsea.
due to speak to the media later on Wednesday, but
Enrique says he is under no pressure.
“I haven’t received an ultimatum from the
president,” said Enrique. “I’ve never had any such
threat in my entire career.”
Barca face Elche in the Copa del Rey today in
the evening.
Messi was only a substitute in Barcelona’s defeat at
Real Sociedad but has scored 23 goals this season.
Catalan radio has claimed that the London
club has contacted Messi’s father and agent Jorge.
Asked if Messi was still happy with life at Barcelona, Enrique said: “I don’t want to comment. We
know things change and a month is a long time.”
The former Barca player added: “I have the
same relationship with all my players that I had at
the start of the season. That has not changed.”
Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu is
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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDE HACIENDA, POR
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CONDUCTO DE LA
DIVISION DE CAUDALES SALA DE SAN LORENZO.
LIME RESIDENTIAL, LTD.
RELICTOS; CENTRO
Demandante VS
DE RECAUDACION DE
JOAQUIN HERNANDEZ
INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
REYES, su esposa
(“CRIM”)
JESSIE LEE ROMAN
Demandado(a)
ROSARIO y la Sociedad
Civil Num: ECD2014-0702
Legal de Gananciales
Sala: 704 Sobre: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCION DE
compuesta por ambos
HIPOTECA NOTIFICACION DE
SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. E2CI2012-00641
SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO (VIA ORDINARIA) EDICTO
DE SUBASTA ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS
UNIDOS SS ESTADO LIBRE
ASOCIADO DE P. R.
A: CARMEN ROJAS
RIVERA, TAMBIEN
CONOCIDA COMO
CARMEN ABREU,
COMO MIEMBRO DE
LA SUCESION DE
LUISA RIVERA RIVERA
A: JOAQUIN HERNANDEZ
TAMBIEN CONOCIDA
REYES, su esposa
COMO LUISA RIVERA
JESSIE LEE ROMAN
ROJAS; FULANO DE TAL,
Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO ROSARIO y la Sociedad
Legal de Gananciales
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
compuesta por ambos
DESCONOCIDOS DE
El Alguacil que suscribe, anunLA SUCESION DE
cia y hace constar que en cumLUISA RIVERA RIVERA, plimiento de Mandamiento de
TAMBIEN CONOCIDA Ejecución de Sentencia que me
COMO LUISA RIVERA ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a
ROJAS, BO. BARRIO
vender en pública subasta y al
FERRER I CARR 173 KM. mejor postor, de contado y en
12.2 NUM 32 ClDRA PR moneda del curso legal de los
Estados Unidos de América,
00739.
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 16
de DICIEMBRE de 2014, 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
todo derecho, título e interés
que tenga la parte demandada
sobre la siguiente propiedad:
Urbanización Mansiones de
Juncos, Solar #15, Calle #2 El
Rosal, Juncos, PR 00777. URBANA: Solar número quince
(15) de la Urbanización de Juncos, radicada en el Barrio Ceiba
Norte del término municipal de
Juncos, Puerto Rico, con una
cabida superficial de aproximadamente
TRESCIENTOS
CINCUENTA Y UNO PUNTO
TREINTA Y TRES (351.33) METROS CUADRADOS, equivalentes a CERO PUNTO DOS
MIL OCHOCIENTOS SESENTA
Y OCHO (0.2878) CUERDAS.
Colinda por el NORTE, en trece
punto cero cero (13.00) metros,
con Juncos Plaza Shopping
Center; por el SUR, en trece
punto cero cero (13.00) metros,
con la calle número dos (2) de
la urbanización; por el ESTE, en
una distancia de veintisiete punto cero cero dos (27.02) metros,
con el solar número dieciséis
(16), y por el OESTE, en una
distancia de veintisiete punto
cero tres (27.03) metros, con
el solar número catorce (14)
de la urbanización. Contiene
una casa para fines residenciales. Consta inscrita al folio 193
del tomo 399 de Juncos, finca
número 14,976, Registro de la
Propiedad, Sección Segunda
de Caguas. La primera subasta
se llevará a cabo el día 19 de
febrero de 2015, a las 10:00 de
la mañana, en mis oficinas sitas
en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Lorenzo. En
relación a la finca a subastarse,
la cantidad mínima de licitación
en la Primera Subasta será la
suma de $237,658.40. Dicha
venta se llevará a efecto, para
con su producto satisfacer a la
parte demandante el importe de
su Sentencia, a saber: Suma
Principal $232,193.56, más los
intereses correspondientes a
razón de 6.0% anual desde el
1ro de noviembre de 2011, más
aquellos que se acumulen hasta
la fecha de la subasta. Estipulado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado $23,765.84,
más cualquier otra suma que
resulte por cualesquiera otros
adelantos que se hayan hecho
por la demandante, en virtud de
las disposiciones de la escritura
de hipoteca. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere
remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA
el día 26 de febrero de 2015,
a las 10:00 de la mañana, en
el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo
mínimo las dos terceras partes
del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma
de $158,438.93. Si la segunda
subasta no produjere remate, ni
adjudicación, se celebrará una
TERCERA SUBASTA el día 5
de marzo de 2015, a las 10:00
de la mañana, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio
pactado para la primera, o sea,
la suma de $118,829.20. De
declararse desierta la tercera
subasta, se dará por terminado
el proceso de subastas, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble a
la parte demandante dentro de
los diez (10) días siguientes, si
así lo estimare conveniente por
la totalidad de las cantidades
adeudadas, si ésta fuera igual
o menor que el monto del tipo
de la tercera subasta o abonándose dicho monto a las cantidades adeudadas, si éstas fueran
mayores. Una vez ejecutada
la venta de dicha propiedad,
proceda a poner al licitador
victorioso en posesión física de
la propiedad dentro del plazo
de veinte (20) días contados a
partir de la venta en pública subasta. Para más información, a
las personas interesadas se les
notifica que las Actas y demás
constancias del expediente de
este caso están disponibles en
la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser
examinadas por los interesados.Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA se publicará en los lugares
públicos correspondientes y
en un periódico de circulación
general en la jurisdicción de
Puerto Rico. En San Lorenzo,
Puerto Rico, a 16 de diciembre
de 2014. Angel Gomez Gomez,
Alguacil Placa 593, Alguacil Supervisor Division De Ejecución
De Sentencias Tribunal De Primera Instancia Sala Superior
De San Lorenzo.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE RIO GRANDE.
BANCO COOPERATIVO
DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante vs.
ANGELA IRIS LOPEZ
NEVAREZ, tambien
conocida como ANGELA
LOPEZ NEVAREZ
Demandada
CIVIL NUM. FBCI2014001765
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO
(Ejecucion de Hipoteca por la
Via Ordinaria) EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDlCTO ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS
UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE
ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO
A: ANGELA IRIS LOPEZ
NEVAREZ, tambien
conocida como ANGELA
LOPEZ NEVAREZ.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se
Ie notifica que se ha radicado
en esta Secretaria por la parte
demandante, Demanda sobre
Cobro de Dinero y Ejecucion de
Hipoteca por la Via Ordinaria en
la que se alega adeuda la suma
principal de $95,052.78, intereses al 6.875% anual, desde
el dia 1ro de octubre de 2013,
hasta su completo pago, mas
la cantidad de $10,300.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y
honorarios de abogado, mas
recargos acumulados, todas
cuyas sumas estan liquidas y
exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser ejecutada es: UR-
BANA: Propiedad Horizontal:
Apartamento numero C-Dos
(C-2) para fines residenciales,
localizado en la tercera (3ra)
planta del Edificio numero Trece
(13) del Condominio Plaza del
Este, situado en el Barrio Canovanas del termino municipal de
Canovanas, Puerto Rico. Tiene
un area privada de vivienda de
aproximadamente SETECIENTOS NOVENTA Y SEIS PUNTO
OCHENTA Y TRES (796.83)
PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a SETENTA Y CUATRO
PUNTO CERO SESENTA Y
SEIS (74.066) METROS CUADRADOS. Colinda por el NORTE, con el apartamento numero
“C” Uno (C-1) del Edificio numero Doce (12), pared interior y con las escaleras; por el
SUR, con pared exterior; por el
ESTE, con el apartamento “C”
Uno (C-1) del Edificio numero
Trece (13) y con las escaleras;
y por el OESTE, con el apartamento numero “C” Uno (C-1)
del Edificio numero Doce (12)
y con pared exterior. Consta
de sala-comedor, cocina, dos
(2) dormitorios, dos (2) banos
y terraza. Su puerta de entrada
y salida comunica al vestibulo
o pasillo comunal del edificio,
que a su vez tiene acceso a la
calle principal. Le corresponde
cero punta ocho siete nueve
porciento (0.879%) en los elementos comunes generales. Se
Ie asigna el estacionamiento
numero Siete (7) del area B de
estacionamiento. La propiedad
hipotecada se encuentra inscrita al folio 41 del tome 313
de Canovanas, Registro de la
Propiedad de Carolina, Seccion
Tercera, finca numero 13,748,
inscripcion primera. Se Ie advierte que de no comparecer
en autos dentro del termino de
los treinta (30) dias siguientes
a partir de la publicacion de
este Edicto, se Ie anotara la
Rebeldia y se dictara Sentencia
concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin mas citarle ni oirle,
debiendo radicar el original de
su contestacion en el Tribunal,
enviando copia al abogado de
la parte demandante: Lcdo.
Baldomero A. Collazo Torres,
Bufete Correa, Collazo & Herrero, PSC, P.O . Box 70212, San
Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8212;
telefono (787) 625-9999; Fax
(787) 625-9801. Se Ie notifica
tambien por la presente que
la parte demandante habra de
presentar para su anotacion al
Registrador de la Propiedad del
Distrito en que esta situada la
propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente
esta accion. Para publicarse
conforme a la Orden dictada
por el Tribunal en un periodico
de circulacion general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido
el presente Edicto que firmo y
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (787) 743-3346
for intervention under Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule
24, by persons claiming maritime liens or other interests shall
be filed within the time fixed by
the Court. The name, address,
and telephone number of the
Marshals are as follows: U.S.
LEGAL NOTICE
Marshals Service, District of
IN THE UNITED STATES DISPuerto Rico, Federico Degetau
TRICT COURT FOR THE DISFederal Building, Room #200,
TRICT OF PUERTO RICO
150 Carlos Chardón Street,
POPULAR AUTO, LLC Hato Rey, PR 00918, Tel. (787)
Plaintiff, v.
766-6000. In San Juan, Puerto
M/V CALINA DEL
Rico, this 30 day of december,
2015. FRANCES RÍOS DE
MAR, its engines,
tackle, equipment and MORAN, ESQ. CLERK, U.S.
DISTRICT COURT. By: Jose L.
furnishings, etc., In REM; Arroyo, Deputy Clerk.
sello en Rio Grande, Puerto
Rico, hoy 18 de diciembre de
2014. Miriam Rosa Maldonado,
Secretaria Regional. Por: Sue
Laurie Soto Acevedo, Secretaria Auxiliar TRIBUNAL I.
LUIS F. MALDONADO
CARBORELL, HIS
WIFE JANE DOE, AND
THEIR CONJUGAL
PARTNERSHIP
CONSTITUTED BY THEM;
Defendants
CIVIL NO. 14-1755 (PAD) NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF
ACTION AND ARREST OF
VESSEL. The M/V CALINA
DEL MAR Hull Identification
Number MXYA04YSH506, USG
Doc. No. 1179782, official number 1179782, was arrested on
December 13, 2014, at Club
Nautico, Ponce, pursuant to a
warrant of arrest issued by this
Court and served by the United
States Marshals. The arrested
vessel M/V CALINA DEL MAR
was built in 2005, with a length
of 32’7” Identification Number
MXYA04YSH506, USG Doc.
No. 1179782, official number
1179782. The said vessel is presently afloat at Vallas Torre #7
Mercedita, PR 00715. The contact details of Plaintiff’s attorney
is as follows: Alejandro Bellver
Espinosa, Esq., Bellver Espinosa Law Firm, Cond. El Centro
I, Suite 801, 500 Muñoz Rivera
Ave., San Juan, PR 00918, Tel.
(787) 946-5268, Fax. (787) 9460062; email: [email protected]. All parties having a
claim and/or an interest in said
vessel must file a statement of
a person who is entitled to possession or who Claims an interest in the property, pursuant to
Supplement Rule C(6) must be
filed with the Clerk of the Court
within fourteen (14) days after
publication of this notice and
served on the attorney for the
Plaintiff within the fourteen (14)
after publication of this notice.
The party who files such statement of claim of possession or
interest must also file an answer
to the Verified Complaint within
thirty (30) days after publication
of this notice, also serving copies
of the answer on the attorney of
record, for plaintiff herein, to
wit, Alejandro Bellver Espinosa,
Esq., or otherwise default judgment may be entered and condemnation ordered. Application
•
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR.
DLJ MORTGAGE
CAPITAL, INC.
Parte Demandante VS
RICHARD KENNETH
BRITTON T/C/C
RICHARD BRITTON Y
SU ESPOSA HEICHA
BRITTON T/C/C HEICHA
LABIOSA BRITTON Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
CONSTITUIDA POR
ESTOS
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NUM.: NSCI2011-00399
SALON NÚM.: 301 SOBRE
ACCION CIVIL DE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA AVISO DE SUBASTA.
A: RICHARD KENNETH
BRITTON T/C/C
RICHARD BRITTON Y
SU ESPOSA HEICHA
BRITTON T/C/C HEICHA
LABIOSA BRITTON Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
CONSTITUIDA POR
ESTOS; Y AL PUBLICO
EN GENERAL:
El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala
Superior, Centro Judicial de
Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico,
hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del
Mandamiento de Ejecución de
Sentencia expedido el día 22 de
septiembre de 2014, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé
a vender y venderé en pública
subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe
a continuación: URBANA: Lote
marcado con el número 10 en
el plano de inscripción de la
urbanización Las Aves, locali-
zado en el término municipal de
Luquillo, Puerto Rico, con una
cabida compuesta de 728.3150
metros cuadrados. En lindes
por el NORTE, en una distancia
de 23.91 metros, con finca principal; por el SUR, en una distancia de 18.61 metros con la calle
número 1; por el ESTE, en una
distancia de 34.88 metros con
el lote número 9 y con pared
medianera y por el OESTE, en
una distancia de 34.59 metros
con el lote número 11. El inmueble antes descrito contiene una
vivienda de concreto de dos niveles para una sola familia. Inscrita al folio 178 del tomo 277 de
Luquillo, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo, finca número
13,018. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer
al demandante hasta donde alcance, la suma de $341,283.84
de principal, más intereses al
7 1/4% anual desde el día 1ro.
de abril de 2010, más la suma
de $35,550.00, por concepto de
honorarios de abogado y costas
autorizadas por el Tribunal, más
las cantidades que se adeudan
mensualmente desde la fecha
antes mencionada, por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos
por demora, más cualesquiera
otros adelantos que se hagan
en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, todo ello, según surge de
la SENTENCIA dictada en este
caso el 22 de octubre de 2012.
La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda
carga o gravamen que afecte la
mencionada finca, excepto el
(los) gravamen (es) aquí antes
mencionado (s), a cuyo efecto
se notifica y se hace saber la
fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA y TERCERA subasta, si esto fuera necesario,
a los efectos de que cualquier
persona o personas con algún
interés puedan comparecer a la
celebración de dicha subasta.
La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el
acto mismo de la adjudicación,
en efectivo (moneda del curso
legal de los Estados Unidos de
América), giro postal o cheque
certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA
subasta se llevará a efecto el
día 3 de febrero de 2015 a las
11:00 de la mañana, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de
Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
Que el precio mínimo fijado
para la PRIMERA SUBASTA
es de $355,500.00.Que de ser
necesaria la celebración de una
SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma
se llevará a efecto el día 10 de
febrero de 2015 a las 11:00 de
la mañana, en la oficina antes
mencionada del Alguacil que
suscribe. El precio mínimo para
la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será
de $237,000.00, equivalentes
email: [email protected]
Legal Notice
a dos terceras (2/3) partes del
tipo mínimo estipulado para la
PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser
necesaria la celebración de una
TERCERA SUBASTA la misma
se llevará a efecto el día 17 de
febrero de 2015 a las 11:00 de
la mañana, en la oficina antes
mencionada del Alguacil que
suscribe.
El precio mínimo
para la TERCERA SUBASTA
será de $177,750.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo
mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase
desierta la tercera subasta se
dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicárse
al acreedor la finca aquí antes
descrita, dentro de los diez (10)
días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad
de la cantidad adeudada si ésta
fuera igual o menor al monto del
tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, y abonándose dicho monto
a la cantidad adeudada si ésta
fuere mayor. (Art. 221, Ley Hipotecaria y del Registro de la
Propiedad, 30 L.P.R.A. §2721).
Para conocimiento de la parte
demandada y de toda aquella
persona o personas que tengan
interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando,
y para conocimiento de todos
los licitadores y el público en
general, el presente Edicto se
publicará por espacio de dos (2)
semanas consecutivas, con un
intervalo de por lo menos siete
días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación
general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará
además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha
de celebrarse dicha venta, tales
como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y
la Colecturía. Se le advierte, a
todos los interesados que todos
los documentos relacionados
con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como
de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la
Secretaría del Tribunal durante
las horas laborales. EXPIDO,
el presente EDICTO, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25
de noviembre de 2014. Maritza
Santana Ortiz, #054 Alguacil
Auxiliar División de Subastas
Tribunal de Primera Instancia
Sala Superior de Fajardo.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRlMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON SALA SUPERIOR.
DORAL BANK
Parte Demandante Vs.
RENE SANCHEZ
HERNANDEZ por si y
en representacion de
la Sociedad Legal de
Bienes Gananciales
compuesta con DAISY
MARTINEZ BERRIOS t/c/c
DAISY NYDIA MARTINEZ
BERRIOS y esta por si
Parte Demandada
26
The San Juan Daily Star
Thursday, January 8, 2015
29 de diciembre de 2014. Ma- cia por aceptada. En Caguas,
Regional.
por ENID JARETTE
LEGAL NOTICE
riza Diaz Rodriguez, Secretaria Puerto Rico a 12 de diciembre
OYOLA MIRANDA;
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
Regional.
de 2014. Por: Maria A. Alicea,
LEGAL NOTICE
CARLOS BENNY OYOLA PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
Sub-Secretaria.
ESTADO
LIBRE
ASOCIADO
DE
MIRANDA; SONIA NOEMI PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
LEGAL
NOTICE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO.
LEGAL NOTICE
OYOLA MIRANDA;
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
RNPM,
LLC.
FULANO, SUTANO Y
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO.
DEMANDANTE VS.
MENGANO DE TAL,
BANCO POPULAR DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
ISMAEL EDUARDO
SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
como posibles herederos
PUERTO RICO
SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO.
BENABE HUERTAS,
ORIENTAL BANK Y
Demandante,
v.
desconocidos
de
LA
A: RENE SANCHEZ
BANCO POPULAR DE
SU ESPOSA MARISEL
BANCO
POPULAR
DE
EDWIN COLON ROMAN,
SUCESION DE MARIA
HERNANDEZ, por si y
PUERTO RICO
SANCHEZ COLON Y LA
PUERTO
RICO
COMO
FULANA
DE
TAL
Y
LA
MARGARITA MIRANDA
en representacion de la
DEMANDANTE VS.
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
AGENTE DE SERVICIO
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
SANTIAGO t/c/c
Sociedad Legal de Bienes
JAVIER IVAN DUEÑO
DEMANDANTE VS.
BIENES GANANCIALES
GANANCIALES
MARGARITA
MIRANDA
Gananciales compuesta
COLON
T/C/C JAVIER
LUIS OMAR RIVERA
COMPUESTA POR
COMPUESTA POR
SANTIAGO
con DAISY MARTiNEZ
DUEÑO COLON, SU
ORTIZ,
SU
ESPOSA
AMBOS;
CARLOS
JOSE
Parte Demandada
AMBOS;
BERRIOS, t/c/c DAISY
ESPOSA NILDA IVETTE
JOHANNA NAVARRO
ROMAN VEGA
CIVIL NUM: DCD2014-2996
Demandados
NYDIA MARTINEZ
RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZ Y
DEMANDADOS
SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero y EjeCIVIL NUM. CCD2014-0583 LOPEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD
BERRIOS y esta por si cucion de Hipoteca (Por la Via CIVIL NUM.: NSCI201400580 (401) SOBRE: PROCEDIMIENLA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
LEGAL DE BIENES
SE NOTIFICA a ustedes que Ordinaria) EMPLAZAMIENTO SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO TO IN REM SOBRE EJECUBIENES GANANCIALES
GANANCIALES
la parte demandante, DORAL POR EDICTO ESTADO UNIOOS Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA CION DE HIPOTECA POR LA
COMPUESTA POR
COMPUESTA POR
BANK, ha radicado en la Secre- DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE POR LA VIA ORDINARIA EM- VIA ORDINARIA EMPLAZAAMBOS
taria de este Tribunal una de- DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS SS PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO MIENTO POR EDICTO ESTAAMBOS
CIVIL NUM. DCD2014-2570
SALON: 504 SOBRE: Cobro de
Dinero y Ejecucion de Hipoteca
(Por la Via Ordinaria) EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ESTADO UNIDOS DE AMERICA
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO SS.
manda solicitando la ejecución EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
de hipoteca por la via ordinaria. DE PUERTO RICO.
Se les emplaza y requiere para
A: SUCESION DE
que notifiquen al Lic. Igor J. DoBENJAMIN
OYOLA
minguez San Martin, abogado
de la parte demandante, V.I.G. CALDERON identificados
Tower, 1225 Avenida Ponce De
como ENID JARETTE
Leon, Suite 1105, San Juan, OYOLA MIRANDA; SONIA
Puerto Rico, 00907-3945, teleNOEMI OYOLA MIRANDA,
fono (787) 250-0220, con copia
FULANO, SUTANO Y
de la contestación a la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30) MENGANO DE TAL como
DIAS siguientes a la publicaposibles herederos
ción de este edicto, el cual se
desconocidos
publicara una vez por semana a
A:
SUCESION
DE MARIA
tenor con la orden dictada por
MARGARITA MIRANDA
este Honorable Tribunal. Se
les apercibe que si dejaran de
SANTIAGO t/c/c
hacerlo podrá dictarse contra
MARGARITA MIRANDA
ustedes sentencia en rebeldia
SANTIAGO identificados
concediendose el remedio socomo ENID JARETTE
licitado en la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello OYOLA MIRANDA; SONIA
de este Tribunal en BAYAMON, NOEMI OYOLA MIRANDA;
Puerto Rico, hoy dia 30 de diFULANO, SUTANO Y
ciembre de 2014. Ruth N. AponMENGANO DE TAL como
te Cotto, Secretaria Regional.
posibles herederos
Por: Allyn J. Ramos Rivera, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.
desconocidos
SE NOTIFICA a ustedes que
la parte demandante, DORAL
LEGAL NOTICE
BANK, ha radicado en la SecreESTADO LIBRE ASOClADO DE
taria de este Tribunal una dePUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
manda solicitando la ejecución
PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO
de hipoteca por la via ordinaria.
JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON SALA
Se les emplaza y requiere para
SUPERIOR.
que notifiquen al Lic. Igor J. DoDORAL BANK
minguez San Martin, abogado
Parte Demandate Vs.
de la parte demandante, V.I.G.
LA SUCESION DE
Tower, 1225 Avenida Ponce De
Leon, Suite 1105, San Juan,
BENJAMIN OYOLA
CALDERON, compuesta Puerto Rico, 00907-3945, telefono (787) 250-0220, con copia
por ENID JARETTTE
de la contestación a la demanOYOLA MIRANDA;
da dentro de los TREINTA (30)
CARLOS BENNY OYOLA DIAS siguientes a la publicaMIRANDA; SONIA NOEMI ción de este edicto, el cual se
publicara una vez por semana
OYOLA MIRANDA;
a tenor con la orden dictada
FULANO, SUTANO Y
por este Honorable Tribunal. Se
MENGANO DE TAL,
les apercibe que si dejaran de
como posible herederos hacerlo podrá dictarse contra
ustedes sentencia en rebeldia
desconocidos de LA
concediendose el remedio soSUCESION DE BENJAMIN licitado en la demanda. EXPEOYOLA CALDERON;
DIDO bajo mi firma y el sello
de este Tribunal en Bayamon,
LA SUCESION DE
Puerto Rico, hoy dia 30 de diMARIA MARGARITA
de 2014. Ruth Aponte
MIRANDA SANTIAGO ciembre
Cotto, Secretaria Regional. Por:
t/c/c MARGARITA
Luz E. Amador Ruiz, Secretaria
MIRANDA, compuesta Auxiliar del Tribunal I.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE
LOS EE. UU. ss. EL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.
A: ISMAEL EDUARDO
BENABE HUERTAS,
SU ESPOSA MARISEL
SÁNCHEZ COLÓN Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS; CARLOS
JOSÉ ROMÁN VEGA,
URB. BRISAS DEL MAR
(CLARISSA ROW) EE-6
CALLE G LUQUILLO PR
00773.
Por la presente se les notifica
que se ha radicado en este Tribunal una demanda de ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número
de epígrafe. Se alega en dicho
procedimiento que la parte demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca y la parte demandante
declaró vencida el balance más
intereses, cargos por demora
y honorarios. Representa a la
parte demandante, el abogado
cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS
FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P.
PO BOX 9300
SANTURCE, PR 00908
TEL: 787- 751-5290
FAX: 787-751-6155
E-mail: [email protected]
Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha
demanda dentro del término de
30 días a partir de la publicación
de este edicto, radicando el original de la contestación ante el
Tribunal correspondiente, con
copia a la parte demandante,
se le anotaría la rebeldía y se
le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más
citarle ni oírle. Se le apacible
que conforme al articulo 959
del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A.
§ 2787, usted tiene derecho a
aceptar o repudiar la herencia.
A esos efectos de no rechazarla
se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico a
18 de diciembre de 2014. Wanda I. Segui Reyes, Secretaria
DOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL
PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU.
DE AMERICA EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO
RICO.
A: EDWIN COLON
ROMAN, FULANA DE TAL
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS;
Queden emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se
ha radicado Demanda sobre
Cobro de Dinero por la via ordinaria en la que se alega que
los codemandados Edwin Colon Roman, Fulana de Tal y la
Sociedad Legal de Gananciales Compuesta por Ambos, Ie
adeudan al Banco Popular del
prestamo 2728524-9002 Ia
suma principal de $14,473.55,
mas intereses acumulados (al
dia 30 de enero de 2014) ascendentes a $9,807.40, mas
aquellos intereses que se continuen acumulado desde el dia
30 de enero de 2014, a razon
de $3.81, diarios, mas los gastos de honorarios de abogados
y costas del presente litigio. Los
abogado de Ia parte demandante son el Lcdo. Alejandro Bellver
Espinosa y la Lcda. Yasbel Enid
Escobar Ramirez, cuya direccion fisica y postal es: Condo El
Centro I, Suite 801, 500 Muñoz
Rivera Ave., San Juan, Puerto
Rico 00918; cuyo numero de
telefono es (787) 946-5268, el
facsimile (787)946-0062 y su
correo electronico es: [email protected] y vasbel@
bellverlaw.com. Se les advierte
que este edicto se publicara en
un periodico de circulacion general una sola vez y que si no
comparecen a contestar dicha
Demanda radicando el original
de la misma en el Tribunal, con
copia al abogado de la parte
demandante dentro del termino
de treinta (30) dias a partir de
la publicacion del Edicto, se Ie
anotara la rebeldia y se dictara Sentencia concediendo el
remedio asi solicitado sin mas
citarles ni oirles. Expedido baio
mi firma y sello de este Tribunal,
en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy dia
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NÚM.: ECD2014-1217
(404)
SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE
LOS EE. UU. ss. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NUM.: BCD2014-0087
SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS
DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS EE. UU. ss. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.
A: NILDA IVETTE
A: LUIS OMAR RIVERA
RODRIGUEZ
ORTIZ, SU ESPOSA
MARTINEZ, por sí y
JOHANNA NAVARRO
como componente de
LÓPEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD
la Sociedad de Bienes
LEGAL DE BIENES
Gananciales que forma
GANANCIALES
con su esposo JAVIER
COMPUESTA POR
IVAN DUEÑO COLON
AMBOS, CONDOMINIO
T/C/C JAVIER DUEÑO
PLAZA APT. 302 CALLE
COLON, COMUNIDAD
BETANCES #53 CAGUAS,
RURAL SAN LUIS 12
P.R. 00725.
LOTE 681 CALLE SARDI
Por la presente se les notifica
AIBONITO PR 00705.
que se ha radicado en este Tribunal una demanda de ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número
de epígrafe. Se alega en dicho
procedimiento que la parte demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca y la parte demandante
declaró vencida el balance más
intereses, cargos por demora
y honorarios. Representa a la
parte demandante, el abogado
cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS
FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P.
PO BOX 9300
SANTURCE, PR 00908
TEL: 787- 751-5290
FAX: 787-751-6155
E-mail: [email protected]
Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar
dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la
publicación de este edicto, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente, con copia a la parte
demandante, se le anotaría la
rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle.
Se le apacible que conforme al
articulo 959 del Código Civil,
31 L.P.R.A. § 2787, usted tiene
derecho a aceptar o repudiar la
herencia. A esos efectos de no
rechazarla se tendrá la heren-
Por la presente se les notifica
que se ha radicado en este Tribunal una demanda de ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número
de epígrafe. Se alega en dicho
procedimiento que la parte demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca y la parte demandante
declaró vencida el balance más
intereses, cargos por demora
y honorarios. Representa a la
parte demandante, el abogado
cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
BUFETE
FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P.
LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS
RÚA NÚM.: 11,416
PO BOX 13786,
SAN JUAN, PR 00908
TEL: 787- 751-5290,
FAX: 787-751-6155
E-mail: [email protected]
Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha
demanda dentro del término de
30 días a partir de la publicación
de este edicto, radicando el original de la contestación ante el
Tribunal correspondiente, con
copia a la parte demandante,
se le anotaría la rebeldía y se
le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más
citarle ni oírle. Se le apacible
que conforme al articulo 959
del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A.
§ 2787, usted tiene derecho a
aceptar o repudiar la herencia.
A esos efectos de no rechazarla
se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. En Aibonito, Puerto Rico a
22 de diciembre de 2014. Elizabth Gonzalez Rivera, Secretaria
Regional. Por: Maribel Aviles
Rodriguez, Secretaria Auxiliar
del Tribunal I .
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
FIDELITY NATIONAL
TITLE GROUP OF
PUERTO RICO
Demandante vs.
ISLAND FINANCE
PUERTO RICO,
INC, h/n/c ISLAND
MORTGAGE; METRO
ISLAND MORTGAGE,
INC; FULANO DE TAL Y
MENGANO MAS CUAL
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. FCD2014-1464
SOBRE: CANCELACION DE
HIPOTECA REPRESENTADA
POR PAGARE HIPOTECARIO
EXTRAVIADO EDICTO ESTADOS UNIOOS DE AMERICA EL
PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO
RICO SS.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y
MENGANO MAS CUAL
Se emplaza y notifica a ustedes
que se ha presentado una demanda en este caso, en la cual
en sintesis, la parte demandante
alega que se extraviaron dos (2)
pagares hipotecarios que estaban en poder de “Metro Island
Mortgage, Inc.”, y solicita que se
ordene la. cancelacion de las hipotecas que los garantizan. Los
Pagare fueron librados por Hilda Landron Perez a favor de “Island Finance Puerto Rico, Inc.”
o a su orden, por la suma principal de: (i) $10,011.67, mas intereses y creditos, segun consta
de la escritura numero #368,
otorgada en San Juan, Puerto
Rico, el dia 22 de septiembre
de 2000, ante el Notario Publico
Orlando Maldonado Rivera. La
referida escritura se encuentra
inscrita al folio 163 del tome 926
de Carolina, del Registro de la
Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Seccion Segunda (II) de Carolina,
finca #37,533, inscripcion 5ta; y
(ii) $15,049.28, mas intereses y
creditos, segun consta de la escritura numero 161, otorgada en
San Juan, Puerto Rico, el dia 23
de febrero del 2001, ante la Notario Publico Nay Del Carmen
Rodriguez Gonzalez. La referida
escritura se encuentra inscrita
al tome moviJ 1315 de Carolina,
del Registro de la Propiedad de
Puerto Rico, Seccion Segunda
(II) de Carolina, finca #37,533,
inscripcion 6ta. Pueden ver la
demanda en su totalidad en
este Tribunal. Los Abogados
de la Parte Demandante lo son:
Raul J. Tous Bobonisl Sandra
De L. Tous-Chevres,Edificio La
The San Juan Daily Star
Thursday, January 8, 2015
con solares Noventa y Nueve
(99) y Ciento Doce (112); y por
el OESTE, con el solar numero
Ciento Uno (101). Enclava una
casa. La escritura de hipoteca
se encuentra inscrita al folio 199
del tomo 1521 de Rio Piedras
Norte, Registro de la Propiedad
de San Juan, Seccion Segunda, finca numero 22,654, inscripcion decima. Se Ie advierte
que de no comparecer en autos
dentro del termino de los treinta
(30) dias siguientes a partir de
la publicacion de este Edicto, se
Ie anotara la Rebeldia y se dictara Sentencia concediendo el
remedio solicitado, sin mas citarle ni oirle, debiendo radicar el
original de su contestacion en el
Tribunal, enviando copia al abogado de la parte demandante:
Lcdo. Baldomero A. Collazo Torres, Bufete Correa, Collazo &
LEGAL NOTICE
Herrero, PSC, P.O . Box 70212,
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE
8212; telefono (787) 625-9999;
PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
Fax (787) 625-9801. Se Ie noSUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
tifica tambien por la presente
BANCO COOPERATIVO que la parte demandante habra
DE PUERTO RICO
de presentar para su anotacion
Demandante vs.
al Registrador de la Propiedad
del Distrito en que esta situada
ROBERTO ANTONIO
la propiedad objeto de este pleiRODRIGUEZ LOPEZ,
un aviso de estar pendiente
tambien conocido como to,
esta accion. Para publicarse
ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ conforme a la Orden dictada
LOPEZ
por el Tribunal en un periodico
Demandado
de circulacion general. EN TESCIVIL NUM. KCD2014-1998 TIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido
(902) SOBRE: COBRO DE DI- el presente Edicto que firmo y
NERO (Ejecucion de Hipoteca sello en San Juan, Puerto Rico,
por la Via Ordinaria) EMPLA- hoy 31 de diciembre de 2014.
ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ES- Griselda Rodriguez Collado,
TADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Secretaria Regional.
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO
LEGAL NOTICE
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
TO RICO.
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUA: ROBERTO ANTONIO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ,
SALA DE AGUADILLA.
Electronica, 1608 Calle Bori,
Suite 205, San Juan, PR 00927,
telefonos 751-883413824, a
quien deberan notificar la contestacion a la demanda dentro
de los proximos treinta (30) dias
siguientes a la publicacion de
este edicto. Se les apercibe que
de asi no hacerlo, el Tribunal
podra conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda sin mas
citarle ni oirle. La parte demandada debera radicar el original
de la contestacion de la demanda en este Tribunal, con copia
a la parte demandante. Dado
bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal
y por Orden del mismo hoy 30
de diciembre de 2014. Miriam
Rosa Maldonado, Secretaria
Regional Por: Keila Garcia Solis, Secretaria Auxiliar.
tambien conocido como
ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ
LOPEZ
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO
se Ie notifica que se ha radicado
en esta Secretaria por la parte
demandante, Demanda sobre
Cobro de Dinero y Ejecucion de
Hipoteca por la Via Ordinaria en
la que se alega adeuda la suma
principal de $81,882.58, intereses al 8.875% anual, desde el
dia 1ro de mayo de 2014, hasta
su completo pago, mas la cantidad de $10,150.00, estipulada
para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, mas recargos
acumulados, todas cuyas sumas estan liquidas y exigibles.
La propiedad hipotecada a ser
vendida en publica subasta es:
URBANA: Solar marcado con el
numero Cien (100) de la manzana “E” en el Plano de Inscripcion
de la Urbanizacion Cooperativa
de Solares Buena Vista, titulado
Plano de Inscripcion Proyecto
de Buena Vista, localizado en
San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una
cabida superficial de DOSCIENTOS QUINCE PUNTO SESENTA Y DOS (215.62) METROS
CUADRADOS. En lindes por
el NORTE, con el solar numero
Ciento Once (111); por el SUR,
con la Calle C; por el ESTE,
ORIENTAL
BANK AND TRUST
Demandante v.
GILBERTO RODRÍGUEZ
SANTIAGO, LYZETTE
HAU RODRIGUEZ y la
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
GANANCIALES por éstos
compuesta ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados.
CIVIL NÚM.: ACD2012-0268
(404) SOBRE: IN REM: Ejecución de Hipoteca LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL
PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU.
SS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de
Primera Instancia, Sala de
Aguadilla, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al Público en
General: Se celebrarán las subastas para con el importe de
las mismas satisfacer a la parte
demandante su acreencia, a saber, las siguientes sumas: (a)
Préstamo número 400009366:
la suma de $1,374,115.76, de
los cuales $1,169,437.71 corresponden al principal adeudado, $31,017.59 a intereses sin
pagar que continúan acumulán-
dose a razón de $191.71 diarios
hasta el pago total de la deuda,
$11,418.92 a preparación de
documentos, entre otros cargos, $151,081.40 a intereses
por incumplimiento, $11,160.14
a otros fondos adeudados al
prestatario; además, una cantidad equivalente de $120,103.06
para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más cualquier
otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de
este caso para otros adelantos.
(b)
Préstamo
número
400008884: la suma de
$1,127,243.94, de los cuales
$961,366.39 corresponden al
principal adeudado, $25,500.23
a intereses sin pagar que continúan acumulándose a razón de
$157.60 diarios hasta el pago
total de la deuda, $635.04 a cargos por atrasos, $126,170.11 a
intereses por incumplimiento,
$5,210.50 a adelantos corporativos, $8,361.67 a otros fondos
adeudados al prestatario; además, una cantidad equivalente
de $98,723.31 para costas,
gastos y honorarios de abogado; más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o
efectúe la parte demandante
durante la tramitación de este
caso para otros adelantos. Que
en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 15 de octubre
de 2014, por la Secretaria del
Tribunal de Aguadilla, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo
de $625,000.00, y al mejor postor, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA:
Radicada en el barrio Guerrero
del término municipal de Isabela, con un área superficial de mil
ochocientos ochenta y cuatro
punto trescientos noventa y
ocho (1,884.398) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte,
con una faja de terreno dedicada a uso público, que conduce
de Aguadilla a Isabela; por el
Sur, con un canal de riego de la
Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales,
por el Este, con el solar, marcado con el número tres (3) en el
plano de inscripción y por el
Oeste con el solar marcado con
el número seis (6) en el plano
de inscripción. Finca número
14,903, inscrita al tomo móvil
cuatrocientos sesenta y nueve
(469) de Isabela, Registro de la
Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Aguadilla. El inmueble
antes descrito se encuentra
afecto a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca: constituida
por los esposos Gilberto Rodríguez Santiago y Lyzette Hau
Rodríguez en garantía de un
pagaré a favor de Eurobank, o a
su orden, por la suma principal
de $625,000.00 al prime rate y
vencedero a la presentación,
según la Escritura #137, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el
12 de julio de 2005 ante Nelson
William González Rosario. (ii)
Hipoteca: constituida por los esposos Gilberto Rodríguez Santiago y Lyzette Hau Rodríguez
en garantía de un pagaré a fa-
vor de Eurobank, o a su orden,
por la suma principal de
$510,000.00 al 15% y vencedero a la presentación, según la
Escritura #31, otorgada en San
Juan, Puerto Rico, el 29 de febrero de 2008 ante Nelson William González Rosario. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución
es la descrita en el inciso (i). La
PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 4 de febrero de
2015, a las 10:00 de la mañana,
en la oficina del Alguacil sita en
el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, Puerto
Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo
para la misma la cantidad de
$625,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate
ni adjudicación, se celebrará
SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 11
de febrero de 2015, a las 10:00
de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá de tipo
dos terceras (2/3) partes del
precio
pactado,
o
sea,
$416,666.67. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará
TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18
de febrero de 2015, a las 10:00
de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que regirá como tipo
la mitad del precio pactado,
$312,500.00. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de
Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 15 de octubre de 2014, por
la Secretaria del Tribunal de
Aguadilla, procederé a vender y
venderé en pública subasta por
el
precio
mínimo
de
$260,000.00, y al mejor postor,
la propiedad que se describe a
continuación: URBANA: Solar
de DOSCIENTOS CUARENTISIETE PUNTO CERO NOVENTICUATRO METROS CUADRADOS
(247.094
M.C.),
radicado en la Calle Jesús T.
Piñeiro de la Urbanización José
Otero de Isabela, y marcado
con el Número Uno guión C
(l-C) en el plano de urbanización; en lindes al NORTE, en
once punto cincuenta y ocho
metros con la Calle Jesús T. Piñeiro y en parte con la Carretera
Insular número Dos (2), incluyéndose en esta medida del
lado Norte los trayectos de la
curva que forma el solar en su
esquina noroeste; al SUR, en
once punto sesenta y seis metros con una avenida; al ESTE,
en veintitrés punto sesenta metros con el solar número uno
guión R (1-R) de la Urbanización José otero y al OESTE en
Veinte punto once metros con la
Carretera Insular numero dos
(2). Finca número 5,317, inscrita en el folio setenta y tres (73)
del tomo ciento cincuenta y seis
(156) de Isabela, Registro de la
Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Aguadilla. El inmueble
antes descrito se encuentra
afecto a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca: constituida
por los esposos Gilberto Rodríguez Santiago y Lyzette Hau
Rodríguez en garantía de un
pagaré a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden,
por la suma principal de
$160,000.00 al prime rate y
vencedero a la presentación,
según la Escritura #528, otorgada en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el
20 de diciembre de 1993 ante
Pedro García Mejías, inscrita al
folio 75 del tomo 156 de Isabela, finca #5,317, inscripción
11ma. (ii) Hipoteca: constituida
por los esposos Gilberto Rodríguez Santiago y Lyzette Hau
Rodríguez en garantía de un
pagaré a favor de Eurobank, o a
su orden, por la suma principal
de $443,000.00 al 8% y vencedero a la presentación, según la
Escritura #72, otorgada en San
Juan, Puerto Rico, el 10 de diciembre de 2004 ante Luis M.
Nolla Vilá, inscrita al folio 71 del
tomo 482 de Isabela, finca
#5,317, inscripción 12ma. (iii)
Embargo Federal: por $9,070.37
contra Gilberto Rodríguez Santiago y Lyzette Hau Rodríguez,
notificación #558230709, P.O.
Box 946 Isabela, P.R. 00662,
anotado el 7 de julio de 2009 al
asiento 4 folio 96 libro #4 de
Embargos Federales. (iv) Embargo Federal: por $10,228.70
contra Gilberto Rodríguez Santiago y Lyzette Hau Rodríguez,
notificación #589449709, P.O.
Box 946 Isabela, P.R. 00662,
anotado al asiento 4 folio 116 libro #4 de Embargos Federales.
(v) Sentencia: contra Lyzette
Hau Rodríguez, caso civil ACD95-0027 en el Tribunal Superior
de Puerto Rico, Sala de Aguadilla, seguido por Martín González Vázquez, por la suma de
$750,000.00, con fecha 26 de
marzo de 1998, anotado el 14
de abril de 1998 al folio 8 libro
#4 de Sentencias. (vi) Sentencia: en la Corte de Distrito de
Estados Unidos de América
para el Distrito de Puerto Rico,
caso civil #00-1162 (RLA) seguido por Citibank NA vs los
esposos Gilberto Rodríguez
Santiago y Lyzette Hau Rodríguez, por $514,271.71 con fecha 8 de octubre de 2002, anotado el 11 de octubre de 2002,
al folio 48 libro #4 de Sentencias. La hipoteca objeto de esta
ejecución es la descrita en los
inciso (i). La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 4 de febrero de 2015, a las 10:15 de la
mañana, en la oficina del Alguacil sita en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla,
Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad
de $260,000.00, sin admitirse
oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará SEGUNDA SUBASTA el
día 11 de febrero de 2015, a las
10:15 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá de
tipo dos terceras (2/3) partes
del precio pactado, o sea,
$173,333.33. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará
TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18
de febrero de 2015, a las 10:15
de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que regirá como tipo
la mitad del precio pactado,
$130,000.00. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de
Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 15 de octubre de 2014, por
la Secretaria del Tribunal de
Aguadilla, procederé a vender y
venderé en pública subasta por
el precio mínimo de $113,000.00,
y al mejor postor, la propiedad
que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar número once
(11) radicado en el barrio Pueblo de Isabela, compuesto de
MIL CIENTO CUARENTA y
UNO PUNTO CIENTO DIECIOCHO (1,l41.1l8) METROS CUADRADOS de terreno. En lindes
por el NORTE, con Hirma Juarbe, Avenida Noel Estrada y Coranda San Antonio; por el SUR,
con calle municipal (El Roble);
por el ESTE, con José E. Amador, Coranda San Antonio y Esther Domenech; y por el OESTE, con Dolores M. Amador, Dr.
José N. Cardona e Hiram Juarbe. Contiene una casa de hormigón reforzado y bloques dedicada a vivienda. Finca número
14,132, inscrita al folio 20 del
Tomo 274 de Isabela, Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico,
Sección de Aguadilla. El inmueble antes descrito se encuentra
afecto a los siguientes gravámenes hipotecarios: (i) Hipoteca: constituida por los esposos
Gilberto Rodríguez Santiago y
Lyzette Hau Rodríguez en garantía de un pagaré a favor
Eurobank, por la suma principal
de $250,000.00 al 12% y vencedero a la presentación, según la
Escritura #68, otorgada en San
Juan, Puerto Rico, el 30 de
mayo de 2006 ante Nelson W.
González Rosario. Responde
la finca número 14,132 por
$113,000.00. (ii) Hipoteca:
constituida por los esposos Gilberto Rodríguez Santiago y Lyzette Hau Rodríguez en garantía de un pagaré a favor
Eurobank, por la suma principal
de $110,000.00 al 8% y vencedero a la presentación, según la
Escritura #138, otorgada en Isabela, Puerto Rico, el 26 de septiembre de 2008 ante Luis M.
Nolla Vila. Responde la finca
número 14,132 por $49,500.00.
La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la descrita en el inciso
(i). La PRIMERA SUBASTA se
celebrará el día 4 de febrero de
2015, a las 10:30 de la mañana,
en la oficina del Alguacil sita en
el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, Puerto
Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo
para la misma la cantidad de
$113,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate
ni adjudicación, se celebrará
SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 11
de febrero de 2015, a las 10:30
de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá de tipo
dos terceras (2/3) partes del
precio
pactado,
o
sea,
$75,333.33. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará
TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18
de febrero de 2015, a las 10:30
de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que regirá como tipo
la mitad del precio pactado,
$56,500.00. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de
Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 15 de octubre de 2014, por
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la Secretaria del Tribunal de
Aguadilla, procederé a vender y
venderé en pública subasta por
el precio mínimo de $29,000.00,
y al mejor postor, la propiedad
que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar número doce
(12) radicado en el barrio Pueblo de Isabela, compuesta de
TRESCIENTOS SESENTA y
SIETE PUNTO UN (367.01)
METROS CUADRADOS de terreno. En lindes por el NORTE,
con el solar marcado con el número trece (13) en el plano de
inscripción; por el SUR, con una
calle de la Urbanización dedicada a uso público; por el ESTE,
con una calle de la Urbanización dedicada a uso público; y
por el OESTE, con el solar marcado con el número once (11)
en el plano de inscripción. Finca
número 14,133, inscrita al folio
veinticinco (25) del tomo doscientos setenta y cuatro (274)
de Isabela, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección
de Aguadilla. El inmueble antes
descrito se encuentra afecto a
los siguientes gravámenes hipotecarios: (i) Hipoteca: constituida por los esposos Gilberto
Rodríguez Santiago y Lyzette
Hau Rodríguez en garantía de
un pagaré a favor Eurobank,
por la suma principal de
$250,000.00 al 12% y vencedero a la presentación, según la
Escritura #68, otorgada en San
Juan, Puerto Rico, el 30 de
mayo de 2006 ante Nelson W.
González Rosario. Responde
la finca número 14,133 por
$29,000.00. (ii) Hipoteca: constituida por los esposos Gilberto
Rodríguez Santiago y Lyzette
Hau Rodríguez en garantía de
un pagaré a favor Eurobank,
por la suma principal de
$250,000.00 al 12% y vencedero a la presentación, según la
Escritura #68, otorgada en San
Juan, Puerto Rico, el 30 de
mayo de 2006 ante Nelson W.
González Rosario. Responde
la finca número 14,134 por
$108,000.00.
(iv) Hipoteca:
constituida por los esposos Gilberto Rodríguez Santiago y Lyzette Hau Rodríguez en garantía de un pagaré a favor
Eurobank, por la suma principal
de $110,000.00 al 8% y vencedero a la presentación, según la
Escritura #138, otorgada en Isabela, Puerto Rico, el 26 de septiembre de 2008 ante Luis M.
Nolla Vila. Responde la finca
número 14,134 por $47,300.00.
La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la descrita en inciso
(i). La PRIMERA SUBASTA se
celebrará el día 4 de febrero de
2015, a las 11:00 de la mañana,
en la oficina del Alguacil sita en
el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, Puerto
Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo
para la misma la cantidad de
$108,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate
ni adjudicación, se celebrará
SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 11
de febrero de 2015, a las 11:00
de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá de tipo
dos terceras (2/3) partes del
precio
pactado,
o
sea,
$72,000.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará
TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18
de febrero de 2015, a las 11:00
de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que regirá como tipo
la mitad del precio pactado,
$54,000.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal
de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de
acuerdo con lo anunciado en
este Aviso de Subasta. Se entiende que todo licitador que
comparezca a las subastas señaladas en este caso acepta
como bastante la titulación que
da base a la misma. Los autos y
todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en
la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente,
si la hubiere, al crédito que da
base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose,
además, que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la
responsabilidad de los mismos
sin destinarse a su extinción
cualquier parte del remanente
del precio de licitación. Y PARA
CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PÚBLICO
EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley,
expido el presente Aviso bajo mi
firma y sello de este Tribunal.
En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy
24 de noviembre de 2014.
C.R.L. Carlos Rivera López Alguacil Regional Alguacil Tribunal De Primera Instancia Sala
De Aguadilla.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE SAN JUAN.
DLJ MORTGAGE
CAPITAL, INC.
Demandante VS.
EMELY CORREA
SERRANO t/c/c EMILY
CORREA SERRANO
Demandada
CIVIL NUM. KCD2009-1487
(901) SOBRE: COBRO DE
DINERO EDICTO DE SUBASTA ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMЙRICA EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
SS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.
AL: PUBLICO EN
GENERAL
A: EMELY CORREA
SERRANO t/c/c EMILY
CORREA SERRANO;
Yo, Diana I. Navarro Cruz, Alguacil de este tribunal, anuncia
y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de
Ejecución de Sentencia que me
ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a
vender en pública subasta y al
mejor postor, de contado y en
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moneda del curso legal de los
Estados Unidos de América,
todo pago recibido por el (la)
Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal
o cheque certificado a nombre
del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal
de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga
la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: Condominio
Highland Park, Apto. 408, Calle
Olmo, San Juan, PR 00926.URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal:
Apartamento residencial número cuatrocientos ocho (408)
de dos niveles, ubicado en los
piso número siete (7) y ocho
(8) del Condominio Highland
Park, situado en la Calle Olmo,
solar número R guio dos (R-2),
Urbanización Highland Park del
municipio de San Juan, Puerto
Rico, con una cabida superficial
contigua de noventa y siete punto noventa y uno (97.91 m.c.)
metros cuadrados equivalentes
a mil cincuenta y tres punto noventa y dos (1053.92 p.c.) pies
cuadrados. Su entrada principal
está localizada en el lado Oeste a través del primer nivel del
apartamento en el piso siete (7)
del condominio, del vestíbulo
de los elevadores y escaleras.
Consiste en el primer nivel de
sala/comedor, cocina, y medio
baño. El segundo nivel tiene
dos (2) dormitorios, un (1) baño,
escaleras y balcón. Son sus
linderos en el primer nivel: por
el NORTE, con apartamento
número cuatrocientos nueve
(409) y elementos comunes a
una distancia d nueve punto
ochenta (9.80) metros lineales,
equivalentes a treinta y dos pies
dos pulgadas (32’ 2”) lineales.
Por el SUR, con el apartamento número cuatrocientos siete
(407) y elementos comunes a
una distancia de nueve punto
ochenta (9.80) metros lineales,
equivalentes a treinta y dos pies
dos pulgadas (32’ 2”) lineales.
Por el ESTE, con elementos comunes y una distancia de cuatro punto cuarenta y dos (4.42)
metros lineales, equivalentes a
catorce pies seis pulgadas (14’
6”) lineales. Por el OESTE, con
elementos comunes y una distancia de cuatro punto cuarenta
y dos (4.42) metros lineales,
equivalentes a catorce pies
seis pulgadas (14’ 6”) lineales.
Son sus linderos en el segundo
nivel: por el NORTE, con apartamento número cuatrocientos
nueve (409) y una distancia de
once punto noventa y cuatro
(11.94) metros lineales, equivalentes a treinta y nueve pies dos
pulgadas (39’2”) lineales. Por
el SUR, con apartamento número cuatrocientos siete (407)
y una distancia de once punto
noventa y cuatro (11.94) metros
lineales, equivalentes a treinta
y nueve pies dos pulgadas (39’
2”) lineales. Por el ESTE, con
elementos comunes y una distancia de cuatro punto cuarenta
y dos (4.42) metros lineales,
equivalente a catorce pies seis
pulgadas (14’ 6”) lineales. Por
el OESTE, con elementos comunes y una distancia de cua-
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tro punto cuarenta y dos metros
lineales, equivalentes a catorce
pies seis pulgadas (14’6”) lineales. Le pertenece el área de
almacenaje (“storage space”)
número veinte y seis (26) ubicada en el sótano del condominio
con una cabida superficial de
uno punto veinte y uno (1.21)
metros cuadrados, equivalentes
a trece punto cero seis (13.06)
pies cuadrados. Le pertenecen
los espacios de estacionamiento de automóviles número ciento
tres (103) y ciento cuatro (104),
contiguos, con un área agregada de veinte y siete punto treinta y uno (27.31) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a doscientos
noventa y cuatro (294.00) pies
cuadrados. El total de área del
apartamento con sus estacionamientos y área de almacenaje es de ciento veintiséis punto
cuarenta y cuatro (126.44) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a
mil trescientos sesenta punto
noventa y ocho (1,360.98) pies
cuadrados. Le pertenece el uno
punto ochenta y seis ochenta y
cinco (1.8685%) por ciento de
participación en los elementos comunes de Condominio.
Consta inscrito al folio 109 del
tomo 1073 de Sabana Llana,
finca número #34,501, Registro
de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico,
Sección Quinta de San Juan.
La subasta se llevarб a cabo
el dнa 26 de enero de 2015, a
las 11:30 de la maсana, en mis
oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de
Primera Instancia, Sala de San
Juan, cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó mediante Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia
de fecha 12 de septiembre de
2014. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al
procedimiento incoado, estarán
de manifiesto en la Secretaría
durante horas laborables. La
subasta se llevará a efecto para
satisfacer a la parte demandante la cantidad de $131,257.91
de principal, más intereses al
6.125% anual, más los cargos
por demora que corresponden
a los plazos atrasados desde
la fecha anteriormente indicada
a razón de la tasa pactada de
5% de cualquier pago que esté
en mora por más de quince (15)
días desde la fecha de vencimiento, desde el día 1ro de noviembre de 2008, más la suma
de $13,750.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados.
La propiedad se adjudicará al
mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta
en moneda legal y corriente de
los Estados Unidos de América
en el momento de la adjudicación. Una vez ejecutada la venta de dicha propiedad, el alguacil procederá a poner al licitador
victorioso en posesión física de
la propiedad dentro del plazo
de veinte (20) días contados a
partir de la venta en pública subasta. Para más información, a
las personas interesadas se les
notifica que las Actas y demás
constancias del expediente de
este caso están disponibles en
la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser
The San Juan Daily Star
Thursday, January 8, 2015
examinadas por los interesados. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO
CUAL, expido el presente Este
EDICTO DE SUBASTA para conocimiento y comparecencia de
los licitadores, bajo mi firma y
sello del Tribunal de San Juan,
Puerto Rico, a 24 de noviembre
de 2014. Diana I. Navarro Cruz,
Alguacil Auxiliar, Alguacil Tribunal De Primera Instancia Sala
Superior De San Juan.
DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
RAMON FELIPE PAGAN
TORRES Y JOSEFINA
LARACUENTE CRUZ Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandado(a)
Caso Civil Num: DCD20142184 (502) Sobre: COBRO DE
LEGAL NOTICE
DINERO Y EJECUCION DE
Estado Libre Asociado de Puer- HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORto Rico, TRIBUNAL GENERAL DINARIA NOTIFICACION DE
DE JUSTICIA, Tribunal de Pri- SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
mera Instancia, Sala Superior
A: RAMON FELIPE
de CAROLINA.
PAGAN TORRES Y
JOSEFINA LARACUENTE
CRUZ Y LA SOCIEDAD
MILTON YABE CRUZ
LEGAL DE BIENES
FELICIANO
GANANCIALES
Demandado(a)
Civil: FCD2014-0495 Sobre:
COMPUESTA POR
EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA
AMBOS - URB TERRAZAS
NOTIFICACION DE SENTENDEL TOA, 3M-8 CALLE
CIA POR EDICTO.
ASTROMELIA, TOA
A: MILTON YANE CRUZ
ALTAPR 00953.
FELICIANO T/C/C MILTON
EL SECRETARIO (A) que susCRUZ FELICIANO,
cribe le notifica a usted que
DAMARIS RUIZ MULERO 11 de diciembre de 2014, este
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia,
Sentencia Parcial o Resolución
DE GANANCIALES
en este caso, que ha sido debiCOMPUESTA POR
damente registrada y archivada
CADA UNO DE SUS
en autos donde podrá usted
MIEMBROS COMO CO- enterarse detalladamente de los
términos de la misma. Esta noADMINISTRADORES
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se
le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 7 de
octubre de 2014, 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 representado 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 ultima publicación de este
edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los
autos de este caso, con fecha
de 30 de diciembre de 2014. En
CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 30
de diciembre de 2014. Miriam
Rosa Maldonado, Secretaria
Regional. Denisse Torres Ruiz,
Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, TRIBUNAL GENERAL
DE JUSTICIA, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior
de BAYAMON.
FIRSTBANK
tificación 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 representado 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 ultima
publicación de este edicto.
Copia de esta notificación ha
sido archivada en los autos de
este caso, con fecha de 29 de
diciembre de 2014. En Bayamon, Puerto Rico, el 29 de diciembre de 2014. Ruth Aponte
Cotto, Secretaria Regional. Lenitzia Aponte Torres, Secretaria
Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, TRIBUNAL GENERAL
DE JUSTICIA, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior
de Fajardo.
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE RURAL
DEVELOPMENT a/c/c
LA ADMINISTRACION
DE HOGARES DE
AGRICULTORES
Demandante V.
SUCESION DE MANUEL
GUZMAN SANCHEZ
COMPUESTA POR
SU VIUDA ROSARIO
RIOS GOMEZ, POR
SI: SUS HEREDEROS
CONOCIDOS ELLIOT
GUZMAN SERRANO,
BARBARA GUZMAN
SERRANO: FULANO DE
TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL
COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS
DLJ MORTGAGE
CAPITAL, INC.
Demandante VS.
RICHARD OCAСA
CARRILLO
Demandado
CIVIL NUM. KCD2013-2820
(506) SOBRE: EJECUCION
DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE
DINERO (VIA ORDINARIA)
EDICTO DE SUBASTA ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESDemandado(a)
TADOS UNIDOS SS ESTADO
Civil: N1CI201400085 Sobre: LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P. R.
COBRO DE DINERO Y EJEA: RICHARD OCAСA
CUCION DE HIPOTECA POR
CARRILLO;
LA VIA ORDINARIA NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR El Alguacil que suscribe, anuncia y hace constar que en cumEDICTO.
plimiento de Mandamiento de
A: SUCESION DE
Ejecución de Sentencia que me
MANUEL GUZMAN
ha sido dirigido por la SecreSANCHEZ COMPUESTA taría del Tribunal, procederé a
vender en pública subasta y al
POR ROSARIO RIOS
mejor postor, de contado y en
GOMEZ, VIUDA
moneda del curso legal de los
/ HEREDEROS
Estados Unidos de América.
CONOCIDOS ELLIOT Todo pago recibido por el (la)
GUZMAN SERRANO,
Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal
BARBARA GUZMAN
SERRANO; FULANO DE o cheque certificado a nombre
del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal
TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL de Primera Instancia. Todo deCOMO HEREDEROS
recho, título e interés que tenga
la parte demandada sobre la siDESCONOCIDOS
guiente propiedad: Urbanizaciуn
112 SW 1ST APT #3
Mansiones de San Martнn,
HALLANDALE FL 33009, Las
Calle 1, Solar #8, San Juan,
URB VALLE PUERTO PR 00924. URBANA: Solar de
REAL CALLE 4 D-I
forma irregular denominado núFAJARDO PUERTO RICO. mero ocho (8) de la Urbaniza(Nombre de las partes a las que se ción Mansiones de San Martín,
le notifican la sentencia por edicto) radicado en el Barrio Sabana
EL SECRETARIO (A) que sus- Llana de Río Piedras, Municicribe le notifica a usted que pio de San Juan, Puerto Rico,
16 de diciembre de 2014, este con una cabida de seiscientos
Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, veinte punto cuarenta (620.40)
Sentencia Parcial o Resoluciуn metros cuadrados; en lindes
en este caso, que ha sido debi- por el NORTE, en treinta y siete
damente registrada y archivada punto diez y nueve (37.19) meen autos donde podrб usted tros, con el solar siete (7); por
enterarse detalladamente de el SUR, en treinta y cinco punto
los tйrminos de la misma. Esta cuarenta y nueve (35.49) menotificaciуn se publicarб una tros, con el solar nueve (9); por
sola vez en un periуdico de
circulaciуn general en la Isla de
Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10
dнas siguientes a su notificaciуn.
Y, siendo o representado usted
una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los tйrminos de la
Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o
Resoluciуn, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisiуn o
apelaciуn dentro del tйrmino de
30 dнas contados a partir de la
publicaciуn por edicto de esta
notificaciуn, dirijo a usted esta
notificaciуn que se considerarб
hecha en la fecha de la ultima
publicaciуn de este edicto. Copia de esta notificaciуn ha sido
archivada en los autos de este
caso, con fecha de 30 de diciembre de 2014. En Fajardo,
Puerto Rico, el 30 de diciembre
de 2014. Wanda Segui Reyes,
Secretaria Regional. Sandra
Padilla Rodriguez, Secretaria
Auxiliar.
el ESTE, en diez y nueve punto
cero siete (17.07) (asн surge)
metros con la Avenida Las Mansiones; y por el OESTE, en dos
alineaciones consecutivas que
suman diez y siete punto quince (17.15) metros, con terrenos
propiedad de William Cruz Ramos. Sobre dicha parcela de terreno o solar enclava una casa
construida de concreto armado
y bloques para fines residenciales la cual ha sido construida de
acero a los planos y especificaciones aprobadas. ¯Consta inscrita al folio 220 del tomo 1050
de Sabana Llana, finca #34,244
del Registro de la Propiedad de
Puerto Rico, Sección Quinta de
San Juan. La PRIMERA subasta se llevarб a cabo el dнa 21
de enero de 2015, a las 11:30
de la mañana, en mis oficinas
sitas en el Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala de San Juan. En
relación a la finca a subastarse,
la cantidad mínima de licitación
en la Primera Subasta será la
suma de $418,000.00. Dicha
venta se llevará a efecto, para
con su producto satisfacer a la
parte demandante el importe de
su Sentencia, a saber: Suma
Principal: $373,850.28, más los
intereses correspondientes a
razón de 5.875% anual desde
el 1ro de noviembre de 2012,
más una suma equivalente al
5% de cualquier pago que esté
en mora por más de quince
(15) días desde la fecha de su
vencimiento, más aquellos que
se acumulen hasta la fecha de
la subasta. Estipulado para
costas, gastos y honorarios
de abogado $41,800.00, más
cualquier otra suma que resulte
por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho por la
demandante, en virtud de las
disposiciones de la escritura de
hipoteca. Si la primera subasta
del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBAS-
TA el dнa 28 de enero de 2015,
a las 11:30 de la mañana, en
el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo
mínimo las dos terceras partes
del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma
de $278,666.66. Si la segunda
subasta no produjere remate, ni
adjudicación, se celebrará una
TERCERA SUBASTA el dнa4
de febrero de 2015, a las 11:30
de la mañana, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio
pactado para la primera, o sea,
la suma de $209,000.00. De
declararse desierta la tercera
subasta, se dará por terminado
el proceso de subastas, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble a
la parte demandante dentro de
los diez (10) días siguientes, si
así lo estimare conveniente por
la totalidad de las cantidades
adeudadas, si ésta fuera igual
o menor que el monto del tipo
de la tercera subasta o abonándose dicho monto a las cantidades adeudadas, si éstas fueran
mayores. Una vez ejecutada
la venta de dicha propiedad,
proceda a poner al licitador
victorioso en posesión física de
la propiedad dentro del plazo
de veinte (20) días contados a
partir de la venta en pública subasta. Para más información, a
las personas interesadas se les
notifica que las Actas y demás
constancias del expediente de
este caso están disponibles
en la Secretaría del Tribunal
durante horas laborables para
ser examinadas por los interesados. Este EDICTO DE
SUBASTA, se publicará en los
lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción
de Puerto Rico. En San Juan,
Puerto Rico, a 20 de noviembre
de 2014. Diana I. Navarro Cruz,
Alguacil Auxiliar, Alguacil Tribunal De Primera Instancia Sala
Superior De San Juan.
Re a l E s ta t e
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Thursday, January 8, 2015
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Games
Sudoku
How to Play:
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
Crossword
1
Across
1. Hwy. safety org.
2
3
4
5
14
6
7
8
9
Wordsearch
10
15
11
12
13
35
36
37
60
61
16
5. Breakfast roll
17
10. Trick-taking game with 32
cards
18
19
21
20
14. Italian town
23
15. Shout for Sills
16. Roman wrap
27
28
24
22
25
29
26
30
31
17. Church Lady player
32
19. Dutch city with a cheese
market
33
38
20. Dreaded virus
39
43
21. Make feeble
34
40
45
44
23. Penguin hunter
48
41
42
46
49
47
50
26. Stunk
27. Lion, by tradition
51
32. Honshu bay
55
52
53
54
56
57
58
59
33. Chocolatiers' needs
34. Armstrong, informally
38. "CSI" samples
40. Honeymoon quarters
42. Dental photo
62
63
66
67
68
69
70
71
64
65
43. Carolina rails
45. Heat, as milk
47. "If ___ told you once..."
Down
48. Hot spot regular
1. Earned, as money
51. Early shrink Coriat
24. Corporate money
managers: Abbr.
52. Mead research site
2. Run ___: pay after the last
drink
25. Reddened
56. Succeeding
27. Teases
3. 007's film debut
57. The "A" of Thomas A.
Edison
4. Talk-show talk
28. "But there ___ joy in
Mudville ..."
5. Mgr.'s college degree
29. In the area
30. Ukase, e.g.
60. Jerome who composed
"Show Boat"
62. Mimi's "mine"
6. Opposite of "Dep." on a
flight board
31. Swear on â€” of Bibles
61. Access.
63. Affluent
7. Was philanthropic
64. Conservative's foe: Abbr.
66. Word processing
command
8. Equal
35. Chicago paper, familiarly,
with "the"
9. Cake features
36. Cro-Magnon's home
10. 1982 N.L. Rookie of the
Year
37. "Jezebel" actress on TV:
1950's
11. It might help you get the
picture
39. Excavation sites
70. Runs through
71. "____ Tread on Me"
12. Kind of marble
44. A great clan, in Ireland.
13. Subdued
46. Sweet, to Ovid
18. Bounce (off)
49. Signs of hunger
22. Softens by soaking
50. Use the guillotine
54. "Twin Peaks" actor
MacLachlan
55. Spanish city where the
bulls run
58. Pop's Khan
67. One-third of CCI
68. Farm-related: Prefix
69. Recites
53. Social historian Cleveland
59. Pain: Comb. form
65. What the "H" of H.M.S.
may be
41. __ May Clampett
51. "By me"
Answers on page 30
30
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Thursday, January 8, 2015
HOROSCOPE
Aries
(Mar 21-April 20)
Love and romance have become something of an
obsession. It’s not enough for you to go to work,
pay the bills and have some fun with friends. You
want to be cherished and adored. Spontaneous
gestures of life can reignite your mutual passion.
Are you single? You could meet someone special
at a concert, museum or sporting event.
Libra
(Sep 24-Oct 23)
Initiate a program that can help people in your community. You’re a caring person who hates seeing anyone suﬀer. By tapping into your extensive social
network, you can make a diﬀerence. Someone who
is impressed by your philanthropy may develop a
crush on you. Although their attention is flattering,
you might prefer to remain single.
Taurus
(April 21-May 21)
Scorpio
Gemini
(May 22-June 21)
Sagittarius
Family matters command your attention. You’ll
love planning menus, finding the right accommodation and scheduling group outings.
If you hear a colleague talking enthusiastically
about a restaurant or gathering spot, think about
using this place as a potential meeting place. Are
you far from home? You might want to throw a
big party for your nearest and dearest.
You’re getting rather tired of carrying out predictable routines. Fortunately, you have an opportunity to
take a challenging course in an unusual subject. You
might not want to tell casual acquaintances about this
pursuit. They don’t understand your need to acquire
information just for the love of learning. Whenever
you take up a new hobby, they want to know how it
will materially benefit your life.
Cancer
(June 22-July 23)
A desire to enjoy the finer things in life shouldn’t
be suppressed. Fortunately, your earning potential
is strong. Pursue a high powered position that will
draw on your leadership ability. This job will involve
strange hours and a bewildering array of duties, but
it will suit you. You’ve always been very good at making order out of chaos. Leading a group of creative
but unfocused people will be a wonderful challenge.
Leo
(July 24-Aug 23)
(Oct 24-Nov 22)
You are a loyal, devoted and dependable employee,
but hiding your light under a bushel won’t help you
land your dream job. If you’re happy with your current position, think about running for a public or
neighbourhood oﬃce. You are deeply committed to a
social cause. Being able to generate awareness of this
issue will be a great challenge. You have the power to
make the world a better place.
(Nov 23-Dec 21)
Learning from others is a real pleasure. You don’t
hesitate to take instruction from the talented people
around you. Taking up an unusual sport or hobby
will be lots of fun. It could also put you in the path of
danger, so take sensible security precautions. Whether this means wearing a helmet or having a pseudonym in an online chat room is immaterial. Just protect your body, privacy and personal dignity.
Capricorn
(Dec 22-Jan 20)
You are very passionate about your relationships.
Instead of wasting time on casual friendships, you
prefer forming deep, meaningful bonds with select
people. When you argue, it feels terrible. You want to
feel like you’re in complete synch with your nearest
and dearest. If you can accept another person’s right
to form their own opinions, you’ll pave the way for a
union that can last a lifetime. Open your mind.
Aquarius
(Jan 21-Feb 19)
You are especially playful and enthusiastic. Take
this opportunity to enjoy some leisure time with
your amour. Go out for a nice dinner or take in a
movie. Escaping the confines of home and work
will be liberating. Are you single? You could
meet someone special at a religious, cultural or
educational institution. Keep your eyes open for
someone with an unusual slant on life.
You are very popular with lots of friends all around
you. This gives you a cosy, comfortable feeling. You
know you always have a support system when things
go wrong. If you’re feeling insecure, this would be
a great time to reach out to your best friend or romantic partner. Normally, you’re the one providing
encouragement. Now it’s time to receive some of the
kindness you’re always giving.
Virgo
Pisces
(Aug 24-Sep 23)
Spending time alone helps your spiritual development. It’s time to look deep within yourself for the
answers you seek. If you feel overwhelmed, it may
be because you’ve put yourself at other people’s disposal. Don’t be so quick to come to people’s rescue.
Although you love your friends and relatives, they
have a tendency to get in trouble. They now depend
on you to bail them out.
(Feb 20-Mar 20)
Helping others gives you tremendous pleasure. You’ve
always been quick to lend assistance to struggling colleagues, neighbours and friends. Sometimes this impulse can be tiring, but it’s actually fuelling your fire
now. Are you seeking employment? Someone who is
grateful for a kindness you performed will be instrumental in finding a position for you. It just shows the
Universe has a way of rewarding good deeds.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword
on page 29
The San Juan Daily Star
Thursday, January 8, 2015
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