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Fiscal board likely to reject House bill that would fund PREPA retirement system with Genera set-aside, sources say

By THE STAR STAFF

If the Legislature approves a House bill that would take away $272.5 million that had been set aside for the Genera PR contract to capitalize the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Retirement System (SREAEE by its Spanish initials), the Financial Oversight and Management Board will reject it, sources familiar with the federal entity said.

The legislation, House Joint Resolution (HJR) 485, goes against the oversight board’s fiscal plan. It also goes against a request from the board to set aside over $500 million to pay for the Genera contract.

For pensions, the fiscal plan approved on April 3 says the debt adjustment plan calls for PREPA’s pension system to be given a treatment substantially similar to the treatment of commonwealth pensions. The PREPA plan closes the pension system to new entrants, preserves the benefits of current retirees, eliminates any future cost of living adjustments (COLAs), and ensures all benefits accrued to date by active participants are protected.

“Pension costs on a pay as you go (PayGo) basis will be paid through reimbursements of pension costs paid by the PREPA ERS, to be funded by PREPA through a new separate trust and paid as an operating expense of PREPA that will require sufficient rates to ensure pensions are covered and paid,” the fiscal plan reads.

HJR 485 seeks to save the retirement system from imminent insolvency. José R. Rivera Rivera, chairman of the SREAEE board of trustees, said in February that the retirement system’s actuarial deficit as of June 2021 was over $3 billion. While PREPA in 2022 was supposed to contribute 166.38% of the total payroll, or $23.8 million per month, it has yet to make any payments to the pension system.

As of December 2022, PREPA owed the SREAEE $895 million in delinquent pension payments. In addition, agencies that took former PREPA employees following the LUMA Energy takeover of the transmission and distribution system owed the SREAEE over $8 million.

“The privatization of the Authority has resulted in the displacement of hundreds of PREPA workers and a wave of retirements, the withdrawal of contributions from members who resigned, and the subsequent reduction of SREAEE revenues, all of which have taken the system to the verge of imminent insolvency,” Rivera said in February.

The SREAEE’s advisors, Asset Consulting Group LLC, reported that the pension system will be depleted in May, including money from active members who are contributing to the pension system, he said.

Even if the oversight board approves the joint resolution, something it appears unlikely to do, it still will not cover the deficit at the SREAEE.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia recommended on Wednesday to the Legislative Assembly that before proposing to remove funds from Genera PR for the payment of pensions for PREPA employees, they should discuss it with the Financial Oversight and Management Board.

“I do not have all the details, but I would urge the Senate to establish communication with the fiscal board, to pay attention to what the director of the Office of Management and Budget [OMB, Juan Carlos Blanco] is saying,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “Because what the board submitted is a proposal that was already deliberated upon; it is well thought out, and disrupting it, what it is going to cause is an unnecessary controversy.”

“Whether we like it or not, the board has the last word in everything related to the budget of the Government of Puerto Rico,” Pierluisi added. “If you want to make changes to that resolution that the board submitted, you have to discuss it with the board and justify it to the board, because otherwise I already know how it will end. What I want is that we don’t waste time, that we focus on having an excellent budget for next year.”

Meanwhile, the House also gave the green light to House Resolution 976, which would require the governor and Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority Executive Director Omar Marrero Díaz, to urge the oversight board to ensure there is sufficient money to pay pensions as part of PREPA’s bankruptcy process.

“With the approval of these measures, we reaffirm the unequivocal commitment of the House of Representatives, from day one, to PREPA retirees,” House Speaker Rafael Hernández Montañez said in a written statement. “By allocating these funds, we are capitalizing the Retirement System, which would be insolvent in just weeks.”

Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez, the New Progressive Party minority leader in the House, insisted that “we are going to defend the pensions of our men and women who worked for the people of Puerto Rico.”

Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Rafael Hernández Montañez

Physicians, radiologists back bill that would allow care providers to negotiate contracts with insurers collectively

By THE STAR STAFF

The presidents of the Physicians and Surgeons Association of Puerto Rico and the Radiology Society (SOCRAD), Carlos Díaz Vélez and Alvin Almodóvar, respectively, expressed support on Wednesday for House Bill (HB) 1641, which would allow health care providers to organize themselves by specialty to collectively negotiate the rates, terms and conditions in contracts with health insurers.

The legislation would amend the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Code. In addition, it would establish the administrative agencies assuming responsibility for regulating collective bargaining.

Díaz Vélez noted that as it stands now, “insurers have a dominant position in negotiating prices and terms of medical services.”

“Physicians often have little or no bargaining power and are required to agree to the insurers’ terms in so-called insurer-imposed adhesion contracts,” he said.

He added that “doctors cannot offer high-quality services due to pressure to reduce costs, which negatively affects the quality of medical care patients receive.”

Díaz Vélez said allowing doctors to join groups for negotiations “would give doctors more power to deal with insurers to achieve better conditions for the medical class and patients.”

“Another benefit of collective organizing is that it can help improve the efficiency of the healthcare system,” he said. “Physicians working together in an organization can share resources and knowledge, which can help address physician shortages by allowing physicians to work together and share the workload without impacting an individual physician’s finances.”

In a public hearing held last week, the Insurance Companies Association (ACODESE) declared that collective bargaining could cause an increase in uninsured people, threaten

the stability of the health system or even create monopolies of doctors.

Díaz Vélez pointed out that ACODESE’s reading of the measure is “unfounded.”

“What this bill (HB 1641) proposes is a negotiation process supervised by the Insurance Commissioner to advance the public interest of improving the quality of medical services to patients …” he said. “This bill represents a necessary means for the Physicians and Surgeons Association to advance other contractual conditions, in addition to the rates, which also affect the provision of medical services and the health of patients.”

Díaz Vélez added that “nothing in the health industry moves without a physician’s license.”

“There are no pharmacies, and there are no profits, nei-

ther for the patient nor the pharmacies,” he said. “Without doctors, there are no laboratories, no profits, no admissions to hospitals, no prostheses to put on patients, and no medical plans, neither public nor private. However, we doctors are the most mistreated by insurers, which are privileged here, because it is the patient’s privilege that allows insurers to enter this industry. That is the raison d’être of insurers, a privilege.”

“Insurers are not the ones that should be driving the car in the healthcare industry,” Díaz Vélez argued. “The insurers are part of the system and have the right to obtain their profits, but not to impose criteria on the medical class, which is the one that has fought, worked and struggled to get where it is. The government has to act on the insurers; it is not to eliminate them, but to make it clear to them that they have a specific role in the system and that role is not to own the health system.”

Almodóvar, the SOCRAD president, said meanwhile that the measure could address many of the reasons for the outmigration of doctors from Puerto Rico.

He said the legislation could address “the unilateralism in contracts by insurance entities and health service organizations.”

At the same time, it could help prevent “the denial and delay in awarding provider contracts by insurers and health service organizations despite having all credentials up to date,” he said.

“It would also help address the delay and denial of reimbursements for services submitted for insignificant errors that do not imply error in the billing of services, be it coding, typographical and many others which are unfairly attributed to the provider maliciously,” the radiologist said..

He also noted that HB 1641 would help limit the denial and delay of services and medical prescriptions by the treating physician by requiring “authorizations” beyond a bona fide medical order by a licensed physician.

Bill would include House in approving women’s advocate picks

By THE STAR STAFF

Rep. Jocelyne Rodríguez Negrón, who chairs the Women’s Affairs Committee in the island House of Representatives, introduced House Bill 1694 this week to include the lower chamber as a legislative body capable of granting advice and consent for the confirmation of the person appointed to head the Office of the Women’s Advocate, for a term of 10 years.

“The amendment that we propose today through this measure is intended to guarantee that both the Senate of Puerto Rico and the House of Representatives can grant

advice and consent on the appointment of the Women’s Advocate,” Rodríguez Negrón said Tuesday in a written statement.

“Our commitment is to ensure the protection, well-being and safety of our women in Puerto Rico, hence the importance that both bodies can evaluate such a sensitive appointment for the country.”

The District 19 (Mayagüez and San Germán) lawmaker expressed concern about the fact that over the years, Puerto Rico has suffered an increase in femicides and cases involving mistreatment of women.

“The numbers are alarming and position Puerto Rico in the forefront of higher rates of this problem. Unfortunately, we live in a

society where women have to keep silent out of fear or threats. It is for these reasons that the Office of the Women’s Advocate is so necessary,” Rodríguez Negrón said. “It is commendable that there is a direct and functional service to support, protect and serve thousands of women who suffer the ravages of abuse. Our society must trust that the government has a compelling interest in defending women’s rights. Therefore, as chair of the Committee on Women’s Affairs, I am committed to promoting legislation that ensures that we in the House also have an important role in evaluating and granting advice and consent for the appointment of the Women’s Advocate.”

Radiology Society President Dr. Alvin Almodóvar

Rep. Jocelyne Rodríguez Negrón

Academic setbacks caused largely by pandemic, governor says

By THE STAR STAFF

In response to the results of the academic aptitude tests, which show a lag in learning on the part of the island’s high school students, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Wednesday that the setback is part of the fallout from the recent worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.

“What is happening in Puerto Rico, is happening worldwide. It is a product, to some extent, of the pandemic,” the governor said in response to questions from reporters. “That is, for a long time, there was no faceto-face education and that had its effects. And when we had remote education, not everyone benefited.”

Pierluisi said the island Department of Education regularly conducts tests to measure improvement in students. In addition, the lag in academic achievement is also addressed in extended school hours.

“The deficiency we are seeing in read-

ing, writing and comprehension also came to light,” the governor said. “And in the department an initiative called ‘To Read’ was announced, which specifically seeks to improve those reading and comprehension skills, because that is the basis of education for all, no matter what else we do.”

Associate Education Secretary Ángel Toledo Pérez acknowledged the lag in reading, writing and comprehension in Spanish and mathematics at all levels. Not so in English, he said.

“The results we see in the press today coincide with what we see in the META tests [Measurement and Evaluation Tests for Educational Transformation], and we are working on it,” he said. “However, we must point out that in English, our students are not showing a lag equal to the one they show in Spanish and the one they show in mathematics. Which implies that we have to reinforce those skills in Spanish, because clearly our students are leaning toward English.”

Bill filed to ensure Coast Guard members are paid during gov’t shutdowns

By THE STAR STAFF

U.S. Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.) and Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón have introduced HR 2693, the Pay Parity Act for Our Coast Guard of 2023, a bipartisan bill aimed at ensuring that the U.S. Coast Guard is compensated for work it does during government shutdowns.

“This bill would ensure that our Coast Guard men and women receive the same financial security that the rest of our Armed Forces already have,” Scholten said

Wednesday in a written statement. “Two-thirds of service members report that job security and stability had a large or very large influence on their decision to join the military. At a time when recruitment is near an all-time low for the Coast Guard, we need to make sure we’re doing everything we can to ensure they are placed on a level playing field.”

“In Puerto Rico and the rest of the nation, the Coast Guard plays a vital role in protecting our maritime borders against transnational criminal threats and smugglers, assisting with disaster response and safeguarding our maritime transportation system,” González Colón added. “Congress must respond accordingly and support the men and women of the Coast Guard as they carry out an increasing number of missions.”

The resident commissioner, a national Republican, noted that the act “would provide up to two weeks of pay for Coast Guard personnel during any period in appropriations under which the Department of Defense has been funded, but not the Department of Homeland Security.”

“While we must do everything in our power to avoid such a scenario, I believe this bill could provide some certainty and stability to our Coast Guard members in the event of a funding lapse,” González Colón said.

On Tuesday, the Coast Guard and Marine Transportation Subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a public hearing to discuss the Coast Guard’s budget for fiscal year 2024. In her question time, the resident commissioner, a member of the

subcommittee, highlighted the importance of the Coast Guard in maritime surveillance and drug interdiction off the coast of Puerto Rico and advocated for resources for the armed forces branch.

She emphasized the leading role of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in combating illicit practices in the Caribbean, preventing tons of cocaine and other drugs, for example, from reaching the contiguous United States.

“We need to ensure the robust presence of the Coast Guard and federal law enforcement in the region,” González Colón said.

Assistant Education Secretary Ángel Toledo Pérez

At a congressional hearing this week, Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón highlighted the importance of the U.S. Coast Guard in maritime surveillance and drug interdiction off the coast of Puerto Rico.

DACO alerts public to new digital fraud scheme using Coinbase platform

By THE STAR STAFF

Consumer Affairs (DACO) Secretary Hiram Torres Montalvo informed the public Wednesday of an fraudulent electronic scheme involving the Coinbase application, a platform used to exchange money for cryptocurrencies.

“In the past few days, our inspectors have detected another scheme designed to commit fraud against Puerto Rican consumers using the Coinbase application, a portal dedicated to exchanging currencies, including the United States’, for cryptocurrency,” Torres Montalvo said. “This new and well-designed scheme originates when criminal elements send the consumer an email, with all of Coinbase’s information, including its logo. In that correspondence, it is indicated that the person received a shipment of $421.00 and that, to access the funds, he has to press a link provided for it. That link takes the consumer to a page on the internet that simulates everything related to Coinbase; however, it is not the application.”

“By [the fraud victim] simply clicking the link, those behind this fraud have access to the data stored on the access device, be it a mobile phone, tablet or computer,” the DACO chief said. “That in itself is very dangerous and compromises the security of the consumer’s personal information, which is the objective of these criminal elements.”

Torres Montalvo noted that “[s]ome security [programs] in the devices can filter this type of ‘email’ and send it to the ‘Junk’ mailbox, but most go directly to the inbox and the consumer beliefs that it is valid and opens it.”

“Our exhortation is always to ‘click’ on ‘sender’ in order to verify if that address is actually from Coinbase. If it is a fraud, the root of the ‘email’ will not be @coinbase. com and that should be enough to dismiss the message completely,” he said “In addition, if you have not made any transaction with the application, you should also discard the message.”

Torres Montalvo reiterated the call to consumers who have received such emails to contact the agency through the agency’s pages on the social networks of Facebook,

Instagram and Twitter (DACO a tu favor), as well as the agency’s web page: www.daco.pr.gov.

DACO Secretary Hiram Torres Montalvo urged citizens to always “’click’ on ‘sender’ in order to verify if [an email] is actually from Coinbase. If it is a fraud, the root of the ‘email’ will not be @coinbase.com and that should be enough to dismiss the message completely.”

USDA approves pandemic-era school food program for PR this summer

By THE STAR STAFF

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón announced Wednesday that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the plan submitted by Puerto Rico to administer the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) food program for school children during the summer.

The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers the program at the federal level. Locally, the program is administered by the Family Socioeconomic Development Administration. Beneficiaries receive the money through the EBT system, the same card system used by the Department of Family Affairs to administer monthly benefits for the Nutrition Assistance Program program, better known on the island by its Spanish acronym PAN.

The Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer food program is administered on the island by the Family Socioeconomic Development Administration. Originally, the program only applied to recipients of SNAP, to which Puerto Rico does not have access.

The resident commissioner secured the inclusion of Puerto Rico in the program, which is available in states and jurisdictions that offer food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). She said in a press release that the inclusion of language in the draft Continuing Resolution of the House of Representatives of September 2020 was achieved, which allowed Puerto Rico to be included, benefiting about 330,73 students and 73,000 children.

The P-EBT was created to provide financial assistance to students enrolled in school food programs who were affected by the closures or reduction of school hours due to the pandemic. It is a provision of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act as amended by the Continuing Appropriations Act of 2021 and the Other Extensions Act, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 and the American Rescue Plan Act. Originally, it only applied to recipients of SNAP, a program to which Puerto Rico does not have access.

FEMA offering reimbursement for eligible transportation costs necessitated by Fiona

By THE STAR STAFF

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) posted a final public notice Wednesday on its website describing the programmatic review of proposed repair and reconstruction actions related to roads, culverts and bridges. The programmatic review is in accordance with procedures set forth in executive orders 11988 and 11990 on floodplain management and the protection of wetlands. The public notice includes activities that may affect various territorial, municipal and local transportation agencies in all 78 municipalities of Puerto Rico.

FEMA is required by law to provide public notice of its

intent to provide federal assistance and grant opportunities through the agency’s Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation Grant programs.

The public notice addresses the agency’s intention to reimburse eligible applicants for costs incurred to repair and replace eligible transportation facilities damaged by Hurricane Fiona. Wednesday’s public notice was the final one for those classes of actions regarding compliance with executive orders 11988 and 11990.

The public notice is posted at: DR-4671-PR Public Notice 001.

Questions should be directed to U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency,

Region II, Caribbean Area Division, P.O. Box 848, Guaynabo, PR 00970 or by email at FEMA-EHP-DR4671@fema.dhs.gov, within 15 days of the notice. Comments should include a subject line of “DR 4671-PR EHAD.”

Senior Democrat urges executive actions from Biden on immigration

By EILEEN SULLIVAN

Sen. Bob Menendez, one of the loudest and most powerful Democratic critics of the Biden administration’s immigration policies, said this week that he had delivered a list of recommended executive actions to the White House to address illegal migration at the southern border in a more humane way.

The move is unusual for Menendez, a three-term Democrat from New Jersey and chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has for years focused on immigration policy and introduced a number of bills meant to change the outdated system.

But Menendez acknowledged the reality that Congress was unlikely to pass immigration legislation soon. His decision to go public with his recommendations reflects his growing frustration that President Joe Biden is falling short on his immigration promises.

“I do believe that there are a series of executive actions the administration can take that would more effectively and humanely deal with our challenges,” Menendez said in an interview with The New York Times.

Each of the past three presidents, including Biden, has resorted to executive actions to address immigration issues because Congress has failed to overhaul the country’s immigration laws for more than 30 years.

The Biden administration has focused some of its executive actions on managing a record number of illegal border crossings amid relentless Republican attacks. It has also embraced some Trump-era policies that many Democrats and immigration advocates expected Biden to end upon taking office. Some of the actions came as the administration prepared for the expiration on May 11 of the public health measure known as Title 42, which allowed authorities to swiftly expel migrants, even those seeking asylum.

Menendez has criticized some of those actions, saying last month that he feared Biden would “become the ‘asylum denier in chief.’” His recommendations, which he delivered to the White House on Friday, include streamlining deportations, developing programs to support migrants in Latin America and raising penalties for criminal activities that facilitate illegal migration.

He also recommended the creation of a new pathway for parole paired with states’ need for workers. Governors, including some Republicans, have been calling for immigration laws to change to fill vital workforce shortages. This

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 25, 2023. Menendez, one of the loudest and most powerful Democratic critics of the Biden administration’s immigration policies, said this week that he had delivered a list of recommended actions to the White House to address illegal migration at the southern border in a more humane way.

month, the Labor Department reported 9.9 million job openings around the country as of February.

“In the absence of being able to find Americans to do those jobs, this is an opportunity, an escape valve on which people can regularize a process, come do some critical work in the United States, help us grow our prosperity,” Menendez said.

Menendez also suggested that the administration increase the salaries of Border Patrol agents and officers at Customs and Border Protection.

The White House declined to comment on Menendez’s recommendations but defended Biden’s track record on immigration policies.

“This administration has taken unprecedented action to expand lawful immigration pathways, reduce unlawful migration and secure record funds for border security,” said Abdullah Hasan, a White House spokesperson.

“But only Congress can update decadesold laws and provide the resources to truly fix our long broken immigration system.”

Americans remain divided over who should be allowed to come into the country. A nationwide survey conducted in February found that 44% of respondents said immigration should be reduced, while only 20% would like to see more immigrants allowed into the country.

On his first day in office, Biden sent Congress a framework that he described as laying out a return to a fairer and more humane immigration

system. Less than a month later, Menendez and Rep. Linda T. Sánchez, D-Calif., introduced bills based on that framework.

But the legislation effectively died in Congress, and the White House refocused its efforts on passing the president’s infrastructure bill.

The administration has blamed Republicans for refusing to find a compromise to increase border security and allow migrants to come to the United States legally and instead focusing on partisan efforts to build an impeachment case against the homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas.

In general, Democrats favor comprehensive immigration legislation, but they, too, are worried about wasting political capital to build support because they expect Republicans, who control the House majority, would not cooperate and any legislation would die in the House, congressional aides said.

The Republican House leadership has already said it would consider only bills about border security and not other issues driving illegal migration.

Bidens reported earning $580,000 and paid $170,000 in taxes in 2022

resident Joe Biden and Jill Biden, the first lady, reported earning a total of about $580,000 on their 2022 tax returns, a slightly smaller amount than they had made in

The tax returns, released Tuesday night by the White House, showed that the Bidens paid nearly $170,000 in federal and state taxes in 2022, with an effective federal income tax rate

Their income came largely from their salaries as president and college professor. Income from an S corporation that has served as a vehicle for revenue from the president’s books

The Bidens’ release of 37 pages of tax returns and supporting documents on April 18, the tax deadline for Americans, made good on a long-standing tradition among presidents that has been broken only by Biden’s immediate predecessor, former President Donald Trump, who fought to keep his returns private but ul-

Biden’s return shows that he is among the most modest earners as president in at least the last several decades, reporting that the majority of his income comes from his $400,000 government salary and Jill Biden’s salary from Northern Virginia Community College, where she is an

Joe Biden also received income from a

The tax returns show that the Bidens donated about $20,000 to charity in 2022, including a $5,000 contribution to the foundation that honors Joe Biden’s son Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, also released their tax returns, which show that the couple paid about $93,000 in federal income taxes in 2022 on total income of about $456,000. They reported paying $17,612 in California income tax, and Emhoff, a lawyer, paid $9,697 to the District of Columbia.

Harris and Emhoff reported donating about $23,000 to charity, including a $5,000 donation to Howard University, where Harris attended college.

The income for Harris and Emhoff was significantly less than the previous year, when they reported making more than $1.6 million. In 2021, the couple reported selling a California

property for $860,000 and earning substantial income from “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey,” the memoir that Harris wrote as a senator in 2019.

Beginning with Richard M. Nixon, presidents have regularly made their tax returns public. The exception was Trump, who said he could not release his returns as long as his finances were being audited by the government. He fought a long legal battle with congressional committees who sought to force him to reveal his tax documents.

At the end of 2022, the House Ways and Means Committee, then under control of Democrats, released six years of Trump’s tax returns after winning a 3 1/2-year legal battle over the right to the documents.

The tax returns showed that Trump paid a total of $1.1 million in federal income taxes in the first three years of his presidency, but paid no tax in 2020 as his income dwindled and losses mounted.

The New York Times obtained tax documents for the former president in 2020. The documents showed that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency and another $750 during the first year that he was in office. The documents revealed that Trump paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.

By contrast, Biden’s tax returns have stayed very similar over the years, during his time as a senator, vice president and then president.

In 2021, Biden and his wife reported earning $610,702 and paying $150,439 in federal income tax.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, from a weekend trip to Camp David, on Sunday, April 9, 2023.

New details emerge in deadly upstate NY shooting of woman in wrong driveway

By JESSE McKINLEY, HURUBIE MEKO and JAY ROOT

The man who lived on the ridge above this little upstate town had long had a reputation among some residents as a sour character, prone to barking at neighbors’ dogs, scolding a local church and being so averse to unannounced visitors that he had at one time used a chain to cordon off his quarter-mile-long drive.

On Saturday night, just before 10 p.m., Kaylin Gillis and a group of her friends were traveling in a caravan of two cars and a motorcycle that mistakenly drove up that same driveway. They were looking for a friend’s house — and were met with gunfire that killed Gillis, 20.

It was warm, but overcast and dark, and the three vehicles, according to the county sheriff, turned off a highway, up the largely dirt road on which the man, Kevin Monahan, 65, lived, past several other homes.

They soon took a right turn into his drive, which is flanked by a tree with two worn “private property” signs, warning off trespassers, and a small “private drive” sign.

On Tuesday, a nearby resident, who declined to give his name because of the sensitivity surrounding the killing and the investigation, said he watched vehicles ascend the steep drive, their lights on, before seeing the motorcycle turn and start to descend.

Then, he heard a shot, followed by several seconds of silence. Then, a second shot rang out, although he and his wife initially believed it might have been fireworks.

“Our neighbor down the hill called and said, ‘Did you hear gunfire up there?’ ” the resident said. “And we said, ‘Oh, we heard something.’ ”

He said he immediately called 911. But in an indication of how difficult the area is to navigate, those police officers initially also went up the wrong driveway, so he called 911 again. “It’s hard to get your bearings unless you’re from here,” he said.

Gillis’ death shocked residents in the area and left the nation wondering at yet another seemingly senseless gun death.

Monahan was charged with seconddegree murder in an attack the Washington County sheriff, Jeffrey J. Murphy, described as unprovoked and unexplained.

“There was no threat,” he said Tuesday.

“They were leaving.”

The killing came just days after another shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, involving a Black 16-year-old, Ralph Yarl, who was shot by an 84-year-old white man after mistakenly going to the wrong house while trying to pick up his brothers at a friend’s home Thursday evening. He survived but was badly injured.

Unlike that case, what happened in Hebron did not have racial overtones: Gillis was white, and so is Monahan. But the aggression of the encounter and the idea that a simple wrong turn led to death nonetheless left many here and elsewhere shaken and wondering what prompted Monahan’s actions.

“I can’t imagine that this is something that someone who is my neighbor is capable of,” said Adam Matthews, who lives next to Monahan. “I don’t know what brings someone to that level.”

According to Murphy, Gillis was one of four people in the last vehicle to turn around and was sitting in the front passenger seat when Monahan shot through the rear of the driver’s side.

“They all were still in proximity to the house and they all heard two gunshots,” he said. “They realized immediately that she had been shot, so they were frantically leaving the driveway.”

The cars soon fled, desperately sear-

ching for cell service, a challenge amid the rolling hills and sparse populations of Washington County, which borders Vermont. They finally found a cell signal about 5 miles away, on a road adjacent to a local cemetery. Monahan was initially uncooperative when police arrived, according to Murphy, who said Monahan had refused to speak with investigators and “obtained a lawyer that night before he came out of the house.”

But Monahan’s lawyer, Kurt Mausert, disputed the sheriff’s account of the shooting, saying Tuesday that the vehicles were speeding up the driveway, with engines revving and lights shining, which “certainly caused

some level of alarm to an elderly gentleman who had an elderly wife.”

“Is that a fear-inducing scenario? Well maybe it is,” Mausert said. “It is not the simple scenario of these people took a wrong turn and within 20 seconds of them taking the wrong turn, this guy’s on his deck blasting away. That’s not what happened.”

Mausert added that Monahan “sincerely regrets this tragedy” and “feels terrible that there was a fatality,” but he scolded the sheriff for “basically acting as judge, jury and executioner.”

“When there’s a tragedy and a victim, everyone wants a villain,” he said. “But sometimes they’re just tragedies and victims and there are no villains. And this is one of those times.”

In an interview, Murphy said Gillis — a former competitive cheerleader, honor student and budding artist — was “a beautiful and kind soul” who had hoped to study marine biology.

“It’s just a tragic situation,” he said.

Albert Weils, a neighbor who lives three doors down from the Gillis family home in Schuylerville, about 25 miles southwest of Hebron, said Gillis’ father, Andy Gillis, is a corrections officer at Washington County Correctional Facility.

“We don’t think of stuff happening like that around here,” Weils said, adding, “It’s a total shame.”

The family was largely quiet Tuesday, and Gillis’ grandfather, Jack Amodeo, said they were huddled, trying to process the shooting. “It’s really brought us down to our knees,” he said.

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A photo provided by the Warren County Sheriff’s Office shows Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy during a press conference in Fort Edward, N.Y., on April 17, 2023.

Torch carriers in 2017 Charlottesville rally are indicted

By EDUARDO MEDINA

At least three people who carried flaming tiki torches at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 have been indicted on state charges that they intimidated others during an explosive demonstration that shocked the nation.

In a news release earlier this week, James Hingeley, the Albemarle County commonwealth’s attorney, said multiple people had been indicted in connection with the rally on the night of Aug. 11, 2017, on the University of Virginia campus. The indictments “were issued as part of a criminal investigation that is active and ongoing,” he said.

While it is unclear how many people will eventually face charges, indictments were unsealed this week charging William Zachary Smith, of Nocona, Texas; Tyler Bradley Dykes, of Bluffton, South Carolina; and Dallas Medina, of Ravenna, Ohio, with one count each of burning an object with the intent to intimidate. The felony carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

A lawyer for Smith did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Tuesday, and court records did not list a lawyer for the other two men.

In a brief interview Tuesday night, Hingeley declined to answer questions about the cases, saying that his office was “very sensitive to the fact” that “it’s likely there are going to be trials, and the trials are going to be of high interest.”

The indictments came nearly six years after the 2017 demonstration, which was fueled by white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Confederate sympathizers who marched through campus to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, the South’s Civil War general, a symbol of white power.

On Aug. 11, 2017, a Friday night, several hundred torch-bearing men and women marched on the main quadrangle of the University of Virginia’s grounds, shouting, “You will not replace us,” and “Jews will not replace us.”

The next day, a “Unite the Right” march led to the death of counterprotester Heather Heyer, 32, when she was struck by a car driven by a demonstrator. The white nationalist demonstrations and counter-protests set off a political furor after President Donald Trump equated the two sides.

James Fields Jr., the white supremacist convicted of murder in Heyer’s death, was sentenced in 2019 to life in federal prison.

Workers removed the Robert E. Lee statue in 2021 at the request of the city.

Anne Coughlin, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, said that the “burning objects statute is designed to prevent racist intimidation,” and curtail the kind of racist and antisemitic terror that groups can inflict.

Coughlin added that she had been disappointed in the previous commonwealth attorney for not filing charges against those who carried torches during the 2017 rally. It was an issue that Hingeley, a Democrat who took office in 2020, ran on as he promised to hold white supremacists accountable, Coughlin said.

“I thought they were likely to be successful cases then,” she said. “And I sure haven’t changed my mind in light of all that I’ve learned in the intervening time.”

At least three people who carried tiki torches during a white nationalist rally at the University of Virginia campus in 2017 have been indicted.

A $787.5 million settlement and embarrassing disclosures: The costs of airing a lie

By JIM RUTENBERG and KATIE ROBERTSON

In settling with Dominion Voting Systems, Fox News has avoided an excruciating, drawn-out trial in which its founding chief, Rupert Murdoch, its top managers and its biggest stars would have had to face hostile grilling on an embarrassing question: Why did they allow a virulent and defamatory conspiracy theory about the 2020 election to spread across the network when so many of them knew it to be false?

But the $787.5 million settlement agreement — among the largest defamation settlements in history — and Fox’s courthouse statement recognizing that the court had found “certain claims about Dominion” aired on its programming “to be false” — at the very least amount to a rare, high-profile acknowledgment of informational wrongdoing by a powerhouse in conservative media and America’s most popular cable network.

“Money is accountability,” Stephen Shackelford, a Dominion lawyer, said outside the courthouse, “and we got that today from Fox.”

The terms of the agreement, which was abruptly announced just before lawyers were expected to make opening statements, did not require Fox to apologize for any wrongdoing in its own programming — a point that Dominion was said to have been pressing for.

Shortly after the agreement was reached, Fox said it was “hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues.”

The settlement carries an implicit plea of “no contest” to several pretrial findings from the presiding judge in the case, Eric M. Davis, that cast Fox’s programming in exceptionally harsh light.

In one of those findings, the judge sided with Dominion in its assertion that Fox could not claim that its airing of the conspiracy

The News Corp. building, which houses the headquarters of Fox News, in midtown Manhattan, on April 1, 2023. Fox News’s late-stage agreement with Dominion Voting Systems came with a rare acknowledgment of broadcasting false claims by the conservative media powerhouse.

theory — generally relating to the false claim that its machines “switched” Trump votes into Biden votes — fell under a legally protected status of “news gathering” that can shield news organizations when facts are disputed. The judge wrote, “the evidence does not support that FNN conducted good-faith, disinterested reporting.”

In another finding, the judge wrote that the “evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that is CRYSTAL clear that none of the statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true.”

Through those findings, the judge seriously limited Fox’s ability to argue that it was acting as a news network pursuing the claims of a newsmaker, in this case, the president of the United States, who was the lead clarion for the false Dominion narrative.

In those heady days before the first day of trial, Fox had been indicating that if it were

to lose at trial, it would work up an appeal that would, at least partly, argue with those judicial rulings. Now they stand undisputed.

By the end of the day Tuesday, it was clear that Fox’s lawyers were engaged in an urgent calculus to take the financial hit rather than risk losing at trial.

As so many legal experts before the trial had argued, Dominion had managed to collect an unusual amount of internal documentation from Fox showing that many inside the company knew the Dominion election conspiracy theory was pure fantasy. That extended to the network’s highest ranks — right up to Murdoch himself.

That evidence appeared to bring Dominion close to the legal threshold in defamation cases known as “actual malice” — established when defamatory statements are “made with knowledge of its falsity or with reckless disregard of whether it was true or not.” (That bar,

however, is not always easy to meet, and there are no guarantees in front of a jury.)

“Dominion Voting had elicited much critical evidence that Fox had acted with actual malice or reckless disregard for the truth, which it could have proved to a jury, so the only question remaining would have been damages,” said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond. “Trial of the case also might have undermined the reputation of Fox when the evidence was presented in open court.”

It was less surprising that Fox settled than that it did so at such a late stage Tuesday. A trial would have seen Fox News personnel and Murdoch parrying with lawyers over the knowledge of falsity they held and why they did not take any action to stop it. The answers would have further unmasked the internal modus operandi of an organization that has long guarded its internal operations.

The one question that only time will answer is whether the settlement was enough to cause Fox News to change the way it handles such incendiary and defamatory conspiracy content. The amount is huge — $787.5 million. Fox News certainly doesn’t want to see a similar settlement anytime soon as other legal cases loom, notably a $2.7 billion suit from another election technology company, Smartmatic.

But Fox did manage to escape Dominion’s goal of an on-air admission or apology, meaning it did not have to force either on its audience, which did not hear much about the case on Fox’s shows to begin with.

“It’s hard to say how damaging a decision against Fox would have been for the company beyond the financial cost of the verdict because their audience is very loyal and bought into the polarized perspective their opinion hosts present,” Michelle Simpson Tuegel, a trial lawyer, said in a statement. “But the reputational harm of having executives, including Chairman Rupert Murdoch, and hosts take the stand seems to have moved the parties towards a resolution.”

Hollywood writers approve of strike as shutdown looms

By JOHN KOBLIN and BROOKS BARNES

Hollywood is getting ever closer to a shutdown.

The unions representing thousands of television and movie writers said earlier

this week that they had overwhelming support for a strike, giving union leaders the right to call for a walkout when the writers’ contract with the major Hollywood studios expires May 1.

The unions, which are affiliated East and West coast branches of the Writers Guild of

America, said more than 9,000 writers had approved a strike authorization, with 98% of the vote.

WGA leaders have said this is an “existential” moment for writers, contending that compensation has stagnated over the past de-

cade despite the explosion of television series in the streaming era. In an email last week to writers, the lead negotiators said that “the survival of writing as a profession is at stake in this negotiation.”

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With two weeks to go before the contract expires, there has been little sign of progress in the talks. In the email, the negotiating committee said the studios “have failed to offer meaningful responses on the core economic issues” and offered only small concessions in a few areas.

“In short, the studios have shown no sign that they intend to address the problems our members are determined to fix in this negotiation,” the email said.

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of Hollywood production companies, said in a statement that a strike authorization “should come as no surprise to anyone.”

“A strike authorization vote has always been part of the WGA’s plan, announced before the parties even exchanged proposals,” the statement said. “Our goal is, and continues to be, to reach a fair and reasonable agreement.” It added, “An agreement is only possible if the guild is committed to turning its focus to serious bargaining by engaging in full discussions of the issues with the companies and searching for reasonable compromises.”

In recent weeks, Hollywood executives have begun preparing for a strike, both by stockpiling scripts and by getting ready to produce a torrent of reality series, which do not need script writers. David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns the Warner Bros. film and TV studios as well as HBO, said at a news media event last week that he was hopeful a deal would be reached. He added that “a strike will be a challenge for the whole industry.”

Still, he said, the company was fully prepared if there was a walkout.

“We’re assuming the worst from a business perspective,” he said. “We’ve got ourselves ready. We’ve had a lot of content that’s been produced.”

A strike authorization does not guarantee writers will take to the picket lines in two weeks. In 2017, a last-minute deal was struck with the studios not long after 96% of the writers voted to authorize a strike. The last time the writers went on strike was in 2007. That stoppage dragged for 100 days, into early 2008, and cost the Los Angeles economy an estimated $2.1 billion.

If a strike begins in early May, late night shows like “Saturday Night Live” and talk shows hosted by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers will go dark immediately. It would take a strike of several months before viewers began to notice an effect on scripted television series and

movies.

The streaming era has resulted in a significant rise in the number of scripted television series that are produced, but writers say working conditions have not kept pace.

“Writers are working more weeks for less money,” said Eric Haywood, a veteran writer and producer, and a member of the WGA negotiating committee. “And in some cases, veteran writers are working for the same money or, in some cases, less money, than they made just a few years ago.”

The timing of the talks has an added complexity given the current financial challenges for all media and entertainment companies.

The writers do not appear to be sympathetic.

“The current status quo is unsustainable,” Haywood said.

The writers have taken particular aim at so-called minirooms. There is no one definition of a miniroom but they have proliferated in the streaming era.

In one example, the studios will convene a miniroom before a show has been picked up by a studio and scheduled to air. A small group of writers will develop a series and write several scripts over two or three months.

But because the studios have not ordered the series, they will use that as justification to pay writers less than if they were in a formal writers’ room, union leaders said. And given the relatively short duration of the position, those writers are then left scrambling to find another job if the show is not picked up.

“Development work has always been paid at a premium because you’re coming up with the idea,” Ellen Stutzman, the chief negotiator for the WGA, said in an interview. “If you’re going to have these rooms before you pick up a show or a season, you should pay writers a premium.”

The writers have also said that residuals — which Stutzman called “the profit participation of the middle-class writer” — have been affected in the streaming era. Before streaming, writers could receive residual payments whenever a show was licensed, whether that was for syndication, an international deal or DVD sales.

But in the streaming era, as global services like Netflix and Amazon have been reluctant to license their series, those distribution arms have been cut off and replaced with a fixed residual, Stutzman said.

“If an overwhelming majority of the content writers create is for the streaming platforms where they are completely cut out of global growth and success, that is a very big problem,” she said.

Wall St slips on mixed earnings, higher Treasury yields

Wall Street’s main indexes edged down on Wednesday as Treasury yields rose on growing expectations that the Federal Reserve could keep interest rates higher for longer, while mixed earnings from regional banks and weakness in Tesla further dented sentiment.

Tesla Inc dropped 1.6% after the electric-vehicle maker’s sixth price cut this year in the United States, ahead of its firstquarter results.

Netflix Inc slid 3.8% after the video-streaming pioneer issued a downbeat forecast.

Morgan Stanley slipped 0.5% as the Wall Street bank reported a fall in quarterly earnings, a day after rival Goldman Sachs Group Inc posted a 19% drop in profit.

While the start of the earnings season has been largely supportive for equities, investors will closely watch updates from market heavyweights as well as consumer companies for signs of inflation and economic slowdown hurting margins.

“The consensus coming out of corporate America is that we have good times now, but harder times ahead. The big surprise could be an earlier recession than expected,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments.

“What we are expecting is that margins are going to come under further pressure, which could mean more downside risks for markets.”

Mixed economic data recently has fueled bets that the U.S. central bank will hike interest rates by 25 basis points in May, with traders seeing an 83% chance for such a move, as per CME Group’s Fedwatch tool.

The 10-year Treasury yield hit four-week highs, while interest rate sensitive two-year yields scaled a five-week peak, as global yields were dragged upwards by higher-than-expected British inflation and increasing possibility the Fed could keep hiking rates. [US/]

Defensive stocks, including healthcare and utilities, that tend to do well during economic uncertainties rose, limiting broader market declines.

The Fed’s “Beige Book”, a snapshot of the health of the U.S. economy, will be released at 2:00 p.m. ET (1800 GMT), and investors will scrutinize it for the impact of the recent banking crisis on economic activity.

At 11:43 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 98.33 points, or 0.29%, at 33,878.30, the S&P 500 was down 7.73 points, or 0.19%, at 4,147.14, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 23.20 points, or 0.19%, at 12,130.21.

Chipmakers including Micron Technology, Qualcomm Inc and Intel Corp were down between 1% and 2% after European giant ASML Holding NV noted some signs of caution among customers.

The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index dropped 1.4%.

Earnings from regional banks were mixed, with Citizens Financial Group Inc falling 2.3% after its first-quarter results missed estimates.

Western Alliance Bancorp rallied 15.6% as brokerages remained optimistic on the regional bank following better-thanexpected earnings.

Shares of First Republic Bank, Zions Bancorporation and Pacwest Bancorp rose between 3% and 7.3%.

Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a 2.17-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 1.60-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.

Ukrainians collect the bodies of dead Russian soldiers

By MARIA VARENIKOVA

The boy ran through the yard of an abandoned house, overgrown with reeds and trees, and down a hill toward a river, where he saw something lying on the grass.

“I immediately guessed that it was a body of a human by his bones,” said Henadiy, who said he was 13 but looked younger. He had been on his way to tend to his cow and find fresh grass for it to graze. The ground had been covered in snow until early April when it began to thaw. “I was not scared,” he said.

He ran to tell his mother, who told Ukrainian troops at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the village of Synykha, in the Kharkiv region in Ukraine’s northeast. Soldiers found a passport and military identification card on the remains, and said he was 49 and had been a sergeant and platoon commander.

The soldiers summoned a coroner to retrieve the body of the dead Russian soldier, and so began the long journey for his remains to be returned to Russia.

Estimates of the numbers of dead in Russia’s war in Ukraine vary. American and other Western officials said in February that the number of Russian troops killed and wounded in Ukraine was approaching 200,000, a stark symbol of just how badly President Vladimir Putin’s invasion has gone. In November, Gen. Mark Milley, the

chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that more than 100,000 troops on each side had been killed and wounded since the war began.

Three days after Henadiy’s discovery, a military minivan parked beside his family home carrying soldiers from J9, a branch of Ukraine’s military responsible for dealing with civilians, including collecting remains of Russian troops that they find. They had arrived to pick up the body, still dressed in a military uniform and boots.

A soldier who collects bodies in the

region, who asked to be identified only by his nickname, The Lawyer, said he has picked up the remains of more than 400 Russians since Ukraine recaptured areas in the Kharkiv region from Russian forces in September. The lightning offensive overran Russian positions in chaotic fighting, and Russian troops were separated from their units. Bodies have been found in forests, fields and abandoned homes.

The J9 soldiers went to the site, watched by a group of reporters. Henadiy ran after them, standing back to observe the scene.

“The body doesn’t have bullet injuries, most likely he blew up on a grenade,” said the Lawyer, while observing the remains sunk into the grass on a hillside.

“I do not care for this man, it was his choice” to fight against Ukraine, the Lawyer said.

But retrieving the dead is important for Ukraine. The bodies are exchanged with Russia for Ukrainian war dead, giving closure to Ukrainian families.

With an assistant, the Lawyer loaded the remains into two body bags and carried them away from the abandoned house, down a hill, and to the van.

A two-hour drive away, the body was heaved into a refrigerated railway wagon that reeked of dead. Ukraine accumulates bodies in the wagon, then exchanges them.

The remains of the soldier is likely to lie in the wagon for days or weeks, waiting for more bodies to pile up. DNA samples are taken. The remaining process is not entirely clear, but Ukrainian authorities have complained that the Kremlin has been reluctant to engage on the subject of repatriating its dead.

Back in the village, the spot where the dead soldier had lain, likely for almost half a year, was marked only by a patch of rotten grass some torn scraps of his military uniform.

Henadiy said the scene did not scare him but added: “I don’t want to search for more.”

US is sending new $325 million weapons package to Ukraine

By HELENE COOPER

The United States is sending another weapons package to Ukraine — this one valued at $325 million, Pentagon officials said Wednesday, as the Biden administration moves to shore up Ukrainian munitions and logistical supplies in advance of an expected counteroffensive.

The new package includes ammunition for HIMARS rocket systems, artillery rounds, anti-armor weapon systems and antitank mines. Two weeks ago, the administration announced a $2.6 billion package that included munitions for

Ukraine’s air defense systems.

The $325 million will provide weaponry from military stockpiles, officials said.

Ukrainian troops who were trained recently in how to use the Patriot missile system are expected to arrive in Ukraine soon. On Wednesday, Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine’s defense minister, wrote in a tweet that a Patriot system had arrived in the country.

U.S. officials have been rushing to reinforce Ukraine’s air defenses amid worries that President Vladimir Putin of Russia will decide that he is ready to redeploy his air force, which has largely sat out the war,

in an effort to gain ground.

Officials say that Ukraine’s air defenses, which troops keep on the move to avoid Russian strikes, have done a good job of keeping Russian war planes out of the skies over most of the country.

But leaked classified Pentagon documents that surfaced on social media sites two weeks ago show that, as of early March, there was concern in the U.S. intelligence community that Ukraine was running low on air defense munitions.

The latest weapons package will include precision-guided munitions, four logistics support vehicles, more than 9

million rounds of small arms munitions, demolition munitions for obstacle clearing, and equipment meant to help Ukrainian forces secure their ports and harbors.

A fierce battle still rages in the city of Bakhmut, which is at the heart of a Russian campaign to seize all of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Russian troops were expected to have taken the city months ago, but the battle has been long and costly.

Pentagon officials say that the front lines remain static, with both sides exchanging significant amounts of artillery fire.

A Ukrainian soldier, left, who asked to be identified only by his nickname, The Lawyer, and another soldier collecting the body of a dead Russian soldier on Saturday.

Fighting in Sudan traps families as generals fail to keep a cease-fire

By ABDI LATIF DAHIR and ELIAN PELTIER

Street battles and rocket strikes deepened the chaos across Sudan earlier this week as a cease-fire between the country’s two warring generals fizzled, paralyzing the capital and trapping civilians in their homes for fear of the crossfire.

Parents and children, doctors and students, officials and high-profile diplomats all have come under attack since the fighting broke out over the weekend. So did a diplomatic convoy carrying American citizens, and a senior EU official was wounded by gunfire.

At least 185 people have been killed and more than 1,800 injured in the past four days, United Nations officials said, though the true toll is most likely far higher.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that he had spoken with Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, the leader of the paramilitary group implicated in the attack on the U.S. convoy. Hamdan then called for a 24-hour cease-fire to allow civilians to evacuate or obtain desperately needed supplies.

But with conflicting signals about whether the rival Sudanese army had agreed to take part, residents of the capital, Khartoum, a city of 5 million, were too terrified to step outside their doors.

“We take shelter in the middle room of the house, which does not have windows, and we put the mattress up to take shelter in case we’re hit by airstrikes,” said one Khartoum resident named Rana, who is a 29-year-old pharmacist and is 5 months pregnant.

Rana, who insisted on being identified only by her first name for fear of reprisals, said that she and her husband had enough water for two days but that they would soon be running out of provisions, along with the medicine she needs daily.

On Monday, when her husband tried to buy supplies, she said, he and a neighbor were assaulted by two armed men wearing the beige uniforms of Hamdan’s fighters, the Rapid Support Forces. The men stole their money and phones, she added.

Until days ago, Hamdan had an alliance with the army chief, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, joining him to seize power in a 2021 coup. But the two men turned on each other, and when international efforts to mediate the dispute and move Sudan to civilian rule failed, their rivalry erupted into violence this weekend.

Hope that the violence would ease was raised by word Tuesday that a cease-fire had been reached, but just after 6 p.m., when the fighting was supposed to stop, several residents reported heavy gunfire, loud blasts and the sound of fighter jets roaring overhead.

Within a few hours, the rival sides were accusing each other of violating the cease-fire.

“I never believed there would be one,” said Raga Makawi, a researcher and editor in Khartoum.

The continued violence underscored just how quickly

the security situation has deteriorated. Hospitals have shut down because of bombings and shortages. Residents have been stranded at home for days without electricity or water. Aid workers and foreign officials have come under repeated fire, compounding the sense of unpredictability.

“Some people are almost living normally in some parts of Khartoum,” said Aseel Ibrahim, a freelance graphic designer who fled her home for a relative’s in the suburbs. “Others are living through war.”

Speaking at a news conference in Japan, Blinken said the U.S. diplomatic convoy was clearly identified by American flags and diplomatic license plates when it was traveling through Khartoum on Monday.

The convoy was carrying American officials from their homes in the city to a large American residential compound in central Khartoum, said four diplomatic officials, who asked not to be named because of security concerns.

Then, gunfire hit an armored vehicle in the convoy, but none of its occupants were injured, the officials said.

“All of our people are safe,” Blinken said.

The attack was under investigation, he added, but initial reports indicated that the assailants might have been tied to the Rapid Support Forces.

Adding to the volatility of the conflict, Hamdan’s fighters captured a group of Egyptian troops in Sudan over the weekend, fueling rumors about whether Egypt was backing the Sudanese army.

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt, Sudan’s neighbor to the north, denied those allegations Tuesday, in his first public remarks about his country’s military involvement in Sudan since the clashes broke out.

“Our forces were present for training with the brothers in Sudan and not, absolutely not, for supporting any party against another,” he said. Egypt was working to ensure the safety of its captured

troops, he added.

In the turmoil, it was unclear who controlled various parts of the capital.

Each day, one side or the other has claimed control of key installations, including airports and the state broadcaster, only to have the claims quickly disputed. The Rapid Support Forces posted a video online Tuesday that appeared to show their fighters outside the presidential palace, but it could not be verified.

Battles have been reported throughout much of Khartoum.

Residents have described fierce fighting near the prison, Kober, in recent days, and inmates there have not received drinking water for three days, said Sara Hashim of the Missing Initiative, a group that tracks missing people in Sudan. Omar al-Bashir, the dictator ousted by protests in 2019, is believed to be held there.

More than 450 students remain stranded at the University of Khartoum, and an unknown number of passengers and workers are trapped at the main international airport, according to Germain Mwehu, the spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross for Sudan.

In parts of the city that appear to be under the control of the Rapid Support Forces, many residents remain deeply afraid about going outside for help. The paramilitary forces have been accused of looting and abuses against civilians in cities across the country.

In a video shared by Rana, the pharmacist, two people dressed like Rapid Support Forces fighters and carrying weapons can be been seen holding her neighbor at gunpoint on their street.

Most of the dozen other families living in her building have also been unable to leave the building because of the fighting. During a call Tuesday, sounds of gunfire and explosions could be heard in the background.

Rana said she was scheduled to fly Saturday to Saudi Arabia, where she is from, to celebrate Eid with her family and then stay for the last months of her pregnancy. But even though the airport is less than 2 miles from her home, she said leaving Sudan had never felt so difficult.

The fighting has left the airport in ruins, and commercial flights are grounded.

“It may take them months to make the airport operational again,” she said. “Where do we go?”

A damaged home in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, on Monday. Four days of fighting have prevented many residents from escaping the city or gathering supplies.

Why China’s shrinking population is a problem for everyone

By NICOLE HONG

Despite the cancellation years ago of China’s harsh, Mao-era restriction on families to a single child, and even after more recent incentives urging families to have more children, China’s population is steadily shrinking — a momentous shift that will soon leave India as the world’s most populous nation and have broad rippling effects both domestically and globally.

The change puts China on the same course of both aging and shrinking as many of its neighbors in Asia, but its path will have outsize effects not just on the regional economy, but on the world at large as well.

Here’s why economists and others are alarmed by the developments.

China’s shrinking workforce could hobble the global economy.

For years, China’s massive workingage population powered the global economic engine, supplying the factory workers whose cheap labor produced goods that were exported around the world.

In the long run, a shortage of factory workers in China — driven by a bettereducated workforce and a shrinking population of young people — could raise costs for consumers outside China, potentially exacerbating inflation in countries such as the United States that rely heavily on imported Chinese products. Facing rising labor costs in China, many companies have already begun shifting their manufacturing operations to lower-paying countries like Vietnam and Mexico.

A shrinking population could also mean a decline in spending by Chinese consumers, threatening global brands dependent on sales of products to China, from Apple smartphones to Nike sneakers.

The data is bad news for China’s crucial housing market.

In the short term, a plunging birthrate poses a major threat to China’s real estate sector, which accounts for roughly onequarter of the country’s economic output. Population growth is a key driver of housing demand, and homeownership is the most important asset for many Chinese people. During widespread pandemic lockdowns that dampened consumer spending and export growth, China’s economy became even more dependent on the ailing housing sector.

The government recently intervened to help distressed real estate developers, in an attempt to stem the fallout from its housing crisis.

China’s shrinking workforce may not be able to support its growing, aging population.

With fewer working-age people in the

long run, the government could struggle to sustain an enormous population that is growing older and living longer. A 2019 report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences predicted that the country’s main pension fund would run out of money by 2035, in part because of the shrinking workforce.

Economists have compared China’s demographic crisis to the one that stalled Japan’s economic boom in the 1990s.

But China does not have the same resources as a country like Japan to provide a safety net for its aging population. Its households live on much lower incomes on average than in the U.S. and elsewhere. Many older Chinese residents rely on state pension payments as a key source of income during retirement.

China also has some of the lowest retirement ages in the world, with most workers retiring by 60. The situation has put a tremendous strain not only on state pension funds, but also on the country’s hospital system.

The crisis has been decades in the making.

China introduced the one-child policy in the late 1970s, arguing that it was necessary to keep population growth from reaching unsustainable levels. The government imposed onerous fines on most couples who had more than one child, and compelled hundreds of millions of Chinese women to have abortions. Many families favored boys over girls, often aborting baby girls or abandoning them at birth, resulting in a huge surplus of single men in the Chinese population.

China announced the relaxing of the family size restrictions in 2013, but many demographic experts said the change had come too late to alter the country’s population trajectory.

There are no easy fixes.

The government’s efforts to start a baby boom to solve the demographic crisis — including offering cash handouts and easing the one-child policy to allow for three — have failed to stabilize falling birthrates. Educated Chinese women are increasingly delaying marriage and choosing not to have children, deterred by the high costs of housing and education.

China has also been unwilling to loosen immigration rules to boost the population, and has historically issued relatively few green cards to replenish its shrinking workforce.

To address the labor shortage, China has been outsourcing low-skilled production to other countries in Asia, and adding more automation to its factories, hoping to rely more on artificial intelligence and technology sectors for future growth.

A class for boys and girls at a government run school in Nima, India on May 8, 2022. India has a young, vast work force that is expanding as China’s ages and shrinks.

The Royals Garden, a housing development unfinished in Shanghai, on Oct. 30, 2022.

Death toll in Beijing hospital fire soars to 29

By CLAIRE FU and DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI

Chinese authorities said they have arrested a dozen people in connection with a hospital fire in Beijing that has claimed the lives of at least 29 victims, attributing the blaze to possible negligence after sparks from internal construction ignited flammable paint.

At a news conference on Wednesday, officials said most of the deceased were patients at Changfeng Hospital when the fire erupted around midday Tuesday in the southwestern part of Beijing. A nurse, a medical worker and a relative of a patient also died in the fire. Another 21 people were hospitalized in critical or serious condition.

The fire appears to be the deadliest in the Chinese capital in two decades. Government censors sought to quell public anger by restricting information on the internet in the initial hours after the fire. On Wednesday morning, the censors appeared to relax as online conversation about the blaze suddenly soared

to the top of trending topics on Chinese social media platforms.

Local officials apologized for the fire and said they would learn from the tragedy.

“We feel deeply responsible and guilty,” said Li Zongrong, deputy head of Beijing’s Fengtai district, the area where the hospital is. “I would like to express our deep condolences to the victims, sincere greetings to the families of the victims, the injured and their relatives, and apologies to the people of the city.”

A Beijing public security official said they had arrested 12 people, including the hospital’s president and vice president, as well as the head of the construction company overseeing the work at the hospital. They were being investigated for possible violations of safety management regulations that resulted in a major incident with serious casualties, the official said.

Officials said the fire broke out in the hospital’s east building, which mainly treats critically ill patients. The average age of the hospital patients who died in the fire was 71.

Harsh sentence for Putin critic highlights Kremlin’s repression

By ANTON TROIANOVSKI and IVAN NECHEPURENKO

AMoscow court earlier this week sentenced an outspoken critic of the Kremlin to 25 years in prison, an unusually harsh punishment that underscores Russian President Vladimir Putin’s increasing determination to equate dissent with treason.

The sentence given to Vladimir Kara-Murza, an opposition activist and journalist who had urged the American government to impose sanctions on Russian officials, is longer than what is often given for murder in Russia, and greater than the time being served by other imprisoned Putin critics, like Alexei Navalny.

It represents the latest chilling example of the Kremlin’s wartime repression 14 months after the invasion of Ukraine, and comes less than three weeks after the arrest on espionage charges of Evan Gershkovich, an American correspondent for The Wall Street Journal based in Russia.

“We live in 2023, in the 21st century,” Kara-Murza’s mother, Yelena Gordon, told reporters outside the courthouse after the sentencing. “What is this? What is happening?”

Kara-Murza, 41, who writes a column for The Washington Post’s opinion section, was arrested in Moscow a year ago after condemning the war in Ukraine and charged with spreading “fake” information about the Russian military. In October, Russian prosecutors added a charge of treason, alleging that he had betrayed his country by criticizing Putin’s rule in public appearances in the United States and Europe, according to Kara-Murza’s lawyer.

The 25-year sentence handed down Monday combined the penalties in those two cases, as well as another sentence added last summer for participation in an “undesirable organization.”

It was a reminder that whatever its struggles to assert control on the battlefields of Ukraine, the Kremlin is firmly in charge at home, and prepared to brand any domestic critics as enemies of the state.

“Traitors and betrayers,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement about Kara-Murza on Monday, “will get what they deserve.”

Kara-Murza had long drawn the Kremlin’s ire, and survived what he characterized several years ago as two statesponsored attempts to poison him.

Both inside Russia and in the West, Kara-Murza, who has Russian and British citizenship, spoke out against Putin and his invasion of Ukraine; last year, hours before his detention, he called Russia’s rulers “a regime of murderers” in an interview with CNN.

In London, the British government said it had summoned the Russian ambassador to protest Kara-Murza’s conviction as “contrary to Russia’s international obligations on human rights, including the right to a fair trial.” The State Department called Kara-Murza “yet another target of the Russian government’s escalating campaign of repression,” while the United Nations human rights office declared his sentence “a blow to the rule of law.”

Russia’s Foreign Ministry dismissed the international criticism as “an attempt to exert pressure on the Russian judicial system” that was “doomed to failure.” Referring to “traitors” like Kara-Murza who “are applauded in the West,” the ministry said, “Their foreign handlers will not help them avoid a just punishment.”

Putin did not comment publicly on Kara-Murza’s sentencing, but he has repeatedly exhorted Russia’s law enforcement and security agencies to escalate their hunt for opponents of his leadership, whom the Kremlin increasingly defines as agents trying to topple Putin on America’s behalf.

“I’m asking you to react harshly to attempts to destabilize the social and political situation in the country,” Putin said in a speech to Russian prosecutors last month.

The activity that appeared to bring Kara-Murza directly into the Kremlin’s crosshairs was his campaign in Washington more than a decade ago for the Magnitsky Act, which punished officials deemed responsible for the death of a tax

lawyer in a Russian jail.

One of the Russians who fell under those sanctions after Congress passed the measure in 2012 was Sergei Podoprigorov — the same judge who delivered Monday’s sentence against Kara-Murza in Moscow City Court.

Kara-Murza’s attorney, Vadim Prokhorov, said that the clear “conflict of interest” on display with Podoprigorov presiding over Kara-Murza’s case made it plain that the entire proceeding was a sham.

“Everybody knows that Vladimir himself is one of the main initiators and promoters of the Magnitsky Act,” Prokhorov said at a panel discussion hosted by The Washington Post on Monday, referring to Kara-Murza. “This case had nothing to do with justice. It is just political revenge against Vladimir.”

Fred Ryan, the publisher of the Post, said that both KaraMurza and the Journal’s Gershkovich were “real-time examples of the risks that journalists face and the need for all of us to use our voices to call for our elected leaders to take every possible step to secure their release.”

Kara-Murza, jailed last April, continued writing his Washington Post column from prison, and has sought to rally Western support for Russian dissidents. In a January piece, for instance, he criticized Western governments for not having acted more aggressively in the early years of Putin’s rule to promote media freedom in Russia.

Supporting independent Russian media now operating from exile, he went on, is among “the most important steps the free world could take to further undermine the Kremlin’s hateful messaging.”

In his final address to the court last week, Kara-Murza likened the current climate in Russia to the Stalin years.

“The day will come when the darkness over our country will dissipate,” he said. “When black will be called black, and white will be called white; when at the official level, it will be recognized that two times two is still four; when a war will be called a war, and a usurper a usurper.”

In addition to the 29 people who officials say died in a fire at Changfeng Hospital in Beijing, another 21 were hospitalized in critical or serious condition on Wednesday.

Undeterred criminals plus demoralized cops equals more crime

A similar dynamic is playing out in other big cities, too. Police morale is abysmal. One way in which this fact registers is in high levels of voluntary resignations and early retirements, leading to critical staffing shortages. As of mid-March, New Orleans had 944 police officers — down from 1,200 just three years ago, despite increased recruitment efforts. Last year the city registered a 100% increase in shootings over 2019. “Criminals know there’s not enough officers on the street! They know this!” Delores Montgomery, a ride-share driver, recently told NPR. Fewer cops; more crime: Who would have thought?

New York Times notes that a mere 327 shoplifters accounted for one-third of all arrests and that they had been “arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times.” Why? “Law enforcement and trade groups have blamed a proliferation of organized shoplifting crews, repeat offenders and the new state bail law that they argue has enabled such offenders to avoid jail time.”

By BRET STEPHENS

Two years ago, a white Chicago police officer named Eric Stillman fatally shot Adam Toledo, an unarmed 13-yearold Mexican American with no criminal record, while the boy was complying with the officer’s orders following a late-night foot chase. The killing brought greater awareness to police brutality in Latino communities, yet no charges were filed against Stillman. Since then, Chicago has been able to turn a corner on violent crime, thanks partly to investments in afterschool youth programs. Murders are down by 20% from two years ago.

That’s one version of events, the version favored by the progressive left. Another version goes like this. On March 29, 2021, at 2:36 a.m., Stillman and his partner responded to a call that shots were being fired. Stillman pushed Ruben Roman, a 21-year-old with a criminal record, to the ground and chased Toledo, who was holding a 9 mm handgun, down a dark alley. Stillman yelled “drop it.” Toledo tossed the gun behind a fence and turned toward him. The officer fired the fatal shot less than a second after Toledo got rid of the gun. Stillman then immediately jumped to Toledo’s aid and called for an

ambulance.

Roman was acquitted of firing the weapon at a passing car; his lawyers argued that it might have been Toledo who had fired the weapon.

Stillman was placed on administrative leave. Chicago’s interim police superintendent, Eric Carter, recommended last week that Stillman be fired.

Homicides are, in fact, down in Chicago, but they remain at some of the highest rates since the 1990s, and overall crime spiked by 41% between 2021 and 2022. Last weekend alone, mass hooliganism overwhelmed Chicago’s downtown while 11 people were killed and 26 wounded in shootings across the city.

Maybe there’s a lesson in this, simple and old-fashioned as it may seem. When bad guys walk free and brave cops have to fear for their jobs for doing their jobs, crime tends to go up. And when the national conversation about the Adam Toledo tragedy revolves around the officer’s splitsecond, life-or-death decision instead of the question “What is a 13-year-old child doing with a 21-year-old criminal firing a gun at 2:30 a.m.?” then we are deeply confused about the nature of our problems, to say nothing of the way to a solution.

New Orleans isn’t alone. A recent academic analysis found that 11 out of the 14 cities it studied suffered from higherthan-expected losses to their police after the George Floyd protests of 2020, with Seattle losing the highest proportion of its force. One possible unfortunate result, the study suggests, is that, as good cops depart, the quality of newer recruits also suffers. That may help explain the appalling police brutality in the killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, in January.

Then there’s the other side: The growing sense of impunity among the criminally inclined.

In Chicago, the proportion of crimes reported that resulted in arrest, which stood at nearly 31% in 2005, fell to 12.3% in 2021, according to an analysis last year by The Chicago Sun-Times. Even that may be an undercount, since fewer crimes in the city are being reported both to and by the police.

In New York, where major crimes rose by 22% last year, complaints of shoplifting have nearly doubled over the past five years — while the arrest rate since 2017 fell by almost half. A report by Hurubie Meko in The

In other words, lax enforcement when it comes to petty criminality has led to big-time criminality. And the consequence of supposedly “victimless” crimes like shoplifting has created a palpable sense of disorder, menace and fear — each conducive to the anything-goes atmosphere in which crime invariably flourishes.

Will things get better? Eventually, yes, when a critical mass of voters recovers the simple combination of common sense and political will. But whether it occurs sooner or later is a difference that will be measured in thousands of lives, harmed or ended by the crime we collectively let happen.

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SAN JUAN – El secretario de Vivienda William Rodríguez Rodríguez firmó el miércoles dos acuerdos para la subvención de proyectos de mitigación de riesgos con el municipio de Moca y el Departamento de Salud, como parte del Pareo Global del Programa de Subvención para la Mitigación de Riesgos (HMGP, por sus siglas en inglés), bajo los fondos de recuperación CDBG-MIT.

El valor de estos acuerdos alcanza los 794,000 dólares con el municipio de Moca y 1.4 millones de dólares con el Departamento de Salud.

“La coordinación interagencial y con los municipios ha sido instrumental para que estos acuerdos sean efectivos y podamos continuar adelantando iniciativas y proyectos que protegen a nuestras comunidades en caso de emergencia… Los residentes de estos pueblos se beneficiarán directamente, mientras fortalecemos a la vez nuestros sistemas de infraestructura con el uso de los fondos de mitigación”, comentó el secretario de Vivienda en comunicación escrita.

En el caso del municipio de Moca, los fondos serán destinados para la construcción del sistema de detención de agua y mitigación de inundaciones en los sectores Los Robles y Las Palmas. Por otro lado, el Departamento de Salud recibirá los fondos para la

compra e instalación de generadores de emergencia para los Centros de Diagnóstico y Tratamiento (CDT) de Lajas y Río Grande.

Los fondos asignados a Salud proveerán resiliencia energética de respaldo a los CDT de los municipios de Lajas y Río Grande mediante la compra e instalación de generadores con interruptor de transferencia automática, así como los tanques de combustible diésel para cada instalación.

El secretario del Departamento de Salud, Carlos Mellado López, aseguró que los servicios de salud primaria que se ofrecen en los CDT son esenciales para la salud pública de Puerto Rico.

“Los CDT son piezas claves en las estrategias de respuesta a las situaciones de emergencia. Mediante este acuerdo colaborativo se podrán adquirir unidades de generación de energía eléctrica para ambos CDT. Estamos asegurándonos de darle continuidad de las operaciones, el funcionamiento de sus equipos y del componente laboral, en caso de que experimenten interrupción en el servicio de energía eléctrica”, explicó Mellado López.

Los generadores de respaldo permitirán que las instalaciones continúen con los servicios críticos de atención médica primaria y urgente para la población de pacientes durante un corte de energía después de un evento de peligro natural, disminuyendo el impac-

to de futuros desastres y reduciendo los riesgos a la vida de los pacientes que se atienden en los centros. Además de los residentes en Río Grande y Lajas, los CDT de estos dos municipios brindan servicios a pacientes de otros pueblos aledaños, tales como Loíza, Canóvanas y Luquillo; en el sur oeste San Germán, Cabo Rojo, Guánica, Sabana Grande y Hormigueros. Por otro lado, los fondos destinados a Moca incluyen un estanque de detención con controles de entrada y salida, y canalización de aguas arriba con un nuevo canal abierto de concreto. Esto, con el objetivo de reducir el impacto de inundaciones significativas debido a la escorrentía de fuertes lluvias en el urbano cercano, que excede la capacidad del sistema de drenaje existente.

Celebran primer foro de “Energía Fotovoltaica y Vehículos Eléctricos”

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L CAPITOLIO – El senador del distrito de Bayamón, Carmelo Ríos Santiago, celebró el primer foro denominado “Energía Fotovoltaica y Vehículos Eléctricos” con el fin de desarrollar estrategias y política pública que faciliten la integración de la nueva tecnología de placas solares, incluyendo los vehículos eléctricos, junto con la red de apoyo de estaciones de recarga y centros de reciclaje necesarios para baterías.

“En el foro tuvimos la oportunidad de discutir con varios componentes de la industria de energía renovable el reto que tenemos de cómo Puerto Rico va a enfrentar la demanda de las placas solares, vehículos eléctricos y lo que eso conlleva para aquellos que no tienen placas solares. Pero, sobre todo, cómo podemos planificar una política pública agresiva para prevenir lo que va a ser la gran demanda para esta clase de tecnología y qué vamos hacer una vez se expire la vida útil de esas baterías”, destacó Ríos Santiago.

Al foro dijeron presente el licenciado Carlos Beltrán, director del Grupo Unido Importados de Automóvil (GUIA); Jaime Pibernus, director ejecutivo de Motorambar; Francisco Berrios, director de Asuntos Energéticos

de La Fortaleza; Carlos Tejera, director del Programa de Política Pública Energética y Gerardo Rodríguez del Departamento de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio; Jesús Ramos, director de la Oficina de Asuntos de Energía Renovable del Departamento de Asuntos al Consumidor (DACO) y Samuel Acosta, ayudante especial del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA).

En su turno, Berríos expresó que se está haciendo un esfuerzo para educar a los consumidores en el tema de energía renovable y maximizar todas las oportunidades. Sobre el aumento de vehículos eléctricos en el país dijo que “queremos que pase y debe ser una transición ordenada y fiscalmente sostenible”. Dijo que buscan la forma de asegurarse como gobierno de optimizar los fondos disponibles para continuar con el desarrollo de la energía renovable y cumplir con lo ya dispuesto.

Por su parte, Tejera señaló la necesidad de “mirar todos los escenarios de energía renovable”. Igualmente, mencionó la estructura a establecer eventualmente con relación a la disposición de las baterías existentes de las placas solares. Dijo que están enfocados en cómo trabajar con dicha situación, además de ver los mercados alternos de reciclaje que ayudarían a los municipios. Tejera mencionó la disponibilidad de fondos para llevar a cabo

estudios en el tema de energía renovable. Igualmente dijo presente la senadora del distrito de San Juan, Nitza Morán Trinidad, quien preguntó si habrá algún problema de sobrecarga eléctrica en las viviendas a consecuencia de las baterías de vehículos eléctricos. El exponente de Motorambar respondió que sí, debido a la infraestructura construida en el país desde hace 30 años. Detalló que la estructura eléctrica de las casas no están preparadas. Mencionó, además, que es necesario revisar el sistema energético de cara a la llegada de carros eléctricos al país. En la misma línea, Tejera añadió que están en comunicación constante con LUMA Energy para reforzar la infraestructura eléctrica.

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6 podcasts about cults and their enduring sinister attraction

pose, and did so convincingly enough to attract many wealthy followers from the worlds of entertainment and business. But what lay beneath that shiny happy surface was cultlike psychological warfare, sexual abuse and a twisted ritual in which some members were branded with the name of the group’s manipulative leader, Keith Raniere. Long before Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison for sex trafficking, fraud and racketeering, this rigorous season of the CBC podcast “Uncover” explored Nxivm’s toxic machinations, primarily through the extraordinary experience of actress Sarah Edmondson, who was seduced by the group’s emphasis on personal growth, rose rapidly to become one of its star recruiters, and is now its most famous whistleblower.

Starter episode: “The Branding”

‘IndoctriNation’

As is true with any true-crime-adjacent genre of story, it’s easy for the intrigue surrounding cults (and their charismatic leaders) to overshadow the human suffering they cause. That suffering is

These shows explore the psychology of cult leaders and their victims, as well as how cultish thinking can bleed into our

thorny and multifaceted and extends to the families and friends of cult members. This compassionate series focuses on their children, who are often born into a group they never consented to join.

Hosted by Rachel Bernstein, a licensed therapist whose specialties include cult interventions and deprogramming, “IndoctriNation” interviews guests about their experience of joining (or being born into) cults, what it took for them to leave, and the psychological ramifications they face as survivors. Though many of the stories told are extraordinarily harrowing, Bernstein’s gentle and trauma-informed approach creates a sense of safety for both her guests and her listeners.

Starter episode: “Breaking the Cycle w/ Marissa Hackett”

‘Let’s Talk About Sects’

Come for the satisfying pun in the title, stay for the deeply researched chronicles of all kinds of cults. Shows where a single host reads from a script can sometimes feel stiff, but Sarah Steel delivers each potted history with warmth and humanity, letting the facts speak for themselves rather than overdramatizing. Each episode of “Let’s Talk About Sects” is focused on a single group, some

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well known (like the Peoples Temple of Jonestown), others obscure but no less fascinating. In each case, Steel makes a point of focusing as much on the psychology of the victims as on its leader, gently unpacking the factors that can make people susceptible to the cult’s machinations. There are also regular interview episodes, in which Steel speaks to survivors about their experiences in cults.

Starter episode: “Branch Davidians”

‘You Must Remember Manson’

In her meticulously researched podcast “You Must Remember This,” film historian Karina Longworth tells true stories from the first century of Hollywood in a style that’s captivating in its simplicity, with no elaborate reenactments or soundscapes. In 2015, early in the show’s run, Longworth aired a season titled “Charles Manson’s Hollywood,” which proved so popular it has now been repackaged into a separate series. Longworth’s inimitable, carefully enunciated delivery is mesmerizing, creating an appropriately haunting atmosphere as she describes how thwarted ambitions and a web of Hollywood acquaintances factored into Manson’s twisted worldview, and chronicles the events leading up to the murders committed by Manson’s followers in the summer of 1969. The 12-episode season is so packed with detail and nuance that even for those who know the story well, this is a fresh take.

Starter episode: “What We Talk About When We Talk About the Manson Murders”

‘Trust Me’

This show has a compelling selling point: It’s hosted by two cult survivors, both invested in dispelling the myth that anyone who joins a cult must be naive. Lola Blanc and Meagan Elizabeth, who were raised in a Mormon offshoot sect and a highcontrol Christian sect, respectively, talk to guests about their experiences of being in cults and, more broadly, about abusive relationships, repressive religions and extreme belief systems. Recent inter-

viewees have included a woman who was raised in the homophobic Westboro Baptist Church, a former CrossFit employee who found herself reshaping her entire identity around the company, and two survivors of the sex cult at Sarah Lawrence College. The subject of conspiracy theories and online groupthink also crops up often: In one episode, a former One Direction “stan” discusses falling down the rabbit hole into toxic fandom, and in another, a former conspiracy theorist explains why Alex Jones’ rhetoric drew him in. Given the recent rise of influencer-led “cults” on TikTok, the podcast’s blend of all these subjects feels timely.

Starter episode: “Antonio Perez — Alex Jones, the New World Order, and Conspiracy Theory Addiction”

‘Sounds Like a Cult’

The majority of us have never been in a cult, but that doesn’t mean our lives are untouched by cultish thinking. As this sharp and funny series makes clear, some of the biggest companies in the modern world built their success by cultivating devotees. In each episode of “Sounds Like a Cult,” comedian Isa Medina and writer Amanda Montell break down a different “zeitgeisty group” and assess how cultlike it really is. Some of the subjects are obvious choices, like Apple, SoulCycle and CrossFit, and Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness empire, Goop. But Medina and Montell are unwilling to settle for low-hanging fruit. Consider their episode on weddings, a ritualistic ceremony replete with patriarchal traditions and conformist uniforms which they call “the most mainstream cult we’ve ever covered on the show.”

The show’s great pleasure is its unpredictability, and its refreshing knack for making you look at accepted norms through fresh eyes.

Starter episode: “The Cult of Goop”

By YEWANDE KOMOLAFE

Ionce believed that weekend mornings were a time for elaborate culinary rituals.

After a quick jaunt to the farmers market for fruits and herbs, I would prepare biscuits or scones from scratch, while jazz or Afrobeat filled the air. Now, with a 4- and 1-year-old shaking me from sleep seven days a week, weekend breakfasts often begin the night before when I pull something from the small stand-alone freezer I keep in the laundry room.

It’s in that holy grail of an appliance that I store an assortment of doughs, vacuum-sealed meats, beans, sauces and breakfast staples I made or bought, like a whole shelf of chapati from Patel Brothers in Edison, New Jersey. Each month, with the kids napping in the car, I drive across the river from Brooklyn to stock up on dozens from the in-house bakery. If I take a few out of the freezer on Friday night, we’ll have rolled eggs on Saturday morning.

Say “rolled eggs” two or three times, and you’ll hear what you’ll be making: eggs, accented by ingredients you have on hand, rolled into a chapati. But say “rolled eggs” fast enough, and the -ed ending drops away, becoming “roll eggs.” Say it faster, a few more times, and you may hear “rolex,” both a luxury watch brand and the name of a popular Ugandan street food.

A rolex can be as elaborate or as superficial as you need it to be.

“There is freedom to experiment,” said Sophie Musoki, the Ugandan food writer and photographer who produces the podcast “Our Food Stories.”

“Fry the egg with onion, cabbage and, if you want, tomatoes,” she said. The tomatoes can be cooked or raw, “so there’s an element of freshness and acidity. A standard rolex doesn’t require much.”

But further research into the rolex, beyond its history, heightened my curiosity about the chapati itself, the four-ingredient flatbread that anchors the rolled snack. In its original form, it’s unleavened and made from wholewheat flour, but as its reach stretched beyond India and across Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and East Africa, myriad versions emerged, playing on how it’s cooked

and even the ingredients used.

In all my years as a restaurant and test kitchen cook, I’d never made one. I considered them the domain of other cooks. However, this past month, I made chapatis from scratch, with guidance from recipe developer Kiano Moju. An owner of Jikoni Studios, Moju shared videos she took of her Maasai grandmother, Agnes Kiano Kasaine, kneading, then rolling and cooking off chapatis in the soft lighting of her kitchen on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya.

My version, adapted from Moju and Kasaine’s recipe, turned out thin, flaky and full of delicately bound layers, fresh off the pan. In about an hour, I had replenished my freezer’s supply. With some diced tomato, onions, shredded cabbage, chile and, of course, eggs, I watched my rolex come together and felt a wave of nostalgia for weekends I once knew. Then, it was time to put them into

the small hands of my two young daughters, and to witness their world of small delights.

Rolex (Vegetable Omelet and Chapati Roll)

A popular snack on the streets of Kampala, Uganda, the rolex is a vegetable omelet rolled up in a chapati, its name a cheeky reference to the watch brand. A rolex can be as elaborate or as simple as you need it to be. Ingredients always include a chapati (homemade or store-bought) and eggs studded with vegetables and cooked in a skillet. At its most basic, a rolex will have diced onions, shredded green cabbage and often green peppers. Tomatoes can be added in cooked or raw for a pop of acid. Minced chiles will add a bit of heat, and fresh chopped cilantro is a lovely garnish. These are all optional, of course. In Kampala, the rolex is often made with the ingredients the maker has on hand.

Yield: 2 servings

Total time: 25 minutes

Ingredients:

4 large eggs

Salt and black pepper

2 (10-inch) chapatis, homemade or store-bought 2 tablespoons neutral oil, such as grapeseed

1/4 cup minced yellow onion

1/4 cup chopped fresh tomato

1 serrano, seeded and minced

1/4 cup thinly sliced green cabbage

Preparation:

1. Crack 2 eggs into a small bowl, season with a pinch each of salt and pepper and whisk together to combine.

2. Heat a small nonstick skillet over medium. Heat a chapati on both sides for up to 1 minute. Slide onto a plate and cover with another plate or clean kitchen towel to keep warm. Repeat with the second chapati. Stack on the warmed chapati and cover.

3. Over medium, heat 1 tablespoon oil in the skil-

Rolex (an egg wrap, not a watch) is the breakfast to change your mornings

Chapati dough is made from four ingredients. Food styled by Roscoe Betsill. Props styled by Paige Hicks.

let and add half the onion. Cook until just beginning to soften, about 1 minute. Add half of the tomatoes, half the serrano and half of the cabbage. Cook, stirring frequently, until the tomatoes are soft but not breaking down and the cabbage wilts, about 2 minutes. Season with a pinch each of salt and pepper. Add the cracked eggs and swirl the pan to distribute evenly over the surface. Shake the pan gently, tilting it slightly with one hand, while lifting the edges of the omelet with a spatula in your other hand. (This lets the eggs run underneath during the first few minutes of cooking.) Once the eggs are set on the bottom, flip, using the spatula, so that the other side cooks, about 1 minute.

4. Move a chapati to a plate and top with the eggs. Starting with the edge closest to you, roll the chapati over the eggs, tightly into a log.

5. Crack the remaining 2 eggs, season and whisk. Repeat Steps 3 and 4 with the other chapati. Serve both immediately while still warm.

Chapati

An Indian staple, the chapati is also found in the cuisines of Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, East Africa and beyond. Across the Indian diaspora, this four-ingredient flatbread can vary in its cooking technique, texture and the types of fat and flour used. Adapted from recipe developer Kiano Moju and her grandmother, Agnes Kiano Kasaine, this flaky Kenyan version, sometimes nicknamed “chapos,” uses all-purpose flour instead of atta, a whole-wheat flour, and stretches portions of the dough thin enough to see your hands through. Generous spoonfuls of oil are rubbed over the sheets, which

are then rolled over themselves to create delicate layers. You’ll find this dough benefits greatly from periods of rest, which relax the gluten, making it easier to stretch and roll. Moju describes the chapati making process as “communal.” So gather your ingredients and line up a few helpers.

Yield: 8 chapatis

Total time: 2 hours

Ingredients:

4 cups/520 grams all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting

2 teaspoons/13 grams coarse kosher salt (such as Morton)

2 tablespoons neutral oil (such as grapeseed, sunflower or canola oil), plus 1 cup for brushing and frying

Preparation:

1. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour and salt. Make a well in the center and add in 2 tablespoons oil and 1 cup water. Using your hands, mix the dry and wet ingredients into a shaggy dough. Add more water 1 tablespoon at a time, combining until the dough comes together into a slightly sticky, uneven ball (you’ll use a total of 6 tablespoons additional water). Transfer the dough to a very lightly floured work surface and knead into a smooth ball, about 8 minutes. Return the dough to the bowl, cover with a clean kitchen towel and allow to rest. The dough will relax and should spring back when poked lightly, about 30 minutes. Brush a small sheet pan or large plate with a generous amount of oil, and set aside.

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on your lightly floured work surface (you should be able to see the work surface through the dough) and use the rolling pin to roll over the outer 1/2-inch edge so it’s as thin as the rest of the sheet. The sheet should have a 13to 16-inch diameter.

4. Generously brush the surface of the sheet with oil and lightly sprinkle with flour. Starting with the edge closest to you, roll the edge of the sheet over itself, into a log. You should end up with a long rope. Lift the rope and squeeze along its length to press out any air bubbles and stretch it until it’s almost double in length, about 22 to 28 inches.

5. Starting at one end, roll the rope into a snail-like spiral and tuck the last 1 1/2 inches of the rope underneath. Place the spiral back on the tray, cover, and repeat the process with the remaining dough balls.

6. Place a spiral on a floured surface, and sprinkle flour over the top. Roll into a 9- to 10- inch round, turning about an inch clockwise after each roll to maintain its round shape. Move the round aside, making sure the surface is well floured to avoid sticking. Roll out the remaining spirals and stack them, flouring the top of the stack before placing another round on top.

7. Heat a 10- to 12-inch skillet (nonstick, steel or a seasoned cast-iron) over medium. Brush the pan with oil, place a round in the pan and cook until the surface looks dull and the dough begins to puff, about 1 minute. Brush the surface of the dough round lightly with oil and flip to cook the other side for 1 minute. Brush again with oil and flip to brown the original side, and cook for 1 minute. Brush lightly with oil and flip again to brown the second side, and cook for 1 minute. The total cook time should be about 4 minutes, and both sides should be golden brown in spots. Move the cooked chapati to a plate, cover with a kitchen towel or another plate to keep warm. Brush your pan with oil and repeat the cooking process until all the dough rounds are cooked off.

8. Enjoy the chapati immediately while still warm. Store any leftovers at room temperature, wrapped or sealed in an airtight bag for up to 24 hours or frozen for up to 1 month. To reheat, defrost and warm up in a skillet over medium-low heat.

2. Place the dough on the work surface and cut into 8 even pieces. Roll each piece into a ball and place on the oiled sheet pan. Cover with plastic wrap or a clean kitchen towel. Let rest for 10 minutes.

3. Place a dough ball on a lightly floured work surface and dust the top with some flour. Using a rolling pin, pat the dough down, then roll into a 4-inch-round piece. Pick up the dough and place it on the back of one hand. Use the other hand to stretch the dough by gently tugging along the edge of the round. Turn the dough an inch in a clockwise direction after every pull to keep the round shape and evenly stretch the piece of dough until it is thin enough to see your hand through it. Don’t worry if the piece rips: Pinch the tear back together and try to stretch carefully. Place the stretched dough sheet

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V.

MIGUEL ALBERTY

CASTRO ROSADO

T/C/C MIGUEL

CASTRO ROSADO, SU ESPOSA MADELINE

ALVARADO TORRES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES CONSTITUIDA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: FCD2009-2211.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, HÉCTOR L.

PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUA-

CIL PLACA #278, Alguacil de la División de Subastas de la Sala Superior de Carolina, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 23 de enero de 2023 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $87,991.76 de principal, dictada en el caso de autos el día 11 de julio de 2012, notificada y archivada en autos el 13 de julio de 2012; procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en: en el Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: 38 12 34 ST

VILLA CAROLINA DEVELOPMENT, CAROLINA, PR 00985. URBANA: SOLAR RADICADO EN LA URBANIZACIÓN VILLA

CAROLINA, SITUADA EN EL BARRIO HOYO MULAS DE CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO, QUE SE DESCRIBE EN EL PLANO DE INSCRIPCIÓN DE LA URBANIZACIÓN CON EL NÚMERO, ÁREA Y COLINDANCIAS QUE SE RELACIONAN A CONTINUACIÓN: NUMERO DEL SOLAR DOCE (12) DE LA MANZANA TREINTA Y OCHO (38), ÁREA DEL SOLAR

TRESCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y DOS PUNTO TREINTA Y CINCO (352.35) METROS CUADRADOS. EN LINDES POR

EL NORTE, CON PASEO PUBLICO, EN CATORCE PUNTO NOVENTA Y SIETE (14.97)

METROS; POR EL SUR, CON LA CALLE TREINTA Y CUATRO (34) EN TRECE PUNTO

OCHENTA Y OCHO (13.88)

METROS, EN ARCO; POR EL ESTE, CON EL SOLAR ONCE (11), EN VEINTICUATRO PUNTO TRECE (24.13) METROS; POR EL OESTE, CON EL SOLAR NÚMERO TRECE (13), EN VEINTICUATRO PUNTO OCHENTA Y SIETE (24.87) METROS. ENCLAVA UNA CASA. CONSTA INSCRITA AL FOLIO 206 DEL TOMO 439 DE CAROLINA, FINCA NÚMERO 17,716, REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE CAROLINA, SECCIÓN II. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, cuyas cantidades son las siguientes:

$87,991.76 de principal, más los intereses al 7.95% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más las primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo; más $240.00 de cargos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda, más $147.26 por concepto de otros gastos más cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca hasta la fecha del total pago de las mismas, más la suma estipulada de $8,799.17 para honorarios de abogado pre pactados. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $92,500.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $61,666.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $46,250.00. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 22 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una

SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 30 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina. Se advierte a los licitadores que la

adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. De Estudio de Título realizado no surgen gravámenes preferentes ni posteriores que deban ser cancelados. Se advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2023. HÉCTOR L.

PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO-

LINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V.

JUAN JOSE FERNANDEZ NEGRON; ALMA NYDIA COTTO LUGO LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANACIALES POR

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ESTOS COMPUESTA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01549.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA.

AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, a la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 23 de enero de 2023 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $50,589.27 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 16 de septiembre de 2022, notificada y archivada en autos el 21 de septiembre de 2022 y publicada mediante edicto en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 26 de septiembre de 2022; procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: 101

G APT VILLAS DEL GIGANTE, CAROLINA, PR 00987. Descripción: Urbana: Apartamento residencial G guion ciento uno (G-101) de forma rectangular, constituido por un nivel, localizado en la primera planta de edificio “G” del Condominio Villas del Gigante, que este situado en la carretera #853 intersección #852, barrio Barrazas, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Consta de un nivel, siendo sus linderos los siguientes: al Norte, con elemento exterior y lobby en una distancia de 6.65 metros lineales; al Sur, con elemento exterior en una distancia de 6.65 metros lineales; al Este, con el apartamento G-102 y lobby en una distancia de 12.20 metros lineales y al Oeste, con elemento exterior, en una distancia de 12.20 metros lineales. Consta el mismo de tres habitaciones con sus respectivos closet, una sala-comedor, cocina, un baño, área de almacenar. El baño está equipado con bañera, lavamanos, servicio sanitario y laundry. El área total del apartamento es 75.07 metros cuadrados. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Este y por ella se sale a la escalera y al área de circulación del proyecto. Este apartamento tiene una participación de .00595238% en los elementos generales del

condominio. Le corresponde como elemento común limitado el estacionamiento identificado con el mismo número del apartamento G-101. Finca #60027, consta inscrita al Folio 83 del Tomo 1441 de Carolina Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $50,589.27 de principal, intereses a razón del 4.5% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $57,650.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $38,433.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $28,825.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 22 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 30 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un

intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. De Estudio de Título realizado no surgen gravámenes preferentes y/o posteriores que requieran ser cancelados. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 24 de marzo de 2023. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278.

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LUNA RESIDENTIAL III LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. JUAN LUIS HERNANDEZ

VAZQUEZ, SANDRA

MILAGROS RIVERA

MARTINEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: CG2019CV04813.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA (IN REM). ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en ge-

The San Juan Daily Star

neral hace saber que venderá en pública subasta en la Oficina de Alguaciles, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $283,516.61 de balance principal, la cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $204,879.42 y un principal diferido por la suma de $78,637.19, más los intereses adeudados sobre la suma de $204,879.42 y computados al 4% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago desde el primero de enero de 2018; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma estipulada para honorarios de abogado pactada en la escritura de hipoteca y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número cinco (5) del bloque E, del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización El Rocio del término municipal de Cayey. Tiene un área superficial de trescientos setenta y ocho puntos cero cero metros cuadrados (378.00 m/c). Sus colindancias son las siguientes: por el NORTE, con una alineación de veintisiete punto cero cero (27.00) metros lineales, con el solar número seis (6) del bloque; por el SUR, con una alineación de veintisiete punto cero cero (27.00) metros lineales, con el solar número cuatro (4) del bloque E; por el ESTE, con una alineación de catorce punto cero cero (14.00) metros lineales con el solar número seis (6) del bloque D; por el OESTE, en una alineación de catorce punto cerro cero (14.00) metros lineares con la calle cuatro (4). Enclava casa. Inscrita al Folio ciento sesenta y uno (161) del Tomo quinientos treinta y seis (536) de Caguas Sección I. Finca veintiún mil cuatrocientos treinta y cuatro (21,434) Registro de la Propiedad Caguas Sección I. Dirección Física: Urbanización El Rocio E-5, Cayey, Puerto Rico 00736. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 3 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $290,182.85 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el

día 10 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $193,455.23. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 17 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $145,091.42. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser

ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 3 de abril de 2023. EDGARDO

ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.

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SALA DE VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR

OWNERS ASSOCIATION

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE WILLIAM

EDWIN HODGE, COMPUESTA POR

FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL

Demandado

Civil Núm.: CD16-345. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG.

FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ

COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 6 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a con-

tinuación: Número de Catastro:

Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL

HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: A-501. Cabida 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-501 and includes the right to use such unit during 12 week of each year until December 31 of the year 2070, such

week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 12 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-501 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such excessive, other owners of Vacation Club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare of Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar, Finca 12667 al folio 180 del tomo 232 de Vega Alta. Descrita conforme a la inscripción 1ra. Al Tomo de Hoja Móvil número 100 de Vega Alta. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 16,978 inscrita al tomo de Hoja Móvil número 96 de Vega Alta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $7,662.92 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de los elementos comunes correspondientes a la unidad A 501 semana 12. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán sub-

sistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 28 de marzo de 2023. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE TOA ALTA

HACIENDA DEL MAR

OWNERS ASSOCIATION

Demandante Vs. RAYMOND LUIS

ROSARIO ALBINO Y

ADA MONSERRATE

ROJAS RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: TA2018CV00840.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que

en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 13 de febrero de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB

VACACIONAL HACIENDA

DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-502

SEMANA 23. Cabida: 101.42

Metros Cuadrados. Located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-502 and includes the right to use such unit during the 23 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 36 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-502 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval.

In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,328, inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 52 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascen-

dente a las siguientes cantidades: $12,555.47 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de los elementos comunes correspondientes a la unidad A-502, semana 23. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Toa Alta, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 28 de marzo de 2023. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION

DEMANDANTE vs. ROBERT DOSCHER, PHYLLIS DOSCHER Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

DEMANDADA

CIVIL NUM. : VB2018CV00746.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA- Finca 13,744. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 9 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación:

1) A 703-5; Finca 13,744. Número de Catastro:--Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-703 SEMANA 5. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-703 and includes the right to use such unit during the 5 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 5 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-703 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve re-

servation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,744 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 58 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $9,083.65 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A 703 semana 5. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 6 de junio de 2023, a las 9:30 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio

de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 28 de marzo de 2023. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION

DEMANDANTE vs. ROBERT DOSCHER, PHYLLIS DOSCHER Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADA

CIVIL NUM. : VB2018CV00746.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA- Finca 13,745. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 9 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: A 703-6- Finca 13,745. Número de Catastro:--Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-703 SEMANA 6. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-703 and includes the right to use such unit during the 6 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 6 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan-

ding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-703 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,745 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 58 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $8,613.83 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A 703 semana 6. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 6 de junio de 2023, a las 9:45 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi-

miento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 28 de marzo de 2023. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE CAGUAS HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante Vs. ERIC ALBERTO ALEMÁN MARRERO, MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES CATALÁN MOLINA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, POR ELLOS COMPUESTA

Demandada

Civil Núm.: CG2019CV01129.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RO-

DRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al

Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 21 de febrero de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se descri-

be a continuación: Número de Catastro: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB

VACACIONAL HACIENDA

DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: B-508

29. Cabida: 101.42

SEMANA

Metros Cuadrados. Located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-508 and includes the right to use such unit during the 29 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 29 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit B-508 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval.

In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 14,330, inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 66 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $9,083.65 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B 508, semana 29. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha pro-

piedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 28 de marzo de 2023. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE COMERÍO HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION

Demandante Vs. FRANK HERNÁNDEZ RUIZ, CARMEN MILAGROS ARROYO

RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandada

Civil Núm.: CR2019CV00348. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 11 de enero de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal de Comerío, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: UNIDAD B-108 SEMANA 28. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-108 and includes the right to use such unit during the 28 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 28 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit B-108 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la fin-

ca número 14,184 inscrita por asiento abreviado al folio 3379 del tomo 332 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 5ta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $12,516.50 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Puerto Rico, Sala de Comerío, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia,

Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 28 de marzo de 2023. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA ALTA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante Vs. MARBELLY COROMOTO ARROYO CURTIS y FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JORGE CACHO NEGRETE

Demandados

Civil Núm.: TA2019CV01692. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA – Finca 15,012. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO

SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 15 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal de Toa Alta, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Unidad B 312-

20, Finca 15,012: Número de Catastro: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB

VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: UNIDAD B-312 SEMANA 20. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-312 and includes the right to use such unit during the 20 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 20 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit B-312 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the

Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2575% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 15,012 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 77 de Vega Alta, inscripción Ira. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $9,087.31 por las cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B 312-20. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Puerto Rico, Sala de Toa Alta, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y

para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 28 de marzo de 2023. ALG. FREDDY

OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

DEMANDANTE vs. SHELLIA LAVONIA

JENKINS WARD; FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CECIL EDWARD WARD

DEMANDADA

CIVIL NUM. : VB2022CV00237.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO.

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO

SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 9 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:---.Propiedad

Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO

CLUB VACACIONAL HACIEN-

DA DEL MAR de Vega Alta.

Apartamento Multivacacional:

A-502 SEMANA 10. Cabida:

101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above men-

tioned Unit A-502 and includes the right to use such unit during the 10 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 10 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-502 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 15,331 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 83 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades:

$14,432.42 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 6 de junio de 2023, a las 11:00 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mis-

mos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones.

Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 27 de marzo de 2023. Freddy Omar Rodriguez, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

DEMANDANTE VS. SATKRAM PERSAUD, ROHANIE PERSAUD Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, POR ELLOS COMPUESTA

DEMANDADA

CIVIL NUM. : VB2022CV00244.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO.

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO

SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 9 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en

efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:---.

Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: A-505 SEMANA 14. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-505 and includes the right to use such unit during the 14 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 14 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit A-505 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 16,837 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 95 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $14,432.42 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 6 de junio de 2023, a las 11:15 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará

a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 28 de marzo de 2023. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA.

MUÑOZ, MARIELA ONEILL BECERRIL Y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, compuesta por ambos

DEMANDADA

CIVIL NUM. : VB2022CV00247.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO

SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 9 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Número de Catastro:---.Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta.

Apartamento: B-109 SEMANA

1. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-109 and includes the right to use such unit during the 1 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 1 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit B-109 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facili-

ties and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 14,510 inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil número 58 de Vega Alta, según inscripción 1ra. Registro de la Propiedad Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Associaton el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $14,432.42 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: Subasta: Se celebrará el día 6 de junio de 2023, a las 11:30 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones.

Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse

de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 28 de marzo de 2023. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA ALTA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante Vs. MARBELLY COROMOTO ARROYO CURTIS y FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JORGE CACHO NEGRETE

Demandados

Civil Núm.: TA2019CV01692. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA – Finca 16,472. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 15 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Unidad B 40846, Finca 16,472: Número de Catastro: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento: UNIDAD B-408 SEMANA 46. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-408 and includes the right to use such unit during the 46 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 46 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of right to use a specific week in Unit B-408 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of

riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 8 de marzo de 2023.

HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AIBONITO REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE GERARDO NIEVES MERCADO COMPUESTA POR

ANTONIO NIEVES, CARMEN NIEVES MORALES, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE VANESSA NIEVES MORALES, Y POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DE LA

SUCESIÓN DE GERARDO NIEVES MERCADO; SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN MORALES HERNÁNDEZ

COMPUESTA POR

ANTONIO NIEVES, PO CARMEN NIEVES

MORALES, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE VANESSA NIEVES

MORALES Y POR

FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DE LA

SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN

MORALES HERNÁNDEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: AI2022CV00142.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

SUCESIÓN DE GERARDO NIEVES MERCADO

COMPUESTA POR

ANTONIO NIEVES, CARMEN NIEVES

MORALES, JOHN

DOE Y JANE DOE EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE VANESSA NIEVES

MORALES, Y POR

FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE

DESCONOCIDO DE LA

SUCESIÓN DE GERARDO

NIEVES MERCADO; SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN MORALES HERNÁNDEZ COMPUESTA POR

ANTONIO NIEVES, POR CARMEN NIEVES MORALES, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE VANESSA NIEVES

MORALES Y POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN MORALES HERNÁNDEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, Juan E. Díaz, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aibonito, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 5 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aibonito, Aibonito, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 26 de octubre de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 12 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aibonito, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 6 de diciembre de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Piñas, del término municipal de Comerío, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 1.066 cuerdas equivalentes a 41 áreas, 89 centiáreas y 80 miliáreas. En lindes: por el NORTE, y OESTE, con la finca principal de la cual se segrega, propiedad de Artemio Umpierre y la Sucesión de Francisca del Valle; por el SUR, con terrenos de Filiberto Ramírez; y por el ESTE, con terrenos de la Sucesión Umpie-

rre. Contiene una casa de cemento y bloques con sala, comedor, 3 cuartos dormitorios, servicio sanitario, marquesina y balcón con pisos de terraza. Finca Número 2,459, inscrita al folio 161 del tomo 49 de Comerío. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Barranquitas. Dirección de la Propiedad: Bo Piñas Abajo Carr 175 KM 0 HM 2 Ramal #178 Comerio PR 00782. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $201,452.82, de balance principal del préstamo, con intereses ajustable al 3.73% anual, el cual acumulan a un total de $241,086.43 a la fecha de 18 de mayo de 2022, y continúa acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 176 otorgada el día 15 de agosto de 2008, Cayey, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Raul Rivera Burgos y consta inscrita al folio 69 del tomo 155 de Comerio, finca número 2,459, Registro de la Propiedad de Comerio, Sección de Barranquitas. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor

Thursday, April 20, 2023

del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $345,000.00, con intereses al 3.73% anual, vencedero el día 30 de octubre de 2085, constituida mediante la escritura número 177, otorgada en Cayey, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de agosto de 2008, ante el notario Raúl Rivera Burgos, e inscrita al folio 69 del tomo 159 de Comerío, finca número 2,459, inscripción 13ª. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $230,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $153,333.33; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $115,000.00. 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, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a

la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, a 25 de enero de 2023.

Juan E. Díaz, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #137, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE COMERÍO.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGUEZ

CASCADE FUNDING

MORTGAGE TRUST HB2

DEMANDANTE VS.

LAURA EDIVIA ROSARIO

DOMINGUEZ T/C/C/

LAURA E. ROSARIO

DOMINGUEZ; SUCESIÓN DE CONFESOR RUIZ

RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C

CONFESOR RUIZ COMPUESTA POR

LAURA EDIVIA ROSARIO

DOMINGUEZ T/C/C/

LAURA E. ROSARIO

DOMINGUEZ, JULIO

RUIZ VEGA, EDNA RUIZ, FULANO DE TAL Y

SUTANO DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; Y LOS

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NUM.: MZ2020CV00033

SALA: 206 SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA

Al: Público en General

A: LAURA EDIVIA

ROSARIO DOMINGUEZ

T/C/C/ LAURA E. ROSARIO DOMINGUEZ; SUCESIÓN DE CONFESOR RUIZ

RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C

CONFESOR RUIZ

COMPUESTA POR

LAURA EDIVIA ROSARIO

DOMINGUEZ T/C/C/

LAURA E. ROSARIO

DOMINGUEZ, JULIO

RUIZ VEGA, EDNA RUIZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Yo, IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, PLACA #924, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 9 de mayo de 2023, a las 11:00 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 27 de agosto de 2021. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 16 de mayo de 2023, a las 11:00 de la mañana; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 23 de mayo de 2023 a las 11:00 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, en el caso de epígrafe

con fecha de 28 de junio de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: “ URBANA: Solar número CCinco (C-5) del proyecto residencial denominado Paseo Los Robles II, sito en el Barrio Algarrobo; Carretera Estatal Número Ciento Cuatro (104), kilómetro 1.4, Interior, del término municipal de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. En el solar enclava una vivienda construida toda en hormigón; para una sola familia. Este solar está sujeto a servidumbres en equidad establecidas mediante la escritura número Once (11) de doce (12) de marzo de mil novecientos noventa y seis (1996) ante el Notario Luis M. Polanco Ortiz. El solar número C-Cinco (C-5) tiene una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos cincuenta y tres metros cuadrados con treinta y siete céntimos (453.37) de otro metro cuadrados. El solar colinda por el NORTE, en quince metros lineales con cincuenta céntimos (15.50) de otro metro lineal con la Calle Uno (1) de Paseo Los Robles II y en un arco de cinco metros lineales con cincuenta (5.50) céntimos de otro con la intersección de las Calles Uno y Tres de Paseo Los Robles II; por el SUR, en diecinueve (19.00) metros lineales con el solar C-Seis (C-6) de Paseo Los Robles II; por el ESTE, en veinte metros lineales con cincuenta (20.50) céntimos de otro metro lineal con la Calle Tres (3) de Paseo Los Robles II; por el OESTE, en veinticuatro metros lineales con el solar C-Cuatro (C-4) de Paseo Los Robles II. El antes descrito solar está gravado por servidumbre a favor de Puerto Rico Telephone Company; de cinco pies de ancho y la cual discurre a través de las colindancias Norte y Este del solar.” Finca número 39,981 inscrita en el folio 1 del tomo 1,450 de Mayagüez, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Mayagüez. Dirección de la Propiedad: 1509 Epifanio Vidal St. Paseo Los Robles, Mayagüez PR 00682. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $298,358.78, con interés al 5.560% anual , por concepto de balance principal del préstamo más intereses acumulados al 31 de enero de 2020 anual los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $39,750.00, equivalente al 10%

de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 239 otorgada el día 7 de septiembre de 2010, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Fernando E. Doval Santiago y consta inscrita al folio 177 del tomo 1503 de Mayagüez, finca número 39,981, Registro de la Propiedad Sección Mayagüez.

Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $397,500.00, con intereses al 5.560% anual, vencedero el día 22 de diciembre de 2087, constituida mediante la escritura número 240, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 7 de septiembre de 2010, ante el notario Fernando

E. Doval Santiago, e inscrita al folio 177 del tomo 1503 de Mayagüez, finca número 39,981, inscripción 6ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $397,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $265,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para

la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $198,750.00. 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, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co-

rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 31 de enero de 2023. IVELISSE FIGUEROA

VARGAS, PLACA #924, Alguacil. ****

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GÜEZ

FINANCE OF AMERICA

REVERSE LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESION FRANCISCO

EDGARDO GARCIA

PRINCIPE T/C/C

FRANCISCO E.

GARCIA-PRINCIPE

T/C/C FRANCISCO E.

GARCIA PRINCIPE

T/C/C FRANCISCO

EDGARDO GARCIA

T/C/C FRANCISCO

GARCIA PRINCIPE

T/C/C FRANCISCO

E . GARCIA T/C/C

FRANCISCO GARCIA

COMPUESTA POR JOHN

DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV01715.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS

UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y

JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION

FRANCISCO EDGARDO

GARCIA PRINCIPE

T/C/C FRANCISCO E.

GARCIA- PRINCIPE

T/C/C FRANCISCO E.

GARCIA PRINCIPE

T/C/C FRANCISCO

EDGARDO GARCIA

T/C/C FRANCISCO

GARCIA PRINCIPE T/C/C

FRANCISCO E. GARCIA

T/C/C FRANCISCO GARCIA.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de

los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajucial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

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Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de abril de 2023. LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ALEXANDRA MARIE LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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Demandante V. JUAN AMERICO

GONZALEZ IRRIZARRY, CELESTE DEYANIRA RODRIGUEZ

ARIAS, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS; CARLOS VARGAS AROCHO, YOLANDA DAVILA

MOLINA, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SS2023CV00034.

Sobre: ACCESIÓN A LA INVERSA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: CELESTE DEYANIRA RODRÍGUEZ ARIAS, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON JUAN

AMÉRICO GONZÁLEZ

AROCHO. POSTAL –URBANIZACIÓN EL CULEBRINA CALLE CUPEY Y4 SAN SEBASTIÁN, PUERTO RICO 00685. FISICASOLAR Y4 PROYECTO DENOMINADO COMO EL PEPINO VM7-45 BARRIO CULEBRINA SAN SEBASTIÁN, PR 00984. Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique al licenciado: Alberto De Diego Collar, DE DIEGO LAW OFFICES, PSC, PO BOX 79552, Carolina, PR 00984-9552, Teléfono: (787)622-3939, abogado de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la demanda dentro del término antes indicado, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin mas citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy día 03 de abril 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SUBSECRETARIA.

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Demandante V. JUAN AMERICO GONZALEZ IRRIZARRY, CELESTE DEYANIRA RODRIGUEZ ARIAS, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; CARLOS VARGAS AROCHO, YOLANDA DAVILA MOLINA, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE

BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SS2023CV00034. Sobre: ACCESIÓN A LA INVERSA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: CARLOS VARGAS AROCHO, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON YOLANDA DÁVILA MOLINA YOLANDA DÁVILA MOLINA, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON CARLOS VARGAS AROCHO. POSTAL–URBANIZACIÓN EL CULEBRINA CALLE CUPEY Y5 SAN SEBASTIÁN, PUERTO RICO 00685. FISICASOLAR Y5, PROYECTO EL PEPINO BARRIO EL CULEBRINA SAN SEBASTIÁN, PUERTO RICO 00685. POSTAL-533 APOLLO AVE. DELTONA, FLORIDA 32725. Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique al licenciado: Alberto De Diego Collar, DE DIEGO LAW OFFICES, PSC, PO BOX 79552, Carolina, PR 00984-9552, Teléfono: (787)622-3939, abogado de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la demanda dentro del término antes indicado, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del

Tribunal, en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de abril de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES

PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SUB-SECRETARIA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR I.

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SALA SUPERIOR JUANA DÍAZ

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO

Parte Demandante Vs LUIS ALBERTO ROCHE RIVERA

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: JD2023CV00048.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO.

A: LUIS ALBERTO ROCHE RIVERA.

Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, P. O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, hoy 5 de abril de 2023. CARMEN

G. TIRÚ, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ. MARÍA C. COLÓN SANTIAGO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SALA DE PONCE

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. YANCY MARIEL CINTRÓN TORRES

Parte Demandada

Caso Civil Núm.: PO2023CV00219. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR

LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: YANCY MARIEL CINTRÓN TORRES. POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colon Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce. P.R. 00732-7970; Teléfono: 787843-41668. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demanda a incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de julio de 2022, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $93,604.16, más intereses a razón del 5.00% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo $11,880.00, pactado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente:

URBANA: Solar número nueve (9) del bloque seis (6) de la urbanización Valle Real también conocida como Haciendas del Real radicada en el Barrio Anón, Sector Anón, del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico; con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos veintisiete punto cero cero (427.000 metros cuadrados; en lindes por el Norte, a una distancia de treinta punto cincuenta (30.50) metros, con el lote diez (10); por el Sur; a una distancia de treinta punto cincuenta (30.50) metros, con el lote ocho (8); por el Este, a

GUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs LUIS ENRIQUE PEREZ

AYALA, EILEEN MARIE PEREZ ACEVEDO, KEYSHLA MARIE PEREZ ACEVEDO, JOYCE

MARIE PEREZ ACEVEDO, R&G MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE

Demandado (a)

Civil Núm.: SS2022CV00774.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LUIS ENRIQUE PEREZ

AYALA, EILEEN MARIE PEREZ ACEVEDO, KEYSHLA MARIE PEREZ ACEVEDO, JOYCE

MARIE PEREZ ACEVEDO, R&G MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de abril de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 13 de abril de 2023. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 13 de abril de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES

PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SECRETARIA.

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TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

CARIBE FEDERAL

CREDIT UNION

Parte demandante VS.

SUCESIÓN JORGE

ANTONIO SOMOZA

FERRALES, COMPUESTA

POR STEPHANIE

GONZÁLEZ MERCADO

Parte demandada

CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2022CV09488

SALÓN DE SESIONES: 603

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO

REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN

DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO

POR SUMAC.

A: SUCESIÓN JORGE

ANTONIO SOMOZA

FERRALES, COMPUESTA

POR STEPHANIE

GONZALEZ MERCADO.

DIRECCIÓN: URB. LAS

AMÉRICAS 974 CALLE

QUITO SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00921-2338.

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 de abril de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de esta. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de abril de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 12 de abril de 2023. GRISELDA

RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria Regional. F/JOHANNA

RODRÍGUEZ BENÍTEZ, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Demandante Vs EDWIN DÍAZ DÍAZ

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV07151. (505). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: EDWIN DIAZ DIAZ.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 4 de abril de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de abril de 2023.

En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 12 de abril de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. E. DIOMARYS ALCÁNTARA FÉLIX, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante (a) Vs. ANDRÉS

CARRASQUILLO BIGIO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV09098.

Sala: 803. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ANDRÉS

CARRASQUILLO BIGIO; FULANA DE TAL; LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA. EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de abril de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi-

miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de abril de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 14 de abril de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KAROLYN RIVERA NAVARRO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN CASCADE FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST HB2 Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE MARTA ANTONIA RAMIREZ PABÓN, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO MARTA A. RAMÍREZ PABÓN, COMO MARTA RAMÍREZ PABÓN, COMO MARTA ANTONIA RAMÍREZ, COMO MARTA A. RAMÍREZ Y COMO MARTA RAMÍREZ COMPUESTA POR EDUARDO ARIEL VERA RAMÍREZ, MARTA ESTHER VERA RAMÍREZ, ADA IRIS VERA RAMÍREZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LA CAUSANTE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV05528. (604). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: ADA IRIS VERA RAMÍREZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LA CAUSANTE.

LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de marzo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o

representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 60 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 12 de abril de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 12 de abril de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSA MAGALY CANDELARIO CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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VIERA RODRÍGUEZ

Demandante Vs. SANTA RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ Demandada Civil Número: SJ2023RF00423. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTEAMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: SRA. SANTA RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ. 222 BALDWIN ST FL. 1, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, 08901-2945. Se le notifica o usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la solicitud del epígrafe. Se le emplaza v requiere que radique en esta Secretaría el original de la contestación a la Demanda de Divorcio y que notifique con copia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. María Pagán Hernández, PO Box 21411, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-1411, teléfono 787-282-6734, abogada de la parte demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Podrá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal como se explicó anteriormente. Si dejare de hacerlo, podrá dictarse contra usted sentencia en rebeldía concediéndole el remedio solicitado en la demanda. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 30 de marzo de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE-

CRETARIA REGIONAL. LYMARIS LABOY NIEVES, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ASOCIACIÓN DE RESIDENTES ESTANCIAS DE RIO HONDO I, INC.

Demandante V. OMAR MANZANO RIVERA, MARIA DEL CARMEN

MARTINEZ RIVERA, AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTANCION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV05572. Sala:

506. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: OMAR MANZANO RIVERA, MARÍA DEL CARMEN MARTÍNEZ RIVERA, AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de abril de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de abril de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 11 de abril de 2023.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

EUSEBIO DIAZ NUÑEZ Y NELIA RIVERA AYALA Demandante Vs LA SUCESION DE JOSE

ALFREDO IGLESIAS

VENTURA COMPUESTA

POR SUTANO DE TAL COMO INTEGRANTES DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESION, SUCESION DE ELIZABETH BONILLA RIVERA COMPUESTA

POR SU(S) HEREDEROS

JOHN DOE, JOSE

JERAMFEL AYALA BAEZ, NORAIDA FONSECA

FLORES, WILLIAM

ROQUE VELAZQUEZ Y SU ESPOSA BELKYES

NOELIA FLORES GARCIA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS, LUIS ANGEL

ANDUJAR COLON Y SU ESPOSA BARBARA

LAZA COLON Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS, JOSE JUAN

MERCED TORRES Y SU ESPOSA LEYDA

MIGDALIA RODRIGUEZ

CORREA Y LA SOCIEDAD

LEGAL DE COMPUESTA

POR AMBOS, MARIAN LABOY TORRES

T/C/C MARIAM LABOY

TORRES, GERARDO

FALCON NUÑEZ T/C/C

GERALDO FALCON

NUÑEZ Y SU ESPOSA

MARIA MERCEDES

DIAZ ROBLES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS, RANDY RENTAS

MEJIAS Y DANEPSY ROMAN LLANOS, GERARDO FALCON DIAZ, LUIS RIVERA OYOLA, ARAEL FIGUEROA COLON, ANDRES LUNA

DIAZ, ALBERTO ALVAREZ ORTIZ T/C/C ALBERTO

ALVARES ORTIZ, BANCO

POPULAR DE PUERTO

RICO Y ORIENTAL BANK COMO ACREEDORES

HIPOTECARIOS, FULANO DE TAL

Demandado

Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02565.

Sobre: REANUDACIÓN DEL TRACTO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: A) DANEPSY ROMÁN LLANOS DIRECCIONES SON: SECTOR MARTÍN REYES, CARR. 173 KM. 3 HM. 1 CIDRA PR 00739. LA DIRECCION POSTAL ES: BARRIADA MORALES 1132 CALLE T, CAGUAS PR 00725.

B) LUIS ANGEL ANDÚJAR COLÓN Y SU ESPOSA BARBARA LAZA COLÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANACIALES DIRECCION: 706 ROIL ROAD BLVD, RICHLAND NY 08350.

C) WILLIAM ROQUE VELÁZQUEZ Y SU ESPOSA BELKYES NOELIA FLORES GARCÍA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES, DIRECCIÓN: TROPICANA RESORT 43420, HIGHWAY 27 #404, DAVENPORT, FLORIDA 33837.

D) NORAIDA FONSECA FLORES, DIRECCION: SECTOR MARTÍN REYES, CARR. 173, KM. 3 HM. 1, CIDRA PR 00739.

E) ALBERTO ALVAREZ ORTIZ T/C/C ALBERTO ALVARES ORTIZ, DIRECCIÓN: CARR. 173, KM 2.3 BO. MONTELLANOS, CIDRA PR 00739.

F) MARIAN LABOY TORRES T/C/C MARIAM LABOY TORRES, DIRECCIÓN: CARR 173, KM 3.5 BO. MONTELLANO, CIDRA, PR 00739.

G) JOSÉ JUAN MERCED TORRES Y SU ESPOSA LEYDA MIGDALIA RODRIGUEZ CORREA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES, DIRECCIÓN: SÉCTOR MARTÍN REYES, CARR. 173, KM. 3 HM. 1, CIDRA PR 00739.

H) LUIS RIVERA OYOLA, DIRECCIÓN: SECTOR MARTÍN REYES, CARR. 173, KM. 3 HM 6, CIDRA PR 00739.

I) JOHN DOE COMO POSSIBLE(S) HEREDERO(S) DE ELIZABETH BONILLA RIVERA, DIRECCION: CONDOMINIO VILLA VICTORIA APARTAMENTO 2, CIDRA PR 00739, CARR. 173, KM. 3 HM. 1, CIDRA PR 00739.

J) SUTANO DE TAL

COMO INTEGRANTES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ALFREDO IGLESIAS VENTURA DIRECCIÓN: CARR. 173, KM. 2.3 BO. MONTELLANO, CIDRA, PR 00739.

K) FULANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLE PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON INTERÉS.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de marzo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de abril de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 11 de abril de 2023. LISILDA

MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO

PALMAS DEL MAR HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante MOHAMMADSADO

BASSAM LULU Y SAJIDA AL LULU Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandado(a)

Civil: HU2022CV01647. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MOHAMMADSADO

BASSAM LULU Y SAJIDA AL LULU Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de ABRIL de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de ABRIL de 2023. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 18 de ABRIL de 2023.

IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. KARILIN MORALES FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA

HERNAN OLIVER BLAS

Demandante Vs. JANIRA SEDA IRIZARRY

Demandada

Civil Núm.: AG2023CV00499. Sobre: EXEQUATOR. EDICTO.

A: JANIRA SEDA

IRIZARRY, P.O. BOX 161, THOMASVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, 27361.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente su alegación responsiva dentro del término de TREINTA (30)

DlAS siguientes a la publicación de este emplazamiento por Edicto que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. Usted(es) deberá(n) presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr.sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría de este Tribunal de Primera Instancia y notificando copia de la misma al Lcdo. Luis Roberto Santos Montalvo con oficina localizada en 256 Calle Concor-

dia, Bario El Seco, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; teléfono (787) 833-5466, y cuya dirección postal es P.O. Box 1809, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-1809. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte demandante en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de abril de 2023. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria Regional, Centro Judicial De Aguadilla. Nathalie I. Acevedo Quiñones, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I, Sala De Aguadilla.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO RAQUEL YOLANDA OYOLA RODRÍGUEZ Peticionarios EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: AR2023CV00566.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, S.S.

A: CUALQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA QUE PUDIERA TENER INTERÉS EN ESTE EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO Y/O EN LA PROPIEDAD QUE MAS DELANTE DE DESCRIBE Y ESPECIALMENTE A LOS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE CONFESOR SERRANO RODRÍGUEZ Y ANGÉLICA ROMÁN

TORRES QUIENES

ERAN VECINOS DE ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO

Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO.

Por la presente se notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Sabana Hoyos, del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de SEISCIENTOS

TO CERO UNO (644.01) METROS CUADRADOS de terreno. Colinda por el Norte, con Gumersindo Serrano Molina; por el Este con carretera estatal número seiscientos treinta y nueve (639) y por el Oeste, con Clotilde Serrano Molina. Contiene una residencia de hormigón y bloques dedicada a vivienda. No inscrita. Libre de cargas. Catastro número: 054022-9 82-34-000. También, se le informa que el Tribunal acogió la solicitud y el caso será señalado oportunamente para vista en su fondo en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, a la cual usted puede comparecer personalmente o asistido por abogado a presentar cualquier oposición que tuviera a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren algar su derecho.

Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le notifica a usted que este Tribunal ha ordenado su citación, para que presente oposición a este expediente, si se viesen perjudicados con la inscripción que se solicita; advirtiéndole que de no hacerlo dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, la parte peticionaria podrá solicitar y obtener la aprobación de este expediente de dominio y la correspondiente inscripción a su nombre en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Arecibo, el dominio de la finca anteriormente descrita. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle, ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Petición, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico hoy 12 de abril de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. EIMMY FELCIANO TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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MILTON DAVID RODRIGUEZ ASENCIO; JOANN UMARY ACOBE SANTOS

Demandante Vs. JAMES T. BARNES OF PUERTO RICO, INC.

JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ; DEMANDADOS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: TB2023CV00100. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE HIPOTECA PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS U NIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JAMES T. BARNES OF PUERTO RICO, INC.; JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE DEMANDADOS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDOS.

Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se le ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal, una Solicitud de CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. Se emplaza y se le requiere para que notifique al: Lcdo.

lan A. Lebrón Ward, cuya oficina queda en el Condominio El Centro 1, Suite 249, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00918. Teléfono (787) 751-4391, abogado de la parte demandante, copia de la Contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la notificación de este Edicto. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer dentro de un término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la publicación del edicto, se concederá el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. DADA en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 10 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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marras. Ricardo Nogue Rivera fue emplazado mediante diligenciamiento personal. No habiendo comparecido en autos, se le anota la rebeldía. Surge de las alegaciones no controvertidas, y la prueba documental sometida que el demandado emitió un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank. Lime Homes LTD es la sucesora en derecho y/o tenedora por valor recibido y de buena fe del pagaré antes descrito. Para garantizar el pago de dicha obligación Nogue Rivera otorgó hipoteca mediante Escritura Número 795 de 30 de diciembre de 2005, ante el Notario Luis Fernando Castillo Cruz. La hipoteca fue posteriormente ampliada y modificada en cuanto a su vencimiento, según consta de la Escritura Número 747 otorgada el 26 de septiembre de 2012, ante la Notario Magda V. Alsina Figueroa. La hipoteca grava la siguiente propiedad inmueble:

el saldo total de la deuda, un balance diferido que no genera intereses en la cantidad de $18,657.20, cargos por mora equivalentes a 5% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo de la deuda, los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más $11,159.17 de costas y honorarios de abogado. Advenida final y firme esta sentencia, sin que haya sido satisfecha, se ordena la ejecución de la hipoteca y la venta en subasta pública del inmueble hipotecado antes relacionado, para con su importa pagar, hasta donde alcance las sumas previamente referidas. REGÍSTRESE Y NOTIFÍQUESE. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 11 de abril de 2023. JULIO A. DÍAZ VALDÉS, JUEZ SUPERIOR.

de abril de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 17 de abril de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. E. DIOMARYS ALCÁNTARA FÉLIX, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs. MANUEL

ANTOMATTEY BURGOS

LIME HOMES, LTD.

Parte Demandante Vs. RICARDO NOGUE RIVERA

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02022. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. SENTENCIA. La parte demandante presentó la acción de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca del caso de

URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 289 en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Borinquen Valley en el término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 344.74 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en 25.00 metros con el solar número 288; por el SUR, en 18.00 metros con la Calle Laja; por el ESTE, en 16.01 metros con la Calle Boulevard del Río y por el OESTE, en 16.00 metros con la Calle Yugo. En este solar está enclavada una residencia construida de hormigón armado, de una planta que consta de tres dormitorios, un baño, sala-comedor y cocina. Este solar está afectado por una servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company en toda su colindancia con las Calles Yugo, Laja y Boulevard del Río con un ancho de 1.52 metros.- Consta inscrita al folio 1688 del tomo 192 de Caguas, finca número 57421, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Caguas. Surge de la declaración jurada acreditativa de la deuda, que el demandado ha incumplido su obligación de pago, adeudando a la parte demandante $87,239.57 de principal, intereses al tipo pactado de 6.62500% anual desde el 1 de octubre 2018, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, un balance diferido que no genera intereses en la cantidad de $18,657.20, cargos por mora equivalentes a 5% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo de la deuda, los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más $11,159.17 de costas y honorarios de abogado. En consecuencia, se condena a Ricardo Nogue Rivera a pagar al demandante $87,239.57 de principal, intereses al tipo pactado de 6.62500% anual desde el 1 de octubre 2018, hasta

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By VICTOR MATHER

With 5 1/2 minutes left in the second quarter on Tuesday night, the Kevin Durant experiment looked to be in danger of becoming a bust.

The Phoenix Suns trailed the Los Angeles Clippers by 13 points at home and appeared set to go down two games to none in their opening round playoff series. Clippers star Kawhi Leonard was hitting shots from everywhere, and Russell Westbrook was bouncing back from a 3-for-19 shooting performance in Game 1.

But from then on, the new-look Suns looked the way they were supposed to look when Durant was acquired in a trade with the Brooklyn Nets in February. They tied the score by halftime. They went ahead by 10 four minutes into the third quarter. And they went on to even the series with a 123109 victory.

Devin Booker led Phoenix with 38

By SHAUNTEL LOWE

The NBA suspended Golden State’s Draymond Green for one game without pay earlier this week, one day after he stepped on the chest of a Sacramento Kings player who grabbed his leg while lying on the court during a game. The situation once again calls into question Green’s judgment and it further jeopardizes Golden State’s thinning chances of winning its first-

round playoff series against the Kings. The Warriors trail in the series, 2-0, and Green will miss Game 3 at Chase Center in San Francisco today. The NBA said Green’s suspension was “based in part on Green’s history of unsportsmanlike acts.” Less than 10% of teams that fall to 2-0 in a seven-game series go on to win, according to Land of Basketball.

The incident — which many people have characterized as a stomp — happened with

points, Durant had 25 and Chris Paul had 16.

A big difference in Game 2 was Phoenix’s shooting. The Suns shot 58.8% from the field and 41.7% on their 3-pointers, significant improvements from 47.6% and 31.6% in Game 1.

The Suns got particularly hot late when the Clippers threatened to creep back into the game. With 3 minutes left and the Clippers within 6, Paul took a guarded midrange fadeaway with plenty of time on the shot clock. It didn’t look like the kind of shot coach Monty Williams or the home fans might have chosen, but it was the kind of night where that shot went in.

The Suns are a team in particular need of a championship. The franchise joined the NBA in the 1968-69 season and has made it to the finals three times: in 1976 with Paul Westphal and Alvan Adams, in 1993 with Charles Barkley, and two seasons ago with Booker and Paul. But Phoenix lost all three

times it played for the title.

To take the next step, the team added Durant, and the move looked to be working as the Suns were 8-0 when he played in the regular season (he missed 18 other games, mostly because of an ankle injury). The Suns, though only a four seed, became a hot pick to win the title, and they remain the third favorite among most oddsmakers, behind only the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks of the East.

But after losing Game 1 against the Clippers at home, Game 2 effectively became a must win. Even now, the best-of-seven series is tied and heading to Los Angeles. Williams admitted that he remains wary, particularly of Leonard, who had 31 points in Game 2.

“Any time you can get the ball in your best player’s hands and space the floor well, it allows you to be more efficient,” he said. “That’s what they are doing with Kawhi.”

Kicking into gear, Suns even series with Clippers Draymond Green is suspended for Game 3 of series with Kings

just over seven minutes left in Monday’s Game 2 in Sacramento and Golden State down by four points. Kings center Domantas Sabonis had fallen to the ground against Green’s legs in the scramble for a rebound. Sabonis grabbed Green around the ankle, and Green stepped on his chest as he moved over and then past him to run up the court. Sabonis writhed on the court (but was able to finish the game), and Green was called for a flagrant-2 foul and ejected. Sabonis was called for a technical foul.

The Kings later said that Sabonis’ availability would be listed as questionable for Game 3 after X-rays showed that he had a sternum contusion.

With NBA Commissioner Adam Silver in the stands, Green egged on the jeering crowd by raising his arms, yelling at Kings fans who were heckling him, and cupping his hand to his ear. Golden State pulled to within one point after Green’s ejection but lost, 114-106. In a postgame news conference, Green said another player had also grabbed his leg during Game 1.

Game 3 is critical for Golden State, not just because it is behind in the series but because its home arena has provided its best setting for wins this season. The Warriors had a 33-8 record at home during the regu-

lar season, but won just 11 of their 41 road games. As the lower seed in this series, at No. 6, Golden State will have to win at least once in Sacramento to advance. Green is the team’s best defender, and his chemistry with guards Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson has fueled their four championships together.

But the intensity that makes Green a fearsome defender has also been channeled in ways that have hurt his team. Most notably, in the 2016 NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Green was automatically suspended for Game 5 after he accumulated too many flagrant points for technical and flagrant fouls. The game without Green, which Golden State lost, was widely seen as a turning point in the series, which Golden State lost after leading, 3-1.

The Warriors came into this season with hopes of defending their championship win against the Boston Celtics last June. But it has been a rocky year: Before the season started, Green punched a teammate, guard Jordan Poole, in the face during a private practice. Golden State decided not to suspend Green, but he spent some time away from the team and players have acknowledged that the incident affected them. Green apologized and said he was working on handling his emotions better.

Kevin Durant shot 10 for 19 from the field and scored 25 points in the Suns’ win over the Clippers on Tuesday.

A team so bad the fans will (briefly) come back

By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN

On opening day, the Athletics took on Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Angels and hung on to win, 2-1, in front of a crowd of 26,805 fans in Oakland, California.

After a horrendous 2022 season in which the A’s posted a 60-102 record and averaged less than 10,000 fans per home game, the win against the Angels was a rare bright spot. But with a gutted roster, a decrepit stadium and team ownership that has been flirting with leaving the city for years, there was seemingly no reason for the victory to generate any optimism.

Sure enough, the A’s had won only two of their next 17 games after Tuesday night’s 4-0 loss to the Chicago Cubs at Oakland Coliseum. For as historically good as the Tampa Bay Rays have been in their start to the Major League Baseball season, outscoring their opponents by 75 runs through Tuesday, the A’s have been bad in a worse way, being outscored by 76 runs. And even after a mild attendance spike while the New York Mets were in town over the weekend, the Coliseum has averaged only 9,799 fans a game since opening day.

The situation has been bad enough that Rooted in Oakland, a group of A’s fans dedicated to keeping the team in the city, is trying to arrange a reverse boycott later this season. They would pack the stadium at a game to prove that they are still there should the A’s ever decide to field a competitive team.

“We created this reverse boycott to put a halt to the narrative that the A’s must leave Oakland and move to Las Vegas because there are no fans left in Oakland,” the group said in a statement. “This is simply untrue, given the A’s have the lowest payroll in M.L.B., the organization raised ticket prices after a losing season, and the ownership group has abandoned the current fans while focusing all attention on Las Vegas.”

The statement pointed out that the A’s drew 54,000 fans to a playoff game in 2019 and said the current incarnation of the team, under the direction of owner John Fisher, has given fans no

reason to attend games. But while there has been coverage of the team’s attendance problems, the group believes not enough attention has been paid to why fans have stayed away.

“It occurred to me that staying away — due to the mismanagement and downright hostility toward the fans that has characterized the Fisher ownership — is not the answer,” said Stu Clary, a season ticket-holder who is one of the fans behind the reverse boycott. “Rather, it just drives the narrative that we don’t deserve a team.”

To emphasize their point, the fans picked a game on a Tuesday against Tampa Bay, rather than a weekend game against a team known for drawing big crowds on the road. Should Oakland even approach the stadium’s standard baseball capacity of around 45,000 fans that day, June 13, the result of such a protest would look fairly extreme compared with their typical games. The team has not publicly commented on the protest.

As Clary said, there are myriad rea-

sons for fans to be frustrated. A team that became famous for cutting costs while remaining competitive — largely thanks to “Moneyball,” the 2003 book and subsequent 2011 movie — Oakland made the playoffs 11 times in 21 seasons. But in recent years the A’s have systematically traded away all of their notable players without developing suitable replacements. And despite playing noncompetitive baseball in a poorly maintained stadium, the team has raised ticket prices.

The fans went into full revolt last season, with a handful of games dipping below 3,000 in announced attendance. The team’s response to a season in which it was embarrassed, on the field and in the stands, was to trade away catcher Sean Murphy, the last of the team’s once-promising core of young stars, sending him to the Atlanta Braves in a move, along with others, that helped reduce the team’s total payroll to an MLB-low $58.2 million, according to Spotrac.

Only 11 players on the team make

more than $1 million a season and only two players have contracts guaranteed through next year. Oakland’s 26-man active roster is being paid only $45.8 million, which is barely more than the $43.3 million that the Mets are paying starting pitchers Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander — each.

Oakland’s offense has shown occasional signs of life thanks to promising contributions from players like center fielder Esteury Ruiz, who came over in the Murphy trade, and designated hitter Brent Rooker, who was claimed off waivers from the Kansas City Royals. But that has not mattered because of how bad the team’s pitching has been.

Through Monday, the A’s team ERA was 7.74, the worst mark in the majors this season by nearly two full runs. If it remains that high for the whole season, it would be the worst mark in American or National League history, beating out the 1930 Philadelphia Phillies, who had a 6.71 ERA on the way to going 52-1022.

Even the notoriously inept 1899 Cleveland Spiders, who had their roster gutted by ownership before going 20134, pitched better than the A’s, with a 6.37 ERA. As a result of the Spiders’ roster decisions and poor play, the National League contracted the team before the 1900 season.

The A’s, who are worth an estimated $1.1 billion, according to Forbes, are more likely to be relocated — to a new stadium in Oakland or to one in Las Vegas — rather than contracted. But with almost no one under contract beyond this season, and the team’s young players struggling, it remains to be seen who would come along for such a move. If the fans organizing June’s reverse boycott are to be believed, they will still be around if the team finds a way to stay in Oakland.

“At this point, we are fighting for an owner that will field a competitive team, while also committing to keeping the A’s in Oakland,” Rooted in Oakland said in its statement. “We hope fans come out, have a good time, and voice their opinions regarding the ownership of the Oakland A’s.”

The Oakland Athletics had more than 11,000 fans attend each of their weekend home games against the Mets, but the cavernous stadium still felt mostly empty.

Chelsea exits Champions League, its next destination unknown

By RORY SMITH

Todd Boehly was supposed to be the smartest man in the room. That was the pitch, anyway, when he first descended on Chelsea, on the Premier League and on European soccer almost a year ago. He was the guy who spoke to a hushed audience at the Milken Institute Global Conference. He was onstage at the SALT forum. Other people described him as a “thought leader.” His ideas, he knew, might be received by traditionalists as a little provocative. He suggested a Premier League all-star game — and a relegation playoff. He told soccer it could learn something from American sports, a longstanding euphemism for finding new ways to extricate more cash from fans. He evangelized the idea of buying a whole network of teams. It was 2022, so at some point he talked — rather more than hindsight would suggest was wise — about NFTs, or nonfungible tokens.

Boehly did not seem to mind the criticism, the resistance. He was likely expecting it, the price to be paid for daring to disrupt an industry as fearful and staid and conservative as, um, English soccer. He had a “modern, data-driven approach.” He sought “structural advantages.” He had worked out that paying players for longer somehow made them cheaper. He was the cutting edge. And it would not be the cutting edge if it was comfortable.

A quick status update on where Chelsea stands now, a year into the ownership tenure of Boehly and his less visible colleagues: 11th in the Premier League, having won only two of its past 12 games; employing its third manager of the campaign, and simultaneously searching for his replacement; $600 million poorer after embarking on the largest single-season transfer spending spree in history; and, as of Tuesday night, out of the Champions League, its last, distant shot at glory gone.

There was no particular shame in that. In the end, this was as straightforward a quarterfinal as Real Madrid could have hoped for: a 2-0 win at home last week, and another 2-0 victory Tuesday in London, a low bar confidently cleared. But Frank Lampard, Chelsea’s interim manager, was not clutching at straws when he suggested his team had “caused Real a lot of problems” for the first hour or so at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday.

Chelsea had chivied and harried and unnerved Real Madrid, the reigning European champion. In patches, anyway. With better finishing, as Lampard observed, things might have been different. A portion of the credit for that should go to him: It was his deployment of N’Golo Kanté in a more advanced role that caused Real Madrid to “suffer” so much, as Carlo Ancelotti, Real’s coach, admitted. Chelsea went down, as it was always going to, but it did so with pride intact.

That has not always been the case in the first year of what is probably best described as the Boehly experience. Chelsea has long nursed something of a soap opera streak, one that has provided a curiously accurate reflection of the shifting nature of the part of London it calls home.

In the 1960s, the club was home to the Kings of the

King’s Road — chic, hip and cool. In the 1970s, the freewheeling mavericks arrived, the club nursing a sort of alternative, pre-punk energy. By the 1990s, it was home to a set of impossibly stylish European imports. And then, from 2003 onward, Roman Abramovich turned it into a sort of gaudy monument to the power of the vast wells of new money pouring into the capital from across the globe, Russia in particular.

There have been various points in all of those incarnations when Chelsea has veered perilously close to lapsing into self-parody. Abramovich, in particular, appeared to have absolutely no interest in running a sensible, steady sort of a soccer team. He may or may not have been a Kremlin apparatchik, but he was most certainly thirsty for drama.

He fired coaches for not winning titles. He fired coaches for not winning the right titles. He fired coaches when they had won titles. He appointed at least one manager whom the fans hated. He appointed another because he was his friend. There was one season when the players effectively ran the show. There was infighting and politicking and dark talk of plots, and all of that was just a quiet Tuesday for José Mourinho.

Chelsea, in other words, has a relatively high tolerance for the unusual and even, at times, the absurd. But even by those standards, Boehly and his consortium have pushed it to the limit.

Signing so many players that the locker room at the club’s training facility is not quite big enough to accommodate them all is not indicative of judicious planning. Likewise spending so much money that the club, in the absence of Champions League soccer and the income it brings, will not only have to indulge in a fire sale of players this summer but quite possibly breach the Premier

League’s financial rules next season.

Abramovich was not averse to dropping in on the players — sometimes literally: His helicopter regularly used to land at the Cobham training ground if the fancy took him — in order to inspire or encourage or perhaps just glare menacingly at them. But there are no known instances of him, as Boehly reportedly did, telling one of his expensively acquired stars that his performances had been “embarrassing.”

There is a chance of course that all of these are just teething problems, a form of culture shock, the inevitable growing pains that come with some very rich, very clever — though it is worth noting that those two things are not as synonymous as is often assumed — people dipping their toes into an industry to which they are not native.

It may well be, as Lampard loyally and hopefully suggested, that Chelsea is “back” sooner rather than later: guided by one of the half-dozen managerial candidates being considered by the four sporting directors or equivalent it employs, boasting a trimmed-down squad full of bright young things, the fat excised to make way for the lean.

As Boehly himself said last year, the Premier League is designed in such a way as to give the “big brands” — oh, Todd — a number of his beloved structural advantages. One of those is the privilege of having money to solve problems. Another is a limit to how much it is possible to fail.

From this vantage point, however, the ultimate vindication of Boehly and his group seems almost impossibly distant. Chelsea is out of the Champions League. It will not be back next season. Still, there is hope. It is up to Boehly to plot its way back — and he is, by all accounts, the smartest man in the room.

Chelsea’s Champions League campaign ended with a second straight 2-0 defeat against Real Madrid.

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

The Moon’s merger with Jupiter puts a spring in your step and a smile on your face. Whatever else is happening in your world, you’ll be ready to take a risk and push the boundaries one way or another. You may already be preparing for some key decisions, but for now, focus on the little things and make the most of any lucky breaks and fun encounters that brighten your mood.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

A dream could conjure such a great feeling within you, that you’ll take it into your day and feel like you’re on cloud nine. An upbeat lunar tie can boost your intuitive powers as well, so if you feel like going somewhere or have an urge to call someone, it may be an idea to go ahead. Mercury is slowing in your sign prior to turning retro, so expect the unexpected, Taurus.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

If you’re invited to an event, then consider going Gemini, as it could lead to an opportunity that has you intrigued. With Venus in your sign, you can be very persuasive and appealing, and your ability to sell yourself is at a peak. Whether you want more business, a romantic relationship or a novel experience, putting this to good use may bring you everything you want, and perhaps more.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

You may be giving more attention to your goals, job or career than usual, and this is because you sense a shift in the air. Even so, today’s buoyant Moon/Jupiter tie encourages you to think big, as you’ll spot possibilities you never noticed before. Getting excited about something? You might be ready to jettison the old and embrace new options. It could be a wild, but interesting ride.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Mercury is poised to turn retrograde in a couple of days, and has slowed down as it gets ready to reverse. As it’s also within swatting distance of restless Uranus, be prepared for unusual activity that could cause some disruption. You may think you’re getting something, only to find out you’re not. You may be disappointed at first, but you’ll soon realize you’re better off without it.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

You may have a burning desire to try out an idea, but you might also have some doubts. Something is pushing you to make a move which could prove controversial, and with no assurance it will succeed. And yet the Sun and buoyant Jupiter in Aries, are giving you the courage to see if it works. If you overthink it, you’ll stay stuck. Try, and see how it goes, Virgo.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

You can be in two minds about whether to take a small risk if it involves money. With Mercury about to turn retro, you might end up disappointed, but you could also discover something else to your advantage. A small investment may not bring you what you want, but it could uncover another option that has potential. You’ll need to be very patient Libra, but it will be rewarded.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

You’ll make light work of your tasks today, as a positive lunar tie can find you zipping through your chores and ready to enjoy some pampering or a spa session or two. With Jupiter on the playing field, it’s a day to take a few liberties and put yourself first. If you’ve been plodding on with your job and haven’t enjoyed a treat in a while, then do something nice for yourself.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

You may sense that big adventures are on the horizon Archer, and judging by your solar chart, they are. Today, aim for smaller but equally enjoyable experiences, such as a jog or bike ride in uplifting surroundings, a meal with a good friend or a social event that you’ll relish. If you sense the potential for change is in the air, you’re right. One big idea could soon become a key focus.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

As prudent Saturn, your ruler, continues its journey through your sector of talk and thought, its presence can help you to translate some of your more imaginative ideas into practical action. This may be necessary over coming days, when a powerful Solar Eclipse could bring fresh ideas and options to mind. Break your best ideas into baby steps, and it will be easier to get started.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Today’s Moon/Jupiter connection could bring a brighter note into your affairs, especially if you’re busy with something that’s fairly intense. You’ll enjoy indulging your curiosity, and this might lead you to some interesting discoveries. The more you opt for activities that feed your mind and engage your love of the new, the more you’ll uncover that’s of real use to you.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Keen to give your place a new look? Lovely Venus in Gemini, is great for gathering ideas. Whatever lengths you’re prepared to go to, this is a good time to go online or look through magazines and save anything that inspires you. Your creative energies are geared towards domestic matters, so if you’re keen to try a new recipe or decorate a cake, give it a whirl.

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