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By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) has extended to May 31 the termination date for nine of 23 renewable energy and battery storage contracts that were going to expire today unless they achieve closing.
Achieving closing has been difficult because the service providers are seeking to amend agreements to accommodate inflation and new prices.
The decision comes as the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) informed the PREB that four of the proponents have opted not to close any power and purchase operating agreements (PPOAs), the PREB announced earlier this week. The identity of the service providers that left the tender was not provided. The initial contracts are with Clean Flexible Energy LLC, CS-UR Juncos PY LLC, Convergent Coamo Energy Storage 1 LLC, Esmeralda Solar Farm LLC, Diversys Solar LLC, Go Green Usa America Corp., Pattern Barceloneta Solar LLC, Guayama Solar Energy LLC, Solaner Puerto Rico One LLC, Solarblue Bemoga LLC, YFN Yabucoa Solar LLC, Tetris Power LLC, Enerxia Solar LLC, Pattern Vega Baja Solar LLC, and Ciro Two Salinas LLC. Except for AES, the rest did not respond to requests for comment.
PREPA has been working against the clock to close the renewable energy agreements, especially the nine expiring today. The rest expire in June. The Tranche 1 bid consisting of the procurement of 1,000 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy capacity and 500 MW of battery storage was tendered in 2021.
On April 4, the PREB ordered PREPA to close all of the energy PPOAs and five battery storage contracts within a 60-day extension period the regulator had previously granted.
After PREPA insisted it was going to be difficult to close the contracts, the PREB on April 17 ordered PREPA to file the best offer received from each project so that it may consider a potential extension of the deadline. The regulator had initially said it would not grant extensions.
On April 20, PREPA’s governing board approved changes to the “levelized cost of energy, which varies in each contract, to provide the flexibility needed to close the negotiations.”
The levelized cost of energy (LCOE) is a number used in calculating the present value of the total cost of building and operating a power plant over an assumed lifetime.
In its Monday, April 24 order granting an extension, the PREB ordered PREPA to provide, no later than this Friday, supporting information on the LCOE and LCOS (levelized cost of storage) values for the projects. The PREB also ordered PREPA to resubmit any amended PPOAs for the regulator’s approval at least 15 days before the expiration of the applicable termination dates.
With the news of the most recent death of a cyclist on island roads, at-large Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera asked the Senate to approve a package of measures of her authorship that seeks to implement new initiatives to make the roads safer for bike riders.
“In October 2022, we filed a package of measures to make our streets safer for the enjoyment of cycling enthusiasts in Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, the measures have not been addressed,” the New Progressive Party senator said. “Today, sadly, we woke up to the news of the death of another cyclist in Puerto Rico. I call on the parliamentary majority to begin the evaluation of this package of legislation with the urgency merited by the problems we face.”
On Tuesday morning, the Police Bureau reported that a man died when he was hit by a truck on highway PR-6 in the jurisdiction of Bayamón. The victim was
the fifth cyclist to die this year in roadway accidents in Puerto Rico.
“These measures are important; the safety of cyclists is at stake,” Riquelme said. “We have not
addressed them for months. I hope that they will be evaluated in the full Senate before the end of this session in June.”
Senate Bill 1059, filed on Oct. 20, directs the Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP by its Spanish acronym), as well as the Highways and Transportation Authority to integrate the development of new bike lanes and the expansion of existing ones, all within its “Strategic Road Safety Plan” for the next fiscal year 2023-2024, which begins on July 1.
Senate Resolution 346, meanwhile, orders the DTOP to submit a detailed report on the current condition of bike lanes, including the current plans to address repairs that are being worked on at the moment and those scheduled in a recurring maintenance program, which must include correcting deficiencies in lighting and signage, among other actions.
Both measures are under evaluation by the Senate Committee on Innovation, Telecommunications, Urban Planning and Infrastructure.
Citizen Victory Movement Rep. Mariana Nogales Molinelli on Tuesday described as a “farce” the alleged filing of criminal charges against her by the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel (PFEI by its Spanish initials) for omission of information in her financial statements.
“Sometimes it is necessary for an unfair process to occur to unmask the institutions that no longer serve us,” Nogales Molinelli said at a press conference. “The Office of the Special Independent Prosecutor [Panel] is preparing to perpetrate a farce. A hoax it made almost a year ago, a
hoax requested by Thomas Rivera Schatz, Gregorio Matías and [the] Government Ethics [Office]. I am quite sure that it is a hoax. Many want my head and also feel frightened by the strength of our movement and intimidated by its integrity.”
“When I filed my self-referral, they couldn’t believe it. There was not even a procedure,” she added. “But I needed to correct an error in my report and unlike 38 other legislators who were able to amend it, I was not allowed to.”
PFEI President Nydia Cotto Vives confirmed to the press that Nogales Molinelli will face criminal charges for allegedly omitting information in a financial report she filed
with the Government Ethics Office about her positions in several corporations.
Prosecutor Ramón Mendoza Rosario will lead the filing of charges on May 3, she said.
Although the specific charges the lawmaker would face were not specified, perjury and other infractions have been alleged.
The investigation against Nogales Molinelli began as a result of three complaints received by the Justice Department from the aforementioned senators and the director of the Office of Management and Budget related to the entity Ocean Front Villas Corp. and the legislator’s role in it.
The Puerto Rico Planning Board projects growth in Puerto Rico’s economy of 0.3% and 0.8% for fiscal years 2023 and 2024, respectively, revealed the board’s chairman, Julio Lassús Ruiz, noting that “the projections are based, among other variables, on the slowdown in inflation.”
Lassús Ruiz stressed that “these projections are part of the Chapter of the Economy of Puerto Rico for the Budget Process 2023-2024 and although they are preliminary, the agency is working on the final stage of balancing the social accounts for fiscal year 2022, and these estimates will be subject to an eventual revision for fiscal years 2023 and 2024.”
The projections were made based on a valuation exercise using the econometric relationship of real gross product based on the Economic Activity Index as detailed in the aforemen-
tioned document, Lassús Ruiz added.
Among the main variables of the projections considered were fiscal plans where federal funds from hurricanes, earthquakes and the COVID-19 pandemic have positively impacted the performance of the economy. Fiscal year 2023 was projected to slow down from fiscal year 2022, due to the effect of rising inflation and the possibility of a global recession. The estimated inflation for fiscal year 2023 is 3.3%, according to the Financial Oversight and Management Board. According to the island Department of Labor and Human Resources, inflation as of February 2023 was estimated at 6.3%. In the case of fiscal year 2024, the Planning Board projects growth of 0.8%, also due to an estimated slowdown in inflation. According to the oversight board’s estimated data for fiscal year 2024, inflation will be 2%.
“We have always stated in our economic projections
publications that these projections are subject to revision,” Lassús Ruiz said. “Our commitment to transparency and access to them is part of our mission to provide reliable data to the government, the private sector and citizens so that the best decisions can be made for the future.”
Alocal architect says the Integrated Transport Authority’s (ATI) plans to extend the Urban Train (Tren Urbano) to the T-Mobile District in Santurce is not such a good idea. The ATI said this week that it may extend the train or establish a system of rapid buses to the T-Mobile District.
However, Pedro Cardona Roig, an architect, emphasized the need for such transport in other areas of Santurce, as well as Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport and Caguas.
“You have to extend the train, you have to take it to Santurce, and then you have to take it to the airport [Luis Muñoz Marín] and you have to take it to Caguas […]. And then you have to take it to Toa Baja,” the architect said in a radio interview. “There is an availability of funds. And even if it was fully federally funded, you don’t make an investment like this down a route where no one lives.”
Cardona Roig was critical of the first expansion of the train system being to the Convention Center/T-Mobile District, arguing that the move is aimed at pleasing the district’s investors. He said the government is using the same optics it used when it built the Urban Train in the 1990s, which has resulted in a money-losing venture.
“What has been talked about, and it is a bit strange, is that this train is being contemplated with the same optics as the first
phase, which is to take it to a destination. In this case, to favor the investors of the T-Mobile District and the Convention Center area, and that is not a good line of thought,” Cardona Roig said. “The population of Puerto Rico has aged, has less income,” the urban architect pointed out. “Investing in public transportation is what must be done also to address climate
change, and what is projected in terms of pollution […], and also to give more comfort and happiness to the citizens. I believe that making the city accessible so that people can get to work without taking their car out is essential.”
The Puerto Rico Integrated Transportation Authority (PRITA/ATI) is conducting the Tren Urbano Extension Alternatives Analysis to assess the feasibility of an approximate two-mile extension of the Urban Train in San Juan from the Sagrado Corazon station (the current north end of the line) to the Convention Center District and its alternative routings.
“We will work to engage the broader San Juan community in this effort, which will culminate with the identification of an alternative that best supports local mobility needs and other goals,” ATI said on its web page.
“The desired outcome from this effort will assess different transit alignments, identify one locally preferred alternative, and will generate the supporting documentation that would be appropriate for federal funding program(s) submission,” the agency said.
The public, in social media networks, is already calling for extensions to Carolina, Caguas and even the construction of a station at Plaza las Américas in Hato Rey. “What about the east?” a Twitter user identified as Pedro Juan asked, noting that transportation is needed to Humacao, Fajardo and other eastern towns.
and styles that abound on the island.
The program allows artists to dedicate themselves fulltime with a salary and benefits that correspond to their effort and production.
It also provides a budget of $20,000 for projects and the contracting will be extended for a period of three years to achieve financial stability and continuity in the projects.
In addition, Maneuver will support two important entities in Puerto Rico: Fundación Culebra and the Rafael Cepeda Atiles Bomba School in San Juan, which will allow the hiring of young people who will be the next generation of musicians and cultural managers in their communities.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Center for Creative Economy (CEC) announced a $4 million investment for its cultural employment program called “Maneuver,” thanks to a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
CEC founder Javier Hernández Acosta said in a written communication that “Maneuver is a bet to invest in our best creative talent through the minimum employment conditions that our artists should have.”
The CEC is a nonprofit organization that provides support
to the cultural and creative sector through training, management services and direct support to artistic management in Puerto Rico.
The project will impact 18 artists in the music sector in Puerto Rico, joining 40 other artists in the visual and performing arts throughout the island. The program provides stable employment opportunities for artists, including salaries, fringe benefits, a medical plan, a budget allocated to invest in their projects, and technical advice. In addition, the selection process identified artists and projects with a broad trajectory of cultural management and that will represent the diversity of practices
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Tuesday voiced his support for the initiative of former governor Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, who this week called for another “action in Congress.”
Through a message in social media, the former governor urged Puerto Ricans to go to the federal capital for the “third action to take Congress” from June 5 to June 7.
The request from Rosselló Nevares comes after legislation was filed in the U.S. House of Representatives that calls for a status vote in Puerto Rico.
“I think the initiative is very successful,” Pierluisi said. “The former governor had done this type of initiative in the past. They are always productive because what they do is basically organize a significant group of citizens to get appointments with members of Congress.”
The former resident commissioner also said he will check his calendar to see if it
is possible for him to be in Washington to support Rosselló Nevares’ initiative.
“I see it very favorably …” Pierluisi said in an aside with the press. “I have not checked my calendar but if I don’t have a major conflict, I would be willing to be there in Washington on those days to complement what this group of citizens are doing with meetings on my part, either with federal senators or representatives.”
Asked if Rosselló Nevares’ initiatives imply that he would seek to return to his political career on the island, possibly making a run for resident commissioner, the governor said. “I have no information about that.”
“That would be a very personal decision by the former governor,” Pierluisi said while steering clear of any comment on whether a Rosselló Nevares candidacy would receive his endorsement. “I do not anticipate it. My impression is that he is focused on his professional career at this given moment, as well as on promoting statehood as a delegate.”
By THE STAR STAFF
Among the most critical impacts of Hurricane Maria was damage related to water resources, along with landslides that caused or aggravated some of that damage, something that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will address during its first Water Symposium scheduled for Thursday.
The main topic of the event, entitled “Recovery Strategies for Community Access to Drinking Water and Landslide Mitigation Strategies after Hurricane Maria,” will focus on the sedimentation caused by landslides and the risk it poses to thousands of communities. The first virtual session will be from 1-3:30 p.m. and is open to the general public through the following link: https://bit.ly/3MTf959.
The symposium is divided into two sessions: problem description and existing and proposed remediation solutions. The order of the topics is designed to provide participants with a resilient approach to water issues according to the watershed cycle; that is, from the top of the mountain to the ocean or from the downspout to the source.
“For FEMA, it is a priority to incorporate strategies that consider equity and climate change impacts throughout the recovery process. As an island, our communities are increasingly threatened by the effects of global warming, with rising sea levels, increased flooding, droughts and more intense weather events,” Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator José G. Baquero said. “The agency already has recovery projects and strategies that incorporate climate adaptation with a community-wide focus. Our goal is to share information on how these strategies will strengthen long-term resilience.”
During the conference, FEMA will present recovery projects that promote water access for communities and how they incorporate nature-based solutions to reduce landslides and long-term maintenance costs. One of the examples the agency will showcase is the community aqueduct in San Lorenzo’s Los Díaz Sector in San Lorenzo. The focus will be on how the aqueduct was rebuilt with community participation and bioengineering techniques to ensure access to the main water source. Today, the aqueduct provides this essential resource to more than 80 families.
In addition to FEMA’s participation, one of the speakers
at the session will be University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus Geology Professor Stephen Hughes. The professor -- and director of the SLIDES-PR project -- will present the landslide problems that worsened after Hurricane Maria and how SLIDES-PR has collaborated with the U.S. Geological Survey to develop an islandwide landslide monitoring network. Hughes will also present strategies for addressing the challenges in communities to reduce the amount of sediment that reaches reservoirs and shorelines.
The SLIDES-PR project, which involves about 15 undergraduate and graduate students, created a digital catalog of over 70,000 landslides that occurred after Hurricane Maria. With the information gathered, they developed a modern, high-resolution map to illustrate the susceptibility to future landslides due to heavy rains throughout the island.
Part of the project’s mission is to share those results to help determine the short- and long-term effects of sedimentation from landslides. The project team also seeks to help understand and forecast how future extreme events could impact the environment and society.
The symposium comprises a series of virtual and in-person events to promote a community discussion on resilient recovery in the face of climate change. The next two virtual sessions will take place on June 30 and Aug. 21. Pending topics include sedimentation and flooding; and flooding, water quality, and loss of natural coastal barriers.
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President Joe Biden formally announced on Tuesday that he would seek a second term, arguing that American democracy still faces a profound threat from former President Donald Trump as he set up the possibility of a climactic rematch between the two next year.
In a video flashing images of a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the president said that the “fight for our democracy” has “been the work of my first term” but is incomplete while his predecessor mounts a comeback campaign for his old office that Biden suggested would endanger fundamental rights.
“Around the country, MAGA extremists are lining up to take on those bedrock freedoms away,” Biden said, using Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan to describe the former president’s allies. “Cutting Social Security that you’ve paid for your entire life while cutting taxes for the very wealthy. Dictating what health care decisions women can make, banning books and telling people who they can love. All while making it more difficult for you to be able to vote.
“When I ran for president four years ago,” he added, “I said we were in a battle for the soul of America. And we still are.”
The official declaration finally ended any lingering suspense over Biden’s intentions and effectively cleared the way to another nomination for the president, barring unforeseen developments. While he had repeatedly and consistently said he intended to run, Biden stoked renewed speculation by delaying his kickoff for months. Now his team can assemble the formal structure of a campaign organization and raise money to finance it.
Biden tapped Julie Chavez Rodriguez, a senior White House adviser and granddaughter of the iconic labor leader Cesar Chavez, as his campaign manager. Quentin Fulks, a Democratic operative who most recently ran Sen. Raphael Warnock’s 2022 reelection campaign in Georgia, will serve as her principal deputy. But the operation is expected to be overseen from the White House by top presidential aides.
Although he described himself as “a bridge” to the next generation during his 2020 campaign, a comment that some interpreted as a hint that he would serve only one term, Biden concluded that he was not in fact ready to hand over the torch yet. His decision was fueled in part, aides said, by his antipathy for Trump and his belief that he is the Democrat best positioned to keep the criminally indicted and twice-impeached former president from recapturing the White House.
In offering himself as a candidate again, Biden is asking Americans to trust him with the powers of the commander in chief well into his ninth decade. At age 80, Biden is already the oldest president in American history, and, if he were to win, he would be 86 at the end of a second term, nearly nine years older than Ronald Reagan was when he left the White House in 1989. Trump, no youngster at 76, would himself outlast every president by age other than Biden if he were
restored to the Oval Office and finished his new term at 82. While Biden presides over a more unified party than his potential challenger does, many Democrats privately worry that the president may not be up to another campaign. His overall approval rating remains mired at just over 42% , according to an aggregation of polls by the political website FiveThirtyEight, lower than 10 of the last 13 presidents at this point in their terms.
While polls show that most Democrats have favorable opinions about Biden, a majority of them would still rather he not run again. In a survey by NBC News released this week, 70% of Americans, including 51% of Democrats, said he should not seek a second term. Seven out of 10 of those who did not want him to serve four more years cited his age as a factor.
Biden and Trump face a strikingly competitive race, with recent polls by Yahoo News, The Wall Street Journal and Morning Consult showing the president slightly ahead while surveys by The Economist and the Harvard University Center for American Political Studies find him trailing by several points. Biden faces similarly mixed results against Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, the strongest challenger to Trump for the Republican nomination.
Biden’s announcement represented the latest improbable chapter in a long life in public office, the fourth time he has thrown his hat in the presidential ring and presumably the last campaign of a half-century-plus career that began with his election to the New Castle County Council in 1970.
Over the course of 36 years in the Senate, eight years as vice president and campaigns for the White House in 1988, 2008 and 2020, Biden has become one of the most familiar faces in American life, known for his resilience in adversity as well as his habitual gaffes. And yet the avuncular, backslapping, work-across-the-aisle deal maker has struggled to translate decades of goodwill into the unifying presidency
he promised.
Working with the narrowest of partisan margins in Congress, Biden in his first two years scored some of the most ambitious legislative victories of any modern president, including a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package; a $1 trillion program to rebuild the nation’s roads, highways, airports and other infrastructure; and major investments to combat climate change, lower prescription drug costs for seniors, treat veterans exposed to toxic burn pits and build up the nation’s semiconductor industry. Some of those bills passed with Republican votes.
Along the way, he has revitalized international alliances that had frayed under Trump, rallying NATO and other partners around the world to stand against Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. With bipartisan support, he has committed more than $100 billion to arm Ukraine’s military and help its government and people survive the Russian onslaught.
Yet his decision to withdraw forces from Afghanistan after 20 years in keeping with an agreement with the Taliban struck by Trump led to a debacle in 2021 in which the radical militants took over the country, fleeing Afghans swarmed U.S. airplanes taking off from Kabul and a suicide bomber killed 13 American troops and 170 Afghans during the withdrawal.
Biden has also struggled to secure the southwestern U.S. border, where illegal migration has soared, and he has had mixed success in stabilizing the post-pandemic economy, which saw inflation rise to its highest level in four decades and gas prices shoot up to record levels. While both have begun to come back down and unemployment is near historic lows, many Americans remain unsettled by economic anxiety.
Perhaps most frustrating to Biden, his hopes to heal the rifts that widened under Trump have so far been dashed, with American society still deeply polarized and his predecessor still a potent force in stirring the forces of division and emboldening white supremacists and antisemites.
The president’s critics say that Biden is the one who is divisive because of his attacks on Trump’s “ultra-MAGA Republicans,” and they portray him as a socialist bent on destroying the country. Regardless of whom they nominate, Republicans expect to challenge Biden next year by linking him to the nation’s economic troubles and depicting him as a feckless leader held captive by his party’s activist left.
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Para conocimiento del público en general y de conformidad con las disposiciones del Artículo 8.6 de la Ley 161-2009, según enmendada, conocida como “Ley para la Reforma del Proceso de Permisos de Puerto Rico”, la Ley Núm. 38 -2017, según enmendada, conocida como “Ley de Procedimiento Administrativo Uniforme del Gobierno de Puerto Rico”, el Reglamento Conjunto para la Evaluación y Expedición de Permisos relacionados al Desarrollo, Uso de Terrenos y Operación de Negocios, en adelante Reglamento Conjunto y cualquier otra disposición de ley aplicable, se informa que la Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos (“OGPe”) celebrará vista pública para el caso que se describe a continuación:
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Taller Mecánica Liviana/
Ing. Henry Contreras Silverio
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2022-420306-CUB-005004
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Sr. Marcos A. Quezada Rivera
Sra. Amilka Batallo
Calificación: Área Desarrollada (AD)
ahora Área Rural Desarrollada (ARD)
By DANA GOLDSTEIN and STEPHANIE SAULThe College Board said earlier this week that it would revise its Advanced Placement African American studies course, less than three months after releasing it to a barrage of criticism from scholars, who accused the board of omitting key concepts and bending to political pressure from Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had said he would not approve the curriculum for use in Florida.
While written in couched terms, the College Board’s statement appeared to acknowledge that in its quest to offer the course to as many students as possible — including those in conservative states — it watered down key concepts.
Cualquier interesado en acceder y participar en la Vista Pública Virtual puede a través de: www.ddec.pr.gov/vistaspublicas
Fecha: 15 de mayo de 2023
Hora: 9:30 a.m.
Dirección de la acción propuesta: Carretera PR-777, Km. 2.2, Sector Caguitas Barrio Sumidero Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico
En la vista del caso de referencia se interesa discutir, pero sin limitarse a: solicitud de consulta de ubicación vía variación en uso consistente en la legalización de un taller de mecánica liviana. La solicitud se evaluará a tenor, pero sin limitarse, a lo establecido en las Reglas 2.2.2, 2.2.3 y 6.1.16 del Reglamento Conjunto y sus disposiciones sobre variaciones en uso. La parte proponente tendrá que justificar su solicitud para la concesión de la variación.
Se convoca e invita al público en general a comparecer y participar a la vista pública a celebrarse mediante el método alterno (“virtual”), con acceso al público general, además de las partes reconocidas. Los procedimientos para la celebración de la vista serán los establecidos en las secciones 2.1.10.7 a 2.1.10.15 del Reglamento Conjunto. Si una parte debidamente citada no participa o comparece a la conferencia con antelación a la vista, a la vista pública o a cualquier otra etapa durante el procedimiento adjudicativo, el funcionario que presida la misma podrá declararla en rebeldía, multarla y continuar el procedimiento sin su participación, pero notificará por escrito a dicha parte su determinación según la Regla 2.1.7 (Notificaciones), los fundamentos para la misma, el recurso de revisión disponible y el plazo para ejercerlo
Se advierte que las partes, incluyendo corporaciones y sociedades, podrán, pero no están obligadas a, comparecer asistidas por abogado. Salvo justa causa, la vista no podrá ser transferida. Cualquier solicitud de transferencia de vista tendrá un cargo de $100.00, y deberá ser presentada con no menos de cinco (5) días de antelación a la fecha de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Información (“Single Business Portal”) de la OGPe, expresando las razones que justifican la solicitud. Deberá, además, cubrir los costos que conlleve la notificación de la transferencia y anunciar el nuevo señalamiento mediante la publicación de un nuevo aviso de prensa. El peticionario de la transferencia de la vista notificará y enviará copia de la solicitud simultáneamente a las otras partes ya reconocidas en el proceso y certificará el cumplimiento con lo aquí expuesto en la propia solicitud de trasferencia. El Reglamento Conjunto faculta al Oficial Examinador a imponer una multa de $500.00 a toda persona que observe una conducta irrespetuosa durante la vista, o que intencionalmente interrumpa o dilate los procedimientos sin causa justificada.
Cualquier persona podrá requerir examinar el expediente o solicitar copia de éste mediante solicitud (SCE) a través del Single Business Portal en la página https://sbp.ogpe.pr.gov/ o en cualquier oficina de la OGPe. Podrá, además, haciendo referencia al número de solicitud, presentar por escrito sus comentarios a través de notificaciones_ogpe@ddec.pr.gov o a PO Box 41179, San Juan, PR 00940-1179 en cualquier momento previo a la fecha de la vista. El Oficial Examinador, motu proprio o a solicitud de parte, podrá conceder un término adicional para someter comentarios, que en ningún caso excederá de diez (10) días desde que concluya la vista. Debido a la emergencia causada por la pandemia del Covid-19 el Servicio al Cliente de la OGPe tanto en su Oficina Central en San Juan como en las Oficinas Regionales, será limitado y mediante coordinación previa al respecto.
“In embarking on this effort, access was our driving principle — both access to a discipline that has not been widely available to high school students, and access for as many of those students as possible,” the College Board wrote on its website. “Regrettably, along the way those dual access goals have come into conflict.”
The board, which did not respond immediately to an interview request, said on its website that a course development committee and experts within the Advanced Placement staff would determine the changes “over the next few months.”
The College Board, a billion-dollar nonprofit that administers the SAT and AP courses, ran headlong into a conflict between two sides unlikely to find any room for compromise. Black studies scholars believe that concepts the board deemphasized — such as reparations, Black Lives Matter and intersectionality — are foundational to the college-level discipline of African American studies. Conservatives — politicians, activists and some parents — believe the field is an example of liberal orthodoxy, and they are concerned that schools have focused too much on issues such as racism and systemic oppression.
Some leading scholars in Black studies have signed petitions calling on the College Board to revise the course, and they are planning a nationwide day of protest on May 3 around “freedom to teach and to learn.” Civil rights groups and teachers union leaders are also set to participate.
The College Board, which relies on state participation to administer its courses and tests, had denied that politics had anything to do with its changes to the curriculum. But over the course of last year, the board repeatedly discussed content of the class with Florida officials, who objected to specific ideas that were later removed or deemphasized.
In January, DeSantis announced that Florida would not allow the course to be offered in its high schools, saying that it was not “historically accurate” and violated state law.
In its written statement, the College Board said an updated course, “shaped by the development committee and subject matter experts from AP, will ensure that those students who do take this course will get the most holistic possible introduction to African American studies.”
Some experts are wary. Cheryl Harris, a legal scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a leading thinker in the field of critical race theory, has helped organize the May 3 protest. In an interview Monday, she said she hoped the College Board had learned that it could not appease a political movement that, in her words, was seeking to “censor and suppress” ideas.
An analysis last year by the education publication Chalkbeat found that 36 states had moved toward restricting education on race.
Harris argued that scholars whose ideas had been removed from the Advanced Placement course should be included in the process to revise the curriculum, to reestablish trust within the discipline and “bring some degree of transparency” to the development process.
She named, among others, Kimberlé Crenshaw, originator of the concept of intersectionality, which refers to the complex ways that overlapping facets of identity, such as race, class, sex and gender, shape individual experiences of the world.
The College Board has had high hopes for the course, introducing it at a glittery reception in February at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, part of the Smithsonian. In its recent statement, the board said interest in the African American studies class was widespread across the country, with 800 schools and 16,000 students expected to take the pilot course during the next school year, up from 60 schools this year.
Matthew Guterl, a professor of Africana and American studies at Brown University, had criticized the curriculum as “lacking the intellectual heft and moral urgency” that students needed. Reacting to the news that the College Board planned to revise the curriculum once again, he said, “They may now realize that they can’t be supplicants to Ron DeSantis any longer.”
In the past three weeks, President Joe Biden’s administration has proposed regulations to speed the transition to electric vehicles, committed $1 billion to help poor countries fight climate change and prepared what could be the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
And yet, many young voters alarmed by climate change remain angry with Biden’s decision last month to approve Willow, an $8 billion oil drilling project on pristine federal land in Alaska. As the president announced his bid for reelection on Tuesday, it was not at all clear that those voters who helped him win in 2020 because of his commitment to climate action will turn out again.
Alex Haraus, 25, said he and other young people felt betrayed by the Willow decision, after Biden had pledged as a candidate that he would end new oil drilling on public lands “period, period, period.”
Haraus, whose videos on TikTok opposing the Willow project amassed hundreds of thousands of views, described his reaction as “mad and frustrated and disappointed.”
About a dozen young climate activists interviewed said they were not assuaged by the other actions by the Biden administration, even if they significantly draw down greenhouse gas emissions that are dangerously heating the planet, Haraus said. What they want, he said, is for the president to rein in oil and gas companies, which enjoyed record profits last year.
“I don’t think any of those things encourage people to forgive the Biden administration for projects like Willow,” said Haraus, who lives outside Chicago. “Young voters see our future getting thrown out the window. We need Biden
to take on the industry, otherwise there’s not much for us to hope for.”
Young voters overwhelmingly — about 62% — support phasing out fossil fuels entirely, said Alec Tyson, an associate director of research at Pew Research Center. There is broad support among registered voters of both parties for a transition to a future in which the United States is no longer pumping carbon emissions into the atmosphere, Tyson said. But most are not willing to break with fossil fuels altogether, he said.
From his earliest days in office, Biden has highlighted climate action as a top priority. Soon after moving into the White House, he reentered the United States in the Paris Agreement and set an ambitious goal of cutting the country’s emissions roughly 50% below 2005 levels by the end of this decade.
He signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, which provides $370 billion in incentives to expand wind, solar and other clean energy and electric vehicles. He has proposed rules to ensure that two-thirds of new cars and one-quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the United States by 2032 are all-electric. Within weeks, he is expected to require that coal and gas plants, responsible for 25% of the country’s greenhouse gases, significantly cut their emissions.
Yet lawmakers and activists said they worried that regulatory moves would not capture the imagination of voters and that the Willow project would cast a long shadow.
“He takes one step forward with the IRA, and two steps back with the Willow project,” said Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., who along with more than 30 other progressive lawmakers has urged Biden to cancel the drilling permit.
Nationwide, 61% of 18- to 29-year-olds voted for Biden in 2020, while 36% voted for Donald Trump, according to an
analysis from the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, a nonpartisan research center on youth engagement at Tufts University. That’s higher than the level of youth support Hillary Rodham Clinton received from young voters in 2016.
A March poll from Data for Progress, a liberal research group, saw a 13% drop in Biden’s approval ratings when it came to his climate agenda among voters ages 18 to 29 in the aftermath of the Willow decision.
But administration officials said they had seen no evidence that the president had lost ground with climate voters, or even young voters. They pointed to polls by YouGov and Morning Consult taken after the Willow decision that showed roughly half of Americans supported it. The Morning Consult survey found about 30% of young voters had not even heard of the Willow project.
“President Biden has been delivering on the most ambitious climate agenda ever with the support of labor groups, environmental justice and climate leaders, youth advocates, and more,” a White House spokesperson, Abdullah Hasan, said in a statement.
For years, the Willow project remained under the public’s radar, even among environmental activists. When social media campaigns objecting to Willow galvanized millions of activists early this year, it surprised administration officials, several people involved in the campaign said.
Mark Paul, a political economist at Rutgers University, said that while the Biden administration has a strong plan for reducing demand, it needs complementary policies that slash production.
“We already have enough fossil fuels to meet our needs as we transition,” he said. “The administration is scared to use the bully pulpit against oil and gas. It’s trying to play both sides.”
Michele Weindling, electoral director of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led environmental group, said young people want to see Biden fight.
“This was a cultural moment for my generation,” Weindling said of Willow.
“It was a huge moment to say ‘No’ to the oil and gas industry,” she said. “It was a moment for President Biden to show us, what side are you on? He chose the wrong side. That makes our job a lot harder, to tell Generation Z and young voters that Biden will live up to his climate promises.”
Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 22 de abril de 2023
When rising floodwater surrounded her home the morning of July 29, Carolyn Combs felt a sense of deja vu. The year before, floodwater had filled the first floor of her family’s home in Jackson, Kentucky, damaging living spaces, storage and her two teenage children’s bedrooms.
Combs, her husband and their children spent months living on the second floor while the lower level was gut-renovated, a project that was nearly complete when the 2022 storms began. Before evacuating this time, they moved as many belongings as possible upstairs in hopes of avoiding the previous year’s losses.
But this time, nearly 10 feet of water accumulated, reaching the second story.
“Everything inside was completely, completely gone,” said Combs, 37. “We had to get rid of everything.” She estimated that her family had spent $6,000 to $7,000 replacing items like furniture and appliances after the first flood. Now, they had to start over.
When they evacuated, Combs and her daughter had each carried a backpack filled with clothes and small belongings lsuch as phone chargers. Hours later, realizing the damage that was likely, her children returned in a neighbor’s kayak to grab critical medical care items for Combs’ husband, who is disabled.
The costs quickly added up. Three nights in a hotel room cost nearly $500. With no place to cook, the family bought all meals, about $80 per day. Combs remembered being shocked to discover that they had spent $75 on laundry alone in the early days after the flood.
The Combses needed hygiene supplies, like toothbrushes and feminine care products. They bought food, crates and litter boxes for their pets.
After major disasters like the Kentucky floods, broad analyses of costs factor in losses reported to insurance companies or government agencies. But smaller expenses are often overlooked and rarely reimbursed, even though they can take a significant toll on an individual or family bank account.
“It’s just the simple things,” Combs said. “Groceries, everyday needs, plus taking care of my kids, all while working two jobs. It’s hard on us trying to rebuild.”
The flooding in eastern Kentucky was severe enough that President Joe Biden approved a major disaster declaration for 13 counties. This allowed residents to receive aid from government agencies including the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Small Business Administration.
The Combses knew their house was in a flood zone: In 2009, the house was damaged by about 3 feet of floodwater before Combs and her daughter moved in. At that time, the household was approved for FEMA assistance, which included a year of paid flood insurance.
The Combses then took over those payments for a few years until the expense — more than $500 a month, Combs said — became unaffordable. So when faced with flood damage again, they understood they would not receive assistance from the agency or insurance. Combs did apply for a loan from the Small Business Administration but was denied because of her credit score, she said. Without government aid, the family has relied on organizations like the American Red Cross and community support to make ends meet. A church group helped clean out the house, including throwing out the refrigerator, stocked with spoiled food. Aspire Appalachia, an eastern Kentucky nonprofit, installed new drywall and bought some of the major fixtures the Combses needed to replace, including a toilet, a washing machine and a dryer.
Family and friends have also pitched in, covering the price of the hotel stay, buying items from an Amazon wish list and paying for the teenagers’ back-to-school needs. Critically, the Combses have been able to stay at a relative’s property for free while their house is repaired.
They have been blessed, as Combs sees it. And yet, on a Friday evening in March, nearly eight months after the flood, she found herself feeling overwhelmed as she reviewed receipts. The family is still paying for water and electrical services despite not living in the damaged home.
The downstairs ceiling is unfinished, and they still need a new heating system.
Combs estimated that they had spent a few thousand dollars to get back home. Adding the past flooding expenses brings the total above $10,000.
Beyond FEMA assistance
According to a report from the Ohio River Valley Institute and the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center, 6 in 10 households damaged in the 2022 floods reported incomes under $30,000, and most did not have flood insurance. For some, like the Combses, the policy cost was prohibitive; residents in the area say they’ve been quoted more than $1,000 per month.
Others were not considered to be living in a flood zone until after the storm. That was the case for Polly Barse Fleming, who said her house in Neon, Kentucky, had been in her husband’s family for more than a century and never experienced flooding before last July.
Four days before the heavy rains, Barse Fleming, 42, bought a new car for the first time. The $20,000 down payment for the Toyota Highlander, a practical choice to navigate the rural roads to the middle school where she teaches science, was a significant and carefully considered expense. Then virtually overnight, her family needed to take out loans for tens of thousands of dollars to address disaster costs.
The house now relies on jacks to stay upright. Barse Fleming applied for FEMA funding, and after an in-person assessment of the damage, the agency sent $40,000. FEMA bases these figures on reported losses and needs, explaining that its support will not make a survivor “whole” but is meant to assist with basic living expenses.
Barse Fleming’s family put the funds toward a down payment on a double-wide manufactured house. This choice was strategic: She said her insurance agent had explained that the double-wide’s policy would cover flooding, saving the family an extra monthly cost. This was a selling point because even with FEMA funding and preapproval for a Small Business Administration loan, the personal expenses have been mounting.
In addition to jacks for the house, the family needed cleaning supplies and extra gas money for the longer route that Barse Fleming takes to work to avoid damaged roads. She also lost her garden, which used to provide the family with tomatoes, squash, peppers and other produce — food she also gave to her pet tortoises and lizards.
Like Combs, Barse Fleming credits others for providing critical assistance in covering these costs. One donation that stood out was an upright bass from WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour, a nonprofit, for her 13-year-old daughter, a musician.
“Many of us have pieced our lives back together from the generosity of others,” Barse Fleming said. “There is no way our family could have afforded new contents of the house in addition to all else we were trying to do.”
The safe-haven dollar and yen rose on Tuesday as market sentiment turned risk-averse amid renewed worries about the banking sector and the outlook for the global economy, which knocked the euro off a nearly 10-month high.
The U.S. dollar index climbed 0.6% to 101.83, having dropped more than 4% since March 8.
“Lower risk appetite is clearly the main driver here for the dollar and for other havens as well,” said Shaun Osborne, chief FX strategist, at Scotiabank in Toronto.
“But we’re not really breaking out in the dollar or extending significantly at this point. This is not a longer-term development, so we have to look at opportunities to fade the dollar rally,” he added.
A weak consumer confidence report and a decline in Federal Reserve manufacturing data further added to the dollar’s and yen’s safe-haven appeal.
Data showed U.S. consumer confidence fell to a ninemonth low in April, a survey showed on Tuesday. The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index fell to 101.3 - the lowest since July 2022 - from a revised 104.0 in March.
The U.S. Richmond Fed manufacturing index slid as well, down at -10 in April, the fourth straight month of contraction.
Both surveys negated strong U.S. housing data, which showed new home sales beat estimates with a 9.6% rise in March to a one-year high of 683,000 after net revisions.
“The bias is for dollar weakness, but I think until U.S. data weakens substantially, it’s hard to see that trend really picking up,” said Vassili Serebriakov, FX strategist at UBS in New York.
News on Monday of plunging deposits at First Republic Bank served as a reminder that stability risks have not entirely died down, while UBS reported a 52% slide in quarterly income.
The yen firmed, behaving like a typical safe haven, even as the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) new governor Kazuo Ueda signaled he was not in a hurry to shift policy. This week’s BOJ meeting, which concludes on Friday, is his first in charge.
The Japanese currency rose 0.6% to 133.495 per dollar and was up 1.2% at 146.42 per euro, having earlier touched an eight-year low of 148.635.
The euro dropped 0.7% against the dollar to $1.0969, having risen 1.2% so far in April and more than 4% since mid-March.
ECB board member Isabel Schnabel told Politico that a 50 basis point (bp) rate hike was not off the table and would depend on data - notably inflation figures due two days before May’s meeting.
Elsewhere, sterling was down 0.6% at $1.2403, but was close to a 10-month high of $1.2545 reached earlier this
month.
The Australian dollar dropped 1.1% to US$0.6621 as traders waited for inflation data due on Wednesday, while the New Zealand dollar was at US$0.6138, down 0.5%. Euro/
By JULIAN E. BARNES, ERIC SCHMITT, ADAM ENTOUS and THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF
Ukraine is preparing to launch a counteroffensive against Russian forces as early as next month, U.S. officials say, in the face of immense risks: Without a decisive victory, Western support for Ukraine could weaken, and Kyiv could come under increasing pressure to enter serious negotiations to end or freeze the conflict.
U.S. and NATO allies have supplied Ukraine with extensive artillery and ammunition for the upcoming battle, and officials now say they are hopeful the supplies will last — a change from two months ago when weapons were only trickling in and U.S. officials were worried that the supplies might run out.
At the same time, 12 Ukrainian combat brigades of about 4,000 soldiers each are expected to be ready at the end of April, according to leaked Pentagon documents that offer a hint of Kyiv’s timetable. The United States and NATO allies are training and supplying nine of those brigades, the documents said.
Although Ukraine shares few details of its operational plan with U.S. officials, the operation is likely to unfold in the country’s south, including along Ukraine’s coastline on the Sea of Azov, near the Russian-annexed Crimea.
“Everything hinges on this counteroffensive,” said Alexander Vershbow, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia and senior NATO official. “Everybody’s hopeful, maybe overoptimistic. But it will determine whether there is going to be a decent outcome for the Ukrainians, in terms of recovering territory on the battlefield and creating much more significant leverage to get some kind of negotiated settlement.”
While Ukrainian officials have said their goal is to break through dug-in Russian defenses and create a widespread collapse in Russia’s army, U.S. officials have assessed that it is unlikely the offensive will result in a dramatic shift in momentum in Ukraine’s favor.
Ukraine’s military faces many challenges — one reason that a stalemate remains the most likely outcome. Fighting in Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine this past winter has drained ammunition reserves and led to heavy casualties in some experienced units.
Major questions about Ukraine’s artillery and other ammunition supplies remain. Kyiv’s supplies of air defense missiles and artillery rounds, critical to sustaining any push and to defend against Russian air attacks, could run dangerously low if its forces continue to expend ammunition at their current pace. After the offensive is over, there is little chance that the West can re-create the buildup that it did for Ukraine’s coming assault for the foreseeable future, because Western allies do not have enough supplies in existing inventories to draw from and domestic production will not be able to fill the gap until next year, experts say.
The Ukrainian military has been firing thousands of artillery shells a day as it tries to hold Bakhmut, a pace that U.S. and European officials say is unsustainable and could jeopardize the coming offensive. The bombardment has been so intense that the Pentagon has raised concerns with officials in Kyiv, warning them that Ukraine was wasting ammunition at a key time.
While Ukrainian forces can use drones to strike behind Russian front lines, they have not been given missiles with a long-enough range to hit Russia’s logistical hubs, a tactic that proved important in last summer’s offensives outside Kharkiv and Kherson.
The Russians have challenges of their own.
Since the beginning of the invasion, there have been major doubts about the basic competence of Russian commanders and their supply of well-trained soldiers, artillery shells and equipment. The Russians have expended many of their cruise missiles, lost thousands of people in Bakhmut alone and drained their stores of ammunition much faster than they can replace them with their domestic production.
But Russia is working to address those gaps. Russian troops have honed their ability to use drones and artillery to target Ukrainian forces more effectively. They have recently started using glide bombs — which use gravity and basic guidance devices to reach their targets without making any noise — to show they are still capable of deploying newer weapons on the battlefield. The efforts mean the window to make significant gains against Russia’s depleted forces may not remain open indefinitely.
In private meetings, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has told other officials that he believes Russia has the numerical advantage on the battlefield because it has more planes, tanks, artillery pieces and soldiers than the Ukrainians, according to a senior European official aware of the discussions. In these conversations, Shoigu came across as supremely confident that Russia will eventually prevail.
U.S. intelligence officials have repeatedly warned that President Vladimir Putin of Russia thinks that time is on his side. Given Russia’s bigger reserves of equipment and
manpower, the officials say Putin believes he will ultimately emerge victorious as the West’s appetite to support Ukraine subsides.
U.S. and European officials say Russia is preparing new rounds of mobilizations to bolster the ranks of its military without creating the same exodus of young men from the country, which occurred last year when a partial mobilization was announced. Some of the leaked Pentagon documents also outline how Wagner, Russia’s biggest military contractor, had restarted recruiting troops from Russia’s prisons.
U.S. officials say that Putin faces a political cost for any mobilization, and even if he is willing to bear those costs, it will take Russia time to conscript those forces, train them and send them to the fight. Forces that were rushed to the front, like Wagner’s prison recruits, quickly became cannon fodder.
Still, Russia’s capacity — and willingness — to absorb losses remains large, allowing it to mobilize more conscripts. But some analysts have raised doubts that Moscow has enough soldiers to fill the trenches they have built across their front lines.
A key focus of the United States and the West has been trying to stop Russia from finding new supplies of weaponry. U.S. and NATO officials have hindered Russia’s domestic manufacturing with sanctions and export controls, and put diplomatic pressure on countries to reject Russian requests for arms.
China appears to have been deterred, at least for the moment, from providing ammunition or other lethal aid to Russia. U.S. officials publicized intelligence about Beijing’s private discussions with Moscow, and they have not seen any evidence since that China is sending arms. Similarly, Russian efforts to acquire guided missiles from Iran have not borne fruit so far.
Another apparent success has been Egypt. While U.S. officials were quietly pressing Cairo to supply artillery shells to Ukraine, U.S. intelligence agencies gathered information, first reported by The Washington Post, that Egyptian officials might also supply weaponry to Russia.
After a diplomatic push by the United States and Britain, the Egyptians appeared to side with the Americans. According to a subsequent intelligence report, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt rejected the idea of Cairo supplying the Russian side.
U.S. officials said a production contract has been agreed with Egyptian state-owned arms makers to produce artillery shells for the United States and American contractors, who, in turn, will send them to Ukraine.
Some European countries, including France, are pushing for negotiations. For now, Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are dug in, and peace talks appear to be nowhere in sight.
For the Ukrainians to force a real negotiation, they must make sure “Vladimir Putin’s hubris, his arrogance, is punctured,” CIA Director William Burns said at a speech at Rice University earlier this month.
The Ukrainians have said they would not agree to any peace talks until they push back the Russians and gain more territory.
U.S. and European officials say Russia is preparing new rounds of mobilizations to bolster the ranks of its military without creating the same exodus of young men from the country, which occurred last year when a partial mobilization was announced. Some of the leaked Pentagon documents also outline how Wagner, Russia’s biggest military contractor, had restarted recruiting troops from Russia’s prisons.
U.S. officials say that Putin faces a political cost for any mobilization, and even if he is willing to bear those costs, it will take Russia time to conscript those forces, train them and send them to the fight. Forces that were rushed to the front, like Wagner’s prison recruits, quickly became cannon fodder.
Still, Russia’s capacity — and willingness — to absorb losses remains large, allowing it to mobilize more conscripts. But some analysts have raised doubts that Moscow has enough soldiers to fill the trenches
they have built across their front lines.
A key focus of the United States and the West has been trying to stop Russia from finding new supplies of weaponry. U.S. and NATO officials have hindered Russia’s domestic manufacturing with sanctions and export controls, and put diplomatic pressure on countries to reject Russian requests for arms.
China appears to have been deterred, at least for the moment, from providing ammunition or other lethal aid to Russia. U.S. officials publicized intelligence about Beijing’s private discussions with Moscow, and they have not seen any evidence since that China is sending arms. Similarly, Russian efforts to acquire guided missiles from Iran have not borne fruit so far.
Another apparent success has been Egypt. While U.S. officials were quietly pressing Cairo to supply artillery shells to Ukraine, U.S. intelligence agencies gathered information, first reported by The
Washington Post, that Egyptian officials might also supply weaponry to Russia.
After a diplomatic push by the United States and Britain, the Egyptians appeared to side with the Americans. According to a subsequent intelligence report, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt rejected the idea of Cairo supplying the Russian side.
U.S. officials said a production contract has been agreed with Egyptian stateowned arms makers to produce artillery shells for the United States and American contractors, who, in turn, will send them to Ukraine.
Some European countries, including France, are pushing for negotiations. For now, Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are dug in, and peace talks appear to be nowhere in sight. For the Ukrainians to force a real negotiation, they must make sure “Vladimir Putin’s hubris, his arrogance, is punctured,” CIA Director William Burns said
at a speech at Rice University earlier this month.
The Ukrainians have said they would not agree to any peace talks until they push back the Russians and gain more territory.
The chances that Putin will back down or cut his losses in response to a successful Ukrainian counteroffensive, the senior European official said, were “less than zero.” Instead, the official said, Putin will likely opt to call up more soldiers and send them in.
Celeste A. Wallander, the U.S. assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, said there is no sign that Putin is ready for a compromise. “There is very little evidence and little reason to believe that Putin will give up on his strategic goal of subjugating Ukraine politically, if not fully militarily,” she said in an interview. “It’s been his goal, not just for a year, but it’s been going on for nearly a decade. So there’s no sign he’s giving up on that.”
Venezuela’s most prominent opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, said late Monday that he had been forced out of Colombia, hours after crossing the border into the country after receiving threats from the Venezuelan government.
Speaking in a video posted on Twitter, Guaidó said he had entered Colombia with plans to meet with political representatives who had gathered to discuss the future of Venezuela. But rather than welcome him, he said, the Colombians kicked him out.
“The persecution of the dictatorship has extended, unfortunately, to Colombia today,” he said, speaking from what appeared to be an airplane. He said he was on his way to the United States.
Late Monday, Colombia’s foreign ministry issued a statement saying that Guaidó was in Bogotá “irregularly,” and that migration officials had taken him to the airport “with the intention of verifying his departure on a commercial airline to the United States.”
A representative from the government of Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, did not respond to a request for more information.
In 2019, Guaidó rose from little-known Venezuelan lawmaker to national hero after declaring Maduro an illegitimate ruler and himself the interim head of state. At the time,
he posed the most significant threat to a deeply undemocratic and unpopular president, who had helped plunge Venezuela into an economic and humanitarian crisis.
Dozens of nations recognized Guaidó as the nation’s new leader, most prominently the United States. But Guaidó ultimately failed to oust Maduro, and late last year, his own colleagues in the opposition voted to dissolve his interim government and remove his title as interim president. Their assessment was that the parallel-government strategy would not be able to create political change, and that a new path was needed.
Maduro has jailed hundreds of political opponents over the years, and many have already fled for other countries, including Colombia. But Guaidó remained in Caracas with his family, under the assumption that arresting such a prominent leader would make Maduro even less popular at home and abroad.
Venezuela and Colombia share a long border and many cultural and economic ties, but their relationship became particularly strained under the previous Colombian government, led by President Iván Duque, a conservative.
Petro, Colombia’s new, leftist president, has restored the countries’ diplomatic relations, which were cut off in 2019, and has had multiple meetings with Maduro. Petro has tried to position himself as a broker be-
Juan Guaido at his office in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 11, 2023. Guaido said late Monday, April 24 that he crossed the border into Colombia and hours later was put on a plane to the United States.
tween the Maduro government; the large, often fractured Venezuelan opposition, of which Guaidó is just one player; and the rest of the world.
He met last week in Washington with President Joe Biden, and the two leaders issued a joint statement condemning “all forms of authoritarianism and aggression in the world” and expressing interest in a “solution to the situation in Venezuela.”
On Tuesday, Petro is scheduled to host a meeting with representatives of approximately 20 nations to discuss Venezuela’s future. Two officials from the National Security Council in Washington, Jon Finer and Juan Gonzalez, are expected to attend, along with former Sen. Chris Dodd.
On Monday, Colombia’s foreign minister, Álvaro Leyva, issued a notice clarifying that Guaidó had not been not invited to the meeting.
Kenyan police have uncovered dozens of bodies from graves connected to a Christian pastor, who is being investigated on allegations that he directed his congregants to starve themselves to death, according to police and local media reports.
The inspector general for Kenya’s police, Japhet Koome, told reporters that homicide detectives and pathologists had exhumed 11 more bodies from a series of shallow graves Monday, bringing the death toll to 58.
Many of the victims are believed to have been members of the Good News International Church, a “suspected religious cult,” according to a statement from Koome. The small sect, based near the town of Malindi, is led by a pastor, Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, who was arrested this month.
President William Ruto of Kenya called the allegations “akin to terrorism,” in a televised speech Monday. “Terrorists use religion to advance their heinous acts,” he said. Attempts to reach Mackenzie or a lawyer representing him were not immediately successful.
Mackenzie was arrested April 14 after authorities rescued more than 15 people from his property, four of whom were in critical condition and died soon after, according to media reports.
He was arraigned several days later by a judge in the Malindi Law Courts, who said the pastor would be held for two weeks as police conducted their investigation.
“The recent discoveries are still ongoing,” said an official in Kenya’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, speaking on the condition of anonymity because she was not allowed to speak publicly. “So until the police finish and declare they have
exhausted the land and declare there are no more bodies the matter won’t be taken to court.”
Authorities approached Mackenzie’s property after they received a tip from residents about people who were starving on the land, according to Charles Kamau, the head of criminal investigations in Malindi.
“The information we received is that the people there were being starved after being radicalized by a certain member of a church who told them that their work in this world is done and they should die and go and see their creator,” Kamau said in an interview with Citizen TV after Mackenzie’s arrest.
The death toll was expected to rise this week as investigators continued searching for bodies as well as survivors. Some who had already been found alive were still refusing to eat or
drink water. At least 112 people have been reported missing, according to the Red Cross, which is helping trace the victims.
Videos taken from the crime scene show officials in hazardous material suits dragging body bags and scouring areas of forest cordoned off by yellow tape.
Kenyan Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki called the discovery a “massacre” in a statement posted to Twitter on Sunday, adding that it exposed the “clearest abuse of the constitutionally enshrined human right to freedom of worship.”
Security teams had been deployed to help block off 800 acres of forest for the investigation, Kindiki added in his post. A team of experts deployed by the National Police Service also included forensic investigators and homicide detectives.
Mackenzie had been arrested in late March as well, at that time in connection with the deaths of two children. A statement released by Koome on Monday said that the children “were allegedly starved to death on instructions issued by Paul Mackenzie that they observe fasting till death in order to meet their maker.”
“We called for a post-mortem on the deaths at the time, but nothing came of it,” said Walid Sketty, 28, a member of Haki, a human rights group that is working to assist the victims.
In a phone interview, Sketty said that he had tried to visit Mackenzie’s property with several colleagues after the pastor’s arrest in late March. “We suspected there were others on the land and we wanted to see if there was anyone we could help,” he said, adding that he was turned away by a group of men carrying machetes.
“We now fault the government for lack of intelligence,” Sketty said. “This is a matter of human rights: It is the duty of the state to ensure that their lives are not taken away — no matter their faith or background.”
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the notorious private military company Wagner, has offered weapons to the paramilitaries fighting for control of Sudan, according to U.S. officials.
Prigozhin, who is waging a brutal military campaign on behalf of Russia in Ukraine, said this week that he wanted peace and offered to help mediate between the rival generals fighting for power. But U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, said Prigozhin is actually intent on fueling the fighting between the two military factions in Sudan: the Sudanese army, overseen by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries, led by Lt. Gen. Mohammed
Hamdan Dagalo.
Wagner — which previously sent Sudan armored vehicles and training in return for lucrative gold mining concessions — has offered powerful weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, to Dagalo’s paramilitaries, U.S. officials said.
As of Friday, Dagalo had not decided whether to accept the weapons, which would come from Wagner stocks in the Central African Republic, the officials said.
Since 2019, Wagner has expanded its activities in Sudan, mining for gold, exploring for uranium and supplying mercenaries to the restive region of Darfur. After the two generals seized power in 2021, Wagner intensified its partnership with Dagalo, who visited Moscow in the early days of the Ukraine war and has received military equipment from the mercenary group.
In my last newsletter I wrote about the possible economic implications of artificial intelligence, arguing that while they might be large, history suggests that they will take longer to materialize than many people expect.
Life being what it is, several people came back at me, citing a prediction I made in 1998 that the internet’s growth would soon slow and that “by 2005 or so, it will become clear that the internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.” I did indeed say that, in a throwaway piece I wrote for the magazine The Red Herring — a piece I still don’t remember having written, but I guess I was trying to be provocative.
Obviously I was wrong about the internet petering out, and have admitted that. So it goes. Show me an economist who claims never to have made a bad prediction, and I’ll show you someone who’s either dishonest or unwilling to take intellectual risks.
But how wrong was I, really, about the internet’s economic impact? Or, since this shouldn’t be about me, have the past few decades generally vindicated visionaries who asserted that information technology would change everything? Or have they vindicated techno-skeptics like economist Robert Gordon, who
argued in a 2016 book that the innovations of the late 20th and early 21st century were far less fundamental than those between 1870 and 1940?
Well, by the numbers, the skeptics have won the argument, hands down.
In that last newsletter, we looked at 10-year rates of growth in labor productivity, which suggested that information technology did indeed produce a bump in economic growth between the mid-1990s and the mid2000s, but one that was relatively modest and shortlived. Today, let me take a slightly different approach.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics produces historical estimates, going back to 1948, of both labor productivity and “total factor productivity,” an estimate of the productivity of all inputs, including capital as well as labor, which is widely used by economists as a measure of technological progress. A truly fundamental technological innovation should cause sustained growth in both these measures, especially total factor productivity.
So I looked at those 25-year rates of change in these two measures. I choose 25 years partly because that’s roughly one generation, and partly because I made my bad prediction 25 years ago.
That comparison shows no great productivity boom following the rise of the internet.
True, there are a couple of excuses you can make for the gap between the numbers and the hype. One is to assert that the internet really did do great things for the economy, but that they were offset by negative factors — a deteriorating work ethic, or the mysterious decline in construction productivity, or something.
The other is that official numbers on economic growth fail to capture many invisible gains. I get a lot of pleasure out of the ability to stream live musical performances on YouTube; as far as I can tell, those benefits aren’t counted in gross domestic product. Indeed, official economic growth surely understates true progress in the human condition. But this has been true for a long time.
Before the internet, official economic data didn’t directly capture the benefits of, say, plunging infant mortality thanks to improved sanitation, or the huge improvement in air quality after 1970. Are those invisible gains bigger now than they were in the past? It’s doubtful.
Maybe the key point is that nobody is arguing that the internet has been useless; surely, it has contributed to economic growth. The argument instead is that its benefits weren’t exceptionally large compared with those of earlier, less glamorous technologies. For example, circa 1920, only about 1 in 5 U.S. households had washing machines; by 1970, almost everyone had
one, or access to one. Don’t you think that made a big difference? Are you sure that it made less difference than widespread access to broadband?
For the fact is that while moving information around is important, we’re still living in a material world: Most of what we consume is physical stuff or in-person services, which haven’t been drastically affected by the internet.
Now, it’s quite possible that AI — or at any rate, the things we’re calling AI, regardless of whether they warrant that designation — will really, truly, be a big thing. But one thing we should have learned from the history of information technology is that things that seem exceptionally glamorous needn’t be especially useful, and vice versa.
SAN JUAN – San Juan Board of Realtors anunció el martes que recibió una subvención de sustentabilidad de $5,000 de la Asociación Nacional de Realtors para apoyar actividades que promuevan la sustentabilidad y la resiliencia.
La subvención se utilizará para concienciar sobre la importancia de la sustentabilidad y como el desarrollar un huerto casero en su hogar puede ayudar a la sustentabilidad.
“Realtors son líderes de la comunidad que se dedican a priorizar la viabilidad, la adaptabilidad, la resiliencia y la eficiencia de los recursos”, dijo Maribel Torres, Presidenta. “Esta subvención ayudará a crear conciencia sobre la propuesta de valor de la sostenibilidad para los bienes raíces. Los compradores, vendedores y comunidades se benefician de las ofertas sostenibles en el entorno construido, incluidos los impactos positivos en la salud, la eficiencia energética, el medio ambiente y el bienestar. Gracias a la Subvención de Sostenibilidad de NAR, nuestro mercado aprovechará estos nuevos recursos de AgroInnova para educar a todos los socios de nuestra Asociación.
Se estará llevando a cabo un taller de como cultivar un huerto casero en el hogar completamente gratuito a la comunidad de Realtors de Puerto Rico y el público en general. Se explicará de el impacto económico, ambiental y social que tiene la sustentabilidad. El mismo se llevará a cabo el jueves, 27 de abril de 2023, de 10:00 a.m. a 1:00 p.m. en Finca Hormigas en Caguas. El taller será ofrecido por agrónomos de AgroInnova Caguas. NAR ofreció la Subvención de Sostenibilidad a asociaciones estatales y locales en todo el país, para ayudar a implementar un programa, evento, plan o actualización de sostenibilidad para sus miembros, y fomentar la conciencia continua sobre el alto valor de la sostenibilidad en los bienes raíces. Este año, el año piloto para la Subvención de Sostenibilidad, un total de 21 asociaciones fueron seleccionadas por el equipo de evaluadores dirigido por miembros de NAR para recibir hasta $5,000 para sus proyectos centrados en la sostenibilidad. Esta fue una subvención competitiva con financiamiento total limitado y NAR se complació de haber recibido muchas solicitudes excelentes y el interés de asociaciones en todas las regiones de los EEUU por esta nueva oportunidad.
Para obtener más información sobre “Cosecha para Ti” del proyecto de sostenibilidad, visite sjrealtor.com. Para obtener más información sobre el programa de sostenibilidad de la Asociación Nacional de Realtors, visite https://www.nar.realtor/ sustainability.
La Asociación Nacional de Realtors es la asociación comercial más grande de Estados Unidos y representa a más de 1,5 millones de miembros involucrados en todos los aspectos de las industrias de bienes raíces residenciales y comerciales.
SAN JUAN – Diversas organizaciones sindicales del sector público y privado convocaron a todos los trabajadores a paralizar y protestar el primero de mayo de 2023 en el Centro Gubernamental Minillas, en San Juan.
“Este lugar representa el mayor espacio donde se ubican agencias y corporaciones públicas que existen para garantizarle los servicios esenciales a la ciudadanía (AEP, CFSE, Junta de Planificación, DACO, Autoridad de Carreteras, entre otras). Ante las medidas que el gobierno, la Legislatura y la Junta de Control Fiscal (JCF) imponen para reducir los servicios públicos a la ciudadania, los trabajadores y trabajadoras levantamos nuestra voz para defender los servicios esenciales y los derechos de todos los empleados del gobierno y del sector privado que luchan por construir un mejor país,” afirmó el presidente de la Central Puertorriqueña de Trabajadores, Emilio Nieves Torres en declaraciones escritas.
“Los reclamos principales que vamos a llevar a la calle son: justicia salarial para todos y todas, dar paso a las enmiendas a la Reforma Laboral,
rechazar la privatización de servicios esenciales, repudiar los aumentos en tarifas de agua, energía eléctrica y peajes, la salida inmediata de la Junta de Control Fiscal y la eliminación de la Autoridad de Asesoría Financiera y Agencia Fiscal que se ha convertido en la principal colaboradora de la agenda de austeridad, recortes y privatización de la JCF. Obviamente desde aquí vamos a reclamarle al Gobernador y a los presidentes de las Cámaras Legislativas que con la JCF pasen de la sumisión a la confrontación.”
El objetivo de la manifestación es conmemorar el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores y llevar a la calle los reclamos de los trabajadores. Las organizaciones sindicales, que suman más de 18, defienden los servicios esenciales y los derechos de los empleados del gobierno y del sector privado. Además, piden justicia salarial para todos y todas, la aprobación de enmiendas a la Reforma Laboral, rechazar la privatización de servicios esenciales, repudiar los aumentos en tarifas de agua, energía eléctrica y peajes, la salida inmediata de la Junta de Control Fiscal y la eliminación de la Autoridad de Asesoría Financiera y Agencia Fiscal.
Los líderes sindicales hicieron un llamado a los
trabajadores del sector público y privado para que se unan a la protesta y defiendan sus derechos y el bienestar del pueblo.
La presidenta de la Unión de Empleados de la Corporación del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, María Medina Domenech, expresó que “la amenaza de la privatización ha sido uno de los más constantes asuntos combatidos por la UECFSE. Desde la década de los ‘70 todas las administraciones han intentado resolver sus asuntos fiscales con la venta de la Corporación del Fondo del Seguro del Estado y gracias a nuestra combativa gestión sindical y el apoyo del movimiento sindical del país, hemos logrado frustrarles los planes. Recientemente, a los empleados de la Corporación del Fondo del Seguro del Estado nos ha tocado actuar para evitar el desmantelamiento del Hospital Industrial. Así también, junto a todo el movimiento de trabajadores, condenamos la privatización de escuelas, de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica, de los servicios de salud, de los peajes y de otros servicios esenciales. Estamos listos para sumarnos a las diversas acciones sindicales para garantizar que quede en manos del país, la atención y manejo de la salud, la educación y seguridad, entre otros servicios esenciales.”
Trabajadores convocan a paralizar y protestar el 1ro de Mayo en Minillas
San Juan Board of Realtors recibe una subvención nacional para apoyar la sostenibilidad y la resiliencia
They were on very different networks and did very different things to draw very different ratings.
But the synchronous exits of Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon from the cable news landscape earlier this week represented the end of an era for their industry — the most combative and partisan since Ted Turner introduced the concept of 24-hour news to television more than 40 years ago.
No equivalence can be drawn between the two hosts. Carlson often led in the ratings by running wild at Fox News with white nationalist and false conspiracy stories that put him in a class by himself. Lemon became known for his anti-Trump broadsides that were tame in comparison — and drew much smaller ratings — yet could come off as plenty hot by the standards of CNN.
But in their most recent incarnations, Carlson and Lemon were both products of the Trump years — set-top-box combatants who often made headlines themselves by giving their audiences generous helpings of indignation and outrage.
Now, in different ways, their ousters represent at least a temporary pulling back from the excesses of the media coverage that the Trump election, presidency and post-presidency spawned.
“On a lot of the mainstream channels, there was a race to be first to condemn Trump to celebrate his problems,” said Stephen F. Hayes, a founder of the conservative site The Dispatch. “And on Fox, in prime time especially, there was this over-the-top effort to defend him and amplify his lies.”
Hayes, who left his job as a Fox analyst over Carlson’s promotion of conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, said optimistically, “We can hope that this signals some kind of broader institutional change.”
Questions remain about the particulars of both exits, and both situations involved factors other than their general editorial approaches.
Carlson had become an embarrassing figure through the ample material that was produced in the defamation lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems brought against Fox, which settled last week at the eleventh hour for $787.5 million.
Emails and text messages produced
ahead of trial showed Carlson mocking Trump even while hailing him on his program, and using crude and misogynistic language about a lawyer pushing the election conspiracies about Dominion’s voting machines, Sidney Powell. In another lawsuit pending in Delaware, the former head of booking for Carlson’s show, Abby Grossberg, accuses Carlson and his staff of using similarly coarse language about women. That behavior — which Grossberg alleges created a toxic work environment — appears to have been a factor in his ouster as much as anything else.
Lemon’s ouster came after he made a sexist and ageist remark on a CNN morning program that the Republican presidential aspirant Nikki Haley wasn’t “in her prime” because, as he put it, “a woman is considered to be in prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.” The statement was deeply offensive by any measure. But in television terms, it also strayed into cardinal sin territory — it threatened to alienate an important ratings demographic. Though Lemon apologized, the network finally concluded that his future had become untenable.
But neither situation can be viewed outside of where the men stood on the shifting plates of the cable news terra firma.
Lemon was operating in a new environment at CNN, where a new network president, Chris Licht, made it clear he wanted to shave down what he views as the more partisan edges that emerged in the Trump years. As Licht told advertisers last June, “At a time where extremes are dominating cable news, we will seek to go a different way.” Sending CNN down that middle way also happens to be the priority of David Zaslav, the chief executive of CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, even though it means lower ratings and therefore less revenue. “Ratings be damned,” he has said.
It was in no small part because of this shift that Licht moved Lemon from his 10 p.m. show last year and assigned him as a co-host of a new CNN breakfast program.
“CNN This Morning” was positioned as a lighter, more conversational — and less edgy — program than the one from which Lemon was being vacated.
Yet it didn’t quite take. “Don Lemon is a lightning rod because he really came to prominence during an era where that was celebrated and encouraged in prime time,”
Licht conceded at a media conference held by Semafor earlier this month. “CNN has moved on from that and Don has moved on from that.” Now, CNN has moved on from Don.
The signal is a little less clear from Fox News. The network and its leaders Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch had stood by Carlson for years as he drew wide condemnation for airing false and racist conspiracies that won him such cachet with so many of the Trump faithful.
They seemed to do so for a basic reason — the large ratings and considerable revenues he gained as he did so. Even as the Dominion lawsuit appeared to be heading full steam to trial, Carlson doubled down by running reports falsely portraying the Jan. 6 attack as a mostly peaceful event. It sent a signal that even under the threat of a huge lawsuit, ratings trumped all at Fox.
Following its settlement with Dominion last week, Fox was met with the unan-
swered question of whether the experience of the case was singeing enough to make Fox News pull back from airing the sort of unbridled, false conspiracy content that gave Dominion such a strong hand at court.
The abrupt end of Carlson’s run at Fox News may not telegraph some broader pullback in the offing — indeed, there are various indications to the contrary. But his removal from Fox’s prime time is a pullback all on its own, and a pretty major one at that.
Then again, over the course of the past 40 years, cable news, in its perpetual hunt for ratings and relevance, has inexorably moved toward ever more strident programming and personalities. Carlson’s and Lemon’s exits might be the end of one era in cable news. But if Fox and CNN are unable to resist the siren call of Trump’s attentiongrabbing bag of tricks in the pursuit of ratings, who is to say what the next one will truly look like?
Tucker Carlson, host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News, speaks during AmericaFest at Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, on Dec. 17, 2022. Carlson drew big ratings playing to Donald Trump with white nationalist and false conspiracy content.
By IRIS EDÉN SANTIAGO Special to The STAR
After such a sad and ugly Red Carpet at the Latin American Music Awards last week, it was so fabulous to see so many stars deliver style and glamour at the 10th Annual Platinum Awards. So much high fashion, so little space to put them all. Actors, singers and celebrities from every art form, mostly from Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, attended the event dressed to kill. Simply brilliant. Colleagues, we are back in business. Guests, honorees and hosts did their homework, hired seasoned stylists, called the right designers and paraded along the different areas of Madrid’s IFEMA venue wearing breathtaking looks. Some classic silhouettes,
some risky options, a few pops of color and a lot of glam. This is what Red Carpets are designed for, fashion moments to cherish, comment on, review and remember. And ladies, keep the fashion volume up because the number of Spanishspeaking leading actors and handsome galanes getting creative with their looks is quickly stealing the spotlight.
Women wore a lot, I mean a lot of haute couture. And we love it! Black, white and silver ball gowns prevailed, as did body-hugging sheaths with cutouts, embroideries and asymmetrical neck and hemlines. We also saw winning looks accessorized with fringes, feathers, sequins and pussy bows. Loving the dramatic dresses and jumpsuits with trains, strappy backs and floorlength capes. This is show business and fans expect to be wowed with glitz, drama and person-
ality. Among the men rocking the carpet: Miguel Ángel Muñoz wearing a lace turtleneck in black with cherry red dinner jacket; and José Pastor, who had all eyes on him, wearing red high-waisted trousers, a burgundy see-through turtleneck and a floor-length ivory blazer with embroidered lapels and cuffs. Also very elegant, Mexican actor Emmanuel Palomares, Diego Calva, Benicio del Toro and Omar Chaparro. Among the best-dressed women: Paz Vega, Georgina Amoros, Mar Saura, Leticia Dolera, Juana Acosta, Beatriz Espejel, Carmen Machi, Blanca Paloma, Yany Prado, Leonor Walting, Esmeralda Pimentel, Veronica Caba, and Laura Laprida, who tion in a design by the Spanish label @delacier vaynicolas.
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LIAR #737, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, 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 10 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, 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 3 de diciembre 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 17 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 24 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE 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 Fajardo, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 22 de febrero 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 radicado en la Urbanización Rio Grande Estates, situada en el Barrio Zarzal del término municipal de Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación y contiene una casa de concreto reforzado diseñada para una familia, construida de acuerdo con los planos y especificaciones aprobados por la Junta de Planificación de Puerto Rico, y otras agencias gubernamentales. Número del Solar: nueve (9) Bloque “D”. Área del Solar: trescientos treintitres metros cuadrados con setentiún centímetros cuadrados (331.71 m.c.). En lindes: por el NORTE, en arco de doce metros con treinticinco centímetros con los Solares cuarentitres y cuarenti-
cuatro; por el SUR, en arco de quince metros con cuarenticinco centímetros con la Calle número cinco; por el ESTE, en veinticuatro metros con el Solar número ocho; y por el OESTE, en veinticuatro metros con el Solar número diez. Finca número 10,554, inscrita al folio 163 del tomo 221 de Río Grande. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina. Dirección de la Propiedad: D-9 5th St. Rio Grande Estates Dev. Rio Grande, PR 00745. 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: $122,703.84, incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados al 31 de enero de 2020 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 5.560% por ciento anual, hasta su completo pago; más la suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial; intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha; más cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de 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 318 otorgada el día 14 de julio de 2010, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Laura Mia Gonzalez Bonilla y consta inscrita al folio 94 del tomo 523 de Rio Grande, finca número 10,554, Registro de la Propiedad de Rio Grande, Sección III de Carolina. 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: Reverse Mortgage securing a note in favor of The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount
of $180,000.00, plus 5.56% annual interest, due on July 23, 2097, pursuant to deed number 319, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 14, 2010, before notary Laura Mia González Bonilla, and recorded at page 94 of volume 523 of Río Grande, property number 10,554, 5th inscription. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $180,000.00 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 $120,000.00; 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 $90,000.00. 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 can-
tidad 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. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. 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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 9 de enero de 2023. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #62.
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Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESIÓN DE SOFÍA VELÁZQUEZ ACEVEDO
T/C/C SOFÍA VELÁZQUEZ COMPUESTA POR LUIS VELÁZQUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.
Yo, MANUEL MALDONADO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, 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 16 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, Ponce, 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 14 de febrero 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 23 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 30 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 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 Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 2 de septiembre 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 radicado en el Barrio Canas del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, en la Urbanización Punto Oro, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de dicha urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar: 26 del bloque “AA”; área del solar: 320.11 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 11.38 metros con la calle 1 de dicha urbanización; por el SUR, en 15.18 metros con la calle marginal; por el ESTE, en 24.70 metros con el solar número 25 del bloque “AA” de dicha urbanización; y por el OESTE, en 23.54 metros con el solar número 27 del bloque “AA” de dicha urbanización. Finca número 28,346 (antes 38,894), inscrita al folio 95 del tomo 569 de Ponce. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ponce. Dirección de la Propiedad:
3128 (AA-26) Cofresi (1) St. Punto Oro Dev. Ponce, PR 00728. 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 $104,377.03, junto con los intereses y otros gastos acumulados, que continúan acumulándose a razón del 3.535% anual hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $11,515.50 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 número36 otorgada el día 31 de julio de 2009, Ponce, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Dennisse M. Llorens Alicea, y consta inscrita al folio 31 del tomo 1209 de Ponce, finca número 28,346, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II de Ponce. 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 de los Estados Unidos de América, por la suma principal de $172,732.50, con intereses al 3.535% anual, vencedero el día 1 de enero de 2081, constituida mediante la escritura número 37, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de julio de 2009, ante la notario Denisse M. Llorenso Alicea, e inscrita al folio 31 vuelto del tomo 1209 de Ponce, finca número 28,346, inscripción 3ra. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $115,155.00 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 $76,770.00; 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 $57,577.50. 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
Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca con un balance de $76,880.98 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 21 de junio de 2017. Inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de abril de 2023.
PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC
Demandante V.
SUCESION DE JORGE
ALBERTO NAVARRO
SOLER, COMPUESTA
POR: ARELIS NAVARRO
RODRIGUEZ, NORBERTO
NAVARRO RODRIGUEZ:
IVONNE MARIA NAVARRO
GARCIA; ANIBAL
NAVARRO RODRIGUEZ, DIANA NAVARRO
RODRIGUEZ: SUCESION
DE GEORGE JUNIOR
NAVARRO COMPUESTA
POR SUS HEREDEROS
GEORGIE NAVARRO RAMOS, ASHLEY
NATASHA NAVARRO RAMOS, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS; ANA
MARIA RODRIGUEZ
GARAY POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2022CV02658.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE
DEMANDADA, AL (A
LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 24 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: Apartamento 252501: URBANA: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial de dos niveles de forma irregular identificado con el número 2501 del edificio número 25 del Condominio Jardín Sereno, situado en el barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida aproximada de 1589.61 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 147.6797 metros cuadrados. En su primer nivel colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia aproximada de 34 pies 6 pulgadas con el Apartamento identificado con el número 25-2502; por el SUR, en una distancia aproximada de 34 pies 6 pulgadas con elemento común; por el ESTE, en una distancia aproximada de 15 pies 10 pulgadas con elemen-
to común; y por el OESTE, en una distancia aproximada de 11 pies 1 pulgada con elemento común. En su segundo nivel colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia aproximada de 34 pies 6 pulgadas con el Apartamento identificado con el número 252503; por el SUR, en una distancia aproximada de 35 pies 4 pulgadas con el Apartamento identificado con el número 252502; por el SUR, en una distancia aproximada de 15 pies 10 pulgadas con exterior; y por el OESTE, en una distancia aproximada de 20 pies 2 pulgadas con exterior. La puerta de entrada de este Apartamento está situada en el primer nivel en su colindancia Este a través de la cual se llega a los elementos comunes generales, por los cuales se obtiene acceso a la vía pública. En su primer nivel este Apartamento consta de recibidor exterior, sala-comedor, cocina, un baño, lavandería, escaleras que permiten el acceso al segundo nivel, terraza y patio. En su segundo nivel esta Apartamento consta de pasillo, baño, tres habitaciones, una de ellas con “walk-in closet” y baño. Le corresponde un espacio de estacionamiento doble identificado con el número 106. Tiene una participación de 0.006995% en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio. Este Apartamento conlleva una participación con los demás titulares en los elementos comunes de y a través del Condominio Jardín Sereno que se relacionan en la finca matriz equivalente al porcentajes o porcentajes que se expresan en la citada inscripción de dicha finca, derecho que regirá por las disposiciones de la ley y por el Reglamento AdministrativVo del Condominio. Consta inscrita al folio 172 del tomo 983 de Carolina Norte, finca número 41259, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Carolina. Propiedad localizada en: Condominium Jardin Sereno Apt 2501, Carolina, PR 00983. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $190,168.29, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria
una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 1RO DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $126,778.86, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $95,084.14, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 8 DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $131,607.90 de principal, intereses al tipo del 3.500% anual según ajustado desde el día 1ro. de septiembre de 2019 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $16,650.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 04 de abril de 2023. GRETCHEN
M. JEREZ SEDA, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS-
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
TRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. WILMINGTON SAVINGS
FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS CERTIFICATE
TRUSTEE OF BOSCO CREDIT II TRUST SERIES
2017-1, BY FRANKLIN
CREDIT MANAGEMENT AS SERVICER
Plaintiff, v. LAURA MALDONADOCASILLAS A/K/A LAURA EMMA MALDONADOCASILLAS
Defendant CIVIL NO: 19-1400. IN REM.
NOTICE OF SALE.
TO: LAURA MALDONADO-CASILLAS
A/K/A LAURA EMMA MALDONALDOCASILLAS
WHEREAS, Default Judgment was entered on August 22, 2022, published on November 3, 2022, in favor of Plaintiff the aggregated amount of $118,159.02, consisting of principal, interests which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at $16.33 daily and other charges, plus the amount of $10,192.00 to cover costs, expenses and attorney fees as agreed in the Mortgage Note in the event judicial foreclosure and collection action. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder, the sale will take place at: Federico Degetau Federal Building, Room 150, 150 Carlos Chardon Street, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00918; this sale is regarding the following property belonging to the Defendant, located at the following physical address: Condominio Medical Center Plaza, Apt. 812 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00912, and described in the Property Registry as follows: URBAN:
HORIZONTAL PROPERTY:
Apartment for residential use number eight hundred and twelve on the plot plan, which is part of the building called Condominium Medical Center Plaza, built on a plot of land of the Monacillos ward of the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, whose apartment It is located on the ninth floor of the building, with access door to a corridor for circulation, which communicates with the exterior of the building. This apartment has a surface area of six hundred eightyfour-point ninety square feet, equivalent to sixty-three point sixty-five square meters and consists of the following facilities. Living room, balcony, kit-
chen with counter, room with its auxiliary closet and bathroom. It adjoins by the NORTH, with the corridor for circulation; by the south, with the front yard; by the EAST, with the apartment number eight hundred and eleven; by the WEST, with apartment number eight hundred thirteen. It corresponds to this apartment and therefore also marks number eight hundred and twelve the parking space for a car located in the parking area at the basement level. The linear measures are this apartment are the following; In front is twenty-two ten inches, equivalent to six point seventy-four meters, in the background is thirty feet zero inches corresponds a share in the common elements equivalent to fifty-five percent point.” Property number 22169, recorded at page 281 of volume 696 of Monacillos, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III of San Juan. The property is described in the Spanish language in Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico as follows: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal. Apartamiento para uso residencial marcado número ochocientos doce en el plano, el cual forma parte del edificio denominado Condominio Medical Center Plaza, construido en una parcela de terreno del Barrio Monacillos del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, cuyo apartamiento está localizado en la novena planta del edificio, con puerta de acceso a un pasillo para la circulación, que lo comunica con el exterior del edificio. Este apartamiento tiene un área superficial de seiscientos ochenta y cuatro punto noventa pies cuadrados equivalentes a sesenta y tres punto sesenta y cinco metros cuadrados y consta de las siguientes facilidades. Sala-comedor, balcón, cocina con mostrador, habitación con su closet, closet auxiliar y baño. Colinda por el NORTE, con el pasillo para la circulación; por el SUR, con el patio delantero; por el ESTE, con el apartamiento número ochocientos once; y por el OESTE, con el apartamiento número ochocientos trece. Le corresponde a este apartamiento y por lo tanto también se marca número ochocientos doce, el espacio de estacionamiento para un automóvil localizado en el área de estacionamiento al nivel del sótano. Las medidas lineales de este apartamiento son las siguientes: de frente, veintidós pies diez pulgadas equivalentes a seis punto setenta y cuatro metros de fondo, treinta pies cero pulgadas equivalentes a nueve punto quince metros. Con un porcentaje en los elementos comunes de cero punto cincuenta y cinco por ciento. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof.
It shall be understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect, it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREFORE, the first public sale will be held on June 9, 2023 at 9:30 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $101,920.00, pursuant to the “Deed of First Mortgage”, Deed Number 13 of November 30th 2007, before notary public Jorge Alberto Maisonet Rivera, duly recorded at Page 110, Volume 929 of Monacillos, 8th inscription, recording of the Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III of San Juan, securing a mortgage note payable to the Plaintiff, and no lower offers will be accepted. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on June 16, 2023 at 9:30 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted will be two-thirds the amount of the minimum bid, the sum of $67,946.67. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction shall be held on June 23, 2023 at 9:30 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted will be one-half of the minimum bid, the sum of $50,960.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. The files and all the documents corresponding to the procedure initiated will be shown at the court’s office during working hours. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 4 day of April 2023. Joel
Defendants Civil Action Num.: 16-cv-2657. (RAM). Matter: FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.
ALFREDO
WHEREAS: On February 8th, 2023, Default Judgment was entered and grated on same day, in favor of Plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal amount of $142,668.90, plus interests at a rate of 6.875% per annum since April 1, 2016, which continues to accrue until the debit is paid in full, late charged on the amount of 5.00% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment is due, all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($11,352.50) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
RondaFeliciano, Appointed Special Master, Email: rondajoel@me.com Tel: 787-565-0415.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT
WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the Court, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property described in Spanish: URBANA: Solar número treinta y dos (32) del Bloque “D” del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Los Robles radicada en el Barrio Hato Nuevo del término Municipal de Gurabo con un área de trescientos punto treinta (330.30) metros cuadrados. En lindes, por el NORTE, en trece (13.00) metros, con Cementerio de Gurabo; por el SUR, en trece (13.00) metros, con la calle número tres (#3); por el ESTE, en veintitrés punto diez (23.10) metros con el lote número trein-
ta y uno (#31); y por el OESTE, en veintitrés punto diez (23.10) metros, con el lote número treinta y tres (#33). Enclava una casa de una sola planta construida de concreto y bloques para una sola familia. The property is identified with the number 8,822 and is recorded at Page number 122 of Volume number 230 of Gurabo, in the Registry of Property of Caguas. The deed of mortgage is recorded on Page 124 of volume 230 of Gurabo, land # 8,822, second inscription. The deed of modification # 115 of September 9, 2013 is recorded as 3rd inscription, property # 8,822. Property address: Urbanización Los Robles, Calle 3 D-32, Gurabo, P.R. 00778. The deed of mortgage recorded on Page 124 of Volume 230 and the modifications recorded at the Karibe volume of Gurabo, Property Registry of Section II, Caguas, Second Inscription. WHE-
REAS: This property is subject to the following liens described:
Senior Liens: Notice of Lis Pendens, issued by the Federal Court for the District of Puerto Rico, in the civil case number 02-1453HL, by United States of America, for the amount of 31,772.72, annotated at page 124 of volume 230 of Gurabo, property number 8,822, 2nd inscription, as an Abbreviated Entry on July 17, 2012, by virtue of Law number 216 of December 27, 2010 (Filed for record on April 9, 2002, at Entry 240 of Daily Book 508). Junior Liens: NONE. Other Liens: NONE. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 16TH DAY OF MAY OF 2023, AT: 9:15 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $148,022.28. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 23RD DAY OF MAY OF 2023, AT: 9:15 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $98,681.52, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 30TH DAY OF MAY OF 2023,
AT: 9:15 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $74,011.14, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The undersigned Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the undersigned Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 10th day of April of 2023. Pedro A. Vélez Baerga, Special Master, 787-672-8269.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. MICHELLE DENISE ARMBRUSTER ACEVEDO
Demandada
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV06350. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.
LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada MICHELLE DENISE
ARMBRUSTER ACEVEDO, y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 6 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de
$189,990.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: 2505 PORTALES DE ALTAMESA, SAN JUAN, PR 00926, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento designado coma 2505 del Condominio Portales de Altamesa, ubicado en Avenida San Alfonso del Barrio Las Lomas del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, compuesto de área de apartamento de 1,247.2694 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 115.8751 metros cuadrados, compuesto de sala, comedor, cocina, lavandería, 3 cuartos dormitorios, dos baños, balcón, uso de azotea que sirve de terraza abierta y uso de azotea que sirve de terraza cubierta, escalera interna para ganar acceso a las terrazas superiores, siendo sus colindancias; por el Norte, en 29’3” con pared exterior que a su vez lo conecta con elemento externo y espacio aéreo; por el Sur, en 29’3” con pared externa que a su vez lo conecta con elemento externo y espacio aéreo; por el Este, en 41 ‘2” con medianera que lo separa del apartamento 2506 y con área de pasillo y escaleras que facilitan acceso al apartamento desde el primer piso, su salida hacia las áreas comunales y provee acceso a las apartamentos inferiores y por el Oeste, en 44’8” con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento 2606. Este apartamento tiene el disfrute de las áreas comunes generales de uso limitado a las que se tiene acceso par media de escalera internas. Esas áreas están compuestas por la azotea o terraza abierta que ubica inmediatamente encima designadas coma áreas de terraza abierta y área de terraza cerrada compuesta conjuntamente de 1,306.3420 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 121.3631 metros cuadrados, compuesta de área abierta y área cerrada siendo sus colindancias; par el Norte en 29’3” con pared exterior que a la vez lo conecta con elementos externos y espacio aéreo; por el Sur, en 29’3” con pared exterior que a su vez lo conecta con elementos externos y espacio aéreo; par el Este, en 42’1” con pared que lo separa de la azotea que tiene para su disfrute el apartamento #2506 y por el Oeste, en 44’8” con pared que lo separa del área de azotea que tiene para su disfrute el apartamento 2606. Estas áreas de azotea son de uso común limitado y podrán las titulares del apartamento hacer uso exclusivo del mismo. Será de su responsabilidad el uso armónico de las mismas dentro de las limites dispuestos por el Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal,
el Reglamento y la Ley de Propiedad Horizontal. Será de su responsabilidad el mantenimiento y limpieza de esas áreas. Le corresponden a este apartamento 2 estacionamientos designados con el #2505 en la hoja de plano unida al plano de inscripción así coma una participación equivalente a 1.00897661% de los elementos comunes generales del condominio. Finca 27057 inscrita al folio 152 del tomo 924 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituida par Michelle Denise Armbruster Acevedo, soltera, en garantía de un pagaré, aff#. 5294, a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria P.R., o a su orden, por $189,990.00, al 6.875%, vencedero el 1 de septiembre de 2037, según Esc. #304, en San Juan, a 3 de agosto de 2007, ante Miriam Velez de Montañez, inscrita al folio 152 del tomo 924 de Monacillos, finca #27057, inscripción 2da. y última, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 8 de diciembre de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $149,934.37 de principal, más intereses al 6.875% anual que continuarán acumulándose a partir del 1 de junio de 2021 hasta el saldo total, $686.51 de cargos por atrasos, $18,999.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 24 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA , en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $189,990.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 1 DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $126,660.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 8 DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo
lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $94,995.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia
del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de abril de 2023. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN. ****
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ISABELA. Island Portfolio Services, LLC Como Agente de Fairway Acquisitions Fund, LLC
PARTE DEMANDANTE vs. Héctor Y. Cabán González
PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: IS2022CV00160.
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: Héctor Y. Cabán González - URB MEDINA
C-5 CALLE 14 ISABELA, PUERTO RICO 00662
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Ledo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfon.o (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose.aguilar@orflaw.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Isabela, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de marzo de 2023. En Isabela, Puerto Rico, el 15 de marzo de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, Sec Regional.
Irene Curbelo Medina, Sec Auxiliar Tribunal I.
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AÑASCO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, como agente de ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
DEMANDANTE vs. ALICIA GARCÍA CARRERO
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM.: AÑ2022CV00213
SALÓN: 0001 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: Alicia García CarreroBo. Marías 304 Calle Las Flores Añasco, PR 00610
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. Extendido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, en Añasco, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de febrero 2023. En Añasco, Puerto Rico, el 28 de febrero de 2023.
Lic. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria Regional II, Lizbeth Vázquez González, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE BAYAMON ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, como agente de ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
DEMANDANTE VS. ROBERTO
OLVER AGOSTO
DEMANDADO
CIVIL NÚM.: BY2022CV04131
SALÓN: 502 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: Roberto Olver Agosto - Bo. Guaraguao Carr 174 K 11.4 Bayamón, PR 00956 1 HC 69 Box 15922 Bayamón, PR 00956. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de marzo de 2023. Em Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 7 de marzo de 2023. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional. Sandra Báez Hernández, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. LA SUCESIÓN DE AGUSTÍN RIVERA
TIRADO COMPUESTA
POR AGUSTÍN RIVERA LÓPEZ, EMILIO MIGUEL RIVERA LÓPEZ, HÉCTOR LUIS RIVERA LÓPEZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS BELÉN LÓPEZ CARRASQUILLO T/C/C
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, sí el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 18 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA
I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE UTUADO SALA SUPERIOR
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JOSÉ JULIÁN
RODRÍGUEZ NEGRÓN; YAHAIRA GONZÁLEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: UT2023CV00037.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S.
A: YAHAIRA GONZÁLEZ POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON JOSÉ
JULIÁN RODRÍGUEZ NEGRÓN, POR ELLA MISMA Y POR CONDUCTO DE JOSÉ
JULIÁN RODRÍGUEZ NEGRÓN.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A.
Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 009366603. Tel. (787) 919-0073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 13 de abril de 2023. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA GENERAL. YAMARIS ESTRONZA MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBIUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO. JESÚS RODRÍGUEZ ORTIZ
Demandante v. BIADNY MIREY A JIMÉNEZ IZQUIERDO; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. HU2022CV01713.
SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS.
A: BIADNY MIREY A
JIMÉNEZ IZQUIERDO
7 Alturas del Este, Humacao, PR 00791; Calle U car #244, Hacienda Borinquen, Caguas, PR 00725 PO Box 890, Humacao, PR 00792-0890;
771 Urb. April Gardens, Las Piedras, PR 00771. Se le notifica que en la Demanda radicada en el caso de epígrafe se alega que el 17 de febrero de 2009, se otorgó un pagaré a favor del Portador, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $10,000.00 de principal, sin intereses, y vencedero a la presentación, ante el Notario Manuel Maldonado Pérez, garantizado mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 39, inscrita al tomo 206 del tomo 554 de Humacao, finca 22302, inscripción 7, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es la finca número 22302 inscrita al folio 120 del tomo 484 de Humacao, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La obligación evidenciada por el pagaré antes descrito fue saldada en su totalidad. Dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el original del pagaré. El original del pagaré antes descrito no ha podido ser localizado, a pesar de las gestiones realizadas. El Portador es el acreedor que consta en el Registro de la Propiedad. Biadny Mireya Jiménez Izquierdo fue la última tenedora conocida del pagaré antes descrito. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al
tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber I sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
LCDO. JAVIER MONTALVO
CINTRÓN
RUA NÚM. 17682
DELGADO & FERNANDEZ, LLC PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750, Tel. (787) 274-1414 / Fax (787) 764-8241
E-mail: jmontalvo@ delgadofernandez.com
Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 1 de febrero de 2023. Ivelisse C Fonseca Rodriguez, Sec Regional Auxiliar. Michelle Guevara De León, Sec Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE CAROLINA
MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P.
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE AUGUSTO CÉSAR
HIRALDO COTTO, TCC AUGUSTO CÉSAR
HIRALDO CORTIJO Y COMO AGUSTO CESAR
HIDALGO COMPUESTA
POR VANESSA HIRALDO
RIVERA Y JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO
POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS; LA SUCESIÓN DE HAYDEE
RIVERA SÁNCHEZ
COMPUESTA POR
VANESSA HIRALDO
RIVERA JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS; ADMINISTRACIÓN
PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES, Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte Demandada
Caso Civil Núm.: CA2020CV00094. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE
SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta 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, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $47,877.75 de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 9.95% anual desde el primero de diciembre de 2017, hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad por concepto de cargos por demora devengados desde el primero de enero de 2018, más la suma de $4,792.89 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera 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 radicado en la Urbanización El Conquistador situada en el Barrio Carraízo del municipio de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, marcado con el numero veintiséis (26) de la manzana B, con una cabida de trescientos cuarenta y dos metros cuadrados con cuarenta y siete centímetros (342.47). En linderos por el Norte, con el solar veintisiete (27) distancia de veintitrés metros (23.00), por el Sur, con el solar veinticinco (25) en veintitrés metros (23.00), por el Este, con los solares veintitrés (23) y veinticuatro (24) distancia de trece metros con seiscientos noventa y cuatro metros (13.694) en arco y por el Oeste, con la Avenida Diego Velázquez distancia de dieciséis metros (16.00) en arco. El inmueble antes descrito contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Inscrita al folio doscientos setenta y dos (272) del tomo ciento noventa y ocho (198) de Trujillo Alto, finca numero diez mil cincuenta y cinco (10055), Registro de San Juan IV. Dirección Física: Urbanización El Conquistador, B 26, Trujillo Alto, PR 00976. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 5 DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $47,928.99 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 12 DE JUNIO DE 2021, A LAS 9:15 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 $31,952.66. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 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 $23,964.50. 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico a 11 de abril de 2023 GRETCHEN
M. JEREZ SEDA, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN JUNTA DE RETIRO DEL GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO ANTES SISTEMA DE RETIRO DE LOS EMPLEADOS DEL GOBIERNO, SISTEMA DE RETIRO DE LA JUDICATURA Y SISTEMA DE RETIRO DE LOS MAESTROS
Demandante V. REYES MORALES GONZÁLEZ; SARA
GONZÁLEZ NEVÁREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandada
Civil Núm.: TA2023CV00102. Sobre: ACCIÓN IN REM Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S.
A: REYES MORALES GONZÁLEZ POR SÍ Y EN REP. DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON SARA GONZÁLEZ NEVÁREZ. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto.
Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder
utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 009366603. Tel. (787) 919-0073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 14 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA
I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC.
Demandante V. MISAEL CHRISTIAN HERNANDEZ LEBRON
T/C/C MISAEL
HERNANDEZ LEBRON; SU ESPOSA MADELINE RIVERA LUNA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: FECI2016-00851.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN
GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 3 de abril de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la Tercera Planta del Edificio B del Condominio Parque del Arcoiris, localizado en la Carretera Ochocientos Cuarenta y Ocho (848), Kilómetro Veintiuno Interior (Km. 21 Int.), Barrio Las Cuevas, Sector Saint Just, del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, el cual se describe en la Escritura Matriz de Dedicación al Régimen
de Propiedad Horizontal con el número, área y colindancia que se relacionan continuación: Apartamento número: trescientos veintitrés (323). Área del Apartamento: noventa y dos metros cuadrados con dos mil diezmilésimas partes de otro (92.2010 m.c.). En lindes: por el NORTE, en seis metros con setenta y cinco centésimas partes de otro (6.65m) con espacio abierto; por el SUR, en cinco metros con veintiuna centésimas partes de otro (5.21m) con espacio abierto; por el ESTE, en diez metros con cincuenta y nueve centésimas partes de otro (10.59 m) con pared medianera que lo separa del Apartamento identificado con el número trescientos veinticuatro (324); y por el OESTE, en dieciséis metros con veintisiete centésimas partes de otro (16.27 m) con pared medianera que lo separa del Apartamento identificado con el número trescientos veintidós (322). Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Este que da al área del pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que le brindan acceso al Edificio. Consta de balcón, sala-comedor, una (1) habitación-dormitorios con su closet, un pasillo que brinda acceso a las siguientes áreas: cocina, área de lavandería, un (1) baño completo de uso general, una (1) habitación- dormitorio con su closet, y una (1) habitación dormitorio principal (master room) en la cual ubican un área de “walk in closet” y un (1) baño completo. Le corresponden a este Apartamento dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento identificados con los números trescientos veintitrés (323) y trescientos veintitrés A (323-A). A este Apartamento le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio de punto cero cero cuatro siete cinco cinco (.004755) por ciento. Inscrito al tomo de hoja móvil 651 de Trujillo Alto, finca número #30,229, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de San Juan. Según pagaré, la propiedad ubica en: Parque del Arcoiris, Apartamento B-323, Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico 00976. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día el 10 de julio de 2017, notificada el 7 de agosto de 2017, y publicada en periódico de circulación general, The San Juan Daily Star, el 14 de agosto de 2017 en el presente caso civil, que se desglosa de la siguiente manera: La cantidad adeudada según la Sentencia, asciende a la suma de $166,714.45 por concepto de principal; $73,151.68 por concepto de principal; $109.64 por concepto de intereses acumulados; los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada
en este pleito y la suma de $9,480.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente (“Sentencia”). La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 5 DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA será por $104,280.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 12 DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS
9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carolina, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será por $69,520.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 20 DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carolina, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será por $52,140.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti-
vas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que 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. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de abril de 2023. HÉCTOR
PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN
JUAN SALA SUPERIOR
BAUTISTA CAYMAN
ASSET COMPANY
Demandante V.
R.B. TOWN AND COUNTRY CORPORATION; SUCESIÓN DE RICARDO
BENÍTEZ ROSES T/C/C
RICHARD BENÍTEZ ROSES COMPUESTA
POR LA VIUDA LOLLIE MALDONADO LEMA, Y FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE RICARDO BENÍTEZ ROSES T/C/C RICHARD BENÍTEZ ROSES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV00421. (508). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: R.B. TOWN AND COUNTRY CORPORATION; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RICARDO
BENÍTEZ ROSES T/C/C RICHARD BENÍTEZ ROSES. URB. PUNTA LAS MARÍAS, 2434 CALLE LOÍZA, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00913; PARK BOULEVARD APARTMENTS
CONDOMINIUM, #8-E, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00913; 2434 CALLÉ LOÍZA, PUNTA LAS MARÍAS, SANTURCE, PUERTO RICO 009134730; 2434 CALLE LOÍZA, PUNTA LAS MARÍAS, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00913; 2434 CALLE LOÍZA, PUNTA LAS MARÍAS, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 009134745.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda Enmendada de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, reclamando unas sumas adeudadas que, al 15 de enero de 2023, son las siguientes: Suma no menor de $550,991.62 la cual se desglosa como sigue:
(i) $269,420.00 por concepto de principal; más
(ii) $225,869.38 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a razón de $71.10 diarios; ma’s
(iii) $4,877.49 por concepto de cargos por demora; más
(iv) $824.75 por concepto de otros gastos; más (y) la suma de $50,000.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado pactados expresamente por las partes; más los gastos que se continúen acumulando conforme a los términos y condiciones estipuladas entre las partes en los documentos de préstamo objeto de esta acción. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a:
Ferraiuoli
Lcdo. Luis G. Parrilla Hernández PO. Box 195168
San Juan, PR 00919-5168
Tel.: 787-766-7000 /
Fax: 787-766-7001
lparrilla@ferraiuoli.com
Abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda Enmendada dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar 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 represente por derecho propio. 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. Se le apercibe que conforme al Art. 1578 del Código Civil, 31 LPRA sec.11021 y Banco Comercial de P.R. y. García, 51 D.P.R. 735 (1937); B.B.V.A. y. Latinoamericana, 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005), los codemandados antes mencionados tienen un término de treinta (30) días para informarle al Tribunal si aceptan o repudian la herencia de la causante. En caso de que usted no manifieste su declaración sobre la aceptación de la herencia dentro del plazo correspondiente se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 19 de abril de 2023. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA I. RÍOS LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
LEGACY MORTGAGE
ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1
Demandante V. DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION
AHORA BANCO
POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS
Demandado(a)
Civil: GB2022CV00095. Sala: 202. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.
(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 4 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se
considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de abril de 2023. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 20 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING
Demandante V. MOISES D. PEDROZA GUTIERREZ
Demandado(a)
Civil: HU2022CV01059. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: MOISES D. PEDROZA
GUTIERREZ: A SU DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: HC 15 BOX 16208
HUMACAO, PUERTO RICO 00791-9706; P/C LIC. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO. (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 19 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 20 de abril de 2023. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 20 de abril de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. ILEANETTE RIVAS SERRANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. JESÚS COTTO MARCANO
Demandado(a)
Civil: TA2022CV00799. Sala: 502. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JESÚS COTTO MARCANO - URB
PALACIOS DEL RIO II 700 CALLE GUAJATACA TOA ALTA PR 00953.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 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 20 de abril de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 20 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA I. BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO B FERNANDEZ & HNOS INC
Demandante V. PUERTO RICO FRESH FOODS INC
Demandado(a)
Civil: AI2022CV00414. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: PUERTO RICO FRESH FOODS INC P/C DE SU AGENTE RESIDENTE GILBERT ACOSTA Y/O
(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 17 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 19 de abril de 2023. En Aibonito, Puerto Rico, el 19 de abril de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARIBEL AVILES RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. MARIA MERCEDES ARROYO RODRÍGUEZ
Demandado
Civil Núm.: BY2023CV01646. (703). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS (IN REM). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: MARIA MERCEDES ARROYO RODRÍGUEZ.
C-37 SAN JUAN BAUTISTA ST., REPARTO FLAMINGO DEV., BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO 00961-4449.
De: BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO.
Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto.
Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y
Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este es caso de Ejecución de Garantías IN REM. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.
Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 15693 PO Box 194089, San Juan, PR 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 20 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA RALI INVESTMENTS, LLC
Demandante v. RG PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
CIVIL: NÚM. CA2023CV00046 SALA 409 SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE. (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 17 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 20 de abril de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 20 de abril de 2023. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretaria. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ
FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN FELICIANO SÁNCHEZ, ET AL.
Demandados
Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV01949.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: RAMÓN FELICIANO NEGRÓN; DELMA FELICIANO NEGRÓN; EDISON FELICIANO TORRES; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN FELICIANO SÁNCHEZ.
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.ramajucial.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, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. 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 Demandada 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 principal global de $29,405.82, la cual se desglosa a continuación: una suma principal de
$29,049.18 más intereses a razón del 3.00% anual desde el 1 de junio de 2022 hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma principal diferida (piggy back) de $356.64 la cual no genera intereses, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribuciones, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a $3,600.00. por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará 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: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento A-105, sito en el Condominio Plaza El Batey, el cual ubica en el Barrio Ensenada del municipio de Guánica, Puerto Rico. El apartamento tiene un área superficial de 822,861 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 76.439 metros cuadrados. Su configuración es de carácter rectangular. Colinda por el NORTE, con Calle Los Artesanos, en 23 pies con 10 pulgadas de otro; por el SUR, con Calle Las Flores, en 23 pies con 10 pulgadas de otro; por el ESTE, con el apartamento número A-106 en 37 pies 1 pulgada; y por el OESTE, con el apartamento número A-104 en 37 pies 1 pulgada. Este apartamento consiste de una sala, un comedor, una cocina, tres cuartos dormitorios con sus “closets” un baño, área de laundry y un balcón. El apartamento tiene su puerta principal conectando a un jardín que constituye un elemento común de donde se obtiene acceso al exterior del edificio. El apartamento A-105 participa en los gastos, ingresos y derechos en los elementos comunes generales de Plaza El Batey en 3.33 por ciento del total. A este apartamento le corresponde el estacionamiento designado número 105. Consta inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 218 de Guánica, Finca número #7,411, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Germán. SE LES ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación ele la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de la DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN FELICIANO SÁNCHEZ. De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LES APERCIBE
que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. A 20 de abril de 2023. LIC. NORMA G. SATANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
NILDA TORRES ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
REVERSE MORTGAGE
FUNDING LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESION IRIS
YOLANDA PEREZ
ESTREMERA T/C/C IRIS
Y. PEREZ ESTREMERA
T/C/C IRIS PEREZ
ESTREMERA T/C/C IRIS
YOLANDA PEREZ T/C/C
IRIS Y. PEREZ T/C/C IRIS
PEREZ COMPUESTA
POR YOLANDA MATIAS
PEREZ, JUAN MATIAS
PEREZ, YANIRA MATIAS
PEREZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POS
IBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00894.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: YANIRA MATIAS
PEREZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION IRIS
YOLANDA PEREZ
ESTREMERA T/C/C IRIS
Y. PEREZ ESTREMERA T/C/C IRIS PEREZ
ESTREMERA T/C/C IRIS
YOLANDA PEREZ T/C/C IRIS Y. PEREZ T/C/C IRIS
PEREZ.
El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Transcurridos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia
o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada. “Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia de la causante IRIS YOLANDA PEREZ ESTREMERA T/C/C IRIS
Y. PEREZ ESTREMERA T/C/C IRIS PEREZ ESTREMERA
T/C/C IRIS YOLANDA PEREZ
T/C/C IRIS Y. PEREZ T/C/C IRIS PEREZ. Se les apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó , la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP, TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700, 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309, Tel. (954) 343 6273, Fax. (954) 343 6982. Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 31 de marzo de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ, SECRETARIA. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
SUCESIÓN DE JAVIER
AYALA DELGADO COMPUESTA POR KEVIN
AYALA QUIÑONES; CHRISTIAN AYALA QUIÑONES; ALANA JESSENIA AYALA MENGUAL; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; RAMOS MARIE LISA MONTAÑEZ; CRIM
Demandado(a)
Civil: HU2022CV00403. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: KEVIN AYALA QUIÑONES, CHRISTIAN AYALA QUIÑONES A SUS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS URB. ESTANCIAS DE LOS ARTESANOS, O-30, CALLE SERIGRAFÍA, LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00771;
URB. ESTANCIAS DE LOS ARTESANOS 165 CALLE SERIGRAFÍA, LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00771 Y 3303 PASEO DEGETAU, CAGUAS, PR 00727; ALANA JESSENIA AYALA MENGUAL; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JAVIER AYALA DELGADO A SUS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS URB. ESTANCIAS DE LOS ARTESANOS 165 CALLE SERIGRAFÍA, LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00771. P/C LCDO. ROBERTO CARLOS LATIMER VALENTÍN. (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 20 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 21 de abril de 2023. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 21 de abril de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de FAJARDO.
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante v.
BRENDA RODRIGUEZ ROBLES
Demandado(a)
Civil: RG2022CV00434. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: BRENDA RODRIGUEZ ROBLES, URB RIO
(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 19 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 20 de abril de 2023. En FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, el 20 de abril de 2023. WANDA SEGUI REYES, SECRETARIA. F/LINDA I MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA 607-609
CONDADO ST., LLC.
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE AMEDE CHARDÓN VÁZQUEZ, COMPUESTA POR
FREDERIC CHARDÓN
DUBOS, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL; SUCESIÓN DE YVELINE
DUBOS NOCCIOLINI, COMPUESTA POR
FREDERIC CHARDÓN
DUBOS, KRISTIANNE CHARDÓN QUIÑONES, FREDERIC E. CHARDÓN
QUIÑONES, MÍA SARA CHARDÓN QUIÑONES, REBECA SÁNCHEZ DE LARACUENTE Demandado(a)
Civil: SJ2022CV00712. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: SUCESIÓN DE AMEDE CHARDÓN
VAZQUEZ COMPUESTA
POR FULANO DE
TAL; FULANA DE TAL; SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL; DIRECCIÓN: URB. VALLE
ARRIBA BD13 CALLE
NARANJO, CAROLINA PR 00983; SUCESIÓN DE YVELINE DUBOS NOCCIOLINI COMPUESTA POR
KRISTIANNE CHARDON
QUIÑONES. DIRECCIÓN: 7901 MERCHANTS WAY JACKSONVILLE, FL 32222; CARR. 110 KM 20.9
BO ACEITUNA, MOCA PR 00676; 770 CALLE URANET A SAN JUAN, PR 009; FREDERIC E. CHARDÓN
QUIÑONES; DIRECCIÓN: 770 CALLE URANETA
SAN JUAN PR 00924; 1112 KINAU ST # 303
HONOLULU, HI 96814, CARR. 110 KM 20.9 BO ACEITUA, MOCA PR 00676; REBECA SÁNCHEZ DE LARACUENTE; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL -PO BOX 4953 CAROLINA, PR 00984; 719 CALLE CALAIS CAROLINA, PR 00982.
P/C LCDO. ALEJANDRO BELLVER ESPINOSA. COND. EL CENTRO I SUITE 801, 500 MUÑOZ RIVERA AVE., SAN JUAN,PR 00918.
(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 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 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 21 de abril de 2023. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 21 de abril de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ARLENE GUZ-
MÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ
WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA Demandante V. EX PARTE Demandado(a) Civil: PO2022CV01828. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: COLINDANTE DEL ÁREA NORTE: FAMILIA FLOR ALVARADO, POR NO CONOCER SU PARADERO, NI ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA A PESAR DE LOS ESFUERZOS REALIZADOS, A LOS QUE TENGAN CUALQUIER DERECHO REAL SOBRE EL INMUEBLE, ASÍ COMO A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS Y AUSENTES A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DE DOMINIO SOLICITADA P/C LIC. FABIOLA DE JESUS VEGA PARA SER PUBLICADA POR EDICTO.
(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 8 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 17 de abril de 2023. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 17 de abril de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. DORIS A. RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
The Green Bay Packers traded quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets earlier this week, ending a threeyear power struggle between the Packers and one of pro football’s greatest passers.
After a relatively lengthy negotiation process, the Jets agreed Monday to trade the No. 13 overall pick in this year’s draft, as well as two later-round picks and a conditional second-round pick in the 2024 NFL draft, in exchange for Rodgers, the No. 15 pick and a later-round pick. The trade, which was confirmed by a person with knowledge of the terms who was not authorized to speak publicly, was first reported by ESPN.
The deal for Rodgers had been imminent since March, when he said on “The Pat McAfee Show” that he intended to play for the Jets this season. In the six weeks since that confirmation, Jets and Packers leadership publicly said that the trade would happen, but the teams did not come to terms until three days before the NFL draft was scheduled to begin in Kansas City, Missouri.
Packers General Manager Brian Gutekunst said in a news conference Monday that it was “unfortunate and disappointing” that he had not talked with Rodgers since the season ended, but that he was “really excited” to move forward with Jordan Love, who had sat behind Rodgers for the past three seasons.
Since quarterback Joe Namath led the Jets to their only Super Bowl appearance, a victory in 1969, the franchise has struggled to find a long-term successor. The team has used first-round picks to try to fix the position: Richard Todd in 1976, Ken O’Brien in 1983, Chad Pennington in 2000, Mark Sanchez in 2009, Sam Darnold in 2018, and Zach Wilson in 2021.
In the promising 2022 season, the Jets began 6-3 behind one of the best defenses in the league and a talented offense. But lackluster quarterback play was the team’s most glaring deficiency, and it ultimately kept the Jets out of the playoffs for the 10th straight season. Now the Jets get Rodgers, who should position the team as championship contenders.
Rodgers, 39, spent 18 seasons in Green Bay, where he won the league’s Most Valuable Player Award four times, most recently in 2020 and 2021. But he had grown increasingly discontented with the franchise’s direction and his lack of input on personnel decisions.
Rodgers became the Packers’ starter in 2008, three years after the team drafted him with the 24th overall pick out of California, Berkeley. He replaced Hall of Famer Brett Favre, who had delivered one title in 16 seasons in Green Bay before the Packers traded him to the Jets.
Rodgers quickly eased fans’ nostalgia for Favre. After a six-win season in his first year as a starter, Rodgers made the Pro Bowl in the 2009 season after leading the Packers to an 11-5 record. In his third season as a starter, Rodgers and Green Bay won a Super Bowl title over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He followed the championship with arguably the best season of his career. Rodgers won his first MVP Award, finishing with the most passing yards (4,643) of his career, and the highest quarterback rating (122.5) in NFL history. Rodgers also holds the record for the second-highest quarterback rating, 121.5, set in the 2020 season.
Favre became the first and only quarterback to win MVP in three consecutive seasons from 1995 to 1997. Starting in 2003, the award was traded between Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, two generational quarterbacks who won six of nine MVP Awards before Rodgers crashed the party.
Rodgers became a face of the NFL, noted as much for his endorsements with State Farm and Adidas as for posting some of the best statistical performances of any quarterback of his era. But another championship eluded him and the Packers, while Brady, Manning, Ben Roethlisberger and Patrick Mahomes have all won at least two Super Bowls.
The Packers lost in the NFC championship game five times with Rodgers under center, a playoff obstacle that revealed the fissure between the quarterback and his team beginning in January 2020 after a blowout loss to the San Francisco 49ers in that round.
Before that year’s draft, Rodgers criticized the Packers for not using first-round picks on wide receivers who could pair alongside the then-starter Davante Adams. “We haven’t picked a skill player in the first round in 15 years, so that would be kind of cool,” Rodgers said in an interview.
Green Bay team executives that year drafted quarterback Love with the 26th overall pick, a move that seemed to echo Rodgers’ selection in 2005 when a veteran Favre was the team’s starter.
Rodgers responded with one of his best seasons, leading the league in completion percentage (70.7) and touchdown passes (48) — and another loss in the conference championship game.
That offseason, Rodgers stewed privately and in public appearances on podcasts, and even as he guest-hosted the TV game show “Jeopardy!” The tension reached a head in April 2021, when ESPN reported that Rodgers had asked to be traded.
In July 2021, Rodgers skipped mandatory minicamp but later attended training camp, addressing the rift in his first news conference. “I just expressed my desire to be more involved in conversations directly affecting my job,” he said, explaining his desire for more of a role in the team’s personnel decisions.
But the season was defined as much by Rodgers’ performance as the reasons for his absences. He tested positive for the coronavirus in November, months after he had told reporters that he was “immunized” against the disease. Rodgers that month decried the league’s vaccination mandate and “woke culture” in two podcast interviews. The NFL later fined him $14,650 for violations of the protocols for unvaccinated players, which included not wearing a mask during his weekly news conferences and attending a Halloween party.
Despite the conflicts, Rodgers again excelled in the 2021 season, throwing 37 touchdown passes to just four interceptions, leading the NFL in passer rating and guiding the Packers to a 13-4 record during another MVP campaign. The team lost in the divisional round of the playoffs, but that offseason Rodgers signed a threeyear contract extension with a reported $150 million in guaranteed money.
In March 2022, the Packers traded Adams to the Las Vegas Raiders, and the Packers’ offense struggled. Green Bay missed the playoffs, losing its final game of the season to the Detroit Lions, a team Rodgers has beaten 18 times in his career.
As reports of Rodgers’ interest in the Jets hit social media in the weeks leading up to the trade, Jets players openly vied for his services. Ahmad Gardner, the Jets cornerback known as Sauce, wore a Packers fan’s cheesehead hat after the team beat Green Bay last season. He burned the hat alongside other Jets teammates on a video meant to recruit Rodgers.
The Jets’ campaign for Rodgers came just two seasons after selecting Wilson with the No. 2 overall pick, but Wilson rarely looked the part of franchise centerpiece. He was benched in November 2022, after the offense gained just 2 yards in the second half of a 10-3 defeat to the New England Patriots.
Wilson now enters the third year of his rookie contract expected to play backup behind Rodgers, who received the blessing of the franchise’s most successful quarterback in March. As the Jets sought the trade, Namath invited Rodgers to continue wearing the No. 12, which both quarterbacks share, despite the team having retired the jersey in Namath’s honor.
Rodgers could instead sport the No. 8, which he wore in college.
The NFL draft is a pinnacle for many players, most of whom have dreamed for years of hearing their names called by Commissioner Roger Goodell in front of millions of TV viewers.
But in 2020, as players celebrated reaching the professional ranks, the broadcast zoomed in on their personal tragedies.
In one widely condemned instance, as Tee Higgins, a wide receiver from Clemson University, was chosen 33rd overall by the Cincinnati Bengals, he pulled on the team’s cap and hugged family and friends who sat beside him in Knoxville, Tennessee. ESPN then showed viewers a graphic that, among other biographical details, spotlighted his mother’s past drug addiction.
It was one of several such gloomy instances in what is otherwise a celebratory event enjoyed by millions of football fans on television, but one that comes with aspects that can be dehumanizing to the people who should be its stars. Viewers learned, for example, that the sister of receiver Jerry Jeudy, whom the Denver Broncos selected 15th overall, had died while he was in high school. The package introducing Michael Pittman Jr., a receiver taken 34th by the Indianapolis Colts, revealed his stutter. Trevon Diggs, a cornerback picked 51st by the Dallas Cowboys, was noted to have lost his father to heart failure in 2008.
The spotlight on the heartbreak in the lives of the players selected, most of whom are Black, by producers of the broadcasts aired by ESPN and the NFL Network drew criticism for wading in socalled tragedy porn, an indulgent focus on personal trauma.
“We still think that’s a big deal, to acknowledge the obstacles they’ve had to overcome in their journey to the NFL,” said Seth Markman, who has led ESPN’s draft coverage for 11 years, and who apologized to Higgins in 2020. “But what we realized that year is that we can probably do a little better job balancing and making sure that not every story is about those obstacles and those backgrounds. Not everybody has to be a kind of a cliched bit of storytelling, if you will, and I think that year it was.”
Markman and his counterpart at NFL Network, Charlie Yook, said they have
also become more mindful of not focusing repeatedly on troubles in the prospects’ lives.
“You don’t want everyone to cry every time,” Yook said. “This is a celebration of a dream coming true. It’s not a game of gotcha. We want to tell your story and it will be unique to the player.”
It isn’t the only part of the draft process that has been called out for its indignities. As the NFL last year reevaluated the workouts, medical testing and physical measurements that players undergo before the draft, Troy Vincent, a league vice president who is Black, reportedly told team owners that the scouting combine had characteristics of a “slave market.”
“We just feel like the overall experience, talking to the players, we can be better in that particular aspect,” Vincent said of his meeting with team owners in March 2022. “So there was, I would say, a good discussion around what that looks like, where we could be, keeping in mind that the combine is the player’s first experience with the National Football League, and in that experience, there has to be dignity.”
The scouting combine is an annual audition for 300 college players who are interviewed by team personnel, given medical exams and perform drills in front of team scouts and coaches. After widespread complaints from agents and players — including some prospects who declined to attend the event — the league
now holds workouts on one day, instead of across two.
It streamlined the sharing of medical records so players don’t have to be tested several times. The interview process has also been standardized after complaints about intrusive questions. And the league last year stopped administering the Wonderlic test, a 50-question IQ exam long criticized for racial and socioeconomic biases, replacing it with the S2 Cognition test.
Players undergo only one full orthopedic exam, with the results presented to all 32 teams, and there is no longer a built-in window for teams to administer their own behavioral assessment tests.
Despite these changes, perhaps the most potentially dehumanizing aspect of the combine remains: Players still wear skintight outfits during drills as dozens of mostly white scouts evaluate their physical attributes.
Joby Branion, a longtime player agent, said the process has “hints of slavery.”
He added: “It’s about as dehumanizing at that moment in this process as it can be. It ain’t about you. It’s about how your body looks.”
This year, 17 top prospects will attend the first round of the draft in Kansas City, Missouri, on Thursday, with the league paying for airfare and hotels for the players and several of their family members and friends. There, they’ll wait to hear their names called in the draft’s green room, which the NFL said will feel more
like a living room than the stiff-table setup used in past years, when some prospects waited in partitioned rooms.
Markman said the networks have also reduced some of the close-up shots of players fretting as they wait to hear their names.
Still, the evening can quickly and unpredictably turn sour if a player’s name is not called for hours, or at all. The potential for that stress and embarrassment is why Brad Blank, a longtime agent who represented former offensive lineman D’Brickashaw Ferguson, former defensive lineman Chris Canty and other top players, tells his top prospects to skip the draft.
But some players ignored Blank’s advice because they viewed the draft, including the chance to wear their new team’s cap, hold up a jersey and hug Goodell on national TV, as a rite of passage.
Blank recalled the mother of one top prospect pushing back hard against his advice.
“She lambasted me: ‘This is our moment. We’re going and we’re going to hug the commissioner,’” Blank said.
Markman said ESPN began moving away from zooming in on players in the green room after 2013, when quarterback Geno Smith sat through the entire first round without getting picked.
“Every time someone got picked, the camera would look at me, and it created this perception of negativity that wasn’t there,” Smith said.
Figuring his name wasn’t going to get called, Smith left before the end of the first round so he could celebrate his mother’s birthday. His departure, though, led to suggestions that he was bitter.
“As TV producers, we were sort of like, this is going to capture ratings and this is going to be a juicy storyline, and make sure we have cameras with these guys,” Markman said. Now, “we don’t need to show these kinds of guys who are supposed to be having the best days of his life and it turns into a nightmare. Let’s not take advantage of him in this situation.”
Smith, now with the Seattle Seahawks, said he did not realize how he was portrayed until afterward. He had not planned on returning the next day, but his mother persuaded him to attend.
When the New York Jets drafted Smith in the second round with the 39th overall pick, he visibly exhaled as cameras trailed him to shake hands with Goodell and his voice cracked as he described his relief in an interview.
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Answers on page 30
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
This will be a day rich in reflection, Aries. You’re able to observe what is going around you while still retaining your distance. Other people’s ambitions will seem amusing to you as they play their parts more like caricatures than real people. Stepping back like this does you good. You should do it more often.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Some long-awaited recognition could come your way today, Taurus. You’re finished with the hassles you’ve experienced recently and have now entered a calmer period. Those who could only criticize before can’t find enough words to praise you. Take the compliments at face value. There’s nothing wrong with being happy with yourself.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
You have a day of profound reflection ahead. While you may be tempted to think about how far you’ve come, your time would be better spent thinking about what the future holds. You’ve entered a period of rethinking your identity and objectives. These aren’t small things. You will need every ounce of energy at your disposal to make it through this time of transition.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
This would be an ideal day to take extra good care of your body, Cancer. Don’t kid yourself that those back problems will just go away - ditto that pain in your knee. Pick up the phone and make that appointment with the physical therapist. It won’t hurt you to set aside your ambition and responsibilities for one day.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
You may have recently modified the material aspects of your life. Was it sufficient to stop there? More profound changes might be in order. Take a look at what motivated you to create the life you live now. Pay special attention to the choices you’ve made in your professional life. Are you sure you’re doing what you were meant to do? Are your talents being used to their fullest?
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
This will be a great day to meditate, Virgo. You may be a bit dissatisfied with yourself because your various projects have yet to take form. You’re impatient, but who wouldn’t be? This waiting period has lasted for about two months, but will soon end. The planets ask you to consider only what is essential. Don’t allow yourself to start new projects based on anything superfluous.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
It’s an excellent day, but be careful not to go overboard. You might be tempted to think that minor financial difficulties are already behind you. Alas, they are not. What you do today provides the blueprint for your future. Continued efforts to stabilize your behavior will provide the future security you desire.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
You’re in the home stretch now, Scorpio! Kiss your worries goodbye. Your efforts pay off in spades as people listen to your advice and bend over backward to please you. Although certain details in your love life still need ironing out, it’s safe to coast for a while. You’ve spent months in this process of self-transformation and you deserve a little rest.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
Your life certainly seems to revolve around human contact. You’re an outgoing, cheerful, engaging conversationalist who enjoys bringing people together, though lately you’ve been yearning to be alone. Sagittarius, don’t ignore any urge you feel for solitude. Even though it’s an unusual need for you, it’s still a valid one.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
Sometimes friends become a person’s real family. Your friendships are deep and enduring. Many people are eager to give you help today, so why are you reluctant to receive it? Haven’t you been the one promoting the benefits of warm, sincere friendship? The day ahead makes you aware of your talents and reinforces just how important such friendships really are.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
You’ve made it over the hump, Aquarius. You’ve moved beyond the problems of the recent past and are entering a more peaceful phase. You will complete your projects at work, and your domestic life will be the picture of bliss and harmony. Enjoy this period of rest and relaxation. It will soon be followed by a period of intense longing requiring your total attention.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
The outlook for today is excellent, Pisces. The current alignment of the planets and the somewhat oppressive atmosphere of the past few days inspire you to change your surroundings and visit new places. Why not plan a little trip? All signs indicate that now is the best time for such an adventure. If you delay, you will feel stuck in the same old rou-
