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According to the most recent publication of the 2022 Survey of Jobs and Wages by Occupation, the average hourly wage in Puerto Rico reached $15.54, Labor and Human Resources (DTRH by its Spanish initials) Secretary Gabriel Maldonado González said Wednesday.
“The world of work has undergone a transformation and paradigm shift in how employee-employer relationships work,” the labor chief said. “Today, the employee has much more control over the terms and conditions under which he or she decides to work for one employer or another, including compensation. On our island, we are also experiencing an economic resurgence whose effect has been to have a historically low unemployment rate, as well as a labor participation rate and total number of people in the work force and employees that were not seen for more than a decade. Together, all of these variables have created a high demand for additional employees, while we have come very close to the peak of the number of people who are traditionally available for work.”
“This, in turn, creates a fierce competition between employers to hire and retain talent, which, added to initiatives to increase the minimum wage promoted by the governor, Pedro Pierluisi, tend to increase the salary earned by Puerto Ricans,” Maldonado González said.
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($17.06); public and private educational services ($16.97); health and social assistance services ($14.39); real estate, rent or lease ($13.81); construction ($13.38); arts, entertainment and recreation ($13.33); other services ($12.39); retail ($12.33); administrative services, waste management and remedial services ($11.29); housing and food services ($10.67); agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting ($10.18).
By segregating the data by minimum education level, as typically required by occupational classification, the new report reflected the following average hourly wage: doctorate or professional degree ($36.88); master’s degree ($21.82); bachelor’s degree ($25.09); associate degree ($16.93); nongraduate degree ($12.47); some non-undergraduate college ($12.56); high school diploma or its equivalent ($13.52), and occupations that do not require a formal education credential ($10.37).
Maldonado González also noted that according to Law No. 47-2021, also known as the Minimum Wage Law, the minimum wage in force on the island amounts to $8.50 per hour and will increase to $9.50 per hour as of July 1, with another scheduled increase amounting to $10.50 that is expected to enter into force on July 1, 2024.
The report highlights that in addition to the increase in the average hourly wage to $15.54, the median hourly wage also increased, to $11.29. The previous year, those figures were $14.65 and $10.93, respectively.
Among the occupations with the highest average hourly wage in Puerto Rico in 2022, the following stand out: executive directors ($62.62), advertising and promotions managers ($58.99), obstetricians and gynecologists ($58.68), industrial production managers ($53.90), directors of architecture and engineering ($53.14), general pediatricians ($50.25), judges and magistrates ($48.54), marketing managers ($47.90), pharmacists ($46.40), air traffic controllers ($46.11), chemical engineers ($41.87), detectives and criminal investigators ($41.14), veterinarians ($40.72), medical and health services directors ($40.70) and purchasing managers ($38.65).
The highest average hourly wages among the major industry groups are: utility workers ($26.85); professional and technical services ($23.35); management of companies and enterprises ($22.98); information ($20.22); finance and insurance ($20.05); federal, state and local government, with some exceptions ($18.49); wholesale trade ($17.52); manufacturing
Regarding projects associated with executive branch government agencies that are related to the reconstruction of Puerto Rico and are financed totally or partially with federal funds, workers in the construction industry who work on such projects are subject to a minimum wage of $15 per hour in the case of skilled employees and $11 per hour for non-skilled employees.
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The 2022 Survey of Jobs and Wages by Occupation highlights that in addition to an increase in the average hourly wage to $15.54, the median hourly wage in Puerto Rico also increased, to $11.29. For the previous year, those figures were $14.65 and $10.93, respectively.
Office of the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel (OPFEI by its Spanish initials) President Nydia Cotto Vives confirmed Wednesday that the office has included the mother of Rep. Mariana Nogales Molinelli, along with one of the corporations involved in a complaint referred by the island Justice Department, in a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, May 3.
“Charges are going to be filed against a natural person and a legal entity,” Cotto Vives said in a radio interview.
The official noted that after a preliminary investigation by the Justice Department, prosecutors Ramón Mendoza and Miguel Colón were assigned to thoroughly investigate the complaints against the Citizens Victory Movement legislator. The charges will not only be for the initial complaints, but also for other elements found during the investigation, Cotto Vives said.
The OPFEI president also rejected statements made by Nogales Molinelli, who called the matter a hoax, ensuring that legal representation was notified each time an extension
was granted to prosecutors.
“Truly, this irresponsibility of attacking oversight institutions no longer has limits,” Cotto Vives said. “The panel does not initiate investigations. This investigation was initiated before the Department of Justice with complaints from both the Government Ethics Office and two senators [Thomas Rivera Schatz and Gregorio Matías of the New Progressive Party].”
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia weighed in on Wednesday saying “[t]he justice system has to be the same for everyone, particularly elected officials, government officials.”
“Here what party they are from must be irrelevant and, likewise, what their ideological positions are, none of that is relevant,” the governor said. “The important thing is that they comply with the law. We are talking about the Government Ethics Act and other provisions of the Penal Code. We’ll see what the court decides.”
“Without getting ahead of the facts, what I have seen is that the entities have fulfilled their mission,” he added. “I speak of the Department of Justice at the level of the preliminary investigation and the FEI panel at the level of appointing independent special prosecutors.”
Senate Education, Culture and Tourism Committee
Chairwoman Ada García Montes requested information Wednesday from Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés and Public Safety Secretary Alexis Torres Ríos on actions taken to deal with threats of active school shooters.
The request for information comes after an unfounded report that an active shooter would attack Manuel García Pérez High School in Rincón.
“What happened on Monday caused the activation of a protocol in all the schools in Rincón, which created
chaos because it was not known for sure which school was under threat,” García Montes said in a written statement.
Schools in the area were on lockdown or lockout during the event.
“That seems unacceptable to me since it deals with the lives of teachers, teaching and non-teaching staff, as well as students, among others,” the senator added.
García Montes expressed the need for schools to provide training against active shooters just like they do for earthquakes and tsunamis.
“Students, parents, and teachers deserve to know that schools are safe places for everyone,” she said.
The senator added that the staff of the Senate Education Committee is conducting an analysis that includes the filing of legislation to address the problem.
Puerto Rico had 990 local court bankruptcy petitions filed between January and March, representing a 2.8% year-over-year (YoY) increase from the same period in 2022, according to a Boletin de Puerto Rico report.
Between January and March 2022, some 963 island residents and businesses filed bankruptcy petitions, the report stated. From January to March of this year, 670 cases were filed under Chapter 13, while 305 cases were filed under Chapter 7. A total of 13 Chapter 11 cases were filed between January and March, 85.7% more than the seven filed during the same time frame in 2022, according to the report.
A chapter 13 bankruptcy is also called a wage earner’s
plan. It enables individuals with regular income to develop a plan to repay all or part of their debts. The biggest difference between Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 is that Chapter 7 focuses on discharging (getting rid of) unsecured debt such as credit cards, personal loans and medical bills, while Chapter 13 allows you to catch up on secured debts like your home or your car while also discharging unsecured debt. Chapter 11 bankruptcy allows business entities and individuals with large amounts of debt to reorganize their financial affairs.
The document showed that total debt in bankruptcy filings for the first quarter of 2023 amounted to nearly $106.6 million, 0.93% less than the $107.6 million recorded during the same three-month period of 2022. Of the approximately $106.6 million in the January-March period, about $52.5
million was secured debt and $50.2 million was unsecured debt. According to the report, about $3.9 million was classified as senior debt.
Justice Department prosecutors went to court wearing blue jeans in 13 island judicial districts on Wednesday as part of the International Denim Day campaign in solidarity with victims of sexual abuse and in repudiation of sexual assault.
The initiative seeks to educate and promote the rejection of misconceptions about rape whereby victims are often blamed.
Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández said in a written communication: “At the Department of Justice we join the Denim Day campaign today to alert and guide [the public] about it. We encourage victims to report sexual abuse. In prosecutors, they have a voice that defends their rights and seeks to achieve justice for them.”
The secretary cited various misconceptions about rape, such as blaming the victim for causing the crime or believing that the allegations are often false. The Denim Day campaign emerged 24 years ago in Los Angeles, inspired by a case in Rome where a rapist’s conviction was overturned because of the victim’s clothing.
Chief Prosecutor Jessika Correa González said the use of denim is a manifestation of the rejection of misconceptions about sexual violence and a way to promote changes in the justice system to support victims. The initiative is part of the Department of Justice’s activities during Victims’ Rights Week, April 24-28.
Also on Wednesday, on the occasion of Sexual Violence Prevention and Awareness Month, the Office of the Women’s Advocate began an orientation campaign on the prevention of sexual violence.
The initiative, which will be published through social networks and in different mass media, will explain in detail what should be done in the event of sexual assault, abuse or rape, and what victims face in the aftermath of sexual violence.
Similarly, the campaign includes the themes of revenge and lewd acts. It also offers information and figures on victims who report being raped by an acquaintance, as well as the profile of
the aggressor.
“We want women to know and be able to identify what sexual violence is, to be alert and put a stop to this abusive and common pattern that unfortunately occurs daily at the hands of people known or as strangers in any scenario of our lives,” said the designated women’s advocate, Madeline Bermúdez Sanabria.
In addition, “all this week we will have personnel assigned to the University Athletic League Fair [Justas] in Mayagüez, guiding youth on the prevention of sexual violence, in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Police and the Committee on Women’s Affairs of the House of Representatives, chaired by Jocelyne Rodríguez Negrón, who will be distributing our telephone number at the sporting event,” Bermúdez said.
Sexual violence can cause anxiety, depression, fear, disorientation, confusion, and feelings of helplessness, guilt, shame and low self-esteem, among other effects, in victims, she pointed out.
“We emphasize in this campaign, as we do every day on our social platforms, that the Office of the Women’s Advocate is available 24/7 to educate, guide, help and listen to people who want to report this or any pattern of abuse,” Bermúdez added.
She encouraged citizens to contact the office through its confidential line, 787-722-2977.
Meanwhile, the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics announced on Wednesday the creation of a “Femicide Statistics” section to improve access to data and fight against violence against women.
The institute’s executive director, Dr. Orville Disdier, said in a written communication that the tool will allow greater visibility and updating of statistics. Between 2021 and 2022, 40 femicides were registered on the island.
Mariluz Bezares, the statistical project manager at the institute, said that in 2021 there were 23 femicides, while in 2022 there were 17 cases. The information comes through a collaboration with the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, the Institute of Forensic Sciences and the Health Department’s Demographic Registry. Disdier stressed the institute’s commitment to using innovative
technology and having accurate information to design effective public policies in the fight against gender violence.
Bezares, who also coordinates the institute’s Puerto Rico Violent Deaths Notification System (PRVDRS), noted that in 2021, six of every 10 homicides in which the victim was a women were femicides, and in 2022, three of every 10 homicides involving female victims were femicides.
Other data emerging from the new tool include:
Victims of femicide by firearms:
* In 2021, 61% of intimate femicides were with firearms.
* In 2022, 77% of intimate femicides were with firearms. Intimate femicides by age group:
* In 2021, 61% of intimate femicides occurred among women between the ages of 25 and 44.
* In 2022, 54% of intimate femicides occurred among women between 45 and 64 years of age.
Other:
* Nine is the total number of femicides between 2021 and 2022 in which the aggressor committed suicide after killing the victim. Of these, eight were in the context of intimate femicide and one was in the context of family femicide.
* As of March of this year, a total of four cases of femicides had been registered.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Wednesday described as pragmatic the decision by Public Housing Administrator Alejandro Salgado Colón to return $60 million from the federal Emergency Rental Assistance program in exchange for $45 million to build 160 units of public housing.
“Some criticize for the sake of criticizing,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “In other words, what I saw in the report itself is that more people were served than the federal government estimated we were going to serve. They estimated that we were going
to serve 55,80 people and more than 80,000 have already been served. What happens in Puerto Rico is that our market is different. The rental market, rental fees in Puerto Rico are substantially lower than in the states. That is why a greater amount was allocated than was actually … going to be disbursed. So, what Mr. Salgado has done, and he explained it very well, is to go ahead and establish an agreement that, yes, disburse 75% of the funds that we had, that we have, that we have received in a second round, which allows a large part of those funds that you say are returned to be given another use. Then we can build rental housing, which would then be available to the same population.”
“I find Mr. Salgado’s position very pragmatic. The only criticism I saw that they say is that more should have been announced, but I know that it was announced in the media constantly and what has happened in both the first round and the second is that a lot of people have been served, more than the federal government expected,” Pierluisi added. “But again, it is that the fees are not so high and that is why the [full] amount allocated is not consumed.
As Salgado explained to El Nuevo Día, the determination is a strategy aimed at accelerating the pace of spending
that allows reaching 75% of the obligation – of the totality of the $240 million from the American Rescue Plan Act – in order to receive the remaining 25% of the funds for the development of housing for rent.”
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As part of Aerostar Puerto Rico’s plan to turn Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU) in Carolina into a green space, the Airports Council International (ACI) has granted the facility environmental accreditation for initiatives that will reduce carbon emissions.
The carbon footprint is an environmental indicator that reflects the totality of greenhouse gases emitted by an activity, in this case, airport operations. The greenhouse effect is one of the leading causes of global warming.
Aerostar Puerto Rico President Jorge Hernández expressed satisfaction with the distinction that recognizes the company’s efforts in completing an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions and, on that basis, creating a plan with the strategies that would reduce those emissions efficiently and sustainably.
“We are taking the steps to become a green airport,” Hernández said. “In this sense, our affiliation with ACI and its Carbon Footprint Accreditation Program (ACA) has been of great help. We are pleased to have completed the inventory of gas emissions and the accreditation of the first stage. With this knowledge as a base, we can implement a strategy to reduce emissions.”
The measures are part of the regional organization’s ACA. The ACI brings together more than 270 airports in the region that covers Latin America and Caribbean
countries and territories. Only 40 airports out of 394 in the United States are part of this accreditation program.
The ACA is the industry standard for airport carbon emissions management certification and consists of four levels. The first is the measurement of the carbon footprint. SJU fully complied with Level I and therefore received the first accreditation granted under the program.
“Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport is committed to advancing in the program and reaching the next levels in the coming years,” Hernández said, while noting the importance of membership in the ACI.
ACI member airports manage 95% of commercial air traffic in Latin America and the Caribbean, receiving more than 570 million passengers.
“We are pleased to welcome a new airport in the Latin American and Caribbean region into the ACA program,” said Rafael Echevarne, the general director of ACI-LAC. “Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport joins the group of 71 airports in Latin America and the Caribbean that have certified their environmental efforts.”
“The ACA program supports airports to measure and manage their carbon emissions and is one of the main initiatives that we promote in the area of sustainability,” he added. “We appreciate Aerostar’s effort to reduce the impact of its operations and thus be part of the world community of airports with the greatest environmental awareness.”
With its four levels of accreditation covering all stages of carbon management (measurement, reduction, optimization and neutrality), the ACA program is independently administered and institutionally endorsed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Environment Program, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the United States Federal Aviation Administration and the European Commission.
The San Sebastián Municipal Assembly has approved Resolution No. 66 to investigate possible irregularities in the operations of the Northwest Consortium. The decision was taken amid growing concerns on the part of the municipal administration of San Sebastián regarding the consortium’s operations.
The Northwest Consortium is an organization dedicated to training the workforce and encouraging job creation in the northwestern region of Puerto Rico.
A preliminary probe found that the consortium failed to use $4.4 million from the 2021 program year for training and job creation, and another $5.5 million from the 2022 program.
If the funds for the 2021 program year are not used on or before June of this year, they will be lost. Previously, the consortium lost $7.4 million as indicated by a Puerto Rico comptroller’s audit.
Additionally, the San Sebastián municipal administration is concerned about the expenses incurred in publicity and activities, which amounted to $277,905, and expenses in the development of an internet page of around $105,000.
The consortium also moved its operations to new facilities and selected the most expensive proposal.
To carry out the investigation, the Municipal Assembly created a special commission that will be in charge of closely examining the activities of the Northwest Consortium. The commission will review the financial reports, contracts, job training programs and processes for recruiting employees, among other relevant aspects.
The investigation is expected to be thorough and rigorous so as to obtain a clear understanding of the operations of the consortium. The Municipal Assembly also is calling for the active participation of the community in the investigation process, encouraging citizens to present any information or relevant concern they may have about the operations of the Northwest Consortium.
San Sebastián Mayor Javier D. Jiménez Pérez stressed the importance of guaranteeing that the Northwest Consortium is fulfilling its mission adequately and transparently.
“As representatives of our people, we have to ensure that the organizations that operate in our city are working for the benefit of our citizens and meet the highest standards of transparency and accountability,” the mayor said.
The results of the investigation are expected to be shared with the public once it is complete.
Milagros Cruz was down to her last $75 and sleeping in a car when she heard her mother’s voice guiding her in a dream: My girl, make tamales.
Arizona did not make it easy. Although the state promotes itself as a low-tax, lowregulation haven for private enterprise, it does not allow the sale of perishable foods made at home. So for years, a thriving economy of working-class, mostly Latina home cooks has operated underground, selling tacos, tres leches cakes and chile-dusted corn illegally from living rooms and outside laundromats and soccer games.
Cruz, 41, sells her pillowy green chile and pork tamales near a Phoenix auto parts store and worries about getting cited under a state law that punishes home cooks who break the rules with a $500 fine and six months in jail. She said she would gladly operate legally if she could, but the state offered no way for her to do so.
This month, Republicans who control the state’s fractious Legislature came together with Democrats in a moment of unusual bipartisan accord to try to change all that. They passed a bill that would let Arizona’s home cooks register with the state to legally sell perishable foods like salsas and tamales.
But Katie Hobbs, the state’s new Democratic governor, vetoed the measure last week, citing concerns about the potential for foodborne illnesses, as well as rats and insects in home kitchens.
Her veto set off a ferocious culinary and cultural backlash from the Capitol to kitchens across Arizona, offering a political lesson for the new governor: Do not mess with the tamale makers.
“I respect our governor — I voted for our governor — but this veto, I do not agree with,” said Imelda Hartley, who started her culinary career making tamales from home and now runs her Happy Tamales business in a commercial kitchen. “It’s hurting our Latino community,” Hartley said of the veto.
She said cooking from home was the only realistic choice for immigrants, many of them living in the country without legal permission, who wanted to get a toehold in running a food business. A cook can book time in a shared commercial kitchen more cheaply than renting an entire restaurant or buying a food truck, but Hartley said some of those shared spaces had
long waiting lists and could be hard to reach without a car.
Republicans, who slammed Hobbs for preserving restrictions on small businesses, tried unsuccessfully to override her veto Tuesday, with a rally featuring food vendors outside the Capitol and “Free the Tamales” stickers. But most Democrats stood by the governor, with one Democratic lawmaker deriding the override effort as Republican “pandering” to Latino voters.
Christian Slater, a spokesperson for the governor, said Hobbs would work with lawmakers to balance the interests of small businesses with public health concerns.
The governor’s Democratic allies have applauded her for vetoing or promising to veto other Republican bills, including efforts to limit transgender rights, restrict discussions of race in schools and weaken abortion rights. But some Democrats have also criticized her for killing what is widely being called the “tamale bill.”
They said her move was a slap in the face of Latino constituents who voted for Hobbs and whose support was crucial in a politically fractured state that is about 32% Latino. Critics said her veto would hurt the working-class immigrants that Hobbs had championed during her campaign.
Under Arizona’s tamale bill (or “tamal bill,” to use the Spanish spelling), home cooks
making perishable foods who take a $10 online food safety class, register with the state and label their foods could join the roughly 15,000 people who are already registered as part of Arizona’s legal “cottage food” industry, selling homemade tortillas, cookies, roasted nuts and other foods that do not need refrigeration. Several tamale vendors said they would gladly register with the state if they could.
Informal food businesses are an economic lifeline for thousands of people across the country, many of them women living in the country without legal permission: mango vendors in New York City, boiled-peanut stands along Georgia highways, bacon-wrapped hot-dog stands outside Los Angeles sporting events, and many others.
But it is precarious work, and vendors say they worry about being fined or reported to authorities. In 2019, a woman selling churros in New York City was handcuffed by the police, and last year, a Texas county health department confiscated 25 dozen tamales that a couple was selling illegally from the back of their car.
“I always worry about being cited,” said Javier Lara, 48, who works at a countertop maker and on weekends sells green chile tamales from his kitchen in Phoenix, using a recipe his grandmother taught him. “I make minimum wage; I’ve got to make extra money. Anything I can do to survive in this world.”
The debate over food safety in Arizona could affect many kinds of foods, but it has focused on tamales because they hold a special, Proustian place in Arizona’s culinary soul. Tamales are a staple of Christmases and birthdays, the inspiration for the farming town of Somerton’s December Tamale Festival, and the subject of passionate debate: Lard or no lard? Dough from sweet elote corn kernels or more neutral masa? Wrapped in banana leaves or corn husks?
Nearly a year after that night in the car when Cruz dreamed about her mother’s advice, her new business, called La Tamalería, is growing fast.
Cruz and her wife, Alexandra Herrera, make more than 1,000 tamales by hand every week, cooking huge cuts of beef and pork, slicing dozens of ears of corn and knotting the tamales closed with strands of corn husk, the way Cruz’s mother, who died in 2017, taught her to do.
They began their business in an open-air hallway outside Cruz’s sister’s apartment, but they have since been able to rent their own apartment and also recently moved into a rented kitchen space. Cruz wants to expand the business into a tamale empire, while Herrera hopes to one day start her own business manufacturing construction supplies.
“We’re here making tamales,” Herrera said. “At the end is your dream.”
But not yet. Late on Sunday afternoon, they had a long list of orders and 350 steaming tamales to sell. Herrera packed them into coolers and headed out to the parking lot. Cruz stayed behind to start on the next day’s batch.
The lawyers’ unreconcilable characterizations came on the first day of the trial in the lawsuit by Carroll against Trump, brought under a new law in New York that allows sexual assault victims to sue the people they say abused them, even if the statute of limitations has long expired.
The trial, expected to last one to two weeks, seeks to apply the accountability of the #MeToo era to a dominating political figure. It takes place amid a barrage of legal action aimed at Trump, who is running to regain the presidency and arguing that lawsuits and investigations that he faces are meant to drag him down.
In 2019, after she published her account, he called her allegation “totally false” and said he could not have raped her because she was not his “type.” Last October, he said again, in a post on Truth Social, that she was not telling the truth and that the case was a “complete con job.”
Carroll’s defamation claim is based on those October statements.
Crowley called Trump’s response to the allegations “swift and brutal.”
His lawyer, Tacopina, told the jury on Tuesday that Carroll was “advancing a false claim of rape for money, for political reasons and for status.”
By BENJAMIN WEISER, LOLA FADULU and KATE CHRISTOBEKAlawyer for the writer E. Jean Carroll told a Manhattan jury earlier this week that former President Donald Trump viciously raped her client one evening nearly 30 years ago in a department store dressing room, an assault that she said Carroll, filled with fear and shame, long had kept secret.
“The whole attack lasted just a few minutes, but it would stay with her forever,” the
lawyer, Shawn G. Crowley, said in an opening statement in a trial in U.S. District Court. She told the jury that the case is Carroll’s chance “to clear her name, to pursue justice and to get her life back.”
Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, followed with an aggressive attack on Carroll, contending that her account was untrue and accusing her of exploiting her story for personal gain.
“She became a celebrity and loved every minute of it,” Tacopina said.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to New York fraud charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, and faces a civil fraud lawsuit brought by the state’s attorney general. He is the target of a criminal investigation in Georgia over attempted interference in the 2020 election. In addition, a federal special counsel is examining the discovery of sensitive documents at his residence, as well as his role in the events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol. He has denied wrongdoing in all the cases.
In Carroll’s case, her lawyers will ask the jury to find Trump liable for battery and defamation, and if he is found responsible, to award monetary damages.
Carroll, 79, a former magazine columnist, said nothing publicly about the encounter for decades before publishing a memoir in 2019 that accused Trump of attacking her.
In court on Tuesday, Crowley took the jury through a meticulous account of how Carroll’s chance encounter with Trump at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan began with humor and friendly teasing. She had met him once before and was leaving the store as he was arriving, and he asked her for help picking out a gift for a woman. She agreed, thinking it would make for a funny story, Crowley said.
They made their way up the escalator to the lingerie department on the sixth floor, which was unattended at that hour, Crowley said, adding that Trump eventually maneuvered Carroll into a dressing room and slammed her against a wall. “He pressed his lips against her,” Crowley said.
She said Trump then pulled down Carroll’s tights and sexually assaulted her. Carroll ultimately broke free and fled from the store.
Trump, 76, has denied that he raped Carroll, accusing her of lying and attacking her repeatedly in public statements and on social media, both while in office and after leaving.
Confronting the antipathy many feel for Trump, he added, “We all have to be treated the same way, even if you hate Donald Trump.”
As the judge, Lewis A. Kaplan, took the bench on Tuesday morning, Carroll was seated alongside her lawyers; Trump was not present at the table where his lawyers sat.
Kaplan told the parties advise their clients and witnesses to “please refrain from making any statements that are likely to incite violence or civil unrest.”
“Both parties are well aware of the publicity this case has attracted,” the judge said. He said he was not suggesting either party or their attorneys had “engaged in any misconduct with respect to this trial.” But he made it clear that he was especially focused on the “safety and privacy of the jurors in the case.”
The nine jurors selected for the trial come from Manhattan, Westchester County and the Bronx and work in a variety of industries and jobs. One works for the New York Public Library, another for a hospital and a third as a building janitor.
The jurors will remain anonymous throughout the trial, a decision the judge made in a ruling last month, saying it was “all for your protection.”
“The fewer people who know who you are, the better,” Kaplan told them Tuesday.
After opening statements concluded late Tuesday, Kaplan released the jury, with testimony expected to begin Wednesday.
He then turned to Tacopina and asked if he was correct in assuming that Trump would not be testifying, as Tacopina had said the defense intended to play portions of the former president’s video deposition.
Tacopina responded, “I am not sure, your honor.”
The judge said he had to have an answer this week, adding that the uncertainty was an imposition on court security and staff.
House Republican leaders pressed ahead Wednesday with legislation to raise the debt ceiling while cutting spending and unraveling major elements of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, opening debate on the bill even as they scrounged for support to pass it.
The measure, which would cut federal spending by nearly 14% over a decade, would undo some of Biden’s clean energy tax credits and student loan cancellation plan and impose stricter work requirements for federal nutrition and health programs starting next year. It would be dead on arrival in the Democratic-led Senate and at the White House, where Biden’s advisers have warned that it would draw his veto.
But Speaker Kevin McCarthy, whose reputation and influence were on the line in the steepest test he has faced since winning his post, has described the plan as a way to strengthen his hand as he seeks a debt confrontation with the president.
In a closed-door meeting with Republicans in the basement of the Capitol on Wednesday morning, McCarthy pleaded with his conference to back the measure so he could force Biden to negotiate with him over lifting the debt limit, according to a person who attended the session and described his remarks on the condition of anonymity.
The House was on track to vote on the legislation as early as Wednesday evening, though the outcome promised to be a cliffhanger, given lingering concerns among some Republicans and the party’s slim majority.
The action in the House came after a marathon round of negotiating by Republican leaders that intensified in the wee hours of Wednesday morning and continued all day as McCarthy tried to nail down the votes.
McCarthy agreed to jettison a provision rolling back tax credits that the Biden administration put in place for ethanol, a change demanded by a bloc of Midwesterners. He also agreed to move up by a year, to 2024, the imposition of work requirements for Medicaid and food stamp recipients, bowing to far-right lawmakers who insisted on tougher terms for receiving public benefits.
Biden has demanded that Republicans increase the nation’s borrowing limit
— projected to be reached as soon as this summer without action by Congress — with no conditions. Without a deal to do so, the United States would default on its debt, with potentially catastrophic consequences.
At the White House, Biden repeated that he would not bargain over lifting the debt limit.
“I will meet with McCarthy, but not on whether or not the debt limit gets extended,” he said at a news conference, responding to reporters who asked whether he was willing to see the speaker. “That’s not negotiable.”
It was still unclear whether the modifications had won McCarthy enough votes to pass the plan, which he has conceded has no hope of enactment and is likely to bear little resemblance to any final deal.
“This bill is to get us to the negotiations,” he said Tuesday. “It is not the final provisions, and there’s a number of members who will vote for it going forward to say there are some concerns they have with it. But they want to make sure the negotiation goes forward because we are sitting at $31 trillion of debt.”
Still, some hard-right lawmakers were balking at raising the debt ceiling — a vote some GOP lawmakers have proudly never taken — and demanding more changes
to the bill or commitments on unrelated matters.
With a razor-thin majority and Democrats expected to be united in their opposition, Republican leaders could afford few defections.
Democrats condemned the Republican legislation, assailing it for across-the-board cuts to federal programs, stricter work requirements for qualifying for Medicaid and food stamps, and a rollback of regulatory programs.
They portrayed the plan as tantamount to holding the U.S. economy hostage to farright policy demands and denounced the last-minute changes.
“My analysis of this new plan is that it is even more draconian, even more devastating, even worse, even more mean,” Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the Rules Committee, said after McCarthy’s round of revisions in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. “Your problem with this bill was that it didn’t screw people fast enough.”
House Republicans made the modifications after a group of more than a halfdozen holdouts became vocal about their opposition to the bill.
“I am dubious about Speaker McCarthy’s debt ceiling proposal,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-
Ariz., wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. “Going off the fiscal cliff at the Republicans’ 60-mph plan or the Democrats’ 80-mph plan results in the same thing: a horrific crash.”
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said the proposed spending cuts — which fall well short of what the party once demanded — “wouldn’t move the needle much” and said she did not understand why House Republicans were not backing a more aggressive proposal to strengthen their negotiating hand.
“It’s weak, in my opinion,” Mace said. “And if the president is just going to veto it and say, ‘To hell with all of you,’ then put the best plan forward.”
If House Republicans are ultimately unable to pass the legislation, it would be a monumental failure for McCarthy and his leadership team and embolden Democrats to hold firm to their current stance of demanding a debt ceiling increase with no strings attached.
Conservative groups urged Republicans to approve the bill. Jessica Anderson, the executive director of the lobbying arm of the Heritage Foundation, called it “a strong position for conservatives and a message to the Biden administration that these are the American people’s minimum requirements in the debt ceiling negotiations.”
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. and the majority leader, who has repeatedly called for Republicans to outline their plan to avoid a default, archly advised House Republicans to shelve the bill.
“I urge Speaker McCarthy to stop wasting any more time on this DOA — dead on arrival — bill,” Schumer said. “Time is running out for Congress to work together to avoid catastrophe.”
near its high point in the past year, suggesting investors may believe the storm will be short-lived.
“Companies will not end the standard business practice of including diverse people in ads and marketing because a small number of loud, fringe anti-LGBTQ activists make noise on social media,” Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD, said in a statement. She noted that a 2020 survey the organization conducted in conjunction with Procter & Gamble found that threefourths of non-LGBTQ Americans were comfortable seeing LGBTQ people in ads.
The boycott of Bud Light has divided prominent Republicans and campaign organizations, too. Many have rushed toward the latest front in the culture war, including several 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls.
He cited Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, which has built brand identity and loyalty for decades in part by wearing its roots in the hippie enclave of Burlington, Vermont, and its liberal politics on its sleeve. “Then suddenly that bucket is not just cream and sugar, it’s something else,” he said.
But Anson Frericks, who was Anheuser-Busch’s president of U.S. operations until last year, said that logic didn’t necessarily hold for his former company: a behemoth of a brand with a customer base that was historically divided more or less evenly between the two sides of the country’s increasingly stark partisan divide, and with an identity associated more with Clydesdales, Americana and humorous Super Bowl commercials than social justice.
By CHARLES HOMANSWhen she was named AnheuserBusch’s marketing vice president, Alissa Heinerscheid explained in a recent podcast interview, “I had this super-clear mandate: We need to evolve and elevate this incredibly iconic brand.” Doing that, she said, “means having a campaign that’s truly inclusive.”
But the limits of that mandate, and of how Anheuser-Busch defined “inclusive,” became apparent Friday, when the company announced that Heinerscheid and her boss, Daniel Blake, were on a leave of absence after a wave of right-wing outrage over a Bud Light marketing campaign that involved transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
The backlash and subsequent scrambling provide a lesson in the newly unsettled politics of corporate America. In the past decade, major companies have leaned into liberal social politics that are increasingly anathema to their long-standing allies in the Republican Party and the consumers who vote for them.
Bud Light’s trials this month have underscored the difficulty of straddling that divide. Heinerscheid’s efforts reflected the company’s aspirations of shoring up years of eroding market share among consumers
in predominantly liberal urban areas. Heinerscheid did not respond to a request for comment.
The resulting furor, however, has led to double-digit sales declines in rural redstate markets, where a broader revolt against transgender rights has become central to Republican politics.
“They’ve stepped into a polarized America,” said Benj Steinman, editor of Beer Marketer’s Insights, an industry trade publication. “They’re in the center of the culture wars in a way that no company could possibly want to be.”
On April 1, Mulvaney posted a video on her Instagram account showing off a custom Bud Light can featuring her face, which brand marketers had sent her as part of a March Madness promotion. A backlash and boycott quickly followed, driven by conservative media outlets and personalities including musician Kid Rock, who posted an expletive-laden video on Instagram of himself mowing down several cases of the beer with a submachine gun.
Sales of Bud Light, the largest brand for Anheuser-Busch InBev, dropped 17% by value for the week ending April 15, compared with a year ago, according to one industry report.
Despite the drop, Anheuser-Busch’s stock has barely faltered and is currently
Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and Republican presidential candidate who has campaigned on criticism of corporate progressivism, has raised money off the Bud Light episode, which he argues is emblematic of how top corporate executives are increasingly embracing liberal cultural values at odds with their companies’ consumers.
“I think what Budweiser did would otherwise be inexplicable but for a corporate culture created by some of those topdown forces in American life,” he said.
The extent to which the backlash against Bud Light has affected the company’s sales is unusual. Other companies that have in recent years found themselves the target of ire on the right over race and gender politics, such as Nike and Disney, or on the left over support of former President Donald Trump and his stolen election claims, such as Goya Foods, have paid little for it with consumers.
Americus Reed, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who studies the intersection of social movements and consumer behavior, says that for many companies that have openly embraced racial justice politics and LGBTQ rights in recent years, such gestures reflect an awareness that “it’s another way to differentiate yourselves in a competitive marketplace.”
“There’s an authenticity element to what Ben & Jerry’s does,” said Frericks, who is now co-founder and president with Ramaswamy of Strive Asset Management, an investment firm that has positioned itself against the trend toward socially and environmentally conscious investing.
“When you have these large corporations that have a historic brand identity, it just looks inauthentic when they’re all of a sudden getting involved in these social campaigns.” Anheuser-Busch, he argued, had “lost track of the consumer.”
The company’s backtracking, though, has left it with few defenders.
“This was their opportunity to say, ‘We do stand with the LGBTQ community and specifically the trans community,’” said Stacy Lentz, CEO of the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative, the philanthropic foundation of the historic gay bar in New York.
Lentz is also co-owner of Stonewall Inn, which refused to sell Anheuser-Busch products during Pride weekend two years ago over the company’s support of Republican lawmakers it considered anti-LGBTQ. She said the boycott had led to heartening conversations with representatives from the company, and she had been further encouraged by the promotion involving Mulvaney — and dismayed by its retreat from it.
“They were going after the younger generation,” she said. “But that’s a really hard thing to do on a marketing level, to be all things to all people. And it failed massively.”
The tech-heavy Nasdaq advanced on Wednesday as strong results from Microsoft and Alphabet offset concerns over rising interest rates and their effect on the U.S. economy.
Microsoft Corp climbed 8.1 following upbeat quarterly results and on robust artificial intelligence product sales, while Alphabet Inc inched up 0.5% on a $70-billion share buyback plan and better-than-expected first-quarter report.
Tracking a strong performance in Microsoft’s cloud segment, firms including Amazon.com, data analytics company Datadog, and data cloud giant Snowflake Inc advanced between 3.6% and 8.9%.
Earnings forecasts have improved, with analysts expecting a 3.2% contraction in first-quarter profit for S&P 500 companies compared with a 5.2% decline estimated at the start of the earnings season.
Of the 163 S&P 500 companies that reported firstquarter profit through Wednesday, 79.8% topped analysts’ expectations, as per Refinitiv IBES data. In a typical quarter, 66% companies beat estimates.
“There had been a greater concern that the economy was going to slow down to a more significant extent and so far first-quarter earnings are bucking that trend and looking much stronger than anticipated,” said Greg Bassuk, chief executive at AXS Investments.
Meanwhile, First Republic Bank’s shares hit another record low after a report said the U.S. government was unwilling to engineer its rescue, after the lender reported plunging deposits earlier this week.
PacWest Bancorp gained 14.2% as the regional lender beat estimates for first-quarter profit and managed to stabilize deposit outflows.
The S&P 600 regional banks sub index advanced 1%. Meta Platforms Inc is scheduled to report results after market close on Wednesday.
At 11:54 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 2.12 points, or 0.01%, at 33,528.71 the S&P 500 was up 12.33 points, or 0.30%, at 4,083.96
The Nasdaq Composite index rose 1.23%, or 147.93, at 11,947.09, as per Nasdaq.com.
Investors are keenly awaiting the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision on May 3 for clues on how far policymakers will hike interest rates.
Traders have priced in a 79% chance of the U.S. central bank hiking rates by 25 basis points next week, as per CMEGroup’s Fedwatch tool, with most expecting the Fed to hold rates before starting to cut them later this year.
Reflecting mounting anxiety among investors, the cost of insuring exposure to U.S. sovereign debt rose to its highest since 2011, driven up by unease that the government could hit its debt ceiling sooner than expected.
The U.S. House of Representatives could vote as early
as Wednesday on a bill that sharply cuts spending for a decade in exchange for a short-term hike in the debt ceiling, though it was unclear if it had enough support in the Republican majority to pass.
Among other stocks, Visa Inc inched up 0.2% on reporting better-than-expected second-quarter profit and betting on sustained growth in its payments business.
Activision Blizzard tumbled 11.2% after UK’s competition regulator prevented its takeover by Microsoft on
antitrust concerns.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 1.12to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 1.00-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded five new 52-week highs and seven new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 42 new highs and 300 new lows.
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.
The United States will give South Korea a central role for the first time in strategic planning for the use of nuclear weapons in any conflict with North Korea, in return for an agreement that Seoul will not pursue its own nuclear weapons arsenal, American officials said.
The agreement, which the two sides are calling the Washington Declaration, is a centerpiece of this week’s state visit by President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea, who was meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday. The president plans to host Yoon later in the evening for a state dinner, only the second of his administration.
The visit came at a fraught moment between the two longtime allies after leaked disclosures suggesting the United States had intercepted private conversations within South Korea’s national security council. Classified documents made public in recent weeks recounted conversations among top South Korean officials about American pressure to provide artillery ammunition to Ukraine, despite Seoul’s policy of not arming combatants in active wars.
While South Korea has provided humanitarian aid to Ukraine, it has not supplied weapons directly to the country. Seoul has said it was considering selling 155 mm artillery shells to Washington as long as the United States would be the “end user.” According to the leaked documents, a top South Korean official discussed the possibility of selling shells to Poland on the same condition, while understanding they would be passed along to Ukraine anyway.
During brief opening statements in front of journalists in the Oval Office on Wednesday, neither Biden nor Yoon addressed the matter or responded to questions in advance of a formal news conference scheduled for
the afternoon. But they both lavished praise on each other’s country and hailed the 70year alliance between the United States and South Korea in effusive terms.
Biden called the relationship the “linchpin of regional security and prosperity,” adding, “Today I’m proud to say, Mr. President, that I think our partnership is ready to take on any challenges.”
He mentioned their “shared commitment to stand with Ukraine and defend its democracy against Russia’s assault” without saying anything concrete about any further help he would ask from Yoon.
“Our alliance is an alliance of values based on our shared universal values of freedom and democracy,” Yoon said in response. “It is not a contractual alliance” but an “everlasting partnership.” In perhaps an allusion to the controversy over surveillance, he added, “Together we can resolve any issues between us.”
The two said little about North Korea in the opening statements beyond a general commitment to resolve in the face of the country’s nuclear weapons program. “We’re
doubling down on our cooperation as allies even as the DPRK ramps up its challenges,” Biden said, using the North’s initials without adding anything specific about the nuclear commitments that administration officials previewed.
The new cooperation agreement is closely modeled on how NATO nations plan for possible nuclear conflict, but the U.S. president will retain the sole authority to decide whether to employ a nuclear weapon. While the United States has never formally adopted a “no first use” policy, officials said such a decision would almost certainly come only after the North itself used a nuclear weapon against South Korea.
John Kirby, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, said, “I would caution anyone from thinking that there was new focus on the centrality of nuclear weapons,” despite the wording of the new declaration. “We have treaty commitments to the Republic on the peninsula,” he said, using the shorthand for the Republic of Korea, and “we want to make sure we have as many options as possible.”
The accord is notable for several reasons. First, it is intended to provide assurance to the South Korean public, where pollsters have found consistent majorities in favor of building an independent South Korean nuclear force. Yoon himself mused openly about that option early this year, although his government quickly walked the statement back. He also raised the possibility of reintroducing U.S. tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea, a step that his government has said in recent weeks it is no longer pursuing.
The United States withdrew its last nuclear weapons from Korea in 1991, under the George H.W. Bush administration.
But the second reason it is important is one the Biden administration is saying little about: It edges toward reversing the commitment, going back to the Obama administration, to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. defense strategy. For years, the United States has been improving its non-nuclear strike options, improving the precision and power of conventional weapons that could reach any target in the world in about an hour.
But the South is looking for greater assurance of “extended deterrence,” the concept that the United States will seek to deter a North Korean nuclear strike on the South with a nuclear response — even if that risks a North Korean strike on an American city.
South Korea is a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which prohibits it from obtaining nuclear weapons. So the commitment not to build its own weapons is not new. But nations can withdraw from the treaty, simply by providing notice to the United Nations. Only one nation has done so: North Korea, in 2003. Three countries have not signed the treaty and have developed nuclear weapons: Israel, India and Pakistan.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, spoke by telephone Wednesday, in the first known contact between the two leaders since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Zelenskyy said he “had a long and meaningful phone call” with Xi. The Chinese state news media said the two leaders had discussed “the Ukraine crisis” and their nations’ bilateral relationship.
A summary of the nearly hourlong conversation published by the Chinese state news media made no mention of Russia and did not use the word “war.” Xi reiterated points that Beijing has made in the past, saying that China’s “core position” was to “promote peace and talks.” Xi also said “mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity” was the “political basis of China-Ukrainian relations.” Zelenskyy said on Twitter that the call would help “give a powerful impetus to the development of our bilateral relations.”
The Taliban have killed the leader of the Islamic State cell responsible for the suicide bombing at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and as many as 170 civilians, the White House said Tuesday.
Four senior U.S. officials said that U.S. intelligence analysts became aware in early April that the mastermind of the attack, whom they declined to identify, had died in a Taliban operation in Afghanistan. It was unclear whether the Taliban were specifically targeting the insurgent or if he was killed in one of the increasing number of attacks between Taliban and Islamic State fighters, the officials said.
John Kirby, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, called the Taliban operation “another in a series of high-profile leadership losses” that the Islamic State cell, known as Islamic State Khorasan Province, or ISIS-K, had suffered this year.
The officials said that based on classified intelligence reports — most likely from informants, electronic intercepts or information from allied spy services — analysts concluded with “high confidence” that the chief plotter of the airport attack had been killed. But the officials offered no evidence to support that conclusion or other details about his purported death.
The administration on Monday began calling relatives of the U.S. troops who died in the attack to tell them that the ISIS-K leader had been killed by Taliban security forces in recent weeks. Officials were also sparing with the details they were willing to share with the families.
“They couldn’t give me his name; they couldn’t tell me the details of the operation,” said Darin Hoover, the father of Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover of the Marine Corps, who was killed during the blast.
Darin Hoover said that while he had not expected the military to share everything it knew, the call left him feeling “frustrated, again.”
“I want the administration to take some accountability and responsibility for this,” Hoover said. “Say, ‘We screwed up. It’s not going to happen again.’ It can’t happen again. He gave his life for this. This is what he wanted to do, and this is what happened — and now we’re all being treated like garbage.”
The 2021 evacuation from Afghanistan and its aftermath continue to be a subject of heated debate on Capitol Hill, where Republicans have voiced similar demands of the Biden administration.
GOP lawmakers have accused the administration of being directly responsible for the failures of the exit and condemned administration officials as inept when it comes to the future of counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan. Democrats have largely defended those officials, arguing they did the best they could in a difficult situation and faulting President Joe Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, for making a deal with the Taliban that committed the United States to exit.
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the House Foreign Affairs Committee chair who is running one of the congressional investigations into the Afghanistan evacuation, hailed the reported killing of the terrorist leader responsible for the Abbey Gate attack. He said in a statement that “any time a terrorist is taken off the board is a good day.”
“But this doesn’t diminish the Biden administration’s culpability for the failures that led to the attack at Abbey Gate, and will in no way deter the committee’s investigation,” McCaul added.
There is very limited, if any, information sharing about the Islamic State group between the Taliban and the United States, and the U.S. officials said the United States had no involvement in the attack that killed the cell leader.
ISIS-K and the Taliban have been fighting pitched battles since the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021.
The attack raised ISISK’s international profile, positioning it as a major threat to the Taliban’s abili-
ty to govern the country and, according to U.S. officials, as the most imminent terrorist risk to the United States coming out of Afghanistan.
Biden and his top commanders have said the United States would carry out “over-thehorizon” strikes from a base in the United Arab Emirates against ISIS and al-Qaida insurgents who threaten the United States.
Over the past two years, the Taliban have waged a heavy-handed campaign against ISISK in Afghanistan. So far, their security services have effectively prevented the group from seizing territory or recruiting large numbers of former Taliban fighters bored in peacetime — among the worst case scenarios laid out after Afghanistan’s Western-backed government collapsed.
Still, in the absence of U.S. airstrikes and Afghan commando raids that killed many of its leaders, ISIS-K has spread from its original stronghold in eastern Afghanistan to nearly all of the country’s 34 provinces, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. The group has also carried out major suicide attacks on government buildings and foreign embassies in Kabul.
The attacks have undercut the peaceful
image the Taliban have sought to paint of Afghanistan under their rule, the first stretch of relative calm the country has seen in 40 years and a hallmark promise of the Taliban’s new government. Even as some officials with the Taliban administration promote the successes of raids on purported ISIS-K hideouts, others have outright denied the existence of ISIS-K in the country.
In February 2022, a Pentagon report concluded that a single Islamic State suicide bomber carried out the attack at the Abbey Gate of the airport. The findings by a team of Army-led investigators contradicted initial reports by senior U.S. commanders that militants fired into the crowd of people at the airport seeking to flee the country and caused some of the casualties.
The report also absolved Marines of firing lethal shots into the crowd at Abbey Gate as some officials had suspected because of the large amount of ammunition the Marines had fired after the attack, which took place Aug. 26.
The Islamic State group identified the suicide bomber as Abdul Rahman Al-Logari. U.S. officials say he was a former engineering student who was one of several thousand militants freed from at least two high-security prisons after the Taliban seized control of Kabul 11 days before the attack. The Taliban emptied the facilities indiscriminately, releasing not only their own imprisoned members but also fighters from ISIS-K.
Perhaps the biggest error by the United States after the Abbey Gate bombing would come just three days later. On Aug. 29, U.S. officials, fearful that another suicide bomber would attack the airport, launched a drone strike, hitting a white Toyota loaded with what were likely water canisters, not explosives. The officials who called in the strike had not noticed video footage that showed the presence of at least one child in the area two minutes before the strike.
In the end, 10 civilians, including seven children, were killed.
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As Sudan is ripped apart in a battle between rival generals, one question was swirling around the country Wednesday: Where is former dictator Omar al-Bashir?
Al-Bashir, who was deposed in 2019 after three decades in power, is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. In Sudan, he still faces charges related to the 1989 coup that propelled him to power, and he faces a death sentence or life in prison if convicted.
The uncertainty over his whereabouts was another sign of Sudan’s descent into lawlessness and could deal a blow to the receding hopes of bringing democratic rule to the country.
The latest developments came as a 72hour cease-fire brokered by the United States that began Tuesday held “in some parts,” according to the U.N. envoy to Sudan, Volker Perthes. Some residents of the capital reported a lull in fighting Wednesday, but others were still caught amid clashes and reported hearing heavy gunfire and shelling.
Amid the chaos, it was thought that alBashir, 79, was being held in the Kober prison in Khartoum, the capital, serving a two-year sentence for money laundering and corruption. But then a former official being held with al-Bashir said Tuesday night that he had left the prison along with some other, unnamed officials, without mentioning the former dictator.
That followed a statement by the Sudanese army that inmates had been released after supplies of food, water and electricity to the prison were cut.
Then Wednesday, the army compounded the confusion when it said that al-Bashir and four other top former officials were being held in a military hospital and had been at the facility for health reasons since before the conflict began almost two weeks ago.
In its statement, the army said that alBashir and the four other officials were “still in the hospital under the guard and responsibility of the judicial police.” But it did not provide evidence or photographs of al-Bashir.
In an audio clip circulated on social media and played on television channels across the Arab world, the official who had been imprisoned with al-Bashir, Ahmad Muhammad Harun, said that he and other former government officials had left the prison because of safety reasons and would be responsible for their own protection. He did not mention alBashir.
Harun, a former Cabinet minister and se-
nior official in al-Bashir’s government, is also wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the western Sudanese region of Darfur from 2003 to 2004. Harun said that he would surrender to authorities and appear in front of the judiciary once government agencies were functional again.
The latest developments underscored the immensity of the political turmoil roiling
Sudan and how the infighting between the generals poses a serious threat to the process of restoring democratic civilian rule. At least 459 people and more than 4,000 others have been wounded in the fighting, now in its 12th day, according to the World Health Organization.
With limited access to basic services, thousands of people have also fled the country, making arduous journeys by road into
neighboring nations including Egypt, Chad and South Sudan. And foreign governments have been evacuating their nationals and diplomatic staff.
The fighting in Sudan, which has spread across the country, has pitted the army, led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, against a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces, led by Lt. Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo. Both leaders were long loyal to al-Bashir and linked to a wave of genocidal violence in Darfur that, from 2003 to 2008, left some 300,000 people dead and 2.5 million others displaced.
In 2019, the two generals helped oust alBashir after a popular uprising swept the country. But they also united in undermining a transition to democratic rule and in late 2021 engineered a coup that scuttled a power-sharing agreement between civilian authorities and the military.
Their cooperation lasted until this month, when the two generals and the forces they command clashed in the streets. As they vied for supremacy, both generals have cast themselves as the guarantor of peace and democracy and urged civilians to take their side.
Early Wednesday, both the army and the paramilitary force referenced Harun’s audio and accused each other of helping Harun escape prison. In a statement, the Rapid Support Forces said that his release was part of a process “aimed at restoring the deposed regime.”
In turn, the Sudanese army accused the paramilitary group of attacking several prisons in Khartoum and in the city of Omdurman and of forcing prison officers to release inmates. The army also distanced itself from Harun, who in his audio message had called on the public to support it.
“We are very surprised that he referred to the armed forces, since it does not have any relationship with Ahmad Harun, his political party, or the administration of the country’s prisons, which fall under the responsibility of the Sudanese Ministry of Interior and police,” the army’s statement said.
Addressing the U.N. Security Council by video from Sudan late Tuesday, Perthes, the U.N. envoy, said there was “no unequivocal sign” that either side was ready to negotiate, and he warned of increasing criminality and attempted sexual assaults as thousands fled the country.
“As fighting continues, law and order will further break down,” he said. “Sudan could become increasingly fragmented, which would have a devastating impact on the region. And even if one side wins, Sudan will lose.”
By CHARLES M. BLOW
In the summer of 2013, I participated in a daylong series of talks at the Ford Foundation in Midtown Manhattan. The event, The Road Ahead for Civil Rights: Courting Change, was meant to mark the semicentennial of the civil rights movement.
My panel was in the morning, but I stayed for the lunch session because Harry Belafonte was participating in it, along with the activist Dolores Huerta. I met Belafonte once before, and I was in awe of him. I didn’t know the Belafonte my parents knew, the young, handsome calypso singer. I knew him as an elder statesman for Black America, one whose now gravelly voice seemed to only deepen his solemnity.
Belafonte, who was 86 at the time, did not disappoint. His words that day would change my life. Dressed in a natty cream suit, he was so eloquent and erudite — even poetic at times — that I craned my neck to see if he was reading from a prepared text. But there were no notes that I could see; we were witnessing the brilliance of Belafonte in real time. His words burned with a fire that spared none.
Sitting in the dining room of the Ford Foundation — one of the largest foundations in the world, a citadel of philanthropy — Belafonte said, “I think that philanthropy
is a big part of the problem” because it fails to fund the real change makers. As he put it, he hadn’t been sure that he would go to the event that day because he was tired of begging philanthropies for money, only to have them send back proposals to be adjusted for new criteria, the people in boardrooms “telling the street how to shape language so we can appeal to you for your meager generosity.”
He condemned Black leaders who he believed had been seduced and silenced by the allure of self-import, saying, “The more they threw money at our leaders, the more they gave them electoral power, the more they gave them Black caucuses and progressive caucuses and they could sit in these tiny rooms and dance to their own melody, they completely lost sight of what was going on down below in the communities.”
As Belafonte said, “We’ve become a shadow of need rather than a vision of power.”
He chastised the cessation of pressure on the political establishment after the initial successes of the civil rights movement, saying: “We surrendered to greed. We surrendered to our hedonist joys. We destroyed the civil rights movement. Looking at the great harvest of achievements we had, all the young men and women of our communities ran off to the feast of Wall Street and big business and opportunity. And in that distraction, they left the field fallow.”
He even took time to comment on hip-hop. He liked its street herald beginning but believed that it had become corrupted by corporate greed. “Wall Street heard the jingle, then the merchants stepped in and began to adorn this culture with all the distractions that ultimately took the culture over,” he said.
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But the point about the dampening of radical thought was woven throughout Belafonte’s talk, and it was the part I remembered most. “Where are the radical thinkers?” he demanded.
He explained that at that stage in his life, he spent most of his time “encouraging young people to be more rebellious, to be more angry, to be more aggressive in making those who are comfortable with our oppression uncomfortable.”
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His assessment of President Barack Obama, then in his second term, was harsh and unyielding. He said that Obama had been “a cause for hope, a cause for opportunity and possibilities, and we, I think, endowed that moment with more than the moment was willing to yield.”
He said he didn’t believe that the president saw “his governance in the way that we would like him to see it.” Belafonte continued, “I think the one essential ingredient missing in Mr. Obama’s machine of thought is that he has suffocated radical thinking.”
Here, I diverged. It wasn’t that Obama himself had smothered or suppressed radical thinking but rather that his presence, for society at large, had sucked much of the air out of the room when it came to the discussion of racial issues. That dynamic began to change in 2012 when Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman and after Zimmerman was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges just days before Belafonte spoke. That acquittal and the Black Lives Matter movement that it produced would change Obama and his presidency, including being the genesis for one of Obama’s enduring
It was a warm July day, so after that session, I decided to walk back to The New York Times’ offices, and as I did, Belafonte’s question kept repeating in my head. The reality seized me that I had been playing much too small as a writer, covering and commenting on society and its systems rather than truly challenging them. I was at peril of being serenaded to sleep by professional vanities. I was squandering an opportunity and a responsibility.
Belafonte’s question lived with me henceforth and changed what I wrote and how I wrote it, and a few years ago, it spurred me to write my most recent book, “The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto.” It was the thesis of that book, reversing the Great Migration to consolidate Black power in a few Southern states, that prompted my own move to Atlanta.
I’ve written several columns that mentioned Belafonte, and he invariably called me afterward. I wrote an appreciation of the remarkable lives of him and his best friend, Sidney Poitier, around their 90th birthdays. (They were born a week apart.) A portion of my book that was excerpted in the Times included Belafonte’s inspiration. And I wrote a column last year on Poitier’s death.
Each time, Belafonte expressed his thanks. As I write this, I only hope that I was clear to him in response that I was the one who was thankful. That he had helped me clarify my thinking and my mission at a time when I was at risk of treating them as trifles.
SAN JUAN – Adopta Ahora Inc., organización sin fines de lucro, promueve la adopción de niños y jóvenes de 6 a 17 años con su segunda campaña publicitaria, “Adopta Sueños”, aumentando la visibilidad de cientos de menores en hogares sustitutos esperando ser adoptados en Puerto Rico.
Sylvia Villafañe, presidenta de Adopta Ahora, dijo en comunicación escrita que: “En Puerto Rico hay cientos de niños y jóvenes entre las edades de 6 a 17 años en espera de ser adoptados… Nuestra labor también incluye ayudar en el proceso a las familias que desean adoptar un sueño”.
La primera campaña “Adopta una Historia de Amor” en 2021 contribuyó al éxito en la adopción de niños y adolescentes en hogares sustitutos bajo custodia estatal, generando interés en conocer los procesos de adopción.
La nueva campaña “Adopta Sueños”, creada por DDB Latina Puerto Rico y producida con la colaboración de Luiz Tellez, productor de la película ganadora del Oscar “Pinocchio” de Guillermo del Toro, se lanzará el 26 de abril de 2023 en anuncios de televisión, redes sociales, publicidad exterior y medios digitales. Para más información, visitar www.adoptahorapr.org o llamar al 787349-1135.
S AN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi
Urrutia le recomendó el miércoles a los empleados cobijados bajo la Unión de Trabajadores de la Industria Eléctrica y Riego (UTIER), que hagan la transición a Genera PR, si quieren seguir empleados en la generación de energía eléctrica.
“Lo que está indicando la empresa Genera, es que la gran mayoría del personal de la Autoridad (de Energía Eléctrica) se va a estar trasladando a Genera. Eso sí ocurre es positivo. Otros alegan que algunos no se van a trasladar. Aquí el Gobierno está realmente cumpliendo con la ley de Política Públi -
ca Energética, la Ley de Transformación Energética, ofreciéndoles a estos empleados la oportunidad de escoger. También está dando unos incentivos para que pasen a laborar a general y la decisión es de cada empleado”, dijo el gobernador a preguntas de la prensa.
“Lo que sí puedo decir es que por la información que a mí me llega por diversas fuentes, el personal que está laborando para la LUMA está muy satisfecho con las condiciones de trabajo, la paga. Y yo esperaría que lo mismo ocurra con Genera, así que cada empleado tiene que tomar eso en consideración, porque aquí esto ya es una decisión final y firme. En cuanto a tener esa alianza público privada
a cargo de la generación, el gobierno no va a estar administrando planta generatriz. Así que, si quieren seguir laborando en esa área en Puerto Rico, pues la opción de Genera es una opción que deben explorar”, añadió.
Informes de prensa dan cuenta de que a pesar de los incentivos que ofrece el gobierno y Genera PR para que los empleados que están en la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE) pasen a la empresa privada, hay resistencia a la transición porque supuestamente hay beneficios que van a perder y prefieren ser reubicados en alguna otra agencia.
Genera PR va a administrar, con miras a decomisar en 15 años, las plantas generadoras de la AEE.
for Tito”.
S AN JUAN – El pasado sábado, el percusionista Giovanni Hidalgo rindió homenaje a Tito Puente en un concierto conmemorativo del centenario de su natalicio, en el Anfiteatro Tito Puente en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a pesar de la lluvia.
“La agilidad de sus manos y su musicalidad fueron arrolladoras”, comentó un espectador sobre la actuación de Hidalgo, quien interpretó todos los temas del disco “Tribute To The King”. Además, Hidalgo incluyó un número musical de descarga titulado “Timbales
En el concierto, que duró poco más de dos horas, participaron músicos de renombre como José “Furito” Ríos, Frankie Pérez, Roberto Texeira, Reynaldo Jorge y Toñito Vázquez, entre otros. Las voces de Joel Rosado, Rico Walker y Juan A. Torres acompañaron a los instrumentistas en una noche memorable.
El público pidió un bis, y los músicos regresaron al escenario para interpretar el clásico “Mambo Birdland”, dirigido por Humberto Ramírez. La producción del concierto, a cargo de Joey Mercado y Yamil Joglar, fue calificada como “sencillamente ÉPICA” por los asistentes.
Adopta Ahora lanza campaña para impulsar adopción de niños de 6 a 17 años en Puerto Rico
Of the many (many) job titles you could lay on Harry Belafonte — singer, actor, entertainer, talk show host, activist — the one that nails what he’s come to mean is folk hero.
Not a title one puts on a business card or lists in, say, a Twitter bio. “Folk hero” is a description that accrues — over time, out of significance. You’re out doing those other jobs when, suddenly, what you’re doing matters — to people, to your people, to your country.
Belafonte was a folk hero that way. Not the most dynamic or distinctive actor or singer or dancer you’ll ever come across. Yet the cool, frank, charismatic, seemingly indefatigable cat who died Tuesday, at 96, had something else, something as crucial. He was, in his way, a people person. He understood how to reach, teach and challenge them, how to keep them honest, how to dedicate his fame to a politics of accountability, more tenaciously than any star of the civil rights era or in its wake.
The forum for this sort of moral transformation probably should have been the movies. But the Hollywood of that era would tolerate a single Black person and, ultimately, it chose Sidney Poitier, Belafonte’s soul mate, sometime suitemate and fellow Caribbean American. Belafonte did make a handful of movies at the beginning of his career. “Odds Against Tomorrow,” a naturalist film noir from 1959, is the meatiest of them — and his last picture for more than a decade, too. Poitier became the movie star, during a dire stretch for this country. Belafonte became the folk hero.
It began, of course, with the songs, actual folk music. Well, with Belafonte’s interpolation, which in its varied guises wed acoustic singing with Black spiritual arrangements and the sounds of the islands. He took his bestselling music on the road, to white audiences who’d pay a lot of money to watch him perform from his million-selling album “Calypso,” the one with “Day-O.” A major part of his knowing people was knowing that they watched TV. And rather than simply translate his hot-ticket cabaret act for American living rooms, Belafonte imagined something stranger and more alluring. In 1959, he somehow got CBS to broadcast “Tonight With Belafonte,” an hourlong studio performance that starts with a live commercial for Revlon (the night’s sponsor) and melts from the gleaming blond actor Barbara Britton (the ad’s pitchperson) into the sight of Black men amid shadows and great big chains. They’re pantomiming hard labor while
Belafonte belts a viscous version of “Bald Headed Woman.” The whole hour is just this sort of chilling: percussive work songs, big-bottomed gospel, moaning blues, dramatically spare sets that imply segregation and incarceration, the weather system that called herself Odetta. Belafonte never makes a direct speech about injustice. He trusts the songs and stagecraft to speak for themselves. Folks — Black folks, especially — will get it. It’s their music.
“The bleaker my acting prospects looked,” Belafonte wrote, in “My Song,” his memoir from 2011, “the more I threw myself into political organizing.” That organizing took familiar forms — marches, protests, rallies. Money. He helped underwrite the civil rights movement, paying for freedom rides. He maintained a life insurance policy on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., with Coretta Scott King as the beneficiary, because King didn’t believe he could afford it. The building he bought at 300 West End Ave. in Manhattan and converted into a 21-room palace seemed to double as the movement’s New York headquarters. (“Martin began drafting his anti-war speech in my apartment.”) So, yes, Belafonte was near the psychic core and administrative center of the movement.
Paul Robeson preceded Belafonte in an activism partly born of artistic frustration. Robeson’s pursuit of racial equality, for everybody, won him persecution and immiseration and derailed his career. He personally warned Belafonte and Poitier of the damaging toll this country will take on Black artists who believe their art and celebrity ought do more than dazzle and distract. Belafonte watched the American government drag Robeson through hell and decided to help drag white America to moral betterment in any arena that would have him, somewhat out of respect for his elder. (“My whole life was an homage to him,” Belafonte once wrote about Robeson.) Those arenas included everything from “Free to Be ... You and Me” and “The Muppet Show” to Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” and, on several indelible occasions, “Sesame Street.”
With some artists, a legacy is a tricky reduction. What did it all come down to? And it just can’t be that the immense career of Harry Belafonte — with its milestones and breakthroughs, with its risks and hazards, with its triumphs and disappointments, with its doubling as a living archive of the latter half of a 20th-century America that he fought to ennoble — can be summed up by the time he spent talking to the Count.
But that, too, is how a people person reaches people. That’s how Harry Belafonte reached a lot of us: little kids who were curious and naturally open to the wonders of the human experience. So it makes sense that the sight of this elegant man, reclined among inquisitive children and surly felt critters, speaking
with wisdom in that scratched timbre of his about, say, what an animal is (and, by extension, who an animal is not), told us who we were. People, yes, but perhaps another generation of folks with this hero in common, learning through the osmosis of good television how to live their lives in homage to him.
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The program for the uninsured, which will be modeled partly on an existing childhood vaccination program and will cover an estimated 30 million people, will include a first-of-its-kind partnership with pharmacy chains in which the government will pay the administrative costs of giving the doses to patients. Pfizer and Moderna have pledged to offer the shots at no cost to those who lack insurance.
The administration’s move partly resolves a critical gap in the nation’s coronavirus vaccination strategy before a new booster campaign with reformulated shots that is likely to begin as soon as late summer. Federal officials have said they no longer plan to purchase doses for all Americans as they have in prior corona-
virus vaccination campaigns, allowing the vaccines to be sold commercially and ceding power to manufacturers to set their own prices.
For the new program, the administration is counting on substantial help from the companies making the vaccines. In February, Moderna said it would use a so-called patient assistance program to provide doses free of charge to uninsured Americans. Pfizer plans to offer free vaccines through a similar program, a company spokesperson said.
The details of those programs are still being worked out. Jennifer Kates, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said pharmaceutical company assistance programs varied by company and medication, a patchwork system that can be complicated and inaccessible. Companies often require proof of income or proof that a patient is uninsured, Kates said, and it is unclear how long the drugmakers’ programs might last.
“It’s a Band-Aid,” she said. “The problem is that these are not mandatory or sure bets. These are voluntary efforts by companies.”
But Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s secretary of health and human services, said it was in the companies’ interest to keep the programs going.
“It’s their business sense,” Becerra said in an interview. “The last thing they want is to become the object of derision because people are saying: ‘What gives? All of a sudden we’re having to pay to get this vaccine?’ ”
The new vaccine initiative comes as the administration is looking beyond the coronavirus public health emergency, which was declared under President Donald Trump in 2020 and has been extended under Biden. The administration plans to allow the emergency to expire on May 11, setting the nation on a course for COVID-19 to be treated as just another respiratory disease, such as influenza.
The new initiative will also cover some costs associated with COVID-19 treatments for the uninsured. In addition, the administration is working on a $5 billion program to spur next-generation coronavirus vaccines and treatments.
“COVID is not over,”said Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the White House coronavirus response coordinator. “And while we are transitioning out of the public health emergency and all of the flexibilities it provided, we’re committed to making sure that we continue to fight COVID. And that means making sure people have access to vaccines, treatments and tests.”
The end of the public health emergency will not have any immediate impact on Americans’ ability to gain access to coronavirus vaccines. For now, people can still get shots at no cost from the stockpile of doses the federal government has already
purchased. On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration authorized a second updated booster shot for people 65 and older or those who are immunocompromised.
In June, federal regulators are expected to choose a new formulation for use in another round of booster shots later in the year, around the time people receive their annual flu shot.
As part of the new initiative, called the HHS Bridge Access Program for COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments, federal officials will also purchase vaccines and distribute them to state and local health departments to be given to the uninsured.
When coronavirus vaccines move to the commercial market, Pfizer and Moder na have said they plan to charge more than $100 per dose, or roughly four to five times the price the federal government paid for the companies’ shots in the most recent booster campaign. Jha said White House officials “don’t think that kind of price in crease is justifiable.”
But Becerra conceded there was little the administration could do. “We don’t control the commercial market,” he said.
For most Americans, the reformulat ed shots later this year will not bring any out-of-pocket costs. Most private health plans will cover them, as will Medicare and Medicaid. The costs of doses for unin sured children will be covered by the fed eral Vaccines for Children program.
The Biden administration has pro posed creating a program called Vaccines for Adults, which would mimic the con cept used for uninsured children. But ad ministration officials have been unable to persuade lawmakers to establish such an initiative.
The San Juan Daily Star Thursday, April 27, 2023 19 In June, federal regulators are expected to choose a new formulation for use in another round of booster shots later in the year, around the time people receive their annual flu shot.ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO LIME HOMES LTD
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Caso Civil Núm.: HU2020CV00102. 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 Humacao, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que venderá en pública subasta en la Oficina de Alguaciles, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $27,043.04 de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 7.49520% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago desde el primero de enero de 2015; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma de $4,000.00 estipulada para honorarios de abogado pactada en la escritura de hipoteca y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el numero trescientos treinta y ocho (338), en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Peña Pobre, del barrio Pobre del término municipal de Naguabo, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con ochocientos noventa diezmilésimas de otra (0.890), equivalentes a trecientos cuarenta y nueve punto noventa y nueve (349.99) metros cuadra-
dos. En lindes por el Norte, con la parcela número trescientos treinta y siete (337) de la comunidad; por Sur, con la parcela número trescientos treinta y nueve (339) de la comunidad; por el Este, con la parcela número trescientos treinta y tres (333) de la comunidad; y por el Oeste, con la calle F de la comunidad. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio diez (10) del tomo ciento cuarenta y ocho (148) de Naguabo, finca número ocho mil trecientos sesenta y ocho (8,368). Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Dirección Física: Lot 338 Carr 31 KM
125 P, Naguabo, PR 00718. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 1 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $40,000.00 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 8 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 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 $26,666.57. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 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 $20,000.00. 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 anterio-
res 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. 2102015). Expedido el presente en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 5 de abril de 2023. BENEDICTO
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El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos 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 surjan 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. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día
12 de marzo de 2020 - {250 Fecha mandamiento}, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: Dirección Física: Lote 5-E 830 KM 2 4 GOVEO
BAYAMON, PR 00957: RÚSTICA: LOTE CINCO “E” (5-E): Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Cerro Gordo del término municipal de Bayamón, con una cabida superficial de novecientos ocho punto cuatro mil seiscientos sesenta y cinco (908.4665) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto dos tres uno uno (0.2311) cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con Lote cuatro “D” (4-D) a segregarse, en una distancia de veintiocho punto quince (28.15) metros; por el SUR, con camino dedicado a uso público, en dos (2) alineaciones de veinticuatro punto cinco (24.5) metros y dos punto ochenta y dos (2.82) metros; por el ESTE, con camino a dedicarse a uso público, en dos (2) alineaciones de veintiocho punto setenta y
dos (28.72) metros y dos punto ochenta y dos (2.82) metros; y por el OESTE, con solar siete (7) segregado mediante el caso dos mil uno guion quince guion mil doscientos sesenta y nueve “DP” (2001-15-1269-DP), en una distancia de treinta y dos punto treinta y nueve (32.39) metros. Consta inscrita al folio 12 del tomo 1859 de Bayamón Sur, finca numero 76,382; Registro de la Propiedad Sección Primera de Bayamón. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, ascendente a la suma de $272,974.38, por concepto del préstamo hipotecario objeto del presente procedimiento, con intereses al 4.01743% anual, desde el 1 de octubre de 2013; cargos por demoras mensuales, las cantidades adeudadas de contribuciones e impuestos, primas de seguro contra riesgos y seguro de hipoteca, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $27,465.70 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte interesada previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. 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 10 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $274,656.95.
Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día el 17 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $183,104.63 equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el
día el 24 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $137,328.48, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. 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 consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy
día 17 de abril de 2023. José F. Marrero Robles, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #131, Alguacil De La División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Bayamón.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. WANDA IVETTE COLON RODRIGUEZ TCC WANDA
I. COLON RODRIGUEZ
Parte Demandada
Caso Civil Núm.: CG2021CV03271. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA - IN REM. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que venderá en pública subasta en la Oficina de Alguaciles, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $75,359.63 de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 4.50% anual desde el primero de mayo de 2019 hasta su total pago y completo pago; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma de $8,343.50 estipulada para honorarios de abogado pactada en la escritura de hipoteca y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número veinticuatro (24) del plano de inscripción del Proyecto siete (UM7) denominado Bunker del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos cinco punto sesenta y cuatro (305.64) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar veintitrés (23), en distancia de veintiséis punto treinta y cuatro (26.34) metros; por el SUR, con el solar veinticinco (25), distancia de veintiséis punto cero dos (26.02) metros; por el ESTE, con la servidumbre de paso de la ca-
lle Panamá, distancia de once punto cincuenta y cinco (11.55) metros; por el OESTE, con terrenos de la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico, distancia de once punto ochenta (11.80) metros. Este afecto este solar por una servidumbre eléctrica de ancho variable y con una cabida superficial de doce punto treinta (12.30) metros que tiene su origen en la esquina Noreste del solar y discurre a lo largo de su colindancia Norte, en distancia de siete punto cero cero (7.00) metros. Enclava una casa de concreto con un ancho no expresado y sesenta y cinco pies (65’) de largo. Contiene sala, comedor, cocina, tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, un baño, marquesina, balcón, en su frente y al lado izquierdo con instalaciones de agua y luz eléctrica, con un valor de diez mil dólares ($10,000.00), según consta de la escritura número uno (1), otorgada en Caguas, el dos (2) de enero del mil novecientos setenta y seis (1976), ante el notario Juan Rivera Torres, inscrito al folio dos mil doscientos ochenta y siete ( 2287) vuelto del tomo setecientos veintiséis (726) de Caguas, finca número veintitrés mil seiscientos cincuenta y seis (23656), inscripción segunda (2da). Inscrita al folio doscientos ochenta y ocho (288) del tomo setecientos veintiséis (726) de Caguas, finca número veintitrés mil seiscientos cincuenta y seis (23,656). Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Dirección Física: Urb. Bunker, 24 Calle Panamá, Caguas, PR 00725-5454. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 15 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $83,435.00 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 22 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $55,623.33. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 30 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $41,717.50. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su
Auxiliar.
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SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC. COMO AGENTE GESTOR DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.
DEMANDANTE VS. DENNIS FERNÁNDEZ FIGUEROA
DEMANDADO
CIVIL NÚM.: RG2022CV00508
SALÓN: 301 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: Dennis Fernandez Figueroa- Urb. Los Árboles, 0 29 Calle 515, Río Grande, P.R. 00745. 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, la Lcda. Natalie Bonaparte cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@ orf-law.com, edwin.serrano@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EX-
TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de marzo de 2023. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 7 de marzo de 2023.
Wanda I Seguí Reyes, Secretaria. Sheila Robles Hernández, Secretaria Auxiliar I.
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DEMANDANTE vs. ELIMELEC SANTIAGO TORRES DEMANDADO CIVIL NÚM.: CB2022CV00508
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: ELIMELEC SANTIAGO
TORRES- HACIENDA
LA MONSERRATE
A21 CALLE 2, HORMIGUEROS, PR 00660 -1603
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 Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de marzo de 2023. En Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, el 10 de marzo de 2023. Lic. Norma G. Santana
Irizarry, Secretaria Regional II.
María Avilés Bonilla, Secretaria
Auxiliar del Tribunal I.
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DEMANDANTE VS. MARITZA
SANTIAGO RIVERA
DEMANDADO
CIVIL NÚM.: CE2022CV00142
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO.
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC-
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS.
EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: MARITZA
SANTIAGO RIVERABO CHUPACALLOS, 241
A CARR 978 KM 4, CEIBA, PR 00735.
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, la Lcda. Natalie Bonaparte cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@ orf-Iaw.com, edwin.serrano@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. Extendido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de marzo de 2023. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 23 de marzo de 2023. Wanda I. Seguí Reyes, Secretaria regional. Ana Celis Márquez Aponte, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal I.
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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE COAMO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. ALBERTO CARTAGENA
RODRÍGUEZ Y DIANA
IVELISSE PEDROGO MATEO T/C/C DIANA
IVELLISE PEDROGO MATEO
LA SUCESIÓN DE ELEUTERIO GARRIGA VÁZQUEZ T/C/C
ELEUTERIO GARRIGA COMPUESTA POR GINA
GARRIGA, LEONEL GARRIGA, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; MARITZA RIVERA
ALVARADO T/C/C
MARITZA GARRIGA
POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: CO2022CV00205.
Sala: 1. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 12 de enero de 2023 y notificada el 17 de enero de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 13 de marzo de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 16 de marzo de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 14 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Coamo, en 69 Avenida Maratón San Blas (al lado del Cuartel de la Policía) Coamo, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el Número tres (3) del Bloque dieciséis (16) en el plano de parcelación de la Urbanización Estancias de Mountain View, radicada en el Barrio Idelfonso de la municipalidad de Coamo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 522.40 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: con el Solar Número dos (2) del Bloque dieciséis (16) en una distancia de 38.17 metros lineales; por el SUR: con el Solar Número cuatro (4) del Bloque dieciséis (16) en una distancia de 42.67 metros lineales; por el ESTE: con faja de terreno dedicada al Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico en una distancia de 13.73 metros lineales; por el OESTE: con camino de uso público en una distancia de 12.88 metros lineales. Enclava una casa. La propiedad y la escritura de hipoteca constan inscritas al
folio 194 del tomo 304 de Coamo, Finca 17773. Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. Inscripción segunda (2da). Dirección Física: Urb. Estancias de Mountain View, Solar 3 Bloque 16, Coamo, PR 00769. Número de Catastro: 66-344100-477-81-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $79,373.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 21 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $52,915.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 28 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $39,686.50. 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 ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $52,184.84 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6% anual desde el 1 de marzo de 2022 hasta su completo pago, más $39.30 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,937.30 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Alberto Cartagena Rodríguez y Diana Ivelisse Pedrogo Mateo también conocida como Diana Ivellise Pedrogo Mateo y como Diana I. Pedrogo Mateo, La Sucesión de Eleuterio Garriga Vázquez también conocido como Eleuterio Garriga compuesta por Gina Garriga, Leonel Garriga, Fulano y Mengano de Tal, Maritza Rivera Alvarado también conocida como Maritza Garriga, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Coamo, en el Caso Civil Número CO2022CV00205, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca con un balance de $52,184.84 y otras cantidades, según Demanda
de fecha 24 de junio de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Coamo. 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 Coamo, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de marzo de 2023. RODOLFO LARA MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #321, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE COAMO.
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LUNA
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Demandante v. WILFRIDO PIZARRO
COLON, MARIA VIRGEN
GONZALEZ NUÑEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS; JUDITH SERNA
CALDERON
Demandada
CIVIL NÚM. ISCI200801155
SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA
A: WILFRIDO PIZARRO
COLON, MARIA VIRGEN
GONZALEZ NUÑEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
PUBLICO EN GENERAL:
El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos 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 surjan 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. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 27 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: PR-526, KM 9.8. TANAMA WARD, ADJUNTAS, PR 00601. RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno marcado con el número ocho (8) en el plano de subdivisión del proyecto Tanamá y Portillo del término municipal de Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, compuesta de ocho punto seis ocho tres seis (8.6836) cuerdas, equivalentes a treinta y cuatro mil ciento veintinueve punto ocho seis ocho cuatro (34,129.8684) metros cuadrados y en lindes por el NORTE, con la finca número siete (7); al SUR, con la carretera estatal 526; al ESTE, con quebrada “A-4” que lo separa de la finca número nueve (9); al OESTE, con carretera estatal número 526. Consta inscrita al folio 85 del tomo 300 de Adjuntas, finca número 13,061, Registro de la Propiedad Sección de Utuado. La finca antes descrita afecta un gravamen preferente que se describe a continuación: ASAMBLEA LEGISLATIVA DEL SECRETARIO DE AGRICULTURA O JUNTA DE DIRECTORES.: En la cual parecen Condiciones Restrictivas, Impuestas bajo la Ley #107, del 3 de julio de 1974, según enmendada ente las cuales no se podrá subdividir esta finca y la misma se preservará para uso agrícola, excepto para fines de uso público o cuando
medie autorización de la Asamblea Legislativa del Secretario de Agricultura o la Junta de Directores de la Administración de Terrenos, según consta de la escritura #23, otorgada en Ponce, el 20 de mayo de 2003, ante el Notario Jose Oswaldo Coll Diaz, inscrita al folio 85 vuelto del tomo 300 Adjuntas, finca #13,061, inscripción 2da. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante, hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, por la suma de $527,900.09 al 22 de mayo de 2020, la cual se desglosa en $193,749.29 de principal, $279.684.90 de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda $450.00 por concepto de cargos por demora, la suma de $18,585.90 de cargos de preservación de propiedad, en adición a cualquier adelanto realizado conforme a los términos de la hipoteca, costas, gastos y $35,250.00 de honorarios de abogados, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte interesada previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. 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 6 DE JULIO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $138,900.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 13 DE JULIO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $92,600.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 20 DE JULIO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $69,450.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se
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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 consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se 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 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de abril de 2023. José
M. Crespo Nazario, Alguacil Confidencial.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN
JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. NARCISO EMILIO
VARONA RODRÍGUEZ, POR SÍ Y COMO
HEREDERO DE BÁRBARA ANN DORSEY MENDOZA; GRACE
MARIE HERGER DORSEY, SONY HERGER DORSEY
Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO, COMO PARTE DE LAS SUCESIONES DE BÁRBARA ANN DORSEY
MENDOZA Y DE ALFRED
HERGER DORSEY T/C/C
ALFRED BERNHART
HERGER DORSEY; ALFRED DOMINGO
HERGER TRAVESO
T/C/C ALFRED HERGER
Y SUTANO DIE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO, COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ALFRED HERGER
DORSEY T/C/C ALFRED
BERNHART HIERGER
DORSEY
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: KCD2016-1142. (806). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. REQUERIMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: ALFRED DOMINGO
HERGER TRAVESO T/C/C
ALFRED HERGER COMO
HEREDERO DE ALFRED
HERGER DORSEY T/C/C
ALFRED BERNHART
HERGER DORSEY
A LAS SIGUIENTES
DIRECCIONES:
CONO. EL ESCORIAL, 111 MARGINAL FD
ROOSEVEL T APT 15A, SAN JUAN, PR 009172713; CARIIBBEAN
TOWERS, 670 AVE.
PONCE DE LEÓN, APT 613, SAN JUAN, PR 00907-3241, URB.
MANSIONES DE RÍO
PIEDRAS, 1800 CALLE
DIAMELA, SAN JUAN, PR 00926-7213, PO BOX 8607, SAN JUAN PR 00910-0607.
Queda usted notificado que el 7 de octubre de 2021, este Tribunal dictó Sentencia en el caso de epígrafe concediendo a la demandante el importe de $70,528.63 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.5% anual desde el 1 de diciembre de 2015, hasta su completo pago, más $239.04 de recargos acumulados,
más la cantidad estipulada de $9,635.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. La sentencia recae sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL
Apartamento #15-A del edificio gobernado por el régimen de Propiedad Horizontal conocido por el nombre de Condominio Escorial, sito en el #111 de la Calle Marginal Avenida Roosevelt, en la Urbanización Piñero, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Este apartamento está localizado en la esquina sureste de la 15ta. planta del edificio y colinda por el NORTE, en parte con el vestíbulo de la 15ta. planta del edificio y en parte con el patio interior del Este del edificio, por el SUR, con el patio del solar que ocupa el edificio principal en colindancia con la Avenida Roosevelt de la Urbanización Piñero; por el ESTE, en parte por el patio interior Este del edificio y en parte con el patio del solar que ocupa el edificio principal en colindancia con los solares 9 y 28 de la manzana D de la Urbanización Piñero; y por el OESTE, en parte con el vestíbulo de la 15ta. planta del edificio. El apartamento ‘’A’’ tiene una cabida superficial de 1191.61 p.c., equivalentes a 110.77 m.c. Se compone este apartamento de una sala-comedor de donde se tiene acceso, por la parte suroeste de la misma, a un balcón rectangular con cabida superficial de 94.55 p.c., equivalentes a 8.79 m.c. y de donde se tiene acceso también, por su parte sureste, a un pasillo interior que contiene un closet de cuyo pasillo se tiene acceso a su vez a 3 dormitorios y un baño. El dormitorio #1, localizado en la sección noreste del apartamento, tiene un closet, da acceso a un baño para uso de este dormitorio, los dos dormitorios, localizados en la parte Sur del apartamento y denominados dormitorio #2 y #3 contienen un clóset cada uno. De la sala-comedor antes mencionada se tiene acceso por su parte norte a una cocina que contiene closet y cuya cocina se tiene acceso, asimismo, por su parte este, a un balcón de servicio que tiene una cabida superficial de 52.50 p.c., equivalentes a 4.88 m.c De este balcón de servicio se tiene acceso hacia el Norte, a través de una puerta de entrada secundaria del apartamento al vestíbulo de la 3ra. planta del edificio. La puerta de entrada principal de apartamento está localizada en el extremo noreste de la sala que resulta ser a su vez el extremo Sureste del vestíbulo de uso comunal limitado de esta planta de cuyo vestíbulo se tiene acceso por sus lados Este y Oeste a 2
elevadores y a 2 escaleras que conectan las varias plantas del edificio con el vestíbulo principal localizado en la planta terrera y de cuyo vestíbulo se tiene acceso a su vez a través de los patios Sur y Norte de la propiedad a la Avenida Roosevelt y la calle #2, respectivamente, de la urbanización Piñero. Inscrita al folio 181 del tomo 733 de Río Piedras Norte, Finca 21173. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Il. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 111 del tomo 1467 de Río Piedras Norte, Finca 21173. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Il Inscripción 8va. Se interpela a los herederos para que acepten o renuncien a la herencia de la causante dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento al Artículo 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico del 1930, 31 L.P.R.A. § 2787, entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término aceptan el caudal relicto. La renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito judicial. La parte interpelada deberá presentar su contestación, radicando el original de la contestación en la Secretaría de este Tribunal y enviando copia a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro término de treinta (30) días de la publicación del edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, advirtiéndosele que de no hacerlo se tendrá por aceptada la herencia. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 12 de abril de 2023 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. NANCY I. GARCÍA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS MANUEL LEÓN DE JESÚS; SUCESIÓN DE IRMA MARÍA NEGRÓN SANTIAGO; “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE CARLOS MANUEL LEÓN DE JESÚS; “JOHN DOE Y
Thursday, April 27, 2023
RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE IRMA MARÍA NEGRÓN SANTIAGO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: PO2023CV00411. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN DIRIGIDOS
A: “JOHN DOE Y ROE” COMO POSIBES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS MANUEL LEÓN DE JESÚS, Y “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE IRMA MARÍA NEGRÓN SANTIAGO. VILLA RETIRO 6 P CALLE 15 SANTA ISABEL, PUERTO RICO 00757; P 6 CALLE 15, URB. VILLA RETIRO SUR, SANTA ISABEL, PUERTO RICO 00757. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Además, en cuanto a la interpelación de los herederos del causante, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2787, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. También se le APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2785. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis-
tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ, LLP 500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 18 de abril de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARILY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO
SAN CARLOS MORTGAGE, LLC
Demandante V. JAVIER SALVA SOTO
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CCD2015-0368. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE
ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, hago saber a la parte demandada, JAVIER
SALVA SOTO y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 24 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: [Apt. 1903
Condominio Marina IV, 4 Calle
Asisclo Soler, Barceloneta PR 00617 y que se describe como
sigue: URBANA: Propiedad
a 92.71 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 21’3” con área de estacionamiento; por el SUR, en 21’3” con la calle Acisclo Soler; por el ESTE, en 50’2”, con áreas comunes, pasillo y escaleras y por el OESTE, en 50”, con el apartamento #1803. Costa de sala-comedor, cocina, balcón, 3 dormitorios, 2 baños, roperos “closets” y área de lavandería (laundry). Le pertenece el uso exclusivo como elemento privado de 2 espacios de estacionamientos, localizados en el primer nivel (bajo echo) identificados con el #1903, en el Plot Plan con una cabida superficial de 477.305 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 44.36 metros cuadrados, incluye área de almacenaje, siendo sus colindancias por el Norte, incluyendo área de rodaje y de estacionamiento por el Sur, con la calle Ascisclo Soler, por el Este, con áreas comunes, pasillo de entrada y escalera; por el Oste con estacionamiento #1902. El área total de este apartamento incluyendo el estacionamiento privado es de 1,474.854 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 137.07 metros cuadrados. Su puerta principal de entrada está situada en su lindero Este. Este apartamento tiene una participación en los elementos comunes generales de 2.01892%. Finca #16029 Inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Barceloneta, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Javier Salva Soto, soltero, en garantía de un pagaré, affidavit #1716 a favor de Scotiabank PR, o a su orden por $111,180.00, al 4%, vencedero el 1 de enero de 2042, según escritura #233, en San Juan, a 15 de diciembre de 2011, ante Jennifer Córdova, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Barceloneta, finca 16029, inscripción 2da. (ii) HIPOTECA constituida por Javier Salva Soto, soltero, en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Departamento de la Vivienda, o a su orden por $40,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero el 15 de diciembre de 2021, según escritura #88, en San Juan, a 15 de diciembre de 2011, ante Miguel Bauzá Rolón, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Barceloneta, finca 16029, inscripción 3ra y última. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 23 de octubre de 2015, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad ascendiente a $105,423.05 de principal, más el pago por intereses al 4% anual, recargos por demora mensuales desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2014 hasta
el pago total de la deuda, más la suma estipulada de $11,118.00 dólares por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 23 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $111,180.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 31 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 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, $74,120.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el 7 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $55,590.00. 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 estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los dere-
chos 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 Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de abril de 2023.
DAISY LÓPEZ SANTIAGO, ALGUACIL #473, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE ARECIBO.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS DANIEL
VAZQUEZ ACEVEDO
Demandante Vs. LEYDA IRIS
MALDONADO LOPEZ
Demandada
Civil Núm.: G2023RF00247.
Sobre: DIVORCIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: LEYDA IRIS
MALDONADO LOPEZ.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza, se le notifica que una demanda de divorcio ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere que conteste la misma dentro de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, radicando el origina de contestación de la misma ante el Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Caso (SUMAC) presentada electrónicamente mediante https://tribunalelectronico. ramajudicial.pr/sumac2018/ y notificándole con copia fiel al / a la representante legal de la parte Demandante: Lcda. Mayra León Sánchez, 278 Ave. Lauro
Piñero, Ceiba, PR 00735; PO Box 69, Gurabo, PR 00778; teléfono (787) 414-3848, mleonsanchez21@gmail.com. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle más. EXTENDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL. En Puerto Rico, hoy 12 de abril de 2023.
LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. CARMEN FLORES MARTÍNEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE CHRISTOPHER BONILLA
BONILLA, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO
CHRISTOPHER R.
BONILLA BONILLA Y COMO CHRISTOPHER
BONILLA, COMPUESTA
POR SUS HIJAS NORMA
IRIS BONILLA OLIVO E
IRMA BONILLA OLIVO
Y FULANO DE TAL
Y ZUTANO DE TAL
COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; SUCESION DE CARMEN
ANA OLIVO MARTINEZ
TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA
COMO CARMEN ANA
OLIVO DE BONILLA, COMPUESTA POR
SUS HIJAS NORMA
IRIS BONILLA OLIVO E
IRMA BONILLA OLIVO
Y FULANO DE CUAL
Y ZUTANO DE CUAL, COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2023CV00814. (401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: IRMA BONILLA
OLIVO, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE CHRISTOPHER
BONILLA BONILLA,
TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO
COMO CHRISTOPHER
R. BONILLA BONILLA Y COMO CHRISTOPHER
BONILLA Y DE LA
SUCESION DE CARMEN
ANA OLIVO MARTINEZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA
COMO CARMEN ANA
OLIVO DE BONILLA; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE CHRISTOPHER
BONILLA BONILLA, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO
COMO CHRISTOPHER
R. BONILLA BONILLA Y COMO CHRISTOPHER
BONILLA; FULANO DE CUAL Y ZUTANO DE CUAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE CARMEN
ANA OLIVO MARTINEZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA
COMO CARMEN ANA
OLIVO DE BONILLA
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $31,148.85, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.125% anual, desde el día 1ro de junio de 2022, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $7,500.00 estipulada en el contrato de gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están liquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es:
URBANA: Solar número 38 de la Manzana 76, con una cabida de 331.52 metros cuadrados radicado en la URBANIZACION
VILLA CAROLINA, situado en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina; colinda: por el Norte, con la Calle número 54, en un arco de metros; por el Sur, con los solares números 28 y 29, en un arco de 14.282 metros; por el Este, con el solar número 37, distancia de 24.00 metros; y por el Oeste, con el solar número 39, distancia de 24.00 metros. Dicho solar contiene una casa de cemento, diseñada para una familia. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 224 del tomo 456 de Carolina Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Segunda, finca número 18,548, inscripción cuarta. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para
que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. 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: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y enviar copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuya dirección más adelante se indica. 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.
Lcda. Adela Surillo Gutiérrez Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC
P.O. Box 11550
San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550 Tel. (787) 625-9999
Fax (787) 705-7387
E-mail: asurillo@lawpr.com
Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que conforme el caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria v. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 D .P.R. 689, 696 (2005) y a tenor con las disposiciones del Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021), deberá aceptar o repudiar la herencia de los causantes Christopher Bonilla Bonilla y Carmen Ana Olivo Martínez, dentro del término de treinta (30) días. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de abril de 2023. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE
Demandante Vs. WILFREDO PAGAN
ALICEA, JETTY SHERLY REYES PEÑA T/C/C
JETTY REYES PEÑA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2022CV05733. Sobre: ACCIÓN IN REM, 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: WILFREDO PAGAN
ALICEA, JETTY SHERLY REYES PEÑA T/C/C
JETTY REYES PEÑA. 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 12 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS ORIENTAL BANK
Parte Demandante V. ANIBAL ROMÁN GUADALUPE Y LA SUCESIÓN DE ANGELES RODRIGUEZ QUIÑONES
COMPUESTA POR
ANGELES ZOARO ROMÁN RODRIGUEZ, OSVALDO ROMÁN RODRIGUEZ, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00463. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE
DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de CAGUAS, hago saber a la parte demandada, ANIBAL ROMÁN GUADALUPE y la SUCESIÓN DE ANGELES RODRIGUEZ
QUIÑONES compuesta por ANGELES ZOARO ROMÁN RODRIGUEZ, OSVALDO ROMÁN RODRIGUEZ, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 18 de enero de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: SR 181 KM
1.0 Barrio Celada, Gurabo PR 00778 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 3 en el plano de inscripción radicado en el Barrio Hato Nuevo de Gurabo, con una cabida superficial de 401.63 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en dos alineaciones continuas de 4.7 metros y 7.73 metros, con el solar 2 que es una servidumbre de paso, por el SUR, en 16.58 metros, con la finca principal; por el ESTE, en 32.59 metros con la finca principal; y por el OESTE en 27.74 metros con la finca principal. Beneficiada como predio dominante con una servidumbre de paso de cinco metros de ancho sobre el solar numero 2 del plano e inscripción como predio sirviente. Finca 5634 inscrito al folio 1 del tomo 150 de Gurabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas Sección Segunda. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage LLC o a su orden por la suma principal de $55,025.00 con intereses a razón del 5.25% anual y vencimiento el 1 de julio del 2039. Constituida por la Escritura #329 otorgada en San Juan el 11 de junio del 2009 ante la notario Fabiola Ansotegui Blanc. Inscrita el 13 de enero del 2010 al folio 85 del Tomo 445 de Gurabo, finca 5634, inscripción 4ª. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 15 de noviembre de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad ascendiente a $42,283.12 de principal, más $1,294.93 a intereses acumulados que continuarán acumulándose al 5.25% anual hasta el saldo to-
tal de la deuda, más $152.33 a cargos por demora y otros cargos, mas $63.65 de reserva de escrow, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, 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. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el 30 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de CAGUAS, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $55,025.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $36,683.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $27,512.50. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecuta-
do, 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 CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de abril de 2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
NEWREZ LLC D/B/A
SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE
SERVICING
Demandante V. RAMÓN RICARTE HERRERA PAGÁN
Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2023CV00678. 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: RAMÓN RICARTE HERRERA PAGAN. Queden emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la
RUIZ TRINTA.
(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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 21 de abril de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA.
MILDRED J. FRANCO REVENTOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
LEGACY MORTGAGE
TRUST 2019-PR1
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE LILLIAM ROSARIO
CÓRDOVA COMPUESTA
POR JAVIER IRIZARRY
ROSARIO, SHERRISE
IRIZARRY ROSARIO, JULIO EFRAÍN MARRERO
ROSARIO; JOHN DOE
Y RICHARD ROE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE ESTA; ADMINISTRACIÓN
PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte Demandada
Caso Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV00768. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINXRIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: SHERRISE IRIZARRY ROSARIO Y JULIO EFRAÍN MARRERO
ROSARIO
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colon Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria y cobro de dinero 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 octubre de 2020 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 $13,572.92 de balance de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 9.290% anual desde el día 1 de septiembre de 2020 de así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo $2,250.00 pactado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA:
PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento 19-12 individualizado de concreto armado, bloques de hormigón y paredes “dry wall” de uso residencial identificado con el número 1912, localizado en el extremo sureste del piso 18 del edificio conocido como Condominio Bello Horizonte, localizado en la ca-
lle Modesta de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Este apartamento tiene una cabida superficial de 1017.64 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, y consta de salacomedor, balcón, tres dormitorios, dos baños, pasillo interior, una cocina y closet. La puerta principal está localizada en la sala-comedor la cual lo comunica con el pasillo de uso común que conduce a los ascensores. escaleras y a la calle. Colinda por el Norte, con el apartamento número 19-10 y con hueco de ventilación; por el Sur, con elementos exteriores del edificio; por el Este, con elementos exteriores del edificio y con el apartamento 19-10; y por el Oeste, con elementos exteriores del edificio, con el pasillo interior del edificio y con el hueco de ventilación. Le corresponde en los elementos comunes una participación de .0054% y el espacio de estacionamiento marcado con el número 102 cubierto. Inscrita al folio ciento cuarenta (140) del Tomo seiscientos cincuenta y cinco (655) de Sabana Llana, finca número veintinueve mil doscientos noventa y sets (29,296), Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. 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. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de LILLIAM ROSARIO CÓRDOVA, se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han aceptado a beneficio de inventario la herencia de LILLIAM ROSARIO CÓRDOVA y por consiguiente, responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone del Código Civil de Puerto Rico. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 21 de abril de 2023. GRISELDA
RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, LUZ E., SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON
WILMINGTON SAVINGS
FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF FINANCE OF AMERICA
STRUCTURED
SECURITIES
ACQUISITIONS TRUST
2019-HB1
Demandante v.
SUCESION FRANCISCO
CONCEPCION
GONZALEZ T/C/C
FRANCISCO
CONCEPCION T/C/C
FCO CONCEPCION
COMPUESTA POR
MIGDALIA CONCEPCION
BAEZ, FRANCISCO
CONCEPCION BAEZ, JAVIER CONCEPCION
BAEZ; JOHN DOE
Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION VIVIAN
VICTORIA BAEZ ROSADO
T/C/C VIVIAN V. BAEZ
ROSADO T/C/C VIVIAN
BAEZ ROSADO T/C/C
VIVIAN VICTORIA BAEZ
T/C/C VIVIAN V. BAEZ
T/C/C VIVIAN BAEZ T/C/C
VIVIAN BAEZ - ROSADO
COMPUESTA POR
MIGDALIA CONCEPCION
BAEZ, FRANCISCO
CONCEPCION BAEZ, JAVIER CONCEPCION
BAEZ; JOHN DOE
Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES
MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Demandado(a)
CIVIL: BY2019CV04267 SA-
LÓN 504 SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION FRANCISCO CONCEPCION
GONZALEZ T/C/C FRANCISCO CONCEPCION T/C/C FCO CONCEPCION Y DE LA SUCESION VIVIAN
VICTORIA BAEZ ROSADO
T/C/C VIVIAN V. BAEZ ROSADO T/C/C VIVIAN BAEZ ROSADO T/C/C
VIVIAN VICTORIA BAEZ
T/C/C VIVIAN V. BAEZ
T/C/C VIVIAN BAEZ T/C/C VIVIAN BAEZ-ROSADO.
(Nombre de las parles a las que se Je notifican la sentencia por edicto).
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 18 de abril de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Senten-
cia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 60 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de abril de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 20 de abril de 2023. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. F/ Alba I. Brito Borgen, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LILYANA PICÓN CARRASCO
Demandado Civil Núm.: AR2019CV01516. (402). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS (IN REM). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: PUBLICO EN GENERAL.
El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Arecibo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela radicada en el Barrio Sabana Hoyos de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 660.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 20.00 metros, con
la Carretera 663; por el SUR y OESTE, en 20.00 metros y 33.00 metros, respectivamente, con la finca principal de la cual se segrega; y por el OESTE, en 33.00 metros, con la parcela de la finca principal. Enclava una casa de cemento armado y bloques de una sola planta dedicada a vivienda, con sala, comedor, tres cuartos dormitorios, servicio sanitario, balcón y cocina. Dirección Física: Carr. 663 KM 1.1 Miraflores, Ballajá, Arecibo, PR. 00688. Finca 16845, inscrita al folio 140 del tomo 423 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Arecibo. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. 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 ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $5,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 3 de junio de 2014, constituida mediante la escritura número 400, (no expresa lugar de otorgamiento), el día 3 de junio de 2008, ante el notario Pedro R. Cintrón Rivera, e inscrita al folio 690 del tomo 1,354 de Arecibo, finca número 16,845, inscripción 9na., como Asiento Abreviado, extendidas las líneas el día 16 de noviembre de 2017, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 7 de junio de 2008, al Asiento 492 del Diario 836) Condiciones de Venta bajo el Programa La Llave para Tu Hogar, por el término de 6 años. E. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $78,299.20, la suma de $1,129.40, por concepto de atrasos acumulados por la moratoria debido al paso del Huracán María, la suma de $2,611.53 que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal,
por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado.
La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 5 DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Arecibo, por el tipo mínimo de $85,619.09. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 12 DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $57,079.39. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $42,809.55. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 24 de abril de 2023 en Arecibo, Puerto Rico. ÁNGEL TORRES PEÑA, ALGUACIL #770. ÁNGEL DE JESÚS GÓMEZ PÉREZ, ALGUACIL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
FINANCE OF AMERICA
REVERSE, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MARIA
DEL CARMEN GELPI
MARTINEZ T/C/C MARIA
DEL C. GELPI MARTINEZ
T/C/C MARIA GELPI
MARTINEZ T/C/C MARIA
DEL CARMEN GELPI
T/C/C MARIA DEL C.
GELPI T/C/C MARIA
GELPI, COMPUESTA
POR: INGRID RAMOS, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES
HEREDEROS NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV01013. Sala: 604. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
MARIA DEL CARMEN
GELPI MARTINEZ T/C/C MARIA DEL C. GELPI
MARTINEZ T/C/C MARIA
GELPI MARTINEZ T/C/C MARIA DEL CARMEN
GELPI T/C/C MARIA DEL C. GELPI T/C/C MARIA GELPI. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM en sus contras. Se les notifica para que comparezcan ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se les notifica que deberán 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 deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia de su contestación a la parte demandante, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Yadira López González Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 009367308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, se les anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Se ORDENA a los herederos de la referida causante a saber: INGRID RAMOS, FULANO DE TAL y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación, ACEPTEN o REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de la referida causante. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 21 de abril de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUZ ENID FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
Gleyber Torres was the best player in the New York Yankees’ lineup over the first two weeks of the season. Stroking the ball to all fields for both average and power, his swings were reminiscent of the ones he flashed as an All-Star in 2018 and ’19, his first two years in the league.
Through the Yankees’ first 12 games, he was leading the team in batting average (.357), on-base plus slugging percentage (1.179), walks (11) and stolen bases (5).
Then the Yankees returned home April 13, and Torres went into a 2-for-28 skid — a frustrating stretch for a player who has been streaky throughout his career. This time, however, neither he nor his team was worried.
“I don’t think he’s slumping right now,” manager Aaron Boone said last week. “I think his approach is where it needs to be. And as a hitter it’s hard to get caught up in a week’s worth of results. Sometimes you get lucky, and you get some bounces one week. Some weeks you put it on the screws a handful of times and get nothing to show for it.”
Torres and the Yankees recognized his production over those first two weeks had not come out of nowhere. It was the result of changes he began putting in place after the 2021 season. At the time, he was coming off back-to-back underwhelming years during which his development had been stunted by an unsuccessful move to shortstop from second base.
The easy narrative was that Torres was uncomfortable playing shortstop, and as he struggled to adapt to a more demanding position, he pressed to make up for it at the plate. There may be some truth to that. The larger impact of the switch, however, was physical. Torres said he lost a lot of weight to play shortstop.
“I just got myself really skinny because I was focusing on increasing my range,” Torres said. “When I lost weight, I lost a little bit of power.”
Swapping bulk for quickness isn’t necessarily bad for a middle infielder. The problem for Torres, though, was he did not think about his trimming as a trade-off. A right-handed batter, Torres was trying to generate the same amount of power at the plate with a lot less force behind it, throwing off his mechanics in the process. After hitting 38 home runs in 2019, he combined for just 12 over the next two seasons — three in the abbreviated 2020 season and nine in 127 games the next year.
Torres hit the weight room after the 2021 campaign, knowing he would be making a
return to second base, although it was unclear when the 2022 season would begin. The league’s collective bargaining agreement with its players’ union was set to expire in early December, and a work stoppage was seemingly inevitable. Before Major League Baseball locked out its players on Dec. 2, hitting coach Dillon Lawson and Torres put together a plan to fix his swing.
“The big thing for Gleyber is him getting into a position where he can feel athletic, he can feel strong,” Lawson said. “Because he has such a big move, there has to be this combination of mobility and stability.”
That “big move” was Torres’ load, the movement he makes before swinging. He uses a high leg kick to build the momentum he transfers through the baseball at the point of contact, but it had gotten too big and uncontrolled as he tried to squeeze every ounce of force out of his slimmer build. This had thrown off his balance and damaged his timing, which affected his pitch recognition, swing decisions, bat path and hip rotation.
“People talk about trying to get into their back hip, they’re loading their hip,” Lawson said. “This is how you would generate more force. So when you tend to load better, more
efficiently, then you also — it’s nice that it works out this way — you tend to unload, rotating into impact more efficiently.”
This past offseason, Torres returned to Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, where he grew up, to play in the country’s winter league. The homecoming served two purposes. He would get to play in front of his family and friends, and he wanted to improve his recognition of breaking and off-speed pitches. Most of the pitchers in the league are older and can no longer overpower hitters with velocity, so they rely on baffling batters with junk. His goal, he said: “Don’t strike out a lot.”
So far, so good. His chase rate against breaking and off-speed pitches was 22.9% entering Monday’s game, down from 26.3% last season, according to Statcast.
In Venezuela, Torres also rediscovered what it means to play baseball without getting caught up in the external stressors of being a big leaguer. The effects of this are much more difficult to quantify, but Torres looked far more relaxed during his recent skid than he would have been in previous years.
“Pressure is part of the game,” he said. “I’m more mature in those situations.”
Boone is quick to point out that, at 26, Torres is still a young player who is just now entering the prime years of his career. His ceiling remains incredibly high.
“When Gleyber is at his best,” Lawson said, “it’s a very balanced game that allows him to hit for a good average and have good power and good walk and strikeout rates, which then results in what we would call him being great.”
On Saturday, Torres went hitless in his first two at-bats, extending his slump to 2 for 30. Toronto’s starting pitcher, Alek Manoah, had allowed only one hit when Torres stepped in with one out in the seventh inning of a scoreless game. He quickly fell behind in the count, 0 and 2. Manoah threw a nasty slider low and away, the pitch Torres had worked to recognize better all offseason.
Torres loaded, saw the pitch out of Manoah’s hand and waited for the break. His hip leaked open a tad early, but his hands stayed back long enough. He waved at the pitch before it could dive out of the zone and flipped it into left field for a single.
It wasn’t a pretty swing, but it didn’t have to be. His next time up, in the ninth, he reached on an infield single. And with a single Sunday and an infield single in the second inning Monday in Minnesota, he had built a three-game hitting streak. The process is working.
There are still milestones left for LeBron James to reach, as improbable as that seems.
In a 20-year career in which James has powered three franchises to championships and become the NBA’s career scoring leader, he had never grabbed 20 rebounds in a game. Not in the regular season. Not in the postseason.
Not until Monday. Until his Los Angeles Lakers needed his muscle, his experience and his intuition. Until they needed James to push a brash young opponent, the Memphis Grizzlies, to the brink of a first-round playoff elimination.
“These are the moments that I love,” James said. “I love the postseason.”
The 117-111 overtime victory James helped deliver on Monday night led the Lakers, who started the season 2-10 and seemed lost heading into the trade deadline, to a 3-1 series lead over the Grizzlies, who spent all season as one of the best teams in the Western Conference.
Game 5 was slated for Wednesday night in Memphis, with the Grizzlies facing elimination.
“The closeout game is always the hardest game of the series,” James said. “It’s the most tiring one.”
The Lakers were in a commanding position heading into Wednesday because James found a way to push through his exhaustion in the final minutes of Game 4 and add to his lore. He grabbed rebounds, he took charges, he made a driving layup through contact with 29.1 seconds left in overtime and screamed into the crowd as he pounded on his chest.
“He understands the timing, the timing of everything,” Lakers coach Darvin Ham said. “The known of what happened yesterday and the unknown of tomorrow, it makes him even more entrenched in today, into the moment.
“All of his travels. All of the phenomenal things he’s accomplished — he still has that passion, that grit to want to be on top and to want to put his team in position, the right way, to be successful. That’s what you saw.”
With 22 points and 20 rebounds, James became the first Laker to reach 20 points and 20 rebounds in a playoff game since Shaquille O’Neal in 2004. At 38, he became the oldest player in NBA history to have 20 points and 20 rebounds in a game, beating a playoff mark set by Wilt
Chamberlain in 1973.
James’ presence is part of the reason it has been clear from the start of this series that the Lakers are no ordinary seventh seed. Their record didn’t reflect who they were once Anthony Davis and James were available, if not fully healthy. They also improved significantly after remaking their roster at the trade deadline.
Conversely, the Grizzlies came into the postseason hobbled. Their starting center, Steven Adams, has been out with a knee injury, and Brandon Clarke, another player who lent size to their lineup, has also been injured.
Memphis lost Game 1 at home. But, famous for their bluster, that early defeat did not humble them. One Grizzlies player, Dillon Brooks, went directly at James on the court and off it.
During Game 2, Brooks said James called him “dumb” for acquiring his fourth foul.
“I don’t care — he’s old, you know what I mean?” Brooks responded.
“I was waiting for that,” he continued. “I was expecting him to do that Game 4, Game 5. He wanted to say something when I got my fourth foul. He should have been saying that earlier on. But I poke bears. I don’t respect no one until they come and give me 40.”
Creating a rivalry with James can be an easy way for another player to siphon some of his spotlight. James knew that and wanted no part of it.
After a practice last week, James was asked several questions about Brooks’ comments and sidestepped each one. He then ended his news conference early, before he was tempted to say anything that might escalate the feud. He said he preferred to speak through his play.
In the minutes before Game 3, though, James approached Brooks. There was no audio, but cameras caught the interaction and the video circulated on social media.
“There was nothing private about it,” James said after the game, giving away that he wasn’t actually ignoring all that Brooks had said. “It was very, very public. I like it that way.”
The Lakers led by 35-9 after the first quarter of that game, driving their fans into a delirious frenzy and making Memphis’ bravado seem foolish. The Grizzlies never recovered from their poor start even though Ja Morant scored 45 points. Brooks was ejected in the third quarter for a flagrant foul assessed when he struck
James in the groin, putting an early end to whatever battle might have been brewing between them.
Still, not everything came easily for the Lakers on Monday.
They had a 15-point lead in the second quarter, but Memphis closed the first half with a 14-1 run and the Lakers led by just 2 at halftime. To end the third quarter, Morant wove through the paint to dunk the ball as time expired and gave Memphis a 2-point lead.
Late in the game, however, the Lakers got important contributions from several players. Davis, after a quiet game through three quarters, made important defensive plays late. D’Angelo Russell made three 3-pointers within a one-minute span during the fourth quarter to pull the Lakers
out of a 7-point deficit.
But James’ contributions, as he fought through fatigue in the closing minutes, meant the most.
“You just dig deep and understand that you’ll be able to sleep at some point, just not right now,” James said, looking drained after the game. “This is not the time to rest or forget about an assignment. You’ll have plenty of time after a game and the next day to kind of rest and decompress as much as possible.”
Rest is hard to come by in the playoffs. Although the Lakers and the Grizzlies had a kinder schedule than some teams got, with two days off between each of the first three games, the schedule then shifted to playing every other day with increasingly high stakes.
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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)
You’re bound to be a bit touchy today, Ram, so make things as easy on yourself as possible. The sensitive Cancer moon in your emo fourth house is at odds with excessive Jupiter in Aries, so the littlest trigger could set you off. Try not to make too much of it or take it personally. Give that aggravating family member a wide berth, and seek out the company of someone in your circle who lifts your spirits. Just being around them will give you the boost that you need now.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Let yourself relax because divine downloads will pour in today as the sensitive Cancer moon in your mindset corner connects with wise Jupiter in your subconscious sector. Keep a clear channel to the muse and make time to follow the trail of breadcrumbs straight to a treasure trove of creative gold. If you could use some help translating those missives, connect with a colleague who inspires you to think big. This might even turn into an official collaboration.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
Shine a light on your finances today, Twin. As the security-conscious Cancer moon in your fiscal second house spars with excessive Jupiter in your social eleventh, that’s your cue to identify where you might need to rein in your expenditures. If you’re a long-time contributor to a philanthropic organization, do your homework to make sure their overhead is still low and most of your hard-earned money is going to a cause you believe in.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Stop self-sabotage in its tracks today, Cancer! You’ve made serious progress in your career and have every right to be proud of yourself. Being your own best publicist now could earn you some well-deserved kudos and perhaps another shot at the brass ring! But with the moon in your sign battling Jupiter in your reputation court, this might be the time to tap someone else to toot your horn or negotiate on your behalf.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Fill ‘er up! You’re due to replenish your reserves today while the moon lingers in nurturing Cancer and your twelfth house of rest and retreat. Get through your list of tasks for the day, then duck off the radar to indulge in some well-earned self-care. With the moon squaring meaning-maker Jupiter, find an activity that resonates with your spirit, whether that’s listening to classical music or going for a hike in nature. Keep your dream journal nearby tonight.
Virgo
You know as well as anyone that it’s important to be straight with people. But first, you need to distinguish between what’s true and what’s simply your personal view of it. Avoid making assumptions and pointing fingers—neither of which will accomplish anything. If you see room for improvement in someone’s behavior, talk to them without judgment. You can use your words to build bridges today, Virgo. Ask open-ended questions to draw them out and listen closely to what they have to say.
Where are you heading, Libra? With the moon hovering in Cancer and your ambition arena, you’re focused on long-range goals. Have you shortchanged your own agenda so you can help someone else pursue theirs? Switch that up! The moon is provoking truthteller Jupiter in your interpersonal zone today, pushing you to come clean and stand up for your own priorities. Got a pet project you’ve been dying to launch? Others will be blown away by your newfound confidence!
Spread your wings, Scorpio! You’re set to soar today, as the Cancer moon illuminates your expansive ninth house. And since la luna is at odds with boundless Jupiter, it’s clear that the “same old same old” is not on your flight plan. What will inspire you to explore unfamiliar territory? Devote some time to a project that fires you up, reach out to an influencer you admire or sign up for a skill-building workshop. What you shouldn’t do is hedge your bets.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
Look for sound investments today, as the securityconscious moon activates your “all in” eighth house. Whether you’re scoping out a potential business partner, a stock or a lucrative passion project, think in terms of long-term commitment with lasting rewards. Since your ruler, boundless Jupiter, is elbowing the moon, explore possibilities that light you up and inspire you to learn new things. View this as a discovery mission, Archer!
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
Pair off, Cap! Powerful coalitions could be just an email or breakfast meeting away while the Cancer moon sails through your seventh house of cooperation. Are you having a hard time divvying up duties on a pet project? Perhaps you’re concerned that some people won’t share your work ethic—and you’re probably right about that. But rather than hesitating to share responsibility, teach your cohorts how you want them to execute their assignments.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
What’s the rush, Aquarius? It’s the little things that count the most today, with the Cancer moon drifting through your detail-oriented sixth house. Make sure to proofread your work, looking for any mistakes—big or small—that could negatively impact the whole project. Another twenty minutes to double-check everything could save you time (and stress!) down the road. Most important of all: Stop to consider whether your visionary concepts are completely clear.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
Werk, Pisces! As the Cancer moon shines a spotlight in your glamorous fifth house today, don’t be afraid to express your singular style—right down to your statement sneakers. (Every Fish worth their salt knows a great shoe when they see it.) Even if a couple of people stare, your fun fashion sense and brave self-expression can break the ice and earn secret admirers. Just be prepared to tell them all where you got each and every item!
