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The San Juan Star DAILY Monday, August 14, 2023 50¢ NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL P 16 P5 West Maui Residents Say Gov’t Aid Is Meager ‘That Means a Rate Hike’: PREPA Debt Deal to Increase Payments to Bondholders, Lawyer Says P7 ‘A Lot Has Been Accomplished’ Senator Says All 856 Island Public Schools Have Security Guards & Nurses Under Revised Plan P3 P6 SBP Puerto Rico & Encanto Restaurants Continue to Restore Safe Homes
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Senator: All 856 public schools have security guards & nurses under revised plan

As the school year begins, everyone gets busy, parents must get their kids ready, teachers must have their classes well prepared, and kids must be ready to wake up early in the morning again. While some of a school’s most important assets are its teachers and its students, there are many other parties that play an important role in running the school properly; some of those assets include security guards, nurses and maintenance personnel. Without them, the health and safety of the youth could suffer, which is why all 856 public schools in Puerto Rico already have security guards, nurses and maintenance people assigned to them, said Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera. Following a recent meeting with designated Education Secretary Yanira Raíces Vega, the at-large senator also said that all public school campuses have surveillance cameras installed, certified and operating regularly.

“A lot has been accomplished in mere days before the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year, especially in the preparation to receive students …” Riquelme said. “For example, all 856 schools have a nurse assigned, as well as security staff to bring protection to students, teachers, directors and other school personnel. In this

aspect we are confident that our children will be able to take their classes in a safe environment.”

After analyzing the security plans previously reviewed by Raíces Vega, the New Progressive Party senator said “I am very grateful to the secretary of the Department of Education for keeping us up to date in terms of what’s going on with the beginning of the school year.”

“Security is a highly important component in terms of school life, one of the most important ones in fact,” Riquelme Cabrera said. “Our staff is more than ready to support our students.”

During the meeting at the Capitol, the senator asked Raíces Vega if there was a possibility of creating, under an administrative order, a quick response code (QR code) with all the information contained in the Registry for Convicts of Sexual Crimes and Child Abuse, and placing the QR code at the entrance of every school.

“This is a security issue regarding minors,” Riquelme Cabrera said. “Parents or teachers, just by scanning the QR code, would be connected directly to the registry, where they would have access to data such as the name of the sex offender, an updated picture, physical description, type of offense committed and the municipality where they reside. All of this is very important.”

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PDP lawmakers announce conditions for approving tax reform

The island House of Representatives announced Sunday that it is ready to pass a new version of tax reform if Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia agrees to conditions established by the Popular Democratic Party majority, while revealing the points the majority considers should be evaluated.

Treasury Committee Chairman Jesús Santa Rodríguez, Municipal Affairs Committee Chairman Juan José Santiago Nieves and House Speaker Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez made the announcement Sunday.

“The Treasury Committee is committed to addressing the Tax Reform immediately and effectively,” Santa Rodríguez said in a written statement. “We will use the previously approved bill to move forward with resolving concerns and carry out this crucial reform for Puerto Rico.”

The points that the majority lawmakers seek are:

* Tax rate adjustment: A restructuring of the tax rates for individuals and corporations to create a fairer and more competitive system.

* Stimulus for small business: The reform seeks to reduce the tax burden of small and midsize companies, thus promoting investment and employment.

* Incentives for innovation: Tax incentives are being proposed for companies that invest in research and development, promoting innovation and competitiveness.

* Administrative simplification: The tax reform focuses on simplifying administrative and tax filing processes, easing the burden for taxpayers and improving efficiency. In turn, it seeks to convert the tax application SURI as the unified platform for collecting all contributions, centralizing the collection of all income in

one place. In addition, terms such as internal revenue mechanisms are to be simplified and standardized.

* Support for sustainability: Incentives are being proposed for companies that adopt sustainable and environmentally friendly practices, contributing to a greener Puerto Rico. Likewise, the reform bill seeks to evaluate establishing a tax credit for those who install solar panels in their home or business.

* Promotion of employment: The reform seeks to stimulate job creation through tax benefits for companies that create job opportunities and employee benefits.

* Adjustment in the tax on automobiles: Lawmakers will evaluate an adjustment or modification of the tax on automobiles.

* Support for education: Tax deductions are considered for companies that invest in employee educa-

tional and training programs, promoting training and development.

* Integrated municipal contributions: The tax reform must integrate the collection of the municipal sales and use tax (IVU by its Spanish acronym) into the SURI system, simplifying the processes for taxpayers. Likewise, it should integrate the “patente” declaration and the personal property tax into the income tax return. In addition, the reform must freeze the inventory tax to encourage the supply of inventory by businesses.

* Increase in benefits for vulnerable groups: The increase in credits and tax benefits for low-income pensioners and the elderly must be included, strengthening social protection.

“Unifying the filing of forms and reports on state and municipal contributions is beneficial to all,” Santiago Nieves said. “It reduces taxpayer bureaucracy, lowers business costs, and allows for more effective examination. In addition, freezing the inventory tax will increase the production, storage and importation of goods while positively impacting municipal finances.”

Hernández Montañez, meanwhile, stated that “this Tax Reform is a sign of our commitment to Puerto Rico.”

“We are working hard to create a fair system that fosters economic growth and benefits all citizens,” he said. “The House of Representatives is ready to create a more efficient, equitable, and competitive tax system for Puerto Rico.”

The House of Representatives reaffirmed its commitment to transparency and citizen participation, ensuring that the proposals are analyzed and debated openly.

Earlier this year, Pierluisi presented his proposed tax reform, which sought, among other things, to eliminate the inventory tax and reduce tax rates.

Lawmakers react after federal appeals court upholds fiscal board’s rejection of Labor Reform

The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston late last week upheld the ruling that struck down Law 41-2022, known as the Labor Reform, drawing reactions in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives.

“The House of Representatives, in keeping with its commitment to the country, stood up for private sector workers,” House Speaker Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez said Friday in a written statement.

The decision expanded Swain’s power to issues unrelated to the bankruptcy process, Hernández said. The lawmaker also argued that the Financial Oversight and Management Board, which opposed the Labor Reform law, exceeded its authority by trying to im-

pose a perspective of impoverishment on the island’s working class, among other things.

House Labor Affairs Committee Chairman Domingo Torres García added: “In the coming days, we will inform the country about the next steps in our work agenda.”

Minority New Progressive Party (NPP) lawmakers, meanwhile, said that the decision highlights Puerto Rico’s colonial condition.

“A court could not be clearer and more forceful about the political relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States,” NPP Rep. José Aponte Hernández said. “We are a colony.”

The First Circuit Court of Appeals determined that the oversight board had the right to intervene in any law, even one that concerns the private sector.

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The island House of Representatives reaffirmed its commitment to transparency and citizen participation, ensuring that tax reform proposals are analyzed and debated openly. House Labor Affairs Committee Chairman Domingo Torres García

Lawyer: PREPA debt deal to increase payments to bondholders

Rolando Emmanuelli, a lawyer involved with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) bankruptcy process, predicted that the proposed amended PREPA debt deal that the Financial Oversight and Management Board plans to submit on Aug. 18 in all probability will increase payments to bondholders and lead to rate hikes.

U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain agreed last week to an extension requested by the Financial Oversight and Management Board to submit the revised debt deal on Aug. 18. The deadline for the parties to file the Joint Status Report with a proposed litigation schedule for confirmation proceedings is now Aug. 23.

In justifying the extension, the oversight board said it has continued to negotiate with mediation parties and that as a result of these efforts, it had reached an agreement in principle with a substantial number of holders of PREPA bonds to settle their respective claims against PREPA.

“The Oversight Board and these PREPA bondholders are currently in the process of finalizing the necessary documents to effectuate this agreement, including but not limited to a bond purchase agreement and restructuring support agreement (RSA),” the oversight board said. “The RSA will be open for all PREPA bondholders to join. The Oversight Board has already approved the agreement in principle.”

Emmanuelli noted that the oversight board has said it will pay out $2.5 billion to creditors, excepting retirees. In June, Swain limited to $2.38 billion the amount of utility net revenue that bondholders have a claim to. PREPA has about $8.4 billion in bonded debt.

“In all probability, the agreement means the Board will pay more and that means a rate hike,” Emmanuelli said through the Bufete Emmanuelli channel on YouTube, adding that otherwise bondholders would not have joined an agreement in principle.

While the oversight board has not revealed the names of the bondholders that have joined the agreement in principle, GoldenTree Asset Management in a court document said it hasn’t been invited to or participated in any settlement discussions.

GoldenTree held $1 billion in PREPA debt as of February.

Emmanuelli also said that given the delays, including parties filing opposition to the plan and related litigation, the debt adjustment plan will be confirmed next year.

The oversight board is already seeking a local advisory firm to assist in any future bond issuance in connection with the PREPA adjustment plan and has requested that all proposals be submitted by Aug. 19.

The oversight board said the Title III PREPA bonds are likely to be issued in accordance with the existing PREPA statute without any new legislation adopted in connection with any such issuance.

Gas facility opponents to seek rehearing with federal regulator

Meanwhile, Emmanuelli also said groups opposing the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) duct facility by NFEnergia, a subsidiary of New Fortress Energy in San Juan, will be seeking a rehearing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) after the entity allowed certain construction work to continue.

In May 2020, NFEnergía began operation of an LNG import terminal in San Juan Harbor and commenced supplying gas to two existing electricity generation units (Units 5 and 6) at the San Juan Power Plant. NFEnergía built the LNG Terminal and began operations without obtaining FERC authorization and depriving impacted communities of the comprehensive federal review of health and safety impacts that they were entitled to under the National Environmental Policy Act.

In March 2021, FERC issued an order determining that

Governor vetoes Electoral Code amendments

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said late last week that he vetoed proposed amendments to the Electoral Code.

The governor did not sign the measure that amended the Electoral Code because, as he had pointed out, it does not establish 60 years as the minimum age for early voting, as was the agreement of the legislative leadership of the minority New Progressive Party and the majority Popular Democratic Party (PDP) prior to the approval of the measure. On the contrary, the measure sets at 75 years the age required to be able to request early voting, which, the governor said, far from facilitating democracy, puts more obstacles in the way of older adults. Also, the measure limits the power of the State Elections Commission (SEC) chairperson to add other categories to the

advance vote in the absence of unanimity, and seeks to shorten the time for the request of the advance vote, which again instead of facilitating, makes voting more difficult, Pierluisi said.

Another provision the governor objects to, among others, is that the alternate SEC chairperson be entrusted with the direction of the Administrative Board of Absentee Voting and Early Voting, since there is no need to disrupt the current procedure in which all parties have participation, he said.

PDP President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González repudiated the veto.

“With this undemocratic veto, the only person responsible for voters over 75 but under 80 not being able to request early voting is the governor himself, as we have already established countless times, the current statute establishes that only people 80 years or older can request it,” he said at a press conference

it did have jurisdiction over New Fortress’s LNG terminal in San Juan Harbor, and that NFEnergía had to submit a permit application and seek after-the-fact authorization for the Terminal. NFEnergia appealed the ruling.

Around the same time, NFEnergía was awarded the contract to convert Units 5 and 6, which were originally diesel-burning, to be “dual fuel” capable, meaning the units can now be powered by either methane gas or diesel as before.

In September 2021, NFEnergía submitted an application for afterthe-fact approval of the unpermitted LNG terminal, in FERC Docket CP21496-000.

Opponents said NFEnergía’s application was riddled with omissions and errors, leading FERC staff to express serious safety concerns about the potential for explosions, the risks for uncontained vapor cloud dispersion, or seismic events causing soil liquefaction under the facility due to NFEnergia’s poor foundation design.

In the spring this year, nonetheless, NFEnergía expanded the unpermitted LNG terminal, increasing the LNG input to allow NFEnergía to supply gas to generating units in Palo Seco, using a “virtual pipeline” of trucks carrying LNG containers.

On July 20, NFEnergía submitted a two-page application, demanding that FERC issue an approval under the Natural Gas Act.

New Fortress subsidiary Genera PR has claimed an emergency requiring immediate installation of new “temporary” gasfired generation units. Meanwhile, its other subsidiary, NFEnergía, stands to collect billions in taxpayer dollars to fuel those units.

on Friday. “I ask the governor to stop playing politics with this issue and assume his responsibility. He cannot continue to assign blame to the PDP that only belongs to him and his party.”

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SBP Puerto Rico & Encanto Restaurants continue to restore safe homes in Puerto Rico

Sometimes large corporations are not viewed in a positive light. To be sure, more and more people purchase their personal belongings from big companies, whether online or in person, and in terms of food chains, eating out for many in Puerto Rico is more than a once-a-week thing. No matter how positive or negative someone’s view of large corporations may be, in most cases these companies have a lot of money, and with a large sum of money, a lot of good can be done.

According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 92% of houses in Puerto Rico were damaged to some extent during Hurricane Maria. Many residents didn’t have a home or a bed to sleep in, and complaints about FEMA have been abundant, even years after the hurricane. Even though financing the repair of properties and keeping everything in order was supposed to be FEMA’s responsibility, the private sector also took part in the reconstruction of the island.

Perhaps surprisingly to some, the fast-food industry helped in this effort. One example is Encanto Restaurants, which joined forces with nonprofit organization SPB Puerto Rico to help those in need. In an ongoing effort to assist families with their recovery and with finding secure homes, SBP Puerto Rico has remained steadfast in its commitment since the devastating events of the 2017 hurricanes. The organization has been working to shorten the gap between disaster and recovery, providing a comprehensive response to restore hope and well-being for affected families. For the third straight year, KFC, Pizza Hut, IHOP, and Taco Bell restaurants received

donations to match what SBP raised during the month of July for storm-damaged homes on the island.

“The partnership with SBP Puerto Rico is significant and comforting, as we are directly helping many Puerto Ricans rebuild their homes,” said Humberto Rovira, president & CEO of Encanto Restaurants. “Matching the $0.25 that each diner contributes brings us closer to the goal of providing a safe roof for everyone on our island.”

“At SBP Puerto Rico, we take pride in being part of Puerto Rico’s recovery and providing a safe home for families still struggling to return after the hurricane,” noted Edgardo Maldonado, executive director of SBP Puerto Rico. “Our focus extends beyond physical reconstruction; we also collaborate with various organizations to strengthen the community as a whole.”

In order to make these efforts into a reality, money needed to be raised, and what better way to do this than by using their extremely popular food chains, which are visited by islanders on a daily basis, especially at lunch time on weekdays and at night on the weekends. During July, the four restaurant chains -- KFC, Pizza Hut, IHOP and Taco Bell -- received donations from diners to contribute to SBP’s restoration efforts for hundreds of homes on the island.

Since its establishment, SBP Puerto Rico has repaired and rebuilt 300 homes, providing security and stability to affected families. It has also trained 130 organizations in disaster recovery best practices, creating an effective support network for communities. With the collaboration of more than 3,500 volunteers and the support of prominent organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and various institutions, SBP Puerto Rico has expanded its reach and achieved lasting impact.

SBP Puerto Rico’s work has reached 14 municipalities, including Loíza, Yabucoa, Canóvanas, Carolina, San Juan, Toa Baja, Trujillo Alto, Cataño, Bayamón, Guaynabo, Juncos,

Since its establishment, SBP Puerto Rico has repaired and rebuilt 300 homes, providing security and stability to affected families, and has also trained 130 organizations in disaster recovery best practices, creating an effective support network for communities. (Photo courtesy of SBP Puerto Rico)

Guayama, and Vega Baja. However, despite the progress, there are still more than 100 families on SBP Puerto Rico’s waiting list, eagerly awaiting the recovery services they need. As the effort continues to expand, SBP hopes to continue reaching families around the island.

“The task has not been easy, but we are committed to working tirelessly until each and every family finds the security and stability they deserve,” Rovira said. “We invite all interested individuals to join our powerful recovery movement and make a significant difference in the lives of families in Puerto Rico.”

Arrest made in case of off-duty police sergeant slain in drive-by shooting

Puerto Rico Police Bureau agents arrested Osward Iván Oliveras Cardona, 21, late last week, in connection with the killing of Trujillo Alto Municipal Police Sgt. Pedro Torres Santos.

“This arrest is the product of a thorough investigation, and we will continue working to solve the case,” Lt. Obis Díaz Virella said in a written statement.

Oliveras Cardona had multiple outstanding arrest warrants, including for the removal of an electronic monitoring device. A bail of $525,000 was set by Judge Wilfredo Viera Garces.

Additionally, John Anthony Sánchez Irizarry, 23, was arrested at the same location. Officers are requesting a search warrant for the residence where both individuals were apprehended.

Torres Santos, 47, was killed in a targeted drive-by shooting on July 31 in Trujillo Alto. Two other officers were wounded.

The police urge citizens to provide information that can help solve cases by calling (787) 343-2020.

Authorities said Osward Iván Oliveras Cardona, 21, had several outstanding arrest warrants, including one for the removal of an electronic monitoring device.

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need some help here’: West Maui residents say government aid is scant

Days after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century ignited in West Maui, killing dozens and leveling more than 2,200 buildings, increasingly frustrated residents said that they were receiving far more help from an ad hoc network of volunteers than they were from the government.

After the fire destroyed the town of Lahaina, hundreds of local residents — a group that includes evacuees along with nearby residents who found themselves cut off from power and internet service — remained affected in West Maui, miles beyond the highway checkpoints. Some evacuees slept in parks; others stayed in their own homes that survived the disaster or with friends in the wider community of that part of the island.

They have been searching desperately for gasoline, phone reception and hot food, especially after power outages rendered refrigerators and microwaves useless. In many cases, they have leaned on church groups, community organizations and volunteers to track down missing relatives, get rides to shelters or access supplies brought in on private boats and airplanes.

“Where are the county officials? Nobody has internet — I just found out you can’t drink the water,” said Josh Masslon, who was sitting on a hill by the remote Kapalua Airport on Friday night trying to get cellphone service. “The communication has been nil.”

The death toll from the fire continued to rise — to at least 93 on Saturday — with more expected. While life in most other parts of Maui seems to have continued with little interruption, West Maui has felt like an island unto itself.

Residents and evacuees have been particularly desperate for gasoline to fuel their vehicles and run generators. They also have welcomed the home-cooked meals coming from sympathetic residents elsewhere in Maui, the rice dishes and the cans of Spam that are island favorites. Too little of it has been coming from government agencies, West Maui residents bemoaned.

A burned palm tree droops in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, two days after the historic town was devastated by wildfire, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. A Hawaiian town that was once home to 13,000 people is now a desolate ruin. With the death toll at 93 and climbing, the true scope of the tragedy is still unfolding.

“We need some help here,” Rolando Advincula said as he loaded diapers for his nephews into the back of his car.

State, local and federal officials have had a presence in West Maui since the fires erupted Tuesday. County firefighters confronted the inferno, Coast Guard sailors rescued people from the water and state officials have distributed supplies and organized temporary housing. Many West Maui residents relocated to government-run shelters in other parts of the island days ago.

On Saturday, Gov. Josh Green, a Democrat, and Deanne Criswell, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, were among the officials from all levels of government who surveyed the destruction in Lahaina, a former capital of the Hawaiian kingdom, and pledged to help rebuild.

Still, residents have complained that the official response has been remarkably lacking, describing the scattered fire warnings Tuesday as insufficient, and the response since then as a failure that has not met their overwhelming, urgent needs.

Maui’s remoteness and the scale of the destruction — the fire in Lahaina surpassed

the once-unfathomable Camp fire of 2018 in California as the deadliest in the United States in more than a century — has made the response more challenging, officials said Saturday. They promised that more help was on the way.

“We said, ‘If something ever happened here, we’re 72 hours away from help ever coming,’” said Chief John Pelletier of the Maui Police Department. “And I think we proved that that’s probably pretty accurate.”

The chief described an emergency response that is still far from complete. He said that canine teams searching for cadavers only began working on the island Saturday, and had so far searched only about 3% of the impacted area. Officials said they expected to find more bodies.

Of the people known to have died, the chief said that only two had been identified. He urged people searching for loved ones to take a DNA test that could help identify their remains.

“The remains we’re finding is through a fire that melted metal,” Pelletier said. “We have to do rapid DNA to identify.”

As the search continued, people who

stayed behind in West Maui said they heard little directly from the government and did not know what forms of official aid were available.

“Nobody knows what’s going on out here,” said Cord Cuniberti, who was driving Spam to a drop-off site with his friend. “We’re just relaying stuff — coconut wireless,” he said, using a local term meaning word-ofmouth and rumors.

In Napili Park, north of Lahaina, locals set up one of many makeshift distribution centers under a canopy. They handed out mounds of canned goods, pallets of water, diapers and other supplies to those in need. People stretched out to rest on blankets in the shade as children played football and helped to unload boxes of goods.

Paul Romero, who owns a gym in Kihei more than 20 miles southeast of the hardest hit area and led several supply runs into West Maui, said he was heartened to see so many people rush to the aid of their neighbors up the coast.

But he echoed the concerns of many evacuees: They had not heard anything from the government, had received no aid other than from private volunteers and felt left in the dark.

“It’s an incredible dichotomy,” Romero said Saturday. “There is an outpouring of local support, boots on the ground, depleting our personal resources to support our Ohana in just the most basic ways,” he said, using a Hawaiian word for family. But “the response from our well-funded, tax-paid government is incredibly pathetic. We can’t even understand what they did, what they didn’t do, what they’re still not doing.”

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The Iowa State Fair saw many GOP candidates but only one Trump

first contest in 2024 is widely seen as the best opportunity to slow Trump’s march to the nomination.

Trump has repeatedly tried to assert his dominance as the front-runner, citing his polling advantage in social media posts and nearly every speech. But the overlapping appearances Saturday marked just the latest instance of Trump’s trying to overshadow DeSantis in Iowa, a sign of how his team views DeSantis: as his lone serious rival.

The two men cut strikingly different paths at the fairgrounds, as they wound their way through the pens of pigs, past the 600-pound sculpture of a cow carved in butter, and stands selling local delicacies, like deep-fried balls of bacon and cheese.

DeSantis, joined by his wife, Casey, and their three children, wore jeans and what has become his standard Iowa-casual fare of a custom-made, short sleeve button-down fishing shirt with his name and title emblazoned on his chest. He rode the Ferris wheel, played fair games and crashed bumper cars.

Joni Ernst, Rep. Zach Nunn and Gov. Kim Reynolds.

When Trump arrived less than an hour later, he packed the area with Florida politicians, who worked the grill as he signed hats and shook hands. A spokesperson, Steven Cheung, said that the campaign spent a total of $20,000 buying food and drinks for fairgoers at the pork tent and beer hall.

“We got pork that’s more well done than Ron DeSantis,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz, a former DeSantis ally who is backing Trump and was wearing a “Florida man” shirt.

“I want my president to be the biggest American chest thumper out there,” said Rep. Brian Mast of Florida, who came to Iowa to campaign for Trump. “If you cross him, he will slit your throat, and I get that out of President Trump.”

DeSantis, a former college baseball player, tried his hand at some fair games, including the milk jug toss. He and his family won at least two giant stuffed Pikachus and what appeared to be a toy koala.

The crowd cheered. The pork was charred. And then someone shouted at former President Donald Trump, asking him to identify his biggest challenger in the 2024 Republican primary.

“Don’t see him,” Trump replied.

Trump signaled that he was looking past his leading rival, Ron DeSantis, on Saturday, as the two candidates converged at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. But his campaign team took every opportunity to needle the Florida governor.

Though the two candidates never crossed paths, Trump’s appearance was

scheduled to coincide with DeSantis’ visit. Trump engineered a boisterous arrival, which included his private plane buzzing overhead, as DeSantis finished flipping pork chops. And Trump brought with him a bevy of Florida House members who had endorsed him over their own governor.

It was a rare moment of side-by-side comparison for Trump and his main opponent, and the mob of supporters following Trump’s every move underscored his superior standing. Trump leads DeSantis by an average of more than 30 percentage points nationally, though his margin is slightly smaller in Iowa — a gap that his rivals hope will narrow, as the criminal cases against him proceed. The

Trump took to the fairgrounds in a navy suit, with cuff links, and was greeted by a throng of cheering supporters at every stop. He signed hats, waved to the crowds and petted a goat before being driven to the Steer N’ Stein building, where he gave brief remarks.

It is not clear when the two men will be in the same place at the same time. Touting his sizable polling lead, Trump has said it would be “stupid” for him to attend this month’s first debate of the primary, in which DeSantis and the rest of his rivals have struggled to gain traction.

But on Saturday, there was plenty of old-school politicking and political theater. At one point, a plane circled the fairgrounds with a “Be likable, Ron!” banner trailing behind. The banner had two inside jabs: The first was a reference to leaked 2018 debate preparations in which DeSantis was instructed to write the word “likable” in front of him. The second was the exclamation point, which was designed to look like the logo of a previous Florida governor Trump dispatched in 2016: Jeb Bush.

And before Trump took the stage, his team handed out leaflets attacking DeSantis for his position on agricultural issues, calling him an “utter catastrophe” for farmers.

Flipping pork chops at a grill station sponsored by the Pork Producer trade association, a traditional stop for presidential aspirants, DeSantis smiled and chatted with prominent Iowa Republicans, including Sen.

Trump leads DeSantis by 24 percentage points among likely Republican caucusgoers, a substantial advantage but one that’s 10 percentage points lower than the commanding position he holds with Republicans nationwide. Every other candidate was in single digits in the recent New York Times/ Siena College polls, including Nikki Haley, the former United Nations ambassador who on Saturday sported a shirt that read: “Underestimate me — that’ll be fun.”

The fair can bring surprise encounters for attendees and politicians alike. Former Vice President Mike Pence at one point this week was asked to sign a scavenger hunt list for a fairgoer. (He fulfilled: “Picture of the team with a celebrity.”) Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur, belted out several verses from Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” after a questionand-answer session with Reynolds.

Almost every candidate accepted Reynolds’ invitation to her “fair-side chats” — with the notable exception of Trump, who has criticized Reynolds for her plans to stay neutral in the primary and has tried to take credit for her election.

Trump did not mention Reynolds in his brief speech at the Steer N’ Stein beer building, which had a “MAGA Meal Day” special that included a double cheeseburger, “freedom fries” and a Coke for $24.

“We don’t want to take any chances,” Trump told the crowd, saying Iowans were “very special to me.” “We’ll be back,” he said.

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Florida Gov. Ron Desantis, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks during a visit to the Menlo Freedom Rock, which is painted in patriotic themes, outside Menlo, Iowa, Aug. 11, 2023.
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Trump election interference case to go to grand jury in Georgia early

Atlanta-area prosecutors have indicated that they will go before a grand jury early this week to present the results of their investigation into election interference by former President Donald Trump and his allies, raising the possibility that within days Trump could face a fourth criminal indictment.

On Saturday, two witnesses who have received subpoenas to testify before the grand jury — Geoff Duncan, the former lieutenant governor of Georgia, and George Chidi, an independent journalist — revealed that they had received notices to appear before the grand jury Tuesday. A spokesperson for the Fulton County district attorney’s office, which conducted the investigation, could not be reached for comment Saturday.

Why it matters

A state-level indictment of Trump in Georgia would follow closely on the heels of a federal indictment, unveiled this month, that is also related to the former president’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. But unlike with federal convictions, Trump, if reelected president, could not attempt to pardon himself if convicted of state crimes in Georgia.

Moreover, while the federal case brought by special counsel Jack Smith names only Trump, details have surfaced suggesting that a Georgia indictment could name numerous people, some of them well known and powerful, who played roles in the multipronged effort to help Trump overturn his narrow 2020 election loss in the state.

Chidi informed

The New York Times on Saturday that he had received the notice to appear. Duncan on Saturday told CNN, where he is an on-air contributor, that he had received the notice to appear.

Background

Fani Willis, the district attorney in

Fulton County, Georgia, has spent 2 1/2 years investigating whether Trump and his allies interfered in the 2020 election in the state. Other investigations of the former president have resulted in indictments in New York, Florida and Washington, D.C.

In New York, Trump was indicted in April on state charges stemming from his alleged role in paying hush money to a porn star. In June, he was indicted in Miami in a federal case related to his alleged mishand ling of classified documents; the federal indictment regarding election interference came Aug. 1.

Trump has pleaded not guilty in those cases.

The Georgia investigation may be the most expansive legal challenge yet to the efforts that Trump and his advisers undertook to keep him in power. Nearly 20 people are known to have been told that they could face charges as a result of the investigation.

Trump’s lawyers have described an indictment in Georgia as a foregone conclusion in recent legal filings, and the foreperson of a special grand jury that heard evidence for several months last year strongly hinted afterward that the group, which served in an advisory capacity, had recommended Trump for indictment.

What’s next

If Trump is indicted in Georgia, he will have to travel to Atlanta in the days or weeks afterward to be booked and arraigned. Numerous security measures are in place at the courthouse, including orange barriers that now ring the downtown court complex.

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Why bonds are still essential investments

Give the stock market half a chance and it will dominate the financial headlines. That was certainly the case for July, with the S&P 500 powering upward and bonds barely treading water.

But August has been different, with the stock market hitting a speed bump and the bond market getting attention for an unwelcome reason: a downgrade of U.S. Treasury debt by the Fitch Ratings agency. Fitch says the deterioration in political consensus and the increasing debt levels of the United States mean that it no longer ranks unequivocally as among the safest places to invest in the world.

That’s significant. Because the enduring appeal of bonds comes from their relative safety — and not from spectacular gains and losses that define the stock market’s flamboyant brand — the Fitch downgrade can’t be easily dismissed.

Yet, it makes sense to hold U.S. debt anyway, despite tremors in the bond market. You may not think much about bonds, but there’s a good chance that you have a stake in them, if only indirectly: through a fund, especially in a workplace defined-contribution retirement account, such as a 401(k), or through a pension or an annuity.

Because bonds are so often overlooked, it’s worth going over some basics.

Stocks vs. bonds

Stocks are inherently speculative. They provide fractional ownership of a company and are a bet that the value of your shares will appreciate. Often, you get divi-

dends, but a company isn’t required to pay them.

Bonds, on the other hand, are a loan to a company or a government, such as the United States, which is generally obligated to pay you interest and, at a certain date, repay your principal, too. Should a company or a country run into financial trouble, bondholders customarily have high status among creditors. These features typically make bonds less risky than stocks.

But bonds contain a speculative element, too. Even the safest bonds do.

The conventional wisdom is that U.S. Treasurys are the safest bonds, a claim that has given them an exalted status as the benchmark from which all other asset values may be measured. The “risk-free” rate provided by Treasurys is used in finance as the hurdle that every other investment — a stock or a capital project or a buyout of a private company — must clear to be deemed even minimally viable as a place to put your money.

U.S. Treasurys constitute an extraordinarily deep and nimble $25.1 trillion market. It’s no exaggeration to say that the entire world’s financial system is based on U.S. Treasurys, and calibrated against Treasury rates. That’s still the case. But it’s difficult to assert with a straight face that U.S. Treasurys are really risk free — not after the losses in the bond market last year, or the “perils-of-Pauline” brushes with disaster in multiple debtceiling crises. The Fitch debt downgrade is a reasonable response to those crises.

Interest rate risk

Investors in high-quality bonds and, especially, Treasurys face two significant problems: interest rate risk and credit risk.

To understand interest rate risk, recall that bond prices and interest rates (aka yields) move in opposite

directions. That’s how bonds work. In 2013, when it looked like rates were rising, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a bulletin on interest rate risk, which I thought was particularly apt, comparing bond prices and interest rates to the two ends of a playground seesaw (or teeter-totter, if you’re from the Midwest). When one side rises, the other falls. Every child in the playground learns that soon enough. Bond investors do, too.

Last year, the seesaw crashed. Because of soaring inflation and the Federal Reserve’s effort to curb it by raising short-term rates, bond market rates rose and prices plummeted. It was the worst year for bond investors since the 1920s, and, probably much longer, as I wrote in late 2022.

But now, with yields already much higher than they have been over most of the past decade — most rose a bit after a government report Thursday showed that core inflation was still sizzling at 4.7% a year — a repetition of last year’s severe bond losses is extremely unlikely.

Yes, yields could still rise further if inflation remains high, and that could lead to modest short-term losses in bond funds or, if you trade them, in individual bonds. That’s especially true for bonds with longer maturities.

With the benchmark 10-year Treasury already above 4%, bond yields are high enough to provide a buffer and substantial enough for high-quality bonds to perform their traditional functions: generating income and providing a counterweight to stocks.

But that brings us to credit risk and the Fitch downgrade.

What about the downgrade?

High-yield bonds self-evidently entail credit risk. They are called junk bonds for a reason. Companies are forced to pay higher yields precisely because of the risk that they won’t make good on their debt. If you can accept the risk and do some research — or have a prudent manager do it for you — junk bonds can be lucrative, much like stocks.

But I’m focusing here on using bonds for their traditional purpose as a relatively stable income provider, offsetting the volatility of stocks. Investment grade bonds, either corporate or government, are good choices. (Inflation-adjusted bonds and municipal bonds can be worthwhile, too, but I’ll discuss them another day.)

The safest of U.S. bonds are still Treasurys, in my view, although Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson bonds have higher credit ratings. But would those companies be great credit risks if the U.S. government defaulted on its debt? I have my doubts.

U.S. credit is still strong, though not as great as it was. Treasurys remain essential in nearly everyone’s portfolio. But until a semblance of consensus on fiscal matters is restored, the world will be bearing unnecessary risk.

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You may not think much about bonds, but there’s a good chance that you have a stake in them, if only indirectly: through a fund, especially in a workplace defined-contribution retirement account, like a 401(k), or through a pension or an annuity.

Big tech losses sink Nasdaq, S&P as US Treasury yields rise

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite fell on Friday and posted their second straight weekly losses, as hotter-than-expected U.S. producer prices data pushed Treasury yields higher and sank rate-sensitive megacap growth stocks.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed higher for the day and ended the week up 0.6%. It was the first time in 2023 that the Nasdaq fell for two straight weeks. The S&P 500 ended the week down 0.3%, with the Nasdaq 1.9% lower.

The U.S. government reported that the producer price index (PPI) climbed 0.8% in the 12 months leading to July, up from a 0.2% rise in the previous month, as costs of services increased. Economists polled by Refinitiv had expected a 0.7% gain.

Though traders broadly expect the Federal Reserve to refrain from tightening credit conditions for the rest of the year, bets for no rate hike in September slipped to 88.5% from 90% before the data landed.

“We’ve seen some material news and data in recent days but the market has chosen to trade sideways, which tells us that the market had priced in everything and has not been pleasantly or unpleasantly surprised,” said Jason Betz, private wealth advisor at Ameriprise Financial.

Yield on the two-year U.S. Treasury note , that moves in line with near-term interest rate expectations, climbed to 4.88%.

This move weighed on big tech names, as high interest rates could slow the economy and dent the ability of these firms to achieve the growth projections which have pushed them to premium valuations. Higher rates can also make interest-bearing bonds an attractive alternative to stocks for some risk-averse investors.

Tesla (TSLA.O), Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) closed down between 0.6% and 1.3%.

A 3.6% fall in Nvidia (NVDA.O) weighed on the semiconductor index (.SOX), which was 2.3% lower. It was the fourth straight decline and its eighth loss in nine sessions for the semis index, and its 5% weekly decline was its worst performance since early April.

Megacap growth and technology stocks have led outsized gains this year in the tech-heavy Nasdaq (.IXIC) and the S&P 500 (.SPX). But after a five-month stretch of advances, August has so far been marked by a more cautious approach from investors.

“Time will tell if we are correct on this, but with the run that tech has had, it’s hard not to want to do a bit of profit-taking,” said Ameriprise’s Betz.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) rose 105.25 points, or 0.3%, to 35,281.4, the S&P 500 (.SPX) lost 4.78 points, or 0.11%, to 4,464.05 and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) dropped 76.18 points, or 0.56%, to 13,644.85.

Amid the major S&P sectors, healthcare (.SPXHC) and energy (.SPNY) sectors advanced. Both have been among the worst performing industries this year, although energy

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matched its strongest run this year by closing higher for the seventh straight session.

The energy sector’s 1.6% increase was aided by crude prices rising on forecasts for tightening supplies from the International Energy Agency. Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY.N) was among the biggest gainers, up 3.3%, after one of its units secured a grant from the U.S. government to support its carbon capture ambitions.

Among other movers, News Corp (NWSA.O) rose

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4.6% after the Rupert Murdoch-owned media conglomerate beat quarterly profit estimates, thanks to its cost-cutting efforts.

U.S.-listed shares of Chinese companies Alibaba and JD.com fell 3.5% and 5.3%, respectively, as Beijing’s latest stimulus measures disappointed investors, while fresh data showed that the country’s post-pandemic recovery was losing steam.

Volume on U.S. exchanges was 10.19 billion shares, compared with the 10.93 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.

The S&P 500 posted 4 new 52-week highs and 3 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 52 new highs and 169 new lows.

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Russian strikes kill 7 in Ukrainian region under ceaseless shelling

Russian soil but in recent weeks have indicated that the war’s devastation would not be limited to Ukrainian territory.

One repeated target of Ukrainian strikes far from the front lines has been the Kerch Strait Bridge, a vital Russian link to the occupied Crimean Peninsula that Ukraine has vowed to keep striking until the structure is unusable.

Despised by Ukrainians as a symbol of Russian occupation — Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered it built after illegally annexing Crimea in 2014 — the Kerch bridge has been a target since the war began. Ukraine has already hit it twice. Beyond its symbolic value, the 12-mile span is a critical strategic asset, allowing Moscow to move troops and equipment from Russia to its bases in Crimea and then onto the battlefield in southern Ukraine.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Saturday that it had downed a Ukrainian missile targeting the bridge and that there was no damage. Video broadcast on the Russian and Ukrainian state news media showed smoke billowing over the span, though the Russian-installed authorities in Crimea said it was just a smoke screen intended to protect the bridge. The claims could not be independently verified, and Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment.

Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for Russia’s foreign ministry, condemned the attack and threatened retaliation against Ukraine, saying it “will not remain without a response,” the Russian state news agency Tass reported Saturday.

On Sunday, the spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force, Yuriy Ihnat, was asked about the previous day’s explosions around the bridge and said it was “not clear” what had occurred.

“We speak about these things with restraint,” he said on national television, but added “what is happening will continue to happen — unmanned aerial vehicles and strike drones productions are developing.”

Russian shelling ripped into homes in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine on Sunday morning, officials said, an assault that killed at least seven people, including a family of four, in an area that had already borne a heavy toll from relentless Russian bombardment.

A couple, their 23-day-old daughter, Sofia, and their 12-year-old son, Artem, were killed when a strike hit their yard in the village of Shyroka Balka around 10 a.m., the Kherson regional military administration said. Another resident of the village also died.

Calling it “another tragic day” for the region, Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the regional military administration, said that shelling also killed two men — including the 67-year-old local pastor — in the village of Stanislav.

“Today, the Kherson region shook with terrible news,” Produkin said in a statement, adding that nine people also had been injured in the strikes and that Monday would be a day of mourning. The regional health authorities issued an “urgent” call for blood donors.

Details about the attacks in the Kherson region Sunday could not be independently verified, and Russia’s Ministry of Defense did not immediately comment. But the region has been

under nonstop shelling since November, when Russian forces retreated from the regional capital, the city of Kherson, across the Dnieper River. From their new positions on the river’s eastern bank, Moscow’s troops have launched regular and deadly attacks on the city they once occupied and the towns around it.

Prokudin said in a separate statement before the latest attacks that Russian forces had fired 365 shells at the region over the previous 24 hours, injuring three people.

The strikes come as Ukrainian forces continue to wage a counteroffensive to recapture Russian-occupied territory in the country’s south. The campaign, which began more than two months ago, has been slow and bloody.

Even as Ukrainian soldiers battle in trenches and on the field, the campaign to sever Russian supply lines continues, with Ukraine increasingly targeting places far from the front lines. In recent weeks, Moscow has repeatedly accused Ukraine of launching attack drones at sites inside Russia, including at the capital.

On Sunday, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it had shot down four Ukrainian drones in border regions — three over the Belgorod region and one over the Kursk region. The claims could not be independently verified.

There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who typically avoid claiming responsibility for attacks on

Tensions in the Black Sea

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Sunday that one of its patrol ships in the Black Sea had fired warning shots at a cargo vessel that had failed to stop for inspection.

It said the cargo ship stopped after the “warning fire” and Russian servicemen boarded to carry out an inspection, then allowed the vessel to continue its journey to the Ukrainian port of Izmail on the Danube River.

The defense ministry’s claims could not be independently verified. They come amid heightened tensions in the Black Sea following Moscow’s decision last month to withdraw from a U.N.-brokered deal ensuring the safe passage of Ukrainian grain exports and warn that any vessels attempting to reach Ukraine would be treated as hostile.

Since then, Russian forces have bombarded Ukrainian ports — including Izmail — in what Ukrainian officials said were strikes specifically targeting the country’s ability to ship grain.

Ukraine retaliated last week with two strikes on Russian ships on consecutive days — demonstrating its new reach with sea drones that can hit Russian ports hundreds of miles from its coast. It also issued its own warning that six Russian Black Sea ports and the approaches to them would be considered areas of “war risk” until further notice.

Ukrainian demining engineers search for human remains in Velyka Oleksandrivka, Kherson region, Ukraine, on July 1, 2023. Russian shelling ripped into homes in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine on Sunday, Aug. 13. 2023, officials said, an assault that killed at least seven people, including a family of four, in an area that had already borne a heavy toll from relentless Russian bombardment.
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Americans held prisoner in Iran saw promise of better relations

When Siamak Namazi traveled to Tehran, Iran, in the summer of 2015, Iran had just signed a landmark nuclear deal, and the government was encouraging expatriates to return home and bring their expertise and dollars.

So the 51-year-old Iranian American businessperson flew from his home in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to visit his parents and attend a funeral in Iran.

But he was arrested and charged with “collaborating with a hostile government” — an allusion to the United States — and eventually became the longest-held U.S. citizen that Iran has acknowledged imprisoning. In January, he went on a hunger strike for seven days to bring attention to his ordeal.

Last Thursday, Namazi, along with four other dual national Iranian Americans, became part of a prisoner swap deal between Iran and the U.S.

Namazi stated he’d been a hostage for 7 1/2 years — “six times the duration of the hostage crisis,” he said in an interview from prison in March with CNN, referring to the U.S. Embassy staff who were taken hostage in Iran during the 1979 revolution and held for 444 days. “We’ve been taken for one reason and one reason only — and that’s because we’re U.S. citizens.”

In exchange for releasing the Americans, the U.S. agreed to release five Iranians jailed for violating sanctions against Iran and to release about $6 billion of Iran’s frozen assets being held in South Korea. The money will be transferred to a bank account in Qatar and can only be used by Iran for humanitarian purposes, such as paying for medicine and medical equipment.

The ordeal for the Americans being held in Iran is hardly over. Iran’s foreign ministry said the five will be allowed to board a plane out of Iran only when the money lands in the Qatari bank account. For now, they have been released from prison and remain under house arrest at a Tehran hotel.

The other American prisoners include Emad Sharghi, 58, a businessperson sentenced in 2020 to 10 years in prison on spying charges; and Morad Tahbaz, 68, a British-born businessperson and wildlife conservationist who was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to 10 years on charges of

“contacts with the U.S. government.”

The U.S. government has not named the other two prisoners, citing their families’ requests that they remain anonymous. One is a businessperson from California who was detained nearly a year ago, and the other is a woman who worked for nongovernment organizations in Afghanistan and was arrested in 2023, according to people familiar with the deal and Iranian media reports.

Namazi grew up all around the world and has a master’s degree from the London Business School. He comes from a wellknown family from the city of Shiraz in central Iran, where a major hospital is named after them. Namazi had traveled back and forth to Iran and had lived in Tehran, working at a family-run consulting company.

He became an expert on Iran’s economy, markets and inevitably the politics that overshadow all sectors in Iran. He studied the impact of sanctions on Iran’s economy and was recognized by the World Economic Forum as one of its Young Global Leaders.

“It’s a tragedy for someone as talented as Siamak to waste away in prison for eight years, some of the most productive years of his life,” said Ahmad Kiarostami, a close friend of Namazi’s. “He is a fighter. Even in jail, he wanted to stay on top of interna-

tional news and read as many books as he could.”

Tahbaz, a wealthy businessperson who had lived in Connecticut and was known among friends for his big game hunts, discovered on his trips to Iran that the country’s Asiatic cheetahs were in danger of extinction. So he decided to act.

In 2018, he co-founded the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the protection of endangered animals in Iran. In 2018, he and eight other employees of the organization were arrested on spying charges.

Tahbaz suffered from prostate cancer during detention and caught COVID-19 three times, his daughter Tara said in an April interview with Reuters. His sister told the BBC that he had lost 88 pounds in detention. Tahbaz has three children. His

wife, Vida, 64, traveled to Iran after he was detained and has since been banned from leaving the country.

“Morad has always been a man dedicated to his family, community, wildlife and Iran,” said Dr. Kaveh Alizadeh, a plastic surgeon in New York and friend of Tahbaz. “He spent his life trying to save the critically endangered species.”

Sharghi, 58, relocated to Tehran on a whim with his wife in 2017 after their two daughters left for college in the U.S. The couple had vacationed throughout the country and enjoyed reconnecting with relatives and Iranian culture.

A partner at a company in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, leasing and selling private airplanes, Sharghi had explored business opportunities with Iranian startups.

In an interview with The New York Times in 2021, his wife, Bahareh Amidi, a poet, described her husband as an angel who was trapped in a jail cell without his wings. She said he was “the kindest, gentlest partner, the most present father.”

In 2018, security forces raided the couple’s home and arrested Sharghi. After an eight-month detention, he was released from prison and later exonerated of all charges. But authorities had held on to his passport, and when he tried to flee the country in 2021 through a land border, they arrested him and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.

The ordeal for the American prisoners and their families is expected to end by September with their planned departure from Iran. But recovering from the trauma may take longer.

“The pain our family has gone through over the past three years is indescribable,” Ariana and Hannah Sharghi, Sharghi’s daughters, wrote in a 2021 essay in The Washington Post. The cherry blossom tree in their backyard had bloomed and withered again, they said, without him present.

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Siamak Namazi in Berlin in 2015, the year he was detained by Iranian authorities.

China’s military, ‘chasing the dream,’ probes Taiwan’s defenses

aircraft near the island in the previous 24 hours, including 10 across the median line — an uptick compared to recent days.

The military exercises have increased notably since last August, when Nancy Pelosi, then the speaker of the House of Representatives, visited Taiwan. China responded with several days of live-fire drills, landing missiles in the waters to the north, south and east of Taiwan, and sending planes across the median line — exercises that some experts saw as honing Beijing’s ability to impose a blockade around the island.

The aircraft that China deploys around Taiwan now include planes for aerial refueling, helicopters for anti-submarine warfare, and large numbers of military drones, said Ou Si-fu, a researcher at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, which is under Taiwan’s ministry of defense. That’s a sign of China’s growing efforts to project power far beyond its shores and conduct more sophisticated operations that integrate the air force with the navy, Ou said.

Chinese air force and its activities around Taiwan. “But the trends should be a big deal.” Taiwan, with its much smaller military, seems to have no easy way of pushing back against the People’s Liberation Army’s aerial encroachment. A big buildup of fighter jets in Taiwan could be expensive and vulnerable to attack, and divert funds from buying mobile missiles and other weapons that may better deter Beijing.

To help Taiwan, the United States has sold more advanced fighter jets and other military hardware to the island’s government, though deliveries have lagged. Last month, the Biden administration announced $345 million in military aid for Taiwan and said the weapons would be drawn from the U.S.’ own reserves, which may help speed up deliveries.

China has been steadily intensifying military pressure on Taiwan over the past year, sending jets, drones, bombers and other planes farther and in greater numbers to extend an intimidating presence all around the island.

Chinese naval ships and air force planes have been edging closer to Taiwan’s territorial seas and skies, probing the island’s vigilance and trying to wear down its military planes and ships. Chinese forces have also been operating more frequently in skies and waters off the island’s eastern coast, facing the West Pacific. China’s increasing presence there signals its intent to dominate an expanse of sea that could be vital for the island’s defenses, including for securing potential aid from the United States in a conflict, experts say.

Beijing claims Taiwan is its lost territory that must accept unification, preferably peacefully, but by force if Chinese leaders deem that necessary. It has seized on moments of high tension with Taiwan to intensify military activities around the island, and it may put on another show of force in the coming days, when Taiwan’s vice president, Lai Ching-te, passes through the United

States.

Lai leaves Saturday for Paraguay and is scheduled to stop in the United States on his way there and back. Beijing regards such transits in the United States as an affront to its stance that Taiwan is not an independent state. Lai is also the presidential candidate for the Democratic Progressive Party, which supports asserting Taiwan’s separate status, a position that Beijing condemns as “separatism.”

Nearly every day, the Chinese send sorties toward Taiwan that involve increasingly diverse and sophisticated arrays of planes. They now often cross the median line in the Taiwan Strait, effectively erasing what was until several years ago an informal boundary between the two sides. Such moves could narrow the time that Taiwan would have to react to a surprise escalation, said Chang Yan-ting, a retired deputy commander of Taiwan’s air force.

“China wants to seize air supremacy,” he said in an interview. “In the past, there was a buffer, our median line in the Taiwan Strait, and that gave enough warning time and strategic depth. Now that’s gone, disappeared.”

Taiwan’s defense ministry said Thursday that it had detected 33 Chinese military

Since 2019, Chinese fighter jets, bombers, drones and other military aircraft have routinely entered Taiwan’s “air defense identification zone,” or ADIZ — a buffer area much wider than Taiwan’s territorial airspace where planes are supposed to identify themselves before entry and then obey instructions. (China’s planes do not.)

Last year, China made more than 1,700 flights into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, nearly double the number in 2021, according to Ben Lewis, a military analyst who maintains a data set on the flights using daily reports from Taiwan’s ministry of defense. In the first half of this year, Taiwan recorded more than 850 flights by Chinese forces into the zone, 54% more than the number of flights for the same months of last year, he said. “Normalization of these activities is the goal,” he said.

The increase in flights does not mean that war is looming, and few in Taiwan believe that an invasion by China is imminent or inevitable. The People’s Liberation Army’s increase in activity around Taiwan is better understood as a longer-term effort to corrode its security and alertness, said experts.

“The first time they do something, it’s ‘Oh, my god! Oh, my god!’ but after they’ve done it five times, it’s ‘Oh, yeah, it’s routine, no big deal,’” said Kenneth Allen, a retired U.S. Air Force officer who researches the

But China’s numeric lead is daunting. It has about 1,900 combat-ready fighter jets, including advanced models, while Taiwan has about 300, quite a few of which are older, according to the Pentagon’s latest public assessment of the People’s Liberation Army. It said that China’s air force “is rapidly catching up to Western air forces.”

Responding to China’s ramped-up military activity places a considerable burden on Taiwan’s defense budget. In 2020, Taiwan spent nearly 9% of its defense budget on monitoring and tailing Chinese military planes and ships.

Taiwan has stopped routinely sending fighter jets to monitor the Chinese flights and now does so only when the flights appear more threatening. Even so, in January, its defense ministry asked for additional funding of around $54 million to cover the expenses of coping with the Chinese flights.

Last month, Taiwan held annual exercises to demonstrate its readiness across air, land and sea. Lee Rong-teng, a lieutenant colonel in Taiwan’s army, monitored the drills at Taoyuan International Airport, where helicopters and about 180 soldiers took part in the drill to practice repelling an attempted takeover. But he sounded a note of warning.

If there was real fighting on the ground at the airport, he said, that could imply that Taiwan had already lost the war in the air. “By the time you’re using infantry forces, it will be, more or less, over,” he said. “Why? Because if the enemy arrives, we’ll have already lost sea and air superiority.”

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A Taiwan Air Force Mirage 2000 jet fighter approaches to land at Hsinchu Air Base in Hsinchu, Taiwan, April 9, 2023. China has been steadily intensifying military pressure on Taiwan over the past year, sending jets, drones, bombers and other planes farther and in greater numbers to extend an intimidating presence all around the island.

Why is China’s economy stumbling?

Two years ago China was riding high. Decades of miraculous growth had transformed a desperately poor nation into an economic superpower, with a gross domestic product that by some measures was larger than America’s. China’s aggressive response to COVID was widely praised; its Belt and Road Initiative, a huge program of infrastructure investments around the world, was clearly a bid for global influence, maybe even supremacy.

But now China is stumbling. Its “zero COVID” policy of locking cities down at the first indication of an outbreak proved untenable, but abandoning the policy hasn’t produced the expected economic surge. In fact, China is now experiencing deflation, inspiring comparisons with Japan’s slowdown in the 1990s (although Japan has actually done much better than legend has it).

What has gone wrong? Can China reverse its slide? And how should the rest of the world, the U.S. in particular, respond?

Some analysts attribute China’s stumble to policies of its current leadership. An influential recent article by Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, suggests that China is suffering from “economic long COVID,” a decline in private-sector confidence brought on by arbitrary government intervention, which began before the

pandemic but has intensified since.

But while the actions of Xi Jinping, China’s president, have indeed been erratic, I’m in the camp of economists like Michael Pettis of the Carnegie Endowment who see the country’s problems as more systemic.

The basic point is that China, in various ways, suppresses private consumption, leaving the country with huge savings that need to be invested somehow. This wasn’t too hard 15 or 20 years ago, when Chinese GDP could grow as much as 10% a year largely by catching up with Western technology: A rapidly growing economy can make good use of huge amounts of capital. But as China has grown richer, the scope for rapid productivity gains has narrowed, while the working-age population has stopped increasing and has begun to decline.

Inevitably, then, growth has slowed. The International Monetary Fund believes that over the medium term China can expect a growth rate of less than 4%. That’s not bad — it’s something like twice the growth most observers expect for the United States. But China is still trying to invest more than 40% of GDP, which just isn’t possible given falling growth.

This looming issue has been obvious for a decade or more, but China has been able to mask it largely by creating an immensely bloated real estate sector. This strategy, though, was unsustainable. Xi’s fumbles may have advanced the day of reckoning, but absent fundamental reform, China’s current predicament was only a matter of time.

So is China down and out? Is Posen right in asserting that this is “the end of China’s economic miracle”?

I wouldn’t count on it. As Adam Smith once remarked, “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” China is already a superpower, and its current stumbles aren’t likely to end that status. Furthermore, while China’s government has been weirdly resistant to reforms that might make its growth sustainable, we can’t assume that this resistance will continue indefinitely.

And what do China’s problems mean for the United States? The Biden administration has taken a very hard line on China — much harder in practice than Donald Trump, who talked tough but mostly flailed around ineffectually. The U.S. government is now promoting semiconductor production to reduce dependence on China, trying to block exports of ad-

vanced silicon chips and, most recently, banning some hightech investments in China.

Have these actions become unnecessary now that China’s path to global dominance seems to be disappearing?

No. You don’t have to be a xenophobe to be worried about the possible future actions of a superpower whose leadership seems to be growing more autocratic and more erratic with each passing year. Trying to reduce that superpower’s ability to do harm makes sense, even if it makes many people nervous. And the possibility that China may not be as much of a superpower as many expected doesn’t change that calculation.

If anything, China’s problems may reinforce the case for precautionary action. China’s rulers have long relied on economic achievement to give them legitimacy. Now they’re facing trouble on the homefront, most immediately in the form of rapidly rising youth unemployment. How will they respond?

Ideally, as I said, they’ll push through long-needed reforms that put more income in the hands of families, so that rising consumption can take the place of unsustainable investment. But you don’t have to study much history to be aware that autocratic regimes sometimes respond to domestic difficulties by trying to distract the population with foreign adventurism.

I’m not saying that will happen. But realistically, China’s domestic problems make it more, not less, of a danger to global security.

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58 multas en operativos contra negocios en SJ

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – La Policía Municipal de San Juan, junto a inspectores de la Oficina de Permisos del Municipio, personal de la Comisión de Juegos y Bomberos estatales, inspeccionaron negocios la noche del viernes y madrugada del sábado y emitieron 58 infracciones.

“Estos esfuerzos pretenden hacer cumplir la ley de todos los negocios de San Juan, para una mejor calidad de vida en las comunidades donde operan, a la vez que hacen justicia a los comercios que procuran cumplir con todos los requisitos de operar sus establecimientos. El plan de trabajo seguirá, con las consecuencias establecidas a los violadores de ley”, así los destacó el Comisionado de la Policía Municipal de San Juan, José Juan García Díaz en declaraciones escritas.

Operar sin permisos necesarios, cafés al aire libre, ruidos innecesarios, ventas fuera de horario, operar como barra, ventas en envases de cristal, cablería expuesta, tener mayor capacidad de personas que lo permitido, extintores vencidos y medios de salida obstrui-

dos, fueron algunas de las causas de las infracciones otorgadas a los comercios.

Los negocios con infracciones fueron los siguientes: El Rincón de Sha, Jumbo Supermarkets & Bakery’s, El

Mangú, El Retorno – a este el Cuerpo de Bomberos ordenó cerrar el establecimiento, Restaurante Iris, El Chincho, Malabar, Labo Lounge Club, La Milagrosa, y El Coolmao.

Encuentran cadáver flotando en la Laguna San José

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SAN JUAN – La Policía investiga el hallazgo de una persona muerta que fue reportada a las 6:55 de la mañana del domingo, en la Laguna San José cerca de la isla Guachinanga, en San Juan.

Según la información preliminar, se recibió una llamada a través del Sistema de Emergen-

cias 9-1-1, sobre una situación sospechosa. En el lugar, los agentes encontraron el cuerpo de un hombre en estado de descomposición flotando, el cual no ha sido identificado.

Al momento no se ha informado si el cadáver presenta algún signo de violencia. Agentes, adscritos a la División de Homicidios del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales de San Juan se encuentran en el lugar.

Encuentran pareja de adultos mayores sin vida en residencia en Guánica

GUÁNICA – Una pareja de adultos mayores fue encontrada sin vida en horas de la tarde del sábado, en el barrio Carrenero, carretera PR- 116 en Guánica.

Según el reporte de la Policía, se recibió una llamada a través de Sistema de Emergencias 9-1-1, sobre una situación sospechosa en el lugar. Al llegar los agentes encontraron dos cuerpos en el interior de una residencia en estado de descomposición.

Uno de los cuerpos fue encontrado en la

sala. Fue identificado como Jesús Quiñones Félix de 73 años. Además, en un cuarto de dormitorio fue hallado el cuerpo de Lena Lake de 85 años.

El sargento Alex Ruiz de la División de Homicidios del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales de Ponce, junto al agente Abdón López de Servicios Técnicos, realizaron la investigación y trabajaron la escena.

La fiscal Limarie Cobián ordenó el levantamiento y traslado de los cuerpos al Instituto de Ciencias Forenses para fines de autopsia.

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The toughest ‘Barbie’ critics are Barbie collectors

Before going to see “Barbie,” doll collector Laura Maar had reservations. Based on early images, Maar didn’t like the way the film was portraying Barbie’s pregnant friend, Midge (her personal favorite), or Allan, Ken’s pal who can wear all of his buddy’s clothes. “It just kind of annoyed me the way he was this mealy-mouthed character in the movie, because that’s not him at all.”

Maar was still unpacking what she had seen after the first time she watched the film, directed by Greta Gerwig, when she went for another viewing. “By the second time, though, I really did love it,” said Maar, 49, a kindergarten teacher in Southern California. “I tried to lay away my questions and put them aside. And then as the week went on, when people kept saying, ‘Do you want to see the movie?’ I’m like, ‘Sure, yes, let’s go.’” When we spoke, she had seen it five times and was planning a sixth trip.

“Barbie,” starring Margot Robbie, has become an unequivocal phenomenon, raking in $1 billion at the box office and inspiring audiences to dress in their finest pink. But collectors such as Maar were fans of Barbie long before. They own hundreds or even thousands of dolls and had high expectations for their main gal’s live-action big-screen debut. I spoke with 10 collectors — many of whom showed up for our video interviews wearing hot pink Barbie merch with their dolls proudly on display — to find out: Did the film pass muster with this most demanding group of fans?

For Liliana Saldaña, a 36-year-old high school English teacher in Laredo, Texas, who estimates she has more than 400 Barbies, “it was like emotional punches everywhere.” She left the movie theater, she said, with mascara streaked across her cheeks. “I was so pleased there were so many nods to longtime Barbie fans.”

Taylor Brione Ballard, 31, a Houston event planner who has 350 dolls, said the movie had her in tears, too. “The girl who was next to me was like, ‘Girl, we heard you cry.’” Ballard, who largely collects Black Barbies, explained that she had always been inspired by the doll and that the film “really showcased why people can like Barbie, like how inspirational she is, how she is a figure for girl power.”

Other collectors saw their own experiences reflected back at them. In the film, it turns out it’s not a little girl playing with the main Barbie but a mother (America Ferrera) whose daughter has outgrown the doll. Eventually the humans accompany Barbie on her journey of self-discovery. “You know, if my brushing the hair and introducing people to Barbie gives me lightness of soul and heart, then there’s nothing bad

about that, there’s absolutely zero wrong with that,” said Beth Largent, 61, a Massachusetts-based opera singer. “That for me was a big takeaway from this movie: The real people seemed changed by their interaction with Barbie, and that’s what Barbie has done for me, too.”

Roland Moreno, 31, began collecting the dolls about three years ago while living in Chicago. Through Barbie he met Matthew Keith, now his boyfriend, and moved to Los Angeles. “Barbie is like an escape,” Moreno said. Reflecting on Ferrera’s character, he added, “She wanted to escape her sad situation. So it’s like, yeah, I want to escape my situation.”

Moreno liked the “nuggets” that Gerwig threw in for collectors, like a cameo from the Skipper that grew breasts, and on-screen text noting the actual names of ensembles from Barbie’s closet. “My first thought was, ‘That’s cool,’” he said. “But then also like, ‘That’s going to rise in price now.’” Several collectors The New York Times spoke with also appreciated the reference to the canceled collectible widely known as “Sugar Daddy Ken” (whose name was actually a reference to his dog being called Sugar).

But there were also some nitpicks. Jian Yang, a 43-year-old marketer in Singapore with 12,000 dolls, said the costuming “looked handmade; it looked not Mattel.” Both Maar, who worked at Mattel more than 20 years ago, and Keith, 55, refuted the way Barbie’s creator, Ruth Handler (Rhea Perlman), is portrayed

as a sweet, spiritual guide for Robbie’s Barbie. “Ruth has never been the grandmotherly type,” Maar said of Handler, who died in 2002. “She was a ball basher.”

These Barbie lovers also would have preferred less of the Real World. After all, when you’re drawn to Barbie because of the fantasy, the real world just seems disappointing.

“I felt very spoiled by the Barbie Land,” Saldaña said, and Lindsey Walker, 27, who works on civil rights in Washington, D.C., had a similar feeling: “Every time they went to the Real World, I was like, OK, when are they going to get back to Barbie Land? Because it was just so much more interesting and so much more colorful.”

There were also more significant gripes. Walker praised the diversity of the cast but wished Issa Rae and Ncuti Gatwa, who are among the cast’s Black performers, had gotten more screen time. He also took issue with how the feminist themes were examined: “Overall, I’m like, a white woman wrote this, and then also there might also be some people that haven’t really explored feminism and can get something out of this, so I’m just taking it for what it is.”

Saldaña said she hoped that the movie would lead to an increase in Barbie collectibles, and that Barbie gets the same love from retailers as, say, SpiderMan. “People see it as a girlie hobby,” she said. “It’s not really respected and it’s not really given enough attention.”

Moreno’s wish is also that the popularity of the film will convince others to embrace his passion. Sometimes, he said, when he and Keith do photo shoots with Barbies, they’ll be called a slur. “It could become more accepting for people to be like, ‘Oh, that’s cool, like the movie, they’re taking pictures of Barbies outside,’” he said.

He’s planning to go back at least once more, and a potential seventh viewing is in the cards for Maar.

“For Barbie collectors or Barbie lovers, we’re not going to have this time again,” she said. “I mean, this is it. So I want to enjoy this time and see it as many times as I can.”

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An undated photo by Jian Yang, who specializes in street-style photo shoots of dolls, of a Barbie in his collection. Longtime Barbie collectors had high expectations, and concerns, for her big-screen live-action debut, which has become an unequivocal phenomenon.

The idea of being stuck on a giant ship in the middle of the ocean with thousands of people riddled Holden Brown with anxiety. It wasn’t just the horror stories about passengers stuck on cruise ships during the pandemic (though that was part of it).

“I always thought of cruises as corny vacations for the elderly,” said Brown, 32, a member of the logistics team at New York streetwear company Supreme.

But this October, he and his sister, Genevieve, 29, who is a manager at the same company, are taking an 11-night cruise on the Norwegian Prima, departing from Barcelona, Spain, and ending in Rome with stops that include Florence, Italy; Valencia and Ibiza in Spain; and Cannes, France. The cost? About $2,000 each, including an ocean-view room, dining, beverages and a basic Wi-Fi package. The reason? “You get to see all these different places and can take day trips without having to lug your baggage around,” Brown said.

With airfares at a five-year high, limited accommodations in popular destina-

tions and pent-up travel demand, many people are looking to cruising as a highvalue alternative to land travel. Interest among younger generations who have never cruised is higher than ever, with 73% of millennials and Gen X travelers considering a cruise vacation, according to a survey conducted by Cruise Lines International Association, the industry’s trade group. Of the 4,500 respondents who took their first cruise, 88% of millennials and 86% of Gen X said they would do it again, according to CLIA. The association projects cruise tourism to reach 106% of 2019 passenger volume in 2023.

“There’s a lot of convenience about getting on a boat, like the ‘all inclusive’ aspect with meals, drinks and activities covered,” Brown said.

Carnival, the largest cruise operator in the United States, said the number of newto-cruise guests who sailed with the company from April to June this year exceeded 2019 levels.

“Consumers want fun, they want experiences, they want great food and entertainment, and they want value,” said Chris Chiames, the chief communication officer for Carnival. “That’s what cruise vacations

offer.”

Jonathon Fishman, a spokesperson for Royal Caribbean Group, said the company aims to “address different age and demographic categories.” He added that guests on Royal Caribbean were younger than before the pandemic.

Shorter trips, longer stops, ‘boutique cruises’

To attract more first-time passengers, cruise companies have been adapting their itineraries to offer more options to target a broader range of demographics, such as themed sailings, adult-only cruises and short trips for people to “test the waters.”

“The general ocean ship cruising with 30 restaurants and 4,000 people, I don’t know how long that is actually going to survive,” said Joshua Smith, the founder and travel designer at Global Citizen Journeys, a travel company that caters to millennials. “I’m seeing more and more companies introducing niche cruises, like the groove cruise music festivals or small-scale boutique cruises to target younger millennial audiences. It’s been a success.”

River cruises, which are offered on much smaller vessels that typically accommodate fewer than 200 guests, are particularly popular among first-timers who are looking to distance themselves from crowds during peak travel seasons, particularly in Europe. Christine Chambers, a 42-year-old book editor from Boston booked an eightday Uniworld river cruise to Burgundy and Provence in June to celebrate her 10th wedding anniversary.

“We’ve traveled all over Europe by plane and train, but wanted to try something different, a little off the beaten path,” Chambers said. “I would never go on one of those behemoth ships with thousands of people, but I’ve always wanted to try a river cruise — they seem to be more elegant and serene.”

The couple splurged on a deluxe stateroom with a balcony, costing $14,000, with food, beverages and shore excursions included. “We would never spend so much on a one-week vacation, but we are making up for the years we didn’t travel during COVID,” she said.

To appeal to more people and allow for more exploration, some cruise lines

have modified their itineraries to allow longer port stops.

MSC Cruises, for instance, has started offering overnight stays at the Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve, a private island in the Bahamas, where guests can enjoy a range of activities, including light shows, beach bonfires and dance parties. Prices for the three-night cruises, which depart from several U.S. ports, including Miami, Port Canaveral, Florida, and New York City, start from $179 for an inside cabin, $289 for a standard balcony and up to $1,109 for a deluxe suite. In Europe, the company has been offering extended stays in popular destinations including the Greek island of Mykonos, Istanbul and Stockholm.

“Our large, resort-style ships offer an incredible variety of experiences at sea combined with unique itineraries that give guests more time to explore the ports they visit,” said Rubén Rodríguez, president of MSC Cruises USA.

Virgin Voyages steps up

One line that is attracting first-time passengers is Virgin Voyages, which started in 2021, during the pandemic. Tom McAlpin, CEO of Virgin Voyages, says the hope is that a Virgin cruise will be viewed as something like “a boutique hotel on the high seas.” The cruises are adults-only and include food, drinks and tips at a variety of eateries. There is no main dining room or crowded buffet, and each food station has a particular focus, from steakhouses and Korean barbecue to an international food market and a late-night pizza station.

Virgin cruises start at around $2,600 per cabin for two people for an inside cabin and go up to $33,000 for the most luxurious suites.

When Jeanine Fisher’s dance group suggested going on a five-night Virgin Voyages Caribbean cruise this summer, she was worried it would be like a fraternity party with people making out in the corridors and throwing up over stairwells.

“Adults-only sounds kind of kinky, and I didn’t know what to expect,” said the 23-year-old makeup artist from Miami. “But it was so much fun! There were parties, but there were also amazing fitness classes and incredible food. It was everything you could want from a vacation, all in one place.”

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An undated photo provided by Virgin Voyages shows an interior space of a Virgin Voyages cruise. Tom McAlpin, the chief executive of Virgin Voyages, which started in 2021, says the hope is that a Virgin cruise will be viewed as something like “a boutique hotel on the high seas.”
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LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS.

LYDIA MARGARITA ROLÓN MELÉNDEZ PETICIONARIA EX-PARTE

CIVIL NUM. CG2023CV01388. SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

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POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte peticionaria, una petición de expediente de dominio solicitando la inscripción del inmueble que se describe en dicha petición a nombre de dicha peticionaria.

El Sr. Rafael Rolón García, padre de la parte peticionaria, estuvo ocupando el referido bien inmueble hasta el momento de su fallecimiento. El causante

Rafael Rolón García obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel García García, quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento alguno que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de éste fallecer, el Sr. Rolón le cedió en vida a la peticionaria todo derecho sobre la propiedad inmueble antes descrita. Sin embargo, desde que ocurrió dicha cesión la peticionaria ha estado poseyendo el inmueble como dueña por más de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento es el siguiente: - RUSTICA:

Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número Lote lE con una cabida superficial de 392.6300 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.0999 cuerdas. En lindes al Norte, en 14.2081 metros con terrenos de Aida M. Rolón Meléndez y en 8.3113 metros con un Camino Existente; al Sur en 22.82 10 metros con Carretera Estatal #734; al Este en 12.6443 metros con Rafaela Rolón Meléndez y al Oeste, en 16.4298 metros con Antulio Aponte. Se le notifica que 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 Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cidra y enviando copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO.

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LEGAL NOTICE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

WILMINGTON SAVINGS

FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA

TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR THE CSMC 2015-PR1 TRUST, MORTGAGE BACKED

NOTES, SERIES 2015-PR1

Plaintiff Vs. EDWARD SANTOS

MALDONADO A/K/A

EDUARD SANTOS MALDONADO; LUZ

SELENIA TORRES

SANTOS A/K/A LUZ

S. TORRES SANTOS AND THEIR CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP

Defendants

Civil Núm.: 19-cv-1747. (ADC).

Re: FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE - IN REM. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: EDWARD SANTOS

MALDONADO A/K/A

EDUARD SANTOS MALDONADO; LUZ

SELENIA TORRES

SANTOS A/K/A LUZ

S. TORRES SANTOS AND THEIR CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP, ANY OTHER PARTY WITH INTEREST OVER THE

PROPERTY MENTIONED BELOW; GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the sum of $99,302.18 in principal plus interest at rate of 3.8750 % per annum since May 1, 2018. Such interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, to pay the Plaintiff the late charges amounting to 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due and all of the advances made pursuant to the provisions and/or dispositions of the Mortgage Note and the Mortgage Deed. An amount equivalent to 10% of the original principal balance, or $9,600.00 as liquidated amount is due to cover costs, expenses and attorney’s fees. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property (as described in the Property Registry in Spanish language):

URBANA: Solar radicado en el barrio Pájaros del municipio de Puerto Rico, marcado en el plano de inscripción con el número 2 del bloque “3CC” de la Urbanización Colinas de Bayoan, con una cabida de 377.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes, por el Norte, con la calle #41, en distancia de 13.00 metros; al Sur, con los lotes #6 y 8, en distancia de 13.00 metros; al Este, con el lote #3 en distancia de 29.00 metros y al Oeste, con el lote #1 en distancia de 29.00 metros. En este solar enclava una casa. Afecta a servidumbre de 5 pies de ancho a lo largo de su colindancia Norte a favor de Puerto Rico Telephone Company. Inscrita al folio 211 del tomo 1526 de Bayamón Sur, Finca #67,129, Registro de Propiedad de Bayamón, Sec-

ción I. The property is recorded at page 211 of Bayamon South, volume 1526, property number 67129 on Puerto Rico Property Registry at Bayamon, Section I. The mortgage is recorded at page 117 of volume 1755 of Bayamon South, 3rd inscription, property #67129 of the Property Registry of Property of Bayamon. Section I. The modification is recorded of Bayamon South volume Karibe, property #67129, fourth inscription in the Property Registry of Bayamon, Section I. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: None. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 12TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER OF 2023, AT: 9:30 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $96,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on 19TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER OF 2023, AT: 9:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $64,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 26TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER OF 2023, AT: 9:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $48,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated

to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 27th day of June of 2023. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master, specialmasterpr@gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE COAMO FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. JOSÉ IGNACIO

RAMOS RENTAS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: B2CI2015-01250. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: JOSÉ IGNACIO

RAMOS RENTAS:

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO: Y AL PÚBLICO EN

GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Coamo, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o

cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Predio de terreno localizado en el Barrio San Ildefonso del Municipio de Coamo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 449.37 metros cuadrados, marcado con el número 37 en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización

Las Fuentes de Coamo. Colinda por el NORTE, con área verde, en una distancia de 15.47 metros; por el SUR, con la calle Santa Lucía, en una distancia de 15.47 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 36, en una distancia de 29.10 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número 38, en una distancia de 29.01 metros. Contiene esta propiedad una estructura de dos plantas en hormigón con cocina, sala-comedor, recibidor, salón familiar, dos closets para almacenaje, cuatro habitaciones, dos baños y medio, lavandería y marquesina doble. Esta afectado este solar por servidumbre de teléfono en su patio delantero. Consta inscrito al folio 71 del tomo 306 de Coamo, finca #17,942 del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Barranquitas. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Las Fuentes de Coamo, #37 Calle Santa Lucia, Coamo, P.R. 00769. Según figura en el Estudio de título, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada al siguiente Gravamen posterior a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: a. Aviso de Demanda el día 7 de diciembre de 2011, emitida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Coamo, Sala Superior, en el Caso Civil número B2C1 201101412, sobre ejecución de hipoteca, Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Firstbank Puerto Rico, contra José Ignacio Ramos Rentas, por la suma de $214,977.03, anotado el día 20 de junio de 2012 al folio 198 del tomo 314 de Coamo, finca número 17,942, Anotación A. Se le notifica a los acreedores posteriores anteriormente identificados 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. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación

a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $229,437.57, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca # 169, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de mayo de 2014, ante el notario Antonio R. Escriba Oliver, e inscrita al folio 198 del tomo 314 de Coamo, finca número 17,942 inscripción 6ta.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 5 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Coamo, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $229,437.57. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA

SUBASTA el día 12 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $152,958.38. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA

SUBASTA el día 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $114,718.78. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma

Principal de $218,159.90, con intereses a 4.50% anual, desde el 1ro de abril de 2017, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma equivalente al 10% de la obligación principal $21,700.00, para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, todo según pactado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas

y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, 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. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. 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. Expedido en Coamo, Puerto Rico, a 14 de julio de 2023. RODOLFO LARA MARTÍNEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #321.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. LIME HOMES, LTD.

Plaintiff, vs. DAVID RAMOS PAGAN

Defendants

Civil No. 14-1417 (BJM). MAT-

TER: COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: DAVID RAMOS PAGAN;

AND TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC:

WHEREAS: On May 21, 2015, Default Judgment in Collection of Monies was entered and granted in favor of Plaintiff to recover from defendants the following sums: The principal sum of $270,853.04, bearing an annual interest rate of 2.50% on payments 1-60, and at 3.50% per annum on payments 61-72; 4.5% per annum on payments 73-84, and 4.75% per annum on payments 85-480, from October 1, 2013 until the present and until fully paid, plus 10% of the original principal amount equivalent to $27,500.00, to cover costs, expenses and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. That on June 27th, 2023, the Court entered order granting execution of the attachment affecting the property, with writ of execution of attachment issued on same day. The order of attachment shall cover the amount of the Default Judgment above cited and awarded to Plaintiff. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties. at the Office of the Clerk of the United States Dis-

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trict Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the Court, Room 150— Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chard6n Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property described in Spanish: URBA-

NA: PROPIEDAD HORIZON-

TAL: URBANA: Apartamento de forma irregular identificado con el Número A Doscientos Tres (A-203), localizado en el segundo piso del Edificio A del Condominio Haudimar Beach

Apartments, ubicado en el Barrio Bajuras del término municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico. EI apartamento consta de un nivel y son sus colindancias las siguientes: Por el Norte: Con elemento exterior en una distancia de veintidós pies con diez pulgadas (22’ 10”); Por el Sur: Con elemento exterior y área común en una distancia de veintidós pies con diez pulgadas (22’ -10” ); Por el ESTE: Con apartamento A Doscientos Cuatro (A-204) en una distancia de treinta y seis pies con seis pulgadas (36’ -6” ) y área común en una distancia de quince pies diez pulgadas (15’ -10’’) para un total de cincuenta y dos pies con cuatro pulgadas (52’ -4”); Por el

OESTE: con el apartamento A Doscientos Dos (A-202) en una distancia de cincuenta y dos pies con cuatro pulgadas (52’ -4’’) Consta el mismo de dos (2) habitaciones con sus respectivos guardarropas, una sala comedor, cocina, dos (2) baños, lavandería y balcón. Los baños están equipados con bañeras, lavamanos Y servicio sanitario.

EI área total del apartamento es de mil seis punto mil trescientos cinco pies cuadrados (1, 006.1305 p. c.), equivalentes a noventa y tres punto cuatro mil setecientos veinticinco metros cuadrados (93.4725 m.c.). EI apartamento tiene una puerta de entrada, por su lado Sur que comunica al área común donde se encuentra la escalera. Le corresponde como elemento de uso común limitado dos (2 ) espacios de estacionamiento identificados ambos con el número y letra A guión Doscientos Tres (A-203). Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos communes generales del inmueble una participación del punto cero cero cinco uno uno cero por çiento ( .005110 % ). The property # 29,478 is recorded at Page KARIBE volu-

me of Isabela, Property Registry of Puerto Rico, lot number 12,712 Section of Aguadilla.

Property address: Cond. Haudimar, Apartment A-203, Isabela, P.R. 00662. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens described in Spanish: Senior Liens: • NONE

• Junior Liens: • NONE. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed/sold upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. Because this is a case of money collection, it does not have a minimum rate or bid. The sale will take place to satisfy the amounts owed per the Default Judgment entered on May 21, 2015. The AUCTION will take place on the 11th day of September of 2023, at: 9:15 am, at the office of the Clerk of the Court, Room 150— Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chard6n Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, whose sale at public auction was ordered by the Order of Execution of June 25, 2023, Judgment dated May 21, 2015. The undersigned Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS:

Said sale to be made by the undersigned Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, 22nd day of July of 2023. By: Pedro

Master 787-672-8269.

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LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO KEYLINK LLC.

Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIONES DE FERNANDO LÓPEZ TORO Y DE MARÍA ANTONIA

MIRANDA MESTRE

T/C/C MARÍA ANTONIA

MIRANDA DE LÓPEZ

COMPUESTAS POR

FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES

HEREDEROS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2023CV00312. Salón Núm.: (207). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SUCESIONES DE FERNANDO LÓPEZ TORO Y DE MARÍA ANTONIA

MIRANDA MESTRE

T/C/C MARÍA ANTONIA

MIRANDA DE LÓPEZ compuestas por FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA: CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

(CRIM): DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número sesenta y uno de la Urbanización Cooperativa de Vivienda Juan Mendoza, situada en el Barrio El Duque, del término municipal de Naguabo, Puerto Rico, con

un área de trescientos veinticinco metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en trece metros con la Autoridad de Tierras de Puerto Rico; por el SUR, en trece metros con la calle número cinco de la urbanización; por el ESTE, en veinticinco metros con el solar número sesenta de la urbanización; y por el OESTE, en veinticinco metros con el solar número sesenta y dos de la misma urbanización. En este solar la vendedora ha construido una casa vivienda que consta de sala, comedor, cocina, tres habitaciones, cuarto de baño y balcón. Consta inscrita al folio 103 del tomo 78 de Naguabo, Finca #4,441, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Cooperativa de Vivienda Juana Mendoza, #61 Calle 5, Naguabo, P.R. 00718. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $139,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #160, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de abril de 2010, ante la notario María G. Chévere Mouriño, e inscrita al folio 77 del tomo 246 de Naguabo, finca número 4,441, inscripción 7ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $139,500.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $93,000.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $69,750.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal

de $58,108.27, con intereses a 6.00% anual, desde que dichas sumas fueron desembolsadas, con el primer desembolso el 29 de abril de 2010, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma equivalente a $13,950.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, 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. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. 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. Se informa que la propiedad objeto de ejecución se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Expedido en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 31 de julio de 2023. JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO. SONIA GUASP LOZA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #653.

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TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE REVERSE MORTGAGE

FUNDING LLC.

Demandante Vs SUCESION ELOY VERDEJO ROQUE COMPUESTA POR ELOY FERNANDO VERDEJO

RODRIGUEZ, RANIEL MARIO VERDEJO

RODRIGUEZ, GUSTAVO YAMIL VERDEJO

RODRIGUEZ, YANILDA RAQUEL VERDEJO

RODRIGUEZ, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION RAQUEL RODRIGUEZ COLON T/C/C RAQUEL RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR ELOY

FERNANDO VERDEJO

RODRIGUEZ, RANIEL MARIO VERDEJO

RODRIGUEZ, GUSTAVO YAMIL VERDEJO

RODRIGUEZ, YANILDA RAQUEL VERDEJO

RODRIGUEZ, JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandado

Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01328.

Salón: 406. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

GUSTAVO YAMIL VERDEJO RODRIGUEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION ELOY VERDEJO ROQUE; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION RAQUEL RODRIGUEZ COLON T/C/C RAQUEL RODRIGUEZ.

P/C: LIC FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDO. EXT LA CONCEPCION, 45 CALLE B, CABO ROJO, PUERTO RICO, 00623.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 01 de agosto 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 representado usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen-

tencia, 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 04 de agosto de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 04 de agosto de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. EREINA AGRONT LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante v. HERIBERTO APONTE PACHOT, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA

Demandado(a)

Civil: MZ2021CV00947. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR APONTE-DE TAL. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de julio 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 04 de agosto de 2023. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 04 de agosto de 2023.

LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. JOSSIE BOBE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02473. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JAN E. FERREIRA RICARD. PO BOX 371718, CAYEY PR 00737-1718; BO. VEGAS CARR 743 R 736 KM 1.1, CAYEY PR 00736. (Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 3 de agosto 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 4 de agosto de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 4 de agosto de 2023.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Civil Núm.: UT2022CV00440.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS A. RODRÍGUEZ MERCADO, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #163, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Adjuntas, a la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 14 de julio de 2023 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $35,306.36 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 19 de abril de 2023, notificada y archivada en autos el 25 de abril de 2023 y publicada mediante edicto el día 3 de mayo de 2023, en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star”; procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, los bienes inmuebles se describen a continuación:

Rústica: Parcela radicada en el Barrio Guilarte del término municipal de Adjuntas, con una cabida superficial de 1,658.31 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero cuerdas con cuatro mil doscientos diecinueve diez milésimas de cuerda y en lindes al NORTE, en tres alineaciones irregulares de 8.54 metros, 28.11 metros y 42.44 metros, las primeras dos con el lote número dos; al SUR, en 60.00 metros, con terrenos propiedad del señor Christian Avilés; al ESTE, en 36.48 metros, con parte de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; y al OESTE, en dos alineaciones irregulares de 19.62 metros y 15.61 metros, con el lote número dos y con una calle municipal. Finca #9702, inscrita al Folio 53 del Tomo 233 de Adjuntas, Registro de la Propiedad de Utuado. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Región Superior de Utuado, Sala Superior de Adjuntas, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $35,306.36 de principal; intereses a razón del 6.50% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $392.49 de cargos por demora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y

honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $55,000.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $36,666.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $27,500.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 22 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 29 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Adjuntas. De Estudio de Título realizado, surge el siguiente gravamen preferente: Hipoteca constituída por los esposos Olmo-Santiago en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por $15,000.00 sin intereses, vencedero el 11 de noviembre de 2011, según escritura #400, otorgada en Ponce, el 11 de noviembre de 2003, ante la Notario Edna Chandrissa Bonnet Vázquez, inscrita al Folio 17 del Tomo 318 de Adjuntas, finca #9702, inscripción 4ta. Sujeto a las condiciones de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico por un término de 8 años. De Estudio de Título realizado, no surgen gravámenes posteriores, los cuales deban ser cancelados. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2)

semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, a 03 de agosto de 2023. LUIS A. RODRÍGUEZ MERCADO, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #163.

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Demandante V. MIGUEL A.

PEREIRA OYOLA

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV04478. Sala:

505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: MIGUEL A.

PEREIRA OYOLA.

(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 3 de agosto 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 4 de agosto de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 4 de agosto de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. KEMUEL A.

GONZÁLEZ JIMÉNEZ

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV04680. 702.

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

A: KEMUEL A.

GONZÁLEZ JIMÉNEZ.

(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 3 de agosto 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. Co-

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Parte Demandante Vs. EDWIN APONTE GARAY

Parte Demandada Civil: Núm.: CG2022CV03670. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: EDWIN APONTE GARAYBO. BORINQUEN CARR 763 KM 3.2 CAGUAS, PR 00725 / HC 11 BOX 48022 CAGUAS, PR 00725. (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 3 de AGOSTO 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 4 de AGOSTO de 2023. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 4 de AGOSTO de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. JEAN C. CRUZ ORTIZ

Demandado(a)

Civil: BQ2022CV00190. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JEAN C. CRUZ ORTIZ. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 4 de agosto 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 4 de agosto de 2023. En COMERÍO, Puerto Rico, el 4 de agosto de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. CARMEN L. APONTE FLORES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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MALDONADO

Demandado (a)

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV00639. Sala: 505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO – ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MARIA RODRIGUEZ MALDONADO.

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 1 de agosto 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 diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 4 de agosto de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 4 de agosto de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. E. DIOMARYS ALCÁNTARA FÉLIX, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. JANNETTE RIOS MEDINA

Demandado(a)

Civil: TA2022CV01170. Sala: 502. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JANNETTE RIOS MEDINA. (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 2 de agosto 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 3 de agosto de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 3 de agosto de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: HY-32 CALLE 241, URBANIZACION COUNTRY CLUB, CAROLINA, PR 00982 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número treinta y dos (32) del Bloque “HY” del Plano de Inscripción de la Tercera Extensión de la Urbanización Country Club, Sexta etapa, situada en el Barrio Sábana Abajo de la municipalidad de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos noventa y cinco metros cuadrados ochenta y cuatro centímetros cuadrados y colinda por el NORTE, en diez metros diecisiete centímetros con la Calle doscientos cuarenta y uno; por el SUR, en veintinueve metros treinta y cinco centímetros con terrenos propiedad de Cruz Torres, Simón Millán y otros; por el ESTE, en veintitrés metros siete centímetros con el Solar treinta y tres; y por el OESTE, en treinta y cuatro metros diecinueve centímetros con el Solar treinta y uno. Enclava casa. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 146 del Tomo 106 de Carolina, finca número 3,862, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $132,554.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $88,369.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 21 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $66,277.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 36 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de marzo de 2016, ante el Notario Pedro J. Díaz García y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Carolina, inscripción 15ta, finca número 3,862, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcial-

mente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido condenando a la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $124,629.96 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2019, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, Leonardo Prieto y la Sucesión de Gabriel Morales Figueroa, adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $13,255.40. Además, la parte demandada se comprometieron a pagar una suma equivalente a $13,255.40 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $13,255.40 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/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 del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta

si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de agosto de 2023.

HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS

REVERSE MORTGAGE

FUNDING, LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE EPIFANÍA

MÉNDEZ CALDERÓN; COMPUESTA POR

ESTEBAN SANTIAGO

MÉNDEZ, SULMA IRIS

SANTIAGO MÉNDEZ Y VICENTE SANTIAGO

MÉNDEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2022CV01550.

Sobre: 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: SUCESIÓN DE EPIFANÍA MÉNDEZ CALDERÓN; COMPUESTA POR ESTEBAN SANTIAGO

MÉNDEZ, SULMA IRIS SANTIAGO MÉNDEZ Y VICENTE SANTIAGO MÉNDEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitando la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de First Security Mortgage, Inc. a su orden, por la suma principal de $120,000.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 3.44% anual, obligándose además al pago de costas, gastos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $12,000.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este pagaré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit número 4,215, ante el notario Omar Adolfo Jiménez Pacheco. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 284 otorgada el 31 de octubre de 2008, ante el mismo notario público, inscrita al folio 1,149 del tomo 499 de Gurabo, finca número 7,981, inscripción 2da.

La Hipoteca Revertida grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA:; Parcela marcada con el número quinientos noventa y tres en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Celada de los Barrios Celada y Hato Nuevo del término municipal de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos veinte y seis punto diez; y siete metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela número quinientos noventa y dos de la comunidad; por el SUR, con parcela número quinientos noventa y cuatro de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con área verde no urbanizable; y por el OESTE, con Calle número treinta y ocho de la comunidad. Finca número 7,981, inscrita al folio 65 del tomo 207 de Gurabo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr,

salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SER VICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Genevieve López Stipes, Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 009367308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos 60 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 4 de agosto de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MANATÍ SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.

Demandante Vs. WANDA LEE ROSADO VEGA POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE RICARDO DAVID QUILES RESTO; LA SUCESION DE RICARDO DAVID QUILES RESTO COMPUESTA POR CAROLINA, VALERIA, CRISTHIAN TODOS DE APELLIDOS QUILES DE JESUS E IRIANI QUILES ROSADO (MENOR DE EDAD); FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: MT2022CV00566. Sala: 603. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil

que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATI, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATI, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: CARRETERA 642, KM 49.0, LOT 53, COMUNIDAD MONTEBELLO, MANATI, PR 00674 y que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Barrio Rio Arriba Poniente de Manatí, Puerto Rico. Solar: 53. Cabida: 954.9 metros cuadrados. LINDEROS: NORTE, con la carretera estatal seiscientos cuarenta y dos (642). SUR, con la parcela veintidós (22) de la Comunidad. ESTE, con la parcela cincuenta y cuatro (54) de la Comunidad. OESTE, con la parcela cincuenta y dos (52) de la comunidad. Localizado en la Comunidad Monte Bello. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Manatí, finca número 19,591, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $127,645.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 21 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $85,096.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 28 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $63,822.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 72otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de marzo de 2016, ante el Notario Carlos Martínez Olmo, y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Manatí, finca número 19,591, inscripción 5ta., en el Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto

satisfacer al demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido condenando a la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $118,822.95 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de mayo de 2020, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte co-demandada Wanda Lee Rosado Vega y La Sucesión de Ricardo David Quiles Resto, adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $12,764.50. Además, la parte co-demandada, Wanda Lee Rosado Vega y La Sucesión de Ricardo David Quiles Resto, se comprometieron a pagar una suma equivalente a $12,764.50 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $12,764.50 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATI durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesa un gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relaciona a continuación; Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Wanda L. Rosado Vega, seguro social xxx-xx-2738, por la suma de $5,382.11, Embargo número ARE-17-2738, Certificación de fecha 28 de junio de 2017, anotado 15 de agosto de 2017, al Asiento 2017-007101-EST del Sistema Karibe. Por la presen-

te se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/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 del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy día 2 de agosto de 2023. WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ CARRIÓN, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #135, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MANATÍ, SALA SUPERIOR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS PÉREZ RÍOS, COMPUESTA POR: ZUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE

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LA SUCESIÓN DE CRUZ RÍOS CRUZ T/C/C

CRUCITA RÍOS CRUZ; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV03225.

Sobre: INTERPELACIÓN; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS PÉREZ RÍOS, COMPUESTA POR:

ZUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CRUZ RÍOS CRUZ T/C/C CRUCITA RÍOS CRUZ. URB. ALTURAS DE BAYAMÓN, 10 CALLE 1, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 00956.

De: BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO.

Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $37,253.51, más cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más los intereses acumulados al 9.5% desde el 1 de octubre de 2018, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la suma del 10% el principal por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos

Número del Tribunal Supremo 15693 PO Box 194089, San Juan, PR 00919

Teléfono: (787) 296-9500

Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA

y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 8 de agosto de 2023. LCDA. LAURA

I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVETTE

M. MARRERO BRACERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO EN EL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN

GERARDO ROSADO

TORRES; HILDA RIVERA CUEVAS

Demandantes Vs. ADMINISTRACIÓN DE VETERANOS; DEMANDADOS

DESCONOCIDOS: “JOHN DOE”, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV04140. (401). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: DEMANDADOS

DESCONOCIDOS: “JOHN DOE”, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.

Por medio del presente edicto se les notifica la radicación de una Demanda de Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado en la que se solicita la cancelación del siguiente pagaré hipotecario, desconociéndose su paradero, luego de haber sido pagado en su totalidad: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Administración de Veteranos, por la suma de Treinta y Dos Mil Ochocientos Dólares ($32,800.00) de principal, intereses al (12%) anual y vencedero el día primero de abril de (2010). Inscripción (9na.) de la Finca (22,024) de Bayamón Sur. La referida hipoteca grava el siguiente inmueble:

“URBANA: Urbanización Forest View de Bayamón Sur; (131)

Manzana “D”; Cabida: (312)

Metros Cuadrados: Lindes; NORTE, con el solar (132), en veinticuatro metros; SUR, con el solar (130) en igual medida; ESTE, con la calle Cartagena en trece metros; OESTE, con los solares (111) y (110) en trece metros. Contiene una casa de concreto para una familia”.

Inscripción: Finca (22,024) de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera; Catastro Núm. (085-094-693-28-001). La parte demandante solicita del Honorable Tribunal que declare con lugar la demanda y en su

consecuencia ordene al Secretario del Tribunal que expida Mandamiento al Registrador de la Propiedad, para que dicho funcionario proceda a cancelar en los libros a su cargo la referida hipoteca dejando la propiedad aquí descrita libre de dicho gravamen hipotecario. Por medio del presente edicto se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la Demanda de epígrafe dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo 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, Sala de Bayamón y notificándole con copia de dicha contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante. 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.

Abogada de la Parte Demandante:

Lcda. Beatriz Cay Vázquez- RUA 18,234

P.O. Box 1809, Caguas, Puerto Rico

00726-1809

Tel. (787) 731-0526; Email: beatrizcayvazquez@gmail.com

POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL, expido el presente Edicto en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 07 de agosto de 2023. LCDA.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

CARMEN M. PINTADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HU-

MACAO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. CARLOS LEMOS

HERMIDA Y WANDA

RODRIGUEZ

MALDONADO; LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR

AMBOS COMPUESTA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: HU2019CV01043.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, a

la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 22 de agosto de 2022 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $69,017.52 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 23 de junio de 2022, notificada y archivada en autos el 27 de junio de 2022 y publicada mediante edicto el día 1 de julio de 2022 en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star”; procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, los bienes inmuebles se describen a continuación: URBANA: Lote “E’. Parcela de terreno identificada como lote “E” en el plano de inscripción localizado en el barrio Aguacate del término municipal de Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 4,976.9161 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 1.2663 cuerdas cuyas colindancias son.’ al Norte, con Ángel Rodríguez y la finca principal de que se segrega; al Sur, con el acceso de Ia finca principal de la cual se segrega; al Este, con la finca principal de la que se segrega y al Oeste, con camino municipal y Ángel Rodríguez.

Finca #14858 inscrita al folio 30 del tomo 237 de Yabucoa Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $69,017.52 de principal, 5.875% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $37.62 de cargos por demora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $69,462.40 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $46,308.26. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $34,731.20. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la

PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 12 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 26 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao. De Estudio de Título realizado, surge el siguiente gravamen preferente: Hipoteca constituida por los esposos Lemos-Rodríguez en garantía de pagaré bajo Aff. #19235 a favor de Caribbean Financial Services haciendo negocios como Easy Money, o a su orden, por $43,500.00 al 14.95% anual, vencedero el 1 de diciembre de 2032, según Esc. #208, otorgada en Caguas el 15 de noviembre de 2002, ante el Notario Público Raúl Muñoz González, inscrita al Tomo 27 de Hoja Móvil de Yabucoa, finca #14858, inscripción 3ra. Relativo al gravamen antes descrito: Al Asiento 2023-080928-HU01 el 30 de junio de 2023 se presentó Sentencia del 19 de abril de 2023; Orden del 21 de junio de 2023 y Mandamiento del 27 de junio de 2023, expedidos en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao en Las Piedras, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico versus los esposos Carlos Lemos Hermida y Wanda Rodríguez Maldonado y otros, sobre Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado por la Vía Judicial, Caso Civil Num. YB2022CV00293, donde se ordena cancelar la hipoteca de $43,500.00. De Estudio de Título realizado, no surgen gravámenes posteriores, los cuales deban ser cancelados. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del munici-

pio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 8 de agosto de 2023. JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO. SONIA GUASP LOZA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

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RIVERA DIAZ Vs. EX-PARTE Civil Núm.: PO2023CV02296. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: John Doe y Richard Roe, posibles interesados en la Propiedad que se describe a continuación:

RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno localizado en el Barrio San Patricio, Sector El Hoyo, Carretera Ciento cuarenta y tres (143), kilómetro seis punto siete (Km.

6.7) interior del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico con una cabida superficial de SEIS MIL NUEVE PUNTO DOS MIL CIENTO TREINTA METROS CUADRADOS (6,009.2130 MC), equivalentes a UNO PUN-

TO CINCO MIL DOSCIENTOS

OCHENTA Y NUEVE CUERDAS (1.5289 CDAS). En lindes por el NORTE con terrenos de don Felipe Rivera y con terrenos de doña Rosa M. Suárez, por el SUR, con terrenos de don Miguel Petrilli; por el ESTE, con terrenos de don Miguel A. Torres y el camino municipal Hoyo San Patricio y por el OESTE, con más terrenos de don Felipe Rivera y camino municipal que da a la carretera Estatal Número ciento cuarenta y tres (143). No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. No tiene número de catastro asignado. Los interesados incluyen a colindantes desconocidos, anteriores dueños desconocidos y posibles herederos de dueños anteriores desconocidos de la Propiedad antes mencionada. Por la presente quedan notificados que Wilfredo Gaudino Bonilla y Anamarys Rivera Díaz, han radicado en este Tribunal una Petición de Expediente de Dominio sobre la propiedad antes descrita, alegando que adquirieron la propiedad mediante compraventa mediante escritura número setenta y dos (72) del 3 de mayo de 2023 ante el notario público Félix A. Santiago Miranda, de sus anteriores dueños Milagros Olivero Delgado, Carlos Javier Medina Olivero, Jan Carlos Medina Olivero y Crystal Marie Medina Olivero y que el periodo de posesión de la propiedad de los peticionarios y todos los anteriores dueños sobre pasa un término de 30 años de posesión y por ello solicitan Orden para que Ordene al Registrador de la Propiedad de Ponce II que inscriba dicha finca a nombre de los Peticionarios. Se apercibe que si transcurrido Veinte (20) días desde la publicación de este Edicto, no ha habido reparos u oposición contra la demanda interpuesta, este Tribunal dictará Sentencia de acuerdo a lo solicitado en la misma. 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. Copia de la contestación deberá ser notificada al Licenciado Salvador Márquez Colón a su dirección en: 485 Ave. Tito Castro, Ponce, PR. En cumplimiento de una orden dictada por este Tribunal expido el presente bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 4 de agosto de 2023.

RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. KEVIN J. ROMERO ROSARIO

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV04495. Sala: 505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: KEVIN J. ROMERO ROSARIO. (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 3 de agosto 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 4 de agosto de 2023. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 4 de agosto de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE JUAN

CASTRO MORALES

COMPUESTA POR LYDIA

FEBO RODRIGUEZ

T/C/C LYDIA FEBO DE CASTRO POR SÍ Y EN

The San Juan Daily Star 23 Friday, August 11, 2023

The

Juan

guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de GUAYAMA, hago saber a la parte demandada, OBED ALVARADO BURGOS, INGRID ARITZA

BERRIOS MARTINEZ y Ia SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES compuesta por ambos y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 16 de mayo de 2023, por Ia Secretarla 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. 622, Cond. El Legado Golf Resort Guayama PR 00785 y que se describe como sigue:

HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: El Legado Condominium Regime 1. Apartment 622. Square shaped 1 bedroom unit in the El Legado Condominium Regime 1, located at Jobos Ward of the Municipality of Guayama with a total area of 724.6181 square feet, equivalent to 67.3192 square meters, distributed in 639.2014 square feet, equivalent to 59.3838 square meters of enclosed area, and 85.4167 square feet, equivalent to 7.93547 square meters of balcony. The main entrance located on the South West side of the apartment leading to the exterior common hallway. This apartment is located in Building 6 of the Regime, occupies part of the second floor of the building and has been assigned a share of .33% in the common elements of the regime. The maximum length of this unit is 8.89 meters and the maximum width is 8.43 meters. Its boundaries are by the NORTH, in a distance of 8.89 meters with the common green areas; by the SOUTH, in a distance of 5.59 meters with the common wall that separates it from apartment 621 and in a distance of 3.30 meters with the common lobby area; by the EAST, in a distance of 6.45 meters with the common wall that separates it from apartment 621 and in a distance of 1.90 meters with green common areas; by the WEST, in a distance of 8.43 meters with the common wall which separates it from apartment 623. This unit contains a foyer, a living- dining area, kitchen, bedroom with closet, a bathroom, a hall, a laundry closet and a covered balcony. Finca 19698, inscrita al folio 91 del tomo 493 de Guayama, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Obed David Alvarado Burgos y su esposa Ingrid Aritza Berrios Martinez en garantía de pagaré aff #2475 a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argenta-

ria Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $180,000.00 con intereses al 5 5/8% anual y vencimiento 1 de abril de 2034. Constituida por Ia Escritura 68 otorgada en Caguas el 17 de marzo de 2004 ante el notario José Orlando Mercado Gely, e inscrita al folio 91 del tomo 493 de Guayama, finca 19698, inscripción 2. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es Ia que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada Ia subasta para con el importe de Ia misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 23 de marzo de 2023, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad ascendiente a $136,697.83 de principal, más, calculado hasta el 15 de septiembre de 2022 con intereses acumulados de $39,639.10, que continuarán acumulándose al 5.625% anual hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más $725.34 a cargos por demora, más cargos adicionales de $459.68, mas $4,332.86 de escrow, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado en Ia Escritura de Hipoteca, más otro gastos efectuados por la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso y para otros adelantos. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 12 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de GUAYAMA, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, Ia cantidad de $180,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 19

DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 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, $120,000.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el dIa 26 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, Ia mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para Ia primera subasta, o sea, $90,000.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de America, 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 Ia subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante Ia titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier

carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si Ia hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en Ia 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 Ia 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 Ia hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada Ia finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró Ia 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 Ia 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 PÚBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En GUAYAMA, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de julio de 2023. LITZY M. CORA ANAYA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #247, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE GUAYAMA.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO

Demandante Vs. IVAN RIVERA RAMIREZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: CAL2021-0007. Sobre: ALIMENTOS. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: IVAN

RIVERA RAMIREZ.

Por la presente se le emplaza y requiere para que comparezca en el presente caso y exprese su posición respecto a la Petición de Desacato por Incumplimiento de Pago de Pensión

Alimenticia y comparezca vista de desacato a celebrarse el día 11 de octubre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana, presencial, donde se requiere su comparecencia ante el Honorable Tribunal, para que muestre causa por la cual no deba dictarse sentencia, resolución u orden, según lo solicitado en la Petición sometida por la parte demandante en relación con su obligación de prestar alimentos a e incumplimiento. Radicando el original de su posición o comparecencia ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia a la abogada de la parte demandante, cuyo nombre y dirección se consigna de inmediato:

Lcda. Nayda N. Ve!azquez Morales Calle Muñoz Rivera #10 Lares, Puerto Rico 00669

Tel.: 787-897-3112

Fax: 787-897-8949

Email: nayda.velazquez@gmail.com

Se le apercibe que de no contestar la comparecer, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia según la Petición de epígrafe sobre Modificación y Aumento de Pensión Alimentaria, según solicitado en la Petición, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de julio de 2023. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN RUIZ MATOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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BAUTISTA CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY

Demandante V. FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DEL CUAL

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV06791. (603). Sobre: SUTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARTO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y

MENGANO DEL CUAL, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda en este caso. En la Demanda, la parte demandante alega que es el acreedor de una facilidad de crédito garantizada, entre otros, por el siguiente pagaré hipotecario, según enmendado, garantizado por la siguiente hipoteca que se describe a continuación: Pagaré hipotecario emitido el 11 de febrero de 2005, a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, mediante el affidávit número 4,557 del Notario Público Rafael A. Ojeda Diez, y posteriormente endosado o cedido a favor de Doral Recovery II, LLC, por la suma principal de $127,500.00, con intereses al 7 1/4% anual y vencedero el primero (1:) de marzo de 2010 y enmendado mediante Allonge el 29 de abril de 2014. En la misma fecha y ante el mismo Notario, Francisco Catalino Rubecindo constituyó hipoteca en garantía del Pagaré Hipotecario mediante la escritura de Hipoteca número 74, otorgada en San Juan el 11 de febrero de 2005, la cual consta inscrita al folio 161 del tomo 1119 de Santurce Norte, finca número 14,312, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de San Juan. La hipoteca antes descrita fue modificada mediante la Escritura número 173 de Modificación de Hipoteca y Pagaré Hipotecario, otorgada en San Juan el 29 de abril de 2014, ante el Notario Público Gadiel O. Rosario Rivera, la cual consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Santurce Norte, finca número 14,312, inscripción 18, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de San Juan. La hipoteca mencionada, según modificada, grava la siguiente propiedad:

URBANA: Solar número doscientos sesenta y siente (267), radicado en la Calle Corton del Barrio Santurce de San Juan, compuesto de doscientos metros cuadrados (200.00 m.c.).

En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veinte metros (20.00 m), con el solar número doscientos sesenta y cinco (265) de la finca principal; por el SUR, en una distancia de veinte metros (20.00 m), con el solar número doscientos sesenta y nueve (269) de la misma finca principal; por el ESTE, en una distancia de diez metros (10.00 m), con Cecilio de Castro Sánchez; por el OESTE, en una distancia de diez metros (10.00 m), con la Calle Corton. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 392 de Santurce Norte, finca número 14,312, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección I

de San Juan. El original del pagaré hipotecario antes descrito se ha extraviado sin el mismo haber poder sido localizado a pesar de las gestiones realizadas por la parte demandante, y por ello comparece ante el Tribunal solicitando su sustitución o reproducción. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo ustedes tener interés en el pleito o quedar afectadas por el remedio solicitado, se les emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una (1) sola vez en un periódico de circulación general de Puerto Rico. Ustedes 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 representen 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 se le requiere para que notifique a: Ferraiuoli LLC

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Abogado de la parte demandante, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto y radicar el original de dicha contestación en este Tribunal en donde podrá enterarse de su contenido. Si dejare de hacerlo, podrá anotársele la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 7 de agosto de 2023. GRISELDA

RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. DIANA C. PÉREZ SIERRA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

CONDOMINIO BAHÍA PROPERTIES, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. BELKIS JACQUELINE

RAMIREZ T/C/C BELKYS

JACQUELINE CRUZ

RAMÍREZ, NIGAL ENRIQUE CARPIO CALDERÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Parte Demandada

Salón: 603. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: BELKIS JACQUELINE RAMIREZ T/C/C

BELKYS JACQUELINE

CRUZ RAMÍREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON NIGAL ENRIQUE CARPIO CALDERÓN.

Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria, en la que se alega que los demandados BELKIS JACQUELINE RAMIREZ T/C/C BELKYS JACQUELINE CRUZ RAMÍREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON NIGAL ENRIQUE CARPIO CALDERÓN, le adeudan solidariamente a Condominio Bahía Properties, LLC, la suma total de $21,655.93 correspondiente a las cuotas de mantenimiento de la suite 110, por concepto de gastos comunes de mantenimiento adeudados a la fecha de la presentación de la demanda, más las sumas que se acumulen por concepto de mensualidades de gastos comunes, intereses, penalidades y recargos de los meses subsiguientes, más las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírles. La abogada de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Evelian Del Rocío Suárez Rodríguez, cuya dirección física y postal es: Cond. El Centro I, Suite 801, 500 Muñoz Rivera Ave., San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 946-5268, y su correo electrónico es: evelian@ bellverlaw.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 07 de agosto de 2023.

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Demandante Vs. MARIO A. CORREA ROLÓN Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2023CV00195. Salón: 406. 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: MARIO A. CORREA ROLÓNURB. METROPOLIS B27 CALLE 11, CAROLINA, PR 00987.

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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de junio de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 29 de junio de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. LUVI M ORTIZ DELGADO

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV10197. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: LUVI M ORTIZ DELGADOURB PONDEROSA 476

CALLE DALIA, RIO GRANDE PR 00745-2202. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO

MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de julio de 2023. En FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, el 5 de julio de 2023. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SHEILA ROBLES HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR I.

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SALA DE FAJARDO

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

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Parte Demandante Vs. LUVI M ORTIZ DELGADO

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV10197.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO.

EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC-

ORTIZ DELGADOPO BOX 30243, 65 INFANTERIA STA, SAN JUAN, PR 00929.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO

MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de julio de 2023. En FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, el 5 de julio de 2023. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SHEILA ROBLES HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR I.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE FLOR MARÍA SANTIAGO

MEDINA T/C/C FLOR

M. SANTIAGO DE VARGAS COMPUESTA

POR: FERNANDO

POZO SANTIAGO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; LA SUCESIÓN DE WILLIAM RAMÓN

VARGAS CAPPAS

COMPUESTA POR: ITA

VARGAS, ANNIE VARGAS

Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; CARLOS J. VARGAS SANTIAGO, COMO

HEREDERO DE FLOR MARÍA SANTIAGO

MEDINA T/C/C FLOR M. SANTIAGO DE VARGAS Y DE WILLIAM RAMÓN

VARGAS CAPPAS

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: PO2019CV00989. (406). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 14 de septiembre de 2022 y notificada el 16 de mayo de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 12 de julio de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 14 de julio de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Ponce, Sala Superior, en 2150 Ave. Santiago de los Caballeros, Ponce, 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: En caso de que el producto de la subasta sea insuficiente para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas a la parte demandante, se ordena la venta en pública subasta de cualesquiera otros bienes de la parte demandada hasta que cualquier parte insatisfecha de la sentencia sea totalmente cubierta. La propiedad hipotecada a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el Número uno (1) del Bloque D del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización El Madrigal, situada en el Barrio Magueyes de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 463.15 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el: NORTE: en 19.77 metros con el Solar

Número dos (2); por el SUR: en 2 distancias, una de 16.67 metros, y la otra de 5.54 metros en forma de arco con la Calle Número cinco (5); por el ESTE: en 23.22 metros, con el Solar Número doce (12); por el OESTE: en dos alineaciones una de 13.87 metros y la otra de 5.81 metros, con la Calle Número tres (3). Enclava edificación.

La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 160 del tomo 434 de Ponce, Finca 19536 (antes 31046) de Ponce. Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 73 vuelto del tomo 1119 de Ponce, Finca

19536 (antes 31046) de Ponce. Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. Inscripción undécima (11ma). Dirección Física: Urb. El Madrigal, D1 Calle 5, Ponce, PR 00730-1409. Número de Catastro: 63-364088-430-01-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $119,567.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 1:45 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, $79,711.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 4 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $59,783.50. 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 $82,184.54 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $2,583.99 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $11,956.70 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: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Sucesión de Flor María Santiago Medina t/c/c Flor M. Santiago De Vargas compuesta por: Fulano y Mengano de tal, posible heredero desconocido; Sucesión de William Ramón Vargas Cappas compuesta por: Sutano y Perencejo de tal, posible heredero desconocido y Carlos J. Vargas Santiago, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el Caso Civil Número PO2019CV00989, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de la hipoteca, con un balance de $82,184.54 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 25 de marzo de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Ponce. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a prote-

ger 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. 210-2015. 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 2 de agosto de 2023. Manuel Maldonado, Alguacil, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De Ponce, Sala Superior.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE RINCÓN (ANTES COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE AGUADA)

Parte Demandante VS ORLANDO PLAZA ALANCASTRO (Socio Núm. 32035461)

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. AG2023CV00727. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO.

A: ORLANDO

PLAZA ALANCASTRO

Se le apercibe cjue ía parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-2650334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden us-

tedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 1 de agosto de 2023. Sarahi Reyes Perez, Sec General. Zaleily Gonzalez Aviles, Sec Auxiliar.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. GLADYS MONTILLA

REYNOSO T/C/C GLADYS MONTILLA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV06286. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A La Parte Demandada: GLADYS MONTILLA

REYNOSO T/C/C GLADYS

MONTILLA A SUS

ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES

CONOCIDAS: BO. OBRERO, 458 CALLE 11 APT 4, SAN JUAN, PR 00915-3705, 8501 E ALAMEDA AVE UNIT 924, DENVER, CO 80230-6027, 7821 MAYFAIR DR APT 2, ANCHORAGE, AK 99502-7 245, 608 #12 ST, APT 7, ALASKA 99504, 608 W 12TH AVE APT 7, ANCHORAGE, AK 99501. Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que se adeuda las siguientes cantidades $31,616.69 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.00% anual desde el 1 de diciembre de 2022 hasta su completo pago, más $204.78

de recargos acumulados los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $5,600.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Condominio Sucesión Josefa Gonzalez de Santurce Norte. Apartamento: 4. Cabida: 1,110.36 pies cuadrados. Urbana: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento residencial identificado con el número 4 ubicado en el cuarto piso del Edificio antes conocido como Edificio Sucesión Josefa Gonzalez. Susodicho apartamento tiene un área superficial de 1110.36 pies cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: con escalera que provee al exterior del apartamento y con el lote número 75 a una distancia de 19.00 metros lineales; por el SUR: con el lote número 460 (antes lote número 71), en una distancia de 19.00 metros lineales; por el ESTE: con el lote número 458 (antes lote número 72) de la calle 10 a una distancia de 10.00 metros lineales; y por el OESTE: con la calle número 10 a una distancia de 10.00 metros lineales. Contiene 4 cuartos, un comedor, una sala, una cocina, un balcón y una escalera con acceso a la azotea, la que resulta ser un elemento común limitado y exclusiva de este piso, con otra escalera que da acceso al tercer piso. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes una participación de 29.63%. La propiedad y la escritura de hipoteca constan inscritas al tomo Karibe de Santurce Norte, Finca 48722, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección I. Inscripción segunda. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso en blanco, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo 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 advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922,

Guaynabo Puerto Rico 009703922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, (787) 708-0566 correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 3 de agosto de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA I. RÍOS LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ASOCIACION DE PROPIETARIOS DE SAN RAFAEL ESTATES, INC

Demandante V. ORLANDO COLON SERRANO Y OTROS Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV04819. Sala: 701. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (R 60). COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ORLANDO COLON SERRANO Y MISAEL COLON ROMAN. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 4 de agosto 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 7 de agosto de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 7 de agosto de 2023. LCDA. LAURA

AUXILIAR.
TO. A: LUVI M
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A ‘perfect marriage’ between team and player

The harmonic convergence between the resurrected Jason Heyward and the rampaging Los Angeles Dodgers crystallized beautifully one evening in Baltimore last month.

It was in the top of the second inning at Camden Yards when Heyward smashed a three-run home run off right-hander Tyler Wells, opening the gates to a five-run inning.

An inning later, Jake Marisnick pinchhit for Heyward.

Injury? No. Ejection? Nope.

The Orioles had changed pitchers, inserting left-hander Cole Irvin. And the Dodgers, being the Dodgers, adjusted accordingly.

“I told him the situation, that my bet was that they were going to use a lefty the rest of the way,” said manager Dave Roberts. “I told him, ‘You did your job to help us win this game.’ And he was like, ‘Doc, I’m in.’”

Roberts added: “For me, that’s everything, to have a player of his stature have complete buy-in.”

For Heyward, 34, the personal victories in his 14th season in the bigs have come in the small moments. He no longer plays every day, and he’s not the middleof-the-order beast he had always seemed destined to become. But he can still help a team, which is more than the Chicago Cubs seemed to think when they decided to cut ties with him last August.

“It’s been a fun year of baseball,” Heyward said of his time with the Dodgers during a recent road trip to San Diego.

Discounting the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign, Heyward’s on-base plus slugging percentage (.797) is his highest over a full season since 2015. He has produced the best isolated power (.216), home run percentage (4.2%) and walk rate (11.5%) of his career. And earlier this month, against Oakland’s Kirby Snead, Heyward socked his first home run against a lefty since May 2021.

Best of all, Heyward is clearly enjoying the ride.

It was a little over a year ago when Jed Hoyer, Chicago’s president of baseball operations, informed Heyward that the Cubs would release him after the season. With one year still remaining on the eight-year,

$184 million deal he signed with the Cubs before the 2016 season, it was an ignominious ending to a chapter of his career that had its disappointments, but which also included his leadership playing a key role in the team winning its first World Series in 108 years.

Things began to fall apart quickly. The Cubs started to break in younger players while unsuccessfully defending their world title in 2017, they platooned a bit more and, Heyward said, they “started to try to be shape-shifters.” Some players accustomed to playing every day were asked to take on different roles, which led, in Heyward’s opinion, to an “identity crisis.”

“I understand transition — nothing is constant, nothing lasts forever,” Heyward said. “But that was the tough part of that group, especially with some of the younger guys.”

By 2019, it was clear that those Cubs were in need of a major overhaul. When Heyward’s OPS dropped to career lows in consecutive seasons — .627 in 2021 and .556 in 2022 — it was evident that his time there was done.

Because of a right knee injury, he played his last game for the team on June 24, 2022, having batted .204 with a .278 on-base percentage over 48 games. When Hoyer spoke with him in early August, Heyward wondered if his career was finished.

“You don’t know if someone’s going to offer you the chance to play,” Heyward said. “So I was realistic about that.”

The Dodgers called in early December and invited him to spring training on a minor league deal. They made no promises, but they laid out their vision in clear, concise terms.

“This is what a role would look like for you,” general manager Brandon Gomes said. “This is what our hitting guys are thinking. It would be you coming to L.A. and Arizona this winter and spending a lot of time attacking some swing changes, and we feel if you can do that, then there’s real upside left in how you can perform.”

The Dodgers loved what they knew of Heyward’s work ethic and his reputation in the clubhouse. Freddie Freeman, friends with Heyward since they played against each other in youth baseball tournaments when they were 16, heartily endorsed him.

“It felt like the perfect marriage between our culture, what he could bring on the field, off the field in the clubhouse, and his ability to just get to work with our group and kind of do a trust fall for what they saw for him,” Gomes said. “And now we’re seeing him perform at an incredibly high level.”

Maybe to some, it would have been easy for Heyward to take his five Gold Gloves, his World Series ring and the mil-

lions he had earned and just disappear. Especially after years of listening to outside critics eviscerate his Cubs contract as one of the game’s worst.

“I think when you look at contracts and players and the game of baseball, looking at career numbers, there are a lot that are below mine,” Heyward said of where his contract ranks historically. “There are a lot worse that have played out a lot worse. Guys have been on the field less. All that kind of stuff. And that’s not by any means to point the finger away from me. I’m right there in the thick of it. I love to play the game, and I understand the failures.”

Besides, the most difficult part of his descent with the Cubs, he said, wasn’t even his own personal failures. It was the rebuild over his final seasons in Wrigley.

“The toughest thing for me was not trying to win every day,” he said.

When he took that Dodgers phone call, he knew they would do everything to win. So setting aside his ego and accepting a minor-league deal was easy, he said.

“The beauty of it is, it’s a collaborative effort,” Gomes said. “It’s, ‘Hey, here’s what we’re thinking.’ And then Jason saying, ‘Well, I’ve either tried that before, or I can’t quite pull it off. Do we have another way to go about it?’ An open conversation that both parties run into with an open mind.”

Heyward has excelled at the specific role the Dodgers have carved out for him. The fixes in his swing, the at-bats against right-handers, the defensive agility that remains. In the clubhouse, he is everything the Dodgers hoped.

“I’ve leaned on him a lot over the course of the year,” said James Outman, a rookie outfielder. “Baseball mentor. Life mentor, really. He wants to win. And you can tell he wants his teammates to do well. And it’s coming from a super-genuine place.”

From Outman to Mookie Betts to David Peralta and Clayton Kershaw, Heyward name-checks veterans and newcomers alike, praising the Dodgers for their ability to match talent with character.

“The thing that’s cool is to have a group with a lot of veterans with some young guys mixed in, a lot of good examples,” Heyward said. “I feel like we all feed off of each other. And, of course, it’s fun to play with Freddie again, to have that come full circle.”

Jason Heyward signed a minor-league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers during the off-season. He has produced his best slugging percentage since 2012.
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Australia outlasts France on penalties, and the host nation exhales

The effect, though, has been multiplied by how compelling a story the Matildas have become. Kerr, the country’s great star, injured her calf on the eve of the first game and has been racing to find some semblance of fitness in time to feature — even in a reduced role — in some way in the tournament.

The team, its confidence seemingly diminished in Kerr’s absence, lost to Nigeria in its second game, and for a moment it appeared as if the jamboree for which it had spent three years preparing would be the most disheartening sort of anticlimax. A rousing victory against Canada averted that fate; a win against Denmark in the round of 16 ensured it would survive until the last week of the tournament, at least.

Maybe that would have been too simple. France not only held on but wrested control. An Australian own goal was ruled out for a push by Wendie Renard before Australia’s Steph Catley had to clear one effort from close to, if not quite on, her own goal line. By the time penalties loomed, the crowd was greeting simple saves by Mackenzie Arnold with a fervor usually reserved for goals. At the other end, Australian corners inspired a noise that seemed to shake the foundations of the stadium.

Even by those standards, though, the penalty shootout was something else entirely. Arnold called it a “roller coaster.” Vine went with “whirlwind.”

By the time it was over — three frazzling, agonizing, exhausting hours later — the feeling around Brisbane Stadium was not so much delight or euphoria or even relief, but a sort of dizziness. Not vertigo from the heights that Australia have now ascended, but something closer to nausea, from the winding, coiling road that took the host nation up into the clouds.

This World Cup has had no shortage of drama: late twists and surprise endings and a pleasing trace of unbridled chaos. Australia’s eventual win against France on Saturday maintained that proud tradition.

The World Cup had also already had at least one penalty shootout that tested the bounds of realism. On that count, Australia might have pushed the microscopic elimination of the United States into second place. The raw facts of the matter are that the host eventually triumphed, 7-6, when substitute Cortnee Vine unfussily converted the last of 21 penalties to send Brisbane — and the rest of the country — into raptures at the prospect of Australia’s first World Cup semifinal, against England on Wednesday (6 a.m. ET, FOX).

In this case, it is fair to say, the facts require a little explanation.

Over the course of the past three weeks, the progress of the Matildas has

consumed Australia. Tony Gustavsson’s team is on the front cover of every newspaper. The faces of his players beam out from television ads and billboards and news bulletins. The fitness or otherwise of Sam Kerr has become a national obsession.

The team’s games have become must-see television, setting various audience records, snatching high watermarks away from the country’s more traditional, more entrenched ball sports, Australian rules football and rugby.

Hours before kickoff, Brisbane was filled with fans decked out in Australian green-and-gold: jerseys and commemorative T-shirts, mostly, but a few fans had needed to improvise.

One man wore a bright, canary yellow suit, a possession that raises more questions than it answers. In the bars of Lang Park, the area immediately around the stadium, there were two people wearing a surprising — some might say excessive — amount of pineapple-themed apparel. Nobody seemed to mind. The color scheme was on the right lines.

Much of that, of course, can be attributed to fairly universal traits. Australia is very much a sporting nation, well used to expressing its identity through its onfield prowess. It is, like everywhere else, the sort of place that enjoys a major event, a chance to let its hair down, to host a party for the rest of the world to watch.

But still Australia remains absolutely determined to wring every last vestige of emotional energy from its fans. Its meeting with France was enthralling and intriguing, but it was also tense and fraught at all times, a game played exclusively on the narrowest of edges. Twice, early on, French defender Maëlle Lakrar might have deflated a nation. Twice, Australia survived, Gustavsson’s players gritting their teeth and clenching their fists until they could turn the tide.

It was less a game of patterns and pressure and more one of surges. When Australia’s came, Mary Fowler was at its heart. She might have scored three times against France, maybe more, but was denied twice by the reflexes and the reactions of Pauline Peyraud-Magnin, the French goalkeeper, and once — most spectacularly — by the quick thinking of defender Élisa De Almeida, who darted back to deny Fowler an open, certain goal.

“I’d like to watch it back to see what the hell I was doing,” said Fowler, with rather more self-criticism than was strictly warranted.

The introduction of Kerr, after less than an hour, was greeted as if it was the decisive act. Kerr’s arrival can, these days, be sensed before it is seen: There is a roar as she goes out to warm up, another when she returns to the substitutes’ bench, and a third as she prepares herself to enter the field. She had been on for no more than 30 seconds when she created a chance for Hayley Raso; this, the stadium had decided, was when it all came together.

Certainly, it ticked almost every box: a goalkeeper introduced specifically for the shootout, to no small effect; a substitute brought on for the same purpose who missed, as substitutes brought on just to take penalties seem to do with alarming frequency; a goalkeeper who took what might have been the winning penalty, but missed; a player who took her attempt twice, and failed to score both times.

Australia had two chances to win it, and blew them both, before Vine stepped up and finally sent the stadium — and the country — into raptures.

As she had walked to the penalty spot, she said, she had not been able to hear any noise from the crowd. When she scored, it all rushed in, a thunderclap tinged with just a hint of desperation, the energy ever-so-slightly frantic.

For the players, the scale of their achievement felt somehow indistinct, impossible, as if they cannot see quite how far they have climbed. Their focus, instead, is on what is ahead. “The vision has always been to go the whole way,” Caitlin Foord said. “I still believe we are only just getting started.”

FIFA Women’s World Cup Quarterfinals

Spain 2, Netherlands 1

Sweden 2, Japan 1

Australia 0(7), France 0(6)

England 2, Colombia 1

Semifinals (all times Eastern Standard Time)

Tuesday’s Game

Spain vs. Sweden (4 a.m., FOX)

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

You could feel blocked, Aries, like you’re in a trap. Perhaps your friends are influencing you into believing one thing, while your family has you trained to believe another. You wear different masks in different situations so you may have forgotten the real person underneath. Things are in conflict, and you may be forced to make important decisions. The truth is the only way to escape the trap.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Remember that it takes energy to repress and bottle up your feelings, Taurus. Without realizing it you may be stuffing a great deal of emotion inside while trying to ignore it. The truth is that expressing these feelings - anger, happiness, fear, self-doubt - will energize and free you. The atmosphere around you will lighten up and you’ll be able to interact more openly with others.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

Deep inside you know the right thing to do, Gemini. Perhaps you just saw someone drop money on the ground and you picked it up. Do you return it or pocket it for yourself? You’re likely to feel like you have the devil on one shoulder arguing with the angel on the other. It’s important that you listen to the angel. Do what you know is right.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Your mastery of your mind and ability to stay disciplined about your goals is impressive, Cancer. Others recognize and appreciate your efforts much more than usual. You may be called upon to assist in some other project or someone else’s emotional drama because you have the stability required to remedy the situation. Don’t downplay your talent in this area.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

ou may feel as if someone or something has just reformatted your hard drive, Leo. Suddenly things are running much more smoothly. The key now is to find the discipline and organization to understand this new system fully. Streamline your thoughts and be more efficient about how you use your energy. You’ll be more effective overall if you can keep from scattering your resources.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

You may be forced to put your thoughts into neat little boxes that can be easily understood and processed, Virgo. Your ideas are abstract and don’t always make reasonable sense. It’s OK to have a bit of mystery about things that rational minds can’t explain. Although you may feel like the goal is to arrange things in an orderly way, don’t feel like you have to do it.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

This may be a difficult day in which you feel pressured to get things done, Libra, yet there’s indecisiveness and hesitation lingering in your mind. Between a rock and hard place is no easy spot, but you’ll find your way out. Perhaps the thing you should do is make a move - any move. Once you get the energy flowing, the direction you need to take will be clear.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

This may be a difficult day in which you feel pressured to get things done, Libra, yet there’s indecisiveness and hesitation lingering in your mind. Between a rock and hard place is no easy spot, but you’ll find your way out. Perhaps the thing you should do is make a move - any move. Once you get the energy flowing, the direction you need to take will be clear.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

Your thoughts may be strained, Sagittarius, and you could find it difficult to process things that are normally no problem. Try not to force answers that don’t seem to want to come. If the information flows easily and smoothly, you will know that it’s meant for you. If you have to pull teeth in order to get at the truth, you may need to back off.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

Your thinking may have emotional overtones that prevent you from seeing the truth clearly, Capricorn. Do your best to tame your feelings in order to let more rational thoughts rise to the surface. There’s a stability that comes when you honor your emotions from a detached perspective instead of immediately taking action in response to how you feel. Think about this as you engage with others.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Your thinking may have emotional overtones that prevent you from seeing the truth clearly, Capricorn. Do your best to tame your feelings in order to let more rational thoughts rise to the surface. There’s a stability that comes when you honor your emotions from a detached perspective instead of immediately taking action in response to how you feel. Think about this as you engage with others.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Your thinking may have emotional overtones that prevent you from seeing the truth clearly, Capricorn. Do your best to tame your feelings in order to let more rational thoughts rise to the surface. There’s a stability that comes when you honor your emotions from a detached perspective instead of immediately taking action in response to how you feel. Think about this as you engage with others.

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