Tuesday Aug 15, 2023

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Education Dept. has teaching vacancies left to fill as students return for new school year

By THE STAR STAFF

While 95% of the teachers showed up for work Monday in preparation for the start of the school year on Wednesday, the island Department of Education acknowledged it has yet to fill teaching vacancies.

“Concerning the preparation for the next school year, the Office of Human Resources and the educational regions continue working to fill vacancies that are difficult to recruit, ensuring the full presence of teachers in the classrooms,” an agency statement said.

Education Secretary-designateYanira Raíces Vega nonetheless expressed her satisfaction with the outstanding attendance of teachers on their first day of work, with 95 percent participation of teachers and adjacent staff recorded in the island’s 856 public schools.

School principals reported 97 percent attendance, while 93 percent of other teaching staff showed up. In addition, as reported by the STAR on Monday, security personnel are at 100% and maintenance staff have been called and are performing their duties with 95 percent attendance, the agency said.

“I am pleased to see such high attendance on this first day of work, which reflects our teachers’ deep commitment

to education,” Raíces Vega said. “It is gratifying to know that our school communities are actively preparing to welcome our students back on Wednesday. We are completely focused on promoting academic progress in all schools and providing our teachers with all the necessary tools to educate our boys, girls and youth.”

She rejected complaints from the Puerto Rico Teachers Association, who said the designated secretary was unwilling to participate in a dialogue and work as a team with the main teachers’ union.

“I have always maintained an open attitude to dialogue and collaboration. I have constantly communicated with the Teachers Association, presenting our progress and work plans,” Raíces Vega said. “Although some of the concerns raised have already been addressed, I will carefully review your report and take the necessary actions.”

The secretary also shared important advances in school infrastructure.

“Currently, 72 percent of our schools have already been painted both inside and out,” she said. “The remaining 28 percent are in different stages of infrastructure initiatives, such as bids, designs and the contracting of work.”

PDP leaders bar House speaker from negotiating Electoral Code changes

By THE STAR STAFF

Speaker of the House of Representatives Rafael “Tatito”

Hernández Montañez will not be able to negotiate any agreement with the New Progressive Party on changes to the Electoral Code, according to a resolution approved on Sunday by the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) governing board, the speaker said Monday.

PDP President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González introduced two resolutions that were approved by those present. Hernández Montañez did not participate in the meeting.

“The first resolution establishes that the issue of the Electoral Code and the amendments thereto are an institutional issue and that any negotiations between the PDP and the other political parties and independent legislators will be headed by

our president, Jesús Manuel Ortiz, as president of the Legislative Conference, and his electoral team, in agreement and dialogue with the legislative leaders of both chambers,” PDP Secretary General Gerardo “Toñito” Cruz Maldonado said in a written statement.

Hernández Montañez met last Thursday with NPP Alternate Electoral Commissioner Edwin Mundo Ríos to begin discussions. The other resolution made it clear that any change to the electoral legislation will have to address the core aspects contained in the substitute legislation to House Bill 4 and House Bill 114, and Senate Bill 909, which were approved on June 30 and were vetoed by Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia.

“Doing the opposite of what was approved in the board does not constitute the institutional position of the party,” Cruz Maldonado added.

Education Secretary-designate Yanira Raíces Vega

Six groups sue to stop green energy tenders they say threaten farmland

By THE STAR STAFF

Six organizations sued the island government Monday to stop renewable energy tenders on farmland and land of high ecological value, which they assert are in violation of the Puerto Rico Land Use Plan and public policy laws.

In a mandamus request filed in local court in San Juan, the organizations want to stop the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB), the Puerto Rico Planning Board, the Permits Management Office, and the Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC by its Spanish acronym) from approving industrial energy projects in agricultural reserves. The plaintiff entities are the Boricuá Organization for Eco-Organic Agriculture Inc., the United Front for the Defense of the Lajas Valley Inc., the Environmental Dialogue Committee Inc., Puente de Williamsburg Inc. (Latino Climate Change Link), Sierra Club Puerto Rico and League of Cities of Puerto Rico Inc. In addition, they have the legal support of Earthjustice and the Resiliency Law Center.

The groups argued that public policy laws establish that disused landfills, previously contaminated land, parking lots, and roofs are suitable places for renewable energy projects.

However, the PREB has approved some 18 projects that will occupy 5,097.85 acres of land classified as Special Agricultural Reserve and Specially Protected Rustic Land that must be protected, according to the Puerto Rico Land Use Plan.

A few years ago, the PREB announced it was executing six tranches of tenders for renewable energy facilities and battery storage. It has conducted three so far.

The groups warned that “the consideration of probably more than 80 renewable energy industrial projects remains, without first identifying the location and suitable places” as required by the Energy Public Policy Law and the Energy Transformation and Relief Law.

“Despite the clear letter of the law, the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau has approved power purchase contracts for 18 renewable energy industrial projects that are intended to be located illegally in the Special Agricultural Reserve and will be considering some 80 additional industrial projects, without first identifying the suitable places under the law, without considering the location, without counting on the conclusions that the Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC) must submit, and without excluding the Special Agricultural Reserve Lands,” the lawsuit reads.

The plaintiff groups denounced what they contend was the PREB’s lack of transparency for carrying out a separate and confidential process to implement the Integrated Resource Plan without disclosing the names of the projects, the physical address, location, magnitude, size of the farms,

person or entity in charge and megawatts to be generated.

“All this information is public, but we had to go to court, and we managed to learn information about the 18 projects,” said Alfredo Vivoni of the United Front for the Defense of the Lajas Valley Inc. “There we discovered that everyone was breaking the law because they are impacting protected land.”

The groups warned about the loss of agricultural land used for renewables and food security risks.

“We must emphasize that almost no product can be planted productively under the [solar] plates, and the installation entails the destruction of these soils with the movements of the construction, even changing the hydrography,” said David Sotomayor, a soil science professor at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR)-Mayagüez Campus College of Agricultural Sciences.

He added that in 70 years (1935 to 2002), Puerto Rico lost around 1.3 million acres of land to various factors, mainly urban sprawl, according to data from the island Department of Agriculture and the Department of Geography of the UPR-Río Piedras Campus.

“These are lands that we will not recover, and it becomes essential on an island like ours that depends almost exclusively on the import of products to be able to feed ourselves so that more land is not lost because food security is threatened, particularly in times of crisis due to climate change and international aspects of the market,” Sotomayor said.

Federico Cintrón Moscoso, from Puente de Williamsburg Inc., noted that “the two services that are most affected by climate emergencies are access to energy and healthy food.”

“About 95% of the fossil fuel we use and over 80% of our food comes from abroad,” he said. “That is why, when we talk about climate adaptation, we insist on increasing our capacity to produce renewable energy and food locally. But these two activities cannot cancel each other out, as we are seeing in these industrial power

projects. It is inconceivable that when all the studies show that the best location for solar energy is on the roofs of houses and previously impacted places, the government insists on developing them on agricultural land with high potential to produce food.”

In the lawsuit, they argued that the guidelines for the creation of the Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience Plan establish that it is necessary to “promote renewable or alternative energies taking advantage of spaces already altered by human activity, and thus minimize the unnecessary occupation of the soil.”

The organizations stated that all agencies, including the PREB and DDEC, must consider and apply the standards when identifying suitable places for industrial renewable energy projects.

“We favor renewable energy, but not to the detriment of lands of high ecological value and agricultural reserves in the largest productive places,” said Marissa Reyes from the Boricuá Organization for Eco-Organic Agriculture Inc.

Ex-legislator Aponte Rosario detained for alleged violation of protection order

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Police Bureau (PRPB) reported Monday that former legislator Orlando Aponte Rosario had been arrested. The arrest arose from a complaint in which he is accused of violating a protection order, the PRPB said. The authorities specified that because it is a case of domestic violence under investigation, the PRPB would refrain from offering more details, and no further information on the case was available as of press time.

The plaintiff groups argue that public policy laws establish that disused landfills, previously contaminated land, parking lots, and roofs -- not arable agricultural lands -- are suitable places for renewable energy projects.

Former legislator Orlando Aponte Rosario

Getting ahead of the curve

Innovative school program begins a new academic year

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

Academic life is full of challenges and hardships for the student, and the challenges are not only academic, but also social, as when students usually enter university, they are entering adulthood as well.

Adapting to a new environment while also learning to be an adult can be quite difficult to handle, not to mention the process of figuring out what to do after high school. Often, students end up dropping out or choosing a different life path, because even years after they have entered college, they’re still figuring out what to do. That is why the Inter American Academy in Caguas exists as a part of Inter American University of Puerto Rico.

“We decided to do something at a high school level with Dr. Collazo, who began this project,” Dr. Carmen García Rosa said. “Students may have the academic abilities to handle college and their academic results may show as much, but there are certain emotional situations that need to be dealt with in order to guarantee them a successful university life. Our school provides the basic academics as well as elective classes, such as a class named ‘Quality of Life.’”

“The students are even provided with a personal computer to supply the need for one, as in today’s age you can’t move around without one,” she added.

The innovative project originally started in the Inter American University in the Metro (CUC by its Spanish initials) [campus] facilities. It is a high school project that offers academic excellence focused primarily on preparation for university and the professional world. Students take courses with university credits, which gives them a great head start on their post-secondary academic life. As the average bachelor’s degree takes around five years to complete, in this case students are already advancing their academic progress; what could have been five years of college ultimately turns into three and a half years, helping students start their professional life a lot sooner.

With the help of professors and the use of computers and

technology in general, the program adds layers to the academic experience.

The project is relatively new. It started in August 2021, and is considered to be innovative because Caguas doesn’t have any other schools like it. The academy’s mission is to provide an excellence-level education that promotes independent, critical and ethical thinking, while providing the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in university. The process is primarily marked by Christian values.

“I am currently retired from the Department of Education. Initially I didn’t want to work as a director because it is truly a difficult job to be a director; they are the ones who keep the schools in place and well ordered,” García Rosa noted. “However what motivated me to take on the challenge was the fact that this project was based primarily on Christian values. In public schools you can’t really talk about these things as much, but here we can work on these Christian values. Our youth are in desperate need of help and these values can be developed over time. We don’t speak directly about monotheistic religions or denominations, but we do teach nine principles/values to all our students that revolve around belief in a Judeo-Christian God.”

Parents who want to guide their kids toward a more conservative and Christian view of the world can be assured that Inter American American Academy is a school that promotes such values.

On Monday, the school began its academic year with many students running through the doors of the institution, where the entrance was decorated with balloons and welcoming messages. Apart from the messages covering the walls, the school director gave them a warm welcome.

“We are very honored to have you all here,” García Rosa said. “The fact that so many of you are motivated to join our school, study and learn makes us happy.”

The STAR spoke with numerous students from different grades, who offered their perspectives on their experience with the school.

“I was afraid at first; there were a lot of people and I had been in a different school for many years, but once I got used to it, the teachers were great and helped me a lot,” ninth grader Ángel González told the STAR.

“The university classes really got me excited because I never thought I would take any this early,” 10th grader Adriana Isabelle Sepulveda Ramos said.

Ivanna Marcano Santana, one of several 11th graders who spoke to the STAR, noted that “[i]t’s a very different experience, but I believe that’s the main purpose of education, to change our environment and get used to it once we hit college.”

“They really do prepare us for college here, with all of the professionals that are abundant in the school,” added Siera Ramos Martínez.

“Based on my experience, I would say that the basis of this Academy is to prepare us for a successful life, first and foremost,” Natanael de Jesús Falcón said.

“I was looking for a challenge, but more than that I was looking for something that would help me enter college well guided, so I wouldn’t be lost once I applied,” said Alana Cortés Pizarro. “Previously I had no goals for my life, but once I got here, I established those goals,” said Diego Alvarado Ortíz, rounding

out the observations offered by Inter American Academy juniors. “I took the criminal justice elective and I discovered what I wanted to do; I discovered I liked that for sure.”

The STAR also spoke with various teachers, such as history instructor Yarieli Carrasquillo.

“I feel responsible as a history teacher not only to the students, but also to Puerto Rico; the youth are highly important for our society,” she said.

Added chemistry teacher Pedro Rivas Báez: “The quality of students that are here is incredible. They have a different mindset and I believe that there is a lot of potential for these students to be great in the future at a university level.”

The school also considers not just the current state of education and the economy but also the future of education.

“Things are obviously changing -- technology in a sense is taking over everything and the use of it is highly important for the modern world, which is why we provide a robotics class for students where they learn how to program and use robots,” technology teacher Lourde Rivera Rivera said. “In a sense these [subjects] interest students in math and science more; we already have three drones and a 3D printer to help teach students about math and science.”

The school is currently accredited by the Inter American Metro, but is looking forward to being accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education later this year.

Inter American Academy students celebrate the start of a new school year.

Dr. Carmen García Rosa, director of Inter American Academy in Caguas (Photos by Richard Gutiérrez/The San Juan Daily Star)

Cayey holds special art exhibition starting tonight

By THE STAR STAFF

The first floor of the former Cayey City Hall has been converted into a special gallery for the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the central mountain town’s founding.

“A todo Color,” an exhibition of several artists, including Wilberto Santiago, opens tonight at 7 p.m. thanks to the volunteer work of the nonprofit entity “Cayey Cultural,” which organized the exhibition along with the municipality.

Santiago, a young Cayetano self-taught artist, began painting in 2017 with the great advantage of having studied cultural anthropology at Complutense University in Madrid, where he was able to expose himself to various cultural currents worldwide, as well as in New York.

Included in the exhibition is the large (6 feet by 4 feet) portrait of Cayey-born visual artist and architect Ramón Frade León (1875-1954).

“Here we have Frade in the line of hyperrealism, a technique that is booming in many parts of the world, although here in Puerto Rico it has not had so much of a boom,” said Santiago, who dedicated 160 hours to the painting in order to have it ready for tonight’s opening. “The intention was to

bring it in color, following the thematic line of the exhibition. This is a work made for this exhibition.”

“This is a technique that goes beyond photography,” the young artist added.

Hyperrealist art originated toward the end of the 1960s in response to the abstract, conceptual and non-objectual approaches of contemporary art. At first, the critics were not favorable, but it found its center in the 1972 exhibition “V documenta” in the city of Kassel, Germany. Today, it has become an influential movement and remains very active.

Santiago, who also ventures into photography, points out that the idea was to bring Frade into the reality of the 21st century.

“When they come to the exhibition, they will be able to get additional details through a ‘QR Code,’” Dr. Aida Mendoza said, pointing out that “if anyone worked on giving color to all of Cayey, it was Ramón Frade León.”

“Let’s see the sensation that the piece causes,” she added. “It is Don Ramón watching us! Without a doubt he is the custodian of this exhibition.”

Ciales, Loíza and Vieques receive federal matching funds for security

By THE STAR STAFF

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón said Monday that the municipalities of Ciales, Loíza and Vieques will receive allocations totaling $791,000 in federal funds to match funds for the municipal police allowing them to better respond to communities.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) told the resident commissioner’s office about the disbursement of the funds, which were included by González Colón in the budget bill,

or omnibus bill, for fiscal year 2023, as part of the community projects for Puerto Rico.

DOJ will be disbursing $279,000 to the municipal police of Loíza for the acquisition of two boats that would reinforce maritime security, $92,000 to the municipal police of Ciales for the acquisition of equipment, technology and for the training of agents, and $420,000 to the municipality of Vieques for the purchase and installation of a security camera system.

González Colón highlighted the joining of efforts with each of the mayors to improve services to their communities,

especially to address a primary issue as urgent as public safety.

Early last year, the resident commissioner called on communities, nonprofits and government agencies to submit proposals for local or community projects, also known as Community Project Funding, to be considered in the federal government’s budget for fiscal year 2023. Last December, González Colón achieved the approval of 10 projects totaling $19.4 million that she defended before the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, including the aforementioned disbursed security funds.

Father who allegedly impregnated his 13-year-old daughter is arrested

By THE STAR STAFF

In the Lajas Arriba neighborhood of Lajas on Monday afternoon, members of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau (PRPB) arrested Alexis Alicea Torres, known as Popol, who was wanted for allegedly impregnating his 13-year-old daughter in a case that had provoked widespread public outcry.

“Today, August 14, members of the Police Intelligence and Arrest units, along with community volunteers from other government agencies, captured fugitive Alexis Alicea Torres, 34, in a wooded area in the Lajas Arriba neighborhood area of Lajas, after five days of intense search,” Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa said in a written statement.

Upon arrival at PRPB headquarters in Hato Rey later in the day, Alicea Torres claimed to be innocent.

As he was approached by reporters while being led into the headquarters, the accused man denied that he had

impregnated his daughter.

Alicea Torres was apprehended while crossing a stream in the wooded area, the police chief said.

He faces an arrest warrant issued on charges of incest, threatening or intimidating witnesses and mistreatment for a pattern of sexual assaults against his biological daughter that resulted in pregnancy and delivery of a child, at the age of 13. Bail was set at $1 million by Judge Sinia Pérez Correa of the Mayagüez Court.

“The capture of the fugitive was possible thanks to the dedication and courage of the officers who searched inch by inch in hundreds of residences and even inside the brush day and night until they achieved his arrest,” López Figueroa said. “We appreciate the cooperation of the citizens who did not cease to send us confidential information about the possible places where Alicea may have been hiding, evading his responsibility to face justice. We also warn that anyone

who has given shelter to this individual can be prosecuted for obstruction of justice.”

“This is an appalling case, which has shocked and outraged us all. All parents and members of a family are called to care for and ensure the safety and well-being of the minors in their care,” the police commissioner said. “However, this individual took advantage of his daughter’s helpless situation to abuse her, and not only impregnated her, but deprived her of her freedom by locking her and her baby in a residence.”

In addition, three child abuse charges were filed against the girl’s stepmother, Liz Annette Rodríguez González, who was released on bail and is being monitored electronically.

An investigation is ongoing to determine if there are more victims of sexual assault in the case. Since March 30, the Family Department has had provisional custody of the affected girl, her baby and a three-year-old brother.

Wilberto Santiago with his portrait of renowned Cayey artist Ramón Frade León

As inferno grew, Lahaina’s water system collapsed

By MIKE BAKER, KELLEN BROWNING and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

During the frantic moments last Tuesday after a wildfire jumped containment near a residential neighborhood in Lahaina, Hawaii, firefighters rushing to slow the spread were distressed to find that their hydrants were starting to run dry.

Hoping to control the blaze as it took root among homes along the hillside nearly a mile above the center of town, fire crews encountered water pressure that was increasingly feeble, with the wind turning the streams into mist. Then, as the inferno stoked by hurricane-force gusts grew, roaring further toward the historic center of town on the island of Maui, the hydrants sputtered and became largely useless.

“There was just no water in the hydrants,” said Keahi Ho, one of the firefighters who was on duty in Lahaina.

The collapse of the town’s water system, described to The New York Times by several people on scene, is yet another disastrous factor in a confluence that ended up producing what is now the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than 100 years. The lack of water forced firefighters into an extraordinary rush to save lives by risking their own, and it has left people searching for answers about how the community can better prepare for a world of fiercer winds and drier lands.

Edwin Lindsey III, who goes by Ekolu, a Lahaina resident who lost his home and also sits on the county’s Board of Water Supply, said he spoke with a firefighter who said it had been demoralizing for crews to watch the advance of the fire with little ability to slow it. He said he hoped that the water issues, one of a number of challenges the community faced — including a struggle to evacuate all residents — would be part of a larger discussion about lessons from the fire.

“What do we learn from this?” he said.

The water system in Lahaina relies on both surface water from a creek and groundwater pumped from wells. Persistent drought conditions combined with population growth have already led officials at the state and local level to explore ways to shore up water supplies, and they broke ground on a new well two months ago to increase capacity.

On the day the fire tore through Lahaina, the fight was complicated by winds in excess of 70 mph, stoked by a hurricane offshore. Not only did the wind fuel the blaze, it made it impossible during much of the day to launch helicopters that could have carried in and dropped water from the ocean.

Early that day, as winds knocked out power to thousands of people, county officials urged people to conserve water, saying that “power outages are impacting the ability to pump water.”

John Stufflebean, the county’s director of water supply, said backup generators allowed the system to maintain sufficient overall supply throughout the fire. But he said that as the fire began moving down the hillside, turning homes into rubble, many properties were damaged so badly that water was spewing out of their melting pipes, depressurizing the

network that also supplies the hydrants.

“The water was leaking out of the system,” he said.

One firefighter described how his truck tapped into a hydrant to try and contain a blaze that had taken root in a cluster of homes, only to find water pressure so weak that the fire promptly jumped beyond their efforts to contain it. Another firefighter who arrived on scene after the fire was already raging said he encountered a scene of chaos and soon was told that there was no water to put the fires out. Crews were forced to focus on evacuations, he said, picking up people who were stranded and pointing others toward the fastest routes to safety.

These two firefighters declined to be named because they were not authorized to discuss the emergency effort.

With an estimated 60 to 70 firefighters on duty at any one time on Maui, according to the Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, the firefighting crews were stretched thin as they battled three different conflagrations on the island.

The fire in Lahaina took hold early at a residence, Ho said, and his crew began to set up to fight the flames while evacuating several people from inside and getting them into the truck. But the fire was spreading further, and they moved down to another nearby house, where they set up again and rescued an elderly woman, also giving her refuge in the truck. Every time they set up to suppress the fire in one area, the blaze would spread and they would find themselves scram-

bling to stay ahead of it. The water pressure was a continuing problem, he said.

At one point, the crew found a hydrant further north that seemed to have more water, and they doused a commercial building. But the water soon ran dry again. They left the scene, he said, hoping that the water they had applied to the structure would be enough to keep it safe.

“I thought it had a chance,” Ho said. “But I guess it didn’t because that whole building was burned down.”

Ho said downed power lines made navigation treacherous. The wind was so intense that firefighters found themselves crawling at times. Thick smoke made it difficult to breathe, but they often had to remove their masks to communicate evacuation orders to people still in the area.

In the end, the fire stopped only when it ran out of fuel at the ocean. The extent of the damage is still coming into focus, but it is already huge: some 1,500 residential buildings destroyed, thousands of people displaced, nearly 100 found dead so far, and the heart of a community that has long been a gem of Hawaiian history is reduced to ashes.

The state attorney general has begun a review of how previous decision-making and policies might have affected the fire and the county’s ability to fight it. The problems with water availability were compounded by others, as many residents said they were never given evacuation orders, and sirens set up to warn of such emergencies never sounded an alarm.

A distribution center for evacuees in Napili-Honokowai, Maui, Hawaii, Aug. 12, 2023

Two months in Georgia: How Trump tried to overturn a crucial state’s vote

tory was certified by Congress, Trump allies infiltrated a rural Georgia county’s election office, copying sensitive software used in voting machines throughout the state in their fruitless hunt for ballot fraud.

The Georgia investigation has encompassed an array of high-profile allies, from lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesebro and John Eastman, to Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff at the time of the election. But it has also scrutinized lesser-known players like a Georgia bail bondsman and a publicist who once worked for Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.

allowed your state to be scammed.”

But these efforts were not gaining traction. Raffensperger and Kemp were not bending. And on Dec. 1, Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, announced that the Department of Justice had found no evidence of voting fraud “on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”

A show for lawmakers

It was time to turn up the volume.

By DANNY HAKIM and RICHARD FAUSSET

When President Donald Trump’s eldest son took the stage outside the Georgia Republican Party headquarters two days after the 2020 election, he likened what lay ahead to mortal combat.

“Americans need to know this is not a banana republic!” Donald Trump Jr. shouted, claiming that Georgia and other swing states had been overrun by wild electoral shenanigans. He described tens of thousands of ballots that had “magically” shown up around the country, all marked for Joe Biden, and others dumped by Democratic officials into “one big box” so their authenticity could not be verified.

Trump told his father’s supporters at the news conference — who broke into chants of “Stop the steal!” and “Fraud! Fraud!” — that “the number one thing that Donald Trump can do in this election is fight each and every one of these battles, to the death!”

Over the two months that followed, a vast effort unfolded on behalf of the lame-duck president to overturn the election results in swing states across the country. But perhaps nowhere were there as many attempts to intervene as in Georgia, where Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, is now poised to bring an indictment for a series of brazen moves made on behalf of Trump in the state after his loss and for lies that the president and his allies circulated about the election there.

Trump has already been indicted three times this year, most recently in a federal case brought by special prosecutor Jack Smith that is also related to election interference. But the Georgia case may prove the most expansive legal challenge to Trump’s attempts to cling to power.

It could also prove the most enduring: While Trump could try to pardon himself from a federal conviction if he were reelected, presidents cannot pardon state crimes.

Perhaps above all, the Georgia case assembled by Willis offers a vivid reminder of the extraordinary lengths taken by Trump and his allies to exert pressure on local officials to overturn the election.

There was the infamous call that the former president made to Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, during which Trump said he wanted to “find” nearly 12,000 votes, or enough to overturn his narrow loss there. Trump and his allies harassed and defamed rank-and-file election workers with false accusations of ballot stuffing, leading to so many vicious threats against one of them that she was forced into hiding.

They deployed fake local electors to certify that Trump had won the election. Within even the Justice Department, an obscure government lawyer secretly plotted with the president to help him overturn the state’s results.

And on the same day that Biden’s vic-

As soon as Monday, there could be charges from a Fulton County grand jury after Willis presents her case to them. The number of people indicted could be large: A separate special grand jury that investigated the matter in an advisory capacity last year recommended more than a dozen people for indictment, and the foreperson of the grand jury has strongly hinted that the former president was among them.

If an indictment lands and the case goes to trial, a regular jury and the American public will hear a story that centers on nine weeks from Election Day through early January in which a host of people all tried to push one lie: that Trump had secured victory in Georgia. The question before the jurors would be whether some of those accused went so far that they broke the law.

Fueling ‘hate and fury’

It did not take long for the gloves to come off.

During the Nov. 5 visit by Donald Trump Jr., the Georgia Republican Party was already fracturing. Some officials believed they should focus on defending the seats of the state’s two Republican senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, who were weeks away from runoff elections, rather than fighting a losing presidential candidate’s battles.

Four days later, the two senators called for Raffensperger’s resignation. The Raffensperger family was soon barraged with threats, leading his wife, Tricia, to confront Loeffler in a text message: “Never did I think you were the kind of person to unleash such hate and fury.”

By the end of November, Trump’s Twitter feed had become a font of misinformation. “Everybody knows it was Rigged” he wrote in a tweet Nov. 29. And on Dec. 1: “Do something @BrianKempGA,” he wrote, referring to Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, a Republican. “You

Giuliani was on the road, traveling to Phoenix and Lansing, Michigan, to meet with lawmakers to convince them of fraud in their states, both lost by Trump. Now, he was in Atlanta.

Even though Trump’s loss in Georgia had been upheld by a state audit, Giuliani made fantastical claims at a hearing in front of the state Senate, the first of three legislative hearings in December 2020.

He repeatedly asserted that machines made by Dominion Voting Systems had flipped votes from Trump to Biden and changed the election outcome — false claims that became part of Dominion defamation suits against Fox News, Giuliani and a number of others.

Giuliani, then Trump’s personal lawyer, also played a video that he said showed election workers pulling suitcases of suspicious ballots from under a table to be secretly counted after Republican poll watchers had left for the night.

He accused two workers, a Black mother and daughter named Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss, of passing a suspicious USB drive between them “like vials of heroin or cocaine.” Investigators later determined that they were passing a mint; Giuliani recently admitted in a civil suit that he had made false statements about the two women.

Other Trump allies also made false claims at the hearing with no evidence to back them up.

The president calling

In the meantime, Trump was working the phones, trying to directly persuade Georgia Republican leaders to reject Biden’s win.

He called Kemp on Dec. 5, a day after the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit seeking to have the state’s election results overturned. Trump pressured Kemp to compel lawmakers to come back into session and brush aside the will of the state’s voters.

Kemp, who during his campaign for governor had toted a rifle and threatened to “round up illegals” in an ad that seemed an

Trump supporters stand in protest of election results at State Farm Arena in downtown Atlanta, on Nov. 7, 2020.

homage to Trump, rebuffed the idea.

By Dec. 7, Georgia had completed its third vote count, yet again affirming Biden’s victory. But Trump allies in the Legislature were hatching a new plan to defy the election laws that have long been pillars of American democracy: They wanted to call a special session and pick new electors who would cast votes for Trump.

Never mind that Georgia lawmakers had already approved representatives to the Electoral College reflecting Biden’s win in the state, part of the constitutionally prescribed process for formalizing the election of a new president. The Trump allies hoped that the fake electors and the votes they cast would be used to pressure Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the election results on Jan. 6.

Kemp issued a statement warning them off: “Doing this in order to select a separate slate of presidential electors is not an option that is allowed under state or federal law.”

The fake electors meet

Rather than back down, Trump was deeply involved in the emerging plan to enlist slates of bogus electors.

Trump called Ronna McDaniel, the head of the Republican National Committee, to enlist her help, according to McDaniel’s House testimony. By Dec. 13, as the Supreme Court of Georgia rejected an election challenge from the Trump campaign, Robert Sinners, the Trump campaign’s local director

of Election Day operations, emailed the 16 fake electors, directing them to quietly meet in the capitol building in Atlanta the next day.

On Dec. 14, the bogus electors met at the Statehouse. They signed documents that claimed they were Georgia’s “duly elected and qualified electors,” even though they were not.

In the end, their effort was rebuffed by Pence.

In his testimony to House investigators, Sinners later reflected on what took place: “I felt ashamed,” he said.

One last call

Trump refused to give up. It was time to reach the man who was in charge of election oversight: Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state.

On Jan. 2, he called Raffensperger and asked him to recalculate the vote. It was the call that he would later repeatedly defend as “perfect,” an hourlong mostly one-sided conversation during which Raffensperger politely but firmly rejected his entreaties.

“You know what they did and you’re not reporting it,” the president warned, adding, “you know, that’s a criminal — that’s a criminal offense. And you know, you can’t let that happen. That’s a big risk to you.”

Trump seemed particularly intent on incriminating the Black women working for the county elections office, telling Raffensperger that Freeman — whom he mentioned 18 times during the call — was “a professional vote-scammer and hustler.”

“She’s one of the hot items on the internet, Brad,” Trump said of the viral misinformation circulating about Freeman, which had already been debunked by Raffensperger’s aides and federal investigators.

Trump-fueled conspiracy theories about Freeman and her daughter, Moss, were indeed proliferating.

Then, on Jan. 4, Freeman received an unusual overture.

Trevian Kutti, a Trump supporter from Chicago who had once worked as a publicist for Ye, persuaded Freeman to meet her at a police station outside Atlanta. Freeman later said that Kutti had tried to pressure her into saying she had committed voter fraud.

“There is nowhere I feel safe. Nowhere,” Freeman said in her testimony, adding, “Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you?”

President Donald Trump leaves after speaking to reporters in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Nov. 5, 2020. The Georgia case offers a vivid reminder of the extraordinary lengths Donald Trump and his allies went to, state by state, to overturn the election.

Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail after judge revokes bail

By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was sent to jail late last week after a federal judge in New York revoked his bail, accusing him of trying to influence witnesses who are poised to testify against him at a widely anticipated trial in less than two months.

Bankman-Fried, 31, had been under house arrest at his parents’ home in Palo Alto, California, since he was arrested in December on fraud charges stemming from FTX’s implosion. But at a hearing Friday, Judge Lewis Kaplan of U.S. District Court in New York, said that arrangement would have to end, after prosecutors argued that Bankman-Fried had twice tried to interfere with witnesses in the case, including by giving documents to reporters.

“He has gone up to the line over and over again, and I am going to revoke bail,” Kaplan said from the bench.

After the order was read aloud, two U.S. marshals had Bankman-Fried remove his tie and navy suit jacket as they prepared to handcuff him. His mother, Barbara Fried, in attendance with his father, tried to approach him, but a court officer cautioned her to stand back. He was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

One of Bankman-Fried’s lawyers, Mark Cohen, said in court that he intended to appeal. Kaplan said he wouldn’t wait for the outcome of that effort before sending Bankman-Fried to jail.

The courtroom scene was the latest humiliating blow to Bankman-Fried since his cryptocurrency company fell apart in one of the most stunning corporate crashes in recent history. FTX rode the highs of the virtual currency market to become one of the industry’s leading companies before filing for bankruptcy after a run on deposits last fall. Over a few weeks, Bankman-Fried went from being an industry titan courted by politicians and celebrities to a criminal defendant facing decades in prison.

Now he will have to prepare for his trial, scheduled to begin Oct. 2, from a jail cell.

The court dispute over his bail focused on a New York Times article, published last month, that described private writings by Caroline Ellison, an executive in Bankman-Fried’s

business empire who had also dated him. Ellison has pleaded guilty to fraud charges and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors investigating Bankman-Fried.

In court filings, prosecutors said Bankman-Fried had given the documents to the Times to intimidate Ellison by casting her in a negative light before his trial. They also noted Bankman-Fried’s numerous conversations with others in the media, including author Michael Lewis, who is writing a book about FTX that is set for publication the week the trial begins.

As the bail issue was debated in court filings over recent weeks, Kaplan imposed a temporary gag order preventing the FTX founder and his representatives from speaking to the media.

Lawyers for Bankman-Fried said that by giving the documents to the Times, he had been exercising his right to answer “an inquiry from the media” and had not breached the terms of his bail agreement. The Times, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a documentarian making a film about Bankman-Fried each submitted a court filing raising First Amendment concerns about the gag order.

The status of the order was not immediately clear after Bankman-Fried was sent to jail Friday. But in court, Kaplan said that “de-

fendant speech is not protected if it is to bring about a crime.”

He said he had concluded that Bankman-Fried’s communication with the media and a separate attempt to contact a former FTX employee were intended to “intimidate or also to influence” witnesses in the case.

A spokesperson for Bankman-Fried declined to comment. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, which is prosecuting BankmanFried, did not respond to a request for comment.

Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas, where FTX was based, after the company collapsed during a turbulent week in November. He was charged with using customers’ deposits to finance lavish real estate purchases, political donations and charitable initiatives. After a few days in jail in the Bahamas, he was extradited to the United States and released on highly restrictive bail conditions that required him to wear an ankle monitor and confined him to his parents’ house. He has pleaded not guilty.

Since his release, Bankman-Fried has been reprimanded repeatedly for behavior that prosecutors said pushed the boundaries of what he was allowed to do while awaiting trial.

In court filings in January, prosecutors presented evidence that he had sent messa-

ges to a former FTX executive who could be a witness in the case, asking to speak with him. They also said Bankman-Fried had used a virtual private network, or VPN, a tool they claimed could disguise how he was using the internet while awaiting trial.

At the time, Kaplan ordered BankmanFried to submit to tighter bail requirements that restricted which websites he could use and prevented him from communicating with former FTX employees. Visitors to his parents’ house were prohibited from taking phones or computers inside.

The Times’ article about Ellison included excerpts from private Google documents addressed to Bankman-Fried, with raw reflections on their relationship and her insecurities about her role as CEO of Alameda Research, a hedge fund that Bankman-Fried founded. In court, prosecutors argued that the sensitive nature of the writings showed that BankmanFried was seeking to intimidate and discredit his former girlfriend.

For Kaplan, the article about Ellison was the final straw. Bankman-Fried’s messages to the former FTX executive, who served as general counsel of the firm’s U.S. arm, seemed designed to get him to “sing from the same hymnbook,” Kaplan said Friday. And by sharing documents with the Times, he said, Bankman-Fried intended to “portray Ms. Ellison in an unfavorable light.”

As Bankman-Fried’s lawyers fought to keep the bail agreement in place, they argued that conditions at the Brooklyn detention center would make it difficult for him to prepare for the trial.

Kaplan said he was open to the possibility of transferring Bankman-Fried to a facility that would offer more consistent internet access, such as a detention center in Putnam County, New York. He said he was also willing to consider an arrangement that would allow Bankman-Fried to meet with his lawyers at their office, under heavy security.

For now, though, Bankman-Fried will be housed at the federal facility in Brooklyn. In court filings, his lawyers argued that the jail was facing a “staffing crisis” and that people held there typically had limited computer access.

The location is “not on anyone’s list of five-star facilities,” Kaplan acknowledged Friday.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, arrives for a bail hearing at Federal District Court in Manhattan, Friday, August 11, 2023.

S&P 500, Nasdaq end higher as Nvidia surge leads megacap gains

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closed higher on Monday as shares of chipmaker Nvidia jumped following a bullish note from Morgan Stanley, leading other megacap growth stocks higher as investors awaited earning reports from U.S. retailers.

Nvidia’s (NVDA.O) gain pushed the information technology index (.SPLRCT) higher, making it the strongest of 11 S&P 500 sector indexes.

Other megacap growth stocks including Alphabet (GOOGL.O), and Amazon.com (AMZN.O) also posted gains, as did chipmaker Micron Technology (MU.O).

According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 (.SPX) gained 26.28 points, or 0.59%, to end at 4,490.33 points, while the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) gained 143.81 points, or 1.05%, to 13,788.66. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) rose 30.38 points, or 0.09%, to 35,311.78.

“It’s the first day in a while that tech has really significantly outperformed,” said Jay Hatfield, CEO of Infrastructure Capital Advisors in New York.

“That’s indicative of the fact that you have this blockbuster Nvidia report coming up and that could support the tech market pretty substantially.”

Nvidia, one of several tech companies rallying this year on optimism about artificial intelligence, is due to report quarterly results next week.

“NVIDIA remains our top pick, with a backdrop of the massive shift in spending towards AI, and a fairly exceptional supply-demand imbalance that should persist for the next several quarters,” Morgan Stanley analysts said in a note on Monday.

The Nasdaq and S&P 500 fell last week after hotter-thanexpected U.S. producer prices data fanned concerns that the Federal Reserve could keep U.S. interest rates higher for longer.

Tesla (TSLA.O) bucked the session’s upward trend, falling after the electric automaker said it had cut prices in China for some Model Y versions.

Market focus this week will be on quarterly earnings from major U.S. retailers including Walmart (WMT.N) and Target (TGT.N).

Expected economic data includes retail sales for July that will shape expectations for the direction for U.S. interest rates.

Traders see a nearly 89% chance that the Fed will keep its interest rates unchanged next month, according to CME Group’s Fedwatch tool.

Goldman Sachs’ latest report said its baseline forecast calls for the Fed to start cutting the funds rate inthe second quarter of 2024.

Keeping a lid on global market sentiment, investors remained concerned about China’s highly leveraged property sector after the country’s top private property developer, Country Garden, sought to delay payment on a private onshore bond for the first time.

PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O) rose after the company named Alex Chriss, a top executive at tax-preparation software firm

Intuit (INTU.O), as its new chief executive officer.

AMC Entertainment common shares (AMC.N) tumbled. On Friday, a Delaware judge approved the theater chain’s revised stockholder settlement. The company’s preferred stock surged.

Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE.N) shares plunged as scrutiny mounted over whether the utility’s equipment played any role in deadly wildfires that burnt through the coastal Maui town of Lahaina.

Would F-16s have made the difference in Ukraine’s counteroffensive?

I think this is a political statement, it’s not a military logical statement.”

For the most part, Ukrainian pilots currently flying their Soviet-era MiG and Sukhoi fighter jets take care not to get too close to their targets or to stay in the air for too long, to avoid becoming targets themselves. They get as close as they dare and then fire missiles, including long-range missiles recently provided by Britain and France, at fuel and ammunition depots and other military targets before darting away.

In view of those limitations, a Biden administration official said in an interview last week that it was unclear whether Ukraine’s forces would be able to provide support to ground troops even if they had the F-16s. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an issue that has become a sore point to the Ukrainians.

After Ukraine suffered heavy losses early in the counteroffensive by trying to follow the combined-arms approach, some commanders decided to abandon the effort and return to the tactics they know best — firing artillery and missiles to degrade Russia’s fighting capability in a war of attrition.

By LARA JAKES

Ukraine’s counteroffensive began two months ago, but in many ways its forces have been preparing for it for years by learning how to fight like NATO militaries, with a mix of infantry, artillery, armored vehicles and air power.

But the Biden administration waited more than a year before letting NATO countries send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. By the time pilots are trained on the advanced aircraft, it will be too late for them to assist and protect ground forces slogging through this phase of fighting.

All of which has raised a question: Without significant air power — a pillar of the warfare tactics that the West has urged Ukraine to adopt — can the counteroffensive prevail?

The answer appears to be yes, as current and former officials in Ukraine, the United States and Europe, as well as Western defense analysts, said in interviews last week as the counteroffensive ground on, with volleys of artillery fire and drone strikes but no major breakthroughs.

But it is likely to be far more difficult without the jets.

“It will have to happen without the F-16,” said Philip M. Breedlove, a retired U.S. Air Force general and former NATO commander, “but I believe they can.”

A former F-16 pilot, Breedlove said there was “great benefit” for Ukraine’s forces to learn and deploy the so-called combined arms tactics that are the backbone of modern ground warfare, given that they “are going to be applicable in many different phases of what you do, no matter what.”

Nevertheless, he added, “If you expect Ukraine to fight like we fight, then they have to have the tools that we have, and we have not given them those tools.”

Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, the top Ukrainian commander, has made the same point with considerable frustration.

Some experts said the dearth of air power had put Ukraine at a disadvantage this summer against Russian attack helicopters that have picked off Ukrainian tanks and armored vehicles. At least some of the helicopters are equipped with anti-tank missiles that are shot either too far or too low to be intercepted by Ukraine’s air defenses, according to Britain’s Defense Ministry.

Col. Markus Reisner, who oversees force development at Austria’s main military training academy, said that with more warplanes, Ukraine could better defend its ground troops from those attacks.

“This is what it is actually intended for,” said Reisner, a trained intelligence officer. “Military logic tells you, you have to have air superiority to conduct successful land operations.”

He added: “Some American generals, they say, ‘Well, it’s not what the Ukrainians need at the moment.’

That was not a complete surprise to military experts, who said the problems went well beyond the absence of air power. Retired Col. Steve Boylan, a trained U.S. Army aviator and a former spokesperson for the Army’s Combined Arms Center in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, said it had taken years for U.S. forces to learn “how to do it effectively — and not in the middle of a fight.”

As its name suggests, the modern fighting method combines infantry troops, armored tanks, artillery ground fire and air power in an effort to dominate all the domains of ground warfare. Boylan said the tactics were developed as a better way to fight after the bloody trench warfare of World War I, but it was not until the 1990-91 Persian Gulf war that U.S. troops fought in the combined arms units as they are deployed today.

Fighting without one of the elements — like air power, in Ukraine’s case — may force units to adjust, but “I would suspect that they would take our instruction, training and tactics as a baseline and modify it to what works best for them,” Boylan said.

Yet for all that air power can bring to a battle, he said, “until you get troops on the ground, and actually take it, you don’t own it. And you can’t hold it.”

As it is, Breedlove said, Ukraine’s military is already one of the best-equipped and most battle-tested in Europe. Last week, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said that plans for obtaining Western warplanes were moving forward, adding, “I have no doubt that F-16s will be in our skies.”

But that will require a lengthy training period, beginning for many with language lessons. U.S. officials have said that Ukraine has identified only eight combat pilots — less than a single squadron — who speak English well enough to start at least a year of training. About 20 others are being sent to Britain this month to learn English.

Sending just a handful of F-16s into battle would not make much difference in the war, said Douglas Barrie, a military aerospace expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. “It’s got to be adequate, it’s got to be up to the task,” he said.

A destroyed Ukrainian military vehicle in Pravdyne, Ukraine, Jan. 21, 2023. Russian attack helicopters have had significant success picking off Kyiv’s tanks and armored vehicles.

A religious ritual in Iran becomes a new form of protest

By FARNAZ FASSIHI

The large crowd of men congregated at the center of a mosque in the central city of Yazd, Iran, clad in black and beating their chests rhythmically in unison. They were commemorating Ashura, Shiite Islam’s most sacred ritual, showcased annually with great fanfare in Iran as a testament to the Shiite theocracy’s power and strength.

But this year Ashura looked different. The mourners who gathered in Yazd last month and in many other cities across Iran diverged unexpectedly from the script to target the clerical rulers of Iran, turning religious ballads into protest songs about the suffering of Iranians.

“For a city in ruins, for all of us held hostage, for the grieving mothers, for the tears of the marginalized,” the men sang, according to videos. “We are mourning thousands of innocent lives, we are ashamed of this raging fire. Oh rain, oh storm, come. They have set fire to our tent.”

In Kermanshah, a Kurdish city in western Iran, a religious vocalist known as a maddah stood on the street, microphone in hand, singing about officials “stealing and devouring” resources away from desolate people.

And in Dezful, a small conservative city in the southwest, a similar vocalist delivered a scathing sermon against the government as the crowd marched in a ritual procession.

“Oh, my country, do you know why I’m grieving? Their only concern is hijab. They don’t see the blood, the poverty. They are stealing the public’s money,” serenaded the vocalist, Ibrahim Nassrollahi. “Fathers are ashamed, mothers are suffering. I wish they would see our poverty.”

Instead of the traditional chant that describes an ancient tale of grief, the crowd shouted back: “Iran, Iran, Iran!”

It was a surprising tone for the period of religious mourning known as Muharram, which lasts for a little over a month in Iran. This year it will end Sept. 6, with another big public ritual called Arbaeen that is expected to also become a platform for protest.

Ashura, which marks the 10th day of the mourning period, grieves for Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, who was beheaded in the year 680 in the battle of Karbala. Hussein led an uprising against the succession of Islam’s new caliph, Yazid, on the basis that his rule was

corrupt and unjust, and in Karbala his small force was confronted by Yazid’s massive army and slaughtered.

For centuries Ashura has been more than just a religious ritual. From Iran to Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and beyond, it has served as a celebration of Shiite Muslim identity. Even some secular people participate in its stylized rituals, ranging from street processions, to theatrical reenactments and food handouts organized by neighborhood committees.

In previous years, maddahs in Iran occasionally delivered sermons with mild and indirect criticism of the government. This year, some of the ceremonies were the traditional grand spectacles and religious processions.

But the widespread and remarkable politicization of Ashura directly targeting the leaders of the Islamic Republic rattled the authorities, who warned that the protest tone was “making our enemies happy.” There were reports on social media of the brief detention of some of the leading vocalists and demands from the government that they tone down their rhetoric.

“The enemy had unpleasant dreams for Muharram this year,” Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili, Iran’s minister of Islamic guidance and culture, said last Monday. “They wanted to turn Muharram into the latest battlefield, but our people did not listen at all.”

But analysts said that instead of issuing

fanciful denials, the government must reckon with the stark reality that opposition to it has now spread to some devoutly religious Iranians, who were once considered a loyal power base. The rebellion on display presents yet another challenge to the legitimacy of a theocracy that views itself as the global spiritual leader of Shiite Muslims.

Mohamad Ali Ahangaran, a conservative analyst of religion and the son of a prominent maddah who performs at government events, said in an interview from Tehran, Iran, that many Iranians were using every opportunity, including Ashura, to voice their opposition to the status quo.

“This year we saw the religious sermons and songs become more protest-driven than previous years, targeting the way the leaders are governing Iran, the widespread corruption in the Islamic Republic, the political obstacles we face,” said Ahangaran.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has repeatedly encouraged Muharram ceremonies to be more political and take sides, but he never envisioned that in doing so it would one day turn “against the entire leadership” of Iran, including himself, said Ahangaran.

Nearly a year ago, Iranians took to the streets in nationwide protests demanding an end to the clerical government. The uprising was set off by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police, who had detained her on allegations of violating the mandatory hijab law. The government responded with violence, killing more than 500 people, including children, arresting tens of thousands and executing seven protesters.

“We saw the story of Ashura unfold in the streets with our own eyes as they slaughtered our youth last year,” said Maryam, a 55-year-old mother of two in Tehran who asked that her last name not be used, fearing retribution. “As a religious person, I want to completely separate myself from any ceremony connected to the regime.”

Maryam said her mother hosted a mourning ceremony at home this month for nearly 200 guests. She adorned the salon with black Ashura flags with Imam Hussein’s name and placed a picture of a killed protester next to each flag. “They are our new martyrs,” she said.

Shiite Muslims gather around a replica of the tomb of Imam Hussain while beating their heads and chests, during Ashura rituals in Tehran, Iran, on July 28, 2023.

K2 climbers criticized over continuing ascent after finding dying porter

cated, identified Hassan as a “high-altitude porter.” They said they were investigating whether “adequate efforts were made to rescue” Hassan, who Harila said was part of another team.

Authorities said they would examine the conditions of Hassan’s climbing gear and “ascertain who authorized him to climb with equipment that might have been insufficient for such high-altitude expeditions and his level of experience.”

People frequently die summiting the tallest mountains in the world, including Mount Everest and K2. The treks are so dangerous that the bodies of fallen climbers are sometimes left behind, and some are never recovered.

Weather conditions on K2 the day of Hassan’s death were so severe that many climbers, including Steindl, turned back.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Steindl said that Hassan could have been saved if Harila and others had abandoned their climb.

In Harila’s account, a group of Sherpas ahead of them told her that they were turning around, and “as we understood it that meant there was more help going to Hassan.”

Another member of Harila’s team who helped to pull Hassan back on the trail gave him his own oxygen, Harila said, and stayed with him until the team member began to run out of oxygen.

“We decided to continue forward as too many people in the bottleneck would make it more dangerous for a rescue,” she said. “Considering the amount of people that stayed behind and that had turned around, I believed Hassan would be getting all the help he could, and that he would be able to get down.”

She added that her team passed Hassan again on the way down. By then, he was dead, but her team was “in no shape” to recover the body, she said.

By CHRIS CAMERON

ANorwegian climber defended her decision to continue a record-breaking series of climbs last month after encountering an injured porter who later died during her ascent of K2, the second-highest mountain in the world.

The climber, Kristin Harila, became one of the two fastest people — along with her guide, Tenjin Sherpa — to ascend all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter (about 26,000 feet) mountains in three months and just under a day, surpassing what was already considered an exceptional record of six months and six days set by Nepalese climber Nirmal Purja in 2019.

But two other climbers who were on the mountain that day, July 27, said that Harila, her

team and other climbers ignored an injured man — Muhammad Hassan, a 27-year-old father of three from Pakistan — because they wanted to reach the summit rather than abandon their climb to attempt a rescue.

Hassan fell from a particularly dangerous stretch of the climbing trail on K2 known as the bottleneck and later died.

“There was no rescue mission,” Wilhelm Steindl, an Austrian climber who provided video footage of other climbers stepping over Hassan on the narrow mountain path, said in an interview with Sky News. “Seventy mountaineers stepped over a living guy who needed big help at this moment, and they decided to keep on going to the summit.”

Authorities in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region, where a portion of the mountain is lo -

“There is a double standard here,” Steindl said. “If I, or any other Westerner, had been lying there, everything would have been done to save them. Everyone would have had to turn back to bring the injured person back down to the valley.”

Harila said in a statement on her website that she and her team did everything they could to save Hassan. She added that “it is truly tragic what happened, and I feel very strongly for the family.”

Harila said she and her team spent hours trying to rescue Hassan after discovering him hanging upside down from a rope after he had fallen off the cliff.

Harila also said that Hassan seemed to be “not properly equipped” to climb the 28,251-foot-tall mountain, noting that he had no gloves, no oxygen mask and no down suit when they found him.

“You need six people to carry a person down, especially in dangerous areas,” Harila said. “However, the bottleneck is so narrow that you can only fit one person in front and one behind the person being helped. In this case, it was impossible to safely carry Hassan down.”

Experienced mountaineers have complained in recent years that overcrowded mountain paths in Nepal — with too many inexperienced climbers — have contributed to avoidable deaths.

Climbing guides are also increasingly leaving the industry, driven off by the dangers of the job and a scant safety net for the families of those guides who die or who are left disabled.

In June, Gelje Sherpa and other guides rescued a Malaysian climber on Mount Everest at an elevation nearly as high as K2’s peak, abandoning their own climb and taking turns carrying the climber back to camp in a fivehour descent.

Kristin Harila and her guide, Tenjin Sherpa, in Kathmandu, Nepal, this month.

Letter to a young crypto enthusiast (or the merely curious)

By RON LIEBER

You were right. It’s not a passing fad.

For all of the legal trouble that entrepreneurs like Sam Bankman-Fried are in and the regulatory mess that companies like Binance find themselves in, people keep buying cryptocurrency.

Even as the price of bitcoin fell precipitously in 2022, the percentage of people in the United States owning crypto grew to 11% from 3% in just a year. It’s at 12% this year, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, and bitcoin’s price has risen more than 75% from its 2022 low.

Crypto conviction — or just curiosity — is not something that merits condescension from the olds and scolds of personal finance. It just requires you to ask a few questions about who you are and why you find crypto alluring.

It is true that younger adults are more open to this way of putting money to work. If you’re younger than 40, you’re more likely to own crypto than people older than 60, according to the NBER research. You’re also more likely to be male.

The gender split is noteworthy. This year, the Pew Research Center published an analysis showing that while 41% of men ages 18 to 29 reported having owned or used cryptocurrency, just 16% of women in that age range had done the same.

One possible explanation for the gender skew is chemical.

“It’s testosterone poisoning,” said William Bernstein, 75, a retired neurologist and the author of “The Four Pillars of Investing.” “It

does wonderful things for muscle mass and reflex speed, but it doesn’t do anything at all for judgment.”

Are you that quick-twitch trader guy? It’s not a rhetorical question. Ask a woman or someone else who may have better — or just different — judgment than you do.

Pew also reported that while 14% of white adults had owned crypto, 21% of Black or Hispanic adults had done so and 24% of Asian American adults had as well.

The racial wealth gap remains vast, and young adults who encounter its stark facts for the first time often vow to break the cycle. But any haste can make you an easier mark for influencers and celebrities hawking crypto schemes of questionable worth.

“There is a real desire to be able to play catch-up when it comes to wealth accumulation in America,” said Yanely Espinal, 33, director of educational outreach at Next Gen Personal Finance, an educational nonprofit. “So crypto is sold as this vision that if you do this, you can catch up if you’re willing to take a risk.”

The biggest attraction of crypto is often the possibility of high returns — the kind of tenfold payback that bitcoin owners experienced if they bought in early 2019 and sold in early 2021.

But something like that may never happen again, and the small number of people who realized those gains may well have been lucky. Repeating a feat like that — both buying and selling at precisely the right time — requires extraordinary skill (or, more likely, something akin to lightning striking twice).

I’m not here to tell you not to try under any circumstances, though. Quite the contrary.

Consider the journey that Aadi Gujral has been on. Gujral, the 17-year-old founder of the Foundation for Financial Literacy, found his way to crypto during the early days of the pandemic. He purchased bitcoin and then jumped aboard the hype train, dabbling in other currencies and mining coins, too.

“There were times when this was incredibly

profitable and times where I was regretting every choice,” Gujral said. “With the volatility, my money would have probably been safer and better invested in a stock index fund.”

But would he have learned more in a boring basket of the 500 largest U.S. stocks? Gotten a better sense of his own tolerance for risk? Become a better teacher to others his age? No, no and no.

Espinal, who instructs educators how to teach about crypto and is the author of “Mind Your Money,” does worry about teenagers who put all of their savings into crypto and lose everything.

“They could walk away with a bad taste in their mouth and keep their money in savings accounts because they don’t want that feeling again,” she said. “That can turn them away from investing, which is such a huge opportunity for wealth building, especially for people of color.”

Espinal is right to worry, and many young adults who watched their parents’ retirement balances suffer deep losses in the wake of the 2008 economic meltdown were scared away from stocks for years. Avoiding them turned out to be the wrong choice during what became a roaring bull market.

For now, however, few crypto owners are suffering. Just 3% of them say their activity has hurt their finances a lot, according to the Pew research.

That could change, suddenly and without warning. All that means, however, is you shouldn’t put more money into crypto than you can afford to lose.

To Bernstein, whose oldest grandchild is 10 years old and will soon be ready to absorb his wisdom, a crypto enthusiast’s biggest mistake would be to think of owning it as actual investing. Investments, he said, either have earnings (like a company, whose stock you own) or create income (when the company pays a dividend on its stock). Crypto does neither, unless you sell it for a gain.

You might think of your months or years of crypto ownership as you would your hours at the theater or a concert, and spend only as much as you think the enlightenment or pleasure you’ll receive is worth.

But don’t dismiss people like Bernstein out of hand. “That’s the thing about being an old fogey,” he said. “Older people don’t put money into crypto as much as younger people not because they’re not with it, but because they’ve seen this movie before, and they know how it usually ends.”

An ever-growing number of young people, males, in particular, have bought cryptocurrencies.

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SAN JUAN – El Colegio de Químicos de Puerto Rico (CQPR) anunció el lunes la celebración del evento en el área de las Ciencias Químicas más importante del Caribe, se trata de la 82ª Conferencia y Exposición: PRChem 2023. El magno evento, que este año lleva como emblema “La Química es Todo”, se llevará a cabo del 16 al 19 de agosto de este año en el Centro de Convenciones de Puerto Rico.

“Es un honor para el Colegio de Químicos de Puerto Rico (CQPR) anunciar la próxima edición de la 82ª Conferencia y Exposición: PRChem 2023”, afirmó el Lcdo. Víctor T. Adorno Badillo, Presidente del CQPR.

“Este evento representa el hito más destacado en el ámbito de las Ciencias Químicas en el Caribe y estamos emocionados de llevarlo a cabo. Bajo el lema “La Química es Todo”, reuniremos a profesionales, investigadores y entusiastas en un espacio de intercambio de conocimiento y descubrimientos. Del 16 al 19 de agosto de 2023, el

Centro de Convenciones de Puerto Rico se convertirá en el epicentro de la innovación química, impulsando el progreso de nuestra disciplina en la región. ¡Les invitamos a formar parte de esta experiencia única!”, agregó el Lcdo. Adorno con entusiasmo.

Según la Lcda. María M. Santiago Reyes, Presidenta

Electa del CQPR, “Durante esta semana, profesionales, investigadores y entusiastas de las Ciencias Químicas tendrán la oportunidad de sumergirse en esta área. Compartiendo ideas e innovaciones que impulsarán aún más el campo de la química en la región del Caribe”.

Cabe destacar que este año el PRChem 2023 presentará un amplio programa científico y multidisciplinario que se destaca por la diversidad de temas relevantes e innovadores, tales como: Lab Operation / Instrumentation, Área Ambiental, Alimentos y Bebidas, Salud y Seguridad, Applied Pharmaceutical, Nanotecnología, Área Reglamentaria, Biotecnología, Aplicaciones a la Medicina, Productos Naturales, Aplicaciones a la Química y Manufactura de Materiales.

En el marco de la celebración del PRChem 2023, el martes 14 de agosto de 2023, el CQPR en alianza con Caribbean University, capacitará a maestros del Departamento de Educación de Puerto Rico en temas relacionados a ciencia y tecnología.

PPD recauda 110 mil dólares en radio maratón

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SAN JUAN – El presidente del Partido Popular Democrático, (PPD), Jesús Manuel Ortiz, expresó hoy que luego de culminar el conteo de los recaudos, el radio maratón celebrado el sábado bajo el nombre de “Manos a la Obra para ganar” logró recaudar $110,270.07. Ortiz adelantó que la cifra podría aumentar, ya que esta semana continuarán llegando aportaciones de comités municipales, legisladores y populares en todo Puerto Rico.

“Nos sentimos sumamente agradecidos y satisfechos con el

resultado del esfuerzo. El respaldo de los populares alrededor de la Isla y de gran cantidad de los funcionarios electos, logró que el resultado superara nuestras propias expectativas, demostrando la fuerza y la unidad del PPD de cara al nuevo ciclo electoral”, expresó Ortiz González.

Continuó diciendo que “El dinero recaudado nos ayudará a continuar a fortalecer nuestra esfuerzos de fiscalización a este nefasto gobierno y a enfocar nuestros trabajo en la reorganización del Partido y en el aparato electoral para ponerlo en posición de ganar las próximas elecciones”.

PONCE – La selección nacional perdió contra Argentina en la gran final de la Vigésima Copa Panamericana de Voleibol Femenino de Mayores, que concluyó el domingo en el Auditorio Juan “Pachín” Vicéns de Ponce.

“Creo que desde el principio estábamos sin gasolina.

No pudimos arrancar. El tercero lo sacamos al final y en el cuarto, ellos tuvieron problemas en meter la bola. Nosotros nunca pudimos dar el 100 por ciento y era entendible porque llevábamos 15 sets en tres noches consecutivas y hoy cinco más. Además, en el quinto tuvimos mala suerte porque la bola no entró. Para todo el cansancio que cargamos, se jugó bien”, expresó Fernando Morales, técnico de Puerto Rico, tras concluir el partido.

“Al final del partido les dije a las chicas que estoy bien orgulloso de este grupo. Este es el primer año del recambio y llevamos tres finales en tres torneos, no podemos pedir más. Las finales son 50-50, a veces se gana, a veces se pierde. Hoy no se pudo ganar, pero el grupo crece jugando en finales; ganamos o perdamos, el grupo crece”, añadió.

Por su parte, el presidente de la Federación Puertorriqueña de Voleibol (FPV), César H. Trabanco, lamentó no

poder celebrar en Ponce el primer campeonato de Puerto Rico en una Copa Panamericana.

“Lamentablemente se nos escapó lo que pudo haber sido nuestro primer campeonato en una Copa Panamericana; pero estamos satisfechos con el trabajo del equipo y satisfecho con el evento. Los grandes partidos que se dieron en esta Copa convirtieron al “Pachín” Vicéns en un gran espectáculo y en un gran escenario para el voleibol. A la fanaticada, que se disfrutaron dos grandes partidos por medallas, gracias por el apoyo tan grande”, manifestó Trabanco.

Argentina se proclamó campeón por primera vez de esta Copa Panamericana con parciales de 25-17, 25-22, 23-25, 19-25, 15-6).

Estados Unidos se colgó el bronce al vencer en cuatro sets a República Dominicana.

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The best true crime to stream: Serial killers, with less glorification

By MAYA SALAM

Decades before true crime crept in from the margins and inundated pop culture, I found a humble paperback buried in the stacks of my parents’ bookshelf about America’s most notorious serial killers. Perhaps the book was inadvisable for a 10-year-old, but I read and reread about the horrors inflicted by, among others, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy. Though I was already aware that terrible things happened in general, this was different: specific, personal and intimately chilling.

Lately, and fortunately, the tired approach of centering these monsters by rehashing their personal struggles and the details of their deeds has been falling out of favor. Interest has shifted to elevating the stories of those affected and to understanding the mood of the eras and the societal circumstances in which these crimes took place. This shift was reflected to some degree in July when a man was arrested in the Gilgo Beach serial killings on Long Island, New York. Profiles of the suspect abounded, but from the start, there was demand for information about the victims as well as scrutiny of the investigation.

This is the first in a series of streaming lists about true-crime films, shows and podcasts. And while I won’t dwell on these types of murderers in the future, the topic does feel like the appropriate place to start. Here are four picks that offer more than the usual glorification of madness.

Documentary miniseries

‘Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York’

No series in recent memory has so successfully, thoughtfully and deliberately contextualized a serial killing spree like this fourpart Max series, based on a book by Elon Green. In the early 1990s, amid the AIDS crisis and rising hate crimes against LGBTQ people, gay men were being stalked in Manhattan piano bars — murdered and dismembered, their bodies found discarded around New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. But the killer’s identity, almost remarkably, is not front of mind as the episodes proceed.

Instead, through interviews with family members, friends, lovers, and members and allies of the queer community, the victims are powerfully, heartbreakingly humanized, while viewers are plunged into the New York City of the time. Instead of simply alluding to

the problems of bias and bigotry by those entrusted to solve these crimes, this series boldly addresses the way the New York Police Department and the city’s politicians treated the murdered men, the community as a whole and those pleading for action as second-class citizens. The final episode ran on July 30.

‘Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer’

This four-part Netflix series about the search for Richard Ramirez, who terrorized California with a brutal and unpredictable rampage that lasted just over a year in the mid-1980s, is about much more than who he was and what he did. It’s instead anchored in the recollections of survivors, victims’ families, journalists who worked on the case, and primarily Gil Carrillo and Frank Salerno, detectives who devoted themselves tirelessly to hunting for Ramirez.

While this series, from 2021, doesn’t minimize the horrors of the crimes (be warned, there is crime-scene footage), it, like “Last Call,” conveys an uncanny sense of time and place, highlighting the mentality of the day in the communities affected and the shortcomings of the available technology. Be prepared to be stunned by mistakes made by law enforcement and by political leaders who jeopardized the frantic search.

Podcast

‘This Is Actually Happening,’ Episode 259: ‘What If You Survived a Serial Killer?’

I have listened to dozens of episodes of this podcast, in which regular people sim-

ply tell the stories of staggering, often wrenching, events that have altered the course of their lives. It epitomizes my favorite format across true crime: stripped-down, no-frills first-person accounts that leave space for the gravity of the story to hit hard. And the stories explored on “This Is Actually Happening” run the gamut, which means there’s a good chance it will make another appearance on this list.

This 2022 episode features Jane Boroski, the only known survivor of the Connecticut River Valley killer, whose identity is still unknown. He murdered at least seven women over a decade starting in the late 1970s, but in this podcast, the details of his crimes are put to the side in favor of giving Boroski — who was attacked when she was 22 years old and seven months pregnant, after she’d stopped for a soda on the way home from a county fair — room to discuss who she was before, during and after the attack, and who she is now.

Also, thoughtfully, this podcast inclu-

des highly specific warnings in the show notes of each episode page to ensure that listeners are aware of what sensitive topics will be discussed.

Television ‘Mindhunter’

This gripping and moody Netflix drama — executive produced by its creator, Joe Penhall, along with David Fincher and Charlize Theron — sadly won’t see a third season, Fincher confirmed this year, but the first two are more than worth the price of admission (that being a slice of your sense of security). Based on the memoir “Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit,” the show dramatizes the creation of the FBI’s real Behavioral Science Unit, where the concept of a serial killer began. And while the three central characters — Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), an FBI hostage negotiator increasingly unsettled by the emergence of a disturbing theme; behavioral-science specialist Bill Tench (Holt McCallany); and psychologist Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) — are fictional, the serial killers that appear are all based on real people, with casting that is eerily true to life.

It starts in 1977, with David Berkowitz (Oliver Cooper), who was known as the Son of Sam, and moves on to, among others, Ed Kemper, the “Coed Killer” (Cameron Britton, who was nominated for an Emmy for the role), and the killer known as BTK, Dennis Rader (Sonny Valicenti, still only listed as an ADT serviceman in the credits). The genius of “Mindhunter,” though, is that it’s — as James Poniewozik, chief television critic for The New York Times, put it when the first season came out in 2017 — “more academic than sensationalistic,” with the stomach-turning events rarely spelled out in blood but instead explored through hushed conversations.

Frank Salerno, a lead detective in the hunt for Richard Ramirez in the mid-1980s, discussed the investigation in the Netflix docu-series “Night Stalker: The Hunt For a Serial Killer.”

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Too many cats, too few vets: New York City animal shelters are bursting

By ERIN NOLAN

Slobbering and wheezing in anticipation, Brooklyn, a pit bull mix, strained against her collar as she marched purposefully toward a fenced play area at Animal Care Centers of NYC’s Manhattan shelter, where she knew she would be showered with butt scratches and attention.

The gate opened, and volunteers laughed as Brooklyn bounded around like a playful wrecking ball.

“She is the cutest, roly-poly, delicious dog,” said Katy Hansen, the director of marketing and communications for Animal Care Centers, which runs New York City’s public animal shelters. She said it was hard to believe Brooklyn had been living at the shelter for six months.

The city’s shelter animal population has exploded, with many animals waiting weeks or months without being adopted. Because of overcrowding, dogs at the Manhattan shelter are being kept in makeshift kennels in offices, and stacks of cat cages line the halls.

The cat population has grown to the point that last month, Animal Care Centers said it was “closed for cat intake.” But the organization’s contract with the city requires it to take in animals in need, and Hansen said hundreds of cats had been accepted since the announcement.

Overcrowding at shelters is not new, nor is it unique to New York City. But it is particularly acute in New York, where, animal rescuers said, a growing cat population, a national veterinarian shortage, political indifference and economic uncertainty have exacerbated the problem, making it difficult for local shelters and rescue groups to manage.

Compounding the problem, only three boroughs — Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island — have full-service, city-run shelters. Two new shelters are being built. One, in Queens, is expected to open next year, the other, in the Bronx, in 2025.

The three existing city shelters took in roughly 4,500 cats and 2,429 dogs in the first six months of this year, compared with 3,900 cats and 1,976 dogs during the same period last year (the shelters take in other animals as well). The number of adoptions has risen at a much lower rate, Hansen said.

“I think it’s a perfect storm in a way,” Eva Prokop, the founder of Whiskers-A-Go-Go, a cat rescue group based in Brooklyn, said of the factors that created the shelter crisis.

Prokop said that she and other rescuers trained in TNR — or “trap, neuter and return” — have tried for years to limit the growth of the city’s cat colonies by capturing feral cats and bringing them to veterinarians to be spayed or neutered before returning them to the streets.

During the pandemic, organizations across the country, including the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York, temporarily halted spay and neuter services to protect staff members and to preserve personal protective equipment, according to Christa Chadwick, the group’s vice president of shelter services.

“I think it’s fair to say we’re seeing the impact of that pause in spay and neuter services in lots of places,” said Chadwick.

The organization has resumed the services, but the national veterinarian shortage has made it difficult to keep up with the demand for procedures. With regard to its own veterinarian ranks, Chadwick said, the ASPCA has “a number of open positions that have been open for some time.”

On top of that, people are abandoning and surrendering pets in large numbers, rescuers said, part of a national trend. Former owners cite several reasons for giving up their dogs and cats, including job uncertainty, the high cost of veterinary care and moves to apartments that do not allow pets.

“The reasons we are experiencing surrender are classics and are as true now as 10 years ago,” said Joel Lopez, the vice president of the ASPCA Adoption Center in New York.

When the number of homeless animals rises, shelters rely on rescue groups to move the animals into foster homes, Hansen said. But rescuers said they have been taking fewer animals because they are overwhelmed by the increase in surrenders and drop in adoptions as fewer people offer to foster.

“There’s a domino effect,” Doug Halsey, the president of the rescue group Ready for Rescue, said.

Trying to keep up, rescuers said, is difficult physically, financially and emotionally.

“It’s hard to live your life,” Halsey said. “It’s constant nurturing, care-taking, troubleshooting, problem solving, fundraising.”

Rescuers said they were also frustrated by a political culture that does not hold lawmakers accountable on issues like animal control and welfare.

“When you go to actually vote for the next mayor or for whoever, you don’t even know what their stance is on the shelter, because ultimately we vote for other things,” Prokop said. “It’s considered not a serious issue, but it’s an issue about compassion and humanity.”

More animals would be adopted, Halsey said, if the city created incentives for landlords to allow pets. He also called for the city government to increase the shelter system’s budget.

Jim Gennaro, a City Council member who represents parts of Queens, has long been outspoken about animal welfare issues. Gennaro, a Democrat, said in a statement that public officials should “encourage New Yorkers to adopt over shopping from breeders and pet stores — even if that means coming up with a legislative solution.”

Alexandra Silver, the director of the Mayor’s Office of Animal Welfare, said members of her staff were active in trying to spread awareness about Animal Care Center’s resources to prevent pet surrenders and about its foster orientation events.

As the number of dogs and cats at city shelters has increased, Hansen said, so has the number of animals being euthanized. Through June, about 600 animals at the three shelters had been euthanized, Hansen said, up from 450 in the same period last year. The euthanasia rate remains historically low, she said.

Animal Care Centers posts “emergency placement animal” lists three times a week, and lists are viewable for 42 hours. If animals are not placed with a rescue group, adopted, reclaimed by a previous owner or taken off the list for some other reason, they are euthanized.

Animals on a recent list included: a “friendly, playful and shy” dog who loved to cuddle but who began digging and banging at her kennel door incessantly; a “highly social and playful dog” who was frantically trying to exit his kennel and risked injuring himself; a dog described as a “wrinkly-faced dreamboat” who recently bit someone when he got overexcited; and a cat who enjoyed cheek and chin scratches but was overstimulated and stressed at the shelter.

Lopez of the ASPCA said the solution was to “adopt, adopt, adopt.”

Those who are unsure if they are ready to commit to a pet, Prokop said, could help by volunteering to foster.

“Maybe by fostering, you realize that your life is considerably different,” she said.

Brooklyn, a 7-year-old pit bull mix, at Manhattan’s Animal Care Center in New York on Aug. 4, 2023.

Adoptions are not keeping pace with the number of pets being surrendered and abandoned, causing many animals to wait weeks or months to find homes.

Extreme heat may be getting to your head

By APOORVA MANDAVILLI

If you find that the blistering, unrelenting heat is making you anxious and irritable, even depressed, it’s not all in your head. Soaring temperatures can damage not just the body but also the mind.

As heat waves become more intense, more frequent and longer, it has become increasingly important to address the impact on mental health, scientists say.

“It’s really only been over the past five years that there’s been a real recognition of the impact,” said Dr. Joshua Wortzel, chair of the American Psychiatric Association’s committee on climate change and mental health, which was set up just two years ago.

“Our understanding of the basic biology of why this association exists is still in its infancy,” he added.

High temperatures are strongly associated with an increase in suicides, researchers have found. Heat has been linked to a rise in violent crime and aggression, emergency room visits and hospitalizations for mental disorders, and deaths — especially among people with schizophrenia, dementia, psychosis and substance use.

For every increase in temperature of 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) scientists have estimated that there is a nearly 5% increase in the risk of death among patients with psychosis, dementia or substance use.

Researchers have reported a 0.7% increase in suicides linked to rising temperatures, and about a 4% to 6% increase in interpersonal violence, including homicides.

Heat not only fuels feelings such as irritability and anger, but also seems to exacerbate mental illnesses, such as anxiety, schizophrenia and depression. Older adults, adolescents and people with preexisting mental illnesses are particularly vulnerable, as are people who do not have housing or are of lower socioeconomic status.

A landmark study last year analyzed data on more than 2 million people with private insurance and found that emergency department visits for mental illnesses were significantly higher during the five or six hottest days of summer, compared with the coolest days of the same season.

The increase was greater in northern

parts of the United States, perhaps because these areas are less prepared to cope with heat waves than places like the Southwest, said Amruta Nori-Sarma, an environmental epidemiologist at Boston University School of Public Health, who led the study.

The gap was evident across a range of mental health conditions, including mood and anxiety disorders, stress disorders, schizophrenia, substance use disorders and self-harm. “Extreme heat is an external stressor that seems to be exacerbating people’s mental health symptoms,” Nori-Sarma said.

The effect is likely to be even more pronounced among people with limited or no insurance coverage or who are experiencing homelessness, she added.

Scientists have proposed various biological explanations for the connection between soaring temperatures and mental health disorders. At least some of these illnesses may have a simple origin: disrupted sleep.

Room temperature needs to dip below 68 degrees for a comfortable rest. On warmer nights, people fall asleep later and wake up earlier, and the quality of their sleep is poorer.

Days or weeks of sleeping in overly warm rooms can not only exacerbate chron-

ic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, but also negatively affect psychiatric disorders, suicide risk, memory, mood and cognitive function.

Older adults and women are more likely to be affected: One study found that sleep loss among older adults is about twice as high as among younger people.

Some mental health problems may be an extension of physical issues. On a recent afternoon, Dr. Asim Shah, a psychiatrist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, found that nearly every patient’s pulse or heart rate was higher than it had been three months earlier.

“That increase in your heart rate can increase your anxiety,” Shah said. “So heat causes a lot of physical changes, which leads to a lot of emotional and mental changes.”

Serotonin, a neurotransmitter linked to mood, anxiety and depression, also regulates the body’s ability to sense temperature. Increased sunlight and heat can raise serotonin levels and may lead to mood swings, aggression and irritability. A range of widely used drugs — including antibiotics, beta blockers, some antidepressants and antihistamines — also affect the body’s ability to sense and regulate body temperature.

Medications prescribed for schizo-

phrenia, depression and bipolar disorder — including widely used lithium — impair the body’s ability to sweat and cool itself. Extreme heat and sweating can concentrate levels of lithium in the body to toxic levels, and can lead to serious physical and mental problems and even death, Shah said.

“We need to prepare our patients who take these medicines, which interact with sunlight,” he added. “Physicians also need to be more aware.”

Other drugs suppress thirst and can result in dangerous levels of dehydration. Alcohol, caffeine and some medications that increase urine output can also lead to dehydration, mental problems and confusion.

Heat is only one aspect of climate change, and its immediate effect on mental health can be difficult to extricate from emotions regarding the larger existential threat.

Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that rising temperatures, displacement, famine and economic and social losses would lead to deep anxiety, grief and stress. Children, adolescents, older adults and those with chronic health problems are particularly vulnerable, the report cautioned.

“The heat has very profound effects,” said Dr. Robert Bright, a psychiatrist at Mayo Clinic. This summer, Phoenix, where Bright is based, experienced temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit for a record 31 consecutive days.

“People get very overwhelmed and worried about this,” he added.

Scientists have coined the term “climate distress” to describe a multitude of feelings triggered by the environmental changes appearing around us: anxiety, terror, sadness, shame, guilt. Those who already have anxiety or are depressed may have an even more difficult time coping.

“It is unfortunately true that this may be the coolest summer for the rest of our lives, which is unsettling to reckon with,” said Britt Wray, director of Stanford University’s program on climate change and mental health.

People often turn to cognitive behavioral therapy, medications or other strategies to cope with difficult emotions. But “when it comes to the climate crisis, those interventions fall apart, because the threat is real,” not just a matter of perception, she said.

A painter wipes sweat from his eyes on a 106-degree afternoon outdoor job in Crow Agency, Mont. on July 18, 2021. As heat waves become more intense, more frequent and last longer, it has become increasingly important to address the impact on mental health, scientists say.

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Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 7 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, todo derecho título, participación o interés

que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero I guión veintiuno (I-21), localizado en la calle número cuatro (4) del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Estancias de Tierra Alta, radicado en el Barrio San Isidro del término municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de DOSCIENTOS CINCUENTA METROS CUADRADOS (250.00 M.C.); en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número veinte (20), en veinte metros lineales; por el SUR, con el solar número veintidós (22), en veinte metros lineales; por el ESTE, con la calle número cuatro (4), en doce punto cinco metros lineales; por el OESTE, con la calle número dos (2), en doce punto setenta y cinco metros lineales, según plano con el solar numero dos (2). Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 1 de tomo 333 de Canóvanas, finca 14,284, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 146 del tomo 411 de Canóvanas, finca 14,284, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III, inscripción 3ª. Propiedad localizada en: ESTANCIAS DE TIERRA ALTA, I-21 CALLE 4, CANOVANAS, PUERTO RICO 00729. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $132,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 14 de septiembre de 2090. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $132,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por

declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $88,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $66,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 21 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $98,672.50 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $15,896.19 en intereses acumulados al 31 de agosto de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $5,686.99 en seguro hipotecario; $493.00 en seguro; $525.00 de tasaciones; $200.00 de inspecciones; $1,027.50 en honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $13,200.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me-

nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 31 de julio de 2023. JOSÉ R. CRISTÓBAL ORTIZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. GRETCHEN M. JEREZ SEDA, ALGUACIL PLACA #568.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

CASCADE FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST HB2

Demandante, v. LA SUCESIÓN DE MARTA ANTONIA RAMIREZ PABÓN, también conocida como MARTA A. RAMIREZ PABÓN, como MARTA RAMIREZ PABÓN, como MARTA ANTONIA RAMIREZ, como MARTA A. RAMIREZ y como MARTA RAMIREZ compuesta por ADA IRIS VERA RAMIREZ; MARTA ESTHER VERA RAMIREZ; y EDUARDO ARIEL VERA RAMIREZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, Demandados CIVIL NUM. SJ2022CV05528.

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: La Parte Demandada, al (a la) Secretario(a) de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al Público General: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 5 de septiembre de 2023 a las 10:30am, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda

a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación:

URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Family Unit E-10 of Los Olmos Condominium of El Cinco Ward, Río Piedras San Juan, Puerto Rico, which family unit is located on the tenth floor and its main entrance door faces south and has access to that common corridor on that level. It is a rectangular shaped apartment measuring forty feet nine inches equivalent to twelve point fortytwo meters long and twentyfour feet two inches, equivalent to seven point thirty-seven meters wide, making a total area of nine hundred, eight four points ninety-three square feet equivalent to ninety-one-point fifty square meters. Its boundaries area as follows: NORTH, forty feet nine inches equivalent to twelve point forty-two meters with exterior of window wall that overlook the rear yard; SOUTH, forty feet nine inches, equivalent to twelve point forty-two meters with exterior of window interior half of walls and door that separate it from common corridor; EAST, twenty-four feet two inches equivalent to seven point thirty-seven meters, with common bearing wall that separates it from restricted common water meter room and family unit F; WEST, twenty four feet two inches, equivalent to seven point thirty seven meters with common bearing wall and windows that separate it from the exterior court and common corridor. Consta inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 79 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, finca número

2,593, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Quinta de San Juan. Propiedad localizada en: #36 Nevarez St., Los Olmos Cond Apt E-10, San Juan, PR 00927. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Reverse Mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $196,500.00, plus 5.060% annual interest, due on December 11, 2088, pursuant to deed number 722, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on December 5, 2012, before notary Laura Mía González Bonilla, and recorded at page 76 of volume 317 of Monacillos Este y El Cinco, property number 2,593, 12th inscription. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anterio-

res y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $196,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una segunda subasta por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 12 de septiembre de 2023 a las 10:30am, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $131,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $98,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 19 de septiembre de 2023 a las 10:30am. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $88,823.00 de principal, intereses al tipo del 5.060% anual hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $19,650.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación

general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de agosto de 2023. EDWIN E. LOPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN

R.O.I CAPTITAL OF P.R., INC

Demandante V. LIDA ESTELA RUAÑO RAMIREZ

Demandada

Civil Núm.: KCD2013-1565. (508). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: LIDA ESTELA RUAÑO

RAMIREZ: Y AL PUBLICO

EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: Arrendamiento a favor de Hilton International of Puerto Rico Inc., por el termino de 10 años, comenzando el 21 de julio de 2005 hasta el 31 de julio de 2015, según consta de la escritura #50, otorgada en San Juan, el 22 de julio de 2005, ante el Notario Jorge A. Rivera Febres, inscrito en Karibe de Puerta Tierra, Finca 3,326 y fin-

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ca 3,328, inscripción 3era. ANOTACION DE SENTENCIA: A Cuyo favor aparece una anotación de Sentencia, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Centro de San Juan, caso civil #SJ2018CV08169 Asociación de Propietarios de Condado Lagoon Villas I Versus Lida Estela Ruaño, por $103,630.06 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento y otras sumas, instancia expedida el 18 de noviembre de 2002, suscrita ante el Notario Rafael A. Ojeda Diez, anotado en Karibe de Puerta Tierra, finca #3,326, finca #3,327, finca #3,328 y finca #3,329 , Anotación A. EMBARGO FEDERAL: En el Registro de Embargos a favor del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos de América número 12, Asiento 1. Folio 69, anotado el día 20 de mayo de 2013, con el número de notificación 938447113 embargo contra Lida E. Ruaño Ramírez, seguro social xxxxx-6662, por la suma de $19,527.53. EMBARGO FEDE-

RAL: En el Registro de Embargos a favor del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos de América número 12 en el Asiento 1, Folio 85, anotado el día 24 de junio de 2013, con el número de notificación 944527313, embargo contra Lida E. Ruaño Ramírez, seguro social xxx-xx-6662 por la suma de $17,249.75.

EMBARGO FEDERAL: En el Registro de Embargos a favor del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos de América número 12, Asiento 3, Folio 79, el día 10 de junio de 2013, con el número de notificación 942711713, embargo contra Lida E Ruaño Ramirez, seguro social xxxxx-6662, por la suma de $9,586.19. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 16 de mayo de 2023, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: FINCA

3,328: Direccion Fisica: Condado Lagoon Villas I, Apt. 73027303, Calle San Gerónimo San Juan 00901. PROPIEDAD HO-

RIZONTAL: CONDOMINIO

CONDADO LAGOON VILLAS de Puerta Tierra. Apartamento: 7302-7303. Cabida: 99.78 metros cuadrados. Es un apartamento residencial tipo “suite” localizado en el piso número 3 del régimen de propiedad horizontal denominada Condominio

Condado Lagoon Villas que ubica en el Barrio Puerta de Tierra del Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Este apartamento tiene su puerta de entrada por el lindero Suroeste y por ella se sale al pasillo que conduce al área de ascensores y escaleras y de ahí se sale al exterior. Este apartamento tiene un largo máximo de 12.72 metros y un ancho máximo de

8.18 metros. Linderos: por el SUROESTE, en 8.18 metros con área común; por el NORESTE, en 8.18 metros con área común; por el NOROESTE, en 11.89 metros con el Apartamento número 7301 y área común; por el SURESTE, en 12.72 metros con el Apartamento número 7304 y área común. Este apartamento conecta con el Apartamento 7301 por medio de una puerta localizada en su lindero Noroeste. Este apartamento consta de un dormitorio, dos baños, sala comedor, un clóset, una cocina, tres cuartos de máquina y dos balcones cubiertos. El área de sala-comedor conecta con el dormitorio por medio de una puerta en su pared medianera. Le corresponde a este apartamento el 1.1869% en los elementos comunes del Condominio. Inscrita en Karibe de Puerta de Tierra, finca numero 3,328 Registro de la Propiedad sección I de San Juan. Tipo mínimo para la Primera Subasta la suma de $489,144.00. Tipo mínimo para la Segunda Subasta la suma de $326,096.00. Tipo mínimo para la Tercera Subasta la suma de $244,572.00. FINCA 3,326: Dirección Física: Condado Lagoon Villas I, Apt. 7301, Calle San Gerónimo San Juan 00901. PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: CONDOMINIO CONDADO LAGOON VILLAS de Puerta Tierra. Apartamento: 7301. Cabida: 43.96 metros cuadrados. Es un apartamento residencial tipo “studio” localizado en el piso número 3 del Bloque A del inmueble sometido al régimen de propiedad horizontal denominado Condominio Condado Lagoon Villas que ubica en el Barrio Puerta de Tierra del Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Este apartamento tiene su puerta de entrada por el lindero Suroeste, y por ella se sale al pasillo que conduce al área de ascensores y escaleras y de ahí se sale al exterior. Este apartamento tiene un largo máximo de 10.82 metros y un ancho máximo de 4.11 metros. Linderos: por el SUROESTE, en 4.11 metros con área común; por el NORESTE, en 4.11 metros con área común; por el NOROESTE, en 10.82 metros con área común; por el SURESTE, en 10.82 metros con el Apartamento número 7302-7303. Este apartamento conecta con el Apartamento 7302-7303 por medio de una puerta localizada en su lindero Sureste. Este apartamento consta de un área de vivienda, un área diseñada para cocinar (“kitchenette”), un baño, un clóset, un cuarto de máquina y un balcón cubierto. Le corresponde a este apartamento el 0.5230% en los elementos comunes del Condominio. Inscrita en Karibe de Puerta de Tierra, finca numero

3,326 Registro de la Propiedad sección I de San Juan. Tipo mínimo para la Primera Subasta la suma de $229,656.00. Tipo mínimo para la Segunda Subasta la suma de $153,104.00. Tipo mínimo para la Tercera Subasta la suma de $114,828.00. FINCA 3,327: Direccion Fisica: Condado Lagoon Villas I, Armario 11, Calle San Gerónimo San Juan 00901. PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: CONDOMINIO CONDADO LAGOON VILLAS de Puerta Tierra. Almacén: Armario número 11. Cabida: 2.04 metros cuadrados. Es un armario closet localizado en el sótano del inmueble sometido al régimen de propiedad horizontal denominado Condominio Condado Lagoon Villas que ubica en el Barrio Puerta de Tierra del Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Este armario tiene un largo máximo de 1.40 metros y un ancho máximo de 1.46 metros.

Linderos: por el NOROESTE, en 1.40 metros con área común; por el SURESTE, en 1.40 metros con área común; por el NORESTE, en 1.46 metros con el Armario número 10; por el SUROESTE, en 1.46 metros con el Armario número 12. Le corresponde a reforzado y bloques de concreto para fines residenciales. Inscrita en Karibe de Puerta de Tierra, finca numero 3,327 Registro de la Propiedad sección I de San Juan.

Tipo mínimo para la Primera Subasta la suma de $1,000.00.

Tipo mínimo para la Segunda Subasta la suma de $666.67.

Tipo mínimo para la Tercera Subasta la suma de $500.00. FIN-

CA 3,329: Direccion Fisica: Condado Lagoon Villas I, Armario 10, Calle San Gerónimo San Juan 00901. PROPIEDAD HO-

RIZONTAL: CONDOMINIO

CONDADO LAGOON VILLAS de Puerta Tierra. Almacén: Armario número 10. Cabida: 3.19 metros cuadrados. Es un armario closet localizado en el sótano del inmueble sometido la régimen de propiedad horizontal denominado Condominio Condado Lagoon Villas que ubica en el Barrio Puerta de Tierra del Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Este armario tiene un largo máximo de 2.18 metros y un ancho máximo de 1.46 metros.

Linderos: por el NOROESTE, en 2.18 metros con área común; por el SURESTE, en 2.18 metros con área común; por el NORESTE, en 1.46 metros con la pared que lo separa del Armario número 9; por el SUROESTE, en 1.46 metros con el Armario número 11. Le corresponde a este armario el 0.0379% en los elementos comunes del Condominio. Inscrita en Karibe de Puerta de Tierra, finca numero 3,329 Registro de la Propiedad sección I de San Juan. Tipo mínimo para la Primera Subasta la suma de

$1,000.00. Tipo mínimo para la Segunda Subasta la suma de $666.67. Tipo mínimo para la Tercera Subasta la suma de $500.00. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, en el presente caso civil, a saber, se adeuda la suma de $757,775.45 de principal, intereses legales sobre la totalidad de la sentencia al tipo de 5.625% anual desde diciembre del 2011 hasta su total y completo pago, y la suma de $72,080.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte con interés previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 31 AGOSTO / 2023, PARA LA FINCA (3,328) A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, para la finca

(3,326) a las 10:35 DE LA MAÑANA, Para la finca (3,327) a las 10:40 DE LA MAÑANA, para la finca (3,329) a las 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA a las, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 11 SEPTIEMBRE /2023 , PARA FINCA

(3,328) A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. para la finca (3,326) a las 10:35 DE LA MAÑANA Para la finca (3,327) a las 10:40 DE LA MAÑANA para la finca (3,329) a las 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 18 SEPTIEMBRE / 2023, PARA FINCA (3,328) A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, para la finca (3,326) a las 10:40 DE LA MAÑANA Para la finca

(3,327) a las 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, para la finca (3,329) a las 10:46 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. 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

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conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de julio de 2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. R&G MORTGAGE CORPORATION; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE

CUAL COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO

PARTE DEMANDADA

CIVIL NÚM. PO2023CV01538. Salón: 604. SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO.

A: R&G MORTGAGE

CORPORATION, FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE CUAL

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 366695 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6695, a la dirección nataliebonaparte@gmail.com o al teléfono 787-993-3731.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy dia 9 de junio de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 9 de junio de 2023.

CARMEN G TIRU QUIÑONES, SECRETAIRA. LOYDA E. RIVERA GONZALEZ, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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DEMANDANTES VS. FRANCISCO ANTONIO PACHECO CORTES DEMANDADO

CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2023CV03321. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO

LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS.

A: Francisco Antonio Pacheco Cortes, Dirección:

a) Cond Calle San Genaro #362 Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, PR, SAN JIJAN, PR, 00927

b) The Alexander 162 Calle San Jorge Apt. 401 San Juan PR 00911.

c) 400 Calle Calaf, #380 San Juan 00918

Por la presente se notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal una Demanda en cobro de dinero por $19,160.00, más la retención de la fianza de contrato de arrendamiento, más $6,000.00 por concepto de gatos, costas y honorarios contractuales. Detalle de la demanda surge en el expediente en el caso de epígrafe. Se le advierte 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 secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Dentro de los Diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del Edicto, se le dirigirá al demandado, por correo certificado con acuse de recibo una copia del emplazamiento y la Demanda al lugar de su dirección conocida en: a) Cond Calle San Genaro #362 Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, PR, SAN JUAN, PR, 00927; b) The Alexander 162 Calle San Jorge Apt. 401 San Juan PR 00911; c)400 Calle Calaf, #380 San Juan 00918. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 2 de agosto de 2023. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Sec Regional. Fdo. Iris Olivo Nuñez, Sec Serv a Sala.

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Parte Demandante Vs. COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO YABUCOEÑA (YABUCOOP), ORIENTAL BANK COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE RG

PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE

CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SÍNDICO DE RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION, LA SUCESIÓN DE PAULA DELGADO PAGÁN COMPUESTA POR: JULIO JOEL DE JESÚS DELGADO, JULIO LUIS DE JESÚS DELGADO, MIOSOTY DE JESÚS DELGADO, WANDA LIZ DE JESÚS DELGADO, SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, JULIO DE JESÚS LABOY POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: YB2023CV00179. (207). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JULIO JOEL DE JESÚS DELGADO, JULIO LUIS DE JESÚS DELGADO, MIOSOTY DE JESÚS DELGADO y WANDA LIZ DE JESÚS DELGADO COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE PAULA DELGADO PAGÁN, JULIO DE JESÚS LABOY POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA a las siguientes direcciones: PARCELAS NUEVA PLAYA, COMUNIDAD RURAL CALABAZAS, 431 CALLE C, YABUCOA, PR 00767, HC 3 BOX 12205, YABUCOA, PR 007679767 y 3010 BURTON POINT CT, WAXHAW, NC 28173-0298. SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE PAULA DELGADO PAGÁN. FULANO y MENGANO DE TAL POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 27 de agosto de 1992, Julio De Jesús Laboy y

su esposa Paula Delgado Pagán constituyeron una hipoteca en Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 39 autorizada por el notario Ali Laboy Ramos en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo testimonio número 1040 por la suma de $34,000.00 a favor de Cooperativa De Ahorro y Credito Yabucoeña (YABUCOOP), o a su orden, devengando intereses al 8⅛% anual y vencedero el 1ro de octubre de 2005 sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA:

Parcela marcada con el número 431 en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Calabazas del Barrio Calabazas del término municipal de de Yabucoa, con una cabida superficial de 351.00 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con parcelas números 430 y 432 de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con “C” de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcelas números 430 y 434 de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número 429 de la Comunidad.

Inscrita al folio 120 del tomo 223 de Yabucoa, Finca 14068, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 120 vuelto del tomo 223 de Yabucoa, Finca 14068, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Inscripción segunda. 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, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, 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 2 de agosto de 2023, en Humacao, Puerto Rico. IVELISSE

C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, SUBSECRETARIA.

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Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN IRIS

FRANCISCA AÑESES

ARRACHE T/C/C IRIS F.

AÑESES ARRACHE T/C/C

IRIS F. AÑESES ARACHE

T/C/C IRIS AÑESES

ARRACHE T/C/C IRIS F. AÑESES COMPUESTA

POR: IVONNE RAMIREZ

AÑESES; JOHN DOE

Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01112. (604). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESIÓN IRIS

FRANCISCA AÑESES

ARRACHE T/C/C IRIS F.

AÑESES ARRACHE T/C/C

IRIS

F. AÑESES ARACHE

T/C/C IRIS AÑESES

ARRACHE T/C/C IRIS F.

AÑESES COMPUESTA

POR: IVONNE RAMIREZ

AÑESES; JOHN DOE

Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS.

LA SECRETARIA 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 7 de agosto de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 7 de agosto de 2023. GRISELDA

RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSA

MAGALY CANDELARIO CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Demandante Vs. ZULMA I. BARRANCO MERCADO

Demandados

Civil: Núm. CG2022CV02468.

Sala: 705. 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: ZULMA I. BARRANCO MERCADO - 200 AVE.

RAFAEL CORDERO STE 140, CAGUAS, PR 007254303 / 140 QUINTAS LAS AMÉRICAS, CAGUAS, PR 00725-7910.

(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 7 de agosto de 2023. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 7 de agosto de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs. ZULMA I. BARRANCO MERCADO

Demandados

Civil: Núm. CG2022CV02468.

Sala: 705. 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: MIGUEL A PASCUAL PICHARDO - APT 285, 32 RES GAUTIER BENITEZ, 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 7 de agosto de 2023. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 7 de agosto de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. REBECA VEGA TORRES

Demandada

Civil Núm.: C4CD2017-0122. Sala: 0103. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Manatí, Manatí, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 14 de julio de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Georgetti, sito en el Barrio Pueblo del término Municipal de Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Bloque y número: F diecinueve (F 19). Área: trescientos dieciocho metros cuadrados con cincuenta centímetros (318.50 m.c.). En lindes: por el NORTE, en trece metros (13.00) con la calle número tres (3) de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en trece metros (13.00), con los solares número cuatro (4) y número cinco (5) del Bloque F; por el ESTE, en veinticuatro metros, con cincuenta centímetros (24.50), con el solar número dieciocho (18) del Bloque F; y por el OESTE, en veinticuatro metros con cincuenta centímetros (24.50), con el solar número veinte (20) del Bloque F. Según inscripción 3ra., expresa que sobre el descrito solar enclava una estructura de hormigón y bloques de hormigón dedicada a vivienda, construida por la Constructora S.M. Sociedad Especial que se describe como sigue: consta de tres dormitorios, cocina, salacomedor, un balcón, marquesina y área de lavadero con un área superficial de 1,170 pies cuadrados. Inscrita en la finca número 11,664, al tomo móvil 216 de Barceloneta. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. La propiedad está ubicada, según pagaré, en: F-19 Los Canos (3) St., Villa Georgetti Dev., Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus in-

tereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 7 de mayo de 2017, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Manatí, en el Caso Civil número C4CD2017-0122, sobre Cobro de Dinero, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, versus Rebeca Vega Torres, por la suma de $121,884.45 más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 28 de julio de 2022, al tomo Karibe de Barceloneta, finca número 11,664, anotación

A y última. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 10 de agosto de 2017 y notificada el 16 de agosto de 2017, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $121,884.45 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 4.00%, anual desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2016, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $12,240.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 11 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Manatí, Manatí, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $126,196.50. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Manatí, Manatí, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $84,131.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS

11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Manatí, Manatí, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $63,098.25,

equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de agosto de 2023. WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ CARRIÓN, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #135, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ.

CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. CARLOS MANUEL LÓPEZ FERRI, SU ESPOSA WANDA ELIZABETH TORO MONTALVO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; SUCESIÓN DE MARTÍN SOTO BURGOS, COMPUESTA POR “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN; MARTA ALICEA

ACOSTA, POR SÍ (COMO DUEÑA REGISTRAL) Y POR CONCEPTO DE USUFRUCTO VIUDAL DEL CAUSANTE MARTIN SOTO BURGOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00988. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO DIRIGIDO A: MARTA ALICEA ACOSTA, POR SÍ (COMO DUEÑA REGISTRAL) Y POR CONCEPTO DE USUFRUCTO VIUDAL DEL CAUSANTE MARTIN SOTO BURGOS; EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN DIRIGIDO

A: “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARTÍN SOTO BURGOS. G-7 SAN CLEMENTE STREET, NOTRE DAME DEV., CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00725; 1110 WATERBROOK

ESTADO

LN, WESTON FL 33326; ALTURAS DEL MAR CALLE ARRECIFE #143 CABO ROJO, PUERTO RICO 00623. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Además, en cuanto a la interpelación de los herederos del causante, a que dentro del término

legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante conforme dispone el Artículo 959 deT Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2787, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. También se le APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2785. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema

Unificado de Manejo y 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. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son:

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE:

Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393

BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ, LLP

Edificio Ochoa, 500 Calle De La Tanca, Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 7 de agosto de 2023. LISILDA

MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. CARMEN L. SOTO PLANAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V.

LA SUCESIÓN DE VÍCTOR MANUEL LIZARDI PÉREZ, TAMBIÉN

CONOCIDO COMO

VÍCTOR M. LIZARDI

PÉREZ, VÍCTOR LIZARDI

PÉREZ, VÍCTOR MANUEL

LIZARDI, VÍCTOR M.

LIZARDI Y VÍCTOR

LIZARDI, COMPUESTA

POR VICTOR MANUEL

LIZARDI CASILLAS, VÍCTOR ORLANDO

LIZARDI CASILLAS, NATIVIDAD HERNANDEZ RIVERA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2023CV01127. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S.

A: VÍCTOR MANUEL

LIZARDI CASILLAS Y VÍCTOR ORLANDO

LIZARDI CASILLAS, MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE VÍCTOR

MANUEL LIZARDI PÉREZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO

COMO VÍCTOR M.

LIZARDI PÉREZ, VÍCTOR

LIZARDI PÉREZ, VÍCTOR

MANUEL LIZARDI, VÍCTOR M. LIZARDI Y VÍCTOR LIZARDI.

Queden emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, lnc., 164 DPR 689 (2005) y el Artículo 1578 del Código CiviL 31 L.P.R.A §11021, se le requiere a la Sucesión de Sucesión de Víctor Manuel Lizardi Pérez que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga Declaración aceptando o repudiando la herencia del causante. Se les apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término provisto, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto y deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema

Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual podrá acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Los abo!rados de la parte

demandante son: Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero

T.S.P.R. Núm.: 18074

TROMBERG, MORRlS & POULIN, LLC 1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100 Boca Raton, FL 33432

Tel. 877-338-4101 / Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppllc.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 10 de agosto de 2023. LISILDA

MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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AUGUSTO

CASTRO PANIAGUA

Demandante Vs. ROSALÍA

DOMÍNGUEZ DÍAZ

Demandada

Civil Número: SJ2023RF01028.

Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTEAMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SRA. ROSALÍA

DOMÍNGUEZ DÍAZ.

CALLE ALTO NÚMERO

213, BUEN CONSEJO, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00926.

Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la solicitud del epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere que radique en esta Secretaría el original de la contestación a la Demanda de Divorcio y que notifique con copia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. María Pagán Hernández, PO Box 21411, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-1411, teléfono 787-282-6734, abogada de la parte demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Podrá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal como se explicó anteriormente. Si dejare de hacerlo, podrá dictarse contra usted sentencia en rebeldía concediéndole el remedio solicitado en la demanda. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 2 de agosto de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NYDIA

I. BARRETO LASSALLE, SE-

CRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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LEGACY MORTGAGE

ASSET TRUST 2019-GS5

Parte Demandante Vs. NOLGIE RODRÍGUEZ FIGUEROA; CARMEN AMARILYS SANTIAGO NORAT; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

RODRÍGUEZ-SANTIAGO

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: LU2019CV00263. Salón Núm.: (307). 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: NOLGIE RODRÍGUEZ FIGUEROA; CARMEN AMARILYS SANTIAGO NORAT; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

RODRÍGUEZ-SANTIAGO:

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 Fajardo, 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 número once (11) del bloque B de la Urbanización Alamar, ubicada en el Barrio Sabana del término municipal de Luquillo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de doscientos sesenta y ocho metros cuadrados y ochenta centímetros cuadrados (268.80). En lindes por el NORTE, en veintiún (21.00) metros, con el solar número doce (12) del bloque B; por el SUR, en veintiún (21.00) metros, con el solar número diez (10) del bloque B; por el ESTE, en doce metros ochenta centímetros (12.80), con la calle B de la ur-

banización y por el OESTE, en doce metros ochenta centímetros (12.80), con terrenos para un futuro desarrollo. Enclava edificación. Inscrita al folio 220 del tomo 140 de Luquillo, finca número #7,839. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Alamar, B-11 Calle B, Luquillo, P.R. 00773. 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 de fecha 1 de mayo de 2011, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, en el caso civil número NSCI2011733, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Firstbank Puerto Rico versus Carmen Amarilis Santiago Norat casada con Nolgie Rodríguez Figueroa, por la suma de $98,016.03 más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 3 de abril de 2012, al folio 175 del tomo 278 de Luquillo, finca número 7,839, 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 $79,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #236, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de julio de 2006, ante el notario René Aviles Pérez, e inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 278 de Luquillo, finca número 7,839 inscripción 6ta., debidamente modificada según consta de la escritura número 790, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de diciembre de 2010, ante la notario Alexandra M. Serracante Cadilla, e inscrita al margen del folio 175 del tomo 278 de Luquillo, finca número 7,839, al margen de la inscripción 6ta. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 10 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $79,000.00. Si

la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día

17 DE OCTUBRE 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 $52,666.67. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 24 DE OCTUBRE 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 $39,500.00. 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: La suma global de $127,714.07, la cual se desglosa a continuación: la suma principal de $89,792.74, con intereses a 4.0% anual, desde el 1ro de febrero de 2017, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma diferida y la cual no genera intereses de $37,921.33, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $7,900.00, 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 dispo-

siciones 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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 19 de abril de 2023. MILDRED I. TORO COLÓN, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #197. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. DALIA IRIS SERRANO

VELEZ, DORAL BANK, JOHN DOE

Demandado(a)

Civil: CA2023CV01961. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: DORAL BANK Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DE PAGARE.

(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 7 de agosto de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 7 de agosto de 2023. LIC. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA

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PUERTO RICO

PROPERTIES SOLUTIONS, LLC.

Demandante V. ALVIN RENE ASENCIO NEGRON

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV03516. Sala: 903. Sobre: DESAHUCIO EN PRECARIO (DESAHUCIO SUMARIO). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ALVIN RENE ASENCIO NEGRON. (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 8 de agosto de 2023. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 8 de agosto de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MILDRED J. FRANCO REVENTOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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WILMINGTON SAVINGS

FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED

SECURITIES

ACQUISITION TRUST

2018-HB1

Demandante Vs. SUCESION CARMEN SOCORRO MARTINEZ

de Bayamón Norte, finca número 10,451, inscripción 2da. b. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 11 de junio de 2008, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil número 2008-2078, seguido por Doral Bank versus Colinas del Bosque, S.E.; Alturas del Bosque, S.E.; Arturo Madero Arboleda; Francisco A. Ortega Dardet, su esposa Teresa Amorín Rodríguez, también conocida como Teresita Amorín Rodríguez, por sí y como representantes y co-administradores de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos, por la suma de $14,118,552.66, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 8 de agosto de 2022, al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Norte, finca número 9,335, Anotación “A” y última. Habiéndose segregado la finca número 10,451 de la finca número 9,335, inscrita al folio 155 del tomo 192 de Bayamón Norte, y no habiéndose distribuido entre ellas el crédito hipotecario de la hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $2,340,000.00, con intereses al 14% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 68, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 9 de noviembre de 1998, ante el notario Carlos M. García Rullán, e inscrita al folio del tomo móvil de Bayamón Norte, finca número 9,335, como la inscripción 6ta., y sobre la finca número 10,451 como carga por su origen, el Artículo 75 de la Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria, 30 L.P.R.A. §6102, dispone que el acreedor podrá repetir por la totalidad de la suma garantizada contra todas las fincas a la vez. Por consiguiente, se ha solicitado la ejecución simultanea de las fincas número 10,451 y 9,335, y el precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 9,335 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Hipoteca Primera Subasta: 11 de septiembre de 2023, Hora: 10:00AM, Precio Minimo: $24,500,000.00. Escritura de Hipoteca No. 68 de 9 de noviembre de 1998 ante el Notario Público Lcdo. Carlos García Rullán. Escritura de Hipoteca No. 9 de 23 de febrero de 2000 ante el Notario Público Lcdo. Manuel Correa Calzada. Escritura sobre Igualdad de Rango Hipotecario No. 10 de 23 de febrero de 2000 ante el Notario Público Lcdo. Manuel Correa Calzada. Escritura de Ampliación de Hipoteca No. 7 del 19 de marzo de 2002 ante el Notario Público Lcdo. Manuel Correa Calzada. Escritura de Ampliación de Hipoteca No. 16 de 2 de mayo de 2003 ante el

Notario Público Lcdo. Manuel Correa Calzada. Segunda Subasta: 18 de septiembre de 2023, Hora: 10:00AM, Precio Minimo: $16,333,333.33. Tercera Subasta: 25 de septiembre de 2023, Hora: 10:00AM, Precio Minimo: $12,250,000.00. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 10,451 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: Primera Subasta: 11 de septiembre de 2023, Hora: 10:15AM, Precio Minimo: $2,340,000.00. Escritura Número 68 de 9 de noviembre de 1998 ante el Notario Público Lcdo. Carlos García Rullán. Segunda Subasta: 18 de septiembre de 2023, Hora: 10:15AM, Precio Minimo: $1,560,000.00. Tercera Subasta: 25 de septiembre de 2023, Hora:

10:15AM, Precio Minimo: $1,170,000.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 23 de abril de 2019 y notificada el 23 de abril de 2019, enmendada el 6 de julio de 2023 y notificada el 17 de julio de 2023, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto de los préstamos hipotecarios garantizados por las hipotecas antes mencionadas y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación:

1. La cantidad de $14,113,552.70 de principal, $13,151,393.82 por concepto de intereses acumulados, más intereses que se acumulan a razón de $3,724.41 diariamente, más la suma de $2,450,000.00 de honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente garantizados, más la suma de $44,914.43 de cargos por mora, más la suma de $2,028.00 por concepto de costo ambiental, más la suma de $335.00 por concepto de pago de seguro para un total de $29,765,089.45 (la suma adeudada). Suma de dinero de la cual quedarán liberados de cumplirse todos los términos del Confidential Settlement and Foreclosure Agreement.

2. BAUTISTA REO PR CORP. tiene un gravamen hipotecario a su favor por la suma principal de $24,460,000.00 sobre la finca 9,335 inscrita al folio 151 del tomo 192 de Bayamón Norte Registro de la Propiedad, Sec-

ción III de Bayamón; y otro por la suma principal de $2,300,000.000 sobre la finca 10,451 inscrita al folio 51 del tomo 212 de Bayamón Norte Registro de la Propiedad, Sección III de Bayamón y sobre todas las estructuras y mejoras allí existentes. BAUTISTA REO PR CORP. queda autorizada ejecutar en pública subasta las propiedades antes descritas. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Las propiedades a ser ejecutadas se adquirirán libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, excepto aquellos gravámenes que el postor decida mantener vigente a su total y entera discreción. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de agosto de 2023.

MARIBEL LANZAR VELAZ-

QUEZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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Demandados

Civil Núm.: CR2023CV00225.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: PEDRO A. ORTIZ SEGARRA, DAVID ORTIZ SEGARRA Y SUSAN ORTIZ SEGARRA, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO SUSAN SMITH, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE PEDRO ORTIZ ORTIZ; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE PEDRO ORTIZ ORTIZ.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $43,096.25, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.50% anual, desde el día 1ro de enero de 2023, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $10,260.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es:

RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno localizado en el BARRIO BARRANCAS del término municipal de Barranquitas, con una cabida superficial de CERO

PUNTO OCHO CUATRO CINCO CERO (0.8450) CUERDA, equivalentes a TRES MIL

TRESCIENTOS VEINTIUNO

PUNTO UNO UNO TRES

OCHO (3,321.1138) METROS

CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos de Julio Martínez Ortiz antes, ahora con el solar segregado a favor de Gilberto Echevarría Ortiz; por el SUR, con terrenos de la Sucesión de Juan Rivera Ortiz;

por el ESTE, con terrenos de Pedro Alicea; y por el OESTE, con terrenos de la Sucesión de Juan Rivera Ortiz. Enclava estructura residencial dedicada a vivienda. La porción descrita es el remanente de la finca luego de las segregaciones efectuadas. Servidumbre: Para cumplir con la condición ‘’Sine Qua Non”, impuesta por ARPE se constituye servidumbre de paso como predio dominante a favor de la finca número 17077, inscrita al folio 8 del tomo 260 de Barranquitas y sobre esta finca como predio sirviente la cual se describe como sigue: Rústica: Faja de terreno denominada “Servidumbre de Paso” en el plano de inscripción, localizada en el Barrio Barrancas del término municipal de Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, con dimensiones de 6 metros de ancho por 21 metros de largo; y en lindes por el Norte, con el solar segregado que da acceso; por el Sur, con el remanente de la finca principal; por el Este, con Carretera Estatal número PR-771; y por el Oeste, con el remanente de la finca principal, constituida mediante escritura No. 122 otorgada en Aibonito el 6 de octubre de 2008 ante José Ángel Santini Bonilla, inscrita al folio 126 del tamo 260 de Barranquitas, finca No. 15611, inscripción tercera. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 126 vuelto del tomo 260 de Barranquitas, finca número 15,611, inscripción sexta. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y enviar copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuya dirección más adelante se indica. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

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Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que conforme el caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya

Argentaria v. Latinoamericana de Exportación, lnc., 164 D.P.R. 689, 696 (2005) y a tenor con las disposiciones del Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021), deberá aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante Pedro Ortiz Ortiz dentro del término de treinta (30) días. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Comerío, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de agosto de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN L. SOTO FLORES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: NJ2022CV00139. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JESUS F NIEVES

RODRIGUEZ - CARR 825 KM 2 HM 2, NARANJITO PR 00719.

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, José Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose.aguilar@orf-law. com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en NARANJITO EN BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de junio de 2023. En NARANJITO EN BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 7 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA E. COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: NJ2022CV00139. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JESUS F NIEVES

RODRIGUEZ - CARR 164 R825 KM 1.7, NARANJITO, PR 00719.

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, José Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose.aguilar@orf-law. com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDI-

DO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en NARANJITO EN BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de junio de 2023. En NARANJITO EN BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 7 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA E. COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE OVIDIO LÓPEZ DOMÍNGUEZ T/C/C OBIDIO LÓPEZ DOMÍNGUEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; GRACIELA PADUA VÉLEZ POR SÍ Y COMO VIUDA DE OVIDIO LÓPEZ DOMINGUEZ; OVIDIO LÓPEZ PADUA POR SÍ Y COMO HEREDERO DE OVIDIO LÓPEZ DOMINGUEZ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SS2022CV00670. (0002). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 23 de enero de 2023 y notificada el 31 de enero de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 12 de julio de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 21 de julio de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 4 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián, en la Calle Severo Arana (al lado del Cuartel de la Policía), San Sebastián, 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: RÚSTICA: Sita en el Barrio Culebrinas de San Sebastián compuesta de 1442.9751 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: con parcela de uso público que lo separa de ca-

mino municipal; SUR y ESTE: con remanente de la finca principal; y por el OESTE: con Luis Rosa González. Contiene una casa de vivienda descrita en la finca principal. Inscrita al folio 79 del tomo 247 de San Sebastián, Finca 11650. Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. La escritura de hipoteca por la suma de $25,000.00 consta inscrita al folio 125 del tomo 487 de San Sebastián, Finca 11650. Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. Inscripción quinta (5ta). La escritura que modifica esta hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 126 del tomo 487 de San Sebastián, Finca 11650. Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. Inscripción novena (9na). La escritura de hipoteca por la suma de $24,000.00 consta inscrita al folio 125 del tomo 487 de San Sebastián, Finca 11650. Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. Inscripción séptima (7ma). La escritura que modifica esta hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 126 del tomo 487 de San Sebastián, Finca 11650. Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. Inscripción décima (10ma). La escritura de hipoteca por la suma de $17,000.00 consta inscrita al folio 125 vuelto del tomo 487 de San Sebastián, Finca 11650. Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. Inscripción octava (8va). Dirección Física: PR 109 Culebrinas

Wd, San Sebastián, PR 00685.

Número de Catastro: 30-129071-477-16-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $66,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 11 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA 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, $44,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $33,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $52,813.63 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.99% anual desde el 3 de septiembre de 2020 hasta su completo pago, más $1,191.00

de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,600.00 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 pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a) Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Ovidio López Padua (soltero), Ovidio López Domínguez t/c/c Obidio López Domínguez y su esposa Graciela Padua Vélez, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián, en el Caso Civil Número SS2022CV00670, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de la hipoteca, con un balance de $52,813.63 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 14 de octubre de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de San Sebastián. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 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 San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy 1 de agosto de 2023. LUIS A.

NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN.

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Demandante V. AIDA I.

RAMIREZ ORENSE

Demandado(a)

Civil: CA2022CV03988. Sala:

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

A: AIDA I. RAMIREZ ORENSE - URB LOS ANGELES 79 CALLE PERSEO, CAROLINA PR 00979.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 de 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 8 de agosto de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 8 de agosto de 2023. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. ERICK J. RIVERA COLON

Demandado(a)

Civil: BQ2022CV00086. Sobre:

COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ERICK J. RIVERA

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(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 de 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 9 de agosto de 2023. En COMERÍO, Puerto Rico, el 9 de agosto de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. CARMEN A. TORRES TORRES, SECRETARIA TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. RAMÓN RICARTE HERRERA PAGÁN

Demandado(a)

Civil: CA2023CV00678. (404).

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

A: RAMÓN RICARTE HERRERA PAGÁN.

(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 7 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 no-

tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o 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 9 de agosto de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 9 de agosto de 2023. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. Myriam I. Figueroa Pastrana, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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Demandante V. DIMAS JOAQUIN FERRER TORRES, LA CORPORACIÓN DE CRÉDITO AGRÍCOLA, JOHN DOE

Demandadas

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV05622. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: JOHN DOE COMO TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARÉ a favor de La Corporación de Crédito Agrícola, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $35,315.00, intereses al 7.00%, vencedero a su presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 18, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de enero de 1989, ante el notario Pylar Gómez Vélez, e inscrita al folio 138 vuelto del tomo 744 de Monacillos, finca número 22,964, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Tercera Sección de San Juan.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted

deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son.

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE:

Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP

Suite 209 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670

Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 4 de agosto de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs. SUCESION FREDERICK HENRY BARREDA

MONGE COMPUESTA

POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

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

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02346.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por

separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 25 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Borinquén de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área de tres punto cero treinta y seis cuerdas, equivalentes a ONCE MIL NOVECIENTOS TREINTA Y DOS PUNTO SESENTA Y NUEVE METROS CUADRADOS (11,932.69 M.C.). En lindes por el Norte, con el solar que le fuera segregado; por el Sur, con el solar que le fuera segregado; por el Este, con una faja de terreno destinada a uso público; y por el Oeste, con la parcela “E” del plano de inscripción. Enclava edificación para fines residenciales. Finca número 22,367 inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 1600, inscripción octava, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 256 del tomo 1750, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I, inscripción 9ª. Propiedad localizada en: PR 763 KM.

4.7 INT., BO. BORINQUEN, CAGUAS PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga:

N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento:

N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $382,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 12 de mayo de 2088. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $382,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de

Caguas, el 2 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $255,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $191,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 10 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $220,819.14 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $36,257.95 en intereses acumulados al 1 de marzo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.317% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $9,544.37 en seguro hipotecario; $5,355.00 en tarifas de servicio; $2,016.00 en seguro; $555.00 de tasaciones; $480.00 de inspecciones; $615.00 en adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $38,250.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de agosto de 2023. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593.

Once rare, 40-point games are surging in the WNBA

By EVAN EASTERLING

The 40-point game had disappeared from the WNBA over the past several years. This season, it has made a comeback.

Ten times this year a player has scored at least 40 points in a game, by far the most in a single season in the league’s 27-year history. Before this year, there had been no such regular-season showings since 2018, when star center Liz Cambage had two. And with at least nine games left for every team, as the WNBA stages its longest regular season ever, there is still time for more scoring outbursts.

“You see a lot of 40-point games this year, and I think that we’re just continuing to get eyes on women’s basketball,” Breanna Stewart, the star New York Liberty forward, said Sunday in a television interview after notching the league’s most recent 40-point game in a 100-89 victory over the Indiana Fever.

Stewart scored 30 of her 42 points in the first half on the way to her third 40-point game in 2023, becoming the first player in WNBA history with three in a regular season. (In 2015, Elena Delle Donne recorded two 40-point games in the regular season and one in the postseason for the Chicago Sky.)

True to her versatile style of play, Stewart scored Sunday in myriad ways: backing down the smaller Kristy Wallace and finishing with a left-handed layup; making a turnaround fadeaway over Lexie Hull from the baseline; knocking down a long 3-pointer after trailing the play.

Although she had not scored 40 points in a regular-season game until this year, Stewart had shown she was capable. She had 42 points, tying a postseason record, in her final game with the Seattle Storm, and that kind of output has continued in her first season with New York.

In May, in her first home game with the Liberty, she scored a career-high 45 points against the Fever, who are very likely

grateful that New York is no longer on their regular-season schedule. She also dropped 43 points in a win over the Phoenix Mercury in July.

Stewart’s outing Sunday came only two days after Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson had her first career 40-point game, shooting 17 of 25 in a blowout win over Washington. Wilson and Stewart, past MVP award winners, are both in the top five in points and rebounds per game this year and are among the leading contenders for another MVP.

“I don’t know, there’s something in the water,” Stewart said when asked if there was a “40-point rivalry” developing.

Their teams are atop the league standings, too. The reigning champion Aces (27-3) are within striking distance of the 1998 Houston Comets’ record for best single-season winning percentage, and the Liberty (24-6) are off to their best start in franchise history as they look to win their first title. The teams have split their two games, including a romp by the Liberty earlier this month, but they play three more times in August, includ-

ing today and Thursday.

The Liberty made a splash by signing top players this offseason, but the Aces have elite talent, too, and one of those players, two-time All-Star Kelsey Plum, has also recorded a 40-point game this season. While the sharpshooting Plum made six 3-pointers as part of her performance against the Minnesota Lynx in July, the 6-foot-4 Wilson racked up her points by overpowering defenders, maneuvering in the post and swishing midrange jumpers.

Like Wilson, Plum had never scored 40 points in a regularseason game until 2023. Neither had Rhyne Howard of Atlanta, Jewell Loyd of Seattle, Arike Ogunbowale of Dallas or DeWanna Bonner of Connecticut.

But one player who did it this year had.

On Aug. 3 against the Atlanta Dream, Phoenix guard Diana Taurasi needed 18 points to become the first player in WNBA history to score 10,000 in a career. She reached the milestone with a deep 3-pointer over Howard in the third quarter, and she finished with 42 points — her first 40-point game since 2010 and the fourth of her career.

“Tomorrow I’ll feel like I’m 50,” the 41-year-old Taurasi said in a postgame news conference.

She added later: “I came here a little bit nervous. I didn’t want to disappoint anyone. I just wanted to get it over with for a sense of relief, but at the same time I was just focused on trying to win a game.”

Although the 40-point game has had a renaissance in the WNBA, much like the triple-double did last season, the 50-point game remains exceedingly rare. There have been only two: Cambage’s 53 in 2018 and Riquna Williams’ 51 in 2013. Only three other players — Taurasi, Lauren Jackson and Maya Moore — have come within 3 points of it.

But if this season shows anything, there are plenty of candidates to get there again.

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop sits out amid investigation

Sunday, and he will miss upcoming games against the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Angels, the team said.

Franco was in the dugout for the first part of Sunday afternoon’s home game against the Cleveland Guardians, then left. The Rays lost 9-2. Sunday’s game was Wander Franco snapback hat night in Tampa.

“During today’s game, we were made aware of the social media posts that are circulating regarding Wander Franco,” the Rays said in a statement Sunday. “We take the situation seriously, and are in close contact with Major League Baseball as it conducts its due diligence.”

“have mutually agreed that he will go on the restricted list and take leave from the club for the duration of the current road trip.” The Rays next play at home Aug. 22.

“We support any steps taken by the league to better understand the situation,” the team added later. It said there would be no further comment.

MLB.com, The Athletic and the Tampa Bay Times were among those that reported that the investigation was related to social media posts that accused Franco of an inappropriate sexual relationship.

By VICTOR MATHER

The Tampa Bay Rays said that Major League Baseball was investigating “social media posts” about Wander Franco, the All-Star shortstop. Franco sat out of his team’s game

Manager Kevin Cash said after the game that it was “just a day off.”

“I’m aware of the speculation,” he continued. “I’m not going to comment any further on that. But the day off was because — a day off.”

The Rays announced Monday that the team and player

In a video posted to social media, Franco was dismissive. “They are saying that I am running around with a minor girl,” he said, adding: “People have nothing better to do with their time.”

Franco, 22, is in his third season with the Rays and was an All-Star for the first time this season. He is hitting .281 with 17 home runs and 30 stolen bases.

Wander Franco was in the dugout during the early innings of Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Guardians but he did not play.

Breanna Stewart recorded her third 40-point game of the season on Sunday.

Dwyane Wade was destined for the Hall of Fame — and politics?

By SOPAN DEB

When the Miami Heat selected Dwyane Wade with the fifth pick of the 2003 NBA Draft, the league was in dire need of star players to carry it out of the Michael Jordan era.

Wade’s draft class — which also featured LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Carmelo Anthony — ended up fitting the bill and then some. Wade immediately became one of the league’s most popular players, and his Miami teammate Shaquille O’Neal gave him the catchy nickname Flash. It was apt — Wade routinely attacked the rim with snazzy spin moves and finished with highlight-reel dunks and layups on his way to winning three championships.

Over the weekend, Wade was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, a feat that seemed inevitable as he piled up accolades over a 16-year career. He made 13 All-Star teams, led the league in scoring once and was named MVP of the 2006 NBA Finals, in which Miami beat Dallas.

“To be able to be one of those select few out of an entire generation of people who have tried to play the game of basketball and to be able to walk into the Hall of Fame, it doesn’t matter if I knew 10 years ago or I just got the call yesterday — it all feels surreal,” Wade said in a recent interview.

Since retiring in 2019, Wade has acquired an ownership stake in the Utah Jazz and the WNBA team in his hometown Chicago, the Sky. In the spring, Wade revealed that he had moved his family out of Florida to California because of state laws that negatively affect the LGBTQ community. Wade’s teenage daughter, Zaya, is transgender, and Wade has been outspoken on her behalf.

Wade recently spoke to The New York Times about his basketball career and potentially running for political office. This conversation has been edited for clarity and length.

Q: You grew up in the South Side of Chicago without very much. When you retired, former President Barack Obama taped a tribute video to you. How do you reflect on that journey?

A: My dad and I talk about it. We still can’t believe it. We still can’t believe the NBA career happened and it’s gone by. I got a call from President Obama on my birthday when I turned 40, and it was like: “Hey, pick up the phone at this time. There’s going to be a call coming.” I’m like, “OK.” Once I got on, I heard, “You’re waiting for the president of the United States.” I was like: “What? This is my life, right?”

Q: Your first NBA game was against Allen Iverson. You’re having a bit of a full-circle moment this weekend by having him induct you. Why did you pick him?

A: Michael Jordan was my favorite player. But as I was growing up as a kid, as Michael Jordan decided to retire from the game, Allen Iverson became the hero of our culture. I think a lot of people know I wear No. 3, but a lot of people don’t know why I wear No. 3. And so I just wanted

to take this moment as an opportunity that is supposed to be about me, and I wanted to be able to shine light and give flowers to individuals that allow me and help me get here. My family, of course. My coaches, of course. My teammates, of course.

But what about those individuals that gave you the image of what it looks like and how it can be done? And Allen Iverson gave me the image of how it looks like, how it could be done coming from the broken community that I came from. So I want to give him his flowers in front of the world because he deserves it.

Q: You’re being inducted alongside Dirk Nowitzki, with whom you had, let’s call it a tense relationship at points. What’s your relationship with him like now?

A: I respect Dirk as one of the greatest players that ever played this game of basketball. It’s funny to have something with someone and we’ve never guarded each other. We played totally different positions, but as I’ve always said, if I’m going to have any words with anyone, I want them to come in the finals.

Dirk and I have played in the finals against each other twice. His team won once. My team won one. So I call it a wash. And I’m thankful to be able to be a part of the class that I’m a part of. And Dirk, to me — and there’s no shade

on anybody who’s ever played — but I think Dirk will probably be looked at as the greatest international player that we’ve ever seen.

Q: You’ve talked at length about your advocacy on behalf of the transgender community, especially with your own child. What was your reaction to the Orlando Magic donating $50,000 to the super PAC affiliated with Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida? [DeSantis has supported legislation such as what opponents call the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, a law signed last year that limits what instructors can teach about sexuality and gender in classrooms. The Magic’s donation was dated May 19, just days before DeSantis announced a run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.]

A: I have so many things that I’m focused on, and there’s so many, so many battles to fight, in a sense. That’s one that I’m not choosing to fight, with so many other things where my voice is needed. People are going to do what people want to do. And there’s nothing that you’re going to be able to do to stop them, per se. And so I’m trying to help where the need is and where I can.

Q: There were some reports in the spring that Florida Democrats were recruiting you to run for Senate.

A: [Laughter] I heard that.

Q: Have you ever been approached to run for office?

A: Yes.

Q: So, describe to me what that approach was like.

A: I mean, it’s just conversation. “Hey, you would be good for ...,” “Hey, we can see you in ...,” “We would love to have you in ...”

It’s things that I’m passionate about that I will speak out on and speak up for. And so I don’t play the politician games. I don’t know a lot about it.

But I also understand that I have a role as an American citizen and as a known person to be able to highlight and speak on things that other people may not be able to because they don’t have the opportunity to do this.

Q: So, you’re running.

A: [Laughter]

Q: What is it like to watch old highlights of yourself now that you’re 41?

A: I just got done watching a 2005-2006 edit. I think it was 45 minutes. I watched about 15 minutes. I walked away from that edit, and I was just looking at the way I played the game and I hooped.

Nowadays, we’ve got the kids. And I love what development is going on, but kids are working on their moves. I just reacted to defenders. My moves came from just reacting, and those are the moves that are being worked on and are being highlighted now. I just played the game of basketball just like I was back in Chicago playing with my uncles and my dad and my family.

So, I love watching old highlights of myself because, just being honest, I haven’t seen a lot of people with my game and with my style. And so it was unique. And I’m thankful to have one of those games that no one can really understand how good I really was.

Dwyane Wade in Uncasville, Conn., Aug. 11, 2023. Wade, the former Miami Heat guard, capped his basketball career with a Hall of Fame induction this past weekend. Some are hoping his next phase is as a political star.

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You have independent views about everything, Gemini. People would be wrong to try to box you into thinking a certain way. Don’t let others convince you to accept something you’re skeptical of. You know what you believe so don’t be afraid to express it even if they go against the grain. Independence is important to you. You want others feel this freedom that’s so critical to a healthy lifestyle.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

If you know you’ve wronged another, admit it immediately, Cancer. People are often quick to point out when others make mistakes, but it’s the rare individual who points out their own mistakes. Demonstrate that you’re strong and honorable enough to say when you’ve done wrong. Integrity will get you far in life, whereas deception and retreating from difficult situations will not.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

You may feel a great urge to dive headfirst into a project, Leo. Perhaps there’s a plot of ground that you want to turn into a garden. Dig your hands into the soil. Maybe there’s a craft or art form that you can’t wait to learn about and develop. Be careful that you don’t start too many different projects and leave them all unfinished.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

You may feel a great urge to dive headfirst into a project, Leo. Perhaps there’s a plot of ground that you want to turn into a garden. Dig your hands into the soil. Maybe there’s a craft or art form that you can’t wait to learn about and develop. Be careful that you don’t start too many different projects and leave them all unfinished.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

You may feel a great urge to dive headfirst into a project, Leo. Perhaps there’s a plot of ground that you want to turn into a garden. Dig your hands into the soil. Maybe there’s a craft or art form that you can’t wait to learn about and develop. Be careful that you don’t start too many different projects and leave them all unfinished.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

If someone says something you disagree with or disapprove of, Scorpio, speak up. The person might assume you agree unless you say something. Your words can be forceful without being offensive, your approach assertive and not argumentative. State the facts as you see them. Don’t act in a condescending way toward others. This will only make the dynamic more difficult to deal with.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

You’re likely to be even quicker on the uptake than usual, Sagittarius. Conversation will be brisk and lively. You may feel like the conductor of a symphony. You’re able to understand and follow all the different harmonies and melody lines while keeping your own steady beat running through your head. The music you make with others will be magical.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

You’re likely to be even quicker on the uptake than usual, Sagittarius. Conversation will be brisk and lively. You may feel like the conductor of a symphony. You’re able to understand and follow all the different harmonies and melody lines while keeping your own steady beat running through your head. The music you make with others will be magical.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Once you start talking about a certain topic, Aquarius, it might be hard to stop, especially if the topic is you or one of your activities. A question about one aspect of your life may come up and you could have a sudden desire to tell your whole life story. Other people are going to want to voice their opinions, too, so take a breath and give them a chance.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Your mental activity is more pronounced than usual, Pisces. It may be difficult to stop the barrage of thoughts streaming through your head. You may be able to accomplish a lot, but you might drive yourself crazy with the internal chatter that doesn’t give you the opportunity to mentally sit still. Your thinking will be much clearer if you take time to slow down and meditate.

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