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Lawmaker: Get ready for more electricity rate hikes

By THE STAR STAFF

After LUMA Energy sought a hike in energy prices of 4.1 cents per kilowatt-hour because of a deficit caused by fuel purchases, independent Rep. Luis Raúl Torres Cruz said that is only the beginning as energy customers should brace themselves for more hikes in the future.

Torres Cruz, who has been investigating the contract between the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and the private operator of its transmission and distribution system, said this week that the utility’s debt restructuring would result in more rate hikes.

“On that base rate, which is the one that the Authority has to cover its operations with, is where the increase will come,” Torres Cruz said. “Which comes from the negotiations toward the restructuring of the Electric Power Authority debt to pay its bondholders, and that is another increase that is close to coming to us on the bill as well.”

There have been at least seven other rate increases over the past year.

The latest request from LUMA Energy seeks a rate hike to cover a deficit of $92.8 million for fuel purchases in July.

Torres Cruz said he was already anticipating an increase after a reduction in the bill a few weeks ago. He insisted that another rate hike would come later with the debt adjustment plan, although the latest base-rate increase will come before that increase, he said.

“That two-cent discount they gave us became salt and water,” the legislator said. “It makes sense to me since Genera PR came in and all these things that are happening, you know that there have been many load relays, and this is because Genera PR is not producing enough energy. It is below demand. It is below the reserves that it has to have. That makes LUMA unable to properly distribute energy.”

Torres Cruz said Genera PR, the company in charge of generation, has used emergency plants, which use diesel, the most expensive fuel. In addition, it is inefficient as it needs federal funds to repair power generation plants.

Popular Democratic Party Rep. Ángel Matos García said in a statement that the contract with LUMA Energy should be canceled as it will result in an uncontrollable hike in energy rates.

“This hike is an abuse against the people and the economy,” he said.

On Thursday, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said the increase LUMA is seeking from the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau for the next quarter is not justified.

“I do not see, I do not understand what the justification is for this increase,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “The bureau is going to have the last word, but nobody wants an increase” in their electricity bill.

Pierluisi noted that although generators that use diesel fuel were used to meet the demand for power, there are savings due to the implementation of emergency generators approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In addition, he said, it is the federal agency that assumes the fuel costs of those generators, which also represents savings.

Governor: Assertion that most schools aren’t ready is ‘totally out of proportion’

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Thursday countered statements made by Puerto Rico Teachers Association (AMPR by its Spanish initials) President Víctor Manuel Bonilla Sánchez, who alleged that only 30% of schools were ready for the start of the school year.

“That’s totally out of proportion, [and] it’s to some extent disrespectful,” the governor said. “It is disrespectful to the Department of Education team and to yours truly,” Pierluisi said in response to reporters’ questions.

Bonilla Sánchez, who heads the island’s main teachers’ union, responded in a written statement that “[t]he photographs

we received from the teachers and our coordinators do not lie and serve to document what this start of classes has been.”

The background to the confrontation has to do with tension surrounding the preparation of public schools for the new school year and the poor physical condition of many schools this week, as noted in a report that appeared in Thursday’s STAR. Classes started on Wednesday.

Bonilla Sánchez invited the media to visit the schools and document the reality that he said the AMPR has been denouncing for some time.

“We are not going to remain silent and we will continue our denunciations until we have suitable public schools of quality and excellence, as our country deserves,” he said.

Rep. Luis Raúl Torres Cruz

Grupo HIMA insists on selling assets as part of bankruptcy

By THE STAR STAFF

The genesis of Grupo HIMA San Pablo’s recent bankruptcy filing can be attributed to a history of disparate statutory treatment for Medicare and Medicaid programs and payments to Puerto Rico compared to the mainland states, the effects of the 2017 hurricanes, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the loss of revenues caused by the closing of health insurers and lawsuits.

Grupo HIMA San Pablo, one of Puerto Rico’s largest hospital systems, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday and is seeking a process for selling its assets. The hospital system was forced to declare bankruptcy after it was unable to renegotiate its debts, which have surpassed the $400 million mark.

The hospital system consists of several entities such as Grupo HIMA San Pablo Inc., Centro Medico del Turabo Inc. (CMT), HIMA San Pablo Properties Inc., Portal de Caguas Inc., Jocar Enterprises Corp., Jerusalem Home Ambulance Inc., Host Security Services Inc., CMT Development LLC and IA Developers Corp., which all filed for bankruptcy. However, according to a statement from HIMA’s president and CEO, Armando Rodríguez, there are additional related companies, subsidiaries and nonprofit organizations supported or promoted by Grupo HIMA.

“The last available appraisal reports prepared and reviewed by me for the five operating units were completed in the year 2019 and provided aggregate real property values of $242,300,000, for the real estate components of the businesses,” Rodríguez said.

As of Dec. 31, 2022, HIMA was carrying at least $390.1 million in secured debt obligations. HIMA is currently in default under the first and second term loans which matured in January 2018 and July 2018, respectively. Notwithstanding these de-

faults, on Nov. 24, 2021, the company entered into an agreement with its first lien lenders to provide a $10 million super priority facility to support the company’s efforts to address its liquidity and capital structure issues, for which only $4.6 million was funded on Nov. 24, 2021. The first lien lenders subsequently advanced an additional $750,000 on a super priority basis to allow the debtors to prepare for and commence these cases.

As of May 30 of this year, meanwhile, Grupo HIMA had no less than $11.8 million in secured debt in property taxes with the Municipal Revenue Collections Center. As to other secured debt, Centro Médico del Turabo Inc, has certain leasing agreements pertaining to several medical equipment, which amount to $4.6 million.

Grupo HIMA has also amassed certain unsecured debts, the principal amounts of which include salaries, $3.1 million; suppliers, $55 million; health providers, $21.5 million; Treasury Dept. (unemployment), $11.7 million; Treasury Dept., $36 million; Internal Revenue Service (FICA), $13.6 million; Internal Revenue Service (FUTA), $26,000; Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, $5.9 million; LUMA Energy, $49.6 million; and State Insurance Fund, $15.3 million.

Besides the disparate treatment in health funds and natural disasters, HIMA Group also noted that the descent of the hospital system was exacerbated by a 2019 local court order to liquidate Constellation Healthcare, a Medicare Advantage insurance carrier, causing a 7% reduction, or some $27.9 million, in CMT’s revenue. Meanwhile, in 2020, Molina Health of Puerto Rico Inc., the company granted the Caguas region for Puerto Rico’s government health plan, ceased its operations in Puerto Rico. “This abrupt exit has forced CMT to battle in lengthy administrative litigation before ASES [the island Health Insurance Administration] to collect on approximately $28

million,” Rodríguez said.

Separately on Thursday, at-large Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera urged the island Senate to approve Resolution 646, which seeks to investigate how to support medical-hospital facilities in Puerto Rico, including the possible granting of tax credits for the purchase of equipment related to electricity generation and distribution.

“In August 2022, along with fellow senators Carmelo Ríos and Gregorio Matías, we filed Senate Resolution 646, which seeks to investigate everything related to the generation and distribution of energy in hospitals,” Riquelme said. “This was with the purpose, among other things, of outlining an incentive program aimed at hospitals acquiring modern energy equipment, with greater efficiency that helps them reduce operational costs.”

“We cannot sit idly by,” Ríos added. “This measure provides a mechanism to evaluate aid such as credits to lower energy-related expenses, which is quite a lot. We ask that they approve the resolution next Monday.”

UPR employees allow access to campus while still on strike

By THE STAR STAFF

Under a court order, striking employees of the Workers’ Union of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) allowed free access to the UPR Río Piedras Campus on Thursday while maintaining their work stoppage.

The union, which groups maintenance and beautification employees, complied with the decision of Judge Anthony Cuevas, who ordered the union not to block access to the campus. Meanwhile, the striking workers remained firm in their claims.

According to press reports, Idalia Maldonado Colón, a union delegate, said that “no union employee is going to work.”

“That means no maintenance, no plumbing, no electricians, nothing,” she said. “The one who enters enters at his or her own risk, to see what happens. But we stand up and at the gates, in front without obstructing the entrance.”

Meanwhile, Río Piedras Campus Chancellor Angélica Varela Llavona said via a memo that administrative

work on the campus would begin Thursday, while classes would be taught virtually on Thursday and would begin in person on Friday.

The union has called on workers at other campuses to join the strike demanding wage justice. The group at the Río Piedras campus has about 200 workers.

Regarding statements by UPR President Luis Ferrao Delgado that the wage increase demand was met after the Financial Oversight and Management Board approved the funds, the workers pointed out that that increase was not what had been agreed upon.

“The agreements were retroactive from the $8.50 [per hour] from 2021 to 2022, which is like $2,000. … [B]ut he’s just giving us the $9.50 raise retroactive to July,” Maldonado Colón told a television reporter. “We want the complete agreements that were signed in February to be fulfilled, to keep his word and what he signed yesterday.”

In-person classes were slated to begin Friday at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Campus, where maintenance and beautification workers are on strike.

Grupo HIMA San Pablo, one of Puerto Rico’s largest hospital systems, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday and is seeking a process for selling its assets.

Underwater cleanup at Vega Baja beach slated for Saturday

By THE STAR STAFF

Vega Baja Mayor Marcos Cruz Molina announced the ninth underwater cleanup organized by the Reflect and Act Movement, along with volunteers and municipal staff.

“In Vega Baja, we appreciate and encourage community work through organized groups with common goals,” Cruz Molina said. “With great enthusiasm, we make this call for a cleanup that will be held this Saturday, August 19 at 7:30 in the morning at our Puerto Nuevo Beach, until 12 noon.”

Anyone who practices diving, snorkeling or paddleboarding is invited to join the effort. Municipal staff and volunteers from the Office of Public Works, the Office of Arts, Culture and Tourism, and the Office of Emergency Management will participate, along with members of the nonprofit community organization Pro-Reserva Natural Playa Puerto Nuevo de Vega Baja and Manatí Scuba PR.

“To students who are interested in participating in the event, we inform them that on the part of the municipality,

we will certify ‘community hours’ and ‘green contact hours,’” Cruz Molina said. “We will also have an information table and educational talks at the family level.”

Puerto Nuevo Beach is one of the only beaches in the world that has the recognized Blue Flag award granted to beaches, marinas and operators of tourist boats that meet strict criteria established internationally to guide and improve the standards of operation, safety, basic services and environmental education.

“The Municipality of Vega Baja has managed this natural resource since the 1990s, and has made significant investments in security, facilities and maintenance,” the mayor noted. “In order to be part of Blue Flag, the Cruz Molina administration originally allocated an investment of approximately $250,000 to transform public spaces with environmentally friendly practices. It is a great project where it is evident that the municipalities are the ideal administrators of our natural resources, working jointly with the state and federal government and nonprofit organizations.”

Another win for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community

Claro & Sorenson partner up to offer more accessibility services

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

All U.S citizens, including those residing in Puerto Rico, have the right to be in communication with the world. However, when it comes to the deaf community, there are speech barriers that may make it much more difficult for them to communicate with the hearing world. Many people don’t know how to communicate with them because they don’t know sign language; jobs that require sign language experts may stay vacant for a long time.

About 6% of the population in Puerto Rico can’t hear, which adds up to around 192,000 people, all of whom have a right to communicate and interact with the world around them, and a right to receive services from both the government and any private

entity. In terms of the latter, one phone service company is getting a head start in that direction. On Thursday, Claro announced a collaborative alliance with Sorenson, a world leader in inclusive language services, through which they will offer sign language interpreters through a digital application that allows deaf, hardof-hearing and diverse individuals to communicate with sales representatives, effectively eliminating the communication barrier.

“Our goal is to make the experience of all our customers, including those who use sign language as a means of communication, memorable and effective,” Claro President & CEO Enrique Ortiz Montellano said.

While it may seem like a business move to some, Juan José Troche Villeneuve, executive director of the Liaison Office for the Deaf Community and interim head of the Office of the Advocate for People with Disabilities, believes the initiative is much more significant than it looks.

“I am very happy to be here supporting this initiative from private industry,” Troche Villaneuve said. “It is our job as the government to be responsible for providing services to deaf individuals, but it is also the responsibility of all of us to put our effort in. This is part of the development of public policies established by Puerto Rico; right now we have a government agency that is entirely dedicated to formulate and establish public policies for the integration of this community. This community speaks in a third language and these tools are necessary.”

Troche Villaneuve added that “this motivates the public sector to provide more services for the deaf community.”

“The Liaison Office, for example, has the obligation to guarantee services and transform public information and make it accessible to the deaf community, and this process has already begun,” he said. “Because of all the earthquakes and hurricanes that have happened on the island, projects to implement sign language in schools were delayed, but sooner rather than later, these will be taken up again.”

But it’s not just Troche Villaneuve who says the initiative is

a great thing for Puerto Rico. Members of the deaf communities and people who assist them also believe it is very beneficial.

Alexa Hernández de Jesús, a sign language interpreter, told the STAR that “initiatives like these are extremely important so that those who can’t hear can receive services just like the hearing folks.”

Luis Díaz, a member of the deaf community and a Claro customer, said “it was a total surprise for me when they invited me here and informed me about the service that Claro will offer.”

“I was really excited,” he said. “Now they will be able to help me, because sometimes we come to these offices and they can’t help us because they don’t know the language.”

Added Kenneth Burgos of Sorenson, who also is a member of the deaf community: “This is an excellent idea and I hope other companies do the same in the future.”

“Obviously, there’s still a lot of work to be done,” he said. “We need Puerto Rico to give power to the deaf community to be independent, and I think this is a very good start for that.”

Juan José Troche Villeneuve, executive director of the island government’s Liaison Office for the Deaf Community, pointed out that “this community speaks in a third language and these tools are necessary.”

Anyone who practices diving, snorkeling or paddleboarding is invited to join Saturday’s underwater cleanup effort at Puerto Nuevo Beach in Vega Baja.

Photo: Richard Gutiérrez/The San Juan Daily Star

Police said driver was shot lunging at officer. Video shows otherwise.

By JOEL WOLFRAM and CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

The initial account Monday afternoon of how a Philadelphia police officer had fatally shot a 27-year-old man was straightforward: After a brief car chase, a man wielding a knife got out of his car and lunged at the officer, who shot and killed him, police said at the scene, according to local press reports.

But at a news conference Wednesday, top police officials gave a very different account. According to body camera footage, the officials said, the man was still in his car when the officer shot him.

“I understand and want to acknowledge the hurt and confusion that family and community members can experience when details of investigations change, and especially when they change in a very public way,” said Danielle Outlaw, the Philadelphia police commissioner. “I also understand that the information I’m about to provide will raise additional questions,” she added.

The police have not named the person who was killed. However, family members identified him as Eddie Irizarry, a quiet and withdrawn man who, they said, liked to tinker with motorcycles and was being treated for serious mental illness, including schizophrenia. “He didn’t have problems with anybody,” his sister, Maria Irizarry, said in an interview. She said that her brother, who had moved to Philadelphia about seven years ago from Puerto Rico, did not understand English.

In the news conference, Outlaw provided the following account of what the department now says occurred: Shortly after noon Monday, two officers were sitting in a marked police car when they saw a Toyota Corolla driving erratically in the Kensington neighborhood in northern Philadelphia. The officers, whose names have not been released by the department, followed the car as it turned the wrong way down a one-way street and watched it pull into a parking spot midway down the block.

The officers approached the car from different sides. The officer on the passenger side tried to open the door, then

alerted the officer on the driver’s side that the man in the car had a weapon, Outlaw said. The officer on the driver’s side then fired “multiple times into the vehicle,” killing the man. At the same news conference, Peter Marrero, a detective who is investigating the shooting, said that two knives were

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found in the car: a “kitchen-style knife” and a “serrated folding knife.” Irizarry said that her brother did carry a pocketknife everywhere he went but “always as a tool, not as a weapon.”

At the scene of the shooting Monday, a police spokesperson told reporters that the driver had initially fled from officers and that after he stopped, he got out of the car with his knife and ignored commands for him to drop it. He then “lunged” at the officers before one of them shot him, she added.

None of that account appears to be true.

At the news conference Wednesday, the chief of detectives, Christine Coulter, said that version of events was “something that was called into police radio.” She said that on Tuesday, once the department’s Officer Involved Shooting Investigation Unit had looked at body camera footage, officials realized that the initial account was wrong. The footage has not been made public.

“I understand folks not really being sure whether or not they should even trust what we’re saying today because of what we said initially,” Outlaw said. “But I’m hoping that they see that this is a genuine effort to do everything that we can to share what we know when we have it.”

Officials said the shooting was being investigated by the police internal affairs unit to determine whether the officers followed department policy and by the district attorney’s office to determine whether a crime had been committed. Police said that both offices were equipped with Tasers at the time of the shooting. The officer who fired the fatal shots has been identified only as a “five-year veteran” of the department; under department policy, an officer’s name is released within 72 hours of a shooting.

According to the department’s statistics, there have been two other “officer involved shootings” this year, neither of them fatal. There were 15 such shootings last year, five of them fatal.

None of this is comfort to Irizarry’s family members, who said they had obtained a lawyer.

“They changed the story and they keep changing the story,” his aunt, Zoraida Garcia, said on her way to make funeral arrangements. “What they’re saying are lies. What the police did to my nephew was an abuse.”

Eddie Irizarry Sr. holds up a photo of his son, Eddie Irizarry Jr., who was fatally shot by the police, in Philadelphia, on Aug. 16, 2023. The Philadelphia police commissioner says that contrary to initial statements by the department, the driver Irizarry Jr. was in his car when he was fatally shot.

As search for Maui victims goes on, names of dead are slow to emerge

The names of two others were made public Tuesday: Buddy Jantoc, 79; Robert Dyckman, 74

The search is far from over.

The burn zone is large, and the search for remains has been slow and painstaking. As of Wednesday afternoon, 38% of the area had been searched. Officials have said that by the end of this week, they aim to have covered up to 90%.

Emergency responders, with help from anthropologists and cadaver dogs, must sift through a wasteland of ash and debris to find human remains. Then comes the work of identifying the bodies using fingerprints or DNA, and finding the victims’ families to deliver the news. The process is likely to continue for weeks and perhaps months.

“We’ve got one chance to do this right,” Chief John Pelletier of the Maui Police Department said at a news conference Wednesday, “and I’m not going to rush it.”

Neighbors are pitching in with recovery efforts.

In Lahaina, once the royal capital of Hawaii, more than 2,200 structures were damaged, most of which were residential. More than 2,000 acres burned, according to the Pacific Disaster Center, a research center managed by the University of Hawaii.

Just outside the center of damage, the buildings stayed intact, but the electricity, water and internet service were out. Residents and evacuees in the area were left to rely heavily on help from people on other parts of the island, who ferried whatever supplies they could on cars, trucks and boats.

About 2,000 customers were still without power as of Wednesday afternoon, Green said.

By JACEY FORTIN

It has been more than a week since Maui was ravaged by deadly wildfires.

The search for victims presses on, the number who perished continues to rise, and the names of the dead are slowly emerging.

On Wednesday, three more names were released, bringing to five the number of victims who have been publicly identified by officials.

Confirmed deaths: 111

The deadly blaze in Lahaina started as brush fires and exploded into the town on Aug. 8, becoming one of the country’s deadliest wildfires in more than 100 years.

Locating remains and identifying victims has been a difficult process, and experts in examining human remains have been dispatched to Maui to help local authorities.

“Our hearts are broken as we see lost loved ones,” Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii said in a Wednesday video address on social media.

Unaccounted for: more than 1,000 people

People who are unaccounted for are not necessarily dead. In past deadly wildfires across the United States, the number of people who were initially unaccounted for has vastly outnumbered the final death toll.

Five of the dead have been publicly identified.

The names of three victims were released Wednesday: Melva Benjamin, 71; Virginia Dofa, 90; Alfredo Galinato, 79

The remains of a neighborhood destroyed by wildfires in Lahaina on Wednesday.

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Texas woman charged with threatening to kill judge in Trump election case

By ALAN FEUER

ATexas woman has been charged with threatening to kill Tanya Chutkan, the federal judge in Washington who is overseeing former President Donald Trump’s prosecution on charges of seeking to overturn the 2020 election.

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The woman, Abigail Jo Shry, of Alvin, Texas, called Chutkan’s chambers on Aug. 5, two days after Trump was arraigned on the election interference charges, and left a voicemail message attacking the judge, who is Black, with a racial slur, according to a criminal complaint unsealed last Friday.

In the message, Shry told Chutkan, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, bitch,” according to the complaint. She added, “You will be targeted personally, publicly, your family, all of it.”

Shry, 43, also issued a threat against Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, who is Black.

Trump has a long history of verbally attacking judges and other people involved in the criminal cases brought against him, particularly on social media. The day before the call, Trump had posted a message on his social media platform, Truth Social, saying, “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!” (His campaign said his words were not directed against anyone involved in the election interference case.)

Late last week, Chutkan addressed that issue, warning Trump that she would take measures to ensure that he did not make “inflammatory statements” about the case in a way that might intimidate witnesses or otherwise harm the integrity of the proceeding.

Almost immediately, Trump tested the boundaries of Chutkan’s admonition by posting a series of messages on Truth Social that largely amplified the criticism that other

people had lodged against her.

In one post, written by an ally of Trump’s, lawyer Mike Davis, a large photo of Chutkan accompanied text that falsely claimed she had “openly admitted she’s running election interference against Trump.” In two other posts, Trump wrote: “She obviously wants me behind bars. VERY BIASED & UNFAIR.”

The posts criticizing Chutkan were published after Shry’s voicemail message. When federal agents visited Shry at home three days after she left the message for Chutkan, she admitted that she had called the judge’s chambers, the complaint said. Shry told the agents that she had no plans to go to Washington or to Houston, the area that Lee represents. But she also said that “if Sheila Jackson Lee comes to Alvin, then we need to worry,” according to the complaint.

Shry was denied bail Wednesday and ordered to be held in custody for at least 30 days following a detention hearing in Federal District Court in Houston.

At the hearing, court papers said, Shry’s father, Mark Shry, testified that she was a “nonviolent alcoholic” who “sits on her couch daily watching the news while drinking too many beers.”

He told a judge in Texas that after she had been drinking his daughter often became “agitated by the news” and started “calling people and threatening them,” the papers said. Trump supporters have sometimes engaged in violence after officials in the criminal justice system have taken action against him.

Last summer, after FBI agents descended on Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, hauling away a trove of classified documents, an armed Ohio man enraged by the search tried to break into the bureau’s field office near Cincinnati. The man was killed in a shootout with the local police.

A photo provided by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts shows Judge Tanya Chutkan.

In Georgia case against Trump, a trial as soon as March could be a stretch

Willis has tackled complex racketeering cases before. She was the lead prosecutor on a case that dragged on for two years after state investigators found that educators in Atlanta had cheated on school tests. By the time the trial finished in 2015, the lead defendant had died.

Another racketeering indictment, against the rapper known as Young Thug and his associates, was handed up in Fulton County in May of last year; jury selection began more than six months later, in January, and a jury has yet to be seated.

Generally speaking, prosecutors prefer to move quickly, while defense lawyers try to slow things down.

The defense in the Trump case is likely to argue that they need at least as much time to build their case as Willis took building hers, said Jeffrey E. Grell, a Minneapolis lawyer who specializes in RICO cases, adding that the court may well listen.

“The paramount obligation is to protect the defendant’s due process rights,” he said.

Willis, a Democrat who took office in 2021 and launched her investigation into election interference in Georgia shortly thereafter, will be up for reelection next year.

Some critics say that handling the Trump case has caused her office to lose sight of more traditional priorities for a district attorney. “I wish I could get Fani Willis as fired up to prosecute murders in Sandy Springs as she is on this one,” said Rusty Paul, the Republican mayor of Sandy Springs, a relatively affluent suburban city in Fulton County.

He added: “I’m no fan of Donald Trump, but I’ve got murderers who committed their alleged crime in 2016 but haven’t been brought to trial.”

By RICHARD FAUSSET, DANNY HAKIM and SHAILA DEWAN

Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, said Monday that she hoped her criminal racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and his allies could go to trial in about six months. On Wednesday, her office filed a motion seeking a March 4 start date.

But racketeering cases are not built for speed. Just getting this one together has taken 2 1/2 years. The effort to proceed to trial quickly in Georgia will almost certainly be complicated by the schedules of three other criminal cases that Trump is already facing in Florida, New York and Washington, D.C.

And with 19 defendants represented by a fleet of attorneys, a number of experts Tuesday didn’t expect a smooth path forward and raised the possibility that the case could potentially take years, rather than months, to lumber toward a conclusion. One defendant, Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, has already filed a motion to move the case to federal court.

On Wednesday, the judge overseeing Meadow’s removal effort gave Willis’ office until Aug. 23 to respond to his motion, and set an evidentiary hearing for Aug. 28.

Trump himself has a long history of using delay tactics in his various legal entanglements, and he, too, is likely to file pretrial motions seeking to get the case thrown out or moved to federal court. The judge in the case may also determine that a little over six months is not enough time for defense lawyers to prepare for a trial involving so many defendants and 41 total charges, including a racketeering count that took prosecutors

nearly 60 pages to describe.

John B. Meixner Jr., an assistant law professor at the University of Georgia and a former federal prosecutor, said that, normally, a six-month window from indictment to trial for a case like this one would be “a very aggressive timeline.” Prosecutors, and perhaps the judge, he said, will be highly motivated to resolve the case before the 2024 election.

On the other hand, Meixner said, the looming election could make Trump particularly motivated to push back his trial date in Georgia. “If the case is still ongoing, and if Mr. Trump were to win the 2024 election, we’d have a new slate of questions of whether a sitting president can be tried for a state criminal offense,” he said.

Chris Timmons, an Atlanta-area lawyer and a former prosecutor, said that with 19 defendants, political gamesmanship may not be the only factor.

“It takes a while to get everybody arraigned,” he said. “It takes a while to make sure everybody’s got an attorney. There’s discovery that’s got to be engaged in.”

He added: “There’s a lot of information to process to get organized, to be ready to go.”

Defendants are expected to be booked by the end of next week. In a motion filed on Wednesday, Willis sought to schedule arraignments for the week of Sept. 5, and proposed a timetable for other steps that would culminate with a trial starting on March 4, the day before the Super Tuesday primaries. The final schedule is up to the judge who has just been assigned to the case, Scott F. McAfee.

Atlanta’s homicide count spiked in 2020 and remained high for two years, mirroring that of many other cities during the pandemic. But police data shows murders down 25% this year compared with the same period in 2022. Noting that the murder rate was dropping, Willis recently told a local radio station, “We can walk and chew gum at the same time.”

Gerald A. Griggs, a trial lawyer and president of the Georgia NAACP, worked with Willis in the Atlanta solicitor’s office years ago. He has criticized her in the past for what he believes is an overzealous prosecution of poor Black people. But he also describes her as one of Georgia’s most talented prosecutors — and one with serious experience navigating complex RICO cases.

That experience, said Griggs, who represented a number of defendants in the cheating case, might help move the process along.

“She’s done this before,” he said. “I think people are underestimating her skills as a trial attorney.”

The sun sets outside the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. The prosecutor in the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and his allies hopes it can go to trial in the next six months — experts have their doubts.

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From Detroit to Hollywood, new union leaders take a harder line

the automakers, have indicated that they are willing to increase compensation but cannot jeopardize their long-term viability. The large Hollywood studios have offered actors pay increases but say they must be able to adapt to the decline of traditional television.

Some executives have called out the unions’ more confrontational gestures. “The theatrics and personal insults will not help us reach an agreement,” Mark Stewart, a top Stellantis official, said in a letter to employees after Fain literally discarded the company’s proposals.

And channeling members’ anger is not without risk: It can raise expectations and make it difficult for leaders to finalize contracts. O’Brien is facing a “vote no” campaign organized largely by UPS part-timers who argue that the union did not secure large enough raises.

O’Brien has tapped into that resentment.

A vice president and ally of Hoffa in the mid-2010s, O’Brien ran to replace him in 2021, deriding his predecessor for foisting concessionary contracts onto members. He vowed to raise pay for part-timers at UPS — an unusual concern for a would-be Teamster president, even though part-timers make up a majority of the union’s members there — and secured a significant wage increase.

By NOAM SCHEIBER

Shawn Fain is not a typical president of the United Automobile Workers union. Fain recently declined a symbolic handshake with the chief executives of the major Detroit automakers, a gesture that traditionally kicks off contract negotiations. He is seeking an ambitious 40% wage increase for rank-and-file members — in line, he says, with the pay gains of those corporate leaders over the past four years. And in a video meeting with members last week, Fain threw a list of proposals from Stellantis, the maker of Chrysler and Jeep, into a wastebasket, saying it belonged in the trash “because that’s what it is.”

On one level, the circumstances that produced the union’s more aggressive leadership are idiosyncratic. Fain, who won his position in March, is the first president in the union’s history, dating back nearly 90 years, to be elected directly by its members. The change took place after a major corruption scandal engulfed two of his predecessors and several more union officials.

But on another level, the forces that swept Fain into power are the same ones that have borne down on unions across a variety of industries: a feeling among members that they have spent years enduring out-of-touch

leaders, meager wage growth and concession-filled labor agreements, which forced some to do similar jobs as co-workers for less pay.

“We kept being told, ‘This is a good contract,’” said Shana Shaw, a UAW member who has worked at a General Motors plant in Missouri since 2008. “And our members are saying, ‘It’s not a good contract!’”

The long-simmering rage helps explain why, in addition to Fain, several prominent unions are now in the hands of outspoken leaders who have taken their membership to the brink of high-stakes labor stoppages — or beyond.

Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, has repeatedly referred to corporate leaders as a “white-collar crime syndicate” and warned that a strike of the union’s 300,000-plus United Parcel Service members appeared inevitable. (The union recently reached a tentative agreement that members are voting on.)

Just after a union of more than 150,000 Hollywood actors called a strike in July, Fran Drescher, president of SAG-AFTRA, said that she was “shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us.” She added: “It is disgusting. Shame on them!”

The companies, including UPS and

The populist approach is not unique to labor unions. The 2008 financial crisis and the grindingly slow recovery produced a more militant style of politics that upended established institutions around the world. The crisis helped lay the groundwork for the unexpected support of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race.

If anything, unions were slower to adapt to the rising anger than other institutions, largely because they were less democratic.

In 2018, UPS employees voted down a labor contract negotiated by the Teamsters leadership, which created a new category of lower-paid drivers. The union’s president, James P. Hoffa, who had served in the position for nearly 20 years, used a procedural rule to impose the contract anyway.

But even the change-averse labor movement could not withstand a final blow: COVID-19, and union members’ anger over their perilous working conditions as corporate profits grew at one of the fastest rates in decades.

“There’s a historical memory of all the concessions they made,” said Ruth Milkman, a sociologist of labor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, referring to union members. “And they feel shafted. The CEOs are sitting pretty with all this pandemic money that didn’t go into their pockets.”

Many nonunion workers saw their wages rise rapidly thanks to a tight job market, but contracts negotiated before the pandemic often locked union members into smaller wage increases as inflation surged.

In some cases, outraged rank-and-filers have taken matters into their own hands. Edward Hall, a rail worker and local union official in Tucson, Arizona, said he decided to run for the presidency of the more than 25,000-member Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen in early 2022. The union’s longtime president had arrived to hold a town-hall meeting about labor negotiations that had dragged on for over two years. But, Hall said, he was unable to provide frustrated members with a timetable for a deal. (Dennis Pierce, the former president, declined to comment.)

Hall was elected last fall, shortly after Congress intervened to enact a labor agreement that members of several rail unions had voted down. Many workers felt the agreement did not go far enough to rein in a system of railroad operations that sought to minimize equipment and employees.

“It was profitable for them,” Hall said, referring to rail carriers. “But for lack of a better way to put it, it made life on the railroad hell for regular employees.”

The combination of agitated members and more assertive leaders can sometimes pry loose concessions from employers even without a strike, especially amid a worker shortage. This year, rail carriers began voluntarily addressing one of the workers’ biggest concerns: the lack of paid sick days.

Many UAW members say the tension between the automakers’ goals and the union’s indicates that a strike will be hard to avoid when their contract expires in midSeptember. But they do not appear to be shrinking from that possibility.

“We have an extremely well-oiled machine,” said Shaw, who also serves as a cochair of the organizing committee of Unite All Workers for Democracy, a reform group within the union that assembled the slate of candidates Fain ran on. “We’ll be ready to go if happens.”

Fran Drescher, center, president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) at a strike outside Netflix offices, in Los Angeles, July 14, 2023.

August 18-20, 2023

Stocks

S&P 500, Dow gain on boost from Cisco

Wall Street’s main indexes closed lower after choppy trading on Thursday as losses in healthcare stocks eclipsed gains in Cisco and energy stocks, while upbeat economic data kept alive fears of interest rates remaining higher for longer.

Weighing heavily on the S&P 500, CVS Health (CVS.N) tumbled 8% on news that Blue Shield of California plans to cut its reliance on the company as its pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) and work with others including Amazon.com (AMZN.O).

Shares of major health insurers UnitedHealth (UNH.N) and Cigna (CI.N), which also have PBM units, dropped by 1.9% and 6.4% respectively, pushing the broader S&P 500 healthcare index (.SPXHC) 0.8% lower.

The S&P 500 (.SPX) lost 33.97 points, or 0.77%, to 4,370.36 and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) dropped 143.75 points, or 1.07%, to 13,330.88.

The S&P 500 is down 2.7% over the past three sessions, its deepest three-session drop since mid-March. The Nasdaq’s 3.4% drop over three days marks its deepest three-day drop since February.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) fell 290.91 points, or 0.84%, to 34,474.83.

Higher oil prices lifted shares of Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) and Chevron (CVX.N) by 1.9% to 1.7% respectively, as commodities were helped by hopes that China’s central bank was seeking to bolster the property market and wider economy.

Pressuring equities further, the yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes hit its highest level since October as a raft of strong economic data this week stokes concerns the Fed could keep interest rates at the current level for longer.

“Stocks may be choppy in the near term while we wait for either earnings to pick up or yields to come down,” said Jeffrey Buchbinder, chief equity strategist at LPL Financial.

A report from the Labor Department showed a fall in jobless claims last week, signaling the labor market remained tight.

Minutes from the Fed’s July meeting released on Wednesday showed most policymakers prioritizing the battle against inflation, adding to uncertainty about the central bank’s interest rate path.

The stock market’s weakness in recent days is due to robust U.S. economic growth suggesting the Fed is likely going to embrace “high rates for longer,” said Barry Bannister, chief equity strategist at Stifel.

A majority of traders expect the Federal Reserve to keep rates unchanged in September, though bets of a pause have slipped to 86.5% from about 89% a week earlier, according to CME Group’s Fedwatch tool.

Keeping a lid on losses, Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) gained 3.3% after the networking equipment maker’s fourth-quarter results beat estimates, and its CEO talked

up artificial intelligence opportunities.

Shares of Pfizer (PFE.N) rose 2.9% as the company said its updated COVID-19 shot, which is being tested against emerging variants, showed neutralizing activity against the “Eris” subvariant in a study conducted on mice.

Vaccine makers Moderna (MRNA.O) and Novavax (NVAX.O) also rose as U.S. data showed COVID-19-relat-

ed hospitalizations up more than 40% from recent lows hit in June.

Retail heavyweight Walmart (WMT.N) raised its full-year forecasts after beating second-quarter sales estimates, but its shares fell 2.2%.

Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones within the S&P 500 (.AD.SPX) by a 2.7-to-one ratio.

The S&P 500 posted two new highs and 17 new lows; the Nasdaq recorded 25 new highs and 252 new lows.

Volume on U.S. exchanges was relatively heavy, with 11.2 billion shares traded, compared to an average of 11.0 billion shares over the previous 20 sessions.

As wildfire nears, entire Canadian city is ordered to evacuate

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As a wildfire barreled toward a territorial capital in Canada on Thursday, an extraordinary citywide evacuation of thousands of people accelerated, with long lines of cars heading down the only highway south from the city.

Firefighters were struggling to contain the blaze, which was about 10 miles outside Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, officials said. The fire was ravaging a largely uninhabited forest, but was expected to reach the city by the weekend.

“The fire now represents a real threat to the city,” Shane Thompson, the territory’s environment and climate change minister, said at a news conference Wednesday evening.

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Officials issued the order to evacuate Yellowknife on Wednesday night. Several nearby communities, including one of the Indigenous Dene people, Dettah, were also ordered to evacuate. Authorities fear that the highway linking those places to Yellowknife — where about 20,000 people live — could be engulfed by a separate fire as soon as Friday.

They also warned residents not to seek refuge on islands in the Great Slave Lake, just outside the city, because the air quality in the region was expected to deteriorate significantly as the fire nears. Local media reported that the traffic departing the city was steady, but flowing smoothly. Escort vehicles had been assigned to guide motorists through some areas because smoke from the fires has at times obscured vision along the highway. Gasoline tank trucks along the route were filling motorists’ tanks at no charge.

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“It’s probably going to stop outside the city,” said Selleck, who is heading to his daughter’s home in Victoria, British Columbia. “If it doesn’t, it’ll be one hell of a disaster.”

Evacuation flights on commercial airlines and Royal Canadian Air Force planes are scheduled to begin Thursday. People fleeing that way will be limited to a single piece of carry-on luggage; they were encouraged to bring food and drinks, and to limit themselves to five days’ worth of clothes.

Evacuating Yellowknife will dislodge about half of the entire population of the Northwest Territories.

Sparsely populated but covering a vast portion of Canada’s landmass, the Northwest Territories is one of the three Canadian territories that lack the powers given to provinces by the country’s constitution and rely on the federal government for a significant portion of their funding.

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How the narcotrafficking industry seized power in Ecuador

By GENEVIEVE GLATSKY and JOSÉ MARÍA LEÓN CABRERA

When Europe’s busiest port recently announced the discovery of nearly 9 tons of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas — its biggest-ever seizure of illegal narcotics — it included a detail that was no longer surprising. The shipment had come not from Colombia or Peru, Latin America’s largest cocaine producers, but from Ecuador, the small nation sandwiched between them.

Ecuador has struggled for years with drug trafficking because of its geographic location, fairly porous borders and major Pacific Ocean ports.

But in recent years, the situation has gotten much worse.

An overcrowded, corrupt and poorly financed penal system has become a breeding ground for prison gangs that have formed alliances with powerful drug cartels from abroad.

These ingredients that have helped make Ecuador an increasingly major player in the global drug trade have also unleashed an extraordinary wave of violence, transforming life for millions of everyday Ecuadorians. Now it has drawn an international spotlight with the assassination last week of a presidential candidate just as the country prepares to vote Sunday.

The candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, had repeatedly warned of links between drug gangs and government officials and politicians, and days before his assassination had spoken publicly about threats from a local criminal group.

His killing has left the country of 18 million reeling, helping make security a top concern among voters and leaving many Ecuadorians wondering how their country, once a relatively peaceful oasis in a turbulent region, became a battleground and a place where a politician could be killed in broad daylight.

Ana Vera, 44, a housekeeper in Quito, the capital, said the escalating violence had turned her into a bit of a recluse. “You go from home to your work and nothing more,” she said.

The roots of Ecuador’s travails lie largely in a shifting drug market and a government illequipped to handle it.

Ecuador’s homicide rate actually dropped under a former president, Rafael Correa, who governed from 2007 to 2017, through increased policing and a commodities boom that helped lift millions out of poverty.

But Correa, in 2009, also decided not to

extend the lease for a U.S. military base in the port city of Manta used to fly planes to interdict drugs, and he cut ties with the U.S. State Department’s international narcotics agency.

The expulsion of U.S. forces hampered Ecuador’s ability to control its northern border with Colombia and eased the distribution of drugs in the country, according to a former Ecuadorian counterterrorism and anti-narcotics officer who asked not to be identified because he was returning to government service.

Correa’s successor, Lenín Moreno, prioritized paying off the country’s foreign debt and imposed austerity measures and budget cuts that further weakened the nation’s security apparatus.

He eliminated government agencies, including the justice ministry, and slashed spending on policing and prisons, sectors seen as “expendable” in a country that had long been peaceful, according to Glaeldys González, who researches Ecuador for the International Crisis Group.

In neighboring Colombia, the government signed a landmark peace agreement in 2016 with the country’s largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which controlled much of the drug trade.

When the group disarmed, it cracked open the narcotrafficking business and led to new groups and routes, González said.

Some factions in FARC that refused to sign the accord moved their business to Ecuador, where they could continue operating

away from the watchful eye of the Colombian government.

Ecuador had long been a transit hub for drugs coming from Colombia and Peru, but after 2016, local groups became involved in manufacturing and distribution, joining forces with Mexican and even Albanian cartels.

Within three years, Ecuador had became the top exporter of cocaine to Europe, according to a European drug monitoring agency, where the use of the drug has been rising.

Just last week, Netherlands announced the record seizure in Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port, of cocaine from Ecuador worth $660 million.

Domestic and foreign groups took advantage of a country whose ability to take on narcotrafficking had been undermined by the cuts to the police and military, a weak justice system and a penal system largely run by gangs.

An economy that uses dollars as the local currency and weak financial controls also made it easier to launder drug money.

“There was no institutional framework like there was in countries that have had to face this problem,” González said, “because it had never been a problem in Ecuador.”

Complicating matters, many police, military and prison officials themselves have been tied to the drug trade. Numerous highlevel officials, including police commanders, have had their visas revoked by the United States because of ties to drug trafficking.

Today, at least three major international

crime groups operate in Ecuador: Mexico’s two most powerful cartels, Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación; as well as a European group that the police call the Albanian mafia.

“We are no longer facing common delinquents but the largest drug cartels in the entire world,” President Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador said last year.

As influential as such groups have been in Ecuador’s descent into drug-fueled killings and kidnappings, its prisons have also played a central role, serving as gang headquarters and recruitment centers.

Ecuador’s prison population surged to 40,000 inmates in 2021 from 11,000 in 2009, driven by a policy adopted under Correa that keeps the accused in jail until their trial, as well as harsher punishment for low-level drug dealers.

“You fill these prisons with people that need to survive there,” said Max Paredes, who focuses on drugs for an Ecuadorian research group. “Many were rejected by their families because of their drug use, and the only way of surviving was becoming part of the gangs.”

Lasso has been criticized for a plodding and inefficient response to the security crisis, and expectations are high for the country’s next leader to find ways to stem the avalanche of violence.

But the country’s interior minister, in a WhatsApp voice message to the Times, said the wave of violence was a response to increased government pressure on crime groups, including more drug seizures and moving many gang leaders to maximum-security prisons.

“So, of course, this generates these levels of violence,” said the minister, Juan Zapata. “This shows the strength of the state’s response.”

The candidates running Sunday have all emphasized their security credentials, especially after Villavicencio’s assassination. But there is also widespread pessimism about the government’s ability to regain control from violent groups that hold sway in many parts of the country.

Six men arrested in connection with Villavicencio’s killing are Colombian nationals, adding to a sense that outside forces are contributing to Ecuador’s slide into seemingly unstoppable violence.

Days after Villavicencio was shot dead, a local leader of a national political party in the coastal province of Esmeraldas was assassinated, the third politician killed in the past month.

Police officers arresting a man in the Guayaquil suburb of Durán, in Ecuador on May 30, 2023. During the arrest, his mother, Ana, insisted her son was a drug user, not a dealer.

Coup in Niger upends US terrorism fight and could open a door for Russia

By ERIC SCHMITT, DECLAN WALSH and ELIAN PELTIER

The military takeover in Niger has upended years of Western counterterrorism efforts in West Africa and now poses wrenching new challenges for the Biden administration’s fight against Islamic militants on the continent.

U.S.-led efforts to degrade terrorist networks around the world have largely succeeded in longtime jihadi hot spots like Iraq, Syria and Yemen. Not so in Africa, especially in the Sahel, the vast, semiarid region south of the Sahara where groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group are gaining ground at an alarming pace.

Niger, an impoverished nation of 25 million people that is nearly twice the size of Texas, has recently been the exception to that trend.

Terrorist attacks against civilians there decreased by 49% this year, largely because of the 2,600 French and U.S. troops training and assisting Nigerien forces and a multipronged counterinsurgency strategy by the deposed president, Mohamed Bazoum, analysts say. Niger has slowed, but not stopped, a wave of extremists pushing south to coastal states.

Now all that could be in jeopardy if a regional conflict breaks out or the junta orders the Western forces, including 1,100 U.S. troops, to leave and three U.S. drone bases — including one operated by the CIA — to be shuttered.

Western-led military operations offer no silver bullet against Islamic militancy in the Sahel, now the epicenter of global militancy. The past decade of French-led operations in the region, involving thousands of troops, failed to stop thousands of attacks.

Even so, a security vacuum in Niger could embolden the militants to ramp up propaganda, increase recruitment of local and even foreign fighters, establish mini-states in remote areas, and plot attacks against Western countries. Removing the relatively small U.S. presence would make it harder for military analysts to identify and quickly disrupt threats as they emerge, U.S. officials said.

It could also open the door to Russian influence in Niger in the form of the Kremlin-backed Wagner private military company, which already has a presence in neighboring Mali, U.S. officials say.

“The U.S. pulling out of Niger and closing its drone

bases would be a devastating blow to Western counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel,” said Colin Clarke, a counterterrorism analyst at the Soufan Group, a security consulting firm based in New York.

The stakes in the fight are rising fast. Tens of thousands of people have died violently and 3.3 million have fled their homes over the past decade in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which adjoin one another in West Africa. In two of them, the situation is rapidly worsening. The death toll in Mali doubled last year to about 5,000, while in Burkina Faso, it rose 80% to 4,000, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. On Tuesday, 17 Nigerien soldiers were killed and 20 wounded in an ambush by armed insurgents in southwestern Niger.

The violence is spreading from those three landlocked nations toward wealthier ones along the coast of the Gulf of Guinea. Militants from Burkina Faso have carried out attacks in northern Togo and Benin.

Niger is also battling a separate Islamic State group affiliate in the Lake Chad Basin, in the country’s southeast.

“Niger has been this barrier against terrorist groups for coastal countries,” said Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou, who was Niger’s prime minister until the coup and remains one of the government officials recognized by the United States and most African nations. “With a weakened Niger, there’s little chance that this role will hold.”

The International Crisis Group has warned that the violence could also spread into Ivory Coast, one of the region’s economic powerhouses.

“All the Gulf of Guinea countries are very worried,” said Pauline Bax, deputy director of the Africa program at the International Crisis Group. Amid the furor over the coup in Niger, and the potential for Wagner to find a perch there, the regions’ Islamic groups are likely celebrating a chance to expand their hold, she said.

Niger has been a centerpiece of the U.S.’ efforts to combat surging Islamic militancy in the Sahel region for a

decade and has taken on greater importance since the coup in Mali.

President Barack Obama ordered the first 100 U.S. troops to Niger in February 2013 to help set up unarmed surveillance drone operations in Niamey, the capital, to support a French-led operation combating al-Qaida and affiliated fighters in Mali.

By 2018, the U.S. military presence had grown to 800 troops, and the Pentagon was putting the finishing touches on a $110 million drone base in Agadez, in northern Niger, a major expansion of U.S. military firepower in Africa. The risks of the growing mission were laid bare in October 2017 when a terrorist ambush killed four U.S. soldiers, their interpreter and four Nigerien soldiers.

Niger, however, remained the main U.S. counterterrorism ally in the region under Bazoum, the country’s former interior and foreign minister, who was elected in 2021 in Niger’s first peaceful transfer of power between two democratically elected presidents since independence.

American officials praised Bazoum’s strategy, which used counterterrorism raids by U.S.-trained commandos and some level of dialogue with local groups to address their grievances. Fewer people were killed in Niger in the first six months of this year than in the first half of any year since 2018, according to the armed conflict project.

Since the uprising July 26, France and the European Union have suspended some aid to Niger. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that the U.S.’ security ties, worth about $500 million since 2012, were also at risk if the putsch was not reversed. The United States has suspended training and drone flights and restricted its troops to bases. France has also suspended all joint operations with Niger’s military.

With prospects for restoring Bazoum to power appearing dim, the Biden administration is weighing two main options, officials say. It could formally declare a coup in Niger, as the administration did when military forces staged recent takeovers in Mali and Burkina Faso, which would trigger broader cuts in U.S. aid, including military assistance. Or Washington could stop short of that designation, as it did with a military takeover in Chad, and seek an arrangement with the junta to continue counterterrorism cooperation.

So far, the situation has been relatively peaceful and has not forced the administration’s hand. But the threat of military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States, the regional bloc known as Ecowas, and dwindling hopes of a diplomatic resolution present the Biden administration with tough choices in the coming days.

“Niger was the last bastion of hope and security in the Sahel,” said J. Marcus Hicks, a retired two-star Air Force general who headed U.S. Special Operations forces in Africa from 2017 to 2019. “The idea that we’d leave a vacuum for further malign Russian influence would be a real tragedy.”

US Special Forces soldiers training Nigerian forces in Agadez, Niger on April 12, 2018. Niger has been a centerpiece of American efforts to combat surging Islamist militancy in the Sahel region for a decade.

Science, technology and war beyond the bomb

By PAUL KRUGMAN

If you’ve seen the movie “Oppenheimer,” which you should — trust me, it’s gripping even though it’s three hours long and you know how the story ends — you probably noticed several appearances by the physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi, who is portrayed in some ways as Oppenheimer’s voice of conscience. I was a bit puzzled when I watched, because I happened to know that Rabi wasn’t a resident at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. But the film was historically accurate: Rabi did visit Los Alamos on occasion, and was present for the Trinity bomb test.

Why wasn’t Rabi at Los Alamos? The film highlights his ethical qualms. But the truth is that he was involved in another secret project applying cutting-edge science to the war effort, MIT’s Radiation Laboratory, which basically worked on advanced radar. The Rad Lab arguably had an even bigger impact on the course of the war than the Manhattan Project, because it turned microwave technology, originally developed in Britain, into a radar system that German submarines couldn’t detect. This was a major factor in the Allies’ 1943 victory in the Battle of the Atlantic, which secured the sea lanes to Britain; this in turn set the stage first for the decisive defeat of the Luftwaffe in

early 1944, and then for D-Day.

There were other crucial scientific efforts, too, like the group at Johns Hopkins that developed the proximity fuse, which made anti-aircraft guns far more effective because they could bring down a plane without scoring a direct hit.

All of this was made possible not just by America’s economic might but also by its cultural and social openness. At one point in the movie Oppenheimer says that the only reason we might beat the Germans to the bomb is Nazi antisemitism; indeed, America’s war effort was crucially aided by our willingness to take in and make use of the scientific talents of refugees.

If you’re a history buff like me, you find this stuff fascinating in its own right. But it’s also relevant, even now, to American politics — and to the war in Ukraine.

Many people on the U.S. right seem to equate national greatness with military prowess and believe that military prowess is associated with macho posturing. The epitome of this attitude was Ted Cruz’s infamous ad contrasting tough-looking Russian recruits with U.S. recruiting ads that celebrated diversity, and declaring that we were made weak by having a “woke, emasculated” military. And you still hear that sort of thing despite the catastrophic and very recent failures of Russia’s un-woke, un-emasculated army.

This is all, of course, deeply stupid. Wars still require almost unimaginable courage and endurance on the part of combatants. But they haven’t been won by sheer brawn for a long time. They are instead won largely by production capacity — and intellectual creativity.

I’ve read many books about World War II. The book that did the most to change how I thought about the conflict was “How the War Was Won,” by the military historian Phillips P. O’Brien, which begins with this memorable sentence: “There were no decisive battles in World War II.” O’Brien shows that even the bloodiest, most stupendous battles, like the battle of Kursk in 1943, destroyed at most a few weeks’ worth of the losing side’s war production. What decided the war was Allied success in dominating first the seas, then the air — success that depended crucially on intellectuals like Rabi, who didn’t look like anyone’s idea of a warrior, or Alan Turing, who led the code-breaking efforts at Bletchley Park but whose gayness would have made him an outcast in the right-wing vision of what America should be.

O’Brien was, as it happens, one of the few prominent military analysts who disagreed with the consensus that Russia would quickly and easily conquer Ukraine, and has been a frequent and insightful commentator on the course of the ongoing war. He believes that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will eventually succeed; I’m not qualified to judge whether he’s right, but I do understand his reasoning.

Here’s how I’d put it: The Ukrainians discovered early on that they couldn’t pull off a blitzkrieg, using armored vehicles to punch a hole in Russia’s defense lines and then racing for the coast. When they tried that, they ran into dense minefields and withering artillery fire. So they reverted to tactics that seem on the surface almost like those of World War I: small-scale (and incredibly brave) infantry attacks that gain at most a few hundred yards at a time.

Under the surface, however — pun not really intended — what’s going on is something like the Battle of the Atlantic. Those infantry assaults force the Russians to respond, exposing their artillery systems in particular to attacks from Ukrainians using superior Western technology, supplemented by local ingenuity.

If this strategy is working — again, a question I’m not competent to answer — Ukraine’s slow gains on the ground aren’t a good indication of what’s really happening. If the optimists are right, the real story is the gradual degradation of the stuff behind Russia’s lines — counter-battery radar, artillery pieces, command centers and so on.

One notable thing about the Battle of the Atlantic is that the denouement was quite sudden. We now know that the Allies were gradually gaining the upper hand for many months before a sudden surge in U-boat losses forced the Germans to abandon their attacks.

Will there be a similar tipping point in Ukraine? I don’t know. But what we do know is that this war, like most modern wars, will be determined more by brains and open-mindedness than by tough-guy posturing.

Gobernador asegura que personalmente supervisa ASES

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi

Urrutia alegó el jueves que no hay problemas en la operación de la Administración de Servicios de Salud (ASES), luego de la renuncia de Edna Marín Ramos.

Pierluisi Urrutia mencionó que leyó la carta de varios integrantes de la Junta de Directores de la entidad, en la que advirtieron sobre las acciones de la funcionaria, que a juicio de los denunciantes, dejó a la entidad sin las herramientas para cumplir con la ley y su función fiscalizadora, al Plan Vital del gobierno.

“Se tomó conocimiento de la carta. Yo la leí personalmente también. Yo recibí una comunicación de la entonces directora ejecutiva sobre los mismos temas que se levantaron. En esa carta, la directora ejecutiva

presentó su renuncia, no se le pidió su renuncia, ella la presentó, ASES está totalmente bajo control, el que preside la Junta de ASES es el secretario de salud (Carlos Mellado López)”, dijo el gobernador a preguntas de la prensa.

“ASES ahora mismo tiene una directora interina, yo tengo reuniones periódicas con el personal de ASES, pues para coordinar, por ejemplo, el asunto de las recertificaciones de las personas que reciben de beneficios de Medicare. O sea que yo personalmente estoy insertado en ese proceso.

También me inserté cuando recientemente hubo un aviso de multas a las aseguradoras y he estado pendiente de que las aseguradoras han cumplido, están en el proceso de cumplir y entiendo que ya cumplieron con el pago de todas las tarifas que exigen su contrato”,

añadió.

El gobernador aseguró que el gobierno está en comunicación constante con el Centro de Servicios de Medicare y Medicaid (CMS) para el cumplimiento.

PONCE – La Oficina del Contralor Electoral reveló el jueves, que el Comité Municipal del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) de Ponce y el Comité Amigos Luis Irizarry Pabón, enfrentan multas de 159,944.24 dólares por violaciones a la Ley sobre el Financiamiento de Campañas.

“Se evaluaron testimonios, confidencias y transacciones de ambos comités para determinar conformidad con la Ley”, declaró el Contralor Electoral Walter Vélez Martínez en comunicación escrita.

“Las violaciones exponen a los comités a multas y devoluciones, totalizando 159,944.24 dólares por infracciones a la Ley 222-2011”, expresó Vélez Martínez.

Entre las infracciones detectadas, se incluyen: no identificar donantes, no reportar ni depositar 30,000 dólares en cuentas oficiales, desembolsos en efectivo contrarios a la Ley y recibir donativos en exceso, entre otros.

“Seguiremos vigilantes al financiamiento de campañas en Puerto Rico. Impondremos las multas que apliquen ante incumplimientos”, finalizó Vélez Martínez.

De las violaciones, se destaca que Oscar Santamaría Torres realizó donativos en exceso y que Luis Irizarry Pabón, alcalde de Ponce, solicitó repago de un préstamo personal de 50,000 dólares para su campaña. También se encontró que los comités no mantuvieron registros adecuados, en violación a las disposiciones de la Ley 222.

FEMA asigna sobre $12 millones al Instituto Psicopedagógico de Puerto Rico

POR EL STAR STAFF

GUAYNABO – La Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA, en inglés) asignó cerca de $12.4 millones al Instituto Psicopedagógico de Puerto Rico (IPPR) para trabajos permanentes a su estructura por daños tras el paso del huracán María.

La organización con sede en Bayamón ha ofrecido servicios a jóvenes, adultos y adultos mayores por cerca de 75 años. Entre los diagnósticos de los participantes que el IPPR atiende están la discapacidad intelectual, el síndrome de Down, el autismo y la perlesía cerebral, entre otras condiciones de salud.

“El IPPR cumple con atender unas necesidades puntuales para una población que requiere de gran atención. Que cuenten con unas instalaciones fortalecidas es crucial para su seguridad y para garantizar la calidad de vida de estos participantes. La agencia es muy consciente de la labor que lleva a cabo el instituto y permanecemos comprometidos en apoyar sus reparaciones hasta que se complete el proyecto”, sostuvo el coordinador federal de Recuperación por Desastre, José Baquero.

Además de sus servicios residenciales, el Instituto Psicopedagógico cuenta con un centro de enseñanza, donde se dan talleres de vida independiente a 108 per-

sonas. Las instalaciones cuentan con sala de urgencia con personal clínico las 24 horas, los siete días de la semana. Enfermeros graduados, un médico, una psicóloga clínica y un psiquiatra forman parte de los 122 empleados que atiende a esta población.

La directora ejecutiva de la organización, Elba Castellanos, explicó que el gobierno brinda servicios de discapacidad hasta los 21 años y es ahí que entra el IPPR a atender a la población que actualmente oscila entre los 22 y 91 años. Para ella, uno de los logros significativos del instituto es que los padres de los participantes se sientan tranquilos porque sus hijos reciben el cuidado que necesitan.

Contralor Electoral confirma donativos en exceso de Oscar Santamaría al alcalde de Ponce y lo multan con $160 mil

How the ‘Spider-Verse’ movies have changed animation for the better

By ESTHER ZUCKERMAN

When “TMNT,” a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated film, was released in 2007, critic Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in The New York Times that it offered “an impressive lack of visual texture.” She was not wrong. The eponymous reptiles are rendered in an inert computergenerated form, as if they were modeled from plastic and then put on a screen. Their green skin is dull and smooth.

The same cannot be said for the turtles in the latest incarnation of the ooze-filled tale: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.” In this new film, released Wednesday, our heroes — Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael — appear to spring from a (talented) high school doodler’s notebook. Their bodies and faces are rendered with an imperfect sketchy quality that makes their eyes vivid and their smiles vibrant. Their greenness is distinctive and gains extra contours when reflected in New York’s neon lights.

“Mutant Mayhem,” directed by Jeff Rowe, is representative of a larger shift that has occurred in the 16 years since “TMNT” was released. It’s part of a wave of films that proves computer-generated animation doesn’t have to look quite so, well, boring.

So what happened? Well, in 2018, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” was released. “Into the Spider-Verse” — along with its even more technically virtuosic sequel, “Across the Spider-Verse” this summer — bucked the trend of modern animation by invoking its hero’s comic-book origins with Ben-Day dots and wild, hallucinogenic sequences.

Since “Into the Spider-Verse” became a box office hit as well as an Oscar winner, major studios have grown less fearful of animation that diverges from the norm. The film proved that audiences wouldn’t reject projects that look markedly different from the house styles of Pixar (“Toy Story”) and DreamWorks (“Shrek”). Films like “Mutant Mayhem,” “The Mitchells vs. The Machines,” “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” and “Nimona” all have distinctive looks that are visually sensational without conforming to established playbooks.

It’s exciting for the filmmakers, too.

“All animators ever did before that was have lunch with each other and bitch about how all animated movies look the same,” Mike Rianda, director of “The Mitchells,” said in an interview. (Rianda is a member of SAGAFTRA and spoke before the strike.)

Rianda — who worked on that movie alongside Rowe, its co-director — was developing it at Sony Pictures Animation while “Into the Spider-Verse” was in the works. (Both were produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller; “The Mitchells” was eventually released on Netflix in 2021.) “The Mitchells,” about a kooky family’s road trip during an AI takeover, looks like a window into the overstimulated mind of its teenage hero, Katie Mitchell (voiced by Abbi Jacobson), an exuberant film geek — and Rianda and Rowe wanted the animation to have all of her quirks. They felt that the humans should look imperfect and asymmetrical rather than like Pixar’s “The Incredibles,” because the plot concerned a battle between Homo sapiens weirdos and regulated robots.

Still, there was pressure from the studio to go the standard route. “That’s easy,” Rianda said. “The computer knows how to do that. It’s already been taught that. It was wonderful to have ‘Spider-Verse’ going on in the next room so we could point to it and say, ‘Look, they’re doing it. We can do it too, right?’”

Films like “Into the Spider-Verse,” and those that have followed in its footsteps, blend animation techniques that are common in 3D computer-generated movies with those that were commonplace in the 2D hand-drawn animation that preceded it. It’s not just that the images are less photorealistic, the movements of the characters are as well. The results are more broadly impressionistic in the ways that Looney Tunes cartoons, Disney classics or decades of anime have been.

For instance, when the cat hero of “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” sticks his sword into the thumbnail of a giant in the bravura musical opening sequence, the sky goes yellow as the giant gasps with pain. The giant’s thumb turns red, and white lines reverberate in the background mimicking the throbbing.

“The Last Wish,” directed by Joel Crawford, is linked to the era of animation dominated by CGI; it is a spinoff of “Shrek,” a hallmark of that time. For Crawford, “Into the Spider-Verse” showed studios that “audiences were not only accepting of different styles but craved it because you get the same thing over and over.”

Crawford wanted to keep Puss recognizable to fans but put him in the context of a “fairy tale painting.” That meant rendering his fur more as brush strokes rather than strands. Fur is actually a good barometer of

the shift. In the 2022 DreamWorks caper “The Bad Guys,” which follows a group of animal criminals, the wolf ringleader’s coat looks like it has been shaped by pen strokes, a change from the way his fuzzier lupine brethren were crafted in Disney’s 2016 comedy “Zootopia.”

But all the animation directors I spoke with argued that the art has to come from a thematically relevant place. For “Nimona,” now on Netflix, directors Troy Quane and Nick Bruno landed on what they described as a “two-and-a-half-D” style that evoked medieval paintings, a fitting look for their graphic-novel adaptation set in a futuristic world with the chivalrous customs of the Middle Ages. A trailer for Disney’s upcoming “Wish” has an illustrated quality in line with its storybook fable plot about a star descending from the sky. The effect is something out of an Arthur Rackham illustration or a Beatrix Potter book mashed up with “Frozen.”

Rowe’s initial goal for “Mutant Mayhem” was just to be as bold as possible, excising any timidity he had felt about pushing boundaries on “The Mitchells.” As he spent more time working on the world of the Turtles, he figured out where those impulses were coming from and how they’d fit into the story. He and the production designer, Yashar Kassai, rediscovered drawings they had done as teenagers. “There’s just this unmitigated expression and honesty to those kinds of drawings,” Rowe said. “It’s a movie about teenagers; that’s our North Star. Let’s commit to the art style looking like it was made by teenagers. Ideally the world and the characters will look like they drew themselves.”

As a viewer, I find it’s invigorating to see the animators on “Mutant Mayhem” quite literally coloring outside the lines. When the turtles jump across rooftops, the moon behind them appears to be vibrating scribbles. You can see (digital) pen lines in explosions and expressions.

“At first ‘Spider-Verse’ gave people permission,” Rowe said. “And now I think with ‘Spider-Verse 2,’ it’s made it a mandate. I think if anyone makes a film that looks like a CG 3D film from the last 30 years now, it’s going to feel dated.” For audiences, that’s great news.

Gwen Stacy (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) and Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) in “SpiderMan: Across the Spider-Verse.” The success of that film and its predecessor has convinced once-fearful studios to take more chances

Is albarino the next great white wine? It depends.

mitting subsistence farmers to plant other crops, like potatoes or carrots, underneath.

Rías Baixas is historically a land of tiny vineyards, and parras are everywhere — in backyards and in front. In 1988, the first year of the appellation, the region produced about 500,000 bottles, Pomares said. Now, annual production is about 50 million.

That’s become a problem as albarino has grown in popularity. Companies and cooperatives making cheap albarinos have planted in fertile, loamy soils. Big companies from outside the region have also moved in, hoping to add an albarino to their portfolio. They are outbidding local producers for grapes, said Alberto Nanclares who, with his partner, Silvia Prieto, makes superb wines under the Nanclares y Prieto label.

“These people are breaking the market,” he said.

no reason to change styles. His basic albarino is delicious and can age for a decade or more. But the real treat is the Do Ferreiro Cepas Vellas, made from old vines around the Méndez home. A 2016 was gorgeous — intense, concentrated and textured.

Pazo de Señorans is an exception to the story of small producers. It’s an old estate, with a manor house and a large production facility. Marisol Buena runs the winery with her daughter Vicky Mareque Buena and the winemaker, Ana Quintela Suárez. Their first vintage also coincided with the beginning of the appellation, and they haven’t changed their style.

“People thought we were crazy,” Mareque said. “They thought albarino should be young and fruity. My mother and Ana said, ‘If they don’t buy it, we’ll drink it ourselves.’ ”

By ERIC ASIMOV

Here in Rías Baixas, the Galician home of albarino in northwestern Spain, the most typical answer to a direct question is, “It depends.”

It’s not that Galicians are noncommittal or hedging their bets. It’s more that they are aware of the complexity of many situations and don’t want to overly simplify matters.

That’s why if you ask a winemaker here about the future of albarino, or best practices for growing the grapes or making the wines, the response you are most likely to get is, “It depends.”

The answers to these sorts of questions are especially pertinent now as Rías Baixas is at an inflection point. Since Rías Baixas became an appellation in 1988, growers and winemakers have been encouraged to produce albarino and plenty of it.

The result has been a popular commodity wine: cheap, aromatic, easy to drink and forget. In many people’s minds, that’s all albarino can be.

Yet, as is so often the case with wine, ideas about a grape’s potential for complexity and aging become fixed not because of a grape’s actual limits but because few people have tried make anything more

of it. But when a producer treats a grape more ambitiously, things begin to change — just look at aligote, silvaner and bobal. How albarino is farmed and what sort of wine is intended will dictate its potential.

Rather than settling for simple and fruity, some winemakers in Rías Baixas are producing singular albarinos — savory, saline and contemplative, perhaps recalling bottles of old.

“Albarino in the past was an aristocratic wine,” said Eulogio Pomares, a walking Galician history book who with his wife, Rebecca, makes excellent wines under the Zarate label. “People used to grow red grapes to drink every day. Only the rich grew whites.”

Granite, whether decomposed as soil or as granite bedrock underneath, shapes the wine and gives it character. So does the climate. Rías Baixas is among the muggiest areas in Spain, in part because of its proximity to the Atlantic. Mildew and rot are constant threats to the grapes.

Partly in response, the region developed a pergolalike parra system, in which vines are trained 6 to 8 feet off the ground on pillars to overhead crossbeams, all made of granite. The system permits air to circulate underneath, keeping the vines cool and mitigating the humidity while per-

Their wines may be cheap, but they cannot compare with those of Zarate or Nanclares y Prieto. A 2015 Zarate El Palomar, from a tiny vineyard planted by his wife’s family in 1850, was rich, pure and profoundly mineral. A Nanclares y Prieto 2013 Coccinella Cepas Vellas, made from century-old vines, was fresh and saline after 10 years.

Wines like these are relatively expensive for albarino, roughly $50 a bottle, if you can find them. They are made in tiny quantities and snapped up. But even basic cuvées from these producers, around $25, are a major step above the $12 bottles from the big companies and cooperatives.

The idea of making long-lived albarinos is not new. Two estates, Do Ferreiro and Pazo de Señorans, have produced wonderful, multidimensional albarinos since the 1990s.

Gerardo Méndez started Do Ferreiro with his father, Francisco, in 1988, the year the appellation was formed. His family had long made wine at their home, like many small farmers.

“When the wine was made at home, it was meant to age,” he said. “As Rías Baixas began, the companies said they needed wine that could go on the market right away.”

Méndez, who now works with his son, Manuel, and daughter, Encarna, saw

Their wines are built to last. My favorite is the Selección de Añada, a singlevineyard bottle that is aged at the winery for 10 years before release. The current release, 2013, is creamy, saline and mineral but very young. The 2005 was super-fresh, expressive and at a peak now.

6 Albariño producers To seek out now

These six albarino producers, in alphabetical order, are among the best and most interesting in Rías Baixas.

Bodegas Albamar Pure, intriguing albarinos and many other wines, too. (Selections de la Viña, Brooklyn, New York)

Do Ferreiro Each of its albarinos is superb, especially Cepas Vellas, or old vines. Give it a minimum five years of aging. (De Maison Selections, Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

Nanclares y Prieto Excellent albarinos, bottom to top. (José Pastor Selections/ Llaurador Wines, Fairfax, California)

Pazo de Señorans Benchmark producer making top-notch albarinos. Selección de Anada is especially fine. (European Cellars, Charlotte, North Carolina)

Rodrigo Méndez Experimental, analytical producer who makes terrific albarinos under the Leirana label. (Olé & Obrigado, New Rochelle, New York)

Zarate Wonderful albarinos, especially single-vineyard El Palomar. (Rare Wine Company, Brisbane, California)

The San Juan Daily Star

Rodrigo Méndez, an experimental farmer and winemaker who pursues traditional methods of making albariño, at his winery in the Rías Baixas region of Spain on its Atlantic coast, where albariño wine is king, Aug. 2, 2023.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE WILFREDO GAUDINO

BONILLA; ANAMARYS

RIVERA DIAZ Vs. EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: PO2023CV02296.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

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

RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno localizado en el Barrio San Patricio, Sector El Hoyo, Carretera Ciento cuarenta y tres (143), kilómetro seis punto siete (Km. 6.7) interior del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico con una cabida superficial de SEIS MIL NUEVE PUNTO DOS MIL CIENTO TREINTA METROS CUADRADOS (6,009.2130 MC), equivalentes a UNO PUNTO CINCO MIL DOSCIENTOS OCHENTA Y NUEVE CUERDAS (1.5289 CDAS). En lindes por el NORTE con terrenos de don Felipe Rivera y con terrenos de doña Rosa M. Suárez, por el SUR, con terrenos de don Miguel Petrilli; por el ESTE, con terrenos de don Miguel A. Torres y el camino municipal Hoyo San Patricio y por el OESTE, con más terrenos de don Felipe Rivera y camino municipal que da a la carretera Estatal Número ciento cuarenta y tres (143). No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. No tiene número de catastro asignado. Los interesados incluyen a colindantes desconocidos, anteriores dueños desconocidos y posibles herederos de dueños anteriores desconocidos de la Propiedad antes mencionada. Por la presente quedan notificados que Wilfredo Gaudino Bonilla y Anamarys Rivera Díaz, han radicado en este Tribunal una Petición de Expediente de Dominio sobre la propiedad antes descrita, alegando que adquirieron la propiedad mediante compraventa mediante escritura número setenta y dos (72) del 3 de mayo de 2023 ante el notario público

Félix A. Santiago Miranda, de sus anteriores dueños Milagros Olivero Delgado, Carlos Javier Medina Olivero, Jan Carlos Medina Olivero y Crystal Marie Medina Olivero y que el periodo de posesión de la propiedad

de los peticionarios y todos los anteriores dueños sobre pasa un término de 30 años de posesión y por ello solicitan Orden para que Ordene al Registrador de la Propiedad de Ponce II que inscriba dicha finca a nombre de los Peticionarios. Se apercibe que si transcurrido Veinte (20) días desde la publicación de este Edicto, no ha habido reparos u oposición contra la demanda interpuesta, este Tribunal dictará Sentencia de acuerdo a lo solicitado en la misma. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Copia de la contestación deberá ser notificada al Licenciado Salvador Márquez Colón a su dirección en: 485 Ave. Tito Castro, Ponce, PR. En cumplimiento de una orden dictada por este Tribunal expido el presente bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 4 de agosto de 2023.

CARMEN TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, PUERTO RICO. KEILENE RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

LYDIA MARGARITA ROLÓN MELÉNDEZ PETICIONARIA EX-PARTE

CIVIL NUM. CG2023CV01388.

SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS

ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO

LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: CUALQUIER PERSONA

QUE PUDIESE TENER INTERES Y TODA

PERSONA A QUIEN PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA.

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

El Sr. Rafael Rolón García, padre de la parte peticionaria, es-

tuvo ocupando el referido bien inmueble hasta el momento de su fallecimiento. El causante Rafael Rolón García obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel García García, quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento alguno que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de éste fallecer, el Sr. Rolón le cedió en vida a la peticionaria todo derecho sobre la propiedad inmueble antes descrita. Sin embargo, desde que ocurrió dicha cesión la peticionaria ha estado poseyendo el inmueble como dueña por más de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento es el siguiente: - RUSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número Lote lE con una cabida superficial de 392.6300 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.0999 cuerdas. En lindes al Norte, en 14.2081 metros con terrenos de Aida M. Rolón Meléndez y en 8.3113 metros con un Camino Existente; al Sur en 22.82 10 metros con Carretera Estatal #734; al Este en 12.6443 metros con Rafaela Rolón Meléndez y al Oeste, en 16.4298 metros con Antulio Aponte. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https.//unired. ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cidra y enviando copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO.

VICTOR M. RIVERA TORRES, con dirección en la Avenida Fernández Juncos 1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono 787-727-5710, fax: 787268-1835. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a fin de que cualquier persona interesada pueda comparecer ante el Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha del la ultima publicación del edicto, a fin de alegar lo que el derecho de estos convenga. LISILDA MARTINEZ AGOSTO, Secretaria.

Arleen Hernandez Peluyera, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal I.

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante vs. SUCESION DE FRANCISCO JAVIER MERCED HERNANDEZ, compuesta por sus hijos KIARA MARIA MERCED GUZMAN, KLARA LIZ MERCED GUZMAN, JOSHUA JAVIER MERCED GUZMAN, KENNETH JAVIER MERCED

FUENTES y SEBASTIAN YAREL MERCED

ACEVEDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM. CG2023CV00698 (705). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: SUCESION DE FRANCISCO JAVIER MERCED HERNANDEZ, compuesta por sus hijos KIARA MARIA MERCED GUZMAN, KLARA LIZ MERCED GUZMAN, JOSHUA JAVIER MERCED GUZMAN, KENNETH JAVIER MERCED

FUENTES y SEBASTIAN YAREL MERCED

ACEVEDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Yo, EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 11 de septiembre de 2023 a las 9:30 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán

de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Caguas durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 18 de septiembre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 25 de septiembre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número H guión Uno (H1) del plano de inscripción del Proyecto de Viviendas a Bajo Costo denominado VBC guión Setenta y Nueve (VBC-79), radicado en el BARRIO TOMÁS DE CASTRO de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de DOSCIENTOS OCHENTA Y CUATRO PUNTO SESENTA Y SIETE (284.67) METROS CUADRADOS; en lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle número Uno (1); por el SUR, con solar número H guión Dieciséis (H-16); por el ESTE, con solar número H guión Dos (H-2); y por el OESTE, con la Calle número Dos (2). La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Caguas, Sección Primera, finca número 36,636, inscripción séptima. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Villa Criolla, Calle Acerola, H-1, Caguas, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $84,668.72 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.00% anual, desde el día 1ro. de junio de 2020, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $9,200.20, 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. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $92,002.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $61,334.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $46,001.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes

preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 31 de julio de 2023. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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Parte Demandante VS. IVELISSE FALCÓN CHAPARRO

Parte Demandada

CIVIL NÚM. HU2022CV00901. SALÓN NÚM. (207). SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS

A: IVELISSE FALCÓN CHAPARRO: AUTORIDAD PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO O A SU ORDEN: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número

doscientos cuarenta y nueve (249) en el plano de inscripción de la Comunidad Rural Antón Ruiz Bajandas de los Barrios Río Abajo y Antón Ruiz del término municipal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.1285 cuerdas equivalentes a quinientos cinco punto veintitrés (505.23) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con Calle D de la comunidad; por el SUR, con parcela doscientos cincuenta de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela doscientos cuarenta y siete de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela doscientos cincuenta y uno de la comunidad. Enclava edificación.

Finca número #11,539, inscrita al folio 155 del tomo 291 de Humacao. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Lote 249

D, Bo. Anton Ruiz, Humacao, P.R. 00791. 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. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $14,000.00, sin interés anual, vencedero en ocho años a partir de la firma de la escritura, constituida mediante la escritura número 80, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de febrero de 2008, ante el notario René Avilés Pérez, e inscrita al folio 1401 del tomo 630 de Humacao, finca número 11,539, inscripción 11ra., como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 25 de julio de 2018, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 14 de marzo de 2008 al Asiento 1240 del Diario 889). Condiciones Restrictivas a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda por el término de 8 años. 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 es-

tablece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $53,346.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #79, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de febrero de 2008, ante el notario René Avilés Pérez, e inscrita al folio 1400 del tomo 630 de Humacao, finca número 11,539, inscripción 10ma., como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 25 de julio de 2018, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 14 de marzo de 2008 al Asiento 1239 del Diario 889). La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $53,346.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 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 $35,564.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 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 $26,673.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $41,903.22, con intereses a 6.50% anual, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2020, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 4% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $5,334.00, 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

interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Vega Baja a, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de julio de 2023. LUIS F ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA.

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MORTGAGE LLC

Parte Demandante V. SUCESION DE ISAMIYR BOSQUES

TORRENS COMPUESTA

POR ISADORA

SOFIA BOSQUES

MORTEROLA (MENOR), REPRESENTADA POR

SU MADRE CHARLENE

MORTEROLA, JOHN

DOE Y JANE DOE

COMO MIEMBROS

DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: FCD2017-0675.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.

LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE

AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO

LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, hago saber a la parte demandada SUCESION DE ISAMIYR BOSQUES TORRENS

COMPUESTA POR ISADORA

SOFIA BOSQUES MORTEROLA (menor), representada por su madre Charlene Morterola, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE

COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES (CRIM) y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 14 de junio de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $170,000.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación:

URB COUNTRY CLUB, GD17 CALLE 201, CAROLINA, PR 00982, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es: URBANA: solar marcado con el número DIECISIETE (17) del bloque GD del plano de inscripción de la tercera extensión de la Urbanización Country Club, Tercera Etapa, situada en el Barrio Sabana Abajo de la Municipalidad de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS SETENTA Y NUEVE PONTO CERO SIETE METROS CUADRADOS (379.07 m.c.) y colinda por el Norte, en quince punto treinta y cuatro metros (15.34 m.), con terrenos propiedad de Don Nicolas Iturregui; por el sur, en catorce punto noventa y nueve metros (14.99 m.), con la calle doscientos uno (201) de dicha Urbanización; por el Este, en veinticinco metros (25.00 m.), con el solar dieciocho (18); por el Oeste, en veinticinco metros (25.00 m.) con el solar dieciséis (16). En este solar enclava una estructura de concrete para fines residenciales. Finca 3338 inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 90 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituida par Isamyr Bosques Torrens, soltera, en garantía de un pagare a favor de Scotiabank of PR, o a su orden par $170,000.00 al 3 ½%, vencedero el 1 de Julio del 2046, según Esc. #65 en Carolina a 24 de Junio del 2016 ante Sonia E. Franceschi Portalatin, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Carolina, finca #3338 inscripción 17ma, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. (ii) DEMANDA: Radica-

da en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 10 de agosto del 2017, en el Caso Civil #FCD-2017-0675, sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido par Scotiabank of PR vs Isamyr Bosques Torrens par $168,110.71, anotado el 31 de mayo del 2018 en el Sistema Karibe de Carolina, finca #3338, Anotación A y última, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 16 de marzo de 2023, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $168,110.71 de principal con interés al 3.5% anual desde el 1 de febrero de 2017, más cargos por demora mensuales, más las cantidades debidas de contribuciones e impuestos, primas de seguro contra riesgo y seguro de hipoteca hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $17,000.00 estipulados para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados en caso de reclamación judicial, cantidades todas garantizadas por la hipoteca.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 7 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $170,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $113,333.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 21 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $85,000.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta eje-

cución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de julio de 2023. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAROLINA. ***

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A: MAYRA S

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abogados de la parte demandante, cuya dirección es la que deja indicada, con copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, copia de la cual le es servida en este caso, dentro de los TREINTA (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Debe saber que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 08 de agosto de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE M. MONCLOVA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. MULTINATIONAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Civil: Núm.: CA2023CV01307.

Sala: 409. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MULTINATIONAL

FINANCIAL GROUP, INC; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERES EN LA OBLIGACION CUYA CANCELACION POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.

(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 9 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 11 de agosto de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 11 de agosto de 2023. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. LUCAS G RAMOS RIVERA

Demandado(a)

Civil: CA2022CV03654. Sala 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LUCAS G RAMOS RIVERA - COND JARDIN SERENO 10 CALLE LA CERAMICA APT 1003 CAROLINA PR 009832209; 10 HILL ST APT 14C NEWARK NJ 07102-5627. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de 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 10 de agosto de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto

Rico, el 10 de agosto de 2023. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

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Demandante V. NANETTE BÁEZ BÁEZ

Demandado(a)

Civil: VA2023CV00011. Sala:

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

A: NANETTE BÁEZ BÁEZ.

(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 9 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 10 de agosto de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 10 de agosto de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA I. BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs JORGE L. LLULL VAZQUEZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01501.

Salón: 301. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JORGE L. LLULL VAZQUEZ. P/C EDWIN O. SERRANO

PEÑA. PO BOX 71418, SAN JUAN PR 00936.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de julio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 10 de agosto de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 10 de agosto de 2023. CARMEN TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SANDRA GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs DAVID O.

VELEZ SOTOMAYOR

Demandado

Civil Núm.: PO2022CV02779.

Salón: 301. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: DAVID O.

VELEZ SOTOMAYOR. P/C EDWIN O. SERRANO PEÑA. PO BOX 71418, SAN JUAN PR 00936. (Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de julio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución

en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 10 de agosto de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 10 de agosto de 2023. CARMEN TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SANDRA GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. PEDRO J. QUINTANA

Demandado(a)

Civil: TA2022CV00896. Sala 403. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: PEDRO J. QUINTANA - BO. QUBRADA CRUZ, SECTOR EL BRAME, CARR 156, KM 4.1, TOA ALTA, PR 00953. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de 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 edic-

to 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 11 de agosto de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 11 de agosto de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. YOVANNY GELVACIO PAULINO JIMÉNEZ, SU ESPOSA KEISHLA JANICE BIDOT MARTÍNEZ, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2022CV02445.

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, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, 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 7 de agosto 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 catorce, Bloque H, Urbanización Santa Juanita, Barrio Minillas de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, compuesto de quinientos trece metros, sesenticinco centímetros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Visalia; por el SUR, con Bayamón Hills Corporation; por el ESTE, con Solar trece; y por el OESTE, con Solar quince. Este solar está atravesado en su extremo Sur por una tubería abierta para desagüe de doce pulgadas, que discurre de Este a Oeste. Contiene una casa de hormigón y bloques para una familia. Inscrita en la finca número 18,731, al folio 175 vuelto del tomo 414 de Bayamón Sur. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. La dirección de la propiedad según consta en el pagaré: Lot #14 Block H Santa Juanita

Development Minillas Ward, Bayamón PR t/c/c H-14 Visalia Street San Juanita Development, Bayamón, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 20 de junio de 2023 y notificada en este caso el 23 de junio de 2023, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $139,353.44 y el interés que será al 3.875% anual, vencedero el día 1 de mayo de 2046, según la escritura número 182, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de mayo de 2016, ante la notario Carla Colón Gómez, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 18,731, inscripción 26ta. 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 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $139,353.44. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 21 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $92,902.29, 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 28 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $69,676.72, 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 confir-

mada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de agosto de 2023. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE HORTENSIA ESQUILÍN RAMÍREZ ET, ALS

Demandado(a)

Civil: Núm.: CA2023CV00092. 402. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ENRIQUE CORUJO ESQUILIN COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE HORTENSIA ESQUILÍN

RAMÍREZ, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE HORTENSIA ESQUILÍN RAMÍREZ.

(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 11 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 15 de agosto de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 15 de agosto de 2023. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. KEILA GARCÍAA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DEL FINADO RAMON RIVERA

VIERA COMPUESTA

POR RAMON RIVERA, MICHELLE RIVERA, JEAN RIVERA, XYZ (HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS); ESTADO LIBRE

ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Y CRIM

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV00776. (501). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: LA SUCESIÓN DEL FINADO RAMON RIVERA

VIERA COMPUESTA

POR RAMON RIVERA, MICHELLE RIVERA,

JEAN RIVERA, XYZ (HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS); ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM).

Yo, MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el Cuarto Piso, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Bayamón durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 21 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 28 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO REXVILLE PARK de Bayamón Sur. Apartamento: V-343. Cabida: 92.032 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, en 21 pies con 10 pulgadas equivalentes a 6.49 metros y centésimas, con espacio abierto. Sur, en 21 pies con 10 pulgadas equivalentes a 6.49 metros y centésimas, con área común. Este, en 52 pies con 5 pulgadas equivalentes a 15.586 metros y milésimas V-344 y área común. Oeste, en 52 pies con 5 pulgadas equivalentes a 15.586 metros y milésimas, con el apartamento U-342. Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Este que da al área de pasillo del edificio. Consta de 3 habitaciones, 2 baños, cocina, comedor, sala y balcón. Le corresponde a este apartamento de 2 espacios de estacionamientos identificados con los números 240 y 241. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del Condo-

minio de 0.00750%.” Inscrita al folio 66 del tomo 1808 de Bayamón Sur, finca número #71787, inscripción 4ta del Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Condominio Rexville Park, 200 Calle 17 A, Apt. 343, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $86,143.40 de principal, más intereses al tipo convenido al 5.750% anual, desde el día 1ro. de agosto de 2022, hasta su total y completo pago, más la cantidad de $13,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, que la parte demandada se obligara a satisfacer como suma líquida y sin necesidad de nueva liquidación y aprobación por este Tribunal, más la cantidad que se adeuda mensualmente a partir del 1ro. de septiembre de 2022, por concepto de las partidas enumeradas en el párrafo primero de las Determinaciones de Hechos, más los cargos por demora, más cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca., todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $130,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $86,666.66 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $65,000.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta 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. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en

sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 14 de agosto de 2023. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS JOSÉ

MEDINA GONZÁLEZ

Demandante Vs. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD

ROE (POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2023CV02047. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADOS.

Se le notifica por medio del presente edicto que se ha presentado en este tribunal una demanda en solicitud de cancelación de un pagaré extraviado a favor de GREAT ATLANTIC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, o a su orden, por la suma de $36,300, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero al 1 de diciembre de 2021, crédito ejecutivo 10% del principal, según consta de la escritura número 241 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de noviembre de 1991, ante el Notario Público Juan H. Soto Solá, inscrito al folio 62 del Tomo 1297 de Caguas I, finca 45881, inscripción cuarta, sobre la siguiente propiedad: Urbana: Parcela de terreno identificada como lote D-10 en el plano de inscripción localizado en la calle #1 de la Urbanización San Rafael en el Barrio

Tomás Castro del municipio de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una

cabida superficial de 154.00 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en 11.00 metros lineales con la calle #1; por el SUR, en 11.00 metros lineales con el lote D-47; por el ESTE, en 14.00 metros lineales con el lote D-9; y por el OESTE, en 14.00 metros lineales con el lote D-11. Enclava una estructura para fines residenciales con las facilidades usuales. Inscrita al tomo Karibe de Caguas I, Finca número 45881. Por la presente se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de 30 días contados a partir del diligenciamiento del emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda. Deberá enviar copia de su alegación responsiva a la abogada de la parte demandante, cuya información es la siguiente:

Lcda. Lisdaira Serrano Martínez RUA 17356

273 Ave. Ponce de León

Plaza 273, Ste.700

Hato Rey PR 00917 lisdairaserrano@gmail.com

Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del tribunal, hoy 8 de agosto de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL

GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN

HECTOR A.

AROCHO ACEVEDO

Demandante Vs ANA SILVIA PERALTA GONZALEZ Demandado (a)

Civil Núm.: SS2023CV00386.

Sobre: DESAHUCIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR

EDICTO. A: ANA SILVIA PERALTA GONZALEZ.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 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 circula-

ción 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 15 de agosto de 2023. En San Sebastían, Puerto Rico, el 15 de agosto de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. SERGIO MARRERO VIERA (DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO); IVETTE MARIEL BERRIOS FLORES (TITULAR REGISTRAL)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: HU2023CV00978.

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

A La Parte CoDemandada: IVETTE MARIEL BERRIOS FLORES (TITULAR REGISTRAL) A SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: FÍSICA Y

POSTAL: PORTALES DE LAS PIEDRAS C-4 CALLE 5 LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00771.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en contra de la co-demandada la parte co-demandada Sergio Marrero Viera, adeuda a la parte demandante $114,306.09 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de febrero de 2023, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte co-demandada Sergio Marrero Viera adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00%

de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,937.30. Además la parte co-demandada Sergio Marrero Viera se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,937.30 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $11,937.30 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 11, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de enero de 2020, ante el notario Carlos Martínez Olmo, consta inscrita al Folio 6 del Tomo 301 de Las Piedras, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. 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, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 15 de agosto de 2023, en Humacao, Puerto Rico. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE M. MONCLOVA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Demandante Vs. NATHANIEL PEREZ GARCIA (DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO); NORMAN EUGENE PARKHURST MITCHEL, NAIDA RODRIGUEZ DE PARKHURST Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; WILBERT NICHOLAS PARKHURST, PATRICIA SPEIER DE PARKHURST Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; NORMAN EUGENE PARKHURST RODRIGUEZ III, MARIA DEL ROSARIO VALDERAS DE PARKHURST Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS; PEDRO ANTONIO ORTIZ ABREU, NIDZA RAMOS DE ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS (TITULARES REGISTRALES)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: HU2023CV01007.

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

A La Parte CoDemandada: NORMAN EUGENE PARKHURST MITCHEL, NAIDA RODRIGUEZ DE PARKHURST Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS; WILBERT NICHOLAS PARKHURST, PATRICIA SPEIER DE PARKHURST Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS; NORMAN

EUGENE PARKHURST RODRIGUEZ III, MARIA DEL ROSARIO VALDERAS DE PARKHURST Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; PEDRO ANTONIO ORTIZ ABREU, NIDZA RAMOS DE ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS (TITULARES REGISTRALES); A LA SIGUIENTE DIRECCIÓN: URB. TERRAZAS DEL MONTE F-1 CALLE CEIBA LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00771. Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte co-demandada Nathaniel Pérez García, adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $164,508.56 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de enero de 2023, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.75% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además la parte co-demandada Nathaniel Pérez García adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $16,867.00. Además la parte co-demandada Nathaniel Pérez García se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $16,867.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $16,867.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 538, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de julio de 2021, ante el notario Edwin D. Rodríguez Rosado, presentada al Asiento 2021-098564-HU01 del Sistema Karibe y en su día será segregación de la finca número 1,679, la cual consta inscrita al Folio 69 del Tomo 69 de Las Piedras, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se

le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. 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, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 15 de agosto de 2023, en Humacao, Puerto Rico. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE M. MONCLOVA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA

CENTURION INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. POR SÍ Y COMO PARTE INTERESADA

Demandante V. EQUITY PRIME MORTGAGE, LLC, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE

Demandado(a)

Civil: GB2023CV00263. Sobre: RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE. DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. P/C LCDA. ERIKA MORALES MARENGO. PO BOX 195337, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00919. (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 11 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 11 de agosto de 2023. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 11 de agosto de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ZUHEILY GONZÁLEZ AVILÉS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR 903

IVETTE RIVERA

HENRIQUEZ; KATHERINE

MERCEDES RAMIREZ

RIVERA; MICHAEL LEE

RAMIREZ RIVERA; HERBERT RIVERA

ROSES; ALICIA MILAGRO

RIVERA FERNANDEZ; MARIA ISABEL GARCIA FERNANDEZ

Demandantes Vs. ANTONIO

RAMIREZ RIVERA

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV06381.

Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS; CONSIGNACIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: ANTONIO

RAMÍREZ RIVERA.

312 BUTTONWOOD DR., KISSIMMEE, FL. 34743. Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique al Lcdo. Edwin Santiago Rivera, 207 Calle Caobas, Urb. Hyde Park, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00927-4237, Teléfono Celular: (787) 4484489, E-mail: santiagolawoffice@yahoo,com, abogado de

la parte demandante, copia de la contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación final de este edicto. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radicando el original de la misma 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 Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de agosto de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA

BÁEZ ACABA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P.

Parte Demandante Vs. DORAL MORTGAGE LLC, AHORA BANCO POPULAR DE PURTO RICO CORPORATION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV06853. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO

POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (300 días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los

abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjalilsa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré que consta en el testimonio número cuatro mil ochenta y siete (4087) de la escritura número ciento veintidós (122), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día veintinueve (29) de abril de dos mil nueve (2009), se constituyó hipoteca en garantía de pagaré suscrito ante el notario público Melvin E. Rodríguez Torres, a favor de Doral Mortgage LLC, ahora, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de ciento catorce mil dólares ($114,000.00), con intereses al cuatro punto ocho setenta y cinco por ciento (4.875%), vencedero el primero (1ro) de mayo de dos mil veinticuatro (2024) y cuya obligación hipotecaria se encuentra inscrita al folio veinte dos (22) del tomo mil cincuenta y nueve (1059) de Monacillos, finca número trece mil setecientos sesenta y siete (13,767), inscripción novena (9na). Que grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar designado con el número treinta y ocho (38) en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Antonsanti, que radica en El Barrio Monacillos de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida supeficial de quinientos dos punto cincuenta (502.50) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros, con el solar treinta y siete (37) de dicha urbanización; por el SUR, en treinta punto quince (30.15) metros, con el solar número treinta y nueve (39) de dicha urbanización; por el OESTE, en diecinueve punto cero cero (19.00) metros, con la calle San Agustín de dicha urbanización. Inscrita al folio cincuenta y siete (57) del tomo trescientos sesenta y dos (362) de Monacillos, finca número trece mil setecientos sesenta y siete (13,767). Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan Sección tercera (3ra). SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 8 de agosto de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Yadira Díaz González, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.

LAS DE FAMILIA Y ASUNTOS DE MENORES REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN. VERÓNICA AMADOR COLÓN

PARTE DEMANDANTE Vs ROBERTO CARRASQUILLO MARRERO

PARTE DEMANDADA

CIVIL NÚM.: BY2023F01095. SALA 4003. SOBRE: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. s.s.

A: ROBERTO CARRASQUILLO MARRERO

Por la presente, se le notifica que la parte demandante de epígrafe ha presentado ante este Tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Divorcio (Ruptura Irreparable). La parte demandante se encuentra representada por:

Lcda. Samaria Carrasquillo Díaz RUA 18,468

Urb. Palacio Imperial #1375, Toa Alta, PR 00953 Tel. 787-945-5193 samaria.carrasquillo@gmail.com

Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término 30 días a partir de la publicación del último edicto, notificando copia de su contestación al abogado de la parte demandante; se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: hhtps:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico a 9 de agosto de 2023. Laura I Santa Sanchez, Secretario. Norman A Alamo Arriaga, SubSecretario.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA APEROL LLC

Demandante Vs FABRICS INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRY CORP.; FABRIXS INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRY CORP; KCS ENTERPRISES LLC; EDWARD FELICIANO LOPEZ; HACIENDO NEGOCIOS COMO

KITCHEN CLEANING SERVICES; KIARAS, LLC; EDWARD FELICIANO LOPEZ, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; COMPAÑÍA X Y Z; ASEGURADORA ABC Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01862. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO; SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA; DESCORRER EL VELO CORPORATIVO; DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: EDWARD FELICIANO LÓPEZ POR SÍ Y COMO COADMINISTRADOR DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES QUE TIENE CONSTITUIDA CON SU ESPOSA DENOMINADA CON EL NOMBRE FICTICIO DE FULANA DE TAL; EDWIN FELICIANO LÓPEZ HACIENDO NEGOCIOS COMO KITCHEN CLEANING SERVICES; FABRICS INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRY CORP.; FABRIXS INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRY CORP.; KCS ENTERPRISES, LLC; KIARAS, LIC. SABANA ABAJO INDUSTRIAL PARK, LOT 16, CALLE B, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00981. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante una Demanda, cuyos hechos se detallan en la misma, la cual puede ser examinada en la secretaría de este Tribunal. REPRESENTA a APEROL LLC, el bufete RIVERA COLON, RIVERA TORRES & RIVERA RIOS (Lcdo. Víctor M. Rivera Torres) con dirección en Ave. Fernández Juncos #1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfonos (787) 727-5710, fax (787) 268-1835, email: victor.rivera@rcrtrlaw. com. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece en el término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, el demandante podrá solicitar que se dicte sentencia en rebeldía, declarándose con lugar las contestaciones, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO, bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 09 de agosto de 2023.

BLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN SALA DE FAMILIA Y MENORES DE BAYAMÓN

JUDINIL

BERRIOS FIGUEROA

Parte Demandante Vs. GABRIEL

TOLEDO RIVERA

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: BY2023RF00729.

Sobre: CAPACIDADES TUTELARES; DESACATO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A. GABRIEL TOLEDO RIVERA. PO BOX 8356, LOVELL, MASSACHUSETTS 01853.

B. CERTIFICO que este escrito ha sido presentado de manera electrónica a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual emite notificación simultánea a todas las partes correspondientes a través de sus abogados de récord a sus respectivas direcciones electrónicas. Dicha notificación constituye una notificación adecuada a las partes, a través de sus representantes legales, en cumplimiento con las reglas de Procedimiento Civil y normas aplicables a la presentación de escritos por vía electrónica.

Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante, JUDINIL BERRIOS FIGUEROA ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: CAPACIDADES TUTELARES; DESACATO. Representa a la parte demandante, el abogado cuyo nombre y dirección se consigna de inmediato:

LCDA. MILAGROS RIVERA RIVERA

RUA 20507

P.O. BOX 50823, TOA BAJA, P.R. 00950-0823

Tél. Núm. (787) 525-3290

Email: lcda.riveramilagros@gmail.com

Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, y notificar al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte peticionaria o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Usted deberá presentar su alegación

responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia previa a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido bajo firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón. Puerto Rico, hoy 31 de julio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NITZA RESTO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE YAUCO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.

Demandante Vs. LYDIELIS OLIVERAS NAZARIO

Demandada

Civil Núm.: YU2021CV00580. Salón: 001. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

LYDIELIS OLIVERAS

NAZARIO. PO BOX 427 YAUCO, P.R. 00698; SAN FRANCISCO II K37 CALLE

13, YAUCO P.R. 00698; 802 SKY ST. URB. HILL VIE, YAUCO P.R. 00698. 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 siste-

ma SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Yauco Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de julio de 2023. En Yauco, Puerto Rico, el 19 de julio de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DAISY QUIÑONES VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADA COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE RINCON (ANTES COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE AGUADA)

Demandantes Vs. RUBEN SOLER RODRIGUEZ Demandada

Civil Núm.: AU2023CV00333. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO.

A: RUBÉN SOLER RODRÍGUEZ.

Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-2650334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Aguada, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de agosto de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE AGUADA. NOEMÍ ROMÁN BOSQUES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

US women’s soccer coach Vlatko Andonovski resigns

By CLAIRE FAHEY and ANDREW DAS

Vlatko Andonovski, the head coach of the United States women’s national soccer team, has resigned, three people with direct knowledge of the situation said earlier this week, ending a relatively tumultuous tenure managing what was once the world’s preeminent team.

The U.S. Soccer Federation planned to announce Andonovski’s departure as coach on Thursday, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the move publicly.

Andonovski’s four-year contract was scheduled to expire at the end of the year. U.S. Soccer will appoint an interim coach for two friendly matches this fall but hopes to have a permanent replacement named by the end of the year in order to begin preparations for next summer’s Paris Olympics.

Andonovski’s resignation was not unexpected. The United States greatly underperformed at this year’s Women’s World Cup after winning the previous two tournaments. The team had its earliest elimination in tournament history after losing a penalty shootout to rival Sweden in the round of 16. The United States scored only four goals in a World Cup it entered as one of the favorites, beating only one of its four opponents, Vietnam, and drawing with the Netherlands and Portugal during the group stage.

Andonovski, 46, had been a head coach in the National Women’s Soccer League for seven years before U.S. Soccer

announced his hiring in October 2019. His predecessor, Jill Ellis, stepped down after five years with the team after the United States won the 2019 Women’s World Cup, making Ellis the first coach to win back-toback Women’s World Cups.

Andonovski won the first 16 games he coached, including titles in 2020 at the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament and the SheBelieves Cup. The coro-

navirus pandemic struck six months into Andonovski’s tenure, pushing the Tokyo Olympics back a year to 2021 and complicating his first two years on the job. Once the Games came around, the United States entered as favorites but won only a bronze medal.

As the World Cup began, the United States’ ability to capture an elusive threepeat — no team has won three titles in a row

since the tournament’s inception in 1991 — was called into question almost immediately. The Americans beat Vietnam in their opening game, but by a comparatively modest 3-0 margin, nothing like the 13-0 romp over Thailand that opened their 2019 title run. The Americans would score only once more, on a header from Lindsey Horan that evened the score with the Netherlands, 1-1.

A scoreless tie with Portugal was enough for the United States to advance but not win its group, spurring the need for a “Belief” social media campaign heading into the round of 16 and opening the national team up to criticism from its own, with former players such as Tobin Heath and Carli Lloyd voicing dissatisfaction with the team’s style of play.

Andonovski was criticized for his tactical decision-making, including his decisions on substitutes. He also had star players like Alex Morgan and Julie Ertz playing different roles than they had in the past, with mixed results. Exciting newcomers like Ashley Sanchez and 18-year-old Alyssa Thompson barely played.

In the end, a millimeter was the threshold to let Sweden advance and stop the United States — and Andonovski — miles short of expectations.

FIFA Women’s World Cup Semifinals

Spain 2, Sweden 1 England 3, Australia 1

Saturday’s Match for 3rd Place (all times Eastern Standard Time) Sweden vs. Australia (4 a.m., FOX)

Sunday’s Final Spain vs. England (6 a.m., FOX)

Neither Messi, nor Miami, has come back to earth

By VICTOR MATHER

After all the hubbub over Lionel Messi’s five goals in his first three games with Inter Miami, soccer fans relaxed a bit, knowing that the law of averages was bound to catch up to him. And it did, but only a little. In his next three games, Messi had four goals. He now has nine goals in six games. And Inter Miami, frankly poor before Messi showed up, has six straight wins in the Leagues Cup tournament and has advanced to the final.

Let’s recap. Messi entered Game 1 against

Cruz Azul of Mexico early in the second half. He scored deep into injury time to win the game, 2-1. He had two goals in a 4-0 win against Atlanta and two more in a 3-1 win over Orlando.

It seemed like the good times might end in his first away game, at Dallas on Aug. 6. Despite Messi opening the scoring with a shot from outside the box, Miami trailed by 3-1 after an hour and by 4-2 with 10 minutes to play. But Messi curled in a free kick that was headed in for an own goal, then effortlessly spun another free kick over a leaping wall to tie the score. That took the game to penalties, and

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Lionel Messi is flying high with Miami.

Under Vlatko Andonovski, the United States placed third at the Tokyo Olympics and lost in the round of 16 at this year’s Women’s World Cup.

Alex Collins, a former NFL running back, is killed in a motorcycle crash

By DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR

Alex Collins, a former NFL running back who played for the Seattle Seahawks and the Baltimore Ravens, died last weekend in a motorcycle crash in South Florida, authorities said.

Collins, 28, was driving a 2004 Suzuki GSX-R600K motorcycle on Sunday when he crashed into a 2002 Chevrolet Suburban SUV in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

The driver of the SUV was turning

left when Collins struck its rear passenger side. The impact of the crash was so forceful, it sent Collins through the rear passenger side window, the statement said.

Collins was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said, adding that the driver of the SUV, who was not named, remained nearby and cooperated with the investigation.

Collins’ family confirmed the death Monday in a statement through the Seahawks, saying he was cherished by his family and friends. “All who truly know him can attest to his drive, determination and larger-than-life personality,” the statement said. Funeral arrangements were to be announced later.

John Schneider, the Seahawks executive vice president and general manager, said in a statement that Collins’ smile and dance skills will be missed. “Alex would light up a room and was

Neither Messi, nor Miami, has come back to earth

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Messi duly scored the first of five perfect pens for Miami.

Messi scored the final goal, a onetouch shot from close, in a 4-0 rout of Charlotte in the quarterfinals last Friday.

In the semis in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, Messi scored an absurd goal from more than 35 yards out. He shot before anyone in the stands, or in the Philly defense, seemed to even consider the possibility that he would, or could. Keeper Andre Blake’s despairing dive was far too late. That game ended in another rout, 4-1.

That small sample size of three games has become a slightly larger sample size of

six games. And who can resist dividing nine by six and noting Messi’s 1.5 goal per game ratio? Surely such a high number is not sustainable? After all, last year’s leading scorer in MLS, Hany Mukhtar, averaged 0.7 goals a game, and even the amazing Erling Haaland had a 1.0 ratio in the Premier League last season.

Yet Messi has defied logic before. With Barcelona in La Liga he averaged 1.35 goals a game in 2011-12 and 1.44 in 2012-13. A decade later he is exceeding those marks.

Messi is getting the headlines. But which is the more remarkable headline:

“All-Time Great Player Plays Well”? Or

“Bad Team Suddenly Starts Winning”? Miami winning six games in a row looked ex-

tremely unlikely before Messi’s arrival, as its 5-14-3 league record attested. It has scored 21 goals in the Leagues Cup and surrendered 7. That plus-14 goal difference would be second best in the MLS table, where the teams have played more than 20 games each.

Inter has also added two former Messi teammates at Barcelona, midfielder Sergio Busquets and defender Jordi Alba, who has a goal and two assists so far. Robert Taylor, a Finnish wingback, seems invigorated by Messi’s arrival and has four goals and three assists in the Leagues Cup. But make no mistake, this is Messi’s story.

Inter Miami plays Nashville, and its attacking star Mukhtar, on Saturday night.

beloved by our entire building,” Schneider said. “He enjoyed life and attacked it on the football field. He was one of the most productive runners in SEC history.”

Collins often performed a short Riverdance-style routine after scoring touchdowns. It became his signature move and was a popular talking point in interviews. He said in a 2018 interview on the talk show “Pickler and Ben” that he got into Irish dancing through his high school football coach’s family. He praised the dance with helping him on the field. “It’s definitely made me a lot more explosive,” he said. “I want to give all the credit to Irish dancing because just having to be on my toes the entire time, bouncing around, it’s so tiring.”

Collins was a 2016 fifth-round pick for the Seahawks out of Arkansas.

He played three seasons with the Seahawks and two for the Ravens, producing 483 carries for 1,997 yards and 18 touchdowns, according to the NFL. Arguably, his best year in the league was in 2017 for the Ravens, where he had 973 yards and six touchdowns.

After finishing in the NFL in 2021, Collins played for the Memphis Showboats of the USFL this past spring. His time there ended when he was placed on the injured reserve list.

Miami is favored. But those are not the most surprising odds currently being offered.

Win or lose Saturday, Messi and Miami return to the MLS regular season on Aug. 26. Using any normal logic, they are dead and buried. They are last in the Eastern Conference, 12 points and six places out of the final playoff spot with 12 games to play. And even if they rally, the MLS playoffs are difficult to win. Teams sneaking in the bottom two spots must win five rounds, four of them single elimination games.

Surely even Messi couldn’t pull off that kind of parlay? Or could he? Oddsmakers currently have Miami as the third favorite to win MLS at just 7-1.

Baltimore Ravens running back Alex Collins in 2019. He played two seasons with the team.

Sudoku

How to Play:

Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

Sudoku Rules:

Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Crossword

Answers on page 30

Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

Something or someone may urge you to make a major move, Aries. Be sure you make it in the right direction. Remember that strength lies in numbers. To conquer, people must unite. Factions of people continuing to fight among themselves only aggravate the problem. The key is to accept one another’s differences and work together on the larger issues that affect us all.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Your ego is strong today, Taurus, and you have a strong will. This is a good time to put your plan for world domination into effect. Be sure you channel your powerful emotions into positive outlets. Create rather than destroy. Energy that isn’t used in a positive way will end up manifesting as accidents or hostility toward people who don’t deserve it.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

Focus more of your power on your home and family life, Gemini. Take care of domestic issues and stick to household chores and duties. The more you do to your home, the more others will be inspired to pitch in and help. You may find it difficult to connect with certain people, so it might be best to give yourself some time alone.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Don’t be surprised if emotions flare up between you and someone close on a professional or social level, Cancer. The issue may be difficult to resolve now. People feel rather sensitive. If they hear something they don’t like, especially an opinion that may seem too critical, they’re likely to shut down. You might want to consider saving anything of a sensitive nature for tomorrow.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

People may be coming on strong, but you will be right there to meet them with an equally powerful rebuttal, Leo. The problem is, the person who confronts you is talking about apples and you’re talking about oranges. Get off your soapbox for a minute and listen to the real issue. Don’t get caught in misunderstandings or things could backfire later.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

If something doesn’t make sense to you, Virgo, question it. Be strong and confident. Don’t let others take advantage of your sensitive and nurturing personality. Your general tendency is to give more than you receive, but this may leave you feeling depleted. Put an end to this cycle. Be conscious of how you distribute your energy. Do something for yourself.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

Try to control your aggression, Libra. People are likely to be a bit more sensitive than usual. You can use your powerful nature in positive ways by turning your energy inward and conquering the demons within. It may feel like others are trying to put a monkey wrench in your gears, so be careful.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

It’s time to be more aggressive regarding your needs, Scorpio. Think of your heart as a powerful muscle that needs a tough workout. You’ll want to surround yourself with positive people who believe in you and support your efforts. Pump yourself up with vitality and self-confidence. Make time for exercise and meditation. Bring more balance and harmony to your life.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

You’re in the hot seat today, Sagittarius. Other people might put you on the spot for no apparent reason. This uncomfortable feeling could lead to tension if you overreact. Be careful that you have all the facts on the issue before you react. The whole situation may be a big misunderstanding. Maintain a level head tempered with kindness and respect.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

If there is something you need to fight for, this is the time to do it, Capricorn. For a while now you’ve been doing research on the best way to proceed. The time has come to take action. You have an extra boost of vitality, and your warrior instinct is strong. You feel like a volcano ready to expel boiling hot lava. Trust and follow your instincts.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

If there is something you need to fight for, this is the time to do it, Capricorn. For a while now you’ve been doing research on the best way to proceed. The time has come to take action. You have an extra boost of vitality, and your warrior instinct is strong. You feel like a volcano ready to expel boiling hot lava. Trust and follow your instincts.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Take pride in your nurturing instincts, Pisces. Rescue an injured bird or join a conservation group. Do something to help save the whales. Take a more active role in the preservation of the planet. Become a concerned citizen who regularly speaks out for what you believe in. Don’t let other people’s political agendas get in the way of your true purpose.

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