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Last May 27, LUMA President & CEO Wayne Stens by assured power customers that the private consortium was ready to handle any emergency; however, in recent days, the company accepted that it lacks the necessary personnel to carry out maintenance and repair work on lines and poles, to clear vegetation and for the efficient operation of the electrical substations.
“I didn’t care which government [led by which par ty] implemented it. What’s important is that Puerto Ricans have the quality of life they deserve,” she said. “Thank fully, the bill’s on its way to the governor, and we ask him to sign it to guarantee the health, safety, and quality of life of people.”
Méndez Silva also pointed out that “on Thursday, while the first demonstration [against LUMA Energy] was taking place, Guánica had been without electricity from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.!”
(PDP) Reps. Ángel Matos García, Lydia Méndez Silva and Luis “Narmito” Or tiz Lugo held a press conference Sunday in which they charged that the private consortium LUMA Energy -- which is in charge of the electric power transmission and distribution system on the island -- is not ready for the peak of hurricane season. Given that reality, they are asking that Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia approve House Bill (HB) 299, which cre ates at least six full-time shelters (by region) where people can go and have their energy needs met.
“Today, as the peak begins and with the National Hurricane Center watching two systems heading toward the Caribbean, we have to ask ourselves if we are ready,” he said. “LUMA Energy has reneged on its commitment to maintaining an electrical system.”
As for the preparation for the season, Matos García said “the government of Puerto Rico announced to the country 90 days ago that we were ready.”
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I asked if LUMA guaranteed that the vegetation man agement employees and linemen from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) would be part of their workforce,” she said. “They are the ones who know the system; Puerto Rico is not just plains; it has mountains. The government cannot be bringing in contractors who do not know our island.”
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The bill proposes at least six full-time shelters in ret rofitted buildings that have been out of use. The buildings would have electrical plants, cisterns, and all the equip ment the citizenry needs to keep safe in an emergency.
Reps. Luis “Narmito” Ortiz Lugo, Ángel Matos García and Lydia Méndez Silva
“We don’t want the list of purchased cots, diesel, or supplies,” Méndez Silva said. “Where’s the coherent plan to maintain the Medical Center with power? Let’s have the orchestrated plan.”
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“You have to remember the meetings when [former island secretary of state] Larry Seilhamer was in charge.
Also, the legislators propose that the shelters operate yearround, using the spaces for training and other municipal matters. The shelters must comply with applicable local and federal laws. They would be administered by the Bu reau of Emergency Management and Disaster Administra tion.
“The government has to have an alternative in case of a general blackout, a storm, a hurricane, the earth quakes themselves … an alternative that allows us to sup ply energy,” Méndez Silva said. “In 2002, we talked about the fact that Puerto Rico had no community centers or obvious and safe facilities for our people. It took 20 years, and we implore the governor to address House Bill 299, which creates a full-time shelter system.” She added, “we urge the governor to face the coun try and to meet with LUMA to go over the list of shelters ready for the peak of hurricane season.
“The blackouts, service interruptions, and the chaot ic situation we have experienced in recent weeks with our energy system, with only light and sporadic rains, show that LUMA and the government lied to the country when they said they were ready to handle any event that impacts us during the hurricane season,” said Matos García, the majority spokesman in the island House of Representa tives.
Ortiz Lugo added that “we have a citizenry that is mostly“Thereelderly.”is a large group of elderly people who are bedridden, and the pandemic has not gone away,” he said. “Therefore, I urge the governor to approve House Bill 299 to build regional shelters with everything they need be cause we cannot depend on the country’s electrical sys tem. LUMA has to go because it’s useless.”
HB 299 has been in the works since 2002, said Mé ndez Silva, who has asked that it be approved.
The second task would be to determine if the UPR system can develop an alternative method of placement free of charge for the student and offered in all campuses and units so that the potential student can visit UPR early in the process of admission to the institution.
The enrollment figures of the system and its ,campuses, when examined in compara tive terms with previous years, indicate the following: Humacao has 18% fewer students and the others, although not so precipitous, also experienced significant percentage drops: Carolina (-15%), Bayamón (-12%) and Medical Sciences (-12%).
Senate Bill 992 establishes that even though the “Puerto Rico Internal Revenue Code” addresses the forgiveness of student loans, the Legislative Assembly considers it necessary to amend the provision so that the forgiveness of such loans is not considered as taxable income.
From 2010 to 2022, the UPR system lost more than 20,805 students or 32% of its stu dent population, and in several campuses the percentage loss exceeds the system average. For instance the Utuado campus has 82% fewer students, Carolina 50%, Humacao 43% and Bayamón 41% fewer students.
The proposed amendment to the “Internal Revenue Code of Puerto Rico” proposes that “income derived from the for giveness of debts, in whole or in part, shall not be subject to a tax on income under this Subtitle, if such forgiveness is due to any of the following cases: the debt forgiven, in whole or in part, is a graduate or undergraduate student loan and is forgiven by the government of the United States of America.”
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Senate bill would exclude forgiven student loans from gross income
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“In principle, I favor the use of the stu dent’s grade point average for admission, and the use of the placement test to determine the level of proficiency in English, Mathematics and Spanish,” Ferrao said in the report.
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“The economic situation in Puerto Rico has required that, for decades, thousands of university students have the need to apply for loans to finance their studies,” Dalmau Santiago said. “The debt of these federal loans are recovered immediately, which has caused many of our students to finish their degrees submerged in debt and with little chance of maintaining an income that allows them to meet the payment. This results in long-term economic complications. I urge the House of Representatives and the governor to turn this measure into law to guarantee relief to our professionals.”
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The third proposal would be to establish an early admission process calendar for the UPR system, so that acceptance letters can be sent out as early as October of the year prior to admission, allowing the student to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, student aid forms and make decisions. Currently, acceptance letters are sent in March and April.
There are 43,333 students enrolled in the UPR system, or 5,667 fewer students, in the academic year that began this month. In August 2021, UPR had 49,000 students. Ferrao said it is precisely the decline in university enrollment, along with declining figures at the school level and other demo graphic declines, such as lower fertility rates, that affect Puerto Rico, that has led him to propose the need to reformulate admissions to the UPR system.
The fourth proposal would be to establish in the UPR system a calendar that allows for the beginning of courses both in August and in January in all programs, except those that for accreditation reasons are not allowed.
Because of an 11.5% decline from last year in students enrollment, University of Puerto Rico (UPR) President Luis Ferrao Delgado has proposed waiving the college board as a requirement for admission. The possibility of no longer requiring the college board is one of seven changes to the admission process Ferrao proposed as part of his University Academic and Administrative Plan 2025, which he presented to the board of trustees last week. The report describes 18 areas for the transformation of the university.
The sixth proposal would be to establish in the UPR system an admission policy for members of the adult population 25 years or older who have not completed a high school degree or, on the contrary, are interested in pursuing graduate-level degrees.
“For this, it is important to review the cred it expiration policy, readmission or transfer policy so that the student is not penalized,” FerraoHesaid.also said that after an agreement of understanding is signed with the island Department of Education, officials will start up and coordinate a plan to visit and recruit students at high schools.
“The UPR system has endured six con secutive years of a decline in enrollment (in some campuses even seven or more),” Ferrao said in the report. “If this trend continues, we could lose close to 30% of our current enrollment over the next decade.”
The fifth proposal would be to establish an open admission policy, like the one used at the City University of New York, or CUNY, in which applicants will be admitted to the UPR system once they complete forms and have the required average. Through the place ment exam mechanism, officials can then determine which campus and under what level the student can be enrolled (bachelor’s degree or associate degree).
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Given the crisis in enrollment, Ferrao said he has entrusted the vice president of student affairs with a reevaluation and rethinking of the current UPR admissions policy that will revolve around seven crucial aspects.
The first would be to rethink the admission formula in the UPR system to determine if UPR should continue requiring the College Board as criteria for admission or only consider the student’s academic grade point average.
Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago said Sunday that he has filed a bill to exclude from gross income the full amount of any student loan debt forgiven by the federal“Presidentgovernment.Joseph Robinette Biden’s announcement, in addition to representing a relief for our students, promotes economic development,” Dalmau Santiago said in a written statement. “Citizens who benefit from this federal initiative will have fewer financial obligations and greater purchasing power available to invest in other areas of Puerto Rico’s economy.”
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“At that time at 12:30 a.m. I contacted Juan by phone to find out how he was doing, to indicate the commitment of the police to the press and thank God he was fine,” he said.
“As we can see, the important date is September 9, not November 30,” he said. Furthermore, if LUMA Energy continues to fail, which is feasible, in order to cancel the contract, there must be another private operator available to replace LUMA because the fiscal plans of both commonwealth and PREPA require the privatization of the transmission and distribution system and that will not change whether the politicians or other groups want it or not, the lawyer said.
Lawyer offers scenarios on fate of LUMA Energy contract
According to law enforcement authorities, a group of protesters threw rocks and cobblestones at the officers. Two policemen were transported by ambulance for medical treatment after they were hit in the face and legs.
Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa said regarding the rioting that his police officers were putting their safety on the line to keep the peace.
PREPA, which has been in bankruptcy since 2017, is currently in mediation to work on a new debt adjustment plan to restructure some $9 billion in debt. A previous debt adjustment plan was cancelled because the government objected to it. Since the summer of 2021, LUMA Energy has been in control of PREPA’s transmission and distribution system, but last week and into the weekend protests have been mounted demanding the contract’s cancellation amid anger over the private consortium’s inability to reduce power outages or limit their duration. Because PREPA remains in bankruptcy, LUMA Energy and PREPA are working under the terms of a supplemental agreement that is slated to expire Nov. 30.
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Lawyer Rolando Emmanuelli, who represents UTIER in the bankruptcy case, said in a radio interview the contract with LUMA Energy should be cancelled because it goes against the law and is leonine, which means it benefits only LUMA Energy. He acknowledged that the oversight board must agree to the contract’s cancellation.
López Figueroa also lamented the inci dent in which Noticel photojournalist Juan Costas was injured.
Mudd is also assuming that the Financial Oversight and Management Board is not going to allow the government to cancel the contract unless there is another private operator ready and willing to take control of PREPA’s transmission and distribution system.
The first scenario assumes that PREPA and its creditors reach an agreement on how to restructure PREPA’s debt. Under the first scenario, Judge Laura Taylor Swain would establish a calendar of hearings to confirm the debt adjust ment plan by December, January or February. However, the oversight board will seek to extend the Nov. 30 expiration date of the LUMA Energy supplementary contract.
Police arrested a 16-year-old boy Sat urday night after an incident in which four police officers were injured during the third straight night of protests against LUMA Energy in Old San Juan. According to the authorities, a group of protesters threw rocks and cobblestones at the officers. Two policemen were transported by ambulance for medical treatment after they were hit in the face and legs. The 16-year-old was arrested after he crossed the perimeter and attacked the officers. He resisted arrest and his actions sparked the riot, according to police, who contacted the parents of the minor to come to the place where he was detained.
The lawyer said the first scenario can be divided into two parts. “If the adjustment plan is confirmed, in all probability the LUMA contract will be validated,” Mudd said. “If the plan of adjustment is not confirmed for any compelling reason, Bankruptcy section 930(a) indicates that the bankruptcy case is dismissed. The bondholders could then request a trustee for PREPA and if 25% or more of them request it, the Court has to grant it. In that case, LUMA will probably decide to Underleave.”thesecond scenario presented by Mudd, the PREPA case mediation team and/or the oversight board and the bondholders announce to the court on Sept. 9 that there is no consensual adjustment plan. “Here things get interesting,” the lawyer said. “The Board, the Unsecured Creditors Committee, the UTIER [Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union] and the Retirement System could request litigation if the bondholders have liens on the rate. The bondholders will request that the bankrupt cy be dismissed and ask for the appointment of a trustee.”
Under a third scenario presented by Mudd, the media tion team on or before Sept. 9 seeks more time to continue the mediation.“JudgeSwain may or may not grant it,” he said. “If she does, I don’t think it will be more than 30 days and we go back to scenarios 1 and 2. If she decides not to do it, then comes scenario 2.”
“Gentlemen, my police officers are also going without power,” the commissioner said at a press conference. “We are part of the people, part of Puerto Rico and we are providing a service to the citizens so that they can Lópezdemonstrate.”Figueroasaid the protesters who staged the violent incidents are the same ones who have participated in other activ ities with the intention of attacking police.
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Mudd presented three possible scenarios as to the fate of the contract.
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Nonetheless, he noted that the supplementary contract with LUMA will expire automatically on Nov. 30, which “presents a great opportunity to get rid of LUMA Energy without seeking permission from the Board and a transition period.”
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“This is a small group that went to San Lorenzo, who were in Rincón,” he said. “It is a group whose agenda is not the cause for which they are demonstrating. The agenda is to seek a protagonist’s role with the police, to attack the police, to be on the front page or have an However,audience.”hesaid,although the individu als are known to the authorities, they cannot arrest them to prevent violent incidents.
A lawyer who practices in federal court says on his blog that certain givens or conditions must have taken place for the government’s public-private partnership contract with LUMA Energy to be cancelled. (Photo by Alejandra M. Jover Tovar)
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“Given that scenario, it is likely that LUMA will simply decide to leave,” Mudd said. “If the bankruptcy is dismissed, LUMA will likely decide to leave.”
John Mudd said the current Sept. 9 deadline for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to finish mediation with creditors and inform the Title III bankruptcy court whether there is a debt adjustment plan will determine the fate of the LUMA Energy contract.
If Judge Swain decides to litigate the matter, she could take more than a year to do so with no guarantee that PREPA will win the litigation.
In his blog Muddlaw, the lawyer, who practices in federal court, said certain givens or conditions must have taken place for the contract to be cancelled. The Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnership Authority must have first sent a communication to LUMA under section 14.1(c) of the contract, alleging fault or that the company has not complied with the terms of the contract. Officials also must have given LUMA Energy 60 days, which can be extended another 30 days, to remedy the faults.
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Mayra I. Rivera Cordero, the organizing secretary of the General Workers Union (UGT by its Spanish initials) charged over weekend that on the 10th floor of the central building of the Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH by its Spanish initials) in Hato Rey there has been a severe outbreak of COVID-19 and the management of the agency is failing to act to prevent the infection from continuing to spread throughout the facilities.
The increase in cases, which began to become evident in the middle of last week, Rivera Cordero said, has not been addressed with the diligence and haste that the situ ation demands, despite the continuous claims of the union representatives in the DTRH and the workers who have been affected.
Mayra Rivera Cordero, organizing secretary of the General Workers Union Central building of the Department of Labor and Human Resources in Hato Rey
Union decries poor response to COVID outbreak at Labor Dept.
“We request that the Secretary of Labor, Gabriel Maldonado González, immediately order his personnel to take the necessary measures to protect the physical integrity of all the workers who work in the Department,” the union leader said. “Five Data Collectors of the Department of Statistics have also tested positive for COVID this [last] week. We must not overlook the persistence of the COVID epidemic on our island. The Department of Health reports some 300 new cases of infection and some 10 deaths per day due to this cause.”
Rivera Cordero said that starting last week continuing into Saturday, there have been 10 known positive cases of the virus among the personnel working on that floor of the DTRH building, and the demands of the workers attempting to enforce the protocols to disinfect the facilities to prevent the disease and reorganize duties according to the current reality, have been totally ignored by their superiors.
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“This situation is highly worrisome,” the union leader said. “We recognize that today there are alternative medicines to attack COVID, there is a high number of vaccinated people among the population, and individually the use of masks as a protective measure is practiced by a significant group of people, but this does not exempt the employers from ensuring compliance with their responsibility to provide adequate facilities, free of health and safety risks, for the development of the tasks of the personnel.”
Some believe their job is clear: to teach reading and math, not race and sexuality. Still others say some contested concepts were never part of the curriculum to begin with.
For Sheryl Posey, a school psychologist in the Or lando area, the new requirements pose a “huge ethical conundrum.”
He teaches a state-outlined curriculum that focuses on government, including the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. “We teach the bench marks,” he said. “That’s plenty to keep us busy.”
The law, nicknamed “Don’t Say Gay” by critics, also re quires schools to notify parents about changes in student services, such as if a transgender or nonbinary student wants to use new bathrooms or locker facilities, or seeks to change their name or pronouns at school.
Scott Davey, a seventh-grade civics teacher in the Tampa Bay area, anticipates “no difference whatsoever.”
State officials have said that the Parental Rights in Education Act limits instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, not mere discussion.
Florida. “Accusing public education of indoctrinating students on the basis of race, and then making the same accusation that they are indoctrinating them with LGBTQ propaganda.”Nowhere is that more visible than Florida, where DeSantis has made issues surrounding the teaching of gender identity and race central to his platform, and has led the charge for parental oversight in education, amid a reelection campaign and, some political observers theorize, a run for president in 2024. Such policies have found support in battleground states, according to at least one recent poll, and a majority of candidates that DeSantis endorsed for school boards in Florida won their elections this week.
Still, the law has left some educators wondering: Where does discussion end and instruction begin?
The Florida Department of Education declined to comment, citing pending litigation.
Renel Augustin, who teaches African American history at a high school in Davie, Fla., Aug. 24, 2022. “I’ve never used the word oppression in my classroom,” he said. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is battling what he calls “indoctrination” in public schools.
“It was always written to be vague and to be sweeping in its effect, because the goal was the chilling effect,” said Joe Saunders, senior political director for Equality Florida, an LGBTQ advocacy group that is suing the state.
When a student confides in her about their gender identity or sexuality, she said it is her practice to ask whether they have a safe person to talk to at home.
The change is emblematic of the fear, uncertainty and confusion many educators in Florida say they are feeling this school year, as new laws take effect restricting teaching on gender identity, sexual orientation and race and expanding the oversight of books. Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has championed the laws, argues that public schools should focus on teaching core academics, not on pushing a liberal ideology, and that parents have the right to know what is being taught in the classroom.“Ourschool system is for educating kids, not indoctri nating kids,” he said last month at a conference for Moms for Liberty, a parent group that has become a powerful force in school politics. The changes come with significant stakes for school districts, which may be sued over violations of the law focusing on LGBTQ identity. Within the first few weeks of school, teachers in some parts of the state have been asked to take down stickers showing support for LGBTQ students, to review every book on their classroom shelves and, in at least one case, to remove rainbow colored paper from a classroom door after the decorations prompted a complaint from a parent, according to interviews with teachers, union officials and advocates for gay rights across“ItFlorida.feelstreacherous,” Brown said of the new legis lation. She rearranged her pride flag because, like other educators, she said she was erring on the side of caution this year.Nationwide this year, state lawmakers have introdu ced at least 137 bills seeking to restrict teaching on topics such as race, gender, LGBTQ issues and American history, up from 54 last year, according to a report by PEN Ameri ca, a free speech group. The bills, which overwhelmingly focused on K-12 schools and were sponsored almost exclusively by Republican lawmakers, most commonly addressed race. But an increasing number — 23 bills, up from five last year — focused on LGBTQ issues, PEN America“It’sfound.opening a second front on public education,” said Jeremy C. Young, a lead author on the report, which identified seven bills that became law, including two in
Another law, known as the “Stop WOKE Act,” limits teaching on race and racism, including prohibiting ins truction that would compel students to feel responsibility, guilt or anguish for what other members of their race did in theNotpast.all teachers feel wary.
Others, though, described a sense of trying to thread a political needle. It’s not just about what they teach, it’s also about how students interpret it. For example, the law says teachers cannot compel students to believe that anyone is inherently privileged or oppressed because of their race.
If required to out a student, she is unsure what she would do. (The law allows school districts to withhold information that might result in abuse, abandonment and neglect.)“I’m really at a loss, honestly,” Posey said. “It feels very much like trying to walk a tightrope, between law and ethics.”
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DeSantis “firmly believes” in the rights of parents to know what schools are teaching their children, his office said in a Onestatement.ofthenew Florida laws, the Parental Rights in Education Act, bans instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade and says that instruction in older grades must be age appropriate.
By SARAH MERVOSH Erin Brown, a teacher in St. Johns County, Florida, typically keeps a gay pride flag hanging up in her classroom. As the faculty sponsor of a Gay-Straight Alliance club at her high school, she wants her students to know they are safe with her. This year, Brown found herself quietly repurposing the flag. No longer on full display, it now hangs as a “rainbow background,” partially obscured among posters, photos, a calendar and other trinkets on her class bulletin board.
In response to a lawsuit challenging the law, state officials said that gay teachers could display family photos, employees could intervene against bullying based on gen der and sexuality, and schools could host clubs for LGBTQ students. The law does not ban “incidental references in literature to a gay or transgender person or to a same sex couple,” according to court documents.
Perhaps most complicating of all, teachers say, are the ways students sometimes bring up race, gender identity and politics on their own — from musing about whether Scout, the tomboy character in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” might be trans, to asking about illegal immigration during a lesson on citizenship.
“I want to partner with parents,” she said. But if a student is not ready to come out, she is bound by profes sional ethics that require confidentiality unless a student is at risk to themselves or others.
“Just a few months ago, people were like, ‘Teachers are amazing!’” she added, recalling how teachers were praised for teaching online early in the pandemic. “And now we have a governor that attacks teachers and public education. To what end? This is what dictators do.”
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In the interview, the energetic Hernández-Mats seemed eager to fulfill a running mate’s frequent role in attacking the opposing
Crist dismissed the notion that voters would agree with the criticism that sharing the ticket with a teachers union chief would somehow put him in opposition to parents.
“Hispanic voters are obviously immensely critical to build ing a winning coalition for Democrats,” said Christian Ulvert, a Democratic political consultant in Miami who is Nicaraguan American. “The best way to go toe-to-toe is if you have someone in the community to fight back.”
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Hernández-Mats has “a good heart,” Crist said in a brief interview, the first after making his decision. “That moves me more than anything, always.”
In choosing the head of the largest teachers union in the Southeast as his running mate, Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, said he found a partner to embody the car ing and empathy that he argues Gov. Ron DeSantis sorely lacks.
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The Republican Party of Florida wasted no time in criticiz ing Crist’s pick, saying before the campaign officially named Hernández-Mats that she represented “another slap in the face to Florida’s parents.”
“I believe that parents being involved is incredibly important, and teachers should also be respected for their expertise,” he said. “They’re not mutually exclusive.”
The daughter of Honduran immigrants, Hernández-Mats taught for a decade in Hialeah, a working class, heavily Cuban American and heavily Republican city northwest of Miami. In 2010, she was named Florida’s teacher of the year. Her mother was a secretary, she said, and her father a farmworker who cut sugar cane and picked tomatoes until he landed a union job as a carpenter.“Itepitomizes the American dream,” Hernández-Mats said of her life in a separate interview, her first since becoming Crist’s runningCristmate.said he would continue to emphasize how unaffordable the state has become under DeSantis and how the governor has restricted people’s rights, including by opposing abortion, which is now illegal in Florida after 15 weeks of pregnancy. But in selecting a teachers union leader, Crist has ensured, for better or worse, that the governor’s race will remain focused at least in part on matters of education, a topic that DeSantis, a Republican, has seized as an electoral strength in the wake of the coronavirusDeSantis,pandemic.whogained a national following for bucking pub lic health experts and reopening Florida businesses and schools sooner than other states, has made “parents’ rights” a centerpiece of his message. He has waged cultural battles against teaching about gender identity and racism in schools. And he campaigned for 30 school board candidates, almost all of whom won or made it into runoffs in Tuesday’s primary election. Two of the winners were in Miami-Dade County.
“It confirms how out of touch Crist is with Florida families,” the party said in a statement Friday.
Crist named Karla Hernández-Mats, president of the United Teachers of Dade, as his lieutenant governor pick Saturday, cast ing the former middle school special education science teacher — who is unknown to the vast majority of Florida voters — as a passionate parent and advocate ready to govern at his side, despite her lack of experience in elective office.
Democrats argued that Hernández-Mats could relate to vot ers as a working mother who understands the challenges inside classrooms. And, as a Spanish speaker, she can reach Hispanic voters whom the party has struggled to win.
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“Thecandidate.stateisstripping away freedoms,” she said. “Gov. DeSantis doesn’t want women to choose or have autonomy over their bodies or health care. They take away one freedom and then they take away more freedom.”
Before the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, the National Archives and the Justice Department tried at length to retrieve sensitive documents that Trump had kept after leaving the White House. In January, the archives collected 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago. The FBI later re viewed their contents and found a total of 184 documents with classification markings, including 25 labeled “top secret,” according to the affidavit released on Friday.
On Friday, the Justice Department relea sed a redacted version of the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago. That document included the revelation that Trump had retained highly classified material after leaving office, including documents related to the use of “clandestine human sources” in intelligence gathering.
Using the abbreviation for the intelli gence community, they added, “It is critical that the IC move swiftly to assess and, if necessary, to mitigate the damage done — a process that should proceed in parallel with DOJ’s criminal investigation.”
The Senate Intelligence Committee also asked for a damage assessment, according to the panel’s chair, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who said the request had been bipartisan.
By ALAN FEUER and MAGGIE HABERMAN
On Friday night, only hours after a re dacted version of the affidavit used to obtain the warrant for the search of Mar-a-Lago was released, Trump’s lawyers filed court papers to Cannon reiterating their request for a special master to weed out documents taken in the search that could be protected by executive privilege.Trump’s lawyers had initially asked Can non on Monday to appoint a special master, but their filing was so confusing and full of bluster that the judge requested clarifications on several basic legal questions. The notice by Cannon on Saturday was seen as something of a victory in Trump’s circle. A different federal judge, Bruce E. Reinhart, a magistrate judge in West Palm Beach, ordered the unsealing of the warrant affidavit. The document said, among other things, that the Justice Department wanted to search Mar-a-Lago to ensure the return of highly classified documents that Trump had removed from the White House, including some that department officials believed could jeopardize “clandestine human sources” who worked undercover gathering intelligence. Special masters are not uncommon in criminal investigations that include the sei zure by the government of disputed materials that could be protected by attorney-client privilege. A special master was appointed, for example, after the FBI raided the office of Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen in 2018 and took away evidence that Cohen and Trump claimed should have been kept from investigators because of the nature of their professional relationship. In the case of the search of Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s lawyers have argued that some of the documents taken by the FBI could be shielded not by attorney-client privilege, but rather by executive privilege, a vestige of Trump’s service as president. But legal scholars — and some judges — have expressed skepticism that former presidents can unilaterally assert executive privilege over materials related to their time in office once they leave the WhiteInHouse.December, for example, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that, despite his attempts to invoke executive pri vilege, Trump had to turn over White House records related to the attack on the Capitol to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. In her notice on Saturday, Cannon gave the Justice Department until Tuesday to file a response to Trump’s request. The judge also instructed prosecutors to send her under seal “a more detailed receipt” specifying the items that were seized by federal agents during the search of Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8. As part of their initial request, Trump’s lawyers had asked for a complete inventory of what was taken, arguing that the receipt the FBI had given them was insufficient.
Intelligence officials will assess security risks from Mar-a-Lago documents
By LUKE BROADWATER U.S. intelligence officials will conduct a review to assess the possible risks to national security from former Pre sident Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents after the FBI retrieved boxes con taining sensitive material from Mar-a-Lago, according to a letter to lawmakers.
In the letter, which was obtained by The New York Times, Haines said her office would work with the Justice Department to ensure that the assessment did not interfere with the department’s criminal investigation concerning the documents. The review will determine what intelligence sources or sys tems could be identified from the documents and be compromised if they fell into the wrongHaines’hands. letter, dated Friday, was re ported earlier by Politico. It came after the leaders of the Intelligence and Oversight Committees asked her on Aug. 13 to con duct an “immediate review and damage assessment” in the wake of the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago, during which federal agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents.
In the letter, Avril D. Haines, the di rector of national intelligence, informed the top lawmakers on the House Intelligence and Oversight Committees that her office would lead an intelligence community as sessment of the “potential risk to national security that would result from the disclo sure” of documents Trump took with him to his private club and residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
Reps. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., the chair of the Intelligence Committee, and Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y., the chair of the Oversight Committee, issued an approving statement in response to Haines’ letter. “The DOJ affidavit, partially unsealed yesterday, affirms our grave concern that among the documents stored at Mar-a-Lago were those that could endanger human sou rces,” the lawmakers said in their statement.
But Cannon, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, set a hearing for arguments in the matter for Thursday in the federal cour thouse in West Palm Beach — not the one in Fort Pierce, Florida, where she typically works.
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Afederal judge in Florida gave notice Saturday of her “preliminary intent” to appoint an independent arbiter, known as a special master, to conduct a review of the highly sensitive documents that were sei zed by the FBI this month during a search of Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s club and residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
In an unusual action that fell short of a formal order, the judge, Aileen M. Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, signaled that she was in clined to agree with the former president and his lawyers that a special master should be appointed to review the seized documents.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon set a hearing for arguments in the matter for Thursday in the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Michael Brown cuts the hair of Michael Venable at The Spa Shop, a barbershop in Hyattsville, Md. on July 10, 2020. Prior to COVID-19, The Spa Shop would service up to 1,000 per week.
Bernstein, the White House adviser, said the administration was regularly surve ying people about booster shots and using the results to inform messages it suggested to on-the-ground partners.
And, for the first time, the government has bought vaccines that were reformulated in response to the virus’s evolution. Manu facturers may finally have gained on the vi rus: The omicron subvariant that the upda ted shots were designed to protect against remains dominant in the United States.
The same local health department workers responsible for COVID-19 and flu shots this fall have also, without new staffing, been juggling a monkeypox out break and childhood immunization deficits that have left some places susceptible to polio.And some state health officials, citing weak demand for vaccines and increased survival rates of late, said in interviews that they had stopped aggressively pushing co ronavirus shots. With the virus killing far fewer people than it once did and many Americans re verting to their pre-pandemic ways, the country’s attitude to saving lives has evol ved into a response that has put a greater onus on individuals to protect themselves. In keeping with that approach, many health officials believe the vaccine machinery is in place to meet what they expect, lamenta bly, to be tepid demand this fall.
Having shifted much of the rollout to private sites, though, states have been promised FEMA reimbursements on a re latively modest $550 million in vaccination spending so far this year. Last year, that fi gure was $8.5 billion. And although providers are suppo sed to vaccinate everyone for free, with or without insurance, the federal government ran out of money this past spring to offer reimbursements for shots for uninsured people, making it more difficult for them to receive boosters.
At the very moment a better corona virus vaccine is expected to finally become available, America’s vaccination program is feeling the effects of a long period of re treat. Local programs to bring shots to the places where Americans gather and the institutions they trust have folded, a con sequence in some cases of congressional resistance to more pandemic response spending.
Sonya Bernstein, a senior policy ad viser for the White House COVID-19 res ponse team, said federal spending to sup port vaccination efforts was being held back by a stalemate in Congress over the administration’s request for billions of do llars in additional pandemic aid. Republi cans have said that additional coronavirus spending could be covered with funding already approved by Congress, an assertion that some state health officials say is false.
“We are watching the dismantling of the hyperlocal infrastructure that actually brought needles to arms in the most vul nerable communities in the country,” said Stephen Thomas, director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of Ma ryland. “To this day, vaccine uptake in the United States is embarrassing.”
The fall vaccination campaign, which is expected to begin soon after Labor Day, could be crucial. Many Americans have gone months since their last COVID-19 va ccine or infection, allowing immune defen ses to wane. More indoor gatherings are on the horizon, and public health researchers predict roughly 100,000 to 165,000 addi tional COVID-19 deaths by the spring.
But others are worried that the coun try is surrendering a decisive opportunity to stoke that demand and restore the more ro bust vaccination efforts that lifted last year’s initial rollout.
The United States is leaning ever more heavily on vaccines to defend aga inst the virus at a time when health offi cials are pulling back on other preventive measures, such as masking, distancing and quarantining.
In Alabama, where one-fifth of resi dents are boosted, Dr. Burnestine Taylor, the state’s medical officer for disease con trol and prevention, said officials had pared back health department clinics and beco me more reliant on pharmacies as demand dropped. The decision to receive additio nal shots, she said, now fell to individuals.
By BENJAMIN MUELLER Long past the point when pollsters said there were no more Americans wi lling to be vaccinated against the co ronavirus, Coral Garner kept finding them.
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Fall vaccination campaign will bring new shots, worse access
But, at the same time, the vaccination campaign is lagging. Although two-thirds of Americans have completed the primary vaccine series, only about one-third have received boosters. The country’s per capi ta booster coverage trails that of about 70 other nations, according to Our World in Data. With COVID-19 deaths having pla teaued around 480 a day, policymakers are grappling with whether renewed in vestments are needed. Some states believe they are not.
“We are working with less because Congress has not provided us with that fun ding,” Bernstein said. “But that has not got ten in the way of our preparations. We’re working day in and day out to make sure states and our partners have the resources and support they need.”
Ben Weston, Milwaukee County’s chief health policy adviser, said the nation’s underfunded booster campaign had hurt the same vulnerable and often nonwhite residents who have long struggled to gain access to good medical care.
An organizer of mobile clinics for the Minnesota Department of Health, she arranged to provide vaccines and booster shots to people who had resisted them, set ting up in a retrofitted city bus outside a Nigerian church, a Hmong senior center, a Somali mall and dozens of other sites.
“At this point, we’re not doing a hard push,” Taylor said. “It’s a personal deci sion.”
“It’s putting up barriers,” he said, “particularly for populations that are more susceptible to those barriers.”
But even as the United States now prepares for a critical campaign to deliver omicron-specific booster shots, Garner’s job no longer exists. In June, her contract position was canceled because the state said funding had dried up.
The Biden administration said about 70,000 sites were prepared to vaccinate people this fall. Although 60% of those are pharmacies, they also include doctor’s offices, community health centers and rural health clinics. States can also seek money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for certain vaccination-related expenses, such as setting up sites, buying equipment, and offering translation or transportation services.
The company spent months locked in a bitter dispute with the National Institutes of Health, its collaborator on a project that led to the development of its COVID vacci ne, over who deserves credit for a crucial component of that shot. (None of the patents at issue in Friday’s litigation relate to intellectual property generated during that colla boration.) Moderna has since backed down in the dispute with the NIH, though the two sides remain in discussions about a resolution.
Moderna sues Pfizer and BioNTech over COVID vaccine technology
Moderna is being represented by WilmerHale, a ma jor and well-connected law firm. Its lead lawyer is William Lee, one of the most experienced patent litigators in the country.Analysts at the investment bank SVB Securities wrote in a note to investors on Friday that the history of disputes over intellectual property between similar companies “su ggests the most likely outcome would be modest royalties paid by both companies, with little net favorable financial impact for anyone but the law firms involved.”
Messenger RNA is the genetic molecule that helps cells make proteins. The vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna both use the technology to command cells to make tiny pieces of viruses that strengthen the immune system to protect against the coronavirus that causes CO VID-19.Moderna had been working on the technology for other infectious diseases for years before COVID emerged.
The allegation of patent infringement sets up what could become a protracted and expensive legal battle between the companies behind coronavirus vaccines that have saved millions of lives worldwide and raised hopes for future medical products using similar messenger RNA, or mRNA,Expertstechnology.saidModerna’s litigation, regardless of its outcome, was unlikely to impede access to COVID vacci nes or chill the development of mRNA products. But the outcome could dictate whether Pfizer or Moderna controls and profits more from a powerful and lucrative medical technology.“Thebattle really is who is going to be, in the fu ture, the go-to source that other companies may have to license from,” said Ameet Sarpatwari, an expert on phar maceutical policy and law at Harvard Medical School. For Moderna, he said, “establishing their ownership and their dominance in this space is going to set the stage for future royalties that they’re going to get.”
“There is no way that any court in the land would ever issue an injunction blocking Pfizer from making or selling its vaccine as long as the virus continues to circu late and kill hundreds of Americans a day,” Morten said. “That’s a cleareyed assessment by Moderna’s lawyers that they just wouldn’t get an injunction anyway.”
Christopher Ridley, a spokesman for Moderna, said that the company would leave the amount of the damages for the courts to decide and that it would not give an es timate. But Jacob S. Sherkow, an expert on biotechnology patent law at the University of Illinois College of Law, esti mated that if Moderna’s litigation succeeded, Pfizer might be forced to pay tens of millions of dollars in damages — a small fraction of the overall sales for its COVID vaccine, which reached a record $36.8 billion in 2021.
Christopher Morten, an expert on pharmaceutical patent law at Columbia Law School, said, “It seems to me that Moderna is really just looking for a cut of Pfizer’s pro fits and hoping to share with its shareholders a fraction of the billions that Pfizer is earning on top of the billions that Moderna itself is earning.”
A vial of the COVID-19 vaccine in New York on June 23, 2021. Moderna on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, sued Pfi zer and BioNTech, claiming that their COVID vaccine copied its groundbreaking technology.
Moderna has been aggressive in staking out its inte llectual property claims on mRNA technology.
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Moderna’s suits claim that Pfizer and BioNTech co pied crucial features of its patented technology, including making the same chemical modification to their mRNA and targeting the same type of protein, known as a spike protein, that Moderna scientists had pioneered years ear lier.
Moderna said it was not seeking to remove Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine from the market, and was not as king for an injunction to prevent its future sale, given the need for access to coronavirus vaccines.
Officials have said the fall booster campaign could be the last government-subsidized COVID vaccination cam paign for many Americans. Ashish Jha, the White House’s COVID-19 coordinator, said this month that the govern ment was likely to stop buying vaccines as soon as this fall, meaning that future COVID booster shots would be paid for and distributed largely through the private health care system, as is done with annual flu vaccines.
The company invested billions of dollars it raised from in vestors in developing the technology while also receiving significant government support. The United States has gi ven the company more than $10 billion to develop and test the COVID vaccine and to buy doses.
The COVID vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Mo derna were both authorized and rolled out within a week of each other in December 2020. They account for the vast majority of the coronavirus shots administered in the United States. Now the Biden administration is preparing to roll out, soon after Labor Day, the next generation of coronavirus shots developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Mo derna.Both developers this week completed their submis sions to the Food and Drug Administration seeking emer gency authorization of retooled shots aimed at omicron subvariants that are causing most new coronavirus cases in the United States. The federal government has ordered 105 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s revamped shot and 66 million of Moderna’s, with options to buy hundreds of millions more.
In two lawsuits on Friday, Moderna claimed that Pfi zer and its development partner, BioNTech, had infringed on three patents that Moderna filed between 2011 and 2016 related to its mRNA technology. One lawsuit was fi led in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, where Moder na is based, and the other in Germany, home to BioNTech. Jerica Pitts, a spokeswoman for Pfizer, said Pfizer and BioNTech were “surprised by the litigation” and “remain confident” in their intellectual property supporting the va ccine. BioNTech said in a statement that its “work is origi nal, and we will vigorously defend against all allegations of patentModernainfringement.”isseeking damages, which could include royalties and lost profits, incurred since March, when the company said it would begin enforcing its COVID-related patents in wealthier countries after previously pledging not to do so during the pandemic emergency. Moderna’s lawsuits said the company would not seek damages from Pfizer’s sales of its shot to the world’s poorest countries. They also said the company would not pursue any dama ges that would be the responsibility of the U.S. govern ment, which has bought hundreds of millions of doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
“These two companies are going to be locked up in litigation for years to come,” said Sarpatwari of Harvard.
By REBECCA ROBBINS and JENNY GROSS The vaccine manufacturer Moderna sued Pfizer and BioNTech late last week, claiming that its rivals’ CO VID-19 shot copied groundbreaking technology that Moderna had developed years before the pandemic.
“We’re not doing this lightly,” said Dan ny Ryan, an Ethereum Foundation researcher who has worked on the platform since 2017. “There’s been countless amount of enginee ring and testing and academic vetting.”
The platform was started in 2013 by a teenage programmer, Vitalik Buterin, who is now regarded as one of the industry’s elder statesmen. Buterin wanted to create a cryp to system that was more flexible than bitcoin and could instantly execute financial con tracts and other complex forms of exchange.
But the risks are profound. Even by crypto standards, the process is almost ludi crouslyForcomplicated.months,insiders have engaged in frantic, jargon-heavy discussions of develop ments such as the Goerli Testnet Merge and the Beacon Chain’s Bellatrix upgrade, cru cial software changes leading up to the main event. A botched Merge would imperil the thousands of crypto applications that opera te using ethereum, which collectively handle more than $50 billion in user funds. “It’s flying the jet and changing the engi ne in the sky,” said Chandler Guo, a crypto in dustry veteran who leads a group opposing the Merge. “It’s very difficult. It’s very dangerous.”
But if all goes according to plan, the Merge will take place around Sept. 15, more than eight years after it was initially discussed. The change would shift ethereum to a more energy-efficient infrastructure, addressing the widespread criticism that crypto’s climate effect outweighs its possible benefits. And it would lay the foundation for future upgrades to reduce the hefty fees required to conduct transactions in Ether, the platform’s signature currency and the second-most valuable digital asset after“Thisbitcoin.transition is essentially laying a road map to a future which is far more scala ble, far more energy efficient and a lot more usable to the normal person,” said Joseph Ayoub, an analyst at Citi who has studied the Merge. “It’s laying the groundwork for adop tion.”
Ethereum’s design allows it to support a range of financial engineering. Programmers can build applications using the software to perform more complicated tasks than simple money transfers. Thousands of businesses and projects in the experimental world of decen tralized finance now use the platform to offer lending, borrowing and other sophisticated in vestment options. Many non-fungible tokens — the unique digital collectibles known as NFTs — are built on ethereum. At its core, the Merge is a change to ethereum’s verification system. When someo ne sends money in a traditional transaction, a bank serves as the middleman, verifying that one person has sufficient funds to pay someo ne else.Crypto operates without that middle man. In this alternate financial system, tran sactions are verified by a scattered network of computers. Anyone can plug a machine into the network by running software that solves complex puzzles, an energy-guzzling process for confirming transactions. Essentially, the computers are racing one another: When the puzzle is solved, the winning participants are rewarded with new coins in the digital curren cy they are verifying. This verification process is widely known as crypto mining and has the technical name “proof of work.” By some estimates, the amount of energy consumed each year in mi ning is comparable to the annual emissions of entire Thecountries.Merge is set to shift ethereum to an alternate framework called “proof of stake,” which requires less energy. In a proof-of-stake system, computers don’t burn energy racing to verify transactions. Instead, crypto investors deposit a certain number of digital coins in a shared pool, which enters them into a lottery. Each time an exchange happens, a participant is selected from the lottery to verify the tran saction and win the rewards. The shift is expected to cut ethereum’s energy use by more than 99%, which crypto boosters hope will make the technology more popular.But a change on this scale could also make ethereum vulnerable to hacks or other disruptions, some crypto experts say. “Any time you’re making changes to a complex sys tem, there must necessarily arise unintended consequences,” said Christopher Calicott, a crypto venture investor. Much of the criticism is fueled at least partly by self-interest. Many of the Merge’s most vocal opponents are businesses that have built expensive data centers to mine ether in the proof-of-work system.
A nonprofit called the Ethereum Foun dation helps supervise the platform. But in reality, ethereum is run by a loose group of engineers across the world; no top-down authority orchestrated the Merge. Periodically, programmers get together on publicly strea med video calls to debate technical aspects of the Atshift.one point, the shift to proof of stake was supposed to happen as early as 2016. As the Merge came together this year, crypto enthusiasts expected a June launch date. Then the Merge was pushed back to August. Now it’s set for next month. In the crypto world, the delays beca me a kind of joke. Early on, engineers ins talled what’s known as a “difficulty bomb” in ethereum’s code. It was designed to keep them honest: After a set amount of time, the bomb was to go off, causing disruptions in the ethereum network unless it was switched to proof of stake. But every time the bomb was supposed to go off, the engineers created a new bit of code to defuse it, somewhat defea ting the point.
“This might happen at 4 in the morning. It might happen at 2 in the afternoon,” Ryan said. “But I’ll definitely be awake.”
Banks of computers mining cryptocurrencies in La Plata, Argentina, June 28, 2022. A long-awaited upgrade to Ethereum, the most popular crypto platform, may make the technology more environmentally sustainable. But it comes with risks.
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In a recent corporate report, Hive Bloc kchain, a crypto mining firm that draws re venue from both bitcoin and ethereum, said a switch to proof of stake “may render our mining business less competitive or less pro fitable.” Hive did not respond to requests for comment. Planning the celebration is complica ted. While developers have estimated a Sept. 15 date, the Merge’s precise timing is uncer tain and subject to complex technical factors. Any glitch could cause another delay.
In December 2020, ethereum program mers took a big step toward the Merge by re leasing a crypto platform called the Beacon Chain, a proof-of-stake system designed to provide the foundation for an upgraded ethe reum. After two years of testing, the Beacon Chain is finally set to integrate with ethereum in mid-September — the merge that gives the process its name. As the Merge draws nearer, companies and entrepreneurs with a financial stake in ethereum mining are growing increasingly concerned. Crypto mining has become a mul tibillion-dollar business, dominated by publi cly traded companies.
Now the industry is fixated on a po tential saving grace: a long-awaited software upgrade to the most popular cryptocurrency platform, ethereum, which provides the tech nological backbone for thousands of crypto projects. The upgrade — known as the Merge — has gained near-mythical status after years of delays that left some insiders questioning whether it would ever happen.
The cryptocurrency industry has endured a terrible year. A devastating crash wi ped nearly $1 trillion from the market, draining the savings of thousands of people. Several companies filed for bankruptcy.
Ethereum is a blockchain, a publicly viewable ledger on which exchanges of di gital coins are recorded. Transactions on the chain are conducted in Ether.
The S&P 500 fell nearly 3.4% Friday after Fed Chair Jerome Powell reiterated the central bank’s commitment to taming inflation despite a possible recession.
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The 10.7% rally in the S&P 500 from its June lows is stumbling as it runs into what has historically been the toughest month for the U.S. stock market, spark ing nerves among some fund managers of a broad sell-off in September.TheS&P has been in a bear market since plummeting early this year as investors priced in the expectation of ag gressive Federal Reserve interest rate hikes, but the index has rallied strongly since June, regaining half its losses for the year.That rebound has been fueled by a combination of strong earnings from bellwether companies and signs that inflation might have peaked, potentially allowing the Fed to slow rate hikes.But as investors and traders return from summer holi days, some are nervous about a bumpier ride in September, due to seasonal concerns and nervousness about the Fed’s pace of hikes and their economic impact.
Chief among the reasons for the gloomy outlook is a be lief that the Fed will continue hiking rates and keep them above neutral longer than markets had anticipated as recent ly as a week ago, weighing on consumer demand and the housingNearlymarket.half of market participants now expect the Fed funds rate to end the year above 3.7% by the end of the year, up from 40% a week ago, according to the CME FedWatch tool. The fed funds rate is currently between 2.25 and 2.5%.
“We’ve had a breathtaking run and I wouldn’t be shocked if the market takes a hit here,” said Jack Janasiewicz, lead portfolio strategist at Natixis Investment Management Solu tions.The S&P 500 could fall as much as 10% in September as investors price in the likelihood that the Fed will not start to cut rates as early as some had hoped, Janasiewicz said. September has been the worst month for the S&P 500 since 1945, with the index advancing only 44% of the time, the least of any month, according to CFRA data. The S&P 500 has posted an average loss of 0.6% in September, the worst for anyThemonth.index is down 14.8% year to date and has been in a bear market, hitting its lowest level in June since December 2020 after the Fed announced its largest rate hike since 1994.
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“These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation. But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain,” Powell said in a closely watched speech in Jackson Hole,SeptemberWyoming.typically is a down month for the stock mar ket because fund managers tend to sell underperforming po sitions as the end of the third quarter approaches, according to the Stock Trader’s Almanac.
A high-ranking Russian diplomat in Moscow’s delegation, Andrey Belousov, blamed the lack of agreement on efforts by other nations to use the document “to settle scores with Russia by raising issues that are not directly related to the treaty.” U.S. officials made clear that they viewed Russia’s objections as related to Ukraine.“We were not able to achieve a con sensus document because of the inex plicable choice of one state,” the U.S. special representative for nuclear non proliferation, Adam Scheinman, wrote on Twitter. “The U. S. deeply regrets Russia’s refusal to acknowledge the grave situation in Ukraine. It is absurd that Rus sia could not do so.”
By ANDREW E. KRAMER and JAMES C. McKINLEY JR. F or weeks, Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for firing artillery at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine, the largest power sta tion in Europe, in a series of attacks that imperil not just the region but also the whole world. As the power plant inches toward a possible crisis, both sides have acknowl edged the risks of a potential nuclear accident and continued fraught negotia tions this weekend to let United Nations inspectors visit the site — and yet the bombardment continued.
Outside an apartment building damaged by an overnight bombing in Slovyansk, Ukraine, Aug. 28, 2022.
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The plant is controlled by the Russian military but operated by Ukrainian engi neers working at gunpoint, according to Ukrainian officials.
Increased barrages near the plant struck towns, ammunition dumps and a Russian military base in intense fighting Sunday morning, Ukrainian officials said, raising questions about whether the area would ever be secure enough to allow inspectors anywhere near the plant.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, has assembled a team of ex perts with the hope that they would trav el to Zaporizhzhia “in the next few days,” officials said, but noted that talks were ongoing. The team would assess physical damage to the plant, determine whether the main and backup safety and security systems were functional, and evaluate the staff’s working conditions, the agen cy said in a statement.
Artillery shells have already hit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, damaging auxiliary equipment and power lines but not the reactors. Russia has denied firing near the reactors while witnesses inter viewed after fleeing to Ukrainian-con trolled territory have described Russian positions shelling toward the site. The strikes have heightened fears of a nuclear accident in this area, an ex panse of farm fields along the banks of the Dnieper River. Already, Ukrainian of ficials have rushed to hand out potassium iodide to tens of thousands of people liv ing near the plant. The drug can protect people from radiation-induced thyroid cancer. Russian forces fired rocket artil lery and howitzers Saturday night at the Ukraine-controlled town of Nikopol, across the way from the plant on the op posite side of the Dnieper River, which separates the two armies in the area, said Valentin Reznichenko, a local mili tary official. The strikes damaged houses and cars and knocked out electricity for 1,500 residents, he said in a post on Tele gram. In a separate assault on the town, Russian helicopters fired rockets, accord ing to the Ukrainian military, which re ported damage to a house but no casual ties.The Russian Defense Ministry said its air force had hit Ukrainian workshops where helicopters were being repaired in the surrounding Zaporizka region, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. The claim could not be in dependently verified.
Shelling near Ukraine nuclear plant strikes towns, heightening concern
In one decree, the president gave Ukrainians the right to stay and work in Russia without a time limit or special work permit, provided they meet certain requirements, including passing a drug test, a state media outlet in Moscow re ported.The other measure establishes a monthly pension of about $170 for people who have been forced to leave Ukraine since Feb. 18, a week before Rus sia launched its invasion and plunged the region into war. It also provides monthly pensions for disabled people and a onetime payment to pregnant women.
The decrees are the latest in a series of moves by the Kremlin apparently in tended to knit the occupied territories in Ukraine’s east and south closer to Russia. Moscow has been offering Russian pass ports to Ukrainians in those regions, ask ing people to use the ruble as currency and rerouting the internet through Rus sian servers. Kremlin-appointed officials in the occupied territories are also preparing to hold tightly controlled referendums in which the outcome of the vote is preor dained to justify annexing those regions as part of the Russian Federation, John F. Kirby, spokesman for the National Secu rity Council, told reporters last week. From the start of the war, people from Russian-held territories in Ukraine have been moving in large numbers into Russia. Some evacuated willingly, fleeing the chaos and danger of the invasion, but others were deported or compelled to move, Ukrainian officials said. Russia has acknowledged that 1.5 million Ukrainians are now in Russia and has asserted that they were evacuated for their safety. Ukrainian and U.S. officials, how ever, have accused Russia of forcibly de porting hundreds of thousands of people, includingWesternchildren.officials also renewed criti cism of Moscow over the weekend after they said Russian officials had blocked the adoption of a joint statement on a nuclear arms treaty to close out a U.N. conference.
The monthlong conference — on up holding and strengthening the 50-yearold global Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons — is held every five years and had once been seen as a chance to deal with loopholes that have allowed a resurgence in the spread of nuclear weapons. Expectations for breakthroughs this month were low. The last conference also failed to result in a consensus docu ment.
Over the weekend, President Vladi mir Putin of Russia signed decrees pro viding Ukrainians with financial ben efits and the right to work, widening the Kremlin’s efforts to integrate those living in Russia and the territory it occupies.
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
A federal magistrate judge has recom mended rejecting the effort by rela tives of victims of 9/11 to seize $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan central bank funds to pay off judgment debts owed by the Ta liban — in part because doing so, she said, would effectively recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
Eventually, the Havlish plaintiffs struck a deal to divide up any recovered funds with several other groups of 9/11 plaintiffs and with insurance companies that had losses from the attacks. That deal would give the Havlish plaintiffs, who were first in line under New York law, a greater share in any proceeds than the plaintiffs in other groups.That arrangement has been a matter of dispute among victims’ relatives. Some opposed the deal as unfair, on the argu ment that everyone should get the same amount. Others joined outside voices — including exiled Afghans — who urged the court to reject giving any of the money to 9/11 families, saying it belonged to the Afghan people and should be spent on helping them at a time of a humanitarian crisis and mass starvation caused by the collapse of the country’s economy. Against that backdrop, Netburn con cluded that as a matter of law, none of the 9/11 victims’ relatives or the affected in surance companies were entitled to seize the frozen Afghan central bank funds. She laid out three independent legal rationa les for why Daniels should dismiss their requests.First, she wrote, the court lacks ju risdiction over the Afghan central bank because it is an instrument of a foreign government and thus has sovereign im munity. Although Congress has enacted a law that made a narrow exception to sove reign immunity allowing lawsuits against state sponsors of terrorism, Afghanistan has not been designated as such, and the 9/11 victims’ families did not sue the state of Afghanistan itself. Second, she said, any ruling that the central bank’s assets can be used to pay off the Taliban’s judgment debts would amount to ruling that the Taliban are the legitimate government of Afghanistan. But Biden has not recognized the Taliban as Afghanistan’s government, and courts lack constitutional authority to do so on their
“The Taliban’s victims have fought for years for justice, accountability and com pensation,” the judge, Sarah Netburn, wro te. “They are entitled to no less. But the law limits what compensation the court may authorize.” Those limits, she added, placed the Afghanistan central bank’s as sets beyond the court’s reach.
It is not clear what would happen to the $3.5 billion if the efforts by the 9/11 victims’ relatives to seize it fail. The U.S. government does not want to send money to Afghanistan if there is a risk it will fall into Taliban hands. It is therefore possible that some or all of the funds could simply remain frozen for years, awaiting a change of circumstances in Afghanistan.
The Havlish plaintiffs — about 150 people, linked to 47 estates of the nearly 3,000 people killed — moved to seize some of that money to pay off the Taliban’s judgment debt to them.
“Theown.Constitution vests the president with the sole power to recognize foreign governments,” Netburn wrote. “Courts may not extend such recognition either directly or by implication. Yet such re cognition would be inescapably implied if this court found that the DAB is being controlled and used by the Taliban such that the Taliban may use DAB’s assets (ul timately the assets of the sovereign state of Afghanistan) to pay its legal bills.”
Finally, she wrote, even if both of tho se arguments were wrong, under the law, the bank must count as an “agency” of the Taliban, which she said means it must have willingly worked with the group. But the Taliban have seized control of the bank — and imposed their own leaders atop it — by force. The court “must determine whether a bank robber can transform an unwilling bank into his agency or instrumentality,” she wrote. “The answer must be no.”
Judge recommends rejecting bid by 9/11 families to seize frozen Afghan funds
President Biden set aside $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan central bank funds to be spent on helping the Afghan people, leaving another $3.5 billion for the families of Sept. 11 victims to go after in court.
“It is clear that the president wished to make these funds available to victims of terrorist attacks for which the Taliban was found liable, that the court has jurisdiction and that the Taliban controls DAB,” she said in a statement.
The $3.5 billion in question is part of about $7 billion in Afghan central bank funds that had been deposited at the Fe deral Reserve Bank of New York before the Taliban took control of the country last year. In February, President Joe Biden froze the funds, reserving about half to be spent on helping the Afghan people while lea ving the remaining $3.5 billion for the 9/11 victims’ families to go after in court. The recommendation by Netburn is not a final decision. A U.S. District Court judge for the Southern District of New York, George Daniels, is supervising the litigation and has the authority to issue a ruling that disagrees with Netburn’s legal analysis. And if he instead rules in accor dance with her recommendation, the vic tims’ families could file an appeal.
“As the daughter of a 9/11 victim, it makes me sick to think that Afghan victims of atrocity are being deprived of necessary resources during a time of great need,” Murphy said in a statement. “I am relieved that the judge has taken a step toward the only legally and morally correct approach — making the entire $7 billion available to Afghans to deal with the economic crisis we helped to cause.”
The complex saga traces back to law suits filed years ago by family members of victims of 9/11 seeking billions of dollars from a range of defendants they held res ponsible for their losses, including al-Qai da and the Taliban. When such defendants failed to show up in court, judges declared them liable by default. But with no way to collect damages, the rulings seemed like symbolic gestures until last year, when the Taliban took con trol of Afghanistan. As part of the fallout, the New York Fed blocked access to an ac count for the Afghan central bank holding about $7 billion.
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Fiona Havlish, the named plaintiff in the lead group of 9/11 victims’ relatives who are trying to seize the funds, said she respectfully disagreed with Netburn’s conclusion that they were not entitled to the funds belonging to the Afghan central bank, known as Da Afghanistan Bank, or DAB.
The 43-page report and recommenda tion by Netburn, issued Friday, is the latest twist in a case arising from the extraordi nary circumstance of a country seized by a terrorist organization that is not recognized as its legitimate government. The case has raised novel legal issues that touch on mat ters of foreign policy, international finance, counterterrorism and domestic politics.
But Leila Murphy, a steering committee member for Sept. 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a group of victims’ relatives who oppose trying to seize the Afghan bank funds, praised Netburn’s analysis.
These have become live questions as ac tivists and governments in formerly colonized countries push, in courts and in diplomatic talks, for restitution over both past abuses and their ongoing consequences.
Britain and France, which each have do zens of former colonies, have grown especially wary of any step that might create precedent in international or domestic law. But activists argue that precedent is exactly what they need to compel European governments.
“The declaration is hollow,” Emsie Erastus, a Namibian researcher, wrote in a BBC essay, adding that the settlement had been crafted “seemingly to avoid any legal culpability.”
One at a time With a global standard for colonial debt unlikely, former colonies are pursuing claims individually.Jamaica is seeking $10.6 billion — equiva lent to the fees that Britain paid slave owners to populate the island, one lawmaker has said, arguing that Britain owes those slaves’ descen dants, at a minimum, their ancestor’s purchase price.Burundi has demanded $43 billion from Germany and Belgium, a figure it says is cal culated from the economic toll of decades of forced labor and colonialist violence. But because claims are settled directly, they are often decided by leverage as much as merit. Absent political pressure within the for mer colonial power, or a diplomatic incentive like the threat of a former colony aligning with China, claims often stall.
In Kenya, another set of claimants are pressing their case: descendants of families forcibly expelled to make room for British tea companies, which still own much of what was once their land. The families, struggling to gain traction within Britain, appealed to the U.N.
Some of the twenty-six pieces recently returned by the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris are displayed at a museum in Cotonou, Benin, on July 15, 2022.
A multigenerational quest Today’s push for colonial reparations is of ten dated to a United Nations-organized con ference against racism, held in 2001 in South Africa. It was the first time that governments — rather than activists — had organized at such a large scale around confronting colonialism’s legacy, bringing it diplomatic heft. Initially, governments of former colonies hesitated to push the issue. Many maintained political ties to, and a degree of economic de pendence on, their one-time colonizers.
Officials, he said, feared that offering re parations for one colonial-era abuse could es tablish a legal responsibility for all of them.
Some did try. Haiti’s president demanded reparations from France in the early 2000s, for instance, but had little leverage. Activists within former colonies have for ced the issue to the fore in recent years, often working through European public opinion and courts.Survivors of an infamous 1950s British crackdown in Kenya lobbied for years for the right to sue in British courts, eventually succe eding. In 2013, the British government settled their claim for $30 million and made a rare, if terse, public Activistsapology.representing a Namibian ethnic group that was targeted by Germany’s colo nial-era genocide took a similar approach. Public pressure within Germany led to a motion by the Bundestag, Germany’s par liament, in 2015 to begin formal talks with Namibia’s government over reparations.
Matthias Goldmann, a German legal scholar, said that German leaders initially resis ted settling the Namibian claim out of a “grave concern that this would give rise to a rule.”
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The precedent problem Reparations talks increasingly hit against a high-stakes question: whether individual sett lements or apologies can become precedent for more like them.
By MAX WFISHERhatdo former colonial powers owe the descendants of those they colo nized? Is it enough to apologize and return cultu ral objects? If restitution is to be financial, how does one tabulate the debt for generations of exploitation, plunder and enslavement?
Emmanuel Macron became president of France in 2017, having campaigned on promi ses to return thousands of cultural items and to address historical grievances with former colonies.Still, Macron has at times framed this as a matter of soft power competition in Afri ca, where Chinese and Russian influence is growing. These more realpolitik motives may help explain why France has returned only a tiny fraction of the promised artifacts. These successes, along with activism within former colonies, have emboldened tho se governments to press the issue. Caribbean nations issued a 10-point repa rations agenda in 2014. Organizing at the U.N. has led to symbolic declarations highlighting suchInternationalclaims. law may be of limited use, some legal scholars believe, for the simple reason that colonialism was not illegal at the time. As a result, in practice, settlements are reached directly between governments or rai sed within European political systems.
Berlin ultimately offered aid payments, which it does not call reparations, to Nami bia and an apology so circumspect that many Namibian activists and politicians urged their government to reject it.
These speak to what is, for activists and political leaders, a more immediate question than estimating what is owed: figuring out how to compel former colonizers to make amends at all.“Time is on the side of the reparationists,” Hilary Beckles, a Barbadian historian and chair of the reparations commission for Caricom, an organization of Caribbean states, said in a re cent public lecture. The goal, he said, is to press for something more than apologies: the repayment for the stolen labor and resources that drove Europe’s rise at the colonized world’s expense.
Congolese officials have demanded that Belgium pay restitution for its rule, marked by mass killings and forced labor so brutal that some historians estimate a death toll in the millions. Nine of Belgium’s 23 richest families still trace their fortunes to Belgian Congo, one survey found. In 2020, racial justice protests in Belgium led its parliament to establish a reparations commission.Butpublic pressure has faded. And Con golese officials have little leverage. When Belgium’s king traveled to Con go last month, he personally carried one of 84,000 cultural objects being returned. But he and his government offered no reparations — and, despite demands for it by local activists, no apology.
The long road ahead for colonial reparations
A U.N. investigation concluded last year that Britain had a responsibility to settle the claim — although the investigators have little mechanism for forcing this.
Under growing pressure, France repatria ted 26 pilfered artworks to Benin last year, for example, and Germany committed $1.35 billion in aid to Namibia alongside a formal acknowledgment of Germany’s colonial-era genocide there. But these are exceptions for a reparations movement, centered mostly in Africa and the Caribbean, that faces a long and difficult road with wary European governments. And even these successes highlight how far the cause has to go. A French government audit estimated that the country’s museums hold 90,000 objects looted from Africa alone, making the return of a few dozen feel, to activists, like an insult. And Germany’s apology was carefully hedged, seemingly to avoid creating prece dent that could apply to other colonial abuses, much less to the act of colonization itself.
In France, a wave of activism, often led by French racial justice groups, dovetailed with a push by Africa-based groups and governments for colonial restitution.
The Caribbean nations’ reparations group has called for European governments to pay $50 billion and portrays this as merely a star ting point. Beckles has estimated the European debt to the region just for “200 years of free labor” at 7 trillion British pounds (about $8.2 trillion). The cause is gaining momentum as it ga ins more tangible victories. But it is also facing difficult questions of politics, legality and, es pecially, leverage.
he U.S. Navy said that two of its war ships were sailing through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, the first such passa ge by U.S. ships since China began largescale military exercises in response to a vi sit to Taiwan by Speaker Nancy Pelosi early this month.Guided-missile cruisers Antietam and Chancellorsville were conducting what the Navy’s 7th Fleet called “a routine Taiwan Strait transit.” American officials said this month that the Navy would continue to operate around Taiwan, despite China’s claims to control the waterway.
Beijing has long sought to isolate Taiwan internationally and called Pelosi’s visit, the first by a House speaker in 25 years, a breach of the status quo under which the United States does not maintain official ties with Taiwan. Her trip was fo llowed by visits from three more groups of American officials and a delegation of Ja paneseAnalystslawmakers.saidthat the extensive drills following Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan meant China would probably continue to rely on military exercises in response to perceived provocations in the area.
The guided-missile cruiser Antietam in the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in a photo released by the U.S. Navy. China said that its own forces “remain on high alert.”
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China has warned the United States against sailing warships in the Taiwan Strait and said that it would respond to what it considers threats to its sovereignty. The Chinese military said Sunday in a statement that it had monitored the ships’ passage but did not indicate any additional response. “Eastern theater forces remain on high alert, ready to thwart any provocation,” it said.
“These ships transited through a corri dor in the strait that is beyond the territorial sea of any coastal state,” the 7th Fleet said in a written statement Sunday. “The ship’s transit through the Taiwan Strait demons trates the United States’ commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. The United States military flies, sails and operates an ywhere international law allows.”
“I do call on American colleagues to exercise restraint, not to do anything to escalate the tension,” Qin added. “So if there’s any move damaging China’s terri torial integrity and sovereignty, China will respond.”TheU.S. Navy said that its ships did not sail through any territorial waters whi le transiting the Taiwan Strait and that the passage was meant to uphold the freedom to navigate the high seas.
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“The U.S. side has done too much and gone too far in this region,” Qin Gang, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, said in mid-August.
China considers self-governed Taiwan to be part of its territory, although the Commu nist Party has never controlled the island.
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“If the U.S. or Taiwan do something they don’t like, they are likely to carry out similar naval and air activities — maybe not a missile firing, but naval and air exer cises to make the point that you have done something to make China unhappy,” said Phillip C. Saunders, director of the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs at the Institute for National Strategic Studies in Washington. “That is what I see as the new normal going forward.”
US warships sail Taiwan Strait, defying Chinese pressure
After Pelosi visited Taiwan on Aug. 2 and Aug. 3, China launched missiles into waters that are part of Japan’s exclusive economic zone and carried out 72 hours of live fire exercises around Taiwan that si mulated a potential blockade of the island.
Taiwan’s military said that the two U.S. warships had sailed from north to south through the strait and that their voyage ap peared“During“normal.”their southward journey through the strait, the national army had grasped the relevant dynamics of the su rrounding sea and airspace throughout the whole process, and the situation was nor mal,” Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defen se said in a statement.
Chinese officials have called on the United States to halt military activities in the region and accused the Americans of exacerbating tensions.
By AUSTIN RAMZY
Europe and the economics of blackmail
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Four decades ago I spent a year working in the U.S. government, on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers. (For those wondering: Yes, this was the Reagan administration; no, I wasn’t a Republican.) It was a technocratic job. I was the chief international economist; the chief domestic economist was a guy named Larry Summers. What ever happened to him? Anyway, I spent most of my time in the office, crunching numbers. I did, however, sit in on a few Cabinet-level meetings, and I recall in particular one involving European plans to build a pipeline that would greatly increase gas imports from the Soviet Union. Some officials were searching for ways to deter the project, but nobody had any good ideas. But those officials weren’t wrong to worry that dependence on Soviet — later Russian — gas would create strategic vulnerability. Indeed, Europe’s dependence on Russian gas has arguably become the biggest risk now facing the world economy. Russia is a third-rate economic power, but it and Ukraine are, or were, major suppliers of some important commodities. When Vladimir Putin invaded his neighbor, prices of wheat — a lot of which is grown in the “Black Earth” belt that stretches across Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan — and oil, much of which is extracted in the Ural Mountains, soared. More recently, however, much of the price shock from the war has receded. According to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization, world food prices have given up most of their wartime surge. And oil prices have also come down substantially from their peak.What’s happening in these cases is that both agricultural commodities and oil are essentially traded on world markets, which for better or worse allows a lot of flexibility. For example, Russia can sell its oil to India instead of Europe, and Europe can in turn buy Middle Eastern oil that would otherwise have gone to India. Add in a good U.S. wheat harvest and factors like weak oil demand from a troubled China, and the overall commodity price shock is turning out to be smaller than many feared. There is, however, one exception, and it’s a doozy: European natural gas. Unlike the markets for oil and wheat, the market for gas isn’t fully global. The cheapest way to ship gas is normally via pipelines, which breaks the world into separate regional markets defined by where the pipelines run. The main alternative is to ship gas in liquefied form, which is how it gets to markets not served by pipelines, but this requires specially designed shipping and terminals, which can’t be added rapidly in a Whichcrisis. brings us to the current moment. Russian gas deliveries to Europe have plunged about 75% from a year ago. The Russians claim to be experiencing technical difficulties, but nobody believes that; this is clearly a de facto embargo intended to pressure the West into cutting off support for Ukraine. And the result has been an incredible surge in European gas prices.Ifyou want a historical comparison, the roughly tenfold recent surge in European gas prices dwarfs the oil price shocks of 1973-74 and 1979-80, which played a big role in the stagflation of the 1970s. It’s probably not a coincidence that the latest price surge began in mid-June. That’s more or less when it became clear that Russia’s second offensive in Ukraine — the one that followed its disastrous initial attempt to seize Kyiv — wasn’t going to achieve decisive results and that the military balance was likely to shift in Ukraine’s favor as Western weapons arrived. So Russia turned to economic warfare instead. Europe is making up for the shortfall in part by importing liquefied natural gas, especially from the United States, which produces a lot of natural gas from shale. But the capacity for LNG shipments is limited, which is why U.S. natural gas prices, while up, haven’t surged nearly as much as European prices. How is this all going to play out? Sophisticated, advanced economies have enormous capacity for adaptation, and Europe has been building up its gas stocks to get through the winter; the continent will find ways to manage even if it’s receiving very little Russian gas. But a bout of high inflation is inevitable, and a European recession seems extremely likely. That said, macroeconomic considerations are probably secondary to the question of how Europe will cope with the extreme hardship many families will face from soaring energy bills. Governments will have to find ways of alleviating that burden — a tricky problem when they also want to preserve incentives to conserve energy. The politics of gas prices are likely to be extremely turbulent over the next few months. Will Putin’s economic blackmail succeed in undermining Western opposition to his aggression? Probably not. Among other things, the countries that seem least resolute in the face of Russian pressure — hello, Germany — have also been doing the least to support Ukraine, so it doesn’t matter much if they lose theirButnerve.whatever happens now, we’re getting an object lesson in the dangers of becoming economically dependent on authoritarian regimes. Economists have long been skeptical about national security arguments for limiting international trade, which have often been abused in the past. But Russia’s actions have given those arguments much more force.
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“La energía renovable puede ser una gran alter nativa; pero conlleva una inversión importante que, por lo general, se prorratea a muchos años. Por eso es vital asegurar quedar protegido en caso de cualquier falla o incumplimiento”, sostuvo.
AEE y AES firman acuerdos de compra de energía renovable solar y de almacenamiento de energía en baterías
El funcionario exhortó a “verificar si la empresa con la que se quiere contratar tiene querellas ante el DACO, si está debidamente registrado como contra tista, y si aparece en los listados mensuales de comer cios incumplidores”. En cuanto a los equipos, resaltó la importancia de “asegurarse de que toda promesa hecha por el vendedor quede por escrito”.
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Cuatro acuerdos de compra de energía renovable solar y otros dos acuerdos para almace namiento de energía en baterías fueron firmados el domingo por el director ejecutivo de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE), ingeniero Josué Colón Ortiz y el presidente de Applied Energy Systems (AES Puerto Rico), ingeniero Jesús Bolinaga.
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“Es vital, además, constatar que haya algún tipo de compromiso respecto a las garantías, pues nos he mos percatado de que muchos relegan dicha respon sabilidad al manufacturero, con quien nunca contrató el consumidor”, concluyó.
“Con la firma de estos acuerdos logramos la con tratación de 18 proyectos solares que totalizan 844 megavatios de energía solar y dos proyectos de al macenamiento de energía en baterías que represen tan 200 megavatios adicionales, cumpliendo con la política pública de la administración del gobernador
S AN JUAN – El secretario de Asuntos del Consumi dor (DACO), Edan Rivera Rodríguez informó que en lo que va de agosto, se han radicado 52 querellas relacionadas a placas solares. Según el secretario esta cifra representa casi el do ble del promedio de 27 querellas mensuales para esta categoría de servicios.
En conformidad con las disposiciones de la Ley 82-2010, conocida como la Ley de Política Pública de Diversificación Energética por Medio de la Energía Renovable Sostenible y Alterna en Puerto Rico, se gún enmendada por la Ley 17-2019, conocida como Ley de Política Pública Energética de Puerto Rico, la AEE debe cumplir con el 40 por ciento de integración de renovables para el 2025 y 100 por ciento para el 2050.“La Autoridad está comprometida con la integra ción de fuentes de energía renovable y continuamos negociando acuerdos para el almacenamiento de energía en baterías siguiendo los procesos dictados por las leyes y reglamentos aplicables”, concluyó el director ejecutivo de la AEE.
Pedro Pierluisi de diversificar la producción de ener gía con fuentes renovables, reducir el uso de combus tibles fósiles y contribuir a la protección del medio ambiente”, destacó Colón Ortiz.
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Al respecto, recomendó a los consumidores “leer en detalle todo documento que pueda comprometerlos de alguna manera, y no firmar nada hasta entender realmente todo lo que dice el documento”.
Rivera detalló que, desde agosto de 2021, se han radicado 377 querellas en las que los consumidores reclaman remedios por algún tipo de incumplimien to con proveedores de servicios de placas solares. La mayor cantidad se radicó en las regionales de San Juan, con un 35% de las querellas; Arecibo, con 22%; y Ponce con 17 por ciento.
“El volumen de querellas para este mes preocupa. Hasta el viernes (26 de agosto), se radicaron 52 que rellas relacionadas a este tipo de servicios, lo cual es casi el doble que el promedio registrado para el últi mo año”, dijo el secretario en declaraciones escritas. El secretario destacó la importancia de “ser par ticularmente cuidadosos con este tipo de contratos”.
Acorde a los registros del DACO, en lo que va del 2022, las querellas más comunes relacionadas a servicios de placas solares están relacionadas a algún tipo de inconformidad por equipos que no cubren las necesidades para las cuales se adquirieron, o baterías que se dañan en poco tiempo, y que luego no se re emplazan con la debida prontitud.
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Aumentan las querellas por concepto de placas solares, según secretario del DACO en informe preliminar COVID-19
2 muertos y 325 hospitalizados
Precisó el funcionario que, en lo que respecta a placas solares, las querellas mensuales que se radican ante el DACO han fluctuado desde 14, que fue la cifra más baja registrada entre agosto de 2021 y julio de 2022; hasta 40, que fue la más alta para ese periodo, con un promedio de 27 querellas por mes. La cifra más baja se registró en noviembre de 2021, y la más alta en julio de 2022.
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El informe prelimi nar de COVID-19 del Depar tamento de Salud (DS) reportó el domingo 2 muertos y 325 perso nas hospitalizadas. El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,9442.Hay 279 adultos hospitaliza dos y 46 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 13 al 26 de agosto de 2022. La tasa de positividad está a 26.32 por ciento.
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The chapter on “Crime, Corruption, Ce lebrities” begins with the following: “While po litical status remained -- and still remains -- the island’s seemingly never-ending conundrum, it never really made it to the top of the concerns of Puerto Rican voters in the 1960s-1980s. Is landers were more into the here-and-now of that time than in the possible political future. Crime usually led the polls as the island’s top problem.”Asthe book is meant to be more memoir than history, the author does not give much spa ce to covering the ins and outs of the “neverending conundrum” of status politics. Noting that the island’s geography made it fertile ground for the illegal drug trade, Fried man nonetheless states that “Several high-profi le crimes captured the island’s attention in tho se decades. Number one was Cerro Maravilla, where the cops were the criminals” in killing two independence activists, a story San Juan Star reporters were instrumental in uncovering. Number two was the slaying of TV personality Luis Vigoreaux, who was killed in a contract hit set up by his wife, Lydia Echevarría.
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Former San Juan Star reporter takes readers on tour of the last quarter of the 20th century
The book lacks a lot of in-depth analysis as the author acknowledges that “this is far from an encompassing history, more of a personal one.”
The book is both memoir and history as the author punctuates his memories of tho se years with San Juan Star stories of his authorship.
an account of what life was like in Puerto Rico in the last quarter of the 20th century you couldn’t do better than reading “Puerto Rico 1965-1990: A Quarter Century of Highlights, Hope, Status and Stasis,” a “Personal History” by former San Juan Star re porter Robert Friedman. The book is both memoir and history as the author punctuates his memories of those years with San Juan Star stories of his author ship. “I have tried in these pages to show, through my newspaper articles and recollection of the time, what it was like living in Puerto Rico from the mid-1960s, through the 1970s and 1980s,” Friedman says in the book’s introduc tion. “Those were the years I spent on the island as a journalist for the San Juan Star. I also fre elanced in those years as a special correspon dent for the [New York] Daily News.”
Friedman then covers incidents of pro-independence terrorism including the murder of two U.S. Navy personnel when terrorists ambushed a bus carrying personnel being transported from a naval communica tions facility in Toa Baja to work at the Sa bana Seca naval radar station on the island’s north Thecoast.newsman describes the connection between Washington and San Juan, noting the ever-increasing largesse of the U.S. to Puerto Rico and the attention given to Puerto Rico by candidates for office and others including for mer first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who visited the island to campaign for her brother-in-law Edward Kennedy in the presidential primary election of Chapters1978.are devoted to show business and the world of sports in which the author highlights the performances of local artists Danny Rivera, Lucecita Benítez, Chucho Ave llanet, Ednita Nazario and Nydia Caro, and vi sits to local venues by Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minnelli, Tony Bennett, James Brown, The Su premes, The Temptations, Ella Fitzgerald, Tom Jones, Jerry Lewis, Johnny Mathis, Tito Puente, La Lupe, Celia Cruz, Marco Antonio Muñiz and José Feliciano, among “many, many others.”
Friedman includes his interviews with jazz great Dizzy Gillespie and screen legend Cary Grant.Noting that Puerto Rican women were coaxed into sterilization as late as the 1960s and used as guinea pigs in early tests of “The Pill,” the author chronicles the of birth women’s liberation on the island and includes an article of his own experience as a “liberated father” at age Friedman46. describes how the local police kept files (carpetas) on independence activists starting in the 1930s, something that came to light in“Meanwhile,1978. the FBI decided to get into the anti-independentistas act in the Sixties, when it began to apply its Counter Intelligen ce Program (COINTELPRO), which was meant to rout out communists, to the independence movement in both Puerto Rico and the states,” he said.Toward the end of the book, Friedman offers up biographical articles on several Puer to Rican authors, including former San Juan Star editor and author of the Albany trilogy, William Kennedy; “Down These Mean Streets” author Piri Thomas; self-avowed jibarita and author of “When I Was Puerto Rican,” Esmerelda Santia go; and the late Edgardo Vega, who takes rea ders on a journey through Loisaida (Lower East Side) in New York in his magically real novel “OmahaTheBigelow.”newsman waxes eloquent on the “Miracle in Ponce” at a Catholic school, Cen tral San Francisco, where disadvantaged kids line up to kiss Sister Anita Mosely on the cheek at the end of the day despite her stern demea nor. Finally, Friedman commemorates re porter Harold Linden, who “went through the 1960s-1980s era at the Star and despite his death in 1992, lives on in works, deeds and spirit.”In sum, in his memories and his arti cles, Friedman provides a lively and engaging glimpse into an important period in Puerto Ri can history. Longtime residents will find many fami liar stories and newcomers will be enlightened by first-rate reporting and well written articles on many salient issues in the island’s history.
The author goes on to chronicle tragic deaths: the 1972 death in an airplane crash of Puerto Rico baseball hero Roberto Clemente, the death in the Condado of trapeze artist Karl Wallenda in 1978, the death in 1985 of 130 people in a massive mudslide in Ponce, and the Christmas Eve 1986 death of 97 people in a fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in Condado.
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Friedman takes us on a tour of the “de cadent and priceless” Old San Juan, includes a chapter on the Puerto Rico diaspora along with a story on “Neoricans -- Unwelcome in 2 Worlds,” and chronicles “Status, Politics and Politicians,” including a 1976 profile of then-37year-old Puerto Rican Independence Party Sen. RubénHeBerríos.covers the death in the mid-1960s of two “Titans,” independence leader Pedro Al bizú Campos and the founder of the Popular Democratic Party and the island’s first elected governor, Luis Muñoz Marín.
Friedman proceeds to a chapter on “UPR: Politics and Culture” in which he describes a 1981 mini-riot by 40 students in an expository writing class striking over a tuition increase; a 1966 interview with 90-year-old exiled Spanish musician Pablo Casals, who said that “Life is wonderful, memories can enrich;” and a 1986 interview with writer and public intellectual Mario Vargas Llosa.
Having heard that Glacier was particu larly popular, Prado tried to book campsites a year before the trip on Recreation.gov, the online platform that manages overnight ac commodations, day-use access and more for the country’s 4,200 federally managed sites, including national parks, memorials, historic districts and recreational areas.
By LAUREN SLOSS A line Prado knew she wanted to visit Glacier National Park during her sum mer vacation this year. The elementa ry-school teacher had a monthlong road trip planned with her 8-year-old daughter and three other relatives that would start in their hometown, Houston, and meander through nine national parks and monuments in Wyo ming, Montana and Colorado.
“There were never any reservations available, and I was always told to check back again. But when? How is everything booked already?” Prado said, describing her failed attempts. “I felt like I was online, non stop. I’m not a tech savvy person, and it was just overwhelming.”Pradoisn’talone in her exasperation with the system. Recreation.gov, a must-pass gauntlet for travelers hoping to explore des tinations and attractions administered by the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and other agencies, has in recent years received criti cism from travelers and travel industry leaders alike — particularly as park attendance has surged during the pandemic. Major frustra tions with the platform include little to no availability for campsites and vehicle permits, fees for canceling reservations and confusing booking windows that manage to make both spontaneity and planning ahead difficult.
Meanwhile, Yosemite National Park in California requires a reservation — for a campsite, a hotel in the park or a backcountry pass — to enter the park at all during peak hours, even if you’re simply hoping to drive through. Access to particularly popular at tractions in various parks, including Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park, requires en tering a lottery anywhere from a year to a day before. The public finds the system “very con fusing,” said Linda Devlin, executive director of the Allegheny National Forest Visitors Bu reau, one of the co-signers of the U.S. Travel letter. “If they want to rent a cabin at Red Bridge on the Allegheny National Forest, they have to go through multiple pages to first find the Allegheny National Forest, then the right campground, then the cabins. It is not a userfriendlyVersionssystem.”of a reservation system have existed online for decades, as parks have at tempted to prevent traffic and overcrowding. In 2018, the consulting company Booz Al len Hamilton took over management of the online booking, spurring hope for improve ments, including real-time updates and a more usable interface. The new version of Recreation.gov was a step up from the previ ous model, but was ill-prepared over the past two years to handle the major uptick of pan demic-driven users. It didn’t help alleviate the confusion caused by changing requirements from the parks as they attempted to cope with pandemic restrictions and record-breaking crowds.
‘Being comfortable with being uncom fortable’ In addition to a high-speed internet connection, accessing and booking on Rec reation.gov needs a level of computer literacy that not all travelers may have (speaking of tech, issues of campsite-snatching bots and third-party sites have plagued Recreation.gov for years).InDecember, months into her search for campsites, Prado was able to book one campsite for three nights in Glacier, a far shorter period than she was hoping to spend in the park. As for the rest, she decided she would have to play it by ear. She was comfortable enough with the uncertainty, and the outdoors, to be sponta neous — she attributes much of this flexibil ity to being able to dedicate a month to the trip, a benefit of being a teacher with a sum mer vacation. She was also able to figure out workarounds to reservations by snagging lastminute campsites at some of the parks she visited, including Glacier (where a number were available, despite appearing to be fully booked on Recreation.gov), as well as camp ing in national forests and spending the night in Walmart parking lots.
Little availability for campsites. Confusing booking windows. Traveler and travel industry frustration is growing with Recreation.gov, the online portal to book accommodations and access on federal lands.
“Right now, there’s a 30- to 60-day window to get into some of the most soughtafter parks,” said Tori Emerson Barnes, the executive vice president of public affairs and policy for the U.S. Travel Association, a trade group that promotes domestic travel and that sent the letter. “That’s not really an appro priate timeline for international visitors, who are booking travel 10 to 12 months in ad vance.”In a statement, Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles, a spokesperson for the park service, said that the agency appreciates the feedback “as we adjust and improve these management tools, and as we evaluate ways to ensure consistent and clear expectations for visitors planning park trips.”
In mid-July, citing concerns that the current system could “threaten to stall the recovery of international inbound travel,” nearly 400 hotels, regional tourism boards, tour operators and other industry organiza tions in the United States sent a letter to the National Park Service director, Chuck Sams, and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland calling for change. Their prima ry complaint: “Short booking windows and inconsistent procedures are not workable for international travelers and international tour operators.”
“If you are new to the world of outdoor life, it can be an intimidating and overwhelm ing process,” said Sonya Staples. “We don’t want that to deter people from our commu nity from experiencing some of the greatest national treasures.”
National park booking app leaves users feeling lost in the woods
“Being comfortable with being uncom fortable was the only way I was able to do this trip,” she said. For novice campers, this can be an in timidating prospect, one that some experi enced travelers say further highlights issues around equity in outdoor spaces. Sonya and Necota Staples, a married couple from At lanta, started car-camping around the United States in 2016 and often frequent national parks. They created an outdoor travel adven ture company, Staples InTents, dedicated to helping demystify the outdoors, particularly for communities of color, with videos, blog posts and in-person gatherings.
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Research required Longer booking windows aren’t a ma jor issue for all travelers, some — even inter national visitors — prefer last-minute access. But frustration and confusion with the sys tem’s inconsistencies abound. Each park may post different requirements to visit: Glacier, for example, doesn’t require a reservation to enter the park, but does to traverse a major park attraction, the Going-to-the-Sun-Road Corridor, between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. (But if you can’t secure a vehicle pass for that spe cific pathway, you can book an attraction on the way to gain access.)
cero cero metros (23.00 mc) con el solar número veintitrés (23) del mencionado plano de inscripción. Enclava en dicho solar una casa de hormigón ar mado que consta de tres cuar tos dormitorios, sala, comedor en una sola unidad, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón.” Cons ta inscrita al folio 6 del tomo 125 de Sabana Llana, finca número 5,402, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Central Victoria. c. Servidumbre de paso y acue ducto a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. d. Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación y uso. Dirección de la propiedad: 24 AE, Extensión Country Club, San Juan, PR 00925. Se aper cibe a los licitadores para que procedan con la inspección físi ca del inmueble objeto de eje cución previo a la celebración de las subastas. El precio míni mo de licitación con relación a la propiedad anteriormente descrita y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se cele brará el 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: En relación con la hipoteca por $86,400.00, la suma de $86,400.00; y en relación con la hipoteca por $21,600.00, la suma de $21,600.00. SEGUN DA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 22 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: En relación con la hipoteca por $86,400.00, la suma de $57,600.00; y en relación con la hipoteca por $21,600.00, la suma de $14,400.00.
WHE REAS: Said sale to be made by the undersigned Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an or der shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further parti culars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 18th day of July of 2022. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, 787-672-8269.
Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2020CV01813. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA ENMENDADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA DEMANDADA,PARTEAL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL GENERAL:PÚBLICO Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certifica do, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 12 DE OC TUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipote cado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número siete (7) del Bloque WW en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Jardines del Caribe, segunda etapa, ra dicada en los Barrios Canas, Quebrada Limón y Pastillo del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS NOVENTA Y SIETE PUNTO TRESCIENTOS SETENTA Y UNO METROS CUADRADOS (397.371 M/C), en lindes por el NORTE, con doce punto quinientos metros (12.500 m.), con arco de cinco punto cuatro cientos noventa y ocho metros (5.498 m/), con calle cincuenta y uno (51); por el SUR, en die ciséis metros (16.00 m.), con el solar uno (1) del Bloque WW; por el ESTE, en veintiuno punto quinientos metros (21.500 m.), con la Calle cuarenta y nueve (49) y por el OESTE, en veinti cinco metros (25.00 m.) con el solar seis (6) del Bloque WW. Enclava una casa de concreto armado para ser utilizado como residencia familiar. Inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 1414 hoy 589, finca 20,202, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. Propiedad localizada en: URB. JARDINES DEL CARI BE, WW-7 CALLE 51, PONCE, PUERTO RICO 00728. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Ti tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $175,500.00. Fe cha de Vencimiento: 1 de oc tubre de 2083. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $175,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el pacio de dos semanas conse cutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los si tios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 1 de agosto de 2022. JORGE HERNÁNDEZ PAGÁN, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. JUAN ROLANDO CRUZ ROMÁN, AL GUACIL PLACA #965. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR ESTRELLA HOMES III, L.L.C. Demandante Vs. JORGE LUIS VÁZQUEZ ORTIZ T/C/C JORGE L. VÁZQUEZ ORTIZ Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2018CV05238. Salón Núm.: 908. Sobre: CO BRO DE DINERO Y EJECU CIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MU LERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, al Público HAGO SA BER: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha del 14 de enero de 2019, por la Secretaria del Tribunal de San Juan en relación con la Sentencia Sumaria en Rebeldía dictada en 23 de octubre de 2018, y su Notificación de fecha 25 de octubre de 2018, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el NÚMERO VEINTICUATRO (24) DEL BLOQUE “AE” del plano de inscripción de la UR BANIZACIÓN EXTENSIÓN COUNTRY CLUB, situado en el Barrio Sabana de la municipali dad de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS METROS CUADRADOS CON QUINCE CENTÍMETROS CUADRADOS (300.15 m.c.) y colinda por el NORTE, en trece metros y cinco centímetros (13.15 mc) con la calle denomi nada Calle Setenta (70) del mencionado plano de inscrip ción; por el SUR, en trece me tros y cinco centímetros (13.15cm) con el solar siete (7) del mencionado plano, por el ESTE, en veintitrés punto cero cero metros (23.00 mc) con el solar número veinticinco (25) del mencionado plano; y por el OESTE, en veintitrés punto precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se estable ce como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $117,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido original mente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable ce como mínima para la TER CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $87,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 26 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $102,015.35 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $13,491.41 en intereses acu mulados al 31 de enero de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.501% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $3,744.41 en seguro hipote cario; $4,795.00 en cargos por servicio; $477.00 en seguro de la propiedad; $400.00 de tasa ciones; $260.00 de inspeccio nes; $1,983.30 en adelantos de gastos y de honorarios de abo gado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $17,550.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de aboga do, esta última habrá de de vengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fe cha, desde este mismo día has ta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los intere sados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por es
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To: JUAN MEDINA;PARTNERSHIPANDHISMARRERORAMONORTIZ,WIFE,LISAIDAMEDINAMENDEZTHECONJUGALORTIZ-UNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA:ANDTHEGENERALPUBLIC:
TERCERA SU BASTA: Se celebrará el 29 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: En relación con la hi poteca por $86,400.00, la suma de $43,200.00; y en relación con la hipoteca por $21,600.00, la suma de $10,800.00. Las su bastas se llevarán a cabo para satisfacer al Banco demandan te de las siguientes sumas de dinero adeudadas por la parte demandada conforme a la Sen tencia dictada en el presente caso, a saber: Primera Causa de Acción: la suma de $70,794.12, adeudada por con cepto de principal e intereses vencidos al 16 de febrero de 2017, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, los cargos por demora vencidos que a igual fecha ascienden a $179.91, y los que se continúen acumulan do al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obliga ción, las sumas adeudadas por LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff V. JUAN RAMON MARRERO ORTIZ, HIS WIFE, LISAIDA MEDINA MENDEZ AND THE MEDINA;PARTNERSHIPCONJUGALORTIZ-UNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA Defendants Civil No.: 18-cv-1799. (GAG). Re: COLLECTION OF MO NIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.
URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Quintas Villamar, antes Quintas de Dorado, Puer to Rico, situado en el Barrio Hi guillar de Dorado, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de dicha Urbaniza ción, con el número, área y co lindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Solar número cin cuenta y nueve (59) del bloque “H” con área de trescientos ca torce punto veinticinco (314.25) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veinticinco (25.00) metros, con el solar número cincuenta y ocho (58); por el SUR, en una distancia de veinticinco (25.00) metros, con el solar número se senta (60) de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, en una distancia de doce punto cincuenta y sie te (12.57) metros, con la Calle Boulevard Sur, por el OESTE, en una distancia de doce pun to cincuenta y siete (12.57) metros, con el solar número diez (10) de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa. The proper ty is identified with the number 7,872 and is recorded at Page number 195 of Volume num ber 158 of Dorado, Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Baya mon, Fourth Section. Property Addres: Urbanización Quintas Villamar, H-59 Calle Nogal, Do rado, P.R. 00646. The deed of mortgage is recorded at Page 197 of Volume 159 of Dorado, Property Registry of Bayamón, Section IV. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the fo llowing liens: Senior Liens des cribed in Spanish: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage, LLC., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $31,500.00, con intereses al 9.875% anual, vencedero el día 1 de noviembre del 2018, constituida mediante la escri tura número 427, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de octubre del 2008, ante el notario David Toledo David, e inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 158 de Dorado, finca número 7,282, inscripción 6ta., como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 19 de octubre del 2011, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de di ciembre de 2010. AL ASIENTO 2021-167808-BY04 DEL SIS TEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 29 de diciembre de 2021, la escritura número 162, otor gada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de diciembre de 2021, ante el notario Juan C. Salichs Pou, mediante la cual se cancela la hipoteca por la suma de $31,500.00, según inscripción 6ta relacionada. Junior Liens described in Spa nish: Embargo Federal contra Juan Marrero Ortiz, seguro social xxx-xx-6002, dirección P.O Box 780, Dorado, Puerto Rico 00646, por la suma de $9,369.82, notificación número 595344009, presentado el día 10 de noviembre de 2009, ano tado al folio 76, Asiento 2, del libro de Embargos Federales número 2, finca número 7,872. No podemos precisar que la persona embargada y el titular en esta finca sean la misma persona. Other Liens: NONE. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and pre ferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancella tion. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 6TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER OF 2022, AT: 10:00 AM. The minimum bid that will be accep ted is the sum of $168,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 13TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER OF 2022, AT: 10:00 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $112,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the mini mum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 20TH DAY OF SEPT EMBER OF 2022, AT: 10:00 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $84,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the credi tor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, credi ting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The un dersigned Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied.
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE REVERSEFUNDINGMORTGAGELLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESION CARLOS RAUL INGRESOSDOECOMPUESTAHERNANDEZTORREST/C/CCARLOSTORRESHERNANDEZPORJOHNYJANEDOECOMOPOSIBLESHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOS;RAMONASEPULVEDATORRESPORSIYENLACUOTAVIUDALUSUFRUCTUARIA;ESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMERICA;CENTRODERECAUDACIONDEMUNICIPALES(CRIM)
WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution the reof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. curren cy in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the Court, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following pro perty described in Spanish:
WHEREAS: On May 31st, 2019 Default Judgment was entered and grated in favor of Plaintiff to recover from de fendants the principal amount of $179,208.01, itemized as follows: $160,002.80, plus ac crued interest at an annual rate of 6.0% since April 1st, 2017, to the present, and an additional payment of $19,205.21, that does not bear any interests, plus a stipulated fee equivalent to 10% of the original mortgage loan amount, that is $16,180.00 for fees, costs and attorney’s fees and a late charge fee equi valent to 5% of each and any monthly installment not recei ved by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due. Such late charges conti nue to accrue until the debt is paid in full under the mortgage obligations. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interes ted parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States Dis trict Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
3. Embargo Federal contra Yadira Cruz & Jorge Vázquez, seguro social xxxxx-1832, por la suma de $37,864.39, notificación núme ro 338181118, certificación de fecha 13 de diciembre de 2018, presentado y anotado el día 15 de enero de 2019, al Asiento 2019-000247-FED del Sistema Karibe. Fecha de Renovación: 30 de junio de 2020. 4. Embar go Federal contra Jorge L. Vaz quez y Yadira Cruz, seguro so cial xxx-xx-5068, por la suma de $38,595.33, notificación nú mero 338181318, certificación de fecha 13 de diciembre de 2018, presentado y anotado el día 31 de enero de 2019, al Asiento 2019-000248-FED del Sistema Karibe. Fecha de Re novación: 12 de junio de 2023. 5. Embargo Federal contra Jor ge L. Vazquez, seguro social xxx-xx-5068, por la suma de $75,728.78, notificación núme ro 394767819, certificación de fecha 22 de noviembre de 2019, presentado y anotado el día 20 de diciembre de 2019, al Asiento 2019-011887-FED del Sistema Karibe. Fechas de Re novación: 30 de junio de 2020; 8 de mayo de 2023. Se enten derá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematan te los acepta y queda subroga do en la responsabilidad de los mismos, toda vez que el precio de remate no se destina a su extinción. Se le notifica a los ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA en relación con el grava men posterior inscrito a su favor para que comparezca a recla mar cualquier derecho que en ley se le reconozca y se le ad vierte, además, que habrá de solicitarse la cancelación de sus derechos en el Registro de la Propiedad, una vez celebra da la venta en pública subasta. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secre taría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, durante horas laborables. Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el pre sente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puer to Rico, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Munici pio donde se celebrará la su basta por espacio de dos sema nas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por se mana. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 10 de agosto de 2022.
set, a bathroom and a linen closet. This dwelling unit has for its private use two parking spaces which area is numbered with the same number of the unit. This dwelling unit has a participation of 1.7389% in the common elements of the Con dominium. La hipoteca antes mencionada consta inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 560 de Hu macao, finca número 19,502, inscripción séptima. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satis facer a la parte demandante la suma de $82,867.49 de principal, intereses al 6.125% anual, desde el día 1ro. de diciembre de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $28,900.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acu mulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $289,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la canti dad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $192,666.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subas ta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $144,500.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá sa tisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudica ción y que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continua rán subsistentes, entendiéndo se que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravá menes posteriores: Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $11,757.88 contra Héctor L. Ri vera Arocho, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, según Certificación de fecha 25 de febrero de 2013, presentado el día 26 de febrero de 2013 y anotado al folio 184, Orden número 732 del Libro del ELA número 1, (Ley 12). Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $136,997.26 contra Héctor L. Rivera Arocho, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, Embargo número HUM-180322, según Certificación de fecha 9 de febrero de 2018, presentado el día 13 de febrero de 2018 y anotado al Asiento 2018-000864-EST del Sistema Karibe. Embargo Federal con tra de Héctor L. Rivera Arocho, seguro social xxx-xx-0322, por la suma de $16,795.78, noti ficación número 344922419, del día 26 de febrero de 2019, presentado el día 11 de marzo de 2019, anotado al Asiento concepto de seguros y/o contri buciones, la suma de $463.41, por concepto de adelantos, más la suma de $8,640.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados. Segunda Causa de Acción: la suma de $16,131.73 adeudada por concepto de principal e intereses vencidos al 5 de abril de 2017, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, los cargos por demora vencidos que a igual fecha ascienden a $40.44, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, más la suma de $2,160.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados, en la segunda causa de acción. Las subastas de dicha propie dad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Tribu nal de San Juan, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consig nará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en adición a los gas tos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier mo mento luego de haberse co menzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus pos turas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses acumulados hasta la fecha de la subasta según pactados hasta su total y com pleto pago, en cuarto término, las sumas establecidas para el pago de recargos por demora hasta la fecha de la subasta y en quinto término la suma prin cipal adeudada. Disponiéndo se, que si quedare algún rema nente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demanda da, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. En vista de la Orden de Descargo emitida por el Tri bunal Federal de Quiebras en relación con la parte demanda da, la parte demandante ha re nunciado a cualesquiera defi ciencia resultante luego de la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad inmueble objeto de ejecución en este caso. Sobre el inmueble anteriormente des crito se encuentran presenta dos los siguientes gravámenes posteriores:
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE HECTOR RIVERA AROCHOSUCOMPUESTAAROCHO,PORMADREAIDALUZMONTALVO;YPORLASUCESIONDESUPADREROBERTORIVERASANTOSCOMPUESTAPORIVANRIVERAAROCHO, DE $16,795.78. Yo, JOSÉ L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, 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 21 DE SEP TIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Hu macao, Humacao, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se or denó por la vía ordinaria al me jor 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 corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Humacao durante horas labora bles. Que en caso de no produ cir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 28 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 5 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA de en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBAN: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Dwelling unit No. A-19, which is part of the Horizontal Property Regime known as LA JOLLA DE PALMAS CONDOMINIUM I, located at Candelero Abajo Ward, Municipality of Huma cao, Puerto Rico. It is a three bedroom, two story unit with a total construction area of 1,873.67 square feet, equiva lent to 174.07 square meters. The maximum length of this unit is 48.00 feet and its maximum width is 24.42 feet. This unit is No. 19 of area “A”, located on the Northeast side of the Regi me. Its boundaries are: by the North, in a distance of 42.00 feet, with common area; by the East, in a distance of 24.42 feet, with common area; and by the West, in a distance of 24.42 feet, with common area. It has an entrance porch which leads to the living-dining and kitchen area. The living-dining area opens into a terrace and the kitchen opens into a patio for its private use measuring approxi mately 9.83 feet by 11.53 feet which has been included as part of the surface area of the unit. On the lower floor there are also a storage and laundry room, a half bathroom and the stairway leading to the upper floor. The upper floor conta ins a master bedroom with its dressing area, and bathroom, two other bedrooms with clo
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Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2018CV00249. (208). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO GENERAL.EN A: SUCESION DE HECTOR RIVERA AROCHO COMPUESTA POR SU MADRE AIDA LUZ
ROBERTO RIVERA AROCHO, DAVID RIVERA AROCHO, Y POR SUS NIETOS LUIS A. RIVERA SANTIAGO, LEMARIE GONZALEZ RIVERA, VERONICA LEE GONZALEZ RIVERA; Y POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES
EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUA CIL SUPERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante V. ROBERTO LÓPEZ COLÓN, LIZ YAJAIRA COLÓN MARTÍNEZ, T/C/C LIZ COLÓN MARTÍNEZ Demandados Civil Núm.: DCD2015-1288. Sala: 506. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI NARIA. 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 Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, Baya món, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚ BLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia ex pedido el día 7 de julio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Montecasino Heights, en el Barrio Muca rabones del Municipio de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, que se des cribe como solar número 10 del Bloque “K”. Área del Solar 394.69 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con Calle número 5, en 13.055 metros y medio arco de 2.75 metros; por el SUR, con solar número 11, en 16.555 metros; por el ESTE, con Calle número 5-A y solar número 4, en 20.50 metros y medio arco de 2.75 metros y por el OESTE, con solar núme ro 9, en 24.00 metros. Inscrito al folio 251 del tomo 414 de Toa Alta, finca número #21,068 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de Bayamón. La propiedad ubica en: 10 K Río Lajas 5 St. Montecasino Heights, Toa Alta PR. El producto de la subas ta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde al cance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 10 de agosto de 2015 y notificada el 14 de agosto de 2015, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $265,762.04; la cual se desglo sa en: $239,366.79 por concep to de principal; $1,110.83 por concepto de intereses acumu lados; $926.76 por concepto de cargos por demora; los cuales al igual que los intereses con tinúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclama da en este pleito, y la suma de $24,357.66 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y de más créditos accesorios garan tizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del algua cil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 5 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Al guaciles de Subastas de Cen tro Judicial de Bayamón, Baya món, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $243,576.61. Que de ser necesaria la ce lebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 12 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $162,384.40, 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 19 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SU BASTA será de $121,788.30, 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 tota lidad 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 men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Ho norable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose sión física del inmueble de con formidad 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 eje cutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti vas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas la borables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, 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 EDIC TO, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 08 de agosto de 2022. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXI LIAR PLACA #193, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA CAO COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE MEDICOS Y PROFESIONALESOTROSDELASALUD(MEDICOOP)
1. ANOTACIÓN PREVENTIVA DE DEMANDA radicada en el Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, Civil Número KCD09-0704, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria fechada 20 de mayo de 2009, seguida por Firstbank Puerto Rico (Deman dante) Vs. Jorge Luis Vázquez Ortiz (Demandado). Por la mis ma se reclama el pago de la suma de $83,039.24, inscrito en virtud de la Ley Número 216 del 27 de diciembre de 2010. 2. ANOTACIÓN PREVENTIVA DE DEMANDA radicada en el Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, Civil Número SJ2018CV05238, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecu ción de Hipoteca por la Vía Or dinaria fechada 12 de julio de 2018, seguida por Firstbank Puerto Rico (Demandante) Vs. Jorge Luis Vázquez Ortiz t/c/c Jorge L. Vázquez Ortiz (De mandado). Por la misma se re clama el pago de: Primera Cau sa de Acción $70,794.12 y otras sumas; Segunda Causa de Acción $16,131.73 y otras sumas, presentado al Asiento 2018-071180-SJ05 del Sistema Karibe, el cual es objeto de eje cución en la presente causa de acción.
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA ISLAND FAIRWAYCOMOSERVICES,PORTFOLIOLLC,AGENTEDEACQUISITIONSFUND,LLC Demandante Vs. CARLOS E MERCED FERRER Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00494. Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CARLOS E. MERCED FERRERURB. JARDINES DE CAROLINA J33 CALLE J, CAROLINA PR 00987. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción 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 dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo en tiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte deman dante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero y la Lcda. Andrea Del Mar Ruiz-Hassan cuyas di recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, andrea.miz@ orf-law.com y a la derolina,yEXTENDIDOnotificaciones@orf-law.com.direcciónBAJOMIFIRMAelsellodelTribunal,enCaPuertoRico,hoydía15juliode2022.EnCarolina, Puerto Rico, el 15 de julio de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APON TE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETA RIA REGIONAL. DAMARIS TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND FAIRWAYCOMOSERVICES,PORTFOLIOLLC.,AGENTEDEACQUISITIONSFUND,LLC Demandante Vs. WILLY SEGURA SENA Demandada Caso Núm.: SJ2022CV01445. Salón Núm.: 503. Sobre: CO BRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO. A: WILLY SEGURA SENA. 202 CALLE MERHOFF BO. VILLA PALMER, SAN JUAN PR 00915. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste Ia demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a Ia publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), Ia cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Ia secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en Ia demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en eI ejer cicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El siste ma SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de Ia parte deman dante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz Lopez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a Ia ASECRETARIAZABETHCOLLADO,2022.toTribunal,BAJOorf-Iaw.com.akenmuel.riuz@orf-Iaw.comdirecciónyIadirecciónnotificaciones@EXTENDIDOMIFIRMAyelsellodelenSanJuan,PuerRico,hoydía14dejuliodeGRISELDARODRÍGUEZSECRETARIA.ELIAGOSTONÚÑEZ,DESERVICIOSSALA. NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. ARNALDO TORRE;S RAMOS, SHARLYN DIAZ AGOSTO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIAL. ES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: GR2022CV00087. 802. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO POR LA VÍA TOLIBREDEAMÉRICA,TO.EMPLAZAMIENTOORDINARIA.POREDICESTADOSUNIDOSDEELPRESIDENTELOSEE.UU.,ELESTADOASOCIADODEPUERRICO,SS.
en cinco pies lineales y nueve pulgadas (5-9”), equivalentes a uno punto ochenta (1.80) me tros lineales. La puerta principal de entrada de este apartamen to está situada en su lindero este y por ella sale a la escalera central del apartamento del cuarto (4to) piso del edificio NO y luego al área de circulación del proyecto. Este apartamento tiene una participación de uno punto setenticinco por ciento (1.65) (así surge) en los ele mentos comunes generales del condominio. Le corresponde a este apartamento los espacios de estacionamiento número veintidós (22), veintitrés (23) y setenta y cinco (75). Consta inscrita al folio 60 del tomo 227 de Loíza, finca número #10,972, Registro de la Propie dad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina. La propiedad obje to de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Con dominio Costa Mar Beach Villa ge West, NO-401, Loiza, P.R. 00772. Se informa que la pro piedad a ser ejecutada se ad quirirá libre de cargas y grava men 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 estable ce como tipo mínimo de licita ción en la Primera Subasta la suma de $70,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #128, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de julio de 2017, ante el no tario Antonio R. Escriba Olive ra, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Loíza, finca #10,972, inscrip ción 5ta. La PRIMERA SUBAS TA, se llevará a cabo el día 11 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en mis ofi cinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Carolina, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $70,000.00. Si la pri mera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudica ción, se celebrará una SEGUN DA SUBASTA el día 18 DE OC TUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo si tio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subas ta, o sea, la suma de $46,666.67. Si la segunda su basta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en el mis mo lugar y regirá como tipo mí nimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $35,000.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su pro ducto satisfacer a la parte de mandante el importe de la Sen tencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $70,501.73, la cual se desglosa a continuación: la suma princi pal de $67,454.11, más intere pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma de $23,500.00 con intereses al 9.95% anual y vencimiento 1 de noviembre de 2020. Constituida por la Escritura 93 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de octubre de 2005 ante la notario Angelik Rodríguez Maldonado, e inscri ta al folio 49 del tomo 417 de Ci dra, finca 15171, inscripción 4ª. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential lien with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferen tial lien to the one being fore closed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, lien (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the suc cessful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the res ponsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acqui red free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: For the pur pose of the First Judicial Sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $216,878.00 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the abovedescribed property be unsuc cessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the Second Judicial Sale will be two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the First Judicial Sale, or $144,585.33. The minimum bid for the Third Judicial Sale, if the same is necessary, will be onehalf of the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the afo rementioned mortgage deed, or $108,439.00 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmo biliaria del Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Article 104, as amended. WHE REAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation.
POR MEDIO del presente edic to se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted, adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honora rios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sen tencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.
POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la pre sente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publi cación por Edicto de este Em plazamiento presente su con testación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: 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 Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, P. O. Box 7185, Ponce, Puerto Rico 007327185 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva Mayagüez, Puer to Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Telé fonos: (787) 832-9620 y (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, con cediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIR MA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 16 de agosto de 2022. LUZ MA YRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, to ochenticuatro (2,872.84) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a dos cientos sesentiseis punto ochentinueve (266.89) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, colinda con espacio exterior del Edificio NO y de los apartamentos de las terrazas del apartamento NO trescientos siete (NO-307) y NO trescien tos ocho (NO-308) en cincuenta y cuatro pies lineales (54’), equivalentes a dieciséis punto cuarentiseis (16.46) metros li neales; por el SUR, colinda con pasillo común limitado a las te rrazas de los apartamentos del tercer (3er) piso y con las terra zas de los apartamentos NO trescientos uno (NO-301) y NO trescientos seis (NO-306) en cincuenticuatro pies lineales (54), equivalentes a dieciséis punto cuarentiseis (16.46) me tros lineales; por el ESTE, colin da con espacio exterior del edi ficio NO y con las terrazas de los apartamentos NO trescien tos ocho (NO-308) y NO tres cientos uno (NO-301) en seten ticinco pies lineales (75), equivalentes a veintidós punto ochentiseis (22.86) metros li neales; y por el OESTE, colinda con pared medianera en seten ticinco pies lineales (75’), equi valentes a veintidós punto ochentiseis (22.86) metros li neales, que lo separa de las te rrazas de los apartamentos NO trescientos siete (NO-307) y NO trescientos seis (NO-306), pasillo común limitado a las te rrazas de los apartamentos del tercer (3er) piso y con espacio exterior del Edificio NO. El apartamento consta de dos ni veles, el primer nivel está dividi do en los siguientes elementos: sala, comedor, dos (2) dormito rios, cocina, closet, tres (3) ba ños con “vanity”, puertas de espejos, dos (2) balcones, ca lentador de agua, lavandería, gabinetes de cocina, “family” y terraza. El segundo nivel con tiene medio baño, pasillo, área de almacén y terraza cubierta con colindancias de : En lines: por el NORTE, colinda con área de azotea descubierta en veinti dós pies lineales con nueve pulgadas (22’9”), equivalentes a seis punto ochentinueve (6.89) metros lineales; por el SUR, colinda techo común en quince pies lineales (15’), equi valentes a cuatro punto cin cuentisiete (4.57) metros linea les y el elevador en siete pies lineales (7’), equivalentes a dos punto trece (2.13) metros linea les; por el ESTE, colinda con área de azotea descubierta en veinticinco pies lineales y seis pulgadas (25’6”), equivalentes a siete punto ochenta (7.80) metros lineales y techo común en cinco pies lineales con nue ve pulgadas (5’9”), equivalen tes a uno punto ochenta (1.80) metros lineales; por el OESTE, colinda con el área de la azotea descubierta en veinticinco pies lineales y seis pulgadas (25’6”), equivalentes a siete punto ochenta (7.80) metros lineales y cuarto mecánico del elevador
SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LO YDA E. RIVERA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA PUERTOFIRSTBANKRICO Demandante Vs. MARJORIE ARROYO CASTILLO; SUCESION DE ROSA ANTONIA CASTILLO
POSIBLESFULANOCOMPUESTACARRANZAPORYSUTANODETALCOMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOS;CRIM Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00551. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: MARJORIE ARROYO CASTILLO; SUCESION DE ROSA ANTONIA CASTILLO
The San Juan Daily Star 27Monday, August 29, 2022
El Alguacil que suscribe, certifi ca y hace constar que en cum plimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secreta ría del Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala Superior de Caroli na, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor pos tor, 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 su bastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participa ción e interés que le correspon da a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmue ble hipotecado objeto de ejecu ción que se describe a conti nuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento núme ro cuatrocientos uno (NO-401), dos (2) habitaciones: Aparta mento número: NO cuatrocien tos uno (NO-401). Localizado en el cuarto piso del edificio NO del Condominio “Costa Mar Beach Village West”, en el Mu nicipio de Loíza, Puerto Rico. Área neta del apartamento: dos mil ochocientos setentidos pun
Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de agosto de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ
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POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presen te al tribunal su alegación res ponsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de ha ber sido diligenciado este em plazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: selloEXPEDIDORíoturasmapresentadaplazamientodecorreolecación(10)adviertenico:(787)PR450,númeroes:gadosinción,elcualquiersolicitadocontra,tartérmino,responsivadejacretariaalegacióncuyosentepr/sumac/,https://unired.ramajudicial.salvoqueserepreporderechopropio,encasodeberápresentarsuresponsivaenlaSedelTribunal.SiusteddepresentarsualegacióndentrodelreferidoeltribunalpodrádicsentenciaenrebeldíaensuyconcederelremedioenlaDemanda,ootro,sieltribunal,enejerciciodesusanadiscreloentiendeprocedente,máscitarlenioírle.Elabodelapartedemandante·JaimeRuizSaldaña,RUA11673;Dirección:PMB400CalleCalaf,SanJuan,00918-1314;Teléfono:759-6897;Correoelectrólegal@jrslawpr.com.Seleque.dentrodelosdiezdíassiguientesalapublidelpresenteedicto,seestaráenviandoaustedporcertificadoconacuserecibo,unacopiadelemydelademandaallugardesuúltidirecciónconocida:Urb.AldeHatoNuevo,H7CalleLoco,Gurabo,PR00778.bajomifirmayeldelTribunalenCaguas, AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VIL MA OYOLA RIVERA, SUBSECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA SALA DE PONCE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. ANTHONY O. SANES RAMOS, KATHY A. GONZÁLEZ CAMACHO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COMPUETAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00967. Salón: 604. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIEN TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: ANTHONY O. SANES RAMOS POR SÍ Y COMPUESTAREPRESENTACIÓNENDELASOCIEDADLEGALDEGANANCIALESPORÉSTEYKATHYA.GONZÁLEZCAMACHO.
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A: SHARLYN DIAZ AGOSTO, POR SÍ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE ARNALDOCOMPUESTAGANANCIALESCONTORRESRAMOS.
NOW THREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appoin ted Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judg ment herein before referred to, will on the October 7, 2022, at 10:05 AM, at Rondapro, 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s judgment. Should the first judicial sale set herei nabove be unsuccessful, the second judicial sale of the pro perty describes in the Notice will be held on the October 14, 2022 at 10:05 AM, at the ad dress indicated above. Should the second judicial sale set he reinabove be unsuccessful, the third judicial sale of the property described in this Notice will be held on the October 21, 2022 at 10:05, at the address indica ted above. In San Juan, Puer to Rico, this 11 day of August 2022. Joel Ronda Feliciano, Appointed Special Master.
LEGAL NOTICE GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO DEPARTAMENTO DE ESTADO. NOMBRE COMER CIAL PARA REGISTRAR. AVISO. A QUIEN PUEDA IN TERESAR: De acuerdo con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 75 del 23 de septiembre de 1992, según enmendada, mejor conocida como la Ley de Nombres Comerciales del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y la Sección 24 del Reglamento promulgado bajo la ley citada anteriormente, el siguiente nombre comercial ha sido presentado en el Depar tamento de Estado de Puerto Rico para su archivo y registro.
Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspon dientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la juris dicción de Puerto Rico. Se en tenderá que todo licitador acep ta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la corres pondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo due ño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposi ciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin ne cesidad de ulterior procedi miento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocu pante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocu pen. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 18 de agosto de 2022. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL PLACA #830. LEGAL NOTICE GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO DEPARTAMENTO DE ESTADO. NOMBRE COMER CIAL PARA REGISTRAR AVISO. A QUIEN PUEDA IN TERESAR: De acuerdo con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 75 del 23 de septiembre de 1992, según enmendada, mejor conocida como la Ley de Nombres Comerciales del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y la Sección 24 del Reglamento promulgado bajo la ley citada anteriormente, el siguiente nombre comercial ha sido presentado en el Depar tamento de Estado de Puerto Rico para su archivo y registro.
ENTEC Número de Expediente: 242834-99-0. Propietario: BTH DE PUERTO RICO LLC. Dirección: 1225 Juan Ponce De León Avenue PH 947 San Juan, PR 00907. Actividad Em presarial: Comercialización de materias primas, en especial la compra y venta de materiales de plástico y caucho, compra, venta, distribución, importación, exportación, permuta y, en ge neral, la comercialización, por cuenta propia o de terceros, de plástico o caucho en bruto, pro cesado o elaborado y produc tos similares o afines, ya sea dentro o fuera de Puerto Rico. Dentro de su objeto la sociedad podrá importar e internar bie nes al país bajo cualquiera de los regímenes aduaneros que permita la ley. NOTIFICACIÓN: Cualquier oposición a este re gistro deberá presentarse en el Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico dentro de los trein ta (30) días siguientes a la pu blicación de este aviso.
LEGAL NOTICE GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO DEPARTAMENTO DE ESTADO. NOMBRE COMER CIAL PARA REGISTRAR. AVISO. A QUIEN PUEDA IN TERESAR: De acuerdo con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 75 del 23 de septiembre de 1992, según enmendada, mejor conocida como la Ley de Nombres Comerciales del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y la Sección 24 del Reglamento promulgado bajo la ley citada anteriormente, el siguiente nombre comercial ha sido presentado en el Depar tamento de Estado de Puerto Rico para su archivo y registro. IT’S MY CAREER Número de Expediente: 244577-99-1. Propietario: JO BLOVIN LLC . Dirección: 151 Calle San Francisco Suite #200 PMB 5238, SAN JUAN, PR 00901. Actividad Empresarial: Portal de internet que contiene un buscador (o “search engine” en inglés), el cual identifica y despliega oportunidades de empleo, según los términos de búsqueda que utilice el usuario del portal. Renuncia a elemen tos no registrables: NOTIFICA CIÓN: Cualquier oposición a este registro deberá presentar se en el Departamento de Esta do de Puerto Rico dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este aviso.
LEGAL NOTICE GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO DEPARTAMENTO DE ESTADO. NOMBRE COMER CIAL PARA REGISTRAR. AVISO. A QUIEN PUEDA IN TERESAR: De acuerdo con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 75 del 23 de septiembre de 1992, según enmendada, mejor conocida como la Ley de Nombres Comerciales del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y la Sección 24 del Reglamento promulgado bajo la ley citada anteriormente, el siguiente nombre comercial ha sido presentado en el Depar tamento de Estado de Puerto Rico para su archivo y registro.
JOBSEYE Número de Expediente: 244576-99-1. Propietario: JO BLOVIN LLC. Dirección: 151 Calle San Francisco Suite #200 PMB 5238, SAN JUAN, PR 00901. Actividad Empresarial: Portal de internet que contiene un buscador (o “search engine” en inglés), el cual identifica y despliega oportunidades de empleo, según los términos de búsqueda que utilice el usuario del portal. Renuncia a elemen tos no registrables: NOTIFICA CIÓN: Cualquier oposición a este registro deberá presentar se en el Departamento de Esta do de Puerto Rico dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este aviso.
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. EDGARDO CASTRO GARCIA, E INGRID VANESSALAGUNAMARTINEZ Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00765. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE EMPLAZAMIENTOHIPOTECA.POREDICTO.ESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA,ELPRESIDENTEDELOSESTADOSUNIDOS,ELESTADOLIBREASOCIADODEPUERTORICO. A: NÚMEROESTATESURB.CASTROEDGARDOGARCÍA.RIOGRANDEFF63CALLE31RIOGRANDE,PR00745(PROPIEDAD).DETELÉFONOCONOCIDO:(502)656-5486.
Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligen ciamiento. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pue de acceder utilizando la direc ción 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 termino, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte deman dante el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernán dez Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. DADA en Fa jardo, Puerto Rico, a 22 de agosto de 2022. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXI LIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exporta ción, lnc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), le ordena que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declara ción aceptando o repudiando la herencia de la Sucesión de Ana Celia Ramos Roman aka Anacelia Ramos Roman. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. La parte demandante ha radicado una acción de co bro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca por deuda vencida y la misma está garantizada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 89 en el plano de parcelación de la Comuni dad Rural Magueyes, del Barrio Magueyes del término muni cipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.1469 cuerdas, equivalente a cinco áreas, setenta y cuatro centiáreas y tres mil seiscientos treinta y ocho diezmilésimas de otra; 574.3638 metros cuadra dos. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 19.40 me tros con la Calle Amatista, es quina Calle Perla de la misma comunidad; por el SUR, en una distancia de 19.53 metros, con la parcela número 93 de la mis ma comunidad; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 30.29 me tros, con la parcela número 94 de la misma comunidad; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 29.35 metros, con la Calle Perla, esquina Amatista. Las distancias de las colindancias Norte y Oeste que se indican en este documento son tomadas hasta el vértice de la esquina de las Calle Perla y Amatista. El área del conjunto en esta esquina fue restada y no está incluida en el área que se indi ca en el presente documento. La curva de este abanico es de 90 grados y el radio es de 5.59 metros. Dentro de la parcela descrita se encuentra enclava da una casa de dos plantas de hormigón, madera y zinc de 32 pies con 4 pulgadas de largo por 16 con 3 pulgadas de an cho, con balcón, sala, cocina, comedor y tres habitaciones. Finca #10365 inscrita al folio 90 del tomo 419 de Ponce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección Segunda. Los abogados de la parte deman dante son: García-Chamorro Law Group, P.S.C., 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, Suite 706,
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907, Tel. (787) 977-1932, Fax (787) 722-1932. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 18 de agosto de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABA LLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MAGDA L. BAHA MUNDI TORRES, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CA GUAS LEGACYTRUSTMORTGAGE2019-PR1 Demandante Vs. DIMAS ORLANDO LOPEZ DIAZ, LA SUCESIÓN DE WILMA ESCOBAR PEREZ COMPUESTA POR DIMAS ANTONIO LÓPEZ ESCOBAR, DIMARYS ODETTE LÓPEZ ESCOBAR, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES FISCALESTADOSDESCONOCIDOS;HEREDEROSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICAPORCONDUCTODELFEDERALDELACORTEDEDISTRITODEESTADOSUNIDOSPARAELDISTRITODEPUERTORICO
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 Demandante V. TOMMY VARGAS RAMOS AKA TOMMY VARGAS POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA CELIA RAMOS ROMAN AKA ANACELIA RAMOS ROMAN COMPUESTA CON JULISSA M. VARGAS RAMOS Y JUAN LUIS VARGAS RAMOS COMO ZUTANODECONOCIDOS,HEREDEROSFULANOTAL,FULANADETAL,DETAL,ZUTANADETAL,HEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSA,BYCDELASUCESIÓN;HONORABLESECRETARIODEJUSTICIADELESTADOLIBREASOCIADODEPUERTORICO;HONORABLESECRETARIODEHACIENDADELESTADOLIBREASOCIADODEPUERTORICO DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A La Parte
LEGAL NOTICE GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO DEPARTAMENTO DE ESTADO. NOMBRE COMER CIAL PARA REGISTRAR. AVISO. A QUIEN PUEDA IN TERESAR: De acuerdo con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 75 del 23 de septiembre de 1992, según enmendada, mejor conocida como la Ley de Nombres Comerciales del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y la Sección 24 del Reglamento promulgado bajo la ley citada anteriormente, el siguiente nombre comercial ha sido presentado en el Depar tamento de Estado de Puerto Rico para su archivo y registro.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsi va a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamien to, excluyéndose el día del dili genciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al (a la) abogado (a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representa ción legal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de
Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00597. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN
Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00678. (704) Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLA ZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: CIMAS ANTONIO LÓPEZ ESCOBAR Y DIMARYS ODETTE LÓPEZ ESCOBAR POR SI Y COMO HEREDEROS WILMAPEREZ.ESCOBAR POR LA PRESENTE se les em plaza y requiere para que con teste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Us ted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: alMarjaliisadequebunaldecasoporsumac/,http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/salvoquesepresentederechopropio,encuyodeberáradicareloriginalsucontestaciónanteelTricorrespondienteynotificoncopiaalosabogadoslapartedemandante,Lcda.ColónVillanueva,POBOX7970,Ponce,P.R. ses a razón del 5.50% anual, desde el 1 de septiembre de 2020 hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, una suma principal como balan ce diferido y el cual no genera intereses de $3,047.62, más los cargos por demora que se co rresponden a los plazos atrasa dos desde la fecha anterior mente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cual quier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su venci miento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribucio nes, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a 10% de la obliga ción ($7,000.00) por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cuales quiera 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 in teresadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento incoado, estarán de ma nifiesto en la Secretaría del Tri bunal, durante las horas laborables.
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RAMOSAKACELIACONOCIDOSHEREDEROSDemandada:DELASUCESIÓNDEANARAMOSROMANANACELIARAMOSROMANCOMPUESTAPOR:TOMMYVARGASTOMMYVARGAS,JULISSAM.VARGASRAMOSYJUANLUISVARGASRAMOS.
AMCO POLYMERS Número de Expediente: 244370-99-0. Propietario: BTH DE PUERTO RICO LLC. Direc ción: 1225 JUAN PONCE DE LEON AVENUE PH 947, SAN JUAN, PR 00907. Actividad Empresarial: Comerciantes mayoristas de materiales plás ticos. Renuncia a elementos no registrables: NOTIFICACIÓN: Cualquier oposición a este re gistro deberá presentarse en el Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico dentro de los trein ta (30) días siguientes a la pu blicación de este aviso.
CHANNELALLIANCEPRIME Número de Expediente: 242835-99-0. Propietario: BTH DE PUERTO RICO LLC. Direc ción: 1225 Juan Ponce De León Avenue PH 947 San Juan, PR 00907. Actividad Empresarial: Comercialización de materias primas, en especial la compra y venta de materiales de plástico y caucho, compra, venta, dis tribución, importación, exporta ción, permuta y, en general, la comercialización, por cuenta propia o de terceros, de plástico o caucho en bruto, procesado o elaborado y productos similares o afines, ya sea dentro o fuera de Puerto Rico. Dentro de su objeto la sociedad podrá im portar e internar bienes al país bajo cualquiera de los regíme nes aduaneros que permita la ley. Renuncia a elementos no registrables: NOTIFICACIÓN: Cualquier oposición a este re gistro deberá presentarse en el Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico dentro de los trein ta (30) días siguientes a la pu blicación de este aviso.
LEGAL NOTICE GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO DEPARTAMENTO DE ESTADO. NOMBRE COMER CIAL PARA REGISTRAR. AVISO. A QUIEN PUEDA IN TERESAR: De acuerdo con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 75 del 23 de septiembre de 1992, según enmendada, mejor conocida como la Ley de Nombres Comerciales del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y la Sección 24 del Reglamento promulgado bajo la ley citada anteriormente, el siguiente nombre comercial ha sido presentado en el Depar tamento de Estado de Puerto Rico para su archivo y registro AMCO Número de Expediente: 242836-99-0. Propietario: BTH DE PUERTO RICO LLC. Direc ción: 1225 Juan Ponce De León Avenue PH 947 San Juan, PR 00907. Actividad Empresarial: Comercialización de materias primas, en especial la compra y venta de materiales de plástico y caucho, compra, venta, dis tribución, importación, exporta ción, permuta y, en general, la comercialización, por cuenta propia o de terceros, de plástico o caucho en bruto, procesado o elaborado y productos similares o afines, ya sea dentro o fuera de Puerto Rico. Dentro de su objeto la sociedad podrá im portar e internar bienes al país bajo cualquiera de los regíme nes aduaneros que permita la ley. Renuncia a elementos no registrables: NOTIFICACIÓN: Cualquier oposición a este re gistro deberá presentarse en el Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico dentro de los trein ta (30) días siguientes a la pu blicación de este aviso.
por edicto. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMéRi ca, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., ss. A: SUCESION DE IRMA IRIZARRY 533500660-0444SOTO,CONOCIDOSCOMPUESTAVARGASPORSUSHEREDERoSSANTOSTOMASOLIVENCIAPORSI;DAMIANVARGASIRIZARRYYNOELVARGASIRIZARRY;FULANODETALYSUTANADETALCOMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSY/oPARTESCONINTERESENLASUCESION.URB.COLINASDELOESTE,H-9CALLE10,HORMIGUEROS,PR00660;DIRECCIONESPOSTALES:URB.COLINASDELOESTESOLAR9-IIBO.HORMIGUEROSHORMIGUEROS,PR00660;POBOX444HORMIGUEROS,PRYHC-01BOXHORMIGUEROS,PR00660.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de abril de 2022 este Tri bunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la isla de Puer to 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 Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse 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 publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de agosto de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, 22 de agosto de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRE TARIA REGIONAL. JESSENIA PEDRAZA, SECRETARIA AU XILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC Demandante V. DELINMARI RIVERA ROSADO, JOEL ORTIZ VAZQUEZ Demandado(a) Civil: BY2019CV06135. Sala: 503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JOEL ORTIZ VAZQUEZ. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to 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 Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse 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 publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de agosto de 2022. En BAYAMón, Puerto Rico, el 22 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁN CHEZ, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AÑASCO PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC Demandante V. KENNY FRANQUI VARELA H/N/C CAFE EL FESTÍN CRIOLLO, FULANA DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS Demandado(a) Civil: AÑ2021CV00290. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINA RIO, INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: KENNY FRANQUI VARELA H/N/C CAFE EL FESTÍN CRIOLLO, FULANA DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE COMPUESTAGANANCIALESPORAMBOS.
Demandantes Vs. COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE ISABELA; JOHN DOE; RICHARD DOE; PEDRO DOE Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2022CV01248. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS,
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(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto)
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to 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 Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse 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 publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de agosto de 2022. En AÑASCO , Puerto Rico , el 22 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. LUZ NELDY CHICO ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYA GÜEZ ORIENTAL BANK Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE IRMA IRIZARRY CONOCIDOSCOMPUESTAVARGASPORSUSHEREDEROSSANTOS
TOMAS OLIVENCIA SOTO, POR SI; DAMIAN VARGAS IRIZARRY Y NOEL VARGAS IRIZARRY; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO PARTESDESCONOCIDOSHEREDEROSY/OCONINTERESENLASUCESION Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV00199. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA. Emplazamiento
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FINCA NÚMERO: 2,353, ins crita al folio 15 del tomo 62 de Río Piedras Sur, sección IV de San Juan. Nota Aclaratoria: La descripción registral consta tal y como fue transcrita ante riormente en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sec ción IV. En la Escritura número 177, otorgada el 29 de marzo de 2006, consta lo siguiente; URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dos mil ciento seis (#2106) del bloque EE en el plano de inscripción de la Urba nización Reparto Apolo, situado en el barrio Caimito del término municipal de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Dirección Física: BO. CAIMITO, URB. REPARTO APOLO, SOLAR #2106, BLOQUE EE, CALLE ONFALA, RIO PIEDRAS, PR 00969. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MA ÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso será el precio mínimo aceptable como 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incu rrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de agosto de 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspon dientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda as cendente a $241,835.23 de balance de principal, el cual se compone de un principal de $236,989.23 y un balance diferido de $4,846.00, más los intereses sobre el principal de $236,989.23 al 6.00% anual, desde el día primero de julio de 2020 hasta su completo pago, así como todos aquellos crédi tos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honora nos de abogado. La parte De mandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PEN DIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Parcela de terreno identificada como solar número ciento ocho (108) del Bloque SJ de la urbanización Sanjuanera, radicada en el Ba rrio Canabón del término muni cipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de trescientos noventa y uno punto cero cero (391.000) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en die cisiete punto cero cero (17.00) metros, con Vía Medieval (calle número ocho (8); por el Sur, en diecisiete punto cero cero (17.00) metros, con solar número ochenta y siete (87) y ochenta y ocho (88); por el Este, en veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros, con el so lar número ciento nueve (109); y por el Oeste, en veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros, con solar número ciento siete (107). Inscrita al folio veinte (20) del tomo mil ciento sesenta y tres (1,163) de Caguas, finca número cinco mil novecien tos setenta y ocho (55,478), Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección l. 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 Senten cia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de WILMA ESCOBAR PEREZ se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de trein ta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en torno a la aceptación o re pudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante WILMA ESCOBAR PEREZ y por con siguiente, responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia con forme dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021. En Ca guas, Puerto Rico, a 4 de agos to de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍ NEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. YARITZA ROSARIO PLÁCE RES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS SAN MORTGAGECARLOSLLC Demandante Vs. GAMAL ABDEL RIVERA O´NEILL, LARACUENTEMAYRABERNAT Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR ESTOS COMPUESTA Demandados Caso Núm.: GR2021CV00185. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO ENMEN DADA. A: GAMAL ABDEL RIVERA O´NEILL , POR SÍ Y EN LACOMPUESTALEGALDEREPRESENTACIÓNLASOCIEDADDEBIENESGANANCIALESPORESTEYSUESPOSAMAYRALARACUENTEBERNAT,MAYRALARACUENTEBERNATPORSÍYENREPRESENTACIÓNDESOCIEDADLEGALDEBIENESGANANCIALESCOMPUESTAPORESTAYSUESPOSOGAMALABDELRIVERAO’NEILL.
EN DICHA SUCESIÓN Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV03606. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER CERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en ge neral que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 10 de diciem bre de 2021 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 8 de febrero de 2022, librado por este ho norable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Algua cil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dos del bloque EE en el plano de inscripción de la Urba nización Reparto Apolo, situado en el barrio Caimito del término municipal de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de cuatrocientos cuarenta y tres metros dieciséis centímetros cuadrados, colinda por el NORTE, en veintinueve metros con el solar marcado con el número tres; por el SUR, en treinta metros treinta y tres centímetros con el solar mar cado con el número uno; por el ESTE, en quince metros con la calle número nueve; y por el OESTE, en catorce metros noventa y cuatro centímetros con el paseo público del blo que EE de dicha urbanización. En este solar se ha construido una casa de concreto diseña da para fines residenciales.
POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción 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 dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación surge del folio 200, tomo 306, finca número 17,123 de Ca muy, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Segunda. Los edictos se publicarán en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez. Excusándose del envío de copias de la Demanda y del Emplazamiento a dichos co-demandados por descono cerse su dirección. DADA en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, 15 de julio de 2022. HON. SANDRA I. SEGARA VÁZQUEZ, JUEZA SUPERIOR. POR LA PRESEN TE se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publi cación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: procedente.susilacederentribunaldentrosentarDoeJohnapercibesentepr/sumac/,https://unired.ramajudicial.salvoqueserepreporderechopropio.Selealosco-demandadosDoe;RichardDoeyPedroquesiusteddejadepresualegaciónresponsivadelreferidotérmino,elpodrádictarsentenciarebeldíaensucontrayconelremediosolicitadoendemanda,ocualquierotro,eltribunal,enelejerciciodesanadiscreción,loentiende de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Repre senta a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico a 19 de agosto de 2022. LIC. NOR MA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. BONILLA MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARE CIBO SALA SUPERIOR JUAN GONZALEZANTONIOGIOVANETTIYSUESPOSA,BLANCAIRISROMANSANTIAGO EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE; RICHARD DOE; PEDRO DOE O SEA, LAS PARTES CADEMANDADASMENCIONADAS.ARRIBA El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Arecibo dictó la siguiente providencia: “OR DEN: Vista la Solicitud sobre Publicación de Edictos y la De manda que se acompaña, para cancelar un pagaré a favor de Cooperativa de Ahorro y Cré dito de Arecibo, o a su orden, que se ha extraviado, y Vistas las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal OR DENA que se citen por edictos a los demandados John Doe; Richard Doe y Pedro Doe en su condición de posibles tene dores desconocidos del Paga ré Hipotecario por la suma de $69,000.00 suscrito el día 6 de mayo de 1999, ante el Notario Ramón H. Banuchi Eurite, pa garé con fecha de vencimiento el a los 300 meses a partir de dicho otorgamiento, o sea, 1 de junio de 2024 y por el cual se constituyó hipoteca para ga rantizar el mismo según consta de la Escritura número 84 otor gada en Isabela, Puerto Rico, ante el indicado notario y según
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DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: GB2022CV00140. SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipote ca In Rem. EMPLAZAMIEN TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: Pedro Bello Lorie, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros la la LA PRESENTE, les emplaza se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitan do la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de The Money House, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $195,000.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 3.244% anual, la cual será ajustada mensualmente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gas
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POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción 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 dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente.
Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: BY2022CV02767. Sobre: EJE CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE INTERPE LACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO CINTRONDESCONOCIDOSHEREDEROSDECARLOSENRIQUESANTIAGO.
ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Ponce, Puerto Rico a 23 de agosto de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. MAG DA BAHAMUNDI TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA DE CAGUASSUPERIOR. PUERTOFIRSTBANKRICO VS RIVERA RIOS, IRIS LETICIA CASO: ECD2016-0170. SO BRE: COBRO DE DINERO. SUCN DE IRIS LETICIA RIVERA RIOS T/C/C IRIS L. RIVERA RIOS T/C/C IRIS RIVERA RIOS COMPUESTA POR ANGIE RIVERA RIVERA, ALANA RIVERA RIVERA, ALBA RIVERA RIVERA Y FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL, A,B Y C COMO DESCONOCIDOSDESCONOCIDOSMIEMBROSDELASUCNYLASUCNDEISMAELVILLANUEVAREYESCOMPUESTAPORFULANODETAL,FULANADETAL,SUTANODETAL,SUTANADETAL,A,BYCCOMOMIEMBROSDELASUCESION. NOTIFICACION DE SEN TENCIA POR EDICTO. EL SECRETARIO(A) QUE SUS CRIBE LE NOTIFICA A US TED QUE EL 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 , ESTE TRIBUNAL HA DICTADO SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RE SOLUCION EN ESTE CASO, QUE HA SIDO DEBIDAMENTE REGISTRADA Y ARCHIVADA EN AUTOS DONDE PODRA USTED ENTERARSE DETA LLADAMENTE DE LOS TER MINOS DE LA MISMA. ESTA
URBANA: Propiedad Horizon tal: Residential unit number 202 of San Patricio Apartments, lo cated at San Patricio Avenue of the Municipality of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, which residential unit is located in the second floor level, being and irregular shaped apartment with an area of 792.82 square feet, equiva lent to 73.658 square meters. This unit consists mainly of the following: two (2) bedrooms, one (1) bathrooms, three (3) closets, water heater storage closet, foyer kitchen and cove red porch and combined living dining room and its boundaries are as follows: NORTH, with exterior open space facing the parking facilities of the condo minium and with structural wall separating it from apartment number two hundred three (203); by the SOUTH, with ex terior open space facing the parking facilities of the condo minium, concrete block wall separating it from the stairway, wring shaft and apartment two hundred one (201); by the EAST, with concrete block wall corridor, wiring shaft and stairways. Main entrance door is located on this boundary providing access from the co rridor to the apartment; and by the WEST, with open space fa cing the parking facilities of the condominium. Tiene una par ticipación de cero punto cua tro tres nueve ocho por ciento (0.4398%), en los elementos comunes generales. Finca nú mero 28,817, inscrita al folio 100 del tomo 728 de Guayna bo, del Registro de la Propie dad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. Se apercibe y ad vierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede accesar utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ra maiuducial.pr, salvo que se re presente por Derechos Propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal De no contestar la demanda radican do el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conduc to de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Yadira López González publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de agosto de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABA LLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO. DEMANDANTE Vs Sucesion de Laureano Bello Suarez t/c/c Laureano Bello compuesta por Pedro Bello Lone, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de Americadesconocidos;nombresSucesiondeLucinaA.LoneAmericat/c/cLucinaLonet/c/cLucinaA.Lonet/c/cLucinaLonet/c/cL.LonecompuestaporPedroBelloLone,FulanodeTalySutanodeTalcomomiembrosdenombresdesconocidos;CRIMyEstadosUnidosdeAmerica
Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Repre senta a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751 -5290, FAX: 787-751-6155E-MAIL: NOTIFICACION SE PUBLICA RA UNA SOLA VEZ EN UN PE RIODICO DE CIRCULACION GENERAL EN LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO, DENTRO DE LOS 10 DIAS SIGUIENTES A SU NOTIFICACION. Y, SIEN DO O REPRESENTANDO US TED UNA PARTE EN EL PRO CEDIMIENTO SUJETA A LOS TERMINOS DE LA SENTEN CIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCION, DE LA CUAL PUEDE ESTABLECERSE RE CURSO DE REVISION O APE LACION DENTRO DEL TERMI NO DE 30 DIAS CONTADOS A PARTIR DE LA PUBLICACION POR EDICTO DE ESTA NOTI FICACION, DIRIJO A USTED ESTA NOTIFICACION QUE SE CONSIDERARA HECHA EN LA FECHA DE LA PUBLICA CION DE ESTE DICTO. COPIA DE ESTA NOTIFICACION HA SIDO ARCHIVADA EN LOS AUTOS DE ESTE CASO, CON FECHA DE 25 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 LIC. LAMAS BURGOS, JOSÉ A. JLAMAS@LVPRLAW.COM EN CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO, A 25 DE AGOSTO DE 2022. LISILDA MARTINEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIO. POR: F/ VION NETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR. NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE BANCO DE PUERTO RICO SUCESIÓN DE (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to 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 Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la tos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $19,500.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este paga ré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit número 16173 ante el notario Raul Rivera Burgos. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 1200 otorgada el 2 de noviem bre de 2009, ante la misma notario público, inscrita bajo la ley 216-2010, al folio 205 del tomo 1427 de Guaynabo, finca número 28817, inscripción 3ra.
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PARTES CON INTERES EN LA SUCESION Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01376. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE EMPLAZAMIENTOHIPOTECA.POREDICTO.ESTADOSUNIDOSDEAMÉRICA,ELPRESIDENTEDELOSEE.UU.,ELESTADOLIBREASOCIADODEP.R.,SS. A: MIGUEL RIVERA ARROYO Y MADELINE RIVERA ARROYO COMO C-17EXTENSIÓNSUCESIÓNCONOCIDOSHEREDEROSDELADEELSONRIVERAORTIZT/C/CELSONRIVRAORTIZ;FULANODETALYSUTANADETALCOMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSDEDICHASUCESIÓN.ELTAÍNO,CALLEPRINCIPALSANTAISABEL,PR00757-2033.
POR LA PRESENTE se les em plaza y requiere para que con teste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Us ted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: quebunaldecasoporsumac/,http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/salvoquesepresentederechopropio,encuyodeberáradicareloriginalsucontestaciónanteelTricorrespondienteynotificoncopiaalosabogados oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $150,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 4 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes seña lado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $100,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el pá rrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mis mo lugar antes señalado el día 12 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $75,000.00. Si se declare 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 mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Tribunal dictó Sentencia declarando con lugar la demanda y, por consiguiente, ordenó a la par te demandada SUCESIÓN DE MYRNA ELISA AROCHO MAR TÍNEZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS SONIA MARGARITA ARO CHO MARTÍNEZ, MILAGROS IVETTE AROCHO MARTÍNEZ Y VÍCTOR FELIPE AROCHO MARTÍNEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HE REDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN, a pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $110,251.90 más intereses, los cuales continúan acumulán dose anualmente al tipo conve nido de 5.25% hasta el saldo total de la obligación, cargos por demora; costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados según pactados; más cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son líquidas y exigibles. Se dis pone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nue vos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá or denar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamien to del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del de mandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen poste rior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segun da y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o perso nas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se enten derá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento del caso de epígrafe es tán disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurren cia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publi cará en un periódico de circu lación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, ade más, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colec turía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residen cia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 23 de agosto de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GON ZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE ELSON RIVERA ORTIZ T/C/C ELSON RIVRA ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA RODRIGUEZMADELINECONOCIDAARROYOT/C/CMADELINEARROYO,PORSI,MIGUELRIVERAARROYOYMADELINERIVERAARROYO;FULANODETALYSUTANADETALCOMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSY/O
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MARÍA OTILIA PORNAZARIONAZARIOMALDONADOT/C/CMARÍAOVILIAMALDONADOCOMPUESTASUVIUDOVICENTESEGARRAACEVEDO;YSUHEREDERACONOCIDAMARGARITAVEGAMALDONADO;FULANODETALYSUTANADETALCOMOHEREDEROSDESCONOCIDOSY/OPARTESCONINTERÉSENDICHASUCESIÓN Demandado(a) Civil: PO2021CV02796. 406. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA - IN REM. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO CARLOSMALDONADOMALDONADOPARTESDESCONOCIDOSHEREDEROSY/OCONINTERÉSENLASUCESIÓNDEMARÍAOTILIANAZARIOT/C/CMARÍAOVILIANAZARIO.P/CLCDO.JUANFORTUÑOFAS.FORTUÑO&FORTUÑOFAS,CSP.POBOX3908,GUAYNABO,PR00970.
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LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencio nado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $87,000.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, ex pido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 19 de agosto de 2022 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. SAMUEL GONZÁ LEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL.
COMPUESTARIVERA,PORMARIADELCARMENCABRERASANTOSYGUSTAVOLUISCABRERASANTOSYRAMONVAZQUEZFIGUEROAPORSÍYCOMOCÓNYUGESUPÉRSITEENCUANTOALACUOTAVIUDALUSUFRUCTUARIA;CRIM Demandado(a) Civil: CR2019CV00388. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECAIN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: MARIA DEL CARMEN CABRERA CABRERAGUSTAVOSANTOS,LUISSANTOScomopartedelaSUCESIONDECARMENLYDIASANTOSRIVERA. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspa so al licitador victorioso, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanza miento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta y para ello procederé a romper candados de ser necesario. El Registra dor de la Propiedad cancelará, libre de derechos, todo grava men posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscrip ción de la venta a favor del comprador en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipo teca que ha sido ejecutada me diante esta acción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 10 de agosto de 2022. LUENGY VIE RA ROMERO, ALGUACIL SU PERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN MARÍA ISABEL DÍAZ DEL VALLE Demandante V. ORIENTAL BANK, COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE R&G CORPORATION;MORTGAGEJOHNDOEYRICHARDDOE
BANUCHI. EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente 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 notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento 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 edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de agosto de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 23 de agosto de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Martha Almodóvar Cabrera, Secretaria Auxiliar. NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA TANCIA SALA DE RIVERA T/C/C CARMEN LIDIA SANTOS
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D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido as cendente a la suma principal de $92,185.65, más, la suma de $17,353.14, que incluye inte reses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado.
La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 6 DE DICIEM BRE DE 2022 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia de Fajardo, por el tipo mínimo de $129,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE en el mismo lugar antes menciona do. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $86,000.00. De decla rarse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE en el mismo lugar antes mencio nado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $64,500.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, ex pido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 19 de agosto de 2022 en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Denise Bruno Or tiz, Alguacil Auxiliar #266. Jorge A. Ortiz Estrada, Alguacil Re gional Interino.
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. BERT MARCHAND,RIVERAJENNIFERFERNÁNDEZBETANCOURT;DEPARTAMENTODEHACIENDADEPUERTORICO Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01041.
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Demandado(a) Civil: BY2022CV03005. Sala: 701. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JOHN DOE / RICHARD DOE (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente 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 notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento 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 edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de agosto de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 22 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA E. COLLAZO, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJAR DO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. ÁNGEL RAFAEL MARTÍNEZ ECHEVARRÍA, ANA LUISA ROMÁN DE MARTÍNEZ T/C/C ANA LUISA ROMAN CORDERO LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENESCOMPUESTAGANANCIALES,PORAMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2019CV01060. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: PÚBLICO GENERAL.EN El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace cons tar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en mone da de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte De mandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizon tal: Apartamento residencial Número “A” Dos guion Siete (A2-7), localizado en el cuarto piso del “Cluster “A2” del Con dominio Montesol, ubicado en el Barrio Quebrada del término municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superfi cial total de mil ciento treinta y dos pies cuadrados (1,132.00 p/c), equivalentes a ciento cinco punto dieciséis metros cuadrados (105.16 m/c). Su entrada principal se encuen tra en su lado ESTE. Colinda: Por el NORTE, apartamento A Dos guión Ocho; por el SUR, con elementos exteriores, por el ESTE, con elementos ex teriores y por el OESTE con elementos exteriores. Contie ne una cocina, sala-comedor, dos closets, dos dormitorios con clóset, un dormitorio con walking clóset y dos baños. Le corresponde el cero punto cin co seis dos por ciento (0.562%) en los elementos comunes ge nerales. Le pertenece el uso y disfrute de dos áreas de es tacionamiento marcados con los números Noventa y Siete (97) y Ciento Cinco (105). Le pertenece también una terraza en el quinto piso con acceso a esta, a través de una escalera por dentro del apartamento de alrededor de trescientos vein tidós pies cuadrados (322p/c), equivalentes a veintinueve punto noventa y un metros cua drados (29.91 m.c.).
Dirección Física: Cond. Montesol, Apt. A2-7, Fajardo, PR 00738. Finca 19,049, inscrita al folio 130 del tomo 498 de Fajardo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Fajardo. B. Que los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes ante riores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: PÚBLICO GENERAL.EN
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante SUCESION DE IVAN BARTOLOME BANUCHI DOMENECH T/C/C IVAN B BANUCHI, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS IVAN BARTOLOME BANUCHI GARCIA, ISABEL MARIA BANUCHI GARCIA, IVONNE MARIE BANUCHI GARCIA, INGRID MARIE BANUCHI GARCIA, IVETTE MARIE BANUCHI GARCIA, IRENE MARIE BANUCHI GARCIA, IVAN FELIX ARNALDO BANUCHI CRESPO Y VICTORIA EUGENIA BANUCHI CRESPO; IRMA CRESPO MARTINEZ, POR SI Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA INGRESOSRECAUDACIONUSUFRUCTUARIA;VIUDALCENTRODEDEMUNICIPALES(CRIM) Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02054. Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: IVAN FELIX ARNALDO BANUCHI CRESPO, VICTORIA EUGENIA BANUCHI CRESPO E ISABEL MARIA BANUCHI GARCIA, COMO MIEMBROS PE LA SUCESION DE IVAN BARTOLOME BANUCHI DOMENECH T/C/C IVAN B BANUCHI; IRMA CRESPO MARTINEZ, POR SI Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA
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El Alguacil del Tribunal que sus cribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Man damiento que me ha sido diri gido por la Secretaría del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en mone da de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte De mandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Horizontal Property: Apartment number four dash twenty (4-20) of irregular shape located on the second (2nd.) floor of Building number four (4), Los Altos del Escorial Con dominium, located in Parque Escorial, in San Anton Ward, in the Municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico. This apartment has an approximate area of one thousand seven hundred forty one point eighty two (1,741.82) square feet, equivalent to one hundred sixty one point eighty two (161.82) square meters. Its boundaries are as follows: bye the NORTH, in a distance of twelve point ninety (12.90) meters with apartment number three dash twenty one (3-21); by the SOUTH, in a distance of thirteen point eighty four (13.84) meters with common elements; by the EAST, in a distance of eleven point zero four (11.04) meters with common element; and by the WEST, in a distan ce of eleven point zero four (11.04) meters with common element. The main entrance of this apartment is located on the South boundary and com municates with the hallway and stairwell of the building that lead to the sidewalk. This apartment consist of a living room, a bal cony, a dining room, a family room, a kitchen, a laundry clo set, two (2) bedrooms with a closet each, a bathroom and an additional lavatory in the hallway and a master bedroom with a bathroom, a walk-in clo set and an additional closet. This apartment has a part and appurtenant to it zero point four five four seven five zero percent (0.454750%) of the common element of the Condominium. It also has as part and appur tenant as a common element limited to it two (2) parking spa ces, one in front the other, in the parking area identified with the Unit Designation. Dirección Física: 420 Altos de Escorial, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00987. Finca 55,850, inscrita al folio 97 del tomo 1,371 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Carolina. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes poste riores.
D. Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguien tes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta en la presente causa de acción: Hipoteca en garantía de un pa garé a favor de Firstbank Puer to Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $64,702.00, con intereses al 9 1/4% anual, vencedero el día 1 de marzo de 2037, constituida mediante la escritura número 45, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 1 de marzo de 2006, ante la notario Irmarie Rivera Miran da, e inscrita al folio 163 del tomo 1,407 de Carolina, finca número 55,850, inscripción 4ta. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $18,406.99, por concepto de contribuciones
sobre ingreso, Certificación de fecha 17 de junio de 2009, presentado y anotado el día 4 de agosto de 2009 al folio 163 del tomo 1407 de Carolina, fin ca número 55,850, anotación A. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Bert Rivera Marchand y Jennifer Fernandez Betancourt, en la suma de $18,406.79, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, seguro social xxx-xx-0909/xxx-xx-1534, se gún Certificación de fecha 17 de junio de 2009, presentado el día 1 de julio de 2009 y anotado al folio 97 del Libro del ELA nú mero 15, Orden 2188. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, contra Bert Rivera Marchand, en la suma de $3,805.08, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, según Certificación de fecha 5 de noviembre de 2014, pre sentado y anotado el día 26 de noviembre de 2014 al folio 163 del Libro del ELA número 17, Orden 4041. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico contra Bert Rivera Marchand y Jennifer Fernan dez Betancourt, seguro social seguro social xxx-xx-0909, por la suma de $10,956.14, Em bargo número CAR-18-574, según Certificación de fecha 10 de octubre de 2018, anotado el día 2 de noviembre de 2018, al Asiento 2018-009558-EST del Sistema Karibe. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico contra Jennifer Fernandez Betancourt, seguro social seguro social xxx-xx-1534, por la suma de $856.76, Embargo número CAR-2019-445, según Certifi cación de fecha 10 de octubre de 2018, anotado el día 25 de octubre de 2018, al Asiento 2018-008953-EST del Sistema Karibe. E. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $125,222.19, más la suma de $49,519.25, que incluye intereses según pactados, car gos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del prin cipal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 17 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia de Carolina, por el tipo mínimo de $174,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes menciona do. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $116,000.00. De decla rarse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 31 DE OCTUBRE DE 2022 A
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Mets of yesteryear suddenly feel they’re ‘part of something’
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By GARY WPHILLIPShenJay Hook threw out a ceremonial first pitch to Mike Piazza on Saturday night, it showed off the New York Mets’ new found ability to celebrate the entirety of the franchise’s 60-year history in one big event. The pitch, which came before the team’s 3-0 win over the Colorado Rock ies, was thrown by the first pitcher to win a game in Mets history, and it was received by a catcher who is wearing a Mets cap on his Hall of Fame plaque. It put a tidy bow on the club’s first OldTimers’ Day since 1994.
Saturday’s event welcomed Mets greats from every generation to Citi Field and featured a three-inning exhibition with fan favorites like Dwight Gooden, Keith Hernández, Darryl Strawberry, Pedro Martínez and Ed Kranepool. The packed crowd of Mets fans, old and young, got an extra treat when they wit nessed the surprise retirement of Willie Mays’ No. 24 jersey. The day served to spotlight just how much history the Mets have to cherish — and how rarely they did so before Steven Cohen took over as the team’s owner. “I’m happy for the organization. I’m happy for Steve and his wife, Alex,” Strawberry said. “I’m happy with what they’re doing here, really bringing a dif ferent atmosphere into Queens. I think it’s important when you play in New York City, your team be marketed the right way. I think they’re doing that by having an event like this.”
A number of Mets alums shared Strawberry’s sentiments Saturday. Bobby Valentine, the team’s manager from 1996 to 2002, called the day “overdue,” while Ron Swoboda, an outfielder from the 1969 Miracle Mets, called it “a missing piece.”“Ifyour team doesn’t have a connec tion to its legacy, what are ya?” Swoboda asked. “This new ownership, with Steve Cohen, has embraced this again, and I’m tickled to death because I’m a fan of all theseWhileguys.”most ex-Mets avoided direct implications, the subtext behind much of the discussion of Old-Timers’ Day was a comparison to how things were handled under the Wilpon family, the team’s pre vious majority owners, who rarely hon ored the team’s former players. “It’s great to see because he’s done what the fans want,” Gooden said of Cohen. “He gets it, and that’s what it’s all about. You feel like you’re a part of something.”Gooden said he didn’t want to take shots at anybody. But “now, ownership is more invested in everything.”
Cohen has even engaged in smaller acts of fan service, like bringing back the black jerseys the team had introduced in 1998.“They’re reaching to their fans and saying we have a lot of history here,” Strawberry said. “You have to embrace that, and I think that’s what they’re do ing.”Saturday was always going to accom plish that, but the Mets took an extra step when they retired Mays’ jersey number. The decision, which was not announced before the game, came with a tribute vid eo and a message from the Hall of Famer, who could not attend after undergoing a hip replacement a few months ago. Mays’ son, Michael, filled in and said the move was a “long time coming.” A superstar outfielder for the Giants, both in New York and San Francisco, Mays only spent the 1972 and 1973 sea sons with the Mets before retiring. But Joan Payson, a Mets co-founder, wanted Mays to finish his career in New York City, and she promised the Mets would retire his number. She died in 1975, leav ing her promise unfulfilled until now.
At Old-Timers’ Day, the Mets revealed that they were retiring No. 24 for Willie Mays.
Not everyone was so polite. Ray Knight, the third baseman who scored the winning run in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, was blunt in his assess ment. “I love the New York Mets,” he said. “I don’t like the Wilpons.”
Mays’s son Michael, far left, said it was a “long time coming.” From second to left, Felix Milan, Jon Matlack, Ed Kranepool and Cleon Jones,
Knight, who was named MVP of that World Series, recalled his departure from the Mets and how it left a bitter taste in his mouth. He remembered being called into general manager Frank Cashen’s of fice before that year’s championship pa rade. Cashen offered him only a $5,000 raise, which Knight did not think reflect ed his postseason heroics or his strong regularKnightseason.wound up in Baltimore with a $600,000 deal in 1987 and finished his career in Detroit in 1988. On Saturday, Knight admitted that the way his Mets career ended still hurts him. But he also sees an entirely new operation in Flushing, and he eagerly ac cepted his Old-Timers’ Day invite. “This organization is totally differ ent than it was when I was here,” Knight said. “There’s new kids in town, no doubt about it. It starts at the top. It al ways starts at the top.” While most of the old-timers talked about a newfound appreciation for the past, Hook came to the Wilpons’ de fense after speaking to Fred Wilpon, the family’s patriarch, before the event. “They cared about that sort of thing, too,” Hook said when asked if Cohen’s Mets pay more attention to the past than the previous ownership. “It’s just, who makes the suggestion that you have something like this, you know? I think Cohen did because he had people com plaining or something.” Hook, 85, attended Citi Field for the first time ThereSaturday.isno question that Cohen has gone all in on nostalgia — in addi tion to spending — since completing his purchase of the team. The Mets have re cently held days hailing Hernández and Gil Hodges and honored Jay Horowitz, the team’s longtime public relations di rector. The team also held an elaborate ceremony to unveil Tom Seaver’s statue at Citi Field in April, though that statue was commissioned under the Wilpons.
“There has been a 50-year gap, if you will, between a promise made and a promise kept,” said Sandy Alderson, the president of the Mets. “And we felt that on this occasion today, in light of all the players that we had here, all the genera tions, that this was the time to keep that promise.”Added Michael Mays: “Her promises to him were important, so for it to come to fruition like this, something undone is done.”Mets fans and the gathered old-tim ers could say the same about the fran chise leaning in on recognizing its past.
Without playing in any tuneup matches, Williams made it to Wimbledon, only to lose in the first round. Then after winning a firstround match in the National Bank Open in To ronto in early August, Williams appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine, and in an article she shared that she planned to step away from tennis after the U.S. Open. In the first-person essay, Williams said that she was “evolving away from tennis, to ward other things that are important,” adding that she planned to focus on her venture capi tal firm and grow her family, meaning a sibling for her daughter, Olympia, 4. Since then, she has lost in the second round in Toronto and in the first round at the Western & Southern Open in Mason, Ohio. Want to see Williams live?
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If that’s not quite enough, consider mak ing your own Honey Deuce, the official cock tail of the U.S. Open, and you’ll feel like you’re at the tournament.
“I don’t know how it ended up so close,” Raducanu said. “She was really, really solid, was staying with you, counterpunching. Then after you drop one after a long rally, then she would attack. She’s happy to run, happy to rally.”
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Consider buying a night session ticket for Louis Armstrong Stadium and watching the Williams match on a big screen set up in front of Arthur Ashe. The Armstrong tickets won’t get you into Arthur Ashe, but you’ll be free to roam around the grounds of the U.S. Open among other tennis fans, who also want to soak up the atmosphere.
Serena Williams practices at Arthur Ashe Stadium before the U.S. Open in Queens, Aug. 25, 2022. (Photos by Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
Armstrong tickets on Friday were sell ing for about $110. There will be other night matches at Louis Armstrong on Monday, but not Williams against Kovinic. Rather just watch at home? Tune in to ESPN on Monday to watch the match from the comfort of your home. (If you’re in Canada, tune in to TSN.)
Kovinic has had a decent year, reaching the third round of the Australian Open and the French Open. At the Australian Open, Kovinic defeated Emma Raducanu, the reigning U.S. Open champion, in three sets.
Those who want to see Serena Williams play before she retires from tennis have at least two shots coming up. Williams is set to play Danka Kovinic in the first round of the U.S. Open today, with her match scheduled for 7 p.m. Eastern. If Wil liams loses, it could be the last time she plays in a major singles tournament. Fans may see her singles match in person at Arthur Ashe Stadium at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the New York City borough of Queens, or at home on television. She also plans to play in the U.S. Open women’s doubles tournament, partnered with her sister Venus. The draw for that tournament has not been determined, but the first-round matches are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.OnSaturday morning, Williams was one of the first players on the practice court for an early hitting session. Afterward, a large crowd of fans watched as she exited the tennis center complex in a black SUV. Here’s what you need to know ahead of Monday’s marquee match: How did we get here? When a hamstring injury forced Williams to retire in the first round of Wimbledon last year, many began to wonder whether the 23time Grand Slam champion would return to the game she has dominated for the better part of more than two decades. In mid-June, Williams gave her fans a vague glimmer of hope that she would return to the game, when she posted a picture on Instagram of her shoes on grass.
What happens if Williams wins in the first round? If Williams wins, those who missed a chance to see her Monday will get another chance in the second round of the tourna ment, which starts Wednesday for women’s singles. Williams would likely play another night match in Arthur Ashe Stadium. In the second round, she would face the winner of Anett Kontaveit and Jaqueline Cristian. Kontaveit, the No. 2 in the world, is favored to win her match and would be a dif ficult opponent for Williams. How far can Williams go in the U.S. Open? Pam Shriver, an ESPN commentator, said it will largely depend on her health. Compli cating that will be the number of adept players in the women’s draw, Shriver said. “It’s hard for me right now to see her making a run into the second week,” Shriver said. “But it’s still fun to dream, and so until a dream is no longer possible, I’m choosing to still have it as a dream. It would be like the greatest sports story ever.”
Who else plays Monday night? When the Williams and Kovinic match is over, there’s still more tennis scheduled. Af ter that match, Arthur Ashe will host the first round men’s singles match between Austra lians Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis. The match will be special for them be cause they have played doubles matches to gether over the years. Plus, any time Kyrgios is on court, fans can count on seeing one of his classic between-the-legs shots.
For her singles match, you’ll need a ticket for a night session Monday in Arthur Ashe Sta dium. As of Saturday afternoon, the cheapest seats available on resale for Monday night in Arthur Ashe were well over $200 each and in the nosebleeds. Those who want a better view of Williams will need to pay substantially more. Resale tickets in the midlevel of Arthur Ashe were selling for about $1,000 and up as of Saturday. Tickets in the lowest level of the stadium were selling for nearly $4,000 each. Do you just want a taste of the action?
“SW at SW19,” Williams said in the cap tion, referring to the postal code of the All England Club, where Wimbledon is played. “It’s a date. 2022 See you there.”
Serena Williams at the US Open: How to watch her first match
Who is Williams playing? Williams will take on Kovinic, a 27-yearold from Montenegro, who is ranked No. 80 in the world. The two have never played each other.
At U.S. Open media day Friday, Radu canu was asked about her match against Ko vinic, and Raducanu said that it was a match she won’t forget.
“She accepted it and shared it with people to help others by telling her story. She is still a champion.”Evertwill be back at the U.S. Open, which she won six times, to work the broad cast for ESPN. It will be her second tourna ment, after Wimbledon, since announcing in May that she is cancer free, with a 90% to 95% chance it will never return. She will also host the USTA Foundation’s gala on Monday, the first night of the tournament. It is one of the most critical fundraising events for the organization, for which Chris Evert has proved to be every bit the cham pion she was on court, even continuing to work through her treatments. Since volunteering to be chair of the USTA Foundation — the charitable arm of the USTA that runs tennis and learning cen ters for as many as 160,000 underserved children each year — Chris Evert has blos somed into one of the most effective leaders the organization has ever seen. During her term, which began in 2019, she has over seen the expansion of the National Junior Tennis and Learning program, and helped the foundation take in $30 million in grants and donations, most of which is targeted to help children of modest means reach their potential.After all, who could easily say no to the personable Chris Evert, whose 18 Grand Slam singles championships are tied with Martina Navratilova’s for third most in the Open era, and her 90% winning percent age is the highest in that era. Her athletic pedigree and competitive focus, combined with her genuine and engaging nature, make Evert a near-perfect candidate for the lead ership“Sincerole. her involvement, she has elevat ed the foundation to new levels,” Dan Faber, the chief executive of the USTA Foundation, said. “She’s really enhanced our mission into what I would call a grand slam charity.”
Chris Evert needs everyone to listen
A ll the medical advancements that helped save Chris Evert’s life could not save her sister. Jeanne Evert Du bin died of ovarian cancer in February 2020, at age 62, her illness discovered only after it had reached its deadliest stages. The first indication for Chris Evert that something was wrong came as she and her younger sister hustled through an airport ter minal for a flight to Singapore for the wom en’s tennis championships. Chris Evert saw that Evert Dubin, a former professional play er herself, was breathing heavily, unable to keep up. Not long after that, Jeanne was di agnosed. Two years after that, she was gone. “Why her?” Chris Evert said recently in an office at the tennis academy in Boca Ra ton, Florida that bears her last name. “I’m the older one. I’m supposed to go first. Sometimes I think that.” Out of that sorrow came a critical warn ing for Chris Evert, an alert she is deter mined to spread to the world so that other lives, like hers, can be saved, too. In the months after her sister’s death, doctors called Chris Evert with news that a blood sample taken from her sister before she died had only recently revealed a harm ful variant of the BRCA1 gene, increasing her likelihood of breast and ovarian cancers. Within days, Chris Evert, 67, was tested and learned that she, too, possessed the same genetic condition. In December, she underwent a preven tive hysterectomy, and lab tests discovered cancerous cells in the tissue. She would have to go back into surgery as soon as she healed so surgeons could see if more cancer was present, and if so, how far along. Nothing else was discovered. It was determined that Evert had been in Stage 1, but if she had not known about the need for genetic testing, doctors told her that within four months, she would have been in Stage 4, like her sister.
In 2020, when many charitable organi zations struggled to raise money in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Faber had an advantage in the sports legend. Once, he set up a video conference call with a wealthy donor, who Faber hoped would contribute $250,000. With Chris Evert on the line, the man was so delighted, he brought his wife into the conversation and by the time it end ed, their check was for $1 million. It was not because she regaled them with tales of playing Navratilova and Stef fi Graf but because of her passion for the cause, and expectations are that 2022 could be the organization’s best year ever for fun draising, Faber said. Evert downplays her contributions with the same natural mod esty she displayed as a player who rose to stardom from public tennis courts.
Evert knows this firsthand. When she and her four siblings were growing up, their father, Jimmy Evert — a tennis instructor at public courts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for 49 years — insisted his children play ten nis after school. Long after Chris Evert had turned it into a successful career, she asked her father why he made them all play. “‘To keep you kids off the streets,’” she said he told Later,her. Chris Evert’s involvement with the USTA Foundation sprang from her work, alongside John Evert, on a scholarship pro gram they started with the USTA to honor their father, who died in 2015. Chris Evert was already traveling and making appear ances for the Jimmy Evert Fund, why not expand her portfolio to include the entire foundation? It was a natural fit and an ir resistible confluence of talent, commitment and “Icharm.liked it more than I thought I would,” she said. “I like not only being with the kids and seeing the smiles and the hope in their eyes, but they are also learning. I really feel it.” Once she is fully recovered, Chris Evert said she intended to help raise more aware ness and money for cancer research. She re called a difficult conversation she had with her sister.Evert Dubin was always the one taking care of others, and she largely ignored early symptoms, thinking they were a regular part of aging. Why, Chris Evert asked, if her sis ter felt something wrong in her body, didn’t she go to a doctor sooner? Upon seeing the look in her sister’s eyes, Chris Evert immedi ately regretted posing the painful question, and Evert Dubin requested she never ask it again.Chris Evert paused after telling the story. But now, she sees it as her duty to raise that same issue of early detection with the entire world.“Because of my sister’s disease and her death, I’m living,” she said. “I think about that all the time. It’s so important for people to know their family’s medical history. Be proactive.”
For the six months after her surgery, Chris Evert underwent chemotherapy, with the nausea and “cruddy” feeling, as she described it, forcing her away from her be loved tennis courts — but only for five days at a time. Then, she was back to work, trav eling with the U.S. Tennis Association Foun dation, and on the court, lending her exper tise to kids for three more weeks until she went back for her next treatment, and the cycle“Sheresumed.handled it with the same focus that made her an 18-time Grand Slam champion and an icon,” said her younger brother, John Evert, who runs the Evert Tennis Academy.
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Since January, the 18-time Grand Slam champion has balanced her work in tennis with the grueling routine of chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. She never would have caught it early, if she hadn’t lost her sister to the same disease.
“What’s so hard about getting on a Zoom?” she said. “Look, I had the time. My kids were grown up. Sure, it makes me feel good to give back, but it makes me re ally feel good to engage with kids that don’t have the resources and don’t have opportu nities. When I travel and see these programs at work, I see how important they are.”
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 Sudoku CrosswordWordsearch Answers on page 38 The San Juan Daily Star Monday, August 29, 2022 37 GAMESGAMES
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
If you’re going to do well, then there may be skills you need to hone or learn from scratch. These can be key in helping you to get ahead. Have you resisted taking the plunge? If so, it could be because it would take you too far out of your comfort zone. Yet events might have helped you see that nothing stands still. Ready to embrace a new future? Then serious action is necessary.
You may not know what to feel, which could confuse you, as you often use your emotions about things and people to navigate through life. Venus’s opposition to serious Saturn, along with an angle to Uranus, can find you swinging between being down in the dumps and blissfully uncaring. The point is not to make any spur of the moment decisions while you’re so undecided.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
If you’re feeling subdued, it may be down to the faceoff between lovely Venus and sobering Saturn. You might even prefer your own company, if an awkward conversation has left you with a lot to reflect on. Don’t downplay the power of insight, as a flash of knowing that comes to you today, could help you see a way past this dilemma to a solution that works for all, Gemini.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
While you realize the value of restructuring your lifestyle, there are areas where you may need to contemplate a complete shift, if you are to have more time to yourself. You’re already aware that work isn’t the be all and end all, and that you have other interests you’re keen to make the most of, Virgo. Yesterday’s New Moon might have been the catalyst that inspires wiser choices.
Dwelling in the past may be causing you to miss out on the present, and the many opportunities available to you. The Venus/Saturn opposition and its angle to Uranus the awakener, can help you see how time is being wasted dwelling on what might have been. Life is for living now, Pisces! Resolving issues that have dragged you down, will give you space to fly high.
Have recent events rocked your social life, and forced you to reconsider how you fit in? Reflecting on this issue may be helpful. Yet this might not be so much to do with others, but more how you’ve changed. You could feel better in the company of those who share your passions and interests. Doing so will help forge a stronger bond, and build camaraderie and trust.
Don’t be too quick to make a promise or commit to a deal, whether for business or more personal reasons. As sweet Venus opposes prudent Saturn and ties with electric Uranus, it suggests you could be too eager to jump into a relationship, even if you have reservations about it. Someone might withhold their friendship if you don’t do as they ask. But on those terms, why would you?
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
Has there been a shift in the balance of power in a bond or group? The current backdrop encourages dialogue on this very subject, which is something to be welcomed. Still, it seems there are difficult matters to discuss, and no matter how positive you are, this doesn’t take away the fact that you’ll need to work through some tricky issues with as much tact as you can.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
Is the only way out of a tense situation to act on impulse, so you can be free of it? Such may be your mindset today. Venus opposes Saturn across your relationship axis and angles towards Uranus, so you might feel that instant release, no matter what the cost, is better than suffering through this issue any longer. Be patient Aquarius, as a turn of events could change everything.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 37Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
It may become clear that what others think about you shouldn’t and doesn’t matter. You can be fairly sensitive about others’ opinions, and yet this trait might have stopped you from taking the initiative, and pursuing goals that are important to you. The Venus/ Saturn opposition could bring this home powerfully, making you more determined to pursue a path of your choice with zeal.
Taurus (April 21-May 21) Yesterday’s New Moon may have brought clarity on certain matters, including the implications a plan has for you. If you’re feeling ruffled by all that’s happened, or that could happen, then slow down the pace. Today, you might not feel like hitting the ground running, and can be quite reserved. Yet a renewed determination to follow your heart may swiftly revitalize you.
Key insights into your values and financial situation, could make a positive difference. As Venus opposes sobering Saturn, you may have a desire to cut back on those expenses you can do without. Paring away anything that’s not useful to your present lifestyle, might make you aware of how little is needed to be content, and that simplicity can be key to less stress and anxiety.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
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