Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia has asked the U.S. Su preme Court to review the standard the Financial Oversight and Management Board uses to nullify new laws that are inconsistent with fiscal plans or the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA).
According to the petition filed on Nov. 18, PROMESA establishes two anti-democratic limitations on the power of Puerto Rico’s governor and Legislature to enact or enforce new statutes. First, PROMESA prohibits enacting or enforc ing any law “that would impair or defeat the purposes of” PROMESA, “as determined by” the federally appointed oversight board.
Second, PROMESA allows the oversight board to seek to nullify legislation that is “significantly inconsistent with” the board’s certified fiscal plan, a blueprint for the com monwealth’s fiscal goals. As part of that process, PROMESA requires the governor to submit to the oversight board a “formal estimate … of the impact, if any, that the law will have on expenditures and revenues.” If the governor fails to submit such an estimate as well as a certification that the new law is not significantly inconsistent with the fis cal plan, PROMESA allows the oversight board to “seek judicial enforcement of its authority” to “ensure that the enactment or enforcement of the law will not adversely affect the territorial government’s compliance with the Fiscal Plan, including preventing the enforcement or ap plication of the law.”
The government asked the top court to determine the standard of review that governs a district court’s evaluation of the oversight board’s determination that Puerto Rican leg islation “would impair or defeat the purposes of” PROMESA and its review of that legislation for consistency with the fiscal plan. It also wants the top court to determine if the standard of review requires the board to reasonably and contemporaneously explain its decisions and to overturn an appeals court ruling that affirmed the oversight board’s holding to annul Acts 47, 82, 138 and 176.
Act 138 of 2019 amended Puerto Rico’s Insurance Code to prohibit health insurance companies from arbitrarily denying provider-enrollment applications from qualifying healthcare professionals and organizations in Puerto Rico. While the government determined the law will have no fis cal impact, the board rejected the Act 138 Certification for failure to provide the formal estimate of the fiscal impact.
Act 82 established the “Office of the Regulatory Com missioner of Administrators of Pharmacy Services and
Benefits Managers” to regulate middlemen that negotiate medication costs between pharmaceutical companies and third-party payers. Before Act 82, those entities were unregulated in Puerto Rico, causing market inefficiencies, lack of transparency and inflated prescription drug prices, the government said.
On Dec. 18, 2019, the oversight board rejected the new law, contending that its “estimate is not ‘formal’ and not accurate because it provides only an ‘approximate impact’ of Act 82 on the Department of Health’s budget.”
In late 2019, the government enacted Act 176 to provide eligible public employees with the right to ac cumulate vacation and sick leave at the rates of 2.5 and 1.5 days per month, respectively. The new rates represent a modest increase of 0.5 days per month over the prior prevailing rates.
The oversight board rejected the new law’s certification because it “was not accompanied by the estimate required by PROMESA.”
The Supreme Court has not yet decided whether to review the case.
Puerto Rico Supreme Court Chief Justice Maite D. Oronoz Rodríguez announced Wednesday that the island judiciary will have a new courtroom specializing in gender violence cases in the Mayagüez Judi cial Region. With the opening of the forum, people from the municipalities of Añasco, Cabo Rojo, Hormigueros, Lajas, Las Marías, Maricao, Mayagüez, Sabana Grande and San Germán would benefit from the model, which integrates specialized services for the care of victims of domestic violence and sexual violence.
“Consistent with our efforts to eradicate gender violence, the Judiciary reaffirms its commitment to provide access to justice for victims and survivors of this social evil through an integrated and sensitive judicial model,” Oronoz Rodríguez said during the Services for Gender Violence Matters Fair that was held at the Mayagüez Judicial Center as part of the international campaign “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence.” “With the inclusion of this specialized courtroom in the Mayagüez Judicial Region, we assume
our responsibility to strengthen an affordable and effective justice system for everyone.”
Since 2007, the island judiciary has estab lished courtrooms specializing in domestic violence cases in eight judicial regions, as well as specialization projects in two ad ditional regions. In 2019, the chief justice ordered the expansion of the model to include
specialized care in cases of sexual violence. In this way, specialized courts for gender violence cases were added in the judicial regions of Utuado and, recently, Humacao. The Mayagüez Judicial Center would house the third specialized chamber of this type, which is slated to open in 2023.
In the specialized courtrooms, judges and
court personnel trained in issues of gender violence are integrated, with specialized calendars, separate service areas for each party in the case, and integrated multidis ciplinary services for the benefit of victims and survivors.
Oronoz Rodríguez expressed gratitude to the various support organizations and government entities that offer services to victims of gender violence that participated in the service fair held for the benefit of the island’s western and southwestern regions. In addition to judicial personnel, who provided guidance on the legal remedies available in the courts to deal with situa tions of gender violence, also participating in the fair were representatives from the Julia de Burgos Shelter, the MATRIA Project, Albizu University, the Business Center for Women, Siempre Vivas, Pro-Bono Inc., the Centro Salud Justicia de Puerto Rico, Migrant Health: CARIB Project, the Family Depart ment, the Women’s Advocate Office, Legal Services of Puerto Rico, the Support Center for Crime Victims, the Health Department’s Center for Assistance to Rape Victims and the Municipality of Mayagüez.
By THE STAR STAFFThe Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Wednesday that the major disaster dec laration issued on Sept. 21 has been amended to include the municipalities of Loíza, Vieques and Culebra for permanent work (Categories C-G).
Those municipalities are already designated for indi vidual assistance (IA) and assistance for debris removal and emergency protective measures (Categories A and B), includ ing direct federal assistance, under the Public Assistance (PA) program. With the addition, all 78 municipalities in Puerto Rico are now eligible to apply for reimbursement of permanent eligible work, including repairs to roads, bridges, water control facilities, public buildings and equipment, public utilities, parks, and recreational and other facilities.
The Central Office of Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience (COR3) Executive Director Manuel Laboy Rivera expressed gratitude for the inclusion of the three towns in the major disaster declaration after the impact of Hurricane Fiona. He also recognized the work done by the COR3 team, which he said was important in ensuring that all municipalities can soon begin to formulate their projects for permanent works.
On Nov. 21, President Biden announced the federal share for public assistance had been increased to 90 per cent of total eligible costs, except assistance previously approved at 100 percent, to further supplement territorial and local recovery costs after Hurricane Fiona.
“The expansion of permanent work reimbursement to three additional municipalities demonstrates FEMA’s full support for the Government of Puerto Rico and our local
partners across the island as rebuilding continues,” Federal Coordinating Officer Nancy Casper said. “We’re commit ted to getting federal disaster assistance dollars into these communities, so they’re available when needed the most.”
The PA grant program supports communities’ recovery from major disasters with assistance for debris removal, life-saving emergency protective measures and restoring public infrastructure.
LUMA Energy was not willing to start with a 15-year contract and preferred to remain under the supplemental agreement that lasts until the bankruptcy process of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) ends, because the private consortium stood to make more money under the temporary agreement, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia acknowledged on Wednesday.
“It was the bankruptcy issue,” the governor said at a press conference. “Remember that the 15-year contract changes your compensation. There is a substantial reduction in the payment they receive. So they were not in a position to reduce the payment while the bankruptcy issue is being clarified.”
Under the supplemental agreement, an inflation adjustment clause is included that adds $120 million to LUMA’s compensation as the operator of PREPA’s transmission & distribution (T&D) system, the governor noted.
Pierluisi said LUMA executives did not accept the governor’s option that as of Dec. 1, the 15-year contract for managing the T&D system would apply.
“It changed their compensation and we would go into the system of bonuses and penalties,” he said. “For that to happen, LUMA had to waive its right under the supplementary contract not to perform services under the 15year contract while the bankruptcy process was ongoing and was not in a position to do so. Another option that arose in the process, but that was not acceptable to me, was a term, say six months. Why is that not acceptable to me? Because there is no guarantee that, in six months, this bankruptcy process will be over.”
The other option that the governor did not accept was the one proposed by the public-interest members of the Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A) board, Liza Ortiz Camacho and Eduardo Ferrer Ríos, to extend the supplementary contract in order to open a transition process for LUMA Energy to cease operating.
On Tuesday afternoon, the members of the P3A board approved by a 3-2 majority vote the unchanged extension of the supplemental agreement.
Officials report extension of supplemental agreement
The governor, along with P3A Executive Director Fermín Fontanés Gómez and the P3A board chairman, Omar Marrero Díaz, reported on Wednesday the approval, by both the P3A
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said LUMA Energy executives did not accept the governor’s option that as of Dec. 1, the 15-year contract for managing the island’s electric power transmission and distribution system would apply.
board and the PREPA governing board, of the extension of the period of the supplemental agreement.
“It should be noted that this extension is not a new transaction creating a public-private partnership for the management of Electric Power Authority assets,” Pierluisi said at the press conference. “It is when the board of directors of the P3 Authority has before it a transaction of this nature that Law 120 of 2018, which regulates the energy transformation in Puerto Rico, requires the affirmative vote of the members of its board who represent the public interest. The extension of the supple mental agreement obliges LUMA to continue managing and improving Puerto Rico’s power transmission and distribution system until the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority com pletes its debt restructuring process, which is being conducted in federal court pursuant to Title III of the PROMESA Act. The terms of the agreement and the compensation of LUMA will remain the same as at present during that period of time.”
The governor noted that PREPA’s ongoing bankruptcy process may end in two ways. First, the Title III bankruptcy court may confirm a debt adjustment plan for PREPA or reject the request for restructuring before it. If the court confirms an adjustment plan for PREPA, then all provisions of the 15-year contract between the P3A, PREPA and LUMA that was signed in mid-2020 would go into effect. At that time, the amount of payment to LUMA would change and a system of bonuses or penalties would be established based on the consortium’s performance.
Alternatively, should the federal court dismiss PREPA’s bankruptcy petition, LUMA would have to continue to provide its services under a transition plan that has already been agreed upon by the parties and approved by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau.
“We all want to achieve the transformation of our electricity system to a modern, resilient one based on renewable energy sources,” the governor said. “We all want to speed up the reconstruction and modernization of our elec tricity grid so that we have reliable service. We all want both LUMA and the Electric Power Authority to improve their performance to have a more stable electric service. We all want the large-scale solar projects that are in the works to be realized so that we have enough power generation from renewable sources. We all want the government to continue encouraging the installation of solar panels and batteries at an industrial, commercial and residential level and we all want the Electric Power Authority to come out of bankruptcy, to prevent the court from appointing a trustee at the request of its bondholders and to achieve a significant cut in its debt so that the pockets of our people are not affected. We all agree on that.”
Continuing reconstruction plans and work already begun by LUMA deemed essential
Fontanés Gómez said meanwhile that “ini tially, the supplemental agreement was signed as a provisional measure with the purpose of granting a period of 18 months for the com pletion of the restructuring of PREPA’s debt.”
“To date, this process has not been com pleted, and it is essential to continue the reconstruction plans and works that have already begun,” he said. “That is the goal and commitment of all parties.”
Marrero Díaz noted that it is essential that LUMA remains as operator of the electric power T&D system in order to continue directing the process of restructuring PREPA’s debt under Title III, as well as to avoid severe negative results for Puerto Rico.
“For example, without LUMA, the ap pointment of a trustee is highly likely,” he said. “This trustee would have the power to exercise the right to request rate increases in amounts
sufficient to pay PREPA’s debt in full.”
Fontanés Gómez stressed that “the recon struction of the electric power system is on track and cannot be stopped.”
“It is an essential service that has to be transformed,” he said. “In addition, it is a fundamental pillar for the socio-economic development of the island. There is no room to look back.”
The officials reiterated that the cancel lation of the contract would have severe negative economic implications for Puerto Rico, such as, for example, cancellation costs have been estimated at between $300 million and $600 million while a new P3 process is carried out.
The governor noted that even with the extension, the contract with LUMA can be canceled if it substantially fails to comply with its obligations and does not correct that breach in the time established in the contract. Likewise, the Energy Bureau has the power to establish metrics and impose fines on LUMA if its performance deviates from them or significantly compromises the reliability of the electrical system.
“From now on we all have to focus on improving our system,” Pierluisi said.
LUMA Energy President & CEO Wayne Stensby, reacting to the extension of the sup plementary contract, said in a written state ment that “the extension of the supplemental contract will allow the more than 3,000 men and women of LUMA to continue working to build a more reliable, resilient and clean electrical system for the 1.5 million Puerto Ricans we are privileged to serve.”
“Much remains to be done, and in 2023 we will continue to focus on kicking off hundreds of reconstruction projects across the island, which will help build a more reliable, more resilient and cleaner energy future in the months and years ahead,” he added.
Pierluisi Urrutia also said Wednesday he is not worried about the political cost of defending LUMA Energy’s permanence.
“Duty is not evaded, duty is fulfilled,” he said. “And there are countless matters that are under my command and direction. This is one and it’s one where we have to improve. But there are many others in which I have to say that I am more than satisfied.”
The Popular Democratic Party was to issue a statement Wednesday afternoon on the approval of the supplemental agreement extension, but had not done so as of press time.
The father of Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz, José Antonio Rodríguez, said earlier this week that the accomplice of his daugh ter’s alleged killer, Félix Verdejo, pleaded guilty to seek a plea bargain for a lighter sentence. However, he refuted rumors that the prosecution was making a plea bargain offer to Verdejo.
“Obviously, they supposedly paid him to commit the crime against my daughter and what happened happened,” Rodríguez said. “Listening to how it happened is very sad because he accepted everything that the prosecutor was ruling on.”
He was talking about Luis Antonio “Tony” Cádiz Martínez, the 31-year-old man who helped the professional boxer commit Keishla’s murder.
The most difficult part of the statement for Rodríguez was hearing how close the murder was to the home of his daughter, who
was killed after crossing the street from the complex where she lived to Verdejo’s car. He did not know the accomplice to the slaying before the events that occurred and saw him for the first time this week in court.
“The boxer gave the most forceful blows when he ‘knocked her out,’ because they injected her with drugs and proceeded to tie her up,” Rodríguez said about the details confirmed by the co-defendant Monday.
Although the deceased girl’s father is satisfied with Cádiz Martínez’s statement, he firmly denies that the prosecution offered Verdejo an agreement in exchange for a lighter sentence.
“The minimum [sentence] against him is 100 years; he doesn’t get out of jail anymore. […] Let them give him life in jail,” Rodríguez reiterated. “My daughter is not alive because she was pregnant. […] That was the purpose, to end the pregnancy. My daughter is no longer here but nothing is going to bring her back to me.”
The Senate passed landmark legislation earlier this week to mandate federal recognition for same-sex marriages, as a lame-duck Congress mustered a notable mo ment of bipartisanship before Democrats were to lose their unified control of Capitol Hill.
The 61-36 vote put the bill on track to become law in the final weeks before Republicans assume the majority in the House of Representatives at the start of the new Congress in January. It marked one of the final major legislative achievements for Democrats before Republicans shift the focus in the House to conducting investigations of President Joe Biden’s administration and family members.
The bill must now win final approval by the House in a vote expected as soon as next week, which would clear it for Biden, who said he looked forward to signing it alongside the bipartisan coalition that helped shepherd it through the Senate.
In a statement, the president said the vote reaffirmed “a fundamental truth: Love is love, and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love.”
There was little question that the bill’s embrace in the Senate, where proponents had a breakthrough this month in drawing a dozen Republican supporters and overcoming a filibuster, gave it the momentum required to become law.
The bill would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal benefits to same-sex couples. It prohibits states from denying the validity of an out-of-state ma rriage based on sex, race or ethnicity. But in a condition that Republican backers insisted upon, it would guarantee that religious orga nizations would not be required to provide any goods or services for the celebration of any marriage, and could not lose tax-exempt status or other benefits for refusing to recog nize same-sex unions.
“Because of our work together, the rights of tens of millions of Americans will be strengthened under federal law. That’s an accomplishment we should all be proud of,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader.
Schumer audibly choked back tears on the Senate floor as he described how his daughter, who is married to a woman and expecting a baby with her wife, had lived in
fear that their union could be reversed.
“I want them to raise their child with all the love and security that every child deserves,” Schumer said, noting that he was wearing the same purple tie he had worn to their wedding. “The bill we are passing today will ensure their rights won’t be trampled upon simply because they are in a same-sex marriage.”
Passage of the legislation in the Senate marked a watershed moment for a bill that began as a messaging exercise by Democrats determined to show their commitment to protecting same-sex marriage rights amid fresh threats from a conservative-leaning Su preme Court but has morphed into a broadly supported effort on the brink of becoming law. Its path represents a significant shift in U.S. politics and culture in which same-sex marriage, once considered a divisive political issue, has become so widely accepted by members of both parties that a measure to protect it has managed to attract decisive, bipartisan majorities in both the Senate and the House.
In the Senate, the legislation brought together an unusual coalition of Democrats and Republicans, including some deeply conservative and libertarian-leaning ones.
“For the sake of our nation today and its survival, we do well by taking this step,” said
Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., who delivered an emotional speech about the need for more tolerance during what she called “turbulent times for our nation.”
Still, more than 7 out of 10 Republican senators voted against the bill, underscoring how the party has continued to cater to re ligious conservatives who oppose same-sex marriage long after large majorities of the American public have come to support it. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader, was among the opponents, despite hopes from Democrats and Republicans who supported it that he might vote “yes” on final passage.
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., said that the recent mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in his state, in which five people were killed, underscored the importance of defending the rights of gay Americans.
“As a nation, we will never flourish if we choose to depend on a permanent underclass deprived of some or all of the freedoms others enjoy,” Bennet said.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, had worked quietly to build sufficient Republican support in the Senate since the summer, when 47 House Republicans joined Democrats in favor of the measure.
Their efforts paid off two weeks ago, when the senators agreed on a revised ver sion that answered concerns among some Republicans that the measure would trample on the religious freedom of institutions that refuse to recognize same-sex marriages. That allowed the bill to clear its biggest hurdle in the Senate, drawing a filibuster-proof majority that effectively assured its enactment.
Many Republicans still were not per suaded.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, dismissed the bill as a response to a “fantasy” and an “imagi ned threat” that the right to same-sex marriage could be overturned by the Supreme Court.
“It is and will remain legal nationwide regardless of the outcome of this legislation before us,” Lee said. “On the other hand, we have current, real, sustained, ongoing assaults on religious freedom.”
Lee tried and failed to attach changes to the bill that he said would more strongly protect religious freedoms.
Collins pushed back, noting that the bill had received strong backing from faithbased groups, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which historically has aggressively opposed gay rights. And she said that an amendment to the bill already included strong religious and conscience protections.
“We are talking about our family members, our neighbors, our co-workers, our friends,” said Collins. “It advances the rights of couples, same-sex and interracial couples, who are married to one another, and it advances religious liberty.”
By ALAN FEUER and ZACH MONTAGUE
Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, and one of his subor dinates were convicted earlier this week of seditious conspiracy as a jury found them guilty of seeking to keep former President Donald Trump in power through an extensive plot that started after the 2020 election and culminated in the mob attack on the Capitol.
The jury in U.S. District Court in Washing ton found three other defendants in the case not guilty of sedition and acquitted Rhodes of two separate conspiracy charges.
The split verdicts, coming after three days of deliberations, were a landmark — if not to tal — victory for the Justice Department, which poured enormous effort into prosecuting Rhodes and his four co-defendants.
The sedition convictions marked the first time in nearly 20 trials related to the Capitol attack that a jury had decided the violence that erupted Jan. 6, 2021, was the product of an organized conspiracy.
Seditious conspiracy is the most serious charge brought so far in any of the 900 criminal cases stemming from the vast investigation of the Capitol attack, an inquiry that could still result in scores, if not hundreds, of additional arrests. Rhodes, 57, was also found guilty of obstructing the certification of the election during a joint session of Congress Jan. 6 and of destroying evidence in the case. On those three counts, he faces a maximum of 60 years in prison.
Nearly two years after the assault on the Capitol by Trump supporters, the events of Jan. 6 and what led up to them remain at the center of American politics and the subject of multiple investigations, including an inquiry by the Justice Department into any criminal culpability that Trump and some of his allies might face and an
exhaustive account being assembled by a House select committee.
The conviction of Rhodes underscored the seriousness and intensity of the effort by pro-Trump forces to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election, and was the highest-profile legal reckoning yet from a case related to Jan. 6.
But it is not clear how much effect it might have on broader public perceptions that have hardened, largely along partisan lines, over the past two years. Trump, written off as a political force in the days after the attack, is again a can didate for president, embraced by a substantial portion of his party as he continues to promote the lie that the election was stolen from him.
Rhodes was convicted of sedition along with Kelly Meggs, who ran the Florida chapter of the Oath Keepers at the time the Capitol was stormed. Three other defendants who played lesser roles in the planning for Jan. 6 — Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins and Thomas Caldwell — were found not guilty of sedition.
Rhodes was also acquitted of two differ ent conspiracy charges: one that accused him
of plotting to disrupt the election certification in advance of Jan. 6 and the other of planning to stop members of Congress from discharging their duties that day.
Meggs, who led a group of Oath Keepers into the Capitol, and Watkins, who went in separately and was recorded on a digital walkie-talkie app, were both convicted of conspiracy to stop the election certification. Along with Harrelson, they were also found guilty of the count of conspiracy to interfere with members of Congress during the attack. All five were convicted of obstructing an official proceeding and destroying evidence in the case.
Taken as a whole, the verdicts suggested that the jury rejected the centerpiece of Rhodes’ defense: that he had no concrete plan on Jan. 6 to disrupt the transfer of presidential power and to keep Joe Biden from entering the White House.
But the jury also made the confusing deci sion to acquit Rhodes of planning in advance to disrupt the certification of the election yet con vict him of actually disrupting the certification process. That suggested that the jurors may have believed that the violence at the Capitol Jan. 6 erupted more or less spontaneously, as Rhodes has claimed.
“The government did a good job — they took us to task,” said James Lee Bright, one of Rhodes’ lawyers. Bright added that he intended to appeal the convictions. No sentencing date was set.
The Oath Keepers sedition trial began in U.S. District Court in Washington in early Octo ber. In his opening statement, Jeffrey S. Nestler, one of the lead prosecutors in the case, told the jury that in the weeks after Biden won the elec tion, Rhodes and his subordinates “concocted a plan for an armed rebellion to shatter a bedrock of American democracy”: the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
Nestler also closed the government’s case last week, declaring that the Oath Keepers had
plotted against Biden, ignoring both the law and the will of the voters, because they hated the results of the election.
“They claimed to be saving the Republic,” he said, “but they fractured it instead.”
In between those remarks, prosecutors showed the jury hundreds of encrypted text messages swapped by Oath Keepers members, demonstrating that Rhodes and some of his followers were in thrall to outlandish fears that Chinese agents had infiltrated the U.S. govern ment and that Biden — a “puppet” of the Chinese Communist Party — might cede control of the country to the United Nations.
The messages also showed that Rhodes was obsessed with the leftist movement known as antifa, which he believed was in league with Biden’s incoming administration. At one point during the trial, Rhodes, who took the stand in his own defense, told the jury he was convinced that antifa activists would storm the White House, overpower the Secret Service and forcibly drag Trump from the building if he failed to admit his defeat to Biden.
On Jan. 6 itself, Rhodes remained outside the Capitol, standing in the crowd like “a general surveying his troops on the battlefield,” Nestler said during the trial. While prosecutors acknowl edged that he never entered the building, they claimed he was in touch with some of the Oath Keepers who did go in just minutes before they breached the Capitol’s east side.
Even with the convictions, the government is continuing to prosecute several other Oath Keepers, including four members of the group who are scheduled to go on trial on seditious conspiracy charges Monday. Another group of Oath Keepers is facing lesser conspiracy charges at a trial set for next year, and Kellye SoRelle, Rhodes’ onetime lawyer, has been charged in a separate criminal case.
The only person charged in the 2020 killing of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, a soldier at Fort Hood in Texas, pleaded guilty earlier this week to four counts including accessory to murder after the fact.
Cecily Aguilar, 24, faces a maximum possible penalty of 30 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $1 million fine, prosecutors said. She pleaded guilty to one count of accessory to murder after the fact and three counts of false statement or representation.
Guillen, 20, was last seen April 22, 2020, at Fort Hood, the nation’s third-largest Army base. Prosecutors say she was repeatedly struck on the head with a hammer by another soldier, Spc. Aaron Robinson, who killed her and hid her body in a large box.
Robinson had been detained, but he escaped and killed himself with a pistol days before charges were announced in July 2020.
Guillen’s case drew outrage from many, including celebrities, lawmakers, women in the military and Latinos.
An Army investigation found “major flaws” at Fort Hood and a climate that was “permissive of sexual harassment and sexual assault,” including the harassment of Guillen. This caused 14 officials, including high-ranking leaders, to be fired or suspended.
A Netflix documentary, “I Am Vanessa Guillen,” released Nov. 17, brought new attention to the case, telling the story of her family’s push for justice. A federal law by the same name, which took effect Jan. 1, requires that sexual harassment complaints involving service members be sent to an independent investigator.
Justice Department officials said that Robinson’s girlfriend, Aguilar, had been told about the killing and that the couple had tried to dismember and burn the remains.
Between April 22, 2020, and July 1, 2020, Aguilar assisted Robinson in “corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating and concealing eviden ce,” to prevent him from being prosecuted, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.
She also altered and destroyed informa
tion in a Google account for Robinson, the statement said.
Aguilar initially lied to investigators about what she knew, but she later confessed to playing a role in the disposal of the body, prosecutors said in court documents.
“During the investigation into the disap pearance of Vanessa Guillen, Aguilar made four materially false statements to federal investiga tors,” the statement said.
The federal public defender’s office for the Western District of Texas, which is representing Aguilar, declined to comment.
A sentencing date has not been set, said Michael Lahrman, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office. Before her plea, Aguilar had been scheduled to go to trial in January.
Aguilar, a civilian, was charged with 11 counts. Before Tuesday, she had pleaded not guilty on all charges, so the plea came as a sur prise, said Natalie Khawam, the Guillens’ lawyer.
“We were just looking for the day where she would just confess and admit to her crime, and the harm that was committed on this family,” she said, adding, “Today’s admission to guilt
provides us some relief.”
Khawam took on Guillen’s case in 2020 without charging the family, with the intention of finding her alive. When her remains were found, the focus shifted to justice and accou ntability for her death — and avoiding future ones like it.
Guillen’s family will provide testimonies to the judge for Aguilar’s sentencing. Court appearances and continuous advocacy have extended the process of mourning the loss, said her sister, Mayra Guillen.
“It gives me some comfort knowing that she’s admitting to what she did and she’s not going to keep fighting us, but definitely it’s not a closed case until the day of sentencing,” she said.
After Aguilar’s sentencing, the family’s advocacy will continue to focus on other people in the Army who have experienced sexual ha rassment, as well as seeking justice for Vanessa Guillen’s own harassment.
“I only ask God for true justice, because she’s not the only one responsible,” said her mother, Gloria Guillen. “I know there are more, and I hope to God that the truth comes to light.”
Puerto Rico has a robust, modern entrepreneurial and in formation technology (IT) services ecosystem burgeoning as an undercurrent, the publication Nearshore Americas highlighted recently.
Best practices developed by businesses in Puerto Rico in reaction to unpredictable weather over the years are also crucial in putting the United States at the forefront of a digital revolution, the publication said.
Hurricane Fiona, which hit the island recently, proved the resilience of domestically operating businesses and its local workforce, which prevented a cascading failure. Lessons from Hurricane Maria in 2017 and the global COVID-19 pandemic helped companies in Puerto Rico maintain operations. Emplo yees continued to deliver business value, and companies kept the supply chain running smoothly amid a crisis.
Today’s IT services sector is an important economic driver in the U.S. territory, Nearshore Americas noted. The foremost ad vantage that Puerto Rico offers is convenience, given that it mi rrors intellectual property (IP) protections and other regulations of the U.S. Puerto Rico and the mainland U.S. also share the same currency, languages and cultures, plus an overlapping time zone, the publication said.
“The proximity of Puerto Rico to the mainland U.S. offers huge advantages,” the publication stated. “Merely a short flight away from all major U.S. cities, nearshore providers in Puerto Rico can conveniently work with clients on-site to ensure project deliverables with minimal disruption.”
“With world-class educational institutions and easy access to American ones, the talent pool in Puerto Rico has come to be highly skilled in advanced software engineering, data science, and other coveted fields,” Nearshore Americas stated. “The indus try is also well equipped with state-of-the-art best practices and methodologies, such as agile, lean manufacturing, and more. And yet, Puerto Rico’s billing rates are 30-50% lower than mainland
competitors. Global businesses have found a significant economic advantage in engaging Puerto Rico for its service support needs.”
Backing the aforementioned growth is Puerto Rico’s spe cialized and diversified industrial base, the publication continued.
“A skilled and educated world-class workforce proficient in English, a workday overlap for better coordination, a worldclass communications infrastructure, and the legal and banking structures are the same as those in the U.S.,” it said. “As a result, Puerto Rico offers the same laws, regulations and standards as in the U.S. but a significant cost advantage as well, compared with the mainland.”
Because of a common currency, companies in Puerto Rico are immune to fluctuations in foreign exchange, Nearshore Ame ricas pointed out.
“Simply put, for companies wanting the offshore advanta ge at a nearshore destination, Puerto Rico is the perfect fit,” the publication said.
As the complexity of tech grows and the need to bring ad vanced solutions to life quickly and efficiently amplifies, so will the market demand, the publication observed.
“There are many tax breaks offered to specific industries; public buildings can be leased at attractive rates; and there are varied wage incentives and access to financing through tax-free industrial bonds and direct loans,” Nearshore Americas said. “The [island] also simplified its taxation scheme by launching a pro gram which cut the individual tax rate to a flat 4% across the board and 75% property tax exemption, among other benefits.”
U.S. policymakers’ demand to bring services and manufac turing back to nearshore destinations from far-flung geographical locations has opened more possibilities for Puerto Rico to levera ge its varied conveniences, Nearshore Americas said.
The disruption of the outsourcing market in the Philippines because of the pandemic is another geopolitical factor working to Puerto Rico’s advantage. The territory already hosts some of the biggest names in the pharma industry, including Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Global companies such as Infosys, Mi
The information technology services sector is an im portant economic driver in Puerto Rico today, the publication Nearshore Americas noted. The foremost advantage that the island offers is convenience, given that it mirrors intellectual property protections and other regulations in the mainland United States.
crosoft and GE also have a strong presence in Puerto Rico.
The IT services sector in Puerto Rico, meanwhile, is seeing demand rise in multiple sectors, most notably in healthcare com munications and technology, call centers, insurance and banking, the publication noted.
Puerto Rico continues to strengthen its position as a busi ness and investment enabler. The island is leveraging its advanta ges, such as its highly educated workforce, strong infrastructure and sociopolitical stability, as well as tax credits and incentives. It is also preparing to be among the chosen few to initiate 5G testing, Nearshore Americas added.
“This will give further fillip to Puerto Rico’s tech services in dustry, as technology enablement firms test applications and build advanced use cases,” the publication said.
The key is to evolve constantly, and Puerto Rico is ahead in that race, the report asserted.
“Leveraging its human and digital capital optimally can very well position the island as the nearshore/offshore hub of the world,” the publication said.
The Puerto Rico Blockchain Trade Association (PRBTA) will hold an all-day kickoff event for its annual Blockchain Con ference on Monday, Dec. 5.
BUIDL HERE will be held at Vivo Beach Club and Ocean Lab Brewing Co. in Isla Verde, and the event will focus on an array of relevant market and emerging tech industry topics to discuss challenges and opportunities inherent to creating “the future” sus tainably and crafting solutions to global and Puerto Rico issues.
The conference is open to the public and tickets can be found on Eventbrite. Attendees include investors, government officials, students, web 3 companies, and those interested in learning more about blockchain and cryptocurrency. This year, the conference is themed around building and highlighting the contributions of the local blockchain community, the regulatory
framework, lessons from the FTX and Celsius case studies, and decentralizing the Latin American economy, among other topics. Panels will include “Why BUIDL Here?” “Can Government Ban Open-Source Protocols?” “Disrupting Centralized Cloud Storage,” “Post Fiona: Community Microgrids,” and “Puerto Rican Women of Web 3.” The “BUIDL Here” conference is the first of four taking place as part of Puerto Rico Blockchain Week.
“This year’s conference will showcase innovative techno logy, its builders on the island and how they are disrupting in dustries like centralized cloud storage and microgrids, as well as Women of Web 3 and their leadership in the industry,” PRBTA Executive Director Keiko Yoshino said.
The speaker lineup for BUIDL HERE includes Andrew Keys from DARMA Capital, Simon Campbell and David Johnston from DLTx, Matt McClintock from Bespoke, Nicolas Billeaud from DexGrid, Gus tavo Díaz from BASED, Liz Isabelle from Alluring Peacock, Alana Me
diavilla from Dirty Coin and Shirley McPhaul from the PRBTA.
Top conference sponsors include Filecoin, DLTx, Tea, DAR MA Capital and Casper.
“BUILD -- the future -- HERE: Gallery and Expo” will also be part of the PRBTA’s hosted activities for Puerto Rico Blockchain Week. It will take place on the first floor of VIVO Beach Club on Monday, Dec. 5. The purpose of the Gallery & Expo is to give visibility to local artists and projects, in addition to providing a space where the “cryptocurious” can visit and learn about block chain technology, cryptoassets and the Web 3.0 directly from the people who are currently building on the island. The gallery and expo are free to the public and art will be available for sale.
BUIDL HERE is one of four conferences going on during Puerto Rico Blockchain Week 2022. CoinAgenda, Uncommon En trepreneurs and Limitless will also be hosting conferences Dec. 5-9. Master passes for all the conferences are available on Eventbrite.
Wall Street was mixed on Wednesday, with the Dow and S&P 500 down and heavyweight growth stocks boosting the Nasdaq as focus shifts to comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell later in the day.
Powell’s speech will be closely watched for signs of a slowdown in the pace of interest rate hikes by the central bank, as well as to assess the general health of the U.S. economy.
“The market is expecting him (Powell) to say maybe we won’t do the 75 bps hike ... when people listen to the Fed Chair speak, they’re waiting for that little hint,” said Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading in Chatham, New Jersey.
Hopes that the Fed will now hike rates in smaller increments and recent data pointing to a mild cooling in prices have positioned the benchmark S&P 500 index for its second straight month of gains.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained 17.5% in the last two months, while the Nasdaq index has add ed 4.2%.
“After the gains that we’ve seen, you’ve got some in vestors that are taking a little bit of money off the table here today,” said Paul Nolte, portfolio manager at Kings view Asset Management in Chicago. “Again, nothing dramatic.”
Traders expect the Fed to increase rates by 50 basis points in December, with the rates peaking in June 2023.
Heavyweight growth firms, Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc, rose between 0.1% and 1.0%.
Tesla Inc’s shares rose 0.3%, after China Merchants Bank International said Tesla’s sales in China in Novem ber were boosted by price cuts and incentives offered on its Model 3 and Model Y.
Data on the day was mixed as the ADP National Employment report showed private employment in creased by 127,000 in November, below expectations of 200,000 jobs, suggesting demand for labor was cooling amid high interest rates.
The Labor Department’s closely watched nonfarm payrolls data is due on Friday. A report showed U.S. job openings falling to 10.334 million in October, against 10.687 million in the prior month.
Another reading showed the U.S. economy re bounded more strongly than initially thought in the third quarter.
“A mixed bag this morning. So I don’t really make much out of that, I’d like to see what Powell has to say,” Saluzzi added.
At 12:07 p.m. ET the Dow was down 157.90 points, or 0.47%, at 33,694.63, the S&P 500 was down 5.02 points, or 0.13%, at 3,952.61, and the Nasdaq was up
29.04 points, or 0.26%, at 11,012.81.
3M Co fell 3.1% amid weakness in its consumerfacing businesses.
Biogen Inc jumped 4.2% after its experimental Al zheimer’s drug slowed cognitive decline in a closely watched trial.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 1.15to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 1.09-to-1 ratio on the Nas daq.
The S&P index recorded three new 52-week highs and one new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 51 new highs and 120 new lows.
Chipmaker Micron Technology Inc slipped 4.8% after cutting its 2023 forecast for supply of its memo ry chips, while U.S.-listed shares of Grab Holdings Ltd jumped 4.2% after the ride-hailing and food delivery firm bumped up its 2022 revenue forecast.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 2.10to-1 ratio on the NYSE and for a 2.41-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded one new 52-week high and two new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 33 new highs and 56 new lows.
Elevators across Ukraine’s capital are stocked with emergency supplies in case the power fails. Banks have sent messages to customers to assure them their money is safe in the event of prolonged blackouts. The National Phil harmonic played Tuesday night on a stage lit by battery-powered lanterns, and doctors last week performed surgeries by flashlight.
This is Kyiv, a modern, thriving Euro pean capital of 3.3 million people and now a war-torn city struggling with short ages of electricity, running water, cell phone service, central heating and the internet.
One popular cafe has created two menus — one featuring heated food like homemade pasta for when it has power, a second offering cold dishes like Greek yogurt with granola and applesauce when it doesn’t. At another restaurant, a chef cooked on a sidewalk grill, and as the coals burned red, two young men warmed their hands. The sun sets early, before the school day is done, so chil dren hold flashlights while waiting for their parents to arrive in total darkness to pick them up.
Generators of all sizes rattle and roar across the city, where municipal officials estimate that 1.5 million people are still without power for more than 12 hours a day.
Every week for nearly two months, Russia has sent waves of missiles target ing Ukraine’s energy grid. Those targets include Kyiv, which had been relatively unscathed since last spring.
After nine months of war, nothing is so new as to be shocking, but the attacks on power have left residents of Kyiv ex asperated and exhausted. With temper atures in the city often below freezing, extended power outages are also poten tially deadly, threatening health care ser vices, raising the risk of people suffering hypothermia and leading to a rise in ac cidents.
Even as crews work around the clock to repair damage from the latest bar rage — one last week that temporarily knocked every nuclear power plant in the country offline — Ukrainian authori ties issued urgent warnings that another
wave of missiles could be on its way.
“You go to bed knowing today was bad and tomorrow could be worse,” Vlad Medyk, a 25-year-old musician, said Monday.
He has moved his bed away from the windows in case a Russian missile ex plodes nearby, and he tries to make sure his phone is fully charged before he falls asleep so he can hear an air raid alarm. As he spoke, he was busy improvising a covering from cardboard boxes to protect a new generator from the falling snow outside the music shop where he works.
Last week, the skies above Kyiv thun dered as 20 Russian missiles were shot down over the capital. Roughly a dozen more found a target, part of a fusillade of the more than 600 that Russia has aimed at infrastructure across Ukraine since Oc tober.
The damage from the last assault has so far proved the most difficult to recover from. A week later, most residents still do not know when they will have power.
Herman Halushchenko, the country’s energy minister, said Wednesday that the stability of electricity supply was “im proving every day.”
“If — this is key — there will be no further attacks on the power system, then in the near future, we will be able to sta bilize and reduce the time of the outage,” he said.
But the hardships of the past week have already changed Medyk’s outlook.
One of the missiles destroyed a music studio in an industrial park on the city’s outskirts where he plays with his band Onaway, killing two security guards and a woman who were there at the time.
Planning for the future is a luxury he said he does not have; he is simply trying to get through the present.
“You don’t think about entertain ment, about work that really brings you pleasure,” he said. “You think about ba nal, life things for survival. It all comes down to this.”
For the most vulnerable — older residents struggling to walk up darkened stairways in high-rise apartments, the sick who need urgent care, traumatized children who crave routine — the hard ships can be dire.
For more, it is a strange and wearing life.
Through all the stress and danger, though, Kyiv residents grind on, showing up for work, caring for family, chipping in to help others in need and even allowing themselves a few indulgences.
Maryna Musat, 38, a masseuse who works in central Kyiv, said she was sur prised that not a single client had can celed recently.
“We all carry on despite the dark ness,” she said.
Even on the day last week when strikes were bursting in the air, a regular client managed to reach her for a book ing.
“So I took my bag and went to work,” she said. “It’s a bit depressing when you work in total darkness for hours, but I learned to massage with closed eyes.”
In the Podil neighborhood, the capi tal’s old trading district, generators were providing power to pharmacies, restau rants, health clinics, hotels and sporting goods stores as businesses seemed deter mined to keep their doors open.
If the Molotov cocktail was the sym bol of defiance for the citizen army of baristas, janitors and accountants that sprang up after Russia invaded nine months ago, the generator is now the weapon of choice on the energy front.
“Can you imagine?” Vitali Klitschko, the former boxing champion who is now the mayor of Kyiv, said in an interview in his office Tuesday afternoon. “In one moment, you do not have electricity. Not just that. You do not have water. If you want to take a shower, no chance. You do not have heating. Your cellphone doesn’t work — no connection.”
He said it was like being stranded on an island.
“You are alone, in darkness,” he said.
Unpredictability has led to improvisa tion.
“We created this menu that says, ‘kitchen with no lights’ and ‘kitchen with generator,’ so everyone will still have some food and drinks,” said Valeria Ma mysheva, 20, a barista at the Bursa Ho tel’s cafe.
At the moment, she said, they were on generator power, so they had to lim it consumption and could not use the espresso machine.
“We have tea, we have some alcohol when it is acceptable to sell it, and fil tered coffee,” she said.
Her smile was bright, but her eyes were tired. An air raid alarm had just been lifted, and she confessed that she was exhausted.
“I have no energy left for anxiety and constantly being in a worrying state,” she said.
Despite the hardship, she does not want to leave Kyiv.
“There is no place better than home, and I just realized I am going to miss it if I go somewhere,” she said. “So I decided to stay here and support the economy somehow.”
The death of a top official who led Belarus’ failed attempts to improve its relations with the West came as the country faces increasing pressure from Russia to get involved in the war in Ukraine that is raging across its border.
The official, Vladimir Makei, 64, ser ved 10 years as foreign minister of Be larus, a key geopolitical battleground between Russia and the West. He died suddenly over the weekend, Belarusian state media said Saturday without offe ring explanation.
Makei helped his country’s vete ran dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, in a series of abortive efforts to balance Moscow’s increasingly dominant influen ce with outreach to the United States and the European Union. His efforts came even as the country became a staging ground for the invasion of Ukraine in Fe bruary.
Shortly after Makei’s death was re ported, the exiled colleagues of a jailed opposition leader, Maria Kolesnikova, said she had been rushed to the inten sive care ward of a hospital in western Belarus on Monday, also for unknown reasons.
“We don’t know what happened, we hope there will be more informa tion soon,” Kolesnikova’s sister, Tatiana Khomich, said in response to a request for comment. She added that her sister had been moved two weeks ago from a regular prison in the city of Gomel to a solitary isolation cell in a different facility. The family has not been allowed to con tact her since the move.
Makei’s sudden death and Kolesnikova’s unexplained illness put a spotlight on Belarus’ highly unpredicta ble and enigmatic internal dynamics at a time of heightened political tension in the country created by the war in Ukraine.
Kolsenikova has a reputation as one of Lukashenko’s most resolute and effec tive opponents. She is widely admired for having resisted attempts to forcibly de port her from Belarus to Ukraine in 2020 and for vowing to continue her struggle from inside the country instead of taking refuge abroad as many others have.
This led to her conviction last year
on charges of conspiring to seize power illegally. A Belarusian court jailed her for 11 years.
Makei, by contrast, was never a dissi dent but was a close ally of Lukashenko. Still, he represented an increasingly rare view among Belarusian officials: that the country needed to reach out to the West and to avoid falling entirely under Russia’s sway.
His death, which Belarusian state media reported Saturday without giving any cause or the customary tributes, sti rred a flurry of speculation among com mentators, exiled opposition activists and Ukrainian officials about why the diplomat, who was not known to have been suffering any serious health pro blems, had suddenly died.
One Belarusian media outlet, Nasha Niva, said he had died at home in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, from a heart attack. But other reports, based on unconfirmed rumors, suggested he might have been poisoned.
No evidence of foul play has come to light, but the rumors reflected the climate of fear and suspicion that, according to former Belarusian government insiders, now grips even Lukashenko’s most loyal followers because of the uncertainties created by the war in neighboring Ukrai ne.
Ryhor Astapenia, the Belarus initiati ve director at Chatham House, a research organization in London, said Makei was “part of the regime clearly,” but “was the devil that was known to the West” who made it “easier for the West at least to understand the political logic of the re gime.”
Lukashenko, he added, must now decide whether to choose a replacement foreign minister who can try to talk to the West — or he could decide that “he doesn’t want to engage with the West an ymore” and submit without question to Russia.
While Belarus allowed its territory to serve as a staging ground for Russia’s in vasion, it has resisted pressure from Mos cow to get more involved by sending its own troops to Ukraine.
Makei had been scheduled to meet his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, this week and travel to Poland for an annual gathering of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Lukashenko, in power since 1994 but increasingly beholden to the Kremlin to maintain his position as Europe’s longestserving leader, has not spoken about Makei’s death or paid tribute to his long service. The state news agency, Belta, on Saturday published a one-line article sa ying that the president had offered con
dolences to Makei’s family.
The foreign minister’s last known official meeting was Friday with the apostolic nuncio in Minsk. A person clo se to the Vatican diplomatic service said the nuncio, the Vatican’s equivalent of an ambassador, did not notice anything unusual about Makei’s physical condi tion. The foreign minister told the nuncio he was tired but attributed this to a hectic travel schedule.
Foreign diplomats who had worked with Makei over the years remembered him as one of the few senior Belaru sian officials who could engage in ci vil conversations with Western leaders while remaining a trusted member of Lukashenko’s inner circle.
Just days before Russian troops in vaded Ukraine in February, thrusting toward Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, from Belarusian territory, Makei insis ted at a meeting with foreign journalists in Minsk that Russia would not invade and that its troops, ostensibly gathered in Belarus for training exercises, would soon all return home.
Valery Kaveleuski, a former Belaru sian diplomat who now lives in exile and supports the opposition, said Makei’s obedience to Lukashenko meant that he had “completely lost his appeal to the West as well as his ability to influence government policy.” He predicted that his replacement “will hold a similar ap proach that is submissive to Russia with extremely limited space for maneuver vis-a-vis the West.”
As foreign minister, Makei led his country’s outreach to the West, which Lukashenko had tried playing off aga inst Russia in a bid to maintain political power at home.
A reserve colonel in the army who was fluent in English and Ger man, Makei was a rare senior Belaru sian official who could move between hard-liners in the Belarusian security services and European diplomatic cir cles, making him a valuable member of Lukashenko’s team, said Pavel Slunkin, a Belarusian political analyst who had worked under Makei in the Foreign Mi nistry.
“Through him, Lukashenko had found a path to the West,” said Slunkin, referring to Makei.
Reacting to China’s boldest and most wi despread protests in decades, the security apparatus built by Communist Party lea der Xi Jinping is mobilizing on multiple fronts to quash dissent, drawing on its decades-old tool kit of repression and surveillance.
In a meeting of the party’s top security lea ders, reported in state media Tuesday, officials were ordered to “resolutely crack down on ille gal and criminal acts that disrupt social order.” And by evening, the demonstrations already ap peared to be smaller and more scattered, with new videos emerging on social media — the main channel for news of the protests to reach a wider audience — showing mainly groups of residents in several different locked-down deve lopments demanding to be freed.
At the same time, the government announ ced that it would step up vaccinations of older adults. That move is deemed crucial to easing China’s tight COVID-19 controls that have fue led public anger, signaling that as Beijing sup presses dissent, it is also moving to address the problem underlying the protests.
Public security personnel and vehicles have blanketed potential protest sites. Police officers are searching some residents’ phones for prohi bited apps. Officials are going to the homes of would-be protesters to warn them against illegal activities and are taking some away for ques tioning. Censors are scrubbing protest symbols and slogans from social media.
The campaign is being carried out by a se curity apparatus Xi has upgraded in pursuit of unshakable dominance. He has expanded the police forces, promoted loyal security leaders into key positions and declared that “political security” — for him and for the party — must be the bedrock of national security.
Yet even as Xi rolls out the police, he is pro jecting an unruffled appearance of business as usual.
He has stayed silent about the rare open challenge to his rule that erupted in the protests, including calls for him to step down. He ap pears to be wagering that by outwardly ignoring the demonstrations; he can sap their momen tum while the security services move in and the party’s army of online loyalists try to discredit protesters as tools of U.S.-led subversion.
“They’re saying as little as possible for as long as possible,” said William Hurst, a profes sor at the University of Cambridge who studies politics and protest in China. “If they speak, it could inflame the situation, so it’s better to sit back and pretend nothing is happening.”
On Tuesday, the People’s Daily, the party’s main newspaper, featured Xi’s talks with the visiting Mongolian president and a front-page
celebration of Xi’s decade in power, but not a word about the protests, China’s most wides pread since the Tiananmen Square pro-demo cracy movement of 1989.
Still, there seems no doubt that inside the guarded seclusion of the party’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing, Xi and his advisers have been monitoring the unrest and plotting a response. Since the protests of 1989, Chinese leaders have fixated on the dangers of anti-government social movements, determined to nip them in the bud and avoid the trauma of another bloody crackdown.
Even so, the protests that broke out in parts of Shanghai, Beijing and other Chinese cities over the weekend appeared to catch leaders off guard.
The collective public anger first welled up in Urumqi, a city in western China where at least 10 people died in an apartment fire last week. Many people have said, despite official denials, that the deaths were caused by pande mic restrictions that prevented residents from leaving their apartment block. Protests over the tragedy escalated into wider denunciations of China’s pandemic policies, as well as calls from some for democracy, a free press and other ideals anathema to the country’s authoritarian rulers.
This week, China’s security forces have regrouped, making new demonstrations much more difficult and risky.
“I am pretty sure that the security appara tus will get this under control fairly quickly,” said H. Christoph Steinhardt, a scholar at the Univer sity of Vienna who studies patterns of protest in China. “I guess they will begin with identifying ringleaders and then leaning on them, combi ned with preventive policing in public areas.”
In Hangzhou, a prosperous city about 100 miles southwest of Shanghai, police broke up an attempted demonstration Monday night, shouting at passersby and dragging away one woman who was screaming. Dozens of people
also confronted officers who had detained so meone, chanting “release them.”
In the southern city of Guangzhou, a video posted online Monday showed a hundred or so police officers wearing helmets and white pro tective clothing, possibly to ward off COVID-19, banging their clubs on their riot shields as they strode through a street, warning people to dis perse. Workers in the Guangzhou district of Haizhu clashed with police Tuesday, according to videos posted online and workers reached by phone.
Officers across China have been visiting protesters’ homes or stopping possible ones on the street. They check their phones for apps banned in China, delete pictures of demonstra tions and warn people not to take to the streets again.
Officials appear to be trying to quietly ad dress the most common of grievances about China’s COVID-19 restrictions, which have dis rupted life, schooling and business.
Many residents have complained about a 20-point set of rules issued by the government Nov. 11, which at first seemed to promise an easing in pandemic restrictions. However, it has made little effect on the ground, where local officials are under enormous pressure to stifle COVID-19 outbreaks.
Since the protests over the weekend, local governments across China have said that they will stop residents from being locked in their homes any longer than necessary to prevent ex panding outbreaks. On Tuesday, an article from Xinhua, the main state news agency, urged offi cials to show compassion to frustrated residents.
“All areas and departments must be more patient in relieving the anxieties of the public,” the article said. “The fight against the pande mic is complex, arduous and repetitive, and we must listen to the sincere voice of the public.”
Avoiding any direct mention of the protests by Chinese leaders or in state media is likely a deliberate strategy to try to downplay their significance. In 1989, the students who occu pied Tiananmen Square galvanized in fury af ter an editorial in the People’s Daily, the party’s mouthpiece, condemned them as being infiltra ted by agents of turmoil. The unrest this time has not reached that scale, and officials appear to have learned their lesson.
“The moment that the central leadership takes an official line, they are dignifying the protests with an official response and admit ting that they must be reckoned with, which gives them a status that they would rather deny them,” Hurst said.
In Shanghai, Beijing and other cities, police have bundled away some protesters. Some have been released after a couple of days in deten tion. Particular attention has been paid to uni
versity students. At Tsinghua University, a pres tigious school in Beijing, shouts rang out from a crowd of hundreds of students for “democracy and rule of law” and “freedom of expression” in what was likely the boldest campus protest.
Tsinghua’s administrators said Sunday that free buses would be available from this week to take students leaving early for their winter break to train stations and airports, a step that may have been intended to defuse fresh protests.
In China, such a response is considered restrained. But that may not last, and it does not mean that the Communist Party autho rities will treat all protesters with leniency. Instead of speaking out directly, the party has allowed loyalists on social media to depict the protesters as pawns, witting or unwitting, of Western efforts to destabilize China and discredit its “zero-COVID” policies.
Since Monday, a growing chorus of the se online commentators have tied the pro tests to “color revolution,” a term borrowed from Russia to describe purported Westernbacked plots to sow insurrection in rival sta tes. Some have claimed the protesters are acolytes of those who shook Hong Kong in 2019, prompting Xi to impose a national se curity law there and a sweeping crackdown on anti-government activists.
In previous years, the authorities’ in timidation and the heavy police presence would likely have been enough to douse any incipient protest movement. This time, some protesters are vowing to keep pressing the Chinese government. On social media groups operating beyond China’s censorship firewall, they have swapped ideas for moving around in smaller clusters, using multiple phones, and figuring out how to track and share information about the movements of police.
But Xi’s security options are far from exhausted. China has about 2 million regu lar police officers — by some measures, re latively few for its 1.4 billion people — but also 1 million or more People’s Armed Police troops trained in suppressing unrest, as well as legions of security guards and auxiliary police officers. Ultimately, there is also the Chinese military. And as in the crackdown in Hong Kong, Chinese authorities may make more arrests after the tumult subsides.
On Tuesday, Chen Wenqing, the head of the Communist Party’s committee for lawand-order issues, summoned officials to con vey instructions from Xi and other leaders, an official report said. “We must under the law resolutely attack infiltration and sabotage activities by hostile forces,” said a brief sum mary of Chen’s comments.
The former president, who is running for his former office, invites to his home one of the most notorious antisemites in the United States, who brings along a well-known Holocaust denier. So far, to my knowledge, the only member of Donald Trump’s Cabinet to publicly condemn his former boss by name is Mike Pence. Nor, with a handful of exceptions, have top Republicans or the major organs of right-wing media, and even for them, the indictment is mainly that Trump was sloppy about vetting his guest list.
If he were to win again, all this would be swept under the rug, just as it was the last time. This is the new normal. We shouldn’t be surprised. The ground for it was laid long ago.
It was laid when Republicans normalized Trump’s various ethnic bigotries. Remember when, during the 2016 campaign, he said he couldn’t expect to get a fair trial in a fraud case from a judge with Mexican heritage, and Paul Ryan, who was then the speaker of the House, called it a “textbook definition of a racist comment”? Ryan endorsed him anyway.
It was laid when Republicans normalized Trump’s
conspiracy theories. His birtherism should have been disqualification enough. But the problem with conspiracy thinking is that one theory always leads to another — and the ultimate conspiracy theory, the secret to the secret to the secret, is that the Jews did it. People who can be led to believe anything about anything will eventually believe anything about Jews.
It was laid when Trump and much of conservative media made Republicans the party of immigrant bashers, something they emphatically were not when their standard-bearers were Ronald Reagan, the Bushes and John McCain. “You too must befriend the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt,” says the Book of Deuteronomy, which helps explain why the words on the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal were composed by a Jewish poet. It’s also why a fanatic murdered 11 Jewish congregants in a Pittsburgh synagogue in a plot to attack immigration.
It was laid when Trump called the news media the “enemy of the American people.” It should not be controversial to say the mainstream news media is frequently blinkered by groupthink, liberal bias and self-flattering assumptions about its own goodness. But Trump forwent critique for the demonization of an industry that, along with banks and entertainment, is all but synonymous with “Jewish” among hardened antisemites.
It was laid when the conservative movement came to despise intellectualism of any sort, including conservative intellectuals. Although the moment was long in coming, it arrived when Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly publicly ripped into Washington Post columnist George Will for the latter’s unflattering review of the TV host’s idiotic “Killing Reagan” book, after which Will lost his Fox News contract but retained his honor. (O’Reilly ended up losing both.) The Trumpian right’s hatred of anything that conveys a sense of erudition or culture is not in itself antisemitic, but it has a way of leaning in that direction.
It was laid when “globalist,” another dog-whistle word for “Jew,” became a slur used by the right. The notion that a shadowy group of financiers who share an allegiance to no country are in it only for themselves and will gladly make the working classes suffer for their profits is the theory behind the “Jews will not replace us” chant adopted by the neo-Nazi marchers at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
It was laid when management at Fox News repeatedly stood by its star bigot even as he championed
replacement theory, went after the “vulture capitalism” of a prominent Jewish hedge funder and showered praise on Kanye West as a “bold” truth-teller while reportedly editing out Ye’s antisemitic comments.
It was laid when the right repeatedly looked the other way at Trump’s persistent overtures to the radical wing of the party, whether it was tweeting antisemitic images, lying about David Duke or refusing to repudiate white supremacists in Trump’s first debate with Joe Biden — telling the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.” This foul courtship has always been part of Trump’s playbook, which is why his most recent dinner should come as a surprise to nobody.
It was laid when pundits on the right justly decried antisemitism on the left — the noxiousness of an Ilhan Omar or a Jeremy Corbyn or the anti-Zionists whose unhinged criticisms of Israel so often mimic ancient antisemitic tropes and behaviors — while remaining practically mute to the antisemitism of a Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Viktor Orban and the QAnon right. “First cast out the beam out of thine own eye” may be a Christian phrase, but it behooves a conservative movement to clean up its own house when it comes to antisemitism before it considers the mote in the eye of its opponents.
A final note: I was reluctant to write this column, because I think the former president is a spent political force and because, as Patti Davis observed Monday, often the best way to defeat a bully is to ignore him. But the bigotries that Trump has unleashed are not spent and cannot be ignored. And they won’t be defeated until they are unequivocally denounced by whatever is left of honorable conservatism.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – El día de hoy jueves, en el Día Mundial de la Lucha contra el Sida, el Consejo Nacional de Minorías sobre el SIDA (NMAC) otorgará tres premios a una lista bipartidista de líde res del Congreso por su compromiso para poner fin a la epidemia del VIH.
El Whip de la mayoría de la Cámara de Repre sentantes, James E. Clyburn (SC-6), recibirá el 2022 Elijah Cummings Award for Minority Health Equity award; la congresista Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18) re cibirá el Premio John Lewis Good Trouble 2022; y la congresista Jenniffer González Colón (PR-AL) recibi rá el Premio Hill Champion 2022.
Los líderes del Congreso aceptarán sus premios durante una recepción en su honor en el Capitolio después de una sesión informativa legislativa sobre la Iniciativa de Minorías contra el SIDA (MAI, por sus siglas en inglés) organizada por el Caucus del Con greso sobre el VIH / SIDA. El MAI fue creado en 1998 en respuesta al impacto desproporcionado del VIH / SIDA en las comunidades de afroamericanos para proporcionar fondos cruciales para fortalecer y ex pandir los servicios relacionados con el VIH.
El Premio Hill Champion, el primero en la historia
será otorgado a la Comisionada Residente, Jenniffer González Colón,. La congresista es copresidenta del Caucus del Congreso sobre el VIH/SIDA que trabaja para mejorar las vidas de las personas infectadas con el VIH/SIDA.
“Desde 1981, cuando se reportaron los primeros casos de lo que hoy conocemos como SIDA, hemos logrado mejoras significativas en la comprensión de cómo atender y servir mejor a las comunidades de VIH en todo Estados Unidos”, dijo la congresis ta González Colón. “Desde mejorar el acceso a la atención preventiva y los tratamientos, hasta finan ciar la investigación y luchar contra el estigma, me comprometo a ayudar de cualquier manera que pue da para que juntos pongamos fin a la epidemia del VIH de una vez por todas. En Puerto Rico, hay más de 15,848 personas diagnosticadas con VIH. Como su única representante en el Congreso y copresiden ta del Caucus del Congreso sobre el VIH/SIDA, me siento honrada de ser la primera persona galardona da con el Premio Campeón NMAC Hill. Comparto este reconocimiento con todos aquellos que partici pan en esta lucha por una sociedad libre del VIH. No nos detendremos hasta lograr una generación libre de SIDA”.
El Premio Elijah Cummings para la Igualdad en la
la industria como una oportunidad de desarrollo eco nómico”, dijo el gobernador en declaraciones escritas.
Salud de las Minorías fue creado en honor a la lucha de toda la vida del difunto
– El gobernador, Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urru tia y el secretario del Departamento de Agricultura (DA), Ramón González Beiró, inauguraron el miérco les, la Granja Avícola Santa Fe, en el municipio de Sa linas. Esta nueva granja de gallinas ponedoras se logra con una aportación de $240 mil del Programa de Inver siones del Departamento de Agricultura (DA) y 650 mil dólares de inversión de capital privado.
“Nos hemos propuesto utilizar todos los recursos disponibles para incentivar a nuestros agricultores y ayudarles a expandir sus operaciones. Nos da mucha esperanza que una nueva generación de agricultores esté activamente escogiendo trabajar nuestra tierra, fo mentar el consumo de productos locales y reconocer
Este sector contaba con alrededor de 20 granjas acti vas de gallinas ponedoras, la mayoría de menor escala en modalidad libre de jaula (o cage-free en inglés). De esas 20, ocho son fincas a gran escala, y ahora se une esta nueva Finca Avícola Santa Fe, la cual contribuirá a la meta de aumentar la producción de huevos de Puerto Rico.
Por su parte, el secretario detalló que, la producción local de huevos es alrededor de un 20 por ciento y la meta es llegar a producir el 50 por ciento del consumo local. “Con la entrada de Granja Avícola Santa Fe, nos acercamos a la meta de aumentar la producción ase gurando a los consumidores un producto fresco y de primera calidad”.
Granja Avícola Santa Fe tiene un sistema operacio nal automatizado de tecnología europea. Los espa cios de las jaulas son más grandes y el rancho tiene un sistema de túnel para el control de la temperatura. La producción de la primera fase es de 20 mil gallinas produciendo diariamente alrededor de 18 mil huevos. Para el 2023, se estima lograr añadir 20 mil gallinas ponedoras para lograr llegar a producir 36 mil huevos diarios.
“Hace más de 14 años que no se inauguraba una nueva granja avícola, por lo que felicito a Loyd Sa nabria por ser un joven líder en esta industria, que apuesta a Puerto Rico y nos brinda esperanza y con fianza de que las nuevas generaciones están igual de comprometidas con nuestra agricultura, trayendo nuevas prácticas, nueva tecnología y nuevos bríos para seguir echando pa’lante a nuestra Isla”, añadió Pierluisi, quien también estuvo acompañado de la al caldesa de Salinas, Karilyn Bonilla Colón.
SAN JUAN – El informe preliminar de CO VID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) re
portó el miercoles 6 muertes y 220 personas hospitalizadas.
El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,366. Hay 200 adultos hospitalizados y 20 meno
res. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 12 al 26 de noviembre de 2022.
La tasa de positividad está en 23.85 por cien to.
By KYLE BUCHANAN
The hit sci-fi comedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once” earned top honors at the Gotham Awards ear lier this week, taking the ceremony’s bestfeature prize as well as a supporting per formance trophy for actor Ke Huy Quan.
“This time last year, all I was ho ping for was just a job,” said an emotional Quan, who starred in “The Goonies” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” as a child actor but then found work hard to come by. “Just when I think it can’t get any better, it does.”
The Gothams are the first big show of awards season, handing out prizes before the Screen Actors Guild and the Oscars have even announced their nominees. Although the winners are chosen by a jury made up of only a handful of film insiders, the Gothams can still provide momentum and a clutch of positive headlines for the contenders who triumph there.
One such victory came for lead per formance. Since the Gothams have adop ted gender-neutral acting categories, three significant contenders for the best actress Oscar — Cate Blanchett (“Tár”), Miche lle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) and Danielle Deadwyler (“Till”) — faced off against “The Whale” star Bren dan Fraser, the presumptive front-runner for the best actor Oscar. And in that starpacked battle royale, Deadwyler, a rising actress, prevailed for her performance as Mamie Till-Mobley, who becomes an ac tivist following the racially motivated mur der of her son, Emmett Till, in 1955.
That will help Deadwyler earn more eyes for her movie, although she was ab
sent from the ceremony, as was Steven Spielberg. He had been booked to present an honorary award to his “Fabelmans” star Michelle Williams but was forced to can cel after contracting COVID-19. Williams, another significant best actress contender, took the stage to deliver a moving tribute to Mary Beth Peil, who played her grand mother on “Dawson’s Creek,” the teen drama in which Williams got her start.
“Whenever something good hap pens in my life, I can draw a straight line” back to Peil, said Williams, who credited the older actress with patiently teaching her lessons about the craft when Williams was still finding her way.
“I wasn’t an artist or a mother; I wasn’t even a high school graduate,” Wi lliams said. “But I was Mary Beth’s girl, and that made me a somebody.”
As an Oscar predictor, the Gotham Awards can be spotty: “Nomadland” kicked off its juggernaut run by winning the Gothams’ best feature prize for 2020, although the Gothams victor for 2021, “The Lost Daughter,” didn’t manage to crack the Oscars’ best picture lineup. And since the Gothams restrict eligibi lity to films made in the United States for less than $35 million, the ceremony spotlights a narrower slice of films than the Oscars do.
Still, it’s a great barometer for indus try enthusiasm: At last year’s Gothams, winning “CODA” star Troy Kotsur deli vered such a well-received acceptance speech that future victories, including the Oscar, seemed almost assured. This year, enthusiasm was high for “Everything Everywhere,” directed by Daniel Schei nert and Daniel Kwan, which earned big cheers for its best feature win but even bi gger cheers for the endearing Quan, who plays Yeoh’s husband in the film and could be poised for a Kotsur-like sweep of the televised awards shows.
“Oftentimes, it is in independent films where actors who otherwise wouldn’t get a chance find their opportunities,” said Quan, who had spent decades behind the camera until “Everything Everywhere” re vived his career. “I was that actor.”
Earlier in the show, held at Cipriani Wall Street, honorary awards were given out to “The Woman King” director Gina Prince-Bythewood and to actor Adam Sandler, who brought the house down with a self-deprecating speech that he claimed had been written by his teenage daughters.
But the most thoughtful comment came from writer-director Todd Field, who picked up a best screenplay prize for “Tár” and used his acceptance speech to take aim at the entire notion of awards shows.
“‘Best.’ We all know that word is a cartoonish absolute with no place in any conversation about creative endeavors,” Field said. “But we campaign for it, we show up for it, we pray for it, if only so the thing we made will be seen and heard and not forgotten in this noisy world.”
There is no place like home, said Judy Gar land as Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz,” clicking her glittering red heels and hop ing to return home.
Not nearly as dramatic but certainly feel ing emotional and excited, fashion designer Lisa Porrata presented her most recent collec tion “Home” in her native Ponce in the southern part of Puerto Rico.
As part of the San Juan Moda VIP Series, Porrata’s fashion show was presented at the Ponce Convention Center to a full house and ended with the contagious rhythms of pleneros parading down the runway.
Porrata, a very popular designer with a career that spans 32 years, has presented her creations with much success in San Juan. But this is the first time she ever showed a collection planned exclusively for her Ponce followers.
“I’m so very proud, and so very happy,” Porrata said. “Putting together this fashion show was a big responsibility. It is the first time a show like this takes place in Ponce. I’m also very grateful for the support of my clients and fam ily, who braved the weather to attend. Ponce is already waiting for the next one.”
“Home” is a proposal for the holidays and beyond. There is a look for every woman who loves feeling well dressed, pretty and modern. And by woman, I mean everyone in the family, from newborn babies and little ladies to moth ers and great grandmothers. Porrata designs pre cious garments for generations of women who know she can be trusted. She keeps alive the adorable tradition of “Mom and Daughter,” co ordinates with fabrics and designs appropriate for the mothers and especially for the little ones. Let girls be girly!
Porrata showed everything from dazzling bathing suits in metallic fuchsia and girly dress es in colorful patterns to sequined jumpsuits and elegant ball gowns.
Her color palette is very festive and feminine with lots of fuchsia, violet, green, pink and teal. She added looks in metallic gold, silver and black. Halter tops and classic strap less prevailed.
Most looks were elevated with glam detailing such as plumes, cutouts, sequins, high slits and big embroidered flow ers. Stunning!
This is a cohesive fashion proposal very well designed and put together that appeals to all women. Every look, even those in sophisticated
In the Cambrian Period, 500 million years ago, the armored set ruled the seas. Soft-bodied animals secreted a mineral paste that hardened into protective shells of immense strength and deco beauty, some shaped like rams’ heads or eagles’ wings, others like Champagne fl utes studded with dagger-sharp spines.
But by the Devonian Period some 70 million years later, most of these brachiopods, briopods and related wellshelled mariners had gone extinct, victims of theft and their own extravagant ways.
As researchers recently proposed in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, the collapse of the brachiopod empire exempli fi es a struggle that has de fi ned life from the start: the quest for phosphorus. Scientists have long known that the element phosphorus is essential on many fronts, here holding the DNA molecule together, there powering the cell’s every move. The new report emphasizes yet another way that phosphate — the biochemically useful form of phosphorus — has shaped the course of evolution as an arbiter of nature’s hard parts, its shells and teeth and bones.
“Phosphorus was stolen by the vertebrates, the bony fi shes,” said Petr Kraft, a paleontologist at Charles University in the Czech Republic and an author of the new report. “And once this happened, they diversi fi ed quickly and took over.” Kraft collaborated with Michal Mergl of the University of West Bohemia.
The research is part of a renaissance of phosphate studies, an enterprise that spans disciplines and time frames. Chemists are exploring how phosphates managed to season the prebiotic broth that gave rise to life in the fi rst place, while materials scientists are manipulating the element into startling new colors and forms.
“If you heat phosphorus under different conditions, different temperatures, different pressures, strange things start to happen,” Andrea Sella, a professor of inorganic chemistry at University
College London, said. “You get red fibrous forms, metallic black forms, purple forms.”
You can also stack up layers of phosphorus atoms and then pull them apart into ultrathin and fl exible sheets called phosphorenes, all with the goal of controlling the fl ow of electrons and light particles on which technology depends.
“We’ve only scratched the surface of what this element can do,” Sella said.
Phosphorus was discovered in the late 17th century by Hennig Brand, an alchemist from Hamburg, Germany, who inadvertently isolated it while seeking the storied “philosophers’ stone” that would transform ordinary metals into gold. Experimenting doughtily with large quantities of the golden liquid he knew best — human urine — Brand emerged with an eerie substance that lacked any Midas touch but did glow in the dark, prompting him to christen it phosphorus, Greek for “bringer of light.”
This pure form of the element, called white phosphorus, turned out to be toxic and fl ammable and so has been used in warfare, to make tracer bullets, smoke screens and the Allied fi rebombs that destroyed Brand’s hometown during World War II.
Pure phosphorus does not exist in nature but instead is bound up with oxygen, as phosphate, and this molecular trade union, the phosphorus-oxygen bond, “is central to why biology works,” Matthew Powner, an organic chemist at University College London, said. The body stores and burns energy by perpetually making and breaking the phosphate bonds found in the cell’s little cash machines, its adenosine triphosphate molecules, better known as ATP. The phosphate recycling operation is so relentless, Powner said, “you basically turn over your body weight in ATP every day.”
Phosphate conjoins with sugar to form the backbone of DNA, holding in meaningful order the letters of genetic information that would otherwise collapse into alphabet soup. Phosphate colludes with lipid molecules to encase every cell in an ever vigilant membrane that dictates what gets in and what must be kept out. Proteins send messages to one another by exchanging phosphate parcels.
One lingering mystery is how early life got hold of phosphate initially. Given how essential phosphate is to every aspect of biology, the primordial watery setting in which the fi rst cells arose must have been rich in phosphate.
“Yet most natural waters on Earth today are pretty lean in terms of phosphate,” Nicholas Tosca, a geochemist at Cambridge University, said. “We had expected the same to be true of the early Earth.” Iron, he explained, was thought to sequester the phosphates away.
Tosca and his colleagues at Cambridge addressed the origin-of-life conundrum in a study published recently in Nature Communications. The researchers decided to revisit the assumption, asking: What about early on, when there was much less oxygen around? Oxygen, they knew, turns iron into a form that tenaciously hoards phosphate. What would happen if oxygen were removed from the equation?
The researchers created arti fi cial seawater in a large oxygen-free glove box and discovered that, sure enough, under those conditions the dissolved iron left most of the phosphate alone, presumably available to any proto-cells in the neighborhood.
In the Trends in Ecology and Evolution paper, Kraft similarly proposed that the Cambrian seas were comparatively glutted with phosphates. Animals could soak up so much, in fact, that they could fashion thick and durable shells, as hard as the hardest tissue in the human body: the phosphatic enamel of our teeth.
“It’s a big advantage to have these shells,” Kraft said. By comparison, the shell of a modern mollusk, made of calcium carbonate, cracks easily beneath a beachcomber’s feet. But as the seas grew crowded and bony fi shes appeared, phosphate supplies dwindled, and brachiopods could no longer freely scavenge what they needed to construct their expensive housing.
Bony fi shes were judicious in their use of phosphate as a building material: their teeth, a few parts of the skeleton, and that was it. And being mobile, fi sh could trap whatever phosphate and other nutrients fi ltered down from land to sea, before they reached the lumbering hard shells below.
The vertebrates had seized control of phosphate, and nothing could stop them now.
An array of fossils, including a large Leptaena brachiopod at left, that lived during the Ordovician to the Devonian Period, 485 million to 444 million years ago.CAO
SUPERIOR DE HUMA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE CRUZ ORTIZ LUGO, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: HU2022CV00352.
(208). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA
RIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESION DE CRUZ ORTIZ LUGO, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”).
Yo, JOSÉ LUIS 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 17 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00
DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Su basta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia.
Los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Humacao durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adju dicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propie dad, el día 24 DE ENERO DE
2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MA
ÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se cele brará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: UR BANA: Solar radicado en la URBANIZACIÓN VILLAS DE BUENAVENTURA, situado en el Barrio Aguacate del término municipal de Yabucoa, con el M guión Cuatro (M-4) de la Calle Diez (10), con cabida superfi cial de TRESCIENTOS PUN TO TRESCIENTOS SETENTA Y CINCO (300.375) METROS CUADRADOS; en lindes por el NORTE, en distancia de trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros, con el solar M guión Diecinue ve (M-19) de la Calle Nueve (9); por el SUR, en trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros, con la Calle Diez (10); por el ESTE, en veintidós punto veinticinco (22.25) metros, con el solar M guió Tres (M-3) de la Calle Diez (10); y por el OESTE, en distan cia de veintidós punto veinticin co (22.25) metros, con el solar M guión Cinco (M-5) de la Calle Diez (10). Enclava una casa para una familia. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra ins crita al folio 98 del tomo 282 de Yabucoa, Registro de la Propie dad de Humacao, finca número 15,766, inscripción tercera. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Villas de Buenaventura, M4, Mayagüez ( antes Calle 10), Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. La su basta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte deman dante la suma de $71,498.47 de principal, intereses al 5.50% anual, desde el día 1ro. de sep tiembre de 2021, hasta su com pleto pago, $1,592.00 de prin cipal diferido, más la cantidad de $9,720.00 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 de $97,200.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $64,800.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la canti dad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $48,600.00. Si se de clara desierta la tercera subas ta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente.
Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adju dicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo lici tador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán sub sistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a to das las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que po drán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta acep tada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, debe rá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El ex ceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Huma cao, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de no viembre de 2022. JOSÉ LUIS
RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA CAO. WILNELIA RIVERA DEL GADO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #249.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYA MA
Demandante Vs. RUPERTO GOMEZ LEBRON T/C/C RUPERTO GOMEZ LEBRÓN T/C/C RUPERTO GOMEZ; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados Civil Núm.; GM2021CV00803. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO
TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A:
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 Guayama, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por mo neda de curso legal de los Esta dos Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, el 11 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno compuesto de dos punto cero trescientos dieciséis (2.0316) cuerdas equivalentes a siete mil novecientos ochenta y cinco punto ciento setenta y uno (7,985.171) metros cuadra dos. En lindes por el Norte, con la Carretera Estatal Numero “748”; por el Sur, con camino que conduce a las fincas de Luce and Company Sociedad en Comandita y que se divide esta finca de la Sucesión Mas sanet; por el Este, con Camino Vecinal del Corazón y por el Oeste, con el solar número uno (1). Enclava el descrito solar una estructura de dos (2) pisos construida en hormigón dedicada a vivienda. Este es el remanente de esta finca luego de segregar un predio con una cabida de tres mil ochocientos seis punto cero veintinueve (3,806.029) metros cuadrados (finca “19,433”), según consta de la escritura número dieci nueve (19) otorgada en Arroyo, del día catorce (14) de marzo de dos mil dos (2002), ante el notario Jose Antonio Bauza Ti rado, e inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 489 de Guayama, finca número 10,076. Finca núme ro 10,076, inscrita al folio 84 del tomo 305 de Guayama, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. La Hipoteca Rever tida consta inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 489 de Guayama, finca número 10,076, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama,
inscripción 13ª. Propiedad localizada en: SOLAR 1 PR 748 KM 1.5, BO. CORAZON, GUAYAMA, PR 00784. 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: $259,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 27 de marzo de 2096. 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 $259,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, el 19 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se estable ce como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $173,000.00, 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 $129,750.00, 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 Guayama, el 26 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑA NA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandan te, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $106,641.00 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $35,081.29 en inte reses acumulados al 3 de no viembre de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 2.668% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $16,396.19 en seguro hipotecario; $1,148.35
en contribuciones; $1,569.07 en seguro; $335.00 de tasacio nes; $380.00 de inspecciones; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $25,950.00, para gastos, cos tas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta 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) in teresados (as). Y para su publi cación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un dia rio de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios pú blicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Guayama, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de octubre de 2022. LITZY CORA, ALGUACIL PLACA #247.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO LINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante V. DOLORES DE LA
ALCÁNTARA Demandada Civil Núm.: FCD2017-0140. (408). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBAS TA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLI CO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento
de Ejecución de Sentencia ex pedido el día 22 de diciembre de 2021, 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 continua ción: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número doce del Bloque U del Plano de Urbanización del Reparto Los Ángeles, Ex tensión número uno, sito en el Barrio Cangrejos Arriba de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescien tos doce metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en trece metros con la Calle H; por el SUR, en trece metros con el solar número treinta y nueve; por el ESTE, en veinticuatro metros con el solar número trece; y por el OESTE, en vein ticuatro metros con el solar número once de dicho Bloque. Inscrito al folio 236 del tomo 17 de Carolina, finca número 717 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Carolina. Propiedad ubica da, según pagaré, en: U-12 Flores St., Los Ángeles Dev., Carolina, PR 00979. El produc to de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 1 de junio de 2017 y notificada el 6 de junio de 2017 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $188,916.20 por concepto de principal; $1,231.29 por con cepto de intereses acumula dos, $554.04 por concepto de cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses con tinúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda recla mada en este pleito; y la suma $20,815.00 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 13 DE ENERO DE 2023
A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fi jado para la PRIMERA SUBAS TA es de $208,150.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 20 DE ENERO DE 2023 A
LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto
Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $138,766.66, 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 27 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SU BASTA será de $104,075.00, 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 EDICTO, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de noviembre de 2022.
HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍ GUEZ, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
SUCESIÓN DE NILDA RAMONITA CANDELARIA LAUREANO T/C/C
NILDA R. CANDELARIA, COMPUESTA POR
PEDRO JUAN ROMÁN CUADRADO T/C/C
PEDRO JUAN ROMÁN, POR SÍ, Y POR CONCEPTO VIUDAL DE LA CAUSANTE; PEDRO JOAQUÍN ROMÁN
CANDELARIA, JUAN ANTONIO ROMÁN CANDELARIA, RAÚL ORLANDO ROMÁN CANDELARIA, Y NILMARY DEL CARMEN ROMÁN CANDELARIA, COMO HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE NILDA RAMONITA CANDELARIA LAUREANO T/C/C
NILDA R. CANDELARIA; Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.)
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV01161.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA. 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 Prime ra Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte deman dada y al PÚBLICO EN GE
NERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 16 de noviembre de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, pro cederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 27 del Plano pre parado por la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico, para el pro yecto de solares denominado PRHA-99, radicado en el Ba rrio Rincón de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos cuarenta y nue ve punto veintidós metros cua drados (249.22 m.c). En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos propiedad de la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico, en cuarenta y tres pies con cero céntimas de pie, equivalente a trece punto once metros; por el SUR, con la servidumbre de paso de la calle número 2 de dicho proyecto, en cuarenta y cinco pies con cincuenta y tres centésimas de pie, equivalente a trece punto ochenta y ocho metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 26 de dicha urbanización, en setenta y cinco pies cincuenta centésimas de pie, equivalen tes a veintitrés punto cero un metros; y por el OESTE, con la servidumbre de paso de la calle número 1 del menciona do proyecto PRHA-99, en dis tancia de setenta y cinco pies cincuenta y cuatro centésimas de pie, equivalentes a veintitrés punto cero dos metros. Enclava una casa.” Inscrita en la finca número 2,425, inscrita al folio 8 del tomo 76 de Gurabo, Regis tro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas. La propiedad está ubicada en: Urb. Del Maestro 27 C/1 Gu rabo, PR 00778. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 9 de septiembre de 2022, notificada el 12 de septiembre de 2022 en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma de $49,421.95 por concepto de principal; ge nerando intereses a razón de 9.2% desde el 1ro de marzo de 2020; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intere ses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deu da reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $9,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipo tecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tri bunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30
DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Caguas, Sala Superior, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA
es de $90,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30
DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subas tas del Tribunal de Caguas, Sala Superior, Caguas, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $60,000.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Ca guas, Sala Superior, Caguas, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $45,000.00, equiva lentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRI MERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciem bre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propie dad 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 ex tinción el precio del remate. EX PIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de noviembre de 2022. ÁN GEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUA CIL PLACA #593, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO ROJO COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO Demandante V. HERIBERTO PADILLA PÉREZ, CARMEN AWILDA TÚA IGLESIAS, LA SLG COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Y AWILDA IGLESIA PÉREZ Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: CB2022CV00273.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.
A: CARMEN AWILDA TÚA IGLESIAS.
(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 17 de noviembre 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 noviembre de 2022. En Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, el 22 de no viembre de 2022. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRE
TARIA REGIONAL. VERÓNICA MARTÍNEZ ORTIZ, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE GLORIA ESTER ACEVEDO MORALES COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES
MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandado(a) Civil: CG2019CV0444. (802). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: SUCESIÓN DE GLORIA ESTER ACEVEDO MORALES COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES
MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.
(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 noviembre 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 conta dos a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notifica ción ha sido archivada en los
autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de noviembre de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 29 de noviembre de 2022. LI SILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. DAMARIS RO DRÍGUEZ GUZMÁN, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT COURT OF PROBATE. CON FIDENTIAL. NOTICE OF HEA RING. TEMPORARY CUSTO DY/ REMOVAL OF GUARDIAN PC-532 NEW 7/18
COURT OF PROBATE, New London Regional Children’s Probate Court DISTRICT NO. PD57. State of Connecticut Court of Pro bate, New London Regional Children’s Probate Court Dis trict
NOTICE TO: Zyleyka Resto, whose last known address is unknown to the court.
Pursuant to an order of Hon. Charles K. Norris, Judge, a hearing will be held at New Lon don Regional Children’s Proba te Court, One Union Plaza, New London, CT 06320 on Decem ber 21, 2022 at 10:00 AM on a petition for Temporary Custody Pending Removal of Guardian concerning a certain minor child born on July 14, 2014. The court’s decision will affect your interest, if any, as in the petition on file more fully appears.
RIGHT TO COUNSEL: If the above-named person wishes to have an attorney, but is una ble to pay for one, the court will provide an attorney upon proof of inability to pay. Any such re quest should be made imme diately by contacting the court office where the hearing is to be held. By order of the court: Kristen Brunelle, Clerk.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HATILLO DOMINGO VIDAL RÍOS
Parte Demandante Vs. ORIENTAL BANK COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE R-G PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HA2022CV00263. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EX TRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE. Queden emplazados y notifi cados que en este Tribunal se
ha presentado Demanda sobre Cancelación de Pagaré Hipote cario Extraviado en la que se les incluye como co-demanda dos y posibles tenedores de un Pagaré a favor de R-G Premier Bank of Puerto Rico o a su orden bajo el Afidávit Número 2,394 por la suma principal de $11,000.00 con intereses al 6 3/8 % anual, constituido en vir tud de la Escritura Número 128, otorgada el día 28 de marzo de 2005, ante la Notario Público Jelissa Vélez Quiñones, sobre la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚS
TICA: Parcela marcada con el número CIENTO TREINTA Y TRES en el plano de parce lación de la comunidad rural MANUEL CANDELARIA del barrio Bayaney del término mu nicipal de Hatillo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS CUARENTA Y UNO PUNTO OCHENTA Y NUEVE METROS CUADRA DOS (341.89 m/c). En lindes al NORTE, con calle número nueve; al SUR, con parcela nú mero ciento cuarenta y cuatro; al ESTE, con parcela número ciento treinta y cuatro y al OES TE, con parcela número ciento treinta y dos. Enclava en dicha propiedad una casa dedica da a vivienda. Inscrita al folio Doscientos cincuenta y cinco (255) del tomo Ciento Ochenta y cinco (185), de Hatillo, finca número nueve mil setecientos ochenta y ocho (9,788). Catas tro número: uno cero tres guion cero tres dos guion dos cinco nueve guion cero cuatro guion cero cero cero (103-032-25904-000). Se les advierte que de no contestar la demanda, presentando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la misma al licenciado Luis Sevillano Sánchez, a su dirección P.O. Box 141118, Arecibo PR 00614, teléfono (787) 878-5132, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edic to, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra, concediendo el reme dio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal.
En Hatillo, Puerto Rico a 23 de noviembre de 2022. VIVIAN Y.
FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRE
TARIA REGIONAL. YOLANDA RIVERA COLÓN, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC Demandante V. IVIS CONSUELO ÁLVAREZ PÉREZ T/C/C
Demandado(a) Civil: BY2022CV02599. Sala: 703. Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR DINARIAORDINARIA. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: IVIS CONSUELO ÁLVAREZ PÉREZ(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 noviembre 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 28 de noviembre de 2022. En BA YAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 28 de noviembre de 2022. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETA RIA.
NOELIA MATÍAS SALAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA
MARTA RIVERA SIERRA T/C/C MARTHA RIVERA SIERRA Vs. SUCESIÓN DE DOÑA CARMEN D. ORTIZ MONTAÑEZ COMPUESTA POR JANE DOE; SUCESIÓN DE DON FEDERICO OTERO HERNÁNDEZ COMPUESTA POR JAMES DOE Y JOHN DOE; FULANO Y MENGANO
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2022CV05302.
Sobre: ACCIÓN REIVINDICA TORIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
De: MARTA RIVERA SIERRA T/C/C MARTHA RIVERA SIERRA, REPRESENTADA POR LA LCDA. MARIAM BERRIOS SÁNCHEZ CON DIRECCIÓN 101 CALLE
ESTEBAN PADILLA, OFICINA 4, BAYAMÓN, P.R. 00959.
POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza, se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, radicando el ori ginal de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la mis ma a la parte demandante a la dirección antes indicada. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia en re beldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTEN
DIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁN DEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR
PÉREZ CRUZ
T/C/C JESSENIA FRICK; MARCOS TOMÁS PÉREZ VEGA T/C/C MARCOS TOMÁS PÉREZ; Y JACKELINE PÉREZ VEGA T/C/C JACQUELINE PACHECO, MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE TOMÁS PÉREZ RIVERA Demandantes Vs.
NANCY CUBERO RIVERA; FRANCES CUBERO RIVERA; NÉSTOR ACEVEDO RIVERA Y ALQUÍMIDES ACEVEDO
RIVERA, MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE IRMA RIVERA BARRIOS Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2022CV00301.
Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE COMU NIDAD DE BIENES. EMPLA ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: SR. ALQUÍMIDES ACEVEDO RIVERA. BARRIO ALMIRANTE NORTE, CARR. 160 KM. 1.3, SECTOR LA RECETA DE VEGA BAJA, VEGA BAJA, PR 00693.
SE LE NOTIFICA a usted que se ha presentado en esta Secretaría una Demanda en solicitud de DIVISIÓN DE CO MUNIDAD DE BIENES HERE
DITARIOS, en la que usted fue incluido como parte demanda da. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le emplace a usted por edicto, el cual se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Se le em plaza y requiere que dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, excluyendo el día de la publica ción de este edicto, conteste la demanda. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación respon siva en la secretaria del tribu nal. Si comparece por derecho propio y no radica por SUMAC debe enviar copia de la Con testación de la Demanda a los abogados de la parte deman dante: Lcdo. Samuel M. Cor dero Vélez, SCV LAW OFFICE, 8050 CARR. 844 BOX 23 SAN JUAN, PR 00926-9889; TEL. (787) 362-1662; FAX. (939) 204-3102; smcordero@scvlaw.com; y Lcda. lrma E. Cas tro Dieppa, CASTRO DIEPPA LAW OFFICES, LLC P.O. BOX 195034 SAN JUAN, PR 009195034; TELS. (787) 946-4390; (787) 593-9980; castrodieppa law@gmail.com; icastro@ cdlawpr.com. Se le apercibe que, si dejara de contestar la Demanda dentro del plazo y en la forma antes indicada, se po drá anotar la rebeldía y dictarse sentencia en su contra, con cediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁN CHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIO
NAL. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN XIOMARA
(Demandante) Vs. ALEJANDRO ALMONTE (Demandado) Civil Número: TB2022RF00031. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO. ES TADOS UNIDOS DE NORTE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: ALEJANDRO ALMONTE. 14 WELLS ST., LAWRENCE, MA. 01841.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al tribunal su alega ción responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), a la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a la secretaria del tribunal. 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 su sana discreción, entiende que procede.
Lcdo. Héctor E. Pabón Vega Nombre del (de la) abogado de la parte demandante, o de la parte, si no tiene representación legal 8620
Número ante el Tribunal Supremo, si es abogado(a)
P.O. Box 21411, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-1411
Dirección
Teléfono 787-282-6734
Número de teléfono; número de fax hpabonvega@gmail.com Correo electrónico
EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 21 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARTHA E. ROSARIO ROSA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
Estado Libre Asociado de Puer to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia Sala Superior de CAROLINA.
Demandado(a) Civil Núm. CA2022RF00491. Sobre: RUPTURA IRREPARA BEL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN TENCIA 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 16 de noviembre 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 noviembre de 2022. En CA ROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 23 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA MA RILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretaria. MYRNA L PEREZ HERRERA, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA ANGEL LUIS MÉNDEZ
ACEVEDO Y GLADYS MATILDE PÉREZ CRUZ
Demandante V. ANGEL GUSTAVO
ESPINOZA MONTERO, CLARA VEGA MÉNDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES QUE TIENEN CONSTITUIDA Demandado(a) Civil: AG2021CV00120. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJE CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: CLARA VEGA MENDEZ. DIRECCIÓN: 6 VENICE AVE., APT. 2, SAUGUS, MA 01906; 8 BROOKWAY RD, ROSLINDALE, MA 02131.
ÅNGEL GUSTAVO ESPINOZA MONTERO. DIRECCIÓN: EXCLUSIVE AUTO BODY, INC., 30 CHARLES ST., MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS 02148-6704.
P/C: LCDO, RAMON H. BANUCHI EURITE. PO BOX 475, ISABELA, PUERTO RICO, 00662.
LCDO. GILBERTO FIGUEROA MERCED. PO BOX 1321, MAYAGÜEZ PUERTO RICO 00681-1321. (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 17 de noviembre 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 17 de noviembre de 2022. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 17 de noviembre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. NATHALIE I. ACEVEDO QUIÑONES, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
ALFREDO CORREA FELICIANO Y MARGERIE RIVERA PIMENTEL
Demandante V.
LIGHT SPEED DATA, LLC
Demandado(a) Civil: RG2022CV00357. Sobre: DESAHUCIO PRECARIO. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: LIGHT SPEED DATA, LLC, A TRAVES DE SU REPRESENTANTE Y/O SOCIO JAIME SANCHEZ RIVERA A QUE SE REFIERE ESTA ACCIÓN Y AL PUBLICO
EN GENERAL: PMB 127 B5 CALLE TABONUCO STE. 216, GUAYNABO PR 00968-3022; CALLE 15 #1260 EXT. SAN AGUSTIN, SAN JUAN, PR 00926; URB. GARDEN HILLS I-3 RAMIREZ DE ARELLANO, SAN JUAN, PR 00911.
(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 noviembre 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 28 de noviembre de 2022. En FA JARDO, Puerto Rico, el 28 de noviembre de 2022. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. JENIFFER CARRASQUILLO GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN LADERAS DE SAN JUAN ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante (a) Vs. DAVID OUVIÑA
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 28 de noviembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 28 de noviembre de 2022. GRISEL
DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL IN TERINA. ANGELA M. RIVERA HERNÁNDEZ , SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante Vs. WILLY SEGURA SENA Demandado Ciivl Núm.: SJ2022CV01444. Salón: 908. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE NORTEAMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: WILLY SEGURA SENA. 200 CALLE MERHOFF, SAN JUAN P.R. 00915.
oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El siste ma SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte deman dante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.riuz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribu nal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de agosto de 2022.
GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ CO LLADO, SECRETARIA REGIO NAL. LOYDA M. COUVERTIER REYES, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ZORAIDA SOTO VÁZQUEZ, T/C/C ZORAIDA SOTO COMPUESTA POR GILBERTO APONTE, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; SUCESIÓN DE GILBERTO APONTE COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV06746.
Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02370.
Sala: 908. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: YAEL M. RYAN.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de mayo 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
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
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA - IN REM. EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y SU TAN O DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GILBERTO APONTE. POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitan do la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de
IZQUIERDO, YAEL M. RYAN, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Metro Island Mortgage, Inc, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $169,500.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 5.060% anual, la cual será ajustada mensualmente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gas tos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $16,950.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este pagaré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit nú mero 9198 ante el notario Jorge Laborde Corretjer. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 115 otorgada el 17 de abril de 2013, ante la misma notario público, inscrita al al tomo Ka ribe de Santurce Norte, finca número 16,652, inscripción 5a. URBANA: Barrio Seboru co de Santurce Norte, Puerto Rico. Solar: 111. Cabida: 125.4 metros cuadrados. Urbana: Solar radicado en el sitio de nominado Seboruco del Barrio Santurce Norte, el cual forma parte de la barriada Shanghai y está marcado con el número 111. En el plano de inscripción levantado por el Departamento de Obras Públicas del Gobierno de la Capital que fue aprobado por la Junta de Planificación, el 20 de octubre de 1954, ar chivado en esta oficina con el número 67. Dicho solar tiene una cabida superficial de cien to veinticinco punto cuarenta (125.40) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en ca torce punto diecinueve (14.19) metros cuadrados, con solar número diez (10) (según Re gistro) de la calle Juncos; por el SUR, en catorce punto trece (14.13) metros cuadrados, con el solar número doce (12) de la Calle Juncos, por el ESTE, en nueve punto cuarenta y ocho (9.48) metros cuadrados, con servidumbre para desagüe pluvial que separa solares pri vados en la calle Merhoff; y por el OESTE, en ocho punto veintiséis (8.26) metros con la calle Juncos. Finca número 16,652, inscrita al folio 220 del tomo 443 de Santurce Norte.
Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de San Juan. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desco nocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a tra vés del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede accesar utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.rama juducial.pr, salvo que se repre sente 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 conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SER VICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Adriana M. Vega Hernandez Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, den tro de los próximos 30 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación dia ria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, conce diendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 29 de noviembre de 2022. GRISEL DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, LUZ E., SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO JOSÉ ANTONIO BURGOS TORRES, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO JOSÉ A. BURGOS TORRES Y COMO JOSÉ BURGOS TORRES, WILFREDO BURGOS TORRES, WILDA BURGOS CARRASQUILLO, ABRAHAM BURGOS CARRASQUILLO, MARÍA MILAGROS BURGOS ARRASQUILLO, ZAZA AGATHA BURGOS ROSARIO, PEDRO JUAN BURGOS PÉREZ, MILDRED EVENIE BURGOS RODRÍGUEZ, JULIO CÉSAR BURGOS VARGAS Y ISHEIRY YARI BURGOS VARGAS Demandante V. ORIENTAL BANK
ANTES SCOTIABANK DE PUERTO RICO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO Z Demandado(a)
Civil: GB2022CV00588. Sala: 202. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. (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 29 de noviembre 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 29 de noviembre, Puerto Rico, el 29 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MAIRENI TRIN TA MALDONADO, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA LEE ARNOLD HENRICKSON KNAUP
Demandante V. FIRST MORTGAGE INVESTORS Y OTROS Demandado(a) Civil: CA2022CV03074. Sala: 409. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.
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 noviembre de 2022. En CA ROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 23 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA. MA
RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES
FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO Demandante V. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE R-G PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO; VIVIAN ESCOBALES ESCOBALES: BANCO POPULAR PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES
Demandado(a) Civil: MV2022CV00091. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.
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 16 de noviembre de 2022. En Ciales, Puerto Rico, el 16 de noviem bre de 2022. VIVIAN FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. JANETTE GONZÁLEZ VAR GAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA GUAS SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LUIS ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ BERRÍOS T/C/C LUIS RODRÍGUEZ BERRÍOS, NEIMARIE MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
(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 noviembre 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
A:
(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 16 de noviembre 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
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: ECD2017-0763. Sala: 704. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que sus cribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumpli miento de la Sentencia dictada el 25 de agosto de 2022, la Or den de Ejecución de Sentencia del 21 de octubre de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 25 de octubre de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, locali zada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera Número Uno (PR 1), Intersección PR 189, Kilómetro 0.4, Barrio Bairoa, (Entrada norte Pueblo Caguas), Caguas, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de Amé rica, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar número 19 del Bloque A de la Urbanización Paseo Palma Real del Barrio Mamey, en el término municipal de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de 456.18
metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 28.21 metros lineales, con el solar número 18 del bloque A; por el SUR, en distancia de 20.98 metros, con la propiedad de la Sucesión de Miguel Pa lou; por el ESTE, en distancia de 17.44 metros, con terrenos del Municipio de Juncos; y por el OESTE, en tres (3) distan cias de 10.44 metros, con un arco de 5.49 metros y 5.19 metros, con la Calle Número Uno (1). Enclava casa para fines residenciales. La propie dad y la escritura de hipoteca constan inscritas al Folio 1 del Tomo 366 de Juncos, Finca Número 13639, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Inscripción cuarta. Dirección Física: Urb. Paseo Palma Real, 19A Calle Ruiseñor, Juncos, PR 00777-3107. Número de Catas tro: 49-227-052-358-59-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $121,125.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $80,750.00. De no haber adju dicación en la segunda subas ta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 7 DE FEBRE RO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $60,562.50. Si se declara se desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $99,258.53 de princi pal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.95% anual desde el 1 de febrero de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $3,315.12 de recargos adeudados des de el 1 de marzo de 2017, más la cantidad estipulada de $12,112.50 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de présta mo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta pro piedad pesa el siguiente grava men posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende eje cutar: Aviso de Demanda: Plei to seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Luis Antonio Rodríguez Berríos también co nocido como Luis Rodríguez Berríos y su esposa Neimarie Martínez Rodríguez, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil Número ECD20170763, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $99,258.53 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 17 de agosto de 2017. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Juncos. Anota ción A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o ce sionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su de recho si así lo deseaba. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacio nados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examina dos, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Se cretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos sema nas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, conti nuarán subsistentes; enten diéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mis mos, sin destinarse a su extin ción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los luga res públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de noviembre de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓ MEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECI BO
CAPITAL INC.
Demandante V. ELIZABETH TORRES
Demandada Civil Núm.: AR2022CV01475. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE
LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto, radicando el original de la con testación ante el Tribunal y sala que se menciona en el epígrafe de este edicto con copia a la parte aquí demandante. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. 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 #265 Ca lle 2, Sector Palo Seco, Barrio Miraflores, Arecibo, PR 00612 y descrita de la siguiente mane ra: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número doscientos se senta y cinco (265) en el plano de inscripción de la Comuni dad Rural Miraflores segunda etapa, del barrio Miraflores del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.0895 cuerdas, equivalentes a 351.732 metros cuadrados, en lindes: al Nor te, con solar #264, en 23.809 metros; al Sur, con solar #266, en 23.980 metros; al Este, con parcela a dedicarse a uso público en 15.00 metros; y al Oeste, con la calle #2, en 11.43 metros. Finca #45632 inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 1155 de Are cibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección I. El abo gado de la parte demandante es: LCDA. MARICELI PEREZ GONZALEZ, 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, VIG Tower, 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 16 de noviembre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CA GUAS
A: JUAN Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO; FIRST MORTGAGE INVESTORS COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERES EN LA OBLIGACION CUYA CANCELACION POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.
Demandante Vs.
FELICIANO SOTO T/C/C
ERNESTO FELICIANO T/C/C ERNESTO SOTO FELICIANO T/C/C ERNESTO SOTO COMPUESTA
POR PROVIDENCIA
FELICIANO SOTO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2020CV00156.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: La Parte Demandada, al (a la) Secretario(a) de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al Público General: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el 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 Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en públi ca 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 Certi ficado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala de Caguas, el 23 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00
DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipoteca do objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: UR
BANA: FASE II CIUDAD JAR DIN DE BAIROA de Caguas. Unidad Residencial: 443, EN
EL BARRIO BAIROA. Cabida: 545.11 Metros Cuadrados. Lin deros: Norte, en una distancia de 25.702 metros con el solar número 444. Sur, en una dis tancia de 26.338 metros con el solar número 442. Este, en un arco de longitud de 18.233 me tros, con la calle Tarragona de dicha urbanización. Oeste, en una distancia de 22.536 metros con un área denominada Re manente todos estos solares y las calles pertenecientes al re ferido desarrollo urbano. Inscri ta al folio 130 del tomo 1706 de Caguas, finca 58,686, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Propiedad localizada en: URB. CUIDAD JARDIN DE BAIROA, 443 CALLE TARRA GONA, CAGUAS, PR 00727.
Según figuran en la certificación registral, 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: $360,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 1 de mayo de 2081. 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 $360,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 30 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑA NA, y se establece como míni ma para dicha segunda subas ta la suma de $240,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima estable cido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudica ción en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $180,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MA ÑANA. Dicha subasta se lleva rá a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandan te, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $80,301.11 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $12,748.62 en inte reses acumulados al 3 de no viembre de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.807% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $6,218.04 en se guro hipotecario; $2,084.23 en seguro; $560.00 de inspeccio nes; $3,478.50 de honorarios de abogados; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $36,000.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la ofici na del Comisionado de Institu
ciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública su basta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afec te la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace sa ber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER CERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o perso nas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas la borables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el perió dico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos se manas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publica ciones, así como para su pu blicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 3 de noviembre de 2022. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA GUAS SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. ALBALICE
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2022CV01184. Sala: 702. Sobre: EJECU CIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVI SO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace cons tar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 22 de julio de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 18 de octubre de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia del 20 de octubre de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, locali zada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera Número Uno (PR 1), Intersección PR 189, Kilómetro 0.4, Barrio Bairoa, (Entrada
norte Pueblo Caguas), Caguas, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de Amé rica, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número A guión Uno (A-1) radicado en el Barrio Cañabon cito de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,000.00 metros cuadrados.
En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número ocho (8) de otra segregación; por el SUR, con el solar número A guión Dos (A-2); por el ESTE, con la Ur banización La Esmeralda; y por el OESTE, con camino de uso público. Inscrita al folio 220 del tomo 1538 de Caguas, Finca Número 52591, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sec ción I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 83 del tomo 1677 de Caguas, Finca Número 52591, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Inscripción sexta. La escritu ra de modificación de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 83 vuel to del tomo 1677 de Caguas, Finca Número 52591, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Inscripción octava. Dirección Física: 15 Sector Los Pinos, Barrio Cañaboncito, Solar A1, Caguas, PR 00727. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $97,267.50.
De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terce ras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $64,845.00. De no haber adju dicación en la segunda subas ta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 7 DE FEBRE RO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $48,633.75. Si se declara se desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $92,098.47 de prin cipal, más intereses sobre di cha suma al 6% anual desde el 1 de septiembre de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $1,659.15 de recargos acumu lados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $10,500.00 para
costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el con trato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Albalice Roldán Pérez (sol tera), ante el Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil Nú mero CG2022CV01184, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $92,098.47 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 14 de abril de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Ca guas. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su su cesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a prote ger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesa dos que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipote ca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas la borables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un pe riódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos re queridos por ley. 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; en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecuta da se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conoci miento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes inte resadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos corres pondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de noviem bre de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, Alguacil Placa #593, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CIALES
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE WILFREDO BATISTA MELENDEZ,
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AR2020CV00184. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Ciales, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que venderá en pública subasta en la Oficina de Al guaciles, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Cia les, al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro pos tal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $8,012.72 de balance princi pal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y compu tados al 6.996% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma estipulada para honora rios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca por la suma de $3,391.99; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUS TICA: Lote numero uno (1) : Parcela de terreno radicada en el barrio Morovis Norte, del termino municipal de Morovis, con una cabida superficial de mil cincuenta y nueve punto cuatro mil quineintos cuarenta y ocho (1,059.4548) metres cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto dos mil seiscientos no venta y cinco (0.2695) cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, en veintinueve punto doscientos cuarenta y cinco (29.245) me tres, con remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el SUR, en treinta y uno punto trescientos diez (31.310) metros, con Sucesion Marcos
Hernandez; por el ESTE , en treinta y dos punto novecien tos cuarenta y seis (32.946) metros, con el lote numero dos (2) de esta segregacion; por el OESTE, en cuarenta y cuatro punto cuatrocientos cincuenta y siete (44.457) metros, con la finca principal de la cual se se grega. Enclava casa. Inscrita al folio doscientos sesenta y cin co (265) del tomo ciento vein tidos (122) de Morovis, finca numero siete mil ochocientos catorce (7,814). Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Dirección Física: SR 6634 KM 2.7, Bue na Vista, Sector Morovis Norte Ward, Morovis, Puerto Rico 00687. La PRIMERA SUBAS
TA se llevará a cabo el día 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $33,919.99 sin admi tirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subas tado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta se gunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio míni mo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $22,613.32. Si tampoco hubie ra remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta ter cera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la pri mera subasta, o sea, la suma de $16,959.99. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certifi cado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se de clarase desierta la tercera su basta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adju dicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo es timase conveniente, por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el mon to del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cual quier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contri buciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes al crédi to del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimien to de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamen te con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus in tereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, que dando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes poste riores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en gene ral y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento in dicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal du rante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 2102015). Expedido el presente en Ciales, Puerto Rico, a 15 de noviembre de 2022. GLORAN
DA S. COREANO TORRES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #259, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CIALES.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYA GÜEZ
FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESION JOSE AMILCAR VARGAS MORALES T/C/C JOSE A. VARGAS MORALES T/C/C JOSE A. VARGAS COMPUESTA POR JOSE AMILCAR VARGAS
MORALES, DELIA VARGAS MORALES; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
COMPUESTA POR CARLOS J. BATISTA FONTÁN, WILFREDO BATISTA FONTÁN Y JOEL BATISTA FONTÁN, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS; ADMINISTRACIÓN PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES, Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN
T/C/C DELIA MORALES DE VARGAS T/C/C DELIA MORALES T/C/C DELIA MORALEZ
COMPUESTA POR JOSE AMILCAR VARGAS MORALES, DELIA VARGAS MORALES; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO
Demandados
Civil Núm.: MZ2021CV00776.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE
GENERAL: 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 Mayagüez, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por mo neda de curso legal de los Esta dos Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, el 24 DE ENE RO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE
LA TARDE, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero noven ta y nueve (99) del bloque cinco (5) de la Urbanización Reparto El Valle de Lajas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos treinta y siete pun to cincuenta (337.50) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros, con la calle C; por el Sur, en trece punto cin cuenta (13.50) metros, con te rrenos de don Salvador Pagan; por el Este, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros, con el solar noventa y ocho (98); y por el Oeste, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00), con el solar cien (100), todos de la referida urbanización. Encla va casa. Finca número 5,132, inscrita al folio 120 del tomo
150 de Lajas, Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. La Hipoteca Revertida consta ins crita al folio 148 del tomo 402 de Lajas, Finca 5132, Registro de la Propiedad de San Ger mán, inscripción 6ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. EL VALLE, 99 CALLE MIRTOS, LAJAS, PUERTO RICO, 00667. Se gún figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anterio res o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: 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: $142,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 25 de abril de 2087. 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 $95,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi ofi cina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ma yagüez, el 31 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TAR DE, y se establece como míni ma para dicha segunda subas ta la suma de $63,333.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima estable cido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudica ción en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $47,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha su basta se celebrará en mi ofici na, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ma yagüez, el 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TAR DE. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandan te, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $85,996.87 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $17,169.42 en inte reses acumulados al 22 de febrero de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 4.30% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $3,699.03 en se guro hipotecario; $5,425.00 en
tarifas de servicio; $1,526.29 de seguro; $525.00 de tasa ciones; $440.00 de inspeccio nes; $4,088.30 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $9,500.00 para gas tos, costas y honorarios de abo gado, 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) in teresados (as). Y para su publi cación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un dia rio de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios pú blicos de Puerto Rico. Expedi do en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 1ro de noviembre de 2022.
JOVINO PÉREZ SANTIAGO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. JOSÉ M. CRESPO NAZARIO, AL GUACIL PLACA #522.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. AYMEE YERA DIAZ
Demandada Civil Núm.: KCD2013-2462. (508). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR DINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a la deman dada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 8 de agosto de 2022 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $43,151.38
de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 24 de enero de 2014, notificada y archivada en autos el 4 de febrero de 2014; procederé a vender en públi ca subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo dere cho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de San Juan, Puer to Rico, los bienes inmuebles se describen a continuación: Cond. Los Almendros Plaza, Apt. 602, San Juan, PR 00923.
URBAN: HORIZONTAL PRO PERTY: residential apartment Lumber six hundred two (602) of irregular shape and located in Condominium Los Almen dros Plaza, which located in Sa bana Llana wards of the munici pality of San Juan, Puerto Rico with a total superficial area of nine hundred seventeen point eighteen (917.18) Square foot, measuring thirty eight lineal feet and eleven and a half inches in width at is Northern wall; thirty one lineal feet and five and half inches plus seven lineal feet and six inches in width at its southern wall, seventeen lineal feet and one inch plus eight lineal feet in length at its wes tern wall; and twenty five lineal feet and one inch in length at its Eastern wall. It is bounded on the North and the East by the exterior walls of the building; on the South by the corridor; on the West by apartment number six hundred one (601) and a janitors and storage room. The main Entrance faces the corri dor. This unit consists of a living dining three bedrooms with a closet each one bathroom a hallway with a linen closet, kitchen and laundry area. The bathroom includes a bathtub, was basin and toilet and the kitchen a two part cabinet with space for a refrigerator, spa ce for a stove and a breakfast counter. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes en forma exclusiva, permanente e inseparable el estacionamiento número 331 debidamente demarcado y nu merado de conformidad con el plano de área de estaciona miento. Le corresponde en los elementos comunes de cero punto cuatro cero uno dos cin co uno por ciento (0.401251 %). Finca número 22,522, Ins crita al folio 208 del tomo 549 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sec ción V. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las can tidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, cuyas cantidades ascien den a $43,151.38 de principal, 7.95% de intereses, los cuales
continúan acumulándose has ta el saldo total de la deuda; $260.67 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumu lándose hasta el pago total de la deuda; $824.54 de reserva “escrow”, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $51,000.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no pro dujere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y ser virá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $34,000.00. Si tampoco hu biere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se pro cederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $25,500.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo ad judicarse a opción del deman dante. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efec to una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 19 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TER CERA SUBASTA el día 26 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan. De Estudio de Título realizado, no surgen gra vámenes preferentes, surge el siguiente gravamen posterior: Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por $15,000.00 sin intereses, vence el 31 de diciembre de 2010, según Esc. #283, otor gada en San Juan, el 31 de diciembre de 2002, ante el No tario Julio Francisco Fernández Rodríguez, inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca #22522 de Saba na Llana, inscripción 12da. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Nortea mérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimien to de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete
(7) días entre ambas publica ciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del munici pio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certifica do con acuse de recibo a la úl tima dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesa dos que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipote ca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titulación y que las car gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continua rán subsiguientes 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 a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden ju dicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cance lación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la de mandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspon dientes. Librado en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 22 de noviembre de 2022. ERIK F. OSUNA ACE VEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA
Parte Demandante Vs. ROBERTO RIVERA DIAZ, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03058. Sala: 402. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO EMITIDO POR EL TRIBUNAL DE PRIME RA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO, SALA DE CAROLINA.
A: ROBERTO RIVERA DAZ, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Roberto Rivera Díaz, Fulana de Tal y la Sociedad Legal de
Gananciales Compuesta por Ambos, Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03058 (402)
sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se les notifica a ustedes, RO BERTO RIVERA DIAZ, FULA NA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, que en la Demanda que originó este caso se alega que ustedes le adeudan a la parte deman dante, BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, las siguientes cantidades: a. $15,064.83 de principal, $346.26 de intereses devengados hasta el 13 de ju nio de 2022, más los intereses que se devenguen a partir de la radicación de la Demanda al tipo legal hasta el total y com pleto pago de la obligación, $83.31 de cargos por mora y la suma estipulada de $1,549.44 par9 las costas, gastos y hono rarios de abogado por concepto de un préstamo desembolsado al Roberto Rivera Díaz cuyos últimos cuatro dígitos son 0102. b. $13,785.97 de principal, $432.89 de intereses deven gados hasta el 13 de junio de 2022, más los intereses que se devenguen a partir de la radi cación de la Demanda al tipo legal hasta el total y completo pago de la obligación, $41.49 de cargos por mora y la suma estipulada de $1,426.03 para las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado por concepto de un préstamo desembolsado al Roberto Rivera Díaz cuyos úl timos cuatro dígitos son 0103. c. $6,853.18 de principal e in tereses devengados hasta el 13 de junio de 2022, más los intereses que se devenguen al tipo legal a partir de la fecha de radicación de la Demanda, hasta el total y completo pago de la obligación, y una suma razonable para las costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado. La deuda es por concepto de las sumas desembolsadas por el uso de una tarjeta de crédito VISA cuyos últimos cuatro dígi tos son 7461. Se les emplaza y requiere que presenten al tri bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, a través del Siste ma Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utili zando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presen tar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. De berán notificar a la licenciada: María S. Jiménez Meléndez al PO Box 9023632, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902-3632; telé fono: (787) 723-2455; abogada de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la demanda. Si ustedes dejan de presentar su alegación respon
siva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar senten cia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entien de procedente. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 18 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA. MA
RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA NYDIA BENITEZ JIMENEZ Demandante V. HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION Y OTROS Demandado(a) Civil: CA2022CV03118. Sala: 403. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGA RÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JUAN Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO, HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERES EN LA OBLIGACION CUYA CANCELACION POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de noviembre 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 noviembre de 2022. LCDA.
MARILYN APONTE RODRÍ GUEZ, SECRETARIA. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.John Hadl, who became one of the leading quarterbacks in the old American Football League with the San Diego Chargers and later helped take the Los Angeles Rams to an un expected NFL playoff berth in a ca reer spanning 16 pro seasons, died Wednesday. He was 82.
The University of Kansas, where Hadl played quarterback, announced the death. The statement did not say where he died or give the cause of his death.
When the AFL and the NFL held separate 1962 drafts long before the leagues merged, it wasn’t clear wheth er Hadl was best suited to be a passer or a runner in the pro game.
He had been an outstanding run ning back as a sophomore at Kansas but played quarterback for his final two seasons in a run-oriented offense, gaining All-America honors as a senior.
The Chargers (now the Los Ange les Chargers) selected Hadl in the third round of the AFL draft, envisioning him as their quarterback of the future. The Detroit Lions chose him in the first round of the National Football League draft (the No. 10 selection overall), planning to use him as a running back who might throw out of pass-run op tion plays.
“At halfback I might have made it for two, three years, maybe,” Hadl told The San Diego Union-Tribune in 1994, when he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. “At quarterback you can play a long time if you make it, and that’s what happened.”
Having signed with the Chargers, Hadl flourished under their head coach, Sid Gillman, who devised bril liant passing schemes.
“The league took the philosophy that we were going to have an offensive show,” Hadl recalled in a 2006 inter view with The Orlando Sentinel. “We were going to score as many points as we could and not emphasize defense so we can have as exciting a game as we could for the fans and for the TVs.
That was our calling card.”
Hadl’s favorite target was the future Hall of Fame wide receiver Lance Al worth, known as Bambi for his graceful moves to elude defensive backs.
“I think John is in the top three or five who have played the game,” Al worth told The Union-Tribune. “No. 1, he was a winner, and that to me is what you judge people by when you look at their records.”
The Chargers’ offense also featured the outstanding running backs Paul Lowe and Keith Lincoln and a formi dable offensive line led by tackle Ron Mix, another Hall of Famer of the fu ture.
Hadl, who played for the Chargers from 1962 to 1972, appeared in three AFL championship games, a 51-10 trouncing of the Boston Patriots (now
the New England Patriots) and two losses to the Buffalo Bills.
Following the 1972 season, the Chargers traded Hadl to the Rams, who had dealt quarterback Roman Ga briel to the Philadelphia Eagles. The Rams were 6-7-1 in 1972, but under their new head coach, Chuck Knox, and buoyed by Hadl’s passing, they improved to 12-2.
Hadl, at age 33, threw four touch down passes to Harold Jackson in the Rams’ 37-31 victory over Dallas during the 1973 regular season and complet ed 135 of 258 passes for 2,008 yards and 22 touchdowns. The Rams lost to the Cowboys, 27-16, in the first round of the playoffs, but Hadl was the Na tional Football Conference’s player of the year and started at quarterback in the Pro Bowl game against the Ameri
can Football Conference. (Following the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, the NFL split into two conferences.)
In midseason 1974, the Rams gave the No. 1 quarterback spot to James Harris, a fourth-year player who had been Hadl’s backup the previous year, and traded Hadl to the Green Bay Packers for five high-round draft picks. Hadl played for the Packers through the 1975 season, then concluded his career with the Houston Oilers in 1976 and 1977.
He was the AFL or NFL season leader in passing yardage three times and the leader in passes completed and touchdown passes twice.
Hadl passed for 244 touchdowns and 33,503 yards in his 11 years with the Chargers and five years with the Rams, Packers and Oilers.
John Willard Hadl was born Feb. 15, 1940, in Lawrence, Kansas, the home of the University of Kansas, a son of Jess and Judy Hadl. His father was a mechanic.
John was an all-state halfback at Lawrence High School. In his three seasons with Kansas, he ran for 1,041 yards and passed for 1,345 yards. He led the nation in punting as a sopho more with an average of 45.6 yards.
After retiring as a player, Hadl was an assistant coach with the Rams and John Elway’s first quarterback coach, with the 1983 Denver Broncos. He was also head coach of the Los Ange les Express in the United States Foot ball League of the 1980s.
Hadl was an offensive coordinator for the Kansas football team as well and later spent 30 years with the uni versity’s athletic department, mainly in fundraising, before retiring in 2018.
For all his success running the Chargers’ passing attack, Hadl was overshadowed at times by the highly popular Alworth.
But Alworth felt that the perception was unfair. “He had a lot of touch with his throws, and he threw a great long ball, which was great for me,” he said. “I don’t really believe that he got the credit he was due.”
Tua Tagovailoa is on pace to have the greatest season in history by a quarterback who received very little credit for it.
Tagovailoa leads the NFL in passing yards gained per attempt with 9.0, touchdown rate at 6.7% and efficien cy rating at 115.7. He ranks second in completion rate at 69.7% and has the league’s third-lowest interception rate at 1.1%.
He would very likely be among the league leaders in raw statistical categories like touchdowns and passing yards had he not missed 2 1/2 games with a concussion. The Miami Dolphins are 8-1 in Tagovailoa’s starts, includ ing wins over the Buffalo Bills and the Baltimore Ravens, two top AFC contenders.
Tagovailoa’s 2022 season hasn’t just been outstanding, but downright historic: Per Football Outsiders’ DefenseAdjusted Value Over Average (DVOA) metric, Tagovailoa is on pace for the fifth-best passing season in the last 40 years. Only Tom Brady in 2007, Peyton Manning in 2004 and 2006 and Dan Marino in 1984 have been more ef ficient on a per-throw basis than Tagovailoa has been this year.
While Tagovailoa’s statistical accomplishments have been undeniable, some skeptics still consider the receivers Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle to be the true drivetrain of the Dolphins’ offense, with Tagovailoa regarded as little more than a hood ornament. That skepticism stems from Tagovailoa’s physical traits, his early career struggles and some overzealous boosterism by the Dolphins’ organiza tion in the offseason.
When it comes to pure arm strength, Tagovailoa, a rare left-handed quarterback, appears to rate somewhere between a quality NFL backup and an assistant coach in early middle age. His deep passes often float like soap bubbles, forcing receivers to throttle down and wait for their arrival.
The Dolphins concealed his shortcomings in his first two seasons with carefully scripted short throws, but Ta govailoa often fumbled or flung the ball straight at defend ers when pressured. Brian Flores, the team’s previous head coach, yanked him from the lineup a few times. Tago vailoa, the 2018 Heisman Trophy runner-up and the fifth overall pick in the 2020 draft out of Alabama, was on the verge of becoming a bust.
Not much about what happened next signaled the season Tagovailoa would have. In February, Mike McDan iel, the former San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator who helped build the self-driving passing game that Jimmy Garoppolo often pilots to the playoffs, replaced Flores.
When Hill arrived from Kansas City in a blockbust er trade in March, it was widely assumed that McDaniel planned to use Hill and Waddle (Tagovailoa’s college team mate who had an impressive rookie season after being the No. 6 overall pick in 2021) as a courier service to deliver Tagovailoa’s micropasses downfield on foot.
Suspicions about Tagovailoa’s future mounted as the Dolphins organization heaped a little too much praise on
their embattled young quarterback throughout the offsea son. Tagovailoa could barely toss his socks in a laundry hamper during minicamp without the team posting a video of the throw and McDaniel offering a testimonial about its accuracy and velocity. Hill called Tagovailoa “the most accurate QB in the NFL,” which, at the time, read more as an attempt to slight Patrick Mahomes than a legitimate observation.
The Dolphins, meanwhile, signed the veteran Teddy Bridgewater as the sort of premium insurance policy a team rarely invests in when it’s truly committed to a young quarterback.
By the end of training camp, the Tagovailoa-led Dol phins were poised to flop like an overhyped summer block buster. Once the season began, however, it became clear that Hill, Waddle and McDaniel were accentuating Tago vailoa’s strengths rather than covering up his weaknesses.
Hill, who leads the NFL with 87 receptions and 1,233 yards, is the league’s most elusive receiver. Waddle, fifth in the NFL with 963 yards on 56 receptions, would be the fastest receiver on any team that did not employ Hill. No team has enough talent in their secondary to cover both of them, so opponents rarely blitz and invariably align their safeties deep to prevent quick-strike touchdowns.
With defenses constantly on their heels, Tagovailoa has plenty of time to throw and lots of open space for intermediate passes. Per Pro Football Reference, Tago vailoa’s average intended pass is 9.1 yards downfield, the second-highest figure in the NFL, and he is pressured on only 19.2% of his attempts, 24th in the league. Instead of a glorified handoff machine, Tagovailoa has been a more consistent downfield passer than Mahomes or Josh Allen of the Bills.
Tagovailoa uses shoulder fakes to feint defenders out of position and rarely looks to his intended receiver until it’s time to throw. A quick release and a deft touch com pensate for his lack of a big-league fastball, and he lofts just enough deep bombs to Hill and Waddle to keep defend ers wary. Reduced pressure and increased experience have also resulted in fewer mistakes: Tagovailoa has not thrown an interception or lost a fumble in his last five games.
Fans and analysts are now warming to Tagovailoa. He’s third among quarterbacks in early Pro Bowl balloting, behind Mahomes and Allen. He is also getting +500 odds for the Most Valuable Player Award, behind only Mahomes (-160) and the Eagles’ Jalen Hurts (+350).
Tagovailoa may still be forced to share top billing with his receivers, but that’s a welcome change in perspective. His share in the Dolphins’ success means he’s no longer treated like some lip-syncing pop idol, and his receivers’ capabilities prevent the lone-hero narrative that congeals around so many of his quarterback peers.
Neither Drew Brees nor Joe Montana had superla tive arm strength. All successful quarterbacks benefit from quality receivers and well-tailored schemes. Tagovailoa is only unique because his skeptics grew so insistent, the changes the Dolphins made around him were so drastic, and his turnaround was so sudden and dramatic.
His success illustrates that nurture is at least as impor tant as nature to a quarterback’s success.
Tagovailoa will inevitably underthrow Hill or Waddle for an interception again, and his hecklers will reemerge to decry him as a noodle-armed fraud. Until defenses find a way to stop the Dolphins’ three-man offensive power, however, focusing on how far Tagovailoa can throw is en tirely missing the bigger picture.
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Today’s Quarter Moon may find you wishing you were on another planet, or anywhere else except where you need to be. The desire to escape might be stronger than usual, and this could lead to you putting off a decision or avoiding responsibilities. If you find yourself going down this road, take action, Aries! Writing a to-do list for the day ahead can help you stay on track.
A relationship that seems to be at a crucial phase could be delightful, yet intense. And even if this is romantic in nature, you may find yourself being quite business-like, especially if you have important matters to discuss. Knowing where the lines are drawn in any relationship, is a must. Get this part right, and things can go from strength to strength over the weeks ahead, Taurus.
The Moon in the topmost sector of your chart, suggests that your confidence may be boosted by a compliment or words of praise. Even so, you might not feel so at ease about making some necessary decisions. Getting advice could help, even if it’s chatting to friends or to someone who has been through the same predicament. You’ll have more options to choose from, Gemini.
With a Quarter Moon in your sector of adventure, the idea of exploring new ways to improve your life and enhance day-to-day activities, can appeal. Rather than dive in right away, the cosmos encourages you to think about what you want out of life. Whether it’s to travel, promote your message or reinvent yourself, it all starts by creating a bold vision that will take you there.
Wondering how you really feel about someone? The next day or so could find you questioning this. Do you want to take things further, or are you having second thoughts? With a Quarter Moon in Pisces confusing things, it’s best not to jump to conclusions. Your perceptions can be distorted, making it harder to know your own mind. Let things develop at their natural pace.
Today’s Quarter Moon in your sector of relating could coincide with a milestone, whereby everyone agrees about what should happen next. If you’ve struggled to get anywhere recently, the conversations you hold today can take a positive turn. Now for the next phase in which you work together to make it happen. If you do have any reservations, this is the time to discuss them.
Try not to take on too much, or to promise more than you can manage. You may want to be kind or to impress, but if it means sacrificing your time or resources, then think twice. Feel guilty? There’s no need! You generously help others when they ask, and this could lead to you feeling burnt out and even exhausted. It’s time to put yourself first Libra, so you can start to flourish.
A dreamy lunar phase could see you weighing up the cost of something that might be a tad expensive. Even so, this may not deter you, as with the Sun in the sign of adventurous Sagittarius and the Moon in Pisces, you can decide to conveniently ignore this, if you really want it. If it’s going to make a positive difference to your life, go for it! If not, leave it Scorpio.
With the Moon in your home zone angling towards the Sun, you’ve likely reached a crucial stage in a plan that requires careful thought. If it’s linked to home and domestic matters, then asking the family for their ideas may clarify your own. If you get the go-ahead, you know it will be with everyone’s blessing. Within three weeks you’ll see tangible progress that everyone can enjoy.
With convivial Venus preparing to oppose Mars retro, your attitude to a friend or associate may be a tad aloof, and you’ll likely know why. Do they though, Capricorn? If not, then telling them might not be the easiest of conversations, but it can help you feel better. On another note, don’t mistrust your intuition regarding a key situation, as it could be far more accurate than you think.
How far are you prepared to go to bring a dream to life, Aquarius? If you’ve been thinking about this, then today’s potent lunar phase can encourage you to choose one way or the other. What might swing it, is the cost. If this is something you really want, you could pretend it will be okay. But it’s wise to look at the details and make a more informed decision..
Feeling a tad anxious about a key meeting or an important decision? It’s only natural, Pisces. A powerful moon phase in your sign, could be the reason you are more on edge than you need to be, making it harder to relax. If this is the case, then taking inspiration from a book or from someone you admire, can give you confidence. You just need to summon your resolve and get going.
