The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Sunday the obligation of a federal share of nearly $88.7 million to dredge the Carraízo Reservoir.
The project under the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) will allow a greater water reserve for a large part of the population of the San Juan metropolitan and eastern areas of Puerto Rico, particularly during drought seasons.
The dredging will entail the removal of some 2.6 million cubic yards of sediment from the reservoir and the removed material will be transferred to three dikes. The remaining water will be transferred back to the reservoir and, once dry, the sediment will be used to recover the vegetation of the area through seeding or replanting, according to the corresponding regulations.
“We know that this project is vital to providing a service as essential as water, while supporting health in general and economic development,” said Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator José Baquero. “This is one of several projects that we evaluate under the environmental and historic preservation regulations, which seek to guarantee a compliant and long-term recovery.”
The Carraízo Reservoir serves the Sergio Cuevas Water Treatment Plant, which provides service to some 492,000 consumers in the municipalities of Caguas, Gurabo, Juncos, Las Piedras, San Juan, San Lorenzo and parts of Trujillo Alto. Carraízo supplies some 90 million gallons of water per day to its customers.
PRASA Executive President Doriel Pagán Crespo said the “dredging of Carraízo is a priority project, not only for the agency, but also for the governor.”
A comprehensive environmental assessment was conducted for the project, in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to analyze the potential impacts of the works. The assessment — developed by FEMA and PRASA personnel — was available for public review and comment for 30 days, and the agency determined that the project will not have adverse effects on the environment.
“This project seeks to increase the storage volume by approximately 528 million gallons,” she added. “The planning and design process, as well as the environmental compliance process, has been one of close collaboration with FEMA and the government’s Recovery Office (COR3), where we are finally seeing the accomplishments achieved. The project will have a construction cost of approximately $93 million and work will begin during the first quarter of 2023. The work will last for a period of two and a half years.”
FEMA’s Environmental and Historic Preservation (EHP) division provides specialized technical assistance to applicants on the historic and environmental compliance of projects to ensure they are aligned with applicable federal laws and executive orders. Through the environmental assessment, the agency determined that the Carraízo dredging project does not have an adverse impact on the environment.
FEMA considered and responded to substantial comments received during the public review period to inform the final decision on grant approval and project implementation. As part of NEPA’s regulatory requirements, on Aug. 10, 2021, FEMA conducted a public meeting in the Valle San Luis urbanization community center, at the request of Municipality of Caguas and several community leaders, to address questions and concerns about the dredging project.
For the evaluation, PRASA conducted sediment studies and documented the existing condition of the reservoir dikes, pipeline alignment and the area surrounding the project. Sediment samples were collected and analyzed to identify potential contaminants that could spread if the sediments were disturbed or became airborne during dredging activities. The studies determined that the Carraízo sediments are non-hazardous.
The island Housing Department is inviting organizations, communities and residents to comment on the first amendment to the Action Plan for the Optimization of the Electrical Grid.
“As has been our practice, we want to encourage citizen participation in recovery activities, so we call on everyone to read the plan, find out what the Government of Puerto Rico intends to do with the allocation to improve the energy system and comment on the page or by regular mail,” Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez said over the weekend.
The amendment is about the Cost Distribution Program for the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of the Electrical Grid, in addition to reviewing the way in which the chosen projects will make improvements to the system to benefit communities with vulnerable populations, as well as poor and needy areas.
The program, which has a budget of $500 million, maximizes the benefit of other federal funds such as those granted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), by matching the cost of the projects with Community Develop-
ment Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds. The matching of funds provided by federal agencies will cover the needs of critical infrastructure that will make the infrastructure more able to resist and recover quickly from interruptions in the system caused by future disasters.
On June 22, 2021, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released the federal register governing the use of the $2 billion allocation in CDBG-DR funds to strengthen or improve electric power systems in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Of that $2 billion, $1.9 billion was allocated for the optimization of the electrical energy system of Puerto Rico.
The island Housing Department’s proposed amendment to the original action plan also modifies the Electric Power Reliability and Resiliency Program, to clarify that the program allocation can be used for both strategic and competitive projects. The amendment also allows for the competitive selection of projects proposed by eligible entities through an application process. This second $1.3 billion program will provide funding for projects not currently anticipated to receive funding from other federal or local sources.
The Housing Department has set up a space on the
website www.cdbg-dr.pr.gov so that the public can read and comment on the first amendment to the action plan that is proposed to be sent to the federal government this month.
of a new Emergency Conservation Program for agricultural communities impacted by Hurricane Fiona.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will partner with the gateway communities to El Yunque National Forest to establish a shuttle system that enhances access to the rainforest park, and build new economic opportunities through tourism.
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Participants in last week’s White House dialogue on strategies for jumpstarting Puerto Rico’s economic development agreed to the following actions:
* The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will establish the Rural Partners Network in 15 island municipalities, identifying priority economic development projects and hiring four new federal staff in Puerto Rico to help those towns navigate and access federal funding. USDA will also increase direct outreach, Spanish translation, and local partnerships to build awareness of federal programs available to support Puerto Rico’s rural and agricultural community, including the deployment
* The U.S. Department of Defense and the island Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC by its Spanish acronym) will each invest approximately $2 million to bring LIFT, an advanced manufacturing research & development facility, to Puerto Rico. LIFT will invest an additional $2 million in the public-private partnership to further develop the technological capacity of the island’s manufacturers and provide advanced manufacturing training opportunities.
* USDA will partner with the gateway communities to El Yunque National Forest to establish a shuttle system that enhances access to El Yunque, and build new economic opportunities through tourism.
* The Economic Development Administration will recognize the Southern Puerto Rico Economic Development District as the island’s first certified Economic Development District. This will create a new local-federal partnership to support entrepreneurs, mobilize new resources, and plan for economic growth in Puerto Rico’s south.
* The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will invest more than $7.5 million in efforts by the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, University of Puerto Rico, and others to ensure sustainable natural resources, support coastal and marine research and education, and improve safety in the marine and coastal environment.
* The island Treasury Department and the Economic De-
velopment Bank of Puerto Rico will work toward launching Puerto Rico’s State Small Business Credit Initiative programs, using over $100 million in federal capital funding from the American Rescue Plan to provide credit for small businesses and draw up to $1 billion in additional private financing to support the expansion of small businesses, entrepreneurs and good-paying jobs in Puerto Rico.
* The Minority Business Development Administration will provide technical assistance to increase access to capital and government contracting for businesses in Puerto Rico, and host an Investor Summit in Puerto Rico together with the federal Treasury Department, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the island Treasury Department and DDEC.
* SBA, the Puerto Rico Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions, and Puerto Rico Credit Union State Regulator will promote access to capital by delivering a lender training series focused on increasing participation in SBA loan programs by Puerto Rican financial institutions, with a focus on community development corporations, community development financial institutions, and minority depository institutions.
* SBA and the Puerto Rico General Service Administration will support small businesses in Puerto Rico through entrepreneurial development training, counseling, and the export assistance programs, and work to ensure that federal agencies increase Puerto Rico-based procurement efforts, particularly for small disadvantaged businesses.
In order to prevent suicidal behavior, as well as reinforce the message among citizens of the importance of taking care of mental health, the Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration (ASSMCA by its Spanish initials) will hold a march called “No Luches en Silencio” (Don’t Struggle in Silence) in San Juan on Tuesday at 10 a.m. With actress Suzette Bacó and presenter Ramón “Gatto” Gómez as sponsors, the march will start at 8 a.m. on Paseo La Princesa and proceed to Bahía Urbana (Urban Bay). At the end, participants will enjoy a service fair, interactive stations and refreshments, along with performances by the Zona Tropical orchestra, the Caobana and VIP groups, the singers Gerardo Rivas and Dany, and the illusionist Jorge Noda, among other attractions. The activities on the grounds of Bahía Urbana will extend until 3 p.m. for the enjoyment of children, youth and adults.
In making the announcement, ASSMCA Administrator Dr. Carlos Rodríguez Mateo stressed that the No Luches en Silencio march is being held thanks to an alliance of the agency with the private sector, the administration of the Municipality of San Juan,
and nonprofit organizations which, among other government entities, are committed to promoting the self-care and mental health of the Puerto Rican people, particularly in the context of the celebration of Christmas and New Year.
Rodríguez Mateo stressed that “although, traditionally, what reigns during the
Christmas season is a festive atmosphere, of revelry, of sharing with family and loved ones, together with traditional food and gifts, at the same time there is another reality for Puerto Rican individuals and families who have a diagnosis of depression.”
“It is important to remember that a large percentage of the Puerto Rican population suffers from depression at this time of year,” he said. “In fact, depression can be so severe that it leads them to think of suicide as an alternative for ending their suffering, frustrations and loneliness. With this march, in addition to other education and guidance efforts we are making, we call on people with depression to know that they are not alone and that they have help available through ASSMCA. So we also want to carry the message of prevention and self-care for all Puerto Ricans.” said the administrator.
“We invite the Puerto Rican people to join this march, which ends in Bahía Urbana, with the purpose of saving lives and promoting mental health,” the island’s mental health czar added. “Despite increased research and knowledge about suicide and its prevention, taboo and stigma persist. It is estimated that, for each completed suicide, up to 20 attempts can occur. Many deaths from suicide can be avoided with support services, early
identification, intervention and specialized management, services that we at ASSMCA have available and can offer.”
Every year, more than one million people take their own lives in the world. From 2000 to June 2022, a total of 6,568 deaths by suicide have been reported in Puerto Rico, for an annual average of 294 suicides.
The march is part of the No Lucha en Silencio initiative, an educational campaign by ASSMCA that encourages people to vent their emotions and seek help from mental health professionals, without fear of being judged or stigmatized.
The ASSMCA administrator reminded citizens of the availability of the PAS Line as an alternative for receiving guidance and counseling in difficult and unexpected situations that could affect their emotional state.
There are several ways to contact the professionals of the PAS Line. One is by phone at 9-8-8, 1-800-981-0023 or 1-888-672-7622 for people with hearing and speech impairments. Also, there is the mobile application that can be downloaded from Google Play and Apple Store. In this app, people will have the opportunity to maintain communication and openly share their concerns via text by chatting live through lineapas.assmca.pr.gov, in an environment of total confidentiality.
By THE STAR STAFFProskauer Rose LLP, the leading attorneys for the Financial Oversight and Management Board, which is the Title III representative in Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy cases, has informed the court it is increasing the hourly rates of its lawyers effective Jan. 1, 2023.
The rates for some 138 partners and associates will go up to $923 per hour from the current $887 per hour. The impact of the adjustment was not immediately known. The commonwealth has already surpassed the $1 billion mark in professional fees for all the law firms and advisers working in the case, but Proskauer is the main firm.
However, Fee Examiner Brady C. Williamson, of the law firm Godfrey & Kahn, said in a court document that with the Highways and Transportation Authority’s (HTA) debt adjustment plan going into effect on Dec. 6, the professionals working on the HTA case will no longer be filing fees in that particular case. Nonetheless, with inflation, many of the professionals working on the Title III bankruptcy are expected to hike fees.
“As mediation continues, a proposed plan and disclosure statement for PREPA is expected shortly, with a projected June 2023 confirmation hearing date,” the fee examiner said. “In addition, the approaching end of the calendar
year brings the fiscal year of many professionals to a close.”
Meanwhile, Puerto Rico Bonistas del Patio financial adviser Ducera Partners and law firm Davis Polk have submitted new documents ahead of the Dec. 14 omnibus hearing in a bid to be paid for their work on behalf of local bondholders.
Those professionals are asking to be paid from Puerto Rico’s Title III estate, as do the financial advisers and lawyers of other professionals. The unsecured creditors committee and others have opposed the payment because Bonistas was not a party to the case like the other stakeholders whose professionals were paid.
Davis Polk submitted a letter from the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, dated July 2018, that said they would not object to Bonistas professionals being paid.
“Because of the complexity and importance of the mediation and the need for the interests of local bondholders to be adequately represented by parties committed to negotiating with all constituents to achieve a constructive and consensual solution to the Puerto Rico debt crisis, the engagement by [Bonistas] of experienced external lawyers and financial advisors provides significant benefits to local constituents and the commonwealth alike,” the letter said.
Bonistas hasn’t paid the professionals, and they have
no recourse against the nonprofit group; they have worked with the expectation that the commonwealth will pay them, Davis Polk attorney Brian Resnick said in a declaration.
Davis Polk and Ducera Partners are seeking $2 million and $5 million, respectively, for their roles advising Bonistas del Patio, a nonprofit established to protect island investors in Puerto Rico’s various bonds.
Police issued a complaint Saturday night against singer Cruz Manuel “Manny Manuel” Hernández Santiago, 50, for driving with an expired driver’s license and against traffic in Jayuya.
According to the police report, officer de Hoyos was conducting a preventive patrol in the town of Jayuya and when he arrived at Libertad Street he noticed a 2017 Mitsubishi Lancer going against traffic.
Additionally, Hernández Santiago’s driver’s license reportedly had expired on Dec. 1.
De Hoyos reported that no blood alcohol test was performed since the singer did not appear to be under the influence of intoxicating beverages and was cooperative the entire time.
Since Hernández Santiago was accompanied by another person who could drive, that person took control of the motor vehicle.
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Police on Saturday requested citizen cooperation in the effort to find Luis Omar “Omar Cabeza” Noble Álvarez, accused in absentia late last week for allegedly being part of a criminal organization responsible for multiple murders in Caguas. According to police, Noble Alvarez was charged in absentia along with Rafael “Kikuet” Miranda Tolentino, Ángel Luis “Juni El Rapero” Resto Mojíca,
José Ovidio “Obi” Reyes del Valle, Juan “El Manco” Quiñonez Meléndez, for the murders of Juan Díaz Ortiz, 27, Jesús Díaz Ortiz, 25, Christopher Gómez González, 29, and Jeremy González Morales, 19, committed between Dec. 18, 2012 and March 14, 2013 in the municipalities of Gurabo and Juncos.
The 87 charges filed against the group include first-degree murder, conspiracy, carrying and using firearms without a license, illegal possession or use of long weapons, shooting or pointing firearms and the Organized Crime Act.
Caguas Superior Court Judge Ingrid Caro determined cause for arrest and imposed an overall bail of $65,250,000.
Noble Alvarez is presumed armed and highly dangerous. Anyone with information that can help determine his location can contact the Homicide Division of the Caguas Region Criminal Investigations Corps at 787-744-7252 extensions 1250, 1251, 1252 or through the Confidential Line at 787-343-2020. Calls will be treated with strict confidentiality.
Congressional leaders have all but abandoned the idea of acting to raise the debt ceiling this month before Democrats lose control of the House, punting the issue to a new Congress when Republicans have vowed to fight the move and setting up a clash next year that could bring the U.S. economy to the brink of crisis.
Democrats had urged party leaders to act during their lame-duck postelection session to increase the legal borrowing limit, taking advantage of their party’s final months of unified control. Doing so, they argued, would avert a potentially catastrophic conflict over the issue next year, when Republicans have threatened to block the move unless it is accompanied by substantial cuts to domestic spending and social safety net programs.
Failure to raise the statutory cap on the nation’s borrowing power — expected to be reached at some point next year — would lead to a first-ever default, creating financial chaos in the United States and the global economy.
But a lack of political urgency and a shrinking window to act before the holidays appear to have squashed the effort to address the issue this month.
In an institution in which action is driven largely by legislative and political deadlines, focus instead remains on avoiding a government shutdown Dec. 16, when a stopgap spending bill lapses. Negotiators are struggling to reach agreement on a sprawling government funding package, widely viewed as the last must-pass vehicle to carry unfinished legislative priorities.
Even if lawmakers reconcile their differences over how much money to split between military spending, a Republican priority, and domestic programs like health and education that Democrats have championed, top lawmakers and aides have acknowledged that it is unlikely Congress will take up a measure raising the debt ceiling.
“Oh, I wish — I don’t think so,” said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat. “We let this issue and this challenge do everything possible to slow us down, and even to stop the business of our government, and it’s just unacceptable. If I had my way, we’d change it tomorrow.”
Senior Republicans, particularly in the House, have repeatedly signaled that they plan to leverage any vote to avoid a default to force President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats to accept a series of fiscal overhauls, deep cuts to federal spending and, potentially, reductions to Social Security and Medicare. In his bid to become House speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader, is facing significant pressure from his right flank to take a hard line in negotiations over new spending and addressing the nation’s debt.
“We need to look at how we can reform these programs
so that they’re available not just to people who are retired or retiring today but future generations of Americans,” said Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 2 Republican, speaking at an event hosted by The Washington Post this week. “I think that’s a conversation we need to have.”
Biden has said he would oppose any effort to cut Medicare and Social Security funds.
The Treasury Department is projected to hit its borrowing limit next year, though it is unclear exactly when the agency will run out of so-called extraordinary measures to ensure payments continue for a few months.
Failure to act could result in staggering consequences for the U.S. economy, forcing American officials to choose between the continuity of assistance like Social Security checks and the payment of interest on the country’s debt. The threats from Republicans recall brinkmanship in 2011, when congressional Republicans sought to pressure President Barack Obama to accept similar spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit.
That standoff led to the downgrading of the credit of the United States and rattled American investors and the economy.
Goldman Sachs economists warned in an analysis this week that bipartisan support to raise the debt limit “will be necessary, but hard to achieve” and that the United States could veer the closest it had come to the economic tumult of 2011 since that standoff. The analysts also noted that less than a quarter of Republicans and less than a third of Democrats who will serve in the House in 2023 were there in 2011.
Some Democratic lawmakers had floated using the fast-track budget reconciliation process to raise the debt limit, thus shielding it from a Republican filibuster. But party leaders have resisted the move, arguing that the vote should be bipartisan.
The maneuver also would be time-consuming, parti-
cularly in the Senate.
“The way we’ve done debt ceiling in the past is bipartisan,” Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, said at a news conference last month. “I’d like to see it done in a bipartisan way and get it done before the end of the year.”
Several Republicans, however, have said they do not feel the same urgency to take up the debt limit, amid a December pileup of unfinished legislative work. In the evenly divided Senate, at least 10 Republicans would need to join Democrats to ensure such a measure could advance absent a move to use the reconciliation process.
“I don’t think the debt limit issue is until sometime next year,” Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, said at a news conference last month.
Asked about the debt limit, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said, “I think it’s more important to get the government funded, and I think that might become an obstacle to doing that.”
Agreement on a government funding package has remained elusive, jeopardizing lingering hopes of attaching not only a debt limit measure but also a list of legislative priorities. With the funding package left as the lone must-pass measure, lawmakers are eyeing adding a series of priorities, including a bill to overhaul how Congress counts electoral votes, mental health and medical programs, and tax proposals.
After weeks of negotiations, Republicans and Democrats remain at odds over how to split funding between military and social programs. Talks are set to continue through the weekend ahead of the Dec. 16 deadline, though aides said lawmakers could pass a one-week stopgap bill to give negotiations additional time.
But with senior lawmakers wary about upending any fragile funding agreement, a debt limit measure would be unlikely to make the cut.
Theyear, giving them new flexibility over nominations and legislation.
Sinema did not specifically say that she would still caucus with the Democrats, as do two other independent senators, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine. Even as a Democrat, she rarely attended the regular party meetings. But her appeal to Schumer to keep her committee posts — and his decision to grant it — effectively means she will be a third independent aligned with Democrats, preserving their 51-49 majority.
“She asked me to keep her committee assignments and I agreed,” Schumer said in a statement Friday morning. “Kyrsten is independent; that’s how she’s always been. I believe she’s a good and effective senator and am looking forward to a productive session in the new Democratic majority Senate.
“We will maintain our new majority on committees, exercise our subpoena power and be able to clear nominees without discharge votes,” he added.
primary she knew she couldn’t win. Now, we’ll beat her in the general election with a real Democrat.”
Sinema has cast herself as a bipartisan deal-maker in the Senate and is often seen on the Republican side of the floor, conversing with and lobbying Republicans with whom she has worked on a variety of issues. Like Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., she has been a holdout on some major Democratic priorities such as tax increases. She and Manchin killed Democratic efforts to weaken the filibuster and push through new voting rights legislation this year. Arizona Democrats symbolically censured her after her filibuster vote.
Manchin, who was reelected this week to a spot in the Senate Democratic leadership, has been mentioned more often as a potential party-switcher given his own reelection difficulties in his deep-red state, and Republicans have made clear that they would welcome him.
By CARL HULSESen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced late last week that she would leave the Democratic Party and become an independent, unsettling the party divide anew just days after Democrats secured an expanded majority in the Senate.
“I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington,” she wrote in an opinion column published in The Arizona
Republic.
Sinema’s decision put an abrupt damper on the jubilance Democrats experienced this week after their caucus secured a 51st seat in the Senate with Sen. Raphael Warnock’s victory in Georgia. It was likely to provide new complications for Sen. Chuck Schumer and Democrats going forward, even though she wrote in her column that “becoming an independent won’t change my work in the Senate; my service to Arizona remains the same.”
Still the move by the first-term senator, who was facing a likely Democratic reelection challenge in 2024 after angering her party by opposing key elements of its agenda, was unlikely to change the day-to-day reality in Washington for Democrats, who have long had to contend with her unpredictability and diversions from the party line. The bigger practical effect was likely to be on Sinema’s political standing in Arizona, where she would have had difficulty prevailing in a Democratic primary.
Sinema informed Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, of her plans Thursday, according to a Senate Democratic aide who described the private conversation on the condition of anonymity. The aide said that Sinema would keep her committee positions through Democrats, meaning the party would still hold a one-seat edge on the panels next
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, noted that Sinema has strongly backed major Biden administration initiatives such as the infrastructure package, and said that President Joe Biden hoped to keep her as an ally.
“We understand that her decision to register as an independent in Arizona does not change the new Democratic majority control of the Senate, and we have every reason to expect that we will continue to work successfully with her,” Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
Other administration officials expect that her shift would change little about their interactions with her in the months ahead. One person involved in shaping the White House approach to working with her, who spoke on condition of anonymity, characterized her as difficult and contrarian, but noted that she ultimately had backed the president on critical votes, providing Biden and Democrats a successful legislative record to promote.
Her decision prompted a quick backlash in Arizona, where a group created to generate a primary campaign against her said it would now focus on unseating her in the general election.
“Today, Kyrsten Sinema told us what we’ve already known for years: She’s not a Democrat, and she’s simply out for herself,” the Primary Sinema campaign said in a statement. “In one way, Sinema just made our jobs easier by bowing out of a Democratic
But Sinema has also been assiduously courted by Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, who has praised her for refusing to bend on the filibuster. She appeared with him at an event at the McConnell Center in Louisville, Kentucky, in September, drawing criticism from Democrats who saw her as cozying up to the top Republican before the election that would decide party control of the Senate.
Sinema is more in line with Democrats on major social, cultural and environmental policies and was a key architect of the recent Senate agreement that paved the way for passage of legislation to mandate federal recognition of same-sex marriages, which cleared Congress this week over the opposition of most Republicans. She has been a reliable vote for the Biden administration’s judicial and executive branch nominees.
Where she has diverged with Democrats is more on fiscal and tax policy. She has blocked Democratic attempts to increase taxes on corporate America and Wall Street, drawing accusations that she was running interference for her wealthy donors.
Writing in The Arizona Republic, Sinema said that she had “never fit perfectly in either national party” and that the “loudest, most extreme voices continue to drive each party toward the fringes.”
“When politicians are more focused on denying the opposition party a victory than they are on improving Americans’ lives, the people who lose are everyday Americans,” she added.
Alejandra Caraballo is used to seeing anti-transgender hatred.
As an LGBTQ rights advocate and a transgender woman, she has received death threats, and her and her family members’ personal information has been published. When she goes to her favorite bar in New York, she sometimes wonders what she would do if someone came in shooting.
But last weekend, it became too much. Members of the Proud Boys and other extremist groups, many of them armed, converged outside a planned drag event in Columbus, Ohio. Neo-Nazis protested another event in Lakeland, Florida. There was an anti-LGBTQ rally in South Florida, also attended by the Proud Boys. All of this just two weeks after the killing of five people — two of them transgender, a third gay — at an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
“I had a full panic attack and breakdown,” said Caraballo, a clinical instructor at the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School. “It’s one thing knowing there’s this extremist hate on the internet and seeing it in the abstract, and I can kind of compartmentalize. When this hate becomes manifested in real-life violence and there’s a celebration of it, is when it becomes too much to stomach.”
It was one more month in a year in which intimidation and violence against gay and transgender Americans has spread — driven heavily, extremism experts say, by inflammatory political messaging.
Since far-right social media activists began attacking Boston Children’s Hospital over the summer for providing care for transgender children, the hospital has received repeated bomb threats. Doctors across the country who do similar work have been harassed. The Justice Department charged a Texas man this month with threatening a Boston doctor; it also recently charged at least two others with threatening anti-gay or anti-transgender attacks.
Twelve times as many anti-LGBTQ incidents have been documented this year as in 2020, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, which tracks political violence.
“Being a trans person in particular in this country right now is walking around thinking that it’s possible this could happen any day,” said Sam Ames, director of advocacy and government affairs at the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ suicide prevention organization, adding, “We are hearing every day from trans youth who
Richard Stevens, who performs as Barbra Seville, hosts a drag brunch in Scottsdale, Ariz. on Nov. 6, 2022.
are being impacted by that political rhetoric.”
The rise in threats has accompanied an increasingly vitriolic political conversation.
Over the past couple of years, it has become routine for conservatives to liken transgender people and their allies to pedophiles, and to equate discussion of gender identity with “grooming” children for sexual abuse — part of an intensifying push, reminiscent of campaigns against gay rights dating back to the 1970s, to turn increasing visibility of transgender Americans into a political wedge.
Just before Florida prohibited instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, Christina Pushaw, a spokesperson for Gov. Ron DeSantis, called the ban an “anti-grooming bill.” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has accused President Joe Biden of supporting “genital mutilation of children.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., declared that “communist groomers” wanted to “allow a for-profit medical industry to chop off these confused children’s genitals.”
Representatives for Cruz and Greene — both of whose comments falsely characterized the treatment transgender minors receive — did not respond to requests for comment. Pushaw said, “My tweet did not mention transgender people.”
Conservatives say they are trying to protect children from irreversible treatments and ensure women’s sports remain fair; in midterm election ads, right-wing groups argued that transition care amounted to “radical gender experiments” and that allowing transgender athletes to compete on teams matching their gender identity would “destroy girls’ sports.” (The treatments offered to transgender children are endorsed by medical associations and have been shown to reduce suicide risk, and few
transgender women and girls seek to participate in women’s and girls’ sports.)
Wes Anderson, a Republican pollster, said he believed those two arguments could pose a “liability” for Democrats — though, he said, they were far from priorities for voters this year.
But experts on political violence say incendiary language has made attacks more likely.
“We know that they are animated by what they’re seeing in online spaces,” Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said of antiLGBTQ attackers. “Those online narratives, the propaganda that is disseminated by these bad actors, is informed and often legitimized by other voices in our public discussion, whether it’s elected officials or others.”
The false specter of child abuse has long been a way for anti-LGBTQ campaigns to attract “people who otherwise would not join what they consider a homophobic movement,” said Eric Gonzaba, an assistant professor of American studies at California State University, Fullerton, and co-chair of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History.
It gained prominence 45 years ago, when singer Anita Bryant founded Save Our Children. Accusing gay people of “recruiting” children, the group persuaded voters in Miami-Dade County, Florida, to repeal an anti-discrimination ordinance months after it was passed. Then the movement took its case nationwide.
“Her rhetoric was almost always about the sexualized danger of gay men against children,” said Tina Fetner, a professor of sociology at McMaster University who has studied how the religious right shaped LGBTQ activism. “That’s ‘grooming.’ They have a new term for it now, but it’s the same rhetoric.”
The argument resurfaced in 1992, when two ballot measures sought to ban similar antidiscrimination protections. One, in Colorado, passed but was struck down by the Supreme Court. The other — which would have forbidden Oregon to promote “homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism or masochism” and required “a standard for Oregon’s youth which recognizes that these behaviors are abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse” — did not pass.
These tactics have been used and reused because they can work politically. But history and current events suggest limits.
Bryant’s group stoked a backlash that temporarily blocked anti-discrimination laws, but did not stop society’s gradual movement toward accepting gay Americans. In fact, historians say, it galvanized LGBTQ people to
organize more forcefully.
“There’s just incredible resilience and resistance that come out of these moments of hatred and vilification,” said Jen Manion, a professor of history and of sexuality, women’s and gender studies at Amherst College.
Republicans underperformed in this year’s midterms, and several candidates who focused on transgender issues did poorly. Tudor Dixon leaned hard on them but lost the Michigan governor’s race by double digits. The American Principles Project, a super PAC, spent about $15 million on related ads in contests that Republicans also largely lost. (Representatives for Dixon did not comment, and the super PAC did not respond to an interview request for its president.)
And after a year in which local officials removed books that discussed gender identity from libraries, states passed more than 15 bills targeting transgender people, and Texas opened abuse investigations against parents whose children received transition care, lawmakers are preparing more anti-LGBTQ bills for next year.
Many focus on transition care for minors; some would even restrict care for adults up to age 21. Others would restrict drag shows.
A pre-filed bill in Montana, titled “Prohibit minors from attending drag shows,” offers a glimpse of what these legislative debates may look like.
“To put forward a bill targeting drag shows right after a mass shooting at a club that hosts drag-queen story hours is to further stoke the hate that is going to get my community killed,” said Zooey Zephyr, a Democrat just elected as the first openly transgender legislator in Montana. She said that friends had killed themselves in the past two years, in which Montana lawmakers voted to restrict transgender sports participation and tried unsuccessfully to restrict transition care, and that others had left the state.
Zephyr said she had spoken with several Republicans who did not want to pass bills focused on transgender or gender-nonconforming people. One, state Rep. Mallerie Stromswold, said in an interview that she found her party’s focus on these issues “disheartening.”
The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Braxton Mitchell, a Republican, responded to a request for comment by asking why it was “all of the sudden a critical requirement for someone in drag to be in every school,” but would not provide an example of any official calling for that. He described drag shows as adult entertainment; while some are, many are “story hours” where performers read books.
The pension investment came just a week after Biden prodded Congress to pass legislation forcing a settlement in a longrunning dispute between rail companies and workers, heading off a strike that could have upended the economy just before the holidays. Although the agreement included wage increases, schedule flexibility and an additional paid day off, several rail unions had rejected it because it lacked paid sick leave. A move to add seven days of paid sick leave failed in Congress before Biden signed the bill.
The showdown over the rail settlement left Biden in the awkward position of forcing a deal over the objections of some union members even though he had promised to be the “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen.” The pension rescue plan that was announced Thursday put him back in the more comfortable stance of allying himself with organized labor, a key constituency of the Democratic Party.
consin and Minnesota as well as other states such as Missouri, Illinois, Florida and Texas.
In his remarks, Biden expressed sympathy for workers and retirees facing cuts not of their own making. “For 30, 40, 50 years, you work hard every single day to provide for your family. You do everything right,” he said. “But then imagine losing half of that pension or more through no fault of your own. You did your part. You paid in. Imagine what it does financially to your peace of mind, to your dignity.”
O’Brien hailed Biden’s move. “Our members chose to forgo raises and other benefits for a prosperous retirement, and they deserve to enjoy the security and stability that all of them worked so hard to earn,” he said in a statement. Although much of public policy is determined by big corporations, “it’s good to see elected officials stand up for working families for once.”
By PETER BAKERPresident Joe Biden announced late last week that he was investing $36 billion in federal funds to save the pensions of more than 350,000 union workers and retirees, a demonstration of commitment to labor just a week after a rupture over an imposed settlement of a threatened rail strike. Biden gathered top union leaders at the White House to make the commitment, described by the White House as the largest-ever award of federal financial support for worker and retiree pension security. The
money, coming from last year’s COVID-19 relief package, will avert cuts of up to 60% in pensions for Teamster truck drivers, warehouse workers, construction workers and food processors, mainly in the Midwest.
“Thanks to today’s announcement, hundreds of thousands of Americans can feel that sense of dignity again knowing that they’ve provided for their families and their future, and it’s secure,” said Biden, who was joined by Sean O’Brien, president of the Teamsters, and Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, as well as Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.
The $36 billion, drawn from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan passed last year, will go to the Central States Pension Fund, which is largely made up of Teamster workers and retirees. The fund has been the largest financially distressed multi-employer pension plan in the nation. As a result of shortfalls, pensioners were facing 60% cuts over the next few years, but the White House said the federal funding will now ensure full benefits through 2051.
Many of the affected workers and retirees are clustered in Midwestern states that have been battlegrounds in recent elections, including Michigan, Ohio, Wis-
Republicans called it a politically inspired payoff. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, the top GOP member on the House Ways and Means Committee, dubbed the rescue plan “the largest private pension bailout in American history,” saying it rewarded those who mismanaged their pensions.
“Despite years of bipartisan negotiations and recommendations, Democrats rejected protections for union workers in other underfunded multiemployer plans that are not as politically connected as the Teamsters’ Central States plan,” Brady said. “Now, American taxpayers are being forced to cover promises that pension trustees never should have been allowed to make.”
This has been an awful year for U.S. bonds — so bad that 2022 may end up as the worst calendar year in history. But what do the terrible bond returns in 2022 mean for the future?
Recall the old warning: Past performance doesn’t guarantee future returns. That’s emphatically true now for bonds.
These past poor returns definitely don’t imply that you should avoid bonds now. With some caveats, which I’ll come back to, the fundamental math of bond returns suggests that 2023 will be much better than 2022.
At the very least, a repetition of the shocking level of the losses of 2022 isn’t likely. What’s more, after the big downturn of the last year, a major rebound is certainly possible.
“The prospects for long-term Treasuries are looking very good right now,” said Michael Contopoulos, director of fixed-income strategy at Richard Bernstein Advisors. He presents a reasonable argument that they could turn out to be the best asset class — better than stocks or commodities — of 2023.
I wouldn’t buy bonds, or any other asset, as a speculative bet. But for long-term investors, the basic reasons for buying bonds — solid value and reasonable yields — are becoming evident again.
“Yields have already risen a lot over the last year,” said Mary Ellen Stanek, managing director of Baird Asset Management in Milwaukee. “It’s been a rough stretch, but we think bonds are back.”
Until this year, bonds were often thought of as Steady Eddies: boring investments that could be counted on for stability and steady income. In 2022, however, as inflation and interest rates have soared, the bond market has been anything but reliable.
In fact, the 12 months through October ranked as the worst ever recorded, and the 12 months through November were almost as bad, according to Edward McQuarrie, an emeritus professor in the School of Business at California’s Santa Clara University, who has compiled U.S. bond returns going all the way back to 1794.
“Basically, it’s never been worse than the last year,” he said in an interview.
The fundamentals
Bonds are loans made by investors who, in return, receive regular income, known as
yield. Market yields have already risen appreciably.
Bond returns — in an actively traded portfolio of individual bonds or in a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund — come from a combination of yield and price changes. When yields rise, bond prices fall, and vice versa. That’s fundamental bond math.
These price effects are much greater for bonds of longer maturity — more precisely, bonds of longer duration, an important measure of interest rate sensitivity. This means that the price of a 30-year Treasury bond will move much more than the price of a threemonth Treasury bill in response to the same interest rate shift.
Think of it this way: When the market interest rate rises to 4% but you own a security that pays you 3% in income, your security will lose some of its market value. For a security that will keep paying an inferior interest rate for 30 years, the loss is much greater.
This disparity is why the rising interest rates of the last year have been wonderful for short-term fixed-income investments and awful for those of longer term.
Rising yields may not be a problem if you buy a security for the income it provides and hold it until it matures. But if you trade a portfolio of bonds or hold shares in a bond mutual fund or an ETF, falling bond prices can outweigh the benefits of rising yields. That is what happened this year.
But now that yields are already fairly high, the outlook is different.
“Based on history, a year from now I don’t think we’re likely to have had another year with losses like the last one,” McQuarrie said.
Right now, bonds provide much greater income than at the beginning of the year, and that will provide at least a partial shield against the negative effects of any further increases in interest rates.
The basic argument of bond bulls is that at some point over the next year, interest rates will stabilize and then turn downward, because inflation will be under control and the economy will be slowing. Falling rates would drive up bond prices.
If you adhere to this outlook, it makes sense to lock in higher bond yields fairly soon.
That said, it would by no means be surprising if bond market yields instead rose
from here, causing further losses in bonds and bond funds. Odds are that such losses would be minor and more than offset by the income from higher yields. But there could well be some rocky months ahead.
On the other hand, the outlook would be much worse if inflation turned out to be intractable, the economy didn’t slow fairly soon in response to higher interest rates, and the Fed’s struggle to curb the rate of price increases persisted for years rather than months. Under those circumstances, longer-term interest rates could rise substantially, producing further declines in bond prices.
“I think the chances of that happening — and of there being further big losses in bonds — are pretty low over the next year,” said Kathy Jones, chief fixed income strategist for the Schwab Center for Financial Research. “Yields are already high enough that the outlook is quite good.”
Still, among the most troubling of foreseeable problems is this: Republicans in Congress are threatening to use the federal debt ceiling as a weapon in their negotiations with Democrats about spending and the budget. Congress will need to raise that ceiling before the government’s total borrowing reaches its current statutory limit. That’s expected to happen sometime in the summer or autumn
of 2023.
In the current partisan climate, it is easy to imagine toxic brinkmanship that would disrupt the bond market and may do much more damage than that.
As I wrote back in 2011, Treasuries are the linchpin of the entire global financial system, and tampering with them could have dire, far-reaching consequences.
Precisely because breaching the debt ceiling could be so consequential, most bond analysts assume it won’t happen.
There are other problems, too. Insufficient trading volume — or liquidity — in the Treasury market because of a complex series of changes in the marketplace over the last decade or two poses another threat. The Fed and the Treasury intervened successfully in past episodes, in which the lack of willing participants during financial panics magnified wild swings in the prices of bonds and of the funds that hold them. I assume the government will intervene again as needed.
Still, those caveats aside, I remain reasonably optimistic about bonds over the next year or two.
Every investor should hold a diversified selection of bonds. With a little bit of luck, owning them won’t be painful, and may even bring substantial satisfaction, in 2023.
October capped their worst 12-month period ever for bonds, and the economy is under pressure. Yet the fundamental math of bond returns bodes well for 2023, Jeff Sommer writes.Americans are into the holiday shopping season with rapidly increasing levels of credit card debt.
Credit card balances, which shrank early in the pandemic, rose 15% in the third quarter compared with a year earlier, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported earlier this month. It was the largest year-over-year increase in more than 20 years, and balances are now close to pre-pandemic levels. Total card debt, including new purchases and carriedover balances, has reached $930 billion.
Younger adults — those younger than 30 — and low-income borrowers have higher average balances than before the pandemic, the New York Fed reported. Almost three-quarters of Americans have a credit card by age 25.
That all suggests that some restraint with holiday spending is wise. Card delinquencies are ticking up after remaining historically low for two years, the New York Fed found.
Young adults may feel they are expected to return home for the holidays bearing fancy gifts. But they should keep in mind that relatives are simply happy to be reunited, said Kristen Holt, CEO of GreenPath Financial Wellness, a national nonprofit debt counselor with headquarters in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
“Your family just wants to see you and spend time with you,” she said.
Holt recommended that people talk with family members to set expectations and perhaps arrange a gift exchange with an agreed-upon price limit — say, $25 — so everyone gets a present, but no one has to break the bank. That can help keep card debt from getting out of control. GreenPath clients who are in their 20s are reporting average card debt of about $11,000, an increase of more than 40% from early this year, she said — possibly because of pent-up demand for vacations and other spending, along with a struggle to keep up with inflation.
Akeiva Ellis, a certified financial planner in Waltham, Massachusetts, suggested giving “family” gifts — say, a Fire TV stick for a family who likes to watch movies — rather than presents for each individual. Be aware of expensive assumptions as you make gift lists, she said. Just because you spent $50 on one person doesn’t mean you must spend $50 on everyone.
“Before you know it,” she said, “you’ve racked up a big bill.”
Regardless of your age, if your finances are tight, it’s best to say so.
“There are years when we can be more generous and years when we can’t,” said J. Michael Collins, faculty director at the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “We make money a taboo, but it’s OK to be transparent.”
Making a spending plan can help, said Perry Wright, senior behavioral researcher at Duke University’s Common Cents Lab, which studies financial decision-making. People often have a hard time predicting their bills, he said, because they forget common but less frequent expenses — say, a car insurance bill that arrives quarterly rather than monthly. So take time to think, as specifically as possible, about what sort of expenses are likely in the weeks ahead — including gifts and special groceries — and how you will pay for them, he said.
“Be deliberative,” he said. “Think about what you intend to do, then ‘right size’ your expenditures.”
And, he advised, include savings on
your “spending” list and set aside some cash. That way, you’ll have some reserves when those holiday bills come due.
Here are some questions and answers about managing holiday spending and debt: What’s happening with credit card interest rates?
Keeping the lid on card spending is especially important because interest rates are rising, meaning that it will be more costly if you carry balances from one month to the next. The average credit card rate tops 19%, up from about 16% early this year, according to Bankrate.
Is it better to use “buy now, pay later” financing?
Buy now, pay later services, including Afterpay, Affirm and Klarna, are increasingly popular. More than one-quarter of Americans have used them, and most are satisfied with them, according to a new survey from Consumer Reports. The short-term loans, typically offered online at the point of sale, allow bo-
rrowers to pay part of the purchase up front and pay the balance in several fixed payments.
But there’s reason to be cautious in using the services. Users may not consider it a form of credit, but, Ellis said, “It’s still debt.” The loans are easy to get, so people may take out several — and then have trouble juggling them. Consumer Reports found that people who had four or more of the loans at once missed payments at twice the rate of those with fewer loans. The survey also found that 10% of people who have used these services reported having difficulty getting refunds or stopping payments for items they never received.
What’s the best way to pay down credit card balances?
If you can’t pay your balance in full, pay more than the minimum required payment. Otherwise, you will take longer to eliminate your debt and pay much more in interest.
“Have a rule of thumb,” Wright said, such as paying $10 more than the minimum or double the minimum.
A series of studies by researchers at institutions including Ohio State University found that people who were able to choose particular purchases to repay — such as coffee at Starbucks or a utility bill — paid more toward reducing their debt. The technique increased awareness of what was being repaid, leading to a perception of greater progress toward reducing debt, a report on the experiments said.
Grant Donnelly, an assistant professor of marketing at Ohio State who was one of the authors of the report, said some credit cards, including offerings from American Express and Chase, have options for users to choose specific purchases to pay over time. But they may charge a fee to set up the payment plan.
You could try a “do it yourself” version, he said, by choosing one or more items on your card statement and paying off those amounts (though you should make sure you meet or exceed the minimum payment).
If you have balances on multiple cards, you’ll pay less interest by paying off the one with the highest rate first, Wright said. (Check your statement for the rate.) Pay at least the minimum due on the other cards and pay as much as you can toward the high-interest card until it’s paid off. Then, move on to the card with the next highest rate.
If you have good credit, you may consider a new card with an interest-free balancetransfer offer, which lets you pay off the debt over a fixed period of time. Usually, there is a fee of 3%-5% of the balance moved to the new card.
Credit card balances have been rising rapidly. But there are ways to navigate the giftgiving season without taking on a lot of new debt.Wall Street ended lower on Friday as investors assessed economic data and awaited a potential 50-basis point interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve at its policy meeting next week, while apparel company Lululemon slumped following a disappointing profit forecast.
U.S. producer prices rose slightly more than expected in November amid a jump in the costs of services, but the trend is moderating, with annual inflation at the factory gate posting its smallest increase in 1-1/2 years, data showed.
“Today’s data shows that inflation is coming down, but it’s lingering and is stickier than most assume,” said Anthony Saglimbene, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial in Troy, Michigan.However, in December, consumer sentiment improved, while inflation expectations eased to a 15-month low, a University of Michigan survey showed.
Futures trades suggest a 77% chance the Fed will raise interest rates by 50 basis points next week, with a 23% chance of a 75-basis point hike, with those odds little changed after Friday’s economic data.
Consumer prices data for November, due Tuesday, will provide fresh clues on the central bank’s monetary tightening plans.
Lululemon Athletica Inc tumbled almost 13% after the Canadian athletic apparel maker forecast lower-thanexpected holiday-quarter revenue and profit.
Netflix Inc gained 3.1% after Wells Fargo upgraded the video streaming giant to “overweight” from “equal weight”.
The S&P 500 declined 0.73% to end the session at 3,934.38 points.
The Nasdaq declined 0.70% to 11,004.62 points, while Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.90% to 33,476.46 points.
Of the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes, 10 declined, led lower by energy, down 2.33%, followed by a 1.28% loss in health care
he energy index recorded a seventh straight session of losses, its longest losing streak since December 2018, as oil prices looked set for weekly losses on recession concerns. [O/R]
Wall Street’s main indexes have fallen this week after logging two straight weekly gains. Weighing heavily on investors are fears of a potential recession next year due to extended the central bank’s rate hikes.
For the week, the S&P 500 dropped 3.4%, the Dow lost 2.8% and the Nasdaq shed 4%.
U.S. stocks ended a recent run of losses on Thursday after data showed initial jobless claims rose modestly last week.
Broadcom Inc jumped 2.6% after the chipmaker fore-
cast current-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates.
Boeing Co climbed 0.3% after Reuters report the plane maker plans to announce a deal with United Airlines for orders of 787 Dreamliner next week.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones within the S&P 500 by a 3.3-to-one ratio.
The S&P 500 posted 5 new highs and 1 new lows; the Nasdaq recorded 54 new highs and 213 new lows.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was relatively light, with 9.9 billion shares traded, compared to an average of 10.9 billion shares over the previous 20 sessions.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 3.36-to1 ratio on the NYSE. Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 2.67-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded 11 new 52-week highs and two new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 53 new highs and 132 new lows.
At 10:43 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 241.67 points, or 0.72%, at 33,839.59, the S&P 500 was up 32.12 points, or 0.82%, at 3,966.04, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 130.60 points, or 1.19%, at 11,089.15.
Roger García Ordaz makes no secret of his many attempts to flee.
He has tried to leave Cuba 11 times on boats made of wood, Styrofoam and resin, and has a tattoo for each failed attempt, including three boat mishaps and eight times picked up at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard and sent home.
Hundreds of homemade, rickety boats have left this year from the shores of Baracoa, a fishing village west of Havana where García, 34, lives — so many that locals call the town “Terminal Three.”
“Of course I am going to keep on throwing myself into the sea until I get there,” he said. “Or if the sea wants to take my life, so be it.”
Living conditions in Cuba under Communist rule have long been precarious, but today, deepening poverty and hopelessness have set off the largest exodus from the Caribbean island nation since Fidel Castro rose to power over a half-century ago.
The country has been hit by a one-two punch of tighter U.S. sanctions and the COVID-19 pandemic, which eviscerated one of Cuba’s lifelines — the tourism industry. Food has become even more scarce and more expensive, lines at pharmacies with scant supplies begin before dawn and millions of people endure daily hourslong blackouts.
Over the past year, nearly 250,000 Cubans, more than 2% of the island’s 11 million population, have migrated to the United States, most of them arriving at the southern border by land, according to U.S. government data.
Even for a nation known for mass exodus, the current wave is remarkable — larger than the 1980 Mariel boatlift and the 1994 Cuban rafter crisis combined, until recently the island’s two biggest migration events.
But while those movements peaked within a year, experts say this migration, which they compare with a wartime exodus, has no end in sight and threatens the stability of a country that already has one of the hemisphere’s oldest populations.
The avalanche of Cubans leaving has also become a challenge for the United States. Now one of the highest sources of migrants after Mexico, Cuba has become a top contributor to the crush of migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border, which has been a major political liability for President Joe Biden and which the administration consid-
Joan Cruz Méndez, who has tried to leave Cuba three times, near Havana, Nov. 24, 2022. “I think a large part of the population has lost hope,” he said.
ers a serious national security issue.
“The numbers for Cuba are historic, and everybody recognizes that,” said a senior State Department official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. “That said, more people are migrating globally now than they ever have been and that trend is certainly bearing out in our hemisphere, too.”
Many experts say that U.S. policy toward the island is helping fuel the very migration crisis that the administration is now struggling to address.
To appeal to Cuban American voters in South Florida, the Trump administration discarded President Barack Obama’s policy of engagement, which included restoring diplomatic relations and increasing travel to the island. President Donald Trump replaced it with a “maximum pressure” campaign that ratcheted up sanctions and severely limited how much cash Cubans could receive from their families in the United States, a key source of revenue.
“This is not rocket science: If you devastate a country 90 miles from your border with sanctions, people will come to your border in search of economic opportunity,” said Ben Rhodes, who served as deputy national security adviser under Obama and was the point person on talks with Cuba.
While any significant rollback of sanctions remains off the table, the two governments are engaged in efforts to address the extraordinary migration surge.
Washington recently announced that it would restart consular services in Havana in January and issue at least 20,000 visas to Cubans next year in line with long-standing agreements between the two nations, which officials hope will dissuade some people from trying to make dangerous journeys to the United States.
Havana has agreed to resume accept-
ing flights from the United States of Cubans who are deported, another move to try to discourage migration. The Biden administration has also reversed the cap on money that Cuban Americans are allowed to send to relatives and licensed a U.S. company to process the wire transfers to Cuba.
Cuba’s free fall has been accelerated by the pandemic: Over the past three years, Cuba’s financial reserves have dwindled, and it has struggled to stock shore shelves. Imports — largely food and fuel — have dropped by half. The situation is so dire that the government electric company boasted this month that electrical service had run uninterrupted that day for 13 hours and 13 minutes.
Last year, fed up by the economic decline and a lack of freedom compounded by a COVID-19 lockdown, tens of thousands of Cubans took to the streets in the biggest anti-government protests in decades. A crackdown followed, with nearly 700 people still imprisoned, according to a Cuban human rights group.
Cubans of fewer means try to leave by building makeshift boats, and at least 100 have died at sea since 2020, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard has intercepted nearly 3,000 Cubans at sea in the past two months alone.
But these days most Cuban migrants fly off the island, with relatives abroad often paying the airfare, followed by a tough overland journey. (Cuba lifted an exit visa requirement to leave by air a decade ago, although it is still illegal to leave by sea.)
The floodgates opened last year, when Nicaragua stopped requiring an entrance visa for Cubans. Tens of thousands of people sold their homes and belongings and flew to Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, paying smugglers to help them make the 1,700mile journey by land to the U.S. border.
Katrin Hansing, an anthropologist at the City University of New York who is on sabbatical on the island, noted that the soaring migration figures do not account for the thousands who have left for other countries, including Serbia and Russia.
“This is the biggest quantitative and qualitative brain drain this country has ever had since the revolution,” she said. “It’s the best and the brightest and the ones with the most energy.”
The departure of many younger, working-age Cubans augurs a bleak demographic future for a country where the average life expectancy of 78 is higher than for the rest of the region, experts said. The govern-
ment already can barely afford the meager pensions the country’s older population relies on.
The hemorrhaging of Cubans from their homeland is nothing short of “devastating,” said Elaine Acosta González, a research associate at Florida International University. “Cuba is depopulating.”
Just a few years ago, the country’s future seemed far different. With the Obama administration loosening restrictions on travel to Cuba, American tourists pumped dollars into the island’s fledgling private sector.
Now, travel is again severely limited, and years of economic downturn have for many Cubans extinguished the last embers of optimism.
Joan Cruz Méndez, a taxi driver who has tried to leave three times, looked out to the sea in Baracoa and explained why so many boats that once lined the town’s shores are gone, along with their owners.
“The last thing you can lose is hope, and I think a large part of the population has lost hope,” said Cruz, recounting how he had once made it out 30 miles to sea only to be forced to turn back, because too many people onboard got seasick and vomited.
In March, Cruz, 41, bought a plane ticket for his wife to fly to Panama and tapped his savings to pay a smuggler $6,000 to get her to the United States, where she claimed political asylum. She is working at an auto parts store in Houston.
In the woods just beyond the town, people were busy building more boats, stripping motors from cars, electric generators and lawn mowers.
When the sea is calm, they wait for the local Cuban coast guard contingent to clock off its shift, before carrying the makeshift vessels on their shoulders through town and over craggy rocks before lowering them gently into the water.
In May, Yoel Taureaux Duvergel, 32, and his wife, Yanari, who was five months pregnant with their only child, and four others set out in the wee hours. But their motor broke. They started rowing, but were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard just a few miles from the United States and taken back to Cuba, where Taureaux tries to get by doing odd jobs.
Asked why he had tried to leave, he laughed. “What do you mean why did I want to leave?” he said. “Don’t you live in the Cuban reality?”
Authorities in Belgium have started a sweeping operation to detain and question five people including former and current members and employees of the European Parliament as part of an inquiry into suspected bribes by Qatar, officials in Brussels say.
The police operation, which began Friday and was still underway Saturday, is focused on what could be the biggest scandal in the history of the parliament. Among those taken in for questioning, according to a Belgian official involved with the investigation, was Eva Kaili of Greece, one of the parliament’s vice presidents.
“For several months, investigators of the Federal Judicial Police have suspected a Gulf country to influence the economic and political decisions of the European Parliament,” the Belgian prosecutor’s office said in its news release. “This is done so by paying large sums of money or offering large gifts to third parties with a significant political and/or strategic position within the European Parliament.”
Belgian police said in a detailed statement Friday that their raids in 16 locations — including private residences across the capital, Brussels — had yielded a suitcase with 600,000 euros in cash ($633,000). They also said they had seized computers and cellphones.
Although the police did not name the country linked to the inquiry in their news release, the Belgian official directly involved with the investigation and a European lawmaker who requested anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the news media, said it was Qatar. The Belgian official spoke on the condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to divulge further details publicly.
He said that the inquiry had been underway for at least four months, and that the possible crimes occurred during that period and potentially earlier.
The investigation, first reported Friday by Belgian news outlets Le Soir and Knack, comes as Qatar is hosting the men’s soccer World Cup amid heightened scrutiny.
The scandal is likely to embarrass the Qatari government, which has faced criticism over the exploitation of migrant workers who helped build the tournament’s infrastructure. In addition, the authoritarian country’s criminalization of homosexuality has become a flashpoint among some Western teams and fans and FIFA, the gov-
erning body for global soccer. And corruption was also already a focus.
A Qatari government official said Saturday that the government was not aware of any details of a European investigation. The official said that any claims of misconduct by Qatar were gravely misinformed and that the state operated in full compliance with international laws and regulations.
The Belgian prosecutors questioning the five detainees have 48 hours, until Sunday afternoon, to charge them.
The European Parliament, together with the other key institutions of the 27-nation bloc, is based in Brussels, Belgium’s capital.
The Belgian official said those detained include Kaili; her life partner, Francesco Giorgi, who works as an aide to another European lawmaker; Luca Visentini, the recently elected chief of the global workers union, the International Trade Union Confederation; and Pier Antonio Panzeri, a former member of the European Parliament. The identity of the fifth person in custody was not known.
Kaili has been a prominent European Union lawmaker since 2014, taking on high-profile causes including cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence. Hours after the news of her detention became public, her party, Greece’s center-left PASOK, expelled her from its ranks; the centrist So -
cialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament suspended her.
“We are appalled by the allegations of corruption in the European institutions,” said Jan Bernas, the parliamentary group’s spokesperson. “The S&D Group has zero tolerance for corruption. We are the first to support a thorough investigation and full disclosure.”
Given the seriousness of the accusations, he said the group was seeking the suspension of any European Parliament work on files and plenary votes relating to Gulf nations, especially ones involving visas and visits.
Panzeri had once been a member of the Socialists and Democrats grouping. The office at his nongovernmental organization, Fight Impunity, did not respond to a request for comment.
The International Trade Union Confederation declined to comment on the case.
Co-workers of Giorgi’s at the parliament, as well as his boss, Andrea Cozzolino, an Italian member
of parliament, did not respond to an email requesting comment.
Kaili’s parliamentary office, on the building’s 10th floor in Brussels, and Giorgi’s office, on the 15th floor, were both sealed by the Belgian police, according to parliament employees who saw the police cordons in person and asked not to be named because they were not authorized to comment.
The European Parliament is one of the three key institutions of the EU, although it is widely considered the least powerful. Its 705 members, elected in their home countries and serving five-year terms, do not initiate legislation, but their approval is usually required to pass it. They can also censure the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, and play an often high-profile role in scrutinizing the bloc’s policies.
Despite their limited institutional power, European lawmakers are often approached by lobbyists from nations, industries and interest groups seeking to influence public opinion on their causes, and to gain allies in the room where important policies are debated.
Kaili was a vocal supporter of Qatar in the months leading up to the World Cup, and she recently visited the country on a formal trip.
“Today, the World Cup in Qatar is proof, actually, of how sports diplomacy can achieve a historical transformation of a country with reforms that inspired the Arab world,” Kaili said in a speech before the parliament last month. “I alone said that Qatar is a front-runner in labor rights,” she said, including the abolition of kafala, a system that allowed employers to hold their workers’ passports and therefore effectively control their ability to leave the country or change jobs.
“Still, some here are calling to discriminate them,” Kaili said of Europe’s approach to Qatar. “They bully them, and they accuse everyone that talks to them or engages of corruption.”
Russian drone strikes on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa plunged more than 1.5 million people in the region into darkness over the weekend, while 220 miles to the east, the Ukrainians struck the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol, an attack that opened another front in the fiercely contested battle for territory.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said the country’s forces had shot down 10 of 15 drones that Russia deployed over Odesa, a tally not immediately possible to verify. But he said the strikes by Russia, part of a nationwide assault on Ukraine’s energy grid, had left the region in a “very difficult” situation, warning that it would take “days,” not “hours,” to restore power to civilians.
Some 300,000 residents of the Odesa region remained without electricity Sunday afternoon, the head of the regional military administration, Maxim Marchenko, said on Telegram, the messaging app. By Monday there should be a “significant improvement in the situation,” he said.
Odesa is the latest Ukrainian city to lose power after relentless Russian attacks on power plants, heating systems and other energy infrastructure. The attacks, using missiles and Iranian-made drones, have left Ukrainians vulnerable and in the dark just as the coldest time of the year is beginning.
All the country’s thermal and hydroelectric power plants have been damaged by the recent waves of Russian strikes, Denys Shmyhal, the Ukrainian prime minister, said Sunday.
On Facebook, Shmyhal wrote that there would be “significant restrictions on electricity consumption” through the winter.
In Melitopol, the Ukrainian strikes reportedly hit a church used as a base by Russian soldiers, underscoring the importance of artillery to soften up Russian positions in the next phase of Ukraine’s campaign to recapture land in its south.
“Fireworks in the east of Melitopol,” the city’s exiled mayor, Ivan Fedorov, said on Telegram, where he posted video taken at night of a large fire burning in the distance. Russian forces were ferrying their wounded by car to hospitals in Crimea, Fedorov said, but many people had also been killed.
It was not possible to verify the video or Fedorov’s description independently.
Tass, a state-owned Russian news agency, quoted the pro-Russian acting governor of the Zaporizhzhia region, Yevgeny Balitsky, as saying that a strike on Melitopol using a HIMARS guided-rocket system had killed two people and wounded 10 others.
For months, Ukrainian partisans working behind Russian lines have carried out attacks on targets around Melitopol, including one in the summer near Balitsky’s office. Fedorov said there had also been other attacks in the city in recent days, as well as a strike on the port city of Berdiansk, farther east.
When Ukraine recaptured the southern city of Kherson in mid-November, forcing Moscow to withdraw its troops to the east bank of the Dnieper River after months of military pressure, it opened a new phase of the battle for Ukraine’s south.
The advance has enabled Ukraine to use longer-range artillery, including the HIMARS weapons system supplied by the United States, to strike targets deeper inside Russian-controlled territory between the eastern bank of the river and the Sea of Azov, an area that includes Melitopol.
However hopeful the Ukrainians find these military successes, they are offset by the Russian-inflicted damage to the plants and equipment that Ukrainians rely on for heat and light. The relentless barrage, which has drawn condemnation from world leaders, thrusts Ukraine into a grim cycle in which crews hurry to restore power only to have it knocked out again.
In remarks Saturday night, Zelenskyy said that blackouts persisted throughout various parts of Ukraine, including in the capital, Kyiv. Some were what he classified as “emergency” outages resulting from attacks. Others were what he called “stabilization” outages, or planned blackouts on a schedule.
“The power system is now, to put it mildly, very far from a normal state — there is an acute shortage in the system,” he said, urging people to reduce their power use to put less strain on the battered power grid.
“It must be understood: Even if there are no heavy missile strikes, this does not mean that there are no problems,” Zelenskyy continued. “Almost every day, in different regions, there is shelling, there are missile attacks, drone attacks. Energy facilities are hit almost every day.”
Two people were killed and five others wounded in Russian shelling in the Kherson region on Saturday night, according to Yaroslav Yanushevich, the head of the regional military administration there.
“The enemy again attacked the residential quarters of Kherson,” Yanushevich said on Telegram. “Enemy shells hit the maternity ward of the hospital, a cafe, an infrastructure facility, private and apartment buildings.”
Russian shelling has become part of daily life in Kherson since Ukrainian forces retook it last month. Russian troops
who withdrew have since then fired hundreds of shells at the city from their new positions.
For all the advances made by Ukrainian troops, military experts caution that the next phase of the battle is likely to be slow. Russian forces, led since October by Gen. Sergei Surovikin, have improved their defenses in Ukraine’s south and east in recent weeks.
“Surovikin ordered a network of trenches and defensive positions to be built in many areas, as Russia transitions to an overall defensive position through the winter,” said Dara Massicot, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corp., in a thread on Twitter.
Moreover, it is difficult for Ukrainian forces to cross the Dnieper River in large numbers, a likely prerequisite to any advance. Russian forces benefit from shortened supply lines and proximity to Crimea, a region farther south that Moscow annexed illegally in 2014.
Ukraine has launched a series of strikes on targets in Crimea in recent months and, on Saturday, a partisan group, the ATESH resistance movement, said it had struck a Russian military base in a village on the peninsula, causing casualties.
“Our agents performed as expected,” the group said on Telegram. “We will continue to destroy the Russian army from the inside.” It was not possible to confirm the attack independently.
In an impassioned speech upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, the laureate from Ukraine seized the moment to make an incongruous but powerful point: At this moment in history, she said, the only way to secure democracy, human rights and a lasting peace in Ukraine is to fight.
“People of Ukraine want peace more than anyone else in the world,” said Oleksandra Matviychuk, who accepted the prize on behalf of the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine, which she heads. “But peace cannot be reached by a country under attack laying down its arms. This would not be peace, but occupation.”
The other two laureates — Memorial, a Russian research and human rights organization, and Ales Bialiatski, a jailed Belarusian activist — have also become symbols of resistance and accountability during the largest ground war in Europe since World War II, set off by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Memorial is known for its efforts to uncover the crimes of the Soviet era, but Jan Rachinsky, its chair, who accepted the award for Memorial, said that his organization does more than research and document the tragedies of the past, extending its efforts to the “acute social conflicts of the present.”
“What we see as the root cause of these crimes is the sanctification of the Russian state as the supreme value,” he said in his speech. “This requires that the absolute priority of power is to serve the ‘interests of the state’ over the interests of individual human beings and their freedom, dignity and rights.”
This “inverted system of values,” he said, “prevailed in the Soviet Union for 70 years and, regrettably, continues until today.”
In her acceptance speech, Matviychuk of the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine said the international system designed after World War II has been severely undermined and called on world leaders to “stop pretending deferred military threats are ‘political compromises.’”
“The democratic world has grown accustomed to making concessions to dictatorships,” she said. “And that is why
the willingness of the Ukrainian people to resist Russian imperialism is so important.”
A desire for peace does not mean peace at any cost, she said, and her country cannot “leave people in the occupied territories to be killed and tortured.”
“People’s lives cannot be a ‘political compromise,’” she said. “Fighting for peace does not mean yielding to pressure of the aggressor; it means protecting people from its cruelty.”
Before the ceremonies, which were held in Oslo, Norway, Russia launched more than a dozen Iranian-made attack drones in a predawn assault on targets in Ukraine’s south, knocking out power in the city of Odesa and the surrounding region.
In his nightly address, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said that the situation was “very difficult” in parts of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, with the fighting around Bakhmut particularly vicious. He said overnight that Russian forces had “destroyed” Bakhmut, turning the city, once home to 70,000 people, into “burnt ruins.”
The Nobel committee’s decision to group a Ukrainian civil society organization with human rights defenders from
Russia and Belarus prompted some initial backlash in Ukraine when the award was announced in October. Some saw it as an affront to those who have been working to protect Ukrainians since Russia invaded the country in February.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Zelenskyy, issued a scathing criticism of the Nobel committee, saying that it had an “interesting understanding of the word ‘peace.’”
“Neither Russian nor Belarusian organizations were able to oppose this war,” he said in a statement.
Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said before the ceremony that the awards were given to send a signal that the conflict in Ukraine must end.
“Sometimes an effort for peace lies with civil society and not with state ambitions alone,” she said. “Peace is a wish and achievement that comes with a value that all laureates work for: addressing atrocities, war crimes and rule of law.”
She said that a disregard for those values was at the core of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“Exactly in these times this is a very important reminder,” she said.
Natalia Pinchuk, the wife of Ales
Bialiatski, received the prize on her husband’s behalf. He was detained in Belarus following protests in 2020 against the reelection of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and remains in jail without trial. He faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted.
Lukashenko allowed his country to be used as a staging ground for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Russian bombers continue to use Belarusian air space to launch missile strikes across Ukraine. The massing of Russian soldiers there recently has led to repeated speculation that Belarus may be preparing to intervene in the conflict on the Kremlin’s behalf.
Pinchuk said that today’s political and military events “threaten Belarus with the loss of statehood and independence.”
“Unfortunately, the authorities choose to engage with society through the use of force — grenades, batons, stun guns, endless arrests and torture,” she said. “There is no effort or talk about national compromise or dialogue.”
It was precisely that kind of violent oppression that Matviychuk said Ukraine was fighting to prevent, framing the war as part of a broader struggle between competing visions of the world.
“This is not a war between two states; it is a war of two systems: authoritarianism and democracy,” she said. “We are fighting for the opportunity to build a state in which everyone’s rights are protected, authorities are accountable, courts are independent and the police do not beat peaceful student demonstrations in the central square of the capital.”
Populism in Western politics is not a pre-theorized worldview. It emerged from inchoate grievances rather than existing ideologies, and the theorists have been chasing after it ever since.
The chasers include populism’s would-be friends, intellectuals trying to graft agendas onto Trumpism or Brexit or whatever’s happening in Italy or France. But populism’s critics are also always in the hunt, eager to find some dark wizard, some éminence grise whose ideas can give substance to their fears.
In the past few years that search has made a microcelebrity out of Curtis Yarvin, a programmer who spent years writing recondite critiques of modern liberalism under the nom de web “Mencius Moldbug,” before emerging in the mid-to-late 2010s as part of a larger cast of Silicon Valley reactionaries.
Unlike some other figures in that troupe, Yarvin does not need to be caricatured to make him out to be an enemy of liberal democracy. He is forthright in his belief that the present order — to his mind, an oligarchy governed by a complex of elite institutions (like The New York Times) that he calls “the Cathedral” — should be overthrown and replaced by a digital age monarchy, a king-CEO.
In profiles of Yarvin, whether hostile or curious, you can see the profiler struggling to link this worldview to normal political debates. With sufficient work you can interpret the chaos of Jan. 6, 2021, as a proto-monarchist gambit. Alternatively you can take the tamest of Yarvin’s ideas and read
him as an advocate of a more-imperial-than-usual president, a Franklin Roosevelt of the right. But either interpretation leaves a gap between his radical imagination and actual American politics.
Maybe, though, Yarvin shouldn’t be read primarily as a theorist of American political realities. Rather, in keeping with his tech industry roots, he’s a theorist for virtual reality, and his case for monarchy is really about the best way to rule the emergent principalities of social media.
I’ve been thinking about this while watching Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter (about which Yarvin has a lot to say). In some ways what’s happening is capitalism as usual: New CEO fires old guard, seeks new revenue streams, and so on.
But in other ways the takeover feels more like a premodern political struggle — a clash between ecclesiastical and monarchical authority, between clerics and a king.
Musk claims to want Twitter to serve as a digital town square. But that seems like a category error: Social media includes aspects of a town square experience, but fundamentally it’s a larger parallel reality, a prototype of the immersive virtual world that Mark Zuckerberg has so far failed to build. It’s a place where people form communities and alliances, nurture friendships and sexual relationships, yell and flirt, cheer and pray. And all this happens transnationally, the system spreading itself across borders while policing who can cross its own.
So there’s a sense in which Twitter is a new kind of polity, a place people don’t just visit but inhabit. And for a polity it’s crucial who sets the rules of citizenship, who gets banished or ostracized or dumped in Twitter jail. The furious and enthusiastic reactions to Musk’s takeover resemble the furious and enthusiastic reactions to presidential races because in both cases the leadership change really affects how people experience their daily lives.
With the crucial difference, though, that no one yet has a compelling idea of what a social media democracy would look like. So instead of electoral choices, the options are governance of the kind that Twitter used to have, with a clerical class enforcing rules and norms somewhat opaquely, based on the theology of current progressivism, or the personalized governance it has now, with Czar Elon I issuing amnesties while explaining that Alex Jones will
remain forever exiled because the czar has personal reasons to hate anyone who exploits the death of children.
If that’s the choice, theories of monarchy and oligarchy are intensely relevant to virtual politics, even if they’re overstretched as theories of the real-world American republic. That goes for Marxist theorizing as well as well as Yarvin’s reactionary analysis: Just as his progressive “Cathedral” can potentially exert greater power over Twitter than over America, so too can a right-wing billionaire or “boss” class more plausibly dominate a virtual polity than a real one.
There is also some dynamic relationship between virtual power and real-world politics. But we don’t know yet where it will go. Will the metaverse develop to a point at which it matters more who rules social media kingdoms than who occupies the White House? Will reality have its revenge, subjecting the virtual sphere to democratic authority, regulating its medieval politics away?
For now, watching Musk rule by decree, all we can say for certain is that (pending the revenue issues that always baffle monarchs) it’s good to be the king.
SAN JUAN – El presidente de la Junta de Control Fiscal (JCF), David Skeel rechazó el domingo la solicitud del gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia para que los empleados de las corporaciones públicas sean incluídos en el Bono Especial.
“Como saben, el Gobierno ya repartió la asignación sobrante de este año. Además, la Junta ha compartido anteriormente, y continúa apoyando, el principio de que todas las entidades gubernamentales deben ser autosuficientes y se debe minimizar el traspaso financiero entre ellas. En consecuencia, incluso si la Junta considerara la solicitud del Gobierno de expandir el sobrante a entidades fuera del Estado Libre Asociado no elegibles, el Gobierno tendría que identificar una fuente de financiamiento de las Entidades fuera del Estado Libre Asociado para los 60 millones de dólares adicionales solicitados”, dijo Skeel en declaraciones escritas.
“Teniendo en cuenta la falta de fondos exce-
dentes disponibles en muchas de las entidades que no pertenecen al Estado Libre Asociado, combinada con la necesidad de usar fondos para inversión, la Junta está preocupada por el impacto potencial de la solicitud de expansión del Gobierno. El Estado Libre Asociado podría explorar el uso potencial de fondos federales, como las asignaciones del Plan de Rescate Estadounidense”, añadió.
Luego de que se anunciara que como consecuencia de la negociación del Sindicato Servidores Públicos Unidos con la Junta en el proceso de aprobación del Plan de Ajuste de la Deuda, se le otorgó a los empleados públicos que pertenecen a ese sindicato alrededor de 12 mil dólares en el Bono Especial. Al resto de los empleados públicos que no pertenecen a corporaciones públicas, les dieron alrededor de 3 mil dólares.
Los empleados de las corporaciones públicas como la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, Autoridad de Carreteras y Transportación, Autoridad de Edificios Públicos y la Universidad de Puerto Rico exigieron ser incluídos en el pago.
LA FORTALEZA – El gobernador, Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, anunció el domingo que la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Infraestructura (AFI) emitió la notificación de la adjudicación de la subasta formal para el diseño y construcción de las nuevas instalaciones médicas en Vieques.
“Este es un proyecto prioritario de mi Administración y un compromiso que tengo con el pueblo viequense para que por fin puedan tener unas instalaciones médicas adecuadas y de primer orden. Agradezco al alcalde José Corcino y a AFI, así como a COR3 y FEMA, por todo el trabajo en conjunto para lograr lo que será una estructura esencial para brindar servicios de salud vitales en la isla municipio”, sostuvo el gobernador en declaraciones escritas.
Por su parte, el director ejecutivo de AFI, Eduardo Rivera Cruz, sostuvo que la adjudicación fue a la empresa Caribe Tecno CRL, luego de un proceso en el que participaron 23 proponentes, de los cuales cuatro presentaron propuestas y fueron evaluadas por la Junta de Subastas de la AFI, conforme a los criterios de la solicitud de propuestas publicada a finales del mes de agosto de 2022.
La obra propuesta, que se realizará mediante una inversión aproximada de sobre $80 millones, se adhiere a toda la reglamentación de diseño y construcción vigente, según los códigos de construcción, y contará con la clasificación de “Green Building”. El proceso tomó en consideración los costos, la experiencia, la capacidad financiera, el personal y la inclusión de minorías en la firma, entre otros aspectos evaluativos.
Por su parte, el director ejecutivo de AFI indicó que “tenemos un proyecto que cumple con todos los pará-
metros reglamentarios para instalaciones médicas, los procesos transparentes de subasta pública y responde a las necesidades de los residentes y visitantes de la Isla Nena”. Se informó que el proyecto cuenta con todas las subvenciones necesarias para su realización con el aval de la Secretaría Auxiliar para la Reglamentación y Acreditación de Facilidades de Salud (SARAF), la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA), el Municipio de Vieques, la Oficina Central de Recuperación, Reconstrucción y Resiliencia (COR3), y la Junta de Supervisión Fiscal (JSF).
“Esta etapa final del proceso de gestión de la construcción de estas instalaciones médicas es la culminación de largas horas de trabajo y colaboración entre entidades federales y estatales ante la cuales presentamos las propuestas y argumentos para la obtención de los recursos necesarios,” aseguró Rivera Cruz.
Las nuevas instalaciones médicas en la isla municipio de Vieques ubican en el predio donde fue demolida la estructura del antiguo Centro de Diagnóstico y Tratamiento (CDT) que sufrió daños sustanciales tras el embate de los huracanes Irma y María. El ámbito del proyecto incluye un edificio para los servicios de diálisis, sala de emergencia para adultos y sala pediátrica, sala de cirugía menor, centro de imágenes, espacios para clínicas externas, sala de espera y helipuerto, entre otros servicios.
slow burn about an alienated Belgian housewife who turns tricks — which Akerman directed when she was 25 — would have more support than the usual old-school favorites. I mean, wow!
Still, I wonder what Akerman, who died in 2015, would have made of this. It’s worth noting that she didn’t contribute to the previous poll. The day that this latest one hit, Isabel Stevens, Sight and Sound’s managing editor, tweeted that when the magazine asked Akerman to contribute to a different survey in 2014, she replied, “I don’t really like the idea, it is just like at school.” Akerman said she’d think about it but didn’t understand this desire to classify everything, adding, “It is tiring and not really necessary to do these kinds of things.”
It almost feels insulting to include Akerman in this exercise, and yet human beings are invested in creating and maintaining hierarchies, so canon formation feels inevitable.
and only one by a Black director. This time around there were nine women — including two films each from Akerman and Agnés Varda — as well as seven by African and African American filmmakers, including Spike Lee, Charles Burnett, Barry Jenkins and Djibril Diop Mambéty.
There has been some predictable grumbling about how this inclusiveness must be a sign that political concerns have overtaken aesthetic judgment, a claim that indicates either bad faith or proud ignorance about the social bearings of art. The bigger shock to me is that it took so long for the greatness — and the influence — of movies like “Jeanne Dielman,” Varda’s “Cléo From 5 to 7,” Barbara Loden’s “Wanda,” Burnett’s “Killer of Sheep” and Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” to be recognized in this forum.
By A.O. SCOTT and MANOHLA DARGISEarlier this month, the British film magazine Sight and Sound released the results of its decennial poll of what it calls “the greatest films of all time.” In 1952, the first year the magazine conducted its survey, Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist classic “Bicycle Thieves” was voted No. 1. Ten years later, it was supplanted by Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane,” which held that position until 2012, when it was knocked from its berth by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.” This year, Chantal Akerman’s 1975 tour de force, “Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles,” supplanted “Vertigo,” shocking the world (OK, some movie people). The Times’ chief film critics discussed the poll and what it means.
A.O. SCOTT: Before the poll results were published, I was prepared to let loose with a rant about the nullity of list-making, the barbarism of conducting criticism by vote and the utter emptiness of the idea that one movie could be the best of all time.
Don’t get me wrong: I still believe all those things. (And also, less highmindedly, I’ve always been a little hurt that Sight and Sound never asked for my 10-best list.) But the ascension of “Jeanne Dielman” to the top spot was a welcome jolt to the critical system.
MANOHLA DARGIS: I never expected that Akerman’s brilliant, formally austere, intellectually uncompromising, three-hour-and-21-minute
SCOTT: We do love to rank and sort! This year, Sight and Sound expanded its reach, soliciting ballots from more than 1,600 critics, almost twice as many as in 2012. (The directors’ poll is a separate undertaking, in which Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” captured the top spot.) As with some of the recent Oscar victories, you can see evidence of generational and other demographic shifts. There were two films directed by women on the 2012 list,
To me, and to many of the voters, I suspect, those movies clearly belong in the company of more established classics like “Citizen Kane,” “Vertigo” and Yasujiro Ozu’s “Tokyo Story.” But the presence of newly consecrated masterworks also changes our understanding of the old ones, refreshing them with new meaning. You see new patterns and affiliations when the poignant household observations of “Tokyo Story” are in conversation with the rigorous attention to domestic alienation in “Jeanne Dielman.”
DARGIS: I think that’s exactly right. Akerman and Ozu and Renoir and Burnett are all giants. That said, I think the overall list is too narrowly shaped by respectable, consensus favorites from two familiar traditions: Hollywood and the art film. That pretty much defines my selections, too (I’ll share them below), and I wish I’d made room for weird, messy, disreputable movies, for a genre masterwork like George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead,” a movie that is forever lodged in my being, and for more avant-garde filmmakers.
Much of this is about the creation of taste and how films are categorized and elevated, packaged and sold, and how and when they cycle in and out of
Charlie Chaplin in “The Gold Rush.”
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Anne Wiazemsky in “Au Hasard Balthazar,” directed by Robert Bresson.
favor. “Citizen Kane” dominated for so long not simply because it’s a masterwork, but also because Welles was a film martyr who legendarily fought Hollywood, and he was a ubiquitous cultural presence as film studies were becoming institutionalized. Importantly, “Kane” was repeatedly shown on broadcast television, and it was a repertory-house staple. Availability also may help explain why “Vertigo” — which was restored in 1996 to wide acclaim — rose to the top in 2012.
I assume that availability at least partly clarifies why there is just one silent movie on the critics’ Top 10: Dziga Vertov’s 1929 “Man With a Movie Camera.” Scandalously, there are only nine silent movies total on the entire list of 100 films, none made before the 1920s. If this list looks different than it did 10, 20, 30 years ago, it’s less because critics and directors are now hewing to some phantom politically correct agenda; it’s because of factors like the decline in rep houses, the rise of film festivals, shifts in home entertainment, changes in the industry and in film schools. The mainstreaming of feminist film theory helped “Jeanne Dielman,” but surely so did the fact that it’s now streaming, including via the Criterion Collection.
I also assume that D.W. Griffith’s “Intolerance” (which tied for 93rd place in 2012) fell off the list not because the poll’s contributors are in PC lock step or worried about rebuke. Rather, the kind of spurious formalism that long dominated film discourse — and which insisted that the racism in Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” was less important than his artistry — is no longer tenable
to many of us. There are, after all, many other filmmakers to celebrate instead.
It’s notable that for this poll, only the directors showed love for Roman Polanski, choosing “Chinatown” as the 72nd greatest — it hasn’t changed in 10 years, but everything else has.
SCOTT: Back in 1952, when the first Sight and Sound poll was published — heavy on silent films, by the way, since the other kind had only been around for 25 years or so — the academic discipline of film studies did not exist. Like literature before it, film has in the decades since been partly annexed by classroom study. I suspect that many critics under 40 first encountered a lot of these movies that way, including “Jeanne Dielman,” which is a staple of the syllabus in courses on feminist film, European art cinema and the tradition of the avant-garde.
One thing that hasn’t changed, at least among critics, is the tenacity of the auteur idea: the assumption that film is above all a director’s art. The canon of auteurs has expanded beyond the certified Old Masters of classical Hollywood, Japanese and European cinema. Some of those guys have at least for now been pushed into exile — we miss you, Howard Hawks — to make room for new consensus figures like Akerman, Varda, Wong Kar-wai and David Lynch. But the auteur principle remains durable, perhaps partly as a protest against the hegemony of IP-driven corporate “cinema.”
The directors’ list is in some ways more populist, with more room for genre. The critics are still a bit wary of horror, science fiction, comedy and
animation, which is represented for the first time with two films by the great Hayao Miyazaki. It does seem strange, though, to contemplate a survey of all of film history that leaves out Walt Disney and Chuck Jones.
DARGIS: I wish that Jones had made the cut, though Warners, his old studio, continues to keep him alive in some fashion, just as Disney makes sure that Walt maintains a grip on our hearts, minds and wallets. The industry takes care of those it can exploit, another reason I contributed to the poll: I want people to discover other movies. So, while I share Chris Marker’s 1992 reservation about the poll partly because favorites change (though mind you, he did single out “Vertigo”), here are my current 10 beloveds in order: “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson), “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola), “Jeanne Dielman,” “Flowers of Shanghai” (Hou Hsiao-Hsien), “The Gleaners and I” (Varda), “Tokyo Story,”
“Killer of Sheep,” “Little Stabs at Happiness” (Ken Jacobs), “There Will Be Blood” (Paul Thomas Anderson) and “Shoes” (Lois Weber).
So, Tony, what would you have submitted?
SCOTT: I thought you’d never ask! Picking just 10 movies is a brutal discipline, and I’ll try to pretend that I’m voting before knowing how everybody else did. Here’s a list I might have submitted, in chronological order: “The Gold Rush” (Charlie Chaplin); “La Terra Trema” (Luchino Visconti); “What’s Opera, Doc?” (Chuck Jones); “Big Deal on Madonna Street” (Mario Monicelli); “La Dolce Vita” (Federico Fellini); “Cléo From 5 to 7” (Varda); “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” (William Greaves); “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee); “Paris Is Burning” (Jennie Livingston); “Happy as Lazzaro” (Alice Rohrwacher).
Let’s check back in 2032 and see how it all holds up.
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Plaintiff, Vs. EMMA ISABEL JIMENEZ VARGAS Defendant(s) Civil No.: 3:19-cv-01568.
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To: EMMA ISABEL JIMENEZ VARGAS. 7D COND. SKY TOWER I, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00926.THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: On September 13, 2022, this Court entered Default Judgment in favor of Plaintiff, against Emma Isabel Jiménez Vargas. On November 8, 2022, this Court entered Order for Execution of Judgment, stating that Defendant has failed to pay the sums of monies adjudged to be paid under the judgment. In the Judgment, the Court stated that Defendant has defaulted on the repayment obligation to GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC, and ordered to pay the Plaintiff the principal sum of $78,168.41, plus interest 4.50000% per annum from October 1st, 2017, accrued late charges, all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections, as well as 10% of the original principal balance, or $7,722.50, to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed by the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHERAEAS, Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendant will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Apartamento 7-D. Está situado en el nivel 7 del edificio, saliendo de los elevadores en dirección Sur. Su forma es la de un rectángulo que mide de frente 44’10½” por 25’2” de profundidad, al que hay que adicionarle parte del área del balcón de forma rectangular que mide 12’7½” por 4’10” el que suma un área total de 1190.39 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 110.59 metros cuadrados. Limita por el NORTE, con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamen-
to 7-E; por el SUR, con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento 7-C; por el ESTE, con espacio sobre terrenos del propio condominio y por el OESTE, con corredor que da acceso de los apartamentos en este nivel. Este apartamento está formado por sala-comedor con balcón mirando hacia el Este, pasillo interior, tres dormitorios con sus respectivos closets, dos baños, linencloset, cocina-lavandería con su closet, despensa y closet de útiles de limpieza. Le corresponde el espacio de estacionamiento marcado con el número 7-D. Le corresponde en los elementos comunes generales el 668%.
Recorded at page 262, volume 292 of Rio Piedras Sur, property number 9418, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Fourth Section of San Juan. WHEREAS: The property is subject to the following lien described in the Spanish language: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de First Bank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $77,225.00 con intereses al 5½% anual y vencimiento 1 de octubre de 2047. Constituida por la Escritura 203 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de septiembre de 2007 ante el notario Carlos Martínez Olmo, e inscrita al folio 133 del tomo 783 de Rio Piedras Sur, finca 9418, inscripción 5ª. AMPLIADA en una suma adicional de $1,515.02 y MODIFICADA en cuanto a su interés y vencimiento, siendo ahora su principal por $78,740.02 con intereses al 3.50% los primeros 24 meses y 5.50% hasta su vencimiento y vencimiento 1 de enero de 2050, según consta de la escritura 37 otorgada el San Juan el 27 de enero de 2010 ante la notario Alexandra M. Serracante Cadilla, e inscrita en virtud de la Ley 216 del 27 de diciembre de 2010 para Agilizar el Registro de La Propiedad, asiento abreviado y extendido con fecha 12 de marzo de 2013, al folio 133 del tomo 783 de Rio Piedras Sur, finca 9418, inscripción 6ª. Senior Lien: None. Junior Lien: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential lien with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential lien to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, lien (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior
liens. WHEREAS: For the purpose of the First Judicial Sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $77,225.00 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the abovedescribed property be unsuccessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the Second Judicial Sale will be two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the First Judicial Sale, or $51,483.33. The minimum bid for the Third Judicial Sale, if the same is necessary, will be onehalf of the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the aforementioned mortgage deed, or $38,612.50 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Article 104, as amended. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. NOW THREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will on the 22 OF DECEMBER OF 2022 AT 9:50 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3699435, -66.1126780) in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the
SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property describes in the Notice will be held on the 29 OF DECEMBER OF 2022 AT 9:50 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3699435, -66.1126780). Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the
THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 5 OF JANUARY OF 2023 AT 9:50 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3699435, -66.1126780). In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 13 day of November 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC Plaintiff, Vs. WANDA PÉREZ CORTÉS, JOSÉ RAFAEL BAS ORTIZ, EDUARDO BAS ORTIZ, ELVIRA BAS ORTIZ, JOSHUA NATHANIEL BAS PEDREGUERA, DANIEL BAS PEDREGUERA, DANILA SOFIA BAS
VARGAS, JOSÉ ANTONIO APONTE BAS, FABÍAN IGNACIO APONTE BAS, PERSONALLY AND AS MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF JOSE RAFAEL BAS GARCIA Defendant(s) Civil No.: 3:18-cv-01723.
(ADC). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: WANDA PÉREZ CORTÉS, JOSÉ RAFAEL BAS ORTIZ, EDUARDO BAS ORTIZ, ELVIRA BAS ORTIZ, JOSHUA NATHANIEL BAS PEDREGUERA, DANIEL BAS PEDREGUERA, DANILA SOFIA BAS VARGAS, JOSÉ ANTONIO APONTE BAS, FABÍAN IGNACIO APONTE BAS, PERSONALLY AND AS MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF JOSE RAFAEL BAS GARCIA. COND. MÁLAGA PARK, APT. 1-C, SAN JUAN, PR 00971.
THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: On June 11, 2022, this Court entered Consent Judgment in the captioned case.
On October 26, 2022, this Court entered Order for Execution of Judgment, stating that the Consent Judgment recognizes that GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC is owed as of June 4, 2020, the amount of $126,397.18; distributed as follows: the principal balance of $98,779.77, accrued interests in the amount of $19,200.74, since May 1st, 2017, at the interest rate of 6.5%, escrow advanced balance in the amount of $2,298.73, advance balance in the amount of $1,035.00, accrued late charges in the amount of $1,764.36, and expressly agreed-upon attorneys’ fees and legal costs. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the office
of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHERAEAS, Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendant will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Unidad 1-C del Condominio Málaga Park, localizado en el Barrio Frailes del Municipio de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, compuesto de un área de construcción de 1,215.7689 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 112.95 metros cuadrados. Consta de terraza, sala- comedor, cocina, laundry, tres dormitorios, dos baños equipados y closets. La misma fue fabricada en hormigón armado y bloques de cemento y se encuentra localizada en la segunda planta del edificio número 1. Su puerta de entrada está localizada en el lindero Norte y la misma da al área común central del edificio ocupada por las escaleras y un recibidor (lobby) y desde la cual se tiene acceso a áreas comunes que dan al estacionamiento. Sus linderos son los siguientes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 27’1” equivalentes a 8.255 metros con área exterior del edificio y recibidor; por el SUR, en una distancia de 27’1” equivalentes a 8.255 metros con área común exterior del edificio; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 53’10” equivalentes a 16.4087 metros con apartamento 2-D y área común exterior del edificio y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 53’10” equivalentes a 16.4087 metros con apartamento 1-D (lobby) y área común xterior del edificio. A esta unidad se le ha asignado el uso exclusivo de dos espacios de estacionamientos marcados 1-C los cuales son elementos comunes limitados. A este apartamento le corresponde 1.0097% en los elementos comunes generales del inmueble. Property Number 41397, recorded at page 75 of volume 1182 of Guaynabo, Registry of the Property of Guaynabo. WHEREAS: The property is subject to the following lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de First Equity Mortgage Company, o a su orden, por la suma de $127,800.00 con intereses al 6½% anual y vencimiento 1ro de febrero de 2034. Constituida por la Escritura 27 otorgada en Guaynabo el 27 de enero de 2004 ante el notario Francelis Ortiz Pagán, e inscrita al folio 56 del tomo 1288 de Guaynabo, finca 41397, inscripción 4ª. Senior Lien: None. Junior Lien: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential lien with the hol-
ders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential lien to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, lien (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: For the purpose of the First Judicial Sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $127,800.00 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the abovedescribed property be unsuccessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the Second Judicial Sale will be two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the First Judicial Sale, or $85,200.00. The minimum bid for the Third Judicial Sale, if the same is necessary, will be onehalf of the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the aforementioned mortgage deed, or $63,900.00 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Article 104, as amended. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. NOW THREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will on the 22 OF DECEMBER 2022 AT 10:00 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969 (18.3699435, -66.1126780) in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property describes in the Notice will be held on the 29 OF DECEMBER 2022 AT 10:00 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969 (18.3699435,
-66.1126780). Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 5 OF JANUARY 2023 AT 10:00 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969 (18.3699435, -66.1126780). In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 14 day of November 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESION RIGOBERTO ROSADO VILLANUEVA COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2021CV02373. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 24 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar situado en el Barrio Pájaros del término
municipal de Bayamón, con el numero trescientos cincuenta y siete (357) en el Plano de la Urbanización Hermanas Dávila, Inc., preparado por el Ingeniero Civil Henry Fernández, fechado el siete (7) de junio de mil novecientos cuarenta y ocho (1948), con la área superficial de cuatrocientos cincuenta punto cero cero (450.00) metros cuadrados, colindado al frente, que es el SURESTE, en quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros, con la calle “I” de la Urbanización; por su fondo, que es el NOROESTE, en quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros, con el solar trescientos nueve (309) de la Urbanización, propiedad de Hermanas Dávila, Inc.; por su izquierda entrando, que es el SUROESTE, en treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros, con el solar trescientos cincuenta y seis (356) de la Urbanización, propiedad de Hermanas Dávila, Inc. y por su derecha entrando, que es el NORESTE, con el solar trescientos cincuenta y ocho (358) de la Urbanización, propiedad Hermanas Dávila, Inc. Enclava una casa de bloques de concreto y techo de concreto, hoy ampliada describiéndose actualmente de la siguiente manera: Casa de hormigón que mide treinta y tres pies tres pulgadas (33’3”) de frente por cuarenta y seis pulgadas (46’) de fondo, conteniendo las siguientes dependencias: balcón, sala, comedor, cocina, baño, tres (3) cuartos dormitorios y marquesina en el lado derecho entrando. Inscrita al folio 121 del tomo 218 de Bayamón Sur, finca 6286, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. Propiedad localizada en: URB. HERMANAS DAVILA, 357 CALLE JOGLAR HERRERA, BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO 00959. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $205,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 25 de septiembre de 2094. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio-
tion Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $52,981.88 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de EADIE, ROBERT BRUCE and EADIE, HELEN MARIE, sobre la unidad A501 semana 39 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 39 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A501 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A501 and includes the right to use such unit during the 39 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 39 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan-
ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A501, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime.
This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $7,264.39 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
HACIENDA
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plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de FRIEDLAND, ROBERT LASHIN and GREENHOUSE FRIEDLAND, SHEILA, sobre la unidad A502 semana 9 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 9 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A502 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A502 and includes the right to use such unit during the 9 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 9 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A502, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $8,999.84 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución
estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de VELEZ MARTINEZ, REINALDO and TORRES SANTA, ROSA, sobre la unidad A502 semana 38 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 38 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A502 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A502 and includes the right to use such unit during the 38 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 38 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A502, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners
of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $24,351.91 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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Dorado PR, 00646Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de RODRIGUEZ CARRASQUILLO, LUIS and DELGADO BENABE, NIVIA, sobre la unidad A503 semana
26 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 26 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A503 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A503 and includes the right to use such unit during the 26 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 26 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A503, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $8,703.25 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado
en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de COLLINS, GEORGE THOMAS and COLLINS, JEAN FRIEDA, sobre la unidad A503 semana 50 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 50 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A503 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A503 and includes the right to use such unit during the 50 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 50 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A503, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda
del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $23,449.06 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc
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Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de GONZALEZ SALCEDO, EUGENIO and PEREZ CUEVAS, MARIA, sobre la unidad A602 semana 23 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 23 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A602 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A602 and includes the right to use such unit during the 23 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week com-
mencing at 12:00 noon on the 23 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A602, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $13,405.73 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de NEGRON CORTES, JUAN ANDRES and TERON DEL VALLE, CARMEN, sobre la unidad A602 semana 33 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 33 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A602 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A602 and includes the right to use such unit during the 33 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 33 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A602, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente
de $16,670.34 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MERLE FELICIANO, LIND ORLANDO and CINTRON PACHECO, ZENAIDA, sobre la unidad A701 semana 48 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 48 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A701 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A701 and includes the right to use such unit during the 48 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 48 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A701, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the
owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $21,303.67 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
HACIENDA
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Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Pre-
dios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de WISH, DAVID ERNEST and WISH, ERCILIA, sobre la unidad A701 semana 51 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 51 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A701 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A701 and includes the right to use such unit during the 51 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 51 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A701, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $17,680.75 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta
como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de DEL VALLE MORALES, HERIBERTO and RAMOS LEBRON, MARILYN, sobre la unidad A702 semana 38 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 38 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A702 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A702 and includes the right to use such unit during the 38 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 38 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A702, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the abo-
ve described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,911.12 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de SMITH, GREGORY SCOTT and KRANTZ SMITH, LINDA, sobre la unidad A704 semana 6 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 6 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A704 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of
the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A704 and includes the right to use such unit during the 6 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 6 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A704, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,521.61 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di-
ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ROSARIO RUIZ, HECTOR LUIS and REYES DE JESUS, SONIA IVETTE, sobre la unidad A801 semana 21 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 21 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A801 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A801 and includes the right to use such unit during the 21 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 21 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A801, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the fa-
cilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $12,825.16 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de GARCIA, DANIEL and JOSEPH, SUSAN ABDOOL, sobre la unidad A802 semana 36 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 36 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A802 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A802 and includes the right to use such unit during the 36 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 36 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a
successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A802, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $7,264.39 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ARRILLAGA MONTALVO, CARLOS FRANCISCO and CORRETJER PIQUER, MILDRED, sobre la unidad A803 semana 22 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 22 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A803 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A803 and includes the right to use such unit during the 22 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 22 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A803, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club
Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,481.10 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,190.98 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los
ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de OLIVA, JOAN ELLEN, sobre la unidad A803 semana 43 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 43 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A803 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A803 and includes the right to use such unit during the 43 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 43 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A803, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de OLIVA, JOAN ELLEN, sobre la unidad A803 semana 44
que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 44 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A803 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A803 and includes the right to use such unit during the 44 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 44 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A803, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,581.44 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de KINDER, DON WILSON and KINDER, VIRGINIA ANN, sobre la unidad A804 semana 8 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 8 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A804 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A804 and includes the right to use such unit during the 8 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 8 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A804, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime.
This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $3,852.82 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ROMAN LOZADA, FELIPE and FIGUEROA GODREAU, MARIA ISABEL, sobre la unidad A804 semana 41 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 41 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A804 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A804 and includes the right to use such unit during the 41 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the
41 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A804, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,912.25 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de SOSTRE OTERO, ORLANDO and PEREZ SEPULVEDA, MARGARITA, sobre la unidad B110 semana 49 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 49 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B110 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B110 and includes the right to use such unit during the 49 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 49 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B110, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $23,876.91 en concepto de
cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de LA SANTA GONZALEZ, FRANCISCO and MORALES
HERNANDEZ, SONIA, sobre la unidad B112 semana 27 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 27 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B112 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B112 and includes the right to use such unit during the 27 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 27 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B112, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights
during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $7,264.39 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners
Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de NATHANSON, DAVID MARK and NATHANSON, SUE ELLEN, sobre la unidad B208 semana 7 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 7 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B208 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B208 and includes the right to use such unit during the 7 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 7 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B208, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $4,345.16 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a
ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de CEBALLOS CEPEDA, JOSE ELIAS and FUENTES MERLE, IVETTE, sobre la unidad B210 semana 43 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 43 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B210 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B210 and includes the right to use such unit during the 43 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 43 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B210, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first
come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club
Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $16,040.76 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de RODRIGUEZ CENTENO, JOSE LUIS and REYES MOYET, ESTEBANIA, sobre la unidad B211 semana 18 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 18 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B211 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta.
This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B211 and includes the right to use such unit during the 18 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 18 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B211, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,841.28 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos,
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Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de NACER VILLARINO, ROBERTO and ELIZALDE CAMPOS, CORALIA DEL CARMEN, sobre la unidad B211 semana 28 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 28 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B211 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B211 and includes the right to use such unit during the 28 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 28 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B211, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and
common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $16,414.23 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. ***
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESION HECTOR LUIS MORALES MATOS T/C/C HECTOR L. MORALES MATOS T/C/C HECTOR MORALES MATOS T/C/C HECTOR LUIS MORALES T/C/C HECTOR L. MORALES T/C/C HECTOR MORALES COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION IMILDA MERCEDES IRIZARRY PEREZ T/C/C IMILDA M. IRIZARRY PEREZ T/C/C IMILDA IRIZARRY PEREZ T/C/C IMILDA MERCEDES IRIZARRY T/C/C IMILDA M. IRIZARRY T/C/C IMILDA IRIZARRY COMPUESTA POR IDALI IRIZARRY PEREZ, DORIS ROBLES IRIZARRY; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2021CV00910. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 23 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número catorce (14) del Bloque T del Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Caguas Norte situada en el Barrio Bairoa del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos tres metros cuadrados, con sesenta centímetros cuadrados (303.60 m/c), colindando por el NORTE, en veintitrés metros (23), con los solares doce y trece; por el SUR, en veintitrés metros (23), con el solar número quince (15); por el ESTE, en trece metros veinte centímetros (13.20) con la Calle veintidós (22); y por el OESTE, en trece metros veinte centímetros (13.20), con el solar número (10) diez. Finca número 30,305 inscrita al folio 70 del tomo 901 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca número 30,305 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I, inscripción 8ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. CAGUAS NORTE, T-14 CALLE NEBRASKA, CAGUAS, PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra-
vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $183,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 4 de septiembre de 2092. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $183,000.00, 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 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $122,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $91,500.00, 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 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $75,152.04 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $20,143.71 en intereses acumulados al 31 de octubre de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.563% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $6,133.12 en seguro hipotecario; $637.00 en seguro; $450.00 de tasaciones; $300.00 de inspecciones; $8,347.00 en preservaciones; $1,645.00 en honorarios de abogados; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $18,300.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se
notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de noviembre de 2022. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESION GLADYS RIVERA COLLAZO T/C/C GLADYS RIVERA COMPUESTA POR MARIELENE LUNA RIVERA, JEAN KARLOS LUNA RIVERA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV02523. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION GLADYS RIVERA COLLAZO T/C/C GLADYS RIVERA. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted
deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE UTUADO SALA SUPERIOR DE LARES
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. YASHIRAH LUZ CASTILLO CABÁN
Demandado Civil Núm.: UT2022CV00103.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Utuado, Utuado, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 18 de noviembre de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 2 del Bloque I (I-2), Calle 7 en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Palmas del Sol, radicado en el Barrio Pueblo del término municipal de Lares, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 275.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el SUROESTE, en distancia de 25.00 metros, con el solar I-3; por el NOROESTE, en distancia de 11.00 metros, con el Solar I-1; por el NORESTE, en distancia de 25.00 metros, con la Calle 7; y por el SURESTE, en distancia de 11.00 metros, con el solar I-13. Enclava una estructura para uso residencial. Inscrita en la finca número 19,158, inscrita al folio 176 del tomo 399 de Lares, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Utuado. La propiedad ubica según pagaré: I-2 7 St. Palmas
del Sol, Lares, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada en este caso el 10 de agosto de 2022, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $74,773.17 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 3.99%, anual desde el 1ro de agosto de 2019, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $8,075.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en el Centro Judicial de Utuado, Utuado, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $80,750.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $53,833.33, 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 21 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 2:00
DE LA TARDE, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $40,375.00, 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 totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo
Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.ESTEBAN PADILLA, OFICINA 4, BAYAMÓN, P.R. 00959.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza, 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 original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la dirección antes indicada. “Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.” Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Se excusa al demandante de enviar a los demandados, por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, copia de la demanda y del emplazamiento a su última dirección conocida, por ser ellos personas desconocidas cuyas identidades y residencias se ignoran. EXTENDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE OROCOVIS
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMOESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
ON BEHALF OF BOSCO CREDIT II TRUST SERIES 2017-1 BY FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION AS SERVICER
Demandante Vs. SUCESION JUAN CARLOS TORRES
RODRIGUEZ T/C/C JUAN
C. TORRES RODRIGUEZ
COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS
Demandado CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte con Interés
Civil Núm.: AI2022CV00291.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC
Demandante Vs.
SUCESION FREDERICK
HENRY BARREDA
MONGE COMPUESTA
POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02346. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 30 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Borinquen de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área de tres punto cero treinta y seis cuerdas, equivalentes a ONCE MIL NOVECIENTOS TREINTA Y DOS PUNTO SESENTA Y NUEVE METROS CUADRADOS (11,932.69 M.C.). En lindes por el Norte, con el solar que le fuera segregado; por el Sur, con el solar que le fuera segregado; por el Este, con una faja de terreno destinada a uso público; y por el Oeste, con la parcela “E” del plano de inscripción. Enclava edificación para fines residenciales. Finca número 22,367 inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 1600, inscripción octava, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 256 del tomo 1750, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I, inscripción 9ª. Propiedad localizada en: PR 763 KM. 4.7 INT., BO. BORINQUEN, CAGUAS PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $382,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 12 de mayo de 2088. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubie-
re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $382,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $255,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $191,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 13 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $220,819.14 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $36,257.95 en intereses acumulados al 1 de marzo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.317% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $9,544.37 en seguro hipotecario; $5,355.00 en tarifas de servicio; $2,016.00 en seguro; $555.00 de tasaciones; $480.00 de inspecciones; $615.00 en adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $38,250.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publi-
cación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de noviembre de 2022. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. ROOSVELT CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY Plaintiff vs. LUIS CORTES -ALEJANDRO, HIS WIFE, IRMA IRIS ANDINO-ORTIZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN
Defendants CIVIL NO. 19-1548 (RAM). RE: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE. TO: LUIS CORTESALEJANDRO, HIS WIFE, IRMA IRIS ANDINO-ORTIZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNErSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS. Judgment in favor of plaintiff for the sum of 161,937.16, plus accrued interest at a rate of four-point five percent (4.5%) per annum from May 17,2019 until the debt is paid full, in the lates charges, all advances under mortgage note, cost and attorney’s fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federico Degetau Federal Building, Chardón Street, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA: Solar numero catorce (14) de la manzana DD de la Urbanización Santiago Iglesias Pantín, Barrio Frailes de Guaynabo, con un área de quinientos doce punto diez (512.10) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con
la calle catorce (14), en dieciséis punto diez (16.10) metros; por el SUR, con solar numero quince (15), en veintiséis punto cincuenta y seis (26.56) metros; por el ESTE, con la calle número catorce guion A (14-A), en Veintiuno punto cincuenta y ocho (21.58) metros; OESTE, con el solar numero trece (13), en treinta y siete punto treinta y siete (37.37) metros. Consta inscrita al folio 7 del tomo 94 de Guaynabo, finca número 8,925, Registro de la Propiedad Sección de Guaynabo. Physical address: 14 DD Santiago Pantín Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00966. The property is subject to the following Senior liens: DORAL BANK: In the favor appears a notation of demand, issued on May 8, 2013, in the Court of First Instance, Superior of Guaynabo, civil case # DCD-2013-1257, followed by Doral Bank versus Luis Cortes Alejandro y Irma Andino Ortiz, for the sum of $148,480.54 and other expenses. Recorded on folio 112 of volume 1529 of Guaynabo, farm 8,925, Annotation A on July 241, 2015. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the JANUARY 20th ,2023, at the 10:30 a.m.”, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $148,702.70. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the properties is not adjudicated, a second public auction shall be held on the JANUARY 27th, 2023, at the 10:30 a.m. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $99,135.13, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the FEBRUARY 3rd, 2023, at the 10:30 a.m. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $74,351.35, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which
can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on November 30, 2022. Aguedo de la Torre, Special Master.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AIBONITO WILFREDO AYALA
Demandante Vs.
Demandados Civil Núm.: AI2022CV00413.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: NORMA I. SANCHEZ
En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo del siguiente pagaré: Estados Unidos de América, o a su orden, por Veinticuatro Mil Trescientos Diez Dólares ($24,310.00), con intereses al ocho y medio por ciento (8 1/2%) anual, vencedero en treinta y tres (33) años, según consta de la escritura número ciento cuarenta y siete (#147), otorgada en Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, el día quince (15) de julio de mil novecientos setenta y seis (1976), ante el Notario Público Carlos E. Berríos, inscrito al folio inscrito al folio 181 vuelto del tomo 123 de Aibonito, finca #5946, inscripción 3era. y está garantizado por hipoteca sobre la propiedad sita en B-26 Calle Violeta (9) Urb. Bella Vista Aibonito PR 00705, que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar sito en la Urbanización Bella Vista del Barrio Robles, de Aibonito, Puerto Rico, que Ileva el número veintiséis (26) del bloque B del plano de inscripción. Tiene una cabida de trescientos doce punto cincuenta (312.50) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en doce punto cincuenta (12.50) metros, con los solares números cuatro (4) y cinco (5) del bloque B de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en doce punto cero cero (12.00) metros, con Ia calle número nueve (9) de Ia urbanización; por el ESTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros, con el solar número vein-
ticinco (25) del bloque B de la Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros, con el solar número veintisiete (27) del bloque B. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Aibonito, finca número 5946, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. La parte demandante alega que dicho Pagaré se ha extraviado, según más detalladamente consta en Ia Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de unas obligaciones hipotecarias, y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se les emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de Ia misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Utuado, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Jorge García Rondón, de PMB 538, 267 Sierra Morena, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926 dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará Ia rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en Ia Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 de noviembre de 2022. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIELY LÓPEZ COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AIBONITO WILFREDO AYALA ALVARADO; ORLANDO ALICEA
Demandante Vs. USDA RURAL
Demandados Civil Núm.: AI2022CV00413.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRA-
ALVARADO; CRISTOBAL VAZQUEZ ALVARADO
DEVELOPMENT; NORMA I SANCHEZ COLON; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON
The first World Cup in the Arab world began with a shock, Saudi Arabia upsetting Argentina in a first-round game, setting off waves of jubilation in a region lacking in soccer giants.
The tournament in Qatar is reaching its final stages with another stunner: Morocco upset Portugal on Saturday to become the first country in Africa and the Arab world to ever reach the semifinals.
Supporters who packed cafes in Rabat, Morocco, poured into the streets after the final whistle of the 1-0 game. Cries of joy, horns and fireworks kicked off a party, worthy of a World Cup final, that spread through the Moroccan capital.
Hundreds of families — women, men and children — sang, danced and played instruments in a sea of red and green, the colors of the Moroccan flag. Many more people gathered in front of the parliament building, blocking traffic and greeting one another with “mabrouk alina” (“congratulations to us”).
Morocco added Portugal — and its superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo — to the list of major European nations that it has unexpectedly dumped out of the Cup. Having never previously been in contention for soccer’s biggest prize, Morocco is just one game from a place in the final, after dispatching the likes of Belgium, Spain and now Portugal without allowing them a single goal.
“Pinch me, I think I’m dreaming,” Yassine Bounou, the Morocco goalkeeper known as Bono, said after the game. “These moments are great, but we’re here to change the mentality. With this feeling of inferiority, we have to get rid of it. The Moroccan player can face any in the world. The generation coming
after us will know we can create miracles.”
Players from Africa and the Arab world have long played in soccer’s upper-tier leagues in Europe and elsewhere, and like many athletes who hold citizenship in more than one place, many are playing on teams other than the one where they were born. But national teams in Africa have struggled to make a mark late in the tournament until now.
Of Morocco’s 26-member team, just 12 were born in Morocco, the lowest ratio in the competition, according to a tally by FIFA. The others are of Moroccan heritage but born in Spain, Canada, France, the Netherlands and Belgium. Other teams in Africa have also lured players with familial, if not residential, ties to their teams.
Still, Morocco’s storybook run has millions of Arabs, Muslims and North Africans coalescing behind a single team in a way that this tournament has not seen.
That fanatical support was in full display inside the Al Thumama Stadium, which for 90 minutes (plus eight minutes of heartstopping injury time) resembled a corner of Casablanca, Rabat or Marrakech. Every period of Portuguese possession was met with ear-piercing whistles, and every Moroccan incursion the other way was greeted with the type of boisterous cheering that threatened to pull the ball into the Portuguese net.
The next step of Morocco’s magical journey will come against France in a semifinal game Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET, setting the former colony against its former colonizer. But as Morocco celebrated Saturday’s victory, the result almost certainly meant the end of another era.
Ronaldo arrived in Qatar as one of the most famous people in the world, one of the
best players to play soccer in any era. But at age 37, he arrived almost as an awkward tourist. He no longer played for a professional club, having been dumped by Manchester United. And his position in Portugal’s starting lineup, which he had gripped for nearly two decades, was tenuous. By the time Portugal reached the round of 16, he had lost it.
Against Switzerland, Ronaldo watched as his young replacement, Gonçalo Ramos, announced himself as an heir apparent, scoring a stunning three goals.
But against Morocco’s iron-willed defense, Ramos and the Portuguese wilted as the wall of whistles reached fever pitch and stayed there. Ronaldo entered the stage with 40 minutes left, a platform to produce one more heroic act, a final cinematic moment in a career filled with cinematic moments.
At the point of an attack that featured a line of four forwards in ever more desperate attempts to break Moroccan resistance, Ronaldo could not bend the World Cup to his will. He ran, he chased balls in behind, he leaped to get his head to balls, he tried to find shooting angles, everything and anything to break the redshirted Moroccan barrier.
So did his teammates. But nothing worked. Shots were blocked, tackles were made as Moroccan numbers seemingly multiplied in the face of incessant waves of Portuguese attacks.
Portugal simply could not get the ball to break for it. But in one first-half moment, Morocco did. In the 42nd minute, Yahia Attiyat Allah sent a hopeful crossing pass in front of the Portuguese goal. The ball hung in the air for what seemed like an age, before the tall striker Youssef En-Nesyri, timing his run to perfection, headed it in a fraction of a second before goalkeeper Diogo Costa could get his hand on it.
It was in the aftermath of that goal when Morocco let its guard down for the only time in the game, allowing the ball to ricochet
dangerously close to its goal. Portugal almost tied the game in that moment, with midfielder Bruno Fernandes hitting a strike from an improbable angle that came crashing off the bar.
That was as close as Morocco would let Portugal get.
By the final minutes of the game, Morocco was reduced to 10 men with substitute Walid Cheddira collecting two yellow cards in quick succession. But Morocco refused to be distracted. The final seconds were a blur played against the sound of whistling that threatened to make ears bleed. And then, came the whistle that mattered.
While his teammates sank to their knees, Ronaldo brushed aside the good wishes of two Moroccan players and headed straight toward the tunnel, wiping away tears with his jersey. Morocco, swept up by the bedlam, summoned one final reserve of energy to embark on celebrations that will live long in memory. The team charged toward its fans massed behind the goal that refused to be breached, lifting their arms into the air, milking a moment that only the most optimistic member of its squad could have deemed possible when the journey began last month.
While one hero departs soccer’s biggest stage, the World Cup has given birth to a team of heroes for the Arab world. Morocco is not ready to say goodbye.
In Rabat, the party continued through the night. “I am happy and proud to see men and women shoulder to shoulder supporting and lifting the national team,” said Loubna Taleb, 34, a political adviser at an embassy in the capital. “They have exceeded all expectations and made all of us believe in more than football.”
She added: “Every Moroccan feels invincible and capable of doing and succeeding in anything even against the odds. And for that I am eternally grateful to them for healing a nation from colonial scars.”
When coach Lincoln Riley bolted from the University of Oklahoma after last season, and his star freshman quarterback Caleb Williams followed, along with a boatload of other transfers to the University of Southern California, the expectations were that USC would return to the upper echelon of college football.
Expectations were met and then some. USC won 11 games, seven more than last season, and its highest win total since 2017. If it had not been for a loss in the Pac-12 championship, USC would be in the College Football Playoff for the first time with a chance to win its first national title since 2004.
The national championship will evade the Trojans this season, but Williams, who won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night in New York, gives USC a consolation prize. Williams earned 544 first-place votes, finishing comfortably ahead of the other quarterback finalists: Max Duggan of Texas Christian (188), C.J. Stroud of Ohio State (37), and Stetson Bennett of Georgia (36).
“I’ve watched it, to now be a part of it and be a part of this fraternity, it’s a blessing,” Williams said. “It’s everything I dreamed of.”
As Williams began his speech, he pointed out that the other three players had something he did not: a spot in the College Football Playoff.
“Guess you can’t win them all,” Williams said, as the crowd burst out laughing and Bennett nodded in agreement. Williams invited eight of USC’s offensive lineman to the ceremony, asking them to stand as the crowd cheered for them. He thanked his family, calling his mother “the most important woman in my life,” and his father for “making sacrifices in your life so I could make mine.”
“It may seem to go unnoticed and unappreciated, but you mean the world to me,” Williams said. “We’re in this together and I wouldn’t want it any other way.”
Williams, who has been celebrated for his pregame outfits and painted nails, wore a custom tan suit designed by Gucci and Adidas, along with “boots that look like loafers” and clear nail polish.
Williams was brilliant all season, beating defenses with his arms and legs, finishing with 4,075 passing yards and 47 total touchdowns. His value was never more apparent than in USC’s Pac-12 championship loss to Utah, in which he sustained a leg injury that left him hobbling. Though Williams managed to stay
in the game, USC’s offense could not muster anything with him injured.
Despite finishing his sophomore season as college football’s most outstanding player, Williams didn’t start out as the favorite. Late night television starts for West Coast teams, in conjunction with a Pac-12 conference that historically has been lackluster, may have kept Williams’s name off early-season Heisman favorite lists.
But after a game against rival UCLA, then ranked No. 18, in which Williams willed his team to victory by amassing 503 total yards (470 passing, 33 rushing), along with three total touchdowns, he seemed to have the Heisman secured. (The game also began at 8 p.m. Eastern.)
“It took an entire season for the rest of the country to catch on,” said Carson Palmer, a former USC quarterback and the 2002 Heisman winner.
It was the second year that Stroud smiled and clapped as another finalist won the Heisman Trophy. Last year Stroud was a finalist but he finished last in the final round of voting, as Alabama’s Bryce Young took home the award.
Young was not a finalist this year, and Stroud was the favorite to win for most of the season, especially after a game against Michigan State in which he threw for 361 yards and six touchdowns. But Stroud struggled over the final stretch of the season, including in a 45-23 loss to Michigan.
This might have been Stroud’s last chance
at the Heisman. He will be eligible for the NFL draft after this season, and he is projected to be a first-round pick.
Of the finalists, Duggan seemed the most improbable before the season. He was a three-year starter, but he was benched in favor of redshirt freshman Chandler Morris, then thrust back into the starting lineup after Morris was injured in the first week. Duggan led Texas Christian to a 12-1 record and a College Football Playoff berth and his numbers were stellar — 3,321 passing yards, 36 total touchdowns — yet still a step behind Williams.
Bennett was aiming to be Georgia’s first winner since Herschel Walker in 1982. Bennett, a former walk-on, was the only finalist to win his conference title game, but he didn’t have the gaudy statistics of the other finalists.
Williams is USC’s eighth Heisman winner — technically — but the NCAA vacated Reggie Bush’s 2005 win after determining that he and his family had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from two California agents while he was in college. Bush returned the award in 2010, and he was initially banned from associating with USC permanently, but the ban was reduced to 10 years in 2017.
Williams said he had spent time with Bush earlier in the week, and that Bush had advised him on what the night would be like. On Saturday morning, Williams had breakfast with former Heisman winners Palmer and Mike Garrett.
“The craziest part to me is that the guys
that I was talking to, the Heisman winners, in the past, they all have their jerseys retired,” Williams said. “And now once I leave USC, it’s probably the coolest thing to me that my jersey will be retired.”
Williams’ outstanding season brought championship aspirations to a football program that had not won a title since Bush and Matt Leinart led USC to consecutive national championships in 2003 and 2004. (The 2004 win was later vacated after Bush’s sanctions.)
“It was hard to watch, it was challenging to watch,” Palmer said. “Getting beat by a bunch of teams you don’t see USC get beat by.”
Palmer added: “This year I couldn’t wait for Saturday morning, turn the TV on and watch him play. No doubt he’s changed the level of excitement and the expectation of watching USC play.”
Williams said he grew up watching the Heisman ceremony, noting that wins by Lamar Jackson, Robert Griffin III and Joe Burrow were the most memorable. In his speech, with Griffin and other Heisman winners standing behind him, Williams thanked Riley, his coach, whom Williams left his hometown, Washington, to follow to Oklahoma, and now California.
“We’ve committed to each other on two separate occasions, but with the same dream,” Williams said, adding: “But even with a sudden change from Norman, Oklahoma, to the University of Southern California, our dreams did not change. They say either change your dreams or change your habits, and I damn sure wasn’t going to change my dreams; glad you didn’t change yours, either. Though we both know the job’s not done.”
Mills Lane, a former district attorney and judge who became one of boxing’s most prominent referees, overseeing more than 100 championship bouts and delivering his exuberant catchphrase — “Let’s get it on!” — before the first round began, died last Tuesday at his home in Reno, Nevada. He was 85.
His son Terry said the cause was complications of a stroke he had in 2002, which left him unable to speak.
Lane, a former amateur and professional boxer, was known for his take-charge style in bouts between many of boxing’s elite champions, including Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, Roberto Durán, Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns.
Despite his small stature — he was 5-foot-7 and weighed about 150 pounds — he exerted a strong sense of command in the ring, much as he did in his legal career in Washoe County, where Reno is the county seat. As a prosecutor, he was called “Maximum Mills,” for the long sentences he was able to secure against defendants.
“He was one of the most respected referees in the world,” Marc Ratner, former executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, said in a phone interview. “And when he got in the ring, fighters knew there was a special quality about him. He was a man’s man.”
But almost anything can happen in boxing, and Lane witnessed his fair share of unusual moments.
The rematch in 1997 between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield for the heavyweight championship became a bloody spectacle when Tyson, enraged at being head-butted by Holyfield in the second round, bit off a piece of Holyfield’s right ear and spit it to the mat during the third.
“He bit him!” Lane shouted. “He’s disqualified!” But after consulting with Ratner, who asked him if he was absolutely certain that he wanted to eject him, he chose instead
to deduct 2 points from Tyson for the grotesque foul. And when the ringside doctor affirmed that Holyfield could continue, the fight went on — until later in the round when Tyson chomped on Holyfield’s left ear, which prompted Lane to disqualify him for good.
“One bite is bad enough,” he said after the fight. “Two bites is not deserved.”
In 1997, he disqualified Oliver McCall when he appeared to be having a nervous breakdown during his heavyweight title fight against Lennox Lewis.
“It was almost as if he wanted to get knocked out,” Lane said after the bout. “He wasn’t putting up any semblance of a defense, so I figured that was it.”
He also disqualified Henry Akinwande in a fight that year against Lewis for excessive clinching and holding.
And in 1998, Lane accidentally pushed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins through the ropes when he tried to break up the headlock that Robert Allen was holding Hopkins in. Hopkins was injured, and the fight was declared a no contest.
“It was just one of those things that happen,” Lane said after the fight, one of his last.
Mills Bee Lane III was born Nov. 12, 1937, in Savannah, Georgia. His father, Remer, moved his family after World War II to a plantation in South Carolina where he raised cattle. His mother, Louise (Harris) Lane, was a homemaker. Remer chose not to enter the family-owned business, the Citizens and Southern Bank, as did young Mills.
He listened to boxing on the radio and, after graduating from boarding school, joined the Marines in 1956, where he learned to box. While stationed in Okinawa, he won the Marines’ All-Far East welterweight championship. Determined to continue as a boxer, he enrolled at the University of Nevada, Reno, and won the 1960 NCAA welterweight title.
Although he failed to make the 1960 Olympic team, he soon turned professional. He lost his first fight but won the next 10 (one of which avenged his loss) before retiring in 1967, knowing he didn’t have enough talent to be a champion.
By then, he had graduated in 1963 from the University of Nevada with a degree in business and began refereeing. He got his law degree from the University of Utah in 1970.
After working in a law firm for two years, he was hired as a Washoe County prosecutor and elected district attorney in 1982. “Having Mills in the courtroom as a prosecutor was a challenge,” Charles McGee, a district court judge, told the Reno Gazette-Journal in 1998. “There was always this question about who was going to run the courtroom.”
Lane was elected a district court judge in 1990.
He carried a gun to defend himself if any of the people he sent to the state penitentiary got out and came after him. “It goes everywhere I go, brother,” he told a New York Times reporter in 1997. “Except on the airplanes.”
He added, “I’ve got two darling sons, Tommy and Terry. If somebody was to come to my home and hurt my boys intentionally, I’d have a tag on their toes before the sun goes down.”
In 1998, he made several changes to his career. He retired from refereeing, stepped down from the bench after nearly two terms to go into private practice, and began his starring role in the syndicated TV series “Judge Mills Lane,”
Mills Lane examined Evander Holyfield’s right ear after he was bitten by Mike Tyson during the third round of their heavyweight championship match in 1997 in Las Vegas.
an opportunity that came to him because of the sudden national renown that came from the Tyson bite fight.
“The producers learned he was a real judge and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse,” Terry Lane said in a phone interview. “In one year, he went from overseeing murder trials to ‘This person owes me money for a dog.’”
The series was canceled in 2001, and Lane had his debilitating stroke a year later.
In 2013, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
In addition to Terry, Lane is survived by his other son, Tommy; his wife, Kaye (Pearce) Lane; his sister, Louise Talbot; and his brothers, Remer and Tom. Two previous marriages ended in divorce.
An hour before the Tyson-Holyfield fight, a memorabilia collector from Canada offered Lane $200 for the blue shirt that he would wear in the ring.
“Hey, man, one more thing,” Lane said he told the man when he recounted the story for the Times. “It’s probably gonna be a dirty shirt after this is over.”
“Don’t care,” the man said. “I want the blood and all.”
“OK,” Lane said. “The blood and all.”
He sold it and, because of the notoriety of the fight, had some regrets.
“What I should’ve done was hold my shirt up and start the bidding at $200,” Lane said. “I could’ve probably gotten $4,000 for it, but, oh, well, I’d given the man my word.”
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With the Moon linking to powerbroker Pluto, this could be an intense day. You’ll be ready for change, but it’s best not to overthink how you will make it happen. The Cancer Moon also means you’ll be more sensitive than usual and perhaps more defensive too, so you may not want to confront anyone or cause waves. Letting go emotionally can help you relax enough to go for it.
Feeling empowered? This may be down to a sterling blend of energies that enables you to be focused. What do you hope to accomplish? If you set your mind to it, you could do better than expected. That is, if you don’t doubt yourself. Have plans? Don’t let yourself be swept away by your inner critic or by others who think you won’t do it. Stand firm and prove them wrong.
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There’s no end to what you and another can accomplish, if you put your minds to it, Cancer. You’ll sense the possibilities that merging your talents brings, and you may be eager to take things further. But you’ll also be wary of anyone who tries to dominate you. And if it seems that someone might be attempting this, nip it in the bud. Only work with those who respect you.
Have a big project on? If you start now when you feel the urge to do so, good things can come from it. Yet the Moon/Pluto face-off encourages you to simplify matters. This is partly because you may be in need of some quiet time to catch your breath and think about your priorities. Investing in some self-care could be just the ticket, allowing you to unwind, reflect and recharge.
Has something got you excited, Virgo? You may feel the urge to move out of your comfort zone and take on a goal that’s very exciting. Just thinking about it could eclipse all other things going on right now. And the experience you gain can be excellent for any future opportunities. Romance looks promising, and whatever your relationship status, it’s going to get even better.
Honest communication and loving actions, could help relieve any tension that’s developed in an important relationship. The only requirement is that you remain tactful and diplomatic. If you feel exasperated with someone, then it helps to make amends Libra, and it’s best to do it now when there’s a good chance you’re willing to forgive, forget and move on right away.
Eager to share your ideas? Mercury and Venus in your sector of communication, encourage it. But as they are both in a practical sign, you may only do so if you think it will impress someone and get you places. There’s also potential for an opportunity that could take you out of your comfort zone. After initial doubts, you’ll realize there’s no reason not to have a go, Scorpio.
Ready to enjoy life? With the Moon moving into your adventure zone, you and your partner may be ready for a romantic date. You might feel like sampling the fayre at a new restaurant or heading off for a romantic break, especially if it allows you to go off the beaten track and back to the wild. The chance to relish each other’s company in different surroundings can be a positive.
Venus and Mercury in your sign, reveals that one small action could make a difference, and may be the very thing that brings change. Maybe it’s showcasing your art or craft skills, or perhaps taking the time to get to know someone better. And if it takes courage Capricorn, you might be even more delighted if the outcome is as positive as you hope it will be, or perhaps better.
A realization of how much the past is influencing the present, may be enough for you to want to resolve issues that have been a burden for some time. The coming days might see you taking steps to find closure on a certain matter, and you can feel better for doing so. On a romantic note, a relationship could shift from a light-hearted attraction to something more serious.
If you’re the kind of Pisces who enjoys a challenge, the coming days can provide you with a great opportunity. However, if you prefer a quieter existence, then it might help to steer clear of awkward issues. Even so, with the Moon opposing Pluto, you may need to make your voice heard in no uncertain terms to avoid a friendship issue getting out of hand. It’s now or never!
