Wednesday Dec 14, 2022

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Index: More would-be homebuyers stymied by continuing rise in mortgage rates, housing prices

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By THE STAR STAFF

The Affordable Housing Index, prepared by Estudios Técnicos Inc. (ETI), decreased in September of this year because of the continuous hike in housing prices and mortgage interest rates that make it difficult for families to buy homes in Puerto Rico.

“The downward trend of the Affordable Housing Index persists, declining from 64% in August to 58% in September and to 54% in November, according to our projection,” said Leslie Adames, director of economic analysis and policy at ETI.

“Of course, this projection could change once the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions publishes the official figures on the real estate market,” he said. “However, it gives a good indication of where things are going in terms of affordability resulting from rising interest rates and rising median home prices, and it’s not a good thing.”

The Affordable Housing Index, prepared by ETI, measures whether or not a typical family that contributes a 20% down payment toward purchasing a home qualifies, based on median income, for a mortgage loan. A value of 100% means that the family has the necessary revenue to be eligible for a mortgage based on the average price prevailing in

the market. A value higher than the threshold means the family has more than enough income to qualify for a home loan. In contrast, values less than that threshold reflect the opposite.

Adames said the most recent figure from the Affordable Housing Index shows that a typical family has only 54% of the income needed to qualify for a mortgage loan, assuming a down payment of 20%. Before this, the Index had stood at 62% in December 2010. At that time, the 30-year fixed mortgage interest rate was 4.71%, and the increase in the price of housing units that persists was not outlined in the market. However, the reality is very different now.

In November, the interest rate for mortgage loans was 6.81%, doubling the rate of 3.07% in November 2021. The price of housing units for sale increased by 10% per year for the 12-month period that ended in the third quarter of 2022 versus 5.9% year to year for the second quarter, according to the Federal Housing Financing Agency Home Price Index.

“The affordability problem is problematic since those factors that affect its evolution do not appear to be giving up,” Adames said. “Not only is there a risk that the interest rate will continue to increase in the short term, but inflation continues to affect consumer budgets, and the increase in average housing unit prices still persists.”

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Governor: $1K bonus for public corporation employees to be paid with ARPA funds

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced Tuesday that he will use federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to pay a special bonus of $1,000 to just over 16,000 public employees who work in public corporations and who were not covered by the island government’s debt adjustment plan.

“All these employees were also affected by the economic situation that the government went through in recent years, and have gone the extra mile to, in times of adversity, such as the passage of hurricanes and a pandemic, work for Puerto Rico,” the governor said in a written statement. “We insisted before the Oversight Board that they be included, but in the face of its rejection, once again, I am taking action on behalf of

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi

these public servants and using available federal funds to do them justice.”

Pierluisi noted that employees of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA), Highways and Transportation Authority, University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and Industrial Development Co. (PRIDCO) will benefit from the special payment. In the case of the Public Corporation for the Supervision and Insurance of Cooperatives of Puerto Rico (COSSEC by its Spanish acronym), a bond will be paid with its own funds already identified by the agency.

Employees will be paid on or before Christmas Day by way of a special payroll that will be processed next week. As with the Christmas bonus, the payment will be subject to the corresponding federal and state withholdings.

Professional associations form alliance to work in common front

By THE STAR STAFF

The Expert Electricians Association of Puerto Rico (CPEPR by its Spanish initials), Automotive Mechanics and Technicians Association (CMTA), the Refrigeration Technicians Association (CTRPR), and the Master and Journeyman Plumbers Association (CMOP) signed an agreement this week that establishes the new Alliance of Technical-Professional Associations of Puerto Rico (ACTPPR by its Spanish initials) whose purpose is to defend their common interests and build a culture of mutual support among them.

According to the agreement, the ACTPPR proposes to face the challenges of its member associations. CPEPR President Frances Berríos said “we are working on the construction of a common front that really represents us with dignity and serves as an official, strong and effective voice in favor of the common interests and demands of our associations and association members.”

“This body will represent us with dignity and collectively and we will work together and in solidarity,” he added.

Julio Bonilla, president of the CMTA, said “the [ACTPPR] will also work with the recognition of our members and against those who promote voluntary membership to the professionals represented by each of the signatories of the agreement.”

“This is one of the important aspects that we will work on through an effective common front that fits our needs,” he said.

Antonio Figueroa Rey, who heads the CTRPR, said “this

alliance is also created to carry out legislative efforts, promote favorable legislation to the signatory associations and our representation in government agencies.”

“The technical-professional associations did not have an organization that adequately represented us,” he noted.

“For a long time, we have been devalued by those who do not want to recognize us as professionals. Today we unite to do justice to all our comrades.”

Jimmy Solivan Cartagena, leader of the CMOP, made it

clear that “for us it is important that the associations have effective processes of citizen orientation and a common defense against everything that represents a danger to the professional institutions that have done so much good for Puerto Ricans.”

“When our associations were created there was, and still is, a compelling interest that justifies our existence,” he said. “Our institutions are necessary for Puerto Rico and guarantee safety for all citizens.”

The new Alliance of Technical-Professional Associations of Puerto Rico proposes to face the challenges of its member associations “in a common front that really represents us with dignity and serves as an official, strong and effective voice in favor of [our] common interests and demands.”

Maricao solar microgrid project gets underway

By THE STAR STAFF

The Cooperativa Hidroeléctrica de la Montaña and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) have initiated the process for developing a solar energy microgrid that will provide a secure source of electricity to the town of Maricao, according to a recent statement.

Both organizations published a request for proposals (RFP) for a solar photovoltaic (PV) project with a capacity of some 140 kilowatts of direct current and 169 kilowatt-hours of storage. As detailed in the RFP, the Maricao microgrid will include solar PV panels on the rooftops of five commercial buildings, two municipal buildings and three residences.

Maricao, the second smallest municipality in Puerto Rico, is located in a mountainous region at the western edge of the Cordillera Central between the towns of Yauco, Sabana Grande, San Germán, Mayagüez, Las Marías and Lares. Landslides are very common in the area due to its topography and climatic conditions in Puerto Rico. The location negatively affects electric power service for prolonged periods of time due to limited access following emergencies. Long-term power outages reduce the quality of life for residents and threaten access to essential services.

The Maricao project is the second microgrid developed in partnership between the two organizations. The first was a microgrid in the village of Castañer in Lares, which went online in May. The two microgrids are supported by the Puerto Rican Solar Business Accelerator, an initiative led by IREC and Pathstone Corp. under a grant from the U.S. Economic Development

Administration.

Carlos Alberto Velázquez López, IREC’s program director in Puerto Rico, said the Maricao microgrid solidifies the work done by IREC and the Cooperativa Hidroeléctrica de Montaña to support and empower rural communities.

“Due to the tragedy of Hurricane Maria and the chronic state of ‘energy emergency’ that Puerto Rico has lived through for more than a decade, nonprofits and the private sector have taken the lead in developing resiliency and energy justice initiatives with active participation from impacted communities,” Velázquez López said. “We have seen a lot of interest in these issues across the United States, recognizing that the integration of distributed generation into the grid is of vital importance for the reliability and resiliency of electricity networks in Puerto Rico and throughout the country.”

C.P. Smith, the executive director of the Cooperativa

Hidroeléctrica de la Montaña, added: “With the launch of the request for proposals for the Maricao Microgrid, the Cooperativa Hidroeléctrica de la Montaña continues with a firm footing to develop cost-effective and resilient renewable energy projects for the communities of the central mountain range of Puerto Rico.”

Smith added that by launching the Maricao RFP, the Cooperativa Hidroeléctrica de la Montaña begins Phase 2 of its Community Resilience Through Photovoltaic Energy, or ReEnFoCo, project.

“In collaboration with IREC, Fundación Monte Azul, and leaders in Maricao, we will demonstrate what is possible in the center of the island,” Smith said.

For the development of the Maricao microgrid, the RFP directs the selected party to design, install and connect the solar energy system to the electrical grid. The project contractor can choose to provide financing via a 20-year loan, through a lease agreement, or through a long-term power purchase agreement. The developer may also choose to design a microgrid project that connects all the structures or two or more interconnected microgrids that allow electrical distribution.

The Maricao project is the second microgrid to be developed by the Cooperativa Hidroeléctrica de la Montaña and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council. The first, which went online in May, was in the village of Castañer in Lares.

Interested parties may contact microrred@cooperativahidroelectrica.coop to submit a proposal. The Cooperativa Hidroeléctrica de la Montaña will hold a virtual information session today at 3 p.m. AST, and a site visit in Maricao on Friday at 11 a.m. Proposals may be submitted until Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2023. The full RFP can be downloaded at: https://irecusa.org/ wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Request-for-ProposalsMicrorred-Maricao-Rev-6-09DEC22.pdf

Children’s shelter accredited for four more years

By THE STAR STAFF

San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo announced Tuesday that La Casa Cuna de San Juan has been accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA), as an institution recognized for its excellent transitional housing service for children. The accreditation is for the next four years.

“It is the first time that under the federal Family First law institutions that house abused minors, who have been removed from their homes or handed over by their relatives, need a license to operate, and as a result of the excellent work done by the 95 employees who work at La Casa Cuna de San Juan, we have obtained the accreditation expeditiously,” the mayor said.

“This great news demonstrates our commitment, beyond a healthy public policy, to the people of San Juan, especially with the most needy and in this case, with minors who require a lot of love and attention, and who are our present and future as a society,” Romero Lugo added.

As part of the evaluation, the COA focused on inspecting the facilities and supervising the services offered to minors, with La Casa Cuna de San Juan showing itself to be an ideal place to receive and meet the needs of the children in its care.

La Casa Cuna de San Juan is a project dedicated to serving the child population from 0 to 5 years of age who are survivors of abuse and/or neglect. It is the first home created and managed by a municipal government by virtue of Ordinance No. 46, Series 2014-15, and is attached to the Municipality of San Juan’s Department for Community Social Development. Among the services offered are psychological, educational and psychosocial therapies to encourage the optimal development of the sheltered minors.

First lady of San Juan Maritere González expressed thanks for the extraordinary work done by all the employees of La Casa Cuna, who she said are fundamental to guaranteeing quality service and love for the children who live there. “The Casa Cuna de San Juan is a fundamental piece

in the integral formation and development of our children,” she said. “We continue working to reinforce the services of excellence provided in the institution so that this good news is replicated.”

La Casa Cuna de San Juan is a project dedicated to serving children 5 years of age or younger who are survivors of abuse and/or neglect.

Federal judge returns class action suits against LUMA to local courts

By THE STAR STAFF

U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith Dein, one of the judges overseeing Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy cases, returned to the local courts two consolidated class action suits that seek damages from LUMA Energy over its performance as operator of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) transmission and distribution (T&D) system.

LUMA objected to the decision.

On April 13 of this year, plaintiffs filed the case captioned Ismael Herrero Domenech and the Class Composed of all Residential Electric Energy Consumers, Customers of LUMA Energy LLC of Puerto Rico v. LUMA Energy LLC; Underwriters A,B,C; Richard Doe; Jane Doe; and Unknown Defendants.

On April 25, a group of plaintiffs filed the case captioned Wendco of Puerto Rico Inc.; MultiSystem Restaurant Inc.; Restaurant Operators Inc.; Apple Caribe Inc. all for themselves and on behalf of all Merchants doing business in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and subscribers of LUMA Energy LLC (Class A); Manuel Couvertié Barrera for himself and on behalf of all residential subscribers of LUMA Energy LLC referred to as (Class B) v. LUMA ENERGY LLC; Underwriters A, B, C; John Doe; Richard Doe.

In essence, the plaintiffs’ claims are premised upon LUMA’s performance of operation and maintenance services and its operation of the T&D system. Because the contract between LUMA Energy and

the government expressly provides that PREPA shall indemnify LUMA for precisely these types of claims, the class action suit necessarily “could affect PREPA’s rights, liabilities or freedom of action, or otherwise conceivably have an effect on the adjustment of its debts or treatment of the debtor’s property in PREPA’s Title III case,” LUMA said in a court filing.

PREPA has been in bankruptcy since 2017 under Title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA, to restructure some $9 billion in debt. The bankruptcy case is slated to be finished by July 2023 but as of press time, the Financial Oversight and Management Board had yet to present a debt adjustment plan for the power utility.

LUMA Energy had argued that the claims in the proposed class action suit are “incontrovertibly related to” PREPA’s Title III case because the allegations clearly involve the operation of PREPA’s electric power grid and the T&D system, the suit said.

Since June 1, 2021, LUMA has been in charge of operating PREPA’s electric power grid.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith Dein

Biden to sign bill to protect same-sex marriage rights

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

President Joe Biden was slated to sign the Respect for Marriage Act on Tuesday, mandating federal recognition for same-sex marriages and capping his own personal evolution toward embracing gay rights over the course of a four-decade political career.

The landmark legislation, passed by a bipartisan coalition in Congress, officially erases the Defense of Marriage Act, which a quarter of a century ago defined marriage as between a man and a woman, and prohibits states from denying the validity of out-of-state marriages based on sex, race or ethnicity.

The White House has invited several thousands of guests to an elaborate signing ceremony on the South Lawn, complete with musical performances, as the president celebrates passage of what officials are calling a “historic piece of legislation.”

For Biden, who voted for the Defense of Marriage Act as a senator in 1996 and wavered on letting gay men and lesbians serve in the military, the signing ceremony will be an indication of how much the president has changed when it comes to championing LGBTQ equality.

The president was unequivocal in his support for the new legislation, saying this year that he was confident that “Republicans and Democrats can work together to secure the fundamental right of Americans to marry the person they love.”

But it is also a mark of ongoing fear that newfound gay rights may be fragile. The push for passage of the law was driven in part by the Supreme Court opinion overturning abortion rights, in which Justice Clarence Thomas raised the possibility of using the same logic to reconsider decisions protecting marriage equality and contraception rights.

Opponents of the legislation argued that it would undermine family values in the United States and restrict the religious freedoms of people who do not believe that same-sex marriage is moral.

Proponents of the new law argued that Congress needed to be proactive in ensuring that a future Supreme Court ruling would not invalidate same-sex marriages around the country. In 2015, the court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that all states must recognize the marriages of same-sex couples just as they would marriages between a man and a woman.

Once a fiercely divisive political issue, same-sex marriage has won mainstream approval in recent years, with polls showing that 70% of Americans support it. That broad acceptance was the

backdrop for a rare show of bipartisanship in Congress, where 61 senators and 258 House members voted to send the Respect for Marriage Act to Biden’s desk for his signature.

By the time that happened, there was no doubt that the president would sign it. As a candidate for the presidency in 2020, he was an ardent supporter of gay rights and same-sex marriage. He has appointed scores of LGBTQ officials to posts in his administration, including Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary. Some gay rights leaders have hailed him as the most pro-equality president ever.

As vice president, Biden publicly announced his support for same-sex marriage before his boss, President Barack Obama, upending careful plans for Obama’s reelection announcement.

In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in 2012, Biden said

that “I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men and women marrying one another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights.”

It was a significant moment, especially for one of the nation’s most prominent Catholic politicians. Tuesday’s signing of the marriage bill is the latest evidence that whatever qualms Biden had during earlier stages of his career have all but evaporated.

“On this day, Jill and I are thinking of the courageous couples and fiercely committed advocates who have fought for decades to secure nationwide marriage equality at the Supreme Court and in Congress,” Biden said in a statement after House passage last week. “We must never stop fighting for full equality for LGBTQI+ Americans and all Americans.”

President Biden is set to sign the Respect for Marriage Act. As vice president, he announced his support for same-sex marriage before his boss, President Barack Obama.

Mass migrant crossing floods Texas border facilities

By SIMON ROMERO, J. DAVID GOODMAN and EILEEN SULLIVAN

After nightfall on Sunday, hundreds of migrants stepped across the Rio Grande and into El Paso, a caravan of people mainly from Nicaragua whose crossing was among the largest in recent years along the West Texas border.

Their arrival en masse into the United States surprised even those in El Paso, which has in recent months found itself overwhelmed by a steady stream of migrants from Central and South America, more than 50,000 people in October alone.

Like migrants from Venezuela who flooded into El Paso this year, those arriving from Nicaragua cannot be rapidly expelled under a pandemic-era public health policy known as Title 42, which federal authorities employ with migrants from other countries, such as Mexico.

And so the scenes unfolding in El Paso offered a preview of the challenges that border officials could soon face all along the southern border after the policy comes to an end, as it is expected to, absent court intervention, next week.

Most of those who arrived on Sunday turned themselves in to federal authorities for processing. Soon, most of them would join the thousands of others who have crossed in recent days, many of whom have been released to seek help and food, some clustering at the downtown bus station, some sleeping on cardboard during a night when temperatures dipped toward freezing.

“I’m going to Nashville,” said Gabriel Moreno, 21, who left a poor-paying job in a textile factory in Nicaragua, was robbed as he crossed Mexico and, on Monday, was among those at the bus station in El Paso looking to keep going farther into the United States.

Because of strained diplomatic relations with the authoritarian regime in Nicaragua, the United States is limited in its ability to expel Nicaraguans under the public health authority and cannot repatriate the country’s citizens. And so far, Mexico has not agreed to accept them if they are expelled from the United States.

As a result, most of the Nicaraguans apprehended are released on a short-term parole with a tracking device or sent briefly to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention where they are typically released after a few days. All will eventually be called to immigration court to face deportation orders.

Over the weekend, a huge number of people arrived in El Paso, roughly 2,000 each day, according to officials. The group of about 800 to 1,000 people that crossed on Sunday night appeared to have been the largest.

Blake Barrow, director of the Rescue Mission of El Paso, said his shelter was “bursting at the seams” as the migrant influx continued. “The numbers are like nothing I’ve seen for the last 25 years,” he said.

As recently as August, he said, nearly all of the people receiving assistance at the shelter were U.S. citizens experiencing homelessness. “Now, that number is down to about 30%,” Barrow said. “The whole dynamic has changed with the large numbers of people from countries like Nicaragua.”

Barrow said he had people sleeping anywhere that he could find for them. “Honestly, I don’t know how to address this

problem,” he said. “The situation is overwhelming us.”

The number of arrivals extended far beyond the large caravan that arrived on Sunday and did not appear to be abating. Rosalio Sosa, who runs a network of shelters including in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, said migrants were still crossing the border on Monday afternoon. Across the river, a line had formed as the latest arrivals waited to be processed by U.S. authorities.

“The queue right now is endless,” he said.

It was the second time in recent months that large migrant crossings threatened to overwhelm the resources of the impoverished border town and the federal immigration authorities who are strained by what has been a steady arrival of migrants this year. More than 5,000 migrants were in the Border Patrol’s central processing center on Monday, according to El Paso officials.

“We’re feeling it. It’s straining resources,” said state Sen. César J. Blanco, who represents the area and urged the state and federal governments to send humanitarian aid. He said El Paso had become a de facto entry point for desperate migrants, much like Ellis Island. “Whether we want it or not, it is,” he said.

The region around El Paso has seen a sharp increase in the number of people attempting to cross from Mexico in recent months, with 53,000 encounters recorded by border agents there in October, the most recent month for which data is available. That is more than on any other section of the U.S.-Mexico border. Federal agents have recorded a record number of encounters along the entire southern border, nearly 2.4 million in a yearlong period.

The secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas, was expected to hold a series of previously planned meetings in El Paso on Tuesday. No public events were scheduled.

The images of large numbers of migrants wading across low sections of the Rio Grande in El Paso immediately recalled previous moments of crisis at the southern border, most recently in the small city of Del Rio, Texas, where more than 9,000 migrants, mostly from Haiti, crowded in squalid conditions in a temporary camp under a bridge along the river last year.

Last week, El Paso saw nearly 7,000 migrants released from

federal immigration custody, a weekly total that surpassed even those seen during the surge of Venezuelan arrivals this year. Most of those released in El Paso eventually make their way out of the city, but they often seek food, shelter and assistance before doing so.

John Martin, deputy director of the Opportunity Center for the Homeless in El Paso, said he had been told on Monday that another 2,500 migrants would be released in the coming week. The center, which primarily focuses on the local homeless population, has several locations, and Martin said most of them were over capacity.

The scenes — of the mass nighttime river crossings, of migrants sleeping on city streets — provided a potential window into the situation that border authorities have been bracing for as early as next week, when the Title 42 pandemic health policy is set to expire. The policy, put in place by the Trump administration and continued under President Joe Biden under a court order, has allowed U.S. authorities to rapidly expel migrants, even those seeking asylum, in order to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

However, the United States is limited in its ability to expel citizens of certain countries, like Nicaragua, with which the United States does not have repatriation agreements. Eventually, those citizens will face removal proceedings in immigration court.

The group arriving on Sunday included migrants who had been traveling from several Central and South American countries, as well as Haiti, and who had been granted temporary legal status in Mexico that allowed them to travel freely in that country for 180 days, said Santiago González Reyes, the head of the human rights offices in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso.

Also among those in the caravan: migrants who had been part of a large group that was kidnapped while en route and extorted for money, before the Mexican authorities were able to free them, said Marcos Chávez Torres, mayor of Jiménez, a town in the state of Chihuahua.

The government in Chihuahua had bused a caravan of about 1,100 migrants into Juárez on Sunday afternoon, González said. The buses, about 19 of them, were paid for by the Mexican government, he said, which had reasoned that the migrants would have walked north anyway and provided a police escort to keep them safe.

The group did not stay long in Juárez. Around 4 p.m., the migrants decided to cross the border en masse, he said, and hundreds more joined them. “They left on foot and crossed the river,” González said.

In downtown El Paso on Monday, few of the migrants who had gathered around the bus station ventured into the surrounding area.

On a bench, Carmen Tercero, 37, sat next to her two daughters, who are 8 and 17. After traveling from Nicaragua and across Mexico, they had crossed the border last week and were released from a processing center on Monday morning.

“All I want is a better life for my daughters,” said Tercero, who worked at a beauty salon in Managua. “I’ll cross the border a hundred more times if that’s the way to help them,” she added, as they awaited a bus to Houston where Tercero’s sister lives.

Migrants, mostly from Nicaragua, wait to board a U.S. Customs and Border Protection bus at the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, Dec. 12, 2022.

Obstruction charge takes center stage at Jan. 6 court hearing

By ALAN FEUER

Prosecutors and defense lawyers squared off earlier this week at a federal appeals court hearing in Washington over the use of a criminal charge whose viability could affect the cases of hundreds of people indicted in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — and could help decide what, if any, charges could ultimately be brought against former President Donald Trump.

The charge at the center of the arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia was the obstruction of an official proceeding before Congress.

The Justice Department has used the count in scores of Capitol riot cases to describe how a pro-Trump mob disrupted the central event Jan. 6: the certification of the 2020 election that took place during a joint session of Congress.

Defense lawyers want the appeals court to rule that the count has been applied incorrectly by the Justice Department and dismiss it from all the Jan. 6 cases in which it has been charged.

The arguments presented at the 90-minute hearing, while highly technical, hit on a critical issue that has shaped the contours of the government’s vast investigation of Jan. 6. That issue was how prosecutors in hundreds of cases have decided between charging people with petty offenses such as trespassing or disorderly conduct, which carry a maximum of six months in jail, or the much more serious obstruction count, which carries a maximum of 20 years in prison.

During the hearing, a prosecutor, James Pearce, argued in favor of the obstruction charge, saying that it had been properly applied in nearly 300 Jan. 6 criminal cases. The law requires proving that any interference with a congressional proceeding be done “corruptly,” and Pearce argued that in cases in which the charge has been used, defendants committed other “corrupt” acts such as destroying government property or assaulting police officers.

A defense lawyer, Nicholas D. Smith, countered that the obstruction charge had been wrongly applied and that its use in all of the Capitol riot cases should be struck down — even in those in which defendants have pleaded guilty or been sentenced.

Smith claimed it was “an injustice” that the government had repeatedly used the obstruction charge instead of bringing a less serious charge such as illegally parading at the Capitol.

If the three-member panel of the court finds in favor of the defense, it would be a devastating blow to the government’s attempts to hold the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol accountable for the attack. An adverse ruling would force prosecutors to scramble for a replacement charge or accept the lower sentences attached to lesser charges.

It could also have a crippling effect on the Justice Department’s investigation of Trump’s role in overturning the election.

Given that a federal judge in California and the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 have both said there is evidence that Trump is guilty of obstruction of Congress, legal experts have argued that if the former president is prosecuted in connection with Jan. 6, he is likely to face the obstruction count.

The charge — formally known in the penal code as 18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2) — was never a perfect fit for the many cases

stemming from the Capitol attack. It was passed into law as part of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which sought to clamp down on corporate malfeasance.

The measure was initially intended to prohibit actions such as shredding documents or tampering with witnesses in congressional inquiries. Defense lawyers in dozens of Capitol riot cases have challenged its applicability, arguing that prosecutors had stretched the statute beyond its scope and used it to criminalize behavior that too closely resembled protest protected by the First Amendment.

One judge on the appeals court panel, Gregory G. Katsas, appeared to agree with this argument. Katsas, who was appointed by Trump, said the government’s interpretation of the law seemed to establish a “new conception of obstruction wholly divorced from evidence tampering.”

But another Trump-appointed member of the panel, Judge Justin R. Walker, left open the possibility that the government had used the charge properly. Walker noted that while lesser charges have often been used to punish people who have demonstrated at other events at the Capitol, what happened Jan. 6 could not be thought of as “normal protest.”

The third judge on the panel, Florence Y. Pan, appointed by President Joe Biden, seemed to side with the government throughout the hearing.

Over the past year or so, 18 judges in U.S. District Court in Washington have ruled that the obstruction charge was valid. Only one judge, Carl J. Nichols, has said its use in Jan. 6 cases was improper.

In three cases, Nichols, who was also appointed by Trump, dismissed the obstruction count, reading the statute narrowly and

saying that it could be used only if there was evidence that the obstruction in question had an effect on “a document, record or other object.”

The Justice Department appealed all three of Nichols’ rulings to the circuit court in Washington. The cases included those of Joseph Fischer, a Pennsylvania police officer accused of pushing at law enforcement officers during the Capitol attack; Garret Miller, a Dallas man charged with storming the building and facing off with officers inside; and Edward Jacob Lang, a self-described social media influencer from New York who prosecutors say attacked police with a baseball bat.

Thousands of pages of court filings suggest that prosecutors have not brought the obstruction charge willy-nilly but have instead used it for defendants whose behavior seems to have gone beyond mere trespassing or disorderly conduct. The count has been used against defendants who broke into the Capitol during an early wave of the attack, who penetrated into a sensitive area of the building such as the Senate floor or who were inside for long periods of time.

Still, a ruling by the appeals court striking down the charge would badly damage the cases against as many as 290 defendants who have been indicted on the obstruction count. It would also affect the cases of at least 70 people who have been convicted of — or have pleaded guilty to — the count.

Among those are some prominent Jan. 6 rioters, including Jacob Chansley, also known as the QAnon Shaman, who was sentenced to 41 months in prison on the obstruction charge alone, and five members of the Oath Keepers militia who were found guilty of obstruction — and other charges, including sedition — last month.

Supporters of former President Donald Trump approach the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021.

The lion sleeps tonight: P-22, elusive LA menace, is captured

freeways to get there.

The cat — solitary, mysterious and seemingly at odds with the sprawling, often-apocalyptic city — has captured the imagination of its residents, as well as the nation at large: According to The New Yorker, he is the city’s “loneliest lion.” The Guardian dubbed him “the Brad Pitt of mountain lions.”

According to wildlife of ficials, the capture was relatively peaceful. Of ficials tranquilized P-22 using a dart and took him to a wild-animal care facility, where he was in a stable condition. They said that after receiving an anonymous tip Sunday night that the big cat might have been hit by a vehicle, they found him Monday morning, in the hilly neighborhood of Los Feliz, just south of the puma’s home range.

Sarah Picchi, a resident of Los Feliz, said wildlife of ficials had knocked on her door sometime after 10 a.m. and informed her: “There’s a lion in your yard.”

Having closely followed the travails of the celebrity feline, Picchi said she immediately knew whom the of ficials were talking about. “Everybody in my neighborhood has been watching the sightings,” she said. “People are concerned about P-22.”

Picchi said that after bringing her dog inside, she and her husband had watched through the window as of ficials tranquilized the puma and wrapped him gently in a tarp.

By LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA

The mountain lion had long roamed Los Angeles like an elusive celebrity. Sometimes, he was captured in the grainy footage of a home doorbell; at other times, residents claimed to have come face-to-face with his soulful gaze.

But in recent weeks, the beast had seemed agitated. He prowled farther from his home range in Grif fith Park into the surrounding human territory. He attacked a neighborhood dog. Then, he snatched and killed a Chi-

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On Monday, wildlife authorities captured Los Angeles’s infamous puma, otherwise known as P-22, in a resident’s yard, they said, just days after announcing that they were looking for him. According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the anti-social behavior of the “remarkably old cat” (P-22 is thought to be around 12) was a worrying sign of distress — one they might have expected given that he lived alone, so far from other mountain lions and wildlife.

“This is an unprecedented situation in which a mountain lion has continued to survive in such an urban setting,” the department said last week. “As P-22 has aged, however, the challenges associated with living on an island of habitat seem to be increasing.”

P-22 has long been part of the story of Los Angeles. About a decade ago, a National Geographic photo captured him lurking at night beneath the Hollywood sign. But wildlife of ficials said he had most likely lived in the municipal park, about 7 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, for several years prior. The cat, they said, was probably born in 2010 on the western side of the Santa Monica Mountains and crossed two major Los Angeles

The big, beloved cat, she added, had captured not just the attention of her neighborhood, but something essential about the city of Los Angeles, about its nature as a place where the wild integrates with the urban, and where the vast space can oftentimes make even the most connected of humans feel lonely.

“They feel a lot of empathy for him because he’s kind of on his own,” Picchi said of the city’s residents, adding that she and others had become enthralled with P-22’s story: Where was he going? What was his life like? “There’s this wild animal,” she added, “that is kind of an Angeleno himself. ”

Wildlife of ficials say that veterinarians and biologists are now working together “to find the most humane option available” for P-22. But many residents, including Picchi, have expressed concern about the beast’s fate.

Beth Pratt, California executive director for the National Wildlife Federation, said figuring out what comes next for P-22 could prove challenging, given the territorial nature of male mountain lions. After years roaming solitary in the wild, he might also find transition to a sanctuary challenging, she said.

“I’m glad he’s now under safekeeping,” Pratt said. “He’s under good care, and we’re going to find out what’s going on.”

Pratt added that she cried upon hearing about his capture.

“But I think they were mainly tears of relief.”

Prosecutors say FTX was engaged in a ‘massive, yearslong fraud’

By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN

Sam Bankman-Fried’s lies, prosecutors say, stretched back to the very beginning.

From the founding of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX in 2019, Bankman-Fried engaged in widespread fraud, the federal authorities charged on Tuesday, and used his customers’ deposits to finance his political activities, buy lavish real estate and invest in other companies.

A series of civil and criminal charges filed against Bankman-Fried in the Southern District of New York say he repeatedly lied to customers, investors and lenders, and misled them about the structure of his business empire and how he handled the billions of dollars in funds that crypto users deposited in his exchange.

In a 13-page criminal indictment, Bankman-Fried was charged with eight counts, including wire fraud on customers and lenders and conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate campaign finance laws. A parallel civil complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission laid out a detailed narrative of FTX’s collapse, claiming that for years Bankman-Fried had illegally used customer deposits to fund his business and political activities.

As FTX collapsed, the SEC said, investors were kept in the dark about what was going on. Federal prosecutors said lenders were kept in the dark. And hundreds of thousands of FTX customers around the world were kept in the dark, too — only to find out Bankman-Fried’s claims their money was safe were false.

Bankman-Fried was arrested Monday evening at his home in the Bahamas, where FTX was based. It was a stunning fall from grace for an executive who was once described as a modern-day John Pierpont Morgan, and became a darling of big investors in Silicon Valley and a prolific Democratic Party donor. On Tuesday, he appeared in court in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, after being held overnight in a police station cell.

“Bankman-Fried was orchestrating a massive, yearslong fraud, diverting billions of dollars of the trading platform’s customer funds for his own personal benefit and to help grow his crypto empire,” the SEC said in its civil complaint.

Bankman-Fried used customer funds to “make undisclosed venture investments, lavish real estate purchases, and large political donations,” the complaint said.

Federal prosecutors will need to extradite BankmanFried from the Bahamas, and that process can be drawn out if he is inclined to fight returning to the United States to face trial in federal court. Mark Cohen, a lawyer for Bankman-Fried, said his client “is reviewing the charges with his legal team and considering all of his legal options.”

Just over a month ago, Bankman-Fried, 30, was widely viewed as one of the few reliable figures in a freewheeling, loosely regulated industry. He contributed $5.6 million to President Joe Biden’s 2020 election effort, and FTX spent lavishly on TV commercials with an array of celebrity endorsers such as basketball star Stephen Curry and NFL quarterback Tom Brady. He was at the forefront of an industrywide effort to bring crypto into the mainstream of American commerce.

But strip away all the references to crypto in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil complaint, and a picture emerges of garden-variety lying to investors — falsehoods that go back to 2019.

Regulators say Bankman-Fried lied to dozens of big venture capital firms and wealthy family offices, saying that he raised nearly $2 billion since that time.

The SEC claims that Bankman-Fried misled them in reports about the financial health of FTX and its sister company, Alameda Research, a crypto trading platform that he had co-founded. He also misled investors about the close ties between the two companies and how he had allowed his trading firm to routinely borrow money from FTX customers — borrowing that occurred despite claims that all customer money was safe.

The mixing of money allowed Alameda to make bi-

gger trades and to make investments in other crypto companies and investments in Bahamas real estate.

This spring, when the crypto market began to crater, authorities said other crypto firms that were lenders to Alameda began to call in their loans, demanding repayment. And that forced Bankman-Fried and others at FTX to double down and take even more money from FTX customers to make Alameda whole.

The strategy of taking money from FTX to keep Alameda afloat imploded when customers of the crypto exchange started demanding their money this fall. The financial hole was $8 billion, so big that the whole enterprise collapsed.

Sam Bankman-Fried in Nassau, Bahamas, April 26, 2022. A criminal indictment unsealed on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, and a complaint by the SEC describe years of wrongdoing in Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire.

In a future filled with electric cars, AM radio may be left behind

January, operations manager at WATVAM, an adult contemporary station in Birmingham, Alabama.

About 47 million Americans listen to AM radio, representing about 20% of the radio-listening public, according to the Nielsen Co., a media tracking firm. AM listeners tend to be older than other radio listeners (about one-third are over 65), and the amount of time they spend listening to AM has increased slightly over the past five years, to just over two hours a day, Nielsen reported.

Even though some AM stations have translators that send duplicate broadcasts over the FM airwaves, AM signals travel farther and reach more people. AM stations can also be less expensive than FM stations to operate, allowing some to offer programming geared toward specific religious, cultural or other communities.

tions’ news reports are the quickest way for drivers to find out about tornadoes, flash floods and other severe weather. Diane Newman, operations and brand manager at WWL in New Orleans, said that during Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, the station carried vital information about rescue and recovery efforts.

“There was no Wi-Fi; there were no phone connections,” Newman said, adding, “You take away AM radios in cars and you take away a lifeline, a connection when the community needs you most.”

Carmakers noted that drivers can still stream AM radio on apps and that not all electric vehicles have dropped it. Hyundai, which makes electric vehicles, said in a statement that it had no plans to phase out AM radio. And some observers say the threat from electric vehicles may be overblown.

By MICHAEL LEVENSON

For nearly 100 years, drivers have been listening to AM radio, an American institution crackling with news, traffic, weather, sports and an eclectic variety of other programs.

But that dashboard staple could be going the way of manual-crank windows and car ashtrays as electric vehicles begin to grab more of the U.S. marketplace.

An increasing number of electric models have dropped AM radio in what broadcasters call a worrisome shift that could spell trouble for the stations and deprive drivers of a crucial source of news in emergencies.

Carmakers say that electric vehicles generate more electromagnetic interference than gas-powered cars, which can disrupt the reception of AM signals and cause static, noise and a high-frequency hum. (FM signals are more resistant to such interference.)

“Rather than frustrate customers with inferior reception and noise, the decision was made to leave it off vehicles that feature eDrive technology,” BMW said in a statement, referring to the system that powers its electric vehicles.

Tesla, Audi, Porsche and Volvo have also removed AM radio from their electric

vehicles, as has Volkswagen from its electric SUV, ID.4, according to the carmakers and the National Association of Broadcasters. Ford said that the 2023 F-150 Lightning, its popular electric pickup truck, would also drop AM radio.

Some experts say the reception problems are not insurmountable. Electromagnetic interference could be controlled with shielding cables, filters and careful placement of the electrical components in the vehicle, said Pooja Nair, a communications systems engineer at entertainment technology company Xperi Inc., which owns HD Radio technology.

But such changes require money and effort, and it’s not clear whether carmakers are willing to spend more in the service of AM radio fans. The Drive, a car news site that has reported on the trend, noted that AM radio has lost favor in Europe, so carmakers there might see less of a need to keep it.

If more electric vehicles drop AM radio, some broadcasters say they could lose a connection to their core listeners.

“It’s a killer for us because most of our listening audience is in the morning drive and afternoon drive, when people are going to work and coming from work — and if we’re not there in their car, we’re nonexistent,” said Ron

Brian Winnekins, the owner of WRDN in Durand, Wisconsin, which has seven hours of farm-related programming available every weekday on AM and FM, said he has been urging listeners to tell carmakers not to drop AM, noting that it can reach farmers in remote areas.

“If you can make a vehicle drive by itself,” Winnekins said, referring to the driver-assistance systems in Teslas and other vehicles, “you can make a decent radio receiver.”

Nola Daves Moses, distribution director at Native Voice One, which distributes Native American radio programs, including some in Indigenous languages, said she hoped that more Americans would switch to electric vehicles.

But “if radio disappears out of cars, that would be really devastating,” she said. “Is this a first step? Is FM next?”

In a letter to 20 car manufacturers published Dec. 1, Sen. Edward Markey, DMass., requested that they keep AM radio in electric vehicles, describing it as an issue of public safety.

“Despite innovations such as the smartphone and social media, AM/FM broadcast radio remains the most dependable, cost-free, and accessible communication mechanism for public officials to communicate with the public during times of emergency,” Markey wrote. “As a result, any phaseout of broadcast AM radio could pose a significant communication problem during emergencies.”

Many AM broadcasters say their sta-

“The challenge for AM’s survival may be more about broader demographics than autos,” said Michael Stamm, a cultural historian at Michigan State University who studies media. “Do younger people care about AM at all, in cars or otherwise?”

Not all young drivers have moved away from AM radio.

“AM is where you get the information,” said Alex Cardenas-Acosta, 34, a Saab driver who works at an auto repair shop in Union, New Jersey. Like many who drive gas-powered cars, he was unaware that some electric vehicles had dropped AM radio. Cardenas-Acosta said he listens to the New York Mets on the transmission.

“I don’t think it should be taken away,” he said. “If you want to find something serious, instead of all that crap they have on FM, you turn on AM.”

Outside a Tesla dealership in Springfield, New Jersey, several Tesla owners said they were not terribly bothered by the lack of AM radio. The company began phasing it out several years ago, prompting a 2018 headline in The Wall Street Journal, “Your Tesla Can Go Zero to 60 in 2.5 Seconds But Can’t Get AM Radio.”

Brandon Utrera, 27, said he hadn’t noticed that the Tesla Model Y he bought five days earlier did not have AM radio. “The only time I really listen to AM radio is when the Yankees are on,” he said.

Utrera said his parents listen to it more than he does, although he couldn’t remember the station. “It’s for the old-timers,” he said

Rush hour traffic in Chicago, Feb. 11, 2019. Carmakers say electromagnetic interference causes static and noise on AM transmissions, annoying customers and broadcasters say they could lose a connection to their core listeners, who rely on the radio for emergencies.

Wall St upbeat as easing inflation lifts hopes of smaller rate hike

Wall Street stocks jumped, Treasury yields fell and the dollar weakened on Tuesday as new U.S. government data showed the smallest annual increase in inflation in nearly a year.

The consumer price index increased 0.1% last month after advancing 0.4% in October, the Labor Department said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the CPI gaining 0.3%.

The slowdown could give the Federal Reserve cover to start scaling back the size of its interest rate increases on Wednesday.

“This month’s report provides confirmation of October’s step down in inflation pressures and is welcome news for the Fed,” Morgan Stanley strategists wrote in a note on Tuesday morning.

“Tomorrow’s reduction in the pace of tightening to 50 (basis points) was already telegraphed, and with the downtrend in inflation becoming entrenched, the FOMC can set its sights squarely on the labor market.”

Global stocks jumped on the news. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about 1%, the S&P 500 gained 1.7% and the Nasdaq Composite added 2.4%.

The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 2% and MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe gained 1.85%.

U.S. Treasury yields dropped sharply on the November inflation data.

The yield on 10-year Treasury notes was down 15.4 basis points to 3.458%; 30-year yields fell 9.2 basis points to 3.481%, and two-year yields, which typically move in step with interest rate expectations, dropped 21.4 basis points to 4.189%.

The dollar also reacted, plummeting against the yen and euro. Against a basket of major currencies, it was down more than 1% on the day. It was already down in the fourth quarter, largely because investors believe U.S. inflation has peaked.

The pound gained against dollar, up about 1% to $1.238, after data showed a rise in UK unemployment and an increase in wage growth that will keep Bank of England (BoE) policymakers on edge when they meet this week.

The Fed, European Central Bank and BOE are expected to raise rates by 50 basis points (bps), rather than the 75 bps hikes they delivered earlier in the year.

“If data such as today’s suggest a real trend that the momentum of inflation is lower, we could then see the Fed pause over the next few months

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Oil rallied for a second day, having jumped 2.5% on Monday, with U.S. crude up 1.94% to $74.59 per barrel and Brent at $79.85, up 2.38%

on the day.

Gold, which is sensitive to shifts in U.S. inflation, also gained, with spot gold up 1.8% to $1,812.30 an ounce and U.S. gold futures up 2.20% to $1,819.70 an ounce.

In cryptocurrencies, bitcoin climbed around 3% to $17,734, and crypto-related stocks gained, even as FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested and charged by U.S. regulators.

French court convicts 8 of aiding 2016 terrorist attack in Nice

By CONSTANT MÉHEUT

AFrench court on Tuesday found eight defendants guilty of aiding in the terrorist attack that killed 86 people in the Mediterranean city of Nice in 2016, after a trial that offered some closure to survivors and the bereaved but did little to clarify the motives behind the massacre.

Judges convicted the main defendants, Mohamed Ghraieb and Chokri Chafroud, of participating in a terrorist conspiracy and sentenced them to 18 years in prison. Other defendants were found guilty of less-serious crimes such as arms trafficking, with sentences ranging from 2 to 12 years in jail.

But in the absence of the perpetrator, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who was killed by the police at the time, the vague answers of low-level accomplices provided scant further information about the attack.

The presiding judge, Laurent Raviot, said the attack had “an obvious jihadist inspiration” because of the perpetrator’s interest in radical Islam and his determination to kill as many people as possible.

The Nice attack, which took place on the seaside Promenade des Anglais in the city, was one of the bloodiest in a series of Islamist terrorist assaults in Europe over a span of a few years — in Paris, Brussels, Berlin and Barcelona.

For about 3 1/2 months, hundreds of people — defendants, survivors, bereaved families, lawyers and experts — took to the stand in Paris to try to determine what had led Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, to swerve a 19-ton truck through crowds as they were leaving Bastille Day fireworks.

Coming on the heels of monthslong trials in the 2015 Charlie Hebdo and Paris attacks, the verdict on Tuesday was the latest in an extraordinary two-year judicial cycle that revisited events that have shaped contemporary France. The hearings often echoed broader societal debates over French identity, the place of Islam in a country that identifies itself as secular and the balance between individual liberty and collective security.

“All of this crystallized in these three major trials,” said Antoine Mégie, a political scientist at the University of Rouen, adding that the testimonies in court also served to “build the memory of attacks” that deeply traumatized France.

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trials continues elsewhere in Europe. The trial of the 2016 Brussels bombings, which killed 32 people, opened last week in Belgium and is expected to last until next summer.

In the Paris courtroom, relatives of Lahouaiej Bouhlel described a man suffering from serious psychological disorders, prone to domestic violence and obsessed with sex. His sister told the court, “I was really afraid of him, everyone was afraid of him.”

But none of the testimony uncovered the deeper motives behind his crime. Although the Islamic State group claimed that Lahouaiej Bouhlel was one of its “soldiers,” Raviot said there was no evidence that he was actually linked to the terrorist group.

Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s family said that he had become interested in Islam only weeks before the attack, and investigators said that he self-radicalized within days by watching jihadi videos.

The evidence given by the defendants hardly helped to clarify the picture. They were indirect accomplices, having helped Lahouaiej Bouhlel rent the truck and buy a gun, and they apparently had little or no clue about the preparation of the attack. Text messages that Lahouaiej Bouhlel sent them did not provide clear evidence that they had been aware of his intentions.

Alexa Dubourg, one of the public

prosecutors, acknowledged as much in her closing speech last week. “To hold all those responsible accountable does not mean to put the burden of the absentee on the accused,” she said. “What will be fair is if the sentences are proportionate to the responsibility of each person.”

Judges eventually sentenced the Ghraieb and Chafroud, to slightly more jail time than the prosecutors had asked for — 18 years instead of 15. Their lawyers said they would appeal.

Ramzi Kévin Arefa, who faced life imprisonment for helping the assailant buy a gun while already convicted of an unrelated crime, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Judges considered that he was not aware of Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s criminal intentions.

“Justice did the right thing,” said a tearful Caroline Villani, a bereaved family member who was concerned about possible light sentences. “I’m relieved.”

Villani wore pins showing the faces of the loved ones she lost — her son, her brother, her mother and her mother’s partner — attached to the right side of her coat.

Célia Viale, a 28-year-old artist who lost her mother in the attack and who is the vice president of a victims’ support group, Promenade of the Angels, said the proceedings had enabled “a recognition of what we’ve been through.”

“I can move on,” she said.

During the trial, lengthy hearings were held for the testimonies of survivors and families of the victims, plunging the court into five weeks of heartbreaking suffering. Apart from those killed, hundreds more were wounded in the attack. Some witnesses described the crushed bodies lying on the promenade and desperately searching for a parent’s missing limb. Others recounted the agonizing wait to learn that a loved one had been among the victims and the difficult, if not impossible, path to recovery.

Whether the trial has helped all of them come to terms with the shocking events was uncertain.

Some of the family members and survivors did not hide the hatred they feel toward the defendants. Many also expressed resentment at what they described as a cumbersome and harrowing process to obtain compensation from France’s official victims’ fund.

Unlike the trial for the November 2015 Paris attacks, when the court was often packed with journalists, bereaved family members, survivors and other onlookers, the hearings on the Nice attack were mostly sparsely attended. Many of the survivors have said that they are more concerned about the continuing investigation into the authorities’ possible failure to provide adequate security for the Bastille Day celebration. There is also emotional fatigue among the public after two years of wrenching terrorism trials.

The unprecedented legal cycle has highlighted profound changes in France that came about as a result of the attacks.

In the courtrooms, France’s new sweeping counterterrorism laws were questioned by defense lawyers who denounced an infringement of civil liberties. The country’s uneasy relationship with Islam was highlighted by testimonies that oscillated between lingering prejudice and calls for tolerance. Experts and politicians, including a former president, François Hollande, have warned about an evolving terrorist threat made up of isolated, self-radicalized individuals.

Mégie, the University of Rouen academic, noted that the proceedings had exposed as many scars as they had healed.

“These trials provided a window on our society and many of its political issues,” he said.

An impromptu memorial on the seaside Promenade des Anglais, where a terrorist attack killed 86 people, in Nice, France, July 16, 2016.

Iran turns to public executions, enraging an already protesting public

By FARNAZ FASSIHI

After months of protests in Iran that have only escalated as the government’s crackdown has turned deadlier, officials have begun publicly executing protesters, including a 23-year-old man who was hanged Monday from a construction crane, bringing a new wave of outrage from an Iranian public calling for the end of the country’s theocratic regime.

The hangings — the first was Thursday at a prison near Tehran, the second Monday in the northwestern city of Mashhad — have brought intense condemnation from the public and human rights groups, and even criticism from some senior figures within Iran’s clerical establishment who questioned the religious validity of the death sentences.

Since the protests began in September, Iran’s security forces have killed hundreds of Iranians, in a harsh response characterized by mass arrests and beatings, military assaults and the killing of dozens of teenagers and children. Human rights groups say at least 450 protesters have died, and the United Nations says 14,000 have been arrested.

Now, the public executions are widely being taken as a last-ditch effort by the government to suppress an uprising that has become the most profound and widespread since the 1979 revolution that brought the clerics to power. In addition to street protests in dozens of cities several times a week, a general-strike campaign has picked up momentum across the country, further threatening a regime already on shaky economic ground.

On Monday, after the dawn call to prayer, Majid Reza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged in public in the northwestern city of Mashhad. Photos by state media showed a crowd of onlookers gazing at his body hanging from a crane with a sack covering his head. The time from his arrest to execution, on charges of killing two plainclothes Basij militia, spanned less than a month. He worked at a fruit shop.

Four days earlier, Mohsen Shekari, a 23-year-old who worked at a coffee shop in Tehran, was executed at a prison 20 miles from the capital on allegations that he blocked the road and stabbed a member of the Basij militia during protests in Tehran.

Rights groups say the trials of the two men resembled “lynching committees” with no judicial due process. The men were tried behind closed doors with lawyers assigned by the government who barely de -

fended them and without members of their families present, advocates say, adding that prosecutors made use of confessions coerced while the men were in detention.

The public hangings have shaken Iran and sparked widespread fury that risks further fueling the unrest instead of containing it. Both executions spawned immediate and large street protests in the two men’s home neighborhoods. Demonstrators marched and chanted “with each person killed a thousand will rise up,” and “those who are sitting, you will be next,” according to videos posted on social media.

At least 11 other protesters, men mostly in their early 20s, have been sentenced to death, according to Amnesty International.

Three others have been convicted of charges that could carry the death penalty but have not yet been sentenced, and six other men are awaiting trial on potential capital offenses.

“These trials and executions are designed to repress the protests and create a climate of fear and intimidation in the society,” said Raha Bahreini, a human rights lawyer and Iran researcher for Amnesty International. “The Iranian authorities show they are adamant about continuing their violent campaign of mass killings both on the streets and behind prison bars.”

Women and young people have been at the forefront of the protest movement

since its start in September, after the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, in the custody of the country’s morality police. That police force is in charge of enforcing the country’s strict clothing restrictions on women, which have been seen as central to the clerical regime’s identity.

In a sign of growing urgency by the Iranian authorities, officials said this month that the morality police force was being abolished, a step widely derided by protesters and human rights groups as propaganda that would do little to placate demonstrators. But at the same time, the security forces have not held back on arrests or violence to dispel protests, and the executions are adding to a sense that the authorities will stop at nothing to crush the uprisings.

Some Iranians describe a growing climate of fear. Mina, a 26-year-old resident of Tehran, said her parents had cried after the first execution and asked her to stop going to demonstrations at night in the neighborhood. She was undecided but admitted she and her friends were shaken after watching videos of Shekari’s mother screaming his name and crying when she heard the news of his execution.

Videos of grandmothers of two of the young men facing imminent execution have gone viral. In the videos the grandmothers wail and plead with judicial officials to spare the lives of their grandsons,

saying they made a mistake and should be forgiven.

The father of another protester on death row — Mehdi Karami, a 20-year-old karate champion — told the newspaper Etemad on Monday that the lawyer assigned to his son’s case by the government won’t answer family members’ calls and that they do not know the address for his law practice.

“Every night I fear they will tell me the news of my child’s execution,” Etemad quoted the father, Mashallah Karami, as saying. Mashallah Karami described himself as a peddler who sells napkins and tissues on the streets and has another son who is disabled. “I beg you in God’s name, don’t execute my child! Give him a life sentence instead.”

The executions have even appeared to shake parts of the country’s clerical establishment. A prominent collective of scholars and senior clerics from the theological schools in the city of Qom issued a statement condemning the executions on charges that the two hanged men were “moharebe,” enemies of God. The clerics criticized the hasty pace of the trials and said the charges and punishment were not proportional to the crimes committed, and called on the judiciary to halt further executions.

The head of the clerical judiciary, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, said Monday that it was well within the authority of the judges to decide what constitutes being an enemy of God. And the deputy Interior minister, Majid Mirahmadi, was quoted by Iranian news outlets Saturday as saying the media and international outrage around executing protesters would have no effect on the decisions of judiciary officials.

But the executions have caused deep anxiety among the public and the Iranian diaspora. And some Iranian news outlets have seized on the case of a Basij plainclothes militia member, Mohamadreza Ghanbartalab, pleading to reverse the death sentence of a protester charged with assaulting him. After testifying against the accused assailant, Ghanbartalab withdrew his judicial complaint and forgave the defendant, Mahan Sadrat, Iranian media have reported.

In a social media account identified by state media as authentic, Ghanbartalab has pleaded repeatedly to spare the life of Sadrat, 20. “I urgently beg you not to execute Mahan,” one post read. Sadrat had been scheduled for execution Sunday, but media outlets say it was suspended just hours beforehand.

This image was taken from a video reportedly showing protesters marching in Zahedan, southeastern Iran, on Friday.

El Salvador’s leader has eroded rights to tackle violence. Is it working?

By BRYAN AVELAR and OSCAR LÓPEZ

The soldiers arrived at dawn, shutting down an entire municipality in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, stopping cars, forcing passengers off buses and ordering men to lift their shirts and show that they didn’t have gang tattoos.

For many in this once gang-infested community, the show of force was welcome.

“Before, it was the gangsters that were in charge,” said María, a shop owner who asked that her last name not be published for her safety. “Now, there are almost no gang members.”

When an eruption of gang violence in March left more than 60 people dead during the country’s single bloodiest day since El Salvador’s civil war 30 years ago, the government of President Nayib Bukele moved quickly to declare a state of emergency, suspending key constitutional rights.

The measure was supposed to be temporary, a means to swiftly restore public order and give the government greater latitude to impose a nationwide crackdown on organized crime groups, like the brutal MS-13 gang, that had long terrorized this Central American nation.

But more than eight months later, the emergency decree is still in place, the military patrols the streets, mass arrests are a daily occurrence and jails are filled to the brim, edging El Salvador toward what is effectively a police state.

Now a report from Human Rights Watch released last week offers a comprehensive review of Bukele’s heavy-handed approach, documenting a campaign of arbitrary arrests, torture and deaths in custody under the state of emergency.

“It’s the perfect recipe for abuses and violations of human rights,” said Juan Pappier, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch.

The president’s press secretary did not respond to a request for comment, but Bukele, in a speech to the National Police last month, rejected international criticism of his tactics and praised law enforcement for tackling crime.

“You are bringing peace to the Salvadoran people,” he said.

Despite the condemnation outside El Salvador and among rights groups at home, Bukele’s policy appears to be

achieving some of its goals: Homicides have dropped sharply, while neighborhoods once so gang-infested that they were considered unsafe to enter are experiencing a relative calm.

Between January and the end of October, 463 people were killed in El Salvador, a 50% drop compared with the same period last year, according to a national police document obtained by Human Rights Watch and a Salvadoran advocacy group, Cristosal, which also worked on the report examining the state of emergency.

The emerging picture underscores a fundamental tension: In a country traumatized by chronic gang warfare, the crackdown has brought a respite from the violence, outweighing fears of democratic backsliding and giving an increasingly autocratic leader leverage to carry out his policies.

“I couldn’t come into this neighborhood because of the gangsters,” said Ricardo, a 37-year-old street merchant in the Las Margaritas neighborhood of San Salvador, who asked that his last name not be revealed for his security.

Extortion, a key revenue stream for gangs, also appears to have plunged. According to the country’s security minister, extortion cases have fallen by 80% since the state of emergency began. The figure is difficult to verify independently, but several business leaders interviewed by The New York Times said extortion had gone down significantly.

While a lack of transparency by the Bukele government makes it hard to assess the credibility of official crime data, experts say there is little doubt that there has been a notable reduction in violence since the start of the emergency decree.

“This crackdown has been unprecedented,” said Tiziano Breda, Central America analyst at the International Crisis Group, an independent research organization. “Without a doubt this has weakened the gangs.”

But if criminal groups have been crippled, so too have many of El Salvador’s civil liberties.

Since March, the Legislative Assembly, controlled by Bukele’s party, has approved legislation allowing judges to imprison children as young as 12, limiting freedom of expression, expanding the use of pretrial detention and permitting prosecutors and judges to try people in

absentia.

Yet, Bukele’s approval ratings, according to polls, have remained above 80%, suggesting that many Salvadorans crave greater safety, even if it means a more repressive system.

“They were so desperate because of the levels of violence and the control of the gangs,” said José Miguel Cruz, an expert on El Salvador’s gang violence at Florida International University, “that they will accept that sort of deal with the devil.”

A rise in gang violence in countries across the region has prompted some governments to adopt similar harsh responses. The government of Honduras declared a state of emergency last week in two of the country’s largest cities to tackle gang violence, suspending some constitutional rights. Jamaica imposed a similar emergency decree last month in Kingston, the capital, and in other parts of the country.

Still, even if there is less violence in El Salvador, such a dip is likely to be temporary without addressing the root causes, including grinding poverty and corruption, some analysts warn.

And indiscriminately imprisoning young men who may have done nothing wrong alongside gang members could result in a large population of disaffected youth who might make easier recruits for gangs.

“Similar policies of mass incarceration and an iron fist in El Salvador and the rest of the region have shown that in the long term they don’t achieve sustainable results and bring back surges of violence,” Pappier said.

The state of emergency has been used as a blunt instrument, according to the Human Rights Watch report, with police commanders establishing a quota system requiring officers to arrest a certain number of people every day.

The prison system is at a breaking point, with close to 100,000 people behind bars as of November, more than three times the capacity of the country’s penal system. At least 90 people have died in custody since the state of emergency began. Human Rights Watch documented at least two cases in which authorities appeared to have failed to provide detainees necessary medication.

Police and soldiers escorting detaining a man during a crackdown on gang members this month in Soyapango, El Salvador.

In a wary Arctic, Norway starts to see Russian spies everywhere

By ERIKA SOLOMON and HENRIK PRYSER LIBELL

In hindsight, some things just didn’t add up about Jose Giammaria.

For one, the visiting researcher at the University of Tromso, in Norway’s Arctic Circle, was ostensibly Brazilian. But he couldn’t speak Portuguese. Then there was the fact that he self-funded his visit, an oddity in academia, and even planned to extend it — yet he never talked about his research. But he was always helpful, even offering to redesign the homepage for the Center for Peace Studies, where he worked.

That was until Oct. 24, 2022, when Norway’s security police, the PST, arrived with a warrant to search his office. Days later, they announced his arrest as a Russian spy, named Mikhail Mikushin.

The revelation sent a chill through campus, said Marcela Douglas, who heads the Center for Peace Studies, which researches security and conflict. “I started to see spies everywhere.”

So is Norway, and much of the rest of Europe, too.

As the war in Ukraine bogs down and Moscow’s isolation increases, European nations have grown wary that a desperate Kremlin is exploiting their open societies to deepen attempts at spying, sabotage and infiltration — possibly to send a message, or to probe how far it could go if needed in a broader conflict with the West.

Mikushin is one of three Russians recently arrested in Europe on suspicion of being “illegals” — spies who embed in a local society for long-term espionage or recruitment. In June, an intern at the International Criminal Court, also with a Brazilian passport, was arrested in The Hague, Netherlands, and charged with spying for Russia. In late November, a Swedish raid caught a Russian couple accused of espionage.

Other suspicious incidents have popped up across Europe: In Germany, drones found flying over military sites where Ukrainians forces were being trained are strongly suspected by German officials of being Russian intelligence. Undersea cables cut in France, while not attributed to malignant intent, have raised suspicions among security analysts. And a hack of fuel distribution networks in Belgium and Germany days before Russia’s invasion also raised alarm.

Not all of the incidents can be traced to the Kremlin with certainty, and in many places, heightened vigilance and real concern have become hard to separate from widening paranoia. Russia has called a string of recent

Norwegian arrests, mostly of Russian citizens for flying drones, a form of “hysteria.”

Norway, however, may have more reasons to worry than most.

Now that Western sanctions have all but cut off Russian fossil fuels to Europe, Norway is the biggest oil and gas supplier to the continent. Off its Arctic coast lie underwater cables that are critical for internet servicing for the financial hub of London, and for passing satellite imagery from the high north, where Norway borders Russia for 123 miles, across the Atlantic to the United States.

That vital role has felt all the more vulnerable since September, when explosions destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany, and for which Moscow and Washington have traded blame.

“It was a wake-up call. The war is not only in Ukraine. It can also affect us, even if it is hard to attribute,” said Tom Roseth, a professor at the Norwegian Defence University College.

A number of more conventional Russian spies have been rounded up and expelled in recent years, possibly making Russia more reliant on sleeper agents, especially as the war in Ukraine stumbles.

The recent surge in cases, Roseth said, reflected Russia’s need for its dormant spies to come through.

“At this point in time in Europe, with the pressure of the situation that Moscow is in, it wants its network to deliver,” he said. “Even though these activities have been there before, I think they take higher risks now.”

Norwegian citizens have dutifully responded to warnings to be alert, inundating police with calls over drone sightings, or foreigners allegedly acting suspicious.

But now, some worry that hypervigilance has gone too far, especially in terrain as murky as suspected espionage.

On a recent afternoon, in the pitch black of Arctic winter, Tromso’s tiny regional courthouse was hearing two cases against Russian citizens accused of flying drones.

Neither was accused of spying, which is hard to prove. Instead, they were charged with violating European sanctions that ban Russians from flying aircraft, which Norway is now interpreting to include Russian individuals operating hobby drones.

Seven Russians were arrested in mid-October for flying drones, and four have been put on trial. Two have been convicted and ordered to serve prison sentences of 90 or 120 days.

Among those caught up in the arrests is Andrey Yakunin, the son of Vladimir Yakunin, a longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s, in a trial closely followed across the country.

The younger Yakunin, a businessman who lives in the United Kingdom and holds British citizenship, has distanced himself from Russia’s invasion.

He was arrested after his yacht, the Firebird, was stopped by Norwegian authorities, who asked if he had a drone. He showed them a drone used to capture images of himself and his crew skiing and fishing among the glacial landscapes of Arctic Norway.

Prosecutors are pursuing a 120-day sentence.

“For sure I’m not a spy — though I do own a full collection of James Bond movies,” Yakunin joked in an interview after his trial began Dec. 3.

Across the hall, in a tiny courtroom away from the cameras, a graying man in denim, Aleksey Reznichenko, a Russian engineer, tearfully pleaded his own case in a much lower profile trial. He was arrested after taking pictures of fences and the parking lot outside the control tower at Tromso airport.

“It was a gut feeling,” said Ivar Helsing Schroen, the air control manager, who grew suspicious and called the police. “Something was very strange.”

In court, Reznichenko teared up as he spoke through a translator in Russian, saying he feared for his family, for whom he was the sole breadwinner.

He was found with photographs of a military helicopter and nearby Kirkenes airport. He said taking photos of aircraft and airports is a longtime hobby. But in any case, neither photograph was illegal. Instead, Reznichenko was charged for flying a drone.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys alike say that in prosecuting such cases Norway has crossed into a legal gray area that challenges its democratic values.

The Mikushin case has sparked a tussle between security analysts and academics over how strictly to monitor and restrict foreign researchers or international collaboration, which could have a chilling effect on important research.

In the drone cases, Yakunin’s and several other defense lawyers have argued that sanctioning Russians based on nationality is discriminatory, and potentially a human rights violation.

“There is a question whether this is the law — but if the law’s wording covers this, the law is a problem,” said John Christian Elden, Yakunin’s lead lawyer.

The country itself seems to be conflicted as to how to handle the situation. The judges in both Yakunin’s and Reznichenko’s cases have now decided to acquit them. But prosecutors are appealing both cases. Yakunin will be back in Tromso’s court in January.

“I am not out of the woods yet,” he told journalists after being released from custody.

Ola Larsen, Reznichenko’s lawyer, said Norway’s PST was being unusually aggressive to make a point.

“Politics is playing a role,” she said. “They want to make a statement to the Russians.”

Security jitters in Norway’s Arctic were high before the invasion of Ukraine. The northern frontiers had friendly relations among locals, who trade with one another, but there have been several suspected espionage cases, dating back to the Cold War.

Some espionage cases have bordered on the comical. In 2019, a beluga whale found by Norwegian fisherman in its Arctic waters was widely speculated to be a “spy whale” escaped from Russia’s military.

Norwegian media dubbed him “Hvaldimir” — a portmanteau of the Norwegian word for whale and the name Vladimir.

Those such as Schroen insist caution is always warranted. Checking the news from his tower, just a few miles from the courthouse, he felt no guilt over sending a man to trial.

Spies, he says, are definitely interested in the Arctic: “You’d have to be naive to think it was otherwise.”

A view of the University of Tromso in Norway, where the arrest of a visiting researcher accused of being a Russian spy sent a chill through the campus, Nov. 30, 2022.

war on drugs?

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

There are three bills floating through Congress right now that could not only save lives and money but also help to finally dismantle the nation’s failed war on drugs. The Medicaid Re-entry Act, EQUAL (Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law) Act and the MAT (Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment) Act all have bipartisan support and could be passed during the lame duck session of Congress. Lawmakers should act on them without delay.

The MAT Act would eliminate the special Drug Enforcement Administration waiver that doctors must apply for in order to prescribe buprenorphine (a medication that helps reduce the craving for opioids). It would enable community health aides to dispense this medication as long as it’s prescribed by a doctor through telemedicine. And it would give the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration responsibility to start a national campaign to educate health care practitioners about medications for opioid use disorder. Reams of data have shown and addiction specialists agree that these medications offer some of the best options for preventing overdoses and helping people into recovery. But a 2019 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found that fewer than 20% of people who could benefit have access to them.

There are several reasons for that, including stigma and a lack of understanding about how medications for opioid use disorder work. The biggest problem is that so few doctors are willing to treat addiction in the first place. Dropping the DEA waiver will not be enough to alleviate that shortage; lawmakers will also have to find ways to ensure that addiction treatment enjoys the same robust reimbursement rates as other chronic conditions. But eliminating the waiver would still be a crucial step in the right direction. The prescription drugs that caused the current epidemic should not be easier to access than the medications that could help alleviate it.

The MAT Act, which was written by Rep. Paul Tonko of New York, boasts some 248 co-sponsors and has already passed the House as part of a broader mental health package.

The Medicaid Re-entry Act would allow states to reactivate Medicaid for inmates up to one month before their scheduled release from prison. Those benefits are normally suspended (or in some states terminated) during incarceration because current law prohibits jail and prison inmates from receiving federal health insurance. Reinstating them after incarceration takes time and resources that people who have just been released from jail or prison don’t necessarily have. The resulting disruptions in medical care can be dire: America’s prison population suffers disproportionately from a range of

serious ailments, including mental illness, heart disease and opioid use disorder. Among other risks, they are 50 to 150 times as likely to die of an overdose in the first two weeks after their release.

Closing the post-incarceration treatment gap would go a long way toward reducing such deaths. The Rhode Island Department of Corrections reduced its postincarceration overdose fatalities by 60% by ensuring that inmates could access methadone and buprenorphine both during incarceration and after release, without disruption.

“It was basically a slam dunk,” says Keith Humphreys, an addiction expert at Stanford University and a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama on drug policy. “Instead of sending them off with a brochure, you connect them to treatment.”

Reinstating Medicaid before release would be another, even more robust way to accomplish the same goal. Several states have already applied for federal waivers that would allow them to do so on a trial basis. The Biden administration should approve those waivers without delay. But Congress should also pass the Medicaid Re-entry Act so that the benefit of seamless care isn’t determined by where an inmate is incarcerated.

The bill, which was also written by Tonko, has bipartisan backing in both chambers and support from a wide range of groups, including the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the National Sheriffs Association. Experts on addiction believe it could save both lives and money. “It would open up a world of possibilities for taking care of people who are newly released,” Humphreys says. “There is really no reason not to do it.”

The EQUAL Act would eliminate the federal sentencing disparity between drug offenses involving crack cocaine and powder cocaine. That disparity was created by a 1986 law that equated 50 grams of crack with 5,000 grams of powder cocaine and subjected possession of either to a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison.

The law was based on the now disproved idea that crack cocaine is far more addictive than powder cocaine. It resulted in disproportionately harsher penalties and far more prison time for drug offenders in communities of color: While two-thirds of people who smoke crack are

beginning of the end.

white, 80% of people who have been convicted of crack offenses are Black.

In 2010, Congress reduced the crack-to-powder ratio from 100:1 to 18:1. The EQUAL Act would finally eliminate it altogether. If passed, approximately 7,600 people who are serving excessive crack-related sentences could be released an average of six years earlier, according to an estimate from the U.S. Sentencing Commission. That comes out to some 46,500 fewer prison years.

EQUAL, which was written by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who was recently elected leader of the House Democrats, passed the House last year with overwhelming bipartisan support. We urge the Senate to pass it. Lawmakers should get this long overdue bill across the finish line now, before House investigations and other political battles take priority in the next session.

The nation’s five-decade war on drugs has been a dismal failure. Overdose deaths have reached — and then surpassed — extreme levels in recent years, and the number of people who are still in prison for drug offenses remains stubbornly and egregiously high. Still, it is hard to agree on what comes next. What has been shown to work is not always politically feasible, and what’s politically popular often doesn’t make for sound public health. MAT, EQUAL and the Medicaid Re-entry Acts meet both requirements. Congress should pass all three now.

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Sharon

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The San Juan Daily Star

Gobernador concede el 23 y 30 de diciembre sin cargo a licencia de vacaciones

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SAN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Pierluisi, firmó el martes, la Orden Ejecutiva 2022-055 que concede como feriados los días 23 y 30 de diciembre, por lo que los servidores públicos de las agencias de la Rama Ejecutiva podrán disfrutar de ambos días sin cargo a licencia alguna.

“Los empleados públicos son el pilar de nuestro gobierno y gracias a su compromiso hemos tenido grandes logros para Puerto Rico. Firmé la orden ejecutiva que concede el 23 y 30 de diciem-

bre de este año 2022 como días feriados, con el propósito de que puedan disfrutar en unidad familiar durante esta época navideña”, dijo el primer ejecutivo en comunicación escrita.

Como establece la Orden Ejecutiva, los secretarios y jefes de agencias deberán ejercer sus poderes, prerrogativas gerenciales y sus mejores oficios para garantizar que no se vean afectados los servicios esenciales que se ofrecen a la ciudadanía.

La firma de la medida no conlleva impacto adicional al presupuesto.

Hallan sin signos vitales al salsero Lalo Rodríguez

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CAROLINA

– La Policía informó el martes, el fallecimiento del salsero Lalo Rodríguez.

El cantante fue hallado sin signos vitales en el residencial Sabana Abajo de Carolina.

Según información preliminar, se recibió una llamada a través del Sistema de Emergencias 9-1-1 alertando sobre un caso médico en el lugar y al llegar la

Policía encontraron el cuerpo de un hombre, que no ha sido identificado al momento.

Personal de la División de Homicidios del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales (CIC) de Carolina, en unión al fiscal de turno y personal del Instituto de Ciencias Forenses se encuentran en la escena para trabajar la misma.

El agente José Fuentes, del precinto policiaco, atendió inicialmente la querella y custodió el área.

7 muertos y 201 hospitalizados en informe preliminar COVID-19

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SAN JUAN – El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el martes 7 muertes y 201 personas hospitalizadas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,449. Hay 177 adultos hospitalizados y 18 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 26 de noviembre al 10 de diciembre 2022.

La tasa de positividad está en 22.03 por ciento.

Aprobación en Cámara de proyecto de estatus será una expresión dice comisionada residente

La comisionada residente, Jenniffer González Colón estableció el martes, que una aprobación del proyecto HR 8393 en la Cámara federal servirá como una expresión.

“Aún cuando el Senado no tenga tiempo para aprobarlo en diciembre, nos permite por primera vez una expresión de descolonización para Puerto Rico con opciones de estatus no territoriales, no coloniales”, dijo González Colón en declaraciones escritas.

“Estamos velando sigilosamente el proyecto

para que puedan bajar a votación. La meta de todos es que se vea el jueves aquí en el Congreso, pero todavía no tenemos una fecha hasta que no veamos el lenguaje y veamos las definiciones que se están incluyendo, que para mí son bien importantes porque yo no puedo claudicar lo que es nuestra defensa de la estadidad”, añadió.

Por otro lado, la comisionada residente se expresó sobre los fondos Medicaid para Puerto Rico.

“Tengo que decirles que ya se radicó una resolución continúa de presupuesto, porque expiraba este viernes de esta semana. El 16 de diciembre se terminaban los fondos para Medicaid para Puerto

Rico porque expiraba el estatuto. Ya se radicó una medida para extender la misma aportación federal que tenemos hoy hasta el viernes 23 de diciembre, en lo que el Congreso puede revisar el proyecto de presupuesto o el ómnibus que es la medida que incluiría esta disposición para Puerto Rico.

Así que ya está con un FMAP de un 76 por ciento, así que continuamos asegurando más recursos para Puerto Rico en el área de salud tal y como les prometimos a ustedes. Así que esta semana es una semana bien activa, de mucha controversia, pero también de muchos resultados para Puerto Rico y les dejo saber más adelante”, concluyó.

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These soccer and World Cup movies have big goals

By BEATRICE LOAYZA

Every four years, the World Cup offers something not unlike the movies: For a whole month, it stops time, enveloping its distant spectators in the electric-green glow of the screen.

But there’s more to the “beautiful game” than balletic ball-moves and the cheek-gnawing suspense of gameplay characterized by low score count. Ladj Ly’s 2019 crime thriller, “Les Misérables,” set in the immigrant-populated underworld of the Parisian banlieues, paints it vividly: In the opening minutes, we’re plunged into the Champs-Élysées, where throngs of fans draped in red, white and blue celebrate France’s victory at the 2018 World Cup. The pulsing moment is one of communal exultation at odds with the film’s forthcoming depiction of a fractious multiethnic society.

“The thing about football — the important thing about football — is that it is not just about football,” English author Terry Pratchett wrote in the novel “Unseen Academicals.” This observation could very well apply to all sports built on mass followings and billion-dollar business deals, but soccer — a potent symbol of globalization heavy with historical baggage — is uniquely revealing: The game is a prism through which the ever-evolving world, and the interconnected fortunes of people from disparate parts of it, comes to light.

No wonder soccer movies are often eclectic and at times unclassifiable, drawing from multiple continents and genres. Take John Huston’s World War II adventure drama “Escape to Victory.” Pelé, the legendary Brazilian striker, is joined by Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, and real-life professional footballers from across Europe and North and South America to play ball against Nazi rivals. And from Hong Kong, there’s Stephen Chow’s hit kung fu comedy “Shaolin Soccer,” a nod to the fast-growing popularity of soccer throughout Asia, released one year before the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. Not that soccer films are all about global cooperation and underdog badassery; other films poke fun at the game’s biggest icons. For this, see the brilliantly unhinged “Diamantino,” a surreal Portuguese spy movie spoof featuring a Cristiano Ronaldo look-alike who gets in the zone by imagining himself in a cotton-candy field surrounded by elephant-size Pomeranians.

The 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the first ever held in a Middle Eastern nation, has courted countless controversies, with the host country’s conservative traditions starkly at odds with the sport’s modern fandoms. FIFA and Qatar have been pelted with charges of corruption and bribery, but most harrowing, perhaps, are reports of the country’s exploitative use of migrant labor, resulting in the deaths of thousands of workers from primarily South Asian and African countries. The documentary “The Workers Cup” (2018) takes us to the labor camps erected on the outskirts of Doha, where we meet a handful of soccer-enthusiast workers who come to terms with the underpinnings of a brutal industry — the same one responsible for nurturing their own athletic dreams.

Since the start of the tournament, fans and players have spoken out about the region’s thorny politics (including the

criminalization of homosexuality) and religious practices. On this front, and on the matter of soccer’s ability to ease or exacerbate ethnic tensions, the documentary “Forever Pure” (2017) comes to mind. Directed by Maya Zinshtein, it traces one of the ugliest episodes in Israeli soccer, doubling as an exposé into what it sees as the country’s systemic racism. Consisting of interviews with the players, owners and fans of the Beitar Jerusalem Football Club, the documentary examines the reactions of these individuals against the addition of two Muslim players to the team — and the language of racial purity used to justify their opposition.

Less inflammatory but similarly illuminating are two documentaries that plumb political dimensions through intensely personal stories of soccer obsession — both by Romanian auteur Corneliu Porumboiu. The first, “The Second Game,” features voice-over commentary from Porumboiu and his father as the two watch a 1988 match refereed by the elder Porumboiu between two of Romania’s leading squads. The game takes place one year before the revolution that toppled the country’s totalitarian leader, Nicolae Ceausescu — a period in which Romanian soccer was openly a tool of political scheming; one team was associated with the military, the other with the secret police. At the same time, there’s the slightest hint of nostalgia as the two men look back on several players, considered part of Romania’s golden generation of soccer, who would eventually leave the country to play for more prestigious professional teams in Western Europe.

The second film, “Infinite Football,” introduces us to a hobbling ex-footballer-turned-pencil-pusher with an elaborate plan to reinvent the rules of the game, to better prevent injuries like the one that ended his athletic career. It’s a parable for the fractured state of Romania itself through the lens of one man’s desperate attempt to fix what broke him.

In the first week of this year’s tournament, members of the Iranian team refused to sing the national anthem before their game against England — a display of solidarity with an ongoing protest movement against Iran’s leadership, spurred by the killing of a young woman in police custody. The

confluence of these events brings to mind one of the great soccer movies of the past twenty years, “Offside” (2007) by Jafar Panahi, the Iranian master currently imprisoned for his political beliefs. A pointed critique of the country’s misogynist strictures delivered at the pitch of a dark comedy, the film follows a group of women who have been caught disguising themselves as men to enter a Tehran stadium where a match will determine Iran’s qualification for the 2006 World Cup.

Like “Offside,” several international films consider the way soccer fandom pits modernity against traditional ways of life, simply through the struggles of people attempting to watch a game. “The Cup” (2000) was the first film from Bhutan to be submitted for an Oscar, featuring real-life Tibetan monks swept up in the frenzy of the 1998 World Cup. A group of novices lead makeshift soccer games using a can of Coca-Cola as a ball, and at night sneak away from the monastery to watch the Cup in a nearby cottage. Granted permission to set up a television on monastery grounds for the final game between France and Brazil, the boys race to collect funds for a satellite dish and set up the device in time for kickoff.

The same dynamic plays out across three different remote locations in Gerardo Olivares’ gentle mockumentary “The Great Match” (2006), which is also structured around the struggle to watch a World Cup final — the 2002 showdown between Brazil and Germany. The film follows the misadventures of three unrelated groups of soccer fans: Kazakh nomads from the Eastern Mongolian steppes, camelmounted Berber tribespeople in the Sahara, and Indigenous Amazonians.

Both films present the love of soccer as a universal bond, a bitter pill considering it might also be the only common ground between us viewers and these disappearing cultures — soccer, after all, is nothing if not a tool of cultural hegemony. At the same time, though the stakes aren’t a matter of life or death, the passion of these fans — the way they persist in their efforts to seize a small slice of pleasure in a world of tireless work, exile and material hardship — might say something about what soccer would have to offer were it stripped of its territorial fanatics and its billion-dollar pomp and ceremony.

Where to Watch These Soccer Movies

Stream “Les Misérables” on Amazon Prime Video.

Rent “Escape to Victory” on multiple digital platforms.

Stream “Shaolin Soccer” on Paramount+ or the Criterion Channel.

Stream “Diamantino” on major digital platforms.

Stream “The Workers Cup” on multiple digital platforms.

Rent “Forever Pure” on Apple TV.

Stream “The Second Game” on the Criterion Channel or Mubi.

Stream “Infinite Football” on the Criterion Channel or Kanopy.

Stream “Offside” on the Criterion Channel.

Stream “The Cup” on the Criterion Channel.

Stream “The Great Match” on Tubi or Film Movement Plus.

Steve Tientcheu in “Les Misérables.”

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FASHION

By IRIS EDÉN SANTIAGO Special to The STAR

Acouple of days after his triumphant fashion event in Santurce’s La Placita market square, we bumped into fashion designer Rubén Dario, who was casually talking to friends at El Coco de Luis, a popular spot at the square.

He was impeccable in his monochromatic black signature look. As usual. And he was still savoring the successful show he had pulled off that Monday night.

“I cried, it was very emotional,” he said. “It was huge, well received by guests. And my sister was in the audience. What else can I ask for?”

The Gurabo native, who has lived steps from La Placita for over 20 years, had dreamed of this moment. He got inspiration from the best. Rubén Darío explained that both the late Maestro Karl Lagerfeld and Dior’s director Maria Grazia Chiuri had presented shows in plazas, “and it was magnificent!”

Lagerfeld presented the Chanel Cruise Collection in the Paseo del Prado Plaza in Havana in 2016. This summer, Chiuri presented the Dior Cruise Collection in Seville’s Plaza de España.

“I have wanted to do something like that since forever,” Darío said “And this was the chance. I wanted big, a big splash, I wanted this venue, the people, the experience.”

La Placita is a colorful farmer’s market and close-knit neighborhood off Canals Street in Santurce. By night it becomes the fiesta district, a popular spot for dining and dancing with a good number of cool bars and theme restaurants.

With help from the San Juan Moda organization, friends at the shops and nearby restaurants, and last but not least, getting approval from the Office of the First Lady of San Juan, Rubén Darío’s dream was on its way.

To the beat of samba rhythms, male and female models paraded down the four main streets of La Placita, where traffic had been diverted for the night. “Meu Brazil” is a fashion collection inspired by the songs of Roberto Carlos and a tribute to the Brazilian star he had seen recently, the designer explained.

This collection is smoking hot. We loved the flair, the colors, and the ultra femme silhouettes he makes so well. Flowy ballgowns, A-line cocktail dresses, two-piece sets and fabulous long coat dresses. He is a master at details, those tricky delicate couture techniques that separate genius from, well, the rest.

Rubén Darío’s

Double-strap tight-fitting dresses in red, yellow and green are fantastic as is his white blouse with crisscross lapels and architectural cuffs worn with high-waisted trousers. Not to be missed are his cropped tent blouses with wide architectural straps. Conversation pieces right there. Fabulous!

Alongside his very fem inine dresses, Rubén Darío presented shirts and trousers for men, and very interesting urban looks for millennials and zoomers -- hoodies, re laxed dresses, rompers and cute tiny bralettes with shorts or long silk skirts.

fashion at The Plaza

Photo by: Giovannie Quiñónez

Photo by: Bob Varela

Photo by: Bob Varela

Photo by: Giovanna Salerno

Holiday drinking can harm your heart

By DANI BLUM

I’ve learned to love the chaotic haze that is December: my frantic attempts at wrapping presents and ticking off items on my to-do lists, squeezed between company parties and catch-up drinks before everyone disperses for the holidays. But that boozefilled blur also makes the holidays peak time for cardiovascular issues, doctors say: More people die from heart attacks between Christmas and New Year’s Day than any other period throughout the year.

“We drink and eat so much more and exercise and relax so much less than really any other time of year,” said Dr. Nicholas Ruthmann, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic.

Medical professionals have warned about the cardiac risks the holiday season carries for decades. In the 1970s, doctors gave a name to the particular toll of celebratory binge drinking: holiday heart syndrome. They had noticed otherwise healthy patients streaming into emergency rooms after drinking during holiday festivities with atrial fibrillation, or irregular heart rhythms.

“We see it in young people, old people, anybody,” said Dr. Kristen Brown, a cardiovascular fellow at the University of Nebraska Medical Center who has researched holiday heart syndrome.

Holiday heart is really just another phrase for alcohol-induced atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, which is a rapid, chaotic heart rhythm. A-fib is one of the most common cardiac conditions, said Dr. Gregory Marcus, a professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco, who has studied alcohol and A-fib.

Many people with A-fib won’t have any symptoms, said Dr. Hugh Calkins, a professor of cardiology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Those who do have symptoms might experience fluttering or pounding heart palpitations, chest pain or shortness of breath; some have extreme fatigue and even pass out. For some people, A-fib comes on in brief spells, but for others the condition can become permanent.

cardiac risks

carries for decades. “Holiday heart” syndrome is really just another phrase for alcohol-induced atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, which is a rapid, chaotic heart rhythm, one of the most common cardiac conditions.

It’s especially important to watch out for symptoms because A-fib can increase the risk that you will have a stroke; it has also been linked to dementia and heart failure, Calkins added.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the death rate from A-fib has been rising for more than two decades, an increase doctors partly attribute to an aging population in the United States.

Your risk goes up with age; by the time you’re 80, you have about a 10% chance of having the condition, Calkins said. He cited other risk factors as well: You’re more likely to have A-fib if you are tall (one study found that people taller than 5 feet 7 inches were at an increased risk), obese, or have a family history of early-onset A-fib.

Doctors typically diagnose A-fib through an electrocardiogram.

“A common scenario,” Calkins said, is that a patient turns 50, goes in for a colonoscopy to screen for cancer, ends up getting an electrocardiogram, “and lo and behold, they have A-fib.” But as smartwatches with heart monitors have become more popular, people are noticing changes in their heart rhythm on their own, he said, and seeking out cardiologists.

“Never in the history of our field have there been so many patients lining up to see us,” he said.

Doctors are still trying to understand exactly

how alcohol affects the heart, Marcus said. One working theory is that alcohol induces alterations in your nervous system, which typically regulates heart rate. Excessive alcohol may also change the electrical signals within your heart, which coordinate the contraction of your cardiac cells.

Over the past 10 years, scientists have strengthened the link between alcohol and A-fib. One study showed that just a single drink a day can raise the risk of A-fib by 16%. Even so, the increased chance may not be drastic for the average person.

“If on a given day, the chance of you having Afib tomorrow is 1 in 1,000 — if you have a glass of beer or wine tonight, maybe it’s 3 in 1,000,” Calkins said.

But people of all ages should still be aware of the warning signs, he added.

People tend to ignore their symptoms over the holidays and wait until the new year to get medical attention, Ruthmann said. But it’s critical to seek out care if you have a persistent racing heartbeat and chest pain, or if you’re struggling to breathe. Dizziness and feeling lightheaded or confused can also indicate a cardiac issue.

“Every second counts when it comes to the heart,” Ruthmann said.

Limiting the amount of alcohol you consume may help protect the heart, but for those who choose to drink, here are a few ways to stay heart-healthy:

Hydrate. If you’re drinking over the holidays, make sure to have a full glass of water between each beverage, Ruthmann said. Dehydration increases the risk of holiday heart syndrome, Brown said, so it’s essential to make sure you stay hydrated.

Don’t skip medication. Many people leave their heart or blood pressure medications behind in the shuffle of traveling to see family and friends, thinking they can go a few days without them, Ruthmann said. But it’s important to keep taking medication as scheduled.

Find time for fitness. Moderate exercise may help buffer against A-fib. If you have a regular exercise routine that you can’t get to during the holidays, find some time for a modified workout — even if that’s just a walk around the block.

Manage stress. Stress can play a devastating role in increasing the risk of cardiac events, Ruthmann said. If you find yourself getting worked up, take a beat to breathe or try a grounding exercise.

As hectic as the holidays can get, make sure you’re listening to your body and paying attention to anything that feels off, he advised.

“A merry Christmas can turn into a scary Christmas fast.”

Medical professionals have warned about the

the holiday season

Successful end of NASA moon mission shifts attention to SpaceX

By KENNETH CHANG

Suspended under parachutes, an astronaut capsule without astronauts made a gentle splash in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, bringing NASA’s Artemis I moon mission to a close.

The end of the uncrewed test flight coincided with the 50th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 17 on the moon, the last time that NASA astronauts walked there.

The Artemis program is the successor to Apollo, and after years of delays and a mounting price tag, the new rocket and spacecraft that will take astronauts back to the moon worked about as smoothly as mission managers could have hoped.

“This was a challenging mission,” Mike Sarafin, the Artemis mission manager, said during a news conference after the splashdown. “And this is what mission success looks like.”

The moon trip capped a year of spectacular successes for NASA. Its James Webb Space Telescope, which launched almost a year ago, began sending back breathtaking images of the cosmos this summer. Its DART mission showed in September that slamming into an asteroid on purpose could protect Earth in the future if a deadly space rock is discovered on a collision course with our planet.

With the conclusion of Artemis I, more attention will shift toward SpaceX, the private rocket company founded by Elon Musk. NASA is relying on a version of Starship, the company’s next-generation spacecraft that has not yet flown to space, to land astronauts on the moon.

On Sunday, just after noon Eastern time, the Orion crew capsule — where astronauts will sit during future flights — reentered the Earth’s atmosphere at 24,500 mph. This was the mission’s last major objective: to demonstrate that the capsule’s heat shield could withstand the temperatures up to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

By design, the capsule bounced

off the upper layer of air before reentering a second time. It was the first time that a capsule designed for astronauts had performed this maneuver, known as a skip-entry, which enables more precise steering toward the landing site. As expected, there were two blackouts in communications as the heat from the capsule’s encounter with the atmosphere created electrically charged gases that blocked the radio signals.

Before and after the blackouts, live video from outside Orion’s window showed impressive views of Earth getting larger and larger.

At 12:40 p.m. Eastern, the capsule settled in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico’s Baja peninsula. Recovery crews aboard the USS Portland experienced brisk winds and choppy seas with waves 4 to 5 feet high.

Over the next few hours, recovery crews worked to pull Orion out of the water. It will head back to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for detailed inspection.

The capsule and the Space Launch System, a giant new rocket, are key pieces of Artemis, which aims to land astronauts on the moon near its south pole as early as 2025.

During the 26 days of Artemis I, glitches popped up as expected, but the flight appeared to be devoid of ma -

jor malfunctions that would require a lengthy investigation and redesign.

“It’s a great demonstration that this stuff works,” said Daniel L. Dumbacher, the executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dumbacher oversaw early work on the Space Launch System more than a decade ago when he was a top human spaceflight official at NASA.

While the mission was years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, the flight provided some validation of the traditional government-run approach that NASA took for the development of the complex space hardware.

“From my standpoint, it certainly measures up to the expectations, if not more,” said Jeff Bingham, a former senior Republican aide on the Senate subcommittee that shaped legislation in 2010 directing NASA to build the Space Launch System. “I feel good about the fact that what we intended is coming to fruition.”

Even Lori Garver, a former deputy administrator of NASA who favored turning to private companies to come up with more innovative rocket designs that might have been built faster and cheaper, acknowledged that the Artemis I flight went smoothly.

“It’s fantastic that it is working,”

she said. “It’s a huge relief, and excitement, at NASA.”

The space agency now appears to be in good shape to launch the next mission, Artemis II, as planned in 2024. That flight will send four astronauts to the moon, without landing, and then back to Earth.

Vanessa Wyche, director of the Johnson Space Center, said NASA planned to name the crew members for Artemis II early next year.

The moon landing is planned for the third Artemis mission, in which the Space Launch System and Orion will ferry four astronauts to a large looping orbit around the moon. That task will not require capabilities beyond those demonstrated during Artemis I and Artemis II.

Manufacturing the hardware for those missions is already well underway. The Orion capsule for Artemis II is already half built at the Kennedy Space Center. The service module for Orion, built by Airbus as part of the European Space Agency’s contributions to the moon missions, was delivered last year. This weekend, the bottom section for the rocket that will launch Artemis III arrived at Kennedy for installation of the engines.

“This isn’t just a one-flight-andwe’re-done,” said Jim Free, associate administrator of NASA’s exploration systems development directorate.

But Artemis III will hinge on a third requisite piece: a lander built by SpaceX. And for that part of the mission, Musk’s company will have to pull off a series of technological marvels that have never been achieved before.

“I think all eyes do start turning to the lander at some point,” said Garver, whose work during the Obama administration helped lay the foundation for SpaceX’s current program of taking astronauts to the International Space Station.

NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract in 2021 to develop and build the lunar lander, which is a variation of the giant Starship rocket, for Artemis III.

NASA’s Orion capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean, concluding a successful test flight to the moon with no crew aboard.

LEGAL NOTICE

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING

LLC.

Demandante Vs. MARIA SOCORRO CINTRON HERNANDEZ

POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL

USUFRUCTUARIA; SUCESION RAFAEL FELIX GATELL TORO COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS

DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV07056.

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

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

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, 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 San Juan, el 12 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento Numero TRESCIENTOS DOCE (312), apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la tercera planta del CONDOMINIO PANORAMA PLAZA, situado en el Barrio Monacillos del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, el área aproximadamente del apartamento es de ochocientos treinta y siete punto veinte

pies cuadrados, equivalentes a SETENTA Y SIETE PUNTO SENTENTA Y SIETE METROS CUADRADOS (77.77 M.C.). En lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y cinco pies nueve pulgadas, con el apartamento numero trescientos uno, en tres pies diez pulgadas, con área común, corredor que da acceso a los apartamentos; por el SUR, en treinta y nueve pies con siete pulgadas, con el espacio exterior; por el ESTE, en dieciocho pies con ocho pulgadas, con el apartamento numero trescientos once, en dos pies con nueve pulgadas, con área común, corredor que da acceso a los apartamentos; por el OESTE, en veintiún pies cinco pulgadas, con el espacio exterior. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Norte. Consta de sala, comedor, cuarto de estar, habitación principal, “walking closet”, habitación secundaria con closet, corredor, closet de pasillo, closet de almacenaje, baño, cocina, alacena, y lavandería. Le corresponde dos espacios de estacionamiento identificados con los números trescientos doce, localizados en el área de estacionamientos del condominio. Finca 8,000, inscrita al folio 167 del tomo 311 de Monacillos Este y el Cinco, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 167 del tomo 311 de Monacillos Este, finca 8,000, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V, inscripción 2ª. Propiedad localizada en: 1 CALLE 11, APTO 312, PANORAMA PLAZA, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00926. 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: $217,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 7 de febrero de 2079. 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 $217,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 23 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $145,000.00, 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 $108,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 30 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $152,038.46 por concepto de principal, la cual no incluye intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 31 de octubre de 2021. La suma global vencida, liquida y exigible incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 31 de octubre de 2021, es de $186,688.21, los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad liquida estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, más cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre

ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de noviembre de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. GILBERTO MANUEL MEDINA SAFON, SU ESPOSA IRIS RODRÍGUEZ DE LEÓN Y

LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: DCD2015-2495. (503). 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 de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 17 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 radicado en la Urbanización Parque de Villa Caparra, situado en el Barrio Juan Domingo del término Municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de la Inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número de la Propiedad: Solar B guión cuatro (B-4). Área de la Propiedad: ciento noventa y siete punto noventa y cinco metros cuadrados (177.95 m.c.). en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de diez punto cero cuatro (10.04) metros lineales, con la Calle A de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en una distancia de diez punto cero cuatro (10.04) metros lineales, con los Solares número ocho (8) y diez (10) de la Urbanización Breagger; por el ESTE, en diecisiete punto ochenta (17.80) metros lineales, con el Solar número A guión uno (A-1) de la esta Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en diecisiete punto sesenta y seis (17.66) metros

lineales, con el Solar número B guion tres (B-3) de esta Urbanización. Contiene una casa de vivienda de hormigón y bloques de hormigón. Inscrita en la finca número 34,816 al folio 270 del tomo 968 de Guaynabo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. La propiedad está ubicada, según pagaré, en: 84 Parque Villa Caparra Dev., Guaynabo, PR 00960. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Aviso de Demanda, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, en el Caso Civil número D2CD-2009-0206, a favor de la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Guaynabo, por la suma de $11,867.73, anotado al tomo electrónico 1,189 de Guaynabo, finca número 34,816, inscripción 5ta., como Asiento Abreviado extendido las líneas el día (no expresa fecha), en virtud La Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 22 de mayo del 2009, al Asiento 1267 del Diario 546). Embargo expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala Municipal de Guaynabo, en el Caso Civil número D2CM-2014-0518, sobre Cobro de Dinero Regla 60, seguido por la Asociación de Propietarios de Parques de Villa Caparra, Inc., demandante versus Gilberto Manuel Medina Safon y su esposa Iris Rodríguez De León, por una cuantía de $2,214.65, según Orden del 30 de junio del 2015, anotado el 31 de julio del 2015, al folio 122 del tomo 1,529 de Guaynabo, finca número 34,816, Anotación A, y última. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 9 de agosto de 2022, y notificada el 18 de agosto de 2022 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $165,562.41 de prin-

cipal, intereses acumulados desde el 1 de febrero de 2015 y los intereses pactados al 6.50% anual que se continúen generando a partir de dicha fecha en adelante, recargos acumulados por la cantidad $257.10, $158.72 para reserva y contribuciones los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda y la cantidad de $19,550.00 estipulada para costas y honorarios de abogados, 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 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $193,556.30. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $129,037.53, 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 23 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $96,778.15, 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 men-

cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de noviembre de 2022.

EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TRUJILLO ALTO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. NELSON

SUTANA DE TAL Demandados Civil Núm.: FECI201700470. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 14 de agosto de 2019 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 30 de diciembre de 2019, librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número O guión doscientos tres (0-203) del Condominio Woodlands, localizado en el barrio Las Cuevas del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, localizado en el Tercer (3er.) Piso, del Edificio “O”, con un área de construcción total de mil doscientos ochenta y uno punto sesenta y seis pies cuadrados (1,281.66 p.c.) equivalentes a ciento diecinueve punto cero siete metros cuadrados (119.07 m.c.). Sus linderos son los siguientes: por el NORTE, en una distancia de veinticuatro pies una y media pulgadas (24’1 ½”), equivalentes a siete punto trescientos cincuenta y tres (7.353) metros, con espacio aéreo; por el SUR, en una distancia de treinta y tres pies once pulgadas (33’11”), equivalentes a diez punto trescientos treinta y ocho (10.338) metros, con espacio aéreo; por el ESTE, en una distancia de cuarenta y ocho pies once pulgadas (48’11”) equivalentes a catorce punto noventa y uno (14.91) metros, con el Apartamento P guión ciento tres (P-103); y por el OESTE, en una distancia de cincuenta y uno pies ocho y media pulgadas (51’8 ½”) equivalentes a quince punto setecientos sesenta y uno (15.761) metros con el Apartamento O guión Ciento Tres (O-103) y área común. Contiene vestíbulo, salacomedor, cocina, lavandería, dos (2), dormitorios, dos (2) baños equipados y guardarropas. Su puerta de entrada está localizada al Sur del apartamento desde la cual se tiene acceso a la escalera que conduce a la calle. A esta unidad se le ha asignado el uso exclusivo de dos (2) espacios de estacionamientos numerados ambos ciento sesenta y ocho (168). Le

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

MANUEL RIVERA CAMACHO, JORGE EMETERIO RIVERA RIVERA Y LA SUCESIÓN DE MERCEDES CAMACHO VILLANUEVA, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS FULANO DE TAL Y

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

FEDERAL

NATIONAL

MORTGAGE

ASSOCIATION T/C/C

FANNIE MAE

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE REINALDO DÍAZ CRUZ COMPUESTA

POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS ADAMS DÍAZ DÍAZ TAMBIÉN

CONOCIDO COMO ADAMS ELIUD DÍAZ DÍAZ, IVELISSE DÍAZ DÍAZ, SHERLY DÍAZ DÍAZ; SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN ROMÁN DÍAZ COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA IGLESIA BAUTISTA DE SAINT JUST, INC.; SUCESIÓN DE IVAN DÍAZ DÍAZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS CARMEN VANESA DÍAZ, REYNALDO DÍAZ E IVÁN DÍAZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS DE DICHAS SUCESIONES; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2021CV03429.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 25 de abril de 2022 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 15 de junio de 2022, librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno en el Barrio Carraízo de Trujillo Alto, compuesto de una cuerda con cuatrocientos veintiocho milésimas de cuerda, equivalentes a cinco mil seiscientos catorce

metros con dieciocho centímetros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en ciento catorce metros con doce centímetros con la parcela “A” propiedad de los esposos Rivera-Betancourt; por el OESTE, en cincuenta y un metros con cincuenta y seis centímetros con la faja de terreno de cuatrocientos cincuenta y seis metros con ochenta centímetros cuadrados segregada de la finca principal que se dedicará a uso público y que la separa del camino de Juan Aquino; por el SUR, en ciento once metros con noventa y cinco centímetros con la parcela “C” que se segrega de la finca principal propiedad de los esposos Rivera-Betancourt; y por el ESTE, en cuarenta y nueve metros con noventa y nueve centímetros con la Sucesión de Esteban Betancourt. Enclava edificación, valor de $45,000.00, según consta de la escritura #20, otorgada en San Juan, el 18 de agosto de 1981, ante la Notario Lilia M. Quiñones Fuentes, inscrito al folio 203 del tomo 104 de Trujillo Alto, finca #4,626, inscripción 4ta. FINCA NÚMERO: 4,626, inscrita al folio 201 del tomo 104 de Trujillo Alto, sección IV de San Juan. Dirección Física: BARRIO CARRAÍZO CAMINO LOS AQUINO, RD 845 KM 1.3, TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $63,900.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $42,600.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $31,950.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es

igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Examinadas las alegaciones de la Demanda y la prueba documental sometida, así como los emplazamientos a la parte demandada, habiendo vencido el plazo para contestar la demanda, a solicitud de la parte demandante, se le anota la rebeldía a la parte demandada SUCESIÓN DE REINALDO DÍAZ CRUZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS ADAMS DÍAZ DÍAZ TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO ADAMS ELIUD DÍAZ DÍAZ, IVELISSE DÍAZ DÍAZ, SHERLY DÍAZ DÍAZ; SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN ROMÁN DÍAZ COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERA CONOCIDA IGLESIA BAUTISTA DE SAINT JUST, INC.; SUCESIÓN DE IVAN DÍAZ DÍAZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS CARMEN VANESA DÍAZ, REYNALDO DÍAZ E IVÁN DÍAZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS DE DICHAS SUCESIONES y se dicta Sentencia declarando Con Lugar la demanda determinando que adeudan la suma de $20,355.35 de principal. Esta suma no incluye los intereses, ni cargos por demora. Dicha suma continúa acumulando intereses bajo la tasa de interés acordada y recargos hasta el saldo total de la deuda. Además, se adeuda las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados y cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen.

El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos

en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2022. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA. ***

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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 VELAZCO RAMOS, LUZ MARIA, sobre la unidad B211 semana 45 que a continuación se

describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 45 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 45 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 45 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 $6,939.02 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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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 MARTINEZ, JOHN MANUEL and MARTINEZ, KIM MARIE, sobre la unidad B212 semana 13 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 13 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B212 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 B212 and includes the right to use such unit during the 13 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 13 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 B212, 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 Regi-

me 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 $9,759.69 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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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 SANTIAGO BERRIOS, WALDEMAR and SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ, JOCELYN, sobre la unidad B212 semana 38 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 38 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B212 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 B212 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 B212, 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 $6,789.39 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.

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 MERCADO, LOUIS ESTEBAN and MERCADO, GAIL PATRICIA, sobre la unidad B308 semana 38 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 38 Vacation Club

Right corresponding to unit B308 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 B308 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 B308, 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 $9,950.91 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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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 DELGADO SUAREZ, AIXA, sobre la unidad B309 semana 36 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 36 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B309 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 B309 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 B309, 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 $9,484.46 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 Puer-

to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de GUZMAN NIEVES, LUIS JAVIER and HERNANDEZ DIAZ, CARMEN ABIGAIL, sobre la unidad B310 semana 25 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 25 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B310 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 B310 and includes the right to use such unit during the 25 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 25 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 B310, 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 $11,457.02 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.

LEGAL NOTICE 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 HERNANDEZ JIMENEZ, ISMAEL PEDRO and RIVERA APONTE, MARIA VICTORIA, sobre la unidad B310 semana 46 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 46 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B310 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 B310 and includes the right to use such unit during the 46 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 46 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 B310, 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 des-

cribed 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 $19,989.9 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.

LEGAL NOTICE 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 PEREZ BRACETTI, FERNANDO LUIS and RIVERA RODRIGUEZ, MARGARITA, sobre la unidad B407 semana 30 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 30 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B407 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca-

tion 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 B407 and includes the right to use such unit during the 30 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 30 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 B407, 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 $18,883.58 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 presen-

te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 FRAGOSO GRAZIANI, IVONNE MARIE, sobre la unidad B407 semana 34 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 34 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B407 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 B407 and includes the right to use such unit during the 34 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 34 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 B407, 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 $12,823.68 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 10:30 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 CARTIGIANO, ANNETTE ROSEMARY and TACCONI, LEONARD, sobre la unidad B408 semana 15 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 15 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B408 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 B408 and includes the right to use such unit during the 15 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 15 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the mem-

bership 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 B408, 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 $18,680.29 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 10:30 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 TORRES IRIZARRY, NANETTE JOMARIE, sobre la unidad B409 semana 19 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 19 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B409 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 B409 and includes the right to use such unit during the 19 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 19 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 B409, 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 $16,008.3 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 10:30 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, LYNN TERESA, sobre la unidad B410 semana 28 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 28 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B410 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 B410 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 B410, 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 $9,514.65 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 10:30 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 ORTIZ ORTEGA, RAMON LUIS and SANCHEZ GARCIA, MARIA MILAGROS, sobre la

unidad B411 semana 40 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 40 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B411 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 B411 and includes the right to use such unit during the 40 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 40 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 B411, 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 $13,798.17 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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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 a las 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 MERCADO, LOUIS ESTEBAN and MERCADO, GAIL PATRICIA, sobre la unidad B507 semana 38 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 38 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B507 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 B507 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 B507, 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 $10,208.92 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 10:30 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 KAYE, ALAN RICHARD and KAYE, JOANN ANNELLA, sobre la unidad B508 semana 6 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 6 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B508 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 B508 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 B508, 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 $11452.31 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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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 10:30 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 REYES, ALEXANDER, sobre la unidad B509 semana 20 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 20 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B509 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 B509 and includes the right to use such unit during the 20 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 20 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 B509, 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 $9,296.86 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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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.

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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INC. 301 Carr 693

HACIENDA

301 Carr 693

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.

INC.

DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION,

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 10:30 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 CABAN MORALES, WILSON and CABALLERO MORALES, MERCEDES DEL CARMEN, sobre la unidad B511 semana 23 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 23 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B511 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 B511 and includes the right to use such unit during the 23 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing 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 B511, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights

Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,184.01 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As-

sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de HAM, ZEB VANCE and SHARPE HAM, CAROLYN MARIE, sobre la unidad B512 semana 6 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 6 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B512 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 B512 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 B512, 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 $5,985.36 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

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 10:30 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 FLORES DE JESUS, ROBERTO and FONSECA FRANCO, CARMEN JUDITH, sobre la unidad B512 semana 36 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 36 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B512 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 B512 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 B512, 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 des-

cribed 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 $27,751.32 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 10:30 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 BEAL, ARTHUR WILLIAM and BEAL, CAROL JOAN, sobre la unidad B512 semana 47 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 47 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B512 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 B512 and includes the right to use such unit during the 47 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 47 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 B512, 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 $9,151.35 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 10:30 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 CARDONA RIVERA, ORLANDO and NIEVES GONZALEZ, NORMA IRIS, sobre la unidad B608 semana 24 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 24 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B608 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 B608 and includes the right to use such unit during the 24 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 24 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 B608, 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 $12,391.7 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 10:30 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 UZZELL, GEORGE SCOTT and UZZELL, SUNDA BROWN, sobre la unidad B611 semana 18 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 18 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B611 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 B611 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 B611, 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 $6,525.64 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 10:30 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 MAXEY, NICOLE JOY and KNIGHT, DOUGLAS, sobre la unidad B611 semana 43 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 43 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B611 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 B611 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 B611, 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 $9,772.02 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 10:30 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 BORIS, HOWARD ALAN and BORIS, ROBERTA HARRIET, sobre la unidad B806 semana 7 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 7 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B806 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 B806 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 B806, 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 $9,465.5 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr

Dorado PR,

693

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 10:30 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 TORRES RUIZ, RUBEN and

CALDAS POLANCO, WANDA, sobre la unidad B806 semana 15 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 15 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B806 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 B806 and includes the right to use such unit during the 15 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 15 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 B806, 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 $11,164.91 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, en-

tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, 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.

LEGAL NOTICE

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 10:30 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 TORRES GOMEZ, NADJA IVETTE, sobre la unidad B808 semana 28 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 28 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B808 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 B808 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 B808, 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 $8,511.05 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. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESION DAVID CARRASQUILLO

SANTANA COMPUESTA POR ANGEL DAVID CARRASQUILLO

SANTIAGO, JOSE LUIS CARRASQUILLO SANTIAGO, CARMEN MILAGROS CARRASQUILLO

SANTIAGO, YOLANDA CARRASQUILLO

MALAVE;

POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: YOLANDA CARRASQUILLO MALAVE; JOHN DOE

HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2022CV03360.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO

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.

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622

TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273

Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de noviembre de 2022. LISLLDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. JESSENIA PEDRAZA ANDINO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

BOSCO IX OVERSEAS, LLC, BY FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION AS SERVICER

Demandante Vs. DAVID VEGUILLA

ROIG

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02217.

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

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE

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 9:15 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: RUSTICA: Solar número seis (6): Radicado en el Barrio Beatriz del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 11,796.935 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 3.00 cuerdas, en lindes por el NORTE, en 25.40 metros, 8.50 metros, 10.00 metros, 2.75 metros, 24.80 metros, 162.10 metros, 49.30 metros y 46.20, con el lote número cinco (5); por el SUR, en 29.82 metros, con el remanente de la finca principal y área dedicada a uso público y en 92.76 metros y 59.08 metros con terrenos del señor Abraham Diaz González; por el ESTE, en 6.00 metros, 47.20 metros, 45.97 metros, 24.17 metros y 43.74 metros, con un área dedicada a uso público. Finca número 12,681, inscrita al folio 218 del tomo 325 de Cidra, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. La hipoteca antes descrita consta inscrita al folio 141 del tomo 458 de Cidra, finca número 12681, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II , inscripción 5ª. Propiedad localizada en: PR 787 KM 4.8 SOLAR 6 BO. BEATRIZ, CIDRA, PR 00739. 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: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. 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 $134,600.00, 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 9:15 DE LA MAÑANAy se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $89,733.34, 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 $67,300.00, 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 9:15 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 $112,312.91 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $11,526.22 en intereses acumulados al 31 de marzo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 7.2500% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $2,842.69 en cargos por retraso; $2,088.78 en honorarios legales; $468.45 en fondos adeudados por el prestatario; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $13,460.00, 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 3 de

noviembre de 2022. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE LUNA RESIDENTIAL II, LLC

Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE LEONIDES CEDEÑO RUIZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; LA SUCESIÓN DE ESTHER MENDEZ ROMERO COMPUESTA POR SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: PO2022CV02031. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE LEONIDES CCDEÑO RUIZ; SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE ESTHER MÉNDEZ ROMERO.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifi-

que con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de septiembre de 2019, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además. adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $64,196.50 de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 11.95% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar número dieciséis (16) del bloque “BP’’ del plano de urbanización extensión Santa Teresita, radicado en el Barrio Machuelo del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, compuesto de doscientos dos punto cincuenta (202.50) metros cuadrados. En el lindes por el Norte, en nueve punto cero cero (9.00) metros, con lote veintinueve (29); por el sur, en nueve punto cero cero (9.00) metros con calle “D”; por el este, en veintidós punto cincuenta (22.50) metros, con el lote diecisiete (17) y por el oeste, en veintidós punto cincuenta (22.50) metros, con el lote quince (15). Enclava casa. Inscrita al folio ciento cincuenta y uno (150) del tomo mil quinientos treinta y cuatro (1,534) de Ponce, finca número cuarenta y seis mil seiscientos once (46.611). Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección l. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de Leonides Cedeño Ruiz y de la Sucesión de Esther Méndez Romero se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días

aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante Leonides Cedeño Ruiz y de la causante Esther Méndez Romero por consiguiente, responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, a Ponce 29 de NOVIEMBRE de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. KEILENE RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ARECIBO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante V. VILMA ROSA TORRES TORRES, MASTER MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2022CV02104. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S. A: MASTER MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ a favor de Master Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $26,450.00, intereses al 6.00%, vencedero el día 1 de enero de 2020, constituida mediante la escritura número 816, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de diciembre de 2004, ante el notario Francisco Jose Casalduc Delgado, e inscrita al folio 61 del tomo 1,328 de Arecibo, finca número 52,626, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Primera Sección de Arecibo. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis-

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

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE

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

BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP Suite 209 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 5 de diciembre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ANABEL PÉREZ RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN JONATHAN ADAM

GARCIA PASCIOLLA

Demandante (a) Vs. FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR

DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV09541. Sala: 803. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR

DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 6 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una

JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DAVID CARRASQUILLO SANTANA.

sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de diciembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 7 de diciembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KAROLYN RIVERA NAVARRO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de HUMACAO.

ROSA M GONZALEZ AYALA Demandante ISIDRO TEJEDOR CACERES Demandado(a) Civil: HU2022RF000222. Sobre: DIVORCIO, RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACION DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ISIDRO TEJEDOR CACERES, APT 7 3723 NW 20TH AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, ESTADOS UNIDOS, 33142-8329

LCDA MAYRA M. LEON SANCHEZ, URB. TURABO GARDENS, CALLE 43 NUMERO M 5, LOCAL A, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO, 00727

(Nombre de las partes alas que se ie notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARI0(A) que suscribe Ie notifica a usted que 30 de noviembre de 2022 , este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publican una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la lsla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted

esta notificación que se considerara hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 1 de diciembre de 2022. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico , el 1 de diciembre de 2022. IVELISSE C FONSECA RODRIGUEZ, Secretaria. MARIA M. SANTIAGO ROSA, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. GREAT ATLANTIC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, TRADITIONAL BANKERS MORTGAGE CORPORATION, GOLDEN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC H/N/C GOLDEN MORTGAGE BANKERS, H.F. INC. T/C/C DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SÍNDICO DE DORAL BANK, DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION T/C/C DORAL MORTGAGE, LLC, JOSÉ RAMÓN PÉREZ NEGRÓN T/C/C JOSÉ R. PÉREZ NEGRÓN, ISABEL JARQUÍN CALABRIA T/C/C ISABEL J. DE PÉREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ Demandado(a) Civil: AG2022CV01397. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: TRADITIONAL BANKERS MORTGAGE CORPORATION.

DIRECCIÓN: 15 MENDEZ VIGO ST, ESQ. AURORA, PONCE PR 00731; PO BOX 7383, PONCE PR 00732-7383.

GOLDEN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC H/N/C GOLDEN MORTGAGE BANKERS. DIRECCIÓN: URB BELISA, 1534 CALLE BORI, SAN JUAN PR 00927-6116; PO BOX 8449

SAN JUAN, PR 009100449.

JOSÉ RAMÓN PÉREZ NEGRÓN T/C/C JOSÉ R. PÉREZ NEGRÓN, ISABEL JARQUÍN CALABRIA T/C/C ISABEL J. DE PÉREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. DIRECCIÓN: URB. EL PRADO, C1 CALLE ISRAEL ROLDAN BLAS, AGUADILLA PR 00603-5878; 6652 HC GUAYNABO, PR 00971.

FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ. DIRECCION: SE DESCONOCE. P/C LCDA. BELMA ALONSO GARCÍA. BUFETE ALONSO GARCÍA, LLC; PO BOX 3922 GUAYNABO, PR 00970-3922.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 2 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 6 de diciembre de 2022. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 6 de diciembre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ADJUNTAS BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. FELIPE MASS MASS Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: UT2022CV00163.

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

A: FELIPE MASS MASS, RESIDENCIAL LA MONTAÑA EDIF. 11, APARTAMENTO 93, JAYUYA, PR 00664.

(NOMBRE DE LAS PARTES A LAS QUE SE LE NOTIFICAN LA SENTENCIA POR EDICTO)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de diciembre de 2022. En Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, el 8 de diciembre de 2022. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA. WANDA I. RIVERA PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

NORMA ISABEL ORTIZ MIRANDA T/C/C NORMA ISABEL ORTIZ VARGAS

Demandante V. DOLORES MATILDE ORTIZ COLÓN, RAMÓN LUIS ORTIZ HANSEN, SUCESIÓN DE FLORENCIO ORTIZ HANSEN T/C/C FLORENCIO ORTIZ JR. Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08253. Sala: 603. Sobre: PARTICIÓN Y ADJUDICACIÓN DE HERENCIA. EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S. A: RAMÓN LUIS ORTIZ HANSEN CUYA DIRECCIÓN SE DESCONOCE, SUCESIÓN DE FLORENCIO ORTIZ HANSEN T/C/C FLORENCIO ORTIZ

JR., DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS

CUYA DIRECCIÓN SE DESCONOCE. Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita la Partición y Adjudicación de Herencia de los bienes de la herencia de LA SUCESIÓN DE FLORENCIO ORTIZ ORTIZ. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de LCDO. EDUARDO SANCHEZ JAUREGUI-JIMENEZ, 366 CALLE ESCORIAL, CAPARRA HEIGHTS, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00920; Tel (787) 603-1178, email: edusjj@gmail.com, Abogado de la Parte Demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 14 de noviembre de 2022 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIANA C. PÉREZ SIERRA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESION DE RAFAEL ANGEL BEY NAZARIO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION DE NORBERTO BEY NAZARIO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL

Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; BLANCA LUISA VIÑAS RODRIGUEZ POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE NORBERTO BEY NAZARIO; NYDIA ISABEL BEY NAZARIO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO NIDIA ISABEL BEY NAZARIO Demandado(a) Civil: SG2021CV00415. 306. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESION DE RAFAEL ANGEL BEY NAZARIO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; Y A NYDIA ISABEL BEY NAZARIO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO NIDIA ISABEL BEY NAZARIO. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 7 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 9 de diciembre de 2022. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 9 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA.

NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. WANDA RENTAS BURGOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO - SUPERIOR FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

RAMOS ORTIZ, MICHAEL ANTHONY

Caso: HSCI201600649. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECAIN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A:

EL SECRETARIO(A) QUE SUSCRIBE LE NOTIFICA A USTED QUE EL 01 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, ESTE TRIBUNAL HA DICTADO SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCIÓN EN ESTE CASO, QUE HA SIDO DEBIDAMENTE REGISTRADA Y ARCHIVADA EN AUTOS DONDE PODRÁ USTED ENTERARSE DETALLADAMENTE DE LOS TÉRMINOS DE LA MISMA. ESTA NOTIFICACIÓN SE PUBLICARÁ UNA SOLA VEZ EN UN PERIÓDICO DE CIRCULACIÓN GENERAL EN LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO, DENTRO DE LOS 10 DÍAS SIGUIENTES A SU NOTIFICACIÓN. Y, SIENDO O REPRESENTANDO USTED UNA PARTE EN EL PROCEDIMIENTO SUJETA A LOS TÉRMINOS DE LA SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCIÓN, DE LA CUAL PUEDE ESTABLECERSE RECURSO DE REVISIÓN O APELACIÓN DENTRO DEL TÉRMINO DE 30 DÍAS CONTADOS A PARTIR DE LA PUBLICACIÓN POR EDICTO DE ESTA NOTIFICACIÓN, DIRIJO A USTED ESTA NOTIFICACIÓN QUE SE CONSIDERARÁ HECHA EN LA FECHA DE LA PUBLICACIÓN DE ESTE EDICTO. COPIA DE ESTA NOTIFICACIÓN HA SIDO ARCHIVADA EN LOS AUTOS DE ESTE CASO, CON FECHA DE 07 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022. LIC. LATIMER VALENTÍN, ROBERTO CARLOS. LATIMERRC@LBRGLAW. COM. LIC. NEGRÓ COLÓN, EDNYDIA. EDNYDIAPR@ GMAIL.COM. EN HUMACAO, PUERTO RICO, EL 07 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. IVELISSE M. MONCLOVA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESION DE JUAN BAUTISTA RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO T/C/C JUAN RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO,

SUCESION DE ASUNCION PINTO RODRIGUEZ Y SUCESION DE MARIA DE LOS ANGELES RODRIGUEZ PINTO, TODAS COMPUESTAS POR SU HEREDERO CONOCIDO JUAN ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ PINTO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN DICHAS SUCESIONES Demandado(a) Civil: BY2022CV03147. Salón: 703. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESION DE JUAN BAUTISTA RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO T/C/C JUAN RODRIGUEZ COLLAZO, SUCESION DE ASUNCION PINTO RODRIGUEZ Y SUCESION DE MARIA DE LOS ANGELES RODRIGUEZ PINTO, TODAS COMPUESTAS POR SU HEREDERO CONOCIDO JUAN ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ PINTO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN DICHAS SUCESIONES.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 6 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de diciembre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 7 de diciembre de 2022.

LAURA

I.

SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ,

MICHAEL ANTHONY RAMOS ORTIZ, SU ESPOSA IVELISSE GONZALEZ ZAVALA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO Demandante V. SUCESION DE MARIA SOCORRO ROBLES

ADORNO COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERO

CONOCIDO BENEDICTO DELGADO ROBLES, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS JAZMIN DELGADO ARZUAGA

T/C/C JAZMIN DELGADO ARRIAGA Y JULIO DELGADO ARZUAGA T/C/C JULIO DELGADO ARRIAGA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN DICHAS SUCESIONES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARE A SUSTITUIR Demandado(a) Civil: BY2022CV02730. Sala: 503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JAZMIN DELGADO ARZUAGA T/C/C JAZMIN DELGADO ARRIAGA Y JULIO DELGADO ARZUAGA T/C/C JULIO DELGADO ARRIAGA COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE JULIO DELGADO ROBLES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE MARIA SOCORRO ROBLES

ADORNO Y LA SUCESION DE JULIO DELGADO ROBLES Y COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARE A SUSTITUIR.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 6 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada

en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de diciembre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 7 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS BANCO POPULAR DE PR Demandante Vs MANUEL CAMILO VÁZQUEZ T/C/C MIGUEL CAMILO VÁZQUEZ, SU ESPOSA IVONNE MELENDEZ RUIZ T/C/C IDA IVONNE MELENDEZ RUIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandado Civil Núm.: CG2022CV01782. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MANUEL CAMILO VÁZQUEZ T/C/C MIGUEL CAMILO VÁZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON IVONNE MELÉNDEZ RUIZ T/C/C IDA IVONNE MELÉNDEZ RUIZ.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 5 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica-

ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de diciembre de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 8 de diciembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs.

CONCEPCION ROBLES PEREZ

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01072. Sala: 604. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CONCEPCION ROBLES PEREZ.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 7 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 9 de diciembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 9 de diciembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARTHA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN LUNA ACQUISITION, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. GERARDO WILLIAM BOSH WARNER, FREY MARGARITA VIELMA ROJAS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV07517. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: GERARD WILLIAM BOSH WARNER, FREY MARGARITA VIELMA ROJAS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de marzo de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 6 de diciembre de 2022.

En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 6 de diciembre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Elsa Magaly Candelario Cabrera, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. LISSETTE REILLO COLÓN; SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ CORTÉS MARTI COMPUESTA POR “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandado(a) Civil: AR2022CV00697. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ CORTÉS MARTI-#224 ST. LA CATALANA, BARCELONETA, PR 00617; 591 SEBORUCO, BARCELONETA, PR 00617-2845.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 7 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de diciembre de 2022. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 7 de diciembre de 2022. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. Carmen J. Rosario Valentín, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: KCM2012-1301. (803). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (R.60). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JULIA M. DELGADO FIGUEROA. FÍSICA: URB. ALTURAS DE SANTA MARIA, 98 CALLE NOGAL, SAN JUAN, PR 00969; POSTAL: URB. ALTURAS DE SANTA MARIA, 98 CALLE NOGAL, GUAYNABO, PR 00969-4720.

PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

Demandante

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: 1. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Urbanización Alturas de Santa María de Monacillos. Solar: 4 DEL BLOQUE C. Cabida: 331.37 metros cuadrados. Linderos: NORTE, en 26.88 metros, con el solar C-3. SUR, en 24.11 metros, con el solar C-5. ESTE, en 13.35 metros con la calle Nogal. OESTE, en 13.00 metros, con los solares C-11 y C-11. Enclava una casa de concreto para uso residencial. Es segregación de la Finca 20,617, inscrita al Folio 27 vto. Del Tomo 602 de Monacillos. Descrita conforme a la inscripción 1ra al Folio 36 del Tomo 653 de Monacillos. Finca 21488 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III.” Dirección Física: Urb. Alturas de Santa María, 98 Calle Nogal, San Juan, PR 00969. 2. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. 3. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. 4. La propiedad para ejecutar se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. 5. Que el licitador y/o mejor postor pagará el importe de su oferta en efectivo,

cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil de Tribunal. 6. La propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: HIPOTECA: A favor de RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION, o a su orden, por la suma de $124,800.00 de principal al 7 5/8 % anual, hasta que se realice el pago total. EMBARGO ESTATAL: Embargo Estatal, Registro de Guaynabo, Notificación: GUA-19-0080 por la suma de $44,923.38 a favor de Departamento de Hacienda presentado al Asiento 2018-009814-EST el día 9 de noviembre de 2018 por la suma de $44,923.38, siendo el deudor Julia Delgado Figueroa. NOTA: Del Registro surge el gravamen señalado, sin embargo, no tenemos datos suficientes para determinar si la titular y la deudora de este gravamen es la misma persona. EMBARGO ESTATAL: A favor de Departamento de Hacienda (DH) presentado al Asiento 2022-006555-EST el día 11 de julio de 2022 por la suma de $30,815.99, siendo el deudor Julia Milagros Delgado Figueroa. 7. Dicha subasta se celebrará para con el importe de la misma satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma principal de $4,450.00, por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento vencidas y no pagadas al 30 de julio de 2012, más intereses desde que se dicte la sentencia al 4.25% anual ($0.58 diario), a partir de esa fecha en la cantidad de $2,120.48, al 29 de julio de 2022; más $138.00 de costas y gastos según sentencia, más $400.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado otorgados según sentencia; más $750.00 por concepto de las costas y gastos del proceso de ejecución de la sentencia mediante embargo de bien mueble, concedidos mediante Orden de fecha de 27 de mayo de 2014; más $750.00 por concepto de las costas y gastos del proceso de ejecución de la sentencia inmueble, concedidos mediante Orden de fecha de 22 de enero de 2015; más $950.00 de la Moción solicitando autorización para la Ejecución de mueble e inmueble según aprobado mediante orden de 3 de enero de 2022, menos pagos realizados por la parte demandada ($2,755.56), totalizan la cantidad de $6,802.92; más las costas y gastos del proceso en la ejecución de la sentencia. La subasta se llevará a cabo en mi oficina localizada en el local que ocupa en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Superior de San Juan, el día 17 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Y para la conveniencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los lugares públicos que determine la ley. En San Juan, Puerto Rico,

a 2 de diciembre de 2022. ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03863. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO DE EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE.

Quedan ustedes emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal la parte demandante ha radicado la acción de epígrafe alegando, en síntesis, que un Pagaré suscrito a favor del Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $11,000.00, con intereses al 8% anual y vencedero a la presentación, el cual fue garantizado con hipoteca según consta de la escritura #393, otorgada el 29 de noviembre de 2004, ante la Notaria Elba l. Rodríguez Cruz, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBAN: Horizontal Property, apartment #6-32, of irregular shape located on the 3rd, 4th and 5th floors of Building #6, LAS ALTURAS DEL ESCORIAL CONDOMINIUM, located in Parque Escorial, in San Anton Ward, in the municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico. This. apartment has an approximate area of 2,091.32 square feet, equivalent to 194.29 square feet. Finca #55,869 inscrita al Folio 116 del Tomo 1371 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Segunda de Carolina, inscripción 3ra., fue totalmente satisfecho, que el mismo se ha extraviado y que ustedes podrían resultar ser tenedores del mismo, por lo que se les advierte que si no radican su contestación a la demanda dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación de este Edicto a: LCDO. ORlANDO MALDONADO

RIVERA

COND. TORRELINDA 85 CALLE MAYAGÜEZ, APT. 504 SAN JUAN, P.R. 00917

TELEFONO: (787) 450-0077. E-mail: lic.omaldonado@gmail.com se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado por la parte demandante, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expido bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal hoy día 08 de diciembre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Keila García Solís, Secretaria.

ASOCIACIÓN DE RESIDENTES DE ALTURAS DE SANTA MARÍA, INC

Vs. JULIA M. DELGADO FIGUEROA, JOHN DOE; AMBOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

Messi’s magic continues in Argentina’s romp over Croatia

By RORY SMITH

Lionel Messi stood, his arms outstretched, in front of those who had come to adore him. Ordinarily, they would be jumping and writhing in celebration, but this time, as the fans moved toward him, they had created a logjam. They were, for just a second, frozen, perfectly still, a moment of quiet communion between the divine and his congregation.

Then, of course, it broke. Messi was flooded by his Argentina teammates, leaping onto his back, congratulating him, thanking him. He had not scored the goal — that simple task had fallen to Julián Álvarez — but he had created it, crowning the game with a piece of vintage Messi wonder, using a World Cup semifinal as a chance to become his own tribute act.

As Morocco and

France

By CONSTANT MÉHEUT and TOM NOUVIAN

Saturday night was both exhilarating and confusing for Anas Daif. Morocco and France had just advanced to the World Cup semifinals, setting the stage for a showdown today, and Daif couldn’t decide which team to support — his country of descent or his country of birth.

Then, Daif, a French Moroccan who was born near Paris, said he thought about the pride that Morocco’s historic run has brought to Africa and the Arab world. He envisioned how emblematic a victory of the former colony over its former colonizer would be.

“I realized my heart went out to Morocco,” said Daif, a 27-year-old journalist and podcast producer. “It’s a support rooted in greater symbolism.”

Today’s face-off between France and Morocco (2 p.m. ET, Fox) will be about more than just soccer. From their past colonial ties to contemporary waves of immigration, the two nations are intertwined by a century-old shared history and culture. There is great hope that these bonds, embodied by a vast community of dual nationals, will give the game a fraternal tone.

But there is also fear that France’s uneasy relationship with its North African population might make it frosty. Worries are especially high that in a country where the right has long stoked fears that Muslim immigrants threaten the fabric of French life, the match, whatever its outcome, will be overshadowed by politics.

“It’ll be dizzying,” said Yvan Gastaut, a French historian of immigration and soccer. “Decades of history are going to collide with a 90-minute game.”

And so there he was, at the age of 35, scurrying down the wing, wriggling away from Josko Gvardiol, the Croatia defender who had shadowed him all night, and then slowing down so that he could beat him again, making it to the end line, clipping the ball back for Álvarez. This was Messi, playing the hits.

That is what he has been doing all tournament, of course, and now he has his reward. That goal was Argentina’s third of the night, the one that removed all doubt: Argentina had beaten Croatia, 3-0, on Tuesday at Lusail Stadium in Qatar, and Sunday, Messi will return to the World Cup final. Eight years since he lost one, a bitter defeat to Germany in Brazil, the player who might be the best of all time will grace the biggest game in the world. He will have his shot at redemption. He will have his chance at revenge.

prepare to play, decades of history collide

France’s colonial domination of Morocco lasted nearly half a century, from 1912 to 1956. But it was nowhere near as brutal as in neighboring Algeria, where decades of humiliating government rule and a bloody war of independence have fueled longlasting animosity toward France. As a protectorate, Morocco enjoyed greater autonomy and its independence was negotiated rather peacefully.

Since then, relations between the two countries have been mostly cordial. Many Moroccans emigrated to work in French factories in the 1960s and 1970s, forming a large diaspora that today numbers 1.5 million people, half of whom have dual citizenship, according to a 2015 parliamentary report. The intertwining is such that three members of Morocco’s current World Cup team — coach Walid Regragui and two players — are dual nationals.

Oussama Adref, a youth soccer coach in the Paris area, said everyone was “torn.” Daif added that some of his acquaintances had compared the decision to “choosing between your father and your mother.”

But today’s game may conjure up more than family-style dilemmas.

Colonial overtones, in particular, will be hard to escape. Should Morocco beat France, it would be the third European power that invaded Morocco to stumble against it on the pitch, after Spain and Portugal.

“Symbolically, it would restore the prestige of a country and of peoples who have been oppressed by colonial powers,” said Daif, noting how the African continent and the Arab world have identified with the successes of the Atlas Lions, as Morocco’s soccer team is known.

France has kept vivid memories of a soccer game against Algeria in 2001, during which Algerian supporters booed the French national anthem and invaded the pitch, highlighting how post-colonial wounds remained unhealed.

The country’s difficult relationship with North African immigrants from former colonies — often marginalized in France, where they are subject to racism and police violence — may have nurtured a bitterness that engenders more support for Morocco, said Gastaut, who teaches at the University of Nice.

“It’s a way of responding to their status in French society,” he said of French citizens of North African descent.

The game will come against a tense backdrop in France, where immigration and national identity are highly combustible issues. French right-wing forces have already fanned the flames of the debate by denouncing support for Morocco as a form of disloyalty to France, showing that the country’s immigration policy has failed.

On Monday, Jordan Bardella, the president of the far-right National Rally party, criticized secondgeneration immigrants “who behave like nationals of a foreign state by constantly expressing a feeling of revenge that may be linked to our colonial history.”

Daif said he deplored the identity debates and what he called a form of “political hijacking” of the game. Wednesday’s face-off should instead be an opportunity to celebrate the country’s multiculturalism, he said.

As for French Moroccans, he added, the outcome will be the same.

“We will reach the final in any case,” Daif said.

Argentina forward Lionel Messi celebrates scoring his team’s first goal from the penalty spot during the World Cup semifinal match between Argentina and Croatia in Qatar on December 13, 2022.

The drink of (some) champions

By JAMES WAGNER

Yerba mate is not, to be fair, for everyone.

A strong, often bitter infusion brewed hot or cold from the leaves of a plant native to South America, yerba mate is popular in Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. Some of the best soccer players in the world hail from that region and swear by it, and they have spread it around the world through their club teams. The World Cup in Qatar, though, raised some logistical and supply challenges, not least of which was: Where would devotees find yerba mate in the Gulf?

So they came prepared. Brazil’s national team, which has a few mate drinkers, brought 26 pounds of it to Qatar, a team official said. Uruguay’s squad packed about 530 pounds. But it was Argentina, which will face Croatia in the semifinals on Tuesday fully expecting to extend its stay through Sunday’s final, that topped them all. To ensure that the roughly 75 members of its traveling party — players, coaches, trainers and the rest — would have a steady supply of a drink they consider essential, Argentina’s team hauled a whopping 1,100 pounds of yerba mate to Qatar.

“It has caffeine,” Argentine midfielder Alexis Mac Allister said in Spanish while explaining why he consumed so much of it. “But I drink it more than anything to bring us together.”

A spokesperson for Argentina’s national team, Nicolás Novello, said the team brought different types to suit everyone’s taste: yerba mate with stems (a milder taste), without stems (a stronger, more bitter taste) and with herbs (for other flavors). Observers said nearly everyone, including the team’s star, Lionel Messi, was drinking it; the team’s devotion to the drink was clear every time it unloaded its team bus, and after matches, a handful of players would carry out the traditional mate essentials: a cup made of a hollow gourd, its accompanying straw and a thermos of hot water.

Drinking mate is so common place within the Argentine and Uruguayan teams, in particular, that the latter made the thermos, known as Botija in Spanish, its official mascot. A large blue mascot’s outfit even made it to Qatar, where it struggled to fit

through the turnstiles of the metro system in Doha.

“When I played in Argentina, a nutritionist used to say mate hydrates you,” said Sebastián Driussi, a midfielder for Austin FC in MLS. Driussi represented Argentina at the youth level internationally and spent three years with the popular Argentine club River Plate. “I don’t know, but it’s like water for us. Before a game, in the locker room, everyone is drinking it all the time. There is no schedule or bad time to have mate. Us in Argentina, we say that mate makes friendships.”

Juan José Szychowski, president of the National Institute of Yerba Mate in Argentina, said there was an art to perfecting the brew, with every drinker preferring slightly different variations, from sweet to bitter, hot to cold.

“If you start drinking mate, you won’t stop,” Szychowski said in a telephone interview. “It’s more than just a custom. When someone comes over, we tell them, ‘You should have some mate.’ It’s sharing and something social and good for your health.”

Szychowski said mate, which was originally consumed by the region’s Indigenous residents before it was spread by Je -

suit missionaries, contains polyphenols, a compound that has antioxidant properties. Some studies, he added, have suggested that the beverage can have a positive effect on health.

The influence and example of matedrinking players from South America such as Messi, Uruguay’s Luis Suárez and Brazil’s Neymar — who used to be club teammates at Barcelona — have led other players to adopt the practice.

Antoine Griezmann, a fixture in the France team that will play in the semifinals on Wednesday, took up the habit after befriending Uruguayan players Cristián Rodríguez and José María Giménez when they were teammates at Atlético Madrid. Griezmann has said that he now drinks it daily. Another French star, Paul Pogba, said in 2018 that he got hooked on mate after one of his Manchester United teammates at the time — Marcos Rojo, an Argentine — gave him some of his own infusion.

“It’s perfect,” Pogba told an Argentine television channel. “I loved it.”

Szychowski called soccer players the best yerba mate ambassadors around the world, before noting that Pope Francis, an Argentine, is also known to enjoy a cup.

Not every player, though, is a fan of the taste that some have called too bitter, too herbaceous, too earthy. (Experts advised beginners to start with a sweet mate.) Walker Zimmerman, a defender on the U.S. team that was eliminated from the World Cup in the round of 16, said two of his Argentine teammates at FC Dallas years ago — Maximiliano Urruti and Mauro Díaz — introduced him to mate, but he admitted, “I don’t think I’d ever get into it on my own.”

Lisandro López, a former Argentina defender, said not everyone was used to his nursing his mate through a straw when he played in Portugal. “A lot of the time — and I lived in Lisbon for four years — I went to a plaza to drink mate and people looked at me weird, like you’re doing drugs or something,” López said.

Luis Hernández, a former Mexican striker, said his palate could not quite get used to the taste when he spent a season at Boca Juniors in Argentina. While everyone else on the team drank mate, he said, he was the lone holdout.

“I prefer a good coffee than a cup of mate,” Hernández said, adding later with a chuckle: “They say it helps them? But mate doesn’t help you score goals.”

World Cup fans struggle to stuff Uruguay’s mascot for the World Cup, a thermos named “Botija”, through a metro turnstile in Doha, Qatar, Dec. 1, 2022. Yerba mate is an infusion beloved by South American players, who have taken it with them around the world — including to Qatar. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

Terence Crawford stays on track for a dream fight

By MORGAN CAMPBELL

The question was never whether Terence Crawford would successfully defend his World Boxing Organization welterweight title against David Avanesyan in Omaha, Nebraska, last Saturday night.

No, the question was whether Crawford, an undefeated Omaha native who has held titles in three weight classes, would defeat Avanesyan, a Russian who trains in England, by decision, stoppage or knockout.

The answer came in Round 6 in the form of a crisp, two-punch combination that put Avanesyan on his back, brought the capacity crowd at CHI Health Center to its feet, and prompted the referee, Sparkle Lee, to stop the bout.

Afterward, Crawford, whose nickname is Bud and who was guaranteed $10 million by BLK Prime, a subscription video-on-demand company, flexed his biceps and paraded around the ring with a wide grin. Inside the arena, speakers blared “Before I Let Go,” an R&B classic by Maze featuring Frankie Beverly.

The track is a staple at summertime cookouts and festive events, but it is also a breakup song and fitting theme music for a boxer like Crawford, who has no promotional or broadcast contract. Crawford is now 39-0 with 30 knockouts, and he treasures the freedom to pursue the bouts he wants, and the ones the public demands — specifically, an elusive showdown with Errol Spence Jr., a fellow undefeated welterweight who is aligned with Showtime.

If a title unification bout with Spence is Crawford’s long-term plan, Saturday’s bout with Avanesyan was a lucrative one-night stand.

“I’m a free agent,” said Crawford, who has won 10 consecutive bouts by knockout or TKO. “This was a onefight deal.”

After Saturday’s bout, Crawford, whose most recent previous bout was in November 2021, told reporters that he planned to compete more frequently and that he was pondering moving from the 147-pound welterweight class to the 154-pound light middleweight division, where Jermell Charlo is the undisputed champion.

Crawford’s trainer, Brian McIntyre,

said jumping weight classes was not just a notion.

“That man can do basically anything he wants to do at 147 or 154,” McIntyre said at the postfight news conference. “He’s proven to the world that he’s the pound-for-pound best. The only question is, Who’s going to be willing to fight him? You don’t see nobody calling out Bud.”

Spence used his Instagram feed Saturday to hawk T-shirts that depict him as a Grim Reaper-style villain approaching a door marked T.C. while someone inside the room — Crawford, presumably — cowers.

The meaning? Spence, who is 28-0 and champion in three of the four major sanctioning bodies, portrays himself as a warrior seeking an undisputed welterweight championship and Crawford as someone afraid to risk defeat. The fighters, who have sparred on social media, disagree on those details.

But both fighters profess to want the fight. That desire, combined with Crawford’s free agency and consumer demand, should guarantee the pairing. But boxing has no leagues or central authority — only athletes, managers, promoters and sanctioning bodies,

whose interests do not always align.

The World Boxing Council has ordered Spence to defend his title against Keith Thurman in 2023. Turning down the bout could cost Spence his title.

For his part, Crawford said he planned to compete again in the spring, so his schedule might not line up with Spence’s until late next year, assuming neither injuries nor bad luck disrupts the timeline. Spence said in an Instagram Live video that he was involved in a car crash Saturday evening, but details of the crash beyond what Spence said about it were not available.

News of the crash did not upstage Crawford’s main event, but it did, for a moment, siphon attention from a fight card that struggled to generate buzz.

Organizers finalized a broadcast partner only two weeks ago. Before that, the card was going to be available as an online pay-per-view event, which would have limited its reach and restricted revenue for a company that is spending heavily as it enters the boxing business.

BLK Prime has also signed former champion Adrien Broner to a deal that the boxer said was worth eight figures.

Payouts like those usually go to

proven ticket sellers and elite performers. Broner has not won a significant fight since 2015, and he showed up at Saturday’s card with a shirt-stretching belly that suggested he was far from fighting shape.

And eight-figure guarantees usually come from deep-pocketed industry veterans who have proved they can monetize those deals. BLK Prime has no previous pro sports experience, and minimal apparent media and sponsorship reach.

Where the canvas and ring posts at most major bouts are plastered with sponsors’ logos, BLK Prime was the only brand name displayed on the ring during Saturday’s card. By early Sunday morning, BLK Prime’s boxing focused Instagram account had accrued just over 8,000 followers, compared with 1.5 million for the streaming service DAZN’s boxing feed. And the company’s YouTube channel had fewer than 1,200 followers.

Still, the company’s spokesperson, Sam Katkovski, insisted BLK Prime had a game plan.

“Everything is being done strategically,” he said in an interview before the fight.

Crawford showed that even after 13 months away from the ring, he could bank on his skills.

Avanesyan spent the early stages of the fight advancing behind a high guard, landing occasional looping punches as Crawford assumed an orthodox stance and probing with low-impact jabs. After Crawford switched to southpaw, he punched with more speed and intent, stabbing Avanesyan with right jabs to the stomach or whacking his rib cage with right hooks.

From there, the bout assumed a familiar rhythm: Crawford increased the intensity round by round, applying tactical, fundamentally sound pressure.

In the sixth, Crawford threw a left uppercut followed by a decisive right hook that clipped Avanesyan’s jaw and knocked him out.

Avanesyan’s record fell to 29-4-1, and Crawford’s attention turned, again, to Spence, and to the fight that should happen next year. With luck.

“We’re all fighting for the No. 1 spot,” Crawford said at the news conference. “It ain’t personal. It’s just business.”

Terence Crawford, left, successfully defended his W.B.O. championship on Saturday against David Avanesyan in Omaha.

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Current aspects bring your imagination into play, and can see you weighing the possible against the seemingly impossible. With the Sun tied to hazy Neptune, an idea that seems good might appear tantalizingly out of reach. Another potent aspect suggests this may not be the case, and with the right approach you could do it Aries, you just need to summon the motivation.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

The coming days could be an opportunity to make amends with someone you’ve had a difference of opinion with. As the radiant Sun journeys through a transformative sector, any insights might reach to the heart of the matter, creating a breakthrough. Need to impress a boss or authority figure? Show them how resourceful you can be, and you’ll easily win them over, Taurus.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

Relationships look pleasantly positive, with opportunities coming your way the more you’re willing to reach out and move in new circles. You have a keen interest in those you meet and a natural desire to connect, and ongoing influences enhance this. Even so, if you sense that it’s best to be careful in your dealings with a certain person, then the planets suggest that you do.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Whether you have a challenge ahead or are keen to get more done, the celestial star map offers a solution. Smart thinking could help you see ways to get certain tasks completed faster, giving you time for activities that you enjoy. You may be dreaming of getting away from it all during this festive season. Haven’t had a holiday in a while? A mini-break might be the answer, Cancer.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

If you look for the best in others you’ll find it, and if you look for the worst, you’ll find that too. Everyone has a good and a bad side, but it helps to seek out the light rather than the dark. This way, you’ll make the world a much better place. Even so, an edgy Neptune link suggests there are those who may be out to fool you. You can trust your instincts to keep you in the loop, Leo.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

A surprise could come your way today, as the Moon With Venus and Mercury in your creative zone, it’s time to do something out of the ordinary. You have some wonderful talents, and this is your chance to make the most of them. On another note, you may feel you’re not getting the support you need from loved ones. If you’re certain that a course of action is necessary for your emotional wellbeing, then go ahead and take it.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

Your natural urge may be to broaden your horizons, and to do so in the company of friends. In fact, the current set-up can be the reason you’re keen to travel, especially if you want to immerse yourself in a new environment. Planning is essential though, as is attention to detail. As Mars continues to rewind, beware of choices that might not be in your best interests. Trust your gut!

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

In a charitable mood and ready to help in whatever way you can? Whether this means assisting family members with DIY tasks, house cleaning, cooking or running errands, you might drop everything to give them a hand. Leave a space clear in your schedule though, as you could likely use a pampering session or other treat. Don’t deny yourself the chance of some self-care.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

You may radiate positivity and be in a buoyant mood, but on a deeper more personal level, you might not be quite so confident. If this is your experience, then it’s likely due to a tie between the Sun and elusive Neptune. Within a few days this can shift, and you could begin to feel more like your usual self. For now, simplify your schedule and leave complex matters for another day.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

It’s a good time for reflection or spiritual pursuits. A meditation or yoga class that balances mind and body, can be an antidote to the stress of having too much on your plate. Plus, if you’re eager to attend an event or other get-together with friends, go for it, Capricorn. Any gathering that gets you out and encourages you to meet new people is a winner. You’ll come away happy.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Joining forces with someone who shares your interests might make a social event or pleasure trip an uplifting experience. With confusing Neptune in the mix though Aquarius, it helps to keep track of your money. You could end up paying more than your fair share or get confused about prices. Having an idea of what it’s going to cost first means you’re less likely to be caught out.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

With the Sun in your career zone currently making a lingering connection with Neptune, it’s wise to read the small print before you commit to anything important. As this influence will be active for another day or so, it’s just as well to be aware of any pitfalls before they morph into something more. The cosmos suggests taking nothing for granted until you know the score.

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