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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Thursday ordered three days of mourning and flags on public buildings lowered to half-mast to honor former judge Nydia Cotto Vives, who served as president of the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel (PFEI by its Spanish initials) and whose death was announced by the organization earlier in the day.

“With much sadness, I received the news of the death of the president of the office of the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel,” the governor said. “Puerto Rico has lost a great public servant.”

The current members of the PFEI, former judges Rubén Vélez Torres, Ygrí Rivera Sánchez and Aida Nieves Figueroa, said in a written statement that Cotto Vives, 75, died as a result of “a health ailment that had been afflicting her.”

The cause of death was not made public.

“With an iron attitude and temper, an incorruptible character, fine human sensitivity, and an indisputable commitment to integrity and justice, former Judge Cotto Vives gave a life of commitment, passion and service to Puerto Rico, without blemish or rejection of the fulfillment of duty,” the judges said.

Former judge Cotto Vives, who was leading the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel, dies at 75 Cotto Vives “left an admirable legacy of dedication and professionalism” in two branches of government, having served as a lawyer and consultant in agencies such as the Housing Bank, the then-Department of Social Services -- today called the Family Department -- the Office of the Women’s Advocate, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and the Parole Board, an entity that she led, the judges noted.

“She was the first Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and also chaired the Board of Directors of the Office of Pretrial Services,” the judges said.

“In addition, she served as a Senior Judge of the Court of First Instance and a Judge of the Court of Appeals. This distinguished jurist accepted the call of our people to defend integrity and excellence in the governmental entity with rectitude, integrity and outstanding leadership. That was the mark she left on her time at the FEI Panel.”

Governor signs pay raises for district attorneys, juvenile & family attorneys into law

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia signed House Bill 1848 into law on Thursday, thereby establishing an increase in the competitive base salary of assistant district attorneys I through IV and juvenile and family attorneys by amending the Department of Justice’s (DJ) Organic Law. The new law is in line with the commonwealth government’s fiscal plan, certified in April of this year, which contemplates an investment of $42 million per year, starting in fiscal year 2024, for salary increases for DJ employees, among others in the executive branch, as well as the judiciary. The Justice Department, the Courts Administration Office, the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, and the Puerto Rico Prosecutors Association all spoke in favor of the legislation. In the case of district attorneys, the compensation will be the equivalent of 15% in addition to the maximum scale applicable to the figure of “lead at-

torney,” using the central government’s Career Service Post Classification Plan as a reference.

Meanwhile, assistant prosecutors I through IV will be compensated equivalent to between 80% and 98% of the maximum scale applicable to district attorneys. The compensation for juvenile and family attorneys, meanwhile, will be 90% of the maximum scale applicable to district attorneys.

Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández thanked the governor for signing the measure, saying that it does wage justice to assistant and district attorneys, as well as juvenile and family attorneys.

“The legislation represents a great step toward properly compensating these legal professionals who, from the Department of Justice, provide essential and excellent service in our justice system with great dedication and gallantry,” he said. “Prosecutors are the voices of victims on the island, who watch over their rights and promote justice and truth, performing highly complex functions that require great knowledge and effort.”

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Eleven charged with theft of COVID-19 economic aid

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federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico has returned 11 separate indictments charging 11 individuals with the theft of about $858,000 in federal assistance money provided during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announced Thursday.

The FBI, the Puerto Rico Police Bureau (PRPB) and the Puerto Rico Treasury Department investigated the cases.

During the COVID-19 crisis, the federal government provided three rounds of economic-impact payments to eligible individuals in Puerto Rico. The secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (USDT) approved the Economic Impact Payment Distribution Plan and the Plan for the Disbursement of the Third Economic Impact Payment, which enabled the island Treasury Department, as the local administrator, to distribute the economic assistance payment to eligible individuals as required by federal regulation.

The Unified Internal Revenue System (SURI by its Spanish initials) was the section of the local Treasury Department that processed and distributed the economic

impact payments. Those payments were automatic if the SURI confirmed the taxpayer’s bank account information.

Individuals who were not verified could apply for the payments in the island Treasury Department’s online

U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico W. Stephen Muldrow

portal, which required that an applicant provide an address, name, social security number, dependent information and banking information. The applicant then would be required to certify an oath verifying the integrity of the information provided. If the applicant was eligible for the economic impact payment, the island Treasury would deposit the payments into the applicant’s bank account.

According to court documents, the defendants, whose identities are yet to be made public, committed the theft of federal funds and received multiple economic payments using others’ personal identification information.

The 11 indictments charge 11 individuals with theft, appropriation, and receipt of stolen government money in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.

Some of the individuals were also charged with engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity and laundering of economic instruments in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1956 and 1957. Those additional charges are related to efforts to structure subsequent financial transactions to avoid financial reporting requirements and to illegally transfer and use the stolen funds for other purposes, including retail purchases like jewelry.

US Customs & Border Protection offers tips for international holiday travel

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use the new ESTA mobile app, available in 25 languages, to apply for an ESTA authorization from their mobile devices.

For additional ways to “travel smart” upon arrival at U.S. ports of entry, the CBP offered the following tips: * Registration on Arrival. Global Entry applicants who have not yet received an interview prior to their international travel can still opt for faster processing at select airports with Registration on Arrival. This initiative

allows conditionally approved applicants to complete their interview upon returning to the U.S. on a walk-in basis, ith the holiday travel season underway, U.S. using the documents they would normally carry when Customs and Border Protection on Thursday traveling internationally. offered tips to help make international travel * Prepare your documents. Before embarking on a trip safer and easier. to the United States or returning from international travel, “Holiday travel is already reaching record levels make sure you have a valid U.S. passport and ID card. Be this season, so (CBP) we strongly encourage travelers to prepared to present them and other travel documents that be ‘ready to travel’ and use CBP’s various mobile apps to may be requested by the CBP officer. While a Global Entry enhance their safe travel experience,” said card is not always required, Trusted Travelers Roberto Vaquero, San Juan’s director of field are advised to carry their cards with them in operations, in a written statement. case they are asked for one.

“These technological enhancements are * Avoid counterfeits when traveling. Be integral to CBP’s efforts to enhance the travel careful when buying from street vendors or experience while maintaining safety for all questionable shops during the holidays. These travelers,” he added. items could support criminal activity, violate The CBP’s Trusted Traveler program intellectual property rights, and may prove Global Entry allows expedited clearance for dangerous to consumers. * Consider duty waivers. Items bought pre-approved, low-risk travelers upon arrival abroad for personal use or as a gift are in the United States. Members of the program entitled to duty waivers. If you bring them can also use Global Entry’s new contactless back for resale, they are not eligible for tax portals, now available at Luis Muñoz Marín exemption.

International Airport. Portals reduce physical * Consider your medications. Be caretouchpoints and speed up arrival processing ful when traveling with medications. Many by eliminating paper receipts and protecting foreign-made drugs are not approved for use passenger privacy, Vaquero noted.

As of June of this year, non-U.S. citizens U.S. Customs and Border Protection “strongly encourages travelers to be ‘ready to in the United States and are not allowed in from 41 Visa Waiver Program countries can travel’ and use CBP’s various mobile apps to enhance their safe travel experience.” the country.

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Defense bill passed by Congress includes funding for military projects in PR

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he National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year (FY) 2024, which the U.S. House of Representatives approved on Thursday, allocates funds for

continuing military projects in Puerto Rico.

The bill contains language promoting the cleanup of land and water in the offshore island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra, the office of Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón said.

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón

The Senate approved the measure on Wednesday, so it now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law (see related story on page 7).

The NDAA authorizes $73.7 million for the construction of military projects in Puerto Rico. The projects include $56 million to build a microgrid at Fort Buchanan with diesel generators and a battery energy storage system.

The Buchanan project has begun its design and planning phase, using federal funds previously allocated to the Department of Defense.

The next phase will be the construction process, the authorization of which is included in the current NDAA and which would be funded through the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. Although this measure is still pending final approval in Congress, both the House and Senate versions include allocating funds for the project.

The NDAA bill also allocates $7.6 mil-

lion to complete a microgrid control system at the Army Reserve Center at Fort Allen in Juana Díaz, $6.3 million to complete a microgrid control system at the Ramey Army Reserve Center in Aguadilla and $3.6 million to complete the National Guard Military Readiness Center at Fort Allen.

Additionally, authorization is being extended through October 2024 for two military construction projects previously authorized

by Congress. They are the replacement of the Ramey Unit School, which was licensed in the FY 2018 NDAA for $61 million, and the Puerto Rico National Guard Military Readiness Center at Fort Allen, which was authorized for $37 million in the FY 2021 NDAA. The U.S. defense secretary is further required to report to Congress by March 1, 2024 on the feasibility of amending the Military Construction Act of 1974 to authorize the limited waiver of restrictions on the use of resources for decontamination in certain areas within the old detonation zone in Culebra.

Citizen advocate chides Education Dept. over deteriorated school infrastructure

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n investigation by the Office of the Citizen’s Advocate (OPCPR by its Spanish initials) has found infrastructure problems in some 212 schools throughout Puerto Rico that threaten the safety and quality of life of students, teachers and staff.

Citizen Advocate Edwin García Feliciano said it is difficult to believe that, with the amount of federal funds allocated to the Education Department, many deficiencies persist in school facilities.

“If it is not a money problem, then is it a problem of will or lack of contractors and materials?” he said. “Our responsibility is to be the voice of the school community, so we will constantly follow up on these matters.”

Among the most relevant findings, the OPCPR found that in 101 of the 212 schools, there were problems with the sanitary facilities, such as a lack of sinks, urinals in poor condition, and toilets and faucets in need of replacement, among others. Likewise, the office documented the need to make minor and major repairs

to 114 of the 212 schools, such as roof and lighting repairs, painting, and restoration of complementary areas.

García Feliciano also pointed out filtration and lighting problems in 71 schools, and he said the findings do not end there.

He stressed that there are painting problems at 91 school sites, plumbing problems in 41 schools, problems with cisterns in 25

Citizen Advocate Edwin García Feliciano

schools, a number of areas unsuitable for students with physical disabilities, and a lack of teaching staff in 52 schools.

The official said the problems must be addressed with a sense of urgency using the financial resources of the Education Department and the agencies with which it contracts or delegates those responsibilities.

The citizen advocate was emphatic in saying “it will be up to the Public Buildings

Authority (AEP), the Office for the Improvement of Public Schools (OMEP), as well as the Education Department to attend to the reports made and sent to each of them, accelerate these tasks, as well as put them on the agenda if something prevents them from being attended to at this time.”

The Education Department had not responded to requests for comment as of press time.

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Annual crafts fair to be held this weekend in Old San Juan

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he Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC) will hold the 26th edition of its Crafts Fair at the Paseo de la Princesa in Old San Juan on Saturday and Sunday.

The fair will feature some 200 artisans from different regions of the island for a projected economic impact of around $1 million, PRTC Executive Director Carlos Mercado Santiago said at a press conference where he announced details on the weekend’s activities, including the musical program, and the handicraft items that artisans will be selling.

The fair is coordinated by the PRTC as part of its cultural tourism program, with the aim of strengthening the development of artisanal businesses and diversifying the tourist offer to boost domestic and foreign tourism.

“The Old San Juan area, which has more than 500 years of history and is a natural cultural tourist center, provides us with the perfect setting to celebrate this great event in a spectacular way, year after year,” Mercado Santiago said.

“This fair, in turn, is a valuable tool to exalt the creativity of our artisans, who display our cultural roots, in addition

to promoting a boost to the economy, increasing cultural tourism and positively impacting the development of small businesses.”

Artisans Federation President Daniel Rosa said the fair “is an excellent opportunity for artisans to exhibit their talent and show their works, which are for sale to the public on a massive scale.”

“We are excited about the arrival of these dates when artisans can participate in this magnificent, largescale event in which we the Artisans Federation of Puerto Rico work in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Tourism Company.”

As part of the fair’s opening ceremony, a tribute will be paid to several artisans who have stood out for their The annual Crafts Fair at the Paseo de la Princesa in Old San Juan will feacareer accomplishments and the value ture some 200 artisans from different regions of the island for a projected of their craftsmanship. economic impact of some $1 million.

Bacardí & Cataño lauded for supporting artisans via annual fair

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s part of the activities of the recent edition of La Feria (the Fair) in Cataño, the Artisans Federation of Puerto Rico recognized Bacardí and the Municipality of Cataño for their support of the artisans’ guild, which participated in the event for the second consecutive year.

This year, more than 250 artisans from all categories exhibited their work to the more than 100,000 people who attended the two-day event, exceeding their sales expectations.

Likewise, the merchants of the northern coastal municipality’s waterfront declared La Feria a success with its artistic, cultural and gastronomic offerings.

For the second year in a row, Bacardí and Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo joined forces to invite all Puerto Ricans to start the holiday season and relive those cultural moments of the emblematic Bacardí Fair. Among the attractions was a Bacardí installation in which participants had a sample of the experience that Casa Bacardí offers throughout the year in its Cataño facilities.

Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo, second from left, is joined by first lady Betzaida Rodríguez, at left, Artisans Federation President Daniel Rosa and Bacardí Brand Manager Sofia Montañez.

Federal funds available for highway safety, home improvements for low-income families, health & child care

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Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón

esident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón this week announced the approval of more than $37.1 million for 19 recipients in the areas of health, child care, home improvements in areas of high poverty and highway safety.

The funds from budget appropriations approved in Congress, and supported by González Colón, are to be made available once petitioners meet the appropriate requirements.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded the Municipality of Yauco $229,529 under the Safe Streets for All (SS4A) Grant Program for fiscal year 2023 to develop a comprehensive safety action plan. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, of which the resident

commissioner is a member, oversees the use of the funds.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development, meanwhile, allocated $515,500 to eight recipients under the Housing Preservation Grant Program, which provides grants to organizations that work to repair or rehabilitate homes occupied by low- and very low-income rural residents.

Habitat for Humanity of Puerto Rico Inc. will receive $50,000 for repairs in three homes in addition to Community Development Block Grant funds for a total of $115,000 and another $100,000 along with $180,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds that add up to $280,000 for repairs of 12 homes belonging to very low- and low-income families that do not have the resources to improve their own properties by addressing problems of overcrowding in these housing units. Materials are purchased from local hardware stores, which benefits the local economy.

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House passes defense bill, clearing it for Biden

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vaccine mandate, and establishes a special inspector general to oversee how U.S. aid to The House on Thursday overwhelmingly Ukraine has been used. passed an $886 billion defense bill, clearing “You cannot oppose this bill and claim the measure for President Joe Biden after that you support the national security of this pushing past a revolt from the far right over country,” said Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the the exclusion of restrictions they had sought ranking member of the armed services panel. to abortion access, transgender care, and “Because this bill represents that bipartisan racial diversity and inclusion policies at the compromise that we worked for to get a good Pentagon. bill to meet our national security needs.”

The 310-118 vote reflected the biOpposition to the bill was also fueled partisan nature of the bill, which earned by the last-minute addition of a provision the support of a majority of Democrats and extending into next year a warrantless surveillance program nearing its expiration date.

Republicans despite the vocal opposition of The program, created under the Foreign Intehard-liners, who staged a last-ditch rebellion lligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, allows the on the House floor to try to block its passage. government to conduct wiretaps on foreign Biden is expected to sign the measure into law, maintaining Washington’s six-decade The Senate on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, overwhelmingly passed an $886 billion defense targets outside the United States.

It has come under intense scrutiny on streak of approving military policy legislation bill that would set Pentagon policy and provide a 5.2 percent pay raise for military personCapitol Hill, from both Republicans and on an annual basis. nel, defying the demands of hard-right Republicans who had tried and failed to attach a This year’s defense bill authorizes a 5.2% raft of deeply partisan restrictions on abortion, transgender care and diversity initiatives. Democrats, because communications of Americans in touch with those foreign targets pay increase for service members and civilian (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) are often collected during the wiretaps, and employees of the Pentagon. It also invests in there is widespread evidence that FBI officials a variety of measures to improve competition The House-passed version also would have revoked a have improperly plumbed that information. with Russia and China, including an expansion of regional When Congress returns to Washington in January, the partnerships in Europe and the Indo-Pacific, development of policy providing paid time off and transportation reimbursement to service members needing to travel long distances House is expected to resume a highly charged debate over hypersonic weapons and upgrades to the nuclear arsenal.

The bill sets up a submarine deal at the heart of a new to obtain abortions or fertility care. The Pentagon adopted whether and how to overhaul the program. Leaders have security partnership with Britain and Australia known as the abortion access policy after the Supreme Court struck argued that the extension in the defense bill, which would AUKUS, and directs hundreds of millions of dollars toward down Roe v. Wade, leading to a patchwork of laws around push the program’s expiration date out to mid-April, is simsending weapons to Ukraine and Israel. It does not settle the the country that could leave military personnel with unequal ply a patch to buy Congress more time to have that debate.

But the way Congress wrote the statute, even the shortgreater question of whether Congress will approve tens of access to such services depending on where they were based.

The Senate bill included none of those provisions, and term extension would enable the secret surveillance court to billions of dollars in emergency funds for the two countries’ war efforts as part of a $110.5 billion spending bill that has in bipartisan talks between the two chambers to resolve di- stretch the wiretapping authority to April 2025 — a fact that led conservative Republicans and many liberal Democrats, stalled in Congress, amid a dispute between Republicans fferences on the legislation, they were stripped out.

Soldiers are “frustrated by the state of affairs, when our who have long warned of the dangers of the program, to call and Democrats about attaching measures to crack down on military’s being turned into a social engineering experiment for rejecting the defense bill. migration across the U.S. border with Mexico.

It would also extend into 2025 a program that allows the instead of being committed to its core function, which is intelligence community to conduct warrantless surveillance defending this country,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, argued on of foreign individuals outside the United States. The program the House floor Wednesday night, appealing to his colleagues has come under fire because of how the FBI has handled the to reject the compromise bill.

Seventy-three Republicans ultimately opposed the bill, private messages of Americans. along with 45 Democrats. But with strong support from both “It takes compromise to move legislation in a divided parties, proponents were able to muster the two-thirds magovernment, and this bill is a good compromise,” Rep. Mike jority necessary to speed it through the House under special Rogers, R-Ala., the chair of the Armed Services Committee, said on the floor. “It’s laser-focused on deterring our adver- fast-track rules for noncontroversial bills.

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It also sets up a review board to Perfect place for professional office, commercial into loading up the bill with measures to shutter the military’s property onal and others. Central and quiet. offices of diversity, equity and inclusion; ban transgender consider reinstating service members who were discharged for refusing to obey the military’s now-defunct COVID-19 Call 787-503-0580 • 529-0473 health services; and outlaw drag shows on military bases.

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House approves Biden impeachment inquiry as it hunts for an offense

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) speaks during a news conference about Republican efforts to approve a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden at the Capitol in Washington on Dec. 13, 2023. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

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he House voted earlier this week to formally open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, pushing forward with a yearlong Republican investigation that has failed to produce evidence of anything approaching high crimes or misdemeanors.

Republicans said the vote was needed to give them full authority to continue carrying out their investigation amid anticipated legal challenges from the White House.

Democrats have denounced the inquiry as a fishing expedition and a political stunt.

GOP leaders refrained for months from calling a vote to open an impeachment inquiry, given the reservations of mainstream Republicans, many of them from politically competitive districts, about moving forward without proof that Biden had done anything wrong. Instead, Kevin McCarthy, the speaker at the time, unilaterally announced one in September as he was facing pressure from the far right to deliver on its priorities, including impeaching the president.

But Wednesday’s vote underscored how the political ground has shifted, with House Republicans unanimously willing to endorse an inquiry even as some emphasized that they were not yet ready to charge the president. The 221-212 vote was along party lines, with all Republicans voting to approve

the inquiry and all Democrats opposed.

“Instead of doing anything to help make Americans’ lives better, they are focused on attacking me with lies,” Biden said of Republicans in a statement not long after.

“Instead of doing their job on the urgent work that needs to be done, they are choosing to waste time on this baseless political stunt that even Republicans in Congress admit is not supported by facts.”

Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., chair of the Rules Committee, portrayed the vote as a largely procedural step to shore up the House’s investigatory powers.

“Since September, the House has been engaged in an impeachment inquiry, examining whether sufficient grounds exist for the House to exercise constitutional power to impeach the president of the United States,” Cole said. “Today’s resolution simply formalizes that inquiry and grants the House full authority to enforce its subpoenas that have been denied as recently as today.”

But Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said there was nothing but rank politics at play.

“We are here for one reason and one reason alone: Donald Trump demanded that Republicans impeach, so they are going to impeach,” McGovern said. “They are weaponizing and abusing impeachment, one of the most somber and serious things that Congress can do, to attack President

Joe Biden.”

The vote unfolded just hours after Hunter Biden, the president’s son and a main focus of the Republican investigation, defied a subpoena to sit for a private deposition.

In a dramatic moment outside the Capitol on Wednesday morning, the younger Biden held a news conference in which he repeated his offer to publicly testify in the investigation into his father but insisted again that he would not be interviewed behind closed doors. He has said he fears that Republicans would leak selectively from his testimony in efforts to distort it.

The Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry, including Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, chair of the Oversight Committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, chair of the Judiciary Committee, threatened to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress if he does not comply with demands for private testimony.

“We think he should come in, and so if he doesn’t, we’re going to move forward with contempt proceedings,” Jordan said.

Since winning the majority, House Republicans have been investigating myriad aspects of Joe Biden’s family and administration, hunting for evidence that could be used to prove he is corrupt and should be impeached. Former President Donald Trump, still seething over being impeached twice, has urged on their investigation at every step.

The Republican inquiry has focused heavily on Hunter Biden, who is under indictment on federal tax and gun charges, and the work he did for companies and partners overseas. They are also examining whether the Biden administration interfered with the Justice Department investigation of Hunter Biden and whether Joe Biden mishandled classified documents when he was vice president or a senator.

Using their subpoena power, Republicans have obtained more than 36,000 pages of bank records; 2,000 pages of suspicious activity reports from the Treasury Department; and dozens of hours of testimony from two of Hunter Biden’s business partners, a senior official from the National Archives and Records Administration, seven federal agents and three U.S. attorneys.

“President Biden must be held accountable for his lies, corruption and obstruction,” Comer said. “We have a duty to provide the accountability and transparency that

Americans demand and deserve.”

The impeachment inquiry resolution does not accuse Biden of any wrongdoing.

It authorizes three Republican-led panels to continue their investigations and petition a court for grand jury materials; authorizes subpoenas and retroactively approves many that have already been issued; and allows for the hiring of outside counsel to help with the inquiry.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has accused Biden of corruption, said lawmakers are particularly focused on investigating four areas: the millions of dollars Hunter Biden and James Biden, the president’s brother, received from overseas business deals; false or misleading statements Joe Biden made about his son’s work; incidents in which Biden met with or spoke with his son’s business partners; and about $240,000 Biden received from his family members as reimbursement for loans.

Republicans have labored, so far without success, to prove that Biden was enriched by his son’s business dealings.

Many of the documents they have produced thus far have, in fact, demonstrated the opposite: that Biden lent money to his son and brother when they were in need, and they later paid him back.

The House Oversight Committee released documents that showed that one of Hunter Biden’s businesses, Owasco PC, made three payments of $1,380 to Joe Biden in 2018 when he was not in office. Republicans said the payments were evidence of corruption. Other documents indicate the money was to pay back his father for helping to cover the cost of a Ford truck.

In a briefing with reporters, Jordan laid out his plan to call in nine more witnesses for questioning within two months.

“We’ll look at all the facts and make a decision,” Jordan said. “Was it obstruction when Joe Biden said all the things he has said that turned out not to be accurate?”

On Wednesday, Hunter Biden said Republicans had invaded his privacy and savaged him personally for six years in the service of a false narrative about his father.

“They ridiculed my struggle with addiction; they belittled my recovery; and they have tried to dehumanize me — all to embarrass and damage my father, who has devoted his entire public life to service,” he said.

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Detroit man charged in stabbing death of synagogue president

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man was charged earlier this week in the killing of Samantha Woll, a synagogue president who was found stabbed to death in October outside her Detroit home, the authorities said.

Woll’s death appeared to have taken place during a break-in at her home, Kym L. Worthy, the Wayne County prosecutor, said at a news conference.

“This is an extraordinarily sad and tragic case,” Worthy said, adding that “there are no facts to suggest that this defendant knew Ms. Woll and there are no facts to suggest that this was a hate crime.”

Michael Jackson-Bolanos, 28, was charged with firstdegree felony murder, a charge that carries a penalty of life in prison without parole. He was also charged with home invasion and lying to a peace officer. Jackson-Bolanos was being held in custody Wednesday evening, and it was uncertain whether he had legal representation.

Woll, 40, was a widely known civic and religious leader in Detroit whose death led to an outpouring of grief and tributes from elected officials in Michigan.

In the first several days after Woll’s death, James E. White, the Detroit police chief, said that the killing did not

appear to be related to antisemitism, despite widespread speculation that her death on Oct. 21 might be tied to unfolding tensions in the United States over the conflict in the Middle East after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7. White also told reporters at the time that the police had identified “persons of interest” in the case and that they were close to naming a suspect.

The authorities offered few details about the evidence they have gathered in the case. On Wednesday, White said police had been monitoring Jackson-Bolanos’ movements.

Woll led a synagogue in downtown Detroit, where she was known as a devoted leader who connected people across many faiths, and worked extensively in Democratic state politics. She had once served as a political director for Dana Nessel, the attorney general of Michigan.

On the night before her death, Woll attended a wedding, which she left just after midnight, and returned to her home in the Lafayette Park neighborhood of Detroit.

At about 6:30 a.m. Saturday, police officers responded to a 911 call and found Woll outside, unresponsive and with multiple stab wounds. A trail of blood led to her home, where the police believe the crime had occurred.

There were no signs of forced entry. White said that Woll had been outside “quite a while” before her body was found.

A sidewalk outside the Detroit home of Samantha Woll, on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023, where she was found fatally stabbed. A man was charged on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, in the killing of Woll, a synagogue president who was found stabbed to death in October outside her Detroit home, the authorities said. (Emily Elconin/The New York Times)

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Tesla recalls autopilot software in 2 million vehicles

By JACK EWING, CADE METZ and DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR

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esla’s reputation for making technologically advanced cars suffered a blow earlier this week when the company, under pressure from regulators, recalled more than 2 million vehicles. U.S. officials said the automaker had not done enough to ensure that drivers remained attentive when using a system that can steer, accelerate and brake cars automatically.

The recall by Tesla, the world’s dominant maker of electric vehicles, was its fourth in less than two years and the most significant to date. It covers nearly all cars the company has manufactured in the United States since 2012, including its most popular, the Model Y sport-utility vehicle.

Tesla accounts for about half of the electric passenger cars sold in the United States, but its market share has been slipping as General Motors, Hyundai, Ford Motor Co. and other automakers have begun selling electric models.

In addition, recent public statements by Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, have been widely interpreted as antisemitic and offended some customers. The recall amounts to another dent in the company’s image.

“There’s no question” that the company’s brand “has taken a hit this year,” Gary Black, managing partner of the Future Fund, who is generally positive about Tesla, said on social media site X, which is owned by Musk and was formerly known as Twitter.

The recall follows an investigation into Tesla’s driverassistance system, Autopilot, which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began in August 2021 after a series of accidents, some fatal, involving the technology.

Autopilot is designed to control vehicles on its own when on highways. Tesla’s owners manuals tell drivers that they should keep their hands on the wheel and take over if anything goes wrong.

The recall reflects regulators’ concern that Tesla did not do enough to prevent drivers from misusing the system, including by turning it on while they travel local roads and by becoming distracted because they assumed that their car could drive itself.

What Tesla calls Autopilot is a collection of features allowing the car’s technology to take over a vehicle’s control to varying degrees. The feature singled out in the recall, Autosteer, can keep a car in a lane without driver intervention.

There may be “increased risk of a crash,” the safety administration said, when Autosteer is engaged and drivers do not “maintain responsibility for vehicle operation.”

To address that problem, Tesla said it would wirelessly update its cars to add new, more prominent visual alerts and checks when Autosteer is engaged to remind drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and pay attention to the road.

Musk did not respond to a request for comment.

Tesla said it did not agree with agency’s assessment of the system. The company has maintained that Autopilot makes its cars safer.

Tesla cars on a transport vehicle at the automaker’s factory in Fremont, Calif., on Oct. 2, 2023. Tesla recalled more than 2 million vehicles on Dec. 13 to update a function designed to ensure drivers are focused when using its Autopilot feature, according to safety officials. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) Manufacturers are responsible for preventing foreseeable misuse of their technology, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who oversees the auto safety agency, said during a meeting with reporters and editors at The New York Times on Wednesday.

“They’re going to say that it’s safer with these systems,” Buttigieg said, referring to Tesla. “That could be true. But you know, a car with an air bag is safer than a car without an air bag. If the air bag blows up, we’re still going to recall it.”

On Monday, Tesla said on the X platform, “It is morally indefensible not to make these systems available to a wider set of consumers, given the incontrovertible data that shows it is saving lives and preventing injury,” a response to an article in The Washington Post about the technology’s flaws.

Some experts question whether Autopilot makes driving safer. Philip Koopman, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University who studies self-driving software, said that improvements in safety come almost entirely from one feature, automatic emergency braking, which is commonplace on all new vehicles.

“Autopilot is not a safety feature; it’s a convenience feature,” Koopman said.

The investigation is the most prominent example of a wider push and pull among government regulators and companies developing technologies that allow vehicles to drive on their own in certain situations.

In October, California regulators ordered Cruise, a GM subsidiary, to stop its driverless taxi service in San Francisco after a series of traffic mishaps, including one in which a Cruise car dragged a pedestrian 20 feet after a crash. The company has since suspended its driverless car operations

across the country.

The auto safety agency said that in August 2021 it began investigating 11 incidents involving Tesla vehicles that were operating with Autosteer engaged. A series of meetings between the agency and Tesla followed, and the company decided this month to voluntarily administer a recall.

Over the course of its investigation, the safety agency said, it has reviewed 956 crashes in which Autopilot was engaged. Then it focused on 322 crashes, including frontal collisions and situations in which Autopilot may have been accidentally engaged.

Tesla began issuing wireless software updates to certain vehicles this week, safety officials said. The remaining vehicles will receive updates later. Tesla has for years updated the software in its cars using cellular networks, usually overnight when cars are parked.

Depending on the hardware on a car, some updated vehicles will feature more prominent visual alerts as well as additional checks when using Autosteer. The feature will also be suspended if drivers repeatedly fail to use it responsibly.

Letters to Tesla owners notifying them of the update are expected to be mailed in February.

Tesla’s recall this week is the latest episode to heighten public scrutiny of the automaker. In October, a California jury found that the company’s driver-assistance software was not at fault in a crash that killed a Tesla owner and seriously injured two passengers.

Several similar cases are being litigated around the country. One involves a 2019 crash in Florida in which a Tesla operating on Autopilot on a country road ran through a stop sign and hit a parked car, killing Naibel Benavides, 22, and severely injuring her companion.

Todd Poses, a lawyer representing the family of Benavides, said the recall showed Tesla was aware Autopilot was being used on roads where it wasn’t safe and failed to restrict where it could be turned on.

“This accident never should have happened because it doesn’t work on roads like this,” Poses said Wednesday, referring to Autopilot.

The driver of the Tesla had dropped his phone and bent down to look for it, trusting Autopilot to steer his Tesla Model S. But the car failed to stop at a T-intersection with a flashing red light.

“This technology is not safe; it needs to be off the roads,” said Dillon Angulo, who was with Benavides and suffered a traumatic brain injury, a broken pelvis and a broken jaw.

The company’s latest recall explains that drivers will be alerted when they are using Autopilot outside of roadways where the technology is intended to operate. But it is unclear whether they will still be permitted to use the technology in these situations.

“NHTSA has forced Tesla to focus on the right issues,” said Matthew Wansley, professor at the Cardozo School of Law in New York who specializes in emerging automotive technologies. “But everything depends on the details.”

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Analysis-markets outpace central banks as rate cut bets fuel ‘everything rally’ M

arkets have raced ahead of the U.S., euro zone and UK central banks to price in sizeable and frenetic interest rate cuts next year, fueling a socalled everything rally that could now be vulnerable to a correction.

The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday signaled it would cut rates more than previously outlined, sending global stocks and bond prices surging as markets priced in six quarter-point rate cuts in 2024, double the number projected by Fed officials.

The exuberance rushed over the Atlantic even as the Bank of England and the European Central Bank, holding borrowing costs steady, pledged on Thursday to keep monetary conditions restrictive as long as necessary.

European stocks hit their highest in almost two years after Wall Street stocks neared a record high the day before. The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield dipped below 4% for the first time since August, while German Bund yields hit nine-month lows.

The European moves were dominated by “market pricing in the U.S., which is quite eye-popping,” said Chris Jeffrey, head of rates and inflation strategy at Legal & General Investment Management.

“We struggle to work out what kind of world we’re in where you have 150 basis points of cuts in the U.S. next year without a recession,” he added, explaining that while LGIM was positive on government debt it was “not chasing the rally.”

Economists polled by Reuters expect the world’s largest economy to grow by 1.2% next year.

While rate cut pricing was pared back slightly after the ECB and BoE meetings, the scale of the cuts priced in remains significant, with investors cheered by signs inflation is falling fast.

Euro zone inflation tumbled more than expected to 2.4% in November, while in Britain it slowed to 4.6% in October, also lower than expected.

ECB president Christine Lagarde said “underlying” price pressures were moderating more than the ECB expected.

Traders now expect the central bank to lower its deposit rate from 4% to about 2.5% by next December, having added more than a 50% chance of an additional rate cut since Thursday.

They anticipate roughly 110 bps of UK rate cuts next year, more than before the Fed and even as the BoE cautioned rates -- at a 15-year high of 5.5% -- would stay restrictive.

The level of rate cuts now priced for the ECB reflected a “very very gloomy” economic and inflation outlook, said Danske Bank chief analyst Piet Christiansen.

“It seems quite an economic crisis scenario where you need to cut 150 basis points in one year,” he said, adding the risk is for government bonds to sell-off.

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US urges Israel to scale back ground war in Gaza by year’s end

By ADAM ENTOUS

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he Biden administration has told the Israeli government that it wants Israel to end its large-scale ground campaign in the Gaza Strip around the end of the year and transition to a more targeted phase in its war against Hamas, four senior U.S. officials said.

As the Biden administration envisions, this new phase would involve the use of smaller groups of elite Israeli forces that would move in and out of population centers in Gaza, carrying out more precise missions to find and kill Hamas leaders, rescue hostages and destroy tunnels.

During meetings in Israel that began Thursday, U.S. officials said Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, discussed the timeline for a transition to lowerintensity operations supported by the U.S. administration.

The U.S.’ calls for a change in tactics came as Israel’s defense minister said Thursday that the war against Hamas “will last more than several months,” signaling determination to continue carrying out strikes in Gaza.

Before meeting with Sullivan, Defense Minister Yoav

Israeli soldiers during tank drills in Northern Israel, on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. The Biden administration has told the Israeli government that it wants Israel to end its largescale ground campaign in the Gaza Strip around the end of the year and transition to a more targeted phase in its war against Hamas, four senior U.S. officials said. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times).

Gallant repeated Israel’s arguments that destroying Hamas,

the armed group that carried out the devastating Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, was essential to Israel’s security and was difficult because Hamas has built an extensive underground infrastructure in Gaza.

U.S. officials said the Biden administration understands and accepts that Israel’s efforts to hunt down Hamas leaders will continue for months, even after the transition from higher- to lower-intensity operations takes place.

Still, differences between the United States and Israel have widened in recent weeks over Israel’s conduct of its war against Hamas and a postwar settlement for Gaza.

U.S. officials said Biden wants Israel to end the largescale ground campaign in Gaza within three weeks, or soon thereafter. They asked for anonymity to discuss the president’s thinking.

The officials emphasized that Sullivan did not direct or order Israeli leaders to make the transition. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, in the past, acquiesced to advice from the Biden administration — for Israel to allow humanitarian supplies into Gaza and to take steps to reduce civilian casualties — after initially rejecting them outright.

3-day Israeli raid in Jenin kills at least 12 Palestinians, West Bank officials say

By HIBA YAZBEK

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three-day Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin appeared to end Thursday, and the Palestinian Health Ministry said that during the raid, Israeli forces killed at least 12 people and wounded 34 others.

Residents reported seeing Israeli military vehicles leaving the city Thursday afternoon, signaling an end to the unusually long operation inside Jenin and its refugee camp, a stronghold of Palestinian armed resistance in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The Israeli military in a statement Thursday said it completed “a 60-hour-long extensive operation in the Jenin refugee camp and in the city of Jenin.” It reported detaining “14 wanted suspects, including three affiliated with Hamas,” as well as some 60 others during “hundreds of raids,” and said it “eliminated 10 terrorists.”

Seven Israeli soldiers were lightly injured in the operations that the military said “exposed more than 10 under-

ground facilities, dozens of rifles,” illicit funds and seven explosives labs.

The Israeli military Tuesday said it had carried out a drone strike that killed several people who had fired on Israeli forces.

More than 100 Palestinians were arrested during the raid, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, a nongovernmental rights group.

Israeli military incursions in Jenin, commonplace for years, have become more frequent since the Hamas-led attacks Oct. 7 that killed 1,200 people in Israel. The Israeli military describes the search-and-arrest operations as part of its counterterrorism efforts against Hamas in the West Bank.

Residents and local leaders in the Jenin refugee camp say the raids are aimed at displacing residents and making conditions there unlivable.

“The raids have gotten more frequent and also more aggressive and violent,” said Mohammad Al Masri, a member of the local committee that runs the camp. “They’ve started coming in and not differentiating between fighter and civilian.”

At least 78 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military raids in Jenin since Oct. 7, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah, making it the deadliest period in the city in recent years.

Across the West Bank, at least 286 Palestinians have been killed since Oct. 7, most during Israeli raids but others in clashes with extremist Israeli settlers.

The Israeli military has launched dozens of raids in Jenin over the last two months, most aimed at the refugee camp, according to residents, camp committee members, Israeli military statements and Pal-

estinian media reports. The camp is a built-up, impoverished neighborhood that houses Palestinian refugees who were forcibly displaced during the wars that surrounded Israel’s creation in 1948 as well as their descendants.

The raids usually occur overnight and involve bulldozers, which have destroyed much of the area’s infrastructure.

“It’s collective punishment,” said Mohammad Sabaghi, the head of the committee that runs the camp. “There’s nothing that hasn’t been damaged or destroyed. Water, electricity, phone lines, the sewage system — everything.”

The Palestinian Authority’s health minister, Mai AlKaila, said in a statement Thursday that the situation in Jenin’s hospitals was “very difficult, in light of the escalating aggression” over the past three days. Hospitals were “being subjected to a fierce attack,” the statement said, adding that Israeli forces were obstructing arrivals of wounded people, searching and detaining medical workers, and attacking ambulances.

The Israeli military did not respond to requests for comment on these accusations.

Medical charity Doctors Without Borders said a father in Jenin had carried his 13-year-old son on foot to a hospital Wednesday “because Israeli armored cars blocked ambulances,” adding that the boy had been pronounced dead on arrival.

Wisam Baker, director of the Jenin Hospital, the nearest medical center to the refugee camp, said in an interview that Israeli forces had set up checkpoints outside the hospital during some raids, complicating efforts to deliver medical care to people injured in the incursions.

“It’s difficult for our medical teams to go out and come in, and difficult for patients to enter the hospital, because it’s dangerous,” he said.

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Under rules of war, ‘proportionality’ in Gaza is not about evening the score T

he international laws governing war are unfeeling. They give more precedence to military advantage than to civilian harm.

They do not consider comparative numbers of dead or wounded. They ask commanders in the field to judge, often very quickly, the military advantage of an attack, the nature of the threat they face, what means they possess to counter it and what feasible measures they can take to reduce the expected damage to civilians and civilian infrastructure.

That complicated calculus, known as “proportionality,” is deeply flawed, lawyers say, because it balances essentially incompatible things. And each attack must be judged separately, to decide if it is within the boundaries of a legal act of war.

“The law of war is cold,” said EmanuelaChiara Gillard, an associate fellow at Chatham House, the London think tank, who previously worked as a lawyer for the Red Cross and the United Nations. It does not, she added, “address our concerns and moral outrage over civilian death.”

After Hamas invaded Israel and killed some 1,200 people, Israel retaliated in force.

But the televised images of devastation in the Gaza Strip and the large asymmetry in deaths, especially of civilians, have created an uproar in the Arab world and parts of the West.

But in war, symmetry and proportionality are unrelated.

Proportionality is a key component in determining the legality of an act of war. It is not merely a question, lawyers said, of fairly balancing the death tolls on either side of a conflict’s ledger. Instead, it is a matter of determining whether, at the moment the decision to launch any attack is made, the expected military advantage outweighs the expected harm to civilians once feasible measures are taken to reduce it.

But there is no universal consensus on how to make such a comparison. Nor are the facts always clear in the fog of war.

There have been criticism and questions, for example, about Israeli attacks near or on hospitals and schools. Were the buildings really used for military purposes, and were proper warnings given before an attack? Has Israel done enough to protect civilians?

A plethora of diplomats, United Nations officials and human rights groups have argued that the answer is ‘no,’ and some have called for investigations into possible war crimes and even used the word genocide.

An Israeli artillery unit near Netivot, Israel fires at target in the Gaza Strip, Nov. 2, 2023. (Avishag Shar-Yashuv/The New York Times) But civilian deaths are a political question, not a legal one, said Daniel Reisner, a former head of the Israeli army’s international law division. “The numbers of dead on both sides are tragic, but if you limit the discussion to legality, the numbers are not the thing you measure. It’s why they died and in what circumstances they died, not how many of them died.”

Still, the numbers on either side of the conflict stagger.

Israel says about 1,200 people were killed and 240 taken hostage in the Oct. 7 Hamasled terrorist attacks. As of today, the war has killed over 15,000 Palestinians, and perhaps thousands more, many of them women and children, in Hamas-controlled Gaza, according to health officials there. (The Gaza health ministry does not count Hamas fighters separately from civilians when providing death tolls.)

The large numbers of civilian dead, more than in any previous Gaza conflict, do in aggregate raise questions about whether Israel’s calculations of proportionality have changed in this war.

There are questions around certain attacks, like two days of bombing in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 that collapsed a large number of residential buildings and killed 195 people, according Gaza health officials.

Israel said that it had warned residents to leave and that its targets were legitimate: Ibrahim Biari, commander of the Central Jabalia Battalion, who helped plan the Oct. 7 attacks and was overseeing the fighting, and Muhammad Asar, said to be the commander of Hamas’ anti-tank missile unit.

Adm. Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesperson, said that Biari was commanding

a large Hamas unit using an extensive tunnel legal officer for the International Committee of system under the camp’s buildings, which Is- the Red Cross. rael also targeted, and that “scores” of Hamas “Whatever your reason, if you choose fighters had been killed. Israeli officials sug- to wage war, you still need to respect the gested that the tunnel network had under- exact same rules of international humanimined the stability of the foundations, and tarian law as a party to the conflict, and that the bombs and secondary explosions had it makes no difference whether you act brought down the residential buildings. But did in self-defense or call yourself a liberation Israel take that fully into account? movement,” she said. “International huIsraeli security officials insist that their manitarian law protects the victims of the standards of proportionality have remained armed conflict, and they will be victims no constant in this conflict. There are lawyers, matter what side they’re on.” they say, in nearly every military unit on call Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine 24/7, reviewing the legality of each strike. Of- director for Human Rights Watch, agrees ten in real time, the lawyers provide advice to that proportionality is difficult to assess commanders about the legality of targets and without detailed factual research. But the weapons to be used. They also assess the he argues that the overall toll of civilian army’s efforts to warn civilians and the esti- deaths, the use of powerful weapons in mated harm to noncombatants. If the lawyers dense neighborhoods and attacks on hosdeem a strike unlawful, field commanders pitals where civilians are sheltering “raise must cancel it. serious questions” about whether Israel But Israeli officials, speaking anonymous- has committed war crimes.

Human Rights Watch does not judge ly under military rules, acknowledge that the scale and scope of the operations in Gaza the legality of the entire campaign, but are much greater than in the past. Targets that only of individual military strikes. “Numwould have not been considered valuable bers definitely matter in providing an indienough to justify the risk to civilians in less se- cation of overall trends, and a high proporrious skirmishes are being hit now, they said. tion of women and children casualties is Those include both private residences and indicative,” he said. public structures, like the Gaza Parliament and “When we see the use of so many high the Islamic University. explosives in tightly packed residential arIsraeli military officials are frustrated that eas, like refugee camps, it raises the quescritics do not see that this war is being waged tion of proportionality given the foreseeto ensure Israel’s existence, but fought within able risk,” Shakir said the letter of international law.

“Massive strikes like the ones on Jaba“This is different,” said Pnina Sharvit Ba- lia are emblematic of an Israeli practice of ruch, who previously led the Israeli army’s in- using very heavy bombs in densely poputernational law department. “Hamas is open lated areas, showing a disregard toward in aiming to destroy the state of Israel and any Palestinian lives,” he said peaceful resolution of the conflict.”

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As Russia gains confidence, a new urgency grips Ukraine

By PAUL SONNE and ANDREW E. KRAMER

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kraine faces dwindling reserves of ammunition, personnel and Western support. The counteroffensive it launched six months ago has failed. Russia, once awash in recriminations over a disastrous invasion, is celebrating its capacity to sustain a drawn-out war.

The war in Ukraine has reached a critical moment, as months of brutal fighting have left Moscow more confident and Kyiv unsure of its prospects.

The dynamic was palpable last week, as Vladimir Putin casually announced plans to run for six more years as president of Russia, swilling Champagne and bragging about the increasing competence of Russia’s military. He declared that Ukraine had no future, given its reliance on external help.

That air of self-assurance contrasted with the sense of urgency in this week’s trip to Washington by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, who pressed Congress to pass a stalled spending bill that includes $50 billion more in security aid for Ukraine.

Speaking at the White House alongside Zelenskyy, President Joe Biden said lawmakers’ failure to approve the package would “give Putin the greatest Christmas gift they could possibly give him.”

But Zelenskyy’s pleas fell flat, at least for now, with congressional Republicans, who are insisting that additional aid to Ukraine can come only with a clampdown on migration at the United States’ southern border. After meeting with Zelenskyy, Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, said his skepticism had not changed.

The messages from Moscow and Washington illustrated the growing pressure on Ukraine as it shifts to a defensive posture and

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and President Joe Biden arrive for a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) braces for a harsh winter of Russian strikes and energy shortages. Kyiv is struggling to maintain support from its most important backer, the United States, a nation now preoccupied with a different war, in the Gaza Strip, as well as the 2024 presidential campaign.

Looming over Kyiv’s prospects is the possible return to office in 2025 of former President Donald Trump, a long-standing Ukraine detractor and praiser of Putin who was impeached in 2019 for withholding military aid and pressuring Zelenskyy to investigate Biden and other Democrats.

Almost 22 months into the war, polls broadly have found waning U.S. support for continued funding of Ukraine, particularly among Republicans. A recent Pew Research Center survey found just under half of Americans believe the United States was providing the right amount of support to Ukraine or should be providing more.

Johnson said money for Ukraine required more oversight of spending, and “a transformative change” in security at the U.S. border with Mexico. “Thus far, we’ve gotten neither,” he said.

But the White House still has time to try to work out an agreement that includes border security, and Zelenskyy said he remained optimistic about bipartisan support for Ukraine, adding, “It’s very important that by the end of this year we can send a very strong signal of our unity to the aggressor.”

A rupture in U.S. funding would risk proving Putin correct in his long-standing conviction that he can exhaust Western resolve in global politics and conflicts. Although his government bungled the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has regrouped, in part because Putin was willing to accept enormous casualties.

“Putin, soon after the initial offensive didn’t produce the results that Russia had hoped, settled in for a long war and estimated that Russia at the end of the day would have the biggest stamina, the longest staying power, in this fight,” said Hanna Notte, an expert on Russian foreign and security policy at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

Russia has adapted, pumping up its domestic production of ammunition and weaponry, and importing critical matériel from Iran and North Korea, all with the goal of sustaining a long war, Notte said.

“I think there was sort of a dismissiveness, ‘Let the Russians get together with these pariahs, with these global outcasts, and good luck to them,’” Notte said.

But that support for Moscow has been meaningful on the battlefield, she said, particularly with Iran helping Russia enhance its domestic drone production. Ukraine, meanwhile, is struggling to obtain a sufficient flow of ammunition and weaponry from the West, where nations aren’t operating on a wartime footing and face significant production bottlenecks.

Despite his advantages in numbers and weaponry, Putin also faces limitations, and

military analysts say Russia is in no position to make another run at the Ukrainian capital or other major cities.

Russia lost huge numbers of personnel in its offensive maneuvers in the past year, and won little territory apart from the city of Bakhmut. With Zelenskyy ordering his troops to build defensive fortifications along the front, Russia may continue to suffer heavy losses without gaining much in return.

Facing continued signs of displeasure with last year’s mobilization, the Kremlin appears loath to do another forced call-up before the Russian presidential election in March, if at all.

“What we have seen in this war is the defense usually has significant advantages,” said Steven Pifer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

Ukraine, reliant on the West for weaponry and funding, faces short-term pressures that Russia does not. Kyiv’s allies don’t have the ammunition and equipment to arm another counteroffensive, making a major new campaign unlikely for most of 2024, according to analysts and former U.S. officials.

The United States is by far Ukraine’s most important backer, accounting for about half of its donated weaponry and one-quarter of its foreign aid funding. The congressional fight, bogged down in a partisan dispute about border security, has unnerved many Ukrainians.

“Today, Ukrainians are beginning to suspect that the U.S. wants to force us to lay down our arms and conclude a shameful truce,” Yuriy Makarov, a political commentator for Ukrainsky Tyzhden, a Ukrainian magazine, said in an interview. “That the Ukrainians practically destroyed the professional army of Russia, which until recently was the main enemy of the United States, does not seem to be taken into account.”

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America’s thirst for authoritarianism A

round the world, authoritarianism is ascendant and democracy is in decline.

A 2022 report from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance found that “over the past six years, the number of countries moving toward authoritarianism is more than double the number moving toward democracy” and that nearly half of the 173 countries assessed were “experiencing declines” in at least one metric of democracy.

The United States wasn’t impervious to this trend. The report found that America was “moderately backsliding” on its democracy.

But I fear that we’re now on the precipice of fully turning away from democracy and toward a full embrace of authoritarianism. The country seems thirsty for it; many Americans appear to be inviting it.

Confidence in many of our major institutions — including schools, big business, the news media — is at or near its lowest point in the past half-century, in part because of the Donald Trump-led right-wing project to depress it. Indeed, according to a July Gallup report, Republicans’ confidence in 10 of the 16 institutions measured was lower than Democrats’. Three institutions in which Republicans’ confidence exceeded Democrats’ were the Supreme Court, organized religion and the police.

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And as people lose faith in these institutions — many being central to maintaining the social contract that democracies offer — they can lose faith in democracy itself. People then lose their fear of a candidate like Trump — who tried to overturn the previous presidential election and recently said that if he’s elected next time, he won’t be a dictator, “except for Day 1” — when they believe democracy is already broken.

In fact, some welcome the prospect of breaking it completely and starting anew with something different, possibly a version of our political system from a time when it was less democratic — before we expanded the pool of participants.

In Tim Alberta’s new book, “The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory,” he explains that many evangelical Christians have developed, in the words of the rightist Southern Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress, an “under siege” mentality that has allowed them to embrace Trump, whose decadent curriculum vitae runs counter to many of their stated values. It allows them to employ Trump as muscle in their battle against a changing America.

This kind of thinking gives license — or turns a blind eye — to Trump’s authoritarian impulses.

And while these authoritarian inklings may be more visible on the political right, they can also sneak in on the left.

You could also argue that President Joe Biden, whose approval numbers are languishing, is being punished by some because he isn’t an authoritarian and therefore isn’t able to govern by fiat: Many of his initiatives — voter protections, police reform, student loan forgiveness — were blocked by conservatives. Could he have fought harder in some of these cases? I believe so. But in the end, legislation is the province of Congress; presidents are bound by constitutional constraints.

Trump surely appeals to those who want a president who’ll simply bulldoze through that bureaucracy, or at least expresses contempt for it and is willing to threaten it.

Furthermore, Trump’s chances will probably be helped by the portion of the electorate misjudging the very utility of voting. There are still too many citizens who think of a vote, particularly for president, as something to throw to a person they like rather than being cast for the candidate and party more likely to advance the policies they need.

And there are too many who think that a vote should be withheld from a more preferable candidate as punishment for not delivering every single thing on their wish lists — that choosing not to vote at all is a sensible act of political protest rather than a relinquishing of control to others.

Abstinence doesn’t empower; it neuters.

If you want a democracy to thrive, the idea that voting is a choice is itself an illusion. Voting is about survival, and survival isn’t a choice. It’s an imperative. It’s an instinct.

It’s a tool one uses for self-advancement and selfpreservation. It’s an instrument you use to decrease chances of harm and increase chances of betterment. It is

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Voting isn’t just an expression of your worldview but also a manifestation of your insistence on safety and security.

And to top it off, as Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told me over the weekend, the Obama coalition that Biden will rely on in 2024 is “under a lot of stress” with the issue of the Israel-Hamas war, and that coalition can be mended by “a foreign policy that is rooted in the recognition of human rights,” which includes “taking seriously the calls for a neutral cease-fire and the end to violence.”

On Tuesday, Biden warned that Israel risks losing international support because of “indiscriminate bombing,” but he has yet to endorse a cease-fire.

With Republicans beaconing authoritarianism, and without an intact Obama coalition to thwart it, our democracy hangs by a thread.

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Sindicato de Bomberos unidos reclama a JCF autorice el desembolso de aumento salarial POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – Luego de que hace cuatro meses se aprobara legislación para aumentar a 2,500 dólares el salario base de los empleados del Negociado de Bomberos de Puerto Rico – a través de la Ley 83, aun la Junta de Control Fiscal no autorizó el desembolso de los fondos, según lo denunció el jueves el presidente del Sindicato de Bomberos Unidos de Puerto Rico, José Tirado.

El pasado mes de agosto se aprobó la Ley 83 que establece el salario base de 2,500 dólares para los bomberos. “Desde agosto estamos a la espera de que se realice el desembolso. Ante este panorama, nos reunimos con la Junta de Control Fiscal y con el equipo económico del Departamento de Seguridad Pública (DSP) para reclamar accion”, explicó el líder sindical en declaraciones escritas.

En esa reunión, celebrada hace un mes, la Junta se comprometió con finiquitar el desembolso y la-

mentablemente aun no ha pasado nada.

Tirado agregó que “existe una legislación con presupuesto recurrente asignado y tristemente la Junta no ha dado un paso afirmativo para honrar y hacer valer la ley y a estos servidores públicos como lo hizo con los maestros, la policía y con los empleados de corrección”.

Por años el Sindicato de Bomberos ha luchado en todos los frentes por mejorar las condiciones de salariales y laborales de los bomberos. Una de esas luchas fue el proyecto que dio paso a la ley del salario mínimo para los bomberos. “No queremos pensar que existe persecución o discrimen contra nosotros de parte de la Junta”, sentenció Tirado.

“La unión ha sido cautelar con el pueblo, con el Gobierno y con la Junta. No queremos tener que declarar el Día Nacional del Héroe Invisible en esta temporada festiva y de alta incidencia de accidentes”, precisó.

Justo antes de iniciar la conferencia de prensa,

el presidente Tirado recibió una comunicación telefónica de parte de la directora de Presupuesto de la Junta, la señora Maldonado Rodríguez, quien adelantó que el aumento a los bomberos entrará en vigor en la quincena del 30 de diciembre. A partir de enero de 2024, comenzarán con el desembolso retroactivo a los bomberos.

Alcalde de San Juan agradece gesta del comisionado de la policía municipal POR EL STAR STAFF

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AN JUAN – El alcalde de la ciudad capital, Miguel Romero Lugo aceptó el jueves la dimisión del coronel José Juan García como comisionado de la Policía Municipal no sin antes agradecer la encomiable labor y el trabajo que se ha realizado durante los pasados tres años en San Juan.

“Gracias al arduo trabajo y compromiso del coronel, hoy tenemos una Policía Municipal fortalecida, adiestrada y con un alto sentido de responsabilidad lo que nos ha permitido sobrepasar las expectativas en los aspectos de seguridad. Ciertamente, nos queda mucho por recorrer, pero la responsabilidad y desempeño del coronel, han sido clave para lograr todo lo alcanzado”.

Romero Lugo añadió que hoy la ciudad capital es un lugar más seguro. Resaltó la adquisición de “700 nuevos chalecos a prueba de bala, 250 cámaras corporales, nuevas patrullas, bicicletas eléctricas, equipo de drones con cámaras térmicas, balsas y motoras acuáticas para reforzar el patrullaje por aire, mar y tierra. Además de la celebración de subasta y las órdenes de compra para la adquisición de 64 nuevas patrullas, 60 motoras y otros vehículos para la flota policial”.

Señaló además la inversión significativa en tecnología para reforzar el Centro de Operaciones Policíacas, incluyendo la adquisición e instalación de 16 cámaras de seguridad en el Parque Jaime Benítez, 30 en la Placita de Santurce y 24 para reforzar la seguridad en el Viejo San Juan. Instalamos el sistema C.I.J., que permite acceso a información judicial sobre vehículos hurtados. Así también la adquisición de tres torres de

vigilancia equipadas con cámaras de seguridad y placas de energía solar, la instalación de fibra óptica, la adquisición de nuevos radios-base para los cuarteles y una Unidad Rodante para reforzar la seguridad en eventos multitudinarios.

Hemos creado iniciativas para incrementar la vigilancia preventiva en las comunidades reforzando el patrullaje en lugares de alta incidencia criminal.

Asimismo, hemos renovado nuestra flota vehicular, hemos equipado a nuestros policías con las herramientas necesarias para que de manera efectiva logren su misión de velar por vida y propiedad. Hemos graduado tres academias y contamos con aproximadamente 100 cadetes que comenzarán a partir del 8 de enero la Academia #46 de nuestra Policía Municipal.

El alcalde destacó además que “el coronel José Juan García trabajó arduamente en pro de la política pública de nuestra administración. Su liderato impactó significativamente la toma de decisiones certeras, basadas en los mejores intereses de la seguridad de nuestros sanjuaneros.

Agradezco su compromiso y le auguro mucho éxito en sus proyectos futuros”.

“Agradezco la oportunidad de haberme permitido ser parte de su equipo, específicamente como co-

misionado de la Policía Municipal de San Juan. Ha sido para mí un privilegio haber logrado todo lo alcanzado bajo su liderato. Gracias por haber depositado su confianza en mí para desempeñar los deberes del cargo”, aseveró el coronel.

A partir del viernes, 15 de diciembre de 2023 el comisionado asociado, capitán Juan Jackson fungirá como comisionado interino de la Policía Municipal de San Juan.

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Beatles biographer grapples with the ‘paradox’ of George Harrison

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n a new biography, Philip Norman writes about the “paradox” of George Harrison, a man who was “unprecedentedly, ludicrously, suffocatingly famous while at the same time undervalued, overlooked and struggling for recognition.”

This was the central contradiction that made Harrison, the composer of classics like “Here Comes the Sun,” and “Taxman,” a fascinating figure, both as a Beatle and after the band broke up, as Norman explores in his book “George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle.” Norman tackled his latest subject after writing celebrated biographies of Paul McCartney and John Lennon, as well as “Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation,” a book that Harrison was critical of.

Harrison lived several separate lives.

He was a rock star. A follower of Hinduism.

A prolific film producer who came close to

financial ruin. A philanderer who had an affair with a former bandmate’s wife and once had a guitar duel with Eric Clapton (also the subject of a Norman biography) over Pattie Boyd, Harrison’s first wife, whom Clapton fancied and later married.

“The complexity of his character was something that hadn’t really been noticed before,” Norman said, adding, “Actually taking the whole elusive man, a bundle of different personalities, that was what was fascinating.”

Norman discussed his approach to Harrison in a recent interview.

This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

Q: You express regret in the book about the obituary you wrote for George in The Sunday Times.

A: It was very badly timed. And that’s the thing. I wasn’t totally wrong in saying that Continues on page 18

Philip Norman at his home in London on Dec. 3, 2023. Norman, the author of books about Paul McCartney, John Lennon and the Beatles as a group, discovers that Harrison was, among other things, a puzzle. (Kemka Ajoku/The New York Times)

18 From page 17 he could be, as we say in this country, a bit of a miserable git and that he was a serial philanderer. He was both of those things. But it was not the moment to say it.

Q: How was George a contradiction?

A: George, in his sort of hippie mode, railed against the material world. And yet he was the first person — the first pop star, certainly — to write a song complaining about income tax. He could rise to the height of nobility, which he did with the Concert for Bangladesh, which was the first of those major demonstrations of conscience in the rock community. And yet he also broke the first law of the Beatles, which is you don’t sleep with another Beatle’s wife, which was with his big friend in the band, Ringo. And it was Ringo’s first wife.

He spent years and millions of pounds on restoring this gothic folly (Friar Park, Harrison’s Victorian mansion in Henley-onThames, England). And yet, in a second, he mortgaged it so he could fund the Monty Python film “Life of Brian.” He was the only person I’d ever heard of — and indeed, his

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first wife, Pattie Boyd, told me this — who actually became very disagreeable after he learned to meditate.

Q: How close did you get to talking to George’s widow, Olivia Harrison, and their son, Dhani?

A: I had thought I’d be making amends all these years for that very ill-advised obituary by very sympathetically considering him in the Lennon and McCartney books and then in the Clapton book. But then I didn’t realize this thing that I’d written in 2001, when I didn’t know enough about George, really, to write an obituary of him, was still there. It was undead. It was like a vampiric obituary. And I realized there was no real point in asking them because they couldn’t possibly say yes.

Q: Did Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” documentary change your view of George?

A: It didn’t, really, although I knew things that happened off camera. For instance, that there’d been a fistfight during those sessions that Peter Jackson said were so warm and jovial — between George and John, because of something George had said about Yoko Ono. George did have a very,

very nasty tone when he liked.

You don’t see George walking out. But George does walk out, and John and Yoko have to coax him back into the sessions. I

thought it was terribly long. He made the Beatles actually sometimes seem even quite boring.

Q: I was struck by what a prolific film producer George was. Why did film have such a draw for him?

A: He was very keen on films, always.

Even in Liverpool. One of his first steady girlfriends, Bernadette, her mother was the first female cinema manager ever in Liverpool, and that was undoubtedly part of the attraction for George. They were always going to movies together.

Q: The so-called last Beatles song was released last month, with George, Paul and Ringo playing on a John Lennon demo.

I get the sense from your book that George would not have approved its release.

A: You’re absolutely right, because it was George who blocked its release in the 1990s when the other stuff from that cassette tape that Yoko gave to McCartney was being put onto the “Anthology” albums. George said it wasn’t good enough. For once, they listened to him. It was ironic that the only faintly Beatle-like sound on that total mess, in my view, sounded like George’s guitar.

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In the Caribbean, a creamy way to toast the holidays

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the coconut until you have 3 1/3 cups.)

3. In a large bowl, lightly whisk the egg yolks. To a medium saucepan, add 1 cup of the coconut cream and sweetened condensed milk. Bring to a simmer over medium-high, stirring occasionally. Whisking the egg yolks constantly, slowly pour the hot mixture into the yolks until smooth and frothy. Stir in the rum, if using; salt; and the remaining coconut cream.

4. Strain the coquito through a fine-mesh strainer into bottles or jars. Cover tightly and refrigerate at least 3 hours or up to 1 week. Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes before serving. Shake well, pour into glasses, sprinkle with nutmeg and serve immediately.

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n the Caribbean, the customary way of celebrating the holidays is with a thick and creamy cocktail made with several types of milk and brimming with rum.

The drink varies from nation to nation — cremas or kremas in Haiti, coquito in Puerto Rico and crema de vie in Cuba, to name a few.

But the essential ingredients are the same: rum, evaporated and sweetened condensed milks, and spices like cinnamon. Coquito and cremas also contain coconut milk or coconut cream.

Many of these drinks are bottled and given as gifts, or sold to family and friends, during the holidays.

You want “as much alcohol as possible,” but cushioned in the “blended comfort of all this other stuff so you don’t feel like you’re taking a shot,” said Debbie Quiñones of East Harlem, who co-runs Coquito Masters, an annual bracketed competition in New York City’s five boroughs. “I want to be seduced.”

Nadine Ducasse, of East Setauket, New York, won a cremas-tasting competition with her brother, Raymond Ducasse, in 2021 at Bonbon Lakay in Flatbush, Brooklyn, with a drink that is made with cinnamon sticks, cloves and star anise. She expects they’ll make more than 500 bottles by mid-January for their business, Cremasse by Ducasse. Dorty J. Fortune, an owner of Kremas Creole Premium in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, estimates she’ll deliver or ship more than 1,000 bottles this season, from September to January. People can add however much alcohol they’d like later.

Charlene Absalon, who lives on Long Island, first tried cremas when she was a teenager, but it wasn’t something she appreciated until her early 20s, when an aunt taught her to make it.

Absalon was captivated by the ease of the recipe, and in 2013, she started to make a bottled version. She has experimented with cremas flavors like pumpkin spice and crème brûlée.

She uses Haitian vanilla beans and chocolate.

She also sells ice cream and coffee creamers.

“It’s important for us to bring our culture, and what comes out of it, to the American forefront,” she said.

The history of these drinks and some of their ingredients is difficult to trace. What is clear is that the people who make the drinks throughout the Caribbean are loyal to their particular country’s rum, said Jeff Berry, the author of “Beachbum Berry’s Potions of the Caribbean.”

“Even though the Caribbean is not very large, there’s a lot of differences between islands, so you have a vast flavor spectrum,” Ber-

Across the Caribbean, a customary way of celebrating the holidays is with a thick and creamy cocktail made with several types of milk and brimming with rum. (David Malosh/The New York Times) ry said. “You can compare rum to wine.”

Jamaica rum uses a heavier molasses base, yielding a darker, denser and more flavorful liquor, Berry said. But rums from Cuba and Puerto Rico are typically more distilled, for a lighter flavor.

In Mission Viejo, California, Marta Darby and her four adult children gather to make dozens of bottles of crema de vie, a Cuban eggnog.

She typically buys 2 gallons of rum and cans of sweetened and evaporated milks by the case.

She uses a recipe from a Cuban home economics book called “La Cocina en el Hogar.”

Darby’s children give the bottles away as gifts to friends and co-workers, but she said their efforts have an added purpose: “It’s just another way for me to anchor them into our Cuban traditions.”

Coquito Coquito, which means “little coconut” in Spanish, is an eggnoglike mixture of coconut milk, eggs, sweetened condensed milk and rum or pitorro, a sort of moonshine rum. Coconut and rum cocktails are made throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, but coquito is unique to Puerto Rico. This recipe, which is adapted from the 1975 cookbook “Puerto Rican Cookery” by Carmen Aboy Valldejuli, was created by her husband, who tended bar during the couple’s holiday parties at their home in San Juan. His recipe calls for shelling and pressing fresh coconuts to make your own coconut cream, but canned coconut cream makes an excellent substitute.

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Yield: 10 to 12 servings (about 6 cups) Total time: 20 minutes, plus chilling Ingredients: 2 large fresh coconuts or 2 (14-ounce) cans unsweetened coconut cream 4 egg yolks 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk 1 1/2 cups Puerto Rican rum (optional), preferably white rum (darker rum will affect the color of the coquito) 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt Ground nutmeg, for garnish Preparation: 1. If using canned coconut cream, skip to Step 3. If using fresh coconuts, puncture one or two of the eyes of each coconut with a sharp knife or screwdriver; strain the coconut water into a bowl. Place coconuts on a stable surface, supported by a kitchen towel. Using a hammer, crack each coconut into 3 or 4 pieces. Slip a thin knife between the flesh and shell to separate it. (To make this easier, you can roast the coconut pieces on a sheet pan at 350 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes.) Discard shells. Break or chop coconut flesh into 1-inch pieces.

2. Place about 1/3 of the pieces in a blender with 1 cup strained coconut water. Blend until coconut is broken into about 1/8-inch pieces; place in a clean dish towel and squeeze over a bowl to extract as much liquid as possible. Reserve coconut bits for another use. Pour 1 cup of the liquid back into the blender with another 1/3 of the coconut pieces, blend, then squeeze to extract liquid. Repeat with final 1/3 of coconut pieces. Measure out 3 1/3 cups of fresh coconut cream. (If necessary, blend another cup of coconut water with a batch of coconut bits and squeeze again to extract more liquid from

Cremas Many countries in the Caribbean celebrate the holidays with similar thick, creamy rum-based cocktails. This cremas recipe by Charlene Absalon, who owns Cremas Absalon, hails from Haiti and balances dark rum with sweet coconut and condensed milks, plus warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. Haitian rum like Rhum Barbancourt is especially popular for this drink; islanders are loyal to their local rums. Similarly rich and velvety to cremas (also known as kremas), Puerto Rican coquito incorporates cream of coconut, which was invented on the island, and Cubans make crema de vie, a drink that’s comparable to eggnog.

Recipe from Charlene Absalon Adapted by Christina Morales Yield: 5 cups (about 6 servings) Total time: 2 1/4 hours Ingredients: 2 (14-ounce) cans sweetened condensed milk 1 cup coconut milk 3/4 cup evaporated milk 1 cup dark rum (preferably Rhum Barbancourt) 1 cinnamon stick 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 whole star anise 1 teaspoon finely grated fresh lime zest Preparation: 1. In a bowl, whisk to combine the condensed milk, coconut milk and evaporated milk.

2. Add the rum, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla extract, star anise and lime zest. Let sit at room temperature for 2 hours before serving (or refrigerated overnight, if your space is warm).

Strain and discard solids.

3. Serve at room temperature with a few ice cubes (no less than three ice cubes) or chilled, in a rocks glass or other short, wide glass. The mixture can be kept, covered and refrigerated, for up to 1 month.

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el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 1 de marzo de 2023. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 16 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 23 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 2 de noviembre de 2023, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dieciséis de la manzana H, en la Urbanización Extensión Santa Elvira, situada en el Barrio Tomás de Castro de Caguas, compuesto de trescientos treintitrés metros cuadrados y setentinueve milésimas de metros. En lindes por el NORTE, con Carretera Estatal Treinta, distancia de trece metros y cuarentinueve milésimas de metros; por el SUR, con la calle seis, distancia de trece metros; por el ESTE, con el solar H diecisiete, distancia de veinticinco metros y ciento sesentitrés milésimas de metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar H quince, distancia de veintiséis metros y doscientos sesenticuatro milésimas de metros. Enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una sola familia. Finca Número 30,851, inscrita al folio 210 del tomo 914 de Caguas.

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caguas. Dirección de la Propiedad: 16 H Santa Rita St. (6) Extensión Santa Elvira, Caguas, PR 00725. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $68,940.22 en concepto de principal con interés al 5.06% anual, los cuales acumulan a un total de $122,754.69 a la fecha de 18 de mayo de 2022 los cuales

Friday, December 15, 2023 continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo 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, y la suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 330 otorgada el día 21 de mayo de 2013, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Néstor Machado Cortés y consta inscrita al folio 196 del tomo 1770 de Caguas, finca número 30,851, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I de Caguas. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $184,500.00, con intereses al 5.06% anual, vencedero el día 10 de junio de 2087, constituida mediante la escritura número 331, otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de mayo de 2013, ante el notario Néstor Machado Cortés, e inscrita al folio 196 del tomo 1770 de Caguas, finca número 30,851, inscripción 7ma. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes des-

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crito será la suma de $184,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $123,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $92,250.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su-

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21 basta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 8 de noviembre de 2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.

AURORA PINERO MALDONADO, T/C/C AURORA PIÑERO, T/C/C AURORA PINERO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: NG2019CV00057.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE ELÍAS OLAVARRÍA FIGUEROA, T/C/C ELÍAS OLABARRÍA FIGUEROA, T/C/C ELIAS OLABARRÍA, T/C/C ELÍAS OLAVARRÍA COMPUESTA POR AURORA PIÑERO MALDONADO, T/C/C AURORA PINERO MALDONADO, T/C/C AURORA PIÑERO, T/C/C AURORA PINERO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; AURORA PIÑERO MALDONADO, T/C/C AURORA PINERO MALDONADO, T/C/C LEGAL NOTICE AURORA PIÑERO, T/C/C ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO AURORA PINERO; DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUESTADOS UNIDOS DE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA AMÉRICA; CENTRO SALA DE HUMACAO DE RECAUDACIONES WILMINGTON SAVINGS DE INGRESOS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, MUNICIPALES. AS TRUSTEE OF Yo, RAQUEL QUIÑONES FINANCE OF AMERICA SOTO, Alguacil del Tribunal de STRUCTURED Primera Instancia, Sala de HuSECURITIES macao, a los demandados, ACQUISITION TRUST acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la pro2018-HB1 Demandante Vs.

piedad que más adelante se

SUCESIÓN DE ELÍAS describe, y al público en genepor la presente CERTIFIOLAVARRÍA FIGUEROA, ral, CO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONST/C/C ELÍAS OLABARRÍA TAR: Que el día 11 DE ENERO FIGUEROA, T/C/C ELIAS DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA OLABARRÍA, T/C/C ELÍAS MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en OLAVARRÍA COMPUESTA el Tribunal de Primera InstanPOR AURORA PIÑERO cia, Sala Superior de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico, proceMALDONADO, T/C/C deré a vender en Pública SuAURORA PINERO basta, al mejor postor, la proMALDONADO, T/C/C piedad inmueble que más AURORA PIÑERO, T/C/C adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se orAURORA PINERO, denó por la vía ordinaria meFULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO diante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se noPOSIBLES HEREDEROS tificó y archivó en autos el día DESCONOCIDOS; 16 de diciembre de 2023. Los AURORA PIÑERO autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procediMALDONADO, T/C/C miento incoado, estarán de ma-

nifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 18 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 25 de abril de 2023, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Lote número uno (1): Predio de terreno localizado en el Barrio Mariana del término Municipal de Naguabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de veinte mil ocho punto siete mil catorce (20,008.7014) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cinco punto cero nueve cero ocho (5.0908) cuerdas. En lindes por el NORESTE, con terrenos de Raúl Montañez y Autoridad de Tierras; por el SURESTE, con terrenos de la Autoridad de Tierras; por el SUROESTE, con una quebrada; y por el OESTE, con camino de uso público. Finca número 6,657-A, inscrita al folio 90 del tomo 118 de Naguabo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao. Dirección de la Propiedad: LOT 1 KM 1.2 SR 9973 MARIANA WARD, NAGUABO, PUERTO RICO 00718. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $81,100.25 en concepto de principal con interés al 2.664% anual, a la fecha de 6 de diciembre de 2022 los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo 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, y la suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en

que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 277 otorgada el día 30 de diciembre de 2013, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Fernando Rabell Echegaray y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Naguabo, finca número 15,623, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, Sección II de Humacao. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Reverdia en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $150,000.00, con intereses al 2.664% anual, vencedero el día 26 de marzo de 2084, constituida mediante la escritura número 278, otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de diciembre de 2013, ante el notario Fernando M. Rabell Echegaray, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Naguabo, finca número 15,623, inscripción 4ta., y última. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $150,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $100,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de

22 dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $75,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me-

nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 16 de noviembre de 2023. RAQUEL QUIÑONES SOTO, ALGUACIL del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE HUMACAO. ***

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN

MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT PUERTO RICO, LLC COMO AGENTE DE MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs.

ADRIANNE RODRIGUEZ CAMPIZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2023CV02319.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: ADRIANNE RODRIGUEZ CAMPIZ URB EL CORTIJO K11 CALLE 13, BAYAMON PR 00956-5628.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. La parte demandante alega que la parte demandada le adeuda la cantidad de OCHOCIENTOS TRES DÓLARES CON OCHO CENTAVOS ($803.08). Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal

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en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Edwin Serrano Peña cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección edwin.serrano@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

Demandante Vs.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC.

ROBERTO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MEDINA VAZQUEZ DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDemandado NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Civil Núm.: CT2023CV00086.

SALA DE CAROLINA Salón: 505. Sobre: COBRO MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT PUERTO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS RICO, LLC COMO UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL AGENTE DE MIDLAND PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTAFUNDING, LLC DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIParte Demandante Vs. BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO OLGA HERNANDEZ RICO, SS. Parte Demandada A: ROBERTO MEDINA Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01186.

VÁZQUEZ – URB. LAS Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. VEGAS D-18 AVE. FLOR EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICDEL VALLE, CATAÑO, PR TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE 00962-6505.

AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, POR LA PRESENTE se le EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: OLGA HERNANDEZ los treinta (30) días siguientes la publicación de este Edicto.

- URB VILLA CAROLINA aUsted deberá presentar su ale184-61 CALLE 518, gación responsiva a través del CAROLINA PR 00985-3530. Sistema Unificado de Manejo y POR LA PRESENTE se le Administración de Casos (SUemplaza y requiere para que MAC), la cual puede acceder conteste la demanda dentro de utilizando la siguiente direclos treinta (30) días siguientes ción electrónica: https://unired. a la publicación de este Edic- ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se to. Usted deberá presentar su represente por derecho propio, alegación responsiva a través en cuyo caso deberá presentar del Sistema Unificado de Ma- su alegación responsiva en la nejo y Administración de Ca- secretaría del tribunal. Si usted sos (SUMAC), la cual puede deja de presentar su alegación acceder utilizando la siguiente responsiva dentro del referido dirección electrónica: https:/// término, el tribunal podrá dicwww.poderjudicial.pr/index. tar sentencia en rebeldía en php/tribunal-electronico, salvo su contra y conceder el remeque se represente por derecho dio solicitado en la demanda o propio, en cuyo caso deberá cualquier otro sin más citarle ni presentar su alegación respon- oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercisiva en la secretaría del tribu- cio de su sana discreción, lo ennal. Si usted deja de presentar tiende procedente. El sistema su alegación responsiva dentro SUMAC notificará copia a los del referido término, el tribunal abogados de la parte demanpodrá dictar sentencia en re- dante, el Lcdo. Edwin Serrano beldía en su contra y conceder cuyas direcciones son: P.O. el remedio solicitado en la de- Box 71418 San Juan, Puermanda o cualquier otro sin más to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en (787) 993-3731 a la dirección el ejercicio de su sana discre- edwin.serrano@orf-law.com y a ción, lo entiende procedente. la dirección notificaciones@orfEl sistema SUMAC notificará law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO copia al abogado de la parte MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribudemandante, Edwin Serrano nal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Peña cuya dirección es: P.O. hoy día 18 de octubre de 2023.

Box 71418 San Juan, Puer- En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono 19 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. (787) 993-3731 a la dirección LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, edwin.serrano@orf-law.com y SECRETARIA. MILITZA MER-

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RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE nización University Gardens; POR LA PRESENTE se le LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL por el Este, con el apartamento emplaza y requiere para que ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO doscientos tres (203), tipo C y con la pared interior que lo conteste la demanda dentro de DE PUERTO RICO, SS. separa del elevador; y por el los treinta (30) días siguientes A: LA PARTE Oeste, con la pared exterior del a la publicación de este EdicDEMANDADA, AL (A edificio que mira hacia la calle to. Usted deberá presentar su LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE dos guion A (2-A), hoy calle alegación responsiva a través HACIENDA DE PUERTO Cornell. Le corresponde una del Sistema Unificado de MaRICO Y AL PÚBLICO participación en los elementos nejo y Administración de Cacomunes generales de diez por sos (SUMAC), la cual puede GENERAL: acceder utilizando la siguiente Certifico y Hago Constar: Que ciento (10%) y le corresponden dirección electrónica: https:// en cumplimiento con el Manda- los estacionamientos identificawww.poderjudicial.pr/index. miento de Ejecución de Senten- dos con los número doce (12) y php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo cia que me ha sido dirigido por veinte (20). Inscrita al folio 210 que se represente por derecho el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal del tomo 1,532 de Rio Piedras propio, en cuyo caso deberá de Primera Instancia, Sala Su- Norte, finca 40,993, Registro presentar su alegación respon- perior de San Juan, en el caso de la Propiedad de San Juan, siva en la secretaría del tribu- de epígrafe, venderé en pública Sección II. Propiedad localizanal. Si usted deja de presentar subasta y al mejor postor, por da en: 207 CALLE CORNELL, su alegación responsiva dentro separado, de contado y por APT 201 COND. UNIVERSITY del referido término, el tribunal moneda de curso legal de los GARDENS, SAN JUAN, PUERpodrá dictar sentencia en re- Estados Unidos de América y/o TO RICO 00927. Según figuran beldía en su contra y conceder Giro Postal y Cheque Certifica- en la certificación registral, la el remedio solicitado en la de- do, en mi oficina ubicada en el propiedad objeto de ejecución manda o cualquier otro sin más Tribunal de Primera Instancia, está gravada por las siguientes citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en Sala de San Juan, el 16 DE cargas anteriores o preferenel ejercicio de su sana discre- ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 tes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. ción, lo entiende procedente. El DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha sistema SUMAC notificará co- título, participación o interés de Vencimiento: N/A. Según pia al abogado de la parte de- que le corresponda a la parte figuran en la certificación remandante, Natalie Bonaparte demandada o cualquiera de gistral, la propiedad objeto de Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. ellos en el inmueble hipotecado ejecución está gravada por Box 71418 San Juan, Puer- objeto de ejecución que se des- las siguientes cargas posterioto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono cribe a continuación: URBANA: res a la inscripción del crédito (787) 993-3731 a la dirección PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com Apartamento tipo A guión B (A- Secretario de la Vivienda y Dey a la dirección notificaciones@ B) apartamento numero dos- sarrollo Urbano. Suma de la orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO cientos uno guión doscientos Carga: $345,000.00. Fecha de BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del dos guión A guión B (201-202- Vencimiento: 29 de agosto de Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto A-B): Apartamento residencial 2080. Se entenderá que todo Rico, hoy día 25 de octubre de de forma casi rectangular que licitador acepta como bastante 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ radica en el piso segundo de la titularidad de la propiedad COLLADO, SECRETARIA RE- University Gardens Condomi- y que todas las cargas y graGIONAL. MARGARITA MUÑIZ nium, con área privada de mil vámenes anteriores y los preMÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA DE seiscientos veinte punto cero ferentes al crédito ejecutante SERVICIOS A SALA. seis (1620.06) pies cuadrados, antes descritos, si los hubiere, equivalentes a ciento cincuenta continuarán subsistentes. El LEGAL NOTICE punto setenta y cuatro (150.74) rematante acepta dichas carESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO metros cuadrados. Son sus gas y gravámenes anteriores, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- medidas lineales las siguien- y queda subrogado en la res-

ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $345,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 23 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $230,000.00, 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 $172,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 30 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma la suma de $213,148.48 por concepto de principal, la cual no incluye intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 28 de febrero de 2022. La suma global vencida, líquida y exigible incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 28 de febrero de 2022 es de $262,515.62 y los cuales continúan acumulándose; costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son liquidas y exigibles. 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

The San Juan Daily Star 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 1 de diciembre de 2023. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdprlaw.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 4 de DICIEMBRE de 2023.

LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL. JOSSIE D. BOBE LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO RODRIGUEZ, SECRETARIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- AUXILIAR. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LEGAL NOTICE SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO BANCO POPULAR DE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL PUERTO RICO GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIDemandante V. BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANJOHN DOE CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE Demandado SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV01912.

BANCO POPULAR DE Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PUERTO RICO PAGARÉ.

EMPLAZAMIENDemandante V. TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRE- SUCESIÓN DE DOMINGO VÉLEZ VÁZQUEZ, SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS COMPUESTA POR UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO SU HEREDEROS RICO, S.S. CONOCIDOS ROXANNA

Friday, December 15, 2023 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.

Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 2005 TSPR 50, Op. De 22 de abril de 2005; tienen la opción de aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante, dentro del término de 30 días a partir de su emplazamiento. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar dicha herencia dentro del término que se le fijó para contestar a la demanda incoada en su contra, la herencia se tendrá Por aceptada, así como el presente emplazamiento.

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUANUM.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP Attorneys at Law Suite 209 500 Calle de la Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdprlaw.com EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 5 de diciembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, LUZ E., SUB-SECRETARIA.

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 08 de diciembre de 2023. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 08 de diciembre de 2023. NORMA G. SANTNA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. JOSSIE BOBE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

Demandante V.

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 08 de diciembre de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 08 de diciembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍ-

GUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARODRIGUEZ Y OTROS RIA. MARILY LÓPEZ MARTÍDemandado(a) NEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR Caso Núm.: GU2022CV00047.

DEL TRIBUNAL. (Salón: 406 - Civil Superior) Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO LEGAL NOTICE - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- POR EDICTO. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA GUILLERMO A. SOMOZA COLOMBINA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BABILLYSOMOZA@YAHOO.COM YAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

\FRANCISCO RIVERA BURGOS Demandante V.

BERENS MORTGAGE BANKERS INC. Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2023CV05167.

(Salón: 503). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA LEGAL NOTICE POR EDICTO. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ZILMARIE DELGADO PIERAS, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUZILMARIED@HOTMAIL.COM. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN A: BERENS MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC., JUAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN DE PUEBLO Y JUAN DEL

A: JOHN DOE DE LA CARIDAD VÉLEZ COMO TENEDOR COTTO, JESSICA DE LA DESCONOCIDO DEL THE TITLE SECURITY MERCED VÉLEZ COTTO, PUEBLO. (Nombre de las partes que se le PAGARÉ por la cantidad MARÍA VICTORIA VÉLEZ GROUP LLC notifican la sentencia por edicto) de $79,500.00 a favor Demandante V. COTTO; “JOHN DOE Y EL SECRETARIO(A) que susde Doral Mortgage ORIENTAL BANK & RICHARD ROE” COMO cribe le notifica a usted que el Corporation, endosado a POSIBLES HEREDEROS TRUST Y OTROS 06 de diciembre de 2023, este Demandado(a) favor de Banco Popular Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, DESCONOCIDOS DE Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV09010. Sentencia Parcial o Resolución de Puerto Rico, o a su LA SUCESIÓN DE (Salón: 504 Civil). Sobre: CAN- en este caso, que ha sido debiorden, en el cual se DOMINGO VÉLEZ CELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN damente registrada y archivada garantizaba la hipoteca VÁZQUEZ; CENTRO DE DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. en autos donde podrá usted enconstituida por la NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN- terarse detalladamente de los RECAUDACIONES DE escritura 48 otorgada en INGRESOS MUNICIPALES CIA POR EDICTO. LEGAL NOTICE términos de la misma. Esta noZILMARIE DELGADO PIERAS esa misma fecha ante el tificación se publicará una sola (CRIM) - PARTE CON ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ZILMARIED@HOTMAIL.COM Notario Público Marisabel en un periódico de circulaDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUINTERÉS A: JUAN Y JUANA DEL vez ción general en la Isla de PuerNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Paret Dros, inscrita en Demandado PUEBLO. la finca número 36,431 Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV08444. CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYA- (Nombre de las partes que se le to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, GÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE notifican la sentencia por edicto) de Mayagüez, Registro Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO siendo o representando usted MAYAGÜEZ Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTEEL SECRETARIO(A) que susde la Propiedad, Primera una parte en el procedimiento CA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR BANCO POPULAR DE cribe le notifica a usted que el Sección de Mayagüez. EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. sujeta a los términos de la Sen07 de diciembre de 2023, este PUERTO RICO 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 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. 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

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

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DOMINGO VÉLEZ VÁZQUEZ; ROXANNA DE LA CARIDAD VÉLEZ COTTO. 10785 AVERCORN EXTENSION, APARTAMENTO 325, SANABA, GA, 31419.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al abogado de la parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido

MARIO L. ACOSTA VELÁZQUEZ

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MZ2023CV00274.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, LAWOFFICES. GINAFERRERMEDINA@GMAIL. COM.

A: MARIO L. ACOSTA VELAZQUEZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de diciembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y,

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tencia, 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 08 de diciembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 08 de diciembre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

EDWIN RODRIGUEZ

A: EDWIN RODRÍGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON DAMARIS SUHAIL VELÁZCO VARGAS.

razón del 7.875% anual, desde GARCÍA VALE; el 1 de abril de 2023, hasta el MARYSOL GARCÍA presente y los que se continúen VALE; IRAIDA GARCÍA acumulando hasta su total y VALE; MERCEDES completo pago, más una suma GARCÍA VALE; FULANO principal diferida (piggyback) Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO por la cantidad de $516.25, la POSIBLES HEREDEROS cual no genera intereses, más adelantos para el pago de seDESCONOCIDOS EN y contribuciones, entre AMBAS SUCESIONES; guros otros; más una suma equivaCRIM lente al 10% de la obligación

Demandados Civil Núm.: SS2023CV00754.

Salón Núm.: 00002. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- UU.,EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOcribe le notifica a usted que el CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, 27 de noviembre de 2023, este SS. Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, A: FULANO Y SUTANO Sentencia Parcial o Resolución DE TAL COMO en este caso, que ha sido debiPOSIBLES HEREDEROS damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE BENITO enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta GARCÍA AROCHO Y DE notificación se publicará una LA SUCESIÓN DE EMILIA sola vez en un periódico de VALE BABILONIA. circulación general en la Isla POR LA PRESENTE se les de Puerto Rico, dentro de los emplaza y requiere para que 10 días siguientes a su notificaconteste la demanda dentro de ción. Y, siendo o representando los treinta (30) días siguientes usted una parte en el procedia la publicación de este Edicto. miento sujeta a los términos Usted deberá radicar su alede la Sentencia, Sentencia gación responsiva a través del Parcial o Resolución, de la cual Sistema Unificado de Manejo y puede establecerse recurso de Administración de Casos (SUrevisión o apelación dentro del MAC), al cual puede acceder término de 30 días contados a utilizando la siguiente dirección partir de la publicación por edicelectrónica: http://unired.ramato de esta notificación, dirijo a judicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se usted esta notificación que se presente por derecho propio, considerará hecha en la fecha en cuyo caso deberá radicar el de la publicación de este edicoriginal de su contestación ante to. Copia de esta notificación el Tribunal correspondiente y ha sido archivada en los autos notifique con copia a los abode este caso, con fecha 11 de gados de la parte demandandiciembre de 2023. En Ponce, te, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Puerto Rico, el 11 de diciembre Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En EREINA AGRONT LEÓN, SEdicha demanda se tramita un CRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL procedimiento de cobro de diTRIBUNAL. nero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado LEGAL NOTICE en el epígrafe. Se alega en ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO dicho procedimiento que la DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUparte Demandada incurrió en NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA el incumplimiento del Contrato SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEde Hipoteca, al no poder pagar BASTIÁN las mensualidades vencidas FIRSTBANK correspondientes a los mePUERTO RICO ses de mayo de 2023, hasta Demandante Vs. el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.

SUCESIÓN BENITO Además, adeuda a la parte deGARCÍA AROCHO Y SUCESIÓN DE EMILIA mandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que VALE BABILONIA incurra el tenedor del pagaré COMPUESTA POR en este litigio. De acuerdo con EFIGENIO GARCIA VALE; dicho Contrato de Garantía HiJOSÉ A. GARCÍA VALE; potecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de BENJAMÍN GARCÍA VALE; BENITO GARCÍA la deuda ascendente a la suma global de $38,283.42, VALE; JOSELIN GARCÍA principal la cual se desglosa a continuaVALE; WILFREDO ción: una suma principal de GARCÍA VALE; MYRIAM $37,767.17, más intereses a

original del pagaré ($7,120.00) por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará 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: RÚSTICA: Barrio Naranjo de Moca, Puerto Rico. Solar: Cabida: 11,964.44 Cuerdas.

LINDEROS: por el NORTE: con camino municipal; por el SUR: con terrenos de la finca Hernández; por el ESTE, con terrenos de Antonia Vargas; y por el OESTE, con terrenos de Benjamín Arocho. Es el Remanente luego de varias segregaciones según consta de la escritura número 32, otorgada en Moca, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de abril de 2018, ante el notario Agustín F. Soto Hernández, e inscrito al tomo Karibe de Moca, finca número 11,167, inscripción 8va. Consta inscrita al folio 80 del tomo 205 de Moca, Finca Número #11,167. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Sebastián.

SE LES ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de las Sucesiones de Benito García Arocho y Emilia Vale Babilonia. De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. A 11 de diciembre de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA LEBRÓN ROSADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR

LUIS A. OYOLA ROSARIO, Y OTROS

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Demandante V. NARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA JUAN ANTONIO SUCESIÓN ERIC JAVIER Demandado(a) GONZALEZ GIOVANNETTI SUBASTA. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DEL VALLE ARROYO Y Caso Núm.: JD2023CV00385.

Parte Demandante Vs. Y OTROS DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDE EPIGRAFE Y AL (Salón 406 Civil Superior).

Demandados OTROS Demandante V. NINOSHKA NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HICaso Núm.: BY2023CV06119.

Demandado(a) PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: COOPERATIVA DE FIGUEROA BIDOT CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN POTECA: PROPIEDAD RESI- Caso Núm.: CG2023CV01090.

Sobre: PARTICIÓN DE HEEl Alguacil que suscribe por la Parte Demandada JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE DENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE (Salón: 705). Sobre: COBRO RENCIA. EDICTO. ESTADOS presente anuncia y hace consCivil Núm.: SJ2023CV10260. SAN JUAN ISABELA Y OTROS SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PREtar que en cumplimiento de una DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y Sala: 503. Sobre: COBRO DE LUIS ANTONIO CRUZ, Demandado(a) GENEVIEVE LOPEZ STIPES SIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., Sentencia dictada en el caso OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. EMLCDA.GLOPEZ@GMAIL.COM Caso Núm.: AR2022CV01248. ÚNICO Y UNIVERSAL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de epígrafe el 12 de octubre de SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ILIA CRISTINA RAMÍREZ MARTÍNEZ Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZ HEREDERO DE SU Demandados DE P.R. 2022, notificada el 18 de octuRAMIREZ@GLSLEGALSERVICES. EMITIDO POR EL TRIBUNAL RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ RDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM Civil Núm.: CG2023CV03933. bre de 2022 y publicada el 25 COM A: JUANA DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE DIFUNTO HIJO CARLOS EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICAA: BETSY DAMARIS de octubre de 2022, una Orden LUIS CRUZ BAYRÓN A: NELSON REYNES ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ. Sala: 802. Sobre: CANCELA- PUERTO RICO, SALA DE SAN CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR CIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTEDELGADO RAMOS TIC/C de Ejecución de Embargo emiDemandante V. El Tribunal Superior de Puerto JUAN. RIVERA, FULANO DE EDICTO. CARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMtida el 18 de mayo de 2023 y un BETSY D. DELGADO, Rico, Sala de Bayamón dictó la POPULAR MORTGAGE ANNIEBELLE CORREA GUTIERREZ A: NINOSHKA TAL Y SUTANO DE PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. Mandamiento de Ejecución de ANNIEBELLE.CORREA@GMAIL. siguiente providencia: Vista la COMO HEREDERA DEL INC Y OTROS FIGUEROA BIDOT. TAL COMO POSIBLES ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉEmbargo emitido el día 26 de COM solicitud para la orden de notiDemandado(a) HEREDEROS NOMBRES CAUSANTE ERIC JAVIER A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD mayo de 2023, que le ha sido RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE Banco Popular de Puerto Rico ficación por edicto, y cónsono Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV09537.

DEL VALLE ARROYO LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LI- vs. Ninoshka Figueroa Bidot, DESCONOCIDOS DE dirigido por la Secretaria del con las Reglas de ProcedimienDOE, PEDRO DOE. (Salón: 903 Civil). Sobre: CANY COMO DUEÑA BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV10260 Tribunal de Primera Instancia, LOS FINADOS MIGUEL (Nombre de las partes que se le to Civil vigentes, el Tribunal au(503) sobre Cobro de Dinero. CELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN RICO, SS. REGISTRAL; “JOHN DOE notifican la sentencia por edicto) Sala de San Juan, procederá toriza y ordena que se le notifiANTONIO REYNES Se le notifica a usted, NINOS- DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. Y RICHARD ROE” COMO EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- a vender en subasta, y al mejor que por edicto la Demanda de A: JOHN DOE; RICHARD HKA FIGUEROA BIDOT, que NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN- MORALES T/C/C MIGUEL ROE, POSIBLES epígrafe a Juana Rosado RoPOSIBLES HEREDEROS cribe le notifica a usted que el postor, por separado, de conA. REYNES MORALES en la Demanda que originó CIA POR EDICTO. 09 de noviembre de 2023, este tado y por moneda de curso dríguez. El edicto se publicará TENEDORES DE PAGARÉ RICARDO J. CACHO RODRÍGUEZ DESCONOCIDOS DE este caso se alega que usted T/C/C MIGUEL A. Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, legal de los Estados Unidos de CACHOR@MICROJURIS.COM conforme a la Regla 4.6 (a) de EXTRAVIADO DESCRITO LA SUCESION DE ERIC Sentencia Parcial o Resolución América, y/o giro postal, dinero le adeuda a Ja parte demanREYNES Y VIRGENMINA las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 dante, BANCO POPULAR DE A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD MÁS ADELANTE. JAVIER DEL VALLE en este caso, que ha sido debi- en efectivo, cheque de gerente RIVERA RIVERA L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6 (a), meROE, COMO POSIBLES Por la presente se le notifica PUERTO RICO, las siguientes ARROYO. 2020 PASEO damente registrada y archivada o cheque certificado a nombre diante la publicación de un solo T/C/C VIRGEN MINA TENEDORES DEL que se ha radicado una De- cantidades: a. $15,945.98 de EL VERDE, CAGUAS, en autos donde podrá usted en- del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra edicto en un periódico de circuRIVERA RIVERA T/C/C manda donde se solicita se principal e intereses devengaPAGARÉ.

PUERTO RICO 00725, Y terarse detalladamente de los bancaria, con similar garantía lación general diaria en Puerto VIRGENMINA RIVERA (Nombre de las partes que se le cancele el siguiente pagaré, el dos hasta el 21 de febrero de términos de la misma. Esta no- de todo título, derecho o interés Rico, a los efectos de que prenotifican la sentencia por edicto) cual está extraviado, así como 2023, más los intereses que se T/C/C VIRGENMINA DE APT. 3-202 COND. PASEO tificación se publicará una sola de los demandados de epígrafe senten cualquier oposición a la EL SECRETARIO(A) que susEL VERDE, CAGUAS, la hipoteca que garantiza su devenguen a partir de la fecha REYNES. vez en un periódico de circula- sobre el inmueble que adelante Demanda dentro del término de pago: a. pagaré a favor del Sis- de radicación de la Demanda al cribe le notifica a usted que el PUERTO RICO 00725. ción general en la Isla de Puer- se describe. Se anuncia por la (Nombre de las partes que se le Demandantes V.

SARAI DENNISSE OYOLA ROSADO, Y OTROS

treinta (30) días a contarse de la publicación del edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo se continuará con los procedimientos sin más citarle ni oírle.

Se exime al Demandante del requisito impuesto por la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Demanda y del edicto a la última dirección conocida del notificado, por no ser conocida. Se ordena a la Secretaria expida el correspondiente edicto. Dada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 21 de noviembre de 2023. (FDO.) HON. SARAH Y. ROSADO MORALES, (FIRMADO) JUEZ SUPERIOR”. Se le advierte que, si no comparece al Tribunal en el presente caso, enviando copia de su posición a la abogada del Demandante, la Lcda. Lizannette Morales Crespo, PO Box 5272 Carolina, PR 00984-5272, tel. (787) 945-5233, dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación, se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 08 de diciembre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA I. BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

Demandante Vs.

SISTEMA DE RETIRO DE LOS EMPLEADOS DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

tipo legal, hasta el total y completo pago de la obligación, y una suma razonable para las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, por concepto de las sumas desembolsadas por el uso de la demandada de una tarjeta de crédito AAdvantage VISA SIG cuyos últimos 4 dígitos son 4775. Se le emplaza y requiere que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Deberá notificar a la licenciada: María S. Jiménez Meléndez al PO Box 9023632, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902-3632; teléfono: (787) 723-2455; abogada de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la demanda. 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 LEGAL NOTICE discreción, lo entiende proceESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO dente. Expedido en San Juan, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUPuerto Rico, a 11 de diciembre NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍSALA SUPERIOR DE CALEGAL NOTICE GUEZ COLLADO, SECRETAGUAS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO RIA REGIONAL. ADELLE RIBANCO POPULAR DE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL VERA APONTE, SECRETARIA PUERTO RICO; POPULAR DE PRIME INSTANCIA SALA AUXILIAR. SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN MORTGAGE tema de Retiro de los Empleados del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, suscrito bajo afidávit numero 3645 por la suma principal de $12,000.00, con intereses al 8 1/2% anual, vencederos el 1ro de julio de 2007, otorgado en San Juan, Puerto Rico ante el Notario Daniel Ortiz Cruz, inscrito al folio 192 del tomo 296 de Cayey, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón, inscripción 3ra. Por la presente se les emplaza y requiere para que notifique a la Lcda.

Maritza Guzmán Matos, PMB 767, Avenida Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00966, teléfono (787) 758-3276, abogada de la parte demandante, con copia de vuestra contestación a la demanda radicada en este caso contra ustedes, dentro de un término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este Edicto. Por la presente se les apercibe de que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 11 de diciembre de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SHEILA RIVERA MEDINA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

REYNES Y OTROS

07 de diciembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 11 de diciembre de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de diciembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MILDRED J. FRANCO REVENTÓS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de diciembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 11 de diciembre de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 11 de diciembre de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. EREINA AGRONT LEÓN, SELEGAL NOTICE CRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TRIBUNAL. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBULEGAL NOTICE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUPONCE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

COMPU-LINK CORPORATION DBA CELINK Demandante V.

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(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de diciembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 12 de diciembre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 12 de diciembre de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA- CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO SALÓN DE SECAGUAS BANCO POPULAR DE SIONES SALÓN 402 - CIVIL SUPERIOR

PUERTO RICO

to Rico, dentro de los 10 días presente que la subasta habrá siguientes a su notificación. Y, de celebrarse el día 16 DE siendo o representando usted ENERO DE 2024; A LAS 11:30 una parte en el procedimiento DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sujeta a los términos de la Sen- localizada en el Tribunal de Pritencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re- mera Instancia, Sala Superior solución, de la cual puede esta- de San Juan, sobre el inmueble blecerse recurso de revisión o que se describe a continuación: apelación dentro del término de URBANA: Propiedad Horizon30 días contados a partir de la tal: Oficina #204. Colinda por publicación por edicto de esta el OESTE, en 35’ 8”, con la panotificación, dirijo a usted esta red exterior del edificio hacia la notificación que se considerará Avenida Condado; por el ESTE, hecha en la fecha de la publi- en igual medida, con la pared cación de este edicto. Copia de interior que lo separa d la ofiesta notificación ha sido archi- cina #205 y con pasillo común; vada en los autos de este caso, por el NORTE, en 20’, con la con fecha 04 de diciembre de pared que lo separa d la oficina 2023. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, #203; y por el SUR, en 14’, con el 04 de diciembre de 2023. VI- pared exterior del edificio hacia VIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, su colindancia con la calle deSECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA nominada “Rolan”. Comprende ÁLVAREZ NATAL, SECRETA- un área de 546 pies cuadrados, RIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. aproximadamente y tiene su entrada y salida hacia el Este LEGAL NOTICE por el pasillo común con el cual ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO colinda en ese lado. La oficina DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- descrita forma parte del segunNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA do piso del edificio denominado SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN “Condominio Condado”. Porcentaje en los elementos coJUAN munes del edificio de 0.021%.

607-609 FINCA NÚMERO: 4899, insCONDADO ST., LLC. crita al folio 180 del tomo 151 Demandante V. de Santurce Sur, Registro de la LUIS ÁNGEL LÓPEZ Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, OLMEDO Y LA SUCESIÓN sección primera de San Juan.

DE SILVIA MATOS DE Dirección física: 609 Condado LÓPEZ, compuesta por St., Suite 204, San Juan PR 00907. La subasta se llevará LUIS ÁNGEL LÓPEZ a cabo para con su producto OLMEDO, SYLVIA al demandante, total LIZZETTE LÓPEZ MATOS satisfacer o parcialmente, según sea el y SYLVIA BEATRIZ LÓPEZ caso, de la referida sentencia MATOS que fue dictada por la suma Demandado de $18,132.48, más las costas, Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00774. gastos, penalidades, recar(807). Sobre: COBRO DE gos y honorarios de abogado.

DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDI- Esta subasta no tiene fijación

The San Juan Daily Star de tipo mínimo por tratarse de una ejecución de sentencia por embargo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 8 de diciembre de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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

MARIA TERESA VARGAS BAIGES Demandante V.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE H.F., INC; FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION; FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV09011.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda de cancelación de pagaré extraviado en su contra.

La propiedad objeto de la pre-

sente demanda se encuentra gravada por una hipoteca en garantía de un Pagaré otorgado el 16 de septiembre de 1977, ante el Notario Miguel García Suárez, el cual fue transferido el 20 de junio de 2007, a favor de Federal Home Loan o a su orden, por la suma principal de $32,000.00 y garantizado mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 1,694, otorgada el mismo día ante el mismo Notario se saldó en su totalidad, transferida luego mediante la escritura 211 ante la Notario Magda Vanessa Alsina Figueroa. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 242 vuelto del tomo 845 de Río Piedras Norte, inscripción 5ta posteriormente inscrita al folio 106 del tomo 1626 de Río Piedras Norte, inscripción 7ma y grava la finca inscrita al folio 239 del tomo 845 de Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Segunda, finca número 24,495. Se alega además que no se ha practicado la cancelación de dicho pagaré ya que se encuentra extraviado.

Como remedio se solicita que se autorice cancelar el referido pagaré. La hipoteca arriba relacionada consta inscrita sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Family Unit Number ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED TWO (1502) of Hato Rey condominium, at One and Five Streets, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico which unit is located on the fourteenth floor, with its balcony facing One and Five Streets.

It is an irregular, rectangular shaped apartment, 2 measuring approximately forty-two (42) feet in width, with a total private area of One Thousand Two Hundred Twenty point Seventy (1,220.70) square feet, equivalent to One Hundred Thirteen Square Meters and Forty One Square Centimeters (113.41). Its boundaries are as follows: On the North, in fortythree lineal feet and three lineal inches (43’3”), equivalent to thirteen point eighteen (13.18) lineal meters, with exterior proper elements of the apartment, such as windows, balcony, railings and block partitions; on the South, in thirty-three lineal feet and on lineal inch (33’1”), equivalent to ten point eight lineal meters, with exterior proper elements of the apartment facing One and Five Streets, such as block walls, windows, and balcony railing; on the West, in thirty-nine lineal feet and on lineal inch (39’1”), equivalent to eleven point ninetyone (11.91) lineal meters, with exterior proper elements of the apartment, such as, concrete bearing walls and windows and with exterior restricted common elements of the apartment and

Friday, December 15, 2023 exterior proper elements of the apartment, such as concrete bearing walls separating it, in part, from restricted common lobby, in part with the elevalor shaft and in part with the interior partition wall, separating it from apartment One Thousand Five Hundred One (1,501);and on the East, in twenty-nine (29) lineal feet, equivalent to eight point eighty-four (8.84) lineal meters, with exterior proper elements of the apartment, such as, concrete bearing walls, windows, and balconies railings.

Tiene una participación en los elementos comunes del condominio de tres punto noventa y cuatro por ciento (3.94%) y en los elementos restringidos de cincuenta por ciento (50%).

Inscrita al Folio doscientos treinta y nueve (239) del Tomo Ochocientos cuarenta y cinco (845) de Río Piedras Norte, Finca número Veinticuatro Mil Cuatrocientos Noventa y Cinco (24,495), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Il de San Juan. El pagaré descrito en el párrafo anterior ha sido saldado, no obstante, los demandantes se han visto imposibilitados de solicitar al Honorable Registrador de la Propiedad la cancelación de la hipoteca que garantiza dicho Pagaré por éste haberse extraviado. POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que se presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de TREINTA (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si comparece por derecho propio y no radica por SUMAC debe enviar copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de FUERTES & FUERTES LAW OFFICE, CSP. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Alberto R. Fuertes Masarovic PMB 191 P.O. Box 194000, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919-4000; Tel (787) 296-0000, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el período de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro si el Tribunal en el ejercicio de sana discreción lo entiende procedente sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). Se exime a la parte demandante a enviar a

Fulano de Tal y Fulana de Tal copia del Emplazamiento y la Demanda presentada dentro del término de diez (10) días de ésta publicación por desconocer las direcciones de los mismos. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 7 de diciembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SUBSECRETARIA.

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MARIA TERESA VARGAS BAIGES Demandante V.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE H.F., INC; FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION; FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV09011.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO FREDDIE MAC A SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA FÍSICA Y POSTAL: 8200 JONES BRANCH DRIVE, MCLEAN, VA 221014.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda de cancelación de pagaré extraviado en su contra.

La propiedad objeto de la presente demanda se encuentra gravada por una hipoteca en garantía de un Pagaré otorgado el 16 de septiembre de 1977, ante el Notario Miguel García Suárez, el cual fue transferido el 20 de junio de 2007, a favor de Federal Home Loan o a su orden, por la suma principal de $32,000.00 y garantizado mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 1,694, otorgada el mismo día ante el mismo Notario se saldó en su totalidad, transferida luego mediante la escritura 211 ante la Notario Magda Vanessa Alsina Figueroa. La escritura de

hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 242 vuelto del tomo 845 de Río Piedras Norte, inscripción 5ta posteriormente inscrita al folio 106 del tomo 1626 de Río Piedras Norte, inscripción 7ma y grava la finca inscrita al folio 239 del tomo 845 de Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Segunda, finca número 24,495. Se alega además que no se ha practicado la cancelación de dicho pagaré ya que se encuentra extraviado.

Como remedio se solicita que se autorice cancelar el referido pagaré. La hipoteca arriba relacionada consta inscrita sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Family Unit Number ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED TWO (1502) of Hato Rey condominium, at One and Five Streets, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico which unit is located on the fourteenth floor, with its balcony facing One and Five Streets.

It is an irregular, rectangular shaped apartment, 2 measuring approximately forty-two (42) feet in width, with a total private area of One Thousand Two Hundred Twenty point Seventy (1,220.70) square feet, equivalent to One Hundred Thirteen Square Meters and Forty One Square Centimeters (113.41). Its boundaries are as follows: On the North, in fortythree lineal feet and three lineal inches (43’3”), equivalent to thirteen point eighteen (13.18) lineal meters, with exterior proper elements of the apartment, such as windows, balcony, railings and block partitions; on the South, in thirty-three lineal feet and on lineal inch (33’1”), equivalent to ten point eight lineal meters, with exterior proper elements of the apartment facing One and Five Streets, such as block walls, windows, and balcony railing; on the West, in thirty-nine lineal feet and on lineal inch (39’1”), equivalent to eleven point ninetyone (11.91) lineal meters, with exterior proper elements of the apartment, such as, concrete bearing walls and windows and with exterior restricted common elements of the apartment and exterior proper elements of the apartment, such as concrete bearing walls separating it, in part, from restricted common lobby, in part with the elevalor shaft and in part with the interior partition wall, separating it from apartment One Thousand Five Hundred One (1,501);and on the East, in twenty-nine (29) lineal feet, equivalent to eight point eighty-four (8.84) lineal meters, with exterior proper elements of the apartment, such as, concrete bearing walls, windows, and balconies railings.

Tiene una participación en los elementos comunes del con-

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dominio de tres punto noventa y cuatro por ciento (3.94%) y en los elementos restringidos de cincuenta por ciento (50%).

Inscrita al Folio doscientos treinta y nueve (239) del Tomo Ochocientos cuarenta y cinco (845) de Río Piedras Norte, Finca número Veinticuatro Mil Cuatrocientos Noventa y Cinco (24,495), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Il de San Juan. El pagaré descrito en el párrafo anterior ha sido saldado, no obstante, los demandantes se han visto imposibilitados de solicitar al Honorable Registrador de la Propiedad la cancelación de la hipoteca que garantiza dicho Pagaré por éste haberse extraviado. POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que se presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de TREINTA (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si comparece por derecho propio y no radica por SUMAC debe enviar copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de FUERTES & FUERTES LAW OFFICE, CSP. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Alberto R. Fuertes Masarovic PMB 191 P.O. Box 194000, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919-4000; Tel (787) 296-0000, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el período de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro si el Tribunal en el ejercicio de sana discreción lo entiende procedente sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). Se exime a la parte demandante a enviar a Fulano de Tal y Fulana de Tal copia del Emplazamiento y la Demanda presentada dentro del término de diez (10) días de ésta publicación por desconocer las direcciones de los mismos. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 6 de diciembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. YADIRA DÍAZ GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN GERMÁN

J & R PRIVATE POLICE AND DETECTIVE SERVICE, INC. Demandante V.

GN & GP FARMING, CORP. HACIENDO NEGOCIOS COMO MONARCA FARMS

Demandado Civil Núm.: CB2023CV00298.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ENMENDADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: GN & GP FARMING CORP QUIEN HACE NEGOCIOS COMO MONARCA FARMS. PO BOX 2285, SAN GERMAN, PR 00683.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante, por conducto de su abogado LCDO. CARLOS L. SEGARRA MATOS, con oficina en la 2510 Carretera 100 kilómetro 3.5, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 00623, y cuyo número de teléfono es el 787-851-3582, ha radicado en su contra ante este tribunal una demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a contestar dicha demanda, dentro un término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En San Germán, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de diciembre de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MILITZA LORENZO VEGA, SUR-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

ALMANDA AVILA RIVERA, POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JESÚS FONTANEZ HUERTAS Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HU2022CV00918.

(Salón: 206). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LEGAL NOTICE MARIE L. QUIÑONES TAÑON, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MARIEQUINONES@LBRGLAW.COM. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL A: FULANO Y SUTANO

DE TAL: NO CONSTA DIRECCION ENVIADO P/C DE LA LCDA. MARIE L. QUIÑONES TAÑON.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de DICIEMBRE de 2023. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 08 de DICIEMBRE de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, KARILIN MORALES FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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EDGARDO PERALES PERALES Peticionario

EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: HU2023CV00684.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO, BAJO EL ART. 13 DE LA LEY 118, PROCEDIMIENTO EXPEDITO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE GENARO PERALES; DENOMINAODS FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL, COLINDANTES POR EL NORTE.

POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca

26 que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal.

Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. “RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Tejas del Término Municipal de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, compuesto de una cabida superficial de cero punto treinta y nueve treinta y siete (0.3937) cuerdas, equivalentes a mil quinientos cuarenta y siete punto cuarenta y dos noventa y siete (1,547.4297) metros cuadrados; en Lindes por el NORTE con terrenos propiedad de Sucesión Genaro Perales; por el SUR, con camino municipal; por el ESTE, con terrenos de Mario Perales y por el OESTE, con Julio Perales. ” El abogado de la parte peticionaria es la Lcdo. Ernesto Rovira Gándara, PMB 767, 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, PR 00966; Tel. (787)-758-3277; Email: erovira@partnerslegalservicespr.com. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 9 de enero de 2024, a las 9:00 de la mañana, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de treinta (30) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, a 27 de noviembre de 2023. Ivelisse c. Fonseca Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Ivelisse m. Monclova cruz, Secretaria Auxiliar

del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO

EDGARDO PERALES PERALES Peticionario

EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: HU2023CV00684.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO, BAJO EL ART. 13 DE LA LEY 118, PROCEDIMIENTO EXPEDITO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal.

Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. “RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Tejas del Término Municipal de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, compuesto de una cabida superficial de cero punto treinta y nueve treinta y siete (0.3937) cuerdas, equivalentes a mil quinientos cuarenta y siete punto

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cuarenta y dos noventa y siete (1,547.4297) metros cuadrados; en Lindes por el NORTE con terrenos propiedad de Sucesión Genaro Perales; por el SUR, con camino municipal; por el ESTE, con terrenos de Mario Perales y por el OESTE, con Julio Perales. ” El abogado de la parte peticionaria es la Lcdo. Ernesto Rovira Gándara, PMB 767, 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, PR 00966; Tel. (787)-758-3277; Email: erovira@partnerslegalservicespr.com. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 9 de enero de 2024, a las 9:00 de la mañana, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de treinta (30) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, a 27 de noviembre de 2023. Ivelisse c. Fonseca Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Ivelisse m. Monclova cruz, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO

EDGARDO PERALES PERALES Peticionario

EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: HU2023CV00684.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO, BAJO EL ART. 13 DE LA LEY 118, PROCEDIMIENTO EXPEDITO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE GENARO PERALES; DENOMINAODS FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL, COLINDANTES POR EL NORTE.

POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante

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For Red Bull and Max Verstappen, 2023 was a dominant year

By IAN PARKES

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ax Verstappen and Christian Horner, Red Bull’s team principal, agree that the team’s achievements this season will be very hard to repeat.

Verstappen, the championship driver, and Red Bull rewrote the record books in defending their drivers’ and constructors’ championships.

He set the record for most wins in a season, 19 from 22 Grands Prix; for consecutive number of victories, 10; and the highest percentage of wins in a season, 86.36%, beating the previous best of 75% by Alberto Ascari in 1952, an era when there were only eight races.

“It will be very hard to have another season like this, we know that,” Verstappen said.

He also became the first driver to lead for more than 1,000 laps in a season, with 1,003.

As a constructor, Red Bull won 21 Grands Prix, overhauling Mercedes’ record of 2016 when it won 19 of 21 races. With a 95.5% success rate, it also beat the 93.8% of McLaren in 1988 when it won 15 of 16 Grands Prix.

Horner said the accomplishments “would take a while to sink in.”

“You have to bear in mind what we have achieved hasn’t been done in more than 70 years of Formula One,” Horner said in an interview.

“Will it be achieved again in my lifetime?

When you look at the results, I don’t think we will be able to better what we’ve done this year.”

Verstappen dominated to such an extent that his record for most points in a season, 575, was enough to win the constructors’ title on his own. Second-place Mercedes scored 409.

Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes, a seventime champion, praised Verstappen for his achievements.

“He’s done an amazing job with the package he has,” Hamilton said. “He and the team have been phenomenal this year, faultless.

They’ve raised the bar.”

Verstappen collected his third-consecutive drivers’ championship with five races to spare, all of which he won to end the season on a run of seven straight victories.

Verstappen said his hunger to succeed was “just how I grew up.”

“My mindset didn’t change after winning

Max Verstappen, the championship driver, and Red Bull rewrote the record books in defending their drivers’ and constructors’ championships in 2023. the championship,” he said. “I can’t go into a weekend not giving it my all. I would just get annoyed with myself, and I know the people around me would get annoyed with me if I was like that.”

There is a rule of thumb in Formula One that to be one of the greats, a driver has to win three world titles. Verstappen is now one of the greats, standing alongside Ayrton Senna, Niki Lauda, Jackie Stewart, Jack Brabham, and Nelson Piquet.

Only Michael Schumacher, Hamilton, Juan Manuel Fangio, Alain Prost and Sebastian Vettel have won more.

With 54 Grands Prix victories, his last in the final race of the year in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to take him past Vettel, a former Red Bull driver, Verstappen is third on the all-time list behind Hamilton, with 103, and Schumacher with 91.

At 26, and with a contract with Red Bull to the end of 2028, Verstappen could challenge Hamilton and Schumacher for their record seven titles, and Hamilton’s Grand Prix victory record.

“The hunger and the fire still burn brightly within him, and we don’t see that diminishing,” Horner said.

After the first four races of the year, Verstappen and his teammate, Sergio Pérez, had won two apiece. It appeared Verstappen had a challenger.

At the next race in Miami, Pérez, who

started on pole position, was beaten by Verstappen, who had started ninth on the grid.

The result, Pérez said, hurt his confidence. He was on the podium in just five of the next 17 races.

Pérez was still runner-up in the drivers’ championship. It was the first time in Red Bull’s 19-season history it had taken the top two positions.

Pérez’s contract with Red Bull expires at the end of next season. Another faltering year will leave his hope of a new deal vulnerable.

“We’re in a luxury position where there’s an awful lot of people who want to be sat in that car, so we just have to weigh up what is best for the team,” Horner said.

Red Bull’s main rivals, Mercedes and Ferrari, were never in the hunt. Mercedes finished second in the constructor’s championship, just 3 points ahead of Ferrari, but their combined total still didn’t match Red Bull’s with Mercedes 451 points behind the champions.

“Both losers,” Toto Wolff, the Mercedes team principal, said.

Acknowledging the performance of Red Bull and Verstappen, he said, “You’ve got to have a lot of respect for their achievements on the engineering side, and the driver.”

Wolff said that beating Red Bull under the current regulations, which run for another two years before new power unit rules arrive for 2026, was “against the odds.”

Mercedes finished the year without a victory for the first time since 2011. It is now two years since Hamilton last won a race. He said he was happy to see the back of his car. A new model will arrive for next season.

Instead, it was Ferrari, and Carlos Sainz, who won in Singapore, that denied Red Bull a perfect season.

Frédéric Vasseur, Ferrari team principal, said in an interview that he was not satisfied with his first year in charge.

“It was not the season we expected, mainly because we were too far away at the beginning,” he said.

“But we had a good reaction, the team turned itself around the right way, and step by step we came back. Overall, collectively, we did a good job.”

It was a similar story for McLaren, which started the season miserably, collecting 17 points in the first eight races before delivering an updated car at the Austrian Grand Prix that had them outscore Mercedes and Ferrari in the final 14 Grands Prix.

The season for Aston Martin was the reverse of McLaren as it started strongly before tapering away. Fernando Alonso was on the podium six times in the first eight races as the team pushed Red Bull. He managed only two more after that.

Alonso, a two-time champion, said it was still “a dream season” for Aston Martin, which scored 55 points last year compared with the 280 this year.

The Haas team finished last for the second time in three years.

“With hindsight, we should have changed the concept of the car earlier, but we just didn’t react quick enough, and it was just too late to save the season,” Günther Steiner, the team principal, said in an interview.

“We can be so much better, and we have to do so much better.”

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To lure FIFA, France floats the promise of a tax-free home

By TARIQ PANJA and DAPHNÉ ANGLÈS

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all it a friendship with extremely generous benefits.

French lawmakers were slated to vote this week on a plan promoted by the government of President Emmanuel Macron that would encourage international sports bodies to move to the country by promising them what critics have labeled a “tax gift” unavailable to most French companies and citizens.

The plan, offered as an amendment to the government’s 2024 budget, would reward organizations that relocate by exempting them, and their employees, from a broad swath of corporate, property and income taxes — savings that could be worth millions of dollars every year.

Potential beneficiaries include the governing bodies of a broad range of sports, including more than 30 international federations recognized by the International Olympic Committee. But both supporters and detractors of the tax breaks said that they were aimed at luring one governing body in particular: FIFA. FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, has been based in Zurich since 1932. But in recent years, its leadership has discussed a relocation to greener pastures amid frustrations with life in Switzerland, which was the site of not only its growth into a billiondollar commercial juggernaut but also its greatest scandal.

Aware of that discontent at its highest levels, France is hoping to bring FIFA — which was born in Paris in 1904 — home.

The French politicians who created the tax plan said that they were hoping it would entice governing bodies by offering them the type of tax benefits that until now were available in few European countries beyond Switzerland. Under the proposal, organizations that move would be exempted from corporate taxes, local property taxes and even levies on some of their income. The

Fans react after Spain won the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final against England at Sydney Olympic Park in Sydney, Australia on Aug. 20, 2023. (Isabella Moore/ The New York Times) executives and employees who come along would be exempt from income tax for at least five years.

“We can’t be blind on the FIFA subject,” said Mathieu Lefèvre, a deputy from Renaissance, the political party founded by Macron, and a signatory to the amendment that Parliament was expected to take up in a vote as soon as Wednesday. “FIFA is very important.”

The amendment granting favorable tax status to sports federations, according to Lefèvre, is similar to other recent pro-business changes enacted by the French government, including efforts to attract some big banks to Paris from London after Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016.

“We want to make France great again,” Lefèvre said.

Like some other measures that were criticized for favoring business over workers — notably changes this year to France’s pension system, which raised the country’s retirement age — the push to attract sports federations through tax benefits does not enjoy universal support. The Senate, the upper house of the French Parliament, recently voted to delete the text related to sports federations from the government’s budget document.

“The words of the senators were quite firm, where everyone thought that it was some kind of scandal, a

nonsense, that it was something that really did not have to be done,” said Jean-Claude Raux, an opposition lawmaker. But in a sign of the commitment to the amendment, lawmakers reworked the measure to ensure the proposal was included.

Grilled by lawmakers at a recent hearing, France’s sports minister, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, defended the proposed law, rejecting claims that it amounted to a “tax gift” to sporting federations. Instead, she said, the law would simply place international sports federations within a framework already enjoyed by the other international organizations based in France.

But unlike those bodies, which include UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural organization, FIFA is a behemoth with almost 2,000 staff members, global commercial interests and revenues in the billions. It recently estimated the four-year cycle through to the 2026 World Cup in North America, for example, would generate $11 billion in revenue.

French politicians, including OudéaCastéra, have been at pains to point out that the tax breaks would be limited to FIFA’s noncommercial activities, those parts of the organization responsible for governing and developing soccer around the world. But it is unclear how France plans to make that distinction.

FIFA declined to comment on the proposed changes. But under its president, Gianni Infantino, its efforts to move some important operations away from its glassand-steel headquarters in Zurich have been

gathering pace in recent months. FIFA has already said that it will move most of its legal department to Miami. And it has opened satellite offices in South America, Africa and Asia as part of Infantino’s oft-quoted ambition to make FIFA “truly global.”

Infantino could be one of the most prominent beneficiaries of the proposed exemption on income taxes: His pretax salary and bonus package totaled $3.9 million, according to FIFA’s most recent accounts. He also oversaw the opening of yet another FIFA outpost in Paris, in 2021.

The FIFA pied-à-terre in the French capital, inside the opulent Hôtel de la Marine, includes an office reserved for Infantino with sweeping views of some of the city’s most popular sights, including the Eiffel Tower.

It currently houses the FIFA department responsible for global soccer development.

Lefèvre, the lawmaker, said that attracting FIFA would be a coup for France’s global image. Others were less effusive about the implications of the association.

Infantino was only elevated to FIFA’s top leadership after a corruption scandal in 2015 led to the downfall of its previous leadership. Since then, he has spoken frequently and emphatically about a reformed organization. Recent decisions, though, have prompted renewed scrutiny about the way FIFA conducts its business.

One recent change in the organization’s rules will theoretically allow Infantino to stay in power beyond a 12-year-term limit.

Another directed the hosting rights to the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia, to the surprise of some of FIFA’s own member nations.

Belkhir Belhaddad, a French lawmaker who opposes the tax amendment, said that FIFA’s operations must be subject to greater oversight if the changes were approved.

“These sports organizations are important, they are useful, they have an economic, financial and social relevance,” Belhaddad said. “In the world we live in today, we need them. But they need to be regulated. How do we do it? Who takes care of it?”

The proposals for a new tax status specific to international sports bodies also received a negative assessment from the Conseil d’État, France’s highest administrative court, which received a draft version in September. The court issued a negative opinion on the grounds that such a move constituted a “breach of tax equality,” according to news reports in France.

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(Dec 22-Jan 20)

A gathering of psychics, artists, and spiritually oriented people could take place in your home today. This may be a fascinating and stimulating meeting, but there may be someone who likes to stir controversy and debate. Be aware of this possibility and short-circuit it if you can or this promising encounter could end with battered egos and bruised feelings.

A class you’ve wanted to take may open up, and you’ll want to register right away. You might have a few difficulties. If you try to sign up by phone, the line may be busy. If you enroll online, the website might crash. Don’t get discouraged and give up. These are only temporary delays. You won’t want to miss the class. Keep trying!

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

A member of your group may have gone away without telling anyone where he or she was going. This could be worrisome for the rest of you, but don’t fret. Your friend is probably OK, but may just need to do some thinking alone.

You have to accept that you won’t hear from this person today. Have faith and don’t worry.

A strange, unexpected call or email could puzzle you. You may not know the caller, the information might not make sense, or it might bring news that doesn’t feel right. Whatever you hear may be exaggerated if not false. If it’s important to you, check out the facts before jumping to conclusions and before passing it on to others.

A class you’ve wanted to take may open up, and you’ll want to register right away. You might have a few difficulties. If you try to sign up by phone, the line may be busy. If you enroll online, the website might crash. Don’t get discouraged and give up. These are only temporary delays. You won’t want to miss the class. Keep trying!

A strange, unexpected call or email could puzzle you. You may not know the caller, the information might not make sense, or it might bring news that doesn’t feel right. Whatever you hear may be exaggerated if not false. If it’s important to you, check out the facts before jumping to conclusions and before passing it on to others.

Leo

Aquarius

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

A love partner may seem distracted. Don’t jump to the conclusion that your friend has found someone else. The problem is more likely to center on obstacles that your partner has encountered in achieving a cherished goal. When your friend decides to share this with you, you might be able to shed some light on the situation.

Ideas for creative projects may be flooding your mind, but they may be too general or vague to grasp. Make a list if you like, but don’t feel you have to start anything today. You may need a few days to let the ideas churn around before settling on the best one to start. Be patient.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Equipment could give you trouble today. You’re probably good at working with it, but when it comes to troubleshooting, you might not know as much as you should. Don’t make yourself crazy worrying about it. Get a friend or colleague to assist you, or better yet, call a professional.

You’ll feel more confident and get a lot more done.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Have you been getting strange vibes from someone close to you? Chances are this person isn’t upset with you. He or she may be worried about upcoming changes in the professional environment. All signs are that these worries are groundless. Offer to take your friend out to lunch and just listen. You’ll be able to lighten the load and provide some much-needed perspective.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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