By THE STAR STAFF
The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico on Thursday rejected an island government request to use the Emergency Reserve to provide the government with an immediate source of funding to expedite the implementation of temporary generation to augment system capacity and complete priority emergency repairs to stabilize the energy system without significant service interruptions.
The oversight board urged the government to search for other sources of funding.
of approximately $2 billion in power system stabilization efforts. We advise the Government to explore alternative sources of funding, including the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the CDBG-DR Program.”
The oversight board took notice that the government request means to capitalize on an opportunity for increased funding, addresses core issues of Puerto Rico’s energy generation shortfalls, and means to shore up those deficiencies in the short to medium term to stabilize the grid while the complete transformation of the Puerto Rico electricity sector and its transition to renewables continues.
“The Oversight Board understands that utilizing the Commonwealth Emergency Reserve for PREPA to stabilize generation would impair a much-needed safety net for the Commonwealth’s use in case of another natural disaster or similar unforeseen event, and set a negative precedent that disincentivizes public corporations from practicing fiscal responsibility,” the board said in a letter to Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia dated Dec. 15. “The Oversight Board acknowledges the opportunity represented by FEMA’s approval of Direct Federal Assistance, an estimated investment
“However, while Hurricane Fiona intensified the generation and resource adequacy issues faced by Puerto Rico residents, the legacy PREPA generation system has been experiencing high forced outage rates and delayed maintenance schedules for many years,” the oversight board said in the letter. “The Government’s request raises concerns with regard to the uses and purpose of the Commonwealth Emergency Reserve and the independence of public corporations.”
Accessing the Emergency Reserve for the purposes requested by the governor in a letter in November would make the island more vulnerable in the event of a natural disaster, the oversight board pointed out.
“As we have mentioned in response to prior requests to access the Emergency Reserve, the 2022 Certified Fiscal Plan for the Commonwealth provides that “the Emergency Reserve is only intended for extraordinary events like natural disasters or as otherwise agreed with the Oversight Board and that are generally outside of human control and unpreventable.”
“[It] is not intended to mitigate emergencies related to operational inefficiencies,” the board said.
The oversight board said it has sought to empower public corporations to become selfsustaining and capable of providing services to their customers without relying on funding from the commonwealth government.
“Given the nature of the services they provide and their ability to implement or seek revisions to the rates and fares they charge, public corporations are expected to fund their expenditures through their own revenues in order to establish the fiscal responsibility and independence necessary to enable their long-term success and sustainability,” the board said.
Rep. José “Cheito” Rivera Madera said Thursday that Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia took an affirmative step in providing stability to public officials when he enacted a law that provides a dignified retirement to police officers.
Rivera Madera’s proposal surpassed the scrutiny of both legislative branches, as well as the executive branch, which makes it possible to strengthen the retirement system of police officers, “so that these public servants of transcendent need in our country can obtain dignified treatment with a reasonable pension,” the legislator said.
The provision contemplates filling the police retirement fund, a request that both active and retired public safety members have been demanding for decades, even more so after the approval of Act 3 of 2013, which substantially reduced pensions.
“That the police receive fair compensation in their retirement was a matter of justice and rights acquired based on a life of dedication to a service of so much risk and sacrifice,” Rivera Madera said. “Today we can all celebrate that such a noble measure has been achieved that will combat the poverty to which these officials were assigned in their
retirement age, ensuring with this fund a minimum of 50% retirement, as announced by the governor. They will no longer have to juggle and continue working at ages where they should be resting after a lifetime of work.”
The implementation of the Police Retirement Fund Law will allow the collection of part of the proceeds from the “Road Games of Chance Machines” (slot machines) that operate throughout the island outside of casinos, in order to strengthen police retirement funding without imposing increases or additional taxes. The plan identified and proposed by the legislator also contemplates the implementation of regulatory control mechanisms for this activity through an interconnected technological system.
“It was a human duty and primary responsibility to align ourselves with the well being of all public servants after their retirement, since it is not fair that after 25, 30 or 35 years of service, of giving their years of youth and adulthood to the people, they retire to live in poverty,” Rivera Madera said. “That denigrates the country that allows it.”
The legislator thanked the governor for having promoted the well being of this labor sector, as claimed and described in the text of the measure that is now law.
“This is evidence that we can advance initiatives that
Rep. José Rivera Madera
benefit the labor and economic sectors of our country, charting a better future for all tempered by the demands of the increase in the cost of living,” he said.
The law, meanwhile, must address the standardization of the maximum number of machines that a business can operate in order to avoid the possible proliferation, as is the case at present, of illegal casinos and their improper and unequal activity, as well as setting a minimum distance from establishments that operate slot machines in relation to schools, educational centers and hotels that operate casinos.
San Juan Municipal Police Commissioner José Juan García said Thursday that after municipal agents visited the home of Wayne Newman Morales home in Santurce, they established that he had been keeping a dog in terrible condition. After consulting with a prosecutor, the agents filed animal abuse charges against Newman Morales.
On Oct. 12, an anonymous call was received alerting police to a dog in poor condition in a house at Stop 25 in Santurce. Upon the agents’ arrival at the residence, an emaciated, hairless dog with reddish skin and long curved legs was found. In the confined area in which the canine was found, it was established
that it did not have water or food.
“In that first visit, the owner of the place where the animal was found was told to immediately take the animal to the veterinarian. Lieutenant Norileen Vidal, from our Municipal Animal Cruelty and Abuse Investigation Unit, accompanied the individual to the Good Shepherd Clinic with the dog and the veterinarian, Dr. Floreli de Gracia, determined with her proper certification, that the dog had not had proper veterinary care for a long time,” García said. “In this context, prosecutor Edmanual Santiago Quiles was consulted, who left the case open until yesterday in the afternoon for the owner to take the appropriate measures.”
However, when the authorities returned to visit the residence Wednesday, the dog was observed to have less hair and, with redder skin, was under the sun in midday and without water on the balcony of Newman Morales’ house. The canine was taken back to the vet, who said Newman Morales did not follow the instructions given to him two days ago, so he was taken into custody and the dog was taken to the San Juan Animal Control Center for care.
Newman Morales was placed under arrest and wrongful abuse and animal abuse charges were filed.
Judge Marangely Colón imposed a bail of $5,000, which Newman Morales paid, García said.
“However, we want to send a clear message that according to the public policy of Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo, the municipal police will prosecute without delay all those responsible for mistreating an animal,” the police commissioner added. “The law is forceful against those who commit these serious offenses and we will take them to the judicial authorities. If you know of any case of animal abuse we urge you to call our specialized unit at 1-844-627-2682.”
In the confined area in which the dog was found, it was established that it did not have water or food.
The U.S. House of Representatives in a divided vote on Thursday passed House Bill 8393, which would enable a federally endorsed vote for Puerto Rico residents to choose among statehood, sovereignty under free association or independence, but the bill is not expected to get the Senate’s nod.
The bill, titled the Puerto Rico Status Act, cleared the House in a 233-191 vote. Sixteen Republicans voted with Democrats in support of the legislation. The bill must now go to the Senate, where it is not expected to be voted on this year.
The bill would establish a nonpartisan voter education campaign that would be federally funded.
But the legislation faces unlikely odds in the Senate, where at least 60 votes are needed to send the measure to President Biden’s desk for his signature.
Republican Rep. Tom McClintock, from California’s 4th District, objected to giving statehood to Puerto Rico because of the impact it would have on other states. He described Puerto Ricans as poorly educated.
“This bill totally ignores the right of all Americans to discuss and decide how monumental and irreversible this action is,” McClintock said. “Statehood would mean that, in the next redistribution, other states would lose a total of 4 seats in the House of Representatives, to accommodate the Puerto Rican delegation. And only 20 percent of the population of Puerto Rico is fluent in English, which means we would be admitting a state whose vast majority is alienated from the national debate, which is critical in our democracy.”
“So how does this benefit America by admitting a state that is heavily in debt, poorly educated, with the poorest residents and the most jobless in the nation?” the seven-term congressman continued. “And we would not have anything more to say, because in this bill the Congress would not have anything to say on the matter if it is approved.”
The House voted on the bill after House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers announced this week that they had struck a deal on the legislation, which had stalled in the House for months.
During the debate, Hoyer, a co-sponsor of the bill, said that for far too long the people of Puerto Rico have been excluded from the full promise of American democracy and self-determination “that our nation has always championed.”
“We owe it to Puerto Ricans to bring an end to their island’s 124-year-old status as a U.S. territory and to grant them control over their island’s political future,” he added.
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is of Puerto Rican descent, gaveled out the vote.
“Today, for the first time in our nation’s history, the United States will acknowledge its role as a colonizing force and Puerto Rico’s status as an extended colony,” Ocasio-Cortez said on the House floor. “The Puerto Rico Status Act begins a process for Boricuas to decide their own future.”
Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón highlighted the importance of the bill in order to define the political status of the island and achieve equality for Puerto Ricans.
“For the first time in history, we are considering legislation that would authorize a self-executing plebiscite on the island among non-territorial status alternatives only,” she said. “With the adoption of this bill, this chamber is recognizing and making clear that Puerto Rico’s century-old territorial status is the problem and cannot be part of the solution.”
“The territorial condition constrains the island’s ability to prosper and has relegated the island to an indefinite second-class status when compared to the 50 states,” the resident commissioner continued. “It is the main reason behind the social, economic and fiscal challenges we have faced, forcing a mass exodus of millions of Puerto Ricans to the U.S. mainland, in search for the equality that, as citizens, are bestowed upon us by the Declaration of Independence, and yet is denied to
them back home. Congress has perpetuated by its inaction this dysfunctional political-economic condition — one that at its core is, as President Ronald Reagan once characterized it, ‘historically unnatural.’”
“Because we’re a territory, the people of Puerto Rico lack full voting representation in Congress and cannot vote for the president, who sends our sons and daughters to war,” González Colón said. “Because we’re a territory, the federal government can, and often does, treat us unequally under federal laws and programs. Because we’re a territory, we’re treated as second-class citizens.”
The bill has the support of the Biden administration. In a statement, the White House said that: “For far too long, the residents of Puerto Rico -- over 3 million U.S. citizens -- have been deprived of the opportunity to determine their own political future and have not received the full rights and benefits of their citizenship because they reside in a U.S. territory.”
“The Administration looks forward to working with Congress throughout the legislative process to ensure that this bill comports with our Nation’s democratic principles,” the statement said.
Rep. José Aponte Hernández, a former speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, said the approval of the bill has virtually buried the current commonwealth status.
By THE STAR STAFF
Federation of United Gas Distributors (Fedigas) President Carlos Jurado Roque demanded on Thursday that the Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO by its Spanish
acronym) intervene over the alleged refusal of liquefied gas wholesalers to adjust consumer prices, which have remained high despite a reported dramatic drop in the reference markets in recent weeks.
“It is clear that the price the consumer is paying is absolutely abusive and unjustified,” Jurado Roque said in a radio interview. “It is a Christmas assault on the consumer’s pocket while it is a mega Christmas bonus for the two companies that monopolize the liquefied gas industry in Puerto Rico, with the indifference of DACO, to which is added the Senate’s lack of response.”
“We urgently call on DACO, the Legislature and the Office of Monopolistic Affairs not to sit idly by in the face of this unsustainable reality,” the Fedigas leader said. “If any vaccination is urgent, it has to be against the indifference in these public entities when it comes to combating the virus of greed of two companies that enrich themselves at the expense of consumer poverty.”
The head of the Federation of United Gas Distributors said the price for liquefied gas that “the consumer is paying is absolutely abusive and unjustified.”
Jurado Roque pointed out that today the highest price in the reference market of Mount Belvieu was $1.61 per gallon, in March 2022, and that has since dropped consistently to $0.68 a gallon in early December 2022. That reduction of 93 cents per gallon in the past nine months, equivalent to $22 on the 100-pound gas cylinder, has not reached the consumer, including small and midsize businesses, he said.
Estefanía Cortés, a student at the University of Puerto Rico High School, and Jeileen Luciano, a student of the Graduate Program of Chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (UPR-RRP), have developed textiles using macroalgae, thus creating an eco-friendly alternative for the fashion industry.
As part of a research project, Cortés had the idea of working with fabrics and wanted to give it a “scientific twist,” so she joined Luciano on the project. Their interest in environmental conservation united them and they made the decision to merge their talents and develop eco-friendly textile options.
So far, the students have created nine different textiles, making use of the biomass macroalgae Sargassum sp., Jania sp. and Ulva fasciata and their bioproducts. Once they obtain the material, they conduct characterization processes in order to test the effectiveness. Through their research they discovered that the textiles they developed and demonstrated are equally or more resistant compared to existing materials on the market such as nylon, polyester or silk, among others.
According to the students, biotextiles made with polysaccharides extracted from macroalgae turned out to be more resistant and hydrophobic. As for the textiles generated with whole biomass of macroalgae, those generated with the
macroalgae Jania sp. presented better properties of thermal, tensile and water resistance. The textiles manufactured in the research process have great potential, the students said, since their composition can be optimized, changing the size and proportion of biomass/polysaccharides to make them more resistant to heat and mechanical changes.
“We take advantage of this raw material and – instead of seeing it as a problem – we look for a solution,” Luciano said. “Not only do we impact the scientific part by developing materials, but they are also projects that are taken to communities and schools.”
Cortés and Luciano aspire to be able to commercialize their textiles and designs in the near future. Cortés, who is in her senior year, has an interest in the development of sustainable materials, the creation of environmental policies and fashion design. In addition, she has studied fashion design at the Carlota Alfaro Fashion Academy.
Luciano, meanwhile, whose project focuses on the development of smart textiles using marine macroalgae, aspires to be a researcher and teacher to make science more accessible in schools and communities.
The young women’s work was presented in the exhibition “Mujeres Latinas en las Ciencias” at the UPR-RRP School of Natural Sciences, where they presented a suit made with alginate and carrageenan textiles of their own creation.
All research was conducted in the Environmental
The Autonomous Municipality of Caguas’ Youth Business Start-Up program, an effort that integrates business education into the school curriculum, ended its eighth edition with its Grand Expo with 61 businesses created and 305 children and young participants between the ages of 11 and 18, from 11 public schools in the city.
“Whether it’s starting a business or aspiring to a position, the important thing is that our young people visualize themselves as successful people in the process of building their dreams and goals,” Caguas Mayor William E. Miranda Torres said. “Youth entrepreneurship education, such as the one this group received, is a very important factor for the economic development of Puerto Rico.”
“In this edition alone, 61 businesses were created and essential skills were put into practice, such as the exercise of leadership and teamwork,” the mayor added. “This activity is an example of how we integrate different sectors of the city, in this case the business sector, to
continue supporting the initiatives that make us an Education City.”
Throughout the semester, the Youth Business Start-Up program offers workshops to teachers and students aimed at developing the necessary academic skills and abilities in the area of business. Participating students belong to the 6th, 9th and 12th grades of 11 public schools in Caguas: Antonio Domínguez Nieves, Antonio S. Pedreira, Diego Vázquez, Eloísa Pascual, Gerardo Sellés Solá, Luis Ramos González, Manuela Toro, Nicolás Aguayo Aldea, Nuestra Escuela, República de Costa Rica (Superior Vocational) and Second Unit Sandalio Marcano.
The youth entrepreneurship program begins with a workshop for teachers on business education and educational strategies for the development of entrepreneurial projects. From there, educators move on to teach students the principles of entrepreneurship and other important skills. The students, meanwhile, select their work teams, identify business ideas, work on the development of the product or service and are exposed to the sale of it.
In addition, children and young people participate in a series of activities, such as
a meeting with entrepreneurs, workshops on the importance of required permits and competition between companies. The most outstanding teams went on to a final competition to motivate creativity
and the use of learned skills.
The closing activity is an expo-type event in which students exhibit their company and in which prizes are awarded to the winning schools in the final competition.
The House has approved a weeklong spending bill to avert a government shutdown this weekend, as top lawmakers rushed to cement an emerging deal on a sprawling spending package to keep federal programs running into next fall.
The measure, which passed 224-201 and largely on party lines on Wednesday, would buy time to finalize an agreed-upon outline announced late Tuesday by three senior lawmakers in both parties, backed by party leaders, for a longer-term package expected to total roughly $1.7 trillion. While no details were given, the lawmakers projected optimism that it would smooth the way for final action before Christmas to resolve remaining disputes and fund the government.
“We have a framework that provides a path forward to enact an omnibus next week,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., chair of the House Appropriations Committee. She added that the committees were prepared to “work around the clock” to finish the legislation. Her comments were echoed by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the panel’s top Republican.
House Republicans rejected the deal. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the minority leader who hopes to become speaker and is toiling to win over far-right colleagues who oppose government spending, has instructed his members to vote against any such funding package, and Wednesday held a news conference to spotlight his objections.
“We can’t afford to spend the way Democrats have,” McCarthy said.
But in the House, Democrats had the votes to push through the legislation without needing Republican support. Nine Republicans broke with their party to support the measure, most of whom are leaving Congress at the end of the year.
News of the broad outline came just days before government funding was set to lapse at midnight Friday. The one-week stopgap spending bill would extend funding through Dec. 23, and it now heads to the Senate, which was expected to pass it before the Friday deadline.
With Republicans set to take control of
the House in January and a cluster of retiring lawmakers looking to protect a final round of funding priorities, Democrats and several Senate Republicans have expressed little interest in letting talks drag into the new year.
But most House Republicans, including Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, who is in line to chair the Appropriations Committee in January when her party assumes the majority, have said that is the only responsible course.
Backed by a few senators, they have pushed to pass a short-term spending measure that would fund the government until the opening days of the next Congress in January, which would give them the ability to try to leverage their new majority in the House to push for sharp spending cuts.
“House Republicans will work toward a spending agreement that cuts wasteful spending, reduces inflation and prioritizes border security and national defense,” Granger said, speaking at an afternoon news conference before the vote. “We have to stop this out-of-control spending.”
But some Republicans fear such a move could yield disastrous consequences for their party’s nascent majority, potentially leading to a shutdown that would put the party’s dysfunction on display just as it was reclaiming
a measure of power on Capitol Hill.
“I don’t think any new Congress should be forced into trying to do the last Congress’ work and even more so if you’re changing control,” said Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., one of several Republicans in the upper chamber retiring at the end of the year. “I just think it’s asking for big problems.”
Spending talks had been snarled for weeks over disagreements about how to divvy up money between military and domestic programs. Republicans balked at increasing the share of domestic funding, noting that Democrats over the past two years had muscled through trillions of dollars in climate, health care and social safety net spending over their unanimous opposition.
Shelby, speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, said the total for the spending framework was around $1.7 trillion, though he declined to offer specifics. He described the spending level for the domestic programs Democrats prize as one “we think we can live with.”
Because Republican votes are needed to overcome the 60-vote filibuster threshold in the evenly divided Senate, aides in both parties conceded that it was likely that Democrats would agree to a higher overall military spending number. Lawmakers were
expected to coalesce around about $858 billion in military spending — a figure set by a defense policy bill expected to clear the Senate this week.
“Republicans simply were not going to lavish extra liberal spending on the commander in chief’s own party as reward for adequately funding our national defense — it simply wasn’t going to happen,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader, in a speech Wednesday morning. He added: “The framework agreement doesn’t mean the hard work is over. It means the hard work can finally start.”
Lawmakers and aides were scrambling to not only finalize the details of the broader government funding measure, which would last through September 2023, but also to agree on what other legislation could be included in the last must-pass legislative package of the year.
The measure was expected to include emergency aid for Ukraine in its war against Russia; funds to help local communities recover from hurricanes and other natural disasters this past year; and an overhaul of the Electoral Count Act, the statute that former President Donald Trump sought unsuccessfully to exploit to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
Lawmakers also were wrestling with the possibility of including a number of tax extensions, such as reviving the lapsed expansion of monthly payments to most families with children, and a series of bipartisan health and science bills.
From providing refuge during the Mexican Revolution to sheltering asylum-seekers during the Trump administration, El Paso, Texas, has long rolled out the welcome mat to migrants following their star to the United States.
But as migrant arrivals surge this month, becoming so overwhelming that some border crossers are sleeping on downtown streets as temperatures dip below freezing, El Paso’s historic hospitality may finally be wearing thin.
“You feel bad, because they are good people running away from troubled countries,” said José Cruz, 75, himself an immigrant who came to El Paso from Mexico in 1998. Standing across from the international bridge downtown, Cruz shook his head in disbelief. “But this city, this country, can’t absorb everybody.”
For many like Cruz, the crisis is arousing a mix of emotions, reflecting how the pressures of receiving so many newcomers at once are straining a haven sometimes described as the Southwest’s Ellis Island.
The Border Patrol said that over the weekend, an average of 2,460 migrants arrived each day in El Paso, with the city currently the busiest arrival point for unauthorized migration along the entire southern
border.
The number could escalate even further next week if the federal government lifts a public health order that has allowed it to expel large numbers of migrants who otherwise might have been allowed to seek asylum in the United States. At that point, total arrivals across the southern border could reach 12,000 a day, from a recent average of about 8,000, administration officials said.
Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, met in El Paso on Tuesday with Border Patrol managers and local officials amid the escalating arrivals.
“It’s an extraordinarily powerful picture of why we need our immigration system reformed through legislation,” Mayorkas said in a meeting with local reporters. “Our asylum system is broken. Our immigration system as a whole is broken.”
He said the government was considering an expansion of the program that currently allows Ukrainians and Venezuelans to “prequalify” for asylum processing and enter the United States by plane, rather than by taking a hazardous trip across the border aided by smugglers.
On the streets of El Paso, the escalation in migration has been visible everywhere. Groups of migrants stood outside a shelter that had no more room. At night, many of the arrivals were huddled on the sidewalks and
in alleyways under blankets and coats, trying to keep warm. Some have been wandering through the city with seemingly no place to go.
With few local options, the city may have to resume busing migrants to other cities around the country, said Laura Cruz-Acosta, a spokesperson for the city, where immigrants already make up about one-quarter of the population.
When it comes to dealing with the increase in migrant arrivals, authorities in El Paso, a longtime Democratic bastion, have taken a different tack from other parts of Texas along the border.
El Paso County is not among the dozens of Texas counties that signed on to Gov. Greg Abbott’s declaration of a disaster along the border, eschewing the kind of lawenforcement-focused approach that the state has favored.
The border in El Paso has all of the federal infrastructure that exists in other areas, but it does not have the same deployment of state police officers and National Guard members along the border sent as part of Abbott’s border mission, known as Operation Lone Star.
The city has not taken part in the state’s program of arresting migrants for criminal trespassing on private ranch land, as several other Texas counties do, and it did not participate in the state’s busing program.
Instead, the Democratic leaders of El Paso created their own busing program, which they could restart soon. It sent roughly the same number of migrants — about 14,000 — to cities north and east of Texas as Abbott did with his statewide program between August and October.
By contrast, farther east along the border, the city of Eagle Pass in Maverick County — also a Democratic-run part of the state — has been a more willing participant in Abbott’s efforts.
Officials there, predominantly Democrats, have complained of the strain of providing services to migrants and have welcomed the financial support Abbott’s program affords for law enforcement.
Despite such contrasts, Annunciation House, an El Paso nonprofit which provides shelter to migrants, began sending busloads this week to places like Kansas City, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska.
Ruben Garcia, the organization’s director, said he viewed the need to send migrants
to other cities through a humanitarian lens.
“El Pasoans don’t want people on the street primarily and overwhelmingly because they’re human beings,” Garcia said. “There might be other cities where people don’t want refugees on the street because they ruin the landscape.”
Still, Garcia lamented El Paso’s preparedness for this crisis compared with previous influxes. A declining number of volunteers has depleted the capacity of shelters in the city even as the demand for their services has escalated, he said.
“The volunteers were largely older people who were retired, and elderly people were the most affected by the pandemic,” Garcia said. “The number of local churches open to receiving refugees has gone down considerably.”
As the Border Patrol has released a larger-than-normal number of migrants in recent days, most of them from Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba, the influx is the only talk of the town in El Paso. It is especially inescapable in the stores downtown that cater to the new migrants, selling everything from lowrider apparel to discounted toys.
Edgar Monzón, an El Paso resident for three years and counting, said he recognized a bit of himself in the migrants taking their first steps in the United States after an ordeal.
About 17 years ago, he, too, crossed without authorization and made his way to California before moving to El Paso to be closer to his parents. Now he makes a living as a cabdriver, sometimes picking up migrants who come from Guatemala, as he did.
“What do I tell them? Nothing — good luck,” said Monzón, 33. “I know what they are going through because I was one of them once. I assume the government knows what they are doing because they are letting them through.”
But for some business owners, including Sunny Butler, who owns Sunny’s Accessories in downtown El Paso, the constant flow of migrants has fueled concerns.
It is hard to admit such feelings, Butler said, because “they are human, and we feel for them, and many are women with children.” She wondered aloud whether El Paso needed to reconsider its approach.
“I do get nervous. One side of me says, ‘I want to help,’ but the other side says, ‘I’m nervous,’” Butler said. “There are just too many people crossing right now. I’ve never seen so many migrants here.”
Across Texas and Oklahoma, more than two dozen people were injured in the storms Tuesday, including at least seven people who were hospitalized.
The storms were part of a larger weather system that has brought significant, widespread hazards across more than a dozen states in the central United States. Parts of the Plains and Upper Midwest saw heavy snow, sleet and ice, and blizzard conditions affected multiple states.
On Tuesday, at least 20 people were injured, some critically, as a tornado tore through Union Parish, Louisiana, about 100 miles east of Shreveport, local officials said. The storm leveled part of a large apartment complex and several mobile homes.
In Decatur, Texas, a third tornado, which the weather service described as “large and extremely dangerous,” injured two people Tuesday. There were multiple reports of damage to homes and businesses.
Also on Tuesday morning, a fourth tornado struck Wayne, Oklahoma, and traveled for at least 3 miles with winds reaching 120 mph to 125 mph, according to preliminary information from the weather service.
Multiple homes and barns were damaged, and power poles and trees were downed, according to the McClain County Sheriff’s Office, which said there were no reports of injuries or deaths.
By REMY TUMIN, McKENNA OXENDEN and JUDSON JONESTornadoes continued to sweep across the South on Wednesday, killing one person west of New Orleans and leaving scattered damage near the Crescent City, one day after a series of ferocious storms left two others in Louisiana dead and dozens injured.
Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana declared a state of emergency, and parts of Alabama, Florida and Georgia were under tornado watches late Wednesday.
Tornadoes were confirmed in two spots in the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday night, although there were no reports of damage as they went through forests, the National Weather Service said. Eric Bunker, a forecaster with the weather service, said that storms were expected to continue moving east throughout the Panhandle and into parts of Alabama overnight and into Thursday morning.
The death Wednesday occurred about 2:30 p.m. when a tornado in Killona, Louisiana, in St. Charles Parish, about 35 miles west of New Orleans, killed a woman, the parish said in a Facebook post. Seven other people were injured.
A separate tornado was confirmed in New Orleans around 4:30 p.m., said Lauren Nash, a meteorologist for the weather service in Louisiana.
That tornado caused “significant” damage, Nash said, specifically to an adjacent community, Arabi, which also was hit by a tornado in March that left one person dead and numerous houses damaged. There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries, although nearly 21,000 people were without power Wednesday night, according to tracking website poweroutage.us.
For most of metro New Orleans, the storm Wednesday blew into the area about 4 p.m. as hard rain and intense wind, but a brief squall. Most area schools and many businesses had sent people home early in the day in anticipation of bad weather.
The damage appeared largely confined to the west bank
of the Mississippi, in the historic Algiers neighborhood. For most of the region, the storm left rainwater in the streets and tree branches down.
Residents expressed a sense of exasperation to have been threatened by tornadoes in December after having put another hurricane season behind them.
Kaare Johnson of New Orleans has lived in Louisiana for more than 50 years and said that tornadoes had only recently started to affect the area. Many have followed very similar paths, and the same neighborhoods have been devastated multiple times.
“Hurricane season is in the rearview mirror,” he said, “and then we get this hurricanelike damage in parts of the city.”
Lauren Edward Denny of Arabi has spent most of the year rebuilding his house after it was destroyed by the tornado in March, he said. After the tornado Wednesday, he drove home not knowing if it had been hit again. Thankfully, he said, his home was spared, but he could see the damage about 200 yards away from his porch.
“Had the house suffered damage today, I think that was it for me,” Denny said. “I just don’t think I would have stayed. Hurricanes we can see, we can prepare for, but these things, we don’t have a way to prepare for them.”
The two earlier tornado-related deaths occurred when a home was destroyed Tuesday in Keithville, in northwestern Louisiana, according to a statement from the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office. The body of a woman was found early Wednesday. Her young son was also killed.
The police in New Iberia, Louisiana, said in a recorded message on Facebook that at least two tornadoes had touched down in the area Wednesday with “significant damage” to the residential subdivision of Southport Boulevard and a “significant amount of damage” to Iberia Medical Center, a hospital.
Sgt. Daesha Hughes said police believed all residents had been safely evacuated; there was one known injury but no fatalities, she said.
In Texas, five people were hospitalized after injuries from the storm, although none of their injuries were life-threatening, according to a Facebook post from the police in Grapevine. Damage from the storm caused some businesses to close Tuesday and forced some elementary schools in the area to close early.
Then, inside the classroom that held most of the young victims, he found Ben Wheeler, 6, still breathing but with wounds that left little hope for survival. It has haunted Cario and his fellow troopers that they could not save those who died that day. But they could protect their families by resolving never to discuss what they had seen with anyone but them.
Cario kept this code through post-traumatic stress, divorce, retirement and a new struggle with a life-threatening illness. By resisting the limelight, the troopers helped preserve the families’ ability to reckon with the massacre in their own time, David Wheeler, Ben’s father, said this week.
Cario, who stood quietly by. Work crews had removed everything touched by the carnage: tiles, carpet, drywall. The bathroom where Ben and his classmates had died was stripped to the studs.
Peering into the tiny space “was a really hard thing to do,” Wheeler recalled. The troopers said they would share any details he needed. “The only question I could think to ask was, ‘How many shell casings did they find on the floor here?’ And they said ‘80.’ It was devastating.”
There was another conversation, though, between Wheeler and Cario. Its details remain private, but they say it brought peace to them both.
By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSONBill Cario, who was among the first law enforcement of ficers to enter Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012, is adamant that a story about the 10th anniversary of the shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators should not focus on him.
He said it should be about Rick Thorne, the school janitor who heard gunfire and moved down hallways locking classrooms to protect those inside. Or about the unidentified of ficer who helped lead the hunt for the gunman while knowing his boy was somewhere in the school.
Or about Rachael Van Ness, the police detective who hand-laundered the clothing children wore that day and returned the items to their grieving parents, nestled in small trunks she decorated in each child’s favorite colors.
And most of all about the families themselves, who have honored their loved ones with countless acts of charity and public service.
There is no photograph of Cario in this article because he did not want one.
“I am telling you what everybody else did. I did nothing alone, and I still don’t,” Cario said over lunch at the Blue Colony diner in Newtown.
But many whom Cario credits say he personifies a response to Sandy Hook that began with duty and ended with love.
“He’s your typical soldier for good. He’s grounded us,” said Bill Lavin, a former New Jersey firefighter and founder of the Where Angels Play Foundation that built 26 playgrounds to commemorate the victims. “But it’s tough to get Bill to verbalize any of it.”
Cario was a Connecticut state police sergeant parked near Newtown when the call came in that day. Rushing into the school, he encountered Natalie Hammond, a wounded educator, sheltering in a conference room. He told her he would be back for her, and with a Newtown police of ficer ran on in pursuit of the gunman, whose body they found moments later.
Though “a desire for information is always buzzing at the back of my head,” Wheeler said, he began to learn more about Ben’s last moments only recently, when he thought he had the strength to delve into the reports of the day. His research has deepened his appreciation for the of ficers’ deeds, and their silence since.
“Their default mechanism was not to assume that we want the information they have, to make sure that above and beyond anything else they were careful and protective,” Wheeler said in an interview.
“The more the world knows about Bill Cario, the better,” Wheeler added. “I feel that way about the entire team.”
All that is publicly known about Cario’s experience after the shooting is in his of ficial reports.
He described entering Classroom 8, which looked empty until he and another of ficer peered into the classroom’s bathroom. Fifteen children had attempted to hide in the roughly 4 1/2-foot-by-3 1/2-foot space.
“As I stared in disbelief, I recognized the face of a little boy,” Cario wrote, his anguish clear even in the written record.
“The face of the little boy is the only specific image I have in that room.”
The little boy was Ben Wheeler. The rules of triage required that Cario first tend to Hammond, to stanch her bleeding. Then he ran, carrying Ben, to a squad car near the school entrance, which transported them to a waiting ambulance. The child died minutes later, en route to a hospital. Hammond survived.
The choice forced upon Cario that day tormented him, but he did not speak publicly about it.
An encounter in the school
After the shooting, the state of Connecticut assigned a trooper to every family who desired one, to protect and guide them through the ensuing investigation. One of their duties was to escort family members who wanted to visit the school before it was demolished.
“I didn’t want to see, and I didn’t want to see, and one morning I woke up and I had to go,” David Wheeler said. His wife and Ben’s mother, Francine Wheeler, visited the school at a different time.
Wheeler arrived accompanied by Francine and Ben’s pastor, and was met by a small group of troopers including
“I’m so glad he was there,” Wheeler said. “There’s something more than meaningful in the fact that he took the time to say, ‘If David is going to the school, I should be there, too.’”
Last week Cario responded to a request for an interview by text message: “Interview depends on what direction you’re going in.” His meaning was that others should be the focus of an article, not him. “I was a spoke in the wheel of the state police and am grateful to have worn the uniform shared by so many amazing people,” he said.
“I have heartbreak about this, but anyone in America with a heart has that,” Cario said in a subsequent conversation. His own heartbreak centers on the fact that “I couldn’t do anything to change the outcome.”
Cario observes the date of the shooting in his own way, often by visiting the graves of the children. The quiet for him contrasts with the scene that day.
Visiting one of the burial places soon after the shooting, Cario encountered Roy, an older man who spent most days back then at the graves of his wife and a daughter who had died in the same year. The man, a World War II veteran, addressed Cario as “Sarge” when they met, and proposed that they “get through this together,” Cario recalled. They began meeting for coffee or a beer.
Roy asked his surviving daughter to check in with Cario by phone on days when ill health kept the older man home. A couple of years ago, Roy died, but he remains on the long list of people Cario wants to honor instead of himself.
“I don’t think these people, acts of kindness, or unexplained events, occur due to coincidence,” he said. “I think they are there to get us through, and to help us heal.”
Dec. 14 this year comes for Cario amid grueling treatment for pancreatic cancer. His illness is another subject Cario is reluctant to discuss. Wheeler did not know he was ill.
“There’s part of me that wishes I had worked harder to sort of force Bill Cario and the others to be part of my life, to let them know how important they are,” Wheeler said this week. “But I think maybe it didn’t happen because somehow, it wasn’t supposed to.”
Cario agreed. His conversation with Wheeler in the empty school a decade ago told him everything.
“His words to me did so much good,” Cario said. “He said that he understood.”
By JEANNA SMIALEK and JOE RENNISON
Federal Reserve officials this week slowed their campaign to cool the economy but indicated that interest rates would rise higher in 2023 than previously expected as inflation proves more stubborn than policymakers had hoped.
Fed officials voted unanimously at the conclusion of their two-day meeting to raise borrowing costs by half a percentage point, a pullback after four consecutive threequarter point increases. Their policy rate is now set to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, the highest it has been since 2007.
After months of moving rapidly to make money more expensive in an attempt to rein in an overheating economy, central bankers are entering a phase in which they expect to adjust policy more cautiously. That will give them time to see how the labor market and inflation are reacting to the policy changes they have
already put in place.
Yet the Fed’s latest economic projections, released Wednesday for the first time since September, sent a clear signal that slowing the pace of rate increases does not mean that officials are letting up in their battle against rapid inflation. Borrowing costs are expected to rise more drastically and inflict more economic pain than central bankers previously anticipated as policymakers attempt to wrangle stubborn price increases.
“We’ve continually expected to make faster progress on inflation than we have,” Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, said during his news conference after the release. He described the Fed’s new expectations as: “slower progress on inflation, tighter policy, probably higher rates, probably held for longer, just to get you to the kind of restriction that you need to get inflation down to 2%.”
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their policy interest rate to 5.1% by the end of 2023, which would mean another threequarter-point worth of adjustments and would push it half a percentage point higher next year than officials previously anticipated. Policymakers also expect to keep borrowing costs higher for longer.
“We have more work to do,” Powell said.
The Fed’s higher rates are expected to cool the economy notably next year. Central bankers predict that unemployment will jump to 4.6% from 3.7% now, and then remain elevated for years. Growth is expected to be much weaker in 2023 than previously anticipated, pushing the economy to the brink of a recession.
“I don’t think anyone knows whether we’re going to have a recession or not, and if we do, whether it’s going to be a deep one or not,” Powell said. “It’s not knowable.”
The central bank’s aggressive stance comes as central bankers worry that inflation will remain high for years to come. Although price increases are already beginning to moderate from the four-decade highs they reached this summer, the Fed’s economic projections make clear that policymakers think it is going to take years to return inflation fully to their 2% goal.
Despite the tough talk from the Fed, investors Wednesday seemed unconvinced. Stock prices in the S&P 500 fluctuated higher and lower as Powell spoke at a news conference before ending the day down 0.6%.
And although the Fed expects to keep rates above 5% through the end of 2023, investors are still betting that the central bank will stop raising rates sooner and begin cutting them earlier.
“Financial markets want black and white, and you’re working in shades of gray,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, explaining that investors are not internalizing the Fed’s nuanced message.
That divergence could be a problem for central bankers. Higher stock prices and lower market-based interest rates make money cheaper and easier to borrow, helping to stimulate the economy — the opposite of the Fed’s goal as it tries to lower inflation.
“You hear the mantra, ‘Don’t fight the Fed,’ but at the moment the market is willing to fight the Fed,” said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont Se-
curities. “It’s an interesting dissonance that creates a risk for the market.”
Powell has repeatedly emphasized that his central bank is determined to keep fighting inflation until it is thoroughly vanquished, and on Wednesday he underlined that wrestling price pressures back under control is likely to take some time.
The Fed has recently received evidence that inflation is moderating, including in fresh Consumer Price Index data released Tuesday. Economists have spent months of waiting for rapid price increases in goods — from used cars to apparel — to slow as supply chains healed, which finally seems to be happening. Housing inflation is also poised to cool in 2023 as a recent slowdown in market-based rents shows up in official data, which should allow services inflation to begin to moderate.
But Powell said during his news conference that Fed officials need “substantially more evidence” to feel confident that inflation is on a sustained downward path.
In particular, a sharper economic deceleration may be needed for quick service price increases to fade fully. The job market is very strong and wages are growing rapidly, which could keep prices rising for things like haircuts, restaurant meals and financial help. That’s because as they pay their workers more, companies are likely to charge more to try to protect their profits.
“We do see a very, very strong labor market, one where we haven’t seen much softening,” Powell said. “Really there’s an imbalance in the labor market between supply and demand, so that part of it, which is the biggest part, is likely to take a substantial period to get down.”
Powell said, “That’s really why we’re writing down those high rates and why we’re expecting that they’ll have to remain high for a time.”
Even if the Fed can set the economy down relatively gently, officials expect their path to cause at least some pain in the labor market. While that is an unattractive prospect, central bankers believe it is necessary to prevent price increases from beginning to feed on themselves.
If consumers get used to rapid inflation and begin asking for bigger raises, and companies make bigger and more regular price adjustments to cover rising input and labor bills, fast price increases could become entrenched.
“I wish there were a completely painless way to restore price stability,” Powell said. “There isn’t.”
U.S. stock indexes fell sharply on Thursday, with the Dow on track for its steepest single-day fall in three months, as the Federal Reserve’s guidance for protracted policy tightening quelled hopes of the rate-hike cycle ending anytime soon.
The benchmark S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq were also set to notch their worst single-day performance in six weeks.
The U.S. central bank hiked rates by 50 basis points on Wednesday, slowing down from four back-to-back 75 bps hikes, although Fed Chair Jerome Powell said recent signs of weakening inflation have not brought any confidence yet that the fight had been won.
The Fed projected continued rate hikes to above 5% in 2023, a level not seen since a steep economic downturn in 2007.
“The issue was the market was looking for rate cuts in 2023 and that’s not compatible with any credible economic scenario because you’d need to have quite a collapse in economic activity and a speedy deterioration of the labor market,” said Willem Sels, global CIO, private banking and wealth management at HSBC.
Money market participants expect at least two 25 bps rate hikes next year and borrowing costs to peak at 4.9% in the first half, before falling to around 4.4% by year-end.
Wall Street’s main indexes staged a strong recovery since hitting 2022 lows in October on hopes of a less aggressive Fed, but the rally stalled in December amid mixed economic data and major U.S. executives flagging increased chances of a recession.
Investors also assessed economic data on Thursday that showed a steeper-than-expected decline in retail sales in November and the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits falling last week, indicating a tight labor market.
“Today’s data reinforces what Powell was saying yesterday that this is going to take time and the market seems to want to try and fast forward through the messy parts and it’s just not going to be able to do that because the Fed is not going to let it,” said Sameer Samana, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
Most major central banks have embarked on a hawkish path in their battle against stubborn inflation, with the Bank of England and the European Central Bank further indicating an extended hiking cycle on Thursday.
At 11:52 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 816.88 points, or 2.40%, at 33,149.47, the S&P 500 was down 104.30 points, or 2.61%, at 3,891.02, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 338.56 points, or 3.03%, at 10,832.33.
All the 11 major S&P 500 sectors were in the red, with communication services and technology stocks falling over 3% and bearing the brunt of selling pressure.
Shares of megacap companies such as Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp dropped over 3% each.
ware firm’s stock to “neutral”, while Rent the Runway Inc jumped 33.9% after the clothing rental firm raised its 2022 revenue forecast.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 3.36-to1 ratio on the NYSE. Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 2.67-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The Pentagon is expanding the training the U.S. military provides to Ukrainian troops, with plans to more than double the number of forces it instructs at a base in Germany, according to two U.S. officials.
Under the expanded program, American trainers will instruct larger groups of Ukrainian soldiers in more advanced battlefield tactics, like coordinating ground infantry troop maneuvers with artillery support. Those skills are critical for executing offensives and recapturing territory.
The expanded training, which officials said President Joe Biden had approved this week, would enable U.S. instructors to train a Ukrainian battalion — about 600 to 800 troops — each month, beginning early next year, officials said.
That is a major increase in the overall number of Ukrainians the United States trains outside the country — now averaging about 300 troops a month — in addition to a revamping of the training they will receive. CNN reported last month that the Biden administration was considering the expanded training.
Since the war started in February, the United States has trained 3,100 Ukrainian soldiers, mostly in small groups, on specific weapons like artillery systems, according to Defense Department statistics.
The Pentagon has trained 610 Ukrainian soldiers in the
use of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, an advanced rocket launcher. Ukrainian troops have used the launchers to devastating effect, hitting targets far behind the lines, including ammunition depots, command posts and bridges.
The new training regimen is set to take place at a U.S. Army base in Grafenwoehr, Germany, where the Pentagon conducts its own combined arms training. The base is also home to the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials have been wary of pulling too many troops off the front lines at any given time for specialized
weapons training. But with winter slowing the tempo of fighting in many parts of the combat zone, officials said the coming months would provide a window.
From 2015 to early this year, U.S. military instructors trained more than 27,000 Ukrainian soldiers at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center in western Ukraine, near the city of Lviv, Pentagon officials said. The United States withdrew 150 military instructors before the war began.
Months after the war started, the United States and other Western countries began training Ukrainian forces in Germany and Poland.
In addition, Britain launched a program to provide military training in Britain to 10,000 Ukrainian Army recruits and staff members, an effort that aims to help bolster local resistance to the Russian invasion.
The initiative, announced in June by Boris Johnson, the prime minister at the time, began with more than 1,000 British soldiers from the 11th Security Force Assistance Brigade, which specializes in foreign training.
Other nations, including Canada, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden joined in after Britain requested help.
Adm. Tony Radakin, Britain’s chief of defense, said Wednesday that the initial goal of training 10,000 Ukrainian recruits had nearly been met. “This is significant,” he said in a speech in London.
The leader of the World Health Organization, who has repeatedly urged the international community to stop the armed conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, said Wednesday that Eritrean forces there had killed his uncle along with more than 50 others.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, who was born in Tigray, made the announcement at the end of a news conference in Geneva, where he and others had discussed COVID-19, mpox and other health crises.
Tedros said he had considered canceling the news conference after he received word Saturday that his uncle, whom he did not name, had been “murdered” by Eritrean troops in a Tigrayan village, in what he described as an attack that was “just arbitrary.”
“I spoke to my mother, and she was really devastated because he was the youngest from their family,” Tedros said, adding that his uncle had been close to his own age, 57.
The Ethiopian government and the leadership of the Tigray region reached a deal last month intended to stop the fighting. The agreement did not include
Eritrea, Ethiopia’s northern neighbor, whose troops have fought alongside the Ethiopian military. Eritrean forces have been accused of some of the most heinous atrocities in the war, including ethnic massacres and sexual violence.
“I hope the peace agreement will hold and this madness would stop,” Tedros said. “But it’s just a very, very difficult moment for me.”
Ethiopian and Eritrean officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment about Tedros’ remarks.
Tedros, who was a minister in the Ethiopian government when it was led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, has called for more urgent action to stop the war in Tigray. The crisis has left thousands dead, forced more than 2 million people from their homes and left parts of Ethiopia in faminelike conditions.
The conflict, which began more than two years ago, has involved the Ethiopian military, ethnic militias and Eritrean troops who have fought to oust the Tigray People’s Liberation Front from its stronghold in Tigray.
Tedros has called the crisis “the worst disaster on Earth” and has accused Western nations of ignoring the suffering there. “Maybe the reason is the color of the skin of the people in Tigray,” he has said.
Peru has been convulsed in recent years by political turmoil, rapid turnovers of presidents and constant scandals and investigations. But this week has perhaps been one of the most tumultuous in the country’s recent history.
On Dec. 7, Congress scheduled an afternoon vote on whether to impeach the president, Pedro Castillo, on corruption accusations. But Castillo, seeking to thwart the vote, announced the dissolution of Congress and the installation of an emergency government, in what was quickly condemned as a coup attempt.
The move shocked even the president’s allies, and by day’s end, Castillo had been removed from office and was under arrest. Dina Boluarte, his vice president, became president, the first woman to lead Peru.
But what initially seemed to be a sign of the resilience of a fragile democracy dissolved into unrest just days later as supporters of the former president staged attacks against police stations, airports and factories.
On Wednesday, Peru’s defense minister declared a nationwide state of emergency as the government sought to control widespread violence, an extraordinary measure even in a country accustomed to political upheaval and protest.
Here is what we know so far.
Who is Castillo?
Castillo, 53, who was elected president last year, was born to parents who were illiterate farmers in an impoverished, rural region without sewerage and with a lack of access to health care and schools.
Even after Castillo became a teacher, he farmed to supplement his income. He became a union activist, helping to organize a strike for better pay for teachers.
During his election campaign last year, Castillo, a socialist, appealed to voters frustrated with the political establishment.
He ran on the slogan “No more poor people in a rich country” and promised to improve the country’s economy and reduce its chronic inequality. High poverty rates have worsened during the pandemic, rising by about 10%, one of the steepest increases not just in Latin America but in the world, according to Hugo Nopo, a senior economist at the World Bank.
Although Castillo cast himself as a clean break from the country’s corrupt past, he quickly became embroiled in scandal once elected and failed to keep many of his promises.
For years, Peru has been hobbled by political corruption that has led to six presidents since 2016. Castillo’s tenure only worsened the sense of political dysfunction.
He named five different Cabinets and cycled through more than 80 ministers, some of whom lacked relevant skills or experience and faced investigations related to corruption, domestic violence and murder.
Castillo was the target of six criminal investigations, including over accusations that he led a criminal organization to profit off government contracts and claims that he repeatedly obstructed justice.
He denied the charges, and some of his supporters say that he was the victim of a concerted effort to reinstate the former ruling elites.
Congress had tried to impeach Castillo twice before, and the third vote was planned after he earlier threatened to dissolve the body.
What happened when Castillo tried to suspend Congress?
Soon after Castillo announced his decision to short-circuit Congress in a nationally televised address, the armed forces and police rejected Castillo’s move, top government officials resigned in quick succession, law experts called his effort illegal and even the president’s former personal lawyer disavowed him. The United States also joined the chorus of dissent.
Within hours, Congress voted to impeach him.
Boluarte, 60, is a former lawyer who was a member of a Marxist political party until she was pushed out last year after criticizing the party’s leader.
She comes from a rural area of Peru, and she ran on Castillo’s ticket last year, serving as vice president and as his minister of development and social inclusion. She resigned from her ministerial role last month, after Castillo formed his most recent Cabinet.
After Boluarte took office Dec. 7, small protests erupted in Lima and other parts of the country. They intensified that weekend when at least six people died in the clashes, according to Peru’s ombudsman’s office. Authorities said that more than 100 police officers have been injured.
The protests are backed by the country’s largest federation of labor unions, the largest association of Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon and many organizations representing poor farmers, among other groups.
Many of them are supporters of Castillo who say that they feel robbed of their vote. They have demanded the shutdown of Congress, the drafting of a new constitution and new elections. Some are also calling for Castillo’s release.
The government of Peru on Wednesday declared a nationwide state of emergency.
The measure suspended the rights of assembly and freedom of transit, among other civil liberties, for 30 days, the country’s defense minister said.
Experts said that the state of emergency was unusual. While past governments have done so in parts of the country, they said the measure had not been used this widely since the 1990s, when the country was brutalized by a Marxist terrorist group called the Shining Path.
One-quarter of Peru’s 33 million people live in poverty. The United Nations in November warned that the country had the highest rate of food insecurity in South America, with half the population lacking regular access to sufficient nutrition.
“The most important challenge is that of shared prosperity,” said Nopo, the World Bank economist. “We are a country that has been characterized by good macro stability, but it still has serious challenges in making this macro bonanza as inclusive as would be desirable.”
The pandemic and the war in Ukraine have contributed to a huge increase in prices for basic goods and other essential products, including fertilizer, setting off widespread protests.
Mining, a key part of the economy, has been a driver of the country’s growth over the past two decades, but it is also a major source of pollution and contributes to climate change.
Chronic corruption has affected the highest echelons of power. Three presidents in recent years were forced from office after corruption accusations.
Castillo is the sixth former president to face prison time this century, a symptom of institutional instability, and Congress is one of the least-trusted institutions in the country, according to a recent poll.
With a triple-whammy of frigid weather, an early snowfall and crippling strikes across multiple industries, Britain appears headed into what the London tabloids, perhaps inevitably, are labeling another winter of discontent.
Postal workers and railway employees have walked out, holding up Christmas packages and disrupting the travel plans of millions two weeks before the holiday. On Thursday, they were to be joined by as many as 100,000 nurses in a one-day work stoppage that could slow treatment in hospitals and clinics across England.
Driving-test examiners at motor-vehicle departments are going on strike, as well as baggage handlers, bus drivers, road crews and energy-company employees. The newspapers have taken to publishing colorcoded calendars to help readers keep track of which services will be interrupted on what date.
The proliferating labor unrest has drawn comparisons to the original winter of discontent, in 1978 and 1979, when public and private-sector strikes paralyzed the country. That cemented a sense that the Labour prime minister, James Callaghan, had lost control, and ultimately toppled his government.
Much has changed since then, of course, not least the power of trade unions in Britain, much diminished since the 1970s. But the political danger to the Conservative government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is still acute. Critics have seized on the chance to blame him for a country that seems broken.
“History is a really big warning sign for Sunak and company,” said Matthew Goodwin, a professor of politics at the University of Kent. “It was the industrial chaos of the late ’70s that paved the way for a decade of Thatcher. This is compounding a sense in the country that nobody is really in control.”
Sunak said in an interview with The Daily Mail published early Thursday that he
planned to introduce anti-strike legislation next year. “I would really hope that union leaders can see that it’s not right to cause such misery and disruption to so many people, particularly at Christmas time,” he told the outlet.
The prime minister was already grappling with a surfeit of other problems: double-digit inflation, rising interest rates and a recession. On Wednesday, he surpassed the number of days that his ill-fated predecessor, Liz Truss, survived in office — a period marked by less drama than Truss’ tenure but scarcely fewer challenges.
The deepening labor unrest dominated Sunak’s last appearance of the year at prime minister’s questions in Parliament. He and his chief antagonist, Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, recycled lines that could have been used by Callaghan and his rival, Margaret Thatcher. But this time, their roles were reversed.
“After 12 years of Tory failure, winter has arrived for our public services, and we’ve got a prime minister who has curled up in a ball and gone into hibernation,” Starmer said in a blistering attack on Sunak for what he called the government’s failure to make deals with the major public-sector unions.
Sunak countered that the government had made good-faith wage offers to workers in several sectors, and accused the Labour Party of “protecting their paymasters” in the unions. The prime minister claimed, somewhat implausibly, that the strikes were “Labour’s nightmare before Christmas.”
The government’s hope is that public sentiment will turn against the unions, and that when it does, the Labour Party will pay a political price, much as it did in 1979. ProTory tabloids like Rupert Murdoch’s Sun are pushing the idea that support for the strikes is fraying, not only with the public, but also in the rank-and-file of the unions.
“You’ve lost it Lynch,” the Sun said on its front page Wednesday, referring to Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, which for months has been staging strikes that have periodically shut down large parts of the British train system.
Lynch, who had generally been praised for his adroit public profile during the strikes, showed uncharacteristic strain Tuesday. He lashed out at a BBC host, Mishal Husain, when she pressed Lynch on how much money union members were losing on each day they refused to go to work. The BBC, Lynch said, was “parroting” the reporting of the Sun and other right-wing tabloids.
Polls, however, suggest that people con-
tinue to support striking workers, who have faced years of low wage growth as well as the strains of the pandemic. In a tracking poll by the market research firm YouGov, 59% of those surveyed said that railway and Underground workers should be allowed to strike, while 30% opposed it. For nurses, the margin was 52% in favor, 38% opposed.
The Royal College of Nurses, which represents the nurses, is demanding a 19% increase in wages. The government has refused to negotiate, claiming that an increase of that magnitude would worsen the backlog in treatment at hospitals by siphoning funds away from other parts of the National Health Service.
The unions, analysts said, were being helped by the perception that they are no longer as militant or powerful as they were in the 1970s. Wages throughout the economy have also stagnated for several years, which has made people more sympathetic for worker demands for substantial raises.
“There is, historically, an unusual level of support for the unions,” said Steven Fielding, an emeritus professor of political history at the University of Nottingham. “And there are some groups, like the nurses, who are seen as secular saints. This is the first time they have ever gone on strike.”
Sunak has tried to avoid being dragged into direct conflict with the unions by arguing that the wage negotiations should be left to pay review bodies, which set wages for public-sector workers. But critics say the government has hidden behind those bodies to avoid confronting workers’ demands.
In October, Truss struck a deal with striking criminal defense lawyers, offering them a 15% increase in legal aid payments.
The Labour Party has its own sensitivities. While Starmer is publicly supportive of workers, he has discouraged senior party figures from joining picket lines. Labour holds a wide lead in polls over the Conservative Party, and Starmer is loath to put that at risk by becoming too closely associated with the strikers.
Lynch, speaking on the BBC on Wednesday, said he expected that a Labour-led government would take a “similar fiscal line as the Tories,” adding, “We would like them to be a little bolder.”
But for now, the Conservatives are in power, and Labour is portraying the government’s failure to settle the unrest as part of a broader Conservative failure to manage the economy, and by extension, the country — just as Thatcher accused Callaghan more than 40 years ago.
He trafficked weapons to rebels in Angola. He ran a criminal group that smuggled cobalt out of Congo. He delivered missiles, machine guns and military helicopters to Liberia, when it was in the middle of a civil war.
But convicted Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout, released by the United States last week in exchange for American basketball star Brittney Griner, was never held to account for any of the acts that have been documented over the years by experts at the United Nations. Instead, he was arrested in a sting operation in Bangkok in 2008 by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration informants posing as Colombian revolutionaries, and then convicted of conspiring to kill Americans.
While he was greeted on his arrival back in Russia last week as a “wonderful person,” many of the African victims of the conflicts he supplied with weapons are still enduring the trauma and awaiting any kind of justice.
“This guy’s responsible for the murder, indirectly, of thousands of persons,” said Hassan Bility, director of the Global Justice and Research Project, an organization that documents wartime atrocities in his country, Liberia.
Bout had a network of more than 50 planes that were constantly involved in “arms shipments from Eastern Europe into African war zones,” according to the United Nations.
Bout has not responded yet to an interview request. But speaking to The New York Times in 2003, Bout first said that he didn’t know that what he was delivering were arms. And then he changed tack.
“Illegal weapons?” he said. “What does that mean? If rebels control an airport and a city, and they give you clearance to land, what’s illegal about that?”
One of the war zones where the United Nations flagged arms shipments was Liberia. Bout supplied weapons to Charles Taylor, a former president of Liberia, said Stephen J. Rapp, who as prosecutor of the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone led the prosecution of Taylor, which ultimately ended in his war crimes conviction for atrocities committed in Sierra Leone.
Among them was 1992’s Operation Octopus, in which child and teenage soldiers laid siege to the Liberian capital and thousands of people were killed within a month.
“The way Taylor fought his wars was not by going out and
shooting combatants on the other side,” said Rapp. “It was through these violent acts against civilian populations. And so, if you were supplying arms to Taylor, you had a fair sense that they were going to be used in this ‘make them fearful’ — as he would say — kind of fighting.”
For Joshua Kulah, who was 9 when Liberia’s second civil war ended in 2003, that fear is seared in his memory. Kulah, now a 28-year-old lawyer, said that he had friends who were forced to become child soldiers by soldiers and rebels, and cousins and friends who died on the front line. He remembered his parents hiding him every time armed men came to the neighborhood, in case he were abducted and forced to fight, too.
Kulah said he was “indifferent” to Bout’s release because he blamed the people who used the guns, not those who sold them.
But Bility said his organization would begin building a complete dossier on the arms dealer’s activities in Liberia that could be used in a case against him, “and then just wait” for him to leave Russia so he could be extradited or charged elsewhere.
Almost everyone in Liberia suffered one way or another. One woman, now 44, remembered the war Bout supplied weapons to as “just hardship.” Her family had no food, she said, and had to walk for hours to find something to eat.
The woman’s family was already traumatized by the events of the first civil war (1989-97), in which her uncle was killed by rebel forces fighting for Prince Johnson, another warlord. Johnson is best known for ordering the murder of President Samuel Doe in 1990 and drinking beer while watching as he was tortured. But today Johnson is a powerful senator who has such an important political following that he repeatedly plays kingmaker in Liberian presidential elections.
The woman whose uncle was killed wanted to remain anonymous, 32 years later, for fear of repercussions. Johnson’s political power and the fear he still inspires are part of the reason that thousands of victims of the Liberian civil wars have never seen any kind of justice, Bility said.
He said that the release of Bout was “difficult,” but that he would not criticize the United States for it when that country had repeatedly tried to hold to account the Liberian rebels who fled there, while hundreds of war criminals back in Liberia walk free.
“The United States — when it comes to justice — has done more” than Liberia, he said. “Way, way, way more.”
For years, Liberian survivors of the wars, human rights advocates and some politicians have pushed for the creation of a war crimes court — something that was recommended by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. But successive governments have resisted it.
Among the commission’s recommendations: investigate Bout.
Initially, George Weah, the former international soccer star who today is president of the West African country, endorsed the creation of the court. But, recently, he has gone silent on the subject.
With African leaders convening this week in Washington for a high-level summit, Bility called on President Joe Biden to speak with Weah about establishing such a court.
Rapp, the prosecutor, said that Bout’s conviction had been a little like that of Al Capone, the Chicago mobster who was eventually jailed for tax evasion — not murder or bootlegging or racketeering.
“I’d prefer that somebody other than Viktor Bout was traded,” Rapp said. “But the fact that he’s done almost 15 years of his 25-year sentence is some solace. Al Capone only did eight.”
“We will beat the Ukrainian out of you so that you love Russia,” a Russian interrogator told one torture survivor I spoke to in Ukraine, before he whipped her and raped her. That seems a pretty good summation of Vladimir Putin’s strategy.
It isn’t working in Ukraine, where Putin’s atrocities seem to be bolstering the will to fight back. That brave woman triumphed over her interrogators, albeit at horrific personal cost.
But I worry that we in the West are made of weaker stuff. Some of the most momentous decisions the United States will make in the coming months involve the level of support we will provide Ukraine, and I’ve had pushback from some readers who think President Joe Biden is making a terrible mistake by resolutely helping Ukraine repel Russia.
A woman named Nancy protested on my Facebook page that I was more interested in securing Ukraine’s border than the American border. She argued that we should focus on our own challenges rather than Ukraine’s.
“We’re over our head in debt but funding a war that we shouldn’t be involved in,” she said. “Enough is enough.”
Polls find American support for aid to Ukraine still robust but slipping, especially among Republicans. And almost half of Americans want the United States to push Ukraine “to settle for peace as soon as possible,” even if it loses territory — a finding that must gladden Putin’s heart.
The exhaustion with Western support for Ukraine may continue to gain ground in the coming months as people grow weary of high energy prices and, in the case of some European countries, possible rolling power cuts.
So let me make the case, to Nancy and others, for why we should continue to provide weaponry to Ukraine.
The fundamental misconception among many congressional Republicans (and some progressives on the left) is that we’re doing Ukraine a favor by sending it weapons. Not so. We are holding Ukraine’s coat as it is sacrificing lives and infrastructure in ways that benefit us, by degrading Russia’s military threat to NATO and Western Europe — and thus to us.
“They’re doing us a favor; they’re fighting our fight,” Wesley Clark, a retired American general and former supreme allied commander of NATO forces in Europe, told me. “The fight in Ukraine is a fight about the future of the international community.”
If the war ends in a way favorable to Russia, he argues, it will be a world less safe for Americans. One lesson the world would absorb would be the paramount importance of possessing nuclear weapons, for Ukraine was invaded after it gave up its nuclear arsenal in the 1990s — and Russia’s nuclear warheads today prevent a stronger Western military response.
“If Ukraine falls, there will certainly be a wave of nuclear proliferation,” Clark warned.
For years, military strategists have feared a Russian
incursion into Estonia that would challenge NATO and cost lives of U.S. troops. Ukrainians are weakening Russia’s forces so as to reduce that risk.
More broadly, perhaps the single greatest threat to world peace in the coming decade is the risk of a conflict in the Taiwan Strait that escalates into a war between the United States and China. To reduce that danger, we should help Taiwan build up its deterrent capacity — but perhaps the simplest way to reduce the likelihood of Xi Jinping acting aggressively is to stand united against Russia’s invasion. If the West falters and allows Putin to win in Ukraine, Xi will feel greater confidence that he can win in Taiwan.
Putin has been a destabilizing and brutal bully for many years — from Chechnya to Syria, Georgia to Moldova — partly because the world has been unwilling to stand up to him and partly because he possesses a powerful military force that Ukraine is now dismantling. Aside from energy, Russia’s economy is not substantial.
“Putin and Russia are weak,” Viktor Yushchenko, a former Ukrainian president who challenged Russia and then was mysteriously poisoned and disfigured, told me. “Russia is a poor country, an oil appendage to the world, a gas station.”
The world owes Ukraine for its willingness to finally stand up to Putin. If anything, I’d like to see the Biden administration carefully ratchet up the capabilities of the weaponry it supplies Ukraine, for it may be that the best way to end the war is simply to ensure that Putin finds the cost of it no longer worth paying.
I don’t mean to suggest that everyone backing peace negotiations is craven, fatigued or myopic. Gen. Mark Milley and other Pentagon officials are understandably worried that the Ukraine conflict could spiral out of control into a nuclear
war. That’s a legitimate concern, and it’s always good to peer through the fog of war for off-ramps. But bowing to nuclear blackmail and rewarding an invasion would create their own risks for many years to come, and on balance those dangers seem greater than those of maintaining the present course.
In arguing for the West to stand with Ukraine, I’ve emphasized our national interest in doing so. But we have values at stake as well as interests, for there is also a moral question to face.
When one nation invades a neighbor and commits murder, pillage and rape, when it traffics in thousands of children, when it pulverizes the electrical grid to make civilians freeze in winter — in such a blizzard of likely war crimes, neutrality is not the high ground.
Let’s not let Russia beat the Ukrainian out of us: The world could use a spinal transplant from brave Ukrainians.
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Los funcionarios de la Oficina de Ética Gubernamental (OEG) recomendaron multas contra tres alcaldes por, entre otras cosas, falsificar documentos y contratar convictos federales o personas no cualificadas.
En específico, se trata de los alcaldes de Ciales, Alexander Burgos Otero; Salinas, Karilin Bonilla Colón y Las Marías, Edwin Soto Santiago.
En el caso del alcalde de Ciales, Alexander Burgos Otero, se le imputa que para el año 2019, mientras se desempeñaba como legislador municipal y Telecomunicador Uno del Centro de Recepción de Llamadas 3-1-1, sometió unos documentos falsos de la Legislatura Municipal a su centro de trabajo. La supuesta documentación falsa indicaba que Burgos Otero estaba en sesión de comisión, para las que había sido convocado el 25 de enero de 2019 y el 21 de agosto de 2019.
De la investigación de la OEG se concluyó que Burgos Otero no fue convocado y tampoco se llevó a cabo sesión y/o reunión de comisión en las referidas fechas.
“Con la conducta arriba descrita el querellado logró estar ausente de su trabajo en el Centro de Recepción de Llamadas 311 y que sus ausencias fueran cargadas a una licencia especial con paga”, indica la querella.
De otra parte, al alcalde de Las Marías, Edwin Soto Santiago se le acusa de nombrar de forma transitoria a dos destituidos agentes de la Policía, que fueron convictos a nivel federal por conspiración para poseer e intentar distribuir cocaína.
Soto Santiago nombró Luis González Torres como líder recreativo, mientras que a Jonathan Ortíz Muñoz le dio el puesto de chofer.
Entretanto, contra la alcaldesa de Salinas, Karilin Bonilla Ortíz se alega que nombró a su ayudante administrativa Jessica González Carbonell como directora interina de la Oficina de Finanzas desde octubre de 2017 hasta el 5 de agosto de 2018 y desde el 24 de octubre de 2018 hasta el 31 de julio de 2020. Como parte de la designación, le pagó un diferencial de 15,914 dólares.
“La designada como directora interina de la Oficina de Finanzas en el Municipio de Salinas en múl-
tiples ocasiones, no tenía preparación académica en Administración de Empresas ni poseía experiencia de trabajo previa en contabilidad o finanzas y tampoco tenía derecho a que se le concediera el mencionado diferencial”, expone la querella.
Además de las multas, se ordena restituir los salarios o diferenciales pagados a estas personas.
Los querellados tienen derecho a apelar las multas en el foro administrativo.
SAN JUAN – La secretaria del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA), Anaís Rodríguez Vega anunció que, luego de casi 20 años sin reclutar vigilantes, la agencia dio un gran paso al comenzar desde este jueves el reclutamiento para la primera Academia de Vigilantes.
La agencia espera reclutar antes de terminar el año presupuestario 2022-2023 hasta 75 nuevos vigilantes, 25 para cada una de las áreas de Guayama (zona sur), Humacao (zona este) y San Juan (zona norte).
“Hoy damos un gran paso para continuar cumpliendo con la política pública de esta administración a favor de nuestros recursos naturales. Esta Academia nos permitirá traer más personal para salvaguardar y vigilar por el cumplimiento de nuestras leyes y reglamentos ambientales.
Comenzamos con este primer grupo y ya para el próximo año fiscal 2023-2024 esperamos llevar a cabo una segunda academia de nuevos reclutas”, señaló la secretaria en declaraciones escritas.
La titular del DRNA informó que la convocatoria para solicitar ingreso a la academia se extenderá hasta el 31 de enero de 2023. Los que interesen solicitar para ingresar en la Academia deben tener cuarto año de escuela superior acreditada o licenciada, con un mínimo de 2.5 de índice académico, licencia de conducir vigente emitida por el Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas del Gobierno de Puerto Rico y deben aprobar el adiestramiento teórico y práctico, así como aprobar o dar negativo a las pruebas de sustancias controladas.
Las personas que reúnan los requisitos mínimos e interesen ser considerados deberán completar la solicitud de
examen a través del portal de convocatorias http://www. empleos.pr.gov o completar la solicitud de examen que pueden descargar en el portal de referencia y/o en el portal del DRNA y entregarla o enviarla por correo ordinario, acompañada de todos los documentos necesarios para la evaluación. La dirección es: Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, División de Recursos Humanos, San José Industrial Park, 1375 Ave. Ponce de León, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00926. Es importante señalar que en caso de que se envíe la solicitud por correo es requisito indispensable que la fecha del matasellos sea en o antes de la fecha de cierre de la convocatoria.
Rodríguez Vega informó que además de los $2 millones necesarios para sufragar esta nueva academia, el DRNA cuenta con un millón de dólares adicionales para la compra del equipo necesario para los nuevos integrantes.
SAN JUAN – El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el jueves 8 muertes y 213 personas hospitalizadas.
El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,463.
Hay 168 adultos hospitalizados y 28 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 28 de noviembre al 12 de diciembre 2022.
La tasa de positividad está en 24.46 por ciento.
cal, Lorax-like connection to the trees and flowers of Pandora.
Jake and Neytiri’s sitcom-worthy household is completed by Spider (Jack Champion), a scampish human boy left behind by Quaritch (Stephen Lang), Jake’s former Marine commander and one of the villains of the original “Avatar.” Quaritch returns to Pandora with a new mandate to colonize it, and a squad of Na’vi-ized fighters to carry out the mission. He has a long-simmering vendetta against Jake, and much of “The Way of Water” is concerned less with large-scale imperial ambitions than with personal dramas of loyalty and betrayal.
With a running time of more than three hours — about 10 minutes shorter than “Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles,” by recent acclamation the greatest movie of all time — “The Way of Water” is overloaded with character and incident. The final stretch, which feels somehow longer than the rest of it, runs aground in action movie bombast, and suggests that even a pop auteur as inventive and resourceful as Cameron may have run out of ideas when it comes to climactic fight sequences. There are a lot of those, in the air and underwater, fistic and fiery, sad and rousing, nearly every one of which will remind you of stuff you’ve seen a dozen times before.
By A.O. SCOTTWay back in 2009, “Avatar” arrived on screens as a plausible and exciting vision of the movie future.
Thirteen years later, “Avatar: The Way of Water” — the first of several long-awaited sequels directed by James Cameron — brings with it a ripple of nostalgia.
The throwback sensation may hit you even before the picture starts, as you unfold your 3-D glasses. When was the last time you put on a pair of those? Even the anticipation of seeing something genuinely new at the multiplex feels like an artifact of an earlier time, before streaming and the Marvel Universe took over.
The first “Avatar” fused Cameron’s faith in technological progress with his commitments to the primal pleasures of oldfashioned storytelling and the visceral delights of big-screen action. The 3-D effects and intricately rendered digital landscapes — the trees and flowers of the moon Pandora and the way creatures and machines swooped and barreled through them — felt like the beginning of something, the opening of a fresh horizon of imaginative possibility.
At the same time, the visual novelty was built on a sturdy foundation of familiar themes and genre tropes. “Avatar” was set on a fantastical world populated by soulful blue bipeds, but it wasn’t exactly (or only) science fiction. It was a revisionist western, an ecological fable, a post-Vietnam political allegory — a tale of romance, valor and revenge with traces of Homer, James Fenimore Cooper and “Star Trek” in its DNA.
All of that is also true of “The Way of Water,” which picks
up the story and carries it from Pandora’s forests to its reefs and wetlands — an environment that inspires some new and dazzling effects. Where “Avatar” found inspiration in lizardbirds, airborne spores and jungle flowers, the sequel revels in aquatic wonders, above all a kind of armored whale called the tulkun.
Before we meet those beings — in a sequence that has the quiet awe of a nature documentary — we are brought upto-date with the characters from the first movie, whom we may have forgotten about. Jake Sully, the conflicted U.S. Marine played by Sam Worthington who was the hero of “Avatar,” has remade his life among the Na’vi. Like them, he is now tall, slender and blue, with a mane of dark hair and a braid that connects him to members of other species. He’s fluent in Na’vi (though most of the dialogue is rendered in English).
Jake and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) are raising a brood of biological and adopted children, whose squabbles and adventures bring a youthful energy to the sometimes heavy, myth-laden narrative. There are four Na’vi kids, a pair each of brothers and sisters. Neteyam (Jamie Flatters), the older son, walks dutifully in Jake’s brave shadow, while his younger brother, Lo’ak (Britain Dalton), is a rebel and a hothead, looking for trouble and often finding it.
Their sisters are the adorable Tuk (Trinity Jo-Li Bliss) and the teenage Kiri, whose birth mother was the noble human scientist Grace Augustine. One of the film’s genuinely uncanny effects is that Sigourney Weaver, who played Dr. Augustine in the first film, plays Kiri in this one, her unmistakable face digitally de-aged and tinted blue. Like her mother, the girl has a mysti-
That’s too bad, because much of the middle of “The Way of Water” restores the latent promise of newness — no small accomplishment in an era of wearying franchise overkill. Afraid that Quaritch and his men will bring slaughter to the forest, Jake and Neytiri seek the protection of Ronal (Kate Winslet) and Tonowari (Cliff Curtis), chieftains of a reef-dwelling Na’vi clan.
The differences among the Na’vi — physical as well as cultural — add an interesting new dimension to the anthropology of Pandora, and to the film’s aesthetic palette. The viewer discovers this variety in the company of the younger characters, especially Kiri and Lo’ak. Their adaptation to new surroundings — being teased for their skinny tails and clumsy arms, getting in fights and making new friends — gives the movie the buoyant, high-spirited sincerity of young-adult fiction.
Cameron’s embrace of the idealism of adolescence, of the capacity for moral outrage as well as wonder, is the emotional heart of the movie. You feel it in a horrifying scene of tulkun slaughter that aspires to the awful, stirring sublimity of the last chapters of “Moby-Dick,” and also in the restlessness of Lo’ak, Spider and Kiri as they try to figure out their roles. The next sequels, I suspect, will give them more time for that, but may also encumber them with more baggage.
I’m curious, and inclined — as I was in 2009 — to give this grand, muddled project the benefit of the doubt. Cameron’s ambitions are as sincere as they are self-contradictory. He wants to conquer the world in the name of the underdog, to celebrate nature by means of the most extravagant artifice, and to make everything new feel old again.
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
Rated PG-13. Almost blue. Running time: 3 hours 12 minutes. In theaters.
Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), the hero of the first “Avatar,” is back in the sequel, remaking his life on the moon Pandora.
By JUDY GORDON-CONDE and JENNIFER CONDE-POWERS
ecently, at the breathtaking Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, the Alliance Française of Puerto Rico (AFPR) kicked off the 13th edition of the Puerto Rico European Film Festival (PREFF), popularly known in Spanish as the Festival de Cine Europeo de Puerto Rico, with more than 25 films from 15 European countries and Puerto Rico.
Cinephiles and movie buffs mixed and mingled while discussing the importance of the arts in Puerto Rico and toasting the new wave of films, including several award-winning premiers as well as the annual Puerto Rican short film competition, Cortadito 2022, presented by TotalEnergies, and the French Film Festival for Youth, Festinema Junior 2022, presented by UBS.
Ioana Bugarin, Romanian film and theater actress and guest of the PREFF, and Katell Legaul, PREFF events production assistant.
RCarine Delplanque, the executive director of the Alliance Française of Puerto Rico, explained that this year’s edition of PREFF stands out for its renewed vision and a reinvigorated European presence. Deplanque also thanked the unwavering support of institutional and private companies, including the embassies and consulates of Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Malta, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Sweden. Moreover, the Department of State of Puerto Rico’s dedication helped elevate this exceptional cultural journey for those who are passionate about cinema on the island.
Cristian Rivera and Sara Longoni.
The TotalEnergies Puerto Rico team: Nickole Luna, marketing analyst; Diandra J. Nieves Marengo, brand and external communications manager; Zonimar Escudero, automotive services network coordinator; Luz Rojas, HSE compliance specialist.
of Villa Albertine in Miami; Omar Marrero Díaz, Secretary of State of Puerto Rico; Valerie Mouroux, audiovisual attaché of the French Embassy in the United States; Carine Delplanque, executive director of Alliance Française de Puerto Rico.
Carmen Pérez Brown,
adviser to
Marrero Díaz (Secretary of State of Puerto Rico); Frances Vallejo Rosich, legal adviser to Omar Marrero Díaz; Jennifer García Torres, director of public affairs and communications at the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority; Juan Machicote Rodríguez, special adviser on municipal and legislative affairs to Omar Marrero Díaz.
When James Bond famously ordered his martini “shaken and not stirred,” he was only telling two-thirds of the story. Because those aren’t the only bartending techniques available. There is also throwing, in which a drink repeatedly cascades through the air from one vessel to another.
Advocates for throwing contend that it aerates the drink, resulting in a delicately textured cocktail. At the very least, the process makes for a great show. Call it flair bartending, but with an actual purpose.
The technique is an old one. But by the late 20th century, it had nearly vanished, practiced primarily in old-school bars in Barcelona, Spain. In the past few years, however, it has made a triumphant return to many bars in the United States.
The drinks most commonly thrown are the martini and Bloody Mary. But, these days, almost anything goes. At Milady’s in SoHo, they throw versions of the appletini and the Long Island iced tea. At El Quijote, variations on the El Presidente and the Tuxedo get the treatment. At Nubeluz, José Andrés’ new rooftop bar in the Ritz-Carlton hotel in NoMad, they throw a riff on the Hanky Panky, while at Thyme Bar in Chelsea, a peanut-butter-flavored old-fashioned gets tossed about. (Some people may associate the practice with the 1988 Tom Cruise movie “Cocktail,” but the bartenders in the film threw bar hardware, not liquids.)
Seeing a bartender throw your cocktail can be a gratifying pleasure. But if you want a show with the price of your drink, you’d better choose carefully. Typically, only one or two cocktails on a menu will be made using the technique. There are reasons for this.
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“If I want lots of water and lots of air, I shake,” said Miguel Lancha, the “cocktail innovator” at Andrés’ restaurant group. “If you want little water and no air, then we stir. If I want a hybrid, combining as much air from shaking, and as little water from stirred, I throw.”
Brian Evans, the bar director at El Quijote, thinks any drink with pineapple juice is “heavenly with throwing.” For Natasha Mesa — who practiced throwing at the bars she worked at in Portland, Oregon, and brought it to New York when she became beverage director of Milady’s — throwing is good for any drink containing wine or vermouth.
Most thrown drinks are cold. But Milady’s plans to begin throwing flaming hot toddies. That trick harkens back to the O.G. of all thrown cocktails, the Blue Blazer, a 19th-century whiskey drink that is lit on fire and tossed between tankards.
“I like to throw them on fire because it caramelizes all the sugar,” Mesa said. “It gives it more texture than a regular toddy.”
Over centuries, the technique has been applied to everything from tea to cider. In terms of mixology, the practice was particularly associated with the Havana bar El Floridita. One bartender there, Miguel Boadas, took the skill back to his native Spain, where in 1933 he opened a bar in Barcelona. If there is an epicenter of throwing culture, it is still Boadas Cocktails.
Throwing cocktails might have stayed in Barcelona had a bartender at Boadas not traveled to New York in 2006 to seek out cocktail historians Jared Brown and Anastatia Miller. Soon, they followed him to Barcelona, where they were taught the technique and were asked to help revive it.
“As far as we knew, no one outside Boadas and their local influence was throwing,” Brown wrote in an email. “We took it on the international bar-show circuit.” He estimated that he and Miller have taught thousands of bartenders to throw over the years.
While Mesa’s reasons for employing the technique are “10% for the show, 90% for the taste,” her customers might invert those numbers. “The customers love it,” she said. “The cocktail nerds, they get it. They are familiar with texture and what it does to the drink. But the average consumer just thinks it looks cool, and you get to show off a little bit.”
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE BENJAMÍN RODRÍGUEZ COTTO COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS; SHARON RODRÍGUEZ MARRERO; ANA DORIS RODRÍGUEZ SANTIAGO; PERLA DEL MAR RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ; MILDRED CASTRO LÓPEZ, POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CRIM
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2022CV00153.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: SUCESIÓN DE BENJAMÍN RODRÍGUEZ COTTO COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS; SHARON RODRÍGUEZ MARRERO; ANA DORIS RODRÍGUEZ
SANTIAGO; PERLA DEL MAR RODRÍGUEZ
FERNÁNDEZ; MILDRED CASTRO LÓPEZ, POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A
LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM): Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago
recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Horizontal Property: Apartment unit number two thousand two hundred eight (2208), part of Fairlakes III, Condominium, is located at Ocean Drive Road, Palmas del Mar, Municipality of Humacao. This unit built with reinforced concrete and concrete blocks is located at the second floor of building number two (2) and it is one level unit. The total area is one thousand four hundred eighty three point thirty seven (1,483.37) square feet, equivalent to one hundred thirty seven point eighty one (137.81) square meters. The main entrance to this unit is located on its East Side and leads to a common elements which provides access to the same. The maximum length is forty seven feet with four inches (47’4”) and the maximum width is thirty eight feet with one inches (38’1”). It’s boundaries by the NORTH, in a distance of forty seven feet with four inches (47’4”) with unit exterior wall, common area and unit number two thousand two hundred seven (2211); by the SOUTH, in a distance of forty seven feet with four inches (47’4”) with unit exterior wall, common area and unit number two thounsand two hundred seven (2207); by the EAST, in a distance of thirty eight feet with one inches (38’1”) with common area and unit exterior wall; y por el OESTE, in a distance of thirty eight feet with one inches (38’1”) with unit exterior wall. This unit contains a living-dining room, a kitchen, a terrace and a laundry closet, an air conditioning closet, a bathroom and a balcony, a second bedroom with a terrace, a bathroom, a lavatory and walk-in closet, in a construction area of one thousand fifty four point ninety five (1454.95) square feet, equivalent to one hundred thirty five point seventeen (135.17) square meters. Owner’s closet eight (8): Part of this unit is an owner’s closet located outside of the units main premises at ground floor with a construction area of twenty eight point forty two (28.42) square feet, equivalent to two point sixty four (2.64) square meters. This unit percentrage share of the undivided interest in the common elements regime is equal interest in the
common elements of the Regime is equal to one point five zero six five one three percent (1.506513%). Parking space: the parking space is considered a limited common element destined for the exclusive use and enjoyment of the unit appearing below number two thousand two hundred eight (2208) parking number four (4) and twenty one (21). Consta inscrita al folio 86 del tomo 589 de Humacao, finca número #27,011, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: 2208 Fairlakes III Cond., Humacao, P.R. 00791. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $285,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #1,338, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de julio de 2004, ante el notario Luis A. Archilla Díaz, e inscrita al folio 86 vuelto del tomo 589 de Humacao, finca número 27,011, inscripción 3ra., debidamente modificada mediante la escritura número 305, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de octubre de 2014, ante el notario Jorge García Soto, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Humacao, finca número 27,011, inscripción 5ta. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2023
A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $285,000.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $190,000.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 21 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $142,500.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su
producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $231,808.53, la cual se desglosa a continuación: la suma principal de $228,975.07, con intereses a 5.375% anual, desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2020, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $2,833.46, como balance diferido, la cual no genera intereses, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $28,500.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables.
Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 9 de noviembre de 2022. JOSÉ
LUIS RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #249.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS MMG I PR CDGY LLC Demandante Vs. CHRISTIAN CAQUIAS MARTINEZ, SU ESPOSA EILEEN JANICE
MARTINEZ ARROYO Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado(s) Caso Núm.: CG2022CV00763. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.
A: CHRISTIAN CAQUIAS MARTINEZ, SU ESPOSA EILEEN JANICE MARTINEZ ARROYO Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; Y AL PUBLICO
EN GENERAL: El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 10 de agosto de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: Estancias del Bosque 818 calle Robles Cidra, Puerto Rico 00739: RUSTICA: Solar marcado con el numero 30 del bloque “K” de la Urbanización Estancias del Bosque, Sección
Robles localizada en el Barrio Bayamón de Cidra, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 253.00 metros cuadrados.
En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número treinta y uno (31) del bloque “K”; POR EL SUR, con el solar número veintinueve (29) y del bloque “K”; por el ESTE; con la calle número trece (13) de la misma Urbanización; y por el OESTE, con los solares número cuarenta y uno (41) y cuarenta y dos (42) ambos del bloque “k. Enclava una casa modelo “ST Mortiz” diseñada para fines residenciales. Consta inscrita al folio 53 del tomo 506 de Cidra finca número 18,816, Registro de la Propiedad Sección Segunda de Caguas. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 10 de junio de 2022 en el presente caso civil, a saber, tiene la suma de $116,732.49 de principal, más los intereses acumulados al 31 de marzo de 2022 ascendentes a $18,867.54, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el total pago y solvente del principal a razón de $17.83 diarios ( “ per diem”); $1,223.28 por concepto de cargos por mora, en adición a cualquier otro adelante realizado conforme a la hipoteca y la suma de $15,000.00 pactado por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Los intereses se continúan acumulando, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $150,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 18 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA
MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $100,000.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00
DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $75,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si
los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de noviembre de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIAD DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMFRA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS.
CIVIL NUM. CG2022CV03467. SOBRE: EXPEDlENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte peticionaria, una petición de expediente de dominio solicitando la inscripción del inmueble que se describe en dicha petición a nombre de dicha peticionaria. El Sr. Guillermo Rolón García, esposo de la parte peticionaria, estuvo ocupando el referido bien inmueble hasta el momento de su fallecimiento. El causante Guillermo Rolón García obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel García García quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento algun que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de éste fallecer, el Sr. Rolón le cedió en vida a la peticionaria todo derecho sobre la propiedad inmueble antes descrita. Sin embargo, desde que ocurrió dicha cesión la peticionaria ha estado poseyendo el inmueble como dueña por más de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento es el siguiente: RUSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número 6A,
con una cabida superficial de 939.2416 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.2390 cuerdas.
En lindes al Norte, en 25.7300 metros con terrenos de Suzette A. Rolón Cruz; al Sur en 18.3229 metros con un camino existente; al Este en 30.26 18 metros con la Sucn. De Luis Rolón y al Oeste, en 29.0134 metros con un camino existente y en 15.4907 metros con la Iglesia Católica. Se le notifica que 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, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cidra y enviando copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO.
VICTOR M. RIVERA TORRES, con dirección en la Avenida Fernández Juncos 1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono 787-727-5710, fax: 787268-1835. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a fin de que cualquier persona interesada pueda comparecer ante el Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, a fin de alegar lo que al derecho de estos convenga. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico a 29 de noviembre de 2022. Lisilda Martinez Agosto, Secretaria. Glorissette Rivera Reyes, SubSecretaria.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIAD DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMRA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS.
CIVIL NUM. CG202203433.
SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte peticionaria, una petición de expediente de dominio solicitando la inscripción de! inmueble que se describe en dicha petición a
nombre de dicha peticionaria.
El Sr. Rafael Rolón García, padre de la parte peticionaria, estuvo ocupando el referido bien inmueble hasta el momento de su fallecimiento. El causante
Rafael Rolón García obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel Garcia García, quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento alguien que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de éste fallecer, el Sr. Rolón le cedió en vida a la peticionaria todo derecho sobre la propiedad inmueble antes descrita. Sin embargo, desde que ocurrió dicha cesión la peticionaria ha estado poseyendo el inmueble como dueña por más de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento es el siguiente: RUSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número Lote 1C con una cabida superficial de 417.5927 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.1062 cuerdas. En lindes al Norte, en 13.6918 metros con terrenos de Rosa M. Rolón Meléndez; al Sur en 24.9626 metros con Ana M. Rolón Meléndez; al Este en 24.7980 metros con un camino existente y al Oeste, en 23.877 1 metros con Antulio Aponte. Se le notifica que deberá presentar u 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, salvo que e represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cidra y enviando copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO. VICTOR M. RIVERA TORRES, con dirección en la Avenida Fernández Juncos 1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono 787-727-5710, fax: 787268-1835. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a fin de que cualquier persona interesada pueda comparecer ante el Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, a fin de alegar lo que al derecho de estos convenga. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 28 de noviembre de 2022. Lisilda Martinez Agosto, Secretaria. Glorissette Rivera Reyes, SubSecretaria.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS.
CIVIL NUM. CG2022CV03432. SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte peticionaria, una petición de expediente de dominio solicitando la inscripción del inmueble que se describe en dicha petición a nombre de dicha peticionaria. El Sr. Rafael Rolón García, padre de la parte peticionaria, estuvo ocupando el referido bien inmueble hasta el momento de su fallecimiento. El causante Rafael Rolón García obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel García García quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento algun que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de éste fallecer, el Sr. Rolón le cedió en vida a la peticionaria todo derecho sobre la propiedad inmueble antes descrita. Sin em argo, desde que ocurrió dicha cesión la peticionaria ha estado poseyendo el inmueble como dueña por más de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento es el siguiente: RUSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número Lote 1B, con una cabida superficial de 407.3511 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.1036 cuerdas. En linde al Norte, en 22.1902 metros con terrenos de Luis A. Rolón Meléndez; al Sur en 13.6118 metros con Rosa M. Rolón Meléndez y en 6.2535 con un camino existente; al Este en 19.1102 metros con Iglesia Católica y al Oeste, en 19.0657 metros con Antulio Aponte. Se le notifica que 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, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cidra y enviando
copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO. VICTOR M. RIVERA TORRES, con dirección en la Avenida Fernández Juncos 1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono 787-727-5710, fax: 787268-1835. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a fin de que cualquier persona interesada pueda comparecer ante el Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, a fin de alegar lo que al derecho de estos convenga. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 29 de noviembre de 2022.
LISILDA MARTINEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. GLORISSETTE RIVERA REYES, Sub-Secretaria.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS.
AlDA MARIA ROLÓNCIVIL NUM. CG2022CV03431. SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte peticionaria, una petición de expediente de dominio solicitando la inscripción del inmueble que se describe en dicha petición a nombre de dicha peticionaria. El Sr. Rafael Rolón García, padre de la parte peticionaria, estuvo ocupando el referido bien inmueble hasta el momento de su fallecimiento. El causante Rafael Rolón García obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel García García, quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento alguno que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de éste fallecer, el Sr. Rolón le cedió en vida a la peticionaria todo derecho sobre la propiedad inmueble antes descrita. Sin embargo, desde que ocurrió dicha cesión la peticionaria ha estado poseyendo el inmueble como dueña por más de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento es el siguiente:
RUSTICA. Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número Lote 1D con una cabida superficial de 325.4791 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.0828 cuerdas. En lindes al Norte, en 24.9626 metros con terrenos de Rosa M. Rolón Meléndez; al Sur en 14.2081 metros con Lydia M. Rolón Meléndez; al Este en 8.0 139 metros con un camino existente y al Oeste, en 14.0737 metros con Antulio Aponte. Se le notifica que 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://unirecl.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cidra y enviando copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO. VICTOR M. RIVERA TORRES, con dirección en la Avenida Fernández Juncos 1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono 787-727-5710, fax: 787268-1835. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a fin de que cualquier persona interesada pueda comparecer ante el Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, a fin de alegar lo que al derecho de estos convenga. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 29 de noviembre de 2022. Lisilda Martinez Agosto, Secretaria. Glorissette Rivera Reyes, SubSecretaria.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE JAIME LASANTA MELÉNDEZ, COMPUESTA POR GEORGINA ORTÍZ TIRADO POR SÍ, Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, ANA MARÍA LASANTA VARGAS, CARMEN R. LASANTA VARGAS, JAIME LASANTA VARGAS, CARLOS LASANTA VARGAS, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN, EL HONORABLE
Demandados Civil Núm.: TD2016-165. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROEJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ciales, Ciales, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 15 de noviembre de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Franquez del término municipal de Morovis, con una cabida superficial de 8,347.57 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 2.12 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, en 110.33 metros, con Tomás Rivera; por el SUR, en 114.09 metros, con Calle dedicada a uso público; por el ESTE, en 62.51 metros, con Ángel L. Tapia y por el OESTE, en 74.08 metros, con el predio número 2 a segregarse. Inscrito al folio 110 del tomo 224 de Morovis, finca número 10,517 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. La propiedad está ubicada, según pagaré, en: 155 RD KM 35.4 Int. Franquez Ward, Morovis, PR 00687. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Portador, o a su orden, por la suma princi-
pal de $80,000.00, (no expresa intereses), vencedero el día 9 de febrero de 2011, constituida mediante la escritura número 5, otorgada en Ciales, Puerto Rico, el día 9 de febrero de 2011, ante el notario José Oscar San Miguel, e inscrita al folio 217 vuelto del tomo 299 de Morovis, finca número 10,517, inscripción 7ma. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 16 de enero de 2019 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $139,337.99 por concepto de principal, generando interés a razón de 5.00%, anual desde el 1ro de mayo de 2017; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $16,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Ciales, Ciales, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $160,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Ciales, Ciales, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $106,666.66, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 21 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Ciales, Ciales, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $80,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo
104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Ciales, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de noviembre de 2022. Jorge L. Ayala Acevedo, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
FANNIE MAE Demandante Vs. RICARDO VANDO
Demandado Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00759. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.
A: CUALQUIER PERSONA QUE PUDIESE TENER INTERÉS Y TODA PERSONA A QUIEN PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA
interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad ubicado en: C-2 7th St. Bello Horizonte, Guayama PR 00784, y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número dos del Bloque “C” de la Urbanización Bello Horizonte, situada en el Barrio Algarrobos de la Municipalidad de Guayama, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos cincuenta y siete metros cuadrados con treinta y siete centímetros, colindando por el NORTE, en veinte metros con cincuenta centímetros, con la Calle número siete; por el SUR, en veinticuatro metros, con el solar número tres; por el ESTE, con una serie de alineaciones totalizando dieciséis metros con noventa y ocho centímetros, con un saco que forma la Calle número siete de dicha Urbanización y por el OESTE, en quince metros, con el solar número uno. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto para fines residenciales. Finca Número 6,505, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 224 de Guayama, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama.
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: $85,318.79, con intereses al 5.060% anual por concepto de balance principal del préstamo el cual incluye intereses hasta el los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo de la deuda. Así como la cantidad líquida estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de $14,250.00, 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 93, otorgada el día 14 de julio de 2012, Humacao, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Roberto Soto
Tapia y consta inscrita inscrita al margen del folio 28 del tomo 459 de Guayama, finca número 6,505, inscripción 5ta., Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama, Sección de Guayama. 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 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $142,500.00, con intereses al 5.060% anual, vencedero el día 22 de febrero de 2094, constituida mediante la escritura número 94, otorgada en Humacao, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de julio de 2012, ante el notario Roberto Soto Tapia, aclarada la fecha de otorgamiento, mediante la escritura número 46, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de abril de 2013, ante el notario Roberto Soto Tapia, e inscrita al margen del folio 28 del tomo 459 de Guayama, finca número 6,505, inscripción 6ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $142,500.00 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 $95,000.00; 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 $71,250.00. 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 procede-
rá 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. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. 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 Guayama, Puerto Rico, a 5 de noviembre de 2022. LITZY CORA, ALGUACIL #247, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE GUAYAMA.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC.
Plaintiff V. CARMEN MARÍA SUÁREZ
Defendants
Civil Action No.: 3:16-cv-02478PAD. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE COMPLAINT. NOTICE OF SALE.
WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $138,060.89, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Carmen María Suárez Aristud a/k/a Carmen M. Suárez Aristud a/k/a Carmen María Suárez to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($22,200.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property URBANA: Solar marcado con el número FF veintidós del Plano de Inscripción del Proyecto de Viviendas a Bajo Costo denominado B.V.C. cincuenta y dos, radicado en el Barrio Martín González y Hoyo Mulas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos noventa y ocho metros cuadrados con cincuenta y siete centésimas de otro, en lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar FF veintiuno; por el SUR, con el solar FF veintitrés; por el ESTE, con terrenos
propiedad de la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número doce.” Property Number 31,199 filed at page 203 of volume 776 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina. The mortgage deed is recorded at page 132 of volume 1,508 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $222,000.00, due on August 1, 2087 pursuant to deed number 50, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 27, 2013, before notary David Garcia Medina, and recorded, at page 134 of volume 1,508 of Carolina, property number 31,199, 5th inscription. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 17TH DAY JANUARY OF 2023, AT: 9:30 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $222,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the the 24TH DAY JANUARY OF 2023, AT: 9:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $148,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the the 31ST DAY JANUARY OF 2023, AT: 9:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $111,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall
be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 19th day of October 2022. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYAMA WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE JORGE MELÉNDEZ PÉREZ, T/C/C JORGE MELÉNDEZ COMPUESTA POR JORGE MELÉNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, CÉSAR MELÉNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE ENGRACIA RODRÍGUEZ TORRES COMPUESTA POR JORGE MELÉNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, CÉSAR MELÉNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, MARÍA FELA BERRÍOS RODRÍGUEZ, JORGE BERRÍOS RODRÍGUEZ, JOSÉ BERRÍOS RODRÍGUEZ FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: GM2019CV00656.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESIÓN DE JORGE MELÉNDEZ PÉREZ, T/C/C JORGE MELÉNDEZ COMPUESTA POR JORGE MELÉNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, CÉSAR MELÉNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE ENGRACIA RODRÍGUEZ TORRES COMPUESTA POR JORGE MELÉNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, CÉSAR MELÉNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, MARÍA FELA BERRÍOS RODRÍGUEZ, JORGE BERRÍOS RODRÍGUEZ, JOSÉ BERRÍOS RODRÍGUEZ FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.
Yo, LITZY CORA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 10 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guayama, Guayama, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 5 de abril de 2022.
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 día 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30
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 Guayama, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 12 de mayo de 2022, 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 radicado en la Urbanización Brisas del Mar, localizado en el Barrio Machete y Jobos en el Municipio de Guayama, Puerto Rico, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Número del solar A guión catorce (A-14): Área del solar: trescientos seis punto setenta y dos metros cuadrados )306.72 m/c.) En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veinticuatro punto cincuenta (24.50m.l.) metros lineales, con el solar trece (13) del mismo bloque; por el SUR, en una distancia de veinticuatro punto sesenta y dos (24.62 m.l.) metros lineales, con el Solar con el Solar quince (15) del mismo bloque; por el ESTE, en una distancia de doce pinto cuarenta y ocho (12.48 m.l.) metros lineales, con la Calle Velero; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de doce punto cuarenta y ocho (12.48 m.l.) metros lineales, con la Calle Main. Enclava una casa de concreto y bloques diseñada para una familia. Afecta a servidumbre a favor de la Junta de Telecomunicaciones de uno punto cincuenta y dos (1.52 m.) metros de ancho a todo lo largo de su colindancia Este. Este solar tiene un talud a todo lo largo de su colindancia Oeste. Finca número 18,934 inscrita al folio 225 del tomo 483 de Guayama. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Guayama. Dirección de la Propiedad: 14 Velero St., Chalets Brisas del Mar Dev. Guayama PR 00784. 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 $181,176.58, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo con interés al 5.060% anual y 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 de $21,100.00, 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 deu-
da; 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 39 otorgada el día 15 de marzo de 2013 en Guayama, Puerto Rico, ante la notario Priscilla M. Santiago Acosta y consta inscrita al folio 225 del tomo 483 de Guayama, finca número 18,934, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama, Sección de Guayama. 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 en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $210,000.00, con intereses al 5.060% anual, vencedero el día 21 de septiembre de 2079, constituida mediante la escritura número 40, otorgada en Guayama, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de marzo de 2013, ante la notario Priscilla M. Santiago Acosta, e inscrita al folio 176 del tomo 496 de Guayama, finca número 18,934, inscripción 5ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $210,000.00 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 $140,000.00; 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 $105,000.00. 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. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. 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 Guayama, Puerto Rico, a 3 de noviembre de 2022. LITZY CORA, ALGUACIL #247, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE GUAYAMA. ***
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. AUGUSTO ORENGO RUIZ, SYLVIA ROMÁN COLÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01039. Sala: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 2 de septiembre de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 31 de octubre de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 10 de noviembre de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 3:15 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Ponce, Sala Superior, en 2150 Ave. Santiago de los Caballeros, Ponce, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial número 702 del Condominio Torre de Playa Santa, localizado en el Sector Salinas Providencia del Barrio Montalva del Municipio de Guánica, Puerto Rico. Con forma de abanico, está construido en hormigón armado y bloques de concreto y se encuentra ubicado en el octavo nivel o quinto piso residencial del edificio.
Consta de una planta y tiene su entrada por su lindero Sureste, de donde sale a un pasillo común que da acceso a los elevadores y escaleras comunes del edificio y de ahí a la vía pública.
Sus linderos son los siguientes: por el NORESTE, en 29’ lineales equivalentes a 8.84 metros lineales con pared común medianera que lo separa de apartamento número 703; por el SUR, en 29’ lineales equivalentes a 8.84 metros lineales con pared común medianera que lo separa de apartamento número 701; por el SURESTE, por donde tiene su puerta de entrada en dos alineaciones que suman 19’ 2” lineales equivalentes a 5.89 metros lineales con pared medianera que lo separa del pasillo comunal que sirve este piso; y por el OESTE, en dos alineaciones que suman 43’ 6” pulgadas lineales, equivalentes a 13.26 metros lineales, con pared exterior común del edificio y con el parapeto de su balcón que miran hacia la Urbanización Playa del Caribe. Este apartamento tiene un área superficial de 861.96 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 80.08 metros cuadrados y consta de un dormitorio principal con walk-in-closet y baño, otro dormitorio con su closet, un baño adicional en el área del pasillo, sala-comedor, cocina, área de lavandería y balcón. A este apartamento le ha sido asignado como elemento común limitado al mismo el uso del espacio o área de estacionamiento marcado con el número 56 en el plano de Condominio. Le ha sido asignado además una participación en los gastos e ingresos del condominio y en la titularidad de sus elementos comunes equivalentes al 1.8573% y una participación de 1.3156% en los elementos comunes limitados del Condominio. Inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 199 de Guánica, Finca Número 6745, Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 202 vuelto del tomo 199 de Guánica, Finca Número 6745, Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. Inscripción cuarta. Dirección Física: TORRES DE PLAYA SANTA, APT. 702, GUÁNICA, PR 00653. Número de Catastro: 59-428-087-134-01-027. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $252,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 3:15 DE LA TARDE en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $168,000.00.
De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el
día 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 3:15 DE LA TARDE en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $126,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $196,025.99 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7% anual desde el 1 de diciembre de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $1,844.26 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $25,200.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registra! que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Bitácora: Asiento 2022-063683SG01, el 15 de mayo de 2022, Demanda de fecha 26 de abril de 2022, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el Caso Civil Número PO2022CV01039, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Augusto Orenga Ruiz y su esposa, Sylvia Román Colón, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca con un balance de $196,025.99 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. Pendiente de anotación. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el
rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de noviembre de 2022. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
Parte Demandante Vs. PEDRO L.
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV06774.
Sala: 802. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante, ha presentado ante este Tribunal demanda contra usted solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: COBRO DE DINERO. Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del último edicto, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda. 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, 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, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 5 de diciembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSIE
PRATTS MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
NEWREZ
Demandante vs.
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. CA2020CV02741.
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: La Parte Demandada, al (a la) Secretario(a) de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al Público General:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 6 de marzo de 2023, a las 1:30 de la tarde, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA:
PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartment number 1508. Efficiency apartment consisting of one main dependency where living-dining and sleeping activities are conducted, bath, kitchen, balcony and closets.
It bounds: on the NORTH, on a distance of thirty one point fifty nine feet, equivalent to nine point sixty four meter with a common wall which separates it from apartment one thousand five hundred seven and the common element of the building and the lot on which it is erected; on the SOUTH, on a distance of thirty one point forty two feet, equivalent to nine point fifty nine meters with the common elements of the building and the lot on which it is erected; on the EAST, on a distance of twenty three point seventeen feet, equivalent to seven point zero seven meters with a wall which separates it from a common hallway through which access to the public street may be
gained; and on the WEST, on a distance of twenty three point seventeen feet, equivalent to seven point zero seven meters with a common elements of the building and the lot on which it is erected. This apartment has an area of six hundred sixty four point seventy two square feet, equivalent to sixty one point seventy five square meters. A balcony with an area of sixty one point sixty five square feet, equivalent to five point seventy three square meters is included. Consta inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 411 de Carolina, finca número 15774, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Carolina. Esta propiedad está gravada por HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Bankers Mortgage Services LLC, o a su orden, por la suma de $240,000.00, respondiendo esta finca en un 95%, con intereses al 6% anual y vencimiento 1 de junio de 2037. Constituida por la Escritura 3 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de mayo de 2007 ante el notario Antoan Figueroa Hernández, e inscrita al folio 19 del tomo 997 de Carolina Norte, finca 15774, inscripción 6ª. URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL. Parking space number 16-A uncovered parking space, located on the ground level of Waldorf Tower Condominium, Loiza Street, Carolina, with a total floor area of one hundred forty-eight-point one square meters. Bounding on the NORTH, on a distance of eighteen feet, with an imaginary line that separated it from parking space number 17-A; on the SOUTH, on the same distance, with an imaginary line that separates it from parking space number 15A, on the EAST, on a distance of eight point twenty five feet with an imaginary line that separates it from the circulation area; and on the WEST, on the same distance with the common elements of the building. This unit has its access on its easterly boundary. Consta inscrita al folio 204 del tomo 46 de Carolina, finca número 15775, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Carolina. Esta propiedad esta gravada por HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Bankers Mortgage Services LLC, o a su orden, por la suma de $240,000.00, respondiendo esta finca en un 5%, con intereses al 6% anual y vencimiento 1 de junio de 2037. Constituida por la Escritura 3 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de mayo de 2007 ante el notario Antoan Figueroa Hernández, subsanada mediante la escritura 5 otorgada en San Juan el 18 de junio de 2007 ante el mismo notario, e inscrita al folio 20 del tomo 997 de Carolina Norte, finca 15775, inscripción 5ª. La Propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en: Waldorf Towers, Unit #1508,
Carolina, PR 00979. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $240,000.00, 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 Carolina, el 13 de marzo de 2023, a las 1:30 de la tarde, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $160,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $120,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 20 de marzo de 2023, a las 1:30 de la tarde. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $230,534.54 de principal, intereses al tipo del 6.00000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1ro. de noviembre de 2009 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $24,000.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están
disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de diciembre de 2022. Manuel Villafañe Blanco, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE.
LUNA RESIDENTIAL II, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. CARLOS MARTIN BARCELO PADILLA, PERSIDA PADILLA GONZALEZ y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos Parte Demandada CASO CIVIL NÚM: PO2022CV02504. SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: CARLOS MARTIN BARCELÓ PADILLA Y PERSIDA PADILLA GONZÁLEZ LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colon Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732-7970; Teléfono: 787843-41668. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de
hipoteca bajo el numero mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de febrero de 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $28,535.89, más intereses a razón del 11.00% anual desde enero de 2020, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo $4,913.47, pactado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (‘’Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número LL-3 de la comunidad Punta Diamante, localizada en el Barrio Canas del Municipio de Ponce. Tiene una cabida de trescientos veintidós punto cinco mil novecientos (322.5900) metros cuadrados. Linda: Norte, con Calle Rial de la comunidad; Sur, con calle Siclo de la comunidad; Este, con Parcela número LL-4 de la comunidad; Oeste, con Parcela número LL-2 de la comunidad. La propiedad consta inscrita en e) Folio treinta y séis (36) del Tomo mil once (1011) de Ponce, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección 11, Finca veintitrés mil cincuenta y tres (23,053). 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico. A día 6 de diciembre de 2022.
LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCIA, SECRETARJA(O). f/ EREINA AGRONT LEON, SUBSECRETARIA(O).
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ARECIBO LUNA RESIDENTIAL II, LLC
Parte Demandante V. MIGDALIA MALPICA
ORTIZ, POR SI Y COMO COMO MIEMBRO CONOCIDO DE LA SUCESION DE FAUSTINO PEÑA PIMIENTA; NORMA PEÑA VALDIRIA, RAUL PEÑA VALDIRIA COMO MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE FAUSTINO PEÑA PIMIENTA; FULANO DE TAL Y FILANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE FAUSTINO PEÑA PIMIENTA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AR2022CV01253.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. EDICTO.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FAUSTINO PEÑA PIMIENTA. 76 CALLE PEDRO MUÑIZ, URB. LUCHETTI, MANATÍ, PR 00674; HC 91 BOX 8962, VEGA ALTA, PR 00692.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 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 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 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, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, Delgado & Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 2741414. DAA en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 6 de diciembre de 2022.
VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN J. ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ARECIBO LUNA RESIDENTIAL II, LLC
Parte Demandante V. MIGDALIA MALPICA ORTIZ, POR SI Y COMO COMO MIEMBRO CONOCIDO DE LA SUCESION DE FAUSTINO PEÑA PIMIENTA; NORMA PEÑA VALDIRIA, RAUL PEÑA VALDIRIA COMO MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE FAUSTINO PEÑA PIMIENTA; FULANO DE TAL Y FILANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE FAUSTINO PEÑA PIMIENTA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AR2022CV01253. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. EDICTO.
A: MIGDALIA MALICE ORTIZ Y NORMA PEÑA VALDRÍA MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FAUSTINO PEÑA PIMIENTA. 76 CALLE PEDRO MUÑIZ, URB. LUCHETTI, MANATÍ, PR 00674; HC 91 BOX 8962, VEGA ALTA, PR 00692.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 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 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 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, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, Delgado & Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico
00910-1750. Tel. [787] 2741414. DAA en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 6 de diciembre de 2022. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN J. ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO PALMAS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
Parte Demandante V. LUIS MARTIN JIMENEZ; MARISOL COLLAZO ORTIZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2022CV01171. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: GONZÁLEZ & MORALES LAW OFFICES, LLC PO BOX 10242 HUMACAO, PR 00792
TELÉFONO: (787) 852-4422
FACSÍMIL: (787) 285-4425
Email: jrg@gonzalezmorales.com abogados de la parte demandante, cuya dirección es la que deja indicada, con copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, copia de la cual le es servida en este caso, dentro de los 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 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 responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Debe saber que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 09 de DICIEMBRE de 2022. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
Demandados Caso Núm.: RG2022CV00328.
Sobre: DAÑOS & PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la demandante ha radicado una Demanda sobre Divorcio por Daños y Perjuicios. Habiéndose ordenado la publicación de un Emplazamiento por Edicto para emplazarlo a usted, durante el término que establece la Ley, en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. POR
ESTE MEDIO, se le emplaza por Edicto y requiere a usted, la parte demandada para que notifique a la LCDA. JOSEPHINE M. RODRÍGUEZ RÍOS, RUA 15736, a su dirección PO BOX 889, FAJARDO, PR 00738, Tel. (787) 860-0875, y/o a su email: josephine.rodriguez@gmail. com, con copia de su contestación a las alegaciones de la Demanda en este caso dentro de los treinta (30), contados desde el siguiente día a la fecha de la publicación de este Emplazamiento por 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, 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, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más escucharle, ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA, y el sello del Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 2 de diciembre de 2022. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KATHERINE ROBLES TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS LUIS ÁNGEL
Civil Núm.: CG2022CV03437. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte peticionaria, una petición de expediente de dominio solicitando la inscripción del inmueble que se describe en dicha petición a nombre de dicha peticionaria. El Sr. Rafael Rolón García, padre de la parte peticionaria, estuvo ocupando el referido bien inmueble hasta el momento de su fallecimiento. El causante Rafael Rolón García obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel García García, quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento alguno que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de éste fallecer, el Sr. Rolón le cedió en vida al peticionario todo derecho sobre la propiedad inmueble antes descrita. Sin embargo, desde que ocurrió dicha cesión el peticionario ha estado poseyendo el inmueble como dueño por más de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento es el siguiente: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número Lote 1A con una cabida superficial de 1127.4047 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.2868 cuerdas. En lindes al Norte, en 6.3137 metros con terrenos de Nicanor Izona; al Sur en 22.1902 metros con Rosa M. Rolón Meléndez; al Este en 27.2632 metros con Marisol Rolón González y en 27.2632 metros con Luis Antonio Rolón González y al Oeste, en 70.0016 metros con Antulio Aponte. Se le notifica que 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, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cidra y enviando copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO.
VICTOR M. RIVERA TORRES, con dirección en la Avenida Fernández Juncos 1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono 787-727-5710, fax: 787268-1835. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a fin de que cualquier persona interesada pueda comparecer ante el Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, a fin de alegar lo que al derecho de estos convenga. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 30 de noviembre de 2022.
LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. GLORISSETTE RIVERA REYES, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS
Peticionaria EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: CG2022CV03469.
Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte peticionaria, una petición de expediente de dominio solicitando la inscripción del inmueble que se describe en dicha petición a nombre de dicha peticionaria. El Sr. Guillermo Rolón García, padre de la parte peticionaria, estuvo ocupando el referido bien inmueble hasta el momento de su fallecimiento. El causante Guillermo Rolón García obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel García García, quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento alguno que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de éste fallecer, el Sr. Rolón le cedió en vida al peticionario todo derecho sobre la propiedad inmueble antes descrita.
Sin embargo, desde que ocurrió dicha cesión la peticionaria ha estado poseyendo el inmueble como dueña por más de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento es el siguiente: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito
en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número LOTE 6C, con una cabida superficial de 949.3418 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.2415 cuerdas. En lindes al Norte, en 33.0666 metros con terrenos de Marisol Rolón González; al Sur en 20.2959 metros con Iglesia Católica y en 11.3417 metros con Suzette A. Rolón Cruz; al Este en 31.5623 metros con Sucn. de Luis Rolón García y al Oeste, en 27.2635 metros con Luis A. Rolón Meléndez. Se le notifica que 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, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cidra y enviando copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO. VICTOR M. RIVERA TORRES, con dirección en la Avenida Fernández Juncos 1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono 787-727-5710, fax: 787268-1835. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a fin de que cualquier persona interesada pueda comparecer ante el Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, a fin de alegar lo que al derecho de estos convenga. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 30 de noviembre de 2022.
LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. GLORISSETTE RIVERA REYES, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS
Peticionaria EX-PARTE Civil Núm.: CD2022CV00162. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
POR LA PRESENTE se le noti-
fica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte peticionaria, una petición de expediente de dominio solicitando la inscripción del inmueble que se describe más adelante a nombre de dicha peticionaria. El Sr. Guillermo Rolón García, padre de la parte peticionaria, estuvo ocupando el referido bien inmueble hasta el momento de su fallecimiento. El causante Guillermo Rolón García obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel García García, quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento alguno que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de éste fallecer, el Sr. Rolón le cedió en vida a la peticionaria todo derecho sobre la propiedad inmueble antes descrita. Sin embargo, desde que ocurrió dicha cesión la peticionaria ha estado poseyendo el inmueble como dueña por más de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento es el siguiente: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número Lote 6B, con una cabida superficial de 537.5538 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.1368 cuerdas. En lindes al Norte, en 11.3417 metros con terrenos de Luis Antonio Rolón González; al Sur en 25.7300 metros con Felicita González Vázquez; al Este en 29.0809 metros con la Sucesión de Luis Rolón García y al Oeste, en 31.7615 metros con templo de la Iglesia Católica. Se le notifica que 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, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cidra y enviando copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO.
VICTOR M. RIVERA TORRES, con dirección en la Avenida Fernández Juncos 1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono 787-727-5710, fax: 787268-1835. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a fin de que cualquier persona interesada pueda comparecer ante el Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, a fin de alegar lo que al derecho de estos convenga. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Cidra, Puerto Rico, a
30 de noviembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. GLORISSETTE RIVERA REYES, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS
Civil Núm.: CG2022CV03461. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte peticionaria, una petición de expediente de dominio solicitando la inscripción del inmueble que se describe en dicha petición a nombre de dicha peticionaria. El Sr. Guillermo Rolón García, padre de la parte peticionaria, estuvo ocupando el referido bien inmueble hasta el momento de su fallecimiento. El causante Guillermo Rolón García obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel García García, quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento alguno que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de éste fallecer, el Sr. Rolón le cedió en vida a la peticionaria todo derecho sobre la propiedad inmueble antes descrita. Sin embargo, desde que ocurrió dicha cesión la peticionaria ha estado poseyendo el inmueble como dueña por más de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento es el siguiente: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número Lote 6G con una cabida superficial de 950.2222 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.2418 cuerdas. En lindes al Norte, en 34.9842 metros con terrenos de Nicanor Izona; al Sur en 33.0666 metros con Luis Antonio Rolón González; al Este en 28.7092 metros con la Sucn. De Luis Rolón García y al Oeste, en 27.2632 metros con Luis A. Rolón Meléndez. Se le notifica que 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, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cidra y enviando copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO. VICTOR M. RIVERA TORRES, con dirección en la Avenida Fernández Juncos 1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono 787-727-5710, fax: 787268-1835. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a fin de que cualquier persona interesada pueda comparecer ante el Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, a fin de alegar lo que al derecho de estos convenga. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 30 de noviembre de 2022.
LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. GLORISSETTE RIVERA REYES, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS RAFAELA
Peticionaria EX-PARTE Civil Núm.: CG2022CV03426. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte peticionaria, una petición de expediente de dominio solicitando la inscripción del inmueble que se describe en dicha petición a nombre de dicha peticionaria. El Sr. Rafael Rolón García, padre de la parte peticionaria, estuvo ocupando el referido bien inmueble hasta el momento de su fallecimiento. El causante Rafael Rolón García obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel García García, quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento alguno que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de éste fallecer, el Sr. Rolón le cedió en vida a la peticionaria todo
derecho sobre la propiedad inmueble antes descrita. Sin embargo, desde que ocurrió dicha cesión la peticionaria ha estado poseyendo el inmueble como dueña por más de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento es el siguiente: RUSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número Lote 1F con una cabida superficial de 397.1703 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.1011 cuerdas. En lindes al Norte, en 12.9741 metros con terrenos de un camino Existente; al Sur en 25.4656 metros con Carretera Estatal #734; al Este en 26.8352 metros con un Camino Existente y al Oeste, en 16.8406 metros con Lydia M. Rolón Meléndez. Se le notifica que 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, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cidra y enviando copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO. VICTOR M. RIVERA TORRES, con dirección en la Avenida Fernández Juncos 1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono 787-727-5710, fax: 787268-1835. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a fin de que cualquier persona interesada pueda comparecer ante el Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, a fin de alegar lo que al derecho de estos convenga. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 30 de noviembre de 2022.
LISLLDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. GLORISSETTE RIVERA REYES, SUBSECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA
Terceros Demandados Civil Núm.: GM2022CV00290.
Sobre: SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA; ACCIÓN REINVINDICATORIA; DESAHUCIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: CARLOS VEGA SANTOS. CARR. 430, KM 3.2, BO. OVEJA, AÑASCO, PR 00610.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante una Contestación a Tercera Demanda Enmendada, Reconvención y Demanda contra Terceros, y una Contestación Enmendada a Tercera Demanda Enmendada, Reconvención y Demanda contra Terceros, cuyos hechos se detallan en la misma, la cual puede ser examinada en la secretaría de este Tribunal.
REPRESENTA a el Sr. Rafael Carballo y Cacique Beach Resort el bufete RIVERA COLON, RIVERA TORRES & RIVERA RIOS (Lcdo. Víctor M. Rivera Torres) con dirección en Ave. Fernández Juncos #1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfonos (787) 727-5710, fax (787) 268-1835, e-mail: victor.rivera@rcrtrblaw.com. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece en el término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, el demandante podrá solicitar que se dicte sentencia en rebeldía, declarándose con lugar las contestaciones, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO, bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 8 de diciembre de 2022. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL I. MARÍA COTTO AMARO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
SUS HEREDEROS: CARLOS ANSELMO PADILLA CANCEL, Y CARLOS RAÚL RAMOS RUIZ, POR CONCEPTO DE USUFRUCTO VIUDAL; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.)
DemandantesReconvencionados Vs. JORGE OPPENHEIMER
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. SUCESIÓN DE NILDA LUISA CANCEL GARCÍA, COMPUESTA POR
Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00773. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 16 de noviembre de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Los Almendros situada en el Barrio Sabanetas de Ponce, Puerto Rico. El mismo se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización con el número TH-veintitrés, con un área de ciento sesentisiete punto treintisiete metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en veinticinco punto setenticinco metros, con el TH-veinticuatro; por el SUR, en veinticinco punto setenticinco metros, con el TH-veintidós; por el OESTE, en seis punto cincuenta metros, con la Calle AA de la Urbanización; y por el ESTE, en seis punto cincuenta metros, con servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company y TH-diecinueve y veintisiete. El inmueble antes descrito contiene una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques, diseñada para uso de una familia. Las paredes de la estructura construida en el inmueble descrito a su lado Norte que colinda con el TH- veinticuatro y su lado Sur que colinda con el TH-veintidós pertenecen como paredes medianeras en común a cada uno de dichos solares con que colinda, perteneciente la casa o empañetado interior al inmueble en que se encuentra. Inscrita en la finca número 38,250, al folio 222 del tomo 1906 de Ponce Norte. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Ponce. La propiedad está ubicada en: Urbanización Los Almendros Calle Lady Di 642 Ponce, Puerto Rico 00716. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes
GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO; DEPARTAMENTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AMBIENTALES DEL GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO
2004, ante la notario María del C. Mulero Fernández, e inscrita al folio 151 del tomo 991 de Monacillos, finca número 8,384, inscripción 12da. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada a su favor el día 8 de agosto de 2022, a saber la suma de $85,675.37 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 7.5% desde el 1ro de marzo de 2020; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $9,438.88 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.
La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE ENERO DE 2023
A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $99,200.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30
DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $66,133.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2023 A
LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $49,600.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.
La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir-
mada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de noviembre de 2022.
ALG. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN OLGA MEJIAS RIVERA
Parte Demandante Vs. DORAL
BANK COMO
CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO POR SUMAC.
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 7 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de esta. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (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 13 de diciembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 13 de diciembre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Johanna Rodríguez Benítez, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO
Demandante V.
Demandados Civil Núm.: RG2022CV00431. Sala: 305. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, PROCEDIMIENTO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERO RICO.
gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Centro Judicial de Fajardo y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Milvia A. Rivera Rivera, Número RUA: 17,269, Urb. College Park #1787 Calle Alcalá San Juan, P.R. 00921-4335, teléfono (787) 249-8487, correo electrónico: milviarivera@ gmail.com. Se le apercibe que si dejare de comparecer se podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra de acuerdo con la súplica de la demanda, conforme a lo establecido en la Regla 45 de Procedimiento Civil.
EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico hoy día 13 de diciembre de 2022. Wanda I. Seguí Reyes, Secretaria Del Tribunal. Sheila Robles Hernández, Secretaria Auxiliar I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE vs. SUCESION DE FELIPE RODRIGUEZ LEBRON, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS MARIA ESTHER CALO RAMIREZ, POR SI, Y PERFECTA LEBRÓN CRUZ T/C/C PERFECTA LEBRÓN; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN LA SUCESION DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: CA2022CV00598.
dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Sí usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS
RUAN NUM: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL. 787-751-5290, FAX 787-751-6155
E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 9 de diciembre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Sec Regional. Maricruz Aponte Alicea, Sec Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ZULEIKA TORRES ROSA Demandante V. ABILEMEC
QUINTANA JUSINO T/C/C ABIMELEC JUSINO
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 28 de octubre de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 7 de diciembre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria. María Francis Ayala, Sec Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
FELIPE ANTONIO VÉLEZ GONZÁLEZ, su esposa LIZMAR JUDITH MARRERO RODRÍGUEZ y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales Compuesta por Ambos Peticionarios Vs. V GARAGE LLC Y/O JOHN DOE Peticionados CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2022CV10523. SALÓN: 907. SOBRE: ENTREDICHO PROVISIONAL Y/O INJUNCTION PRELIMINAR Y PERMANENTE. EDICTO/ ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
secretaría del tribunal. De no presentar su contestación dentro del término de diez (10) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia u Orden en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En San Juan, Puerto Rico a 7 de diciembre de 2022 Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria General. Por: F/Wanda Malavé Mart, Sub-Secretaria.–
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGUEZ.
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV06400.
Salón de Sesiones: 504. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICA-
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica que se ha presentado una Demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria, en la cual la parte demandante alega se le adeuda la cantidad de $4,360.00. Por consecuencia, se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste dicha Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, radicando su ale-
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. ss. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FELIPE RODRÍGUEZ LEBRÓN Terrazas de Plaza Escorial Apto. 5102 Edif. 5. Bo. San Antón Carolina, PR 00987
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva
Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: CA2022RF00244. Sala: 405. Sobre: PRIVACIÓN DE PATRIA POTESTAD. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: SR. ABILEMEC
QUINTANA JUSINO T/C/C ABIMELEC JUSINO.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla
Quede emplazado y notificado que en este Tribunal se ha presentado una Petición de Entredicho Provisional y/o Injunction Preliminar y Permanente en la que se le incluye como codemandado y posible poseedor del vehículo marca Mercedes Benz, modelo G63 del 2020, color negro, número de serie (VIN) W1NYCHJ6LX345098, y tablilla número JMK-939. De ser necesaria la celebración de una vista evidenciaria para la expedición del injunction preliminar y/o permanente por existir controversia de hechos relevantes a tal remedio, se señalará la misma con la premura que la situación requiera. Se le advierte a la parte Peticionada que usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo paso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la
JOSE EDGARDO PEREZ RIVERA Demandante Vs . .JOSE V ALENTIN CARABALLO, la esposa de este PAULA MORALES MUÑIZ y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales; DAVID VALENTIN MORALES, la esposa de este NITZA CARRERO VILLARRUBIA y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales; FELIPE CARABALLO VALENTIN, la esposa de este AGlJEDA MORALES MUÑIZ y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales; La SUCESION DESCONOCIDA DE PAULA MORALES MUÑIZ compuesta Por JOHN DOE, RICHARD ROE, .JUAN DEL PUEBLO, JUANA DEL PUEBLO y .JUAN DOE Demandados NUM CIVIL: MZ2022CV01248.
SOBRE: ACCION REINVINDICATORIA. EDICTO.
A: Sucesión Desconocida de Paula Morales Muñiz compuesta por John Doe, Richard Roe, Juan del Pueblo, Juana del pueblo y Juan Doe; y a Agueda Morales Muñiz t/c/c Águila Morales Muñiz; y Felipe Caraballo Valentín y a la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por Felipe Caraballo Valentín
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza para que presenten su alegación responsiva dentro del término de TREINTA (30) DIAS siguientes a la publicación de este emplazamiento por Edicto que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. Usted(es) deberá(n) 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.sumacf, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría de este Tribunal de Primera Instancia y notificando 1copia de la misma al Lcdo. Luis Roberto Santos Montalvo con oficinas localizadas en Calle Concordia 256, Bo El Seco, Edificio Oil Energy, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 00680; teléfono (787) 833-5466, y cuya dirección postal es P.O. Box 1809, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00q81. 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 por la parte demandante en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO, bajo la firma de este Tribunal, en Mayagüez,, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de noviembre de 2022. Lcda. Norma G. Santana lrizarry, Secretaria Regional II. Por: f/ Rebeca Medina Figueroa, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA
Demandante V. INDHIRA
Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01376. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. 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, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará senten-
BANK; BANCO POPULAR, FIRST
CUSTODIOS DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE DORAL BANK; ORIENTAL BANK COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE RG PREMIER BANK; FULANO DE TAL; MENGANA DE CUAL, PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS
A: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE CUAL COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ. DESCRITO
cia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 009366603. Tel. (787) 919-0073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 30 de agosto de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Ruth M. Colón Luciano, Sec Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NUM: CA2022CV03337. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. ss.
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POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá 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. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y telé-
fono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787- 751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAi L: eiecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Carolina, Puerto Rico a 12 de diciembre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Sec Regional. Keila Garcia Soles, SubSecretaria.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE, FANNIE MAE Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ORLANDO ADROVET MOLINA COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA SANDRA MONTAÑEZ VÉLEZ, POR SÍ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS O PERSONAS CON INTERÉS SOBRE DICHA SUCESIÓN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00782. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS O PERSONAS CON INTERÉS SOBRE LA SUCESIÓN DE ORLANDO ADROVET MOLINA. URB. ENCANTADA SOLAR 1 BLOQUE RA, CALLE VIA DEL RIO, SECCION RIO CRISTAL, TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976-6021.
DIRECCIÓN POSTAL; URB. RIO CRISTAL, RA1 VIA DEL RIO, TRUJILLO ALTO 00936.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.
ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá 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 apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155
E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Carolina, Puerto Rico a 02 de diciembre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Keila García Solís, Sub-Secretaria.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS VÁZQUEZ VEGA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS ARCADIO VÁZQUEZ REYES Y SOFÍA VEGA SANTIAGO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02755.
Sala: 604. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS VÁZQUEZ VEGA.
Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA en sus contras. Se les notifica para que comparezcan ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se les notifica que deberán 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, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia de su contestación a la parte demandante, BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS, RÚA NÚM.: 11416, PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970, TEL: 787- 751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155, E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com, se les anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Se ORDENA a los herederos del referido causante a saber: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación, ACEPTEN o REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante, CARLOS VÁZQUEZ VEGA. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 12 de diciembre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Fernández Del Valle, Luz E., Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIME INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. CHARLIE SANTIAGO ALVARADO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03182. Sala: 407. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO EMITIDO POR
EL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO, SALA DE CAROLINA.
A: CHARLIE SANTIAGO ALVARADO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO VS. CHARLIE SANTIAGO ALVARADO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, CIVIL NÚM.: CA2022CV03182 (407) SOBRE COBRO DE DINERO. Se les notifica a ustedes, CHARLIE SANTIAGO ALVARADO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, que en la Demanda que originó este caso se alega que ustedes le adeudan a la parte demandante, BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, las siguientes cantidades: a. $12,190.18 de principal e intereses devengados hasta el 29 de septiembre de 2022, más los intereses que se devenguen al tipo legal a partir de la fecha de radicación de la Demanda, hasta el total y completo pago de la obligación, y una suma razonable para las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La deuda es por concepto de las sumas desembolsadas por el uso de una tarjeta de crédito VISA cuyos últimos cuatro dígitos son 2453. b. $10,971.37 de principal e intereses devengados hasta el 29 de septiembre de 2022, más los intereses que se devenguen al tipo legal a partir de la fecha de radicación de la Demanda, hasta el total y completo pago de la obligación, y una suma razonable para las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La deuda es por concepto de las sumas desembolsadas por el uso de una tarjeta de crédito Master Card cuyos últimos 4 dígitos son 7861. Se les emplaza y requiere que presenten 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 pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Deberán 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 ustedes dejan de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 06 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. RUTH M. COLÓN LUCIANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE OF CVI CGS MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST I Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE JOHN CHRISTIAN BERNHARTSEN; COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y BIRGITTE ARPE BERNHARTSEN, POR SÍ Y EN EL CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Demandados Civil Núm.: IS2022CV00103. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: LA SUCESION DE JOHN CHRISTIAN BERNHARTSEN, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y BIRGITTE ARPE BERNHARTSEN.
El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Transcurridos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta
(30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia del causante, JOHN CHRISTIAN BERNHARTSEN. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la misma se tendrá por aceptada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074
TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC 1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100 Boca Raton, FL 33432 Tel. 877-338-4101 / Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppllc.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 7 de diciembre de 2022. SARAHÍ
REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ZUHEILY GONZÁLEZ AVILÉS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS GITSIT SOLUTIONS LLC
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DAVILA COLON Demandado Civil Núm.: GR2022CV00218.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de
revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de diciembre de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 8 de diciembre de 2022. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. Glorimar Rivera Rivera, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO SOLYMAR TORRES NAVARRO Demandante V. MELVIN ALEXIS JR.
Demandado(a) Civil: HU2022RF00348. Sobre: DIVORCIO, RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: MELVIN ALEXIS JR OCASIO SANCHEZ. BO. EMAGAYUA SECTOR PLAYA KM 1.2, MAUNABO PR 00707; HC 01 BOX 3122, MAUNABO, PR 00707.
LCDO. JUAN JOSÉ BERRÍOS COLÓN. RR 1 BOX 2239, CIDRA, PUERTO RICO, 00739. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de diciembre de 2022. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 8 de diciembre de 2022. IVELISSE C.
FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA M. SANTIAGO ROSA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.One by one, they dropped away, Morocco’s hopes of overcoming France diminishing just a little at each step. Nayef Aguerd, the central defender, fell by the wayside in warm-ups. Romain Saiss, the captain, finally admitted — to himself, as much as anything — that he was injured after a quarter-hour of play. Noussair Mazraoui, patched up and pushing through, did not return for the second half.
Even at full strength, Morocco might not have beaten France on Wednesday, but there can be little doubt that its chances were hampered by having to play the biggest game in its history with a makeshift defense. Unfortunately, that is the lot of the underdog on these occasions. The latter stages of World Cups are, ultimately, as much a test of resources as of talent.
Very few teams outside soccer’s established powerhouses make it as far as the semifinals of a World Cup, which is to say that merely doing so is, without question, an achievement in itself. The rare ones that have are, for the most part, easily recalled: Croatia in 2018 (and 1998), Uruguay in 2010, South Korea and Turkey in 2002, Bulgaria and Sweden in 1994.
Even fewer, though, make the final. Of those teams, only Croatia, four years ago, made that last step. For everyone else, it was at the semifinal stage that the clock struck midnight, the reverie came to
an end, and cold, unforgiving reality once more took hold.
There are a handful of reasons for that. The most immediate, of course, is that the further you go in the
competition, the higher the quality of your opponent. The World Cup is designed so that each step is harder than the last. Only eight countries, after all, have ever won it. The tournament’s structure is such, too, that it tends to allow teams — especially the traditional contenders — at least a little time to work out whatever faults they may have, to gather a head of steam.
But perhaps most pertinent is the intensity of it all. The meeting with France was Morocco’s sixth game in 22 days, and France’s sixth in 23. That workload is more easily handled by a team of France’s resources than Morocco’s, largely because the gap between the caliber of France’s first team and that of its reserves is significantly smaller.
When Morocco was seeking an equalizing goal, it threw on a forward who plays his club soccer in Saudi Arabia. France’s second, clinching goal was scored by one of the brightest prospects in Germany’s Bundesliga, one of Europe’s elite domestic competitions.
It is not impossible, of course, that a smaller team might one day lift a major trophy. Croatia almost got there at the 2018 World Cup. Greece won the European Championship — soccer’s second-most exacting tournament — in 2004, a genuine outsider that made it all the way. For the most part, though, the teams that illuminate soccer’s grandest stages every few years, the unheralded and the unfancied, do so knowing that the longer they remain, the louder, the more urgent, is the ticking of the clock.
By KRIS RHIM
The NCAA, which has struggled to govern the shifting landscape of college sports amid rapid changes involving endorsement deals, large media contracts and conference realignment, on Thursday named Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts as the organization’s next president.
Baker, a Republican, has been the governor of Massachusetts since 2015, with his second term ending in January. He will take over as president of the NCAA in March 2023. Baker will replace Mark Emmert, who will serve as a consultant to the NCAA until June 2023.
Baker has some familiarity with college sports. He played basketball at Harvard, including eight games for the varsity team in the 1977-78 season. His wife, Lauren Baker, was a gymnast at Northwestern, and their two sons played Division III football.
Baker has not worked in sports in any capacity, working in government and the health industry for all of his professional life. Still, the NCAA needed “a leader with a different set of skills,” said Mary-Beth A.
Cooper, president of Springfield College in Massachusetts, who served on the search committee.
Baker’s experience in government could help the NCAA navigate a time when its power in Washington and U.S. statehouses has seemingly diminished and as its pleas for federal legislation to protect its business model from legal challenges have been unsuccessful.
Lawmakers at many levels have become steadily more vocal about making major changes to the foundations of college sports, where athletes are generally compensated by universities for only the costs of attendance. Endorsement income, known as name, image and likeness deals, are done separately between athletes and outside businesses.
“The NCAA president needs to be able to balance competing priorities, inspire a shared vision and create a broad sense of trust,” said former Duke and NBA basketball player Grant Hill, who was a part of the search committee. He added, “Charlie Baker has demonstrated the type of results-oriented, bipartisan approach that we will need to bolster the well-being of student-athletes, realize the opportunities and overcome the challenges facing the NCAA.”
Brazil’s players already seem to have identified their preferred candidate. They had known, long before their quarterfinal defeat to Croatia sent them out of the World Cup, that Tite — the affable, cerebral coach of the national team for the past six years — would be stepping down. Now, they had decided that the most exacting job in international soccer should go to Fernando Diniz.
The 48-year-old Diniz certainly had a strong case. The squad’s elder statesmen, Daniel Alves and Thiago Silva, offered glowing references. So did two of the team’s younger members, Antony and Bruno Guimaraes, who had worked with him early in their careers. Most important, he had Neymar on board: As long ago as July, Brazil’s most influential star had tweeted about his admiration for Diniz.
Not everyone is quite so convinced. Ronaldo, the World Cup-winning striker who has functioned, essentially, as a ghost at the feast during this tournament, suggested he did not “see many options” for Tite’s successor among Brazilian coaches. Diniz, he said, was the best of them, but he was far more enthused by the idea of something unprecedented: appointing a foreigner to coach the Brazilian national team.
The Italian Carlo Ancelotti, the Spaniard Pep Guardiola, the Portuguese Abel Ferreira were all, Ronaldo said, more appealing. “I get a good feeling from these names,” he said.
Brazil is not the only country to have left Qatar rather earlier than expected that finds itself wrestling with this issue. A quarter of the teams in the tournament had barely picked up their baggage from the carousel before they parted company with their managers. A couple, the Netherlands and Spain, have moved quickly to appoint replacements. Six more are beginning their search for candidates. A handful of others, including England and Portugal, may yet join them.
That task, though, is not quite as easy as it sounds. Managing a national team is not — and has not been for some time — the pinnacle of a coach’s career. Most of the game’s most feted managers, obsessives who thrive on fine-tuning their complex, intricate systems on a daily basis, find the disjointed nature of international soccer un-
attractive.
Nor is it necessarily clear that a rich, impressive resume in club soccer is a reliable guide to success with a country. Only three coaches in Qatar had, for example, won the Champions League: Germany’s Hansi Flick, Spain’s Luis Enrique and Louis van Gaal, the Dutch coach. Only van Gaal will be satisfied with his tournament. Flick’s team left after the group stage, Enrique’s in the round of 16.
Those managers who have thrived, on the other hand, have far more low-key backgrounds. France’s Didier Deschamps contested a Champions League final in 2004 and won a French title with Marseille in 2010. Walid Regragui, the Morocco coach, has built a fine career in his homeland, leading Wydad Casablanca to the African Champions League this spring.
But Argentina’s Lionel Scaloni has no club experience — he was awarded the national team post after impressing with the country’s under-20 team — while Zlatko Dalic, the Croatian manager, was working in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for almost a decade before he was appointed by his nation in 2017. Neither could have been described as a glamorous hire.
And then, of course, there is the issue
of nationality. Plenty of countries, ordinarily in what might be called soccer’s developing world, have long imported coaches. In the sport’s major nations, though, it remains a significant, and not uncontroversial, step.
“The national team is ours,” as Rivaldo, another Brazilian great, said this week. “It has to be coached by someone with Brazilian blood running through their veins.”
There is nothing in the rules that requires a country’s national team be managed by someone born, raised or otherwise connected to that place, of course. And a literal interpretation of Rivaldo’s hard-line stance is most likely impractical in a world of layered, fluid identities.
It is hard not to feel, though, that it comes close — in the case of soccer’s powerhouses — to negating the idea, the purpose, of international soccer. These tournaments, after all, are essentially a test of the strength of a country’s soccer culture: the ideas it has (or has borrowed and adapted), the players it can produce.
In Brazil’s case, that culture has a major shortcoming when it comes to managers. The reason Ronaldo, for one, is not wholly convinced by Diniz’s suitability is, most likely, because Diniz has coached more than a dozen clubs during his managerial career.
He has worked as a manager since 2009. In several of his most recent jobs, he was fired after barely a few months in charge.
As Neymar said in his tweet lobbying for Diniz, the lack of time shown and patience afforded to coaches is a deep-rooted problem in Brazil’s soccer culture. Most of the other domestic candidates have the same issue; clubs are so trigger-happy, so demanding, that managers are never given the chance to build anything.
If a national team is anything, it is a reflection of every element of that culture: the good and the bad, the strengths and the weaknesses. Brazil can, of course, take a shortcut, and appoint a foreigner to make up for its inability to nurture coaching talent. But that is what it is: a shortcut. It does not address the issue at its root. It is a way of avoiding the hard work. It might be fine by the letter of the law. Whether it is in the spirit of it is a different matter.
World Cup 3rd Place Play-Off Saturday, 10 a.m. ET (Fox)
Croatia vs Morocco
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While the New York Mets prepared for the first game of their postseason, against San Diego on Oct. 7, José Quintana started the playoff opener for the St. Louis Cardinals. He held Philadelphia scoreless into the sixth inning, but the Phillies rallied late for a victory. The winning pitcher was David Robertson.
It was easy for Mets fans to miss that other National League wild-card series, between the Cardinals and Phillies, coming as it did amid the swift demise of a 101-win regular season in Flushing. Hours after Quintana and Robertson looked so sharp in St. Louis, the Padres thumped Max Scherzer en route to a series victory at Citi Field.
Scherzer was the Mets’ splashy signing last December, for a record $43.3 million per season. This month they added another right-handed three-time Cy Young Award winner, Justin Verlander, for another deal at $43.3 million per year. But they also signed the left-hander Quintana and the right-handed reliever Robertson and traded with Tampa Bay for another pitcher, left-handed reliever Brooks Raley — three lower-profile, depth-adding moves that could make a big difference.
“It’s like you’re trying to manage for two different seasons, right?” Mets general manager Billy Eppler said Wednesday on a video news conference to introduce Quintana, Robertson and Raley. “We’re going to go play 162 games in 183 days or whatever, and then if we do well there, you get an opportunity to get into the postseason, where you’re managing and utilizing personnel in a little different way than you did over the course of the season. So having depth is critical.”
The Mets were deep enough last season to reach the playoffs despite injuries to Scherzer and Jacob deGrom, who combined for only 34 starts. DeGrom, 34, has taken his dazzling, but fragile, right arm to Texas, where the Texas Rangers gave him a five-year, $185 million contract. Verlander, who turns 40 in February, got a two-year deal to replace him.
Verlander and Scherzer, 38, are ferociously motivated competitors, separated
by only five career strikeouts (3,198 for Verlander and 3,193 for Scherzer) atop the active leaderboard. But neither had much left by the last postseason — only one of their five combined starts extended past the fifth inning — and the Mets’ greatest challenge could be keeping them close to peak performance when it matters most.
This offseason, the Mets have lost three right-handed starters — deGrom, Chris Bassitt (to Toronto) and Taijuan Walker (to the Phillies) — but filled in with Verlander, Quintana and Kodai Senga, a right-handed star from Japan. With Carlos Carrasco and some combination of Tylor Megill and David Peterson, they should consider using a sixth starter whenever possible in the regular season, to keep their best arms fresh for October.
Quintana, who turns 34 in January, would be a steal at two years and $26 million if he pitches as he did last season, when he had a 2.93 ERA in 32 starts for Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
With a mechanical adjustment that sharpened his sinker, Quintana allowed only eight home runs; his ratio of 0.4 per
nine innings was the best in Major League Baseball. He made his debut in 2012 and has never reached the World Series, and figured the Mets would give him a good chance.
“It’s a really exciting time,” Quintana said. “I think everybody’s talking about us, and that’s fine. We showed something — we want to win. Like David says, I’m not going to be younger anymore, so it’s time to win. This is the perfect fit, the perfect team. We have everything in here to show that.”
Robertson, who will be 38 in April, won the World Series with the 2009 New York Yankees and returned with the Phillies last fall, earning a save in the opener in Houston. Working without an agent, he knew where to shop himself on the open market.
“Sometimes you have to put out a little bit more money to get the players that you want, that you think are going to fit in, and get the right staff in control of that organization,” said Robertson, who got a one-year deal for $10 million. “I think it just shows a lot about our owner — he’s committed to it.”
The Mets’ owner, Steven Cohen, has authorized a record payroll of roughly $350 million for 2023, plus about $80 million in luxury-tax penalties. The deals for Verlander, Quintana, Robertson, Senga (five years, $75 million), closer Edwin Díaz (five years, $102 million) and outfielder Brandon Nimmo (eight years, $162 million) add up to a $461.66 million spending spree.
“A lot of the heavy lifting is done,” Eppler said, “but it doesn’t stop us from being opportunistic.”
Cohen and a few other team owners have been especially generous this offseason. The Mets, the Yankees, the Phillies, the Rangers, the San Diego Padres and the San Francisco Giants — who have a 13-year, $350 million agreement with shortstop Carlos Correa — have each spent at least $230 million on free agents.
The Phillies brought shortstop Trea Turner back to the NL East with an 11year, $300 million contract, and Atlanta — which did much of its spending on inseason contract extensions — traded for a top catcher, Sean Murphy, this week in a three-team deal.
“The NL East as a whole has just gotten a lot better,” Raley said. “I think in this division you’ve really got to reload if you want to compete. Coming from the AL East, it’s very similar. It’s part of the sport now: for the best players, the contracts are obviously fruitful.”
The spending is not as widespread as it seems: Seventeen teams have combined to spend less than $200 million on the open market. A dozen of those teams have spent no more than $12 million apiece.
It is safe to say that the Mets will always spend big under Cohen, though no payroll figure can tilt all the variables their way in October. To Eppler, every move is designed with a singular goal: to build a roster that has a chance. Again.
“We’ve got to get into the tournament at the end,” Eppler said. “And that’s, in and of itself, going to give you the opportunity to advance to the World Series and ultimately get an opportunity to win one. But if we can sign up for that number of wins again next season, if you offer me that right now, I’m in.”
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