The owners of housing units at condominiums Pon ciana, Torre de Oro and Torres de Aragón in Ponce, whose homes were damaged by the Jan. 7, 2020 earthquake, accused their respective boards of directors of having complicated the economic state of 150 families (tenants) and merchants.
“I have to say that unfortunately our eviction was illegal, for which we are now paying the consequences,” Ivette González Cuascut said. “We are very upset be cause this week there was an earthquake in Puerto Rico and it came to mind that I have a property in Estancias de Aragón that I cannot use, but month after month the bank demands the mortgage payment from me. This situation has all owners paying rent on rented homes, with the complication that we have to continue paying for a property that we are not allowed to use. We call on any agency, especially the Department of Justice, to take action on the matter since our credit and peace of mind are being harmed.”
A tenant of the Ponciana Condominium, Margarita Márquez, questioned the laxity of the insurance companies
and the erratic behavior with the owners of the properties affected by the earthquake, understanding that they have made common cause with the boards of directors of the condominiums, thus blocking the participation of those affected in the negotiation meetings.
Another Ponciana Condominium tenant, Juan Howe Hernández, said “there is no doubt that there are serious problems in the behavior of some members of the board of directors of these condominiums.”
“We have evidence with photocopies of checks and documents that reflect illegal disbursements by these people who should be custodians of our interests,” he said. “There is black and white information that confirms the actions taken by some members of the boards of directors that are not consistent with the laws and regulations that govern the administration of condominiums in Puerto Rico. It has been the case that apartments are being transferred to members of the boards without a resolution to re-sign their owners.”
“Furthermore, there is a copy of a check that makes clear money disbursed for personal medical expenses of a board member, which is totally illegal, abusive, making clear an act of corruption punishable by law,”
Howe Hernández continued. “We have appeared before the country’s press to denounce the abuses to which we are being subjected; on the one hand, the banks are suing us for the collection of the mortgages, on the other hand, we are not even allowed to ask the status of the claims or the use of money that has already been received which has been used for matters unrelated to the restoration of the condominiums and their apartments. There is no doubt that there is clear, compelling evidence that proves the misuse of the power conferred by being a member of a board of direc tors of these condominiums. We warn that nothing is going to stop us; we are going to expose anyone who is doing wrong, remembering that no one goes unpunished for the misuse of funds that belong to the owners and not to the members of a board.”
Howe Hernández added that he hopes that the Ponce Prosecutor’s Of fice and the commonwealth police, who have received various complaints against members of the aforementioned condominiums’ boards and administra tions, will act on the complaints in the coming weeks.
The San Juan Daily Star, the only paper with News Service in English in Puerto Rico, publishes 7 days a week, with a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday edition, along with a Weekend Edition to cover Friday, Saturday and Sunday.Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia participated in the reopening earlier this week of a section of highway PR-1 in Salinas that was closed to traffic after Hurricane Fiona.
“The opening of this highway in record time after the passage of Hurricane Fiona shows that this government works together and in tune with the needs of our people,” the governor said in a written statement. “The reconstruction of Puerto Rico is on track and nothing is going to stop us.”
Highways and Transportation Authority Executive Director Edwin González Montalvo said “due to the difficulties that a long-term closure could have caused drivers, we treated it as a priority and in a record time of 60 days the [highway authority] team completed the work on this section of the PR-1 highway in Salinas.”
“In the same way, we have worked on all the other incidents reported to ensure traffic on all roads on the island,” he added.
As relief to residents and drivers from several Salinas communities impacted by the closure, the highway authority will grant a credit to the AutoExpreso system for toll payments made at the main toll plaza in Salinas from Sept.
18 through this past Wednesday, Nov. 30, when access was reopened. Drivers who have not yet submitted their claim to the municipality of Salinas for the AutoExpreso credit will have until Jan. 10, 2023 to do so.
The drivers eligible for the credit are residents of the communities of Vertero, Monte Grande, Matei, Naranjo, Parcelas Vázquez, Palmas, Majada, Plena, Reparto Santa Fe, Sabana Llana (Rabo del Buey), PR-1, Rancho Guayama, Jájome Bajo and Pueblito del Carmen who did not have access to the shuttered section of PR-1 during the weeks when the repairs were made.
As previously reported, to process the credit, eligible Salinas residents must go to the municipal offices, where they will be required to complete a form to request reimbursement in the form of a credit with the AutoExpreso system. To be eligible, they must present an electricity or water bill, which serves to validate their physical address. Non-resident drivers working or studying in those communities will be required to present certification of employment or study as evidence.
It is important that users have their AutoExpreso account registered. As previously reported, no fines will be issued for toll transactions accrued from April 16 until further notice. Drivers are encouraged to keep an eye on the social media of the highway authority and the Salinas Municipal Council for any updates on the process.
The Greater Truckers Front (FAC by its Spanish initials) on Thursday rejected the draft regulations issued by the Bureau of Transportation and Other Public Services, as well as the rate system.
“Despite the good will expressed by all the affiliated chapters of the FAC and after many meetings, as well as conversations, including with the merchants who hire our workers, we have received a draft regulation that intends to go above the spirit of the law,” said Edwin Marrero Martínez, the public relations coordinator for the FAC, in a written statement.
which would not only be unfair competition, but would also border on immorality after carriers have been waiting for rate justice for more than 15 years.”
He affirmed that the FAC approved a permanent assembly vote that would take effect immediately, in the event that the submitted amendments to the draft regulations are not accepted.
“In particular, the elimination of the new definition that the Bureau intends to give to that figure of the contract carrier,” Marrero Martínez said. “We want to make it clear that, before making this determination, we have exhausted all administrative remedies, including the public hearing appeal that just concluded today.”
A spokesman for the Greater Truckers Front said the labor organization has approved a permanent assembly vote that would take effect immediately, in the event that the submitted amendments to draft regulations are not accepted by the Bureau of Transportation and Other Public Services.
“As is public knowledge, our system is one based on the minimum rate established by a lawful mandate of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as stated in Law 109 of June 28, 1962, as amended. Therefore, the use of the figure of the carrier by contract should be eliminated from the draft of the regulation, which today is practically nonexistent,” Marrero Martínez said. “Having this figure creates a parallel rate system in open violation of the law,
“It is unfortunate that we once again have to exert pressure through a permanent assembly, which can be avoided by understanding that the definition of the contract carrier accepted by the Bureau is outside the parameters of the law,” the union leader said. “Reason does not scream, reason convinces, but when reason is not listened to, we are obliged to raise our voices through a permanent assembly.”
U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain on Thursday gave the Financial Oversight and Management Board an additional week, until next Thursday, Dec. 8, to file with the Title III bankruptcy court a debt adjustment plan for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA).
The mediation team overseeing negotiations to restructure bankrupt PREPA’s debt informed the special federal court that the oversight board has not submitted data relevant to the ne gotiations and asked for an extension to the Dec. 1 deadline to submit a new debt adjustment plan (PAD by its Spanish acronym) for the power utility.
“The Court is persuaded that the Mediation Team’s exten sion request is reasonable and that the extension is needed to allow the exchange and review of information necessary to advance negotiations,” the judge said. “Accordingly, for the reasons set forth in the Second Mediation Report, the deadline for the Oversight Board to file a proposed plan of adjustment, disclosure statement (and corresponding motion for approval thereof), and proposed confirmation schedule contemplating a June 2023 confirmation hearing is hereby extended to De cember 8, 2022.”
The mediation team had informed the court Thursday that despite reasonable requests by the Ad Hoc Group and the monolines, the oversight board was still in the process of providing basic data and analyses relevant to the ongoing plan negotiations.
“Without such information, the Mediation Team believes
no further progress toward a consensual resolution can be achieved,” the mediators said in a motion. “Stated differently, good faith negotiations between the Oversight Board, the Ad Hoc Group, and the Monolines require transparency from both sides and continued engagement based on a reasonable set of underlying facts and assumptions, with each side willing to be persuaded that its analyses are not necessarily dispositive. Accordingly, the Mediation Team requests that this Court ex tend the Scheduling Order’s December 1, 2022 deadline for the Oversight Board to file a proposed plan of adjustment by one week.”
Swain had ordered the oversight board to submit a PAD by Thursday, Dec. 1.
On April 8, the Title III court appointed a mediation team comprising federal bankruptcy judge Shelley C. Chapman as lead mediator, along with judges Robert D. Drain and Brendan L. Shannon, to facilitate confidential negotiations among the mediation parties. The termination date of the mediation has been extended by the court multiple times. The court ordered mediation to end on Dec. 31, and further stated that “the Me diation Team may extend the Termination Date based on its assessment of the material progress of the Mediation but in no event shall extend the Termination Date beyond January 31, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. without this Court’s approval after notice of such proposed extension to parties in interest.”
On Sept. 29, the court granted in part and denied in part an oversight board motion to continue debt negotiations during litigation of certain gating issues, such as whether PREPA bondholders’ debt is a secured interest.
The judge ordered the oversight board “to file, by December 1, 2022, a proposed plan of adjustment that it believes could be confirmable, taking into account the litigation risk and economic issues that are in dispute.”
“The plan may, but is not required to, include alternative provisions addressing proposed resolutions contingent on differ ent outcomes of the disputed issues,” read Swain’s order. “It must be accompanied by a disclosure statement (and correspond ing motion for approval thereof) and proposed confirmation schedule contemplating a June 2023 confirmation hearing.”
The mediation team said that if the court delays the presen tation of the PAD a week, it must be under certain conditions.
One of them is that the oversight board will promptly deliver to the Ad Hoc Group and the monolines, on a rolling basis, all of the information on which the oversight board has relied in formulating its current position in the ongoing plan negotiations, with such delivery to be completed by the close of business today Dec. 2. The mediators also asked that the oversight board’s professionals make themselves available to the Ad Hoc Group’s and the monolines’ professionals promptly to review such information and answer questions raised; that the oversight board engage in good faith negotiations during the extension; and that the omnibus hearing scheduled for Dec. 14 be held as scheduled.
“Given the importance of the deadline that the Court set, the Mediation Team makes this request reluctantly, but believes that the alternative of filing a plan on December 1, 2022 in the present context would be significantly less conducive to a negotiated resolution of this case,” the mediators said.
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The theme of the 34th annual World AIDS Day is “Tack ling Inequalities That Perpetuate the AIDS Pandemic,” which recognizes the urgent need to address health inequities and the need to lift up experiences, solutions and innovations from the HIV community. Globally, the United States’ efforts through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and PEPFAR are dramatically reducing the burden of HIV/AIDS in developing countries. Domestically, people with HIV are living longer and the rate of diagnoses have decreased because of programs like the Ryan White Minority AIDS Initiative.
“We’ve come a long way in understanding and countering HIV and AIDS around the world, thanks to the significant improvements that have been made in research, prevention and treatment,” González Colón said. “Now, while we reach our goal to free our communities from this epidemic, it is necessary to strengthen outreach and educational tools to fight the stigma that continues affecting HIV patients, as well as to ensure accessible healthcare. As co-chair of the Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus, on this 34th Annual World AIDS Day, I’m proud to support the common goal of tackling disparities in health services faced by disadvantaged HIV groups in our nation, including the more than 15,848 people diagnosed in my district, Puerto Rico.”
Lee added that “we remember those that we have lost in the struggle against this disease and the millions across the globe that continue to fight against it,” Lee said. “Just as the
COVID-19 pandemic exposed deep health disparities, we know the HIV and AIDS epidemic disproportionately affects communities of color and LGBTQ communities, here in the U.S. and in developing nations. As co-chair of the Congres sional HIV & AIDS Caucus, I’m dedicated to addressing these disparities in access to life-saving sexual and reproductive healthcare, services and education so that we can achieve the first AIDS-free generation.”
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) awarded $15.2 million in public assistance grant funding on Thursday to the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) for emergency protective measures taken after Hurricane Fiona.
The funds will reimburse costs to install and run generators that provided temporary power at all PRASA water
supply and sewage collection system facilities after the disaster.
“The $15.2 million approved by FEMA for the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority is evidence that we are on the right track,” Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said. “Just two months after Hurricane Fiona hit the Island, we stand together and committed to Puerto Rico’s reconstruction, in particular for essential services like those provided by PRASA. I again thank the Biden-Harris
administration for working with us for the well being of our people.”
“In just over two months since Fiona made landfall, federal dollars are already flowing to Puerto Rico to cover the crit ical work undertaken after the storm to protect public safety,” said FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer Nancy Casper. “This $15.2 million award is just part of the nearly $600 million that FEMA has funded for the recovery of the island for individual and public assistance, as we
continue to work closely with the govern ment of Puerto Rico, municipality leaders and other eligible entities to streamline additional obligations in the weeks and months ahead.”
FEMA’s Public Assistance Program provides funding to local government ju risdictions and eligible private nonprofits for the repair, replacement, or restoration of disaster-damaged infrastructure as well as costs incurred for emergency actions taken to protect lives and property.
AHouse committee has gained access to six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns after the Supreme Court last week paved the way for the release of records he had long sought to keep secret.
“Treasury has complied with last week’s court decision,” Lily Adams, a spokesperson for the Treasury Department, said Wednesday.
The move brought to an end a nearly four-year effort by Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee to obtain the returns. Breaking with modern precedent for major presidential candidates and sitting presidents, Trump had refused to make them public.
A spokesperson for the committee’s chair who requested the returns, Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., declined to comment. Lawyers for Trump did not respond to a re quest for comment.
It was unclear whether the Internal Re venue Service, an agency within the Treasury Department, had delivered physical copies of the returns to Capitol Hill, offered to make them available for Neal to read or taken some other step to furnish them to the committee.
Adams also gave no further details, saying only that the department had provided the records “consistent with the guidelines of 6103,” referring to the law that allows the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee to request the returns.
At this stage, Section 6103 requires treating with confidentiality details about any requested returns that can be associated with a particular taxpayer. That same law,
however, also allows the committee to later publish the returns in the Congressional Re cord, which would make them public. Neal has not announced whether he would do so.
The move came about a month before Republicans take control of the House. Had the Supreme Court sided with Trump, the new majority would almost certainly have dropped the request.
It is not clear whether the tax returns will contain major new revelations because in the intervening years, details about Trump’s finances have been disclosed by other means.
In February 2021, the Manhattan district attorney’s office obtained some of Trump’s tax
returns and other financial data. The Trump Organization is now on trial in New York, where it is accused of tax fraud and other crimes. The New York state attorney general has sued Trump and three of his children, accusing them of lying to lenders and insurers by fraudulently overvaluing his assets.
The New York Times has also inves tigated Trump’s taxes, including obtaining tax-return data in 2020. Among its findings were that he paid no federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years that The Times examined and that he had reduced his tax bill with a $72.9 million tax refund that, as of 2020, was the subject of an audit by the IRS.
The fight over Trump’s taxes traces back to 2019, when Democrats took over the House and started trying to perform oversight. Trump vowed to stonewall “all” their subpoenas and pursued a strategy of using the slow pace of litigation to delay such efforts.
Among other efforts, Democrats obtained testimony from Trump’s former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, that Trump had boasted about inflating the value of assets when applying for loans and undervaluing them when it helped lower his taxes. Neal also requested Trump’s tax returns, saying the committee was studying a program that audits presidents.
Trump and his allies said Democrats were engaged in a politically motivated fishing expedition, and his lawyers vowed to fight it “tooth and nail.” The Trump administration did not allow the Treasury Department to comply with Neal’s request.
The House filed a lawsuit that July seeking to enforce the request, but the law suit stalled before a Trump-appointed judge, Trevor N. McFadden. In late 2021, he finally ruled that the law was on the committee’s side — even as he warned that he thought it would be a bad idea for the House to publish the returns.
Trump continued to appeal. Last summer, a panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld McFadden’s ruling.
In October, the full appeals court de clined to rehear the matter, and the Supreme Court last week declined to get involved — lifting the block that had prevented the committee from obtaining the returns.
stormed the Capitol, disrupting Congress’s formal count of electoral votes to confirm Joe Biden’s election as president.
“Although your committee’s public hearings did not focus on why the Capitol complex was not secure on Jan. 6, 2021, the Republican majority in the 118th Congress will hold hearings that do so,” McCarthy wrote to Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. and chair of the committee.
A spokesperson for the Jan. 6 com mittee declined to comment on the letter, which was reported earlier by The Federalist.
The committee, which will be dis solved at the end of the current Congress, is finishing up its final batch of witness in terviews, including a session on Wednesday with Robin Vos, the speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, who said former President Donald Trump has continued to try to pres sure lawmakers to overturn the 2020 election — even more than a year after his defeat.
said they are attempting to create a read able report — and had to make difficult choices about what to include, given the voluminous evidence accumulated — but plan to release the full transcripts of their interviews after making some redactions to prevent the identification of witnesses who were granted anonymity.
In addition to interviewing more than 1,000 witnesses, the committee has obtained more than 1 million pages of documents.
Shortly after the attack, both the Sen ate and the House held multiple hearings investigating security failures, and the Sen ate produced a bipartisan report detailing those failures.
By LUKE BROADWATERRep. Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican who is attempting to become the next House speaker, has warned the special committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that members of his party planned to launch an inquiry of their own into the panel’s work next year when Republicans assume control of the chamber.
In a letter sent to the committee’s chair on Wednesday, McCarthy instructed the panel to preserve its records — an action already required under House rules — in cluding any recorded transcripts of its more than 1,000 interviews. The missive was the
first official indication that newly empow ered House Republicans plan not only to end the inquiry at the start of the new Congress, but also to attempt to dismantle and discredit its findings — the latest piece of a broader effort the party has undertaken over the past two years to deny, downplay or shift blame for the deadly attack by a pro-Trump mob.
It comes as McCarthy toils to shore up his position with hard-right Republicans in his conference who have refused to support his bid for speaker, imperiling his chances of being elected in January.
McCarthy pledged in the letter that he would hold public hearings scrutiniz ing the security breakdowns that occurred during the assault, when a pro-Trump mob
The panel is also completing an exten sive report, which is expected to be released in December and is the subject of much internal debate over how much to focus on Trump’s actions versus security failures at the Capitol. Members of the commit tee’s so-called Blue Team have conducted months of investigation and research into such failures, but it was unclear how much of their work would be featured.
McCarthy highlighted the complaints raised by some current and former staffers in media reports that their work investigating security failures, the financing of the rallies that preceded the attack and the threat of white nationalism would be overshadowed in the report by a focus on Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
Lawmakers on the committee have
Republicans, especially those on the hard right, have pressed to focus on the security flaws, which they have baselessly blamed on Speaker Nancy Pelosi, rather than on Trump’s role in pushing for the election to be overturned and summoning a large crowd to march on the Capitol, where they attacked and injured more than 150 police officers in a bloody rampage.
In a recent closed-door meeting of Re publicans, right-wing lawmakers including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia also extracted a promise that their leaders would investigate Pelosi and the Justice Department for their treatment of defendants jailed in connection with the Jan. 6 attack.
McCarthy has long derided the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation. He refused to comply with a subpoena and argued the panel is “illegitimate,” citing Pelosi’s rejec tion of two of his nominees.
The panel has taken no step to en force that subpoena, citing congressional traditions.
House Democrats earlier this week elected a new generation of leaders to take the mantle from the three octogenarians who have led them for two de cades, installing a trio of top leaders that, for the first time in congressional history, includes no white men.
In a display of unity after midterm elections in which they lost the House but had a stronger than expected showing, Democrats skipped a vote and by acclamation elected Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York to be minority leader, making him the first Black person to claim the top spot. Rep. Kathe rine Clark of Massachusetts was elected as whip, the lead vote counter for House Democrats, and Rep. Pete Aguilar of California as the chairman of the party caucus, in charge of messaging.
Jeffries, 52, Clark, 59, and Aguilar, 43, who for years have positioned themselves as an unofficial joint slate and patiently waited their turn, ran unopposed after Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who has led the party for two decades, announced after the midterm elections that she would step aside, paving the way for fresher faces at the top of her party.
Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the majority leader, had considered trying to remain in leadership and said he had the support to do so, but ultimately decided against it. And Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., had considered a challenge to Jeffries for the post of minority leader, but many Democrats said he lacked the votes. Last week, Schiff told Jeffries that he was instead exploring a run for Senate, and wished him well in the upcoming leadership election, according to a person familiar with the private conversation who disclosed it on the condition of anonymity.
The mood was jubilant on Wednesday inside the orna te committee hearing room across from the Capitol where Democrats met to elect their new leaders.
Democrats, for the most part, said they saw the lack of competitive races as a sign of strength and unity, and a stark contrast to the fractured Republican conference, in which Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, is struggling to win the support he needs to become speaker
amid a revolt on his right flank. A historically weak mid term performance has handed the GOP a razor-thin House majority for the next Congress, making the job of leading it exceedingly difficult.
“It shows that Democrats are in array, Republicans are in disarray,” said Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., noting that the new slate of leaders, which includes a Black man, a white woman and a Latino man, “reflects the beautiful diversity of America.” Lieu, later Wednesday, won election to be the vice chair of the Democratic caucus, putting him in line to become the first Asian American to hold that post.
Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota said she was excited to have a leader “who actually does represent the diversity of our caucus.”
Aguilar, in a news conference after the top three jobs were cemented, Aguilar said that the election showed that “while Kevin McCarthy is auctioning off real estate and square footage for every vote he can, we’re united together.” Jeffries said House Democrats were united because they shared a commitment to fighting for “young people, seniors, immi grants, veterans, the poor, the sick, the afflicted, the least, the lost and the left behind.”
He said Democrats would “push back against extremism whenever necessary.”
Yet some Democrats called the uncontested election a missed opportunity for them to discuss how their party was shifting and how it should move forward.
“This is the most significant generational change that we have seen in House Democrats in several decades,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. “I personally believe that we would benefit from a debate on what that means.”
The leadership elections marked a sea change for the caucus, which for two decades has been led by the same trio of leaders, who effectively froze out dozens of more junior lawmakers who had been waiting to ascend.
Pelosi’s announcement before Thanksgiving that she would step down from leadership set the long-awaited change in motion. Hoyer quickly followed suit, and Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, the whip, said he would relinquish the third-ranking spot and seek a lower position.
His decision to stay in leadership, however, rankled some members.
On Wednesday, Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island, who is gay, said he planned to challenge Clyburn for the position of assistant leader.
“With so much at stake, I think it is critical that the House Democratic leadership team fully reflect the diver sity of our caucus and the American people by including an LGBTQ+ member at the leadership table,” he said in a letter to his colleagues announcing his bid. That race will be decided Thursday.
In remarks to reporters ahead of the election, Jeffries described the role he was about to assume as a “solemn responsibility.”
“When we get an opportunity as diverse leaders to serve in positions of consequence, the most meaningful thing that we can do in that space is do an incredibly good job,” Jeffries said.
He downplayed the divisions among Democrats and expressed confidence in his ability, along with his expected leadership team, to keep the party united in the coming year.
“There’s nothing more unifying than being in the mi nority and having a clear-eyed objective and goal of getting back into the majority so we can continue to deliver big things for everyday Americans,” he said.
San Francisco police could use robots to deploy lethal force under a policy advanced by city supervisors this week that thrust the city into the forefront of a national debate about the use of weaponized robots in U.S. cities.
The possibility is not merely hypothetical. In 2016, the Dallas Police Department ended a standoff with a gunman suspected of killing five of ficers by blowing him up with a bomb attached to a robot in what was believed to be the first lethal use of the technology by a U.S. law enforcement agency.
Supporters of the policy, advanced by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors by a 8-3 vote, said it would allow police to deploy a robot with deadly force in extraordinary circumstances, such as when a mass shooter or a terrorist is threatening the lives of of ficers or civilians.
David Lazar, assistant chief of the San Francisco Police Department, cited as an example the gunman who opened fire from his Las Vegas high-rise hotel room in 2017, killing 60 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
“He’s shooting, people are pinned down, the police are pinned down,” Lazar told the board during a contentious debate about the policy. “We would then think to ourselves, ‘OK, this is a possible option.’ ”
To become law, the policy must be approved again by the board — which is slated to consider it Dec. 6 — and be signed by Mayor London Breed, a Democrat who has expressed support for the proposal.
“If the police are called to serve in a situation where someone intends to do harm or is already doing harm to innocent
people, and there is technology that can help to end the violence and save lives, we need to allow police to use these tools to save lives,” Breed’s of fice said in a statement.
Paul Scharre, the vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security and the author of “Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War,” said he was not aware of another U.S. city that had approved such a policy.
He said that using robots to deliver deadly force was “the exact opposite of what we should be using robots for.”
The advantage of robots, Scharre said, is that they can create distance between police and a potential threat, giving of ficers more time to make decisions without putting themselves in harm’s way.
“Precisely because a police of ficer is no longer at risk, you don’t have to use lethal force,” he said. “You can use nonlethal options such as tear gas or flash bangs to incapacitate someone.”
He said the concern was that other cities would follow San Francisco’s example, eventually leading to the broader use of deadly robots by U.S. law enforcement.
“It becomes normalized,” Scharre said. “It becomes a tool that police departments turn to in situations where they really don’t have to.”
Aaron Peskin, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, said the policy was developed in response to a state law enacted last year that required law enforcement agencies across California to seek the approval of their local governing bodies to use military-style equipment.
Responding to the law, the San Francisco Police Department proposed a policy governing a range of equipment in its possession, including a long-range acoustic device, sometimes referred to as a sound cannon, a BearCat armored vehicle and a 40 mm launcher that can deploy chemical agents.
Also on the list: 17 robots, five of which are out of commission, according to the Police Department. The robots were acquired between 2010 and 2017, the police said, and include heavy-duty models that can climb stairs, robots with tank treads
that can defuse bombs and a small robot that can deliver an instantaneous video and audio feed.
The Police Department said none of its robots were “out fitted with lethal force options and the department has no plans to out fit robots with any type of firearm.”
But “robots could potentially be equipped with explosive charges to breach fortified structures containing violent, armed or dangerous subjects or used to contact, incapacitate or disorient violent, armed or dangerous suspects who pose a risk of loss of life to law enforcement or other first responders,” the department said in a statement.
The department added, “Robots equipped in this manner would only be used in extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent lives.”
The policy advanced by the board states that robots “will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or of ficers is imminent and of ficers cannot subdue the threat after using alternative force options or de-escalation tactics options or conclude that they will not be able to subdue the threat after evaluating alternative force options and de-escalation tactics.”
Only the police chief, assistant chief of operations or deputy chief of special operations would be able to authorize the use of deadly force by robots, the policy says.
Opponents said the policy was dangerous and could lead to more police violence.
Robots create a “false distance that makes killing the individual easier,” said Hillary Ronen, a city supervisor who voted against the policy. “We don’t want it to be easy. We don’t want to create that distance and that removal from the emotional impact of killing, of taking an individual’s life.”
Elizabeth E. Joh, a professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law, who focuses on policing and technology, said the policy would erode public trust in law enforcement, more than two years after the murder of George Floyd led to global demonstrations against police brutality and systemic racism.
“I suppose all of this can be summarized as whether we want to live in a world in which police can kill people remotely with robots,” Joh said. “I’m not sure we do.”
The estate of Jeffrey Epstein has agreed to pay what could amount to more than $105 million to the U.S. Virgin Is lands to settle claims that the disgraced financier used the territory for his decadeslong sex trafficking operation under the guise of running a financial advisory firm.
The settlement, approved Wednesday, caps a nearly 3-year-old lawsuit brought by the office of Denise N. George, the attorney general for the U.S. Virgin Islands.
After a year of negotiations, Epstein’s estate agreed to repay in cash more than $80 million in tax benefits that one of his companies had received from the Virgin Islands. The settlement will also permit the government to get about half the proceeds from the estate’s planned sale of Little St. James, the secluded private island where Epstein had resided. The sale could fetch around $55 million.
George, whose office filed a civil racketeering lawsuit against Epstein’s estate in January 2020, had argued that the U.S. territory was deceived into granting lucrative tax benefits to Epstein’s Southern Trust Co. That enabled Epstein to use his island residence as a place to sexually abuse young women and finance his lavish lifestyle, George argued.
“At the very start of the case, I was so honored to have met three very courageous young women who were trafficked and sexually exploited on Little St. James,” George said in a statement. “Our work has been inspired, humbled and forti fied by the strength and courage of all of those who survived Epstein’s abuse.”
Neither the estate nor Epstein’s two longtime business advisers, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, admitted any wrongdoing as part of the settlement.
“The coexecutors ultimately concluded that the settle ment is in the best interests of the estate, including its creditors and claimants, to avoid the time, expense and inherent uncer tainties of protracted litigation,” a lawyer for the estate, Daniel Weiner, said in an email.
The negotiations were complicated by the fact that Epstein’s onetime $600 million estate had $22 million in cash on hand at the end of June after paying hundreds of millions of dollars to victims, lawyers and the IRS. Much of the estate’s remaining $159 million in assets are locked up in investments. The estate will have up to a year to come up with the neces sary cash to fulfill its settlement terms.
The settlement closes one more chapter in the long and sordid scandal of the secretive financier, who managed to forge close associations with a long list of wealthy men, politicians and celebrities despite whispers and allegations that he had sexually abused teenage girls and young women.
Epstein, who had pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to two counts of soliciting prostitution from a teenage girl, died of an apparent suicide in August 2019 while being held in federal custody on a new set of sex exploitation charges.
Last December, Ghislaine Maxwell, one of Epstein’s longtime associates and a former girlfriend, was convicted in fe deral court in New York on charges that she helped him sexua
lly traffic and abuse young women and teenage girls. Maxwell, a former socialite, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Federal authorities have not charged anyone else in con nection with Epstein’s activities, which reportedly occurred at his residences in the Virgin Islands, New York, New Mexico and Palm Beach, Florida, according to court papers and law suits.
Epstein’s estate agreed to provide George’s office with documents to help with additional investigations. Over the course of the litigation, George, working with lawyers from Motley Rice, has served subpoenas on banks that worked with Epstein and some of the wealthy men who did business with him, including Wall Street billionaire Leon Black.
Black, a co-founder of Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm, and a friend of Epstein’s, had paid at least $158 million to Southern Trust for financial and tax advice. Black accounted for nearly 80% of the revenue taken in by Southern Trust, which Epstein had told Virgin Island officials was developing sophisticated algorithms to mine financial and DNA databases.
On Monday, Black was sued by Cherie Pierson, who said that he raped her while receiving a massage at Epstein’s New York mansion in 2002. Her lawsuit, filed in New York state court, said Epstein had helped arrange the meeting with Black.
According to the lawsuit, Epstein told Pierson, who was a single mother, that he was going to introduce her to a “very powerful and wealthy” man who might be able to provide her with financial help.
Susan Estrich, a lawyer for Black, said in a statement that the claim was “categorically false” and “part of a scheme to extort money from Mr. Black.”
One of the aims of George’s litigation was to make sure Epstein’s victims were appropriately compensated. A restitu tion fund established by the estate and approved by her offi ce has paid out more $129 million to more than 125 victims. The estate has separately paid out about $30 million to several other victims.
As settlement talks dragged on this year, the estate put Little St. James and another island Epstein owned, Great St. Ja mes, up for sale. The asking price for each island is $55 million.
Under the terms of the settlement, half the proceeds from the sale of Little St. James will go into a government-ad ministered trust that will provide counseling and other social services for victims of sexual abuse in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
three times per year without risking disciplinary action. It would also grant them one additional day of paid personal leave.
It would not provide paid sick leave, however, which many workers argue is the bare minimum they can accept given their grueling work schedules, which often leave them on the road or on call for long stretches of time. Rail carriers say workers can attend to illnesses or medical appointments using paid vacation.
Four of the 12 unions that would be covered by the agreement voted it down, and several others approved it only narrowly.
Biden’s about-face since Monday, although it was unclear how many of these union members had voted for the current president.
Many union members have long suspected that Congress would intervene to prevent them from striking. Kindlon said several members of his local union abstained from voting on the tentative contract this fall because they didn’t believe their vote mattered. Many took the view that “this is going to get jammed down our throat anyways; why do I care?” he said.
For many of the more than 100,000 freight rail workers whose unions have been negotiating a new labor contract since 2020, President Joe Biden’s involvement amounts to putting a thumb on the scale in favor of the industry.
By NOAM SCHEIBER
As the legislative representative for his local union, Gabe Christenson, a longtime freight railroad conductor, worked hard to help elect Joe Biden president in 2020.
“I have shirts from me campaigning — blue-collar Biden shirts,” he said. “I knocked on doors for him for weeks and weeks.”
But since Monday, when President Joe Biden urged Congress to impose a labor agreement that his union had voted down, Christenson has been besieged by texts from furious co-workers whom he had encouraged to support the president.
“I’m trying to calm them down,” he said.
Biden said he was urging action to avoid a nationwide strike that would threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs and that the industry estimates would cost the economy more than $2 billion per day. The House of Representatives took the first step Wednesday toward carrying out his request, approving the plan on a vote of 290-137.
A White House statement earlier this week said the president was “reluctant to override the ratification procedures and the views of those who voted against the agreement” but that he felt congressional action was urgent.
For many of the more than 100,000 freight rail workers whose unions have been negotiating a new labor contract since 2020, however, Biden’s intervention amounted to
putting a thumb on the scale in favor of the industry.
They say the rail carriers have enormous market power to set wages and working conditions, power that is enhanced by a federal law that greatly restricts the workers’ right to strike compared with most private-sector employees. They complain that after waiting patiently through multiple procedural steps, including a presidential emergency board, they had a narrow window to improve their contract through a labor stoppage and that Biden has effectively closed that window.
“They should let the guys work it out for themselves,” said Rhonda Ewing, a signal maintainer in Chicago. “We know it’s holiday time, which is why it’s the perfect time to raise our voices. If Biden gets involved, he takes away our leverage.”
A narrower House vote on Wednesday, 221-207, authorized seven paid sick days for the workers, addressing a key demand. But it is unclear whether that provision can win Senate approval.
The agreement that Biden asked Congress to impose was brokered between union leaders and industry negotiators with help from his administration and announced in September, averting a potential strike before the midterm elections. The accord would raise pay nearly 25% between 2020, when the last contract expired, and 2024, and allow employees to miss work for routine medical appointments
Tony Cardwell, the president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division — International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which voted down the agreement Biden has asked Congress to impose, said that simply asking Congress to include paid sick days in the agreement would have gone a long way toward satisfying his members. The proposal to do so in the House was initiated by progressive lawmakers.
“If he would have said, ‘I want this one thing,’ it would have changed the whole narrative,” Cardwell, whose union represents more than 20,000 workers affected by the contract, said in an interview Wednesday.
The sense of betrayal is especially acute because Biden has long portrayed himself as friendly to organized labor, and many union leaders regard him as the most labor-friendly president of their lifetimes thanks to his appointments and his support for regulations and legislation that they favor.
Daniel Kindlon, an electrician who works at a rail yard near Albany, New York, and is the head of his local union, said that while he is not a huge supporter of the president, he was impressed when Biden spoke at the electrician union’s convention in Chicago this spring.
“It was the best 45 minutes I’ve heard him talk,” Kindlon said.
Yet he said he struggled to understand why Biden couldn’t have pushed Congress to go further.
“You would think he would just try to get them to throw in a couple days of sick time; that’s really all the guys were asking for,” he said.
Several union members and local officials said they had urged co-workers who had previously supported Donald Trump to back Biden, arguing that he would be friendlier to labor. They said that these co-workers had reached out to complain about what they saw as
Many who placed their hopes in Biden assumed that they would not be allowed to strike for very long but reasoned that even a brief strike lasting several hours, or the mere threat of one, would have been sufficient to extract more concessions from the rail carriers.
“I mean, that would have looked way better,” said Christenson, the longtime conductor. “Even if he had ulterior motives, let us have our day. He could show he was with us.”
Cardwell, of the maintenance workers union, said that “the fact that he did it so early” was surprising, given that there was still roughly a week or more to potentially extract concessions before a strike would have occurred.
Across the labor movement, prominent leaders have so far been silent or restrained in their response to Biden’s call for congressional action.
But at least one — Sean O’Brien, the president of the Teamsters, which represents more than 1 million members — has hinted at criticism.
“Members of Congress have an opportunity to fight for their constituents by making sure rail workers get paid sick days,” O’Brien wrote Tuesday on Twitter. “Any politicians who don’t side with workers need to go on the record that they voted against workers.”
The same day, a group of more than 100 labor scholars circulated an open letter to Biden expressing alarm at his call for Congress to impose the agreement that some unions have voted down, and suggesting that the intervention could affect the labor movement for decades.
“History shows us that the special legal treatment of rail and other transportation strikes offers the federal government — and the executive branch in particular — a rare opportunity to directly shape the outcome of collective bargaining, for good or for ill,” the letter said. It added: “These dramatic interventions can set the tone for entire eras of subsequent history.”
Wall Street’s main indexes plunged on Tuesday, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq leading the slump, as economic data and bleak company forecasts added to nerves about slowing growth amid decades-high inflation.
Snap Inc plummeted 40.6%, dragging down several social media and internet stocks, after the Snapchat owner slashed its second-quarter earnings forecast and said the economy had worsened faster than expected in the last month.
The stock was set for its worst single-day drop.
Twitter Inc, Google-owner Alphabet Inc, Meta Plat forms Inc and Pinterest Inc, which rely heavily on advertis ing revenue, fell between 4.1% and 24.3%.
“We are seeing weakness possibly in consumer and now in advertising spending,” said Dennis Dick, a trader at Bright Trading LLC in Las Vegas.
“What we need to see is that the Fed’s plan is working. Until we see a decent data point, it’s going to be sell first, ask questions later.”
Data showed U.S. business activity slowed moder ately in May, while sales of new U.S. single-family homes tumbled to a two-year low in April likely as higher mort gage rates and soaring prices squeezed first-time buyers.
“Everybody has been talking about a recession and the economic data is following that path,” Paul Nolte, portfo lio manager at Kingsview Investment Management, said.
“We may wind up with slower economic growth and still above-desired inflation. That’s a perfect storm against equities as it will slow earnings growth and potentially compress margins even further.”
Disappointing forecasts from Walmart Inc and other retailers have rattled market sentiment recently, adding to evidence that rising prices have started to hurt the purchas ing power of U.S. consumers.
On Friday, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq marked their longest streak of weekly declines since the dotcom bust in 2001 on mounting concerns that aggressive policy tighten ing by the Federal Reserve might tip the economy into a recession.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to speak later on Tuesday, with investors looking for fresh comments about the path of future interest rate hikes.
Markets are pricing in 50 basis point rate hikes by the Fed in June and July.
Nine of the 11 major S&P sectors declined after ris ing broadly in the previous session. The communication services sector slid 4.8%.
At 12:04 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 272.27 points, or 0.85%, at 31,607.97, the S&P 500 was down 67.58 points, or 1.70%, at 3,906.17, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 324.80 points, or 2.82%, at 11,210.48.
Abercrombie & Fitch Co tumbled 29.6% after the ap parel retailer trimmed its annual sales and margins out look, citing a surge in freight and raw material costs.
Rising interest rates have hit Big Tech stock prices harder than the rest of the market, and the pressure increased Friday as yields climbed.
“The markets still seem to not want to believe that we might end up in a place where an earnings recession is pos sible,” Young said.
Officials in Spain have increased security measures at consulates and public adminis trative buildings in the country after at least six letter bombs were mailed to several offices, in cluding those of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the U.S. and Ukrainian Embassies.
An envelope sent by regular mail delivery to Sán chez’s office was intercepted by security services on Nov. 24 because it appeared to contain “pyrotechnic material,” the Spanish Interior Ministry said Thursday.
That came after the national police said that they were investigating a letter bomb delivered to the Ukrainian Embassy that exploded on Wednesday, injuring the finger of an employee who had been in specting it.
Since then, three more letter bombs containing similar material have been detected, Rafael Pérez, Spain’s secretary for state security, said at a news conference in Madrid on Thursday.
“The protection measures have worked, except in the case of the Ukrainian Embassy, and injuries have been avoided,” Pérez said during the confer ence.
Pérez did not point to a specific motive, but he said that the Spanish National Court on Thursday was investigating the incidents as possible acts of ter rorism and called for “prudence.”
After the news conference, a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry said in text messages that an other letter bomb had been sent to the U.S. Embassy
in Madrid and that it had been safely detonated.
The U.S. Embassy confirmed that a suspicious package had been received there and that they were aware of reports of other packages being sent else where in Spain. “We thank the Spanish law enforce ment for their help during this situation,” the embassy said in a statement.
The increased security measures will vary but in clude more security patrols and agents, and specific alerts for couriers to more carefully filter mail, the Interior Ministry said in a separate statement.
The package that arrived in the Ukrainian Em bassy on Wednesday had been addressed to Serhii Pohoreltsev, Ukraine’s ambassador to Spain, and Ukrainian officials said that it had exploded while the embassy’s manager was checking the mail. The manager was treated at a hospital for a minor injury to his right hand before being released.
Another letter bomb was sent to the headquar ters of Instalaza, a Spanish firm that manufactures weapons and military equipment, including some used to help Ukrainian forces.
The Spanish police cleared Instalaza’s headquar ters in the city of Zaragoza and sent bomb disposal teams to perform a controlled detonation of the letter bomb.
A fourth letter bomb, addressed to the director of the European Union Satellite Center, which provides security analysis for the bloc and is housed at an air base near a suburb to the northeast of Madrid, was
detected early Thursday. Another letter, addressed to the Spanish defense minister, Margarita Robles, was intercepted Thursday morning at the Madrid head quarters of the Defense Ministry.
Initial indications suggested that the envelopes were sent from within Spanish territory, Pérez said, and Spanish police were analyzing the packages for fingerprints and DNA, and carrying out handwriting tests.
Weapons of this type are not new.
Often called parcel bombs, letter bombs or package bombs, they are all improvised explosive devices designed to look innocuous from the out side and to maim or kill whoever opens them.
Typically small in size, such improvised bombs usually contain no more than a couple of pounds of explosives — which, if detonated within arms’ reach, can be lethal.
The targets in the Spain attacks are either con nected to Ukraine or have expressed support for the country in its war effort against Russia, but Ignacio Torreblanca, director of the Madrid office of the Eu ropean Council on Foreign Relations, cast doubt on the idea that Moscow was behind the attacks.
If Russia, were involved, he said, he would have expected the country not to hide its role, although he acknowledged, “of course, we cannot know what is going on.”
The Russian Embassy on Thursday condemned the letter bombs.
“Any threat of terrorist act, even more directed against a diplomatic mission, is totally condem nable,” the embassy posted on Twitter.
The Ukrainian Embassy did not immediately re spond to a request for comment, but Ukraine’s for eign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has ordered all of his country’s embassies abroad to bolster security.
In the United States, perhaps the most infamous bombing campaign using these types of weapons was carried out by Theodore J. Kaczynski, who was known only as the Unabomber until his arrest by the FBI in 1996. In 1998, Kaczynski pleaded guilty to killing three people and wounding 28 more with homemade bombs over 18 years, and is serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole.
The United States has developed significantly more effective means of analyzing the remains of such devices since then as a result of the post-9/11 wars, in which improvised bombs became a primary weapon of insurgents in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries. Federal law enforcement and the Defense Department maintain mobile laboratories that can be flown to analyze the remains of such weapons and look for clues that can be used to identify their makers.
The United Nations launched a record-breaking ap peal to international donors on Thursday, asking for $51.5 billion to tackle spiraling levels of des peration, fueled in part by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The disruption to food and fertilizer shipments caused by the war in Ukraine has combined with cli mate-related disasters and a looming threat of a global economic recession to produce what the U.N. appeal warns is “the largest global food crisis in modern his tory.”
“The needs are going up because we have been smitten by the war in Ukraine, by COVID, by climate, and I fear that 2023 is going to see an acceleration of all those trends,” Martin Griffiths, the U.N. humanitarian aid coordinator told reporters in Geneva.
Around 339 million people, or 1 in every 23 people on the planet, will need assistance in 2023, the U.N. estimates, 25% more than in 2022 and more than the population of the United States, the world’s third mostpopulous country.
“It’s a phenomenal number, and it’s a depressing number,” Griffiths said. Global needs, he added, are outstripping the capacity of relief agencies to meet them.
Ukraine tops the list of funding needs for a single
Ukraine tops the list of funding needs for a single country going into 2023, a U.N. official said.
country going into 2023, he said.
U.N. agencies have delivered aid to more than 13 million people in Ukraine this year and are seeking $5.7 billion in 2023 to keep assistance flowing to people in the country and to Ukrainian refugees in the region. To deal with the humanitarian crisis triggered by the war, the U.N. said it had delivered the largest cash assistance program on record, reaching more than 6 million peo
ple, up from 11,000 people in the previous year.
At least 222 million people in 53 countries will face acute food shortages by the end of this year, the U.N. estimates. Five countries are already grappling with fam ine, Griffiths said, and 45 million people in 37 countries are now facing the risk of starvation.
The number of displaced people has climbed to more than 100 million, a record high, Griffiths noted.
Threats to public health remained another challenge, he said, citing the continuing spread of COVID-19, the return of Ebola in parts of Africa and outbreaks of chol era typically associated with conflict and displacement that are now occurring in 30 countries.
The worry for U.N and international relief agencies, Griffiths said, is the yawning gap between humanitar ian needs and the funding available. In previous years, the U.N. typically raised about 60-65% of the funding it requested. In 2022, it fell to less than half. The U.N. had appealed for $41 billion for humanitarian relief at the start of the year but, by mid-November, had raised its appeal to $51 billion and had received $24 billion.
Key international donors, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Nordic and other Euro pean countries, had largely sustained or even increased their funding. “The gap is because of the needs, not the funding,” Griffiths said.
The jihadis of the Islamic State group announced earlier this week that their leader, whose identity had remained shrouded in mystery, had been killed in battle less than nine months after taking charge of the terrorist organization.
A spokesperson for U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. troops in Syria, confirmed that the leader was dead, saying he had been killed in mid-October by anti-government rebels in southern Syria.
The Islamic State group also named a successor, but provided no information about him other than a nom de guerre.
The leadership transition, announced through a voice message on Telegram, came at a time of extreme weak ness for the group, which has been reduced in only a few years from the world’s most fearsome terrorist network to a low-level insurgency struggling to maintain its rel evance in mostly rural parts of countries torn by conflict.
At its height, the Islamic State group ruled a selfproclaimed caliphate the size of Britain that spanned the border between Syria and Iraq and boasted tens of thousands of fighters from around the world. Its extremist vision of eternal combat between its forces and anyone who opposed them inspired deadly attacks in Paris, Brus sels, Istanbul, Berlin, Baghdad and other major cities.
But an international coalition led by the United States worked with local forces in Iraq and Syria to fight it, fi nally pushing it from its last patch of territory in eastern Syria in March 2019.
Since then, Islamic State fighters have continued to attack civilians and security forces in Syria, Iraq, Af ghanistan and parts of Africa, but with greatly weakened abilities, while its leadership has been decimated by the United States’ military and its partner forces.
The leader whose death was announced Wednesday went by the name Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Quray shi. He had been named by the group in March, after its two previous leaders had been killed in separate raids by U.S. special forces on safe houses in northern Syria.
Little was known about the slain leader’s back ground, including his real name, or any steps that he took to try to revive the organization.
The message released Wednesday said only that he had been killed “fighting the enemies of God,” and that he had been suceeded by Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi, also a nom de guerre, whose real identity was not known.
In a statement, Col. Joe Buccino, a spokesperson for U.S. Central Command, called the leader’s death “an other blow” to the Islamic State group.
As the World Cup in Qatar kicked off last week, millions of fans pulled on jerseys costing $90 to $150 that were sold by Nike and Adidas, the official outfit ter of this year’s tournament. Players, wearing new, brightly colored uniforms, slipped into shiny cleats and shoes that can retail for more than $200.
But what did the people who made these items get paid?
In the case of 7,800 workers at the Pou Chen Group factory in Yangon, Myanmar, a supplier of soccer shoes for Adidas, the an swer is 4,800 kyat, or $2.27, per day.
The Myanmar factory underscores the continuing struggle for many of South Asia’s 40 million garment workers, who have long grappled with poor working conditions and wages, and whose troubles have been exa cerbated by the pandemic. Now, with the bi ggest sporting event in the world underway, efforts by some laborers to improve their working conditions have been met with harsh resistance and punishment.
After workers began a strike in October, demanding a daily wage of $3.78, factory managers called soldiers into the complex and later fired 26 workers. They included 16 members of the factory’s union, who were believed to have led the strike of more than 2,000 employees.
In interviews last week, several workers said they believed the factory was using the opportunity to punish workers engaged in organized labor, at a time when Myanmar’s ruling military junta is looking to dismantle democratic structures.
At the same time, rising inflation and a weakened currency are putting pressure on the livelihoods of people in Myanmar. Sin
ce last year’s coup, the kyat has fallen more than 50 percent against the dollar, and the cost of groceries, transportation and housing has skyrocketed. One worker, already in poor health, said she had gone three days without food until fellow workers bought her some.
Another worker, 22, who hopes to get her job back, spoke on the condition of anon ymity because she feared retaliation by her employer. “We worry so much about paying the rent and sending money home to our fa milies so that they can survive,” she said. “It was already so hard before, which is why we asked for more money. And now, without our jobs, it is so much harder. I cannot afford to eat.”
In an emailed statement from Pou Chen’s headquarters in Taiwan, the company said that it followed local laws and regulations in handling employees’ salaries and personnel matters and that it respected workers’ right to bargain collectively.
Adidas also provided a statement. “Adi das has objected strongly to these dismissals, which are in breach of our workplace stan dards and our longstanding commitment to upholding workers’ freedom of association,” the company said. “We are investigating the lawfulness of the supplier’s actions, and we have called on Pou Chen to immediately re instate the dismissed workers.”
Most Western fashion and sportswear brands do not own production facilities, ins tead contracting with independent factories or suppliers, often in the Global South, to make their garments. This means they are not technically the employers of these workers, and therefore are not legally responsible for enforcing labor standards or human rights.
Some companies, such H&M, Adidas and Nike, have recently made parts of their supply chain more visible by publishing fac tory supplier information for their garments, and Adidas provides a separate list of its World Cup apparel suppliers. Nike, which produces kits (as soccer uniforms are called) for 13 World Cup teams such as the United States, England and Brazil, does not publish a separate list of World Cup suppliers, making it harder to track down where they were made.
And transparency about suppliers doesn’t guarantee accountability across the fashion supply chain, which has long been met by union busting — practices intended to pre vent or disrupt the formation of unions or at tempts to expand membership.
Trax Apparel, a factory in Cambodia where 2,800 workers make soccer shirts for Adidas as well as for the British soccer team Manchester United, laid off eight workers in 2020 after they formed a union to seek better working conditions. The factory’s manage ment said it would reinstate only four of the eight, and only if the union agreed not to fight for the others’ reinstatement or full back pay. Seeing no alternative, the union signed an agreement surrendering these rights.
“I kept waiting for a call, but it never came,” said Sophal Choun, 41, who earned $7 a day at a sewing machine at the factory. “It took a year and a half to find another job — I had to ask my siblings to help support my two young children and take out a loan to keep going with a very high premium which I am now struggling to pay.”
She added: “I believed in a union becau se I knew we needed protection. Now, many days I just cry and cry.”
Trax Apparel, whose owners are based in Thailand, did not respond to a request for comment.
The predicament of the garment workers is among several serious social issues that have been brought to light during this year’s World Cup. A storm of criticism has been leveled at Qatar over human rights issues, including the authoritarian monarchy’s criminalization of homosexuality and the well-documented abuse of migrant workers.
Seven European nations, including England and Germany, planned to wear rainbow-colored armbands with the phrase “One Love” as a show of support for minority groups, including L.G.B.T. people. But they backed down last week after FIFA, international soccer’s gover ning body, said that the armbands vio lated its strict uniform rules for the tour nament and that any player wearing one would be issued a yellow card, essentially a warning of misconduct that can lead to suspension.
Still, German players managed a pro test of sorts by covering their mouths in a pre-match team photo. And Hummel made a sponsorless, monochrome kit for Danish players in protest of Qatar.
Some people who applaud these pro tests think that the predicament of gar ment workers behind the World Cup kits should be recognized, too.
“While there has rightly been signifi cant coverage of the conditions facing mi grant workers in Qatar, there has been a complete absence of focus on the serious rights abuses of garment workers making World Cup kits,” said Thulsi Narayanasa my, director of international advocacy at the nonprofit Worker Rights Consortium.
“The ability of workers to collectively stand together to ensure better conditions in their factories is a basic human right.”
The vast majority of the world’s coral reefs are likely to be severely damaged in the coming decades if the planet keeps warming at its current rate.
But the wildly colorful coral reefs in the waters outside the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the annual Uni ted Nations climate conference took place recently, are an anomaly: They can tolera te the heat, and perhaps even thrive in it, making them some of the only reefs in the world that have a chance of surviving clima te change.
There is a limit to how much they can take, however.
Mass tourism at Egypt’s beach resorts, overfishing, overdevelopment, pollution, occasional failures of the sewage system, se diment from construction and oil spills from tankers or terminals have put them at risk, according to marine biologists who study the Red Sea.
“If not the last, this could be one of the last coral refuges worldwide,” said Dr. Ma hmoud Hanafy, a marine biology professor at the Suez Canal University in Egypt. “Pro tection of this reef is not a national respon sibility or a national task. It’s a global task.”
The exquisite beauty of the more than 200 species of coral, living in crystal clear waters of the northern Red Sea in tempe ratures that can top 85 degrees Fahrenheit, has made the area a scuba diver’s paradise. Throughout the two-week climate meeting, conference attendees — including John Ke rry, the U.S. climate envoy — took a break from the conference halls to experience the corals.
Behind a backdrop of purple, blue and pink coral during a dive at Ras Mohammed National Park, Egypt’s oldest national park, one group of COP27 delegates and a smat tering of tourists saw a blue-spotted stingray, a 6-foot-long moray eel and schools of lunar fusiliers.
But some divers also saw evidence of local stressors.
Alison Martin, a tourist from northern England, said she and her partner swam clo ser to what she thought was a group of je llyfish, then realized with dismay that it was an array of plastic bags, coffee cups and chocolate bar wrappers.
“It’s probably been about 10 years since we dived here last, and we’ve never seen anything like that,” she said.
Coral reefs occupy less than 0.1% of the ocean’s floor but provide huge ecologi
cal and economic benefits. About 25% of all marine species depend on them at some point in their life cycles, the corals’ limesto ne branches protect coasts from storms, and they provide a food source and livelihood for millions of people.
The International Coral Reef Initiative, which works to protect the world’s coral, es timated that reefs support $2.7 trillion a year in goods and services, including tourism.
More than two decades ago, Sharm elSheikh was just a little beach town at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, known mostly to diving enthusiasts. Then tourism operators swooped in, seeing opportunity in its proximity to Europe and temperate climes. Giant all-inclusive resorts rose from the sand, and they were soon full of British, Ukrainian and Russian sunbathers escaping the cold back home.
To protect the coral reefs and the eco nomic activity they support, Egypt establis hed the 185-square-mile national park and placed some restrictions on diving. Snorke ling and training dives, in which instructors guide first-timers into the depths, are ban ned in parts of the sea because inexperien ced divers are more likely to accidentally bump into the coral.
The local diving industry organization has begun promoting sustainable tourism practices, such as wearing coral-safe suns creen.
Still, the sheer amount of development and number of tourists have inevitably taken a toll.
Tourist boats routinely drop anchor di rectly on the corals, and that can destroy more than 20 square feet of coral each time. Starting in the 1990s, a local environmental group worked with the government to ins
tall more than 100 buoys to which tourist boats can moor. But a lack of funding and an excess of government bureaucracy have stood in the way of maintaining the buoys or expanding the system.
Mass tourism is here to stay in Egypt’s beach resorts. But there are some efforts underway to make it more eco-friendly.
In Hurghada, another Red Sea re sort across the Gulf of Suez from Sharm el-Sheikh, the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association, a nonprofit group, is teaming up with the government to sink outdated military tanks and armored vehicles into the sea to form artificial reefs where corals can grow, at
tracting divers away from the natural reefs.
Tourists in Hurghada can now pay to visit local Bedouins at home, giving the Bedouins an income that could help lessen the incentive for them to catch or namental fish from the reefs, said Hanafy, who is involved in such efforts.
In most of the rest of the world, corals can lose the algae they depend on — a process known as bleaching — when wa ters warm an additional 1 to 2 degrees Celsius above the normal high tempera ture in summer. In the northern Red Sea, however, corals can withstand temperatu res as much as 7 degrees Celsius above the summer maximum, said Maoz Fine, a marine biologist and Red Sea coral reef expert at the Hebrew University of Jeru salem.
“This is very good news,” Fine said. But he added that pollutants including sewage, oil and pesticides compromise that tolerance.
The preservation of Red Sea coral ree fs may be critical not just for Egypt, but for coral everywhere. If scientists can identi fy what makes Red Sea corals so resilient, conservation efforts can be focused on corals in other parts of the world with si milar features, Fine said.
“We have an opportunity to save an ecosystem rather than restoring it,” said Lina Challita, the Sharm diving chamber’s environmental officer. “It’s one of the last beacons of hope for the reef refuges.”
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Tuesday afternoon, I waited over an hour and a half to vote in Atlanta in the Georgia Senate runoff between Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.
This is my second election cycle in Georgia, but I still can’t get used to the wait times to vote. It’s a voter suppression tactic in and of itself. It’s a poll tax paid in time.
I lived more than 25 years in New York, where I took for granted that voting was a casual affair. For years, I would take my children into the booth with me so that they could see how the electoral process worked. There was never a line. Maybe there was a person or two in front of us, but no real delay.
I wouldn’t do that here in Georgia. Forcing a child to wait in a long line in the cold could by itself be considered abusive.
But, as I waited, something else occurred to me: Voter suppression is one of the surest cures for apathy. Nothing makes you value a thing like someone trying to steal it from you.
The line, and all the people patiently waiting in it, is a symbol of resilience and perseverance. It is a reminder that people will work hard to overcome obstacles to accomplish things they deem essential.
Waiting in line is such a feature of Georgia voting that some counties even publish their waiting times online so that voters can plan their arrivals to have the shortest wait.
These waits can disproportionately affect nonwhite voters. According to a report by Georgia Public Broadcasting and ProPublica before Election Day in 2020, a shrinking number of polling places “has primarily caused long lines in nonwhite neighborhoods where voter registration has surged and more residents cast ballots in person on Election Day.”
According to the report, the nine metro Atlanta counties “have nearly half of the state’s active voters
but only 38% of the polling places.”
Yet those voters would not be deterred.
During the general election, voters set a record for the number of early votes cast in a Georgia midterm election, and Monday and again Tuesday they set records for single-day early voting in a Georgia runoff. It is interesting to note that an estimated 35% of the early votes so far are from African Americans, a slightly greater figure than their percentage of the population of Georgia.
This is a testament to the fortitude of those voters, because they were the ones targeted by Georgia’s latest round of voter suppression with “uncanny accuracy,” as the Brennan Center for Justice’s president, Michael Waldman, put it last year. Waldman wrote that Gov. Brian Kemp “signed his voter suppression bill in front of a painting of a plantation where more than 100 Black people had been enslaved. The symbolism, unnerving and ghastly, is almost too fitting.”
People who defend voter suppression point to these numbers as proof that their critics are simply being hyperbolic and creating an issue where none exists. But that is the opposite of the truth as far as I can see it. From my perspective, voters are simply responding with defiance to the efforts to suppress.
And yet that defiance might still not be enough to overcome all of the obstacles placed in voters’ way. While those record daily numbers are heartening, they are in part a result of a new Republican election law that cut the number of early-voting days roughly in half. Even with the extraordinary turnout, it is unlikely this year’s early voting will match that of last year’s runoff between Warnock and the Republican incumbent, Kelly Loeffler.
In addition, Republicans have fielded a singularly offensive candidate in Walker, a man not fit for elective office, a walking caricature of Black competence and excellence, as if Black candidates are interchangeable irrespective of accomplishment and proficiency.
The whole time I was waiting in line, I kept thinking about how the wait would have been impossible for someone struggling with child care or elder care, or someone whose job — or jobs — wouldn’t allow for that long a break in the middle of the day.
Also, I voted on an unseasonably warm day. What about those whose only opportunity to vote might be a day when it was raining or cold? The line at my polling place was outside for 90% of the time I waited.
I have nothing but disdain for the efforts to suppress the vote in my new home state,
but I have nothing but admiration for the voters’ determination not to be suppressed.
Democracy is being saved by sheer force of will, by people climbing a hill that should never have been put in front of them.
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LA FORTALEZA – En reconocimiento a los ciuda danos con discapacidad intelectual y su aporta ción a la sociedad, el gobernador, Pedro Rafael Pier luisi Urrutia, firmó el jueves la proclama que declara el 3 de diciembre como el Día Internacional de las Personas con Discapacidad Intelectual.
De esta forma, el Gobierno continúa promoviendo y ampliando los derechos y el bienestar de las perso nas con discapacidades en todos los ámbitos de la sociedad y su desarrollo.
“Mi administración se reitera en sus esfuerzos para concienciar a nuestro pueblo sobre la importan cia de fomentar el desarrollo de nuestra población con discapacidad intelectual. Yo creo firmemente en la igualdad y en la inclusión de todos y todas. De hecho, estoy convencido de que la valía de nuestro pueblo se mide en cómo tratamos a cada ciudadano, en cómo le servimos a los que más nos necesitan”, dijo Pierluisi Urrutia durante los actos protocolares celebrados en La Fortaleza acompañado del secreta rio del Departamento del Trabajo y Recursos Huma nos (DTRH), Gabriel Maldonado-González y de la
administradora de la Administración de Rehabilita ción Vocacional (ARV), María Gómez García.
Durante su alocución, el gobernador reiteró que la política pública de su Administración ha sido de sarrollar iniciativas y acciones que propendan una sociedad que valore la dignidad de cada ser humano, que proteja sus derechos y en la que todos los secto res de la población tengan las mismas oportunidades para tener éxitos, crecer y progresar diariamente.
En este proceso de concienciar sobre las necesi dades de estas poblaciones, la ARV ha estado reali zando esfuerzos en conjunto con entidades públicas y privadas. La Administración continuamente persi gue la prestación de servicios de calidad en los es cenarios laborales, académicos y comunitarios para garantizar la competitividad y la integración de las personas con discapacidades a la fuerza laboral y a su derecho de una vida independiente.
A esos fines, la administradora de la ARV recalcó que “aprovechamos la oportunidad en esta conme moración para orientar a los ciudadanos sobre la in tegración e inclusión de las personas con necesida des especiales al entorno de empleo y comunitario. Son muchas las historias de éxito y transformaciones
que he visto durante los pasados 26 años en los cua les hemos impulsado un mundo accesible y equitati vo. Me siento honrada en dirigir esta agencia y agra dezco a todo el personal por su firme compromiso en cumplir la visión y misión de la ARV que busca solu ciones transformadoras para un desarrollo inclusivo”.
LA FORTALEZA – El gobernador, Pedro Rafael Pier luisi Urrutia, firmó el jueves, la Resolución Con junta del Senado 300 que autoriza la distribución de 22,900,000 dólares de fondos legislativos entre más de 580 entidades, instituciones semi públicas, públicas y privadas, cuyas actividades o servicios inciden directa mente en mejorar la calidad de vida de los ciudadanos en la Isla.
“Son muchas las instituciones sin fines de lucro que brindan servicios esenciales y prioritarios para nuestra gente, por eso siempre he destacado que debemos ser
facilitadores en brindar los recursos y las herramientas que les permitan continuar con su loable función. Estas organizaciones cuentan con mi compromiso y apoyo para procurar la continuidad de sus servicios al pue blo”, sostuvo el gobernador en declaraciones escritas.
Estableció el Programa de Asistencia a Organizacio nes sin Fines de Lucro de 15 millones de dólares para que estas entidades, que proveen servicios al pueblo, subsanen el impacto económico sufrido como conse cuencia de la pandemia.
La ahora ley, que reasigna a la Comisión Especial Conjunta de Fondos Legislativos para Impacto Comuni tario 22,900,000 dólares provenientes de los balances
de varias Resoluciones Conjuntas de los años 20192021 y la Resolución Conjunta de Presupuesto del Fon do General 2022-2023, fue endosada por la Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto (OGP), Banco de Alimentos y la Fundación Puertorriqueña del Pulmón, entre otras or ganizaciones sin fines de lucro.
Entre las entidades a recibir estos fondos legislativos están: Ser de Puerto Rico, la Corporación La Fondita de Jesús Hogar Ruth para Mujeres Maltratadas, Gogo Foundation, Hogar Crea, Casa Protegida Julia de Bur gos, Casa de Niños Manuel Fernández Juncos, Funda ción Hospital Pediátrico, Centros Sor Isolina Ferré, y el Boys and Girls Club de Puerto Rico, entre otros.
S AN JUAN – El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el jueves 9 muertes y 231 personas hospitalizadas.
El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,376.
Hay 210 adultos hospitalizados y 21 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 13 al 27 de noviembre de 2022.
La tasa de positividad está en 24.4 por ciento.
Christine McVie, the singer, songwriter and keyboardist who be came the biggest hitmaker for Fleetwood Mac, one of music’s most popular bands, died on Wednesday. She was 79.
Her family announced her death on Facebook. The statement said she died at a hospital but did not specify its location or give the cause of death. In June, McVie told Rolling Stone that she was in “quite bad health” and that she had endured debilitating problems with her back.
McVie’s commercial potency, which hit a high point in the 1970s and ’80s, was on full display on Fleetwood Mac’s “Greatest Hits” anthology, released in 1988, which sold more than 8 million copies: She either wrote or co-wrote half of its 16 tracks. Her tally doubled that of the next most prolific member of the band’s trio of singer-songwriters, Stevie Nicks. (The third, Lindsey Buckingham, scored three major Billboard chart-makers on that collection.)
The most popular songs McVie wrote favored bouncing beats and lively melodies, including “Say You Love Me” (which grazed Bill board’s Top 10), “You Make Loving Fun” (which just broke it), “Hold Me” (No. 4) and “Don’t Stop” (her top smash, which crested at No. 3). But she could also connect with elegant ballads, like “Over My Head” (No. 20) and “Little Lies” (which cracked the publication’s Top Five in 1987).
All those songs had cleanly defined, easily sung melodies, with hints of soul and blues at the core. Her compositions had a simplic ity that mirrored their construction. “I don’t struggle over my songs,” McVie (pronounced mc-VEE) told Rolling Stone in 1977. “I write them quickly.”
In just half an hour, she wrote one of the band’s most beloved songs, “Songbird,” a sensitive ballad that for years served as the band’s closing encore in concert. In 2019, the band’s leader, Mick Fleetwood, told New Musical Express that “Songbird” is the piece he wanted played at his funeral, “to send me off fluttering.”
With Fleetwood Mac, McVie earned five gold, one platinum and seven multiplatinum albums. The band’s biggest success, “Ru
mours,” released in 1977, was one of the mightiest movers in pop history: It was certified double diamond, representing sales of over 20 million copies.
In 1998, McVie was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame along with various lineups of Fleetwood Mac, reflecting the frequent (and dramatic) personnel shifts the band experienced throughout its labyrinthine history. McVie served in incarnations that dated to 1971, but she also had uncredited roles playing keyboards and singing backup as far back as the band’s second album, released in 1968. Before joining Fleetwood Mac, she scored a No. 14 British hit with the blues band Chicken Shack on a cover of Etta James’ “I’d Rather Go Blind” for which she sang lead.
Early taste for the blues
Christine Anne Perfect was born on July 12, 1943, in the Lake District of England to Cyril Perfect, a classical violin ist and college music professor and Beatrice (Reece) Perfect, a psychic.
Her father encouraged her to start taking classical pi ano lessons when she was 11. Her focus changed radically four years later when she came across some sheet music for Fats Domino songs. At that moment, she told Rolling Stone in 1984, “It was goodbye Chopin.”
“I started playing the boogie bass,” she told Mojo. “I got hooked on the blues. Even today, the songs I write use that left hand. It’s rooted in the blues.”
McVie studied sculpture at Birmingham Art College and briefly considered becoming an art teacher. At the same time, she briefly played in a duo with Spencer Davis, who, along with a teenage Steve Winwood, would later find fame in the Spencer Davis Group. She helped form a band named Shades of Blue with several future members of Chicken Shack.
After graduating from college in 1966, McVie moved to London and became a window dresser in a department store. One year later, she was asked to join the already formed Chicken Shack as keyboardist and some time singer. She wrote two songs for the band’s debut album, “40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve.”
She was twice voted best female vocalist in a Melody Maker readers’ poll, but left the band in 1969 after marrying John McVie, the bassist in Fleetwood Mac, which had been formed in 1967 and had already recorded three albums. That same year she recorded a solo album, “The Leg endary Christine Perfect Album,” which she later described to Rolling Stone as “so wimpy.”
“I just hate to listen to it,” she said.
Her disappointment in that record, com bined with her reluctance to perform, caused Christine McVie to put music aside for a time. But, in 1970, when Fleetwood Mac’s main draw, the guitarist Peter Green, suddenly quit the band after a ruinous acid trip, Mick Fleetwood invited her to fill out their ranks.
Initially, she found the invitation to join her favorite band “a nerve-racking experience,” she told Rolling Stone. But she rose to the occasion by
writing two of the catchiest songs on her first official release with the band, “Future Games” (1971). That release found the band leaning away from British blues and toward pro gressive Southern Californian folk-rock, aided by the addi tion of an American player, the singer, songwriter and guitar ist Bob Welch.
The band fine-tuned that sound on its 1972 set “Bare Trees,” which sold better and featured one of McVie’s most soulful songs, “Spare Me a Little of Your Love.” The band’s 1973 release, “Penguin,” went gold.The next collection, “Heroes Are Hard to Find,” was the band’s first to crack the U.S. Top 40. But it was only after the departure of Welch and the hiring of the romantically involved team of Nicks andr. Buckingham for the 1975 album simply called “Fleetwood Mac” that the band began to show its full commercial brio.
McVie‘s song “Over My Head” began the ground swell by entering Billboard’s Top 20; her “Say You Love Me,” reached No. 11. After a slow buildup, the “Fleetwood Mac” album eventually hit Billboard’s summit.
Just over a year and a half later, the group released “Rumours,” which generated outsize interest not only for its four Top 10 hits (two of them written by McVie) but also for several highly dramatic behind-the-scenes events within the band’s ranks, which they aired out in the lyrics and openly discussed in the press.
During the creation of the album, the two couples in the band — Nicks and Buckingham and the married McVies — broke up. McVie’s song “You Make Loving Fun” celebrat ed an affair she was then having with the band’s lighting di rector. (Initially, she told John McVie the song was about her dog.) The optimistic-sounding “Don’t Stop” was intended to point her ex-husband toward a new life without her.
“We wrote those songs despite ourselves,” McVie told Mojo. “It was a therapeutic move. The only way we could get this stuff out was to say it, and it came out in a way that was difficult. Imagine trying to sing those songs onstage with the
people you’re singing them about.”
It helped dull the pain, she told Mojo, that “we were all very high,” adding, “I don’t think there was a sober day.” And the album’s mega-success gave the members a different high. “The buzz of realizing you’ve written one of the best albums ever written; it was such a phenomenal time,” McVie told Attitude magazine in 2019.
But the group yearned to stretch creatively. The result was the less commercial sound of the double-album followup, “Tusk,” released in 1979. Though not a success on any thing near the scale of “Rumours,” it sold over 2 million copies and produced three hits, including McVie’s “Think About Me.”
The group moved smoothly into the new decade with the 1982 release “Mirage,” which hit No. 1 aided by McVie’s “Hold Me,” a Top Five hit that was inspired by her tumultu ous relationship with the Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson. Two years later, McVie issued a solo album that made the Top 30, while its strongest single, “Got a Hold on Me,” broke the Top 10.
In 1987, the reconvened Fleetwood Mac issued “Tango in the Night,” which featured two hits written by McVie, “Ev erywhere” and “Little Lies.” (“Little Lies” was written with the Portuguese musician and songwriter Eddie Quintela, whom she had wed the year before. They would divorce in 2003.) Buckingham left the group shortly afterward, shak ing the dynamic that had made their recordings stellar. The 1990 album “Behind the Mask” barely went gold, producing just one Top 40 single (“Save Me,” written by McVie), while “Time,” issued five years later, was the band’s first unsuccess ful album in two decades.
In 2014, driven by boredom and a growing sense of isolation, she reunited with the prime Mac lineup for the massive “On With The Show” tour. In its wake, McVie be gan to write lots of new material, as did Buckingham, result ing in an album under both their names in 2017, as well as a joint tour. The full band also played shows that year; even though Buckingham was fired in 2018, McVie continued to tour with the group in a lineup that included Neil Finn of Crowded House and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. In 2021, McVie sold publishing rights to her entire 115 song catalog for an undisclosed sum.
Information on her survivors was not im mediately available.
Throughout her career, Christine McVie took pride in never being categorized by her gender. “I kind of became one of the guys,” she told the British newspaper The Indepen dent in 2019. “I was always treated with great respect.”
While she always acknowledged the special chemistry of Fleetwood Mac’s most successful lineup, she believed her role tran scended it.
“Band members leave and other people take their place,” she told Rolling Stone, “but there was always that space where the piano should be.”
For instance, Hagobian prefers speedwork (runs broken up by bursts of high-intensity effort) over long tempo runs (runs that maintain a challenging pace for long stretches of time). Her run ning mate prefers the opposite, so they rely on each other for motivation.
Visual cues — sticky notes on a mir ror, alerts on your phone, running gear laid out the night before — can make it easier to get going when you’re busy.
Nicole Hagobian, a marathon runner, running coach and sport and exercise scientist, has strategies for sustaining a daily running habit — like scheduling her runs just as if they were work meet ings and laying out her running gear the night before.
By HANNAH SEO
Nicole Hagobian, a marathon run ner, running coach, and sport and exercise scientist at Califor nia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, knows just how hard it can be to lace up her running shoes and get herself out the door.
Here are some suggestions for stay ing motivated.
Schedule runs like meetings Hagobian treats her runs the same way she treats her work: with delibera tion and deadlines.
“I personally put it on my calendar like it’s a meeting,” she said. “So it’s part of what I’m going to do that day.”
To accommodate her schedule, Hagobian runs early in the morning. If she’s feeling less than enthusiastic, she will remind herself how it will feel when she’s finished, and tell herself that if she doesn’t run in that moment, she’ll lose her chance for the day.
Having a partner or group to run with (or to talk about runs with) can be a great source of encouragement, Hagobi an said, especially if their strengths are
Hagobian reframes negative thoughts into positive language. If she wants to avoid starting a run too fast, for example, she’ll think, “I’m going to start at a moderate pace” (positive) instead of, “I’m not going to start too fast” (negative).
When she’s starting to feel over whelmed by a long run, Hagobian will focus only on the stretch she’s on. She’ll say things like “I got you, Mile 1,” “You’re going down, Mile 2,” and so on.
Sometimes people will skip runs or cut them short when they’re not feeling their best, she said, but giving up on a workout often makes runners feel worse.
When she is feeling a little off, Hagobian said, she will pay less atten tion to how fast she is running and focus mainly on the fact that she’s putting in any effort at all.
Mixing things up by switching your route can also boost your interest and in spiration to run.
By JUDY GORDON-CONDE and JENNIFER CONDE-POWERS
The Caparra Country Club set the stage for the sub lime XVIII gala, Brilla Siempre, to benefit the Pediatric Diabetes Foundation in celebration of Diabetes Aware ness Month. Following the theme of the event, guests dressed up in brilliant sparkles to honor the unique light of each young patient dealing with diabetes and to bring a positive atmosphere that is needed so much in today’s age, Mariana Benítez Hilera, executive director of the Foundation, shared during the festivities.
For most of the evening, ladies and gentlemen enjoyed a sumptuous dinner and music while Nicole Chacón, the master of ceremonies, offered inspiring stories about the Foundation’s work. The mission of this valuable Foundation is to continue filling the educa tional gap surrounding diabetes and to provide avenues for learning how children and adolescents living with this condition, which currently has no cure, can have the medical information needed to live fulfilling lives. The Pediatric Diabetes Foundation is a non-profit or ganization that aims to educate, train, and support this young population with
diabetes on the Island with rel evant programs to promote healthy lifestyles and control their condition. The San Juan Daily Star December 2-4, 2022 23 Puerto Rico Carlos Monserrate, Mariana Benítez, Nicole Chacón and Roberto González Christie Dubón, Marlen Díaz, Camille Colón and Patricia Blanco Eduardo Cabán, Dr. Marina Ruiz, Claudia Bruno and José Sadurní Lcdo. René Vázquez, Mara Rivera, Rosamar Vega and Alberto Rivas Board of directors: standing, from left, Ricardo Levy, Bernardo Maldonado, Mariana Benítez, Fernando Mar chán, Luis Jové; sitting, from left: Olga Hernández and Dr. Rebecca Sáenz Ramón de León, Mónica Marín, Margarita Eguía and Joa quín Rodríguez Ramón de León, Manuel Dubón, Eduardo Torres and Rafael Blanes Singer Juan Vélez and Orquestra Roberto Monserrate, Ilka Ramón, Omayra Martínez and Luis Oliverodia company.
While Musk juggles that and other duties — he also over sees electric carmaker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX — Neuralink is emerging from a period of change. Last year, Max Hodak, the company’s president and one of its co-founders, left to launch his own venture in the field. Neuralink’s CEO is of ficially Jared Birchall, a wealth manager who runs Musk’s family office.
Wednesday night’s presentation focused on the “Link” de vice, which resembles an inch-wide stack of several coins with hundreds of hair-thin threads. A surgical robot would cut a hole in the skull and slip the electrode threads into the gray matter of the brain, according to Musk’s 2020 company presentation. The coinlike piece would sit flush with the skull.
Leaders in the field of brain-computer interface tech nology have been closely watching Neuralink’s investment in a device that operated without protruding wires or hardware. Yet Musk’s presentations thus far have concerned and under whelmed many of them.
In this still image from the Neuralink presentation video on YouTube, a presenter, lower left, described how a monkey used a wireless transmitter to “type” characters on a keyboard.
By CHRISTINA JEWETT and CADE METZIn a presentation showcasing the Neuralink implant that Elon Musk hopes will someday connect the human brain to a computer, two monkeys were reportedly moving computer
cursors with their brains.
The feat was first documented by others in a human in 2006 in the pre-YouTube era and with technology that is far more cumbersome, mooring patients to a computer with a cord.
A 2021 Neuralink presentation of a monkey playing the video game Pong with his mind was similar to a primate dem onstration at Brown University in 2001, although it had a far clunkier system.
In a 2020 presentation showcasing a pig with the implant, Musk suggested the device could “solve” conditions including paralysis and insomnia and could even give a user “superhu man vision.” Such applications sound like science fiction to scientists who are singularly focused on restoring basic func tions, like typing, speaking or lifting a fork, to those who have lost them after a spinal cord injury or a dire diagnosis. For such patients, the benefits weigh favorably against the small, but seri ous, risk of brain surgery.
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“These are incremental advances,” Daniel Yoshor, a neu rosurgeon and neuroscientist at the Perelman School of Medi cine at the University of Pennsylvania who has worked with similar devices, said after watching the presentation. “The hard ware is impressive but does not represent a dramatic advance in restoring or enhancing brain function.”
On Wednesday night, Musk said plans for his device in cluded making the blind see and giving someone with a severed spinal cord “full-body functionality.” The claims drew applause from the audience but do not reflect the state of the field.
“I would not say that with confidence,” Yoshor said after Musk had claimed that the Neuralink device would give sight to people who have never seen before. “I would be highly unsure of this kind of device in a patient with congenital blindness.”
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Neuralink does not have approval from the Food and Drug Administration to sell the device. Musk said Wednesday that the company had submitted most of its paperwork to the agency to seek permission to implant its device in a human. He predicted a test in humans in six months, but any step toward trials in people would be up to the FDA after a full evaluation of the risks of surgical implantation and safety of the device.
Neuralink originally scheduled the event for the end of October, before Musk, a multibillionaire, postponed the presen tation amid one of the more chaotic months of his career. He recently completed his off-again, on-again purchase of Twitter, which has commanded much of his attention — and generated considerable controversy — over management of the social me
Safety will be the FDA’s primary concern in consider ing whether the device could be tested in humans, said Cristin Welle, an associate professor of neuroscience at the University of Colorado, who helped draft FDA guidance on brain-comput er implants before leaving the agency in 2016.
Welle said regulators will focus on whether the device would damage the brain or present unreasonable risks to pa tients. She said device durability would also be considered, giv en the potential for brain fluids to eat through insulation coating the hundreds of hairlike electrodes on the Link device.
Neuralink has tested the device on sheep, pigs and pri mates, according to records filed with the Agriculture Depart ment.
New York wine bars are booming, with great new options proliferating and old standbys excelling. They seem to be popping up all over. Yet, no matter how many have opened, and despite how warm and inviting some of them might be, I’m always faced with a nagging question: Exactly what is a wine bar, and what differentiates it from a restaurant?
Full- fl edged restaurants like Claud, Contento and Chambers, where reservations are in high demand for superb food prepared by accomplished chefs, are habitually called wine bars. So are humble places where you might drop in on a whim for a drink and a bite that is served right out of the tin in which it was packaged.
Are they all wine bars? Or is the term so vague as to be meaningless? It might depend on whom you ask.
“It’s something we wrestled with a lot,” said Chase Sinzer, an owner and wine director at Claud in the East Village, a place I love that feels strongly like a restaurant. “The answer is amorphous. We were very cognizant of people wanting to call places wine bars. I’m open to what people want to call us, but from what I see, Claud is more of a restaurant.”
I’ve gone to places I’ve considered wine bars for decades, from classic bars à vin in France, enoteche in Italy and bars de tapas in Spain that formed the templates for others around the world, to dozens over the years in New York, many of which have come and gone, often without a trace. Some are particularly fond memories, gone too soon.
Over the past month, as I’ve stopped in at wine bars all over Manhattan and Brooklyn, I’ve contemplated the evolution of the wine bar here in New York. Most focus on French, Italian or Spanish wines and foods, although some welcome variations pop up. The Lavaux in the West Village focuses on Swiss wines and dishes. South African wine and food are the specialty of Kaia on the Upper East Side. Casellula in Clinton focuses on cheese as much as wine.
Wine bars seem to evolve over decades, tracing the development of New York wine culture. Back in the late 1970s and early ’80s, when wine bars were novelties, they adopted an educational pose. Customers were to be educated by earnest servers newly versed in the intricacies of terroir and production and eager to share.
Not surprisingly, this model did not catch on. Peo-
ple go to bars to drink, eat and socialize, not generally to be edi fi ed.
A new generation of wine bars that rose in the mid-1990s were more closely modeled on European forebears, casual places to stop in for a drink and something to eat. The focus was on creating comfortable, welcoming environments, not seminars, whether you were there for 45 minutes or the rest of the night. This model persisted.
Many repeat a successful formula — simple, casual, inexpensive. What sets apart the best of the newer wine bars and the most enduring of the standbys is both their individuality and the intelligence of the wine lists. They often offer deep dives into great and sometimes rare bottles — but not always. Gem Wine on the Lower East Side, one of my favorites, offers roughly 150 se-
lections with scarcely a bottle priced above $100, and many far lower.
A varied assortment by the glass is essential, although it doesn’t have to be voluminous.
Food can be simple, although it’s nice to supplement the time-honored repertory of charcuterie (or salumi) and cheeses with a few more substantial items and some vegetables. You ought to be able to come in for a snack or a meal, although some wine bars don’t even have stoves.
Good wine bars are informal neighborhood gathering places rather than destinations, with occasional exceptions, such as when a wine list is so deep that it draws in the trophy- and rare-bottle hunters. But mostly, they are places to drop in near one’s home. They might take some reservations, but they always have room for walk-ins.
Wine bars mostly cater to young people. At almost every place I visited, I was by far the oldest patron there. With exceptions, they are situated in areas that support a thriving nightlife. The clientele tends not to be going home immediately to families at the end of a day.
For this reason, many of the best new wine bars focus on selections especially popular with younger wine drinkers: natural wines, skin-contact or orange wines, pétillant naturels, and the like. You won’t fi nd a lot of places with classic Napa Valley cabernets or Bordeaux.
These sorts of places are distinct from restaurants like Claud or Chambers, where you would make a reservation with the idea of eating a memorable meal. A few people might come in to sit at the bar, as in almost any restaurant. But few come in just to have a glass of wine.
“The term wine bar lends itself to the casualizing of the restaurant experience,” said Sinzer of Claud. “It gives you more ownership of the experience.”
That’s really the nub of it. Great wine bars are neighborhood joints, places you can call your own.
A glass of wine is poured at the bar at Place des Fêtes in New York, Nov. 18, 2022. At 11 watering holes in New York, you’ll find some of the city’s finest wine lists, along with food to match.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC
Plaintiff, Vs. EMMA ISABEL JIMENEZ VARGAS
Defendant(s)
Civil No.: 3:19-cv-01568.
(ADC). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND COLLEC TION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: EMMA ISABEL JIMENEZ VARGAS. 7DCOND. SKY TOWER I, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00926.
THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: On September 13, 2022, this Court entered Default Judgment in favor of Plaintiff, against Emma Isabel Jiménez Vargas. On November 8, 2022, this Court entered Or der for Execution of Judgment, stating that Defendant has fai led to pay the sums of monies adjudged to be paid under the judgment. In the Judgment, the Court stated that Defendant has defaulted on the repayment obligation to GITSIT SOLU TIONS, LLC, and ordered to pay the Plaintiff the principal sum of $78,168.41, plus inter est 4.50000% per annum from October 1st, 2017, accrued late charges, all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections, as well as 10% of the original principal balance, or $7,722.50, to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed by the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the par ties at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Char dón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHERAEAS, Pursuant to the terms of the aforementio ned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defen dant will be sold at a public auc tion: URBANA: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Apartamento 7-D. Está situado en el nivel 7 del edificio, saliendo de los elevadores en dirección Sur. Su forma es la de un rectángu lo que mide de frente 44’10½” por 25’2” de profundidad, al que hay que adicionarle parte del área del balcón de forma rectangular que mide 12’7½” por 4’10” el que suma un área total de 1190.39 pies cuadra dos, equivalentes a 110.59 metros cuadrados. Limita por el NORTE, con pared medianera
que lo separa del apartamen to 7-E; por el SUR, con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento 7-C; por el ESTE, con espacio sobre terrenos del propio condominio y por el OESTE, con corredor que da acceso de los apartamentos en este nivel. Este apartamento está formado por sala-comedor con balcón mirando hacia el Este, pasillo interior, tres dor mitorios con sus respectivos closets, dos baños, linencloset, cocina-lavandería con su clo set, despensa y closet de útiles de limpieza. Le corresponde el espacio de estacionamiento marcado con el número 7-D. Le corresponde en los elementos comunes generales el 668%.
Recorded at page 262, volume 292 of Rio Piedras Sur, proper ty number 9418, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Fourth Section of San Juan. WHE
REAS: The property is subject to the following lien described in the Spanish language: HIPO TECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de First Bank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $77,225.00 con intereses al 5½% anual y vencimiento 1 de octubre de 2047. Constituida por la Escritura 203 otorgada en San Juan el 29 de septiembre de 2007 ante el notario Carlos Martínez Olmo, e inscrita al fo lio 133 del tomo 783 de Rio Pie dras Sur, finca 9418, inscripción 5ª. AMPLIADA en una suma adicional de $1,515.02 y MODI FICADA en cuanto a su interés y vencimiento, siendo ahora su principal por $78,740.02 con intereses al 3.50% los prime ros 24 meses y 5.50% hasta su vencimiento y vencimiento 1 de enero de 2050, según consta de la escritura 37 otorgada el San Juan el 27 de enero de 2010 ante la notario Alexandra M. Serracante Cadilla, e inscri ta en virtud de la Ley 216 del 27 de diciembre de 2010 para Agilizar el Registro de La Pro piedad, asiento abreviado y ex tendido con fecha 12 de marzo de 2013, al folio 133 del tomo 783 de Rio Piedras Sur, finca 9418, inscripción 6ª. Senior Lien: None. Junior Lien: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential lien with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferen tial lien to the one being fore closed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, lien (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the suc cessful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the res ponsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied
toward their cancellation. The present property will be acqui red free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: For the pur pose of the First Judicial Sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $77,225.00 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the abovedescribed property be unsuc cessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the Second Judicial Sale will be two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the First Judicial Sale, or $51,483.33. The minimum bid for the Third Judicial Sale, if the same is necessary, will be onehalf of the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the afo rementioned mortgage deed, or $38,612.50 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmo biliaria del Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Article 104, as amended. WHE REAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. NOW THREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appoin ted Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Jud gment herein before referred to, will on the 22 OF DECEM BER OF 2022 AT 9:50 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3699435, -66.1126780) in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s judgment. Should the first judicial sale set herei nabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property describes in the Notice will be held on the 29 OF DECEMBER OF 2022 AT 9:50 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Indus trial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3699435, -66.1126780). Should the se cond judicial sale set herei nabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Noti ce will be held on the 5 OF JA NUARY OF 2023 AT 9:50 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3699435, -66.1126780). In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 13
day of November 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, APPOIN TED SPECIAL MASTER.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC Plaintiff, Vs. WANDA PÉREZ CORTÉS, JOSÉ RAFAEL BAS ORTIZ, EDUARDO BAS ORTIZ, ELVIRA BAS ORTIZ, JOSHUA NATHANIEL BAS PEDREGUERA, DANIEL BAS PEDREGUERA, DANILA SOFIA BAS VARGAS, JOSÉ ANTONIO APONTE BAS, FABÍAN IGNACIO APONTE BAS, PERSONALLY AND AS MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF JOSE RAFAEL BAS GARCIA Defendant(s) Civil No.: 3:18-cv-01723.
(ADC). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND COLLEC TION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: WANDA PÉREZ CORTÉS, JOSÉ RAFAEL BAS ORTIZ, EDUARDO BAS ORTIZ, ELVIRA BAS ORTIZ, JOSHUA NATHANIEL BAS PEDREGUERA, DANIEL BAS PEDREGUERA, DANILA SOFIA BAS VARGAS, JOSÉ ANTONIO APONTE BAS, FABÍAN IGNACIO APONTE BAS, PERSONALLY AND AS MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF JOSE RAFAEL BAS GARCIA. COND. MÁLAGA PARK, APT. 1-C, SAN JUAN, PR 00971.
THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: On June 11, 2022, this Court entered Consent Jud gment in the captioned case.
On October 26, 2022, this Court entered Order for Execution of Judgment, stating that the Con sent Judgment recognizes that GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC is owed as of June 4, 2020, the amount of $126,397.18; distri buted as follows: the principal balance of $98,779.77, ac crued interests in the amount of $19,200.74, since May 1st, 2017, at the interest rate of 6.5%, escrow advanced balan ce in the amount of $2,298.73, advance balance in the amount of $1,035.00, accrued late char ges in the amount of $1,764.36,
and expressly agreed-upon attorneys’ fees and legal costs. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be exa mined by the parties at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHERAEAS, Pur suant to the terms of the afo rementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendant will be sold at a pu blic auction: URBANA: Propie dad Horizontal: Unidad 1-C del Condominio Málaga Park, loca lizado en el Barrio Frailes del Municipio de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, compuesto de un área de construcción de 1,215.7689 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 112.95 metros cuadrados. Consta de terraza, sala- come dor, cocina, laundry, tres dormi torios, dos baños equipados y closets. La misma fue fabricada en hormigón armado y bloques de cemento y se encuentra lo calizada en la segunda planta del edificio número 1. Su puer ta de entrada está localizada en el lindero Norte y la misma da al área común central del edificio ocupada por las esca leras y un recibidor (lobby) y desde la cual se tiene acceso a áreas comunes que dan al estacionamiento. Sus linderos son los siguientes por el NOR TE, en una distancia de 27’1” equivalentes a 8.255 metros con área exterior del edificio y recibidor; por el SUR, en una distancia de 27’1” equivalen tes a 8.255 metros con área común exterior del edificio; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 53’10” equivalentes a 16.4087 metros con apartamento 2-D y área común exterior del edificio y por el OESTE, en una dis tancia de 53’10” equivalentes a 16.4087 metros con aparta mento 1-D (lobby) y área co mún xterior del edificio. A esta unidad se le ha asignado el uso exclusivo de dos espacios de estacionamientos marcados 1-C los cuales son elemen tos comunes limitados. A este apartamento le corresponde 1.0097% en los elementos co munes generales del inmueble. Property Number 41397, recor ded at page 75 of volume 1182 of Guaynabo, Registry of the Property of Guaynabo. WHE REAS: The property is subject to the following lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de First Equity Mortgage Com pany, o a su orden, por la suma de $127,800.00 con intereses al 6½% anual y vencimiento 1ro de febrero de 2034. Constituida por la Escritura 27 otorgada en Guaynabo el 27 de enero de 2004 ante el notario Francelis
Ortiz Pagán, e inscrita al folio 56 del tomo 1288 de Guayna bo, finca 41397, inscripción 4ª. Senior Lien: None. Junior Lien: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential lien with the hol ders thereof. It shall be unders tood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential lien to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, lien (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibi lity for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acqui red free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: For the pur pose of the First Judicial Sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $127,800.00 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the abovedescribed property be unsuc cessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the Second Judicial Sale will be two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the First Judicial Sale, or $85,200.00. The minimum bid for the Third Judicial Sale, if the same is necessary, will be onehalf of the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the afo rementioned mortgage deed, or $63,900.00 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmo biliaria del Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Article 104, as amended. WHE REAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. NOW THREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appoin ted Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Jud gment herein before referred to, will on the 22 OF DECEM BER 2022 AT 10:00 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Ca lle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969 (18.3699435, -66.1126780) in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s judgment. Should the first judicial sale set herei
nabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property describes in the Notice will be held on the 29 OF DECEMBER 2022 AT 10:00
AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Indus trial Park, Guaynabo, Puer to Rico 00969 (18.3699435, -66.1126780). Should the second judicial sale set herei nabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this No tice will be held on the 5 OF JANUARY 2023 AT 10:00 AM, at: Rondapro, located at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969 (18.3699435, -66.1126780). In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 14 day of November 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, APPOIN TED SPECIAL MASTER. ***
HACIENDA
ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de GUILLOT, LARRY ANTHONY, sobre la unidad A202 semana 18 que a continuación se des cribe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 18 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A202 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca tion Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A202 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 18 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 18 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A202, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time
prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vaca tion Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arri ba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $47,917.59 en concepto de cuotas de man tenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuan tía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante ho ras laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28
de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Pre dios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el inte rés indiviso de 100% titularidad de DELGADO SUAREZ, AIXA, sobre la unidad A204 semana 29 que a continuación se des cribe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 29 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A204 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca tion Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A204 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 29 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 29 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A204, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime.
This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facili ties and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para sa tisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,244.76 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow
ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Pre dios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titu laridad de MENDEZ GOMEZ, JOSE RAMON and CORTES HERNANDEZ,CARMEN MILA GROS, sobre la unidad A204 semana 39 que a continuación se describe:- Vacation Club
Right: unit week 39 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A204 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A204 and includes the right to use such unit during the 39 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week com mencing at 12:00 noon on the 39 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the mem bership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Not withstanding this specific va cation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A204, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exerci se by the owner of certain prio rity rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commen cement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Va cation Club Regime and other
owners of timeshare or vaca tion club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the abo ve described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this va cation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated re sorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a sha re of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the fa cilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,789.39 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
bre la unidad A205 semana 7 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 7 Vacation Club Right corres ponding to unit A205 of HA CIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sa bana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vaca tion Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A205 and includes the right to use such unit during the 7 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 7 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the mem bership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Not withstanding this specific va cation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A205, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exerci se by the owner of certain prio rity rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commen cement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Va cation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vaca tion club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the abo ve described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this va cation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated re sorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a sha re of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the fa cilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de CEDENO, GILBERT and CE DENO, MARITZA AYALA, so
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,596.38 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante
HACIENDA
INC. 301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Pre dios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el inte rés indiviso de 100% titularidad de CEDENO, GILBERT and CEDENO, MARITZA AYALA, sobre la unidad A205 semana 52 que a continuación se des cribe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 52 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A205 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca tion Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A205 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 52 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 52 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A205, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in
such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facili ties and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para sa tisfacer el balance pendiente de $7,249.67 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ROURA, WALTER PAUL and ROURA, SUSAN HERNAN DEZ, sobre la unidad A206 se mana 45 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 45 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A206 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, loca ted in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property
right to the Unit A206 and inclu des the right to use such unit during the 45 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 45 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A206, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vaca tion Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arri ba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $13,996.59 en concepto de cuotas de man tenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuan tía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante ho ras laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As
sociation, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Pre dios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el inte rés indiviso de 100% titularidad de HANLEY, SHARON MARIE and COLLINS, PAUL GERARD, sobre la unidad A301 semana 36 que a continuación se des cribe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 36 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A301 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca tion Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A301 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 36 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 36 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A301, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facili ties and common expenses of
the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para sa tisfacer el balance pendiente de $7,264.39 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Pre dios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el inte rés indiviso de 100% titularidad de BERNSTEIN, GLENN and BERNSTEIN, ANDREA, sobre la unidad A302 semana 7 que a continuación se describe: Va cation Club Right: unit week 7 Vacation Club Right correspon ding to unit A302 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regi me, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A302 and includes the right to use such unit during the 7 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week com mencing at 12:00 noon on the 7 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan
ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A302, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime.
This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facili ties and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para sa tisfacer el balance pendiente de $5,594.93 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ESCOBAR RESTO, ENRIQUE and MEDINA CARRASQUI LLO, CARMEN DELIA, sobre la unidad A302 semana 30 que a continuación se descri be: Vacation Club Right: unit week 30 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A302 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca tion Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A302 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 30 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 30 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A302, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vaca tion Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arri ba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $19,546.58 en concepto de cuotas de man tenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuan tía será el precio mínimo del
remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante ho ras laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
HACIENDA
ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de CONOVER OKEEFE, JOHN GEORGE and SIMPSON GEHLHAUS, JANE, sobre la unidad A303 semana 17 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 17 Vacation Club Right corres ponding to unit A303 of HA CIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipa lity of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A303 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 17 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 17 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A303, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of
said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facili ties and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para sa tisfacer el balance pendiente de $8,919.95 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
301 Carr 693
INC.
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Pre dios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado
Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el inte rés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ROMAN CASTRO, EDWIN and MIRANDA NIN, BLANCA, sobre la unidad A303 semana 24 que a continuación se des cribe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 24 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A303 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca tion Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A303 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 24 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 24 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A303, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facili ties and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para sa tisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,066.92 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a
ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR,
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MIRANDA RODRIGUEZ, ANI TA MARIA and BRAVERMAN
BOWER, JEROME MELVIN, sobre la unidad A305 semana 51 que a continuación se des cribe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 51 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A305 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca tion Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A305 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 51 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 51 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A305, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right
pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facili ties and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para sa tisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,428.1 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de FRESCHI, ROBERT JORDAN and THIELEMANN, SUSAN ANN, sobre la unidad A306 semana 8 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 8 Vacation Club Right corresponding to
unit A306 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta.
This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A306 and includes the right to use such unit during the 8 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week com mencing at 12:00 noon on the 8 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A306, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facili ties and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para sa tisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,312.78 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
HACIENDA
MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Pre dios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el inte rés indiviso de 100% titularidad de BAKER, WALTER MARTIN and BAKER, SEENA JOAN, sobre la unidad A306 semana 15 que a continuación se des cribe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 15 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A306 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca tion Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A306 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 15 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 15 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A306, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi
me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facili ties and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para sa tisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,006.44 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
at 12:00 noon on the 45 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A306, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime.
OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $19,703.55 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
HACIENDA
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Pre dios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el inte rés indiviso de 100% titularidad de SANTANA BRAVO, LYANN, sobre la unidad A306 semana 45 que a continuación se des cribe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 45 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A306 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca tion Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A306 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 45 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing
This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vaca tion Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arri ba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $20,020.18 en concepto de cuotas de man tenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuan tía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante ho ras laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de COSME ARRUFAT, ORLAN DO and CABRERA GALINDO, XIOMARA, sobre la unidad A401 semana 36 que a conti nuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 36 Vaca tion Club Right corresponding to unit A401 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A401 and includes the right to use such unit during the 36 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week com mencing at 12:00 noon on the 36 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the mem bership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Not withstanding this specific va cation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A401, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exerci se by the owner of certain prio rity rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commen cement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Va cation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vaca tion club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the abo ve described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this va cation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated re sorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a sha re of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the fa cilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal
INC. 301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de BERNARD MARRERO, RAUL ALBERTO and FIGUEROA TORRES, CARMEN MARIA, sobre la unidad A401 semana 50 que a continuación se des cribe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 50 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A401 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca tion Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A401 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 50 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 50 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use
a specific week in Unit A401, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vaca tion Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arri ba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $16,762.51 en concepto de cuotas de man tenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuan tía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante ho ras laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104,
de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de SAN MIGUEL SANTOS, JUAN ANTONIO and HERNANDEZ SANTIAGO, OMAYDA OTHET, sobre la unidad A402 semana 52 que a continuación se des cribe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 52 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A402 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca tion Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A402 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 52 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 52 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A402, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vaca tion Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arri ba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $18,824.75 en concepto de cuotas de man tenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuan tía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi
miento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante ho ras laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de HUERTAS SANJURO, LEO NARDO, sobre la unidad A403 semana 18 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 18 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A403 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A403 and includes the right to use such unit during the 18 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week com mencing at 12:00 noon on the 18 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the mem bership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Not withstanding this specific va cation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A403, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exerci se by the owner of certain prio rity rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commen cement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights
in the Haciendas del Mar, Va cation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vaca tion club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the abo ve described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this va cation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated re sorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a sha re of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the fa cilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,169.25 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de
CONWAY, FRANCIS THOMAS and CONWAY, BARBARA ANN, sobre la unidad A403 semana 26 que a continuación se des cribe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 26 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A403 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca tion Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A403 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 26 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 26 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A403, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vaca tion Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arri ba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,389.71 en concepto de cuotas de man tenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuan tía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante ho ras laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al
crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de VELEZ, ANDREW and VELEZ, LOIS ANN, sobre la unidad A404 semana 10 que a conti nuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 10 Vaca tion Club Right corresponding to unit A404 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A404 and includes the right to use such unit during the 10 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week com mencing at 12:00 noon on the 10 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the mem bership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Not withstanding this specific va cation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A404, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exerci se by the owner of certain prio rity rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commen cement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Va cation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vaca tion club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the abo ve described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this va
cation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated re sorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a sha re of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the fa cilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,312.23 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de TOLMAN, STUART ELLIOT, sobre la unidad A404 semana 21 que a continuación se des cribe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 21 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A404 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vaca tion Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Munici pality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled
with a special property right to the Unit A404 and includes the right to use such unit du ring the 21 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 21 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A404, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facili ties and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para sa tisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,121.2 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos,
Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de BROWN, BERNARD HUMBER and BROWN, SHARON TUC KER, sobre la unidad A405 se mana 49 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 49 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A405 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, loca ted in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A405 and inclu des the right to use such unit during the 49 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 49 Satur day of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstan ding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A405, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regi me to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facili
ties and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para sa tisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,438.01 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cum plimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc. en Dorado Puer to Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de CABRERO LAMBOY, BIENVE NIDO and RUIZ MENDOZA, IRAIDA, sobre la unidad A406 semana 22 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 22 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A406 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A406 and includes the right to use such unit during the 22 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week com mencing at 12:00 noon on the 22 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the mem
bership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Not withstanding this specific va cation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A406, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exerci se by the owner of certain prio rity rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commen cement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Va cation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vaca tion club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the abo ve described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this va cation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated re sorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a sha re of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the fa cilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,732.36 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeu dadas por el titular de referen cia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las ofi cinas de Hacienda del Mar Ow ners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presen te aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 1 de di ciembre de 2022. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners As sociation, Inc.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs ANTHONY O. SANES
RAMOS, KATHY A. GONZALEZ CAMACHO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00967. Salón: 604. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANTHONY O. SANES RAMOS, KATHY A. GONZALEZ CAMACHO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS A SER NOTIFICADOS POR EDICTO POR CONDUCTO DE LA LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA. LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA - P. O. BOX 2342 MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO 00681-2342. (Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de noviembre de 2022. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 23 de noviem bre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CA
RABALLO GARCÍA, SECRE TARIA REGIONAL. GISELLE GUTIÉRREZ LEÓN, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA JANNETTE MUÑOZ MERCADO Demandante V.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA P/C UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA
Demandado Civil: AG2022CV01129. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA. DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de noviembre de 2022. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 23 de noviembre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA VALEN TÍN RAMÍREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
Demandante V. ROBERTO FRANCISCO LÓPEZ ROSARIO
Demandado(a) Civil: BY2022CV02348. 401. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de septiembre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 22 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
MMG I PR CDGY LLC
Demandante V. VICTOR ESTEBAN ZAYAS CORTES Y SU ESPOSA BRISEIDA RODRIGUEZ BORRERO Y
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado(a)
Civil: RG2022CV00254. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJE CUCIÓN DE SENTENCIA. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: VICTOR ESTEBAN ZAYAS CORTES Y SU ESPOSA BRISEIDA
RODRIGUEZ BORRERO Y
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS: 18033
PROMENADE PARK LN, APT 4404, LUTZ FLORIDA, 33548-7980; RIO GRANDE TOWN 3 CALLE 1, RIO GRANDE, PR 00745-3108. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de noviembre de 2022. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 29 de noviembre de 2022. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SHEILA ROBLES HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE IDA LINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C IDALINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C AIDA ROSA KARRY, COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN;
PELACIÓN ENMENDADA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO
PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C AIDA ROSA KARRY.
güez. Se informa a los herede ros que, la parte demandante ha declarado la totalidad de la deuda que origina la presente causa de acción vencida; se ha incumplido con las cláusulas de la escritura de hipoteca antes mencionada por haberse deja do de pagar las mensualidades vencidas desde el día 1ro de marzo de 2020, adeudándosele a la parte demandante la tota lidad de la deuda ascendente a: $55,950.22 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 5.00%, anual desde el 1ro de febrero de 2020, hasta su com pleto pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes menciona da y hasta la fecha del pago to tal de las mismas, más la suma de $7,511.00 para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.
do el presente Mandamiento, bajo mi firma y sello oficial, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de noviembre de 2022.
LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL II. MAGALY BONILLA MORALES, SECRETARIA AU XILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE IDA LINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C IDALINA PECK SUÁREZ
T/C/C AIDA ROSA KARRY, COMPUESTA
Se le APERCIBE a los herede ros antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repu diación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. También se le APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del cau sante y, por consiguiente, res ponden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.RA §2785. Se ORDENA a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión de IDA LINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C
IDALINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C AlOA ROSA KARRY, incluye a JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE
DESCONOCIDOS, proceda a notificar la presente Orden me diante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación dia ria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico y eximiendo a la parte de mandante de tener que enviar copia de la presente Orden y del Mandamiento de lnterpe lación a dichos herederos por desconocerse su identidad y sus direcciones. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 4 de noviembre de 2022. FDO. MAURA SAN
POR “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.)
Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2021CV01649. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA “IN REM”. EMPLA ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ENMENDADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S.
A: “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE IDA LINA PECK SUÁREZ
T/C/C IDALINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C ALOA
ROSA KARRY. 345 PR KM 3 HM 4, BO. LAVADERO, HORMIGUEROS, PR 00660; HC 1 BOX 6265 HORMIGUEROS, PR 00660-5012.
RICO
LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.) Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2021CV01649. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA “IN REM”. MANDA MIENTO ORDEN DE INTER
POR CUANTO: Se ha dictado en el presente caso la siguiente Orden: “ORDEN DE INTER PELACIÓN ENMENDADA: Examinada la moción presen tada por la parte demandante, y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación de la interpelación judicial de la parte demandan te a los herederos de IDA LINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C IDALINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C AlOA ROSA KARRY conforme dis pone el Artículo 959 del Códi go Civil, 31 L.P.RA §2787. Se ORDENA a los herederos de la causante IDA LINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C IDALINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C AIDA ROSA KARRY, a saber, “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSI BLES HEREDEROS DESCO NOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE IDA LINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C IDALINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C A IDA ROSA KARRY, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a par tir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de IDA LINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C IDALINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C AlOA ROSA KARRY, sobre el proceso de ejecución de hipoteca “In Rem” de la hipoteca constituida sobre el siguiente bien inmueble: RÚS TICA: Solar con una cabida de quinientos metros cuadra dos, sito en el Barrio Lavadero Uno de Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, que mide por el NORTE, treinta metros y colinda con la finca principal de los esposos Suárez lrizarry; por el SUR, mide veinte metros y colinda con la carretera número dos; por el ESTE, mide veinticinco metros y colinda con el solar letra D; y por el OESTE, mide veinticinco metros y colinda con faja de terreno para entrada del remanente de la finca principal. Edificación con un valor de $46,000.00, según resulta de la escritura número 38, otorgada en Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de julio de 1996, ante el notario Rigoberto Martínez Cruz, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 3 de Mayagüez, finca número 953, inscripción 6ta. Inscrita al folio 61 del tomo 32 de Hor migueros, finca número 953. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Maya
TIAGO DUCOS, JUEZA”. POR CUANTO: Se le(s) advierte a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a par tir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de IDA LINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C IDALINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C AIDA ROSA KARRY.
POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL de Primera Instancia, expi
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra, dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publica ción del presente edicto, sobre el proceso de ejecución de hi poteca “In Rem” de la hipoteca constituida sobre el siguiente bien inmueble: RÚSTICA: Solar con una cabida de quinientos metros cuadrados, sito en el Barrio Lavadero Uno de Hormi gueros, Puerto Rico, que mide por el NORTE, treinta metros y colinda con la finca principal de los esposos Suárez lrizarry; por el SUR, mide veinte metros y colinda con la carretera número
dos; por el ESTE, mide veinti cinco metros y colinda con el solar letra D; y por el OESTE, mide veinticinco metros y co linda con faja de terreno para entrada del remanente de la finca principal. Edificación con un valor de $46,000.00, según resulta de la escritura número 38, otorgada en Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de julio de 1996, ante el notario Rigoberto Martínez Cruz, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 3 de Mayagüez, finca número 953, inscripción 6ta. Inscrita al folio 61 del tomo 32 de Hormigueros, finca número 953. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Ma yagüez. La parte demandante ha declarado la totalidad de la deuda que origina la presente causa de acción vencida; se ha incumplido con las cláusu las de la escritura de hipoteca antes mencionada por haberse dejado de pagar las mensuali dades vencidas desde el día 1ro de marzo de 2020, adeu dándosele a la parte deman dante la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a: $55,950.22 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 5.00%, anual desde el 1ro de febrero de 2020, has ta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cuales quiera otras cantidades pacta das en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $7,511.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos ac cesorios garantizados hipote cariamente. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por de recho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alega ción responsiva dentro del refe rido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte de mandante son:
ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE:
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández
RUA Núm.: 16,393
BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ, LLP
500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel : (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com Expido este edicto bajo mi fir ma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 16 de noviembre de 2022.
LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA
IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL II. MAGALY BONILLA
MORALES, SECRETARIA AU XILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. CARMELINA MORALES MORALES T/C/C Y OTROS Demandado(a) Civil: CA2022CV01212. Sala: 409. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA ¨IN REM¨ (VÍA OR DINARIA). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: CARMELINA MORALES MORALES T/C/C CARMELINA MORALES DE JIMENEZ (TITULAR REGISTRAL Y DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO) A SUS ULTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: (A) URB EST DE SAN FERNANDO, J6 CALLE 1 CAROLINA PR 00985-5204; (B) VILLA FONTANA PARK, FF16 CALLE PARQUE SAN JOSE, CAROLINA PR 00983. B) CARMEN EVA JIMENEZ MORALES (TITULAR REGISTRAL) A SU ULTIMA DIRECCION CONOCIDA: VILLA FONTANA PARK, FF16 CALLE PARQUE SAN JOSE, CAROLINA PR 00983. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de noviembre de 2022. En CA ROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 30 de
noviembre de 2022. LCDA. MA RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
Demandante V. EDIL TORRES DÍAZ
Demandado(a) Civil: MZ2021CV01644. (207).
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDIANARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.
A: EDIL TORRES DÍAZ.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de noviembre de 2022. En Maya güez, Puerto Rico, el 30 de no viembre de 2022. Lcda. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria. Magaly Bonilla Morales, Secre taria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE SYLVIA GONZÁLEZ RODRĺGUEZ compuesta por; FULANO y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CRIM
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV04931. Salón Núm.: (508). Sobre:
EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDIC TO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE SYLVIA GONZÁLEZ RODRĹGUEZ COMPUESTA POR; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
El Alguacil que suscribe, cer tifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de San Juan, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separa do, 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 deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número seis A de la manzana “AL” radicado en la Urbanización Highland Park, situada en el Barrio Sa bana Llana de San Juan, Puer to Rico, con área de quinientos treintidos metros cuadrados con noventa y un centímetros, en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar quince distancia de die ciocho metros con cincuenta centímetros; por el SUR, con la calle BL distancia de diecisiete metros; por el ESTE, con el solar seis distancia de treinta metros con veinte centímetros; y por el OESTE, con el solar siete en distancia de treinta metros. En dicho solar enclava una vivienda de concreto para una sola familia que consta de sala, comedor, cocina, ba ños tres, cuartos dormitorios, balcón y marquesina. Consta inscrita al folio 91 del tomo 166 de Sabana Llana, finca número #7,406, Registro de la Propie dad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está locali zada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Highland Park, 749 Calle Cactus, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00924. Según figu ra en el Estudio de título, la pro piedad objeto de ejecución está gravada al siguiente Gravamen
preferente a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: 1. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a fa vor de First Financial Caribbean Corporation haciendo negocios con H.F. Mortgage Bankers, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $66,057.00, con intereses al 8% anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2024, cons tituida mediante la escritura número 338, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de agosto de 1994, ante el nota rio Gloria B. Aquino Aponte, e inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 880 de Sabana Llana, finca número 7,406, inscripción 7ª. Al Asiento 2022-113954-SJ05 del Sistema Karibe, se presentó el día 29 de agosto de 2022, la escritu ra número 169, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de febrero de 2006, ante el notario Miguel García Suárez, mediante la cual comparece Doral Financial Corporation a cancelar hipoteca por la suma de $66,057.00, inscripción 7ma relacionada. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vamen 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 rela ción a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Su basta la suma de $105,600.00, con intereses al 4 3/8% anual, vencedero el día 1 de abril de 2039, constituida mediante la escritura número 97, otorgada en (no expresa) el día 19 de marzo de 2009, ante el notario Félix Javier Santiago García, e inscrita al folio 1419 del tomo 1129 de Sabana Llana, finca número 7,406, inscripción 11ª. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se lle vará a cabo el día 11 DE ENE RO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $105,600.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no pro dujere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 19 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pac tada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $70,400.00.
Si la segunda subasta no pro dujere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 26 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 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 $52,800.00.
Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte deman dante el importe de la Senten
cia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $77,512.75, con intereses a 4.375% anual, desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2021, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulan do hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por de mora 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 $10,560.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cua lesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandan te, en virtud de las disposicio nes de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las perso nas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los do cumentos 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 correspon dientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la juris dicción de Puerto Rico. Se en tenderá que todo licitador acep ta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la corres pondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo due ño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las dispo siciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedi miento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocu pante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o to lerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 22 de noviembre de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁ LEZ, ALGUACIL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2021CV02373.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por mo neda de curso legal de los Esta dos Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 24 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cual quiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar situado en el Barrio Pájaros del término municipal de Bayamón, con el numero trescientos cincuenta y siete (357) en el Plano de la Urbanización Hermanas Dávila, Inc., preparado por el Ingeniero Civil Henry Fernández, fechado el siete (7) de junio de mil nove cientos cuarenta y ocho (1948), con la área superficial de cua trocientos cincuenta punto cero cero (450.00) metros cuadra dos, colindado al frente, que es el SURESTE, en quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros, con la calle “I” de la Urbanización; por su fondo, que es el NOROES TE, en quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros, con el solar trescientos nueve (309) de la Urbanización, propiedad de Hermanas Dávila, Inc.; por su izquierda entrando, que es el SUROESTE, en treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros, con el solar trescientos cincuenta y seis (356) de la Urbanización, propiedad de Hermanas Dávila, Inc. y por su derecha entrando, que es el NORESTE, con el solar trescientos cincuenta y ocho (358) de la Urbanización, propiedad Hermanas Dávila, Inc. Enclava una casa de blo ques de concreto y techo de concreto, hoy ampliada des
cribiéndose actualmente de la siguiente manera: Casa de hormigón que mide treinta y tres pies tres pulgadas (33’3”) de frente por cuarenta y seis pulgadas (46’) de fondo, con teniendo las siguientes depen dencias: balcón, sala, comedor, cocina, baño, tres (3) cuartos dormitorios y marquesina en el lado derecho entrando. Ins crita al folio 121 del tomo 218 de Bayamón Sur, finca 6286, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. Propiedad localizada en: URB. HERMA NAS DAVILA, 357 CALLE JO GLAR HERRERA, BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO 00959. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Ti tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $205,500.00. Fe cha de Vencimiento: 25 de sep tiembre de 2094. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $205,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Ofici na de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 31 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $137,000.00, 2/3 par tes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se es tablece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $102,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe
FUNDING LLC. Demandante Vs. SUCESION RIGOBERTO ROSADO VILLANUEVA COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $75,864.71 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $23,527.11 en intereses acu mulados al 3 de noviembre de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 4.221% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $9,664.41 en seguro hipo tecario; $525.00 de tasacio nes; $200.00 de inspecciones; $1,645.00 en honorarios de abogados; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $20,550.00, para gas tos, costas y honorarios de abo gado, esta última habrá de de vengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fe cha, desde este mismo día has ta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU
BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los intere sados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) 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 es pacio de dos semanas conse cutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los si tios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 02 de noviembre de 2022. Frances Torres, Alguacil Regional. Edgardo Elías Var gas Santana, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #193.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN
Demandante V. YANIEL ALBERTO SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ; LEYDA ENID RODRIGUEZ
Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08245.
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV05792.
Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal la Demanda de epí grafe. En la demanda se alega que el pagaré otorgado el 21 de octubre de 2022 la Notario Público Marie C. Arbona Martí nez bajo affidávit número 6969, a favor de Sun West Mortgage Company lnc., o a su orden, por la cantidad de $90,000.00, con intereses al 6.375% anual y vencedero a la presentación, el cual ha sido extraviado. En aseguramiento del Pagare hi potecario antes mencionado se constituyó hipoteca voluntaria en virtud de la Escritura núme ro 163, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico ante la notario Ma rie C. Arbona Martínez, presen tada y pendiente de inscripción al asiento 2022-145084-BY03 (Sistema Karibe) el 8 de no viembre de 2022, sobre la pro piedad que se describe a con tinuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento resi dencial número 712 de forma irregular, constituido por 1 nivel, localizado en la primera planta del modelo 7 de Primavera. El Condominio que está situado en la carretera número 2 kiló metro 15.4 Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Consta de un nivel, sien do sus linderos los siguientes: por el NORTE, con espacio ex terior y área común, en una dis tancia de 9.39 metros lineales; por el SUR, con patio, común en una distancia de 9.39 metros lineales; por el ESTE, con el apartamento número 711, área común y patio común limitado, en 13.34 metros lineales; por el OESTE, con el apartamento número 811 y patio común limi tado, en 13.34 metros lineales. Consta el mismo de tres habita ciones con sus respectivos clo sets, una sala-comedor, cocina, dos baños están equipados con bañera, lavamanos y ser vicio sanitario. Se incluye bidet en el baño del cuarto principal. El área total del apartamento es de 113.71 metros cuadra dos. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Este y por ella se sale a la escalera y el área de circulación del proyecto. A través de la parte posterior del patio común limitado existe un acceso al área común general del Condominio. Dicho acceso es parte de la fachada del edifi cio. Este apartamento tiene una participación de .5746% en los elementos comunes generales
del Condominio. Le correspon de como elemento común limi tado los estacionamientos iden tificados con los números 241 y 242. Consta inscrita al folio 21 del tomo 217 de Bayamón Norte, finca número 10,685, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, tercera (III) Sección. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fernan do Gierbolini y/o Manuel Muñiz Torres; MONSERRATE, SIMO NET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogados de la par te demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radicando el ori ginal de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Supe rior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con co pia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su con tra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de noviembre de 2022.
Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional. Luisa I. Andino Ayala, Secretaria Auxi liar De Tribunal.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CA GUAS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02429.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certifica do, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 23 DE ENE RO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número catorce guion “K” (14-K) de la Urbaniza ción Santa Elvira, en el Barrio Tomas de Castro de Caguas, con una área de TRESCIEN TOS NOVENTA Y SEIS PUN TO NOVENTA Y UN METROS CUADRADOS (396.91 M.C.); en lindes por el Norte, con los solares número quince guion “K” (15-K) y diez guion “K” (10K), en veinticuatro punto cero cero metros (24.00 m); por el Sur, con el Solar número trece guion “K” (13-K), en veinticuatro punto cero cero metros (24.00 m.); por el Este, con solar nú mero “K” guion treinta y tres (K33) y “K” guion treinta y cuatro (K-34) en diecisiete punto ocho cientos ochenta y ocho metros (17.888 m.); por el Oeste, con la Calle número trece (13) en un arco de uno punto noventa y tres metros (1.93 m.) y dis tancia de trece punto doscien tos cincuenta y siete metros (13.257 m.). Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 145 del tomo 885 de Caguas, finca 29702, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. La Hipoteca Revertida consta ins crita al folio 206 del tomo 1760, finca 29702 de Caguas, finca 29,702, Registro de la Propie dad de Caguas, Sección Pri mera, inscripción 6ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. SANTA EL VIRA, K-14 CALLE SANTA LU
CIA, CAGUAS, PR 00725. Se gún figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anterio res o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $199,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 23 de mayo de 2096. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $199,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 30 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑA NA, y se establece como míni ma para dicha segunda subas ta la suma de $133,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima estable cido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudica ción en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $99,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y di cha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MA ÑANA. Dicha subasta se lleva rá a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandan te, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $134,724.45 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $18,105.84 en in tereses acumulados al 1 de febrero de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $7,132.75 en se guro hipotecario; $3,125.00 en tarifas de servicios; $2,239.47 en seguro; $580.00 de inspec ciones; $8,625.00 en preser vación; $615.00 en honorarios de abogado; $834.40 de otros avances; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $19,950.00, para gas tos, costas y honorarios de abo gado, esta última habrá de de
vengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fe cha, desde este mismo día has ta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los intere sados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) in teresados (as). Y para su publi cación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un dia rio de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios pú blicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 3 de noviembre de 2022. Carlos Delgado Cruz, Alguacil Regio nal. Ángel Gómez Gómez, Al guacil Placa #593.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. SUCESION DE KATIA LUGO RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR SU HIJO ALBERTO HERNANDEZ LUGO Y SU VIUDO ALBERTO HERNANDEZ MUÑIZ, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN; JANE DOE Y JOHN DOE, COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE KATIA LUGO RODRÍGUEZ; CENTRO DE DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISION DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: DO2022CV00212.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EM
A: JANE DOE Y JOHN DOE, COMO
HEREDEROS
DE KATIA LUGO RODRÍGUEZ. FÍSICACOMUNIDAD RURAL SAN ANTONIO PARCELA 77 DORADO, PR 00646; POSTAL - PARCELAS DE SAN ANTONIO LOTE 77 CALLE 2 DORADO, PR 00646.
Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique al li cenciado: Alberto De Diego Co llar, DE DIEGO LAW OFFICES, PSC, PO BOX 79552, Caroli na, PR 00984-9552, Teléfono: (787)622-3939, abogado de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Deman da dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de cir culación diaria general. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se repre sente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la demanda dentro del término antes indicado, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Senten cia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin mas citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MIRCIENID GON ZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCia SALA DE SAN JUAN
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLA ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, S. S. A:
Demandante,
DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ a favor de Santander Mortgage Corp. por la suma $257,000.00, con intereses al 5.875% anual y vencimiento 1 de octubre de 2017. Constituida mediante la escritura 342 otorgada en San Juan el 30 de septiembre de 2002 ante el notario José Aparicio Maldonado, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 14,651 de Río Piedras Norte, finca 19,323, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Segunda Sección de San Juan.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publica ción del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se repre sente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y no tificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son.
ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393
BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP Suite 209 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670
Fax: (787) 523-2664
rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 22 de noviembre de2022. Gri selda Rodríguez Collado, Se cretaria Regional. Elsie Pratts Meléndez, Secretaria Auxiliar.
WILLIAM EMILO PHILIPPI DE LA PEÑA Y JULIE ANN
SODERLUND VILANOVA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS COMO TENEDORES
ORTEGA, LOUIS LESTER SOTO RIVERA; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ
JOHN DOE
Vs. SUCESION VILMA SANTIAGO QUIÑONES T/C/C VILMA SANTIAGO COMPUESTA POR MELISSA LOPEZ SANTIAGO, VERONICA LOPEZ SANTIAGO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS;
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALESPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC.
V. WILLIAM EMILO PHILIPPI DE LA PEÑA Y JULIE ANN SODERLUND VILANOVA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, SANTANDER MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE Demandadas
Christian Pulisic was happy to talk about what happened leading up to the goal he scored Tuesday that carried the United States into the round of 16 at the World Cup in Doha, Qatar. He was happy to talk about the ride to the hospital after colliding with Iran’s goalie, about how during that journey he followed the rest of the game on a train er’s cellphone, and about the chances — not 100%, he said Thursday — that he would be available to play when the United States faces the Netherlands on Saturday.
What he was far less comfortable talking about, as he stared out into the faces of at least 100 journalists, were the details of where he had been injured. U.S. Soccer has labeled Pulisic’s injury a “pelvic contusion.” Asked by a reporter to clarify what that meant, Pulisic took a long pause.
“I mean,” he said, “it’s a pelvic con tusion, you know?” The pelvic bone, he added, “is there for a reason, and I hit it well.”
The specifics hardly matter. What does matter, at least for the United States, is that Pulisic admitted he was not sure he would be physically capable of go ing through a full training session with his teammates Thursday, 48 hours before they play the biggest game of their lives.
Pulisic’s problem, basically, is that the shot he took in the collision while scoring in Tuesday’s 1-0 victory had af fected his ability to do his job. A soccer
player’s hips, and especially any of the muscles and tendons and tissue that sup port them, do vital and interconnected work in assisting movement, turning and sprinting. Pulisic seemed to admit that, at least as of Thursday, he was not sure he had recovered sufficiently to be able to perform at the level he knows will be required Saturday. Privately, the team ex pects him to play.
“I’m going to go now and meet with the team and the medical staff and make a decision on today, just kind of see how I’m feeling,” he said in his first public comments since the injury. “Taking it day
by day for now, but doing everything in my power to be able to be out there on the field on Saturday.”
It had been excruciating, he admit ted, to leave the game after scoring. Pulisic had lain on the field for several minutes after scoring, then needed assis tance to get to his feet and remain stand ing. After a few minutes, he returned to the game, but minutes later, the halftime whistle blew.
When his team returned to the field for the second half, though, Pulisic was gone.
“Obviously the emotions were run ning so high, so I was doing everything I could to continue playing,” he said. “It was all kind of a blur, to be honest.”
After an assessment of his condition was made at halftime, the U.S. Soccer medical staff determined he needed to go to a hospital for scans to determine the full nature of his injury. A team train er, Harris Patel, went along; on the way, he called up a video feed of the game on his phone so he and Pulisic could watch.
“It was the hardest thing,” Pulisic said. “I think they were checking my blood sugar and everything, and it was flying through the roof, but wasn’t be cause of anything — it was just me stresswatching the game. Once I got through that, and the final whistle blew, I was
very happy.”
Saturday’s game would be a difficult one to miss. The United States has not played a knockout game at the World Cup since 2014, and the current team represents a new generation of players who have high hopes not only for this tournament, but for the World Cup that will take place in the United States, Can ada and Mexico in 2026.
Pulisic already has one good memo ry from this one — and one excruciating one. But as he sat alongside his team mate Timothy Weah, who has scored the Americans’ only other goal in Qatar, in the team’s opening game, a 1-1 tie against Wales, Pulisic said they still felt they had a long way to go.
“It feels great to score in a World Cup,” Pulisic said when asked if he had enjoyed his special moment of the tour nament already. “Timmy knows what that’s like. I’m hoping I haven’t had that moment yet. I’m hoping it’s in front of me.”
THURSDAY’S WORLD CUP RESULTS
Group E
Japan 2, Spain 1 Germany 4, Costa Rica 2 Group F Croatia 0, Belgium 0 Morocco 2, Canada 1
Pulisic collided with Iran goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand after scoring his first goal of the World Cup.
Gaylord Perry, the Hall of Fame right-hander who won 314 games and struck out more than 3,500 batters, but was remembered as well for his spitballs that enraged opposing batters and managers over his 22 major league seasons, died early Thursday at his home in Gaffney, South Carolina. He was 84.
His daughter Allison Perry said in con firming the death that Perry contracted the coronavirus last year and never fully recovered.
A strapping 6 feet 4 inches and 205 pounds or so, Perry was exceedingly du rable and never had a sore arm. For all the furor over his doctoring the baseball, he had a wide assortment of deliveries: curves, sliders, sinkers, changeups, fork balls and an outstanding fastball, includ ing a split-fingered one.
He became the first of six pitchers to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues, capturing it as the American League’s best pitcher with the Cleveland Indians (now named the Guardians) in 1972 and the National League’s leading pitcher with the San Diego Padres in 1978. His older brother, Jim Perry, won the award in 1970 with the AL’s Minnesota Twins.
Gaylord Perry, who pitched for eight teams, was a five-time All-Star, pitched a no-hitter for the San Francisco Giants against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1968 and won at least 20 games five times. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991.
He combined with his brother Jim for 529 victories, No. 2 on the career list for brothers, behind Phil and Joe Niekro’s 539.
But Gaylord gained a measure of in famy as one of the most accomplished spitballers of his time with an arsenal of saliva and various lubricants.
The use of saliva and other foreign substances on the baseball, often collec tively referred to as spitballs, as well as scuffing the ball — all designed to make pitches break unpredictably — were out lawed in 1920, though a few designated pitchers accustomed to defacing the ball at the time were allowed to continue do ing so until they retired.
Since 1920, many pitchers have been accused by opposing teams of cheating by doctoring the ball.
Those pitchers almost invariably pro claimed their innocence, but Perry told of
his outlaw behavior in 1974, while in his prime, in the book “Me and the Spitter: An Autobiographical Confession,” written with Bob Sudyk, a Cleveland sportswriter.
Perry wrote that his Giants teammate right-hander Bob Shaw taught him the spitter in 1964, when he was first starting to develop his legal pitches.
He said that after wetting the ball with saliva, he graduated over the years to “the mud ball, the emery ball, the K-Y ball, just to name a few.”
“During the next eight years or so, I reckon I tried everything on the old apple but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce toppin’,” he wrote in the vernacular of his rural North Carolina roots.
Sometimes he feigned drying his fingers on the resin bag on the pitcher’s mound but kept the saliva intact, and sometimes he put slippery substances at various spots on his skin.
To confound batters further, he often touched his uniform and cap before his windup to make them think he was load ing the ball even when he was not.
Perry maintained in his book that his outlaw behavior had finally come to an end, saying: “I’m reformed now. I’m a pure, law-abiding citizen.”
But in August 1982, Perry’s next-tolast season, when he was pitching for the Seattle Mariners at the Kingdome in Se attle, against the Boston Red Sox, he was ejected for the first and only time in his career for delivering a pitch with a foreign substance on the baseball. The homeplate umpire did not examine the ball but was convinced that it had been doctored
by the extreme drop it took.
Perry said he was innocent, but the American League imposed an automatic 10-game suspension and a $250 fine.
Two weeks before that game, Reggie Jackson, then with the California Angels, had been so angered by Perry’s striking him out with what he was convinced was a spitter that he threw a bucket of water onto the field, suggesting that it would help Perry with his illegal deliveries. Per ry stayed in the game, but Jackson was ejected.
Since Perry was thrown out of that 1982 game against the Red Sox, several pitchers have been ejected for possessing foreign substances on the mound.
“I can remember a couple of occa sions when I couldn’t throw the ball back to him because it was so greasy that it slipped out of my hands,” Gene Tenace, who was one of Perry’s catchers with the Padres, remarked a few days after the ejection in Seattle by umpire Dave Phil lips. “I just walked out to the mound and flipped the ball back to him.’’
Perry was a brilliant pitcher with or without a spitter. His 3,534 strikeouts are No. 8 on the career list, and his 5,350 in nings pitched are No. 6. He threw 303 complete games.
But he reached the postseason only once, winning one game and losing one when his Giants lost to the Pittsburgh Pi rates in the 1971 National League Cham pionship Series.
Gaylord Jackson Perry was born on Sept. 15, 1938, in Williamston, North Carolina, and grew up in the nearby commu nity of Farm Life, where his father, Evan, and his moth er, Ruby (Jackson) Perry, were tenant farmers.
Jim and Gaylord, three years younger, were star pitchers in high school. Jim signed with the Indians in 1956 for a small bonus, but Gaylord reportedly received $73,500 (about $760,500 in today’s dol lars) to sign with the Giants in 1958.
He made his Giants debut in 1962, but he didn’t emerge as a top pitcher until 1966, when he was 21-8. Gaylord and
Jim were teammates for one full season, 1974, with the Indians.
Gaylord Perry had a 314-265 record, having pitched, in order, for the Giants, Indians, Texas Rangers, Padres, the Rang ers again, the Yankees, the Atlanta Braves, the Mariners and the Royals.
He owned a farm in North Carolina after leaving baseball but lost it in 1986, when he declared bankruptcy amid fall ing crop prices in the South. His home in Gaffney, in northwest South Carolina, is just south of the North Carolina border.
Perry’s first marriage, to Blanche Man ning, ended with her death in an auto accident in 1987. A second marriage, to Carol Caggiano, ended in divorce.
In addition to his daughter Allison — like all his children, from his first marriage — he is survived by his third wife, Debo rah White Perry; two other daughters, Beth Long and Amy Espaillat; his older brother, Jim; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. His son, Gaylord Jr., who was known as Jack, died of leukemia in 2005 at 37.
Perry’s family, it seems, was as cagey as he was when asked how his pitches came to do such marvelous tricks.
According to an often-told story, when Perry was pitching for the Giants during the 1971 postseason, a television reporter asked Allison, then 5 years old, if her dad ever threw a greaser ball.
Her reply: “It’s a hard slider.”
The Boston Celtics have been many things this season. Explosive from the 3-point line. Unguardable in transi tion. A nightmare for defenders, who have witnessed an other leap in the twin-pronged development of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, two young players who, around this time last year, were coping with criticism about whether they could coexist. Now, they have the Celtics positioned as a presump tive favorite to return to the NBA Finals — and perhaps win it all.
Yet for all their pyrotechnics on offense, the Celtics have had their issues on defense. Through the early weeks of the season, Boston has been more pasta strainer than steel curtain when it comes to thwarting open looks. Considering every thing else that the team can do — namely, score oodles of points — the Celtics have offered up some decidedly medio cre defense.
But that may be changing, which is awful news for the rest of the league.
Facing the Celtics last week, the Dallas Mavericks were trying to sustain a late-game surge when their All-Star guard, Luka Doncic, found a seam to the basket — only to have his finger roll rejected at the rim by Tatum. The Celtics came away with the ball and pushed it ahead to Brown, who sank a 3-pointer to seal the Boston win.
As that sequence was playing out, Tatum and Doncic were left in quiet conversation at the other end.
“I told him that I didn’t want him to dunk on me,” Tatum said later. “He looked at me and was like, ‘You thought I was going to dunk it?’ I was like: ‘You never know.’”
The Celtics, who have won 14 of their last 15 games to improve their record to a league-best 18-4, still have a middleof-the-pack, bend-but-don’t-break defense under Joe Maz zulla, their interim coach. Their defensive rating, which is a measure of points allowed per possession, ranked 14th in the league entering Wednesday’s game against the Miami Heat in Boston, which the Celtics won, 134-121. But over their previ ous eight games, the Celtics had produced a top-10 defense — a sign of growth as they lean into Mazzulla’s up-tempo style while compensating for the injury absence of Robert Wil liams III, their starting center.
“Our offense is so good that it hides some of our defen sive flaws,” Marcus Smart, the team’s starting point guard, said in an interview. “But we’re continuously out here working, and it’s only going to get better with time.”
And it will presumably improve even more later this sea son. After Williams underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee in late September, the team said he would resume “bas ketball activities” in eight to 12 weeks. There are no certain ties about his health, of course, but even if Williams were to return at less than full strength, his mere presence around the rim would help. Last season, he was named to the NBA’s alldefensive second team.
In his absence, Smart, who is 6 foot, 3 inches, has spent more time guarding opposing centers than he would prefer. After he averaged 1.7 steals a game last season, when he won the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year Award, Smart is aver aging just 1.1 steals this season, a dip that can be attributed to his playing out of position.
Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, left, said recently that he was one of the best two-way players in the game. He’s averaging 1.2 blocks per game this season.
“Because I’m guarding the post so much, you don’t want to gamble too much,” Smart said. “It’ll be different when Rob is out there and I can gamble. But without him, I have to be solid for my team and control that back line.”
The Celtics were all about grinding opponents to smither eens last season, when they led the league in defensive rating. Ime Udoka, who was in his first season as the team’s coach, made defense his priority, and it was a winning strategy. In the playoffs, Boston advanced to the NBA Finals before falling to Golden State in six games.
Mazzulla, though, was made interim coach on the eve of training camp after the Celtics suspended Udoka for the season for unspecified “violations of team policies.” (Accord ing to two people with knowledge of the situation who were not authorized to discuss it, Udoka had a relationship with a female subordinate.)
But while Mazzulla was an assistant under Udoka last season, he has not tried to replicate Udoka’s approach. In stead, Mazzulla has done things his own way — by recogniz ing the team’s unique offensive abilities. Entering Tuesday, the Celtics were leading the league in scoring, 3-pointers, 3-point percentage and offensive rating.
It is also worth noting that, as a part of Boston’s offseason trade for Malcolm Brogdon, the Celtics gave up Daniel Theis, a defense-minded center. The trade, of course, was worth it: Brogdon, a point guard, has been terrific coming off the bench, and Theis has yet to play for the Indiana Pacers this season because of an injured knee.
In any case, the Celtics have essentially been daring op ponents to keep up with them. Sometimes, Smart said, that
may mean that the Celtics give up an extra offensive rebound or two as they look to break out and run.
“When you’re not really boxing out as much and having as many guys stay back, your defense is going to take a hit,” Smart said. “But we’re going to get it together.”
For his part, Tatum has clearly taken another step as a defender by averaging a career-best 1.2 blocks a game. He recently described himself and Brown as “two of the best twoway players in the league.”
Tatum left his imprint on the Mavericks last week. Late in the second quarter, Tatum raced in as a weakside defender to swat a layup by the Mavericks’ Dorian Finney-Smith. Ta tum corralled the rebound, brought the ball upcourt himself and got fouled attempting a 3-pointer. He made all three free throws.
“That’s what’s going to make him an even greater player — being able to do it on both ends,” Smart said. “We know what he can do on the offensive end. Everybody knows. But it’s even more detrimental to a team when you’re locking them up.”
There are times, though, when it may not even matter.
On Monday, the Celtics hosted the Charlotte Hornets, an injury-marred team that has taken up residence in the Eastern Conference basement. With Brown and Al Horford sitting out the second game of a back-to-back, Mazzulla went with a deeper rotation. Blake Griffin, who had been collecting dust bunnies on the bench for nearly two weeks, made his third start of the season and scored on the team’s opening posses sion. The Celtics sank 10 3-pointers in the first quarter and led by as many as 30 points before halftime.
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