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8 Cruises Offer Respite from the Winter Blahs P18

‘A Huge Step in the Right Direction’

Senator Hails Enactment of Roosevelt Roads Redevelopment Law as Economic Game-Changer for Island’s Eastern Region P5

Electricity Bill to Reflect Slightly Lower Rate Starting in January

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Prices Are Skyrocketing in Argentina as New President’s Monetary Policies Take Hold P13-14

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Subset of PREPA bondholders seeks postponement of debt deal confirmation hearings

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subset of Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bondholders filed an urgent motion over the weekend to extend the schedule of confirmation hearings of the debt adjustment plan in order to evaluate the impact of the recent settlement with the unsecured creditors.

Assured Guaranty Corp., Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp., GoldenTree Asset Management LP, Syncora Guarantee Inc., the PREPA Ad Hoc Group, and U.S. Bank National Association as the PREPA Bond Trustee filed an urgent motion for the extension of the schedule to approve the Fifth Modified Third Amended Title III Plan of Adjustment for PREPA, arguing that the recent settlement of the unsecured creditors’ debt will result in changes to the debt plan.

On Saturday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered the parties to file responses to the petition by today. The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico’s response must include a timetable for filing a modified PREPA Plan and the settlement agreement if the PREPA Plan and terms of the settlement agreement with the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors have not been filed before that time.

The oversight board and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors filed a joint informative motion on Dec. 18 disclosing an agreement in principle on the treatment of general unsecured claims (GUCs).

Under the settlement, unsecured creditors will receive a fixed payment of $335 million, the proceeds from avoidance actions, and up to another $200 million if the court reduces bondholder claims, among other considerations.

The oversight board offered assurances that the changes would not result in the reduction of the treatment of any creditors as provided in the plan.

However, the subset of bondholders notes that the GUC settlement requires that the board file a new plan of adjustment as “soon as practicable,” and raises the need for corresponding additional fact discovery. Therefore, the bondholders contend, the existing confirmation schedule is no longer viable.

“From what has been disclosed in the GUC Settlement, it appears that the GUCs are receiving a windfall relative to PREPA’s other creditors, including both the PREPA Bondholders and certain settling creditors,” the subset of bondholders said.

The unsecured creditors are receiving a much larger cash payment, potential upside recoveries received from litigation outcomes and excess distributions for the settling creditors, and the potential for a larger recovery to the extent that the GUCs are determined

to hold alleged priority claims. Moreover, the subset of bondholders said, the GUC settlement adds new released parties under the plan, without clarifying the scope of those releases.

“In terms of facts, the potential impacts on other creditors, including those who have previously settled, have to be developed and understood,” the subset of bondholders notes. “Indeed, the settlement could result in unsecured creditors receiving 100 cents on their prepetition allowed claims. The plan provides no similar scenario for bondholders.”

The petition was made as PREPA stakeholder experts filed additional opening reports, as well as some unredacted versions, in preparation for the scheduled March 2024 confirmation hearing on the plan of adjustment.

The oversight board, for instance, last week disclosed five rebuttal witnesses, one of whom, Glenn R. George of Bates White Economic Consulting, was also an opening witness. The other rebuttal witnesses are Jurgen Weiss of the Brattle Group, Andrew Wolfe, a retired Rice University professor, EV Edison President David M. Daly and Scott Baxter, managing director of Green River Energy Advisors.

Separately, Swain approved additional professional compensation for O’Neill & Borges and McKinsey & Company for work completed in 2021 and 2022, according to a Dec. 21 order.

The fee examiner on Dec. 20 recommended that O’Neill & Borges, which serves as counsel to the oversight board, receive $864,853 and McKinsey & Company, which serves as a consultant to the board on the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority bankruptcy, receive an additional $381,935.

Glenn R. George of Bates White Economic Consulting

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Officials warn against drunk driving during the holidays

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uring the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, the risk of being involved in a car accident increases considerably, which is why the Traffic Safety Commission (CST by its Spanish initials) is redoubling its efforts to once again raise awareness among the public about the dangers of driving under the influence of intoxicating beverages, as well as controlled substances. the agency’s executive director, Luis Rodríguez Díaz, announced late last week.

“Nothing compares to the fear of receiving the ominous call that a loved one is involved in a traffic crash.

Although road transportation today is at its safest, when the element of excessive alcohol consumption comes into play, a motor vehicle can become a deadly weapon for our road users and a driver can become a murderer,” Rodríguez Díaz said. “In Puerto Rico, the circumstances of a fatal crash can be a combination of different factors; for example, a fatality can be classified as resulting from an intoxicated driver, but it can also be the result of speeding, not wearing a seat belt, or being distracted. Our motto at the Traffic Safety Commission is to make every citizen aware that driving drunk is a crime for which they will be arrested.”

Traffic Safety Commission Executive Director Luis Rodríguez Díaz “The Christmas holidays, and on the long weekend at the end of the year, are times when celebrations abound, and many crashes also occur on the roads,” the official added. “It is everyone’s responsibility not to allow the party

to get out of control by ingesting alcohol in excess, as well as controlled substances that will affect performance behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.”

According to CST statistics, 2021 ended with 266 fatalities, while 2022 saw 71 fewer fatalities on the roads.

According to statistics, 288 lives had been lost on the island’s roads as of last Friday.

“Our goal for December 31, 2023 is to collaborate intensively with the Puerto Rico Police, municipal police forces, and all citizen security agencies so that people know that we all have to do our part to preserve lives on our streets and highways,” Rodríguez Díaz said.

Data from the Traffic Bureau show that since 2006, fatal crashes on island roads annually exceed 200 deaths.

The ages of the dead are most often between 20 and 60, and the causes of death are typically for violating highway safety rules, whether by speeding, not using a seat belt and, particularly, driving under the influence of intoxicating beverages. In 2022, more than 3,000 arrests of intoxicated drivers were reported.

Chapter VII of Puerto Rico’s Vehicle and Traffic Law 22-2000 warns that a person caught driving drunk will be arrested and face a rigorous legal process, especially if the aggravating circumstance of having caused the death of one or more people occurs.

González Colón surpasses minimum endorsements needed to run for governor

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esident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón announced over the weekend that she had surpassed the necessary endorsements to be certified as a candidate for governor by the New Progressive Party (NPP), after submitting all of the endorsements collected by her campaign before the deadline determined by the State Elections Commission.

“These endorsements that were collected organically, without pressure and without taking a toll [on the volunteers], represent the strength that Jenniffer González has with the people,” said González Colón’s electoral director, Aníbal Vega Borges.

The woman with the most votes in the last four elections in Puerto Rico, and the only candidate who achieved more than 40% of electoral support in the last election, had anticipated that after her candidacy was filed, she would begin her gubernatorial campaign by prioritizing her electoral team, which has already successfully completed the first stage of the process: the collection of endorsements.

For this first stage of the electoral process, in a new electronic system for collecting endorsements, the team

of volunteers working with González Colón took to the streets to collect the endorsements for her candidacy.

Vega Borges and his electoral team surpassed the required number of 8,000, filing more than 9,200 organic endorsements of González Colón for governor.

“We prepared to expeditiously accomplish the collection of endorsements for the [...] future governor, with over a thousand volunteers who had no pressure on them, but only the interest of seeing the possibilities of a new NPP grow, and they did their work in each municipality and here are the results,” Vega Borges said. “There have already been 9,308 endorsements registered in the system of the State Elections Commission.”

“There are those who said that Jenniffer was not going to announce her candidacy for governor and she announced it; there are those who said that she did not have a running mate and starting on September 30 she said she would file [her candidacy] with him and she did; they said her candidate for resident commissioner was not going to be able to qualify to run and he filed all the documents for his candidacy; there are those who said she would not collect [enough] endorsements and she exceeded the required amount; they said she didn’t have a team and she presented a robust and innovative

campaign structure,” Vega Borges added. “They who continue to underestimate the gubernatorial candidacy of Jenniffer González will be in for a surprise on June 2.”

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón had received as of Saturday more than 9,200 endorsements as a New Progressive Party candidate for governor of Puerto Rico.

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Senator hails enactment of Roosevelt Roads redevelopment law he authored as ‘huge step’ for island’s eastern region Sen. Javier Aponte Dalmau

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fter almost three years of intense discussions in hearings, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia has signed Senate Bill 895 into law, which aims to facilitate the redevelopment and growth of the now-defunct Roosevelt Roads Naval Base.

The measure, authored by Popular Democratic Party Sen. Javier Aponte Dalmau, would create the legal framework for the planned land management of the former U.S. naval base in Ceiba.

“With this new law, we take a huge step in the right direction to move from the stagnation of almost 20 years in the development of the former Roosevelt Roads base in Ceiba into the

promotion of a planned and beneficial economic development for the entire eastern region of the country,” Aponte Dalmau said.

While there are some projects operating at the base, the Financial Oversight and Management Board recently rejected a lease for 1,100 acres at the former military base for up to 100 years to develop a large-scale real estate project because of irregularities in the process.

The oversight board said that after reviewing Contract No. 2020-000022, or the lease agreement between the Local Redevelopment Authority for Roosevelt Roads (LRA) and Loopland Development LLC and other documents, it opted to reject them because the process leading to their award included several irregularities.

The procedure for awarding the contracts did not promote market competition, as required by the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, and government policy.

Aponte Dalmau said that according to the Base Realignment and Closure Act of 1990, the island Legislature had to authorize adequate land management.

He added that for this reason, he decided to create a legal framework to plan the matters related to the management of the lands in Ceiba

to develop residential, tourist and other types of diverse development.

Aponte Dalmau also noted that although the governor converted his bill into law, “he opposed it for a long time, as did the secretary of the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, Manuel Cidre, since the intention was to establish another model of land disposal based on a leasing method, without having to go to the Legislative Assembly.”

“We object to this vision because we believe it does not protect the public interest and is a mechanism not commonly used in Puerto Rico for this type of development,” the legislator added.

The new law contains language that defines the processes of sales and delivery of ownership of the parcels available in Roosevelt Roads, thus complementing Act 508 of 2004 and delegating to the LRA the power to follow a process of evaluations to dispose of the land in the most orderly manner.

“In this way we promote the economic redevelopment of the old base with greater controls while increasing the potential benefit for the region and for the country,” Aponte Dalmau said.

He added that in January he will ask the Senate to pass House Bill 1430, which amends

the Puerto Rico Internal Revenue Code of 2011 to establish a financing mechanism using a portion of sales and use tax (IVU) collections to make improvement projects self-sustainable and to maintain the old naval base.

“This portion of the IVU collections would serve as a tool for improving the infrastructure for common use on these lands so they do not burden the government’s General Fund,” the Carolina senator said. “The idea is to create a self-financing fund in perpetuity that guarantees the facilities’ continuous maintenance.”

The Carolina senator highlighted that, after the approval of the law he crafted, “the current government administration no longer has any excuse to stop the development of large-scale projects with enormous economic, touristic and social impact in Roosevelt Roads.”

“Now all you need is good management to take advantage of this situation and convert the eastern region into the region of greatest economic growth in the country during the coming years.”

Finally, he advised that he will be closely monitoring tenders for projects to redevelop Roosevelt Roads to ensure they meet requirements of competition in the market, transparency and advertising to the benefit of the island.

Energy Bureau approves lower electricity rate adjustment for 1Q 2024

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ollowing its mandate in law, and after a transparent reconciliation process open to the public, the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) approved the quarterly adjustment factors for fuel purchase and power purchase that will apply to the electricity rate from Jan. 1, 2024 to March 31, 2024.

A reduction will result from the price of

Puerto Rico Energy Bureau Chairman Edison Avilés Deliz

22.5 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), starting Jan. 1, 2024, compared to the current cost of 23.4 cents per kWh. The change represents a savings of $3.93, or 2.1%, for an average residential customer with a monthly consumption of 800 kWh. The PREB’s resolution also includes a reserve in the power purchase factor of $0.004390, or less than half a cent, to cover any costs arising from the third amendment to the power purchase and operation agreement between the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and the AES thermoelectric plant.

If the renegotiation process is concluded without economic impact, the amount charged for the reservation concept will be returned to customers through a credit in a future reconciliation.

“The role of the Bureau is to take stock in the public interest,” PREB Chairman Edison Avilés Deliz said. “That means ensuring that excessive expenses are not passed on to the

consumer, but it also means avoiding the managerial irresponsibility that led the Authority to bankruptcy. In this reconciliation, we are pleased to see a rate that remains stable and, responsibly,

we are taking precautions for future impacts as a result of other pending processes.”

The next quarterly review will take place toward the end of March 2024.

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Children, injured and dying in one of the most dangerous jobs

By HANNAH DREIER, BRENT McDONALD, NICOLE SALAZAR, ANNIE CORREAL and CARSON KESSLER

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n social media, they call themselves ruferitos.

They wake before dawn to be driven to distant job sites, sometimes crossing state lines. They carry heavy bundles of shingles that leave their arms shaking.

They work through heat waves on black-tar rooftops that scorch their hands.

Federal law bars minors from roofing because it is so dangerous, but migrant children are doing this work across the United States, The New York Times found. Over more than a year, the Times spoke with more than 100 child roofers working in 23 states, including some who began at elementary-school age.

In New Orleans, Juan Nasario said he had been replacing roofs during 12-hour shifts nearly every day since arriving from Guatemala four years ago, when he was 10.

He would like to go to school or at least join a soccer team, but he needs to pay rent to his older cousin.

In Dallas, Diego Osbaldo Hernández started roofing at 15, after coming to the United States from Mexico last year to live with an older friend. His jobs take him all across Texas, but his favorite place to work is San Antonio. “They are the shortest houses,” he said.

A residential construction boom across the South and an increase in natural disasters has intensified demand for roofers, industry experts said. At the same time, young people have been crossing the southern border alone in record numbers: Nearly 400,000 children have come to the United States since 2021 without their parents, and a majority have ended up working, the Times has reported in a series of articles this year.

The most common job for these children is underthe-table work in roofing and construction, according to teachers, social workers, labor organizers and federal investigators. Children are replacing the roofs of big-box stores, Please Take Notice that Pryco Movers, Inc. has abandoned a warehouse located at 851 Bethel Avenue, Pennsauken, New Jersey 08110 which contains property that may have been scheduled for delivery to the territory of Puerto Rico.

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In an image provided by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, a Louisiana worksite where Crisanto Campos, 17, was electrocuted while using a forklift to raise a pallet of shingles onto a rooftop in 2022. It was his first time operating the machine. (Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office via The New York Times) government-owned buildings and campus housing, as well as private homes, the Times found.

Roofing work is plentiful and pays better than many of the other jobs these children can get. But it is also dangerous: One slip can be fatal.

The federal government pledged to crack down on child labor this year. But the workforce continues to grow as fast as children arrive, anxious to find a way to support themselves and help their families.

A 30-foot plunge At 15, Antoni Padilla was helping crews replace roofs in South Carolina and posting TikTok videos that captured the sweeping views from the rooftops where he worked — as well as the dizzying heights.

Like many child roofers, Antoni had come to the United States to help his family escape extreme poverty. One of five siblings, he left his one-room home in Honduras in 2021, and moved in with an uncle near Myrtle Beach.

Roofing left Antoni little free time, but his earnings covered room and board, and he started sending money home. In March 2022, he was working on the roof of a beach house, inching backward as he collected old shingles, when he slipped and plummeted about 30 feet to a cement patio.

As Antoni lay in a coma at a hospital, with severe brain trauma and a breathing tube in his neck, his family said their goodbyes over speakerphone. His skull was fractured, a lung was punctured and he was bleeding internally throughout his body.

“Very poor outcome anticipated,” his surgeon wrote.

But after three months, he woke up, and the doctors said he could leave. No rehabilitation facility would accept him without health insurance. Unable to speak or stand, he went back to the trailer he had been sharing with his uncle’s family. He stayed inside for several months.

Severe injuries Children working on construction sites are six times as

likely to be killed as minors doing other work, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Roofing is particularly risky; it is the most dangerous job for minors other than agricultural work, studies show.

But death is not the only hazard. Labor organizers and social workers say they are seeing more migrant children suffer serious injuries on roofing crews in recent years. A 15-year-old in Florida was burned when he slipped from a roof and onto a vat of hot tar. A 16-year-old fell off a roof in Arkansas and shattered his back. A child in Illinois stepped through a skylight and fractured his spine.

Even falls that do not result in major injuries instill a sense of dread in some young workers. Cristian Marcos has been working on multimillion-dollar homes in the Miami area since he arrived from Guatemala in 2021, when he was 12. He once fell from a second story and walked away with only bruises.

“When you fall, you might be fine or you might be dead,” he said in a whisper.

When children get hurt, contractors often refuse to pay medical bills. Terry Coonan, who runs a human rights center at Florida State University, often comes across children after they have been discarded by their employers.

One 15-year-old boy from Central America who had been traveling around the country with a crew boss was abandoned last year after he was injured on a work site. The boy was found alone and crying in a ditch.

“He was of no more use,” Coonan said.

9 workers, 6 harnesses About 100 roofers are killed on the job each year, most often in falls, according to the Department of Labor. The government does not publish data about injuries or fatalities among child roofers — a category of workers that is not supposed to exist.

But the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which is part of the Labor Department, sometimes finds them while investigating workplace accidents.

Juan Ortiz, 15, was installing metal roofing at a plant in Alabama in 2019 when a patch of insulation gave way and he fell 50 feet onto a concrete floor. After his death, OSHA found that the employer had “nine laborers on the crew, but only six harnesses.”

Andrés Toma, 16, was not clipped into a harness when he fell to his death while replacing a roof in Florida this past April. “This incident may have been prevented,” OSHA wrote. His older sister said the family had not known he was roofing, just that he had found a good job that paid well. He had been earning $70 a day.

Crisanto Campos, 17, was electrocuted while raising a pallet of shingles onto a rooftop in Louisiana last year.

It was his first time operating a forklift. The OSHA report said another worker had survived a similar “near miss” the previous day.

None of those deaths resulted in child labor fines.

The San Juan Daily Star Children find roofing work through children, the Times found that inspectors sochurches, in Facebook groups and at day labor metimes fail to follow policy and alert child sites, where workers of all ages gather in the labor investigators. Other times, investigators mornings in hopes of being chosen for jobs. open cases but then let them drop.

After questions from the Times, the deThey sometimes say they are older than 18, but subcontractors rarely ask them to prove it. partment is revisiting several cases, including Itzel Sánchez, a subcontractor building two fatalities.

After the accident roofs in South Carolina, said she hires underage workers because there are not enough As soon as Antoni regained some of his adults willing to do the work, and she doesn’t speech, he began asking when he could go like to turn away children who are in need. back to Honduras.

They are also much cheaper to employ.

He was likely eligible for workers’ comSánchez said she does not worry about pensation, but the company that had been getting in trouble for hiring minors. She said hired to do the roofing job had subcontracted workplace inspectors do not often come it out to a smaller company, which subcontracted it again. The three contractors spent a around.

Some crew bosses understand the risk year arguing over who should be held liable. to their young workers and keep newly hired They are in the process of settling. (State labor children on the ground, picking up discarded investigators cited one of the companies for shingles and hoisting bags of new ones onto violating child labor laws. The fine was $500.)

But Antoni’s fall severely impaired ladders. But there is a powerful incentive to get on the roof: Laying down shingles pays his memory, speech and mobility, and it is unclear how his family will support him in more than double what helpers earn.

When they do get onto roofs, children Honduras. They live hours from the kind of said, they often work without training or the medical care he needs.

For now, Antoni lives in the same trailer. required safety gear. Some rely on dangling ropes to keep their balance. Others described His uncle was killed in a car crash this spring struggling to keep their footing while shuttling while driving to get Antoni’s anti-seizure medication, and so he relies on his aunt for bags of shingles.

“One is OK,” said Miguel Santos, who needs as basic as walking down the front steps.

His parents share the hope that their started this work in New Orleans at 16. “But son will return from South Carolina but have two is very, very heavy.” struggled to help him understand that he Cracks in enforcement As more migrant children enter roofing, needs to stay put until they can figure out the Department of Labor, which is in charge how to care for him.

They check on him twice a day, and of enforcing federal child labor laws, has not kept up. The department has brought an Antoni counts down the hours to their calls. average of seven cases a year over the past He smiles and laughs when talking to them, decade, imposing less than $6,000 in fines and speaks with flashes of the lively child he used to be. “I miss you so much,” his father on average.

In a statement, the department noted said on a recent call. “But you have to hang that it had 731 investigators overseeing on. We’ll see each other again.”

11 million workplaces.

Jessica Looman, administrator of the department’s wage and hour division, said the department was requesting more funding from Congress to protect migrant children.

“Stories like the ones we are seeing in roofing and many other industries are exactly why we have stepped up our child labor enforcement,” A beach house where Antoni Padilla, 15, was working as a roofer Looman said.

Even when OSHA when he slipped and fell about 30 feet onto cement. The fall left responds to accidents him in a monthlong coma with internal bleeding, a fractured skull that kill or maim migrant and a severe brain injury. (Ray Whitehouse/The New York Times)

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Trump asks appeals court to toss election case on immunity grounds

By ALAN FEUER

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awyers for former President Donald Trump asked an appeals court in Washington on Saturday night to toss a federal indictment accusing him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, arguing that he was immune to the charges because they arose from actions he had taken while he was in the White House.

The weekend filing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was the latest salvo in a longrunning and crucial battle between Trump and the special counsel, Jack Smith, over whether the former president enjoys immunity to the election interference charges.

The fight over immunity has now touched all three levels of the federal court system, including the Supreme Court, which on Friday declined Smith’s request to intervene and hear the case before the appeals court. The ultimate resolution of the issue will have a significant effect not only on the overall viability of the election interference case, but also on whether a trial on the charges is postponed until the heart of the 2024 campaign — or even until after the election. At that point, if Trump wins the presidency, he could order the charges to be dropped.

In a 55-page brief to a three-judge panel of the court, D. John Sauer, a lawyer who has been handling appeals for Trump, argued that under the Constitution, judges cannot hold the president accountable for any acts undertaken while in office.

“Under our system of separated powers, the judicial branch cannot sit in judgment over a president’s official acts,” Sauer wrote, adding, “That doctrine is not controversial.”

But, of course, the fact that this issue was being debated on appeal suggested that it was at the center of a hotly contested controversy.

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked an appeals court in Washington on Saturday night to toss a federal indictment accusing him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.

(Jordan Gale/The New York Times) When Trump initially filed his motion to dismiss the election interference case, his lawyers essentially sought to turn the story told in Smith’s indictment on its head.

Prosecutors maintain that Trump has violated the law by seeking, among other things, to strong-arm state lawmakers to keep himself in power, and to pressure Justice Department officials to validate his claims that the election had been marred by fraud.

While the prosecutors described those steps as crimes, Trump’s lawyers attempted to reframe them as examples of the former president performing his official duty to protect the integrity of the election.

In his brief to the appeals court, Sauer argued that executive immunity must exist, given the fact that no president or former president had ever been charged with a crime before Trump.

“The unbroken tradition of not exercising the supposed formidable power of criminally prosecuting a president for official acts — despite ample motive and opportunity to do so, over centuries — implies that the power does not exist,” he wrote.

Sauer went on to claim that the trial judge, Tanya Chutkan, had erred in several ways when she decided the issue against Trump at the beginning of the month. In an order rejecting Trump’s immunity claims, Chutkan upheld a limited vision of presidential power, writing that there was nothing in the Constitution or America’s founding documents that supported the idea that a former commander in chief should not be subject to federal criminal law.

Chutkan had argued, for example, that Trump should not enjoy “a lifelong ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ pass,” and that, despite his former role as president, he should still be “subject to federal investigation, indictment, prosecution, conviction and punishment for any criminal acts undertaken while in office.”

But Sauer maintained that executive immunity was not meant so much to shield a president — or a former president — from legal responsibility, but rather to prevent a leader from falling prey to false accusations lodged by political enemies. He also said that the only way a former president could be subject to prosecution would be if he had been first impeached and convicted of similar offenses

by Congress.

The immunity case is being heard by a panel made up of Judge Karen L. Henderson, who was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, and Judges Florence Y. Pan and J. Michelle Childs, who were both appointed by President Joe Biden.

The judges have agreed to work exceptionally quickly, setting out an expedited schedule for the case at Smith’s request. All written briefs are required to be filed by Jan. 2.

The court intends to hold oral arguments Jan. 9.

On its own, the fact that the court ordered Trump’s lawyers to file their papers on the Saturday before Christmas suggests just how fast the appellate judges plan to move.

Smith’s office is scheduled to file its own papers in the case the Saturday before New Year’s Eve. The struggle between the defense and the prosecution over the speed of the appeal has been just as — or perhaps even more — contentious than the battle over the underlying legal issues. That is largely because Chutkan has put the case on hold as the appeal is being heard, imperiling the trial’s start date of March 4.

If the trial were to be pushed into the summer, it would coincide with the homestretch of Trump’s presidential campaign. Obliged to be in Washington each weekday for two or three months, the former president would almost certainly bring his campaign to the courthouse steps, turning the proceeding into even more of a media circus than it already promises to be.

The schedule of the election subversion trial in Washington could also have a significant impact on the timing of Trump’s three other criminal cases. It has been a challenge to find time on the calendar for each of the proceedings in relation to one another, as well as against the backdrop of the campaign.

Aside from the trial in Washington, Trump is also facing a trial in New York City on charges related to hush money payments to a porn actress in the run-up to the 2016 election; in Florida on charges of illegally holding on to dozens of classified documents after leaving office; and in Georgia, where he stands accused in a racketeering indictment of tampering with that state’s election.

While Smith’s prosecutors have never explicitly expressed concerns about that scenario, or the one in which Trump becomes president and orders the charges dropped, they have sought to use every lever at their disposal to keep the trial on schedule.

One of their boldest moves was their request last week to the Supreme Court to bypass the appeals court and return its own speedy decision on the immunity issue. While the justices declined to take the case for now, they may have a second opportunity to consider it after the appeals court renders its decision.

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Any other politician would have bowed out. Trump? Not a chance.

By MICHAEL C. BENDER

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n another era, a politician would have walked away.

For decades, American elected officials facing criminal charges or grave violations of the public trust would yield their positions of power, if only reluctantly, citing a duty to save the country from embarrassment and ease the strain on its institutions.

Then came Donald Trump. The former president isn’t just forging ahead despite four indictments and 91 felony charges, but actively orchestrating a head-on collision between the nation’s political and legal systems.

The ramifications continued to accrue last week when the fundamental question of the former president’s eligibility for office was all but forced upon a Supreme Court already mired in unprecedented questions surrounding Trump’s plot to overturn the 2020 election.

But the heated legal debate over whether Trump engaged in an insurrection obscured the extraordinary reality that he is running for president at all — returning with fresh vengeance and a familiar playbook built around the notions that he can never lose, will never be convicted and will never really go away.

That blueprint remains intact largely because his approach continues to yield political returns.

Far from agonizing over the collateral damage from his never-surrender ethos, Trump seems incentivized by strife, tightly braiding his legal defense with his presidential campaign. He has tried to run out the clock on his criminal trials, a strategy that earned a new victory Friday when the Supreme Court declined to decide a key point of contention in his federal 2020 election case immediately.

While this year began with most Republicans telling pollsters that they preferred a different presidential nominee, the calendar will flip to 2024 with roughly twothirds of the party aligned behind Trump.

His legal problems, which in decades past would have bolstered rivals for a major party’s presidential nomination, have only caused Republican voters to unify around him more.

“This has been the mystery of the Trump era. Every time we think this is

the final straw, it turns into a steel beam that merely solidifies his political infrastructure,” said Eliot Spitzer, a former Democratic governor of New York. Spitzer resigned as governor in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal, saying at the time that he owed as much to his family and the public.

Lately, Trump has faced increased criticism that he is adopting fascist language and authoritarian tactics. Defending himself, he insisted repeatedly this week that he had never read “Mein Kampf,” Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto.

Of course, if there were a guidebook on how to run traditional American political campaigns, he would not have read that, either.

At the start of his 2016 bid, he disparaged decorated military veterans, and voters looked past it. When a hot-mic recording surfaced of Trump casually claiming that celebrity status made it easier to sexually assault women, he resisted calls from fellow Republicans to step aside, dismissed the remarks as “locker room talk” and, 32 days later, won the presidency.

The cycle repeated itself for years, leading to a kind of truism inside Trump world that the swirl of chaos and coup de théâtre surrounding the former president was almost always surprising but hardly ever shocking.

The absurdity of it all, in other words, always seemed to make perfect sense.

Even the riot by Trump’s supporters at the Capitol nearly three years ago adhered to that adage. Whether the attack was the ultimate coda to his presidency or the beginning of a darker phase in U.S. politics, the violence, in hindsight, was as horrifying as it was foreseeable.

Trump, after all, had spent four years wielding the powerful White House bully pulpit to insist that any critical news coverage was a lie, that no elected official he opposed should be believed and that the courts could not be trusted.

The story in Washington again unfolded in ways that were surprising — but hardly shocking. Days after Trump left office, polls showed that he maintained high levels of support inside his party. House Republicans who had voted to impeach him found themselves the targets of censure and primary challenges. Republican leaders

visited him at Mar-a-Lago in Florida — a steady stream of supplicants bowing before their exiled king.

It soon became clear that the Republican Party’s best opportunity to cast Trump aside had passed when 43 of its senators voted to acquit him in his impeachment trial after the Capitol riot.

In an interview last month, Trump all but bragged about continuing his latest presidential campaign despite his criminal charges.

“Other people, if they ever got indicted, they’re out of politics,” he told Univision. “They go to the microphone. They say, ‘I’m going to spend the rest of my life, you know, clearing my name. I’m going to spend the rest of my life with my family.’

“I’ve seen it hundreds of times,” Trump said, concluding that such decisions were always mistakes. “I can tell, you know, it’s backfired on them.”

Trump’s commitment to the fight is rooted in a “preoccupation with not

being seen as a loser,” said Mark Sanford, the former Republican governor of South Carolina, who considered stepping down as governor in 2009 when an extramarital affair erupted in scandalous national headlines.

He ultimately remained in office, recalling in an interview last week that he had wanted to take responsibility for his actions and had hoped his regret and humility would serve as an example to his four sons and lead to a reconciliation with his constituents.

Sanford said he doubted Trump had ever considered not running again.

“For him to think about what’s best for the republic would mean having a frontal lobotomy,” Sanford said. “From the number of people he’s sued over the years to the number of subcontractors he’s ripped off to all of his bankruptcies, he has just bullied his way through life. He plays to an audience of one, and it’s not God; it’s Donald Trump.”

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The hot new market in crypto? Trading FTX’s carcass.

By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN

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fter the FTX cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy last year, Thomas Braziel, an investor who specializes in collapsed businesses, started brokering an unusual kind of transaction: a market to profit from FTX’s downfall.

Braziel put one of his clients in touch with a large financial firm that had lost nearly $100 million when FTX went under. Last December, the firm agreed to sell its claim in the FTX bankruptcy — essentially an IOU from the collapsed exchange — for 6 cents on the dollar, betting that it was better to collect some fast cash than wait years for the husk of FTX to start paying creditors back.

Then the market for FTX claims exploded. Braziel recently brokered the sale of a $19 million FTX claim for 68 cents on the dollar, collecting a nearly $100,000 commission, he said. Some claims are selling for more than 70 cents, as investors grow optimistic that FTX’s new leadership will recover a sizable portion of the roughly $8 billion that the founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, was convicted of stealing from customers.

“The market is insane,” said Braziel, a partner at the investment firm 117 Partners.

“It’s so hot.”

The initial despair over FTX’s failure has given way to a strange afterlife for the bankrupt exchange: a trading frenzy that has intensified in recent weeks as major financial firms seek opportunity in the rubble of one of the worst business collapses in decades. The story of FTX has come full circle, as investors who once used the platform to place risky crypto bets now gamble on the company’s prospects in bankruptcy court — and funnel any gains back into the resurgent crypto market.

For speculators, the math is simple: They are betting that if they buy a $10 million claim

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In total, $1 billion to $1.5 billion in FTX claims has changed hands since the bankruptcy began, according to Xclaim, a company that connects buyers and sellers.

Most of the claims represent the crypto and cash holdings that FTX customers stored on the exchange when it filed for bankruptcy in November 2022. Some of the claims have a face value of just a few million dollars, while others are worth tens of millions. In recent weeks, a few $100 million claims have been shopped around, according to market participants.

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But it has also drawn investors with more checkered histories in the finance industry. In June, a court-appointed investigator in Delaware accused Braziel of falsifying bank records and misappropriating funds from a bankruptcy estate he was managing. Lawyers for Braziel responded by objecting to those conclusions about his “actual or potential criminal liability.”

Another figure involved in the claims marketplace is a former top FTX executive who worked closely with Bankman-Fried. Ramnik Arora, one of FTX’s chief fundraisers, recently started an online claims trading platform for FTX customers and began buying some smaller claims for himself, according to corporation records and two people familiar with the matter. Arora had been scheduled to testify for the prosecution at Bankman-Fried’s criminal fraud trial in October but ultimately wasn’t called as a witness. He hasn’t been charged with any wrongdoing.

An FTX spokesperson declined to comment.

Claims trading isn’t new, especially in complex bankruptcies that take years to unfold. But recent bankruptcy filings by high-profile crypto firms, including lending companies Genesis Global, Celsius Network and BlockFi,

have created a cottage industry of brokers who specialize in matching buyers and sellers.

The market gives creditors with money locked up in court proceedings the chance to cash out immediately rather than wait years for a payment. The trade-off is that they must accept far less than the face value of a claim — and potentially less than the bankruptcy estate may ultimately dole out.

Still, hundreds of crypto investors are taking that deal. Over the past 18 months, Xclaim has processed $70 million in Genesis trades and $4 million in Celsius trades, according to Andrew Glantz, the firm’s chief strategy officer.

In bankruptcies, claim transfers are usually recorded on the court docket within a few weeks of closing. The filing almost always identifies the buyer, but the seller’s identity is often redacted for privacy reasons.

There are risks on all sides. Brokers operate with limited oversight, and no one regulates who can buy claims or arrange deals. Some matchmakers require sellers to give them an exclusive time period to find a buyer, which can limit a creditor’s ability to shop a claim around.

Bradley Max, a director for the claims broker Cherokee Acquisition, said some sellers had trouble negotiating deals on their own because they had to comply with the “know your customer” rules that buyers institute to avoid transacting with bad actors.

“Nobody wants to buy Vladimir Putin’s FTX claim or someone like that,” said Max, whose firm runs an online platform for trading claims.

It’s also unclear how much FTX will ultimately pay back. By this fall, lawyers and other professionals working on the bankruptcy case had collected more than $300 million in fees — money subtracted from the pool of funds that flows back to creditors.

And in recent months, the IRS has filed $24 billion in claims, arguing that FTX owed the government “income taxes, employment taxes and penalties” from 2018 to 2022. (The IRS did not respond to a request for comment.)

The IRS is usually paid before all other creditors in a bankruptcy, so a large tax claim could drastically reduce the funds available to customers. But the amount that FTX actually owes remains in dispute, with a hearing set for early next year.

For now, the speculators aren’t worried.

“A silly, silly thing,” Braziel said of the IRS’s efforts to claim billions of dollars in unpaid taxes. “No basis in facts.”

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S&P 500 ends higher ahead of long holiday weekend

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.S. stocks gyrated to a mixed close on Friday as investors headed into the Christmas holiday weekend, having digested cooler-than-expected inflation data which firmed bets for Federal Reserve interest rate cuts in the new year.

All three indexes turned less decisive in light trading as the afternoon progressed, after an initial rally on data showing inflation is easing closer to the U.S. central bank’s target.

A year-end rally in U.S. government bonds has potentially limited further gains in some Treasury maturities, said Rick Rieder, chief investment officer of global fixed income at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager.

The Nasdaq joined the S&P 500 in positive territory, while the blue-chip Dow finished nominally lower.

“Some traders are willing to back away late on a Friday in order not to be exposed over a long weekend, and we are in a period of heightened geopolitical risks,” said Tim Ghriskey, senior portfolio strategist Ingalls & Snyder in New York. “But most traders are investors are in the market because this has been a huge rally.”

Small caps handily outperformed the broader market, with the Russell 2000 ending up 0.8%.

All three indexes notched their eighth consecutive weekly gains, the longest weekly winning streak for the S&P 500 since late 2017.

For the Nasdaq and the Dow, it marks the longest streak of consecutive weekly gains since the beginning of 2019.

The S&P 500 is now within 1% of its record close reached in January 2022. Should it close above that level, that will confirm the benchmark index has been in a bull market since bottoming in October 2022.

“In the context of what we’ve seen on a year-to-date basis, it’s actually pretty extraordinary what we’ve seen in the fourth quarter,” said Michael Green, chief strategist at Simplify Asset Management in New York. “Small caps continue their absolute tear.”

“The Russell 2000 has gone from being down on the year as of August to now being up 15.6% for the year,” Green said. “This truly has become an ‘everything’ rally.”

U.S. Treasuries have bounced back from a severe sell-off over the past two months on expectations the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates next year as inflation cools and the economy slows. But market bets that the Fed will trim rates by 150 basis points starting as soon as March are overdone, Rieder said in an interview.

The Fed’s economic projections, published earlier this month, projected 75 basis points of interest rate cuts next year.

“To achieve what the market is pricing in, you’d have to have a pretty significant deterioration in some of the indicators like labor, and we don’t we don’t anticipate that,” he said. “I think there’s been this persistent skepticism about the

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Rieder believes that Treasuries at the extreme short and long ends of the yield curve are unlikely to see more meaningful gains after their rapid appreciation of the last several months.

“Much of the 2024 return for the very front end and for the very back end, I think, has already been achieved,” he said.

Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields, which move in-

versely to prices, have declined from over 5% in October to less than 3.9% this week, and 30-year bond yields have fallen by about 100 basis points from their October highs.

Rieder expects rate cuts of 75 to 100 basis points next year starting in May. Certain parts of the Treasury curve, such as bonds with five- or seven-year maturities, are set to benefit the most from the cuts, with five-year yields possibly declining by 50 basis points or more, he added.

He has moved the interest rate exposure of the BlackRock Flexible Income ETF away from short-term debt and more into the so-called belly of the Treasury curve. The duration of the BlackRock Total Return ETF, which he also manages and which was launched last week, is of about six years, he said.

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With Israeli raids in the West Bank, ‘there’s no such thing as sleeping at night’

By CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM and HIBA YAZBEK

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angled pipes poured sewer water into what remained of the road. On either side of the runoff were piles of broken pavement, churned up by bulldozers. The archway at the entrance to the neighborhood had been demolished; the gnarled hull of a black car sat nearby.

Almost all of the residents of Jenin, a more-than-70-yearold refugee camp turned neighborhood in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, had fled in recent weeks. Of the handful who remained, few dared venture out onto the street. They knew that at any moment the quiet could erupt in the pawpaw-paw of gunfire and the hissing hydraulics of bulldozers as Israeli security forces carried out a new raid.

Since the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the Jenin refugee camp — long known as a bastion of armed resistance to the Israeli occupation — has been a focal point of what Israeli officials describe as counterterrorism operations in the West Bank and an extension of their war in the Gaza Strip.

Across the occupied territory, Israel has conducted nearnightly raids. In the Jenin camp, it has done so every few days, sometimes twice a day, and has arrested at least 158 people, according to Israeli authorities. Palestinian officials say at least 330 residents have been arrested and 67 people killed, including an 8-year-old child.

It is the deadliest two-month stretch that the camp has experienced in recent memory, described by residents as a relentless siege. The local armed resistance has been pummeled — for now, residents say.

“The new generation will come back stronger because of everything they are seeing now,” warned Salah Abu Shireen, 53, a shopkeeper in the camp. “The war, the killing, the invasion, the raids — it will all fuel even more resistance.”

Formally established in 1953, the Jenin refugee camp has been celebrated for decades by Palestinians as a symbol of resistance against Israeli rule. Nearly every resident here has had at least one relative jailed or killed, helping forge a sense of common destiny. Posters of slain fighters line the streets and children carry farewell notes, akin to wills, on their phones in case they are killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers.

Samir Jaber, a restaurant owner at the Jenin refugee camp in Jenin City, West Bank, Dec. 7, 2023. The Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is a focal point of what Israeli officials describe as counterterrorism operations across the territory. (Afif Amireh/The New York Times) Since it was first built, the camp has morphed from a smattering of temporary tents to a neighborhood of concrete apartment buildings squeezed into the heart of surrounding Jenin city. But in recent weeks, the raids have left the camp, an area of less than half a square mile, battered.

Electricity lines have been damaged, water tanks punctured and paved roads turned to little more than pebbles and dirt. The stench of sewage hangs thick in the air. Over the past two months, about 80% of the roughly 17,000 residents have temporarily moved to the surrounding city, local leaders say.

Today, the camp’s warren of roads and alleyways is mostly empty, save for the few children chasing one another in games of tag. Dangling from the concrete facades of buildings around them are small white cameras and loudspeakers — part of the ad hoc warning system residents set up to alert one another to incoming convoys of Israeli military vehicles.

When the electricity was cut and the sirens could not blare, people turned to Telegram channels on which spotters on the outskirts of the camp offered warnings, or relied on children who ran through the streets screaming, “The army is coming! The army is coming!”

Since the raids began, Fida Mataheen, 52, and her relatives have often stayed awake until dawn, anxiously checking for alerts. “There’s no such thing as sleeping at night in the camp these days,” she said. “We are always lying awake, waiting.”

Standing in his falafel restaurant, one of the few businesses still open, Samir Jaber, 52, worked over a pan covered in an inch-thick layer of oil. Light streamed into the restaurant from a smattering of small punctures in the doors, scars from an explosion during a raid about a month ago, he said.

After a raid that destroyed the road, Jaber began leaving the camp each night to sleep in the safety of an apartment in the city. But he returned to the restaurant each morning to serve the few customers still milling about the neighborhood.

“This is our camp; this is our home,” he said. “They are trying to displace us, but we’re not leaving here.”

This month, a well-known leader, Muhammad Zubeidi, 26, was killed in a clash with Israeli security forces. The Israeli forces confirmed they had killed Zubeidi, whom they identified as “the Jenin Camp Commander” and an operative of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an armed group based in Gaza.

News of his death reverberated across the camp like a death knell for this generation. Young people ran to the scene of the clash in disbelief, they said. There, they found a building turned to rubble and Zubeidi’s shoes splattered in blood.

The fighters “were a symbol for all of us in the camp; they were defending us, they were fighting for our future,” Walid Jaber, 18, said from a hospital bed after being shot in the leg during a raid. A pendant with a photograph of Zubeidi hung around his neck. “We will not forget them. We will all seek revenge for their blood.”

Days after Zubeidi’s death, his father, Jamal, 67, sat in their family’s home welcoming mourners who had come to offer condolences. The family was renowned in the camp, and posters memorializing cousins and sons and brothers who had died fighting Israeli forces covered the walls.

“What the Israelis are trying to do with all this destruction is create a state of despair and drive a wedge between the people in the camp and the resistance — so people blame the resistance fighters,” Jamal Zubeidi said. “What the Israelis don’t realize is that our biggest strength is our unity.”

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Under Argentina’s new president, fuel is up 60%, and diaper prices have doubled

By DANIEL POLITI and LUCIA CHOLAKIAN HERRERA

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ver the past two weeks, the owner of a hip wine bar in Buenos Aires saw the price of beef soar 73%, and the cost of the zucchini he puts in salads rose 140%.

An Uber driver paid 60% more to fill her tank.

And a father said he spent twice as much on diapers for his toddler than he did last month.

In Argentina, a country synonymous with galloping inflation, people are used to paying more for just about everything. But under the country’s new president, life is quickly becoming even more painful.

When Javier Milei was elected president on Nov. 19, the country was suffering under the world’s third-highest rate of inflation, with prices up 160% from a year before.

But since Milei took office on Dec. 10 and quickly devalued the Argentine currency, prices have soared at such a dizzying pace that many in this South American country of 46 million are running new calculations on how their businesses or households can survive the far deeper economic crunch the country is enduring.

“Since Milei won, we’ve been worried all the time,” said Fernando González Galli, 36, a high school philosophy teacher in Buenos Aires.

Galli has been trying to cut back without making life worse for his two daughters, who are 6 years and 18 months old, including switching to a cheaper brand of diapers and racing to spend his Argentine pesos before their value disintegrates further. “As soon as I get my paycheck, I go buy everything I can,” he said.

Nahuel Carbajo, 37, an owner of Naranjo Bar, a trendy Buenos Aires wine bar, said that like most Argentines, he had become accus-

A food market in the Almagro neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Nov. 22, 2023. In Buenos Aires, the prices are often written in chalk to allow for frequent increases. (Anita Pouchard Serra/The New York Times) tomed to regular price increases, but last past week went far beyond what even he was used to.

Since Milei won, the price for the premium steak that Carbajo serves soared 73%, to 14,580 pesos, or roughly $18, per kilogram, about 2.2 pounds; a 5-kilogram box of zucchinis rose to 15,600 pesos from 6,500; and avocados cost 51% more than the beginning of this month.

“There’s no way for salaries or people’s incomes to adapt at that speed,” Carbajo said.

Milei’s spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, said accelerating inflation was the inevitable consequence of finally fixing Argentina’s distorted economy.

“We’ve been left with a multitude of problems and unresolved issues that we have to start addressing,” he said. “Inevitably, we will go through months of high inflation.”

Milei has warned Argentines that his plans to shrink the government and remake the economy would hurt at first. “I prefer to tell you the uncomfortable truth rather than a comfortable lie,” he said in his inaugural address, adding this past week that he wanted to end the country’s “model of decline.”

Argentina’s economy has been mired in crisis for years, with chronic inflation, rising poverty and a currency that has plunged in value. The economic turmoil paved the way to the presidency for Milei, a political outsider who had spent years as an economist and television pundit railing against what he called corrupt politicians who had destroyed the economy, often for personal gain.

During the campaign, he vowed to take a chain saw to public spending and regulations, even wielding an actual chain saw at rallies.

After Milei’s victory, price increases began accelerating in expectation of his new policies.

The previous leftist government had used complicated currency controls, consumer subsidies and other measures to inflate the peso’s official value and keep several key prices artificially low, including gas, transportation and electricity.

Milei vowed to undo all that, and he has wasted little time.

Two days after taking office, Milei began cutting government spending, including consumer subsidies. He also devalued the peso by 54%, putting the government’s exchange rate much closer to the market’s valuation of the peso.

Economists said such measures were necessary to fix Argentina’s long-term financial problems. But they also brought short-term pain in the form of even faster inflation. Some analysts questioned the lack of adequate safety nets for the poorest Argentines.

In November, prices rose 13% from Oc-

tober, according to government data. Analysts predict prices will increase another 25% to 30% this month. And from now until February, some economists are forecasting an 80% jump, according to Santiago Manoukian, chief economist at Ecolatina, an economics consulting firm.

The forecasts are partly caused by soaring gas prices, which increased 60% from Dec. 7 to Dec. 13, and have a trickle-down effect on the economy.

On Wednesday, Milei launched his next big steps to remake the government and economy with an emergency decree that significantly reduces the state’s role in the economy and eliminates a raft of regulations.

The measure prohibits the state from regulating the rental real estate market and setting limits on fees that banks and health insurers can charge customers; changes labor laws to make it easier to fire workers while also placing limits on strikes; and turns state companies into corporations so they can be privatized.

Many legal analysts immediately questioned the decree’s constitutionality, saying that Milei was trying to subvert Congress.

After the speech, people across Buenos Aires, including Jesusa Orfelia Peralta, 73, a retiree, took to the streets banging on pots to show their displeasure.

She worried that price increases would make proper health care too expensive for her and her husband. Despite severe spinal problems, she said she did not hesitate to head out, using a walker, and vent her anger in public.

“Where else would I be?” she said.

Milei has sought to discourage protests by threatening to cancel welfare plans and fine anyone involved in demonstrations that block roads. Human rights groups have widely

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For now, most Argentines are trying to figure out how to make ends meet in what often feels like both a complicated course in economics and a frenzied sprint to buy before prices rise again.

Marisol del Valle Cardozo, who has a 3-year-old daughter, has been cutting back in a bid to make ends meet, turning to cheaper brands and going out less.

“We don’t turn the air-conditioning on as much,” she said. “We decreased our plans on weekends from four times a month to just once.”

Cardozo, who works for a police department outside Buenos Aires, said she got a raise this year, but that

it is not enough. She also is an Uber driver, but she said fare increases had not kept up with soaring gas prices.

Despite the challenges, Cardozo said she remained a Milei supporter and was hoping his policies work.

“We were living under a fantasy,” she said, referring to gas prices before the recent hike. “If these adjustments are necessary to thrive in the end, they’re worth it.”

Houthi militia in Yemen presents a special challenge for US

By HELENE COOPER and ERIC SCHMITT

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hen Iranian-backed militias repeatedly targeted U.S. troops in Syria and Iraq this fall, the Biden administration struck back with force. Action was needed, officials said, to deter the groups from turning Israel’s conflict with Hamas into a wider war.

But the United States has not yet retaliated against one Iranian-backed group: the Houthis of Yemen.

In the past month alone, the Houthis have launched more than 100 attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea, crippling traffic

Palestinians survey the damage after an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Dec. 1, 2023. (Yousef Masoud/The New York Times) there.

So why has the United States taken a di-

fferent approach with the Houthis? The reasons are many.

What does the Gaza conflict have to do with the attacks in the Red Sea? The Houthis have launched missiles and drones at vessels in the Red Sea and seized an Israeli-linked ship during more than two months of war between Israel and Hamas.

Hamas and the Houthis are both backed

by Iran.

A Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Sarea, said the attacks would continue “until the Israeli aggression against our steadfast brothers in the Gaza Strip stops.”

The USS Carney, a naval guided-missile destroyer deployed to the region to deter such attacks, has been busy. On one morning last weekend, the ship shot down 14 attack drones that the Houthis had launched at ships in the Red Sea. On Monday, the Pentagon said it was establishing a multinational naval task force to protect commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The effort, to be known as Operation Prosperity Guardian, will include Britain, Canada, France and Bahrain — the only regional ally that has joined the effort.

While the United States has shot down drones, deployed a ship and created a task force to combat the Houthis, the one thing it has not done is strike at the militia in Yemen.

What are the Biden administration’s concerns about striking the Houthis?

The Biden administration has debated whether to hit the Houthis. The decision has been “not yet,” for a number of reasons.

For one, several administration officials said, the United States is wary of disrupting a tenuous truce between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis, who spent the bulk of the last eight years at war. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in airstrikes and fighting, as well as from disease and hunger, since the conflict began.

A truce negotiated in 2022 has largely held even without a formal agreement.

The Biden administration is also deeply concerned that the war in Gaza could escalate into a wider conflict in the region.

Striking Houthi targets in Yemen — as opposed to just shooting down attack drones — could quickly escalate into a tit-for-tat between

U.S. naval vessels and the group and could even draw Iran further into the conflict.

Tim Lenderking, the U.S. special envoy for Yemen, recently returned from the region, where he met with partners to discuss maritime security and formalizing the Saudi-Houthi truce.

“Everybody is looking for a way to deescalate tensions,” Lenderking said in an interview. “The idea is not to engulf the region in a wider war, but rather to use the tools available to us to encourage the Houthis to dial back their reckless behavior.”

Why has the U.S. been less hesitant to strike at militias in Iraq and Syria?

The Pentagon has said it will protect the 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria, who mostly help local forces fight remnants of the Islamic State group. Dozens have been injured in the recent militia attacks, including 25 who suffered traumatic brain injuries.

“If attacks by Iran’s proxies against U.S. forces continue, we will not hesitate to take further necessary measures to protect our people,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned in October after U.S. fighter jets struck two facilities linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and affiliated groups, which the Pentagon blamed for the drone and rocket attacks against U.S. forces.

None of the Houthi attacks have led to any American casualties, one official noted.

But the barrage has upended trade and prevented many ships from reaching Israeli ports. Some shipping and oil companies have been scared off, and trade has been rerouted — a disruption that is expected to trigger higher prices for consumers.

So will the Biden administration take the gloves off?

Possibly, if the attacks continue, military analysts said.

“In the Navy, we have a saying: ‘You don’t shoot the arrow. You shoot the archer,’” said Robert Murrett, a retired Navy vice admiral and former naval intelligence officer who was the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. “I’m sure the strike targets have been dusted off.”

But, he said, administration officials are asking themselves, “If you do that, will it be escalatory?”

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A Christmas gift from the bond market

By PAUL KRUGMAN

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t has been a strange few days on the Donald Trump front: He said something about himself that I actually believe and something about the economy that’s mostly true.

On the personal side, Trump has been sounding a lot like Adolf Hitler lately — I don’t mean his general tone, I mean his specific statement last week at a New Hampshire rally that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” echoing what Hitler wrote in “Mein Kampf” almost word for word. (And if you think it was just a one-off, he said the same thing in a September interview.) But Trump claims never to have read “Mein Kampf,” and I believe him, just as I believe that he’s barely skimmed the Bible or any of the great books or, I would guess, “The Art of the Deal.” Pretty clearly, reading isn’t his thing.

What’s happening, presumably, is that Trump talks to people who have read Hitler, approvingly, and that’s how Nazi language gets into his speeches. Are you reassured?

On the economic side, the stock market has recently been close to record highs, but Trump has dismissed these gains as just making “rich people richer.”

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message, since Trump constantly boasted about the stock market when he was in office and predicted that the election of Joe Biden in 2020 would cause the market to crash.

As an aside, one thing I haven’t seen emphasized in the vibecession debate — why are Americans so negative about an economy that looks very good by conventional measures? — is the fact that Trump himself keeps saying things about the economy that are flatly false, including his claim that the price of bacon is up “five times” under Biden. It’s actually up 18%.

Nonetheless, Trump is correct to suggest that most people won’t see much personal benefit from rising stocks. A narrow majority of Americans have some stake in the stock market, largely indirectly, via retirement accounts. But for most people, these stakes are small, while the richest 10% of families on average own millions in stocks.

Although stock prices don’t directly matter much for most people, however, you know what does matter?

Bond prices, which are the flip side of interest rates.

(Higher bond prices correspond with lower interest rates, and vice versa.)

Interest rates soared for much of 2023; the benchmark yield on 10-year bonds hit almost 5% in October, up from around 2% before the pandemic. Since then, however, yields have retraced a significant part of that rise, down more than 1 percentage point. Why? As I’ll explain in a minute, nobody really knows. But rising interest rates threatened to have widespread negative effects, so seeing them recede even part of the way is very good news.

Why are high interest rates a problem? First and foremost because high rates deter investment. Businesses are less willing to make capital outlays when interest costs are high. For example, high rates were a factor in the delay or cancellation of several offshore wind projects.

Mortgage rates are a key expense for homebuyers, so high rates are bad for the housing market and housing construction.

There are also other problems with high rates. In the U.S. system, high mortgage rates tend to freeze people in their houses, making them unwilling to sell because that would mean giving up mortgages locked in at lower rates. And the falling value of banks’ bond portfolios — again, bond prices are the flip side of interest rates — helped cause a brief banking panic in March. So far, that panic seems to have been contained, but falling rates clearly reduce the risk of a second round.

Oh, and the cost of U.S. government borrowing has a big impact on the federal fiscal outlook, which isn’t healthy but looks less dire than it did two months ago.

So, rising bond prices are good news all around.

What’s going right?

Basically, nobody knows. When an individual stock rises or falls, that might reflect traders’ special information or expertise. But bond traders work off the same macroeconomic data available to anyone with internet access.

Analysts offered a variety of explanations for rising interest rates this year — it was the federal budget deficit, which shot up because of a decline in revenues; it was the boost to business investment caused by the Biden administration’s industrial policies; it was optimism about future economic growth driven by artificial intelligence.

But as far as I can tell, there’s no solid evidence for any of these hypotheses.

And there hasn’t been enough information over the past two months to justify significantly revising these stories. We’ve gotten good news on inflation, which points to significant reductions in short-term interest rates (which the Federal Reserve controls) over the next year or two. But that shouldn’t be having big effects on long-term interest rates, which are supposed to reflect expected Fed policy over the course of many years — yet, even 30-year rates are down about 1 percentage point.

My guess is that we’re mainly looking at market psychology rather than deep economic forces. Whatever is happening, however, it’s good news. Never mind the stock market; the rising bond market has given us a holiday gift, and a reason to be more optimistic about next year.

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Curioso y lleno de folklore el nacimiento de la Parroquia Espíritu Santo y San Patricio de Loíza POR EL STAR STAFF

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OÍZA – Las arraigadas tradiciones que hacen de Loíza un pueblo muy orgulloso de sus orígenes se evidencia también en esta época navideña, tal como se puede disfrutar en el hermoso nacimiento que los feligreses han preparado en la Parroquia Espíritu Santo y San Patricio, cuyo templo está localizado en la plaza pública de Loíza.

El mismo tiene desde los tradicionales vejigantes, hasta las figuras de San José y Santa María, así como el espacio destinado al Niñito Jesús. “Este nacimiento fue hecho por 21 artesanos que participaron, y fue idea del párroco el padre Gil Hernandez Pozo”, señaló la alcaldesa Julia Nazario.

“En él están presentes todos los personajes tradicionales e importantes de Loíza, así como los lugares en los que se distingue la Parroquia del Es-

píritu Santo y San Patricio y la Parroquia de Santiago Apostol con todos los mantenedores”, añadió el padre Gil. “Es un belén muy propio pues no es el Belén de la tierra de Judea, sino nuestra propia Loíza que alaba a Dios” “Estamos bien felices con esta iniciativa del padre Gil, y naturalmente de la labor de los artesanos que pusieron su creatividad y empeño en este proyecto que está disponible para el disfrute de todos”, señaló Nazario Fuentes.

A los visitantes les encantará las reproducciones de los personajes de mayor envergadura como lo son también la Alcaldesa y el Obispo de la diócesis Fajardo Humacao, Mons. Luis Francisco Miranda Rivera. Los también llamados pesebres o belenes, tienen su origen en los ‘montajes vivientes’ que recreó San Francisco de Asís hace casi 800 años.

Hoy, son parte importante de la decoración navi-

deña particularmente en Europa y América Latina.

Tiroteo en Morovis deja un muerto y dos heridos, Alcaldesa solicita a la Policía recursos adicionales, academia municipal añadirá 10 nuevos oficiales POR EL STAR STAFF

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OROVIS – La alcaldesa de Morovis, Carmen Maldonado González, informó que en la tarde del sabado se registró un tiroteo en la PR155 sector Hoyo Frío, donde una persona resultó muerta en

una persecusión en la carretera, que continuó en las inmediaciones del negocio El Barrilito en la PR155, donde otras dos personas resultaron con heridas. Todos los involucrados son varones.

“Hay una realidad que estamos experimentando por los pasados meses, y es una guerra por el trasiego de drogas por parte de personas que no son de Morovis. Ya el comisionado Rosado de nuestra policía municipal está atendiendo la escena junto a la policía estatal. Es una situación que hemos experimentado antes, y requerimos del Negociado de la Policía asigne recursos adicionales. No queremos más tiroteos y muertes en nuestro pueblo”, señaló la Alcaldesa.

Maldonado González confirmó que “el Municipio de Morovis ha estado haciendo su parte. Tenemos ya una academia 10 policías municipales adicionales que están programados para iniciar labores

en febrero. Hemos invertido en nuevos vehículos y equipo, pero con la situación actual necesitamos a nivel estatal nos aumenten los recursos”.

Con relación a la situación del crimen en Puerto Rico, el gobernador Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia había mencionado en septiembre pasado que estaba trabajando un plan anticrimen a cargo de la abogada María del Carmen Muñoz. El mismo se supone que iba a presentarse a inicios de diciembre, pero Pierluisi indicó esta pasada semana que el plan estará en enero. No mencionó fecha específica.

“Los alcaldes siempre hemos estado para trabajar mano a mano con las autoridades federales, estatales, las iglesias y las organizaciones vecinales. Mi solicitud al Gobernador es que imparta instrucciones para reforzar los recursos asignados a Morovis en lo que se presenta el plan anticrimen”, finalizó Maldonado González.

Fuego en supermercado en Caguas POR CYBERNEWS

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AGUAS – Las autoridades atienden un incendio reportado a eso de las 2:17 de la tarde del sábado, en uno de los pasillos del supermercado Amigo que ubica en el Centro Comercial Las Catalinas en Caguas.

Según el reporte de la Policía, se recibió una llamada a través del Sistema de Emergencias 9-1-1 sobre el incidente.

En el lugar se encuentran los Bomberos de Caguas y agentes de la División de Explosivos del Negociado de la Policía de Puerto Rico.

Al momento no hay personas afectadas.

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How ‘The Nutcracker’ has been reimagined, for better and worse

By HUGH MORRIS

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he Nutcracker” is a cherished holiday staple — one that, for every traditional treatment, inspires a left-field twist toward the contemporary.

There’s a grain of truth in Lisa Simpson’s comment that everybody does “The Nutcracker” “because you don’t have to pay for the music rights.” As critic Roslyn Sulcas once wrote in The New York Times, “Even less-than-great versions of the ballet exercise a kind of magic through Tchaikovsky’s score, which offers the same infinite potential for choreography as the texts of great plays do for staging.”

That potential, however, can be double-edged. Here are five instances in which light tweaks and heavy rewrites have reframed — and occasionally ruined — Tchaikovsky’s famous music.

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: ‘The Nutcracker Suite’ Perhaps the most classic update of Tchaikovsky’s score, the Ellington-Strayhorn “Nutcracker” has inspired productions as different as Donald Byrd’s “The Harlem Nutcracker” and David Bintley’s “The Nutcracker Sweeties.” Its release, in 1960, also suggested an interesting switch in power dynamics between arranger and arranged: The original cover art gave Ellington, Strayhorn and Tchaikovsky the same billing.

“Overture” sets the tone, with a wandering double bass that leads softly into classic Ellington orchestrations. But that softness is quickly dispelled by the high woodwind chirps of “Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance of the Reed-Pipes),” and there are flashes of Stravinsky harshness in the “March,” renamed the “Peanut Brittle Brigade,” which begins with dissonant stacks of harmony that could be straight from “A Soldier’s Tale.” Most powerful is the amount of textural space Ellington and Strayhorn afford; in the sparse, boozy “Sugar Rum Cherry” and the light yet expressive “Arabesque Cookie Arabian Dance),” less is definitely more.

‘The Hip Hop Nutcracker’ Some “Nutcracker” scores are reimagined; others are remixed. But “The Hip

Josette Wiggan-Freund, front left, and Joseph Wiggan with members of Dorrance Dance in a performance of “The Nutcracker Suite” at the Joyce Theater in New York Dec. 17, 2019.

“The Nutcracker” is a cherished Holiday staple — one that, for every traditional treatment, inspires a left-field twist toward the contemporary. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times) Hop Nutcracker,” a 2014 production by Jennifer Weber that has become a touring staple in the United States, is a remix in the fullest sense. Clara — here, Maria-Clara — goes on a quest to bring her parents back together, accompanied by a troupe of break dancers. The score is remixed onstage by a DJ and an electric violinist. As in all revisions of “The Nutcracker,” the key is for the score to act like a double mirror: The act of shining fresh light on the original score should rebound to energize the new.

The brittle electronic beats create solid new foundations for improvised flourishes and ensemble numbers alike.

Brian Setzer Orchestra: ‘The Nutcracker Suite’ Setzer’s career has been defined by a revivalist energy. First, his rockabilly group Stray Cats looked back to the rock ’n’ roll of the 1950s through the eyes of the 1980s.

After the group split, he founded the Brian Setzer Orchestra, a boogie-woogie, jump blues band straddling originals and jazzedup covers.

“The Nutcracker Suite,” originally arranged for Les Brown and his Band of Renown by Frank Comstock, wasn’t the only time that the Brian Setzer Orchestra dabbled in classical rearrangements. In the

2007 album “Wolfgang’s Big Night Out,” Beethoven’s “Für Elise” became the Django Reinhardt pastiche “For Lisa,” and Johann Strauss II’s “The Blue Danube” became the bluesy swing chart “Some River in Europe.”

An unlikely source brought the group’s take on Tchaikovsky into holiday tradition: Buddy, in the movie “Elf.” As the lights dim in Gimbels, the store that Buddy (Will Ferrell), has tasked himself with redecorating overnight, the Brian Setzer Orchestra trumpets strike up, playing the fanfare call from “March of the Toy Soldiers.”

But what follows is not the impish, pizzicato response that usually accompanies the toys’ jolting movements: A drum kit crashes in, and snarling, swinging saxophones accompany Buddy’s commando rolls across the aisle behind a security guard. The whole arrangement pits clipped precision against swirling chaos.

Drew McOnie and Cassie Kinoshi: ‘Nutcracker’ Kinoshi, a composer and saxophonist associated with London’s jazz scene, has already had a fruitful foray into dance, collaborating with the group BalletBoyz alongside her work for theater, film and orchestra.

Now she has reimagined Tchaikovsky’s score for McOnie’s “Nutcracker” at the

Tuff Nutt Jazz Club, a pop-up speakeasy hidden underneath the Southbank Center in London.

Like Strayhorn and Comstock’s arrangements before, Kinoshi’s score is based in jazz. But where the others have the golden dazzle of that full big-band sound, her music is much more contained, for a versatile four-piece group nestled in the corner of the performance space. Led by bass player Rio Kai, the quartet lovingly dismantles Tchaikovsky’s music and brings in modern energy, switching effortlessly between chilled vamps and off-kilter meters. Moments of sugary sweetness — in a nice touch, the players are dressed in pajamas — add yet more sparkle to the heavily sequined production, for which the phrase “camp as Christmas” was surely coined.

‘The Nutcracker in 3D’ Here is a warning that new takes on “The Nutcracker” can go too far.

Set in 1920s Vienna, Andrei Konchalovsky’s deeply strange film, from 2010, presents the classic story as a Nazi allegory few, if anyone, saw coming. The combination of a tedious plot, poor acting, some howling digital effects and not infrequent references to the Holocaust made this largely nondancing “Nutcracker” an expensive Christmas turkey, costing $90 million to make but bringing in only $20 million at the box office.

Among the worst elements of “The Nutcracker in 3D” is the music, which inexplicably gains lyrics by Tim Rice. And so “The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” becomes “It’s All Relative,” a song for the Einstein-like Uncle Albert (Nathan Lane) packed full of banal sentiments like “Who’s to say what/Is or is not/Who writes your plot?/You do!” Later, “Dance of the Reed Flutes” becomes a sleazy, vaudevillian show tune sung by an anthropomorphic Rat King to his loyal subjects, a group of baying rodents dressed like SS officers.

And, as if ruining “The Nutcracker” weren’t enough, the movie then plunders from the second movement of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, mapping kitschy lyrics for the chronically misunderstood child Mary (Elle Fanning) onto one of the composer’s most popular tunes. It’s grotesque.

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8 cruises offer respite from the winter blahs

By CEYLAN YEGINSU

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s winter sets in, cruise lines are offering a variety of warm weather escapes to the Caribbean, Mexico and far-flung destinations in the South Pacific and the Persian Gulf. This winter will see the launches of new ships and itineraries aimed at attracting a broad demographic of cruisers, particularly young first-timers.

Here are some of the most anticipated trips to sunny spots.

Icon of the Seas (Eastern Caribbean and the Bahamas) Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest new cruise ship, with a capacity to carry more than 7,000 passengers, is scheduled to set sail in January, with a seven-night eastern Caribbean and Coco Cay cruise departing from Miami. While the 250,800-ton ship makes stops at St. Kitts, St. Thomas and Coco Cay (Royal Caribbean’s private island in the Bahamas), it may be hard to choose between land excursions and the countless onboard attractions, from the largest water park at sea to an immersive entertainment space where athletes will perform acrobatics under a cascading waterfall. With eight different “neighborhoods” — including “ Thrill Island” and “the Hideaway” — the cruise line says it will offer guests “everything they have ever loved about every vacation — all rolled into one.” Twenty-eight accommodation categories include family-friendly cabins that sleep four people or more, and a special three-story townhouse complete with an en-suite slide and a cinema room. Despite its size and features, Royal Caribbean says that the ship is the company’s most sustainable ship to date, powered by liquefied natural gas and energy-efficient technology to reduce fuel consumption and emissions.

Sailings from $1,577 per person.

Explora I (Caribbean) The new luxury cruise line Explora Journeys invites passengers to discover an “ocean state of mind,” characterized by “calm, unity, elegance and joy.” The Explora I, which set sail on her maiden voyage in August and has a capacity of up to 922 passengers, resembles a superyacht with the interior of a highend boutique hotel. It is decked out with more than 400 oceanfront suites, four swimming pools and nine culinary experiences.

The all-inclusive voyages aim to bridge the gap between luxury and lifestyle travel, targeting people who enjoy high-end resorts but may not have previously considered ocean cruising. From December, the Explora I will set sail through warm destinations in the Caribbean and America, offering excursions to rainforests, cocoa plantations, pastel-hued villages and coral reefs. The “Yachtsman’s Caribbean of Remote Harborages” journey, one of many trips offered this winter, departs Bridgetown, Barbados, in January for a six-night sailing that will take guests to lesserknown hideaways that are usually reserved for yachts in St. Lucia, Deshaies, Guadeloupe, and St. Barts, before ending in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sailings from $3,600 per person.

Carnival Jubilee (Western Caribbean) Carnival Cruise Line’s newest ship will set out from Galves-

Among the ships sailing this season is the new Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship. But you can go smaller on itineraries that range from the Caribbean to the South Pacific. (Rune Fisker/The New York Times) ton, Texas, in December, its first seven-day sailing through the western Caribbean, with stops in Mahogany Bay, Honduras, and Costa Naya and Cozumel in Mexico. The itinerary also includes two “fun days at sea” for guests to enjoy the ship’s attractions, which include a roller coaster and a three-story atrium full of dining options. The ship has 20 restaurants and 13 entertainment spaces in its “six zones of fun,” with activities for children, including a high ropes course, water park and mini golf course.

Sailings from $669 per person.

Norwegian Pride of America (Hawaii) While most Hawaii cruise itineraries last at least 14 days, Norwegian’s Hawaii Island tour visits the four main islands in just seven days. There are no days at sea, allowing guests more time to explore Honolulu, Maui, Hawaii and Kauai with excursions that include tours of lava fields and zip-lining through tropical rainforests. The Pride of America, which has a capacity of 2,186 passengers, underwent a multimillion-dollar refurbishment in 2016. All the rooms were refurbished, the decks and entertainment spaces remodeled and all major features, including the spa and lounge areas, were upgraded. The ship has a range of specialty restaurants and a center dedicated to Hawaiian culture.

Sailings from $1,250 per person.

Azamara Quest (Chilean Fjords) Azamara is a small-ship cruise line that focuses on longer port stops, overnight stays and unique shore excursions. From January, the Quest, an intimate and stylish mid-size ship with a capacity of 700 passengers, will set sail from Buenos Aires, and make stops at Montevideo, Uruguay, and the seaside resort town of Punta del Este, Uruguay, famous for its beaches, highend restaurants and nightlife. Before cruising down the Beagle Channel, which is filled with marine life, including sea lions and penguins, the ship will make a stop at the Falkland Islands where guests will meet some of its 3,000 inhabitants. Then, en route to the Chilean Fjords, the Quest will stop at Puerto Chacabuco, in southern Chile, offering treks by foot and horseback through

forests, rivers, waterfalls and wooded mountains. There are also opportunities to explore the snowcapped volcanoes of Puerto Montt, the capital of Chile’s Lake District, before disembarking on day 16 in San Antonio, Chile.

Sailings from $2,812 per person.

Celebrity Solstice (Vietnam and Thailand) While Celebrity just launched its newest ship, the Ascent, with itineraries in the Caribbean, the line’s Asia cruises are still among the most popular winter escapes for those willing to travel farther afield. Setting out from Hong Kong, the Celebrity Solstice’s 12-night cruise will sail to Hanoi, Vietnam, making an overnight stop at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Halong Bay, to allow time to trek around the mountains of Sapa before exploring the rich culture of the country’s capital. The next stop is Hue and Da Nang, filled with temples, pagodas, palaces and tombs. During the second half of the sailing, the ship makes an overnight stop in Bangkok, followed by a visit to the tropical island of Koh Samui. The cruise ends in Singapore, which, beyond its skyscrapers and megamalls, has a rich cultural heritage and one of the best airports in the world from which to fly back home.

Sailings from $694 per person.

Oceania Regatta (Auckland, New Zealand, to Papeete, Tahiti) With so much to explore in the Pacific Ocean, it can be worth taking a longer cruise to cover more ground. The 36-day voyage on the Oceania Regatta, offers just that, embarking from Auckland with multiple stops at the country’s North and South islands, to Australia’s east coast and finishing in the sparkling waters of French Polynesia. The Regatta is a small, 684-passenger luxury ship that features a swimming pool, casino and spa. It has a fine-dining culinary program and aims to offer a refined cruise experience for people looking to escape the crowds.

Sailings from $12,295 per person.

MSC Opera and Virtuosa (United Arab Emirates) While several cruise lines have canceled or altered itineraries in the Middle East because of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, cruises to the Emirates, which are relatively far from the conflict, have not been affected. MSC offers a range of itineraries and a selection of three-, five- or seven-night sailings on its Opera and Virtuosa ships. From skyscrapers, luxury shopping and glitzy nightlife to turquoise waters and warm sand deserts, there are many offerings for young cruisers, families and couples. On the Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Qatar seven-night cruise, the ships stop at Sir Bani Yas Island, known for its wildlife reserve, bird sanctuary and crystal-clear waters. The island offers a range of activities, including safaris, snorkeling, kayaking or mountain biking. There is also a children’s water park and play area. The MSC Opera is a mid-size ship with a 2,150-passenger capacity, and underwent a two-year refurbishment program in 2014, adding more than 90 rooms with balconies, a new spa and a water spray park. The Virtuosa is one of MSC’s newest and largest ships, complete with a “Himalayan Bridge” that spans more than than 260 feet, an aqua park and a Formula One simulator.

Sailings from $485 per person.

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Why haven’t more older adults gotten the RSV vaccine? data on their safety and efficacy was “limited” (the FDA disagreed), so she skipped getting one.

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While some health care providers hope to Carol Kerton, 64, knew RSV could be danimprove the vaccination rate among older Amerigerous: Her 3-year-old granddaughter had such a cans, the vaccines’ manufacturers are apparently severe case that she was taken to an emergency delighted with the number of people seeking out room. Kerton was vaccinated in September at a the shots so soon after shipping them to pharmasupermarket in Daytona Beach, Florida. cies, hospitals and doctors’ offices in the sumSam Delson, 63, received the RSV vaccine So far, only about 15% of Americans older than 60 have received one of mer. The manufacturers are collecting data on the last month in Sacramento, California. His doctor the two new RSV shots, which the Food and Drug Administration approved vaccines’ effectiveness and side effects and — a recommended it, he said, “because I’m over 60 central unanswered question — how often people in May and are the first vaccines against the disease. and have a somewhat weakened immune syswill need to be revaccinated to maintain protectem” after a long-ago bout with cancer. tion.

The risk of becoming seriously ill from RSV increases They are the exceptions. So far, only about 15% of Amer“For a new class of vaccines, this is really fantastic,” said icans older than 60 have received one of the two new RSV markedly with age. Hospitalization rates rise sharply for those Dr. Len Friedland, who directs public health for GSK Vaccines.

“There will always be hiccups,” he said. “But in general shots, which the Food and Drug Administration approved in in their 70s and 80s, especially for those with chronic heart and May and are the first vaccines against the disease. Just 16% lung diseases like asthma, heart failure and chronic obstructive it’s gone very well, and we’re not hearing that there are access more said they definitely planned to, according to the Centers pulmonary disease. Older adults who have diabetes or liver problems for patients.” and kidney disease, or weakened immune systems, also face Dr. Nathaniel Hupert, co-director of the Cornell Institute for Disease Control and Prevention.

By contrast, more than 62% of adults older than 65 have higher risk. Adults can be infected repeatedly, and there’s no for Disease and Disaster Preparedness, was more cautious. Fifreceived the recommended flu shot this fall, and a third have drug that ameliorates the disease, as there is for the flu and teen percent is “a lot better than zero,” he said, pointing out COVID-19. gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine. that until this past summer, there was no prevention available A study published in The New England Journal of Medi- against RSV. But, he said, “if you’d like to stamp out RSV, that’s “It’s a new vaccine, and people are trying to figure out whether they need it or not,” said Dr. Preeti Malani, a geriatri- cine in 2005 followed patients over four winters and reported not going to happen with this level of coverage.”

Other manufacturers have RSV vaccines in development, cian and infectious disease specialist at University of Michigan that, among high-risk patients (their average age was 70) with heart failure or pulmonary disease who contracted RSV, 16% and older Americans may eventually have greater protection Health.

That is if they know about the RSV vaccines at all. A na- required hospitalization. In another cohort of older patients as more pregnant women and babies are immunized, as the tional survey this summer of people ages 60 through 80 found hospitalized with respiratory symptoms (with an average age of CDC recommends. “Kids have the distribution franchise for 75) and diagnosed with RSV, 15% wound up in intensive care. these respiratory viruses every winter,” Schaffner, of Vanderbilt that nearly half hadn’t heard about them.

The new RSV vaccines are highly effective. Clinical trials University Medical Center, said.

The CDC recommends that people older than 60 get the results showed that Arexvy, the shot made by GSK, was 94% efOver time, “we’ll probably see less RSV transmission RSV vaccines after having discussions with their health care fective against severe illness in older adults. Pfizer’s shot, called from kids to their grandparents,” Hupert said. “But we’re not providers, something called “shared clinical decision-making.” there yet.”

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It’s Christmastime in the cosmos

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or astronomers peering into the depths of the universe, Christmas came a little early this year.

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA released an image last month of a Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster, a winking collection of galaxies 4.3 billion light-years from Earth. And earlier this month, an image of Cassiopeia A, the remains of a star that exploded 340 years ago, was also unveiled by the first lady, Jill Biden, as part of a new White House advent calendar.

These images and others follow a tradition of astronomers and other stargazers connecting the season of light with cosmic phenomena occurring light-years from Earth.

But there is scientific wonder involved in some of these observations.

Underlying the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster was a detection by astronomers of 14 stars that flicker over days or months — like the lights on a Christmas tree.

“Seeing an individual star in a faraway galaxy is a big deal,” said Haojing Yan, an astronomer at the University of Missouri who led the study. “Almost like a miracle,” he added.

Detecting distant stars used to be a rare treat. “With Webb, this has become routine,” said Rogier Windhorst, an astronomer at Arizona State University who was involved in the discovery.

The observations are possible because of layers of gravitational lensing, an effect by which the gravity of structures in the universe distorts and magnifies the light of objects in the background, making them visible to astronomers. The flickering of the stars is a result of those “lenses” moving in and out of focus.

Windhorst notes that Earth and the sun are about as old as the light arriving from this twinkling cluster, which, at the time that light was emitted, was already 9 billion years old.

Data about such distant stars helps astronomers compare the makeup of ancient galactic neighborhoods with those that are nearer to us, and how our solar system fits into what

A Hubble telescope holiday angel, Sharpless 2-106, with “wings” that are twin lobes of superhot gas stretching outward from the central star. Christmas came a little early this year for astronomers: Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA released an image last month of a Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster — a winking collection of galaxies 4.3 billion light-years from Earth — and last week, an image of Cassiopeia A, the remains of a star that exploded 340 years ago. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) via The New York Times) Windhorst calls the cosmic circle of life.

Compared with the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster, Cassiopeia A is a lot closer to home. Scientists have long studied the violent stellar explosion and others like it to figure out their role in cosmic evolution.

“They help galaxies grow,” Danny Milisavljevic, an astrophysicist at Purdue University who studies Cassiopeia A, wrote in an email. Supernova remnants also create the ele-

ments needed to sustain life, like “the oxygen we breathe, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones,” he added.

At 11,000 light-years from Earth, Cassiopeia A has been observed by a variety of space telescopes in visible, Xray and infrared wavelengths. But the Webb’s new infrared vision affords a better view.

In April, NASA released an image of the supernova remnant using the telescope’s mid-infrared instrument. The latest snapshot makes use of the Webb’s near-infrared camera, which captured gas, dust and molecules radiating at warmer temperatures.

The pink and orange structures, enveloped in smoky material against a glittering backdrop of stars, resemble an ornament hanging from a tree branch.

“Two years ago, Webb launched flawlessly on Christmas morning,” Milisavljevic said. “At the time I thought it was the best Christmas gift ever.” But the telescope, he added, “is the gift that keeps giving.”

Long before the Webb launched, astronomers often found seasonal spirit in space.

In 2008, the European Southern Observatory shared an image of a cluster of stars resembling the sparkling trinkets you might put on a Christmas tree. Captured by La Silla Observatory in Chile, the cluster is scattered among crimson clouds of gas. At the bottom of the image is the aptly named Cone Nebula, a star-forming region about 2,500 light-years from Earth.

The Hubble Space Telescope from NASA has also spread the holiday cheer. In 2010, the space agency released an image of a red bubble that looked like an ornament floating amid the stars.

That bubble is gas blasted away at millions of miles an hour by a supernova. Astronomers think the explosion was triggered by a white dwarf — the core of a star that has run out of fuel — gorging on material from a neighboring star.

One year later, the Hubble dropped a breathtaking image of a cosmic snow angel: a star in our galaxy flanked by wispy blue “wings” of hot gas.

Even the cosmos is wishing you a happy holidays.

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Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01112.

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

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 16 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento tipo A guión B (AB) apartamento numero doscientos uno guión doscientos dos guión A guión B (201-202A-B): Apartamento residencial de forma casi rectangular que

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radica en el piso segundo de University Gardens Condominium, con área privada de mil seiscientos veinte punto cero seis (1620.06) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento cincuenta punto setenta y cuatro (150.74) metros cuadrados. Son sus medidas lineales las siguientes: treinta y seis pies con siete pulgadas (36’7”) de ancho; por el Norte, cuarenta y ocho pies cuatro pulgadas (48’4”), por su parte más larga de ancho que es el Sur; veinticuatro pies con ocho pulgadas (24’8”), por su parte más corta de fondo que es el Este y treinta y siete pies con cinco pulgadas (37’5”) por su parte más corta de fondo que es el Oeste; que incluye las siguientes piezas interiores, tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, sala-comedor, laundry, dos (2) baños, cocina, un (1) balcón y un área para las unidades de aire acondicionado. Colinda por el Norte, en parte con área común que mira hacia el solar número veintiuno (21) del bloque M de la Urbanización University Gardens y en parte con la pared interior del edificio que lo separa del corredor, área común del edificio y con la pared interior que lo separa de las escaleras y el elevador de use común; por el Sur, con la pared exterior del edificio que mira hacia el solar número veintitrés (23) del bloque M de la Urbanización University Gardens; por el Este, con el apartamento doscientos tres (203), tipo C y con la pared interior que lo separa del elevador; y por el Oeste, con la pared exterior del edificio que mira hacia la calle dos guion A (2-A), hoy calle Cornell. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes generales de diez por ciento (10%) y le corresponden los estacionamientos identificados con los número doce (12) y veinte (20). Inscrita al folio 210 del tomo 1,532 de Rio Piedras Norte, finca 40,993, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. Propiedad localizada en: 207 CALLE CORNELL, APT 201 COND. UNIVERSITY GARDENS, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00927. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular:

Tuesday, December 26, 2023 Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $345,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 29 de agosto de 2080. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $345,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 23 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $230,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $172,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 30 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma la suma de $213,148.48 por concepto de principal, la cual no incluye intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 28 de febrero de 2022. La suma global vencida, líquida y exigible incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 28 de febrero de 2022 es de $262,515.62 y los cuales continúan acumulándose; costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son liquidas y exigibles. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica

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LUIS ÁNGEL LÓPEZ OLMEDO Y LA SUCESIÓN DE SILVIA MATOS DE LÓPEZ, compuesta por LUIS ÁNGEL LÓPEZ OLMEDO, SYLVIA LIZZETTE LÓPEZ MATOS y SYLVIA BEATRIZ LÓPEZ MATOS

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00774.

(807). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 12 de octubre de 2022, notificada el 18 de octubre de 2022 y publicada el 25 de octubre de 2022, una Orden de Ejecución de Embargo emitida el 18 de mayo de 2023 y un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Embargo emitido el día 26 de mayo de 2023, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, procederá a vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de con-

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21 tado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, y/o giro postal, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 16 DE ENERO DE 2024; A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Oficina #204. Colinda por el OESTE, en 35’ 8”, con la pared exterior del edificio hacia la Avenida Condado; por el ESTE, en igual medida, con la pared interior que lo separa d la oficina #205 y con pasillo común; por el NORTE, en 20’, con la pared que lo separa d la oficina #203; y por el SUR, en 14’, con pared exterior del edificio hacia su colindancia con la calle denominada “Rolan”. Comprende un área de 546 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente y tiene su entrada y salida hacia el Este por el pasillo común con el cual colinda en ese lado. La oficina descrita forma parte del segundo piso del edificio denominado “Condominio Condado”. Porcentaje en los elementos comunes del edificio de 0.021%.

FINCA NÚMERO: 4899, inscrita al folio 180 del tomo 151 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan.

Dirección física: 609 Condado St., Suite 204, San Juan PR 00907. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente, según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por la suma de $18,132.48, más las costas, gastos, penalidades, recargos y honorarios de abogado.

Esta subasta no tiene fijación de tipo mínimo por tratarse de una ejecución de sentencia por embargo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al

crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 8 de diciembre de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN. ***

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MARCOS ANDINO VAZQUEZ ESTHER DEL VALLE LAUREANO

PETICIONARIOS CIVIL NUM.: YB2023CV00298.

SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JOHN DOE, JANE DOE, RICHARD DOE, LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede

acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle y conceder el remedio solicitando en la petición o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. ANTERIOR: “RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno, sita en el Barrio Calabazas Arriba de Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, compuesta de DOS cuerdas de terreno (2cdas), equivalentes a siete mil ochocientos sesenta metros cuadrados, (7,860m.c.), en lindes por el Norte con Juan Morales, por el Sur con Sucesión Andino y Jovita Rivera, por el Este con Guiso Colón, Tomás Colón y más terrenos de los compradores, por el Oeste con Juan Morales y Jovita Rivera.

ACTUAL: “RUSTICA: Predio de terreno sita, en el Barrio Calabazas Arriba del término municipal de Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de SIETE MIL OCHOCIENTOS DOS METROS CUADRADOS CON SEISCIENTOS SESENTA Y TRES MILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (7,802.663 M.C.), equivalentes a UNA CUERDA CON NOVECIENTOS OCHENTA Y SEIS MILÉSIMAS DE OTRA (1.986 CDAS.), en lindes por el NORTE con Fer Rivera; por el SUR, con sucn. de Jovita Rivera y sucn. Andino; por el ESTE, con sucn. de Tomás Colón y por el OESTE con Fer Rivera.

El número de catastro (parcela de procedencia) de la finca principal y del referido predio al presente es: 352-000-001-32.

No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. VALOR $5,000.00.

Lcdo. Benjamín Antonio Castro Rivera, abogado de la parte peticionaria, su oficina está en la A5 Urb Mendez, Marginal, Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, 00767. Tel. (787) 266 – 0759. Email castroriverabenjamin@gmail.com. Se le informa además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 26 de enero de 2024, a las 9:00am, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Humacao, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para

que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo. Se identificará en letra tamaño 10 punto y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación de edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 29 de noviembre de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRIGUEZ, SECRETARIA. LISA M. FIGUEROA RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESION DE CRESCENCIO FELICIANO COMPUESTA POR “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE DICHA SUCESION

Demandado Civil Núm.: HSCI2010-01417.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 1 de noviembre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Barrio Boquerón de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico. Solar número 4. Cabida de 1,154.586 metros cuadrados. Linderos: NOROESTE, con camino dedicado a uso público; por el SURESTE, con Domino Rosado; por el NORESTE, con el Solar número

22 5; y por el SUROESTE, con el solar número 3. Inscrito al tomo Karibe de Las Piedras, finca número #18,015, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada 7 de febrero de 2013 y notificada en este caso el 21 de julio de 2022, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $147,202.82 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 5.50%, anual desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2008, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $14,879.90 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 30 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $148,799.00.

Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $99,199.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 13 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $74,399.50, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo

104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de noviembre de 2023. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO. POR: YELITZA VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JULIA FONTANEZ HERNANDEZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: HSCI2008-01381.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ-

The San Juan Daily Star

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 1 de noviembre de 2023 y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 12 de febrero de 2010, notificada el 18 de febrero de 2010, procederá a vender el día 30 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar número 12-M Residencial Las Leandras del Barrio Mabú de Humacao, con una cabida de 330.75 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con solar número 2, distancia de 10.50 metros; por el SUR, con Calle número 13 de dicha Urbanización, distancia de 10.50 metros; por el ESTE, con solar número 13, distancia de 31.50 metros y por el OESTE, con solar número 11, distancia de 31.50 metros. Enclava una casa. Inscrito al folio 87 del tomo 350 de Humacao, finca número 15,017, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Primera Sección de Humacao. Que con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao.

El remate comenzará por las sumas adeudadas declaradas en la Sentencia, y se llevará a cabo para con su producto, satisfacer dichas sumas. Las cuantías de la sentencia se describen de la siguiente manera: la parte demandada adeuda las siguientes cantidades a la parte demandante: $86,766.50 de balance de principal adeudado; la suma de $8,379.17 por intereses devengados y acumulados sobre dicha suma a razón del 6.50% anual desde el dia 1 de junio de 2008 hasta el 1 de noviembre de 2009, más los que se devenguen y acumulen en lo sucesivo, a razon de un “per diem” de $15.6661736 hasta el total saldo de la deuda;

la suma de $445.12 por concepto de cargos o recargos por atrasos en los pagos, hasta el 1 de noviembre de 2009, cuya suma continuará aumentando hasta el completo pago de la deuda, a razan de $24.68 mensuales; la suma liquida de $8,929.40 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; mas cualquier otra cantidad de dinero que la parte demandante tenga que desembolsar con relacion a la hipoteca objeto del presente litigio durante la vigencia de este caso. Debido al incumplimiento de la parte demandada, con los términos de contrato habido entre las partes se declara con lugar la demanda y se ordena la ejecución de hipoteca y venta en pública subasta de la propiedad objeto de este pleito, declarando vencida la suma de $86,766.50 por concepto de principal adeudada al 1 de junio de 2008, más los intereses que se acumulen hasta el saldo total de la deuda; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La subasta se llevará a cabo el día 30 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La venta de la propiedad será realizada para cubrir el importe adeudado a la demandante, el cual al momento de la Sentencia ascendía a la suma de $86,766.50 por concepto de principal, más los intereses que se acumulen hasta el saldo total de la deuda; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente, adeudada según la Sentencia, más los otros gastos, intereses y recargos que se acumulan hasta la fecha de su total y completo pago. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, efectivo, giro y/o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga (n) interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Registro de la Propiedad, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el termino de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada y a su

abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el (la) deudor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la parte demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 16 de noviembre de 2023. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE HUMACAO. YELITZA VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN JAMES MCGINNIS CASAS COMPUESTA POR RANDALL MCGINNIS AGUILAR, JAMES MCGINNIS AGUILAR, SHERLEY MCGINNIS CARRASQUILLO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01118.

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

A: LA PARTE

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 29 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número Veintiséis (26) de la Manzana B de la Urbanización Nuestra Señora de Lourdes del Barrio Cuevas del municipio de Trujillo Alto, compuesto de Seiscientos punto Cero Cero metros Cuadrados (600.00 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle B de la urbanización; por el SUR, con el solar número Seis (6) de la Manzana B; por el ESTE, con el solar número Veinticinco (25) de la Manzana B; y por el OESTE, con el solar numero Veintisiete (27) de la Manzana B.” Finca número 2,517, inscrita al folio 91 del tomo 47 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Propiedad localizada en: URB. LOURDES, 772 (B26) CALLE GAVE, TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976-3810. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $255,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 5 de noviembre de 2093. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos,

sin destinarse a su extinción el San Juan Daily Star, que es un precio del remate. Se establece diario de circulación general en como tipo de mínima subasta la la isla de Puerto Rico, por essuma de $255,000.00, según pacio de dos semanas conseacordado entre las partes en el cutivas con un intervalo de por precio pactado en la escritura lo menos siete (7) días entre de hipoteca. De ser necesaria ambas publicaciones, así como una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por para su publicación en los sitios declararse desierta la primera, públicos de Puerto Rico. Expela misma se celebrará en mi dido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal hoy 23 de noviembre de 2023. de Primera Instancia, Sala de JOSÉ R. CRISTÓBAL, ALGUACarolina, el 5 DE FEBRERO CIL REGIONAL. GRETCHEN DE 2024, A LAS 10:15 DE LA M. JEREZ SEDA, ALGUACIL MAÑANA, y se establece como PLACA #568. mínima para dicha segunda suLEGAL NOTICE basta la suma de $170,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO establecido originalmente. Si DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUtampoco se produce remate ni NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA adjudicación en la segunda su- CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN basta, se establece como míni- JUAN SALA SUPERIOR ma para la TERCERA SUBASBANCO POPULAR DE TA, la suma de $127,500.00, la PUERTO RICO mitad (1/2) del precio pactado Demandante V. y dicha subasta se celebrará SUCESIÓN DE en mi oficina, ubicada en el JUANA ALEIDA Tribunal de Primera Instancia, PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ Sala de Carolina, el 12 DE COMPUESTA POR FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha SUS HIJOS: ANDRÉS subasta se llevará a cabo para, PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ; con su producto satisfacer a la SUCESIÓN RAFAEL parte demandante, el importe PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ, de la Sentencia dictada a su COMPUESTA POR: favor ascendente a la suma “JOHN DOE Y de $126,669.77 por concepto de principal, más la suma de RICHARD ROE” COMO $67,279.31 en intereses acu- POSIBLES HEREDEROS mulados al 5 de enero de 2023 y DESCONOCIDOS DE los cuales continúan acumulánDICHA SUCESIÓN; dose a razón de 5.060% anual Y SUCESIÓN DE hasta su total y completo pago; GREGORIO RAFAEL más la sumas de $20,020.41 en PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ, seguro hipotecario; $2,643.71 de seguro; $525.00 de tasaCOMPUESTA POR: ciones; $340.00 de inspeccio“JOHN DOE Y nes; $3,130.50 en adelantos RICHARD ROE” COMO de honorarios de abogado; POSIBLES HEREDEROS más la cantidad de 10% del DESCONOCIDOS DE pagare original en la suma de DICHA SUCESIÓN; $25,500.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A JOHN DOE Y RICHARD tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Pro- ROE” COMO POSIBLES cedimiento Civil se condena a HEREDEROS la parte demandada a pagar inDESCONOCIDOS DE tereses aplicables sobre el imLA SUCESIÓN DE porte de la presente sentencia JUANA ALEIDA PÉREZ incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha RODRÍGUEZ; SUCESIÓN y hasta que sea satisfecha. La DE JAIME COLÓN venta en pública subasta de la MOLINA, COMPUESTA referida propiedad se verificará POR “JOHN DOE Y libre de toda carga o gravamen RICHARD ROE” COMO posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se no- POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, CENTRO DE SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SURECAUDACIONES DE BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, INGRESOS MUNICIPALES a los efectos de que cualquier (C.R.I.M.) persona o personas con algún Demandados interés puedan comparecer a la Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV02047. celebración de dicha subasta.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HISe notifica a todos los interePOTECA - IN REM. ESTADOS sados que las actas y demás UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL constancias del expediente de PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTAeste caso están disponibles DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIen la Secretaría del Tribunal BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO durante horas laborables para RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASser examinadas por los (las) TA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del interesados (as). Y para su Tribunal de Primera Instancia, publicación en el periódico The

The San Juan Daily Star Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 11 de octubre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Reparto Contemporáneo, sito en el Barrio Puente y Sabana Llana, situada en el término municipal de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número treinta y cinco (35) del Bloque “A” con un área de quinientos cuarenta y seis punto quinientos veintiuno (546.521) metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y siete punto cuatrocientos veintiséis (37.426) meros, con el solar A guión treinta y cuatro (A-34); por el SUR, cuarenta punto doscientos sesenta (40.260) metros, con terrenos de Juan Suárez por el ESTE, en diecisiete punto cuatrocientos diez (17.410) metros, con el Doctor Basilio Dávila; y por el OESTE, en once punto doscientos cuarenta y tres (11.243) metros, con la Calle D de la Urbanización. Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa dedicada a vivienda. Enclava una casa de dos (2) plantas, la planta baja construida de concreto con dos cuartos dormitorios, salacomedor, cocina, baño y balcón y la planta alta construida en madera con tres cuartos dormitorios, sala-comedor, baño y balcón que mide 28’ de ancho por 32’ de largo, con un valor de $30,000.00, mediante la escritura número 19, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 10 de noviembre de 1988, ante la notario Lucía V. Martínez de Cruz, inscrita al folio 33 del tomo 697 de Sabana Llana, finca número 28,379, inscripción 2da. Inscrita en la finca número 28,379, al folio 31 del tomo 697 de Sabana Llana. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. La propiedad ubica según pagaré en: Urb. Reparto Contemporáneo, Bo. Puente y Sabana Llana, Río Piedras, PR t/c/c A-35 St. Reparto Contemporáneo, San Juan, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 18 de agosto de 2023, y notificada en este caso el 21 de agosto de 2023 a saber la suma de $158,922.32 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 7.125%, anual desde el 1ro de agosto de 2022, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera

otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $19,920.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $199,200.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $132,800.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $99,600.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción

Tuesday, December 26, 2023 del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de diciembre de 2023. Pedro Hieye González, Alguacil, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De San Juan.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

AGUSTINA GARMENDIZ ORTIZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00777.

Sala: 702. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 23 de octubre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número sesenta y tres (63), en el Plano de Parcelación de

la Comunidad Rural Jaguas II del Barrio Jagual del término municipal de San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos setenta y dos punto treinta y siete metros cuadrados (así surge).

En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela número sesenta y dos de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con calle número cinco de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con calle número uno de la Comunidad; por el OESTE, con Parcela número sesenta y cuatro de la Comunidad. Inscrita en la finca número 16,496, inscrita al folio 174 del tomo 340 de San Lorenzo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Segunda Sección de Caguas. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 23 de octubre de 2023 y notificada el 23 de octubre de 2023 en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma de $45,533.81 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 2.50%, anual desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $4,700.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.

La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $46,570.10. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $31,046.73, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina/ Sala de Alguaciles

de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $23,285.05, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de diciembre de 2023. Angel Gómez Gómez, Alguacil Placa #593, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Caguas.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante vs.

JOSE CELSO ALVARADO PEREZ

Demandado CIVIL NÚM. ACD2017-0013 (601). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: JOSE CELSO ALVARADO PEREZ

Yo, ANTONIA RIVERA ACEVEDO, Alguacil Confidencial #763, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 11 de enero de 2024, a las 11:15 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aguadilla, en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, en el Sótano, Oficina del Alguacil Regional, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia.

Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Aguadilla durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 18 de enero de 2024, a las 11:15 de la mañana y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 25 de enero de 2024, a las 11:15 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Cincuenta y Nueve (59) del plano de inscripción de la URBANIZACIÓN BRISAS DEL MAR, localizado en la Carretera Estatal número PR guión Cuatrocientos Setenta y Cuatro (PR-474), Barrio Mora del término municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de TRESCIENTOS NOVENTA Y NUEVE PUNTO SEIS MIL TRESCIENTOS SETENTA Y NUEVE (399.6379) METROS

CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con una alineación de VEINTICUATRO PUNTO SETENTA Y TRES (24.73) METROS LINEALES, con el solar número Cincuenta y Ocho (58); por el SUR, con una alineación de VEINTIOCHO PUNTO SESENTA Y CUATRO (28.64) METROS LINEALES, con el solar número Sesenta (60); por el ESTE, con una alineación de OCHO PUNTO CINCUENTA Y SIETE (8.57) METROS LINEALES, con el remanente; y por el OESTE, con dos (2) alineaciones que suman VEINTICUATRO PUNTO SETENTA Y DOS (24.72) METROS LINEALES, con la Calle número Cuatro (4). Afecta a este solar una servidumbre de UNO PUNTO CINCUENTA (1.50) METROS de ancho que discurre a todo lo largo de su colindancia Oeste, a favor de la Junta Reglamentadora de las Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico. En dicho solar enclava una estructura de concreto diseñada para fines residenciales para una familia, construida de acuerdos a los planos y especificaciones. La hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe, finca número 31,981 de Isabela, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla, inscripción segunda. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Brisas del Mar, 59, Calle 4, Isabela, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $110,302.58 de principal, intereses al 5% anual, desde el 1ro. de julio de 2016, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $12,264.70 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $122,647.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $81,764.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $61,323.50. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán sub-

sistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, 5 de diciembre de 2023.

ANTONIA RIVERA ACEVEDO, Alguacil Confidencial #763.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

MER DISTRIBUTORS, INC.; LARRY JOSEPH RIVERA NARVAEZ t/c/c LARRY RIVERA NARVAEZ; FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR LARRY JOSEPH RIVERA NARVAEZ T/C/C LARRY RIVERA NARVAEZ Y FULANA DE TAL

Demandados Civil Núm.: GM2021CV00394.

PROCEDIMIENTO SOBRE EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 4 de octubre de

24 2023, notificada el 6 de octubre de 2023, y publicada por edicto el 12 de octubre de 2023; y de un Mandamiento de Ejecución emitido el día 27 de enero de 2023, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, procederá a vender en 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, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: EL LEGAL CONDOMINIUM: REGIME 1: APARTMENT 1822: Square shaped one bedroom unit in the El Legado Condominium, Regime I, located at Jobos Ward of the municipality of Guayama, with a total area of 690.5434 square feet, equivalent to 64.1536 square meters, distributed in 621.5434 square feet, equivalent to 57.7433 square meters of enclosed area, and 69 square feet, equivalent to 6.41031 square meters of balcony. The main entrance located on the Northeast side of the apartment leading to the common exterior hallway. This apartment is located in building 18 of the Regime, occupies part of the second floor of the building and has been assigned a share of .32% in the common elements of the Regime. The maximum length of this unit is 14.02 meters, and the maximum width is 8.13 meters. Its boundaries are: By the NORTH, in a total distance of 14.02 meters with the common wall that separates it from apartment 1821; by the SOUTH, in a distance of 8.92 meters with the common wall that separates it from apartment 1823; by the EAST, in a distance of 2.18 meters with the lobby common area; by the WEST, in a distance of 8.13 meters with the common green areas. This unit contains a foyer, a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a bathroom, a bedroom with closet, laundry closet and a covered balcony. ESTACIONAMIENTO: Le corresponde un espacio de estacionamiento identificado con el #1822. Finca 19758, inscrita al folio 211 del tomo 493 de Guayama, inscripción 1ra. (Sección I de Guayama). Dirección física: 1822 El

Legado Golf Resort Guayama PR 00784. El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por $225,000.00, con intereses al 6.50% anual, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, que vence el 1ro de mayo de 2036. Según escritura #283, otorgada en San Juan, el 24 de abril de 2006, ante Juan Carlos Ortega Torres, inscrita al folio 211 del tomo 493 de Guayama, inscripción 2da. La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueble antes descrito. Que según surge del estudio de título, la propiedad se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: AVISO DE DEMANDA: De fecha 17 de mayo de 2021, dictada en el Caso Civil #GM2021-CV00394, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guayama; seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico (demandante) versus MER Distributors, Inc.; Larry Joseph Rivera Narváez t/c/c Larry Rivera Narváez; Fulana de Tal y la sociedad legal de gananciales compuesta por Larry Joseph Rivera Narváez t/c/c Larry Rivera Narváez y Fulana de Tal. Se reclama el pago de la deuda garantizada con hipoteca por $225,000.00 de la inscripción 2da., reducida a $68,904.19 de principal e intereses y otras sumas, o la venta de esta finca en pública subasta. Anotada al tomo Karibe de la Sección de Guayama, anotación A y última, con fecha de 26 de octubre de 2021. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguientes sumas: $151,127.29 por concepto de principal, más recargos por atraso, más intereses, los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta su completo pago, más $25,500.00 como cantidad estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo.

Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Guayama, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que

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el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de DOSCIENTOS VEINTICINCO MIL DÓLARES ($225,000.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 13 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CIENTO CINCUENTA MIL DÓLARES ($150,000.00) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 21 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CIENTO DOCE MIL QUINIENTOS DÓLARES ($112,500.00) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 6 de diciembre de 2023, en Guayama, Puerto Rico. ENID NAZARIO CORREA, ALGUACIL #407.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DEMANDANTE vs.

SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA SOCORRO ROBLES ADORNO COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERO CONOCIDO BENEDICTO DELGADO ROBLES; SUCESIÓN DE JULIO DELGADO ROBLES, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS JAZMÍN

DELGADO ARZUAGA T/C/C JAZMÍN DELGADO ARRIAGA Y JULIO DELGADO ARZUAGA T/C/C JULIO DELGADO ARRIAGA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ A SUSTITUIR

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: BY2023CV04903.

SOBRE: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA SOCORRO ROBLES ADORNO; JAZMÍN DELGADO ARZUAGA T/C/C JAZMIN DELGADO ARRIAGA; JULIO DELGADO ARZUAGA T/C/C JULIO DELGADO ARRIAGA COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JULIO DELGADO ROBLES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES Bo. Sabana Seca Urb. Levittown Solar 2420 Bloque F Calle Amir 2da. Sección Toa Baja, PR 00729 Dirección postal: Urb. Levittown #2446 Calle Amir Toa Baja, PR 00729

ción, lo entiende procedente.

Este caso es relacionado a un Pagaré extraviado por la cantidad principal de $151,000.00 e intereses al 7% anual, Testimonio núm. 2604, garantizado por la Escritura #141 de 27 de agosto de 2007 ante la Notario María l. de Mier Pérez, el cual grava la finca #4968 inscrita al folio 236 del tomo 65 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, sección 11. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787- 751-5290, FAX: 787-7516155 E-MAi L: ejecuciones@fortuno-law. com En Bayamón, Puerto Rico a 21 de diciembre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA l. SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIO.

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tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de DICIEMBRE de 2023.

En AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico, el 18 de DICIEMBRE de 2023.

SARAHI REYES PEREZ, SECRETARIA. FZUHEILY GONZALEZ AVILES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

publicará una sola vez en un responsiva dentro del referido periódico de circulación general término, el tribunal podrá dicen la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro tar sentencia en rebeldía en su de los 10 días siguientes a su contra y conceder el remedio notificación. Y, siendo o repre- solicitado en la demanda, o sentando usted una parte en el cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en procedimiento sujeta a los tér- el ejercicio de su sana discreminos de la Sentencia, Senten- ción, lo entiende procedente. cia Parcial o Resolución, de la Representa a la parte demancual puede establecerse recur- dante, la representación legal so de revisión o apelación den- cuyo nombre, dirección y telétro del término de 30 días con- fono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO tados a partir de la publicación FAS, C.S.P. por edicto de esta notificación, LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS dirijo a usted esta notificación RÚA NÚM.: 11416 que se considerará hecha en la PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 fecha de la publicación de este TEL: 787- 751-5290, edicto. Copia de esta notificaFAX: 787-751-6155 ción ha sido archivada en los E-MAIL: autos de este caso, con fecha ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com de 21 de DICIEMBRE de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico En AÑASCO, Puerto Rico, el 21 a 20 de diciembre de 2023. de DICIEMBRE de 2023. NOR- GR!SELDA RODRtGUEZ MA G SANTANA IRIZARRY, COLLADO, Sec Regional. F/ SECRETARIA. F/LUZ N CHI- Brenda Baez Acaba, Sec Serv CO ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA a Sala.

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SUCESIÓN DE JORGE WILLIAM PERDOMO MEDRANO COMPUESTA POR VILMA PERDOMO DE SOTO, ISMAEL PERDOMO DE SOTO, JENNY PERDOMO DE SOTO, LUDMILA PERDOMO CAMACHO, TAMARA PERDOMO CAMACHO, JORGE WILLIAM PERDOMO CAMACHO, RAQUEL VIRGINIA PERDOMO PICHARDO, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL

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PAGARE A CANCELAR SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUNOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN- Bayola #1201 B San Juan, BASTA. El que suscribe, AlguaCIA POR EDICTO. PR 00907 cil del Tribunal de Primera InsA: FULANO DE TAL Y POR LA PRESENTE se le em- tancia, Sala de SAN JUAN, SUTANA DE TAL COMO plaza para que presente al tri- hago saber a la parte demanPOSIBLES TENEDORES bunal su alegación responsiva dada, SUCESIÓN DE JORGE dentro de los 30 días a partir de WILLIAM PERDOMO MEDRADEL PAGARE A la publicación de este edicto. NO compuesta por VILMA CANCELAR Usted deberá presentar su aleDemandante V.

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(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se

gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramaíudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación

PERDOMO DE SOTO, ISMAEL PERDOMO DE SOTO, JENNY PERDOMO DE SOTO, LUDMILA PERDOMO CAMACHO, TAMARA PERDOMO CAMACHO, JORGE WILLIAM PERDOMO CAMACHO, RAQUEL VIRGINIA PERDOMO PICHARDO, FULANO y FULANA DE TAL; y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 24 de

The San Juan Daily Star octubre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, las siguientes propiedades con dirección física: Condominio Miramar Royal Towers, Ave. Roosevelt 706, Miramar Sector, Santurce Ward, San Juan PR 00907 y que se describen como sigue: PROPIEDAD A: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento marcado con el número 7-A, ubicado en el séptimo piso de la Torre Norte, del Condominio Miramar Royal Towers, el cual está localizado en el número 706 de la Calle Roosevelt, del sector Miramar en Santurce, en la Ciudad de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área superficial total o cabida de 1,444.44 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 134.19 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en 27’11”, equivalentes a 8.51 metros, con el espacio aéreo sobre la parte del frente del edificio mirando en dirección a la Calle Roosevelt; por el SUR, en 14’7”, equivalentes a 4.44 metros, con la pared que lo separa del Apartamento numero 7-B del edificio y en 13’4”, equivalentes a 4.06 metros, con la pared y puerta que lo separa del vestíbulo de los elementos y el elevador número 2; por el ESTE, en dos alineaciones, una de 61’2” equivalentes a 18.64 metros y otra de 5’0”, equivalentes a 1.52 metros, con la pared exterior que da al espacio aéreo ubicado sobre el área de circulación vehicular que a su vez colinda con el Condominio Unión Norte; y por el OESTE, en tres alineaciones, una de 36’0”, equivalentes a 10.97 metros, con pared exterior que da al espacio aéreo sobre la rampa vehicular que a su vez colinda con el solar Anita Serra Blanco, otra de 20’5”, equivalentes a 6.22 metros, con la pared que lo separa del vestíbulo de elevadores y otra de 4’11”, equivalentes a 1.49 metros, con la pared que lo separa del recibidor del Apartamento 7-B. El apartamento es de forma aproximadamente rectangular, Su entrada está localizada en el lado Sur del apartamento por donde tiene acceso al pasillo o vestíbulo común de los elementos del séptimo piso. El apartamento consta de un vestíbulo, sala, comedor, cocina, balcón o terraza, 2 dormitorios, con armarios empotrados (closet) en la pared un armario para ropa de cama, 2 cuartos de baño completos y un medio baño. Le corresponde una participación equivalente a 2.28% en los elementos comunes generales así como la distribución de las ganancias y gastos comunes generales así

como la distribución de las ganancias y gastos comunes generales del edificio y para fines del derecho al voto y le corresponde una participación equivalente a 5.59% en los elementos comunes generales limitados a la Torre Norte. Finca 21139, inscrita al Folio 160 del tomo 363 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección I. La finca antes descrita identificada como propiedad (A) se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Jorge William Perdomo Medrano favor de Banco Santander Puerto Rico, por la suma principal de $188,000.00, respondiendo esta finca por la suma de $169,200.00, con intereses a razón del 5-5/8% anual, con vencimiento el 1ro de mayo del 2027. Créditos Garantizados: Se garantizan tres créditos adicionales equivalente al 10% del principal original del pagaré, cada uno, para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de ejecución, para intereses no garantizados y para adelantos.

Se tasa la finca en una suma equivalente al principal original del pagaré, cuyo valor servirá como tipo mínimo en caso de subasta. Así resulta de la escritura número 13 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 5 de abril del 2012 ante la notario Gloria I. Velázquez Villares, según inscripción 5. (ii) Anotación de Demanda: A favor de Luna Residential II, LLC., con un valor de $110,074.38, número de caso SJ2022CV06684 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de San Juan, LUNA RESIDENTIAL II, LLC demandante v. La Sucesión de Jorge William Perdomo Medrano Compuesta Por Fulano De Tal Y Fulana De Tal Como Posibles Herederos Desconocidos Con Interés En La Sucesión; Centro De Recaudación De Ingresos Municipales (CRIM) demandado a 26 de julio de 2022, según inscripción A. La PRIMERA SUBASTA de la Propiedad (A): [PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: APARTAMENTO MARCADO CON EL NÚMERO 7-A…], será celebrada el día 17 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $169,200.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $112,800.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la se-

Tuesday, December 26, 2023 gunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $84,600.00. PROPIEDAD B: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Espacio de estacionamiento techado marcado con el número 59, ubicado en el nivel soterrado B-3 en el Condominio Miramar Royal Towers, localizado en el número 706 de la Calle Roosevelt en el sector Miramar, en Santurce, en la Ciudad de San Juan de Puerto Rico. Tiene dicho estacionamiento un área superficial de 132.50 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 12.31 metros cuadrados. Mide 8’10” de ancho, equivalentes a 2.69 metros por 15’0”, equivalentes a 4.57 metros de largo. Colinda por el NORTE, con la pared de la escalera número 2 de la Torre Norte; por el SUR, con un área de circulación para vehículos de motor; por el ESTE, con una pared; y por el OESTE, con el estacionamiento número 58 y con una columna estructural. Dicho estacionamiento tiene cabida para un solo automóvil el cual tendrá su entrada y acceso por el lado Sur. Le corresponde una participación equivalente a .21% en los elementos comunes generales así como la distribución de las ganancias y gastos comunes del edificio y para fines del derecho al voto. Finca 21140, inscrita al Folio 163 del tomo 363 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección I. La finca antes descrita identificada como propiedad (B) se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Jorge William Perdomo Medrano favor de Banco Santander Puerto Rico, por la suma principal de $188,000.00, respondiendo esta finca por la suma de $8,648.00, con intereses a razón del 5-5/8% anual, con vencimiento el 1ro de mayo del 2027. Créditos Garantizados: Se garantizan tres créditos adicionales equivalente al 10% del principal original del pagaré, cada uno, para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de ejecución, para intereses no garantizados y para adelantos.

Se tasa la finca en una suma equivalente al principal original del pagaré, cuyo valor servirá como tipo mínimo en caso de subasta. Así resulta de la escritura número 13 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 5 de abril del 2012 ante la notario Gloria I. Velázquez Villares, según inscripción 5. (ii) Anotación de Demanda: A favor de Luna Residential II, LLC., con un valor de $110,074.38, número de caso SJ2022CV06684 sobre

Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de San Juan, LUNA RESIDENTIAL II, LLC demandante v. La Sucesión de Jorge William Perdomo Medrano Compuesta Por Fulano De Tal Y Fulana De Tal Como Posibles Herederos Desconocidos Con Interés En La Sucesión; Centro De Recaudación De Ingresos Municipales (CRIM) demandado a 26 de julio de 2022, según inscripción A. La PRIMERA SUBASTA de la Propiedad (B): [ESPACIO DE ESTACIONAMIENTO TECHADO MARCADO CON EL NÚMERO 59…], será celebrada el día 17 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:05 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $8,648.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:05 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $5,765.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:05 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $4,324.00. PROPIEDAD C: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Espacio de estacionamiento marcado con el número 5 sin techar ubicado en el nivel terrero del Condominio Miramar Royal Towers, localizado en el número 706 de la Calle Roosevelt en el sector Miramar en la Ciudad de San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Tiene dicho estacionamiento un área superficial de 114.19 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 10.61 metros cuadrados. Mide 7’3” de ancho, equivalentes a 2.21 metros, por 151’9” de largo, equivalentes a 4.80 metros de largo. Colinda por el NORTE, con el estacionamiento número 6; por el SUR, con el estacionamiento número 4; por el ESTE, con un muro que delimita la propiedad; y por el OESTE, con el área de la Marquesina de la Torre Norte. Dicho estacionamiento tiene cabida para un solo automóvil el cuan tendrá su entrada y acceso por el lado OESTE. Le corresponde una participación equivalente al 0.18% en los elementos comunes generales así como en la distribución de las ganancias y gastos comunes del edificio y para fines del derecho al voto.

Finca 21141, inscrita al Folio 168 del tomo 363 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad

de San Juan, Sección I. La finca antes descrita identificada como Propiedad (C) se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Jorge William Perdomo Medrano favor de Banco Santander Puerto Rico, por la suma principal de $188,000.00, respondiendo esta finca por la suma de $9,400.00, con intereses a razón del 5-5/8% anual, con vencimiento el 1ro de mayo del 2027. Créditos Garantizados: Se garantizan tres créditos adicionales equivalente al 10% del principal original del pagaré, cada uno, para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de ejecución, para intereses no garantizados y para adelantos.

Se tasa la finca en una suma equivalente al principal original del pagaré, cuyo valor servirá como tipo mínimo en caso de subasta. Así resulta de la escritura número 13 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 5 de abril del 2012 ante la notario Gloria I. Velázquez Villares, según inscripción 5. (ii) Anotación de Demanda: A favor de Luna Residential II, LLC., con un valor de $110,074.38, número de caso SJ2022CV06684 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de San Juan, LUNA RESIDENTIAL II, LLC demandante v. La Sucesión de Jorge William Perdomo Medrano Compuesta Por Fulano De Tal Y Fulana De Tal Como Posibles Herederos Desconocidos Con Interés En La Sucesión; Centro De Recaudación De Ingresos Municipales (CRIM) demandado a 26 de julio de 2022, según inscripción A. La PRIMERA SUBASTA de la Propiedad (C) - [ESPACIO DE ESTACIONAMIENTO MARCADO CON EL NÚMERO 5…] será celebrada el 17 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:10 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $9,400.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:10 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $6,266.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:10 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $4,700.00. PROPIEDAD D: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL:

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Espacio de Almacenamiento identificado con el número 10, localizado en el nivel soterrado B-3 del Condominio Miramar Royal Towers, localizado con el número 706 de la Calle Roosevelt en el sector Miramar de Santurce, en la Ciudad de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área superficial de aproximadamente 6.50 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.60 metros cuadrados. Mide 3’0” de largo, equivalente a 0.91 metros, por 2’2” de ancho, equivalente a 0.66 metros. Colinda por el NORTE, con un área de circulación vehicular; por el SUR, con el estacionamiento número 58; por el ESTE, con la parte de escalera número 2 de la Torre Norte; y por el OESTE, con área de circulación vehicular. El almacén es una estructura cerrada a la cual se tiene acceso a través de una puerta localizada en el lado Sur. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio equivalente al 0.010%. Finca 21142, inscrita al Folio 173 del tomo 363 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección I. La finca antes descrita identificada como Propiedad (D) se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Jorge William Perdomo Medrano favor de Banco Santander Puerto Rico, por la suma principal de $188,000.00, respondiendo esta finca por la suma de $752.00, con intereses a razón del 5-5/8% anual, con vencimiento el 1ro de mayo del 2027.

Créditos Garantizados: Se garantizan tres créditos adicionales equivalente al 10% del principal original del pagaré, cada uno, para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de ejecución, para intereses no garantizados y para adelantos.

Se tasa la finca en una suma equivalente al principal original del pagaré, cuyo valor servirá como tipo mínimo en caso de subasta. Así resulta de la escritura número 13 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 5 de abril del 2012 ante la notario Gloria I. Velázquez Villares, según inscripción 5. (ii) Anotación de Demanda: A favor de Luna Residential II, LLC., con un valor de $110,074.38, número de caso SJ2022CV06684 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de San Juan, LUNA RESIDENTIAL II, LLC demandante v. La Sucesión de Jorge William Perdomo Medrano Compuesta Por Fulano De Tal Y Fulana De Tal Como Posibles Herederos Desconocidos Con Interés En La Sucesión; Centro De Recaudación De Ingresos Municipales (CRIM) demandado a 26 de julio de 2022, según inscripción

A. La PRIMERA SUBASTA de la Propiedad (D) – [PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: ESPACIO DE ALMACENAMIENTO IDENTIFICADO CON EL NÚMERO 10…], será celebrada el día 17 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $752.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $501.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $376.00. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en los incisos (i). Serán celebradas las subastas para con el importe de estas satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 5 de septiembre de 2023, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad adeudada y vencida, ascendiente a $110,074.38 de principal, más los intereses a razón del 5.6250% anual a partir del 1 de mayo de 2020 hasta su completo pago. Y la cantidad de $1,894.16 que no acumulan intereses. Mas recargos por la suma de $1,626.03 y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total de la obligación, más los cargos por demora vencidos y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, más $18,800.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados.

El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a las subastas señaladas en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose,

además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación.

Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de diciembre de 2023. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

26 WILBERTO SAURÍ REYES, Y FELIX OSORIO RAMIREZ, PATRICIA DELGADO BRUNO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS (COMO DUEÑOS REGISTRALES)

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2023CV03652.

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

A: “WILBERTO SAURÍ REYES, Y FELIX OSORIO RAMIREZ, PATRICIA DELGADO BRUNO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS”. D-27 AYMANIO ST., PARQUE LAS HACIENDAS, CAGUAS, PR 00725; 1133 PINETOP, PLOT 2, DAVENPORT, FL, USA, 33897; 8416 SNIDER PL, ORLANDO, FL, 32825.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria

potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023).

Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DÍAZ LLP 500 Calle De La Tanca, Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdprIaw.com EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 8 de diciembre de 2023. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria Regional. Marta. E. Donate Resto, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESION DE MARIO CASANOVA CRUZ, COMPUESTA POR RACHELIZ CASANOVA ORTIZ, RUFINO, MARIO, GILBERT Y LUZ EVELIN, TODOS DE APELLIDOS CASANOVA REYES, COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL Y ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV06012.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 14 de noviembre de 2023 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la

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cantidad de $56,827.19 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 1 de agosto de 2023, notificada y archivada en autos el 4 de agosto de 2023, y publicada mediante edicto el día 10 de agosto de 2023 en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, los bienes inmuebles se describen a continuación: Ur. Open Land 574 c/ Elizondo, San Juan, PR 009231822. URBANA: Solar marcado con el número diez del proyecto de renovación urbana conocido como San Jose Open Land, U.R.P.R. cinco guion nueve situado en el barrio Sabana Llana del término municipal de Rio Piedras, con una cabida superficial de 322.12 metros cuadrados; en lindes al Norte, con la acera de travesía #1 de la mencionada urbanización en distancia de 23.70 metros; al Sur, con el solar #11 de dicho proyecto en distancia de 24.37 metros; al Este, con la servidumbre de paso de la calle #51 de la susodicha urbanización en distancia de 12.80 metros y al Oeste, con el solar #35 del mencionado proyecto, en 13.98 metros. Enclava una casa. Finca #8275 inscrita al folio 221 del tomo 184 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $55,526,19 de 1er principal y $1,301.00 de 2do principal para un total de $56,827.19, a razón de 6.50% de interés al momento en que se incurrió en el atraso, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $397.85 por concepto de cargos por mora; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado.

El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $68,600.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $45,733.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $34,300.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo

adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 17 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se levará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan. De Estudio de Título realizado surge el siguiente gravamen posterior que deberá ser cancelado. Hipoteca constituida por Mario Casanova Cruz, soltero, a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, por $4,458.00 sin intereses, vencedero en 6 años, según Esc. #409 en San Juan el 28 de junio de 2007 ante Nay del Carmen Rodriguez Gonzalez, inscrita en virtud de la Ley #216 del 2010 al folio 123 del tomo 1125 de Sabana Llana, finca #8275 inscripción 6ta. Contiene condiciones de venta por 6 años. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continua-

ramajudiciaI.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de diciembre de 2023. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria LEGAL NOTICE Regional Ii. Sara Rosa Villegas, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Secretaria Del Tribunal ConfiDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUdencial I. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYLEGAL NOTICE NABO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO COMPU-LINK DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCORPORATION NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA D/B/A CELINK SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYADemandante Vs. MÓN rán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores.

Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 8 de diciembre de 2023. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.

SUCESION SANTOS FIRSTBANK ALVAREZ CRIADO PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. COMPUESTA POR VERÓNICA VARGAS ANNABELLE ALVAREZ FRAGAPANE MOLINA, NORMAND Parte Demandada ALVAREZ MOLINA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO Civil Núm.: BY2023CV00598.

Núm.: (502). Sobre: EJEPOSIBLES HEREDEROS Saló CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y DESCONOCIDOS; COBRO DE DINERO. EDICESTADOS UNIDOS DE TO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS AMERICA; CENTRO UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL DE RECAUDACION DE PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTAINGRESOS MUNICIPALES DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE

Demandado Civil Núm.: GB2023CV00934.

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

A: ANNABELLE ALVAREZ MOLINA, NORMAND ALVAREZ MOLINA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE SUCESION SANTOS ALVAREZ CRIADO.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.

ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: VERÓNICA VARGAS FRAGAPANE: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número 43 de la Urbanización Paisajes de Dorado, situado en el Barrio Higuillar del municipio

de Dorado, Puerto Rico, con subasta no produjere remate, ni una cabida de 376.070 me- adjudicación, se celebrará una tros cuadrados. En lindes por TERCERA SUBASTA el día el NORTE, con terrenos de la 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A Corporación de Renovación Ur- LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en bana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico, el mismo lugar y regirá como en 14.00 metros lineales; por el tipo mínimo de la tercera suSUR, en 14.00 metros lineales, basta la mitad del precio paccon una servidumbre a favor de tado para la primera, o sea, la la Junta Reglamentadora de suma de $98,451.50. Dicha Telecomunicaciones de 1.52 subasta se llevará a cabo, para metros de ancho y con la Calle con su producto satisfacer a Palma Real de la Urbanización; la parte demandante el imporpor el ESTE, con el solar núme- te de la Sentencia dictada a ro 42, en 27.074 metros; y por su favor, a saber: La suma de el OESTE, con el solar número $170,652.62, con intereses a 44, en 26.961 metros lineales. 4.00% anual, desde el 1ro de Enclava en este solar una casa agosto de 2019, hasta el prede hormigón para fines resi- sente y los que se continúen denciales de una planta, con- acumulando hasta su total y teniendo sala, comedor, “family completo pago, más los cargos room”, cocina, área de lavan- por demora que se correspondería, tres cuartos dormitorios, den a los plazos atrasados desdos baños y una marquesina de la fecha anteriormente indiabierta para dos automóviles. cada a razón de la tasa pactada Consta inscrita al folio 28 del de 4% de cualquier pago que tomo 258 de Dorado, Finca éste en mora por más de quinNúmero #13,075, Registro de ce (15) días desde la fecha de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, su vencimiento, más una suma Sección IV de Bayamón. La equivalente a $19,690.30, por propiedad objeto de ejecución concepto de costas, gastos y está localizada en la siguiente honorarios de abogado, más dirección: Paisajes de Dorado cualquier otra suma que resulDev. #43, Dorado, P.R. 00646. te por cualesquiera otros adeSe informa que la propiedad a lantos que se hayan hecho la ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre demandante, en virtud de las de cargas y gravamen poste- disposiciones de la escritura de rior, una vez sea otorgada la hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecaescritura de venta judicial y ob- rio. Para más información, a las tenida la Orden y Mandamiento personas interesadas se les node cancelación de gravamen tifica que los autos y todos los posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210- documentos correspondientes 2015). En relación a la finca a al procedimiento incoado, estasubastarse, se establece como rán de manifiesto en la Secretipo mínimo de licitación en la taría del Tribunal, durante las Primera Subasta la suma de horas laborables. Este EDICTO $196,903.00, según acordado DE SUBASTA, se publicará en entre las partes en el precio los lugares públicos corresponpactado en la Escritura de Hi- dientes y en un periódico de poteca #147, otorgada en Ba- circulación general en la jurisyamón, Puerto Rico, el día 30 dicción de Puerto Rico. Se ende abril de 2007, ante el notario tenderá que todo licitador acepPedro Juan Caride Cruz, e ins- ta como bastante la titularidad crita al folio 28 del tomo 258 de y que las cargas y gravámenes Dorado, finca número 13,075 anteriores y los referentes, si inscripción 1ra., debidamente los hubiere, al crédito del ejecumodificada mediante la escritu- tante continuarán subsistentes. ra número 51, otorgada en San Se entenderá que el rematante Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 17 de los acepta y queda subrogado octubre de 2011, ante la notario en la responsabilidad de los Marysol López González, e ins- mismos, sin destinarse a su excrita al folio 28 del tomo 258 de tinción el precio del remate. Se Dorado, finca número 13,075, procederá a otorgar la corresinscripción 2da. La PRIMERA pondiente Escritura de Venta SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en día 31 DE ENERO DE 2024 A posesión judicial al nuevo dueLAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en ño, si así se lo solicita dentro mis oficinas sitas en el Tribu- del término de veinte (20) días, nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de conformidad con las dispoSuperior de Bayamón, el tipo siciones de Ley. Si transcurren mínimo para la primera subas- los referidos veinte (20) días, ta es la suma de $196,903.00. el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin Si la primera subasta del in- necesidad de ulterior procedimueble no produjere remate, miento, que se lleve a efecto el ni adjudicación, se celebrará desalojo o lanzamiento del ocuuna SEGUNDA SUBASTA el pante u ocupantes de la finca o día 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A de todos los que por orden o toLAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en lerancia del deudor la ocupen. el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto mínimo las dos terceras partes Rico, a 08 de diciembre de del precio pactada para la pri- 2023. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARmera subasta, o sea, la suma GAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL de $131,268.66. Si la segunda AUXILIAR PLACA #193.

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At the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, women are making their mark

By DAVID SCHMIDT

T

he skippers competing in the annual Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race dream of winning a top trophy in this challenging offshore race. This year, 10 of them will be women.

While a female-skippered team has not won the Tattersall Cup, which is awarded to the race’s overall winner, more women have been competing in the race as skippers the last few years. It reflects the expanding ranks in sailing of experienced women, the creation of the race’s two-handed class and an uptick in the number of female boat owners.

Women have been participating in the Sydney Hobart race since 1946, with Jane Tate aboard the Active and Dagmar O’Brien on the Connella. The first all-women’s team, skippered by Vicki Willman, raced in 1975 aboard Barbarian, a 38-foot yacht.

This year, 10 women plan to compete as skippers and co-skippers. This follows an upward trend: nine women raced in 2022 as skippers and co-skippers, and seven competed in 2021. In 2019, this number was six, while three competed in the 2017 and 2018 events.

“It is a changed world for the better,” said Adrienne Cahalan, a two-time Tattersall Cupwinning navigator. She plans to start her 31st race — a record for women — as navigator aboard the 66-foot yacht Alive this year.

“Women are accepted as equal players and leaders,” Cahalan said of the race, noting that women are underrepresented in the Sydney Hobart only among the professional and big-boat crews.

The race, which starts today, began in 1945 and is a serious affair. Six sailors died and five yachts sank in the 1998 event. Veterans call it one of the world’s greatest, and hardest, offshore races.

The 628-nautical-mile course begins in Sydney Harbor. After exiting protected waters, teams turn south-southwest and race down the New South Wales coastline, before crossing Bass Strait. This shallow-water swath separates Australia from Tasmania and can sometimes create boat-breaking waves.

Then, navigators approach Tasman Island before the boats make the final 40-mile push across Storm Bay and up the River Derwent to Hobart.

For women, a big part of their overall increase as skippers, sailors said, was because of an inclusive and welcoming community that helped create opportunities.

Annika Thomson, the skipper and an owner of the 52-foot Ocean Crusaders J-Bird, looks out from her boat at the docks of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Rushcutters Bay, in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 18, 2023. (Mridula Amin/The New York Times) “There’s a women’s sailing network in Sydney where there’s a lot of engagement from females,” said Lt. Tori Costello, who plans to coskipper the Royal Australian Navy’s 40-foot Navy One this year. “There’s been so many more females just being involved, being given opportunities to get out there and race.”

Sailors said this change was helped by the creation of women’s sailing events, including the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta and the Sydney Harbour Women’s Keelboat Series. They also cite SheSails, an Australian organization that encourages female participation in sailing, and several active women’ssailing Facebook groups and clubs, as contributing factors.

Internationally, they point to the Magenta Project, which works to create better equity and inclusion within sailing, as another important element.

“Just about every sailing club I know of has a women’s group actively educating and providing opportunities for women” said Kathy Veel, the owner and a skipper of the 30-foot Currawong and a three-time race veteran.

“There are now many very skilled, experienced yachtswomen who seek the challenge of being in charge.”

Another catalyst, sailors say, was the creation of the race’s two-handed class, which debuted in 2021. While most boats racing to Hobart have a full crew, two-handed teams race with just two people.

“Even if you don’t own the boat, the second person in most cases is a co-skipper,”

said Wendy Tuck, the first woman to win an around-the-world race as skipper and a twotime two-handed class veteran. “It is a great opportunity.”

While two-handed sailing doubles the number of skipper roles, it requires, and breeds, a high level of competency and trust.

“Two-handed racing is a great format for fast-tracking skills in all aspects of sailing and seamanship,” Veel said.

After all, one skipper often sleeps while the other stands watch.

Annika Thomson, skipper and an owner of the 52-foot Ocean Crusaders J-Bird, said that it was not as daunting to race two-handed aboard the smaller boats. She would know: In 2022, Thomson and her husband, Ian, raced their 52-footer two-handed to Hobart.

She was skipper.

“It’s not recommended,” she said as a joke, of racing a big, powerful boat doublehanded to Hobart. “We did it, now we forgot all about it.”

This year, Thomson plans to skipper her boat with a crew of 11, including her husband, who will navigate.

While professionally run yachts often hire professional skippers, many amateur teams are led by owner-skippers.

“Sometimes to take on a leadership role a person needs to create their own opportunities,” Cahalan said.

“For example, by buying or chartering your own boat and putting your own team together.”

There’s more than pride in vessel ownership at stake. The Sydney Hobart race can award dozens of trophies. Of these, three are specifically reserved for women For some skippers, these aren’t enough.

“While these trophies are great in that they acknowledge the women who were pioneers and role models in the sport, the prize women really want to win now is the Tattersall Cup,” Veel said.

“I think it’s much more likely a female two-handed boat could win a division,” she said, pointing to the costs and complexities of campaigning a competitive yacht. “But I don’t want to rule anything out.”

Thomson was more optimistic. “It would be really cool if someone took it up this year,” she said, referring to the Tattersall Cup. Still, she was realistic.

“How long is a piece of string?” she asked, using an Australian phrase meaning that something is only finished when it’s finished.

Trophies aside, sailors said the real rewards of skippering a yacht in this race were camaraderie, teamwork and the chance to lead a team through a demanding test.

Half of the race is “not the best times, and you’re questioning why you’re doing it,” said Costello of the often-rough conditions. “It comes back down to those moments where you’re wide-eyed and it’s a bit crazy out there, and everyone has that knowing look like, ‘OK, we’re going to get through this.’”

And, with more women taking on this leadership challenge, sailors said the race’s future had never looked more inclusive.

“Women are a big part of the population, so we aren’t going anywhere,” said Tuck, who plans to start her 16th race this year as a watch captain aboard Disko Trooper, a 32-footer.

“Well, yes,” she corrected, “we are going to Hobart.”

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‘I refuse to be old’: The 81-year-old runner who became a South African celebrity

By RYAN LENORA BROWN

coach. With well-considered strength training, lots of recovery time and “choosing n June 11, Maros Mosehla lined up your parents wisely,” that is, having good with 16,000 other runners on the genetics, some runners are still capable of start line of the Comrades, a 56- completing these kinds of bruising distances mile footrace that began outside the red well into their retirement years, she said. brick City Hall in Pietermaritzburg, South But even among that rarefied bunch, Africa. Mosehla, a wispy runner, 5 feet 2 Mosehla cuts a distinct profile. He qualified inches tall, did not stand out from the crowd for the Comrades with a standard marathon of athletes who had gathered to run just far- time of 3 hours, 51 minutes — 40 minutes ther than the equivalent of two marathons faster than the global average for anyone of through the misty winter morning. any age. And at this year’s Comrades, he But by the time Mosehla, a builder by ran a pace of nearly 6 mph — speedier than profession, crossed the Comrades finish line more than 10,000 of the race’s 15,000 finin the city of Durban 9 hours, 26 minutes ishers.

“People ask me why I refuse to be old,” later, he had done something extraordinary. At 81, he became the oldest person he said on a recent evening, sitting in the to complete the race in its 102-year history, living room of his house, which he built shattering a record that had stood for more himself. By now, he has outlived two wives, than three decades — the previous record- two of his 17 children and most of his childholder competed at 80. Perhaps even more hood friends. But he still takes on construcjaw-dropping was the fact that he had fin- tion jobs and, of course, goes running three ished ahead of more than two-thirds of the times a week. “When you run, you stay runners, 95% of whom were more than 20 young,” he said. years younger than him.

Outside Mosehla’s home, a breeze tinIn ultrarunning, a sport that rewards kled what sounded like a huge wind chime. mental fortitude and prudent pacing over But it was, in fact, his more than 300 race absolute speed, octogenarian athletes are medals, which he had strung up on his not completely unheard-of. This March, for washing line to show a visiting journalist. instance, five runners older than 80 com- “They are my legacy,” he said. peted at the USA Track & Field 100 mile Mosehla grew up and still lives in the championship in Nevada. village of Ga-Mogashoa, in South Africa’s “It’s phenomenal, but it’s not totally im- rural northeast. The youngest of six chilprobable,” said Shona Hendricks, a South dren, he was born at home — “we had no African sports scientist and ultrarunning clinics here then” — and spent his childhood tending his family’s cattle on the rocky hillsides and in valleys scooped between them. At times, he and his friends would walk more than 20 miles a day with their herds, and would sleep beside them in the grass. “I knew all those cattle by name,” he said.

In 1959, when he was 17, Mosehla asked his father if he could go to school so Jonatan Ramos Director Funerario that he could learn to read and write. “In those days, “Tus sentimientos en las mejores manos” going to school late was the common thing here,” said Aceptamos la Mayoría de los Planes Funerales Benson Leshilo, a friend of Pre-Arreglos sin Interes Mosehla’s. “It was the situ•Cómodas Facilidades •Amplio Estacionamiento ation of the time,” he said, DIRECTOR FUNERAL AUTORIZADO referring to apartheid, the brutal system of segregation that deliberately kept Black Bairoa la 25, Caguas (antiguo JF Montalvo) South Africans poor and undereducated.

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(X photo) In Mosehla’s village, there was no school, so he walked 5 miles to the nearest one, where he began kindergarten at the age of 18. As he studied, he also worked in construction on the side to pay his school fees and help support his family. “That work started out from necessity, but I grew to love it,” he said.

It was also at this time that he began to run, first in local cross-country meets and later representing his bantustan, an apartheid-era territory set up for Black ethnic groups by South Africa’s government.

“I was light and fast, so I was always winning,” he said.

At the time, South African distance running was on the cusp of a revolution. The country had been barred from most major sporting competitions, including the Olympics and the World Cup, because of apartheid. Desperate to claw its way back in, the white government announced in the early 1970s that it would integrate road running.

By the time Mosehla ran his first marathon in 1974, the country’s major road races were beginning to desegregate.

But the situation was far from idyllic. In 1981, Mosehla says he was leading a marathon in the city of Pietersburg (now Polokwane) when a white race marshal purposely directed him to take a wrong turn. He said that he figured it out in time to sprint back and still win the race, but added that “I was so angry that I declined to take the prize.”

A couple of years later, busy with work and the demands of life as a new husband and father, Mosehla stopped racing altogether. Instead, he would jog a few kilome-

ters before work on the concrete road behind his house, where trucks growled past carrying cargo of asbestos and chrome from local mines.

He didn’t take up running formally again until 2003, when he was 61. By then, the Comrades had mushroomed from a plucky little event with a few thousand participants each year into the world’s largest race longer than a marathon. It attracted between 15,000 and 20,000 runners a year, tens of thousands of spectators and large TV audiences. For South Africans, the Comrades had become the pinnacle of distance running, and Mosehla was no exception.

In 2006, he signed up for the race, and finished in 8 hours, 19 minutes.

“One thing I love about Comrades is that on that day, people are focused on the same thing — they have the same spirit,” he said. “There is no difference between us on that day.”

Except, for some runners, there was one major difference.

“I’m half his age, and he still beats me,” Thabana Mokgohloa, 41, said. This year, Mokgohloa, who runs for the Polokwane Athletic Club with Mosehla, finished the Comrades about 20 minutes behind the 81-year-old. “You know what?” he added, “Every time he beats me, I get inspired.”

On a recent morning, Mosehla slipped on a pair of old blue sneakers and set off on a 5-mile jog near his house. As he passed hillsides where he had once herded his father’s cows and houses he had built over his 50-year career, passers-by shouted greetings. He rattled off a list of his favorite construction projects to the wheezing journalist beside him: the local headman’s home, a teachers college, a nursing home.

“Whenever I build a house, it must come out splendid, because it is an advertisement of my work,” he said. “When I see my buildings, it makes me feel proud, like when I run with the young ones.”

He was still basking in his latest Comrades finish — his 10th race — which had propelled him to the status of minor running royalty in South Africa. He was now constantly being invited to run in races across the country, and had recently hosted the premier of his province, Limpopo, at his house. It felt to him as if his life was on the cusp of something great, and he said he hoped next to run an international marathon, in Dubai or New York.

“God knows everyone’s age,” he said.

“And for me he has decided: You are still young.”

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(Mar 21-April 20)

This will be a day rich in reflection. You’re able to observe what’s going around you while still retaining some distance. Other people’s ambitions will amuse you as they play their parts more like caricatures than real people. Stepping back like this benefits you greatly. You should do it more often.

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Gemini

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Here’s a day when some long-awaited attention or recognition comes your way. You’re finished with the hassles you experienced during the past month and have entered a calmer period.

Those who could recently only criticize can’t find enough words to praise you. Take the compliments at face value. There’s nothing wrong with being happy with yourself.

This will be a day of reflection. While you may be tempted to look back and think about how far you’ve come, your time would be better spent thinking about what the future has in store. You’ve entered a period of rethinking both your identity and objectives. These aren’t small matters. You’ll need every ounce of energy at your disposal to make it through this time of transition.

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Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Today promises to be excellent, but don’t go overboard. You might be tempted to think that your minor financial difficulties are already behind you. Alas, they are not. What you do today provides the blueprint for your future. Continued efforts to stabilize your behavior will provide the security you desire for the future.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

You’re in the home stretch now. Kiss your worries goodbye. Your efforts pay off as people listen to your advice and try to please you. Although certain details in your love life still need to be worked out, it’s safe to coast for a while. You’ve spent months in this process of self-transformation and you deserve a little rest.

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Capricorn

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Your life seems to revolve around human contact. You’re an outgoing, cheerful, engaging conversationalist who enjoys bringing people together, but lately you’ve been yearning to be alone. Today don’t ignore any urge you feel for solitude. Even though it’s an unusual need for you, it’s still valid and you should honor it.

This would be an ideal day to take extra care of your body. Don’t kid yourself that those back problems will go away. Ditto that pain in your knee. Make an appointment with a doctor or physical therapist. It won’t hurt you to set aside your responsibilities for one day. This is important.

Sometimes friends become your real family.

Your friendships are deeper and more enduring than you realize. Many people are eager to give their help, so why are you reluctant to receive it?

Haven’t you been the one promoting the benefits of warm, sincere friendships? Today makes you aware of your talents and reinforces how important friendships are.

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You may have recently modified the material aspects of your life. Was it sufficient to stop there? More profound changes might be in order.

Take a look at what motivated you to create the life you’re living now. Pay special attention to the choices you’ve made in your profession. Are you sure you’re doing what you were meant to do? Are you using your talents to the fullest?

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This will be a great day to meditate. You may be dissatisfied because your various projects have yet to take form. You’re impatient, but who wouldn’t be? This waiting period has lasted for about two months but will soon end. The planetary energy asks you to consider only what is essential for you. Don’t start new projects based on anything superfluous.

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You’ve made it over the hump. You’ve moved beyond the problems of the recent past and you’re entering a more peaceful phase. You’ll soon complete your projects at work. Your domestic life will be the picture of bliss and harmony. Enjoy this period of rest and relaxation because it will be followed by a period of intense longing that requires your total attention.

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You’ve made it over the hump. You’ve moved beyond the problems of the recent past and you’re entering a more peaceful phase. You’ll soon complete your projects at work. Your domestic life will be the picture of bliss and harmony. Enjoy this period of rest and relaxation because it will be followed by a period of intense longing that requires your total attention.

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