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AMPR to choose new leadership, vote on regs

By THE STAR STAFF

On Thursday at the Sheraton Hotel in San Juan, some 500 delegates from the Puerto Rico Teachers Association (AMPR) will elect their president and vice president for the next three years.

It is also expected that those present will vote for or against 17 amendments to AMPR regulations.

The candidates are the current president Víctor Manuel Bonilla Sánchez and Raúl González as vice president. They are challenged by José Eligio Vélez Jr. and Sibarys Morales Paniagua for president and vice president, respectively.

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“I assumed the presidency at the worst moment in its history, after the departure of President Aida Díaz; after a year of inaction by her successor Elba Aponte; in the most convulsive moments of the educational system after hurricanes, earthquakes and a pandemic; and in the middle of the Puerto Rico bankruptcy negotiation process,” Bonilla Sánchez said. “The teachers became the hardesthit working class with the disastrous approval of the Debt Adjustment Plan. Even with all this outlook, I said I was present, and I have been at the forefront, forming a work team with my colleagues to work for the teachers’ cause.”

Vélez, whose father presided over the institution for 28 years starting in 1971, said meanwhile that: “Our motto is: All for the reconstruction of our Association.”

“Let’s strengthen what we already have,” he said. “The Teachers Association has a history that Puerto Rico and the teachers recognize.”

Added Morales Paniagua: “The enrollment has been asking for a change, because for many years, and we know it, because they have been retired teachers [those who have directed the institution].”

“We are active classroom teachers and were asked to run by both chairpersons and delegates,” she said. “That is the reason and we are fulfilling our commitment as associates who love our institution and who want the best.”

Both Bonilla and Vélez want to increase benefits for retirees and active teachers.

“There is so much to do. The transformative vision that I want to implement for the AMPR requires the trust, unity and organization of the associates,” Bonilla Sánchez said. “As part of this plan we have 20 initial strategies that will contribute to the achievement of our objectives, which

includes the evaluation of the organization’s finances.”

Vélez noted that “in our institution at the moment, what we have today, unfortunately I have to say, is a static and reactive administration.”

“We also have an institution in which information is sequestered. We do not know what is happening, we have an administration that is in dilation. When I say this, it is as if the Teachers Association has gotten into a time capsule, as if it had given up and stopped doing things, and in two months now we have seen how it has reacted. The Association is away from the base. The vision of the Teachers Association is: to help, to get closer to the base, which are the teachers. That we owe to them.”

Regarding the amendments to the AMPR regulations, there are 17 proposals by Bonilla Sánchez that are not to the liking of the challengers.

The process begins at 9 a.m. and must end on Thursday afternoon.

The San Juan Daily Star, the only paper with News Service in English in Puerto Rico, publishes 7 days a week, with a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday edition, along with a Weekend Edition to cover Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

González Magaz stepping down as Family secretary

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced on Tuesday the resignation of Family Secretary Carmen Ana González Magaz, effective on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022.

González Magaz resigned for personal reasons.

“The Family Department has a job of great importance for our most vulnerable communities. Secretary Carmen Ana González Magaz gave herself body and soul to strengthening the services offered to children, the elderly, and the entire family component of our society,” the governor said. “González Magaz demonstrated a firm commitment to the social welfare of Puerto Rico. She was in charge of important challenges and assumed them with sensitivity, responsibility and firmness. On behalf of the Puerto Rican people and myself, I appreciate her dedication and hard work during these two

years in which she demonstrated her passion for public service. I wish her the greatest of successes in her next assignments.”

Under the direction of González Magaz,

it became possible to strengthen and expedite the adoption processes and expand the services offered to the elderly population, Pierluisi noted. Furthermore, as part of her

commitment to children, she developed a new model that unified Early/Head Start and Child Care programs, so preschool-age children receive more efficient services, he said.

In addition, she created a multisectoral commission to work on strategies to combat poverty and social inequality. To better serve the public, she worked on improving the agency’s digitization and Visual Language processes. Real-time services are now provided to deaf people, both through digital platforms and in person, the governor pointed out.

González Magaz was also appointed to chair the Committee for Gender Violence Prevention, Support, Rescue and Education, better known as the PARE Committee, and directed the task of recommending strategies and public policy to lead the fight against gender violence.

Deputy Family Secretary Ciení Rodríguez will lead the agency on an interim basis as of Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023.

UPR registers $38 million net deficit for July-November

By THE STAR STAFF

The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) recorded a net deficit of $37.9 million between July and November, the first five months of fiscal year (FY) 2023, which began July 1, according to an unaudited draft liquidity report for November disclosed

recently by the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by its Spanish initials).

The net deficit during the five-month period that ended Nov. 30 was 141% higher than the budgeted $15.7 million net deficit.

The number of employees, however, increased from 9,646 to 10,267, or 6%,

from June to November. The increase in headcount is attributed to normal seasonality and attrition. By campus, the increases in headcount are primarily due to hikes at the Río Piedras, Ponce and Humacao campuses.

UPR ended November with a cash balance of $244.7 million and has an unfavorable net cash flow variance after debt service of $22.1 million compared to forecast.

“The unfavorable variance is primarily driven by lower than expected Campus‐Generated Inflows and Slot Machine receipts, and higher than expected student aid disbursements (Federal Grants, Pell and Donations),” the report notes.

The university recorded nearly $467.6 million in total revenue between July and November, which was 2% higher than the $456.5 million budgeted figure for the period. Meanwhile, expenses after debt service payments were $505.4 million, 7% more than the $472.2 million projection.

UPR ended with a bank cash balance after debt service of $244.7 million at the end of the July-November period, 8% less than the $266.8 million estimate, the report indicated.

UPR prepared its FY 2023 liquidity plan in November 2022, using the Financial

Oversight and Management Board-certified budget as the baseline for liquidity planning. For FY 2023, a forecast was provided that takes into consideration timing and seasonality of cash inflows and outflows, based on conversations with UPR finance and accounting management, and based on observations of historical FY 2020 and FY 2021 actual cash flow data.

The University of Puerto Rico’s net deficit of nearly $38 million during the five-month period that ended Nov. 30 was 141% higher than the budgeted $15.7 million net deficit.

Family Secretary Carmen Ana González Magaz

Chamber of Commerce outlines goals for 2023

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce (PRCC) officials spoke Tuesday about the entity’s goals for 2023, including allowing Nutritional Assistance Program (NAP, or locally, PAN) beneficiaries to work without losing benefits, healthcare parity, tax reform, stable energy and infrastructure development.

The PRCC noted its role in avoiding the Medicare cliff. President Biden signed on Tuesday the $1.7 trillion budget bill. The legislation would allocate over $19 billion in Medicaid funds to Puerto Rico for the next five years and $1 billion to acquire and install solar panels and energy storage batteries on the roofs of residences for low-income and disabled people on the island.

“There are still disparities in Medicaid, like prolonged care, Part B coverage, but we want to increase the program’s base,” a PRCC official said during a press conference. “There are still efforts for equity in Medicaid Advantage. In March, we expect the new rules, and there is a discussion of legislation for those that have both Medicare-Medicaid.”

Regarding nutrition, PRCC Executive Director Liza García said the organization is working with the Retailers Association and the Coalition for Food to lobby Congress to extend the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to Puerto Rico.

The island lost funding from the Nutritional Assistance Program obtained after the 2017 hurricanes. PRCC officials not only told U.S. lawmakers that people would not

be able to eat, but that businesses would be impacted.

“This is an economic problem,” García said.

The officials emphasized that Puerto Rico must not only be able to allow needy people to receive benefits, but also to work without getting penalized.

Kenneth Rivera, a certified public accountant, noted that under SNAP beneficiaries can work without losing benefits.

“We want people to be able to work,” he said. “SNAP can be adjusted by inflation, contrary to NAP, in which people get a fixed block of funding.”

The subject may be tackled in the summer when Congress votes on the Farm Bill, said PRCC President Cameron McKenzie, who noted the entity will make two more trips to Washington, D.C. to lobby for the change.

The PRCC will also focus on tax reform to reduce taxes for businesses and individuals and repeal the inventory tax, which is paid by businesses on merchandise that is not sold. The tax ranges from 6.33 percent to 10.33 percent islandwide.

McKenzie said the island’s economy will not suffer as much during an inflation that will hit globally because of incoming

federal funds.

“The political structure must use this juncture to focus on economic development, including making permitting more agile,” he said.

García said that as they have done in the past, the PRCC will push for the repeal of the inventory tax, which is a key source of funding for municipalities. It will promote a bill that would repeal the inventory tax in times of emergency. Another bill the PRCC will promote will replace the inventory tax with the sales and use taxes imposed on online purchases as a source of funding for island towns.

At the federal level, the PRCC hopes to obtain incentives to create jobs in manufacturing as well as incentives for businesses that kept their workers after Hurricane Fiona, a benefit given to the sector after the 2017 hurricane season. Rivera said the PRCC must also work to ease the impact of the GILTI regulations, as all U.S.-owned controlled foreign corporations are subject to a minimum corporate tax rate of 10.5%.

Puerto Rico must also integrate itself into the process of “reshoring” to bring jobs back to the island, Rivera said.

McKenzie said that besides incentives laws, the PRCC will support repealing the Jones Act, the maritime shipping laws that require goods to be transported in U.S. vessels among U.S. ports.

The PRCC will also support increasing renewable energy sources and promote accessible and cost-efficient energy.

By THE STAR STAFF

Dr. Iris Cardona, the Department of Health’s chief medical officer, called for prudence on Tuesday during the upcoming end-of-the-year holidays given the data from the agency’s most recent report, which covers the period between Dec. 11 and Dec. 17, when 549 active outbreaks of COVID-19 were identified among families in various parts of the island.

“There is a high level of community transmission,” Cardona said in a radio interview. “We have changed from low … and that has implications for the entire population. I use the word ‘prudence’ -- we all already have the ability to decide how to face this, what activities to go to, as well as who we come into contact with and how to look for a way to protect ourselves and our families.”

The official called on citizens to choose vaccination, taking into account that only 33% of the population has their

doses up to date.

Cardona ruled out for the moment suggesting that more drastic government measures be taken, such as the mandatory use of a mask in closed places.

“That’s always on the table,” she said. “However, already in the third year of the pandemic people must have learned and certainly the Department of Health has never stopped recommending the mask, and that is not bad, but everyone must have the ability to use it or not.”

Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Liza García

21 controlled foreign corporations agree to operate under new tax regime

By THE STAR STAFF

Twenty-one controlled foreign corporations have agreed to operate in the new year under the new tax regime determined by Act 52-2022, Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés Alicea announced Tuesday.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia earlier this year enacted Act 52 of June 30, 2022, which allows companies to elect for a 10.5% tax on industrial development income from sales of goods and services instead of the 4% excise tax on foreign corporations, which the latest federal foreign tax credit rules do not consider creditable against the payment of federal taxes. In addition to changing the excise tax regime, Act 52-2022 amends the incentives laws and other statutes, including the Puerto Rico Internal Revenue Code. Businesses electing for the 10.5% tax rate must ask the island Department of Economic Development and Commerce to amend their tax exemption decree to reflect the new tax regime under which the 10.5% tax rate will apply.

“Some 21 groups of entities covered by Act 154-2010, will operate under a new in- come tax regime as of January 2023, in most

cases,” Parés Alicea said. “These entities will pay a tax rate of 10.5% on their industrial development income and a similar rate for royalties associated with the sale of their products.”

The Treasury chief noted that the group of entities that completed the transition is larger than had been anticipated.

“In total, there were 37 groups of entities operating under the 4% tax,” he said. “In November we had nine entities requesting the change and six interested parties. We are closing the year with 21 amended decrees.”

The remaining 16 entities could make their transition at any time, if they so determine, because the law does not establish a specific date for doing so. Meanwhile, they will remain under the 4% tax regime.

Parés Alicea said the effort and the conversations will continue with the representatives of the entities that are still evaluating the new tax regime.

The Treasury Department will also continue to monitor the effect of the transition on collections, he said.

San Germán to host Three Kings festival Jan. 4

By THE STAR STAFF

The Nelsito Children’s Park in San Germán will transform on Wednesday, Jan. 4 into a Three Kings celebration as part of the municipality’s long-awaited “Children’s Festival,” where various Disney princesses will arrive to give gifts to the first 2,000 children who arrive at the park.

San Germán Mayor Virgilio Olivera Olivera said the park gate will open at 10 a.m. and “we will have, in addition to various artistic spectaculars, shaved ice, hot dogs and family entertainment among many other things free of charge.”

“We are thankful for all the cooperation that has given us the all-San Germán company Pío Pío Farms with the installation of a farm with animals, as well as the Inter American University of Puerto Rico’s San Germán campus, who will bring us the Three Kings so that children and the whole family can take pictures with them,” Olivera said.

Also present will be officials from the Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Administration, who “will be giving talks on the work of managing the emotions during a time of year such as this,” the mayor said.

“We want to share with the children and their families of our city of San Germán,” Olivera added. “What we seek is that people have a beautiful day and at the same time children can enjoy an unforgettable experience, on the

eve of the traditional Three Kings Day.”

The mayor offered his hope that “the year 2023 is one of much opportunity, prosperity and above all else that we

have good health.”

“A hug of brotherhood to the people of Puerto Rico from our beloved City of San Germán,” he said.

Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés Alicea

“What we seek is that people have a beautiful day and at the same time children can enjoy an unforgettable experience, on the eve of the traditional Three Kings Day,” the mayor of San Germán said.

Thousands of canceled flights upend travel plans across US

By DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR and DANIEL VICTOR

Thousands of stranded holiday travelers were no closer to home Tuesday, as the aftermath of a deadly winter storm that grounded flights and throttled plans over the holiday weekend continued to play out at airline counters across the country.

Disruptions were likely to continue throughout the week at airports, where canceled flights caused weary homebound travelers to sleep on floors and wait hours in line for customer service.

By midmorning Eastern time Tuesday, nearly 2,900 U.S. flights were canceled and more than 1,600 others delayed, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking service. Most of the cancellations — more than 2,500 of them — came from Southwest Airlines, which had already called off more than 60% of its flights for the day.

Tuesday’s unfolding chaos followed similar scenes Monday, when more than 4,000 U.S. flights — most also operated by Southwest — were canceled and more than 8,500 others delayed, FlightAware reported.

Southwest Airlines said in a statement Monday that the travel disruptions were “unacceptable” and that its network was behind because of the winter storm that slammed parts of the country with heavy snow, ice and strong winds much of last week.

“Our heartfelt apologies for this are just beginning,” the company said, adding that it was working to address the disruptions by “rebalancing the airline and repositioning” crews.

By late Monday and into Tuesday morning, Southwest was in damage-control mode, responding to angry and frustrated customers on Twitter. The airline repeatedly apologized for the cancellations and offered assistance through direct messages, which did not appease everyone.

“Our biggest issue at this time is getting our crews and our aircraft in the right places,” Chris Perry, a spokesperson for Southwest, said in an email. A statement on the airline’s website called the cancellations “unacceptable.”

The U.S. Department of Transportation said in a statement Monday that it would look into the Southwest issue, adding that it was concerned by the airline’s “unacceptable rate of cancellations and delays” and reports of poor customer service.

Henry Harteveldt, an airline analyst, said in an email that Southwest’s structure made it “uniquely vulnerable to weather problems, especially one as geographically extensive and as intensive as this storm has been.”

“I don’t recall seeing an airline experience such a massive operational problem as we are currently seeing at Southwest,” he said.

Most airlines operate on a “hub/spoke” basis, with planes returning back to a hub airport after flying out to other cities, but Southwest planes tend to make multiple stops across the country, he said.

Hub/spoke airlines can shut down specific routes when bad weather hits, resuming operations when conditions improve, but Southwest can’t do that as easily without disrupting multiple flights, he said.

David Vernon, another airline analyst at financial firm Sanford C. Bernstein, the system enables higher use of planes during normal times but can cause cascading negative effects when things go wrong.

Making matters worse for customers: Southwest has a policy of not exchanging tickets with other airlines, so the airline could not rebook passengers on other flights, Harteveldt said. The debacle could force the airline to “buy back” frustrated customers with deeper discounts or conduct more promotions, he said.

No single region or airport bore the brunt of the cancellations. On Tuesday morning, more than 155 flights originating at Denver International Airport, or about 17% of its outgoing traffic, were canceled, and more than 115

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flights, or about 38%, were canceled out of Chicago Midway International. More than 100 flights were also canceled at Harry Reid International in Las Vegas, and similar numbers were reported for Baltimore-Washington International, Dallas Love Field in Texas and Nashville International in Tennessee.

It has been nearly a week since the winter storm began wreaking havoc for millions of people counting on airlines to get them from point A to B. The number of canceled flight began to rise last Thursday, when airlines called off more than 2,600 of them. The next day, nearly 6,000, or about a quarter of all U.S. flights, were canceled across the country. On Saturday, Christmas Eve, nearly 3,500 flights were canceled, and slightly fewer, at about 3,200, were cut from the schedules on Christmas Day.

The recovery is just beginning in Buffalo, New York, where at least 28 people died and roads remained impassable after the area’s worst winter storm in more than 50 years. A driving ban remained in place as the snow was expected to finally end early Tuesday after accumulations of up to 49 inches. Many streets have not been plowed, and vehicles remained stranded on roads, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday.

Most power outages had been restored after affecting more than 1 million customers at the storm’s peak, but thousands remained without power in Maine and New York state early Tuesday, according to poweroutage.us.

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George Santos admits to lying about college and work history

By MICHAEL GOLD and GRACE ASHFORD

Ending a weeklong silence, Rep.-elect George Santos admitted earlier this week to a sizable list of falsehoods about his professional background, educational history and property ownership. But he said he was determined to take the oath of office on Jan. 3 and join the House majority.

Santos, R-N.Y., who was elected in November to represent parts of northern Long Island and northeast Queens, confirmed some of the key findings of a New York Times investigation into his background, but sought to minimize the misrepresentations.

“My sins here are embellishing my résumé,” Santos told The New York Post in one of several interviews he gave on Monday.

Santos admitted to lying about graduating from college and making misleading claims that he worked for Citigroup or Goldman Sachs. He once said he had a family-owned real estate portfolio of 13 properties; on Monday, he admitted he was not a landlord.

Santos, the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat as a non-incumbent, also acknowledged owing thousands in unpaid rent and a yearslong marriage he had never disclosed.

“I dated women in the past. I married a woman. It’s personal stuff,” he said to The Post, adding that he was “OK with my sexuality. People change.”

The admissions by Santos added a new wrinkle to one of the more astonishing examples of an incoming congressman falsifying key biographical elements of his background — with Santos maintaining the falsehoods through two consecutive bids for Congress, the first of which he lost.

Santos acknowledged that a string of financial difficulties had left him owing thousands to landlords and creditors. But he failed to fully explain in the interviews how his fortunes reversed so significantly that, by 2022, he was able to lend $700,000 to his congressional campaign.

Santos also firmly denied committing a crime anywhere in the world, even though the Times had uncovered Brazilian court records showing that Santos had been charged with fraud as a young man after he was caught writing checks with a stolen checkbook.

In both interviews Monday, Santos also denounced reporting by both CNN and The Forward, a Jewish publica-

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Jewish Coalition meeting in Las Vegas on Nov. 19, 2022. The congressman-elect told The New York Post that he had not graduated from college or worked at two major Wall Street companies, as he had previously claimed.

tion, that he may have misled voters about his account of his Jewish ancestry, including that his maternal grandparents were born in Europe and emigrated to Brazil during the Holocaust.

“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos told The Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”

Santos, who has repeatedly said he was religiously Catholic but has also identified as a nonobservant Jew, told the Post his grandmother had recounted how she converted from Judaism to Catholicism.

Santos, through representatives, has declined multiple requests to speak with the Times.

Over the course of his campaigns, Santos claimed to have graduated from Baruch College in 2010 before working at Citigroup and, eventually, Goldman Sachs. A biography on the National Republican Congressional Committee website said he had attended both Baruch and New York University and received degrees in finance and economics.

But the colleges and companies could not locate records to verify his claims when contacted by the Times.

In Monday’s interview, Santos admitted to the Post that he had not graduated from Baruch College or any college.

“I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning. I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my resume,” he said, later adding: “We do stupid things in life.”

He also admitted that he never worked directly for Goldman Sachs or Citigroup, blaming a “poor choice of words” for creating the impression that he had.

Past statements of Santos are relatively clear however: An archived version of Santos’ former campaign website preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine says

he “began working at Citigroup as an associate and quickly advanced to become an associate asset manager in the real asset division of the firm.”

Instead, he told the Post on Monday, he dealt with both firms through his work at another company, LinkBridge Investors, which connects investors with potential clients. LinkBridge, he said, had “limited partnerships” with the two Wall Street firms

The Times was able to confirm Santos’ employment at LinkBridge. But in a version of his campaign biography posted as recently as April, Santos suggested that he had started his career on Wall Street at Citigroup and that he was at Goldman Sachs briefly before his time at LinkBridge.

A spokesperson for Citigroup declined to comment. Representatives for Goldman Sachs and LinkBridge did not immediately respond to a request for more information.

Santos has not fully accounted for his employment during the years that he had claimed, that he was advancing on Wall Street. In a separate interview with WABC radio, he confirmed reporting by the Times that he had worked at a call center in Queens in late 2011 and early 2012.

Yet even as Santos, whose victory helped Republicans secure a narrow majority in the next House of Representatives, admitted to some fabrication, his actions will likely not prevent him from being seated in Congress.

Democrats — including the outgoing House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and the next House Democratic minority leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York — have suggested Santos is unfit to serve in Congress. Top House Republican leaders, including Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, have largely remained silent.

The House can only prevent candidates from taking office if they violate the Constitution’s age, citizenship and state residency requirements. Once he has been seated, however, Santos could face ethics investigations, legal experts have said.

Of greater potential concern are questions about Santos’ financial disclosures, in which he reported earning millions of dollars from his company, the Devolder Organization.

Santos disclosed little about the operations of his company, and the Times could find no public-facing assets or other property tied to the firm. Santos also did not list any clients on his disclosures, despite the requirement that candidates list any compensation over $5,000 from a single source.

Intentionally omitting or misrepresenting information on a congressional financial disclosure is considered a federal crime.

In a video interview with City & State, Santos asserted that his consulting practice at the Devolder Organization built upon the work he had done at his former firm, LinkBridge.

“I had the relationships and I started making a lot of money. And I fundamentally started building wealth, and I decided I’d invest in my race for Congress,” Santos said, adding: “There’s nothing wrong with that — no criminal conduct. No anything of the sort.”

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The most sought-after manuscript in publishing? The Jan. 6 report.

By ALEXANDRA ALTER and ELIZABETH HARRIS

As soon as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol released its exhaustive report late last week, at least a half-dozen publishers sprang into action, each vying to put out the definitive edition of the document, and to get it out fast.

The publishing houses signed up these projects without knowing how big the job would be: They did not know how many pages the final report would have, if it would include graphics and maps, or if it would have a lot of redactions, which can be complicated to handle in print.

Now that the document has arrived, they are rushing to capitalize on public interest and to beat their competitors, knowing that several other companies are producing books that are nearly identical. And they are doing this while facing the immense bottleneck at printing presses and warehouses that is created by holiday demand for books.

“Everybody, not just us, is trying to do their damnedest to be first to market, but also every publisher has their own angle and spin on it,” said Doug Jones, publisher at Harper Perennial, which is putting together an edition with an introduction by MSNBC’s chief legal correspondent, Ari Melber. “Each one has their own audience.”

Publishers did what they could in advance, including commissioning the introductions from prominent journalists and politicians that will set their various versions apart. Random House’s edition has a foreword from Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Macmillan’s features an introduction by David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, and an afterword by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the House Jan. 6 select committee. Hachette’s edition includes reporting and analysis from the staff of The New York Times.

Extrapolating from the dramatic presentation put on by the House committee during its televised hearings, which were watched by tens of millions of viewers, publishers are hopeful that the Jan. 6 report will present a compelling narrative — more page-turner than legalistic document — and appeal to a broad audience. After an 18-month investigation, the committee on Monday accused former President Donald Trump of inciting insurrection, conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an act of Congress and one other federal crime, referring him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution.

“The committee did a magnificent job in

the public hearings; they were really riveting, they had a storytelling sense of how to put together a larger narrative,” said Dennis Johnson, co-founder of the independent publisher Melville House. “That speaks well for their ability to put together the larger narrative in the text.”

Several publishers are aiming to have the e-book ready within days, and the first print editions available in about a week; others are planning on early January releases, hoping to time publication to the anniversary of the attack on the Capitol.

For publishers, which usually plan books years in advance, these quick-to-market titles can be logistically daunting. Most of them have already created their covers, bought paper and edited the introductions as they wait for the full report. Next comes a mundane task: repeatedly refreshing the commission’s website to get the report in hand.

As soon as the text is available, publishers send it to their typesetter. The typesetter quickly creates an e-book file, as well as versions for Amazon and Ingram, which can print books on demand. Another version goes to a book printer that handles a larger number of copies.

“It’s like turning on several production faucets at the same time,” said Sean Desmond, publisher of Twelve, an imprint at Hachette. “It gets tight.”

The rewards can be substantial, however. While a quick turnaround has additional costs, like on-demand printing, government reports are in the public domain, so publishers don’t have to pay to use the material.

And they can sell quite well. Various editions of the Mueller report — including one from Simon & Schuster in partnership with The Washington Post and another from Skyhorse, an independent publisher — have sold about 475,000 print copies, according to NPD BookScan, which tracks the sale of most printed books in the United States. The 9/11 Commission Report, also published by multiple houses, has sold 1.1 million copies. In both cases, almost all of those sales came within the first year of publication.

Some bookstores are ordering multiple editions of the Jan. 6 report, unsure of which version will prove most popular. Barnes & Noble has ordered all major editions but is taking more copies of the edition from Hachette, which will have the foreword by the Times. Politics and Prose, an independent store in Washington, D.C., is also ordering several different editions.

Besides competing with one another, publishers also have to contend with the inconvenient fact that a free version of the report will be available online for anyone who wants

to read it. Still, executives are betting that many readers, and institutions like schools and libraries, will want to have a printed and bound version for posterity.

“Even before the public hearings, we decided that given the facts that precipitated this investigation, that this was likely the most important congressional investigation in history,” said Mark Warren, executive editor and vice president at Random House. “For the record and for history, it was important to publish its findings.”

Here are details on some of the most anticipated versions.

For the edition published by Celadon, a Macmillan imprint, Remnick wrote the introduction and Raskin, the epilogue. “The committee’s work here is to establish the historical record,” Remnick said in a statement. “The New Yorker and Celadon’s work is to remind people that we cannot afford to look away.”

Skyhorse, an independent press, is publishing two versions, with analysis from widely differing points on the political spectrum. One has a foreword by Darren Beattie, who was a speechwriter for Trump and who disputed his defeat in the 2020 election. The other has an introduction by Elizabeth Holtzman, a former member of Congress who served on the Judiciary Committee during President Richard Nixon’s impeachment inquiry. Tony Lyons, the president of Skyhorse, said that “while Holtzman argues for the DOJ’s obligation to indict Trump, Beattie provides a blueprint for the incoming Congress to investigate the bias of the report.”

Published by Twelve, an imprint of Hachette, this version will include over 80 pages of reporting, eyewitness accounts and analysis from the staff of the Times, including a timeline of events and maps that show the paths taken by those who breached the Capitol.

In late September, after Melber, a MSNBC host, announced on his show that he was teaming up with HarperCollins on an edition of the Jan. 6 report, the book sailed to No. 1 on Amazon. Preorders have been so large that HarperCollins is planning a first print run of 250,000 copies, and is aiming to release it in early January. On his show, Melber plugged his version but also urged viewers to read the report in whatever format they preferred, “including downloading it online.”

Random House’s edition of the report will feature an introduction from Schiff, who has had a front-row seat to the House investigation.

“Congressman Schiff’s perspective on the state of American democracy is unique, given the events of the Trump presidency and Schiff’s role in coming to the defense of our institutions and our Constitution,” said Mark Warren, who edited the foreword.

Melville House, a small press, has a long track record of publishing public documents, including the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture and the Mueller report. Its edition of the Jan. 6 report presents the unvarnished report, without an introduction. “Any introduction gives it a certain bias,” said Johnson, Melville House’s publisher. “People should have access to the primary document.”

A photo of Vice President Mike Pence is shown at the 8th public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, July 21, 2022.

In the Bahamas, a lingering sympathy for Sam Bankman-Fried

By ROB COPELAND

There’s a popular reggaeton phrase, “money can’t done,” meaning that fabulous wealth makes its own rules. In the Bahamas in recent months, it has become a gleeful reference to the once highflying resident Sam Bankman-Fried.

From Washington to Wall Street, Bankman-Fried is now persona non grata. Politicians, investors and cryptocurrency types all but compete to declare most vigorously how little they think of BankmanFried, the fallen founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

Not so in the Bahamas, where Bankman-Fried lived for the past year in a lavish gated community on the western shore of New Providence Island, near the nation’s capital of Nassau. Few here predicted that he would spend his final week on the island farther inland to the east, in a neighborhood home to high crime and shacks, inside perhaps the Caribbean’s most notorious prison.

“I think he had a good heart,” said Shemeca Moss, a Nassau school administrator. Moss was shopping on a recent afternoon at a beauty supply shop a few blocks from Fox Hill prison, where Bankman-Fried was held for a week before he was extradited to the United States last Wednesday to face sweeping fraud charges.

“He’s Bahamian,” she added, as part of the explanation for her sympathies.

The connection between Bahamians and BankmanFried, who was born and spent most of his life in California, reflects a complicated set of circumstances. Much as he did in the United States, Bankman-Fried donated millions of dollars to a dizzying collection of Bahamian charities, churches and government entities — including the local police. In March, FTX covered the cost of a ritzy resort ballroom used for a state reception to welcome Prince William and Catherine Middleton, then the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who were visiting the island.

Once the golden boy of the crypto world, BankmanFried, 30, was arrested this month on criminal charges that

included wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering and violations of campaign finance laws. He is accused of diverting billions of dollars in customer funds to a trading platform he controlled. Two of his top former deputies pleaded guilty last week and are cooperating with federal prosecutors in building the case against him. One of them, Caroline Ellison, admitted to being involved in diverting customer funds, telling a federal judge, “I knew that it was wrong.”

Yet in interviews across the island Bankman-Fried called home for just over a year, residents almost universally said that while the white-collar nature of his crimes were troublesome, they were hardly comparable to the gang violence that pervades some corners of the island. They expressed fears of economic fallout for the island if he and the other cryptocurrency brethren he attracted don’t return.

Residents may find it easier to commiserate with Bankman-Fried because it is unlikely that FTX’s victims, who prosecutors say lost as much as $8 billion in the fraud, included many locals. Residents of the Bahamas must apply for special permission from the country’s central bank to invest in cryptocurrency, and the government levies a percentage fee for the privilege.

Perched on a concrete block in the shade outside the Nassau prison where the onetime wunderkind was held, Patrick Ferguson, a 61-year-old painter and longtime resident, said Bankman-Fried’s alleged crimes paled in comparison with those he generally associated with hard prison time. “It just doesn’t make any sense,” Ferguson said.

As the self-appointed standard-bearer for the crypto industry at large, BankmanFried was working to diversify the economy of an island that has long looked to expand beyond tourism, and that was punished by the decrease in visitors caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. He helped organize a spring crypto conference that brought in hundreds of well-heeled visitors. At Albany, the oceanfront compound where he and his associates lived, they were known as generous employers; one delivery driver said he was tipped more than $100 to bring a modest Burger King order to a cryptocurrency investor there.

In some instances, residents’ attitudes reflect simple empathy. “I feel bad for him,” said Philip Butler, an elder at Christian Life Church in Nassau.

FTX’s new CEO, John Ray, in congressional testimony this month accused Bahamian authorities of illicitly withdrawing $100 million from the cryptocurrency exchange in the hours before it collapsed. Ray called the process “irregular,” and said authorities have stonewalled his efforts to get answers. The securities regulator for the Bahamas denied that in a statement.

In the Bahamas, the overall crime rate is low but those found guilty often receive long sentences. Fox Hill, where Bankman-Fried was held, is known locally as “Fox Hell.” It bursts with 1,400 prisoners — 40% more than it was built to house — and has limited running water, which often comes out brown, according to former prisoners and their families.

A former inmate released this year, Sean Hall, said a typical breakfast was grits with sardines, scooped into a moldy cup. For lunch, unseasoned ground meat with rice is common. Dinner is often not delivered at all. Violence was common, both at the hands of guards and fellow inmates.

By Fox Hill standards, Bankman-Fried received royal treatment. He was held in the prison’s medical wing with as many as five prisoners in a dormitory-style room that was under constant supervision, according to the administrator. A vegan, he was given toast and jam for breakfast; for lunches and dinners, he had stewed greens and other vegetables.

Still, the prison conditions weighed on BankmanFried’s decision to cut a deal with U.S. prosecutors to be extradited to the United States, according to a person briefed on the discussions.

The prison’s warden, Doan Cleare, said his former charge was “well cared for.” Cleare would not say why Bankman-Fried was held in the medical bay but did say that he received no preferential treatment.

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX, arrives at the Magistrate Court in Nassau, Bahamas, on Dec. 21, 2022. Residents of the Bahamas have a generous view of the disgraced FTX founder, who has been accused of misusing billions of dollars in customer funds.

Dollar recovers as investors digest China’s loosening of COVID rules

The dollar pared losses on Tuesday after China said it would scrap its COVID-19 quarantine rule for inbound travellers - a major step in reopening its borders that boosted risk-related currencies such as the Australian dollar.

China will stop requiring arriving travellers to go into quarantine starting Jan. 8, the National Health Commission said on Monday, even as COVID cases spike. At the same time, Beijing downgraded regulations for managing COVID cases to the lighter Category B from the top-level Category A.

The Aussie rose 0.22 per cent versus the greenback to $0.674 in mostly thin trading during the year-end holiday season, while the New Zealand dollar gave up earlier gains, easing by 0.14 per cent to $0.629. The two currencies are often used as liquid proxies for the Chinese yuan.

The offshore yuan fell 0.12 per cent to 6.9661 per dollar.

“We’ve been in a very narrow trading range, and I think with the dollar firming up against the euro and yen, we could see further dollar gains against the Chinese currency,” said Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex.

Still, investors could be cheered by what some perceive to be “Chinese policymakers’ resolve to full reopening”, said Christopher Wong, a currency strategist at OCBC.

“There seems to be no let-up in the pace of relaxing COVID restrictions despite the surge in COVID cases in the mainland.”

Elsewhere, the euro fell 0.08 per cent against the dollar to $1.0626.

China’s gradual dismantling of its economically-damaging zero-COVID policies may give the euro - which has clawed higher thanks to the European Central Bank taking a much harder line on inflation than investors had expected - an additional boost.

With UK markets closed for a public holiday, trading in sterling was muted, leaving the pound down against the dollar at around $1.2022.

The U.S. dollar index rose 0.134 per cent to 104.220

Data released on Friday showed U.S. consumer spending barely rose in November while inflation cooled further, reinforcing expectations that the Federal Reserve could scale back its aggressive monetary policy tightening.

“In line with its seasonal trend, December has been a soft month for the greenback,” ING FX strategist Francesco Pesole said.

“It’s worth remembering that the dollar rose in each of the past four years in January. Our view for early 2023 is still one of dollar recovery.”

MOST ASSERTIVE STOCKS

The Japanese yen fell 0.44 per cent against the dollar to 133.45, despite a surge in short-term government bond yields to their highest in over seven-and-a-half years, following an auction that attracted relatively weak demand.

Still, the yen is heading for its biggest quarterly rally against the dollar since 2008, with a rise of 8.1 per cent, following a surprise decision last week by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to adjust its monetary policy.

BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Monday dis-

missed the chance of a near-term exit from ultra-loose monetary policy, even as markets and policymakers are signalling an increasing focus on what comes after Kuroda’s tenure ends in April next year.

“While ... (the) policy tweak has added uncertainty to the BOJ outlook, we continue to lean toward BOJ policymakers making no further policy adjustments through the end of 2023,” analysts at Wells Fargo said in a note.

“Inflation pressures are expected to ease, which should lessen the BOJ’s motivation for further policy moves.”

In cryptocurrencies, bitcoin was last down 0.33 per cent at $16,775, while ether last fell 0.57 per cent to $1,210.00.

Aid groups in Afghanistan suspend work after the Taliban ban female staff

By ALFONSO FLORES BERMÚDEZ and FRANCES ROBLES

Twice a week at a gas station on the western edge of Nicaragua’s capital, local residents gather, carrying the telltale signs of people on the move: loaded backpacks, clothes and toiletries stuffed in plastic bags, and heavy jackets in preparation for a chilly journey far from the stifling heat.

Nurses, doctors, students, children, farmers and many other Nicaraguans say teary goodbyes as they await private charter buses for the first leg of an 1,800-mile journey. Final destination: the United States.

For generations, Nicaragua, the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere after Haiti, saw only a trickle of its people migrate northward. But soaring inflation, declining wages and the erosion of democracy under an increasingly authoritarian government have drastically shifted the calculus.

Now, for the first time in Nicaragua’s history, the small nation of 6.5 million is a major contributor to the mass of people trekking to the U.S. southern border, having been displaced by violence, repression and poverty.

While attention has focused this year on the record numbers of Venezuelans and Cubans pouring into the United States, this lessnoted but remarkable surge of Nicaraguans is also adding to the migration crisis in a big way, sending money back to their families and, inadvertently, providing an economic lifeline to a government under sanctions from the United States.

More than 180,000 Nicaraguans crossed into the United States this year through the end of November — about 60 times as many as those who entered during the same period two years earlier, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.

Tatiana González Chacón, 23, a baker, left the Bluefields region in eastern Nicaragua for Phoenix last month, because her father, the leader of an opposition party that saw its charter revoked, was accused of terrorism and had to flee to Costa Rica.

Nicaragua used to be “an enviable country, a place people wanted to go,” she said. “Now it’s a place where its own people want to get out. When you cross that river into the United States, it’s like you breathe a different air.”

Earlier this month, at a bus stop in Managua, the capital, a mother of three who asked not to be named was making the journey. The trip cost her $2,000, and she was still indebted to a smuggler for a previous failed attempt to reach the United States. Four brothers who

recently inherited a farm for which the costs of seeds and fertilizers have quadrupled also boarded a bus heading north.

This year, for the first time, the number of arrests of migrants illegally crossing the U.S. southern border exceeded 2 million in a single year.

The Biden administration expects arrivals to spike even more should the U.S. Supreme Court decide to lift a public health measure known as Title 42 that permits migrants arriving at the border to be turned back. (Nicaraguans have been largely exempt from Title 42, because the country will not allow deportation flights and Mexico has refused to accept them.)

Last month alone, more than 34,000 Nicaraguans turned themselves in to U.S. immigration authorities — five years ago, the figure for the entire year was just over 1,000.

During the country’s civil war in the 1980s, about 200,000 Nicaraguans left — over the entire decade.

Another significant influx of Nicaraguans has also crossed into Costa Rica and, combined with those heading north, has resulted in about 10% of Nicaragua’s population leaving in the past four years, underscoring the widespread lack of faith in President Daniel Ortega’s government.

For decades, migrants from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras were the dominant groups arriving at the U.S. border. Nicaragua’s government leaders often boasted that without the powerful gangs that terrorized surrounding countries, Nicaraguans felt relatively safe and did not need to flee.

The dynamic started shifting in 2018. Ortega, a former leftist revolutionary who led the nation during its civil war in the 1980s, won the presidency in 2006 after changes were made to the constitution to allow candidates to win without an absolute majority of votes.

Since then, he has been reelected three times, including last year, in a vote that much of the international community and many rights groups deemed a sham because of antidemocratic moves by Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, who is his vice president.

The ruling couple made institutional changes and reached deals with opponents that have allowed them to control the Supreme Court, the electoral commission and the National Assembly. They have bought television stations and made them more sympathetic to the government, while taking their critics off the air.

In 2018, protests erupted over changes to social security rules that would have required workers to pay more and retirees to receive less. But the demonstrations expanded to mass anti-government uprisings across the country that lasted months and led to several hundred deaths.

The government response was brutal. Furious over roadblocks that protesters had erected throughout Nicaragua, the government jailed opposition leaders and shut down political parties and civil society groups. Many political activists and journalists fled.

The exodus slowed during the pandemic but resumed again last year after Ortega stepped up his crackdown, closing research in-

stitutes, shuttering human rights organizations and arresting not just his political opponents but also their families on trumped-up charges, including of plotting a coup.

Before last year’s election, Ortega jailed seven presidential candidates and barred several opposition parties from participating. President Joe Biden blasted the election as “neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic.”

A spokesperson for the Nicaraguan government did not return several messages seeking comment.

“You eliminate the media, eliminate political parties, eliminate universities. Why do you think people are leaving?” said Manuel Orozco, a Nicaraguan analyst at Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based research institute.

Many Nicaraguans are also leaving because of increased economic hardship under Ortega’s rule.

Although the International Monetary Fund’s figures show about 25% of Nicaraguans live in poverty, analysts say the actual rate is likely far higher as some two-thirds of the nation live on about $120 a month.

“The only way you can find a job where you can earn an amount that’s not very good but a bit more comfortable is if you are allied with the government,” said Víctor Hernández, 29, who left the city of León in October and is living in Nashville, Tennessee, doing odd jobs. “I bought a small plot of land five years ago to build a house, and I haven’t been able to buy a single brick.”

Hernández worked in Nicaragua as a restaurant manager before becoming unemployed for a year. He finally found a new restaurant job making $250 a month, but it was not enough to support his two children, even though his wife also worked. He decided to leave his family behind, with the hopes of returning in a few years.

“The situation in Nicaragua is too ugly,” Hernández said.

The money that people like Hernández are sending home is helping to sustain Ortega’s government, which is under U.S. sanctions targeting people and businesses associated with the government. Nicaraguans sent $3 billion home in 2022, Orozco said, making remittances 17% of the country’s tax revenue.

“It’s a paradox,” said Alberto Cortés, a professor at the University of Costa Rica. “They have differences with the regime, and so by leaving they help maintain the regime. The government is fine with the departures of all these people.”

Campaign posters for President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and his wife and running mate, Rosario Murillo, on hospital trucks in Masaya, Nicaragua, July 5, 2021.

The San Juan Daily Star Wednesday, December 28, 2022

In record numbers, an unexpected migrant group is fleeing to the US

By ALFONSO FLORES BERMÚDEZ and FRANCES ROBLES

Twice a week at a gas station on the western edge of Nicaragua’s capital, local residents gather, carrying the telltale signs of people on the move: loaded backpacks, clothes and toiletries stuffed in plastic bags, and heavy jackets in preparation for a chilly journey far from the stifling heat.

Nurses, doctors, students, children, farmers and many other Nicaraguans say teary goodbyes as they await private charter buses for the first leg of an 1,800-mile journey. Final destination: the United States.

For generations, Nicaragua, the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere after Haiti, saw only a trickle of its people migrate northward. But soaring inflation, declining wages and the erosion of democracy under an increasingly authoritarian government have drastically shifted the calculus.

Now, for the first time in Nicaragua’s history, the small nation of 6.5 million is a major contributor to the mass of people trekking to the U.S. southern border, having been displaced by violence, repression and poverty.

While attention has focused this year on the record numbers of Venezuelans and Cubans pouring into the United States, this less-noted but remarkable surge of Nicaraguans is also adding to the migration crisis in a big way, sending money back to their families and, inadvertently, providing an economic lifeline to a government under sanctions from the United States.

More than 180,000 Nicaraguans crossed into the United States this year through the end of November — about 60 times as many as those who entered during the same period two years earlier, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.

Tatiana González Chacón, 23, a baker, left the Bluefields region in eastern Nicaragua for Phoenix last month, because her father, the leader of an opposition party that saw its charter revoked, was accused of terrorism and had to flee to Costa Rica.

Nicaragua used to be “an enviable country, a place people wanted to go,” she said. “Now it’s a place where its own people want to get out. When you cross that river into the United States, it’s like you breathe a different air.”

Earlier this month, at a bus stop in Managua, the capital, a mother of three who asked not to be named was making the

journey. The trip cost her $2,000, and she was still indebted to a smuggler for a previous failed attempt to reach the United States. Four brothers who recently inherited a farm for which the costs of seeds and fertilizers have quadrupled also boarded a bus heading north.

This year, for the first time, the number of arrests of migrants illegally crossing the U.S. southern border exceeded 2 million in a single year.

Another significant influx of Nicaraguans has also crossed into Costa Rica and, combined with those heading north, has resulted in about 10% of Nicaragua’s population leaving in the past four years, underscoring the widespread lack of faith in President Daniel Ortega’s government.

For decades, migrants from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras were the dominant groups arriving at the U.S. border. Nicaragua’s government leaders often boasted that without the powerful gangs that terrorized surrounding countries, Nicaraguans felt relatively safe and did not need to flee.

The dynamic started shifting in 2018. Ortega, a former leftist revolutionary who led the nation during its civil war in the 1980s, won the presidency in 2006 after changes were made to the constitution to allow candidates to win without an absolute majority of votes.

Since then, he has been reelected three times, including last year, in a vote that much of the international community and many rights groups deemed a sham because of anti-democratic moves by Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, who is his vice president.

The ruling couple made institutional changes and reached deals with opponents that have allowed them to control the Supreme Court, the electoral commission and the National Assembly. They have bought television stations and made them more sympathetic to the government, while taking their critics off the air.

In 2018, protests erupted over changes to social security rules that would have required workers to pay more and retirees to receive less. But the demonstrations expanded to mass anti-government uprisings across the country that lasted months and led to several hundred deaths.

The government response was brutal. Furious over roadblocks that protesters had erected throughout Nicaragua, the government jailed opposition leaders and shut down political parties and civil society groups. Many political activists and journalists fled.

The exodus slowed during the pandemic but resumed again last year after Ortega stepped up his crackdown, closing research institutes, shuttering human rights

organizations and arresting not just his political opponents but also their families on trumped-up charges, including of plotting a coup.

Before last year’s election, Ortega jailed seven presidential candidates and barred several opposition parties from participating. President Joe Biden blasted the election as “neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic.”

A spokesperson for the Nicaraguan government did not return several messages seeking comment.

“You eliminate the media, eliminate political parties, eliminate universities. Why do you think people are leaving?” said Manuel Orozco, a Nicaraguan analyst at InterAmerican Dialogue, a Washington-based research institute.

Many Nicaraguans are also leaving because of increased economic hardship under Ortega’s rule.

Although the International Monetary Fund’s figures show about 25% of Nicaraguans live in poverty, analysts say the actual rate is likely far higher as some two-thirds of the nation live on about $120 a month.

“The only way you can find a job where you can earn an amount that’s not very good but a bit more comfortable is if you are allied with the government,” said Víctor Hernández, 29, who left the city of León in October and is living in Nashville, Tennessee, doing odd jobs. “I bought a small plot of land five years ago to build a house, and I haven’t been able to buy a single brick.”

Hernández worked in Nicaragua as a restaurant manager before becoming unemployed for a year. He finally found a new restaurant job making $250 a month, but it was not enough to support his two children, even though his wife also worked. He decided to leave his family behind, with the hopes of returning in a few years.

“The situation in Nicaragua is too ugly,” Hernández said.

The money that people like Hernández are sending home is helping to sustain Ortega’s government, which is under U.S. sanctions targeting people and businesses associated with the government. Nicaraguans sent $3 billion home in 2022, Orozco said, making remittances 17% of the country’s tax revenue.

“It’s a paradox,” said Alberto Cortés, a professor at the University of Costa Rica. “They have differences with the regime, and so by leaving they help maintain the regime. The government is fine with the departures of all these people.”

A group of people boarding a bus in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, to begin their journey to the United States.

Paris shooting suspect indicted on charges of murder with racist motive

By CONSTANT MÉHEUT

Aman arrested in connection with a shooting that left three Kurdish people dead in central Paris last week was indicted on charges of murder and attempted murder with a racist motive on Monday, according to French judicial authorities. The decision was closely watched by a Kurdish community that has long sought safety in France and was still reeling from the killings.

But the news of the indictment may do little to ease the anger of many Kurds who view the shooting not as racially motivated, but as a terrorist attack targeting them and carried out with Turkey’s help. Kurdish independence movements and the Turkish government have been locked in a protracted conflict that has led Turkey to violently repress Kurds at home and abroad.

After the shootings on Friday, protests by Kurds turned violent, and demonstrations have continued.

“We know it’s a political attack!” Berivan Firat, a spokesperson for the Kurdish Democratic Council in France, a political group, said at a march on Monday near the site of the shooting. Hundreds of people attended the demonstration, calling for further investigation.

The French investigators have presented no evidence that the man was affiliated with any Turkish group. Instead, they said the man — whom they did not name but whom the French media identified as William M. — had been motivated by deep-seated racist and antiimmigrant beliefs.

In a statement released Sunday, the Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, said the 69-year-old suspect had told investigators that a burglary at his home in 2016 had triggered a “hatred of foreigners that became completely pathological.” The man described himself as depressed with suicidal tendencies, adding that before ending his own life he had “always wanted to murder migrants, foreigners.”

The man told investigators that he had initially traveled early Friday morning with a semi-automatic pistol to SaintDenis, a northern Paris suburb with a large immigrant population, intent on kill-

ing foreigners. But he added that he had changed his mind because few people were around.

The prosecutor said he then returned to his parents’ home in central Paris. From there he headed to a Kurdish cultural center where he shot dead two men, Mir Perwer and Abdulrahman Kizil, and a woman, Emine Kara, the leader of the Kurdish women’s movement in France. He next headed to a nearby Kurdish barbershop, where he wounded three more men before being disarmed and subdued.

The man told investigators that he resented Kurds for detaining fighters with the Islamic State group while they fought the terrorist group in Syria, instead of killing them.

French authorities said the man was a member of a shooting club and had been involved in several other criminal cases. In particular, he had been charged a year ago with racist armed assault after attacking a migrant camp in Paris with a saber. He had recently been freed from detention while awaiting trial.

French judicial authorities on Monday said the man had also been indicted on charges of unauthorized possession of a weapon.

Many left-wing politicians denounced what they saw as racist murders fueled by a growing anti-immigrant rhetoric in France and drew a link with recent attacks against foreigners by farright militants.

“What happened in Paris should be a wake-up call to all of us about the danger of the far right,” Olivier Faure, the leader of the Socialist Party, posted on Twitter shortly after the attack.

But many Kurdish participants in Monday’s march said they did not accept that interpretation. Instead, they suggested without evidence that Turkey was to blame.

“For us, this is not a racist act at all,” said Élise Demir, 36, who was walking amid a crowd of demonstrators as nearby loudspeakers played a Kurdish song. She noted that the neighborhood where the attack occurred was “full of foreigners,” but that only Kurds had been targeted.

The Kurdish cultural center that was attacked houses the Kurdish Democratic Council of France. Adel Bakawan, a researcher on the Middle East at the French Institute of International Relations, said the group is an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has fought a decadeslong insurgency against

the Turkish state to win greater autonomy for the Kurds.

The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, the EU and Turkey, which has violently cracked down on its militants and allies at home and abroad, including in a series of airstrikes in Iraq and Syria last month.

“We’re being killed in Turkey, in Syria, and now in France,” said Serhed Altuntas, 19, who had come to the march from Brest, a city on the western edge of France.

Around him, many demonstrators were wearing vests reading “Truth and Justice” or waving purple flags with printed portraits of three Kurdish militants including a founder of the PKK, who were murdered in the same area on Jan. 9, 2013. The suspect in that case was possibly linked with Turkish state intelligence services, according to French prosecutors, but died in custody before being tried.

The investigation into that previous murder has dragged on, fueling the anger of Kurds in France, who number about 300,000, and their skepticism toward French authorities today, Bakawan said. He added that growing threats of a Turkish invasion of Kurdish-controlled areas in northeastern Syria had heightened tensions.

Leaders of the Kurdish Democratic Council of France, which called for Monday’s march, drew a straight line between the two killings, portraying them as part of a Turkish campaign to repress Kurdish militants.

A large black banner held by participants leading the march read, “10 years after 9 January, the Turkish state has massacred another 3 of our friends in Paris.” Angry slogans against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey were regularly shouted by demonstrators.

Several people at the march said they were disappointed that France did not show more consideration for the Kurds despite their crucial role in the fight against the Islamic State in Syria.

“We gave our lives so that you could be safe,” said Berivan Firat, the spokesperson, as she addressed the demonstrators from a truck. “When will we be safe?”

A woman holding a portrait of Emine Kara, a Kurdish women’s leader who was killed last week, during a protest march on Monday in Paris.

Why Dickens haunts us

By MAUREEN DOWD

Ihad always been a bah humbug sort of person about Christmas.

It seemed like a season of stress, as my parents scrambled to find the money to buy presents for five kids and have a big feast. I didn’t like the materialism or the mawkishness. Why should there be one week of the year when we were all supposed to be Hallmark happy?

“You’re weird,” my mother told me.

Then I took a course on Charles Dickens at Columbia University with the estimable Prof. James Eli Adams, and I began to fathom the magic. As Dickens said in his sketch, “A Christmas Tree,” published in his journal “Household Words” in 1850, “Oh, now all common things become uncommon and enchanted to me.” His biographer Peter Ackroyd wrote that “Dickens can be said to have almost single-handedly created the modern idea of Christmas.”

Christmas morally radicalized Dickens. The disparity between the circumstances and fates of different people offended Dickens in the Christmas season. For him, it was a time to think about what we owe one another, how we live with one another; a time to have a proper sense of outrage about inequality and injustice,

and to think about the past, present and future and how much they have to do with each other; a time to consider the good values we’ve thrown away and the bad values — selfishness, egotism, social snobbery, condescension and the worship of money — that infiltrate the heart.

Dickens became an outsider looking in when his middle-class life got disrupted by cold, grinding reality: His father went to debtors’ prison and, at 12, Dickens had to leave school to work in a bootblacking factory in London.

During a childhood in which he sometimes felt deprived and isolated, he put his faith in fairies. He found a portal to an ensorcelling invisible world, an Ali Baba’s cave of magical transformations and mythical kingdoms and became a Victorian Scheherazade. He was one of England’s greatest defenders of fairy tales because he believed these “nurseries of fancy” could teach positive values and imbue life, for children and adults, with transcendence; he also felt the macabre side of fairy tales — evil stepmothers, menacing monsters and big, bad wolves — was just as valuable for socialization as the reassuring side. His obsessions were the things at the core of fairy tales: clear-cut heroes and villains, defenseless children and hyper-dysfunctional families.

“I always think of make-believe as a way of making beliefs,” Maria Tatar, a folklore and mythology expert at Harvard, told me. “He understood the deep human need for myth, fantasy, imagination.”

In “A Christmas Tree,” Dickens wrote, “I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.” As Tatar explained: “She is the child in the woods who is the ultimate victim of the predatory. She is an innocent, powerless girl preyed upon by the rich and powerful. So you can think of Dickens as the first charter member of the MeToo movement.”

Ebenezer Scrooge resonates just as strongly now because we remain absorbed with the comeuppance of the 1%. Elda Rotor, a vice president and publisher for Penguin Classics, said that Dickens is a steady seller and that “A Christmas Carol” perfectly fits the definition of a classic book, acting as a bridge from how you relate to the past to how you forge forward.

Paul Giamatti played Scrooge in a Verizon ad this month; Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell starred in “Spirited,” a new rendition of the novella, first published on Dec. 19, 1843, now on AppleTV+; Steve Martin and Martin Short did a takeoff on the tale for a recent “SNL”; The New Yorker offered a humorous take on Scrooge’s Instagram; and Jefferson Mays has gotten raves for his

one-man version of “A Christmas Carol” on Broadway, in which he plays all 50 characters, as well as a boiling potato. Dickens is also a fairy godfather hovering over the Hallmark Christmas movies: There are Dickens festivals; the characters quote Dickens to each other; and one movie’s heroine has a dog named “Charles” after the writer.

I asked Mays why Dickens endures. “His sense of social outrage, his descriptions of misery are balanced by a celebration of the zest, the fun of life,” he replied. “Eating, drinking, dancing, loving. And that’s as important today as it has always been.”

As Mitch Glazer, who co-wrote “Scrooged,” the hilarious 1988 movie with Bill Murray, put it: “Dickens hits us with the setup: regret, loss, mistakes, missed love, wasted life, and then the punchline: ‘It’s not too late!’ In every version from his novella to Mr. Magoo to ours, I always get emotional when Scrooge is reborn.”

Dickens has taught me that it’s not too late to focus on the sweet memories, like the time my mom somehow bought me a doll’s kitchen I longed for that my parents couldn’t afford, or the way she would be aghast if we didn’t wear red and green.

The magic is there, if you look. So during this Christmas season and in the new year, as Tiny Tim said, God bless us, every one.

Don’t tell the ghost of Christmas future, “Bah, humbug.”

Residentes del Viejo San Juan exigen al alcalde Miguel Romero “que haga su trabajo”

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SAN JUAN – Residentes del Viejo San Juan participarán el día de hoy miércoles, 28 de diciembre, de 5:00 a 7:00 de la tarde, de una “Vigilia por una ciudad” en la Plaza de Armas al afirmar que están “cansados de que el alcalde Miguel Romero no atienda los múltiples problemas que aquejan el Viejo San Juan y que están destruyéndolo como ciudad”.

El Comité timón de la Asociación de Vecinos del Viejo San Juan, AVISAJ, una organización comunitaria cuyo propósito es velar por la calidad de vida de los residentes de la ciudad intramuros y proteger su carácter histórico, informó en comunicación escrita que “desde hace meses se le han estado haciendo llegar por escrito nuestros reclamos al alcalde y hemos tenido reuniones con funcionarios de su administración sin que se hayan tomado medidas”.

Según el Comité timón, en junio pasado, se le entregó una carta al alcalde en la que se establecían como los problemas principales que requieren atención urgente:

“Lo insegura que es la ciudad por la escasez de policías municipales y su falta de entrenamiento; lo que se hace evidente en la falta de control en innumerables renglones.

Lo insegura que es la ciudad por la ausencia de un plan de control de tránsito, circunstancia que atenta contra la vida de turistas, visitantes, comerciantes, empleados y residentes si ocurriera una emergencia de salud o de fuego,

aparte de la contaminación que ocasionan los vehículos.

La contaminación auditiva debido a los “party buses” y el voceteo que todavía circulan por la ciudad, los establecimientos comerciales que mantienen la música a volumen excesivo y los fuegos artificiales a altas horas de la noche casi todos los días.

La basura desbordante, sobre todo de los establecimientos comerciales, a todas horas del día, y la falta de limpieza de las calles. Recordemos que la mayor queja de los turistas que visitan el Viejo San Juan es lo sucia y apestosa que está la ciudad”.

AVISAJ explicó que en agosto se llegó a acuerdos con el MSJ y la Policía Municipal, cuando prometieron medidas para resolver asuntos como la basura, control de ruidos, reclutamiento de policías municipales, el plan de tránsito y rondas de vigilancia, entre otros asuntos.

“De más está decir que, según confirmamos en una reunión reciente (16 de diciembre), el MSJ ni la Policía han puesto en vigor ninguno de esos acuerdos. Incluso hemos realizado una encuesta entre los residentes y en la cual la Policía Municipal sale muy mal parada”, afirmaron.

“Es inaceptable”, recalcó AVISAJ.

Se entrega mujer sospechosa de asesinar militar en Ponce

de ésta, Jeromi Pietri Napoleoni.

PONCE – Ana Napoleoni Medina se entregó a las autoridades este martes, quien figura como sospechosa del asesinato del joven militar Jancarlo Rivera Lugo, en hechos ocurridos en Ponce.

Aún permanece prófugo, el hijo

Los hechos ocurrieron el pasado catorce de noviembre de 2022, en el sector Nueva Vida del barrio El Tuque de la Ciudad Señorial donde, supuestamente, el militar transitaba en su vehículo de motor cuando surgió una discrepancia cuando los sospechosos le reclamaron que

conducía en contra del tránsito, fue ultimado a tiros.

Supuestamente en el lugar se opera un punto de venta de drogas.

Informes de prensa señalan que Napoleoni Medina acudió al Centro Judicial de Ponce junto a un abogado para iniciar el procesamiento.

3 muertos y 206 hospitalizados en informe preliminar COVID-19

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el martes 3 muertes y 206 personas hospitalizadas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,509.

Hay 195 adultos hospitalizados y 13 menores.

El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 10 al 24 de diciembre 2022.

La tasa de positividad está en 27.02 por ciento.

POR CYBERNEWS

The artists we lost in 2022, in their words

can uncover what is beneath, my friends, my allies, what I am, where I come from.”

— Jean-Luc Godard, director, born 1930

“The expressive act of making a mark and hanging it in space is always political.”

— Sam Gilliam, artist, born 1933

“Everyone says that I was a role model. But I never thought of it when I was doing the music and when I was performing. I just wanted to make good music.”

— Betty Davis, singer-songwriter, born 1944

“The next Einstein might have a Black face — and she’s female.”

— Nichelle Nichols, actress, born 1932

“If I could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, it would be with Albert Einstein at Panzanella.”

— Judy Tenuta, comedian, born 1949

born 1920

“I spent 30 years trying to convince people and myself that I was smart, that I was a good painter, that I was this or that. It’s not going to happen. The only person that it should happen for is me. This is what I was meant to do.”

— Jennifer Bartlett, artist, born 1941

“I didn’t aspire to be on the stage playing piano, let alone singing, because I never thought I had much of a voice. But my option was window-dresser or jump off the cliff and try this. So I jumped off the cliff.”

— Christine McVie, musician and songwriter, born 1943

“Sometimes you have to put yourself on the edge. You go to the precipice and lean over it.”

— Maria Ewing, opera singer, born 1950

By GABE COHN

Music innovators who sang of coal country and “Great Balls of Fire.”

An actress who made a signature role out of a devilish baker who meets a fiery end. The trailblazing heart of “In the Heat of the Night.”

The creative people who died this year include many whose lives helped shape our own — through the art they made, and through the words they said. Here is a tribute to just some of them, in their own voices.

“Life offered no auditions for the many roles I had to play.”

— Sidney Poitier, actor, born 1927

“People in the past have done what we’re trying to do infinitely better. That’s why, for one’s own sanity, to keep one’s own sense of proportion, one must regularly go back to them.”

— Peter Brook, director, born 1925 “Every song is a little piece of my life.”

— Ronnie Spector, singer, born 1943 “Dance is living. Dance is, for me, it’s survival.”

— Yuriko, dancer, born 1920 “The question is, how do you create with what you have?”

— Kirstie Alley, actress, born 1951

“Every painting has been a fight between the painting and me. I tend to win. But you know how many paintings I threw in the garbage?”

— Carmen Herrera, artist, born 1915

“I decided that in every scene, you’re naked. If you’re dressed in a parka, what’s the difference if you’re dressed in nothing at all, if you’re exploring yourself?”

— William Hurt, actor, born 1950

“You gotta have fun with a song, make somebody laugh. You gotta have character. A hard punchline can make you laugh, but you gotta know how to say it.”

— Takeoff, rapper, born 1994

“I love watching people get hit in the crotch. But only if they get back up.”

— Bob Saget, comedian and actor, born 1956

“I do like to be alone at times, just to breathe.”

— Olivia Newton-John, singer, born 1948

“Movies are like clouds that sit over reality: If I do cinema well, I

“In time, writers learn that good fiction editors care as much about the story as the writer does, or almost, anyway. And you really often end up, the three of you — the writer, and the editor, and the story — working on this obdurate, beautiful thing, this brand-new creation.”

— Roger Angell, writer and editor,

“There’s so much in what I do that is beyond hard work — there’s luck and timing and just being in the right place at the right time with the right hairdo.”

— Taylor Hawkins, drummer, born 1972

“I was primarily an actress and not a pretty face.”

— Angela Lansbury, actress, born 1925

“I always try to improve upon what I’ve done. If something’s not working, I’ll change it to make it better. I’m an artist and a performer above all, and I don’t limit myself.”

— Elza Soares, singer, born 1930

“I’m always working, always. I got to keep the ship afloat.”

— Leslie Jordan, actor, born 1955

“The reward of the work has always been the work itself.”

— David McCullough, historian and author, born 1933

“To me, sitting at a desk all day was not only a privilege but a duty: something I owed to all those people in my life, living and dead, who’d had so much more to say than anyone ever got to hear.”

Ned Rorem, a composer, at his home in New York, Dec. 23, 1993. The creative people who died this year include many whose lives helped shape our own — through the art they made, and through the words they said.

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The actor Sidney Poitier on West 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, Jan. 14, 1959.

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— Barbara Ehrenreich, author, born 1941

“Passion is such an important thing to have in life because it ends so soon, and my passion was to grow up with my son.”

— James Caan, actor, born 1940 “Words are unnecessary when movement and feeling and expression can say it all.”

— Tina Ramirez, dancer and founder of Ballet Hispánico, born 1929 “I haven’t done anything on the subject of flies. It’s the sort of thing that could interest me. Anything could interest me, actually.”

— Claes Oldenburg, artist, born 1929 “A skull is a beautiful thing.”

— Lee Bontecou, artist, born 1931 “I like to write strong characters who are no better or worse than anybody else on Earth.”

— Charles Fuller, playwright, born 1939 “One review said I played a sleazy, heartless, cold person who you don’t really care about. Great! I love it; that’s what I played.”

— Ray Liotta, actor, born around 1954 “There’s a difference between a phenomenon and a stylist. I’m a stylist, Elvis was the phenomenon, and don’t you forget it.”

— Jerry Lee Lewis, musician, born 1935

“All of us have something built into our

ears that comes from the place where we grow up and where we were as children.”

— George Crumb, composer, born 1929

“People wonder why I am so forthcoming with the truths that have happened in my life, and it’s because the lies that I have been surrounded with and the denial that I was raised in, for better or worse, bore a child of truth and love.”

— Anne Heche, actress, born 1969 “That’s my goal every night: Hopefully at some point in my act, you have forgotten whatever trouble you had when you

came in.”

— Louie Anderson, comedian and actor, born 1953

“Adult human beings live with the certainty of grief, which deepens us and opens us to other people, who have been there, too.”

— Peter Straub, author, born 1943

“I believe in the importance of the unimportant — in the quotidian pathos.”

— Ned Rorem, composer, born 1923 “I don’t always mean to offend. I only sometimes mean to offend.”

— Gilbert Gottfried, comedian, born 1955

“Merce Cunningham is quoted somewhere as saying he wanted a company that danced the way he danced. I kept doing the same thing. And I began to wonder why I was insisting that they be as limited as I am.”

— David Gordon, choreographer, born 1936

“The universe is not limited by what I can imagine.”

— Hilary Mantel, author, born 1952

“Getting the right people with a shared vision is three-quarters of the battle.”

— Anne Parsons, arts administrator, born 1957

“My paintings are stories, but they are not narratives, in that they have no past and future.”

— Paula Rego, artist, born 1935 “When you are addressing your fellow citizens, you have to give some hope

sometimes, even if you want to say that everything is terrible, that we are governed by a bunch of gangsters. In a novel, you can be much more pessimistic. You are more savage, you are wilder, you are freer, you think truer, you think better.”

— Javier Marías, author, born 1951 “Art is not blameless. Art can inflict harm.”

— Richard Taruskin, musicologist, born 1945

“I am a worker who labors with songs, doing in my own way what I know best, like any other Cuban worker. I am faithful to my reality, to my revolution and the way in which I have been brought up.”

— Pablo Milanés, musician, born 1943

“Success is very hard. Nobody prepares you for it. You think you’re infallible. You pretend you know more than you do.”

— Peter Bogdanovich, director, born 1939

“I think the highest point of my career was in the late ’70s. I had No. 1 songs, a bestselling book and a movie made about my life. But I think it was also the lowest point for me as well. Life gets away from you so fast when you move fast.”

— Loretta Lynn, singer-songwriter, born 1932

“Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh, monk and author, born 1926

The author Hilary Mantel at her home near London, Feb. 20, 2020.

Carmen Herrera at her studio in New York, April 7, 2016.

Tina Ramirez, artistic director of Ballet Hispánico, with students in New York, Oct. 1, 2008.

By IRIS EDÉN SANTIAGO Special to The STAR

Chanel’s recent visit to Africa must have produced good relations between the fashion elite in both Africa and France. Here’s hoping it also promotes real opportunities for artists and designers in the two countries going forward.

For starters, we have discovered a new side to the French House of Couture: a colorful collection full of flair, soul, cultural richness and fashion combinations unthinkable for this luxury label before this collaboration.

The “Métier d’Art 2023” fashion extravaganza was held at the former Palais de Justice in Dakar, the coastal capital of Senegal, making Chanel the first European fashion house to stage a show in Africa.

vide the craftsmanship, and fabulous artisanal details that only authentic African maestros can make. The result? Chanel, but modern, trendy, a little rebel and very relaxed. Wraparound skirts made with contrasting combinations of mosaiclike fabrics, denim, tweed, tiny tile-beaded textiles and geometric fabrics are gorgeous. The African influences are inspired. Their culture is embraced. This collection cel ebrates African heritage.

Chanel

The proposal is bohemian, hip, retro and visually captivating. It includes tweed suits, tweed dresses and tweed garments, of course. But in this collection tweed acquires unexpected levels of diversity. It’s a new life for the firm’s signature fabric. Creative Director Virginie Viard was very respectful with the local culture, so her team integrated local artisans and textile makers to pro-

We loved the oversize lapels, the glitzy tunics layered over trou sers, the dresses with double skirts and the peplums. The lace dress in white over white is jaw-drop ping gorgeous, as is the roman tic midi dress in flowy tiers of coral and charcoal with me tallic piping. The tweed sa rong skirt with beaded front panel worn over a collared white shirt and slim pants is winning. Also loving the

celebrates Africa

bralette. Chic, empowered and glam. Metal bras a thing? Stay tuned.

The color palette didn’t kill me. A little dim. Inspired by the 1970s, there is a lot of gray, brown, mustard, black, forest, muted plum and mauve. Colors aside, the young silhouettes and pops of cool red and coral make it a solid proposal.

“Dakar is an influential artistic capital on the international scene, particularly in areas held dear to the house, such as fashion, film, dance, music, literature and contemporary art,” Chanel said in a statement. “More than just a show, this event is part of a three-day cultural program accompanied by concrete action in terms of creative dialogue, sustainable development and the transmission of savoir-faire.”

Launched by Chanel’s late creative director

Karl Lagerfeld 20 years ago to spotlight the work of its in-house workshops, the Métiers d’Art collection has traditionally been a traveling show that has alighted in locations including Shanghai; Edinburgh, Scotland; Salzburg, Austria; and Havana, Cuba.

The collection will be available in Chanel boutiques around the world in May 2023.

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Yo, ALEJANDRO URBINA ROQUE, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #977, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 23 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 7 de agosto de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 30 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:45

DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:45

DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado

por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 18 de octubre de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número doce (12) del Bloque G del Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización: Reparto Villa Blanca”, radicado en el Barrio Bairoa del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de cuatrocientos cincuenta punto cero cero (450.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros, con pasaje de peatones que separa este solar número once (11) del Bloque G del mencionado Plano; por el SUR, en treinta punto cero cero (30.00) metros, con el solar número trece (13) del Bloque G del mencionado Plano; por el OESTE, en quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros, con la calle dos (2) del mencionado Plano; y por el ESTE, en quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros, con el solar número treinta y cuatro (34) del Bloque G del mencionado Plano.” Finca número 8,809, inscrita al folio 24 del tomo 318 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caguas. Dirección de la Propiedad: Villa Blanca 64, Calle Rubi, G-12, Caguas PR 00725. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $95,125.29, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo con interés al 5.060% anual, en concepto de balance principal del préstamo, el cual acumula un total de $195,975.74 a la fecha de 31 de mayo de 2021, y los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hi-

poteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 42 otorgada el día 30 de abril de 2012, Caguas, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Roberto Soto Tapia y consta inscrita al folio 242 del tomo 318 de Caguas, finca número 8,809, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I de Caguas. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $217,500.00, con intereses al 5.060% anual, vencedero el día 19 de junio de 2083, constituida mediante la escritura número 43, otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de abril de 2012, ante la notario Roberto Soto Tapia, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Caguas, finca numero 8,809, inscripción 6ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $217,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $145,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $108,750.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el im-

porte de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la

Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 06 de diciembre de 2022. ALEJANDRO URBINA ROQUE, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #977, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.

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Demandante Vs. MARÍA MILAGROS GELPI ÁLVAREZ T/C/C MARÍA GELPI; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV04321. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 26 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30

DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30

DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado.

Al:

PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: MARÍA MILAGROS GELPI ÁLVAREZ T/C/C MARÍA GELPI; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan , a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 19 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan , San Juan , Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 21 de octubre de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate

Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan , en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 1 de diciembre de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento Numero Siete H (7H). Apartamento localizado en el lado Sur del séptimo piso del edificio conocido como Torre de la Reina, el cual ubica en un solar situado entre la Avenida Ponce de León, por el Norte y las calles Ramon Power y San Agustin, por el Este y Oeste, respectivamente, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área superficial de Ochocientos Veintiocho (828) pies cuadrados equivalentes a Setenta y Seis punto Noventa y Ocho (76.98) metros cuadrados y colina dicho apartamento por el Este, con el apartamento Siete G (7G); por el Oeste, con una pared que lo separa de las escaleras que suben a los pisos residenciales del edificio; por el Sur, con la terraza de estacionamiento localizada al lado Sur del primer piso del edifico, y en su nivel con el espacio abierto de forma del patio del edificio, y por el Norte, con el corredor central del piso que corre de Este a Oeste, por donde tiene su entrada al apartamento, teniendo el mismo acceso a través de ese de los tres elevadores y de las dos escaleras que sirven a todos los pisos donde tiene sus entradas los apartamentos, con el vestíbulo principal (main lobby) del condominio en la planta terrera y el sótano del estacionamiento desde donde tiene salida a la Avenida Ponce de León y a la Calle Ramon Power. Este apartamento tiene las siguientes dependencias: una sala de doscientos cuarenta y uno punto cero cero (241.00) pies cuadrados equivalente a veintidós punto cuarenta y cinco (22.45) metros cuadrados; un comedor de noventa punto cero cero (90.00)

pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ocho a punto treinta y nueve (8.39) metros cuadrados; una cocina de ochenta punto cero cero (80.00) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a siete punto cuarenta (7.40) metros cuadrados; un balcon de ciento diez punto cero cero (100.00) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a diez punto veinticuatro (10.24) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a diecinueve punto setenta y uno (19.71) metros cuadrados; un closet de diez punto cero cero (10.00) pies cuadrados equivalentes a noventa punto cero cero (90.00); un baño de cuarenta y seis punto cero cero (46.00) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a cuatro punto veintiocho (4.28) metros cuadrados. Pertenece también a este apartamento un espacio de estacionamiento para un automóvil, localizado y marcado en el sótano del estacionamiento del edificio con el numero y la letra del apartamento. Le corresponde a este apartamento una participación en los elementos comunes generales del condominio y sus gastos relacionados de punto cuatro dos cero cero por ciento (.4200%) y una participación individual en los elementos comunes de la sección residencial y sus gastos relacionados de punto cinco tres dos tres por ciento (.5323%). Finca número 559 inscrita al folio 79 del tomo 28 de Puerta de Tierra. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de San Juan. Dirección de la Propiedad: 450 Ponce de Leon Ave, Apt 7H Torre de la Reina San Juan PR 00901. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $242,109.69, con interés al 2.65% anual, cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $28,600.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipo-

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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 12 de diciembre de 2022. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735.

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Demandantes Vs. SUCESIÓN VÍCTOR VALCÁRCEL PÉREZ, COMPUESTA POR

SU ESPOSA ISABEL SÁNCHEZ LONGO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV07318.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y

RICHARD DOE.

SE NOTIFICA a usted que la parte demandante presentó en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcda. Erika Morales Marengo, a su dirección: PO Box 195337 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919; Teléfono: (787) 302-0014 / (787) 239-5661, correo electrónico: emarengo@apontecortes.com.

SE LE APERCIBE que, de no hacer su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 08 de diciembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLA-

DO, SECRETARIA. GLORIAM MARTÍNEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE JOSE NOEL SANCHEZ VEGA, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS JOSE NOEL SANCHEZ ORTIZ, JOSEPH SANCHEZ ORTIZ Y JOYCE NOELIS SANCHEZ PEREZ; IRMARYS PEREZ COLON; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: GM2019CV01020.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

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

A: JOSE NOEL SANCHEZ ORTIZ, JOSEPH SANCHEZ ORTIZ, Y JOYCE NOELIS SANCHEZ PEREZ, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE JOSE NOEL SANCHEZ VEGA; IRMARYS PEREZ COLON, POR SÍ Y COMO MADRE CON PATRIA POTESTAD DE LA MENOR JOYCE NOELIS SANCHEZ PEREZ, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE JOSE NOEL SANCHEZ VEGA.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda Enmendada sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $42,155.80, intereses al 6.50% anual, desde el día 1ro de abril de 2019, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $5,500.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Catorce (14) del Bloque “D” en el plano de inscripción de la URBANIZACIÓN LLANOS DE PROVIDENCIA, localizado

en el Barrio Lapas del término municipal de Salinas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS CINCUENTA PUNTO CERO CERO (350.00) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar número Trece (13), en una distancia de veintiocho punto cero cero (28.00) metros; por el SUR, con solar número Quince (15), en una distancia de veintiocho punto cero cero (28.00) metros; por el ESTE, con Calle número Cuatro (4), en una distancia de doce punto cincuenta (12.50) metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número Tres (3), en una distancia de doce punto cincuenta (12.50) metros. Enclava una casa de hormigón y bloques para una familia. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 200 del tomo 285 de Salinas, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama, finca número 8947, inscripción octava. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. 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: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y enviar copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuya dirección más adelante se indica. 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.

Lcda. Adela Surillo Gutiérrez Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 11550

San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550

Tel. (787) 625-9999 Fax (787) 705-7387

E-mail: asurillo@lawpr.com Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que conforme el caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria v. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 D.P.R. 689,696 (2005) y a tenor con las disposiciones del Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021), deberá aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante José Noel Sánchez Vega, dentro del término de treinta (30) días. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Se le notifica

también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Salinas, Puerto Rico, hoy 12 de diciembre de 2022. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. SANTA MELÉNDEZ RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE AIDA ESTHER ARUZ CANCEL, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO AIDA ESTHER ARUS CANCEL Y POR AIDA ESTHER CRUZ CANCEL COMPUESTA POR ILSA YOLANDA FIGUEROA ARÚS, ILIA ESTHER FIGUEROA ARÚS Y ÁNGEL LUIS FIGUEROA ARÚS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV05753. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ORDEN PARA LA PUBLICACIÓN DE EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. Examinada la Moción en Solicitud de Orden de Interpelación presentada por la parte demandante, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación. Ante esto, se ORDENA a la SUCESION DE AIDA ESTHER ARUZ CANCEL, también conocida como AIDA ESTHER ARUS CANCEL y por AIDA ESTHER CRUZ CANCEL, compuesta por ILSA YOLANDA FIGUEROA ARÚS, ILIA ESTHER FIGUEROA ARÚS y ÁNGEL LUIS FIGUEROA ARÚS, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente ORDEN, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia. Apt. 2-C, Building 40, Villas del Señorial Cond., San Juan, PR 00926; 500 Winderley Pl. Ste. 100, Maitland, FL 32751-7406. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no

expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la misma se tendrá por aceptada. También se le APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente ORDEN, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y por consiguiente responde por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme a lo que dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11021. Se ORDENA a la parte demandante proceda a notificar la presente ORDEN mediante un edicto a esos efectos una (1) sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. NOTIFÍQUESE. DADA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de diciembre de 2022. YANAY Y. PAGÁN RAMOS, JUEZ SUPERIOR.

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Demandante V. IRIS JANET CRUZ REYES

Demandado Civil Núm.: CR2022CV00077. 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 Comerío, Comerío, 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 5 de diciembre de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Vega Redonda de la municipalidad de Comerío, identificado con la letra I en el Plano de Lotificación, con una cabida de trescientos veinticinco metros cuadrados con ochenta y cuatro centímetros y con lindes por el NORESTE, en dos lineales de siete metros cuatrocientos setenta y cinco milímetros de otro y de diez metros trescientos noventa y ocho milímetros de otro con el Solar H; por el SUROESTE, en cinco metros ochocientos ochenta y tres centímetros de otra y en diez metros novecientos catorce milímetros de otra, con el solar J; por el SURESTE,

en ocho metros ciento setenta y tres milímetros de otro y en trece metros doscientos nueve milímetros y en trece metros doscientos nueve milímetros de otro, con el remanente de la finca; y por el NOROESTE, en doce metros ciento sesenta y siete milímetros de otro y en tres metros novecientos catorce milímetros de otra, con el acceso al solar H y con carretera estatal setecientos setenta y ocho. Inscrita en la finca número 4,173, al folio 228 del tomo 69 de Comerío. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Barranquitas. La propiedad ubica según pagaré en: Sect. Monserrate Carr 56 KM 3 Ruta 778 Comerio, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada en este caso el 21 de octubre de 2022, y publicada en periódico de circulación general, The San Daily Star”, el 27 de octubre de 2022, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $23,714.51 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 7.95% desde el 1ro de abril de 2021; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $4,250.00 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 10 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Comerío, Comerío, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $42,500.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $28,333.33, 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 24 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $21,250.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para

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

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Comerío, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de diciembre de 2022.

ALGUACIL ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO.

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DEMANDANTE VS. NORMA PENA SALINA DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2022CV01901.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. Estados Unidos de América El Presidente de los Estados Unidos El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. SS:

A: Norma Pena SalinaResidencial Villa España, Edificio 27 Apt 299, San Juan, P.R. 00921.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudiciaLpr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel Ruiz López cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección Kenmuel.ruiz@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notiflcaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de septiembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 1 de septiembre de 2022. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Sec Regional. Lorda M Convertir Reyes, Sec Serv a Sala.

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CASITAS BLANCAS, LLC Demandante Vs.

ESPOSA

RUTH MARISELA

GARCIA SANTIAGO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA

COMO MARISELA

GABRIEL DOLAGARAY BALADO Y SU

GARCIA SANTIAGO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV07358. (506). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: GABRIEL DOLAGARAY BALADO Y SU ESPOSA RUTH MARISELA GARCIA SANTIAGO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO MARISELA GARCIA SANTIAGO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, 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 30 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00

DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, 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 San Juan 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 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno identificada como solar número Dieciocho (18) del Bloque “CH” de la URBANIZACIÓN CAMBRIDGE PARK, radicado en el Barrio Sabana Llana del término municipal de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS NOVENTA Y SEIS

PUNTO QUINIENTOS

NOVENTA Y CINCO (396.595) METROS CUADRADOS y en lindes por el NORTE, en catorce punto cero veintiséis (14.026) metros, una distancia en arco de dos punto setecientos cuarenta y nueve (2.749) metros y una distancia en arco de cinco punto cuatrocientos noventa y ocho (5.498) metros, con la Calle número Dieciséis (16); por el SUR, en veinte punto cero cero (20.00) metros, con el solar número Diecinueve (19); por el ESTE, en dieciocho punto novecientos setenta ocho (18.978) metros, con el solar número Diecisiete (17); y por el OESTE, con dieciséis punto cincuenta (16.50) metros, con la Calle número Cuatro (4). En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 957 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta, finca número 29,946, inscripción sexta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Cambridge Park, H-18, (antes CH-18), Calle York, Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $97,937.84 de principal, intereses pactados y computados sobre esta suma al tipo de 8 3/8% (8.325%) anual, desde el día 1ro. de febrero de 2019, hasta su total y completo pago, contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudados y la suma de $19,885.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Dichas sumas son líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $198,850.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $132,566.66 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $99,425.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecen-

cia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 19 de diciembre de 2022. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE EJECUCIÓN DE SENTENCIAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ALICIA BARBOSA BARBOSA, COMPUESTA POR ARIEL COLON BARBOSA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE JOSE ANGEL COLON CONCEPCION COMPUESTA POR ARIEL COLON BARBOSA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2021CV00748. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, Alguacil del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala de Vega Baja, al público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha 29 de agosto de 2022, por la Secretaria de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: URBANA: Lote número quince (15) del Bloque “F” de la Comunidad Vega Baja Lake en el Barrio Algarrobo del término Municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con

un área de seiscientos treinta punto cero cero metros cuadrados (630.00 m.c.). Lindes por el NORTE, en quince punto cero cero metros (15.00 m.), con Calle Tortuguero; por el SUR, en quince punto cero cero metros (15.00 m.), con el Lote número ocho (8); por el ESTE, en cuarenta y dos punto cero cero metros (42.00 m.), con el Lote número dieciséis (16); y por el OESTE, en cuarenta y dos punto cero cero metros (42.00 m.), con el Lote número catorce (14). Afecta en todo su frente por una faja de terreno de 2 metros de ancho para uso público. Finca Número 7,848 inscrita al folio 73 del tomo 158 de Vega Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de Bayamón. Dirección física: Lote #15 Bloque F, Comunidad Vega Alta Lake, Vega Baja, PR 00693; Urb. Bega Baja Lakes, 6, Calle 15, Vega Baja, PR 00693-3803. La finca 7,848 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: HIPOTECA en garantía de Pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $141,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 113, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el día 30 de noviembre de 2007, ante el notario Fernando Ignacio Medina Cedeño e inscrita al folio 89 del tomo 434 de Vega Baja, finca número 7,848, inscripción 6ta. La propiedad está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: A. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $141,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 114, otorgada en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico el día 30 de noviembre de 2007 ante el notario Fernando Ignacio Medina Cedeño, e inscrita al folio 89 del tomo 434 de Vega Baja, finca número 7,848, inscripción 7ma. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Popular Mortgage, Inc., total o parcialmente el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 16 de junio de 2022. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Popular Mortgage, Inc., por la hipoteca de $141,000.00, total o parcialmente. El importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $199,106.49 de principal, más intereses al 7% anual desde el 31 de enero de 2022, así como los intereses acumulados y por acumularse a partir de esa fecha y hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; cargos por

demora equivalentes al % de todos aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento hasta el total y completo repago de la deuda; $14,100.00, es decir, el 10% sobre el principal del pagaré hipotecario para el pago de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado; 10% de la cuantía original del Pagaré para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente al 10% del principal original del Pagaré para cubir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $141,000.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $94,000.00. TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $70,500.00. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses devengados hasta la fecha de la subasta, en cuarto término las sumas establecidas en la Sentencia para el pago de recargos por demora, contribuciones, seguros y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada conforme con la sentencia dictada. Disponiéndose que si quedara algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas o gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán sub-

sistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se le aprecibe a los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquiera derechos que tengan sobre el inmueble, deberán comparecer a la subasta, pues de no hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancelación de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuere igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta fuese mayor. Art. 221, Ley Hipotecaria y del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, 30 L.P.R.A. §2721. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala de Vega Baja, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre cada publicación. Se fijará además, en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección que obra en autos. Una vez efectuada la correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspaso al licitador victorioso, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanzamiento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta y para ello

procederé a romper candados de ser necesario. El Registrador de la Propiedad cancelará, libre de derechos, todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala de Vega Baja. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 09 de noviembre de 2022. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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Parte Demandante Vs. MARISE DEL ROSARIO ZENGOTITA MAS

T/C/C MARISE DEL R. ZENGOTITA MAS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08394. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOOADO DE P.R., SS.

A: MARISE DEL ROSARIO

ZENGOTITA MAS

T/C/C MARISE DEL R. ZENGOTITA MAS.

Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA en su contra. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a la parte demandante: FERNANDEZ CHIQUES, LLC., PO Box 9749, San Juan, PR 00908, Tel: (787) 722-3040, Fax: (787) 722-3317, LCDO.

FRANOSCO FERNANDEZ CHIQUES, Email: ffc@ffclaw. com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edic-

to, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 19 de diciembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, LUZ E., SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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Demandante V. ANGEL W. GARCIA COLON

Demandado(a) Civil: GM2022CV00044. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (ORDINARIO). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: ANGEL W. GARCIA COLON.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de diciembre de 2022. En Guayama, Puerto Rico, el 21 de diciembre de 2022. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA.

SONIA CORREA NAVARRO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. LUIS R.

HERNÁNDEZ

VERA, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: JD2022CV00220. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LUIS R. HERNÁNDEZ

VERA, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

P/C LCDA. GINA H

FERRER MEDINA PARA SER PUBLICADA POR EDICTO.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de diciembre de 2022. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 20 de diciembre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA.

DORIS A. RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: MZ2022CV00565. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANA DE TAL POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ESTA Y JOSE A. MATIAS MATIAS. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de diciembre de 2022. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el21 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA M. LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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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 21 de diciembre de 2022. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 21 de diciembre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. EIMMY FELICIANO TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. NILSA E. CRUZ SOTO

Demandado(a) Civil: JD2022CV00333. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: NILSA E. CRUZ SOTO. P/C GINA H. FERRER MEDINA PARA SER PUBLICADA POR EDICTO.

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

vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de diciembre de 2022. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 21 de diciembre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. DORIS A. RODRÍGUEZ COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. JUDITH A. VAZQUEZ CHESTARO

Demandado(a) Civil: SJ2022CV00223. Sala: 908. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JUDITH A. VAZQUEZ CHESTARO. 2403 BROGADPPM DRCÑEARWATER. FL, 33759 (PINELLAS). (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

PUERTO RICO; POPULAR MORTGAGE

Demandante Vs. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ

Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2022CV00644.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES TENEDORES DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO DESCRITO MÁS ADELANTE.

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE FERNANDO A.J. DAVILA RIOS, ET AL. Demandada Civil Núm.: ACD2014-0079 (601). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). NOTIFICACIÓN DE ORDEN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

VAS, JUEZ SUPERIOR. POR

COMPUESTA POR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO

RICO

Demandante V. BRIAN Y.

SERRANO SANCHEZ

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: AR2022CV00680. 404. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: BRIAN Y.

SERRANO SANCHEZ.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi-

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de diciembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 21 de diciembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ELSIE PRATTS MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado una Demanda donde se solicita se cancele el siguiente pagaré, el cual está extraviado, así como la hipoteca que garantiza su pago: a. pagaré a favor de Preferred Mortgage Corp., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $42,000.00, más intereses a una tasa de 6.125% anual, con vencimiento el día 1 de mayo de 2034, suscrito el día 29 de abril de 2004 y garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 119 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de abril de 2004 ante el Notario Rosendo E. Miranda López, y consta inscrita al folio 26 del tomo 1,283 de Guaynabo inscripción 5ta. Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Guaynabo. Por la presente se les emplaza y requiere para que notifique a la Lcda. Maritza Guzmán Matos, PMB 767, Avenida Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00966, teléfono (787) 758-3276, abogada de la parte demandante, con copia de vuestra contestación a la demanda radicada en este caso contra ustedes, dentro de un término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este Edicto. Por la presente se les apercibe de que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 22 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

DIAMAR T. GONZÁLEZ BARRETO, SECRETARIA DE TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL II.

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A:

FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE IRMA SOTO SÁNCHEZ, QUIEN ES TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO ROSA IRMA SANCHEZ Y COMO IRMA TORO SANCHEZ.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que el Honorable Tribunal ha dictado la Orden que se transcribe a continuación: ORDEN: VISTA la Moción radicada por la parte demandante, se declara la misma Con Lugar y en su consecuencia se autoriza la enmienda al epígrafe para incluir como co-demandados en la presente acción a FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL como herederos desconocidos de la SUCESIÓN DE IRMA SOTO SÁNCHEZ, QUIEN ES TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO ROSA IRMA SÁNCHEZ Y COMO IRMA TORO SÁNCHEZ; se ordena a FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL para que en el término de veinte (20) días muestren causa por la cual la Sentencia dictada el día 27 de junio de 2014, notificada y archivada en autos el día 30 de junio de 2014, no deba ser extensiva a éstos como miembros de la Sucesión y cotitulares del inmueble objeto de la presente causa de acción. Esta Orden se notificará por medio de edicto el cual será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general y el término aquí dispuesto comenzará a partir de la fecha de su publicación. Además, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto se dirigirá a los demandados antes indicado por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, copia de la Sentencia y del Edicto al lugar de su última dirección conocida. El Secretario del Tribunal expedirá el correspondiente Edicto. REGÍSTRESE Y NOTIFÍQUESE. DADA en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 18 de octubre de 2022. MIGUEL TRABAL CUE-

LA PRESENTE se le notifica para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado esta Orden, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y enviar copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuya dirección más adelante se indica. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá hacer extensiva la 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.

Lcda. Xana M. Connelly Pagán Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 11550

San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550 Tel. (787) 625-9999 Fax (787) 705-7387

E-mail: xconnelly@lawpr.com

Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de octubre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NATHALIE I. ACEVEDO QUIÑONES, SUBSECRETARIA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs MARCELO MARTÍNEZ

BRITO, FULANA DE TAL

Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES DE LEGAL COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01564.

Salón: 604. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

• MARCELO MARTÍNEZ

BRITO, FULANA DE TAL

Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES DE LEGAL COMPUESTA

POR AMBOS A SER NOTIFICADOS POR EDICTO POR CONDUCTO DE LA LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA.

• LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA - P.O. BOX 2342 MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO 00681-2342. (Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de diciembre de 2022. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 22 de diciembre de 2022. Luz Mayra Caraballo García, Secretaria Regional. Giselle Gutiérrez León, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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BERRÍOS BERRÍOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01174. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: BENJAMÍN BERRÍOS BERRÍOS.

LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a

JOSE A. MATIAS MATIAS; FULANA DE TAL; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

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 23 de diciembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 23 de diciembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSA MAGALY CANDELARIO CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. LA SUCESION DE EUGENIO CLAUDIO CRUZ COMPUESTA POR ROSAMARÍA CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; JOSÉ EUGENIOCLAUDIO SANTIAGO; CARLOS MANUEL CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; MIGUEL ANGEL CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; ENRIQUE CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; ANTONIO CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; ROSA A. CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; JORGE CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; SUCESION DE NESTOR CLAUDIO SANTIAGO COMPUESTA POR NESTOR LUIS CLAUDIO CRESPO; LA SUCESION DE NEMESIA SANTIAGO FERNANDEZ COMPUESTA POR ROSA MARÍA CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; JOSÉ EUGENIO CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; CARLOS MANUEL CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; MIGUEL ANGEL CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; ENRIQUE CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; ANTONIO CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; ROSA A. CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; JORGE CLAUDIO SANTIAGO; SUCESION DE NESTOR CLAUDIO SANTIAGO COMPUESTA POR NESTOR LUIS CLAUDIO CRESPO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISION DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandado(a) Civil: CG2018CV01746. Sobre:

COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: NESTOR LUIS CLADIO

CRESPO.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de septiembre de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 19 de diciembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIANELA FONTÁNEZ SOSA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V.

EUGENE PAPSCOE HAZIN Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CCD2016-0288. (402). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, LUENGY VIERA ROMERO, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, a los demandados 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 agosto de 2017 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $114,427.62 de principal para la primera hipoteca y $14,444.68 de principal para la segunda hipoteca, mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 24 de abril de

2017, notificada y archivada en autos el 25 de mayo de 2017, y publicada mediante edicto en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 2 de mayo de 2017, 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, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Manatí, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: 135 Camino de Los Caobos, Urbanización Sabanera Del Río, Barrio Navarro, Gurabo, Puerto Rico 00778. RUSTICA: O sea, predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Coto Norte, Sector Guayaney del término municipal de Manatl. Consiste de una cabida superficial de mil ciento treinta y ocho punto ochocientos cincuenta y ocho metros cuadrados (1,138.858 m.c.) Igual a cero punto veintiocho noventa y siete cuerdas (0.2897 cdas.) y en lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y cuatro punto ochenta y cinco metros (34.85 m), con el remanente de la finca; por el SUR, en treinta y dos punto cincuenta y siete metros (32.57 m) con el predio número dos (2) del plano de segregación; por el ESTE, en treinta punto cincuenta y nueve metros (30.59 m), con Clemente Ayala Rodríguez y por el OESTE, en treinta y siete punto veinticuatro metros (37.24 m), con la Calle dedicada a uso público. Enclava edificación. Consta inscrita al folio 90 del tomo 294 de Manatí; finca número 11,898 del Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $114,427.62 principal, 6.125% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $155.56 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $125.53 de reserva “escrow”, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y segunda hipoteca, $14,444.68 de principal, 6.125% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $19.44 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $144,000.00 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta,

se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $96,000.00.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $72,000.00. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el 17 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 24 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 31 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo. Del Estudio de Título realizado surge el siguiente gravamen posterior el cual podrá ser cancelado: Embargo Federal contra Gene Papscoe, seguro social xxx-xx-7699 por $17,212.66 notificación #680346110 asiento 1 folio 43 del tomo 5 de Embargos Federales, el 30 de julio de 2010. Se 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 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. 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. 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, durante horas laborables, en la Secre-

taría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los demandados, 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 la Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 21 de diciembre de 2022. LUENGY VIERA ROMERO, ALGUACIL #558.

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Demandante Vs. ZULMA EVELYN TORRES TORRES T/C/C ZULMA TORRES TORRES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00208. 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 Ponce, 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 Ponce, el 22 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de

ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número “G” guion veinte (G-20) del plano de la Urbanización Paseo del Sol y Mar, que radica en el Barrio Cintrona de Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, con un ara superficial de OCHOCIENTOS CUARENTA Y UNO PUNTO DIEZ METROS CUADRADOS (841.10 M.C.). En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle municipal, en dos alineaciones de dos punto noventa y cuatro (2.94) metros lineales y veintidós punto trece (22.13) metros lineales; por el SUR, colinda con el solar cuatro (4) y con las facilidades vecinales, en treinta y con el Solar número “G” guion uno (G1), en diecinueve punto treinta (19.30) metros lineales; y por el OESTE, con los solares número “G” guion veintiuno (G-21) y “G” guion veintidós (G-22), y “G” guion veintitrés (G023), en treinta y seis punto sesenta y ocho (36.68) metros. Enclava casa. Finca número 17,041, inscrita al folio 4 del tomo 472 de Juana Diaz, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 95 del tomo 551 de Juana Diaz, Finca 17,041, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I, inscripción 2ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. PASEO SOL Y MAR, G-20 CALLE ESTRELLA DEL MAR, JUANA DIAZ, PUERTO RICO 00795. 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: 12 de abril de 2094. 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 $255,000.00, 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 ofi-

cina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 1 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $170,000.00, 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 $127,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 8 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $101,906.13 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $72,122.64 en intereses acumulados al 11 de marzo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $21,216.87 en seguro hipotecario; $24,015.71 en contribuciones; $4,242.35 en seguro; $1,310.00 de tasaciones; $324.00 de inspecciones; $960.00 en honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $25,500.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 de noviembre de 2022. Jorge

M. Hernández Pagán, Alguacil Regional. Manuel Maldonado, Alguacil Placa #820.

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RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C YAMELLYS GUZMÁN RODRÍGUEZ

Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2022CV01356. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: YAMELIS GUZMÁN

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POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose. aguilar@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de diciembre de 2022. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 16 de diciembre de 2022. Ivelisse C. Fonseca Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional Auxiliar. Ileanette Rivas Serrano, Secretaria Auxiliar.

For Ferrari, a second-place season full of mistakes

By PHILLIP HORTON

Ferrari began the season with a strong one-two finish in the first race and a win in the third, prompting team hopes that it would finally land its first title since 2008. But it fell short, finishing second in the constructors’ and drivers’ championships, and is now searching for a new team principal.

One of Formula One’s most successful teams, and indisputably the most famous, Ferrari has won more drivers’ and constructors’ championships than any team. It returned to competitiveness in 2022 after two lackluster seasons, but it was no match for Red Bull, which won both titles.

“I think we achieved our main objective, which was to be back to being competitive in the new era of the 2022 cars,” Mattia Binotto, team principal, said at the end of the season at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Nine days later, he resigned after four years in charge.

“I am leaving a company that I love, which I have been part of for 28 years, with the serenity that comes from the conviction that I have made every effort to achieve the objectives set,” said Binotto, who will officially depart Saturday.

Benedetto Vigna, CEO of Ferrari, said Binotto “led the team back to a position of competitiveness” and Ferrari is “in a strong position to renew our challenge to win the ultimate prize in motor sport.”

Then on Dec. 13, Ferrari announced that Frédéric Vasseur would become its new team principal and general manager. Vasseur, 54, has a long motor sport career, including having worked with Leclerc in junior racing. He has been CEO and team principal of Sauber Motorsport, which runs the Alfa Romeo team, since July 2017.

He will be Ferrari’s fifth team principal in under a decade. By contrast, Christian

Horner has been at the helm of Red Bull for 18 seasons, while Toto Wolff is approaching 10 years running Mercedes.

Vasseur’s new role will be effective Jan. 9. He will find a team with plenty of strengths on which to build but also problems to solve.

Despite 12 pole positions, more than any team, Ferrari had only four victories. None of those came in the second half of the year; by then Red Bull was running away with both titles.

“Considering from how far we have come from last year, it’s an amazing step forward,” Leclerc said. “But obviously I cannot ignore our middle part of the season that has been super frustrating. We went from leading the championship with quite a bit of points to being behind by quite a bit of points.”

Ferrari’s downfall began in that middle stretch of the season. Leclerc had engine

failures in Spain and Azerbaijan; poor strategy calls and confused radio communications in Monaco, England and Hungary; and his own error in France. All six races were winnable. Binotto said after Leclerc’s mistake in France there was “no reason” the team could not to win the remaining 10 races of the season. Ferrari did not win one.

“We just need to take all the mistakes that we’ve done this year and try to improve for next year,” said Leclerc, who finished 146 points behind Max Verstappen.

Leclerc’s teammate, Carlos Sainz, had to overcome early unease with the F1-75 race car and was never in title contention.

“There was a challenging first third of the season where I struggled a bit with the car balance, with the driving style, a car that for some reason didn’t suit me straight out of the box,” Sainz, who finished fifth, 62 points behind Leclerc, said near the end of the season. “I had to fight through

it quite a lot. And the second two-thirds I have been a lot happier with the car.”

Sainz described Red Bull and Verstappen as “the quicker car, the quicker driver” and that Ferrari “will need to be perfect” to catch them.

But Sainz, who won the British Grand Prix, also pointed to positives.

“In terms of pure performance, we are not far,” he said. “We just need to put on a bit more power and a bit more down force in the car, and we’re going to be at the same level [as Red Bull] or faster.”

Divergent development strategies, with Red Bull making weight loss a priority and Ferrari chasing aerodynamic gains, favored Red Bull. Because Red Bull reduced weight, that aided tire wear compared with Ferrari, enhancing its advantage. Another factor was that Ferrari had to turn down its smaller turbo at high altitudes, thus running at less power in, for example, Mexico City.

Ferrari also halted its development program early because of Formula One’s new cost cap for the 2022 season.

“It is something we need to review,” Binotto said. “Have we made the right choice in terms of priority between 2022 and 2023? I don’t know. Only 2023 will tell us.”

In spite of its runaway 2022 season, Red Bull said it would be naive to ignore Ferrari.

“They’ll come back fighting hard next year,” Horner, the team principal, said. “As they say, the higher your rise, the sharper the knives. When you win 17 Grands Prix and do what we’ve done, you can understand that hurts our opponents, and I’m sure they’ll be even more motivated to become a challenger next year.”

Leclerc said winning the title must be the 2023 goal.

“I’m confident in terms of pace we will manage to catch Red Bull back next year,” he said.

Charles Leclerc, left, and Carlos Sainz at the Mexico Grand Prix in Mexico City in October.

Far from the World Cup, the essence of Argentine soccer expands its reach

By JUAN JOSÉ RELMUCAO

The essence of Argentine soccer can be found late at night, in the circuit of games in barrios outside Buenos Aires.

There, young players for generations have cut their teeth, maybe dreaming of suiting up for the country’s national team, but primarily entertaining late-night and early morning crowds with an intense, wild talent for the game, playing on whatever patch of ground.

“Potrero” is the term that sums up this system and style, rooted in the informal and improvised games born in the earthy, amateur fields of the 19th century, long before soccer became a profession with billion-dollar clubs and multimillion-dollar salaries. Every Argentine legend has had it in his blood: Alfredo Di Stéfano, Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi. They all kicked around in potreros, and when someone dribbles impressively or scores an amazing goal, it’s common for people to say, “That’s potrero.”

Now, the games have taken a modern twist.

Today’s young players have expanded the reach of their circuit by streaming the games, and Argentina’s win in the World Cup final this month in Qatar could bring them even more attention.

Even before then, by word-of-mouth, WhatsApp and Instagram, interest in the circuit’s games had mushroomed from only a few dozen followers before the coronavirus pandemic — mostly coming from the teams’ neighborhoods in the cities ringing Buenos Aires — to thousands of people connected across the country and beyond. In June, even a Mexican soccer fan page shared a video of La Sub 21, a respected potrero team, and the clip reached 4.4 million views.

There are now some accounts, like Potrero Nato or Corta y al pie, dedicated to showing the best of potrero.

La Sub 21, El Ciclón de Burzaco and other teams sell hundreds of their uniforms every time they release a new one. Potrero jerseys are increasingly visible on Buenos Aires buses and subways.

“Some people write us on social media asking us to play in Patagonia or Córdoba province, but we can’t afford the transportation,” said Franco Roldán, 26, who is known as Franquito and plays for La Sub 21.

While he was unemployed, playing for the club helped sustain his family.

“During the time I had no job, I knew if my team won games I could buy milk for my son,” said Roldán, who has a 1-year-old.

As a teenager, he played for Atlanta, a traditional second division team. But the club didn’t offer him a professional contract when he turned 18 and Roldán had to quit the dream.

For Alan Matijasevic, 29, and many of his neighbors from Burzaco, a Buenos Aires suburb, El Ciclón is the barrio’s heart. The club was founded by a group of families in 1989 and ever since has offered recreational soccer for everyone 5 to 80 years old, including Matijasevic’s 7-yearold son Gio.

The potrero system works like this: Teams arrange a five-on-five match, compete for a pot, typically around $1,000 put up by the players or sponsors, and the win -

ner takes all. In general, a team organizes a potrero night, which features four or five games starting at 11 p.m. and finishing around 4 a.m. or 5 a.m. Over time, the players have gotten to know each other and many of them might play for a different team every week, depending on which club is short a player.

The games never seem to lack an audience and it is common to see children, even toddlers, playing on the field during halftime of a match, even in early morning hours. The potrero games have become an hourslong social event.

A recent potrero match for Matijasevic started at 7 a.m. and, by the time all the games and cleanup finished, 24 hours had passed.

Susana Andrade Acuña, the ticket seller at every El Ciclón de Burzaco event, has watched players grow up.

“Our club is like a family and I know some of the players since they were shorter than the table I sit at,’’ she said.

Roldán’s performance in potrero clubs got the interest of the futsal division of Huracán, a premier Argentina soccer club that hired him in January.

Jeremías Píriz, 26, said participating in potrero soccer gave him stability after a trying time in his life.

He played potrero while training for a first division team’s junior squad to get extra money. But in 2019 the

club dismissed him for showing up late after potrero games and some months later his 12-year-old brother died of a heart attack.

“It was the end for me. I didn’t want to have nothing to do with anything,” Píriz said.

After hardly doing anything for months, he started running and training again and found his way back to potrero.

“I came back and found a lot of people happy just to see me on the field,” he said. “That was a relief and I promised my brother I’d keep playing for him.”

Recently, the first women’s teams have begun competing in the potrero circuit, including Las Ñeris, Las Flores and Chingolo.

In the end, that “family vibe,” Matijasevic said, is what, after 24 hours in the club, keeps him playing.

Last summer, he recalled, he was away on vacation in a distant province and coming out of a river with his Ciclón de Burzaco jersey on.

Suddenly someone shouted at him: ‘Hey, El Ciclón de Burzaco!”

Locals recognized him as a player and asked him for a picture.

“I was touched and proud of how far our work has gone,” he said. “My club is the best place to refresh my mind and my barrio is the place where I love living.”

Franco Roldán, 26, said playing potrero helped him sustain his family while he was unemployed.

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Feeling excited about the future? Jupiter in your sign means you’re enthusiastic. You won’t settle for less and will certainly aim for more. But you’ll also be aware that you need to make a plan. You want adventure, but you also want results. The Moon in Pisces makes this a good time to visualize the outcome you desire. The clearer you are in your thinking, the easier it will be.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

You want to live life large and make the most of your potential, and the coming months are the perfect time to get started. You’ll be ready to learn from a life coach how to side-step your limitations and release the greatness within. This isn’t the time to look back at the past and all your failures, but to embrace the future and your coming victories. You have the ability to thrive.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

You’re in the mood to mix and mingle, and there’s so much to be gained from moving in other circles. At the same time, a focus on an intense zone means you’re very aware of what’s going on beneath the surface. You may seem very personable, but you’ll easily sense what someone is really thinking, which could be a revelation. And it might be helpful for making key decisions.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

A vibrant influence can coincide with conversations that sparkle with promise. You may get offers or advice that encourages a bold step forward. Keen to take it up? If so, it might not be all plain sailing. You could need to learn new skills or let go of something you’re already involved with. On a more leisurely note, there’s much to be gained from being sociable and reaching out.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Your imagination could have the upper hand, and find you reacting to someone in a way that has nothing to do with the present situation. You might perceive someone’s words as undermining a key relationship and feel uncomfortable about this, when there may be nothing wrong at all. In fact, there can be misunderstandings all round. Whatever happens, don’t take it personally.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

The Sun in a dynamic zone, makes this an excellent time to showcase your creative work or other skills, as you never know who might be watching. Whatever your forte Virgo, this is a chance to shine, as much good could come from doing so. Concerning a relationship, you and another can feel very at home with each other, as a convivial aspect involving Venus brings you closer.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

Your relationships look to be a positive experience, and at times a wild ride. Entangled? Jupiter in Aries encourages you to try out new experiences. You might want to take on board opportunities and challenges too. This influence can add sparkle to all kinds of connections, whether romantic or business orientated. You’ll keep a positive outlook, even if there are issues to deal with, Libra.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Opportunities for uplifting encounters can show up, or you may be invited to an event that works out well for you. If you’re looking for romance, then a positive aspect between Mercury and Venus could find you drawn to someone and happily enjoying their company. It’s possible you have met this person before, but might now appreciate them even more and want to get closer.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

There’s a tug of war going on between wanting to go off on new adventures and wanting to conserve money and energy. The emphasis on your financial sector is a call to get money matters in order, and perhaps set some financial goals for 2023. And yet a side of you is eager for new adventures, and the more the merrier. Don’t let the coming days go by without having some fun.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

The Sun and other planets in your sign, mean it’s time to do what you want. Be prepared to be a little selfish and focus on your needs for a change. Yet with Jupiter in your family zone for some months, you’ll be ready for expansion at home. This might mean purchasing a bigger house, adding to your family or enlarging the place you already have. It’s onwards and upwards!

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Don’t feel you have to make up for lost time Aquarius, especially as the focus on a private zone encourages you to take it easier and spend time reflecting on what is best for you. Allow yourself to recharge, and don’t force yourself to get involved in anything that seems more of a duty than a pleasure. You need space to unwind, and to tune into goals and ideas that are important to you.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

The coming weeks can find you involved with others as part of a community or team project. And despite being busy, you’ll benefit greatly from this. Entangled? Your partner may need some tender loving care, so time spent together could resolve this and bring you even closer. Eager to attend an event or join a few friends? Gatherings are places where things might happen for you.

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