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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia offered an update Wednesday on the reconstruction and construction of homes on the island, during the swearing-in of the new Puerto Rico Builders Association board of directors.

“It is clear that the investments we are making to renew our infrastructure are an important foundation on which we are building the sustainable economic development of Puerto Rico,” the governor said in a written statement. “We all have to see it as an extraordinary capital investment, for which we do not have to incur debt. They are infrastructure works that promote economic activity and job creation in the short and medium term, and at the same time provide us with a permanent asset for our island, such as better roads, better utilities, more housing and better schools, what makes Puerto Rico an attractive destination to live, invest, do business and retire.”

Pierluisi noted that, through the disaster funds available to the island Housing Department, 6,200 affected homes have already been rebuilt or repaired, more than 3,000 relocation vouchers have been granted and 4,600 more residences are in process.

The governor also announced that through the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Gap Program for Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), the construction of more than 850 housing units was completed throughout the island, and another 1,278 units are under construction. Furthermore, in the coming months the signing of contracts for projects that will create nearly 700 more homes must be finalized, he added.

Likewise, Pierluisi pointed out, after the signing of Law 1 of 2024, which raises the ceilings on the sale prices of social housing and allows the development of more residences in that segment, some 5,000 more homes could be added.

Meanwhile, to continue expanding the housing inventory through the risk mitigation funds of the CDBGMIT Program and by way of a competitive process, the governor noted that, last year, and in a first phase, 15 proposals were awarded for developers who will build 1,380 single-family units. In the second phase, which was published last September, the projects that are in the evaluation process were received “and we seek to award projects that will lead us to complete our goal of adding 3,000 additional housing units through this program,” Pierluisi said.

Apart from the CDBG-DR and CDBG-MIT funds in Puerto Rico, there are already nearly 2,300 construction

projects completed with funds allocated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), representing an increase of 2,219 projects compared to the 81 when the current administration began.

“In January 2021, there were only 510 permanent work projects in different stages of execution, and today we have more than 6,000 works underway under the direction of FEMA, of which 2,700 are under construction,” the governor said. “Likewise, under the Accelerated Obligation Strategy program, which covers the important areas of energy, water and sewage, educational infrastructure and public housing, at the beginning of 2021 there was not a single approved project and today we already have more than 540 approved projects.”

He further indicated that “the FEMA funds disbursed amounted to only $159 million when we arrived, and today we have already disbursed about $2.323 billion, of which $1.3 million relates to FAASt program projects.”

“At the same time, FEMA has already approved about $190 million in large reconstruction projects related to Hurricane Fiona in permanent work, and we will provide $10 million to municipalities to cover the cost of matching their projects,” Pierluisi said.

During the event in San Juan, Augustín Rojo was sworn in as the president of the Builders Association.

“I have no doubt that he will serve with great dedication to continue helping the industry grow and progress,” the governor said. “The achievements in economic development and reconstruction of our island are shared and together we will continue to build a solid future for Puerto Rico.”

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Summit yields demands for those accused of domestic violence to wear monitoring devices

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s promised after Monday’s emergency meeting to which top island government officials were summoned, Rep. Wanda del Valle has filed a measure “with which we seek, at all costs, that those accused of violence [under Law 54] must wear an electronic shackle at all times.”

“In this way, we are doing great justice to the dozens of women who see their lives taken at the hands of their aggressors,” said the author of House Bill 2012. “With this one, we give more scope to Law 89 [which goes into force this Sunday].”

“Electronic monitoring is the most important element,” del Valle insisted on Wednesday. “With this in mind, what we seek, with the bill, is that as soon as the court finds cause for arrest, in view of Rule 6, an electronic shackle is mandatorily imposed.”

“Enough of the deaths of women continuing to occupy the front pages of newspapers, television news and radio programs,” she added.

“Article 2 establishes as a public policy the creation of the Surveillance, Protection and Prevention Program to deal with criminal cases of domestic violence,” the legislator continued. “In every case, in which bail is authorized, after a determination of cause. The bond must [...] be imposed, on a non-discretionary basis, and as a condition of the bond, the installation of electronic supervision of all defendants in the commission of any crime defined in Law 54.

Del Valle said the bill’s stricter language stems in part

Rep. Wanda del Valle Correa as a result of the recommendations of Women’s Advocate Madeline Bermúdez Sanabria and prosecutors.

“Men, if you’re going to put your hands on women, let it be to caress them and only with their consent,” the District 38 lawmaker said. “And if you’re going to yell at them, let it be so that the whole world will know about how much you love them.”

Also on Wednesday, Brenda Pérez Soto, an educator and Senate candidate for the District of Arecibo under the New Progressive Party banner, expressed outrage over the situation and the reaction of various government institutions, and demanded that Law No. 59 of 2017 be amended in the

appropriate forums.

Pérez Soto noted that the law was instituted to create the “Registry of Persons Convicted of Violations of the Law on Prevention and Intervention with Domestic Violence” and has room to be amended, since the law was created, for among other reasons, to make a list of Law 54 violators.

“In the face of the unprecedented crisis on our island, this law must be amended immediately,” the candidate said.

“For example, in classification 1, which are those who have been accused, but for some reason, the couple, after having filed, desist from continuing with the process, remains as an area of uncertainty.” “... To date, the list has not been updated; it does not have the name, photo, or address of the aggressors,” she said. “That’s where they should start, so that people can identify these aggressors who are walking around, often as if nothing had happened, without any consequences, in our communities.”

The school director added: “Certainly, women have become a symbol of mistreatment for many people in Puerto Rico, as if women were private property.”

“When she decides to flee, she is often not taken care of in the right way and the laws are not applied as they should be,” Pérez Soto said. “There has to be a complete structure for us to be able to work with this issue, all united. We immediately ask our legislature to amend Act 59 of 2017 to create greater restrictions and that the lists have to be broader so that people in Puerto Rico have access in order to know who these people are who are dedicated to mistreating women.”

Hearing to be held after breakdown of ticket-granting process for purchase of solar panels

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ep. Ángel Fourquet Cordero, who chairs the Housing Committee in the island House of Representatives, will summon the Department of Housing to a public hearing to investigate the process

of granting tickets for the purchase of solar panels and batteries through the New Energy Program.

On Wednesday, the system to request tickets was to open at 8 a.m. However, according to citizens, the website to request tickets collapsed at the opening of the round.

They have also reported that the telephone message box did not work.

“At eight o’clock in the morning, the web platform was out of service. Subsequently, an announcement appeared stating that the tickets had sold out,” Fourquet Cordero said.

“During the public hearing, the Department of Housing will be asked to account for the system used, the funds allocated and obligated

Rep. Ángel Fourquet Cordero

for these purposes and the alternatives available to carry out another round of tickets.”

The New Energy Program received a funding allocation of $350 million. Under the program’s guidelines, eligible individuals will receive up to a maximum of $30,000 in equipment and installation costs for owners of a single-family structure in which they reside full time.

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Measure would expand human trafficking training resources to local law enforcement

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esident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón announced Wednesday that she joined Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) and other members of the U.S. House of Representatives to present House Resolution 7107, the Human Trafficking Awareness Training Act. “Human trafficking continues to affect communities across the nation. To protect victims and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice, it is critical that our law enforcement agencies have the resources, capabilities and experience necessary to respond to these crimes,” González Colón said in a written statement. “That’s why I support Congresswoman Cammack’s Human Trafficking Awareness Training Act, to authorize a human trafficking awareness training program through the FLETC [Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers]. Access to this type of training will ensure that our state and local law enforcement officers can effectively combat human traffickers and provide victims with the support they need.”

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón The measure expands the availability of training courses under the FLETC to state and local law enforcement agencies, including tribal territories and communities.

The law recognizes the importance of FLETC training programs for law enforcement personnel and their use in recognizing and appropriately responding to potential human

trafficking situations.

“Human trafficking is modern slavery, and it has no place in our society,” Cammack said.

“Our first responders deserve the best training to recognize and prevent this horrific trade and this bill will ensure that FLETC experts can share their knowledge with other law enforcement agencies across the nation,” the Florida lawmaker added. “I will continue to work with my colleagues to do everything I can to end human trafficking in the United States.”

Currently, FLETC offers several training courses related to human trafficking, including an in-depth understanding of the definition of human trafficking, information on industries and common locations of the practice, response measures, complaint protocols, and an overview of federal statutes and related state laws, among others.

January marks National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Co-authors of the measure along with González Colón are Reps. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), Mike Carey (R-Ohio), Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.), María Salazar (R-Fla.), Mark Amodei (R-Nev.) and Doug LaMalfa R-Calif.).

Lawmakers demand repeal of $300 charge for use of renewables

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wo New Progressive Party (NPP) legislators filed a joint resolution ordering the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau to eliminate the $300 charge billed to over 35,000 subscribers connected to photovoltaic energy systems.

The money was collected for a supplementary energy capacity study.

NPP Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez and District 4 (San Juan) Rep. Víctor Parés Oterto filed the resolution.

“This is an excessive and unnecessary charge given the new

reality in Puerto Rico related to the increase in the installation of these photovoltaic systems, and contrary to promoting the public policy declared in Law 17-2019, better known as the Puerto Rico Energy Public Policy Law, which establishes the goal of achieving 40 percent of the energy produced in Puerto Rico by 2025,” the lawmakers commented in the bill. “Puerto Rico is [transitioning to] renewable [energy], and by 2050 it will completely abandon the use of oil and coal.”

On Feb. 6, 2017, Regulation No. 8915 on Interconnection of the Distribution System of the Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and Participation in Net Metering Programs went into

force. It details the processes for connecting renewable energy systems to the distribution network.

Subsection (3) of Article B (Review Through Supplementary Study and Expedited Process) in Regulation No. 8915 establishes that “Table 2 presents a guide to the costs for supplementary studies ($300.00), according to the capacity of the DG (distributed generation).” The reason for the study, according to the regulation, is to determine “if it is necessary to make improvements to the Authority’s electrical distribution system or changes to the DG design, to achieve a safe and reliable interconnection of the DG.”

Supreme Court insists requiring association membership to practice medicine is unconstitutional

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he Puerto Rico Supreme Court has refused to reconsider its October ruling that declared the requirement of compulsory membership to an association to practice medicine unconstitutional.

In this regard, the Supreme Court justified its decision in 2023, expressing that although the state has a compelling interest in regulating the practice of medicine to protect public health, mandatory membership is not necessary to achieve the objective.

“There is no room for the second Motion for reconsideration,” the brief says. “Adhere to what was decided by this Court.”

The Supreme Court ruled in October that the statutory requirement of compulsory membership to legitimately practice

medicine in Puerto Rico is unconstitutional.

“The absence of compulsory membership does not affect in any way the structuring of the regulatory model in medicine,” Associate Justice Edgardo Rivera García wrote in a concurring opinion. “Demanding this requirement, which unnecessarily undermines the right not to associate without complying with the requirements for it, represents an impermissible outcome in our constitutional order.”

The controversy originated when Dr. Héctor Luis Delucca Jiménez filed a lawsuit against the Physicians & Surgeons Association of Puerto Rico and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Delucca Jiménez argued that compulsory membership infringed on his right to freedom of association and expression.

In contrast, Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodríguez expressed in her dissenting opinion that voluntary membership is not effective. She argued that, although the board has the power

in law to regulate the profession, it needs the Association and compulsory membership to do so properly.

“In summary, I have evaluated the constitutionality of the requirement of compulsory membership of the Association in the light of strict scrutiny, considering the two pressing interests of the State,” she wrote.” First, despite sharing duties and powers related to the regulation of the profession with the Board, the reality is that the Board cannot regulate the profession on its own in an effective and viable manner.”

“Although in theory it is empowered by law to regulate the profession, it does not constitute the least onerous, effective and viable measure, and it needs the Association and compulsory membership to fulfill its duties,” the chief justice added. “Second, the Association has multiple duties and powers aimed at fulfilling the compelling interest of safeguarding public health that it does not share with the Board.”

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LUMA touts improvements in latest performance report

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here were 25 million fewer service interruptions, LUMA Energy, the private operator of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s transmission and distribution system, asserted in its latest quarterly performance report.

There were fewer interruptions due to the installation of 3,500 automation devices, which are smart devices used to make outages smaller and shorter, LUMA said.

The private operator submitted its quarterly performance metrics filing to the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau this week, highlighting improvements across key areas, including service interruptions.

Additional improvements were measured across multiple areas, including safety, and the duration and frequency of outages, when compared to the previous operators’ baseline, LUMA said.

“Over the last quarter, LUMA continued to make progress across multiple metrics. For example, LUMA’s effort to install thousands of automation devices has clearly helped our customers, saving them from millions of minutes where they would have otherwise gone without power,” LUMA President and CEO Juan Saca said. “In terms of the frequency of outages, while we are proud that we continue to exceed the performance of the past operator,

the impact of vegetation on reliability highlights the necessity of enhancing our maintenance operations and the importance of our upcoming Vegetation Clearing Initiative. Simply put, we will not be satisfied until we achieve our goal to reduce outages by 50% in two years, and that is what we are working toward.”

To address the need to further accelerate a reduction in the frequency and duration of outages, and achieve its stated goal of a 50% reduction, LUMA has announced a series of reliability-enhancing initiatives, including clearing overgrown, hazardous vegetation from over 16,000 miles of power lines over the next three years through the operator’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)-funded $1.2 billion Vegetation Clearing Initiative, which will further reduce outages by 35-45% across the island. The project is slated to start in the February/ March timeframe, contingent on FEMA approval.

Another initiative would add technology to the grid, installing a total of 5,000 grid automation devices by July of this year to reduce the size and length of outages, as well as modernizing and upgrading substations, with plans to upgrade 50 substations in total and build six more in the next two years, all to further improve reliability.

Other initiatives include improving operational excellence by identifying and repairing transmission line hot spots.

In addition to reliability, LUMA’s quarterly performance

report highlighted continuing improvements between October and December, 2023, including: * the reduction of customer wait time by an average of 45% * connecting to more customers * reducing past due accounts of government agencies by 94% from the first quarter * reducing the average wait time for in-person visits to customer service centers to less than 10 minutes, and * helping connect more than 12,500 customers to rooftop solar, representing more than 85 megawatts of clean, renewable energy.

The private operator also reduced the average time it takes to resolve billing inquiries by 12%, or a reduction of four full days; improved response time to service requests and outages by over 15% since last quarter; continued building inventory, totaling more than $278 million in equipment; and reduced the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Days Away, Restricted, Transferred rate by 50%.

“As LUMA remains focused on improving reliability for our customers, our team is equally committed to prioritizing personal and public safety,” Saca said. “It is not enough to just get the job done, we are holding ourselves to the highest standards, with a steadfast commitment to improving operational excellence.”

Accommodations for medical professionals under construction in Vieques

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ieques Mayor José “Junito” Corcino Acevedo on Wednesday announced the beginning of the first phase for the construction of housing for health professionals who will travel to the island municipality to work in the new hospital that is in full development.

“As you know, the new hospital in Vieques is in the middle of construction and when completed, we will have a world-class medical-hospital facility,” the mayor said in a written statement. “Hand in hand with this project, the most important in decades, we have to outline a support network.

“There is no doubt that the creation of accommodations for There is no doubt that the creation of accommodations for health professionals is very important for the operation of health professionals is very important for the operation of the the new hospital,” Vieques Mayor José Corcino Acevedo said. new hospital.”

“I am very pleased to report that the first phase of the project is already a reality with the notice for bids associated with the location of this structure, which will be designed so that doctors and nurses, as well as other hospital personnel, can spend the night and thus offer the best possible service to the people of Vieques.”

Bidding is scheduled for April under the umbrella of the Infrastructure Finance Authority (Auction No. 2023-521811CUB-010462). The preliminary mock-up of the project is available for evaluation by potential bidders.

The new hospital will have some 20 adult and pediatric beds, modern rooms to provide dialysis, dental services and treatment of cancer patients, and to perform minor surgical processes. There will also be an X-ray room and a pharmacy.

The facility will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Island’s net weekly cash flow falls short, but YTD TSA balance lands well above forecast

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he island Treasury Department announced a net operating cash flow of $350 million for the week ended Jan. 19, according to a Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority report.

The amount was $114 million lower than the $464 million forecast.

The year-to-date (YTD) Treasury Single Account’s (TSA) ending bank cash position was nearly $9.43 billion for the week.

The YTD variance was $2.15 billion more than the nearly $7.28 billion forecast, according to the report issued Wednesday.

Total inflows for the week ended Jan. 19 were $584 million, which was $131 million less than the $715 million projection, the document notes.

Meanwhile, outflows were $234 million or $17 million

less than the $250 million forecast.

Federal fund receipts were $43 million lower than the forecast for the week, coming in at $97 million, compared to the $140 million projection, the document indicated.

For the YTD period ended Jan. 19, the TSA’s net operating cash flow was $1.15 billion, or $2.15 billion better than the anticipated net operating cash flow of negative $998 million, the filing indicated.

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House panel approves impeachment charges against Mayorkas

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he House Homeland Security Committee approved two articles of impeachment early Wednesday against Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, over his handling of the southwestern border, as Republicans raced forward with a partisan indictment of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies.

In an 18-15 party-line vote, the panel endorsed a resolution charging Mayorkas with refusing to uphold the law and breaching the public trust by failing to choke off a surge of migrants across the United States border with Mexico.

It set the stage for a House vote as soon as next week on an impeachment that would be an extraordinary escalation of a political feud between Republicans and Democrats over immigration, further elevating the issue at the start of an election year in which it is expected to be a main focus.

The GOP was plowing forward without producing evidence that Mayorkas committed a crime or acts of corruption, arguing instead that the Biden administration border policies he implemented ran afoul of the law. Legal scholars, including prominent conservatives, have argued that the effort is a perversion of the constitutional power of impeachment, and Democrats remained solidly opposed.

If impeached, Mayorkas would become only the second Cabinet secretary to be indicted by the House of Representatives in U.S. history, and the first in nearly 150 years.

The charges would be all but certain to collapse in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where a two-thirds majority would be required to convict and remove Mayorkas. But they would force an election-year trial that would fuel what promises to be a charged political debate this year over how to handle a surge of migration into the United States, and who should be blamed for what both parties’ leaders now consider an immigration crisis.

An all-day meeting of the Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday that dragged into the wee hours of Wednesday offered a glimpse of the bitter tenor of that fight. Republicans laid out their case against the secretary, and Democrats used every tool at their disposal to halt the impeachment or amend the charges, failing repeatedly on a series of party-line votes.

Republicans contend that the Biden administration’s policies — and Mayorkas’ decisions in particular — have attracted waves of migrants to the country and admitted individuals

who could pose a danger to national security.

“Secretary Mayorkas has put his political preferences above following the law,” Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chair of the panel, said at the start of Tuesday’s session. He added that the results of Mayorkas’ border policies “have been catastrophic and have endangered the lives and livelihoods of all Americans.”

Democrats counter that the Biden administration has grappled with record-setting waves of migrants to the best of its ability, given the limited resources that Congress has been willing to devote to addressing the challenges.

Biden has even pledged to engineer a turnaround if Congress passes a bipartisan deal to clamp down on asylum claims, expand the capacity of detention facilities and set limits on the number of migrants who could be let into the country. But while Senate negotiators are hoping to finalize such a plan this week, former President Donald Trump is working to kill it, and House Republicans have said they will never accept it.

“Neither of the impeachment charges the committee will consider today are a high crime or misdemeanor,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the panel’s most senior Democrat.

He added that House Republicans “don’t want progress. They don’t want solutions. They want a political issue.”

GOP leaders, whose House majority has shrunk to only the barest of margins, will need near-unanimous support to impeach Mayorkas in the full chamber. They believe they can reach that level despite some lingering skepticism in their ranks about whether impeachment is warranted.

“I’m a ‘lean no’ at this point,” Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., said in an interview Tuesday, adding that he feared that impeaching Mayorkas would damage Congress institutionally and be “moving in the wrong direction.”

Buck was one of eight GOP holdouts when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and a member of the panel, tried to force a snap impeachment of Mayorkas in the House in November. Some from that group, such as Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., have since committed to support the effort to impeach Mayorkas, while others, such as Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., said Tuesday that they were still withholding judgment.

Republicans accuse Mayorkas of violating provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act that mandate that migrants who otherwise are not admissible to the United States “shall be detained” pending their removal, or a decision

Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) before a House Homeland Security Committee meeting to vote on impeachment charges for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 30, 2024. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) about their claims to asylum.

“Instead of complying with this requirement, Alejandro N. Mayorkas has implemented a catch-and-release scheme, whereby such aliens are unlawfully released,” the oneimpeachment article reads.

It also charges Mayorkas with having failed to take every migrant deportable on criminal or terrorism grounds into custody, and with having “willfully exceeded his parole authority” under the law to let large categories of migrants into the country. Those include Ukrainians and Afghans fleeing war andVenezuelans, Haitians and others fleeing economically ravaged countries.

But immigration laws grant the president and his administration broad powers to handle the border as they see fit.

For instance, the same law Republicans cited in one of the impeachment articles also gives the administration latitude to let individuals into the country temporarily for humanitarian reasons or for the public benefit on a case-bycase basis — with no further limitations on how widely it can be applied. Such parole powers have existed since the 1950s, and several administrations — including those of former Presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush — have used them to allow large numbers of migrants to live and work in the United States temporarily.

A second impeachment article charges Mayorkas with obstructing the GOP’s investigation, and having “knowingly made false statements” about the state of security at the southern border with Mexico. That is a reference to testimony Mayorkas gave to Congress in 2022

that his department had “operational control” of the border. Republicans have argued that this was demonstrably false under the 2006 Secure Fences Act, which defines the term as the absence of any unlawful crossings of migrants or drugs.

Mayorkas has said he was employing the far lower standard of “operational control” used by the Border Patrol, which defines the term as “the ability to detect, respond and interdict border penetrations in areas deemed as high priority.”

In a letter to the panel Tuesday, Mayorkas, whom Republicans did not allow to testify publicly in his own defense after scheduling disputes, forcefully contested the charges.

“You claim that we have failed to enforce our immigration laws,” Mayorkas wrote. “That is false.” He said Republicans’ allegation that he obstructed their inquiries was “baseless and inaccurate.”

Democrats have argued that Republicans are impeaching Mayorkas as part of a strategy to keep the border in chaos so Trump, who is once again marching toward the GOP presidential nomination, can capitalize on public dissatisfaction and campaign on a pledge to fix it.

Republicans maintain that the Constitution offers ample latitude to impeach an official over what, in this instance, they call his “ill behavior” toward the law.

“His refusal to obey the law is not only an offense against the separation of powers in the Constitution of the United States,” one impeachment article says. “It also threatens our national security and has had a dire impact on communities across the country.”

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How the border crisis shattered Biden’s immigration hopes

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, HAMED ALEAZIZ and ZOLAN KANNOYOUNGS

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n President Joe Biden’s first day in office, he paused nearly all deportations. He vowed to end the harsh practices of the Trump administration, show compassion toward those wishing to come to the United States and secure the southern border.

For Biden, it was a matter of principle. He wanted to show the world that the United States was a humane nation, while also demonstrating to his fellow citizens that government could work again.

But those early promises have largely been set aside as chaos engulfs the border and imperils Biden’s reelection hopes.

The number of people crossing into the United States has reached record levels, more than double than in the Trump years. The asylum system is still all but broken.

On Friday, in a dramatic turnaround from those early days, the president implored Congress to grant him the power to shut down the border so he could contain one of the largest surges of uncontrolled immigration in American history.

“If given that authority,” Biden said in a statement, “I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”

Some of the circumstances that have created the crisis are out of Biden’s control, such as the collapse of Venezuela, a surge in migration around the world and the obstinance of Republicans who have tried to thwart his efforts to address the problems. They refused to provide resources, blocked efforts to update laws and openly defied federal officials charged with maintaining security and order along the 2,000-mile border.

But an examination of Biden’s record over the last three years by The New York Times, based on interviews with more than 35 current and former officials and others, shows that the president has failed to overcome those obstacles. Many voters now say immigration is their top concern, and they do not have confidence that Biden is addressing it.

The president initially sought balance. He created legal pathways for migrants and began rebuilding the refugee system even as he embraced some of former President Donald Trump’s more restrictive tactics. But those efforts were quickly overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of people arriving at the border, and at times, Biden failed to appreciate the growing anger in both parties.

During the 2020 campaign, Biden said he would be an antidote to his predecessor’s anti-immigrant approach. But after years of inflation, economic suffering and political polarization, the public is divided about whether the United States — which is home to more immigrants than any other nation — should absorb more.

Biden went from a 2020 candidate who vowed to “end Trump’s assault on the dignity of immigrant communities” to a 2024 president who is “willing to make significant compromises on the border.”

When children from Central America started crossing by the thousands in spring 2021, the president’s first instinct was compassion. Biden believed he was elected to deal with immigration in a humane manner.

It was the first big test of his immigration agenda and of whether the more welcoming approach he promised would work.

During his campaign for the White House in 2020, Biden

President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks with Vice President Kamala Harris at The White House in Washington on Thursday, Jan 5, 2023. President Biden attacked his political opponents, repeatedly accusing “extreme Republicans” of blocking his efforts to modernize the nation’s immigration laws, during his only immigration speech. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) pledged to limit raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, invest in the asylum system and close private immigration prisons.

On his first day in office, he proposed a vast immigration bill to Congress that would have provided a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants already living in America without legal permission.

The next day, he paused deportations for 100 days, and even though a federal judge later blocked that policy, some migrants took it as a sign that it was worth a dangerous trek to the U.S. border.

Republicans seized the moment. They declared Biden’s immigration overhaul dead on arrival and warned that human traffickers and smugglers would funnel migrants to America with the false promise that the new president was throwing open the border — a risk that some inside the administration agreed with, according to several current and former U.S. officials.

The president dismissed the criticism.

But Biden’s more welcoming stance was quickly tested.

In April 2021, he had expanded the number of Haitians who could stay in the United States after fleeing gang violence in their country. But the administration also decided that if a surge of Haitians arrived at the border, the United States would send them right back, using a COVID-era authority known as Title 42.

It did not take long. During a 16-day period in September 2021, 19,752 Haitians crossed into a makeshift camp under the Del Rio International Bridge in Texas.

Many of the Haitians were allowed to stay in the United States, with notices to appear in immigration court, because of limits on the Border Patrol’s capacity to remove them from the country. But thousands were deported.

The rapid deportations exposed a split in the administration that would only grow over time.

People close to Biden said he had always supported enforcing the law. But others in the administration saw the treatment of Haitians as a betrayal of the values that Biden had promised to uphold.

Pressure was building on Biden to find a solution. He looked to the one place that could pass meaningful new immigration

laws but has not done so in decades: Congress.

But Republicans in Washington largely ignored Biden’s entreaties to come to the negotiating table to help fix the immigration system. And out in the country, GOP officials came up with their own plan.

In April 2022, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas vowed to “take the border to President Biden” by busing thousands of migrants to Democratic-led cities.

It was a stunt, but it worked.

Democratic leaders were overwhelmed. They called for the president to step in, saying the influx was a drain on their resources.

The people demanding border security were no longer just Republicans. They were members of Biden’s own party.

The administration scrambled to meet the Democratic demands, providing more money and speeding up the processing of work permits.

But the busing of migrants clearly shifted the discourse around the issue. And polling began to show growing support in the United States for border measures once denounced by Democrats and championed by Trump.

Not long after New Year’s Day in 2023, Biden delivered the only immigration speech of his presidency. In it, he announced tough new restrictions on asylum, the system of laws that has for decades established the United States as a place of refuge for displaced and fearful people across the globe.

Biden repeatedly accused “extreme Republicans” of blocking his efforts to modernize the nation’s immigration laws, refusing to provide billions of dollars for border security and rejecting bipartisan negotiations.

“They can keep using immigration to try to score political points,” he said, “or they can help solve the problem.”

Human rights groups condemned the restrictions as too harsh. But Republicans said the restrictions were still too lenient.

Some advisers who tried to appeal to Biden’s heart on the issue eventually left the administration, feeling disillusioned. The ones who remained encouraged the president to listen to his head: The situation at the border was getting worse, and more enforcement was needed.

Later in 2023, Republicans on Capitol Hill demanded a crackdown on the border in exchange for their votes on one of Biden’s top priorities: sending more military aid to Ukraine.

Three years earlier, Democrats might have balked. But not anymore. Deeply frustrated Democratic lawmakers from Massachusetts vented to Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, in a closed-door session at the Capitol in October 2023.

Their message to the secretary was driven by the financial costs of dealing with the migrants in their state: You have to do something. This has got to stop.

Biden soon sensed an opening to capitalize on the changing dynamic, and on Dec. 6, he made it official.

“I am willing to make significant compromises on the border,” he said. “We need to fix the broken border system. It is broken.”

As he campaigns for a second term in the White House, Biden has become unapologetic in his calls for more, and stricter, enforcement at the border. He now appears ready to run more as a leader determined to keep people out and less as a champion of displaced people.

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Oregon leaders declare drug emergency in Portland

By MICHAEL CORKERY

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regon leaders earlier this week declared a 90-day state of emergency in central Portland as part of a broad effort to tackle the effects of fentanyl on the streets of the state’s largest city.

Why it matters: Portland has been struggling.

Portland used to be known as one of the most desirable places to live in the United States. But in recent years, the city has been struggling with widespread fentanyl use on its streets, which has led to an increase in homeless encampments and crime.

As many other U.S. cities have rebounded from the pandemic, the fentanyl crisis has hampered the city’s recovery.

Several key retailers, such as REI, have closed stores in Portland, while hundreds of people continue to die from fentanyl overdoses every year, often in tents or on sidewalks.

The emergency declaration is part of a broader plan announced late last year by Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek, to curb public drug use and crime in Portland and reestablish a sense of security for workers and visitors.

In an executive order Tuesday, Kotek cited the “economic and reputational harm” that the fentanyl problem was inflicting on Portland and the state.

“Our country and our state have never seen a drug this deadly addictive, and all are grappling with how to respond,” the governor said in a statement.

Background: Oregon decriminalized most public drug use in 2020.

The emergency declaration tries to address a frequent criticism among Oregon taxpayers: Millions of dollars are being spent on homelessness and addiction problems, but the resources are not always reaching people effectively.

State officials said a “command center” would be set up in central Portland, where various agencies from the state, city and county would coordinate their responses to the fentanyl problem. The command center is also designed to collect and analyze data and identify any “gaps” in the government’s response.

Many cities are struggling with the fallout from fentanyl. In Oregon, the problem was accelerated by a law voters passed in 2020 that decriminalized the use of so-called

hard drugs, including methamphetamine and fentanyl, and not just marijuana, which was already legal in Oregon and many other states. At the time of its passage, Measure 110 was celebrated as a first-in-the-nation law, an attempt to recognize drug addiction as a health problem, not a crime.

Under this law, Measure 110, the police are supposed to refer people they see using fentanyl to treatment and not send them to jail. But in reality, many fentanyl users have ignored these referrals and continue to use the drug openly in parks, on city buses and in front of restaurants with impunity.

Liberal elected officials in many U.S. cities have been wary about returning to policies of the past that focused on arresting and jailing drug addicts rather than getting them into treatment.

But in many of those cities, widespread disorder has alienated even liberal-minded voters, forcing leaders to take a harder-line approach.

In 2021, San Francisco’s mayor, London Breed, made waves by declaring an “emergency” in the city’s Tenderloin District and stepped up arrests for public drug use and shoplifting.

The emergency declaration in Portland was announced jointly by Kotek; Portland’s mayor, Ted Wheeler; and the Multnomah County chair, Jessica Vega Pederson — all Democrats.

What happens next: Some officials are discussing ramping up drug laws.

The emergency declaration seems unlikely to draw much political pushback, but a bigger dispute lies ahead. Kotek has said that she is proposing a change in state law to ban public drug use and to give the police more resources to crack down on drug dealing.

Seeking to roll back Measure 110 is likely to face opposition from many addiction treatment providers. They have argued that recriminalizing drug use will lead people to use fentanyl in private, increasing the risk of overdoses.

Opioid overdoses in Oregon increased from 738 in 2021, the first year Measure 110 was in effect, to 956 in 2022.

Kotek has signaled that her plan calls not just for more police involvement but also for increased services for homeless people, including more shelter capacity.

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Island retailers seek fiscal board’s help to remain sustainable

By THE STAR STAFF

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nited Retailers Association (CUD) President Lourdes M. Aponte Rodríguez said this week that the Financial Oversight and Management Board has been open to listening to the complaints of small and midsize businesses (SMEs) about the dire implications that continuous increases in electricity bills would have.

The CUD presented a study, conducted by the firm Inteligencia Económica, of the economic impact on SMEs to the fiscal entity.

The report was presented at a Jan. 16 meeting where economist Gustavo Vélez was present, along with the executive director of the oversight board, Robert Mujica, and certified public accountant Germán Ojeda, director of municipal affairs & legislative review for the oversight board. As part of the discussion, updated data was presented on the current situation that SMEs are going through, with an emphasis on finding solutions and ensuring that they are sustainable in the face of the crisis in the small business commercial sector.

The study includes a survey of SMEs carried out in August and September 2023, in which owners were asked about the general impact on their businesses. The survey measured the profile of SMEs, cost increases, the decisions they have had to make to keep their businesses open and the general

United Retailers Association President Lourdes M. Aponte Rodríguez sentiment regarding the economy and how an SME now operates, compared to the years before the global coronavirus pandemic.

When asked about operating costs compared to the period from January to July 2022, the majority, about 33.3%, reported an increase in operating costs of between 5% and 10%, compared to the same period in 2022. The majority, 59.5%, indicated that their operational costs in the first half of 2023

increased by up to 10% compared to 2022.

The remaining 40% indicated that their costs increased more than 10%. For any small business, this is a significant increase, impacting both profit margins and higher prices for consumers. The increase can be attributed not only to the greater increase in energy, but also to the higher cost of products, the labor force and the increase in interest rates, which in turn was caused by inflation in the global economy.

The survey showed that the average small business owner has between one and seven employees earning minimum wage and generating $0 to $3 million in sales. Labor costs, followed by electricity and other operating expenses, were cited as the most significant financial strains, highlighting the challenge of high costs to business operations.

Additionally, there is widespread distrust and concern among small and midsize businesses about future economic conditions and labor expenses. A notable decline in small businesses since 2019 suggests that these entities are not only struggling to sustain operations, but also that high labor costs may be deterring the establishment of new businesses.

Common concerns include labor and energy costs, consumer confidence, taxes and government policies, with labor and electricity costs being particularly burdensome. According to the CUD, the number of

micro and small businesses in Puerto Rico will continue to fall if the situation remains the same.

Mujica, the oversight board executive director, stated that there are challenges at an economic and legal level, but that the board is very aware of what is proposed in the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA, the CUD leader noted. The board officials expressed their readiness to work with the commercial sector, for possible proposals that are sustainable, that represent permanent changes, and that enrich the movement of real economic growth and development.

Vélez called on the oversight board and the government of Puerto Rico, including the Legislature, to develop a public policy aimed at improving the competitiveness of SMEs and the climate of doing business.

The study data reflects that the profitability levels of small and midsize merchants are at a critical point, and if costs continue to increase, commercial establishment closures will begin. The statistics, meanwhile, demonstrate that for four consecutive months bankruptcies have shown an upward trend.

According to the CUD, the three fundamental issues to address in the short term are energy costs, labor, permits and access to capital at competitive rates. The shortterm efforts of any strategy must be focused on addressing those issues.

Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package is voided by judge

By JACK EWING and PETER EAVIS

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Delaware judge ruled earlier this week in favor of Tesla shareholders who sued to block the pay package that helped make Elon Musk, the carmaker’s CEO, a billionaire many times over and the world’s wealthiest human.

“The process leading to the approval of Musk’s compensation plan was deeply flawed,” Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery said in the decision. She ordered that the contract that provided his record pay — currently

worth about $50 billion — be voided.

A group of Tesla shareholders had challenged a stock options package that ended up giving Musk the right to acquire Tesla shares that were worth more than $70 billion when the stock price was higher. To receive the award, which was one of the largest of its kind and widely imitated by other corporations, Tesla had to meet certain revenue, profit and share price goals.

The lawsuit took on added significance after Musk’s acquisition of Twitter in 2022.

He faced widespread criticism for spending time trying to overhaul Twitter while Tesla’s

shares slumped and its growth slowed amid rising competition. One justification for Musk’s pay package at Tesla was that it was a way of keeping him focused on building cars.

The case also raised questions about Tesla’s corporate governance and whether the board, which includes several close friends of Musk and his brother, Kimbal, does anything to rein in Musk’s behavior. The lawsuit contended that Musk had played a large role in shaping his pay package.

The judge agreed. “In the final analysis,” she wrote in Tuesday’s decision, “Musk launched a self-driving process, recalibrating

the speed and direction along the way as he saw fit. The process arrived at an unfair price.”

Musk also testified during the trial, suggesting that his impact on the car industry justified his pay. “Tesla has had an immense effect on the world,” he said. “Not just that Tesla is making electric vehicles — we have been really the main reason why the rest of the car industry has moved toward sustainable, electric vehicles.”

The case was heard in Delaware because Tesla, like many companies, is incorporated there.

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Wall St gyrates after Fed holds US rates steady, says no cuts imminent U .S. stocks veered after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady while hinting that no rate cuts were imminent.

The three major U.S. stock indexes were already weighed down by weakness in tech and tech-adjacent megacap stocks the day after disappointing Alphabet results.

All three turned lower ahead of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s Q&A session, expected to begin shortly.

As expected, the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) left its key policy rate unchanged at 5.25%-5.50% against a backdrop of gradually cooling inflation and a resilient economy.

In its accompanying statement, the FOMC said it “does not expect it will be appropriate to reduce the target range until it has gained greater confidence,” a blow to market participants who were hoping for a dovish pivot as early as March.

“There were no surprises in the Fed statement,” said Oliver Pursche, senior vice president at Wealthspire Advisors, in New York. “It does appear that further rate hikes are off the table, which is a positive, but investors should continue to expect higher for longer as we’re still quite a ways away from the sort of economic data that would push the Fed to lower rates.”

At 02:10 p.m. the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 61.72 points, or 0.16% , to 38,405.59, the S&P 500 lost 46.13 points, or 0.94%, to 4,878.84 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 222.88 points, or 1.44%, to 15,287.02.

European shares ended flat on Wednesday, as losses in technology stocks countered gains fostered by upbeat earnings, while a strong forecast by drugmaker Novo Nordisk helped Copenhagen shares scale record highs.

The pan-European STOXX 600 index held steady at 485.67 at close, logging a 1.4% rise in January, its third consecutive monthly gain.

Heavyweight healthcare stocks were in the spotlight, advancing 0.5% with Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk adding 3.6% to notch an all-time high after Europe’s most valuable company forecast another year of double-digit growth.

The stock pushed Copenhagen’s OMX 20 to a fresh record high, closing 2.3% higher.

Also adding to the sector’s gains was GSK, which gained 2.0% after beating fourth quarter estimates.

Beijer Ref jumped 11.9% after the Swedish wholesaler of cooling technology reported quarterly sales above expectations and forecast continued growth in 2024, while Spanish lender Santander rose 2.1% after posting record-high profit for the last quarter of 2023, beating forecasts.

The European real estate index advanced 1.0%, lifted by a 6.3% rise in Germany’s TAG Immobilien after HSBC upgraded its rating to “buy”.

Swiss drugmaker Novartis fell 3.5% on missing estimates for fourth-quarter profit, while H&M slumped 12.4% to the bottom of the STOXX 600 after the Swedish fashion retailer revealed its sales for December and January fell by 4% compared with the previous year, while the company

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Technology, which houses most of Europe’s chipmakers, fell 0.6%, tracking losses in their U.S. counterparts. [.N] On the data front, French consumer prices rose 3.4% year-on-year in January, a touch above expectations, but inflation slowed from the previous month, according to preliminary data. A separate reading showed German inflation eased slightly further than expected in January to 3.1%.

“The economy has been pretty weak for about a year

and the data today confirms a further decline in inflation in Europe,” said Joost van Leenders, senior investment strategist at Van Lanschot Kempen.

Government bond yields across Europe dipped tracking a strong rally in U.S. Treasuries that pushed yields lower after U.S jobs data. [GVD/EUR] Investor attention will now shift to the Federal Reserve’s interest rate verdict, due at 1900 GMT, for clues regarding the timing of interest rate cuts in the world’s largest economy.

“When you look at the comments of Fed policymakers over the past weeks, they’ve pushed back against very early rate cuts ... I don’t think that (Fed Chair) Powell will want to get those expectations for a March cut back into the market,” added Van Lanschot Kempen’s Leenders.

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Iran suggests it doesn’t want war after US warning over drone attack

By SHASHANK BENGALI

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he head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Wednesday that Iran was “not looking for war,” appearing to signal that it would not escalate tensions with the United States. But he also warned that Iran was prepared to respond if attacked.

“We hear threatening words from American officials,” Gen. Hossein Salami, the chief commander of the powerful military organization, was quoted as saying by Iranian state news media. “You have tested us and we know each other — we will not leave any threat unanswered.”

The comments came after President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he had decided on a U.S. response to the weekend drone attack that killed three U.S. soldiers and injured more than 40 others at a remote military outpost in Jordan. The United States has said that one or more Iranianbacked militias operating in Iraq was behind the attack, the deadliest of more than 160 such strikes targeting U.S. forces in the Middle East since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in October.

Biden did not specify what the U.S. response would be.

Some Republican lawmakers have urged him to attack Iran directly, although Biden emphasized again Tuesday that he was determined to avoid a broader regional conflict, telling reporters: “I don’t think we need a wider war in the Middle East.”

In an apparent sign that Iran was trying to tamp down

Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, delivers remarks at the funeral of Brig.

Gen. Sayyed Razi Mousavi in Tehran, Dec. 28, 2023. Salami said on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, that Tehran was “not looking for war,” appearing to signal that it would not escalate tensions with the United States. But he also warned that Iran was prepared to respond if attacked. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) tensions, Kata’ib Hezbollah, one of the most powerful regional militias linked to Iran, made the surprising announcement Tuesday that it was suspending military operations in Iraq, where it operates. A statement by the group indicated that it had come under pressure from Iran and Iraq to stop attacks on U.S. troops.

The Pentagon has said that Kata’ib Hezbollah was most likely responsible for the deadly attack on U.S. troops in Jordan.

But Wednesday, John Kirby, spokesperson for President Joe Biden’s National Security Council, said the picture was somewhat less clear-cut.

“We believe that the attack in Jordan was planned, resourced and facilitated by an umbrella group called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which contains multiple groups, including Kata’ib Hezbollah,” he said.

When asked whether Kata’ib Hezbollah had a primary role in the attack, he said, “This certainly has the earmarks of the kinds of things Kata’ib Hezbollah does.” But, he added, “The attribution that our intelligence community is comfortable with is that this was done by the umbrella group.”

Iran has denied ordering attacks on U.S. forces, including the drone strike in Jordan, saying that the Axis of Resistance — the loose network of Iranian-backed groups operating in the Middle East — act independently to oppose “aggression and occupation.”

In a meeting with government officials Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said the United States should “stop using the language of threats” and focus on achieving a political solution to the regional crisis.

“Iran’s response in the face of any threats will be decisive and immediate,” IRNA, Iran’s state news agency, quoted Abdollahian as saying.

Ukraine and Russia exchange hundreds of prisoners of war

By MARC SANTORA

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ussia and Ukraine announced the exchange of hundreds of prisoners of war Wednesday, resuming the carefully choreographed trading of captives only a week after Moscow accused Kyiv of shooting down a Russian military transport plane that it said was carrying dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war on their way to be exchanged.

The cause of the crash, which occurred in Russia’s Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine last week, remains unknown. Ukrainian officials have neither confirmed nor denied responsibility, have called for an international investigation and said that the Russians had offered no conclusive evidence that prisoners were on the flight.

After the crash, families of Ukrainian prisoners worried publicly that the episode might imperil one of the few diplomatic channels left between the two countries, making it less likely that they would see their loved ones again.

But the process of exchanging prisoners, while at times slowed down, has endured even during the most trying moments of a war that has stretched on for nearly two years.

The trade Wednesday was the 50th exchange between the two nations since the war began, and more than 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have returned home, according to Ukrainian officials. While Russia has not disclosed a total number, at least 1,200 soldiers have been returned, according to statements by the country’s officials.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, who announced the trade in a statement on social media, said 207 soldiers and civilians had been returned. The returnees range in age from 20 to 61.

“We return in spite of everything,” Zelenskyy wrote in the statement. “We remember each and every captive.”

Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said that 36 of the returned Ukrainians had “injuries or serious illnesses.”

The Russian Ministry of Defense said that 195 of its soldiers had been returned and would be transferred for medical care. The ministry said that an equal number of Ukrainians had been returned. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy between its figures and those announced by Zelenskyy. It also noted the role of the United Arab Emirates in helping broker the deal.

The relationship between Russia and the UAE has grown closer in recent years, with President Vladimir Putin of Russia making a high-profile visit to the country’s capital, Abu Dhabi, in December.

The exchange, however, offered no immediate clues about the mystery surrounding the downed Russian airplane or about whether Ukrainian prisoners were onboard, as Russia claims.

The Ukrainian news media reported that none of the people returned Wednesday were on a list of 65 prisoners the Russians claimed were killed in the crash.

Graves of Ukrainian soldiers killed in combat since Russia’s February 2022 full scale invasion of the country, at a military cemetery in the western city of Lviv, Jan. 30, 2024.

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The war the world can’t see

By VIVIAN YEE, ABU BAKR BASHIR and GAYA GUPTA

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o many people outside the Gaza Strip, the war flashes by as a doomscroll of headlines and casualty tolls and photos of screaming children, the bloody shreds of somebody else’s anguish.

But the true scale of death and destruction is impossible to grasp, the details hazy and shrouded by internet and cellphone blackouts that obstruct communication, restrictions barring international journalists and the extreme, often life-threatening challenges of reporting as a local journalist from Gaza.

There are pinholes in the murk, apertures such as the Instagram feeds of Gaza photographers and a small number of testimonies that slip through. With every passing week, however, the light dims as those documenting the war leave, quit or die. Reporting from Gaza has come to seem pointlessly risky to some local journalists, who despair of moving the rest of the world to act.

“I survived death multiple times and put myself in danger” to document the war, Ismail al-Dahdouh, a Gaza reporter, wrote in an Instagram post in January to announce he was quitting journalism. Yet a world “that doesn’t know the meaning of humanity” had not acted to stop it.

At least 76 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, when Hamas led an attack on Israel and Israel responded by launching an all-out war. The Committee to Protect Journalists says more journalists and media workers — including essential support staff such as translators, drivers and fixers — have been killed in the past 16 weeks than in a whole year of any other conflict since 1992.

“With every journalist killed, we lose our ability to document and understand the war,” said Sherif Mansour, the group’s Middle East program coordinator.

The New York Times and other major international outlets have evacuated Palestinian journalists who were working for them in Gaza, though some Western news agencies still have local teams there.

At the same time, foreign reporters have repeatedly sought to enter and been denied permission by Israel and Egypt, which control Gaza’s borders.

A handful have embedded with the Israeli military on very short visits that offer a limited and curated view of the war. And a CNN correspondent briefly reported from inside Gaza after entering with an Emirati aid group.

Apart from those, only Gaza journalists have been working there since the war began.

Nearly all the journalists who have died in Gaza since Oct. 7 were killed by Israeli air-

strikes, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 38 of them at home, in their cars or alongside family members. That has led many Palestinians to accuse Israel of targeting journalists, though CPJ has not echoed that allegation.

“Israel is afraid of the Palestinian narrative and of Palestinian journalists,” said Khawla alKhalidi, 34, a Gaza TV journalist for Al-Arabiya, a well-known regional Arabic-language TV channel. “They’re trying to silence us by cutting the networks.”

An Israeli military spokesperson, Nir Dinar, said that Israel “has never and will never deliberately target journalists.” But he cautioned that remaining in active combat zones carried risks. He called the accusation that Israel was deliberately cutting communications networks to hide the war a “blood libel.”

The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, which has members in both Gaza and the West Bank, has counted at least 25 Gaza journalists who it says were wearing protective vests bearing the word “press” when they were killed, said Shuruq Asad, a syndicate spokesperson. Some journalists have been sleeping away from their families for fear that sheltering with relatives would put them at risk, she added.

Since Oct. 7, Israel has blocked most of Gaza’s electricity and barred all but a slow drip of aid from entering the territory. The war has also damaged or severed communications networks, making it nearly impossible for most Gaza residents to give interviews to foreign media outlets. Telecommunications have disappeared entirely more than half a dozen times during the conflict.

It falls to Gaza journalists, mostly working for Palestinian or regional Arabic-language outlets such as Al Jazeera, or young freelancers equipped with little more than Instagram, to bring scraps of Gaza’s reality to outsiders. In their instantly recognizable navy-blue “press” vests, many have gained attention on social media for their raw, personal English-language videos and photos of the war.

Every time Amr Tabash, 26, a freelance photojournalist in Gaza, rushes to capture the aftermath of an airstrike, he said he experiences a fear that he might find his family among the victims. Covering one strike, he found out that his uncle and his cousin had been killed.

“I need to be fully focused reporting” on Israel’s attacks, he said. “But I am always worried about my family, and that takes a big part of my focus.”

Others have chosen to leave Gaza altogether.

Motaz Azaiza, a photojournalist who built up a wide following on Instagram with his coverage of the war, evacuated to Qatar last week.

Palestinians take refuge at Al-Shifa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip, Oct. 9, 2023. From outside Gaza, the scale of death and destruction is impossible to grasp, shrouded by communications blackouts, restrictions barring international reporters and extreme challenges facing local journalists. (Samar Abu Elouf/The New York Times) Al-Khalidi, the Al-Arabiya journalist, said she had never considered leaving journalism, even as the job got impossibly difficult, far worse than in the previous wars she had covered. But this time, there was no reporting on strikes by day and going home to her family at night, no hot showers, little food. She and her family had to abandon their home for a shelter, she said.

“We’re not just reporting on what is happening. We’re already part of what is happening,” she said.

One journalist who felt duty bound to cover the war was Roshdi Sarraj, 31, who founded a media company at age 18 and also worked as a photographer and fixer for international news outlets.

Before the war, his company, Ain Media, offered production, photography and filmmaking services to local and international clients including Netflix. He and his wife, Shrouq Aila, had worked on a documentary episode for Netflix about bee sting therapy together as they were falling in love, she said.

When the war broke out, they were married with a young daughter and the couple was on a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

They were planning to fly on to visit Qatar.

Then Sarraj learned that a friend and fellow journalist back in Gaza had been killed.

Another was missing.

Sarraj’s brother-in-law, Mahmoud Aila, who was helping Ain Media expand in Qatar, said that when he asked about their travel plans, Sarraj told him, “‘At a time like this, I can only be in Gaza.’” He canceled the trip.

Sarraj’s friends said this was typical of his loyalty to his birthplace.

Calm and soft-spoken, Sarraj was stubbornly principled when it came to the struggle for justice and freedom for Palestinians. He told friends after the war began that he would not leave his hometown, Gaza City, ignoring Israeli evacuation orders, because he believed

fleeing was akin to being forced from his home, as many Palestinians had been during the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation.

It was at his family’s home on Oct. 22, while he was sitting with his wife and daughter, that Shrouq Aila said an Israeli airstrike hit. He was wounded so deeply that Aila could see his brain, she said by phone. They bandaged his head, and Aila told herself that, at worst, he would be paralyzed.

“Doesn’t matter as long as he’s still here,” she remembered thinking. “I don’t care at all if he was paralyzed. I’d stay beside him for life.”

But at the hospital, she was told his case was hopeless; the operating room was already overwhelmed. He died within half an hour, Aila said.

She remembered kissing his shoulder in farewell: She could swear he smelled of musk, as if someone had perfumed him at the moment of death.

It reminded her of when they were praying in Mecca, their hands on the holy Kaaba shrine’s black cover, which also smelled of musk. She said she had told her husband to pray that he would live to raise his daughter, Dania, so she would not be an orphan like Aila, who lost both her parents young.

But he had not seemed sure, she said.

Aila buried him in a mass grave. Amid the chaos, there was no other option.

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What is going on at Machu Picchu?

By MITRA TAJ

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undreds of tourists were stranded near Machu Picchu, Peru’s mostvisited site, over the weekend after demonstrators blocked railway and bus routes to the site and shut down local shops and restaurants in Aguas Calientes, the gateway to Machu Picchu, in the country’s Cuzco region. Some visitors posted videos on social media pleading for help. The police evacuated about 700 tourists Saturday. Many left without seeing the site.

The protesters had taken to the streets last Thursday to demand the government rescind a contract that allows a company to sell tickets to Machu Picchu for the first time.

Tickets had previously been sold through the office of culture in Cuzco, which is controlled by the regional government.

Protesters agreed to a 24-hour “truce” Tuesday to take part in talks with government officials. While Machu Picchu is officially open, train service to Aguas Calientes and buses that take tourists to the citadel remain suspended. The U.S. Embassy advised travelers who want to try to reach the site by other means to make sure they take enough food and any medicine they might need.

Machu Picchu, believed to be a 15thcentury getaway for Incan royalty, received some 2.2 million visitors last year, below prepandemic levels of 4.6 million. Peru has been trying to encourage tourists to visit other ancient sites in part to prevent overcrowding, which UNESCO has warned could damage parts of its structure.

Who is protesting, and why are they angry?

Protesters include tour operators, guides,

The Incan citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru, May 25, 2011. (Piotr Redlinski/The New York Times) activists and residents in the region of Cuzco. They are opposed to a private company profiting from sales of tickets to Machu Picchu and claim that the company, Joinnus, an events marketing platform, was chosen to administer the sales last year through a corrupt deal with the culture minister, Leslie Urteaga,

which she denies.

Elvis La Torre, the mayor of Aguas Calientes, said that the government did not consult local authorities or residents about the new online system.

Distrust of the government of President Dina Boluarte runs deep in Cuzco, a heavily Indigenous region with countless preColumbian ruins. Boluarte took office in late 2022 after her predecessor was ousted and arrested after trying to dissolve the Peruvian Congress, prompting widespread nationwide protests that she responded to with crackdowns that left 49 civilians dead, mainly in Indigenous regions.

What is the government trying to do?

The government said the new ticketing system aims to make sales more transparent.

It alleges that “mafias” with ties to the regional government of Cuzco divert a portion of tickets to sell them on the black market, depriving public coffers of revenue and making it harder to measure the true number of visitors to the site.

The government is also trying to implement a “dynamic” system where the daily limit on visitors changes throughout the year.

The company that buses tourists to Machu Picchu routinely reports higher numbers of tourists per day than the official ticket sales, according to the tourism commission in Congress. The national comptroller’s office found that over 2021 and 2022, 70,000 to 80,000 visitors to Machu Picchu had not been counted by the regional culture office, representing a loss of about $2 million per year.

Where do the negotiations stand now?

Protesters want the culture minister to resign and the contract with Joinnus to be rescinded. On Tuesday, the culture ministry announced that it would move the new ticketing system to a platform administered by the central government, with input from the regional government of Cuzco.

Urteaga said it would take “a prudent period of time” to transition to a new, state-run system. “We cannot return to the previous system,” she said on X, formerly known as Twitter, adding that the country must have a secure, transparent and objective platform.

Joinnus said it would agree to end its contract early.

La Torre, the mayor, proposed updating the regional government’s online platform for selling tickets to ensure transparency.

“We’ll agree to modernizing the system of sales of the culture ministry,” he said in a video posted online, but only if the process was “transparent” and “communicated to stakeholders.”

It was not clear if demonstrators would resume their protest after the truce ends at midnight Tuesday.

Hasn’t this happened before?

Peru is rife with social conflicts, and it is not unusual for residents in rural regions to block roads to draw media attention to their demands and pressure authorities to negotiate.

In the past decade, protesters have blocked railway access to Machu Picchu several times as part of efforts to secure higher salaries for teachers and health workers, lower fares for rail service, or assistance for farmers during an acute fertilizer shortage.

In late 2022 and early last year, tourism in much of southern Peru, including Machu Picchu, halted for several weeks during political unrest after Boluarte took office.

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What’s the matter with Europe?

By PAUL KRUGMAN

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n my most recent column I had a bit of fun with Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, who has ominously warned that President Joe Biden will turn us into Europe. I joked that this would mean adding five or six years to our life expectancy. When I shared Noem’s remarks on social media, some of my correspondents asked whether this meant that we’re about to get good train service and better food.

A note to younger Americans: We already have better food. It’s true that Bolognese remains infinitely better in Bologna than anything you can get here, even in New York, but you have no idea how bad American cuisine was in the 1970s.

But Noem’s remarks were part of a long tradition among U.S. conservatives: insisting that Europe is already experiencing the disasters they claim will happen as a result of liberal policies here. Right now, the issue in question is immigration. In the past, however, the imagined European dystopia was supposed to be a result of high taxes and generous social benefits, which allegedly destroyed the incentive to work and innovate.

So it seems worth asking what problems Europe really has — that is, problems that are different from our own.

In discussing Europe-U.S. comparisons, I find it helpful to distinguish between developments before the COVID pandemic and developments since, as we have followed quite different policies in response to that upheaval.

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So, how did Europe and America compare economically in 2019? Overall, they were surprisingly similar.

I fairly often encounter people who believe that Europe suffers from mass unemployment and has lagged far behind the United States technologically. But this view is decades out of date. At this point adults in their prime working years are actually somewhat more likely to be employed in major European nations than in America. Europeans also know all about information technology, and productivity — gross domestic product per hour worked — is virtually the same in Europe as it is here.

It’s true that real GDP per capita is generally lower in Europe, but that’s mainly because Europeans take much more vacation time than Americans — which is a choice, not a problem. Oh, and it should count for something that there’s a growing gap between European and U.S. life expectancy, since the quality of life is generally higher if you aren’t dead.

Just to be clear, Europe isn’t utopia. There are many real problems, even in nations with social safety nets that American progressives can only dream of. Sweden has a problem with gang violence. Denmark is one of the happiest nations on the planet, but there are nonetheless a significant number of melancholy Danes, and the country has experienced a rise in right-wing populism.

Nonetheless, Europe is in astonishingly good shape, economically and socially, compared with almost any other part of the world.

All that being said, most people have the sense that Europe is in relative decline and that its economy has grown more slowly than America’s over the past few decades. And this sense is correct. But the explanation may surprise you: It’s essentially all about demography.

From 1999, the year the euro came into existence, until 2019, the eve of the pandemic, the U.S. economy grew a lot more than the euro area in real terms — 53% versus 31%. But almost all of that difference is explained by the fact that the U.S. working-age population (conventionally, if somewhat unfortunately, defined as ages 15-64) grew a lot over those two decades, while Europe’s hardly grew at all (and has been declining in recent years). Real GDP per working-age adult rose 31% in the United States and 29% — basically inside the margin of error — in the euro area.

Is Europe’s stagnant population a problem? It does raise fiscal concerns: Can a shrinking workforce support a growing number of retirees? (This problem would be alleviated if Europe were to accept more, um, immigrants.)

But it’s hard to look at these numbers and see them as a picture of economic crisis.

But that’s a portrait as of 2019, before the pandemic.

What about developments since then?

In Europe, as in the United States, disruptions created

by COVID and then by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to inflation. In fact, if you use comparable price indexes, cumulative inflation since early 2020 has been almost the same on the two sides of the Atlantic.

This similarity, by the way, casts doubt on claims that

Photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash Biden administration policies, as opposed to pandemicrelated disruptions that affected the whole world, are to blame for U.S. inflation.

The United States has, however, had a much stronger economic recovery than Europe — more than can be accounted for by differences in population growth. And this probably does in part reflect Biden policies: America did much more to stimulate recovery with government spending.

Furthermore, while inflation has been plunging in Europe in much the same way it has in the United States, officials at the European Central Bank at least sound much more reluctant than their U.S. counterparts to reverse recent rate hikes, so Europe is running a much bigger risk of recession.

So what’s the matter with Europe? No, the Continent hasn’t been overrun by immigrants. No, strong welfare states haven’t stifled the incentives to work and innovate. But Europe does suffer from policymakers who are excessively conservative, not in the left-right political sense, but in the sense of being too worried about inflation and debt, and too hesitant about promoting economic recovery.

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DRNA anuncia veda de pesca de mero POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) anunció que el 1 de febrero comienza la temporada de veda de pesca y posesión de cinco tipos de mero (grouper) en las aguas de jurisdicción federal del Caribe estadounidense.

La prohibición se extiende hasta el 30 de abril, según determinado por el Caribbean Fishery Management Council (CFMC) de la National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). La prohibición para la posesión de estos meros no aplica a aquellos meros capturados y desembarcados antes de la temporada de veda.

Estas vedas de pesca protegen las especies durante su desove (reproducción), cuando son más vulnerables a la presión de la pesca, permitiendo así su posterior disponibilidad.

La prohibición de pesca en aguas de jurisdicción federal incluye los meros rojos, negro (prieto),

dientes de sable (tigre), guajil (mero pinto) y guajil amarillo. El área de prohibición abarca de 9 a 200 millas náuticas alrededor de Puerto Rico y de 3 a 200 millas náuticas alrededor de las Islas Vírgenes Estadounidenses (USVI).

Mientras, en las “aguas locales” de Puerto Rico, durante ese periodo, sólo se prohíbe la pesca del guajil (mero pinto).

La veda no aplica al guajil amarillo en St. Croix (Santa Cruz), ya que esta especie ya no es manejada por el CFMC en aguas federales de esa isla.

El CFMC es responsable de la conservación y el manejo de los recursos pesqueros dentro de la jurisdicción federal del Caribe estadounidense, que incluye a Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes Estadounidenses. Este consejo regional es uno de ocho establecidos en 1976 por la Ley de Conservación y Administración Pesquera, rebautizada como Magnuson-Stevens Act. Además, en las “aguas locales” de USVI se prohíbe la pesca de todas las especies de mero men-

cionadas, durante el mismo periodo de veda.

También en esa fecha está prohibido cualquier tipo de posesión y pesca (peces, moluscos, crustáceos, y cualquier otro animal marino y planta marina viva, aparte de aves y mamíferos marinos) dentro del área del Grammanik Bank, en St. Thomas, excepto las especies altamente migratorias.

Instituto de Ciencias Forenses gradúa nuevos peritos dedicados al análisis científico de evidencia POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, y la directora ejecutiva del Instituto de Ciencias Forenses (ICF), María Conte Miller, participaron a principios de esta semana de la graduación de 15 nuevos peritos y personal especializado del ICF que se integran a su fuerza laboral dedicada al análisis de evidencia y el apoyo a las investigaciones dirigidas al esclarecimiento de los casos criminales.

Durante la ceremonia, el gobernador y Conte Miller destacaron los avances que ha tenido la agencia en los últimos tres años.

“Siento mucho optimismo al ver que 15 nuevos peritos especializados se incorporan a nuestro Instituto de Ciencias Forenses. A partir de hoy ustedes tendrán el privilegio de formar parte de un equipo profesional que tiene como objetivo principal brindar el apoyo necesario a las investigaciones dirigidas al esclarecimiento de casos criminales”, dijo Pierluisi Urrutia en conferencia de prensa.

El martes se graduaron cuatro examinadores de armas de fuego (balísticos), tres químicos forenses, tres técnicos de laboratorio, tres investigadores forenses y dos técnicos de patología forense (ayudantes de patólogos).

“Unirse a esta lucha para esclarecer casos criminales en Puerto Rico es muy loable y requiere vocación de servicio. Todos en nuestra Isla debemos recordar que detrás de cada análisis, de cada informe y de cada reporte pericial hay una familia que espera esos resultados. Se requiere de personas dedicadas

como ustedes que con su compromiso y profesionalismo buscan la verdad en aras de la justicia”, añadió el gobernador.

Por su parte, Conte Miller destacó que “cada graduación es una celebración que me llena de orgullo por todo lo que conlleva este logro. Contar con nuevos peritos forenses que integran nuestro equipo de trabajo para el análisis de evidencia en las áreas de balística, química e investigación forense es una meta lograda para seguir contribuyendo al propósito de la justicia. Nuestro recurso humano requiere un entrenamiento muy especializado. Aquí llegan con el conocimiento, pero para ejercer como perito, certificar reportes y testificar en el tribunal, deben recibir el adiestramiento en nuestros procedimientos y en el uso de la tecnología que tenemos para producir los reportes periciales”.

El gobernador comentó que los nuevos peritos completaron con éxito el programa de adiestramiento regular y, además, recibieron entrenamiento en el uso de las herramientas tecnológicas recientemente adquiridas por el ICF. Más aún, también estarán recibiendo adiestramiento adicional en nuevas tecnologías que actualmente están siendo validadas por el laboratorio de criminalística. Asimismo, los peritos forenses están capacitados para utilizar el FARO, que es un instrumento de captación de imágenes tridimensionales de las escenas criminales que asiste al personal del Instituto en las investigaciones, y poseen una certificación en análisis de trayectoria de disparos y patrones de sangre.

Por su parte, la directora ejecutiva del ICF adelan-

tó que “muy pronto estaremos incorporando dos nuevos equipos que adquirimos para agilizar los reportes de balística”. Conte Miller destacó que “ha sido un esfuerzo titánico, que comprende, la aprobación del Plan de Clasificación y Retribución y la inversión en tecnológica que nos ha permitido optimizar nuestra operación ante los retos que enfrentan hoy día los sistemas forenses de todas las jurisdicciones de Estados Unidos. Hoy tenemos un instituto más avanzado con tecnología que le permite a su fuerza laboral concentrarse en el análisis de evidencia y agilizar la producción de sus reportes periciales”.

Pierluisi y Conte Miller señalaron que con la puesta en vigor del Plan de Clasificación y Retribución del ICF, hay reclutamiento activo de personal para los laboratorios. En los próximos meses, habrá una nueva graduación para peritos de ADN y otro grupo de examinadores de armas de fuego para los laboratorios de ADN y Balística, respectivamente.

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Chita Rivera, finding her voice

By JESSE GREEN

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es, the legs. Yes, the line. Yes, the look.

But also, less commented on, the voice.

Chita Rivera, who died Tuesday at 91, was a Broadway star as long as anyone — and maybe longer. At first, making her way up in the 1950s, from the chorus of “Guys and Dolls” to Anita in “West Side Story,” dancing was her calling card. In the ’60s and ’70s, comedy and satire followed, with “Bye Bye Birdie” and “Chicago.”

Later, in works like “The Rink” (1984), “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (1993) and “The Visit” (2015), her sense of drama prevailed.

Yet for me, it’s her voice that remains indelible.

It almost didn’t emerge. Back when she started, dancers stayed in their own lane. (There were often separate ensembles for dancers and singers.) Like many people exceptionally intent on mastery, Rivera was single-minded.

At her audition for the School of American Ballet at 15, she kept tossing off fouetté turns despite a burst blister that was bleeding through her toe shoe. George Balanchine himself dressed the wound. (She was accepted.)

Mastery is not what she felt about her singing. As she relates in “Chita: A Memoir,” written with Patrick Pacheco, she always “hung back” when cast members went out after shows to drink and flirt and belt out show tunes. But while she was on tour with “Call Me Madam” in the early 1950s, a piano player at a theatrical hangout in Chicago overheard her and offered lessons. “Chita, you can sing,” he said.

“I could sing? Really? That was news to me.”

There are singers who make sure it’s news — they’re great. And then there are those who just sing naturally, with little break from their speaking voices. Rivera, perhaps because she at first felt less confident in song than in movement, never got fussy about the border between dialogue and lyrics. She plowed right past it, sounding exactly alike in both: slightly reedy, husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.

You can hear all of that in her Anita, whose furious lyrics for “A Boy Like That” (by Stephen Sondheim) are essentially prose dialogue anyway. (“A boy like that, who’d kill your brother!”) And indeed, anger was always a good key for Rivera. Even in a comic role — even in a comic song — she worked the edge of the notes and emotions.

Listen to “An English Teacher” from “Bye Bye Birdie.”

Though cast in the basically upbeat role of Rose Alvarez, the girlfriend of a songwriter who was supposed to go to grad school but didn’t, Rivera made sure we heard both love and frustration. Her little grace notes and glottal scrapes — what the Broadway musical director Seth Rudetsky describes in his “deconstruction” of the performance as “sassy riffs” — rough up the comic sheen of the number and reveal something about the woman’s defenses and

Chita Rivera in “Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life,” at the Schoenfeld Theater in New York, Nov. 22, 2005. Rivera, the fire-and-ice dancer, singer and actress who leapt to stardom in the original Broadway production of “West Side Story” and dazzled audiences for nearly seven decades as a Puerto Rican lodestar of musical theater, died on Jan. 30, 2024. She was 91. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times) disappointment. She makes mixed emotions an art.

In the memoir, Rivera describes a similarly split self.

“Chita is sweet and kind,” we are told, but Dolores — her given name — “is a bat out of hell.” Dolores is “the one who rises up, eyes flashing, smoke coming out of ears, when, as my daughter Lisa says, ‘Mom goes Puerto Rican.’

Not hard to imagine, right?”

Not if you saw her as Anna in “The Rink.” Though Anna, the owner of a ruined skating palace, is Italian, Rivera played her as a total Dolores, especially regarding her wayward daughter, Angel, played by Liza Minnelli. Customized like couture by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Anna’s numbers are mostly fiery and Angel’s mostly soaring. But as the pair reach toward rapprochement, in their ecstatically earthy duet “The Apple Doesn’t Fall,” their harmonies and hubba-hubbas intertwine. In a bravura display, the singers seem to pass rawness and polish back and forth repeatedly, like regifts.

By her 80s, Rivera’s rawness and polish, her snark and sentiment, were indistinguishable. In “The Visit,” about a fabulously wealthy woman come to wreak revenge on her hometown, Kander and Ebb give her songs,

like “Love and Love Alone,” that keep reversing polarities: They fester with affection and ache with anger. The double-sided lyric, seemingly about the joy of love, is also, as Rivera makes plain with her craggy but unstoppable voice, about its depredations. It’s as if Dolores and Chita were dancing.

But then, having interviewed Rivera several times, I’m not convinced the split between the two avatars was real. Are the two sides of a coin split? In any case, in Rivera’s thrilling and alarming voice, they became one.

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Lily Gladstone on her history-making Oscar nomination

By SARAH BAHR

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ily Gladstone shed a few tears when she heard Jack Quaid read her name in the best actress Oscars category last Tuesday morning. “I didn’t expect that I would cry the way that I did,” she said. But it was nothing compared with the reaction of her parents.

“It definitely turned on the waterworks,” said Gladstone, who stars as Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman whose white husband is part of a murderous conspiracy in the Martin Scorsese epic “Killers of the Flower Moon.” She was calling from Pawhuska, Oklahoma, shortly after watching the Oscar nominations announcement on FaceTime with her parents.

After all, it’s not every day that you’re nominated for your first Oscar — or that you become the first Native American person to be nominated for a competitive acting Academy Award.

“It’s something that I wasn’t sure I would see in my career, in my lifetime,” said Gladstone, 37, who has Blackfeet and Nez Percé heritage. “I hope that it just means that people start caring more and learning more about these histories.”

Gladstone isn’t the first Indigenous artist up for best actress — Keisha Castle-Hughes (“Whale Rider,” 2003) and Yalitza Aparicio (“Roma,” 2018) were also nominated in the same category — but she is the first from the United States. Folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie is considered the first Indigenous person to win an Oscar (for best song, “Up Where We Belong” from “An Officer and a Gentleman” in 1983), but her heritage has recently been disputed. And in 2019, Wes Studi, who is Cherokee American, was given an honorary Oscar for “his indelible film portrayals and for his steadfast support of the Native American community.”

Gladstone has had a busy month: On Jan. 7, she became the first Indigenous person to win a Golden Globe for best actress, delivering a powerful speech in which she spoke a few lines in the Blackfeet language. She also picked up a best actress win from the New York Film Critics Circle, as well as nominations from the Critics Choice Awards and the Screen Actors Guild.

“I’m hopeful because of the way things are trending now: We’re telling our own stories, or we have a really heavy hand in shaping how stories about us are told,” she said.

“Killers,” based on the nonfiction book by David Grann, was reconceived early on to focus on the relationship between Mollie and her husband, Ernest (Leonardo DiCaprio), who conspires with his uncle (Robert De Niro) to kill her relatives in a bid to seize her family’s oil-rich Oklahoma land.

Since the film was released in October, critics have singled out Gladstone. Anthony Lane, writing in The New Yorker, heralded her as “unmistakably the movie’s most compelling presence.”

Gladstone grew up acting in plays staged by a traveling children’s theater on the Blackfeet reservation in northwestern Montana. She landed a breakthrough role in Kelly Reichardt’s 2016 indie, “Certain Women,” that raised her profile considerably, but “Killers,” with its reported $200 million budget and A-list cast, vaulted her into hyperspace.

In a 15-minute interview, Gladstone shared what she hoped her nomination portends for the industry, how she first became interested in studying the Blackfeet language, and what people who discovered her in “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Lily Gladstone, star of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” in New York, June 28, 2023. “I didn’t expect that I would cry the way that I did,” Gladstone said of hearing her name read as a best actress nominee. “I hope that it just means that people start caring more and learning more about these histories.” (Thea Traff/The New York Times) should watch her in next. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Q: Congratulations!

A: Thank you. It was great every time the film got a nod, but the one that really got me was Robbie Robertson [for best original score for “Killers of the Flower Moon”]. Getting to watch that nomination come in with my dad was really special, because my dad introduced me to Robbie Robertson as a musician, which was the whole reason I even knew who Martin Scorsese was as a filmmaker. My dad told me about their friendship and, as a 10-year-old, I remember him saying, “You know, one day he’s going to make his Indian movie because of his friendship with Robbie.” So it was cool to remind him of that. Seeing how touched my folks were — that was everything.

Q: What has it been like to receive such copious recognition from the industry after years of struggling to find parts that weren’t insulting or exploitative?

A: It’s time that Native characters based upon living incredible women like Mollie Kyle be given the heart of these films.

“Killers of the Flower Moon” was an opportunity to restore a place on-screen for Native women that history has excluded us from. So to have Mollie and her sisters and her mother and her community be characters that, just by being who they are onscreen, are changing people’s stereotypes and contextualizing

moments in history that maybe make the present make a little bit more sense — it’s long overdue.

Q: You had the chance to speak with Mollie Burkhart’s granddaughter, Margie. What was something she shared about Mollie that surprised you or that you incorporated into the character?

A: What a caring mother she was. Margie shared that when her dad, Cowboy, would have chronic ear infections and earaches, Mollie would blow tobacco smoke in his ears, which is something a lot of elders do back home where I’m raised, too.

And Margie herself is so smart and grounded, and loving. At our first meeting, her body language, her intonation and the way I could see thoughts turning over in her head went into how I shaped Mollie. Her observational wry humor, the intelligence, the ability to read what’s going on in the room, the warmth all stood out. I know that those things are inherited from family, so I feel like the biggest clues to who Mollie would have been is the way that she’s echoed in her grandchildren.

Q: You spoke a few lines in the language of your people, the Blackfeet tribe, after your historic win at the Golden Globes. When and how did you become interested in studying Blackfeet?

A: Growing up on my reservation, I picked it up. I’m not fluent. One of the first sentences we learn how to construct is how to introduce yourself to a group of people. You say your Blackfeet name, and then you also tell everybody where you’re from, which people you come from, which is what I did at the Globes. I wouldn’t have been up on that stage if it weren’t for how early in my life my community identified my gift and my love for acting. Performing and telling stories has always been synonymous with my very name; I’ve always been encouraged to do this, in whatever form it takes. There were a lot of years where acting was a means of teaching and teaching about our history, specifically, the Native American boarding school experience.

After my speech at the Globes, it was moving to see the response from Blackfeet people on TikTok and Facebook. One family had recorded their little girl, who is learning Blackfeet along with English, and when she heard me speaking, she started talking back in Blackfeet to the screen, and then when I was done speaking, she went, “Soōkaapii,” which means “It’s good.”

Like, “That was good.” That just broke my heart wide open.

Q: Though “Killers” was your breakout role, you have a film, TV and theater résumé that spans more than a decade. Any recommendations for what people should watch you in next?

A: Definitely stream “Reservation Dogs” — and not just my episodes! It’s an incredible, incredible series; each episode is so full, so funny, so heartbreaking. There’s a reason that it’s been named the best show by so many publications. “The Unknown Country” is another one that shows the way the performances of the incredible Indigenous actors in “Killers of the Flower Moon” have helped shift paradigm and break stereotypes for people.

And then, I can’t share it yet, but sometime in the not-toodistant future, people will be able to see “Fancy Dance,” which is the absolute best film to watch in tandem with “Killers of the Flower Moon.” It’s the same land, the same issues, exactly 100 years later, and how they’ve manifested into the modern age.

It’s an incredible love story between an aunt and her niece and a display of matrilineal resilience and love and survival. I’m so excited that people will be able to access it soon.

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Syphilis is soaring in the US

By APOORVA MANDAVILLI

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yphilis, once nearly eliminated in the United States, continues to resurge, reaching the highest rate of new infections recorded since 1950, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said earlier this week.

More than 207,000 cases were diagnosed in 2022, the last year for which data is available. That represents an 80% increase since 2018, and 17% over the previous year’s tally, according to a new CDC report.

The rates soared in every age group, including newborns. In November, the CDC said more than 3,700 cases of congenital syphilis were reported in 2022, roughly 11 times the number recorded a decade ago. The disease caused 231 stillbirths and 51 infant deaths in 2022.

Experts pointed to a slew of reasons for the continued increases in syphilis and other sexually transmitted infections.

Substance use, which is tied to risky sexual behavior, has risen. With better prevention and treatment for HIV, condom use has fallen out of vogue — decreasing by about 8 percentage points between 2011 and 2021 among high school students, for example.

And, crucially, there are far fewer sexual health clinics, along with the disease-intervention specialists and nurses who staffed them.

Syphilis has been increasing even in countries with national health care, because “sexual health services remain inadequate relative to the need pretty much everywhere,” said Dr. Jay Varma, chief medical officer at Siga Technologies and a former deputy commissioner of health for New York City.

“But it’s particularly a problem here in the United States,” Varma said.

“When you miss one case, you then end up with two more cases, and if you miss two cases, you then end up with four,” he added.

“That’s how epidemics grow.”

With more than 84 cases per 100,000 people, South Dakota had the highest rate of syphilis infections, more than double that in New Mexico, the state with the next highest incidence. (Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi rounded out the top five.)

Black Americans comprised about 30% of primary and secondary syphilis cases. But with 67 cases per 100,000 people, Native American/ Alaska Native people had the highest rates.

“The syphilis epidemic touches nearly every community, but some racial and ethnic groups bear the brunt because of long-standing social inequities,” said Dr. Jonathan Mermin,

director of the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention at the CDC. Left untreated, syphilis can damage the heart and brain and cause blindness, deafness and paralysis. Infection during pregnancy can lead to miscarriage and stillbirth, and infants who survive may become blind or deaf or have severe developmental delays.

Chlamydia is a far more common sexually transmitted infection, with nearly 1.7 million cases. Reported diagnoses dropped sharply in 2020 and began picking back up in 2021; the rate in 2022 remained flat.

Gonorrhea had been increasing steadily after a historical low in 2009 but appeared to decline in 2022, dropping to about 648,000 cases from more than 700,000 the year before.

The rates decreased across race, sex and age, but the decline was most pronounced among women ages 20 to 24.

But without confirmation that those trends are real, “we shouldn’t be celebrating,” said Dr. Ina Park, an STI expert at the University of California, San Francisco.

“Those two diseases are often asymptomatic,” Park said. “If we’re seeing declines in young women, it might be because they’re simply just not being screened.”

The Biden administration has taken several steps in an effort to curb STIs. Last summer, the Department of Health and Human Services set up a national task force for syphilis, which is focusing on the 14 jurisdictions with the highest rates, according to Adm. Rachel Levine, assistant secretary of the department.

The CDC proposed prescribing doxycycline, a widely used antibiotic, to gay and bisexual men and transgender women who have had unprotected sexual encounters. The Food and Drug Administration has temporarily allowed the importation of an alternative to the syphilis treatment Bicillin L-A, which has been in short supply in the United States.

The FDA has also authorized the first athome sample collection kit for chlamydia and gonorrhea. And the CDC is helping to develop a simple syphilis test that can be used in clinics within the next two years, Mermin said.

About 86% of syphilis cases were diagnosed outside sexual health clinics in 2022, Mermin said. That suggests that controlling the epidemic will require primary care doctors, emergency departments, community health centers, and correctional and drug treatment programs to screen for the infection.

“Wishing hard won’t prevent sexually transmitted infections,” Mermin said. “We need sustained public health efforts.”

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Denver omelet

By ALI SLAGLE

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he Denver omelet — a diner classic of eggs, bell peppers, onions, ham and often cheese — actually began as a sandwich made with those ingredients in the American West in the late 19th century. Its exact origins are fuzzy, but some historians think it was a modification of egg foo yong made

by Chinese laborers working the transcontinental railroad, or a scramble made by pioneers masking spoiled eggs with onions. (Bell peppers were likely a later addition.) When the sandwich became popular in Utah, it was named the Denver sandwich after Denver City, Utah. By the 1950s, the Denver was one of the most popular sandwiches around, and at some point in the mid-20th century, diners swapped the sandwich bun for a knife and fork.

Yield: 2 servings Total time: 20 minutes Ingredients: 6 large eggs Kosher salt (such as Diamond Crystal)

2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 small green bell pepper, seeds and stem removed, finely chopped (about 3/4 cup) 1 small yellow onion, finely chopped (about 3/4 cup) Black pepper 4 ounces ham steak or Canadian bacon, coarsely chopped 1 1/2 ounces coarsely grated Monterey Jack or pepper Jack (heaping 1/3 cup) Preparation: 1. In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs and 1/2 teaspoon salt; set aside.

2. In a medium (10-inch) nonstick skillet, heat 1 tablespoon butter over mediumhigh. When foaming, add the bell pepper and onion, season lightly with salt and pepper and stir to coat in the butter. Shake into an even layer and cook, undisturbed, until browned underneath, 2 to 3 minutes.

3. Add the ham and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are tender, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer the mixture to another medium bowl, add the cheese, and stir to

A Denver omelet. Ali Slagle stuffs this diner favorite with onion, pepper, ham steak and a heaping amount of Jack cheese. (Christopher Simpson/The New York Times) combine.

4. Reduce the heat under the skillet to medium-low. Add 1/2 tablespoon butter and swirl to coat the pan. Whisk the egg mixture and pour half into the skillet. Cook without touching until the eggs around the edges of the pan are set, 30 seconds to 1 minute. Using a spatula, slightly pull the edge of the omelet in toward the center and, while holding the spatula in place, tilt the pan so that the egg runs to the empty skillet. Repeat this

around the edge of the whole circle until the surface is nearly set but still shiny. (No runny egg will travel when you tilt the pan.)

5. Spoon half the vegetable mixture onto half the egg, cover the skillet with a lid or baking sheet, and cook until the egg is set and the cheese is melted, 1 to 3 minutes. Run the spatula around the edges, then fold the naked half over the filling. Slide the omelet onto a plate, then repeat with the remaining butter, egg and filling.

The San Juan Daily Star en el Barrio Cuatro Calles en el Municipio de Arroyo, Puerto ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Rico, con el número, área y coDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- lindancias que se relacionan a NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA continuación: Número del solar: SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYA- Bloque “K” Número 10. Área del MA solar: 333.864 metros cuadraBANCO POPULAR DE dos. En lindes: por el Norte, con el lote número K-1; por el Sur, PUERTO RICO con la Calle número 11; por el Demandante Vs. Este, con la Calle número 1; y LOURDES por el Oeste, con el lote númeRAMOS TORRES ro K-11. En dicho solar enclava Demandada una casa de concreto y bloques Civil Núm.: GM2023CV00708. diseñada para una familia.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIAfecta a servidumbre a favor de POTECA POR LA VÍA ORDIla Puerto Rico Telephone ComNARIA “IN REM”. EDICTO DE pany de 1.52 metros a todo lo SUBASTA. largo de sus colindancias Sur y AL: PÚBLICO EN Este. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 75 GENERAL. vuelto del tomo 207 de Arroyo, A: LOURDES RAMOS Registro de la Propiedad de TORRES; UNITED Guayama, finca número 8,453, STATES DEPARTMENT inscripción segunda, modificaOF HOUSING AND da según inscripción novena y URBAN DEVELOPMENT por nota marginal al Sistema Karibe de dicha finca. Modifi(HUD), POR TENER HIPOTECA EN GARANTÍA cada la hipoteca por la suma de $95,816.00, la cual se amDE PAGARÉ A SU FAVOR plía en la suma de $7,835.89 POR LA SUMA DE para un nuevo principal de $103,651.89, con intereses al $50,000.00.

Yo, MYRIAM S. ÑECO CIN- 4.00% anual, vencedero el día TRÓN, Alguacil de este Tribu- 1ro. de noviembre de 2050, nal, a la parte demandada y a según la escritura número 502, los acreedores y personas con otorgada en San Juan, Puerto interés sobre la propiedad que Rico, el día 14 de octubre de más adelante se describe, y 2020, ante la Notario Público al público en general, HAGO Jacqueline López González, SABER: Que el día 14 DE FE- inscrita al tomo Karibe de ArroBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 2:00 yo, Registro de la Propiedad de DE LA TARDE en mi oficina, Guayama, finca número 8,453, sita en el Tribunal de Primera inscripción 4ta. Posteriormente Instancia, Sala Superior de fue aclarada por la escritura Guayama, Guayama, Puerto número 31, el día 23 de enero Rico, venderé en Pública Su- de 2021, ante la misma Notario, basta la propiedad inmueble a los efectos de aclarar que la que más adelante se describe y suma de principal fue aumencuya venta en pública subasta tada a $100,109.54, con intese ordenó por la vía ordinaria al reses al 4.00% anual y pagos mejor postor quien hará el pago mensuales para principal e inen dinero en efectivo, giro pos- tereses de $477.94, comenzantal o cheque certificado a nom- do el 1ro. de diciembre de 2020 bre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal y con vencimiento el 1ro. de de Primera Instancia. Los autos noviembre de 2050, inscrita al y todos los documentos corres- tomo Karibe de Arroyo, Registro pondientes al procedimiento de la Propiedad de Guayama, incoado, estarán de manifiesto finca número 8,453, nota maren la Secretaría del Tribunal de ginal inscripción 4.1. Secretary Guayama durante horas labo- of Housing and Urban Develorables. Que en caso de no pro- pment, ratifica y consiente la ducir remate ni adjudicación en modificación relacionada en la la primera subasta a celebrar- inscripción 4ta., según la escrise, se celebrará una SEGUN- tura número 189, otorgada en DA SUBASTA para la venta de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día la susodicha propiedad, el día 1ro. de marzo de 2021, ante la 22 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A Notario Público Jacqueline LóLAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE y en pez González, inscrita al tomo caso de no producir remate ni Karibe de Arroyo, Registro de adjudicación, se celebrará una la Propiedad de Guayama, finTERCERA SUBASTA el 29 DE ca número 8,453, nota marginal FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS inscripción 4.2. La dirección fí2:00 DE LA TARDE en mi ofi- sica de la propiedad antes descina sita en el lugar antes indi- crita es: Urbanización Miramar cado. La propiedad a venderse III, Calle 11, K-10, Arroyo, Pueren pública subasta se describe to Rico. La Subasta se llevará como sigue: URBANA: Solar a efecto para satisfacer a la radicado en la URBANIZA- parte demandante la suma de CIÓN MIRAMAR III, localizado $96,041.48 de principal, más

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Thursday, February 1, 2024 intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.00% anual, desde el día 1ro. de febrero de 2023, hasta su completo pago; más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $9,581.60 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $100,109.54 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $66,739.69 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $50,054.77. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán 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 hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré a favor de United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), o a su orden, por la suma principal de $50,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero a la demanda, según consta de la Escritura Número 97, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de enero de 2012, ante la Notario Público Fabiola Anzoátegui Blanc, inscrita al folio 51 del tomo 208 de Arroyo, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama, finca número 8,453, inscripción 3ra. La propiedad para vender en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a

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la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Guayama, Puerto Rico, 19 de enero de 2024. MYRIAM S. ÑECO CINTRÓN, ALGUACIL #107, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA.

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JUAN RUIZ VALENTÍN; GUMERSINDA RIVERA MONTALVO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLOS; EDUARDO RUIZ VALENTÍN; Y REYES NORIEGA RAMOS; Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLOS

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: ACD2011-0114 (601). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S.

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YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento, expedido el 6 de julio de 2022 por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Aguadilla, para que proceda a vender en públicas subastas las propiedades inmuebles embargadas, para satisfacer las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la Sentencia

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21 dictada en el presente caso, a saber: Obligación 400009387: Principal: $5,323,129.26. Intereses pactados acumulados al 18 de marzo 2011: 149,237.34.

Honorarios de Abogado: 532,312.93. Prepayment consideration: 159,993.88. Default Interest: 106,018.99. Gastos: 10,950.00.

Total: $6,281,642.40. La obligación devenga interés a razón de 4% a partir del 19 de marzo de 2011. Obligación 400009434 Principal: $135,833.45. Intereses pactados acumulados al 28 de febrero de 2011: 1,886.25.

Cargos por demoras: 1,397.16.

Total: $139,116.86. La obligación devenga intereses a razón de $150.09 diario. Procederé a vender en públicas subastas y al(os) mejor(es) postor(es), quien(es) pagará(n) el(los) importe(s) de la(s) venta(s) en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o en cheque de gerente a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 22 de febrero de 2024, a la(s) 11:00 a.m. para la Finca Número 9,533 y para la Finca Número 13,045, a las 11:15 a.m., en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Mayagüez, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre los inmuebles que se describen a continuación: FINCA NÚMERO 9,533. a. URBANA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Caracol del término municipal de Añasco, con una cabida superficial de 4738.720 metros cuadrados igual a 1.2057 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, en 105.230 metros con terrenos ocupados por Frosan Development, Inc., antes, hoy Añasco Commercial Center Development, Inc.; por el SUR, en tres alineaciones distintas, una de 36.702 metros, otra de 76.055 metros y la última de 7.423 metros, con Sucesión de Miguel J. Esteves Bianchi; ESTE, en una distancia de 16.182 metros, con más tierras ocupadas por Sucesión Miguel J. Esteves Bianchi; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 71.382 metros, con faja de terreno dedicada a uso público y que constituye la calle marginal. Finca número 9,533, inscrita al folio 231 del tomo 262 de Añasco, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. Dirección Física: PR-2 Km. 143.5, Caracol Ward, Añasco, PR 00610. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica. Por sí: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de Eurobank, o a su orden, por la suma de

$1,011,000.00, con interés al 12% anual, y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura #106, otorgada el día 22 de agosto de 2008, ante el Notario Público Juan Alberto González Miranda, inscrita al folio 23 del tomo 282 de Añasco, inscripción 6ª Abreviada.

EMBARGO: A favor de Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico contra Juan Ruiz Valentín y/o Gumersinda Rivera, expedido mediante Certificación del 8 de abril del 2010, por el Departamento de Hacienda por la suma de $138,698.16, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos. El embargo fue anotado el 8 de abril de 2010, al folio 47, orden número 415, al amparo de las disposiciones de la Ley 12 de 20 de enero de 2010, Libro #1 de Embargos Ley 12 de Mayagüez. EMBARGO: A favor de Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico contra Juan Ruiz Valentín y/o Gumersinda Rivera, expedido mediante Certificación del 8 de abril del 2010, por el Departamento de Hacienda por la suma de $138,698.16, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos.

El embargo fue anotado el 16 de abril de 2010, al folio 48, orden número 420, al amparo de las disposiciones de la Ley 12 de 20 de enero de 2010, Libro #1 de Embargos Ley 12 de Mayagüez. ANOTACIÓN DE EMBARGO: Es objeto de esta anotación una Orden en Ejecución de Sentencia; DEMANDANTE: Bayview Loan Servicing como agente de servicio de Oriental Bank and Trust antes Eurobank, parte sustituida por Triangle REO Puerto Rico, Corp; DEMANDADO: Titulares, Cantidad Adeudada $5,323,129.26, por concepto de principal más intereses, según Demanda por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, en el caso Civil #ACD2011-0114, el día 2 de mayo de 2022, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Añasco, Anotación A de fecha del 17 de abril de 2023. EMBARGO ESTATAL contra Juan Ruiz Valentín por $67,731.02 seguido por el Departamento de Hacienda, caso #MAY20-026 presentado al asiento 2019-005629-EST el 12 de julio de 2019 anotado el 12 de julio de 2019 al sistema de Embargos Karibe. EMBARGO ESTATAL sobre esta propiedad en contra de Juan Ruiz Valentín y/o Gumersinda Rivera, por la suma de $197,075.54, presentado e inscrito el 28 de marzo del 2011 e inscrito al folio 61, asiento #239 del Libro #25 de Embargos Estatales de Aguadilla. EMBARGO ESTATAL sobre esta propiedad en contra de Juan Ruiz Valentín y/o Gumersinda Rivera, por la suma de

$573,820.43, presentado e ins- de Hacienda, caso #MAY20crito el 28 de marzo del 2011 e 026 presentado al asiento inscrito al folio 61, asiento #238 2019-005629-EST el 12 de julio del Libro #25 de Embargos Es- de 2019 y anotado el 12 de julio tatales de Aguadilla. FINCA de 2019 al sistema de EmbarNÚMERO 13,045 b. RÚSTICA: gos Karibe. EMBARGO ESTAParcela de terreno de 64.6079 TAL sobre esta propiedad en cuerdas equivalentes a contra de Juan Ruiz Valentín 253934.24 metros cuadrados, y/o Gumersinda Rivera, por la radica en el Barrio Palmarejo suma de $197,075.54, presendel término municipal de Lajas, tado e inscrito el 28 de marzo Sector Olivari. En lindes por el del 2011 e inscrito al folio 61, NORTE, en 255.69 metros, con asiento #239 del Libro #25 de terrenos de Fura y con María Embargos Estatales de AguadiCarlo Aymat en 30.54 metros; lla. EMBARGO ESTATAL sobre por el SUR, con camino público esta propiedad en contra de que la separa de la zona maríti- Juan Ruíz Valentín y/o Gumerma; ESTE, en 701.46 metros, sinda Rivera, por la suma de con remanente de la finca prin- $573,820.43. Presentado e inscipal de María Carlo Aymat; y crito el 28 de marzo de 2011 e por el OESTE, en 662.233 me- inscrito al folio 61, asiento #238 tros, con terrenos de Luis F. del Libro #25 de Embargos EsCarlo Mendoza. Se dedica a tatales de Aguadilla. El 7 de juuso agrícola. Finca 13,045, ins- nio de 2022, se presentó en el crita al folio 85 del tomo 383 de Registro de la Propiedad de Lajas, Registro de la Propiedad Mayagüez, Sección I, la Orden de San Germán. Dirección Físi- y Mandamiento de Anotación ca: PR-303 Km. 5.7, Palmarejo de Embargo expedidos por el Ward, Lajas, PR 00667. La pro- Honorable Tribunal para que el piedad descrita anteriormente Honorable Registrador de la está afecta a los siguientes gra- Propiedad anote en sus libros vámenes: Afecta por su proce- el embargo sobre la Finca Núdencia: Libre de cargas. Afecta mero 9,533 descrita anteriorpor si: HIPOTECA: En garantía mente. Dicho embargo fue preal Asiento de un pagaré a favor de Euro- sentado bank, o a su orden, por la suma 2022-075027-MY01 el 7 de jude $1,200,000.00, respondien- nio de 2022, Finca Número do esta finca por $400,000.00, 9,533 de Añasco. El 7 de junio con interés sobre el balance in- de 2022, se presentó en el Resoluto a razón de 1% bajo la gistro de la Propiedad de San tasa de interés preferencial, y Germán, Sección I, la Orden y vencedero a la presentación, Mandamiento de Anotación de según consta de la escritura Embargo expedidos por el Ho#32, otorgada el día 27 de sep- norable Tribunal para que el tiembre del 2006, ante la Nota- Honorable Registrador de la rio Público Myrta Estrella Nie- Propiedad anote en sus libros ves Blás, inscrita al folio 85 del el embargo sobre la Finca Nútomo 383 de Lajas, inscripción mero 13,045 descrita anterior3ª. ANOTACIÓN DE EMBAR- mente. Dicho embargo fue preGO: Es objeto de esta anota- sentado al Asiento ción la Hipoteca a favor de Eu- 2022-074987-SG01 el 7 de jurobank, por la suma de nio de 2022, Finca Número $1,200,000.00, que surge de la 13,045 de Lajas. Estas subasinscripción 3ª. DEMANDANTE: tas se harán para satisfacer al Bayview Loan Servicing, como demandante, hasta donde alagente de servicio de Oriental cance, los importes adeudados, Bank and Trust antes Euro- los cuales se detallaron antebank, Triangle REO Puerto riormente, hasta el pago total Rico, Corp.; DEMANDADO: de las deudas, más costas, Juan Ruiz Valentín; Gumersin- desembolsos y honorarios de da Rivera Montalvo y la Socie- abogado. Se entiende que todo dad Legal de Gananciales licitador que comparezca a las Compuesta por Ellos; Eduardo subastas señaladas en este Ruiz Valentín y Reyes Noriega caso, acepta como bastante la Ramos y la sociedad legal de titulación que da base a las misgananciales compuesta por mas. Las ventas en públicas ellos, Cantidad Adeudada subastas de las propiedades $6,420,759.26, por concepto descritas anteriormente se veride principal más intereses, se- ficarán libres de toda carga o gún demanda por el Tribunal de gravamen posterior que afecte Primera Instancia, Sala de dichas propiedades. Se entienAguadilla, en el caso civil de que cualquier carga y/o gra#ACD2011-0114, el día 10 de vamen anterior y/o preferente, marzo de 2022, e Inscrita al si lo hubiera, al crédito que da tomo Karibe de Lajas, finca base a esta ejecución, conti#13045, Anotación A de fecha nuará subsistente, entendiéndel 25 de abril de 2022. EM- dose además, que el rematante BARGO ESTATAL contra Juan los acepta y queda subrogado Ruiz Valentín por $67,731.02 en la responsabilidad de los seguido por el Departamento mismos, sin destinarse a su ex-

22 tinción el precio del remate.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Aguadilla durante las horas laborables. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrarán las SUBASTAS en las fecha, horas y sitio anteriormente señalado, y se les invita a que concurra a dichas subastas, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrarán las subastas señaladas. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 18de diciembre de 2023. Ivelisse Figueroa Vargas, ALGUACIL , TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE Mayagüez.

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JUAN RUIZ VALENTÍN; GUMERSINDA RIVERA MONTALVO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLOS; EDUARDO RUIZ VALENTÍN; Y REYES NORIEGA RAMOS; Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLOS

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: ACD2011-0114 (601). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE

DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia, expedido el 24 de mayo de 2022 por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Aguadilla, procederé a vender en públicas subastas y al(os) mejor(es) postor(es), quien(es) pagará(n) el(los) importe(s) de las ventas en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil del Tribunal, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 22 de febrero de 2024, a la(s) 10:30 a.m. para la Finca Número 18,785 y para la Finca Número 12,860, a las 10:45 a.m., en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Mayagüez, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre los inmuebles que se describen a continuación: FINCA NÚMERO 18,785. a) R Ú S TICA: Parcela número treinta y uno (31) radicada en el Barrio Boquerón del término municipal de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cinco punto cero cero (5.00) cuerdas, equivalentes a una (1) hectárea, noventa y seis (96) áreas y sesenta (60) centiáreas. En lindes por el NORTE, con servidumbre de paso de diez punto cero (10.00) metros de ancho; por el SUR, con terrenos de José Fas; por el ESTE, con terrenos de José Fass y por el OESTE, con la parcela número ochenta y tres (83). Para uso de fines agrícolas. Consta inscrita al folio 157 vuelto del tomo 864 de Cabo Rojo, Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán, finca número 18,785. Dirección Física: PR-3301 Km. 2.1, Lot31, Los Pozos Sector, Boquerón Ward, Cabo Rojo, PR 00623. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Libre de Cargas. Por sí: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor del Portador, o a su orden, por la suma de $370,000.00, respondiendo por $4,625.00, con interés al 5%, y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura #92, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de septiembre de 2005, ante el Notario Público José M. Biaggi Junquera, inscrita al folio 157vto del tomo 764 de Cabo Rojo, inscripción 9ª. HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de Eurobank, o a su orden, por la suma de $364,000.00, con interés al 12%, y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura #107, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de agosto de 2009, ante el Notario Público Nelson W. González Rosario, inscrita al folio 158vto del tomo 864 de Cabo Rojo, inscripción 13ª. Al asiento

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1343 del diario 773, el día 29 de septiembre de 2010, se presentó la escritura #03, sobre Liberación Parcial de Hipoteca, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de enero de 2007 ante el Notario Público Osvaldo Ortiz Medina, para que se inscriba liberación sobre las fincas 18780, 18783, 18785, 18790, 18701, 18711, 18713, 18715, 18716, 18719, 18720, 18721, 18722, 18723 del término municipal de Cabo Rojo todas, Solares en Barrio Boquerón. Con un valor la transacción de $60,000.00, $370,000.00, $70,000.00. EMBARGO ESTATAL contra Juan Ruiz Valentín (6989) por $67,731.02 seguido por el Departamento de Hacienda, caso #MAY20-026, presentado al asiento 2019005629-EST el 12 de julio de 2019 anotado el 12 de julio de 2019 al sistema de Embargos Karibe. EMBARGO ESTATAL contra Juan Ruiz Valentín (6989) y Gumersinda Rivera (3401) por $763,369.38, seguido por el Departamento de Hacienda, caso #MAY20-026, presentado al asiento 2019-005737-EST el 12 de julio de 2019 y anotado el 15 de julio de 2019 al sistema de Embargos Karibe. EMBARGO ESTATAL sobre esta propiedad en contra de Juan Ruiz Valentín y/o Gumersinda Rivera, por la suma de $197,075.54, presentado e inscrito el 28 de marzo del 2011 e inscrito al folio 61, asiento #239 del Libro #25 de Embargos Estatales de Aguadilla. EMBARGO ESTATAL sobre esta propiedad en contra de Juan Ruiz Valentín y/o Gumersinda Rivera, por la suma de $573,820.43, presentado e inscrito el 28 de marzo del 2011 e inscrito al folio 61, asiento #238 del Libro #25 de Embargos Estatales de Aguadilla. FINCA NÚMERO 12,860. b) RÚSTICA: Finca denominada Olivari radicada en el Barrio Palmarejo del término municipal de Lajas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 114.6428 cuerdas, o sea 450,590.91 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos de los Hermanos Carlos Mendoza y en otra distancia de 87.50 metros, con terrenos de Fura; por el SUR, con terrenos de María Carlo Aymat, conocidos coma Cerro Los Cobos y con un camino vecinal; par el ESTE, en 306.35 metros con terrenos de Fura y en 663.273 metros, con terrenos de María Carlo Aymat y por el OESTE, con terrenos de Humberto Escabi. Consta inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 275 de Lajas, Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán, finca número 12,860.

Dirección Física: PR-303 Km. 5.7, Palmarejo Ward, Lajas, PR 00667. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Libre de Cargas. Por sí: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor

de Eurobank, o a su orden, por la suma de $1,200,000.00, responde por $800,000.00, con interés sobre el balance insoluto a razón de ½% bajo la tasa preferencial fluctuante, según fijada por Citibank en sus oficinas de New York, y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura #32, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de septiembre de 2006, ante la Notario Público Myrta Estrella Nieves Blás, inscrita al folio 82 del tomo 383 de Lajas, inscripción 5ª. EMBARGO ESTATAL contra Juan Ruiz Valentín por $ 67,731.02 seguido por el Departamento de Hacienda, caso #MAY20-026, presentado al asiento 2019-005629-EST el 12 de julio de 2019, anotado el 12 de julio de 2019 al sistema de Embargos Karibe. EMBARGO ESTATAL contra Juan Ruiz Valentín y Gumersinda Rivera por $763,369.38 seguido por el Departamento de Hacienda, caso #MAY20-026, presentado al asiento 2019-005737-EST el 12 de julio de 2019, anotado el 15 de julio de 2019 al sistema de embargos Karibe. EMBARGO ESTATAL sobre esta propiedad en contra de Juan Ruiz Valentín y/o Gumersinda Rivera, por la suma de $197,075.54, presentado e inscrito el 28 de marzo del 2011 e inscrito al folio 61, asiento 239 del Libro #25 de Embargos Estatales de Aguadilla. EMBARGO ESTATAL sobre esta propiedad en contra de Juan Ruiz Valentín y/o Gumersinda Rivera, por la suma de $573,820.43, presentado e inscrito el 28 de marzo del 2011 e inscrito al folio 61, asiento #238 del Libro #25 de Embargos Estatales de Aguadilla. Servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta de la Finca Número 18,785 el valor acordado por las partes en la escritura en que se constituyó el crédito hipotecario, el cual es la suma de $364,000.00. Servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta de la Finca Número 12,860 el valor acordado por las partes en la escritura en que se constituyó el crédito hipotecario, el cual es la suma de $800,000.00. De no adjudicarse las propiedades en las primeras subastas, se celebrarán segundas subastas, en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Mayagüez, el día 29 de febrero de 2024, a la(s) 10:30 a.m. para la Finca Número 18,785 y para la Finca Número 12,860, a las 10:45 a.m. Los tipos mínimos para las segundas subastas serán dos terceras partes (2/3) de los tipos mínimos de las primeras subastas, o sea, para la Finca Número 18,785 será la suma de $242,666.67 y para la Finca Número 12,860 será la suma de $533,333.33. De no adjudicarse las propiedades en las segundas subastas, se celebrarán terceras subastas en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribu-

nal de Mayagüez, el día 7 de marzo de 2024, a la(s) 10:30 a.m. para la Finca Número 18,785 y para la Finca Número 12,860, a las 10:45 a.m. Los tipos mínimos para las terceras subastas serán las mitades (1/2) de los tipos mínimos que se pactaran para las primeras subastas, o sea, para la Finca Número 18,785 será la suma de $182,000.00 y para la Finca Número 12,860 será la suma de $400,000.00. Estas subastas se harán para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, las siguientes sumas adeudadas: Obligación 400009387: Principal; $5,323,129.26. Intereses pactados acumulados al 18 de marzo 2011: 149,237.34. Honorarios de Abogado: 532,312.93.

Prepayment consideration: 159,993.88. Default Interest: 106,018.99. Gastos: 10,950.00.

Total : $6,281,642.40. La obligación devenga interés a razón de 4% a partir del 19 de marzo de 2011.

Obligación 400009434: Principal: $135,833.45. Intereses pactados acumulados al 28 de febrero de 2011: 1,886.25. Cargos por demoras: 1,397.16. Total: $139,116.86. La obligación devenga intereses a razón de $150.09 diario. Las ventas en públicas subastas de las propiedades descritas anteriormente se verificarán libres de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dichas propiedades. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Aguadilla durante horas laborables. El Alguacil procederá a otorgar las correspondientes escrituras de ventas judiciales y se pondrá al(os) comprador(es) en posesión física del(os) inmueble(s), de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrarán las SUBASTAS en la fecha, horas y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dichas subastas, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICA-

CIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrarán las subastas señaladas. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 18 de diciembre de 2024. Ivelisse Figueroa Vargas, ALGUACIL. TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA , SALA DE Mayagüez.

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PETICIONARIOS Civil Núm.: AG2023CV02013.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO - CATASTRO #025-000010-50-002. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E. E. U. U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

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

tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal.

Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Galateo Alto del término municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de DOSCIENTOS SESENTA Y OCHO PUNTO SEIS SEIS SEIS SEIS METROS CUADRADOS (268.6666 mc). En lindes: al NORTE, en diecisiete punto ochocientos dieciséis metros (17.816 mts) con Calle Gaviota; al SUR, en dieciséis punto setecientos setenta y nueve metros (16.779 mts) con Ana de la Cruz; al ESTE, en quince punto trescientos noventa y ocho metros (15.398 mts) con Calle Golondrina; y, al OESTE, en quince punto setecientos dieciocho metros (15.718 mts) con Marcos Pérez. Enclava una estructura en hormigón y bloques dedicada a residencia. Catastro: #025-000010-50-002. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lcdo.

Luis A. González González, PO BOX 613 Isabela, Puerto Rico 00662; Tel. (787) 872-4646.

Se le informa, además, que le Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 8 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 4:15 DE LA TARDE, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a los dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 9 de enero de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA

REGIONAL. ZUHEILY GONZÁLEZ AVILÉS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. ***

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Demandante V.

MARINES ROSARIO ARRIAGA

Demandado Civil Núm.: AB2023CV00083.

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: MARINET ROSARIO ARRIAGA - HC 1 BOX 7222, AGUAS BUENAS, PR 00703-9718.

Se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Cobro de Dinero. Representa a la parte demandante, el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: Brito.Legal 1607 Ave. Ponce de León St. GM6 #232 San Juan, PR 00969 Tel. 787-705-1011 E-mail: adrian@brito.legal POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php./ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

En Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico a 18 de diciembre de 2023. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. Eneida Arroyo Vélez, Sub Secretaria.

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MORTGAGE CORP Demandante V.

JOHN DOE Y OTROS

Demandado CASO NÚM: BY2023CV06525 SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: PENTAGON FEDERAL A CREDIT UNION PO BOX 560130 THE COLONY TX 75056-0130.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE (PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS)

(Nombres de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 DE ENERO DE 2024, 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 26 de enero de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 26 de enero de 2024. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. F/Katherine Santiago Rodríguez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

Thursday, February 1, 2024

notifican la sentencia por edicto).

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 DE ENERO DE 2024, 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 26 de enero de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 26 de enero de 2024. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. F/Rosa M. Viera Velázquez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE RINCÓN

término de 30 días contados a ELIZABETH BAÉZ PÉREZ partir de la publicación por edicJOSÉ RAFAEL BÁEZ to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se PÉREZ RAFAELA PÉREZ VIERA T/C/C RAFAELA considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicPÉREZ DE BÁEZ ROSE to. Copia de esta notificación MARIE CAMACHO ha sido archivada en los autos GARCIA DIRECCIONES de este caso, con fecha de 29 DESCONOCIDAS de enero de 2024. En Aguada, (Nombre de las partes que se le Puerto Rico, el 29 de enero notifican la sentencia por edicto) de 2024. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, EL SECRETARIO(A) que susSecretaria. F/Érika Cruz Pérez, cribe le notifica a usted que el Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

11 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, LEGAL NOTICE Sentencia Parcial o Resolución ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO en este caso, que ha sido debiDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUdamente registrada y archivada NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA en autos donde podrá usted enCENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUterarse detalladamente de los MACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE términos de la misma. Esta noHUMACAO tificación se publicará una sola ANGEL LUIS vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de PuerROSARIO PEREZ to Rico, dentro de los 10 días Demandante V. SAMUEL F FIGUEROA siguientes a su notificación. Y, CALDERON Y OTROS siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento Demandado(a) sujeta a los términos de la SenCASO NÚM.: HU2023CV01694 tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re(SALÓN 208) SOBRE: LIQUIsolución, de la cual puede estaDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE blecerse recurso de revisión o BIENES Y OTROS. NOTIFIapelación dentro del término de CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR 30 días contados a partir de la EDICTO SARY MAGDALENA BREA FALCÓN publicación por edicto de esta LCDA.BREAFALCON@YAHOO.COM. notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará A: SAMUEL F. en la fecha de la publiFIGUEROA CALDERÓN hecha cación de este edicto. Copia de Y SU ESPOSA ESTHER esta notificación ha sido archiPEREIRA CAMPOS Y LA vada en los autos de este caso, SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE con fecha de 23 de ENERO de BIENES GANANCIALES 2024 En HUMACAO , Puerto Rico, el 23 de ENERO de 2024.

COMPUESTA ENTRE EVELYN FELIX VAZQUEZ, SeAMBOS CESAR O. cretaria. f/LAURA DE JESUS BLANCO ARROYO Y GONZALEZ, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

SU ESPOSA MARÍA

CUALQUIER TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO FULANO DE TAL

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada en su contra por haberse constituido hipoteca a favor de la co demandada RG Mortgage Corporation por la cantidad de $47,200.00 con intereses al 8 3/8% anual, vencedero el mes de abril de 2012, según surge de la escritura número 71, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el 18 de marzo de 1987 ante el Notario Heberto J. DE Vizcarrondo Armstrong sobre la finca número Catorce mil cero trece, (14,013) inscrita al Folio (8) del Torno Trescientos sesenta y ocho (368) de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad’ de Carolina, Puerto Rico, Sección I y se le requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto radicando el original de su contestación a la demanda 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, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal y copia de la misma a la parte demandante. 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 sin citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro remedio, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

LCDA. ELDA MAGALI RODRÍGUEZ CORA RUA 7671: Colegiada Núm. 8924 PO BOX 716 Trujillo Alto, PR 00977-716 Tel. 787-760-8791/ 787-404-4944 lcdaeldamrodriguez@gmail.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 24 de enero de 2024. Lcda. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretario(a) Regional. f/ KEILA GARCIA SOLIS, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

ANTONIA MARRERO, Y LEGAL NOTICE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MARIO VEGA VÉLEZ BIENES GANANCIALES DE PUERTO RICO EN EL TRIDemandado(a) COMPUESTA ENTRE BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCASO NÚM: AU2023CV00372 CIA TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR AMBOS LEUGIM (SALÓN 0002 DISTRITO Y SUBUSTELO GARRIGA Y SALA DE CAROLINA. PERIOR) SOBRE: COBRO DE SU ESPOSA YOLANDA DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOGLADYS ACEVEDO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA CORREA Y LA LATORRE, T/C/C POR EDICTO. SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE JOSÉ F. GIRAUD MEJÍAS GLADYS ACEVEDO DE LEGAL NOTICE BIENES GANANCIALES JGIRAUD@MCMLAWPR.COM DUCOUDRAY COMPUESTA ENTRE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DEMANDANTE VS A: MARIO VEGA VELEZ DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUAMBOS SAMUEL VÍCTOR (Nombre de las partes que se le RG MORTGAGE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA notifican la sentencia por edicto) FIGUEROA PEREIRA Y CORPORATION ÚLTIMO CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA- EL SECRETARIO(A) que susSU ESPOSA MARICELYS TENEDOR CONOCIDO Y/ ROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE cribe le notifica a usted que el LEGAL NOTICE LÓPEZ BÁEZ Y LA CAROLINA 24 DE ENERO DE 2024, este O CUALQUIER TENEDOR ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE RAQUEL RODRIGUEZ Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, DESCONOCIDO y DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUBIENES GANANCIALES Sentencia Parcial o Resolución CRISTOBAL FULANO DE TAL NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA en este caso, que ha sido debiCOMPUESTA ENTRE Demandante V. DEMANDADOS SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUAdamente registrada y archivada AMBOS HORTENCIA CIVIL NUM. 2023CV02790 DILLA JOHN DOE Y OTROS en autos donde podrá usted Demandado VICTORIA VIDAL CRUZ (404). SOBRE: ACCION CIVIL, EVELYN enterarse detalladamente de Caso Núm: LO2023CV00175 CANCELACION DE PAGARE T/C/C HORTENCIA V. los términos de la misma. Esta GONZALEZ PITRE (CIVIL 401) SOBRE: CANCEHIPOTECARIO PREVIAMENnotificación se publicará una VIDAL DE ORTIZ FRANK PETICIONARIA LACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE TE SALDADO Y EXTRAVIAsola vez en un periódico de Ex Parte SÁNCHEZ CASTRO Y DO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOcirculación general en la Isla SU ESPOSA SANDRA EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS BIENVENIDO GONZÁLEZ TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA de Puerto Rico, dentro de los POR EDICTO. ORTEGA, TAMBIÉN GURUNG LUHRING, Y LA DE AMERICA, EL PRESI10 días siguientes a su notificaJORGE GARCIA RONDON DENTE DE LOS ESTADOS CONOCIDO POR SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE ción.

Y, siendo o representando JAFRONDON@GMAIL.COM UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE A: John Doe Y RICHARD usted una parte en el procedi- BIENES GANANCIALES ASOCIADO DE PUERTO BIENVENIDO GONZÁLEZ Causante miento sujeta a los términos COMPUESTA ENTRE RICO. SS. ROE (PERSONAS CASO NUM: IS2023CV00259 de la Sentencia, Sentencia AMBOS LYDIA A: RG MORTGAGE DESCONOCIDAS CON Parcial o Resolución, de la cual SOBRE: DECLARATORIA DE MERCEDES COLLAZO CORPORATION ÚLTIMO HEREDEROS. EMPLAZAPOSIBLE INTERÉS) puede establecerse recurso de T/C/C LYDIA M RIVERA (Nombre de las partes que se le revisión o apelación dentro del TENEDOR CONOCIDO MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADemandante V.

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DOS UNINDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTED E EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: NOELIA ENID GONZALEZ PITRE: con última dirección residencial y postal conocida en 1724 Stephen St. Ridgewood, New York 11385.

A: HELLEN GONZALEZ PITRE, FULANO DE TAL y FULANA DE TAL y/o Cualquier otra persona de nombre desconocido y con interés en los bienes y pasivos de los caudales relictos de las sucesiones de Bienvenido González Ortega y de doña Miguelina Pitre Trujillo, incluyendo aquellos que tengan posesión de los bienes hereditarios y/o arrendadores de los bienes hereditarios; direccionesdesconocidas.

DE: EVELYN GONZALEZ PITRE

Por la presente se le notifica a usted que la parte peticionaria Evelyn González Pitre, ha presentado ante este Tribunal petición de declaratoria de herederos, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Se dicte Resolución declarando a EVELYN GONZALEZ PITRE, YASMIN GONZALEZ PITRE, BEN STEVEN GONZALEZ PITRE, NOELIA ENID GONZALEZ PITRE, HELLEN GONZALEZ PITRE y MIRIAM CHARISE GONZALEZ PITRE, Y A SU VIUDA MIGUELINA PITRE TRUJILLO, como los únicos y universales herederos de DON BIENVENIDO GONZALEZ ORTEGA, también conocido por BIENVENIDO GONZÁLEZ. Representa a la parte peticionaria la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: LCDA. MARGGIE RODRIGUEZ PEREZ RUA NUM. 20,363 #182 CALLE RAMON EMETERIO BETANCES SUR MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO 00680 TEL. (787)265-1111 e-mail: mrplawoffices@gmail.com Se le apercibe que conforme al Artículo 552 del Código de Enjuiciamiento Civil de Puerto Rico, 32 L.P.R.A. sec. 2301, la peticionaria de epígrafe anuncia el fallecimiento de DON BIENVENIDO GONZALEZ ORTEGA, también conocido por BIENVENIDO GONZÁLEZ EL DÍA 19 DE MAYO DE 2021 EN LA CIUDAD DE ISABELA, PUERTO RICO. Los nombres de los hijos que le sobreviven al causante son: EVELYN GONZALEZ PITRE, YASMIN GONZALEZ PITRE, BEN STEVEN GONZALEZ PITRE, NOELIA ENID GONZALEZ PITRE, HELLEN GONZALEZ PITRE

y MIRIAM CHARISE GON- NEGRON, JOSE ANTONIO ZALEZ PITRE. Por lo que se RAMIREZ NEGRON, hace un llamado a los que se VERONICA RAMIREZ crean con igual grado o mejor NEGRON, RICARDO derecho para que comparezcan a reclamar dentro de un plazo RAMIREZ NEGRON Y de treinta (30) días a contar MIDLAND MORTGAGE de la publicación del edicto. El (Nombre de las partes que se le presente edicto se publicará notifican la sentencia por edicto) UNA VEZ, en un periódico de EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscirculación diaria general en la cribe le notifica a usted que el Isla de Puerto Rico. Que de no 19 DE ENERO DE 2024, este comparecer los que se crean Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, con igual grado o mejor dere- Sentencia Parcial o Resolución cho a reclamar dentro del plazo en este caso, que ha sido debide treinta (30) días a contar de damente registrada y archivada la fecha de la publicación del en autos donde podrá usted edicto, apreciadas las pruebas, enterarse detalladamente de se dictará el auto, según lo pre- los términos de la misma. Esta visto por la ley del caso, hacien- notificación se publicará una do declaración de las personas sola vez en un periódico de con derecho a la herencia sin circulación general en la Isla más citarle ni oírle. Se ordena de Puerto Rico, dentro de los a la parte peticionaria a cumplir 10 días siguientes a su notificacon la notificación en el térmi- ción. Y, siendo o representando no de diez (10) días contados usted una parte en el procedia partir de la publicación del miento sujeta a los términos edicto para enviarle copia de la de la Sentencia, Sentencia petición, orden, emplazamiento Parcial o Resolución, de la cual y publicación de edicto a las puede establecerse recurso de personas sobre quienes se le revisión o apelación dentro del conoce su última dirección. Por término de 30 días contados a haber la peticionaria acredita- partir de la publicación por edicdo las gestiones para conocer to de esta notificación, dirijo a la identidad y circunstancias usted esta notificación que se personales de algunos de los considerará hecha en la fecha herederos, y no conociendo las de la publicación de este edicmismas; se le ha relevado del to. Copia de esta notificación ha cumplimiento de notificación de sido archivada en los autos de la copia de la demanda y del este caso, con fecha de 24 de emplazamiento. Deberán com- enero de 2024. En San Juan, parecer a través del SISTEMA Puerto Rico, el 24 de enero Unificado de Administración y de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al Collado, Secretaria. F/Virgen Y. cual podrán acceder utilizando Del Valle Díaz, Secretaria Auxila siguiente dirección electróni- liar del Tribunal. ca: https://unired.ramajudicial.

LEGAL NOTICE pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO deberá presentar su compare- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUcencia en la secretaria del Tri- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA bunal. Expedido bajo mi firma CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAy sello del Tribunal, hoy 22 de GUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE enero de 2024. Sarahí Reyes CAGUAS Pérez, Secretaria Regional. PeHR MORTGAGE ggy Sánchez López, Secretaria CORPORATION Auxiliar del Tribunal.

Demandante V.

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SECRETARIO DEL

RUTH MERCEDES MARTE PEDRO RAMÍREZ NEGRÓN Y OTROS

CELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JESUS A LEDESMA AMADOR JALAMADOR@YAHOO.COM

A: PEDRO RAMIREZ

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 DE ENERO DE 2024, 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

ESTADO LlBRE ASOCIADO DEPARTAMENTO DE LA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- VIVIENDA Y DESAROLLO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA URBANO (HUD) Y OTROS CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN Demandado(a) JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE CASO NÚM: CG2023CV02512 SAN JUAN (SALON 701) SOBRE: CAN-

Demandante V.

Demandado(a) CASO NÚM: SJ2023CV05709 (SALON 901 CIVIL) Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSEPH GABRIEL CEPEDA ACOSTA LCDO.CEPEDA@GMAIL.COM MANUEL IZQUIERDO ENCARNACIÓN MIE1980@GMAIL.COM MARIA D PAGAN HERNANDEZ MARILUPAHE@Y AHOO.COM

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

24 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 24 de enero de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 24 de enero de 2024. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. F/ Éneida Arroyo Vélez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYANILLA - SABANA GRANDE

JOSE EDGARDO VELAZQUEZ RODRIGUEZ Demandante Vs.

AMANDA SILVA

Demandada CIVIL NUM.: GY2023RF00014 Sobre: Divorcio (Ruptura Irreparable). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. S.S.

Expedido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 25 de enero de 2024.

Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria Regional. Delia Aponte Velázquez, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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MARISOL MARIN RODRIGUEZ Demandante Vs

SUCESION DE MANUEL FERNANDEZ GIMENEZ COMPUESTA POR MANUEL ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ SOTO MAYOR, NEYSA IDALLYS FERNANDEZ SOTOMAYOR

Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: CG2023CV02942 SOBRE: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO, COBRO O SOLICITUD DE RECOBRAR PROPIEDAD. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm.

57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor.

(Artículo 33, inicios by f de Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. NOTIFÍQUESE Dada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 25 de enero de 2024. Lisilda Martinez Agosto, Secretaria. JEanette Espinosa Castillo, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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MARISOL MARIN RODRIGUEZ

A: MANUEL ALEJANDRO Demandante Vs FERNANDEZ SUCESION DE MANUEL SOTOMAYOR Bairoa, FERNANDEZ GIMENEZ Calle 32, Bloque AM16, COMPUESTA POR Caguas, Puerto Rico MANUEL ALEJANDRO 00725 o sea, la parte FERNANDEZ SOTO arriba mencionada.

MAYOR, NEYSA A: AMANDA SILVA / 79-51 POR LA PRESENTE, se le Myrtle Ave 2L Glendale emplaza para que presente al IDALLYS FERNANDEZ SOTOMAYOR Queens, New York 11385 Tribunal su alegación respon-

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro de treinta 30 días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), a la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https: //unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal.

Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante, el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: LCDO. JOSEPH BROCCO SANTIAGO PO BOX 608 PEÑUELAS, PR 00624 TEL/FAX (787)836-3020 lcdo.joseph.brocco-santiago@ hotmail.com

siva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal.

LCDA. MARGARITA GÓMEZ VÁZQUEZ Número del Tribunal Supremo: 8,806 URB. FOREST VIEW, I-2 BAJOS CALLE ESPAÑA, BAYAMÓN, P.R. 00956 TEL. (787) 740-7190 EMAIL: licmargaritagomez@gmail.com 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

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Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: CG2023CV02942 SOBRE: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO, COBRO O SOLICITUD DE RECOBRAR PROPIEDAD. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: NEYSA IDALLYS FERNANDEZ SOTOMAYOR Bairoa, Calle 32, Bloque AM16, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725 o sea, la parte arriba mencionada.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea

un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal.

LCDA. MARGARITA GÓMEZ VÁZQUEZ Número del Tribunal Supremo: 8,806 URB. FOREST VIEW, I-2 BAJOS CALLE ESPAÑA, BAYAMÓN, P.R. 00956 TEL. (787) 740-7190 EMAIL: licmargaritagomez@gmail.com Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm.

57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor.

(Artículo 33, inicios by f de Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. NOTIFÍQUESE Dada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 25 de enero de 2024. Lisilda Martinez Agosto, Secretaria. JEanette Espinosa Castillo, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES LLC Demandante V.

SUCESION FLORENTINA PAGAN TANON T/C/C FLORENTINA PAGAN TAÑON T/C/C FLORENTINA PAGAN TAÑON Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AI2023CV00357.

(Salón: 001). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDO, FRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM.

A: SUCESION FLORENTINA PAGAN TAÑON T/C/C FLORENTINA PAGAN TAÑON T/C/C

Demandado(a) HONDO LLC, S.E FLORENTINA PAGAN circulación general en la Isla Caso Núm.: BY2023CV04416.

Demandante V. de Puerto Rico, dentro de los TAÑON; JULIAN (Salón: 701). Sobre: CANCE10 días siguientes a su notificaMOBILE SHOP, INC. FIGUEROA PAGAN: JOHN LACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE ción. Y, siendo o representando Y OTROS DOE Y JANE DOE COMO PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOusted una parte en el procediDemandado(a) POSIBLES MIEMBROS Caso Núm.: TA2023CV00868. TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA miento sujeta a los términos POR EDICTO. DESCONOCIDOS (Salón: 201B). Sobre: COBRO MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA, de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual DE LA SUCESION DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. MCOLON@WWCLAW.COM. puede establecerse recurso de NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENPAGAN TAÑON A: JOHN DOE: Y revisión o apelación dentro del CIA POR EDICTO. T/C/C FLORENTINA RICHARD ROE COMO término de 30 días contados a ELIZABETH DEL PILAR PAGAN TAÑON T/C/C POSIBLES TENEDORES partir de la publicación por edicVILLAGRASA FLORES, EVILLAGRASA@FERRAIUOLI.COM. FLORENTINA PAGAN to de esta notificación, dirijo a DESCONOCIDOS. ROBERTO A. CÁMARA FUERTES, (Nombre de las partes que se le usted esta notificación que se TAÑON, GERMAN RCAMARA@FERRAIUOLI.COM. la sentencia por edicto) considerará hecha en la fecha RIVERA PAGAN COMO ANGEL G. GARCIA, PICO CENTER ELnotifican SECRETARIO(A) que sus- de la publicación de este edic120 APT. 606 CALLE CONDADO SAN MIEMBRO DE LA cribe le notifica a usted que to. Copia de esta notificación JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00921.

SUCESION FLORENTINA MARIA DEL C. MUÑOZ HUERTAS, el 25 de enero de 2024, este ha sido archivada en los autos PICO CENTER 120 APT. 606 CALLE Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, de este caso, con fecha de 26 PAGAN TAÑON CONDADO SAN JUAN, PUERTO Sentencia Parcial o Resolución de enero de 2024. En Orocovis, T/C/C FLORENTINA RICO 00921. en este caso, que ha sido debi- Puerto Rico, el 26 de enero de PAGAN TAÑON T/C/C MOBILE SHOP, INC., PICO CENTER damente registrada y archivada 2024. Elizabeth González Rive120 APT. 606 CALLE CONDADO SAN FLORENTINA PAGAN en autos donde podrá usted en- ra, Secretaria. F/Anybell Díaz JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00921.

TAÑON. terarse detalladamente de los A: MOBILE SHOP, INC., términos de la misma. Esta no- Torres, Secretaria Auxiliar.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) ANGEL G. GARCIA, LEGAL NOTICE tificación se publicará una sola EL SECRETARIO(A) que susMARIA DEL C. MUÑOZ vez en un periódico de circula- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO cribe le notifica a usted que ción general en la Isla de Puer- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUHUERTAS. el 22 de enero de 2024, 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 25 de enero de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría: JULIAN FIGUEROA PAGAN: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION PAGAN TAÑON T/C/C FLORENTINA PAGAN TAÑON T/C/C FLORENTINA PAGAN TAÑON. GERMAN RIVERA PAGAN COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION FLORENTINA PAGAN TAÑON T/C/C FLORENTINA PAGAN TAÑON T/C/C FLORENTINA PAGAN TAÑON. En Comerío, Puerto Rico, el 25 de enero de 2024. Elizabeth González Rivera, Secretaria. Carmen Aponte Flores, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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

DDR RÍO

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de enero de 2024, 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 24 de enero de 2024. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 24 de enero de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la 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 25 de enero de 2024.

En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 25 de enero de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ

LILLIAN ANTONIA VEGA CRUZ Demandante V.

JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERÉS Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MT2023CV00887.

(Salón: 102 SALA SUPERIOR).

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JORGE GARCIA RONDON, JAFGRONDON@GMAIL.COM.

A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE, PERSONAS LEGAL NOTICE DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERES ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE OROCOVIS

VAPR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Demandante v.

ARELIS ORTIZ PEREZ

Demandado(a) ADELA SURILLO GUTIÉRREZ ADELA.SURILLO@GMAIL.COM Caso Núm.: OR2023CV00202 LEGAL NOTICE (SALÓN 002) SOBRE: COBRO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA A: ARELIS ORTIZ PEREZ CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BA(Nombre de las partes que se le YAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE notifican la sentencia por edicto).

BAYAMÓN EL SECRETARIO(A) que susWENDEL W. COLÓN cribe le notifica a usted que el 25 DE ENERO DE 2024, este LAW OFFICE, LLC Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Demandante V. Sentencia Parcial o Resolución SANA MORTGAGE en este caso, que ha sido debiBANKERS, INC. damente registrada y archivada AHORA FEDERAL en autos donde podrá usted DEPOSIT INSURANCE enterarse detalladamente de CORPORATION (FDIC) los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una Y OTROS sola vez en un periódico de

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de enero de 2024, 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 25 de ene-

The San Juan Daily Star ro de 2024. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 25 de enero de 2024.

VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN JULIA ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV08645.

(Salón: 908). Sobre: USUCAPIÓN. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LIZANNETTE MORALES CRESPO, MORALESCRESPOLAW@GMAIL. COM.

A: MIGUEL ANGEL RODRIGUEZ LEON Y JOHN DOE.

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA EL SECRETARIO(A) que susSUPERIOR DE CAGUAS cribe le notifica a usted que CARMEN MILAGROS 23 de enero de 2024, este HERNANDEZ MIRANDA el Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Demandante Vs Sentencia Parcial o Resolución JOHN DOE Y RICHARD en este caso, que ha sido debiROE (POSIBLES damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enTENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL terarse detalladamente de los de la misma. Esta noPAGARE EXTRAVIADO) términos tificación se publicará una sola Demandado(a) vez en un periódico de circulaCivil Núm.: CD2023CV00043. ción general en la Isla de PuerSobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAto Rico, dentro de los 10 días GARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFIsiguientes a su notificación. Y, CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR siendo o representando usted EDICTO. una parte en el procedimiento A: JOHN DOE Y/O sujeta a los términos de la SenRICHARD ROE. tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re(Nombre de las partes a las que se solución, de la cual puede estales notifica la sentencia por edicto) blecerse recurso de revisión o EL SECRETARIO(A) que susapelación dentro del término de cribe le notifica a usted que el 30 días contados a partir de la 21 de septiembre de 2023, este publicación por edicto de esta Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, notificación, dirijo a usted esta Sentencia Parcial o Resolución notificación que se considerará en este caso, que ha sido debihecha en la fecha de la publidamente registrada y archivada cación de este edicto. Copia de en autos donde podrá usted enesta notificación ha sido architerarse detalladamente de los vada en los autos de este caso, términos de la misma. Esta nocon fecha 23 de enero de 2024. tificación se publicará una sola En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 23 vez en un periódico de circulade enero de 2024. GRISELDA ción general en la Isla de PuerRODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SEto Rico, dentro de los 10 días CRETARIA. MYRNA D. VILLEsiguientes a su notificación. Y, GAS TRINIDAD, SECRETARIA siendo o representando usted AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la SenLEGAL NOTICE tencia, Sentencia Parcial o ReESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO solución, de la cual puede estaDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUblecerse recurso de revisión o NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA apelación dentro del término de SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ 30 días contados a partir de la ISLAND PORTFOLIO publicación por edicto de esta SERVICES, LLC. COMO notificación, dirijo a usted esta AGENTE GESTOR DE notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi- FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS cación de este edicto. Copia de FUND, LLC. esta notificación ha sido archiDemandante Vs. vada en los autos de este caso, NICOLE BEAUCHAMP con fecha 21 de septiembre NOGUERAS de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Demandado Rico, el 23 de enero de 2024.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV00090.

SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE Salón: 105. Sobre: COBRO ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SE- DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS CRETARIA AUXILIAR. UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL LEGAL NOTICE PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTAESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA RICO, SS. CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

EDWIN GREGORIO RODRIGUEZ LEON Demandante V.

MIGUEL ANGEL RODRIGUEZ LEON Y OTROS Demandado(a)

A: NICOLE BEAUCHAMP NOGUERAS URB. BELLAS LOMAS 416 CALLE JUANITA MAYAGÜEZ, P.R. 00956.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza por la deuda reclamada de $4,459.08 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 a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo.

Edwin Serrano Peña cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección edwin.serrano@ orflaw.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de noviembre de 2023. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 29 de noviembre de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. WANDA I. BRACERO CINTRÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

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, Edwin Serrano Peña cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección edwin. serrano@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CIALES, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de noviembre de 2023.

VIVIAN FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA I. MALDONADO VEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@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 29 de noviembre de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. IVELISSE M. MONCLOVA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@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 29 de noviembre de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. IVELISSE M. MONCLOVA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs.

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

El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Guayama, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que venderá en pública subasta en la Oficina de Alguaciles, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $103,657.76 de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 4.50% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago desde el primero de abril de 2014; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma de $10,867.50 estipulada para honorarios de abogado pactada en la escritura de hipoteca y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número seiscientos nueve (609) del Condominio Villa Beatriz, radicada en el Barrio Beatriz de la municipalidad de Cayey, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de ocho mil doscientos punto cuarenta y nueve (8200.49) pies cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte,

Parte Demandante Vs.

JOAQUIN RIVERA CASTRO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2023CV01065.

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: LUIS A RAMIREZ ALICEA - URB. CIUDAD CRISTIANA 412 AVE BOLIVIA, HUMACAO PR 00791; URB. CIUDAD CRISTIANA BOLIVIA Q-12, HUMACAO, PR 00791.

A: JOAQUIN POR LA PRESENTE se le RIVERA CASTRO emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de BO CANDELERO ABAJO CARR 3 KM 86.8, los treinta (30) días siguientes Parte Demandada a la publicación de este Edicto.

Civil Núm.: CI2023CV00190. HUMACAO PR 00791; HC Usted deberá presentar su aleSobre: COBRO DE DINERO. 12 BOX 12955, HUMACAO gación responsiva a través del EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICPR 00791-7424.

Sistema Unificado de Manejo y ROBERTO MORALES RIVERA

A: ROBERTO MORALES RIVERA - BO PESAS CARR 149 KM 22 MH8 INT, CIALES PR 00638.

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:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá

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FRANCISCO RAFAEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO CLAUDIO ZAYAS T/C/C DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA FRANCISCO R. CLAUDIO, SALA DE HUMACAO TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO ISLAND PORTFOLIO COMO FRANCISCO SERVICES, LLC CLAUDIO, Y TAMBIÉN COMO AGENTE DE LEGAL NOTICE CONOCIDO COMO FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FRANCISCO CLAUDIO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUFUND, LLC ZAYAS Y LEIDY TAIS NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Parte Demandante Vs. TORRES GONZALEZ SALA DE HUMACAO LUIS A RAMIREZ ALICEA Parte Demandada ISLAND PORTFOLIO Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: GCD2015SERVICES, LLC COMO Civil Núm.: HU2023CV00989. 0376. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE AGENTE DE ACE ONE Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OREMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- DINARIA Y COBRO DE DINEFUNDING, LLC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE RO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA.

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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:///www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni

Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico

con un área común; por el Sur, to del ejecutante continuarán con un área común; por el Este, subsistentes en entendiéndose con pared que lo separa del que el rematador los acepta y apartamento setecientos cuatro queda subrogado en la res(704). Apartamento ubicado en ponsabilidad de los mismos, la cuarta planta del edificio 6 del sin destinarse su extinción al Condominio Villa Beatriz con precio rematante. Todos los entrada principal mirando hacia nombres de los acreedores que el Este, el cual consiste de un tengan inscritos o anotados área de sala-comedor, cocina, sus derechos sobre los bienes balcón, tres habitaciones cada hipotecados con posterioridad una con ropero, un baño y un a la inscripción del crédito del “linen closet”. A este aparta- ejecutante, o de los acreedores mento le corresponde una par- de cargas o derechos reales ticipación de punto cincuenta y que los hubiesen pospuesto cinco por ciento (.55%) en los a la hipoteca ejecutada y las elementos comunes del Condo- personas interesadas en, o con minio. También tiene derecho derecho a exigir el cumplimiena dos espacios de estaciona- to de instrumentos negociables miento identificados con el mis- garantizados hipotecariamenmo número del apartamento. te con posterioridad al crédito Inscrita al sistema Karibe, finca ejecutado, siempre que surgen veinticinco mil cuatrocientos se- de la certificación registral, senta y dos (25462) de Cayey, para que puedan concurrir a Registro de Caguas I. Dirección la subasta si les convenga o Física: 609 Villa Beatriz, Cayey, satisfacer antes del remate el PR. 00736. La PRIMERA SU- importe del crédito, de sus inBASTA se llevará a cabo el día tereses, costas y honorarios 7 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS de abogados asegurados, que11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y servirá dando entonces subrogados de tipo mínimo para la misma la en los derechos del acreedor suma de $108,675.00 sin admi- ejecutante. La propiedad a ser tirse oferta inferior. En el caso ejecutada se adquirirá libre de de que el inmueble a ser subas- cargas y gravámenes postetado no fuera adjudicado en la riores. Y para conocimiento de primera subasta, se celebrará licitadores, del público en geneuna SEGUNDA SUBASTA el ral y para su publicación en un día 14 DE MARZO DE 2024, A periódico de circulación general LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y diaria en Puerto Rico y en los el precio mínimo para esta se- sitios públicos de acuerdo a las gunda subasta será el de dos disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 terceras partes del precio míni- de las de Procedimiento Civil, mo establecido para la primera así como para la publicación subasta, o a sea la suma de en un periódico de circulación $72,450.00. Si tampoco hubie- general diaria y en el Estado ra remate ni adjudicación en la Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, segunda subasta, se celebrará por espacio de dos semanas una TERCERA SUBASTA el con antelación a la fecha de la día 21 DE MARZO DE 2024, primera subasta y por lo menos A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, una vez por semana. Los autos y el tipo mínimo para esta ter- y todos los documentos correscera subasta será la mitad del pondientes al procedimiento precio establecido para la pri- indicado estarán de manifiesto mera subasta, o sea, la suma en la Secretaría del Tribunal de $54,337.50. El mejor postor durante las horas laborables. deberá pagar el importe de su (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. oferta en efecto, cheque certifi- 210-2015). Expedido el presencado o giro postal a nombre del te en Guayama, Puerto Rico, a Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se de- 9 de enero de 2024. ENID NAclarase desierta la tercera su- ZARIO CORREA, ALGUACIL basta, se dará por terminado el PLACA #407, ALGUACIL DEL procedimiento, pudiendo adju- TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSdicarse el inmueble al acreedor TANCIA, SALA DE GUAYAMA. hipotecario dentro de los diez LEGAL NOTICE días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo es- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO timase conveniente, por la tota- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUlidad de la cantidad adeudada NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA conforme a la sentencia, si ésta SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta BOSCO IX OVERSEAS, y abonándose dicho monto a LLC, BY FRANKLIN la cantidad adeudada si ésta CREDIT MANAGEMENT fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualCORPORATION AS quier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del SERVICER Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM Demandante Vs. sobre la propiedad inmueble JESSICA MARIE PRIETO por contribuciones adeudadas BURGOS; SUCESION y que el pago de dichas contriDANIEL GONZALEZ buciones es la responsabilidad VEGA COMPUESTA del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como POR YADIEL suficiente la titulación y que los GONZALEZ PRIETO, cargos y gravámenes anterioJOSE GONZALEZ res y los preferentes al crédi-

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radicando el original de la conpor la Junta de Planificación. del término que se le fijó, la he- Puerto Rico Telephone Com- piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de con posterioridad a la inscripFACSÍMIL: (787) 285-4425 PRIETO; JOHN DOE testación ante el Tribunal y sala Email: jrg@gonzalezmorales.com Enclava una estructura tipo hi- rencia se tendrá por aceptada. pany, de uno punto cincuenta Subastas de Centro Judicial ción del crédito del ejecutante, Y JANE DOE COMO Greenspoon Marder, LLP lera dedicada a vivienda consy dos (1.52) metros de ancho a de Ciales, Ciales, Puerto Rico. o los acreedores de cargas o abogados de la parte deman- que se menciona en el epígrafe POSIBLES HEREDEROS truida de hormigón armado, Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido todo lo largo de su colindancia El precio mínimo fijado para la derechos reales que los hu- dante, cuya dirección es la que de este edicto con copia a la R.U.A. 15,622 DESCONOCIDOS; sobre la cual existe una una Sur. Inscrita en la finca número PRIMERA SUBASTA es por la biesen pospuesto a la hipoteca deja indicada, con copia de su parte aquí demandante. Se le TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 servidumbre por signo aparen- 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD 12,582, al tomo móvil 279 de cantidad de $59,696.00. Que ejecutada y las personas inte- Contestación a la Demanda, apercibe que, de no contestar CENTRO DE te establecida por la corporaMorovis. Registro de la Propie- de ser necesaria la celebración resadas en, o con derecho a copia de la cual le es servida la demanda dentro del término FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 RECAUDACION DE ción vendedora en las paredes de Puerto Rico, Sección de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA exigir el cumplimiento de instru- en este caso, dentro de los aquí estipulado, se le anotará la Telephone: (954) 343 6273 INGRESOS MUNICIPALES que dividen dicha estructura Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com dad de Manatí. La propiedad ubica la misma se llevará a efecto el mentos negociables garantiza- TREINTA (30) días de haber rebeldía y se dictará sentencia

Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2023CV03117.

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

A: JESSICA MARIE PRIETO; JOSE GONZALEZ PRIETO; YADIEL GONZALEZ PRIETO, POR SI Y P/C JESSICA MARIE PRIETO BURGOS; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLE MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DANIEL GONZALEZ VEGA.

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

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. La Hipoteca objeto de la presente reclamación grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar radicado en el barrio Pastillo del término municipal de Ponce, marcado en el plano de inscripción con el número 26 del bloque “F” del Proyecto VBC130 con una cabida de 141.67 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 20.08 metros con el solar número 27 del bloque F; por el SUR, en 20.06 metros con el solar número 25 del bloque F; por el ESTE, en 7.06 metros con el solar número 29 del bloque F; y por el OESTE, en 7.06 metros con la calle número seis. Este solar está gravado por una servidumbre en su colindancia Este para aguas pluviales a favor de los vecinos colindantes de acuerdo con el plano de inscripción aprobado

de las estructuras enclavadas en el solar número 27 por la colindancia Norte y solar número 25 por la colindancia Sur (paredes medianeras) y cuyas paredes continuarán sirviendo a esta estructura y pertenecerán en común proindiviso en toda su extensión y espesor al propietario de esta edificación y a los propietarios de las edificaciones colindantes. “ Finca número 6322, inscrita al folio 103 del tomo 613 de Ponce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 39 del tomo 854 de Ponce Sur, finca número 6322, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II, inscripción 8a. Por concepto del referido préstamo hipotecario garantizado por la Hipoteca relacionada en la demanda, la parte demandada le adeuda a la parte demandante la suma principal de $19,049.73 más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 6 3/4% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de enero de 2023, hasta su completo pago.

La suma global vencida, líquida y exigible incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 31 de octubre de 2023 es de $20,114.41 y los cuales continúan acumulándose, más la suma estipulada de $4,000.00 para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial. El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Transcurridos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días.

El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia de del causante DANIEL GONZALEZ VEGA. Se les apercibe a los herederos JOSE GONZALEZ PRIETO; YADIEL GONZALEZ PRIETO, POR SI Y P/C JESSICA MARIE PRIETO BURGOS; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS, que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro

Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de enero de 2024. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria Regional. Mariely Félix Rivera, Sub-Secretaria.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

RAFAEL ACOSTA AGOSTO Y MERCEDES GERTRUDIS ROMÁN GRAU

Demandados Civil Núm.: CI2023CV00110.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Ciales, Ciales, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 10 de enero de 2024, 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: Parcela de terreno radicada en la Urbanización Palmas Del Sur, localizada en el Barrio Morovis Sur del término Municipal de Morovis, Puerto Rico y que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar: ciento trece (113). Área del solar: doscientos cincuenta y dos punto cero cero (252.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes: por el NORTE, en una alineación recta de doce punto cero cero (12.00) metros, con los solares número ciento tres (103) y ciento cuatro (104); por el SUR, en una alineación recta de doce punto cero cero (12.00) metros, con la calle número cuatro (4); por el ESTE, en una alineación recta de veintiuno punto cero cero (21.00) metros, con el solar número ciento catorce (114); y por el OESTE, en una alineación recta de veintiuno punto cero cero (21.00) metros, con el solar número ciento doce (112). Enclava una casa. Afecta a servidumbre a favor de la

en: Solar #113 Urb. Palmas del Sur, Morovis, Puerto Rico 00687. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: AL ASIENTO 2023-051132-MA01 DEL SISTEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 28 de abril de 2023, Demanda de fecha 27 de abril de 2023, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Arecibo, Sala de Ciales, en el Caso Civil número CI2023CV00110, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, versus Rafael Acosta Agosto y Mercedes Gertrudis Roman Grau, por la suma de $22,407.21 más intereses y otros gastos. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 15 de noviembre de 2023 y notificada en este caso, el 15 de noviembre de 2023, por la cantidad de $22,407.21 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 7.00% desde el 1ro de octubre de 2022; 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 $5,996.90 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 12 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto

día 19 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Ciales, Ciales, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $39,979.33, 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 26 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Ciales, Ciales, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $29,984.50, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados

dos hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado pueden concurrir a la subasta si les convienen o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Ciales, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de enero de 2024. Gerardo E. Reyes Meléndez, Alguacil Confidencial Placa #109, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Ciales.

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

ELENA MARÍA RAMOS GONZÁLEZ Demandante Vs.

POPULAR MORTGAGE, INC. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, JOHN DOE & JANE DOE

sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Debe saber que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 23 de enero de 2024.

Evelyn Félix Vázquez, Secretaria. Arsenia Martínez Sánchez, Sub-Secretaria.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN GERMÁN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESION DE ESPERANZA GALLOZA MARTINEZ COMPUESTA POR NORMA IRIS RODRIGUEZ GALLOZA. SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SECRETARIO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados Civil Número: HU2024CV00014.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. Demandado ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS Civil Núm.: SG2023CV00734.

EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMA: JOHN DOE Y PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. JANE DOE Y TODAS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉLAS PERSONAS RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS DESCONOCIDAS, COMO ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO POSIBLES POSEEDORES LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

O CON INTERÉS EN EL PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO QUE ADELANTE SE DESCRIBE.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: GONZÁLEZ & MORALES LAW OFFICES, LLC PO BOX 10242 HUMACAO, PR 00792 TELÉFONO: (787) 852-4422

A: SUCESION DE ESPERANZA GALLOZA MARTINEZ COMPUESTA POR NORMA IRIS RODRIGUEZ GALLOZA.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto,

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

Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), le ordena que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando la herencia de la Sucesión de Esperanza Galloza Martinez. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. La parte demandante ha radicado una acción de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca por deuda vencida y la misma está garantizada sobre la siguiente propiedad Urb. La Nueva Salamanca calle Córdova #74, San Germán, PR 00683 y descrita de la siguiente manera: “URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero dieciséis (16) del bloque “F” del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización La Nueva Salamanca, situada en el barrio Retiro del municipio de San Germán, con una cabida superficial de 393.847 metros cuadrados; en lindes al Norte, en 21.834 metros y medio arco de 2.749 metros que suman 24.583 metros, con la calle uno’ al Sur, en 25.173 metros, con el solar 15; al Este, en dos distancias, una de 11.50 metros y otra en medio arco de 2.749 metros que suman 14.249 metros, con la calle cuatro y al Oeste, en 16.269 metros, con el solar uno y el solar dos. Enclava una estructura dedicada a vivienda construida de hormigón armado y bloques de hormigón. Finca #10769 inscrita al folio 275 del tomo 341 de San Germán. Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. El abogado de la parte demandante es: LCDA. MARICELI PEREZ GONZÁLEZ, 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, VIG Tower, Suite 706, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907, Tel. (787) 977-2132, Fax (787) 722-1932.

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 25 de enero de 2024. Lcda. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretario General Regional. Betsy Santiago González, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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Pieces of Jackie Robinson statue are found burning in Kansas park

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arts of a life-size bronze statue that celebrated the legacy of legendary baseball player and civil rights figure Jackie Robinson were found dismantled and burned early Tuesday after it had been stolen from a Kansas park last week, authorities said.

Remnants of the statue were found after a city worker reported a fire in a trash can at Garvey Park in Wichita around 8:38 a.m., Andrew Ford, a police spokesperson, said in a statement.

The Wichita Fire Department responded and, “while assessing the damage, they found pieces of the Jackie Robinson statue that had been stolen.”

The Fire Department immediately notified police, who collected the pieces at the scene, he said, noting that “unfortunately, the statue is beyond repair.”

Police are continuing to investigate, Ford said, and they have “already interviewed over 100 people.” The department is also looking into how the statue was dismantled and how the pieces ended up at the location of the fire. Ford had previously said the motive for the theft of the monument was not known.

Additionally, the Fire Department’s arson investigators are looking into the trash can fire, he said. In a statement posted on Facebook, the department said that “additional parts of the statue have not been recovered at this time.”

The statue had an estimated value of

A photo provided by the Wichita Police Department shows a bronze statue of Jackie Robinson with a Brooklyn Dodgers cap and jersey. (Wichita Police Department via The New York Times) $75,000, according to League 42, the nonprofit Little League that had it installed in April 2021 at McAdams Park.

The incident has caused an outrage in the community, Bob Lutz, the executive director of League 42, which takes its name for the number Robinson wore, said during an interview Tuesday.

“People want to see justice served,” he said. “Nobody can understand why this would happen.”

Robinson, the first Black player in Major

League Baseball, became a symbol of hope for racial equality in the country when he broke the color barrier in baseball in 1947.

After he retired from baseball, he continued working on civil rights issues and went on to break barriers in advertising, broadcasting and business.

There are still many questions in the community as to who could have been behind the statue’s destruction. Lutz said Garvey Park is “on the other side of town,” roughly a 7-mile drive from the park where the statue

had been.

Police obtained surveillance footage of the theft from Thursday morning. The video shows at least two people cutting down the statue and placing it in the bed of a truck that had been discreetly parked near the statue, Ford said. At the time, he declined to specify what tools had been used to cut the statue.

The nonprofit group can now turn its attention to replacing the statue, Lutz said, a lengthy process that will take six months. He added that the group’s members are “looking forward to, in the very near future, the apprehension of the folks who did it.”

League 42 will be able to replace the statue because “we do have the mold” created to represent Robinson, Lutz said, and a GoFundMe account has been set up by the organization to help cover the costs of getting a new one made.

Practice for the organization’s hundreds of players is set to begin March 11, and the season will officially kick off April 15, which happens to be Jackie Robinson Day. “I’m so fired up to get our kids on the baseball field, and that’s always the case,” Lutz said. “We played seven years without a Jackie statue, but his spirit was always with us, and we may miss the physical presence of that statue, but we’ll be inspired to know that it will be replaced.”

He continued on to say that the message of Robinson “has never rung louder or more true.”

Joel Embiid wants the African diaspora to flourish onscreen

By EMMANUEL MORGAN

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oel Embiid knew as early as his rookie season in the NBA that he eventually wanted to enter the media industry.

Seven years later, he is now at the pinnacle of the sport — the league’s reigning most valuable player, Embiid set a Philadelphia 76ers record last week by scoring 70 points in a game — and is ready to take on that new challenge.

Embiid, 29, who moved from Cameroon to the United States as a teenager, has created a production studio, Miniature Géant, that he hopes will amplify the culture of his home continent. The studio intends to profile athletes and entertainment figures of African descent, with an initial goal of

selling content to streaming services.

“We’re dabbling in a lot of different spaces, but the common denominator is Africa and the joys and the quest of African people and the African diaspora,” said Sarah Kazadi-Ndoye, who is the studio’s lead creative executive and was born in Congo.

Miniature Géant’s first documentary will explore themes of race and identity as it follows Memphis Depay, a Dutch soccer player who was born to a white mother from the Netherlands and a Ghanaian father. The studio is also having exploratory conversations with Cameroonian mixed martial arts fighter Francis Ngannou, a former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion. In addition to coverage of athletes, the studio hopes to also

explore the entertainment world.

Embiid is one of several athletes to enter the world of content creation. Basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo recently announced the start of a production company with ESPN analyst Jay Williams.

Retired NFL quarterbacks Tom Brady and Peyton Manning created similar organizations and have released projects with ESPN and Netflix.

But by focusing on a defined African niche, Embiid said he thinks Miniature Géant (French for “Giant”) will be distinctive.

Kazadi-Ndoye, a former producer for ESPN and CBS Sports who was hired in November, will help the studio generate ideas and filter pitches.

“I think a lot of people a lot of the time

just want to do stuff because that’s a way to make money,” Embiid said. “But I’ve always been passionate about storytelling.”

Nearly a year before announcing the creation of Miniature Géant in June, Embiid discussed his aspirations during a lunch with Maverick Carter, the longtime friend and business partner of LeBron James. In 2020, Carter and James founded SpringHill Co., which houses athlete podcasts and digital series and produced a new version of the movie “Space Jam.” The conversation became the impetus for Miniature Géant, SpringHill’s second incubated studio after a partnership with tennis star Naomi Osaka.

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“Very simply put, he’s the visionary and we have to help him execute,” Carter said. “Joel is dead set on telling the stories that matter to him and we want that to be the case.”

Mahen Bonetti, the founder of the African Film Festival in New York, said there was not a shortage of African stories being produced, citing the robust Nigerian filmmaking business known as Nollywood as one example. But Embiid’s status as a global celebrity, she said, could help elevate them to an even broader audience.

“What someone like him can do is to help facilitate growth of the filmmaking industry on the continent by investing in meaningful stories that represent Africa and uplift the spirit of the people there,” Bonetti said.

Miniature Géant’s first project will follow Depay, the second-leading scorer in Dutch national team history, as he trains for and competes in the UEFA European Championship this summer. Depay said he had been searching for a business partner and quickly became comfortable with Embiid’s studio.

“I’m showing a lot to the world, so it’s only right that somebody like him comes and is involved,” Depay said.

Embiid and Kazadi-Ndoye also hope to develop a project about Ngannou, who was raised in poverty in Cameroon. Since departing the UFC last year amid a high-profile contract dispute, Ngannou has signed with the Professional Fighters League, a rival mixed martial arts promotion, and become a prizefighting boxer.

“I think his story is so inspiring and it has to be told the right way,” Embiid said. “Obviously being from the same country, you want to be a part of what he’s been able to accomplish.”

Joel Embiid, the Philadelphia 76ers center, drives to the basket as the 76ers hosted the New York Knicks, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Dec. 2, 2017. (Mark Makela/The New York Times)

Former NHL player faces sexual assault charges in Canada

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The allegation of a sexual assault was reported to the police in 2018, when the players were members of Canada’s national junior team, and it has created an enormous firestorm over the years, even in a sport with a long history of similar accusations.

It led to a clean sweep of the board and leadership of Hockey Canada, the sport’s national governing body, provoked an exodus of sponsors, cut off government funding for the sport, spurred a parliamentary inquiry and prompted scathing rebukes from the public and from political figures, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

As members of the national junior team, the accused players won the 2018 world junior championships. Their high profile intensified the public reaction to the assault allegations. The junior championships are a TV-watching ritual in Canada that is second only to the Stanley Cup playoffs in television audience among annual sporting events.

The woman who has brought the accusation reported being sexually assaulted in June 2018, after a Hockey Canada fundraising gala in London, Ontario. The police force in the city initially looked into the allegation in 2018 but dropped that investigation in 2019 without filing any charges.

The uproar faded until May 2022, when TSN, a sports television network, reported that Hockey Canada paid 3.5

million Canadian dollars ($2.6 million) to settle a lawsuit from the woman, identified in court records as “E.M.” She said in the April 2022 lawsuit that the episode took place after she was introduced to the men at a bar and that she was sexually assaulted by eight team members for several hours after the 2018 gala. It is unclear if any of the other accused team members will face criminal prosecution.

The public outrage was further inflamed after The Globe and Mail reported in July 2022 that the settlement’s cash came from a fund generated from hockey registration fees, including those for children.

The fund, Hockey Canada acknowledged, had been used to pay another CA$7.6 million ($5.65 million) to settle nine sexual assault and sexual abuse claims since 1989. Additional allegations of sexual assault involving a 2003 national junior team surfaced in 2022.

The London police restarted their investigation in 2022, after the report of the lawsuit settlement.

Hockey Canada and the NHL also each conducted investigations but have yet to release their findings.

In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Pascale St-Onge, who was the federal minister of sport in 2022, said that “Canadians were disgusted and shocked to see this story and others like it. It’s gratifying to see this process move forward.”

She added: “We all look forward to justice being done. Victims must be heard.”

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HOROSCOPE 30 Aries

(Mar 21-April 20)

Your extremely overpowering emotions are apt to scare people off today, Aries, especially when it comes to matters involving intimate relationships.

Unless your desired result is to convince everyone around you that you’re completely insane, it may be best for you to back off. Let someone else take the lead today and you may be quite pleasantly surprised at where you and this special person end up.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

While long-term trends in your life may not be going exactly the way you want them to, Taurus, you certainly have plenty of short-term pleasures to enjoy, especially today. Feel free to indulge in things that you might normally say no to. There is a great opportunity now to form an extremely powerful bond with someone close to you. Find this connection by immersing yourself in the things that you love to do the most.

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

You may be anxious to fit things in your life into pigeonholes, Gemini. When it comes to matters of love and romance, this may be hard to do, especially on a day like today. Call upon your pioneering spirit to seek something new and not limit yourself to what you originally had in mind. Perhaps there is something bigger and better waiting for you. You’ll only find it if you dare to accept something outside the norm.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

You may feel like going back to being a student in junior high, Cancer, just going through puberty and joining the other kids in animated discussions about who likes whom and who’s going out with whom.

Follow your whim with phone calls to close friends who’d be happy to share in your childlike nature.

Wear something red today in order to serve as a reminder of the radiance of your loving heart.

Leo

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Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Romance is in the air, Libra, and all of a sudden you notice that all around you couples are walking handin-hand, exchanging longing gazes. This could get you thinking about your own situation. If you want to make a move toward someone in the department of love and romance, feel free to go ahead, but don’t get too hung up on positive results. If you get your hopes up too high, you might end up falling hard.

Just take it easy.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

our upbeat and active nature is exactly what turns people on to you, Scorpio. Attention is apt to turn in your direction today when social acquaintances realize what an incredibly capable person you are. Focus on your strengths and accentuate these points in everything you do. The people around you will find you irresistible. You have a solid green light when it comes to love and romance tonight.

Sagittarius

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Capricorn

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our upbeat and active nature is exactly what turns people on to you, Scorpio. Attention is apt to turn in your direction today when social acquaintances realize what an incredibly capable person you are.

Focus on your strengths and accentuate these points in everything you do. The people around you will find you irresistible. You have a solid green light when it comes to love and romance tonight.

Your heart is apt to beat much more rapidly than usual, Capricorn. Love is in the air, the trees, and the people around you. Whatever you do today, make sure that you spend the evening with someone special. Love is apt to be very expansive for you. Just the smallest seed will blossom into a gorgeous flower right before your eyes. Experience the full-body sensation of being immersed in love with the world around you.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Be careful about getting caught up with people who are careless or fickle, Leo, especially when it comes to matters of the heart. Your tender emotions are too sensitive to endure the thoughtlessness, bluntness, and ultimately the rejection of someone who simply wasn’t a good person for you to hang around with in the first place. Try not to invest yourself emotionally in situations or people today.

More than likely there was at least one time in your life in which you felt like the ugly ducking, Aquarius. Perhaps this had something to do with your weight. Whether this feeling of insecurity or selfconsciousness was self-imposed or not, it’s time to rid yourself of such thoughts and feelings. Today is a day to love every bit of yourself. Have pride in your body inside and out.

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Your luck has just turned with regard to issues of love and romance, and wow! Has it turned for the better, Virgo! You should be sitting on cloud nine today when it comes to matters of the heart. If, for some reason, you aren’t, perhaps you should consider who is sitting next to you on that cloud. Maybe it’s time for a change. This is your day to be happy.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Duels of love and romance are apt to come to a critical climax, Pisces, and you’ll find that the person who is challenging you has quite a bit of gunpowder at his or her disposal. Your best assets are your abilities to communicate and to see both sides of an issue. The key is to not get too emotionally involved, although that’s much easier said than done.

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For Better or for Worse

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