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PDP lawmakers file ethics complaint against governor alleging ‘message of high political content’

By THE STAR STAFF

Agroup of Popular Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers filed an ethics complaint Tuesday against Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia for using public resources to enhance his political image.

The majority party legislators in the House of Representatives said the video message had no public goal, was of a “political” nature and used public resources.

Rep. Jesús Manuel Ortiz González said the Jan. 9 message was submitted to the Government Ethics Office, the Office of the Electoral Comptroller and the Comptroller’s Office.

“We want this message of high political content and lacking in public interest to be investigated,” said Ortiz González, an aspiring gubernatorial candidate under the PDP banner. “There has been a use of public assets for a political message.”

According to the politician, the message “was sent from La Fortaleza thanks to the work of public employees, and uses public infrastructure and goods.”

In addition, he said, “the distribution was made through official email accounts of public employees.”

“The messages were not sent to personal emails,” the lawmaker said.

Ortiz González added that “public employees’ emails were used to distribute political messages during working hours, including emails from the State Elections Commission.”

“They were received in thousands of emails from public servants in Puerto Rico,” he charged.

“The video message was distributed days after Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón let her followers see that she could be challenging the governor [in the 2024 general elections],” Ortiz González continued. “In response, the governor offered this message released by La Fortaleza, which lacks a public purpose and justification.”

The opposition lawmaker charged that the governor “is devoting efforts, including using public assets, to win the internal primary.”

“It is a message without information, obviously of a political nature and a response to González Colón,” he said.

The governor gives two messages in a year that are an “obligation,” Ortiz González said: the State of the Commonwealth message and the budget message, “and neither were sent in emails from public employees during working hours.”

PDP Reps. Ramón Luis Cruz Burgos, Sol Higgins and

José Rivera Madera also attended the press conference. Pierluisi said the complaint “is a political ploy” without justification.

“Well, I don’t have the details, but that appears to be an exercise in politicking,” he told the press Tuesday. “From the information that comes to me, they are complaining about a report that I gave to the people regarding everything we are doing, initiatives in progress, and likewise my vision regarding the immediate future.”

Rep. Jesús Manuel Ortiz González

Conference report on paternity leave bill passes Senate

By THE STAR STAFF

Astep closer to paternity leave in the private sector and surrogacy in both the public and private sectors was taken with the approval of the conference report on Senate Bill (SB) 155 on the Senate floor Tuesday.

SB 155, authored by independent Sen. José “Chaco” Vargas Vidot, seeks to provide maternity leave to 12 weeks in the private sector, since, at present, only the public sector has that period.

Surrogacy leave would also be recognized in both the public and private sectors.

As for paternity benefits, the legislation contemplates adding a new article to Law 180-1998, known as “Puerto Rico Minimum Salary, Vacation and Sick Leave Law,” in order to create paternity leave in the private sphere of up to eight weeks

Currently, the law recognizes paternity

leave, of 15 working days, only for public employees.

Through the legislation, paternity leave for both public and private employees is made uniform in terms of weeks of duration.

“This advanced bill aims, among other things, to break with macho paradigms that have settled in Puerto Rico and that have spread to the detriment of women, and even Puerto Rican men,” the senator said. “We have to move toward a present of equity starting with the breaking of roles in parenting.”

The measure was filed on Feb. 1, 2021 and was already approved by both bodies previously. However, it was the subject of a conference committee where the House of Representatives and the Senate agreed on final language for approval.

The measure now awaits the endorsement of the full House and then will be passed on to the Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia for evaluation.

Agency deponents find vague language in bill to create paid leave for menstruation

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

During a public hearing of the House Committee on Human Rights and Labor Affairs, chaired by Sen. Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, various government agencies expressed reservations regarding Senate Bill

1052, which seeks to create paid leave for menstruating women from the workplace for three days.

“Today we were receiving presentations from some state agencies that have to do with budget or with the same rights of people who work, also from civil society organizations,” Rivera Lassén said. “We are opening an im-

portant path in the discussion as public policy of the issue of menstruation and how it affects the rights of women and menstruating people in Puerto Rico, and the idea is to be able to continue to embrace and recognize rights and that it is not mere discrimination when facing situations that are natural to their body.”

In her turn, labor advocate Nahiomy Álamo said that “although the Explanatory Memorandum talks about dysmenorrhea and conditions related to menstruation, the operative text of the bill at no time indicates that the time that women and menstruating people may use should be to attend to pain or ailments related to menstruation or health conditions that aggravate its effects.”

Álamo, who was deposing on behalf of the island Department of Labor and Human Resources, also said that as the bill is written, leave can be used every month for the fact of being a woman regardless of whether you are menstruating.

“It is a special treatment for these people over the rest of the workers since they will have three days with monthly pay that do not have to be justified,” she said. “The bill also does not require that they be used consecutively, so they could be used at the

discretion of the beneficiary at any time of the month and in a fragmented manner.”

In response to questions from Rivera Lassén, the labor advocate said the leave request must be justified.

“If you’re going to be paid three days a month [while not reporting to work] you must have a reason,” Álamo said. “The current text does not indicate this. The current wording is extremely general. It may [risk] unconstitutionality. It should be clear that this menstrual leave is due to menstruation. It is not clear from the text of the measure.” In the same vein, Diocelyn Rivera, who was deposing on behalf of the Office of Human Resources Administration and Transformation (OATRH by its Spanish initials) expressed reservations about the measure as drafted.

“The OATRH considers that granting in the first place paid leave of three days per month to employees and menstruating people in the public service, without studies on the impact … is not a reasonable path or [one that is] adjusted to our present work environment.” Upon hearing this, Rivera Lassén said she is “surprised that both depositions land in the same assessment of unconstitutionality.”

Sen. José Vargas Vidot

From left, Diocelyn Rivera and Naihomy Álamo

DDEC, UPR-Mayagüez launch call for innovative business ideas

By THE STAR STAFF

The Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC by its Spanish acronym) announced Tuesday a call for innovative business ideas under Puerto Rico Innova.

The initiative, coordinated under the DDEC Trade and Export Program, seeks to promote the development of innovation applied to business projects with high potential for expansion. The new edition will be led by the DDEC in conjunction with the Mayagüez Campus (RUM) of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR).

“Puerto Rico is innovative, but in order to compete with the rest of the world, it is necessary to apply this capacity by thinking outside the box in the business field,” DDEC Secretary Manuel Cidre Miranda said of Puerto Rico Innova, which in its past three editions produced more than 200 business ideas. “With this objective in mind, and together with the UPR of Mayagüez, we launch this call to continue training those people who have an innovative business idea so that they give themselves the opportunity to validate it.”

RUM Chancellor Agustín Rullán Toro noted that “the Mayagüez Campus has a solid ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship that has been strengthened for decades, thanks to the work of our Center for Business and Economic Development (CNDE), attached to the College of Business Administration.”

“From the Center, in collaboration with various institutional initiatives, multiple business and training projects have been forged for members of our community in the western region and the rest of the island,” he said. “This collaborative agreement

with the DDEC, through the PR Innova program, consolidates this feat and allows the training pathway to continue for more entrepreneurs, through the CNDE platforms and its resources with experience in promoting business, innovation and technology, so that it results in the economic development of Puerto Rico.”

In the first phase of the project, 100 entrepreneurs will be selected for the business training program, which will be offered in person in Ponce and Mayagüez, where participants will de-

velop the necessary skills to increase the chances of success for their business. Companies will have the opportunity to analyze and develop their idea, product or service, and study the target market and its consumers, as well as write their business plan and identify possible sales and distribution channels. They will also receive guidance on promotion, publicity, permits and legal aspects, as well as financing and commercial viability. The training will start from the first week of March and will be free of charge.

In the second phase of the program, a selection process will begin through a panel that will choose the best 30 projects that have completed their business plan. Those entrepreneurs will have access to specialized and individual strategic advice and will have a specialist mentor who will assist them in the technical areas of business development.

The finalists who qualify will be able to participate in a “Demo Day” in which they will have the opportunity to present their business ideas to potential investors. Demo Day winners will receive seed capital for the development of their business idea. First place will receive $20,000, second place $15,000, and third place $10,000.

Interested parties must complete a participation form and go through a selection process in which the best business proposals will be chosen. Those proposals will be evaluated under the criteria of feasibility, commercialization, and technical and financial capacity.

The call will be available until Feb. 24 and can be accessed through the page www.refuerzoeconomico.ddec.pr.gov

More information can be acquired by sending an email to: programaprinnova@ddec.pr.gov.

Senator requests talks on proposed new tax rates

By THE STAR STAFF

New Progressive Party Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera asked Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés Alicea on Tuesday for a meeting to discuss the proposal presented Feb. 6 for a series of reductions in the tax structure for individuals and corporations.

“We urgently need a direct discussion about the studies that are being conducted in order to analyze in depth the proposals (tax reductions) and the impact they will have on our economic model in the short, medium and long term, as well as the plans that the Treasury Department has for future adjustments in the tax structure,” Riquelme said in a written statement. “It is for these reasons that we are requesting a meeting, as soon as possible, to establish parameters for early evaluation of the proposals, with details and projections associated with their impact on the economy.”

Since reductions in several tax rates were announced at the beginning of February, the senator has been evaluating them, including the proposal to reduce the bureaucracy associated with the filing of financial data through various digital platforms in multiple government agencies; how-

ever, in the absence of a draft bill, the concrete analysis could not start, Riquelme said..

“Any reduction in the tax burden on our people and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is necessary, particularly at this time when the inflation rate for Puerto Rico in 2022 was placed at 6.1 percent, the highest in four decades,” the at-large senator noted. “That said, we wish to continue with the analysis of these and other proposals contained in the presentation you made earlier this month. Given the reality that they have not yet been reflected in a draft bill, then a meeting is recommended.”

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, along with Parés Alicea announced reductions in several tax rates, among which stand out a reduction in the maximum tax rate for individuals from 33% to 30%; maintaining the discounts of 5% and 3% established in Law 257-2018 and Law 40-2020, respectively, for all taxpayers with incomes up to $100,000; and the elimination of the collection requirements to grant the $400 credit to “seniors.”

Changes to the combined structure for corporations were also discussed. A marginal rate of 37.5% is currently established, which consists of a fixed normal contribution rate of 18.5% and a marginal additional contribution

rate of up to 19%. That would be reduced, as proposed, by a rate of 17% for businesses with net income up to $275,000. For businesses with revenues from $275,001 to $3 million, a rate of 27% is proposed.

Economic Development and Commerce Secretary Manuel Cidre Miranda

Licensing burdens for some occupations remain high in Puerto Rico, report says

By THE STAR STAFF

Licensing burdens for certain occupations in Puerto Rico remain high when compared to other states, hindering the island’s competitiveness and work opportunities, according to a recent report by the Institute for Justice (IJ), “License to Work: A National Study of the Burdens of Occupational Licensing.”

The report provides an updated snapshot of licensing’s breadth and burdens for 102 lower-income occupations across all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. It also presents an overview of major changes in licensing requirements for the 102 occupations that have been tracked since the 2017 edition.

Occupational licenses are permits issued by a government or regulatory entity for a person to work in a certain field. These licenses typically require the applicant to meet several education and experience requirements, as well as pass exams and pay fees. These demands are considered a burden for lower-income individuals, since the combination of effort, time and cost can be a barrier against working in a trade or profession, the report said.

Despite widespread acknowledgment of this reality, the study shows that licensing burdens remain high and pervasive. In Puerto Rico, there are 129 occupational licenses (not counting licenses for sports occupations), of which 49 were part of the sample examined in License to Work. The burden for those 49 licenses was 144 days of required education and experience, at least one exam, and $228 in fees, on average. That does not include burdens from required schooling, according to the report.

The burden for some 49 licenses in Puerto Rico examined in the License to Work report was 144 days of required education and experience, at least one exam, and $228 in fees, on average.

Five years after the second edition, and 10 years after the first, the third edition of License to Work finds that licensing continues to be widespread, burdensome, and -- frequently -irrational; but it also found what the IJ sees as some good news: Since 2017, states have eliminated more licenses than they created, and nearly 20% of licenses became less burdensome. Still, there remains much room, and need, for improvement, the IJ noted, and License to Work also provides a roadmap for meaningful reform.

“Reductions in licensing and licensing burdens from the past five years show reform is possible -- but much more remains to be done,” said IJ Senior Director of Strategic Research Lisa Knepper. “Decades of research has found licensing imposes substantial costs on workers, consumers, and the economy at large, often with little public benefit. Yet we found that for lower-income Americans, licensing remains both burdensome and widespread, and often simply doesn’t make sense.”

FEMA warns against grant scam on Facebook

By THE STAR STAFF

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently became aware of a Facebook page fraudulently using the FEMA brand, claiming that the agency is offering grants for $1,500, the agency reported earlier this week. This is not true.

FEMA advises survivors to avoid sharing personal or financial information online, or following links that promise offers for FEMA disaster assistance.

FEMA would never request anyone to respond to a post to receive money, the agency said.

If you suspect fraud, call the FEMA Disaster Fraud Hotline at 1-866-720-5721.

“Occupational licenses are thought to be necessary to protect consumers from unsafe or substandard services; but the evidence indicates that these licenses do not accomplish this, since they are only based on meeting certain requirements and not on demonstrating the person’s competence,” said Ángel Carrión Tavárez, director of research and policy at the Puerto Rico Institute for Economic Liberty. “Instead, many end up limiting opportunities to find work or open a business.”

Among the occupational licenses in Puerto Rico whose education requirements are well above the minimum requirements in the United States, the following stand out: manicurists: 1,000 hours vs. 12 hours in Alaska; skin care specialists: 1,000 hours vs. 220 hours in Florida; electrical helpers: 500 hours vs. 0 hours in the only three states that have this license; and pharmacy technicians: an associate degree and a 1,000-hour supervised internship, requirements that exceed those of all other jurisdictions.

“In Puerto Rico there are cases of occupational requirements that do not correspond to the risk; for example, almost eight months of preparation for cosmetology are required, including shampooers and makeup artists; while three months are required for an emergency medical technician to care for people in lifeor-death situations,” CarriónTavárez said in a statement. “This leads us to question whether licenses are really designed to protect health and safety or guarantee the quality of a service.”

The most direct way to free workers and entrepreneurs from licensing red tape, according to the IJ, is to repeal licenses that are not needed and reduce barriers that are too steep. Lawmakers should also exempt services that are perfectly safe and prevent new licenses from getting on the books. The report’s state-by-state results and online “Compare states” feature are resources available to lawmakers and others interested in reforming occupational licenses in Puerto Rico.

The inclusion of the island in License to Work was the result of a study carried out by the University of Puerto Rico and the collaboration of the Institute for Economic Liberty, IJ, and Knee Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation at West Virginia University.

“The results of this study and the License to Work report demonstrate that there is room to improve occupational license legislation in Puerto Rico, for the benefit of society in general,” Carrión Tavárez said.

Tip led to suspect in Michigan State shooting; victims were all students

By SOPHIA LADA, SAM EASTER, JULIE BOSMAN and JACEY FORTIN

Authorities on Tuesday identified two victims of a gunman who killed three Michigan State University students and badly wounded five others late Monday, in shootings that set off a three-hour police search and forced scared students to hide in dormitories and classrooms on one of America’s largest college campuses.

The suspected gunman, who lived in nearby Lansing and had no apparent connection to the university, was found off campus after a tip from what the university’s police chief described as “an alert citizen,” just 17 minutes after authorities released photos of the suspect. The suspected gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

A threatening note found in his pocket led school officials in a New Jersey community hundreds of miles away to cancel classes Tuesday. And students, faculty members and neighbors in Michigan remained shaken after the shooting, which prompted an email from the university urging people on campus to “Run. Hide. Fight.”

Here are the details:

— The victims who were killed were shot in an aca-

demic building and in the nearby student union. Officials identified two of them as Brian Fraser, a sophomore from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and Alexandria Verner, a junior from Clawson, Michigan. They withheld the identity of the third person who was killed at the request of the victim’s family.

— Chris Rozman, the interim deputy chief of the university’s Police Department, identified the suspected gunman as Anthony McRae, 43. “We have no idea why he came to campus,” Rozman said.

— A note found in the suspect’s pocket “indicated a threat to two Ewing public schools,” the police department in Ewing Township, New Jersey, said in a statement, adding that McRae had ties to Ewing but had not lived there for several years.

— The five students who were wounded in Michigan were in critical condition Tuesday and were being treated at a nearby hospital, officials said.

— Teresa Woodruff, interim president of Michigan State, said classes at the university would be canceled until Monday morning, and other operations were on a modified schedule.

— Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat who represents the district that includes Michigan State, noted at a news conference that it has been a little over a year since a mass shooting at a high school in Oxford, Michigan, that killed four people, and that some graduates of Oxford High were now attending Michigan State. “We have children in Michigan who are living through their second school shooting in under a year and a half,” she said.

Flying objects could turn out to be harmless, US says

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and KAROUN DEMIRJIAN

Atop White House official said Tuesday that three unidentified flying objects shot down in the past several days might turn out to be harmless commercial or research efforts that posed no real threat to the United States.

John Kirby, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, said investigators had not yet found any evidence that the three objects were connected to China’s program of balloon surveillance similar to the balloon shot down off South Carolina’s coast this month.

But he cautioned that officials had not yet been able to find and collect the debris from the three objects after they were shot down and that a different conclusion could be reached if the debris was found and analyzed.

Kirby said that military and intelligence officials had also found nothing to suggest that the three objects were part of an intelligence collection effort by another country.

“We haven’t seen any indication or anything that points specifically to the idea that

these three objects were part of the PRC’s spying program or that they were definitively involved in external intelligence collection efforts,” he told reporters, referring to the People’s Republic of China.

Over the course of a wild weekend, U.S. fighter aircraft shot down three unidentified flying objects from Friday to Sunday: the first over Prudhoe Bay, Alaska; the second over the Yukon Territory of Canada; and the third over Lake Huron. The third object landed on the Canadian side of Lake Huron, officials said.

Pentagon officials also acknowledged Tuesday that the first missile fired by a U.S. fighter jet over Lake Huron on Sunday missed the target.

Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters in Brussels that the missile that missed its target is now at the bottom of Lake Huron.

“First shot missed. Second shot hit,” Milley said. “We go to great lengths to make sure that the airspace is clear and the backdrop is clear up to the max effective range of the missile. And in this case, the missiles land, or the missile landed, harmlessly in the water of

Lake Huron.”

Recovery units are trying to retrieve the unidentified objects so intelligence officials can determine what they are. Recovery efforts are also underway for the debris left after an F-22 shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, and officials said Monday that crews had recovered “significant debris” from the craft that included “priority sensor and electronics pieces.”

Kirby’s comments came as senior Pentagon and intelligence community officials, including Gen. Glen VanHerck, the head of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, visited the Capitol on Tuesday to deliver a similar message to the full Senate. The briefing was the latest effort by the administration to update lawmakers on the series of strange floating objects shot down in recent days.

ut the admission that the administration had more questions than answers about three of the objects prompted a fresh wave of frustration among lawmakers, who criticized not only the slow recovery effort but also the administration’s lack of clarity about what was floating overhead in the first place.

“Everyone’s talking, acting like this is the first time we’ve ever seen these things,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. “No, it isn’t.” Rubio, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, also questioned whether the craft should have been brought down.

He said that recovering the debris alone would not provide a full picture of what is happening in the skies above the United States.

“The only way you’re going to get answers to that is not just to retrieve whatever is leftover, but to understand how it compares to the hundreds of other similar cases,” Rubio said.

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, who chairs the committee, said the government’s tracking of airborne objects launched for legitimate purposes needs to be improved, adding that “there is not anywhere near as formal a process as there probably should be.”

Warner said the administration needs to be “much more aggressive” about ensuring “a much better notification process with the authorities” to register legitimate scientific, weather and other craft so officials know which outliers are potentially cause for alarm.

Police barricades at Michigan State University, in East Lansing on Tuesday morning, Feb. 14, 2023, one day after a mass shooting.

Man in U-Haul mows down 8 people in New York ‘rampage,’ killing 1

By KAREN ZRAICK, MARIA CRAMER and HURUBIE MEKO

Aman driving a U-Haul truck cut a violent swath across Brooklyn on Monday morning, careening through Bay Ridge and Sunset Park, over sidewalks and into bicycles, killing one person before police finally caught up with the driver.

The driver struck nine people in all, according to police, as horrified residents looked on.

The episode, described as a “rampage” by Keechant Sewell, the police commissioner, began in the late morning. The driver tore through the bustling neighborhoods, which are nestled in the southwest portion of the borough.

Police were investigating eight locations where people were hit and where the man in the truck was ultimately apprehended. Sidewalks were cordoned off by yellow police tape as people, alarmed and shaken, swapped stories of what they had heard and seen.

Police had not publicly named the driver by Monday afternoon. But three senior law enforcement officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said his name was Weng Sor.

Sor, who is in his early 60s, according to one of the officials, had encounters with police before the pandemic began, during which officers noted he appeared to be “emotionally disturbed.” Investigators believe he may have spent some of the past month living in the U-Haul truck.

The man was first stopped by officers around 10:50 a.m. Monday, after he had already hit at least one person with the truck, Sewell said.

He then fled in the truck and kept driving, hitting more people before being arrested several miles away on Columbia Street and Hamilton Avenue, near the entrance to the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel.

Seven men, ranging in ages from 30 to 66, and one police officer were hospitalized with injuries, authorities said. One of the men, who was 44, died from his injuries, according to police. Three of the people struck were on bikes. The officer was in stable condition with an injured leg, police said. Police did not identify the man who died, pending notification of his relatives.

Sewell said there was no indication that terrorism was involved. She declined to speculate

on a possible motive.

Officers found clothing, bags, pieces of cardboard, strewn water bottles and empty Styrofoam coffee cups inside the truck, one of the officials said.

The truck was legally rented in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Feb. 1, a spokesperson for U-Haul said. The rental, which was paid for in advance, was for a 30-day period; the truck was supposed to be returned in Florida on March 3.

Police officers went in and out of the home of Sor’s ex-wife, which is within walking distance of many of the collisions, on Monday afternoon. At one point, a woman and young man left with officers, ducking down to avoid television cameras as they hurried into a police car.

Sor’s son, Stephen Sor, told The Associated Press in an interview outside the home that he rarely spoke to his father, who had been living in Las Vegas and who he said had a history of mental illness and going off his medication.

“I try to just distance, as long as he leaves us alone,” the son said.

Weng Sor had an extensive record in criminal court in Clark County, Nevada.

In October 2015, he was charged with battery with substantial bodily harm and pleaded guilty a month later, according to records. About a year later, while he was on probation, he was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation and was directed to Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services for treatment.

During that time, Sor was charged again with attempted battery with substantial bodily harm, according to court records. In July 2017, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one to three years in prison in Nevada.

After his release, in November 2020, he was charged with conspiracy to commit battery for striking a person and was held in jail as his case wound through the courts. He pleaded guilty in September 2021 and served two more months in jail before he was released.

Justin Brannan, a City Council member who represents Bay Ridge, said in a phone interview that on Monday morning his office began getting calls about someone “driving violently through the neighborhood” like a “maniac.”

In an interview with NY1, he added: “This driver knew what he was doing, knew that he was hitting people.”

One of the collisions occurred where Bay Ridge Parkway — a thoroughfare known as Doctors’ Row — meets Fifth Avenue, a busy intersection with a bike lane and bus routes, dotted with many banks and businesses.

Staff members at a Coldwell Banker real estate office on that corner said they had heard

a commotion that sounded like a truck dragging something, perhaps a muffler. But when they ran out of the building, they saw a man who appeared to be in his 30s lying in the eastbound lanes of the parkway. Police said late Monday that the victim in that collision had died.

Amanda Perez, 39, an employee of the real estate agency, called 911 and a volunteer ambulance service several times but couldn’t get through.

“I was shocked,” she said. “It was a horror to see him in that condition and think someone can flee the scene. It’s devastating.”

Martín Taveras, 62, owns Latin Comm, a shop that sells cellphone accessories and helps send money and packages to Latin America, near the corner of 54th Street and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park. A recently installed bike lane runs between the sidewalk and a row of parked cars.

On Monday morning, Taveras said he saw the man drive the truck into the bike lane, seeming to aim at a cyclist. The truck ran over the man with its front and back wheels before returning to the traffic lanes, around parked cars, he said. The driver then doubled back toward the bike lane, heading toward another cyclist who was able to escape, before accelerating and heading north on Fourth Avenue.

“It was horrible to see this,” Taveras said. “It was a criminal act. I saw his face, it looked like a demon’s face.”

On Monday afternoon, police officers were reviewing security footage from Leader Halal Market, at Fifth Avenue and Senator Street in Bay Ridge, that captured one of the collisions.

Amira Hegab, 40, had arrived at work at the market at 10 a.m. and said she heard a commotion about a half-hour later. When Hegab rushed

outside, she saw a young man who seemed badly injured on the street. He was quickly taken away by an ambulance.

“I feel so sorry for him,” she said. “It’s madness.”

A few blocks away, on 72nd Street and Third Avenue, Lilia Gomez, 34, was sitting inside a McDonald’s drinking coffee with a friend when they saw the truck barreling down the street. They rushed outside and saw a man trapped underneath an e-bike, conscious but unable to move.

Police said the man, 32, had injuries to his head and torso, and a 33-year-old police officer sustained leg injuries a the same location. A 66-year-old man was also hit a block south and suffered neck and knee injuries. All three were taken to a local hospital in stable condition.

Parts of the bike were strewn all over the street.

Gomez said she saw emergency workers helping to free the man on the e-bike and place him in an ambulance. She described Bay Ridge as a quiet neighborhood of immigrants, many of them Arab.

“It’s a very peaceful place,” Gomez said. “I think I’m going to get my kids from school, because I am a little scared by what happened. You don’t see this in Bay Ridge.”

On the same block, Abdul Algumaei was about to step outside the smoke shop where he worked when he saw the driver crash into the man on the bike. Then, he said, the driver tore down the sidewalk in front of his store, followed by police officers who also drove their car on the sidewalk.

Algumaei, 26, who avoided the vehicles, said he was “shaking.”

“I’m always sitting out there in my chair,” he said.

Police examine a U-Haul rental truck after the driver was arrested in New York, Feb. 13, 2023.

GOP legislative agenda hits snags amid party divisions

By CATIE EDMONDSON and ANNIE KARNI

Abill targeting progressive prosecutors whom Republicans have long considered too lenient is facing a wall of opposition from libertarian-leaning members of Congress.

Hard-right lawmakers have effectively blocked legislation that would require law enforcement officials running background checks on firearm purchasers to report if a prospective buyer is in the United States illegally.

And House Republicans’ marquee bill to crack down on immigration at the border with Mexico has been derailed by a faction within the party, including some more mainstream GOP members, who regard it as overly restrictive, fearing it would effectively end asylum in the United States.

Six weeks into their majority, Republican leaders have found themselves paralyzed on some of the biggest issues they promised to address as they pressed to win control of the House last year, amid internal policy disputes that have made it difficult to unify their tiny yet ideologically diverse majority.

They have had to pull back even on some measures that were supposed to be easy to pass, messaging bills once described as “ready-to-go legislation” intended to articulate House Republicans’ values and force politically vulnerable Democrats to take tough votes. It is an early indication of the unwieldy nature of the House Republican conference and a mark of how challenging it will be to reach consensus among themselves on far more consequential legislation that lies ahead, such as raising the debt ceiling and funding the government.

“When we deal with immigration,” Speaker Kevin McCarthy said, in a sentiment that could have applied to a variety of topics, “a lot of members have a lot of different positions.”

House Republicans have succeeded in recent weeks in winning party-line passage of a number of messaging bills that are essentially dead on arrival in the Democratic-controlled Senate, including legislation to repeal vaccine mandates and declare the pandemic over; a bill that could subject some doctors who perform abortions to criminal penalties; and measures curbing President Joe Biden’s ability to tap the nation’s petroleum reserves.

A bill authorizing the creation of a select committee on the Chinese Communist Party received an overwhelming bipartisan vote. Republicans also won Democratic votes

on a bill declaring an end to the coronavirus pandemic and others that aim to overturn a rewrite of the District of Columbia’s centuryold criminal code.

Republican leaders have trumpeted those votes and noted with pride that they have allowed votes on amendments to legislation offered by any lawmaker, reversing a practice that rank-and-file Democrats and Republicans alike had groused shut them out of the legislative process.

“Let’s just judge the few weeks we’ve had now to the last Congress,” McCarthy said. “This is the first time in seven years any bill has come to the floor on an open rule.”

Yet behind the scenes, even bringing up legislation once described by Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the majority leader, as “ready to go” has been fraught, with hand-wringing by right-wing lawmakers on some measures and concerns by mainstream conservatives on others. The House adjourned Thursday for a two-week recess.

Some Republicans from politically competitive districts argue that, in making an array of concessions to the hard right in his quest to become speaker, McCarthy has put forth an extreme-right legislative agenda that will alienate crucial voting groups, including independent voters.

“We’re doing everything we can right now to lose the majority in two years,” said Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, a libertarianleaning Republican from a competitive district. “It is independent, swing, purple districts that got us the majority — barely got us the majority. We nominated candidates that couldn’t win general elections; we floundered on the post-Roe era.”

She said she wanted the chance to “show what kind of legislation is possible with more independent-minded leadership.”

A well of opposition to the border bill, led by Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas, emerged from lawmakers from diffuse corners of the conference, including Floridians who worried about the implications for the Cuban diaspora, members of the New York delegation and members of the center-right Main Street Caucus, who argued that the three-page bill would essentially end asylum — a charge that the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, has denied.

McCarthy, who had planned to put the measure to a vote last month, was forced to delay action after concluding that, with all Democrats opposed, he would not be able to

muster a Republican majority to push it through.

“It’s going back to committee,” Gonzales said tartly, “where it belongs.”

It was the first instance of mainstream rank-and-file Republicans, who steadfastly backed McCarthy during his protracted fight for speaker even as he agreed to major concessions to the right, flexing their muscles in the new majority.

“We have nearly 80 people in Main Street,” said Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb. “In a four-vote majority, we should have some muscles on that.”

Bacon said that in a meeting with McCarthy’s chief of staff, he had appealed to the speaker not to bring up the border bill without substantial changes.

“I got a commitment, and that was what I needed to hear,” he said. “I was able to speak up and say this is BS. I think the border bill will get improved.”

Some of the dissent has sprung from lingering resentment from McCarthy’s struggle to become speaker and the confidential deal he struck with the hard right to win. Some center-right Republicans believed McCarthy had secretly promised right-wing members that he would fast-track votes both on the border bill and on a separate tax measure that would abolish the IRS and replace the federal income tax with a 30% sales tax.

An aide in McCarthy’s office said that was never the case and both were always supposed to be considered by committees, where they

can be amended, before reaching the floor.

Republican leaders did, however, scrap a scheduled vote on a bill by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York, that would require prosecutors to report statistics, including the number of cases they declined to prosecute for certain crimes. The measure was supposed to be part of a tough-on-crime message Republicans are pushing, as they criticize the Biden administration and Democrats for being too lenient at a time of rising crime.

But the same ultraconservative members who resisted voting to elect McCarthy speaker for a week last month objected to the bill, arguing that the legislation was an overreach by Congress that violated states’ rights. Other lawmakers argued that the reporting requirements would be too onerous for local prosecutors already struggling with staffing issues.

Even a long-promised vote popular with the Republican base — kicking Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., off the Foreign Affairs Committee — became complicated. Just as a handful of Republican lawmakers publicly expressed misgivings with the resolution, citing concerns about due process, another small group was unable to make it to Washington to vote, including Rep. Greg Steube of Florida, who was seriously injured after falling off a ladder at his home.

That left Republican leaders pushing off bringing the resolution to the House floor as McCarthy personally sought to turn around the defectors.

It ultimately passed.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks during a press conference at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 24, 2023. Republicans have pulled back on legislation to crack down on unauthorized immigrants and support law enforcement as internal disputes conspire with a tiny majority to freeze them in place.

Nikki Haley is running for president, the first GOP rival to take on Trump

By TRIP GABRIEL

Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, entered the race for president on Tuesday, a well-hinted-at move that is likely to leave her as the lone major Republican challenger to former President Donald Trump for many weeks, if not months, as other potential 2024 rivals bide their time.

By announcing her campaign early, Haley, 51, who called for “generational change” in her party, seized an opportunity for a head start on fundraising and to command a closer look from Republican primary voters, whose support she needs if she is to rise from low single digits in early polls of the GOP field.

She made the announcement in a video that does not mention Trump’s name, but makes clear her intention to break with the Trump era. In addition to calling for a new generation to step up, she urged Republicans to rally around substantive issues and a candidate with appeal to mainstream America.

“Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections,” she said. “That has to change.”

Haley’s campaign has drawn encouragement from many polls showing that in a hypothetical multicandidate field, Trump wins less than 50% of Republican voters. Her entry into the race underscores how the former president has failed to scare off rivals in his third presidential campaign, announced in November after a disappointing midterm election for Republicans

Her announcement reversed a statement in 2021 that she would not run if Trump were a candidate. She was a rare figure to leave the Trump administration while earning praise from Trump rather than a parting insult. Trump recently said that when Haley informed him she was considering a run, he told her, “You should do it.’’

That the former president has so far not coined an insulting nickname or otherwise attacked Haley is a sign, perhaps, that he does not perceive her as a major threat. Strategica-

lly, it is to Trump’s advantage to have multiple candidates splitting the votes of Republicans opposed to him.

Since leaving the Trump administration in 2018, Haley has walked a fine line with the former president, praising his policies and accomplishments in office while offering criticism that appeals to Republican moderates. The day after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, she said his actions “will be judged harshly by history.”

“He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him,” she told Politico days later.

But she opposed Trump’s impeachment for his actions surrounding the riot. “At some point, I mean, give the man a break,” she said on Fox News in late January 2021.

In interviews last month, Haley swiped at the advanced age of both Trump, 76, and President Joe Biden, 80.

“I don’t think you need to be 80 years old to go be a leader in D.C.,” she told Fox News.

To advance into the top tier of Republi-

can presidential hopefuls, Haley’s campaign is banking on her skills as a retail campaigner in early nominating states. She is traveling to New Hampshire after a rally planned in South Carolina on Wednesday, for two town hallstyle events, and she plans to be in Iowa next week.

Haley was largely a bystander as cultural battles enveloped Republican primary races in 2022 and as Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Trump’s leading potential rival, has increasingly leaned into such issues to stoke support from the GOP base.

But now she is jumping into the cultural fray, using her 3-minute, 33-second announcement video to criticize those who say “our founding principles are bad” — text that was laid over images of Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez, D-N.Y., and the “1619 Project,” an interpretation of U.S. history, created by The New York Times, that focuses on the consequences of slavery.

Haley, who is best known on the national stage for pursuing Trump’s foreign policy agenda for two years at the U.N., is seeking to broaden her following through such cultural

appeals, denouncing Democrats as pushing “socialism” in government and “wokeism” in schools. At the same time, she highlights her biography as the daughter of immigrants who rose to be South Carolina’s first female governor, and first nonwhite governor, as a rebuke of liberal arguments that America harbors systemic racism.

“I was the proud daughter of Indian immigrants, not Black, not white,” Haley, who was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, says in the announcement video.

Other Republicans exploring presidential campaigns include DeSantis; former Vice President Mike Pence; and Mike Pompeo, a former secretary of state and CIA director under Trump. Govs. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire and Glenn Youngkin of Virginia are also thought to be eyeing a run, along with former Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland.

In early polls, which are partly a reflection of name recognition, Haley has been in the low single digits. She was the choice of 1% of Republican voters in a Monmouth University poll this month that showed Trump and DeSantis tied at 33%, with all other potential rivals at 2% or less. One out of four Republicans was undecided.

During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, in which Haley first backed Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, she got into a highprofile spat with Trump after calling for him to release his tax returns. Trump, on Twitter, called her an embarrassment to South Carolina. “Bless your heart,” Haley tweeted back at him.

But Haley went on to endorse Trump when he became the nominee, and he named her as his U.N. ambassador in 2017. She vowed to take on foreign adversaries in her announcement video, describing China and Russia as “on the march.”

“They all think we can be bullied, kicked around,” Haley says in the video. “You should know this about me: I don’t put up with bullies. And when you kick back, it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels.”

Former Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina campaigns in Las Vegas on Sept. 29, 2022, for Joe Lombardo, who later won the governor’s race in Nevada.

Disney toasts a century as business and political challenges mount

last two animated movies, “Strange World” and “Lightyear,” badly underperformed. In November, Disney fired its CEO and brought Robert Iger out of retirement to retake the reins.

Disney has also become a political piñata among conservative pundits, partly because it has added openly gay, lesbian and queer characters to its animated movies. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who has attacked the company as “woke Disney,” on Friday gained control of the board that oversees development at Walt Disney World, a move that strips Disney of autonomy it has enjoyed for 56 years.

The upshot: For Disney, a little brand polish (or a lot) cannot come soon enough.

“It’s a unique opportunity for Disney to remind people about the breadth and depth of what it does, while reinforcing emotional connections to its characters and products,” said John Wentworth, an adjunct professor of entertainment marketing at Emerson College. “This all seems especially important right now.”

del for Cinderella’s castle at Disney World and the “Feed the Birds” snow globe from “Mary Poppins” (1964), which Cline called “very, very dear to my heart.”

Marvel movies, the “Star Wars” franchise and Pixar hits are also incorporated, along with nods to Disney divisions like National Geographic and ABC. “We want to make sure that everybody has the opportunity to enjoy the entire exhibition, not just their era,” Cline said, noting that the show is organized by theme (the importance of music to Disney’s content, sources of inspiration) and not chronologically.

Visitors enter through a dark tunnel and emerge in what Cline described as the “prologue room.” This is where a digital Walt Disney materializes to offer a greeting and provide a taste of his creative philosophies.

By BROOKS BARNES

Walt Disney has been dead for nearly 57 years. In the coming weeks, however, he will begin greeting museum visitors on two continents.

As part of its 100th anniversary marketing-palooza, the Walt Disney Co. used archival video and artificial intelligence tools to create a lifelike hologram of its founder — a full-size digital avatar that speaks in Walt Disney’s voice and appears as part of interactive exhibitions of Disney artwork, props and costumes that will tour the world until at least 2028.

“I get goose bumps every time I see it,” said Becky Cline, director of the Disney Archives.

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to buy tickets — and Disney, more than any time in recent memory, needs them to leave with a similar emotion: Ah, yes, the magical entertainment brand that marries nostalgia with how-didthey-do-that technical wizardry. Let’s go see a Disney movie, buy some Disney bedsheets and book a vacation at a Disney theme park.

For decades, the public has been saying exactly that. But in a twist that would have seemed far-fetched just a couple of years ago, Disney’s centenary celebration arrives at a moment when the company’s formidable standing in the culture has started to show a few cracks.

Five years ago, when Cline started to think about the “Disney100” museum shows, Disney was hitting new heights at the box office and basking in its $71.3 billion purchase of 21st Century Fox assets. Now, Disney is cutting $5.5 billion in costs and eliminating 7,000 jobs as it scrambles to contend with losses in streaming, the eroding profitability of traditional TV and debt from the pandemic and Fox acquisition.

Disney remains a box office superpower — “Avatar: The Way of Water” has collected $2.2 billion worldwide — but its

Disney began to celebrate its 100th birthday in September at D23 Expo, a fan convention in Anaheim, California. Bob Chapek, the company’s CEO at the time, paid homage to Walt and Roy Disney, the brothers who founded the company in 1923, and declared that “10 decades of creativity, innovation and determination” had resulted in “the most enduring and beloved name in entertainment.” Centennial merchandise — Minnie ears dipped in platinum, limited-edition pins, products showcasing Disney films from the 1930s and ’40s — went on sale.

The campaign kicked into high gear last month, when Disneyland draped itself in purple and platinum bunting and opened a new ride focused on Mickey and Minnie. On Sunday, Disney had a 90-second spot during the Super Bowl; the commercial highlighted the company’s history of “storytelling and innovation” and showed heartstring-tugging footage of children dressed as Disney princesses and playing with “Star Wars” lightsabers. It also incorporated Walt Disney’s voice, thanking artists, workers and fans. (A wave of Disney adoration immediately washed through Twitter, although some people pointed out the awkward timing, an ad arriving in near-lockstep with layoffs. A Disney spokesperson said the company used advertising credits owed by Fox to cover the commercial’s placement cost.)

There are two “Disney100” museum exhibitions. One version opens at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on Saturday and runs through Aug. 27. It will then go on tour to Chicago, Kansas City and other cities in North America. A second “Disney100” exhibition, identical in overall design, will open in Munich on April 18 and move to London in the fall before heading “elsewhere in the world,” Cline said.

Tickets at the Franklin Institute run from $25 to $45, depending on time of day, one’s age and whether visitors want to see the entire museum or just the Disney portion.

Each of the 15,000-square-foot exhibitions will have 250 items on display, with classic Disney as a focus. The tour in North America includes part of the prop storybook that opens “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937), a mo -

“Frankly, there are people in this world who don’t realize that Walt was a real person,” Cline said. “We want to make sure that everyone knows that our company was founded by real people — creative storytellers. Because that is so important to everything we do at Disney.”

Banners advertising the coming “Disney100” exhibition at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Jan. 9, 2023.

Stocks

Wall St steady as gains in growth stocks counter rate jitters

Wall Street’s main indexes edged higher on Tuesday, as gains in growth stocks such as Tesla and Nvidia outweighed worries that the Federal Reserve will likely stay on its rate-hike path this year after data pointed to still-elevated inflation.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq recovered after a weak open, boosted by 4% gains in Tesla Inc and Nvidia Corp. Ten of the 11 major S&P sectors rose, with consumer discretionary and technology leading the gains.

Stock index futures fell after data showed U.S. consumer prices accelerated in January as Americans continued to be burdened by higher costs for rental housing, suggesting that the Fed was far from pausing its interest rate increase campaign.

“I don’t think (this report) moves the needle for the Fed, and I suspect they’re taking a hard look at the data. Does it mean we are headed for at least two more rate hikes? Absolutely,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York.

“My guess is the year-over-year decline in topline and core (CPI) suggests another 25 basis point hike in March and another one in May.”

Markets have had an upbeat start to the year, driven by a renewed interest in growth stocks that were battered in 2022 as the Fed raised rates aggressively to bring steep prices under control.

The rally, however, stalled last week on signs of a tight labor market and hawkish commentary from Fed policymakers.

Money market traders have priced in at least two more 25 basis point rate hikes this year and see interest rates peaking at 5.2% by July.

The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury notes steadied near six-week highs after dipping earlier. [US/]

At 10:11 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 81.07 points, or 0.24%, at 34,327.00, the S&P 500 was up 21.36 points, or 0.52%, at 4,158.65, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 104.62 points, or 0.88%, at 11,996.41.

Coca-Cola Co slipped 0.4% despite a strong fullyear profit forecast.

Marriott International Inc edged up 0.8% after the hotel operator forecast first-quarter earnings above Wall Street estimates as it benefited from strong travel demand.

Palantir Technologies soared 9.9% after the data analytics firm forecast its first profitable year and said it had slowed hiring, cut stock-based payouts and reduced cloud computing investments in response to lower spending from recession-wary businesses.

Nearly 69% of more than half of the S&P 500 firms that have reported results have beaten profit expectations, as per Refinitiv on Friday. However, analysts expect

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Death toll from quake passes 40,000 in Turkey and Syria

By JASON HOROWITZ

More than a week after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, there were a few glimmers of hope on Tuesday after rescuers in Turkey defied the odds by digging eight survivors out of the rubble and Syria’s authoritarian president, Bashar Assad, agreed for the first time in a 12-year civil war to open up more border crossings from Turkey so aid could flow into affected areas controlled by groups that oppose his government.

The combined death toll for the two countries rose further on Tuesday to more than 40,000, along with the chaos, humanitarian challenges and finger pointing that have followed one of the deadliest disasters this century.

In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tried on Tuesday to reassure a country that was already suffering from economic hardship before the quake struck. “Nobody should have any doubt: This nation overcame many disasters,” he said at the headquarters of the country’s emergency management agency in Ankara. “We will overcome this one, too.”

Here are the latest developments:

— Death toll: The official death toll in Turkey stood at 35,418, Erdogan said on

Tuesday. Syria’s toll had climbed to more than 5,500, according to the United Nations’ humanitarian agency.

— Children: Millions of children are in need of urgent humanitarian support because of the earthquake, the United Nations Children’s Fund said. Although the total number of children in need is unclear,

UNICEF noted that 4.6 million children live in the 10 provinces of Turkey that were hit by the quake and that more than 2.5 million children are affected in Syria.

— The United Nations: The global body announced the launch of a $397 million humanitarian appeal for Syria covering a period of three months, and its sec-

retary-general, António Guterres, said that a similar appeal would be announced for Turkey. The organization has also released $50 million from its emergency funds for earthquake relief.

— Improbable rescues: Workers dug Muhammed Cafer Cetin, 18, from the rubble of a building 198 hours after the devastating quake, according to the Turkish State broadcaster TRT, making it the third improbable rescue of the morning. The conditions of the eight survivors, all of whom were taken to a hospital, were unknown.

— Criticism in Turkey: Critics of Erdogan, who is seeking to defend his response to the disaster, drew attention to videos showing him having earlier hailed some of the housing projects that crumbled in the quake and buried thousands of people. The Turkish authorities also arrested more contractors, including one connected to a collapsed 16-story building in the city of Adana, where at least 70 people died.

— More aid reaches Syria: A Saudi relief plane carrying 35 tons of food and other aid arrived at Aleppo International Airport in Syria on Tuesday, in a part of the divided country controlled by the government. Dozens of aid groups working in Syria urgently called for an increase in international support.

US arrests three Americans in the assassination of Haiti’s president

By MARIA ABI-HABIB and NATALIE KITROEFF

Federal agents Tuesday arrested the owners of a South Florida security company with ties to the assassination of Haiti’s former president, according to one of their lawyers, the latest step in an investigation that has implicated several U.S. citizens.

The suspects, Antonio Intriago, a Venezuelan American businessperson, and Arcángel Pretel Ortiz, a Colombian American citizen, were detained in South Florida and were expected to appear in court later Tuesday, a lawyer for Intriago said.

Their company, CTU Security, based in Doral, Florida, recruited some 20 former Colombian soldiers who helped storm the home of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse the night of his assassination in July 2021. Law-

yers for Intriago previously admitted that CTU recruited the men.

“I can confirm that Intriago was arrested this morning and has been in Miami for the course of the investigation,” said Joseph Tesmond, Intriago’s lawyer. “He intends to enter a not guilty plea at his bond hearing this afternoon.”

Tesmond also confirmed the arrests of Pretel and a third suspect: Walter Veintemilla, a U.S. citizen and financier living in Florida, who lent $172,000 to CTU Security to finance their operations in Haiti, according to Haitian authorities.

On July 7, 2021, assailants entered Moïse’s home outside Port-au-Prince and shot him 12 times, leaving him dead and wounding his wife. The murder accelerated Haiti’s spiral into unchecked violence, as gangs stepped in to fill the power vacuum and now control most of Port-au-Prince, the

nation’s capital.

While about two dozen suspects have been arrested in Haiti and Miami, authorities in both countries have struggled to identify the plot’s masterminds. There were no immediate details on the charges against the three men arrested Tuesday.

Intriago released a statement shortly after Moïse’s murder saying he was unaware of the plans to assassinate the former president. Initially, he said, the plan was to arrest Moïse and force him to step down, replacing him with a Haitian American pastor named Christian Emmanuel Sanon.

CTU Security recruited the Colombian mercenaries and looked for funding from Veintemilla to finance the operation to arrest Moïse. The firm hoped to provide security for infrastructure projects in Haiti that Sanon intended to undertake once he became president of the country.

But just a few weeks before the assassination, the plan changed, and Sanon was no longer seen as a viable candidate to lead the country. The plot morphed from a plan to arrest Moïse to assassinating him, according to the Justice Department.

The South Florida security firm is also accused in another plot to assassinate a political figure, President Luis Alberto Arce Catacora of Bolivia, about a year before Moïse’s murder.

Representatives from the security firm — including Pretel — traveled to Bolivia in October 2020 and allegedly plotted with the defense minister to assassinate Arce and prevent him from winning the election, according to the Bolivian government.

In the United States, the Justice Department has so far charged seven suspects in connection with Moïse’s assassination, including four last month.

Displaced earthquake survivors gather outside a tent in Erzin, Turkey, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023.

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Feeling abandoned by the world in a stricken corner of Syria

By RAJA ABDULRAHIM

For years, northwestern Syria has been home to millions of people displaced by war, so many that neighbor no longer knew neighbor. And so when an earthquake struck last week and homes were reduced to rubble, many couldn’t say with certainty who had been accounted for and who was still missing.

Now, with the painstaking search for survivors and victims mostly over and the death toll in Syria alone rising above 3,000, residents of one town, al-Atarib, are scouring the rubble for personal possessions. They speak bitterly of feeling abandoned by the world.

For days, they said, in the absence of international aid,

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they were sometimes forced to dig through rubble by hand, as survivors begged for help. Yazam Mousa, 17, said he had been returning to the collapsed four-story apartment building he used to live in every day since he and his family ran out after the quake hit Monday.

“At 5 a.m., after the earthquake, we pulled out everyone, people who were alive and people who were dead,” he said. “Those who died, may God rest their soul. And those who are injured, may God heal them.”

Many have been combing through the debris of what used to be their homes, looking for identity papers, property deeds, personal photos — anything they can possibly salvage to start piecing their shattered lives back together.

Rescue workers say that without more help from the outside world, there was little they could do.

“We felt helpless, just helpless,” said Ali Obeid, a 28-year-old member of the White Helmets, the group leading rescue efforts in this part of Syria. Nearby, protesters stood precariously on top of broken concrete and twisted metal, holding up signs denouncing the United Nations.

But getting aid to this stricken enclave of Syria is even harder than it is to get it to neighboring Turkey, where more than 31,000 people died in the quake.

For 12 years, Syria has been in a civil war that has carved the country up into different zones of control. The enclave where al-Atarib is located is held by opponents of Syria’s authoritarian president, Bashar Assad, making its situation still more complicated and reducing international aid to a trickle over the past week.

“We were racing against time and in the end, our work was mostly done by hand,” Obeid said. “We would arrive at a downed building, and the people inside were alive. We were able to talk to them, but we didn’t have the equipment available to get them out.”

In the first days after the earthquake, no outside help came at all.

Left to their own devices, residents banded together, they say, with neighbors pulling neighbors from the rubble, donating fuel and vehicles to the local rescue teams and turning mosques into donation centers.

The single border crossing that the United Nations needed to use to deliver aid to the opposition-held area was out of operation for the first two days after the earthquake because the roads leading to it were damaged, U.N. officials said. (On Monday, the United Nations announced that two more aid crossings from Turkey into northwest Syria would be opened.)

“All of them were absent during the catastrophe,” said Obeid of the White Helmets. “The United Nations and all the international aid groups” contributed to the population’s suffering because they did not help, he said.

The aid shortages have been compounded by the area’s mutual hostility with the Assad government in Damascus.

Assad has sought to control the flow of all relief to opposition-held lands and strictly limits what goes in. And the opposition forces that control the region refuse to accept aid that comes through the government side, which it blames for its long-standing humanitarian crisis.

Obeid, recalling the day of the earthquake, said he and other rescuers were driving through al-Atarib when they were flagged down by a man who ran to them in tears, saying that his family was trapped under the rubble. When Obeid saw the building, four floors pancaked together, he began to cry as well, he said, unsure whether the rescue team would be able to save them. But the operation was a success.

The White Helmets said early promises of assistance

from Western and Gulf nations did not materialize.

“We called in our loudest voices: All these areas needed rescue equipment,” said Muneer Mustafa, deputy chief of the White Helmets. He spoke from the rescue group’s operation room and pointing to a large sketch pad propped up on an easel on which they had written the names of towns affected and the number of rescue teams dispatched.

“We couldn’t get to 60% of those places,” he said.

On the third day after the quake, a 20-person medical and rescue team arrived from Egypt, but the aid workers had no tools or equipment with them. A four-person Spanish rescue team arrived on the fourth day — but also lacked gear.

“We needed equipment more than people,” Mustafa said. “We already had people.”

Across the border in Turkey, much more assistance in the form of foreign rescue teams, equipment and mobile kitchens has poured in.

But in northwestern Syria, where construction was less dense and the death toll lower, the United Nations sent in its first aid convoy only on Thursday. It had been planned before the earthquake and contained some shelter materials and cleaning supplies.

Muhammad al-Omar, spokesperson for the opposition government in the region, said the United Nations wanted to send aid convoys not through the border crossing with Turkey but from areas controlled by the Syrian government, a move that was unacceptable to them.

“The United Nations must know that there is a general popular rejection for any aid coming from the areas of the criminal regime,” Omar said in written response to questions.

“People here know the reason for their displacement and who caused the bombing of their homes and led to their cracking and the increase in earthquake victims, which is the Syrian regime.”

With the search-and-rescue phase ended, much of the work being done across northwestern Syria is about clearing the rubble, opening streets and helping people rebuild their lives.

But even in this new phase, residents still need the equipment they have been begging for since the early hours after the quake.

Although little aid has entered Syria from Turkey, more than 1,200 bodies of Syrian refugees killed in the quake there have been coming across the border over the past week. At the town cemetery in al-Atarib, a mass grave has been dug for both Syrians who died in Turkey and those still being found at home.

There are no headstones, just cinder blocks painted with last names, or sometimes just the name of the city the deceased had fled from. Entire families are buried together.

Tahir ibn Muhammad, 53, who lost a daughter and his mother in the earthquake, was standing in the doorway of a carpentry workshop across from what used to be his apartment building as a private removal company funded by Islamic Relief, a U.K.-based charity, was clearing the rubble.

Neighbors had helped them escape before their building collapsed, but minutes later, he said, he climbed back inside to grab the briefcase in which he keeps all the family’s important documents, including his children’s high school and college degrees.

He was less angry about the lack of foreign help — he didn’t expect much from the international community — than comforted by the local response.

“It is enough that this society was holding together,” he said. “That is more important than all the international aid.”

Ukraine steps up efforts to get civilians out of Bakhmut

By MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG

Ukrainian authorities are stepping up efforts to persuade the few thousand remaining civilians to leave Bakhmut in the face of a sustained Russian assault, a regional official said Tuesday, adding to signs that Kyiv may be preparing to retreat from a city it has defended fiercely for months.

The city, which had a prewar population of around 70,000, has steadily been emptying as the fighting has intensified. Fewer than 5,000 residents are still there, about 140 of them children, said Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the regional military administration.

In a further effort to reduce the number of civilians in the city, military authorities were permitting only people with special passes to return once they had left, Kyrylenko said in a national television broadcast. A day earlier, authorities barred aid workers from entering the city, saying it was too dangerous as Russian forces surrounded it on three sides.

“The military must focus on preparing defensive lines,” Kyrylenko said Tuesday.

Bakhmut has been the focus of a grinding Russian campaign along the roughly 140-mile eastern front. Should the city fall, it would mark Russia’s biggest battlefield victory in months and add to pressure on Ukraine’s Western allies to step up their support of Kyiv. Representatives of dozens of nations that have provided military

and financial aid were meeting Tuesday in Brussels, discussing Ukraine’s urgent needs for ammunition and requests for even more advanced equipment, including aircraft.

Ukraine said it was still holding on in Bakhmut, but officials have said that battles have grown more intense. There were 37 separate clashes around the city in the previous 24 hours, Col. Serhiy Cherevaty, an armed forces spokesperson, said on Ukrainian television.

Cherevaty said that part of the reason for the new rules on civilian access was to keep military operations secret.

Months of conflict, Russian artillery attacks and fierce fighting have shattered Bakhmut, cutting off power and water and making daily life virtually untenable for most civilians. Ukrainian authorities first ordered civilians to leave the surrounding Donetsk region this past summer, and many who remain are older people for whom health problems can make travel difficult.

Civilians can leave on their own, but aid groups, both domestic and international, have assisted, often at great personal risk.

Bakhmut has become an increasingly important prize for both sides, in part because of the number of troops that have been committed to the battle and the casualties that each side has sustained.

“The Russian occupiers are constantly changing their tactics,” according to an account of the battle for Bakhmut posted on Facebook on Monday by Ukraine’s 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade. “Sometimes they attack with small assault groups, sometimes dozens of mobilized are involved in the assault.”

Russian forces have made gains in recent weeks, cutting off some of Ukraine’s supply lines in a push to encircle the city.

Denis Pushilin, the head of the pro-Russian authority in Donetsk, said Tuesday that Russian forces were fighting in the village of Paraskoviivka on the northern outskirts of the city.

“There are no prospects that the enemy will surrender and leave positions without a fight,” he said on Russian television Tuesday.

John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesperson, said that Russia had made incremental gains around Bakhmut in the past two days, but he played down the military significance of the city.

“Even if Bakhmut were to fall, it would not have a strategic impact on the overall war,” he said. “I would go so far as to say it won’t even have necessarily a strategic impact on the fighting in that part of the country.”

Austin vows allies will get more ammunition to Ukraine ‘as quickly as possible’

By STEVEN ERLANGER

With Russia bearing down on a strategically important city in eastern Ukraine, NATO defense ministers promised continued military support to Kyiv, whose forces are expending ammunition faster than allies can produce it.

As Russia continues to make grinding gains — particularly around the fiercely contested eastern city of Bakhmut — and the war nears its anniversary, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Western nations were focusing on Kyiv’s “most pressing needs,” including tactical training that could reduce Ukraine’s dependence on artillery fire.

“They have used a lot of artillery ammunition,” he said after meeting with fellow NATO defense officials and the U.S.-led Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a larger group of nations that has pledged military and financial support to Kyiv. “We’re going to do everything we can working with

our international partners to ensure that we give them as much ammunition as quickly as possible.”

At the same time, Austin said, allies were working with Ukrainian soldiers to emphasize training on maneuvers and “shaping the battlefield,” which could help ease their consumption of ammunition.

“There’s a good chance that they’ll require less artillery munitions,” he said, “but that’s left to be seen.”

Ukrainian officials have said that they are in dire need of NATO-caliber artillery shells to work with allied-supplied heavy guns, as well as more Soviet-caliber ammunition for the T-72 tanks they already possess in large numbers.

Before the meeting, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that the war “is consuming an enormous amount of munitions and depleting allied stockpiles” and that allies would discuss how to expand production to support Ukraine and replenish their own arsenals.

“The current rate of Ukraine’s ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production,” he said. “This puts our defense industries under strain.”

While NATO countries try to ramp up manufacturing, waiting times to secure new large-caliber ammunition have grown from 12 months to 28 months, even if contracts are signed immediately, Stoltenberg said.

The Pentagon is already racing to increase production of artillery shells by 500% within two years, pushing conventional ammunition production to levels not seen since the Korean War.

Ukrainian and Russian troops are firing thousands of howitzer rounds at each other every day, U.S. officials say, along a front line more than 600 miles long in the east and south of the country.

Austin said that the dozens of Western nations taking part in a series of meetings Tuesday were making clear their continued backing of Ukraine’s defense.

Soldiers with the Ukrainian armed forces jump from a trench as their fellow soldiers fire a Howitzer at Russian positions, in the Donbas Region of eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023.

The relentless attack on trans people is an attack on all of us

the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year.

This is no accident. The attacks on transgender people and LGBTQ rights are of a piece with the attack on abortion and reproductive rights. It is a singular assault on the bodily autonomy of all Americans, meant to uphold and reinforce traditional hierarchies of sex and gender.

Politicians and those of us in the media alike tend to frame these conflicts as part of a “culture war,” which downplays their significance to our lives — not just as people living in the world, but as presumably equal citizens in a democracy.

Democracy, remember, is not just a set of rules and institutions, but a way of life. In the democratic ideal, we meet each other in the public sphere as political and social equals, imbued with dignity and entitled to the same rights and privileges.

generate, in his words, “poverty, ignorance and degradation.”

Although Douglass never wrote a systematic account of his vision of democracy, Bromell contends that we can extrapolate such an account from the totality of his writing and activism. “A democracy,” Douglass’ work suggests, “is a polity that prizes human dignity,” Bromell writes. “It comes into existence when a group of persons agrees to acknowledge each other’s dignity, both informally, through mutually respectful comportment, and formally, through the establishment of political rights.” All of our freedoms, in Bromell’s account of Douglass, “are means toward the end of maintaining a political community in which all persons collaboratively produce their dignity.”

By JAMELLE BOUIE

Over the past year, we have seen a sweeping and ferocious attack on the rights and dignity of transgender people across the country.

In states led by Republicans, conservative lawmakers have introduced or passed dozens of laws that would give religious exemptions for discrimination against transgender people, prohibit the use of bathrooms consistent with their gender identity and limit access to gender-affirming care.

In lashing out against LGBTQ people, lawmakers in at least eight states have even gone as far as to introduce bans on “drag” performance that are so broad as to threaten the ability of gender nonconforming people simply to exist in public.

Some of the most powerful Republicans in the country want to go even further. Donald Trump has promised to radically limit transgender rights if he is returned to the White House in 2024. In a special video address to supporters, he said he would push Congress to pass a national ban on genderaffirming care for transgender youth and restrict Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospitals and medical professionals providing that care.

He wants to target transgender adults as well. “I will sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age,” Trump said. “I will ask Congress to pass a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female, and they are assigned at birth.”

There is plenty to say about the reasoning and motivation for this attack — whether it comes from Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida or Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas — but the important thing to note, for now, is that it is a direct threat to the lives and livelihoods of transgender people. It’s the same for other LGBTQ Americans, who once again find themselves in the crosshairs of an aggressive movement of social conservatives who have become all the more emboldened in

I have referred to dignity twice now. That is intentional. Outside of certain select phrases (“the dignity of labor”), we don’t talk much about dignity in American politics, despite the fact that the demands of many different groups for dignity and respect in public life has been a driving force in American history since the beginning. To that point, one of the great theorists of dignity and democracy in the United States was none other than Frederick Douglass, whose experience in bondage gave him a lifelong preoccupation with the ways that dignity is either cultivated or denied.

“Douglass observed,” historian Nicholas Knowles Bromell writes in “The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass,” “that although dignity seems to be woven into human nature, it is also something one possesses to the degree that one is conscious of having it; and one’s own consciousness of having it depends in part on making others conscious of it. Others’ recognition of it then flows back and confirms one’s belief in having it, but conversely their refusal to recognize it has the opposite effect of weakening one’s confidence in one’s own dignity.”

It is easy to see how this relates to chattel slavery, a totalizing system in which enslaved Black Americans struggled to assert their dignity and self-respect in the face of a political, social and economic order that sought to rob them of both. But Douglass explored this idea in other contexts as well.

Writing after the Civil War on women’s suffrage, Douglass asked his readers to see the “plain” fact that “women themselves are divested of a large measure of their natural dignity by their exclusion from and participation in Government.” To “deny women her vote,” Douglass continued, “is to abridge her natural and social power, and to deprive her of a certain measure of respect.” A woman, he concluded, “loses in her own estimation by her enforced exclusion from the elective franchise just as slaves doubted their own fitness for freedom, from the fact of being looked down upon as fit only for slaves.”

Similarly, in her analysis of Douglass’ political thought — published in the volume “African-American Political Thought: A Collected History” — political theorist Sharon R. Krause shows how Douglass “clearly believed that slavery and prejudice can degrade an individual against his will” and

The denial of dignity to one segment of the political community, then, threatens the dignity of all. This was true for Douglass and his time — it inspired his support for women’s suffrage and his opposition to the Chinese Exclusion Act — and it is true for us and ours as well. To deny equal respect and dignity to any part of the citizenry is to place the entire country on the road to tiered citizenship and limited rights, to liberty for some and hierarchy for the rest.

Put plainly, the attack on the dignity of transgender Americans is an attack on the dignity of all Americans. And like the battles for abortion rights and bodily autonomy, the stakes of the fight for the rights and dignity of transgender people are high for all of us. There is no world in which their freedom is suppressed and yours is sustained.

POR EL STAR STAFF

SAN JUAN – La Cámara de Representantes, aprobó, en sesión ordinaria, una medida para investigar las prácticas utilizadas por los productores y distribuidores de películas de cine en la industria de los exhibidores de cines en Puerto Rico, y en especial para los cines comunitarios y pequeños; a los fines de apoyar y fomentar el desarrollo de nuevos comerciantes en dicha área.

La Resolución de la Cámara 540, de la autoría del representante Orlando Aponte Rosario, persigue la posibilidad de ayudar a los cines pequeños en el mercado puertorriqueño.

“Hace décadas hemos visto cómo los cines comunitarios, cines municipales y pequeños han venido desapareciendo del mapa. Esto pudiera ser producto de múltiples factores económicos, obstáculos en las leyes reguladoras, así como también los nuevos mercados en las nuevas plataformas digitales que transmiten películas. Por lo que con esta medida buscaremos esclarecer las necesidades apremiantes de los cines más pequeños en busca de sustentabilidad’’, indicó Aponte Rosario.

Por otro lado, se avaló la Resolución de la Cámara 545 del representante Ángel Matos García que efectuará un estudio sobre la llegada a Puerto Rico de plataformas extranjeras de apuestas deportivas con miras a revisar su alcance e

implementación en otros mercados americanos e identificar la posibilidad de recaudo de fondos públicos.

“La aprobación de legislación encaminada a fortalecer a los empresarios participantes en la industria ha provocado que un mayor sector de población se interese por operar en Puerto Rico. Esta modalidad de apuestas toma más relevancia ante los cambios que afrontamos a nivel mundial, por lo que debemos encaminar este estudio para asegurarnos que, de implementarse, pueda fomentar la creación de empleos, instalaciones comercia-

les, y el desarrollo económico de la Isla a través de nuevos fondos públicos’’, indicó Matos García.

De igual forma, se aprobó la Resolución de la Cámara 549, de la autoría del representante Héctor Ferrer Santiago, que ordena realizar una investigación sobre la flota de vehículos de motor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AAA), así como la cantidad de estos que están funcionales para dar servicios por región operacional; las condiciones en que se encuentran dichos vehículos y los contratos sobre mantenimiento mecánico existentes para dichas flotas.

La Oficina de la Procuradora de las Mujeres (OPM) anunció el lanzamiento de la campaña de Prevención de la Violencia

SAN JUAN – La Oficina de la Procuradora de las Mujeres (OPM) anunció el lanzamiento de la campaña de Prevención de la Violencia en el Noviazgo: #PonleFreno, según anunció la procuradora Vilmarie Rivera.

“El mensaje que nuestra Oficina quiere reiterar entre las mujeres adolescentes y adultas es que el control y la humillación no debe ser tolerada, ni normalizada dentro de una relación de pareja. El amor propio nos ayudará a entender e identificar los signos y alertas para salir a tiempo de lo que se puede convertir en un patrón de maltrato”, manifestó la procuradora.

La campaña será difundida a través de las redes sociales de la OPM a partir del miércoles, 15 de febrero de 2023.

“La violencia de género se manifiesta de mu-

chas maneras y tiene diferentes matices; puede estar presente en relaciones de convivencia de largo tiempo, en el noviazgo e incluso desde que dos personas comienzan a conocerse. Lo importante es que las mujeres, sobre todo nuestras adolescentes, puedan conocer las señales de la violencia en una relación, aprendan a identificarlas y busquen ayuda para salir del ciclo del maltrato, para que puedan proteger sus vidas y empoderarse”, expresó la procuradora.

“Queremos tener mayor alcance en nuestros esfuerzos a través de las redes sociales y que todas las mujeres de Puerto Rico sepan que no están solas, que existe ayuda confidencial y gratuita y que en la OPM estamos para apoyarlas”, añadió Rivera.

La OPM se puede conseguir en Facebook en: https://www.facebook.com/OPM. Mujer?mibextid=LQQJ4d, Instagram @procura-

doradelamujerpuertorico, Twitter: @opmpr De ser víctima de maltrato y necesitar ayuda, exhortamos a las mujeres a comunicarse a la línea de orientación 787-722-2977.

POR EL STAR STAFF

Cámara de Representantes aprueba medida para apoyar la industria del cine en Puerto Rico

Carlos Saura, a leading and enduring Spanish director, dies at 91

Delinquents,” about youths living on the edge in Madrid’s slums, in 1959.

Filmmakers under Franco, who came to power during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s and controlled the country until his death in 1975, had to be careful not to run afoul of censors. Saura became adept at alluding obliquely to Spanish history and the strains the country endured, as he did in his third feature film, “The Hunt” (1966), the story of two middle-aged men who go on what is supposed to be a relaxing rabbit hunt with a business tycoon and his nephew. Things take a brutal turn.

When the movie played in Manhattan in 1967, Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times, “The vivid manifestations of wholesale shooting of frightened rabbits as they scoot across the hills of an area that was a famous section of battlefield in the Civil War are unmistakable allusions to that conflict of friend-againstfriend and brother-against-brother that so thoroughly affected the politics and society of Spain.”

and bursting with life.”

Saura soon began to focus on cultural subjects, especially dance, whose beauty and excitement he had a knack for capturing on film. “Blood Wedding” (1981), “Carmen” (1983) and “El Amor Brujo” (1986) all featured flamenco dancer Antonio Gades. “Flamenco” (1995) was a music- and dance-filled documentary, as was “Flamenco Flamenco” (2010). “Tango” (1999) was a musical drama built around that dance genre.

“It’s no slight to the lovers seen in Carlos Saura’s thrilling ‘Tango’ to say that the kissing seen here is less torrid than the dancing,” Janet Maslin wrote in her review in the Times.

Marvin D’Lugo, a professor at Clark University and the author of “The Films of Carlos Saura: The Practice of Seeing” (1991), drew a connection between the director’s work during the Franco years and after them.

By NEIL GENZLINGER

Carlos Saura, a Spanish director who began making films during the regime of Francisco Franco and was still making them at his death, exploring Spanish identity through allegory-rich storytelling and, later, vividly capturing flamenco and other art forms, died Friday. He was 91.

The Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain said he died at his home but did not say where. The next day, the Goya Awards, Spain’s annual film awards, had planned to present him with the Honorary Goya Award in recognition of his “having shaped the history of modern Spanish cinema,” as the organization put it when announcing the award in October.

Instead, he received the statuette a few days before his death, the organization said. It called him “one of the fundamental filmmakers in the history of Spanish cinema.”

Saura was a photographer who began making short films in 1956 and released his first feature, “The

“‘The Hunt,’” he added, “is the toughest Spanish picture I have ever seen, and the most amazingly revealing.”

That kind of filmmaking sometimes got him in hot water with government censors. In 1971, his initial script for “Anna and the Wolves” was blocked by the Information Ministry. It told the story of a young governess who takes a job in a broken-down mansion inhabited by three brothers, each of whom pursues her.

“They represent for me the three monsters of Spain,” Saura told the Times in 1971, “perversions of religiosity, repressed sexuality and the authoritarian spirit.” Of having his script blocked, he said, “They have made dust of me.”

He eventually made the movie, however; it showed at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973. The movie starred Geraldine Chaplin, a daughter of Charlie Chaplin, who had appeared in several other Saura films and had a long romantic relationship with him. Her character meets a gruesome end.

“The ending, when she is raped, shot and tortured by her respective assailants, is an unmistakable indictment of Spain’s stifling social conventions,” film critic Alexander Walker wrote in The Evening Standard of London, “and a brave one to have made on the home ground.”

The year after Franco’s death, Saura won a special jury award at Cannes with another film that looked to the past, “Cría Cuervos,” about a girl (played by Ana Torrent, who went on to a long career) with a traumafilled childhood. (Chaplin played her as an adult.) Vincent Canby, writing in the Times, called the movie “funny and heartbreaking

“Saura’s great theme was the painful memories of the Civil War visited on contemporary Spaniards,” he said by email. “A photographer before he was a filmmaker, his particular genius, and what brought him to international acclaim early on, came from his unique ability to visually translate trauma onto the bodies of his characters. This is as much a cultural as a political narrative thread, and it guided him in the post-Franco years as he shaped the plots of his dance films around the images of bodies now creatively submitting to artistic design.”

Carlos Saura Atarés was born on Jan. 4, 1932, in Huesca, in northeastern Spain. His mother was a pianist, and his father worked in the Interior Ministry. After the Civil War he was separated from his parents for a time, living with his maternal grandmother, but the family eventually reunited in Madrid.

He studied engineering at the University of Madrid but was also having some success as a photographer, particularly with portraits of ballet and flamenco dancers, and in 1952 he switched to the recently created National Film School.

Saura’s most recent film, “Las Paredes Hablan,” a documentary about art, was released a week before his death.

His survivors include his wife, Eulàlia Ramón, and several children.

Saura made a sequel of sorts to “Anna and the Wolves” called “Mama Turns 100,” released in 1979. The contrast was notable: “Anna,” made during the Franco years, was a drama; “Mama,” looking in on some of the same characters, was more of a comic drama. It was nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film.

It was as close as he came to realizing one dream.

“I often think it would be fantastic, a magnificent experience, to make the same picture over and over, year after year,” he told LA Weekly in 1984, “to watch it evolve — to see things differ.”

Carlos Saura in 2017. He was adept at getting around government censors during the Franco dictatorship.

The San Juan Daily Star

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

By IRIS EDÉN SANTIAGO Special to The STAR

Attention fashion designers, fashionistas and fashion lovers. Telemundo Puerto Rico and San Juan Moda announced the return of Puerto Rico’s best and most reputable fashion reality show, “Revelación Moda.” The 13-week show is scheduled to begin in early March.

“Revelación Moda” provides emerging fashion designers on the island a unique opportunity to show the audience their talent while competing against each other week after week. They are required to develop and create their best designs in weekly challenges designed to test their craftsmanship, originality, creativity, time management and emotional skills. These challenges may include specialized themes, high-profile clients or unconventional looks, among others.

Designers will work the pieces of clothing at Carlota Alfaro’s atelier in San Juan. Alfaro, a returning mentor to the show, is Puerto Rico’s most respected and prolific fashion designer. The garments designed by the competitors will be presented and judged at a runway show each week. They are provided a limited amount of time to finish their designs. Each week a designer is eliminated, reducing the group to three, who will face each other in the final episode when they will be asked to create a complete fall winter collection. Among other prizes, the winner will

get access to a commercial space in a local mall to sell his or her fashion line. Winning garments could be featured in social networks and print media, displayed at local boutiques or sold at San Juan Moda’s online sites.

“This is the best thing to happen to the fashion industry. This show not only helps designers, but fashion models, make -

FASHION

up artists, stylists … everybody participates and everybody wins,” Alfaro said at the press conference. “I look forward to mentoring the designers, supporting them in every way I can and helping them with tips and recommendations. These days designers must be prepared, properly trained and focused. It’s a very competitive industry out there.”

The panel of judges includes knowledgeable and respected fashion critics and connoisseurs: fashion expert and socialite Annette Vaillant, lifestyles editor and content producer Julio Nuñez, fashion designer Eddie Guerrero and savvy influencer Miss Gala. Along with Alfaro, designers will be mentored by stylists Claudia Madrid and Michelle Rodríguez. The reality show will be hosted by television presenter and model Ivonne Orsini, and fashion designer and former “Revelación Moda” contestant Isaac Johan. The Designers Out of 86 applications, the San Juan Moda casting directors selected 13 participants from all over the island. The chosen designers are: Yamil Rivera Quiñones, Miguel Figueroa Bruno, Eileen Acevedo Vega, Luised Rodríguez Castro, Nannette Fontanés Menchaca, Jimmy Joseph Ruiz, Celibeth Ramos

González, Adriana María Arroyave Muñoz, Edmarie Leiliani

Díaz Ramos, Christian Reyes

Revelación Moda

Mitchell, William Murphy Guitard, Julio Alfredo Sánchez Estrada and Meily Fernández Cordero.

Hosts Ivonne Orsini and Isaac Johan

Photo by Giovan Cordero

Veo Veo Studio Fashion: Kriado and José Raúl

The hunt for the next big name in fashion begins

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO CIELO VIVIENDA LLC

Plaintiff, V. ÁNGEL ALFONSO RAMOS HERNÁNDEZ AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE OCASIO HENRÍQUEZ, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THEM

Defendants

Civil No.: 16-01456-(CVR). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE; COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: ÁNGEL ALFONSO RAMOS HERNÁNDEZ AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE OCASIO HENRÍQUEZ, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THEM, GENERAL PUBLIC, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $282,452.07 in principal, accrued interest in the amount of $42,933.62, accrued late charges in the amount of $2,337.60, accrued escrow advance in the amount of $9,047.74, and expressly agreed upon attorney’s fees and legal costs in the amount of $28,327.31, for a total amount due of $365,098.34, which will continue to accrue interest at the contractual rates. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder.

The public sale shall be held at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st. floor, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918.

The public sale will be of the following property: “URBANA: Parcela de terreno identificada como solar 97 del bloque SJ de la Urbanización Sanjuanera, radicada en el barrio Cañabón, término municipal de Caguas, cabida 577.042 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 16.42 metros, y distancia en arco de 2.96 metros, con plaza Morenilla (calle #13); por el SUR, en 23.55 metros, con solar 98; por el ESTE, distancia en arco de 25.19 metros, con vía Morenilla (calle #2); y por el OESTE, en 24.75 metros, con

solar 96. Enclava una casa.”

Recorded at page 200 of volume 1655, property 55,154 of Caguas, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, First Section of Caguas. The property described above es encumbered by three junior liens: a) MORTGAGE: In favor of RBS Mortgage Corp., in the original principal amount of $105,250.00, with 8.375% annual interests, due on November 1st, 2022, constituted by deed #328, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 16th, 2007, before Notary Public René Aviles Perez, recorded at page 192 of volume 1736 of the Registry.

Modified by Deed number 157 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 26, 2014, before Notary Public Eduardo J. Navarro Pluguez, recorded at page 192 of volume 1736 of the Registry;

b) Lawsuit Annotation dated November 9th, 2009, executed in the Superior Court of Caguas, civil case ECD20091987, by Doral Bank, recorded at page 192 of volume 1736 of the Registry, annotation A; and;

c) Judgment issued by the Caguas Superior Court, case EHEI2012-01072, in favor of Hacienda San José Homeowners Association, recorded at page 120, lawsuit 357, book 3 of the Registry. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHE-

REFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on MARCH 3, 2023, 2023, AT 9:50AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $283,273.09. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MARCH 10, 2023, 2023, AT 9:50AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $188,848.72. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MARCH 17, 2023, 2023, AT 9:50AM and

the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $141,636.54. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 17th day of January, 2023. Joel Ronda Feliciano, Special Master, Email: rondajoel@me.com, Tel: 787-565-0415.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO CIELO VIVIENDA LLC

Plaintiff V. CARMEN HERNIDHIA COLOMBANI LATORRE

Defendant Civil No.: 18-cv-01499. (ADC). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND COLLECTION MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: CARMEN HERNIDHIA COLOMBANI LATORRE, GENERAL PUBLIC, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $116,611.16,accrued variable interests starting at 6.95%, and deferred balance of $9,373.33 for a total of $125,984.49 from February 1, 2016 until full payment, plus mortgage and risk insurance premiums, late fees and any other amount expressly agreed-upon in the mortgage deed, from the date stated above until full payment thereof, plus 10% for attorneys’ fees and legal costs in the amount of $12,800.00. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder. The public sale shall be held at and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st. floor, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918. The public sale will be of the following property: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Seiscientos

Siete (607) en el bloque LC-35 (607 LC-35) en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización La Cumbre, radicado en el Barrio Monacillos de Rio Piedras, tér-

mino municipal de la Capital de Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos cuarenta y ocho metros cuadrados con cuatro centímetros cuadrados (348.04). Y colinda por el

NORTE: en veinticuatro metros con ochenta centímetros con el Solar número Seiscientos Seis del bloque LC-Treinta y Cinco del mencionado plano; SUR; en veintitrés metros con cuarenta centímetros con el Solar número Seiscientos Ocho del bloque LC-Treinta y Cinco del mencionado plano; ESTE; en dieciséis metros con cincuenta centímetros con la calle denominada “Madison Street” del mencionado piano; OESTE; en doce metros con veinticinco centímetros con terrenos propiedad de la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico. Enclava en dicho solar una edificación para usos residenciales. PROPER-

TY NUMBER: 3,541, recorded at page 161 of volume 112 of Monacillos Este y el Cinco, Property Registry of Puerto Rico, Fifth Section of San Juan. The aforementioned mortgage has one senior lien: i. MORTGAGE:

In favor of Doral Mortgage Corporation, in the original principal amount of $20,000.00, with 9.95% annual interests, due on February 1, 2012 constituted by deed #53, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 28, 2002, before Notary Eric Hernandez Batalla, recorded at mobile volume 267 of Monacillos Este y el Cinco, property #3,541. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on MARCH 3, 2023, 2023, AT 9:55AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $128,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MARCH 10, 2023, 2023, AT 9:55AM and the minimum bidding amount that

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

will be accepted is the sum of $85,333.33. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MARCH 17, 2023, 2023, AT 9:55AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $64,000.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 19th day of January, 2023. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, SPECIAL MASTER, E-MAIL: RONDAJOEL@ ME.COM, TEL: 787-565-0415.

LEGAL NOTICE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC

Plaintiff V. OSCAR GONZALEZ NIEVES; MARIA CRISTINA PICORELLY LOPEZ; CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP GONZALEZ-PICORELLY; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants

Civil Action No.: 18-cv-1718. (ADC). NOTICE OF SALE. To: OSCAR GONZÁLEZ NIEVES; MARIA CRISTINA PICORELLY LOPEZ; CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP GONZALEZ-PICORELLY; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $240,000.00, plus interest at a rate of 5.810% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Oscar González Nieves; Maria Cristina Picorelly Lopez; Conjugal Partnership Gonzalez-Picorelly to pay Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes, and inspections as well as 10% ($24,000.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States Dis-

trict Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master, or a person authorized to act in his name and authority, was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Santa Juanita (Sección Doce) situada en el Barrio Guaraguao de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número FO trece, compuesta de seiscientos doce punto veinticinco metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y cuatro punto seiscientos diez metros, con el Solar doce del mismo Bloque, por el SUR, en treinta y dos punto doscientos treinta metros con el Solar catorce; por el ESTE, en dieciocho punto trescientos sesenta metros con Amelia Diaz viuda de Espina; y por el OESTE, en dieciocho punto trescientos veinte metros, con la Calle Polaris. Contiene una casa de cemento diseñada para una familia.” The mortgage foreclosed is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, at overleaf page 144 of volume 956 of Bayamón Sur, property number 42,902 Bis, 5th inscription. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens:

Senior Liens: None.

Junior Liens: Reverse Mortgage securing a note in favor of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or to its order, for the original principal amount of $240,000.00, due on September 1, 2097, constituted by Oscar González Nieves y su esposa María Cristina Picorelli López, pursuant to deed number 69, issued in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, on April 13, 2010, before notary Fernando E. Doval Santiago, and recorded at overleaf page 144 of volume 956 of Bayamón Sur, property number 42,902 Bis, 6th inscription, as as an Abbreviated Entry on December 18, 2012, by virtue of Law 216 of December 27 27, 2010. (Presented on April 28, 2010, at Entry 1,213 of Diary 1,287). Notice of Lis Pendens dated September 24, 2018, issued by the United States Districts of Puerto Rico, in

The San Juan Daily Star

the civil case number 2018-CV01718-ADC, by Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc., versus Oscar González Nieves and his wife María Cristina Picorelly López; Conjugal Partnership González-Picorelly; United States of America, for monies owed and foreclosure of mortgage, in the amount of $93,362.90, plus interest and other amounts, or the sale of the property at public auction, annotated on January 25, 2019, at the Karibe volume of Bayamón Sur, property number 42,902 Bis, Annotation A. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 14TH DAY OF MARCH OF 2023, AT: 8:30 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $240,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 21ST DAY OF MARCH OF 2023, AT: 8:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $160,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 28TH DAY OF MARCH OF 2023, AT: 8:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $120,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHE-

REAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to

the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 23rd day of January of 2023. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master.

LEGAL NOTICE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

FINANCE OF AMERICA

REVERSE, LLC.

Plaintiff V. CARMEN MARÍA SUÁREZ ARISTUD A/K/A CARMEN

M. SUÁREZ ARISTUD A/K/A CARMEN MARÍA SUÁREZ; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants

Civil Action No.: 3:16-cv-02478PAD. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE COMPLAINT. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: CARMEN MARÍA SUÁREZ ARISTUD A/K/A CARMEN M. SUÁREZ ARISTUD A/K/A CARMEN MARÍA SUÁREZ; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $138,060.89, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Carmen María Suárez Aristud a/k/a Carmen M. Suárez Aristud a/k/a Carmen María Suárez to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($22,200.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction

for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property

“URBANA: Solar marcado con el número FF veintidós del Plano de Inscripción del Proyecto de Viviendas a Bajo Costo denominado B.V.C. cincuenta y dos, radicado en el Barrio Martín González y Hoyo Mulas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos noventa y ocho metros cuadrados con cincuenta y siete centésimas de otro, en lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar FF veintiuno; por el SUR, con el solar FF veintitrés; por el ESTE, con terrenos propiedad de la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número doce.”

Property Number 31,199 filed at page 203 of volume 776 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina. The mortgage deed is recorded at page 132 of volume 1,508 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $222,000.00, due on August 1, 2087 pursuant to deed number 50, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 27, 2013, before notary David Garcia Medina, and recorded, at page 134 of volume 1,508 of Carolina, property number 31,199, 5th inscription. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 14TH DAY MARCH OF 2023, AT: 8:35 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $222,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the the 21ST DAY MARCH OF 2023, AT:

8:35 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $148,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the the 28TH DAY MARCH OF 2023, AT: 8:35 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $111,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 23rd day of January 2023. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

WILMINGTON SAVINGS

FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR THE CSMC 2015-PR1 TRUST, MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2015-PR1

Plaintiff V. GLADYVIRG RIVERA

JIMENEZ, ALSO KNOWN AS GLADYVING RIVERA

JIMENEZ

Defendant(s)

Civil No.: 3:18-CV-01978. (FAB). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: GLADYVIRG RIVERA JIMENEZ, ALSO KNOWN AS GLADYVING RIVERA JIMENEZ. APT. 1303-B, COND. PARQUE DE SAN FRANCISCO, BAYAMÓN, PR 00959; APT. 1303 B

BOX 126, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 00959; THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: On March 23, 2022, this Court entered Default Judgment in favor of Plaintiff, against Defendant. On August 10, 2022, this Court entered Order for Execution of Judgment, stating that Defendant has failed to pay the sums of monies adjudged to be paid under the judgment. The In the Judgment, this Court stated that Defendant has defaulted on the repayment obligation to WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR THE CSMC 2015-PR1 TRUST, MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2015PR1, and ordered to pay the Plaintiff the principal sum of ONE HUNDRED TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR DOLLARS AND THIRTY-TWO CENTS ($102,334.32), plus interest at 7.000% per annum from January 1, 2016, which will continue to accrue interest at the contractual rate. The defendant also owes and the Court ordered to pay Wilmington Savings all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note, including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections, as well as 10% of the original principal balance, or $9,500.00, to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed by the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHERAEAS, Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendant will be sold at a public auction: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: San Francisco Condominium, Apartment B-1303: Rectangular shape, three bedroom unit with a total construction area of 865.46 square feet, equivalent to 80.40 square meters, distributed in 798.06 square feet, equivalent to 74.14 square meters of enclosed area and 67.40 square feet, equivalent to 6.26 square meters of porch. The main entrance is located on the South side. This apartment is located in Building B of the Condominium and occupies part of the thirteenth floor of the building. The maximum length of this unit is 25’5” and the maximum width is 44’ 4”. Its boundaries all: by the NORTH, in a distance of 44’4”, equivalent to 13.52 meters, with the common wall that separates it from apartment number 1304 and the common interior areas; by the SOUTH, in a distance of 44’ 4”, equivalent to 13.52 meters with exterior common

areas; by the EAST, in a distance of 24’ 1”, equivalent to 7.34 meter with the common wall that separates it from apartment number 1302 and interior and exterior common areas and by the WEST, in a distance of 25’ 3”, equivalent to 7.70 meters with the exterior common areas. This unit contains a kitchen, a living room, a dining room, three bedrooms with closet, two bathrooms and a covered porch. Se le asigna a este apartamento el estacionamiento número 85 como elemento común limitado. Este apartamento tiene una participación de .61792% en los elementos comunes del condominio. Property recorded at page 61, volume 1708 of Bayamón Sur, property number 71489, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Bayamón. WHEREAS: The property is subject to the following lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de RG Premier Bank de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $95,000.00 con intereses al 7.00% anual y vencimiento 1ro de agosto de 2036. Constituida por la Escritura 571 otorgada en San Juan el 31 de julio de 2006 ante el notario Antonio José Cruz Bonilla, e inscrita y extendido su asiento abreviado el 4 de mayo de 2011 bajo la Ley 216 del 27 de diciembre de 2010 para Agilizar el Registro de La Propiedad, al folio 161 del tomo 1846 de Bayamón Sur, finca 71489, inscripción 5ª. AMPLIADA en una suma adicional de $12,209.77 y MODIFICADA en cuanto a su interés y vencimiento, siendo ahora su principal por $107,209.77 con intereses al 7.00% anual y vencimiento 1ro de enero de 2042, según consta de la escritura 12 otorgada en San Juan el 20 de enero de 2012 ante la notario Ileana Quintero Aguiló, e inscrita al folio 161 del tomo 1846 de Bayamón Sur, finca 71489, inscripción 6ª. Senior Lien: None. The above-described property is subject to the following junior lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de la Corporación para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $24,700.00 sin intereses y vencimiento 20 años. Constituida por la Escritura 48 otorgada en San Juan el 23 de enero de 2001 ante el notario Miguel A. García Rivera, e inscrita al folio 62 del tomo 1708 de Bayamón Sur, finca 71489, inscripción 2ª. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential lien with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential lien to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, lien (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them

and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: For the purpose of the First Judicial Sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $107,209.77 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the abovedescribed property be unsuccessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the Second Judicial Sale will be two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the First Judicial Sale, or $71,473.18. The minimum bid for the Third Judicial Sale, if the same is necessary, will be onehalf of the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the aforementioned mortgage deed, or $53,604.89 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Article 104, as amended. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. NOW THREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will on MARCH 3, 2023 AT 10:30 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property describes in the Notice will be held on MARCH 10, 2023 AT 10:30AM, at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court located at the address indicated above. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on MARCH 17, 2023 AT 10:30AM, at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, located at the address indicated above. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 25th day of January 2023. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.

LEGAL NOTICE

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (MASS MUTUAL)

Parte Demandante Vs. ANTONIO GARCÍA RODRÍGUEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CR2019CV00272. Sala: 001. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 1 de abril de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 26 de mayo de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 1 de junio de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 14 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Comerío, en 16 Calle Georgetti, Comerío, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno rotulado como parcela A en el plano de inscripción, con una cabida superficial de 578.6032 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.1472 cuerdas, radicada en el Barrio Palomas del Municipio de Comerío, Puerto Rico. Colinda por el NORTE, con camino municipal; por el SUR, con terrenos de Pedro Santana; por el ESTE, con el solar segregado anteriormente; y por el OESTE, con Carretera Número 779 y con un área dedicada a uso público. Remanente luego de segregación efectuada según Escritura Número 72, otorgada en Comerío, Puerto Rico, el 26 de septiembre de 1997, ante el Notario Víctor Manuel Padilla Santiago. Inscrita al folio 238 del tomo 91 de Comerío. Inscripción quinta. Edificación: Enclava una planta construida en concreto que mide 36’ de ancho por 38’ de largo compuesta por un baño, balcón, sala, comedor, cocina, marquesina y dos cuartos dormitorios, con un valor de $60,000.00, según consta de la Escritura Número Dos, otorgada en Comerío, Puerto Rico, el 10 de febrero de 1982, ante el Notario Israel Hernández González, inscrita al folio 236 vuelto del tomo 91 de Comerío, finca número 6516, ins-

cripción segunda. La propiedad y la hipoteca constan inscritas al folio 238 vuelto del tomo 91 de Comerío, Finca Número 6516, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. Inscripción sexta. La escritura de modificación de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 131 del tomo 166 de Comerío, Finca Número 6516, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. Inscripción séptima. Dirección Física: Carretera 779, Barrio Paloma, Comerío, PR 00782. Número de Catastro: 43-222-052-308-02-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $81,552.96. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 21 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $54,368.64. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 28 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $40,776.48. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $72,265.76 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.75% anual desde el 1 de marzo de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,890.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico como Agente de Servicio de Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (Mass Mutual) Vs. Antonio García Rodríguez (soltero), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Comerío, en el Caso Civil Número CR2019CV00272, sobro Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $72,265.76 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 29 de agosto de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Comerío. Anotación A. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se le

advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Comerío, Puerto Rico, hoy 9 de enero de 2023. ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA

ORIENTAL BANK

Parte Demandante V. JORGE LUIS

RUIZ ACEVEDO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: ACD2017-0111. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, hago saber a la parte demandada, JORGE LUIS RUIZ ACEVEDO y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 11 de abril de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: Alturas de Borinquén #20-B

pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $180,000.00, con intereses al 7.00% anual, vencedero el día 8 de septiembre de 2010, constituida mediante la escritura número 12, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de febrero de 2010, ante el notario Ricardo A. Caballos Columna, e inscrita al folio 212 del tomo 1,047 de Monacillos, finca número 9,068, inscripción 11ma. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $180,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $120,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $90,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par-

te demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan , Puerto Rico, a 26 de enero de 2023. ERIK F OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE SAN JUAN.

Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC

DEMANDANTE VS.

Armando Enrique Soto Diego t/c/c Armando Soto Diego por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales que compone junto a María Catalina García Martínez,

t/c/c María Catalina García Martínez de Soto; María Catalina García Martínez, t/c/c María Catalina García Martínez de Soto por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales que compone junto a Armando Enrique Soto Diego t/c/c Armando Soto Diego; y a los Estados Unidos de América

DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NUM.: SJ2021CV04888.

SALA: 506. SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General

A: ARMANDO ENRIQUE SOTO DIEGO T/C/C

ARMANDO SOTO DIEGO POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

QUE COMPONE JUNTO

A MARÍA CATALINA

GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ, T/C/C MARÍA CATALINA

GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ DE SOTO; MARÍA CATALINA

GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ, T/C/C MARÍA CATALINA

GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ DE SOTO POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES QUE COMPONE JUNTO A

ARMANDO ENRIQUE

SOTO DIEGO T/C/C

ARMANDO SOTO DIEGO; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Yo, EDWIN E LOPEZ MULERO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 6 de MARZO de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 16 de diciembre de 2021. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a

celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 13 de MARZO de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 20 de MARZO de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 10 de enero de 2023, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número catorce (14) del bloque N del plano de inscripción la Urbanización El Remanso, radicado en el Barrio Monacillos de la Municipalidad de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos cuarenta y ocho punto cero cero (448.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en veintiocho punto cero cero (28.00) metros con el solar quince (15) de dicho bloque; por el SUR, en veintiocho punto cero cero (28.00) metros con el solar trece (13) de dicho bloque; por el ESTE, en dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00) metros con el solar once y doce (11 y 12) de dicho bloque; y por el OESTE, en dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00) metros con la calle once (11) de dicha Urbanización. Enclava una casa. Finca número 5,827 inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 184 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. Dirección de la Propiedad: 14N Catarata St. Alturas de Remanso, San Juan PR 00926. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $207,295.09, incluyendo intereses y otros gastos los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón del 3.57% por ciento anual, hasta su completo pago; más la suma estipulada, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 141

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

otorgada el día 15 de junio de 2009, ante el Notario Público Saideth Cristobal Martinez y consta inscrita al folio 979 del tomo 332 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, finca número 5827, Registro de la Propiedad de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, Sección V de San Juan. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Departamento de la Vivienda, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $468,000.00, con intereses al 3.571% anual, vencedero el día 25 de noviembre de 2095, constituida mediante la escritura número 142, otorgada en (no expresa), Puerto Rico, el día 15 de junio de 2009, ante la notario Saideth Cristóbal Martínez, e inscrita al folio 980 del tomo 332 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, finca número 5,827, inscripción 9na, como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 15 de noviembre de 2017, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 11 de septiembre de 2009 al Asiento 1477 del Diario 889). Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $312,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $208,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $156,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el mo-

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

del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 26 de enero de 2023. EDWIN E LOPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP

HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día

7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las

10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de OLMEDA, JACK ANTHONY, sobre la unidad A505 semana

41 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 41 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A505 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A505 and includes the right to use such unit during the 41 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 41 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A505, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two

point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $12,122.53 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JAMES ANDREW SEDLAK y MYRA ELIZABETH SEDLAK, sobre la unidad A601 semana 41 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 41 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A601 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A601 and includes the right to use such unit during the 41 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 41 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week,

coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A601, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $10,073.82 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en represen-

tación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP

HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día

7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las

10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de LOUIS ANN ROGERS t/c/c

LOUISE ANN KURTZ, sobre la unidad A602 semana 9 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 9 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A602 of HACIENDA

DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A602 and includes the right to use such unit during the 9 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 9 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A602, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,041.26 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos

correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP

HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día

7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las

10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de IVAN ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ

GONZALEZ y ELIZABETH

LOURDES GEIGEL TORRES, sobre la unidad A603 semana

31 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 31 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A603 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A603 and includes the right to use such unit during the 31 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 31 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A603, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners

of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,789.39 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de

JORGE LUIS VELEZ COLON y NAIDA CRESPO CRESPO, sobre la unidad A603 semana 33 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 33 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A603 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A603 and includes the right to use such unit during the 33 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 33 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A603, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,811.09 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante

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

Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MARGARITA CAROLYN MITCHELL-IVEY t/c/c MARGUERITE CAROLYN MITCHELLIVEY, sobre la unidad A605 semana 44 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club

Right: unit week 44 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A605 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A605 and includes the right to use such unit during the 44 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 44 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A605, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime

and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”

El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,712.54 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día

7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las

10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de RAOUF WILLIAM ISKANDER y MOUSHIRA ISKANDER t/c/c

MOUSHIRA HABIB, sobre la unidad A606 semana 45 que a continuación se describe:

Vacation Club Right: unit week 45 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A606 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right

to the Unit A606 and includes the right to use such unit during the 45 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 45 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A606, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $8,711.33 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP

HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JOHN FRANCIS MCMULLAN y JOAN MCMULLAN t/c/c JOAN

MCKENNA, sobre la unidad

A701 semana 2 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 2 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A701 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A701 and includes the right to use such unit during the 2 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 2 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A701, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con

dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,892.12 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP

HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día

7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las

10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ANGEL ENRIQUE ZORRILLA

BALSEIRO y CARMEN SOCORRO COBIAN MENDEZ, sobre la unidad A701 semana 25 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 25 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A701 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A701 and includes the right to use such unit during the 25 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 25 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A701,

the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,811.09 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOT ICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP

HAGO SABER:

Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada,

se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MARIA ICIAR CASTRODAD ORTIZ, sobre la unidad A702 semana 26 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club

Right: unit week 26 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A702 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A702 and includes the right to use such unit during the 26 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 26 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A702, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,789.39 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas-

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646nice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de WILLIAM DALTON y CATHERINE MARY O’HARE t/c/c CATHERINE MARY DALTON, sobre la unidad A704 semana 15 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 15 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A704 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A704 and includes the right to use such unit during the 15 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 15 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A704, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des-

cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,452.37 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP

HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día

7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las

10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ROSARIO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA t/c/c ROSARIO RODRIGUEZ AND MARIA HERMINIA TORRES SANTOS t/c/c MARIA HERMINIA RODRIGUEZ, sobre la unidad B110 semana

19 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 19 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B110 of

HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B110 and includes the right to use such unit during the 19 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 19 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B110, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $10,184.22 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los

licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de DAVID WALTERS FAULKNER, sobre la unidad B311 semana 43 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 43 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B311 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B311 and includes the right to use such unit during the 43 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 43 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B311, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four (1.2194%)

in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $13,460.66 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP

HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las

10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de

GILBERTO LOPEZ ARROYO y BEATRIZ GONZALEZ VELEZ, sobre la unidad B407 semana 44 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 44 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B407 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B407 and includes the right to use such unit during the 44 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 44 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a

successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B407, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four (1.2194%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,960.52 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP

HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104,

de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día

7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las

10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MORRIS GREGOR KITZIS, sobre la unidad B411semana 44 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 44 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B411 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B411 and includes the right to use such unit during the 44 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 44 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B411, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four (1.2194%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,495.08 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante

horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA

DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día

7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JOAN ARDETH SANBORN, sobre la unidad B509 semana 5 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 5 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B509 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B509 and includes the right to use such unit during the 5 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 5 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B509, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right perta-

ins during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four (1.2194%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $12,715.71 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las

10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MANUEL AYALA BURGOS Y TESSIE MARIA MONTALVO

RIVERA, sobre la unidad B608 semana 45 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club

Right: unit week 45 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B608 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of

the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B608 and includes the right to use such unit during the 45 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 45 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B608, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four (1.2194%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,631.22 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de

febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.

LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

301 Carr 693

Dorado PR, 00646

Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP

HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día

7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las

10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de SEAN MICHAEL McCARTHY t/c/c SEAN McCARTHY Y ALYCE McCARTHY t/c/c/ LISA ALICE DOCTOR, sobre la unidad B807 semana 14 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 14 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B807 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B807 and includes the right to use such unit during the 14 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 14 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B807, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four (1.2194%)

in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,011.08 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. **

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A: SUCESIÓN DE JORGE ALBERTO NAVARRO SOLER COMPUESTA POR ARELIS NAVARRO RODRÍGUEZ, NORBERTO NAVARRO RODRÍGUEZ, IVONNE MARÍA NAVARRO GARCÍA, ANIBAL NAVARRO RODRÍGUEZ, DIANA NAVARRO RODRÍGUEZ; SUCESIÓN DE GEORGE JUNIOR NAVARRO COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS GEORGIE NAVARRO RAMOS, ASHLEY NATASHA NAVARRO RAMOS, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, ANA

MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ GARAY POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 7 de febrero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se 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 9 de febrero de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 9 de febrero de 2023. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL

OSVALDO CARRERAS

ISOBAT COMPUESTA

POR: OSVALDO

CARRERAS DÍAZ;

VENUS CHRISTINE

CARRERAS DÍAZ; ADLYN

ESTHER CARRERAS

MALDONADO; OMAR CARRERAS

MALDONADO; RICARDO

JUAN CARRERAS

MÁRQUEZ; RAQUEL

CRISTINA SOTO

VÁZQUEZ POR SI

Y COMO CONYUGE

SUPERSTITE; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS; CRIM

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: AI2022CV00450.

Salón Núm.: 002. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN DE HEREDEROS. ESTADOS UNIDOS

DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS, OSVALDO CARRERAS

DÍAZ; VENUS CHRISTINE

CARRERAS DÍAZ; ADLYN

ESTHER CARRERAS

MALDONADO; OMAR CARRERAS

MALDONADO; RICARDO

JUAN CARRERAS

MÁRQUEZ; RAQUEL

CRISTINA SOTO

VÁZQUEZ POR SÍ

Y COMO CÓNYUGE

SUPERSTITE DE LA

SUCESIÓN MANUEL

OSVALDO CARRERAS ISOBAT.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de junio de 2022, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal $24,280.06, más intereses a razón del 6.125% anual desde el 1 de mayo de 2022, y ls que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 3% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha

de su vencimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribuciones, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a $4,365.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio La Plata del término municipal de Aibonito, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de tres mil novecientos treinta metros cuadrados con treinta y nueve centésimas de otro metro cuadrado (3,930.39), equivalentes a una cuerda (1.00) y en colindancias por el NORTE, con carretera número catorce (14), por el SUR, con remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega, por el ESTE, con solar segregado y por el OESTE, con remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega. Consta inscrita al folio 110 del tomo 236 de Aibonito, Finca número #12,518. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Barranquitas. SE LES ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de la Sucesión De Manuel Osvaldo Carreras Isobat. De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LE APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Aibonito, Puerto Rico. A 10 de febrero de 2023.

ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ANGÉLICA COLÓN NEGRÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

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Demandante V.

JUAN PABLO

ROMÁN VALENTÍN

Demandado

Civil Núm.: VB2019CV00103.

(201). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASO-

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela número uno (1). Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Pugnado Afuera del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de mil setecientos noventa y seis punto ocho mil novecientos noventa y cuatro (1,796.8994) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el predio número tres (3) que será dedicado para uso público y lo separa de la Carretera Estatal seiscientos setenta (670); por el SUR y OESTE, con la finca Francisco Vázquez, propiedad de la Autoridad de Tierras; por el ESTE, con el predio número dos (2) y la finca de Francisco Vázquez, ambas propiedad de la Autoridad de Tierras. Dirección Física: Lot 1, Km. 7, SR 670, Pugnado Afuera Ward, Vega Baja, PR 00693. Finca 24,238, inscrita al folio 218 del tomo 297 de Vega Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de Bayamón. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. 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 ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal $106,800.17, más la suma de $4,176.34, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto

de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 4 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Carolina, por el tipo mínimo de $111,680.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 11 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $74,453.33. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $55,840.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 7 de febrero de 2023 en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. ALG. ALFREDO OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL.

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Demandante V. JOSÉ R. MÉNDEZ LÓPEZ, JOSÉ R. MÉNDEZ PÉREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA

Demandado(a) Civil: CG2021CV03102. (704). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO / INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOSÉ R. MÉNDEZ LÓPEZ, JOSÉ R. MÉNDEZ PÉREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 7 de febrero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta

notificación se 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 9 de febrero de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 9 de febrero de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. LILI RODRÍGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs HECTOR W. RIVERA, FULANA DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Demandado (a)

Civil Núm.: MO2021CV00125.

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

A: HECTOR W. RIVERA, FULANA DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

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

usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de febrero de 2023. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 09 de febrero de 2023. SARAHÍ

REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SECRETARIA.

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Demandante V. BLANCA IRIS

VALENTIN VELEZ EN SU CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE BENJAMIN RUIZ

ROSARIO, LA SUCESION DE BENJAMIN RUIZ

ROSARIO COMPUESTA

POR BENJAMIN RUIZ

JR., CRYSTAL LEE RUIZ GUTIERREZ, NICOLE

JEANNETTE RUIZ LOPEZ, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESION Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandado(a)

Civil: AÑ2022CV00023. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESION DE BENJAMIN RUIZ

ROSARIO COMPUESTA

POR BENJAMIN RUIZ

JR., CRYSTAL LEE RUIZ GUTIERREZ, NICOLE JEANNETTE RUIZ LOPEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESION. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de julio de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando

usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de febrero de 2023. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 10 de febrero de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA M. LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

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Demandante V. LA SUCESION DE SAMUEL RODRIGUEZ PAGAN COMPUESTA POR IRIS GONZALEZ CUPEREZ; MAYRA RODRIGUEZ MONTES, NYDIA RODRIGUEZ MONTES, SAMUEL RODRIGUEZ MONTES, DESIRE RODRIGUEZ MONTES, LEONARDO SAMUEL RODRIGUEZ ANDINO, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES(CRIM)

Demandado(a)

Civil: FA2022CV00915. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MAYRA RODRIGUEZ MONTES, NYDIA RODRIGUEZ MONTES, SAMUEL RODRIGUEZ MONTES, DESIRE RODRIGUEZ MONTES, LEONARDO SAMUEL RODRIGUEZ ANDINO, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE SAMUEL RODRIGUEZ PAGAN; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE SAMUEL RODRIGUEZ PAGÁN. COND HILLSIDE VILLAGE EDIFICIO OLAS APT D-302 RIO GRANDE PR

blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 6 de febrero de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 6 de febrero de 2023. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria Regional. Madeline Lugo Navarro, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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Demandante Vs. MIGUEL A. LUCIANO CALDERÓN

Demandado

Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03161.

Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: MIGUEL A. LUCIANO CALDERÓN - COND.

MONSERRATE TOWERS I, 1 AVE. SÁNCHEZ OSORIO APT 209, CAROLINA, PR 00983-3204.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.

Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de enero de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 17 de enero de 2023. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Damaris Torres Ruiz, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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Demandante Vs. ANGELA M. ORTIZ PÉREZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03187. Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: ANGELA M. ORTIZ

PÉREZ - 114 CALLE

101 LOS COLOBOS, CANOVANILLAS, CAROLINA, PR 00987.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418

San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de enero de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 18 de enero de 2023. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Maricruz Aponte Alicea, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO MTGLQ INVESTORS LP

Plaintiff V. EDRIC ENRIQUE VIVONI RIVERA; ET AL

Defendants Civil Action Num.: 19-CV01599. (JAG). Matter: COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: EDRIC ENRIQUE VIVONI RIVERA and the GENERAL PUBLIC:

WHEREAS: On March 2, 2022

Default Judgment was entered and grated on same day in favor of Plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal amount of $77,007.64 plus interest at a rate of 3.375% per annum since January 1st, 2018, which continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full; a deferred principal balance of $55,200.67, which does not accrue interest; late charges on the amount of 5.00% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount $26,200.00 to cover, costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligations. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the Court, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property described in Spanish: RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno en el Barrio Caimito Alto del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de cinco mil ciento cuarenta y dos metros cuadrados con tres mil trescientos setenta y una diez milésimas de otro (5,142.3371 m.c.), equivalentes a una cuerda con tres mil ochenta y cuatro diez milésimas de cuerda (1.2084 cdas) (así surge) identificada en el Plano de Inscripción con el número dos (2). En lindes por el NORTE, en tres alineaciones que suman

ochenta y cuatro metros lineales con mil quinientos siete diez milésimas de otro (84.1507 ml) con la faja de uso público del Plano de Inscripción; por el SUR, en seis (6) alineaciones que suman treinta y cinco metros lineales con cuatro mil cuatro setecientos treinta y cuatro diez milésimas de otro (34.4734 ml) con el solar número uno (1) del Plano de Inscripción; por el ESTE, en cuatro (4) alineaciones que suman ochenta y siete metros lineales con cuatrocientos treinta y una diez milésimas de otro (87.0431 ml) con la faja de uso público del Plano de Inscripción; por el OESTE, en cuatro (4) alineaciones que suman ochenta y siete metros lineales con tres mil setecientos quince (87.3715 ml) con terrenos de Tomas Guzmán. Contiene una estructura para fines residenciales. The property is recorded at Page 189 of Volume 807 of Rio Piedras Sur, Property Registry of Puerto Rico, and lot number 22,359, Section IV of San Juan. Property address: PR 1 KM 27.4, Caimito Alto Ward, San Juan, P.R. 00926. The deed of mortgage is recorded at Page number 190 of Volume number 807 of Rio Piedras Sur, lot number 22,359, 4th inscription in the Property Registry of San Juan, Fourth Section. The deed of modification # 27 is recorded at Page 490 of volume 807 of Rio Piedras Sur, 6th inscription. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: NONE. Junior Liens: NONE. Other Liens: NONE. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 4TH DAY OF APRIL OF 2023, AT: 9:00 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $262,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF APRIL OF 2023, AT: 9:00 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $174,666.67, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 18TH DAY

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

OF APRIL OF 2023, AT: 9:00 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $131,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The undersigned Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the undersigned Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 10th day of February of 2023. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE HILDA CALERO BÁEZ, COMPUESTA

POR: “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: HU2021CV01363.

Sala: 205. 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 Tri-

bunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 12 de enero de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar número siete (7): Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Tejas, de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, compuesto de novecientos noventa y dos punto setecientos setenta y cinco metros cuadrados (992,775. M.c.). Colindando por el NORTE, en cuarenta y ocho punto diez metros (48.10 m), con el solar número seis (6); por el SUR, en cuarenta y seis punto cuarenta y cinco metros (46.45m), con el solar número ocho (8); por el ESTE, en veintiuno metros (21.00 m), María Teresa De León; y por el OESTE, en veintiún metros (21.00m) con camino dedicado a uso público. Inscrita al folio 80 del tomo 195 de Las Piedras, finca número 10,305. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao. propiedad se encuentra ubicada, según pagaré, en: Lot 7 Villas del Río, Sector Tejas Ward, Las Piedras, PR 00771. La finca antes relacionada se encuentra afectada por unos gravámenes posteriores al que se pretende ejecutar, el cual se describe de la siguiente manera: a. AL ASIENTO 2021162594-HU01 DEL SISTEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 16 de diciembre de 2021, Demanda de fecha 10 de diciembre de 2021, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, en el Caso Civil número HU2021CV01363, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, versus Hilda Calero Báez, por la suma de $103,759.12 más otras sumas. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 1 de agosto de 2022, notificada el 2 de agosto de 2022, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $103,759.12 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 4.5% desde el 1ro de enero de 2021; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $13,232.50 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 20 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Humacao, Humacao, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es por la cantidad de $132,325.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 27 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $88,216.66, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 4 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $66,162.50, 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 con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o 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 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 Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 31 de enero de 2023. José Luis Rodríguez Hernández, Alguacil Regional Interino, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Humacao. Wilnelia Rivera Delgado, Alguacil Auxiliar #249.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ESTEBAN RIVERA ALMÉSTICA, compuesta por, MARÍA SABINA HALL, t/c/c MARÍA SABINA RIVERA, t/c/c MARÍA SABINA

RIVERA DE HALL

Demandado

Civil Núm.: N3CI201700145. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 3 de noviembre de 2017, notificada el 7 de diciembre de 2017 y publicada el 18

Here are the big themes to look for in the next NFL season

By KEN BELSON

The NFL strives to be a 365-day-a-year showcase.

From the Super Bowl to the scouting combine in a few weeks to the start of free agency in March and the draft in April and the preparation for the new season a few months after that, the drumbeat of attraction and attention never seems to stop. With the 2022 season in the books, with a thrilling victory by the Kansas City Chiefs over the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl, here are some of the issues that will be the talk of the NFL even before the next season starts on Sept. 7. The post-Brady, Mahomes era

Assuming Tom Brady really has retired after 23 seasons, Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes will be the most recognizable player in the league. His leading the Chiefs to a second-half, comeback win over the Eagles, 38-35, only cements his standing as the next big thing. Like Brady, he has piled up wins — Kansas City has the most wins in the league since Mahomes became a starter in 2018 — and his creativity and flair for dramatic plays make him the envy of fans, sponsors and broadcasters.

“A lot of what makes the game as exciting as it is are the dual threat quarterbacks” who can run as well as throw, said Mike Mulvihill, the executive vice president and head of strategy and analytics at Fox Sports, which, like all of the league’s broadcast partners, is eager to show Kansas City games. “Mahomes is probably the best representation of that.”

The toll of high-profile injuries

Injuries dominated the news last season, particularly to Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, who sustained at least two concussions, and to Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin, who went into cardiac arrest on the field after a routine tackle. Their scary episodes again highlighted the brutality of the sport, and how a lot of NFL players, despite the money made during their careers, can struggle to get help afterward.

Doctors have called on Tagovailoa to stop playing to avoid risking long-term brain damage, and last week, 10 former players sued Commissioner Roger Goodell and the league’s disability plan for, they claimed, systematically denying them health benefits.

The league “portrayed this image like, ‘we care about the players, we’re doing all

this stuff for player safety,’” said one of the plaintiffs, Eric Smith, who played for the New York Jets for seven seasons and now has a host of physical and mental ailments.

“And then as soon as you’re not on the roster making them any money playing out on the field, they’re like, ‘OK, we’ll give you five years of insurance, now go leave us alone.’”

Dearth of black coaches

At a season-ending news conference last week, Goodell was repeatedly asked about the lack of diversity at the league’s highest ranks, including among owners and head coaches. Goodell has promised to do better, but progress in many cases has been incremental at best. There are just three Black head coaches (a fourth, Mike McDaniel of the Dolphins, identifies as biracial) among the 32 teams in a league in which nearly 70% of the players are Black.

The league is battling a lawsuit brought by former head coaches of color who have accused the league of discriminatory hiring practices. Rod Graves, the executive director of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which lobbies the NFL to increase diversity, said the way to get the owners — the ultimate decision-makers — to promote diversity on their teams is to show that it is good for their bottom lines.

“This is an area that is like a sore on one portion of your body, and we can do more in this area to make the game attractive to everyone who’s qualified,” Graves

said. “We’ve been around for 104, 105 years, and it is concerning that we’re still having these conversations today that we only have a few head coaches rather than many head coaches of color.” More games will be streamed NFL games remain the most-watched programming on television partly because they are shown primarily on over-the-air networks like CBS and NBC, which starting this year will collectively pay the NFL roughly $10 billion a year for the next decade.

But the league knows that younger fans are more likely to stream games over the internet, so it’s tiptoeing into the streaming space. Thursday night games were shown exclusively on Amazon last season, and this year, the popular Sunday Ticket package will be on YouTube, which will pay the NFL at least $2 billion a year for the rights.

But NFL games won’t be disappearing from over-the-air channels anytime soon.

“We feel that for as much as the business is evolving, when it comes to live content and premium sports events, people are finding them on the traditional outlets just as they did 10, 20, 30 years ago,” Mulvihill from Fox Sports said. Will the Washington Commanders be sold?

In November, Daniel Snyder, the embattled owner of the Washington Commanders, said he hired bankers to explore a sale of part or all of the team he has owned since 1999. That came several weeks after Jim Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts, said Snyder might have to be removed for sullying the league’s reputation.

It is unclear whether Snyder will unload the team, but if he does, it will sell for more than the $4.65 billion the Denver Broncos fetched in 2022. Several billionaires have shown interest, but Jeff Bezos, executive chair of Amazon and one of the richest men in the world, could easily outbid them, something many league owners would welcome. His name keeps popping up in news reports, but he remains coy about his interest.

The San Juan Daily Star Wednesday,

February 15, 2023

The many ways LeBron James can score

By SEAN CATANGUI and LEO DOMINGUEZ

LeBron James has broken Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s NBA career scoring record, 38,387 points. To get here, he adapted to a rapid and radical shift of playing style that transformed the game he had already learned to dominate.

NBA teams shoot nearly twice as many 3-pointers as they did when James began his career in 2003. They focus less on big men who score near the rim, like Abdul-Jabbar, than on fast players who can shoot from afar. James can do both.

Abdul-Jabbar’s scoring record was a testament to the sustained effectiveness of the sky hook, a highly technical shot that only he mastered. James, in a testament to adaptability, dethroned Abdul-Jabbar by scoring in all kinds of ways and learning new skills as the game changed around him.

The drive

The Cleveland Cavaliers drafted James at No. 1 overall when he was 18 and just a few months too late to face off against Michael Jordan, who retired for good after the 2002-03 season. They were often compared to each other, and James quickly showed why with forceful drives to the rim and fluid midair contortions in the Jordan template.

At first glance, it may seem as if James can drive so effectively because he is simply faster and stronger than everyone. And at 6 feet, 9 inches tall and 250 pounds, he generally is. He has drawn comparisons to football players with the way he flies down the lane. (He did play football in high school.) But in addition to his speed and strength, he has the footwork and tight ball-handling skills to change directions in an instant. This devastating combination has made him one of the league’s top scorers at the rim throughout his career.

James’ game had its limitations early on, however. In James’ first appearance in the NBA Finals, with the Cavaliers in 2007, the San Antonio Spurs clogged the driving

lanes, exploiting his subpar outside shooting. The Spurs swept the series, 4-0. James averaged just 22 points a game and missed about two-thirds of his shots.

In time, he got better.

The post

Four years later, after losing in the NBA Finals again, this time with the Miami Heat, James took it upon himself to expand his offensive repertoire. During the 2011 offseason, he started working with another scoring legend, Hakeem Olajuwon, who was known for his balletic footwork in the post.

James, a forward, has the size to back down almost anyone.

By starting more of his attacks from the post, with his back to the basket, James could exert less energy than he did powering in for drives to the rim and be more selective about the shots he took. This playing style earned Olajuwon the 12th spot on the NBA’s career-scoring list.

From the post, James can better anticipate the moves of multiple defenders, watch for open passing lanes and create space for an easy shot with the threat of his drive.

Between the 2006-07 season and his first championship with the Heat in 2012, James nearly doubled his time in the post, according to Synergy Sports. Even now, as his speed and explosiveness have dipped with age, James has still been able to lean on this skill.

The 3-pointer

Early in James’ career, the 3-point shot was the glar-

ing weakness in his game. He did not take many, and he did not make many. But, in flowing with the evolution of the league, James has more than doubled the number of 3-pointers he attempts a game since his rookie season. He is making about three times as many of them, too.

He can run hot and cold from deep, but this approach allows him to preserve his body while still scoring at a high level. According to Synergy Sports, the high-effort athletic drives that defined his early career have decreased by about one-third a game since the 2004-05 season.

When he is hitting his outside shots consistently, opponents run out of options.

His step-back 3 is devastatingly simple. It reads as slow, but defenders, well aware that he can charge into the lane, never seem to react in time. In a disorienting instant, James seems to wake up from a daydream, snapping back from a slow, methodical dribble into the smooth shooting motion that he has refined over the years.

That is his secret to being great: keeping defenders guessing. Abdul-Jabbar had a signature shot that everyone knew was coming and yet could not stop. James’ method has been different but no less successful. You never know how he is going to score on you — with a drive, a post-up or a wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing step-back 3. But after 20 years and four NBA championships, you can bet he is going to get his points.

The Los Angeles Lakers star’s game has evolved over the past 20 years, making him a threat from all over the court — no matter how old he gets.

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

You’re full of dynamic energy and a force to be reckoned with, and you’re also capable of appearing romantic or very down to earth, depending on who you’re talking to. You’ll be ready to take the road less travelled and try out new experiences. If you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day, the Venus/Neptune tie can see you doing so in style, knowing you’ve made a great impression.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

This looks to be a delightful day, with opportunities for romance and socializing. You may have big responsibilities to attend to or a decision to make, but a sobering aspect means you’re more than equipped to handle any challenge. Going to a party? Whatever your relationship status, you’ll have a great time. If you’re eager to date, the outlook is especially promising, Taurus.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

The Moon in Sagittarius forges an uplifting link with expansive Jupiter, so you’ll be in your element mixing and mingling. You’re in a peak time for networking, making valuable connections and collaborating on projects that could lead to fabulous opportunities. There’s potential for romance at work. Admiring someone from afar? They may have eyes for you too.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

You could experience a touch of ecstasy, as a mystical blend of energies may find you getting carried away with a beautiful experience, whether you’re travelling or trying something new. And if you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day or are taking a short break, it could work out far better than you dared hope. Regarding your income, a business deal looks all set to go ahead.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

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Looking for a new relationship? You may find it when you’re ready to step out of your comfort zone. By daring to do something different like move in new circles, join a club or go on a fun getaway, an encounter could leave you feeling really good. Upbeat Jupiter in feisty Aries, suggests a light-hearted approach to dating, until you’re sure you’re ready to commit, Libra.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

This looks to be a special day for going out with your partner, or going on a first date with someone you’ve recently met. A dreamy Venus/Neptune merger means you’ll be very sensitive to what others are thinking, and may be able to read their thoughts without them saying anything. Any encounters, whether business or romantic, can benefit from your piercing insights, Scorpio.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

You’re on great form Archer, and keen to get as much enjoyment out of life as you can. Still, as the Sun draws closer to prudent Saturn, you may be ready to give a hundred percent to an idea that could enhance your income in a very solid way. There’s also potential for a romantic evening in or a get-together at a friend’s home. Relaxing and doing nothing can also appeal.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

To spend or not to spend? This could be a dilemma over coming days, especially if doing so might be the key to enjoying more success. If you get an inner push to link up with a life coach, go on a workshop or purchase some life-changing books, it could be well worth it. Let your intuition guide you Capricorn, and despite any uncertainty you will likely make a wise choice.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

You’ll be ready to commit to something that’s hard work, but good for your image in more ways than one. If you’re undecided about it, the next day or so could reveal many reasons to says yes. Plus, with Venus linking to Neptune, you’ll want to show your feelings for someone by doing something nice they’ll remember. Attending an event? It will be a great night out, Aquarius.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

You’ll view the world through a very romantic lens, that could cast a rosy glow over the affairs of the day. Whether you’re making the most of Valentine’s Day, are keeping it low key or not bothering, you’ll still manage to make this day special. Your imagination will be at a peak, and your ideas will have a brilliant, magical quality that will make you stand out from the crowd.