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‘These Are Important Issues for Our People’ Aguada Mayor Airs Reconstruction Grievances in Person During Governor’s Northwestern Campaign Swing P6

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PREPA Bondholders Renew Request for Receiver to Take Control of PREPA

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PREPA bondholders renew request for receiver to control electric utility

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oldenTree Asset Management LP, Syncora Guarantee Inc. and holders and insurers of 40% of the estimated $8.29 billion in outstanding Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bonds have renewed a petition to seek a receiver to take control of the utility.

The bondholders and monolines submitted the motion last week, seeking a lift of the automatic stay imposed in the bankruptcy process to enforce “their statutory rights” for a mandatory receiver under section 207 of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Act and “such receiver will thereafter take control of PREPA and its property in accordance with the Authority Act.” A previous request for a receiver was denied by U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who is overseeing PREPA’s Title III bankruptcy process, and upheld by the First Circuit Court of Appeals, but the bondholders are using the appeal ruling to file the renewed motion. At the conclusion of its recent opinion, the First Circuit stated, that being said, “it appears the Title III court’s final summary judgment order in the adversary proceeding could open the door to a prompt ruling on a renewed (or entirely new) motion for relief.”

The bondholders said they were filing the renewed petition now, before the court starts confirmation hearings on PREPA’s debt adjustment plan, “before their undisputed property rights are wiped out entirely.”

Since the Title III case began, the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico “has knowingly and intentionally caused PREPA to flagrantly disregard and breach its obligations to the Bondholders by, among other things, misappropriating certain net revenues as defined in the Trust Agreement to pay for things that do not constitute current expenses,” the bondholders said.

They also said PREPA is failing and refusing to properly calculate and deposit net revenues into a sinking fund to further secure the utility’s obligation to repay the bonds.

“PREPA and the oversight board admit that, since the commencement of this Title III case, despite having collected and identified more than $3 billion of net revenues that should have been transferred to the applicable accounts that comprise the Sinking Fund under the unambiguous terms of the Trust Agreement, almost no Net Revenues or other moneys have been deposited

by PREPA into the applicable accounts that comprise the Sinking Fund or any of the other funds controlled by the Trustee to repay the bonds,” the bondholders said.

PREPA is required to deposit revenues to the credit of the Sinking Fund, which comprises three separate accounts: the Bond Service Account, the Redemption Account and the Reserve Account.

“Revenues are now gone, never to be replaced. It is hard to imagine a more direct or overt diminution in value,” the bondholders said. “Making matters more dire for the bondholders, this court ruled that the bondholders’ secured claim is limited to the amount on deposit in the applicable accounts that comprise the Sinking Fund, approximately $19 million today, even though PREPA’s manifold breaches of the Trust Agreement were the very reason that billions of dollars had not been deposited therein.”

The court has also estimated the bondholders’ $8.4 billion deficiency claim in the amount of $2.38 billion by making a present value calculation of what it thought would be paid into the Sinking Fund if a receiver were appointed, the very remedy movants now seek to exercise, they said.

As the confirmation hearing approaches, the bondholders said, the oversight board is moving forward with its corrected fourth amended Title III plan of adjustment PREPA that will “provide for the ongoing misappropriation of Net Revenues in perpetuity, pay non-settling Bondholders mere pennies on the dollar, strip away the property rights of the Bondholders to obtain mandatory appointment of a receiver granted them under the Authority Act and the Trust Agreement, and “settle” away the Bondholders’ statutory right to priority payment ahead of creditors whose claims do not constitute current expenses.”

U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain

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Pierluisi signs bills strengthening international banking oversight

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia has signed two bills into law to strengthen the oversight of international banking and financial entities operating in Puerto Rico to combat money laundering.

With both measures, House Bill (HB) 1699 and HB 1700, the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions (OCIF) is allowed to conduct investigations for change of control of entities, issue cease and desist orders, and order to show cause. The bills also enable the OCIF to carry out agreements and initiate procedures under the Uniform Administrative Procedure Laws.

The OCIF will be empowered to impose fines and administrative sanctions for violations of the laws, as well as OCIF regulations and orders. Additionally, it may hire and appoint a liquidator to be Gov. Pedro Pierluisi in charge of the involuntary liquidation process of financial institutions. In fact, the OCIF may investigate all shareholders Likewise, and by amending the Regor holders who participate in the capital ulatory Law of the International Banking of financial entities to ensure the legality Center, the fee to request and renew a of their funds. banking license has been increased. The

proponent will be responsible for the research expenses generated due to its application. Likewise, the annual licensing fees per office have been increased,

the paid-in capital requirement has been tempered, a charge for the transfer of control of more than 10 percent has been established, and the judicial reconsideration and review procedure has been established to address any denial of a permit or license application, among other provisions.

Both the OCIF and the Bankers Association expressed support for the measures.

Other measures signed by the governor late last week were Senate Joint Resolution 344 and House Joint Resolutions (HJR) 491 and 428. The first measure reallocates $10,000 from Joint Resolution 315-1994 to the municipality of Vega Baja to carry out permanent works and improvements. Meanwhile, HJR 491 designates highway PR-362 in the Minillas neighborhood of San Germán with the name Isaac Llantín Ballester. HJR 428, meanwhile, designates the access road to the Los Orama sector of Jayuya with the name Marcelino Orama.

Lastly, the governor also signed HB 1589, which declares the second Saturday of February of each year as “Puerto Rican Film Day.”

Suspension of in-person work in House said likely to be lifted by March 4

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ouse of Representatives legal counsel Jorge Martínez Luciano said late last week that in all “probability,” on or before March 4, which is the deadline established

by House Speaker Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez, the suspension of face-to-face work in the lower chamber due to COVID-19 infections will be lifted.

“It is more likely than improbable that the restriction will be lifted on March 4,” Martínez Luciano told reporters following a court hearing Friday before Judge Anthony Cuevas Ramos, after Dignity Project Rep. Lisie Burgos Muñíz was not allowed to enter the House earlier in the week because she was not wearing a mask, a restriction imposed in the face of an alleged increase in coronavirus cases.

As an alternative, Martínez Luciano proposed that the legislator can carry out her work virtually, through the Zoom platform, for which he noted that, at this stage, a “reasonable accommodation” will be sought.

“We have until Wednesday. The plaintiff

asked for until Tuesday to oppose our motion to [dismiss] last [Thursday] night and we, before Wednesday, are going to prove what the facilities are that exist for the representative if she does not want to be in person in the chamber, because she does not want to put on a mask, then she can exercise her right to debate and vote,” Martínez Luciano said. “Certainly the representation that was made to us is that it was only the face-to-face appearance, the one that requires a mask of course, it has been used for committees and I don’t see why it cannot be used, certainly we are going to meet with the speaker, then there will be a statement on what will be the mechanism of special accommodation or reasonable accommodation of the beliefs of the representative, if it’s required.”

Juan Manuel Fronteras, the lawmaker’s lawyer, said the option of legislating by Zoom is not available.

“Well, the situation here is that none of the orders issued, which are the ones we are elucidating in court, open that option and the statements of the speaker of the House publicly and through orders that he has issued do not

provide space [for that],” Fronteras said. “So that issue of bringing that up now, right, and I know the court brings it up as a measure of a possible analysis of the speaker’s perspective, at present that’s not an option. Therefore, we

Judge Anthony Cuevas Ramos

are not going to continue with our process, our claim, and we are going to proceed to oppose the motion that has been filed and amend the complaint aimed at including the last order, which we believe to be worse than the first.”

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Students at Bayamón school receive instruction in personal finance

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ith the aim of offering financial tools, promoting savings habits and imparting knowledge about credit, priority management, budgeted purchases, among other topics, teachers at Gedalias Bilingual Academy in Bayamón are offering their students a class in finance starting in the secondary grades.

According to the 2021 report “Financial Education Around the World” by the World Bank, in Puerto Rico, only 32% of people are financially literate, which means that seven out of 10 island residents lack an education in personal finance.

“Financial education is vital for making decisions that allow us to move forward and get closer to our goals and well-being,” school director Yolyhalmarie Hernández said.

“At Gedalias Bilingual Academy we are very aware of this issue and as a business owner, entrepreneur and mother of

Gedalias Bilingual Academy Director Yolyhalmarie Hernández

three children, it is my moral duty to open the doors so that the minds of these children are directed to what they will find in the real world.”

“These young people are equipping themselves with knowledge to recognize risks and make good financial decisions that will benefit them in their lives,” she added.

The class focuses on introductory concepts of finance, introduction to credit, savings strategies, recording expenses, setting goals and managing priorities. Students are also instructed on the calculation of taxes and interest, sales workshops and budgeted purchases.

“Financial education is not an option. We are training future leaders to not only make money, but also manage it wisely,” Hernández said. “Teaching a child to make money is important, but what they really need is to know how to manage it, because regardless of the sums they generate, they will learn how to multiply them. And that is true success in finance.”

HTA seeks investment management firm to handle $980 million in toll road PPP proceeds

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he Highways and Transportation Authority (HTA) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) seeking bids from firms that provide investment management services for some $980 million in proceeds that the HTA obtained from the public-private partnership agreement to manage four toll roads.

The RFP was posted on the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority’s website. Interested parties have until March 15 to submit offers, the document noted.

The notice says the HTA’s overall investment objectives are, in order of priority, principal security, liquidity of funds and maximizing investment income. Investment practices and procedures must comply with federal and Puerto Rico laws and a written investment policy to be developed by the investment manager together with the HTA. On Dec. 14, 2023, the HTA and the Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority completed the financial closing of a long-term concession granted by HTA to Puerto Rico TollRoads LLC, owned by Spanish infrastructure operator Abertis Infraestructuras S.A. Under the concession agreement, Puerto Rico TollRoads LLC paid a concession fee to the HTA of $2.85

billion and assumed responsibility for operating, maintaining and improving the PR-20, PR-52, PR-53 and PR-66 toll roads extending across Puerto Rico for the next 40 years.

A portion of the initial amount was used to pay all of the HTA’s outstanding obligations and fund transaction expenses, with the remaining balance, estimated at approximately $980 million, to be used to fund projects for the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of non-toll roads to achieve a state of good repair and extend the life cycle of existing highway infrastructure, implement highway capacity enhancements, provide highway congestion relief, complete the Puerto Rico strategic highway network, and enhance multimodal transportation, including, but not limited to, completing streets, scenic byways, bicycle routes and pedestrian walkways, among other modes.

The HTA is requesting proposals from qualified firms to provide investment management and custodial services for the net proceeds.

The selected firm must provide credit analysis of investment instruments recommended for the portfolio, evaluate market risk and develop strategies that minimize its impact on the portfolio, and provide monthly/quarterly/annual reporting on the portfolio.

In December, the Highways and Transportation Authority and the Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority completed the financial closing of a long-term concession granted to Puerto Rico TollRoads LLC, owned

by Spanish infrastructure operator Abertis Infraestructuras S.A., for operating, maintaining and improving the PR-20, PR-52, PR-53 and PR-66 toll roads for the next 40 years.

ICF: Remains found in Loíza are those of missing Colombian citizen

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The Institute of Forensic Sciences confirmed that skeletal remains found on a farm in Loíza belong to a Colombian citizen reported missing Jan. 26.

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human skeleton found on a farm at the intersection of highways PR-951 and PR-187 in Loíza was identified by personnel from the Institute of Forensic Sciences through comparison of dental x-rays.

According to reports, the remains are those of John Bo-

laños Gómez, a citizen of Colombian nationality.

Bolaños Gómez was reported missing on Jan. 26, on the grounds of the Mansiones Vista Mar Marina urbanization in Carolina.

According to the police, at around 11:52 a.m. on Friday, a call was received alerting them to the discovery of the skeleton.

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Aguada mayor takes advantage of governor’s visit to air grievances

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guada Mayor Christian Cortés Feliciano took advantage of Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia’s visit to the northwestern coastal town on Sunday for political meetings to make public his demands about pending projects that demand urgent attention.

“Indeed, I wanted to bring to the attention of the governor several issues that will surely not be discussed in his meetings today, but that it is up to his administration to address and that unfortunately to this day remain unresolved,” Cortés Feliciano said. “These are important issues for our people. The first, and surely the most urgent, is the incredible problem that the management of the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) has to provide a stable drinking water service in our town. There is no reliable service, but the bills arrive in the mailboxes without fail.”

The mayor, who is also an engineer, drew attention to an unattended landslide on state highway PR-417 in the Marías neighborhood (next to the El Grand Marnier Restaurant), as well as another landslide on PR-411 in the Jagüey neighborhood close to Epifanio Estrada School.

Similarly, the laying of asphalt on highway PR-417 is urgent;ly needed “from kilometer 4.64 to kilometer 11.00, from the Mamey neighborhood to the PR-2 exit in the Cerro Gordo neighborhood,” Cortés Feliciano said.

Aguada Mayor Christian Cortés Feliciano

In addition, PR-2 in Aguada needs asphalt attention, as do other landslides on state highways caused by Hurricanes Irma, María and Fiona that endanger the safety of citizens and hinder access to essential services, the mayor pointed out.

“Specifically, we are talking about PR-411 in the Jagüey and Atalaya neighborhoods, PR-419 in the neighborhoods of Naranjo, PR-417 in the Cerro Gordo neighborhoods and PR-414 in the neighborhoods of Cruces, among

others,” Cortés Feliciano said. “Particularly worrisome is the landslide on state highway PR-115, in front of the Cooperative Center of our town, and the delays in the city’s revitalization projects, which are vital for the economic and social development of our town.”

“The truth is that these projects are at the mercy of a battle of egos between the technical teams of the Department of Housing, Horne and Tetra Tech,” the mayor said.

“Take for example the South Detour project, on which the municipality has complied with everything, including building permits, and is waiting for the Department of Housing for a document -- a single document! -- to get started. I also brought to the governor’s attention the urgent need for the opening of the Government Center, and of course, the serious problem of coastal erosion on our shores of Aguada. I indicated to the governor that these matters are the responsibility of the state government to deal with. It is their responsibility to make things happen.”

The citizens of Aguada have also pointed out that the town’s old factories and facilities of the Industrial Development Company are abandoned and in disuse, Cortés Feliciano said. The mayor suggested that “if they transfer these facilities to the municipalities at nominal cost, we could fix them and rent them to citizens of our towns who have the need for spaces for their companies.”

“In Aguada we believe in and promote entrepreneurship,” he said.

In Moca, governor says ‘The Flare’ of social justice drives NPP’s struggle for statehood

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n the setting of Labadie Castle, the birthplace of the novel “La Llamarada” (“The Flare”), Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, president of the New Progressive Party (NPP), stressed on Sunday that the party’s work for social justice on behalf of all the people, inspired by the example of Don Luis A. Ferré, continues to guide the New Progressives in the struggle for statehood.

Accompanied by resident commissioner candidate William Villafañe Ramos, Moca Mayor Ángel Beto Pérez Rodríguez, former Moca Mayor Enrique “Kike” Avilés, legislative leaders and hundreds of supporters, district directors, candidates and neighborhood leaders from the northwest region of the island, Pierluisi said that no candidacy is more important than achieving equality for all American citizens of Puerto Rico.

In that sense, the governor said he was very proud of all those who step forward from any position to guarantee the continuity of a government that, in defense of social justice, has faced a Legislature that obstructs and hinders, and a Financial Oversight and Management Board that “takes the machete to us,” in a reference to the literary work of Enrique Laguerre.

“Ferré taught us that our cause is not over until Puerto Rico becomes the next state of the nation,” Pierluisi said.

“This fight is for the poor, for women heads of households, stimulates us and encourages us from heaven. We will for our workforce, for our seniors and for our youth. In continue to fight for the causes that unite us and we will short, it is a fight for a dignified status that guarantees never give up.”

Present at the event were several NPP legislators, as equality for the American citizens of Puerto Rico.”

The NPP president noted that Puerto Rico has always well as candidates seeking legislative seats under the La progressed under the governments of “La Palma” and that Palma banner, along with several other NPP mayors. the island has experienced sustained growth in the past three years.

“Today we have 125,000 more jobs than at the beginning of the current administration and we have the lowest level of unemployment in our history,” Pierluisi said.

The governor asserted further that the NPP’s commitment to public works has been seen throughout the island in the past three years.

From 81 reconstruction projects completed at the beginning of the current four-year term, today nearly 2,900 projects have been completed, he said. There have also been wage increases, both in the private sector and in government, he added.

“It’s easy to criticize from the sidelines,” Pierluisi said. “What is difficult and what Gov. Pedro Pierluisi told a gathering of New Progressive Party faithful we have achieved is to produce results on in Moca on Sunday that no candidacy is more important than achieving the field. Don Luis inspires us, guides us, equality for all American citizens of Puerto Rico.

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As Gaza death toll mounts, the peace lobby fights for influence in Washington

By KATE KELLY

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hen the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the most influential pro-Israel group in the United States, wants to use its muscle, it can call on its considerable resources to run negative ads against lawmakers who oppose its agenda and pour money into funding a challenger.

When the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker group that is pushing for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, wants to push its message, its Middle East lobbyist turns to tactics like playing guitar with schoolchildren in the occupied West Bank and sharing video messages about their fears with members of Congress on Capitol Hill.

Going up against the many forces backing Israel is a challenge for any group.

But the clash is especially striking when it comes to the Friends Committee, whose anti-war positions are in sync with much of the left of the Democratic Party but run counter to Biden administration policy in the wake of the Hamas terror attack and face intense opposition on the right.

AIPAC, founded about 70 years ago to promote Israel’s interests in the U.S., is a juggernaut. Last year, its nonprofit arm reported more than $73 million in revenue.

Last month, its political action committee, which supports candidates who embrace its policy priorities, reported record fundraising — bolstering a $40 million war chest that could be spent trying to defeat political opponents in Washington. It has the ear of congressional leaders in both parties.

The Friends Committee, which was founded during World War II, is part of what amounts to Washington’s peace lobby. It does not run a political action committee. It reports about $3 million in annual revenue. Its lobbying approach involves looking for “the divine in the people that we’re meeting with,” Sarah Freeman-Woolpert, the Quaker group’s deputy director of strategic advocacy, says in a video.

The group has draped a banner stating “Ceasefire Now!” in English, Arabic and Hebrew on the facade of its Second Street office, which faces the Hart Senate Office

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill, in Washington on Dec. 13, 2023. OcasioCortez was among dozens of lawmakers to send a letter to the White House in favor of a cease-fire in Gaza. (Kenny Holston/ The New York Times) Building on Capitol Hill.

“We’re clearly being outspent, but I think the saving grace is that our ideas are just more popular,” said Hassan ElTayyab, the Friends Committee’s Middle East legislative director.

“So our currency is people power, and getting constituents to lobby their members of Congress,” he said. “And that has a major impact. And you can’t necessarily buy that public support.”

But while polling suggests that American support for Israel’s tactics in the Gaza Strip is weakening as the civilian death toll there grows, groups like the Friends Committee and its coalition of more than 80 like-minded groups, including American Muslims for Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace and the Episcopal Church, are struggling to get traction for their message in Washington.

As Congress grapples with providing more aid to Israel, the Friends Committee and its political allies are pushing for an immediate cease-fire, more humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gazan,

continued funding for the U.N. aid group UNRWA and a cleareyed assessment of Israel’s human rights record.

AIPAC, which is supporting scores of Democrats and Republicans for reelection this cycle, is well known — and feared — in Washington. “Members of both parties worried about crossing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,” former President Barack Obama wrote in his 2020 memoir, echoing a refrain heard from lawmakers today.

AIPAC has recently run harsh ads spotlighting some lawmakers’ refusal to condemn the Oct. 7 terror attacks carried out

by Hamas. It plans to challenge incumbents such as Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., whose stances on Israel and the Palestinians it disagrees with.

The peace groups are largely focused on amplifying their influence with left-leaning Democrats — but hoping to win over more moderates along the way.

The Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, has been lobbying since its founding in the 1600s in England, said Jordan Landes, a Quaker historian at Swarthmore College. Quaker lobbying centers on a handful of themes, referred to as “testimonies,” including peace, equality and stewardship, Landes said.

The Friends Committee was founded in 1943, in the throes of World War II. It focuses on policy objectives like alleviating child poverty and ensuring funding to help fight the impact of climate change.

It also promotes peace around the world, not only in Gaza.

El-Tayyab is a self-described agnostic who grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was a musician in a roots rock band called American Nomad before becoming a lobbyist (he still plays frequent gigs). His

work on Middle East policy recently took him to Jerusalem and the West Bank city Ramallah, where he and other peace advocates met with faith and political leaders.

In Ramallah, he played his guitar and sang “I want a cease-fire now” to students at a local Quaker school assembly. He comforted some who were troubled by the war and its impact on them and their family members, promising “to relay those conversations to Congress when I get back.”

He also met with Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, while in the West Bank. Over cigarettes and tea, Abbas thanked El-Tayyab and his other visitors for their work lobbying for a cease-fire, according to two people who were there.

A New York Times/Siena poll in December showed that 44% of respondents believed that Israel should stop its military campaign in Gaza, with 39% believing that Israel should continue (18% of respondents didn’t know or declined to answer). A January poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research showed that 50% of adults surveyed believed that the war had “gone too far,” with 46% saying it had either been “about right” or “not gone far enough.” As the Gaza health ministry reports that more than 28,000 Palestinians have been killed, El-Tayyab and his fellow peace lobbyists are pushing for a ceasefire not only on moral grounds, but also on practical ones.

“This is not sustainable,” said the Rev. Mae Elise Cannon, executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace, the group that convened the recent meeting with Abbas. “It’s not sustainable for Palestine, for the Israelis. Even if Gaza is rebuilt, this can’t continue, and so I think that’s a huge concern.”

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At rally in Michigan, Trump lashes out at judge who fined him $355 million

By NEIL VIGDOR

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ormer President Donald Trump vented about his latest legal defeat to freezing supporters at a Michigan rally Saturday night, a day after a New York judge fined him nearly $355 million plus interest in his civil fraud case.

The Republican front-runner for his party’s presidential nomination, Trump denied that he had conspired to manipulate his net worth, which he was found liable of by Justice Arthur Engoron in a ruling that could wipe out Trump’s entire cash stockpile.

“This judge is a lunatic,” he said in his opening salvo at his rally, held inside an airport hangar in Oakland County about 30 miles from Detroit.

Trump used a similar line of attack against Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, who had accused him of exaggerating his wealth in the lengthy case.

Barred by the judge for three years from serving in top roles at any New York company, including portions of his own Trump Organization, Trump cast aspersions on the justice system and said he had been persecuted.

Trump’s visit to Michigan overlapped with the first day of early, in-person voting in the state, which is using both a primary and a caucus-style convention to award delegates for the first time in Republican Party contests.

At the rally, the Trump campaign placed large signs urging supporters to take advantage of early voting.

“So you can do that or you can wait a

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a presidential primary campaign rally in North Charleston, S.C., Feb. 14, 2024. Eager to cast himself as inevitable, Trump has repeatedly invited speculation about his running mate. (Kendrick Brinson/The New York Times) little bit,” Trump mused to his supporters, many of whom had lined up for several hours in wind chills in the high single digits to low teens to attend.

In his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, Michigan played an outsize role for Trump, who in 2020 lost the state to Joe Biden.

Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan’s Democratic governor and a foil forTrump, cast the

former president on Saturday as a divisive extremist before his visit there.

In a statement issued through the Biden campaign, she said, “Michigan didn’t buy what Donald Trump was selling in 2020, and we won’t in 2024.”

Trump’s acceptance of early voting was a stark contrast from his contempt toward it in his previous campaigns, when he claimed without basis that it was a recipe for voter fraud.

“If we win Michigan, we’re going to win the election,” Trump said at his rally.

He later continued to spread falsehoods about voter fraud in the state. “We’ve got to watch Detroit. They had more ballots than they had voters.”

The state Republican Party has been consumed in chaos, and this past week two rival factions forged ahead with plans to hold dueling conventions March 2, one in western Michigan and the other in Detroit.

Both groups have proclaimed fierce loyalty to Trump, who, like the Republican National Committee, has made it clear whom he wants to lead the party in the key state: Pete Hoekstra, his former ambassador to the Netherlands and a former House member.

“I said, ‘Can you get Hoekstra?’” Trump said of his endorsement for the role.

But the Trump-styled election denier who has led the Michigan Republican Party for almost a year, Kristina Karamo, is clinging to power. She claims that a Jan. 6 vote to remove her by a group of state party leaders was illegitimate, defying the RNC’s recognition of Hoekstra on Wednesday as her rightfully elected replacement.

The infighting has drawn unwanted headlines and headaches for Republicans in Michigan, where Trump was averaging around a 60 percentage point lead over his last remaining rival in the nominating race, Nikki Haley, his former ambassador to the United Nations.

Trump’s relatively unimpeded march toward the nomination has belied the squall of legal setbacks surrounding him, both in the four criminal cases and other civil cases proceeding against him.

Perhaps the biggest yet came Friday, with the civil fraud fine, which could exceed $450 million with interest. It also undercut Trump’s relentlessly curated image of his business empire and personal fortune, his calling card that helped propel him to reality television stardom and then the presidency in 2016.

That judgment, along with recent one by a jury for $83.3 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of a decades-old rape, could deplete the former president’s entire stockpile of cash. (A jury previously found him liable for sexually assaulting Carroll.)

“Our court system is a mess,” Trump said.

He also attacked the prosecutor in his Georgia election interference case, Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, who has drawn scrutiny for her relationship with the lead prosecutor that she hired to manage the case, Nathan Wade.

“What do you think of Fani?” Trump said derisively. “Fani, that’s pronounced fanny, but you’re not allowed to say it.”

Her name is pronounced FAH-nee.

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A game, a parade, a shooting: The story of America in three acts

By JOHN BRANCH

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merica’s most communal cultural event, the Super Bowl, featured a wildly popular team from Kansas City cheered by a global pop star who is dating the tight end. After the Chiefs won, she kissed her boyfriend under the falling confetti.

Three days later, the city held a massive parade and celebration where gunfire broke out, scattering panicked fans in football jerseys, killing a woman and hurting 22 others, about half of them kids.

Super Bowl. Parade. Shooting.

Is there a more American story than that?

The shooting was not directly related to football, in the way that a shooting at a mall is not related to shopping. But every such shooting feels like a crime against American culture. Settings have included schools, colleges, movie theaters, churches and synagogues, grocery stores, concerts.

There is now a subset of mass shootings occurring at parades.

No parcel of American public life feels completely safe. No shooting feels like a surprise, except to the people who live through it.

This one was a coda to the global sporting event where we celebrate all things American — from football to Usher, military flyovers to the Puppy Bowl.

What if a shooting happened at a massive hometown celebration of the champions, in a crowd of people wearing team gear?

It felt like an unoriginal plot device. But deadly shootings happen so regularly in the United States that only the wildest circumstances bring attention.

Chiefs players were nearby. Some were rushed away. One, offensive lineman Trey Smith, described being squeezed into a closet, hiding while trying to calm a little boy. It was luck that the death toll was not higher.

“One of the cultural problems is that we are losing the ability to be in community with one another,” said Jason Kander, a fifth-generation Kansas City resident, a Democratic former Missouri secretary of state and an advocate for tighter gun laws.

“And when we cannot safely gather and celebrate, it’s only going to exacerbate the problem.”

That is the concern of Frank White, a Democrat and the elected county executive of Jackson County (which includes Kansas City) who played 18 seasons with baseball’s Kansas City Royals. He rode in the parade and was onstage outside Union Station for

People gather for a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at the Super Bowl parade, in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 15, 2024. When the Super Bowl was followed by a shooting at the winning team’s victory celebration, disparate elements of American culture collided.

(Chase Castor/The New York Times) the celebration, along with his wife, two grown granddaughters and several others.

They were ushered inside and got separated in the chaos. Panicked people rushed the doors. People hid for about 30 minutes, quietly and with phones silenced, the way American children are now taught in schools.

“You always want to put on the best show for your city, at a time when a lot of people have eyes on you,” White said.

“And you take pride in your city not being part of a mass shooting like this. So it was discouraging. It’s about showcasing your city and your civic pride, but at the same time, you’re frustrated because gun violence around the nation is just out of control.”

Wednesday was Valentine’s Day, the sixth anniversary of the shooting that killed 17 at a Parkland, Florida, high school. It was also the 45th day of 2024, and by that night, there had been 49 mass shootings in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive. (The archive defines them as shootings in which at least four people are killed or hurt, not including the shooter.)

The Kansas City shooting raised familiar questions about the intersection of American sports and culture. Are sports events, and the parades that celebrate them, a place to forget the real world, or experience it?

Bob Kendrick is the president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. His 12-year-old granddaughter and some of the museum’s

ritual: frightened people running from a employees attended the parade.

He knows more than most that sports danger they can’t pinpoint.

“All of us start to become members always have been a prism for issues of race, gender, fairness, economics and violence. of this club that none of us want to be a When discussing the shooting, Kendrick part of,” said Quinton Lucas, the mayor of invoked Buck O’Neil talking about Jackie Kansas City, who was at the parade with Robinson’s becoming the first Black player his wife and mother.

A 43-year-old named Elizabeth Galvan, in baseball’s major leagues. It was a sports moment, but also far more than that. People also known as Lisa Lopez-Galvan, was came to games just to boo Robinson, killed, and 22 others, ages 8 to 47, were O’Neil would say. They weren’t baseball injured. Two teenagers were in custody.

Then came the ritualistic responses, the fans. The country had — has — issues to offerings of thoughts and prayers, the pleas confront, always.

“There are few things in our society that for gun reforms, the rhetorical questions galvanize as much as sport,” Kendrick said. about how much is enough and why this “Maybe music. And, of course, baseball seems to be such a uniquely American was at the forefront of that galvanization.” problem.

What bothers Kander, beyond the traFootball may be at the forefront today.

And when it binds people together, in Kan- gedy and the numbing repetition of gun sas City and around the world, it feels like violence, is what the shooting means for Sunday’s Super Bowl, or like Wednesday’s Kansas City. The city was surging with pride, parade, before the shooting began. he said, with the Chiefs, Taylor Swift and “And now it raises the issue of gun the news that Arrowhead Stadium, home of laws again, particularly in this state, and the football team, would be a site of World systematic issues that every city has to deal Cup soccer games in 2026. with,” Kendrick said. “It just makes you “Kansas City has felt like the center of think about things that you should think the universe, and that is not something about, anyway, but you don’t necessarily that people here, including myself, have want to think about, particularly in that ever come close to experiencing,” Kander moment.” said. “That transfers to the way that you feel Victory parades are a distraction planted about yourself.” in the outside world, with their sprawling, The parade was not just about a football unsecured crowds. In Denver last June, game. It was more than that — a culminatwo people were shot near the end of tion, a civic pronouncement.

And then the site of another tragic the championship parade for the NBA’s Nuggets. Days earlier, when the Nuggets shooting.

By Wednesday night, the scene near won the title, a shooting near the team’s Union Station looked like a postgame arena injured at least 10.

Wednesday in Kansas City was a day parking lot after a big game, covered with of warm sunshine. Police estimated that 1 trash and discarded bottles.

But it was also different. There were million people came to cheer the Chiefs, most of them in team colors. School had abandoned clothes, lawn chairs, strollers. been canceled for the occasion — a “red There was police tape. And there were tiny snow day.” Fans hung from trees and light square pieces of colorful paper, the red and poles. About 850 police officers were gold confetti that showered people there to celebrate all those good things of the sprinkled around downtown.

The Kansas City Star called it “the biggest past few days. celebration in Kansas City’s history.”

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Amazon argues labor board is unconstitutional

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n the latest sign of a growing backlash within corporate America to the 88-year-old federal agency that enforces labor rights, Amazon argued in a legal filing Thursday that the National Labor Relations Board was unconstitutional.

The move followed a similar argument by SpaceX, the rocket company founded and run by Elon Musk, in a legal complaint in January, and by Trader Joe’s during a labor board hearing a few weeks later.

The labor board consists of a prosecutorial arm, which issues complaints against employers or unions deemed to have violated federally protected labor rights; administrative judges, who hear complaints; and a five-member board in Washington, to which decisions can be appealed.

Amazon’s filing was part of a case before an administrative judge in which labor board prosecutors have accused Amazon of illegally retaliating against workers at a Staten Island, New York, warehouse known as JFK8, which unionized two years ago.

The company’s lawyers repeatedly denied in their filing that Amazon had broken the law. Then, under a section titled “Other Defenses,” they argued that “the structure of the N.L.R.B. violates the separation of powers” by “impeding the executive power provided

Amazon Labor Union supporters during a rally near the Amazon Air Hub in Hebron, Ky., on Saturday, March 18, 2023. (Jon Cherry/The New York Times) for in Article II of the United States Constitution.”

The company also argued that the board or its actions or proceedings violated Articles I and III of the Constitution, as well as the Fifth and Seventh Amendments — in the last case because, the filing said, board hearings can seek legal remedies beyond what’s allowed without a trial by jury.

Amazon declined to comment.

The claims it made in the filing echo arguments

that lawyers for SpaceX made in a federal lawsuit last month, after the labor board issued a complaint accusing the company of illegally firing eight employees for criticizing Musk. SpaceX sued in Texas, but a federal judge there Thursday granted the board’s motion to transfer the case to California, where the company’s headquarters are located.

In a statement, the board’s general counsel, Jennifer A. Abruzzo, said, “I am pleased that SpaceX’s blatant forum-shopping efforts in Texas attempting to enjoin the agency’s litigation against it have failed.”

Wilma Liebman, a chair of the labor board under President Barack Obama, called the arguments by Amazon and SpaceX “radical,” adding that “the constitutionality of the NLRB was settled nearly 90 years ago by the Supreme Court.”

The arguments appear to align with a broader conservative effort to question the constitutionality of a variety of regulatory actions, some of which have resulted in cases before the Supreme Court.

In January, the Supreme Court also agreed to hear a case brought by Starbucks, which is challenging the standard federal judges use to reinstate employees who are fired during a union campaign. The outcome of the case could rein in the labor board’s long-standing practice of seeking reinstatement for workers while their cases are litigated, a process that can take years.

OpenAI completes deal that values the company at $80 billion

By CADE METZ and TRIPP MICKLE

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penAI has completed a deal that values the San Francisco artificial intelligence company at $80 billion or more, nearly triple its valuation in less than 10 months, according to three people with knowledge of the deal.

The company would sell existing shares in a socalled tender offer led by venture firm Thrive Capital, the people said. The deal lets employees cash out their shares in the company, rather than a traditional funding round that would raise money for business operations.

OpenAI, which declined to comment, is now one of the world’s most valuable tech startups, behind ByteDance and SpaceX, according to figures from data tracker CB Insights.

The deal is another example of the Silicon Valley deal-making machine pumping money into a handful of companies that specialize in generative AI — technology that can generate text, sounds and images on its own. The funding boom kicked off early last year,

after OpenAI captured the public’s imagination with the release of the online chatbot ChatGPT. (The New York Times sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, in December, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to AI systems.)

The deal comes at a critical time for OpenAI, providing it with an important vote of confidence after a year of controversy. In November, the company’s board fired Sam Altman, its CEO, because it lost confidence in his leadership. The dismissal ignited a week of chaos and threw the company’s future into doubt, as employees threatened to resign in solidarity with Altman. Ultimately, he was reinstated and several board members resigned.

In an attempt to resolve last year’s turmoil, OpenAI hired law firm WilmerHale to review the board’s actions and Altman’s leadership. WilmerHale is expected to finish its report on the episode early this year.

The company agreed to a similar deal early last year. Venture capital firms Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and K2 Global agreed to

buy OpenAI shares in a tender offer, valuing the company at around $29 billion.

Investors are eager to pour money into AI companies. Last January, Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI, bringing its total investment in the San Francisco startup to $13 billion.

Thrive did not respond to a request for comment.

Since then, Anthropic, an OpenAI rival, has raised $6 billion from Google and Amazon. Cohere, a startup founded by former Google researchers, raised $270 million, bringing its total funding to more than $440 million, and Inflection AI, founded by a former Google executive, also raised a $1.3 billion round, bringing its total to $1.5 billion.

OpenAI appeared to be close to finalizing its latest deal in November, when Altman was unexpectedly fired. In the week that followed, the potential deal loomed over Altman’s efforts to negotiate his way back into the company. Before he was reinstated, over 700 of the company’s 770 employees signed a petition calling for his reinstatement.

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Global equity funds see big inflows amid stock rally G lobal equity funds racked up significant inflows in the week to Feb. 14 propelled by investor optimism amid a robust stock market rally, despite lingering uncertainties over the Federal Reserve’s rate cut plans.

According to data from LSEG, investors acquired a net $9.12 billion worth of global equity funds during the week, marking their largest weekly net purchase since Dec. 27, 2023.

Investors raised their holdings as global stocks rallied to their two-year peaks this week.

The MSCI world stock index overcame a 1.1% dip early in the week, driven by a higher-than-expected U.S. inflation reading, to hit a new two-year peak of 752.55 on Friday.

The U.S. equity funds received $6.78 billion, the biggest weekly inflow in seven weeks.

Investors also purchased about $1.74 billion worth of Asian equity funds but sold European funds of a net $151 million.

Among sector funds, tech received $2.66 billion in a fifth successive week of net buying. Industrials and consumer discretionary sectors also drew about $277 million and $242 million, respectively.

Meanwhile, global bond funds garnered about $11.25 billion in net purchases, extending inflows into an eighth consecutive week.

Corporate bond funds drew $2.47 billion, the biggest inflow in four weeks, while government, and loan participation funds secured about $1.72 billion and $467 million, respectively, in net purchases.

At the same time, investors offloaded $41.48 billion worth of money market funds after two weeks of net buying in a row.

In commodities, investors withdrew $654 million out of precious metal funds, extending outflows into a seventh successive week. Energy funds also witnessed about $77 million worth of net selling.

Data covering 28,577 emerging market funds showed equity funds received $382 million, the first weekly inflow in five weeks, while bond funds had outflows, worth about $85 million on a net basis.

U.S. stocks fell on Friday with the Nasdaq showing the largest decline after a hotter-than-expected producer prices report eroded hopes for imminent interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.

A Labor Department report showed producer prices increased more than expected in January, feeding fears inflation was picking up after months of cooling. After five consecutive weeks of gains, all three indexes posted a weekly decline.

The data could encourage the Fed to wait before cutting rates. Earlier this week, a hot consumer prices report sparked a selloff in equity markets although a slump in January retail sales on Thursday stoked hopes of rate cuts.

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“The inflation data this week are definitely going to keep the Fed at least on pause until summer,” said Carol Schleif, chief investment officer at BMO family office. “Data is bumpy, it’s not a straight line.”

Treasury yields spiked after the report as traders added to bets the Fed may defer the first rate cut until after June.

“The theme of higher for longer is really the continuing market narrative” for interest rates, said Greg Bassuk, Chief Executive Officer at AXS Investments.

Two Fed officials expressed caution. Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said he needed more evidence inflation pressures are easing, but is open to lowering rates at some point in the next few months. San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said “there is more work to do” to ensure stable prices, despite remarkable progress.

The S&P 500 lost 24.18 points, or 0.49%, to end at 5,005.15 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 132.38 points, or 0.83%, to 15,775.65. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 149.48 points, or 0.39%, to 38,623.64.

Most megacap stocks dropped, with Meta Platforms falling 2.2% and dragging the S&P 500 communication services index down 1.56%.

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Netanyahu says he won’t bow to pressure to call off Rafah invasion

By ADAM RASGON and AARON BOXERMAN

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rime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel insisted Saturday that Israel would not bow to international pressure to call off its plan for a ground invasion of Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip that is now packed with more than 1 million Palestinians.

Many of the people now in Rafah are displaced and living in schools, tents or the homes of friends and relatives, part of a desperate search for any safe refuge from Israel’s military campaign, which has dragged on for more than four months. Their lives are a daily struggle to find enough food and water to survive.

“Those who want to prevent us from operating in Rafah are basically telling us: Lose the war,” Netanyahu said at a news conference in Jerusalem on Saturday evening. “It’s true that there’s a lot of opposition abroad, but this is exactly the moment that we need to say that we won’t be doing a half or a third of the job.”

About the same time as Netanyahu addressed the news conference, thousands of anti-government protesters filled a central thoroughfare in Tel Aviv — the largest protest against the prime minister in months.

They filled the same street where mass protests against Netanyahu’s efforts to weaken the country’s judiciary riled the nation before the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

Calls for an immediate election rose above a din of air horns. Protesters lit a red flare in the middle of a drum circle while others wielding flags stared down half a dozen police officers on horseback.

“The people need to rise up, and the

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel during a meeting with President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 18, 2023. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) government needs to go,” said one protester, Yuval Lerner, 57. Lerner said that even before the war, he lost confidence that the government has the nation’s best interest at heart, but “Oct. 7 proved it,” he said.

Netanyahu’s comments also came as world leaders and international organizations were raising alarms that an invasion of Rafah would only compound the humanitarian disaster for displaced Palestinians.

Josep Borrell, the European Union’s top

diplomat, reiterated Saturday his appeal to Israel to refrain from launching a military operation in Rafah “that would worsen an already catastrophic humanitarian situation.”

Netanyahu, however, said Palestinians would be permitted to leave Rafah and contended that there was “a lot of space” north of the city where civilians could resettle.

The Israeli leader played down the chances of a quick breakthrough in indirect talks with Hamas on a cease-fire in exchange for a hostage release. He said that Hamas — the armed group that long controlled Gaza and which led the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that started the war — was making “ludicrous” demands in those negotiations.

Explaining his decision to stop Israeli officials from participating in follow-up negotiations in Cairo earlier this week, the prime minister went on to say Hamas had not compromised on its demands “one nanometer.”

“There’s nothing to do until we see a change,” he added.

Earlier on Saturday, Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas’ political wing, issued a statement accusing Israel of “procrastinating” in addressing Hamas’ demands. Hamas has been calling for a comprehensive ceasefire, the reconstruction of Gaza, the end of Israel’s blockade of the territory and the re-

lease of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

President Joe Biden said at a news conference Friday that he didn’t expect Israel to invade Rafah while efforts to free the hostages were ongoing.

South Africa this week asked the International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ top judicial body, to intervene to stop Israel’s planned advance into Rafah. But on Friday, the court declined to issue new constraints aimed at preventing such an incursion.

Instead, it said the “perilous situation” in Gaza, including in Rafah, required Israel to abide by its previous ruling last month, which included taking “all measures within its power” to prevent the crime of genocide by its forces.

Netanyahu has called the charge that Israel has engaged in genocide “false” and “outrageous.”

Israeli officials have insisted that an incursion into Rafah is needed to destroy tunnels between Egypt and Gaza and to try to root out Palestinian militants there. But the Israelis have not yet presented a plan to evacuate civilians as the U.S., Israel’s closest ally, has demanded.

Many civilians sheltering in Rafah have already moved multiple times as Israel’s military campaign has pushed farther south, and some have said their homes north of the city have been destroyed and they have grown tired of repeatedly relocating.

“If they want to come here — amid all these people — there will be massacres,” said Khalil el-Halabi, 70, one of the many displaced Palestinians from northern Gaza who have sought shelter in Rafah.

Some displaced Palestinians have now moved back north toward Deir al Balah in central Gaza, according to the U.N.’s humanitarian coordinator.

People in Rafah have grown so desperate for food that they are stopping aid trucks and eating what they manage to get on the spot, according to the United Nations.

As the Israeli invasion of Rafah looms, neighboring Egypt has grown increasingly concerned that an Israeli operation in the city could send Palestinian refugees streaming into its territory. Egypt has warned Israel of “dire consequences” should Israeli forces embark on a ground operation in Rafah.

But Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, tried to assuage those concerns Friday, saying Israel had “no intention of evacuating Palestinian civilians to Egypt.”

Israel and Egypt have had a decadeslong peace treaty that is a cornerstone of stability in the Middle East.

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Five places Russia is fighting to break through Ukrainian lines

By MARC SANTORA, SCOTT REINHARD and JOSH HOLDER

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kraine is engaged in a desperate fight to hold back the Russian onslaught.

Russian forces captured the longtime Ukrainian stronghold of Avdiivka before dawn on Saturday, Moscow’s first major battlefield gain since it took Bakhmut last May. But across the entire 600-mile long front, Ukraine is short on ammunition without renewed U.S. military assistance, and it is struggling to replenish its own depleted forces after two years of brutal fighting.

Russia’s assault has split into five major lines of attack, spanning towns and cities across much of the front in eastern and southern Ukraine. Here is the status of Russia’s offensive in five crucial battles: 1. Avdiivka: Russia captured a longtime Ukrainian stronghold.

The now-destroyed city of Avdiivka covers only some 12 square miles. But for the better part of a decade it carved a bulge in the front line that undermined crucial Russian logistical operations. It sits only a few miles from the city of Donetsk, which Russia has occupied since 2014.

In recent weeks, Russian forces have breached a crucial supply line and threatened to encircle Ukrainian soldiers. Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, head of Ukraine’s forces in the south, said Ukraine had no choice but to withdraw.

“In a situation where the enemy is advancing on the corpses of their own soldiers with a 10-to-1 shell advantage, under constant bombardment, this is the only correct solution,” he said in a statement.

It’s not clear how far the Russians might be able to push this fight beyond Avdiivka, or how well Ukrainians have constructed their next lines of defense. But the next major population centers, home to tens of thousands of civilians, are only about 35 miles to the west.

Roughly 50,000 Russian soldiers have been dedicated to the fight for Avdiivka in this direction, although the numbers fluctuated. Tens of thousands of Russians have been killed or wounded, according to Western and Ukrainian officials, but Russia has steadily replenished their ranks, including using convicts to join the fighting.

Even if the lines stabilize after the Russians take the city, its fall allows the Russian military to move troops and equipment more efficiently behind the line as it presses in other directions.

Ukrainian soldiers from the 71st Jaeger Brigade in the area of Avdiivka, Ukraine, on Feb. 14, 2024. Ukraine ordered the complete withdrawal from the decimated city of Avdiivka before dawn on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, surrendering a position that had been a military stronghold for the better part of a decade, in the face of withering Russian assault. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) 2. Marinka: A destroyed town is now a base for Russian attacks.

By last month, Russian forces had finally cleared out the last Ukrainian defenders of Marinka, another longtime front-line town.

There is very little left of Marinka after two years of Russian bombardments and battles. But its capture has allowed the Russians to turn their attention to the south and another vital Ukrainian stronghold, Vuhledar.

Last year, the Russians repeatedly tried to attack Vuhledar from the south and suffered catastrophic losses, including a devastating defeat in one of the largest tank battles of the war.

But with Marinka under control, the Russians are attacking Vuhledar from the north.

They are currently advancing through the village of Novomykhailivka, which is about 13 miles to the northeast.

It is not clear how many forces the Russians have amassed in this direction, but Ukrainian officials have said Russia has kept around 40,000 in the nearby Mariupol area to be deployed for attacks from the south.

Soldiers fighting in the Vuhledar area said the fall of Avdiivka, 55 miles to the northeast, would likely free up Russian forces to step up attacks from the north.

3. Robotyne: Russia is seeking to reverse

Ukraine’s largest gains last year.

When Ukraine’s failed summer counteroffensive culminated last year, its forces had managed to advance only about 10 miles deep into the southern front, reaching just beyond a tiny village, Robotyne.

Russia now appears determined to win back what it lost.

The Russian military has more troops concentrated on this front than on the Avdiivka front, Dmytro Lykhovii, a spokesperson for Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the south, said this past week.

“It seems that the Russians have set a goal to gain some success there by storming in, just as they are trying to do in Avdiivka,” he said.

4. Kreminna: Russia is pushing from Kreminna to reclaim towns in the northeast it lost to Ukraine in late 2022.

Ever since the Russians were driven out of occupied territories in northeastern Ukraine more than a year ago — losing control over more than 500 settlements spread

over 11,000 square kilometers — they have been fighting to try and take it back.

Last year, little territory changed hands, despite intense fighting in the forest belts along the front here. Now, Russia is starting to move forward again, albeit slowly in the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance.

Russian forces are pushing in two directions from the city of Kreminna: toward the battered city of Kupiansk to the north, and toward Lyman, 80 miles to the south. Russia has maintained a total force of around 110,000 troops in the area for months, despite losses, Illia Yevlash, a spokesperson for the military in the area, told reporters this month.

5. Bakhmut: Russia has regained the momentum, and a major Ukrainian city could come into artillery range.

Russia destroyed and then seized the city of Bakhmut in May, its last significant territorial gain on the battlefield before advancing on Avdiivka this past week. By the time the Russians took Bakhmut, their forces were exhausted, and the Wagner mercenary group that led the fight was in open rebellion against the Russian ministry of defense.

Ukrainian hopes to exploit the disarray to counterattack around the flanks of the city largely stalled. Now, it is the Russians who have the initiative.

Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, the newly appointed commander of Ukrainian forces, said recently that the Russians are determined to break through their defenses around Chasiv Yar, which would give them control of commanding heights in the area and expose the city of Kramatorsk to increased artillery fire. Some 62,000 Russian soldiers are on the ground in the Bakhmut direction, according to Ukrainian estimates.

“The situation is tense, requiring constant monitoring of the overall situation and prompt decision-making on the ground,” Syrsky said in a statement this month.

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Risking arrest, Russians mourn Navalny in small acts of protest

By VALERIE HOPKINS

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or the second day in a row, mourners walked purposefully along Moscow’s snow-heaped Garden Ring on Saturday carrying bouquets to lay at one of the improvised memorials to Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition figure who perished in a prison colony the day before.

The flowers, wrapped in paper to shield them from the icy wind, were not only a symbol of mourning. They also served as a form of protest in a country where even the mildest dissent can risk detention. And the people who laid bouquets at the Wall of Grief, a monument to the victims of political persecution during the Josef Stalin era, shared the conviction that the Russian state was behind Navalny’s death.

“He didn’t die, he was killed,” said Alla, 75, a pensioner who declined to give her last name because of possible repercussions.

“Theoretically, we knew that they wanted to destroy him,” said her friend Elena, 77, whose arm was interlaced with Alla’s. “But when it happened it was such a shock, the senseless brutality of it, just senseless.” She found out what had happened when her daughter and granddaughter called her in tears to share the news.

Both women expressed pride that people were showing up to express their disagreement with the state, despite the sweeping crackdown on dissent since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago.

In announcing Navalny’s death Friday, Russia’s prison service said that he felt suddenly unwell during a walk and that the causes were “being determined.” A lawyer for Navalny said an “additional histology” had been performed on the body to determine the cause of his death, and that its results should be ready next

Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition politician, prepares for his weekly live broadcast on YouTube in Vladimir, Russia, June 1, 2017. Navalny stood as the most outspoken critic of President Vladimir V. Putin for more than a decade. (James Hill/ The New York Times) week.

Some who showed up at the memorial gatherings paid the price. At least 400 people have been detained across Russia since Navalny’s death was announced, according to the human rights group OVD-Info. Among them was a priest, the Rev. Grigory MikhnovVaitenko, who had been scheduled to hold a memorial service for Navalny in St. Petersburg.

It is the most significant spate of arrests since protests against a general mobilization for the war in Ukraine in September 2022.

“They try to scare us so much that it is not possible to live,” said Elena, who added that she worried for the fate of hundreds of other

political prisoners in Russia.

Fear prevented Andrei, a 17-year-old in 11th grade, from buying flowers, but he wanted to come and see what was happening. He bristled when one passerby mocked the mourners and questioned Navalny’s legacy.

“What did he do for our country that deserves our prayers or mourning?” said Sergei, a pensioner who also provided just his first name.

“What about smart voting?” ventured Andrei, referring to a system pioneered in 2018 by Navalny’s team that encouraged voters to unite around one opposition candidate, hoping to outpoll Putin loyalists.

“He was an empty person, just a puppet of the West,” Sergei responded.

As they spoke, dozens of police observed and interacted with people coming to the complex, and another group of riot police in position near paddy wagons looked on half a block away. The Wall of Grief, in central Moscow, is on Sakharov Avenue, named after Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose activism was punished with 12 years of internal exile in Gorky, today known as Nizhny Novgorod.

The government has used the site to contain protest movements by making it the only permitted venue whenever public pressure for a march has forced a response. Navalny frequently addressed demonstrations there.

For Olya, 39, the heaps of flowers and candles served as a rare but valuable reminder that she is not alone in wanting a democratic,

free Russia without war.

“At a time like this it is so important to see that there are people who think like I do,” she said, as she brought roses to the Wall of Grief.

Earlier, she said she had laid flowers at the Solovetsky Stone, another monument to victims of political repression, across from the headquarters of the FSB, the successor agency of the KGB. “And it’s a shame that in a short period of time, people come and go, and you can’t see all the people who came throughout a day, who are constantly being asked to leave,” she added. “But you can see flowers.”

Protests are effectively banned in Russia, and the arrests the past two days show the extent to which authorities are ready to go to suppress public displays of anger or mourning.

“A responsible citizen who loves his homeland, was forced to leave it or is trying to the last not to leave it, has only one weapon — a memorial candle,” wrote Andrei Kolesnikov, a Moscow-based commentator, in an opinion piece he hopes to publish soon, calling them “the last weapon of a civilized, not savage, person and citizen.”

On Friday, videos began circulating of men with their faces covered, removing flowers from the Solovetsky Stone, in what was interpreted as a sign that authorities do not want the scale of the outpouring of grief to become public.

Still, life largely went on as usual across Moscow, with restaurants and shopping districts bustling. And news of Navalny’s death, the improvised memorials and the arrests were largely missing from news broadcasts Saturday.

State television channels Rossiya24 and Rossiya-1 instead discussed the Munich Security Conference and the Russian capture of Avdiivka in Ukraine, and featured the “Russia International Exhibit and Forum,” a patriotic showcase celebrating the food, technology and culture of each of the country’s regions.

Russian state-controlled Channel 1 mentioned Navalny in its news bulletins only three times, for about 30 seconds each and without mentioning he was a politician or even the official reason for his imprisonment.

But for many gathered in Moscow, the memory of the protest will be indelible.

“Someday what we are watching may be in history books,” Andrei, the student, whispered, as police officers urged him and a New York Times journalist to leave the premises.

Watching the steady flow of people bearing flowers, and under the increasing pressure of a police officer to move along, he slipped into an underground crosswalk with a request.

“Please don’t forget that there are still many good people in this country,” he said.

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The best case for Ukraine aid

By ROSS DOUTHAT

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he first year of the war in Ukraine seemed to vindicate Russia hawks. The belief that Vladimir Putin was a careful chess player whose ambitions could be constrained through negotiation, the belief that Ukraine couldn’t plausibly defend itself against Moscow and therefore didn’t merit support from an already overstretched America — these ideas seemed to dissolve in the first months of war, with Putin gambling and rambling while Ukrainian arms threw his forces back.

The second year of war has been kinder to realists and doves. Russia, as in many wars before, seems stronger in a grinding conflict than it did in the initial thrusts. Putin’s regime proved resilient against the West’s economic weapons, and against internal opposition as well; the death in prison of Russia’s leading dissident, Alexei Navalny, looks like the latest example of the dictator’s ruthless settling of accounts. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian counteroffensive of spring and summer failed: A year ago there was still hope that a Russian retreat would turn into a rout, but since then stalemate has ruled the front.

The changed situation has created a division in the hawkish argument, visible as the U.S. Congress wrangles over further aid to Ukraine. On the one hand you still

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have rhetoric that seems to belong more to the first year of war, claiming that Putin is clearly losing the war (“This guy is on life support,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told his colleagues in the Senate debate), and that aid to Ukraine is a cheap, effective way to degrade and defeat an American rival without fighting the Russians ourselves.

On the other you have arguments that suggest that the tide is turning against Ukraine, that Putin is getting ever stronger (“Russia’s capacity to produce military equipment has increased tremendously,” Denmark’s defense minister warned recently), and that he’ll be ready to attack the Baltics or some other NATO country soon.

The strange events this past week on Capitol Hill, in which Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, a Ukraine hawk, teased secret intelligence about Russian superweapons in space, felt like an attempt to boost this narrative — emphasizing Russia’s increasing strength as the reason to keep on sending money and weapons to Ukraine.

The problem with the first argument is that it doesn’t match the changing situation on the ground. The problem with the second argument is that it raises a big strategic question: If Russia has gotten only stronger since we started funding the Ukrainian war effort, doesn’t that suggest that we’ve ended up overstretched after all, just as critics warned?

I think there is a good case for continued aid to Ukraine that doesn’t rely on either exaggerating Ukrainian successes or hyping Russia’s military-industrial complex.

But it’s a case that’s hard to make under the sweeping terms that have framed our support for Ukraine to date.

The legislation that passed the Senate includes, ostensibly as a concession to skeptics, a provision requiring the Biden administration to submit to Congress a detailed strategic plan explaining how the aid will “hasten Ukrainian victory.” But as Keith Gessen of The New Yorker puts it, mildly, at this point most military observers are “a little hard-pressed to describe an actual military victory for Ukraine.” It’s more likely that there simply is no plausible path to a full Ukrainian triumph — or at least not one that’s compatible with defending the United States’ other interests around the world.

We are not giving Ukraine money, in other words, because we see a likely future in which Russia can be pushed back to the prewar lines of control. Instead, the best reason to continue sending aid is to make it easier to negotiate an armistice on terms favorable to Ukraine’s survival and resilience — since any such terms will become less and less favorable if we’re seen as abandoning the Ukrainians in advance.

I hope and believe that this is what the White House, beneath its wartime rhetoric, is currently seeking: not outright victory but the best possible deal to end the

A destroyed Russian tank near the village of Sulyhivka, Ukraine on Nov. 5, 2023. There is a good case for continued aid to Ukraine that doesn’t rely on either exaggerating Ukrainian successes or hyping Russia’s military-industrial complex management, Ross Douthat writes. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times) war. And certainly there are reasons, if that’s your goal, that you wouldn’t want to say so openly; you’d want to present yourself as planning for victory even if you’re actually ready to negotiate.

But the Biden administration has a domestic audience as well as an international one, and it might be easier to convince domestic doubters — wavering House Republicans, especially — if the current aid package weren’t being presented as the clincher for a Russian defeat that isn’t actually in evidence, or the key to the sweeping victory that our prior investments have conspicuously failed to bring about.

These days that kind of promise — Triumph just around the corner! Victory waiting just beyond the next offensive!

— evokes memories of Afghanistan and Vietnam, rather than confidence in U.S. strategic prowess. What’s needed instead is something much subtler: a public argument that doesn’t concede too much to Russian aggression, but concedes enough to military reality to convince Americans that they’re making an investment that will actually help bring the conflict to an end.

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Aumento salarial a los jueces sólo estaría disponible para este año fiscal sino se legisla, advierte gobernador POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia habló el sábado sobre la posibilidad de traer del estado de Nueva York obreros para los trabajos de reconstrucción en Puerto Rico.

“El secretario de Estado de Puerto Rico (Omar Marrero) está en conversaciones con el Secretario de Estado de Nueva York (Robert Rodríguez), porque pudiera ser, pudiera ser, eso no está todavía acordado, que contratistas de Puerto Rico quieran entrevistar inmigrantes en el estado de Nueva York que tengan permisos de trabajo y que sean obreros diestros en la construcción. Eso es algo que se está tratando de coordinar, pero sería algo totalmente voluntario, sería que contratistas entrevistan personas que tienen permisos de trabajo y entonces coordinan para que esas personas ayudan en los proyectos elaboren en los proyectos que tienen”, dijo el gobernador a preguntas de la prensa.

Sobre el aumento de salario a los jueces, estable-

ció que si la Junta de Control Fiscal aprueba el desembolso de los fondos, solamente se hará para este año fiscal, porque no se ha aprobado una ley que lo establezca de forma recurrente.

“Yo espero que la Junta permita que se utilice, que apruebe la reprogramación solicitada por OGP para que entonces la Rama Judicial tenga a su disposición el monto que ya se le asignó en el presupuesto para la paga de los jueces. Yo espero que eso se permita. Entonces eso debe resolver el asunto en este año fiscal. Ya para el que está corriendo. Ya para el próximo es una materia presupuestaria, a menos que se legisle, pues para el próximo será una materia presupuestaria. Tendremos que incluir la cantidad necesaria para honrarle la paga justa y necesaria que merecen los jueces. Y entonces, así que ahora será un asunto presupuestario a menos que se legisle. Porque si se legisla, pues entonces tenemos más certeza, porque ya están las escalas aprobadas. Y ya es más bien a nivel presupuestario cumplir con ese mandato de ley”, expresó.

Finalmente, sobre el Proyecto de Cámara 1948 que elimina la vacunación como requisito para matricular estudiantes, insistió que su política pública fomenta el uso de las vacunas.

“Ya se atendió por vía de un proyecto que yo firme, el que padres puedan objetar a vacunar a sus hijos por razones religiosas, por ejemplo, y sin que se les tenga que requerir que un pastor o un sacerdote valide esa objeción. O sea, que ya hicimos eso, pero la política pública de la administración es fomentar que se vacunen. El Departamento de Salud objetó, entiendo que objetó esa medida que tú mencionas.

Así que no ha llegado a mi despacho. Si llega a mi despacho la voy a evaluar, pero vuelvo y repito, nosotros fomentamos, creemos que la vacunación es buena para nuestros niños y jóvenes, para prevenir múltiples enfermedades”, dijo el gobernador a preguntas de la prensa.

Hasta el momento, portavoces religiosos se han expresado a favor de la medida, mientras que los doctores y pediatras la rechazan.

Quiere vistas públicas sobre proyecto para moratoria escuelas charter POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El director ejecutivo de Paradiso College Preparatory, Robert Acosta exigió al Senado de Puerto Rico realizar vistas públicas para el proyecto que pretende que el Departamento de Educación imponga una moratoria de cinco años al establecimiento de escuelas alianza (charter) en Puerto Rico.

“Nos parece increíble que se baje a votación en el Senado una medida de tanta trascendencia y que perjudicaría la posibilidad de que nuestros niños y jóvenes tengan la educación que merecen”, dijo Acosta en declaraciones escritas.

Supuestamente el Senado va a aprobar en la sesión del martes un proyecto para establecer una moratoria de permisos para escuelas charter.

Insistió en que “es imperativo que el Senado realice vistas públicas para que las partes involucradas-

particularmente estudiantes y padres- puedan ofrecer su testimonio con respecto a las escuelas alianza”.

Acosta catalogó como falso el argumento que “las escuelas charter tengan un impacto en el presupuesto de las escuelas del sistema público. La operación de Paradiso College Preparatory ha sido financiada en su totalidad con fondos privados, sin la inversión de dinero público”.

“Los opositores a las escuelas charter alegan que dichos planteles tienen un impacto fiscal negativo en las escuelas públicas existente. Argumentar un impacto negativo de nuestras escuelas es errado. Por el contrario, nuestras escuelas proveen las condiciones dignas para que se dé un proceso adecuado de enseñanza-aprendizaje y cerremos la brecha académica.

No sufrimos de escasez de materiales y equipo, ausentismo de docentes o planta física en mal estado”, concluyó.

Cigarrillos como objetivos de los pillos en las gasolineras POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – La Policía reportó robos a dos gasolineras en Vega Baja y Ponce, donde los asaltantes, entre otra mercancía, se llevaron los cigarrillos.

Según el reporte de la Policía, a las 8:47 de la noche del sábado, en la gasolinera Puma de la carretera PR686 de Vega Baja,

Mientras la empleada se encontraba en el área de las neveras, dos individuos vestidos de negro y con sus rostros parcialmente tapados irrumpieron en el local.

Uno de éstos, con una herramienta tipo llegó hasta la caja registradora. Se apropiaron de dinero en efectivo, cigarrillos y mercancía que al momento no ha sido contabilizada.

Se marcharon en una guagua Nissan Pathfinder co-

lor oscuro.

De otra parte, a las 12:42 de la madrugada del domingo, en la estación de gasolina Total de la avenida Las Américas en Ponce, un individuo encapuchado y vestido de negro, entró al establecimiento y anunció el asalto. Despojó a la empleada de dinero en efectivo y cajas de cigarrillos marca Newport y Winston, con valor total aproximadamente 1,085 dólares.

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How Paul McCartney’s lost bass guitar was found five decades later

By ISABELLA KWAI

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o one seemed to know what had happened to one of the most important bass guitars in music history, though in the decades since it went missing, there had been some dramatic rumors.

Was the Höfner violin bass, which had accompanied Paul McCartney and the Beatles to worldwide fame, tucked away in a private collection? Had it been secretly shipped to a wealthy fan in Japan?

It turned out the bass was passing time in a more unassuming locale: the loft of a family home in East Sussex, England. The family reported the guitar in late September after a couple of journalists and a guitar expert started a new campaign looking for it in 2023, more than 50 years after it was last seen.

The guitar, which has been authenticated by its manufacturer, has been returned to McCartney, according to a statement posted on his website Thursday. “Paul is incredibly grateful to all those involved,” it said.

It was the denouement to an enduring mystery that had gripped Beatles fans, including one group who pooled their skills to help find it.

‘It Started Beatlemania’ The Höfner 500/1 guitar is a precious part of Beatles lore. It can be heard on recordings of hit songs including “Love Me Do,” “She Loves You” and “Twist and Shout.”

After becoming the band’s bassist, McCartney desperately needed a bass guitar and bought the instrument in a music store in Hamburg, Germany, in 1961.

“I got my Violin Bass at the Steinway shop in the town center,” he recalled in a 1993 interview with Guitar Magazine. It cost the equivalent of 30 pounds — cheap enough for him to afford. “And once I bought it, I fell in love with it,” he said. “For a light, dinky little bass, it has a very rich sound.”

As the Fab Four found a whirlwind of fame, McCartney played the Höfner through hundreds of the gigs, including early concerts at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England, where the Beatles met their future manager, Brian Epstein, and for the

In an undated photo provided by The Lost Bass Project, An inexpensive Höfner violin bass which Paul McCartney used extensively as the Beatles rose to worldwide fame. The instrument has been returned to McCartney after five decades missing. (The Lost Bass Project/Nick Wass via The New York Times) recordings of the band’s first two albums.

One of the last sightings of the bass was in London in 1969, in footage of the band writing their album “Let It Be.” Sometime after that, it disappeared.

Efforts to locate the bass had stalled until last September, when two journalists and a Höfner expert revived the search and appealed to the public for tips.

“It’s an iconic instrument,” said Nick Wass, a semiretired consultant for Höfner who has worked with McCartney. “It started Beatlemania.”

Among the hundreds of responses they received were some promising clues, said Scott Jones, a journalist who worked on the project with his wife, Naomi Jones.

A sound engineer who had worked with McCartney remembered that the guitar had been left in the back of a van in 1972 and that thieves had then broken in. Another tip, Scott Jones said, suggested that the guitar had been stolen in

the neighborhood and then sold for a little money and “some free beer” to Ronald Guest, the landlord of a local pub.

Then, in late September, the landlord’s family, living in the town of Hastings, in southeast England, reached out to McCartney’s studio: Could the guitar in their loft be the missing bass?

‘It’s Hardly Traveled Any Distance at All’ “We thought this bass would have gone off on a more glitzy journey,” said Jones, adding that in fact, the research indicated that the guitar had stayed in the same family. “In all of those years, it’s hardly traveled any distance at all.”

Jones said that a member of the Guest family handed the guitar over to McCartney’s studio in Sussex, England.

Posts on social media appeared to show Ruaidhri Guest, 21, holding the guitar. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but he said in a post Friday that the family would be releasing details “in due course.”

Soon after the guitar emerged in late September, Wass drove from Germany to England to help authenticate that it was, in fact, that Höfner.

“There it was in my hands,” Wass said, adding that he had been looking for the guitar since McCartney inquired about it several years ago. Finding it, he said, felt “thrilling.”

“It didn’t take me more than 10 seconds to know it was the right one,” he said. Wass pointed to the left-handed guitar’s distinctive parts and color.

The guitar had sustained some damage, he said, including a cracked neck, and would need to be repaired.

Its discovery stunned even its searchers, who said they were hopeful but realistic about their prospects as they pieced together the clues from archival clippings and tips.

“We never assumed that we’d find it,” Jones said. “If we had to be honest, the chances were probably very, very slim.”

Other famous lost instruments have also been unearthed: A Gibson acoustic guitar belonging to John Lennon that had been lost for decades turned up and was sold for $2.4 million to an anonymous buyer in 2015.

Despite the odds, the team said they were driven by a determination to preserve a piece of Beatles mythology.

“All the Beatles fans everywhere can see this bass again,” said Wass. “I’m hoping Paul McCartney, when he gets it back, will play it for us all.”

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Five international movies to stream now

‘So Long, My Son’

By DEVIKA GIRISH

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he scenes that open this ravishing drama by Wang Xiaoshuai feel like pieces of a cryptic puzzle, gesturing evocatively at a whole that remains out of view. Two boys play beside a lake, a death is seen from a distance, and years later, in some other place, a grieving couple struggle to raise a wayward son. Slowly, these fragments swirl together into a decades-spanning epic about two couples in China, brought together in the 1980s by their factory jobs and then torn apart by a series of losses, including those inflicted by the country’s one-child policy.

With its nonlinear stitching, the movie demands patience, and rewards it handsomely. Each scene trembles with emotion, conjured at the precise intersection of performance, cinematography and carefully rendered political context.

In one sequence, the central couple, Liyun (Yong Mei) and Yaojun (Wang Jingchun), receive news of layoffs in a companywide meeting. As the crowd of workers erupts in rage, the camera settles on Liyun’s face, streaked by a single tear: A personal tragedy is etched in the canvas of a historical one.

The two will suffer many more crises, but in relaying them nonchronologically, the film allows for plenty of grace and resilience, capturing life not as an arc but as a collection of moments — sometimes good, sometimes bad, always fleeting. (Stream it on Mubi.)

‘Antigone’ A Greek tragedy is re-imagined as a bristling tale of rage against injustice in this French Canadian thriller from director Sophie Deraspe. If the names of the movie’s characters seem out of place at first — the protagonist is Antigone (Nahéma Ricci), an Algerian immigrant and high school student in Montreal, and her siblings are Polynice, Étéocle and Ismène — the epic dimensions of their lives become quickly apparent. They arrived in Quebec with their grandmother when Antigone was only 3, having lost both their parents; the two brothers now provide for their meager household — through

aboveboard as well as illicit means involving gangs.

When an incident of brazen police brutality kills Étéocle and sends Polynice to prison, Antigone takes it upon herself to free her brother through an audacious plan that puts her own life in danger. This modern twist on the Greek heroine’s self-sacrifice generates a number of timely ripples; social media becomes a key tool in Antigone’s battle against the state.

Anchored in a riveting performance by Ricci, “Antigone” is a portrait of immigrant disenfranchisement, adolescent rage and familial duty that feels both eternal and strikingly contemporary. (Stream it on Tubi.)

‘Three of Us’ Along the western coast of India lies a breeze-swept stretch of land called the Konkan, dotted with trees and ancient forts, and boasting a unique language and cuisine.

In 2014, filmmaker Avinash Arun unfurled “Killa,” a gentle coming-of-age tale, in the meditative heart of Konkan, the area’s unhurried pace and natural beauty offering an ideal setting for the young protagonist’s newfound grief. In his new feature, “Three of Us,” Arun returns to the region to draw out his character’s internal battles — although this time, his focus is on a middle-aged couple confronting mortality.

When she discovers that she has dementia, Shailaja (Shefali Shah), who lives and works in Mumbai, decides that she wants to revisit the Konkan village where she spent formative years of her childhood. Her husband, Dipankar (Swanand Kirkire), goes along, bemused but supportive. There, in the long shadows of palm trees, Shailaja reconnects with Pradeep (Jaideep Ahlawat), a childhood friend who seems to unfasten something deep inside her.

The strength of “Three of Us” lies precisely in its reluctance to name or detail things. Instead, the film simply observes the three wonderful lead actors as they move about the beautiful landscape, dramas of yearning, sadness and joy all playing out in their gestures, evoking essential truths of life. (Stream it on Netflix.)

‘The Green Perfume’ French comedies don’t get much sillier — or more entertaining — than this caper by director Nicolas Pariser, which tangles together a thespian accused of an onstage murder, a cartoonist running from her nagging mother, and a host of international criminals and detectives. Vincent Lacoste plays the poor straight man, Martin, unwillingly caught up in these high jinks. An actor in the Comédie-Française, he is in the wings when a colleague drops dead during a climactic monologue. A parting whisper from the victim puts the target on Martin’s back, and he embarks on a journey across Europe evading both the cops and the killers, while Claire (Sandrine Kiberlain), the cartoonist, follows along, for no discernible reason other than to avoid dinner with her family. Not much of it makes sense, per se, but that’s kind of the point: “The Green Perfume” takes the tropes of convoluted crime thrillers and re-imagines them with tongue-in-cheek irony. (Stream it on Mubi.)

‘Norma’ In this Argentine comedy from Santiago Giralt, the life of a rich woman in her 60s, Norma (Mercedes Morán), begins to fall apart. One day, she comes home to find that her housekeeper has found a better job and is leaving her. That snagged thread slowly unravels the whole fabric of Norma’s life, as she realizes the ways in which daily routines and comforts

have numbed her to her discontents. Her marriage is stuck, her relationships with her mother and sister are broken, and her panic attacks are debilitating.

Morán, who wrote the script with Giralt, brings a gentle, effortless authenticity to even the more trite or cutesy parts of the film — such as Norma’s newfound weed habit, or her budding, sisterly friendship with a new neighbor, a red-haired therapist, who helps Norma loosen up. Her aging doldrums may be familiar, but Norma embodies a fullness — she’s spoiled, vulnerable, impulsive and deeply empathetic — that we rarely see in older women on screen. This is a midlifecrisis movie that thrums with the energy and optimism of a coming-of-age film. (Stream it on Netflix.)

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Can the world’s largest cruise ship really be climate-friendly?

By CEYLAN YEGINSU

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n Jan. 23, in a ceremony that, of course, involved a soccer ball, Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi pressed a button and a bottle of Champagne smashed against the bow of Icon of the Seas, christening the world’s largest cruise ship at its home port of Miami. Like an A-list celebrity stepping onto the red carpet, the arrival of Royal Caribbean’s 250,800-ton ship has captured the world’s attention, with some marveling over its cutting-edge features, like the largest water park at sea, while others criticize the gigantic ship’s potential to damage the environment.

With the capacity to carry nearly 8,000 people, the 20-deck, 1,198-foot-long vessel — whose inaugural cruise with paying passengers departs Saturday — is the size of a small city. There are eight “neighborhoods” packed with amenities that include a 55-foot waterfall, six waterslides and more than 40 restaurants, bars and entertainment venues.

According to Royal Caribbean, the ship, which is registered in the Bahamas, also sets a new standard for sustainability with the use of energy-efficient technology designed to minimize the ship’s carbon footprint and move closer to the company’s goal of introducing a net-zero ship by 2035.

“We live by one single philosophy, which is to deliver the best vacations responsibly,” said Nick Rose, the vice president of environmental stewardship at Royal Caribbean Group. “And to do that we build with the core principles of sustaining our planet and communities.”

For decades the cruise industry has been criticized for its negative impact on the environment. A 2021 study published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin found that despite technical advances, cruising remains a major source of air, water and land pollution affecting fragile habitats and human health.

While environmental groups have welcomed some of the features on Icon of the Seas, such as its advanced water treatment system, some say building such huge ships is contrary to the cruise industry’s long-

term goals of sustainability and preservation.

“The ships are getting bigger and bigger and that is the wrong direction for the cruise industry to be going,” said Marcie Keever, director of the Oceans and Vessels Program at the environmental organization Friends of the Earth. “If you were really thinking about sustainability and not your bottom line, you would not be building a cruise ship with a capacity of nearly 10,000 people.”

With more than five different brands, Royal Caribbean has a fleet of 65 cruise ships of various sizes. Icon of the Seas was built to meet demand and deliver experiences that its consumers were seeking, the company said, adding that all its ships carry the same sustainability principles of energy efficiency, and advanced waste and water management.

Here’s a look at some key features that Royal Caribbean says make Icon of the Seas more sustainable and how they stack up.

Transitioning to alternative energy sources Icon of the Seas is Royal Caribbean’s first ship to be powered by liquefied natural gas, a fossil fuel that the cruise industry has touted as a cleaner alternative to the commonly used heavy fuel oil.

“LNG is currently the fossil fuel available at a scale that has the best performance in reducing atmospheric emissions,” said Cruise Lines International Association, the industry’s trade group, in its 2023 Environmental Technologies and Practices Report, citing analysis from SeaLNG, an industry coalition that promotes the benefits of LNG as a viable marine fuel.

But environmental analysts are concerned about LNG’s long-term problems.

Despite emitting around 25% less carbon dioxide than conventional marine fuels, they say, LNG is mostly methane, a powerful gas that traps more heat in the atmosphere over time than carbon dioxide.

According to a 2020 greenhouse gas study by the International Maritime Organization, the United Nations body that regulates global shipping, the use of LNG as a marine fuel grew 30% between 2012

An artist’s rendering of Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas. (Royal Caribbean International) and 2018, resulting in a 150% increase in made about how to build Icon of the Seas methane emissions from ships. more than 10 years ago.

Bryan Comer, the marine program di“People will say LNG is not the longrector at the International Council on term fuel and we agree and view it as Clean Transportation, said the reason transitional,” Rose said. “We have built methane emissions have grown faster the ship to make it adaptable to future fuel than the use of LNG is because ships are sources.” switching from steam turbines to dual-fuel The company is preparing to debut the internal combustion engines. “They are Celebrity Xcel next year, a 3,248-passenmore fuel efficient, but emit large amounts ger ship that will be equipped with a tri-fuof unburned methane to the atmosphere el engine designed to accommodate methin the form of ‘methane slip’ from the en- anol, which several environmental groups gine,” he said, pointing to ICCT research consider to be one of the most promising that predicts demand for LNG will triple fuels to achieve carbon-neutral sailing. between 2019 and 2030, as will methane Continues on page 20 emissions.

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Shore power capabilities When cruise ships are docked at ports, their engines and diesel generators are often running on fuel, emitting carbon dioxide into populated areas. Icon of the Seas has been built to run on shore power electricity in ports, a cleaner alternative to fuel, and hopes to become one of the first cruise ships to plug into the local power grid at Port Miami when shore power facilities are set to become available in the spring.

Three ships can plug in safely and simultaneously at the port on any given day, including Icon of the Seas, a spokesperson for Port Miami said.

“When it comes to sustainability, there is no silver bullet and we want to pull every lever possible,” Rose said. “So if we can pull into a port that has cleaner shore-power capabilities we want to plug in so we don’t use any fuel.”

The problem is that most ports don’t supply shore power: Only 2% of the world’s ports currently offer it for cruise ships, according to CLIA. Royal Caribbean says it is working with ports and other cruise lines to further its use.

Converting waste to energy on board Expanding its 30-year “Save the Waves” program, which aims to help keep trash out of landfills and the ocean, Royal Caribbean has built what it says is a firstof-its-kind waste management system on board Icon of the Seas that converts waste into energy.

The microwave-assisted pyrolysis technology, known as MAP, takes food, biowaste and cardboard waste and turns it into small pellets. The pellets are then heated up to produce a gas that is converted into steam energy that Royal Caribbean said would be used to power the ship’s water park. The system also produces biochar, which has the potential to be used as a fertilizer.

The company said it will have a better understanding of the system’s output while the ship is in full operation in the coming months, but so far it takes around 25 kilowatts of electricity to operate the system with an output of 200 kilowatts.

“It won’t take much energy to run the system,” Comer said, but, he added, “It won’t produce much energy for the ship, either.”

Advanced water treatment Icon of the Seas is equipped with an advanced purification system that is designed to treat all wastewater on board, from toilets and showers to kitchen galleys. More than 93% of the ship’s fresh water will be produced on board through a system of reverse osmosis, which removes contaminants from water, the cruise line said.

Keever said Royal Caribbean deserves credit for the treatment systems. “They’re installing the most expensive and best sewage treatment technology on their ships, and it’s important because they are the biggest cruise line and are showing the industry that they can do it, pay for it and they should,” she said.

Fuel cells In its 2023 promotional video series, “Making an Icon,” Royal Caribbean said Icon of the Seas would be

An artist’s rendering of Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas. (Royal Caribbean International) its “first ship with fuel cell technology,” which would be used to power parts of the ship like the air conditioning and elevators.

But it won’t happen yet.

Fuel cells combine hydrogen and oxygen to make electricity without combustion and their byproduct is water, meaning they do not emit as many greenhouse gases as traditional fossil fuels. While Icon of the Seas has been built to accommodate fuel cells, the batteries have not yet been installed, according to Bloom Energy, the fuel cell manufacturer working with Royal Caribbean. Because of the size and scope of the project, Bloom Energy said it encountered issues with external suppliers.

Bloom Energy is now focused on solving the issues for larger fuel systems that are being planned for Royal Caribbean’s 5,668-passenger Utopia of the Seas, which is scheduled to enter service next year. Suminder Singh, the vice president of marine at Bloom Energy, said the next opportunity to equip Icon of the Seas with the cells may not be for another five years, when the ship is scheduled to go into dry dock. Royal Caribbean says it may not take that long and the decision will depend on the success of the technology on Utopia.

Comer said that while fuel cells would be a great option, they have similar life-cycle emissions as conventional oil-based fuels if they are made on land using

natural gas. “We need hydrogen made from renewable electricity,” he said. “And if we have that and use it in fuel cells, then you would basically have zero-life cycle greenhouse gas emissions.”

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LAB PRODUCTS REALTY AND MANAGEMENT LLC Plaintiff V.

JAGUAR LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, S.E.; JAGUAR OF PUERTO RICO, INC., NOW EURO BOUTIQUE, INC.; JAIME IVÁN DEL VALLE CRUZ, AIDA VIRGINIA TORRES ESTASEN, AND THE LEGAL CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THEM

Defendants Civil No. 16-02772 (ADC) COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGES AND OTHER COLLATERAL. NOTICE OF SALES.

TO: DEFENDANTS AND GENERAL PUBLIC

On October 14, 2020, the Court entered Judgment by Consent in favor of plaintiff, Lab Products Realty and Management, LLC (“Lab Products”) and against defendants, Jaguar Limited Partnership, S.E.; Jaime Iván del Valle Cruz, Aida Virginia Torres Estasen and the conjugal partnership composed between them (hereinafter, collectively, the “Defendants”). As of July 31, 2020, Defendants owe the amount of $1,624,146.87, in connection with the Restructured Loan I (as defined in the Judgment by Consent) itemized as follows: Principal $1,044,912.87.

Interest $262,169.60.

Late Fees $20,995.93. Default Interest $82,954.47. Legal Expenses $190,000,00.

Insurance $20,501.00. Inspection Costs $624.00. Valuation Expenses $1,989.00. Total: $1,624,146.87 As of July 31, 2020, Defendants owe the amount of $1,438,184.29, in connection with the Loan II (as defined in the Judgment by Consent) itemized as follows: Principal $906,473.11.

Interest $341,653.09.

Late Fees $18,094.20. Default Interest $71,963.89. Legal Expenses $100,000.00.

Total: $1,438,184.29 Pursuant to the Judgment, the Order of Execution of Judgment, and the Writ of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue,

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Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the Plaintiff, the following properties: A. PROPERTY 20,685: URBAN: Lot with an area of one thousand six hundred forty-four (1.644.00) square meters, located in the Santurce South Ward of the Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico. A one-story concrete warehouse building with concrete roof is located on the lot measuring 47.45 meters on its North side bordering the south edge of the official alignment of the Las Palmas Avenue. Boundaries: NORTH, with the southern edge of the official alignment of the Las Palmas Avenue, State Road #35 (formerly Rossy Avenue) measurements up to the intersection with the East edge of the official alignment of Roberto H. Todd Avenue (State Road #2). Following said line the building describes in its Northeastern corner an arch that extends in a Southern direction, following the Eastern edge of Roberto H. Todd Avenue (currently State Road #2) with which it adjoins the building described, on its West side which [is] its front at 25.45 meters, measures from the intersection to the South edge of the official alignment of the Las Palmas Avenue, on the South with Progreso Street, on the East with the new parcel “F” of Misceláneas Wholesale. Inc. Property number twenty thousand six hundred eighty-five (20,685), recorded at page two hundred eighty-three (283) of tome three hundred twentyeight (328) of Santurce South, Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section First of San Juan.

URBANA: Con una cabida de MIL SEISCIENTOS CUARENTA Y CUATRO METROS CUADRADOS (1,644.00 m/c). Edificio almacén de hormigón con techo del mismo material de una sola planta ubicado en el Barrio de Santurce Sur, del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, el edificio mide cuarenta y siete punto cuarenta y cinco metros cuadrados (47.45 m/c) por su lado NORTE, en lindes con la orilla Sur de la alineación oficial de la Avenida Las Palmas (Carretera Estatal número treinta y cinco (35) antes Avenida Rossy) medidas hasta la intersección con la orilla ESTE, de la alineación oficial de la Avenida Roberto H. Todd (Carretera Estatal número dos (2). Siguiendo dicha línea el edificio describe en su esquina NOROESTE, un arco que se prolonga en dirección SUR, siguiendo la orilla ESTE, de la Ave da Roberto H. Todd (Actualmente carretera número dos) con la cual colinda el edificio descrito, por su lado OESTE, que es su frente en veinti-

Monday, February 19, 2024 cinco punto cuarenta y cinco metros (25.45m) medidos desde la intersección con la orilla Sur de la alineación oficial de la Avenida Las Palmas; por el SUR, con la Calle Progreso; por el ESTE, con la nueva parcela “F” de misceláneas Wholesales, Inc. Finca número 20,685, inscrita al folio 283 del tomo 328 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de San Juan.

Physical Address: #961 Roberto H. Todd Ave., Santurce, San Juan, PR Property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Free of Charges. By itself: MORTGAGE: in guarantee of note in favor of Westernbank Puerto Rico, or to its order, in the principal amount of $1,900,000.00 responding for $1,400,000.00, with a yearly interest rate of 10.99%, due on presentation, as per deed no.

233, executed in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, on March 8, 2004, before Notary Public Adrián J. Hilera Torres, recorded at page 93 of volume 377 of Santurce Sur, property #20,685, 3rd inscription. MORTGAGE MODIFICATION: The object of this modification is the Mortgage for $1,900,000.00, which arises from the 3rd inscription, as per deed #14, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 11, 2005, before Notary Public Francisco Biaggi Landrón, recorded at page 93 of volume 377 of Santurce Sur, Property #20,685, 4th inscription. COMPLAINT ANNOTATION: The subject of this entry is the Mortgage in favor of Westernbank de Puerto Rico, for the sum of $1,900,000.00, modified to $1,400,000.00, which arises from registration #3. Plaintiff: Triangle Cayman Assets Company 2, LLC; Defendant: Jaguar Limited Partnership, Amount Owed $1,400,000.00, by way of principal plus interest, as claimed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, in Civil Case #3:16-CV02772-ADC, on October 5, 2016, and recorded in volume Karibe, annotation A, dated June 15, 2018. B. PROPERTY 20,681: URBAN: Lot at the South Section of Santurce of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with an area of seven hundred seventy-six point zero, nine, five, nine (776.0959) square meters. Bordering on the NORTH, with lot of Luis de la Cruz y Santiago, that is, the principal property from which it was segregated, today Palma Street; on the SOUTH, with Progreso Street; on the EAST, with Figueroa Street; and on the WEST, with lands of parcel “F” of the Puerto Rico Ports Authority and Misceláneas Wholesales. A one-story warehouse building with mezzanine is located thereon for commercial use,

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built of steel beams and concrete blocks with the following boundaries: on the NORTH, fifty-eight inches (58”), or its equivalent, seventeen point six hundred seventy-eight (17.678) meters; on the SOUTH, sixtythree feet eight (63’8”), or its equivalent nineteen point four hundred six (19.406) meters; on the EAST, at fifty-eight feet (58’), or its equivalent, seventeen point six hundred seventyeight (17.678) meters; and on the WEST, at sixty feet one inch (60’1”), or its equivalent, eighteen point three hundred thirteen (18.313) meters. For an area, construction area of three thousand five hundred eightyeight point nine (3,588.9) square feet, or its equivalent, three hundred thirty-three point seven hundred fifty-three (333.753) square meters. Property number twenty thousand six hundred eighty-one (20,681), recorded at page two hundred sixty-three (263) of tome three hundred twenty-eight (328) of Santurce South, Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section First of San Juan. Physical Address: #851 Roberto H. Todd Ave., Santurce, San Juan, PR. Property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Free of Charges. By itself: MORTGAGE: in guarantee of note in favor of Westernbank Puerto Rico, or to its order, in the principal amount of $1,000,000.00 responding this property for $600,000.00, with a yearly interest rate of 5.99% or the result of adding 1% prime rate, according to the established by the time to time by Citibank, N.A. in the City of New York, whichever is the greatest, until presentation or paid in full, if there is a delay interest will be added at a two percent (2%), due on presentation, as per deed no. 363, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 12, 2005, before Notary Public Juan Carlos Ortega Torres, recorded at page 202 of volume 391, of Santurce Sur property #20,681, 3rd inscription. COMPLAINT ANNOTATION: The Mortgage in favor of Westernbank Puerto Rico is the object of this annotation, in the amount of $1,000,000.00, that arises from 3rd inscription.

Plaintiff: Triangle Cayman Asset Company 2 LLC; Defendant: Jaguar Limited Partnership, Amount Due $600,000.00, recorded on volume Karibe of Santurce Sur, Property #20,681, annotation A, dated June 15, 2018. URBANA: Solar en la Sección Sur de Santurce de la Ciudad de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área de setecientos setenta y seis punto cero, nueve, cinco, nueve (776.0959) metros cuadrados.

Colinda por el NORTE, con el solar de Luis de la Cruz y Santiago, o sea, la finca principal de

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21 la cual fue segregada, hoy Calle Palma; por el SUR, con la Calle Progreso; por el ESTE, con la Calle Figueroa; y por el OESTE, con terrenos de la Parcela “F” de la Autoridad de los Puertos de Puerto Rico y Misceláneas Wholesales. Enclava en dicho solar un edificio almacén de una sola planta con mezzannine para uso comercial, construido de vigas de acero y bloques de hormigón con las siguientes colindancias: por el NORTE cincuenta y ocho pulgadas (58”), o su equivalente, diecisiete punto seiscientos setenta y ocho (17.678) metros; por el SUR, sesenta y tres pies ocho pulgadas (63’8”), o su equivalente diecinueve punto cuatrocientos seis (19.406) metros; por el ESTE, en cincuenta y ocho pies (58’), o su equivalente, diecisiete punto seiscientos setenta y ocho (17.678) metros; y por el OESTE, en sesenta pies una pulgada (60’ 1”), o su equivalente, dieciocho punto trescientos trece (18.313) metros. Para una cabida, área de construcción de tres mil quinientos ochenta y ocho punto nueve (3,588.9) pies cuadrados, o su equivalente, trescientos treinta y tres punto setecientos cincuenta y tres (333.753) metros cuadrados. Finca número 20,681, inscrita al folio 63 del tomo 328 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de San Juan. C. PROPERTY 20,679 URBAN: Lot in the South Section of Santurce of the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with an area of five hundred fifty-five point zero, six, five, five (555.0655) square meters. It borders on the NORTH, bordering the South edge of the official alignment of Insular Road Number Thirty-five (35) called Rossy Avenue, today Palma Street; on the SOUTH, with Progreso Street; on the EAST, with the new property grouped in deed number Three (3) belonging to Enrique Pujals Ramírez; and on the WEST, with lands belonging to Bavaria Motors Services, Inc. and lot “E” of the Ports Authority. A onestory concrete warehouse building with a concrete roof is located thereon, measuring fifteen point seventy-five (15.75) meters of front on the North; at thirteen (13.00) meters on the South at twenty-one point ninety (21.90) meters on the West, and at twenty-two point thirty-five (22.35) meters on the East. With a surface area of three hundred thirty-seven point twenty-eight (337.28) square meters. Property number twenty thousand six hundred seventy-nine (20,679), recorded at page two hundred fifty-two (252) of tome three hundred twenty-eight (328) of Santurce South, Registry of

Property of Puerto Rico, Section First of San Juan. URBANA: Solar en la Sección Sur de Santurce de la Ciudad de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área de quinientos cincuenta y cinco punto cero, seis, cinco, cinco (555.0655) metros cuadrados.

Colinda por el NORTE, en lindes por la orilla Sur de la alineación oficial de la Carretera Insular Número Treinta y Cinco (35) denominada Avenida Rossy, hoy Calle Palma; por el SUR con la Calle Progreso; por el ESTE con la nueva finca agrupada en la escritura número Tres (3) perteneciente a Enrique Pujals Ramírez; y por el OESTE con terrenos pertenecientes a Bavaria Motors Services, Inc. y el lote “E” de la Autoridad de los Puertos. Enclava un edificio almacén de concreto de techo del mismo material de una sola planta que mide quince punto setenta y cinco (15.75) metros de frente por el Norte; en trece (13.00) metros por el SUR, en veintiuno punto noventa (21.90) metros por el Oeste y en veintidós punto treinta y cinco (22.35) metros por el Este.

Con una cabida superficial de trescientos treinta y siete punto veintiocho (337.28) metros cuadrados. Finca número 20,679, inscrita al folio 252 del tomo 328 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de San Juan.

Physical Address: #851 Roberto H. Todd Ave., Santurce, San Juan, PR. Property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Free of Charges. By itself: MORTGAGE: in guarantee of note in favor of Westernbank Puerto Rico, or to its order, in the principal amount of $1,000,000.00 this property responds for $400,000.00, with a yearly interest rate of 5.99% or the result of adding 1% prime rate, according to the established by the time to time by Citibank, N.A. in the City of New York, whichever is the greatest, until presentation or paid in full, if there is a delay interest will be added at a two percent (2%), due on presentation, as per deed No. 363, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 12, 2005, before Notary Public Juan Carlos Ortega Torres, recorded at page 65 of volume 391, of Santurce Sur, property #20,679, 3rd inscription. COMPLAINT ANNOTATION: The Mortgage in favor of Westernbank Puerto Rico is the object of this annotation, in the amount of $1,000,000.00 that arises from 3rd inscription. Plaintiff: Triangle Cayman Asset Company 2 LLC; Defendant: Jaguar Limited Partnership, Amount Due $400,000.00, recorded at volume Karibe, annotation A, dated June 15, 2018. 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. The liens executed are over the properties, and for the purpose of the first judicial sales the minimum bid amount is as follows: Property Number 20,685 The amount of $1,400,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $933,333.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $700,000.00.

Property Number 20,681The amount of $600,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $400,000.00 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $300,000.00. Property Number 20,679 The amount of $400,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $266,666.67 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $200,000.00.

Said sales to be conducted by the appointed Special Master are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the properties may be executed and delivered after the judicial sales.

Upon confirmation of the sales, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special

Master pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment, the Order of Execution of Judgment, and the Writ of Execution of Judgment, on the 3rd day of April, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. for Property Number 20,685; at 10:45 a.m. for Property Number 20,681; at 11:00 a.m. for Property Number 20,679, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the properties described herein, the proceeds of said sales to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sales set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the second judicial sales of the properties described in this Notice will be held on the 10th day of April, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. for Property Number 20,685; at 10:45 a.m. for Property Number 20,681; at 11:00 a.m. for Property Number 20,679, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

Should the second judicial sales set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the third judicial sales of the properties described in this Notice will be held on the 17th day of April, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. for Property Number 20,685; at 10:45 a.m. for Property Number 20,681; at 11:00 a.m. for Property Number 20,679, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

The records of the captioned case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Clerk’s Office of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150, Federal Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 29th day of January, 2024. Aguedo De La Torres, Appointed Special Master.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN

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Parte Demandante V.

SUCESION DE JULIO APARICIO MALDONADO COMPUESTA POR JULIO APARICIO ROSA, MARTA IRIS APARICIO LÓPEZ, SANDRA INÉS APARICIO LÓPEZ, OLIN APARICIO

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el ESTE, en veinticinco punto satisfacer a la parte demandan- DE SUBASTA. riormente comenzando el 1 de 7ma. MODIFICADA nuevamen- con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo LÓPEZ Y LAVINIA LEGAL NOTICE cero cero (25.00) metros, con te el importe de la Sentencia julio de 2014, hasta su fecha de te la hipoteca de la inscripción anunciado en este Aviso de SuAPARICIO LÓPEZ; LILIAN vencimiento, la cantidad princi- 4ta., en cuanto al principal que basta. Los autos y todos los ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO el solar número trescientos dictada a su favor, a saber: La Al: Público en General LÓPEZ ROSICH POR SI Y pal del préstamo que devenga- será por $268,020.24, con inte- documentos correspondientes DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- veintisiete (327); y por el OES- suma de $116,942.28, con inte- A: LUIS MANUEL CRUZ POR LA CUOTA VIUDAL ra interés a razón de 6.875% reses al 6.875%, desde el 1 de al procedimiento incoado esta- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA TE, en veinticinco punto cero reses a 3.50% anual, desde el CRUZ, también conocido como LUIS CRUZ CRUZ anual, calculado por un periodo octubre de 2020 y vencedero el rán de manifiesto en la Secreta- SALA SUPERIOR DE CA- cero (25.00) metros con el solar 1ro de abril de 2020, hasta el USUFRUCTUARIA;

Parte Demandada.

CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2021CV08059 Sobre: Ejecución de Hipoteca.

AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada, SUCESIÓN DE JULIO APARICIO MALDONADO compuesta por JULIO APARICIO ROSA, MARTA IRIS APARICIO LÓPEZ, SANDRA INÉS APARICIO LÓPEZ, OLÍN APARICIO LÓPEZ Y LAVINIA APARICIO LÓPEZ; LILIAN LÓPEZ ROSICH por si y por la cuota viudal usufructuaria; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 5 de diciembre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: Calle Aberdeen 2000 (#14-A), Urb. College Ville, Guaynabo PR 00969 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #14 de la manzana A de la Urbanización College Ville, radicada en el Barrio Monacillos del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 450.00 metros cuadrados. En linderos: NORTE en una distancia de 15.00 metros, con el solar #12 del bloque A de dicha Urbanización; SUR, en una distancia de 15.00 metros, con la calle #1 de dicha Urbanización; ESTE, en una distancia de 30.00 metros, con el solar #15 del bloque A de dicha Urbanización; OESTE, en una distancia de 30.00 metros con el solar #13 del bloque A de dicha Urbanización. Enclava una casa de concreto con fines residenciales. Finca Número 21224, inscrita al folio 146 del tomo 1059 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, sección III. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya PR, o a su orden, por $270,000.00, al 6.875%, vencedero el 1 de noviembre de 2035, según Esc. #459, en San Juan, a 24 de octubre de 2005, ante Joseorlando Mercado Gely, inscrita al folio 146 del tomo 1059 de Monacillos, finca #21224, inscripción 4ta. MODIFICADA la hipoteca de la inscripción 4ta., cancelada parcialmente, para una suma del principal de $266,935.00 con intereses al 3.850%, por 36 meses y poste-

de amortización de 444 meses, con pagos mensuales de principal interés de $1,559.71. La nueva fecha de vencimiento del préstamo, el pagaré y de la hipoteca que lo garantiza será el 1 de junio de 2051, fecha en la cual los deudores acuerdan y se obligan a pagar la cantidad residual, sin intereses de $12,805.43 por concepto de intereses, recargos y otros cargos sin pagar la fecha de efectividad de esta transacción.

Dicha cantidad residual es parte del principal, no devengará intereses y corresponde al balance que no queda amortizado mediante los pagos de principal e intereses antes indicados. El pagaré antes relacionado y la hipoteca que lo garantiza, quedan por virtud de la presente escritura de modificación, parcialmente cancelados en la suma de 4,000.00, según Esc. #108, en San Juan, a 19 de mayo de 2011, ante Luis Yamil Rodriguez San Miguel, inscrita al folio 146 del tomo 1059 de Monacillos, finca #21224, inscripción 6ta. MODIFICADA la hipoteca de la inscripción 4ta., por $270,000.00, los comparecientes han acordado en cancelar parcialmente la hipoteca cuya principal es de $266,935.85 y se cancela parcialmente en $1,217.09 para una nueva suma de principal de $265,718.76 comenzando el 1 de julio de 2014, por un periodo de 36 meses, con intereses al 3.850% anual, calculado por un periodo de amortización de temporero de 720 meses efectivo durante un término de 36 meses con pagos mensuales principal e interés de $893.65.

Posteriormente comenzando el 1 de julio de 2014 hasta su fecha de vencimiento, la cantidad principal del préstamo devengará interés lo hará a razón de 6.875% anual calculado por un periodo de amortización de 408 meses con un pago mensual de $1,570.00. La nueva fecha de vencimiento será el 1 de junio de 2051 fecha en la cual el deudor se obliga a pagar la cantidad residual sin intereses de $14,930.44 por concepto de intereses, recargos y otras cargas sin pagar a la fecha de efectividad de esta transacción.

Dicha cantidad residual es parte del principal, no devengará intereses y corresponde al balance que no queda amortizado mediante los pagos de principal e intereses antes indicados, según Esc. #227, en San Juan, a 30 de mayo de 2014, ante Juan A. Martinez Romero, según Esc. #320 de Acta de Rectificación, en San Juan, el 21 de agosto de 2014, ante Juan A. Martinez Romero, inscrita al folio 146 del tomo 1059 de Monacillos, finca #21224, inscripción

1 de mayo de 2051, según Esc. #179, en San Juan, a 31 de agosto de 2017, ante Juan A. Martinez Romero, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Monacillos, finca #21224, inscripción 8va., el 9 de abril de 2018. MODIFICADA nuevamente la hipoteca de la inscripción 4ta., en cuanto al principal que se amplía para un nuevo principal de $269,555.62, con intereses al 3.75%, desde el 1 de octubre de 2020 hasta el 1 de septiembre de 2030 y luego al 6.75% desde el 1 de octubre de 2030 hasta vencer y vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2051, según Esc. #78, en San Juan, a 27 de agosto de 2020, ante Luis Y. Rodriguez San Miguel, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Monacillos, finca #21224, inscripción 9na. y última. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 4 de octubre de 2023, mediante la cual se determinó que la deuda esta vencida, de una cantidad ascendiente a $268,226.16 de principal, con intereses al 3.75% anual desde el día 1 de marzo de 2021; cargos por demora mensuales; las cantidades debidas de contribuciones e impuestos, primas de seguro contra riesgo y seguro de hipoteca hasta su completo pago; $27,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados en caso de reclamación judicial; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son líquidas y exigibles. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 4 de marzo de 2024, a las 9:00 de la mañana, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $269,555.62 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 11 de marzo de 2024, a las 9:00 de la_mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $179,703.75. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18 de marzo de 2024, a las 9:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $134,777.81. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo

ría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores.

Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura.

El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 de enero de 2024. Pedro Hieye González, Alguacil Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De San Juan.

GUAS

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL ZAVALA APONTE compuesta por LUIS ZAVALA; HÉCTOR OMAR ZAVALA; RAFAEL ZAVALA; FULANO y SUTANO DE TAL como posibles herederos desconocidos; CRIM; CARMEN LYDIA DIAZ VELÁZQUEZ

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. CG2022CV02607 SALÓN NÚM. (701) SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS

A: SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL ZAVALA APONTE compuesta por LUIS ZAVALA; HÉCTOR OMAR ZAVALA; RAFAEL ZAVALA; FULANO y SUTANO DE TAL como posibles herederos desconocidos; CRIM; CARMEN LYDIA DIAZ VELÁZQUEZ: Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América.

Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número trescientos veintiocho (328) en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Borinquen Valley, en el término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos punto cero cero (300.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes: por el NORTE, en doce punto cero cero (12.00) metros, con el solar número trescientos dieciocho (318); por el SUR, en doce punto cero cero (12.00 metros, con la Calle Yunta; por

número trescientos veintinueve (329). En este solar está enclavada una residencia construida de hormigón armado de una planta que consta de tres (3) dormitorios, un (1) baño, salacomedor y cocina, laundry, terraza descubierta y marquesina sencilla. Este solar está afectado por una servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Comany que discurre por toda su colindancia con la calle Yunta con un ancho de uno punto quinientos veinticuatro (1.524) metros. En este solar hay construida una verja de cuatro pies (4’) de alto en su colindancia con el solar número trescientos dieciocho (318). Consta inscrita al folio 208 del tomo 1688 de Caguas, finca número #57,437.

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Caguas. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Borinquen Valley 2, 328 Calle Yunta, Caguas, P.R. 00727. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $139,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #204, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 3 de octubre de 2012, ante el notario Luis E. Andujar Moreno, e inscrita al folio 132 del tomo 1765 de Caguas, finca número 57,437, inscripción 7ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $139,500.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 12 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $93,000.00.

Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $69,750.00.

Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto

presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 4% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $13,950.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, 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. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen.

Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 31 de enero de 2024. Ángel Gómez Gómez, Alguacil Placa 593.

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

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante vs.

LUIS MANUEL CRUZ CRUZ, también conocido como LUIS CRUZ CRUZ

Demandado CIVIL NÚM: AR2023CV02070 (506). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EDICTO

Yo, ANGEL DE JESUS TORRES PEREZ, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 4 de marzo de 2024 a las 11:00 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Arecibo 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 11 de marzo de 2024, a las 11:00 de la mañana y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 18 de marzo de 2024, a las 11:00 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Predio número Dos (2). Solar sito en el BARRIO FACTOR del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de MIL TREINTA Y TRES PUNTO DOS CUATRO SEIS CERO (1,033.2460)METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, en cuarenta y siete punto dos cinco siete nueve (47.2579) metros, con calle; por el SUR, en cuarenta y siete punto cuatro dos uno cinco (47.4215) metros, con solar de Juan Cruz; por el ESTE, en veintiuno punto nueve nueve uno ocho (21.9918) metros, con terrenos de la Sucesión Casimiro Rivera; y por el OESTE, en veintiuno punto nueve siete dos cuatro (21.9724) metros, con solar número Uno (1). Edificación: Estructura construida de hormigón y bloques, de una planta, dedicada a vivienda, compuesta de tres cuartos dormitorios, dos baños, sala, cocina, comedor, balcón y marquesina. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Arecibo, Sección Primera, finca número 43,850, inscripción quinta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Barrio Factor I, Carretera 683, Km. 1.1 Int., Lote número 2, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. La su-

The San Juan Daily Star basta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $78,890.70 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.50% anual, desde el día 1ro. de mayo de 2023, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $8,484.80, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $84,848.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $56,565.33 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $42,424.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 1 de febrero de 2024. Angel De Jesus Torres Perez, Alguacil Tribunal Sala Superior De Arecibo.

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LUIS ALBERTO TODOS celebre servirá de tipo mínimo ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin cia que le ha sido dirigido al Al- cios de estacionamiento identi- escritura número 75, otorgada nal de Primera Instancia, Sala dos terceras partes (2/3) destinarse a su extinción el pre- guacil que suscribe por la ficados con los números 123 y en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el de Carolina, en el Caso Civil DE APELLIDOS ALEMAN las del precio pactado en la prime- cio de remate. La propiedad no Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE 171. A este apartamento le co- día 26 de enero de 2015, ante número FCD2016-1005, seguiMARQUES; MENGANO Y ra subasta, o sea la suma de está sujeta a gravámenes an- PRIMERA INSTANCIA CEN- rresponde una participación en el Notario David Toledo David, do por el Banco Popular de MENGANA DE TAL COMO $78,550.66. Si tampoco hubie- teriores y/o preferentes según TRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLI- los elementos del condominio inscrita bajo el folio 71, del tomo Puerto Rico, contra Rafael TraPOSIBLES HEREDEROS re remate ni adjudicación en la las constancias del Registro NA, SALA SUPERIOR, en el de .012897%. La propiedad an- 1527 de Carolina, inscripción vieso Torres, por la suma de segunda subasta se celebrará de la Propiedad. Por la presen- caso de epígrafe procederá a tes relacionada consta inscrita séptima (7ma), bajo la finca nú- $22,717.28 y otras sumas, anoDESCONOCIDOS DE una tercera subasta en las ofi- te se notifica a los acreedores vender en pública subasta al al Folio 273 del Tomo 1206 de mero 51,774, en el Registro de tado el día 19 de septiembre de LA SUCESION (TODOS cinas del Alguacil que suscribe conocidos y desconocidos que mejor postor en efectivo, che- Carolina, bajo la finca número la Propiedad de Carolina, Sec- 2016, al tomo Karibe de CaroliCOMO TITULARES el día 18 DE MARZO DE 2024, tengan inscritos, no inscritos, que certificado en moneda le- 51,774, en el Registro de la ción Segunda. Dicha subasta na, finca número 51,774, AnoA LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. presentados y/o anotados sus gal de los Estados Unidos de Propiedad de Carolina, Sección se llevará a cabo para con su tación B (así surge). Por la preREGISTRALES)

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: CA2023CV01664.

SALA: 402. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA).

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 4 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: 120-5 CALLE 64, URBANIZACION VILLA CAROLINA, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00985 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Carolina, situada en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número cinco de la Manzana ciento veinte con área de trescientos dieciocho metros cuadrados.

LEGAL NOTICE En lindes: por el NORTE, con ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO los Solares números veintioDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- cho y veintinueve, distancia de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA trece metros con veinticinco CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO- centímetros; por el SUR, con la LINA SALA SUPERIOR. Calle número sesenta y cuatro, distancia de trece metros con ORIENTAL BANK veinticinco centímetros; ESTE, COMO AGENTE DE con Solar número seis, distanSERVICIOS DE THE cia de veinticuatro metros; y por MONEY HOUSE, INC. el OESTE, con el Solar número DEMANDANTE VS. cuatro, distancia de veinticuatro metros. Sobre dicho solar LA SUCESION DE enclava una casa. La propieANA LUISA JIMENEZ antes relacionada consta BESARES COMPUESTA dad inscrita al Folio 96 del Tomo POR ALFONSO TOLEDO 673 de Carolina, bajo la finca JIMENEZ; FULANO Y número 26,999, en el Registro FULANA DE TAL COMO de la Propiedad de Carolina, POSIBLES HEREDEROS Sección Segunda. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del DESCONOCIDOS DE LA inmueble antes relacionado, SUCESION; CENTRO DE será el dispuesto en la Escritura RECAUDACIONES DE de Hipoteca, es decir la suma INGRESOS MUNICIPALES de $117,826.00. Si no hubiere ni adjudicación en la (CRIM); LA SUCESION remate primera subasta del inmueble DE ROSA ERCILIA mencionado, se celebrará una MARQUES CESTARIS segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe COMPUESTA POR CARLOS JUAN, MYRIAM el día 11 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. DAMARIS, IVELISSE Y En la segunda subasta que se

Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $58,913.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 269 otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de abril de 2017, ante el Notario Alejandro J. Mues Ariasy consta presentada al Asiento 2023-048191CR02, bajo la finca 26,999, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Segunda. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido condenando a la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $107,466.46 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de octubre de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte co-demandada La Sucesión de Ana Luisa Jiménez Besares, adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,782.60. Además, la parte co-demandada La Sucesión de Ana Luisa Jiménez Besares se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,782.60 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $11,782.60 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble 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 res-

derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca 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. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de febrero de 2024.

Enrique Verge Hernandez, Alguacil Auxiliar. Alguacil De Subastas Tribunal De Primera Instancia Centro Judicial De Carolina Sala Superior.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS.

RAFAEL TRAVIESO TORRES

DEMANDADO CIVIL NUM.: FCD2016-0629.

SALA: 404./ SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Senten-

América el 4 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: CONDOMINIO CAMPO REAL, APARTAMENTO 312-B, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00987 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizada en la tercera planta del edificio “B” del Condominio Campo Real localizado en la carretera 8860 del barrio Martín González del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, el cual se describe en la escritura matriz de dedicación al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Apartamento número 312. Área del apartamento 156.468 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 19.260 metros lineales, con la pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento 313; por el SUR, en 13.643 metros lineales, con la pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento 311; por el ESTE, en 5.666 metros lineales, con espacio abierto; y por el OESTE, en 6.809 metros lineales, con espacio abierto. Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Sur que da al área del pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que le brindan acceso al edificio y además una puerta interior la cual le provee acceso al área del balcón. Consta en el primer nivel de sala, comedor, balcón, cocina, un área de lavandería; por el área de la sala se accesa a un pasillo que le brinda acceso a las siguientes área: un closet, un baño completo de uso general, dos habitaciones dormitorios cada una con un closet en su interior y una habitación dormitorio principal (master room) en la cual ubican un área de “walk- in closet” y un baño completo. En el área de la sala tiene una escalera en forma de espiral que accesa a un segundo nivel que contiene un área de usos múltiples, un segundo balcón que se accesa por un “sliding door”, un baño completo y un área de azotea descubierta, lo que tiene un área total de 46.333 metros cuadrados que está incluida dentro del área total del apartamento. Le corresponden a este apartamento dos espa-

Segunda. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $114,485.51. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 11 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $76,323.68. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 18 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $57,242.76. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 242 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de febrero de 2005, por la suma principal de $112,000.00, ante el Notario Luís Enrique Mejías Rivera, inscrita bajo el folio 39 del tomo 167 de Carolina, inscripción cuarta (4ta), modificada en cuanto a su principal que será la cantidad de $106,186.34, en cuanto a su pago mensual de principal e intereses que será la cantidad de $662.52, en cuanto a su vencimiento que será el 1ro de junio de 2043, en cuanto a su tipo mínimo en caso de ejecución que será la cantidad de $106,186.34, y en cuanto a los honorarios de abogados en caso de ejecución que será $10,618.34, según consta de la escritura número 617, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de mayo de 2013, ante la Notario Magda V. Alsina Figueroa, inscrita bajo el folio 139 del tomo 1370 de Carolina, inscripción sexta (6ta), modificada en cuanto a su principal que será la cantidad de $114,485.51, en cuanto a los pagos mensuales de principal e interese que será la cantidad de $677.23, y con un último pago por la cantidad de $13,479.37, en cuanto a su vencimiento que será el 1ro de junio de 2043, en cuanto a su tipo mínimo en caso de ejecución que será la cantidad de $114,485.51, y en cuanto a los honorarios de abogado en caso de ejecución que serán de $11,448.55, según consta de la

producto satisfacer al Deman- sente se notifica a los dante total o parcialmente se- acreedores conocidos y descogún sea el caso el importe de la nocidos que tengan inscritos, Sentencia que ha obtenido con- no inscritos, presentados y/o denando a la parte demandada anotados sus derechos sobre ascendente a la suma de los bienes hipotecados con $113,414.15 por concepto de posterioridad a la inscripción principal, más intereses al tipo del crédito del ejecutante o pactado de 5.875% anual des- acreedores de cargas o derede el primero (1ro) de diciembre chos reales que los hubiesen de 2015 hasta el primero (1ro.) pospuesto a la hipoteca del acde agosto de 2015. Dichos inte- tor y a los dueños, poseedores, reses continúan acumulándose tenedores de o interesados en hasta el pago total de la obliga- títulos transmisibles por endoso ción. Además, la parte deman- o al portador garantizados hipodada adeuda los créditos acce- tecariamente con posterioridad sorios y adelantos hechos en al crédito del actor que se celevirtud de la escritura de hipote- brarán las subastas en las feca; y las costas, gastos y hono- chas, horas y sitios señalados rarios de abogado equivalentes para que puedan concurrir a la a $11,448.55. Además, la parte subasta si les conviniere o se demandada se comprometió a les invita a satisfacer antes del pagar una suma equivalente a remate el importe del crédito, $11,200.00, para cubrir cual- de sus intereses, otros cargos y quier otro adelanto que se haga las costas y honorarios de aboen virtud de la escritura de hipo- gado asegurados quedando teca y una suma equivalente a subrogados en los derechos $11,200.00 para cubrir intere- del acreedor ejecutante. La proses en adición a los garantiza- piedad objeto de ejecución y dos por ley. Que los autos y to- descrita anteriormente se addos los documentos quirirá libre de cargas y gravácorrespondientes al Procedi- menes posteriores una vez el miento incoado estarán de ma- Honorable Tribunal expida la nifiesto en la SECRETARIA correspondiente Orden de ConDEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA firmación de Venta Judicial. Y INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDI- para conocimiento de licitadoCIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA res del público en general se SUPERIOR durante las horas publicará este Edicto de acuerlaborables. Se entenderá que do con la ley por espacio de dos todo licitador acepta como bas- semanas en tres sitios públicos tante la titulación del inmueble y del municipio en que ha de ceque las cargas y gravámenes lebrarse la venta, tales como la anteriores y los preferentes, si Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Coleclos hubiere, al crédito del ejecu- turía. Este Edicto será publicatante continuarán subsistentes do dos veces en un diario de entendiéndose que el rematan- circulación general en el Estado te los acepta y queda subroga- Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, do en la responsabilidad de los por espacio de dos semanas mismos, sin destinarse a su consecutivas. Expido el preextinción el precio de remate. sente Edicto de subasta bajo mi La propiedad no está sujeta a firma y sello de este Tribunal en gravámenes anteriores y/o pre- Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 ferentes según las constancias de febrero de 2024. HECTOR del Registro de la Propiedad. PEÑA RODRIGUEZ, ALGUASurge de un estudio de título CIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUque, sobre la finca descrita an- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANteriormente, pesan los gravá- CIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE menes posteriores a la hipoteca CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR. que se ejecuta mediante este *** procedimiento que se relacioLEGAL NOTICE nan a continuación. Hipoteca ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO en garantía de un pagaré a faDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUvor de Doral Bank, o a su orNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA den, por la suma principal de CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUA$28,000.00, con intereses al YAMA. 5.95% anual, vencedero el día BANCO POPULAR DE 1 de marzo de 2035, constituida mediante la escritura número PUERTO RICO 243, otorgada en San Juan, DEMANDANTE V. Puerto Rico, el día 28 de febreSUCESIÓN DE MARILU ro de 2005, ante el notario Luis RABASSA LABOY Enrique Mejías Rivera, e inscriCOMPUESTA POR: ta al folio 139 del tomo 1370 de FULANO DE TAL, Carolina, finca número 51,774, inscripción 5ta. Aviso de DeFULANA DE TAL, manda del día 7 de septiembre ZUTANO DE TAL, de 2016, expedido en el Tribu-

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metros lineales, con espacio de su oferta en moneda legal y EDWIN ANIBAL LEGRAND; CENTRO ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y Con el importe de dicha ven- sección correspondiente para BURGOS ta se habrá de satisfacer a la la cancelación de aquellos posEl apartamento en corriente de los Estados Unidos RODRIGUEZ Número del Tribunal Supremo 15693 C COMO HEREDEROS parte demandante las cantida- teriores. Se les advierte a todos DE RECAUDACION DE exterior. la segunda planta, colinda por de América en el momento de PO Box 194089, DESCONOCIDOS DE LA des adeudadas, en el caso de los interesados que todos los INGRESOS MUNICIPALES el NORTE, en una distancia la adjudicación y que las car- HERNANDEZ, FULANO San Juan, PR, 00919, Y MENGANO DE TAL gas y gravámenes preferentes, (CRIM) SUCESIÓN; HONORABLE epígrafe, que se desglosan de documentos relacionados con de cuarenta y ocho punto seis Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, Correo Electrónico: la siguiente forma: $74,071.05 la presente acción de ejecución Yo, CALIXTO RIVERA GHI- (48.6) pies lineales, equiva- si los hubiese, continuarán subCOMO HEREDEROS SECRETARIO DEL jlamas@lvprlaw.com principal, 6.5% de intereses, de hipoteca, así como la de la GLIOTTY, Alguacil de este Tri- lentes a catorce punto setenta sistentes, entendiéndose que el DESCONOCIDOS DEPARTAMENTO EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA los cuales continúan acumu- subasta, estarán disponibles bunal, a la parte demandada y ocho (14.78) metros lineales, rematante los acepta y queda DEPARTAMENTO DE DE HACIENDA DEL y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 9 de lándose hasta el saldo total para ser examinados, durante y a los acreedores y personas con espacio exterior; SUR, en subrogado en la responsabiliHACIENDA ESTADO LIBRE febrero de 2024. LISILDA MARde la deuda; $61.44 de gastos horas laborables, en la Secre- con interés sobre la propiedad una distancia de cuarenta y dad de los mismos, sin destiDemandados TINEZ AGOSTO, Secretaria.

ASOCIADO DE PUERTO por mora, los cuales continúan taría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que más adelante se describe, ocho punto seis (48.6) pies li- narse a su extinción el precio acumulándose hasta el saldo que todo licitador acepta como y al público en general, HAGO neales, equivalentes a catorce del remate. La propiedad a ser CIVIL NÚM: JU2024CV00001 ENEIDA ARROYO VELEZ , RICO; HONORABLE total de la deuda; más costas, bastante la titularidad y que las SABER: Que el día 13 de mar- punto setenta y ocho (14.78) vendida en pública subasta se SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Sub- Secretaria.

SECRETARIO DEL gastos y honorarios de aboga- cargas y gravámenes anterio- zo de 2024, a la 1:30 de la tarde metros lineales, con espacio adquirirá libre de cargas y gra- Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANLEGAL NOTICE DEPARTAMENTO DE do. El tipo mínimo para la su- res y los preferentes, si los hu- en mi oficina, sita en el Tribu- exterior; ESTE, en una distan- vámenes posteriores. Podrán TÍAS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO basta será la suma de tasación biere, al crédito del ejecutante, nal de Primera Instancia, Sala cia de cuarenta y tres (43) pies concurrir como postores a to- EDICTO E INTERPELACION. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE pactada, la cual es $97,189.00 continuarán subsistentes; en- Superior de Mayagüez, Maya- lineales, equivalentes a trece das las subastas los titulares de ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUsegún la escritura de hipoteca tendiéndose que el rematante güez, Puerto Rico, venderé en punto diez (13.10) metros créditos hipotecarios vigentes y RICA. PRESIDENTE DE LOS NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA PUERTO RICO posteriores a la hipoteca que ESTADOS UNIDOS. ESTADO CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA-

DEMANDADOS Civil Núm. GM2018cv00108 (202). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, HECTOR MARQUEZ NERIS, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 2 de febrero de 2023 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $74,071.05 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 26 de agosto de 2019, notificada y archivada en autos el 26 de agosto de 2019, y publicada mediante edicto en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 20 de septiembre de 2019, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Patillas, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado número 13 del bloque “A” (A-13) en el plano de la Urbanización Portales de Jacaboa radicada en el barrio Jacaboa del término municipal de Patillas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 928.46 metros cuadrados. En lindes al Norte, en una distancia de 12.33 metros con Avenida San José y en una distancia de 19.19 metros con el lote I-17; al Sur, con cuatro alineaciones que suman 38.48 metros con Sucesión Pedro Vázquez; al Este, en una distancia de 38.85 metros con Brisas de Tolima, Inc., y al Oeste, en una distancia de 21.03 metros con el lote A-12 y en una distancia de 6.50 metros con la Avenida San José. Enclava una estructura de hormigón para uso residencial. Consta inscrita al folio 97 del tomo 225 de Patillas, finca 10,289, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama.

para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $64,792.67.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $48,594.50 La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 7 de marzo de 2024, a las 11:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 14 de marzo de 2024, a las 11:30 de la mañana.

De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 21 de marzo de 2024, a las 11:30 de la mañana.

La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes: Servidumbres a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico y Puerto Rico Telephone Company. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la

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

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Guayama, Puerto Rico, a 16 de febrero de 2024. HECTOR MARQUEZ NERIS, ALGUACIL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESION DE JOSE EDWIN AVILES RIVERA, compuesta por su viuda NILDA MEDINA LEGRAND y sus hijos EDWIN AVILES MEDINA, EDUARDO AVILES MEDINA y MONICA AVILES MEDINA; FULANO DE TAL y ZUTANO DE TAL, como herederos desconocidos con posible interés; NILDA MEDINA LEGRAND; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Demandados CIVIL NÚM. MZ2022CV00946 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: SUCESION DE JOSE EDWIN AVILES RIVERA, compuesta por su viuda NILDA MEDINA LEGRAND y sus hijos EDWIN AVILES MEDINA, EDUARDO AVILES MEDINA y MONICA AVILES MEDINA; FULANO DE TAL y ZUTANO DE TAL, como herederos desconocidos con posible interés; NILDA MEDINA

Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Mayagüez 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 20 de marzo de 2024, a la 1:30 de la tarde y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el 27 de marzo de 2024, a la 1:30 de la tarde en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial número DIEZ CERO UNO (1001) de dos plantas y forma irregular, localizado en la primera y segunda planta del Edificio diez (10) del CONDOMINIO VILLA CAMPOMAR, situado en el Sector Combate del Barrio Boquerón del término municipal de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, teniendo un área total aproximada de CIENTO OCHENTA PUNTO DOCE CERO SEIS (180.1206) METROS CUADRADOS, equivalentes a MIL NOVECIENTOS TREINTA Y OCHO PUNTO OCHO CERO DOS (1,938.802) PIES CUADRADOS. La marquesina en la primera planta, colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de doce (12) pies lineales, equivalentes a tres punto sesenta y cinco (3.65) metros lineales, con espacio exterior; SUR en una distancia de doce (12) pies lineales, equivalentes a tres punto sesenta y cinco (3.65) metros lineales, espacio exterior; ESTE, en una distancia de treinta y cuatro (34) pies lineales, equivalentes a diez punto treinta y seis (10.36) metros lineales, con la marquesina del apartamento Diez Cero Tres (1003) y OESTE, en una distancia de treinta y cuatro (34) pies lineales, equivalentes a diez punto treinta y seis (10.36)

lineales, con escaleras comunes; y OESTE, en una distancia de cuarenta y tres (43) pies lineales, equivalentes a trece punto diez (13.10) metros lineales, con espacio exterior. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento esta situada en su lindero Este, a través de la cual se llega a las escaleras comunes y al exterior del Edificio. En la primera planta tiene una marquesina para dos automóviles. En la segunda planta el área de vivienda consta de sala-comedor, cocina, tres cuartos dormitorios de los cuales el dormitorio principal tiene vestidor y baño, un baño adicional, lavandería, almacén y dos terrazas o balcones. Tiene una participación de un punto ciento once porciento (1.111%) en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 34 del tomo 884 de Cabo Rojo, Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán, finca número 29,996, inscripción segunda. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Condominio Villa Campomar, Apartamento 1001, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $99,995.93 de principal, intereses al 5.25% anual desde el 1ro. de marzo de 2020, hasta su completo pago; más la cantidad de $14,400.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $144,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $96,000.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $72,000.00. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe

se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 15 de febrero de 2024. CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTTY, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

EDWIN ANÍBAL RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, YOLANDA GARCÍA NAVAS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ PIÑERO COMPUESTA POR: EDWIN ANIBAL RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ Y PERENCEJO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS; MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE SALUSTIANA HERNANDEZ ARES COMPUESTA POR:

LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER- ROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE TO RICO. SS. CAROLINA

A: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE SALUSTIANA HERNANDEZ ARES • Km. 2.2 Carr. 929, Bo. Lirios, Juncos, PR 00777 Jard. Del Valenciano, A 5 Calle Jazmin, Juncos, PR 00777.

DE: BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Se le emplaza y requiere 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), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $21,725.84, más cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más intereses acumulados al 8%, desde el 1 de enero de 2020, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Se ordena a los herederos a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación, ACEPTEN O REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Salustiana Hernandez Ares. Se les apercibe que de no expresarse dentro del término de (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada.

Lcdo. JOSE ANTONIO LAMAS

CANDEL COOP T/C/P COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA CANDELARIA Demandante V.

AWILDA RODRÍGUEZ OLMO

Demandado(a) JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ RIVERA JRG@GONZALEZMORALES.COM JUAN ÁNGEL SANTOS BERRÍOS SANTOSBERRIOSLAW@GMAIL. COM RICARDO ANDRES ACEVEDO BIANCHI ACEVEDOBIANCHI@GMAIL.COM CASO NÚM.: CA2023CV02402 (CIVIL 402) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: AWILDA RODRÍGUEZ OLMO

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 13 de febrero de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 13 de febrero de 2024. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. F/Lourdes T. Díaz Medina, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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The San Juan Daily Star DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- subasta se dará por terminaNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA do el procedimiento, pudiendo SALA DE AGUADA adjudicarse el bien subastado BANCO POPULAR DE a opción del demandante. Art. 221 de la Ley Hipotecaria, 30 PUERTO RICO, INC. L.P.R.A. sec. 2721. La PRIMEDemandante V. RA SUBASTA se llevará a efecHILDEGARDIS MUÑIZ to el día 3 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A MEJIAS; MILENA RAMOS LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, RODRÍGUEZ en el área del sótano al final del Demandadas CIVIL NUM.: ABCI2014-01220 pasillo, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Que el precio mínimo fijado Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE- para la PRIMERA SUBASTA CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. es de $113,380.76. Que de ser ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- necesaria la celebración de una RICA. PRESIDENTE DE LOS SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma ESTADOS UNIDOS. ESTADO se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER- ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 TO RICO. S.S. AVISO DE DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina SUBASTA. Yo, Esteban Atiles antes mencionada del Alguacil Feliciano, Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe. El precio mínimo de Primera Instancia, Sala de para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA Aguadilla, notifico a los de- será de $75,587.17, equivalenmandados, público en general tes a dos terceras (2/3) partes y personas con algún interés, del tipo mínimo estipulado para que cumpliré con un Manda- la PRIMERA subasta. Que de miento librado por el Secretario ser necesaria la celebración del Tribunal de epígrafe, el 17 de una TERCERA SUBASTA la de enero de 2024, para satis- misma se llevará a efecto el día facer la Sentencia dictada el 17 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS 16 de abril de 2015, la cual fue 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la notificada y archivada en autos oficina antes mencionada del el 27 de abril de 2015. En dicha Alguacil que suscribe. El preSentencia se condena a la par- cio mínimo para la TERCERA te demandada a satisfacer la SUBASTA será de $56,690.38, suma de $122,671.31 adeuda- equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) da al 1 de mayo de 2014, más del tipo mínimo estipulado las costas, gastos, honorarios para la PRIMERA subasta. La de abogado; y demás créditos adjudicación se hará al mejor accesorios garantizados hipo- postor, quien deberá consignar tecariamente. Conforme a lo el importe de su oferta en el anterior, venderé en pública acto mismo de la adjudicación, subasta, al mejor postor en en efectivo (moneda del curso pago de contado y en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de del curso legal de los Estados América), giro postal o cheque Unidos de América, todo dere- certificado a nombre del alguacho, título e interés que hayan cil del Tribunal. Si se declarase tenido tengan o puedan tener desierta la tercera subasta, se los deudores demandados en adjudicará la finca a favor del cuanto al bien inmueble que acreedor por la totalidad de la ubica en 414 Road, Km 2.5 cantidad adeudada si ésta es Interior, Cruces WD, Aguada, igual o menor que el monto del Puerto Rico que se describe a tipo de la tercera subasta, si el continuación: RUSTICA: Pre- Tribunal lo estima conveniente; dio de terreno sito en el Barrio se abonará dicho monto a la Cruces del término municipal cantidad adeudada si esta es de Aguada, con una cabida mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo superficial de 537.753 metros dispone el Articulo 104 de la cuadrados, identificado como Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciempredio número 6. En lindes por bre de 2015 conocida como el NORTE, con Juan Cardona; “Ley del Registro de la Propiepor el SUR, con Carretera Mu- dad Inmueble del Estado Libre nicipal; por el ESTE, con predio Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La número 5 y por el OESTE, con propiedad a ser ejecutada se predio número 7. Inscrito al folio adquiere libre de toda carga y 104 del tomo 250 de Aguadilla, gravamen que afecte la menfinca número #13,606 Regis- cionada finca según el Artículo tro de la Propiedad de Puer- 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirto Rico, Sección Primera de mada la venta judicial por el HoAguadilla. El tipo mínimo para norable Tribunal, se procederá la subasta será la suma de a otorgar la correspondiente $113,380.76. De declararse la escritura de venta judicial y se subasta desierta, y de celebrar- pondrá al comprador en posese una segunda subasta, el tipo sión física del inmueble de conmínimo será dos terceras (2/3) formidad con las disposiciones partes del tipo mínimo estable- de Ley. Para conocimiento de cido para la primera subasta, la parte demandada y de toda el cual asciende a $75,587.17. aquella persona o personas Si tampoco hubiere remate ni que tengan interés inscrito con adjudicación en la segunda su- posterioridad a la inscripción basta, regirá como tipo mínimo del gravamen que se está ejede la tercera subasta la mitad cutando, y para conocimiento (1/2) del tipo mínimo pactado de todos los licitadores y el para la primera subasta el cual público en general, el presente asciende a $56,690.38. Si se Edicto se publicará por espacio declarase desierta la tercera de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo

Friday, February 9, 2024 menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Librado en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 7 de febrero de 2024. Esteban Atiles Feliciano, ALGUACIL Confidencial #984, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADILLA.

tablecerse 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 2024. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 9 de febrero de 2024.

Evelyn Felix Vázquez, Secretaria. F/Dalissa Reyes De León, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

SUCESION DE JOSE S. DE LEON VILLEGAS Y OTROS

Demandado (a) JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑA LEGAL@JRSLA WPR.COM Caso Núm.: YB2023CV00279 (SALÓN 206) Sobre: COBRO LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CIA POR EDICTO. A: SUCESION DE JOSE CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE S. DE LEON VILLEGAS, HUMACAO MARIA FELIX MORALES,

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

LAURIVETTE GARCIA VELAZQUEZ Y OTROS

JOSE DE LEON, FULANA DE TAL: DIRECCION: BO. SAN MARTIN SANTA ELENA CARR. 3 KM 101 H 4 YABUCOA PR 00767, PO BOX 311 YABUCOA PR 00767

Demandado (a) JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑA LEGAL@JRSLA WPR.COM Caso Núm.: HU2023CV01445 (SALÓN 205) Sobre: COBRO (Nombre de las partes que se le DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. notifican la sentencia por edicto) NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN- EL SECRETARIO(A) que susCIA POR EDICTO. cribe le notifica a usted que el 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este A: LAURIVETTE GARCIA VELAZQUEZ, Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Parcial o Resolución FULANO DE TAL Y LA Sentencia en este caso, que ha sido debiSOCIEDAD LEGAL damente registrada y archivada DE GANANCIALES en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los COMPUESTA POR AMBOS • DIRECCION: términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola URB MIRADERO 39 vez en un periódico de circulaCAMINO DEL MONTE ción general en la Isla de PuerHUMACAO PR 00791-9670 to Rico, dentro de los 10 días (Nombre de las partes que se le siguientes a su notificación. Y, notifican la sentencia por edicto) siendo o representando usted EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- una parte en el procedimiento cribe le notifica a usted que el sujeta a los términos de la Sen7 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este tencia, Sentencia Parcial o ReTribunal ha dictado Sentencia, solución, de la cual puede esSentencia Parcial o Resolución tablecerse recurso de revisión en este caso, que ha sido debi- o apelación dentro del término damente registrada y archivada de 30 días contados a partir en autos donde podrá usted en- de la publicación por edicto de terarse detalladamente de los esta notificación, dirijo a usted términos de la misma. Esta no- esta notificación que se consitificación se publicará una sola derará hecha en la fecha de la vez en un periódico de circula- publicación de este edicto. Coción general en la Isla de Puer- pia de esta notificación ha sido to Rico, dentro de los 10 días archivada en los autos de este siguientes a su notificación. Y, caso, con fecha de 9 de febrero siendo o representando usted de 2024. En Humacao, Puerto una parte en el procedimiento Rico, el 9 de febrero de 2024. sujeta a los términos de la Sen- Evelyn Felix Vázquez, Secretencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re- taria. F/Keyla Pérez Figueroa, solución, de la cual puede es- Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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SOLID CORE CONSTRUCTION LLC, Demandante, V.

CAMPO CARIBE LLC,

Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2023CV11428 (802) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO, DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS POR INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO, COSTAS Y HONORARIOS DE ABOGADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: CAMPO CARIBE LLC

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza para que presenten al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la Demanda presentada en su contra dentro de los treinta (30) días de la publicación de este Emplazamiento por Edicto, excluyéndose el día de su publicación. Deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma a los abogados de la parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria de potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023).

Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Abogados de la Parte Demandante: Lcdo. José A. Díaz Brugueras R.Ú.A. Núm. 18,652 lparrilla@ferraiuoli.com Lcdo. Jaime A. Torrens Dávila R.Ú.A. Núm. 15,803 jtorrens@ferraiuoli.com

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Lcda. Claudia B. FontanetRodríguez R.Ú.A. Núm. 22,985 cfontanet@ferraiuoli.com Ferraiuoli LLC. Looking Forward PO Box 195168 San Juan, PR 00919-5168 Tel.: (787)766-700 Fax: (787)766-7001 EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9 de febrero de 2024. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria Regional.

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CARDONA RODRIGUEZ DIONISIO; MARIA DOLORES TORRES GONZALEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES EXISTENTE ENTRE AMBOS; EDITH ESTHER TORRES GONZÁLEZ; CARLOS JUAN TORRES GONZÁLEZ; ISRAEL OSVALDO TORRES MUNET; Demandantes v.

FERDINAND TORRES GONZÁLEZ; CARLOS SAMUEL TORRES TORRES; ENID MARIA TORRES TORRES; EUNICE BEATRIZ TORRES TORRES; DAVID ALEXANDER TORRES MUNET; RABIEL ALEXIS TORRES MUNET; JOSHUA OMAR TORRES MUNET; ISAMAR ANETTE TORRES MUNET y NELLY ESTHER RIVERA COLÓN

Demandados CIVIL NUM.: PO2023CV03635.

SOBRE: ACCION CIVIL AL AMPARO DEL ARTICULO ART. 1231, 31 L.P.R.A. SEC. 3452 CÓDIGO CIVIL DE PR. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FERDINAND TORRES GONZÁLEZ 89 Metropolitan Oval 2-H, Bronx, NY 10462; CARLOS SAMUEL TORRES TORRES 208 Lochinvar Dr., Casselbery, FL 32730; ENID MARÍA TORRES TORRES 209 S. Jefferson Ave., Canonsburg, PA, 15317; EUNICE BEATRIZ TORRES TORRES 139 West College St. Canonsburg, PA 15317; NELLY ESTHER RIVERA COLON

Washington Ave. Ephrata PA 17522; DAVID ALEXANDER TORRES MUNET 1210 Hampden Blvd.

Reading PA 19601; RABIEL ALEXIS TORRES MUNET 515 Curtis Ave. Reading, PA019601; JOSHUA OMAR TORRES MUNET 21426 M. Duncan DR Maricopa, AZ 85138; ISAMAR ANETTE TORRES MUNET 520 Pike Rd. Reading, PA 19601;

Se apercibe que si transcurrido el término de treinta (30) días contados desde la publicación de este por edicto no ha habido reparos u oposición contra la demanda interpuesta, este Tribunal dictará Sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la misma. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Copia de la contestación deberá ser notificada al Licenciado Salvador Márquez Colón a su dirección en: 485 Ave. Tito Castro, Ponce, PR 00716.

POR ORDEN DEL HONORABLE TRIBUNAL, expido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el presente en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 5 de febrero de 2024.

CARMEN G.TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIO (A). SANTA MELÉNDEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de ENERO de 2024. En CAGUAS , Puerto Rico, el 22 de ENERO de 2024. LISILDA MARTINEZ AGOSTO, Secretario(a). f/ARLEEN HERNANDEZ PELUYERA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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SAMUEL PEREZ VAZQUEZ Demandante v.

FULANO DE TAL Y OTROS

Demandado(a) CARLOS A. GARCIA CEBALLOS LCDO-CARLOSGARCIA@HOTMAIL. COM CASO NÚM.: HO2023CV00105 SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN PAGARÉ EXLEGAL NOTICE TRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUA: FULANO DE TAL NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA (Nombre de las partes que se le CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAnotifican la sentencia por edicto) GUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE EL SECRETARIO(A) que susCAGUAS. cribe le notifica a usted que el ROSA MARIA 31 DE ENERO DE 2024, este ROLON MELENDEZ Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Demandante v.

Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debiEXPARTE damente registrada y archivada Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2022CV03433 en autos donde podrá usted (SALÓN 0304 SALA CRIMI- enterarse detalladamente de NAL). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE los términos de la misma. Esta DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. circulación general en la Isla VÍCTOR M. RIVERA TORRES VICTOR.RIVERA@RCRTRBLAW. de Puerto Rico, dentro de los COM 10 días siguientes a su notificaA: CUALQUIER PERSONA ción. Y, siendo o representando QUE PUDIESE TENER usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos INTERÉS Y TODA de la Sentencia, Sentencia PERSONA A QUIEN Parcial o Resolución, de la cual PUDIERA PERJUDICAR puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del LA INSCRIPCIÓN término de 30 días contados a SOLICITADA partir de la publicación por edic(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) to de esta notificación, dirijo a

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DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL INC. Demandante Vs.

SUCESION JAIME BOU CRESPO T/C/C JAIME BOU COMPUESTA POR EDITH BOU HERNANDEZ, MILWIDA BOU HERNANDEZ, JUAN BOU; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION HILDA HERNANDEZ HERNANDEZ T/C/C HILDA HERNANDEZ T/C/C HILDA HDEZ HDEZ COMPUESTA POR EDITH BOU HERNANDEZ, MILWIDA BOU HERNANDEZ, MARISEL MALDONADO SAMORA, ALEXIS MALDONADO SAMORA; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION ALEXIS MALDONADO HERNANDEZ COMPUESTA POR MARISEL MALDONADO SAMORA, ALEXIS MALDONADO SAMORA; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2023CV02183.

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

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 12 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Parcela de terreno en la Urbanización Residencial Cerromonte, situada en el Barrio Pueblo del término Municipal de Corozal Puerto Rico, marcado con el numero veinte (20) del Bloque B, con un área de trescientos metros cuadrados con quince centímetros (300.15 m.c.) en lindes por el NORTE, en trece punto cero cinco (13.05) metros, con Calle número once (11) del Bloque B; por el ESTE, en veintitrés (23) metros, con el solar numero diecinueve (19) del Bloque B; y por el OESTE, en veintitrés (23) metros, con el solar numero veintiuno (21) del Bloque B. Enclava una casa de cemento diseñada para una familia.” Inscrita al folio 109 del tomo 140 de Corozal, finca 7,231BIS, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca 7,231BIS de Corozal, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, inscripción 6ª.

Propiedad localizada en: URB. CERRO MONTE, B-20 CALLE 2, COROZAL, PUERTO RICO 00783. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $168,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 7 de octubre de 2080. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el

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precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $168,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 19 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $112,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $84,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 26 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $74,552.80 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $30,447.04 en intereses acumulados al 10 de julio de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.331% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $9,067.19 en seguro hipotecario; $2,713.41 de seguro; $1,100.00 de tasaciones; $520.00 de inspecciones; $3,545.00 en adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $16,800.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio

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sos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunalelectronico, 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 Aguadilla Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de noviembre de 2023. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el15 de noviembre de 2023. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria Regional. Gisela Serano Pérez, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de noviembre de 2023.

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Kansas City shooting is latest violence to mar a sports celebration

By SANTUL NERKAR

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ast June, 10 people were shot during celebrations on the night the Denver Nuggets won the NBA title. In 2019, four people were shot at the NBA championship rally for the Toronto Raptors. Two men were shot and killed in a Los Angeles suburb during a celebration of the Dodgers’ World Series victory in 2020.

Last week brought the latest example of violence marring a celebratory sports moment. On Wednesday, shots rang out at the end of a Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City, Missouri, leaving one woman dead and at least 22 people injured. The bloodshed led Kansas City’s mayor, Quinton Lucas, to question whether the city would have another parade if the team won again.

“If we’re blessed enough to win a Super Bowl again, do we do this again?”

Lucas asked during an interview with KMBC, a local news station. “Or do we all just say, ‘Go to Arrowhead Stadium, walk through metal detectors’ — have a very secured, vastly smaller event?”

The vast majority of sporting events and championship celebrations take place without any overt violence. But some high-profile instances in recent years have led to a growing unease among some that sporting events are becoming less safe. Although there is little available data on the exact number of violent incidents in and around sporting events each year, researchers say several factors contribute to this feeling.

One is the sheer number of people involved. A typical NFL game, for instance, attracts around 70,000 spectators. Larger crowds naturally increase the number of interactions that can lead to violence, said Tamara Herold, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who studies crowd control and violence at sporting events.

“Crowd density tends to matter quite a bit,” Herold said.

The NFL has a security presence at its official events like games, including the Super Bowl and the Pro Bowl, and the annual draft, with a “control center” that monitors the venue and even online

People hold candles during vigil for victims of a mass shooting that occurred following a Super Bowl victory parade, leaving one woman dead and at least 22 people injured, in Kansas City, Mo. on Feb. 15, 2024. The vast majority of sporting events and championship celebrations take place without any overt violence. But some high-profile instances in recent years have led to a growing unease among some that sporting events are becoming less safe. (Chase Castor/The New York Times) conversations to react quickly to a disturbance. Those events are also held in venues with security checkpoints that screen for firearms.

But parades and other championship celebrations are not official league events. The parade in Kansas City, for instance, went through the heart of the city, and attendees did not need to pass through any security checkpoint.

The availability of alcohol, extreme heat or cold, and even the importance of the game in question (say, a Game 7 of the World Series) can also be aggravating factors for violence, Herold said.

Stephen Billings, a professor at the University of Colorado’s business school who studies crime, said the fact that more aggressive behavior was taken for granted at sporting events — where people are often drinking alcohol and screaming — might contribute to such outbursts, too.

“When the norms are different than the typical norms in society, and people feel like they feel the right to do something, that’s when we have conflict, too,”

he said.

And the effects can spill over beyond the venues. Research from Billings found that violent crime increased within a half-mile of venues in Charlotte, North Carolina, between 2005 and 2009 on game days compared with days when there were no games.

Over a four-year period, regular-season games in the NHL were associated

with an approximately 10% increase in assaults in the host cities, according to research from Kristina Block, a doctoral student at Sam Houston State University.

More research from Block, written with Jacob Kaplan, a researcher at Princeton University, found a 7% increase in local public disorder crimes during home playoff games in the NHL. Steven Block, a professor of criminology at Central Connecticut State University, examined roughly 60 incidents of fighting among fans at stadiums in North America in a 2017 paper. Often, the fights stemmed from rival team allegiances, involved alcohol and were defused by other spectators, not stadium security.

He also emphasized the role of density.

“Just because of the sheer numbers, people might not feel like there’s security,” he said. “They feel they’re on their own, both to act aggressively and defend themselves.”

After the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, cities heightened surveillance and began sharing more information about how to prevent another attack. But those efforts were focused on threats of terrorism, not the kind of violence that erupts spontaneously.

Nonetheless, Herold emphasized that the vast majority of sporting events were safe and that the violence that Americans did hear about was the exception.

“These things, when they do happen, are tragedies,” she said. “But they are still relatively rare events.”

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Don Gullett, ace for the Big Red Machine, dies at 73

By ALEX WILLIAMS

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on Gullett, a flame-throwing left-handed pitcher who starred for three World Series champion teams in the 1970s, first with the Cincinnati Reds and then with the New York Yankees, died last Wednesday. He was 73.

The Reds organization confirmed the death in a statement but did not cite a cause or say where he died.

The Reds during Gullett’s tenure were one of the great teams of all time. The Big Red Machine, as it was known, was famous for its lumber, with an eradefining lineup of hitters that included Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Pérez and Pete Rose.

While the team’s pitching rarely received top billing, Gullett established himself as a feared ace during the team’s run as a dynasty. Nicknamed Smokin’ Don, he blew away batters with a fastball whose velocity tickled triple digits, at times drawing comparisons to his idol, Sandy Koufax, the storied Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander.

Willie Stargell, the Hall of Fame slugger for the Pittsburgh Pirates, once said that Gullett “could throw a ball through a car wash without it ever getting wet.”

Adding a nasty forkball that left batters waving at air, he went 17-11 with a 3.04 earned run average in 1974. Sparky Anderson, the Reds’ manager, predicted that, “barring an injury,” Gullett “is almost sure of making the Hall of Fame.”

Those words would turn out to be prophetic, but not in the way Anderson intended.

Gullett had the honor of starting Game 1 of the World Series for three straight years beginning in 1975 — the first two with the Reds, the third with the Yankees. In a thrilling seven-game triumph over the Boston Red Sox in 1975, Gullett lost the opener but came back to win Game 5, surrendering only two earned runs in 8 2/3 innings.

After the Reds steamrolled the Yankees in a fourgame sweep the next year, the Bronx Bombers’ principal owner, George Steinbrenner, had apparently seen enough: He signed Gullett to a six-year contract

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“He had to take it,” Bench was quoted as saying in Gullett’s obituary in The Cincinnati Enquirer.

“It was the hardest decision I think Don Gullett ever made in his life, but for his family it was the only decision he could make.”

In his first year in pinstripes, in 1977, Gullett went 14-4, helping the team to its first World Series victory since 1962.

Surgery in 1978 for a double tear in the rotator cuff of his left shoulder would mark the end of his playing days. His efforts to rehabilitate his throwing arm failed. He sat out the 1979 season, and the Yankees released him in 1980.

Still, Gullett had tallied 109 wins against 50 losses

during his career, finishing with a winning percentage of .686 — the seventh best in league history for pitchers who notched at least 1,000 innings.

On a Reds team stacked with stars, his athleticism had stood out to teammates — as had his humble manner. “He was a total athlete,” The Enquirer quoted Bench as saying. “He could hit and run like the wind and the nicest, nicest person. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a bad word ever said about Don.” Donald Edward Gullett was born Jan. 6, 1951, near Lynn, Kentucky, not far from the Ohio border, the sixth of eight children of Buford and Lettie Gullett.

As a teenager, Don Gullett built his strength baling hay on local farms while becoming a dazzling All-State star on the diamond, gridiron and hardwood at McKell High School. He became a local legend, known for feats like scoring 72 points in a football game and striking out 20 of 21 batters while pitching a perfect game.

Chosen 14th overall out of high school by Cincinnati in the 1969 draft, Gullett appeared in only 11 games in the minor leagues before being fasttracked to the big leagues in 1970, when he was 19.

In the National League Championship Series in 1970, the Reds swept a powerful Pirates team in three games, with Gullett, in relief, tallying saves in Games 2 and 3. Despite his youth, he was not awed by the experience.

“I wasn’t nervous a bit going in there,” he said during the series. “Talking to all these reporters is a lot tougher than facing Willie Stargell or Roberto Clemente.”

The Reds lost the World Series in five games to the Baltimore Orioles that year and fell to the Oakland A’s (another dynasty of the 1970s) two years later. Still, the best years were yet to come, both for the team and for its star left-hander.

After his playing days were over, Gullett retired to a farm near his hometown, where, with his wife, Cathy, he grew tobacco and other crops.

Information about his survivors was not immediately available.

Interviewed in 1989 by the Los Angeles Times, Gullett said that it took time to get over his premature exit from baseball.

“I looked at myself and I was only 31, 32 years old,” he said. “It kind of bothered me mentally. It was mentally tough to watch games.”

Even in regret, however, he maintained his trademark humility.

“It was just unfortunate in my career,” he added.

“If I had stayed healthy, there is the chance I could have been very successful.”

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Travel may cause more problems than it’s worth today, Aries. You may forget some vital items when packing or there could be too little time to get everything ready. Your plane could be delayed or something valuable lost. Try to shortcircuit potential problems. Use a checklist when packing, keep valuables close to you, and take lots of books and CDs in case you have to wait out a delay. In spite of it all, have fun!

Someone you work with might need a sympathetic shoulder to cry on today, Libra. Stresses on the job extend beyond everyone’s capacity to endure, so don’t be surprised if at some point a colleague sheds a few tears. You might find your patience pushed beyond its normal limits. On days like this it’s best to work as quickly as you can, stay focused, and go for a drink after you leave work. Then have a nice walk home!

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Finances may cause an upset between you and a friend today, Taurus. Perhaps this person owes you money and can’t pay it back, or vice versa.

If this is the case, try to work out some kind of arrangement that suits you both. There’s always a way to create a win-win situation if you don’t both get so angry that your objectivity is totally wiped out.

Children or possibly some close friends or a love interest could be upset today, Scorpio. The financial coffers aren’t full enough to afford something they think they absolutely have to have right now. You might find yourself having to soothe their feelings, reassuring them that “not now” doesn’t necessarily mean “never.” If they don’t respond, don’t keep pushing.

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

A social event could put you in touch with someone who’s carrying around a lot of bitterness and anger, Gemini. This probably won’t be very pleasant for you, as this person could well see you as the perfect listening post for all their problems. Don’t feel trapped! Be polite but make your excuses as soon as you can.

The workplace could be very hectic today as a colleague prepares to leave on an important business trip, Cancer. Nerves could be strained and tempers short. Try to stay focused and get everything necessary done without making yourself crazy. You may be the one who keeps everyone else from going crazy, although you might consider hiding in the closet yourself.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Worry about a family member may be on your mind today, Sagittarius. This person could be all wrought up over work, money, or possibly a love affair that’s broken off. Say whatever reassuring words you can muster, but don’t expect him or her to respond, and don’t fall into the trap of feeling that your kind words were all in vain. They did register.

Uneasy feelings may be plaguing you throughout the day, Capricorn. There could appear to be no valid reason for this. Everything seems to be going well for you, and no one close to you has anything heavy going on. It’s probably nothing Earthshaking. You may just be intuitively picking up on the troubles and anxieties of people you pass on the street.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

You may have a wonderful day today, Leo. Your imagination, intuition, and creativity are all high, and inspiration for new artistic works could be filling your heart and brain. You’ll be all too happy to discuss your ideas with anyone who shows an interest. The one dark spot in the day might be that a child, close friend, or lover goes into a snit because he or she feels ignored.

A friend, perhaps a woman, could well be upset or even angry with you today, Aquarius. Money might be involved in some way. There may be nothing you can do to reassure her at this time, so it’s best to give what reassurances you can and then back off. Whatever has gone wrong, she’s probably overreacting, and eventually she’ll see that. In the meantime, you do what you can to work off your own anxieties. Hang in there!

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Your home could be a very busy place today, Virgo. Visitors could come and go throughout the day, probably annoying you at times. You might also find yourself having to soothe angry outbursts on the part of a member of your household. Take care, however, that this person’s problem doesn’t get you so inflamed that you go into a fit of anger, too. through the day.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Is your boss a woman, Pisces? If so, stay out of her way today. To put it mildly, she isn’t in a good mood. Work hard, be very sweet to everyone, and make copious use of your innate diplomacy.

You may be on the receiving end of some sharp words, but by remaining focused and continuing your routine in your usual efficient manner, you should avoid any major blowups.

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