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By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com
Scientists from the Department of Marine Sciences (DCM by its Spanish initials) of the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus (RUM) raised the alarm Wednesday about the accelerated deterioration of the quality of the environment and the state of marine communities in the La Parguera Natural Reserve (RNLP), the most developed ecosystem of its kind in Puerto Rico.
“The coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangroves of the RNLP show accelerated deterioration, resulting from a lethal combination of global warming and uncontrolled human activities,” coral reef specialist Dr. Ernesto Weil, who is a professor and director of the DCM, said in a press release. “The increase in the frequency and intensity of storms, reef diseases and sargassum arrivals in the area are natural problems that we cannot control, but we can reduce the impact of human activities.”
La Parguera, in the island’s southwestern region, has been a tourist attraction for many years due to its proximity to recreational areas protected by Puerto Rico’s most developed reef ecosystem. After Hurricane Maria, during and after the pandemic, there has been a significant increase in the number of visitors, hostels, boats, nurseries, restaurants, and people visiting the town, the keys and other areas of the RNLP during the week and mainly, every weekend exacerbated by the lack of vigilance of official agencies, Weil said.
He added that the number of boats that anchor on seagrass meadows, which are further trampled in shallower areas by people wading and the physical damage produced by boat propellers, significantly exceeds the resistance (carrying capacity) to disturbances of these habitats, which currently show a progressive deterioration in their structure and biodiversity, losing the ecological benefits they provide to the reserve and to human beings.
“The frequency with which these events of excess tourists occur prevents the natural recovery of these important habitats,” Weil said.
He noted that the extensive reef development present in the RNLP characterizes it as a unique and special ecosystem throughout Puerto Rico, and stressed that numerous scientific studies have shown that coral reefs and other associated communities are very susceptible to increases in water temperature and the frequent impact of human activities.
“This degradation of reef communities is the result of the combination of natural problems such as increased thermal anomalies, lethal diseases, increased rainfall and
the high frequency of hurricanes and storms, which, combined with the constant impacts of uncontrolled human activities, have accelerated the degradation process,” Weil said. “Several of the species listed as endangered by the United Nations (manatees, sea turtles and seven species of reef-building corals, etc.) are susceptible to these factors, and are rapidly disappearing from various reef habitats inside and outside the RNLP.”
Over the past 15 years, for example, the systematic degradation of the RNLP’s coral reefs has resulted in a loss of more than 50% in living coral cover, Weil pointed out. Recovery is going to take hundreds or thousands of years. In the past three years, a significant increase in the number of manatees killed by impacts from boats traveling at high speeds in protected areas for these mammals has been reported, a consequence of the uncontrolled proliferation of motor boats and jet skis in areas of the RNLP, the lack of education and knowledge of the area by users, and of an increase in deforestation and the lack of surveillance and enforcement of regulations by the competent authorities, Weil said.
“The direct effects of user activities inside and outside the RNLP can be clearly observed in the numerous furrows in seagrass meadows and shallow coral habitats caused by boat propellers and/or jet skis passing at high speeds without control or knowledge of the area,” the reef specialist said. “The fragmentation and destruction of coral colonies by propellers, anchors and trampling; the increase in water turbidity due to excess sediments from resuspension and the increase in construction; and the excessive number of boats and bathers also contribute to … chemical imbalances.”
Rep. Yazzer Morales Díaz announced on Wednesday the filing of a measure that seeks to carry out a detailed study on the operation of the Health Department’s Division of Integrated Rehabilitation and Independent Living, in order to verify if it meets all its objectives and responsibilities.
“With this Division of Integrated Rehabilitation and Independent Living, we seek to promote a better quality of life, social reintegration, comprehensive formation, independent life and vocational rehabilitation of the population over 22 years of age with disabilities,” the District 9 (Toa Alta and Bayamón) lawmaker said. “This serves as support and mentoring through the transition stages of the population with disabilities from childhood.
The objective of this research is to verify the impact that this division has had on the population and what we can do to support its efforts.”
Law 105-2016, known as the “Law for Access, Training and Extended Support for the Social Integration of People 22 Years and Older with Disabilities,” created division, whose main objective is to empower the population of adults with disabilities with the necessary resources and tools that allow the elimination of barriers that make it impossible to achieve full development for a better quality of life. The approach to service offers the individual a treatment based on their disability, using an interdisciplinary team and emphasizing preventive services, promotion, health education and the development of broad strategies so that he or she can manage, adaptively, the demands of daily living.
The services the division is supposed to offer are contained in Title VII (A, B and C) of the federal statute known as the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
Act (WIOA), and are aimed at people with disabilities, age 22 and older, who require independent living services and who, at the time of applying for them, are not eligible for services offered by the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration under Titles I and VI of federal Law 93-112 and Law 97-2000.
The legislation orders the House Committee on Social Welfare, People with Disabilities and Older Adults to carry out the aforementioned study.
According to the State of Disability Report (circa 2018) the prevalence of disability in Puerto Rico was 21.7% for people of all ages, 1.1% for people 4 years and younger, 9.1% for people ages 5 to 15, 8.5% for people ages 16 to 20, 18.2% for people ages 21 to 64, 35.6% for people ages 65 to 74 and 60.5% for people over 75.
New Progressive Party (NPP) Vice President Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, along with Rep. José Aponte Hernández, met earlier this week with members of the party in the island’s eastern region with the purpose of continuing to educate about statehood and efforts in Washington, D.C. to achieve it.
“The NPP is the only party in Puerto Rico with a defined, clear and transparent ideological direction: statehood. Other parties change or hide their ideology so that
their officials are elected; we do not,” Méndez Nuñez told dozens of NPP supporters in Luquillo. “Here we all know what we want: equal rights with the American citizens of the states, equality that can only be achieved with statehood.”
“Gatherings like this, where grassroots leadership … can come together to hear the truth of statehood, about the efforts that are being made, at the municipal, state and federal levels, are important,” he added. “Our base is involved in this struggle, that of every member of the NPP.”
Among other NPP leaders presenting were Carolina
District Sen. Marissa Jiménez Santoni; Julio Menéndez, the NPP president in Luquillo; and Mayra “Charito” Pérez Bulerín, the party president in Río Grande.
Aponte Hernández, who serves as the NPP’s assistant secretary for ideological affairs, noted: “There was a very good turnout, particularly on the part of the youth.”
The Instituto de Misión Estadista (Statehood Mission Institute), a think tank, is an NPP agency focused on promoting statehood throughout Puerto Rico’s 78 municipalities.
At the end of January, the institute held a similar gathering in Cayey.
Two government contractors were sentenced this week for their involvement in separate bribery schemes in which they gave payments to the former mayor of Cataño, in exchange for the mayor’s awarding of municipal contracts to their respective companies.
Mario Villegas Vargas, 44, of Gurabo, was sentenced Wednesday to 46 months in prison for conspiracy to commit federal funds bribery. According to court documents, Villegas Vargas paid kickbacks and bribes in exchange for the mayor exerting his influence on municipal officials in Cataño to ensure that Villegas Vargas’
asphalt and paving business, JR Asphalt, was awarded municipal contracts.
Villegas Vargas’ bribe payments and his efforts to conceal those payments resulted in his business being awarded over $9.9 million in municipal contracts in Cataño. Other public officials in Puerto Rico have already pleaded guilty to receiving bribe payments from JR Asphalt, including the former mayors of Aguas Buenas, Guayama and Trujillo Alto, and the former directors of public works in Guayama and Cataño.
José Bou Santiago, 50, of Bayamón, was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for conspiracy to commit federal funds bribery. According to court documents, in
April 2019, Bou Santiago provided a Rolex watch to the then-Cataño mayor in exchange for a future municipal contract for Bou Santiago’s company, Bou Maintenance Service.
Specifically, in June 2019, Bou Maintenance Service was awarded a construction contract by the municipality valued at some $190,000. Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow for the District of Puerto Rico, Assistant Director Luis Quesada of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, and Special Agent in Charge Joseph González of the FBI San Juan Field Office made the announcement.
An Airbnb official said Wednesday while participating in a hearing on House Bill 1557 that the vacation rental company supports legislation that would regulate short-term rentals.
“Compliance in Puerto Rico is a priority for Airbnb,” said Carlos Muñoz, director of public policies and Airbnb communications for Central America and the Caribbean, after the public hearing led by House Tourism Committee Chairman José “Cheíto” Rivera Madera. “A uniform and state regulation will help make viable the economic growth that the industry can continue to bring to the island.”
The lodging booking platform welcomed the legislation that calls for a uniform registry throughout the island so that the government can be informed about the number of accommodations and the growth of the sector. Likewise, Muñoz expressed agreement with the requirements of having a rental property’s tax registration number in a visible place, the inclusion of guidelines for the formulation of an emergency plan in the event of a possible hurricane, as well as the installation of smoke detectors and of carbon monoxide, in addition to fire extinguishers.
On the other hand, he stressed that the main concern regarding the House legislation is the limitation in residential areas to only 30% of the unit if they do not have a variation of use from residential to commercial by the local Permits Office (OGPE by its Spanish initials). If this continues, Muñoz said, it could affect thousands of Puerto Rico residents who today depend on the extra income they derive from their
renting out homes on a short-term basis.
“In a residential area, Puerto Ricans who depend on the income they generate from short-term rentals will find it impossible to obtain a variance to obtain a commercial use permit,” Muñoz said. “On average, in 2022 an entire property in Puerto Rico rented an average of 80 nights a year and private rooms 27 nights. Short-term rental is a residential activity. There are Puerto Ricans who take advantage of different times of the year to generate extra income by renting their home.”
“At times when there is talk of a possible economic recession, it is extremely important that 92% of the hosts who are based on the island can continue generating their income and contributing to the country’s economy,” he added.
While Airbnb rentals are a popular investment in Puerto Rico, the STAR reported that the industry is tightly controlled by a few short-term rental firms, one of which belongs to the
governor’s son, a situation that has resulted in increasing rental and property prices that are displacing the middle class and the poor.
Currently, San Juan is the city with the most short-term rentals at 3,800, according to data obtained by Norberto Quiñones Vilches, a data analyst working in the mainland U.S. Most of these properties are in coastal areas or tourism areas such as Old San Juan. Carolina has 1,842 short-term rentals, most of which are in Isla Verde. Naguabo, another coastal town outside of the San Juan metro area, has 74 properties, but Quiñones Vilches said it is growing. Humacao, meanwhile, has 400 units, Fajardo 700 units, Luquillo 800 and Río Grande 1,000.
Short-term accommodations have indeed contributed to the economic development of the island. The Airbnb official noted that according to a study by Oxford Economics, it is projected that the spending of visitors who travel through the platform, including accommodation and expenses in various sectors such as restaurants, transportation and entertainment, among others, will exceed $8 billion in 2025. During 2021, the impact was $1.7 billion (not including accommodation spending), Muñoz said.
Likewise, Muñoz noted that since 2017, Airbnb has withheld and paid to the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (CTPR) more than $50 million for the payment of the room occupancy tax.
“We understand the concerns of the representatives, the hosts and the communities, so we want to continue collaborating in order to achieve a regulation that also benefits everyone in a uniform way,” Muñoz said.
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico will not be able to discharge close to $400 million in just compensation claims as part of the commonwealth bankruptcy because the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court ruling. The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals had upheld in July a lower court ruling that required the island government
to pay just compensation to individuals and others whose property was taken as part of eminent domain and reverse condemnation procedures.
The decision means that plaintiffs who had property taken before Puerto Rico filed for Title III bankruptcy will receive compensation they were entitled to had the government never filed for bankruptcy. The ruling will not affect the amount bondholders are legally owed but will affect how much money the Puerto Rico government has to make the payments.
Before the plan of adjustment for the commonwealth was approved in January of last year, the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico argued before U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain that most of the eminent domain and reverse condemnation claims could be treated as general unsecured claims in the bankruptcy.
The United States Supreme Court’s decision not to review a lower court ruling means that plaintiffs who had property taken before Puerto Rico filed for Title III bankruptcy will receive compensation they were entitled to had the government never filed for bankruptcy.
The oversight board late Tuesday said the following: “The Oversight Board takes note of the Supreme Court’s decision and will comply with the previous rulings by the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to require
payment in full of certain unsecured claims against the Commonwealth in the cases under Title III of PROMESA [the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act].”
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) creditors are objecting to the power utility’s amended debt deal and disclosure statement, describing as unfair an agreement reached with National Public Finance Guarantee Corp.
After filing a debt adjustment plan in December for PREPA, the Financial Oversight and Management Board filed amended versions earlier this month that reflected the terms of the oversight board’s settlement with National Public Finance Guarantee Corp., added two new classes of claims, and incorporated a number of new or revised exhibits regarding PREPA’s proposed “Legacy Charge” for consumers and other components of the plan.
The new plan would settle National’s bond claim for 83 cents on the dollar but offers to pay only 56 cents for settling bondholders and bond insurers if they win all litigation related to the validity of the security of their claims, and only 50 cents on the dollar if they settle their claims, the Ad Hoc Group of PREPA bondholders argued in a legal opposition filed last Friday.
“PREPA’s Plan and Disclosure Statement have gone from bad to worse,” the Ad Hoc Group said. “The First Amended
Plan doesn’t correct the fundamental flaws that made its original version patently unconfirmable.”
The disclosure statement provides no basis for the wide disparities in recoveries among holders of the same bonds, other than National’s agreement to vote for the plan in exchange for wildly preferential treatment, the group said.
“To fund National’s ‘yes’ vote, moreover, the Oversight Board simply adds more than $250 million to the total amount of creditor recoveries -- thereby confirming that the Oversight Board’s asserted affordability cap is a made-up figure that it moves up or down at its whim,” the Ad Hoc Group said.
Likewise, the Unsecured Creditors Committee (UCC) called the agreement “a ‘Frankenstein’ plan,” asking that the court hold off until the outcome of litigation on the security of the bonds is completed before moving the debt deal forward.
“It is bizarre -- to put it mildly -- for the oversight board to offer National an aggregate recovery in excess of 83% (regardless of the outcome of the amended lien & recourse challenge), while taking the position in the amended lien & recourse challenge (which position the committee supports) that National has no claims at all, other than a claim secured
The Financial Oversight & Management Board and National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. said in separate legal statements that their deal, which they acknowledged would pay the insurer more than other bondholders, is permissible because National settled.
by the very limited funds in the sinking fund,” the UCC argued. “The National settlement thus causes the committee to begin to question whether the first amended plan is even proposed in good faith.”
A hearing on the disclosure statement is scheduled for next Tuesday, Feb 28. The bond trustee, U.S. Bank National, and bond insurer Syncora also filed objections.
The oversight board and National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. said in separate legal statements earlier this week that their deal, which they acknowledged would pay the insurer more than other bondholders, is permissible because National settled.
“National’s separate classification under the first amended plan appropriately reflects National’s status as a settling party and allows it to implement settlement provisions for insured bondholders and recognizes National’s separate contractual reimbursement claims,” the municipal bond insurer argued.
Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón held a sixth roundtable Wednesday with representatives of the island’s private sector, with whom she signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote the economic development agenda that she is working on in Congress.
“We have managed to secure billions of dollars in federal funds for Puerto Rico. However, U.S. citizens living on the island
receive fewer federal benefits than Americans living in the continental United States, even though their federal contributions totaled more than $4 billion in fiscal year 2021,” the resident commissioner said. “For example, Puerto Rico residents are not eligible for Supplemental Social Security (SSI), Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), and various federal health care subsidies, and earn less, on average, in Social Security and veterans’ benefits. In addition, many federal mandatory spending programs available in states are capped in the case of Puerto Rico or funded through grants, rather than open spending, as in the case of Medicaid and nutrition assistance programs. Our territorial situation means that the burden of financing these programs falls on the government of Puerto Rico disproportionately to that of the states in similar circumstances.”
The MOU was signed by the following representatives of organizations present at the roundtable: Zoimé Álvarez Rubio, vice president of the Bankers Association of Puerto Rico; CPA Aixa González Reyes, president of the CPAs Association; Cameron McKenzie, president of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce; Lourdes M. Aponte Rodríguez, president of the United Retailers Center; Carlos Rodríguez, president of the General Contractors Association; Joeyleen Quiñones, president of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Food Marketing, Industry and Distribution, or MIDA; Pedro Ramos Salgado, president of the Puerto Rican Concrete Association; Gadiel Negrón, executive director of the Puerto Rico Restaurants Association, or ASORE; Hugo Lasso. president of the Puerto Rico District Export Council; Eric Santiago, president of the Industrialists Association;
Dr. Ramón Vega Alejandro, executive director of PRIMEX (PR Manufacturing Extension).
Also signing the MOU were Vanessa Piñeiro Solano, executive director of the Puerto Rico Farm Bureau; Vanessa de Mari Monserrate, president of the Builders Association; Josué Rivera, district director of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA); Iliette Frontera, president of Medical Devices Cluster; and Clarivette Díaz, president of the Puerto Rico Shipowners Association, among others.
The MOU reads that “the signatories of this Memorandum understand that federal policies are an important component to Puerto Rico’s economic recovery and that Puerto Rico can play an important role in creating jobs on American soil and increasing the competitiveness of American global companies. This is consistent with Congress’s goals of ‘bringing back America’s jobs.’ Products made in Puerto Rico are products made in the United States and directly impact the national economy.”
It adds: “Jobs in the manufacturing sector have the effect of reversing migration to the continental United States and increasing employment opportunities in Puerto Rico (directly, indirectly and induced) with the indirect effect of increasing personal expenses, housing needs, with large effects of repopulation, additional infrastructure, development and construction, thus expanding Puerto Rico’s tax base. Puerto Rico can be instrumental in strengthening the supply chain and ending dependence on China, in defending our national security, in ensuring that U.S. tax dollars are invested on American soil, and in making private industry the engine of our economy.”
In a bid to prevent a surge of migrants at the southern border when a pandemic measure is lifted in May, the Biden administration earlier this week announced its toughest policy yet to crack down on unlawful entries.
The proposed rule, which has been opened for 30 days of public comment before taking effect, would presume that migrants are ineligible for asylum if they entered the country unlawfully, a significant rollback in the country’s traditional policy toward those fleeing persecution in other countries.
It would allow rapid deportation of anyone who had failed to request protection from another country while en route to the United States or who did not notify border authorities through a mobile app of their plans to seek asylum.
Administration officials said the policy would take effect May 11 with the expected termination that day of Title 42, a Trumpera health emergency rule that has allowed border authorities to swiftly expel migrants back to Mexico. The new rule would then remain in place for two years.
President Joe Biden took office vowing to restore a humane approach to the border crisis after his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, introduced a series of harsh immigration policies, including the separation of migrant children from their parents. But as the Biden administration has struggled to quell a surge of migrants fleeing economic ruin in their countries, including Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, it has turned to more restrictive measures.
The decision, announced jointly by the Homeland Security and Justice departments, was sharply rebuked by human rights advocates who said the policy mirrored an earlier, much-criticized restriction under Trump that denied asylum to most migrants who had not first applied for it in Mexico or another country along their way. That policy had been struck down by several federal courts.
Many migrants do not apply for asylum in Mexico, preferring to try their luck in the United States. The new policy was expected to erect a formidable barrier to those hoping to submit U.S. applications.
“The Biden administration’s proposed
rule would send asylum-seekers back to danger, separate families, and cost lives, as human rights advocates have been asserting for weeks,” said Jane Bentrott, counsel at Justice Action Center, an immigrant rights nonprofit.
“It is in direct contravention of President Biden’s campaign promises to reverse Trump’s racist, xenophobic immigration policies and give all folks seeking safety a fair shot at asylum,” she said.
On a call with reporters, administration officials said that failure by Congress to pass an overhaul of the nation’s outdated immigration laws and a spate of lawsuits from Republican-led states had prevented the government from effectively managing the southern border. The lifting of Title 42 in May could lead to large crowds attempting to cross the border, they said.
The regulation is designed “to help ensure secure, orderly and humane processing of migrants once Title 42 eventually lifts,” said one official on the call, whose organizers spoke on the condition that they not be identified.
The officials said that the “new standards” were intended to discourage people without a legitimate need for U.S. protection from coming to the border while allowing
others to seek asylum “outside the United States or in a country they are transiting through,” one official said.
The demographics of border crossings have shifted in recent years with the arrival of ever-greater numbers of non-Mexicans who are far more likely to make asylum claims. Because it can take years to process and deport those ultimately found ineligible to receive U.S. protection, applicants have been allowed to remain in the country and receive employment authorization, a situation that incentivizes even more people to come.
Border authorities last year registered more than 2 million encounters with migrants, a record number. Many of those they intercepted were repeat crossers who had already been expelled under Title 42. And chaotic scenes of migrants wading across the Rio Grande in Texas prompted fierce criticism from Republican governors, who said the Biden administration had lost control of the border.
The administration’s plan to eliminate Title 42 drew legal challenges from Republican-led states that argued its demise would cause a spike in crossings and mayhem in border communities.
In the meantime, the government has increasingly made use of the emergency
health policy to contain the recent influx of migrants.
While still pledging to end the measure, the administration extended it to cover migrants from more countries. In early January, it unveiled a plan to use it to turn back a new flood of crossers from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, while simultaneously establishing a program that enabled nationals of those countries to apply for parole to enter the United States from their countries of origin if they had a financial sponsor.
Since that program’s inception, overall unlawful crossings have plummeted by 97%.
On the call with reporters Tuesday, administration officials said that the decline proved that pairing a humanitarian program with punitive measures that have consequences for illegal crossers was effective.
In its proposed rule, the administration said that projections suggested that lifting Title 42 could lead to an increase in border crossings to 13,000 encounters per day, from last year’s high of about 7,000 per day, absent policy changes and a mechanism to quickly remove those who arrive without authorization.
Under the proposed rule, asylumseekers who arrive at an official port of entry and claim asylum would be allowed to enter if they met the initial criteria and used a mobile app, known as CBP One, to schedule an appointment with U.S. authorities to review their application. But those who cross illegally between ports of entry, if caught, would have to prove that they were denied safe haven while in transit to the United States, such as from Guatemala or Mexico, to be allowed in.
The mobile app, intended to provide an orderly, streamlined system of processing asylum-seekers, has been in use since January, but the system has been overloaded by huge demand and plagued with glitches since tens of thousands of migrants staying in shelters on the Mexican side of the border began using it.
Migrants have been rising before dawn to go online, hoping to maximize their chances of securing an appointment through the app. The vast majority fail to get a spot in the virtual queue that opens at 6 a.m. and offers appointments for exactly two weeks later, several immigrant advocates said.
The San Juan Daily Star Thursday, February 23, 2023 7 Migrants are apprehended at the border near Eagle Pass, Texas on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. A tough new immigration measure could disqualify the vast majority of migrants from being able to seek asylum at the southern border.
Democrats on Capitol Hill expressed outrage Tuesday after Speaker Kevin McCarthy granted Fox News host Tucker Carlson and his staff access to thousands of hours of security footage from Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.
McCarthy, the newly elected Republican speaker, has been under intense pressure for weeks from his right flank to release the footage, which Carlson and other promoters of fringe theories allege is being hidden for nefarious reasons.
Federal prosecutors, citing the Capitol Police, have argued that the release of certain footage would reveal security procedures, including camera angles and politicians’ escape routes, that could subject the building to greater risk.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and the minority leader, condemned the release of the video in a letter to fellow Democrats saying that “extreme MAGA Republicans in the House have provided tens of thousands of
hours of sensitive Capitol security footage to a Fox News personality who regularly peddles in conspiracy theories and pro-Putin rhetoric.”
Carlson, the highly rated cable host who has cast the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as
part of a left-wing plot to discriminate against conservatives, has argued that authorities are lying about the attack. He produced a documentary insinuating the violence may have been part of a “false flag” operation carried out by the government.
Carlson said on his show Monday night that his producers have been reviewing the footage, which he said totaled some 44,000 hours, for “about a week,” and he said he would report back to viewers about what they learned next week.
“Some of our smartest producers have been there looking at this stuff and trying to figure out what it means and how it contradicts or not the story we’ve been told for more than two years,” he said. “We think already that in some ways that it does contradict that story.”
Carlson has been critical of McCarthy, particularly during his run for the speakership. The decision by the speaker to give him access to the footage was widely seen, at least in part, as an attempt to curry favor with the Fox News host.
Hard-right members of Congress celebrated word of McCarthy’s decision.
“For all of you that doubted we would release the tapes. Here you go!” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., wrote on Twitter, sharing an Axios article. “I’m very happy to be right again in my support for Kevin McCarthy as our Speaker. Americans deserve to see the truth, not a one sided narrative and unfair two tiered justice system.”
McCarthy has not given other media outlets access to the same footage, though criminal defendants, by law, must have ac-
cess to any exculpatory information about their activities.
The Justice Department has also given hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants access to all of the videos in its possession, though the footage can be used only as part of court cases and is shielded from public release by a protective order.
News organizations, including The New York Times, have repeatedly sought in court to make video from Jan. 6 public.
Spokespersons for McCarthy did not respond to a request for comment.
People familiar with the video say large portions of it are uneventful, depicting empty hallways or protesters behaving peacefully. There is also much footage, from various sources, of intense violence that day, when more than 150 police officers suffered injuries fighting off the mob.
McCarthy’s move came in stark contrast to how Democrats approached the security video while they were in charge of the House.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and a member of the now-disbanded House Jan. 6 committee, said the panel had access to the tens of thousands of hours of footage. Committee members could view the video at a machine protected by a password.
Before the panel released any evidence publicly at a hearing, members consulted with the general counsel of the Capitol Police to make sure they would not harm Capitol security, Lofgren said.
“We were very careful with it,” she said, adding: “We were particularly focused on not showing sensitive areas involving the evacuation of the members of Congress in various places. That type of release could really provide a blueprint for bad guys on how to more successfully attack the Capitol.”
Those sentiments were echoed by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who was chair of the House Jan. 6 committee. He said his panel limited access to the footage to “a small handful of investigators and senior staff, and the public use of any footage was coordinated in advance with Capitol Police.”
“It’s hard to overstate the potential security risks if this material were to be used irresponsibly,” he said.
Chief J. Thomas Manger of the Capitol Police confirmed that Carlson’s show was granted access to the footage.
“When congressional leadership or congressional oversight committees ask for things like this, we must give it to them,” Manger said in a statement.
Jennifer McClellan, a veteran Democratic state senator, won a special election for Virginia’s 4th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, making her the first Black woman to represent the state in Congress.
McClellan, 50, will fill the seat formerly held by Rep. Donald McEachin, who died Nov. 28 of colorectal cancer. She has cited McEachin as a mentor and was highly favored to win in the safely Democratic district, which stretches from Richmond, where she is based, to the rural counties along Virginia’s border with North Carolina.
She defeated Leon Benjamin, a Republican Navy veteran and local pastor. Benjamin lost to McEachin by nearly 30 points in November.
Virginia Democrats, including the party’s entire congressional delegation and many local and statewide officials, were quick to coalesce around McClellan’s candidacy during the primary in late December. Even though the accelerated election calendar set by Gov. Glenn Youngkin left her campaign with less than two weeks to turn out primary voters, she still won with nearly 85% of the vote, according to the state party.
McClellan centered her campaign on legislation she spearheaded as a state senator — issues she championed, like voting rights, environmental protection and abortion access, often dovetailed with the national Democratic platform.
“I passed legislation to protect our right to vote and our right to a clean environment. I led the fight for our reproductive freedom,” McClellan said in a television ad. “I’ll take that same fight with me to Congress.”
In a January opinion essay for Essence magazine, McClellan also said that her identity as a Black female lawmaker would help shape her policy positions.
“This election isn’t just about my lived experiences, it’s about elevating the experiences of so many whose voices have not been heard in our government,” she wrote.
McClellan, a lawyer who is also the vice chair of the Virginia legislature’s influential Black caucus, has been frequently promoted as a rising star among state Democrats. This is her second run for statewide office: In 2021, she fell short in a crowded primary for governor.
Susan Swecker, chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia, said in a statement Tuesday night: “Jennifer McClellan’s history-making victory as the first Black woman to be elected to Congress from Virginia will have
ripple effects across the Commonwealth.
“Her leadership will expand upon the outstanding progress and advocacy for which we remember Congressman A. Donald McEachin — I cannot think of a better way to honor his life and legacy than with the new generation of leadership that Congresswoman-elect Jennifer McClellan will bring to Washington.”
In a case with the potential to alter the very structure of the internet, the Supreme Court did not appear ready Tuesday to limit a law that protects social media platforms from lawsuits over their users’ posts.
In the course of a sprawling argument lasting almost three hours, the justices seemed to view the positions taken by the two sides as too extreme, giving them a choice between exposing search engines and Twitter shares to liability on the one hand and protecting algorithms that promote pro-Islamic State group content on the other.
At the same time, they expressed doubts about their own competence to find a middle ground.
“You know, these are not like the nine greatest experts on the internet,” Justice Elena Kagan said of the Supreme Court, to laughter.
Others had practical concerns. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, echoing comments made in briefs, worried that a decision imposing limits on the shield “would really crash the digital economy with all sorts of effects on workers and consumers, retirement plans and what have you.”
Drawing lines in this area, he said, was a job for Congress. “We are not equipped to account for that,” he said.
The federal law at issue in the case, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, shields online platforms from lawsuits over what their users post and the platforms’ decisions to take content down. Limiting the sweep of the law could expose the platforms to lawsuits claiming they had steered people to posts and videos that promote extremism, advocate violence, harm reputations and cause emotional distress.
The case comes as developments in cutting-edge artificial intelligence products raise profound new questions about whether old laws — Section 230 was enacted in 1996 — can keep up with rapidly changing technology.
“This was a pre-algorithm statu-
te,” Kagan said, adding that it provided scant guidance “in a post-algorithm world.” Justice Neil Gorsuch, meanwhile, marveled at advances in AI. “Artificial intelligence generates poetry,” he said. “It generates polemics.”
The case was brought by the family of Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-yearold college student who was killed in a restaurant in Paris during the terrorist attacks in November 2015, which also targeted the Bataclan concert hall. Eric Schnapper, a lawyer for the family, argued that YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, bore responsibility because it had used algorithms to push Islamic State group videos to interested viewers, using information that the company had collected about them.
“We’re focusing on the recommendation function,” Schnapper said.
But Justice Clarence Thomas said that recommendations were vital to making internet platforms useful. “If you’re interested in cooking,” he said, “you don’t want thumbnails on light jazz.” He later added, “I see these as suggestions and not really recommendations because they don’t really comment on them.”
Schnapper said YouTube should be liable for its algorithm, which he said systematically recommended videos inciting violence and supporting terrorism. The algorithm, he said, was YouTube’s speech and distinct from what users had posted.
Kagan pressed Schnapper on the limits of his argument. Did he also take issue with the algorithms Facebook and Twitter use to generate people’s feeds? Or with search engines?
Schnapper said all of those could lose protection under some circumstances, a response that seemed to surprise Kagan.
Justice Samuel Alito said he was lost. “I don’t know where you’re drawing the line,” he told Schnapper. “That’s the problem.”
Schnapper tried to clarify his position and in doing so revealed its breadth. “What we’re saying is that insofar as they were encouraging people to go look at things,” he said, “that’s what’s
outside the protection of the statute.”
Section 230 was enacted in the infancy of the internet. It was a reaction to a decision holding an online message board liable for what a user had posted because the service had engaged in some content moderation.
The provision said, “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
The provision helped enable the rise of social networks like Facebook and Twitter by ensuring that the sites did not assume legal liability for every post.
Malcolm L. Stewart, a lawyer for the Biden administration, largely argued in support of the family’s position in the case, Gonzalez v. Google, No. 21-1333. He said that successful lawsuits based on recommendations would be rare but that the immunity provided by Section 230 was generally unavailable.
Kagan acknowledged that many suits would fail for reasons unrelated to Section 230. “But still, I mean, you are creating a world of lawsuits,” she said. Kavanaugh echoed the point.
Lisa S. Blatt, a lawyer for Google,
said the provision gave the company complete protection from suits like the one brought by Gonzalez’s family. YouTube’s algorithms are a form of editorial curation, she said. Without the ability to provide content of interest to users, she said, the internet would be a useless jumble.
“All publishing requires organization,” she said.
A ruling against Google, she said, would either force sites to take down any content that was remotely problematic or to allow all content no matter how vile. “You have ‘The Truman Show’ versus a horror show,” she said.
Kagan asked Blatt if Section 230 would protect “a pro-ISIS” algorithm or one that promoted defamatory speech. Blatt said yes.
Section 230 has faced criticism across the political spectrum. Many liberals say it has shielded tech platforms from responsibility for disinformation, hate speech and violent content. Some conservatives say the provision has allowed the platforms to grow so powerful that they can effectively exclude voices on the right from the national conversation.
U.S. stocks shed more than 2% on Tuesday after a rebound in business activity in February stoked fears of interest rates staying higher for longer.
Minutes from the Fed’s Jan. 31-Feb. 1 meeting, due at 2:00 p.m. ET, are expected to detail the breadth of debate at the central bank about the rate hike path.
“The obvious focus today is on the Fed minutes which would indicate that the inflation fight is still not over and that there are areas that are showing pockets of strength with the consumer still resilient,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities.
“We expect all indicators to point to the Fed remaining hawkish in its inflation fight.”
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said the U.S. central bank needs to get inflation toward its 2% goal this year to avoid a repeat of the 1970s, when rates had to be repeatedly ratcheted up.
New York Fed President John Williams, a voting member of the rate-setting committee this year, is scheduled to speak later in the day.
Following a market rout in 2022, the three major indexes logged monthly gains in January as investors hoped the Fed would pause its rate hikes and perhaps pivot around the year-end.
However, stocks have had a volatile run in February as traders priced in higher interest rates for longer, considering inflation remains elevated in the face of a sturdy economy.
Money market participants expect rates to peak at 5.35% by July and stay around those levels till the end of 2023.
At 10:02 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 25.09 points, or 0.08%, at 33,154.68, the S&P 500 was up 1.41 points, or 0.04%, at 3,998.75, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 11.20 points, or 0.10%, at 11,503.50.
Six of the major S&P 500 sectors gained, with consumer discretionary stocks adding 0.4%.
A Reuters poll analysts expect the S&P 500 index to advance 5% by the end of the year, but high interest rates and inflation have led many strategists to predict a correction within the next three months.
Growth names like Tesla Inc, Nvidia Corp, Qualcomm Inc and Amazon.com Inc edged higher as the yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes slid from multimonth highs.
Palo Alto Networks Inc rose 11.9% after the cybersecurity company raised its annual profit forecast.
CoStar Group dropped 6.2% as the online real estate marketplace provider said it was no longer in talks to buy Realtor.com-owner Move Inc from News Corp and forecast disappointing first-quarter revenue.
U.S.-listed shares of Baidu Inc advanced 3.4% on a fourth-quarter revenue beat and a new share repurchase plan.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 2.10-
to-1 ratio on the NYSE and by a 1.47-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded three new 52-week highs and one new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 13 new highs and 56 new lows.
Money market participants see the benchmark level peaking to a 5.3% in July, and staying near those levels throughout the year.
Adding to the glum mood, yield on the U.S. benchmark 10-year Treasury note edged higher, pressuring rate-sensitive growth stocks.
Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp and Googleparent Alphabet Inc fell between 1.6% and 1.6%.
In a bright spot, Meta Platforms Inc added 0.7% after the Facebook parent said it is testing a monthly subscription service called Meta Verified, which will let users verify their accounts using a government ID and get a blue badge.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 5.23-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and by a 3.50-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded one new 52-week highs and one new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 26 new highs and 50 new lows.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia met with Wang Yi, China’s top foreign policy official, at the Kremlin on Wednesday, working to keep China in Russia’s corner amid a flurry of diplomacy across Europe by Beijing.
Putin told Wang that he was looking forward to welcoming “my friend” Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, to Russia soon, but indicated that the meeting had yet to be confirmed. Wang responded that deepening the relationship with Russia remained a priority for China.
“Our relations have never been directed against third countries,” Wang told Putin, according to a Russian translation of his remarks. “Our relations have withstood pressure from the international community and are developing very stably.”
Putin is looking to shore up alliances as the Ukraine war approaches its anniversary and the early stages of Russia’s new offensive to swallow up territory appear to be sputtering. As Putin and Wang met, President Joe Biden was gathering with NATO members from the alliance’s eastern flank in Warsaw, Poland, in a display of unity.
Wang arrived in Moscow this week after a tour of Western Europe, where he sought to convince European leaders that Beijing is not supporting Putin’s war and wants to encourage a peaceful exit from the fighting.
“Currently, the international situ-
ation is certainly grim and complex,” Wang told Putin, according to brief footage from the meeting that was shared by the Chinese news media. “But ChineseRussian relations have withstood the test of international turbulence, and are mature and durable — as steadfast as Mount Tai,” he said, referring to a famed Chinese mountain.
On Tuesday, Wang met with Nikolai Patrushev, Putin’s top security advis-
er. The Chinese government statement on the meeting said the two had “exchanged views” on Ukraine.
U.S. officials have warned that China could seek to support Russia with weapons. But there was no mention of Ukraine or weapons in the seven-minute, televised portion of Wang’s meeting with Putin on Wednesday, where Patrushev and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov joined Putin around a white,
oval table.
In his opening remarks, Putin highlighted the economic aspect of the China-Russia relationship, predicting that the countries’ annual trade volume could reach $200 billion as early as this year, compared with $185 billion last year.
“Everything is moving forward, developing, we are reaching new frontiers,” Putin said. “And above all, we are talking, of course, about economic issues.”
Throughout his visit to Europe and Russia, Wang’s public comments have reflected China’s fraught efforts to maintain Beijing’s close strategic alignment with Moscow.
“On the Ukraine issue, China has always stood on the side of peace and dialogue, and has always insisted on pressing for peace and negotiation,” Wang said in a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Saturday, when they were both in Munich for an annual security conference, according to China’s official summary of the meeting.
“We don’t want to see the Ukraine crisis perpetuate and expand,” Wang said.
But even in that meeting, Wang’s published comments did not use the words war or invasion to describe the fighting in Ukraine. And while in Moscow, Wang may be even more reluctant to expose any deep differences between China and Russia.
President Joe Biden left Poland aboard Air Force One on Wednesday evening after reiterating America’s commitment to defending Europe from Russian aggression at a meeting with the leaders of NATO’s eastern-flank nations.
White House officials said Biden and the leaders of the Bucharest Nine, a group of countries located in the shadow of the Ukraine war, deepened and reaffirmed their
determination to help Ukraine resist the Russian invasion.
“You’re on the front line for our collective defense,” Biden told the other leaders at the beginning of the meeting. “And you know better than anyone what’s at stake in this conflict, not just for Ukraine, but for the freedom of democracies throughout Europe and around the world.”
The response from the leaders was plain: If President Vladimir Putin of Russia were to order tanks into other European countries,
the nine nations along NATO’s eastern flank would be the likeliest targets.
With Biden listening, President Klaus Iohannis of Romania urged the group to stand firmly behind Ukraine, in part as a way of securing peace for the people living within the Soviet Union’s old sphere of influence.
“The war has brought nothing but suffering and despair, killing and displacing of millions of Ukrainians, unprecedented destruction and uncertainty,” Iohannis said. “We, the leaders of the eastern flank, have the
duty to stand firm in defense of our peace.”
The meeting Wednesday concluded Biden’s three-day visit to Europe around the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, including a surprise trek by train to Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv, and a speech from the royal palace in Warsaw, Poland, to declare the U.S. commitment to stand against Russian aggression.
Biden is expected to land back in the Washington area late Wednesday, officials said.
When President Vladimir Putin announced at the end of a 100-minute speech earlier this week that he would suspend Russia’s participation in the New START treaty — the last surviving arms control agreement between the two largest nuclear-armed powers — it was the latest sign that the decadeslong era of formal arms control may be dying.
Putin made clear that he was not pulling out of the treaty, which expires in February 2026. And hours after the speech, Russia’s Foreign Ministry declared the country had no intention to deploy more strategic nuclear arms — the kind that can soar across continents — beyond the limits of the treaty, which keeps both sides to 1,550 nuclear weapons. That set aside, at least for the next few years, the prospect of a resumed arms race between the two largest nuclear powers.
But the chances are rapidly diminishing that the United States and Russia, in the midst of the bitter war in Ukraine and mutual recriminations on a scale not seen in decades, can find their way to sit down to negotiate a replacement treaty, much less agree to one. And Putin’s declaration that he will block U.S. inspectors from verifying treaty compliance made clear, once again, that he views his nuclear arsenal as a key element of power as he tries to revive his stumbling effort to take over a nation whose right to exist as an independent state he refuses to acknowledge.
He is also retreating from New START at a critical moment. China has made clear it is determined to build an arsenal the size of Washington’s and Moscow’s. International inspectors have now discovered new evidence that Iran is making rapid progress in making near-bomb-grade nuclear fuel. North Korea spent the weekend testing its own intercontinental ballistic missiles. Every sign indicates the world may be on the verge of a new era of nuclear breakout.
More broadly, Putin sounded like a leader who was done with arms control after years of suspended inspections because of the pandemic and then as confrontations with the United States and NATO escalated.
If that attitude holds, whoever is sitting in the Oval Office when the treaty expires in a bit more than 1,000 days may face a new world that will look, at first glance, similar to the one of a half-century ago, when arms races were in full swing and nations could field as many nuclear weapons as they wanted.
It was a reminder of how fragile the scant remaining restraints on nuclear weapons worldwide appear, 14 years after President Barack Obama, in a signature speech in Prague, called on all powers to work toward “a world without nuclear weapons.” While Obama acknowledged he might not see that day in his lifetime, it seemed, for a brief while, that the major nuclear powers were on a path to shrinking their arsenals — and relying less on nuclear weapons for defense and deterrence.
That day appears over, at least for the foreseeable future.
“With Russia breaking treaties, China building up, North Korea testing missiles and Iran now close to weapons-grade uranium, it is a bad period for nuclear stability and restraint,” said Jon Wolfsthal, a senior adviser to Global Zero, a group that advocates the abolition of nuclear weapons, and a fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
Wolfsthal, who worked for President Joe Biden when he was vice president and then for Obama’s national security council on arms control, said he feared Putin’s declaration, although more a political declaration than a military one, “is likely to stoke the growing calls for the U.S. to expand its nuclear arsenal to both compete with Russia and show China they cannot catch us.”
Even before Putin spoke, implementation of the New START treaty was already in deep trouble; the State Department announced last month that the Russians were out of compliance. But Tuesday, the Russian leader made clear that the United States could now forget about inspecting Russian nuclear sites, a central element of verifying compliance with the treaty’s mandates.
Not surprisingly, Putin argued that he was forced into his decision by the U.S. action. “They want to inflict ‘strategic defeat’ on us,” he said, picking up a phrase that U.S. officials have used to describe their desired outcome for Russia in the war against Ukraine, “and climb on our nuclear facilities.”
He also noted the Ukrainians had already used drones to attack strategic air bases in Russia, where the Russian air force keeps the bombers that can deliver nuclear weapons. (Those attacks happened, although they appear to have done limited damage.)
He said he wasn’t about to allow inspectors to survey nuclear facilities, because they could pass their findings on to the Ukrainians to launch further attacks.
“This is a theater of the absurd,” he said. “We know that the West is directly involved in the attempts of the Kyiv regime to strike at the bases.”
None of this changes the status quo very much. Nuclear inspections were suspended during the COVID pandemic, when inspectors on either side couldn’t get into Russia or the United States.
But over the past year, as travel restrictions lifted, Russians came up with reasons to deny inspections — and
charged, as Putin did again Tuesday, that the United States was not living up to its inspection requirements either. (U.S. officials insisted several months ago that they have resolved access issues and would allow in Russian inspectors, as long as American inspectors had reciprocal rights.)
The United States retains considerable visibility over the Russian arsenal, chiefly with satellites that keep track of Russia’s nuclear movements. But there is a deeper worry. The five-year extension of New START that Biden and Putin agreed upon in the first month of the Biden presidency is the only one permitted under the agreement, which was negotiated during Obama’s tenure.
That means an entirely new treaty would have to be pieced together. And while U.S. officials insist they want to negotiate a new agreement, it is increasingly hard to imagine that happening in the next three years.
The reasons are numerous. First, there is virtually no communication between the two countries. The “strategic stability talks” that Biden and Putin agreed upon in June 2021, at their only face-to-face meeting as presidents, started off with a promising dialogue.
The two sides agreed, briefly, to talk about traditional arms control and what to do with “novel” weapons, including a range of new nuclear devices under development by Russia. The Russians, in turn, want limits on what the United States calls “upgrades” to its own weapons. But those discussions never got off the ground; they were suspended after the invasion of Ukraine.
Second, trust between the two countries is virtually nonexistent. Putin and Biden have not spoken directly in more than a year. In the ensuing time, Biden has described the Russian leader as a war criminal, and Putin has called the American president the aggressor in Ukraine. In private, U.S. officials sometimes concede that even if they negotiated a treaty, it would be almost impossible to imagine the Senate ratifying it under these conditions.
Third, the treaty as it stands does not cover the nuclear weapons the world worries about most in conflicts such as in Ukraine: the “battlefield nukes,” or tactical nuclear weapons, that Putin has episodically threatened to employ against Ukrainian forces. Russia has 2,000 or so; the United States has a few hundred.
Finally, another treaty only between Moscow and Washington no longer makes sense to many nuclear experts. The Pentagon now estimates that China, which is rapidly expanding its arsenal, could deploy 1,500 weapons in the next dozen years, matching the U.S.’ and Russia’s arsenals. So an arms control treaty that left out one of the three major powers would be all but useless. And so far, China has showed no interest in joining negotiations — if there were any.
Still, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday, after Putin spoke, that he would be willing to negotiate a new treaty that was “clearly in the security interests of our country” and, he added, “in the security interests of Russia.”
Putin’s announcement, he added, was “deeply unfortunate and irresponsible.” But he suggested that the United States would not change its compliance with the treaty, no matter what Russia did.
“I think it matters that we continue to act responsibly in this area,” he said. “It’s also something the rest of the world expects of us.”
Genaro García Luna, once the architect and public face of Mexico’s bloody war on its powerful criminal groups, was convicted Tuesday in a New York courtroom of betraying his country and colleagues by taking millions of dollars in bribes from the violent drug cartels he was meant to be pursuing.
The guilty verdict, which came after three days of deliberation in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, represented a stunning downfall for García Luna, a jut-jawed former law-enforcement officer who was so enmeshed in his country’s security establishment that he was often described as the J. Edgar Hoover of Mexico.
As Judge Brian M. Cogan read the verdict, García Luna sat still and stony with his lawyers. His wife and daughter, behind him in the courtroom, were equally emotionless.
The jury reached its decision after hearing testimony from a half-dozen seasoned narco-traffickers. Jurors determined that García Luna had led a double life and was secretly on the payroll of Mexico’s biggest crime group, the Sinaloa drug cartel, nearly the entire time he ran the country’s equivalent of the FBI and then served as its public security secretary, a powerful Cabinet-level post.
Mexicans have long suspected that government officials at the highest levels of power have been in league with the very gangsters who for decades have inflicted pain and suffering on their country, which despite billions of dollars and decades of efforts by law enforcement has reached new levels of violence in recent years.
And for many in Mexico, it is hard to overstate the cathartic spectacle of a man like García Luna being found guilty of taking part in what is known as a continuing criminal enterprise — a count for which he now faces a minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life.
The government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was quick to seize on news of the verdict, having used the trial for weeks as a political cudgel against the opposition party, which García Luna served for more than a decade while working under former President Felipe Calderón.
Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, a spokesperson for López Obrador, tweeted a barb aimed at Calderón, whom López Obrador has repeatedly accused of corruption.
“García Luna is convicted of drug trafficking, organized crime and false statements in the U.S.,” Ramírez wrote. “Justice has arrived for the former squire of Felipe Calderón. The crimes against our people will never be forgotten.”
In the United States, the conviction was celebrated as a signal victory by federal prosecutors who filed the charges against García Luna in late 2019, after years of whispers, rumors and aborted investigations into his ties with traffickers.
“García Luna, who once stood at the pinnacle of law enforcement in Mexico, will now live the rest of his days having been revealed as a traitor to his country and to the honest members of law enforcement who risked their lives to dismantle drug cartels,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, said in a statement.
Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse, Cesar de Castro, García Luna’s lead lawyer, said he was disappointed by the verdict.
“After many years of trying to build a case against García Luna with credible and reliable evidence, the government was forced to settle for a case built on the backs of some of the most notorious and
ruthless criminals to testify in this courthouse,” de Castro said.
Traditionally, American counternarcotics cases have been brought against cartel kingpins such as Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, who was convicted in the same Brooklyn courthouse in 2019 of running a vast criminal empire.
But the guilty verdict against García Luna struck a blow against the systemic corruption in Mexico that has long abetted both the gothic bloodshed of the drug trade and the flow of illegal drugs across the border.
From the start, the government’s case against García Luna was something less than ironclad, lacking the vast trove of intercepted text messages and recorded conversations it used to secure the conviction of Guzmán.
Prosecutors based their presentation against García Luna almost entirely on the testimony of cartel operatives who told the jury both about their own crimes and about how the defendant had long taken bribes from the Sinaloa cartel.
The government’s first witness was Sergio Villarreal Barragán, a hulking for-
mer police officer known as El Grande, who last month told the jury that in the early 2000s, García Luna showed up at a warehouse in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas to claim his cut of a drug deal: more than $14 million in cash.
The last witness prosecutors called was Jesus Zambada García, the brother of Guzmán’s longtime business partner, Ismael Zambada García. Echoing what he said during Guzmán’s trial, Zambada testified that he personally packed millions of dollars into two sports bags that were given to García Luna in the Champs Elysées restaurant in Mexico City shortly after he became the country’s public security secretary.
Even though evidence about graft was central to the prosecution’s case, the jury’s verdict sheets never mentioned words such as “bribery” or “corruption.” Technically, the panel convicted García Luna of drug trafficking conspiracy and the criminal enterprise charge.
For all of the details that the trial revealed about the Mexican drug trade — gory murders, descriptions of huge drug shipments and a reference to a white cat named Cocaine — one subject rarely came up: What American officials knew about García Luna’s ties to the cartel at a time when he worked closely with U.S. law enforcement officers in Mexico and met with top political figures such as former Attorney General Eric Holder and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the onetime secretary of state.
The trial raised some tantalizing — but inconclusive — questions about other top officials in Mexico, including Calderón and López Obrador, the current president.
Edgar Veytia, a former attorney general from the Pacific Coast state of Nayarit, testified on Feb. 7 that the governor of Nayarit had once told him about attending a meeting with Calderón and García Luna where both men instructed him to help El Chapo in an internecine battle against rivals in his cartel. Calderón immediately posted an angry message on Twitter, denying the “absurd statements” by Veytia.
A week later, García Luna’s lawyer asked Zambada if he had once paid a $7 million bribe to a close aide to López Obrador during a presidential campaign — an allegation that Zambada denied, contradicting his own testimony in the Guzmán trial. But the denial could have been based on a confusing question resulting from a minor error in the notes from Zambada’s interviews with U.S. prosecutors.
total of 610,872 participants in multiple countries. And they track what has been widely observed in the United States: States with mask mandates fared no better against COVID than those without.
No study — or study of studies — is ever perfect. Science is never absolutely settled. What’s more, the analysis does not prove that proper masks, properly worn, had no benefit at an individual level. People may have good personal reasons to wear masks, and they may have the discipline to wear them consistently. Their choices are their own.
But when it comes to the population-level benefits of masking, the verdict is in: Mask mandates were a bust. Those skeptics who were furiously mocked as cranks and occasionally censored as “misinformers” for opposing mandates were right. The mainstream experts and pundits who supported mandates were wrong. In a better world, it would behoove the latter group to acknowledge their error, along with its considerable physical, psychological, pedagogical and political costs.
for pandemic response.
Yet there was never a chance that mask mandates in the United States would get anywhere close to 100% compliance or that people would or could wear masks in a way that would meaningfully reduce transmission. Part of the reason is specific to American habits and culture, part of it to constitutional limits on government power, part of it to human nature, part of it to competing social and economic necessities, and part of it to the evolution of the virus itself.
But whatever the reason, mask mandates were a fool’s errand from the start. They may have created a false sense of safety — and thus permission to resume semi-normal life. They did almost nothing to advance safety itself. The Cochrane report ought to be the final nail in this particular coffin.
By BRET STEPHENSThe most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses — including COVID-19 — was published late last month. Its conclusions, said Tom Jefferson, the Oxford public health researcher who is its lead author, were unambiguous.
“There is just no evidence that they” — masks — “make any difference,” he told journalist Maryanne Demasi. “Full stop.”
But wait, hold on. What about N95 masks, as opposed to lower-quality surgical or cloth masks?
“Makes no difference — none of it,” said Jefferson.
What about the studies that initially persuaded policymakers to impose mask mandates?
“They were convinced by non-randomized studies, flawed observational studies.”
What about the utility of masks in conjunction with other preventive measures, such as hand hygiene, physical distancing or air filtration?
“There’s no evidence that many of these things make any difference.”
These observations don’t come from just anywhere. Jefferson and 11 colleagues conducted the study for Cochrane, a British nonprofit that is widely considered the gold standard for its reviews of health care data. The conclusions were based on 78 randomized controlled trials, six of them during the COVID pandemic, with a
Don’t count on it. In congressional testimony this month, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called into question the Cochrane analysis’s reliance on a small number of COVID-specific randomized controlled trials and insisted that her agency’s guidance on masking in schools wouldn’t change. If she ever wonders why respect for the CDC keeps falling, she could look to herself, resign and leave it to someone else to reorganize her agency.
That, too, probably won’t happen: We no longer live in a culture in which resignation is seen as the honorable course for public officials who fail in their jobs.
But the costs go deeper. When people say they “trust the science,” what they presumably mean is that science is rational, empirical, rigorous, receptive to new information, sensitive to competing concerns and risks. Also: humble, transparent, open to criticism, honest about what it doesn’t know, willing to admit error.
The CDC’s increasingly mindless adherence to its masking guidance is none of those things. It isn’t merely undermining the trust it requires to operate as an effective public institution. It is turning itself into an unwitting accomplice to the genuine enemies of reason and science — conspiracy theorists and quack-cure peddlers — by so badly representing the values and practices that science is supposed to exemplify.
It also betrays the technocratic mindset that has the unpleasant habit of assuming that nothing is ever wrong with the bureaucracy’s well-laid plans — provided nobody gets in its way, nobody has a dissenting point of view, everyone does exactly what it asks and for as long as officialdom demands. This is the mentality that once believed that China provided a highly successful model
There’s a final lesson. The last justification for masks is that, even if they proved to be ineffective, they seemed like a relatively low-cost, intuitively effective way of doing something against the virus in the early days of the pandemic. But “do something” is not science, and it shouldn’t have been public policy. And the people who had the courage to say as much deserved to be listened to, not treated with contempt. They may not ever get the apology they deserve, but vindication ought to be enough.
CATAÑO – Un contingente de uniformados de la Policía de Puerto Rico, con apoyo de la Policía Municipal de Cataño, fue activado el miércoles, para brindar ayuda emocional a las escuelas de la zona, incluyendo a los compañeros de clases de los tres niños que resultaron víctimas de la balacera entre sujetos dentro del residencial Jardines de Cataño.
El esfuerzo incluye un plan en el que efectivos de la Policía regresaron al residencial para brindar apoyo a la comunidad y rehabilitar apartamentos abandonados. El comisionado de la Policía, Antonio López Figueroa explicó que la activación del componente social del Plan de Seguridad tiene como objetivo restaurar el sentido de seguridad y protección a las familias de la zona, y principalmente a los niños.
“Como parte de la iniciativa social que activamos, nos topamos en el residencial con apartamentos abandonados, que se prestan para servir como centros de almacenaje y distribución de drogas o guaridas de delincuentes. Además,
de eliminar la posibilidad de que sean utilizados para actos delictivos, le estamos dando la oportunidad a familias que esperan por un techo”, expresó el comandante de la Policía en declaraciones escritas.
El jefe policiaco busca, además, crear un ambiente que promueva la seguridad en la comunidad. Para ello, la comandancia, dirigida por el coronel Israel Vázquez, liderará un esfuerzo junto al Comisionado de la Policía Municipal para rehabilitar apartamentos abandonados en el complejo residencial, de modo que puedan ser asignados
por el Departamento de la Vivienda a familias sin hogar. Además, coordinarán para eliminar autos abandonados y chatarra, que contribuyen al sentido de inseguridad en una comunidad.
López Figueroa indicó que el plan abarca la intervención de agentes de la Unidad motorizada y patrullas de la Policía estatal junto con la Policía Municipal, quienes estarán visitando escuelas y comunidades de la zona. Algunos equipos comenzaron el martes y otros continúan el miércoles desde las 6 de la mañana con visitas a diferentes escuelas y espacios debla comunidad.
“Ante este incidente policías estatales y municipales hemos unido esfuerzos desde el primer momento como si se tratara de un solo cuerpo. Siempre hemos trabajado de la mano. Sin embargo, situaciones como estas nos unen en sentimiento”, expresó el Vázquez.
Los planteles incluidos en el plan de la Policía estatal y municipal son Escuela Intermedia Mercedes García de Colorado, Escuela elemental Isaac del Rosario, Escuela Elemental Rafael Cordero, Escuela Intermedia Onofre Carballeira y la Escuela Superior Francisco Oller.
Energy recibió una descarga eléctrica y cayó al vacío.
BARRANQUITAS – La Policía informó el miércoles, que en una facilidad técnica de LUMA Energy que ubica en la carretera 156 en barrio la Vega en Barranquitas, un empleado de esa entidad falleció al recibir una descarga eléctrica. Según la Uniformada, un empleado de LUMA
El hombre no ha sido identificado este fue transportado al Hospital SIM de Barranquitas en donde el doctor de turno se certificó su muerte. Agentes del Distrito de Barranquitas se encuentra en la escena y personal de Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales de Aibonito, investigan.
S AN JUAN – El Departamento de Justicia, a través de la Unidad de Control de Fraude al Medicaid (PR-MFCU), presentó el miércoles, 60 cargos contra dos hogares de cuidado de envejecientes y sus dueños por graves violaciones al Código Penal de Puerto Rico, en casos separados.
“Estos son casos muy tristes y provocan gran indignación. Los hechos se remontan al periodo en que todos nos enfrentamos a una pandemia que paralizó el mundo y afectó la salud y
la economía de los ciudadanos, especialmente de los adultos mayores. Los imputados tenían el deber de cuidar a personas que se encontraban muy vulnerables, pero hicieron lo contrario; les arrebataron sus beneficios para lidiar con la pandemia. Si pensaron que se librarían de las consecuencias, lamento informarles que ahora tendrán que enfrentar la justicia”, sentenció el secretario de Justicia Domingo Emanuelli Hernández en declaraciones escritas.
Gabriel Santiago Báez, dueño y operador del Hogar Humacao Home Care, enfrenta 32 cargos, que incluyen explotación financiera, apropia -
ción ilegal de identidad, fraude y apropiación ilegal de fondos públicos.
María Burgos Ortiz, dueña y operadora del Hogar Fuente de Salud, enfrenta 20 cargos por infringir las mismas disposiciones del estatuto.
Conforme a las investigaciones del Departamento de Justicia, ambos imputados reclamaron y se apropiaron fraudulentamente de los fondos que les correspondían a los envejecientes por virtud de un programa de incentivos para mitigar el impacto de la pandemia del COVID-19, creado mediante la legislación federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (Cares Act).
This month’s suggestions for the hidden gems of your subscription streaming services cut a wide swath of genres and styles, including a piercing psychological thriller, a moody marital drama and a buckwild sex comedy, with a handful of first-rate documentaries to keep you anchored in reality.
‘Black Bear’ (2020)
When Aubrey Plaza arrived on the scene more than a decade ago, her bone-dry wit, acerbic delivery and MVP supporting turns in comic films and television suggested the second coming of Janeane Garofalo. But her electrifying dramatic work over the past few years — on “The White Lotus,” in “Emily the Criminal” and in this scorching portrait of psychosexual one-upmanship from writer and director Lawrence Michael Levine — suggests something closer to Gena Rowlands. The wildly unpredictable psychological drama begins as a love triangle, with Plaza as an actor-turned-filmmaker on a remote retreat with a married couple (Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon, both excellent). Over the course of a long night, the trio flirt, hint and accuse, rearranging and regrouping their allegiances, until … well, then it goes somewhere else entirely, grippingly blurring the lines between life, art and their respective commentaries.
Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.
‘Take This Waltz’ (2012)
Director Sarah Polley has been running the awards gauntlet for her latest film “Women Talking.” On Twitter, she took a moment to winkingly, winningly note the debt owed her by one of her competitors, requesting “that Steven Spielberg return my cast from ‘Take This Waltz.’” And “The Fabelmans” co-stars Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen are marvelous in Polley’s sophomore outing, as Margot and Lou, an easy-breezy couple whose comfortable marriage is drawn into doubt when Margot is suddenly thunderstruck by her attraction to a new neighbor (understandably, as he’s played by Luke Kirby). Polley masterfully takes what could have been a weepy melodrama or a scolding
screed and turns it into a nuanced and probing meditation on what it truly means to be faithful.
Stream it on HBO Max.
‘Sharp Stick’ (2022)
Lena Dunham’s 2022 was a study in contrasts, with two night-and-day feature films to contemplate: her Amazon original “Catherine Called Birdy,” which seemed to challenge the very notion of who Dunham is and what she does, and the indie comedy-drama “Sharp Stick,” which took those notions into new and provocative territory. Her focus is Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth), a 26-year-old nanny who, rather ill-advisedly, discards her virginity with the scuzzy burnout father (Jon Bernthal) who employs her. Dunham’s knack for writing amusingly self-destructive women and dopey men remains intact, and her own turn as the mother caught in the middle is as thorny and complicated as the movie surrounding it.
‘Cosmopolis’ (2012)
Stream it on Hulu.
The mixed reception that greeted Noah Baumbach’s recent film adaptation of Don DeLillo’s “White Noise” served as another reminder that there seems something uniquely tricky about turning the author’s thematically and historically dense works into quicksilver cinema. But in 2012 director David Cronenberg was up to the challenge with “Cosmopolis,” turning DeLillo’s chronicle of a day in the life of a young billionaire into a snapshot of self-destruction in the Occupy era, while Robert Pattinson makes a particularly effective DeLillo protagonist, all cold surfaces and questionable motives.
‘The Monster’ (2016)
Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.
Bryan Bertino’s tight, compact thriller finds a fiercely in-
dependent tween girl (Ella Ballentine) and her alcoholic mother (Zoe Kazan) on a long, tough drive through the lonely night — and then stranded in their car, wrecked while swerving to avoid a wolf on the road. But that wolf was trying to escape from another animal, and the women soon supplant the wolf as its prey. That sounds simple enough, but that’s also not all Bertino is up to; the picture’s intricate and ingenious flashback structure makes it increasingly clear that these two are perfectly capable of being just as monstrous to each other.
Stream it on HBO Max.
‘The Pez Outlaw’ (2022)
Amy Bandlien Storkel and Bryan Storkel’s documentary tells the story of Steve Glew, a collector, seller and smuggler of Pez candy dispensers — or, more accurately, Glew tells the story himself, not only narrating his tale with cheerful comic vigor, but starring in the documentary’s energetically stylized dramatizations of his various heists and high jinks. That irreverent approach is the right one for this low-stakes story, which takes the tools of the increasingly ubiquitous Netflix true crime documentary and exposes them as ridiculous. Stream it on Netflix.
‘Leave No Trace’ (2022)
When the Boy Scouts filed for bankruptcy in February 2020, it was one of many national stories that quickly receded to the background in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Thousands of claims of sexual abuse finally came to light, ultimately surpassing 82,000 accusers. Irene Taylor’s documentary details the history of the organization, and its pattern of protecting accused pedophiles in its midst (all the while ostracizing gay Scouts and Scoutmasters as dangers to children). Taylor assembles an anatomy of a conspiracy, detailing exactly how these secrets were kept so safe for so long, all while tracking down survivors from around the country to hear their stories. It’s a troubling, infuriating piece of work, assembled with a delicate mixture of righteous indignation and necessary sensitivity.
Stream it on Hulu.
‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song’ (2021) Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s documentary is not, it should be noted, a traditional biographical portrait of singersongwriter Leonard Cohen, and thank goodness, as there have been plenty of those. Instead, the filmmakers examine the long, strange, fascinating history of the title song — now easily his most recognizable composition, deployed in media of all kinds, covered by every artist worth their stripe, but initially a forgotten track on a poorly selling album. That odyssey, from ignored to iconic, is an inherently dramatic one, and Gellar and Goldfine bring it to life with panache, all while acknowledging that Cohen’s particular passion made its very inception something akin to musical magic.
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Stream Netflix.Kizzmekia Corbett had gone home to North Carolina for the holidays in 2019 when the headlines began to trickle in: A strange, pneumonialike illness was making dozens of people sick in China.
By the first week of January 2020, the number of infected people in China had climbed to the hundreds. Corbett, a viral immunologist, was back at her desk at the National Institutes of Health, where she served as a senior research fellow at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. And that’s when the news was confirmed: The mysterious illness was a novel coronavirus, exactly the category of infection that she had been studying for the past five years in a bid to develop a vaccine.
Coronaviruses can cause all kinds of illness, like the common cold or more crippling diseases like MERS and SARS. Novel coronaviruses are new strains that are identified in humans for the first time. And when it came to the race for a vaccine against COVID-19, Corbett, who was part of important work on other coronavirus outbreaks, was at the vanguard.
Next month will be the third anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, on March 11, 2020. In those fraught months that followed, Corbett helped lead a team of scientists that contributed to one of the most stunning achievements in the history of immunizations: a highly effective, easily manufactured vaccine against COVID-19, delivered and authorized for use in less than a year.
On Jan. 6, 2020, that goal started to take on a new urgency. As the number of sick people in China began to climb, Corbett huddled with her supervisor, Dr. Barney Graham, the deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center and chief of the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory. Both noted that this new disease bore eerie similarities to SARS and MERS, which each killed hundreds. Corbett’s work, and the work of her entire team, suddenly had urgent implications.
“At the time, we had no idea it would become a global pandemic,” she said. “So what I felt was excitement about being able to prove myself and my work to the world.”
Corbett, 37, was used to having to prove herself. As a Black woman in science, she is accustomed to asserting her worth in rooms filled with white men. In early 2020, she had
been at the National Institutes of Health for five years and had already published groundbreaking research about the structure of other coronaviruses and how the viruses’ spike proteins — which form a distinctive crown shape on the surface of the virus and latch onto healthy cells in the body — act as the doorway to infection. This research was part of the foundation, laid by scientists including Graham, Katalin Kariko and Dr. Drew Weissman at the University of Pennsylvania, for the COVID-19 vaccine, the fastest vaccine ever developed.
Vaccines can take more than a decade to develop from scratch. The mumps vaccine, which was created in 1967 after four years, was considered a wild success of timing. By Jan. 10, 2020, at the urging of scientists including Graham, scientists in China shared the genetic makeup of the virus that was sweeping through Wuhan. He and Corbett immediately saw that their research on other illnesses caused by coronaviruses like SARS and MARS could be adapted relatively simply.
“Over the course of five years,” Corbett said, “we had already determined which parts of the virus would excite the body’s immune system in a way that would cause protective immunity.”
Understanding that spike proteins were at the heart of an adequate defense against infection, Corbett and other scientists had created experimental vaccines against SARS and MERS. Now, by swapping in the genetic code for the virus that creates COVID-19 — so named by the World Health Organization because it emerged in 2019 — they had a prototype they could already use. Corbett has referred to this ability to apply a template as the
“plug and play” approach.
Graham credits her with playing a formative role in the vaccine’s development.
“Around 2015, Kizzmekia decided that the coronavirus was the project she wanted to focus on,” he said, “and it was her work that led to what we knew about the coronavirus and prepared us for making that vaccine so rapidly.”
It took her only a few hours to prepare a modified sequence for a vaccine. By Jan. 14, 2020, the NIH had shared that sequence with the vaccine developer Moderna, which used the code to create synthetic messenger RNA, the genetic material that holds instructions for how to build the spike proteins, which are recognized by the body’s immune system and teach it how to fight the virus. Messenger RNA is the backbone of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine and Pfizer’s vaccine, which also uses synthetic mRNA.
By March 2020, Moderna was running the first human trials of its vaccine, and by December 2020 — less than a year after the first deaths in Wuhan were reported — it was authorized by the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use.
Thinking back on those intensely charged first days, Corbett, now at Harvard University, said, “we weren’t racing against the pandemic.”
“We were racing ourselves,” she continued. “It was all about proof of principle.” Initially, she was eager to prove that her earlier research could be widely applied. “But when hundreds of thousands of people start to die,” she said, “you realize how important the work you’re doing is.”
She also felt pressure beyond the rapidly climbing death toll. Corbett, who has a sharp sense of humor and an easygoing style, grew up in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and earned her doctorate in microbiology and immunology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014. She is still working to upend the status quo when it comes to who performs scientific research.
“I try to make sure that my lab and the people I hire come from diverse backgrounds so that our thoughts and the way that we do our science shakes the table a little bit,” she said.
She first came on the radar of many Americans on March 3, 2020, when photos circulated of her standing in the NIH laboratory, in a crisp white lab coat, amid a crowd of influential white men: President Donald Trump; Dr. Anthony Fauci; Graham; John Mascola, director of the Vaccine Research Center; and Alex Azar, then the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
But just out of the frame, two other young Black female scientists — Cynthia Ziwawo and Olubukola Abiona, both researchers on Corbett’s team — were watching their leader carefully.
“I had never seen a Black woman scientist before working with Dr. Corbett,” said Ziwawo, 25, who is now in medical school at Indiana University. “It definitely impacted how I view minorities in science, especially those running the room.”
In May 2021, Corbett joined the faculty at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she is now an assistant professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. But she still carries the same kind of pressure she felt racing the clock in early 2020.
“If I fail as a Black woman, this department at Harvard will overlook Black women until infinity,” she said. “People at the NIH would have overlooked Black women if I failed. Being the first in so many kinds of these spaces has so much pressure.”
She receives 10 to 20 emails a week from Black women and girls, she said, and whenever she talks to them, she makes a point to let them know that if they, too, want to be a scientist, “I will risk my all to make sure to stand up for them, as long as they are committed.
“Women need people to stand up for them,” she continued. “Especially Black women.”
published in January in The New England Journal of Medicine. That research found that people who received the bivalent booster had an increase in antibody levels. This suggests it improved immune defenses against the virus, but it didn’t protect against the new strains as well as it did against the old ones.
“There’s a clear step down” in protection as the variants continue to progress, said Dr. Dan Barouch, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who led one of the studies.
When it comes to protecting against severe disease, the bivalent booster fares well in the real world, research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. One study found that it was at least 38% effective at preventing hospitalization for COVID-19, and the more time that had passed since someone’s previous vaccine dose, the more the bivalent booster helped.
it was because the comparison group had fewer strokes than normal, not because the recently boosted group had more.
If you’re low risk, recommendations are less clear.
For people who are under 50 and don’t have an increased risk of severe disease, there’s more of a debate about whether another shot is worth it. The booster is still effective, but getting it is less critical.
One recent study evaluating the bivalent booster in people over age 12 showed that it worked equally well in individuals of all ages. The researchers compared how people fared during the three months after they received a monovalent booster (May to August 2022) with the three months after people received a bivalent booster (September to December 2022). They found that the monovalent booster was 25% effective at preventing hospitalization or death, while the bivalent booster was 62% effective.
By DANA G. SMITHThree years into the pandemic, it has become evident that COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere, and neither are vaccine boosters.
Earlier this month, an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously agreed that the vaccine and booster process for COVID-19 needs to be simplified in terms of which version of the shot is offered and when and how often people should receive it. There was less consensus about what that simplified process will look like.
The FDA’s desire to streamline vaccine recommendations is a reflection of just how complicated and confusing they have become.
When the bivalent booster, which targets both the original coronavirus strain and the BA.4/BA.5 omicron subvariants, was rolled out in September 2022, there was little data about how well it would work. But the basis for the decision was relatively clear: The virus is evolving, and so should the vaccine. Over the past few months, as the results of initial studies have come in, the picture has gotten murkier.
The good news is the bivalent booster
does appear to provide protection against severe infection, which is critical for highrisk individuals. It “is doing a much better job of protection, both for symptomatic infections” and hospitalizations, said Dr. Eric Topol, executive vice president of Scripps Research.
The relative benefit for low-risk populations, who are unlikely to die or be hospitalized from COVID-19, is less clear. There are also questions of how often people should get boosted and how the vaccine should be updated as the virus evolves.
Here’s what we currently know about the bivalent booster and how to decide when — and if — you should get your next shot.
If you’re high risk, get a booster.
For high-risk people — namely adults 50 and older and people who are immunocompromised or have an underlying condition — the evidence is straightforward: If you haven’t gotten the bivalent booster, you should. Just make sure it’s been at least three months since your last shot or COVID infection.
Supporting this recommendation is data presented by Pfizer and Moderna at the FDA meeting, along with four studies
Similarly, a second study focusing on adults 65 and older found that people who had received the bivalent booster an average of 30 days prior were 73% less likely to be hospitalized than those who’d received only the original vaccine or the vaccine plus the initial single-strain (or monovalent) booster an average of nearly a year prior.
However, it’s hard to know whether the added benefit of the bivalent booster was because it increased protection against the omicron subvariants or because less time had passed since people got it. Antibodies wane over time — that’s why the CDC and FDA started recommending boosters in the first place — so it’s not surprising people would be better protected the more recently they’d had a shot.
In either case, Barouch said, “for people at high risk of severe complications of COVID-19, it makes a lot of sense to get boosted because it has shown a reduction of severe disease, at least for a brief period of time.”
The boosters also appear to be safe in an overwhelming majority of cases. Last month, the FDA and CDC issued a joint statement that said there was preliminary evidence the bivalent booster may raise the risk of stroke in adults over the age of 65. However, updated data revealed that
Although the booster worked for everyone, experts say because older adults are much more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19, they will experience a greater benefit.
“Even if this effectiveness is the same, it’s still more important for older people to get boosted because their absolute risk is higher,” said Danyu Lin, a professor of biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who led the research.
A CDC study looking at whether the bivalent booster protects against infection in people ages 18 to 49 was also encouraging. Compared with people who received between two and four doses of the original vaccine, people who got the bivalent booster were roughly 50% less likely to have a symptomatic infection from either BA.5 or XBB/XBB.1.5.
However, as with the original vaccine, the bivalent booster slightly increases the risk of myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, in people 18 to 35. As a result, some experts are hesitant to recommend more booster doses to this group.
“The expert opinion is divided on whether young, healthy people should get boosted,” Barouch said. “Everybody agrees that the relative benefit is higher in the people who are at highest risk of disease.”
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO CIELO VIVIENDA LLC
Plaintiff, V. ÁNGEL ALFONSO RAMOS HERNÁNDEZ AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE OCASIO HENRÍQUEZ, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THEM
Defendants
Civil No.: 16-01456-(CVR). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE; COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: ÁNGEL ALFONSO RAMOS HERNÁNDEZ AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE OCASIO HENRÍQUEZ, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THEM, GENERAL PUBLIC, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.
WHEREAS Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $282,452.07 in principal, accrued interest in the amount of $42,933.62, accrued late charges in the amount of $2,337.60, accrued escrow advance in the amount of $9,047.74, and expressly agreed upon attorney’s fees and legal costs in the amount of $28,327.31, for a total amount due of $365,098.34, which will continue to accrue interest at the contractual rates. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder. The public sale shall be held at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st. floor, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918. The public sale will be of the following property: “URBANA: Parcela de terreno identificada como solar 97 del bloque SJ de la Urbanización Sanjuanera, radicada en el barrio Cañabón, término municipal de Caguas, cabida 577.042 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 16.42 metros, y distancia en arco de 2.96 metros, con plaza Morenilla (calle #13); por el SUR, en 23.55 metros, con solar 98; por el ESTE, distancia en arco de 25.19 metros, con vía Morenilla (calle #2); y por el OESTE, en 24.75 metros, con
Recorded at page 200 of volume 1655, property 55,154 of Caguas, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, First Section of Caguas. The property described above es encumbered by three junior liens: a) MORTGAGE: In favor of RBS Mortgage Corp., in the original principal amount of $105,250.00, with 8.375% annual interests, due on November 1st, 2022, constituted by deed #328, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 16th, 2007, before Notary Public René Aviles Perez, recorded at page 192 of volume 1736 of the Registry.
Modified by Deed number 157 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 26, 2014, before Notary Public Eduardo J. Navarro Pluguez, recorded at page 192 of volume 1736 of the Registry;
b) Lawsuit Annotation dated November 9th, 2009, executed in the Superior Court of Caguas, civil case ECD20091987, by Doral Bank, recorded at page 192 of volume 1736 of the Registry, annotation A; and;
c) Judgment issued by the Caguas Superior Court, case EHEI2012-01072, in favor of Hacienda San José Homeowners Association, recorded at page 120, lawsuit 357, book 3 of the Registry. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on MARCH 3, 2023, 2023, AT 9:50AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $283,273.09. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MARCH 10, 2023, 2023, AT 9:50AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $188,848.72. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MARCH 17, 2023, 2023, AT 9:50AM and
the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $141,636.54. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 17th day of January, 2023. Joel Ronda Feliciano, Special Master, Email: rondajoel@me.com, Tel: 787-565-0415.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO CIELO VIVIENDA LLC
Plaintiff V. CARMEN HERNIDHIA COLOMBANI LATORRE
Defendant Civil No.: 18-cv-01499. (ADC). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND COLLECTION MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: CARMEN HERNIDHIA COLOMBANI LATORRE, GENERAL PUBLIC, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.
WHEREAS Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $116,611.16,accrued variable interests starting at 6.95%, and deferred balance of $9,373.33 for a total of $125,984.49 from February 1, 2016 until full payment, plus mortgage and risk insurance premiums, late fees and any other amount expressly agreed-upon in the mortgage deed, from the date stated above until full payment thereof, plus 10% for attorneys’ fees and legal costs in the amount of $12,800.00. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder. The public sale shall be held at and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st. floor, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918. The public sale will be of the following property: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Seiscientos
Siete (607) en el bloque LC-35 (607 LC-35) en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización La Cumbre, radicado en el Barrio Monacillos de Rio Piedras, tér-
mino municipal de la Capital de Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos cuarenta y ocho metros cuadrados con cuatro centímetros cuadrados (348.04). Y colinda por el
NORTE: en veinticuatro metros con ochenta centímetros con el Solar número Seiscientos Seis del bloque LC-Treinta y Cinco del mencionado plano; SUR; en veintitrés metros con cuarenta centímetros con el Solar número Seiscientos Ocho del bloque LC-Treinta y Cinco del mencionado plano; ESTE; en dieciséis metros con cincuenta centímetros con la calle denominada “Madison Street” del mencionado piano; OESTE; en doce metros con veinticinco centímetros con terrenos propiedad de la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico. Enclava en dicho solar una edificación para usos residenciales. PROPER-
TY NUMBER: 3,541, recorded at page 161 of volume 112 of Monacillos Este y el Cinco, Property Registry of Puerto Rico, Fifth Section of San Juan. The aforementioned mortgage has one senior lien: i. MORTGAGE:
In favor of Doral Mortgage Corporation, in the original principal amount of $20,000.00, with 9.95% annual interests, due on February 1, 2012 constituted by deed #53, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 28, 2002, before Notary Eric Hernandez Batalla, recorded at mobile volume 267 of Monacillos Este y el Cinco, property #3,541. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on MARCH 3, 2023, 2023, AT 9:55AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $128,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MARCH 10, 2023, 2023, AT 9:55AM and the minimum bidding amount that
will be accepted is the sum of $85,333.33. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MARCH 17, 2023, 2023, AT 9:55AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $64,000.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 19th day of January, 2023. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, SPECIAL MASTER, E-MAIL: RONDAJOEL@ ME.COM, TEL: 787-565-0415.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC
Plaintiff V. OSCAR GONZALEZ NIEVES; MARIA CRISTINA PICORELLY LOPEZ; CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP GONZALEZ-PICORELLY; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Defendants
Civil Action No.: 18-cv-1718. (ADC). NOTICE OF SALE. To: OSCAR GONZÁLEZ NIEVES; MARIA CRISTINA PICORELLY LOPEZ; CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP GONZALEZ-PICORELLY; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $240,000.00, plus interest at a rate of 5.810% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Oscar González Nieves; Maria Cristina Picorelly Lopez; Conjugal Partnership Gonzalez-Picorelly to pay Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes, and inspections as well as 10% ($24,000.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States Dis-
trict Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master, or a person authorized to act in his name and authority, was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Santa Juanita (Sección Doce) situada en el Barrio Guaraguao de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número FO trece, compuesta de seiscientos doce punto veinticinco metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y cuatro punto seiscientos diez metros, con el Solar doce del mismo Bloque, por el SUR, en treinta y dos punto doscientos treinta metros con el Solar catorce; por el ESTE, en dieciocho punto trescientos sesenta metros con Amelia Diaz viuda de Espina; y por el OESTE, en dieciocho punto trescientos veinte metros, con la Calle Polaris. Contiene una casa de cemento diseñada para una familia.” The mortgage foreclosed is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, at overleaf page 144 of volume 956 of Bayamón Sur, property number 42,902 Bis, 5th inscription. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens:
Senior Liens: None.
Junior Liens: Reverse Mortgage securing a note in favor of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or to its order, for the original principal amount of $240,000.00, due on September 1, 2097, constituted by Oscar González Nieves y su esposa María Cristina Picorelli López, pursuant to deed number 69, issued in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, on April 13, 2010, before notary Fernando E. Doval Santiago, and recorded at overleaf page 144 of volume 956 of Bayamón Sur, property number 42,902 Bis, 6th inscription, as as an Abbreviated Entry on December 18, 2012, by virtue of Law 216 of December 27 27, 2010. (Presented on April 28, 2010, at Entry 1,213 of Diary 1,287). Notice of Lis Pendens dated September 24, 2018, issued by the United States Districts of Puerto Rico, in
the civil case number 2018-CV01718-ADC, by Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc., versus Oscar González Nieves and his wife María Cristina Picorelly López; Conjugal Partnership González-Picorelly; United States of America, for monies owed and foreclosure of mortgage, in the amount of $93,362.90, plus interest and other amounts, or the sale of the property at public auction, annotated on January 25, 2019, at the Karibe volume of Bayamón Sur, property number 42,902 Bis, Annotation A. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 14TH DAY OF MARCH OF 2023, AT: 8:30 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $240,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 21ST DAY OF MARCH OF 2023, AT: 8:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $160,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 28TH DAY OF MARCH OF 2023, AT: 8:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $120,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHE-
REAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to
the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 23rd day of January of 2023. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO
FINANCE OF AMERICA
REVERSE, LLC.
Plaintiff V. CARMEN MARÍA SUÁREZ ARISTUD A/K/A CARMEN
M. SUÁREZ ARISTUD A/K/A CARMEN MARÍA SUÁREZ; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Defendants
Civil Action No.: 3:16-cv-02478PAD. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE COMPLAINT. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: CARMEN MARÍA SUÁREZ ARISTUD A/K/A CARMEN M. SUÁREZ ARISTUD A/K/A CARMEN MARÍA SUÁREZ; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $138,060.89, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Carmen María Suárez Aristud a/k/a Carmen M. Suárez Aristud a/k/a Carmen María Suárez to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($22,200.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction
for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property
“URBANA: Solar marcado con el número FF veintidós del Plano de Inscripción del Proyecto de Viviendas a Bajo Costo denominado B.V.C. cincuenta y dos, radicado en el Barrio Martín González y Hoyo Mulas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos noventa y ocho metros cuadrados con cincuenta y siete centésimas de otro, en lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar FF veintiuno; por el SUR, con el solar FF veintitrés; por el ESTE, con terrenos propiedad de la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número doce.”
Property Number 31,199 filed at page 203 of volume 776 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina. The mortgage deed is recorded at page 132 of volume 1,508 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina. WHE-
REAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $222,000.00, due on August 1, 2087 pursuant to deed number 50, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 27, 2013, before notary David Garcia Medina, and recorded, at page 134 of volume 1,508 of Carolina, property number 31,199, 5th inscription. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 14TH DAY MARCH OF 2023, AT: 8:35 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $222,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the the 21ST DAY MARCH OF 2023, AT:
8:35 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $148,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the the 28TH DAY MARCH OF 2023, AT: 8:35 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $111,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 23rd day of January 2023. Pedro A. Vélez-Baerga, Special Master. LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR THE CSMC 2015-PR1 TRUST, MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2015-PR1
Plaintiff V. GLADYVIRG RIVERA JIMENEZ, ALSO KNOWN AS GLADYVING RIVERA JIMENEZ
Defendant(s) Civil No.: 3:18-CV-01978. (FAB). FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: GLADYVIRG RIVERA JIMENEZ, ALSO KNOWN AS GLADYVING RIVERA JIMENEZ. APT. 1303-B, COND. PARQUE DE SAN FRANCISCO, BAYAMÓN, PR 00959; APT. 1303 B
BOX 126, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 00959; THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: On March 23, 2022, this Court entered Default Judgment in favor of Plaintiff, against Defendant. On August 10, 2022, this Court entered Order for Execution of Judgment, stating that Defendant has failed to pay the sums of monies adjudged to be paid under the judgment. The In the Judgment, this Court stated that Defendant has defaulted on the repayment obligation to WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR THE CSMC 2015-PR1 TRUST, MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2015PR1, and ordered to pay the Plaintiff the principal sum of ONE HUNDRED TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR DOLLARS AND THIRTY-TWO CENTS ($102,334.32), plus interest at 7.000% per annum from January 1, 2016, which will continue to accrue interest at the contractual rate. The defendant also owes and the Court ordered to pay Wilmington Savings all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note, including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections, as well as 10% of the original principal balance, or $9,500.00, to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed by the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHERAEAS, Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendant will be sold at a public auction: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: San Francisco Condominium, Apartment B-1303: Rectangular shape, three bedroom unit with a total construction area of 865.46 square feet, equivalent to 80.40 square meters, distributed in 798.06 square feet, equivalent to 74.14 square meters of enclosed area and 67.40 square feet, equivalent to 6.26 square meters of porch. The main entrance is located on the South side. This apartment is located in Building B of the Condominium and occupies part of the thirteenth floor of the building. The maximum length of this unit is 25’5” and the maximum width is 44’ 4”. Its boundaries all: by the NORTH, in a distance of 44’4”, equivalent to 13.52 meters, with the common wall that separates it from apartment number 1304 and the common interior areas; by the SOUTH, in a distance of 44’ 4”, equivalent to 13.52 meters with exterior common
areas; by the EAST, in a distance of 24’ 1”, equivalent to 7.34 meter with the common wall that separates it from apartment number 1302 and interior and exterior common areas and by the WEST, in a distance of 25’ 3”, equivalent to 7.70 meters with the exterior common areas. This unit contains a kitchen, a living room, a dining room, three bedrooms with closet, two bathrooms and a covered porch. Se le asigna a este apartamento el estacionamiento número 85 como elemento común limitado. Este apartamento tiene una participación de .61792% en los elementos comunes del condominio. Property recorded at page 61, volume 1708 of Bayamón Sur, property number 71489, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Bayamón. WHEREAS: The property is subject to the following lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de RG Premier Bank de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $95,000.00 con intereses al 7.00% anual y vencimiento 1ro de agosto de 2036. Constituida por la Escritura 571 otorgada en San Juan el 31 de julio de 2006 ante el notario Antonio José Cruz Bonilla, e inscrita y extendido su asiento abreviado el 4 de mayo de 2011 bajo la Ley 216 del 27 de diciembre de 2010 para Agilizar el Registro de La Propiedad, al folio 161 del tomo 1846 de Bayamón Sur, finca 71489, inscripción 5ª. AMPLIADA en una suma adicional de $12,209.77 y MODIFICADA en cuanto a su interés y vencimiento, siendo ahora su principal por $107,209.77 con intereses al 7.00% anual y vencimiento 1ro de enero de 2042, según consta de la escritura 12 otorgada en San Juan el 20 de enero de 2012 ante la notario Ileana Quintero Aguiló, e inscrita al folio 161 del tomo 1846 de Bayamón Sur, finca 71489, inscripción 6ª. Senior Lien: None. The above-described property is subject to the following junior lien: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de la Corporación para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $24,700.00 sin intereses y vencimiento 20 años. Constituida por la Escritura 48 otorgada en San Juan el 23 de enero de 2001 ante el notario Miguel A. García Rivera, e inscrita al folio 62 del tomo 1708 de Bayamón Sur, finca 71489, inscripción 2ª. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential lien with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential lien to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, lien (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them
and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: For the purpose of the First Judicial Sale, the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the mortgage deed will be $107,209.77 for the property and no lower offers will be accepted. Should the first judicial sale of the abovedescribed property be unsuccessful, then the minimum bid for the property on the Second Judicial Sale will be two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the First Judicial Sale, or $71,473.18. The minimum bid for the Third Judicial Sale, if the same is necessary, will be onehalf of the minimum bid agreed upon by the parties in the aforementioned mortgage deed, or $53,604.89 (Known in the Spanish language as: “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, 2015 Puerto Rico Laws Act 210 (H.B. 2479), Article 104, as amended. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. NOW THREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will on MARCH 3, 2023 AT 10:30 AM, in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001 will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property describes in the Notice will be held on MARCH 10, 2023 AT 10:30AM, at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court located at the address indicated above. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on MARCH 17, 2023 AT 10:30AM, at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, located at the address indicated above. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 25th day of January 2023. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER. LEGAL
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE MASSACHUSETTS
MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY
(MASS MUTUAL)
Parte Demandante Vs.
HÉCTOR MANUEL REYES
NIEVES T/C/C HÉCTOR
M. REYES NIEVES, ANA
MÉRIDA RIVERA RIVERA
T/C/C ANA MARIELA
RIVERA RIVERA T/C/C
ANA M. RIVERA RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: CR2019CV00112.
Sala: 001. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía Enmendada Nunc Pro Tunc dictada el 5 de mayo de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 5 de julio de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 10 de enero de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 14 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Comerío, en 16 Calle Georgetti, Comerío, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad:
URBANA: Parcela marcada con el número 142 en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural de Río Hondo del Barrio Río Hondo del término municipal de Comerío, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de .2463 cuerdas, equivalentes a 968.19 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos propiedad de la Administración de Programas Sociales; por el SUR, con la Calle Número Ocho (8) de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número 141 de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número 143 de la Comunidad.
Inscrita al folio 202 vuelto del tomo 123 de Comerío, Finca Número 8060, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 203 vuelto del tomo 123 de Comerío, Finca Número 8060, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. Inscripción cuar-
ta. La modificación de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 157 vuelto del tomo 164 de Comerío, Finca Número 8060, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. Inscripción sexta. Dirección Física: Barrio Río Hondo, Solar Núm. 142, Comerío, PR 00782. Número de Catastro: 43-248001-108-54-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $40,350.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 21 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $26,900.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 28 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $20,175.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $35,987.61 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $72.18 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $4,066.40 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Condiciones Restrictivas: Comparece La Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, para imponer condiciones restrictivas por un término de cinco (5) años, por la suma de $5,950.00 según consta de la Escritura Número 906, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 23 de agosto de 2011, ante el Notario Héctor Luis Torres Dávila. Inscrita al folio 157 del tomo 164 de Comerío, finca número 8060, inscripción quinta. b. Subordinación: Subordinada la hipoteca de la inscripción cuarta, a favor de la hipoteca de la modificación de la inscripción sexta, para que esta última tenga rango preferente, según consta de la Escritura Número 92, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 18 de septiembre de 2013, ante la Notario Vianice Cruz de Choudens. Inscrita al margen del folio 157 vuelto del tomo 164 de Comerío, finca núme-
ro 8060, inscripción sexta. c. Observación y Sentencia: Anotada contra Ana Rivera Rivera y Heriberto Colón Malavé y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales a favor de Jubel Inc., por la suma de $11,100.00 y otras cantidades, según Sentencia de fecha 22 de abril de 2002, no expresa Tribunal, ni número de caso civil. Anotada el 4 de agosto de 2004, al folio 74 Número de Orden 216 del Libro de Sentencias Número 2. Dicha Sentencia no surge del Sistema Karibe y no puede ser verificada. d. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico como Agente de Servicio de Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (Mass Mutual) Vs. Héctor Manuel Reyes Nieves también conocido como Héctor M. Reyes Nieves y su esposa, Ana Mérida Rivera Rivera también conocida como Ana Mariela Rivera Rivera y Ana M. Rivera Rivera, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Comerío, en el Caso Civil Número CR2019CV00112, sobro Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $35,987.61 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 4 de abril de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Comerío. Anotación B. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se le advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Comerío, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de enero de 2023. Juan Enrique Díaz Morales,
documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal $106,800.17, más la suma de $4,176.34, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 4 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Carolina, por el tipo mínimo de $111,680.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 11 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $74,453.33.
De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $55,840.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 7 de febrero de 2023 en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. ALG. ALFREDO
OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL. LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO
MTGLQ INVESTORS LP
Plaintiff V. EDRIC ENRIQUE VIVONI RIVERA; ET AL
Defendants
Civil Action Num.: 19-CV01599. (JAG). Matter: COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE. NOTICE OF SALE.
WHEREAS: On March 2, 2022
Default Judgment was entered and grated on same day in favor of Plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal amount of $77,007.64 plus interest at a rate of 3.375% per annum since January 1st, 2018, which continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full; a deferred principal balance of $55,200.67, which does not accrue interest; late charges on the amount of 5.00% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount $26,200.00 to cover, costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligations. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the Court, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property described in Spanish: RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno en el Barrio Caimito Alto del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de cinco mil ciento cuarenta y dos metros cuadrados con tres mil trescientos setenta y una diez milésimas de otro (5,142.3371 m.c.), equivalentes a una cuerda con tres mil ochenta y cuatro diez milésimas de cuerda (1.2084 cdas) (así surge) identificada en el Plano de Inscripción con el número dos (2). En lindes por el NORTE, en tres alineaciones que suman ochenta y cuatro metros lineales con mil quinientos siete diez milésimas de otro (84.1507 ml) con la faja de uso público del Plano de Inscripción; por el SUR, en seis (6) alineaciones que suman treinta y cinco metros lineales con cuatro mil cuatro setecientos treinta y cuatro diez milésimas de otro (34.4734 ml) con el solar número uno (1) del Plano de Inscripción; por el ESTE, en cuatro (4) alineaciones que suman ochenta y siete metros lineales con cuatrocientos treinta y una diez milésimas
de otro (87.0431 ml) con la faja de uso público del Plano de Inscripción; por el OESTE, en cuatro (4) alineaciones que suman ochenta y siete metros lineales con tres mil setecientos quince (87.3715 ml) con terrenos de Tomas Guzmán. Contiene una estructura para fines residenciales. The property is recorded at Page 189 of Volume 807 of Rio Piedras Sur, Property Registry of Puerto Rico, and lot number 22,359, Section IV of San Juan. Property address: PR 1 KM 27.4, Caimito Alto Ward, San Juan, P.R. 00926. The deed of mortgage is recorded at Page number 190 of Volume number 807 of Rio Piedras Sur, lot number 22,359, 4th inscription in the Property Registry of San Juan, Fourth Section. The deed of modification # 27 is recorded at Page 490 of volume 807 of Rio Piedras Sur, 6th inscription. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: NONE. Junior Liens: NONE. Other Liens: NONE. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 4TH DAY OF APRIL OF 2023, AT: 9:00 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $262,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF APRIL OF 2023, AT: 9:00 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $174,666.67, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 18TH DAY OF APRIL OF 2023, AT: 9:00 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $131,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The undersigned Special Master shall
not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied.
WHE-
REAS: Said sale to be made by the undersigned Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 10th day of February of 2023. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, 787-672-8269.
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301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de OLMEDA, JACK ANTHONY, sobre la unidad A505 semana 41 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 41 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A505 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A505 and includes the right to use such unit during the 41 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 41 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A505,
the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $12,122.53 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día
7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JAMES ANDREW SEDLAK y MYRA ELIZABETH SEDLAK, sobre la unidad A601 semana 41 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 41 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A601 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A601 and includes the right to use such unit during the 41 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 41 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A601, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $10,073.82 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subas-
ta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día
7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las
10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de LOUIS ANN ROGERS t/c/c
LOUISE ANN KURTZ, sobre la unidad A602 semana 9 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 9 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A602 of HACIENDA
DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A602 and includes the right to use such unit during the 9 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 9 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A602, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above des-
cribed interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,041.26 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de IVAN ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ
GONZALEZ y ELIZABETH
LOURDES GEIGEL TORRES, sobre la unidad A603 semana 31 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 31 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A603 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in
the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A603 and includes the right to use such unit during the 31 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 31 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A603, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso.
Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,789.39 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en
Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día
7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las
10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JORGE LUIS VELEZ COLON y NAIDA CRESPO CRESPO, sobre la unidad A603 semana 33 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 33 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A603 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A603 and includes the right to use such unit during the 33 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 33 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A603, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three
two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,811.09 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las
10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MARGARITA CAROLYN MITCHELL-IVEY t/c/c MARGUERITE CAROLYN MITCHELLIVEY, sobre la unidad A605 semana 44 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 44 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A605 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A605 and includes the right to use such unit during the 44 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 44 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the mem-
bership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A605, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,712.54 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de RAOUF WILLIAM ISKANDER y MOUSHIRA ISKANDER t/c/c MOUSHIRA HABIB, sobre la unidad A606 semana 45 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 45 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A606 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A606 and includes the right to use such unit during the 45 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 45 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A606, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $8,711.33 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los
documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las
10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JOHN FRANCIS MCMULLAN y JOAN MCMULLAN t/c/c JOAN MCKENNA, sobre la unidad A701 semana 2 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 2 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A701 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A701 and includes the right to use such unit during the 2 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 2 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A701, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation
Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,892.12 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día
7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las
10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ANGEL ENRIQUE ZORRILLA
BALSEIRO y CARMEN SOCORRO COBIAN MENDEZ,
sobre la unidad A701 semana 25 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 25 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A701 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A701 and includes the right to use such unit during the 25 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 25 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A701, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,811.09 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado
en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER:
Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MARIA ICIAR CASTRODAD
ORTIZ, sobre la unidad A702 semana 26 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 26 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A702 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club
Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A702 and includes the right to use such unit during the 26 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 26 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A702, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation
club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,789.39 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646nice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:15 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de
WILLIAM DALTON y CATHERINE MARY O’HARE t/c/c
CATHERINE MARY DALTON, sobre la unidad A704 semana 15 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 15 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A704 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A704 and includes the right to use such unit during the 15 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 15 Saturday of each calendar year and
ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A704, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,452.37 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día
7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las
10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ROSARIO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA t/c/c ROSARIO RODRIGUEZ AND MARIA HERMINIA TORRES SANTOS t/c/c MARIA HERMINIA RODRIGUEZ, sobre la unidad B110 semana 19 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 19 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B110 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B110 and includes the right to use such unit during the 19 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 19 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B110, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $10,184.22 en
concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693
INC.
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de DAVID WALTERS FAULKNER, sobre la unidad B311 semana 43 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 43 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B311 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B311 and includes the right to use such unit during the 43 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 43 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B311, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of
said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four (1.2194%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $13,460.66 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día
7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las
10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de
sobre la unidad B407 semana 44 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 44 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B407 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B407 and includes the right to use such unit during the 44 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 44 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B407, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four (1.2194%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,960.52 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante
y
los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MORRIS GREGOR KITZIS, sobre la unidad B411semana 44 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 44 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B411 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B411 and includes the right to use such unit during the 44 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 44 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B411, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the
vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four (1.2194%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,495.08 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las
10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de
JOAN ARDETH SANBORN, sobre la unidad B509 semana 5 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 5 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B509 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B509 and includes the right to use such unit during the 5 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 5 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same
day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B509, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four (1.2194%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $12,715.71 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
Owners Association, Inc., LP
HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día
7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las
10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MANUEL AYALA BURGOS Y TESSIE MARIA MONTALVO
RIVERA, sobre la unidad B608 semana 45 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 45 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B608 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B608 and includes the right to use such unit during the 45 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 45 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B608, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four (1.2194%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”
documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 a las 10:30 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Dorado Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de SEAN MICHAEL McCARTHY t/c/c SEAN McCARTHY
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar
El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,631.22 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los
Y ALYCE McCARTHY t/c/c/ LISA ALICE DOCTOR, sobre la unidad B807 semana 14 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 14 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B807 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B807 and includes the right to use such unit during the 14 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 14 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B807, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners
of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four (1.2194%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $6,011.08 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Dorado, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2023. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. **
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. JOSÉ ALBERTO BATIZ
CENTENO T/C/C JOSÉ A. BATIZ
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00617. Sala: (406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE
ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia el dictada el 29 de agosto de 2022 y Enmendada el 22 de septiembre 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 12 de enero de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 13 de enero de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 26 DE ABRIL DE 2023
A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Ponce, Sala Superior, en 2150 Avenida Santiago de los Caballeros, Ponce, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: En caso de que el producto de la subasta sea insuficiente para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas a la parte demandante, se ordena la venta en pública subasta de cualesquiera otros bienes de la parte demandada hasta que cualquier parte insatisfecha de la sentencia sea totalmente cubierta. La propiedad hipotecada a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue URBANA: Solar marcado con el Número Quince (15) del bloque A en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Jardines del Caribe, Quinta Etapa, radicada en el Barrio Canas del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de 359.065 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 27.471 metros con el Solar Número Catorce (14) bloque A; por el SUR, en 27.768 metros con el Solar Número Dieciséis (16) del bloque A; por el ESTE, en 13.00 metros con la Calle Número Uno (1); y por el OESTE, en 13.00 metros con una servidumbre pluvial. Sobre este solar se ha construido una casa de concreto para ser utilizada como residencia familiar. Inscrita al folio 212 del tomo 532 de Ponce Sur, Finca 297. Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 40 vuelto del tomo 1127 de Ponce Sur, Finca 297. Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. Inscripción decimotercera. (13ra). La modificación de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 41 vuelto del tomo 1127 de Ponce Sur, Finca 297. Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. Inscripción decimoquinta. (15ta). URB. REPARTO VALENCIA, JARDINES DEL CARIBE, 15A CALLE 1, PONCE, PR 00730. Número de Catastro: 63-364-094-561-15-039. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $112,585.51. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA,
el día 3 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $75,057.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 10 DE MAYO DE 2023 LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $56,292.75. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $$123,009.88 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 8.24% anual desde el 11 de noviembre de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $1,202.69 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $10,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico como Vs José Alberto Batiz Centeno también conocido como José A. Batiz (soltero), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el Caso Civil Número PO2022CV00617, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $123,009.88 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 14 de marzo de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Ponce. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio-
res y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de enero de 2023. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESION DE PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERIZ T/C/C PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERIS T/C/C PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERYS Y LA SUCESION DE CRUCITA RENTAS PACHECO AMBAS COMPUESTAS POR FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES; SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO
Demandados
Civil Núm.: TA2023CV00046. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE JOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S.
A: SUCESION DE PORFIRIO QUIÑONES
NERIZ T/C/C PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERIS T/C/C PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERYS Y LA SUCESION
contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante
son:
Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero
T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074
TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC
1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100 Boca Raton, FL 33432 Tel. 877-338-4101 / Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppllc.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 15 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO-
LINA
WILMINGTON SAVINGS
FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIAN A TRUST, AS INDENTURE
TRUSTEE, FOR THE CSMC 2015-PR1 TRUST, MORTGAGE-BACKED
NOTES, SERIES 2015-PR1
Demandante V. PLÁCIDO ALBERTO
ACEVEDO BURCKHART, MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES, BIANCHI ORTÍZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: LO2023CV00003.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S.
A: MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES, BIANCHI ORTÍZ, POR SÍ Y COMO REPRESENTANTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLA Y PLÁCIDO ALBERTO
ACEVEDO BURCKHART. Queden emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto y deberá presentar su alega-
ción responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual podrá acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante
son:
Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero
T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074
TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC
1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100 Boca Raton, FL 33432
Tel. 877-338-4101 /
Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppllc.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 15 de febrero de 2023. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LUIS A. CORDERO VALENTÍN, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado(a)
Civil: AG2022CV00538. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: LUIS A. CORDERO VALENTÍN, FULANA DE TAL Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS. DIRECCIÓN
FISICA: BO. CUCHILLAS, CARR. 4444 KM. 2.3, MOCA PR 00676.
DIRECCION POSTAL: HC 05 BOX 10271, MOCA PR 00676. P/C LIC. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA. PO BOX 2342, MAYAGÜEZ PR 00681-2342.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el
16 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de febrero de 2023. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 17 de febrero de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ZUHEILY GONZÁLEZ AVILÉS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN LORENZO EN CAGUAS - SUPERIOR LIMITADO
ESTRELLA
HOMES III, LLC Vs ELEUTICE MARTINEZ, ZAIDA ENID
Caso: E2CI201400236. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.
A: ZAIDA ENID ELEUTICE MARTINEZ. EL SECRETARIO(A) QUE
SUSCRIBE LE NOTIFICA A USTED QUE EL 17 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, ESTE TRIBUNAL HA DICTADO SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA
PARCIAL O RESOLUCIÓN EN ESTE CASO, QUE HA SIDO DEBIDAMENTE REGISTRADA Y ARCHIVADA EN AUTOS DONDE PODRÁ USTED ENTERARSE DETALLADAMENTE DE LOS TÉRMINOS DE LA MISMA. ESTA NOTIFICACIÓN SE PUBLICARÁ UNA SOLA VEZ EN UN PERIÓDICO DE CIRCULACIÓN GENERAL EN LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO, DENTRO DE LOS 10 DÍAS SIGUIENTES A SU NOTIFICACIÓN. Y, SIENDO O REPRESENTANDO USTED UNA PARTE EN EL PROCEDIMIENTO SUJETA A LOS TÉRMINOS DE LA SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCIÓN, DE LA CUAL PUEDE ESTABLECERSE RECURSO DE REVISIÓN O APELACIÓN DENTRO
DEL TÉRMINO DE 30 DÍAS CONTADOS A PARTIR DE LA PUBLICACIÓN POR EDICTO DE ESTA NOTIFICACIÓN, DIRIJO A USTED ESTA NOTIFICACIÓN QUE SE CONSIDERARÁ HECHA EN LA FECHA DE LA PUBLICACIÓN DE ESTE EDICTO. COPIA DE ESTA NOTIFICACIÓN HA SIDO ARCHIVADA EN LOS AUTOS DE ESTE CASO, CON FECHA DE 17 DE FEBRERO DE 2023. LIC. LATIMER VALENTÍN, ROBERTO CARLOS. LATIMERRC@LBRGLAW. COM. EN CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO, EL 17 DE FEBRERO DE 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Sala Superior de CAROLINA SUCESION DE FRANCISCO J. PRINCIPE PEREIRA Y OTROS Demandante V. SUCESION DE KAREM YELISSA PRINCIPE RODRIGUEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Civil: TJ2021CV00410. Sala: 403. Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: WILLIAM MIRANDA GARCIA POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DEL MENOR URIEL FRANCISCO MIRANDA PRINCIPE.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de febrero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de febrero de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 17 de febrero de 2023. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA.
LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS YADALISS ORTIZ OCASIO
Demandante Vs. JAQUELINE RIVERA
GÓMEZ Y OTROS
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV03599. Sobre: DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte Demandada: VERÓNICA LOMELI VELÁZQUEZ, A SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: 14873 HUNTCLIFF PARKWAY, ORLANDO, F.L. 32824. JAQUELINE RIVERA GÓMEZ, POR SÍ Y COMO PARTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON FULANO DE TAL, A SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: CALLE LOMBARDÍA, L-3, CASA BELLA, NAGUABO, P.R. 00718.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre daños y perjuicios por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted incurrió en negligencia y provocó un accidente, causándole daños físicos y angustias mentales a la demandante. Además, se le reclaman las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, 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/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. 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. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a: LCDO. FRANCISCO J. TORRES DIAZ
RUA número 10,809
P.O. Box 874 Caguas, P.R. 00726-0874
Tel. (787) 258-4500
Fax y Tel (787) 745-0082 ftorresdiaz@gmail.com
Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de febrero de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JESSENIA PEDRAZA ANDINO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
607-609 CONDADO ST., LLC.
Demandante, V. EQUIFIRM SERVICES COLLECTION AGENCY, INC.
Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01190. (803). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.
A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 18 de julio de 2022, Enmendada el 8 de agosto de 2022 y notificada el 10 de agosto de 2022, una Orden de Ejecución de Embargo emitida el 31 de enero de 2023 y Enmendada el 8 de febrero de 2023; y un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Embargo emitido el día 15 de febrero de 2023, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, procederá a vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, y/o giro postal, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 30 de marzo del año 2023 a las 11:00 de la mañana, 11:05 de la mañana, 11:10 de la mañana, 11:15 de la mañana, 11:20 de la mañana y 11:25 de la mañana, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: A. Condominio Condado 609, oficina #401.
URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Oficina #401. Colinda por el OESTE, con aproximadamente 12’ 4”, con la pared exterior del edificio hacia la Avenida Condado; por su fondo ESTE, en igual medida, con la pared interior que lo separa del espacio común dedicado para pasillo; por el NORTE, en 21’, con pa-
red exterior del edificio hacia la colindancia con propiedad de Rafael Matos; y por el SUR, en igual medida, con la pared exterior que la separa de la oficina #402. Cubre un área de 260 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, equivalentes a 24.16 metros cuadrados y tiene su puerta de entrada y salida hacia el Este por el pasillo común con el cual colinda por ese lado. El local descrito forma parte del cuarto piso del edificio denominado “Condominio Condado”. Porcentaje en los elementos comunes del edificio de 0.0098%. FINCA NÚMERO: 4942, inscrita al folio 155 del tomo 153 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan. Dirección física: 609 Condado St., Suite 401, San Juan PR 00907. B. Condominio Condado 609, Oficina #402. URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Oficina #402. Colinda por el OESTE, en 12’ 4”, con la pared exterior del edificio hacia la Avenida Condado; por su fondo ESTE, en igual medida, con la pared interior que lo separa del espacio común; por el NORTE, en 21’, con pared interior del edificio que lo separa de la oficina #401; y por el SUR, en igual medida, con la pared exterior que la separa de la oficina #403. Cubre un área de 260 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, y tiene su puerta de entrada y salida hacia el Este por el pasillo común con el cual colinda por ese lado. El local descrito forma parte del cuarto piso del edificio denominado “Condominio Condado”. Porcentaje en los elementos comunes del edificio de 0.0098%. FINCA
NÚMERO: 4871, inscrita al folio 16 del tomo 151 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan. Dirección física: 609 Condado St., Suite 402, San Juan PR 00907. C. Condominio Condado 609, Oficina #403. URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Oficina #403. Colinda por el frente, OESTE, en 13’, con la pared exterior del edificio hacia la Avenida Condado; por su fondo ESTE, en igual medida, con pasillo común; por el NORTE, en 21’, con pared interior del edificio que lo separa de la oficina #402; y por el SUR, en igual medida, con la pared exterior que la separa de la oficina #404. Comprende un área de 273 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, y tiene su puerta de entrada y salida hacia el Este por el pasillo común con el cual colinda por ese lado. El local descrito forma parte del cuarto piso del edificio denominado “Condominio Condado”. Porcentaje en los elementos comunes del edificio de 0.01%.
FINCA NÚMERO: 4870, inscrita al folio 8 del tomo 151 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan.
Dirección física: 609 Condado
St., Suite 403, San Juan PR 00907. D. Condominio Condado 609, Oficina #404. URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Oficina #404. Colinda por el OESTE, en 35’ 8”, con la pared exterior del edificio hacia la Avenida Condado; porel ESTE, en igual medida, con pared interior que lo separa de la oficina #405 y con pasillo común; por el NORTE, en 20’, con pared que lo separa de la oficina #403; y por el SUR, en 14’, con la pared exterior del edificio hacia su colindancia con la calle denominada “Rolan”. Comprende un área de 546 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, y tiene su puerta de entrada y salida hacia el Este por el pasillo común con el cual colinda por ese lado. El local descrito forma parte del cuarto piso del edificio denominado “Condominio Condado”. Porcentaje en los elementos comunes del edificio de 0.01%. FINCA NÚMERO: 4925, inscrita al folio 83 del tomo 153 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan. Dirección física: 609 Condado St., Suite 404, San Juan PR 00907. E. Condominio Condado 609, Oficina #411. URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Oficina #411. Colinda por el NORTE, en 21’, con pared exterior que separa de la colindancia de Rafael Matos; por el SUR, en igual medida, con pared interior que lo separa de la oficina #410; por el ESTE, en 12’ 4”, con pared exterior hacia el patio del edificio; y por el OESTE, en igual medida, con pared interior que separa del pasillo común hacia cuyo lado tiene su entra ay salida. Comprende un área de 260 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente. La oficina descrita forma parte del cuarto piso del edificio denominado “Condominio Condado”. Porcentaje en los elementos comunes del edificio de 0.0098%. FINCA NÚMERO: 4877, inscrita al folio 63 del tomo 151 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan. Dirección física: 609 Condado St., Suite 411, San Juan PR 00907. F. Condominio 609, Unidad #2. URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Espacio #2: Radica en el primer piso del edificio conocido por Condominio Condado 609. Tiene un área aproximada de 171 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 15.89 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE y por el SUR, en 9 pies 6 pulgadas más o menos, con los espacios #12 y 14 y con la calle Rolan, respectivamente; por el ESTE y por el OESTE, en 18 pies y en 18 pies 6 pulgadas más o menos, con los espacios #3 y 1 y con la Avenida Condado, respectivamente. Tiene su entrada y salida al edificio por la calle Rolan. Derecho exclusivo al espacio y a una participación con los demás titulares en los elementos comunes de la finca matriz,
equivalente al porcentaje o porcentajes que se expresa en la citada inscripción de ducha finca matriz, el cual derecho se regirá por las disposiciones de la ley por el Reglamento Administrativo del Condominio. FIN-
CA NÚMERO: 5093, inscrita al folio 201 del tomo 160 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan.
Dirección física: 609 Condado St., Espacio 2, San Juan PR 00907. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente, según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por la suma total de $58,793.96 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento vencidas y no pagadas, más intereses, penalidades y recargos que se continúen acumulando, más las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Esta subasta no tiene fijación de tipo mínimo por tratarse de una ejecución de sentencia por embargo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 16 de febrero de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE MANATÍ
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
SUCESIÓN DE JOAQUÍN
ADORNO RODRÍGUEZ
COMPUESTA POR
JOAQUÍN, MELBA Y HARRY, TODOS ELLOS DE APELLIDOS ADORNO
CRUZ; LYDIA ESTHER CRUZ VÁZQUEZ T/C/C
LIDIA ESTHER CRUZ
VÁZQUEZ T/C/C LYDIA E. CRUZ VÁZQUEZ, POR SÍ
Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO
Demandado(a)
Civil: BC2022CV00065. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOAQUÍN, MELBA Y HARRY, TODOS ELLOS DE APELLIDOS ADORNO
CRUZ, Y A FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOAQUÍN ADORNO RODRÍGUEZ - 5 CALLE RÍO HUMACAO, BRISAS DE TORTUGUERO, VEGA
BAJA, PR 00693-9868
Y G-2, 5 ST., ISLA DE ROQUE ESTATES DEV., BARCELONETA, PR 00617.
(Nombre de las parles a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de febrero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de febrero de 2023. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA.
CARMEN J. ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Demandante V.
AUREA NYDIA LUGO
PIÑEIRO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO
AUREA LUGO DE VIDAL POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE JORGE VIDAL ARROYO
COMPUESTA ADEMÁS
POR JORGE VIDAL CRUZ; JOEL VIDAL CRUZ; MIGUEL VIDAL CRUZ Y JORGE VIDAL LUGO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandado(a) Civil: BC2022CV00112. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: AUREA NYDIA LUGO PIÑEIRO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO AUREA LUGO DE VIDAL POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE JORGE VIDAL ARROYO COMPUESTA ADEMÁS POR JORGE VIDAL CRUZ; JOEL VIDAL CRUZ; MIGUEL VIDAL CRUZ Y JORGE VIDAL LUGO.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de febrero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de febrero de 2023. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. SARAY SALGADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
FANNIE MAE
Demandante V. LILLIANA RAMOS COLLADO
Demandada
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV06372. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada LILLIANA RAMOS COLLADO y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 23 de enero de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $195,000.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: SOLAR #19, BLQ. M, URB. UNIVERSITY GARDENS, BO. HATO REY SUR, SAN JUAN, PR 00927, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #19 en el bloque M del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización University Gardens, radicado en el Barrio Hato Rey Sur del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 512.64 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el Noroeste en 24. 524 metros con el solar #18 del bloque M; por el Sureste en 21.534 metros, con el solar #20 del bloque M; por el Noreste en 26.236 metros con la Urbanización Hyde Park, y por el Suroeste en 19.942 metros con la calle #2A. Finca 19400 inscrita al folio 222 del tomo 1097 de Río Piedras Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes:
(i) Hipoteca constituida por Lilliana Ramos Collado, soltera, en garantía de un pagare, affidavit 1974, a favor de Oriental Bank & Trust, o a su orden, por $195,000.00, al 6%, vencedero el 1 de septiembre de 2036, según Esc. #420, en San Juan, a 31 de agosto de 2006, ante Wilson A. Galarza Galarza, inscrita al folio 37 del tomo 1494 de Río Piedras Norte, finca #19400, inscripción 16ta. y última, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. 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 dicta el 8 de noviembre de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada
pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $163,260.06 de principal, más $4,680.12 de intereses, al 6.00% anual, que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total, $161.84 de escrow balance, $823.91 de cargos por atrasos, $853.55 otros cargos, $19,500.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 27 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $195,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 3 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 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, $130,000.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 11 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $97,500.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a 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 los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá 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 de-
rechos 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 15 de febrero de 2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.
LEGAL NOT ICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE
ASSOCIATION T/C/C
FANNIE MAE
Demandante V. RICARDO MIGUEL
FRANCIA MAVILA, MILLIE
PEREZ RIVERA Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
POR ESTOS COMPUESTA
Demandada
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02881.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera
Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada RICARDO MIGUEL FRANCIA MAVILA, MILLIE PEREZ RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR ESTOS COMPUESTA y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 20 de enero de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $79,600.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: CONDOMINIO ALTAMESA GARDENS, APT C-21, AVE. SAN ALFONSO 1, SAN JUAN, PR 00921, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento Altamesa Gardens: Apartment C-21 is located on the third floor of building number 3, which is located in the Western part of the property. It consists of an irregular rectangular shaped body, measuring approximately 31’ ½”long by 24’ O” wide, that in an area of 710.00 square feet, and 66.300 square meters of another. Bounding by the North with a party wall which separates it from apartment C-22 and with the interior wall which separates it from the Northwest, stairways of the rectangular section, located on the extreme south of the long leg of the “L” which forms building number 3 to which the entrance door of the apartment opens and which leads to the public way, by the South, with the party wall which separates it from apartment C-16, by the East, with the exterior wall which separates it from the common yard on the East side of the building, by the West, with the exterior wall which separates it from the common yard on the West, side of the building . This apartment consists of a combination living room, dining room, a kitchen equipped with a unit cabinet in General Electric Rage Model JM Seventy One with counter and a thirty gallon capacity water heater, a bathroom and two bedrooms. The percent in the element common is .916%.
Finca 21849 inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 675 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 por Ricardo Miguel Francia Mavila y su esposa Millie Perez Rivera, en garantía de un pagaré, aff. #2896, a favor de Oriental Bank, o a su orden, por $79,600.00 al 3.50%, vencedero el 1 de agosto de 2030, según Esc. #370 en San Juan a 28 de julio de 2015 ante Jose R. Marchand Planel, inscrita al folio 177 def tomo 1099 de Monacillos finca #21849
inscripción 8va. 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 dicta el 15 de julio de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $59,534.19 de principal, más $4,288.94 de interés al 3.50% anual al 22 de marzo de 2022, que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total, $636.04 de cuenta escrow, $654.35 de cargos por atraso, $12.48 de otros cargos, $7,960.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 27 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $79,600.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 3 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $53,066.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 11 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $39,800.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a 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 los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y
Jayson Tatum made no guarantees for the second half of the Boston Celtics’ season but of one thing he was certain.
“Have we gotten better from last year?” Tatum told reporters during the NBA’s All-Star Weekend in Salt Lake City. “Yeah, a lot better.”
Tatum had every reason to be brimming with confidence. His stock has never been higher — as signified by the reveal of his own signature shoe this week. In the basketball world, this is an indication that Tatum has graduated from NBA star to NBA star. He would go on to win the Most Valuable Player Award in the charade known as the AllStar Game, a cherry on top of the already MVP-caliber season he is having.
He is also the best player on the best team in the NBA, with the weight of championship expectations on his shoulders and those of his fellow AllStar and teammate Jaylen Brown. This would be an enviable position for most teams. But the pressure is exponentially higher in a city home to a ravenous fan base and a franchise with a long history of winning championships.
When asked about the Celtics operating as an established power rather than an underdog, Tatum had already consulted the Pro Athlete Cliche Handbook.
“No pressure,” Tatum said. “We feel like we’ve been, if not the best, one of the best teams all season. The goal has always been the same: win a championship. So, you know, just do the right things. Don’t skip any steps. Take it one day at a time.”
For Boston’s remaining 23 regularseason games and a presumed deep playoff run, the scrutiny will be much higher than that placed on last year’s young, upstart team. The Celtics (42-17) have the burden of having lots of ways to fail and only one way to be considered a success.
“Our environment will change,” Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said in a news conference. “And so we have to
make sure we don’t.”
Last week, Mazzulla had the interim tag removed from his title. He had been thrust into the role right before training camp when last year’s coach, Ime Udoka, was suspended for unspecified violations of team policies. The suspension came as a shock since the Celtics were an ascendant franchise coming off a finals run in a league where continuity is at a premium. Almost as surprising was that Brad Stevens, the team’s president of basketball operations and Udoka’s predecessor, handed the keys to Mazzulla, who had been a Celtics assistant for three years but never an NBA head coach.
All Mazzulla had to do was lead the Celtics to a championship. No training wheels. No emotional victories. Just victories.
His presence created an odd and unusual dynamic. For much of the season, Udoka was still technically slated to come back in 2023-24 regardless of how Mazzulla did. But Mazzulla got the Celtics off to a blistering 18-4 start, quieting questions about whether his lack of experience would hinder an
elite team. Eventually, the Celtics rewarded Mazzulla with what might be considered gold in NBA coaching: security.
“The East is terrific. Obviously, the West is loaded up,” Stevens said on a conference call last week. “It’s going to be really hard to win.” He added that it would be hard to coach while “looking behind you and looking over your shoulder.”
Mazzulla may not be looking over his shoulder anymore, but the Celtics should be because teams are gaining on them. Since the hot start, the team has looked merely above average at 23-13, rather than world beating. They’re now only a half-game ahead of the Milwaukee Bucks (41-17) for the NBA’s best record and the East’s top seed. Mazzulla has been criticized for not calling timeouts at crucial junctures in games. Over the past 15 games, the Celtics have had a below-average offense. During the 18-4 stretch to start the season, the Celtics had not just the best offense in the NBA, but one of the best offenses in league history. The good news for Boston is that its defense has steadily im -
proved while its offense has declined.
The Celtics should receive a boost after the All-Star break, in the great gift of health. The starting lineup that took the team deep in last year’s playoffs — Tatum, Brown, Marcus Smart, Al Horford and Robert Williams III — has played only 29 minutes together this season. That unit is expected to be at full strength for the last stretch of the season.
But even with injuries, the team is deep enough to contend. Derrick White, the sixth-year guard, has been a revelation during his first full season in Boston. In eight February games stepping in for the injured Smart, White averaged 21.1 points, 5.0 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game. Malcolm Brogdon, whom the Celtics acquired in an offseason trade with Indiana, has been a reliable contributor and one of the best 3-point shooters in the league. Brogdon and White would likely be starters on most NBA teams. That the Celtics expect to use them as reserves is a luxury. In one of their last games before the All-Star break, the Celtics nearly knocked off the Bucks on the road despite missing almost all their top players.
The talent is there for the Celtics to win the championship. They are loaded with playmakers, elite shooting and top-notch defenders who can play multiple positions. They can counter Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid and Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo with a steady rotation of mobile forwards, including Horford. Their division-rival Brooklyn Nets imploded at the deadline and traded away their remaining stars, sending Kyrie Irving to Dallas and Kevin Durant to Phoenix.
But lots of teams enter the playoffs with talent, as Boston did last year. Now the Celtics, as Brown noted, should be better prepared for a grueling playoff run after last year’s finals against Golden State, when the team made sloppy, uncharacteristic mistakes and lost the series in six games.
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“I think this year we got a little bit more experience,” Brown told reporters. “So I think that will carry over into the finals.”
Anecdotal evidence suggests continuity and experience are crucial for NBA teams to win championships, and that playoff failures are necessary steppingstones to immortality.
Michael Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls suffered through the Bad Boys Detroit Pistons teams before starting their reign. Ditto the Miami Heat, who lost deep in previous playoffs before winning their championships in 2006 and 2012. It’s extremely rare for young teams to win championships, though Magic Johnson was a crucial part of the Los Angeles Lakers championship run during his rookie
season in 1980 and Tim Duncan led the San Antonio Spurs to a ring in 1999 in his second.
Some teams never quite get there, even with experience and talent — like LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers in the late 2000s. The jury is still out on the Phoenix Suns, who lost in the second round last year after coming within two games of winning the 2021 championship.
This is the Celtics’ best chance to win a championship since 2008, their last title run. If they don’t raise the trophy this season, or at least make the finals, they won’t be able to say it’s because of a lack of talent or experience. It’ll be something intangible.
Being in that place means the franchise must meet lofty ambitions. But it’s better than not having them at all.
It could be argued that Aaron Judge capitalized on a breakout season more than any other player in major league history. Judge turned down a $213.5 million contract extension with the New York Yankees just before the 2022 season began and proceeded to hit 62 home runs, win the American League’s Most Valuable Player Award, sign a nine-year, $360 million contract to stay in New York and be named the team’s 16th captain.
The big question is what comes next. Judge, who set career highs in numerous categories last season, is not ruling out another run at 62 home runs.
“You never know,” Judge told reporters after the Yankees’ first full-squad workout Monday. “I don’t really like putting a number on it. I just kind of like going out there and trying to control what I can control,
but you never know what could happen. So we’ll see about 62.”
Judge said it was fun “chasing history,” and while he is no stranger to defying expectations, getting to that level again would involve breaking all precedent. In baseball’s history of 60-homer seasons, there has been one constant: decline.
Babe Ruth hit 60 homers for the 1927 Yankees and followed with 54 in 1928. Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961 and had 33 in 1962. Then came the triumvirate of tainted sluggers, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds, who managed to combine for six seasons of 60 or more homers in a fouryear span. But each saw his home run total decline in the year after the season with 60 or more.
In all, the eight 60-homer seasons before Judge have resulted in an average decline the next season of 16.3 home runs, which is hardly surprising considering their
anomalous nature in baseball history.
The steepest of the drops came from McGwire, who hit 70 in 1998 and 65 in 1999 but dropped to 32 in 2000 because of health issues. Maris’ 28-homer decline from 1961 to 1962 was the second largest of the group, while Bonds’ total dropped by 27 after his record-setting 73-homer season in 2001, mostly because opposing pitchers gave him few quality pitches to hit.
The smallest decline was recorded by Sosa, who hit 66 in 1998 and came back with 63 in 1999. He dropped to 50 in 2000 but was back to 64 in 2001, making him the only player with three 60-homer seasons.
Whether Judge can break the streak of constant decline will come down to multiple factors, including his health and how opposing teams pitch to him.
Judge has long had a reputation for injury issues, and his height and weight for a position player have led to questions about whether there is such a thing as being too big for baseball. But after missing significant parts of three consecutive seasons from 2018 to 2020, he has been a rock for the Yankees for the past two. He played in 305 of the team’s 324 games and piled up 1,329 plate appearances, which ranks 12th among major leaguers in that span. He even increased his versatility, starting 74 games in center field in 2022 after having spent a vast majority of his career before then as the team’s starting right fielder.
If Judge stays healthy and shows the power and pitch recognition he did in 2022, the question will be whether teams will keep pitching to him.
Down the stretch, as the Yankees near-
ly gave up an enormous division lead over the Tampa Bay Rays, Judge often felt like a one-man offense. Regardless, he continued to see pitches to hit for the most part, with his .380 batting average from Sept. 1 forward representing his best stretch of the year in that regard. But pitchers clearly started to work around him once he got to 60 home runs, and he proceeded to draw 18 walks and hit only two home runs over his final 14 games.
He then slumped in the playoffs, going 5 for 36 in nine games with two homers and 15 strikeouts.
A short slump after six months of domination is hardly anything to worry about, but teams forcing other Yankees batters to beat them, as they did in those final weeks of the season and as they did with the Giants and Bonds in the years after his 73-homer outburst, could make it hard for Judge to drive balls in bulk. That would make another run at 60 home runs nearly impossible, as the rare feat requires a combination of opportunity, consistency and success that few players have ever approached, let alone seen in consecutive seasons.
For Judge, in his first season as the team captain, a decline in his own production would be mitigated by the team doing the one thing it has yet to accomplish in his career: win a World Series.
“It bothers me, and I think it bothers the group as well,” Judge said of the Yankees having not won a championship since 2009. “Every year we don’t finish what we started, it wears on us in different ways. I think every failure pushes you toward that ultimate goal.”
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Answers on page 38
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
There’s a scintillating quality in the air, so you may be eager to learn new things, whether local news, gossip or a secret or two. There are many possibilities open to you, but you’ll be looking for something that can take you in a new direction. While other factors might encourage you to be sensible, your instinct is to aim high and open yourself up to bigger and better opportunities.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
You’re in a creative phase. The current Mercury/ Mars tie can add to this, inspiring you to put your time and resources into options that will bring in more money. You may be guided by a coincidence or an intuitive nudge to try something different, and it might work out better than you imagined. Don’t chop and change, Taurus. For best results, pick one idea and stick with it.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
With Mars in your sign for a while now, you’ve uncovered and discovered many things. Your restless qualities keep you on your toes, especially with Mercury your guide planet in the mix. New people, ideas and opportunities will capture your attention, and you’ll want to follow them up, Gemini. One lively opportunity could be very worthwhile, if you’re ready to give it your all.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Need something to help you accomplish a goal or ambition? If things have been sluggish lately, then you’ll appreciate today’s sparkling blend of energies that could galvanize you into action. This prompt may show up as a gut instinct, vivid dream or a synchronous event. Something will capture your attention Cancer, and by following through you’ll be on the golden road to success.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Your feet may have barely touched the ground since fiery Mars has been in quicksilver Gemini. If so, this phase will continue for a while longer. And you’ll be ready to journey far, with both charming Venus and jubilant Jupiter putting you in touch with opportunities that could be everything you’ve hoped for. This is your chance to make the most of the buoyant times ahead.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
If you’ve kept to the same routine for some time now, this is an opportunity to let the winds of fate blow where they will. Various energies can inspire you to think out of the box and be curious about new ideas. This is one of the best times for networking, socializing and reaching out to those who are live wires, and who might encourage you to loosen up and try new things.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
You’ll be flying high, Libra. A sizzling focus on your sector of far horizons, encourages a leap into the unknown. And it looks like you won’t be doing this alone. You’ll enjoy the company of someone on your wavelength who will make a great companion on your adventure. It might even be someone from the past who reappears at just the right moment. Don’t miss this opportunity.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
There’s a way you can increase your income, and it comes from thinking outside the box and making use of your talents. If you have skills that are languishing but that could be used to enhance your security, a fortuitous blend of energies encourages you to do something about this. Inspiration or an offer that you can’t resist might also show up, so be ready to take a chance.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
You’re one sign that finds it easier to live for the day, and make the most of every experience. The current line-up might take this one step further, as you’ll think nothing of getting involved in grand adventures that take you way out of your comfort zone. While the Sun in a private zone can incline you to dream, you won’t want to rest for too long if you can try something new.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
It’s time to delve into the potential associated with new ideas and opportunities, rather than stick with the old ways. Something you’ve been working hard at could begin to show promise, even if it’s been a long time coming and involved a few challenges. New developments may also emerge that hint at the prospect of future growth. Keep going, don’t stop now, Capricorn!
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
Even if you do find yourself temporarily stuck due to Mercury’s angle with Uranus, the coming days can lift you up and give you a fresh perspective, Aquarius. There may be some things you can’t change, but there is plenty you can do to make life sizzle again. One of these might involve collaborating with someone on an idea that could take things to the next level, and very soon.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
If you’re sorting out your home, this might mean making purchases that will help you get things in order. As Mercury aligns with Mars, this is a good time to declutter and to be quite ruthless about getting rid of old junk. Fresh and revitalizing energies will flow through your property, and whatever you buy will then reflect your imaginative ideas and future intentions, Pisces.
