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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, along with Transportation and Public Works (DTOP by its Spanish acronym) Secretary Eileen Vélez Vega and Integrated Transportation Authority (ATI) Executive Director Josué Menéndez Agosto, announced the start of construction of a new $41.7 million ferry terminal in Ceiba on Monday.

“Since this four-year term began, I have been firm in my commitment to the people of Vieques and Culebra to improve their quality of life, expedite reconstruction projects, promote their sustainable economic development, and ensure the maritime transportation services that they deserve between the island municipalities and the big island,” the governor said.

“Today, we begin a large project to construct a new boat terminal in Ceiba that will provide a comfortable, attractive, and efficient experience for the residents of Vieques and Culebra who come to the big island, as well as for the thousands of visitors and tourists who travel to the island municipalities,” added Pierluisi, who was accompanied by the mayors of Vieques and Culebra, José Corcino Acevedo and Edilberto Romero Llovet, respectively; as well Ceiba Mayor Samuel Rivera Báez and Fajardo Mayor José Aníbal Meléndez.

Joel Pizá Batiz, the executive director of the Roosevelt Roads Local Redevelopment Authority Board, was also present at the groundbreaking.

Vélez Vega stated that “for us at the DTOP, this project is significant, since we are providing improvements in

maritime transportation and quality of life to residents of the island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra, as well as their visitors.”

“Ceiba will have first-rate facilities, with a design [that emphasizes] resilience and service, thus offering the comforts and security that all users deserve,” she said.

The permanent construction project will have two main structures: a terminal and a multi-story parking lot, a covered arrival area with patios, and a ground-level parking lot. The passenger terminal building will be a three-story concrete structure of over 28,000 square feet, which will be elevated by about four feet to prevent possible flooding and protect it from damage in an emergency.

The permanent construction project in Ceiba will have an elevated, three-story ferry terminal and a multi-story parking facility, a covered arrival area with patios, and a ground-level parking lot. (Gov. Pedro Pierluisi/Facebook)

Inspection centers will no longer be able to impose additional charges

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ransportation and Public Works (DTOP) Secretary Eileen Vélez Vega said Monday that the new regulations for automobile inspection centers do not allow additional charging for services related to the motor vehicle inspection process.

“What was done with Regulation 9526, which is the Inspection Centers regulation, is that it was brought into line with Law 22 (on Traffic),” Vélez Vega said in response to questions from the press. “Law 22 since 2000 has established that the cost of inspection is $12 to $20. That had not been implemented; we worked with the inspection centers, the regulations were made, it was published so that people could have citizen participation -- all this has to be worked out with the citizens -- that was done in December. So now, the inspection center [gets], according to the law, from $12 to $20 for the inspection cost.”

“What was also done in that regulation was that now the

inspection center is not allowed to charge for other services such as, for example, accessing the CESCO Digital portal, printing the person’s zero fines [document], or accessing and sending things by email and charging you for using a credit card, because all these costs were exceeding $20 dollars, and what the law says is 12 to 20 dollars …”

The official noted that the criterion for establishing the cost, whether it is $12 or $20, “is established by the inspection center.”

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia stated that it will be up to the citizen to choose which inspection center is least expensive.

“Well, each center is going to announce what it is charging for the service; that’s how it is,” the governor said.

“The establishment has to know how much it is going to charge,” Vélez Vega added.

“Exactly, and no one is obliged to go to a particular center,” Pierliuisi said. “So, what has been done is that it is being standardized; that is, now there is only one position, there can only be one position.”

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Urban Train to receive $13.2 million federal injection

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esident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón announced Monday that the Public Transportation Emergency Relief Program Grant awarded Puerto Rico $13.2 million for the Urban Train and the Municipality of Arroyo.

“It’s good to see how federal funds continue to flow directly to local agencies and municipalities so they can continue to move rebuilding efforts forward,” the resident commissioner said in a written statement. “In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, I fought to be on the T&I [Transportation and Infrastructure] Committee precisely because I knew that most of the discussion about rebuilding critical infrastructure would originate here. In every hearing, in every piece of legislation in this Committee and in the House as

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón

a whole, I make it a point to ensure that Puerto Rico is included. I commend the ACT [the Spanish initials for the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority] and the Municipality of Arroyo for maximizing the resources available and applying for the grants available through this program.”

From the item, the ACT will receive $13.2 million for the Urban Train emergency system.

The Municipality of Arroyo, meanwhile, will receive $6,769 for the maintenance of a municipal parking lot.

Funding comes from the Federal Transportation Administration under the fiscal year 2023 Emergency Grant Opportunities for Public Transit Systems Impacted by Major Disasters Declared in Calendar Years 2017 and 2020 through 2022.

Residents urged to take precautions ahead of expected ‘significant’ rain & winds

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he National Weather Service (NWS) announced Monday that a significant rainfall and strong gusty winds is expected this week caused by a trough that would mostly affect the southern, inland and eastern parts of Puerto Rico.

“The NWS forecast is that between Tuesday and Wednesday, we could see rainfall accumulation of between two and four

inches, and up to six inches in some sectors, so we call on citizens not to cross flooded roads, take precautions if you live in flood areas, and it is not the time to visit rivers or beaches,” said Emergency Management and Disaster Administration Bureau (NMEAD by its Spanish acronym) Commissioner Nino Correa Filomeno in a written statement. “We must be aware of the weather conditions and avoid misfortunes.”

Ernesto Morales, a meteorologist and

warnings coordinator at the NWS, added that the event could increase the risk of urban and flash flooding, as well as river floods and landslides.

“Citizens have to be attentive to the development of this atmospheric system, since in the worst case, this event could bring significant rainfall across the Caribbean region and dangerous maritime conditions,” Morales said.

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Ríos and Correa Filomeno noted that the DSP bureaus and the NMEAD operational zones have been activated in order to respond to any eventuality. NMEAD maintains constant communication with all municipal emergency management offices on the island, along with municipal police and the U.S. Coast Guard.

More information can be found by accessing NMEAD’s social networks. To report any emergency, call or text 9-1-1 to request assistance from the appropriate agencies.

Governor says judges’ salaries should be legislated

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Monday that he does not rule out introducing legislation to address the controversy over an increase in judges’ salaries.

“To avoid that kind of controversy in the future, that would be to address the issue again on the merits,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “I think that the ideal would be to legislate. I’m saying it and I’m reserving the right to introduce a bill aimed exclusively at making those increases

permanent and that this is established by a special law.”

“The increase was included in the budget based on the premise that it was going to be legislated,” Pierluisi added. “That’s my memory of it. And what happened? It was not legislated because it was blocked when at the House level they intended not only to attend to the increases of the judges, but also to add on the executive branch and the legislators themselves. There it gets stuck and although we will see where that case ends, I think that the best way to put an end to this controversy and so that the good name of the Supreme

Court is not tarnished, is to legislate.”

The governor said he regretted the statements of Speaker of the House of Representatives Rafael Hernández Montañez, who accused the judges of legislating a salary increase.

“That type of accusation is unfortunate because it is important that the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico be respected and that its objectivity is not questioned from day one,” Pierluisi said.

Last Friday, the Supreme Court did not grant the House of Representatives’ request in the case, Marrero Guerrero v. E.L.A.,

consolidated with the case of Puerto Rican Association of the Judiciary, Inc. v. House of Representatives.

The reason for the dismissal was because the House of Representatives failed to complete its appeal in time, as it failed to notify one of the parties to the case within the time period established for appeal as required by the applicable procedural rules. The trial court’s decision was issued on Nov. 17, 2023, while the House of Representatives filed its appeal on Jan. 12, without serving its brief on the Office of Courts Administration in a timely fashion.

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Housing lacks funds for more solar program vouchers

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he Housing Committee of the House of Representatives launched an investigation on Monday into the process followed by the island Housing Department to grant 6,000 vouchers through the New Energy Program so qualified citizens can buy solar panels.

The process was criticized because many citizens were unable to apply for the $30,000 vouchers.

Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez appeared at the public hearing chaired by Rep. Ángel Fourquet Cordero.

“Something that I always have as a priority, as an elected official, is to defend the rights of each citizen in each government sphere. This process undermined the trust of each constituent involved in it,” Fourquet Cordero said. “There were some conclusive rulings, and for me, the most dangerous thing is that there are strong allegations of irregularities. Given that, this public hearing is necessary so that the people of Puerto Rico hear first-hand and have the necessary peace of mind for future events.”

Rodríguez Rodríguez said the New Energy Program for installing solar panels sought to adjust to the needs of eligible families, considering critical medical needs.

“To give you an idea, in the first minute of opening the application process, we received around 45,000 people in waiting lines in our system,” the Housing chief said.

“We could only have the digital queue open for about five minutes.”

Likewise, Rodríguez Rodríguez clarified that to be eligible for the program, applicants must own or have an ownership interest in a single-family home that, in turn, is

Rep. Ángel Fourquet Cordero (Griselle Rosario) their primary residence and must also earn 80% or less of the median income.

“Regarding the distribution of program vouchers, Housing has granted 9,380 vouchers divided into two rounds and 604 installations have been completed among eligible cases,” he said. “In the second round, completed on January 31, even those distributed vouchers are in the

initial application phase to the program, so there is no data on completed cases.”

Likewise, Rodríguez Rodríguez confirmed that no more funds are expected to be allocated for a third round of voucher distribution for the installation of solar panels.

“Right now, we do not have any more funds in the New Energy Program for these purposes,” he said.

The Housing secretary also assured that around 400,000 families would have benefited if the agency had the necessary resources for the New Energy Program.

The program received a funding allocation of $350 million. Under program guidelines, eligible individuals would receive up to $30,000 in equipment and installation costs for renewable energy systems in a single-family structure.

“We, definitely, have to study and rethink for future occasions whether shopping centers are an alternative for carrying out these processes due to the situation that arose,” Rodríguez Rodríguez said. “However, we have to keep in mind that many in the population involved in these programs do not have the necessary skills to complete a process like this through digital media.”

“Even so, we must be realistic,” he added. “The need in our population exceeds the amount of funds and resources we have available and will surpass any strategy and mechanism we have at our disposal. Although we do not want it to be this way, we will always be forced by logic to leave hundreds of people out, but let there be no doubt that everything was carried out properly and the process was conducted in a transparent manner.”

Fourquet Cordero, meanwhile, asserted that the problem in the process was that the most “vulnerable” people were excluded without the right to receive help.

SEC confirms that it will not certify independent Senate candidate

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he State Elections Commission (SEC) confirmed Monday that it will not certify Eliezer Molina Pérez as an at-large senator running as an independent because he failed to turn over evidence or the certifications that he had documents required by the Electoral Code.

The information was provided by SEC Alternate Chairwoman Jessika Padilla Rivera.

“He will be notified that it was confirmed that he did not comply and that within the period given to him to present his evidence, he did not present it,” Padilla Rivera said.

Padilla Rivera said the notification must be made on Monday after SEC Secretary Rolando Cuevas returns from an official trip to El Salvador, where national elections were held on Sunday. Padilla Rivera added that the process will be conducted by email, which is the fastest way, followed by a phone call in which the applicant

will be informed about the decision.

Separately, Molina Pérez accused the SEC of corruption and denied claims that he had not turned over required documentation.

Likewise, he announced that his lawyer will be Juan Antonio Corretjer, while commenting that the decision of the SEC was expected, “because it is becoming customary for the SEC to be an impediment for people to aspire to public office, because if we look at what the Constitution of Puerto Rico stipulates, half of the documents that these people request are unconstitutional.”

Padilla Rivera noted that last week she issued a resolution granting Molina Pérez until Wednesday of last week to bring the evidence to the SEC. The SEC had examined the Senate hopefui’s file and found that he did not have certifications showing he had taken steps to obtain documents required by the Electoral Code.

Molina Pérez previously ran as an independent gubernatorial candidate in the 2020 elections, receiving about 8,000 votes.

State Elections Commission Alternate Chairwoman Jessika Padilla Rivera

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Cast as criminals, America’s librarians rally to their own defense

By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON

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uring 12 years as a youth librarian in northern Idaho, Denise Neujahr read to and befriended children of many backgrounds. Devout or atheist, gay or straight, all were welcome until a November evening in 2021, when about two dozen teens arriving at the Post Falls library for a meeting of the “Rainbow Squad” encountered a commotion at the entrance.

Members of a local church waved signs with images of hellfire and used a bullhorn to shout Bible verses and accusations about sin and pedophile “groomers” in the library. Parents had to escort the teens inside that night, and the library beefed up security. But the next month, police arrested a protester outside the doors who was carrying a knife and a loaded gun.

In May, religious conservatives won a majority on the library board and named as its chair a member who had called the Rainbow Squad a “sex club.” Neujahr, who created the group as a program of crafts, snacks and conversation for LGBTQ youth and their parents, said she was told the group’s funding was in danger. But she refused to disband it.

“They’re really good kids,” Neujahr said. “It just makes me so sad that they have to go through all this hate. This is not what libraries stand for.”

As America’s libraries have become noisy and sometimes dangerous new battlegrounds in the nation’s culture wars, librarians like Neujahr and their allies have moved from the stacks to the front lines. People who normally preside over hushed sanctuaries are now battling groups that demand the mass removal of books and seek to control library governance. Last year, more than 150 bills in 35 states aimed to restrict access to

library materials and to punish library workers who do not comply.

“We’re no longer seeing a parent have a conversation with a teacher or librarian about a book their child is reading,” said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. “We’re seeing partisan groups demand the removal of books that they’re told are bad books, that they are not even reading, because they don’t meet the political or moral agenda.”

The battles are being waged in places like Clinton, Tennessee, where a reluctant library ally, the local sheriff, spoke out against censorship. In Pella, Iowa, two women organized a successful campaign against a proposal to force the town library under city control. And in Idaho, after Neujahr received an award for her work with the Rainbow Squad, people threatened her life and posted her family members’ personal information online.

Sheriff Russell Barker had a problem. As the chief law enforcement officer for Anderson County in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, he had handled narcotics, assault and other criminal investigations — not the review of children’s books about sex and gender identity.

But this past year, after residents found what they said were more than a dozen pornographic titles in the county’s four libraries, local officials asked the sheriff to determine whether two of the targeted titles violated Tennessee’s obscenity law. If so, librarians, staff or board members — the sheriff told officials he didn’t know who — might be subject to arrest.

The two books given the sheriff for review were “Let’s Talk About It: A Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships and Being a Human” by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, and “Gender

Inside the Pella Public Library, the book “Gender Queer,” a 2019 graphic-novel-style memoir by Maia Kobabe that is the most-banned book in the U.S., in Pella, Iowa, Jan. 16, 2024.

As America’s libraries have become noisy and sometimes dangerous new battlegrounds in the nation’s culture wars, librarians and their allies have moved from the stacks to the front lines. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times) Queer,” a 2019 graphic-novel-style memoir by Maia Kobabe that is the most banned book in the United States.

“These books were brought to the county commission, and we had an obligation to act,” a county commissioner, Denise Palmer, said in a commission meeting last spring in the county seat, Clinton, a town of 10,000 about 15 miles from Knoxville.

In late March, more than 250 people packed the Clinton Community Center for a charged public meeting, recorded on video.

Jack Mansfield, a retired Oak Ridge police officer, shook his finger in fury at four county librarians at the front of the room. “You librarians, you’re providing this material; you can be arrested too!” he shouted.

Three weeks later, the county commissioners met to hear Barker’s findings.

He told the commissioners that he planned to follow library policy and file a request that the library restrict children’s access to the two books he had reviewed. He said that some of their content personally offended him, but neither violated state or federal law.

“For me, again, this is about freedom in the United States,” he added. “My caution would be, if we start removing those books, we could start an avalanche of everyone questioning anything that they disagree with. And we get into some

censorship issues that would be really outside the bounds of what our country is about.”

A county commissioner, Anthony Allen, disagreed. “When we try to segregate books that are so explicit that we want them segregated, they should not be in the library,” he told the sheriff. “Can you address that?”

“That’s a fair argument,” the sheriff replied.

But, he said, “what is explicit is subjective,” and “it is not government’s call to decide.”

The controversy in Pella, Iowa, began in the summer of 2021 when a youth identifying as male arrived at the aquatic center in trunks and a small covering over his torso, described as a chest binder by some and Band-Aids by others.

A rumor spread that the teen was swimming topless around children, stirring local alarm and angry posts to a Facebook page.

Two women stunned by the vitriol stepped in.

Anne Petrie, a retired music professor at Central College in Pella, and her neighbor Anne McCullough Kelly, a local mental health counselor, formed a Facebook group called “Coalition for an Inclusive Pella” as a countermessage. The two women were heavily outnumbered at City Council meetings, including one in which Michael Shover, the pastor of Christ the Redeemer Church in Pella, said that “the corrupting effects of sexual immorality are now descending upon our town.”

The fracas spawned a new group, Protect My Innocence, which in late 2021 began objecting to about 100 books from the municipal public library that it said contained pornographic and sexually explicit content, including “Gender Queer.”

In 2022, the library board denied Protect My Innocence’s request to remove “Gender Queer” from the adult section and make it available only if patrons asked for it. The group complained to the City Council, then turned to collecting signatures for a 2023 ballot referendum to place the library under the control of the City Council. That prompted Petrie and McCullough Kelly to create Vote NO to Save Our Library, a political action committee, with the help of EveryLibrary, a national advocacy group that fights censorship.

On Nov. 7, the vote to strip the Pella Public Library of its independence was 1,954 in favor, and 2,041 against. Just 87 voters defeated the resolution, ending a two-year battle over a book.

“Would I have liked the margin to be a little bigger? Yeah,” Petrie said. “But I was really, really gratified that the people of Pella said, ‘No, we don’t need this.’”

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Senators release border deal to unlock Ukraine aid, but fate remains uncertain

By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN

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enate Republicans and Democrats on Sunday unveiled a $118.3 billion compromise bill to crack down on unlawful migration across the U.S. border with Mexico and speed critical security aid to Ukraine, but the deal faces long odds in a Congress deeply divided over both issues.

The release of the agreement, struck after more than three months of near-daily talks among senators and Biden administration officials, counted as an improbable breakthrough on a policy matter that has bedeviled presidents of both parties and defied decades of efforts at compromise on Capitol Hill. President Joe Biden, who last month promised he would shut down the border immediately if the measure became law, implored Congress on Sunday to pass the bill and send it to his desk as soon as possible.

“If you believe, as I do, that we must secure the border now, doing nothing is not an option,” he said in a statement, adding that Republicans “have to decide. Do they want to solve the problem? Or do they want to keep playing politics with the border?”

The bill features some of the most significant border security restrictions Congress has contemplated in years. They include making it more difficult to claim asylum, vastly expanding detention capacity and effectively shutting down the border to new entrants if more than an average of 5,000 migrants per day try to cross over unlawfully in the course of a week, or more than 8,500 attempt to cross on any given day.

But Speaker Mike Johnson has already pronounced the bill “dead on arrival” in the Republican-controlled House. And with former President Donald Trump actively campaigning against the deal, it was not clear whether the measure could even make it out of the Democratic-led Senate, where it needs bipartisan backing to move forward.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., majority leader, said he planned to put the package to an initial vote Wednesday, in a critical test of its ability to survive.

“I know the overwhelming majority of senators want to get this done, and it will take bipartisan cooperation to move quickly,” Schumer said in a statement Sunday.

Yet, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., minority leader, stopped short of ordering GOP colleagues to back the bill Sunday, even as he hailed the measure for including “direct and immediate solutions to the crisis at our southern border.”

The measure includes $20.2 billion to pay for improvements to border security, including hiring new asylum officers and border security agents, expanding the number of available detention beds and increasing screenings for fentanyl and other illicit drugs. It also includes $60.1 billion for Ukraine, $14.1 billion in security assistance for Israel, and $10 billion in humanitarian aid for civilians in conflict zones including the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Ukraine.

But the bill falls short of several Republican demands, including ramping up border wall construction and limiting parole and related programs that allow migrants to live and work legally in the United States without visas while they await hearings on their immigration claims — sometimes for years.

Those omissions have alienated rightwing Republicans who insisted on far more severe measures, while the restrictions have enraged progressive Democrats.

Members of the Texas Army National Guard near the border fence in El Paso, on May 9, 2023.

“Hard no,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said A compromise bill released by the Senate to crack down on illegal immigration includes a on social media Sunday, adding in a second provision making it more difficult to claim asylum and an expansion of detention capacity. post, “This is an open-borders bill if I’ve ever (Todd Heisler/The New York Times) seen one.”

Some immigration proponents also blasto have the House vote instead this week on a in the Indo-Pacific region. ted the bill as too restrictive.

Biden had included $13.6 billion for bor“This border deal misses the mark,” Sen. measure to send $17.6 billion in security aid to Alex Padilla, D-Calif., said in a statement. “The Israel alone and impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, der security in his request, an early indication deal includes a new version of a failed Trump- homeland security secretary, on charges that he that he and Democrats in Congress saw the situation at the border as a potential political era immigration policy that will cause more willfully failed to secure the border. liability in an election year. In the weeks that The bipartisan Senate negotiations chaos at the border, not less.”

That opposition could complicate the were spurred by an ultimatum in the fall by followed, their willingness to negotiate with plan’s path through the closely divided Senate, Republicans, who threatened to withhold their Republicans about major policy changes to where it needs bipartisan support — at least 60 support for any bill to send Ukraine a fresh clamp down on unauthorized border crossings votes — to move forward. And the compromises infusion of U.S. assistance unless the money reflected a growing sense in the party of an threaten to kill the agreement altogether in the was paired with severe border enforcement untenable status quo, with a record-setting influx of migrants arriving in the United States GOP-led House, where there is deep opposition measures. without visas.

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Texas will expand effort to control land along Mexican border, Abbott says

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a press conference with other Republican governors at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. Locked in a legal battle with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement, Abbott said that he was expanding his effort to establish state control over areas near the Rio Grande in an effort to deter migrants. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

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ocked in a legal battle with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said Sunday that he was expanding his effort to establish state control over areas near the Rio Grande in an effort to deter migrants.

Abbott, flanked by 13 other Republican governors, said that Texas would not limit its high-intensity efforts to the small municipal park along the river in Eagle Pass where the state has taken over and limited access for federal agents. A top Texas official said state law enforcement officers were also looking to move in on riverside ranch land north of the city that migrants have continued to use for crossing.

Texas has deployed National Guard troops and state police officers up and down the Texas border since 2021 and began stringing concertina wire along the banks of the river the next year. What changed last month in the park, known as Shelby Park, is that Texas began preventing federal agents from routine access to the riverbank or from using the park to detain and process large numbers of migrants.

“As we speak right now, the Texas

National Guard, they’re undertaking operations to expand this effort,” Abbott said during a news conference at the park.

“We’re not going to contain ourselves to this park. We are expanding to further areas to make sure we expand our level of deterrence and denial of illegal entry into the United States.”

Abbott described the arrival of migrants as an “invasion” that permitted Texas, under the U.S. Constitution, to take on the job of enforcing immigration laws, an area that the Supreme Court has in the past left to the federal government.

Whether he has the power to do so is being contested in court by the Biden administration.

A spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The agency has previously said that it, not the state, is responsible for detaining and processing those who have crossed the border illegally.

The Republican governors met at the border as the Senate was preparing to release details of its plan to address the high number of illegal border crossings, which topped 300,000 in December alone. The Biden administration has backed legisla-

tive action, but some Republicans have appeared unwilling to go forward after former President Donald Trump said that doing so would help Democrats in November.

Several Texas Democrats, in a telephone news conference Sunday, said that Abbott’s event was about politics rather than a desire to fix the immigration system.

“Democrats on this call want to make migration more legal, orderly and humane,” said U.S. Rep. Greg Casar of Austin. “It is these very Republicans that want to keep it as dangerous and as illegal as possible” The assembled governors said that they backed Texas in its confrontation with the federal government. As they spoke, scores of National Guard troops stood silently with assault-style rifles across their chests. “This is a fight that all of us have to engage in,” said Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas.

“Montana stands with Texas in this fight,” Gov. Greg Gianforte of Montana said.

The nation’s Republican governors have appeared eager to align themselves with Texas in its continuing legal challenge, critical of what they say is the Biden administration’s failure to control the border. Even in states as far away as South Dakota, immigration has been a top concern among Republicans as well as some Democrats in cities that have been forced to find shelter for thousands of new arrivals.

“This is not a campaign tactic,” Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia said at the news conference Sunday.

For many of the governors, it was not the first time they had stood together with Abbott at the border. In October 2021, as the Texas governor was expanding his border-enforcement program, known as Operation Lone Star, to include thousands of additional National Guard troops, he assembled a group of Republican governors in Mission, Texas.

Several states, including Florida, Tennessee and South Dakota, have sent their own state police officers and National Guard troops to help patrol the border in Texas.

But the gathering Sunday comes at a far more tense time along the border.

Not only is Texas fighting to be able to maintain the concertina wire it has put

up in some areas, but the state is also preparing to enforce a new state law, taking effect in March, that will make it a state crime to enter Texas from Mexico without authorization. The Biden administration has challenged the new law in court; a hearing on whether to halt enforcement is set for Feb. 13.

The governors convened a day after hundreds of people gathered at a rally on a ranch north of Eagle Pass after arriving in a convoy that traveled through Texas, one of several convoys across the Southwest aimed at drawing attention to the situation on the border. At the rally, some said they feared the heated political divisions in the country over immigration could lead to violence.

Abbott said that any suggestion of violence over the standoff with the federal government was a “false narrative.”

“All we’re doing is enforcing the laws of the United States of America,” he said.

The number of border crossings in the area around Eagle Pass has been sharply lower since the state took over Shelby Park in January, Texas officials said. Federal Border Patrol agents have not been entirely kept out of the park by the state; they still have limited access to launch boats and respond to emergencies. But they have been prevented from patrolling.

Most migrants seek to immediately turn themselves over to Border Patrol agents for processing and a chance to stay in the United States as their immigration case is heard. But many of those around Shelby Park have instead faced arrest by the state police on charges of trespassing, which can delay and sometimes complicate their efforts to seek asylum from federal authorities.

Mike Banks, a special adviser to Abbott on border issues, said in an interview after the news conference that the state was looking to similarly edge out Border Patrol officers at other areas along the river.

“We are going to keep expanding out that way and doing everything we can to stop the illegal immigration at the line, on the river,” Banks said. “It’s fair to say that we are going to go anywhere where illegal immigration is happening, and we’re going to hit them at the point of entry to prevent them from making the entry onto the soil.”

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Mudslides, rescues and power outages follow record rainfall in California

By SHAWN HUBLER

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record-breaking storm stalled over the Los Angeles area Monday as California surveyed damage from a ferocious atmospheric river. Half a million homes and businesses remained without power as residents encountered blocked roads, rising floodwater and a relentless downpour that was expected to last for another day.

Nearly 10 inches of rain had been recorded by sunup in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air — more than half its average annual rainfall. The Hollywood Hills had been inundated, with morning traffic crawling past fallen trees and mud on narrow roadways. Rain totals in downtown Los Angeles had passed 6 inches after smashing a century-old daily rainfall record for Feb. 4, according to the National Weather Service.

Forecasters cautioned that the most dangerous part of the storm might still lie ahead, with less intense but nonstop showers expected to continue until Tuesday.

Eight to 14 inches of rain could fall Monday in parts of Southern California, potentially matching Los Angeles’ average annual rainfall total — 14 inches — in a single day.

Officials warned of the potential for more flooding and mudslides.

“We’ve got more rain coming, heavy rain, through the overnight hours,” said Joe Sirard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard, north of Los Angeles. “Plus the existing rain that we’ve had, plus the rain we had earlier this week.”

Here’s what else to know: — A flash flood warning remains in place until 9 a.m. Pacific time for parts of Los Angeles County including Beverly Hills, the Hollywood Hills, Malibu and the Santa Monica Mountains. And an “extremely dangerous situation” was unfolding in the Hollywood Hills, the National Weather Service said, warning of “life-threatening landslides.”

— Parts of the Santa Monica Mountains received more than 7 inches of rain over two days, spawning mudslides that covered canyon roads in and out of Malibu, authorities said. And in Los Angeles’ Studio City neighborhood, firefighters evacuated at least six people from their homes.

— Despite the bad weather, many school districts in Southern California, including Los Angeles Unified, the nation’s second largest, were planning to keep their classrooms open.

— Urgent warnings from Los Angeles officials telling people to stay off the

roads didn’t put a damper on the Grammy Awards on Sunday night — although Miley Cyrus, the night’s first award winner, said she nearly missed the start of the ceremony.

— In Northern California, an

82-year-old man was killed by a falling redwood in his Yuba City backyard as the storm swept through Sunday, drenching the region and toppling trees that blocked streets in San Francisco.

Workers clear a fallen tree from a road in Goleta, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024.

Parts of Southwest California were bracing for heavy rains that could lead to lifethreatening floods and “one of the most dramatic weather days in recent memory,” forecasters said. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times)

Blustery day leads to damage in San Francisco Bay area

By HEATHER KNIGHT and SAM MONDROS

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he worst of the storm appeared to be over Sunday night in the San Francisco Bay Area, after rain drenched the region and wind toppled trees throughout the day.

But residents will be dealing with the effects for days to come. More than 300,000 Bay Area households lacked power Sunday night, some roads remained closed, and there were reports of homes and vehicles that were damaged.

While communities in Northern California had been concerned about flooding before the storm hit, the fierce winds ended up causing more problems.

Towering trees fell onto highways and blocked traffic. Ferries on the San Francisco

Bay were called back to shore. An outdoor dining structure in Noe Valley even slid into the middle of the road before bar patrons and neighbors ran outside and pushed it back into place.

In Marin County, winds approached 90 mph on mountain tops and took down trees, power lines and structures.

Trina Baucom, 60, was less than 100 feet from the Point Reyes Lighthouse parking lot when she turned around. Rocks and sand flew across the roadway as her Jeep Wrangler swayed on a narrow road more than 200 feet above the Pacific Ocean.

“It was pretty scary up there,” she yelled over the wind and sideways rain.

On a cattle ranch just east of the lighthouse, William Nunes, 27, watched as the wind ripped a calf hutch from the ground and sent it flying into the air and over a hill.

Next went the roof to his cattle barn.

Several sheets of metal as long as two cars were torn off and landed beside dozens of wet cows. The metal sheets shook violently, with the wind threatening to send them flying again, until two ranch workers secured them to the manure-covered ground while Nunes poured gravel on top to weigh them down.

In San Francisco, one of the most dramatic scenes of the storm unfolded at 18th and Market streets, a half-mile west of the Castro District. A giant pine on a cityowned hill fell in the middle of the morning, causing a small landslide that sent dirt and tree limbs tumbling into the road.

Officials closed that part of Market Street, a major thoroughfare, as they waited hours for arborists to arrive and remove the tree. Sgt. Mike Mitchell of the San Francisco Police Department, who stood with other

police and traffic control officers surveying the scene, said that the city simply did not have enough arborists to maintain its urban forest.

Elsewhere in the city, tree limbs and entire trees fell, including onto a car parked near Oracle Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, and across a road near Twin Peaks.

The Department of Emergency Management warned people to “avoid walking in parks and other terrain with trees.” There were no reports of injuries from falling trees.

It also was high winds, more than the rain, that prompted the last-minute cancellation of the San Francisco Half Marathon on Sunday morning, bringing disappointment to some runners and relief to others.

It wasn’t all grim. By midafternoon, in a sunny respite between storms, a huge rainbow appeared over the city.

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The soft landing is global, but it’s cushiest in America The world is starting 2024 on an optimistic economic note, as inflation fades globally and growth remains more resilient than many forecasters had expected. Yet one country stands out for its surprising strength: the United States. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)

By JEANNA SMIALEK, ANA SWANSON, ALAN RAPPEPORT and JIM TANKERSLEY

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he world is starting 2024 on an optimistic economic note, as inflation fades globally and growth remains more resilient than many forecasters had expected. Yet one country stands out for its surprising strength: the United States.

After a sharp pop in prices rocked the world in 2021 and 2022 — fueled by supply chain breakdowns tied to the pandemic, then oil and food price spikes related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — many nations are now watching inflation recede.

And that is happening without the painful recessions that many economists had expected as central banks raised interest rates to bring inflation under control.

But the details differ from place to place. Forecasters from the U.S. Federal Reserve to the International Monetary Fund have been most surprised at the remarkable strength of the U.S. economy, while growth in places such as Britain and Germany remains more lackluster. The question is why America has pulled out ahead of other developed economies in the pack.

The IMF said last week that it expected the U.S. economy to grow 2.1%, a sharp upgrade from the previous estimate of 1.5%. Other major advanced economies are also expected to grow, albeit less quickly. The euro area is expected to notch out 0.9% growth, as is Japan, and Britain is forecast to expand by 0.6%.

“This is a good situation, let’s be honest, this is a good economy,” Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, said at a news conference last week — two of nearly 20 times that he called the data “good” during his remarks.

Evidence of that strength continued Friday, when a blockbuster jobs report showed that U.S. employers had added 353,000 jobs in January and wages grew at a rapid clip.

America’s outperformance has come from a combination of luck and judgment, economists said. Below is a rundown of some of the factors behind the comparatively strong performance — starting with those that reflect policy choices and moving to factors that owe more to fortune.

One reason for U.S. resilience: fiscal policy.

Part of the reason that economic growth has been so surprisingly strong in the United States is simple: The federal government has continued to spend a lot of money.

Government expenditures as a share of overall output hovered around 35% in America in the years leading to the pandemic, based on IMF data. But in 2020 and 2021, they jumped above 40% as the government responded to the coronavirus with about $5 trillion in relief and stimulus to people, businesses, institutions, and state and local governments.

States and households have only slowly spent down the savings they amassed during those pandemic years, so the money has continued to trickle through the economy like a slowrelease booster shot. On top of that, government spending has remained elevated as the Biden administration has begun to make sweeping infrastructure and climate investments.

“As the economy recovered, the U.S. just poured more kerosene onto the fire,” said Kristin Forbes, an economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a former Bank of England official.

Forbes noted that the U.S. deficit as a share of its gross domestic product is larger than that in many other advanced economies, and today’s spending is adding to the American debt pile. Given that, strong growth today could come at a cost — including higher interest bills — down the road.

Administration officials have suggested it was worth the trade-off. Lael Brainard, who heads President Joe Biden’s National Economic Council, told reporters last month that the combined outlays had allowed families to “weather this really disruptive period of time and bounce back.”

Yet government spending doesn’t fully explain the divergence between the United States and other economies. Other countries also spent a lot in response to the pandemic, and places like the euro area and Britain are still spending more than they did before the pandemic in recent years, as a share of output.

Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, said that he believed that the GDP data — which can be volatile and gets revised — could be overstating the divergence between U.S. growth and those in other countries. But to the extent that there is a gap, he does not think government spending has been a big driver of the stronger U.S. performance over the past year.

Instead, a number of economists said, what is happening could owe partly to policy design differences — and luck.

Pandemic layoff responses were not created equal.

America took a different approach than its European peers when it came to how it designed policy relief for workers displaced by pandemic shutdowns: It paid workers to stay at home, with one-time checks and expanded unemployment insurance, whereas countries in Europe paid workers to stay in jobs.

The resulting churn as Americans have sorted themselves into new and better jobs could be leading to the stronger productivity growth that the United States is seeing now, said Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a think tank in Washington.

Ahead of time, “it was not clear which was going to be the better way to go,” Posen said, noting that many economists had worried that the U.S. approach would actually perform slightly worse. “As always, it is better to be lucky than to be good.”

Proximity to geopolitical problems is also important.

Other advanced economies have also fallen victim to

misfortune. European countries have been much more exposed to the aftershocks from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a conflict that has pushed up gas and grocery prices — roiling the business environment and limiting households’ abilities to afford other discretionary products.

While the United States imported relatively little oil and gas from Russia, that was not the case for Europe. According to a 2023 survey by the European Investment Bank, 68% of European Union businesses saw their energy prices increase by 25% or more, compared with 30% of U.S. businesses experiencing the same increase.

Speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Tuesday morning, Valdis Dombrovskis, the European commissioner for trade, said Europe had been working to address its dependence on Russian fossil fuel, but that cutting those ties “came at a cost.”

Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the IMF, told reporters Thursday that the resilience of the U.S. economy stemmed from several factors — including insulation from volatility in global energy markets.

“There have been good economic forces and winds blowing into U.S. sails,” Georgieva said.

Now, tensions in the Red Sea that are disrupting shipping routes there could have bigger spillover effects for Europe. This has started to push up shipping prices and delay deliveries, particularly for goods traveling to Europe from Asia.

Biden administration officials are monitoring those disruptions, but they are less concerned since they are “a little bit less salient for American supply chains than for other parts of the world,” Brainard said.

Demographics play a role.

When it comes to the absolute level of growth in the United States versus advanced economies like the euro area and Japan, America also has the benefit of a younger population.

The median age in the United States is about 38.5, whereas it is 46.7 in Germany and 49.5 in Japan.

Youth helps to make an economy more dynamic: Younger adults work more, and families who are having children, buying houses and building lives spend more than retirees.

All of this could matter to policy.

Whatever is causing the divergence, it could matter for economic policy.

The Fed, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England are all nudging toward cutting interest rates as they try to avoid undermining growth. Central bankers don’t want to lower rates too early and fail to fully stamp out inflation. They also want to avoid keeping them too high for too long, inflicting more pain than is necessary to wrestle price increases under control.

For the ECB and the Bank of England, slower growth could make that an especially delicate process; policy errors could tip those economies from slight growth to slight contraction. But completing the soft landing is a looming challenge for many central banks.

“At this time of the cycle, there is risk of premature loosening, but there is also risk of keeping interest rates higher for longer,” Georgieva said. “They now need to land the plane smoothly.”

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Wall Street Falls With Interest Rates, Earnings in Focus W all Street’s main indexes fell on Monday, pressured by rising Treasury yields after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pushed back firmly against market speculations of imminent rate cuts, while investors assessed earnings from corporate America.

In an interview aired on Sunday, Powell said more evidence on a sustainable downtrend in inflation was needed to warrant lower rates, while Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari wrote in an essay published on Monday that a resilient economy could defer rate cuts for some time.

Fresh data from the Institute for Supply Management showed the U.S. services sector’s growth picked up in January, with a measure of input prices rising to an 11-month high.

This added to doubts about when rates would be lowered already kindled by Friday’s data signaled the labor market’s resilience in the face of tight credit conditions.

And putting additional pressure on stocks was U.S. Treasury yield increases, with those on 30-year notes jumping to 4.35%. [US/] “ There’s more realization the Fed is not going to start cutting in March. Powell was very adamant about that. You saw some of the other Fed governors out today reiterating they just need more data in the wake of how hot the job numbers were on Friday, and not just Friday’s report, but the revisions to prior months,” said Carol Schleif, chief investment officer at BMO family office in Minneapolis, MN. “The market had gotten way out over its skis, especially coming out of November, December,” Schleif said, adding that she was “not viewing this as the start of a major pullback” but rather an opportunity for investors with cash on the sidelines.

Monday’s decline follows record high closing levels in the benchmark S&P 500 and the blue-chip Dow on Friday, boosted by gains in Meta Platforms and Amazon.com after solid financial results.

At 02:16 p.m. the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 235.98 points, or 0.61% , to 38,418.44, the S&P 500 lost 11.80 points, or 0.24%, to 4,946.81 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 29.05 points, or 0.19%, to 15,599.90.

The S&P 500 materials sector was the biggest sector decliner, down 2.4%, dragged down by a 14.7% decline in Air Products after the industrial gas manufacturer forecast 2024 profit below estimates. Technology and healthcare were the biggest gainers, up 0.5%.

Results were in from nearly half of the S&P 500 firms and fourth-quarter earnings estimates were improving sharply, with about 80% of the reports beating expectations, according to LSEG data on Friday.

“Mostly earnings season has been pretty mixed bag. It’s been more stock specific than industry specific,” said BMO’s Scheif.

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a higher quarterly profit, while Estee Lauder surged 12.3% as the MAC lipstick maker aims to cut about 3% to 5% of its workforce.

Boeing dropped 1.7% after saying a new quality glitch in some 737 MAX planes would delay some deliveries.

Tesla dropped 3.4% to a near one-year low after Piper Sandler slashed the stock’s price target and on a report that German software company SAP will no longer source its company cars from the EV maker.

Nvidia advanced 4%, hitting a record high following a price-target raise by Goldman Sachs.

Catalent soared 9.4% on Novo Nordisk parent Novo Holdings’ plans to buy the contract drugmaker in an $11.5-billion all-cash deal.

Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a 4.6-to-1 ratio on the NYSE. There were 108 new highs and 109 new lows on the NYSE. On the Nasdaq 1,129 stocks rose and 3,076 fell as declining issues outnumbered advancers by about a 2.7-to-1 ratio.

The S&P 500 posted 24 new 52-week highs and 10 new lows while the Nasdaq recorded 67 new highs and 188 new lows.

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King Charles is diagnosed with cancer

By MARK LANDLER

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ing Charles III has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and is suspending his public engagements to undergo treatment, casting a shadow over a busy reign that began barely 18 months ago..

The announcement, made by Buckingham Palace on Monday evening, came a week after the 75-yearold sovereign was discharged from a London hospital, after a procedure to treat an enlarged prostate.

The palace did not disclose what form of cancer Charles has, but a palace official said it was not prostate cancer. Doctors detected the cancer during that procedure, and the king began treatment on Monday.

“During the king’s recent hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement, a separate issue of concern was noted,” the palace said in a four-paragraph statement. “Subsequent diagnostic tests have identified a form of cancer. His Majesty has today commenced a schedule of regular treatments, during which time he has been advised by doctors to postpone public-facing duties.

Palace officials said the king would continue to carry out other duties, including his weekly meeting with the prime minister, as well as the daily pile of paperwork he works through as Britain’s head of state.

The palace said Charles “remains wholly positive about his treatment” and looked forward to returning to public engagements. He returned to London from his country residence, Sandringham, to begin treatment as an outpatient, palace officials said.

Charles, who ascended to the throne in September 2022 after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, has generally been in good health. As a child, he suffered from recurring tonsillitis, but as an adult, he enjoyed vigorous sports such as hiking, polo and skiing.

His disclosure of the prostate treatment, and now of his cancer diagnosis, is unusual for the royal family, whose members often reveal little about their health. After the queen’s death at 96 years old, the palace issued her death certificate, which listed her cause of death simply as “old age.”

Still, palace officials on Monday also made clear that they would not issue regular updates on the king’s condition, and they asked reporters not to attempt to contact those involved in his treatment.

The palace said in its statement that the king had chosen to share his diagnosis “to prevent speculation and in the hope it may assist public understanding for all those around the world who are affected by cancer.”

The king’s younger son, Prince Harry, has been in touch with his father and planned to travel to Britain in the coming days to visit him, according to the BBC. Harry has been largely estranged from the royal family since he and his wife, Meghan, announced they were withdrawing from official duties and moved to California.

Palace officials said Queen Camilla would continue to carry out a full program of official engagements during her husband’s treatment. She was a frequent visitor during his hospitalization for prostate treatment at the London Clinic.

Charles’ illness caps a period of troubling health news for the royal family. Catherine, the wife of Prince William, was hospitalized for almost two weeks after undergoing abdominal surgery. She was released last week, but Kensington Palace has given few details about her recovery.

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and ex-wife of the king’s younger brother, Prince Andrew, said recently that she had been diagnosed with melanoma, a serious type of skin cancer.

It was her second cancer diagnosis within a year.

Ferguson, 64, had spoken publicly about her decision to undergo a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery last year after a breast cancer diagnosis in the summer.

The news of the king’s illness brought an outpouring of well wishes from British leaders and other public figures.

“Wishing His Majesty a full and speedy recovery,” Prime Minister Rishi Sunak posted on social media. “I have no doubt that he’ll be back to full strength in no time and I know the whole country

King Charles III welcomes President Joe Biden to Windsor Castle outside London on July 10, 2023. Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and is suspending his public engagements to undergo treatment, casting a shadow over a busy reign that began barely 18 months ago. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) will be wishing him well.”

Michelle O’Neill, the Irish nationalist leader just named as first minister of Northern Ireland’s government, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, “I am very sorry to hear of King Charles illness and I want to wish him well for his treatment and a full and speedy recovery.”

In his time on the throne, Charles has been both a figure of continuity for the House of Windsor and a more politically engaged sovereign than his mother was.

Last year, he played host at Windsor Castle to the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, moments after she signed a Northern Ireland trade agreement with Sunak. The timing drew criticism, since it appeared to give a royal imprimatur to the deal — in what some considered an improper intervention by the monarch in politics.

In December, the king addressed the opening ceremony of the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, listing a litany of climate-related natural disasters that had afflicted the world in the last year; wildfires in Canada; floods in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh; cyclones in the Pacific; and a drought in East Africa.

“We are taking the natural world outside balanced norms and limits, and into dangerous uncharted territory,” Charles said. “Our choice now is a starker and darker one: How dangerous are we actually prepared to make our world?”

The king also made two highly successful state visits to Europe, addressing the German parliament in serviceable German, and drawing excited crowds during a walkabout with President Emmanuel Macron of France.

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El Salvador’s president expected to win big, despite concerns over crackdown

By GABRIEL LABRADOR and NATALIE KITROEFF

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ayib Bukele, the millennial president who reshaped El Salvador by cracking down on both gangs and civil liberties, looked poised to win another five years in office after polls closed Sunday.

The electoral authorities had not released official results by Sunday night, but Bukele claimed victory in a post on X, formerly Twitter, saying he had won more than 85% of the vote.

Legal scholars say Bukele violated El Salvador’s Constitution by seeking a second consecutive term, but most Salvadorans don’t seem to care. Surveys showed that voters overwhelmingly supported his candidacy and were likely to maintain the ruling party’s supermajority, extending Bukele’s control over every lever of government for years.

Since imposing a state of emergency in the spring of 2022, the Bukele government has arrested tens of thousands of people with no due process, filled the streets with soldiers and suspended key civil liberties. But the gangs that once ruled over much of the country have been decimated — making the 42-year-old leader enormously popular.

“The majority of Salvadorans are in agreement that Bukele should stay,” said David Lobato, 38, outside a polling station in San Salvador, the capital. “He’s turned the country around. Things are different now.”

The five opposition candidates for president gained almost no traction in the polls.

Among them were contenders from the rightwing Arena and leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front parties that had once dominated Salvadoran politics for 30 years.

Ricardo Zuniga, a former special envoy to Central America for the Biden administration, said Bukele’s decision to seek a second term was “a demonstration of power.”

“They want to show that they can do this,” he said. “They want to show they have popular backing for doing it — and they want everyone to just live with it, regardless of the constitution.”

Critics said they worried that the vote Sunday would only embolden Bukele to deepen his attacks on the media, civic groups and anyone else he views as posing a threat to his control.

Bukele’s vice-presidential running mate, Félix Ulloa, recently told The New York Times that they were “eliminating” a broken democratic system that had benefited corrupt politicians and left tens of thousands of dead.

“To these people who say democracy is be-

Fridge magnets with the face of Presidente Nayib Bukele in a market in downtown San Salvador on Jan. 25, 2023. Nayib Bukele was set to easily win a second term on Sunday, riding enormous support for his crackdown on gangs, even if the price has been restricting civil liberties. (Fred Ramos/The New York Times) ing dismantled, my answer is yes — we are not dismantling it, we are eliminating it, we are replacing it with something new,” Ulloa said.

On Sunday, at a news conference, Bukele said, “We are not replacing democracy, because El Salvador has never had democracy,” adding, “this is the first time in history that El Salvador has democracy.”

The main selling point of Bukele’s campaign was the nearly two-year state of emergency his government imposed after the gangs that had long dominated the streets went on a killing spree in March 2022.

Since then, the authorities have arrested roughly 75,000 people, including 7,000 who were eventually released and thousands more who are not gang members but remain jailed, human rights groups say. They have documented reports of prisoners being tortured and deprived food.

But El Salvador’s transformation has been undeniable. The three biggest gangs that made the country one of the most violent places on Earth appear to have lost any semblance of power.

“The main pillar on which he has built his popular backing is what the government has done

on security,” said Omar Serrano, vice chancellor for social outreach at José Simeón Cañas Central American University. “The state of emergency is what people value most.”

Bukele, a descendant of a family of Palestinian migrants who arrived in Central America in the early 20th century, was one of 10 siblings and half siblings raised in Escalón, an upper-middle-class neighborhood in San Salvador. He studied at an elite, bilingual high school.

After working as a publicist on political campaigns, Bukele moved into politics in 2011 and quickly rose to prominence. At the age of 30, he became mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlan, a small town on the outskirts of San Salvador, representing the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, the leftist party.

Three years later, he became mayor of San Salvador, a post considered a steppingstone

to the presidency.

In the lead-up to the 2019 presidential elections, Bukele created his own party, New Ideas, but ran as a candidate of a small rightwing party, GANA, to meet the legal requirements to compete. He sailed to victory on a vow to break with the corrupt politics of the past.

Once in office, though, he turned to tactics that many viewed as a return to the autocratic leadership the country had fought a 12-year civil war over.

He marched soldiers into the legislative assembly to pressure lawmakers to pass government funding and later replaced an attorney general who was investigating corruption in his administration.

In 2021, after winning a supermajority in Congress, his party replaced top judges on the Supreme Court, who within months reinterpreted the constitution to allow Bukele to run again for the presidency.

There remain some sources of resistance to Bukele, especially among those who say their family members were unfairly imprisoned.

“We as citizens were obliged to come and demonstrate that there is a contingent that does not agree with the policies that are being carried out,” said Nelson Melara, 41, who voted in the capital Sunday afternoon.

“There are good things with this government, but there are also bad things that deserve many questions,” he said.

Overall, though, Bukele’s appeal has hardly wavered at home — and for a remarkable contingent of fans across the hemisphere. Politicians from Colombia to Ecuador have vowed to emulate him.

“Those from my generation think that even though power is being concentrated in one person, I feel that it would be worth it,” said 27-year-old Natalia Pérez. For the first time in a long time, she said, she can walk at night and feel safe. “We have seen actions and changes,” she said.

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Kenya plans to bypass court order in Haiti deployment

By ABDI LATIF DAHIR

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enya’s government will not await a court of appeal ruling before deploying its forces to Haiti, a senior government official said, further underscoring the government’s determination to move ahead with the proposed multinational force aimed at bringing stability to the gang-ravaged Caribbean nation.

Abraham Korir Sing’Oei, the principal secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told The New York Times in an interview that Kenya and Haiti were working to finalize a bilateral agreement in the next two weeks and that, once in place, Kenyan forces would immediately deploy.

The declaration from Sing’Oei comes just a week after the country’s High Court blocked the deployment of 1,000 police officers, saying it could go ahead only if there was a “reciprocal arrangement” detailing the framework under which Kenyan forces can operate in Haiti.

Kenya’s government appealed the decision.

Sing’Oei said the High Court provided a legal pathway for the deployment, namely the bilateral reciprocal arrangement with Haiti. But he said the government was appealing the decision to a higher court anyway to seek clarifications on some findings the government “finds problematic.”

Still, he added, “the deployment does not have to await the conclusion of this appeal.”

He did not give a specific timeline for when the officers would depart for Haiti.

Kenyan President William Ruto has remained bullish on the plan, telling Reuters last week that the mission would go ahead despite the court’s ruling.

Observers say Ruto, who came to power in 2022, is adamant about going through with the plan in order to lift his profile as a global statesman and a Pan-African leader.

He has also cast the Haiti plan as “a mission for humanity,” which would help a nation whose people are part of the African diaspora.

His government’s decision to bypass the courts would probably open another legal challenge from activists and human rights groups who have denounced the deployment plan as unconstitutional. It would also open another door of controversy for Ruto, whose government faces rising cri-

Members of Kenya’s General Service Unit stand guard at the election tallying headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, March 7, 2013. Components of the paramilitary General Service Unit are among the 1,000 Kenyan police officers slated to go to Haiti to help break the grip of the armed gangs that control most of the capital, Port-au-Prince. (Pete Muller/The New York Times) ticism for the East African nation’s mounting economic challenges. By defying the courts, Ruto will also be amping up his showdown with the judiciary, which he recently censured for impeding his administration’s plans.

One of those plans was the Haiti mission.

Last July, the government announced that it would lead a multinational force to bring order to Haiti, where gangs have overtaken entire neighborhoods and some 5,000 people were killed in 2023. The United Nations Security Council approved the mission in October and the Biden administration pledged to finance the mission with $200 million.

But the operation quickly became a political wedge issue in Kenya, denounced by activists and opposition lea-

ders. Detractors said the plan contravened Kenya’s Constitution because it would place officers in unnecessary danger and was carried out without broader public dialogue or the direct authorization of the government agencies tasked with national security.

Human rights groups also pointed out the dismal record of Kenya’s police, who have been accused of killing more than 100 people last year and shooting at protesters during anti-government demonstrations. Many also questioned how Kenyan forces would protect civilians in Haiti even as they struggled to stem the threat of bandits and the terrorist group al-Shabab within their own borders.

Following a parliamentary session in November, lawmakers passed a motion allowing for the deployment of forces, but a High Court judge blocked the plan in late January, throwing its future into disarray.

Despite the court verdict, the United States reaffirmed its support for the mission last month.

In a statement, the State Department acknowledged the Kenyan court’s ruling and the government’s intent to challenge it and called for the international community to “respond to the unprecedented levels of gang violence and destabilizing forces preying upon the Haitian people.”

But even as Kenyan officials begin working out a “reciprocal arrangement,” lawyers and activists have started looking into what that would entail.

Sing’Oei said the agreement would follow the National Police Service Act, which stipulates that the president can designate a country as a “reciprocating nation” once they are satisfied that they have corresponding laws to those governing Kenyan forces abroad.

Observers say that Ruto now faces pressure to show that he carefully assessed all necessary conditions before making such a decision if he is to avoid more court challenges.

“When the law gives that power to anyone — in our case, the president — it is only prudent that the decision not be based on whim, diplomatic populism or even sheer egalitarianism,” Waikwa Wanyoike, a constitutional lawyer, wrote in a Sunday column in Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper. “Instead, it must be taken based on prudence and objectivity — with sufficient justification candidly offered.”

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What can we possibly say to the children of Gaza?

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF

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here’s a whip-smart 10-year-old girl in the Gaza Strip who speaks good English, displays a radiant smile and seemed to have a bright future. The daughter of an X-ray technician, she had been accepted to an international exchange program and was supposed to be leaving soon.

Instead, she’s lying in a hospital bed with a badly infected wound in her thigh from a bomb blast. A photo shows a football-size open wound, with a chunk of her femur missing.

“She was supposed to be in Japan,” said Dr. Samer Attar, an orthopedic surgeon who cared for the girl and told me about her. “Now she’s lying in bed deciding whether to have her leg removed.” I’ve known Attar for a decade, ever since he volunteered to work in secret hospitals in Aleppo, Syria, to save victims of Russian bombings. A professor at Northwestern University School of Medicine, he has worked in war zones and crisis areas around the world, including Ukraine and Iraq — and recently, at hospitals in Gaza, through the medical volunteer organizations Rahma Worldwide and IDEALS. Attar said the girl needed an amputation at the hip to save her life. Her dad, struggling to come to terms with how his and his daughter’s lives have collapsed, is resisting for now.

Over the years, I’ve covered many bloody wars and written scathingly about how governments in Russia, Sudan and Syria recklessly bombed civilians. This time, it’s different: My government is on the side engaged in what President Joe Biden has referred to as “indiscriminate bombing.” This is not

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the same as deliberately targeting civilians, as those other countries did — but this time, as a taxpayer, I’m helping to pay for the bombs.

Gaza is also different from Syria and Ukraine, of course, in that Israel did not start this war. Instead, Israel was brutally attacked by Hamas in a rampage of murder, torture and rape. Any government would have struck back, and Hamas maximized the suffering of civilians by using them as human shields.

Yet military response is not a binary choice; it exists on a continuum. Israel, traumatized by the attack it suffered, elected to retaliate with 2,000-pound bombs, destroy entire neighborhoods and allow only a trickle of aid into the territory, which is now teetering on the brink of famine. The upshot is that this does not feel like a war on Hamas but rather a war on Palestinians in Gaza.

In November, I wrote about Mohammed Alshannat, a doctoral student in Gaza who was desperately trying to keep his children alive. I offer a sad update: One of his sons has been gravely injured.

“He is 13 years old and was injured while we were running for our lives,” Alshannat wrote in a WhatsApp message. “I had to carry him bleeding under heavy artillery shelling for two hours. I found a doctor who was sheltering in a school, and he took a risk and saved my son’s life.

“He went through a complicated surgery later and still unable to walk. He is very sick and suffers from malnutrition,” Alshannat wrote.

How can Alshannat’s American friends face him and his son after the war?

Many Americans are conflicted about the war. They may keep quiet rather than enter a debate that is bitter and polarizing and may cost friendships, or they may avert their eyes. But the great Elie Wiesel described indifference as “the most insidious danger of all” and observed, “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”

The suffering of children — and half of Palestinians in Gaza are children — should particularly concern us. UNICEF estimates that in the chaos of war and displacement, at least 17,000 children in Gaza are unaccompanied or separated from their parents.

Two teenage brothers with mangled bodies haunt Attar.

One boy had his leg amputated at the hip; he died on the operating table as the anesthesiologist wept. The other, who had lost much of the skin on his body, survived overnight but died in the morning.

The hospitals were short of nearly everything, Attar said, and patients spent weeks on the floor waiting in great pain for care. A woman’s screaming lingers in his ears: She was pleading for help for her husband, whose wounds had been untreated for a week in the chaos of the hospital, and maggots were crawling in the flesh.

Some will blame all this on Hamas: If it had not attacked Israeli civilians, there would be no Israeli bombing. That’s true, but to me it seems an evasion of moral responsibility.

Israel and America have agency, and the atrocities suffered

Mohamed Abu Rteinah, a child hurt by a munition that struck his home in the city of Rafah, has medical attention in the Gaza Strip, in Nov. 2023. (Samar Abu Elouf/The New York Times)

by Israeli civilians do not justify the leveling of Palestinian neighborhoods.

Biden should search his soul: He excoriates Russia for bombing civilians and undermining the rules-based international order, even as we supply bombs that can wipe out neighborhoods in Gaza, even as we give diplomatic cover to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while Palestinians in Gaza face looming starvation.

Biden has suspended funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, which is responsible for delivering assistance to Palestinians in Gaza — without outlining any viable alternative plan to distribute aid. He is right to be outraged that a dozen UNRWA staff members (out of 13,000 employees) allegedly participated in the Oct. 7 attacks, and it’s good that the U.N. promptly fired those workers.

Still, if UNRWA is unable to function because of the suspended funding, children in Gaza will die.

It would be unconscionable if Hamas terrorists sheltered in the ranks of a U.N. agency. And it would be unconscionable if children end up starving as a result of our actions — even as we tell ourselves we’re taking the moral high ground.

Decisions about waging war are wrenching because, invariably, innocent civilians suffer. This requires a calculus of strategic gain versus human cost. People will weigh the trade-offs differently, but let’s resist the tendency to otherize those of different races, faiths and ethnicities. When we are caught in a conflict, we tend to dehumanize the other side; we can fight that impulse by asserting our shared humanity and recognizing that all lives have equal value.

One life, as precious as that of any American or Israeli child, belongs to a bright 10-year-old girl in Gaza who should be excitedly planning a trip to Japan. Instead, she smiles bravely through excruciating pain and must endure an amputation if her life is to be saved — and we Americans should face our complicity in her tragedy and all Gaza’s.

Contact Kristof at Facebook.com/Kristof, Twitter.com/ NickKristof or by mail at The New York Times, 620 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018.

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DACO y Educación orientarán a estudiantes sobre uso adecuado de las redes sociales POR EL STAR STAFF

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AN JUAN – La secretaria interina del Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor (DACO), Lisoannette González Ruiz y la secretaria del Departamento de Educación (DE), Yanira Raíces Vega, anunciaron el lunes que sus agencias se encuentran en el proceso del desarrollo de talleres de orientación a jóvenes sobre el uso adecuado de las redes sociales en menores edad.

La iniciativa forma parte de los programas que ofrece la Oficina de Obscenidad y Pornografía Infantil adscrita a la oficina de la secretaria del DACO. “En los pasados días hemos visto reseñado en la

prensa la importancia del tema de los controles en el uso de redes sociales mediante los dispositivos que los menores utilizan, el contenido que está permitido para estos jóvenes y los riesgos que se pueden observar en las redes. Por ello, el DACO, en colaboración con el Departamento de Educación y el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés), estamos uniendo esfuerzos para la creación de los módulos de orientación que estaremos presentado en las orientaciones en las escuelas”, indicó González Ruiz en declaraciones escritas.

Por su parte, la secretaria de Educación destacó la importancia de implementar este tipo de talleres

en las escuelas públicas, con el fin de crear esfuerzos que redunden en beneficio para educar a los menores de edad sobre los riesgos en los usos de plataformas sociales e Internet.

“Agradezco a la secretaria interina del DACO y a las agencias federales su interés de colaborar con un tema de tanta prioridad para la educación, así como la seguridad cibernética. Nuestros maestros y estudiantes poseen equipos electrónicos provistos por el Departamento desde la pandemia del coronavirus por lo que siempre insistimos no solo en el mejor uso de estos, sino que se tomen medidas de seguridad para evitar estar expuestos a asuntos vinculados a la pornografía y violencia”, dijo la secretaria de Educación.

Salinas rehabilita campo de golf en Aguirre con más de $500,000 en inversión POR EL STAR STAFF

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ALINAS – La alcaldesa de Salinas, Karilyn Bonilla Colón, anunció el inicio del proyecto de rehabilitación del campo de golf en Aguirre, cuya primera fase incluye además las reparaciones al salón de actividades, verjas, y remoción de escombros, con una inversión inicial de $549,715. “Este es un proyecto que debe estar culminado en unos seis meses, con fondos aprobados por la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA), y el programa Pareo de Partidas no Federales, así como del Departamento de la Vivienda”, señaló la alcaldesa.

“Aguirre es una parte muy importante de Salinas por su valor histórico y comunitario. La rehabilitación del campo de golf abre las puertas a una atracción deportiva para los practicantes del golf, así como una

oportunidad educativa para los jóvenes que interesen aprender este deporte”, añadió. Una de las particularidades de Aguirre es que se conservan algunas viviendas de la época de oro de la industria de la caña, así como estructuras y parte de la maquinaria.

De hecho, el litoral ha sido incluido en el registro de lugares históricos de los Estados Unidos. “Aguirre fue la única comunidad autosostenible en el pasado siglo XX con su propia infraestructura eléctrica, agua potable, vivienda, recreación, telégrafo, correo, biblioteca, cuartel de policía, dispensario médico, servicios educativos e instituciones religiosas propias”, añadió Bonilla Colón.

El proyecto de golf en Aguirre forma parte de Salinas 2030, una iniciativa de la alcaldesa Bonilla Colón, que se compone de tres sectores que funcionan en conjunto: 127 proyectos de FEMA para reparar 231

áreas afectadas, así como una inversión millonaria en proyectos de mitigación para el control de inundaciones y finalmente, los proyectos de revitalización de la zona urbana.

Panel sobre el FEI no da paso a querella contra alcalde de Trujillo Alto POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – Al concurrir con el informe de investigación preliminar sometido por el Departamento de Justicia, el Panel sobre el Fiscal Especial Independiente desestimó una querella presentada contra Pedro Rodríguez González, alcalde de Trujillo Alto, por supuesto patrón de hostigamiento sexual.

Los miembros del Panel justipreciaron toda la prueba y documentación sometida con el informe rendido por la División de Integridad Pública y Asuntos del Contralor (DIPAC) de Justicia, que había concluido que el testimonio de la querellante era mendaz.

Aunque consecuente en el empeño de fortalecer

la política pública en contra del hostigamiento sexual, el Panel aquilató la prueba y testimonios obtenidos y encontró que no surge evidencia fáctica alguna del alegado patrón del que se le acusaba al alcalde.

Expresó que, precisamente por la seriedad que entraña un señalamiento de esta naturaleza, en los casos en que no surge evidencia alguna de alegado hostigamiento, es su obligación así confirmarlo.

Por el contrario, los intercambios de mensajes vía textos telefónicos, revelan que la querellante fue quien originó la mayoría de ellos entre las partes.

Más aún, todos los mensajes de índole sexual, fueron generados por la querellante, quien labora como policía municipal en la ciudad.

Una de sus alegaciones giró sobre alegadas re-

presalias del Ejecutivo Municipal, cambiándole el horario de trabajo a la querellante. No obstante, el informe de la DIPAC detalló que los cambios tuvieron el propósito de optimizar los turnos de todos los policías y maximizar el uso del recurso humano disponible para prevención de la delincuencia y protección ciudadana.

Para ninguna de las incidencias adicionales relatadas por la querellante, se encontró evidencia que sustentara el alegado patrón de hostigamiento sexual.

El Panel determinó, acoger la recomendación del Secretario de Justicia de no asignar un Fiscal Especial Independiente al alcalde, Rodríguez González, por lo que ordenó el archivo definitivo de este asunto, sin trámite ulterior.

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Taylor Swift makes history on a night dominated by women

By BEN SISARIO

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omen thoroughly dominated the 66th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, with a history-making album of the year win by Taylor Swift and victories by Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, SZA, Lainey Wilson, Colombian pop star Karol G and the band boygenius.

The wins capped a year when women were extraordinarily successful in pop music, and also signified a change for the Grammys, which have frequently been criticized — as recently as five years ago — for overlooking female artists on the show.

In addition to the wins, the show featured powerful performances by SZA, Eilish, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo and even Joni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman — two godmothers of modern songwriting who have made only rare public appearances in recent years.

In taking album of the year for “Midnights,” Swift became the first artist to win the Grammys’ top prize four times, beating a trio of male legends — Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon — who had three.

“I would love to tell you that this is the best moment of my life,” Swift said when accepting the award. “But I feel this happy when I finish a song or when I crack the code to a bridge that I love,” she said, and added: “For me the reward is the work.”

Other highlights included: — Eilish, along with her brother, Finneas, won song of the year for “What Was I Made For?,” a dreamy but haunting meditation from Greta Gerwig’s film “Barbie.”

The song also took best song written for visual media, and the “Barbie” soundtrack took best compilation soundtrack for visual

2024 GRAMMY WINNERS Record of the Year “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus Album of the Year “Midnights,” Taylor Swift Song of the Year “What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie,” Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish) Best New Artist Victoria Monét Producer of the Year, Non-Classical Jack Antonoff

media.

— R&B singer and songwriter Victoria Monét won three prizes, including best new artist. Boygenius, an indie-rock supergroup that sold out venues like Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl last year, won a total of three awards, and one of its members, Phoebe Bridgers, took a fourth — more than any other artist at this year’s ceremony — as part of a collaboration with SZA. — Mitchell, 80, performed at the Grammys for the first time, playing her 1968 song “Both Sides Now” nine years after an aneurysm that at first left her unable to speak. Seated in a plush chair, clasping a cane, she was surrounded by supporters including Brandi Carlile, who has lately been Mitchell’s biggest evangelist. After the performance, stars like Beyoncé and Swift clap-

ped wide-eyed.

— In another major moment, Chapman made a very rare public appearance, performing her 1988 favorite “Fast Car” in a tender duet with Luke Combs, whose notefor-note cover of Chapman’s song became a surprise cross-generational hit last year.

Dressed in jeans and a plain button-down shirt, Chapman seemed to have watery eyes as she strummed her acoustic guitar and sang.

— Celine Dion, the Canadian diva who announced in 2022 that she has a rare neurological disease that makes it difficult for her to sing, was another rare appearance at the show, announcing the award for album of the year.

— It wasn’t all just the ladies. Billy Joel, who recently released “Turn the Lights Back

Taylor Swift performs at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., May 26, 2023. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical Theron Thomas Best Pop Solo Performancwe “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus Best Pop Duo/Group Performance “Ghost in the Machine,” SZA featuring Phoebe Bridgers Best Pop Vocal Album “Midnights,” Taylor Swift Best Dance/Electronic Recording “Rumble,” Skrillex, Fred again.. and Flowdan Best Pop Dance Recording “Padam Padam,” Kylie Minogue

Best Dance/Electronic Music Album “Actual Life 3 (January 1 - September 9 2022),” Fred again..

Best Rock Performance “Not Strong Enough,” boygenius Best Metal Performance “72 Seasons,” Metallica Best Rock Song “Not Strong Enough,” Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, songwriters (boygenius) Best Rock Album “This Is Why,” Paramore Best Alternative Music Perfor-

On,” his first new pop song in nearly 20 years, performed that track and his classic rocker “You May Be Right.” U2 performed from its residency at the Sphere, a futuristic new venue in Las Vegas.

— During an expanded “in memoriam” segment lasting more than 20 minutes, Stevie Wonder honored Tony Bennett, Annie Lennox paid tribute to Sinéad O’Connor and Fantasia Barrino-Taylor (introduced by Oprah Winfrey) sang “Proud Mary” in honor of Tina Turner.

— Political content was scarce on the show, which largely avoided any controversial stances. Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, recognized the killing of music fans at an Israeli music festival on Oct. 7, and Lennox said, “Artists for ceasefire; peace in the world.”

— Jay-Z, accepting the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award, called out the Grammys for failing to honor Beyoncé, his wife, with album of the year, despite her 32 awards, mostly in down-ballot genre categories.

“When I get nervous I tell the truth,” he said.

— Killer Mike, a veteran Atlanta rapper and activist, won three rap awards, including best rap album (“Michael”). Shortly after, he was escorted out of the Cryto.com Arena by police officers. Later, the Los Angeles Police Department said that Killer Mike, who was born Michael Render, was booked on a misdemeanor battery charge and that he was being released.

— The Grammys added a new category, best African music performance, which was won by Tyla, a South African singer, for the song “Water.” The show also featured a performance by Burna Boy, a Nigerian performer who is one of the biggest stars of the Afrobeats genre.

mance “This Is Why,” Paramore Best Alternative Music Album “The Record,” boygenius Best R&B Performance “ICU,” Coco Jones Best Traditional R&B Performance “Good Morning,” PJ Morton featuring Susan Carol Best R&B Song “Snooze,” Kenny B. Edmonds, Blair Ferguson, Khris Riddick-Tynes, Solána Rowe and Leon Thomas, songwriters (SZA) Best Progressive R&B Album

“SOS,” SZA Best R&B Album “Jaguar II,” Victoria Monét Best Rap Performance “Scientists & Engineers,” Killer Mike featuring André 3000, Future and Eryn Allen Kane Best Melodic Rap Performance “All My Life,” Lil Durk featuring J. Cole Best Rap Song “Scientists & Engineers,” André Benjamin, Paul Beauregard, James Continues on page 18

18 From page 17 Blake, Michael Render, Tim Moore and Dion Wilson, songwriters The Killer Mike featuring André 3000, Future and Eryn Allen Kane) Best Rap Album “Michael,” Killer Mike Best Spoken Word Poetry Album “The Light Inside,” J. Ivy Best Jazz Performance “Tight,” Samara Joy Best Jazz Vocal Album “How Love Begins,” Nicole Zuraitis Best Jazz Instrumental Album “The Winds of Change,” Billy Childs Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album “Basie Swings the Blues,” The Count Basie Orchestra directed by Scotty Barnhart Best Latin Jazz Album “El Arte Del Bolero Vol. 2,” Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo Best Alternative Jazz Album “The Omnichord Real Book,” Meshell Ndegeocello Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album “Bewitched,” Laufey Best Contemporary Instrumental Album “As We Speak,” Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, featuring Rakesh Chaurasia Best Musical Theater Album “Some Like It Hot,” Christian Borle, J. Harrison Ghee, Adrianna Hicks and NaTasha Yvette Williams, principal vocalists; MaryMitchell Campbell, Bryan Carter, Scott M. Riesett, Charlie Rosen and Marc Shaiman, producers; Scott Wittman, lyricist; Marc Shaiman, composer and lyricist (Original Broadway Cast) Best Country Solo Performance “White Horse,” Chris Stapleton Best Country Duo/Group Performance “I Remember Everything,” Zach Bryan featuring Kacey Musgraves Best Country Song “White Horse,” Chris Stapleton and Dan Wilson, songwriters (Chris Stapleton) Best Country Album “Bell Bottom Country,” Lainey Wilson Best American Roots Performance “Eve Was Black,” Allison Russell

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Best Americana Performance “Dear Insecurity,” Brandy Clark featuring Brandi Carlile Best American Roots Song “Cast Iron Skillet,” Jason Isbell, songwriter (Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit) Best Americana Album “Weathervanes,” Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Best Bluegrass Album “City of Gold,” Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway Best Traditional Blues Album “All My Love for You,” Bobby Rus Best Contemporary Blues Album “Blood Harmony,” Larkin Poe Best Folk Album “Joni Mitchell at Newport (Live),” Joni Mitchell Best Regional Roots Music Album “New Beginnings,” Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. and the Legendary Ils Sont Partis Band “Live: Orpheum Theater Nola,” Lost Bayou Ramblers and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (tie) Best Gospel Performance/Song “All Things,” Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, songwriter Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song “Your Power,” Lecrae and Tasha Cobbs Leonard Best Gospel Album “All Things New: Live in Orlando,” Tye Tribbett Best Contemporary Christian Music Album “Church Clothes 4,” Lecrae Best Roots Gospel Album “Echoes of the South,” Blind Boys of Alabama Best Latin Pop Album “X Mí (Vol. 1),” Gaby Moreno Best Música Urbana Album “Mañana Será Bonito,” Karol G Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album “Vida Cotidiana,” Juanes “De Todas Las Flores,” Natalia Lafourcade (tie) Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano) “Génesis,” Peso Pluma Best Tropical Latin Album “Siembra: 45° Aniversario (En Vivo en el Coliseo de Puerto Rico, 14 de Mayo 2022),” Rubén Blades con Roberto Delgado and Orquesta Best Global Music Performance

“Pashto,” Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain featuring Rakesh Chaurasia Best African Music Performance “Water,” Tyla Best Global Music Album “This Moment,” Shakti Best Reggae Album “Colors of Royal,” Julian Marley & Antaeus Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album “So She Howls,” Carla Patullo featuring Tonality and the Scorchio Quartet Best Children’s Music Album “We Grow Together Preschool Songs,” 123 Andrés Best Comedy Album “What’s in a Name?,” Dave Chappelle Best Audiobook, Narration and Storytelling Recording “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times,” Michelle Obama Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media “Barbie: The Album” (Various Artists) Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Includes Film and Television) “Oppenheimer,” Ludwig Göransson, composer Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media “Star Wars Jedi: Survivor,” Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab, composers Best Song Written for Visual Media “What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie: The Album,” Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish) Best Music Video “I’m Only Sleeping” (The Beatles), Em Cooper, video director; Jonathan Clyde, Sophie Hilton, Sue Loughlin and Laura Thomas, video producers Best Music Film “Moonage Daydream” (David Bowie), Brett Morgen, video director; Brett Morgen, video producer Best Recording Package “Stumpwork,” Luke Brooks and James Theseus Buck, art directors (Dry Cleaning) Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

The singer Karol G in New York on Jan. 27, 2023. (Jingyu Lin/The New York Times) “For the Birds: The Birdsong Project,” Jeri Heiden and John Heiden, art directors (Various Artists) Best Album Notes “Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos,” Robert Gordon and Deanie Parker, album notes writers (Various Artists) Best Historical Album “Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos,” Robert Gordon, Deanie Parker, Cheryl Pawelski, Michele Smith and Mason Williams, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer; Michael Graves, restoration engineer (Various Artists) Best Engineered Album, NonClassical “Jaguar II,” John Kercy, Kyle Mann, Victoria Monét, Patrizio “Teezio” Pigliapoco, Neal H Pogue and Todd Robinson, engineers; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer (Victoria Monét) Best Engineered Album, Classical “Contemporary American Composers,” David Frost & Charlie Post, engineers; Silas Brown, mastering engineer (Riccardo Muti and Chicago Symphony Orchestra) Producer of the Year, Classical Elaine Martone Best Remixed Recording “Wagging Tongue (Wet Leg Remix),” Wet Leg, remixers (Depeche Mode) Best Immersive Audio Album “The Diary of Alicia Keys,” George Massenburg and Eric Schilling, immersive mix engineers; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastering engineer; Alicia Keys and Ann

Mincieli, immersive producers (Alicia Keys) Best Instrumental Composition “Helena’s Theme,” John Williams, composer (John Williams) Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella “Folsom Prison Blues,” John Carter Cash, Tommy Emmanuel, Markus Illko, Janet Robin and Roberto Luis Rodriguez, arrangers (The String Revolution featuring Tommy Emmanuel) Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning,” Erin Bentlage, Jacob Collier, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye, Kendrick and Amanda Taylor, arrangers (säje Featuring Jacob Collier) Best Orchestral Performance “Adès: Dante,” Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic) Best Opera Recording “Blanchard: Champion,” Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Ryan Speedo Green, Latonia Moore and Eric Owens; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus) Best Choral Performance “Saariaho: Reconnaissance,” Nils Schweckendiek, conductor (Uusinta Ensemble; Helsinki Chamber Choir) Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance “Rough Magic,” Roomful of Teeth Best Classical Instrumental Solo “The American Project,” Yuja Wang; Teddy Abrams, conductor (Louisville Orchestra) Best Classical Solo Vocal Album “Walking in the Dark,” Julia Bullock, soloist; Christian Reif, conductor (Philharmonia Orchestra) Best Classical Compendium “Passion for Bach and Coltrane,” Alex Brown, Harlem Quartet, Imani Winds, Edward Perez, Neal Smith and A.B. Spellman; Silas Brown and Mark Dover, producers Best Contemporary Classical Composition “Montgomery: Rounds,” Jessie Montgomery, composer (Awadagin Pratt, A Far Cry and Roomful of Teeth)

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The dogs that live longest, by a nose From left, a Shiba Inu, a Rottweiler and a French bulldog at the Westminster Kennel Club show in New York in February 2013. Small dogs with prominent noses live longer than bigger, flat-faced canines, a new study suggests. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)

By EMILY ANTHES

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ll dogs go to heaven. But a bulldog might find itself headed there years before a border terrier, according to a new study of nearly 600,000 British dogs from more than 150 breeds.

Large breeds and breeds with flattened faces had shorter average life spans than smaller dogs and those with elongated snouts, the researchers found. Female dogs also lived slightly longer than male ones. The results were published in the journal Scientific Reports on Thursday.

There are exceptions to those broad trends, and the findings might not apply to dogs outside Britain, where breeding practices — and gene pools — may be different, the researchers noted.

More research will be needed to determine why some breeds have shorter life spans than others. Some breeds are genetically predisposed to serious health problems, but breed-related differences in behavior, lifestyle, diet, environment or other factors could also play a role in shortening some dogs’ lives, experts said.

“Now that we have identified these populations that are at risk of early death, we can start looking into why that is,” said Kirsten McMillan, an author of the new study and the data manager at Dogs Trust, a dog welfare charity in Britain that led the research. “This provides an opportunity for us to improve the lives of our dogs.”

The study is based on a database of 584,734 British dogs, which the researchers assembled from breed registries, pet insurance companies, veterinary companies and other sources. These types of records, which can be prone to various biases, are not necessarily representative

of Britain’s general canine population, the scientists acknowledged.

But Dr. Audrey Ruple, a veterinary epidemiologist at Virginia Tech who was not involved in the new study, said the researchers’ use of so many different data sources was one of the study’s strengths.

“I think this is a fantastic approach,” she said.

Most of the dogs were purebred, representing one of 155 breeds; the rest were combined into a single crossbred category. The researchers categorized each breed’s overall body size as small, medium or large and its head shape as flat-faced, medium-proportioned or long-faced.

Across all dogs, the median life span was 12.5 years, the researchers found, but average life span varied “quite spectacularly” among breeds, McMillan said. Lancashire heelers, a breed of petite herding dogs, were canine Methuselahs, living 15.4 years on average. The much larger Caucasian shepherd dogs, though, had an average life span of just 5.4 years.

As a group, small breeds lived 12.7 years on average, compared with 11.9 years for large breeds. This was consistent with prior research on dogs and other mammals, which has generally found that within a given species, smaller individuals tend to outlive larger ones.

Flat-faced breeds, which are also called brachycephalic, lived 11.2 years on average, while medium- and longfaced breeds had average life spans of 12.8 and 12.1 years. Some flat-faced breeds, such as the French bulldog, have become wildly popular. But experts have warned that their extremely short snouts can lead to respiratory problems, heat stroke and other health challenges.

Some of the traits associated with

shorter life spans also appeared to compound one another, the researchers found. As a group, small, long-nosed breeds, such as miniature dachshunds and whippets, lived 13.3 years on average — roughly 2 1/2 years longer than large, short-nosed breeds such as boxers and bull mastiffs, which together had an average life expectancy of 10.7 years.

Evolutionary history played a role, too. Closely related breeds had more similar life expectancies.

The researchers also found that purebred dogs, as a group, had average life spans of 12.7 years compared with

12.0 years for crossbred dogs. That survival advantage for purebred dogs contradicts some prior research and could stem from the fact that all crossbred dogs — regardless of size or breed mix — were combined into a single category, scientists said.

But Ruple said she was glad to see results that challenged the conventional wisdom that mixed-breed dogs are always healthier than their purebred counterparts. “I think it is a more complex question than that,” she said. “There are pure breeds of dogs that are generally pretty healthy.”

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luye en libertad” (Flow Freely) was one collection that impressed the guests from Runway 7 at Expomoda and, consequently, why Rudeth León received an invitation to debut at the New York Fashion Week.

Her presence in the fashion world is not only as a designer, but also as a remarkable educator, and León’s collection is based on looks that capture transitions that also manifest in her personal life.

She took part in several rehabilitation programs at the Escuela Industrial para Mujeres in Vega Alta. The work of one of her groups took a turning point as they made history with the piece known as “Chiringas,” which was commissioned to adorn Old San Juan and attract tourists.

“Embracing life challenges is the key indicator that has made the difference to her art, and ultimately, in her life,” the collection description says of León. “‘Fluye en libertad’ is an invitation to flow with what comes after the changes you make,” the designer said. “It is inspired by the struggle between what you want to do and what you have to do. Between your responsibilities and your dreams.”

“Some pieces combine the strict and the fluid, while

Designer Rudeth León at work. Her new collection “is inspired by the struggle between what you want to do and what you have to do,” she said. “Between your responsibilities and your dreams.”

others have tight or rigid cuts that represent our responsibilities in society,” León pointed out. “You’ll see reflections of freedom in loose cuts and tunics. And dramatic draped dresses that recreate my state of mind, as I’m coming out from a chrysalis liberated and ready to fulfill new aspirations.”

León is part of the first boricua delegation at New York Fashion Week, thanks to Expomoda and Runway 7.

Other Puerto Ricans presenting at the show scheduled for Thursday at Sony Hall in the Paramount Hotel Times Square will be Gax Company, Marissa Santiago, MyThik, Rosa Mercedes, Mateo Manuel, Soleatta, The Only One, Norma Nazario, Monarch Club, Carlota Alfaro, Reynaldo José, A Pereira, Lorraine Ortiz and Costura Carlos Alberto.

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Heat and wildfire smoke are even more harmful when combined, a study says

By RAYMOND ZHONG

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n California, days that experienced both extreme heat and wildfire smoke at the same time have seen disproportionate numbers of hospitalizations for heart and lung ailments, a new study found. The research highlights the public health dangers of distinct climate threats that can have a compound effect when they occur simultaneously.

The research, published Friday in the journal Science Advances, also found that this compounding effect was greater in communities with lower levels of income, education, health insurance coverage and tree cover.

Background: Global warming is intensifying both threats.

As humans warm the planet, both heat waves and wildfires are becoming more severe and longer-lasting in the American West. That also means they are more likely to overlap. Researchers have estimated that two-thirds of California’s land area experienced broiling heat and heavy wildfire smoke concurrently at some point during the state’s record fire year of 2020.

Both hazards are harmful to health on their own: Heat stress increases cardiac strain, and inhaling wildfire smoke can aggravate lung conditions. The new study, led by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, looked at the health effects when the two threats appeared in tandem.

On exceptionally hot and smoky days, staying indoors doesn’t always help, and certainly not for people who don’t have air conditioners and air purifiers, said Tarik Benmarhnia, an environmental public health researcher at Scripps and one of the study’s authors. “Air pollution doesn’t stay politely outside,” he said. “It gets inside, interacts with a lot of indoor air pollutants and can lead to a lot of issues.”

The findings: Compounding harms, and unequal ones, too.

The researchers took state data on unscheduled hospitalizations between 2006 and 2019 and combined it with detailed readings of temperatures and wildfire smoke.

They found that combined exposure to the two hazards had a bigger effect on hospitalizations than the sum of the effects from each separately. In other words, the harm to health from concurrent heat and smoke was greater than the sum of its parts.

California’s agricultural heartland, the Central Valley,

Heavy smoke from wildfires hangs over Lake Merritt in Oakland, Calif. on Sept. 9, 2020. In California, days that experienced both extreme heat and wildfire smoke at the same time saw disproportionate numbers of hospitalizations for heart and lung ailments, according to a study published on Feb. 2, 2024. (Jim Wilson/ The New York Times) and its wooded far north experienced more of these hot and smoky days than other regions during the study period, the researchers found.

They also found that the size of the compounding effect from heat and smoke varied across communities with different demographics. Areas with weaker socioeconomic indicators and higher proportions of nonwhite residents had it worse.

What might be next: Joint warnings for heat and smoke.

At the moment, heat advisories in California come from local offices of the National Weather Service, while hazardous air warnings are issued by local air quality management

districts.

The study’s findings suggest a joint heat and smoke warning would help keep more people safe, Benmarhnia said. To account for the extra danger on sweltering days, officials might also consider issuing air quality alerts even when pollution hasn’t reached the level that would trigger a warning on cooler days, he said.

A spokesperson for California’s Air Resources Board said the agency was preparing new educational resources this year to help residents protect themselves from concurrent heat and smoke.

“These types of joint events are just going to happen more and more,” Benmarhnia said.

22 PUNTO QUINCE (300.15) METROS CUADRADOS. En linESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO des por el NORTE, con la Calle DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Adriático, en una distancia de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA TRECE PUNTO CERO CINCO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA- (13.05) METROS; por el SUR, CAO con el solar número Uno (1) del BANCO POPULAR DE Bloque “C” y con el solar número Seis (6) del Bloque “B”, en PUERTO RICO una distancia de TRECE PUNDemandante Vs. TO CERO CINCO (13.05) MEMARGARITA TROS; por el ESTE, con el soFELICIANO COLON lar número Veintisiete (27) del Demandada Bloque “A”, en una distancia de Civil Núm.: HSCI201700137.

VEINTITRÉS PUNTO CERO (205). Sobre: COBRO DE DICERO (23.00) METROS; y por NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOel OESTE, con el solar número TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINAVeinticinco (25) del Bloque “A”, RIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. en una distancia de VEINTIAl: PÚBLICO EN TRÉS PUNTO CERO CERO GENERAL. (23.00) METROS. En este solar se ha construido una viA: MARGARITA vienda de bloques y hormigón FELICIANO COLON. Yo, JENNISA GARCÍA MORA- reforzado para una familia. La LES, Alguacil de este Tribunal, hipoteca se encuentra inscrita a la parte demandada y a los al Sistema Karibe, Registro acreedores y personas con de la Propiedad de Humacao, interés sobre la propiedad que finca número 30,047 de Humamás adelante se describe, y cao, inscripción segunda. La al público en general, HAGO dirección física de la propiedad SABER: Que el día 22 DE FE- antes descrita es: Palacios del BRERO DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 Mar, A 26, Calle Adriático, HuDE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, macao, Puerto Rico. La Subassita en el Tribunal de Primera ta se llevará a efecto para satisInstancia, Sala Superior de Hu- facer a la parte demandante la macao, Humacao, Puerto Rico, suma de $119,022.42 de prinvenderé en Pública Subasta la cipal, intereses al 3.75% anual propiedad inmueble que más desde el 1ro. de agosto de adelante se describe y cuya 2016, hasta su completo pago; venta en pública subasta se or- más la cantidad de $12,183.60 denó por la vía ordinaria al me- estipulada para costas, gastos jor postor quien hará el pago en y honorarios de abogado y redinero en efectivo, giro postal cargos acumulados, todas cuo cheque certificado a nombre yas sumas están líquidas y exidel o la Alguacil del Tribunal de gibles. Que la cantidad mínima Primera Instancia. Los autos y de licitación en la primera sutodos los documentos corres- basta para el inmueble será de pondientes al procedimiento $121,836.00 y de ser necesaria incoado, estarán de manifiesto una segunda subasta, la cantien la Secretaría del Tribunal de dad mínima será equivalente a Humacao durante horas labora- 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la bles. Que en caso de no produ- suma de $81,224.00 y de ser cir remate ni adjudicación en la necesaria una tercera subasta, primera subasta a celebrarse, la cantidad mínima será la mise celebrará una SEGUNDA tad del precio pactado, es deSUBASTA para la venta de la cir, la suma de $60,918.00. De susodicha propiedad, el día 29 declararse desierta la tercera DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS subasta se adjudicará la finca 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en a favor del acreedor por la totacaso de no producir remate ni lidad de la cantidad adeudada adjudicación, se celebrará una si esta es igual o menor que TERCERA SUBASTA el 8 DE el monto del tipo de la tercera MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina conveniente. Se abonará dicho sita en el lugar antes indicado. monto a la cantidad adeudada La propiedad a venderse en si esta es mayor. La propiedad pública subasta se describe se adjudicará al mejor postor, como sigue: URBANA: Solar quien deberá satisfacer el imradicado en la URBANIZACIÓN porte de su oferta en moneda PALACIOS DEL MAR, localiza- legal y corriente de los Estado en el Barrio Buena Vista del dos Unidos de América en el término municipal de Humacao, momento de la adjudicación y Puerto Rico, que se describe en que las cargas y gravámenes el plano de inscripción de la Ur- preferentes, si los hubiese, banización con el número, área continuarán subsistentes, eny colindancias que se relacio- tendiéndose que el rematante nan a continuación: Solar nú- los acepta y queda subrogado mero Veintiséis (26) del Bloque en la responsabilidad de los “A”. Área de TRESCIENTOS mismos, sin destinarse a su ex-

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tinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas.

Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, 9 de enero de 2024.

JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #249, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JOSÉ NORORI GUTIÉRREZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2022CV02411.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 4 de enero de 2024, y publicada el 7 de noviembre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la

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propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar marcado con el número ochenta y siete en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Buenavista de Barrio Buenavista del término municipal del Bayamón, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con ochocientos noventa diezmilésimas de otra, equivalente a trescientos cincuenta metros cuadrados; en lindes: por el NORTE, con la Calle cuatro de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela noventa y uno de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela ochenta y seis de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con las parcelas número ochenta y ocho y número ochenta y nueve de la comunidad. Inscrita en la finca número 53,430, al folio 166 del tomo 1,204 de Bayamón Sur. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. Propiedad ubicada, según el pagaré, en: 87 4 St. Bo. Buena Vista, Bayamón, PR 00956. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 11 de mayo de 2022, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso civil número BY2022CV02411, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra José Norori Gutiérrez, por la suma de $53,692.45, anotado el día 25 de mayo de 2022, al folio tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 53,430, anotación A. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 7 de noviembre de 2023, archivada en autos y notificada el 10 de noviembre de 2023, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $53,692.45 por concepto de principal; más

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024 los intereses que se acumulen hasta el saldo total de la deuda y la suma de $6,349.26 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 29 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $63,492.66. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $42,328.44, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $31,746.33, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones

de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de enero de 2024. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

ISABEL MALDONADO CANDELARIA POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO CONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN ANTONIO COLLAZO DUPREY; CARLOS ALBERTO COLLAZO, PEBLES COLLAZO Y RICARDO COLLAZO COMO MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN ANTONIO COLLAZO DUPREY; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN

ANTONIO COLLAZO DUPREY

Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección I. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es Demandada la que ha quedado descrita en Civil Núm.: AR2022CV00340. el inciso (i). Será celebrada la Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, subasta para con el importe de EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA la misma satisfacer la sentencia E INTERPELACIÓN. LOS ESdicta el 18 de agosto de 2022, TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRImediante la cual se condenó a CA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS la parte demandada pagar a la EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE parte demandante la suma de ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVI$131,391.96 de principal, más SO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El $9,443.85 de interés al 5.75% que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribuanual, al 1 de febrero de 2022, nal de Primera Instancia, Sala que continuarán acumulándose de Arecibo, hago saber a la par$20.6987 diario hasta el saldo te demandada ISABEL MALtotal, $1,167.90 de otros carDONADO CANDELARIA por sí gos, $311.22 de cuenta escrow, y como miembro conocido de la $16,800.00 de costas, gastos Sucesión de JUAN ANTONIO y honorarios de abogado, más COLLAZO DUPREY, CARLOS cualquier otro desembolso que ALBERTO COLLAZO, PEBLES haya efectuado o efectúe la COLLAZO Y RICARDO COparte demandante durante la LLAZO como miembros conotramitación de este caso para cidos de la Sucesión de JUAN otros adelantos de conformidad ANTONIO COLLAZO DUcon el Contrato Hipotecario, inPREY, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD cluyendo primas de seguro de ROE como miembros desconohipoteca, prima de seguro de cidos de la Sucesión de JUAN siniestro y cargos por demora.

ANTONIO COLLAZO DUPREY La PRIMERA SUBASTA será y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; celebrada el día 20 DE FEque en cumplimiento del ManBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 damiento de Ejecución de DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina Sentencia expedido el 20 de del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal diciembre de 2023, por la Sede Primera Instancia, Sala de cretaría del Tribunal, procederé Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Servirá a vender y venderé en pública de tipo mínimo para la misma subasta por el precio mínimo de la cantidad de $168,000.00, sin $168,000.00 y al mejor postor, admitirse oferta inferior. De no pagadero en efectivo, cheque haber remate ni adjudicación, de gerente o giro postal, a nomcelebraré SEGUNDA SUBASbre del alguacil del tribunal, la TA el día 27 DE FEBRERO DE propiedad que se describe a 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAcontinuación: PR-681, KM 6.2, ÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la LOT 4, BARRIO ISLOTE, AREque servirá como tipo mínimo, CIBO, PR 00612, y que se desdos terceras (2/3) partes del cribe de la siguiente manera: precio pactado para la primera El inmueble gravado mediante subasta, o sea, $112,000.00. la hipoteca antes descrita es: Si no hubiese remate ni adjudiSolar número 4: RÚSTICA: cación en la segunda subasta, Radicada en el barrio Islote del celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA término municipal de Arecibo, el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2024 A Puerto Rico, compuesto de LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en 0.4432 cuerdas equivalentes a el mismo lugar en la que regirá 1742.0779 metros cuadrados. como tipo mínimo, la mitad del En lindes por el NORTE, con precio pactado para la primera solar tres segregado; por el subasta, o sea, $84,000.00.

SUR, con Oreste Álvarez MalEl Alguacil que suscribe hizo donado; por el ESTE, con Epiconstar que toda licitación defanía Álvarez Maldonado y con berá hacerse para pagar su Reynaldo Álvarez Maldonado; y importe en moneda legal de los por el OESTE, con faja de terreEstados Unidos de América, de no dedicada a uso público. Finacuerdo con la Ley y de acuerca 43166 inscrita al folio 135 del do con lo anunciado en este tomo 982 de Arecibo, Registro Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y de la Propiedad de Arecibo, todos los documentos corresSección I. La finca antes despondientes al procedimiento crita se encuentra afecta a los incoado estarán de manifiesto siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hien la Secretaría del Tribunal poteca constituida en garantía durante horas laborables. Se de un pagaré, aff#. 2038, a faentiende que todo licitador que vor de Doral Mortgage LLC, o a comparezca a la subasta señasu orden, por $168,000.00, al 5 lada en este caso acepta como 314%, vencedero el 1 de octubastante la titulación que da bre de 2038, según Esc. #253, base a la misma. Se entiende en San Juan, a 30 de septiemque cualquier carga y/o grabre de 2008, ante Ángel Omar vamen anterior y/o preferente, Rodríguez Correa, inscrita al si la hubiere al crédito que da folio 96 del tomo 1025 de Arebase a esta ejecución continuacibo, finca #43166, inscripción, rá subsistente, entendiéndose,

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

El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de enero de 2024. ÁNGEL DE JESÚS TORRES PÉREZ, ALGUACIL #770, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE ARECIBO.

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ESTRELLA HOMES II LLC. Parte Demandante V.

CARMEN ANA HERNANDEZ MARRERO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AR2022CV01621.

Sobre: 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 de ARECIBO, hago saber a la parte demandada, CARMEN ANA HERNANDEZ MARRERO y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 25 de septiembre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: Calle A #9, Urbanización Las Brisas, Arecibo PR 00612 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar número 9 del bloque A de la Urbanización Las Brisas, radicado en el Barrio Hato Abajo del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 322.66 metros cuadrados. Colindando por el NORTE, en 13.00 metros, con la calle número 1 y camino municipal; por el SUR, en 13.00 metros, con la calle número 8; por el ESTE, en 24.83 metros, con el solar número 10 y por el OESTE, en 24.81 metros, con el solar número 8. Enclava una casa de concreto. Finca 19,702 inscrita al Folio 95 del Tomo 476 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección I. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Carmen Ana Hernández Marrero, soltera en garantía de un pagaré, aff.#6362 a favor de Santander Financial Services Inc., o a su orden por $112,618.48, intereses al 8.81% anual y vencedero a la presentación, según escritura número 7, otorgada en Arecibo, el 25 de enero de 2010 ante el notario Santiago Mari Roca, inscrito al folio 51 del tomo 1085 de Arecibo, Finca 19702, inscripción 7ma. (ii) ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA. Demanda del 7 de septiembre de 2022, radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, en el caso civil AR2022CV01621, seguido por Luna Performance II LLC. v. Carmen Ana Hernandez Marrero, sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca, donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con la hipoteca relacionada en la inscripción 7ma., reducida a $97,690.42, anotada al Sistema Karibe de Arecibo, finca #19702, el 3 de noviembre de 2022, anotación C. 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

Tuesday, February 6, 2024 dictada el 13 de julio de 2013, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad adeudada y vencida el 1 de agosto de 2021, ascendiente a $97,690.42 de principal, más intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose al 8.81% hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más cargos por demora y otros cargos, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, 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.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 21 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de ARECIBO, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $112,618.48 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 28 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, 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, $75,078.99. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 6 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $56,309.24. 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 estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de car-

gas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de enero de 2024. ÁNGEL DE JESÚS TORRES PÉREZ, ALGUACIL #770, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE ARECIBO.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

MANUEL JOSE CARVAJAL DE JESUS T/C/C MANUEL J. CARVAJAL T/C/C MANUEL JOSE CARVAJAL, SU ESPOSA IVELISSE URRUTIA RENTA T/C/C YVELISSE URRUTIA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE

AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2020CV00526.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, ALG. HUGO BASCÓ MEDINA, PLACA #807, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Guaynabo, al público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 1 de diciembre de 2023, por la Secretaria de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente y/o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número 3-J, en el inmueble sometido al régimen de la Propiedad Horizontal conocido como Condominio Gardens Hills States, Torres Sur, localizado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo del Municipio de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico y colindante en su frente Oeste con la carretera estatal número diecinueve en su frente Norte, con la calle número tres de la urbanización Mansiones de Garden Hills y en su frente este con el área de parque de la Urbanización Mansiones de Gardens Hills. Esta construido de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto, con un área de piso de 121.11 metros cuadrados más o menos, la cual comprende el área entre la cara interior de sus paredes exteriores. Dicho apartamento está localizado al Sur este del vestíbulo del elevador en el piso número tres. La entrada principal de este apartamento está localizado frente de la sala comedor y comunica inmediatamente con el vestíbulo del elevador que es uno de los elementos comunes del edificio y conduce a la calle número 3 de la Urbanización Mansiones de Gardens Hills. Colinda por el NORTE, en 6.33 metros más o menos con la cocina y la lavandería del apartamento número tres I, en 12.07 metros cuadrados más o menos, con el pasillo que comunica con el vestíbulo del elevador; por el SUR, en 18.39 metros cuadrados más o menos, con la pared exterior; por el ESTE, en 8.41 metros cuadrados más o menos, con la pared exterior este en 0.93 metro cuadrado más o menos, con el pasillo de acceso al apartamento; por el OESTE, en 1.71 metros cuadrados más o menos, con el pasillo de acceso al

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apartamento en 0.53 metros más o menos, con el pasillo entre el vestíbulo del elevador y la escalera en 2.34 metros más o menos, con la escalera en 0.81 metros más o menos, con el cuarto de baño de servicio en 1.83 metros más o menos, con la pared exterior. Este apartamento será usado para propósitos residenciales y contiene lo siguiente: sala, comedor, cocina, lavandería tres dormitorios con sus respectivos guardarropas, un pasillo que comunica a los dormitorios, dos baños, un guardarropa de cama y un balcón. Le corresponde un porcentaje en los elementos comunes generales de 0.607% y el área de estacionamiento marcado con el número A-106. Inscrita al folio 140 del tomo 694 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo, finca número 27,970. Dirección física: Apt. 3-J, Cond.Garden Hills Estate, Torre Sur, Bo. Pueblo Viejo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00966.

La finca 27,970 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $270,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero el 13 de mayo de 2086, constituida mediante la escritura número 103, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de junio de 2009, ante el notario lleana Corral Lizardi, e inscrita al folio 82 del tomo 1,423 de Guaynabo, finca número 27,970, inscripción 13ª. La propiedad está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: A. Hipoteca revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $405,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero el 13 de mayo de 2086, constituida mediante la escritura número 104, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de junio de 2009 ante la notario lleana Corral Lizardi, e inscrita al folio 82 del tomo 1,423 de Guaynabo, finca número 27,970, inscripción 14ª. B. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 26 de agosto de 2020, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, en el Caso Civil número GB2020CV00526, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico; versus Manuel José Carvajal de Jesús, también conocido como Manuel J. Carvajal y como Manuel José Carvajal; Ivelisse Urritia Rentas también conocida como Yvelisse Urrita y la Sociedad Legal de bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos; Secretario de la Vicienda y Desarrollo Urbano; por la suma de $359,874.91, más intereses y otras sumas adicio-

nales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 13 de enero de 2021, al tomo Karibe de Guaynabo, finca número 27,970, Anotación “A”. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico; por la hipoteca de $270,000.00 total o parcialmente. 1. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, total o parcialmente el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 23 de agosto de 2023, notificada y archivada en autos el mismo día. El importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, asciende a las siguientes cantidades: $449,230.10 de principal al 28 de febrero de 2023, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda. Además, la parte demandada adeuda los créditos accesorios y adelantos hecho en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y los cos os, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $27,000.00. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 9:20 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $270,000.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 12 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 9:20 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $180,000.00. TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 19 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 9:20 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $135,000.00. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Guaynabo, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas o gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se le apercibe a los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquiera derechos que tengan sobre el inmueble, deberán comparecer a la subasta, pues de no

hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancelación de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se 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 mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre cada publicación. Se fijará además, en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección que obra en autos. Una vez efectuada la correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspaso al licitador victorioso, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanzamiento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta. 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 o ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. El Registrador de la Propiedad cancelará, libre de derechos, todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido

24 de la cual se segrega; por el SUR, en cuarentiseis metros con ochentiocho milímetros con la carretera número novecientos veintiocho; y por el OESTE, en ciento setentiseis metros con cuatrocientos treintitres milímetros con Sara Hernández.

Estructura de hormigón armado consistente de dos plantas con un área total de 3,110.064 pies cuadrados. Dicha estructura consta de: A- Primera planta LEGAL NOTICE ocupa un área de 1,695.633 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO pies cuadrados y consta de DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUuna terraza, balcón, área para NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA lavado de ropa (laundry). B- SeSALA SUPERIOR DE CAgunda planta, balcón, 4 dormiGUAS. torios, 2 baños, cocina, salacoSUN WEST MORTGAGE medor, 4 closets y un pasillo COMPANY, INC. ocupando todas estas facilidaDEMANDANTE VS. des un área total de 1,414.431 SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN pies cuadrados. FINCA NÚMERO: 10,420, inscrita al folio 246 RITA PUJOLS T/C/C CARMEN RITA PUJOLS del tomo 198 de San Lorenzo, sección II de Caguas. Dirección MACHIN Y SUCESIÓN Física: BARRIO FLORIDA PRDE JUAN RAMÓN CRUZ 928 KM 4.1 SAN LORENZO PR MEDINA COMPUESTAS 00754. Se anuncia por medio POR SUS HEREDEROS de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse CONOCIDOS ANA R. día 26 de febrero de 2024, CRUZ PUJOLS, JUAN el a las 9:00 de la mañana, en mi R. CRUZ GOUGLAS, oficina sita en el edificio que GLORIA ESTHER ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de CRUZ GOUGLAS, JUAN R. CRUZ, JOSE Caguas. Siendo ésta la primeRAMON CRUZ PUJOLS, ra subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio míniGERARDO A. CRUZ mo aceptable como oferta en la PUJOLS Y RAFAEL CRUZ Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo PUJOLS; FULANO DE mínimo pactado en la Escritura TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $210,000.00. De no COMO HEREDEROS haber remanente o adjudicaDESCONOCIDOS Y/O ción en esta primera subasta PARTES CON INTERÉS por dicha suma mínima, se EN DICHAS SUCESIONES celebrará una segunda subasDEMANDADOS ta el día 4 de marzo de 2024, CIVIL NÚM.: CG2023CV00044. a las 9:00 de la mañana, en SOBRE: DE DINERO Y EJE- el mismo lugar antes señalaCUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. do en la cual el precio mínimo EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRI- serán dos terceras (2/3) partes MERA, SEGUNDA Y TER- del tipo mínimo pactado en la CERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil escritura de hipoteca, la suma que suscribe, funcionario del de $140,000.00. De no haber Tribunal de la Sala Superior remanente o adjudicación en de Caguas, Puerto Rico, por la esta segunda subasta por el presente anuncia y hace saber tipo mínimo indicado en el páal público en general que en rrafo anterior, se celebrará una cumplimiento con la Sentencia tercera subasta en el mismo ludictada en este caso con fecha gar antes señalado el día 11 de 26 de septiembre de 2023, y marzo de 2024, a las 9:00 de la según Orden y Mandamiento mañana, en la cual el tipo mínidel 11 de enero de 2024 libra- mo aceptable como oferta será do por este honorable Tribunal, la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo procederé a vender en pública pactado en la escritura de hiposubasta al mejor postor, y por teca, la suma de $105,000.00. dinero en efectivo, cheque cer- Si se declare desierta la tercera tificado o giro postal a nombre subasta se adjudicará la finca a del Alguacil del Tribunal con favor del acreedor por la totatodo título derecho y/o interés lidad de la cantidad adeudada de la parte demandada sobre si ésta es igual o menor que la propiedad que se descri- el monto del tipo mínimo de la be a continuación: RÚSTICA: tercera subasta, si el tribunal Parcela radicada en el barrio lo estima conveniente. Se aboFlorida del término municipal nará dicho monto a la cantidad de San Lorenzo, con una cabi- adeudada si ésta es mayor. da superficial de dos cuerdas, Con el importe de esta venta se y en lindes por el NORTE, y habrá de satisfacer el balance ESTE, en cuarenticinco metros de la sentencia dictada en este con quinientos milímetros y en caso el cual consiste en el pago ciento sesentinueve metros con de $135,722.41 de principal, noventicinco milímetros respec- más intereses convenidos al tivamente con la finca principal 5.0600% anual más recargos

ejecutada mediante esta acción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 11 de enero de 2024. ALG. HUGO BASCÓ MEDINA, PLACA #807, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO.

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hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. 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 demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto.

La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) sema-

nas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 24 de enero de 2024.

Angel Gomez Gomez, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. ***

LCDO. ORLANDO MALDONADO RIVERA COND.TORRELINDA 85 CALLE MAYAGUEZ, APT. 504 SAN JUAN, P.R. 00917 TELEFONO(:7 87) 450-0077 E-mail: lic.omaldonado@gmail.com se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado por la parte demandante, sin más citarles ni oírles. Expido bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal hoy día 25 de ENERO de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZALEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN L. LEGAL NOTICE APÓNTE FLORES, SECRETAESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO RIA AUXILIAR. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBULEGAL NOTICE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE COME- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBURIO. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA COOPERATIVA DE SALA DE FAJARDO

AHORRO Y CREDITO LA COMERIEÑA Demandante Vs.

JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

ESTRELLA HOMES III, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs.

MIEMBOS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE PROVIDENCIA SOTO SUÁREZ, COMPUESTA POR FULANA DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL

Demandados Civil Núm: AI2024CV00023.

Sobre: Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado. EDICTO DE EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTDEE LOSE E.UU. Parte Demandada EL ESTADOL IBREA SOCIACivil Núm.: NSCI2015-00542.

DOD E P.R. SS. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOA: JOHN DOE Y TECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. RICHARD ROE ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El Quedan ustedes emplazados suscribiente, Alguacil del Triy notificados que en este Tri- bunal de Primera Instancia de bunal la parte demandante ha Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, radicado la acción de epígrafe a los demandados de epígrafe alegando, en síntesis, que un y al público en general hace Pagaré suscrito a favor de la saber que venderá en pública COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO subasta en la Oficina de AlguaY CREDITO LA COMERIEÑA, ciles, sita en el Tribunal de Prio a su orden, por la suma prin- mera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo cipal de $56,000.00, con intere- al mejor postor, en moneda de ses al 8.5% anual y vencedero curso legal de los Estados Uniel día 1ro. de agosto de 2031, dos de América en efectivo, el cual fue garantizado con cheque certificado, o giro poshipoteca según consta de la tal a nombre del Alguacil del escritura #48, otorgada en Co- Tribunal de Primera Instancia, merío, Puerto Rico el 5 de julio el derecho que tenga la parte de 2001, ante el Notario Santos demandada en el inmueble Manuel Rivera Estrella sobre la que se relaciona más adelante siguiente propiedad: URBANA: para pagar la SENTENCIA por Solar marcado con el #19 de $54,601.64 de balance princila Urbanización Mínima (UM- pal, los intereses adeudados 53) del término municipal de sobre dicho principal y comComerío, Puerto Rico, con una putados al 5.75% anual desde cabida superficial de trescien- el primero de marzo de 2015 tos 299,00 metros cuadrados. hasta su total pago y compleEn lindes por el NORTE, con to pago; cargos por demora la calle #1; por el SUR, con el devengados al 5% sobre cada solar #21; por el ESTE, con el mensualidad adeudada, más la solar #18; por el Oeste, con el suma de $5,650.00 estipulada solar #20. Enclava una estruc- para honorarios de abogado tura destinada a vivienda. finca pactada en la escritura de hi#2,702 inscrita al folio 12 vuelto poteca y cualesquiera otras del Tomo 58 de Comerío, Re- sumas que por cualesquiera gistro de la Propiedad, Sección concepto legal se devenguen de Barranquitas, inscripción hasta el día de la subasta. La 4ta., fue totalmente satisfecho, propiedad a venderse en públique el mismo se ha extraviado ca subasta se describe como y que ustedes podrían resultar sigue: URBANA: Apartamento ser tenedores del mismo, por residencial identificado con el lo que se les advierte que si numero trenta y seis (36) ubino radican su contestación a cado en el primer nivel bloque la demandad entro del término dos (II) del complejo residencial de 30 días contados a partir de “Portal de Ceiba”, localizado la publicación de este Edicto a: en el Barrio Chupacallos del

termino municipal de Ceiba, Puerto Rico, con la descripción y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Construido en concreto y bloques de hormigón, con un área superficial total de setecientos sesenta y siete punto quinientos pies cuadrados (767.500), equivalentes sesenta y uno punto treinta metros cuadrados (71.30). Colinda por el Norte, con elemento común que consiste de área verde y la calle uno (I); por el Sur, con elemento común que consiste de área verde y área de futuro proyecto; por el Oeste, con elemento común que consiste de área verde y área de juegos, y por el Este, con el apartamento numero treinta y siete (37) del bloque dos (II); y por el Suroeste con elemento común que consiste de área verde y el área de juegos.

Consta de sala-comedor, cocina equipada con gabinetes de cocina y facilidades para equipo de cocina y lavado de ropa, closet un bono diseñado para discapacitados, una habitación con su closet y balcón en su lado Sur. En su lado Este ubica su puerto principal de entrada que lo comunica al pasillo o vestíbulo del edificio que da acceso a la vía pública. Cuenta también con un área de patio en su lado Norte, para uso particular y exclusivo de este apartamento. Le corresponde a esa unidad de vivienda una participación en los elementos comunes del complejo residencial “Portal de Ceiba” de uno punto cinco cero ocho nueve por ciento (1.5089%). Le pertenece el uso y disfrute de un (1) espacio para Estacionamiento, marcado con el mismo numero de la unidad de vivienda. Inscrita al sistema Karibe, finca número once mil doscientos noventa y cinco (11,295). Dirección Física: Condominio Portal de Ceiba, Apt. C-10, Unit 36, Ceiba, PR 00735. Dicha propiedad se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen posterior: Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré suscrito a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $31,739.00, según escritura numero 45, otorgada en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 26 de julio de 2012, ante la Notario Sonia Trujillo Rebollo.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $56,500.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 12 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera

subasta, o a sea la suma de $37,666.67. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $28,250.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil,

así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 9 de enero de 2024. MILDRED I. TORO COLÓN, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #197, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622.

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

MARGARITA ALEMAN VAZQUEZ Demandante V.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) PATRICIA BÁEZ RAMOS PBAEZ@EMPHATIALAW.COM CASO NÚM.: SJ2023CV11080 (SALÓN 803 CIVIL) SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.

A: JOHN DOE

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 31 de enero de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 31 de enero de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. F/Karolyn Rivera Navarro, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON

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Demandante V.

Demandante V.

CARMELO CASTRO DIAZ Y OTROS

BENJAMIN AUSUA COLLAZO

NEREIDA CANDELARIA MIEMBROS DE ECHEVARRIA SUCESION DE ANA DELIA Demandado(a) SANTIAGO RIVERA JOSEPH BROCCO SANTIAGO LCDO.JOSEPH.BROCCOY OTROS

Demandado(a) CARMEN E. ALFONSO ARROYO ALFONSOABOGADA@GMAIL.COM Caso Núm.: DO2023CV00183 (Salón 403) Sobre: USUCAPIÓN.

SANTIAGO@HOTMAIL.COM Caso Núm.: AU2023RF00012 (Salón 403 RF) Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE

A: NEREIDA CANDELARIA A: TODAS LAS ECHEVARRIA PERSONAS DE NOMBRES HC 58 BOX 13295 DESCONOCIDOS AGUADA PR 00602.

(Nombre de las partes que se le QUE ESTÁN EN LA notifican la sentencia por edicto) POSESIÓN DE LAS EL SECRETARIO(A) que susFINCAS COLINDANTES cribe le notifica a usted que el DE 119 SAN CARLOS 26 DE ENERO DE 2024, este CALLE 3, DORADO, Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, PR 00946; MIEMBROS Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debiDE LA SUCESIÓN DE damente registrada y archivada DELIA SANTIAGO en autos donde podrá usted enRIVERA; FULANO DE terarse detalladamente de los TAL Y CUALQUIER términos de la misma. Esta noPERSONA IGNORADA tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulaO DESCONOCIDA ción general en la Isla de PuerA QUIENES PUEDA to Rico, dentro de los 10 días PERJUDICAR LA siguientes a su notificación. Y, INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA siendo o representando usted POR LOS DEMANDANTES. una parte en el procedimiento

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de enero de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 26 de enero de 2024. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. F/Katherine Santiago Rodríguez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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 29 de enero de 2024. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 29 de enero de 2024.

Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria. F/Lillian Pérez Candelaria, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

tición para que se declare a su favor el dominio de la siguiente finca: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno localizada en la Carretera 501 Barrio Marueño, Km 7.8 del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico con una cabida superficial de TREINTA Y CINCO MIL QUINIENTOS SIETE PUNTO OCHO MIL OCHOCIENTOS NOVENTA Y DIEZ MILESIMAS (35,507.8890), equivalentes a NUEVE PUNTO CERO TRECIENTOS CUARENTA Y DOS CUERDAS (9.0342 cdas). En lindes por el NORTE con una quebrada, por el SUR con terrenos del Fideicomiso de Conservación de Suelos, por el ESTE, con terrenos de Abigail Colón López y por el OESTE con la Carretera 501. Este Tribunal ordenó que publique la pretensión de tres (3) veces durante el término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria para los que tenga algún derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito, las personas ignorada quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse dentro del término de veinte (20) días de la última publicación del presente edicto debe notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal del promovente, Lcdo.

Luis M. Barnecet Vélez, Urb. Paraíso de Coamo, 608 Calle Paz, Coamo, PR 00769, Tel. 787- 603-2396 email: barnecet@hotmail.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 17 de enero de 2023. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria Regional. Daisy Quiñones Vázquez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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LONGHBRIDGE FINANCIAL, LLC Demandante V.

ROBERTO ORTIZ TIRADO Y OTROS

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CASO NUMERO: PO2023CV03637 SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la peticionaria de epígrafe ha presentado una Pe-

notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 31 de enero de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 31 de enero de 2024. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. F/Lourdes T. Díaz Medina, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de esta. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (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 12 de abril de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 12 de abril de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JOHANNA RODRÍGUEZ BENÍTEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs.

R.B.TOWN AND COUNTRY CORPORATION Y OTROS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV00421 (SALON 508 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LUIS G PARRILLA HERNANDEZ LPARRILLA@FERRAIOULI.COM PALOMAMARIA DOMINGUEZ SANCHEZ PDOMINGUEZ@FERRAIOULI.COM

de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de ENERO de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 30 de ENERO de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. F/MARTHA ALMODOVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO COURTHOUSE OF FIRST INSTANCE COURTROOM OF AGUADILLA JONATHAN RAFAEL CRESPO JIMÉNEZ Demandante (Plaintiff) Vs

DANIELLE MARIE PAULINO CRUZ TCP DANIELLE MARIE CRUZ

Demandada (Defendant) Civil Num: AG2024RF00035 Sobre: Custodia y Privación Patria Potestas.. CIVIL NUMBER: AG2024RF00035 Custody and Deprication parental authority) EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS. SUMMONS BY EDICT. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: DANTELLE MARIE SUCESION CLARA L PAULINO CRUZ TCP VARGAS CANCEL Y DANTELLE MARIE SUCESION MODESTO CRUZ • HC 1 BOX 17119.

A HERIQUEZ LOZADA INARAJAN, GUAM 96915 COMPUESTA POR o sea la parte demandada A: R.B.TOWN AND MODESTO A HERIQUEZ arriba mencionada. i.e.

COUNTRY CORPORATION VARGAS, CLARA the above-mentioned EL SECRETARIO (A) que susHENRIQUEZ VARGAS, cribe le notifica a usted que el defendant 30 de ENERO de 2024, este POR LA PRESENTE: Se le FULANO DE TAL , SUTANO DE TAL, JOHN Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, notifica a usted, Sra. Danielle Sentencia Parcial o Resolución Marie Paulino Cruz t/c/p DaDOE, DOE JOHN Parte Demandante Vs.

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A: WILLIAM ORTIZ A: SUCESION MODESTO DÁVILA, FULANO DE A HENRIQUEZ TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMPUESTA POR COMO MIEMBROS EILEEN HENRIQUEZ DE NOMBRES FIGUEROA DESCONOCIDOS DE LA EL SECRETARIO (A) que susSUCESIÓN DE ANA DELIA cribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de abril de 2023, este TriT/C/C ANA D. DÁVILA bunal ha dictado Sentencia, T/C/C ANA DÁVILA T/C/C Sentencia Parcial o Resolución ANA DÁVILA DÍAZ. en este caso, que ha sido debi(Nombre de las partes que se le

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damente registrada y archivada

en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de esta. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (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

nielle Marie Cruz, que la parte demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en esta Secretaría una Demanda de Custodia y Privación de Patria Potestad que aquí se menciona. HEREBY: You are hereby notified, Mrs. Danielle Marie Paulino Cruz t/c/p Danielle Marie Cruz, that the plaintiff has filed in this Secretaria! a Petition for Custody and Deprivation of Parental Authority mentioned herein.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y

Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizado 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 secretaria del. Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitando en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, o entiende procedente.

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

(Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la ley Núm 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado (a) de abogado (a) en los casos que proceda.

You are HEREBY summoned and required to respond to the complaint within thirty (30) days following the publication of this Edict. You must present your responsive allegation through the Unified Case Management and Administration System (SUMAC), which you can access using the following email address: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, unless you are represented in your own right, in whose case must present its responsive allegation at the secretariat of the Court. lf you fail to present your responsive allegation within the aforementioned term, the court may issue a default judgment against you and grant the remedy requested in the complaint, or any other remedy, if the court, in the exercise of its healthy discretion, deems it appropriate.

Furthermore, you are advised that, in cases under Law No. 57-2023, entitled Law for the Prevention of Abuse, Preservation of Family Unity and for the Safety, Well-being and Protection of Minors, among the remedies that The Court may grant, including the permanent placement of a minor outside of his or her home, the initiation of proceedings for the deprivation of parental authority, and any other measure in the best interest of the minor. (Article 33, paragraphs b and f of Law No. 572023). You are advised of your right to appear accompanied by a lawyer in appropriate cases.

Nombre del Abogado: LOURDES M. ORTÍZ PAGÁN RUA: 9103 Dirección: Po Box 593,

Cabo Rojo, PR 00623 Tél: (787) 831-1984 / Fax (787) 833-5118 Correo electrónico: lourdesm_ ortizpagan@hotmail.com Name of Attorney: LOURDES M. ORTIZ PAGÁN RUA: 9103 Address: PO Box 593, Cabo Rojo, PR 00623 Phone: (787) 831-1984 / Fax (787) 833-5118 Email: lourdesm_ortizpagan@ hotmail.com EXPEDIDO POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico hoy 26 de ENERO de 2024. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretaria. Maria Valentin Ramirez, Sub-Secretaria.

ISSUED BY ORDER OF THE COURT, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico today 26 of January, 2024.

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CARLA L. GONZALEZ LEON

Demandado(a) NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERA NATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV05502 (SALÓN 803 CIVIL) Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60.

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A: CARLA L. GONZÁLEZ LEON

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de ENERO de2024. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 29 de ENERO de 2024. GRISELDA

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A: ADRIANNE RODRIGUEZ CAMPIZ

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de ENERO de2024. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 29 de ENERO de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. f/VIVIAN J SANABRIA ORTIZ, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de enero de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 30 de enero de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. F/Karolyn Rivera Navarro, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de ENERO de2024. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 29 de ENERO de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. f/VIVIAN J SANABRIA ORTIZ, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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Demandado(a) EDWIN OMAR SERRANO PEÑA EDWIN.SERRANO@ORF-LAW.COM KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERA NATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM CASO NÚM.: AG2021CV00590 (SALÓN 0002 SALA DE INVESTIGACIONES) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

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(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una

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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 29 de enero de 2024. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 29 de enero de 2024. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria. F/Yaritza Díaz Nieves, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

mandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN SEBASTIAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de diciembre de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de diciembre de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 19 de diciembre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs.

Demandados DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS Civil Núm.: AR2023CV00096.

UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOASOCIADO DE PUERTO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Parte Demandada ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉCivil Núm.: SJ2023CV07042. RICO, SS. RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. A: ANGEL N. LOPEZ LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- VARGAS - URB. VILLAS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE DE CASTRO I-9 CALLE DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE 2-A, CAGUAS, PR 00725.

A: LA PARTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, POR LA PRESENTE se le DEMANDADA, AL (A EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIAemplaza y requiere para que DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE conteste la demanda dentro de A: EDGARDO los treinta (30) días siguientes HACIENDA DE PUERTO COLON MORALES RICO Y AL PÚBLICO a la publicación de este Edicto.

BO ALMIRANTE SUR Usted deberá presentar su aleGENERAL: CARR 160 KM 8.2, VEGA gación responsiva a través del Certifico y Hago Constar: Que BAJA PR 00693; PO BOX Sistema Unificado de Manejo y en cumplimiento con el MandaAdministración de Casos (SU9022405, SAN JUAN PR MAC), la cual puede acceder miento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por 00902. utilizando la siguiente direc- el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal POR LA PRESENTE se le ción electrónica: https://unired. de Primera Instancia, Sala Suemplaza y requiere para que ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se perior de CIALES, en el caso conteste la demanda dentro de represente por derecho propio, de epígrafe, venderé en pública los treinta (30) días siguientes en cuyo caso deberá presentar subasta y al mejor postor, por a la publicación de este Edic- su alegación responsiva en la separado, de contado y por to. Usted deberá presentar su secretaría del tribunal. Si usted moneda de curso legal de los alegación responsiva a través deja de presentar su alegación Estados Unidos de América y/o del Sistema Unificado de Ma- responsiva dentro del referido Giro Postal y Cheque Certificanejo y Administración de Ca- término, el tribunal podrá dicdo, en mi oficina ubicada en el sos (SUMAC), la cual puede tar sentencia en rebeldía en Tribunal de Primera Instancia, acceder utilizando la siguiente su contra y conceder el remeSala de CIALES, el 7 DE MARdirección electrónica: https:/// dio solicitado en la demanda o ZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE www.poderjudicial.pr/index. cualquier otro sin más citarle ni LA MAÑANA, todo derecho php/tribunal-electronico, salvo oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercitítulo, participación o interés que se represente por derecho cio de su sana discreción, lo enque le corresponda a la parte propio, en cuyo caso deberá tiende procedente. El sistema demandada o cualquiera de presentar su alegación respon- SIJMAC notificará copia a los ellos en el inmueble hipotecasiva en la secretaría del tribu- abogados de la parte demando objeto de ejecución que se nal. Si usted deja de presentar dante, el Lcdo. Edwin Serrano describe a continuación: RÚSsu alegación responsiva dentro cuyas direcciones son: P.O. TICA: BARRIO BARAHONA del referido término, el tribunal Box 71418 San Juan, Puerde Morovis. Solar: SOLAR “A”. podrá dictar sentencia en re- to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono Cabida: 743.472 Metros Cuabeldía en su contra y conceder (787) 993-3731 a la dirección drados. LINDEROS: NORTE, el remedio solicitado en la de- edwin.serrano@orf-law.com y a con uso público, según el plano manda o cualquier otro sin más la dirección notificaciones@orfde inscripción. SUR, con Sucecitarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO sión Márquez. ESTE, con Parel ejercicio de su sana discre- MII FIRMA y el sello del Tribucela número Ciento Ochenta y ción, lo entiende procedente. El nal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, Uno (181) remanente según el sistema SUMAC notificará co- hoy día 17 de octubre de 2023. plano de inscripción. OESTE, pia al abogado de la parte de- En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 17 con propiedad de Iglain Mármandante, Natalie Bonaparte de octubre de 2023. LISILDA quez e Ismael Serpa, según Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SEel plano de inscripción. Predio Box 71418 San Juan, Puer- CRETARIA. RIVERA RIVERA, de Terreno en forma triangular to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono GLORIMAR, SECRETARIA marcada con la letra “A” según (787) 993-3731 a la dirección AUXILIAR. el plano de inscripción, con una natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com cabida de setecientos cuarenta LEGAL NOTICE y a la dirección notificaciones@ y tres punto cuatrocientos seorf-law.com.

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Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENAGENTE DE ACE ONE TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL FUNDING, LLC PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTAParte Demandante Vs. DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIJOSE SANTIAGO ALICEA BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO Parte Demandada RICO, SS. Civil Núm.: SS2023CV00526. A: MELVIN I PEREZ TORRES - URB CASTELLANA GARDEN CALLE Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- CASTILLA BB-34 CAROLINA, P.R. 00983-1904; CARR 765 KM 3.5 TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE SECTOR LAJITA DEL BARRIO AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE BORINQUEN CAGUAS, P.R. 00725.

DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, POR LA PRESENTE se le EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- emplaza por la deuda reclaDO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. mada de $3,372.06 y requiere A: JOSE SANTIAGO para que conteste la demanda ALICEA - BO JUNCAL dentro de los treinta (30) días 47 CARR 111 KM 31 H 1 siguientes a la publicación de INT, SAN SEBASTIAN PR este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva 00685; HC 3 BOX 34849, a través del Sistema Unificado SAN SEBASTIAN PR de Manejo y Administración 00685. de Casos (SUMAC), la cual POR LA PRESENTE se le puede acceder utilizando la siemplaza y requiere para que guiente dirección electrónica: conteste la demanda dentro de https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ los treinta (30) días siguientes index.php/tribunal-electronico/ a la publicación de este Edic- salvo que se represente por to. Usted deberá presentar su derecho propio, en cuyo caso alegación responsiva a través deberá presentar su alegación del Sistema Unificado de Ma- responsiva en la secretaría del nejo y Administración de Ca- tribunal. Si usted deja de presos (SUMAC), la cual puede sentar su alegación responsiva acceder utilizando la siguiente dentro del referido término, el dirección electrónica: https:/// tribunal podrá dictar sentenwww.poderjudicial.pr/index. cia en rebeldía en su contra y php/tribunal-electronico, salvo conceder el remedio solicitaque se represente por derecho do en la demanda o cualquier propio, en cuyo caso deberá otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si presentar su alegación respon- el tribunal en el ejercicio de su siva en la secretaría del tribu- sana discreción, lo entiende nal. Si usted deja de presentar procedente. El sistema SUMAC su alegación responsiva dentro notificará copia a los abogados del referido término, el tribunal de la parte demandante, Lcdo. podrá dictar sentencia en re- Edwin Serrano Peña cuyas dibeldía en su contra y conceder recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 el remedio solicitado en la de- San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936manda o cualquier otro sin más 8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en a la dirección edwin.serrano@ el ejercicio de su sana discre- orf-law.com y a la dirección noción, lo entiende procedente. El tificaciones@orf-law.com. EXsistema SUMAC notificará co- TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el pia al abogado de la parte de- sello del Tribunal, en Carolina,

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Parte Demandante Vs.

EDGARDO COLON MORALES

NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT

The San Juan Daily Star Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita en Karibe, finca 15,615 de Morovis, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, inscripción 3ª. Propiedad localizada en: 181 CALLE MANUEL CACHO, BO. BARAHONA, MOROVIS, PR 00687. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $145,500.00.

Fecha de Vencimiento: 7 de agosto de 2095. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $145,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de CIALES, el 14 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $97,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $72,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de CIALES, el 21 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $59,966.69 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $32,811.95 en intereses acumulados al 30 de mayo de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.184% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $11,870.51 en seguro hipotecario; $1,952.71 de seguro; $525.00 de tasacio-

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nes; $357.00 de inspecciones; $6,171.00 en mantenimiento; $3,533.00 en adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $14,550.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 12 de enero de 2024. GERARDO E. REYES MELÉNDEZ, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #109.

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

YVONNE BLANCO; BLANCA IRIS MATIAS COLON Y CARMEN LEYDA MATIAS COLON Demandante V.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV11789.

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

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipoDE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO tecaria y pudiendo usted tener Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio soliciCOMO POSIBLES tado, se le emplaza por este TENEDORES Y edicto que se publicará una vez CUALESQUIER PERSONA en un periódico de circulación DESCONOCIDA CON diaria general de Puerto Rico.

POSIBLE INTERÉS EN Usted deberá presentar su aleresponsiva a través del LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA gación Sistema Unificado de Manejo y CANCELACIÓN POR Administración de Casos (SUDECRETO JUDICIAL SE MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direcSOLICITA. Por la presente se le notifica ción electrónica: https://unired. que ha sido presentada en ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo este Tribunal una Demanda que se represente por derecho en su contra en el pleito de propio, y notifique con copia de epígrafe. En este caso la parte ella a la abogada de la parte demandante ha radicado una demandante la Lcda. Zilmarie Demanda para que se decrete Delgado Pieras, 33 Calle Rejudicialmente el saldo de un solución, Suite 302, San Juan, (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor PR 00920-2727; Tel. (787) 782de Banco Popular Puerto Rico, 6500, dentro de los treinta (30) por la suma de $36,450.00. El días siguientes a la publicación pagaré por fue suscrito el día de este Edicto, apercibiéndole 21 de agosto de 1975, ante el que de no hacerlo así dentro notario Rafael Kodesh Baraga- del término indicado, el Tribuño, garantizado por hipoteca nal podrá anotar su rebeldía y constituida mediante la Escri- dictar sentencia concediendo tura número 115, otorgada en el remedio solicitado en la DeSan Juan, Puerto Rico, inscrita manda sin más citarle ni oírle. al tomo Karibe de Monacillos, EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y finca 8,368, inscripción 10a, so- sello de este Tribunal, en San bre la siguiente propiedad: UR- Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día de BANA: Solar sito en el Barrio 22 de enero de 2024. GRISELMonacillos de la municipalidad DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, REGIONAL. de Río Piedras antes, hoy San SECRETARIA Juan, Puerto Rico, marcado ENID DÍAZ RÍOS, SECRETAcon el #7B de la manzana KH RIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. de la Urbanización Caparra TeLEGAL NOTICE rrance, con un área superficial de 237.50 metros cuadrados, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO más o menos, el cual colinda DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUpor el NORTE, en 9.50 metros, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA con la calle #76 de la Urbani- SALA DE PONCE zación; por el SUR, en 9.50 LUNA metros, con el solar #15 de la RESIDENTIAL II, LLC manzana KH; por el ESTE, Parte Demandante Vs. en 25.00 metros, con el solar NORMA VÉLEZ, MAYRA #7A de la manzana KH y por el OESTE, en 25.00 metros, con VÉLEZ COLÓN, FREDDY VELEZ COLON COMO el solar #8 de la manzana KH. Enclava una casa de concreto MIEMBRO DE LA armado con techo de azotea y SUCESIÓN DE EDDIE piso de losas del país, de una VELEZ TORRADO; sola planta, que constituye una Y CARMEN COLON vivienda independiente, consisFEBLES POR SI Y tiendo de tres dormitorios con sus closets, sala y comedor COMO MIEMBRO DE LA en una sola unidad, cocina con SUCESIÓN DE EDDIE su closet, balcón y cuarto de VELEZ TORRADO; baño. Existe una servidumbre SUTANO DE TAL por signo aparente establecida COMO MIEMBRO por la Corporación vendedora DESCONOCIDO DE LA en la pared que divide los apartamentos A y B cuya pared, SUCESIÓN DE EDDIE continuará sirviendo a ambos VÉLEZ TORRADO, apartamentos y pertenecerá FULANO DE TAL en común proindiviso y en toda COMO MIEMBRO su actual extensión y espesor DESCONOCIDO DE LA a los propietarios de ambos apartamentos.” Se expresa SUCESIÓN DE NAMMIELE en la inscripción quinta, que la VELEZ COLON CON casa es de dos plantas. FINCA: POSIBLE INTERÉS #8368 (antes 9886) Inscrita EN LA SUCESIÓN al folio 137 del tomo 227 de DE EDDIE VELEZ MONACILLOS, Registro de la TORRADO CENTRO Propiedad de SAN JUAN III. La parte demandante alega que DE RECAUDACION DE dicho pagaré ha sido saldado INGRESOS MUNICIPALES según más detalladamente Y ADMINISTRACION consta en la Demanda radicaPARA EL SUSTENTO DE da que puede examinarse en la

MENORES

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: PO2023CV02306. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: NORMA VÉLEZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDDIE VÉLEZ TORRADO, FREDDY VÉLEZ COLON COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDDIE VÉLEZ TORRADO SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBRO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDDIE VÉLEZ TORRADO Y FULANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBRO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE NAMMIELE VÉLEZ COLON CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE EDDIE VÉLEZ TORRADO.

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surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo lo pactado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar en la Urbanización Glenview Gardens, sección tres (3), del Barrio Machuelo Arriba de Ponce, Puerto Rico, marcado con las letras y numero EE guión cuatro (EE-4), con una cabida superficial de trescientos veintiséis punto sesenta y dos (326.62) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en trece punto (13.00) metros, con la calle letra y numero N guion trece (N-13); por el Sur, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con el solar número veintinueve (29); por el Este, en veinticinco punto doce (25.15) metros, con el solar número cinco (5); y por el Oeste, en veinticinco punto doce (25.15) metros con el solar número tres (3). Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio noventa y nueve (99) de del tomo novecientos cincuenta y dos (952) de Ponce I, finca número veinticinco mil setecientos diecisiete (25,717). SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico A 22 de enero de 2024. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria Regional. Mariely Félix Rivera, Sub-Secretaria.

POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV01468.

(207). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: WILFREDO ORTIZ, NELSON TORRES ORTIZ, DELBYS ORTIZ Y NINI ORTIZ COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE KELMELL RAFAEL ORTIZ RIVERA T/C/C KELMELL R. ORTIZ RIVERA A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: RD 105, KM 4.8 INT, LOT 1, JUAN ALONSO STREET, MAYAGÜEZ, PR 00680, CARR 105 KM 4.9 INT. BO. LIMÓN, MAYAGÜEZ, PR 00680, CARR. 2 KM 149.3, INT SECTOR CUBA, MAYAGÜEZ, PR 00680, PO BOX 7149, POR LA PRESENTE se les emMAYAGÜEZ, PR 00681plaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los 7149, 2040 COLINAS treinta (30) días siguientes a la DE ALTURAS DE publicación de este Edicto. UsMAYAGÜEZ, MAYAGÜEZ, ted deberá radicar su alegación PR 00682-6274, URB. responsiva a través del Sistema VALLE HERMOSO, Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al SD16 CALLE SAUCE, cual puede acceder utilizando HORMIGUEROS, URB. la siguiente dirección electróniVALLE HERMOSO, ST41 ca: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ CALLE MARGARITA, sumac, salvo que se presente HORMIGUEROS, PR por derecho propio, en cuyo 00660-1235, URB. ALT DE caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el TriMAYAGÜEZ, 1817 CALLE bunal correspondiente y notifiPUNTITA, MAYAGÜEZ PR que con copia a los abogados 00682-6207. de la parte demandante, Lcda.

LEGAL NOTICE MENGANO DE TAL, Marjaliisa Colon Villanueva, POSIBLE HEREDERO al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO 00732-7970; Teléfono: 787- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDESCONOCIDO DE 843-41668. En dicha demanda NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA KELMELL RAFAEL ORTIZ se tramita un procedimiento de SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYARIVERA T/C/C KELMELL cobro de dinero y ejecución de GÜEZ R. ORTIZ RIVERA. BANCO POPULAR DE hipoteca bajo el número menQueda usted notificado que en cionado en el epígrafe. Se alePUERTO RICO este Tribunal se ha radicado ga en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de febrero de 2020 hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.

Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $37,889.52, más intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 12.95% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que

Parte Demandante Vs.

demanda sobre ejecución de

SUCESIÓN DE KELMELL hipoteca por la vía ordinaria RAFAEL ORTIZ RIVERA en la que se alega se adeuT/C/C KELMELL R. ORTIZ da las siguientes cantidades: RIVERA COMPUESTA $10,308.31 de principal, más POR SUS SOBRINOS intereses sobre dicha suma al 8% anual desde el 1 de febreWILFREDO ORTIZ, ro de 2023 hasta su completo MAGDA F. TORRES pago, más $90.05 de recarORTIZ, NELSON TORRES gos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasORTIZ, ARMANDO TORRES ORTIZ, ROSALIE ta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de TORRES ORTIZ, JULIANA $4,998.00 para costas, gastos TORRES ORTIZ, y honorarios de abogados así FRANCES N. TORRES como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstaORTIZ, LOURDES C. TORRES ORTIZ, DELBYS mo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, ORTIZ Y NINI ORTIZ inspecciones y otros adelantos Y MENGANO DE TAL, “corporate advances” La pro-

piedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Parcela de porción de terreno radicada en el Barrio Juan Alonso del término municipal de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de 797.958 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.203 cuerdas. Colinda por el NORTE, con Antiguo camino y Juan Coll; por el SUR, con uso público y camino municipal que da a la carretera #105 al km 4.9; por el ESTE, con Juan Coll y con antiguo camino; y por el OESTE, con solar #2 segregado de la finca principal. Enclava una casa construida sobre base de cemento y la misma es de madera tratada y esta techada de zinc. La propiedad y la hipoteca constan inscritas al folio 1 del tomo móvil 1486 de Mayagüez, Finca 42459, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. Inscripción tercera. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. Se interpela a los demandados para que acepten o renuncien a la herencia de la causante dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento el Artículo 1578 del nuevo Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11021, entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término, aceptan el caudal relicto; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito judicial. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. 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 la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826 y (787) 708-0566, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy, 22 de enero de 2024 en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BETSY SANTIAGO GONZÁLEZ, SUBSECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Don’t bet on this former Vegas mayor being at the Super Bowl

By KEN BELSON

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t was just after 4 p.m. on a recent weekday, and Oscar Goodman, the mob lawyer turned Las Vegas mayor turned civic cheerleader, was sipping perhaps his first Hizzoner of the day.

The drink — made with Bombay Sapphire gin, more Bombay Sapphire gin and a slice of jalapeño pepper, served in a large martini glass — is not just Goodman’s favorite social lubricant. It’s an homage to a faded version of Las Vegas that he has spent decades celebrating and trying to keep alive.

After a sip of the fuzzy elixir, Goodman settled into a booth at Oscar’s Steakhouse, an upscale restaurant in downtown Las Vegas, where he is paid to lend his name and conjure up his heyday representing gangsters such as Meyer Lansky and Tony Spilotro, staring down the FBI and appearing as himself in movies such as “Casino.” He still plays the part well. Goodman, 84, has no trouble dishing out bare-knuckle opinions about everything from graffiti and gambling to prostitution and the homeless situation.

Goodman is more than merely an “only in Vegas” relic, however. During his 12 years as mayor starting in 1999, he also helped boost the city’s tattered downtown, which long ago was eclipsed by the Strip a few miles south.

Yet one thing he was unable to do while in office was persuade America’s biggest sports leagues to put a team in Sin City. Try as he did, the leagues could not be convinced that the city’s connections to gambling were not a threat to the integrity of their games.

That stigma vanished in 2018 when the Supreme Court overturned the federal law banning sports wagering outside Nevada. The floodgates opened, and even the NFL, which had pushed back the hardest against Goodman, now calls Las Vegas home. The Raiders began playing here in 2020, and the city has since hosted the Pro Bowl and the league’s draft.

Interior details of Oscar’s Steakhouse at the Plaza Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, on Jan. 28, 2024. Oscar Goodman tried for years to lure pro sports to Las Vegas. Now that he’s out of office and the N.F.L.’s premier event has arrived, he has no need for the “Big Game.”

(Cody Cobb/The New York Times)

On Feb. 11 will come the crowning achievement, when Las Vegas is the site of Super Bowl LVIII between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers.

Goodman regrets not being in office for the arrival of pro sports, including the Golden Knights of the NHL in 2017 and last year’s announcement that MLB had given the Oakland Athletics permission to move to the city. But he has gotten a vicarious thrill watching his wife, Carolyn, who succeeded him in office and remains Las Vegas mayor, attend the ribbon-cuttings.

“You want to succeed in everything you tried,” Goodman said of his efforts. “But look, I’m a realist. I didn’t succeed, but I was very lucky that my wife was able to do what I couldn’t do.”

What Goodman did do was tell anyone who would listen that the leagues were sanctimonious charlatans. Professional sports, he said, benefited from gambling because fans become more interested in games when they have money riding on them. He told the league commissioners concerned about the influence of gambling on players and coaches that Las Vegas was the safest place to play because the casinos and sportsbooks were highly regulated.

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leagues’ resistance to the city.

He didn’t stumble on sports by accident.

By his own account, he’ll bet on anything that moves, including, apparently, cockroaches.

Before ordering his drink, he told a visitor that he had bet on the two underdogs — the Chiefs and the Detroit Lions — to cover the spread in the NFL’s conference championships games. (He won both bets.) Then Jonathan Jossel, who runs the Plaza Hotel, the home of Oscar’s Steakhouse, stopped by to give Goodman $150 in cash, his share of their winning fantasy football team.

“I cannot risk owing this man a penny,” Jossel joked.

Bathed in neon from the signs outside the restaurant, Goodman said he recognized how the Runnin’ Rebels of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, unified the city when they were one of the top men’s college basketball teams in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He felt that Las Vegas needed professional sports teams not to boost the economy — as many mayors claim when trying to persuade taxpayers to subsidize stadiums for teams — but to generate enthusiasm and signal that Las Vegas was a world-class city.

“The truth is, he really does have vision,” Carolyn Goodman said of her husband’s push to lure a team. “I know part of it was selfish because he loves sports, and of course he loves to gamble. The way he supported our romance through college was playing poker.”

Oscar Goodman, who wasn’t afraid to use the word “whack” while mayor and, in a nod to a particularly memorable scene from “The Godfather,” still keeps a plastic horse head in his office, was a rare lawmaker willing to

call out the leagues’ rigid opposition to sports gambling. He would point out, correctly, that some team owners had once been bookmakers and that billions of dollars were wagered on games.

“You have that hypocrisy, and Goodman certainly seized it,” said John L. Smith, a longtime journalist in Nevada and the author of “Of Rats and Men: Oscar Goodman’s Life From Mob Mouthpiece to Mayor of Las Vegas.”

“He has a certain anarchy about him,” Smith added. “He sees that and wants to break that up.”

Goodman trolled the leagues in his flamboyant style. He sat courtside at basketball games with a showgirl on each arm. He publicly chastised the NFL’s commissioner at the time, Paul Tagliabue, after he blocked Las Vegas from advertising on television during the Super Bowl in 2003. Goodman dropped

by MLB’s winter meetings with showgirls and a martini glass, hugging former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda and other baseball luminaries and telling reporters that Las Vegas was ready for a team.

The leagues were not impressed. Goodman recalled how in 1999 he visited the NBA’s offices in New York, and David Stern, who was the commissioner, told him that Las Vegas would get a basketball team only over his dead body.

“Basically, we ended up like everything else in my life, in a fight,” Goodman said. “I said, ‘You want to know something, Commissioner: Before I became mayor, I represented reputed mobsters, and I could arrange that.’”

All of those spats feel like ancient history now, as gambling commercials run on TV during game broadcasts, fans bet using cellphone apps and Las Vegas prepares to host the most famous sporting event in the country.

As the first spouse of Las Vegas, Goodman could easily cop a seat in a luxury box at Allegiant Stadium, where the Super Bowl will be played. But after years of doing battle with the leagues, he’s not interested in battling traffic to hobnob with the same people who stiff-armed him. Instead, he’ll watch in his living room with his family and an ample supply of Bombay Sapphire gin.

If Raiders owner “Mark Davis called me and said, ‘Please sit with me,’ I wouldn’t go,” Goodman said. “I love being at home with my wife, and the kids stop by. I’m the happiest guy in the world. I get drunk, and I see 44 players on the field at the same time. I mean, it’s my favorite day of the year.”

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Don’t be surprised if you find your mind going a thousand miles a minute today, Aries. Slowing down will likely elude you and you’ll have to find one means or another to express what’s racing around in your head. The aspects today lend much to communication. Perhaps talking over your writing or ideas with someone whose insight you value will do the trick. Even doodling can give you a place to put your thoughts. Explore these activities today.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Today may well find you in the mood to head out on a venture or visit someone, Libra. When was the last time you took a day for something like this? Chances are it’s been too long. Not only will you enjoy it but others will be thrilled to have some time with you as well. Whether you pack up the whole family or head out on your own, seize the opportunity to visit a new place or connect with people you haven’t seen in a while.

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Welcome to another great day, Taurus. The energy from the day’s aspects is positive and encouraging when it comes to communication and interaction with others. Why not take advantage of this? Get together to visit with friends and family and enjoy yourself. Consider inviting people over for a game or dinner. Even a potluck can be a lot of fun. You work hard all the time, so play hard today!

You might find yourself really interested in getting out and doing something today, Gemini. And why not? It can’t be too difficult to phone a few friends and arrange to get together in the evening. Or perhaps you can look in the events page in your local newspaper and see whether a meeting or lecture is taking place that you’d like to attend. Is there a place you’ve been curious about and wanted to visit? If so, go there today and check it out. Make the best of your time!

Consider channeling your philosophical inspirations into some creative writing, Cancer. You’ll certainly enjoy this type of activity. Even if you haven’t explored this before, there’s no better day than today to give it a whirl. Why not start a journal if you haven’t done so already? This will give your ideas a place to incubate, and it can become a starting point for further reflection. Or you could try your hand at poetry and fiction instead.

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You might feel the need for some time to yourself today, Leo. And why not take it? Chances are you’re surrounded by others most of the time, and when you don’t take time to be alone with your thoughts and feelings, it can prove unhealthy for you. Taking care of your emotional well-being is critical, as you have a deeply sensitive nature. With continuous activity around you, there’s no time to connect with this part of you. Make time today.

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Today you may want to go your own way regardless of what someone else wants, Virgo. Your independence is very important to you. However, compromise might be necessary in order to avoid serious conflict. Consider splitting your day to allow for the wishes of those close to you and time for yourself.

If you can’t make others understand why you want to be alone, this might be the best solution.

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Serious thinking and communication will be enhanced today, Scorpio. These are strong qualities for you anyway, and with this added boost, you’ll need to have a place to express yourself. If you’ve started a journal, this can prove to be an excellent outlet. Talking with other people is another. If there are issues or worries that have been bothering you, consider getting together with those involved and airing what’s on your mind. It’s a perfect day to get things resolved.

You might feel cornered into doing something you just don’t want to do today, Sagittarius. Perhaps you made a promise to handle a project, or someone close to you has decided that it’s the day to tackle something specific. Either way, if you’re uncomfortable following through, communicate that to this person.

Your ability to express yourself and be understood is enhanced with this day’s energy. Rescheduling might be far better than any potential resentment.

You might discover that someone close to you, a family member perhaps, could use a hand today, Capricorn. Chances are good, too, that he or she won’t ask for help out of pride. Don’t let that stop you, though.

If you recognize a situation where you can be of assistance, go for it. Don’t wait for an invitation or request.

Simply take hold of the circumstances and do what you can.

Aquarius

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When was the last time you used a pen and paper, Aquarius? In this age of computers, the keyboard has all but replaced these wonderful tools. In the same way that walking provides much more than fresh air, the kinesthetic value of the rhythmic motion of writing with a pen is far more soothing and even healing than most realize. Moving your hand across the page can feel good and unlock places within you that aren’t accessed by typing. Try it today.

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Today may bring a keen sense of empathy and understanding, Pisces. With this, verbal communication is also more likely to be effective. Consider seizing this energy by making a point of talking through any problems or issues you have with those in your life. If they don’t live with you, see about driving over to visit them or calling them up to work things out. If there isn’t anything pressing, see about expressing your affection for those closest to you by telling them straight out what they mean to you.

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