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Puerto Rico Visits ‘La Madre Patria’

Governor & Delegation Arrive in Madrid for International Tourism Fair

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Denies Delays in Teaching Career Applications P6

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Swain Leaves Hearing on PREPA CBAs Unscheduled P4

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he Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH), in conjunction with the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, reported Wednesday that the unemployment rate in Puerto Rico remained at 5.7 % during the month of December 2023, matching the record set the previous month, adding 24 consecutive months with a rate of 6.5 percent or less and averaging 5.9 percent during the calendar year 2023, the lowest average in history.

“The calendar year 2023 was a historic one for the Puerto Rican labor market, as a result of an increase in economic activity and concrete strategies to insert more people into the world of work. We are talking about the year with the lowest unemployment rate in our history, at the monthly level and in terms of annual average, as well as the year where the highest employment levels were averaged in recreation and accommodation, professional and business services, and education and health services,” said the Secretary of the DTRH Gabriel Maldonado Gonzalez in written statements.

“These positive trends have been sustained over a long period of time and can be verified through the different reports and publications that our agency issues together with the federal government. In this new year we will continue to work hand in hand with other

components of the government, the private sector and for-profit organizations, to continue maximizing initiatives such as the new Employment and Recruitment Portal to Facilitate Labor Integration (PERFIL), the Puerto Rico Está Faja’o campaign and Infinite Talent, among others,” Maldonado Gonzalez added..

According to the publication of Employment and Unemployment, which is based on the Worker Group Survey, the unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, stood at 5.7% for the month of December 2023. It reflected no change compared to November 2023, while it represented a decrease of 0.3 percentage point when compared to December 2022. During the calendar year 2023, the average unemployment rate was 5.9%, which represents the lowest annual average in history.

Secretary of the DTRH Gabriel Maldonado Gonzalez.

DTOP silent about installation of new Urban Train ticket evening machines

By THE STAR STAFF The Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP) is silent on the status of the multimillion-dollar project to install new ticket vending machines in Urban Train stations, at a cost of $25 million.

Last week, Ivonne Lozada Rosas, candidate for the Senate for the district of San Juan on the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) ballot, questioned what has happened to it.

“It was last October when the management of the Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP) announced the installation of these new machines at the Martínez Nadal station of the Urban Train, in a plan that is supposed to be ready this year, where boats and buses are integrated as part of the integrated transportation system. Precisely when the Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián were celebrated last week, the use of this means of transport increased dramatically,

as well as in sporting and artistic events in San Juan,” said the also expert in legislative affairs.

Although last October the executive director of the Integrated Transport Authority (ATI), Josué Menéndez Agosto, explained that these two machines in Martínez Nadal, in Guaynabo, were going to be used for an internal testing phase prior to their full implementation in all stations, at the moment they are isolated by fences, according to a photo presented by Lozada to the media.

“Naturally, the processes of modernization of systems take their own time, but it is also important that citizens are properly informed. For many years, criticism of the ATI system has been many, in part because it is obsolete. The construction of the Urban Train began in the 1990s and still costs us $2.2 billion, as it was financed mostly with debt issuance that still needs to be paid. Hence the interest of this servant in overseeing what is the property of all of us, the taxpayers,” Lozada Rosas said.

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Judge postpones hearing indefinitely on whether to end PREPA’s collective bargaining agreements

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uerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bankruptcy Judge Laura Taylor Swain has postponed a hearing on a petition to reject PREPA’s collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) with its unions indefinitely.

While a hearing was slated for Jan. 24, Swain said in her recent order that she would consider “the appropriate standards of scrutiny” required to determine whether to reject the contract and the need for a hearing.

“In the interim, the parties are advised to do their utmost to negotiate a consensual resolution to their disputes in conjunction with the mediation team,” Swain ordered.

The Financial Oversight and Management Board, which represents PREPA in its bankruptcy, on January 2 asked Swain to allow it to end the CBAs with PREPA’ unions, arguing the utility could not pay the Judge Laura Taylor Swain

unaffordable pension and grievance claims.

The FOMB said PREPA has two remaining CBAs – one with UTIER, the Electric Industry and Irrigation Workers Union, with approximately 139 active members staying, and one with the Union de Empleados Profesionales Independientes, with about three active members remaining.

Each of these CBAs requires, among other things, that PREPA’s current pension system continue to operate and be maintained as a fully funded trust.

“PREPA cannot assume its CBAs because it is unable to cure the significant multibillion dollar underfunding of its defined benefit plan, meet future funding obligations to maintain the system as it currently exists and as required by the CBAs, or pay the unions’ grievance claims asserted in excess of $1 billion. Assumption of the CBAs would also be inconsistent with the pension reform measures the Oversight Board has determined

are essential to ensure adequate funding for accrued pension benefits. The pension reform measures are the same as those implemented for governmental employees of the Commonwealth and other Title III debtors,” the FOMB said in its petition.

The unions have asked the court to reject the FOMB’s petition.

UTIER said the FOMB had not demonstrated the quantum of proof necessary to justify the rejection of the CBA and has not engaged in good-faith negotiations.

Under the Bankruptcy Code, the assumption or rejection of contracts is based on business judgment. The debtor must show that the proposed action will benefit the estate.

In a separate motion earlier this month, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) Retirement System said PREPA couldn’t modify its pension obligations by rejecting its contract with its union.

Simplification of requesting tax reimbursement for farmers announced

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he Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés Alicea, announced on Wednesday the simplification of the process of requesting reimbursement of taxes related to the purchase of gas oil and diesel oil, for the operation of machinery and vehicles used in agricultural activities.

“We continue to review the processes in the Treasury Department and integrate more technology, so that the different sectors can benefit from the incentives available

and make their arrangements quickly and easily. In this case, we had a direct request from farmers who asked us to review the excise reimbursement process to make it more accessible and it is already available,” Parés Alicea said in written statements.

The Treasury Department established a procedure through SURI, so that Bonafide farmers can request the reimbursement of the excise duty of :”gas oil” or “diesel oil,” acquired for exclusive use in the operation of agricultural, livestock and poultry machinery and vehicles. It also includes the

breeding of native thoroughbred horses or Paso Fino horses, pure Puerto Rico, and the operation of machinery or vehicles of producers, processors, pasteurizers or sterilizers of milk or its derived products, as well as other equipment used in other agro-industrial or agricultural operations.

To submit the reimbursement request, the bona fide farmer must have an active

Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés Alicea

farmer ID with the Department.

It will be reimbursed at the rate of 0.04 cents for each gallon or fraction thereof, as provided in Section 3020.06 of the Puerto Rico Internal Revenue Code of 2011, as amended. In addition, the reduction tax will be reimbursed, at the rate of $15.50 for each barrel or fraction of “gas oil” or “diesel oil.”

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Governor inaugurates exhibit booths at Spain’s tourism fair second exhibitor, the president of the Castilla-La Mancha community, Emiliano García Page, was present, with whom a collaboration agreement was signed last year and overnor Pedro R. Pierluisi, together with the Toura project by the company “Toro Verde” was made viable ism Company Executive Director Carlos Mercado in the city of Cuenca.

Santiago, San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero and exConsidered one of the most essential business conecutives of Discover Puerto Rico, inaugurated today exhibit booths at the International Tourism Fair (FITUR) in Spain. ventions in the tourism sector, FITUR annually has the “Puerto Rico has had three years of growth in the tourparticipation of thousands of industry professionals such as: representatives of airlines and cruises, tour operators, ism industry, exceeding the numbers before the pandemic. hoteliers, attractions, and travel agents, among others.

This has been possible thanks to the strategic investment in “As a Featured Leisure Destination at FITUR 2024, the marketing and promotion of our destination. Last year, I Puerto Rico’s innovative proposal in the Las Americas Pawas participating in this event, and continuity is important to provide security to the market and maximize business vilion was designed so that you can appreciate first-hand opportunities for our Island. A Puerto Rican delegation of the distinctive culture, natural attractions, gastronomy and businessmen who contribute to our tourism sector will have experiences that make the Island a place of unique attracbusiness meetings to continue strengthening relationships tion in the Caribbean region. During the five days of the in this important industry. Likewise, I will be participating FITUR IS the most important global tourism industry fair of the convention, representatives of the Government of Puerto in meetings, gatherings, and events in which I will talk year, to be held from January 24 to 28 in Madrid and in which Rico, entrepreneurs, investors, wholesalers, and Puerto about our Island as an ideal place to visit and invest,” said 152 jurisdictions or countries and some 9 thousand exhibitors Rican operators will be participating in business meetings Governor Pierluisi, who received a visit from the King of participate. and presenting participants with the best of natural beauty, Spain, Felipe VI, at the exhibitor. Puerto Rico. rich history, variety of options, and business and investment The governor explained that the first location of the opportunities available on the Island,” said the executive The second location dedicated to the destination mainly Puerto Rico exhibition is within the Las Americas Pavilion to allow emphasizes the ecotourism and adventure activities available director of the CTPR. for greater presence. In addition to business meetings, exchanges in Puerto Rico. In keeping with the motto “Adventure to the The Puerto Rican delegation that will participate in FITUR and orientations on the offers available in all the tourist regions Island of Enchantment”, and for the first time in the history of the is made up of: Discover Puerto Rico, Convention District, Rums of the Island, the program will include: demonstrations and event, a zip line over 60 feet high has been created simulating of Puerto Rico, The Condado Collection, Bahia Beach Resort, group salsa classes; live music performed by Puerto Rican plena one of the most renowned adventures on the Island, Toro Verde Aerostar, Toro Verde, Wyndham Río Mar, RST Destination Managgroups; tastings of different types of coffee grown by agrotourism Adventure Park in Orocovis. et, Grupo Misla, Complejo Ferial Ponce, Aloft Ponce, Hotel Fox, companies; a master class by renowned Rums of Puerto Rico The facility, run by certified operators and the product of HB Tours, RIMA Music, Esto es Vida properties and Vive la Van. ambassadors; visuals of attractions of “destinations within the a collaboration between Puerto Rico and IFEMA, will be free Finally, the governor said “Puerto Rico’s participation destination, using virtual reality and augmented reality screens of charge for the enjoyment of all those attending the fair. It is in events like FITUR is vital to continue raising the Island’s and technology; sensory experience with sounds of fauna and the first time that FITUR exhibits a destination experience in profile as a diverse, world-class destination internationally, typical music and decoration with elements representative of its central square, further captivating the attention of visitors strengthening existing business alliances and exploring new the iconic architecture of Puerto Rico. and the media present there. During the ribbon cutting of this growth opportunities.”

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Judge orders demolition of illegal construction in Jobos

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Guayama judge ordered on Wednesday the demolition of certain illegal structures at the Bahía de Jobos National Estuarine Research Reserve in Salinas.

Judge Josian Rivera Torres established a term that cannot exceed 30 days, subject to the approval of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA). Failure to carry out the order will result in contempt of court penalties.

As part of the ruling, the defendants, Pablo Vergara Ramos and Judith Rivera, have to stop using the illegal structure under penalty of contempt permanently.

“By the provisions of the court, each of the parties and any other person is warned that failure to comply with this order may constitute civil or criminal contempt. Furthermore, failure to comply with this order could result in an arrest and a fine not exceeding five hundred (500) dollars, and you may be imprisoned for a period not exceeding six months,” Judge

Rivera Torres wrote. cans decry the illegal developments built in estuary. Activists The head of the environmental agencies, Anaís Rodríguez say developers have damaged wetlands and stripped that part Vega, anticipated in written statements that “all the cases that of the island of a natural barrier that protects the shore from we already have in court for the illegal structures in this Reserve hurricane storm surge. will suffer the same fate as the one resolved today... We remain focused on safeguarding the natural heritage for the present and future generations and ensure that the development on our island is carried out responsibly and sustainably. This ruling is another step in our mission to conserve and protect our environment.”

Meanwhile, Salinas Mayor Karilyn Bonilla Colón insisted on the commitment of the entire municipal administration to enforce current laws and regulations. “Certainly, all of these processes are meticulous and technical, so we continue to work hand in hand with the DRNA (Department of Natural and Environmental Resources). Just as we had communicated to the people of Salinas: justice will be done. What we are As part of the ruling, the defendants have to stop usannouncing today is an example of this.” ing the illegal structure under penalty of contempt The decision comes as a growing number of Puerto Ri- permanently.

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Education claims to have approved 72% of applications related to Teaching Career

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he Department of Education (DE) reported this Wednesday in a public hearing in the House of Representatives that in 2023 it approved 72% of the thousands of requests for activations and reactivations submitted by teaching employees to the Teaching Career program.

The Education Commission summoned the agency to verify compliance with Law 9-2022, which orders the agency to carry out the analysis and calculation of the records of teachers who have enrolled in the program in order to make the appropriate salary adjustment, retroactive or proactive, according to their teaching qualifications.

“The majority, at least; The greater part of the people who did qualify are already going for 92 percent of the plans that are already on the platform... It matters to me that all these teachers can be paid in this new round,” said the auxiliar secretary of Human Resources in the ED, Jimmy Cabán.

The official, who also heads the Teacher Career Office, explained that, although Law 9 establishes that the Program must come into effect for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the DE began paying teachers who met the requirements to apply. the incentive.

During the 2021-2022 fiscal year, these payments represented a fiscal impact of $5.7 million; in the 2022-2023 fiscal year it was $1.8 million; and throughout the 2023-2024 fiscal year it meant $6.6 million.

On the other hand, the Teacher Career Office also approved 2,771 reactivations that are necessary so that teachers can

Rep. Deborah Soto Arroyo, president of Education Commission

request salary reviews. To date, these efforts have systematically benefited 7,269 teachers, Cabán said.

Regarding the applications submitted for the years 2014 and 2015, Education reported that it received 3,302 and 1,299, respectively. 100% of them have been evaluated, while 44% of the applications from 2014 and 86% of those from 2015 are in the second validation stage.

The Teacher Career Office plans a second next round of payments during the

current semester corresponding to the year 2014, Cabán said. Additionally, requests for funds for retroactive payments will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OGP in Spanish) and the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF) to be completed on or before the 2024-2025 fiscal year.

“This is not a gift. They worked, they sacrificed, they contributed their money and their time to give a better class and be better prepared. We know how we have to

retain the teaching class,” said representative Deborah Soto Arroyo, president of the Education Commission.

Teachers show concern The vice president of the Puerto Rico Teachers Association (AMPR in Spanish), Raúl González, expressed in the public hearing his concerns with the accumulation of files to attend to two years after having reactivated compliance with the Teaching Career Law (Law 158- 1999).

González pointed out that the overcrowding of work in the Teaching Career Office makes communication difficult with teachers who try to obtain information through telephone calls that are not answered. According to the spokesperson, the agency’s digital system for obtaining appointments extends the dates until 2026.

He also highlighted the generic responses received by teachers who have had requests denied despite the fact that the law requires a specific response. In this way, González explained, the teacher can be aware of the precise documentation that he needs to submit in order to complete the process.

“When that dispute arises and there is no specific solution, we go through the complaints and grievances process, and we go through the complaints and submit.

Last week, around 952 teaching career complaints were filed for various elements within that process,” González stated.

“There are many elements here, and what we are asking for is the rescue of the Legislature to see how this whole process can be tempered… What we are looking for are answers,” claimed the union leader.

José Aponte throws his support behind Nikki Haley

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ormer House Speaker Jose Aponte said threw his support behind former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for president of the United States saying she is the “real alternative for the nation.”

“Nikki Haley is the real alternative that the nation needs at a time when the economy does not work for the middle class, where the Russian Federation invaded, without any provocation, a democratic Ukraine, there are serious wars in the Middle East and a communist China expanding. Haley has the ability to lead our nation with the conservative values and vision we seek for everyone, including Puerto Rico,” said the At-Large Representative.

“A (Donald) Trump victory of over 30 percentage points was expected and the margin is going to be much, much

closer. In fact, at the end of the full count, the margin should be close to 8 or 9 points. This is very significant.

Since December, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has been making headway up. At one point in the summer he had only two percent in the polls and yesterday she showed that she can make a comeback, and a lot,” said the statesman leader.

Aponte’s remarks came after Haley surpassed the expectations of polls and projections of national political analysts, coming close to Trump.

“In New Hampshire we see how the independent, moderate Republican and unaffiliated vote went to Haley.

She is the alternative we need. In the next four weeks, Republicans from 20 states will have the opportunity to speak out, and I hope it will be for Haley, even against the desperate intensity of the other candidate,” said Aponte.

Former House Speaker José Aponte

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Barnard College’s restrictions on political speech prompt outcry

By SHARON OTTERMAN

While the pro-Palestinian statement was taken down, for example, a statement by the Africana Studies Department hree weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, decrying anti-Black racism and state-sanctioned violence the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in 2020 was Studies at Barnard College in New York posted a permitted to stay up. statement on its departmental website in support of the Barnard also issued a policy Nov. 13 defining political Palestinian people. activity in a way that many faculty members say was broader than previously understood. Rather than just barring Below the statement, the professors posted links to partisan activity like rallies from campus, the policy now academic work supporting their view that the struggle of defines it as “all written communications that comment on Palestinians against “settler colonial war, occupation and specific actions, statements, or positions taken by public apartheid” was also a feminist issue. Two days later, they officials or governmental bodies at local, state, federal, found that section of the webpage had been removed, and international levels.” without warning, by Barnard administrators.

Faculty can make such statements so long as they What happened next has sparked a crisis over academic freedom and free expression at Barnard at a time make clear they are speaking for themselves but not the when the Israel-Hamas conflict has led to tense protests Students protest for Palestinians on the Barnard College campus in college. But political statements cannot be posted on the on American college campuses and heated discussions New York, on Nov. 15, 2023. Professors and free speech advocates Barnard website without approval, and “no member of the about what constitutes acceptable speech. are protesting a decision by Barnard College to monitor and remove college may post signs containing political statements” on Asked to explain why the page was removed, college pro-Palestinian statements and other speech the college deems too the college grounds. administrators told the department that the statement and political. (Bing Guan/The New York Times) A newly articulated events policy also requires that links were “impermissible political speech,” a statement 28 days’ notice must be given before most public demonstrations on campus are held. from the department said.

“The purpose of academic freedom and free expression In response to the administration’s actions, more than The Barnard administration then, in late October and is precisely to contribute to democratic discussion,” Jakobsen November, rewrote its policies on political activity, website said. “And so to treat our students as if their participation in 1,000 Columbia and Barnard faculty, students and alumni governance and campus events, giving itself wide latitude to participatory democracy is so deeply dangerous, that a demons- have signed a letter saying that academic freedom is under decide what was and was not permissible political speech on tration at which there is no disruption should be disciplined, is attack at Barnard. More than 100 Barnard faculty members also signed a letter sent to Rosenbury on Sunday expressing campus, as well as final say over everything posted on Barnard’s a very strong statement.” website.

Since the Oct. 7 attacks, administrators have been facing concern over the recent summoning of roughly 20 students to The moves caught the attention of the New York Civil pressure from some donors, alumni and students and faculty to “inquiry meetings” about accusations that they violated the Liberties Union, which wrote a letter to Barnard’s new presi- limit some pro-Palestinian speech on the grounds that opposing code of conduct. dent, Laura Rosenbury, in December, warning that the website Zionism or the state of Israel can veer into antisemitism and can A new group, Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, and political speech policies violated fundamental free speech make those who support Israel feel uncomfortable. published a letter on the school newspaper’s website Monday, principles and were “incompatible with a sound understanding Colleges often defend the measures as necessary for pledging to “take back” Barnard and Columbia. The letter said of academic freedom.” security and to create a calmer environment. (During a pro- the group would fight efforts to “curtail speech that is critical “Such a regime will inevitably serve as a license for cen- Palestinian demonstration at Columbia last Friday, for example, of the actions taken by the State of Israel, that sympathizes with sorship,” the letter said. some Barnard and Columbia students said someone sprayed Palestinians, or that attempts to place the current conflict in a In a statement, the Barnard administration said that it had them with a foul-smelling chemical, and several sought medical longer historical context.” barred college resources from being used for political activity treatment after.) for at least a decade. Another policy barring political signs from At both Columbia and Barnard, an all-women’s college that being posted on campus was not directed at any ideology, it is formally part of Columbia University but has its own leadercontended. ship and policies, administrators have asked the community to “Barnard supports the academic freedom of our faculty refrain from slogans and words that others may find hurtful. Both and the free expression of our faculty and students,” Kathryn institutions have also issued reworded administrative rules that Gerlach, a Barnard spokesperson, said in an email. officially apply to everyone. But critics say that in reality, they Janet Jakobsen, a professor of women’s, gender and are being used to curtail views the college does not want aired. sexuality studies, said that the removal of her department’s Under new rules Barnard emailed to faculty Nov. 6, for pro-Palestinian material was only one of the new challenges example, all academic departments must submit changes to to free expression that students and faculty were experiencing. the content of their websites to the Office of the Provost for Faculty members who have posted pro-Palestinian signs on review and approval. All content on the college’s website may their office doors have been asked to remove them or put them be amended or removed without notice, a related policy states. inside, she and other faculty said. And about two dozen students Arthur Eisenberg, executive counsel with the NYCLU, said who attended a peaceful, but unauthorized, pro-Palestinian that the policy gives the administration discretion to determine campus protest in December have been summoned to appear what is permissible academic discourse on the website. “And before a college disciplinary committee. that’s the problem,” he said.

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Haley declares race ‘far from over’ after losing to Trump in New Hampshire

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a Republican presidential candidate, arrives to speak to supporters at a primary election night rally, in Concord, N.H., Jan. 23, 2024. Defying calls from Donald Trump and his allies for her to drop out, Haley said in a fiery speech that she will forge ahead to South Carolina. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)

By JAZMINE ULLOA and CHRIS CAMERON

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ormer Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina on Tuesday defied calls to drop out of the race for the Republican nomination, vowing to fight on after a second consecutive defeat at the hands of former President Donald Trump.

In rousing remarks, Haley painted a picture of a country and a world in disarray, casting herself as the choice for voters dissatisfied with both President Joe Biden and Trump.

She set up an epic showdown with Trump in South Carolina, where she is lagging far behind Trump in polls despite a home-state advantage.

“New Hampshire is first in the nation — it is not the last in the nation,” she said as a loud wave of cheers and applause broke out across the room. She added that the race was “far from over.”

She added, “We’re going home to South Carolina.”

Borrowing signature lines from her stump speeches, Haley, a United Nations ambassador under Trump, noted how far she had come since the race opened, when she was polling at just over 2%. She congratulated MTrump on what she described as a well-earned victory and declared that politics was “not personal” to her, but she also called herself “a fighter.”

“And I’m scrappy — and now we’re the last ones standing next to Donald Trump,” she added. Painting herself as an outsider, despite her insider résumé, she pledged to take on

Trump and the political class behind him. She also took shots at the media, who she said saw his glide to the nomination as a foregone conclusion.

With the new urgency she has been flashing on the trail in the past week, Haley turned up the heat on the former president, the dominant front-runner in the Republican race, who is fighting 91 felony charges. Another Trump presidency would be just as bad for the country as another four years of Biden, she said.

She also took another dig at Trump’s mental fitness and his 77 years of age, reminding voters how he had confused her for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and accused her of not providing security at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Someone in her rambunctious audience, which occasionally shouted encouraging interruptions, yelled, “Geriatric!”

“With Donald Trump you have one bout of chaos after another,” she said. “This court case, that controversy, this tweet, that senior moment. You can’t fix Joe Biden’s chaos with Republican chaos.”

In her final Granite State appearances before polls closed, Haley had rejected the suggestion that Republican voters had already solidly united behind the former president, and pledged not to end her bid no matter the result.

“I didn’t get here because of luck,” she said at a polling site in Hampton, New Hampshire, while flanked by supporters, including Gov. Chris Sununu, her top surrogate in the state. “I

got here because I outworked and outsmarted all the rest of those fellas. So I’m running against Donald Trump, and I’m not going to talk about an obituary.”

Trump, speaking to supporters at his victory party, mocked Haley for speaking “like she won.” But “she didn’t win — she lost,” he added.

On Wednesday morning, Haley is expected to speak during a Republican State Committee meeting in the Virgin Islands, which holds its contest on Feb. 8. She is then anticipated at a homecoming rally in Charleston, South Carolina, where her campaign has its headquarters.

A number of people close to Haley are encouraging her to keep going, many of whom are deeply opposed to Trump’s becoming the nominee again.

Betsy Ankney, her campaign manager, released a memo early Tuesday morning shooting down suggestions that Trump’s path to the nomination was inevitable. She pointed to the 11 of the 16 states that vote on Super Tuesday that have “open or semi-open primaries” that can include independent voters and are “fertile ground for Nikki.” Rushing through the departing crowds Tuesday, Ankney said the campaign had also already assembled more staff members in place, though she declined to discuss further details.

Nevada will host a Republican caucus on Feb. 8, but Haley is not competing in that contest, instead participating in a Republican primary in the state two days earlier that awards no delegates.

Her campaign has bought more than $1 million in television advertising from Tuesday through Feb. 6 in South Carolina, according to AdImpact, a media-tracking firm. It is part of what the campaign has announced will be a $4 million ad buy in the state.

And officials at her allied super political action committee, Stand for America, said they, too, planned to forge ahead.

Mark Harris, lead strategist for the PAC, said it was prepping television, mail and digital advertising in a get-out-the-vote effort that would look similar to the programs it had taken on in Iowa and New Hampshire, though as of Tuesday it had not yet made those investments.

“We’re running the outsider candidacy, so this was never going to happen all magically in one day, and so we’re going to keep pushing ahead,” Harris said.

Since the summer, Haley has predicted that the Republican nominating contest would result in a showdown between herself and Trump in her home state. Her outward confi-

dence in that scenario has not faltered — not after she failed to place second in Iowa, not after her top rival for No. 2, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, dropped out and endorsed Trump, not after a slate of South Carolina legislators this week joined Trump on the stump in the final days of the New Hampshire race.

Her message to his allies and the news media: She has been here before.

“I won South Carolina twice as governor,” she told reporters Friday at a retro diner in Amherst, New Hampshire. “I think I know what favorable territory is in South Carolina.”

But it has been 10 years since she was last on the ballot, and her state and her party have changed. Trump has solidified a loyal base there since he won South Carolina in the 2016 Republican primary over Haley’s endorsement of his opponent, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Although Haley’s affluent — and more moderate — Republican base along the coast and in Charleston remains intact, her grip on the Midlands has loosened. In the more conservative Upstate around Greenville, she is likely to have an even steeper uphill climb.

The daunting path ahead did not damp the enthusiasm among her supporters who gathered at her election watch party Tuesday at a hotel in Concord. Many were not from New Hampshire. Almost 100 students hailed from New York.

Despite the results, many described feeling exhilarated, optimistic and hopeful, believing that as the last Trump challenger standing in the Republican race, she would now have a greater chance to spread her message.

When the election results flashed on the television screens scattered throughout the room, few had been paying attention.

“I’m happy to hear that she is still going,” said Allie Cable, 26, a department supervisor in the health care industry in Concord. “Anything could happen.”

Richard and Wendy Clymer, a Republican couple also from Concord, had missed the moment entirely. They had rushed into the event late after spending the day rallying support for Haley and encouraging voters to get to the polls.

He saw the result as encouraging, even though the state went to Trump’s column.

Richard Clymer, 63, an engineer who had held a Haley sign outside a polling place for seven hours, recalled the moment when the results of his polling location were read aloud: Trump 467, Haley 739.

“There was an audible gasp in the gymnasium like, ‘Wow,’ this guy can be beaten,” Richard Clymer said.

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5 takeaways from the New Hampshire primary

By LISA LERER, MAGGIE HABERMAN and JONATHAN SWAN

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he much-fabled power of New Hampshire’s fiercely independent voters wasn’t enough to break the spell Donald Trump has cast over the Republican Party.

Brushing aside Nikki Haley a little more than a week after he steamrolled her and Ron DeSantis in Iowa, Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate who was not a White House incumbent to carry the nation’s first two contests. His winning margin of 11 percentage points in moderate New Hampshire demonstrated his ironclad control of the party’s hard-right base and set him on what could very well be a short march to the nomination.

For Haley, the former South Carolina governor, it was a disappointing finish in a state she had poured considerable resources into carrying. Her efforts to cobble together a coalition of independents and anti-Trump Republicans, with support from the state’s popular governor, were no match for Trump’s legions of loyalists.

Even though Haley is vowing to fight on, the difficult terrain ahead in South Carolina means that this first-in-the-nation primary could turn out to be the last.

Here are five takeaways.

Trump demonstrated his command of the GOP in a purple state.

In 2016, Trump’s win in New Hampshire put him on a path to the nomination and ultimately the presidency.

Eight years later, the state delivered again for him.

He performed well across nearly every demographic group, according to exit polls.

He won every age group, among men and women.

In the final days, Trump sought to project an air of inevitability, hoping to avoid a protracted and costly fight as he resists efforts to convict him in a criminal trial before Election Day in November.

His success in New Hampshire was likely to lead to more pressure on Haley to drop out from his Republican allies, who include senators, House members and governors.

He won more than 50% of the vote, although his margin of victory decreased significantly from the primary in 2016, when he won New Hampshire by about 20 points over a crowded field. And he fell far short of his 30-point triumph in this month’s Iowa caucuses.

He seemed visibly aware of that fact when he took the stage Tuesday night, and signaled an uglier next phase.

Using an expletive as he repeatedly attacked Haley, he said, “I don’t get too angry — I get even.”

Haley has an incredibly rocky road ahead.

The contest now moves to South Carolina, the next competitive primary and one where Haley faces a steep uphill battle. Trump has led polls in her conservative home state by more than 30 points for months.

There’s little question that a defeat there for Haley would be devastating, making it difficult for her to justify carrying on in the race.

For Trump, drawing the contest to a close in South Carolina would allow his campaign to avoid the costly expense of Super Tuesday on March 5, when 16 states hold primary contests. He’s expected to unleash a barrage of harsh attacks, a tactic similar to the brutal campaign of humiliation he waged against DeSantis, who quit the contest Sunday.

Already, Trump has argued that Haley is hurting the party’s chances in the fall by forcing him into an extended nominating contest.

“If she doesn’t drop out, we have to waste money instead of spending it on Biden, which is our focus,” he told Fox News shortly after the race was called.

The old guard of the GOP is a dwindling faction.

Tuesday night’s results showed that the time is coming to sit shiva for the Republican Party of the Bushes, Cheneys and Romneys.

And the donor class that once played an outsize role in shaping the party is now a desperate group of bystanders.

Haley ran on a traditional Republican platform, one that has faded during the Trump years. She campaigned on issues like reducing federal spending, enacting a staunchly interventionist foreign policy and overhauling programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Her candidacy was embraced by the pre-Trump GOP, as the gang got back together for one last shot at the interloper.

Traditional party donors from Wall Street, who loathe Trump, poured money into Haley’s super political action committee. And in New Hampshire, she seemed to have a political environment more hospitable than in Iowa, with a voting base that is less religious and more educated.

But on Tuesday, New Hampshire Republicans rejected Haley and her attempt to revive the old guard.

She insists her campaign is alive and well, marching to South Carolina, but the wing of the party she represents will come out of New Hampshire on life support.

Biden, Democratic grumbling aside, is cruising to renomination.

President Joe Biden did not submit his name for the New Hampshire ballot, after the state refused to comply with a new Democratic nominating calendar that made South Carolina the first primary contest. Yet a scrappy write-in campaign run by the president’s allies delivered a victory for him nonetheless.

His most significant challenger — Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota — was on track to capture little more than 20% of the vote.

Self-help author Marianne Williamson, who mounted a second bid for the Democratic nomination, was far behind with just 5%.

Democrats have spent months pining for another option, raising worries about Biden’s age in polls, focus groups and even “Saturday Night Live” sketches. But these results underscore the reality of the Democratic nominating process: Biden faces no real opposition.

For years, many Democrats questioned whether Trump would complete his comeback and become the 2024 nominee. Now that he is ascendant, Biden and his party are turning their attention to the general election and preparing to transform the race into a debate over whether a polarizing and criminally indicted former president is fit to return to office.

Trump’s strength may not translate to the general election.

Despite his robust showing, the results offered warning signs for Trump before November.

A significant slice of Haley’s support came from unaffiliated voters who wanted to send a message about stopping Trump — a reminder that he owns Republicans, but doesn’t own everybody else.

While Trump won the race, he failed to rack up the kind of numbers that would be expected of someone essentially running as an incumbent. He has been behaving as one as part of his strategy in battling the 91 criminal charges he is facing both in courts of law and courts of public opinion.

But only about half of those who voted in the New Hampshire primary said they would consider him fit for the presidency if he were convicted of a crime, according to CNN exit polling. Those who might not vote for him with a criminal conviction, assuming a trial takes place this year, remain a minority. But in a close fall campaign, such factors could matter.

On the flip side, the issues that exit polls suggested are driving a number of voters, including immigration, are ones that the Trump team expects to benefit him in a general election. And even with divisions within the Republican Party, the vast majority of its voters view someone wearing their partisan jersey as preferable to Biden.

Supporters of Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and a Republican presidential candidate, and President Joe Biden in Conway, N.H. on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. With the help of Democratic allies in the state, he won a write-in campaign in the party’s primary. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)

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The acquisition will complement the consumer behavior services ETI has offered over the past 25 years.

Founded by Juan Charana, Consumer@ Site has distinguished itself as the leading “mystery shoppers” company in Puerto Rico, with more than 20 years of providing services that integrate innovative technology in the evaluations carried out by unknown clients about the processes and quality of the services of companies in various sectors, an ETI release notes.

“Through the acquisition of Consumer@Site, we seek to provide companies and businesses in the country with the most innovative and robust tools to understand consumer behavior and design strategies to strengthen the consumer experience with brands,” ETI President Graham Castillo said.

ETI is a leading consulting, research and technical advisory firm in Puerto Rico, established more than 38 years ago and composed of an interdisciplinary team of more than 38 experts in market strategies, economics, planning, social and economic policies, and data analytics, among other areas.

Among the services provided by ETI’s Consumer Behavior and Market Strategies Division are: design and management of customer experience (ETICX), digitalized “mystery shopping”, as well as surveys, focus groups, ethnographic studies, pre- and postcampaign studies, brand health studies, online consumer panels, and data analytics with

artificial intelligence, among others.

“The combination of mystery shopping with consumer experience techniques, ETICX, represents a powerful information tool for companies, in a context where change is constant and in which the customer prioritizes their experience with the brand,” said Cristina Vargas, director of the Consumer Behavior and Market Strategies Division of ETI, who also is certified in the design and management of customer experience.

Through services such as ETICX, Vargas added, companies can collect information about their customers’ experience and manage detractors in real-time at the different points of contact between the company and its consumer.

In the case of the “mystery shopper” service, Vargas highlighted that ETI, through the acquisition of Consumer@Site, will expand its capacity and incorporate new technology to carry out observations and identify areas of opportunity associated with improving quality of service and customer service & sales processes in very short times. Consumer@Site studies have a quality control process through which 100% of the reports are validated and sent to the client within 72 hours of the visit.

Consumer@Site is a global Mystery Shopping Providers Organization member.

“At ETI we welcome companies that are part of our clientele. Its [Consumer@ Site’s] services will expand to other companies interested in these services,” Castillo said. “Through this acquisition, at ETI we reaffirm our commitment to offering the highest quality services and to having the most innovative technologies and techniques, to meet the needs of companies and businesses.”

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S&P 500 Hits Record High on Netflix Earnings, Chips’ Boost W

all Street rallied on Wednesday, with the benchmark S&P 500 scaling record intraday levels, as Netflix surged after smashing expectations for subscriber growth and chip stocks gained on ASML’s strong earnings.

Riding on the optimism, Microsoft rose 1.1%, hitting a record high, with its market value surpassing $3 trillion for the first time.

The S&P 500 hit an all-time high for the third time in less than a week, fueling a bull-market run it confirmed on Friday after closing at a record. The blue-chip Dow also surpassed the 38,000-point mark for the second time this week.

The tech-laden Nasdaq is less than 4% away from breaching its all-time intraday high hit in November 2021.

Netflix jumped 11.9% to an over two-year high after the firm’s largest-ever fourth-quarter subscriber growth indicated it had won streaming wars with its passwordsharing crackdown and a strong content slate.

The S&P 500 communication services index, sheltering the stock, rose 1.7% to a near two-year high, leading sectoral gains.

“Although there have been some misses, majority (of earnings) are coming in in-line with expectations and guidance from most companies remains positive, fuelling the rally here,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York.

Reflecting upbeat market sentiment, the CBOE Market Volatility Index, a market fear gauge, slipped to a near two-week low.

With the S&P 500 trading around 20 times forward 12-month earnings, compared with its long-term average of 16 times, the results of the “Magnificent 7” group of companies will be in focus to determine whether their valuations are justified.

Megacaps such as Alphabet, Amazon.com and Meta Platforms rose between 1% and 2%.

Tesla rose 0.8% ahead of its fourth-quarter results after the market closes.

Chip stocks Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom gained between 2.8% and 5.7% after European chip-making equipment maker ASML Holding beat fourth-quarter earnings estimates and posted record-high quarterly orders.

The Philadelphia SE semiconductor index also touched a fresh record high, rising 2.1%.

Meanwhile, AT&T shed 3.1% after forecasting annual profit below expectations, while DuPont De Nemours slid 11.8% after forecasting a fourth-quarter loss.

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On the data front, a survey showed business activity picked up in January and inflation appeared to abate, suggesting that the economy kicked off 2024 on a strong note.

A resilient U.S. economy and uncertainty over the timing of interest rate cuts have led investors to reassess

their bets.

Traders now see an 85.5% chance of a rate cut in May, according to CME Group’s FedWatch Tool. They were earlier expecting a rate cut in as early as March.

Among others, cloud firms Cloudflare, Snowflake and ServiceNow rose more than 1% each after German software firm SAP’s strong annual revenue growth forecast.

Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 2.05to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 1.50-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.

The S&P index recorded 62 new 52-week highs and one new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 106 new highs and 52 new lows.

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Man arrested on 76 counts of murder in Johannesburg building fire

By LYNSEY CHUTEL

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olice in South Africa said Wednesday that they had arrested a man who confessed to starting a fire in a derelict Johannesburg building last August that killed dozens of people, some of whom leaped to their deaths or were trapped behind locked security gates.

The 29-year-old man was arrested Tuesday on 76 counts of murder and 120 counts of attempted murder, said Col. Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi, a spokesperson for the police in Gauteng Province, which includes Johannesburg. The man’s name has not been released.

Officials originally said that the fire, which tore through an overcrowded four-story building in the early hours of Aug. 31, had killed 77 people. But a commission investigating the disaster was later told that the number was in doubt because of how badly some of the bodies were burned.

The fire focused international attention on hundreds of rundown, illegally occupied buildings in

Johannesburg like the one that burned, where poor families who cannot afford more secure housing have settled. These urban squatter camps are known as “hijacked” buildings because they are often taken over by gangs that deal drugs and extort residents for rent payments.

The 29-year-old man was arrested after testifying Tuesday before the commission investigating the fire.

The commission’s hearings have been live-streamed, but the man testified behind closed doors out of fear that gang leaders who had been operating out of the building would have him killed, the commission’s lead attorney said.

“His life may be in peril if made public,” the attorney, Ishmael Semenya, said during a public portion of the hearing.

The police did not provide details about the man’s reported confession. According to South African news outlets, he said in his testimony Tuesday that he had strangled a man, poured gasoline over the body and set fire to it, and that the fire had spread.

Those killed in the blaze included at least a dozen children — two of them toddlers named Memory — migrants from other African countries and people holding down jobs as teachers and technicians. Neighbors and residents said the building also housed criminal gangs that sold drugs on the sidewalk and robbed passersby.

The government owned the building and many others like it. Going block by block and searching records, New York Times reporters last year identified at least 127 similar buildings, neglected death traps, in the center of Johannesburg.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that the fire was a “wake-up call” for South Africa, where the cost of living puts housing out of reach for many, and where city governments look the other way as people occupy garbage-strewn buildings without water or electricity.

The commission investigating the fire halted its work last year after the building that housed it was itself deemed to be a fire hazard. Its hearings resumed this month.

Military plane crashes in Russia, Killing all on board, Moscow says

By IVAN NECHEPURENKO and ANDREW E. KRAMER

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large Russian military transport plane crashed Wednesday near the border with Ukraine killing everyone onboard, the Russian defense ministry said, accusing Ukraine of shooting down the plane with missiles.

The ministry said in a statement that the plane had been carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were being transferred to the Belgorod region to be exchanged for Russian service personnel. It accused Ukrainian forces of launching two missiles from the nearby Kharkiv region of Ukraine that struck the aircraft. The plane was also carrying six crew members and three other individuals, the ministry said.

The Russian claims could not be independently verified.

Ukrainian officials did not comment directly on Moscow’s accusations that Ukraine shot down the plane, or its claims that Ukrainian prisoners of war died in the crash. The military’s general staff headquarters issued a statement Wednesday afternoon asserting a right to target Russian military transport airplanes in the border region.

But later Wednesday, Ukraine’s military intelligence agency hinted at what could have been a tragic mistake, saying that Russia had not informed it that prisoners would be flown to Belgorod’s airport, as

In this handout photo taken from validated UGC video show flames rising from the scene of a warplane crashed at a residential area near Yablonovo, Belgorod region, Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2024. Russia says a military transport plane that was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war has crashed in a Russian region near Ukraine. (CNN footage) was the case in previous exchanges. The airport is within range of Ukrainian drones and missiles.

Ukraine acknowledged, though, that a prisoner exchange was planned for the day, raising questions about whether it should have assumed that prisoners would be transported into the region.

If Ukraine did shoot down a plane with its own

soldiers onboard, even unwittingly, it would be painful setback at a difficult time for its war effort, which is severely challenged by ammunition and personnel shortages and fears that Western support is eroding.

The general staff statement did not deny shooting down the transport plane. Instead, it emphasized how essential it was for Ukraine to strike in Russian territory. It said that repeated Russian missile strikes on the city of Kharkiv and the surrounding region had in the past week killed 16 people and wounded another 78 and that Ukraine had responded by targeting missile launch sites and the logistics for missile deliveries.

“The armed forces of Ukraine will continue to take measures to destroy delivery vehicles and control the airspace to eliminate the terrorist threat,” the statement said.

The Belgorod region of Russia has a long border with Ukraine, and hostilities have flared in the area for much of the war. Over the past few weeks, it has been the scene of frequent Ukrainian missile and drone strikes, including a bombardment in December. It was also the staging ground for Moscow’s fullscale invasion in 2022 and for further Russian strikes against Ukrainian territory during the war.

The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said in a statement on social media that the plane, which embarked from a military airport near Moscow, had crashed in a field near a settlement in

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the Korochansky district. He said that emergency services were at the site and were investigating.

A video posted to Telegram and verified by The New York Times showed a large plane crashing and exploding in Yablonovo, a town in the Korochansky district. Tass, a Russian state news agency, published a video of the scene of the crash showing debris littering a snowy field.

The Russian defense ministry said in its statement that Ukraine’s leadership was “well aware that, in accordance with established practice, Ukrainian servicemen were to be transported by military transport aircraft to Belgorod airfield today for exchange.”

“According to an earlier agreement, the event was to take place in the afternoon” at a checkpoint on the Russia-Ukraine border, the statement added.

Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said an exchange “was supposed to take place today but did not.”

Ukraine, it said, had upheld its side of the agreement by transporting Russian prisoners safely to the border.

The agency said it had no information about passengers on the plane but that “the security of our defenders, according to the agreements, was to be ensured by the Russian side.” That Russia had not informed Ukraine that prisoners were aboard the plane, the statement said, might be “planned and deliberate actions for the Russian Federation to destabilize the situation in Ukraine and weaken international support.”

The plane, an Il-76, was designed decades ago in the Soviet Union to perform military duties such as airlifting troops, cargo and weapons.

Former Ukrainian prisoners who were released in exchanges said that they had been transported on that model of airplane, said Olha Reshetylova, a coordinator for Media Initiative for Human Rights, a group that investigates potential Russian war crimes against prisoners of war. In an interview, she called for an investigation into the crash but said that those efforts would be “complicated by the fact that the crime took place on the territory” of Russia.

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One former Ukrainian prisoner of war, Maksym Kolesnikov, confirmed in a social media post that prisoners were transported on military cargo planes but questioned the Russian assertion that only three guards escorted 65 prisoners. On his flight, he said, about 20 guards flew with 50 prisoners.

Andrei V. Kartapolov, a Russian lawmaker and retired general, said at a session of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, that the Il-76 had been shot down by three Ukrainian missiles. He did not provide any evidence for his claim, and it could not be independently verified. Wednesday afternoon, the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said Russia had requested a meeting of the U.N. Security Council over the episode.

Russia and Ukraine have been exchanging prisoners since the start of the war through deals brokered by a third party, such as Turkey or the United Arab Emirates. Those deals have been very complicated, with the sides meticulously negotiating every detail.

How a ragtag militia in Yemen became a nimble U.S. foe

By HELENE COOPER and ERIC SCHMITT

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or years, the scrappy Iran-backed Yemeni rebels known as the Houthis did such a good job of bedeviling U.S. partners in the Middle East that Pentagon war planners started copying some of their tactics.

Noting that the Houthis had managed to weaponize commercial radar systems that are commonly available in boating stores and make them more portable, a senior U.S. commander challenged his Marines to figure out something similar. By September 2022, Marines in the Baltic Sea were adapting Houthiinspired mobile radar systems.

So senior Pentagon officials knew as soon as the Houthis started attacking ships in the Red Sea that they would be hard to tame.

As the Biden administration approaches its third week of airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, the Pentagon is trying to thread an impossibly tiny needle: making a dent in the Houthis’ ability to hit commercial and Navy vessels without dragging the United States into a prolonged war.

It is a difficult task, made more so because the Houthis have perfected the tactics of irregular warfare, U.S. military officials say.

The group does not have many big weapons depots for U.S. fighter jets to bomb — Houthi fighters are constantly on the move with missiles they launch from pickup trucks on remote beaches before hustling away.

The first barrage of U.S.-led airstrikes about two weeks ago hit nearly 30 locations in Yemen, destroying around 90% of the targets struck, Pentagon officials said. But even with that high success rate, the Houthis retained about 75% of their ability to fire missiles and

drones at ships transiting the Red Sea, those officials acknowledged.

Since then, the Pentagon has carried out seven more rounds of strikes. And the Houthis have continued their attacks on ships transiting the Red Sea. “There is a level of sophistication here that you can’t ignore,” said Gen. Joseph Votel, who led the U.S. military’s Central Command from 2016-19, as Saudi Arabia was trying to defeat the Houthis in Yemen.

So far the Pentagon strategy has been to put armed Reaper drones and other surveillance platforms in the skies over Yemen, so that U.S. warplanes and ships can hit Houthi mobile targets as they pop up.

On Monday night, the United States and Britain struck nine sites in Yemen, hitting multiple targets at each location. Unlike most of the previous strikes, which were directed more at targets of opportunity, the nighttime strikes were planned. They hit radars as well as drone and missile sites and underground weapons storage bunkers.

This middle ground reflects the administration’s attempt to chip away at the Houthis’ ability to menace merchant ships and military vessels but not hit so hard as to kill large numbers of Houthi fighters and commanders, potentially unleashing even more mayhem into the region.

But officials say they will continue to try to hit mobile targets as analysts search for more fixed targets.

After nearly a decade of Saudi airstrikes, the Houthis are skilled at concealing what they have, putting some of their launchers and weaponry in urban areas and shooting missiles from the backs of vehicles or tractors before

scooting off.

And weapons that are destroyed are soon replaced by Iran, as a never-ending stream of

dhows ferry more weaponry into Yemen, U.S. officials say.

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by Iran, military analysts said.

“It’s mind-blowing, the diversity of their arsenal,” said Fabian Hinz, an expert on missiles, drones and the Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

That leaves the United States and its coalition partners with

only three viable options, given the parameters of President Joe Biden’s strategic aims in Yemen, military analysts say. They could commandeer the weapons coming by sea from Iran; find the missiles, which requires extensive intelligence; or attack the launch sites.

The third option is the hardest. Houthi militants are believed to hide mobile missile launchers in a range of locations, anywhere from inside culverts to beneath highway overpasses.

They are easily moved for hasty launches.

The Houthi mobile maneuvers worked so well against Saudi Arabia that the Marines began an experimental effort to copy them. They developed a mobile radar, essentially a Simrad Halo24 radar — you can get one for about $3,000 at Bass

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Lt. Gen. Frank Donovan, now vice commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, noticed what the Houthis were doing with the radar back when he was leading a 5th Fleet amphibious task force operating in the southern Red Sea. Trying to figure out how the Houthis were targeting ships, Donovan soon realized the Houthis were mounting off-the-shelf radars on vehicles on the shore and moving them around.

He challenged his 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion to develop a similar system.

Thousands cannot leave Gaza hospital despite evacuation order, aid group says

By VICTORIA KIM and HIBA YAZBEK

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housands of people were trapped at a hospital by heavy fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, and Israeli forces on Wednesday had surrounded a second hospital where displaced people were sheltering, aid agencies said, after Israel’s military ordered evacuations for that part of the city of Khan Younis.

The evacuation order posted by the military’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, designated blocks that include the grounds of the two facilities, Nasser Hospital and Al-Amal Hospital.

They are among the last hospitals still providing some medical care to patients in Gaza even as many more people seek refuge there from intensifying Israeli air and ground attacks.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society on Wednesday reported “intense shelling” near Al-Amal hospital, which it runs, and said a strike had killed three people outside its offices in an adjacent building. Israeli forces were “surrounding” its teams and “enforcing restrictions on movement” around its offices and the hospital, the group said.

The Gaza Health Ministry said in a statement that Nasser Hospital had in effect been cut off by “continuous bombing,” preventing injured people from getting there and blocking the transfer of patients to the nearby Jordanian field hospital. The United Nations’ humanitarian affairs office said in its daily update Tuesday that the Jordanian hospital was also included in the evacuation area.

The three hospitals, with a total of more than 600 beds, account for one-fifth of the remaining functional hospital capacity in Gaza, according to the U.N. It said the evacuation area held 88,000 residents and an estimated 425,000 displaced people, packed into about 1.5 square miles.

“The Israeli occupation isolates Nasser Medical Complex and puts the lives of staff, patients and displaced people at risk,” Ashraf Al-Qudra, the spokesperson for the Gaza Health Ministry, said in a statement.

The aid group Doctors Without Borders said late Tuesday that its staff at Nasser could hear bombs and

Wounded Palestinians arriving at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Monday. (PHOTO WIKIPEDIA) heavy gunfire, and that 850 patients and thousands of others sheltering there were unable to leave because the roads from the hospital were either inaccessible or too dangerous. The group said that it was “deeply concerned” for the people’s safety.

The evacuation orders came around the same time that the military said it had encircled Khan Younis after weeks of intense fighting and bombardment.

The Israeli military has said it was focused on hunting down Hamas leaders in the city, which is densely packed with displaced civilians who fled the northern half of the territory at the military’s urging.

In a statement Wednesday, Israel accused Hamas of exploiting the civilian population and said that its operation in Khan Younis would continue until it had

finished “dismantling Hamas’ military framework and Hamas strongholds.”

As many as 7,000 people were believed to have been sheltering on the grounds of Nasser Hospital last week, many of whom fled as fighting intensified. The Israeli military has said mortar fire has been launched at its troops from the hospital, which is the largest in southern Gaza. Its claim could not be independently verified. Israel has long said that Hamas uses hospitals to hide militants and weapons.

The World Health Organization said last week that Nasser Hospital alone had treated 700 patients in one day and was struggling to attend to growing numbers of wounded people amid the escalating violence in Khan Younis.

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Why Nikki Haley could be the most dangerous president

By ROSS DOUTHAT

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n the alternate timeline where Ron DeSantis proved to be a capable campaigner and looked poised to defeat Donald Trump in New Hampshire and beyond, we would be facing a multitude of left-leaning essays on a single theme: “Why DeSantis is actually more dangerous than Trump.”

In this world, the only threat to Trump in New Hampshire is Nikki Haley, and her candidacy doesn’t look built to last much beyond that primary. But in the spirit of slipping in your controversial opinions while you can, and because she might yet be Trump’s running mate, here is my own fear: A Haley presidency could be more dangerous than a second Trump term.

This is not because I think that Haley is an authoritarian threat to American democracy. She is obviously not, and her nomination and election would have the salutary effect of re-normalizing Republican politics on important questions like, “Should you contest a lost election by pushing for a constitutional crisis and whipping up an angry mob?”

But when the history of 21st-century American decline is written, the crucial chapter will focus not on Trump but on one of his predecessors, George W. Bush:

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a better man than Trump, a capable politician with a number of sound policies to his credit, but also the architect of a hubristic foreign policy whose disastrous effects continue to ripple through the country and the world.

The Iraq War and the slower, longer failure in Afghanistan didn’t just begin the unraveling of the Pax Americana. They also discredited the American establishment at home, shattering the center-right and undermining the center-left, dissolving confidence in politicians, bureaucracies and even the military itself, while the war’s social effects lingered in the opioid epidemic and the mental health crisis.

Haley is not exactly a George W. Bush Republican.

Rather, she shares the mood that emerged among establishment Republicans after Bushism collapsed, which blamed the failures of his presidency on overspending rather than Iraq, and envisioned a Republican future defined by fiscal austerity, moderation on social issues and full-spectrum hawkishness in foreign policy.

This was the worldview that Trump successfully ran against in 2016, when it was extremely ill-suited for the challenges the country faced. Today the landscape is somewhat different: Haley’s eagerness to talk about entitlement reform, for instance, is still probably a political loser, but the inflation-shadowed world of 2024 could use a grand bargain on deficits in a way the world of eight years ago did not.

However, on foreign policy a sweepingly hawkish vision is even more out of touch with the present global landscape, where the United States faces a destabilizing world with an overstretched military that can’t meet its recruitment goals and a set of rivals who see this moment as their window of opportunity. (Or of necessity, in the case of a China that’s powerful today but staring at rapid demographic decline just over the horizon.)

Promises of resolve and moral clarity will not save us: There is no way that we can confront every threat with equal confidence and military power, and there are necessary trade-offs between the costs of the Ukraine war, our support for Israel and containment of Iran, our efforts to protect Taiwan and cool North Korea’s growing bellicosity, along with the various secondary obligations and surprise crises that might hit.

In this environment, the ideal president is a Nixon or an Eisenhower — a realist and a careful balancer, not a dove or an isolationist but also not a bellicose idealist. And our gravest danger right now is probably not the one invoked by critics of Haley’s who imagine an America abandoning its allies, handing the world to dictators, beating a cowardly retreat.

Why Joe Biden’s problem is bigger than just fatigue with anti-Trumpism. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times) Rather, the greater peril is an American establishment and an American president who overestimate our powers, commit ourselves too broadly and too thinly, and end up facing a series of outright military debacles and defeats. (Indeed, if I were to script a true domestic crisis for U.S. democracy, I would start with America losing a war with China and seeing its global power crack and break.)

Now it may be unfair to Haley to cast her in this kind of hubristic role. Hawkish politicians can practice realpolitik and play peacemaker — Ronald Reagan did both — and would-be realists can miscalculate their way into disasters. It’s possible to imagine scenarios where simply having greater energy in the executive helps America avoid problems that we would stagger into under a decrepit Joe Biden or a flailing and amoral Trump.

But out of all the candidates, Haley’s vision still reminds me the most of Bush’s worldview, which at a time of seemingly unconstrained power set us on the path to our era of crisis and constraint. Having seen that vision undermine a strong America, I do not trust it to rescue a weakened America. And if what failed us once should fail again, the price could be more terrible, and the collapse much more complete.

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Denominan el Parque del Norte de Hatillo con el nombre del exalcalde José “Chely” Rodríguez Cruz POR CYBERNEWS

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l Parque del Norte en Hatillo llevará el nombre del exalcalde José “Chely” Rodríguez Cruz, luego de que el actual alcalde, Carlos Román Román estampara su firma en una Ordenanza municipal para tales fines, se informó el miércoles.

Se trata de la Ordenanza Número 14; Serie 20232024, de Legislatura Municipal de Hatillo la cual autoriza la denominación, informó Román Román. El alcalde Román señaló que mediante esta acción se perpetúa el legado de Rodríguez Cruz quien fungió como alcalde de la Ciudad Ganadera por espacio de 18 años, aproximadamente.

“Nuestra administración trabajó por varios días con esta designación previo a la aprobación de la medida para asegurarnos de cumplir con la Ley 55-2021. Parque del Norte fue el proyecto insigne del exalcalde Chely Rodríguez, como le conocemos cariñosamente.

Un proyecto que refleja la personalidad del exalcalde, su visión y su amor por el pueblo, por lo cual el personal de la legislatura y de la administración municipal

entienden meritorio denominar el mismo con su nombre”, anunció Román en declaraciones escritas. “Gran Parque del Norte, La Sabana, José “Chely” Rodríguez Cruz será el nuevo nombre del parque”, añadió.

Según el alcalde Román el Parque del Norte fue el proyecto más importante del exalcalde Rodríguez Cruz, el cual se convirtió en el lugar favorito de las familias hatillanas y de pueblos limítrofes. “Chely logró combinar de forma exitosa y armoniosa la belleza natural de la costa de Hatillo, con el deporte, el entretenimiento y la gastronomía. Este espacio sirvió además para la Tradicional Fiesta de Reyes de La Fortaleza realizada en enero de 2014, bajo la incumbencia del exgobernador Alejandro García Padilla. De igual forma el lugar contribuye al desarrollo económico tanto del pueblo como de los municipios aledaños”.

La vida del exservidor público se caracterizó por su humildad, amor por su pueblo y por la sana administración pública. “Hatillo se convirtió en modelo a emular por otras administraciones gracias al buen manejo de los fondos públicos, a la transparencia y a la maximización de los recursos del pueblo. Ese legado

estará vigente en la administración municipal la cual durante décadas obtiene A al ser evaluada”.

El alcalde Román adelantó que el nuevo nombre se implementará de inmediato. “Con esta denominación las futuras generaciones recordarán a quien fue un excelente servidor público, un hombre respetado y querido y un esposo, padre y abuelo excepecional”, resaltó Román, quien agradeció a los componentes de la legislatura por la iniciativa y el aprobar la pieza legislativa de forma unánime.

Colegio de CPA anuncia su Actividad Benéfica 2024 “Uniendo Corazones Solidarios” POR CYBERNEWS

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on el tema “Uniendo Corazones Solidarios”, el Colegio de Contadores Públicos Autorizados (CCPA) celebrará su actividad benéfica el sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024 a las 7:00 de la noche en el edificio Popular Center en Hato Rey. El evento será a beneficio de Boys Scouts of America Concilio de Puerto Rico, la Fundación Pedro y Asesores Financieros Comunitarios,

anunció su presidenta, la CPA Edmy Rivera.

“Para celebrar el mes del amor, qué mejor que aportar a entidades que tanto bien le hacen al país sirviendo a las comunidades más necesitadas. Es por eso que invitamos a todos nuestros colegiados y al público en general a disfrutar de esta actividad que hemos organizado con tanta ilusión”, manifestó la CPA Rivera.

La actividad rememorará las tradicionales fiestas patronales y contará con la música de

Gisselle y Los Guardiola. Habrá una subasta silente, comida y barra abierta. La vestimenta para la actividad es “jeans & red”.

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Salinas dedica evento familiar a Jowell, Iván Calderón y Cholo Espada.

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a alcaldesa de Salinas, Karilyn Bonilla Colón, participó recientemente de la tradicional Bicicletada Familiar de la comunidad Sabana Llana de Salinas, donde decenas de personas se congregaron para pasar un buen día en comunidad y fomento de la actividad física.

La alcaldesa hizo una mención especial al líder deportivo Pedro Santos y al Comité Organizador por el éxito de la actividad. Por su parte, Jowel, reconocido cantante de música urbana, publicó en sus redes sociales que como parte del evento “pude conocer en persona al campeón mundial de boxeo Ángel Luis ‘Cholo’ Espada. El Coliseo de Salinas lleva su nombre y allí en el nuevo mosaico en su honor pudimos compartir un rato”.

El cantante se refiere a la iniciativa de la alcaldesa

Bonilla Colón de crear un espectacular mosaico frente al centro deportivo salinense. El mismo fue inaugurado el pasado 20 de diciembre con la presencia de Espada, quien a sus 75 años gozó del evento al son de la bomba y plena, una de sus pasiones. El arte, creado por el arquitecto Roberto Biaggi, es un tributo al también ex entrenador de boxeo en tres importantes etapas de su vida.

Iván Calderón, también excampeón mundial de la World Boxing Association, conocido como Iron Boy, compartió con los participantes de la bicicleta que fue transmitida por las ondas de Radio Hoy (WHOY 1210 AM). “Salinas es un pueblo eminentemente deportivo en muchos aspectos, desde ser sede del Albergue Olímpico y la Pista de Carreras, hasta los equipos deportivos

de todo tipo. Para nosotros en el municipio es particularmente importante fomentar este tipo de eventos”, finalizó la alcaldesa.

Desde la izquierda, el boxeador Iván Calderón, alcaldesa Karilyn Bonilla y cantante Jowell Muñoz.

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Ana Tijoux’s first album in a decade fights sorrows with joy

By JON PARELES

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he finale of “Vida,” the new album

by Chilean songwriter Ana Tijoux, is “Fin del Mundo” (“The End of the World”). She sings and raps, in Spanish, about dire expectations: war, pollution, drought, a collision with a comet. But as a techno-tinged disco beat rises around her, she cheerfully declares, “If the end of the world is coming, let’s dance naked together.”

“Vida” (“Life”) is Tijoux’s fifth studio album and her first since 2014.

She chose its title pointedly.

“I have a very good friend who talks to me about how life is the best vengeance against death,” she said in a video interview from her apartment in Barcelona, Spain, where she relocated during the pandemic and recorded the album. “That makes so much sense, to have vitality and energy. I insist that it doesn’t mean that we live in a superficial place. It doesn’t mean that it’s not political.

We are living in a bizarre moment.

And there is nothing more political than defending life and defending humanity.”

In the album’s first single, “Niñx” (“Little Girlx”), Tijoux urges her daughter, and all young women, to find strength in joy: “Life scares them,” she sings.

“Do not lose the laughter.”

Tijoux, 46, found an international audience with her second solo album, “1977,” which was released in 2010. It was named after the year she was born, in France, to Chilean parents who had gone into exile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Living in Paris, Tijoux was drawn to the hip-hop she heard while visi-

ting immigrant families from Africa with her mother, a social worker; she, too, felt like an outsider.

“Even if I couldn’t understand the lyrics,” she said, “that kind of music, that culture, changed our life.”

On “Vida,” Tijoux salutes 50 years of hip-hop in “Tú Sae’” (“Y’know”), joined by Kelvin Mercer (aka Posdnuos from De La Soul) and Talib Kweli, who observes, “The root of community is unity.”

Soon after the Pinochet regime ended in 1990, Tijoux returned to Chile with her parents. In the late 1990s, she established herself as a performer, rapping with Chilean hip-hop group Makiza before going solo.

The single “1977” multiplied her audience worldwide. It’s a quick-tongued, matter-of-factly autobiographical rap, backed by a vintage-sounding bolero, about growing up and finding her voice in hip-hop; it has been streamed tens of millions of times. In the United States, it was boosted by prominent placement in a 2011 episode of “Breaking Bad.” On “1977” and the albums that followed, Tijoux glided easily between rapping and singing. With her 2011 album, “La Bala” (“The Bullet”), she began collaborating with producer and multi-instrumentalist Andrés Celis. He helped broaden her music across eras and regions, drawing on R&B, reggae, rock, electronica and multiple folk traditions along with far-reaching hip-hop samples.

Tijoux has often written about politics, feminism, resistance, solidarity and the predations of capitalism: songs such as “Somos Sur” (“We Are the South”), a modal stomp about the silencing, strength and fearlessness of Africa and Latin America, which features Palestinian rapper Shadia Mansour; and “Antipatriarca” (“Anti-Patriarch”), a feminist manifesto set to Andean flutes, guitars and drums.

But after the release of her 2014 album, “Vengo,” Tijoux’s songwriting slowed. While she continued touring, she was also raising two children — Luciano, now 18, and Emiliana, 10 — and working on assorted collaborations. One was “Lightning Over Mexico” with Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello and the Bloody Beetroots, which had Tijoux rapping angrily about murdered Mexican student activists. Another was “Almacén de Datos” (“Data Warehouse”), a reggaeton song with Argentine songwriter Sara Hebe that pushes back on treating music as a commodity in the attention economy: “For a businessman, everything is a market,” Tijoux taunts.

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From page 17 Some of wthe songs on “Vida” directly extend Tijoux’s sociopolitical concerns. “Oyeme” (“Hear Me”) is a stark, percussive rap and chanted melody that Tijoux wrote after seeing reports that Britain was housing migrant asylum-seekers on a barge. “I always have news on in the morning,” Tijoux said.

“And it was terrible and absurd once again. I was thinking about the parallel between that and the slave ships.”

Another song, the somber “Busco Mi Nombre” (“I Search for My Name”), is about people who were arrested and “disappeared” by dictatorships in Argentina and Chile; it’s prefaced by spoken words from the grandmother of one Argentine victim. Tijoux wrote and sings it with iLe, a Puerto Rican songwriter who got her start with activist hip-hop group Calle 13. They met more than a decade ago, sharing the stage at a concert in New York.

“Years ago there weren’t so many female political figures,” iLe said via video from Puerto Rico. “It’s a difficult challenge to speak through songs, about things that you might be afraid to say. And it’s nice to feel that there are women who are transcending their own fears and just writing and making songs about what they feel they need to talk about. It’s ris-

ky, but it comes from an honest place. And I think Ana has done that from the beginning.”

Much of “Vida” is purposefully upbeat — recognizing struggles and losses but looking beyond them. Tijoux wrote “Tania” in memory of her sister, who died of cancer in 2019; it starts as an elegy but turns into a celebration. “She was super funny, she had a lot of vitality,” Tijoux said. “So to make just a sad song would not be fair.”

And in “Bailando Sola Aquí” (“Dancing Alone Here”), an Afrobeats track topped with Latin percussion, Tijoux sings, “I’m tired of this sadness, crying a river for you,” then declares, “I decided to be happy.”

The album is filled with dance beats: funk, trap, cumbia, disco. “I’m a terrible dancer, but I love to dance,” Tijoux said with a smile. “I think the terrible dancers are the best dancers because everyone’s laughing at us on the dance floor. Professional dancers are not funny — you need a bad dancer to make the party interesting.

“We can dance and fight at the same time,” she added. “They’re not opposites.”

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Can learning a new language stave off dementia?

By DANA G. SMITH

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y father decided to start learning French when he was 57. He hired a tutor to meet with him twice a week and diligently completed his homework before every lesson. Before long, he was visiting the French bakery across town to practice his pronunciation (and buy macarons). Now, two decades later, he’s on his third tutor.

On the surface, his retirement hobby seems a little random — our family has no connection to French-speaking countries — but his motivation ran deeper than a passion for pastries. My grandmother developed signs of Alzheimer’s disease in her early 70s, and studies suggest that being bilingual can delay the onset of the condition by up to five years.

Drawn by that potential benefit, many people, like my father, have attempted to pick up a new language in adulthood. According to a survey conducted by the language learning app Memrise, 57% of users reported “boost brain health” as a motivation for using the program.

But is that really possible? The studies on bilingualism and dementia were conducted in people who have used multiple languages in their daily life since at least early adulthood. Whether casually learning

another language later on confers the same cognitive advantages is up for debate.

How Bilingualism Benefits the Aging Brain Lots of activities are linked to better brain health in old age, like getting more education when you’re younger, physical activity and cognitively stimulating hobbies.

Experts say regularly speaking multiple languages may be especially beneficial, however.

“We use language in all aspects of daily life, so a bilingual brain is constantly working,” said Mark Antoniou, an associate professor at Western Sydney University in Australia who specializes in bilingualism.

“You don’t really get that from other enriching experiences, like playing a musical instrument.”

The age at which you learn another language appears to be less important than how often you speak it, said Caitlin Ware, a research engineer at Broca Hospital in Paris who studies bilingualism and brain health.

“The cognitive benefit is from having to inhibit your mother tongue,” she said, which your brain is forced to do if you’re trying to recall the right words in another language.

“So if the second language is used a lot, you’re getting that cognitive training.”

That process — called cognitive inhibi-

tion — is linked to better executive functioning. In theory, by improving these types of processes, the brain becomes more resilient to the impairments caused by diseases like dementia — a concept known as cognitive reserve. The stronger your mental faculties, the thinking goes, the longer you can function normally, even if your brain health starts to decline.

In a landmark 2007 paper, researchers from Toronto found that dementia patients who were bilingual developed symptoms four years later, on average, than those who weren’t. Several studies published since then have reported similar findings, however, other research has found no such difference.

Later-Life Learning Evidence for the benefits of learning a second language as a hobby in your 60s is weaker.

Research by Antoniou and colleagues found that while Chinese adults 60 and older improved on cognition tests after a six-month language learning program, people who played games like Sudoku and crossword puzzles did as well. Another small study found that older Italians who took English lessons for four months didn’t see any difference in their cognition scores, but people who didn’t take the lessons saw their scores decline. Two more recent studies on the topic, published in 2023, found virtually no difference in cognitive performance after people took part in language-learning programs.

The scientists who conducted those studies offered a few potential explanations for their disappointing results. One is that

the participants were highly motivated volunteers, who may have already been at peak performance for their age, making it hard to see any improvements.

“When we recruit participants, we have to be careful, are they really representative of the population?” said Ware, who helped run one of the experiments. “And is their cognitive level maybe a little too high?”

Another is that the language interventions were perhaps too short. The handful of studies looking into the issue have used language lessons that “were very different in their length and frequency,” said Judith Grossman, who researched the topic as part of her doctorate at Heidelberg University in Germany. Some studies taught participants for eight months, others for just one very intense week.

To Antoniou, the limited findings are not entirely surprising. No one would say that learning a new language for six months “would be the same as having used two languages for your entire life,” he said. But he does think that language lessons can provide cognitive benefits by being intellectually stimulating.

Perhaps more important, Grossman said, learning another language offers other potential advantages, like traveling or connecting with new communities. My father, for example, has remained pen pals with his first tutor after she moved back to Paris, and he’s traveled to France (and French-speaking parts of Canada) numerous times.

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Ever want to curl into a ball? Here’s how trilobites did it.

By JACK TAMISIEA

Losso and her colleagues may have finally unfurled the mystery of tumbling trilobites by using a cache of impeccably preserved fossils. Their findings, published in the journal Pro-

ceedings of the Royal Society B, describe the interlocking anatomy of a hen the going got tough in rolled-up trilobite for the first time. the Paleozoic Era, trilobites The trilobite fossils examined in rolled up. Armed with sturdy the new study came from central New exoskeletons, these anYork’s Walcott-Rust Quarry, where a cient arthropods curled mudslide 450 million years ago smothered an entire community of the scutup like armadillos to tling sea creatures. Discovered by paavoid predators or dangerous environmental leontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott conditions on the seain 1870, the site yielded the first traces floor. of trilobite appendages and soft-tissue Many trilobites have features like gills. been found with their Walcott’s trilobite fossils, and exoskeletons fossilized thin sections he sliced out of them, are in a curled position, as if stored at the Museum of Comparative holding a perpetual stomZoology at Harvard University. Losso ach crunch. But few of was analyzing the trilobites’ appendages when she came across a curled these fossils preserve the Ceraurus trilobite with a set of plates internal anatomy that tricalled sternites lining its stomach that lobites used to form a derarely survives fossilization. “When I fensive ball.

“While enrolled trifound that specimen, that’s when I got lobite fossils are really An image provided by Losso et al., Proceedings of the Royal excited,” Losso said. “We don’t have common, we don’t have Society B, 2023 shows a thin section of a partially rolled-up these plates in enrolled, three-dimenany of the ventral soft trilobite whose fossil was found at the Walcott-Rust Quatissue preserved,” said rry in New York. Fossils collected more than 150 years ago Sarah Losso, a doctoral show that the techniques some creatures use for defensive candidate at Harvard curling have not changed in millions of years. (Losso et al., University who special- Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2023 via The New York izes in trilobite evolution. Times)

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sional specimens.”

The researchers used micro-CT scans to analyze the inner anatomy of the fossil, which they describe as enrolled, and examined the thin sections Walcott made in the 1870s. Because Ceraurus trilobites had spiny shells, they folded more than they rolled. “It’s a lot more like a taco than a perfect ball,” Losso said.

These thin sections provided the researchers with the most complete view yet of how trilobites rolled up, revealing the central roles played by both the arthropod’s stomach plates and appendages.

While sternite plates were not as hard as the trilobite’s calcite-enriched shell, they were still rigid enough to prevent easy rolling. To overcome this, the trilobite most likely flexed its whole body as it rolled up, allowing the sternite plates to slide past one another as the animal performed a motion like a situp. The trilobite’s wedgelike appendages then locked together, allowing the arthropod to tightly curl. “Their little wedge-shaped legs fit together like slices of pizza,” Losso said.

The team also compared these structures to the anatomies of living arthropods like terrestrial isopods, or pill bugs, and millipedes. They discovered that these modern rollers, although distantly related to trilobites, possessed similar interlocking mechanisms.

The researchers also looked at living horseshoe crabs. While they don’t roll, horseshoe crabs use wedge-shaped appendages to crush and move food toward their mouths.

The similarity of these structures is a great example of convergent evolution, said Jorge Esteve, a paleontologist who studies trilobite ecology at the Complutense University of Madrid but was not involved in the paper.

“While these morphological features were totally unknown in trilobites, we have other arthropods that are also able to enclose the body using similar structures,” Esteve said. “Evolution sometimes reuses the same answer to address similar problems.”

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las propiedades anteriormente descritas han dejado de ser de utilidad pública y la venta de las mismas constituye una transacción beneficiosa para el interés público. CUARTA: En cumplimiento con las disposiciones de la Ley Número 12 del 10 de diciembre de 1975, según enmendada, se notifica a los anteriores dueños, o en la alternativa a sus respectivas sucesiones o causahabientes, colindantes, municipios y otras entidades gubernamentales con interés en ejercitar el derecho preferente de adquirir la propiedad, que le concede la misma, lo informen por escrito a la Secretaria del DEPARTAMENTO DE TRANSPORTACIÓN Y OBRAS PÚBLICAS dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse desde la fecha de la última publicación de esta Resolución. Se notifica a los anteriores dueños o en la alternativa a sus sucesiones a la última dirección conocida con copia de este Edicto, por correo certificado con acuse de recibo la intención de la AUTORIDAD DE CARRETERAS Y TRANSPORTACIÓN, de enajenar el predio de terreno antes descrito. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 9 de enero de 2024. SANDRA GUTIÉRREZ DÁVILA, SECRETARIA INTERINA.

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

ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Demandante Vs.

IRIS ELAINE LOPEZ PEREZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2023CV00857.

Sala: 208. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA).

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 20 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que

Thursday, January 25, 2024 ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: URBANIZACION SUNRISE (PALMAS DEL MAR), E-2 CALLE TWILIGHT (5), HUMACAO, PUERTO RICO 00791 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Lot number E-2 in the Sunrise at Palmas Del Mar Development, located at Palmas del Mar, Candelero Abajo Ward of the Municipality of Humacao, Puerto Rico, with a surface area of 834.3279 square meters. It’s boundaries are as follows: by the NORTH, in a distance of 14.479 meters and 8.021 meters with Street number 5; by the SOUTH, in a distance of 25.222 meters with Principal Avenue; by the EAST, in a distance of 35.000 meters with Lot number 3; and by the WEST, in a distance of 34.708 meters with Lot number 1. There has been constructed: on this parcel of land a single detached residential dwelling unit. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 181 del Tomo 597 de Humacao, bajo la finca número 27,997, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $291,611.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 27 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $194,407.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $145,805.50.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 211 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 17 de noviembre de 2020, ante el notario Pedro Luis López Adames y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Humacao, Finca número 27,997, inscripción 6ta y última,

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en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $279,779.39 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $29,161.10.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $29,161.10 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $29,161.10 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/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 del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmi-

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21 sibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas.

Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de enero de 2024. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL #249, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR.

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

CARLOS CABRERA CORTES, CARLOS ALBERTO CABRERA PEREZ, ROSA ELENA CABRERA PEREZ, ELIEZER CABRERA PEREZ, DAMARIS CABRERA PEREZ, 2204 CALLE GOLONDRINA, COMUNIDAD CAPIRO, BARRIO GALATEO ALTO, ISABELA, PUERTO RICO 00662 EX PARTE

PETICIONARIOS Civil Núm.: AG2023CV02013.

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

ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

residencia. Catastro: #025-000- constar que en cumplimiento

POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convengan en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal.

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

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

ra mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a los dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 9 de enero de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ZUHEILY GONZÁLEZ AVILÉS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

010-50-002. El abogado de la del Mandamiento de Ejecución A: LAS PERSONAS parte peticionaria es el Lcdo. de Sentencia, expedido el 10 IGNORADAS Y Luis A. González González, PO de noviembre de 2023 por la DESCONOCIDAS A BOX 613 Isabela, Puerto Rico Secretaría de este Tribunal, QUIENES PUDIERA 00662; Tel. (787) 872-4646. procederé a vender en pública PERJUDICAR LA Se le informa, además, que le subasta y al mejor postor, quien INSCRIPCIÓN DEL Tribunal ha señalado vista en pagará el importe de la venta DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA este caso para el 8 DE MARZO en dinero efectivo o en cheque PARTE PETICIONARIA DE 2024, A LAS 4:15 DE LA certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, EN EL REGISTRO DE LA TARDE, mediante videoconfe- en moneda del curso legal de rencia, a la cual usted puede PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA comparecer asistido por abo- los Estados Unidos de AméQUE MÁS ADELANTE SE gado y presentar oposición a la rica, el día 22 DE FEBRERO DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA petición. Este edicto deberá ser DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 DE LA PERSONA EN GENERAL publicado en tres (3) ocasiones MAÑANA, en las oficinas del dentro del término de veinte Alguacil del Tribunal de MaQUE CON DERECHO (20) días, en un periódico de yagüez, todo título, derecho PARA ELLO DESEE circulación general diaria, para o interés que corresponda a OPONERSE A ESTE que comparezcan si quieren la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a EXPEDIENTE. alegar su derecho. Toda prime-

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STREAMLINE PROPERTIES, LLC Demandante V.

ROBERTO CRUZ GONZÁLEZ, SU ESPOSA SANDRA MERCADO FORTUNA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: ISCI201301277.

(307). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace

continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Mayagüez Arriba del término municipal de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de cero punto tres mil doscientos cuarenta y cuatro (0.3244) cuerdas, equivalentes a mil doscientos setenta y cinco punto mil ochocientos setenta y cuatro (1,275.1874) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela a segregarse, propiedad de Amalia Rivera Cintrón, finca principal de la cual se segrega, en veintiséis punto treinta y cuatro (26.34) metros; por el SUR, con la Carretera Estatal número ciento seis (106); por el OESTE, con la calle Flor del Valle o Carretera Estatal; y por el ESTE, con la Sucesión de Faustino Rivera. Sobre dicho solar enclava una estructura de hormigón. Finca Número 14,819, inscrita al folio 8 del tomo 1503 de Mayagüez, Registro de Mayagüez. Dirección Física: Carretera #106, Km 1.6, Barrio Mayagüez Arriba, Mayagüez, PR. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Libre de Cargas. Por sí: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma de $120,000.00, con interés al 7.95%, y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura #174, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de marzo de 2004, ante el Notario Público Juan Surillo Pumarada, inscrita al folio 8 del tomo 1503 de Mayagüez, inscripción 10ª. MODIFICACIÓN DE HIPOTECA: Es objeto de esta modificación la Hipoteca por $120,000.00, que surge de la inscripción 10ª, según consta de la escritura #150, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de marzo de 2011, ante la Notario Público Fabiola Ansotegui Blanco, inscrita al folio 8 del tomo 1503 de Mayagüez,

22 inscripción 11ª. EMBARGO ELA contra Roberto Cruz González y Sandra Mercado por $3,565.22, caso #05130-00090 seguido por CFSE por compensación obrera, certificación de fecha 8 de septiembre de 2008 presentado y anotado el 15 de septiembre de 2008 al folio 43 asiento 168 del tomo 38 de Mayagüez. EMBARGO ELA contra Roberto Cruz González y Sandra Mercado por $3,565.22, caso #05130-00090 seguido por CFSE por compensación obrera, certificación de fecha 4 de septiembre de 2014 presentado y anotado el 9 de septiembre de 2014 al folio 81 asiento 319 del tomo 38 de Mayagüez.

EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Roberto Cruz González / Decoraciones ARS GEN CONTRACTORS por $1,321.46, caso #653667010 (embargo 6721 del 31 de diciembre de 2003), presentado y anotado el 15 de junio de 2010 al folio 16 asiento 1 del tomo 4 de embargos federales de Mayagüez. EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Roberto Cruz González / Decoraciones ARS GEN CONTRACTORS por $1,321.46, caso #653667110; (embargo 6721 del 31 de diciembre de 2003) presentado y anotado el 15 de junio de 2010 al folio 16 asiento 2 del tomo 4 de embargos federales de Mayagüez. EMBARGO FEDERAL contra Roberto Cruz González / Sandra M. Fortuna por $9,738.54, caso #633660910, presentado y anotado el 7 de junio de 2010 al folio 15 asiento 5 del tomo 4 de embargos federales de Mayagüez. Servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta de la propiedad, la suma de $120,000.00, conforme a lo estipulado en la escritura de Hipoteca número 174, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 11 de marzo de 2004 ante el Notario Público Juan Surillo Pumarada. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Mayagüez, el día 29 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta será dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $80,000.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Mayagüez, el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $60,000.00. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a STREAMLINE PROPERTIES, LLC ascendente a la suma de

$80,415.82, balance de principal del referido pagaré, más los intereses que al tipo convenido del 7.950% anual que se han devengado sobre dicha suma desde el 1ro de junio de 2012 y los que se devenguen hasta su total y completo pago, los cargos por demora incurridos hasta esta fecha y los que se devenguen hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda, y los adelantos hechos por el demandante para el pago de primas de seguro y contribuciones y la suma de $12,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado del demandante conforme éstos fueron pactados en la referida escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables.

El Alguacil 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. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en la fecha, hora y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta señalada. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 18 de diciembre de 2023. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #924, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ.

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Thursday, January 25, 2024 LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS

ESTRELLA HOMES III, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs.

YAHAIRA ESCALANTE FONTANEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: ECD2018-0065.

(701). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en nuestras oficinas en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $93,695.39, de balance principal al 1 de marzo de 2017, $3,146.99 por concepto de 6 mensualidades en atrasos, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 5.75% anual desde el 1 de marzo de 2017, hasta su total pago y completo pago; más los cargos por demora devengados sobre cada mensualidad, más la suma de $10,500.00 estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento, Dieciocho Cero Seis (1806) del Condominio Villa Beatriz, radicado en el Barrio Beatriz de la municipalidad de Cayey, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de ochocientos veinte punto cuarenta y nueve pies cuadrados (820.49 p.c.). En lindes, por el Norte: con área común; por el Sur: patio cuyo uso le pertenece; por el Este: con área común; y por el Oeste: con pasillo, área común y con pared que lo separa del apartamento dieciocho cero uno (1801). Apartamento ubicado en la primera planta del Edificio Dieciocho del Condominio Villa Beatriz, con entrada principal mirando hacia el Oeste, el cual consiste de un área sala-comedor, cocina, balcón, tres habitaciones cada una con ropero, un baño y un “linen-closet. A este

apartamento le corresponde una participación de punto cincuenta y cinco por ciento (.55%) en los elementos comunes del Condominio. También tiene derecho dos espacios de estacionamiento identificados con el mismo número de apartamento. Le Corresponde a los Titulares de este apartamento el uso exclusivo del patio que se extiende por el ancho en veintisiete pies y por el largo en diez pies contados desde el balcón. Las restricciones de uso de este patio se establecen en la escritura matriz y reglamento del Condominio. Inscrita al sistema Karibe, finca veinticinco mil quinientos ochenta y tres (25583) de Cayey, Registro de la Propiedad Sección de Caguas I. Dirección Física: 1806 Villa Beatriz, Cayey, PR 00736. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 12 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $105,000.00 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 20 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 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 $70,000.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 27 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 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 $52,500.00. 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 crédi-

to 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 Caguas Puerto Rico a 9 de enero de 2024. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.

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Parte Demandante Vs.

MELISSA RODRIGUEZ MATOS

Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02118.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que venderá en pública subasta en la Oficina de

Alguaciles, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $98,723.97 de balance principal, el cual se compone de $97,045.38 de primer principal y la suma de $1,678.59 de balance diferido, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al anual hasta su total pago y completo pago desde el primero de junio de 2019; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma estipulada de $10,500.00 para honorarios de abogado pactada en la escritura de hipoteca y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento mil trescientos ocho (1308) del Condominio Villa Beatriz radicado en el Barrio Beatriz de la municipalidad de Cayey, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de ochocientos veinte punto cuarenta y nueve (820.49) pies cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con área común; por el SUR, con área común; por el ESTE, con pared que lo separa del apartamento mil cuatrocientos tres (1403); y por el OESTE, con pasillo, área común y con pared que lo separa del apartamento mil trescientos tres (1303). Apartamento ubicado en la tercera planta del edificio trece (13) del Condominio Villa Beatriz, con entrada principal mirando hacia el Oeste, el cual consiste de una área sala-comedor, cocina, balcón, tres habitaciones cada una con ropero, un baño y un linen closet. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación de punto cincuenta y cinco por ciento (.55%) en los elementos comunes del Condominio. También tiene derecho dos espacios de estacionamiento identificados con el mismo número del apartamento. Inscrito al sistema Karibe, finca veinticinco mil cuatrocientos dos (25402) de Cayey, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Dirección Física: Apt. 1308, Cond. Villa Beatriz, Cayey, PR 00736. La SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 12 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $98,723.97 sin admitirse oferta inferior. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Se avisa a cual-

quier licitador que la propiedad PUERTO RICO queda sujeta al gravamen del Demandante V. Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM DAVID O ALICEA CUEBAS sobre la propiedad inmueble Demandado(a) por contribuciones adeudadas Caso Núm.: AÑ2023CV00231. y que el pago de dichas contri(Salón: 0201). Sobre: COBRO buciones es la responsabilidad DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. del licitador. Que se entenderá NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENpor todo licitador acepte como CIA POR EDICTO. suficiente la titulación y que los GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, cargos y gravámenes anterio- LAWOFFICES.GINAFERRERMEDINA@GMAIL.COM. res y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán A: DAVID O. subsistentes en entendiéndose ALICEA CUEBAS. que el rematador los acepta y (Nombre de las partes que se le queda subrogado en la res- notifican la sentencia por edicto) ponsabilidad de los mismos, EL SECRETARIO(A) que sussin destinarse su extinción al cribe le notifica a usted que precio rematante. Todos los el 11 de enero de 2024, este nombres de los acreedores que Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, tengan inscritos o anotados Sentencia Parcial o Resolución sus derechos sobre los bienes en este caso, que ha sido debihipotecados con posterioridad damente registrada y archivada a la inscripción del crédito del en autos donde podrá usted enejecutante, o de los acreedores terarse detalladamente de los de cargas o derechos reales términos de la misma. Esta noque los hubiesen pospuesto tificación se publicará una sola a la hipoteca ejecutada y las vez en un periódico de circulapersonas interesadas en, o con ción general en la Isla de Puerderecho a exigir el cumplimien- to Rico, dentro de los 10 días to de instrumentos negociables siguientes a su notificación. Y, garantizados hipotecariamen- siendo o representando usted te con posterioridad al crédito una parte en el procedimiento ejecutado, siempre que surgen sujeta a los términos de la Sende la certificación registral, tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Repara que puedan concurrir a solución, de la cual puede estala subasta si les convenga o blecerse recurso de revisión o satisfacer antes del remate el apelación dentro del término de importe del crédito, de sus in- 30 días contados a partir de la tereses, costas y honorarios publicación por edicto de esta de abogados asegurados, que- notificación, dirijo a usted esta dando entonces subrogados notificación que se considerará en los derechos del acreedor hecha en la fecha de la publiejecutante. La propiedad a ser cación de este edicto. Copia de ejecutada se adquirirá libre de esta notificación ha sido archicargas y gravámenes poste- vada en los autos de este caso, riores. Y para conocimiento de con fecha 16 de enero de 2024. licitadores, del público en gene- En Añasco, Puerto Rico, el 16 ral y para su publicación en un de enero de 2024. NORMA G. periódico de circulación general SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECREdiaria en Puerto Rico y en los TARIA. LUZ N. CHICO ACEVEsitios públicos de acuerdo a las DO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 DEL TRIBUNAL. de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación LEGAL NOTICE en un periódico de circulación ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO general diaria y en el Estado DE PUERTO RICO TRIBULibre Asociado de Puerto Rico, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA por espacio de dos semanas CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAcon antelación a la fecha de la GUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE primera subasta y por lo menos CAGUAS una vez por semana. Los autos BANCO POPULAR DE y todos los documentos corresPUERTO RICO pondientes al procedimiento Demandante V. indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal BENJAMÍN ALICEA durante las horas laborables.

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SOCIEDAD LEGAL 210-2015). Expedido el presenDE GANANCIALES te en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 9 COMPUESTA CON RITA de enero de 2024. EDGARDO CÁNDIDA CASTILLO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL ESTRADA T/C/C RITA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS- C. CASTILLO ESTRADA TANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.

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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUSobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HINAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA POTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYASENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE BELMA ALONSO GARCÍA, AÑASCO OFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL.

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SOCIEDAD LEGAL POR LA PRESENTE se le DE GANANCIALES emplaza y requiere para que COMPUESTA POR conteste la demanda dentro de AMBOS (TITULARES los treinta (30) días siguientes REGISTRALES) Y SUS a la publicación de este Edicto. ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del CONOCIDAS: VISTAS Sistema Unificado de Manejo y DEL VALLE APT 2603, Administración de Casos (SUCAGUAS PR 00725, MAC), la cual puede acceder VISTAS DEL VALLE APT. utilizando la siguiente direc2306, CAGUAS, PR 00725 ción electrónica: https://unired. salvo que se Y 465 DUFFY DR. GRAND ramajudicial.pr, represente por derecho propio, JUNCTION, CO 81504- en cuyo caso deberá presen6240. tar su alegación responsiva

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de marzo de 2020, 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 16 de enero de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 16 de enero de 2024.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

Demandado Civil Núm.: LR2023CV00172.

Salón: 10. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

en la secretaría del tribunal.

Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Lares, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de diciembre de 2023. En Lares, Puerto Rico, el 4 de diciembre de 2023. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA. IVELISSE MÉNDEZ PADILLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO Salón: 703. Sobre: COBRO RICO, SS. DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENA: SERGIO A. ESTRADA TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS RAMÍREZ - URB. SANTA UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL MARIA 2 CALLE GIGI SAN PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTAUNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIJUAN, PR 00927- 6743. DOS BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO POR LA PRESENTE, se le noRICO, SS. tifica a usted que ha sido radiA: ORLANDO ADORNO cada en esta Secretaria del TriPÉREZ - URB. LAS bunal de Primer Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto AMÉRICAS CC21 CALLE Rico, la demanda de epígrafe. 7 BAYAMÓN, P.R. 00959Se le emplaza y requiere para 2087 / BO. GALATEO que notifique a Ia parte deCENTRO CARR 804 KM mandante, por conducto de su abogado, Lcdo. Gabriel Antonio 0.3 TOA ALTA, P.R. 00953.

Ramos Colón cuyas direccio- POR LA PRESENTE se le nes son: P.O. Box 71418 San emplaza por la deuda reclaJuan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, mada de $4,330.17 y requiere teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la di- para que conteste la demanda rección gabrieI.ramos@orf-law. dentro de los treinta (30) días com y a la dirección notifica- siguientes a la publicación de ciones@orf-law.com. POR LA este Edicto. Usted deberá prePRESENTE se le emplaza, se sentar su alegación responsiva le notifica que una demanda ha a través del Sistema Unificado sido presentada en su contra de Manejo y Administración y se le requiere para que con- de Casos (SUMAC), la cual teste la demanda dentro de los puede acceder utilizando la sitreinta (30) días siguientes a la guiente dirección electrónica: publicación de este Edicto, radi- https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, cando su alegación responsiva salvo que se represente por a través del Sistema Unificado derecho propio, en cuyo caso de Manejo y Administración de deberá presentar su alegación Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede responsiva en la secretaría del acceder utilizando la siguiente tribunal. Si usted deja de predirección electrónica: https:// sentar su alegación responsiva www.poderjudicial.pr/index- dentro del referido término, el php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo tribunal podrá dictar sentenque se represente por derecho cia en rebeldía en su contra y propio, en cuyo caso deberá conceder el remedio solicitapresentar su alegación respon- do en la demanda o cualquier siva en la secretaría del tribunal otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si y notificando con copia de la el tribunal en el ejercicio de su misma a la parte demandante sana discreción, lo entiende a la dirección antes indicada. procedente. El sistema SUMAC Se le apercibe que, si usted notificará copia a los abogados deja de presentar su alegación de la parte demandante, Lcdo. responsiva dentro del referido Edwin Serrano Peña cuyas ditérmino, el tribunal podrá dic- recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 tar sentencia en rebeldía en su San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936contra y conceder el remedio 8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 solicitado en la demanda, o a la dirección edwin.serrano@ cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en orf-law.com y a la dirección el ejercicio de su sana discre- notificaciones@orf-law.com. ción, lo entiende procedente. El EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA original de su contestación ante y el sello del Tribunal, en Bael Tribunal correspondiente y yamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día notificando con copia de esta 13 de noviembre de 2023. En a la parte demandante a la di- Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 13 rección antes indicada. Sin más de noviembre de 2023. LCDA. citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALITribunal hoy día 15 de de no- CEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETAviembre de 2023. GRISELDA RIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV07337.

Sala: 908. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTOS. ESTADO LIBRE ASO-

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC. COMO AGENTE GESTOR DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC. Demandante Vs.

ORLANDO

Demandante V.

ESTEFANI VANTULL RODRIGUEZ

Demandada Civil Núm.: GY2023CV00044.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI-

POTECA - IN REM. 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 Ponce, Ponce, 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 9 de noviembre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Urbana: URBANIZACIÓN ALTURAS DE PEÑUELAS de Peñuelas.

Solar: NUMERO VEINTE (20) DEL BLOQUE J. Cabida: 188 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, en 25.00 metros con el lote número 21 del bloque J. Sur, en 25.00 metros con el lote número 19 del bloque J. Este, en 7.52 con la calle número 18 del bloque J. Oeste, en 7.52 con el lote número 17 del bloque J. Enclava una estructura dedicada a vivienda construida de hormigón armado y bloques de hormigón de dos planta tipo duplex. Inscrita en la finca número 4,887 de Peñuelas,Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ponce. La propiedad ubica en: J20 Alturas de Peñuelas II, Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, 00624.

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: Autoridad Para El Financiamiento De La Vivienda De Puerto Rico, La Llave Para Tu Hogar, por la suma principal de $15,000.00, sin intereses, con vencimiento el 18 de septiembre del año 2010. Tasada la finca en la suma equivalente al principal por $15,000.00. Según la inscripción 7ma. al folio 83 del tomo 223 de Peñuelas de fecha 6 de noviembre del 2002. En virtud de la escritura número -105- otorgada en Ponce, Puer-

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to Rico, el 18 de septiembre del 2002 ante la notario Edna Chandrissa Bonnet Vázquez.

Aviso de Demanda de fecha 21 de marzo de 2023, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayanilla, en el caso civil número GY2023CV00044, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Estefani Vantull Rodríguez, por la suma de $33,967.05 más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 31 de marzo de 2023, al tomo Karibe de Peñuelas, finca número 4,887, Anotación C. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 11 de septiembre de 2023 y notificada el 15 de septiembre de 2023, por la cantidad de $33,967.05 más intereses sobre dicha suma al tipo convenido de 7.500% por ciento anual desde el día 1 de abril de 2022, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguros estipuladas en la escritura de hipoteca, contribuciones de la propiedad, de aplicar, más recargos por demora, más los intereses devengados y la cantidad estipulada de $5,582.50 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 20 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

El precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es por la cantidad de $55,825.00.Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 27 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico.El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $37,216.66, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 5 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico.El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $27,912.50, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor

por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm.

210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6.

Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado pueden concurrir a la subasta si les convienen o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos,

sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de diciembre de 2023. Alguacil Manuel Maldonado, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce.

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

DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL INC.

Parte Demandante Vs.

DORAL BANK, AHORA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2023CV07187.

(503). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

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

Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que el pagaré es a favor de Doral Bank, ahora Banco Popular de Puerto Rico por la suma de principal de cien mil dólares ($100,000.00), intereses al cinco punto nueve cincuenta por ciento (5.950%) anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de noviembre de dos mil treinta y cuatro (2034). Inscrita al Sistema Karibe finca número treinta y cuatro mil trescientos cincuenta (34,350), inscripción novena (9na), Inscrito en virtud de la Ley doscientos dieciséis (216) del asiento abreviado.

24 Que la propiedad sobre la cual se constituyo dicha hipoteca es la siguiente: URBANA: Parcela de terreno en la Urbanización Bayamón Gardens Segunda Extensión, localizada en la Urbanización en el Barrio Pájaros en la municipalidad de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el cual se describe en el plano de inscripción con el número once (11) del bloque FF. Área: trescientos noventa y dos punto setenta y uno (392.7) metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con e solar diez (10) en una distancia de treinta y tres punto sesenta (33.60) metros; por el SUR, con el solar número doce (12) en una distancia de treinta y cuatro punto noventa y cuatro (34.94) metros; por el ESTE, con la calle Sandy, distancia de diecisiete punto veintiséis (17.26) metros en un arco; por el OESTE, con el solar número nueve (9) distancia de cinco punto cincuenta (5.50) metros, enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio ciento veintiséis (126) del tomo setecientos cincuenta y dos (752) de Bayamón, finca número treinta y cuatro mil trescientos cincuenta (34,350) del Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón Sección Primera (1ra). 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico. A 8 de enero de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Thursday, January 25, 2024

CION DE HIPOTECA / PRO- M FELICIE REODRIGUEZ dentro de los treinta (30) días RODRÍGUEZ SANTIAGO SUCESION FRANCISCA SALA DE ARECIBO siguientes de haber sido diliPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOISLAND PORTFOLIO T/C/C LIVIA FELICIE T/C/C MIGUEL ANGEL NOVA VILLANUEVA genciado este emplazamiento.

TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA SERVICES, LLC COMO RODRIGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ SANTIAGO. T/C/C FRANCISCA NOVA Usted deberá presentar su alePOR EDICTO. (Nombre de las partes que se le (Nombre de las partes que se le AGENTE DE ACE ONE T/C/C FRANCISCA gación responsiva a través del notifican la sentencia por edicto) A: JOHN DOE Y notifican la sentencia por edicto) FUNDING, LLC ENCARNACION EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- Sistema Unificado de Manejo y EL SECRETARIO(A) que susJANE DOE COMO Parte Demandante Vs. Administración de Casos (SUCOMPUESTA POR POSIBLES MIEMBROS cribe le notifica a usted que el MAC), al cual puede acceder cribe le notifica a usted que LUIS R MENDEZ 07 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, 19 de enero de 2024, este OMAYRA ENCARNACION DESCONOCIDOS DE LA este Tribunal ha dictado Sen- utilizando la siguiente direc- el DE JESUS A: ENEIDA FLORES T/C/C Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, NOVA; JOHN DOE SUCESION WILFREDO tencia, Sentencia Parcial o ción electrónica: https://www. Sentencia Parcial o Resolución Parte Demandada ENEIDA LOPEZ Y JANE DOE COMO Civil Núm.: AR2023CV01326. ROSADO BATISTA, JOHN Resolución en este caso, que poderjudicial.pr/index.php./ en este caso, que ha sido debiLOS TAMARINDOS, I-12 5 POSIBLES HEREDEROS Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. ROE Y JANE ROE COMO ha sido debidamente registra- tribunal-electronico/, salvo que damente registrada y archivada ST., SAN LORENZO, presente por derecho propio, en autos donde podrá usted enDESCONOCIDOS; EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICPOSIBLES MIEMBROS da y archivada en autos donde se PR 00754.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE podrá usted enterarse deta- en cuyo caso deberá presentar terarse detalladamente de los DESCONOCIDOS DE POR LA PRESENTE se le AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE lladamente de los términos de su alegación responsiva en la términos de la misma. Esta noAMERICA; CENTRO LA SUCESION ANDREA la misma. Esta notificación se secretaría del tribunal. Si usted tificación se publicará una sola emplaza para que presente al DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, DE RECAUDACION DE EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIATribunal su alegación responsiBERRIOS RIVERA publicará una sola vez en un deja de presentar su alegación vez en un periódico de circula(Nombre de las partes que se le va a la demanda dentro de los INGRESOS MUNICIPALES DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. periódico de circulación general responsiva dentro del referido ción general en la Isla de Puernotifican la sentencia por edicto) Demandados treinta (30) días de haber sido en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro término, el tribunal podrá dic- to Rico, dentro de los 10 días A: LUIS R MENDEZ DE EL SECRETARIO(A) que susdiligenciado este emplazamien- Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV11345. sentencia en rebeldía en su siguientes a su notificación. Y, JESUS - URB VISTA AZUL cribe le notifica a usted que el de los 10 días siguientes a su tar to, excluyéndose el día del dili- (Sala: 508). Sobre: EJECUnotificación. Y, siendo o repre- contra y conceder el remedio siendo o representando usted genciamiento, notificando copia CIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EM- X34 CALLE 22, ARECIBO 12 DE ENERO DE 2024, este sentando usted una parte en el solicitado en la demanda, o una parte en el procedimiento Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, PR 00612-2661. de la misma al abogado de la PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. procedimiento sujeta a los tér- cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en sujeta a los términos de la Sen-

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

parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 2005 TSPR 50, Op. De 22 de abril de 2005; tienen la opción de aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante, dentro del término de 30 días a partir de su emplazamiento. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar dicha herencia dentro del término que se le fijó para contestar a la demanda incoada en su contra, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada, así como el presente emplazamiento.

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: LEGAL NOTICE Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO RUA NÚM.: 16,393 DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP Attorneys at Law GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRISuite 209 BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN500 Calle de la Tanca CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR Tel.: (787) 523-2670 BANCO POPULAR DE Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com PUERTO RICO EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA Demandante V. y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 11 LA SUCESIÓN DE de enero de 2024. LISILDA DEMETRIO DIAZ MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECREFLORES COMPUESTA TARIA. ANA H. LUGO MUÑOZ, POR XYZ (HEREDEROS SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. DESCONOCIDOS);

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

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE SUCESION FRANCISCA NOVA VILLANUEVA T/C/C FRANCISCA NOVA T/C/C FRANCISCA ENCARNACION.

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

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

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de enero de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional.

María I. Ríos López, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Edwin Serrano Peña cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección edwin.serrano@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de enero de 2024.

VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. VANESSA M. GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de ENERO de 2024. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 17 de ENERO de 2024.

LISILDA MARTINEZ AGOSTO, Secretaria. f/ENEIDA ARROYO VELEZ , Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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

minos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de ENERO de 2024. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 17 de ENERO de 2024. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria. f/RAQUEL DIAZ LOPEZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

En PONCE , Puerto Rico a 17 de enero de 2024. CARMEN TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. KEILENE RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, SUB SECRETARIA.

tencia, 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 LEGAL NOTICE publicación de este edicto. CoESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO pia de esta notificación ha sido DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- archivada en los autos de este NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA caso, con fecha 19 de enero de CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA- 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, ROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE el 19 de enero de 2024. KANECAROLINA LLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECREBAUTISTA CAYMAN TARIA. MYRIAM FIGUEROA PASTRANA, SECRETARIA ASSET COMPANY AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. Demandante V.

MIGUEL RODRÍGUEZ LEGAL NOTICE SANTIAGO T/C/C MIGUEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ANGEL RODRÍGUEZ DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO SANTIAGO, POR SÍ Y NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCOMO MIEMBRO DE CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CANAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE PONCE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL GUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS ANDENO CO DE GANANCIALES Demandante V. LIZZETTE COMPUESTA CON SU ELIZABETH ROBLES RÍOS RODRÍGUEZ ESPOSA, LUZ RUIZ Demandante V. FERNANDEZ PÉREZ T/C/C LUZ DELIA Demandado POPULAR MORTGAGE RUIZ PÉREZ Y OTROS Civil Núm.: PO2023CV02129.

INC Y OTROS Demandado(a) LEGAL NOTICE

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

Caso Núm.: CA2023CV02801.

(Civil: 404). Sobre:COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LUIS G PARRILLA HERNANDEZ, LPARRILLA@FERRAIUOLI.COM.

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2023CV03188.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LISDAIRA SERRANO MARTINEZ, LISDAIRASERRANO@GMAIL.COM.

A: ELIZABETH ROBLES A: MIGUEL RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - HC 8 BOX SANTIAGO T/C/C MIGUEL A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD 833, PONCE, PR 00731ANGEL RODRÍGUEZ ROE, POSIBLES Demandante v.

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SANTIAGO, POR SÍ Y TENEDORES DEL ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Se le notifica que la parte deCOMO MIEMBRO DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. AMERICA Y OTROS LA SUCESIÓN DE LEGAL NOTICE mandante ha presentado ante LEGAL NOTICE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL (Nombre de las partes que se le Demandado( a) este tribunal, demanda contra LUCIA FLORES DIAZ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO notifican la sentencia por edicto) ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE GANANCIALES Caso Núm.: SJ2021CV07391 usted, solicitando la concesión COMPUESTA POR DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCOMPUESTA CON SU EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus(SALON 604 CIVIL). Sobre: del siguiente remedio: Cobro de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ENEIDA FLORES T/C/C NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA cribe le notifica a usted que EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA / Dinero. Representa a la parte ESPOSA, LUZ RUIZ CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAel 11 de enero de 2024, este ENEIDA LOPEZ POR SÍ Y SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. demandante, el abogado cuyo PÉREZ T/C/C LUZ DELIA Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, GUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE COMO MIEMBRO DE LA JUAN NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN- nombre, dirección y teléfono se CAGUAS. RUIZ PÉREZ: LUZ RUIZ Sentencia Parcial o Resolución COMPU-LINK CIA POR EDICTO. consigna de inmediato: SUCESIÓN, JOHN DOE Y REVERSE MORTGAGE PÉREZ T/C/C LUZ DELIA en este caso, que ha sido debiBrito.Legal CORPORATION A: JOHN DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE FUNDING LLC 1607 Ave. Ponce de León RUIZ PÉREZ, POR SÍ, damente registrada y archivada D/B/A CELINK JANE DOE COMO BIENES GANANCIALES St. GM6 #232 Demandante v.

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sente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a LCDO. EDUARDO SANCHEZ JAUREGUI-JIMENEZ 366 CALLE ESCORIAL, CAPARRA HEIGHTS SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00920 Tel (787) 603-1178, email: edusjj@ gmail.com Abogado de la Parte Demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que, de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 04 de enero de 2024 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GLORIAM MARTÍNEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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A: SUCESION DE NILDA ALICIA DEL DEMANDANTE VS. VALLE, DEMANDADOS JOSÉ RAMÓN CASTRO DOMICILIADOS FUERA DOMÉNECH, T/C/C JOSE DE PUERTO RICO Y R. CASTRO, T/C/C JOSÉ OTROS DESCONOCIDOS R. CASTRO DOMÉNECH; CUYA DIRECCIÓN SE ESTADOS UNIDOS DE DESCONOCE. AMÉRICA Se les notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita que se inscriba como titulares de la finca 6758-A a Urania Margarita Martínez Del Valle, José Luis Martínez Ramírez y Viviana Martínez Ramírez como miembros de la Sucesión de Margarita Del Valle Alicea y de la Sucesión de José Angel Martinez Del Valle. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se repre-

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: BY2022CV01417.

SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca In Rem. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL A: JOSÉ RAMÓN CASTRO DOMÉNECH, T/C/C JOSE R. CASTRO, T/C/C JOSÉ R. CASTRO DOMÉNECH; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Yo, EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 21 de febrero de 2024, a las 10:15 de la mañana, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Ba-

yamón, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 5 de octubre de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 28 de febrero de 2024, a las 10:15 de la mañana,; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 6 de marzo de 2024, a las 10:15 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 30 de noviembre de 2023, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela de terreno en la Urbanización Levittown, Tercera Unidad de Planificación, en el Barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Levittown con el número del solar tres mil setenta y seis (3,076) del Bloque “C”, con un área de solar de trescientos diez punto cincuenta metros cuadrados (310.50 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número tres mil setenta y siete (3,077); por el SUR, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número tres mil setenta y cinco (3,075); por el ESTE, en trece punto cincuenta metros, con el Paseo Ciprés; y por el OESTE, en trece punto cincuenta metros, con un paseo público. Sobre el descrito solar enclava una casa de concreto y bloques de concreto diseñada para vivienda de una familia. Finca número 5,648, inscrita al folio 137 del tomo 79 de Toa Baja.

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Bayamón. Dirección de la Propiedad: C-3076 Paseo Cipres St Levittown, Toa Baja, PR 00949.

La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $58,435.76 en concepto de principal más intereses que

acumulan un total de $155,539.33 a la fecha de 30 de noviembre de 2023 los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $16,200.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 156 otorgada el día 27 de junio de 2013, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Juan Luis Romero Sánchez y consta inscrita al folio 19 del tomo 581 de Toa Baja, finca número 5,648, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección II de Bayamón. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de Estados Unidos de América, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $162,000.00, con intereses al 3.193% anual, vencedero el día 15 de marzo de 2101, constituida por la escritura número 157, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de junio de 2023, ante el notario Juan Luis Romero Sánchez, e inscrito al folio 19 del tomo 581 de Toa Baja, finca número 5,648, inscripción 11ma. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $162,000.00 según se estable-

ce en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $108,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $81,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la

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concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 4 de enero de 2023. EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMON.

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

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC DEMANDANTE VS.

SUCESIÓN DE TERESA BURGOS AYALA T/C/C TERESA BURGOS DE RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C TERESA BURGOS DE AYALA T/C/C TERESA BURGOS, COMPUESTA POR MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ BURGOS, GLADYS RODRÍGUEZ BURGOS, JOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ BURGOS, ADA RODRÍGUEZ BURGOS, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; AL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM. TB2023CV00145.

SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca In Rem. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL A: SUCESIÓN DE TERESA BURGOS AYALA T/C/C TERESA BURGOS DE RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C TERESA BURGOS DE AYALA T/C/C TERESA BURGOS, COMPUESTA

POR MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ a continuación: Numero del Solar: Treinta y seis (36) Bloque: BURGOS, GLADYS “HP”. Área del Solar: doscienRODRÍGUEZ BURGOS, tos treinta y cuatro metros cuaJOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ drados con sesenta centímeBURGOS, ADA tros cuadrados (234.60 mc). En RODRÍGUEZ BURGOS, lindes: por el NORTE, en diez Metros veinte centímetros FULANO DE TAL (10.20 Mc), con los solares núY SUTANO DE TAL mero nueve (9) y diez (10); por COMO MIEMBROS el SUR, en diez metros veinte DE NOMBRES centímetros (10.20 mc) con Aurelio Dueño (según Plano Calle DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Setecientos diez (710); por el AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE ESTE, en veintitrés (23) metros, con el solar número TreinRECAUDACIONES DE ta y cinco (35); por el Oeste, en INGRESOS MUNICIPALES veintitrés (23) Metros, Con el

Yo, EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 21 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, a las 10:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 27 de octubre de 2023. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 28 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, a las 10:00 de la mañana; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 6 DE MARZO DE 2024, a las 10:00 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 11 de diciembre de 2023, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela de Terreno en la Urbanización Levittown, Séptima Unidad de Planificación el Barrio Sabana Seca del término municipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, y que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Levittown, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan

solar número treinta y siete (37). Finca número 11,352, inscrita al folio 138 del tomo 193 de Toa Baja. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Bayamón. Dirección de la Propiedad: HP-36, Aurelio Dueño St., Levittown Dev., Toa Baja, Puerto Rico 00949. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $104,690.15 en concepto de principal con interés al 3.845% anual, los cuales acumulan a un total de $144,556.96 a la fecha de 31 de agosto de 2023 los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $19,800.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 636 otorgada el día 15 de octubre de 2015, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante la Notario Público Priscila M. Santiago Acosta y consta inscrita al folio 124 del tomo 756 de Toa Alta, finca número 11,352, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección II de Bayamón. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en

26 títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $198,000.00, con intereses al 3.845% anual, vencedero el día 3 de mayo de 2085, constituida mediante la escritura número 637, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de octubre de 2015, ante la notario Priscila M. Santiago Acosta, e inscrita al folio 125 del tomo 756 de Toa Alta, finca número 11,352, inscripción 8va. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $198,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $132,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $99,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta po-

drá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 4 de enero de 2024. EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMON.

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TENCIA POR EDICTO. (Salón: 0200). Sobre: COBRO JORGE GARCIA RONDON, DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. JAFGRONDON@GMAIL.COM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENA: REVERSE MORTGAGE CIA POR EDICTO. FUNDING LLC, JOHN GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, DOE Y RICHARD ROE. LAWOFFICES.GINAFERRER(Nombre de las partes que se le MEDINA@GMAIL.COM. notifican la sentencia por edicto) A: FULANA DE CUAL, EL SECRETARIO(A) que susFULANO DE CUAL cribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de enero de 2024, este Y FULANA DE TAL, VIUDA POR SI Y COMO Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución MIEMBROS DE LA en este caso, que ha sido debiSUCESION DE JOSE damente registrada y archivada DOLORES LUGO en autos donde podrá usted enMARTINEZ. terarse detalladamente de los (Nombre de las partes que se le términos de la misma. Esta nonotifican la sentencia por edicto) tificación se publicará una sola EL SECRETARIO(A) que susvez en un periódico de circulacribe le notifica a usted que ción general en la Isla de Puerel 03 de enero de 2024, este to Rico, dentro de los 10 días Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, siguientes a su notificación. Y, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución siendo o representando usted en este caso, que ha sido debiuna parte en el procedimiento damente registrada y archivada sujeta a los términos de la Senen autos donde podrá usted entencia, Sentencia Parcial o Reterarse detalladamente de los solución, de la cual puede estatérminos de la misma. Esta noblecerse recurso de revisión o tificación se publicará una sola apelación dentro del término de vez en un periódico de circula30 días contados a partir de la ción general en la Isla de Puerpublicación por edicto de esta to Rico, dentro de los 10 días notificación, dirijo a usted esta siguientes a su notificación. Y, notificación que se considerará siendo o representando usted hecha en la fecha de la publiuna parte en el procedimiento cación de este edicto. Copia de sujeta a los términos de la Senesta notificación ha sido architencia, Sentencia Parcial o Revada en los autos de este caso, solución, de la cual puede escon fecha 18 de enero de 2024. tablecerse recurso de revisión En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el o apelación dentro del término 18 de enero de 2024. Griselda de 30 días contados a partir Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. de la publicación por edicto de Karolyn Rivera Navarro, Secreesta notificación, dirijo a usted taria Auxiliar Del Tribunal. esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la LEGAL NOTICE publicación de este edicto. CoESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO pia de esta notificación ha sido DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUarchivada en los autos de este NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANcaso, con fecha 17 de enero de CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE 2024. En San Germán, Puerto PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE Rico, el 17 de enero de 2024.

PONCE NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZABANCO POPULAR DE RRY, SECRETARIA. MILITZA PUERTO RICO LORENZO VEGA, SECRETADemandante V. RIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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JOANNE GARRASTAZU OLIVERA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2022CV01720.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ADELA SURILLO GUTIÉRREZ, ADELA.SURILLO@GMAIL.COM.

A: JOANNE Demandante V. GARRASTAZU ESTADOS UNIDOS OLIVERA TAMBIEN DE AMERICA POR CONOCIDA COMO CONDUCTO DE UNITED BANCO POPULAR DE JOANNE GARRASTAZU STATES ATTORNEY PUERTO RICO OLIVERAS; JUAN OFFICE DISTRICT Demandante V. CARLOS TORRES OF PUERTO RICO JOSÉ D. LUGO CINTRON. (SECRETARY OF (Nombre de las partes que se le MARTÍNEZ POR SI Y HOUSING AND URBAN notifican la sentencia por edicto) COMO REPRESENTANTE DEVELOPMENT (HUD) Y EL SECRETARIO(A) que susDE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL cribe le notifica a usted que OTROS DE GANANCIALES el 18 de enero de 2024, este Demandado(a) COMPUESTA CON Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV10904. 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 19 de enero de 2024.

En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 19 de enero de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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JOSÉ RAFAEL VARONA RUEMMELE Demandante Vs.

ORIENTAL BANK & TRUST; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE (POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO)

to Rico 00922, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto.

Si dejara de hacerlo, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. El pagaré hipotecario objeto de esta demanda, fue emitido a favor de, ORIENTAL BANK & TRUST, o a su orden, por la suma de $25,000 con intereses al 5 5/8% anual y con vencimiento 1 de junio del 2007, ante el Notario Delia Castillo de Colorado. Dicha obligación quedó garantizada por una hipoteca voluntaria sobre el inmueble que más adelante se describe, según surge de la escritura #131, el día 8 de mayo de 1997, inscrita al folio #76vto del tomo #649 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas Sección Primera.

El pago de dicho pagaré se garantizó con hipoteca constituida sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar #38 del bloque K de la Urbanización Villa Nueva, situada en el Barrio Turabo de Caguas, con un área de TRESCIENTOS TREINTA Y SEIS PUNTO CERO CERO (336.00) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, en veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros, con el solar #37; por el SUR, en veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros, con el solar #39; por el ESTE, en catorce punto cero cero (14.00) metros, con el solar #7 y por el OESTE, en catorce punto cero cero (14.00) metros, con la calle 5. Finca #21,045, inscrito al Folio #76 del Tomo #649 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 16 de enero de 2024. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. ANA H. LUGO MUÑOZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV00060.

Sobre: CANCELACION DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LILEGAL NOTICE BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUPOR EDICTO. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA A: JOHN DOE Y/O SALA SUPERIOR DE CARICHARD ROE. GUAS Se notifica que se presentó en HÉCTOR RAFAEL esta Secretaría la Demanda REYES VEGA de epígrafe sobre Cancelación Demandante Vs. de Pagaré Extraviado Por la Vía Judicial. Se le emplaza y DORAL MORTGAGE LLC; JOHN DOE Y/O requiere que usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva RICHARD ROE a través del Sistema Unificado Demandados de Administración y Manejo de Civil Núm.: CG2024CV00063.

Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE acceder utilizando la siguiente PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. ESdirección electrónica: https:// TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉunired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE que se represente por derecho LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE propio, en cuyo caso deberá AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIpresentar su alegación respon- BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO siva en la secretaría del tribu- RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO nal. Deberá notificar con copia POR EDICTO. de la misma al LCDO. JESÚS A: JOHN DOE Y/O A. LEDESMA AMADOR, PO RICHARD ROE. BOX 10338, San Juan, Puer-

Se notifica que se presentó en de San Lorenzo, Registro de esta Secretaría la Demanda la Propiedad de Caguas, Secde epígrafe sobre Cancelación ción Segunda. EXTENDIDO de Pagaré Extraviado Por la BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Vía Judicial. Se le emplaza y Tribunal, hoy 17 de enero de requiere que usted deberá pre- 2024. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, sentar su alegación responsiva Secretaria General. Vionnette a través del Sistema Unificado Espinosa Castillo, Secretaria de Administración y Manejo de Auxiliar.

Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede LEGAL NOTICE acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUque se represente por derecho NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA propio, en cuyo caso deberá CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BApresentar su alegación respon- YAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE siva en la secretaría del tribu- BAYAMÓN nal. Deberá notificar con copia FERDINAND de la misma al LCDO. JESÚS PONCE ACEVEDO A. LEDESMA AMADOR, PO Demandante V. BOX 10338, San Juan, PuerRG MORTGAGE to Rico 00922, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a CORPORATION Y OTROS Demandado(a) la publicación de este edicto.

Si dejara de hacerlo, podrá Caso Núm.: TB2023CV00463. dictarse sentencia en rebeldía, (Salón: 502). Sobre: CANCEconcediéndose el remedio soli- LACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE citado en la Demanda, sin más PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOcitarle ni oírle. El pagaré hipote- TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA cario objeto de esta demanda, POR EDICTO. LIZBET AVILÉS VEGA, LIZBET_ fue emitido a favor de DORAL AVILES@YAHOO.COM. MORTGAGE CORPORATION, A: RG MORTGAGE hoy DORAL MORTGAGE LLC, CORPORATION; JUAN por la suma $50,000, intereses DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA al 7.950 % anual, vencedero el 1 de agosto de 2013, suscrito DEL PUEBLO COMO ante el Notario Público Edgardo POSIBLES TENEDORES Y Canales Ydrach. Dicha obligaCUALESQUIER PERSONA ción quedó garantizada por DESCONOCIDA CON una hipoteca voluntaria sobre POSIBLE INTERÉS EN el inmueble que más adelante se describe, según surge de la LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA escritura número #488-A, no CANCELACIÓN POR expresa el lugar de otorgamienDECRETO JUDICIAL SE to, Puerto Rico, el 20 de julio SOLICITA. de 1998, inscrita al folio #49 (Nombre de las partes que se le del tomo #329 de San Lorenzo, notifican la sentencia por edicto) finca #16,091, inscripción 4ta, EL SECRETARIO(A) que susen el Registro de la Propiedad cribe le notifica a usted que de Caguas, Sección Segunda. el 17 de enero de 2024, este El pago de dicho pagaré se gaTribunal ha dictado Sentencia, rantizó con hipoteca constituida Sentencia Parcial o Resolución sobre el inmueble que se desen este caso, que ha sido debicribe a continuación: RÚSTICA: damente registrada y archivada Predio de terreno marcada con en autos donde podrá usted enel #1 del Barrio Florida, raditerarse detalladamente de los cada en el término municipal términos de la misma. Esta node San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, tificación se publicará una sola con una cabida superficial de vez en un periódico de circulaMIL TRESCIENTOS SESENTA ción general en la Isla de PuerY SIETE PUNTO MIL NOVEto Rico, dentro de los 10 días CIENTOS TREINTA Y SIETE siguientes a su notificación. Y, (1,367.1937) METROS CUAsiendo o representando usted DRADOS. En linderos; por el una parte en el procedimiento NORTE, en un punto con la sujeta a los términos de la Senfinca principal de la cual se setencia, Sentencia Parcial o Regrega y con la franja de terreno solución, de la cual puede estamarcada “A”; por el SUR, en blecerse recurso de revisión o dos alineaciones que suman apelación dentro del término de veintiocho punto cincuenta y 30 días contados a partir de la cinco (28.55) metros con la publicación por edicto de esta finca principal de la cual se senotificación, dirijo a usted esta grega; por el ESTE, en dos alinotificación que se considerará neaciones que suman setenta hecha en la fecha de la publiy tres punto veintisiete (73.27) cación de este edicto. Copia de metros, con la finca principal esta notificación ha sido archide la cual se segrega; y por el vada en los autos de este caso, OESTE, en tres alineaciones con fecha 18 de enero de 2024. que suman cincuenta y uno En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el punto ochenta y uno (51.81) 18 de enero de 2024. LAURA I. metros, con franja de terreno SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETAmarcada “A” en el plano de RIA. SANDRA BÁEZ HERNÁNinscripción a dedicarse a uso DEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR público. Finca #16,091, inscrito DEL TRIBUNAL. al folio #50vto del tomo #329

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Jack Burke Jr., Who Won 2 Major Golf Titles in a Season, Dies at 100

By FRANK LITSKY

J

ack Burke Jr., a top player on the PGA tour in the postwar years who won two major golf championships in one season, then became a sought-after instructor to some of the game’s greatest stars, died Friday in Houston. He was 100 and the oldest living winner of the Masters and PGA championships.

A representative of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, which inducted him in 1978, confirmed the death.

Burke’s banner year was 1956, when he won both the Masters and the PGA titles and was named the PGA’s golfer of the year.

His Masters victory surprised almost everyone.

Only weeks earlier, having gone winless since the Inverness open in Ohio in 1953, Burke, who was 33, had announced that he was considering retiring. And going into the final round at Augusta National Golf Club, he was eight strokes behind the Masters leader, Ken Venturi, and had not drawn much attention.

All eyes had been on Venturi, who at 24 was vying to become the first amateur to win the Masters. But as Venturi faltered, Burke crept up the leaderboard, passing eight players, and won by a stroke.

He had received some meteorological help.

“I had a downhill putt on the 17th hole that was lightning quick, and it was made even faster because the 40-mile-per-hour wind had blown sand out onto the green,” Burke told Golf Digest in 2004. “I just touched that putt, and I immediately thought, ‘Oh, no, I didn’t get it halfway there.’ Then the wind grabbed that thing and kept blowing it down the hill, until it plunked dead in the middle of the hole. It was a miracle — the best break of my career.”

That June, Burke won the PGA Championship, defeating Ted Kroll, at the Blue Hill Country Club in Canton, Massachusetts, in match-play format, which is based on holes won in a head-to-head contest, not the number of strokes on a score card.

All told, Burke won 16 tournaments on the Professional Golfers’ Association of America tour, including four in four weeks in 1952.

The son of a Houston golf club pro, Burke turned professional at 17 and joined the tour at 23, hailed as one of the most promising golfers of his generation.

In 1949, by then living in Kiamesha Lake, New York, in Sullivan County, Burke recorded his first professional win, in the Metropolitan Open, on his home course, the Metropolis Country Club, in White Plains, defeating veteran Gene Sarazen. The victory came 24 years to the day after Burke’s father defeated Sarazen in a tournament, as Sarazen ruefully but good-naturedly pointed out to Jack Jr. In 1952, after his four straight tour victories and a second-place finish at the Masters, behind Sam Snead,

Jack Burke Jr. was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2000. (Photo Credit: Wikipedia) Burke was profiled by Collier’s magazine as “Golf’s New Hot-Shot.” At 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, he could hit 265 yards off the tee and was an excellent putter. His boyish good looks only added to his appeal.

“His curly faintly auburn hair, blue eyes and occasional shy smile have made him the darling of the feminine links addicts,” the magazine wrote, identifying Burke as “one of golf’s most eligible bachelors.”

In 1957, Burke joined his mentor, Jimmy Demaret, the first three-time Masters champion, in founding the Champions Golf Club in Houston. Demaret had been an assistant pro under Burke’s father since Jack Jr. was 10.

Burke and Demaret instituted a membership policy — still in force — under which only golfers with a handicap of 14 or lower are admitted. “I liken us to Stanford University, or Yale or Harvard,” Burke told Golf Digest.

“They don’t accept D students academically, and we don’t accept people with a D average in golf.”

The club hosted the 1969 U.S. Open and the 2020 U.S. Women’s Open Championship, among other tour-

naments.

Burke went on to earn distinction as a longtime instructor of Phil Mickelson, Hal Sutton, Steve Elkington and other professionals. In his 70s, Arnold Palmer dropped by for a lesson.

Jack Nicklaus once said of Burke, “I can’t tell you how many times we were playing golf and he’d say, ‘Jack, how are you going to play from that position?’”

John Joseph Burke Jr. was born Jan. 29, 1923, in Fort Worth, Texas, the eldest of eight siblings, one of whom died young. He grew up in Houston, where his father, who had tied for second in the 1920 U.S. Open, was the pro at the River Oaks Country Club.

Jack Jr. first played golf at age 6. At 12, he shot a 69 on a tough par-71 course. At 16, he qualified for the U.S. Open. But at 17, at the insistence of his mother, he entered Rice Institute (now Rice University) in Houston.

He left before he completed his freshman year, however, and became the head pro at the Galveston Country Club.

When World War II broke out, Burke joined the Marine Corps and taught combat conditioning, including judo. He joined the PGA tour after the war (it officially became the PGA Tour in 1968), moved to New York state and also taught golf at clubs in New Jersey and New York City.

He first gained wide attention in 1951, when he recorded two commanding victories in that year’s Ryder Cup competition. That led to his selection to four more Ryder Cup events in the 1950s, in which he compiled a 7-1 match record against his European competition. He was twice Ryder Cup captain, losing in 1957 and winning in 1973.

In 1952, he won the Vardon Trophy, given to the tour leader in scoring average. (His was 70.54.) When Burke was 81, Sutton, the 2004 U.S. Ryder Cup captain, named him an assistant captain.

Burke was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2000. In 2003, he was voted the recipient of the PGA Tour’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the U.S. Golf Association’s Bob Jones Award. In 2007, he received the PGA Distinguished Service Award.

Burke married Ielene Lang in 1952. She died in the mid-1980s. Burke had turned 60 when he met Robin Moran, a freshman golfer at the University of Texas, in 1984 on the putting green at the Champions Golf Club, where her father had sent her for a golf lesson, according to PGA historian Bob Denney. The couple married in 1987. She was a finalist in the 1997 U.S. women’s amateur championship and was inducted into the Texas Golf Hall of Fame. She survives him.

Burke had a daughter with his second wife and five children with his first, including a son, John J. Burke III, who died in 2017. Complete information on his survivors was not immediately available.

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WTA and ATP are facing a year of formative change

By CINDY SHMERLER

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teve Simon was feeling optimistic.

Despite a 2023 season that ended with an avalanche of grumbling following the WTA Finals in Cancún, Mexico, which featured bad weather, a potentially dangerous center court and unrelenting complaints from the players, Simon, the chair and chief executive of the women’s tour, was doing everything he could to move forward into 2024.

“The WTA is very fine,” Simon said by video call in mid-December, just after it was announced that the WTA will soon separate the roles of chair and CEO, with Simon becoming executive chair. He no longer will be in charge of day-to-day operations and instead will be tasked with, as he said, “working on strategic geopolitical issues, which are now very prevalent and affecting our business in many different ways.”

There are formative changes coming to the WTA and ATP this year. The ATP has put into place its OneVision strategic plan designed to align the interests of players and tournaments with an eye toward enhancing the fan experience while also creating more lucrative media contracts.

Part of the plan involves increasing the duration and draw size at several ATP tournaments. Madrid, Rome and Shanghai all went from one-week, 56-playerdraw events to 12-day, 96-draw tournaments in 2023. Canada and Cincinnati will do the same in 2025. Indian Wells and Miami are already staged that way.

All are Masters 1000 tournaments, the highest level in terms of prize money and ranking points other than the four majors — the Australian, French, and U.S. Opens and Wimbledon. Several of the tournaments are combined men’s and women’s events. Other tournaments, like ones in Dallas, Munich and Doha, Qatar, are increasing in value while still others, including Atlanta and Newport, Rhode Island, are falling off the calendar after this year.

In 2023, the ATP introduced a 50-50 profit-sharing plan that distributed $12.2 million in additional bonus pool money to the top players, raising the overall bo-

Chief executive of the Women’s Tennis Association Steve Simon (Photo Credit: WTA Foundation). nus pool to a record $33.5 million.

The WTA is not in a financial position to offer profit-sharing, but Simon said he was determined to provide equal prize money to women and men at combined tournaments by 2027.

Simon is also making striking changes for 2024. Despite objections from top players who felt they were being forced to compete too much, the WTA will require players to commit to 16 tour events, the major tournaments and possibly the year-end WTA Finals. Ten of those events are at the newly formed WTA 1000 level — a term designed to align more closely with the ATP — and six more at the WTA 500 level. A total of 18 tournaments will now count toward a player’s ranking.

For this year there is an added event, the Paris Olympics. Simon is aware that will place an added burden on already overworked athletes.

“I’m not sure there is ever a great time or a bad time to introduce change,” he said. “Obviously the players play a ton, and it’s very demanding and they

are tired. But we also know that the players need to play in order for us to drive the value of the product and the value of the marketplace. Fans want to see them play all the time, and they want to see them playing against each other all the time.”

Simon said that 12-day events benefit players because they often get a day off between matches, which helps their bodies recover. Martina Navratilova does not agree.

“Two-week events are great for the fans because it gives them more chances to see the top players,” said Navratilova, a nine-time Wimbledon singles champion and former No. 1. “But the players are still in suspended animation.

A day off isn’t really a day off because they still have to practice and be emotionally invested. It’s just exhausting and much more stress.”

To shore up finances following the money-depleting COVID season in 2020, the WTA sold 20% of its stake to CVC, a venture capital firm that once was an owner of Formula One, which

is infusing $150 million. Talks continue about merging the ATP and WTA, but nothing is expected to happen in the near future.

Simon likened the WTA to other professional sports like the 82-game NBA season and 162-game Major League Baseball season. But that does not take into account the multimonth offseason of team sports, while tennis breaks for barely a month. Team sports also don’t require international travel every week and allow for rest substitutions during competition.

Some people feel tennis is fighting an uphill battle.

“I think we’re at a crisis point in our sport,” said Mary Carillo, a former touring pro and longtime television commentator. “There are all these stupid turf wars over scheduling. And with everyone having to go from time zone to time zone every week it’s very hard for anyone to connect to what’s happening unless you’re really in the weeds. It always seems like we’re trying to turn around a leaky cruise ship.”

One of the biggest controversies surrounding both tours is the willingness to play in Saudi Arabia, a nation with deep pockets for big payouts with a troubling human rights record.

Last year the ATP played its yearend 21-and-under event, the Next Gen Finals, in Jeddah, and Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz held an exhibition in Riyadh right after Christmas.

Phil de Picciotto, the founder and president of Octagon, a sports management agency, has worked in tennis for more than four decades. He sees the good and the bad.

“This is the most tenuous time for tennis,” said de Picciotto, who has represented many top players, including Steffi Graf. “Everyone is jockeying for position amid a new landscape that offers enormous opportunities.”

“But it’s important to realize that the sport can’t sustain a series of shortterm visions,” he added. “Everyone has to think about the product in the long term, whether it’s governance or marketability. If Billie Jean King hadn’t thought long term in the 1970s, then we would be nowhere today.”

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HOROSCOPE 30 Aries

(Mar 21-April 20)

Tasks of any kind are all likely to seem like the labors of Hercules today, Aries. Overwork and nerve strain could have you feeling a little bit under the weather today, and it might be a good idea for you to take some time alone to rest. If you can’t do that, at least try to take things easy. Some unexpected changes in your community might have your neighbors’ tongues wagging. Be sure to check out the facts before jumping to any conclusions.

Taurus

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(April 21-May 21)

Money matters might be weighing on the mind of a close friend or lover and your advice could be sought. A creative project of some kind may require a larger expenditure of money, time, or other resources than you originally thought, and this could have you wondering if you’ll be able to continue with it. It might take a little corner cutting on your part, Taurus, but you should be able to complete it as planned.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

A temporary setback with regard to your career might have you feeling a bit disoriented right now, Libra.

Modern equipment of some kind might be involved.

Don’t make yourself crazy; this is only temporary and will be straightened out. Your own determination, efficiency, and practical abilities should have it taken care of in no time. Basically, you’re probably feeling quite optimistic for the future and not likely to change that energy any time soon.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Today may start out being a very frustrating day, Scorpio. Be prepared! Some equipment with which you work might suddenly go out of order and it could take a while to get it fixed. A temporary separation from a romantic partner could also be disappointing.

You may have a lot of physical energy for which you have little immediate outlet. Take a long walk. This could not only provide an energy outlet but clear your head as well.

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

You might have visitors, Gemini, or even a hot date scheduled for tonight, but by mid-afternoon you might be feeling too tired to go through with it and wondering if you should cancel. It’s best to keep your activities low key. Have coffee and snacks at home instead of going out, and get the snacks from the store! Your evening is likely to be full of exciting and stimulating conversations, so you’ll be glad you stuck with your plans.

Your level of artistic inspiration is very high today, Sagittarius. Dreams or meditation may have brought up some spiritual insights and revelations for you, and you may have promptly forgotten them upon coming out of your dream or meditative state. This could prove very frustrating for you! Try writing them down even if you only remember snatches.

This can actually bring them to the surface again.

You’ll want a record of them anyway.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Capricorn

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Deliveries you may be expecting could be delayed or held up. Today you might learn something shocking about a neighbor or relative, and gossip might spread very rapidly through your community. This could have you reeling even though it might be exaggerated. You could pay visits to a few people nearby, Cancer, or spend a lot of time on the phone trying to learn the truth. Don’t take anything you hear today at face value.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

Some good but surprising news about a group with which you may be affiliated could come your way today, Leo. Perhaps fundraising activities have been more successful than you thought, or perhaps recognition is coming your way. A lot of paperwork may have to be completed before this can be made to work for you, however. Contracts or other legal papers might be involved. In the evening, go out with your friends and celebrate.

Virgo

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Some upsetting news regarding money could throw you into a bit of a dither today, Virgo. Perhaps a check you’ve been expecting hasn’t arrived on time, or maybe the bank has made a computer error regarding your account. It’s nothing that can’t be straightened out, though it’s going to be a pain making all of those phone calls. Basically, all should be going very well for you. This is only a temporary hindrance.

A delivery of some kind that you were expecting to come from far away might be delayed, causing you to wonder if it might have been lost. It hasn’t, Capricorn; it’s just delayed. Unfortunately, there isn’t much you can do but wait. Equipment you use on the job could go out of whack today, necessitating calling in a repairman. This could set your work back some and make you a bit antsy. Try to find something else to do!

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Today you’re likely to be feeling especially passionate, sexy, and desirous of a romantic encounter, Aquarius. You might even have a hot date scheduled.

However, don’t be surprised if it has to be postponed for reasons beyond the control of either you or your partner. If you can’t do otherwise, you might try to sublimate those feelings through creative activities.

Engrossing novels and movies could also prove a good outlet, although never as good as the real thing!

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Ready for something fresh? As the Moon faces off with Uranus, a conversation could leave you excited about something you’d never considered, Pisces. If it has the potential to make a big difference to your life, then explore further. You might also be keen to invest in your spiritual development by taking up a course or class that reduces anxiety and enhances inner calm.

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