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he Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved over $41.3 million for the construction phase of the Early Warning System (EWS) for 17 dams in 12 municipalities.

This system will help identify certain conditions that may endanger dams in Puerto Rico; provide notifications to residents during weather-related scenarios; and detect developing failure modes during normal operations.

In August 2023, FEMA approved an initial EWS set in 20 dams, totaling over $53 million in funding. All these approvals are part of a mitigation project oriented towards strengthening dam safety measures, with an award of nearly $100 million to install EWS in 37 dams in Puerto Rico.

“The EWS is vital to the community’s safety. Through these alarm systems people will be notified in case of emergencies such as extreme floods, controlled flood releases or seismic activity, so they can take timely action to reduce disaster risks. Besides helping save lives and property, this will strengthen disaster preparedness and risk reduction in the communities located downstream of each dam,” said FEMA’s Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator José G. Baquero.

The dams approved for this group include: Dagüey and Ajíes in Añasco; Regulador in Isabela; La Plata in Toa Alta; Las Curías in San Juan; Carraízo in Trujillo Alto; Río Blanco in Naguabo; Toa Vaca in Villalba; and Ana María 2,

Ana María 5, Cerrillos, La Ponceña and Portugués in Ponce.

The dams in Cidra, Comerío and Fajardo are also included.

The Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority or the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources manage the majority of the dams. A few others are private or managed by the municipality.

This project will cover the various components of each EWS such as dam instrumentation, the siren system, the GPS and controls system, evacuation route signage, flood poles and the community outreach program.

Knowing of a danger in advance is an important mitigation measure that will equip people when facing future disasters, as they will be able to familiarize with the warnings, plan ahead and identify evacuation routes.

Meanwhile, the executive director of the Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency (COR3), Manuel A. Laboy Rivera, thanked FEMA for this project’s approval and said that “this important work adds to the other efforts already underway by various government agencies through FEMA funds, which provide resilience to that type of infrastructure in order to safeguard people’s lives in case of emergency. Our team will continue to provide the technical assistance required in this new process, which begins with the construction phase of this project.”

To date, FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) has approved over $2.6 billion for 112 projects that will address damage caused by Hurricane María and which will prepare the island to face future disasters.

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Bankruptcy Judge preempts unionization, defined contribution laws to consummate debt plan

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o help with the consummation of the commonwealth’s debt plan, Puerto Rico Title III Bankruptcy Court Judge Judge Laura Taylor Swain has preempted sections of the 1998 law that allows public workers to organize in unions.

In an order this week, the judge also preempted a provision from Act 106-2017, which is the law that establishes new defined contribution accounts for government employees, under which employees are to contribute 8.5%

of their base compensation on a pre-tax basis.

She allowed the preemption of a section that calls for bonuses to be excluded from the compensation that may be contributed to Act 106-2017 defined contribution accounts because it conflicts with PROMESA’s provision that grants the Financial Oversight and Management Board the power to propose and confirm a plan of adjustment that maximizes labor support for the debt restructuring.

Preemption is a legal doctrine that allows a higher level of government to limit or eliminate the power of a lower level of government

to regulate a specific issue.

Regarding Act 45 of 1998, the unionization bill, the judge preempted a section that provides for the Puerto Rico Labor Commission to establish collective bargaining units for government employees, and that only one union may be the exclusive representative of such units. She also preempted a section that prohibits collective bargaining agreements of government agencies executed pursuant to Act 45-1998 to have three or more years and another section that bans collective bargaining agreements from increasing the ratio of an agency’s total budget

to line items for fringe benefits of employees during the four years prior to the entry of the collective bargaining agreement.

The judge allowed the preemptions because the sections conflict with PROMESA by imposing a financial condition on the Plan, which is exclusively within the Oversight Board’s province, and the Board’s right to determine financial conditions, according to the January 24 order.

The filing was published in the commonwealth bankruptcy case. The commonwealth confirmed in 2022 the debt adjustment plan for its debt.

PDP files complaint over campaign slogans on official websites

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he secretary general of the PDP, Gerardo “Toñito” Cruz, filed a complaint with the Office of the Electoral Comptroller against the government of Pedro Pierluisi and the Secretary of the Department of Transportation and Public Works Eileen Vélez, for violating the Electoral Ban that began on January 1, 2024.

“We have decided to file this lawsuit because as of January 19, 2024, contrary to what was resolved by the Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico, both Governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and the Secretary of the Department of Transportation and Public Works continue to publish their names on their official websites, both La Fortaleza and the DTOP, images, programs, projects and even the use of the phrase ‘Making things happen’ in contravention of the electoral ban,” Cruz Maldonado said.

The Alternate Electoral Commissioner also

presented evidence that shows that the website of La Fortaleza still continues to include the weekly informative videos where he makes a compilation of the Governor’s weekly work. In these, the phrases “the most important actions we take for you and yours” and “we continue to focus and work for Puerto Rico” stand out, where the weekly summaries from December 10 to December 16, 2023 are detailed; December 3 to December 9, 2023; December 26 to December 2, 2023; November 12 to November 18, 2023; November 5 to November 11, 2023 and so on.

“It is inconceivable that these videos continue to be available and valid on the Fortress’s website. They blatantly highlight dozens of projects from the different agencies of the executive and whose final slogan continues to be “making things happen”. Additionally, on the same page, it is announced on January 17, 2024, the opening of a crew base of the Frontier airline at the Luis Muñoz Marín International

Airport, as part of its achievements,” he added.

Regarding the Department of Transportation and Public Works, Cruz Maldonado pointed out that the website of the Department of Transportation and Public Works highlights the phrase “The Label is History, complying with the public policy of the Hon. Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico to turn government services into 100% digital services, we fulfill the promise of the Digital Tag.” “On this page we see how the electoral ban is violated not only by highlighting the name and position of the incumbent as proscribed by paragraph 7 of the aforementioned Regulations, but also by violating paragraph 4 of Article 10.006 of Law No. 222-2011, supra, by using a slogan or phrase referring to achievements that are part of the incumbent’s campaign to highlight his supposed work.”

“We request that the defendants be prohibited from continuing to use official websites, paid for with public funds, to highlight the name, image, and work of Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, and that the immediate cessation of any online publication be ordered. Similarly, in accordance with subsection 5 of Article 10.006 of Law No. 2222011, supra, we request that the administrative of $10,000 be imposed on both the Governor and the Secretary of the DTOP,” he continued.

To conclude, the Secretary reported that the lawsuit against the Government for the violation of the Campaign Finance Law initiated last October by the use of the phrase “Making Things Happen” with public funds, is before the consideration of the Court of First Instance.

Last week, the final briefs of all parties were submitted for the final determination of Judge

Governor Pedro Pierluisi and the Secretary of the Department of Transportation and Public Works Eileen Vélez.

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Governor asks courts to investigate their role in not preventing murder-suicide

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overnor Pedro Pierluisi urged the Puerto Rico Court Administration Thursday to probe the court’s role in failing to prevent a tragic murder-suicide in Yauco that directly impacted one of his La Fortaleza aides.

On Wednesday night, 33-year-old Wilfredo Hiram Santiago Figueroa killed Linnette Morales Vázquez, 30, her brother Luis Miguel Morales Vázquez, 28, and Lizzette Vázquez Vélez, 51, who was the mother of the two victims. Santiago Figueroa then took his life at his brother’s residence in the Sierra Alta neighborhood of Yauco.

“Gender violence is an evil that we all have to combat. Today, another tragedy has touched me closely, as it has affected the family of a co-worker who has been the victim of an atrocious crime in which he lost his sister, his brother, and his mother. My prayers and full support are with the Assistant Fortaleza Chief of Staff, Ángel Morales, and his family,” the governor said on his social network X (formerly Twitter).

The governor blamed the courts for failing to enforce Act 54, the Domestic Violence Act. “From the information I have, this tragedy could have been avoided if Act 54 had been

enforced to its full extent. I call on the Court Administration to investigate and determine if there was a failure of justice here and take action on the matter,” the governor said.

The triple murder and suicide were reported at around 9:32 p.m. on January 24 on highway PR-372, kilometer 3.8 of the Caimito neighborhood, in Yauco.

The Homicide Division of the Ponce Criminal Investigation Corps investigates.

In a reaction, the Court Administration issued the tract record of the case.

On September 7, 2023, Judge Ángel Candelario issued an ex parte protective order under Act. 54 against Santiago Figueroa. A final protective order was issued against him on September 26, 2023, effective until March 26, 2024.

On January 10, 2024, the Public Ministry filed a complaint against Santiago Figueroa for violating the protection order. The Rule 6 hearing was presided by Judge Ginny M. Vélez Carreras, who found cause for arrest and set bail at $5,000 to which prosecutors did not object. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for January 24, 2024.

In the preliminary hearing, the defense lawyer requested time to evaluate documents related to the case. The prosecutor agreed to the request and also requested amendments to the

complaint so that the facts conform to the crime for which probable cause was found.

A new hearing was set for February 28, 2024. At the preliminary hearing, prosecutors did not seek changes to the bail nor the imposition of electronic supervision. At 4:55 pm on January 24, the day of the tragic event, prosecutors sought the imposition of an electronic bracelet.

Supreme Court assumes part of responsibility for family tragedy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, Maite Oronoz Rodríguez, admitted on Thursday the need to evaluate the processes in cases of gender violence in the face of the murders of members of a family in Yauco.

“Following the terrible events in Yauco, I instructed to begin a thorough investigation into the judicial processes in the cases before the Court of First Instance of Ponce. In the same way, the Executive Branch must carry out an evaluation of the efforts and appearances in the Courts of the Prosecutors assigned to the case, the Program of Pretrail Services (PSAJ) of the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation and the Puerto Rico Police. The Judiciary will formulate the recommendations that it considers prudent for the public security component,” Oronoz Rodríguez said in written statements.

“Gender violence is not only a legal problem, it is a social problem that has to be addressed from all fronts, not just the legal one.

The Judiciary must and wants to be part of the solution to this social evil and assumes its responsibility in achieving it,” she added.

Meanwhile, the administrator of the Puerto Rico Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration (ASSMCA), Carmen Bonet Vázquez, expressed her regret over the death of Luis Miguel Morales Vázquez, one of the victims of the massacre that occurred in the

Caimito neighborhood of Yauco. .

“At the Mental Health and Addiction Services Administration we are mourning the death of our colleague Luis Miguel Morales Vázquez, 26 years old, who worked for the past three years as a facilitator of prevention services in the Network Program of the Auxiliary Administration for Prevention and Promotion of Mental Health, of the Mayagüez regional office. As a facilitator, on topics including alcohol, drugs, vaping and emotional health, Luis Miguel demonstrated an extraordinary passion and commitment to the well-being and mental health of communities, and in particular young people.

Health Department to begin process of recertifying Medicaid in public housing

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ver the weekend, the Department of Health will begin the process of recertifying Medicaid in public housing as part of the extension of its radius of action to communities, the department announced Thursday.

The goal is to facilitate the recertification process for Medicaid program participants and provide greater access to eligible citizens for these benefits. The process will begin in the Luis Llorens Torres and Nemesio Canales public

housing projects.

Regarding this new strategy of the Department that will directly impact the communities, the Secretary of Health, Carlos Mellado López, indicated: “We are moving to the heart of the population to achieve the greatest reach of citizens who qualify to receive the benefits of Medicaid and the Vital government plan. We want to eliminate the barriers, due to lack of transportation and internet, that many of them face in the application process. Our goal is for all eligible individuals to have health coverage and access to the medical services and treatment they

deserve. That not a single person is left without the health benefits to which they are eligible.”

These new Medicaid spaces in public housing are part of the second phase of the population outreach campaign, which the Department of Health began in August 2023 to expand its offer of access to the forms that citizens need to fill out, file the required documents and be attended to in the process.

The project will also include Medicaid locations in the Plaza las Americas, Plaza del Caribe and Mayagüez Mall. The initiative seeks to raise public awareness about the importance

of renewing medical coverage, since it is not granted automatically, and that they follow the established process.

In Puerto Rico, the Medicaid Program has 1,573,264 beneficiaries, of which 479,932 have already been recertified, so 458,880 have not yet completed this process. If the latter are not recertified, their medical benefits will be affected, as they will not have continuity, putting their health and life at risk. The deadline for renewing their medical coverage is April 30, 2024, so they are urged to recertify promptly.

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January 26-28, 2024

Bondholder group opposing PREPA’s debt deal grows

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he PREPA Ad Hoc Group, which opposes the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) debt adjustment plan, has grown.

The group added BNY Mellon Funds Trust as a new member, according to a statement filed in the court on January 24.

The new member increases the number of bondholders and creditors in the group to 15, including AllianceBernstein, Invesco Advisors, Capital Research and Management Company, and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

The group formed after another group of bondholders that opposed the plan, known as the Ad Hoc Group of PREPA bondholders, disbanded when some of its members, including some bond insurers, joined the restructuring support agreement with the PREPA. On or about September 11, 2023, the group of PREPA bondholders decided to engage the New York law firm Dechert to

represent their interests in the PREPA Title III Case and related litigation.

Dechert said that the PREPA Ad Hoc Group manages funds or has accounts

that collectively hold approximately $2.3 billion in aggregate principal amount of uninsured Bonds, in addition to roughly $474 million in aggregate principal

amount of insured PREPA bonds.

Meanwhile, the Title III bankruptcy judge granted the mediation team that is facilitating debt negotiations three more months, until April 30, to facilitate talks between the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and its creditors.

The mediation team requested additional time on January 22, saying that it was currently mediating disputes between the Financial Oversight and Management Board and Cobra Acquisitions, which alleges PREPA owes it around $382 million.

The mediation team said it is aware of talks between the FOMB and parties that are objecting to PREPA’s bankruptcy plan of adjustment, which seeks to restructure the utility’s $9 billion debt.

“The mediation team hopes to work to facilitate discussions between and among such parties in advance of the hearing on confirmation of the plan,” according to that notice.

The PREPA bankruptcy hearing is slated for March.

Maintenance will disrupt CESCO services systems

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he Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP) reported that the Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service (PRITS) will carry out scheduled maintenance on motor vehicle information systems from Friday, January 26, until Sunday, January 28. .

“This exercise involves an interruption of services for a brief period at CESCO Digital and in-person services at CESCOs, on the weekend, which is why we have issued Resolution 2024-05 that extends the period to carry out these government procedures for fifteen days. additional,” reported the secretary of the DTOP, Eileen Vélez Vega.

Among the services offered by the Driver Services Office (DISCO in Spanish) is the renewal of driver’s licenses in all categories, identification cards, permits in the form of removable signs to park in areas designated for people with disabilities, and filing in DTOP of individual vehicle transfer documents. Also, exemption permits for tinting the windows of motor vehicles and any other procedure whose expiration date is between January 26 and 31, 2024.

Law 151 of June 22, 2004, as amended, Puerto Rico Digital State Act (“Law 151”) empowers PRITS to develop and maintain, directly or through contract, an infrastructure capable of meeting the technological needs of the Government and allowing the adequate offering of services

and information to citizens.

For his part, the executive director of PRITS, Antonio Ramos Guardiola, explained that “starting at 7:00 pm this coming Friday, January 26, we will be carrying out a migration process to the system cloud and updating the database. data, with more than 15 TB of data, to modern versions and under manufacturer support. This exercise is necessary to optimize the David+ system and leave behind obsolete software and operating systems.”

According to Ramos Guardiola, this process will allow us to “strengthen our infrastructure and mitigate critical risks that could impact the operation of one of the most important information systems in Puerto Rico. The migration process is being handled in an orderly manner and we have taken all measures to ensure continuity of service after its conclusion. The system must be optimized and operating at capacity starting Sunday, January 28.”

It was also reported that the facilities of the Driver Service Centers (CESCO) will offer services on Friday, January 26 until 4:00 in the afternoon and will remain closed on Saturday, January 27, 2024. All CESCO offices.

They will resume services on Monday, January 29, 2024 during regular hours.

“We urge citizens to inform themselves and schedule their appointments on alternate dates, be attentive to the rescheduling of appointments already made and to comply

with the grace period established by the Resolution,” said engineer Vélez Vega.

The CESCO’ system must be optimized and operating at capacity starting Sunday, January 28.

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The looming contest between two presidents and two Americas

By PETER BAKER

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ach of them has sat behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, signed bills into law, appointed judges, bartered with foreign leaders and ordered the armed forces into combat. They both know what it is like to be the most powerful person on the planet.

Yet the general election matchup that seems likely after this week’s New Hampshire primary represents more than the first-in-a-century contest between two men who have both lived in the White House. It represents the clash of two presidents of profoundly different countries, the president of Blue America versus the president of Red America.

The looming showdown between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, assuming Nikki Haley cannot pull off a Hail Mary surprise, goes beyond the binary liberalconservative split of two political parties familiar to generations of Americans. It is at least partly about ideology, yes, but also fundamentally about race and religion and culture and economics and democracy and retribution and most of all, perhaps, about identity.

It is about two vastly disparate visions of America led by two presidents who, other than their age and the most recent entry on their résumés, could hardly be more dissimilar. Biden leads an America that, as he sees it, embraces diversity, democratic institutions and traditional norms, that considers government at its best to be a force for good in society. Trump leads an America where, in his view, the system has been corrupted by dark conspiracies and the undeserving are favored over hardworking everyday people.

Deep divisions in the United States are not new; indeed, they can be traced back to the Constitutional Convention and the days of John Adams versus Thomas Jefferson. But according to some scholars, they have rarely reached the levels seen today, when Red and Blue Americas are moving farther and farther apart geographically, philosophically, financially, educationally and informationally.

Americans do not just disagree with each other, they live in different realities, each with its own self-reinforcing Internetand-media ecosphere. The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol was either an outrageous insurrection in service of an unconstitutional power grab by a proto-fascist or a legitimate protest that may have gotten out of hand but has been exploited by the other side and turned patriots into hostages.

The two lands have radically different laws on access to abortion and guns. The partisan breakdown is so cemented in 44 states that they effectively already sit in one America or the other when it comes to the fall election. That means they will barely see one of the candidates, who will focus mainly on six battleground states that will decide the presidency.

In an increasingly tribal society, Americans describe their differences more personally. Since Trump’s election in 2016, according to the Pew Research Center, the share of Democrats who see Republicans as immoral has grown from 35% to 63% while 72% of Republicans say the same about Democrats, up from 47%. In 1960, about 4% of Americans said they would be

Republican presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley visits the Holy Grail restaurant in Epping, N.H., on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. Haley bested former President Donald Trump in New Hampshire among voters with college degrees, as well as the party’s highest earners, despite losing the contest by a double digit margin. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times) displeased if their child married someone from the other party. By 2020, that had grown to nearly 4 in 10. Indeed, only about 4% of all marriages today are between a Republican and a Democrat.

“Today, when we think about America, we make the essential error of imagining it as a single nation, a marbled mix of red and blue people,” Michael Podhorzer, a former political director of the AFL-CIO, wrote in an essay last month. “But America has never been one nation. We are a federated republic of two nations: Red Nation and Blue Nation. This is not a metaphor; it is a geographic and historical reality.”

The current divide reflects the most significant political realignment since Republicans captured the South and Democrats the North following the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. Trump has transformed the GOP into the party of the white working class, rooted strongly in rural communities and resentful of globalization, while Biden’s Democrats have increasingly become the party of the more highly educated and economically better off, who have thrived in the information age.

“Trump was not the cause of this realignment, since it has been building since the early 1990s,” said Douglas B. Sosnik, who was a White House counselor to President Bill Clinton and studies political trends. But “his victory in 2016 and his presidency accelerated these trends. And this realignment is largely based on the winners and losers in the new 21st century digital economy, and the best predictor of whether you are a winner

or loser is your level of education.”

The current situation has no exact analog in American history. Only twice before have two presidents faced off against each other. In 1892, former President Grover Cleveland won a rematch against President Benjamin Harrison. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt lost a third-party bid to depose his successor and estranged protégé, President William Howard Taft, but paved the way for victory by the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson.

Neither of those contests reflected the kind of epochal moment that scholars and political professionals see this year.

When historians search for parallels, they often point to the period before the Civil War, when an industrializing North and an agrarian South were divided over slavery. While secession today is far-fetched, the fact that it nonetheless comes up in conversation among Democrats in California and Republicans in Texas from time to time indicates how divorced many Americans feel from each other.

“Whenever I mention the 1850s, everyone thinks we are going to have a civil war,” said Sean Wilentz, a Princeton historian who was among a group of scholars who met recently with Biden. “I’m not saying that. It’s not predictive. But when institutions are weakened or changed or transformed the way they have, you can get perspective from history. I think people have yet to understand just how abnormal the situation is.”

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Gobierno de Puerto Rico

DEPARTAMENTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AMBIENTALES

AVISO AMBIENTAL INTENCIÓN DE RENOVAR PERMISO DE INYECCIÓN SUBTERRÁNEA El peticionario, Panadería, Repostería y Colmado Isla Bella, LLC, cuya dirección postal es PO Box 1727, Bayamón, Puerto Rico 00960, representado por su dueño el Sr. Angel Morales López, ha solicitado al Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) la renovación del Permiso de Operación UIC-19-11-0023 para un sistema de inyección subterránea (SIS) Clase VC-1, bajo las disposiciones del Reglamento para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (RCIS) y la Ley Federal de Agua Potable Segura, según enmendada 42 USC 300f et seq. (LFAPS).

El SIS consiste en un (1) tanque séptico de 4 pies de ancho por 4 pies de largo por 4 pies de profundidad líquida con una capacidad de 479 galones y un (1) pozo filtrante de 14 pies de ancho por 20 pies de largo por 7 pies de profundidad líquida con un área de percolación de 476 pies cuadrados, para la disposición de 475 galones por día de aguas usadas provenientes de los baños y cocina de la panadería y una residencia. El referido SIS estará ubicado en las instalaciones de Isla Bella, LLC en la Carretera PR-174, Km 11.8, Barrio Guaraguao Abajo, en el municipio de Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

Luego de realizada la evaluación correspondiente de los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de renovar el Permiso de Operación para la instalación antes indicada, en conformidad con los requisitos del RCIS y de la LFAPS. Esta notificación se hace para informar que el DRNA, ha preparado el borrador del permiso de operación de forma tal que el público interesado pueda someter sus comentarios con relación al mismo. El permiso contiene las condiciones y prohibiciones necesarias para cumplir con los requisitos reglamentarios aplicables.

Copia de la solicitud del permiso de operación que sometió el peticionario ante el DRNA, el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes estarán a la disposición del público para ser examinados, a petición del interesado mediante el envío de un correo electrónico a inyeccionsubterranea@drna.pr.gov, o visitando el ACA, cuya oficina está localizada en el Piso 3, Ala A, del Edificio de Agencias Ambientales Cruz A. Matos, Carretera PR-8838, Km 6.3, Sector El Cinco, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Copia de dichos documentos pueden adquirirse en el ACA, entre las 8:00 a.m. y las 4:00 p.m. de lunes a viernes o escribiendo a la siguiente dirección postal: Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, San José Industrial Park, 1375 Avenida Ponce de León, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926.

Las partes interesadas o afectadas pueden enviar sus comentarios por escrito al Sr. Ángel R. Meléndez Aguilar, Gerente Interino del ACA, o solicitar una vista pública por escrito a la Secretaria del DRNA, a la dirección postal o correo electrónico antes indicado.

Los comentarios por escrito o la solicitud de vista pública deberán ser sometidos al DRNA no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de publicación de este aviso. La fecha límite para someter comentarios puede ser extendida si se estima necesario o apropiado para el interés público. La solicitud para una vista pública deberá señalar la razón o las razones que en la opinión del solicitante ameritan la celebración de la misma. De realizarse una vista pública los interesados o afectados tendrán una oportunidad razonable para presentar evidencia o testimonio sobre si se emite o deniega el permiso, si la Secretaria determina que dicha vista es necesaria o apropiada.

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In Trump’s defamation trial, the nine most important people are enigmas

By MARIA CRAMER and BENJAMIN WEISER

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ttorneys for E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump, pitted against each other in a civil defamation trial in Manhattan, know little about the nine people considering her claim for millions of dollars in damages against the former president.

So, their lawyers have been left making pitches to those nine, the jurors, about whom they have only the barest scraps of information, working on hunches and instincts to persuade people who by design are not knowable.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered that the jurors remain anonymous as they considered how much Trump should pay for saying Carroll lied when she accused him of sexual abuse, for which he has already been found liable. Kaplan said jurors should be identified only by number and even suggested they not share their names with one other.

In a pretrial ruling, he explained his rationale, citing the potential for influence attempts, harassment or worse by Trump’s supporters — or the former president himself.

With the trial set to resume Thursday after a pause following a juror’s illness Monday, the jurors have revealed no real clues about how they view the case unfolding before them.

Ordinarily, before a trial, lawyers on both sides dig into the backgrounds of those summoned for jury duty, scanning their social media pages and, in a case like Carroll v. Trump, searching for indications of polarized political beliefs, said Rosanna Garcia, the CEO of Vijilent Inc., a Massachusettsbased research firm that gathers public data about prospective jurors for attorneys.

“You can go through someone’s Facebook postings, and you can see a photo of them wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat,” she said. “In that case, you don’t even have to ask any questions. You know where they stand.”

Eighty prospective jurors were called in for Carroll v.

Trump in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, according to a court spokesperson; it took about half a day on Jan. 16 to conduct voir dire, the traditional examination used to screen out potential bias. The panel that was selected includes seven men and two women.

The trial comes less than a year after a different jury in the same courthouse awarded $5 million to Carroll, 80, a former Elle magazine advice columnist, after finding that Trump sexually abused her in a department-store dressing room in the 1990s and defamed her in a post on his Truth Social website in 2022.

Kaplan has ruled that those earlier findings apply in the current trial, which covers separate remarks, and that Trump, 77, may not contest in court — as he frequently does elsewhere — Carroll’s version of events or argue that she fabricated her account.

The narrow damages issue before the jury stems from comments Trump made in June 2019, after Carroll first accused him of the assault in a New York magazine article. Trump, who

was then still in office, responded that her claim was “totally false,” that he had never met her and that she was trying to sell a book.

Carroll testified last week that her reputation has been “shattered” by Trump’s comments and his continued lashing out in social media posts, on CNN, in news conferences and on the campaign trial, as recently as last week.

When jury selection was held last week, Carroll and Trump’s lawyers jockeyed to identify those who they felt would be sympathetic to their client’s cause. But they were able to assess potential jurors only by their limited answers to questions Kaplan posed concerning their backgrounds, occupations and politics.

Many of the prospective jurors indicated that they were registered with a political party, though they were not asked which one. Many said they had voted in the presidential elections of 2016 and 2020, but they were not asked to reveal for whom they had cast their ballots.

Those whose responses suggested they were more politically engaged did not make it onto the panel — like one retired English teacher who got her news from “Pod Save America,” a podcast hosted by former aides to former President Barack Obama, and a workplace investigator from Westchester, New York, who had attended a Trump rally.

Nor did a 60-year-old corporate lawyer from Manhattan who answered affirmatively when Kaplan asked whether anyone felt that Trump was being treated unfairly by the courts.

“I don’t think a lot of these matters have been brought with any sense of fairness,” the lawyer said, referring to the myriad civil and criminal cases Trump is facing. “The motives, in my view, are suspect.”

Some of the questions were more mundane. People were asked whether they had ever contributed money or supported a political campaign for Trump, Obama, Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden.

“Have any of you ever read any books by Mr. Trump?” the judge asked. “No affirmative response,” he noted.

How about books or columns by Carroll? he continued.

“I’ve read her column a few times,” one woman responded.

“Would that affect your ability to be fair to both sides in this case?” Kaplan asked.

“No,” the woman said.

“Has anybody ever watched ‘The Apprentice?’” the judge asked. A handful indicated they had.

In the end, those selected for the jury included a retired track supervisor for the New York City Transit Authority, a property manager, an emergency medicine doctor, a publicist and five other New Yorkers.

A majority said they were from Manhattan, the Bronx and Westchester County. Not everyone offered their age, but among those who did, the ages ranged from 26 years old to 60 years old.

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January 26-28, 2024

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She looked for her missing brother. Now, people are looking for her.

By EMILIANO RODRIGUEZ MEGA

O

nly a few torn pieces of the crime scene tape around Lorenza Cano’s house are left. The shards of glass from the front door are gone. So are the bullet casings.

All that remains is the hope that Cano will be found.

The 55-year-old activist is one of hundreds of women in Mexico who became advocates for the country’s disappeared population after their own loved ones went missing. Cano’s brother, José Francisco, was abducted in 2018 and never found.

Now, she herself has vanished.

Last week, gunmen burst into her home in Salamanca, an industrial city in Mexico’s central state of Guanajuato, killing her husband and son and taking her away into the night.

The abduction has highlighted one of Mexico’s most haunting national tragedies: a crisis of disappearances.

Impunity is rampant, public security forces have been involved in some of these crimes and clandestine gravesites have been discovered around the country.

Cano’s disappearance has dealt a devastating blow to her community in Salamanca, where cartel warfare has spurred record violence in recent years. Local searchers are now worried about their own vulnerability.

“We are left with the question: ‘Now when are they going to come for me and take me away?’ ” said Alma Lilia Tapia, the spokesperson for Salamanca United in the Search for the Disappeared, a group of 206 families searching for their missing loved ones, and of which Cano is a member.

Tapia has been looking for her son, Gustavo Daryl, since he was abducted in 2018 from his food stand, apron on and grill tongs in hand.

The government says more than 94,000 people are missing in Mexico, though the United Nations says that could be an undercount. The majority of cases remain unsolved, as detailed investigations are often not completed. Family members are left on their own to comb through clues and follow up on leads in desperate efforts to find their loved ones — or, perhaps, receive some closure.

“There’s no protection,” Tapia, 55, said from her living room, a few blocks away from Cano’s house. “We’re all at risk here.” Dozens of missing person flyers crowded her dining table. Handmade embroidery on the walls paid tribute to the disappeared.

Violence in Guanajuato has surged in recent years as the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the local Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel battle for control in the state. About 21,200 people have been killed in the past six years in Guanajuato, according to government figures, making it one of Mexico’s deadliest states.

Those left to search for the disappeared have also become targets. In Guanajuato, the U.N.’s human rights office documented the killing of at least five people searching for their missing relatives from 2020-23.

“The search for missing people touches the interests of criminal groups, or possibly agents of the state, and therefore constitutes a threat,” said Raymundo Sandoval, a member of the Platform for Peace and Justice in Guanajuato, a coalition that offers support to the families of the disappeared. The

The Tree of Hope in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico, where relatives of the disappeared display photos of their loved ones, on Jan. 19, 2024. The violent abduction of volunteer searcher Lorenza Cano is yet another fresh wound for the hundreds of mothers looking for Mexico’s missing. (Cesar Rodriguez/The New York Times) attacks on searchers “have an immediate, inhibitory effect.”

It’s unclear why Cano was targeted. She wasn’t a highprofile activist and mostly did administrative work since a bad hip prevented her from going into the field.

“Unfortunately, in this case, there was no previous clue, no prior threat,” said Guillermo García Flores, Salamanca’s municipal secretary. “It was a totally surprising event.”

Last week during a news conference, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he had no information about the case. “But every day we are protecting the people and there is no impunity for anyone,” he added.

Volunteer searchers in Salamanca say they have little faith in local and federal officials.

“We feel wronged,” said María Elena Pérez, 62, another member of the collective whose daughter, Martha Leticia, was abducted in 2018.

“We have no support from the government, no security or anything. There are times when we have to go around looking by ourselves, however we can,” she said. “We want all this to change.”

Julio César Prieto Gallardo, Salamanca’s mayor, defended his administration’s actions. “We give support, regardless of whether they deny it,” he said in an interview, referring to families who criticize the government’s response to disappearances. “The doors of the municipality of Salamanca are open.”

This week, two men were arrested and charged with murder and disappearance in connection to Cano’s case.

López Obrador’s administration has been criticized

for a recount of the official registry of disappeared people presented in December — an effort, the government said, to update the database and eliminate false entries. The new census decreased the number of disappeared from nearly 111,000 to about 94,000 in the national registry, but critics argued that the process was opaque.

At the end of the recount, officials said only about 12,370 people could be “confirmed” as missing, though they acknowledged that more than 62,000 cases lacked even basic information for beginning a search.

Some of the collective’s members recently met outside a bar in downtown Salamanca. They were searching for human remains that they were told had been buried near a river.

“Our time is running out. We are getting older,” Tapia said. Fragments of bones, which she identified as belonging to animals, dotted the field.

Still, not age, health issues or pressure from family members would keep them from doing their job, said Francisca Caudillo, another searcher.

Caudillo, 50, is one of the few who have found a missing loved one. Last July, she was on site when the collective unearthed the body of her son, Martín Eduardo, from a landfill.

She had been looking for him for more than two years. When his remains were finally returned home, Caudillo had flowers, live music and fireworks to commemorate him.

“I like it when I find someone, whoever it is,” she said.

“It gives me a little bit of peace to know they’re reunited with their family.”

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Americans feel better about the economy. Will that help Biden?

Lael Brainard, the director of the National Economic Council, speaks at a briefing for reporters at the White House in Washington, Oct. 26, 2023. Brainard will use a speech to the Brookings Institution in Washington on Jan. 22, 2024, to lay out a detailed blueprint of the administration’s efforts to bring jobs, investment and innovation to areas hobbled by the loss of jobs and industries. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

By JEANNA SMIALEK

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ow approval ratings and rock-bottom consumer confidence figures have dogged President Joe Biden for months now, a worrying sign for the White House as the country enters a presidential election year. But recent data suggests the tide is beginning to turn.

Americans are feeling more confident about the economy than they have in years, by some measures. They increasingly expect inflation to continue its descent, preliminary data indicates, and they think interest rates will soon moderate.

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could bolster Biden’s chances as he pushes for reelection — and spell trouble for former President Donald Trump, who is the front-runner for the Republican nomination and has been blasting the Democratic incumbent’s economic record.

But political scientists, consumer sentiment experts and economists alike said it was too early for Democrats to take a victory lap around the latest economic data and confidence figures. Plenty of economic risks remain that could derail the apparent progress. In fact, models that try to predict election outcomes based on economic data currently point to a tossup come November.

“We’re still very early in the election cycle, from the perspective of economic factors,” said Joanne Hsu, who heads one of the most frequently cited sentiment indexes as director of consumer surveys at the University of Michigan. “A lot can happen.”

The University of Michigan’s preliminary survey for January showed an unexpected surge in consumer sentiment: The index climbed to its highest level since July 2021, before inflation surged. While the

confidence measure could be revised — and is still slightly below its long-run trend — it has been recovering quickly across age, income, education and geographic groups over the past two months.

Recovering confidence could help Biden, said Neil Dutta, an economist at Renaissance Macro, especially if consumer sentiment continues to pick up this year as he expects.

If sentiment simply hovered at today’s levels, he said the simple historical relationship between consumer confidence readings and incumbent vote share would give Biden about 49% of the vote. But the job market is strong, gas prices are moderate and the stock market just hit a record, all of which could drive further improvement.

Ray Fair, an economist at Yale University, has for decades produced the most closely followed model of how the economy feeds into election outcomes. His model uses hard economic data — growth and inflation — to predict votes. Its latest update suggested that Democrats face a 50-50 chance of winning the White House in November, and similar odds in the House.

Why is the race predicted to be so close under this model at a time when economic growth is solid? It boils down to inflation. Voters tend to have long memories when it comes to price increases, Fair said.

They think about how much prices have increased over the course of a president’s tenure, not just the latest inflation reading.

That means that while prices have climbed at what is historically a fairly normal pace over the past six months, voters are likely to remember 2022 and late 2021, when they were jumping rapidly.

“Voters look back further than that — the fact that the price level is higher than when Biden took office is what voters are picking up,” Fair said.

That said, two big surprises to Fair’s model came in 2016 and 2020, when Trump performed less well than would have been predicted based on the state of the economy alone. So it is possible that if such a drag repeats — if there is what Fair called a “negative Trump residual” — it will help Biden collect a bigger vote share

even with higher prices. (But there are too few data points to test that possibility, Fair notes on his site.)

There are also a lot of uncertainties about how consumer confidence and the economy in general will feed into election outcomes this time around. There’s no question that what is happening with the economy will matter, said Michael LewisBeck, a political scientist at the University of Iowa.

“The role of the economy is about as fundamental as it gets: It’s like the rivers flowing to the sea,” he said.

But Lewis-Beck pointed out that other factors — like the sense of isolation that has dogged many people since the coronavirus and the fact that Trump is a former president who may be seen by voters as a “quasi-incumbent” — could muddy how closely economic data and election results track one another.

Still, what happens with the economy over the next six months is likely to influence how Americans feel as voters move toward the polls later this year.

If the economy slows, that could be bad for the White House. Months of higher Federal Reserve interest rates could begin to weigh on growth, for instance, or geopolitical turmoil in the Middle East could push up gas prices.

But most economists expect the Fed to begin cutting interest rates and for the economy to cool gradually in 2024. Forecasters in a Bloomberg survey expect unemployment to rise by about half a percentage point by the end of the year, for inflation to continue to slow, and for economic growth to moderate but remain positive.

That mildly hopeful outlook may explain why Biden’s administration is now talking up the improving consumer sentiment data — which has long seemed to lag improvement in the real economy. Biden noted the latest jump during a speech Friday and said that “we’ve got more to do,” as he also highlighted recent economic progress.

“People are looking at all of these things,” Lewis-Beck said. If Biden wants to convince voters, he “should stay on message, and I think it will eventually get through.”

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11 Stocks

Wall St climbs after strong GDP data; Tesla drops to 8-month low W all Street’s main indexes gained on Thursday after data reflecting strong economic performance in the fourth quarter boosted hopes of a soft landing, while Tesla’s growth warning kept a lid on investor enthusiasm.

The economy grew much faster than expected at 3.3% in the quarter on strong consumer spending, defying dire predictions of a recession in 2023 after the Federal Reserve aggressively raised interest rates, according to the Commerce Department’s advance report.

“It is supporting that sort of Goldilocks narrative with growth looking pretty strong and the general feeling that inflation is still trending down,” said Chhad Aul, chief investment officer and head of multi-asset solutions at SLGI Asset Management.

Another data showed initial jobless claims for the week ended Jan. 20 rose to 214,000, higher than the estimated 200,000 figure.

At 11:33 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 102.50 points, or 0.27%, at 37,908.89, the S&P 500 was up 22.93 points, or 0.47%, at 4,891.48, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 92.65 points, or 0.60%, at 15,574.57.

However, Tesla skidded 10.5% to an eight-month low and was on track to lose about $50 billion in value after warning of a sharp slowdown in sales growth this year.

The consumer discretionary sector fell 0.9% to a oneweek low.

EV makers Rivian Automotive and Lucid Group also fell 3.3% and 8.0%, respectively.

Tesla’s growth warning could fan worries over the rich valuations of heavily weighted megacap companies - also known as the “Magnificent 7” - that have been the key driver of a Wall Street rally since late 2023.

“The rest of the megacap space is still screaming ahead so far this year, so even when one of the ‘Magnificent 7’ is under some pressure, you still have the rest of the group supporting the broader market,” Aul added.

The benchmark S&P 500 closed at a record level for a fourth straight session on Wednesday, after hitting an intraday all-time high for the third time in less than a week.

Humana sank 12.6% as it became the latest health insurer to forecast disappointing annual profit, dragging the S&P 500 healthcare sector down by 0.9%, the worst hit among the S&P 500 sectors.

Dow-Jones component UnitedHealth shed 5.6% and Cigna lost 3.9%.

IBM jumped 12.7% after forecasting full-year revenue growth above estimates, while Comcast added 3.8% as the media giant topped quarterly revenue estimates.

American Airlines flew 8.5% as the carrier forecast largely upbeat annual profit.

Earnings beat have been scaling down since the season’s start, but remains above the long-term average of 67%. Of the S&P 500 companies that have reported earnings so far, 82% have surpassed expectations, LSEG data showed.

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Britain is lobbying U.S. Republicans on Ukraine. Here’s why.

By MARK LANDLER

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hen David Cameron, Britain’s foreign secretary and onetime prime minister, visited Washington last month, he took time out to press the case for backing Ukraine with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right Georgia Republican who stridently opposes further American military aid to the country.

Last week, Boris Johnson, another former prime minister, argued that the reelection of Donald Trump to the White House would not be such a bad thing, so long as Trump comes around on helping Ukraine. “I simply cannot believe that Trump will ditch the Ukrainians,” Johnson wrote in a Daily Mail column that read like a personal appeal to the candidate.

If the “special relationship” between Britain and the United States has taken on an air of special pleading in recent weeks, it is because Britain, rock solid in its support for Ukraine, now views its role as bucking up an ally for whom aid to the embattled country has become a political obstacle course.

British diplomats said Cameron and other senior officials had made it a priority to reach out to Republicans who were hostile to further aid. For reasons of history and geography, Britain recognized that support is not as “instinctive” for Americans as it for the British, according to a senior diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the diplomatic sensitivity of the matter.

Unlike in the United States, where Ukraine has gotten

Nigel Farage, former member of the European Parliament, talks to members of the media at a former President Donald Trump Caucus Night Watch Party in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 15, 2024. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

tied up in a dispute with Republicans over President Joe Biden’s border policy and come under the shadow of a dismissive Trump, support for Ukraine in Britain has stayed resolute, undiminished, and nonpartisan in the two years since Russia’s invasion.

Even in an election year, when the Conservative government and its Labour Party opponents are clashing over almost everything, there is not a glimmer of daylight between them on Ukraine, the biggest foreign policy challenge facing the country.

When Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently announced 2.5 billion pounds ($3.2 billion) of additional aid for Ukraine, the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, instantly lent his support.

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At other moments, Britain plays the role of America’s ready wingman. On Monday, it joined the United States in a second round of airstrikes against Houthi militants in Yemen, just hours after a phone call between Sunak and Biden, in which they agreed on the need to combat Houthi attempts to block commercial shipping in international sea lanes.

The contrast between the allies on Ukraine has been especially stark, in part because both are entering election cycles in which such policies are easily held captive to broader political debates. Brexit-era populist figures like Nigel Farage still roam restlessly on the fringe. Farage, a conspicuous ally of Trump who shares his softer views of President Vladimir Putin, is backing a new anti-immigration party, Reform U.K., which some Tory lawmakers fear will siphon votes from them.

But the Conservatives, unlike the Republicans, do not have a “pro-Putinist wing” in their party, said Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College London. To the extent that any British leader might have sought an accommodation with Russia, he said, it would more likely have been the last Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

Corbyn, after all, once said he would like to see NATO “ultimately disband.” Comments like that saddled Labour with the reputation for lacking in patriotism, something that Starmer has worked methodically to root out, along with the antisemitism that once contaminated its far-left ranks.

Banishing that history may be another reason Ukraine has not become a contentious issue. While Britain’s election is likely to be driven by economic rather than national security concerns, analysts said Starmer needed to inoculate Labour against charges that it is insufficiently patriotic. Security is one of the few issues on which polls show that voters still trust Labour less than the Tories.

“There is a thread in Labour history of being very patriotic,” said Jonathan Powell, a former chief of staff to a Labour prime minister, Tony Blair, who famously stuck with President George W. Bush through the Iraq War. “But Labour has had a problem convincing people again of its patriotism.”

Much of Britain’s support for Ukraine, of course, is rooted in cultural and national identity, which runs deeper than party politics. As Powell put it, “the notion of a plucky nation plugging away by itself is something we get.”

Britain has taken a hard line against Russia ever since Winston Churchill warned of an “Iron Curtain” after World War II. Its cynicism about Russian motives deepened in 2018, after the Kremlin was accused of poisoning a former Russian intelligence agent and his daughter in Salisbury, England, with a nerve agent. Britain blamed the operation on Russia’s military intelligence and expelled its diplomats.

But a succession of Conservative prime ministers has also discovered that backing Ukraine is an appealing strategy for a country groping for a post-Brexit role on the global stage.

Without having to commit its own troops, or even to make a financial commitment beyond this year, Britain can look like a world leader at relatively modest cost.

“It’s not a great strain on the U.K. to take on this policy,” Freedman said. “And if you’re the first mover, as the U.K. has been on a number of occasions, and now with security guarantees, you get credit for it.”

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January 26-28, 2024

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Israel rebuts genocide charge by declassifying cabinet decisions

By PATRICK KINGSLEY

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srael has declassified more than 30 secret orders made by government and military leaders, which it says rebut the charge that it committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, and instead show Israeli efforts to diminish deaths among Palestinian civilians.

The release of the documents, copies of which were reviewed by The New York Times, follows a petition to the International Court of Justice by South Africa, which has accused Israel of genocide. Much of South Africa’s case hinges on inflammatory public statements made by Israeli leaders that it says are proof of intent to commit genocide.

Part of Israel’s defense is to prove that whatever politicians may have said in public was overruled by executive decisions and official orders from Israel’s war Cabinet and its military’s high command.

The court, the U.N.’s highest judicial body, began hearing arguments in the case this month, and is expected to provide an initial response to South Africa’s petition — in which it could call for a provisional cease-fire — as soon as Friday.

Since October, Israel has pounded Gaza in a campaign that has killed more than 25,000 Palestinians, or roughly 1 in 100 residents of the territory, according to health officials in Gaza; displaced nearly 2 million people; and damaged the majority of the buildings, according to the U.N. The campaign is a response to a Hamas-led assault that led to the deaths and abductions of roughly 1,400 people in Israel, according to Israeli officials.

The Genocide Convention of 1948, which South Africa has accused Israel of violating, does not define genocide solely as killing members of a particular ethnic or national group. Crucially, it says the killings must be

A woman mourns the loss of family members killed in Israeli airstrikes in Deir al Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Oct. 23, 2023. At the world’s top court, South Africa has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. Israel’s legal team has challenged the charge by providing the court with secret orders made by Israel’s civilian and military leaders. (Samar Abu Elouf/The New York Times) committed “with intent to destroy” that group.

“Everything hinges on intent,” said Janina Dill, a professor at Oxford University and codirector of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.

To that end, both South Africa and Israel are focused not only on what leaders and soldiers have done, but also what they have said.

The roughly 400-page defense includes what Israel says is evidence that it sought a legal war with Hamas and not a campaign of genocide against the Palestinians.

Among the declassified Israeli documents are summaries of Cabinet discussions from late October, in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered supplies of aid, fuel and water to be sent to Gaza. He also instructed the government to examine how “external actors” might set up field hospitals to treat Palestinians, as well as consider mooring a hospital ship off the coast of the territory.

Netanyahu’s most declarative statements were made in November, according to the released documents.

“The prime minister stressed time and again the need to increase significantly the humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip,” reads one declassified document that Israel’s lawyers said was taken from the minutes of a Cabinet meeting on Nov. 14.

“It is recommended to respond favorably to the request of the U.S.A. to enable the entry of fuel,” another document said.

On Nov. 18, according to the declassified minutes of another meeting, Netanyahu emphasized “the absolute necessity” of allowing basic humanitarian aid to continue.

But the dossier is also highly curated and omits most wartime instructions given by the Cabinet and the military. The available documents do not include orders from the first 10 days of the war, when Israel blocked aid to Gaza and shut off access to the electricity and water it normally provides to the territory.

While the court could take years to reach a verdict, it may seek to impose “provisional measures” as soon as this week. Those measures could include a symbolic — and largely unenforceable — request for Israel to cease its attacks while the court deliberates.

To do so, the court’s 17 judges must find it plausible that Israel has killed residents of Gaza with the deliberate goal of destroying Palestinians as a group, according to international legal experts.

Actions that can constitute genocide can “be features of a war without being genocide,” Dill said. “So it is really imperative to show this intent.”

Israel’s Cabinet decisions could prove more relevant in several months, when the court begins to assess the merits of the case.

The judges will need to decide whether Israel had no other motive to kill Palestinians aside from genocide, the experts said.

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What Is NATO, and how has the war in Ukraine changed it?

By MATHEW MPOKE BIGG

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weden moved one step closer to joining NATO on Tuesday, after Turkey’s parliament backed the move, underscoring how the war in Ukraine continued to reshape the military alliance nearly three years into the fighting.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia cited NATO’s eastward spread as one of his reasons for invading Ukraine. But instead of curbing it, Europe’s largest ground war since NATO was formed 74 years ago has revived and returned it to its Cold War roots as a war-fighting alliance.

Despite dwindling military supplies and competing crises, NATO members have vowed to sustain support for Ukraine. But military aid from the United States remains stalled in Congress, and current and former European diplomats have expressed growing concern that a second Donald Trump presidency could mean the abandonment of the government in Ukraine along with a gutting of the alliance.

Here’s a guide to NATO and how its role has shifted since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: What is NATO? The mutual-defense alliance was established in 1949, after World War II, by the United States, Canada and 10 European countries.

The treaty for which the alliance is named has 14 articles by which all NATO members must abide. The most important is Article 5, which declares that an attack against one member state is an attack against them all.

That article placed Western Europe under U.S. protection in the face of a Soviet Union that was cementing its domination over Central and Eastern Europe and appeared then only to be growing in power and ambition.

After the Soviet Union’s collapse in the early 1990s, the alliance took on a wider role. NATO forces — made up of troops volunteered by member states — operated as peacekeepers in Bosnia in the 1990s and bombed Serbia in 1999 to protect Kosovo, where the alliance still has troops.

Which countries are members?

In addition to the United States and Canada, the countries that became part of NATO in 1949 were Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal.

Since then, 19 more European states have joined: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the

President Harry S. Truman signs the North Atlantic Treaty in the Oval Office in Washington, Aug. 24, 1949. What is NATO, and how has the war in Ukraine changed it? This Western mutual-defense alliance is central to the pushback against Russia, even though Ukraine is not a member. (George Tames/The New York Times) Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Turkey, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.

Finland became NATO’s 31st member state last year, having abandoned a longstanding policy of military nonalignment.

That added one of Western Europe’s most potent militaries to the alliance while at the same time extending NATO’s commitment to collective defense to a country that shares an 830-mile border with Russia.

Membership in NATO has long been considered a cheap benefit, given the U.S.’ nuclear umbrella and the principle of collective defense. But the alliance also has extensive requirements of its members — not just spending goals for the military, but specific demands from each country for certain capabilities, armaments, troop strengths and infrastructure.

NATO has since 2014 been led by Jens Stoltenberg, a former prime minister of Norway.

How has the war in Ukraine changed NATO? In 2019, President Emmanuel Macron of France warned that NATO was becoming brain-dead and questioned the U.S.’ commitment to the alliance. But since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February

2022, NATO finds itself newly relevant.

Although the alliance does not directly provide military aid to Ukraine, NATO countries, led by the United States, the biggest overall donor, have sent tens of billions of dollars’ worth of equipment. All NATO member states discuss military aid to Ukraine at monthly meetings in Ramstein, Germany. The alliance has also helped to coordinate Ukraine’s requests for humanitarian aid.

The war has also given new centrality to countries along NATO’s eastern border, particularly the Baltic States and Poland, a country that has acquired significant new clout within the alliance. The country’s president, Andrzej Duda, was among the first foreign leaders to visit Kyiv, Ukraine, after the invasion began and has been one of its most hawkish backers.

Why did Turkey oppose Sweden’s joining NATO? Along with Finland, Sweden applied to join the alliance in May 2022, breaking its own policy of neutrality toward Russia.

But Turkey, a NATO member, repeatedly delayed the process, saying that Sweden, the United States and Canada all needed to meet Turkish demands.

That exasperated other members of the alliance, which viewed Turkey as leveraging

its position for domestic gain.

On Tuesday, Turkey’s parliament voted 287-55 (with four abstentions) to allow Sweden to join NATO, easing the diplomatic stalemate.

All NATO member governments must agree unanimously to expand the alliance.

Hungary is the only remaining holdout.

What does Sweden have to offer?

Sweden’s accession to NATO on the heels of Finland’s would essentially turn the Baltic Sea into a NATO-dominated waterway, one that enhances the alliance’s ability to protect its most vulnerable members: the Baltic nations. Those include Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which border Russia and its key ally, Belarus.

As Turkey dragged its feet, Sweden’s defense ministry said in October that it could contribute its Gripen warplanes to a Western coalition that is trying to speed fighter jets to Ukraine — but only after the Nordic nation is allowed into NATO. Sweden’s conditional offer to give some JAS-39 Gripens came as NATO races to train Ukrainian pilots and support crews to fly Western fighter jets — what officials and experts describe as one of the few weapons systems that could change the course of the war. Allies have pledged to donate as many as 60 F-16s to Ukraine once its pilots are ready.

Where does Ukraine’s membership stand?

Joining NATO has for years been a central goal of Ukraine’s foreign policy, part of its plan to secure its future within the European Union and the West. As far back as 2008, NATO said Ukraine would eventually become a member. Russia’s invasion raised the stakes, and the government in Kyiv applied to join NATO last September.

NATO has promised that Ukraine can join eventually — without giving a timeline — and has drawn up a list of reforms the country must embrace before that can happen. To avoid putting the alliance in direct conflict with Russia, Kyiv is not expected to be able to join NATO during the war.

What about other European countries?

Other countries in Europe such as Ireland and Austria have chosen not to join NATO because of a policy of military neutrality.

Belarus, another country on Russia’s border, is not a member of NATO. President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus is a close ally of Putin and allowed his country to be used as a staging ground for the invasion of Ukraine.

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What that DeSantis smile showed

By MICHELLE COTTLE

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nd just like that, Ron DeSantis’ quest for the presidency is kaput. In a short video last week, the Florida governor looked natty in a blue suit and red tie, every hair perfectly in place as he papered over his deeply imperfect campaign. He touted his leadership and, perhaps with an eye toward running again in 2028, endorsed the Republican kingmaker, Donald Trump.

It wasn’t a terrible performance, especially under the circumstances. But watching DeSantis’ now-famous awkward smile and listening to his unnatural cadence, it was hard not to think: Yeah. I can see why this guy’s candidacy is deader than disco.

I am not being mean here. OK, I am being a little bit mean, but in the service of a serious point. DeSantis is a successful governor of a major state and a smart guy with a picture-perfect family. But he is also one of those unfortunate political creatures who do not wear well, whose early promise and poll numbers fade over time: The more people saw him, the less they seemed to like him. On the presidential campaign trail, he was robotic and awkward, rude and arrogant, with the interpersonal skills of poorly designed artificial intelligence. He struck people as an all-around odd duck, and not in a good way.

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For all of DeSantis’ apparent GOP pluses, he was constantly tripping over his personal minuses. His tonedeaf remarks, like when he told a kid in Iowa that his Icee probably had a lot of sugar in it. His inability to hide his discomfort when interacting with regular Americans.

The creepy smile that popped up in pretty much every debate. That quickie lip lick, where the tip of his tongue would suddenly burst into view. His visible impatience.

His trouble making eye contact. His fidgeting. His explosive, gaping laugh. The peculiar rhythm of his speech — sometimes too fast, sometimes stilted and never quite right. It was … a lot. But also not enough, lacking a certain quality that says, “I am human.”

A big part of the presidency involves persuading people to believe in you, rallying support for your priorities, conveying competence, caring, strength, hope, determination, courage. You are, chiefly, a leader — not a manager, a policy wonk or a political strategist.

And getting people to follow you is much harder if they find you personally off-putting.

This wasn’t Team DeSantis’ only problem, of course.

His campaign’s failures, of strategy and of luck, were rich and multifaceted. But underneath them all ran this foundational flaw. To quote Trump, a viciously shrewd observer of human nature, “The problem with Ron DeSanctimonious is that he needs a personality transplant, and those are not yet available.”

Of course, political likability can be nebulous and hard to define. Voters know it when they feel it — or don’t — and typically talk about it in characterological shorthand such as a candidate being someone you want to have a beer with, who cares about people like them, who tells it like it is or, my personal favorite, who is authentic.

DeSantis didn’t come across as any of those things.

For starters, by all appearances, he isn’t much of a people person. His apologists spoke gently of how he is private and not a natural glad-hander. But come on. When confronted with a roomful of humanity — whether political donors or schoolchildren — he radiated a blend of defensiveness and detachment. It’s as if he was always bracing for someone to say something unpleasant or confrontational yet never listening well enough to relax or reset in easy moments. And you could almost hear him counting the seconds until he could flee the scene.

Maybe he suspected people were looking down on him; he strikes me as a man with a chip on his shoulder about … something. Or maybe he was looking down on

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis smiles as he concludes his closing remarks during the third Republican presidential primary debate in Miami, Nov. 8, 2023.

(Damon Winter/The New York Times) them. People who have worked with DeSantis have said he considers himself the smartest guy in any given room.

This is not uncommon among politicians, especially the men. But he had the added problem of being unable to hide his arrogance and discomfort. Superciliousness is not a great way to win support, especially in a political party defined by its hostility toward pointy-headed know-it-alls.

This is about more than DeSantis being a smarty pants or rude or snappish. I mean, Trump has never paid much of a price for trash-talking his critics. Barack Obama was, quite fairly, accused of seeming aloof, condescending and professorial. But Obama and Trump are clearly comfortable in their own skins, and nothing may be more appealing, and reassuring, in a leader than this kind of loose-limbed self-assurance.

But DeSantis? Oy. Everything about his body language screamed, “I am uncomfortable!” Whether he was sipping a beer, one hand awkwardly perched on his hip, or standing stiffly onstage at a CNN town hall, his fingers nervously skittering across his thumb, over and over again.

Once a candidate gets stuck with the “stiff and awkward” label, it is nearly impossible to shake.

Occasionally, someone finds a way to turn it into an asset, at least in the primaries. In his second run for president, the stodgy, patrician Mitt Romney wound up looking like the serious, thoughtful grown-up of the pack, and plenty of people in the old GOP liked that.

Who knows? Maybe DeSantis will find his way forward in a future campaign. But this time, he just never made the gut-level connection with voters needed to let his candidacy catch fire. Instead, he found himself the target of a million memes, not to mention a satirical “Daily Show” video of him standing on a debate stage, giving himself a pep talk on how to look normal.

“Like Popeye said, I am what I am,” DeSantis declared when an NBC reporter pressed him this summer about his flagging campaign.

So true, governor. And that was the problem.

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Aguadilla anuncia celebración en el marco de 250 años de su fundación E

l alcalde de Aguadilla, Julio Roldán Concepción, aprovecha la presencia del municipio en la Feria Internacional de Turismo “FITUR” celebrándose en Madrid España, para anunciar la celebración de los 250 años de fundación de la ciudad que comenzará a celebrarse desde este año 2024 hasta finales del 2025.

La celebración de tan importante evento contará con una extensa agenda de eventos de intercambios culturales, históricos, educativos y artísticos. Los eventos programados para la conmemoración formarán parte del compromiso de esta administración de elevar el ofrecimiento turístico a nivel local e internacional como de la denominada “Ciudad de Encantos”.

El primer ejecutivo municipal expresó que desde el comienzo de su administración la transformación del sector turístico que se ha experimentado está fundada en una estrategia de desarrollo económico donde se están beneficiando todos los sectores económicos de nuestra ciudad.

“La celebración de los 250 años de fundación de Aguadilla será una que logrará resaltar el orgullo que sienten todos los aguadillanos residentes en nuestro pueblo, así como el orgullo de cada Aguadillano que resida fuera del país. Esta importante celebración que tendrá un año de celebración será uno de índole educativo, cultural y turístico que nos brinda la oportunidad a que todo el país y el turista que nos visita conozcan la historia, tradiciones, costumbres, personajes de nuestra historia como pueblo y el origen de nuestra Ciudad de Encantos, Aguadilla”, expresó el Roldán Concepción.

Continúo diciendo Roldán Concepción que la administración municipal busca continuar desarrollando iniciativas como estas para así continuar incentivando el turismo y el desarrollo económico de la ciudad a través de la movilización de miles de turistas locales e internacionales que se darán cita y que a su vez tendrán un resultado de impacto económico positivo para Aguadilla y otros pueblos limítrofes de la región noroeste del país.

“A través del desarrollo del sector turístico y los esfuerzos promocionales que

continuamos realizando, hemos logrado que tanto el pequeño y mediano comerciante, así como el empresario miren a Aguadilla como el lugar perfecto para invertir, señaló el primer ejecutivo municipal.

A partir de este año hasta finales del 2025, Aguadilla será el centro de Puerto Rico resaltando su herencia española, taína y africana como cuna del nacimiento de la puertorriqueñidad, siendo la tierra por donde se dio el Descubrimiento de Puerto Rico en 1493.

Exhortamos a todos a seguir nuestras redes sociales del Municipio de Aguadilla al igual que otros medios de comunicaciones en donde estaremos dando a conocer el calendario de actividades de esta celebración que sin duda dará mucho de qué hablar durante todo el año. A nuestros residentes y seguidores de nuestras plataformas digitales les dejamos saber que podrán obtener más información a través de las redes sociales municipales en donde detallaremos cada uno de los eventos que se estarán celebrando en nuestros 250 años de fundación,” concluyó diciendo Roldán Concepción.

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With wit and understatement, a press veteran reflects on his trade

By DWIGHT GARNER

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eople feel so special, so wise, when somebody they know drops dead,” Ottessa Moshfegh wrote in “Homesick for Another World,” her 2017 story collection. The newly dead might have felt special and wise in advance of their demises if they were friends with Calvin Trillin and could be reasonably sure he would speak at their wakes.

Trillin has long been more in demand as a eulogist, in Manhattan’s interlocking journalism and literary worlds, than probably anyone alive. The reasons are apparent to anyone who has heard or read him. He has a) a fundamental decency, b) a phlegmatic manner and c) a deadpan wit that delivers, like an inoculation, hurt and healing at the same time. I’ve known people to attend the funerals of people they’ve never met because word had spread that Trillin would be speaking, in the manner that an NBA nonfan might attend a New York Knicks game solely because he had heard that Chaka Khan would be singing the national anthem.

Trillin’s new book is called “The Lede: Dispatches From a Life in the Press.” It’s an assortment of profiles, essays, columns and a few examples of light verse, all of them about journalism, written originally for The New Yorker, The Nation, Time and other outlets. A few go back as far as the early 1970s.

New money for old rope, in other words. But it makes sense to have this material in one place, and this book is buoyant and crunchy from end to end.

“The Lede” contains profiles — of Miami crime reporter Edna Buchanan, of New York Times writer and expense-account legend Johnny Apple, and of pseudonymous Texas drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs — that are acknowledged classics of the form and will be studied until artificial intelligence makes hash out of all of us. Trillin can be counted on to hand the world back clearer than it was before he picked it up.

I began this review with eulogies because the best section in “The Lede” is a short one called, simply, “R.I.P.” It contains remembrances of some of Trillin’s favorite people, including Russell Baker, Molly Ivins, John Gregory Dunne, Morley Safer, Andrew Kopkind and Murray Kempton.

About Baker, a former Times columnist, Trillin writes that he “preferred the unadorned to the gussied-up” and was “an enemy of pre-

tension and pomposity.” Trillin might as well be writing about himself. He reminds us that Baker compared writing 800-word columns for what was once called the op-ed page to “doing ballet in a telephone booth.”

Trillin also recalls the time that Baker almost died when a raw potato fell from a tall building, barely missing him. No one wants to be remembered for a goofy death, such as Sherwood Anderson’s, for example. He died after accidentally swallowing the toothpick that skewered the olive in his martini.

Trillin reports Ivins’ comment that “if a certain congressman’s I.Q. dropped any further, he’d have to be watered twice a day.”

He notes Dunne’s imaginary “Irish drawer,” files devoted solely to grudges. Safer, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, had a sideline making paintings of hotel rooms. He quotes Safer this way: Capturing the unique colors — the burnt oranges, the vivid turquoises — that are frequently encountered in American hostelries poses an extraordinary challenge to the artist.

You realize that the bedspreads and rugs in Holiday Inns were designed for one purpose — so that people can get sick on them and it won’t show.

Trillin’s droll manner has a lot to do with his gift for understatement. So, when I read, in his remembrance of Kopkind, a Nation journalist, that he was “the most entertaining person of his generation,” I had to put the book

down for a moment. I thought to my stunned self: That is possibly the greatest bit of praise I have ever heard — coming from Trillin, at any rate. Kopkind must have had a personality that could microwave leftovers at 30 yards.

Trillin’s understatement matters because through it he resolves the traumas of life into humane comedy. While reporting on a barbecue-related contretemps among the staffers at Texas Monthly, he has a meal with the kind of fellow that a lesser writer might describe as “heavyset.” Trillin would never reach for such off-the-shelf and impolite verbiage.

Instead, he writes, the man had “a midsection that reflects a 40-year interest in Texas barbecue.” Multiply that kind of observation across a career and you have the foundation, like a Cajun cook’s roux, of the Trillin style.

There is a piece here, from 2001, about Chowhound and New York City’s then-new legion of food critics. They all seemed to Trillin like, in a generally admiring way, the kind of dudes who had stayed in grad school way too long. There is a column about trying to slip phrases into your work that will enter the language, like Tom Brokaw’s “greatest generation.” Trillin had high hopes for “D.T.S. — Disappearing Tush Syndrome,” which describes “the tendency of older men’s hindquarters to flatten out.” It seems not to have caught on.

Several pieces are about this newspaper. He recalls when the Times, all at once in the 1990s, dropped its Stamps, Coins and Camera columns (and later Chess and Bridge) and introduced a new Styles section. Trillin would flip through Styles, he writes, “looking for tips on how to acquire the mannerisms of an in-the-know teenager.”

He recalls his suggestion, “on behalf of reporters everywhere,” that Roy Reed “be

given the Pulitzer Prize for managing to convince the pooh-bahs at The New York Times that New Orleans, a backwater in just about every human endeavor except the enjoyment of life, rather than Atlanta, the Babbitt-ridden commercial center and air hub of the South, was the logical place for The Times’s Southern correspondent to make his headquarters.”

There are pieces about The New Yorker, for which Trillin has written since 1963.

He wonders if he is among the last of its writers and editors “who hasn’t discussed his New Yorker experience in excruciating detail between hard covers.” He writes about trying to get dirty words past William Shawn, the magazine’s prim longtime editor. The point was not to shock or titillate. The point, Trillin writes, is that we are all adults and “I’m grateful for having no restrictions on what I can listen to or look at.”

There are a few misfires in this book, pieces Trillin might have added to make other writers feel better about themselves. A 2001 profile of Canadian press baron Conrad Black flips and flops. I suspect it’s because Trillin didn’t find much to admire in Black, and he had trouble saying so. Some weeks, I am glad The Nation still prints his “deadline poetry,” a few examples of which are here.

Other weeks, I groan so hard that it hurts, physically.

Maybe he included this lesser stuff for the same reason he once proposed that The New Yorker intentionally print one cartoon in each issue that isn’t funny. As a result, “the reader would assume that he must be witnessing ‘subtle humor beyond his power of perception, and that The New Yorker is therefore even more sophisticated than he thought.’”

Yes, that must be it.

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The wine heiresses apparent

By Eric Asimov

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s a young woman growing up in the Chianti Classico town of Radda-inChianti in Tuscany, Angela Fronti was sure of one thing: She did not want to join her family’s business, doing agricultural work for wineries.

She was far more interested in making wine herself, so she earned a degree in winemaking and found jobs with wineries elsewhere in Tuscany.

But she felt drawn to Radda-in-Chianti, where some of the most ethereal Chianti Classicos are from. Like many families there, the Frontis owned a vineyard with sangiovese, the main grape of Chianti, as well as a few vineyards in other parts of the region. They made wine but sold it in bulk to merchants who bottled it.

Having proven herself at winemaking, she took over the family vineyards to make the wine for Istine, her new Chianti Classico label. The first vintage was 2009. Today, they are critically acclaimed around the world, and she has begun to bottle single-vineyard wines from each of the family’s plots.

“The family company was all male,” she said. “I needed my own experience to feel strong enough. I demonstrated my skills, and I have a vineyard and winery thanks to them.

But it’s a new project.”

All over the world of wine, women like Fronti are taking charge of family businesses and pushing them to new and unexpected heights. They have generally been the first generation of women to routinely take the reins from older male relatives.

Women long ago demonstrated remarkable abilities in wine. But those allowed to take over family enterprises were historically the exceptions. Often, they stepped in after the unexpected death of a father or spouse, like Corinne Mentzelopoulos, who led Château Margaux in Bordeaux to make great wine for decades after her father died in 1980.

She has followed a template dating back at least to 1805, when Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot took over her husband’s Champagne business after he died young. It continues to thrive today under the name Veuve Clicquot, French for “Widow Clicquot.”

Other exceptions are easy to find, including influential leaders like Lalou BizeLeroy and Anne-Claude Leflaive in Burgundy and Cathy Corison in Napa Valley. But typical-

Angela Fronti, left, with two employees, Cecilia Csizmadi and Sofia Rimini, at her family vineyards in Radda-in-Chianti in the Tuscany region of Italy on Jan. 9, 2024. Fronti used her family’s vineyards to create Istine, now an excellent Chianti Classico estate. (Clara Vannucci/The New York Times) ly, family businesses went reflexively to sons or even sons-in-law if no son was available.

That is rapidly changing throughout the wine world, and Chianti Classico in particular has a concentration of women like Fronti who have taken charge of family enterprises and led them to heights they had never achieved before, despite the obstacles that many women still face.

In addition to Fronti, women heading excellent Chianti Classico estates include Lorenza Sebasti of Castello di Ama in Gaiole-inChianti, Sofia Ruhne of Terreno in Greve-inChianti, Susanna Grassi of I Fabbri in Lamole and Giovanna Morganti of Podere le Boncie in Castelnuovo Berardenga, each of whom I visited last November.

Fronti and Ruhne, who took charge fairly recently, owe something to predecessors like Sebasti, 58, who had to overcome the sorts of doubts that were even more prevalent in earlier decades.

Sebasti was not expected to run a wine estate when she joined Castello di Ama in 1988. She was born in Rome and her father, an engineer, had been one of four families that together in 1975 purchased Ama. Like many Tuscan estates, it had been abandoned in the mid-20th century, when the system of mezzadria, or sharecropping, which had long sustained big agricultural estates, faded.

Her father, she recalled, loved the place, which included a largely abandoned village and manor house, more than he loved wine.

His partner in Ama was the visionary for wine, and his son was supposed to take it over. Her father was skeptical of her making a life there.

But Sebasti loved Ama, and felt called to wine. She wanted to make Ama her life, and the heir, she believed, was not as devoted to the place as she was.

“He felt entitled because he was a male,” Sebasti said. “He didn’t put in roots at Ama. You have to give everything to make this happen.”

Sebasti prevailed in the power struggle and her rival eventually sold her his shares in Ama. Sebasti, who had married winemaker Marco Pallanti, became the CEO in 1993.

Their son, Arturo, 26, will be among the next generation leading Ama, which makes graceful, long-lived wines.

In Lamole, a tiny hamlet in the highest part of Greve-in-Chianti, Grassi’s family has grown grapes since 1620. Her great-grandfather was among the first small farmers in the region to bottle his own wine in the 1920s, and the first to bottle under the I Fabbri label.

But her father focused instead on engineering work and rented out the family estate. The wine was sold to big négociants.

Grassi went into the fashion business

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in Florence, but in 2000 she felt called to return to Lamole to make wine. As her family vineyards were under contract, she bought her own vineyards. Her father, she said, supported her decision.

“I thought this place had lost its identity without us here,” she said, as we walked in her vineyard, surrounded by forest and silent except for bird calls.

She undertook big projects, restoring abandoned terraces, converting international varieties like merlot, which the market demanded in the 1990s, back to sangiovese, her preference. She brought back the I Fabbri label and began to bottle her wines, fresh, transparent and full of finesse.

“It wasn’t easy to work with them and be accepted,” she said of her team, all males. “I had to work more than them to be credible in their eyes.”

Her father died in 2021 and left her his portion of the family vineyards, which she will take over when the rental agreement ends. He left the family house to her brother.

Ruhne of Terreno does not have such roots in Tuscany. Her family is from Sweden, where her father owns a shipping company. In the 1980s, he bought Terreno, an estate that dates back to the 16th century. Their first vintage was in 1988.

In 2010, when the family began to consider the question of succession, Sofia, the youngest of four daughters, was working in Washington, D.C., promoting Swedish culture.

She was more interested in Terreno than her siblings, having spent the most time there as a child, and moved there with her husband and children permanently in 2012. She spent three years learning the business before taking over in 2015.

Terreno had been making relatively simple wines, but Ruhne had her own vision. She wanted to raise the quality and lower alcohol levels, making wines that reflected their terroirs. She pushed to farm organically, promote biodiversity and improve pruning methods.

And she shifted to indigenous grapes from the international varieties that the earlier generation had favored. But she faced opposition.

“The people working here resisted change,” she said. “When I started, one person said, ‘I will never take orders from a woman.’”

Gradually, she replaced intransigent workers. She brought in her own enologist, Giacomo Fioravanti. Terreno’s wines today are elegant and pure.

Ruhne has seen major changes in the region and in the larger world of wine.

“In 2010, it was all male and considered strange to have a woman in charge,” she said.

“Now it’s completely different. It’s changed a lot and very fast.”

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Lemon ricotta pancakes

By GENEVIEVE KO

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his quick batter cooks into the most tender pancakes for the most comforting breakfast. Milky ricotta and butter, along with tangy buttermilk, lend a soft, sweet creaminess, and well-beaten eggs keep them fluffy and light. Lemon- and vanilla-scented sugar makes the pancakes sweet enough to eat on their own, but they’re fun to serve with blueberry syrup or your favorite toppings. If you prefer soufflélike pancakes, separate the whites from the yolks and beat them to stiff peaks. Mix the yolks in with the wet ingredients, fold the whipped whites in after the dry ingredients are incorporated and cook as directed below.

Yield: 8 to 10 small pancakes Total time: 20 minutes Ingredients: 3/4 cup/102 grams all-purpose flour 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon fine salt 1/4 cup/50 grams sugar

1 lemon 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 3 large eggs 3/4 cup/170 grams whole-milk ricotta 1/4 cup/61 grams buttermilk, preferably whole milk 2 tablespoons/28 grams unsalted butter, melted, plus room-temperature butter for cooking and serving Blueberry syrup or other toppings, for serving (optional) Preparation: 1. Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl. Heat a griddle or large nonstick pan or wellseasoned cast-iron skillet over medium-low.

2. Add the sugar to a large bowl, then finely grate the zest of the lemon directly over the sugar. Using your fingers, gently rub the zest into the sugar. Add the vanilla and whisk to evenly moisten. Add the eggs and whisk until foamy on top, then add the ricotta, buttermilk and butter, and whisk until well-blended. Add the flour mixture and gently stir until no traces of flour remain.

3. Generously butter the griddle, then drop a scant 1/4 cup batter onto it. Repeat, spacing the rounds at least

The San Juan Daily Star an inch apart. Cook until the bottoms are golden brown and the tops are bubbling, 2 to 3 minutes. Flip and cook until the other sides are golden brown, about 2 minutes more. Repeat with more butter and the remaining batter.

Serve warm, slathered with butter and blueberry syrup or other toppings if you’d like.

Lemon Ricotta Pancakes. For the lightest, fluffiest pancakes, Genevieve Ko incorporates ricotta, buttermilk and beaten eggs into her batter. A small gesture — rubbing the lemon zest into the sugar — ensures bright citrus flavor in every bite. (Ryan Liebe/The New York Times)

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SUCESION HECTOR CESAR AUGUSTO PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR C. PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR PEREZ ORTIZ T/C/C HECTOR CESAR PEREZ COMPUESTA POR HECTOR PEREZ RAMIREZ, JULIO PEREZ RAMIREZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION MARTA RAMIREZ MORENO T/C/C MARTA RAMIREZ DE PEREZ COMPUESTA POR HECTOR PEREZ RAMIREZ, JULIO PEREZ RAMIREZ; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2020CV00321.

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

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, el 21 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman-

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dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número ocho (8) del bloque E del plano de la Urbanización Residencial Villa Alba, radicado en el Barrio Santana del término municipal de Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, compuesto de trescientos diez punto veintiuno (310.21) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar diecisiete (17) del bloque E; por el Sur, con la calle tres (3) de la Urbanización; por el Este, con el solar siete (7) del bloque E; y por el Oeste, con la calle seis (6) de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 243 del tomo 118 de Sabana Grande, finca 6,449, Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán.

Inscrita al folio 243 del tomo 118 de Sabana Grande, finca 6,449 Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. La Hipoteca Revertida se encuentra inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 334 de Sabana Grande, finca 6,449 Registro de la Propiedad de San German, inscripción 4ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. VILLA ALBA, E-8 CALLE 3, SABANA GRANDE, PR 00637. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $142,250.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 8 de febrero de 2084. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $95,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, el 28 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, A LAS 11:00 DE

Friday, January 26, 2024 LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $63,333.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $47,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, el 6 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $77,818.83 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $12,645.22 en intereses acumulados al 31 de agosto de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.536% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $3,312.13 en seguro hipotecario; $5,110.00 en tarifas de servicios; $752.00 en seguro; $600.00 de tasaciones; $440.00 de inspecciones; $4,735.00 en preservaciones; $2,125.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $9,500.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios pú-

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blicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de diciembre de 2023.

JOVINO PÉREZ SANTIAGO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. JOSÉ A. MONTALVO, ALGUACIL PLACA #454.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JOSEFINA CAMACHO ROSA

Demandada Civil Núm.: CCD2015-0377.

(404). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. 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 de Arecibo, Arecibo, 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 6 de diciembre 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: Lote de terreno localizado en la calle número 4 de la Urbanización Brisas de Mar Chiquita en el Barrio Tierras Nuevas Ponientes del municipio de Manatí, Puerto Rico, identificada en el Plano de Inscripción aprobado por la Administración de Reglamentos y Permisos para la urbanización como solar número G-16. El mismo tiene una cabida superficial de 302.25 metros cuadrados. Colindando: por el NORTE, con solar número G-9 separada por un muro, en una distancia de 13.00 metros; por el SUR, con calle número 4, en una distancia de 13.00 metros; por el ESTE, con solar número G-15, en una distancia de 23.25 metros; y por el OESTE, con solar número G-17, en una distancia de 23.25 metros. En el solar enclava una estructura de hormigón armado y bloques.

La misma consta de tres cuartos dormitorios, dos baños, sala, comedor, cocina, marquesina doble y demás dependencias. Inscrita en la finca número 20,419, inscrita al TOMO Karibe de Manatí I, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Primera Sección de Manatí. El producto de la subasta se des-

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21 tinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 9 de septiembre de 2022 y notificada el 3 de octubre de 2022 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $130,312.55 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 6.00%, anual desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2012, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $14,280.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.

La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 26 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Arecibo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $142,800.00.

Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 4 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Arecibo, Arecibo, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $95,200.00, 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 11 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Arecibo, Arecibo, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $71,400.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo

104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de diciembre de 2023.

ALGUACIL ÁNGEL TORRES PÉREZ, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE IDA LINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C IDALINA PECK SUÁREZ T/C/C AIDA ROSA

KARRY, COMPUESTA 5.00%, anual desde el 1ro de febrero de 2020, hasta su comPOR “JOHN DOE Y pleto pago, más las primas de RICHARD ROE” COMO seguro hipotecario, recargos POSIBLES HEREDEROS por demora y cualesquiera DESCONOCIDOS DE otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, DICHA SUCESIÓN; desde la fecha antes mencionaCENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE da y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma INGRESOS MUNICIPALES de $7,511.00 para costas, gas(C.R.I.M.) tos y honorarios de abogado;

Demandado Civil Núm.: MZ2021CV01649.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - 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 Mayagüez, Mayagüez, 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 13 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: RÚSTICA: Solar con una cabida de quinientos metros cuadrados, sito en el Barrio Lavadero Uno de Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, que mide por el NORTE, treinta metros y colinda con la finca principal de los esposos Suárez Irizarry; por el SUR, mide veinte metros y colinda con la carretera número dos; por el ESTE, mide veinticinco metros y colinda con el solar letra D; y por el OESTE, mide veinticinco metros y colinda con faja de terreno para entrada del remanente de la finca principal. Edificación con un valor de $46,000.00, según resulta de la escritura número 38, otorgada en Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de julio de 1996, ante el notario Rigoberto Martínez Cruz, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 3 de Mayagüez, finca número 953, inscripción 6ta. Inscrita al folio 61 del tomo 32 de Hormigueros, finca número 953. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Mayagüez. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada en este caso el 27 de julio de 2023, y publicada en un periódico de circulación general de Puerto Rico (“The San Juan Daily Star”) el 25 de agosto de 2023, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $55,950.22 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del

y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.

La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 21 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $75,110.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 28 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe.

El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $50,073.33, 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 6 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $37,555.00, 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

22 a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de diciembre de 2023.

ALGUACIL IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #924, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ.

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 12 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 230 en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Peña Pobre del Municipio de Naguabo, con una cabida superficial de 0.0890 cuerdas equivalentes a 350.01 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela número 231 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela 229 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con calle pavimentada de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número 237 de la comunidad. ENCLAVA estructura de hormigón y bloques de cemento de una sola planta que consta de las siguientes facilidades: sala, comedor, cocina, tres cuartos dormitorios, un baño, balcón y marquesina con un valor de $35,000.00 LEGAL NOTICE según resulta de la inscripción ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO 3a. Consta inscrita al folio 5 del DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUtomo 198 de Naguabo, finca NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA número 10083B, Registro de SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMAla Propiedad de Puerto Rico, CAO Sección de Humacao. La hipoMASSACHUSETTS teca objeto de esta ejecución MUTUAL LIFE se encuentra inscrita al folio INSURANCE COMPANY 5 vuelto del Tomo 198 de NaDemandante V. guabo, finca número 10083B de Naguabo, inscripción 4a.

EFRAÍN SANTANA Propiedad localizada en: RD VÁZQUEZ; SUSANA MALDONADO MARTÍNEZ 31 Parc 230 Peña Pobre W. Naguabo, PR 00718, t/c/c RD Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL 31 Parcela #230, Peña Pobre DE GANANCIALES Ward, Naguabo, PR 00718. SeCOMPUESTA POR gún figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto AMBOS de ejecución no está gravada Demandados Civil Núm.: NG2022CV00102. por cargas posteriores o prefeSobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- rentes a la inscripción del créTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA dito ejecutante. Se entenderá - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBAS- que todo licitador acepta como TA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE bastante la titularidad de la proAMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE piedad y que todas las cargas DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, y gravámenes anteriores y los EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- preferentes al crédito ejecutanDO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. te antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

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El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $34,700.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 19 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $23,133.33 dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $17,350.00 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 26 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $15,839.33 de principal; más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.000% anual desde el 1ro. diciembre de 2021, hasta el saldo total de la deuda; cargos por mora equivalentes a 4% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo de la deuda, los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; más la suma de $3,470.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado. Además de cualesquiera sumas de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, así como de cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles

en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de enero de 2024.

JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR. JANIA GUASP LOZA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #653. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

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

ORIENTAL BANK

Parte Demandante V.

SAMUEL ORTIZ ESPINOSA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: ECD2013-1582. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, hago saber a la parte demandada SAMUEL ORTIZ ESPINOSA y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 13 de diciembre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $170,289.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: #102, 7 STREET, CIUDAD JARDIN DEV., JUNCOS, PR 00777, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: URBANA: Solar #102 de la Urbanización Ciudad Jardín de Juncos, localizada en el Barrio Gurabo Abaja del Municipio de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 439.09 metros cuadrados. En lindes: por el Norte, en dos alineaciones distintas, en una distancia de 8.705 metros, y un área de longitud de 1.707 metros, con la calle #7 de dicha Urbanización; por el Sur, en dos alineaciones distintas, en una distancia de 6.818 metros, con el solar #116, y otra distancia

de 22.513 metros, con el solar #117; por el Este, en una distancia de 23.077 metros, con el solar #103; y por el Oeste, en 4 alineaciones distintas, en una distancia de 16.524 metros, en un área de longitud de 6.111 metros, otro área de longitud de 6.499 metros, y otro área de longitud de 1.707 metros, con la calle Periferal de dicha Urbanización, todos estos solares y las calles pertenecientes al referido desarrollo urbano. El inmueble antes descrito contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para un sofá familia. Este solar esta afecta una servidumbre de teléfono de 1.52 metros, en el lado Norte y por el Oeste, a favor de la Junta Reglamentadora de Telecomunicaciones de P.R. Finca 19016 inscrita al sistema Karibe de Juncos, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) CONDICIONES DE VENTA a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico a las disposiciones de programa de subsidio de, Ley 122 del 6 de agosto de 2010, donde el titular recibió la suma de $8,436.25 para subvencionar el precio de venta; no pudiendo vender, ceder y/o de cualquier otro modo traspasar esta propiedad por un término de 10 años, a partir de la concesión del subsidio, sin el previo consentimiento de la Autoridad, según consta de la escritura 9 otorgada en Caguas el 23 de enero de 2013 ante el notario Carmen L. Guerrero Tamayo.

Inscrita el 23 de febrero de 2023 al Tomo Digital Karibe de la finca 19016 de Juncos, inscripción 1ª, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. (ii) HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré a favor de HR Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma de $170,289.00, con intereses al 3.50% anual y vencimiento 1 de febrero de 2043. Constituida mediante la escritura 32 otorgada en Caguas el 23 de enero de 2013 ante el notario Reinaldo Segurola Pérez. Inscrita el 23 de febrero de 2023, al Tomo Digital Karibe de la finca 19016 de Juncos, inscripción 2ª, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. (iii) Al asiento 438 del Diario 677 se presentó el 28 de mayo de 2014 Copia Certificada de Demanda con fecha 6 de diciembre 2013, seguida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, en el caso civil número ECD20131582, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; Scotiabank Puerto Rico, demandante vs.

Samuel Ortiz Espinosa, demandado. Por la misma se reclama el pago de $169,482.67, más otras sumas. (iv) Al asiento 2016-060358-CA02 se presentó el 5 de julio de 2016 Manda-

miento emitido el 6 de agosto de 2014 por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, en el caso civil número ECD2013-1582, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; Scotiabank Puerto Rico, demandante vs. Samuel Ortiz Espinosa, demandado. Por el cual se ordena la Anotación de Embargo y Prohibición de Enajenar sobre esta finca para que la misma responda por la suma de $169,482.67, más otras sumas. Complementarios: Orden emitida el 6 de agosto de 2014. (v) Al asiento 2022-888758CA02 se presentó el 25 de enero de 2022 la Escritura 10 otorgada en Caguas el 13 de enero de 2022 ante el notario Steven Orlando Morales Pabón, por la cual Oriental Bank, conforme a Mandamiento sobre Reproducción de Pagaré emitido el 11 de marzo de 2020, sustituye el pagaré de $170, 289.00 por haberse extraviado el mismo.

Complementarios: Orden emitida el 4 de noviembre de 2019 y Mandamiento emitido el 11 de marzo de 2020. (vi) Al asiento 2022-163967-CA02 se presentó el 22 de diciembre de 2022 Mandamiento de Embargo emitido el 5 de diciembre de 2022 por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, en el caso civil número ECD20131582, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; Oriental Bank, demandante vs. Samuel Ortiz Espinosa, demandado.

Por el cual se ordena el Embargo de esta finca, a favor de la parte demandante, para que la misma responda por la suma de $223,908.24, más otras sumas. Complementarios: Orden emitida el 21 de noviembre de 2022. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (ii). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 21 de mayo de 2014, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $166,465.13 de principal, $50,047.93 intereses acumulados que continuarán acumulándose a razón de $12.4822, $340.00 de seguro, $2,967.20 de cargos por atraso, $947.80 de otros cargos, $9,890.39 de cuenta escrow, para un total de $230,658.45, más las cantidades debidas de contribuciones e impuestos, primas de seguro contra riesgo y seguro de hipoteca hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $17,028.90 estipulados para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados en caso de reclamación judicial, cantidades todas garantizadas por la hipoteca. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 13 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia,

Sala de Caguas, Puerto Rico.

Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $170,289.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 21 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $113,526.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 28 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $85,144.50. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspon-

diente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación.

Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de enero de 2024. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.

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

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE GESTOR DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Demandante v.

HECTOR M VAZQUEZ MELENDEZ

Demandado( a) Caso Núm.: BY2022CV05566 (SALON 503). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KEVIN SANCHEZ CAMPANERO KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM

A: HECTOR M VAZQUEZ MELENDEZ, URB. SIERRA BAYAMON, 68-17 CALLE 60, BAYAMON PR 00961-4307

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen-

The San Juan Daily Star 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 publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de ENERO de 2024. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 19 de ENERO de 2024.

LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. f/CARMEN M PINTADO NIEVES, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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

ORIENTAL BANK DEMANDANTE vs.

SUCESION DE WILLIAM LORAN RIVERA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES FULANO DE

TAL YSUTANA DE TAL DEMANDADO CIVIL NÚM.: AR2023CV02348.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. ss.

A: SUCESION DE WILLIAM LORAN RIVERA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL -URB. VILLA GEORGETTI, 17-F CALLE LOS CAÑOS (17-F CALLE CANOS), BARCELONETA, PR 00617; -RR 3, BOX 9211, MANATI, PR 00674, y; -URB. VILLA GEORGETTI 177, BARCELONETA, PR 00617.

derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos by f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. De ser el demandado un heredero de una sucesión, se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días, en tomo a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este edicto, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del(los) causante(s) y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1,578 del Nuevo Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11,021 Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787- 751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 22 de ENERO de 2024. VIVIAN Y FRESSE GONZALEZ, SEG A REGIONAL. SARA Y SALGADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento.

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://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ LEGAL NOTICE tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO físico o que se represente por DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

Friday, January 26, 2024 FUND, LLC

CONTRATO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL YANITSIA PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTAPEREZ VALENTIN DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIORIENTAL BANK Parte Demandada BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO Demandante v.

Civil Núm.: AG2022CV00088.

SUCESION DE JOSEFINA Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. RICO, S.S. FELICIANO CARRILLO EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- A: B-CELLULAR CORP CORP. Y BETZAIDA TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Y OTROS QUIÑONEZ SANCHEZ. AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: FA2023CV00893 DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, DIR: URB. MIRADERO (SALÓN 307). Sobre: COBRO EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA114, CAMINO DE LAS DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. VISTAS, HUMACAO, PR OTROS. A: YANITSIA 00791; SAN LORENZO JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS PEREZ VALENTIN SHOPPING CENTER, JCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW.COM NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR BO CAMASEYES, CARR LOCAL 14-B SAN EDICTO 467 KM 1.0, AGUADILLA NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO.

A: SUCESION DE JOSEFINA FELICIANO CARRILLO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN. PARCELAS LUIS M. CINTRÓN #10 CALLE 4, FAJARDO PR 00738 Y/O PO BOX 104, FAJARDO PR 00738-0104

(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 ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de ENERO de20 24. En FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, el 23 de ENERO de 2024. WANDA SEGUI REYES, Secretaria. f/LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS

Parte Demandante Vs.

PR 00603; HC 1 BOX 16608, AGUADILLA PR 00603-9347.

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/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de diciembre de 2023. SARAHÍ PÉREZ REYES, SECRETARIA. TAMARA Y. SOSA ROMÁN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LORENZO, P.R. 00754.

Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal la Demanda de epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fernando J. Gierbolini González; MONSERRATE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de enero de 2024. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LEGAL NOTICE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARONAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LINA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN LOLEGACY MORTGAGE RENZO ASSET TRUST 2021-GS1

DLS RETAIL, LLC. Demandante V.

B-CELLULAR CORP CORP. Y BETZAIDA QUIÑONEZ SANCHEZ

Demandante V.

IRIS JUSTINA WALKER CALDERÓN T/C/C IRIS J. WALKER CALDERÓN POR SÍ; JOSÉ RAMON TORRES MATOS POR SÍ

Demandada Civil Núm.: SL2023CV00394.

Demandados Sobre: COBRO DE DINECivil Núm.: CN2023CV00491.

RO E INCUMPLIMIENTO DE Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO

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Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: JOSE RAMON TORRES MATOS.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal y sala que se menciona en el epígrafe de este edicto con copia a la parte aquí demandante. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. La parte demandante ha radicado una acción de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca por deuda vencida y la misma está garantizada sobre la siguiente propiedad E-15 Calle 10, Villas de Loíza, Canóvanas, PR 00729 y descrita de la siguiente manera: URBANA: Solar radiado en la Urbanización Villas de Loíza, situada en el Barrio Canóvanas del municipio de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Área del Solar: DOSCIENTOS TREINTA METROS CUADRADOS (230.00 M.C.). Solar número quince (15) del Bloque “E”. En lindes por el NORTE, en diez metros (10.00) con la Calle número Diez (10); por el ESTE, en veintitrés metros (23.00) con el solar número dieciséis (16); por el SUR, en diez metros (10.00) con los solares número siete (7) y ocho (8); y por el OESTE, en veintitrés metros (23.00) con el solar número catorce (14). Enclava una casa de concreto para fines residenciales. Consta inscrita al folio cincuenta y siete (57) de tomo ciento sesenta y ocho 168) de Canóvanas, finca número ocho mil doscientos ochenta y siete (8287), inscripción primera, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Tercera de Carolina. El abogado de la parte demandante es: LCDA. MARICELI PEREZ GONZALEZ, 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, VIG Tower, Suite 706, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907, Tel. (787) 977-1932, Fax (787)

722-1932. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 18 de enero de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESION DE DANIEL FIGUEROA SANTIAGO Y SUCESION DE FELIDA DAVILA BELTRAN T/C/C FELIDA GLORIA DAVILA BELTRAN T/C/C FELIDA DAVILA DE FIGUEROA, AMBAS SUCESIONES COMPUESTAS POR: ANNETTE FIGUEROA DAVILA, CYNTHIA FIGUEROA DAVILA, ADELENE FIGUEROA DAVILA, LISA FIGUEROA DAVILA, ANGELICA FIGUEROA DAVILA Y LA SUCESION DE DENISE FIGUEROA DAVILA, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE TODAS LAS SUCESIONES; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; OSCAR BURGOS MORALES, ANNETTE FIGUEROA DAVILA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA

Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2023CV00190.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: SUCESION DE DANIEL FIGUEROA SANTIAGO Y SUCESION DE FELIDA DAVILA BELTRAN T/C/C FELIDA GLORIA DAVILA BELTRAN T/C/C FELIDA

DAVILA DE FIGUEROA, AMBAS SUCESIONES COMPUESTAS POR: ANNETTE FIGUEROA DAVILA, CYNTHIA FIGUEROA DAVILA, ADELENE FIGUEROA DAVILA, LISA FIGUEROA DAVILA, ANGELICA FIGUEROA DAVILA Y LA SUCESION DE DENISE FIGUEROA DAVILA, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE TODAS LAS SUCESIONES.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal y sala que se menciona en el epígrafe de este edicto con copia a la parte aquí demandante. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle.

Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), le ordena que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando las herencias de la DE DANIEL FIGUEROA SANTIAGO, SUCESION DE FELIDA DAVILA BELTRAN Y SUCESION DE DENISE FIGUEROA DAVILA. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, las herencias se tendrán por aceptadas. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Lcda.

Mariceli Perez Gonzalez, 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, Edif. VIG Tower, Suite 706, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907, Tel. (787) 977-1932, Fax (787) 722-1932.

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 18 de enero de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL INTERINA. KEYLA PÉREZ FIGUEROA, SECRE-

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO A: REINALDO RIVERA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU(Nombre de las partes que se le NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA notifican la sentencia por edicto) CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUAEL SECRETARIO(A) que susDILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE cribe le notifica a usted que el AGUADA 19 DE ENERO DE 2024, este COOPERATIVA DE Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, AHORRO Y CRÉDITO Sentencia Parcial o Resolución DE RINCÓN en este caso, que ha sido debiDemandante V. damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted GERMÁN ROSARIO GONZÁLEZ enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: RN2023CV00032. notificación se publicará una (Salón: 0002 DISTRITO Y SU- sola vez en un periódico de PERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE circulación general en la Isla DINERO - ORDINARIO. NO- de Puerto Rico, dentro de los TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando POR EDICTO. usted una parte en el procediRAFAEL FABRE COLÓN, RFABRE@MCMLAWPR.COM. miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia A: GERMAN ROSARIO GONZALEZ. Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso (Nombre de las partes que se le de revisión o apelación dentro notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- del término de 30 días contacribe le notifica a usted que el dos a partir de la publicación 17 DE ENERO DE 2024, este por edicto de esta notificación, Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, dirijo a usted esta notificación Sentencia Parcial o Resolución que se considerará hecha en la en este caso, que ha sido debi- fecha de la publicación de este damente registrada y archivada edicto. Copia de esta notificaen autos donde podrá usted ción ha sido archivada en los enterarse detalladamente de autos de este caso, con fecha los términos de la misma. Esta de 19 de ENERO de 2024. En notificación se publicará una ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, el 19 sola vez en un periódico de de ENERO de 2024. VIVIAN Y circulación general en la Isla FRESSE GONZALEZ, Secrede Puerto Rico, dentro de los taria. f/LINETTE ROMAN SE10 días siguientes a su notifica- RRANO, Secretario(a) Auxiliar ción. Y, siendo o representando del Tribunal. usted una parte en el procediLEGAL NOTICE miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Parcial o Resolución, de la cual DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUpuede establecerse recurso de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA revisión o apelación dentro del CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUtérmino de 30 días contados a MACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE partir de la publicación por edic- LAS PIEDRAS to de esta notificación, dirijo a CESAR HIPÓLITO usted esta notificación que se MERCED RIVERA considerará hecha en la fecha Y OTROS de la publicación de este edicDemandante V. to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos CARIBBEAN FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP., de este caso, con fecha de 19 de enero de 2024. En Aguada, HACIENDO NEGOCIOS Puerto Rico, el 19 de enero de COMO EASY MONEY Y 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, OTROS SECRETARIA. ERIKA CRUZ Demandado(a) PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXI- Caso Núm.: HU2023CV00305.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

REINALDO RIVERA

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2023CV01497 (SALÓN 404 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. GINA H FERRER MEDINA

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de agosto de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 16 de enero de 2024.

En Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, el 16 de enero de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. LISA M. FIGUEROA RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

MARTIN OQUENDO SANTIAGO, LUZ ENEIDA RIVERA NUÑEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: SL2024CVCV00001.

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

tro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al abogado de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal.

La demanda promueve la cancelación de una hipoteca por la suma de $22,500.00, la cual grava la finca 4711, inscrita al folio 170 del tomo 144 de Fajardo, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La hipoteca fue constituida mediante la escritura número 764, otorgada en San Juan, P.R., el 12 de diciembre de 1996 ante el Notario Julián Antonio Parrilla Boria, y el pagaré, de la misma fecha, por $22,500.00 y garantizado por dicha hipoteca, lleva el número de testimonio 6315 del mismo Notario Parrilla Boria. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de 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, entiende que procede: LCDO. JULIAN ANTONIO PARRILLA BORIA BanCoop Plaza, Suite 1100-A Ponce de León 623 San Juan, PR 00917 Tel.: 787-763-1689 Email: parrillajulian@gmail.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA LEGAL NOTICE y Sello del Tribunal, en FajarESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO do, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- diciembre de 2023. WANDA I. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. MERLLY OLMO TORRES, SESALA DE FAJARDO CRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A JUAN SALA. conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $60,055.16, más cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más los intereses acumulados al 6.375% desde el 1 de marzo de 2023, hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 15693 PO Box 194089, San Juan, PR 00917 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 22 de enero de 2024. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

MORALES SANTIAGO Demandante Vs

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CO. (SÍNDICO - LIQUIDADOR DE DORAL BANK Y DE DORAL MORIGAGE, LLC); FULANO DE TAL

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ORIENTAL BANK

COMO AGENTE DE Demandados SERVICIO DE THE Civil Núm.: FA2023CV01039.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN PAGAMONEY HOUSE, INC. RÉ EXTRAVIADO. Sala: 303.

DEMANDANTE VS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICLIZBETH TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE SUAREZ GONZALEZ AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DEMANDADOS DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, CIVIL NUM.: HU2023CV01796.

EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIASOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA A: FULANO DE TAL, (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAO SEA, LA PARTE MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTACODEMANDADA ARRIBA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, El Presidente de los Estados MENCIONADA. POR LA PRESENTE, se le em- Unidos, El Estado Libre Asociaplaza y requiere para que pre- do de Puerto Rico.

A: MARTIN OQUENDO SANTIAGO, LUZ ENEIDA RIVERA NUÑEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - BO. CERRO FINANCIAL SERVICES GORDO, CARR. 183 CORP., HACIENDO NEGOCIOS COMO EASY KM. 12, SAN LORENZO, PUERTO RICO 00754; MONEY, DORAL BANK, 5007 GRANSBACK JOHN DOE, COMO STREET, PHILADELPHIA POSIBLE TENEDOR PA, 19120.

DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. De: BANCO POPULAR DE (Nombre de las partes que se le PUERTO RICO. sente al Tribunal su alegación A la parte co-demandada: notifican la sentencia por edicto) Se le emplaza y requiere que responsiva a la demanda denLIZBETH SUÁREZ

LACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- POR EDICTO. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CARLOS R GARRIGA BLANCO, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AREGARRIGA@RAGFLAW.COM. CIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE A: CARIBBEAN ARECIBO.

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Friday, January 26, 2024 GONZÁLEZ, a sus direcciones conocidas: (a) HC 03 BOX 36443 CAGUAS, PR 00725; (b) URB. PALACIOS DEL MAR H-17 CALLE BEAUFORT HUMACAO, PR 00791.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma $126,410.72 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de agosto de 2023, 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 $13,433.00.

Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $13,433.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $13,433.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 453, otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de septiembre de 2020, ante el notario Jesús A. Ledesma Amador, de la finca número 31,178, inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Humacao, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. 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. 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. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando 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 represente por

derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓNal Lcdo.Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, 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 oirle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 23 de enero de 2024, en Humacao, Puerto Rico. EVELYN FELIX VAZQUEZ, Secretaria. ARESENIA MARTINEZ SANCHEZ, Sec Auxiliar Tribunal.

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ENRIQUE CAMACHO TORRES Y OTROS Demandante v.

RAMON CHARON SANTIAGO Y OTROS

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 YAUCO, Puerto Rico, el 17 de ENERO de 2024.

CARMEN G TIRU QUIÑONES, Secretaria. f/DELIA APONTE VELAZQUEZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES LLC Demandante v.

SUCESION DE FELIX RAUL PRADO POLO T/C/C FELIX R PRADO POLO T/C/C FELIZ PRADO POLO Y OTROS

Demandado( a) Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV04958 (SALON 604 CIVIL). Sobre: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA / PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE FELIX RAUL PRADO POLO T/C/C FELIX R PRADO POLO T/C/C FELIX PRADO POLO

Demandado( a) Caso Núm.: PO2022CV00964 (SALON 1 SALA SUPERIOR).

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA (Nombre de las partes que se POR EDICTO. le notifican la sentencia por ALAIN MANUEL TORRES RUANO edicto) LCDO.TORRES@YAHOO.COM EL SECRETARIO(A) que susTERESA PACHECO CAMACHO cribe le notifica a usted que el TERESA@PACHECO17 DE ENERO DE 2024, este CAMACHOLAWFIRM.COM A: RAMON CHARON Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Parcial o Resolución SANTIAGO P/C LCDA. Sentencia en este caso, que ha sido debiTERESA PACHECO damente registrada y archivada CAMACHO en autos donde podrá usted (Nombre de las partes que se le enterarse detalladamente de notifican la sentencia por edicto) los términos de la misma. Esta EL SECRETARIO(A) que susnotificación se publicará una cribe le notifica a usted que el sola vez en un periódico de 10 DE ENERO DE 2024, este circulación general en la Isla Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, de Puerto Rico, dentro de los Sentencia Parcial o Resolución 10 días siguientes a su notificaen este caso, que ha sido debición. Y, siendo o representando damente registrada y archivada usted una parte en el procedien autos donde podrá usted enmiento sujeta a los términos terarse detalladamente de los de la Sentencia, Sentencia términos de la misma. Esta noParcial o Resolución, de la cual tificación se publicará una sola puede establecerse recurso de vez en un periódico de circularevisión o apelación dentro del ción general en la Isla de Puertérmino de 30 días contados a to Rico, dentro de los 10 días partir de la publicación por edicsiguientes a su notificación. Y, to de esta notificación, dirijo a siendo o representando usted usted esta notificación que se una parte en el procedimiento considerará hecha en la fecha sujeta a los términos de la Sende la publicación de este edictencia, Sentencia Parcial o Reto. Copia de esta notificación solución, de la cual puede estaha sido archivada en los autos blecerse recurso de revisión o de este caso, con fecha de 23 apelación dentro del término de de ENERO de 2024. Notas de 30 días contados a partir de la la Secretaria: SE ENMIENDA publicación por edicto de esta

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TURNER, JOSÉ MANUEL del término de treinta (30) días NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Sistema Unificado de Manejo y do en la demanda o cualquier de la publicación de este edic- SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA- Administración de Casos (SU- otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si STELLA GUZMÁN; MAC), al cual puede acceder el tribunal en el ejercicio de su to, se le anotará la rebeldía en CAO ILEANA MERCEDES utilizando la siguiente direc- sana discreción, lo entiende su contra y se dictará sentencia NILKA RIVERA TURNER STELLA, POR en su contra, conforme se soción electrónica: https://unired. procedente. El sistema SUMAC BAJANDAS ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se notificará copia a los abogados SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE licita en la demanda, sin más Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE EDGAR citársele ni oírsele. Expido bajo SUCESION DE RAMONA represente por derecho propio, de la parte demandante, Lcdo. en cuyo caso deberá presentar Edwin Serrano Peña cuyas diSTELLA PÉREZ; CECILIA mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 11 MENDOZA GARCIA su alegación responsiva en la recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 de enero de 2024. GRISELDA MILAGROS STELLA LEGAL NOTICE COMPUESTA POR: secretaría del tribunal. Si usted San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SEPÉREZ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO CRETARIA GENERAL. MARÍA ADALBERTO MENDOZA deja de presentar su alegación 8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 Parte Demandada DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCOLÓN RIVERA, SECRETAGARCÍA, LA SUCN. DE responsiva dentro del referido a la dirección edwin.serrano@ A: NELLIDA S. Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV12035. término, el tribunal podrá dic- orf-law.com y a la dirección NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA RIA AUXILIAR. JOSÉ LUIS RIVERA RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; tar sentencia en rebeldía en su notificaciones@orf-law.com.

Demandado( a) CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN MENDOZA, COMPUESTA EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LEGAL NOTICE NELLIDA SANTIAGO contra y conceder el remedio EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV10557 EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICPOR KAREN RIVERA solicitado en la demanda, o y el sello del Tribunal, en BaRODRÍGUEZ. (SALON 504 CIVIL). Sobre: SAN JUAN. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE BAJANDAS, ALICIA cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en yamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día CONDOMINIO BAHIA CANCELACION O RESTITU- Por la presente se le emplaza AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUel ejercicio de su sana discre- 13 de noviembre de 2023. En CION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIA- y se le notifica que se ha preMENDOZA LARRUZ, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA PROPERTIES LLC Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 13 DO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN- sentado en la Secretaría de DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BA- NORIS MENDOZA REYES, ción, lo entiende procedente.

Demandante v.

Lcda. Sary Magdalena Brea Falcón de noviembre de 2023. LCDA. este Tribunal la Demanda del DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LI- YAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE TENCIA POR EDICTO. ZENAIDA MENDOZA SUCESION DE JUANA Colegiado 19,780, RUA 19,700 MIGUEL A MAZA PEREZ LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, caso de epígrafe solicitando el BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO BAYAMÓN Jardines de Humacao A23, REYES, JORGE ENRIQUE MMAZA@MAZA.NET RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ SECRETARIA. ELIZABETH Divorcio por Ruptura Irrepara- RICO. MARISOL Humacao PR 00791 SÁNCHEZ MENDOZA, A: EDGAR MANUEL A: FULANO DE TAL Y OTROS OLIVERAS PÉREZ, SECREble. Usted deberá presentar su Tel. 787-407-5832 BORRERO GARCIA NESTOR J. SÁNCHEZ Demandado( a) TARIA AUXILIAR. alegación responsiva a través STELLA-TURNER, T/C/C COMO POSIBLES 787-719-5585 Demandante V. Fax.: 787-852-4605 Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV03132 del Sistema Unificado de Ma- EDGAR STELLA TURNER MENDOZA, ELADIO TENEDORES DEL OSCAR GUZMAN RIVERA LEGAL NOTICE lcda.breafalcon@yahoo.com (SALON 901 CIVIL). Sobre: RAFAEL RIVERA PAGARE EXTRAVIADO nejo y Administración de Casos T/C/C EDGAR STELLA; Se expidió bajo mi firma y sello ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Y OTROS COBRO DE DINERO - ORDI(SUMAC), al cual puede acceMENDOZA, WALLACE de este Honorable Tribunal, en EILEEN MILAGROS SUTANA DE TAL COMO der utilizando la siguiente direcDemandado(a) NARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBURIVERA TORRES, IVÁN Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 12 de NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA STELLA TURNER; MYRA POSIBLES TENEDORES ción electrónica: https://unired.

Caso Núm.: BY2023RF01600.

SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. enero de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX SALA DE CAROLINA MENDOZA RÍOS DEL PAGARE ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se ELAINE STELLA TURNER, (FAMILIA Y MENORES - SALA A: SUCESION DE JUAN VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEDemandados DE BAYAMÓN SALÓN 4003). represente por derecho propio, T/C/C MYRA STELLAEXTRAVIADO ISLAND PORTFOLIO RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ Sobre: CUSTODIA - MONO- Civil Núm.: HU2024CV00022. YLA PÉREZ FIGUEROA, SUB(Nombre de las partes que se le en cuyo caso deberá presentar TURNER T/C/C MYRA SERVICES, LLC. COMO Y OTROS PARENTAL O COMPARTIDA. Sobre: SENTENCIA DECLA- SECRETARIA. notifican la sentencia por edicto) su alegación responsiva en la (Nombre de las partes que se le STELLA; JOSÉ MANUEL NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN- RATORIA (REGLA 59 DE AGENTE GESTOR DE EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- secretaría del tribunal y notinotifican la sentencia por edicto) LEGAL NOTICE STELLA GUZMÁN, ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC. PROCEDIMIENTO CIVIL). EMCIA POR EDICTO. cribe le notifica a usted que el ficando copia de la misma al: EL SECRETARIO(A) que susMARGARITA GÓMEZ VAZQUEZ, Demandante Vs. PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO 11 DE ENERO DE 2024, este LCDO. HECTO J. CARDONA TODOS COMO MIEMBRO cribe le notifica a usted que el LICMARGARITAGOMEZ@GMAIL. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUTribunal ha dictado Sentencia, MUÑIZ - 100 CALLE EMILIO SUCESIÓN DEL EDGAR ALFREDO L 19 DE ENERO DE 2024, este COM. RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Sentencia Parcial o Resolución GONZALEZ STE 1 - ISABELA, PAGAN PEREZ STELLA PÉREZ; E Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, A: OSCAR GUZMAN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL SALA DE BAYAMÓN en este caso, que ha sido debi- PR 00662 - TELEFONO: (787) Demandado Sentencia Parcial o Resolución ILEANA MERCEDES RIVERA, LAYZA MARIE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO damente registrada y archivada 410-9185, CORREO ELECISLAND PORTFOLIO Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01617. en este caso, que ha sido debiTURNER STELLA T/C/C DE PUERTO RICO, SS. en autos donde podrá usted TRONICO: RIVERA VAZQUEZ. lcdo_cardona@ SERVICES, LLC. COMO Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO damente registrada y archivada ILEANA MERCEDES (Nombre de las partes que se le enterarse detalladamente de yahoo.com. Se apercibe y adA: ADALBERTO en autos donde podrá usted AGENTE GESTOR DE DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENnotifican la sentencia por edicto) los términos de la misma. Esta vierte a usted como persona TURNER MOLINA, T/C/C MENDOZA GARCÍA; LA ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC. TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS enterarse detalladamente de EL SECRETARIO(A) que susnotificación se publicará una conocida que puede ser tene- ILEANA STELA-TURNER, UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL los términos de la misma. Esta SUCN. DE JOSÉ LUIS Demandante Vs. sola vez en un periódico de dor o estar interesada en el Di- T/C/C ILIANA MERCEDES cribe le notifica a usted que PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTAnotificación se publicará una RIVERA MENDOZA, el 19 de enero de 2024, este ALEXIS ARROYO REYES DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIcirculación general en la Isla vorcio por Ruptura Irreparable, sola vez en un periódico de TURNER-STELLA, POR Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Demandado COMPUESTA POR de Puerto Rico, dentro de los de no contestar la Demanda, BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO circulación general en la Isla Civil Núm.: BY2023CV04020.

10 días siguientes a su notifica- dentro de los próximos treinta SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE Sentencia Parcial o Resolución KAREN RIVERA RICO, SS. de Puerto Rico, dentro de los en este caso, que ha sido debiSalón: 401.

Sobre: COBRO LA SUCESIÓN EDGAR ción. Y, siendo o representando (30) días a partir de la publiBAJANDAS CON 10 días siguientes a su notificaA: ALFREDO L damente registrada y archivada DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENusted una parte en el procedi- cación de este emplazamiento STELLA PÉREZ Y SU DIRECCIÓN: 13230 W DE ción. Y, siendo o representando PAGÁN PÉREZ TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS miento sujeta a los términos por edicto que será publicado EXTINTA SOCIEDAD DE en autos donde podrá usted usted una parte en el procediKODIAK DR., SUN CITY enterarse detalladamente de DE AMÉRICA, EL URB MOUNTAIN VIEW B12 de la Sentencia, Sentencia una sola vez en un periódico de BIENES GANANCIALES. los términos de la misma. Esta WEST, ARIZONA, E.U.A. UNIDOS miento sujeta a los términos PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA- CALLE 13 CAROLINA, P.R. Parcial o Resolución, de la cual circulación diaria general en la Quedan emplazados y notificade la Sentencia, Sentencia notificación se publicará una DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI85376 Y DIRECCIÓN puede establecerse recurso de Isla de Puerto Rico, se le anota00987-8082. dos de que en este Tribunal se Parcial o Resolución, de la cual sola vez en un periódico de BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO POR LA PRESENTE se le revisión o apelación dentro del rá la rebeldía y se dictará SenPOSTAL PO BOX 5236 ha radicado una demanda en puede establecerse recurso circulación general en la Isla RICO, SS. término de 30 días contados a tencia, concediendo el remedio emplaza por la deuda reclaSUN CITY WEST, AZ su contra sobre cobro de dinero de revisión o apelación dentro de Puerto Rico, dentro de los partir de la publicación por edic- solicitado en la Demanda sin A: ALEXIS ARROYO mada de $4,279.33 y requiere y ejecución de hipoteca. Se le del término de 30 días conta85376; ALICIA MENDOZA 10 días siguientes a su notificato de esta notificación, dirijo a más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO REYES - SANTA JUANITA para que conteste la demanda notifica para que comparezdos a partir de la publicación LARRUZ, NORIS ción.

Y, siendo o representando usted esta notificación que se BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del dentro de los treinta (30) días ENCIMA SUR EM-31 ca ante el Tribunal dentro del por edicto de esta notificación, MENDOZA REYES, usted una parte en el procediconsiderará hecha en la fecha Tribunal, hoy día 18 de enetérmino de treinta (30) días a dirijo a usted esta notificación BAYAMÓN, P.R. 00956. siguientes a la publicación de miento sujeta a los términos ZENAIDA MENDOZA de la publicación de este edic- ro del 2024. SARAHÍ REYES este Edicto. Usted deberá prepartir de la publicación de este que se considerará hecha en la POR LA PRESENTE se le de la Sentencia, Sentencia REYES JORGE ENRIQUE to. Copia de esta notificación PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA sentar su alegación responsiva edicto y exponer lo que a sus fecha de la publicación de este emplaza por la deuda reclaParcial o Resolución, de la cual ha sido archivada en los autos VALENTÍN RAMÍREZ, SUBa través del Sistema Unificado SÁNCHEZ MENDOZA, derechos convenga, en el preedicto. Copia de esta notificamada de $4,736.58 y requiere puede establecerse recurso de de este caso, con fecha de 16 SECRETARIA. de Manejo y Administración sente caso. Se le notifica que ción ha sido archivada en los NESTOR J. SÁNCHEZ para que conteste la demanda revisión o apelación dentro del de ENERO de 2024. En SAN de Casos (SUMAC), la cual deberá presentar su alegación autos de este caso, con fecha dentro de los treinta (30) días MENDOZA, ELADIO término de 30 días contados a LEGAL NOTICE JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 16 de puede acceder utilizando la sia través del Sistema Unificado de 19 de ENERO de 2024. En siguientes a la publicación de partir de la publicación por edicRAFAEL RIVERA ENERO de 2024. GRISELDA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO guiente dirección electrónica: de Manejo y Administración de SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 19 este Edicto.

Usted deberá preto de esta notificación, dirijo a MENDOZA, WALLACE RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Se- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUhttps://unired.ramajudicial.pr, Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede de ENERO de 2024. GRISELsentar su alegación responsiva usted esta notificación que se cretaria. f/ELSA CANDELARIO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA RIVERA TORRES, IVÁN a través del Sistema Unificado salvo que se represente por acceder utilizando la siguiente DA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, considerará hecha en la fecha CABRERA, Secretario(a) Auxi- CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN derecho propio, en cuyo caso MENDOZA RÍOS. dirección electrónica: https.// Secretaria. f/VIRGEN Y DEL de Manejo y Administración de la publicación de este edic-

PARA AÑADIR LA SUCESION DE LA CUAL SON MIEMBROS. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 23 de ENERO de 2024.

GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria. f/RAQUEL DIAZ LOPEZ , Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

VALLE DIAZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE DESARROLLO URBANO Y VIVIENDA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA T/C/C SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Y OTROS

Demandada Civil Núm.: AG2024RF00009.

Sobre: DIVORCIO RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

liar del Tribunal.

JUAN SALA SUPERIOR

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADILLA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN GREGORIO JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SORIANO AMADOR SAN JUAN. Demandante Vs. GABRIEL REXACH

CARRASQUILLO Demandante v.

NELLIDA S. RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C NELLIDA

SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ

CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DEL EDGAR STELLA PÉREZ, COMPUESTA POR EDGAR MANUEL STELLA-TURNER, EILEEN MILAGROS STELLA TURNER, MYRA ELAINE STELLA

unired.poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Grace M. Figueroa Irizarry; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; gracefigueroalawoffice@gmail. com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica a usted, que se ha radicado en esta secretaría la Demanda de epígrafe. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal, su alegación responsiva a la DEMANDA dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento.

LEGAL NOTICE Usted deberá presentar su aleESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO gación responsiva dentro del DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUreferido término, a través del to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 19 de enero de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 19 de enero de 2024. Laurai. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Normary A. Álamo Arriaga, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicita-

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

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Edwin Serrano Peña cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección edwin.serrano@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de noviembre de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 15 de noviembre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Solar marcado con el número cuatro en el Plano de Inscripción sito en el Barrio Machuchal de Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, con LEGAL NOTICE cabida superficial cuadrado de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO cuatrocientos sesenta y dos DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- con treinta y cinco centímetros, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA en lindes por el NORTE, en treSALA SUPERIOR DE MAYA- ce metros con franja de terreno dedicada a uso público; por el GÜEZ SUR, en trece metros y treinta KEYLINK LLC y dos centímetros con David Parte Demandante Vs. García; al ESTE, en treinta y SUCESIÓN DE cuatro metros once centímetros CRISELIA ALICEA con el solar cinco en el Plano ALMODOVAR T/C/C de inscripción; y por el OESTE, CRISELIA ALICEA T/C/C en treinta y siete metros un GRISCEL ALMODOVAR centímetro con el solar número tres en el Plano de Inscripción.

T/C/C GRISELIA ALICEA ALMODOVAR Según la inscripción 2da, enclava una casa de hormigón y COMPUESTA POR: bloques que mide 40 pies con FULANO Y SUTANO DE 2 pulgadas de largo por 26 pies TAL COMO POSIBLES con 4 pulgadas, con un valor de $8,650.00, mediante escriHEREDEROS DE LA SUCESIÓN; ESTADOS tura número 118, otorgada en UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA San Germán, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de junio de 1970, ante Parte Demandada el notario Pedro Vélez Vargas, Civil Núm.: SG2023CV00272. inscrito al folio 111 del tomo 87 Salón Núm.: (207). Sobre: EJEde Sabana Grande, inscripción CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN 2da. Consta inscrita al folio 110 REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. del tomo 87 de Sabana GranESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉde, Finca #5,571, Registro de RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESSección de San Germán. La TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE propiedad objeto de ejecución P.R., SS. está localizada en la siguiente A: SUCESIÓN DE dirección: Urbanización SanCRISELIA ALICEA ta María, #144 Calle Pedro ALMODOVAR T/C/C D. Acosta, Sabana Grande, CRISELIA ALICEA T/C/C Puerto Rico 00637. Según fiGRISCEL ALMODOVAR gura en el Estudio de título, la propiedad objeto de ejecución T/C/C GRISELIA está gravada al siguiente GraALICEA ALMODOVAR vamen posterior a la inscripción COMPUESTA POR: del crédito ejecutante: Hipoteca FULANO Y SUTANO DE Revertida en garantía de un paTAL COMO POSIBLES garé a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESIÓN; ESTADOS a su orden, por la suma principal de $157,500.00, con intereUNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; ses al 5.06% anual, vencedero SECRETARIO DE el día 11 de febrero de 2075, LA VIVIENDA Y constituida mediante la escriDESARROLLO URBANO, tura número 482, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día O A SU ORDEN: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: 14 de diciembre de 2011, ante el notario Neftalí García SánEl Alguacil que suscribe, cerchez, e inscrita al folio 121 del tifica y hace constar que en tomo 342 de Sabana Grande, cumplimiento de Mandamienfinca número 5,571, inscripción to de Ejecución de Sentencia 7ma. Se les notifica a los acreeque me ha sido dirigido por dores posteriores anteriormenla Secretaría del Tribunal de te identificados para que puePrimera Instancia, Sala Supedan concurrir a la subasta si rior de Mayagüez, procederé les convenga o satisfacer antes a vender en pública subasta del remate el importe del crédiy al mejor postor, por separato, de sus intereses, costas y do, de contado y por moneda honorarios de abogados ase-

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gurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 2102015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $157,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #481, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de diciembre de 2011, ante el notario Neftalí García Sánchez y escritura número de 10 de Acta de Subsanación, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de enero de 2012, ante el mismo notario, e inscrita al folio 121 del tomo 342 de Sabana Grande, finca número 5,571, inscripción 6ta. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 22 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $157,500.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 29 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $105,000.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $78,750.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $76,175.51, con intereses a 5.06% anual, desde que dichas sumas fueron desembolsadas con el primer desembolso el 19 de diciembre de 2011, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma equivalente a $15,750.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y

todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables.

Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Se informa que la propiedad objeto de ejecución se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Expedido en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 28 de diciembre de 2023. JOSÉ A. LORENTE PLAZA, ALGUACIL SUPERVISOR CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #092.

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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: 787843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré que consta en el testimonio número doscientos veintiséis (226) de la escritura número doscientos veintiséis (226) de la escritura número doscientos sesenta y nueve (269), otorgada en Humacao, Puerto Rico, el día veintidós (22) de octubre de dos mil dos (2002), se constituyó hipoteca en garantía de pagaré suscrito ante la notario público Elba I. Cruz Rodríguez, a favor de Associates International Holdings Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de cuarenta y cinco mil cuatrocientos cuarenta y nueve dólares con noventa y nueve centavos ($45,449.99), con intereses al trece punto cero siete por ciento (13.07%), anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de noviembre de dos mil veintidós (2022) y cuya obligación hipotecaria se encuentra inscrita al folio doscientos cincuenta y cuatro (254) del tomo noventa y cuatro (94) de Maunabo, finca número siete mil cuatro cientos cuarenta y cuatro (7,444). Inscripción cuarta (4ta). Comparecen los titulares y María Mercedes Vázquez Danois y su esposo Tomás Soto Alicea, como deudores hipotecarios. Que grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número cuatrocientos ochenta y seis (486), en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Mariani del Barrio Emajagua del término municipal de Maunabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil doscientos trece punto cero cero (1213.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número cuatrocientos setenta y nueve

(479) de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la calle de la comunidad; por el OESTE, con parcela número cuatrocientos sesenta (460) y por el ESTE, con la calle de la comunidad. Inscrita al folio doscientos cincuenta y dos (252) del tomo noventa y cuatro (94) de Maunabo, finca número siete mil cuatro cientos cuarenta y cuatro (7,444). Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama. 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 Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 12 de de enero de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA DE JESÚS GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Silent no more, women’s pros make mental health a priority

By RORY SMITH

T

he one thing she could not do, Sinead Farrelly knew, was talk. Nobody had ever told her that explicitly, of course. It was just something she understood. Soccer, her first time around, operated under what she can now call a “culture of silence.”

The perceived delicacy of the sport meant that principle applied publicly almost as a matter of policy. Only a little more than a decade ago, Farrelly and her peers playing in professional leagues — first the Women’s Professional Soccer league and then, after its dissolution, the incipient National Women’s Soccer League — did so keenly aware of their own mortality.

“You want fans to come so the league can survive,” Farrelly said. “You can’t be sharing how bad it is or what the conditions are really like. You have to put on a show for the development of sport. You owe it to yourself, your teammates, future generations.” It felt, to her, like “living a double life.”

Something darker held the omertà in place privately, among the players themselves. Years later, Farrelly would feel strong enough to tell the world what she had endured: years of psychological torment and allegations of coercive sex at the hands of the coach to whom she felt she owed her career.

Her voice would bring about substantive change. The coach, Paul Riley, would receive a lifetime ban; her account would act as a prompt for the Yates Report, with its damning findings revealing a “league in which abuse and misconduct — verbal and emotional abuse and sexual misconduct — had become systemic.”

At the time the abuse was happening, though, Farrelly did not feel that she could tell anyone what she was going through, not even her teammates. Perhaps part of that, she said, can be explained by her nature. Now, looking back, she is frank and open and disarmingly, breezily honest. Back then, she said, she was not “comfortable with being vulnerable.”

But part of it, too, was a shared sense that saying something brings it into the world, gives it a shape and a form. “Opening those gates would have been too much,” she said, not just for her, but for her teammates as well.

“You kind of operate on autopilot. You do not look at how dark it is. You kind of know that once you see something, you can’t unsee it.”

It took a car accident for Farrelly to come to terms with her experiences. Recovering from her injuries required weeks “in a dark room, alone with myself,” she said. In those

Sinead Farrelly at the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia, far from her darkest days.

Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters circumstances, there is only so much you can do to distract yourself. It speaks volumes that, now, she describes herself as “grateful” for the crash, which is probably the best gauge of the severity of what she had endured.

It allowed her to identify a solution, a way to rebuild herself, and her life. She left soccer entirely. She did not kick a ball. She did not think about it. For seven years, she put that part of herself away.

Elite soccer has an uneven, uneasy relationship with mental health. It is, as the United States defender Naomi Girma put it, extremely good at “calls to action.” The sport knows that there are performance benefits to players’ being able to cope with the pressures under which they are operating. A generous interpretation would have it that soccer understands on some level that the same logic probably applies outside the tightly guarded boundaries of its universe.

It is less good at the action itself, the walking of the walk. The problem is not so much structural as essential. Elite sport is unapologetically cutthroat, inherently Darwinian.

And so, even as clubs have in recent years recognized the obvious benefits of sports psychology, they have found another problem.

Installing a psychologist at a training ground is one thing; convincing the players that entering that office is not a way of signaling to your teammates and your coach that you are struggling is quite another.

Girma’s career thus far has been a rapid one — the top pick in the NWSL draft in 2022, she was the NWSL rookie of the year last season and U.S. Soccer’s women’s player of the

year in 2023 — but it is still a relatively young one: Girma has only been a professional for two years.

Still, though, she has encountered the idea that a capacity to tolerate pressure can be characterized as “grit,” a quality a player needs as much as pace or vision. “It is starting to shift a little,” she said. “Plenty of players work with sports psychologists. It’s normalized to talk, and to get help.”

She attributes that in part to the willingness of clubs to pursue anything that looks even remotely like a marginal gain — her NWSL team, the San Diego Wave, employs a “wellness coach” — but believes the example set by athletes like Simone Biles is possibly even more influential.

“To see someone like her, the best gymnast in the world, talking about her mental health shows that it doesn’t mean you can’t perform,” Girma said.

The change, though, has been piecemeal, and delicate. Driven by the loss of one of her closest friends — Katie Meyer, a teammate at Stanford — to suicide in 2022, Girma has long believed a different approach was needed: not just something more systemic, but something more organic. She concluded it had to come from the players.

“Teams create families,” she said. “You want people to feel as though they have a support system. Not necessarily from the whole group, but a couple of players within it who you can feel you can turn to when you need it.”

Her answer will take shape this weekend, in a quiet hotel overlooking San Diego Bay. Girma, Farrelly and Becky Sauerbrunn, the longtime U.S. women’s team captain, will be among 20 players — including at least one from all 14 NWSL clubs — and a number of grassroots organizations to attend Create the Space, a mental health retreat organized by Common Goal.

Given that most, if not all, of the guests are less than a week away from reporting for preseason training, it should not be a surprise that a couple of practice sessions have been scheduled.

The emphasis, though, will be on a different type of training. There will be classes, designed in conjunction with E-Motion, a community-focused counseling organization, on learning how to cope with loss, injury and retirement. The participants will

be taught techniques drawn from movement therapy and somatic yoga.

“We did not want to offer just one prescribed way of doing things,” said Lilli BarrettO’Keefe, the executive director at Common Goal USA. “It was about showing the players various different ways and seeing what works for them.”

In the summer of 2022, Farrelly decided to go back to the game. She was not entirely sure she felt ready. She was afraid of any number of things: that she might not be good enough, that she might let herself down, that she might let other people down. “I’m comfortable being small,” she said. “There’s a part of my brain that is there to protect me from being hurt.”

She knew, though, that at 33 she would not have another chance, and so she took the risk. She started training with Gotham FC. She impressed enough to be given a contract.

Within a year, she would be playing in her first World Cup. It has not been as easy as that timeline makes it sound. Farrelly has never regretted her decision to return to soccer, she said, but there were times when she was “crying every day,” when she was not sure if she could be what she once was, when the highs and the lows threatened to “overwhelm her.”

This time, though, the culture had shifted.

At Gotham, she could speak. Not just to her psychologist and her somatic therapist, but to other players. She could speak to her teammates about the fact she was using a psychologist. “I had to open up and be vulnerable,” she said. “At times, that meant having a vulnerability hangover, but I’m grateful for it.”

Silence had forced her from the game; filling it helped her find her way back. She now believes, ardently, in sharing that with her peers and her successors. “We live in a society that teaches us that we are in competition with each other, that for one to succeed, someone else has to fail,” she said. “But we are starting to see what we can do if we lift each other up, instead.

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January 26-28, 2024

A message from the Premier League’s rules-free future

By RORY SMITH

I

n the summer of 2025, after Manchester City’s acquittal via appeal on 115 charges of breaching the Premier League’s financial regulations, the league’s clubs voted to abolish their discredited Profit and Sustainability Rules, the set of guidelines </ em><em>created years earlier in the failed hope they might prevent teams from spending themselves — and everyone else — into ruin</em><em>.</em> The decision brought an end to more than a year of increasingly bitter infighting among the league’s members, and even the final vote was hardly unanimous. Six teams lobbied furiously to retain the cost controls, though that number did not include City or Chelsea, two members of the supposed “elite” whose status was effectively protected by the rules.</em> The outcome was attributed largely to public pressure. Punishments applied in previous years to Everton and Nottingham Forest for more minor breaches had been deemed as unjustly “punishing the fans,” despite the fact that the same could be said for the existence of the red card.</em> And while every major sports league in the world has some sort of cost-control mechanism — because sports are more fun when they act as a search for excellence rather than merely a test of wealth — nobody was ever really prepared to make that case to the public or volunteer what a world without regulation would look like.</em> And so the discourse was dominated by those whose interests lay in seeing the regulations abandoned, most of whom had an entirely unrelated connection to the success of Newcastle United and/or Manchester City. The idea that restricting spending was nothing but a “curb on ambition” took root, and the clubs moved with the prevailing winds. A year later, its hand forced, UEFA followed suit, scrapping its own Financial Fair Play regulations.</em> The following is a review of the 2031-32 Premier League season, as written by Contentify, the AI chatbot that replaced all human journalists in 2029.</em> Enzo Fernández has had no shortage of medals in his glittering career. He won the AB In-Bev World Cup, brought to you

by FIFA, before he turned 22. He led Argentina to its second global triumph as captain in 2030. He has lifted the Copa América, the Champions League trophy and three FA Cups. Only the Premier League championship was missing.

Under a INSERT ADJECTIVE DEPEND-

ING ON PUBLICATION blue sky at the Todd Boehly Arena on Sunday, he finally ended his wait. Nine years and 372 games after joining Chelsea, the 31-year-old Fernández celebrated his last appearance for the club by holding aloft the most coveted trophy in world soccer.

It was not an afternoon of particular tension. From the moment Gavi passed with his right foot to allow Kendry Páez to score the first of Chelsea’s six goals against West Ham in the third minute, it was obvious that coach Thiago Silva’s team would not fall at the last hurdle. After so many near misses, a first championship for 15 years was heading to west London.

The two teams still capable of overhauling Chelsea, Manchester City and Newcastle United, both won, too — City beating relegated Aston Villa, 7-0, at the Etihad Stadium, while Newcastle overcame Tottenham, 5-1, at Aramco St. James’ Park — but it was not enough. Chelsea finished with 105 points, two clear of its rivals.

The day brought to a close another thrilling title race in The Best League In The World (Trademark). All three contenders went unbeaten at home. All three scored more than 100 goals across the course of the season, with Manchester City’s Erling Haaland — the league’s career scoring leader — and Chelsea’s Evan Ferguson scoring 47 apiece.

Defense gave Chelsea the edge. Silva’s team conceded only 12 goals across its expanded 39-game schedule, while City, seeking its 14th championship, allowed just 17.

Dan Burn, granted an unexpected second season as Newcastle manager, will know where his team will have to improve next year if it is to regain the championship it last

won in 2029.

For City, of course, the season is far from over. For the fifth time in six seasons, the Champions League final will be an allEnglish affair, with coach Ilkay Gundogan’s team hoping that picking up a fourth European crown against Manchester United in the competition’s penultimate edition in Riyadh next week will provide a crumb of comfort.

On social media, some fans have speculated that Gundogan needs to win that game to save his job after a staggering three years in the role. Bernardo Silva — currently the coach of Palermo, the Italian champion and another member of City Football Group — is favorite to replace him, according to the polling and betting arm of TikTok. United will go into that game encouraged by its fourth-place finish in The Best League In The World (Trademark), ahead of both Liverpool and Arsenal, as well as its prizes for having the largest social media following and conducting the Crypto. com Biggest Transfer of the Season. Adding the Champions League title would, according to the United owner, the Artist Formerly Known As Elon Musk, amount to the “Digital Treble.”

Arsenal and Liverpool, on the other hand, face uncertain futures. Both clubs have been weighed down by spiraling salary costs, the consequence of attempting to keep pace with the clubs known as the league’s “Four Horsemen.”

Liverpool, which has never recovered from its dispiriting 2026 campaign — when four of its best players were sold to its title rival, Newcastle, in January — will be hoping that a prospective takeover by the sovereign wealth fund of Turkmenistan can clear its debts.

“We await the glorious arrival of His Excellency Serdar Berdymukhammedov,” a Liverpool spokesman said. “Though this transaction is being conducted in a personal capacity and has no connection to the glorious nation of Turkmenistan, the motherland of neutrality.”

Arsenal’s mounting debts now stand at 330 million pounds, about $820 million, and the club’s owner, DeadHand Capital, has instructed the league’s preferred investment bank, the Raine Group, to find a pliant dictator interested in restoring its fortunes. Tottenham, having appointed José Mourinho as its manager for the third time, finished seventh.

With the league’s streaming revenues flatlining, the financial troubles of several of the country’s historic giants are a reminder of how delicate success in soccer can be. All three relegated clubs — Aston Villa, Leices-

ter City and Southampton — were assessed points deductions after filing for bankruptcy, the consequence of years of excessive spending in the transfer market.

In the Championship, England’s second tier, they will encounter a number of clubs who have met the same fate. Everton, promoted from League One, is on its way back after filing for bankruptcy in 2028. Leeds United has yet to recover from the three-year period in which it was bought and sold four times, including to one owner who was later proven to have been generated by artificial intelligence.

Even those clubs that have survived the financial uncertainty that has engulfed the Premier League are not likely to remember this season fondly. Brighton — beaten by an aggregate of 16 goals in its two encounters with Newcastle — now faces the prospect of losing both of its teenage attacking stars to the Saudi-owned giant.

At the league’s annual meeting — where the expected debate will center on whether to allow Value At Risk to use “Inception-style tactics” to determine which players intend to commit fouls — a number of executives are expected to raise the issue of competitive balance. Once again, this season brought a record number of victories by five goals or more, and for a sixth straight year, at least one team broke the 100-point barrier.

Other clubs are expected to call for limits on squad sizes, after Chelsea used 42 players over the course of the season, on the basis that the financial might of a handful of teams — largely backed by nation states or private equity firms — runs the risk of affecting the league’s popularity.

That concern has been amplified by the announcement last week that, starting in 2034, the leading teams of Italy, Spain, France and Portugal will merge to form a socalled Mediterranean League, with the aim of eventually rivaling the Premier League for both streaming rights and commercial revenue. Despite UEFA’s objections, the 18 clubs involved in the project claimed the decision was “existential.”

Others, in the Premier League, are prepared to go further still. The untrammeled wealth at the game’s summit, they say, has caused a pernicious inflationary effect everywhere else: mid-table teams stretching their budgets to compete and a rash of lower league clubs being driven into insolvency. It has been reported by The Independent, a Discord channel, that some executives, in an effort to tame English soccer’s age of abandon, are preparing to demand the introduction of cost controls.

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HOROSCOPE 30 Aries

(Mar 21-April 20)

Work of all kinds gets done a lot faster, Aries, as friends or family members join in assisting you in getting it out of the way. You’ve made this possible because your intellect has joined with your emotions in strengthening your communication with others.

The old saying, “You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar” is very true, and you’ll learn all about it today! After the tasks are complete, throw an impromptu party!

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Love blossoms today as communication with your beloved is enhanced by an increased understanding on both your parts, Taurus. You feel more at ease in each other’s presence, and you project a united front in the company of others. At some point, both of you will probably go out with a group of friends.

Expect some exciting and fascinating discussions with the others, which you’ll probably continue once you’re alone together. Have fun!

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

A number of visitors might come to your house today, Gemini, perhaps to discuss matters of interest to all of you. Some intense disagreements could arise, but you’ll be able to keep it all together. An intellect enhanced by intuition enables you to understand and explain complex ideas, and you’ll also be able to derail misunderstandings before they even happen.

Providing tasty treats could also help smooth ruffled feathers.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

If you’re into computers and the Internet, Cancer, you can expect to spend a lot of time today staring at a screen. You may be doing some writing or web design or animation, but whatever it is, you’ll probably find it noticeably better than what you usually produce. Intellect joins with intuition to produce inspiration and insight. Make the most of it now and you might develop some new and lasting skills!

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

Using computers either to increase your income or manage your money may have seemed like Greek to you, Leo, but today you’ll probably catch on very quickly. Your natural practicality joins with an enhanced intellect and heightened intuition to give you an advantage you don’t usually have. If you concentrate on learning it all today, it’ll probably continue to be useful for you for a long time. Go to it!

Virgo

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

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Intellect and feelings are totally joined today, Virgo, especially when dealing with friends. Your basic understanding of others is also enhanced by a keener sense of intuition. You might become interested in a cause of some kind, perhaps metaphysical, social, ecological, or humanitarian in nature. There could well be more than one that you find appealing right now. Use your expanded mental and emotional capabilities to discern which are best for you.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

A focused and enhanced practical turn of mind, strengthened by intuition, may be of great help to you today when considering career matters, Libra. A change is in the wind and you might want to give considerable thought to different options that may be opening up to you. Don’t think you have to rush into making a decision, however. It might be a good idea to let different possibilities simmer in your subconscious for a day or so.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

You probably won’t want to spend much time at home today, Scorpio. Most likely you’ll want to be out and about, perhaps at a large gathering, perhaps just strolling down a city street watching the people go by. Insights and revelations come to you that you’ll probably be able to make more sense of than you usually do, because mind and feelings are joined in a very effective partnership. Write your ideas down! Enjoy your day.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Your imagination is flying high today, Sagittarius. Intellect and intuition join together in a vivid and explosive union where the whole is definitely greater than the sum of the parts. Don’t waste this energy.

Get busy and work on whatever creative projects you’re involved with, or start one if there aren’t any.

This energy may not come around again for a while and you’ll want to make the most of it. Have fun!

Thoughts of travel could be on your mind today, Capricorn, and you might tinker with the idea of actually taking time off and going somewhere that you’ve always wanted to visit. A friend or love partner might want to accompany you. The only problem might be figuring out what place you want to see the most.

This could involve a rather difficult decision. Don’t let it become obsessive. Follow your heart.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Some unusual dreams may come to you tonight, Aquarius, and you might awaken with the idea that they’re very important. The images should be very clear, however, and you probably won’t have much trouble working out what they mean. Intellect joins with intuition today in a rush of insightfulness.

Make the most of this advantage now, and later decide how best to act on your revelations.

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Relationships of all kinds should be thriving at this time, Pisces. Mind and emotions join together in a beneficial partnership, enabling you to increase your understanding of those close to you. Romantic involvements strengthen in particular, as an understanding of your partner’s values, attitudes, and motivations becomes clearer to you. Make your new insights known to everyone around you, preferably in a subtle rather than verbal way. The latter might sound patronizing.

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