By THE STAR STAFF
The Financial Oversight and Management Board is seeking to exclude expert testimony from a municipal bond expert who said the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) trust agreement is unambiguous and bondholders correctly interpreted that their bond payments were secured no matter what.
U.S. Bank National Association as Trustee, the Ad Hoc Group of PREPA Bondholders, Assured Guaranty Corp. and Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp., and Syncora Guarantee Inc. are objecting to the oversight board’s calling for the exclusion of the declaration by municipal bond expert Robert A. Lamb, president of the municipal advisory firm Lamont Financial Services.
In November, Lamb stated in a declaration that bondholders would have interpreted the 1974 trust agreement, the document regulating the utility’s bonds, to state that the bonds are secured. The oversight board is arguing that his statement should be excluded because creditors are saying the trust agreement is unambiguous, which makes the expert testimony unnecessary.
The dispute is the latest event in the proceeding to determine whether PREPA bonds are secured and must be paid in full or whether they are only secured up to the amount available in a sinking fund, which has a balance of about $16 million. PREPA has been in bankruptcy since 2017 to restructure almost $10 billion in debt, of which about $8 billion is bonded debt.
The oversight board is seeking a summary judgment on the dispute over the bonds.
PREPA creditors argued that Lamb’s declaration sets forth the municipal bond market’s understanding of the terms and features of revenue bonds like those governed by the trust agreement in the PREPA case.
The bondholders said Lamb provides ex-
pert opinion testimony as to how the market understands revenue bonds and specific provisions of those bonds like those in the trust agreement.
“Courts regularly consider that type of testimony in the course of interpreting contracts,” they said. “Second, the Oversight Board argues that, because both sides contend that the Trust Agreement is unambiguous (albeit in opposite directions), the Agreement therefore is unambiguous, such that parol evidence is inadmissible. There is zero support for that theory.”
“It is true that defendants contend the Trust Agreement unambiguously gives the Trustee and bondholders a secured right to repayment from PREPA’s revenues; Lamb’s opinions are offered, in the alternative, in the event the Court decides the agreement is ambiguous on any of the relevant points,” they argued.
Regarding the oversight board’s contention that Lamb is unqualified to speak to the market’s understanding of the trust agreement because it was executed in 1974, 10 years before he began working on revenue bonds in 1984, the bondholders noted that experts routinely offer testimony about torts that occurred, items that were created, and documents that were written, before they achieved their degrees or otherwise earned their stripes.
The oversight board asserts, in favor of summary judgment, that, pursuant to the trust agreement, bondholders invested billions of dollars in PREPA without any meaningful security or enforceable means of being repaid.
“Defendants, in turn, have demonstrated that the Oversight Board’s position badly misreads the Trust Agreement,” the bondholders asserted. “For his part, Lamb explains that the oversight board’s proposed reading of the Trust Agreement is directly at odds with longstanding custom and practice in the municipal bond market.”
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced on Tuesday, along with Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés Alicea, that he will file a bill in the Legislative Assembly that will introduce an Adjustment for Cost of Living into the Internal Revenue Code in order to increase tax benefits and counteract the effects of inflation on individuals.
“The COVID-19 pandemic and other global factors have contributed to the increase in the cost of living for Puerto Ricans,” the governor said at a press conference. “We have seen how supply and distribution chains around the world have been affected and this, in turn, has led to an increase in the price of goods and services, along with a reduction in the value of money. With the Cost of Living Adjustment we seek to give relief to taxpayers, by reducing or eliminating the indirect increase in income taxes caused by that inflation.”
Pierluisi was also accompanied by the executive directors of the Office of Management and Budget (OGP by its Spanish initials) and Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF), Juan Carlos Blanco and Omar Marrero Díaz, respectively.
The Cost of Living Adjustment in the
bill is proposed both for current tax scales and to increase the maximum limit that can be claimed in certain existing deductions and exemptions. Parés Alicea noted that the measure would increase the line of income based in that an individual would begin to pay taxes on a particular tax scale, from the tax year 2023 onwards.
“This bill also adjusts the limits for deduction of mortgage interest, contributions to individual retirement plans, or IRAs, and contributions to educational accounts,”
Parés Alicea said. “It also increases the personal and dependent exemption, which since 2011 have remained at $3,500 and $2,500, respectively. The Cost of Living Adjustment does not alter tax rates and will only apply to individuals.”
Under the legislation, the Treasury Department must calculate the impact that the Cost of Living Adjustment would have had on the taxpayer, if any, and will send a payment to that taxpayer. Payment will be made on two dates: June 30, 2023 for returns filed on or before April 17, 2023 and Jan. 31, 2024 for returns filed after April 17, 2023, but on or before Oct. 15, 2023.
“This bill seeks to give relief to our people in the wake of inflation, using a mechanism already recognized at the federal level to make adjustments for the cost of living,” the governor said. “We estimate that this will cost about $67 million. AAFAF and OGP will integrate this new rule of law, once approved, in the projections of the Fiscal Plan and the budgets of the Government of Puerto Rico, so we understand that the fiscal impact will be minimal and can be absorbed given the economic progress we are having.”
The bill details that inflation is reflected in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which in June 2022 increased 9.1% over the previous year. The formula for the Cost of Living
Adjustment will be the percentage, if any, by which the CPI of the previous calendar year exceeds the CPI for the calendar year preceding it. Therefore, to determine the Cost of Living Adjustment for the 2023 tax year, the percentage by which the CPI of the year 2022 exceeds the CPI of the year 2021 must be measured.
Meanwhile, for the incentive that will apply only in the tax year 2022, the percentage by which the CPI of the year 2021 exceeds the CPI of the year 2020 will be measured. The Treasury secretary will determine the adjustments to the items each year based on that formula.
In Puerto Rico, the tax lines for individuals have not been revised since 2013. Although a discount was introduced in the normal individual contribution of 5% through Law 257-2018 and 8% through Law 40-2020, the discount does not compensate for the inflation experienced on the island since 2013, the officials noted.
“This measure, for the first time, tempers the tax lines to the impact of inflation that we have faced in the last decade and that is projected to continue for the coming years,” Pierluisi said. “As we have worked for the past two years, we will continue to identify alternatives to continue improving the quality of life of our citizens and provide relief to the pockets of our working class.”
Seeking to alleviate the tax burden on citizens, Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez said Monday that he will be communicating with Speaker of the House of Representatives Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez, as well as the minority leaders of the other delegations so that the measure that enables tax relief in 2023 is one of consensus.
“Giving more money to our people, lowering the tax burden has been one of the efforts we have made for several years,” said Méndez Nuñez, the New Progressive Party minority leader in the House. “The fiscal actions taken, together with the increase in economic activity, allow us to directly
reduce contributions to help mitigate the effects of the historic inflation we are experiencing. This administration bill that we will be filing is an important step toward the tax reform that is so necessary and that is why we want it to be one of consensus among all delegations and that is what we are moving toward.”
“As we did with House Bill 1367, today Law 52-2022, which we filed together with the speaker of the House, we are going to dialogue with him to do it together and include the other delegations,” he added. “This is a measure that our people need. We have the resources to afford that relief. It is worth remembering that no significant contributory justice has been done for citizens since 2010. This bill is necessary because it adjusts the cost of living.”
The former House Speaker will also speak with the Puerto Rican Independence Party Minority Leader Dennis Márquez, as well as Rep. Lisie Burgos of the Dignity Project and Rep. Mariana Nogales Molinelli of theCitizen Victory Movement, in order to file the bill jointly when the Legislature begins a new session on Monday.
The measure amends Puerto Rico’s Internal Revenue Code to include, for the first time in modern history, tax adjustments to alleviate the increase in the cost of living known as COLA (Cost of Living Allowance), as well as changing the limits on mortgage interest deductions and contributions to individual retirement systems and educational accounts. It also increases the deduction for dependents, among other benefits (see story above).
As of Nov. 30, 2022, the central government’s bank accounts have $17 billion, a 2.5% decrease from the balance recorded in the previous month, a report from the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority shows.
The Dec. 29, 2022 report, an unaudited summary of account cash balances for most of the island government and its instrumentalities, showed that government accounts went down by $437 million from some $17.44 billion available on Oct. 31, 2022.
The decrease was the result of a $216 million reduction in the Treasury Single Account (TSA) balance, a $201 million decline in public corporations and legally separated entities, and a $111 million reduction in restricted accounts, or accounts that are impacted by the Title III bankruptcy process. The government’s non-TSA bank accounts went up by $84 million. An $8 million hike was recorded in pension-related accounts.
Among the instrumentalities with restricted accounts under the Title III bankruptcy, the bank account balance of the Puerto
Rico Electric Power Authority decreased to $1.11 billion as of Nov. 30, 2022, from $1.21 billion the prior month. Meanwhile, the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corpora-
tion’s account balance ticked lower to $21.6 million in November 2022, down from $21.7 million in October 2022, the report said. The cash in the Puerto Rico Highways
and Transportation Authority account decreased to $248.8 million as of Nov. 30, 2022 from $259.8 million in the previous month.
Other public corporations whose finances were impacted included the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, whose account balance lowered to $1.13 billion in November from $1.15 billion in October 2022. The University of Puerto Rico’s account balance dropped to $414.7 million in November of last year from $448.6 million in October.
The report also notes that the bank balance for the Health Services Administration sank to $430.6 million in November 2022 from $654.5 million in October.
The report is based on information on 800 or more bank accounts. The Treasury Department now has centralized access to bank account information for most of the government. The report is based on a process of discussion between the Treasury Department and the Financial Oversight and Management Board and its advisers. The Treasury Department has been providing periodic reports to the oversight board since July 2017.
By THE STAR STAFFAlaw passed 15 years ago has given way to Law 154-2010 and Law 52-2022, which saved the withholding of over $1.7 billion annually in government tax collections, officials said earlier this week.
The promoter of the effort for the development of Law 73 of 2008, better known as the “Puerto Rico Development Economic Incentives Act,” Rep. José Aponte Hernández, said “the approval of this law (73-2008) was a long process, where we listened to all sectors of our economy.”
“Today, 15 years later, this law was used by the Treasury secretary as a mechanism to provide a tax platform to foreign corporations operating in Puerto Rico,” the former speaker of the island House of Representatives said. “This highlights the history of that effort and what we achieved at that time.”
“Law 73-2008 was endorsed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury as part of the transition to Law 154,” he added. “About 15 points of the law were used in the new contributory parameters that guarantee the permanence of almost 20 percent of the government budget.”
From the 2008 law, the new Law 52 uses Article
8, Section 5 (Credits), which details that “any exempt business that has a decree granted under this Law or under the laws of above incentives may claim an investment credit equal to Fifty percent (50%) of the special eligible investment made in Puerto Rico.”
It also uses Article 9, Section 6 (Industrial Investment Credit), which states that “Any investor may claim a credit for industrial investment equal to fifty percent (50%) of [his or her] eligible investment made after the approval of this Law, to be taken in two (2) or more terms: the first half of such credit in the year in which the eligible investment is completed and the balance of this appropriation, in the following years.”
In order to guarantee the continuity of health services to the population, island Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López announced Tuesday the extension until Jan. 30 of the validity of all licenses issued by the Office of Regulation and Certification of Health Professionals (ORCPS by its Spanish initials) and the Board of Licensing and Medical Discipline of Puerto Rico (JLDM).
“We want our doctors and health professionals to continue concentrating on providing health services to the public,” Mellado López said. “Therefore, we have extended the term of medical licenses and certifications until January 30, as long as they have started the process on or before January 16.”
The Health secretary noted that Administrative Order No. 557 also provides that all health professionals have until Jan. 16 to submit their application.
Mellado López said health professionals who have not started the recertification process as of the aforementioned date will be considered a late recertification and will be exposing themselves to the fines and sanctions established by the applicable laws and regulations of the examining board that regulates their profession. .
As part of the ORCPS and JLDM licensing process, at the end of November 2022, the online appointment system was integrated through the link mi.turnospr.com.
“Health professionals who need assistance with the services in person can schedule their appointment through the new online system,” Mellado López said, adding that the service hours are offered Monday through Friday between 7 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
“It is easy and simple. By accessing the digital platform, health professionals select
the examining board to which they belong and the service they request,” the Health chief said. “Once they select the date and time, the system will ask them to confirm the appointment and verify that the contact information is correct. The same platform will provide a confirmation number.”
Mellado López added that since Dec. 1, 2022, the face-to-face services of the ORCPS and JLDM are being attended by appointment.
Meanwhile, Dana Miró, executive director of the ORCPS and the JLDM, emphasized to all doctors and health professionals that they have to meet the continuing education requirements every three years before requesting the renewal of their license.
“This new administrative order (OA537) benefits all health professionals licensed or certified by the ORCPS who
met the recertification requirement corresponding to the 2019 Triennium,” she stressed.
As part of the requirements, health professionals have the portal www.orcps. salud.gov.pr where the different unions can process the application for Registration and Recertification of Permanent Licenses and the Verification of Licenses (Good Standing). Also, they can send it via internal mail in a stamped envelope with the completed and signed form, and the valid certifications; Asume certification, Good Conduct, a money order in the name of the Secretary of the Treasury. Likewise, they can send it by mail to PO Box 13969, San Juan, PR 00908-3969 (ORCPS) or to PO Box 10200, San Juan, PR 00908-10200 (Junta).
Health workers can access www. salud.pr.gov/juntasextaminadoras to find
out their license renewal requirements. If support, assistance or service from the ORCPS is needed, they can write to soportejuntasexaminadoras@salud.pr.gov.
The ORCPS receives and processes renewal applications, and maintains a record of all licenses issued and registered by the examining boards of chiropractors, emergency medical technicians, health services administrators, naturopaths, pharmacists, psychologists, embalmers, professional counselors, professional counselors, health educators, rehabilitation counselors, optometrists, sonographers, radiologic technologists and modalities, radiation therapy, respiratory care technicians, medical technologists, speech-language pathology, doctors of naturopathy, nuclear medicine technologists, nutritionists, dietitians, massage therapists, physical therapists and occupational therapists.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California lost a second vote for speaker on Tuesday as his pitched battle for the top job in the House continued, amid a rebellion among hard-right lawmakers that left the post up for grabs and prompted a historic struggle on the floor at the dawn of the new Republican majority.
The mutiny, waged by ultraconservative lawmakers who for weeks have held fast to their vow to oppose McCarthy, dealt a serious blow to the GOP leader and laid bare deep divisions that threaten to make the party’s House majority ungovernable. But it did not end the California Republican’s bid for speaker. He has vowed to continue seeking the post, forcing multiple votes if necessary until he wins.
“We may have a battle on the floor, but the battle is for the conference and the country,” McCarthy said before the voting began, and following a fiery private meeting with Republicans in which he defiantly told his detractors, “I am not going away.”
House precedent dictates that members will continue to take successive votes until someone — McCarthy or a different nominee — secures the majority needed to prevail. But until Tuesday, the House had not failed to elect a speaker on the first roll call vote since 1923, when the election stretched for nine ballots.
On Tuesday, McCarthy lost on the first ballot, prompting a second round of voting in which he also fell short of the votes needed to win. Right-wing Republicans were coalescing behind Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, a founding member of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, as an alternative to McCarthy, whom they derided as being single-mindedly obsessed with winning the job and willing to do whatever was necessary to do so.
“Maybe the right person isn’t someone who hasn’t sold shares of himself to get it,” Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida said as he rose to nominate Jordan instead, as McCarthy sat nearby wearing a smirk.
Jordan, a onetime rival who has since allied himself with McCarthy, pleaded with his colleagues to unite behind the California Republican.
“We need to rally around him and come together,” Jordan said.
The failed votes showed publicly the extent of the opposition McCarthy faces in his quest for the speaker’s gavel. On both ballots, 19 Republicans voted against McCarthy, throwing their support behind Jordan, Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, another leader of the opposition, and a handful of other conservative lawmakers. With all members of the House present and voting, McCarthy needed to receive 218 votes to become speaker, leaving little room for Republican defections since the party controls 222 seats.
Some of his detractors had telegraphed loudly that they would oppose McCarthy, including Biggs, the former Freedom Caucus chair, and Gaetz. For weeks, discussions about defectors centered around a core group of five vocal conservatives.
But many others, such as Reps. Michael Cloud of Texas, who voted for Jordan, and Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, a freshman who voted for Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana on the first ballot, had floated under the radar, and the number of defectors quickly approached what McCarthy’s team had privately hoped would be the worst-case scenario.
What was supposed to be a day of jubilation for Republicans instead devolved into a chaotic display of disunity within the party as it embarked on its first week in power in the House. And it all
but guaranteed that even if McCarthy eked out a victory — an outcome that appeared remote, given the stalemate at hand — he would be a diminished speaker beholden to an empowered right flank.
With Democrats holding together behind their leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York won more votes than McCarthy did for speaker on both ballots — 212 to 203 — symbolic victories since Jeffries did not have the support to claim the top job, but an embarrassing metric for the California Republican who has been campaigning for the post for years.
In a room in the basement of the Capitol before the vote, McCarthy privately made the case that the lawmakers opposing him were selfishly disrupting what was supposed to be a day of unity for their own personal gain.
“I earned this job,” McCarthy said.
“Bullshit!” came the response from Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, one of the hard-right Republicans opposing him. (She later told a reporter she did not shout anything during the meeting, but would not say whether she had spoken up.)
“He’s worked hard,” Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, another of the defectors, said of McCarthy’s final plea during the meeting. “In his mind, he has.”
But Norman told reporters he still planned to oppose McCarthy.
Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, the
chairman of the Freedom Caucus, emerged from the meeting fuming.
“This meeting wasn’t about trying to inform people about what it takes to get to 218 and ask for what you want,” he told reporters. “This was about a beat down and a simulated unity in the room that doesn’t really exist.”
McCarthy’s allies were equally furious. One incoming committee chairman, Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, who is set to lead the Armed Services Committee, declared during the meeting that those who opposed McCarthy should lose their committee assignments, according to people in the room.
McCarthy said before the vote that he was prepared to fight for the speakership on the House floor until the very end, even if it required lawmakers to vote more than once. The failed first vote will likely set off a round of haggling, as McCarthy attempts to win over a critical mass of defectors.
That will not be easy. McCarthy engaged in an excruciating weekslong lobbying campaign in an effort to sew up the votes needed for election, toiling to appease his right flank by embracing their tactics and agenda. He took a hard line against legislation to fund the government and avert a shutdown and called on Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, to resign or face potential impeachment proceedings.
Over the weekend, in a last-ditch effort to sew up the votes, he put forward his most significant offers yet, unveiling a package of rules governing how the House operates, including the so-called Holman rule, which allows lawmakers to use spending bills to defund specific programs and fire federal officials or reduce their pay.
His biggest concession was agreeing to a rule that would allow five lawmakers to call a snap vote at any time to oust the speaker. That had been a top demand of conservatives who had previously used the procedure to drive out then-Speaker John Boehner, the former Ohio representative.
But it was not enough to appease the right flank of his party, who wanted any single lawmaker to be able to force such a vote. After McCarthy announced the concessions, nine more Republicans emerged — most of whom had previously expressed skepticism about McCarthy’s bid for speaker — to criticize his efforts to win them over as insufficient.
appealing not just to Cubans in the state but to immigrants from Venezuela and Nicaragua, who have helped swell the pews of evangelical churches in Florida. His campaign aides frequently spoke with Hispanic pastors, cultivating support that many expect DeSantis to try to capitalize on in a presidential campaign.
Of course, Trump, too, can call upon loyalists: Rodriguez spoke at his inauguration in 2017, and other Hispanic evangelical leaders endorsed him.
But DeSantis could complicate the equation in a potential 2024 Republican primary because of Hispanic evangelicals’ concentration and considerable sway in Florida. Many view DeSantis as a hero of the pandemic, praising him for not requiring churches to shut down or instituting vaccine mandates.
A battle for Hispanic evangelicals’ loyalties would only further cement their importance in Florida and beyond, as they grow more organized and seek to wield power more effectively.
In Miami and elsewhere, Hispanic evangelical churches range from tiny storefronts to megachurches with six-piece bands and full-service cafes. Second- and third-generation American citizens pray alongside recent immigrants from Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Services are often in Spanish, although many congregants are bilingual, eager for their children to speak both English and Spanish.
Many did not vote at all until the last decade and cast their first ballots for Trump in 2016 or 2020. His political style has served as a model for some Latino evangelical pastors who have stoked anger over coronavirus restrictions. Attendance at churches, pastors said, has increased during the pandemic.
By JENNIFER MEDINAFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t announced he’s running for president yet. But among the right-leaning voting blocs that are pulling for him to enter the 2024 primary field are some of his biggest fans: Hispanic evangelical Christians.
It’s not that they’re opposed to the one Republican who has already declared himself a candidate, former President Donald Trump. But a showdown between the two titans of the right wing could turn Latino evangelicals into a decisive swing vote in Florida — supercharging their influence and focusing enormous national attention on their churches, their politics and their values.
“If there is a primary, there’s no doubt there will be fragmentation in the conservative movement, and there’s total certainty that will be true of Hispanic evangelicals as well,” said the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, a pastor in Sacramento, California, and the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. “We know the values we keep and the policies we want. The question that arises is: Who will really reflect those?”
Rodriguez’s group held a gathering last month in Tampa, Florida, with hundreds of pastors from across the country, where attendees said the hallways buzzed between sessions with more chatter about politics than about Scripture.
Much of it, they said, came down to a choice: Trump or DeSantis?
Few have settled on an answer yet, which is not surprising, given that the first votes of the 2024 campaign are over a year away. But the talk of 2024 — of Trump, who spent years courting evangelicals, and of DeSantis, who has leaned into the cultural battles that appeal to many conservative Christians — showed both the heightened expectations among Hispanic evangelical leaders in Florida and their desire to demonstrate the potency of their now unabashedly politicized Christianity.
“It is about morals, and there is one party right now that reflects our morals,” said Dionny Báez, a Miami pastor who leads a network of churches. “We cannot be afraid to remind people that we have values that the Republicans are willing to fight for. I have a responsibility to make clear what we believe. We can no longer make that taboo.”
Hispanic evangelicals have long had outsize influence in Florida, where Latinos make up roughly 27% of the population and 21% of eligible voters. Although they are outnumbered among Hispanics by Roman Catholics, evangelicals are far more likely to vote for Republicans. Overall, Hispanic voters in the state favored Republicans for the first time in decades in the midterm elections in November.
DeSantis has courted Hispanic evangelicals assiduously as his national profile has risen.
When he signed a law last year banning abortions after 15 weeks, he did so at Nación de Fe, a Hispanic evangelical megachurch in Osceola County. He declared Nov. 7, the day before the midterm election, as “Victims of Communism Day,”
At Segadores de Vida, an evangelical church in Southwest Ranches, west of Fort Lauderdale, where more than 6,000 worshippers attend Sunday services, the Rev. Ruddy Gracia has taken to the pulpit to criticize pandemic restrictions that shut down churches in other states and to disparage COVID-19 vaccines, urging congregants to rely instead on divine immunity.
Daniel Garza, executive director of Libre, a conservative group focused on Hispanic outreach, said he had worshipped at evangelical churches across the country and noticed that pastors were speaking more directly about politics from the pulpit. “We’ve always had a familiarity, but what we see now is a kind of coziness we’ve not had in the past,” he said.
Evangelicals remain a minority among Latino voters, but polls show they are far more likely to vote for Republicans than those who are Catholic or religiously unaffiliated, although they are not a monolithic voting bloc.
They are often more open to relaxing some immigration rules than Republican leaders, and even some of those who supported Trump were turned off by his anti-immigrant messages.
Like other Hispanic evangelical leaders, Báez has developed a large and loyal following both in the United States and in Latin America, with nearly 1 million followers on social media. He appears frequently on Spanish-language television, typically focusing on upbeat messages of hope rather than explicit mentions of Jesus or conservative values.
“There is a reason most Latinos are liberal — it’s what they watch on TV,” he said over breakfast in his backyard in Miramar, a suburb about a half-hour north of Miami. “We want to give an alternative vision to that.”
Aremote archipelago and national park off the coast of Key West, Florida, was closed earlier this week after a group of about 300 migrants arrived by boat on the islands’ shores, park officials said.
The cluster of mostly uninhabited islands, known as the Dry Tortugas National Park, is about 100 miles north of Havana and is known for its crystalline waters and coral reefs. But over the past few days, the islands have become a different kind of refuge.
In addition to the 300 migrants who arrived on the archipelago, more than 160 other migrants have arrived in other parts of the Florida Keys over the past several days,
according to the local and federal authorities. Officials did not specify countries of origin but said in a statement that the park and region had recently “seen an increase in people arriving by boat from Cuba.”
The influx of migrants began around New Year’s Eve, authorities said, and come amid a surge in seaborne migration.
In the one-year period ending in September, the U. S. Coast Guard apprehended more than 6,000 Cubans, compared with close to 840 migrants the previous year, the authority said in a recent statement.
The archipelago temporarily closed starting at 8 a.m. Monday, so that authorities and medical workers could evaluate, care for and transport the migrants to Key West, park officials said. The park’s own responders would provide
food, water and basic medical attention to the migrants until the arrival of the Department of Homeland Security, they added.
“The effort now is to try to get them transferred off the island via boat to mainland Key West and the Florida Keys, so they can then be transferred to federal law enforcement agents,” Lt. Cmdr. John Beal, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard’s 7th District, said of the migrants.
“They’re uninhabited remote islands that don’t have the infrastructure to support them,” he said, adding that local, state and federal authorities were coordinating to get food and water to the archipelago, which is usually staffed by just a few rangers.
Federal authorities said the migrants would be removed from the islands and processed to determine their legal status to remain in the United States or to be repatriated to their country of origin.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, which oversees the Florida Keys and its islands, described the influx of migrants over the weekend as a “mass migration crisis.” The office accused federal authorities, who in some cases were expected to arrive only the next day, of a sluggish response. “This federal failure is creating a humanitarian crisis,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement posted to Facebook on Monday.
The park was expected to be closed for several days, officials said, an action that they said was “necessary for the safety of visitors and staff because of the resources and space needed to attend to the migrants.”
Park officials said that all closures would “remain in place until further notice” and that during that time all ferries and seaplanes would be suspended.
President Joe Biden briefly interrupted a holiday island vacation last week to sign into law a $1.7 trillion government spending bill, capping a two-year rush of legislative activity that has the potential to reshape the American economy and place Biden among the most economically consequential presidents of the last century.
But as he flew home to Washington on Monday he was headed toward challenges that could threaten that legacy, including the possibility of a global recession and the high likelihood of legislative gridlock in a newly divided federal government now that Republicans are assuming control of the House.
One vital test Biden faces is making all his new economic laws work as intended. Much of his economic legacy will depend on how effectively his administration allocates trillions of dollars in spending and tax incentives contained in the economic bills that Biden signed into law during his first two years in office.
President Joe Biden leaves Holy Cross Catholic Church in Christiansted, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, after attending a Mass, on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. President Biden is starting the year with a chance of a global recession and a divided federal government.
the International Monetary Fund, told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. But, she added: “The U.S. is most resilient. The U.S. may avoid recession.”
Biden’s economic team contends that resilience is a direct consequence of the series of laws he steered through Congress in his first two years, which delivered large swaths of the economic agenda he laid out in the 2020 campaign and early in his term.
The bills include the $1.9 trillion pandemic rescue package passed along party lines in spring 2021 and the bipartisan infrastructure law later that year. This past summer, Biden signed a bipartisan bill to invest in semiconductor manufacturing, research and development, and other elements of an industrial policy to counter China on the global stage.
Across the White House and several agencies, officials are trying to stretch dollars to meet Biden’s ambitious goals, including making high-speed internet available to everyone in the country, replacing all lead pipes that carry drinking water and building out a nationwide network of electric vehicle charging stations. In those cases and many others, officials are working with far less money than the president had initially proposed, a side effect of the compromises he accepted to win bipartisan support to enact his agenda.
Federal officials are already at times butting heads with state and local leaders, who control some of the spending from a sweeping infrastructure law and what remains of a huge pandemic rescue plan, and who do not always share the administration’s priorities.
“We’ll have arguments — governors saying: ‘Well, I don’t want to fix a bridge. I want to build a new road,’” said Mitch Landrieu, the former New Orleans
mayor who was tapped by Biden to oversee implementation of the infrastructure law. “We have to fight about that stuff. That’s all fine and dandy, but we’re well on our way, and I feel really good about it.”
“This is going to be a hands-on, elbow-grease thing today,” Landrieu added, “and into the next three, five, seven years.”
Biden must also sell his accomplishments to voters ahead of what he says will be an announcement early this year that he will seek reelection in 2024. The president is set to start this week with an event in Kentucky that seeks to make the case that he is uniquely able to bridge partisan divides in order to strengthen the American economy.
“While we have more work to do, and we may see setbacks along the way,” Brian Deese, the National Economic Council director, and Anita Dunn, a top adviser to Biden, wrote in a memo to reporters last week, “we end the year with clear evidence that President Biden’s economic strategy of growing the economy from the bottom up and the middle out is working.”
He then signed the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, passed along party lines after more than a year of negotiations with holdout centrist Democrats in the Senate. It raises taxes on corporations and cracks down on wealthy tax cheats, seeks to reduce prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare and spends $370 billion to accelerate a transition to low-emission sources of energy — the most expensive effort to fight climate change in American history.
Economists say the rescue plan accelerated the nation’s economic rebound and job growth and helped strengthen consumer finances. It also helped stoke inflation, though economists disagree on how much. A focus on ports has helped to unclog global supply chains that were snarled as the economy reopened from the pandemic. Biden’s decision to release millions of barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve helped to some extent to bring down gasoline prices that spiked after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 31 de diciembre de 2022 Tasa Mínima (%)
Biden has emphasized the positives in the economic recovery since he took office less than a year after the swiftly descending pandemic recession. He has stressed strong job growth, especially in manufacturing, and called the United States better positioned than its peers to endure any difficulties in the years ahead for the global economy.
“For most of the world economy, this is going to be a tough year, tougher than the year we leave behind,” Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of
Some White House officials remain hopeful that, even with the House under Republican control, the president can find more deals to cut to advance other parts of his agenda that he failed to push through in his first two years, including paid leave for all workers, universal prekindergarten and tuition-free community college.
Most experts believe that will not be the case. House Republicans have made clear they want to cut spending, and they oppose tax increases.
Biden has seen what losing the House can do to a president’s economic ambitions: It happened when he was vice president in the Obama administration, which saw much of its legislative agenda wither after Democrats lost the House majority in the midterm election of 2010.
King Dollar’s reign is (finally) coming to an end, bonds are rising and emerging markets are rising again, these are just some of the trades international money managers are betting on in 2023.
Skyrocketing inflation and the global underbelly of nearly 300 rate hikes by central banks over the past 12 months put the focus firmly on how badly economies are now collapsing, and whether that is forcing the Federal Reserve and Co to change course.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback’s performance against major peers, gained more than 15% from January to November 2022, when the Fed aggressively hiked rates.
The Fed remains aggressive, but markets are testing its resolve. Joe Little, global chief strategist at HSBC Asset Management, tips the dollar index to fall more than 10% in 2023 “based on a spike in inflation and a policy change from the Fed.”
The yen could also be a driving force after the Bank of Japan delivered a belated surprise by abruptly changing the yield curve control program it has used to keep rates close to zero.
Investors see Chinese stocks as a comeback story after a torrid few years, aided by an easing of COVID-19 restrictions, a renewed focus on economic growth and a strengthening of the battered real estate market.
With COVID deaths rising again, uncertainty remains, but enthusiasm is undoubtedly there for a reopening that will ultimately also boost Asian capital markets and deal closing.
MSCI’s China Index (.dMICN00000PUS) gained nearly 40% from November to mid-December, but more is possible. BNP Paribas thinks travel, domestic consumption and technology stocks can rise further and has upgraded China to “overweight” in its 2023 model portfolio, which includes stocks like Tencent (0700.HK) and Trip.com.
Whisper it, but emerging market (EM) bulls are back after 2022 delivered some of the biggest losses ever.
With the caveat that global interest rates stabilize, China eases COVID restrictions and nuclear war is averted, UBS estimates EM stocks (.MSCIEF) and fixed income indices could earn between 8 and 15% in 2023 based on total efficiency.
A “bullish” Morgan Stanley expects a return of nearly 17% on emerging market local currency debt. Credit Suisse is particularly into hard currency debt and DoubleLine’s Jeffrey Gundlach, dubbed the “bond king,” has emerging market equities as his top pick.
Performance after previous prices underlines this wave of optimism. MSCI’s EM stock index rose 64% in 1999, after the Asian financial crisis, and 75% in 2009. Emerging market hard currency debt also rebounded by as much
as 30% after the global financial crisis eased by 12% decreased.
After the worst year ever for bond investors, many are seeing a turnaround.
Inflation – the bond market’s nemesis as it drives up rates and erodes yields – looks likely to moderate this year as recessions begin to itch.
Economists polled by Reuters expect headline US inflation to slow to 3.1% by the end of 2023. Valentine Ai-
nouz, fixed income strategist at the Amundi Institute, predicts that the 10-year US Treasury yield will reach 3.5% by the end of 2023, compared to the current 3.88%.
Joost van Leenders, senior strategist at Van Lanschot Kempen, bought Treasuries in August with the expectation that “inflation will decrease as economic growth slows”. He remained wary of eurozone bonds as the European Central Bank withdraws from the market and raises interest rates.
Equity investors hope that a V-shaped year for the global economy will see equities comfortably higher.
JP Morgan strategists predict “market turmoil and economic downturn” to begin with, but then a better second half if the Fed finally decides to “turn.”
Ukraine shot down all of the exploding drones that Russia had fired over the new year, a Ukrainian air force spokesperson said on Tuesday, in a measure of the country’s growing ability to resist Moscow’s effort to incapacitate its energy infrastructure.
“Such results have never been achieved before,” the spokesperson, Yurii Ihnat, said on Ukrainian television, referring to the nights of Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
Russia launched its latest swarm of the Iranian-made weapons, nicknamed “flying mopeds” for their relatively slow speed, at targets inside Ukraine on Monday. None reached their destination because of antiaircraft guns, surface-to-air missiles and warplanes, a rare shutout. Twenty drones were downed over Kyiv alone.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said his military began the new year by putting up stiff resistance to the unmanned attacks from above.
“Only two days have passed since the beginning of the year, and the number of Iranian drones shot down over Ukraine is already more than 80,” Zelenskyy said late Monday in his nightly address.
In October, about a month after Russia began deploying the Shahed drones, an adviser to Ukraine’s defense minister said that they were shooting down more than 70% of the drones.
As winter bites, the fighting on the ground in Ukraine has become a war of attrition, and the focus has shifted to the struggle in the air over Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and other major cities.
Russia has launched wave after wave of drone and cruise missile attacks aimed at knocking out electricity and water supplies to civilians, leaving as much as 25% of the nation without power at times. Monday’s drone attack is the latest in a series of year-end assaults, including one that killed three civilians on New Year’s Eve.
Given that Ukraine’s defensive measures cost more than Russia’s aerial attack methods, some military experts fear a growing imbalance that could, over time,
favor Russia. In his nightly address Monday, Zelenskyy said his government had intelligence suggesting that there was no end in sight to the Russian attacks using Shaheds.
“We have information that Russia is planning a prolonged attack with Shaheds,” he said, according to a transcript put out by his office. “Its bet may be on exhaustion — on exhaustion of our people, our air defense, our energy sector.”
But, with each attack, Ukraine’s forces are getting better at taking out the drones before they hit their target, giving Ukraine what Zelenskyy called small “victories over terrorists and terror.”
“Each shot-down drone, each shot-
down missile, each day with electricity for our people and minimal schedules of blackouts are exactly such victories,” he said.
One reason for the success against the drone campaign might be the United States’ decision in early November to provide Ukraine with an advanced surfaceto-air missile system, known as NASAMS. It includes radar, sensors, launchers and a mobile command center.
According to the Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security, a Ukrainian government agency, the U.S. missile system played a role in Monday’s assault.
“Despite having learned to operate them only a few weeks ago, our military used them almost like artillery, reloading them as fast as possible,” the center said on Twitter. “The highly successful use of these weapons show that our soldiers learn fast.”
Mick Mulroy, a former senior Pentagon official and retired CIA officer, said training had helped Ukrainian forces get better and better at managing sophisticated weaponry.
Russia, on the other hand, he said, seemed to be giving up on the idea of winning the war with a traditional land fight, at least in the near future.
“It appears their fallback is just to blow the country to smithereens,” he said. “You can’t win a war by airstrikes.”
Across the Philippines, the 2022 holiday season was meant to be a time for celebration and a relief after two Christmases tarnished by punishing coronavirus lockdowns. But on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, families faced tragedy on Christmas Day when rains triggered flooding and landslides, killing at least 51 people and displacing thousands, authorities said.
The Philippines is a tropical archipelago that has been slammed over the years by countless Pacific typhoons and catastrophic floods. The capital, Manila, is particularly susceptible to the impacts of climate change. Yet the scope and timing
of this year’s disaster, in a country that has Asia’s largest population of Roman Catholics, felt especially tragic and cruel.
As of Tuesday afternoon, at least 19 people were still missing and thousands of others were living in emergency shelters on Mindanao. One victim identified so far was Laurence Grace Patarlas Rapols, 8, who authorities said had been riding on her aunt’s motorcycle when floodwaters swept her away.
Churches and charities across the Philippines have been appealing for relief funds and emergency supplies. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has said that he plans to visit Mindanao after his previously scheduled trip to China ends Thursday.
One challenge for rescue workers
is that the heavy rains mostly affected Northern Mindanao, an area that is less prepared for such disasters than other regions in the Philippines, said Alan Tanjusay, the country’s undersecretary for social welfare.
Tanjusay said many people in Northern Mindanao had spent their Christmas and New Year celebrations eating donated food and that the mood there was somber.
“Imagine losing your home” on Christmas Day, he said.
Floodwaters have been subsiding, but more bad weather may be on the way. Forecasters said Tuesday that they expected more heavy rains and possible flooding through at least this morning on several islands, including Mindanao.
This is the second straight year that extreme weather has caused death and destruction over the holidays in the Philippines. In December 2021, Super Typhoon Rai came ashore in Bohol province with the same intensity as a Category 5 hurricane, killing hundreds of people and forcing millions of others from their homes.
It would be hard to overstate the importance of Christmas in the Philippines. In a country of 111 million people that has about as many Catholics as the United States, Roman Catholicism has long been a pillar of identity and a force in national politics in the Philippines. And because millions of Filipinos work abroad, Christmas is often the only time of the year that entire families gather in person.
The soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division train, eat and sleep on a drab, sprawling post in southeast Romania, a mere seven-minute rocket flight from where Russia has stockpiled munitions in Crimea.
Farther north, in military exercises with Romanian troops just a few miles from the Ukrainian border, U.S. soldiers, also from the 101st division, are firing artillery, launching helicopter assaults and digging trenches similar to those on the front lines in the region near Kherson, the Ukrainian port city from which Russian troops retreated in November.
It is the first time the 101st Airborne Division has been deployed to Europe since World War II, and with their presence in Romania, a member of NATO, its soldiers are now closer to the war in Ukraine than any other U.S. Army unit.
Its mission is considered a model for an American military that has newly stepped back from two decades of actively fighting wars and into an era of trying to deter adversaries — using a show of force as well as training, weapons shipments and other aid to drive home the point.
“This is a regional conflict, but it has global implications,” the U.S. Army’s chief of staff, Gen. James C. McConville, said in a mid-December interview at the air base, which shares a runway with an adjoining commercial airport named for the former Romanian prime minister, Mihail Kogalniceanu, near the Black Sea.
The troop deployment in Romania is meant as a warning to Moscow, part of President Joe Biden’s pledge to defend “every single inch” of NATO territory without tempting President Vladimir Putin of Russia into escalating. But holding joint exercises is also a way of ensuring that allies in southeast Europe are ready to hold the line.
It is unclear what kind of footprint the United States will keep at the base; the Pentagon will soon decide whether to maintain the number of U.S. troops and senior commanders there.
Some in Congress are wary of the cost of meeting Ukraine’s continuing demands for support — with the top House Republican, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, suggesting in October that his party might be unwilling to write a “blank check” to Ukraine.
But supporters of maintaining a strong presence in Eastern Europe pointed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February as proof that the U.S. and its NATO allies did not do enough to deter Moscow last winter.
“This is one of the most important lessons that we have to take away from Ukraine,” Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., told reporters after returning from a brief trip to Ukraine in early December. “When we look at the other scenario that might unfold like Ukraine, in the Pacific
with China and Taiwan, we have to ensure that deterrence is successful.”
Military planners echoed that strategy, noting that the 101st Airborne Division was also using the Black Sea for coastal defense training — a useful skill should China become more aggressive and invade Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing has long claimed as its own.
The division was ordered to deploy about 4,000 soldiers and senior commanders just weeks after Russia invaded. They arrived at the air base, near the Romanian coastal city of Constanta, over the summer. The base previously served as a sleepy outpost for training NATO troops, including several hundred U.S. soldiers, and was known more broadly in the military as a way station with a small mess hall for U.S. forces heading to and from Afghanistan.
The mission here is somewhat different from those elsewhere in Europe, where some U.S. troops are training Ukrainian forces on advanced weapons systems that are being shipped to the Ukrainians. The division’s commander, Maj. Gen. J.P. McGee, said that training
with other Eastern European soldiers had its own value.
“You get a chance to train and operate on the very ground that you might have to defend,” McGee said.
He added: “You have to work with a NATO ally, and it’s almost unimaginable in the future that we would ever go fight without allies.”
In addition to the troops in Romania, McGee has also sent smaller teams of soldiers to train with NATO allies in Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary and Slovakia. The unit prides itself on being the closest one to the combat, but it is by no means the largest: Officials said that an estimated 12,000 troops attached to the Army’s 1st Infantry Division, added after the invasion, are based mostly in western Poland and the Baltics.
Together, they represent a buildup of U.S. forces in Europe since Russia invaded Ukraine, as Biden promised allies at a NATO summit meeting in Madrid in June.
McConville would not predict what the Biden administration might do in Romania, but broadly speaking, he said the troops at the air base had “really made a difference, and I think we will continue to provide those capabilities as required.”
Having a division commander and staff so close to the border with Ukraine is more than symbolic, said Becca Wasser, a war analyst at the Center for a New American Security, a research institute in Washington. It allows for quick decisions about where to position thousands of troops and weapons should Russia push the war into NATO territory.
“What you are seeing is indicative of a change in how the U.S. military is approaching posture and deployments around the globe as the era of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have changed,” Wasser said. “It’s not necessarily going to be this combat deployment — what you really have is a deterrence deployment.”
The winter holiday season across most of Britain ended Tuesday, but the return to work for millions of Britons came on the same day as yet another train strike, promising a commute as unpredictable as the country’s increasingly erratic rail network.
Britain begins the new year just as it ended the old one, in the middle of a wave of labor unrest that has involved as many as 1.5 million workers so far, concentrated in the public sector and formerly state-owned businesses. Nurses in England, Northern Ireland and Wales walked out twice last month; ambulance crews have staged their largest work stoppage in decades; and border agents, postal staff and garbage collectors have taken similar action in a “winter of discontent.”
With wages lagging galloping inflation, many, including nurses, plan to stop work again this month, leading some British news outlets to raise fears of a de facto general strike that could bring the country to a grinding halt.
Yet while months of disruption have eroded some sympathy for rail workers, with the public roughly split over train strikes, support for health workers, whose tireless efforts during the coronavirus pandemic were widely lauded as heroic, remains buoyant.
“January will be the test: Will the British public shift?” said Steven Fielding, an emeritus professor of political history at the University of Nottingham. He added that while further rail strikes might prompt a long-predicted backlash against the unions, “it’s remarkable how much it hasn’t happened.”
That is not for want of effort by Britain’s conservative tabloids. One newspaper nicknamed Mick Lynch, the combative leader of a rail union, “The Grinch,” accusing him of wrecking Christmas, spoiling office parties and hampering family reunions. In the city of Bristol, one pub canceled a rail workers’ Christmas party in retaliation for strikes thought to have hurt the hospitality trade.
But in general, support for the strikers has stayed strong, according to a YouGov opinion poll last month, which showed 66% of respondents supported striking nurses and 28% opposed them, 58% favoring firefighters with 33% against, and 43% in favor of rail workers with 49% opposed. Another poll, by Savanta ComRes,
found the same percentage in support of further rail strikes, but only 36% opposed.
Even many Britons who support the governing Conservative Party say they believe that health workers have a case, a reflection both of the popularity of the country’s National Health Service and concerns about its ability to cope with huge pressures. And, underscoring a growing sense of malaise, another poll recorded a majority agreeing with the statement that “nothing in Britain works anymore.”
That may pose a challenge for Britain’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak, who insists that agreeing to raises could embed inflation, which he sees as the real enemy of working people. Instead, he promises new, and as yet unspecified, laws to restrict labor unrest, while critics of trade unions argue rail workers are risking their futures as commuters stay away from a network already suffering from the growth of working from home.
“It’s difficult for everybody because inflation is where it is, and the best way to help them and everyone else in the country is for us to get a grip and reduce inflation as quickly as possible,” Sunak told a parliamentary committee in December, when asked about the plight of striking workers.
News reports suggest that an agreement to end the rolling series of rail strikes
could be close, but despite holding the purse strings over the employers of rail staff, the government has resisted direct involvement in negotiations.
The wave of strikes comes amid Britain’s cost-of-living crisis and follows years of constrained public spending, and unions say they are responding to a decade of neglect of vital services.
“I think the fact that this comes after 10 to 12 years of austerity has affected the public mood and is maybe what’s helping the unions and their members not to lose public support,” said Peter Kellner, a polling expert. “The evidence so far is that public opinion hasn’t materially shifted. I don’t see any particular reason why it should, especially with the health service,” he added.
Public sympathy is being driven by a widespread feeling that the health system is understaffed and overwhelmed. One senior doctor made headlines by warning that as many as 500 patients a week could be dying because of long delays in emergency rooms across the country. And on Monday the vice president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said many emergency departments were in a state of crisis.
Pay levels for nurses are recommended by an independent body whose suggestion of a 4.3% increase, issued before
much of last year’s inflation was evident, had been accepted by the government.
That is well short of the 19% demanded by nurses, but ministers have refused to budge, pointing to a 3% annual raise for nurses in 2021, when the pay of many others was frozen for the year.
Britain’s health secretary, Steve Barclay, raised hackles last month by saying that striking ambulance unions had made a “conscious choice to inflict harm on patients” — a statement described by Sharon Graham, general secretary of the union Unite, as a “blatant lie.”
Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, told the broadcaster Sky News, “We have had 10 years where our pay has not kept pace with inflation.” He added that 40,000 government staff members used food banks and that 45,000 of them were so poor they had to claim welfare payments.
Dawn Poole, a striking border force officer at London’s Heathrow International Airport and representative of the union, said that rising food and energy costs, combined with a hike in mortgage interest rates, had been the final straw for alreadystruggling staff.
“We have had people selling houses to downsize or struggling to pay the rent,” she said.
Sunak’s tough stance is a gamble. If the strikes collapse, that could build his reputation as a leader able to stand firm and administer tough measures to stabilize the economy. It could also bolster his leadership within a fractious Conservative Party, where standing up to trade unions is associated with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who came to power in 1979 after labor unrest also known as the winter of discontent and faced down striking miners.
Thatcher, however, prepared for her standoff with the miners, ensuring that coal stocks were high and confronting them at a time when unions were widely seen as too powerful.
By contrast, today’s unions appear to be more in sync with the popular mood, analysts say, because Britons know that well before the strikes, their railways were unreliable and their health service was creaking under acute pressure.
“The argument that ‘We’re on strike to save the National Health Service,’ which is what the nurses have been saying, resonates with what people know from their own experience,” Fielding said.
By JOSÉ M. SALDAÑA
Cayey Mayor Rolando Ortiz Velázquez is one of the best mayors Puerto Rico has. You only have to look at the great transformation that Cayey has had in the last two decades during Rolando’s incumbency to concur with this assessment. From the moment you leave the Luis A. Ferré Expressway to enter Cayey you see order and ornamental beauty, and progress is perceived.
Cayey has become one of the most modern and progressive municipalities on the island.
In a page 4 article in the Dec. 27, 2022 edition of the STAR under the headline “Pyrotechnics law not enforced, Cayey mayor laments” the mayor complains that since June 25, 1963 there has been a law against pyrotechnics (the Puerto Rico Pyrotechnics Act) that was amended in 2004 and 2006 but is not executed. It is not enforced.
This sort of non-execution of or non-compliance with our laws is, unfortunately, nothing new on our island. I am sure that Puerto Rico has more laws than any other territory under the American flag, but unfortunately, most of the time they are not enforced and, worst of all, there is no one to enforce them.
There are numerous traditions around the world on New Year’s Eve. In most civilized progressive countries, the event is carried out with parties and social gatherings where music and fireworks predominate, as well as toasting with champagne and eating 12 grapes during the sounding of 12 bells of the village church.
In Puerto Rico, instead of the above -- for decades -- unfortunately the practice of saying goodbye to the passing year in many places has been characterized by shooting in the air with firearms, with firecrackers and quarter sticks.
As Mayor Ortiz Velázquez pointed out,
this harmful practice threatens public safety, the health of sectors of the population, our pets and other domestic animals. In all sectors of the island, we have autistic children who suffer from an exaggerated response to the auditory stimuli caused by fireworks, as well as bedridden elderly people suffering from conditions such as Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease who are seriously affected by this practice, in some cases in a lethal way. Our pets are affected in the same way; they become extremely nervous, causing them to become disoriented and flee their homes.
It is time for a well formulated government strategy in the media to educate our population about the evils this practice produces and the need to end it. But while that happens, it is necessary to enforce the law, which in Puerto Rico unfortunately we do not do, not only in this case but in many others as well.
I congratulate Mayor Rolando Ortiz Velázquez for taking the initiative to go to the media to point out this serious problem that affects not only Cayey but all of Puerto Rico. Let’s see what the central government and law enforcement authorities have to say and do about enforcing the law against this harmful practice.
LA FORTALEZA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia dijo el martes que a pesar del inicio del año con las muertes violentas, en el 2022 hubo una reducción de 10 por ciento en asesinatos y confía en la coordinación con las agencias federales y municipales para atender la situación.
“El final del año, si, han ocurrido hechos bien lamentables. Asesinato terribles y de igual manera en los dos días del presente año. Pero, nuestra fuerza de ley están desplegadas, se harán todos los ajustes que se tengan que hacer. Seguiremos trabajando en equipo con las autoridades federales de Ley y Orden. Hay que recordar que hay autoridades, agencias como el FBI (Negociado federal de Investigaciones) y la ATF (Agencia federal de Alcohol, Tabaco, Armas de Fuego y Explosivos) que su mandato, su misión, es combatir la violencia y nos asisten y trabajamos en cooperación con ellas. Por otro lado, vemos que gran parte de los asesinatos tienen que ver con el narcotráfico y tenemos
agencias federales como la DEA (Agencia federal Antidrogas), el HSI (Departamento de Seguridad Nacional), la Patrulla Fronteriza, la Guardia Costera, todas esas, su misión es combatir el narcotráfico y estamos trabajando hombro con hombro con ellas”, dijo el gobernador en conferencia de prensa.
“O sea que, lo que yo le digo al pueblo es que cuenten que aquí están tanto la autoridades estatales, municipales, como las federales, vamos a seguir dando el frente para combatir la violencia y el narcotráfico”, añadió.
Sobre los feminicidios, Pierluisi Urrutia espera que las medidas que se implantaron como la declaración de emergencia y la oficial de cumplimiento, así como las recomendaciones del Comité de Prevención, Apoyo, Rescate y Educación de la Violencia de Género (PARE) y el Centro para Operaciones de Órdenes de Protección se expandan y rindan frutos.
En lo que va del 2023, se han reportado al menos 12 muertes violentas.
POR CYBERNEWSSAN JUAN – La secretaria del Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas (DTOP) Eileen Vélez Vega dijo el martes, que el contenido de la Resolución 2022-45 relacionada al marbete del pasado año no contempla extensiones de venta de marbetes para el 2023.
“La Resolución 2022-45 solo extiende la venta de marbetes en todos los puntos de venta autorizados hasta el 15 de enero de 2023. Por Reglamento del Departamento de Hacienda, luego del 31 de diciembre de
cada año, la venta del marbete del año anterior solo se puede comprar en colecturías. Al firmar esta Resolución se extiende la disponibilidad del marbete conmemorativo de Roberto Clemente 2023, por 15 días adicionales”, indicó Vélez Vega.
La Resolución se firmó para dar opciones adicionales de lugares para comprar a los conductores cuyo marbete venció el 31 de diciembre de 2022.
El marbete 2024 conmemorativo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR), Recinto de Ciencias Médicas ya está disponible en todos los puntos de ventas autorizados.
SAN JUAN – El presidente de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, doctor Luis A. Ferrao, informó el martes, que el profesor Vladimir Makarov falleció en las inmediaciones de la Biblioteca José M. Lázaro en el recinto de Río Piedras.
“Extendemos nuestras más sinceras condolencias a
los familiares y allegados del profesor Makarov, natural de Rusia, quien se destacó por más de quince años en el área de química y en el Departamento de Física del recinto riopedrense. Agradecemos su dedicación y su aportación por el bien de la UPR”, expresó el presidente del primer centro docente de Puerto Rico en comunicación escrita.
El doctor Ferrao acudió a las inmediaciones del re-
cinto junto al vicepresidente ejecutivo, Orestes Quesada; el decano de Estudios Generales, Carlos Sánchez y José Nieves, director del Departamento de Física y supervisor inmediato del fallecido.
Personal de la Oficina de Seguridad del recinto comunicó de inmediato los hechos a la Policía de Puerto Rico, quienes asumieron la investigación. En la escena no se identificaron signos de violencia.
Presidente de la UPR lamenta fallecimiento de
When Lydia Tár arrives at The Juilliard School in New York City to teach a master class in conducting, we know her about as well as the students do. Like them, we are aware — about 20 minutes into the film that bears her name — of her fame and exalted status. They, of course, live in a fictional world in which her celebrity is established, to the extent that their own professional aspirations are shaped by her example. But now they have a chance to encounter her in person. It doesn’t go well.
The Juilliard episode is the fourth extended scene in “Tár.” Like the ones that come before, it presents Lydia, a prominent conductor and composer, in a moreor-less public setting. In due time, we’ll peer in on her private life and ponder its relevance to her work and reputation, but for now we know her as a poised paragon of artistic accomplishment. We have watched her converse onstage with writer Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker Festival, flirt with a fan at a reception and spar over lunch with a colleague who is also an important philanthropic patron. In between these lingered-over moments are snippets of cellphone video with anonymous text commentary. The source and meaning of these words and images are unclear, but they produce a tremor of paranoia. We’re not the only ones watching Lydia.
Later, a deceptively edited video of the master class will go viral, contributing to the collapse of Lydia’s career as her abusive and dishonest behavior comes to light. The scene itself, among those who have seen “Tár,” has achieved a similar notoriety. It has become one of the most talked-about parts of the film. The main conflict — an argument between Lydia and an earnest, anxious student named Max, played by Zethphan Smith-Gneist — seems to crystallize the movie’s interest in a familiar kind of clash, one that invites cliches about cancel culture, identity politics and white privilege.
But like everything else in “Tár,” this episode of generational and ideological strife is more complicated than it might
seem. And also simpler. Lydia, a onetime protege of Leonard Bernstein’s, insists on the power of music to produce states of feeling and modes of experience that can’t easily be reduced to anything else. Todd Field, director of “Tár,” has similar intuitions about film. He and Cate Blanchett, who as Lydia occupies nearly every frame of this 158-minute film, reverse the usual patterns of text and subtext. It’s not that there’s more to “Tár” than meets the eye and ear, with extra meanings hidden beneath the surface. Everything is right there on the screen and the soundtrack, arranged to confound and complicate your expectations.
Lydia’s, too. She strolls onto the classroom stage as eight young musicians, conducted by Max, are laying down what Lydia will call the “bed of strings” of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s “Ro.” Commanding the students’ attention effortlessly, Lydia is comfortable in her own charisma, confident in her opinions and intellect — to the point of hubris, but we don’t know that yet.
The first thing she does is establish her dominance, preparing for Max’s thorough humiliation. He’s nervous, smiling, eager to oblige as she asks him why he chose Juilliard and then suggests that it might have been for the “brand.” Her tone is jocular, but her aggression is unmistakable. She ridicules his choice of music — we’ll come back to that — and pleads with him to consider exploring older, more canonical figures. Like Johann Sebastian Bach, for example.
That name turns out to be a provocation. Max, who defines himself as a “BIPOC, pangender person,” says that Bach’s reputation for misogyny and his cisgender white male identity make it hard for him to appreciate the composer’s music. At this moment, the script edges toward an easy satire of the young. There are Gen Xers and baby boomers who have encountered — or at least heard stories about — members of succeeding generations who refuse to read the novels of Edith Wharton, see the films of Woody Allen or worship at the altar of Pablo Picasso. Their critique of the canon is often caricatured and misunderstood, and
Max may embody the shibboleths of his elders as much as he does the attitude of his peers. His objection to Bach, in any case, serves as bait for the audience and for Lydia.
She seizes on it as a teaching moment, and her response is itself a minicourse in the do’s and don’ts of contemporary pedagogy. At times, she is bullying and sarcastic, haranguing the class about the fallacies of identity and failing or refusing to read the sensitivities in the room. But she also tries, in good faith, to reach the students where they are. Rather than revert to an argument from authority, browbeating Max with the eternal fact of Bach’s greatness, she invites him to sit next to her at the piano while she demonstrates the complexity and power of his music. In Bach, she says, the question — illustrated by a rising, unresolved musical phrase that replicates the intonation of an asking voice — is always more interesting than the answer.
This is true of art in general. The puzzles, paradoxes and mysteries are what keep it alive. A lot of cultural cri-
ticism — by which I mean not only the considered responses of professionals but the immediate reactions of viewers — tacks in the opposite direction. We are eager to find an answer, assign a meaning, take a side. This scene seems to be urging us to do just that, to share Lydia’s irritation with Max, so shallow in his certainty and so ill equipped to defend his position.
I won’t speculate further, except to note that Thorvaldsdottir might function as what devotees of a different kind of movie like to call an Easter egg. Gopnik is another, as are Bernstein and The Juilliard School itself. They appear as tokens, clues, nudges at the viewer who might not be paying the right kind of attention. They all belong to the world outside “Tár” — our world — and their presence inside the movie is more than merely allusive.
Lydia Tár exists as if on a folded-over page in that world, where the correct answer to the perennially misunderstood question about the distinction between art and life is written in invisible ink. She’s as real as it gets.
to stop him.
Directed by Roar Uthaug, this is a slick-looking, familyfriendly movie that lives in the vicinity of “Independence Day,” “Trollhunter” and “Godzilla vs. Kong,” and anyone who has seen those films won’t be surprised at where it goes and how. It’s a good pick for a snowed-in afternoon.
(Stream it on Netflix.)
Meredith (Sarah Lind), a museum curator, is optimistic about her prospects with Bruce (Josh Ruben), an antiquities expert she recently met who has taken her on a getaway to his chic cabin.
Yet not long after they arrive, Meredith senses something’s not right. She’s not wrong: What she doesn’t know is that Bruce recently killed a woman on marching orders from a hulking, birdlike creature who watches him. When Bruce refuses Meredith’s request to return home, it kicks off an otherworldly power play that explores issues of violence and male privilege that’s framed quite literally as a bloody Greek tragedy.
During the first half of this unashamedly feminist film, director Travis Stevens (“Jakob’s Wife”) really drew me in with his DePalma-like use of suspense and stillness, and the dirty-pretty texture of 16 mm film.
By ERIK PIEPENBURGI’ve got just two wishes this Christmas: That Santa brings me the “Hereditary” gingerbread treehouse kit and that my recommendations make your holidays scary bright.
Like the new film “Violent Night,” this movie is about a killer Santa Claus. Sort of: The degenerate Father Christmas in this case is actually a RoboSanta+ (Abraham Benrubi), a towering animatronic figure who comes to life from a toy store display to terrorize a small town with an ax and a fat sack of bloodlust.
The film opens on Christmas Eve, as Tori (Riley Dandy) and Robbie (Sam Delich) learn that the escaped RoboSanta+ viciously slaughtered two of their friends. Apparently these cyborg St. Nicks were recalled because their mechanical innards were made of repurposed Department of Defense gadgetry that went haywire. Just when it looks like nothing will stop this Santa’s Yuletide massacre, Tori takes up arms and saves Christmas. (Maybe.)
Written and directed by Joe Begos (“VFW”), this is a good-time, lowbrow, low-budget mash-up of “Willy’s Wonderland” and a Lifetime holiday rom-com written by Lucifer. The gore effects are scrappy and the butchering outrageous, especially when the camera takes RoboSanta+’s imposing POV. (Stream it on Shudder.)
With “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and “He’s Watching,” 2022 was a stellar year for experimental horror. I’m adding Johannes Grenzfurthner’s brazen and deeply disturbing film to the year’s best formbusters.
The narrator is a nameless young gay man whose face we
never see. (Grenzfurthner plays him onscreen; Ethan Haslam provides the voice.) We know little about him, other than he’s a recluse and is tortured by an increasingly debilitating tinnituslike hearing impairment.
As he slowly plummets into paranoia, his dialogue ricochets between meandering rants and sadistic invective. His diminished psychological state is mirrored in the film’s whiplash-inducing cuts — from his feet to audiology textbooks to close-ups of slugs — that almost never stop. It’s no spoiler to say the film ends in shocking stillness.
I’d be underselling this singular film if I called it a scary movie; its Lovecraftian horrors are more vast, more primal. It’s more like a philosophical horror monologue — and it’s as mesmerizing to watch as it is difficult to explain and experience. Grenzfurthner recently told MovieWeb he made it “to explore the idea of a nerd like myself going insane.” Mission accomplished.
(Rent or buy on most major platforms.)
The mega-monster who gives this folk-horror creature feature its name is a misunderstood brute in the tradition of King Kong and Godzilla — the opposite of “Trolls.” But like that animated film, there’s something deceptively ugly-cute and likable about this Norwegian beast.
The film opens as crews detect seismic activity on a mountainside where a new high-speed railroad is being built. The Norwegian government calls in Nora (Ine Marie Wilmann), a scientist, to figure out what might have caused it. She thinks it may have supernatural roots, and she’s proven right when from the earth rises a mountain-high troll covered in moss and dirt, with a big honker, long tail and a bad attitude. When the troll takes a destructive trek to Oslo, Nora finds an unorthodox way
But then he and his co-writer, Nathan Faudree, switch the script from a creepy psychological thriller to a pretentious mix of mythology and #MeToo that delivers its message with a jackhammer. I had a hard time taking seriously the tragedian togas, masks and wigs — I felt like I was stuck watching classics majors putting on an overambitious, reworked “Oresteia,” and as fanciful as the costumes are, my interest waned. That said, don’t miss the end credits.
(Stream it on Shudder.)
I’ve seen movies about gay vampires, kiddo vampires, sophomoric vampires. But I’ve never met a bloodsucker like Francis.
Played by Noah Segan, the film’s writer-director, Francis is Jewish and speaks Yiddish; sometimes schlep and schlemiel just make his points better. He’s also, to his surprise, the father of a half-human, half-vampire daughter, Jane (a terrific Victoria Moroles), who shows up one day at his front door. Francis warms to Jane, and is soon teaching her how best to sink her fangs into necks.
Jane and Francis’ unexpected introduction is what drives this good-hearted horror comedy that plays like a cousin to “Bones and All” — another film about a young woman afflicted by a taboo hunger who goes on the road in search of her roots only to find a parent who can’t totally meet her needs. But unlike Luca Guadagnino’s blood-drenched drama, Segan’s film focuses on (not always funny) humor and (almost) familyfriendly drama.
Jewishness too — I was a fan of the borscht belt-style zingers (“My phone’s dead,” Jane says. “So am I,” Francis replies.) It’s a shame that the film eventually settles into a by-thebook story about a dad, a daughter and their differences.
(Stream it on Shudder.)
If anyone has the power and influence to command the fashion world’s next direction, it is Pierpaolo Piccioli.
I mean, he just gave us a pretty in pink 2022, making the electric hue of pink the color of choice for everyone everywhere, from celebrities and macho men to influencers and royals. And of course, you and me. Even though fuchsia is a color I’ve never stopped loving and wearing in small amounts since elementary school, somehow Piccioli gave us permission to wear it from head to toe, at all times. Monochromatic. Without a hitch!
So, what’s next? Can he be doing it again? The man who turned fuchsia into a neutral color matching it with every color under the sun, now gives us #Rosso.
Rosso is the new red in the Maison Valentino. It’s not cherry, and it is not burgundy. It’s a powerful red hue with darker undertones than the signature Valentino red, according to the brand. The
luxe label is using it for their new campaign, which is celebrating the Chinese New Year. It’s really a tribute to China’s culture.
Rosso was not launched alone. It comes full throttle with #ValentinoToileIconographe, the new print envisioned by Piccioli, who describes it as “a repetitive pattern that invades the visual field unifying the entire outfit.”
The 1970s-inspired capsule collection features looks in #Rosso and black in Ready-to-Wear gar ments, coats, blouses, bags, mini skirts, high boots, hats, belts and tights. The House of Valentino starts 2023 with the hypnotic pattern, calling it “unique, liberating, exaggerated and iconic.”
Not thrilled about the Chinese New Year? Think Valentines!
an incredible stream of flame as it carried the Artemis I mission toward the moon. That shifted attention to SpaceX, which is building a next-generation rocket, Starship, that is also central to NASA’s crewed Artemis III moon landing attempt.
SpaceX cleared a key environmental review that would allow it to launch an uncrewed orbital test flight from South Texas if it met certain conditions. But the rocket wasn’t ready for flight in 2022. The company has not announced a date for a test this year, but regular ground tests of Starship equipment indicate it is working toward one.
Numerous other rockets may take flight for the first time in 2023. The most important, Vulcan Centaur by United Launch Alliance, will eventually replace that company’s Atlas V, a vehicle central to American spaceflight for two decades. The Vulcan relies on the BE-4 engine built by Blue Origin, the rocket company Jeff Bezos founded.
dark energy and dark matter.
A total eclipse and a not-so-total one
There will be two solar eclipses in 2023. A total eclipse on April 20 will be more of a Southern Hemisphere event, and the moon will blot out the sun in only remote parts of Australia and Indonesia. (Perhaps not a bad time to be on a boat in parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, too.)
By MICHAEL ROSTONAs years in space and astronomy go, 2022 is going to be a tough act to follow.
NASA wowed us with cosmic scenes captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The DART mission slammed an asteroid into a new orbit. Artemis I set humanity on a course back to the moon. China finished building a new space station in orbit. SpaceX launched and landed 61 rockets in 12 months. And the invasion of Ukraine imperiled Russia’s status as a space power.
It’s a lot to measure up to, but 2023 is bound to have some excitement on the launch pad and the lunar surface and in the sky. Once again, you can get updates on your personal digital calendar by signing up for The New York Times’ Space and Astronomy Calendar. Here are some of the major events you can expect. Not all of them have certain dates yet, but journalists at the Times will provide additional information as it emerges. More at nytimes.com/spacecalendar.
We’re guaranteed at least one lunar landing attempt in 2023. A Japanese com-
pany, Ispace, launched its M1 mission on a SpaceX rocket in December. It’s taking a slow, fuel-efficient route to the moon and is set to arrive in April, when it will try to deploy a rover built by the United Arab Emirates, a robot built by Japan’s space agency, JAXA, as well as other payloads.
There could be as many as five more lunar landing attempts this year. NASA has hired a pair of private companies to carry payloads to the lunar surface. Both of them, Intuitive Machines of Houston and Astrobotic Technology of Pittsburgh, faced delays in 2022 but may make the trip in the coming months.
They could be joined by three government space programs’ lunar missions. India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission was delayed last year but could be ready in 2023. A Japanese mission, Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, aims to test the country’s lunar landing technologies. Finally, Russia’s Luna-25 mission was postponed from September, but Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, may try this year.
NASA got its giant Space Launch System off the ground for the first time in 2022, lighting up the night in Florida with
A number of American private companies are expected to test new rockets in 2023, including Relativity and ABL. They could be joined by foreign rocket makers, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which could test Japan’s H3 rocket in February, and Arianespace, working toward a test flight of Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket.
The Webb telescope wowed space enthusiasts and scientists with its views of the cosmos, but we may get new vantages from a variety of orbital observatories.
The most significant may be Xuntian, a Chinese mission that will be like a more sophisticated version of the Hubble Space Telescope. The spacecraft will survey the universe at optical and ultraviolet wavelengths in an orbit around Earth close to the country’s Tiangong space station. A Japanese-led mission, XRISM, pronounced chrism, could launch earlier in the year. The mission will use X-ray spectroscopy to study clouds of plasma, which could help to explain the universe’s composition. A European space telescope, Euclid, may also launch on a SpaceX rocket after the Russian invasion of Ukraine resulted in the spacecraft losing its seat on a Russian Soyuz rocket. It will study the universe’s
But Americans may get a good show on Oct. 14, when North America will be visited by an annular eclipse. Eclipses of this type are sometimes called “ring of fire” eclipses because the moon is too far from Earth to fully block the sun but creates a ringlike effect when it reaches totality. The eclipse’s path runs through parts of Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas before dipping into Central and South America. Where the weather cooperates, it should be a great solar show and a nice lead-up for the total eclipse on April 8, 2024, that will cross the United States from southwest to northeast.
A new spacecraft will head toward Jupiter this year, aiming to become the first to orbit another planet’s moon. The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer, or JUICE, will launch from an Ariane 5 rocket as early as April 5 to set off to the Jovian system, arriving in 2031. Once it reaches the gas giant, it will move to conduct 35 flybys of three of the giant world’s moons: Callisto, Europa and Ganymede, all of which are believed to have subsurface oceans. In 2034, JUICE will begin orbiting Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system.
Heading closer to the sun will be Rocket Lab, a small launch company founded in New Zealand. It aims to use its Electron rocket to send a mission to Venus. The company’s Photon satellite will try to deploy a small probe, built with Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, that will briefly study the planet’s toxic atmosphere. The mission was planned for May, but it is expected to face delays while the company prioritizes missions for its other customers.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
LIME HOMES, Ltd. Plaintiff, vs. ALEXIS DIAZ
HERNANDEZ, HIS WIFE
LILLIAM CRISTELA
CARRON ACOSTA AND THE CONJUGAL LEGAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THEM: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Defendants
Civil No. 18-1517 (PAD). RE: FORECLOSURE IN REM. NOTICE OF SALE.
TO: ALEXIS DIAZLILLIAM CRISTELA
CARRON ACOSTA AND THE CONJUGAL LEGAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THEM: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC:
WHEREAS: On April 5, 2019
Default Judgment was entered and grated on same day in favor of Plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal amount of $208,684.35, plus interest at a rate of 6.125% per annum since August 1st, 2015 to the present. The defendant also owes Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.00% of each and any monthly installment not received by the mortgage note holder within 15 days after the installment was due; all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note, including but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections; as well as 10% ($25,900.00) of the original principal amount to cover, costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligations. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the Court, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following
URBANA: Parcela de terreno identificada como Solar 60 del Bloque “MM” de la Urbanización Mansión Del Mar, radicada en el Barrio Sabana Seca del término municipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 407.614 metros cuadrados y en lindes por el NORTE, en 9.34 metros y en una distancia en arco de 3.87 metros, con la calle número 4 (Plaza de Estrellas); por el SUR, en 23.26 metros con los solares número 61 y 62; por el ESTE, en 24.12 metros con la calle número 1; y por el OESTE, en 23.50 metros con el solar número 59. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. The encumbered property is recorded at Page 215 of Volume 484 of Toa Baja, Property Registry of Puerto Rico, and lot number #26,650, Section Second of Bayamón. Property address: Urbanización Mansión Del Mar, MM-60 Plaza Estrella, Toa Baja, P.R. 00949. The deed of mortgage is recorded at Page 203 of Volume 549 of Toa Baja, Property Registry of Bayamón, Second Section. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following Juniors liens described in Spanish: A. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de First Equity Mortgage Bankers, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $76,000.00, con intereses al 10.500% anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2037, constituida mediante la escritura número 206, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 3 de julio de 2007, ante la notario Ana Isabel Diaz Cabán, e inscrita al folio 204 del tomo 549 de Toa Baja, finca número 26,650, inscripción 7ma. B. Embargo Federal contra Alexis Díaz Hernández y L. Carrión, seguro social xxx-xx-9021, por la suma de $2,987.88, notificación número 180364615, presentado el día 22 de octubre de 2015, anotado al folio 14, Asiento 4, del libro de Embargos Federales número 4. Fecha límite de renovación 21 de enero de 2025. C. Embargo Federal contra Alexis Díaz Hernández, seguro social xxx-xx-9021, por la suma de $3,843.63, notificación número 18364115, presentado el día 22 de octubre de 2015, anotado al folio 14, Asiento 3, del libro de Embargos Federales número 4. Fecha límite de renovación de fecha 22 de julio 2025. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but
not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the 14th day of February of 2023, at: 8:30 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $259,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the 21st day of February of 2023, at: 8:30 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $172,666.67, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 28th day of February of 2023, at: 8:30 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $129,500.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The undersigned Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the undersigned Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 29th day of November of 2022. By:
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY FSB D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR THE CSMC 2015-pr 1 TRUST MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2015PR-1
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE MIRTHA ALEMAN SANTIAGO TC/C MYRTA ALEMAN SANTIAGO, MIRTA DEL CARMEN ADEMAN, COMPUESTA POR DAMARIS CRUZ ALEMAN, ARELIS CRUZ ALEMAN, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ALBERTO CRUZ SANTINI; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2018CV03553.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Guaynabo, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que venderá en pública subasta en la Oficina de Alguaciles, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $15,987.72 de balance principal, al 7.50% anual desde el primero de noviembre de 2017 hasta su completo pago; el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad de principal e interés por la suma de $311.85 por concepto de cargos por demora desde el día primero de diciembre de 2017, hasta su total y completo pago; más la suma estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca por la suma de $4,460.00; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto le-
gal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número once (11) del Bloque O del plano de inscripción del proyecto Zenón Díaz Valcárcel PRHA guion once (PRHA-11) radicado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo Amelia del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico con una cabida superficial de doscientos cincuenta y tres metros cuadrados con cincuenta y seis centésimas de metro cuadrados (253.56 m/c); en lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Número Cinco (5) distancia de once metros con dos centímetros (11.02); por el SUR, con el solar O guion cincuenta y cuatro (O-54) distancia de once metros con cuarenta y cuatro centímetros (11.44); por el ESTE, con el solar O guion doce (O-12) distancia de veintidós metros con sesenta centímetros y por el OESTE, con el Solar O guion diez (O-10) distancia de veintidós metros con cincuenta y cinco centímetros (22.55). Sobre este solar enclava una casa. Finca número 19,987, Inscrita al folio 261 del tomo 451 de Guaynabo, del Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. Dirección Física: Barrio Amelia, 43 Calle Hermandad, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00965. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $44,600.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $29,733.33. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 21 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $22,300.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo es-
timase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 21 de noviembre de 2022. YANIXA RAMOS, ALGUACIL
DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE GUAYNABO,
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
Parte Demandante Vs.
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00624.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela de terreno localizada en la Urbanización Villas del Pilar, del término municipal de Ceiba, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos noventa punto catorce metros cuadrados (390.14 m.c.), localizada en la Manzana “B”, solar número dieciocho (18); en lindes por el NORTE, en veinticuatro (24.00) metros, con el solar número diecinueve raya B (19B); por el SUR, en veinticuatro punto cero dos (24.02) metros, con el solar número diecisiete raya B (17-B); por el ESTE, en quince punto setenta y seis (15.76) metros, con el solar número cinco raya B (5-B) y por el OESTE, en dieciséis punto setenta y cinco (16.75) metros, con la Calle San Miguel. Enclava una casa. Finca número #2,118, inscrita al folio 270 del tomo 46 de Ceiba. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. La propie-
dad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Villas del Pilar, 18-B Calle San Miguel, Ceiba, P.R. 00735. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $91,944.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #338, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 3 de noviembre de 2014, ante el notario Jorge García Soto, e inscrita al folio 81 del tomo 177 de Ceiba, finca número 2,118, inscripción 10ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 11 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $91,944.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 18 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 11:30 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 $61,296.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 11:30 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 $45,972.00. 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 $86,512.04, la cual se desglosa a continuación: una suma principal de $85,424.28, con intereses a 5.875% anual, desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2019, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $1,087.76 (piggy back), como balance diferido, la cual no genera intereses, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equiva-
property described in Spanish: Pedro A. Vélez Baerga, Special Master 787-672-8269.lente a $9,194.40, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 17 de noviembre de 2022. Denise Bruno Ortiz, Alguacil Auxiliar #266. Jorge A. Ortiz Estrada, Alguacil Regional Interino Placa #266.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA MTGLQ, INVESTORS, L.P. Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE RUTH
ADRIANA CARABALLO HUERTAS COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS: ADRIÁN EDGARDO MARRERO DE LEÓN COMO COMPONENTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RUTH AMARILIS DE LEÓN CARABALLO; SUCESIÓN DE ADA HUERTAS DELGADO COMPUESTA RAFAEL ROSADO HUERTAS Y RIGOBERTO ROSADO HUERTAS; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE RUTH ADRIANA CARABALLO HUERTAS, ADA HUERTAS DELGADO Y RUTH AMARILIS DE LEÓN CARABALLO; CRIM Demandados Civil Núm.: GM2019CV00288. Salón Núm.: (303). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: SUCESIÓN DE RUTH ADRIANA CARABALLO HUERTAS COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS: ADRIÁN EDGARDO MARRERO DE LEÓN COMO COMPONENTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RUTH AMARILIS DE LEÓN CARABALLO; SUCESIÓN DE ADA HUERTAS DELGADO COMPUESTA RAFAEL ROSADO HUERTAS Y RIGOBERTO ROSADO HUERTAS; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE RUTH ADRIANA CARABALLO HUERTAS, ADA HUERTAS DELGADO Y RUTH AMARILIS DE LEÓN CARABALLO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guayama, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número uno del Bloque “KK” de la Urbanización Costa Azul situada en el Barrio Machete del término municipal de Guayama, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de doscientos seten-
ta y cuatro metros cuadrados cincuenta y un centímetros. En lindes por el NORTE, en un arco de trece metros con calle número catorce; por el SUR, en doce metros cincuenta y seis centímetros con futura avenida; por el ESTE, en veinte y dos metros noventa y cinco centímetros con el solar numero dos; y por el OESTE, en veinte y tres metros treinta y siete centímetros con área reservada para facilidades vecinales y usos accesorios. En dicho solar enclava una casa diseñada para fines residenciales. Consta inscrita al folio 260 del tomo 316 de Guayama, finca número #10,540, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Guayama. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Costa Azul, KK-1 Calle 14, Guayama, P.R. 00784. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $53,662.99, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #435, otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 17 de diciembre de 2004, ante el notario Lourdes M. Collazo Algarín, inscrita al folio 12 del tomo 473 de Guayama, finca #10,540, inscripción 7ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guayama, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $53,662.99. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 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 $35,775.32. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 22 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 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 $26,831.49. 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 $48,235.76, la cual se desglosa
a continuación: la suma principal de $43,879.21, con intereses a 6.00% anual, desde el 5 de noviembre de 2017, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, la suma principal de $4,355.55, como pago diferido y la cual no genera intereses, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 20% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $10,732.59, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables.
Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Guayama, Puerto Rico, a 15 de diciembre de 2022. LITZY M. CORA ANAYA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #247.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. RICARDO MIGUEL FRANCIA MAVILA, MILLIE PEREZ RIVERA Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR ESTOS COMPUESTA Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02881. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada RICARDO MIGUEL FRANCIA MAVILA, MILLIE PEREZ RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR ESTOS COMPUESTA y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 15 de noviembre de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $79,600.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: CONDOMINIO ALTAMESA GARDENS, APT C-21, AVE. SAN ALFONSO 1, SAN JUAN, PR 00921, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento Altamesa Gardens: Apartment C-21 is located on the third floor of building number 3, which is located in the Western part of the property. It consists of an irregular rectangular shaped body, measuring approximately 31’ ½”long by 24’ O” wide, that in an area of 710.00 square feet, and 66.300 square meters of another. Bounding by the North with a party wall which separates it from apartment C-22 and with the interior wall which separates it from the Northwest, stairways of the rectangular section, located on the extreme south of the long leg of the “L” which forms building number 3 to which the entrance door of the apartment opens and which leads to the public way, by the South, with the party wall which separates it from apartment C-16, by the East, with the exterior wall which separates it from the common yard on the East side of the building, by the West, with the exterior wall which separates it from the common yard on the West, side of the building . This apartment consists of a combination living room, dining room, a kitchen equipped with a unit cabinet in General Electric Rage Model JM Seventy One with counter and a thirty gallon capacity water heater, a bathroom and two bedrooms. The percent in the element common is .916%. Finca 21849 inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 675 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de
San Juan, Sección III. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Ricardo Miguel Francia Mavila y su esposa Millie Perez Rivera, en garantía de un pagaré, aff. #2896, a favor de Oriental Bank, o a su orden, por $79,600.00 al 3.50%, vencedero el 1 de agosto de 2030, según Esc. #370 en San Juan a 28 de julio de 2015 ante Jose R. Marchand Planel, inscrita al folio 177 def tomo 1099 de Monacillos finca #21849 inscripción 8va. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 15 de julio de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $59,534.19 de principal, más $4,288.94 de interés al 3.50% anual al 22 de marzo de 2022, que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total, $636.04 de cuenta escrow, $654.35 de cargos por atraso, $12.48 de otros cargos, $7,960.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $79,600.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 31 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $53,066.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $39,800.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se
entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación.
La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy 12 de diciembre de 2022. Edwin E. López Mulero, Alguacil Auxiliar, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De San Juan.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. LUIS MIGUEL BÁEZ
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02066.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada LUIS MIGUEL BÁEZ ROSARIO, OTONIEL BÁEZ ROSARIO, ELIEZER BÁEZ ROSARIO Y CRISTAL BÁEZ ROSARIO como miembros conocidos de la Sucesión de Ramonita Rosario Alicea, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE como miembros desconocidos de la Sucesión de Ramonita Rosario Alicea y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 17 de agosto de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $46,100.00 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: C-158 CALLE 39A PARCELAS FALU, SAN JUAN, PR 00924, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 158-C en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Hill Brothers, del barrio Sabana Llana del término municipal de San Juan, con una cabida superficial de 0.0672 cuerdas equivalentes a 264.27 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela 166-A de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la Parcela 158-B de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la calle 39-A de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la Parcela 158 de la comunidad.
ENCLAVA estructura para uso residencial de tres cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina un baño y marquesina con un área de construcción de 955 pies cuadrados y que resul-
ROSARIO, OTONIEL BÁEZ
ELIEZER BÁEZ ROSARIO Y CRISTAL BÁEZ ROSARIO COMO MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN
ROSARIO ALICEA JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAMONITA
DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL Y CARMEN GLADYS VELAZQUEZ GUZMÁN CON LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES
CONOCIDAS: CALLE PASEO CRISTAL #42, PASEOS DE SANT BARBARA, GURABO PR 00778; 85 ARLINGTON AVE. APTO. 201, BLOOMFIELD, NJ 07003; 211 GAIL STREET, VIDALIA, GEORGIA 30474; COND. PARQUE SAN ANTONIO II, APT. 3005, BARRIO CAÑABONCITO, CAGUAS PR 00727-5963; COND. PARQUE SAN ANTONIO II, APT. 3002, BARRIO CAÑABONCITO, CAGUAS PR 00727-5963.
VISTA la Moción Solicitando se dicte Orden de interpelación a los miembros de la SUCESIÓN DE DE RAMÓN PULLIZA ALMODÓVAR compuesta por Gladynel María Polliza Velazquez, Axel Francis Pulliza Velazquez, Alexander Polliza Velazquez, Fulano de Tal y Fulana de Tal y Carmen Gladys Velazquez Guzmán, se declara HA LUGAR y de conformidad con el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020, antes Art. 959 del Código Civil de 1930 se dicta Orden para que expresen si han de aceptar o rechazar formalmente la herencia del causante MARCOS GONZALEZ RODRlGUEZ en el término de treinta (30) días, dispuesto en ley. Se advierte a los miembros de la SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN PULIZA ALMODÓVAR, que al haberse presentado el pleito en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en contra del causante mencionado, de no recibirse contestación en el término de treinta (30) días a partir de la notificación de esta orden, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada y los herederos responden por la deuda reclamada. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy 07 de diciembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. VILMA OYOLA RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA ALTA FORTALEZA EQUITY PARTNERS I, LLC Demandante V.
Demandados Civil Núm.: DO2022CV00203.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S.
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 publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de publicación. Se le advierte que al tiempo de hacerse la primera publicación de este edicto se le estará enviando por correo certificado una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda al lugar de su última dirección conocida. 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 represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal.
Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le requiere que notifique su contestación a la parte demandante, por conducto de sus abogados, Lcda. Ana J. Bobonis Zequeira a su dirección Fernández Chiqués LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908, Tel. (787) 722-3040, Fax (787) 722-3317, Email: ana@ffclaw. com, dentro del término provisto o se le podrá anotar la rebeldía en su contra y se le dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDI-
DO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO
DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTHA E. ROSARIO ROSA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ
Demandante Vs. ABIMELEC HERNÁNDEZ TORRES, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
Demandado Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV01304. Salón: 206. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación 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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, P. O. Box 1210, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-1210 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 006812342, Teléfonos: (787) 8329620 y (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 19 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA. NORMA SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ALEXADRA M. LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
ASSOCIATION, INC.
Parte Demandante V. GILBERTO MEDINA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2022CV01235. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: GONZÁLEZ & MORALES LAW OFFICES, LLC PO BOX 10242 HUMACAO, PR 00792
TELÉFONO: (787) 852-4422
FACSÍMIL: (787) 285-4425 Email: jrg@gonzalezmorales.com abogados de la parte demandante, cuya dirección es la que deja indicada, con copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, copia de la cual le es servida en este caso, 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://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Debe saber que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 22 de diciembre de 2022. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL AUXILIAR. DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, SUBSECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
RIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO PALMAS DEL MAR HOMEOWNERS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. INDALECIA MEDINA CORDERO T/C/C INES INDALECIA MEDINA CORDERO; BENJAMIN QUILES MEDINA Y JOSE DAVID QUILES MEDINA Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2019CV03820. (403). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA-
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: INDALECIA MEDINA CORDERO T/C/C INES INDALECIA MEDINA CORDERO; BENJAMIN QUILES MEDINA Y JOSE DAVID QUILES MEDINA. Yo, MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el Cuarto Piso, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Bayamón durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 28 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: URBANIZACIÓN SANTA JUANITA de Bayamón Sur. Solar: 6 Bloque “A”. Cabida: 310.5 metros cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, con solar No. 5 del Bloque “A”; Sur, con solar No. 7 del Bloque “A”; Este, con servidumbre de paso de canal del Gobierno Municipal; y por el Oeste, con la Calle Alameda. Contiene una casa de hormigón y bloques para una sola familia. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 135vto. del tomo 416 de Bayamón Sur, Finca No. 18826, Inscripción 6ta. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 6ta., en cuanto al principal que será por $45,660.39 sus intereses serán al 8.50% anual y vencedero el 1ro. de marzo de 2057, según la escritura número 191, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 17 de marzo de 2017, ante el Notario Público Roberto L. Varela Ríos, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, Registro de Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera,
finca 18,826, inscripción 5ta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Santa Juanita, Calle Alameda, A-6, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $45,567.71 de principal, intereses al 8 1/2% anual, desde el día 1ro. de noviembre de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $4,840.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $48,400.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $32,266.67 y de necesitarse una tercera subasta la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir la suma de $24,200.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y
sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 22 de diciembre de 2022. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR THE CSMC 2015-PR1 TRUST, MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2015-PR1
Plaintiff, V. EDUARDO LUIS FERREIRA MARTIR; JANNETTE LAY PACHECO, CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP FERREIRA-LAY
Defendants
Civil Action Num.: 18-CV-2005. (ADC). Matter: FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: EDUARDO LUIS FERREIRA MARTIR; JANNETTE LAY PACHECO, CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP FERREIRA-LAY: AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC:
WHEREAS: On February 10, 2022, Default Judgment was entered and grated the same day in favor of Plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal amount of $155,948.62, plus accrued interests at an annual rate of 5.50%, since February 1st, 2017, to the present, plus a stipulated fee equivalent to 10% of the original principal loan amount, that is $14,000.00 for fees, costs, and attorney’s fees and a late charge fee equivalent to 5% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. Defendants also owe Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right
of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the Court, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property described in Spanish: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número 5102 ubicado en el segundo piso del Edificio 51-52 en su Sección número cincuenta y uno en su lado Izquierdo, cual edificio está localizado en el lado Suroeste del inmueble sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal conocido por Condominio Plaza Antillana, ubicado en el Barrio Hato Rey del municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, cuya entrada y salida da hacía a la Avenida César González, la cual radica en el lado Oeste del inmueble, está construido de hormigón reforzado y bloques de hormigón con un área de piso de mil doscientos treinta pies, cuadrados con cuatrocientos cuarenta milésimas de otro (1,230.440 p.c.), equivalentes a ciento catorce metros cuadrados con trescientos setenta milésimas de otro (114.370 m.c.). Su entrada está localizada en el lado izquierdo del piso número dos orientada hacia el Noroeste del edificio y da acceso directamente al vestíbulo de dicho piso que a su vez da acceso a las áreas comunes generales de la propiedad y a los estacionamientos para llegar a la vía pública. El apartamento consta de un solo nivel y está dividido en los siguientes elementos: Una sala-comedor, una cocina, áreas de lavandería, tres cuartos dormitorios con sus closets unidos por un pasillo central, dos baños, uno con acceso al pasillo central y el segundo ubicado dentro del área del cuarto dormitorio principal; la sala-comedor, a su vez da acceso al balcón. Contiene un calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina. Su forma es triangular aproximadamente. En lindes por el NORTE, en once pies seis pulgadas (11’6”) con el exterior del edificio; por el SUR, en dos alineaciones que suman treinta y cinco pies ocho pulgadas (35’8”), con un área exterior que constituye un elemento común limitado; por el SUROESTE, en once pies seis pulgadas con exterior del edificio; por el ESTE, en treinta y cinco pies seis pulgadas (35’6”), con el apartamento cinco mil dos (5002); y por el NOROESTE, en dos alineaciones de treinta y dos pies una pulgada (32’1”), con el apartamento cinco mil doscientos dos (5202) y de quince pies (15’) con el pasillo de entrada del edificio que es un elemento común limitado del piso que suman cuarenta y siete pies una pulgadas (47’1”).
El estacionamiento es anejo al apartamento y se identifi-
YVETTE VEGA LAMBOY POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE FRANCISCO RIOS
VEGA, CRISTAL MARIE RIOS VEGA E IVETTE VEGA LAMBOY EN SU CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA
ca con el mismo número del apartamento y tiene capacidad para dos vehículos. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos communes generales el punto treinta y dos trescientos veintitrés por ciento (0.32323%). Le corresponde a este apartamento en los gastos de operación y mantenimiento general del Condominio el punto veintinueve trescientos noventa y uno por ciento (0.29391%) como elementos comunes limitados. The property is recorded at Page 121 of Volume 1362 of Rio Piedras Norte, Property Registry of Puerto Rico, and lot number 37,160, Second Section of San Juan. Property address: Condominio Plaza Antillana, Apto. 5102, San Juan, P.R. 00918. The deed of subsequent modifications are recorded at Page 55 of Volume 1532 of Río Piedras Norte, Property Registry of San Juan, Second Section. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: NONE. Junior Liens: NONE. Other Liens: NONE. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 14TH DAY OF FEBRUARY OF 2023, AT: 8:30 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $154,872.72. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 21ST DAY OF FEBRUARY OF 2023, AT: 8:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $103,248.48, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 28TH DAY OF FEBRUARY OF 2023, AT: 8:30 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $77,436.36, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount
owed if it is greater. The undersigned Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the undersigned Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, 22nd day of December of 2022. Pedro A. Vélez Baerga, Special Master, 787-672-8269.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE DORIS FE AMADOR BORGES T/C/C DORIS AMADOR BORGES COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERO CONOCIDO JOSÉ R. JIMÉNEZ AMADOR; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV05272. (508). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DORIS FE AMADOR BORGES T/C/C DORIS AMADOR BORGES.
LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal
ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 60 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 28 de diciembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 28 de diciembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSA MAGALY CANDELARIO CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA ELIO JR. MONTALVO LOPEZ T/C/P ELLO JR. MONTALVO
Demandante V. JOSE ANTONIO PELLOT GONZALEZ
Demandado(a) Civil: AG2022CV01492. Sobre: DESAHUCIO POR FALTA DE PAGO Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOSE ANTONIO PELLOT GONZALEZ.
CARR. #110 KM. 1.4 BO. ARENALES BAJO, AGUADILLA, PUERTO RICO.
LCDA. IVONNE M. GONZALEZ SAMOT. P.O. BOX 613, ISABELA, PUERTO RICO 00662.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted
una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de diciembre de 2022. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 29 de diciembre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ZUHEILY GONZÁLEZ AVILÉS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO ORIENTAL
Parte Demandante V. MARÍA DE LOS A. HERNÁNDEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01123.
Sala: 504. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MARIA DE LOS A. HERNÁNDEZ
POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a:
AGS LEGAL COLLECTIONS, LLC Abogados de la parte demandante Lcdo. Ricardo A Acevedo BianchiRUA 20637
Lcdo. José R. González RiveraRUA 13105 P.O. Box 10242 Humacao, Puerto Rico 00792
Teléfono: (939) 545-4300
Email: rab@agslegalpr.com o jrg@ agslegalpr.com
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva, con copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante, dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día su publicación. 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. 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. Extendido bajo mi firma y Sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de diciembre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MICHELLE VÁZQUEZ OLIVIERI, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO
SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC.
Demandante V. VALERIE CASTRO PEREZ, JOSE LENIEL MOLINA SANTIAGO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2021CV01702. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, WILLIAM LUGO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Arecibo, al público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha 3 de agosto de 2022, por la Secretaria de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dos del Bloque “Z” del plano de inscripción del proyecto San Daniel, denominado PRcinco-ciento veinticuatro radicado en el Barrio Hato Abajo de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos noventa y cuatro metros cuadrados con treinta y seis centésimas de metro cuadrado; en lindes por el NORTE, con la calle número treinta y una distancia de doce metros; por el SUR, con la sucesión de Gabino Román Vélez y una distancia de doce metro con diez centímetro; por el ESTE, con el solar número tres y una distancia de veinticinco metros con treinta y un centímetros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número uno y una distancia de veintitrés metros con setenta y cinco
centímetros. Enclava en este solar una estructura de hormigón reforzado y bloques de hormigón de una planta. Finca Número 23,134, inscrita al folio 65 del tomo 1142 de Arecibo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Arecibo. Dirección física: 2Z 30 ST. Jardines de Arecibo (San Daniel), Arecibo, Puerto Rico 00612. La finca 23,134 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca en garantía de Pagaré a favor de Sun West Mortgage Corporation Incorporated, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $88,369.00, con intereses al 2.75% anual, vencedero el día 1 de septiembre de 2050, constituida mediante la escritura número 99, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico el día 24 de agosto de 2020, ante la notario Olga Y. Cabrera Ramos e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Arecibo, finca número 23,134, inscripción 12ma. La propiedad está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: A. Aviso de Demanda emitido el 16 de diciembre de 2021, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, en el caso civil número AR2021CV01702, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Sun West Mortgage Company Inc., v. Valerie Castro Pérez y su esposo José Leniel Molina Santiago, por la suma de $87,253.62 más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 27 de diciembre de 2021 al tomo Karibe de Arecibo, finca número 23,134, Anotación B. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Sun West Mortgage Company Inc., total o parcialmente el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 28 de abril de 2022. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Sun West Mortgage Company Inc., por la hipoteca de $88,369.00, total o parcialmente. El importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $98,939.47 de principal, más intereses al 2.75% anual desde el 30 de abril de 2022, así como los intereses acumulados y por acumularse a partir de esa fecha y hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; cargos por demora equivalentes al % de todos aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento hasta el total y completo repago de la deuda; $8,836.90, es decir, el 10% sobre el principal del pagaré hipotecario para el pago de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado; 10% de la cuantía original del Pagaré para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente al 10% del principal original del Pagaré para cubir los intere-
ses en adición a los garantizados por ley. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $88,369.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 13 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA.
PRECIO MÍNIMO: $58,912.66.
TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 21 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $44,184.50. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Arecibo, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses devengados hasta la fecha de la subasta, en cuarto término las sumas establecidas en la Sentencia para el pago de recargos por demora, contribuciones, seguros y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada conforme con la sentencia dictada.
Disponiéndose que si quedara algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas o gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se le apercibe a los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquiera derechos que tengan sobre el inmueble, deberán comparecer a la subasta, pues de no hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancelación de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara desierta la
tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuere igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta fuese mayor. Art. 221, Ley Hipotecaria y del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, 30 L.P.R.A. §2721. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Arecibo, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre cada publicación. Se fijará además, en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección que obra en autos. Una vez efectuada la correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspaso al licitador victorioso, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanzamiento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta y para ello procederé a romper candados de ser necesario. El Registrador de la Propiedad cancelará, libre de derechos, todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 8 de noviembre de 2023. WILLIAM
LUGO #720, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
JEFFREY COYNER Demandante Vs. EMILIA LUDOVINA DIAZ BONILLA TAMBIENCONOCIDA COMO LUDY DÍAZ Y COMO EMILIO L. DÍAZ
Civil Núm.: NG2022CV00136.
Sobre: CONVALIDACIÓN DE SENTENCIA (EXEQUATUR). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING
Demandante V. BRUNILDA RODRIGUEZ AMARO Y OTROS Demandado(a) Civil: CA2022CV02341. Sala: 402. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA - IN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
RIVERA REPRESENTADO POR SUS MIEMBROS MARIA DEL CARMEN; JUAN CARLOS, SORANGEL Y SUHEIL DE APELLIDOS JUSNO MONTALVO
COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE ISMAEL PÉREZ RIVERA COMPUESTA ADEMAS POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
TARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
RO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC Demandante V. EDUARDO R NAZARIO VALENCIA
BRENDA L. OSORIO CANDELARIA.
Se notifica que se presentó en esta Secretaría la Demanda de epígrafe sobre Convalidación de Sentencia de Divorcio (Exequatur). Se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia al Abogado de la parte demandante: Lcdo. Mariano S. Najeraurriola: Urb. Summit Hill, 1647 Calle Adams, San Juan, PR 00920-4510, Teléfono: (787) 640-2056, fax (787) 792-6475, mnajeralaw@gmail. com. 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, sin mas citarle, ni oírle. El documento judicial del cual se solicita su convalidación es una sentencia de divorcio del 30 de junio de 2019, en el caso número “20C01-1901-DN-000025” seguido en la Corte de Circuito Superior, de Elkhart, del estado de Indiana, Estados Unidos de América. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 29 de diciembre de 2022. Ivelisse Fonseca Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Alejandrina Torres Torres, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA
A:
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de diciembre de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 29 de diciembre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE SUCESION DE MARCIAL JUSINO OQUENDO Y MARGARITA RIVERA NUÑEZ COMPUESTA POR MIEMBROS: CARLOS HIRAM JUSINO RIVERA; MARCIAL JUSINO
ANTONIO JUSINO
ANA MILAGROS JUSINO
PABLO JUSINO RIVERA Y LA SUCESION DE ANGEL LUIS JUSINO
Parte Demandante Vs. MARCOS IVAN JUSINO RIVERA; CARMEN IRIS JUSINO RIVERA; ROSA HILDA JUSINO RIVERA; MIGUEL ANGEL JUSINO RIVERA Y JAVIER JUSINO RIVERA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2020CV00976.
Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES Y HEREDITARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: CARMEN IRIS JUSINO RIVERA, MARCOS IVAN JUSINO RIVERA, PARA SER NOTIFICADO POR EDICTO.
P/C: LCDO. WENDELL W. COLON MUÑOZ. PO BOX 7970, PONCE, PUERTO RICO 00732.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de diciembre de 2022. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 29 de diciembre de 2022. Luz Mayra Caraballo García, Secretaria Regional. Loyda Torres Irizarry, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO COMMOLOCO INC. (PR)
Demandante V. ALEJANDRINA SANTOS OCASIO POR SI Y
Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00746.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: ALEJANDRINA SANTOS OCASIO POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE ISMAEL PÉREZ RIVERA COMPUESTA ADEMAS POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS.
Queden emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto y deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual podrá acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074
TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC 1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100 Boca Ratón, FL 33432 Tel. 877-338-4101 / Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppllc.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 12 de septiembre de 2022. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRE-
Demandado(a) Civil: CA2022CV01803. Sala: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: EDUARDO R NAZARIO VALENCIA - VALLE ARRIBA HTS, L14 CALLE AUSUBO, CAROLINA PR 00983-3463. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de diciembre de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 29 de diciembre de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria. Maricruz Aponte Alicea, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FTIND, LLC
Demandante V. BRENDA L. OSORIO CANDELARIA
Demandado(a) Civil: CT2022CV00065. Salón: 703. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE-
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de diciembre de 2022. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 29 de diciembre de 2022. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL /SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA ASOCIACIÓN DE RESIDENTES COMPLEJO LAS CASCADAS II, INC. Demandante V. WILLIAM RUIZ TORRES, YEISA ACEVEDO, AMBOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
Demandado Civil Núm.: TA2022CV00853. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: WILLIAM RUIZ TORRES, YEISA ACEVEDO, ambos por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales Compuesta Por Ambos.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda contra usted(es),
solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Demanda de COBRO DE DINERO, por concepto de cuotas de mantenimientos vencidas y no pagadas por la suma de $19,302.00 al 22 de agosto de 2022. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: LCDO. MELVYN E. FONTAN LOZADA Colegiado Núm. 15768, RUA: 14519 PO Box 124, Bayamón, PR 00960-0124 Tel. 787-340-6604 Fax 787-261-9168 e-mail: melfonloza@live.com, melvynfontan@gmail.com Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, 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 secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deje 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. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, 20 de diciembre de 2022. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional. Maritza Bonilla Hernández, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
A: A LA PARTE DEMANDADA: MASTER MORTGAGE CORPORATION A LA SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: URB HERMANAS DÁVILA, AVE BETANCES #24, BAYAMON, PR 00959, URB HERMANAS DÁVILA, AVE BETANCES #67, BAYAMON, PR 00959, ADA ISABEL MÁRQUEZ MONGE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON HÉCTOR RENÉ SIERRA TORRES A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES URB. LOS INGENIEROS (URB. ROOSEVELT), 508 CALLE JOSE A CANALS, SAN JUAN, PR 00918-2741, PO BOX 1616, GUAYNABO, PR 00970-1616, SANTA CLARA, Q22 CALLE 12, SAN JUAN, PR 00927, URB. SANTA CLARA Q22 CALLE EMAJAGUA, GUAYNABO, PR 009696822, 2761 N PINE ISLAND RD APT 312, SUNRISE, FL 33322-2291. FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV05584. Materia: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de esta. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de diciembre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 27 de diciembre de 2022. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Johanna Rodríguez Benítez, Secretaria Auxiliar.
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DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE METMOR FINANCIAL, INC. T/C/C PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. MASTER MORTGAGE CORPORATION, HÉCTOR RENÉ SIERRA TORRES, ADA ISABEL MÁRQUEZ MONGE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ
The NFL was facing one of its worst crises in decades as Buffalo Bills defender Damar Hamlin remained in critical condition Tuesday after collapsing during a prime-time game in Cincinnati, raising fresh questions about ever-present serious injury in America’s biggest sport.
Hamlin, 24, collapsed in the first quarter of a highly anticipated matchup with the Bengals on Monday night, forcing the league to suspend the game. As Hamlin lay on the field motionless, many of his teammates in tears nearby, medical workers pumped his heart in a suddenly hushed stadium.
After Hamlin’s heartbeat was restored and he was taken off the field by ambulance, to be transported to a hospital trauma unit, the coaches conferred with Shawn Smith, the head referee, and the players walked into their locker rooms. About 30 minutes later, the league formally postponed the game, and the Bills later flew back to Buffalo, New York.
In a brief interview Tuesday, Jordon Rooney, Hamlin’s marketing agent, said Hamlin’s family had no updates on his condition but remained hopeful.
“They’re strong. They’re optimistic,” Rooney said. “They’re being patient as they can be.” Rooney said that he had been at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center all night and that the family had been in constant communication with the Bills.
The team said in a statement Tuesday afternoon that Hamlin remained in the hospital’s intensive care unit in critical condition.
“We want to express our sincere gratitude for the love and support shown to Damar during this challenging time,” the family said in a statement distributed by Rooney.
The league said in a statement that the Bills-Bengals game would not be resumed this week and that it had not decided whether or when to finish the game. Both teams are vying for the lone bye in the first round of the playoffs heading into the last weekend of the regular
season.
The dark turn was a reminder that the NFL has become America’s most popular league despite an always-present risk of injury. With the regular season winding down and the playoffs around the corner, the league has seen a high number of close contests and jaw-dropping plays and has been richly rewarded by broadcasters and sponsors for them.
But the NFL juggernaut flipped to a prime-time nightmare that overtook a national showcase between two championship contenders. The question of violence that always hovers over NFL contests had once again rocked the league. Hamlin’s cardiac arrest was no torn knee or busted ankle. It was potentially life-ending, the most frightening type of injury in a sport built on frightening collisions.
The reaction from fans and football veterans was swift, predictable and confusing. There were expressions of support. Sensing the gravity of the situation, many NFL teams sent well wishes to Hamlin on Twitter. Millions of dollars were donated overnight to a fundraiser that Hamlin had set up to pay for toy drives and other activities for children.
At the same time, television viewers heard Joe Buck, ESPN’s play-by-play broadcaster for the game, say that the
players, just before they returned to the locker rooms, were told they would have about five minutes to get ready to play again. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow could be seen tossing a football.
“That’s the word we get from the league and the word we get from down on the field, but nobody’s moving,” Buck said.
In a news conference about three hours later, the NFL denied that there was any consideration to restarting the game.
“Immediately, my player hat went on,” Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice president for football operations and a former cornerback, said to reporters. “How do you resume play after you’ve seen such a traumatic event occur in front of you real time? And that’s the way we were thinking about it.”
Whatever the truth, football fans — and even former star players — are once again asking whether the game they enjoy is worth the risk. Ryan Clark, a former hard-hitting defensive back who is now an analyst on ESPN, said many players fool themselves into thinking they are modern-day gladiators when in fact they are highly paid entertainers smashing their bodies for a living.
“We use these cliches. ‘Going to
war,’ ‘willing to die,’ ‘give it all,’” Clark wrote on Twitter on Monday night. “That’s all talk. It’s a game. A game! You never suit up & think you’re not going to make it home.”
Coaches, too, appeared to be grappling with the dilemmas raised by football and an event that has thrown the league’s hard-and-fast rhythms off-kilter. Coaches at several teams canceled their scheduled conference calls with reporters, though many continued their preparation for this weekend’s games.
Hamlin’s collapse was far from the only reminder of football’s “next man up” culture in a league where the lack of guaranteed contracts incentivizes players to return to action as soon as possible. Indeed, Hamlin had joined the Bills’ starting lineup in September as a replacement for safety Micah Hyde, who has been out with a neck injury.
Injuries and even deaths are not uncommon in football. Every year, a handful of high school football players die, some from heatstroke, some from broken necks. Families and communities are shattered. Yet while participation in high school football has slipped in recent years, it remains the most popular sport among boys.
The NFL is another realm because it has turned the game into mass entertainment, complete with cheerleaders, packed stadiums and big-name sponsors hawking their products. Yet the NFL knows the game’s violence has turned off fans and has watched families steer their sons into baseball, basketball and soccer.
So the league takes pains to remind fans that it is using its vast resources to “make the game safer” and “take the head out of the game.” In 2019, the league even produced a video on how to recognize and rescue players who suffer sudden cardiac arrest.
But tackle football centers on bigger, stronger and faster players crashing into one another on every down, and no amount of dollars, training and good intentions will change that. The best the NFL can do is reduce risk, not eliminate it.
By JACK NICAS
At 6 a.m. on New Year’s Day, Antônio da Paz boarded a bus for the funeral of soccer icon Pelé and rode the four hours to Santos, Brazil, where his idol was set to lie in state.
When he arrived, he was a full day early — and the first in line. He had no chair, no blanket, no pillow. Just a homemade crown, a plastic World Cup trophy and a Brazilian-flag jumpsuit.
“I slept with just my shirt and a hat so it wouldn’t hurt my head,” da Paz said Sunday, recalling his night on the concrete. “But it was worth it because he’s the king. A man who brought Brazil to the world — through him, through the ball.”
The love, the adoration and the reverence for the man that Brazilians and many others call the king of soccer was on full display Monday in Santos, a port city that Pelé put on the map as the electrifying star of its soccer club for 18 years.
Santos opened the doors to its 16,000-seat stadium at 10 a.m., and a steady stream of fans began filing past Pelé’s body, which was lying in a dark coffin at midfield, covered in flowers and draped in a veil. The stands around him were draped with banners of his likeness and a message: “Viva o rei” (“Long live the king”).
Outside the stadium, fans from across Brazil and beyond had lined up to pay their respects, with the line taking nearly two hours to reach the stadium by late morning. There were fathers with daughters, mothers with sons, and vendors selling beer, fried snacks and roses in the shade of the colonial architecture. One man hurriedly handed out pizzeria menus to anyone who would accept one. The conversation everywhere was about one thing. “Above him, only God,” one man said to another while passing by.
“The atmosphere here is a bit of sadness and a bit of joy — sadness because he died and joy because of the people who saw him play and are talking about his history,” said Marcelo Alves da Silva, 41, a risk-investment analyst who attended the event with his 4-year-old son, Mathias, on his shoulders. Da Silva had taken the day off, and he drove the two hours from Sao Paulo. “It was
important to show my son,” he said.
But not everyone was prepared to enter. Onofra Rovai, 91, has lived across from the entrance to the stadium for 50 years and said she had met Pelé various times over the years. From her second-floor perch Monday, Rovai, a retired sewing teacher, watched the crowd snake into the stadium, but she said she would not be joining it. “I want to remember him alive, as he was before,” she said, dressed in a Santos jersey. “For me, he didn’t die.”
Toward the end of the line, da Paz was returning from a lunch of rice and beans — he hardly ate during his 24 hours in line — and was now on his way to get back in the queue.
Then someone approached and slapped him on the back. It was Renato Sousa do Santo, a 68-year-old driver who met da Paz when they both began waiting outside Pelé’s hospital in Sao Paulo last week when news emerged that he was nearing death. They had hoped to enter to perhaps meet the soccer star, but instead they were stuck outside and started a friendship on the sidewalk.
“They wouldn’t let us enter, so we just stood there, just like we are here,” Sousa said. “We put signs up on the wall, and all the reporters would come and talk to us.”
Then another voice shouted from the distance: “What’s up, gentlemen? Didn’t I say I would be here?”
It was Marcolino Olímpio de Oliveira, 62, a painter from the Sao Paulo suburbs. He had also met da Paz and Sousa outside Pelé’s hospital, part of a small group that gathered in the final days of the star’s life. Now they were together again at his funeral.
“Pelé was everything,” Olímpio said, carrying a large book about Pelé. “Everything he did, he did well, from playing, singing, acting.” Olímpio said he watched one of Pelé’s films recently. “I cried twice,” he said.
The men got in line together. Two hours later, they were passing by Pelé’s coffin. As he walked across the field, da Paz shouted and held aloft a homemade sign that said, “Brazil lost the king, but your work will not be forgotten by the Brazilian people.”
After he exited the stadium for the second time, da Paz’s plan was clear: “I come straight out and back in again.”
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