By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said it is very likely that the Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A) board may approve on Friday the proposed public-private partnership for the generation, operation and maintenance of Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) legacy plants.
“This contract has to be approved by, among other entities, the Public Private Partnership Authority board; it has to be approved by the board of the Authority itself,” the governor said Thursday at a press conference.
“It has to be approved by the Electric Power Authority, the governing board of the electric power authority. It has to be approved by the Energy Bureau and approved by the oversight board [the Financial Oversight and Management Board],” he said. “So there are five entities that must approve the publicprivate partnership contract before it can be signed. And practically all those entities that I have just mentioned have already approved it, except the board of the Public-Private Partnerships Authority, which has a meeting scheduled for Friday of this week, and the Board of the Electric Power Authority.”
Pierluisi said negotiations with the proposed operator of the legacy power plants are underway. Citing sources, the STAR reported that it was a consortium headed by New Fortress Energy called Encanto Power.
The governor said he asked Secretary of State
House Speaker Rafael “Tatito ” Hernández Montañez and Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago had requested the inclusion of language in the contract that would make the contract more transparent and would protect the jobs of PREPA workers.
The Legislature nominated two members of the P3A board and they are under instructions to oppose the contract.
“It is possible that the contract provides for that. If so, then let the presidents of the bodies be informed,” Pierluisi said. “If the contract does not provide for it and it can be modified, then so be it. It must be done. It is possible that some of the approaches and suggestions do not require amending the contract.”
The governor declined to speak on the identity of the contractor citing confidentiality provisions.
He disputed claims that under the law the legacy power plants must be operated by two separate companies instead of one.
“But what the energy transformation law requires is that this entity be different from the one that operates the transmission and distribution network,” Pierluisi said. “So as long as it is another entity, that there is not a monopoly for the entire electrical system in Puerto Rico, that we have at least two entities, one for the transmission and distribution network and one for generation, the law is complied with.”
The governor did not know whether the contract contains language that would seek to avoid the same setbacks customers experienced under the contract with LUMA Energy, the private operator of PREPA’s transmission and distribution system.
“But I tend to think that they are taking all precautionary measures, so that the public-private alliance works,” he said.
In the event the contract does not move forward, the proposed debt adjustment plan for PREPA contains language suggesting that the oversight board may preempt local laws that prevent putting PREPA’s legacy power plants under private management due to legislative opposition, as reported by the STAR in December.
The U.S. solicitor general has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny a Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) request to evaluate a lower court ruling that found that pre-bankruptcy claims for just compensation in eminent domain cases must be paid.
The solicitor general said the lower courts in Puerto Rico’s Title III debt restructuring for the commonwealth decided correctly when they ruled that just compensation claims for properties expropriated by the government could not be discharged as part of the bankruptcy and urged the Supreme Court to deny the oversight board’s petition for review.
The board has asked the top court to review the decision that claims for just compensation filed before the bankruptcy filing must be paid. Respondents in the case said Puerto Rico took more than $300 million in property from them via eminent domain before filing for bankruptcy. The oversight board sought to pay eminent domain claims with money deposited into the territory’s court-administered reserve related to the claims, and to treat the remaining amount as general unsecured claims.
The commonwealth debt adjustment plan was confirmed last year but Judge Laura Taylor Swain and the First Circuit found that property owners had a constitutional right to be paid the full amount owed.
“The Fifth Amendment provides: ‘[N] or shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.’ U.S. Const. Amend. V. ‘As its language indicates, and as [this] Court has frequently noted, this provision does not prohibit the taking of private property, but instead places a condition on the exercise of that power,’” U.S. officials said.
Even if a bankruptcy court has the right
to impair the claims, it has the discretion not to do so, the U.S. argued.
“Interpreting [the federal law overseeing Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy] to authorize the impairment of prepetition takings claims would have raised serious constitutional questions,” the U.S. argued. “Therefore … it would have been proper as a matter of constitutional avoidance for the district court to exercise its discretion
… to treat the takings claims as nondischargeable.”
The oversight board said the court rulings conflicted with a decision by the Ninth Circuit involving a municipal bankruptcy, Cobb v. Stockton. Puerto Rico is under the First Circuit.
The case before the Supreme Court is FOMB v Cooperative de Ahorro y Credito Abraham Rosa.
Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández announced Thursday that the Bayamón Prosecutor’s Office filed charges against Jensen Medina Cardona for the alleged introduction of drugs and a cell phone into the Bayamón Regional Jail, where he is serving a sentence for murder.
“Barely having started his lengthy sentence for taking the life of a woman, Jensen Medina continues to break the law inside prison,” the Justice secretary said in a written statement. “The Department of Justice has a duty to prosecute these illegal acts that also affect the correctional population.”
After hearing the evidence presented by the public prosecutor, Bayamón Superior Court Judge Gloria de Jesús determined cause for arrest and imposed a bail of
$46,000. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Jan. 24.
According to the investigation, on Dec. 14, a routine search was carried out at the Bayamón Regional Prison. In Medina Cardona’s cell, 75 decks of heroin, a bag of cocaine and a Nokia cell phone were allegedly found.
Given those facts, prosecutor Mónica Pérez Díaz filed two charges for violations of the Controlled Substances Act, related to the possession and distribution of drugs; one count under Article 277 of the Penal Code of Puerto Rico, on the possession and introduction of objects into a penal establishment; and one count of violating Law 15-2011, which prohibits the possession and use of cell phones by people confined in the island’s penal institutions.
Officer Lisbell Mateo Rivera, of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau’s Drug Division, worked on the investigation with the Prosecutor’s Office.
“Barely having started his lengthy sentence for taking the life of a woman, Jensen Medina continues to break the law inside prison,” Justice Secretary Diego Emanuelli Hernández said in a written statement.
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Thursday that the Dr. Juan Rivero Zoo in Mayagüez will be turned into an animal sanctuary.
“And if anything, it could be a research and observation center and not a zoo,” the governor said at a press conference. “This [decision] was made quite some time ago. What I have asked the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources is to accelerate this change and to finish materializing the transition and to keep the people informed of its progress.”
“What we want is to ensure the well being of the animals that are there -- some may have to be transferred -- but, above all, that they have good veterinary care,” Pierluisi said. “We do not rule out that the public can observe them, but not under the structure of a zoo, but rather, in the natural state in which they are found and that can be done. So the change to [the zoo] becoming a sanctuary is on track. I already authorized that a long time ago.”
The governor’s statements were made amid news that a black bear named
Nina died at the zoo due to supposed health complications.
The zoo generates its own funds primarily through entry fees, but those revenues were severely impacted by
its closure due to damages caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
The then-secretary of Natural and Environmental Resources, Rafael Machargo Maldonado, at the time announced
that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had approved $6.2 million for repairs, but the use of the funds remains unknown.
In 2020, the zoo had 280 animals of different species, including: an elephant; hippopotamuses; lions; a rhinoceros; camels; chimpanzees; Madagascar lemurs; pumas; sloths; alligators; snakes; an ocelot; a coati; an Australian kangaroo; reptiles, such as the tegu; and birds such as the North American bald eagle, the Puerto Rican parrot, and several owl breeds.
Federal inspections in 2018 found animals euthanized inhumanely or for unclear reasons, inadequate veterinary care and a string of other problems at the zoo. Animal rights activists have been demanding its closure.
A pair of legislators from the Citizen Victory Movement, Sen. Rafael Bernabe Riefkohl and Rep. Mariana Nogales Molinelli, issued a press release on Thursday regarding a press conference slated for Friday to announce the filing of legislation in the island Senate, Senate Bill 1041, to close the zoo permanently and transfer its animals to sanctuaries.
legislative work in that body.
Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera has asked the new speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), to expedite the approval for Puerto Rico of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which would enable the entry into the island of over $4 billion in aid to low-income families.
“For years Puerto Rico has been struggling to get approval for the SNAP food purchase assistance platform. The entry of this program would represent an increase from $2.5 billion to $4 billion in direct assistance to over 1.5 million Puerto Rican families receiving food assistance benefits, currently under the Nutrition Assistance Program [PAN by its Spanish acronym],” Riquelme said Thursday in a written statement. “We call on Speaker McCarthy to act on behalf of American citizens living in Puerto Rico by moving legislation that makes SNAP viable as soon as possible.”
The call to McCarthy, who after 15 votes in the lower chamber of Congress managed to ascend to the speakership, came hours after the Republican House majority approved the rules that will govern the next two years of
“These days, both the federal House and federal Senate are beginning the work of the 118th Congress and these next several months are vital for the approval of measures, because after July the atmosphere in Washington, D.C. will be marked by the presidential 2024 cycle,” added the at-large senator, who said she will be communicating with the office of the new House speaker in the coming days. “That is why it is urgent that we work on this issue immediately. The implementation of SNAP is an act of justice for American citizens residing on the island.”
SNAP is the largest federal nutrition assistance program, providing benefits to low-income individuals and families.
Currently about 1,547,000 citizens are eligible for PAN benefits; of those, 56.65% are women. Of the 873,321 households receiving PAN assistance, 25.5% are made up of older adults, 22% are families with children, 14% are low-income workers, 6% include family members with disabilities, and 3.5% are university students.
Like PAN, SNAP also allows the beneficiary to enter the workforce for up to five months without losing
benefits, helping those families stabilize finances in the face of a new reality.
Last February, Riquelme filed Senate Concurrent Resolution 29 requesting that Congress approve SNAP for Puerto Rico.
Moving forward with the cleanup and decontamination of land, access to healthcare services, energy sustainability and economic development are priorities for Vieques that Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón has been working on and which are included in her bill entitled the “Vieques Recovery and Redevelopment Act.”
The measure would establish a compensation fund for people who exhibit harmful effects on their health and reside in Vieques. For this, language is included in the measure with specific procedures for compensation and in this way expedites the claim process of Viequenses. An example is the source of compensation that would be called the Government Liquidation Fund, so “new money” is not allocated, but rather the compensation would come from an existing source and funds would only be obligated as claims progress.
The amount of compensation to individuals would be from $50,000 to $110,000 depending on the severity of the condition they may present along with proof of health problems and residence in Vieques.
As compensation to the municipality, expenses would be covered to supply and equip a health center and maintain pediatric and chronic disease services, as well as expenses for medical transportation and telemedicine services delivered in Vieques
Compensation also would allow studies on future envi-
ronmental decontamination and on the establishment of an autonomous energy network.
Also under the legislation, a special master post would be created that would allocate the compensation from the aforementioned settlement fund in accordance with the requirements clearly specified in the measure, as claims are deemed eligible. During last year’s budget discussion, the then-leadership of the Committee on Natural Resources in the U.S. House of Representatives had suggested channeling the funds through the Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs, but the resident commissioner, along with the current chairman of that committee, Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), objected to Puerto Rico’s affairs being addressed by the Department of the Interior because it does not have jurisdiction over the island. Thus the measure reiterates that it is through a “Special Master” under the Department of Justice, an entity with proven competence in such cases.
González Colón introduced the legislation in the 116th and 117th Congress and it was discussed in a public hearing before the Committee on Natural Resources and some of its parts were considered for inclusion in the 2022 federal budget bill.
Given the economic projections for the new year 2023 and as part of the education and training effort on accounting principles directed at sectors that promote the local economy, the Certified Public Accountants Association of Puerto Rico (CCPA by its Spanish initials) will hold a seminar titled “Strategic Planning for Credit Unions Taking into Consideration the Fiscal Plan of the Public Corporation for Supervision and Insurance of Puerto Rico Cooperatives (COSSEC by its Spanish acronym)” on Thursday, Jan. 26 from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
The in-person event, to be held at CCPA headquarters in the Capital Center I Building in Hato Rey, is aimed at CEOs of credit unions, credit union employees and members of boards of directors, as well as certified public accountants who perform work for credit unions.
“The cooperatives sector in Puerto Rico is a solid one and for the past decades it has shown constant growth islandwide, so it is important to provide co-ops with advanced tools so that they can maximize their operations, making them more profitable and competitive considering the initial economic projections for 2023, and in compliance with their regulatory entity, COSSEC,” CCPA President Aixa González Reyes said.
During the seminar, participants will acquire skills and be trained in areas such as identification of the components of a strategic plan for credit unions in an environment of rising interest rates, excess liquidity, changes to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), GAAP capital requirements considering prevailing environmental conditions, and consideration of competition, market and industry benchmarking.
Those interested in participating can register through the website: https://www.colegiocpa.com/ account/#calendar/ event/74059. More information can be obtained by calling 787-622-0900 or visiting the digital platforms of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram under @colegiocpapr.
President Joe Biden’s aides have found a new batch of classified documents at a second location associated with Biden, a person familiar with the situation said earlier this week. It was the second such disclosure in three days, and it was sure to intensify Republican attacks.
Republicans reveled in the new disclosures, accusing Biden of hypocrisy in calling former President Donald Trump irresponsible for hoarding sensitive documents at his private club and residence in Florida. This week, the new Republican chair of the House oversight committee issued a far-ranging request to the National Archives and Records Administration, which is supposed to receive all highly sensitive materials after an administration leaves office, for documents and correspondence.
It is not clear where or when the records were recovered. But Biden’s aides have scoured various places since November, when his lawyers discovered a handful of classified files, including briefing materials on foreign countries, as they closed a think tank office in Washington. The Justice Department is reviewing the discovery to determine how to proceed.
A White House spokesperson and a member of Biden’s legal team did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment.
On Tuesday, Biden told reporters in Mexico City that he was “surprised” to learn in the fall that his lawyers found classified government documents in his former office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.
He said his staff had fully cooperated with the National Archives and the Justice Department.
A day later, NBC News reported that another cache had been found at a different, undisclosed location.
Under government regulations, access to classified documents is limited to people who are currently authorized to see them, and the materials must be stored in special security containers to limit the risk of exposing sensitive information. The Presidential Records Act says official documents in the White House — classified and unclassified alike — should be turned over to the National Archives when an administration departs.
After Trump left office, officials with the National Archives identified sensitive documents that had not been recovered, prompting numerous appeals for their return. The matter was eventually referred to the Justice Department, which conducted a court-approved search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and turned up classified materials, including some bearing the most restrictive top-secret markings.
By contrast, the first set of documents found by Biden’s lawyers was voluntarily returned to the National Archives in November and had not been logged as mis-
Attorney General Merrick Garland, whose time in office has been largely defined by two criminal investigations involving Trump, assigned the preliminary phase of the Biden inquiry to John R. Lausch Jr., the U.S. attorney in Chicago, a Trump appointee.
But the inevitable comparison of the Trump documents case with the Biden matter has put new pressure on Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate Biden’s handling of government files. In November, days after Trump announced his third bid for the presidency, Garland assigned a special counsel, Jack Smith, to oversee the investigation into Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and the inquiry into whether he illegally kept classified materials at Mar-a-Lago.
Lausch’s review is aimed at helping Garland decide whether to appoint a special counsel, which appears increasingly likely, according to people familiar with the situation.
Garland has been briefed on the inquiry, according to a person familiar with the situation, although it is unclear if he has made a decision.
sing. It is not clear if the National Archives had flagged the new materials.
A spokesperson for the National Archives declined to comment.
The discovery of the second batch raises new questions about the handling of sensitive documents by a Biden team that has prided itself for adhering to norms and rules flouted by his predecessor.
But the circumstances of the two cases appear strikingly different. Unlike Trump, who resisted returning the records stored at Mar-a-Lago and failed to fully comply with a subpoena, Biden’s team appears to have acted swiftly and in accordance with the law, immediately summoning officials with the National Archives to retrieve the files. The National Archives then alerted the Justice Department, according to the White House.
“After I was briefed about the discovery, I was surprised to learn that there are any government records that were taken to that office,” Biden said in Mexico.
“But I don’t know what’s in the documents,” he added.
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to address the issue, saying it would be inappropriate to comment on a matter under review by the Justice Department.
She also declined to provide details of searches undertaken by Biden’s legal team after the first batch of files was discovered, and did not respond when asked about the possibility that other sensitive materials dating to the Obama era were stored at other Biden-related locations.
“I’m not going to go beyond what the president shared yesterday,” she said. “I’m not going to go beyond what my colleagues at the White House counsel shared with all of you as well.”
On Tuesday, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the new chair of the House oversight committee, asked the National Archives and the White House Counsel’s Office for correspondence about Biden’s “failure to return highly classified records from his time as vice president.”
On Wednesday, he took another step in keeping with his promise to hold the Biden administration accountable for what Republicans describe as politicizing federal agencies: pressing the Treasury Department for information about Biden’s family finances.
Republicans reveled in Wednesday’s disclosure.
“It’s clear that Biden’s staff have no idea how many classified documents are in Biden’s former offices and are desperately looking for them,” Tommy Pigott, rapid response director of the Republican National Committee, wrote in an email.
By SHARON OTTERMAN and JENNY GROSS
Three days after going on strike, more than 7,000 nurses at two New York City hospitals will return to work after reaching tentative contract deals early Thursday that would increase their pay and improve their working conditions, union leaders said.
The nurses reached agreements with the two hospitals — Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx — to improve patient-to-staffing ratios, said the New York State Nurses Association, which represents more than 42,000 members. For nurses at Montefiore, the tentative deal would include a 19.1% wage increase over three years, and the creation of more than 170 new nursing positions, the hospital said.
“Through our unity and by putting it all on the line, we won enforceable safe staffing ratios at both Montefiore and Mount Sinai where nurses went on strike for patient care,” Nancy Hagans, the president of the union, said in a statement. “Today, we can return to work with our heads held high, knowing that our victory means safer care for our patients and more sustainable jobs for our profession.”
Mount Sinai and Montefiore said in separate statements that they welcomed the agreements with the union.
Union nurses from the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) strike outside Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023.
“It is fair and responsible, and it puts patients first,” Mount Sinai said.
Philip O. Ozuah, the chief executive of Montefiore Medicine, said the hospital was “grateful for the dedication and commitment of our nurses who have served through very challenging circumstances over the past several years.”
The hospitals had diverted ambulances, canceled elective procedures and discharged patients to prepare for the labor action, the largest nurses strike in New York City in decades. It began Monday morning after the hospitals and union failed to reach a deal following four months of contract negotiations.
After the strike began Monday, Montefiore called in temporary nurses, and the mayor asked people to dial 911 only when necessary. While the emergency room waiting area was mostly empty this week, conditions inside the hospital were “chaotic,” some patients and staff said, as medical residents and other staff were pressed into service to do nursing duties.
The main sticking points in the negotiations at both Montefiore and Mount Sinai had been staffing: Nurses had asked the hospital administrations to attract and hire more nurses and reduce patient-staff ratios to improve working conditions and patient safety.
Nurses in the intensive care units at both hospitals said they had been routinely asked to care for up to three critically ill patients at a time, even when patients should have received one-on-one care. In packed emergency rooms, nurses described being asked to care for 15 patients at once in overcrowded conditions.
“We are leaving the profession in droves because we go home with moral injury,” Benny Mathew, a Montefiore emergency nurse for a decade, said before the end of the strike was announced. “We go home crying because we are not able to meet the needs of our patients.”
Kavita Paltoo, 36, works in the stroke unit and has
been at Mount Sinai for six years. On the picket line Wednesday, she described double and even triple loads for nurses in intensive and critical care units, and said she regularly works 14 hour shifts with no lunch breaks.
“We’re literally just giving medication and moving to the next patient,” she said. “We’re not providing quality of care. We’re not able to listen to the patient.”
Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, a nurse on the negotiating committee at Montefiore, said that an agreement was reached at about 1 a.m. Thursday, and that Mount Sinai talks concluded at about the same time.
She said the agreement marked the first time that Montefiore had agreed to nurse-patient ratios in the emergency department, and said that those ratios would match those set for the floors upstairs, varying depending on patients’ needs. A system to enforce the ratios was also established, she said, a key ask for the nurses.
“They moved on every important issue,” she said. “We are really happy. We hope that this is a way to make our hospital a great hospital again.”
New recruitment incentives and programs were also set up to help recruit local Bronx nurses to stay as union nurses at Montefiore for the long run, the union said.
At Mount Sinai, the contract sets out staffing ratios for the first time for all inpatient units with an enforcement mechanism, the union said. The new staffing ratios will take effect as soon as the contract is ratified.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office helped to facilitate a deal, with her head of state operations, Kathryn Garcia, serving as the point person.
“Even really an hour before I gave the State of the State address, I was on the phone working on staffing ratios and other priorities because I knew we had to get this done,” Hochul said Thursday morning.
Margarit Anderegg, a nurse in the labor and delivery unit at Mount Sinai, said nurses began to exchange excited messages on a WhatsApp thread shortly after the agreement was finalized at about 2 a.m. Because mothers were sent to other hospitals to deliver during the strike, the nurses returned at 7 a.m. Thursday to a largely empty unit and relieved medical residents who had been filling in for them.
One resident came up to a nurse when she walked in and said, “Oh my god, thank god you are back,” the nurse recounted in the text chain.
“I’m exhausted,” Anderegg said. “It was historic that we actually went on strike, and the community and the energy was overwhelming.”
Nurses will now vote on whether to ratify the contracts by the end of next week.
The nurses last three-year contract expired Dec. 31, and the union has now reached deals with management at nearly a dozen private hospitals across the city. A tentative deal was also reached early Thursday at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, and nurses there withdrew their 10-day strike notice.
The rains eased in California at midweek, offering the state a brief reprieve after nearly two weeks of downpours — and a chance to recover and prepare before another round of storms expected over the weekend.
A series of atmospheric rivers, channels of battering rains, led to flash floods and mudslides across the state. The storms had killed 18 people as of Wednesday, state officials said. More than 4.5 million people, mostly in the central and northern parts of the state, were still under flood watches early Wednesday as swollen rivers and creeks continued to spill over.
More bands of rain were brewing over the Pacific Ocean. A new wave of atmospheric rivers is expected to arrive starting Friday.
Parts of California and the Pacific Northwest could expect rainfall to remain in the forecast into early next week, the Weather Prediction Center of the National Weather Service said Wednesday, although it should be less intense than the recent storms.
The break in the weather sent cleanup crews scrambling throughout California’s capital city of Sacramento, restoring power and clearing waterlogged intersections. The morning air buzzed with the sounds of leaf blowers and chain saws.
The intermission helped state crews make it into the most affected areas, said Brian Ferguson, a spokesperson for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.
But he added that officials had been unnerved by what they found: Many areas, particularly in central California, are at serious risk of landslides, flooding and debris flows. “They just have so much water — on the ground, in the soil and in the rivers and creeks — that the new storms approaching, even if they’re not as powerful, could be even more devastating,” he said.
In Merced, in central California, the rains have begun to abate after hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes because of flooding this week. The city put out a call for volunteers to help people in need, said Jennifer Flachman, the city’s public information officer; by Wednesday, hundreds of residents had offered aid and donations.
“We have a couple of days to reassess and get out there and put in additional sandbags and muscle walls,” Flachman said.
After days of constant chaos, the calls for urgent rescue were slowing down by Wednesday afternoon, said Scott Safechuck, a spokesperson for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.
“The rain stops and the water starts to recede, and we can see what damage is out there,” he said, adding that officials were now working to clean de-
bris and clear roadways before the next band of rain.
In Southern California, blue skies and a bright day offered the clearest view yet of damage around the region, much of which occurred overnight.
In the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, the beeping of loaders and the acrid smell of tires against the pavement punctuated an otherwise still and sunny morning. Public works crews arrived around 6 a.m. Wednesday to shovel mud out from under the cars that had been mired along Fredonia Drive, their boots slipping and squelching in the thick sludge that still stood a few feet high in some areas.
“We’re trying to do the best we can,” said Marcos Andrade, 49, adding that it was not clear how long it might take to finish freeing and towing the last eight cars. Andrade said the crews would try to push on, but that once night fell, the hillside area would be too dangerous.
Much of the land across the state is still sopping, and thousands of trees have been knocked to the ground — a product of downpours entering the soil and making it easier for strong winds to topple everything from fresh saplings to a 275-year-old oak, crushing houses and cars, snarling traffic and claiming at least three lives, including that of a 2-year-old child.
Many of those killed by the storms had been trapped in cars on flooded roadways, and officials say the death toll could still rise. Divers on Wednesday found the body of a woman in Sonoma County whose car was trapped under as much as 10 feet of water the day before. And rescuers were still searching for Kyle Doan, a 5-year-old boy who was pulled from his mother’s arms and swept away by floodwaters in
San Luis Obispo County on Monday.
On Wednesday evening, the California National Guard announced that the agency was helping the county sheriff’s department with the search, and had already sent more than 100 members to the area.
The storms have also posed a danger to the more than 170,000 people who are homeless in California, more than in any other state. Outreach workers have found them in recent days huddling in underpasses and riverbeds, in parks and on beaches. Two homeless people were among those killed by fallen trees.
State transportation officials reported dozens of road closures Wednesday morning, stretching from Siskiyou County on the state’s northern edge to Orange County in the south.
In the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles, workers in orange vests and hard hats turned their attention to a gaping sinkhole that ripped apart the road Monday, swallowing two cars and trapping two people who were later rescued by firefighters.
The storms are yet another example of how climate change has upended life in a state that has also been ravaged by expanding seasons of wildfires and years of drought.
There is at least one silver lining to the punishing storms that have been sweeping across the Pacific and battering California: The snow they have dumped in the Sierra Nevada will do wonders for the state’s beleaguered reservoirs.
As of Tuesday, California’s mountain snowpack held more than twice the water content that would be there at this time in an average year, according to the state’s Department of Water Resources.
Another, possibly heavier, storm could strike the region next Tuesday, forecasters said.
After that, some relief may be in sight. Forecasts are showing a possible change in the weather patterns for late next week that would most likely end this multiweek atmospheric river event.
“Gradually, it looks like we’ll have a pattern change that will allow the spigot to turn off,” said David Novak, the director of the Weather Prediction Center. “And that would be, of course, good news.”
Frequent flyers know that feeling well, particularly as air travel has roared back from pandemic lows: Their flight has been delayed, and then they receive little information about when — or if — it will take off, stoking feelings of anger and hopelessness.
But the Federal Aviation Administration system failure that caused more than 9,000 delays Wednesday led to a slightly different dynamic for the frustrated passengers: This time, they didn’t have the airline to blame.
“Because it was a systemwide, nationwide thing, there was nowhere to direct your outrage, so everybody was being really helpful,” said Jess McIntosh, a political consultant whose American Airlines flight was delayed in Albany, New York. “And nobody was yelling at the TSA agents.”
The outage that halted takeoffs for about 90 minutes Wednesday morning was caused by the failure of a system that the FAA uses to send timely safety alerts to pilots. Flights began to resume around 9 a.m., the FAA said, but the effects continued to snarl air traffic throughout the day.
Paul Hudson, president of FlyersRights.org, which represents airline consumers, called the shutdown “shocking” and potentially avoidable.
“The fact that this could happen at all shows the real vulnerabilities to the computer system that the FAA operates,” he said. The FAA said it was still investigating the cause of the disruption to the NOTAM — short for Notice to Air Mission — alert
system. There was no evidence of a cyberattack, said Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary.
Hudson said that while the cause of the disruption is still unknown, it was clear that the FAA needs to update its computer system and conduct more “stress tests,” such as drills conducted at airports and by airlines to prepare for emergencies.
In terminals across the country, just weeks after mass cancellations by Southwest Airlines left thousands of travelers stranded, many passengers were sanguine about yet another chaotic day for air travel.
Bettina Inclán, who was traveling to Houston from Washington, said her United pilot kept everyone on her delayed flight informed and calm.
“The entire United team did really well in setting expectations, being honest on what they knew and didn’t know, and what it all meant,” she said.
As Sara Hole, of Stamford, Connecticut, and her fiance, Drew Tomlinson, waited by their gate at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Wednesday morning, they got the impression that the American Airlines staff members were just as confused as the passengers.
Over the intercom, an airline representative told them there was an FAA “sys-
tem outage,” but there were few other details.
“They have emphasized that they have all of the same information that we do,” Hole said.
Some of the passengers may have been accommodating, but their plans were no less ruined. McIntosh, who left for the airport at 4:30 a.m. to catch a flight to Raleigh, North Carolina, for a business meeting, eventually went back home when she realized she was going to miss most of it.
Inclán had to rearrange several meetings, and Hole said she and her fiance would probably miss their connecting flight in Phoenix, disrupting their planned hiking trip in Utah for Tomlinson’s birthday.
Several major airlines, including Delta, American and United, announced that they would waive any fees typically associated with changing flights because of Wednesday’s delays and cancellations.
The fact that the disruption came from the FAA and not an airline dealing with overbooked flights may explain why many passengers were not as outraged as they might have been, said Mike Arnot, an industry analyst.
“Safety first, and that’s the right call,” he said. “By and large, this will be hopefully forgotten by most of the traveling public
soon.”
Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, which represents 50,000 workers, said the disruption was a “frustrating” reminder of the need to update the computer systems that airline crews rely on to operate.
“We’ll find out more about the root cause of the issue in the coming days,” Nelson said, “but what’s clear is the need for robust and stable funding this year to bring our aviation system into the 21st century.”
Sayron Stokes, a passenger headed from LaGuardia Airport to Oakland, California, on Southwest, said she was “very mad” about the meltdown as she looked for a quiet corner of the airport for a nap Wednesday. “We need to do something better,” she said.
At the Newark airport, Jaime Vallejo, 52, who owns a cleaning company, was worried about catching his connecting flight from Miami to Ecuador. He was traveling with his wife and three children and had just learned that his noon flight had been delayed by two hours.
Vallejo said he was also frustrated that the FAA did not send him any direct notification, which would have saved him the stress of rushing to the airport. “I didn’t receive so much as an email,” he said.
Unlike Southwest’s holiday season meltdown, when passengers aimed their anger squarely at the airline and some of its workers, the disappointment on Wednesday couldn’t be pinned on a specific company or even severe weather. No matter the airline or the region of the country, everyone was in the dark.
It led to confusing scenes in the early morning as the picture came into focus. Venus Marcil said she and her uncle were on their plane at Orlando International Airport, seatbelts fastened and their plane cleared for takeoff for their 7:25 a.m. Delta flight to New York, when the pilot said they would not be departing.
The passengers deplaned, and she was told she would receive an update in about two hours. But that wasn’t Delta’s fault, she said.
“I think they’ve been transparent and timely with the communication,” Marcil said of the airline.
Another week, another meltdown, only this time you can’t blamePassenger jets are seen on the tarmac in Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, on the morning of Wednesday, Jan.11, 2023.
Wall Street’s main indexes rose in choppy trade on Thursday as cooling inflation supported bets of smaller interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, though concerns remained that the central bank was not close to pausing its monetary tightening.
The Labor Department’s report showed U.S. consumer prices grew 6.5% on an annual basis in December, in line with expectations. While it was the smallest rise since October 2021 and followed a 7.1% advance in November, the headline inflation number remains above the Fed’s 2% target.
Wall Street’s main indexes swung between gains and losses after the inflation report, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq falling over 1% earlier in the session.
“The number is clearly trending in the right direction, but not very quickly. So the battle between the bulls and the bears continues,” said Dennis Dick, market structure analyst and trader at Triple D Trading.
The Fed raised the key rate by 50 basis points in December, after four back-to-back 75-bps hikes, but also indicated a prolonged period of rate hikes to above 5% in 2023.
A separate report showed weekly jobless claims fell last week, signaling a still tight labor market.
“The Fed now has the opportunity to moderate further increases (but) the numbers certainly don’t point to a stoppage of any increases,” said Mike Loewengart, head of model portfolio construction at Morgan Stanley Global Investment Office in New York.
Traders’ bets of a 25-basis point rate hike by the Fed in February shot up to 91% after the inflation data, from 77% previously.
Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker and St. Louis Fed President James Bullard acknowledged the moderation in prices, but stressed on the need for further monetary policy tightening to bring inflation down to the central bank’s target.
Consumer prices had been on a downward trend after peaking in June, with markets hoping that continued moderation in the latest inflation print may persuade the Fed to soon signal a pause in its rate-hiking cycle.
Such optimism has supported equities in 2023, with the S&P 500 up 3.5% so far this year.
This week also marks the start of the quarterly earnings season, with big banks expected to report lower profits, while overall S&P 500 earnings are expected to decline yearover-year, according to Refinitiv.
At 12:02 p.m. ET, the S&P 500 was up 8.51 points, or 0.21%, at 3,978.12, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 21.37 points, or 0.20%, at 10,953.04.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 182.66 points, or 0.54%, at 34,155.67, supported by gains in industrial stocks such as Boeing Co and Caterpillar Inc.
Among major S&P 500 sectors, energy stocks led gains, rising 2% as oil prices climbed. [O/R]
Tesla Inc slid 1.7% following a report that the electriccar maker delayed plans to expand its Shanghai factory.
American Airlines Group Inc advanced 5.7% after raising its fourth-quarter profit forecast.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners for a 2.62-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 1.74-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded eight new 52-week highs and one new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 62 new highs and 13 new lows.
Russia is building up its forces in Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian defense official said Thursday, as Moscow’s forces struggle on in their bid to capture a small salt-mining town in the east that has largely been reduced to rubble.
The battle over Soledar has become emblematic of Moscow’s labored and costly offensive in eastern Ukraine.
After days of intense street fighting, uncertainty over which side controlled the town of Soledar in Donetsk province remained Thursday, though there was no doubt about the devastation that had been wrought. Images released by the satellite company Maxar showed a score of apartment buildings and houses shattered beyond repair.
Ukraine’s deputy defense minister, Hanna Maliar, said that “Russia is building up its forces in Ukraine but Ukrainian forces are holding out in fierce fighting for control of the eastern town of Soledar.”
Citing the country’s intelligence ser-
vice, she said Russia was moving troops trained in Belarus and Russia to the combat zone to focus on Donetsk and Luhansk provinces in the east of the country.
Soledar and a number of other locations in the Bakhmut region “were subject to tank, mortar, barrel and rocket artillery attacks,” according to an update from Ukraine’s General Staff of the Armed Forces.
The general staff bulletin claimed that
about 100 Russian soldiers had been killed by Ukrainian special forces working with other front-line teams. It was not possible to confirm the figure independently.
“The enemy is suffering great losses,” said Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s eastern forces.
The Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said Thursday that “a huge amount of work has been done” in the battle for Soledar, but that “there is still a lot of work ahead.”
While it is technically a city, Soledar had a prewar population of just 10,000 people. It lies about 6 miles from Bakhmut, a town with a prewar population of 70,000 that Russian forces have targeted since the summer, pouring in troops and attacking with artillery in the surrounding towns and villages.
Russia sees Bakhmut as a gateway to the complete conquest of Donbas, the industrial region that includes Donetsk province. Moscow seized part of the region in 2014 and established breakaway republics.
The Kremlin on Wednesday named
Gen. Valery Gerasimov, who helped plan Russia’s stumbling invasion in February and who had served as Putin’s military chief of general staff for more than a decade, to replace Gen. Sergei Surovikin as the head of Russian forces in Ukraine.
But that failed to reassure some Russian commentators, whose critical views of the conduct of the war have become increasingly influential.
“The sum does not change, just by changing the places of its parts,” wrote one prominent blogger who goes by the name Rybar.
If Russia were to take Soledar, it would be the first victory for Moscow’s forces after months of territorial gains by Ukraine in the northeast and south.
“Ukraine starts the year in better shape than Russia. The Ukrainian Armed Force have momentum,” said Mick Ryan, a recently retired Australian army major general, noting the growing impact of air defense systems and weapons, which may soon include tanks, being supplied to Ukraine by its allies in Washington and Europe.
Russia released a U.S. Navy veteran who had been detained since April in Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania, a spokesperson for his family announced Thursday, marking the second time in just over a month that an American has been freed from Russian custody.
Russian officials allowed Taylor Dudley, a 35-year-old U.S. citizen, to cross the Polish border. Dudley had been held for nine months, the spokesperson said, although his case was largely unknown to people outside the U.S. government, his family and its advocates.
Dudley was greeted in Poland by an official from the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw and Bill Richardson, a former New Mexico congressman and governor who specializes in negotiating the freedom of Americans detained overseas.
Dudley was backpacking in Europe and had traveled to Poland to attend a music festival, according to the spokesperson, Jonathan Franks. He said Dudley “at some point crossed the Russian border” into Kaliningrad. It remained unclear on what charges he had been held.
It was not clear what, if anything, the U.S. might have offered Russia in return for Dudley’s freedom, which came less than five weeks after Russia’s release of WNBA star Brittney Griner in a prisoner swap organized by the Biden administration. A spokesperson for Richardson told CNN, which first reported the news, that no exchange had been made by the United States.
The White House and State Department had no immediate official comment.
“It is significant that despite the current environment between our two countries, the Russian authorities did the right thing by releasing Taylor today,” Richardson said in a statement.
He said he had been working “discreetly” with Dudley’s family for six months on the matter, along with U.S. State Department officials and a Russian business owner close to President Vladimir Putin of Russia, among others.
One White House official, speaking on background because of the sen -
sitivity of the matter, credited the work of U.S. officials at embassies in Warsaw and Moscow and said that, out of consideration for the family’s privacy, the administration would not provide further details.
U.S. officials had not publicized Dudley’s case or declared him “wrongfully detained,” as they have others held in Russia since its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, including Griner and former Marine and corporate security consultant Paul Whelan.
Griner was released Dec. 8 in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who had been serving a U.S. federal prison sentence. Whelan remains imprisoned on espionage charges that he and the U.S. government deny.
Biden officials say they have been working with Russia to secure his freedom but have reported no specific progress since Griner’s release. Many analysts believe that Russia would only trade Whelan for a captured Russian spy.
It was an unfair fight in front of Brazil’s Congress. On one side of a metal barrier were a few dozen police officers, some armed with pepper spray, others with clubs. On the other was a rapidly growing mob of more than 1,000 angry protesters, falsely convinced that the presidential election had been stolen and dead set on doing something about it.
At 2:42 p.m. Sunday, almost in unison, protesters at one end of the street easily pulled down the metal barrier, while at the other end, protesters pushed right through a plastic roadblock, according to a video obtained by The New York Times. A few police officers sprayed chemical agents, but within seconds, the crowd was surging through.
The moment was the start of a riot that left Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court and presidential offices ransacked and the nation’s democracy under its worst threat in decades. And the previously unpublished video of the moment also lays bare the woefully inadequate security at some of the nation’s most important institutions, which is now at the center of the wider investigation into how the mayhem could have occurred, despite ample warning signs.
Federal authorities have laid much of the blame on the handful of men who run the federal district that includes Brazil’s capital, Brasília. They accuse the district’s governor and security chief of being either negligent or, worse, complicit, and they have already taken action against them.
In the hours after the riot, Alexandre de Moraes, a Supreme Court justice, suspended Ibaneis Rocha, the district’s governor, from his post for at least 90 days. Moraes then approved an arrest warrant from the federal police for the district’s security chief, Anderson Torres, as well as its police chief, Fabio Augusto Vieira. In votes on Wednesday, the Supreme Court confirmed both orders.
Moraes, a controversial figure who has been criticized for overstepping his authority, said evidence showed the men knew that protesters were planning violence but did little to stop it.
Neither he nor other federal authorities have disclosed that specific evidence. Instead, he cited the inadequate number of security forces and the fact that roughly 100 buses of protesters were allowed to enter Brasília with little monitoring.
What is clear is that the federal government largely ceded responsibility to the district to protect the capital in the face of protests that, according to a slew of social media posts in the
days prior, appeared likely to turn violent. The federal government pays the district roughly $2 billion a year to provide security, and the district had successfully protected the capital during several large, tense political events in recent months.
A four-page security plan obtained by the Times showed that, during the planned protests on Sunday, much of the responsibility for protecting the federal government’s buildings fell on the district police.
The document, which was signed Friday afternoon and sent to more than a dozen top security officials in Brasília, tasked the district police to keep demonstrators out of Three Powers Plaza, which includes Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential offices, and to “maintain reinforcement of personnel” throughout the protests.
But that plan did not please Flávio Dino, Brazil’s justice minister, when he heard about it on Saturday morning in a phone call with Rocha, the district governor, according to an official in Dino’s office who spoke on the condition of anonymity because officials had not yet agreed to release the details of the call.
Dino did not want protesters on the national esplanade, Brazil’s version of the National Mall in Washington, a long grassy stretch that leads directly to Brazil’s most important government buildings. In response, Rocha agreed to change the plan accordingly and make the esplanade off limits, according to the official in Dino’s office.
Later that night, according to the official, Dino was surprised when he saw a news article that said Rocha would let the protest go forward on the esplanade with “tranquility and security.”
The protests went forward, but the tranquility and security was lacking.
On Sunday, thousands of supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, the ousted far-right president, marched onto the esplanade, dressed in the yellow
and green of the Brazilian flag and carrying signs that demanded a military coup and that referenced voter-fraud conspiracy theories long peddled by Bolsonaro.
The district police was there, but not in full force. Authorities have not provided the precise number of police officers present on Sunday, but according to videos and eyewitness accounts, there were far fewer officers than for other recent demonstrations in the capital.
By contrast, there were several hundred thousand people in the same spot a week earlier for the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. While those crowds were there to celebrate, rather than wreak havoc, the district deployed all of its more than 10,000 police officers, far more than were on the ground on Sunday.
Why there were so few police officers is now a central question for investigators. The security plan did not list a number of officers, but instead just suggested that the police should have sufficient personnel to handle the protests.
Federal authorities have pointed the finger at Torres and Vieira, the district’s security chief and police chief, who have been ordered arrested.
Torres, in particular, has come under scrutiny. He was Bolsonaro’s former justice minister and started in his new post in the district on Jan. 2. He quickly replaced much of the district’s security staff, despite its recent track record of success during the elections, and then left for vacation in Florida, where Bolsonaro has also been staying in recent weeks.
On the day of the protests, Torres, who was ostensibly in charge of the capital’s security, was thousands of miles away.
Torres said Tuesday that he would return to Brazil to defend himself. “I have always guided my actions with ethics and legality. I believe in the Brazilian justice system and in the strength
of the institutions. I am certain that the truth will prevail,” he said on Twitter.
Rocha, the district governor, has now also begun to point the finger at his deputies for the security lapses.
Alberto Toron, Rocha’s lawyer, said in an interview Wednesday that the security plans were adequate, but that the security forces failed to carry them out, even suggesting that they did so deliberately.
“We saw videos, for example, of police fraternizing with demonstrators,” he said. “There is a hidden hand here, which not only demobilized the police and the army not to act, but it seems that there was an orchestration for something broader to happen.”
It was not until the protesters had broken inside the government buildings that military and federal law enforcement arrived to retake control.
Federal security officials in charge of protecting the presidential offices had not expected violence during the protests, and only asked for reinforcements from the army after rioters broke inside the building, according to an army general who spoke anonymously to discuss a sealed investigation.
Federal police said late Wednesday that they had arrested 1,159 people, nearly all under the suspicion of taking part in the riots. Authorities have said in recent days that they are now turning their attention to the political and business elites who helped organize, fund and aid the riots.
The actions of security officials and police officers are expected to remain a central focus of investigators in the months ahead. Brazil’s Senate plans to begin a congressional investigation next month. On Wednesday, 60 U.S. and Brazilian members of Congress released a joint statement, condemning extremism in both countries that led to attacks on their capitols.
Cardinal George Pell, an Australian cleric and adviser to Pope Francis who became the most senior Roman Catholic prelate to be sent to prison for child sexual abuse and was later acquitted of all charges, died Tuesday in Rome. He was 81.
The cause was complications of hip replacement surgery, according to Peter Comensoli, the archbishop of Melbourne, Australia, who confirmed the death in a post on Twitter. Pell had gone to Rome to attend the funeral last week of Pope Benedict XVI.
Pell was for decades one of Australia’s most powerful religious figures. A former athlete with a formidable intellect and a combative streak, he was a conservative voice heard regularly in the media, opposing abortion while defending the church against accusations of child abuse as the archbishop of the Melbourne diocese and then the Sydney diocese.
His personal story, from his origins in the tiny town of Ballarat to his rise through the ranks of the Vatican, had at one time been inspirational to many Australian Catholics, said journalist Lucie Morris-Marr, the author of “Fallen: The Inside Story of the Secret Trial and Conviction of Cardinal George Pell” (2019).
“He was really seen as a success story, a superstar, in effect,” Morris-Marr said. “But, of course, the trajectory of his career and reputation have been terribly, irrevocably damaged, because of the child abuse allegations.”
From 2014 to 2019, Pell was the Vatican’s financial czar and third-in-command, and he tried to push through reforms to make its finances more transparent. Those efforts were truncated in 2017, when he was forced to return to Australia to face trial on charges of sex abuse dating to the 1990s. The case transfixed Australia — cameras met him at the airport when he arrived from Rome.
In December 2018, Pell was convicted by an Australian jury of five counts of child sexual abuse; the crimes, against two choir boys, were said to have occurred in 1996, during his time in Melbourne. He was sentenced to six years in prison in March 2019. Less than two years later, in April 2020, Australia’s highest court overturned the conviction, saying there was “a significant possibility” that he was not guilty.
Pell maintained his innocence throughout the proceedings, portraying himself, in a news conference in Rome in 2017, as a victim of “relentless character assassination.”
“The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me,” he said.
At his death, Pell was facing a civil suit by the father of a now-deceased former choir boy contending that the cleric abused the boy when he was archbishop of Melbourne. In a statement, the claimant’s lawyer said the suit would continue, adding: “There is still a great deal of evidence for this claim to rely upon.”
Separately, a 2017 Australian government inquiry into the abuse of tens of thousands of children in churches, schools and other institutions over decades found that Pell had been aware of the sexual abuse of children by other Roman Catholic priests as early as 1974 but had failed to take action.
At the Vatican, Pell had been lauded for his financial expertise and creative methods to protect the church from being bankrupted by cases involving claims of abuse.
His promotion to Vatican treasurer in Rome followed a period of leadership in Australia during which church attendance declined but the institution’s finances were secured. As archbishop of Melbourne, in October 1996 — two months before the alleged incidents that led to his conviction — Pell set up what would become a firewall for the church’s finances and reputation in connection with abuse accusations. He called it “The Melbourne Response.”
On paper, the “response” was an alternative resolution process for survivors. Pell said it aimed to “make it easier for
victims to achieve justice” outside the courts. But it capped payments, initially at 50,000 Australian dollars ($35,000), and usually forced victims to keep their traumas confidential.
Pell brought a similar approach to Sydney, where he was archbishop from 2001 to 2014.
The response to his death in his native Australia was divided. Some said their thoughts would be with the victims of those abused by the Catholic Church, while others paid tribute to him — muted tribute, in some cases. In a statement, Comensoli of Melbourne expressed “great sadness” at Pell’s death. “May eternal light now be his, who so steadfastly believed in the God of Jesus Christ,” he wrote.
Tony Abbott, a former Australian prime minister and Roman Catholic, told the newspaper The Australian that the cardinal had been a “saint for our times.”
George Pell was born in Ballarat, about 75 miles west of Melbourne, on June 8, 1941, to George Arthur and Margaret Lillian (Burke) Pell. His father, an Anglican of little religious conviction, was the manager of a gold mine and a former heavyweight boxing champion; his mother was a devout Catholic. He had a sister, Margaret, who died in 2021, and a brother, David, who survives him.
George Pell grew up attending Mass weekly and confession once a month. He was a keen athlete as a youth, signing a contract to become a professional player of Australian rules football for a team in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, although he ultimately declined to pursue it. In his final year at a Catholic secondary school, in 1959, he decided to become a priest.
“I feared and suspected and eventually became convinced that God wanted me to do his work, and I was never able to successfully escape that conviction,” he told an interviewer in 1997. “I still marvel that I made the leap of being interested in it and thinking about it to saying, ‘I’ll have a go.’ ”
In 1960, Pell began his studies to become a priest at the Australian seminary Corpus Christi College in Werribee, another suburb of Melbourne. He continued his education at the Pontifical Urban University in the Vatican and at the University of Oxford, where he received a doctor of philosophy degree in church history in 1971. He served as the chaplain to Catholic students at the elite British secondary school Eton College.
On his return to Australia in 1971, Pell began climbing the ranks of the church there, becoming archbishop of Melbourne in 1996 and of Sydney in 2001. He was appointed a cardinal by Pope John Paul II.
Pell was known in the church for his traditional views, which he said had made him unpopular with the public. Speaking to the BBC in 2020, he described his style as “rather direct.”
“The fact that I defend Christian teachings is irritating to a lot of people,” he said. “For my basic Christian positions I make no apology at all.”
Even as he faced his own accusations of sexual abuse, Pell did not dispute that the Catholic Church had been complicit in the sexual abuse of children. He deeply lamented their suffering, he said, but was “able to sleep quite well on most occasions.”
Republicans have decided to hound the hounds. Understanding that they can’t throw federal investigators off the trail of multiple conservatives — including, and perhaps principally, Donald Trump — they have decided to complicate those investigations by kicking up so much dust that the public has a hard time discerning fact from fiction.
This week, Republicans in the House of Representatives moved quickly to approve the formation of their so-called Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, a panel intended to investigate the federal agencies the Republicans claim are targeting conservatives.
As The New York Times wrote, “the panel has such broad reach” that it could “become a main instrument for Republicans to go after the Biden administration, potentially prompting showdowns over access to highly classified information and the details of criminal inquiries.”
But let’s be clear: The Republicans are using a fundamentally Trumpian tactic, accusing others of that which one is guilty of. It was Donald Trump, not the Democrats, who attempted to weaponize the federal government against his enemies.
Trump’s second White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, told the Times that Trump repeatedly told him he wanted the IRS to investigate his political enemies.
A former defense secretary, Mark Esper, wrote in his memoir published last year that Trump wanted the Pentagon to court-martial retired military leaders Stanley McChrystal and William H. McRaven, who had criticized Trump.
According to New York Times reporter Michael C. Bender’s book, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost,” Trump repeatedly pressed law enforcement officials to crush unrest by American citizens during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, saying the way to “handle these people” was to “crack their skulls!”
And this all came well before the violent insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, which Trump helped incite.
The FBI and Department of Justice, institutions that sometimes stood in Trump’s way while he was in office, are now investigating him and others who may have committed crimes in service to him or out of loyalty to him. These investigations have, of course, drawn Trump’s ire and made many Republicans nervous about their own culpability.
So, in true Trump fashion, they accuse anyone looking into the possibility of their corruption of being corrupt. They spin conspiracy theories into actual contempt.
I believe Republicans are attempting to provide a counterweight to the damning evidence and testimony made public by the Jan. 6 committee. They plan to concoct an equivalency.
As part of their quest to punish the agencies attempting to hold them accountable, the party of law and order plans to go after federal law enforcement. This is how you know that the support for the Blue Lives Matter movement was a charade. They simply wanted to shield officers who disproportionately killed Black people.
For them, law enforcement has always been a tool for the control and restraint of the “other.” When law enforcement attempted to control and restrain them, they cried foul. How dare the Justice Department equally apply the law! That wasn’t the plan. That wasn’t the design.
Another tactic Republicans have started to use in recent years is the co-option of virtue, the stealing of civil rights language, the invoking of righteous causes of the past to justify their own corrupt efforts.
Republicans are comparing their new committee —
one Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., correctly called an “Insurrection Protection Committee” — to the Church Committee of the 1970s, a legitimate, bipartisan, factfinding effort that uncovered a wide range of federal abuses by agents who had targeted civil rights organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, activists protesting the Vietnam War and individuals such as Martin Luther King.
This new committee is no Church Committee; it’s a coven of conspiracy theorists.
This new House select committee will reportedly begin by going after the federal agents who tried to clamp down on unruly and sometimes violent protests over liberal school board policies by allegedly labeling some of the parents involved “domestic terrorists.” (As The Associated Press pointed out, there is “no evidence” that this ever happened.)
This, too, is a Trumpian tactic: to link Trump’s troubles to those of his followers, to create a sense they are all comrades in arms, doing battle against the same enemy.
But I believe that the Republican grievances with federal law enforcement are rooted in something deeper than Trump’s issues and the issues of complicit members of Congress. I believe it cuts to the core of conservatism and the cancer that has been allowed to grow on it.
Attorney General Merrick Garland told senators in 2021 that the greatest domestic threat facing the United States came from “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race.”
Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, specifically pointed out that: “The danger and lethality of the threat posed by domestic violent extremism is evidenced by the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and other recent attacks across our country, including against government buildings, federal personnel, and communities of color.”
Republicans would later start talking about ousting Mayorkas for his approach to border control, but his calling attention to the connection between domestic violent extremism and the Trump mob that stormed the Capitol most likely only added to their blood lust to remove him.
One of the first things to happen under the new Republican majority in the House was a Texas Republican, Rep. Pat Fallon, filing articles of impeachment against Mayorkas. Talk about weaponizing the federal government.
EL CAPITOLIO – Como parte de la Sesión Ordinaria, fue aprobado el Proyecto del Senado 945 del portavoz de la mayoría, Javier Aponte Dalmau, para enmendar la “Ley del Departamento de Seguridad Pública de Puerto Rico” a los fines de extender el alcance de las penas y elementos del delito asociado a la prohibición de proveer información falsa sobre un estado de emergencia general o individual.
La pieza legislativa expone que el propósito de la Ley es reducir al mínimo la activación de los mecanismos de rescate y manejo de emergencia del Estado Libre Asociado y equipos de voluntarios para atender situaciones provocadas por información falsa. “La Asamblea Legislativa reconoce el alto costo al erario de los operativos de rescate y manejo de emergencias y el riesgo físico y emocional al que se expone a los rescatistas que atienden los mismos”, sostiene el proyecto.
En un turno, Aponte Dalmau expresó que “esta medida viene encaminada a suplir una intención que se quiso atender a través de una orden ejecutiva y que nuestro Código Penal no atiende estas declaraciones de emergencia con conocimiento que la información que emite a las autorida-
des es totalmente falsa…Esto no se trata de reducir las confidencias a la Policía, aquí de lo que se trata es de gente que negligentemente y a conciencia divulga información falsa a las autoridades sobre una emergencia con conocimiento de que es falsa”.
La medida sostiene que en el caso de que el aviso o la falsa alarma resulte en daños al erario público, a terceros, o la propiedad pública o privada que excedan los $10,000 o cuando la conducta resulte en lesiones o daños físicos de una persona, la persona incurrirá en delito grave con una pena de reclusión por un término
fijo de tres años. “En los casos bajo este inciso el tribunal podrá además imponer, la pena de restitución de fondos públicos o privados invertidos por las entidades de manejo de emergencia y rescate para atender una situación que resultó ser una falsa alarma”, añade.
Además, se le dio paso a la reconsideración del Proyecto del Senado 833 de la senadora Migdalia González Arroyo, para crear la “Ley de Internado Municipal” , adscrito a los Municipios del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. La medida indica que actualmente, solo dos municipios de Puerto Rico, han creado esta iniciativa, Aguada y Aguadilla, y con el fin de replicarla a través de todos los municipios de Puerto Rico y ofrecerles alternativas de Internado a estudiantes universitarios.
“La Asamblea Legislativa considera que deben existir Internados en todas las áreas del servicio público municipal que los municipios son los llamados por ley a brindar a los estudiantes esta invaluable oportunidad”, explica el proyecto.
Igualmente, se aprobó la Resolución Conjunta del Senado 301 del senador por el distrito de Guayama, Albert Torres Berriíos, para ordenar al Departamento de Agricultura que en conjunto con el Departamento de Asuntos al Consumidor y la Corporación de Puerto Rico para la Difusión Pública, desarrollar y difundir una campaña para fomentar los huertos caseros.
SAN JUAN – La superintendente del San Juan National Historic Site, Myrna Palfrey, anunció el jueves, el cierre parcial de los terrenos del Morro durante la celebración de las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián.
Además, algunas áreas de la Muralla Norte estarán cerradas al público por razones de seguridad. El cierre parcial se hará vigente desde el 19 al 22 de enero de 2023, de 7:00 de la noche a las 5:00 de la mañana.
“Para que el National Park Service pueda proteger eficazmente las fortificaciones y mantener la seguridad, es necesario cerrar parte de los terrenos de El Morro durante el Festival. El aumento de visitantes a los terrenos durante el Festival requiere mayor seguridad para salvaguardar los recursos históricos y culturales del sitio histórico nacional ya que pueden resultar en aumento de basura, así como graffiti y el uso inapro-
piado de las murallas históricas. Seguiremos atentos a la protección del recurso y de las personas y, en este caso, los cierres son la opción más efectiva”, dijo Palfrey en declaraciones escritas.
Las fortificaciones del Castillo San Felipe del Morro y el Castillo San Cristóbal estarán abiertas como de costumbre durante el día para nuestros visitantes en su horario regular de 9:00 de la mañana a 5:00 de la tarde.
Se pide a todos los visitantes del sitio histórico y participantes del festival que ayuden a proteger las fortificaciones depositando su basura en los contenedores apropiados, y permanezcan seguros y no se trepen por los muros históricos. Nuestros visitantes deben tener en cuenta las superficies empinadas y resbaladizas en las rampas y escaleras, así como las superficies desgastadas y desiguales en todo el sitio histórico. Juntos podemos continuar manteniendo y preservando de
manera efectiva este parque nacional y Patrimonio de la Humanidad para que todos lo disfruten. Los terrenos del Castillo San Felipe del Morro permanecerán cerrados al público desde las 7:00 de la noche a las 5:00 de la mañana del 19 al 22 de enero de 2023.
Jeff Beck, one of the most skilled, admired and influential guitarists in rock history, died Tuesday in a hospital near his home at Riverhall, a rural estate in southern England. He was 78.
The cause was bacterial meningitis, Melissa Dragich, his publicist, said.
During the 1960s and ’70s, as either a member of the Yardbirds or as leader of his own bands, Beck brought a sense of adventure to his playing that helped make the recordings by those groups groundbreaking.
In 1965, when he joined the Yardbirds, to replace another guitar hero, Eric Clapton, the group was already one of the defining acts in Britain’s growing electric blues movement. But his stinging licks and darting leads on songs like “Shapes of Things” and “Over Under Sideways Down” added an expansive element to the music that helped signal the emerging psychedelic rock revolution.
Three years later, when Beck formed his own band, later known as the Jeff Beck Group — along with Rod Stewart, a littleknown singer at the time, and the equally obscure Ron Wood on bass — the weight of the music created an early template for heavy metal. Specifically, the band’s 1968 debut, “Truth,” provided a blueprint that another former guitar colleague from the Yardbirds, Jimmy Page, drew on to found Led Zeppelin several months later.
In 1975, when Beck began his solo career with the “Blow by Blow” album, he reconfigured the essential formula of that era’s fusion movement, tipping the balance of its influences from jazz to rock and funk and in the process creating a sound that was both startlingly new and highly successful. “Blow by Blow” became a Billboard Top 5 and, selling 1 million or more copies, a platinum hit.
Along the way, Beck helped either pioneer, or amplify, important technical innovations on his instrument. He elaborated the use of distortion and feedback effects, earlier explored by Pete Townshend; intensified the effect of bending notes on the guitar; and widened the range of expression that could be coaxed from devices attached to the guitar like the whammy bar.
Drawing on such techniques, Beck could weaponize his strings to hit like a stun gun or caress them to express what felt like a kiss. His work had humor too, with licks that
could cackle and leads that could tease.
“Even in the Yardbirds, he had a tone that was melodic, but in your face — bright, urgent and edgy,” wrote Mike Campbell, of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, for an article in Rolling Stone magazine to accompany a poll that named Beck the fifth-greatest guitar player of all time. “It’s like he’s saying: ‘I’m Jeff Beck. I’m right here. You can’t ignore me.’ ”
“Everybody respects Jeff,” Page said in a 2018 documentary titled “Still on the Run: The Jeff Beck Story.” “He’s an extraordinary musician. He’s having a conversation with you when he’s playing.”
Despite the accolades, Beck never achieved the sales or popularity of the guitarists considered to be his peers, including Page, Clapton and one of the players he admired most, Jimi Hendrix. Only two of his albums achieved platinum status in the United States, including “Wired,” his 1976 follow-up to “Blow by Blow.”
“Part of the reason is never having attempted to get into mainstream pop, rock or heavy metal or anything like that,” he told the arts website Elsewhere in 2009. “Shutting those doors means you’ve only got a limited space to squeeze through.”
It hurt, too, that the mercurial Beck often worked without a lead singer, and that his groups seldom lasted long. His first band, with Stewart and Wood, stood on the cusp of superstardom, with an invitation to play
Woodstock. But Beck turned down the offer, and the group dissolved shortly thereafter.
Another band he led that held commercial promise, Beck, Bogert & Appice (featuring the rhythm section of Tom Bogert and Carmine Appice, formerly of Vanilla Fudge) earned a gold album in 1973, but Beck scotched the project after less than two years. Not that he minded his status in the industry.
“I’ve never made the big time, mercifully,” Beck told Rolling Stone in 2018. “When you look around and see who has made it huge, it’s a really rotten place to be.”
Even so, he earned eight gold albums over more than six decades. He also amassed seven Grammys, six in the category of best rock instrumental performance and one for best pop collaboration with vocals. He was inducted into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame twice, as part of the Yardbirds in 1992 and as a solo star in 2009.
“Jeff Beck was on another planet,” Stewart said in a statement Wednesday. “He took me and Ronnie Wood to the USA in the late ’60s in his band the Jeff Beck Group, and we haven’t looked back since. He was one of the few guitarists that when playing live would actually listen to me sing and respond. Jeff, you were the greatest, my man.”
Geoffrey Arnold Beck was born June 24, 1944, in South London to Arnold and Ethel Beck. His mother was a candy maker, his father an accountant. Beck told Guitar
Player Magazine in 1968 that his mother had “forced” him to play piano two hours a day when he was a boy. “That was good,” he said, “because it made me realize that I was musically sound. My other training consisted of stretching rubber bands over tobacco cans and making horrible noises.”
He became attracted to electric guitar after hearing Les Paul’s work and was later drawn to the work of Cliff Gallup, lead guitarist for Gene Vincent’s band, and American player Lonnie Mack. He became entranced not only by the sound of the guitar but also by its mechanics.
“At the age of 13, I built two or three of my own guitars,” Beck wrote in an essay for a book about his career published in 2016 titled “Beck 01: Hot Rods and Rock & Roll.” “It was fun just to look at it and hold it. I knew where I was headed.”
He enrolled in Wimbledon College of Art but spent more time playing in bands. Dropping out of school, he began to do studio session work and in 1965 was invited to join the Yardbirds through Page, whom Beck had befriended as a teenager and who had just turned that job down.
Starting in the 1990s, Beck began to do prodigious session work, providing solos on albums by Jon Bon Jovi, Roger Waters, Kate Bush, Tina Turner and others. He showed the continued breadth of his style with his “Emotion & Commotion” album in 2010, which included the standard “Over the Rainbow” and Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma.” The latter track won a Grammy, and the album reached No. 11 in Billboard.
Over the next few decades, Beck continued to tour and to record, most recently yielding a collaboration album with actor and guitarist Johnny Depp, titled “18,” in 2022.
Beck married Sandra Cash in 2005, and she survives him.
To his fans, and to himself, Beck was so deeply identified with his guitar — particularly the Fender Stratocaster — that he seemed inseparable from it.
“My Strat is another arm,” he told Music Radar. “I’ve welded myself to that. Or it’s welded itself to me, one or the other.”
He added: “It’s a tool of great inspiration and torture at the same time. It’s forever sitting there, challenging you to find something else in it. But it is there if you really search.”
By SARAH BAHR
Projects to build a research center at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, to develop digital tours of an exhibition highlighting Jewish founders of the film industry at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, and to add touchscreen kiosks to the National Comedy Center in Lucille Ball’s hometown of Jamestown, New York, are among 204 beneficiaries of new grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities announced earlier this week.
The grants, which total $28.1 million and are the first round awarded this year, will support projects at museums, libraries, universities and historic sites in 39 states and Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Among the projects is the creation of an immersive online resource by the Jane Austen Summer Program in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which will allow people to explore Austen’s writings, personal artifacts and historical documents within a recreated interior of her home. Another, at Temple University in Philadelphia, will develop an online tool to transcribe early polyphonic music, which consists of multiple independent melodies that are played or sung at the same time, in standard musical notation. Funding will also go toward the development of a virtual reality model of a Viking Age longship by undergraduate researchers at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.
Shelly C. Lowe, the endowment’s chair, said in a statement that the projects, many of which use digital tools and technologies to
make ancient cultures and practices accessible to a modern audience, “speak to the wealth of humanities ideas and deep engagement of humanities practitioners across our country.”
In New York, 30 projects at the state’s cultural organizations will receive $5 million in grants, including a $500,000 award to support the rehabilitation of the geothermal heating and cooling system at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Funding will also go toward research for a book exploring how the record collections and home-DJ practices of Black and Latina women in the Bronx in the 1970s shaped the birth and development of hip-hop, as well as one about the life of Cornell Capa and the International Center of Photography, which he founded in 1974.
Elsewhere, a grant will support a faculty and student project at Georgia College to collect oral histories related to the life and works of Flannery O’Connor, the novelist and short-story writer whose work focused on the American South. Another award will allow researchers at the University of Kentucky to explore the underrepresentation of buildings and sites associated with minority racial and ethnic groups on the National Register of Historic Places.
The grants will also support dozens of new books on topics such as Black leisure and tourism in the Jim Crow era; the branding practices of mothers who are influencers on digital media in South Korea; and Hollywood’s “dance-ins,” the uncredited dancers who rehearsed a star’s choreography before filming during the Golden Age of the Hollywood musical from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Parte Demandante V.
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01055.
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 de SAN JUAN, hago saber a la parte demandada, SARA CASTRO ENCARNACIÓN; Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 17 de junio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: Villa Palmeras, 210 Calle Aponte, San Juan PR 00915 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar sito en el Seboruco, Sección Norte de Santurce, término municipal de San Juan, con área superficial de 275.07 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una extensión de 25.06 metros, con terrenos de Enrique Baez, por el SUR, en 21.27 metros, con terrenos de Segismundo Quiñones; por el ESTE, en una extensión de 13.00 metros, con Antonio Defendini. Enclava una edificación. Finca 9701, inscrita al folio treinta del tomo 593 de Santurce Norte, Sección I de San Juan. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Metro Island Mortgage Inc., o a su orden, por la suma de $145,000.00 con interés al 6.50% vencedero el 1 de noviembre 2034. Constituida por la Escritura 382 otorgada en San Juan el 27 de octubre de 2004 ante el notario Jorge Laborde Corretjer, inscrita al folio 203 del tomo 1158 de Santurce Norte, finca #9701, Inscripción 16ta. (ii) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage., o a su orden, por $35,000.00 al 9.95% vencedero el 1 de enero de 2026. Constituida por la Escritura 592 otorgada en San Juan el 22 de diciembre de 2005 ante el notario Vivian S. Alfonso Rivera,
inscrita al folio 203 del tomo 1158 de Santurce Norte, finca #9701, Inscripción 17ma. 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 dictada el 10 de mayo de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad ascendiente a $102,750.13 de principal, más $9,344.16 a intereses acumulados que continuarán acumulándose al 6.5% anual hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más $539.97 a cargos por demora, $1,988.10 a otros cargos, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario.
La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 30 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $145,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 DE FEBRERO 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, $96,666.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el 13 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $72,500.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los
acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de 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 29 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 DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE, INC Demandante Vs.
JOSÉ MIGUEL VALENTÍN NIEVES T/C/C JOSÉ VALENTIN NIEVES, ENRIQUE MORALES MEDINA
Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2018CV00357.
Sala: 206. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Embargo que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, el día 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en 4403 PR INT., KM 2.1 HUMATAS WARD DEV., AÑASCO, PUERTO RICO 00610, y que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar “B” en el plano de segregación, localizado en el barrio Humacao de Añasco, con una cabida superficial de 1787.7818 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.4549 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con solar “A” segregado en el caso 2011-API-00525; por el SUR, con remanente (con el solar C Según Escritura de Hipoteca); por el ESTE, con uso público y por el OESTE, con Luis Monagas Ortiz. Presentada al Asiento 716 del diario 757 y será segregación de la finca 1,444 la cual consta inscrita al Folio 136 vto del Tomo 40 de Añasco, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. El embargo a ejecutarse es por la suma de $151,926.12 y consta presentado al Asiento 2022013730-MY01 del Sistema Karibe de Mayagüez Sección Primera, en la finca presentada
al Asiento 716 del Diario 757 y será segregación de la finca número 1,444 la cual consta inscrita al Folio 136 vto. del Tomo 40 de Añasco, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. La hipoteca objeto del embargo a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 115 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de julio de 2013, ante el Notario Jaime E. Dávila Santini y consta presentada al asiento 1195-754-MY01, Finca número 1,444 , Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $114,705.12 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.50% anual desde el 1ro de abril de 2017. Además, la parte co-demandada José Miguel Valentín Nieves t/c/c José Valentín Nieves y Enrique Morales Medina (Deudores Hipotecarios) adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $12,240.00. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmi-
sibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de diciembre de 2022. JOSÉ M. CRESPO NAZARIO, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA
Demandante V.
Demandada
Civil Núm.: FCD2016-1100. (403). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, GRETCHEN M. PÉREZ SEDA, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 24 de mayo de 2019 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $144,782.60 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el
27 de diciembre de 2016 y notificada y archivada en autos el 29 de diciembre de 2016, vendiendo en pública subasta la propiedad que se describe a continuación: #302-D, Condominio Paseo del Rey, Bo. San Martin González Carolina, PR 00987. URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento Número D guión trescientos dos (D302) para fines residenciales, localizado en el tercer (3er) nivel de la Torre D del Condominio conocido como Paseo del Rey, situado en el Barrio Martín González del Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida superficial de mil doscientos sesenta y cuatro punto cero siete (1,264.07) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento diecisiete punto cuarenta y ocho (117.48) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en una distancia de cuarenta y siete pies tres pulgadas (47’ 3”) con pared que lo separa del Apartamento Número C guión Trescientos Uno (C-301); por el Sur, en una distancia de cuarenta y nueve pies tres pulgadas (49’ 3”) con pared que lo separa del apartamento Número D guión Trescientos Uno (D301), entrada del apartamento, vestíbulo o pasillo comunal y escalera; por el Este, en una distancia de veintiocho pies dos pulgadas (25’ 2”) con área comunal del Condominio; y por el Oeste, en una distancia de treinta y dos pies dos pulgadas (32’ 2”) con el área comunal del Condominio. Consta de principalmente sala-comedor, cocina, tres (3) habitaciones, dos (2) baños, laundry y balcón. Su puerta de entrada y salida comunica al vestíbulo o pasillo comunal del tercer (3er) nivel de la Torre D del Condominio, que a su vez tiene acceso a la calle principal. Le pertenecen a este Apartamento los siguientes Anejos: TERRAZA: Terraza del Apartamento Número D guión Trescientos Dos (D-302) para fines residenciales, localizada en el cuarto (4to) nivel de la Torre D del Condominio conocido como Paseo del Rey, situado en el Barrio Martín González del Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida superficial de seiscientos quince puntos ochenta (615.80) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a cincuenta y dos punto veintitrés (52.23) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en una distancia de cuarenta y un pies siete pulgadas (41’ 7”) con pared que lo separa del techo del Apartamento Número D guión Trescientos Dos (D-302); por el Sur, en una distancia de cuarenta y un pies siete pulgadas (41’ 7”) con pared que lo separa
de la terraza del Apartamento Número D guión Trescientos Uno (D-301); por el Este, en una distancia de diecinueve pies siete pulgadas (19’ 7”) con área comunal del Condominio; y por el Oeste, en una distancia de diecinueve pies siete pulgadas (19’ 7”) con el área comunal del Condominio. ESTACIONAMIENTOS: Le corresponde a este Apartamento, como Anejo, el uso particular y exclusivo de dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento localizados en el área de estacionamiento del Condominio e identificados con los números veintitrés (23) y veinticinco (25), según ilustrado en los Planos de Condominio. Le corresponde el uno punto cuarenta y siete por ciento (1.47%) de participación en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio. Inscrita al folio 109 del tomo 1489 de Carolina, finca número 62772, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $144,782.60 de principal, 5.50% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $419.63 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $154,700.00 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $103,133.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $77,350.00. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el 22 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes:
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUANServidumbres a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico, Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico, Comunicaciones y condiciones restrictivas. Condiciones Restrictivas bajo el Programa “Mi Nuevo Hogar” por un período de 10 años donde expresa que no podrá vender, donar, permutar o de cualquier otro modo transferir la propiedad e impuestas por la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de P.R. quien aportó una suma de dinero para sufragar gatos de cierre, según Ese. #10 en San Juan el 26 de agosto de 2011 ante Bonnie García Alvarado, inscrita al folio 109 del tomo 1489 de Carolina, finca #62772 inscripción 1ra. Del Estudio de Título realizado surge el siguiente gravamen posterior el cual podrá ser cancelado: Hipoteca constituida por Keyla Santiago Sinigaglia casada con Delvis Santos Suárez en garantía de pagaré bajo aff #2225 a favor de Popular Morgage, lnc., o a su orden por $25,000.00 al 5.50% anual, vencedero el 1 de septiembre de 2041, según Esc. #95 en San Juan el 26 de agosto de 2011 ante Héctor F. Lebrón González, inscrita al folio 113 del tomo 1489 de Carolina, finca #62772 inscripción 3ra. y última. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.
La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante
horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 29 de diciembre de 2022. GRETCHEN M. PÉREZ SEDA, ALGUACIL. ***
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES LTD. Plaintiff V. ELIZABETH JAMESON HODGES SEYMOUR, FELIX DELGADO MEDINA AND THEIR CONYUGAL PARTNERSHIP Defendants Civil: 16-CV-3001. PAD. Re: FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE IN REM. NOTICE OF SALE.
TO: ELIZABETH JAMESON HODGES SEYMOUR, FELIX DELGADO MEDINA AND THEIR CONYUGAL PARTNERSHIP, ANY OTHER PARTY WITH INTEREST OVER THE PROPERTY MENTIONED BELOW; GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the sum of $284,655.44 in principal, interest rate of 6.9140% per annum since September 1, 2015. Such interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. Also advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution the-
reof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 –Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property (as described in the Property Registrar in the Spanish language): Mansiones Playa de Húcares, B2 Calle Marina, Naguabo, PR 00718. URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Playa de Húcares, en el barrio Santiago y Lima del municipio de Naguabo. Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de urbanización, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar B-2; área de 1,023.24 metros cuadrados. En lindes al NORTE, con el solar 1, en una distancia de 33.77 metros; al SUR, con el solar 3, en una distancia de 33.78 metros; al ESTE, con la calle #2, en una distancia de 30.00 metros y al OESTE, con el solar #6, en una distancia de 30.00 metros. Enclava una casa. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 200 del tomo 188 de Naguabo, finca número 10,586 del Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. The mortgage deed is recorded at page 93 of volume 234 of Naguabo, property #10586, Property Registry of Humacao. 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: 8:45 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $289,220.87. 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 21ST DAY OF FEBRUARY OF 2023, AT: 8:45 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $192,813.91, which is twothirds of the amount of the mini-
mum 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: 8:45 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $144,610.44, which is onehalf 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 Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 21st day of December of 2022. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, SPECIALMASTERPR@GMAIL.COM, 787-6728269.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. MILLY KORALIA VÁZQUEZ CARRIÓN T/C/C MILLY K. VÁZQUEZ CARRIÓN
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2021CV01295.
Sala: 206. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚ-
BLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 25 de febrero de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 3 de mayo de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 4 de mayo de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Humacao, Sala Superior, en la Avenida Nicanor Vázquez (frente al Centro de Bellas Artes), Humacao, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar identificado como el Número 52 del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Promised Land, situado en el Barrio Daguao del término municipal de Naguabo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 420.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 30.00 metros con el solar número 53; por el SUR, en una distancia de 30.00 metros, con el solar número 51; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 14.00 metros con el solar número 54; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 14.00 metros con la Calle Nazaret. Sobre este solar enclava una estructura de hormigón y bloques para fines residenciales. Inscrita al Folio 75 del Tomo 238 de Naguabo, Finca Número 13623, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al Folio 150 del Tomo 251 de Naguabo, Finca Número 13623, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Inscripción segunda. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: URB. PROMISED LAND, 52 CALLE NAZARET, NAGUABO, PR 00718-2847. Dirección Postal: PO Box 465, Luquillo, PR 00773-0465. Número de Catastro: 52-231-092186-02-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $136,600.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 16 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $91,066.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 23 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $68,300.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera
subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $106,233.95 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.5% anual desde el 1 de marzo de 2020 hasta su completo pago, más $259.92 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $13,933.20 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Bitácora: Al Asiento 2021-166019-HU01, el 23 de diciembre de 2021, Demanda de fecha 29 de noviembre de 2021, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, en el Caso Civil Número HU2021CV01295, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Milly Koralia Vázquez Carrión también conocida como Milly K. Vázquez Carrión, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $106,233.95 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. Pendiente de anotación. b. Bitácora: Al Asiento 2022022855-HU01, el 23 de febrero de 2022, Instancia de fecha 22 de febrero de 2022, en la cual se solicita al Registrador de Humacao, que se corrija la cabida de la propiedad y que el Registro erro al establecer que la finca descrita en el tomo 238 del folio 75 de la finca número 13623 tiene una superficie de 490.00 metros cuadrados, siendo la cabida correcta de 420.00 metros cuadrados. Pendiente de inscripción. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se le advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos
una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 9 de enero de 2023. JOSÉ LUIS RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #249.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. JAYSON
tes), Humacao, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Barrio Mambiche Prieto de Humacao, Puerto Rico. Solar Número Tres (3). Cabida 1087.00 metros cuadrados. Linderos por el NORTE, con parcela B (Uso Público); por el SUR, con franja verde; por el ESTE, con el solar número cuatro (4) y parcela B (Uso Público) y por el OESTE, con el solar número dos (2). Descripción conforme a plano. La propiedad y la escritura de hipoteca constan inscritas al Tomo Karibe de Humacao, Finca Número 31092, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La escritura de hipoteca es la inscripción cuarta. Dirección Física: Mambiche Prieto #3, KM 1.9, SR 938 INT., Humacao, PR 00791. Dirección Postal: HC 03 Box 6351, Humacao, PR 00791. Número de Catastro: 51-255-062-476-85-000.
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2021CV00947.
Sala: 206. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 10 de marzo de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 29 de abril de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 4 de mayo de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Humacao, Sala Superior, en la Avenida Nicanor Vázquez (frente al Centro de Bellas Ar-
El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $55,967.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 16 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $37,311.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 23 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $27,983.50. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $53,204.54 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5% anual desde el 1 de septiembre de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $192.24 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $5,596.70 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Bitácora: Al Asiento 2021-115999-HU01,
ALBERT PADILLA RODRÍGUEZ, RUBIANNE JENICE MUÑOZ CORDOVÉS T/C/C RUBIANNE JENNICE MUÑOZ CORDOVÉS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
(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 10 de enero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de enero de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 11 de enero de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de CAROLINA.
GERMÁN ANTONIO TORRES RODRÍGUEZ, DORIS ELIZABETH TORRES DOMÍNGUEZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GERMÁN ANTONIO TORRES RODRÍGUEZ, GERMAN MAURICIO TORRES DOMÍNGUEZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GERMÁN ANTONIO TORRES RODRÍGUEZ , FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN GERMÁN
ANTONIO TORRES RODRÍGUEZ
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
Civil: BY2022CV03528 (403). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: GIOVANNI GRADO CHEAZZEE T/C/C
GIOVANNI GRADO, DOROTEA LEO LEO TIC/C DOROTEA GRADO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
SANTIAGO MEDINA A/K/A NILSA SANTIAGO MEDINA A/K/A NILDA LUZ SANTIAGO A/K/A NILDA L. SANTIAGO A/K/A NILDA SANTIAGO A/K/A NILSA SANTIAGO; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
GENERAL PUBLIC.
INC.
Demandante v. LYDIA ADALGISA DOMÍNGUEZ LOZANO Y LA SUCESIÓN DE GERMÁN ANTONIO
TORRES RODRÍGUEZ, ET ALS
Demandado Civil Núm. CA2022CV01843 (402). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA . NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: LYDIA ADALGISA
DOMÍNGUEZ LOZANO T/C/C LYDIA ADALGISA DOMNGA T/C/C LYDIA DOMÍNGUEZ TORRES T/C/C LYDIA ADALGISA DOMÍNGUEZ
TORRES POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GERMÁN ANTONIO TORRES RODRIGUEZ, IVONNE LUICELLA TORRES DOMÍNGUEZ
COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 3 de ENERO de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 5 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 11 de ENERO de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 11 DE ENERO de 2023. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretaria. KEILA GARCIA SOLIS, Secretaria Auxiliar.
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de BAYAMÓN.
E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE, INC Demandante V. GIOVANNI GRADO CHEAZZEE T/C/C
GIOVANNI GRADO, DOROTEA LEO LEO T/C/C
DOROTEA GRADO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado(a)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 26 de septiembre 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 12 de enero de 2023. En BAYAMÓN , Puerto Rico, el 12 de enero de 2023.
LAURA I SANTA SÁNCHEZ, Secretaria. f/ Nélida Ocasio Ortega, Secretaria Auxiliar.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC.
Plaintiff Vs. NILDA LUZ SANTIAGO MEDINA A/K/A NILDA L. SANTIAGO MEDINA A/K/A NILDA SANTIAGO MEDINA A/K/A NILSA SANTIAGO MEDINA A/K/A NILDA LUZ SANTIAGO A/K/A NILDA L. SANTIAGO A/K/A NILDA SANTIAGO A/K/A NILSA SANTIAGO; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Defendants
Civil Action No.: 17-cv-1627.
NOTICE OF SALE.
To: NILDA LUZ SANTIAGO MEDINA A/K/A NILDA L. SANTIAGO MEDINA A/K/A NILDA
WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $86,409.11, plus interest at a rate of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Nilda Luz Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilsa Santiago Medina a/k/a Nilda Luz Santiago a/k/a Nilda L. Santiago a/k/a Nilda Santiago a/k/a Nilsa Santiago to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($17,100.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHE-
REAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property.
“URBANA: Solar número seis de la Manzana H, Urbanización Santa Mónica, Barrio Pájaros de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 325.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 5, en 25.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número 7, en 25.00 metros; por el ESTE, con la Calle número 6, en 13.00 metros y por el OESTE con el solar número 21, en 7.00 metros y con el solar número 20, en 6.00 metros, con un total la distancia de 13.00 metros.” Property Number 19,829 recorded at page 146 of volume 438 of Bayamon Sur, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Bayamón. The mortgage being foreclosed is recorded at page 37, volume 1,933 of Bayamon Sur,
property 19,829, 12th inscription, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Bayamon. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $171,000.00, due on March 30, 2094 pursuant to deed number 84, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 9, 2014, before notary Magaly Rodriguez Batista, and recorded, at page 37 of volume 1,933 of Bayamon Sur, property number 19,829, 13th inscription. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 14TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2023 AT 8:35 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $171,000.00. 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, 2023 AT 8:35 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $114,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the the 28TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2023 AT 8:35 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $85,500.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied.
WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and
possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 13th day of December of 2022.
PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, SPECIALMASTERPR@GMAIL.COM, 787-672-8269.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE MILAGROS FRANCO CRUZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV02919.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A LA PARTE CODEMANDADA: FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION MILAGROS FRANCO CRUZ, A LA SIGUIENTE DIRECCIÓN: FÍSICA: BALBOA TOWN HOUSES BOX 2 CALLE 517 EDIF. L APT. 91 CAROLINA, PR 00985; Y POSTAL: BALBOA TOWN HOUSEES CALLE 517 EDIF. L APT. 91 CAROLINA, PR 00985.
Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de La Sucesión de Milagros Franco Cruz, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $97,542.02 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de abril
de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.
Además, La Sucesión de Milagros Franco Cruz adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $12,666.30. Además La Sucesión de Milagros Franco Cruz se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $12,666.30 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $12,666.30 para cubrir cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 34, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 10 de junio de 2010, ante la notario María Mercedes Storer Bello, de la finca número 53,731, inscrita al Folio 133 del Tomo 1252 de Carolina Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Segunda. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Milagros Franco Cruz. Los codemandados miembros de La Sucesión de Milagros Franco Cruz se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que La Sucesión de
Milagros Franco Cruz, se incluye a los herederos y herederos desconocidos de Milagros Franco Cruz denominados Fulano y Fulana De Tal, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. 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. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el período de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 10 de enero de 2022, en Carolina, Puerto Rico. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DAMARIS TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
Demandados Civil Núm.: HSCI2016-1099. (208). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTRA POR AMBOS
por el SUR, en 21.52 metros, con David Lugo Pagan, hoy Jorge Jordan Pasarell; por el ESTE, en 23.03 metros, según Registro, pero 22.03 metros, según mensura, con la franja de terreno segregado propiedad de David Lugo Pagan; y por el OESTE, en 22.05 metros, con la calle Este número 7 Granada. Enclava una casa residencial de una sola planta de concreto armado, divido en sala, comedor, cocina, 5 cuartos dormitorios, 3 cuartos de baño, terraza y marquesina.
FINCA NÚMERO: 16,102, inscrita al folio 34 del tomo 2033 de Ponce, sección I de Ponce. Dirección Física: URB. ALHAMBRA, 2118 CALLE GRANADA, PONCE PR 00731. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Ponce. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $170,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $113,333.33. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 16 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 1:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $85,000.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $62,346.83 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 5.2500% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una
vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico por éstos contar con una hipoteca a su favor por la suma de $52,700.00, intereses al 2.00% sobre el interés preferencial (prime rate) y a vencer a la demanda, según consta de la escritura #194, otorgada en Ponce, el 21 de octubre de 2008, ante el Notario Manuel A. Frau Catasus, inscrito al folio 34 vuelto del tomo 2033 de Ponce, finca #16,102, inscripción 23ra. Además, se notifica e informa a los demandados de epígrafe por existir un embargo judicial por concepto de División de Comunidad de Bienes por la suma de $5,000.00 más intereses, bajo el civil #JAC2006-0643, anotado el 1ro de diciembre de 2011 al folio 89 del tomo 2086 de Ponce. También se notifica a e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las car-
gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 15 de noviembre de 2022.
JUAN ROLANDO CRUZ ROMÁN, ALGUACIL #965, SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C FANNIE MAE
Demandante Vs. PEDRO JOARIS LEBRON QUIÑONES, XIOMARA ENID ALBERTY RUIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
Demandados Civil Núm.: SS2022CV00264. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 30 de agosto de 2022, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 15 de diciembre de 2022 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número tre-
ce (13) de la Manzana “D” de la Urbanización Villa Rita del Barrio Guatemala de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos seis metros cuadrados con cincuenta y dos centímetros. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar catorce, distancia de veintiún metros con cincuenta centímetros; al SUR, con solar doce, distancia de veintidós metros con setenta y cuatro centímetros; por el ESTE, con los solares cuatro y cinco, distancia de catorce metros con cuarenta y un centímetros en arco; y al OESTE, con la calle tres, distancia de trece metros con cincuenta centímetros en arco. Enclava una estructura en cemento y bloques, dedicada a vivienda. FINCA NÚMERO: 8,103, inscrita al folio 153 del tomo 194 de San Sebastián, Registro de San Sebastián.
Dirección Física: URB. VILLA RITA, 13-D, CALLE #3, SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 1RO DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Sebastián. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $75,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $50,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $37,500.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Se dictó Sentencia In Rem declarando Ha Lugar la demanda, determinando que existe un balance
pendiente de pago ascendente a $68,624.13. Por motivo del descargo concedido, el presente reclamo es in rem, pues el descargo no afecta la exigibilidad del gravamen hipotecario, conforme a lo resuelto por el Tribunal Supremo de Estados Unidos en Johnson v. Home State Bank, 501 U.S. 78, 111 S. Ct. 2150, 115 L. Ed. 2d 66, 59 USLW 4609 (1991). Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento
del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 10 de enero de 2023. LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADILLA ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. LOURDES LIZARDI RODRIGUEZ, HARRY GILBERT LOPEZ
IRIZARRY Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: AG2022CV01096. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: LOURDES LIZARDI RODRIGUEZ, HARRY GILBERT LOPEZ IRIZARRY Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación
responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Sotomayor, Casa 61, Aguadilla, PR 00602; PO Box 1096, Aguada, PR 00602-1096.
EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de enero de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NATHALIE I. ACEVEDO QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE LUNA COMMERCIAL II, LLC
Demandante V. NÉSTOR TORRES SANTOS; SU ESPOSA LORENA
DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON SU ESPOSO, NÉSTOR
TORRES SANTOS. PMB 291, 1575 AVE. MUÑOZ RIVERA, PONCE, PUERTO RICO 007170211; PMB 291, 1575 AVE. MUÑOZ RIVERA, PONCE, PUERTO RICO 00717; 1575 AVE. MUÑOZ RIVERA PMB 291, PONCE PUERTO RICO 00717; URB. VILLA GRILLASCA A20A AVE. INT., PONCE PUERTO RICO 00717; 2144 B1VD LUIS A. FERRÉ, PONCE, PUERTO RICO 00717-0722. Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda Cobro de Dinero y de Ejecución de Hipoteca, reclamando unas sumas adeudadas que, al 21 de octubre de 2022, ascienden a un total de $ 14,282.37, la cual se desglosa como sigue: (i) $13,991.42 por concepto de principal; más (ii) $1,807.00 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a razón de $3.16 diarios; más (iii) $1,034.91 por concepto de cargos por mora; (iv) menos $2,550.96 por concepto de “escrow”; más (v) la suma de $10,500.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado pactados y se desprende en el Pagaré Hipotecario y la Hipoteca. Se les emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Ferraiuoli LLC
Lcdo. Luis G. Parrilla Hernández P.O. Box 195168 San Juan, PR 00919-5168 Tel.: 787-766-7000 / Fax: 787-766-7001
lparrilla@ferraiuoli.com
COMPUESTA
Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV02996.
Sala: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO.
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: LORENA VÉLEZ CINTRÓN POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
Abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.prlsumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 09 de enero de 2023. CAR-
MEN G. TIRU QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. EREINA AGRONT LEÓN, SUB-BIENES
VÉLEZ CINTRÓN; LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
POR ELLOS, Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V.
ASOCIACIÓN DE EMPLEADOS DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS ARCHIVOS DE DORAL MORTGAGE
ción de Empleados del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico es el acreedor que consta en el Registro de la Propiedad. Doral Bank fue último tenedor conocido del pagaré antes descrito.
Mircienid González Torres, Secretaria Auxiliar.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV10607.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: JOHN DOE Y
RICHARD ROE, personas desconocidas que se designan con estos nombres ficticios, que puedan ser tenedor o tenedores, o puedan tener algún interés en el pagaré hipotecario a que se hace referencia más adelante en el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez.
Se les notifica que en la Demanda radicada en el caso de epígrafe se alega que el 21 de julio de 1998, se otorgó un pagaré a favor de la Asociación de Empleados del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $65,960.00 de principal, con intereses al 75% (así surge), con vencedero el 1 de agosto de 2028, ante el Notario Antonio Adrover Robles. En garantía del pagaré antes descrito se otorgó la escritura de hipoteca número 40, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 21 de julio de 1998, ante el Notario Antonio Adrover Robles, inscrita al folio 38 del tomo 1110 de Sabana Llana, finca número 35246, inscripción 4, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es la finca número 35246 inscrita al folio 38 del tomo 1110 de Sabana Llana, Registro de San Juan, Sección V. La obligación evidenciada por el pagaré antes descrito fue saldada en su totalidad. Dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el original del pagaré. El original del pagaré antes descrito no ha podido ser localizado, a pesar de las gestiones realizadas. Asocia-
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 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. 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.
LCDO. JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN RUA NÚM. 17682 DELGADO & FERNÁNDEZ, LLC PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750, Tel. (787) 274-1414 / Fax (787) 764-8241
E-mail: jmontalvo@ delgadofernandez.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 21 de diciembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ADJUNTAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. DAVID GONZALEZ VELEZ
Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: UT2022CV00164. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: DAVID GONZALEZ VELEZ, HC 1 BOX 3614, ADJUNTAS PR 00601. (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 29 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla
de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de enero de 2023. En Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, el 10 de enero de 2023. Diane Álvarez Villanueva, Secretaria. Wanda I. Rivera Pérez, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. MARGARITA CINTRÓN CANINI; Y BENITA
Demandado(a) Civil: BY2021CV04913. 702. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y CANCELACIÓN DE EJECUCIÓ DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
(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 9 de enero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación.Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de enero de 2023. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 10 de enero de 2023. Lcda Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
RICO
Demandante V. MARGARITA
Demandado(a) Civil: BY2021CV04913. 702. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y CANCELACIÓN DE EJECUCIÓ DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
(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 9 de enero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación.Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de enero de 2023. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 10 de enero de 2023. LCDA LAURA I.
SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO ROJO
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND LLC Demandante V.
RICARDO
RODRIGUEZ GRACIA Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV00314.
A: RICARDO RODRIGUEZ GRACIA. (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 3 de enero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de enero de 2023. En Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, el 10 de enero de 2023. Norma G.
Santana Irizarry, Secretaria Regional. María M. Avilés Bonilla, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AÑASCO PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC
Demandante V. EVARISTO FIGUEROA FIGUEROA H/N/C IYUS PIZZA, FULANA DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado(a) Civil: AÑ2022CV00147. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO, INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: EVARISTO FIGUEROA FIGUEROA H/N/C IYUS PIZZA, FULANA DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. (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 29 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi-
damente 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 10 de enero de 2023. En Añasco, Puerto Rico, el 10 de enero de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. LUZ NELDY CHICO ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS 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 Demandante V. ELVIN MOJICA DEL TORO Y OTROS Demandado(a) Civil: CG2019CV03011. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO D PUERTO RICO, SS.
(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 11 de ENERO de 2023.
En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 11 de ENERO de 2023. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria Regional. Vilma Oyola Rivera, Secretaria Auxiliar.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. IRICELIA RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ
Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2022CV06557.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO.
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO
LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: IRICELIA RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajucial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Látimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de junio de 2022, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.
Además adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal de $104,485.68, más intereses a razón del 5.25% anual desde el 1 de mayo de 2022 y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 4% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribuciones, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a $12,124.50, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Brisas del Campanero Sección segunda, en el Barrio Medina Luna, sector Campanillas del término municipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se mencionan a continuación: Bloque y número: K-1. Área: doscientos setenta y seis punto ochenta y siete metros cuadrados (276.87 mc). En lindes: por el NORTE, en 21.50 metros con el solar número 2 del Bloque KK; por el SUR, en una recta de 15.20 metros y una media curva de 2.75 metros que suman 17.95 con la calle número 4; por el ESTE, en 13.00 con el solar número 16 del bloque K; y por el OESTE, en una recta de 9.50 metros y una media curva de 2.75 metros que suman 12.25 con la calle 17. Enclava en este solar una residencia en concreto. Consta inscrita al folio 163 del tomo 604 de Toa Baja, finca número #29,583 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Bayamón. SE LE APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictara sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. A 11 de enero de 2023. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional Interina I. Elibeth Torres Alicea, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
In the NFL playoffs, teams are as evenly matched as they will have been all season. With opponents looking for whatever scant advantage exists, there are several statistical trends worth monitoring. Dropped passes, penalty yards, field-position differentials and fourth-quarter surges can all have a major impact on the results of this weekend’s elimination games.
Brady’s fourth-quarter surges Tom Brady’s comebacks are still big. It’s the rest of his game that has grown smaller.
His Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-9) overcame fourth-quarter deficits in four of their victories. The Bucs beat back a 13-6 fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Los Angeles Rams, 16-13, in Week 9. Brady overcame a 16-3 deficit to beat the New Orleans Saints, 17-16, in Week 13. Brady also led his team back from trailing by 16-6 to beat the Arizona Cardinals, 19-16, in overtime in Week 16, and then the next week they trailed by 21-10 before defeating the Carolina Panthers, 30-24, to clinch the NFC South.
In those comebacks, the Buccaneers trailed by a combined 66-22 score in the fourth quarter, against opponents who ended the season with losing records. That does not exactly inspire confidence.
Across the first, second and third quarters of regular-season games, Brady threw just 12 touchdowns, fewer than the Chicago Bears’ Justin Fields and the Houston Texans’ Davis Mills (13 each), beleaguered young quarterbacks whose teams combined for a 6-27-1 record and earned the right to the top two picks in the 2023 draft. Brady then threw 13 fourthquarter touchdowns, seven of them while trailing in the final four minutes, sometimes (though not always) during heroic comebacks.
Brady’s sorcery will probably not be enough to advance the Buccaneers through the playoffs, but his knack for fourth-quarter touchdowns is reason for opponents not to give the ball back if they can avoid it.
Prescott’s interception rate
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott tied for the league lead with 15 interceptions and had the worst interception rate (3.8%) of any starter during the regular season. In each of his past seven games, he has thrown at least one interception, and three of them have been returned for touchdowns.
Prescott has been a fine quarterback but for the interceptions, which is not quite like claiming that Sunday dinner was delicious except for the salmonella. Prescott finished the season tied for fourth in the NFL in touchdown rate (5.8%). He often Houdinis his way out of
the predicaments he helps cause.
Prescott also isn’t getting much support from teammates; his overtime interception against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 15, for example, was tipped by his own receiver.
A high interception rate does not preclude a Super Bowl victory: Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford tied for the NFL lead with 17 interceptions in 2021, then threw three more in the postseason. Still, the Cowboys have a long and hilarious history of postseason pratfalls and will be much better off if they do not hand their opponent (Brady) any easy opportunities.
Saturday’s game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Jaguars promises to be a showdown of Justin Herbert and Trevor Lawrence, two of the NFL’s most promising young star quarterbacks. It could turn into a frustrating blooper reel, however: The Jaguars led the league with 41 dropped passes, according to Pro Football Reference, while the Chargers ranked second with 40 drops.
Zay Jones led the Jaguars with 13 drops, while Christian Kirk dropped seven passes; Marvin Jones and former New York Giants tight end Evan Engram added five each. Running back Austin Ekeler and tight end Gerald Everett led the Chargers with nine drops each, while top receivers Keenan Allen and Mike Williams, who were injured for much of the year, combined to drop three passes. Herbert therefore holds the advantage: He has two reliable targets at his disposal, while Lawrence has none.
The San Francisco 49ers begin their average offensive drive at their own 30.9-yard line, the best starting field position in the NFL, accord-
ing to Football Outsiders. Their opponents, by contrast, are stuck starting their drives at their own 25.6-yard line, the worst in the league. The 49ers therefore net a league-high 5.24 yards per series, essentially tilting the field in their favor and muscling opponents back toward their own goal line.
The 49ers also led the NFL in turnover differential at +13. Their defense often gives rookie quarterback Brock Purdy and his many playmakers the ball within easy striking distance of the end zone.
The 49ers scored touchdowns on short drives after turnovers in each of their two regular-season victories over the Seattle Seahawks, a division rival they’ll face again Saturday. Even if the Seahawks manage to play turnover-free football, however, they may find themselves climbing uphill all afternoon.
The Minnesota Vikings committed 88 penalties for just 689 yards in the regular season, according to nflpenalties.com. Their opponents committed 111 penalties for 926 yards. Their +237-yard penalty differential was the highest in the NFL, and it contributed to the sense that the often unimpressive Vikings were winning many of their games through sheer luck.
Some of the Vikings’ penalty edge stemmed from the team’s strengths. For example, opponents committed 11 defensive pass interference penalties for 158 yards in their desperate effort to cover receivers Justin Jefferson and Adam Thielen. Some of the advantage may have come from experience and sound coaching: The Vikings committed just 12 offensive holding penalties, the second-lowest figure in the NFL.
The rest of the differential may indeed have been the result of the team’s purported probability-warping superpowers: Opponents were flagged a league-high six times for ineligible downfield receivers, a truly random infraction.
The Giants must minimize their penalties against the Vikings on Sunday, especially since they cannot count on their passing game to bail them out of trouble.
The Giants rely heavily on short passing. A little too heavily. Daniel Jones’ average depth of target of 6.4 yards tied for 31st among starting quarterbacks, according to Pro Football Reference. For comparison’s sake, the Buffalo Bills’ Josh Allen averaged 9.2 air yards per target, and Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins — not exactly renowned as a mad bomber — averaged 7.5.
As a result of all their micro-passing, the Giants generated just 28 passing plays of 20 or more yards in the regular season, the fewest in the league.
Despite the lack of big plays, Jones managed to lead the Giants on four fourth-quarter comebacks, the same number as Brady and Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes. Unfortunately, Cousins led the Vikings on eight fourth-quarter comebacks, tying the modern record.
So the Giants cannot rely on late-game magic. Instead, they and other teams hope that some statistical trends will start to reverse themselves.
No. 7 Seattle Seahawks at No. 2 San Francisco 49ers 4:30 p.m., Fox
No. 5 Los Angeles Chargers at No. 4 Jacksonville Jaguars 8:15 p.m., NBC
No. 7 Miami Dolphins at No. 2 Buffalo Bills 1 p.m., CBS
No. 6 New York Giants at No. 3 Minnesota Vikings 4:30 p.m., Fox
No. 6 Baltimore Ravens at No. 3 Cincinnati Bengals 8:15 p.m., NBC
Dallas Cowboys at Tampa Bay Buccaneers 8 p.m., ESPN
It was free agency disguised as a teen drama series: hookups and breakups, jilted suitors, broken promises, whirlwind courtships on both coasts. The saga of Carlos Correa’s next contract seemed so implausible — deals with three teams, each worth hundreds of millions of dollars, all in a 30-day span — that it must have been fiction.
And perhaps it was all just a dream, a swirl of unfinished plotlines that ended up in the same place. On Wednesday, Correa rubbed his eyes, looked around and saw Minnesota. Again. He seemed to like the view.
“Kylo is going to grow up to be Minnesota Nice, which I love, and we’re very excited,” Correa said, spotting his 13-month-old son in the crowd at a news conference at Target Field. “I get more Jucy Lucys, also.”
The Jucy Lucy, a Minnesota-style burger with the cheese tucked inside the meat, goes for $9.50 at Matt’s Bar & Grill in Minneapolis, meaning Correa could afford more than 21 million of them with his new six-year, $200 million contract with the Twins. That would be before taxes and agent fees, of course — and Correa’s agent, Scott Boras, worked hard for this commission.
On Dec. 13, Boras reached a 13year, $350 million agreement for Correa with the San Francisco Giants, pending a
physical exam. A week later, on the eve of a scheduled news conference, the Giants still had not made the deal official. They were concerned about Correa’s right leg, which was surgically repaired in 2014.
Boras then pivoted to the New York Mets, whose owner, Steven Cohen, agreed to pay Correa $315 million for 12 years — again, pending a physical exam. The Mets, it turned out, were just as wary as the Giants, and conversations about reworking the deal stretched into the new year.
Fortunately for Correa, his old team was indeed Minnesota Nice: As Correa scanned the country looking for a new home, the Twins left the light on for him.
“I do feel fortunate to be sitting here today,” said Derek Falvey, the Twins’ president of baseball operations. “But it was always part of our mission from that point forward, when we found out there was potential uncertainty around the
first landing spot, that we could figure out a way to bring him back here.”
Correa, a shortstop who starred for the Houston Astros in his first seven seasons, signed with Minnesota last March for a then-record annual salary for a position player ($35.1 million) and the ability to opt out after one season. He had a typical Correa season — strong defense, solid on-base percentage (.366), decent power (22 homers) — and hit the market again.
Boras could confidently cite Correa’s durability; he had played in 342 of a possible 384 games since the start of the 2020 season. But the 2014 injury, which occurred when Correa was a 19-year-old Class A prospect and caught his spikes while sliding, had surprising staying power as an issue. Correa had a fractured fibula and ligament damage from the incident, but his leg has been sound ever since.
“It was shocking to me, because since I had the surgery, I never missed a game, I’ve never gotten treatment on my ankle, my ankle’s never hurt,” Correa said, adding later, “Throughout that whole month when people were speculating, I was running sprints, I was working out, I was taking ground balls, I was hitting. So it was more funny to me.”
Boras said the Twins’ medical director, Christopher Camp, had a better understanding of Correa’s “functional fit-
ness” than surgeons who might base their opinions strictly on MRI exams.
The Mets were in no mood to elaborate Wednesday. General manager Billy Eppler declined an interview request, and the team issued only a terse statement that was almost comical in its brevity: “We were unable to reach an agreement. We wish Carlos all the best.”
Correa, who would have played third base in Queens, was something of a luxury item for the Mets, who went 101-61 last season and retained all of their starting position players from the postseason. But the Mets’ inability to finalize the deal cost them a highly motivated star who spoke openly Wednesday of wanting to reach the Hall of Fame.
Correa, 28, said he knew he needed many more productive seasons to get there. But as the Twins pointed out in a tweet after the news conference, Correa is off to a strong start: Only three shortstops in the expansion era (since 1961) have more wins above replacement through age 27 — Alex Rodríguez and Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Cal Ripken Jr.
Falvey said the Twins’ familiarity with Correa made them comfortable with the risk of the deal, which could stretch to 10 years and $270 million based on options triggered by plate appearances or awards in the prior season.
This was us trying to balance some of the information we have and we’ve learned through this process, but also our belief in the athlete, how he prepares, how he goes about his work on a daily basis,” Falvey said. “He’s one of the best I’ve ever seen in terms of taking care of himself and influencing others to take care of themselves in a way that’s special and different.”
Minnesota finished 78-84 last season but spent 108 days atop the American League Central before the Cleveland Guardians passed them for good in early September. Correa said he had stayed in regular contact with teammates and staff, and spoke hopefully of winning a championship.
If he does carry the Twins to the World Series — they have not been since 1991, three years before Correa was born — fans may forget his free agent wanderings. In the spirit of Minnesota Nice, they may already forgive.
“All that matters is that I’m here,” Correa said. “I’m going to represent the city. I’m going to represent the organization. I’m going to do it the right way.”
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Feisty Mars your ruler pushes ahead from today after its retrograde phase, so it might be time to get those plans and projects off the backburner and make a start. Had problems over recent weeks? It’s likely down to the timing. It might all come together now like the pieces of a jigsaw. And if key documents or other communications have been delayed, they may soon show up.
An improvement to financial affairs looks likely from today and over coming weeks. Have cash flow delays or a money issue seemed to drag on? Such matters might now look more promising, as the red planet turns direct. Go easy with any spending for a week or so Taurus, while feisty Mars gets back into its stride. Want to increase your income? An intuitive nudge may assist.
Mars turns direct today in your sign, with the positive effects showing in around a week or so. You could feel an inner stirring to push ahead with ideas that have been put on hold for one reason or another. On a social note, an exhibition or other cultural event can be such a pleasure to attend, Gemini, and might be an aid to boosting your creativity or honing any artistic skills.
Inspiration can flow, but unless it involves something you’re passionate about, you may not get around to doing anything about it. It might even seem as though getting motivated has been more difficult than usual. This could begin to change over the next week or so. Mars has been backtracking, but from today pushes ahead, which means you’ll be fired up to make a move.
As Mars turns direct in your social sector, you’ll be ready to move in new circles and explore networking opportunities, especially with those who may be helpful to you in the future. This is also a good time to get up to speed with a dream or long-term goal after a period of treading water. As you get back into your stride Leo, your renewed enthusiasm can bring swift results.
You may wonder if you should continue with an important project. The answer is a resounding yes! As Mars finally forges ahead after its rewind phase in your sector of goals and ambition, progress is now possible. If you used this time to tweak your plans and do the spadework, then you’ll be ready to hit the ground running. Something good is about to come your way, Virgo.
Have you been anxious about moving out of your comfort zone? Warrior Mars has been rewinding for around ten weeks, and this may have contributed to feeling more vulnerable and uncertain in new situations. As it turns direct, you’ll begin to feel more courageous and might enjoy the idea of doing something you’ve never done before. And you’ll learn a lot too, Libra.
The past weeks with go-getter Mars in reverse, may have found you grappling with a situation that you’re very attached to. Soon it might become very clear that the only way to resolve this is to let go. As Mars moves forward from today, you’ll realise that by hanging on, you’re only prolonging the inevitable. By releasing it Scorpio, you’ll be surprised at how quickly it’s sorted.
Has a relationship seemed to be going downhill? It may be because something is bothering this person, which means they don’t have as much time for you as usual. The same can apply to a friendship or business partnership. As dynamic Mars heads forward in your sector of relating, this should begin to change. Soon enough, you’ll be back on track and making future plans.
If it seems that no matter how hard you work you still can’t get ahead, then things may be about to change. The good news is that energetic Mars will turn direct from today in your sector of work and wellness, so delays and obstacles should begin to ease and vitality return. Today’s Moon/Neptune face-off could find you daydreaming about getting away from it all, Capricorn.
While you may have more pressing things to attend to, the coming days could have a mesmerizing effect as well as stimulating your imagination. This can be a good time for creative ideas that might later translate into money making plans. Plus, as pushy Mars turns direct from today, you may soon rediscover your romantic sparkle. If a romance has stalled, it will soon pick up again.
If you’ve felt stuck regarding a family issue, things may begin to show signs of movement. It might take a week or more for matters to begin moving forward, but as time passes, the shift could become more obvious. If there was no opportunity to take any constructive action previously, this may now change. Options that just hadn’t been available to you, might be very shortly.
