Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co. (PRIDCO) creditors have sued the Financial Oversight and Management Board and the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by its Spanish initials), alleging abuse of power and refusal to pay their debt.
The creditors, including Crown Managed Accounts, Ginkgo Tree LLC and several Goldentree funds, made some 14 claims that include payment of over $92 million in debt and legal fees, the appointment of a receiver for PRIDCO, and an order to stop the sale of PRIDCO properties.
“The Oversight Board and AAFAF have worked in concert for over six years to stall any resolution of PRIDCO debt while hiding behind invalid local laws that have no legal effect as a ‘sword and shield’ against creditors,” the creditors said in a suit filed last Thursday. “While PROMESA [the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act] was passed by Congress with the goal of improving the flow of capital to Puerto Rico, when it comes to PRIDCO, the Oversight Board has shown it is just not up to the task.”
According to PRIDCO’s most recent audited financials, its commercial real estate portfolio, land, and available cash are worth far in excess of $700 million, while it has a fraction of that in debt, the lawsuit says.
“PRIDCO is demonstrably solvent, by any measure, as reflected even in the Oversight Board’s own certified fiscal plan,” the creditors said.
PRIDCO issued its bonds in 1997 and 2003 to purchase, develop and lease commercial and industrial real estate to private business interests. At the time of the last bond issuance, PRIDCO was projected to be debt-free upon the final maturity of its bonds in 2028, they pointed out.
“In issuing the bonds, PRIDCO pledged security and agreed that principal of and interest on the bonds are payable from the gross revenues received by PRIDCO from certain of its revenue-producing real properties, machinery, equipment, first mortgages on real property, or first mortgage bonds, which are specified by PRIDCO to be Trusteed Properties pursuant to the terms of the Trust Indenture,” the creditors said.
Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co. (PRIDCO) creditors, in a lawsuit filed late last week, made some 14 claims that include payment of over $92 million in debt and legal fees, the appointment of a receiver for PRIDCO, and an order to stop the sale of PRIDCO properties.
While refusing to pay debt service on the bonds, PRIDCO has paid all other creditors, stockpiled rental revenues, made plans to divest pledged properties, and otherwise spent money on advisors and consultants in search of any reason to justify their behavior after-the-fact, the creditors said.
They said the oversight board has ignored calls for payment contending that it is too distracted with efforts to litigate or restructure Puerto Rico’s electrical utility to waste its time on PRIDCO.
“Therefore, it refused to even respond to Plaintiffs’ proposal based on public financial information that demonstrates PRIDCO’s wherewithal to repay its Bonds in full,” they said.
The annual required payments on the PRIDCO bonds amount to only $18 million, while PRIDCO currently has $87.4 million in its coffers and steadily generates over $60 million in annual rental revenues, the creditors said.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has obligated over $60.2 million to be distributed among 12 subprojects for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) that include generation, transmission and distribution units in Bayamón, Caguas, Mayagüez, Ponce, San Juan and Toa Baja.
The federal funds are part of nearly $1.7 billion that have been obligated to PREPA to date for a total of 87 approved subprojects for the energy grid under FEMA’s Accelerated Awards Strategy, known as FAASt.
“This obligation will benefit nearly 900,000 people living in these municipalities, who will be able to rely on an improved electrical grid, not only for their homes, but also for schools, hospitals and other facilities in the area,” Deputy Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator Andrés García said. “Some of these projects include hazard mitigation proposals to avoid similar damage in the future, such as the replacement of concrete poles with galvanized steel poles, among other measures.”
One of the facilities that have completed the proposed work with FEMA funding is the Palo Seco Power Plant in Toa Baja. With an obligation of over $53.7 million for transmission works, PREPA purchased and installed three PWPS mobile gas turbines, or mega-
generators. The turbines will be used as a temporary power source to bypass the needs of certain transmission lines and/or generation power plants. Another obligation of over $2.6
million for generation purposes, was used to complete the replacement of a demineralized water tank and stainless-steel pipes. It included other works such as a soil study and
environmental compliance tests.
“An additional benefit of having the megagenerators in service is that these modern units are much more efficient than the existing peaking units replaced by them, resulting in a lower cost for customers in Puerto Rico,” said PREPA Executive Director Josué A. Colón Ortiz.
The PREPA chief also noted that “with the support of FEMA and COR3 [the Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency], PREPA has been able to make the necessary repairs to several generating units during the past year, which has helped stabilize the generation system in Puerto Rico.”
For works on distribution, an obligation of over $3.8 million was distributed among 10 facilities located in Bayamón, Caguas, Mayagüez, Ponce and San Juan. Included in this allocation are the repairs and renewal of distribution poles and conductors at San Juan Group 8, which includes distribution feeders Venezuela, Hato Rey, Tres Monjitas, Baldrich, Las Lomas 4 and Las Lomas 5.
“To date, some 10 permanent works have been completed and another 113 projects valued at $415.2 million are in the construction or design stage,” COR3 Executive Director Manuel A. Laboy Rivera said.
To date, FEMA has obligated over $29 billion in Public Assistance funds for roughly 10,400 projects that will support rebuilding for greater resiliency in Puerto Rico.
Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez announced Sunday that the period has begun for proposals for the development of new projects using Community Development Block Grant Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) program funds for social interest housing.
The CDBG-MIT Program for Social Interest Housing, with a budget of $100 million, is available to organizations that have proven to have experience with populations such as the homeless, elderly, victims of domestic violence, people with physical or intellectual diversity, or development, people living with HIV/AIDS, people recovering from addiction and people with other functional or access needs.
“The socially vulnerable populations are almost always the most affected and it takes longer for them to recover from natural shocks,” Rodríguez said. “After the events that have followed the passage of hurricanes Irma and Maria, we have proposed leverage mitigation funds to expand the window of opportunity among low- to moderate-income populations who need to live under a safe roof.”
The objective of the program is to address mitigation needs through project financing that offers high-quality and modern housing solutions.
Interested organizations can submit their proposals until March 20 of 2023 at https://cdbg-dr-pr.gov, where the guidelines that govern the operation of the program can also be downloaded.
Disaster Recovery Deputy Secretary Maretzie Díaz Sánchez said “CDBG-DR’s recovery plan for social housing focuses on addressing unmet needs following hurricanes Irma and Maria.”
“This program instead addresses the need for housing due to multiple risks, not just hurricanes,” she said.
The program will award up to $2.5 million to nongovernmental organizations, nonprofits, community-based organizations, and private nonprofit organizations that present the best projects.
The Housing Department expects that, with financing through the new program, the entities selected will develop construction or substantial rehabilitation projects for multifamily unit buildings serving vulnerable socially diverse populations.
elements of culture and traditions of that time, including the language of the fan.
On Sunday, Romero Lugo unveiled an art exhibition to honor the 100 years of master painter Rafael Tufiño.
“There is no better way to honor his memory, legacy and love for this walled city than to present his work to the general public as one of the most important cultural events of the San Sebastián Street Festival,” the mayor said. “Our administration is honored to offer the world an opportunity to see the streets, squares, beaches and houses of San Juan from the perspective of Maestro Tufiño.”
The exhibit has linocuts, acrylic paintings, oil paintings, xylographs, drawings, serigraphs, sketches and photographs, all from the perspective of the famous artist who died in 2008 at the age of 85 in the same city where he was born. Many of the pieces that are part of the exhibition will take the visitor back to understand the point of view of the celebrated Puerto Rican while he lived in properties located on Sol, San Sebastián, Norzagaray and Cruz streets, among others.
By THE STAR STAFFThousands of revelers attended the 53rd edition of the traditional San Sebastián Street Festival, a four-day musical, cultural, religious and entertainment event that ended Sunday and marked the end of the Christmas season in Puerto Rico.
It was a return for the event after an absence of two years. It was not immediately known how much money the event contributed to the economy. The festivities began as a religious festival to honor the saint Sebastián.
The event began Thursday under the slogan “Brilla la Tradición.” San Juan Mayor Miguel A. Romero Lugo offered a welcome message, followed by the delivery of several resolutions by the municipal assembly. The event was dedicated to José Juan Barea, Ada Monzón and Andy Montañez.
“Without a doubt, the Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián are a historic celebration that closes the celebration of the longest Christmas in the world,” the mayor said on the first day.
As it happened, Romero Lugo said he expected the visits of tens of thousands of people daily in the streets of Old San Juan until Sunday. The city had prepared itself with an emergency management, transportation and security plan in coordination with commonwealth agencies and security agencies at the local and federal levels.
San Juan Municipal Police José Juan García said Sunday that in the previous 24 hours several arrests had been reported for obstruction of justice, assault on a public order officer and driving while intoxicated, along with incidents of malicious damage to structures, but that there had been “no major incidents” at the event, where attendance figures were “above expectations.”
The official announced the following approximate attendance numbers for the festival: 60,000 on Thursday, 90,000 on Friday, 162,000 on Saturday and as of 3 p.m. on Sunday, more than 80,000, for a total of almost 400,000 as of that time.
The event gave hundreds of artisans the opportunity to sell their products, including portraits, t-shirts, jewelry, perfumes and traditional foods.
Most revelers, however, came to the event for the music. Besides music from DJs, those in attendance were able to listen to performances at the different plazas from Plena Libre, La Sonora Ponceña, Limi-T 21, Grupo Makein, Manny Manuel, Don Perignon and his Orchestra, Luis González and his Orchestra El Tsunami de la Salsa, Tuna de Cayey, Barreto y su Plena, DJ King Arthur, Apollo 1027 y Zayri, Algarete, Plenéalo, Michael Stuart, Pedro Capó, Orquesta Los Friends, De Plena a Plena, Joseph Fonseca, Atabal, Pleneros de Severo, Puerto Rican Power, La Tribu de Abrante, Luisito Carrión, Súbete a mi Moto Tour and La India, among others.
“I come every year but this year I stayed in an Airbnb to really enjoy the party,” said Concha Jiménez, who is from Dorado.
Among the cultural events, the Plaza de Armas in Old San Juan was the scene Saturday, the second day, of a traditional Grand Period Ball, as part of the cultural agenda of the San Sebastián Street Festival. During the show, which was enjoyed by adults and children, dancers recreated some of the great ballroom dances Puerto Ricans enjoyed in the latter half of the 19th century.
It was the founder of the Fiestas, Rafaela Balladares, along with Nydia Ríos, who rescued and integrated this tradition into the organization of the massive event, with the purpose of disseminating it to the new generations, as well as other
On Sunday, a colorful religious procession honored San Sebastián, a martyr who is remembered during the festivities. The procession was not conducted for the past three years because of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19.
“We are truly living these days with much happiness,” said Benjamín Pérez, a church priest. “After bringing the procession of San Sebastian, we saw people walking with us and that gives us hope.”
Faced with the news that commercial bankruptcies on the island increased by 21.8% last year, the New Progressive Party (NPP) minority leader in the House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, insisted Sunday that any tax reform also has to reduce the burden on small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) so that they can compete in an increasingly intertwined economy.
“Puerto Rico’s economy is intertwined, with crossties, which means businesses, particularly SMEs, depend on each other to maintain capital generation,” the lawmaker said. “In the four-year period from 2013 to 2016 these businesses suffered an avalanche of taxes that did not allow their growth and, in many cases, led to their closure. Since 2017 we have fought to do justice to our SMEs, lowering the tax burden so that they can do business faster, more quickly and effectively. That is why any reform of the Internal Revenue Code has to have reductions for these merchants.”
Since 2021, the former House speaker has pushed for comprehensive tax reform for individuals and corporations, including SMEs.
According to the most recent data, trade bankruptcies in 2022 numbered 251, an increase of 21.8% over the 2021 figure of 206. That represents the largest increase over the past six years, Méndez Nuñez noted. The value of those bankruptcies was $290 million, an increase of 115.9% compared to the previous year.
“Since the second quarter of 2019, we have been in a position to provide money to the people, through tax relief, and the [Financial] Oversight [and Management] Board has not wanted to,” the NPP minority leader said. “Today, the collections of the Treasury Department for 2022 exceeded $2.5 billion, about $460.3 million more (21.7%) than reflected in the Fiscal Plan. With these resources we can provide real tax reform, the first in 13 years (since 2010), to taxpayers, including SMEs.”
The Corporation for the Supervision and Insurance of Cooperatives of Puerto Rico (COSSEC by its Spanish acronym) has joined federal efforts to end bank fraud.
COSSEC gathered the boards of directors of cooperatives or credit unions in Puerto Rico to review the regulations, responsibilities of the cooperative sector, and the tools available to investigate criminal actions.
The head of the federal prosecutor’s office in Puerto Rico, Stephen Muldrow, agents from the Internal Revenue Service and FBI agents were at the meeting.
The federal agencies agreed that the cooperative sector is active in detecting suspicious actions in banking procedures with the Suspicious Actions Report (SARs). The tool
is often the starting point for research.
“The more trained the personnel in the cooperatives are, the greater the compliance with the regulations and applicable laws in banking. Therefore, we will be able to contribute with greater diligence to federal agencies in detecting illegal transactions,” COSSEC President Mabel Jiménez Miranda said in a statement Sunday. “Furthermore, generating more reports of suspicious activities in the cooperatives will allow us to pay for our compliance program.”
The head of the federal prosecutor’s office called on the banking institutions to remain vigilant and collaborate with his agency to identify criminal actions on the island.
SARs are the reports that financial institutions are required by law to submit to FinCen when they find an unusual action by one of the customers. The report, once
completed, is maintained in an electronic database by the Detroit Computer Center.
The SAR helps federal agencies identify money laundering, which aims to use cash in the regular economy without its true source being detected. Money laundering aims to hide some illegal activity that generates large amounts of money, such as drug trafficking, tax evasion and mortgage fraud on credit cards or bank accounts, among others.
“The compliance officer of cooperatives plays an important role in fraud cases in cooperatives because he is the person called to report, through SARs, any suspicious actions to the federal agencies that investigate this type of case,” Jiménez Miranda. “Therefore, we will continue training cooperative staff to detect suspicious transactions effectively.”
Investigators for the Justice Department on late last week seized more than a half-dozen documents, some of them classified, at President Joe Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware, after conducting a 13-hour search of the home, the president’s personal lawyer said Saturday evening.
The remarkable search of a sitting president’s home by federal agents — at the invitation of Biden’s lawyers — dramatically escalated the legal and political situation for the president, the latest in a series of discoveries that has already led to a special counsel investigation.
During Friday’s search, six more items with classified markings — including some documents from his time as a senator and others from his time as vice president — were taken by investigators, along with surrounding materials, according to the statement from Bob Bauer, Biden’s attorney.
Bauer did not indicate what had prompted the search, saying only that the president’s lawyers had offered to provide access for a search “in the interest of moving the process forward as expeditiously as possible.” Justice Department investigators coordinated the search with Biden’s lawyers in advance, Bauer said, and the president’s personal and White House lawyers were present at the time.
“The FBI on Friday executed a planned, consensual search of the president’s residence in Wilmington,” said Joseph D. Fitzpatrick, an assistant U.S. attorney in Illinois who is serving as a spokesperson for the special counsel investigating the Biden documents case.
The search agreement with Biden’s legal team was negotiated by John R. Lausch, a federal prosecutor picked to lead the initial inquiry last year. His replacement, Robert K. Hur, who was appointed to serve as the permanent special counsel in the case earlier this month, is expected to take over “shortly,” Fitzpatrick said.
Bauer said the Justice Department had requested that the search not be made public before it was conducted, “in accordance with its standard procedures, and we agreed to cooperate.” He did not provide any more detail about the nature of the documents that
were taken or what level of classification had been stamped on them.
The search underscored the seriousness of the investigation into Biden’s handling of documents and, while not a surprise raid, in some ways resembled the extensive search of former President Donald Trump’s Mara-Lago estate in Florida last summer, with agents looking for classified documents they believed were in Trump’s possession.
Biden and his aides have repeatedly argued that the two cases are very different because the president has cooperated fully with authorities, while Trump and his lawyers resisted efforts by the National Archives and the Justice Department to return documents.
Trump — who at one point claimed that he had declassified all the documents in question just by thinking about doing so — and his advisers are also under investigation for obstructing the inquiry into the classified information.
But since the discovery of Biden’s documents, Trump has complained that Justice Department investigators were treating his successor differently.
“When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, per-
haps even the White House?” Trump wrote in a statement on his social media site earlier this month.
The results of Friday’s search follow a series of discoveries by the president’s own lawyers of classified documents at the president’s Wilmington home and the Washington office Biden used before moving into the White House. The lawyers quickly turned the documents over to the National Archives and, later, to the Justice Department.
Biden did not reveal the discovery of some of those documents for nearly two months, after initially finding them Nov. 2. He has said that it would eventually be revealed that he did nothing wrong.
“There is no there there,” Biden told reporters Thursday evening during a trip to California.
Regarding Friday’s search, Bauer said in his statement on Saturday: “Yesterday, DOJ completed a thorough search of all the materials in the president’s Wilmington home. It began at approximately 9:45 a.m. and concluded at around 10:30 p.m. and covered all working, living and storage spaces in the home.”
“DOJ had full access to the president’s home, including personally handwritten notes, files, papers, binders, memorabilia, to-do lists, schedules, and reminders going back decades,” he added, referring to the Justice Department.
News of the lengthy search and the discovery of more classified materials is certain to provide new ammunition to Biden’s critics, including Republican members of the House, who have already demanded information about the documents and their potential impact on national security.
In a letter this past week to Ron Klain, the White House chief of staff, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., demanded that Biden and his lawyers provide more information to Congress.
“It is troubling that classified documents have been improperly stored at the home of President Biden for at least six years, raising questions about who may have reviewed or had access to classified information,” Comer wrote.
On Saturday, after news of the latest discovery was reported, Comer tweeted: “Biden’s White House claimed all classified documents were turned over. Now the Justice Department found more. Is the scavenger hunt over? Americans need answers now.”
Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, has not demanded similar transparency from Trump regarding the classified documents found at his home.
After rejecting an Advanced Placement course in African American studies for high school students, the Florida Department of Education offered an explanation of what it found objectionable in the curriculum — citing examples of what it calls “the woke indoctrination” of students that would violate state laws restricting how race can be taught in the classroom.
In a document released Friday, the Department of Education seemed to object to the more contemporary and, therefore, the more inherently politicized, parts of the curriculum, which is being developed by the College Board. The department cites the inclusion of readings from many major African American scholars, activists and writers, who explored subjects like Black queer studies, Black feminist literary thought, the reparations movement and intersectionality.
The state says intersectionality — which refers to the way various forms of inequality often work together and build on one another — is foundational to critical race theory and “ranks people based on their race, wealth, gender and sexual orientation.”
The Education Department also singled out activists like Angela Davis, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for being “a self-avowed Communist and Marxist”; Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor at Columbia Law School and the UCLA School of Law, who it said was “known as the founder of intersectionality”; and the feminist writer bell hooks,
for using language like “white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy.”
The College Board did not respond to requests for comment, but it said in a statement Thursday that the multidisciplinary course was still undergoing a multiyear pilot phase.
“The process of piloting and revising course frameworks is a standard part of any new AP course, and frameworks often change significantly as a result,” the organization said. “We will publicly release the updated course framework when it is completed and well before this class is widely available in American high schools.”
Florida law requires the study of African American history. But Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is widely considered a top contender for the Republican presidential nomination,
has gained national prominence for backing restrictions on what students in Florida can and cannot learn. Last year, he signed the Individual Freedoms Act — known as the Stop WOKE Act — into law, which regulates how race-related issues are taught in public universities, colleges and in workplace trainings. (A federal judge blocked part of the law, which still applies to public schools.)
He also signed legislation last year, referred to by critics as “Don’t Say Gay,” that prohibits classroom instruction and discussion about sexual orientation and gender identity in some elementary school grades. In 2021, the state Board of Education banned public schools from teaching critical race theory, an academic framework for understanding racism in the United States that became a political rallying cry for parents and political activists on the right.
And this month, the Education Department informed the College Board, the nonprofit organization that administers AP exams, that it would not include the African American studies class in the state’s course directory, asserting that it was “inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.”
Manny Diaz Jr., Florida’s education commissioner, said on Twitter on Friday that the state had “rejected an AP course filled with Critical Race Theory and other obvious violations of Florida law.”
“We proudly require the teaching of African American history,” he said. “We do not accept woke indoctrination masquerading as education.”
Officials in the state have said that if the College Board revises the course to comply with state law, it will reconsider the course
State Sen. Shevrin Jones, a Democrat who represents part of Miami-Dade County, said that the Department of Education’s refusal to include the AP course reflected an attempt by state officials to “whitewash” American history.
“We’re back at square one, seeing that we once again have to defend ourselves to be legitimate in America,” he said.
The curriculum, which contains the authors and subjects mentioned in the Education Department letter, has not been released by the College Board but has circulated online. An early version is being tested at 60 schools, according to someone involved in its development but who asked to remain anonymous because it has not been officially released.
The curriculum is being constantly revised, based on feedback from African American scholars, according to two people involved. The final version, one of the people working on it said, is likely to contain more facts and less theory.
The topics at issue — six of the roughly 100 that constitute the course — all came from the last unit of the class, which covers “Movements and Debates.”
For instance, the state Education Department objected to a section on the reparations movement.
According to an early version of the curriculum, that section “explores the case for reparations for the centuries-long enslavement and legal discrimination of African Americans in the U.S.,” including examination of a stalled House bill that would create a commission to study reparations, and the work of Ta-Nehisi Coates, who has written extensively on the issue.
“All points and resources in this study advocate for reparations,” the state Education Department said of the topic. “There is no critical perspective or balancing opinion in this lesson.”
State Rep. Christopher Benjamin, a Democrat representing a district including Miami Gardens, pushed for an amendment to the Stop WOKE Act that ensured that teachers would be able to teach students how slavery, racial oppression and segregation have infringed upon individual freedoms.
In the wake of the state’s rejection of the AP course, Benjamin said he was focused on ensuring that Florida students learn Black history.
“Florida needs to determine what is going to be taught,” he said, “and then ensure that Black history is being taught.”
The culinary revolution that swept through the country in the 1970s and ’80s created a new lot of status signifiers that extended from pâte and warm goat cheese salad — early entries on the menu at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California — to industrial-grade kitchen appliances meant to signal that one’s interest in cooking was not provisional. Early adopters of the new orthodoxies bought bulky, high-powered Wolf ranges in stainless steel from restaurant suppliers until the company, recognizing an evolving luxury market, introduced a residential version that would go on to spend the next decades as shorthand for a moneyed cosmopolitan domesticity.
Even if you were never going to acquire a $10,000 sixburner range with intense heat and flame capacity, the modern ethos around food and design insisted on gas, raining down condescension on the coiled cooking surface in all of its functional and aesthetic impoverishment, its opposition to delivering, you might learn, a perfectly seared scallop from the Bay of Fundy. How would an electric stove appear in a Nancy Meyers movie other than as a sacrilege along the order of linoleum at Versailles?
Anyone who had the vision to imagine that kitchen mechanicals would eventually have a place in the culture wars could probably not have foreseen where the politics were going to align: with the populist right embracing the gas range as a protected-class-victim appliance, even though federal data confirms what we might suspect. The gas stove is predominantly found in the most liberal states; 70% of households in California use gas, while 15% of those in Tennessee do.
The issue erupted after an official at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recently suggested that gas cooking equipment could be banned in light of more and more research linking it to harmful pollutants and childhood asthma in particular.
“If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove,” Ronny Jackson, a Republican congressman from Texas, quickly announced on Twitter, “they can pry it from my cold, dead hands.”
The commission clarified that the federal government had no interest in extracting gas stoves from American kitchens. Any regulation that might materialize would almost certainly be limited to prohibiting gas cooking appliances in the construction of new buildings. Dozens of cities around the country have moved in this direction already, to hit targets to reduce carbon emissions.
In December 2021, New York’s City Council voted to ban the use of fossil fuels — and by extension gas stoves — altogether in new buildings. The law is scheduled to go into effect this year for structures shorter than seven stories tall and in 2027 for all buildings. Underlying the legislation is the idea that the power grid’s move toward renewable energy sources will make electrification an important combatant in the fight against climate change.
From the perspective of environmental sustainability, urban living is typically viewed as more virtuous than its suburban alternative because cities are densely packed and heavily reliant on public transportation. In New York City,
70% of greenhouse gas emissions comes from buildings. The problem, though, is that many of them went up before 1930, leaving the challenge of conversions to energy efficiency especially daunting.
Consider the owner of a co-op in a 1928 building who, answering to ethical impulses, wishes to pry his gas-powered double-oven Wolf range out of his meticulously renovated Plain English kitchen and replace it with the kind of electricity-dependent induction cooking appliance that has become increasingly fashionable. The many steps involved reveal just how complicated a process this is in New York.
Not long ago, Erika Belsey Worth, an architect specializing in the renovation of town houses and prewar co-ops, received a call from a former client who wanted to do the right thing. First Worth’s team had to see what sort of power was available to the apartment. It turned out that the apartment’s electrical system could not be upgraded, thus making it infeasible to shift away from gas cooking.
Working on a gut renovation of another co-op, Worth looked into bringing up the power, but the building simply didn’t have the capacity.
“The New York City electrical grid is not ready for this,” she said.
Forced to stick with gas, a family might choose to mitigate the potentially harmful health effects by redirecting ventilation outside. But this isn’t always easy either.
“Try venting to the exterior with a limestone facade in a landmark district,” Worth offered.
The millions of renters in New York without the authority to make any of the these changes on their own are left to the will of landlords, who would presumably resist bearing the expense.
Co-ops and condominiums are well positioned to make a difference in the near term, especially if they are well financed, with the means to make electrical upgrades, and if residents work collectively — the historical basis for cooperative living in the first place. However well intentioned it may be for any single apartment dweller to switch out her means of cooking, the environmental benefits from electrification are best achieved, as a spokesperson for Con Edison explained, “through whole building solutions.”
The company is working with the city’s Buildings Department to electrify heating in 150,000 buildings by 2030. Eventually, the gas stove, like the gas lamp or a pack of Virginia Slims, will exist as a relic of another era. But we are a long way from a time in which our relationship to gas cooking will be merely nostalgic.
Para conocimiento del público en general y de conformidad con las disposiciones del Artículo 8.6 de la Ley 161-2009, según enmendada, conocida como “Ley para la Reforma del Proceso de Permisos de Puerto Rico”, la Ley Núm. 38 -2017, según enmendada, conocida como “Ley de Procedimiento Administrativo Uniforme del Gobierno de Puerto Rico”, el Reglamento Conjunto para la Evaluación y Expedición de Permisos relacionados al Desarrollo, Uso de Terrenos y Operación de Negocios1, en adelante Reglamento Conjunto y cualquier otra disposición de ley aplicable, se informa que la Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos (“OGPe”) celebrará vista pública para el caso que se describe a continuación:
Proyecto/Peticionario:
La Primera Iglesia de Dios, Inc Ing. Efraín Olmeda Lebrón Caso Núm. 2021-369234-CUB-002538
Dueño de la Propiedad: La Primera Iglesia de Dios Inc. / Rev. Liza M. Gonzalez Carrasquillo
Calificación: R-I (Residencial Intermedio)
Cualquier interesado en acceder y participar en la Vista Pública Virtual puede a través de: www.ddec.pr.gov/vistaspublicas
Fecha: 3 de febrero de 2023 Hora: 1:30 p.m.
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When Lyft laid off 13% of its workers in November, Kelly Chang was shocked to find herself among the 700 people who lost their jobs at the San Francisco company.
“It seemed like tech companies had so much opportunity,” said Chang, 26. “If you got a job, you made it. It was a sustainable path.”
Brian Pulliam, on the other hand, brushed off the news that crypto exchange Coinbase was eliminating his job. Ever since the 48-year-old engineer was laid off from his first job at the video game company Atari in 2003, he said that he has asked himself once a year, “If I were laid off, what would I do?”
The contrast between Chang’s and Pulliam’s reactions to their professional letdowns speaks to a generational divide that is becoming clearer as the tech industry, which expanded rapidly through the pandemic, swings toward mass layoffs.
Microsoft said last week it planned to cut 10,000 jobs, or roughly 5% of its workforce. And Friday morning, Google’s parent company Alphabet said it planned to cut 12,000 jobs, or about 6% of its total. Their cuts followed big layoffs at other tech companies such as Meta, Amazon and Salesforce.
Millennials and Generation Z, born between 1981 and 2012, started tech careers during a decadelong expansion when jobs multiplied as fast as iPhone sales. The companies they joined were conquering the world and defying economic rules. And when they went to work at outfits that offered bus rides to the office and amenities in-
cluding free food and laundry, they weren’t just taking on a new job; they were taking on a lifestyle. Few of them had experienced widespread layoffs.
Baby boomers and members of Generation X, born between 1946 and 1980, on the other hand, lived through the biggest contraction the industry has ever seen. The dot-com crash of the early 2000s eliminated more than 1 million jobs, emptying Silicon Valley’s Highway 101 of commuters as many companies folded overnight.
“It was a bloodbath, and it went on for years,” said Jason DeMorrow, a software engineer who was laid off twice in 18 months and was out of work for more than six months. “As concerning as the current downturn is, and as much as I empathize with the people impacted, there’s no comparison.”
Tech’s generational divide is representative of a broader phenomenon. The year someone is born has a big influence on views
about work and money. Early personal experiences strongly determine a person’s appetite for financial risk, according to a 2011 study by economists Ulrike Malmendier of the University of California, Berkeley and Stefan Nagel of the University of Chicago.
The study, which analyzed the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances from 1960 to 2007, found that people who came of age in the 1970s when the stock market stagnated were reluctant to invest in the early 1980s when it roared. That trend reversed in the 1990s.
“Once you experience your first crash, things change,” Nagel said. “You realize bad stuff happens and maybe you should be a bit more cautious.”
For Gen X, the dot-com collapse hit early in their careers. From 2001-05, the tech sector shed one-quarter of its workers, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data by CompTIA, a technology education and research organization.
The layoffs that swept the industry were worse than the recession of the early 1990s, when total jobs in the tech sector fell by 5%, and the global financial crisis in 2008, when the workforce contracted by 6%.
In 2011, the tech sector began a hiring boom that would last a decade. It added an average of more than 100,000 jobs annually, and by 2021, it had recouped all the jobs it lost when the dot-com bubble burst.
The job figures account for software, hardware, tech services and telecommunications companies, including Apple, Meta, Nvidia and Salesforce. But they may exclude some tech-related companies such as Airbnb, Lyft and Uber because of ambiguity in government labor market reporting that
classifies some businesses as consumer services, said Tim Herbert, chief research officer at CompTIA.
The biggest job increases in tech came after the pandemic started, as companies rushed to fulfill surging demand. In 2022, the sector added nearly 260,000 jobs, according to CompTIA, the most it had added in a single year since 2000.
Tech’s job increases continued last year even as big layoffs started, though it is unclear if that trend has stretched into this year. New job opportunities were a factor as nearly 80% of laid-off tech workers said they had found a new job within three months, according to a survey by ZipRecruiter.
“We’re seeing the hiring mania of the pandemic being corrected for — not the popping of a bubble,” said Andy Challenger, senior vice president of career transition firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Last fall, David Hayden, a program manager with a doctorate in physics, learned from his manager that he would be let go from nLight, a semiconductor company. Worried about how he would pay his eldest daughter’s college tuition, he immediately reached out to recruiters to line up interviews. In December, a month after being let go, he started a position at Lattice Semiconductor.
In each interview, Hayden, 56, volunteered that he had been laid off, he said. His experience during the dot-com crash, when he avoided layoffs even as talented colleagues were let go, taught him that cuts aren’t always rational.
“The shame of being laid off is gone,” said Hayden. “Companies know that a lot of good people are being let go right now.”
Shea German-Tanner, 22, a social worker, near her home in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Jan. 12, 2023.
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U.S. stocks closed higher on Friday as the S&P 500 and Dow snapped three-session losing streaks and the Nasdaq rose more than 2% as quarterly earnings helped propel Netflix , while Google parent Alphabet later boarded. Announcement of job cuts.
Shares of Netflix Inc rose 8.46% after the streaming company added more subscribers than expected in the fourth quarter and said co-founder Reed Hastings is stepping down as chief executive.
Netflix’s quarterly report comes as the US Federal Reserve’s rising interest rate path and recession concerns hinder technology and other growth-related sectors, causing companies such as Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc to lay off thousands of employees. Is.
Alphabet Inc was the most recent company to announce job cuts as it said it was cutting 12,000 jobs, sending shares 5.34% higher.
The gain sent the communications services index up 3.96% as the top performer among 11 major S&P 500 sectors, its biggest daily percentage gain since Nov. 30.
High-growth sectors such as communications services were among the worst performers in 2022 and were particularly vulnerable in the last few months of the year as investors turned to stocks with higher dividend yields.
“Today’s action is probably because we had three down days, so it got into a little bit oversold position and they’re getting a little bit of a bargain today,” said Ken Polkari, managing partner at Case Capital Advisors in Boca Raton. Florida.
“If people are seeing an opportunity, if they’re getting more comfortable with the Fed’s narrative … investors are starting to buy into that narrative and say ‘well, that’s it, let’s get those stocks. See who really got beaten up.” ‘ Because the market is a discounting mechanism.”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 330.93 points, or 1%, to 33,375.49, the S&P 500 rose 73.76 points, or 1.89%, to 3,972.61 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 288.17 points, or 2.66%, to 11,140.43.
For the week, the Dow was down 2.7%, the S&P 500 down 0.66% and the Nasdaq down 0.55%.
The comments came largely from Federal Reserve officials who have said they expect interest rates to climb at least 5% this year as the central bank tries to tame high inflation. On Friday, Fed Governor Christopher Waller said the central bank may be “quite close” to the point where rates are “restrictive enough” to calm inflation, which gave
an additional boost to equities.
The Fed is expected to raise rates by 25 basis points (bps) in its policy announcement on February 1.
Still, concerns about corporate earnings remain as the US economy continues to show signs of slowing and a possible recession.
Analysts now expect S&P 500 companies’ yearover-year earnings to decline 2.9% in the fourth
quarter, after declining 1.6% at the start of the year, according to Refinitiv data.
However, gains on the Dow were capped by a 2.54% drop in shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc after the Wall Street Journal reported that the Fed was investigating the company’s consumer business.
Volume on US exchanges stood at 11.90 billion shares compared to an average of 10.87 billion shares for the entire session in the last 20 trading days.
Advancing issues declined in the ratio of 3.55to-1 on the NYSE; On the Nasdaq, the 2.63-to-1 ratio was in favor of advancers.
involved in the letter bomb operation is unclear, they say.
“This seems like a warning shot,” said Nathan Sales, the State Department’s counterterrorism coordinator in the Trump administration, when the Russian Imperial Movement was designated a terrorist organization. “It’s Russia sending a signal that it’s prepared to use terrorist proxies to attack in the West’s rear areas.”
The Russian officers behind the bombing campaign work for the Main Directorate, commonly referred to as the GRU, one of Moscow’s more aggressive intelligence shops, U.S. officials say. In recent years, the group has carried out bold and lethal covert actions with impunity.
sow confusion and create “implausible deniability,” she added.
U.S. and British intelligence officials have been working with the Spanish national police and counterintelligence officials on the investigation. Their suspicions about the Russian Imperial Movement and the GRU coalesced late last year, soon after the bombs were discovered, U.S. officials say.
By EDWARD WONG, JULIAN E. BARNES and ERIC SCHMITTAmerican and European officials believe that Russian military intelligence officers directed associates of a white supremacist militant group based in Russia to carry out a recent letter bomb campaign in Spain whose most prominent targets were the prime minister, the defense minister and foreign diplomats, according to U.S. officials.
Spanish and foreign investigators have been looking into who sent six letter bombs in late November and early December to sites mostly in Madrid, including the official residence of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, which also serves as his office; the U.S. and Ukrainian Embassies; and the Defense Ministry. No one was killed in the attacks, which U.S. officials consider terrorism. An employee of the Ukrainian Embassy was injured when one of the packages exploded.
Investigators in recent weeks have focused on the Russian Imperial Movement, a radical group that has members and associates across Europe and military-style training centers in St. Petersburg, the officials said. They added that the group, which has been designated a global terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, is believed to have ties to Russian intelligence agencies. Important members of the group have been in Spain, and police there have tracked its ties with far-right Spanish organizations.
U.S. officials say the Russian officers who directed the campaign appeared in-
tent on keeping European governments off guard and may be testing out proxy groups in the event Moscow decides to escalate a conflict.
The apparent aim of the action was to signal that Russia and its proxies could carry out terrorist strikes across Europe, including in the capitals of member states of NATO, which is helping defend Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, said the U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivities around the investigation. Spain is a member of the alliance and has given military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, as well as diplomatic support.
One of the letter bombs was sent to Instalaza, a weapons-maker in Zaragoza that manufactures grenade launchers that Spain is giving to Ukraine, and another went to the Torrejón de Ardoz Air Base outside Madrid.
There are no signs that Moscow is ready to engage in widespread covert attacks or sabotage in Europe, which Russian officials believe could provoke a response from NATO and, potentially, a costly wider conflict, according to U.S. and allied officials. For that same reason, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and his generals have not ordered a conventional attack on a NATO country.
Putin’s calculus on terrorist attacks could change if Russia continues to suffer major setbacks in Ukraine, U.S. officials say. Putin has given his military intelligence agency wide latitude to develop and conduct covert operations in Europe, but the degree to which the Kremlin was
Members of the agency have been involved in a range of shadowy activities, from interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to shooting down a Malaysian civilian airliner over Ukraine in 2014, according to U.S. officials.
One specific part of the agency, Unit 29155, has tried to destabilize Europe through attempted coups and assassinations, according to U.S. and European security officials. Its agents include Russian war veterans, and it was so secretive that most GRU operatives probably did not know it existed. U.S. and allied officials learned about the unit only in recent years.
U.S. officials suspect that the Russian officers involved in the Spain action are part of the 161st Special Purpose Specialist Training Center, whose headquarters in eastern Moscow house Unit 29155, among other groups, U.S. officials say.
Spanish investigators have identified “persons of interest” they believe were involved in the attacks, one senior U.S. official said.
A spokesperson for the Spanish Embassy in Washington declined to comment, citing the continuing inquiry.
Fiona Hill, a senior director for Europe and Russia on the White House National Security Council in the Trump administration, said it would not be surprising if the GRU had directed the Russian Imperial Movement to carry out the attacks.
“Most of these kinds of organizations are of course linked to Russian intelligence, either the GRU or the FSB,” she said, referring also to the Federal Security Service, Russia’s domestic intelligence agency. “Oftentimes they’re just front groups for the intelligence activities.”
Intelligence agents use the groups to
The radical group is only partially aligned with the Russian government. The movement’s leadership has criticized the incompetence of Russian leadership in the Ukraine war and accused Putin of corruption. Yet because the group shares Moscow’s aims of undermining Western governments and sowing chaos in Europe, Russian intelligence has been able to influence its operations, according to U.S. officials.
The ability to use the Russian Imperial Movement as a sometime proxy force is useful to Russian intelligence, particularly because that makes it more difficult for rival countries to attribute actions to the Russian government.
The State Department designated the group and its leadership global terrorists in April 2020, the first time such a label had been applied to a white supremacist group.
“RIM has provided paramilitarystyle training to white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Europe and actively works to rally these types of groups into a common front against their perceived enemies,” the department said in the announcement of the designation.
The department said the group had two training centers in St. Petersburg that “are likely being used for woodland and urban assault, tactical weapons and hand-to-hand combat training.”
The leaders designated by the State Department were Stanislav Anatolyevich Vorobyev, who founded the group in St. Petersburg in 2002; Denis Valiullovich Gariyev, the leader of its paramilitary arm, the Russian Imperial Legion; and Nikolay Nikolayevich Trushchalov, an organizer of the group’s activities abroad.
As a result of the recent letter bombs, U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials have increased their scrutiny of the Russian Imperial Movement, including updating terrorist watchlists to flag suspected leaders of the group or its members, U.S. officials said.
As Guatemalan authorities intensify a methodical, yearslong crackdown on officials who were tasked with rooting out government corruption in the country, the government announced last week that it was investigating Colombia’s defense minister, who had led a United Nations-backed anticorruption body that was active in Guatemala until 2019.
The announcement, which is straining bilateral relations between Guatemala and Colombia, came alongside several arrest warrants and criminal charges brought against former prosecutors and judges who had worked with the anti-corruption task force.
The developments have renewed concerns about the withering of Guatemala’s democracy and the rule of law, leading to a flurry of condemnations from the United States, the European Union and the United Nations. Rights groups have criticized Guatemala’s government for intimidating various officials involved in the anti-corruption task force; more than 30 prosecutors and judges have fled the country over the past two years to evade arrest.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro defended the defense minister, Iván Velásquez, Tuesday and said “sanity in politics” meant fighting corruption.
“Those who allow the mafia to take over the state only lead society to genocide,” Petro said on Twitter, clearly intended as a barb against Guatemala’s president.
The current diplomatic discord began Monday when the head of Guatemala’s Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity, Rafael Curruchiche, said that his team would take “legal actions” against Velásquez, for “illegal, arbitrary and abusive acts” when he led the anti-corruption body.
The allegations revolve around deals that former Guatemalan officials tried to broker with Velásquez to share information about corruption cases in exchange for reduced sentences — a fairly standard process that prosecutors employ in legal cases around the world.
Velásquez dismissed the investigation
into his work as retaliation from those his task force had targeted.
“We know the monster, we have seen it up close and, from different trenches, we have fought it. We know how it transforms and the methods it uses, but it does not frighten us,” Velásquez said Monday on Twitter about the charges issued by Curruchiche and the Guatemalan government.
From 2013 until 2019, Velásquez led the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, which worked with Guatemala’s attorney general to counter corruption. The U.N.-backed force drew global attention in 2015 for investigations into top Guatemalan officials, including the country’s president at the time, Otto Pérez, who resigned and was subsequently arrested.
But in 2018, Guatemala’s then-president, Jimmy Morales, expelled Velásquez from Guatemala. He shut the anti-corruption body down the following year.
On Monday, Curruchiche also announced several arrest warrants against former investigators who had worked with the anti-corruption body, including Thelma Aldana, Guatemala’s former attorney general.
Brian A. Nichols, the U.S. assistant secretary for the Western Hemisphere, denounced the latest moves by Guatemala’s government, tweeting Tuesday that he was “disturbed” by the arrest warrants.
“Such actions weaken the rule of law and confidence in Guatemala’s judicial system,” Nichols said.
Last year Curruchiche was sanctioned
by the U.S. government and accused of having “knowingly engaged in acts that threaten democratic processes or institutions, engaged in significant corruption, or obstructed investigations.”
Curruchiche is barred from entering the United States.
President Alejandro Giammattei of Guatemala told a Colombian radio station Friday that “differences between countries must be resolved through diplomatic channels.” The president suggested that his government would investigate Velasquez but would not prosecute him because of the diplomatic immunity that protects him.
Giammattei abruptly ended the interview when he was asked about the sanctions the U.S. government had slapped on Curruchiche last year.
“I told him that I was not going to touch that topic anymore,” Giammattei said about the journalist, before hanging up the phone.
Widening their campaign against dissent, Guatemalan officials on Thursday brought charges against the lawyers representing José Ruben Zamora, a journalist who has extensively covered allegations of corruption involving Giammattei. At the time of his arrest, Zamora was also the president of one of the country’s leading newspapers, elPeriódico.
When government authorities arrested Zamora last year, they also raided the newspaper’s offices. Zamora was charged with money laundering, blackmail and influence peddling. His lawyers have disputed those accusations.
King Charles III has signaled that he wants a streamlined coronation ceremony. But that doesn’t mean an economically straitened Britain won’t throw an extravagant party as it crowns its first king in seven decades in May.
Late Saturday, Buckingham Palace announced details of a three-day merrymaking jamboree that will rival Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee last June. Among the highlights: a star-studded concert at Windsor Castle, a nationwide series of street parties and a national volunteering campaign, branded “The Big Help Out.”
The sheer size of the festivities might seem surprising because the palace had earlier indicated that Charles wanted a
scaled-back ceremony, as compared with his mother’s, given the cost-of-living crisis afflicting the country. But the British government now views the coronation weekend as an opportunity to lift spirits after a hard winter, according to people familiar with the planning, and it has encouraged the royal family to pull out the stops.
The palace is still expected to shorten the service, which will take place May 6, at Westminster Abbey and be conducted by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. It will reduce the guest list and dispense with some of the more antiquated rituals of a ceremony that dates back nearly 1,000 years.
But coronations allow the public, in Britain and across the world, a chance to take part in royal festivities. Elizabeth’s coronation, in June 1953, was the first to be
televised, drawing an estimated global audience of more than 250 million people.
Many of the set pieces of that spectacle — a grand procession to the palace from the abbey, complete with golden carriage, and an appearance by the king and his family on the balcony — will remain. And with Britons getting a day off May 8, in the new king’s honor, the palace is adding two days of festivities.
“Their majesties the king and queen consort hope the coronation weekend will provide an opportunity to spend time and celebrate with friends, families and communities across the United Kingdom, the realms and the Commonwealth,” the palace said in a statement issued Saturday evening.
The party begins May 7, when pop
and rock stars will join a coronation choir at Windsor Castle for a televised concert. There is no word yet on who will perform, but if the queen’s jubilee concert is any indication — it featured Alicia Keys, Duran Duran, Rod Stewart and Brian May, the guitarist from Queen — the lineup will be strong.
In keeping with what the palace said was Charles’ wish for a coronation that reflects the times, the choir will include people drawn from singing groups composed of deaf people, refugees and LGBTQ people. The concert will culminate with a nationwide lighting display, using lasers and drones — a technology used to great effect last spring with images of the queen and her handbag floating above Buckingham Palace.
The series of street parties, nicknamed “The Coronation Big Lunch,” is also borrowed from the Platinum Jubilee, with the palace planning for thousands of gatherings in streets, gardens and parks across Britain. This will be a showcase for the queen consort, Camilla, who has been patron of a charity that organizes public lunches for people living alone.
On the one-off holiday, the palace hopes that some will undertake volunteer work. Charles, as Prince of Wales, emphasized volunteer service through his charities and views that as a major legacy of his coronation, according to the palace.
The palace has left some important questions about the coronation unanswered,
not least whether the king’s younger son, Prince Harry, and his wife, Meghan, will be invited. Harry’s bestselling memoir, “Spare,” has deepened the rift between him and his father and brother, Prince William — claiming, among other things, that he and Meghan were mistreated by Charles and William.
The palace has steadfastly refused to respond to the accusations, and it is not expected to address the issue of inviting Harry and Meghan for a while. May 6 will be the fourth birthday of the couple’s son, Archie, which could affect the travel plans of Meghan, if not of his father. In an interview with ITV to promote his book, Harry was noncommittal about making the trip from his home in Southern California.
“There’s a lot that can happen between now and then,” he said.
More than 60 women and girls who had been abducted recently in the West African nation of Burkina Faso were freed Friday, the national broadcaster said.
The kidnappings took place outside two villages near the northern city of Arbinda as the women were foraging for wild fruits and leaves. But on Friday, the television channel RTB said that the 62 women and girls, as well as four babies, had been found and taken to Ouagadougou, the capital.
The broadcaster played footage of a group of women sitting on the ground, some clutching buckets and jerrycans, while military officers wearing fatigues stood around them. Thirty-nine of them were younger than 18, the report said.
Burkina Faso, a landlocked country that once prided itself on its people’s tolerance for difference, has been overrun by extremist groups loosely affiliated with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group that have spread in recent years from neighboring Mali, where they made incursions about a decade ago.
Those jihadi groups have gained footholds in Burkina Faso’s north and east, killing thousands and displacing 2 million people — about 10% of the country’s population, according to the United Nations and humanitarian agencies.
The country’s troubles have sometimes been compounded by its armed forces, which have carried out extrajudicial killings in villages where residents were suspected of supporting the jihadis, and by armed vigilante groups that have sprung up to defend communities but have little training and often also kill with impunity.
In the country’s north, where the women where abducted, the jihadi groups have prevented trucks carrying food from using roads, forcing residents to venture farther
out to get supplies to avoid going hungry.
Armed militants kidnapped the women, girls and babies in two separate groups Thursday and Friday last week, according to the government, which said in a statement Monday that about 50 women had been abducted. The news of their release Friday suggested that the number of victims might have been higher than originally stated.
It was also unclear Friday night if all of the women and girls had been rescued, or if some had been killed. The military provided no details about how the women and children had been released.
Despite having lost vast swaths of territory to extremist groups, members of Burkina Faso’s army ousted the country’s democratically elected president a year ago, blaming him for not doing enough to stabilize the country. Then, eight months later, a captain carried out another coup, arguing again that the country’s military leader had weakened its security.
That captain, Ibrahim Traoré, became the country’s new leader and made it his priority to recover territories lost to armed groups. But the government controls only about half of the country, according to estimates by research groups and regional leaders.
Nearly 1 million people live in blockaded areas in the country’s north and east, according to the United Nations. Convoys escorted by the military sometimes bring supplies, often at great risk.
In August 2021, 80 people, including 65 civilians, were killed in an attack on a convoy taking them to Arbinda. Dozens of civilians were killed in a similar operation in the region last September.
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who believe the defining challenge of the 21st century will be climate change, and those who know that it will be the birth dearth, the population bust, the old age of the world.
That kind of column opener is a hostage to fortune. If I’m wrong, it might be quoted grimly or mockingly in future histories written with New York underwater and Texas uninhabitable.
But it’s important for the weird people more obsessed with demography than climate to keep hammering away, because whatever the true balance of risk between the two, the relative balance is changing. Over the past 15 years, some of the worst-case scenarios for climate change have become less likely than before. At the same time, various forces, the COVID crisis especially, have pushed birthrates lower faster, bringing the old-age era forward rapidly.
The latest evidence is the news from China this past week that its population declined for the first time since the Great Leap Forward, more than 60 years ago. A tip into decline was long anticipated, but until recently, it wasn’t expected to arrive until the 2030s — yet, here it is early, with the Chinese birthrate hitting an all-time recorded low in 2022.
This means that just as China emerges as an almostsuperpower, it’s staring into a darkened future where it
grows old and stagnant before it finishes growing rich. Meanwhile, variations on that shadow lie over most rich and many middle-income nations now — threatening general sclerosis, a loss of dynamism and innovation, and a zero-sum struggle between a swollen retired population and the overburdened young. (This past week’s mass protests in France over Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64 from 62 were a preview of this future.)
So it’s worth thinking about some rules for the age of demographic decadence — trends to watch, principles that will separate winners and losers, guideposts for anyone seeking dynamism in a stagnant world.
Rule No. 1: The rich world will need redistribution back from old to young.
In recent decades we’ve seen many cases of technocrats proven wrong in their assumptions — from the widespread belief that we needed deficit reduction almost immediately after the financial crisis, to the unwise optimism about the effects of free trade with China. But in an aging world, the technocratic desire to reform old-age entitlements will become evermore essential and correct — so long as the savings can be used to make it easier for young people to start a family, open a business, own a home. And countries that find a way to make this transfer successfully will end up far ahead of those that just sink into gerontocracy.
Rule No. 2: Innovation isn’t enough; the challenge will be implementation and adoption.
If you want growth in an aging world, you need technological breakthroughs. But as economist Eli Dourado noted in a recent piece about the effects of the new artificial intelligence technology, the big bottlenecks aren’t always in invention itself — they’re in testing, infrastructure, deployment, regulatory hurdles. And since aging, set-intheir-ways societies may be more inclined to leave new inventions on the shelf, clearing those bottlenecks may become the central innovator’s challenge.
Rule No. 3: Ground warfare will run up against population limits.
You can see this dynamic already in the Russia-Ukraine war. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mobilization efforts aren’t what they presumably would be if his empire had
An elderly Ukrainian villager walks along a road on the outskirts of Dibrova on July 23, 2022. There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who believe the defining challenge of the 21st century will be climate change, and those who know that it will be the birth dearth, the population bust, the old age of the world, Ross Douthat writes.
more young people. Ukraine, with lower birthrates than even those of Russia, faces a deepening of its demographic crisis if the war drags on for years. The same issue will apply to Taiwan and other flashpoints: Even where strategic ambitions militate for war, the pain of every casualty will be dramatically compounded.
Rule No. 4: In the kingdom of the aged, a little extra youth and vitality will go a long way.
This is true internationally: Countries that manage to keep or boost their birthrates close to replacement level will have a long-term edge over countries that plunge toward South Korean-style, half-replacement-level fertility. And it will be true also within societies: To predict the most dynamic American states and cities, the most influential religious traditions and ideologies, look for places and groups that are friendliest not just to the young but to young people having kids themselves. (Also, expect to have a lot more Amish neighbors.)
Rule No. 5: The African diaspora will reshape the world.
The faster aging happens in the rich and middleincome world, the more important the fact that Africa’s population is still on track to reach 2.5 billion in 2050, and reach 4 billion by 2100. The movement of even a fraction of this population will probably be the 21st century’s most significant global transformation. And the balance between successful assimilation on the one hand and destabilization and backlash on the other will help decide whether the age of demographic decline ends in revitalization or collapse.
AGUADILLA – La comisionada residente, Jenniffer González Colón, inauguró el domingo el Centro de la Reserva del Ejército de los Estados Unidos (ARMY) en Aguadilla con una inversión de 100 por ciento en fondos federales.
Junto al Brigadier General Eric Folkestad, Comandante General Adjunto de la División de Preparación 81, representantes del Ejército y el gobernador interino Omar Marrero, la comisionada residente hizo el corte de cinta del centro que proporcionará un lugar para trabajos de administración, educación, asamblea, biblioteca, centro de aprendizaje, bóveda, simulador de armas y áreas de acondicionamiento físico para la Compañía B del 335 Expeditionary Signal Battalion.
“Las habilidades y experiencias adquiridas por los miembros de 1st Mission Support Command, en conjunto con instalaciones de entrenamiento de primer nivel como la que inauguramos hoy, permite a la nación enfrentar el complejo entorno de seguridad transnacional y mejora la postura y las capacidades militares de los Estados Unidos en el Caribe, particularmente en y alrededor de Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes. Este nuevo centro representa una inversión de más de $18 millones en fondos federales que respaldamos, lo que demuestra un compromiso del gobierno federal con el personal militar y seguridad de la Isla. Confío en esta nueva instalación, con más de 37 mil pies cuadrados y múltiples funciones respaldan el trabajo continuo de Bravo Company y sean testigos de un legado militar que será recordado y honrado por las generaciones futuras”, dijo González Colón en
declaraciones escritas.
El trabajo se hizo bajo el Cuerpo de Ingenieros de los Estados Unidos (USACE, por sus siglas en inglés) quienes subcontrataron a Caribe General Constructors para el proyecto con una vida útil mínima de 40 años de acuerdo con los códigos del Departamento de Defensa que incluyen la eficiencia energética, el rendimiento de los sistemas integrados del edificio y otros. Durante su construcción se proyectaba que el Centro generaría $27,000 en patentes, $717,000 en arbitrios de construcción municipal, 50 empleos directos, 120 empleos indirectos; los subcontratistas fueron 100 por ciento locales.
El Bravo Company 335 Expeditionary Signal Battalion que ocupará las instalaciones, es comandado por el Capitán José L Morales Vázquez y tiene 140 soldados asignados.
AN JUAN
Ortiz, fue recibido la pasada semana en la sede de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) en Washington, DC, para una importante reunión con la Dra. Betilde Muñoz Pogossian, la directora del Departamento de Inclusión Social de la entidad y quien ha participado en múltiples misiones de la OEA.
“Para nosotros en la Asociación de Alcaldes de Puerto Rico el tema de la inclusión social representa la importancia de la atención a poblaciones en situación de vulnerabilidad, y la promoción del ejercicio pleno de sus derechos humanos. Agradezco a la Dra. Muñoz Pogossian su tiempo y atención, y naturalmente continuaremos estrechando lazos de cooperación en beneficio de nuestros municipios”, señaló el también alcalde de Villalba.
La inclusión social se define como el proceso de mejorar la habilidad, la oportunidad y la dignidad de las personas que se encuentran en desventaja debido a su identidad, para que puedan parti-
cipar en la sociedad de manera amplia. Para lograr la inclusión social, hay varias vertientes de progreso, como los mercados, el derecho al trabajo o el acceso al crédito, así como los servicios, acceso a la salud y a la educación, y también la ampliación de los espacios, sean políticos o físicos.
“Lo que buscamos generar es una multiplicación de oportunidades para el desarrollo de las personas, de las comunidades, de los municipios y del País entero. En esa misión, nosotros los alcaldes tenemos una gran labor que realizar porque somos la primera línea de servicio a la gente”, añadió Hernández Ortiz.
La Organización de los Estados Americanos es el organismo regional más antiguo del mundo, cuyo origen se remonta a la Primera Conferencia Internacional Americana, celebrada en Washington, DC en octubre de 1889. La OEA fue creada en 1948 cuando en Bogotá, con el objetivo de lograr la paz y la justicia, fomentar la solidaridad y robustecer la colaboración entre los pueblos.
POR CYBERNEWSMAYAGÜEZ – Un temblor de magnitud 3.93 se sintió a eso de las 11:46 de la mañana del domingo, a 1.49 kilómetros al sureste de San Germán, informó la Red Sísmica.
No hubo alerta de tsunami.
Temblor de 3.93 en el área de San Germán
The news that Alec Baldwin is facing manslaughter charges for killing a cinematographer with a gun he had been told was safe had actor Steven Pasquale thinking back to the filming of “Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem” more than a decade ago, when he and other actors were handed military-style rifles and told to start shooting.
He felt safe, he said, because he relied on the professional props experts and the armorer who had checked and shown him the gun.
“We are artists — we are not actual cowboys, actual cops, actual superheroes,” Pasquale said. “We are not Jason Bourne. I can’t even begin to imagine an actor having the responsibility of now needing to be the safety person on the set regarding prop guns. That’s insane.”
The charges being brought against Baldwin for an on-set shooting had many actors recalling their own experiences with guns on sets, and discussing safety measures and who bears primary responsibility for them.
Actor Michael Chiklis, who has starred in television police dramas including “The Commish” and “The Shield,” called the shooting “a tragic accident” and said that “moving forward, there is absolutely no reason to use a real firearm on set ever again.”
The case, in which prosecutors in New Mexico maintain that Baldwin bore responsibility for ensuring that the gun he was handed on the set of “Rust” was safe, has prompted a debate within the film industry over gun safety and protocols. SAG-AFTRA, a union representing film workers, said the responsibility lay not with actors but with trained professionals. Actors and armorers described varying experiences with guns on sets, with some actors exercising a higher level of caution than others.
Baldwin faces two charges of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed Oct. 21, 2021, when the revolver he was rehearsing with — which he had been told was “cold,” meaning it should not have contained any live ammunition — suddenly fired.
The district attorney for Santa Fe County, Mary Carmack-Altwies, said in an inter-
view Thursday that she planned to argue in court that Baldwin did not take “due caution or circumspection” when he drew an oldfashioned revolver from its holster, that he should have ensured the gun did not contain live rounds and that he should not have pointed the weapon at the cinematographer. She said forensic evidence showed that Baldwin had pulled the trigger; Baldwin has denied that, saying the gun discharged unexpectedly after he pulled the hammer back and let it go.
As the case moves forward, the norms and practices in the film and television industry will quite likely take center stage. Industry standards say that no one should be issued a firearm without being trained in safety, but that the responsibility for checking guns before each use lies with the prop master or designated weapons handler.
Kirk Acevedo, an actor who has worked extensively with weapons on shows such as “Band of Brothers” and in the film “The Thin Red Line,” said it was typical for a film’s armorer, who is responsible for guns and ammunition on set, to open a gun and demonstrate to the actor that it was empty. Acevedo said that while he owned guns and had experience with them, many actors lacked the expertise to check firearms on their own. In some cases, he noted, the actors are children.
“It’s not me,” he said, referring to who has the responsibility. “It can’t be me. If you have never fired a weapon before, how would you know how to do all of that? For some people, it’s hard to even pull back the slide.”
The armorer on “Rust,” Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, is also facing charges of involuntary manslaughter. One of her lawyers, Jason Bowles, said she would be exonerated.
Baldwin has asserted in interviews and court filings that expecting an actor to take the initiative to check a gun is not standard practice. His lawyer Luke Nikas said he also would be exonerated, calling the prosecution a “terrible miscarriage of justice.”
SAG-AFTRA said in a statement that industry guidelines “do not make it the performer’s responsibility to check any firearm.”
Approaches to firearm safety vary on sets.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who played a
New York City police captain on the ABC drama “Castle” and now plays an officer on the CBS police drama “East New York,” said he had set strict rules for himself since appearing in a play where a blank was fired so close to another actor at a rehearsal that it nearly damaged the actor’s eardrum.
“It’s OK to annoy people by how much you check and recheck the gun,” SantiagoHudson said.
He said he made sure to never point a gun directly at another person — a point of contention in the “Rust” case.
Baldwin told ABC News after the shooting that he had pointed the gun toward Hutchins only because he had been told it was “cold” and he was being directed to do so.
“I got countless people online saying, ‘You idiot, you never point a gun at someone,’” Baldwin said in the interview. “Well, unless you’re told it’s empty, and it’s the director of photography who’s instructing you on the angle for a shot we’re going to do.”
Days after the shooting, which also wounded the director of “Rust,” Joel Souza, investigators interviewed one of the movie’s actors, Jensen Ackles, who told them that he does inspect his guns on set himself.
“I just always do my own personal checks because it’s a smart thing to do,” Ackles told police, according to footage of the interview. But he noted that he did not expect his peers to do the same, telling the detectives that if actors were the final line of defense in the safety of a movie set then he “wouldn’t trust 99.9% of the people I work with.”
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES LTD.
Plaintiff V.
Defendants
Civil: 16-CV-3001. PAD. Re: FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE IN REM. NOTICE OF SALE.
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 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 (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 minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 28th day of February of 2023, at: 8:45 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
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 PÚBLICA 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 ALBERT PADILLA RODRÍGUEZ, RUBIANNE JENICE MUÑOZ CORDOVÉS T/C/C RUBIANNE JENNICE MUÑOZ CORDOVÉS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
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 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: 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.
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, el 13 de septiembre de 2021, Demanda de fecha 27 de agosto de 2021, ante el Tribunal de
Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, en el Caso Civil Número HU2021CV00947, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Jayson Albert Padilla Rodríguez y su esposa, Rubianne Jenice Muñoz Cordovés también conocida como Rubianne Jennice Muñoz Cordovés, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $53,204.54 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. Pendiente de anotación. 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,TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR. WILNELIA RIVERA DELGADO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #249.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR. BANCO
VÁZQUEZ CARRIÓN T/C/C MILLY K. VÁZQUEZ CARRIÓN
PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. HU2022CV00540. SALA: 208. 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 6 de agosto de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 16 de septiembre de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 26 de septiembre de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el dÍA 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, a las 11:30 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 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 marcado con el Número 64 del plano de inscripción del proyecto VBC-104 denominado Villa Oriente radicado en el Barrio Mabú del término municipal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de 396.10 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 63, distancia de 16.42 metros; por el SUR, con la Calle B y una curva de 19.35 distancia de 0.81 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 65, con pared medianera con la vivienda número 65, distancia de 18.50 metros; y por el OESTE, con los solares números 48, 49 y 50 distancia de 29.86 metros. Enclava una casa de concreto para una familia. Inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 275 de Humacao, Finca Número 10670, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Humacao, Finca Número 10670, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Inscripción novena. Dirección
Física: Villa Oriente, A64 Calle B, Humacao, PR 00791. Dirección Postal: HC 03 PO Box 6548, Humacao, PR 00791. Número de Catastro: 51-280098-502-14-001. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $59,151.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el dÍa 16 de FEBRERO de 2023, a las 11:30 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, $39,434.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta, el día 23 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, a las 11:30 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $29,575.50. 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 $58,196.47 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.5% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $419.65 de recargos acumulados los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $5,915.10 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 2022-062518-HU01, el 12 de mayo de 2022, Demanda de fecha 26 de abril de 2022, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, en el Caso Civil Número HU2022CV00540, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Luis José Contreras Hernández (soltero), sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $58,196.47 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. Pendiente de anotación. 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 INTERINO, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO. Por: Wilnelia Rivera Delgado, Alguacil Auxiliar #249.
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 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.
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. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the 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 SALA DE SAN JUAN FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC
Demandante
T/C/C SONIA VEGA DE CISNEROS, T/C/C SONIA VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SONIA MARÍA VEGA, T/C/C SONIA M. VEGA, T/C/C SONIA VEGA COMPUESTA POR DIEGO CISNERO VEGA, FULANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV07649.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESIÓN DE SONIA MARÍA VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SENIA MARÍA VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SONIA M. VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SONIA VEGA DE CISNEROS, T/C/C SONIA VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SONIA MARÍA VEGA, T/C/C SONIA M. VEGA, T/C/C SONIA VEGA COMPUESTA POR DIEGO CISNERO VEGA, FULANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.
Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 13 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 26 de mayo de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 21 DE
FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 28 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 5 de julio de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 563 del Bloque LC 33 en el Plano de Inscripción de la Cumbre, localizado en el Barrio Monacillo del Municipio de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, con un área de 331.13 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 24.99 metros, con el solar 564 del Bloque LC-33 del marcado plano; por el SUR, en 24.99 metros, con el solar número 561 del Bloque LC-33 del mencionado plano; por el ESTE, en 13.50 metros, con la Calle denominada Washington Street, del mencionado plano; y por el OESTE, en 12.57 metros, con los solares 584 y 585 del Bloque LC-33 del mencionado plano. Enclava una casa. Finca número 3,064, inscrita al folio 218 del tomo 94 de Monacillos Este y el Cinco. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. Dirección de la Propiedad: 563-LC-33 Washington St. La Cumbre Dev, San Juan PR 00926. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $87,975.10 de principal, más los intereses acumulados al 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago, contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudados y los cuales continuaran en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, mas $24,000 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 362 otorgada el día 15 de octubre de 2013, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Zoila Espinoza Naquer y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Monaci-
llos Esta y El Cinco, finca número 3,064, Registro de la Propiedad de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, Sección V de San Juan. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $240,000.00, con intereses al 5.060% anual, vencedero el día 22 de abril de 2093, constituida mediante la escritura número 363, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de octubre de 2013, ante la notario Zoila Espinoza Naquer, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Moncaillos Este y el Cinco, finca número 3,064, inscripción 11ma. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $240,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $160,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $120,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin desti-
Vs. SUCESIÓN DE SONIA MARÍA VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SENIA MARÍA VEGA TORRES, T/C/C SONIA M. VEGA TORRES,
URB. MONTEFIORI #113 CALLE MAGNOLIA, CAGUAS, PR 00725.
DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: PO BOX 9718 CAGUAS, PR 00726-9718.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: 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. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155
E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 17 de enero de 2023. LLSILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VILMA OYOLA RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ROSA GILDA ABREU HERNÁNDEZ T/C/C
ROSA GILDA ABREU COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS OLGA CORPORÁN T/C/C OLGA IDALIZA CORPORÁN ABREU, ROSA CORPORÁN ABREU, WANDA CORPORÁN
ABREU Y MYRIAN CORPORÁN ABREU; SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL DE JESÚS CORPORÁN COMPUESTA POR
SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS OLGA CORPORÁN T/C/C
OLGA IDALIZA CORPORÁN ABREU, ROSA CORPORÁN ABREU, WANDA CORPORÁN ABREU, MYRIAN CORPORÁN ABREU Y DORA LISA CORPORÁN; SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL CORPORÁN ABREU COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS LISA CORPORÁN BATISTA, MICHELLE CORPORÁN BATISTA Y MARÍA ROSA CORPORÁN BATISTA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV04986.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO
PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de San Juan, 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 7 de febrero de 2022, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 6 de mayo 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 sito en el Barrio Monacillos de la municipalidad de Río Piedras, antes, hoy San Juan, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número diez y nueve A de la manzana LV de la Urbanización Caparra Terrace, con un área superficial de doscientos cuarenta y uno metros cuadrados, más o menos, el cual colinda por el NORTE, en nueve metros setenta y ocho centímetros con los solares número diez A y diez B de la manzana LV; por el SUR, en nueve metros cincuenta centímetros con la Calle número noventa y uno de la urbanización; por el ESTE, en veinticinco metros con el solar número diecinueve B de la manzana LV; y por el OESTE, en veinticinco metros con el solar número dieciocho de la manzana LV. Enclava una casa de concreto armado con techo de azotea y piso de losas del país, de una
sola planta, que constituye una vivienda independiente, consistiendo de tres dormitorios con sus closets, sala y comedor en una sola unidad, cocina con su closet, balcón y cuarto de baño. Existe una servidumbre por signo aparente establecida por la corporación vendedora en la pared que divide los apartamentos A y B, cuya pared continuará sirviendo a ambos apartamentos y pertenecerá en común proindiviso y en toda su actual extensión y espesor a los propietarios de ambos apartamentos. FINCA NÚMERO: 8,785, inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 236 de Monacillos, sección III de San Juan. Nota aclaratoria: En el Registro de la Propiedad la descripción registral consta como anteriormente fue descrita. En la Escritura número 69, otorgada el 29 de febrero de 2008, consta lo siguiente; URBANA: Solar sito en el Barrio Monacillos de la municipalidad de Río Piedras, antes, hoy San Juan, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número diez y nueve A de la manzana LV de la Urbanización Caparra Terrace, hoy número mil trescientos veintidós (1321). Dirección Física: URB. CAPARRA TERRACE, NÚMERO 19-A MANZANA LV (Hoy número 1321), SAN JUAN PR 00921 T/C/C 1321 34 ST. SO CAPARRA TERRACE, SAN JUAN PR 00921. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 21 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan. 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 $222,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 28 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 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 $148,000.00. 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 8 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 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 $111,000.00. 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 $218,566.26 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 7.0000% 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. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa al Secretario de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de los Estados Unidos de América por éstos contar con una hipoteca a su favor por la suma de $222,000.00, intereses al 7.00% anual, y a vencer el 1ro de marzo de 2090, según consta de la Escritura #70, inscrito al folio 11 del tomo 1059 de Monacillos, finca 8,785, inscripción 13ra. Además, 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 pre-
sente 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 17 de enero de 2023.
PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE VS. SUCESION DE JUAN ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ T/C/C ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ T/C/C ANTONIO JUAN RODRIGUEZ COLON, COMPUESTA POR CARMEN MARIA PORRATA OCASIO T/C/C CARMEN MARIA PORRATA, POR SI; JUAN ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ MUÑIZ Y MARIA DE LOS ANGELES RODRIGUEZ MUÑIZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERESEN LA SUCESION DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÜM.: PO2022CV02289. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS
A: JUAN ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ MUÑIZ Y FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ #26 Calle Salmón Ponce, PR 00731 Dirección postal: Urb. Río Canas 2755 Calle Bravo, Ponce, PR 00731 y Bo. Galicia #15 Calle 2 Juana Díaz, PR 00795
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tri-
bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: 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. Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÜA NÜM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787- 751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155
E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com EN Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 18 de enero de 2023. Mariel Felix Rivera, Sec Aux del Tribunal.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DEL PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
Parte Demandante Vs. ARIEL GARCIA VILLEGAS
Parte Demandada CASO NUM. SJ2021CV08352. SALA: 803. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO, Regla 60, Procedimiento Civil. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE ANERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. SS.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días
de· haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, 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 remed~o solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre y dirección se consigna de inmediato: Rafael E. Santos Toledo, RUA: 10849, PO Box 13941,San Juan Puerto Rico 00908-3941, (787) 4091586, email: rsrestlaw@gmail. com. Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (20) días partir de la publicación del último edicto, podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía en u contra concediendo eI remedio solicitado en la demanda. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 11 de enero de 2023. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Sec Regional. F/Maria I Rios Lopez, SubSecretaria.
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan .
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 60 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de enero de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 20 de enero de 2023. Griselda
Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. f/Elsa Magaly Candelario Cabrera, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
Parte Demandante
LIME RESIDENTIAL, LTD. Parte Demandante Vs. JOSÉ EDUARDO RAMÍREZ DE ARELLANO CALDERÓN, SU ESPOSA MARTA MARGARITA VARGAS SUÁREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; GOBIERNO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: KCD2012-0587. Salón Núm.: (807). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM: SJ2022CV04681 (604). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN
SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de
A: JOSÉ EDUARDO RAMÍREZ DE ARELLANO CALDERÓN, SU ESPOSA MARTA MARGARITA VARGAS SUÁREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; GOBIERNO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA: ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; BANCO
ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.
Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE VINCE EDWARD KARL WELLS COMPUESTA POR VÍCTOR DIVO; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
DE
A: LA SUCESIÓN DE VINCE EDWARD KARL WELLS COMPUESTA POR VÍCTOR DIVO; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN
tado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 9 de enero de 2023, en Caguas, Puerto Rico.
LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. LIZ WHARTON ROSA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE LUNA RESIDENTIAL II, LLC
Demandante Vs. CARMEN NILDA COLÓN FEBLES; LA SUCESIÓN DE EDDIE VELEZ TORRADO COMPUESTA POR CARMEN NILDA COLÓN FEBLES, MAYRA VELEZ COLON, FREDDY VELEZ COLON; NORMA VELEZ, LA SUCESIÓN DE NAMMIELE VELEZ COLON COMPUESTA POR SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBRO DESCONOCIDO CON INTERÉS, FULANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLE MIEMBRO DESCONOCIDO CON INTERES; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01752.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: CARMEN NILDA COLÓN FEBLES POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE EDDIE VÉLEZ TORRADO; FREDDY VELEZ COLON COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE EDDIE VÉLEZ TORRADO.
Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Se le advierte, que al tiempo de hacerse la primera publicación de este edicto se le esta enviando por correo certificado, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda, al lugar de su última dirección conocida. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que 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. Se le requiere para que notifique a los abogados de la Parle Demandante a ROBERTSON, ANSCHUTZ, SCHNEID, CRANE & PARTNERS, P.L.L.C., al 100 CLL Acuarela Suite #303 Guaynabo, PR 00969, con copia de su contestación a la demanda de Ejecución de Hipoteca. Vista la interpelación judicial presentada por la parte demandante al amparo del Artículo 959 del Código Civil se ordena a la SUCESION DE EDDIE VELEZ TORRADO, compuesta por CARMEN NILDA COLON FEBLES, MAYRA VELEZ COLON, FREDDY VELEZ COLON, NORMA VELEZ, FULANO DE TAL como posibles herederos desconocidos de la Sucesión, que notifiquen si aceptan o repudian la herencia de la causante dentro del plazo de 30 días contados a partir de la notificación de la presente orden. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer en dicho término a aceptar o repudiar la herencia, la herencia se tendrá por acertada. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 17 de octubre de 2022, en Ponce, Puerto Rico. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. CARLOS JUSTINO FLORES MOREIRA T/C/C CARLOS FLORES MOREIRA Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2022CV01213. (307). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte Demandada CARLOS JUSTINO FLORES MOREIRA T/C/C CARLOS FLORES MOREIRA A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: URB.
MONTE BRISAS 3, 3B9 CALLE 101, FAJARDO, PR 00738-3405, HC 2 BOX 8532, LUQUILLO, PR 00773, HC 1 BOX 8532, LUQUILLO PR 007739503.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que se adeuda las siguientes cantidades: $91,136.17 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.375% anual desde el 1 de abril de 2020 hasta su completo pago, más $2,762.29 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $10,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Monte Brisas Tercera Extensión, situada en el Barrio Quebrada Fajardo del Municipio de Fajardo, marcado con el Bloque 3 B del solar número 9, con un área de 421.37 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: en distancia de 25.02 metros, con el solar número 10 de dicho bloque; por el SUR: en distancia de 25.00 metros con el solar número 8 de dicho bloque; por el ESTE: en distancia de 14.00 metros formando un arco con la calle 101; y por el OESTE: en una distancia de 19.71 metros formando un arco con los solares 2 y 3 de dicho bloque. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 225 del tomo 267 de Fajardo, Finca 10957. Registro de Propiedad de Fajardo. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 151 del tomo 454 de Fajardo, Finca 10957. Registro de Propiedad de Fajardo. Inscripción quinta. La escritura de modificación de hipoteca consta inscrita al margen del folio 151 del tomo 454 de Fajardo, Finca 10957. Registro de Propiedad de Fajardo. Inscripción quinta. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso en blanco, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la
demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo Puerto Rico 009703922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, (787) 708-0566 correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 9 de enero de 2023, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. CARMEN F. RIVERA PEÑA T/C/C CARMEN FABIANA RIVERA PEÑA Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00586.
Sala: 406. 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 dictada el 19 de agosto de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 4 de noviembre de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 16 de noviembre de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 3:15 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Ponce, Sala Superior, en 2150 Ave. Santiago de los Caballeros, Ponce, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento Número Seis guion C (6-C). Apartamento de forma irregular situado en el sexto piso (6to) del edificio conocido como Condominio Buena Vista que consta de sala-comedor, dos (2) dormitorios, dos baños,
un closet vestidor, otro closet, cocina, un corredor que comunica la sala-comedor con los dormitorios y un closet despensa en la cocina. Tiene un área aproximada de 79.43 metros cuadrados. Colindando por el NORTE, en dos punto noventa (2.90) metros, con la pared que lo separa del vestíbulo que da acceso a la escalera y el ascensor y en cinco punto noventa y dos (5.92) metros, con la pared que lo separa de un espacio abierto que da sobre el techo del corredor de la primera planta; por el SUR, en siete punto setenta (7.70) metros, con la pared que lo separa de los Solares Números Noventa y Uno (91) y Novena y Dos (92) de la Urbanización Mercedita; por el ESTE, en cinco punto sesenta y uno (5.61) metros, con la pared que lo separa de la caja del ascensor y la escalera y en cuatro punto sesenta (4.60) metros con la pared que lo separa del patio lateral Este, que a la vez colinda con el área reservada para estacionamiento en la Urbanización Mercedita; y por el OESTE, en nueve punto ochenta (9.80) metros con la pared que lo separa del patio que colinda con la Calle F de la urbanización mencionada. Todas las medidas anteriores son aproximadas. Al indicado apartamento le corresponde un porcentaje de 4.05% en la participación como en los gastos, ganancias y derechos de los elementos comunes generales e igual proporción se aplicará en la notación de las reuniones de los Condómines. Inscrita al folio 9 del tomo 1346 de Ponce, Finca Número 38545, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 5 del tomo 2039 de Ponce, Finca 38545, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. Inscripción vigésima. Dirección Física: Cond. Buena Vista, 1396 Calle Bonita, Apt. 6C, Ponce, PR 00731. Número de Catastro: 63-389-075-854-07-719. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $69,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 21 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 3:15 DE LA TARDE 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, $46,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 28 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 3:15 DE LA TARDE en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $34,500.00. 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 $62,034.72 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.375% anual desde el 1 de noviembre de 2020 hasta su completo pago, más $279.76 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,900.00 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 los siguientes gravámenes posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Hipoteca: Constituida por Carmen Fabiana Rivera Peña (soltera), en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage Inc., o a orden, por la suma de $10,000.00, con intereses al 5.50% anual y vencedero el 1 de septiembre de 2041, según consta de la escritura #27, otorgada en Ponce, el 13 de agosto de 2011, ante la notaria Alys M. Collazo Bougeois, inscrita al folio 127 del tomo 2110 de Ponce, finca #38545, inscripción 21ma. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Carmen Fabiana Rivera Peña también conocida como Carmen F. Rivera Peña y Estados Unidos de América, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el Caso Civil Número PO2022CV00586, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca con un balance de $62,034.72 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 9 de marzo de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Ponce. Anotación A. 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 les 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 subsis-
tentes; 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 que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de diciembre de 2022. Juan Rolando Cruz Román, Alguacil Placa #965, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De Ponce, Sala Superior.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AÑASCO COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE RINCÓN (ANTES COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE AÑASCO)
Parte Demandante Vs SUCESIÓN RAFAEL CARRERO GONZÁLEZ (SOCIO NÚM. 31109389) COMPUESTA POR MERCEDES CARRERO, CARMEN MARÍA CARRERO, FULANA DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AÑ2022CV00194.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO.
A: SUCESIÓN RAFAEL CARRERO GONZÁLEZ COMPUESTA POR MERCEDES CARRERO, CARMEN MARÍA CARRERO, FULANA DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL.
Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr,
salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, peto que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en AÑASCO, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de enero de 2023. EVELYN PADILLA NIEVES, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE AÑASCO. ELIZABETH VALENTÍN CORREA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.v
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de VEGA BAJA.
Demandante V. OMAYRA
Demandado(a)
Civil: VB2019CV00745. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: OMAYRA ARCE RODRIGUEZ, HECTOR GONZALEZ RIVERA- BARRIO PALMAREJO, CARR 155 R 643, KM 6.08 VEGA BAJA, PR 00693 (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 17 de marzo 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 13 de enero de 2023. En VEGA BAJA , Puerto Rico, el 13 de enero de 2023. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretario(a). KARLA M. ROBLES CRESPO, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.
About 45 minutes before kickoff of a divisionalround playoff game that would have seemed impossible for the New York Giants in August, coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen met on the sideline. The team’s co-owner, John Mara, soon joined.
Mara and co-owner Steve Tisch hired Daboll and Schoen last January. In their first year, instead of muddling through a rebuild, the Giants won nine games in the regular season and their first playoff game since their Super Bowl victory after the 2011 season.
The Cinderella story of sorts ended Saturday night when the Giants lost to the top-seeded Eagles 38-7 on a chilly evening in Philadelphia. The Eagles, one of the league’s heavyweights all season, sent the Giants to the offseason with big decisions to make regarding their key players and top assistant coaches.
The Giants slipped into a 14-0 hole in the first quarter, behind a sloppy offensive performance and an explosive start by the Eagles. Philadelphia scored touchdowns on its first two series, the second coming on a drive that began at midfield when linebacker Haason Reddick sacked Daniel Jones on fourth down.
Eagles cornerback James Bradberry, who was released by the Giants last May, intercepted Jones on the next drive. By the time Eagles running back Boston Scott plunged into the end zone for a 3-yard touchdown, widening the gap to 21-0 with about seven minutes remaining in the half, the Giants’ sideline looked somber. The game was never in doubt, and aside from an 8-yard rushing touchdown by Matt Breida and a few splash moments from running back Saquon Barkley, the Giants showed no resistance.
Still, it was a surprise for the Giants even to reach this point. In an interview in August during training camp at the team’s red brick-ladened facility in New Jersey, Schoen listed few bombastic goals for his team, which had endured five consecutive losing seasons and had not reached the playoffs since 2016. Schoen and the front office inherited a difficult salary-cap situation, which prevented them from adding free agents or trading for star players.
“I just want to see progress,” Schoen said. “I just want to see the team getting better, the execution getting better and not beating ourselves and being competitive in all the games. There’s not a lot that we can do financially, so we’re not able to do a lot of big moves to upgrade what we have. But the guys getting better, competing and playing together as one, hopefully that will catapult us going forward as we set the foundation and the culture.”
The Giants certainly showed progression. They won nine games — they had won 10 in the previous two
seasons combined — and their most important players shined. Barkley, who had been plagued by injuries since his rookie year in 2018, revived his career, finishing fourth in the league in rushing yards (1,312). Jones played more efficiently and whittled his turnovers, and he seemed to thrive under Daboll, who as offensive coordinator of the Buffalo Bills helped develop Josh Allen into an elite quarterback.
But on Saturday, the supporting cast struggled. Barkley rushed for 61 yards and Jones took five sacks as the offensive line crumbled. Jones threw for just 135 yards as the receivers failed to create space against Philadelphia’s secondary and dropped passes.
The Giants, whose roster all year had holes, by contrast faced a team shrewdly constructed by Howie Roseman, the Eagles’ general manager. Through veteran additions such as Reddick, Bradberry, receiver A.J. Brown and cornerback Darius Slay, along with draftees in quarterback Jalen Hurts and receiver DeVonta Smith, Roseman over the past three seasons has compiled enough talent to make the Eagles a Super Bowl contender.
Hurts, the third-year quarterback who passed for 154 yards and two touchdowns Saturday, has blossomed into one of the league’s best young throwers. The Eagles’ rushing attack, led by Kenneth Gainwell and Miles Sanders, compiled over 200 yards and three touchdowns. The defense allowed just 227 total yards of offense.
In the regular season, the Eagles burst out to an 8-0 start and won six of their remaining nine games, including two against the Giants. They netted a league-high eight Pro Bowl selections. They will host the winner of the divisional-round game Sunday between the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys for the NFC cham-
pionship.
Both Jones and Barkley are set to enter free agency in the spring unless they are signed to long-term contracts, and Daboll’s top assistants, offensive coordinator Mike Kafka and defensive coordinator Don Martindale, have drawn interest for head coaching jobs across the league. With a projected $54 million in cap space and a year of experience implementing their system and culture, Daboll and Schoen are poised to employ an improved roster in 2023. But they face key decisions through the spring and summer that will determine if the team will still be viewed with a Cinderella narrative or as an actual contender.
Sunday, Jan. 29
NFC
San Francisco 49ers or Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles, 3 p.m. ET (Fox)
AFC
Buffalo Bills or Cincinnati Bengals vs. Kansas City Chiefs, 6:30 p.m. ET (CBS)
Abruising running game, a smothering defense and a sterling cameo performance by a backup quarterback were enough Saturday to send Kansas City to its fifth-straight appearance in the AFC championship game.
The 27-20 victory over Jacksonville was secured only after a frantic final five minutes that saw an interception by Kansas City rookie Jaylen Watson of Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, a fumble recovery by Kansas City linebacker Nick Bolton inside the 5-yard line as the Jaguars were closing in on a score, and a failed onside kick by Jacksonville.
The high-flying Kansas City offense was not exactly grounded but had to put itself on autopilot after quarterback Patrick Mahomes injured his ankle in the first half. He was hit on a pass as the first quarter was winding down; Jacksonville linebacker Arden Key landed heavily on Mahomes’ right leg. Mahomes was clearly hobbled as he got up, but as the second quarter started, he was back on the field, in a drive that ended in a field goal.
When Mahomes returned to the sideline after that possession, the team’s training staff employed all its power of persuasion to get the recalcitrant quarterback to the locker room for a better look at his injury.
“I did not want to go,” said Mahomes,
who reported that X-rays on his leg were negative. “They gave me the ultimatum that I wasn’t going back in the game until I went back there.”
Mahomes relented, and he returned for the second half and the win.
Now, Kansas City awaits the outcome of the Buffalo vs. Cincinnati game, which will determine where it will play next week. If the Bengals win, Kansas City will host them at Arrowhead Stadium. But if the Bills win, the two will play at the neutral site of Atlanta; that accommodation was made after the Jan. 2 Bills-Bengals game was canceled after the onfield cardiac arrest of Bills safety Damar Hamlin.
Either way, Kansas City can thank backup quarterback Chad Henne for the opportunity to play another game. He dispelled the anxiety of the suddenly murmuring soldout crowd after Mahomes went down. He then went 5 of 7 for 23 yards and led Kansas City on a 98-yard touchdown drive, and his team took a 17-10 lead at
halftime.
Mahomes certainly appreciated Henne’s work.
“He’s ready to go at quarterback at all times,” Mahomes said. “He stepped up and took them 98 yards and a touchdown. That was the difference in the game.”
Even with Mahomes back for the second half, Kansas City leaned into the running of Isiah Pacheco, who rumbled for 95 yards on 12 carries. By the fourth quarter, with Kansas City holding a 2017 lead, Mahomes resembled his old self, in quick-strike fashion taking the offense 75 yards in under five minutes, capped by a 6-yard touchdown pass to Marquez Valdes-Scantling.
“It’s a credit to the guys around me — the offensive line kept me clean in the pocket because they knew I couldn’t move,” said Mahomes, who ended the game with 195 yards and two touchdown passes.
The Jaguars had won six straight, including a 27-point comeback victory against the Los Angeles Chargers last week in their first playoff appearance since the 2017 season to earn the right to try to derail Kansas City’s Super Bowl aspirations.
They may very well have, had they only corrected two tendencies that
haunted them all season: an inability to keep tight ends from strafing their secondary and their receivers’ penchant for dropping catchable balls.
The Jaguars led the league with 41 dropped passes, according to Pro Football Reference, and that dubious distinction was on display, especially in the opening drive of the second half, when Christian Kirk dropped a Lawrence strike on third-and-7 from Jacksonville’s 40-yard line. In the first half, Kirk, who had seven drops on the season, was wide open in the Kansas City red zone when he bobbled and lost a Lawrence deep ball.
The Jaguars were the NFL’s worst defense against tight ends this past season by yardage, and Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce found canyons in the Jaguars secondary Saturday; he had 14 catches for 98 yards and two touchdowns. Mahomes wasted little time playing pitch and catch with Kelce on Kansas City’s opening drive. His first two passes were to Kelce, who led all tight ends this season with 110 receptions. By the end of a six-minute, 83-yard drive, Kelce had caught two more, including an 8-yard touchdown pass.
After the game, however, Kelce wanted to talk about Henne. He held a game ball that he said was destined for the career backup.
Just as two years ago against the Browns, Henne was also asked to get Kansas City back to the AFC championship. In 2021, Mahomes suffered a concussion; Henne had never thrown a pass — or even played a snap — in the postseason despite 11 seasons in the NFL. But he led a gamesealing drive, including a pass on fourthand-short.
This year, coach Andy Reid was again asking for Henne’s help. Starting at Kansas City’s own 2-yard line, Henne showed Reid and his teammates that he deserved their confidence.
“I can’t say enough about Chad Henne stepping up and doing his thing,” Kelce said.
Though Henne may be waiting in the wings, Mahomes promised that he would be ready to play in next Sunday’s AFC title game.
The Kansas City offense’s first order of business, however, was gathering Sunday to watch the Bills vs. the Bengals.
Where exactly?
“My house or his house,” Mahomes said, nodding to Kelce. “That’s how it usually rolls.”
A formal event may fill you with dread, even if you have promised to be there, especially as other influences suggest you’re in the mood for something zestier. If you make the effort to look your best and go along Aries, you could benefit in many ways. It might be a little too prim for your tastes, but the people you meet and the outcome, can be a source of golden opportunities.
With lovely Venus aligning with sobering Saturn, you may need to adopt a no-nonsense approach to something, no matter how well you know those involved. Contemplating a project that requires you to take note of regulations and rules? If so, best go along with this for peace of mind, Taurus. And as Uranus redirects in your sign, a desire for change can become a reality.
The coming days can see you making a commitment to something or someone because you’re serious about it and want to get results. While this is a temporary aspect, it may plant the seed of a positive and focused plan. You could also doubt yourself or fear to move forward, when you’ll benefit from going ahead now. It’s time to be courageous, as you will only fail if you do nothing.
Does your relationship feel like it needs a boost? With Venus aligning with Saturn in an intense zone, you may start to wonder where the sparkle went. Perhaps what you really need is a breakthrough, and a chance for you both to unleash your inner passion and feel more alive than you have in some time. This invitation to break with rigid ways is one to be accepted, Cancer.
With Venus linking to Saturn, intense feelings can take their toll and cause you to reassess a friendship or developing romance. Should you let your feelings show or hold back? It could be a dilemma. Thinking about it won’t help, but trusting your intuition will. And with restless Uranus turning direct in your career zone, you’ll be ready to embrace changes that are long overdue.
Have a lot on your plate? This is no time to be juggling your plans. The more you can cut back your to-do list, the easier life will be. If you feel you should do something and really don’t want to, then don’t be too rigid. You’ll find that by relaxing into the coming days, they could be so much more productive and satisfying. Enjoy some down time, as you’ll likely get more done.
As delectable Venus, your personal planet, aligns with prudent Saturn, you may be tempted to put yourself last over coming days and to put others first. This could see you dashing around trying to juggle chores and tasks, and bending yourself into a pretzel to please everyone. Don’t even try! Instead, organize others to help, so that you too have time for all the things you love to do.
The Venus/Saturn merger could encourage you to look deeper into the cost of running your home. There may be ways to get better deals, if you seek them out. But even if there aren’t, this is a chance to let your ingenuity and resourcefulness come into their own. You’ll be ready to explore new methods that could lead to lower expenses. As you experiment, you’ll begin to thrive.
Think carefully before promising anything, as you could come to regret it later. If you say yes, just to get into someone’s good books or to make an impression, be sure you are up for this, as the effort involved can soon wear thin. In fact, if you pile too much on your plate, current aspects suggest you might quickly lose interest Archer, and this may not go down well at all.
You’ll be more aware of the give and take involved in your interactions. While you’re being generous, others might hold back, and you could take this personally. It may be for reasons that have nothing to do with you and more to do with their personal situation, so don’t let it worry you. And as energizing Uranus pushes ahead from today, a new pastime may call out to you.
You might appear serious, but underneath you may be ready to make a radical move that can bring the joy flooding back into your life. As Venus links with sobering Saturn in your sign, perhaps you are involved in finalizing something and making it formal. This could be the gateway to freedom and something fresh. Change is in the air, and you’ll be so ready to embrace it.
If an experience still bothers you, you’ll be ready to look at ways to tackle it and finally let it go. This could involve talking to a counsellor, therapist or life coach, who might assist you in seeing it from a different perspective. With a Venus/Saturn alignment in Aquarius, you may find it easier to see it from a detached viewpoint Pisces, which can bring significant and helpful insights.
