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January 26, 2023

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Archaeologists: Culture Institute has neglected council charged with protecting island patrimony

By THE STAR STAFF

The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (ICP) is ignoring its duty to keep the Council for the Protection of the Terrestrial Archaeological Patrimony of Puerto Rico operational, two archaeologists charged Wednesday.

University professors and archaeologists Ivor Hernández Llanes and Maritza Torres Martínez told a House Art and Culture Committee hearing that since 2009 different governing administrations have ignored the fact that the Council has legal power to monitor and conduct inspections of potential archaeological sites. The ICP said those duties were transferred to another entity.

“Currently, we see that the primary interest of the ICP is to address the granting of permits in collaboration with the Permit Management Office [OGPe by its Spanish acronym],” Hernández Llanes said. “Until 2009, the Council had those duties and powers related to the granting of permits, which the ICP now does with its archaeology experts.”

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Torres Martínez argued that the ICP “has forgotten that the legislative amendments approved in 2009 do not eliminate the Council’s duties and prerogatives concerning resources of terrestrial archaeological interest in Puerto Rico.”

“The Council, according to the law that creates it, must safeguard and protect the Puerto Rican terrestrial archaeological patrimony; take an inventory and maintain a permanent record of all materials, structures and terrestrial archaeological sites found; promote archaeological, historical and cultural research; and promote the dissemination and teaching of archaeological research topics … through the media, among others,” said Torres Martínez, a professor at the Center for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

The two archaeologists, each with more than 20 years of experience as experts on the subject, highlighted the need for Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and the executive director of the ICP to prioritize obtaining funds to guarantee the operation of the Council.

“In the past, the Council had a secretary, an administrative assistant, different directors, even a driver and a fleet to get to any place where our expertise as archaeologists was needed,” Hernández Llanes recalled.

Also during the public hearing chaired by Rep. Deborah Soto Arroyo, ICP Executive Director Carlos Ruiz Cortés, Deputy Director Freddy Vélez García and the ICP legal team gave assurances that the agency complies with the law.

Ruiz Cortés highlighted that through Article 19.6 of Law 161-2009, the powers, duties and obligations of the Council were transferred to the OGPe, which is an arm of the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, and the ICP.

“Any allegation that there is currently no forum that evaluates and authorizes permit applications that involve excavations and that could affect our archaeological historical heritage is unfounded,” Ruiz Cortés said.

Requests for construction works that require excavations are processed by the OGPe and by the ICP through its Archaeology and Ethnohistory Program.

In response to questions from Puerto Rican Independence Party Rep. Denis Márquez Lebrón about what the ICP was planning to do to strengthen the functions of the Council, Ruiz Cortés replied that “this matter has been evaluated for more than a year.”

The legislator told the ICP officials that “the country needs to strengthen its instruments with greater expertise in the protection of our heritage and history.”

An archaeologist asserted that the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture “has forgotten that the legislative amendments approved in 2009 do not eliminate the Council’s duties and prerogatives concerning resources of terrestrial archaeological interest in Puerto Rico.”

Doctors: Underreported conditions could be adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccinations

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

The House Committee on Social Welfare for People with Disabilities and Older Adults continued hearings Wednesday on House Resolution 477, which seeks an investigation on the executive branch’s handling of all aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, hearing expert testimony that adverse effects of vaccinations are being under-reported.

“This is the third public hearing held in order to know everything that has to do with COVID-19, since it began in 2020,” Committee Chairwoman Lisie Burgos Muñiz said. “In addition, to investigate the adverse effects that we have already seen here in Puerto Rico from the injections.”

The legislator stressed that she had filed 18 measures against the imposition of the vaccinations in Puerto Rico, all of which were defeated.

“Measures have been put in place for those who attended to the situation and protected the population, but these have been defeated in the Committee; that is, they have not moved past first base,” Burgos Muñiz added. “These [measures] were [filed] according to what the people asked us to do.”

The public hearing was attended by Dr. Ruth Carro, Dr. Julia Vázquez Martirena and Dr. Héctor Cintrón Principe, all of whom expressed opposition to vaccination against COVID-19.

Dr. Carro highlighted how patients in her practice are presenting, each more frequently, post-vaccination health situations.

“My patients report that they are not the same since they were vaccinated against COVID-19, and when they

see their doctor he or she rules out that it is linked to [the vaccination],” Carro said. “Reports are not being made as it was necessary to do when confronted with a new product under emergency authorization.”

“It was not up to any health care provider to determine if a post-vaccination condition was triggered by the vaccine or not, but rather to report it,” she added.

Carro urged that the Department of Health be forced to discuss the lack of adverse event reporting and reporting to health care providers, for the well being of the population and children. She also urged that the central government present mortality data and morbidity by age, including abortions, compared to other years.

Cintrón Príncipe, a gynecologist, likewise stressed that in his medical office he has found several adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccine such as excessive menstrual bleeding, muscle and joint pain, and difficulty walking, among others.

“Under the principle of first do no harm, there are overarching reasons to request that mandatory inoculation be stopped and that more investigation be done about these adverse effects, even more so in children,” he said.

PRIDCO is focus of proposed investigation

By THE STAR STAFF

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives José “Conny” Varela Fernández, along with Speaker Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez and Rep. Jessie Cortés Ramos, introduced House Resolution 913 on Wednesday to investigate the economic situation of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co. (PRIDCO), as well as the processes for privatizing its administration and the claims presented by its creditors, among other topics.

Through Law 141-2018, most of the economic development functions previously assigned to PRIDCO were reassigned to the Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC by its Spanish acronym).

Since then, PRIDCO’s role has been limited exclusively to managing the company’s buildings and land, which it does with employees assigned to DDEC.

Last November, PRIDCO began a process of requesting proposals for the privatization of property management, which is in process.

Meanwhile, on Jan. 19, Goldentree Asset Management, the creditor of the vast majority of PRIDCO’s debt, sued PRIDCO

along with the Financial Oversight and Management Board and the Fiscal Agency Financial Advisory Authority, requesting that PRIDCO be ordered to pay the outstanding amounts and a trustee be appointed to take charge of the public corporation’s properties, among other remedies.

“Both the possible privatization of the administration of PRIDCO’s assets and the lawsuit initiated by Goldentree are issues that can have serious consequences as to the future of the assets that the people of Puerto Rico have built and developed through decades of effort,” Caguas District Rep. Varela said.

“On privatization, it is necessary to ask whether it is convenient to follow PRIDCO’s proposal or instead consider a restructuring of all those agencies responsible for managing real estate owned by the people of Puerto Rico,” he said. “In Goldentree’s lawsuit, very serious questions are raised about the way in which the company has been managed, and about the validity of the laws that established the moratorium on the payment of bondholders, and the transfer of PREPA employees who did not go to [private electrical grid operator] LUMA [Energy]. Therefore, it is necessary and urgent that the Chamber evaluate these processes.”

Rep. Lisie Burgos Muñiz

Rep. José “Conny” Varela Fernández

New Fortress Energy subsidiary Genera PR to operate power plant fleet

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A) Executive Director Fermín Fontanés Gómez announced Wednesday that a subsidiary of New Fortress Energy will operate and maintain the legacy power plants of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA).

The contract went to a New Fortress Energy (NFE) subsidiary called Genera PR, which will work with Pic Group Inc. in charge of training the workforce. The contract already has the approval of the PREPA governing board, the Financial Oversight and Management Board and the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB).

As part of the 10-year contract, Genera PR will receive $15 million during the 100-day transition period. After the transition period ends, Genera PR will receive a fixed payment of $20 million for the first five years of the contract, an amount that is slated to decrease thereafter. The subsidiary will also receive up to $100 million under a structure of penalties and incentives for performance.

Headquartered in San Juan, Genera PR is a power and energy service provider founded by NFE to support Puerto Rico’s transition to clean, affordable and reliable energy.

Under the public-private partnership (PPP) agreement, Genera will operate, maintain, decommission and modernize the PREPA-owned thermal power generation system of some 3,600 megawatts (MW) after a mobilization period. In this role, Genera will manage the operating budget, fuel contracts and federal funds for the generation fleet on behalf of PREPA.

“All Puerto Ricans deserve access to clean, reliable and lowcost power,” said Wes Edens, the chairman and CEO of NFE, in a statement. “As large investments are made to modernize Puerto Rico’s grid and transition to renewable energy, this partnership will provide meaningful cost savings for consumers

and businesses, improve reliability and reduce the environmental impact of an aging thermal generation system. We believe Puerto Rico’s transformation to renewables supported by low-carbon fuel will be a model for markets around the world and a significant step forward in our company’s mission.”

Genera was selected by the P3A after a competitive process that began in May 2020 in compliance with the requirement established by Act 120-2018 (Puerto Rico Electrical System Transformation Act). The selection was made based on extensive grading criteria, which included operational experience, technical expertise, approach and methodology, and estimated cost savings. The contract has received all the necessary regulatory approvals from the government of Puerto Rico, the Financial Oversight and Management Board, and the PREB.

“The public-private partnership that we announce today between the Electric Power Authority as owner of generation assets, Genera PR as the new operator, and the public administration as administrator of the contract, is another big step toward the energy transformation that our people need and deserve,” Pierluisi said. “Our goals with this contract are to continue speeding up the transformation of our electrical system, facilitate the transition to generation through renewable energy in compliance with the Integrated Resource Plan approved by the Energy Bureau, provide effective long-term

planning of our energy needs, and maximize the operation of the plants to guarantee the stability of our electrical system while we convert it into a renewed, modern and efficient one that promotes the economic development of Puerto Rico.”

By virtue of the PPP agreement, Genera PR’s responsibilities are: the operation and daily maintenance of generation plants; the administration of facility contracts, including fuel contracts; the supply, storage and maintenance of inventory; the maintenance, repair and replacement of equipment; and the management of blackouts, among others.

Fontanés said at a news conference that the contract will not have a transition period at the end of the 10-year period as Genera PR will be in charge of decommissioning all of the power plants, most of which are old. The plants that would be taken over by the private operator include Palo Seco, Aguirre, Costa Sur, Mayagüez, Cambalache, San Juan, Yabucoa, Daguao, Jobos and Vega Baja.

Fontanés said that during the first 30 days of the contract, Genera PR is required to make job offers to PREPA workers, who will have two years of job permanency with the private operator.

He said the selection of Genera PR is the result of a bidding process that began in 2020 seeking to renew the island’s energy infrastructure, especially after the ravages of hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017. The P3A received 15 bids, a number that was shortlisted to eight.

Edens, who was present at the press conference, said Genera PR will begin operating by mid-year.

Fontanés said the private operator must give priority to local contractors for work at PREPA to avoid the hiring of its own subsidiaries for work.

Although NFE has a contract to supply fuel, government officials did not see a conflict of interest. They also said the contract will have no impact on PREPA’s bankruptcy process to restructure close to $10 billion in debt.

Pay hikes under Classification & Compensation Plan to take effect Feb. 28

By THE STAR STAFF

The salary increases associated with the central government’s Classification and Compensation Plan will go into effect on Feb. 28, the director of the Office of Administration and Transformation of Human Resources (OATRH by its Spanish initials), Zahira Maldonado, said Wednesday at a public hearing in the House of Representatives.

The official said a total of 22,000 career employees will be reclassified, of which 52% will receive a salary adjustment retroactive to Jan. 1. This percentage represents some 12,000 public workers, Maldonado noted.

She spoke at a House Labor Affairs Committee hearing along with the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Juan Carlos Blanco, after being summoned by Committee Chairman Domingo Torres García to report on the delays in the implementation of the salary adjustments.

“We are working with the career service staff. We understand that we must give it priority,” Maldonado said. “It is the personnel that enter the public service based on the

principle of merit through their competencies, requesting a position and being evaluated, and there is a greater restriction when recruiting in terms of salary allocation.”

Both Maldonado and Blanco assured that they do not foresee any inconvenience that would delay the implementation of the salary increases again. Although the Classification and Compensation Plan went into effect on Jan. 1, the salary adjustments have not been implemented due to problems with the management of administrative work data and the fragmentation of information in government agencies.

The current certified fiscal plan contemplates $99 million from the General Fund for salary adjustments and $33 million for new appointments of employees, according to the OMB. In addition, in the certified budget for the current fiscal year there is an item of $59 million for the implementation of the Public Service Reform, which is advanced simultaneously with the Classification Plan.

“Here, what was done was a job to ensure that every Puerto Rican government employee has a competitive salary based on the existing labor market,” Blanco said. “Yes, we can say that, once we complete this exercise, 100 percent

of the employees who go through this process will have a competitive salary.”

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi

Sierra Club condemns energy generation PPP contract

By THE STAR STAFF

The Sierra Club of Puerto Rico (SCPR) charged Wednesday that the energy privatization contract recently approved by the government is unnecessary and that instead it is necessary to adopt energy practices that confront the climate crisis.

The SCPR demanded that the Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A) disclose details related to the processes for the privatization of the island’s electric power generation

operations.

Maritza Maymí, the SCPR’s legislative coordinator, charged that “the recently announced contract will already be leaving the system as of this year.”

“In fact, PREPA has plants that should have already left the system,” she said.

At the same time, Maymí questioned how it was possible for the P3A, the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, the PREPA governing board and the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau to repeat “the same practices of negotiation in dark rooms as happened with the LUMA contract.” She emphasized that “when negotiating with the country’s assets, the people have the right to know what the deal is. … People have the right to participate in the processes and that requires the government and public agencies to provide truthful and timely information.”

The SCPR official stressed that “at this moment we still do not know for sure what is the expertise, the trajectory and the terms under which a contract will be given for the operation of generating plants that are already supposed to be in the process of withdrawal from the energy system.”

SCPR Base Organizer Adriana González added that “[o] nce the governor made the announcement that the P3A Board was preparing to approve -- unanimously -- the contract for the privatization of energy generation, we sent a communication to Mr. Fermín Fontanés, director of the P3A, requesting

information on the matter.”

The P3A refused to disclose the information to the SCPR on the grounds that it was “confidential.”

Francisco Vargas, a member of the SCPR executive board, said “the determination of the P3A not to disclose the documents related to the privatization of the generation of our electricity system directly violates the constitutional right of access to public information that every citizen in this country has.”

The attorney said the people have the right to know the details of the proposed agreement and the identity of who will be managing Puerto Rico’s generation plants for the next decade. He also pointed out that “the P3A has been characterized by negotiating leonine contracts with entities of dubious reputation and expertise, in an outrageous way and behind the backs of the people.”

González warned that “it is time for the people who lead the country to adopt solutions that are tempered to our climate reality.”

She pointed out that a proposal by the sustainable energy advocacy organization I Want the Sun (Quiero Sol) “provides a clear path to create a distributed electricity grid based on solar energy.”

“Puerto Rico can reach 75% renewable energy in 15 years and reduce fuel costs to $430 million,” she said. Currently the island has fuel costs that exceed $1.4 billion.

González Colón bills to improve federal disaster assistance access, transparency clear US House

By THE STAR STAFF

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed two bipartisan bills sponsored by Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón to promote transparency and improve the disaster recovery process following natural disasters.

The objectives are to be achieved by creating an integrated online portal that will track federal agencies’ aid, and by consolidating information provided by individuals and families when applying for federal assistance.

“The Federal Disaster Assistance Coordination Act [HR 255] and the Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act [HR 259] promote transparency and quicker access to disaster funding. My district, like many others, has faced multiple hardships during the last few years due to disasters. I saw firsthand and learned from local agencies and stakeholders the many challenges associated with tracking disaster aid and multiple technical requirements for projects and allocations, which delay the recovery process,” González Colón said in a statement. “Both bills will improve accountability and oversight to guarantee that funding is being used as intended. As the sponsor, I am proud of these two bipartisan initiatives and trust they will help improve the federal government’s response to disasters moving forward.”

“I urge my colleagues in the Senate to act and make them

the law of the land as part of our efforts to better prepare for disaster response,” she added Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Sam Graves (RMo.) said “I appreciate Congresswoman González Colón’s leadership on these important pieces of legislation, which will lead to more transparency and less red tape in disaster programs.”

“At a time where resources are strained, we need to do everything we can to make federal disaster programs work better for disaster victims,” he said.

HR 255 would establish a process to identify ways to streamline and consolidate the collection of certain disaster information to start the recovery process for individuals and families devastated by natural disasters.

Currently, there is no process in place for sharing those assessments among federal agencies. The bill would establish a federal task force led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in collaboration with the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, to identify ways to reduce duplication and modernize the federal damage assessment process.

HR 259 establishes a single online repository for reporting information about federal disaster assistance, specifically, a subpage for transparency of disaster assistance on the USASpending.gov website.

It would also require agencies that offered disaster assistance, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Small Business Administration, and others, to regularly submit updated information to the Office of Management and Budget and ensure that the best possible data is available in an easily accessible format.

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón

Maritza Maymí, legislative coordinator for the Sierra Club of Puerto Rico

McCarthy ejects Schiff and Swalwell from Intelligence Committee

from the intel committee for holding his boss at Mar-a-Lago accountable.”

“It’s just another body blow to the institution of Congress that he’s behaving this way, but it just shows how weak he is as a speaker,” he added.

Republicans have railed against Swalwell, who served as a manager in Trump’s second impeachment trial, citing an Axios report that reported that Swalwell was targeted by a suspected Chinese spy as part of an influence campaign in 2014, before he served on the intelligence panel. The report said that around 2015, federal investigators alerted Swalwell to their concerns and he “cut off all ties.”

“This is all about political vengeance,” Swalwell said of McCarthy’s action.

Because the intelligence panel is a “select” committee, the speaker has the authority to dictate who can serve, just as Pelosi was able to block Republicans appointed by McCarthy from the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. However, Schiff and Swalwell are not expected to lose their other committee assignments.

Removing members from other committees requires a vote on the House floor. Democrats held such a vote in February of 2021 to remove Greene from the Education and Budget Committees, after social medial posts surfaced from before she was elected in which she endorsed the executions of Democrats and spread bigoted conspiracy theories. They held another vote months later to eject Gosar from his committees after he posted an animated video that depicted him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

By CATIE EDMONDSON and KAROUN DEMIRJIAN

Speaker Kevin McCarthy earlier this week unilaterally exiled Reps. Adam B. Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee, making good on a long-standing threat to expel the California Democrats in his first major act of partisan retribution since taking the majority.

The move was a much-anticipated tit-for-tat after Democrats, then in the majority, voted in 2021 to eject two Republicans, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona, from congressional committees for internet posts that advocated violence against their political enemies. It was also payback for the decision by Nancy Pelosi, then the House speaker, to bar Republicans who had helped former President Donald Trump spread the election lies that fueled the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol from sitting on the special committee investigating the riot.

Now that he is in control, McCarthy sought to punish Schiff and Swalwell, two favorite foils of Republicans who had played key roles in the two impeachments of Trump, though he denied that his decision was retaliatory. Instead, he argued that both men had displayed behavior unbecoming of the committee tasked with overseeing the nation’s intelligence services.

In a letter outlining his decision to Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, McCarthy decried what he des-

cribed as “the misuse” of the intelligence panel during the past four years, arguing that it had “severely undermined its primary national security and oversight missions — ultimately leaving our nation less safe.” He called the dismissals of Schiff and Swalwell necessary “to maintain a standard worthy of this committee’s responsibilities.”

McCarthy has said that Schiff “openly lied to the American people” when he chaired the intelligence panel during Trump’s presidency. In September 2019, Schiff was excoriated by Republicans for dramatically paraphrasing the contents of a telephone call in which Trump had pressured President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son, and for implying, falsely, that his committee had had no contact with a whistleblower raising concerns about their conversation.

Earlier, in March 2019, Republicans on the committee had demanded that Schiff step aside for having said that he had seen “more than circumstantial evidence” of collusion between Trump and the Russians in 2017. That claim had been called into question by the findings of Robert Mueller, the special counsel who had looked into the matter, which Attorney General William Barr had summarized in a letter to certain members of Congress. Republicans accused Schiff of having compromised the integrity of the panel by knowingly promoting false information.

Speaking to reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday night, Schiff countered that McCarthy was “trying to remove me

In both instances, some Republicans joined Democrats in voting to remove their colleagues from congressional panels.

McCarthy returned both Greene and Gosar to committees this month, and promoted Greene to serve on two high-profile panels, Oversight and Homeland Security. Gosar also won a seat on Oversight.

McCarthy has also threatened to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from congressional committees for criticism of Israel that Republicans and some Democrats have condemned as anti-Semitic. Omar apologized in 2019 for saying that support for Israel in Washington was “all about the Benjamins baby,” a comment that members of both parties denounced as a reference to an antisemitic trope. She was criticized again in 2021 when she made statements that appeared to compare human rights abuses by Israel with acts committed by Hamas and the Taliban, and later said she had not meant to equate them.

It was not clear whether McCarthy, who holds a razor-thin majority, had the votes to oust Omar. At least two Republicans have publicly expressed qualms about doing so.

And Omar on Tuesday night told reporters at the Capitol that some Republicans had told her privately they believed such a move would be “uncalled for.”

“They are trying to do whatever it is that they can within their conference to make sure there is no vote to remove me from the Foreign Affairs Committee,” she added.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks to reporters outside his office on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023.

Classified documents found at Pence’s home in Indiana

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

Aides to former Vice President Mike Pence found a small number of documents with classified markings at his home in Indiana during a search last week, according

Gobierno de Puerto Rico

DEPARTAMENTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AMBIENTALES

AVISO AMBIENTAL

SOBRE INTENCIÓN DE OTORGAR UN PERMISO PARA OPERAR UNA INSTALACIÓN DE DESPERDICIOS SÓLIDOS NO PELIGROSOS

El Sr. Roberto González, representante autorizado según la solicitud de permiso radicada de la instalación RG Recycling Co. localizada en la PR 111 km. 13.4 Bo. Hato Arriba San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, ha sometido en el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales una solicitud de renovación de permiso para operar una instalación para el procesamiento de desperdicios sólidos no peligrosos. Luego de realizada la evaluación de los documentos sometidos, este Departamento tiene la intención de emitir el permiso.

El Reglamento para el Manejo de los Desperdicios Sólidos No Peligrosos, Reglamento Núm. 5717 de 14 de noviembre de 1997, establece en el Capítulo IX el requisito de solicitar un permiso como condición previa a la operación de una instalación de desperdicios sólidos no peligrosos, el cual es aplicable a dueños u operadores. La Regla 649 del mencionado capítulo requiere la publicación de este Aviso y regula la celebración de Vistas Públicas, las cuales podrían ser efectuadas de considerarse necesarias por esta Junta, o por peticiones durante el período comprendido para comentarios.

Copia de la solicitud de permiso, al igual que el Borrador de Permiso y otros documentos relevantes al caso, están a la disposición del público para ser examinados en la Oficina Regional de Arecibo, localizada en la Avenida San Patricio Marginal PR- 2, Km. 80.6, Arecibo, PR; y en el Areá Control Contaminación de Terrenos de la Oficina Central, ubicada en el Edificio de Agencias Ambientales, PR-8838, Sector El Cinco, Río Piedras, PR 00928 de 8:00 A.M. a 4:30 P.M., de lunes a viernes.

Toda parte interesada en someter comentarios con respecto al borrador de permiso, deberá hacerlo por escrito dentro de 30 días a partir de la fecha de publicación de este Aviso. Deberá dirigir su comunicación al Sr. Moisés Soto, Director de la Oficina Regional de Arecibo, al correo electrónico, mosoto@ drna.pr.gov

Este anuncio se publica conforme a lo requerido por la Ley sobre Política Pública Ambiental, Ley 416 del 22 de septiembre de 2004, según enmendada. El costo del Aviso Ambiental es

to an adviser to Pence.

The documents were “inadvertently boxed and transported” to Pence’s home at the end of President Donald Trump’s administration, Greg Jacob, Pence’s representative for dealing with records related to the presidency, wrote in a letter to the National Archives.

The discovery of the classified documents in Pence’s home was reported earlier by CNN.

The letter, dated Jan. 18, said that the former vice president was unaware of the existence of the documents and reiterated that he took seriously the handling of classified materials and wanted to help.

Jacob wrote that Pence relied on an outside lawyer after classified documents were found in recent days at the residence and former private office of President Joe Biden. A person familiar with the search identified that lawyer as Matthew E. Morgan, who has a long history with the Pences and who worked as a lawyer on the 2020 reelection campaign. Jacob also said the lawyer could not specify anything more about the documents because the lawyer had stopped looking once it was clear the documents had classified markings.

“Counsel identified a small number of documents that could potentially contain sensitive or classified information interspersed throughout the records,” Jacob wrote of the search, which he said was conducted Jan. 16. A person familiar with the matter said the lawyer who conducted the search previously worked with Pence in the Trump administration and had a security clearance while there.

“Vice President Pence immediately secured those documents in a locked safe pending further direction on proper handling from the National Archives,” Jacob wrote.

In a second letter dated four days later, Jacob wrote that despite having a conversation with archives officials on Jan. 19 about procedures for obtaining records from former presidents and vice presidents, the Justice Department that evening “bypassed the standard procedures and requested direct possession” of the documents.

Pence was in Washington attending the March for Life anti-abortion event, Jacob wrote, but he still granted permission to turn over the documents. Jacob also wrote that there were two boxes in which the records with classified markings had been found, as well as two additional boxes with copies of administration papers.

He said he would personally bring those boxes to the National Archives on Jan. 23. An archives spokesperson declined a request for comment.

Pence’s transition out of office was notoriously bumpy, after Trump spent weeks pressuring him to effectively overturn the results of the 2020 election so that Trump could stay in power.

Former Vice President Mike Pence at a conference in New York on Nov. 30, 2022. Aides to former Pence found a small number of documents with classified markings at his home in Indiana during a search last week, according to an adviser to Pence.

impending criminal investigation that might warrant referral to a special counsel.

Trump has been under federal investigation for nearly a year for how hundreds of documents with classified markings, as well as hundreds of pages of presidential records, wound up at his private club and residence, Mar-a-Lago.

Trump resisted the urging of aides to give boxes of documents with unknown contents to the National Archives. When he eventually turned over 15 boxes, archives officials found hundreds of pages with classified markings. Trump later faced a grand jury subpoena to turn over any remaining documents, and one of his lawyers wrote a statement saying everything had been turned over. When investigators found evidence that was not the case, the FBI searched his club in August.

Biden, by contrast, has cooperated since the discovery of documents at his nonprofit offices and then his home. However, he and the White House have faced questions about the timeline of the discoveries and the level of transparency with the public about when documents were found at Biden’s home.

On Friday, the FBI searched Biden’s home for about 13 hours and found six additional items that were taken, his lawyer said. The president granted access to his Delaware house.

Jacob, who was Pence’s general counsel while he was vice president, stressed cooperation in the letter to the National Archives.

Still, Pence and his aides had previously said they were confident that the vice president had not retained any classified documents after he left office.

Anaís Rodríguez Vega Secretaria

Still, the disclosure brings more questions about how classified material is handled at the top levels of government at a moment when Biden and Trump are both subjects of special counsel investigations on the matter.

At a news conference Tuesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland had no comment when asked about the retrieval of the documents from Pence’s house. He declined to say whether the Justice Department’s involvement in the matter signaled an

One of the people familiar with the matter said that the documents in question were largely previously held at the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory. Officials began briefing relevant congressional committee officials on Tuesday, the person said.

Pence is considering a presidential campaign for 2024, in a primary in which Trump is so far the only declared candidate. Biden has not yet said whether he will run for reelection, but all signs point to a likely candidacy for a second term.

Amid a plague of shootings, bystanders become heroes

By JULIE BOSMAN, MITCH SMITH, ELIZA FAWCETT and SERGE F. KOVALESKI

Jason Seaman, a seventh grade science teacher in Noblesville, Indiana, was helping a student with a test when a classmate returned from the bathroom, drew a handgun from his pocket and began firing.

Seaman, now 34, threw a mini basketball at the student and then charged, swiftly disarming him.

“There was no choice — it was either do something, or die,” he said in an interview Tuesday, recalling the shooting in May 2018 that left him with gunshot wounds in the abdomen, a forearm and a hand. “So when you’re in that literal life-or-death situation, I’m dang sure I’m going to fight.”

“Run, Hide, Fight” became the federal guidance on how to react to an active shooting after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, with Americans encouraged to consider confronting a gunman if they cannot safely flee or stay out of sight. In the years since, it has been drilled into Americans’ heads in schools, in workplaces and in private training sessions, a bleak mantra for a nation with hundreds of millions of guns and where mass shootings have become an ever-escalating plague.

Advocates for stronger gun laws contend that no American should have to put their body on the line in the face of a gunman armed with military-style weapons at a dance hall, a religious service, a mall, a high school.

But in high-profile massacres in recent months, the last resort to fight has been taken up by bystanders, who have attacked gunmen and stopped them before they could continue.

In Colorado Springs, Colorado, in November, two bystanders, including an Army veteran, physically subdued an assailant who had entered a nightclub and killed five people in a matter of seconds. In suburban Indianapolis last summer, an armed bystander fatally shot a gunman who had already killed three people in a mall food court. And in Los Angeles County, California, last weekend, authorities said, an employee of a dance hall wrestled an assault pistol

out of the hands of a gunman who had already shot 20 people at another venue and seemed bent on more mayhem.

“This could have been much worse,” said Sheriff Robert Luna of Los Angeles County.

Experts say that bystander intervention in active shootings ends the threat in a significant minority of cases, and the forces that drive people to intervene are varied. But in many situations, bystanders are unable to run or hide, trapped in classrooms or churches with attackers who are armed with high-powered weapons.

Gun massacres at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, are all examples of shootings where police officers or school security personnel were criticized as being slow to help civilians once a shooting was underway. Some Americans confronted by an armed assailant in more recent incidents have understood instantly: They are on their own.

“I feel like people are starting to come to the realization that the only one who’s going to protect you is you,” said Jack Wilson, a county commissioner in Hood County, Texas, who teaches

concealed-carry classes. “People have to be willing to intervene to stop these kinds of issues.”

He was one of those bystanders: In 2019, Wilson was attending Sunday services at his church in White Settlement, Texas, when a gunman opened fire, killing two people. Wilson pulled out his own gun and fired, killing the assailant with a single shot.

“The only way law enforcement is going assist you is if they’re in your driveway,” he said. “That’s not a slam against law enforcement. They can’t be everywhere.”

Deputizing the public as a tool of last resort has not caused the pace of mass shootings to slow down. Already this year, at least 69 people have died in at least 39 separate shootings in which four or more people were injured or killed, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

“If anyone’s saying, ‘I’m hearing more about active shooters being tackled or stopped by civilians,’ it may be true that is occurring more often,” said Adam Lankford, a professor of criminology at the University of Alabama. “But it could be a function of there being more total attacks.”

Sometimes, bystander interventions

have been met with tragic consequences. In 2019, Riley Howell, a student at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, was shot while trying to stop a gunman, though he managed to charge the assailant and pin him down. Howell, a 21-year-old former high school soccer goalie, died in the attack.

Advocates for stricter gun laws said that outsize attention on bystander interventions in mass shootings could distract from the deeper issue of the country’s unrelenting cycle of gun violence.

“Instead of focusing on why these tragedies keep happening, we focus on the heroic acts of the bystander,” said Shannon Watts, the founder of the guncontrol organization Moms Demand Action. “We should always call a hero a hero and thank them for selflessly putting their life on the line. But it makes me so angry that we never stop to think about the fact that we shouldn’t be asking average civilians to be heroes. I don’t want my husband or my children to have to be heroes.”

Watts pushed back against responses to mass shootings that call for more people to be armed with more weapons, noting that America has a gun homicide rate that is 26 times that of its peer nations.

“There are 400 million guns in this country,” she said. “If guns made us safer, we’d be the safest nation in the world.”

During unfolding attacks, colleges and police departments now sometimes post on social media urging people to “Run, Hide, Fight,” and the phrase has become a staple of active shooter training sessions offered at schools, businesses and religious venues. The phrase, which the federal government adopted from the city of Houston, has caught on.

Katherine Schweit, a former FBI official who helped develop the federal guidelines, said training with that philosophy allowed people to think through how they might want to respond long before they encountered a gunman.

“No one should ever be told you must fight — you can’t ask that of anybody,” Schweit said. “But you can talk to them about how people have survived, and not in small numbers. A lot of people have survived when individuals have taken it upon themselves to intervene.”

A memorial on the University of North Carolina at Charlotte campus, the day after a gunman opened fire on students, May 1, 2019.

As tax season starts, a beleaguered IRS looks to bolster customer service

By ALAN RAPPEPORT

The Biden administration is aiming to significantly improve customer service at the IRS as the 2023 tax season began this week, a pivotal moment for an agency at the center of a political fight over $80 billion in additional funding it was awarded by Congress last year.

As the filing season begins, the IRS is racing to prepare 5,000 recently hired agents to answer the telephones and respond to questions from taxpayers. It is also rolling out new automated systems and staffing up its brick-and-mortar taxpayer assistance centers.

The upgrades are intended to highlight the initial impact of the money it received through last year’s Inflation Reduction Act legislation and allay fears fanned by Republicans that the funds will be used to ramp up audits on middle-class Americans and small businesses.

“These improvements showcase how we are modernizing both technology and customer service to bring the IRS into the 21st century,” Wally Adeyemo, the deputy Treasury secretary, said during a briefing with reporters.

The money comes as the IRS has struggled to perform its most basic responsibilities. At the end of 2022, the agency still had a backlog of 9 million tax returns that needed to be processed. Only 13% of 173 million calls reached an IRS representative last year, and the average hold time was 29 minutes.

A report from the National Taxpayer Advocate this month expressed optimism that there was “light at the end of the tunnel” at the IRS but

said that the agency continued to need major upgrades after years of neglect and funding cuts.

Treasury officials say that the IRS is trying to reduce the time that callers spend on hold with the agency to 15 minutes and that they are hopeful that enhanced automated systems and more staffing will make it easier for people to reach a representative. The agency is also initiating plans to begin automatically scanning paper tax returns and rolling out a system to make it easier for taxpayers to respond to written notices from the IRS online rather than by mail.

At the request of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the IRS must produce a plan detailing how it intends to use the $80 billion by February. It is not clear if the Treasury Department will publicly release the report at that time.

Since taking control of the House of Representatives this month, Republicans have made scrutinizing the IRS a priority and passed legislation to rescind much of the $80 billion that it was just allocated. They have seized on plans to beef up the agency’s enforcement capacity to scare taxpayers about being audited or harassed.

President Joe Biden has pledged to veto any legislation that would roll back the IRS funding and accused Republicans of trying to make it easier for the rich to avoid paying taxes.

But as the fight over the IRS funding continues, the Biden administration is emphasizing the ways that it is aiming to make the agency more responsive and user-friendly.

“Our goal this tax season is to effectively and efficiently serve as many taxpayers as possible,” Adeyemo said.

Climate change may usher in a new era of trade wars

By ANA SWANSON

Efforts to mitigate climate change are prompting countries across the world to embrace dramatically different policies toward industry and trade, bringing governments into conflict.

These new clashes over climate policy are straining international alliances and the global trading system, hinting at a future in which policies aimed at staving off environmental catastrophe could also result in more frequent cross-border trade wars.

In recent months, the United States and Europe have proposed or introduced subsidies, tariffs and other policies aimed at speeding the green energy transition. Proponents of the measures say governments must move aggressively to expand sources of cleaner energy and penalize the biggest emitters of planetwarming gases if they hope to avert a global climate disaster.

But critics say these policies often put foreign countries and companies at a disadvantage, as governments subsidize their own industries or charge new tariffs on foreign products. The policies depart from a decadeslong status quo in trade, in which the United States and Europe often joined forces through the World Trade Organization to try to knock down trade barriers and encourage countries to treat one another’s products more equally to boost global commerce.

Now, new policies are pitting close allies against one another and widening fractures in an already fragile system of global trade governance, as countries try to contend with the existential challenge of climate change.

“The climate crisis requires economic transformation at a scale and speed humanity has never attempted in our 5,000 years of written history,” said Todd N. Tucker, the director of industrial policy and trade at the Roosevelt Institute, who is an advocate for some of the measures. “Unsurprisingly, a task of this magnitude will require a new policy tool kit.”

The current system of global trade funnels tens of millions of shipping containers stuffed with couches, clothing and car parts from foreign factories to the United States each year, often at astonishingly low prices. But the prices that consumers pay for these goods do not take into account the environmental harm generated by the far-off factories that make them, or by the container ships and cargo planes that carry them across the ocean.

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American and European officials argue that more needs to be done to discourage trade in products made with more pollution or carbon emissions. And U.S. officials believe they must lessen a dangerous dependence on China in particular for the materials needed to power the green energy transition, such as solar panels and electric vehicle batteries.

The Biden administration is putting in place generous subsidies to encourage the production of clean energy technology in the United States, such as tax credits for consumers who buy American-made clean cars and companies building new plants

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for solar and wind power equipment. Both the United States and Europe are introducing taxes and tariffs aimed at encouraging less environmentally harmful ways of producing goods.

Biden administration officials have expressed hopes that the climate transition could be a new opportunity for cooperation with allies. But so far, their initiatives seem to have mainly stirred controversy when the United States is already under attack for its response to recent trade rulings.

The administration has publicly flouted several decisions of World Trade Organization panels that ruled against the United States in trade disputes involving national security issues. In two separate announcements in December, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said it would not change its policies to abide by WTO decisions.

But the biggest source of contention has been new tax credits for clean energy equipment and vehicles made in North America that were part of a sweeping climate and health policy bill that President Joe Biden signed into law last year. European officials have called the measure a “job killer” and expressed fears they will lose out to the United States on new investments in batteries, green hydrogen, steel and other industries.

In response, European Union officials began outlining their own plan this month to subsidize green energy industries — a move that critics fear will plunge the world into a costly and inefficient “subsidy war.”

The United States and European Union have been searching for changes that could be made to mollify both sides before the U.S. taxcredit rules are settled in March. But the Biden administration appears to have only limited ability to change some of the law’s provisions. Members of Congress say they intentionally worded the law to benefit American manufacturing.

European officials have suggested that they could bring a trade case at the World Trade Organization that might be a prelude to imposing tariffs on American products in retaliation.

Valdis Dombrovskis, the European commissioner for trade, said the EU was committed to finding solutions but that negotiations needed to make progress or the EU would face “even stronger calls” to respond.

“We need to follow the same rules of the game,” he said.

Anne Krueger, a former official at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, said the potential pain of U.S. subsidies on Japan, South Korea and allies in Europe was “enormous.”

“When you discriminate in favor of Ameri-

can companies and against the rest of the world, you’re hurting yourself and hurting others at the same time,” said Krueger, now a senior fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Other recent climate policies have also spurred controversy. In mid-December, the EU took a major step toward a new climate-focused trade policy as it reached a preliminary agreement to impose a new carbon tariff on certain imports. The so-called carbon border adjustment mechanism would apply to products from all countries that failed to take strict actions to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.

The move is aimed at ensuring that European companies that must follow strict environmental regulations are not put at a disadvantage to competitors in countries where laxer environmental rules allow companies to produce and sell goods more cheaply. While European officials argue that their policy complies with global trade rules in a way that U.S. clean energy subsidies do not, it has still rankled countries like China and Turkey.

The Biden administration has also been trying to create an international group that would impose tariffs on steel and aluminum from countries with laxer environmental policies. In December, it sent the EU a brief initial proposal for such a trade arrangement.

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The idea still has a long way to go to be realized. But even as it would break new ground in addressing climate change, the approach may also end up aggravating allies like Canada, Mexico, Brazil and South Korea, which together provided more than half of America’s foreign steel last year.

Under the initial proposal, these countries would theoretically have to produce steel as cleanly as the United States and Europe, or face tariffs on their products.

Proponents of new climate-focused trade measures say discriminating against foreign products, and goods made with greater carbon emissions, is exactly what governments need to build up clean energy industries and address climate change.

“You really do need to rethink some of the fundamentals of the system,” said Ilana Solomon, an independent trade consultant who previously worked with the Sierra Club.

Container ships at the Port of Los Angeles, June 24, 2022.

Wall St falls as Microsoft forecast hits tech stocks, earnings disappoint

Stocks sold off Wednesday after the latest batch of corporate earnings intensified concerns that some of the largest U.S. companies are struggling as rates rise and recession fears grow.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 270 points, or 0.80%. The Nasdaq Composite shed 1.3%, and the S&P 500 dropped 1%.

Technology stocks took the bulk of the heat after Microsoft dropped on lackluster guidance. Alphabet, Nvidia and Tesla were last down more than 3% each. Boeing fell 3% following a top-and bottom-line miss.

“If the company is bearish on its own future, why should investors be bullish,” said Adam Sarhan CEO of 50 Park Investments. “That’s pretty much the message we’re getting from earnings season so far.”

Investors bought stocks heading into the period anticipating better-than-expected prints as companies reset and lowered expectations. But reports so far across sectors have mostly dashed those hopes as many companies share dismal outlooks, he said.

Investors are bracing for more high-profile corporate earnings this week as fears of a recession persist, with Tesla and IBM among the companies slated to post numbers after the bell. So far, more than 19% of S&P 500 companies have reported fourth-quarter earnings, with 68% of them posting stronger-than-expected results, according to FactSet.

This beat rate, however, lags historical trends, according to The Earnings Scout CEO Nick Raich. The average beat rate for fourth-quarter earnings is 79%, he pointed out in a Friday note. Wednesday’s moves followed a three-day winning streak for the blue-chip Dow. All three major averages are trading flat, or slightly lower, for the week.

J.P. Morgan reiterated its overweight rating on Texas Instrument shares

, saying that the company will maintain its standing as one of the market leaders in high-value analog and embedded products.

“Despite a difficult environment this year (slowing demand along with GM cost/depreciation headwinds) for Texas Instruments, the team continues to execute well and maintain strong earnings power even with weaker fundamentals,” said J.P. Morgan Executive Director Harlan Sur.

The semiconductor manufacturer released its fourth quarter earnings yesterday, which marked the first time the company posted a quarterly year-on-year revenue contraction since the post-pandemic recovery. Despite the losses, reported revenue and earnings of $2.13 per share beat analysts expectations of $1.98 per share, according to FactSet.

Texas Instruments share fell 2.25% today, following a small rally under 1% during yesterday’s aftermarket hours.

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Don’t expect Google to be out in the clear any time soon as it faces another antitrust suit, Evercore ISI said.

“We’ve long said that Google faces the greatest overall regulatory and litigation risk among the big tech platforms, and the filing of yet another plausible case against them underscores the cloud that will continue to hang over them,” wrote U.S. policy and politics strategist Tobin Marcus in a note to

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clients Tuesday.

The comments came as the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday filed its second antitrust suit against Google, accusing the tech giant of monopolizing the online advertisement market.

The Wall Street firm believes the regulatory pressure on Google may benefit adtech companies PubMatic , The Trade Desk , Magnite , and Microsoft subsidiary Xandr. Other than Google, Amazon and The Trade Desk, both at $10 billion in annual gross advertising spend, are the largest players in the demand-side platform space.

By PETER BAKER

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he would send M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine to help it defend against Russian invaders, a decision meant to unlock a wave of heavier aid by Western allies in preparation for an expected escalation of fighting in the spring.

Speaking at the White House after a morning of telephone calls to European allies, Biden said that the United States would send 31 Abrams tanks, the equivalent of a Ukrainian battalion, and that Germany would follow through by contributing its own Leopard 2 tanks and freeing other allies to send their own, the equivalent of two more battalions.

By EUAN WARD and JOSÉ BAUTISTA

Spanish police arrested a 74-year-old man on suspicion of sending letter bombs to the prime minister’s office, the U.S. and Ukrainian embassies and a weapons manufacturer, among other sites, Spain’s Interior Ministry said Wednesday.

U.S. officials had said previously that they suspected that Russian military intelligence officers had directed associates of a white supremacist militant group to carry out the campaign.

But the Spanish Interior Ministry, in its statement about the arrest, did not mention any possible link between the detained man and either far-right groups or Russia. According to the ministry, Spanish authorities believe that the arrested man, a Spanish citizen, made and sent all of the six letter bombs himself, although the “participation or influence of other people” was not ruled out.

The ministry did not name the man who was detained, providing only his initials, PGP. The statement described

“These tanks are further evidence of our enduring, unflagging commitment to Ukraine and our confidence in the skill of Ukrainian forces,” Biden said, flanked by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

But he emphasized that the buildup was not meant to expand the war into Russia.

“It is not an offensive threat to Russia,” he said. “There is no offensive threat to Russia. If Russian troops return to Russia, where they belong, this war would be over today.”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, who has pressed for the Leopards to counter Russia’s advantage in arms and troops, expressed gratitude for the U.S. decision. Writing on Twitter, he called it “an important step on the path to victory,” and said, “Today the free world is united as never before for a common goal — liberation of Ukraine,” with an icon of the country’s flag representing its name. “We’re moving forward.”

The Pentagon had long been reluctant to send the Abrams, in part because they are exceptionally complex machines that are challenging to operate and maintain. As it is, officials have said it could take a year or even longer for them to actually reach the battlefield in Ukraine.

But Austin came around to the move in order to spur Germany to send its own Leopard 2 tanks, which some military experts believe could be critical. Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced it had agreed to do so Wednesday, just hours before Biden spoke.

Just last week, Scholz had refused to send the Leopards, or to allow other European countries to send their own German-built Leopards. The Germans made clear they would only back down and send the Leopards if the United States sent its own Abrams tanks.

Biden spoke with Scholz on Wednesday morning to coordinate his announcement, and also called Prime Min-

ister Rishi Sunak of Britain, President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy.

“Germany has really stepped up,” Biden told reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. When a reporter asked if Germany forced him to change his mind on the Abrams, the president said: “Germany didn’t force me to change my mind. I wanted to make sure we are all together.”

Biden noted that Wednesday was Zelenskyy’s birthday. The president recalled that when they met in Washington in December, he vowed to the visiting Ukrainian leader that “we’re with you as long as it takes.”

“Ukrainians are fighting an age-old battle against aggression and domination,” Biden added. “It’s a battle Americans have fought proudly time and again. And it’s a battle that we’re going to make sure Ukrainians are well equipped to fight as well.”

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him as retired, “very active” on social networks and having “technical and computer knowledge.”

The letter bombs were all sent from the northeastern Spanish city of Burgos, the main city in the Burgos region, the statement said. The man was arrested in a town in that province, and authorities were conducting a search of the man’s home, where investigators believe he made the explosive devices, the ministry said.

It was not immediately clear from the statement whether the man had been formally charged.

Six letter bombs were sent in late November and early December to sites mostly in Madrid, including Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s official residence, which also serves as his office; the two embassies; and the Spanish Defense Ministry.

No one was killed in the attacks, which U.S. officials have described as terrorism. An employee of the Ukrainian Embassy was injured when one of the packages exploded.

One of the letter bombs was also sent to Instalaza,

a weapons manufacturer in Zaragoza, in northeastern Spain. Instalaza makes grenade launchers provided to Ukraine by the Spanish government.

Investigators had focused in recent weeks on the Russian Imperial Movement, a group that has members and associates across Europe, according to the U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivities around the inquiry.

The officials 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.

The apparent aim of the action, according to the U.S. officials, 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. Spain is a member of the alliance and has given hundreds of millions of dollars in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, as well as diplomatic support.

President Joe Biden arrives at a press briefing in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023.

A Leopard 2 tank at the German weapons manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann in Munich, on April 27, 2022.

‘I lost my heart.’ A Haitian mother’s fight for her child

mission, the armed groups have become agents of unrestrained terror.

Among their preferred weapons: rape.

Gangs use sexual violence to “humiliate, instill fear and inflict individual and collective trauma, with the ultimate purpose of expanding and consolidating their control,” the United Nations said in a report published in October.

“It’s another way of terrorizing the population,” said Sister Paesie, a nun who has opened several schools and shelters in some of the poorest areas of the capital.

In one of her facilities, the nun has taken in dozens of women and girls who were either raped or threatened by gang members. So many women have fled Cité Soleil that Paesie ran out of space to house them, so she started renting homes in safer neighborhoods for rape victims.

“When the boys in the gang tell them they love them, they run for their lives,” the nun said.

made her feel more helpless than almost anything else.

Mamaille told her story from a private room inside one of Paesie’s shelters. Her last name and her daughter’s name have been withheld for her protection. She fears that gang members would kill her if they knew she was talking about their crimes.

“If you say certain things out loud, you won’t be able to go back to Cité Soleil,” Mamaille said.

After leaving her daughter’s lifeless body at the clinic, Mamaille roamed the streets screaming in anguish.

Her wails must have caught the attention of gang members lurking nearby because, suddenly, Mamaille said, a group of men with guns appeared, dragged her behind a house and raped her, one by one. There were eight of them, she said, and they beat her up before leaving.

By JACK NICAS and FLAVIA MILHORANCE

It was the worst gang war Haiti had seen in years.

Criminals fighting over territory had blocked almost every escape route out of the nation’s largest slum, a sprawl of shacks and crumbling buildings in the capital. Armed men went door to door, setting fire to homes and killing residents they deemed loyal to their enemies.

But under the sheet metal roof of one house, a woman named Mamaille was hopeful.

She was raising her four children alone, after their father disappeared months earlier. Mamaille, 39, never found out whether he was killed or just fled the endless violence. Now she had found a way to get at least one of her children out of their hellish neighborhood.

It would be dangerous, of course, but doing nothing meant living with the fear of knowing that unspeakable horror could happen at any moment. It meant walking miles to beg in front of churches to feed her family, when just leaving the house could get her killed.

For Mamaille, poverty made escape all but impossible. During weeks of nearly constant shooting, the farthest she got was to a friend’s house less than 1 mile away, where she briefly took her children to hide out.

Then, she heard about a plan involv-

ing an intrepid nun who she thought could save her daughter.

Mamaille’s neighborhood, Cité Soleil, is dominated by two rival gangs with spheres of control so well defined that residents can draw a precise map of the streets that divide their territories.

Armed groups have been in Haiti for decades, sustained by long-standing ties with political and economic power brokers who are said to pay off the criminals in order, for example, to keep their goods moving through the country or to mobilize or suppress votes.

In the past, the gangs put more effort into gaining the trust of the people they ruled over, experts say, portraying themselves as protectors of the population.

But that seemingly changed in recent years as the government ceded more power than ever to armed groups that began annexing vast new territory — and carrying out kidnapping and extortion on a wide scale.

Their connections to politicians and economic elites still run deep, and the violence is often motivated by politics. Sometimes, the point is to destabilize the government; other times, it is to keep things calm by preventing people from pouring onto the streets to protest.

But more and more, gangs are fighting one another for territory across the capital — and punishing civilians they see as partial to their rivals. To assert their dominance and beat the population into sub -

One Saturday in July, Paesie, whose given name is Claire Philippe, got a call from the principal at one of the schools she runs in Cité Soleil.

Word had spread that the nun was prepared to take schoolchildren out of the slum, to a safer area, and so hundreds of students had gathered at a local chapel to wait for her. Mamaille’s 17-year-old daughter, dressed in her school uniform, was among them.

But Paesie never showed up — she could not even make it into the area because of the violence that was raging that day — and so Mamaille and her daughter headed home.

Just before they reached their house, automatic gunfire erupted, and Mamaille saw her daughter slump forward into the dirt.

“I saw that my daughter had been shot,” Mamaille said. “I felt the pain you feel when you give birth to a baby.”

By the time she got her daughter to a clinic, the girl was already dead, her blue skirt and yellow blouse soaked in blood.

“I lost my daughter. I lost my heart,” Mamaille said. “I lost my whole life.”

The next day, Paesie made it to the edge of Mamaille’s neighborhood and said she did eventually help evacuate hundreds of children, taking them to shelters across the city.

The nun has witnessed a lot of death and pain in Haiti. But what happened to Mamaille and her daughter, she said, has

“I would have preferred to die because when you die, it’s over, it’s finished,” Mamaille said, crying softly. “You never think about what happened to you.”

After the men left, Mamaille had no choice but to get up, walk home and somehow resume the work of surviving in Cité Soleil.

When she can get out of her neighborhood safely, Mamaille travels to one of Paesie’s schools nearby to pick up some rice and cooking oil, or makes her way to churches to beg for money. She collects rainwater and mixes in a chlorine tablet to purify it enough to drink.

“Sometimes, I spend three days without being able to feed my kids and myself,” she said.

Her daughter was the one who kept her spirits up during times like this, the one who brought pails of water so she could bathe after a long day. The girl wanted to someday work in the houses of the rich, cleaning and doing laundry to support her family.

“‘Mom, don’t get too tired for us,’” Mamaille recalled her daughter saying. “‘One day, I’ll help you get out of this misery. I’ll lift you up from the ground.’”

At night, when Mamaille stares up at the ceiling in her shack, she can see the sky through a rash of bullet holes that were left in her metal roof after a stretch of gang fighting last summer.

She imagines her daughter up there.

“I think her soul may be in heaven, and I start crying,” Mamaille said. “Sometimes, I fall asleep crying, without knowing it.”

A street scene in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on Nov. 7, 2022. The government has ceded more power than ever to armed groups.

2022 was a deadly year for journalists, especially in Latin America

By ERIC NAGOURNEY

Even with journalists from around the world covering the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II, it was Latin America that proved deadliest for reporters last year, with violence against them spiking to new levels, a monitoring group said earlier this week.

There were 67 killings reported for 2022 around the world — the most deaths in five years — and nearly half of those took place in the region, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in its annual report.

“Despite countries across Latin America being nominally at peace,” the nonprofit news group said, “the region surpassed the high number of journalists killed in the Ukraine war.”

Mexico alone accounted for 13 of the deaths, the most the group has ever recorded there in a single year. Seven journalists were reported killed in Haiti.

In Ukraine, where fighting has killed an estimated 40,000 civilians since Russia invaded last February, 15 people in the media business were reported dead.

But journalists there are covering combat, not daily life.

In Latin America, the journalists’ committee said, reporters face death if they cover topics like corruption, gang violence and the environment.

Katherine Corcoran, a longtime correspondent in Mexico, said Tuesday that it was most dangerous for local reporters, who lack the protections that come with working for international news organizations.

“It just keeps getting worse,” said Corcoran, author of a 2022 book that examined attacks on the press in Mexico.

Counterintuitive as it may seem, she said, the most dangerous time to be a journalist is often not when an autocratic government is in full control and officials may feel “there is really no need to kill a reporter,” but when democracy begins to take hold and the power centers shift.

The deaths of at least 41 of the journalists and media workers killed last year were directly tied to their work, the committee said. It noted in particular the shooting of Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian American television correspondent, and the deaths of four radio journalists in the Philippines who had been covering local politics and corruption.

In Mexico, journalists say that they are doing their jobs in fear, and that even being a prominent reporter no longer seems to afford protection.

In December, gunmen on a motorcycle fired on a well-known news anchor outside his home in the capital. Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, offered somewhat sympathetic words for the anchor, but

many journalists argued that his openly hostile posture toward the press had put them in danger.

Even those who try to avoid covering Mexico’s notoriously violent drug traffickers, focusing instead on, say, corruption, sometimes discover that their reporting paths have led them to the narco trade, Corcoran said.

In Haiti, where brutal gangs have free rein in some neighborhoods, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists said the problem was generalized lawlessness and the country’s overall humanitarian emergency.

In October, Roberson Alphonse, a longtime newspaper and radio reporter who has covered corruption and gang violence, was shot several times on his way to work in the capital, Port-au-Prince, by gunmen in a small pickup truck.

“That’s all right, that’s all right,” Alphonse said Tuesday.

He was back at work within two months.

Alphonse, 46, said the violence had made it harder than ever for Haitian journalists to do their jobs — and at a time when it is especially important for them to do so. The attacks, he said, are not just on free speech but also on the right of Haitians to be informed.

“We are journalists,” Alphonse said. “So we have to inform the public and the world about the scale of violence which occurs in our country.”

Pictures of slain journalists at a vigil in Mexico City in August. The country has been dangerous for reporters in the last year, particularly local reporters. The coffin for a French journalist who was killed in Ukraine in June.

Chris Hipkins, New Zealand’s new leader, hopes to put Ardern behind him

By NATASHA FROST

Days after Jacinda Ardern’s surprise resignation as New Zealand’s prime minister, her soon-to-be-successor, Chris Hipkins, was trying to put distance between himself and Ardern in a flurry of interviews.

“I supported Jacinda Ardern as our prime minister, I think she did an amazing job,” he told one television journalist on earlier this week. “But look: We’re different people, and we’ll have a different style.”

Hipkins, 44, who was sworn in as prime minister Wednesday, has nine months to persuade voters who cooled on Ardern’s leadership that he offers a fresh alternative before a general election in October.

The problem? Hipkins and Ardern may have different styles, but when it comes to policy, their similarities are far more pronounced.

“It is very much a government going on the same track as it was before, but with a different face,” said Bernard Hickey, a political commentator based in Auckland.

Christopher Luxon, who is almost certain to be Hipkins’ opponent in the Oct. 14 election, has made the same point. “There’s no change, it’s just more of the same — that’s because it is essentially the same team,” Luxon, the leader of the center-right National Party, said Sunday.

Hipkins was one of the architects of the Ardern government’s key policies, along with Ardern herself and her deputy, Grant Robertson, who will remain as finance minister under Hipkins. The three have been close for years; they were advisers to Helen Clark, the former Labour Party prime minister, and became members of Parliament at the same time, in 2008. Hickey described their shared political outlook: “Fiscal conservatives, broadly social liberals, very aware of the political center.”

In terms of style, Hipkins does differ from Ardern. He is scrappier and more combative, with sharper debating instincts.

He also lacks the megawatt charisma that made Ardern an international political star. Ardern has graced the pages of Vogue; Hipkins, by contrast, has the kind of aesthetic that New Zealanders call “daggy” (think wraparound sunglasses and a Diet Coke in hand).

He often refers to himself as “a boy from the Hutt,” short for the Hutt Valley, the unfashionable industrial area where he

grew up. The father of two children, who he has said will play no part in his political life — another contrast with Ardern, who brought her daughter to the United Nations — Hopkins presents himself as a likable everyman.

That attitude may resonate with some New Zealanders, especially outside urban centers, Hickey said.

“Chris Hipkins will be able to present himself as a different flavor, simply because

of that Hutt background,” he said. Even his occasional gaffes — during a COVID lockdown, he once famously said that New Zealanders wanted to “spread their legs,” when he meant “stretch” — may benefit him, Hickey added.

“There’s a self-deprecating ‘look at me, I’m a klutz’ thing about people in public life in New Zealand,” he said, “which is designed to present someone as just like everyone else, not better than their peers, and someone that can be trusted and worked with.”

Variously responsible for education, health, New Zealand’s COVID-19 response and policing, Hipkins has built a reputation as a Mr. Fix-It, a practical figure capable of hard work, said Grant Duncan, a lecturer at Massey University in Auckland.

“He gets stuck in, and he fixes problems,” he said. “I think New Zealand is pretty familiar with him by now.”

There has been speculation that Hipkins might edge away from Ardern policies and approaches that, to many voters on the right, have become symbols of left-wing government overreach — like “co-governance,” which refers to involving Indigenous New Zealanders in policy decisions. Already, commentators have noted Hipkins’ preference for calling the country New Zealand, as opposed to Aotearoa, the Maori

name favored by Ardern.

Echoing comments made by Ardern last year, Hipkins has promised to make pocketbook concerns his priority. “Our focus will be on the right now, on the bread-and-butter issues that people care about,” he said Sunday. “Some people, many people are hurting at the moment, and I want them to know that we are on their side.”

But problems like inflation, a housing crisis and significant child poverty are likely to be daunting. “There is no answer, because most of the inflation that we’re seeing in the country is because of what’s happening around the world,” said Shamubeel Eaqub, an economist based in Auckland. “There is no New Zealand response to global inflation.”

Some of Hipkins’ decisions under Ardern’s leadership may also haunt him, said Duncan, the Massey University lecturer.

As education minister, Hipkins oversaw a mostly unsuccessful merger of technical colleges that led to some high-profile resignations. Financial difficulties in higher education continue. He and his ministry have been criticized for his response to high rates of truancy in New Zealand and failing to deliver on a raft of promises for school leavers.

But he is better known for his daily news conferences during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic, and the hardships once caused by New Zealand’s stringent COVID policies are what many people associate him with.

Hence his attempt to put Ardern’s government behind him, and to present himself as a fresh face, as he tries to appeal to the centrist, middle-class New Zealanders who have migrated from Labour to National.

“His basic mission at the moment — possibly Mission Impossible — is to turn that tide around,” Duncan said.

On Tuesday, Ardern’s last full day in office — after which she would become a mere backbench Labour lawmaker until she resigns from politics altogether in April — she made it clear that she would help Hipkins keep his distance.

“You won’t find me commentating on domestic politics,” she said in the village of Ratana, where she and Hipkins spoke at a gathering of politicians and Maori elders. “I’ve had my time, and it’s now for the new team.”

Chris Hipkins has a different style from his predecessor, Jacinda Ardern, but when it comes to policy, their similarities are far more pronounced.

Mr. Hipkins and Ms. Ardern on Tuesday in Whanganui, New Zealand.

Ron DeSantis likes his culture wars for a reason

Griffin, DeSantis’s press secretary, said.

By no means is any of this trivial or unimportant. Florida is the third-most populous state. To launch a war on vaccines or use state power to harass transgender students is to make life difficult, even dangerous, for thousands of people.

used a windfall of COVID relief funds to strengthen his political position in the state, with bonuses for emergency medical workers and new money for environmental protection. But that does not mean he has changed his thinking on these larger questions of federal spending.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) at a rally in Hialeah, on Nov. 7, 2022. By leaning into high-profile battles as a culture warrior par excellence DeSantis has made himself the hero of conservative elites without so much as mentioning his radical and unpopular views on social insurance and the welfare state, Jamelle Bouie writes.

By JAMELLE BOUIE

Here’s a question: What does Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida think about Medicare? Medicaid? Social Security? The Affordable Care Act?

DeSantis has built his national political image on well-timed and strategically chosen battles. First it was opposition to COVID mitigation strategies and vaccine mandates. Then it was open hostility toward LGB (and especially) T. Floridians and anything and anyone deemed woke. Now it is an escalation of both moves, aimed at seizing the right flank in the Republican presidential contest, which has already begun to move away from behind-the-scenes jockeying to open competition between rivals.

DeSantis says he wants to ban vaccine mandates and restrict mask rules and make Florida a safe haven from what he calls a “biomedical security state.” He also wants state universities to provide the number and ages of students who have sought or received treatment for gender dysphoria, which critics argue is the governor’s first step toward banning those services. And his Department of Education has already rejected an Advanced Placement pilot course covering African American studies on the grounds that it is a tool for political indoctrination. “As submitted, the course is a vehicle for a political agenda and leaves large, ambiguous gaps that can be filled with additional ideological material, which we will not allow,” Bryan

And yet, there is a reason DeSantis has made these issues, and virtually nothing else, the platform from which he hopes to build national power. By leaning into high-profile battles as a culture warrior par excellence for the most reactionary segment of the American public — last year, to give another example, he picked a fight with the Disney corporation — DeSantis has made himself the hero of conservative elites and the bête noire of liberals and Democrats without so much as mentioning his radical and unpopular views on social insurance and the welfare state.

As a congressman, serving three terms from 2013 to 2018 (when he ran for governor), DeSantis was one of the founders of the House Freedom Caucus, the most hard-line and conservative faction in the House Republican conference, now in the spotlight because of its leadership battle with Speaker Kevin McCarthy and its driving role in using the debt ceiling to force spending cuts on an unsuspecting public.

DeSantis was an especially fierce opponent of socalled entitlements and other forms of federal aid. He helped lead the effort to shut down the government over funding for the Affordable Care Act in 2013 and, the same year voted to pass a budget resolution that would have cut more than $250 billion from Social Security and Medicare over a decade. In 2017, like most other Republicans, he voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act and to cut taxes on corporations, high-earners and wealthy heirs.

DeSantis believes, according to his 2011 book “Dreams From Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama,” that the framers of the Constitution “strived to construct a system of government that prevented government-mandated wealth redistribution.” Turning his attention to the Affordable Care Act and the federal bureaucracy, DeSantis condemns both as “administrative despotism” that have exerted “stifling constraints on the whole of society.” And while he doesn’t take direct aim at the New Deal and its offspring — the whole book is framed as an attack on the Obama administration — his arguments against redistributive policy should apply as much to Social Security as they do to Obamacare. It is not for nothing that Florida is one of 11 states that has not adopted the Medicaid expansion.

Yes, as governor of Florida, DeSantis has eagerly

The upshot of all this is that DeSantis’ opponents should, as much as possible, refuse to play his game. You don’t have to confront him on his terrain. You could instead force him to acknowledge or account for his other, more unpopular political commitments. Interestingly, this is the approach that Donald Trump might take to rebuff DeSantis in a Republican primary contest. “One area in which Trump and his allies smell that kind of weakness in DeSantis is on Social Security,” Rolling Stone reports. Trump, it should be said, used this strategy to great success against his Republican opponents in 2016.

It might be too much to ask liberals and Democrats to take a lesson from the former president, but here they should. The best way to neutralize DeSantis as a political force might be to spend less time on cultural conflict and more time making the clear case that, if given the chance, he would slash what’s left of the safety net and use the proceeds to help the rich stay rich.

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Consultarán a la JCF para que empleados de la AEE puedan moverse a Genera sin perder años de servicio

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SAN JUAN – El grupo Genera PR, subsidiaria de New Fortress Energy, procurará generar incentivos en su

pago por el mantenimiento y decomiso por 10 años de 12 centrales termoeléctricas y/o de ciclo combinado, entre otros factores, por los ahorros que pueda lograr en la compra de combustible.

Como New Fortress es uno de los suplidores de gas natural de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica, el director de las Alianzas Público Privadas, Fermín Fontanés Gómez dijo el miércoles que habrá un ente independiente que se va a encargar de velar por conflictos de intereses en los procesos de compra.

“El tercero no está escogido, se va a hacer un proceso de licitación para tener una entidad independiente que se reporta a la Autoridad para las Alianzas Público Privadas, que va a ser el que va a correr cualquier proceso que sea necesario”, dijo Fontanés Gómez en conferencia de prensa.

Los encargados de fiscalizar el contrato de Genera serán la Oficina de las Alianzas Público Privadas y el Negociado de Energía.

Sobre el proceso de movilidad de los empleados de

la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica a Genera, el secretario de Estado, Omar Marrero Díaz mencionó que están en el proceso de que la Junta de Control Fiscal acepte que un empleado que tenga 25 años de servicio, no los pierda si se va con Genera.

“Entendemos que hay unos empleados que le falta poco tiempo para la jubilación, pero reconocemos que hay unos empleados que le falta poco tiempo para jubilación, pero que también por sus años de experiencia y conocimiento especializado en nuestras plantas. Por lo tanto, queremos ver como podemos convencer a la Junta que como parte de este programa de transición voluntaria, también podamos proveer algún tipo de incentivo para garantizar que a esos empleados que tienen 25 años, mas de 25 años o menos de 30 años, podamos proveerle una garantía, para que se pueda honrar esa pensión, pero también, que garantice que se vaya para Genera por que lo queremos en la planta. No queremos perder ese conocimiento transicionando al gobierno porque perdería mis beneficios”, sostuvo Marrero Díaz.

NMEAD asegura reapertura del Parque las Cavernas del Río Camuy no requiere certificación de la agencia

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EL CAPITOLIO – Durante una vista pública de la Comisión de Gobierno sobre las condiciones del Parque de las Cavernas del Río Camuy, el director del Negociado de Manejo de Emergencias y Administración de Desastres (NMEAD), Nino Correa, aseguró que la reapertura de este no requiere una certificación de la agencia.

“En la vista ocular del 21 de diciembre se nos expresó que para poder reabrir las Cavernas del Río Camuy estaba sujeto a una certificación que emitiera el Negociado de Manejo de Emergencias. Hoy sale a relucir que no tienen que emitir una certificación, nunca hubo un acuerdo escrito, no hubo una solicitud del Departamento de Recursos Naturales (DRNA) sino simplemente por [iniciativa propia] la directora del parque pidió que si pudieran visitar las facilidades”, expresó el presidente de la comisión, Ramón Ruíz Nieves.

Igualmente, Ruíz expresó que “tanto la Sociedad Espeleológica de Puerto Rico como el señor Correa expresaron que trabajaron unos informes pero eso no conlleva una certificación porque de ellos emitir una certificación descansa la responsabilidad de cualquier accidente en Manejo de Emergencias cuando la responsabilidad con los seguros los cubre DRNA. Aquí queda

un espacio importante, que es la comparencia de la Secretaria del DRNA, que nos pueda decir cuál es la inversión de capital, cuáles son las propuestas que se han presentado y cuáles son los planes futuros que se tienen con el Parque”.

Durante la audiencia, Ruíz preguntó a Correa si existe alguna orden administrativa o reglamento que requiera alguna certificación del NMEAD para reanudar las operaciones del parque tras un evento atmosférico. Correa indicó que “al presente no lo hay”. El deponente añadió que sí han ido a impartir ciertos talleres como de primeros auxilios, pero “no es responsabilidad de nosotros porque no tenemos una garantía…Sí estoy de acuerdo que se puedan hacer unas inspecciones diarias con las personas que trabajan allí, si existiera algún incidente siempre vamos a responder…Pienso que cada vez que pase un evento atmosférico estamos comprometidos a revisar las facilidades”.

Ruíz también preguntó si el DRNA se ha comunicado con el NMEAD para que intervenga en el proceso de reapertura del parque. Correa indicó que solo ha tenido comunicación con personal de Parques Nacionales.

Por otro lado, la deponente de la Compañía de Turismo, Carmen Fernández, dijo durante su ponencia que “reconocemos que las cavernas es un atractivo muy im-

portante para Puerto Rico. La Compañía en su día llegó a acuerdos colaborativos para lograr la reapertura de las cavernas. Colaboramos con materiales, herramientas, recursos humanos para el mantenimiento de las áreas…El papel que jugamos es la parte promocional en las páginas”, dijo Fernández. Asimismo, explicó que el parque fue cerrado nuevamente luego del paso del Huracán Fiona.

Ruíz también preguntó si apoyan una Alianza Público Privada para que administre el Parque, la deponente mencionó que al momento no pueden ofrecer una posición porque el tema aún no ha existido en Turismo y tampoco se han realizado acercamientos.

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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ leads the Oscar nominations

By BROOKS BARNES

In a year when moviegoers returned en masse to big-budget spectacles — and skipped nearly everything else — Oscar voters on Tuesday spread nominations remarkably far and wide. Three blockbusters made the best picture cut, eight films received at least five nominations and first-time nominees filled 16 of the 20 acting slots.

“It’s a broad group, which is thrilling and evidence of a changing academy,” said Gail Berman, a producer of “Elvis,” which received eight nominations, including one for best picture. “I’m particularly thrilled that there are populist movies like ours in there. They’re big and they’re fun — Baz Luhrmann is the very DNA of ‘Elvis’ — and they remind people what

Oscars 2023 Nominee List

Nominees for the 95th Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday morning, ahead of a ceremony on March 12 in Los Angeles.

Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan’s oddball sci-fi movie, “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” led in sheer number of nominations, with 11 total; Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” and Edward Berger’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” tied for second, with 9 each.

— GABE COHN

Best Picture

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

“The Banshees of Inisherin”

“Elvis”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“The Fabelmans”

“Tár”

“Top Gun: Maverick”

“Triangle of Sadness”

“Women Talking”

Best Director

Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”

Todd Field, “Tár”

Ruben Ostlund, “Triangle of Sadness”

they love about going to the movies.”

The universe-hopping “Everything Everywhere All at Once” had the most nominations, with 11, including ones for best picture, actress (Michelle Yeoh), supporting actress (Stephanie Hsu), supporting actor (Ke Huy Quan) and director (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert).

“The Banshees of Inisherin,” a dark comedy about a frayed friendship, and the German-language “All Quiet on the Western Front” each had nine; they were also recognized for best picture.

The blockbuster sequels “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water,” with $3.5 billion in combined ticket sales worldwide, were included in the best picture category. An ultrasophisticated drama (“Tár),” a memory piece from Steven Spielberg (“The

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett, “Tár”

Ana de Armas, “Blonde”

Andrea Riseborough, “To Leslie”

Michelle Williams, “The Fabelmans”

Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Actor

Austin Butler, “Elvis”

Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”

Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”

Bill Nighy, “Living”

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

Hong Chau, “The Whale”

Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Stephanie Hsu, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Brian Tyree Henry, “Causeway”

Judd Hirsch, “The Fabelmans”

Barry Keoghan, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Cinematography

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Hand-

Fabelmans),” a sexual assault drama set in an isolated religious community (“Women Talking”) and a satire of the wealthy from a Swedish filmmaker (“Triangle of Sadness”) filled out the category

In some ways, spreading nominations widely reflected the jumbled state of Hollywood. No one in the movie capital seems to know which end is up, with streaming services such as Netflix hot then not, and studios unsure about how many films to release in theaters and whether anything but superheroes, sequels and horror stories can succeed.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which has about 10,000 members, has also worked to diversify its ranks by gender, race and nationality. The inclusion of multiple blockbusters could signal that voting members

have finally decided to help the Oscars show by widening the best picture aperture. In 2009, academy leaders expanded the nominee pool to 10 from five. The audience for the ceremony was in decline, and more slots would make room for a broader range of films, perhaps even populist movies — or so academy officials hoped. Voters had mostly just doubled down on little-seen art films.

The 2022 show drew 16.6 million viewers, the second-worst turnout on record after the pandemic-affected 2021 telecast. If the Nielsen ratings do not improve, the academy faces a financial precipice: Most of its revenue comes from the sale of broadcasting rights to the show. Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. ABC will broadcast the 95th ceremony live on March 12.

ful of Truths”

“Elvis”

“Empire of Light”

“Tár”

Editing

“The Banshees of Inisherin”

“Elvis”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“Tár”

“Top Gun: Maverick”

Original Screenplay

“The Banshees of Inisherin”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“The Fabelmans”

“Tár”

“Triangle of Sadness”

Adapted Screenplay

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”

“Living”

“Top Gun: Maverick”

“Women Talking”

Production Design

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

“Babylon”

“Elvis”

“The Fabelmans”

International Feature

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Germany

“Argentina, 1985,” Argentina

“Close,” Belgium

“EO,” Poland

“The Quiet Girl,” Ireland

Animated Feature

“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”

“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”

“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”

“The Sea Beast”

“Turning Red”

Animated Short

“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”

“The Flying Sailor”

“Ice Merchants”

“My Year of Dicks”

“An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It”

Documentary Feature

“All That Breathes”

“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”

“Fire of Love”

“A House Made of Splinters”

“Navalny”

Documentary Short

“The Elephant Whisperers”

“Haulout”

“How Do You Measure a Year?”

“The Martha Mitchell Effect”

“Stranger at the Gate”

Live-Action Short

“An Irish Goodbye”

“Ivalu”

“Le Pupille”

“Night Ride”

“The Red Suitcase”

Visual Effects

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

“The Batman”

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

“Top Gun: Maverick”

Original Song

“Applause” (“Tell It Like a Woman”)

“Hold My Hand” (“Top Gun: Maverick”)

“Lift Me Up” (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”)

“Naatu Naatu” (“RRR”)

“This Is a Life” (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

Original Score

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Babylon”

“The Banshees of Inisherin”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“The Fabelmans”

Sound

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

“The Batman”

“Elvis”

“Top Gun: Maverick”

Makeup and Hairstyling

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“The Batman”

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

“Elvis”

“The Whale”

Costume Design

“Babylon”

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

“Elvis”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”

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It’s turtles all the way down in the fossil record

By ASHER ELBEIN

You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle shells. Researchers subjected the skeletal remains of pond sliders, diamondback terrapins, painted turtles and box turtles to incremental increases in mechanical forces and measured where and how the shells began to buckle.

This may sound a little sadistic, but no living turtles were hurt in the study. Other scientists understand the appeal of looking at the material properties of the interlocking plates and ribs that make up turtle shells.

“It’s actually fun to just play around with them and see how they bend under a point or certain loading regimes,” said Holger Petermann, a paleontologist with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Last year, Petermann and colleagues took the unusual project and applied it to an unrelated problem. The flatness of a turtle shell, he found, could help paleontologists figure out how deeply a fossil site was originally buried before eons of other geological activity. They came up with a simple but catchy name for their measurement method, now in an article published in the journal Geosphere: the turtle compaction index.

Over millions of years, the sediments that bury a given site are compacted and shifted by geological processes before erosion reveals them. Accurately measuring the original burial depth is vital to understanding what conditions were like when fossils were laid down, Petermann said. Most methods for determining burial depth — analyzing the color of fossilized pollen, for in-

stance — only work at sites subsequently entombed under a mile of stone. Shallower deposits — the sort likely to be buried only about 1,000 feet down — are harder to accurately measure, because they tend to lack clear indicators.

Petermann and his colleagues have studied different fossil sites in Corral Bluffs, Colorado, which is composed of rocks about 63 million years old. These ancient sediments preserve glimpses of an aquatic ecosystem knitting itself back together after the asteroid impact that

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caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction of nonavian dinosaurs. The minerals at these sites could be an important clue about the environmental conditions that formed them — but only if the burial depth is clear.

“We tried a bunch of ways of figuring it out,” Petermann said, “and then we realized we had all these complete turtle shells.”

Turtles — formally known as chelonians — evolved around 230 million years ago. They quickly became an ubiquitous part of freshwater ecosystems like rivers and ponds: the very sorts of inland environments that tend to collect fossils.

There’s also been a great deal of basic research done on how turtle shells perform under pressure, which helped to inform the invention of the turtle compression index. The team looked at roughly 70 complete shells: 21 from Corral Bluffs, 44 from the Cretaceous rocks of the Hell Creek Formation in the Western United States and five from other earlier Cretaceous and Jurassic period sites. Then, they measured where the shells fell on the spectrum, Petermann said, of “normal perfect turtle shell to pancake.”

All of the shells showed certain consistent patterns at various levels of compression. First, the shells cracked above the hip. Then, along the side of the spine. “The more sand I bear onto it, the flatter it gets,” Petermann said. “When they get really flat, they’ll have a little wall running around them. That’s the edge of the shell.”

The other key to the turtle compaction index is to figure out how porous the sediment of a site is — how much open space exists between each grain, such as the difference between coarse sand and fine-grained, dense silt. The relationship between porosity and depth is well understood in geology, Petermann said: Petroleum geologists will drill a sample knowing the depth, then work out how porous the sample is to predict the existence of oil and gas reservoirs. The turtle team just worked in reverse — they figured out how porous the site was, figured out how much pressure was required to crack a turtle shell, and solved for depth.

Using the turtle compaction index at Corral Bluffs, Petermann said, they found that many of the turtles had been buried in the ooze at the bottom of waterway, and over time under beds of silt around 1,700-1,800 feet deep. The denser the original sediment, the more deeply the turtles had been buried.

The chelonian-crunching method can also be applied to other turtle-rich fossil sites where shallow burial histories have been suspected but difficult to confirm. “If you have the turtles, then you really can begin to figure out how much burial these things have undergone,” said David Fastovsky, a paleontologist at the University of Rhode Island who was not involved in the study. He added that the paper is “really neat.”

An undated photo provided by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science shows the fossil shell of Hoplochelys, an extinct genus of aquatic turtle, one of several types of turtle shells collected from sites in Montana and Colorado.

The Mediterranean diet really is that good for you. Here’s why.

By DANI BLUM

In the 1950s, researchers from across the globe embarked on a sweeping and ambitious study. For decades, they scrutinized the diets and lifestyles of thousands of middleaged men living in the United States, Europe and Japan and then examined how those characteristics affected their risks of developing cardiovascular disease.

The Seven Countries Study, as it later became known, famously found associations between saturated fats, cholesterol levels and coronary heart disease. But the researchers also reported another notable result: Those who lived in and around the Mediterranean — in countries like Italy, Greece and Croatia — had lower rates of cardiovascular disease than participants who lived elsewhere. Their diets, rich in fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts, seeds, lean proteins and healthy fats, seemed to have a protective effect.

Since then, the Mediterranean diet has become the bedrock of heart-healthy eating, with well-studied health benefits including lower blood pressure and cholesterol, and a reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes.

“It’s one of a small number of diets that has research to back it up,” said Dr. Sean Heffron, a preventive cardiologist at NYU Langone Health. “It isn’t a diet that was cooked up in the mind of some person to generate money. It’s something that was developed over time, by millions of people, because it actually tastes good. And it just happens to be healthy.”

Here are some of the most searched questions about the Mediterranean diet, answered by experts.

What exactly is the Mediterranean diet?

The Mediterranean diet isn’t as much a strict meal plan as it is a lifestyle, said Julia Zumpano, a registered dietitian who specializes in preventive cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. People who follow the Mediterranean diet tend to “eat foods their grandparents would recognize,” Heffron added: whole, unprocessed foods with few or no additives.

The diet prioritizes whole grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, herbs, spices and olive oil. Fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids, like salmon, sardines and tuna, are the preferred animal protein source. Other lean animal proteins, like chicken or turkey, are eaten to a lesser extent. And foods high in saturated fats, like red meat and butter, are eaten rarely. Eggs and dairy products like yogurt and cheese can also be part of the Mediterranean diet, but in moderation. And moderate alcohol consumption, like a glass of wine at dinner, is allowed.

Breakfast might be smashed avocado on whole-grain toast with a side of fresh fruit and a low-fat Greek yogurt, Heffron said. For lunch or dinner, a vegetable and grain dish cooked with olive oil and seasoned with herbs — roasted root vegetables, leafy greens, a side of hummus and small portions of pasta or whole grain bread, with a lean protein like grilled fish.

“It’s very easy to follow, very sustainable, very realistic,”

Zumpano said.

What are the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet?

A number of rigorous studies have found that the Mediterranean diet contributes to better health, and in particular better heart health, in a variety of ways. In one study, published in 2018, researchers assessed nearly 26,000 women and found that those who followed the Mediterranean diet most closely for up to 12 years had about a 25% reduced risk of developing cardiovascular disease. This was mainly because of changes in blood sugar, inflammation and body mass index, the researchers reported. Other studies, in men and women, have reached similar conclusions.

Research has also found that the diet can protect against oxidative stress, which can cause DNA damage that contributes to chronic conditions like neurological disease and cancer. And some studies suggest it can help reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

The diet may also have profound health benefits during pregnancy, said Dr. Anum Sohail Minhas, an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine. In a recent study of nearly 7,800 women published in December, researchers

found that those who followed the Mediterranean diet most closely around the time they conceived and during early pregnancy had about a 21% reduced risk of any pregnancy complications, such as pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes or preterm birth.

“There definitely seems to be a protective effect,” Minhas said.

On its own, though, the Mediterranean diet isn’t a panacea, Heffron said — it won’t eliminate your chances of developing cardiovascular disease, and it won’t cure a disease, either. It’s important that people also pay attention to other tenets of good heart health, like getting regular exercise and adequate sleep and not smoking.

Will the Mediterranean diet help with weight loss?

The diet can be conducive to weight loss, Zumpano said, but you’ll still need to pay attention to calories.

“Nutrient-rich foods aren’t necessarily low in calories,” said Heffron, who noted that the diet includes foods like olive oil and nuts, which are heart-healthy yet high in calories and can lead to weight gain if consumed in large portions. But if you’re changing your diet from one that is rich in calories, saturated fats and added sugars, for instance, with one that prioritizes vegetables, fruits and leaner proteins, that can result in some weight loss, he said.

How long do you need to follow the Mediterranean diet to gain benefits?

If you’re just starting to follow the Mediterranean diet, limited evidence suggests that you may notice some cognitive improvements — including in attention, alertness and contentment, according to one review of studies published in 2021 — within the first 10 days or so. But for there to be sustained, long-term payoffs in terms of heart health, people need to stick with it, Zumpano said, ideally for their whole lives.

That being said, she added, the diet allows for some flexibility; the occasional cake or steak won’t undo its overall benefits.

Are there any downsides to trying the Mediterranean diet?

The diet usually provides a balanced blend of nutrients and adequate protein, so typically there are no significant risks associated with following it, Heffron said.

But because the diet recommends minimizing or avoiding red meat, you may want to make sure that you are getting enough iron. Good sources of iron include nuts, tofu, legumes and dark leafy green vegetables like spinach and broccoli. Foods rich in vitamin C, like citrus, bell peppers, strawberries and tomatoes, can also help your body absorb iron. And because the diet minimizes dairy, you may want to speak with your doctor about whether you need to take a calcium supplement.

However for the average person, the benefits of the Mediterranean diet likely far outweigh any potential negatives, Minhas said. “These are things we can all try to incorporate into our lives.”

Staples of the Mediterranean diet: grains, root vegetables, olive oil, hummus, leafy greens and lean fish like salmon, in San Francisco, Jan. 5, 2023.

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Parte Demandante Vs. JOSÉ ANTONIO COSME VEGA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00585. (406). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. 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 29 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

2:45 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: Solar marcado con el Número Nueve (9) del Bloque “B” del plano de inscripción de la Corporación de Desarrollo Económico del Pastillo, Inc., radicado en el Barrio Capitanejo, Sector Pastillo de término municipal de Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 600.00 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE: con Solar Número Ocho (8); por el

SUR: con el Solar Número Diez (10); por el ESTE: con la calle de la comunidad y por el OESTE: con la finca Serrano de la Autoridad de Tierras de Puerto Rico. Inscrita al folio 253 del tomo 249 de Juana Díaz, Finca 9479. Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 180 del tomo 490 de Juana Díaz, Finca 9479. Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. Inscripción octava. La escritura de modificación de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 21 del tomo 519 de Juana Díaz, Finca 9479. Registro de la Propiedad

de Ponce, Sección I. Inscripción décima. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: URB. LOS HÚCARES, 9B CALLE 3, JUANA DÍAZ, PR 00795. Número de Catastro: 64-413-010-212-09-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $103,516.45. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 21 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 2:45 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, $69,010.96. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 28 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $51,758.22. 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 $97,208.88 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.375% anual desde el 1 de agosto de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más $1,025.82 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $10,350.00 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 el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Bitácora: Al Asiento 2022-075625-PO01, el 8 de junio de 2022, Demanda de fecha 9 de marzo de 2022 ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso Civil Número PO2022CV00585, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. José Antonio Cosme Vega (soltero), sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca con un balance de $97,208.88 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. 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 subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y 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 9 de diciembre de 2022. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE CAROLINA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ED WILBUR RIVERA RODRÍGUEZ, COMPUESTA POR

SU VIUDA KAREN

GONZÁLEZ ELLIS; ED DANIEL RIVERA

CASTILLO; MAYRI DEL MAR RIVERA CASTILLO; LA MENOR DE EDAD ESTEFANIA RIVERA GONZÁLEZ; XYZ (HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS), CRIM Y ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: FBCI2014-001968. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 11 de julio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número 204 de la Urbanización Ciudad Jardín de Canóvanas, localizado en el Barrio Canóvanas del municipio de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,212.73 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 25.002 metros con el Solar número 203; por el SUR, en una distancia de 42.005 metros con un área denominado “Green Area”; por el ESTE, en un arco de longitud de 25.094 metros; y por el OESTE, en tres alineaciones distintas, en una distancia de 25.47 metros con el Solar número 192; otra distancia de 20.00 metros, con el Solar número 193; y en otra distancia de 2.817 metros con el Solar número 194; todos estos solares y la calle pertenecientes al referido desarrollo urbano. Enclava edificación.

Inscrita al folio 100 del tomo 395 (ágora) de Canóvanas, finca número #16,631, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de Carolina.

La propiedad está ubicada en: 302 Calle Guayacán, Ciudad Jardín III, Canóvanas, PR. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios

de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Anotación de Demanda de fecha 27 de febrero de 2015, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil ntimero FBCI2015-00715, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Ed Wilbur Rivera Rodríguez y Karen González Ellis, por la suma de $16,812.79, inscrito al folio 202 del tomo 443 de Canóvanas, finca ntimero 16,631, Anotación A. Centro Hipotecario de Puerto Rico, Inc., a cuyo favor aparece a su orden una hipoteca por la suma principal de $20,000.00, con intereses al 6 1/4 % anual, vencedero el día 1 de marzo de 2018, constituida mediante la escritura ntimero 57, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de febrero de 2003, ante el notario Luis Fernando Castillo Cruz, e inscrita al folio 101 del tomo 395 de Canóvanas, finca ntimero 16,631, inscripción 3ra. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 7 de octubre de 2019 y notificada el 16 de octubre de 2019 en el presente caso civil, que se desglosa de la siguiente manera: La cantidad adeudada según la Sentencia, asciende a la suma de $166,714.45 por concepto de principal; $5,457.44 por concepto de intereses acumulados; $3,828.31 por concepto de cargos por demora; los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, $76.03 por concepto de “Escrow Advances” y la suma de $20,080.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 8 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA será por $200,800.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el

día 15 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carolina, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será por $133,866.66. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal de Carolina, Sala Superior, Carolina, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será por $100,400.00. 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 esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes

anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de diciembre de 2022. SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESION FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ MUÑIZ T/C/C

FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ

COMPUESTA POR

DAVID RODRIGUEZ

SANTIAGO, ARLEEN

RODRIGUEZ SANTIAGO, LILLIAM RODRIGUEZ

SANTIAGO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION LUZ

ENEIDA SANTIAGO

SANTIAGO T/C/C LUZ E. SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ

COMPUESTA POR

DAVID RODRIGUEZ

SANTIAGO, ARLEEN

RODRIGUEZ SANTIAGO, LILLIAM RODRIGUEZ

SANTIAGO; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: PO2021CV01331.

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

A: LA PARTE

DEMANDADA, AL (A

LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Senten-

cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 22 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero treinta (30) del Bloque C, en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Jardines del Caribe, Quinta Etapa, radicado en el Barrio Canas del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS VEINTICINCO PUNTO CERO CERO (325.00) METROS CUADRADOS. Colinda por el Norte, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con el solar número diez (10) del bloque C; por el Sur, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con la calle número cuatro (4); por el Este, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros, con el solar numero veintinueve (29) del bloque C y por el Oeste, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros, con el solar numero treinta y uno (31) del Bloque C. Enclava una casa de concreto. Finca número 21,022 inscrita al folio 238 del tomo 528 de Ponce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 214 vto. del tomo 1166 de Ponce Sur, Finca 21,022, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II, inscripción 5ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. JARDINES DEL CARIBE 5, 5324 CALLE SAGITADA, PONCE, PR 00728. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $199,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 13 de enero de 2095. Se entenderá

con intereses al 11% anual, vencedero el día 1 de diciembre de 2018, constituida mediante la escritura número 400, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de noviembre de 2008, ante el notario Melvin

E. Rodríguez Torres, e inscrita al folio 170 del tomo 1,871 de Bayamón Sur, finca número

46,327, inscripción 10ma. b. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de John Doe (no expresa), o a su orden, por la suma principal de $25,000.00, sin intereses y vencedero el 25 de agosto de 2008, constituida mediante la escritura número 348, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de agosto de 2000, ante el notario Jesús M. Rivera Delgado, e inscrita al folio 216 vuelto del tomo1,033 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 46,327, inscripción 5ta. Según Nota Marginal 11.1 es a favor de la Administración de Vivienda Publica de Puerto Rico. c.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA: Embargo Federal contra Carlos E. Muñoz Nieves, seguro social xxx-xx-8427, por la suma de $31,343.00, notificación número 405879220, según Certificación de fecha 28 de enero de 2020, anotado el día 11 de febrero de 2020, al Asiento 2020-000793-FED del Sistema Karibe. Se le notifica a los acreedores posteriores anteriormente identificados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $94,400.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #399, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de noviembre de 2008, ante el notario Melvin E. Rodríguez Torres, inscrita al folio 17 del tomo 1,848 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 46,327, Inscripción 9na. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2023

A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $94,400.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una

SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día

28 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A

LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $62,933.33. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $47,200.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal de $86,881.82 más $9,894.56 por concepto de balance diferidos de principal, más los intereses al 5.500% anual desde el día 1ro de enero de 2020, hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $9,440.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más los cargos por demora que corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que esté en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más adelantos para el pago, entre otros, de seguros y contribuciones, entre otros, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables.

Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de

ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 27 de diciembre de 2022. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL A. TORRES COLLAZO COMPUESTA

POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, MIRIAM DELGADO RAMOS POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO

A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2021CV00641.

Sobre: INTERPELACIÓN; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA ENMENDADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número setentiuno de la Urbanización Segunda Extensión Santa Isidra, en el Barrio Sardinera de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, compuesta de trescientos dieciocho metros con veinticinco centímetros cuadrados, colindando por el NORTE y SUR, en veintitrés metros setenta y cinco centímetros por cada lado respectivamente con los

solares números setenta y setentidos de la Urbanización; por el OESTE y ESTE, en trece metros cuarenta centímetros por cada lado respectivamente con el solar número ochenticuatro y la Calle número cuatro de la urbanización. Enclava una casa de concreto. Dirección Física: Urb. Santa Isidra II, 71 Calle 4, Fajardo, PR 00738. Finca 4,595, inscrita al folio 180 del tomo 141 de Fajardo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente 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. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $41,291.91, más la suma de $9,761.98, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 6 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Fajardo, por el tipo mínimo de $74,557.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $49,704.67. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $37,278.50. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 9 de enero de 2023 en Fajardo, Puerto

Rico. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622.

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Demandante V. NILDA

ORTIZ CARTAGENA

Demandado Civil Núm.: AI2019CV00287. (002). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Aibonito, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación:

URBANA: Solar con una cabida superficial de trecientos sesenta metros cuadrados (360.00 mc), radicado en la Avenida Félix Ríos, antes Barrio Pasto del término municipal de Aibonito, Puerto Rico, en colindancias por el NORTE, que es su derecha entrando, con Israel Alvarado; por el SUR, que es su izquierda entrando, con Julia Pagán; por el ESTE, que es su frente, con la Avenida Félix Ríos; y por el OESTE, que es su fondo, con Clotilde Abad. Enclavan dos casas; una construida de concreto armado, de cuatro cuartos dormitorios, sala-comedor, cocina, un baño y balcón, la otra es de madera con escalera de concreto armado de sesenta pies de largo por veinte pies de ancho. Dirección Física: Barrio Pasto, Lote 158, Ave. Félix Ríos, Aibonito, PR 00705. Finca 6,899, inscrita folio 23 del tomo 136 de Aibonito, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Barranquitas. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento

incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso.

C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente 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. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $54,942.84, más la suma de $2,434.06, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Aibonito, por el tipo mínimo de $61,224.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 21 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $40,816.00. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 28 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $30,612.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 11 de enero de 2023 en Aibonito, Puerto Rico. SMIRNA I. MERCADO CARDIN, ALGUACIL PLACA #144. ***

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN COOPERATIVA DE SEGUROS DE VIDA DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. VÍCTOR BENÍTEZ PAREDES T/C/C VÍCTOR

PAREDES BENÍTEZ, SU ESPOSA LUZ MARÍA CRUZ NIEVES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02970. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: VÍCTOR BENÍTEZ PAREDES T/C/C VÍCTOR PAREDES BENÍTEZ, SU ESPOSA LUZ MARÍA CRUZ NIEVES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de enero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de enero de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 19 de enero de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSA MAGALY CANDELARIO CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA VICTORIA

GUZMÁN VALENTÍN

Demandantes Vs. LEVITT MORTGAGE CORP., Y COMO

POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ

EXTRAVIADO JOHN DOE, RICHARD ROE, TOM MIX, DON EDGARDO NEFTALÍ

MANTILLA MARTÍNEZ Y DOÑA ELSA VALE

AROCHO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: AG2022CV01530. Salón: 601. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD ROE Y TOM MIX, EDGARDO NEFTALÍ MANTILLA MARTÍNEZ Y DOÑA ELSA VALE AROCHO.

POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado una demanda de Cancelación de Pagaré Hipotecario. Se le emplaza y requiere para que presente su Contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte demandante en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, así lo entiende procedente. La abogada de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Verónica Muñiz Medina, Apartado 545 Isabela, Puerto Rico 00662, Teléfono: 787- 830-2565, E-mail: bufetemunizmedina@gmail.com. Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 2 de diciembre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NATHALIE ACEVEDO QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS-

TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

MIDFIRST BANK

Demandante V.

JAIME DE JESUS REYES, LA SUCESION DE MARGARITA IRIS

RODRIGUEZ MASSARI COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS ELIZABETH VICTORIA

DE JESUS RODRIGUEZ, EVA LORRAINE DE JESUS RODRIGUEZ, IVONNE MARIE DE JESUS RODRIGUEZ, SANDRA RAMIREZ RODRIGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, BLANCA I. DE JESUS MODLINGER Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS (CRIM)

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2020CV01101. Sala:

504. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL

Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN MARGARITA IRIS ROSDRIGUEZ

MASSARI. DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA.

JAIME DE JESUS

REYES; LA SUCESION DE MARGARITA IRIS

RODRIGUEZ MASSARI

COMPUESTA POR SUS

HEREDEROS ELIZABETH

VICTORIA DE JESUS

RODRIGUEZ, EVA

LORRAINE DE JESUS

RODRIGUEZ, IVONNE

MARIE DE JESUS, SANDRA RAMIREZ

RODRIGUEZ Y JAIME DE JESUS EN SU CUOTA USUFUCTUARIA. URBANIZACIÓN

LEVITTOWN, D-1107

CALLE DELEITE, TOA BAJA 00949.

BLANCA I. DE JESÚS

MODLINGER. 3850

SEDGWICK AVE., APT 12D, BRONX, NEW YORK, 10463-4414.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del

término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de enero de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 18 de enero de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SONIA VIVOLA VELEZ

Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08268.

Sala: 508. 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: SONIA VIVOLA VELEZ. 1022 14 NE ST., PUERTO NUEVO DEV., SAN JUAN, PR 00920.

Quede emplazada y notificada que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega que usted le adeuda a la parte demandante lo siguiente: La suma de $86,416.55 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 4.00% desde el 1ro de marzo de 2022; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $10,870.60 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La propiedad hipotecada cuya ejecución se solicita tiene la siguiente descripción y localización: URBANA: Solar de forma rectangular que mide doce metros de frente por veintiún metros de fondo, marcado con el número veintiséis de la Manzana “CQ” de la Urbanización Puerto Nuevo propiedad de la Everlasting Development Corporation, que radica en el Barrio Monacillos de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de doscientos cincuenta y dos metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, SUR, ESTE, y OESTE, con terrenos propiedad de

la Everlasting Development Corporation, y dando frente al Norte con la Calle denominada Calle número diecinueve de la Urbanización. Enclava casa, según inscripción 2da. Inscrita en la finca 5882, (antes 4758) inscrita al tomo Karibe de Monacllos. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de San Juan. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su presente 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/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar 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. Los abogados de la parte demandante son:

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE

DEMANDANTE:

Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ, LLP

Edificio Ochoa, 500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901

Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdprlaw.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 23 de enero de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA BÁEZ ACABA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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Parte Demandante Vs. ABDIEL ARMANDO DÍAZ CARRIÓN; ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, A TRAVÉS DEL HONORABLE SECRETARIO DE JUSTICIA

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01826.

(604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ABDIEL ARMANDO DÍAZ CARRIÓN.

LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de enero de 2023, este Tribunal ha

dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de enero de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 23 de enero de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSA MAGALY CANDELARIO CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAMUY ACM CDGY VI REO, LLC Demandante V.

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Y OTROS Demandado(a)

Civil: HA2020CV00160. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL Y CUALQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERES. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de enero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a

partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de enero de 2023. En Camuy, Puerto Rico, el 20 de enero de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ SECRETARIA. YOLANDA RIVERA COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. LUZ DELIA CRUZ; SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO URBANO Y VIVIENDA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA A TRAVÉS DE ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO A TRAVÉS DE HONORABLE SECRETARIO DE JUSTICIA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: VB2022CV00574. 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: LUZ DELIA CRUZ.

A 25 1ST VEGA BAJA LAKES, VEGA BAJA, PR 00693, Y 124 RUTA 4 ISABELA, PR 00662. Queden emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega que usted le adeuda a la parte demandante lo siguiente: La suma de $96,957.71 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 3.75% desde el 1ro de abril de 2015; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $9,989.83 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.

La propiedad hipotecada cuya ejecución se solicita tiene la siguiente descripción y localización: URBANA: Solar radicado frente a la calle número uno y rotulado con el número vein-

ticinco del Bloque A de la Comunidad Vega Baja Lakes, en el Barrio Algarrobo del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos cincuenta metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en quince metros, con la calle número uno que da acceso; por el SUR, en quince metros, con terrenos de la señora Ana del Rosario; por el ESTE, en treinta metros, con el solar número veinticuatro del Bloque A; y por el OESTE, en treinta metros, con el solar número veintiséis del Bloque

A. Inscrita en la finca número 9,213, al folio 258 del tomo 163 de Vega Baja. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de Bayamón. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente 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/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar 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. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE:

Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ, LLP Edificio Ochoa, 500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901

Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 19 de enero de 2023. LCDA.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Demandante V.

SUCESION DE CARLOS JUAN MAYOL SEPÚLVEDA COMPUESTA POR: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01935. (508). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: Solar radicado en la Comunidad Villa Chica de la Urbanización Villa Prades, Barrio Sabana Llana, sector Rio Piedras del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, identificado con el número cinco (5), del Bloque CD en el plano de inscripción, con una cabida superficial de ciento cincuenta y cuatro punto cero ocho metros cuadrados (154.08m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Arístides Chavier, en una longitud de seis punto setenta y cinco (6.75) metros; por el SUR, con Uso Público, en una longitud de seis punto ochenta y cuatro (6.84) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número cuatro (4), en una longitud de veintidós punto treinta (22.30) metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número seis (6) en una longitud de veintitrés punto treinta y cinco (23.35) metros. Enclava una casa conocida como “casas en hileras” (Town Houses), construida de hormigón y bloques de concreto de dos plantas destinada a vivienda.

Dirección Física: A5 Aristides Chavier St. Villa Prades, San Juan, PR. 00924. Finca 30,372, inscrita al folio 22 del tomo 782 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Quinta de San Juan.

B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de

este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente 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. D. Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen preferente: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de RG Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $49,949.00, con intereses al 7 ½% anual, vencedero el día 1 de junio de 2029, constituida mediante la escritura número 761, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 11 de mayo de 1999, ante el notario Armando J. Martínez Vilella, e inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 959 de Sabana Llana, finca número 30,372, inscripción 3ra. NOTA: Al ASIENTO 2022-165942-SJ05 DEL SISTEMA KARIBE, se presentó el día 28 de diciembre de 2022, Orden de fecha 19 de diciembre de 2022 y Mandamiento de fecha 22 de diciembre de 2022, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número SJ2022CV06222, sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, ordenando se cancele la hipoteca por la suma de $49,949.00 que grava esta finca. El documento se encuentra pendiente de calificación y despacho. E. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $69,529.01, más la suma de $9,118.00, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, pactados con en el pagaré y en la escritura de Hipoteca de la parte demandante pactados en el pagaré y en el contrato de hipoteca. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 22 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan, por el tipo mínimo de $91,180.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 1 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o

DESCONOCIDOS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ LUIS HERNÁNDEZ GARCIA.

Demandado

HC

67 BOX 18737, FAJARDO

PR 00738-9452; 1004

HEMINGWAY CIR, HAINES CITY FL 33844-3851; 3284

COUNTRY WALK CLUB

CIR, WINTER HAVEN FL 33881-7307.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de enero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de enero de 2023. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 23 de enero de 2023.

WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LYDIA

E. RIVERA MIRANDA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. YEIMY C

VASQUEZ GUZMAN

Demandado(a)

Civil: CA2022CV03059. Sala:

408. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO / EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA.

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN-

CIA POR EDICTO.

A: YEIMY C.

VASQUEZ GUZMAN.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted

enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de enero de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 23 de enero de 2023. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. DAMARIS TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO DEPARTAMENTO DE ESTADO. NOMBRE COMERCIAL PARA REGISTRAR. AVISO. A QUIEN PUEDA INTERESAR: De acuerdo con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 75 del 23 de septiembre de 1992, según enmendada, mejor conocida como la Ley de Nombres Comerciales del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y la Sección 24 del Reglamento promulgado bajo la ley citada anteriormente, el siguiente nombre comercial ha sido presentado en el Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico para su archivo y registro.

BINANCE.US

Número de Expediente: 246640-99-0. Propietario: BAM TRADING SERVICES INC.

Dirección: 361 San Francisco Street 4th Floor, San Juan, PR 00901. Actividad Empresarial: BAM Trading’s core business is the operation of a digital asset trading and settlement platform allowing customers to trade digital assets with other users, either in exchange for other digital assets or for USD. In support of these trading services, BAM Trading offers users a hosted digital wallet that allows users to send, receive, and store supported digital assets. Renuncia a elementos no registrables: NOTIFICACIÓN: Cualquier oposición a este registro deberá presentarse en el Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este aviso.

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN LUIS GARCÍA QUINTANA COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL LOS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA

Demandado (a)

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV05611.

Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL LOS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE RAMON LUIS GARCIA QUINTANA. EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de enero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 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 23 de enero de 2023.

En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 23 de enero de 2023. GRISELDA

RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARTHA ALMODOVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V.

PEDRO JAIME

LÓPEZ BERGOLLO

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01534. In Rem: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada PEDRO JAIME LÓPEZ BERGOLLO, y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 19 de julio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $445,000.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: APT. 211, COND.

TORRE CIBELES, 592 CALLE CESAR GONZÁLEZ, SAN JUAN, PR 00918, y que se describe de la siguiente manera:

URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORI-

ZONTAL: Apartamento identificado el número 211, localizado el piso número 2 del Edificio número 1 del Condominio Torre Cibeles, a su vez ubicado en la Avenida César González, barrio Hato Rey, del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Tiene una cabida superficial total de 2222.87 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 206.51 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de 67’ pies lineales equivalentes a 20.42 metros lineales con elementos exteriores; por el SUR, en una distancia de 67’ pies lineales equivalentes a 20.42 metros lineales con área de pasillo, cuarto de conserje, cuarto eléctrico, área de elevador, recibidor de elevador, área abierta y elementos exteriores; por el ESTE, en distancia de 44’8” equivalentes a 13.61 metros lineales con el apartamento número 212 y área de elevador y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 44’8” equivalentes a 13.61 metros lineales con elementos exteriores y cuarto de conserje. Contiene: cocina, dos y medio baños, tres dormitorios, dos closets, un walkin-closet, sala-comedor, family, laundry y balcón. La puerta principal de acceso de este apartamento se encuentra en su colindancia Sur. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes generales de .66%. Le pertenece además el uso y disfrute como anejos de dos áreas para estacionamientos, identificadas con los números 312 y 313 localizados en el tercer nivel del Edificio número 3. Le pertenece también el uso y disfrute como anejo de un área de storage identificado con el nú-

mero 19. Finca 42030 inscrita al folio 112 del tomo 1571 de Río Piedras Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $445,000.00 con intereses al 5⅞% anual y vencimiento 1 de agosto de 2049. Constituida por la Escritura 272 otorgada en San Juan el 31 de julio de 2009 ante el notario Lizbeth Avilés Vega, e inscrita al folio 112 del tomo 1571 de Río Piedras Norte, finca 42030, inscripción 2ª. CANCELADA PARCIALMENTE en una suma de $20,193.00 y MODIFICADA en cuanto a su interés y vencimiento, siendo ahora su principal por $424,807.00 con intereses al 3.850% comenzando el 1 de mayo de 2014 al 1 de abril de 2017 e intereses al 5.875% comenzando el 1 de mayo de 2017 hasta su vencimiento 1 de abril de 2054, según consta de la escritura 149 otorgada en San Juan el 31 de marzo de 2014 ante el notario Juan A. Martínez Romero, e inscrita al folio 113 del tomo 1571 de Rio Piedras Norte, finca 42030, inscripción 3ª. CANCELADA PARCIALMENTE en una suma de $777.10 y MODIFICADA en cuanto a su interés, siendo ahora su principal por $424,029.90 con intereses al 5.875% comenzando el 1 de septiembre de 2020 hasta su vencimiento 1 de abril de 2054, según consta de la escritura 91 otorgada en San Juan el 20 de julio de 2017 ante el notario Luis Yamil Rodríguez San Miguel, e inscrita al tomo Karibe, finca 42030 de Rio Piedras Norte, inscripción 4ª. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 1 de junio de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $173,035.77 de principal, más intereses al 5.95% que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total, más la suma de dinero para primas de seguro y/o contribuciones, inspecciones, más recargos por demora, y la cantidad estipulada de $20,115.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 27 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $445,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate

ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $296,666.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $222,500.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que

elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de enero de 2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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Demandante V. JESUS RAUL PEREZ MENDEZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02568. (508). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 9 de enero de 2023 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $63,524.71 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 15 de agosto de 2022, notificada y archivada en autos el 8 de noviembre de 2022 y publicada mediante edicto el día 15 de noviembre de 2022, en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star”; procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, los bienes inmuebles se describen a continuación: Condominio Altagracia, Apartamento F-5, San Juan, PR 00917.

DESCRIPCION: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento 5-F que está localizado en el piso quinto del edificio sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal conocido como Condominio Altagracia, que está localizado en la Calle Uruguay, Hato Rey, tiene el apartamento un área superficial de 868.00 pies cuadrados que se distribuye como sigue: un pasillo, una sala-comedor, una cocina, dos cuartos dormitorios con sus respectivos armarios (closets), otro armario (closet) sito en el pasillo, un corredor interior y un cuarto de baño. Esta localizado en la esquina Suroeste del quinto piso del edificio y su colindancia Norte, es con la pared que lo separa del Apartamento 5-E y con el área común especifica del piso que lo comunica a través de su puerta de entrada; su colindancia Sur, es con el exterior del edificio; su colindancia Este, es con el exterior del edificio y su colindancia Oeste, con la pared que lo separa del Apartamento 5-A. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales el 1.25% y el 1.61% en los elementos comunes limitados de los apartamentos residenciales del Condominio Altagracia. Se le confiere a este apartamento el derecho exclusivo a estacionamiento en el espacio de estacionamiento marcado con el número 86 en el plano del Condominio Altagracia. Dicho espacio de estacionamiento constituye parte de los elementos comunes limitados de los apartamentos residenciales del Condominio Altagracia. #35396 inscrita al folio 231 del tomo 1269 de Rio Piedras Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $63,524.71 de principal, más los intereses a razón de 6.125% anual, acumulados desde el 2 de octubre de 2019 hasta su total y completo pago, contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguros adeudados y los cuales continuaran en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $8,640.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $86,400.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $57,600.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en

esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $43,200.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 27 DE FEBRERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan. De Estudio de Título realizado, no surgen gravámenes preferentes, surge el siguiente gravamen posterior: Aviso de Demanda dictado el 20 de noviembre de 2019, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, Caso Civil Núm. SJ2019CV12074, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Jesús Raúl Pérez Méndez, donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con la hipoteca de la inscripción 4ta., reducida a $63,524.71 o la venta en pública subasta, anotado al Tomo Karibe el 15 de enero de 2020, finca #35396 de Río Piedras Norte, Anotación “A”. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente

acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes 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, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 23 de enero de 2023. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.

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FUNDING

Demandante V. SUCESION DELIA RAQUEL SANTOS

SÁNCHEZ T/C/C DELIA

SANTOS SÁNCHEZ

COMPUESTA POR JOHN

DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV02436. 402.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESION DELIA

RAQUEL SANTOS

SÁNCHEZ T/C/C DELIA

SANTOS SÁNCHEZ

COMPUESTA POR JOHN

DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de enero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted

enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de enero de 2021. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 18 de enero de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA.

ELIBETH M. TORRES ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. ELIWD SANTIAGO

ACEVEDO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: LR2022CV00160.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ELIWD SANTIAGO

ACEVEDO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - BARRIO BARTOLO, CARRETERA 128, KM 58.5, LARES, P.R. 00669 / HC 4 BOX 15966, LARES, P.R. 00669. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de diciembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica-

ción. 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 19 de enero de 2023. En Lares, Puerto Rico, el 19 de enero de 2023. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA. YANELLY PÉREZ SOTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE LUISA MERCEDES NAVARRO MELENDEZ Y SUCESION DE JOSE FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ FELIX COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV04813. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: SUCESION DE LUISA MERCEDES NAVARRO MELENDEZ Y SUCESION DE JOSE FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ FELIX COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (“CRIM”);

Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 27 DE FEBRERO DE 2023 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la

propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 7 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: radicado en el BARRIO HATO REY del Municipio de San Juan, con una cabida superficial de CIENTO OCHENTA Y SEIS PUNTO CUATROCIENTOS OCHENTA Y OCHO (186.488) METROS CUADRADOS y en lindes por el NORTE, en VEINTIUNO PUNTO SEISCIENTOS CUARENTA Y SIETE (21.647) METROS, con terrenos ocupados por los hermanos Romero Silva; por el SUR, en VEINTE PUNTO OCHOCIENTOS VEINTICINCO (20.825) METROS, con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, en OCHO PUNTO TRESCIENTOS SESENTA Y SEIS (8.366) METROS, con la Calle España que le sirve de acceso; y por el OESTE, en NUEVE PUNTO CERO VEINTICUATRO (9.024) METROS, con terrenos ocupados por la Sucesión Pérez Morris. La escritura de hipoteca según modificada, se encuentra inscrita al folio 200 del tomo 1510 de Río Piedras Norte, Registro de la propiedad de San Juan, Sección Segunda, finca número 30,335-Bis, inscripciones Quinta y Novena. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 5ta., en cuanto a que se amplía la suma de $13,541.36 para un nuevo principal que será ahora de $73,041.36, sus intereses serán; de los pagos 1 al 60 comenzando el día 1ro. de agosto de 2012, el interés será al 4.625% anual; de los pagos 61 al 72 comenzando el día 1ro. de agosto de 2017, será al 5.625% anual; de los pagos 73 al 84 comenzando el día 1ro. de agosto de 2018 será al 6.625% anual; de los pagos 85 al 96 comenzando el 1ro. de agosto de 2019 al 7.625% anual; de los pagos 97 al 480

comenzando el 1ro. de agosto de 2020 serán al 8.50% anual, vencedero el 1ro. de julio de de 2052, según la escritura número 147, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 5 de julio de 2012, ante el Notario Público Carlos O. Bermúdez Monroig, inscrita al folio 200 del tomo 1510 de Río Piedras Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Segunda, finca 30,335-Bis, inscripción 7ma. Modificada nuevamente la hipoteca de la inscripción 5ta., en cuanto a que se amplía por la suma de $5,520.19 para un nuevo principal que será ahora de $78,561.55. Comenzando el 1ro. de enero de 2016, los pagos 1 al 60, el interés será al 4.00% anual y el pago mensual de principal e interés será de $328.34. Los pagos 61 al 72 el interés será de 5.00% anual y el pago mensual de principal e interés será de $374.25. Los pagos 73 al 84, el interés será de 6.00% anual y el pago mensual de principal e interés será de $421.91. Los pagos 85 al 96, el interés será de 7.00% anual y el pago mensual de principal e interés será de $470.99. Los pagos 97 al 108, el interés será de 8.00% anual y el pago mensual de principal e interés será de $521.24. Los pagos 109 al 480, el interés será de 8.50% anual y el pago mensual de principal e interés será de $546.62. La fecha del último pago de principal e interés será el 1ro. de diciembre de 2055, según la escritura número 434, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de noviembre de 2015, ante el Notario Público Oscar Alejandro Rodríguez Vega, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Río Piedras Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Segunda, finca 30,335-Bis, inscripción 9na. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: 578 España St., Jurutungo Sector, San Juan, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $76,831.63 de principal, intereses variables desde el día 1ro de enero de 2018 cuya tasa de interés a esta fecha es de 4% anual de los pagos Uno (1) al Sesenta (60); al 5 % anual de los pagos Sesenta y Uno (61) al Setenta y Dos (72); al 6% anual de los pagos Setenta y Tres (73) al Ochenta y Cuatro (84); al 7% anual de los pagos Ochenta y Cinco (85) al Noventa y Seis (96); al 8% anual de los pagos Noventa y Siete (97) al Ciento Ocho (108); al 8.50% de los pagos Ciento Nueve (109) hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $5,950.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mí-

nima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $78,561.55 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $52,374.37 y de necesitarse una tercera subasta la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir la suma de $39,280.78. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 24 de enero de 2023.

PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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Demandados

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO

TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V.

Civil Núm.: AG2022CV00290. Sala: 602. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Oficina del Alguacil, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 19 de julio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 150 A en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Rafael Hernández del Barrio Guerrero del término municipal de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 946.05 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con canal de riego; por el SUR, con calle número 6 de la comunidad y parcela número 410 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con camino privado terrenos propiedad de Antonio Valle y por el OESTE, con la parcela número 150 de la comunidad. Inscrita en la finca número 20,329, al folio 50 del tomo 359 de Aguadilla. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Aguadilla. La propiedad ubica en: 150-A 6 St. Rafael Hernández Comm. Aguadilla, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada en este caso el 3 de junio de 2022, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $76,825.96 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 4.00%, anual desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $8,527.20 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente La adjudicación

se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 19 DE

ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 10:00

DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Oficina del Alguacil, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $85,272.00.

Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 26 DE ABRIL DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Oficina del Alguacil, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $56,848.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el 3 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Oficina del Alguacil, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $42,636.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti-

vas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de enero de 2023. Gerardo Méndez Villanueva, Alguacil, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aguadilla.

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Demandante V.

CHARLIE ELVIN PÉREZ FELICIANO, T/C/C CHARLIE PÉREZ FELICIANO; SU ESPOSA EVELYN MUÑIZ SANTI Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: ABCI2015-01447. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Oficina del Alguacil, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN

GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 23 de agosto de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación:

URBANA: Solar número #16 de la Urbanización San José lo-

calizada en el Barrio Asomante del término municipal de Aguada, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 320.50 metros cuadrados. En lindes al NORTE, con el solar número #15, en una distancia de 20.50 metros; al SUR, con la Comunidad Agrícola Bianchi Inc., en una distancia de 29.00 metros; al ESTE, con la Calle número #2, en una distancia de 14.40 metros y al OESTE, con la Administración de Parques y Recreos, en una distancia de 14.80 metros. Inscrito al folio 52 del tomo 114 de Aguada, finca número #5,715 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Aguadilla. La propiedad ubica, según pagaré, en: 16 C Ext. San José, Aguada, PR 00602. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante:

HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de POPULAR MORTGAGE INC., o a su orden, por la suma de $10,000.00 de principal, intereses al 5.50% anual y vencedero el día 1ro de noviembre de 2041, según consta de la escritura número #240, otorgada en Aguadilla, el día 24 de octubre de 2011, ante el notario Roberto M. García Rodríguez e inscrita al folio 148 del tomo 316 de Aguada, finca número #5,715, inscripción 7ma. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 30 de junio de 2017, notificada el 7 de julio de 2017 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $160,237.68 por concepto de principal; $808.15 por concepto de intereses acumulados; $355.96 por concepto de cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $16,927.60 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar

el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 4 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Oficina del Alguacil, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $169,276.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 11 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $112,850.67, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 18 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $84,638.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado

Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de enero de 2023. GERARDO MÉNDEZ VILLANUEVA, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.

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Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE MICHAEL GEORGE SMOLIN PARKER, COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA AMERICA ROBLES CARRION Y FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; AMERICA ROBLES CARRION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00146. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: SUCESION DE MICHAEL GEORGE SMOLIN PARKER, COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA AMERICA ROBLES CARRION Y FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; AMERICA ROBLES CARRION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE

INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM).

Yo, SANDRALIZ MARTINEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 6 DE MARZO DE 2023 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Fajardo durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 13 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE MARZO DE 2023, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el BARRIO JIMÉNEZ del término municipal de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, marcada parcela “B” en el plano de inscripción, que tiene una cabida de NOVECIENTOS TREINTA Y UNO PUNTO TREINTA Y CINCO (931.35) METROS CUADRADOS, equivalentes a PUNTO VEINTICUATRO (.24) CUERDA; en lindes por el NORTE, distancia de cincuenta y cinco punto veintiséis (55.26) metros, con Edwin Jacobo Colberg Ramírez y Betty Colberg Ramírez; por el SUR, distancia de treinta y seis punto ochenta y ocho (36.88) metros, con Juana Vélez Pérez; por el ESTE, distancia de trece punto once (13.11) metros, con Edwin Jacobo Colberg Ramírez y Betty Colberg Ramírez; y por el OESTE, distancia de treinta y cuatro punto treinta y siete (34.37) metros, con la Carretera Estatal número Novecientos Sesenta y Seis (966) y según plano por el Oeste, con la parcela “D” dedicada a uso público. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 431 de Río Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección

Tercera, finca número 5,923, inscripción tercera. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Parcela B, Rd. 966, Km. 0.7, Barrio Jiménez, Río Grande, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $32,727.73 de principal, intereses al 7.25% anual, desde el día 1ro. de agosto de 2021, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $6,710.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $67,100.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $44,733.34 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $33,550.00. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN

TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL,

expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 26 de octubre de 2022. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO.

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Demandante Vs. SHARLENE JORGE LÓPEZ

Demandado

Caso Núm.: CG2022CV02119. Salón Núm.: 705. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: SHARLENE JORGE LÓPEZRES. BAIROA BES CALLE 24, CAGUAS, PR 00725-1442. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://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 sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EX-

TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de diciembre de 2022. En Caguas,

Puerto Rico, el 22 de diciembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. RIVERA RIVERA, GLORIMAR, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. JEANNETTE

TOMASINI GOMEZ

Demandada

Civil Núm.: GB2022CV00858.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO

POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

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

A: JEANNETTE

TOMASINI GOMEZ.

POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.

pr/index/php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a

usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Villas de Caparra, C2 Calle A, Guaynabo, PR 00966-1751. ExPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de enero de 2023. LCDA. LAURA

I.SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIAMAR T.GONZÁLEZ BARRETO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL II.

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Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE LUIS ANGEL RODRIGUEZ MELENDEZ COMPUESTA POR IVETTE RODRÍGUEZ

MATOS, ENRIQUE RODRÍGUEZ MATOS, IVÁN RODRÍGUEZ MATOS, LUIS A. RODRÍGUEZ MATOS

Y JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LUIS ÁNGEL RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ

Y ADMINISTRACIÓN

PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: YU2022CV00439.

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

A: LUIS A. RODRIGUEZ MATOS COMO HEREDERO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LUIS A. RODRIGUEZ MELENDEZ Y JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LUIS ANGEL RODRIGUEZ MELENDEZ.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y

Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colon Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de ejecución de y cobro de dinero bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de enero del 2022 hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $50,985.81 de balance de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.50% anual desde el día diciembre de 2021 de así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo $5,411.95 pactado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número “A” guión dos (A-2) en el plano de inscripción del Proyecto UM guión dos guión treinta y dos (UM-2-32) denominado Residencial Bacó, radicado en el Barno Montalva del término municipal de Guánica, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de QUlNIENTOS TRES METROS CUADRADOS CON VEINTISEIS CENTESIMAS DE METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar “A” guión uno (Al), distancia de cuarenta punto cero seis (40.06) metros; por el SUR, con la calle “A”, distancia de veinticinco (25) metros con veinticinco (25) centímetros; por el ESTE, con la calle “F, distancia de doce (12) metros con cuarenta y siete (47) centímetros, más un arco de cinco (5) metros con cincuenta y cuatro (54) centímetros; y por el OESTE, con terrenos de Juan A. Tió, distancia de dieciséis (16)

metros con noventa y nueve (99)centímetros. Inscrita la hipoteca al folio 133vto del tomo 187 de Guánica, inscripción 7a de la finca 2991, del Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán e inscrita la modificación al sistema Karibe de Guánica, con fecha 21 de febrero de 2018, inscripción octava. SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de LUIS ANGEL RODRIGUEZ MELENDEZ se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30)días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en tomo a la aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han aceptado a beneficio de inventario la herencia del LUIS ANGEL RODRIGUEZ MELENDEZ y por consiguiente, responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone del Código Civil de Puerto Rico. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 13 de enero de 2023. CARMEN

G. TIRÚ, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN MÚLTIPLES MORTGAGE CORPORATION

Demandante V. ADMINISTRACIÓN DE RETIRO DE LOS EMPLEADOS DEL GOBIERNO Y LA JUDICATURA DE PUERTO RICO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02026.

Sala: 906. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de enero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted

enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de enero de 2023. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 19 de enero de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MILDRED J. FRANCO REVENTÓS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1

Parte Demandante Vs. ALBERTO RIVERA RAMOS; ROSA HAYDEE RODRIGUEZ LUNA T/C/C ROSA RODRIGUEZ LUNA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUEST A POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2022CV04247. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ROSA HAYDEE

RODRIGUEZ LUNA T/C/C ROSA RODRIGUEZ LUNA Y LA SLG COMPUESTA CON ALBERTO RIVERA RAMOS.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abo-

gados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de diciembre de 2021, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal global de $20,955.29, la cual se desglosa a continuación: la suma principal de $18,685.73 más intereses a razón del 5.875% anual, desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2021, hasta el presente, y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma principal diferida (piggy back) por la cantidad de $2,269.56 la cual no genera intereses, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente 10% de la suma principal ($8,000.00), por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno identificado como Lote Uno (1), radicado en la Carretera setecientos setenta y cinco (775)kilómetro seis (Km. 6), Hectómetro ocho (Hm 8), Barrio Rabanal, del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatro mil ciento sesenta y cuatro punto cuatro cuatro siete nueve metros cuadrados (4,164.4479 m.c), equivalentes a uno punto cero cinco nueve cinco cuerdas (1.0595 cdas). En lindes por el NORTE, con área dedicada a uso público; por el SURESTE, con remanente de la finca principal; por el ESTE, con el lote dos (2); y por el OESTE, con terrenos de Pedro Rivera Rodríguez y Pedro Rodríguez Rodríguez. Consta inscrita al folio 121 del tomo 465 de Cidra, Finca número #17,046. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto

Rico, Sección II de Caguas. SE LE APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictara sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico. A 23 de enero de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JESSENIA PEDRAZA ANDINO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC

Demandante V. FERNANDA VIERA AYALA Y MIGUEL ANGEL OTERO VIERA

Demandado(a)

Civil: VB2022CV00596. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FERNANDA VIERA AYALA Y MIGUEL ANGEL OTERO VIERA.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de enero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de enero de 2023. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 20 de enero de 2023.

LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

CARMEN ISABEL FLORES LOPEZ Demandantes Vs. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, COMO SUCESOR EN INTERES DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE Demandado Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00092. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADOS DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE.

Por la presente se emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal la demanda del caso de epígrafe solicitando la cancelación del Pagaré suscrito a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, oa su orden, por la suma principal de $24,500.00, con vencimiento el 01 de octubre de 2015, y habiéndose constituido por la escritura número 415 otorgada en San Juan, el 25 de septiembre de 2000, ante el Notario Público Cesar A Vélez Miranda, inscrita al tomo móvil 1596 de Caguas, finca número 36399 (antes 10817), inscripción 6ta. Representa a la parte demandante la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

ENEL M. PEREZ MONTE RUA 9019

Reina Isabel 175, La Villa de Torrimar Guaynabo PR 00969 Tel.: (787) 646-9168 lcdaenelperez@gmail.com

Se le apercibe que si no comparecieran ustedes a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. 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, advirtiéndosele que de no hacerlo se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Dado en Caguas, a 17 de enero de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

A Hall of Famer with all the ‘ingredients’ for third base

By TYLER KEPNER

When the major leagues first came calling, Scott Rolen was playing on a sprained ankle. He had hurt it in a predictable way for a tall, rangy high school senior in Indiana: playing basketball. The Philadelphia Phillies didn’t mind.

“I saw all the ingredients you’d want to see,” Mike Arbuckle, the former Phillies scouting director, said by phone Tuesday night, three decades after he first met Rolen, the newest member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. “The body, the athleticism, the tools — and he gave you that ‘it factor,’ that inner confidence in a young player that when you see him play, you just know that he’s not going to be afraid of failing. He gave you the feeling that he was 18 going on 35, mentally.”

When Rolen was 18, he turned down a two-sport scholarship offer from the University of Georgia to sign with the Phillies. When he was 35, with the Cincinnati Reds, he earned his eighth career Gold Glove as one of the finest third basemen in baseball history.

On Tuesday, the baseball writers elected Rolen to the Hall of Fame in his sixth appearance on the ballot. Rolen, 47, will join former first baseman Fred McGriff, who was elected by an eras committee in December, on the stage in Cooperstown, New York, this July. Rolen received votes on 297 of 389 ballots, or 76.3% — candidates needed at least 75% (or 292 votes) to make it, meaning Rolen had only five to spare.

The No. 5, of course, is the scorer’s designation for third base, the only position Rolen played in a 17-year career with the Phillies, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Reds. Rolen — who never even appeared as a designated hitter — becomes only the 18th Hall of Famer whose primary position was third base.

No other position has so few representatives in Cooperstown, and it first seemed unlikely that Rolen, who hit .281 with 316 career homers, would join the group. He made his debut on the writers’ ballot in 2018 with just 10.2% of support, the lowest first-year figure of anyone who was eventually elected by the writers.

Even so, Rolen said, all he wanted was to clear the 5% threshold to remain on the ballot. He learned he had done that while listening on the radio in a parking lot with his son, Finn, before a fourth-grade basketball practice.

“He was like, ‘Dad, I think you’re getting in,’ and I’m like, ‘Mmm, I don’t think so,’” Rolen said in a video news conference Tues-

day. “It was Chipper Jones, Jim Thome, Trevor Hoffman — it was a big ballot. I didn’t know a lot about the system for quite a while, and it came up at 10%, something like that, and I was still on. And he says to me, ‘Did we win?’ And I said, ‘Oh, we won. Yes, we won.’”

That initial victory, of sorts, triggered a steady climb: 17.2% in 2019 to 35.3, 52.9, 63.2 and finally to Tuesday’s winning figure. Todd Helton, the former first baseman for the Colorado Rockies, was right behind Rolen with 72.2% of the vote in his fifth try, followed by former closer Billy Wagner (68.1) and former outfielders Andruw Jones (58.1) and Gary Sheffield (55.1).

All of those candidates will return next year, along with a group of 10 other holdovers that includes Carlos Beltrán (the top vote-getter among first-year candidates, at 46.5%). The next ballot will also include newcomers Joe Mauer, Chase Utley and Adrián Beltré, who will likely become the next third baseman in the Hall.

Beltré is one of 11 third basemen to win at least five Gold Gloves, and all except Rolen are 6-foot-2 or shorter. Rolen is 6-foot-4 and 245 pounds, yet the scouts who recommended him to Arbuckle — Scott Trcka, Dick Lawlor and Marti Wolever — accurately predicted that he would never outgrow the position.

“He didn’t look like a guy who was ever going to get really heavy, or too thick through the legs to move well,” Arbuckle said. “And his wingspan, I mean, it’s incredible for a third baseman. So you put that

along with the quickness he had in his lower half, it made him one of the top two or three defenders I’ve ever seen.”

The Phillies took Rolen in the second round with the 46th overall pick in 1993 and signed him for $250,000. Three years later they found another stalwart with the 46th pick in shortstop Jimmy Rollins, who would join other homegrown stars like Utley, Ryan Howard and Cole Hamels in making the Phillies a powerhouse.

For Rolen, though, the timing never quite worked out in Philadelphia; unable to reach a contract extension with the Phillies, he was traded to St. Louis in 2002, joining

a punishing offense that also included Albert Pujols and Jim Edmonds. Squarely in his prime, Rolen would be an All-Star in each of the next four seasons and a regular in October.

In 2004, Rolen hit a go-ahead homer off Houston’s Roger Clemens in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series, propelling the Cardinals to the pennant. It turned out to be his last hit of the season, as Rolen went 0 for 15 in a World Series sweep by Boston.

“In the offseason, I said, ‘I’m never going to win the World Series, because I can’t play on a better team than that, talent-wise,’” Rolen said. “That was as good a group, inside the group, as you could possibly have — and we got killed. But we came back in ’06 and it changed my mind about a lot of things. We kind of backed in and we got hot and ran the table.”

The 2006 Cardinals won only 83 games (the fewest in a full regular season for any champion), but beat Detroit in the World Series with Rolen hitting a team-high .421. To get there, he had to overcome the New York Mets in the NLCS — and the shock of seeing Endy Chavez steal a would-be homer off his bat in Game 7.

“I know I homered that ball and he’s not anywhere near it,” Rolen said. “So to see him flying from nowhere and making that catch when I know that I’ve hit the ball over the fence — and on top of that doubling up Edmonds — it was unbelievable.”

On Tuesday there was no leaping outfielder to pull back Rolen’s accomplishment. This time, he cleared the barrier to baseball immortality.

Scott Rolen was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his sixth year of eligibility.

Rolen established himself quickly in Philadelphia, winning the N.L.’s Rookie of the Year Award in 1997.

The most important passing yards are gained on the ground

By MIKE TANIER

The quintessential San Francisco 49ers forward pass travels roughly 15 feet through the air. It can be thrown by rookie quarterback Brock Purdy to targets like Deebo Samuel, Christian McCaffrey or George Kittle, who then dodge, weave, sprint or steam roll through defenders to transform what looked like a meager 5-yard pass into a highlight.

The 49ers have long been notorious for relying upon short tosses to speedy yet burly receivers to maximize yards after the catch, or YAC. The 49ers led the NFL in YAC per reception in 2019 (6.6), 2020 (6.2) and 2021 (6.5). They tied the Kansas City Chiefs and Carolina Panthers for the league lead with 6.6 YAC per reception in the 2022 regular season.

That’s right: Kansas City, while still an aerial circus, also relies heavily on yards after the catch to supplement its offense. So do the Philadelphia Eagles, who finished tied for fifth in the NFL with 5.8 YAC per reception. Even the Cincinnati Bengals, whose signature play remains a moon launch from Joe Burrow to Ja’Marr Chase, finished tied for 11th in the league with 5.2 YAC per reception.

All four teams that reached their conference’s championship game counted as much or more on their playmakers to generate passing yardage as they did upon the fastballhurling heroics of their quarterbacks. Yet there is much more than one way to spin some YAC.

The 49ers’ offense, originally built for the unassuming Jimmy Garoppolo, is almost custom tailored to the needs of an inexperienced passer like Purdy.

Samuel is a receiver with the moves and power of a running back; McCaffrey a running back with a receiver’s speed and hands; and Kittle a tight end with the traits of a Marvel superhero. No defense is equipped to cover three receivers with such diverse skill sets, and coach Kyle Shanahan clumps them into unpredictable configurations then sends them into unexpected patches of the field in search of mismatches. Purdy plays more like a point guard than a quarterback, dishing out dimes and then watching the drives and dunks.

Once Purdy’s tosses reach their targets, the juking and trucking begins. Broken and eluded tackles are an unofficial stat, but per Sports Info Solutions, Samuel broke or eluded 27 tackles on receptions, the highest figure in the NFL among receivers, despite missing four games with injuries. McCaffrey broke or eluded 13 tackles after joining the 49ers via a trade from the Panthers in October. Brandon Aiyuk, the 49ers’ deep threat, added 16 broken or eluded tackles, while Kittle pitched in 12.

Thanks to all the evasive maneuvers, the typical 49ers completion traveled just 5.4 yards downfield through the air, tied for the ninth-lowest figure in the league, but resulted in a 12.0 yard gain, the league’s fifth-highest average.

Patrick Mahomes hardly requires training wheels to operate Kansas City’s offense. When the Chiefs traded All-Pro deep threat Tyreek Hill to the Miami Dolphins before the season, however, Mahomes and the team downshifted into a shorter passing attack built around Travis Kelce, who led all tight ends with 24 broken or eluded tackles in the regular

season and caught 14 passes for 98 yards and two touchdowns in last week’s 27-20 divisional-round victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars.

On the rare occasions Kelce is not open, Mahomes often jettisons short lobs to running back Jerick McKinnon, whose 9.7 YAC per reception ranked third in the NFL. Kansas City’s game plans are also loaded with shovel passes and other glorified handoffs designed to deliver the ball to Kelce (5.9 YAC per reception) or speedsters like Kadarius Toney (7.3), who was acquired in a midseason deal with the New York Giants. Mahomes sprained his right ankle against the Jaguars, limiting his mobility and ability to plant his foot to throw downfield. He is expected to play against the Bengals in the AFC championship game Sunday; if he cannot, backup Chad Henne (essentially an assistant coach in pads and a helmet) gets the start. Either way, Kansas City will probably rely heavily on its YAC game.

For pass-catchers like Samuel and Kelce, yards after catch typically involve a slalom through rush-hour traffic. The Eagles’ A.J. Brown, however, generates much of his YAC on leisurely jogs into the end zone after torching a defender on a deep catch. Brown produced 152 yards after catch on passes that traveled 20 yards through the air to reach him, the highest figure in the league.

Not all of the Eagles’ yards after catch come on glorified victory laps, however. As the Giants learned in their 38-7 loss to the Eagles on Saturday, Philadelphia coach Nick Sirianni likes to scatter his receivers near the sideline so Jalen Hurts can fling quick screens immediately after the snap. By the time defenders sift through all the blocking and braiding, tight end Dallas Goedert (7.6 YAC per reception) or receiver DeVonta Smith (5.2) might already be in the end zone.

A strong downfield passing game can force the opposing defense to play on its heels, which creates lots of open space

for catch-and-run opportunities in the middle of the field. Kansas City and Philadelphia use such tactics effectively, but Cincinnati excels at punishing opponents who line their safeties up in the stadium parking lot to stop deep threats Chase, Tyler Boyd and Tee Higgins.

Bengals running backs Joe Mixon (7.8 YAC per reception) and Samaje Perine (8.4) often leak out of the backfield for short Burrow lobs when defenses are preoccupied elsewhere. Chase himself sometimes evades defenders after catching quick screens (16 broken or eluded tackles in just 12 games) or threatens them with what looks like a deep route, then turns to snag a short catch before strolling through the open countryside as they stumble backward. All of those short jabs inevitably set opponents up for a deep haymaker.

A passing game built around quick throws neutralizes the opponent’s pass rush: bad news for the Eagles’ defense, which led the league with 70 regular-season sacks and hopes to pressure Purdy into making mistakes. A YAC-focused offense also forces defenders to make difficult open-field tackles, spelling trouble for Kansas City, which missed 82 regularseason tackles, tied for sixth most in the NFL.

While the other remaining Super Bowl contenders have enjoyed success after the catch this year, Shanahan’s 49ers remain the experts at forcing tiny cornerbacks to tangle with the likes of Samuel, making sluggish linebackers chase McCaffrey and Kittle and ensuring other defenders do the things they are not very good at. If the 49ers finally win a Super Bowl using their YAC tactics, the message should be clear for the NFL’s rebuilding franchises: Flood the field with versatile ballhandlers, be creative, and do not be afraid to take the ball out of the quarterback’s hands a little more often.

Knowing the NFL, however, those franchises would more likely come away from a 49ers championship thinking, “Let’s do whatever it takes to find the next Brock Purdy.”

Deebo Samuel averages an 8.8 yard gain after every catch to lead a San Francisco 49ers offense built on short passes.

Tommy Paul and American tennis are having a moment

By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY

The tennis breakthroughs keep coming for Tommy Paul and his American friends.

Taylor Fritz became the first of their peer group to win a Masters 1000 title last year at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California.

A few months later, Frances Tiafoe became the first of their group to reach a Grand Slam semifinal in singles, pushing eventual U.S. Open champion Carlos Alcaraz to five sets.

Now Paul, a smooth-moving talent who grew up near a small tennis academy run by his family in Greenville, North Carolina, has become the first American man to reach an Australian Open singles semifinal since Andy Roddick in 2009.

For Paul, who defeated American newcomer Ben Shelton, 7-6 (6), 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, in the quarterfinals Wednesday, all this is no coincidence.

“I think it applies a lot,” Paul said. “You see Fritz win a Masters 1000, and I think all of us we’re all happy for him, but we’re all like, ‘OK, he did it. We can do that.’

“And then ‘Foe makes semifinals of the U.S. Open and had chances in the semis, and who knows what would have happened if he had won that match? So, you see that happen, and you’re, like, ‘All right, that’s awesome. I’m happy for him, but I can do that.’”

Paul, 25, has taken the hint, with ample encouragement from veteran coach Brad Stine, who began working with him in September 2019 when Paul was outside the top 100 and had recently lost funding and coaching support from the U.S. Tennis Association and was denied a wild card at the 2019 U.S. Open.

“That was based on some disciplinary things,” Stine said.

But Stine was impressed by Paul’s openness to coaching and change — and his ability to handle world-class pace from the baseline — and although there have been some setbacks and lots of text messages, Stine feels Paul’s game is maturing and his commitment growing.

“We went from him identifying himself as a counterpuncher,” Stine said, “to being a guy that’s looking for forehands and trying to dictate and dominate the court with the forehand, which was a big change because Tommy’s backhand had always been the more solid side of his game.”

Stine already has helped a young American succeed down under.

He was part of Jim Courier’s coaching team in 1992 and 1993 when Courier won back-to-back Australian Open singles titles and jumped in the Yarra River with Stine to celebrate.

“He’s done so much for my game,” Paul said of Stine. “In the past four years, he’s really taken me up many, many levels. I’m really appreciative, and hopefully we can keep going. I’m going to make him jump in the Yarra if we win this thing. I’m not going, but I’m going to make him do it.”

That swim, perhaps not the wisest idea in view of the Yarra’s pollution levels, remains a long shot.

Paul’s opponent in his first Grand Slam semifinal Friday will be none other than Novak Djokovic, who has won

a men’s-record nine singles titles at the Australian Open and who extended his winning streak at Melbourne Park to 26 matches Wednesday night, demolishing a fine player, No. 5 seed Andrey Rublev, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.

“I could not be happier with my tennis,” Djokovic said, his left hamstring still tightly wrapped but his movement and ball striking beyond reproach.

Paul has practiced with Djokovic but never faced him on tour. Even though Djokovic and Rublev were still on court during Paul’s post-victory news conference, Paul said he wanted the ultimate Melbourne challenge.

“I probably have a better chance of winning if it’s Rublev, but to play Novak here in Australia would be awesome,” Paul said.

He has more support than when he started. His mother Jill MacMillan, a former college player at East Carolina University who was his first coach, arrived in Melbourne on Wednesday morning after flying from Newark, New Jersey, to Los Angeles to Melbourne in economy class in her scrubs. She is an audiologist and had only a carry-on bag after scrambling to make the trip on short notice after Paul beat Roberto Bautista Agut in the fourth round.

“I texted Tommy once I was on my way and told him, ‘Your mom did something really crazy today. I just jumped on a flight from work,’” MacMillan said. “And he was like, ‘Unreal!’”

Twenty-four hours and not much sleep later, she was sit-

ting in the players box.

“Oh my gosh, I was so high on adrenaline, I didn’t feel it,” she said. “But Ben made it pretty hard for him, though.”

Shelton, a 20-year-old lefthander from Gainesville, Florida, playing in his first Australian Open, continued to impress in only his fourth tour-level event, pounding aces or aggressive second serves on break points and fighting back to force a fourth set even though he struggled for much of the match to return Paul’s serve.

“I think everyone should be really excited for that kid,” Paul said, after shaking Shelton’s hand twice and embracing him at the net.

There is genuine camaraderie among this rising generation of Americans, and Paul is now guaranteed to join Fritz and Tiafoe in the top 20 on Monday.

He already has defeated top-drawer opponents: beating Rafael Nadal and Alcaraz in 2022. He is an all-surface threat who grew up playing on green clay at his family’s club in North Carolina and won the French Open boys’ title on red clay in 2015, beating Fritz in the final. Last year, he reached the fourth round at Wimbledon on grass.

Now, he has made his deepest Grand Slam run on a hard court. The Yarra River, which still flows past Melbourne Park, awaits if Paul can beat the odds (and Djokovic) and become the first of his peer group to win a major title.

“Actually, I think he will be the one taking a swim if he wins,” Stine said with a grin.

Tommy Paul during his quarterfinal win over compatriot Ben Shelton.

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

Don’t let a lack of motivation prevent you from getting on with something that you know will be good for you and enhance your future. While the Moon hangs out with dreamy Neptune and potent Pluto, you could experience doubts. But once it edges into your sign, you’ll realize these are ghostly mirages that can only sabotage your best efforts if you allow them too, Aries.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Don’t believe everything you hear, Taurus. It might be wise to check any information, as with a Moon/ Neptune tie showing, even close ones can get things wrong. This also applies to anything you read online or any schemes that imply instant success. On the plus side, your social and romantic options are enhanced, so something good can emerge from this, if you’re ready.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

This isn’t a good time to discuss other people’s business, as you could give something away that someone would prefer to keep quiet. The Moon’s angle to Neptune, suggests that secrets can slip out of the bag, and this could reflect poorly on you, even if it happens by accident. If you’re keen to stay on good terms with this person, then it would be unwise to jeopardize your friendship.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

A positive aspect is encouraging you to give a plan your best shot. Don’t wait too long Cancer, as you could talk yourself out of it. With the Moon and Neptune bringing on a mist of confusion, you may decide it’s not worth the effort, when it truly is. If you have the experience and know what you’re doing, you’ll enjoy your journey to making it a reality. Don’t miss out, just do it!

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Go easy around finances, as you might be drawn into a scheme or to purchasing something that you’ll regret later. You’re usually very astute, but you could slip up if someone promises you something you really want. On a more adventurous note, you’ll benefit from taking up an offer of a trip or other delightful experience. You may discover a whole new interest or path, Leo.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

Thought you had resolved an issue? Think again Virgo, as the current star map suggests you may need to take another look. Perhaps there is a reason why things still aren’t working out and you’ll be keen to look into this possibility. With the Moon angling towards ethereal Neptune, it may be more subtle than you think, so don’t presume anything or take certain facts for granted.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

A romance may seem to have wings and to be perfect for you, but if you sense an undercurrent then trust your instincts. Today’s blend of energies can be bewitching, and you may fail to notice some obvious flaws. A little detachment can assist you with seeing the reality of this potential bond, and from there to make a wise decision. Take it a step at a time and see how it goes.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

A book or article might be the inspiration you need to make a change to your lifestyle or wellness habits. It may not be a very big shift at this stage, as you may want to experiment with this idea or approach and see how it works for you. Ready to feel better about yourself? Making a firm decision could lead to a gradual improvement, as well as a sense of empowerment.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

The Sun in Aquarius encourages you to connect and communicate, while an intense aspect could incline you to keep quiet about something that needs to be talked about. If a matter comes to a head, consider discussing it with someone who can help. They may have strategies and angles that make light work of a complex issue. It’s better than trying to do it all by yourself.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

Are you getting mixed messages? A merger between the Moon and Neptune, suggests you may be a tad frustrated. Don’t be in too much of a hurry. Someone might need time to think things through and come to a decision. It’s better to wait until tomorrow, when you’ll have much more clarity around this issue and when you’ll get a more helpful response from this person, Capricorn.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Should you do something nice for others or channel your energy into an outing, creative project or a romantic date? You might feel a tad guilty for putting yourself first, and if truth be told, this may not be your obvious choice, as there is a side of you that might prefer to keep other people happy. But it can be so very energizing to indulge a hobby or take time out for pure pleasure.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Jupiter’s presence in Aries, means you may be eager to earn extra cash from hobbies and activities you really enjoy. It seems you are in demand though Pisces, and may already have commitments to the various groups or projects you are a part of. Because of this, you can feel pulled in two directions at times. Still, it’s a good idea to invest in yourself and your skills.