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‘Preposterous’ Maintenance Backlog at Schools Managed by Public Buildings Authority

Iranian Mothers Choose Exile for Sake of Their Daughters

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Governor Laments Latest Spasm of Violent Crime as FBI Joins Investigation into Slaying of 2 Girls Found in Loíza

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Governor: Commonwealth status proposal is ‘unreal’ and ‘fanciful’

By THE STAR STAFF

Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago’s political status proposal offers nothing new and has been rejected in the past by the federal executive and legislative branches and the U.S. Supreme Court, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Thursday.

The proposal is an amendment to congressional legislation for a status vote. The proposal for the further development of the commonwealth proposed by Dalmau Santiago notes that a vote for the commonwealth option is a mandate to empower the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico under certain principles and parameters that define the nature of the political relationship with the United States.

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that they [the pro-commonwealth Popular Democratic Party] are proposing is something that has been proposed previously. They have never received support in Congress. They are unreal proposals; they are fanciful proposals. We didn’t have the famous pact. If you read the Constitution, it talks about the nature of a pact, but at the highest level of the federal government, both the president and congressional leaders, there was no such bilateral pact.”

Pierluisi pointed out that treaties with the U.S. government are unilateral, in the sense that one of the two parties can leave the pact. He described as “ridiculous” the idea that you can choose which federal laws apply to the island and which do not.

“No state has that power,” he noted.

According to the Senate president’s proposal, the new commonwealth of Puerto Rico would be united to the United States through a formal pact of political autonomy. The pact would have the character of a permanent relationship, and any modification to the terms of the political relationship between both peoples must be approved by the people of Puerto Rico using a referendum.

Under the new pact, the U.S. citizenship of persons born in Puerto Rico would be guaranteed and protected as established in the U.S. Constitution. The application, protections and rights associated with that citizenship would equal those of citizens born in the states.

Federal laws and programs would be enforced in Puerto Rico with the provisions of the autonomy pact. However, in the event that the government of Puerto Rico understands that the promulgation of a federal law or specific provisions of a statute or regulation of the United States government, modifies or affects the powers granted to the people of Puerto Rico with respect to their self-government, fiscal autonomy or cultural identity, the government of Puerto Rico may claim -through a joint resolution, approved by the Legislative Assembly and signed by the governor -- the exemption from the application of such laws or regulations.

The agreement would include an expedited mediation mechanism to address such claims that would supersede the corresponding provisions of the Federal Relations Act of July 3, 1950 regarding the application of certain federal laws that, due to their scope, could unilaterally modify the island’s political autonomy.

“There is nothing new there,” the governor said. “All

“Enough of that unworthy status, of that inferior status that causes us to go to Congress all the time to demand equal treatment,” added the governor, in reference to issues such as nutritional assistance, Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid and Medicare.

Senate President José Luis Dalmau

Senator points out ‘preposterous’ school maintenance backlog

By THE STAR STAFF

Sen. Ada García Montes, who chairs the Education Committee in the island upper chamber, expressed frustration on Thursday in response to information provided by Public Buildings Authority (AEP by its Spanish initials) Director Yamil Ayala Cruz, who acknowledged that with a new school year about to begin, maintenance work has been completed at only 16 of the 324 schools overseen by the entity.

“It is absolutely preposterous,” García Montes said. “Everyone knows that school starts in August, and reasonably the AEP should’ve had a realistic plan to perform all the work which they are obligated by law to perform. Now at the tail end of July, the only thing Ayala is promising is his ‘intention to make sure schools are as prepared as possible.’ That to me is not an acceptable response and my call to Governor Pierluisi is that he addresses with true urgency what is happening at the AEP.”

Out of the 854 schools in the public school system, it is estimated that 364 are under the AEP jurisdiction.

Ayala has said that his personnel have been working on weekends and holidays, to which the Mayagüez and Aguadilla district senator responded, “but not even

that has been enough to get up to date.” “What needs to come next is for the director to present what the specific plan is to cover all Puerto Rican schools,”

García Montes said. “A rural school in Las Marías is just as important as one in the island’s capital.”

“The allegation by Ayala that the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico hasn’t assigned the resources necessary to the AEP for schools, taking that as true, have there been any collaborative agreements with other government agencies, with municipalities, with sports organizations, community organizations, or are these simply expected to collaborate?” the senator added. “To me, without a doubt the AEP could and can do much more than this.”

Regarding the claim that the rest of the schools are not handled by the AEP but instead are the responsibility of the Office of Public School Improvement, García Montes called on interim Education Secretary Yanira Raíces to respond to the situation.

“Let’s hope this administrative unit is not in the same boat with the same setbacks,” the senator said. “There are funds and personnel to get the job done. It’s up to the administration, but overall they have to have the will.”

Cayey promotes education with school supplies distribution

By THE STAR STAFF

As the beginning of the school year for public schools in Puerto Rico draws near, the shopping spree will most certainly begin. School shopping sprees are not simple tasks; anyone who is a parent can share their experience of back-to-school shopping and how difficult it is, not only because of the volume of people visiting supercenters and supply stores, but also because of Inflation. According to the National Retail Federation, back-to-school spending is expected to go up this year in the United States, with $41.5 billion in spending anticipated, up from last year’s $36.9 billion. The median household income in Puerto Rico is $21,967; therefore, a lot of parents simply don’t have the resources to spend too much money on school materials. However, Cayey’s municipal administration is mitigating the issue. On Thursday, Mayor Rolando Ortiz Velázquez announced that as a municipal strategy the town government will support public education by once again incentivizing the back-to-school season

with the distribution of supply kits for Cayey’s preschoolers and elementary school children.

The event will take place next Wednesday, Aug. 2 in a drive-through format in front of Pedro Montañez Stadium from 8 a.m. to noon. Parents or guardians who attend the event must bring paper evidence of Cayey residence (such as an electricity or water service bill) and personal identification, and fill out some additional paperwork.

Each kit includes six notebooks, pencils, pencil sharpeners, crayons, writing paper, map books and many other materials. Masks will also be included, as well as antibacterial gel. There are more than 3,800 kits available and ready for distribution throughout the time established or as long as they last.

It isn’t the first time the central mountain town has invested in education. Over the past couple of years, the municipality has had many initiatives to support students and schools in general, such as giving away a tablet computer to every high school graduate with the purpose of incentivizing educational work or any kind of work in

their immediate future. All graduates from private and public schools receive the same benefit. Over the past nine years, more than 4,000 students have benefited from the municipal initiative, which promotes technological innovation.

Recently, Cayey held various graduations, where all three high school classes of 2023

received $5,000 each to cover the cost of all expenses related to the 2023 class. All of this was accomplished through an arrangement whereby students performed voluntary labor receiving visitors in the town’s well-known tourist spots, promoting tourism in each of its manifestations -- gastronomic, sports and cultural.

Sen. Ada García Montes

Cayey Mayor Rolando Ortiz Velázquez announced Thursday that the municipal government will again distribute school supply kits for the central mountain town’s preschoolers and elementary school children.

Governor laments wave of violent crime as FBI joins probe into slaying of 2 girls

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Thursday that he does not foresee major changes in the Police Security Plan, but acknowledged that efforts must be increased to address the roots of crime in response to the slayings of three minors and two young adults in the towns of Loíza and Carolina on Tuesday.

“There are roots of crime for which the solution is more long-term. What the police do is more reactive and more about reacting to the crime at the time and investigating it hand-inhand with the Department of Justice so that the crimes are solved and those responsible are prosecuted,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “But I recognize that there is another job that we have to do at the level of our education system, at the level of our support that we give to families in Puerto Rico. The mental health problem we have, the addiction problem we have on the island. That is, there is also a question here of values that we have to be working on constantly, since they are children until they are already in adulthood.”

Meanwhile, the FBI field office in San Juan joined local authorities in investigating the slaying of two minors in Loíza, for which the FBI requested the public’s cooperation in obtaining relevant information about the case.

“The FBI is requesting information regarding the double murder of Tanaisha Michelle De Jesus Curet, 15, and Nahia Paola Ramos Lopez, 13. If you or someone you know has information, call 787-987-6500 or leave a tip through http://tips.FBI.gov,” reads a statement from FBI San Juan on its Twitter account.

The two disappeared from their home in the Las 500 community in Arroyo.

The slayings occurred in the early hours of Tuesday when the two girls were found dead inside a stolen 2018 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck in a beach area off highway PR-187 in the Piñones district of Loíza.

The truck had been carjacked on Sunday.

The authorities do not rule out a link to a triple-slaying that occurred hours later in the Campeche sector of the Martín González neighborhood in Carolina.

The Institute of Forensic Sciences confirmed the identity of the three young victims of the Carolina slayings. The victims, Erik Johan Batista Trinidad, 27, Iván Alfonso Morales Rivera, 15, and Dartaneon Pablo Figueroa Navarro, 18, were found Wednesday.

“We are in an all-out fight against crime and we are working with federal law enforcement authorities like never before,” the governor said. “Here what you have to do is intensify. It is to continue intensifying that struggle. And to lower violence in Puerto Rico, starting with

murders even more than it has dropped in its total number. And let’s not have violence of any kind, which is the goal we must have as a people.”

“But we need change,” Pierluisi continued. “Well, the changes are constantly happening in the sense that here the regions of the police, the 13 regions that we have, the police, the commands, the 13 command units are sharing information, intelligence. This has been the case since this administration began; that’s something new. In the same way, we have a new superintendency that basically unites the work of the division of drugs, stolen vehicles and another for homicides, among others. And again, coordinate and share information. That is new and the important thing is, as I say, to keep it firm.”

Pierluisi sent his condolences to the families of all five young victims.

“Right now, I can only join in the grief of their relatives. I lost a brother to carjacking. I know the suffering that the families of those five young people must have,” the governor said. “What is now missing is for this to be thoroughly investigated. I welcome the fact that both the police and the FBI are investigating this so that it is solved and whoever has to be held responsible is held accountable. But my solidarity, my brotherhood with all the relatives of these young people, because I know what they are going through.”

House speaker files resolution to accelerate fiscal board’s departure

By THE STAR STAFF

Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez on Thursday introduced House Concurrent Resolution 70, which seeks to accelerate the departure of the Financial Oversight and Management Board from Puerto Rico and return control of the government to local hands.

The resolution joins the legislative effort in favor of HR 7409, the “Trust for Puerto Rico Act of 2022,” proposed in the U.S House of Representatives by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.).

“We support this legislation proposed by Congressman Torres, because it addresses the structural defects of the PROMESA [Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act] law by establishing achievable and measurable objectives for the exit of the Fiscal Control Board,” Hernández Montañez said in a written statement.

The House speaker criticized PROMESA for what he said is its ambiguity, arguing that “it does not guarantee the exit of the Board despite the approval of balanced budgets including the payment of debt service, financial statements are up to date and capital markets can be accessed again.”

This measure is in addition to House Resolution 764, approved in the island House of Representatives with the affirmative vote of four of the five delegations of that body.

“I thank Congressman Torres and his entire team for their commitment and consistency in the fight for the causes of Puerto Rico,” Hernández Montañez said.

Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Rafael Hernández Montañez

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi

Judge grants US attorney general time to decide whether to intervene in constitutional challenges to PREPA debt plan

By THE STAR STAFF

U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain granted the U.S. attorney general time Thursday to decide on intervening in the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bankruptcy following constitutional challenges to its debt adjustment plan.

The U.S. attorney general filed for the extension to weigh in on the matter after Assured Guaranty, a monoliner, filed a constitutional challenge to PREPA’s plan of adjustment. Another legal challenge was filed by the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union (UTIER by its Spanish acronym).

The attorney general asked the court on Wednesday for time until Sept. 6 to decide whether to intervene, arguing that the U.S. has a statutory right to intervene in any federal court action where a congressional act’s constitutionality is called into question. Assured Guaranty objected to PREPA’s plan of adjustment on June 12, arguing in part that the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), which governs the Title III restructuring, violates the uniformity requirement of the U.S. Constitution’s bankruptcy clause because it treats Puerto Rico differently from other U.S. jurisdictions. That argument has previously been rejected, but, Assured argued, the earlier ruling has been “superseded by oth-

er authorities and events,” including that the Financial Oversight and Management Board argued, and the court agreed, in the bond lien and recourse challenge that the oversight board had the status of a trustee in bankruptcy.

“Absent a future reversal of the summary judgment order, that holding necessarily means that PROMESA is a ‘bankruptcy’ law subject to the uniformity requirement of the bankruptcy clause,” Assured said.

UTIER issued a notice of its constitutional challenge on June 14 arguing that PROMESA was imposed upon the people of Puerto Rico based on the infamous and racist Insular Cases from the early 20th century that allowed the U.S. territories to be treated differently.

Repairs to Urban Train account for bulk of $31 million federal injection

By THE STAR STAFF

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón announced Thursday that Puerto Rico will receive a new federal economic injection of $30.9 million for the repair and conditioning of public transportation terminals and the acquisition of vehicles in Las Marías, Hormigueros and Ponce, as well as for the Urban Train.

The four appropriations come from the Federal Transit Administration’s Fiscal Year 2023 Emergency Relief Funds. González Colón, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, supports funding and programs that allow reconstruction in the face of unexpected damages and expenses caused by natural disasters or other emergencies.

The Puerto Rico Highway and Transportation Authority will receive, on behalf of the Urban Train, $30.6

million for a permanent project to repair damage to the Urban Train’s heavy rail system. This project will include engineering and design services and the rehabilitation of fixed installations. The funds were awarded in response to the earthquake emergency declaration.

The Municipality of Hormigueros, meanwhile, will receive $396,000 to replace four vehicles damaged by natural disasters. The vehicles are used for community transportation services through the Julio Pérez Irizarry Multiple Activities and Services Center.

The Municipality of Las Marías will receive $312,419 for repairs to its public transportation terminal, which was damaged when Hurricane Isaias hit the island in July 2020.

The Municipality of Ponce will receive $150,937 for permanent repairs to the Carlos Garay Public Car Terminal and the Dora Colón Clavell Urban Park, facilities that were damaged by hurricanes Maria and Fiona.

Authorities search for man who refused assistance in waters off Rincón

By THE STAR STAFF

Authorities were searching off the coast of Rincón on Thursday for a man who was caught in a riptide and did not want to be rescued Wednesday.

According to the police report, on Wednesday afternoon a call was received through the 9-1-1 Emergency System about a person who had been swept away by the current off Lala Beach in the Pueblo neighborhood, behind the Rincón Credit Union. Emergency management personnel, Rincón district personnel and members of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau’s United Forces of Rapid Action Maritime Unit of

Aguadilla, aboard the Cobra 54 vessel, arrived at the site, where the man reportedly refused to receive the necessary help from the authorities.

Lt. Juan González Rivera threw a life preserver in an attempt to rescue the individual, to no avail. González Rivera then went into the sea in an effort to help the man, but failed as the man, identified as Edward Trowbridge Herbert, 48, a resident of the Sierra Maestra sector of the Cruces de Rincón neighborhood, went under.

González Rivera was rescued by the captain of the vessel, agent Jessie Torres, and transferred to the Añasco Diagnostic and Treatment Center.

The U.S. Coast Guard and the Maritime Unit of Añasco conducted a search along the coast to locate the man, but the search was unsuccessful as of press time Thursday.

Some $30.6 million has been allotted for a permanent project to repair damage to the Urban Train’s heavy rail system.

A 9-1-1 Emergency System call received on Wednesday afternoon reported that a person had been swept away by the current off Lala Beach in the Pueblo neighborhood of Rincón.

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, JULIE TURKEWITZ and EDGAR SANDOVAL

In the 76 days since President Joe Biden imposed tough new restrictions on the nation’s asylum system, the number of migrants crossing the United States’ southern border illegally every day has dropped significantly.

Why?

The answer to that question is at the heart of a legal challenge to the president’s latest immigration policies, which critics say are undermining America’s decades-old role as a refuge for people fleeing violence, persecution, famine and economic dislocation.

The flow of migration across the hemisphere typically rises or falls because of many factors, including weather patterns, war, famine, economic conditions and immigration enforcement actions taken by other countries.

But decisions by the United States about how it polices the border also have an effect — including the asylum policy that a federal judge blocked this week.

Before the president’s asylum changes took effect on May 11, border patrol officials were encountering about 7,500 migrants trying to cross the border illegally each day — record-breaking numbers that were putting severe strains on the immigration officials and border communities.

Since then, the numbers have declined to about 3,000 migrants each day. That is still historically high, but dramatically lower.

On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that Biden’s changes to the asylum system were illegal. Judge Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court in Northern California said the presumption that most migrants crossing illegally are ineligible for asylum violates decades of law and, pending an appeal, “cannot remain in place.”

Administration officials warn that removing the new asylum restrictions could cause illegal crossings to spike again, though no one knows for sure what will happen.

Here is a look at the various forces at play when it comes to migration at the southern border.

Fear and deterrence

The administration’s asylum policy has made it far less likely that a migrant fleeing from violence or persecution in Central or South America would be able to cross the border and remain in the United States while courts consider an asylum claim.

So that could be having a deterrent effect, causing some migrants in places like Venezuela, Nicaragua or Honduras to stay where they are rather than attempting a long, often dangerous

journey to the southern border of the United States.

But immigration advocates say the policy is putting many migrants in danger by discouraging them from legitimately seeking refuge in the United States, effectively abandoning its traditional humanitarian role in the region.

Will the numbers of illegal border crossers increase if the judge’s ruling stands?

It’s possible.

Some migrants might decide it is once again worth the risk to travel to the U.S. border and claim asylum under the old rules. That could lead to a new surge of people heading north, especially if some are egged on by cartels and “coyotes,” who charge huge sums of money to help migrants make the journey to the border.

But as Tigar noted in his ruling, ending Biden’s new policy would “restore a regulatory regime that was in place for decades before,” when the number of migrants crossing the border was far lower.

In communities along the border, migrants who have already made it into the United States were uncertain about what the judge’s ruling meant for them or people waiting on the Mexican side of the border.

Sitting in a bus station on Wednesday, not far from the Catholic Charities Respite Center in downtown McAllen, Texas, Herbin Moncada, 45, a native of Venezuela, scanned his phone to read about the latest news.

“Today they say one thing, and the next it changes,” Moncada said. “The truth is that you

can’t trust what they say in the news. A judge issues a ruling, they go to court, fight it, and the next day, it is reversed.”

New legal pathways

When Biden imposed the new asylum policy in May, his administration also added new opportunities for some migrants — but not all — to enter the United States legally, without having to try to cross the border illegally.

The new opportunities are for migrants from four countries — Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela — and are limited to a total of 30,000 people each month. Migrants can apply to be accepted while in their own countries; they do not have to travel to the U.S. border first.

Those who meet certain qualifications (like having a relative or friend to sponsor them in the United States) can be admitted for up to two years, with a work permit but no way to earn a permanent green card or American citizenship.

Administration officials have said the drop in illegal crossings at the southern border is in part the result of migrants taking advantage of the new opportunities. Officials have said that during the first half of 2023, nearly 160,000 migrants have come into the United States legally from the four countries. Illegal border crossings by migrants from the four countries has dropped 89%, officials said.

“The Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to expanding lawful pathways as an alternative to irregular migration has yielded positive results,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a recent statement.

But the new opportunities — known as “parole” — are not a solution for everyone, as Tigar noted in his ruling, saying they will “necessarily be unavailable to many asylum-seekers due to the parole programs’ limited scope and eligibility requirements.”

Smartphone asylum

When the administration imposed the new asylum rules, they also expanded the ability for migrants at the border to make appointments to claim asylum at one of about 26 official ports of entry along the 2,000-mile border.

Those who make an appointment will not be subject to the tough new asylum rules. They will generally be allowed to wait in the United States while courts decide whether they are granted asylum — a process that sometimes takes years.

The catch? To do make an appointment, they must use a new smartphone app known as CBP One.

Administration officials say the new appointment system is helping to funnel some of the migrants away from illegal border crossings into a more orderly system at the ports of entry. Officials have said 30,000 migrants used the app to make appointments in May.

In downtown McAllen, two immigrants from Haiti, Fadeline Birote, 26, and Loodine LaBossiere, 29, said they applied using the app and even though it meant waiting longer to cross from Mexico, the process was more orderly.

“There are a lot of people waiting to cross,” Birote said. “Everybody is waiting for news, but it keeps changing. It’s very confusing.”

What comes next?

American border policies do not tell the whole story.

Apprehensions at the Mexico-U.S. border may be down in recent weeks. But further south, migration toward the United States has shown little sign of abating — an indication that many more migrants plan to show up at the border in the coming weeks.

The Darién Gap is the dangerous jungle land bridge where Colombia and Panama meet, that must be traversed to get from South America to the United States on foot. Once believed too dangerous to cross, in the past two years it has become a migrant thoroughfare, contributing to an unprecedented wave of South American migrants showing up at the U.S. border.

Last year, 248,000 people crossed the gap, a record that many officials in Colombia, Panama and the United States once thought inconceivable. This year, as of Monday, nearly 240,000 people had already crossed, according to migration authorities in Panama.

Camping out in the gap between the two border fences separating Tijuana and San Diego, migrants wait to be processed by U.S. officials on May 11, 2023.

How and why illegal border crossings have dropped so dramatically

By PATRICIA MAZZEI

The stereotype of how many Miamians speak involves a sing-songy rhythm with a heavy-sounding “L” and a generous sprinkling of Spanglish. But what if the conversational language of South Florida were more than a lively accent? What if it were a distinct regional dialect of American English?

Phillip M. Carter, a linguistics professor at Florida International University, argues that it already is. Miami English, he calls it. And he is on a mission to destigmatize it.

“This is probably the most important bilingual situation in the Americas today,” Carter said.

More than 60 years of steady immigration from Spanish-speaking countries have heavily influenced the local English’s vowel system (Miami residents often speak English with Spanish vowel sounds), grammatical structure and lexicon, he explained: “English is influencing Spanish, but Spanish is also influencing English.”

The result is a version of English that is just as worthy of recognition as other widely accepted dialects, Carter said, such as the ones spoken in New York or in the American South.

“People are really tired of being told that they’re wrong, and tired of being corrected,” he said, adding that “those linguistic differences are a really important part of people’s identities.”

In his latest study, Carter and a co-author, Kristen D’Alessandro Merii, posited that decades of exposure to Spanish, which often feels like Miami’s dominant language, has resulted in phrases spoken and understood even by native English speakers who are not fluent in Spanish. (Some amount of Spanish is spoken in perhaps half of Miami-Dade County households, Carter estimated, though in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods, that figure can exceed 90%.)

Those phrases, translated from Spanish, are known as calques. For example: Get down from the car (bajarse del carro), instead of get out of the car. Make the line (hacer la fila), instead of join the line. She recommended me this (me recomendó esto), instead of she recommended this to me.

“Miami English is full of these types of expressions, and not only among immigrant speech, where you would expect to find it,” Carter said. “These expressions get passed down and incorporated into the speech of native English speakers.”

Andrew Lynch, a linguist at the University of Miami who has conducted research with

Carter, called the argument that Miami English is a dialect — which goes beyond an accent and refers to an all-encompassing way of speaking, including pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary — “a compelling hypothesis.”

“I’m not entirely convinced that we’re there right now,” Lynch said. “I think right now we’re more at the stage of a sociolect,” which refers to the way a particular social group speaks.

White Miamians once spoke more like other white Southerners, pronouncing Miami “Miamah.” That started to change after the 1959 Cuban Revolution as waves of immigrants from Cuba and other Latin American countries moved in, and white non-Hispanics started moving out.

Those immigrants were largely upper- and middle-class Spanish speakers, which helped establish Spanish as a strong and important language, Lynch said: “To this day, Miami is the only major urban area in the U.S. where Spanish is not relegated principally in the lower socioeconomic strata.”

Among the examples of Miami English in pop culture cited by Carter is a viral video from 2012 titled “Stuff Miami Girls Say … and Guys” — though using more colorful language — that parodies how frequently Miamians say things like “bro,” “irregardless” and “supposably.”

The three young Miamians in the video also use “super” as an adverb, one of the calques from Spanish mentioned in Carter’s research. (“Ay, I’m super bloated.”)

That a just-for-fun video more than a decade old found its way into an academic journal amused Michelle Sicars, 35, one of the video’s stars, who now lives in New York. But it did not surprise her to learn that Miami English might be its own dialect.

“I have friends in Miami who are 100% American — their parents are Irish and English — but they were born in Miami, and they have the accent, and they use these words,” she said. “It’s, like, the wildest thing.”

A linguistics professor at Florida International University argues that ‘Miami English’ is not just a regional accent, but a distinct regional dialect of American English.

‘Get down’ from the car. ‘Make’ the line. Is Miami English a dialect?

Amid shared pain over synagogue massacre, divisions on death penalty

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

Nearly a year after 11 people were murdered in the Pittsburgh synagogue where he worshipped, Stephen Cohen wrote a letter to the U.S. attorney general. The Justice Department had not yet declared its intent to seek a death sentence in the case, and Cohen, the co-president of New Light, one of the three congregations that met in the Tree of Life synagogue, wanted to weigh in.

“In consideration of the significant injury to our congregation,” he wrote, “I request that the parties agree to a plea deal in which the perpetrator would accept a sentence of life imprisonment.”

The issue for Cohen was that pursing a death sentence, rather than taking a plea, would mean a trial and an excruciating revival of the trauma that his fellow congregants had been struggling to overcome. Weeks later, the Justice Department announced it would seek the death penalty, and the trial that has unfolded in a federal courthouse over the past three months has been even more harrowing than he anticipated.

But his view of the issue has changed. “I was wrong,” he said last week. “Whether he gets put to death or not, I leave in the hands of 12 men and women who will make that decision, and God bless them for whatever decision they make. But we have the facts now.”

Over the nearly five years since the deadliest antisemitic attack in the country’s history, the question of justice has loomed, unresolved. Within days, the jury in the federal trial will make a decision that is central to that question of justice: whether Robert Bowers, the man who carried out the attack, should be condemned to death.

Most of the families of those who were killed have maintained that a death sentence would be the just outcome, even if it meant a longer and possibly more agonizing legal process. It is necessary, the families of nine victims said in a letter published last fall in The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, to show that “such violent hatred will not be tolerated on this earth.”

But others have strongly disagreed. Around the time that Cohen wrote to the attorney general, his rabbi, Jonathan Perlman, sent his own letter, citing passages from the Talmud and urging the government not to pursue “this cruel form of justice.” Miri Rabinowitz, the widow of Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, who was killed in

the shooting, wrote that seeking death would be a “bitter irony” given her husband’s devotion to “the sanctity of life.” Moreover, these and other letters argued, the trial and appeals process would only torment the survivors and draw attention to the killer.

In Jewish law and tradition, “there is no straightforward, single, unequivocal straightforward answer” about capital punishment, said Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky, who analyzed the issue for the international assembly of Conservative Jewish rabbis. Talmudic jurisprudence is strongly averse to the death penalty, said Kalmanofsky, who in his analysis wrote that American Jews should “should favor a policy preferring imprisonment to execution in virtually all cases.”

But, he said, Jewish citizens should understand this is ultimately a decision in the hands of a secular justice system. And while rabbinical tradition holds that the death penalty should be extremely rare, he said, it acknowledges “that sometimes there are incredibly exigent circumstances.”

In 1962, Israel did carry out the death sentence of Adolf Eichmann, one of the planners of the Holocaust. But no one has been sentenced to death in Israel since. A central question in the Pittsburgh case is whether Bowers, whose social media posts were full of genocidal hatred toward Jews — but who, his lawyers argue, has severe mental illness — is one of these extreme cases.

Many in Pittsburgh, even those who typically oppose the death penalty, believe he is.

“I’m actually quite struck by the number of people who have classically taken a fairly liberal approach who have said, ‘But in this case —,’” said Rabbi Danny Schiff, a scholar of Jewish ethics with the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. People may be opposed to the death penalty intellectually, he said, but Pittsburgh’s Jewish community has a familial closeness and the reaction to the attack was visceral. Seeking the gunman’s death may not be the right judgment under Jewish law, he said, but it is “the correct emotional response.”

For decades, Linda Hurwitz was a member of Tree of Life, worshipping alongside those who would be killed in the attack. Though she had left the congregation by 2018, she briefly considered returning on the morning of Oct. 27 to hear the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. On that date, 29 years earlier, her 17-year-old daughter was strangled and stabbed to death by a teenage boy she had befriended. Hurwitz sat through two trials and many hearings as the killer, now 51 and still in prison, made his journey through the justice system. It was agonizing, she said.

But a death sentence was never a possibility and was not something that Hurwitz would have sought. The murderer was not yet 18, she explained and seemed to have killed out of some tragically misdirected rage. She said the killer at Tree of Life, who was 46 at the time, appeared to act out of a cold, impersonal hatred — more like that of the functionaries in the Nazi death camps where Hurwitz’s mother and father were held and where members of their family were murdered.

“Someone who has so little value for life is antithetical to Judaism,” she said of Bowers. “You don’t have a right to live.”

For months now, those who have called for a death sentence and those who have opposed it have sat quietly together in the courtroom gallery, day after day, watching their fellow congregants describe the horror that they endured and learning more about the man who caused it. Many have given their own accounts from the witness stand.

Even for some, like Cohen, who had been against the trial, the slow but steady functioning of the legal system has been a public validation of private suffering, said Maggie Feinstein, the director of 10.27 Healing Partnership, which provides mental health services to people affected by the attack. “It’s important to know that we are pursuing justice in the way in which the rules were written,” she said. “Justice, justice shalt thou pursue,” she said, quoting the Torah.

The Pittsburgh synagogue massacre in 2018 is considered the deadliest antisemitic attack in the nation’s history.

Las Piedras restaurant opens a new chapter with expansion

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

Running a business is not easy, especially when you don’t have an established brand and people don’t know you yet.

Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a lot of economic harm to island small businesses as many struggled to stay open, especially restaurants.

However, for a young woman in Las Piedras, Wildalís González, opening a business in the middle of a pandemic didn’t sound like crazy talk at all. In August 2020, González and her team started working hard and on March 31, 2021 La Rotonda Bar & Rest (The Roundabout) opened its doors to the public. Last Friday, the business opened its expansion room.

“Even though we’ve always been a restaurant, we were rather small, but thanks to the acquisition of the empty space in the building we were able to open this new area, which I personally always dreamed of doing,” González said.

On Friday, the day of the expansion inauguration, Las Piedras Mayor Miguel “Micky” López Rivera presented the restaurant with an acknowledgment plaque with a drawing of the roundabout that is displayed in the front of the restaurant.

“I want to highlight the acknowledgement award because

it basically showcases the roundabout; that is what gives us our name as a restaurant,” González noted.

González believes the expansion will be extremely beneficial to the restaurant as now there is seating for an additional 75 people, while in the original room there is seating for at least 35 diners.

Pioneering house auction slated for next Thursday

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

It’s no secret that Puerto Rico’s economy is not at its best, considering global inflation overall, the island’s unique economic status, and other factors.

Perhaps, then, it would seem that doing business here would not necessarily be advisable for anyone who doesn’t benefit from Act 60. However, local residents seem to be quite interested in an upcoming home auction.

Next Thursday, Aug. 3, starting at 7 p.m. at the Sheraton

Puerto Rico Hotel & Casino in San Juan, A&G Real Estate Partners will auction a newly renovated luxury home in Villa Caparra, Guaynabo, in the heart of the San Juan metropolitan area. The $800,000 minimum bid in the “absolute auction” represents less than 50% of the appraised value of the 4,650-square-foot private residence. The offering is made possible by Planet Renovation Capital, which invested in and recently renovated the three-story, 1960s-era residence, now being marketed by A&G’s Real Estate Sales Division in partnership with Keller Williams Puerto Rico.

Even though bidding is starting at only $200,000 shy of $1 million and the median income on the island is around $21,967 per household, most of the auction participants are island residents.

“This … is an auction for everyone, not just for those who benefit from Act 60,” Orbe Soto of Keller Williams Puerto Rico told the STAR.

One of the key differences with this auction is that the home is being entirely remodeled.

“Most residence auctions are usually residences that aren’t in the best condition; a lot of the time people who buy these houses have to re-invest … in order to make it livable, even if it is considered a ‘luxury home,’” Soto said. “We wanted to auction a house that is ‘moving ready’ -- completely remodeled and ready to live in once it’s been bought.”

Soto added that prospective buyers can go to an open house, where they can see for themselves the details of the home and how it’s been remodeled.

“With this absolute auction, we are giving buyers the

“Last weekend was magnificent,” she said. “Many people visited the restaurant, new people; we get a lot of regulars, but this past weekend we had plenty of new people coming over to the restaurant, which is exactly what we want, to bring in new people.”

“Having two bars and an outdoor area in the restaurant where people can sit is a good advantage, and we want to highlight these details as much as possible,” González added.

Another interesting detail about the La Rotonda is that salsa classes will be offered in the restaurant every Wednesday at 6 p.m., starting Aug. 2. Prof. Adalberto Cruz will be teaching the courses.

“We really want to encourage our Puerto Rican spirit and bring people a space where they can distract themselves and learn to dance salsa as well,” González said.

González believes that now, thanks to their growth and the hard work she and her team have put into making the restaurant a success, they are reaping the fruits of their labor.

“Having a business is really difficult, staying competitive is very difficult, but it is very much possible,” she said. “You have to have a lot of guts and organize yourself as much as you can. I encourage anyone who wants to own a business to just go for it, and work toward it, because it really is possible to achieve your dreams.”

chance for the house to go out at the best cost,” he said. “... [I] f somebody offers $800,000 and that’s the best offer, that’s the best bid, that person will keep the house.”

The selling points of the Villa Caparra residence include its large, epicurean kitchen with marble counters, high-end appliances, a wine fridge and a breakfast nook, Soto noted.

“It is not a regular home,” he said. “On top of the immense space the house possesses, it has three floors and even an elevator.”

Soto believes that the upcoming auction is a sign that the real estate market in Puerto Rico is in very good shape. He believes that the competitive price will be very attractive to buyers, and that holding the auction, even if it wasn’t so innovative, represents a new option for island residents.

“Right now we have many people who are interested in this auction and we have our low starting cost to thank for that,” Soto said. “It is very innovative that we have a luxury single home auction in Puerto Rico and on top of that it is being remodeled; this is probably the first time this has ever happened in the history of real estate on the island.”

The $800,000 minimum bid in next week’s “absolute auction” represents less than 50% of the appraised value of the 4,650-square-foot private residence in Guaynabo. (Courtesy photo)

La Rotonda now offers seating for at least 110 diners. (Richard Gutiérrez/The San Juan Daily Star)

Global equities fall, dollar rises after strong U.S. data, rate hikes

Global equity markets and the U.S. dollar gained on Thursday following news of stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth despite consecutive interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank.

U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) increased 2.4% in the second quarter, Commerce Department data on Thursday showed, beating estimates from economists polled by Reuters and dampening concerns of a recession due to the Fed’s aggressive rate-tightening cycle. A Labor Department report also beat expectations as fewer people sought to claim unemployment benefits, indicating labor market resilience.

The MSCI world equity index, which tracks shares in nearly 50 countries, was up 0.53% after hitting its highest level since April last year.

The Fed on Wednesday delivered its 11th consecutive rate hike, raising its benchmark policy rate by 25 basis points to a 5.25%-5.50% range.

The European Central Bank followed on Thursday with a 25 basis point hike, its ninth increase in a row, taking its main reference rate to 3.75% to contain high consumer prices.

“Because there’s no risk in the market in the near term and everything looks so positive, everybody thinks this is going to be a soft landing and that’s what is being priced in the market currently,” said Aash Shah, senior portfolio manager at Summit Global Investments in Utah.

The dollar rose against a basket of its major peers after the rate hikes. The dollar index rose 0.574%, while the euro reversed gains to drop 0.78% to $1.0997 after ECB President Christine Lagarde told a press conference the central bank was determined to cool high consumer prices.

On Wall Street, the three main indexes firmed, with the Dow and benchmark S&P 500 on track for their 14th straight daily gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.19% to 35,586.45, the S&P 500 gained 0.58% to 4,593.19 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.13% to 14,287.49.

European stocks added 1.35%, with Italian and Spanish shares hitting their highest levels since 2008 and 2020 respectively.

“We are not out of the woods yet. There’s a lot of euphoria because everyone thinks we’re not going to have a recession but lots of indicators still point towards a recession, including the yield curve,” Shah added.

Global equity markets and the U.S. dollar gained on Thursday following news of stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth despite consecutive interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank.

U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) increased 2.4% in the second quarter, Commerce Department data on Thursday showed, beating estimates from economists polled by Reuters and dampening concerns of a recession due to the Fed’s aggressive rate-tightening cycle. A Labor Department

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report also beat expectations as fewer people sought to claim unemployment benefits, indicating labor market resilience.

Iranian mothers choose exile for sake of their daughters

By CORA ENGELBRECHT

One rainy spring evening, a young Iranian mother with a mangled arm, her husband and their 3-year-old daughter met a smuggler near the Iraqi border who gave them a stern ultimatum: Ensure the child’s silence or leave her behind.

The mother, Sima Moradbeigi, 26, recalled that she dashed to a pharmacy for a bottle of cough syrup to drug her daughter into a stupor.

Under the cover of night, the family followed the smuggler out of Iran along mountain paths, sometimes crouching or crawling through muddy scrubland to avoid border guards stalking their route with flashlights. Hours later, Moradbeigi and her husband said, they arrived safely at a mosque outside the city of Sulaimaniyah in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region.

Their daughter, Juan, barely stirred.

The Islamic Republic — a theocracy that arose after Iran’s 1979 revolution — was never hospitable to women who rebelled against its strict religious codes for dress and behavior. But their perils were amplified by a revolt that began in September, set off by the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, while she was in the custody of the country’s morality police.

Women played a central role in the months of anti-government protests that followed, demanding nothing less than the abolition of the entire system of authoritarian clerical rule. The government eventually stamped out most of the protests, leaving hundreds dead, according to rights groups.

Some mothers concluded that it would be better to risk their lives fleeing Iran to spare their daughters a lifetime under the authoritarian regime. These are the stories of three women who made that difficult choice.

Transformed by rage

Days after the protests began, Moradbeigi said she walked out her front door gripping a headscarf, which she planned to burn on the streets of her hometown, Bukan. Before that moment, she had not considered herself political.

She had found happiness with her husband, Sina Jalali, who owned a fabric shop, and their daughter. But she was enraged by the death of Amini, who had lived in Saqhez, not far from Moradbeigi’s hometown in Iran’s northwestern Kurdish region. Like Amini, she was part of Iran’s Kurdish minority, which

has faced discrimination and repression.

When she joined the protest that day in Bukan, Moradbeigi said, she came under a hail of gunfire from a security officer, who shot her with dozens of metal pellets. X-rays of her injuries, provided by Moradbeigi and one of her doctors, showed the pellets had pulverized her right elbow bone.

“Every minute, I was seeing death before my eyes,” Moradbeigi said in December, in one of a series of interviews over the past seven months. “But my heart was with my daughter. I could not die and leave her under this corrupt regime.”

Doctors warned that her arm might need to be amputated unless she got an elbow replacement quickly. But the surgery was too complicated to undergo in Iran. And Moradbeigi feared her injury made her an easy mark for police.

It was then that she resolved to leave the country.

Moradbeigi and her husband spent seven months in hiding as they struggled to find a smuggler to take them out of Iran. But over and over they were told that taking a young child would be too dangerous because her cries could give them away.

In late April, they finally received a call: For 10 million Iranian tomans (about $230) a smuggler agreed to arrange their escape. Within days, they sold everything they owned, even their children’s books, and left home with painkillers and $600 in cash.

A family divided, then reunited

Even before the protests began in Sep -

tember, Iranian women were risking their lives to try to ensure a better future for themselves, and in particular for their daughters. Some have been aided in their escapes by armed Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups, like Komala, based in the mountains of Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region, which has become a haven especially for Kurds escaping Iran.

Nasim Fathi, 38, an anti-government activist from the predominantly Kurdish city of Sanandaj, in northwestern Iran, was one of them. She said she fled to Sulaimaniyah a year ago after she was summoned to appear in court for participating in a political rally.

In the weeks before her escape, Fathi said, she came under the scrutiny of Iranian security forces, who barred her from leaving the country. She faced a terrible dilemma: She needed to flee Iran, but she was a single mother of two daughters, ages 21 and 10.

In July 2022, she decided there would be no future for any of them as long as she remained in the country. Leaving her daughters behind, Fathi said, she slipped over the border with the help of a smuggler.

“I promised we would find each other when the moment was safe,” she said in a phone interview from Sulaimaniyah. But weeks after she arrived, demonstrations engulfed Iran, throwing her reunion with her daughters into doubt.

Her older daughter, Parya Ghaisary, was inspired by the protests and joined in. But when two of her friends were arrested in late September, her mother intervened from Iraq.

“She asked me to take my sister over the border,” Ghaisary said. “We were all she had in this life.”

Grasping their passports and her sister’s hand, Ghaisary took a taxi to the Iraqi border, where she told guards that she and her sister, Diana, were crossing for a relative’s wedding. Within hours, they were reunited with Fathi.

‘A fearless force of nature’

For some Iranian women who have ended up separated from their daughters, the agony is superseded only by the fear of the dangers that a reunion might bring.

“I go dark when I imagine my daughter falling victim to the same horrors that forced me to flee her side,” said Mozghan Keshavarz, an anti-government activist who spoke by phone from a location outside Iran that she did not want to disclose. “But I cannot return to Iran.”

Keshavarz’s troubles began in 2019 when she started a campaign to hand out roses to veiled and unveiled women in an effort to unite them. Security forces entered her home and beat her in front of her daughter, who was then 9, before hauling her off to prison, Keshavarz said.

She next saw her daughter, Niki, in 2021, after she was granted leave from prison to heal from a spinal injury she suffered while detained. But their reunion was brief.

Keshavarz was forced into hiding last July, when officers stormed her father’s home after she attended a protest against mandatory hijabs, or headscarves. When a lawyer told her that she would probably be sentenced to death, she fled Iran.

Mohammad Moghimi, one of Keshavarz’s lawyers, said she was charged in January with waging war against God, a crime that carries an automatic death sentence.

While in exile, she said, she rarely speaks with her daughter for fear that Niki’s phone may be tapped by Iranian security forces, who are known to harass the families of dissidents.

Instead, she scrolls through photographs and messages from Niki — pale reminders of their life together.

She recalled the night of her arrest in 2019, when security forces ordered Niki to tear up a drawing tacked to the refrigerator that read, “We don’t want the hijab.”

“She refused,” Keshavarz said. “I am humbled that I helped shape such a fearless force of nature.”

Sima Moradbeigi shows her mutilated right arm, where she says Iranian security forces shot her with metal pellets, at the home where she is living in Iraqi Kurdistan on June 5, 2023.

Greek hotels fear a burning future: ‘Even the animals are moving away’

By EMMA BUBOLA and NIKI KITSANTONIS

As thousands of tourists have fled the flames devouring the Greek island of Rhodes, locals were left with scorched land, and the ashes of the cypresses, olive trees and pines surrounding their empty bars, shops and hotels.

Many fear their livelihoods have been shattered for now and perhaps for the future, if the visitors, a core source of income for the island, do not return.

“It was green, and now it’s black,” said George Tirelis, who manages some holiday villas in the south of Rhodes, which are now empty and surrounded by charred land. “Tourists are scared now to come.”

More than most European countries, Greece depends on the summer months of tourism to pay for the rest of the year, and its economy heavily relies on the attractiveness of its crystalline seas and picturesque landscapes. The fires that have spread since last week have blighted the country’s image as a vacation retreat, prompting what officials called its largest evacuation in recent history, causing huge damage to buildings and the environment and killing at least two people.

But as climate change intensifies stifling heat waves, and the dryness that fuels the wildfires, it is also raising longer-term questions for Greece’s economy and the people who live there.

On Wednesday, firefighters were still battling spreading flames, including new blazes on the mainland, their efforts complicated by increasingly dry and hot conditions with yet another wave of heat descending over Greece. Temperatures peaked on Wednesday, reaching 46 Celsius, or about 115 Fahrenheit, in central Greece, with an extreme risk of wildfires in six regions.

At the same time, the tourism sector was mobilizing. Greece’s tourism minister, Olga Kefalogianni, organized an emergency meeting, and speaking to BBC radio on Monday encouraged visitors with bookings for Rhodes still to travel, because the fires affected only a small part of the island. Action was being taken, she said, to promote the island as “a uniquely beautiful and safe destination.”

But the worries far transcend Rhodes, and representatives of the sector were sounding an alarm.

“It’s raining cancellations,” Panagiotis Tokouzis, a vice-president of the Greek Tourism Confederation, said on Greek radio on Monday, adding that the issue did not concern only the islands. “The tourism of the entire country has been affected.”

The industry had already been suffering, Tokouzis said in an interview, with fewer tourists in Greece this year in May and June after months of high inflation and financial concerns around the world.

“Everyone was waiting for July and August to pick up,” he said. “Unfortunately this happened now.”

Though hotels on Rhodes largely suffered only exterior damage, according to local tourism representatives, Tokouzis said that 30% of bookings on the island had been canceled for the next two weeks, which meant millions in losses.

In the past few years, wildfires have ravaged many parts of Greece, from the seaside town of Mati, where fires in 2018 killed more than 100 people, to the northern part of the island of Evia in 2021. This year, fires have spread on the island’s south, as well as in parts of Corfu, another popular tourist destination.

Figures from TCI Research, a travel data organization, suggest that past wildfires have caused only temporary drops in Greece’s online reputation. But as heat waves grow in extent and severity, and create more fire-friendly conditions, some tourism operators fear lasting damage.

Miltiades Chelmis, the head of the Hoteliers Association of Evia, said that in a country that relied heavily on tourism, the conditions, exacerbated by climate change, were a huge worry.

“If this situation continues like this, tourists will try to find cooler places to go,” Chelmis said. “Even the animals are moving away.”

Heat waves may “reduce southern Europe’s attractiveness as a tourist destination in the longer term or at the very least reduce demand in summer,” Moody’s, the ratings agency, said on Monday, predicting “negative economic consequences given the importance of the sector.”

According to a European Commission report published this year, in a world that reached 4 degrees Celsius of warming, tourism would fall by 9% in the Greek Ionian Islands. In the same scenario, it would increase by about 16% in Western Wales.

On Saturday, guests at the villas that Tirelis manages in southern Rhodes, near the village of Kiotari, started sending him pictures of thick smoke coming from behind the hill in front of the property, which was covered in trees and bushes. Now that land is completely scorched, and all of August’s visitors have canceled their bookings. But Tirelis’ worries were not only about this summer.

“I am afraid also about the next year,” he said. “We don’t

know how customers will feel about traveling to Rhodes when they hear about the big fire.”

Ion Gonos also rents homes to tourists near Kiotari — dazzling white villas with wide windows overlooking the sea and, until recently, a lush Mediterranean landscape. For the most part, the houses survived the fires, but the surrounding hill is now covered in ash. Gonos said he was very worried both for the environment and for his business.

“When someone goes on holiday they want to go a nice place,” Gonos said. “Now you only see dust.”

Yannis Tselios, 29, whose family also rents some villas nearby to tourists, and whose yard burned down in the fires, said he had so many cancellations that he has already decided to close for the year.

They were going to fix their properties before the next season, he added.

“But possibly it will not be the same,” he said. “We will not have the same forest again.”

In the aftermath of the 2018 fire in Mati, vacationers discussed on a TripAdvisor forum whether or not they should still book a hotel there. “It’s safe, but very sad,” one user wrote.

George Pappas, the manager of that hotel, the Cabo Verde, said that many tourists eventually came back, in part thanks to the village’s strategic position next to Athens and Rafina, the ferry port for several Greek islands.

Several tourists were oblivious of what had happened there, he said, but Dimitris Lymperopoulos, a bartender at the hotel, said that the atmosphere hadn’t completely recovered.

“There is a mood of sadness around here from what happened,” he said.

Five years on, he added, the nature was still not fully back.

“Trees take a lot of time to grow again,” he said.

Se informa que debido al fallecimiento del Dr. Eduardo Flores Rodríguez, se cerrará permanentemente su oficina ubicada en Calle Betances 33 en Caguas.

La oficina se encuentra disponible para el recogido de expedienté médico. Todo paciente debe recoger su expediente hasta el 31 de agosto. Luego de esta fecha los expedientes no reclamados, serán de decomisados.

Wildfire on Tuesday near the village of Gennadi on Rhodes. The Greek tourism minister has said visitors can still vacation elsewhere on the island.

Niger’s president vows to save democracy as army says it backs coup

By DECLAN WALSH and ELIAN PELTIER

Hours after soldiers seized power in the West African nation of Niger, the country’s ousted president sounded a defiant note Thursday morning, vowing to protect his “hardwon” democratic gains, even as he was being held by his own guards.

But a statement by the army high command later Thursday poured cold water on such hopes. The army was backing the mutineers “to avoid bloodshed” and prevent infighting in the security forces, it said in a statement signed by its chief, Gen. Abdou Sidikou Issa.

The president, Mohamed Bazoum, appeared to be still in detention at the presidential palace in the capital, Niamey, where his guards turned on him early Wednesday, prompting a crisis in the vast, largely desert nation twice the size of France.

“The hard-won gains will be safeguarded,” Bazoum said in a message on social media. “All Nigeriens who love democracy and freedom would want this.”

If the coup succeeds, it will be West Africa’s sixth military takeover in less than three years, following in the footsteps of Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso. It would also be a serious blow to democracy efforts in a region that is regaining its unwanted reputation as the “coup belt” of Africa.

Bazoum has been a key Western ally in the fight against surging Islamic militancy in the arid Sahel region, which is also plagued by the ravages of clima-

te change and the failure of fragile states to provide much for their exploding, youthful populations.

By Thursday morning, a full 24 hours after Bazoum disappeared from public view, power still hung in the balance in Niger. A huge sandstorm rolled through the deserted streets of Niamey, where many businesses remained closed, adding to the sense of uncertainty.

Along with remarks by Niger’s fore-

ign minister, who told a television station that the army was divided, Bazoum’s morning statement suggested that the military coup announced late Wednesday was incomplete, and that Niger’s beleaguered civilian leaders still hoped they might find a way to reverse it.

“Everything can be achieved through dialogue,” Foreign Minister Hassoumi Massoudou told France24 television.

There was no sign of hesitancy from the officers holding Bazoum, however, who seemed determined to push ahead.

On television, the group of soldiers, calling itself the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, announced that Niger’s borders would be closed, its government suspended and a nighttime curfew imposed. On Thursday, they suspended all political activity in the country.

One notable exception to that ban were the hundreds of people who gathered before the national parliament — the same location where a crowd of similar size came out for Bazoum on Wednesday. Some of the military supporters waved Russian flags, in scenes reminiscent

of the January 2022 coup in Burkina Faso, where military rulers have moved closer to Moscow in recent months.

Bazoum, who has maintained phone contact through the crisis, is relying heavily on support from Western and regional allies to remain in charge. In a call Wednesday evening, Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured the beleaguered leader that he had Washington’s “unconditional support.”

At least 1,100 U.S. troops are stationed in Niger, one of the few countries in the Sahel that remains a staunch Western ally in the fight against the Islamic militant groups that are spreading chaos across the region.

It was unclear in the early part of the crisis how much support the mutineers enjoyed in other branches of the armed forces. Some Western and African officials claimed that their support was weak, and that a clash with rival armed factions was possible.

But by the time of the mutineers’ late-night address Wednesday, several senior officers appeared on television, including the deputy army chief, the deputy head of the national guard and the head of Niger’s special forces. Col. Amadou Abdramane of the air force read the statement announcing the coup.

Bazoum was freely elected two years ago in the country’s first peaceful democratic transfer of power since independence from France in 1960. He allied closely with the West to combat the militant groups that sprang up in the far reaches of Niger’s vast deserts, often spilling over from Mali and northern Nigeria.

As Mali and Burkina Faso turned to Russia’s Wagner private military company for help to fight the militants, Bazoum stuck with France and the United States. As well as troops, the Pentagon has two drone bases in Niger that have been used to carry out airstrikes in Libya.

When the last French troops departed Mali this year, after a collapse in relations between Paris and Mali’s ruling junta, some of them redeployed to bases in Niger.

The president of neighboring Benin, Patrice Talon, said he was flying to Niamey on Thursday in an effort to mediate the crisis.

Nigeriens who supported the military overthrow of the president demonstrated outside the national assembly in Niamey, the capital. A previous rally there had supported the president.

The hunger fed by ‘Barbie’ and Taylor Swift

By MICHELLE GOLDBERG

This summer’s two biggest entertainment phenomena, the movie “Barbie” and Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, have a lot in common. Both feature conventionally gorgeous blond women who alternately revel in mainstream femininity and chafe at its limitations, enacting an ambivalence shared by many of their fans. Both, beneath their slick, exuberant pop surfaces, tell female coming-of-age stories marked by existential crises and bitter confrontations with sexism. (The third song on Swift’s set list is “The Man,” whose refrain is, “I’m so sick of running as fast as I can/ wondering if I’d get there quicker/ if I was a man.”) And both have become juggernauts.

“Barbie” has just had the biggest opening weekend of any movie this summer, surpassing already high expectations to earn $162 million. More than just a movie, it’s become a major cultural event, with fans showing up in carefully curated outfits and then making TikToks of themselves crying, emotionally overcome. The film’s blunt feminism — its villain is, literally, patriarchy — has prompted an enjoyably impotent rightwing backlash. Conservative media figure Ben Shapiro opened a 43-minute monologue about how “viscerally angry” the movie made him by setting two Barbie dolls

on fire.

The “Barbie” headlines echo the news about the Taylor Swift tour (which, full disclosure, I haven’t seen, since resale tickets are going for thousands of dollars). Eras is set to become the highest-grossing musical tour in history, boosting the economy of the cities in which Swift alights. More than just a series of concerts, it’s become, like “Barbie,” a major cultural event, with fans also showing up in carefully curated outfits and then making TikToks of their ecstatic tears. And though Swift hasn’t triggered the right the way Barbie has, she did make Shapiro really mad with a speech she made about Pride Month during a Chicago stop.

An obvious lesson from the gargantuan success of both “Barbie” and the Eras Tour is that there is a huge, underserved market for entertainment that takes the feelings of girls and women seriously. After years of COVID isolation, reactionary politics and a mental health crisis that has hit girls and young women particularly hard, there’s a palpable longing for both communal delight and catharsis.

“What happens in the crowd is messy, wild, benevolent and beautiful,” Amanda Petrusich wrote in The New Yorker about a Swift concert. A woman attending one of the first “Barbie” showings told The Guardian she’d been waiting for it for two years: “I’ve been dying to go to a movie theater and have something that feels like a monoculture event.”

Part of what has made “Barbie” so resonant — beyond the campy pleasures of its fantastic costumes and sets — is that it treats becoming a woman as a hero’s journey. (This is also what has made its critics on the right so furious.) A pivotal moment in the movie comes when America Ferrera’s character, Gloria, gives an impromptu speech about the impossible demands made of women: “You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line,” she cries. “It’s too hard! It’s too contradictory!”

The important part of this monologue — spoilers ahead — is not only what it articulates, but what it accomplishes. Gloria’s words wake up Barbies whom the Kens have brainwashed into submission. “By giving voice to the cognitive dissonance required to be a woman under the patriarchy you robbed it of its power!” exclaims the film’s heroine, Stereotypical Barbie, played by Margot Robbie. It’s consciousness-raising as magic. And, ultimately, as difficult as being an adult woman is, Robbie’s Barbie chooses it over remaining in the sexless girlhood idyll of Barbieland, as we learn in the film’s perfect last line.

Given the evident hunger out there for entertainment

that channels female angst, it would make sense for Hollywood, once the writers’ and actors’ strikes are over, to do more to cultivate female writers and directors. Women are still rarely given the chance to direct highbudget films; as the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film found, women helmed only 11% of the 100 highest-grossing films of 2022. And looking at a list of last year’s major films, I was struck by how few of them seem to have been made with a female audience in mind, part of the reason there was so much pent-up demand for “Barbie.”

Searchlight Pictures is probably feeling good about signing Swift, who cites “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig as an influence, to direct her feature film debut. But for the most part, unfortunately, it appears as if the lesson Hollywood is going to take from the success of “Barbie” is not to make more stories for women, but to make more movies about toys.

As The New Yorker reported, 14 movies based on Mattel intellectual property have been announced, including features about the 1980s action figure He-Man and the boxing game Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots. Fortyfive more are in development. J.J. Abrams is working on what he called an “emotional and grounded and gritty” take on Hot Wheels. At least they’ve signed up Lena Dunham to make the movie based on Polly Pocket.

Lentitud en proceso legislativo provoco perdida de millones de dólares de Ley ‘Family First’ dice gobernador

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi

Urrutia culpó el jueves a la Legislatura por la pérdida de millones de dólares en fondos federales por la tardanza en aprobar el proyecto “Family First”.

“Bueno, ahí lo que pasa es que el proceso legislativo tardó mucho. Entonces, aunque el Departamento de la Familia ya estaba adelantando el proceso de reclutar trabajadores sociales y hoy día tenemos 80 nuevos trabajadores sociales y 40 nuevos técnicos de familia. Obviamente, mientras

la ley no estuvo aprobada, pues sí se perdió acceso a fondos federales”, dijo el gobernador a preguntas de la prensa.

Según el gobernador, hubo dos asuntos que trancaron la aprobación del proyecto en la Asamblea Legislativa.

“Lo que decían era que no se podía aprobar esa legislación porque no tenía (El Departamento de la) Familia, los recursos necesarios. Y ahí lo que hicieron fue básicamente perder el tiempo, porque tan pronto ya Familia estaba trabajando en el asunto de reclutar trabajadores sociales, la Junta permitió que se aumentará el salario de los trabajadores sociales hasta por más de 2,700 dólares al mes, un aumento de más de 1,100 dólares. Y a base de todo eso que estaba haciendo Familia, algunos en la Legislatura decían No, esto no se debe aprobar ahora. O sea que ahí se perdió muchísimo tiempo. Hubo también reservas en cuanto al lenguaje como tal. Al final se resolvió, pero reconozco que lo que pasó fue que pues el proceso legislativo tardó mucho”, afirmó.

del agrado en particular del portavoz del Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP) en la Cámara de Representantes, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez.

La Ley ‘Family First Prevention Services’ es una legislación federal que potencia el bienestar y la prevención en familias, con el objetivo de minimizar la colocación de menores en hogares de cuidado sustituto, a menos que sea absolutamente necesario.

El asunto del lenguaje que provocó parte del tranque en el proceso legislativo tuvo que ver con la inclusión de la palabra “equidad” la cual no fue

Gigantes consiguen su primer campeonato en el BSN

Esta ley impone restricciones en la asignación de fondos federales para los procesos de reubicación y reembolsos asociados con la colocación de menores en entornos de cuidado grupal, promoviendo que los menores permanezcan con sus familias o en entornos familiares cuando sea posible. La ley responde a la inquietud de que la mayoría de los fondos federales destinados al bienestar de menores se destinan y están disponibles solo tras la extracción de un menor de su hogar. Para abordar esto, la ley modifica el programa federal de cuidado sustituto para respaldar programas en el hogar basados en habilidades de crianza, la prevención y tratamiento de abuso de sustancias y problemas de salud mental, y programas de apoyo y acompañamiento al cuidador. POR CYBERNEWS

BAYAMÓN – Los Gigantes de Carolina se convirtieron en la noche del miércoles campeones del Baloncesto Superior Nacional al derrotar 80-60 a los Vaqueros de Bayamón en el quinto partido de la Serie Final, en el Coliseo Rubén Rodríguez de Bayamón.

Este es el primer campeonato en la historia de la franquicia y a su vez, el primer equipo en lograrlo con marca negativa (17-19) en la fase regular.

El alcalde, José Carlos Aponte Dalmau reconoció el esfuerzo del equipo técnico, de su dirigente, Carlos González, su apoderado, Héctor Horta, pero, sobre todo, agradeció a la fanaticada que apoyó a su equipo durante toda la temporada.

“Ver nuestro renovado Coliseo Guillermo Angulo lleno a capacidad y ver a las familias disfrutando de la experiencia del deporte es algo que nos llena de alegría. Por los pasados años el Municipio ha invertido en fortalecer la infraestructura de las instalaciones deportivas de la Ciudad, sobre todo en las comunidades, porque comprendemos la importancia que esto implica en una sociedad de vanguardia como la nuestra. Esperamos que esta victoria motive mucho

más a la juventud carolinense a invertir su tiempo en el deporte y a aspirar, como nosotros, a lograr muchas victorias como esta para Carolina”, dijo el alcalde en declaraciones escritas.

Carolina que dominó desde el salto inicial, trabajó un avance de 11-0 en el primer parcial para culminar los primeros 10 minutos de acción 25-14.

Con el partido igualado a 14, Ronald March y George Conditt comenzaron el avance con dos canastos, seguido de un bombazo de tres puntos de Yomar Cruz que levantó a la fanaticada carolinense y obligó al técnico bayamonés, Nelson Colón a pedir un tiempo de emergencia.

Luego del tiempo, Carolina siguió con su buen ritmo ofensivo con una jugada de tres puntos de Mike Scott y un tiro libre de March para cerrar el parcial y no volver a mirar atrás en el marcador.

En los últimos tres minutos de acción, el dirigente Carlos González puso en cancha a los veteranos, Alejandro “Bimbo” Carmona y Filiberto Rivera, en lo que sería su último juego, luego de dos décadas de acción en el baloncesto boricua.

Ambos veteranos, encuestaron un canasto para sellar como un momento histórico su carrera y co-

menzar la celebración.

Scott lideró la ofensiva oriental con 23 puntos y 11 rebotes para llevarse el jugador más valioso de la serie. Conditt aportó a la ofensiva 14 puntos y nueve rebotes, seguido de Cruz con 12 tantos.

Sinead O’Connor, evocative and outspoken singer, is dead at 56

By BEN SISARIO and JOE COSCARELLI

Sinead O’Connor, the outspoken Irish singer-songwriter known for her powerful, evocative voice, as showcased on her biggest hit, a breathtaking rendition of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” and for her political provocations onstage and off, has died. She was 56.

Her longtime friend Bob Geldof, the Irish musician and activist, confirmed her death, as did her family in a statement, according to the BBC and the Irish public broadcaster RTE.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinead,” the statement said. “Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.” No other details were provided.

Recognizable by her shaved head and by wide eyes that could appear pained or full of rage, O’Connor released 10 studio albums, beginning with the alternative hit “The Lion and the Cobra” in 1987. She went on to sell millions of albums worldwide, breaking out with “I Do

Not Want What I Haven’t Got” in 1990.

That album, featuring “Nothing Compares 2 U,” a No. 1 hit around the world and an MTV staple, won a Grammy Award in 1991 for best alternative music performance — although O’Connor boycotted the ceremony over what she called the show’s excessive commercialism.

O’Connor rarely shrank from controversy, though it often came with consequences for her career.

In 1990, she threatened to cancel a performance in New Jersey if “The Star-Spangled Banner” was played at the concert hall before her appearance, drawing the ire of no less than Frank Sinatra. That same year, she backed out of an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in protest of the misogyny she perceived in the comedy of Andrew Dice Clay, who was scheduled to host.

But all of that paled in comparison to the uproar caused when O’Connor, appearing on “SNL” in 1992 — shortly after the release of her third album “Am I Not Your Girl?” — ended an a cappella performance of Bob Marley’s

“War” by ripping a photo of Pope John Paul II into pieces as a stance against sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. “Fight the real

enemy,” she said.

That incident immediately made her a target of criticism and scorn, from social conservatives and beyond. Two weeks after her “SNL” appearance, she was loudly booed at a Bob Dylan tribute concert at Madison Square Garden. (She had planned to perform Dylan’s “I Believe in You,” but she sang “War” again, rushing off the stage before she had finished.)

Once a rising star, O’Connor then stumbled. “Am I Not Your Girl?,” an album of jazz and pop standards like “Why Don’t You Do Right?” and “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” was stalled on the charts at No. 27. Her next album, “Universal Mother” (1994), went no higher than No. 36.

British musician Tim Burgess, of the band Charlatans (known in the United States as the Charlatans UK), wrote on Twitter on Wednesday: “Sinead was the true embodiment of a punk spirit. She did not compromise and that made her life more of a struggle.”

O’Connor never had another major hit

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Dr. Eduardo Flores Rodríguez

12 de octubre de 1940- 4 de julio de 2023

La familia Flores Vega informa el fallecimiento de quien fue dedicado Padre, Abuelo, Compañero, Amigo y Pediatra. Agradecemos a toda la familia y amistades por las muestras de cariño y solidaridad en estos momentos de dolor. Se celebrará la misa por el eterno descanso de su alma el miércoles, 2 de agosto de 2023 en la Iglesia de Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús en Caguas a las 6:00pm.

Sinead O’Connor performs at Alice Tully Hall in New York, July 26, 2013.

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in the United States after “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” from “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got,” although for a time she remained a staple on the British charts.

But in her 2021 memoir, “Rememberings,” O’Connor portrayed ripping up the photo of the pope as a righteous act of protest — and therefore a success.

“I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career,” she wrote, “and my tearing the photo put me back on the right track.”

She elaborated in an interview with The New York Times that same year, calling the incident an act of defiance against the constraints of pop stardom.

“I’m not sorry I did it. It was brilliant,” O’Connor said. “But it was very traumatizing,” she added. “It was open season on treating me like a crazy bitch.”

Sinead Marie Bernadette O’Connor was born in Glenageary, a suburb of Dublin, on Dec. 8, 1966. Her father, John, was an engineer, and her mother, Johanna, was a dressmaker.

In interviews, and in her memoir, O’Connor spoke openly of having a traumatic childhood. She said that her mother physically abused her and that she had been deeply affec-

ted by her parents’ separation, which happened when she was 8. In her teens, she was arrested for shoplifting and sent to reform schools.

When she was 15, O’Connor sang “Evergreen” — the love theme from “A Star Is Born,” made famous by Barbra Streisand — at a wedding, and was discovered by Paul Byrne, a drummer who had an affiliation with the Irish band U2. She left boarding school at 16 and began her career, supporting herself by waitressing and performing “kiss-o-grams” in a kinky French maid costume.

“The Lion and the Cobra” — the title is an allusion to Psalm 91 — marked her as a rising talent with a spiritual heart, an ear for offbeat melody and a fierce and combative style. Her music drew from 1980s-vintage alternative rock, hip-hop and flashes of Celtic folk that came through when her voice raised to high registers.

She drew headlines for defending the Irish Republican Army and publicly jeered U2 — whose members had supported her — as “bombastic.” She also said she had rejected attempts by her record company, Ensign, to adopt a more conventional image.

The leaders of the label “wanted me to wear high-heel boots and tight jeans and grow my hair,” O’Connor told Rolling Stone in 1991.

“And I decided that they were so pathetic that I shaved my head so there couldn’t be any further discussion.”

“Nothing Compares 2 U” — originally released by the Family, a Prince side project, in 1985 — became a phenomenon when O’Connor released it five years later. The video for the song, trained closely on her emotive face, was hypnotic, and O’Connor’s voice, as it raised from delicate, breathy notes to powerful cries, stopped listeners in their tracks. Singers such as Alanis Morissette cited O’Connor’s work from this period as a key influence.

The effects of childhood trauma, and finding ways to fight and heal, became a central part of her work and her personal philosophy.

“The cause of all the world’s problems, as far as I’m concerned, is child abuse,” O’Connor told Spin magazine in 1991.

As her music career slowed, O’Connor, who had been open in the past about her mental health struggles, became an increasingly erratic public figure, often sharing unfiltered opinions and personal details on social media.

In 2007, she revealed on Oprah Winfrey’s television show that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and that she had tried to kill herself on her 33rd birthday. Her son Shane died by suicide in 2022, at 17.

O’Connor said in 2012 that she had been misdiagnosed and that she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from a history of child abuse. “Recovery from child abuse is a life’s work,” she told People magazine. Several years ago she converted to Islam and started using the name Shuhada Sadaqat, though she continued to answer to O’Connor as well.

Complete information on survivors was not immediately available. O’Connor had two brothers, Joe and John, and one sister, Eimear, as well as three stepsisters and a stepbrother. She wrote in her memoir that she was married four times and that she had four children: three sons, Jake, Shane and Yeshua, and a daughter, Roisin.

Sinead O’Connor at her home in Wicklow, Ireland, May 10, 2021.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO CIELO VIVIENDA LLC

Plaintiff Vs. IVAN MUJICA DE LEON IN HIS PERSONAL CAPACITY AND AS MEMBER OF THE ESTATE OF EVA MARGARITA CORTES VAZQUEZ A/K/A EVA CORTES VAZQUEZ COMPOSED BY IVAN EMIL MUJICA CORTES AND I.I.M.C.; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA AND CENTRO DE RECUADACIONES DE IMPUESTOS MUNICIPALES

Defendants

Civil No.: 16-2367. (JAG). Re: COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, SS.

To: IVAN MUJICA DE LEON IN HIS PERSONAL CAPACITY AND AS MEMBER OF THE ESTATE OF EVA MARGARITA CORTES VAZQUEZ A/K/A EVA CORTES VAZQUEZ COMPOSED BY IVAN EMIL MUJICA CORTES AND I.I.M.C.; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA AND CENTRO DE RECUADACIONES DE IMPUESTOS MUNICIPALES, AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL:

Judgment in favor of plaintiff was entered for the sum of $396,127.51 in principal, which continue to accrue until full payment of debt at the rate of 3% per annum, accrued late charges and any other additional advance, charge, fee, or disbursements made by plaintiff, on behalf of defendants in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus costs, and ten (10) percent attorneys’ fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federico Degetau Federal Building, Chardón Street, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico or any other place designated by

said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: Physical address: SB-22 Paseo De Las Orquideas Primavera, Trujillo Alto. RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno identificada como solar veintidós (22) del bloque SB de la Urbanización Primavera, radicada en el barrio Dos bocas del termino municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico con una cabida de cuatrocientos dos punto veintiséis (402.26) metros cuadrados en lindes por el NORTE, en dieciséis punto cero cero (16.00) metros con la calle, numero tres (#3); por el SUR, en cuatro punto cincuenta y cuatro (4.54) metros doce punto noventa y tres (12.93) metros, con el solar numero veinte (20); por el ESTE, en veintiocho punto noventa y ocho (28.98) metros con el solar numero veintiuno (21); y por el OESTE, en veintitrés punto cero cero (23.00) metros, con el solar número veintitrés (23). Enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Consta inscrita al folio 280 del tomo 527 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 26,675, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Cuarta de San Juan. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or homeowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the AUGUST 18TH, 2023, AT 10:30 A.M., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $404,706.83. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the properties is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the AUGUST 25TH, 2023, AT THE 10:30 A.M. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $269,804.55 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD AUCTION will be held on the SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2023, AT THE 10:30 A.M. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the

sum of $202,353.42, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 7, 2023. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, SPECIAL MASTER.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL

GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. ELLIOT HERNÁNDEZ

MANGUAL, ILLIAN ENID HERNÁNDEZ ACEVEDO, OMAR HERNÁNDEZ

LASANTA Y JOSEPH

HERNÁNDEZ DELGADO

MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ANTONIO

HERNÁNDEZ SILVA; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD

ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ANTONIO HERNÁNDEZ SILVA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2022CV01069.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.

LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, hago saber a la parte demandada ELLIOT HERNÁNDEZ MANGUAL, ILLIAN ENID HERNÁNDEZ ACEVEDO, OMAR HERNÁNDEZ LASANTA Y JOSEPH HERNÁNDEZ DELGADO MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ANTONIO HERNÁNDEZ SILVA, JOHN

DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ANTONIO HERNÁNDEZ SILVA y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 12 de abril de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $149,467.00 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: URB. LEVITTOWN, 3561 PASEO CONDE, TOA BAJA, PR 00949, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es: URBANA: Solar número 3561 del bloque “S” en la Urbanización Levittown, barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área de 310.50 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 13.50 metros con el paseo #429; por el SUR, en 13.50 metros con un Paseo Público; por el ESTE, en 23 metros con el solar número 3562; y por el OESTE, en 23 metros con el solar número 3560. Finca 6000 inscrita al folio 157 tomo 86 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección II. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor del Scotiabank de Puerto Rico o a su orden por la suma principal de $149,467.00 con intereses a razón del 3.5% y vencimiento el 1 de abril del 2043. Constituida por la Escritura #85 otorgada en Carolina el 23 de marzo del 2013 ante el notario Ricardo Marín Arias. Inscrita el 30 de abril del 2013 al folio 175 vuelto del Tomo 662 de Toa Baja, inscripción 21ª, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección II. 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 24 de agosto de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $123,139.43 de principal, más interés al 3.50% anual por $3,550.30 al 1 de marzo de 2022 que continuarán acumulándose a razón de $11.6645 diario hasta el saldo total, $280.50 de otros cargos, $14,946.70 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $149,467.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE

2023 A LAS 9:15 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, $99,644.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 23 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 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, $74,733.50. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la 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 abo-

nar 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 02 de junio de 2023. Maribel Lanzar Velázquez, Alguacil Placa #737, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Bayamón.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE JUAN

ENRIQUE NIEVES TORRES COMPUESTA POR AUREA TORRES

ECHEVARRÍA, DANNY NIEVES TORRES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; AUREA TORRES ECHEVARRÍA; AL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2021CV02560. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: SUCESIÓN DE JUAN ENRIQUE NIEVES TORRES COMPUESTA POR AUREA TORRES ECHEVARRÍA, DANNY NIEVES TORRES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; AUREA TORRES ECHEVARRÍA; AL CENTRO DE

RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, MIGUEL A. TORRES AYALA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 10 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 23 de agosto de 2023. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 17 DE AGOSTO

DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 24 DE AGOSTO

DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 21 de abril de 2023, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación:

URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Cuatro (4) del Bloque “H” en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Jardines Del Caribe, quinta (5ta) etapa radicado en el Barrio Canas del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos cuarenta y dos punto quinientos metros cuadrados (342.500), en lindes por el NORTE, en trece punto setecientos metros (13.700m.), con los solares número Diecinueve (19) y Veinte (20) del bloque ”H”; por el SUR, en trece punto setecientos metros (13.700m.), con la calle número Seis (6); por el ESTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero

metros (25.00m.), con el solar número Cinco (5) y por el OESTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero metros (25.00m.), con el solar número Tres (3) del bloque “H”. Sobre este solar se ha construido una casa de concreto armado para ser utilizada como residencia familiar. Finca Número 11,069 (antes 43,809) inscrita al folio 231 del tomo 611 de Ponce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ponce. Dirección de la Propiedad: Solar núm. 4 Bloque H, Urbanización Jardines del Caribe Ponce PR 00731. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $$185,590.81 con interés al 7.00% anual, cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $11,800.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 124 otorgada el día 16 de julio de 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Maria I. De Mier Perez y consta inscrita al folio 151 vuelto del tomo 1,162 de Ponce Sur, finca numero 11,069, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II de Ponce. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados

del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 11 de julio de 2023. JOSÉ

L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO, SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO. SONIA GUASP LOZA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR. ****

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Parte Demandante Vs. JUAN ROSADO REYES

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: TA2022CV01174.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JUAN ROSADO REYES

- URB JARD DE TOA ALTA

278 CALLE 7, TOA ALTA

PR 00953-1825.

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 al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@

orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO

BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en TOA ALTA EN TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de junio de 2023. En TOA ALTA EN TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico, el 23 de junio de 2023. LCDA.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Parte Demandante Vs. EDISON ORTIZ SOTO

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SB2022CV00139.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: EDISON ORTIZ SOTO - 363 CARR KM 2.2, SABANA GRANDE PR 00637; HC-10 BOX 7574 SABANA GRANDE, PR 00637.

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 al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO

BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SABANA GRANDE, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de junio de 2023. NORMA SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. AUREA LUGO ALMODÓVAR, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

ORIENTAL BANK COMO

AGENTE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.

Parte Demandante Vs. ANA SOBE IDA DE JESÚS

PÉREZ T/C/C ANA S. DE JESÚS PÉREZ T/C/C ANA DE JESUS PÉREZ POR SÍ

Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO FELIX BELLO PERALTA

T/C/C FRANCISCO F.

BELLO PERALTA T/C/C FRANCISCO BELLO PERALTA; LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO FELIX BELLO PERALTA

T/C/C FRANCISCO F.

BELLO PERALTA T/C/C

FRANCISCO BELLO

PERALTA COMPUESTA

POR JAHDAI DINGUIS

GARCÍA T/C/C JAHDAI

BELLO GARCÍA; FULANO

Y FULANA DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV03597.

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

A: LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO FELIX

BELLO PERALTA

T/C/C FRANCISCO F.

BELLO PERALTA T/C/C

FRANCISCO BELLO PERALTA COMPUESTA

POR JAHDAI DINGUIS

GARCÍA T /C/C JAHDAI BELLO GARCÍA.

LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de julio 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 24 de julio de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 24 de julio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSA MAGALY CANDELARIO CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Parte Demandante V. EVELYN MELENDEZ PRADO Y OTROS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA20230V00458. Sobre: PARTICIÓN DE HERENCIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: JUAN MELENDEZ MELENDEZ.

POR LA PRESENTE se notifica que la parte demandante del epígrafe ha presentado ante este Tribunal uña demanda sobre Partición de Herencia en su contra, según surge de las alegaciones de la demanda en el caso de epígrafe. Se le requiere a usted para que notifique con copia de la Contestación a la demanda al abogado de la parte demandante, cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono son los que se indican a continuación:

LCDA. LIZIBEL SALAZAR ACEVEDO RUA: 20973

Abogado de la Parte Demandante P.O. Box 367265 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936 Tel.: 787-475-2288

Email: salazar.bufetegs@gmail.com

Se le apercibe que, si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, hoy 12 de julio de 2023. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA.

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Demandante Vs INOCENCIA ACEVEDO RIVERA Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Civil: NG2023CV00014. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: INOCENCIA ACEVEDO RIVERA, DANIEL VIERA ACEVEDO, VIOLETA VIERA RODRIGUEZ, MYRNA E. VIERA RODRIGUEZ, DAVID JR. VIERA ACEVEDO; DIRECCION: HC 1 BOX 20016 RIO CAÑAS CAGUAS PR 00725-9301; P/C LCDA. JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ RIVERA. EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de JULIO 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 24 de JULIO de 2023. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 24 de JULIO De 2023. IVELISSE FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEYLA PÉREZ FIGUEROA, 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.

HALLAZGOS

PUERTO RICO

Número de Expediente: 249295-99-0. Propietario: Amarilis Torres Alverio. Dirección: Bo Cayaguas, Km 9 Ramal 9912 San Lorenzo, PR 00754. Actividad Empresarial: “Actividad comercial sin fines de lucro con el propósito de rescatar, exponer y documentar información histórica de Puerto Rico a través de sus libros de textos, en plataformas como blogs y redes sociales” Renuncia a elementos no registrables: Puerto Rico. 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.

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Demandante V. SONIA M. ROSA SANTOS Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Civil: CA2023CV01649. Sala: 407. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: R&G MORTGAGE

CORPORATION Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE.

(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 julio 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 21 de julio de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 21 de julio de 2023. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE

RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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CREDIT II TRUST SERIES 2017-1

Parte Demandante Vs. JOEL OMAR RAMOS MORALES, POR SÍ Y IVELISSE VARGAS

ORTEGA, POR SÍ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: BY2021CV02523.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA: “IN REM”. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, SS Yo, el Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de BAYAMON: CERTIFICO Y HAGO CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento con un MANDAMIENTO DE EJECUCIÓN DE SENTENCIA que me ha sido dirigido por el Secretario de este Tribunal en el caso arriba mencionado, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor entre la parte demandante y aquellas personas que reúnan los requisitos y calificaciones de Ley, de contado y por moneda del cuño legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la parte demandada en la finca que se describe más adelante. LA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo en, sita oficina ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS en el CUARTO PISO del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, el día 21 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para esta Primera subasta lo será la suma de $127,500.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en esa Primera Subasta, se celebrarán una SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, respectivamente los días 28 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 Y 11 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, TODAS A LAS 9:15

DE LA MAÑANA. Los tipos mínimos para dichas Segunda y Tercera Subastas lo serán, respectivamente las dos terceras partes y la mitad del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la Primera Subasta, o sea, las sumas de $85,000.00 y $63,750.00 respectivamente. La propiedad objeto de subasta se describe como sigue: Rústica: Solar número uno (1): Lote de terreno localizado en el Barrio Higuillar de Dorado, Puerto Rico compuesto de quinientos cuarenta y nueve punto seiscientos cuarenta y nueve (549.649) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto mil trescientos noventa y ocho (0.1398 9%) cuerdas. Colinda por el Norte, con el solar número cinco (5); por el Sur, con el solar número dos (2); por el Este, con Basilisa Marrero, viuda de López y por el Oeste, con terrenos de Juana Rojas. Inscrito al folio ciento noventa (190) del tomo doscientos treinta y seis (236) de Ágora de Dorado, finca once mil uno (11,001). Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta (IV). La dirección del inmueble es: Lot 1, Rd 696 Km 0.2, Higuillar Wd., Dorado, PR 00646. Dichos remates se llevarán a efecto para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a las sumas de: principal balance $102,353.76 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.875% anual desde el 1 de mayo de 2020. Dichos intereses continuarán acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes al 5% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendario de la fecha vencimiento; más la suma de $12,750.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más otros cargos, recargos, penalidades y créditos accesorios según pactados. Cualquier título, derecho o interés que tenga la parte demandada en este caso en la propiedad anteriormente descrita se adjudicará al mejor postor entre la parte demandante y aquellas personas que refinan los requisitos y calificaciones de Ley. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria incoados en este caso, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este Honorable 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. Que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiere, al crédito que da base a esta eje-

cución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. El monto de cada carga anterior que figura de la Certificación Registral sobre la finca objeto de esta ejecución, así como los nombres de sus titulares y fecha de vencimiento se detallan como sigue: NINGUNO. El monto de cada carga posterior que figura de la Certificación Registral sobre la finca objeto de esta ejecución, así como los nombres de sus titulares y fecha de vencimiento se detallan como sigue: AVISO DE DEMANDA: Dictado el 21 de agosto de 2015, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Caso Civil #DCD152057, sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Scotiabank de P.R. versus Joel Omar Ramos Morales y Ivelisse Vargas Ortega, donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con la hipoteca de la inscripción 6ta, o la venta en pública subasta, reducida a $115,463.57. Anotado al tomo Karibe de Dorado el 20 de enero del 2021, finca #11,001, Anotación “A”.

ANOTACION DE DEMANDA: De fecha 30 de junio de 2021, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Caso Civil #BY2021CV02523, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Franklin Credit Management Corp. versus Joel Omar Ramos Morales, por sí y Ivelisse Vargas Ortega, por sí, y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos, por la suma de $102,353.76, más intereses, etc. Anotado en Karibe de Dorado, finca #11,001, Anotación B y última, el 16 de mayo de 2023. Por la presente se le notifica a los titulares de crédito y/o cargas registrales posteriores, que se celebrarán las Subastas en las fechas, horas y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invitan a que concurran a dichas subastas si les conviniese, o se les invita a 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, siempre y cuando refinan los requisitos y calificaciones de Ley y para que pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y para su publicación en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en dos lugares públicos del municipio en el cual se celebrarán las subastas señaladas, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diarias y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por el término de por lo menos dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y una vez por semana. Se hace constar que los abogados de la parte demandante son Igor J. Domínguez Law Offices, 1225

Avenida Ponce de León, Suite 1105, San Juan, PR 009073945, Teléfono (787) 250-0220, Fax. (787) 250-0295. EXPEDIDO el presente en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, a 14 de junio de 2023. Edgardo Elías Vargas Santana, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #193, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Bayamón.

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Demandante Vs. JUAN ANTONIO PEREZ RODRIGUEZ, GLADYS TORRES DE LEON Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Y JESUS MITCHELL OJEDA GARCIA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2023CV01442. (705). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JESUS MITCHELL OJEDA GARCIA. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $178,190.09, más intereses sobre dicha suma al tipo de 4.000% por ciento anual desde el día 1 de noviembre de 2022, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguros estipuladas en la escritura de hipoteca, contribuciones de la propiedad, de aplicar, y contra riesgos, más recargos por demora, más los intereses devengados y la cantidad estipulada de $19,192.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. 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: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y enviar copia a la representación legal

de la parte demandante cuya dirección más adelante se indica.

Lcda. Xana M. Connelly Pagán Bufete COLLAZO, CONNELL Y & SURILLO, LLC

P.O. Box 11550

San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550

Tel. (787) 625-9999

Fax (787) 705-7387

E-mail: xconnelly@lawpr.com

Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de Julio de 2023.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MANATÍ

ESTRELLA HOMES II, LLC

Parte Demandante V.

MIGDALIA MALPICA ORTIZ, por si y como COMO MIEMBRO CONOCIDO DE LA SUCESION DE FAUSTINO

PEÑA PIMIENTA; NORMA

PEÑA VALDIRIA, RAUL

PEÑA VALDIRIA COMO MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE FAUSTINO PEÑA

PIMIENTA; FULANO DE TAL Y FILANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE FAUSTINO

PEÑA PIMIENTA

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: AR2022CV01253.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA E INTERPELACIÓN. 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 Manatí, hago saber a la parte demandada MIGDALIA MALPICA ORTIZ, por si y como COMO MIEMBRO CONOCIDO DE LA SUCESION DE FAUSTINO PEÑA PIMIEN-

TA, NORMA PEÑA VALDIRIA, RAUL PEÑA VALDIRIA COMO MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE FAUSTINO PEÑA PIMIENTA, FULANO DE TAL Y FILANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE FAUSTINO PEÑA PIMIENTA y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 28 de abril de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $50,000.00 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: 76 PEDRO MUÑOZ ST., URB. LUCHETTI, MANATI, PR 00674, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: Urbana: Urbanización Luchetti de Manatí. Solar: 16-F. Cabida: 300.15 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, con el solar número 7, en una longitud de 13.05 metros lineales. Sur, con calle número 5, en una longitud de 13.05 metros lineales. Este, con el solar 15, en una longitud de 23.00 metros lineales. Oeste, con el solar número 17, en una longitud de 23.00 metros lineales. Contiene una casa de hormigón armado con techo del mismo material, que consta de sala, comedor, cocina, baño, 3 dormitorios y una balconeta. Finca 4071 inscrita al folio 46 del tomo 101 de Manatí, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes:

(i) Hipoteca constituida por Faustino Peña Pimienta y su esposa Migdalia Malpica Ortiz, en garantía de un pagaré, aff#. 1835, a favor de Banco Santander PR, o a su orden, por $50,000.00 al 6 1/2%, vencedero el 1 de marzo del 2038, según Esc. #147 en Corozal a 7 de marzo del 2008 ante Carlos Omar González Davila, inscrita al folio 217 del tomo 617 de Manatí, finca #4071 inscripción 8va, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. En virtud de la Ley 216 del 2010. (ii) DEMANDA: Radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, el 7 de Julio del 2022, en el Caso Civil #AR2022cv01253, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Luna Residencial II, LLC vs Faustino Pena Pimienta y su esposa Migdalia Malpica Ortiz, donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con la hipoteca de la inscripción 8va., reducida a $41,323.21 o la venta en pública subasta, anotado al Sistema Karibe, finca #4071 de Manatí, el 5 de octubre del 2022, Anotación A, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. 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 16 de marzo

de 2023, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $41,323.31 de principal, más los intereses acumulados desde el 1 de enero de 2020, los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 6.50% hasta el pago total de la obligación, más otros gastos, $5,000.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 23 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Manatí, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $50,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 30 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 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, $33,333.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 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, $25,000.00. 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 car-

gas 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 Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy 5 de junio de 2023. WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ CARRIÓN, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #135, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE MANATÍ.

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AMBOS

Parte Demandantes V. WIGTHMAN & FARINA, L.L.C.; JOSE R CINTRON COLON, SU ESPOSA JUANA DOE I, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS; CAROL

JENNIFER WIGHTMAN

CARDENAS, TAMBIEN

CONOCIDA POR

CAROL JENNIFER

PARRISH Y CAROL J.

PARRISH, SU ESPOSO

FRANK PARRISH, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS; VICTORIA CAROLINA OSORIO

SÁNCHEZ, SU ESPOSO

JOHN DOE I, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS; GIULA FARINA

OSORIO; FIORELLA FARINA OSORIO; VICTORIA CAROLINA

OSORIO SÁNCHEZ EN REPRESENTACION DE SUS HIJAS MENORES DE EDAD GIULA FARINA

OSORIO Y FIORELLA

FARINA OSORIO; ESPERANZA MARINA

PARRA; STEPHANY

PAOLA WIGHTMAN

URDANETA; MICHELL

PAOLA WIGHTMAN

URDANETA; GEORGE

ANDREW WIGHTMAN

URDANETA; NATHALY

WIGHTMAN CASTILLO; YOHANNY DEL VALLE

CASTILLO MORENO EN REPRESENTACION DE SU HIJA MENOR DE EDAD NATHALY

WIGHTMAN CASTILLO; LOS HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE JORGE F. WIGHTMAN

PEÑARANDA A, B, Y C; LOS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE RODOLFO FARINA

ESCALANTE D, E, Y F; G, H, Y I; J, K, Y L

Partes Demandadas

Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00974.

Sobre: ENTREDICHO PROVISIONAL, INTERDICTO PRELIMINAR, INTERDICTO PERMANENTE, SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA, DIFAMACION, DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS, Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: Wigthman & Farina, L.L.C., Carol Jennifer Wightman Cardenas, también conocida por Carol Jennifer Parrish y Carol J. Parrish, y la

sociedad legal de bienes gananciales compuesta por esta y Frank Parrish, Frank Parrish y la sociedad legal de bienes gananciales compuesta por Frank Parrish y su esposa Carol Jennifer Wightman Cardenas, Victoria Carolina Osorio Sánchez y la sociedad legal de bienes gananciales compuesta por Victoria Carolina Osorio Sánchez y su esposo John Doe I, John Doe I y la sociedad legal de bienes gananciales compuesta por John Doe I y su esposa Victoria Carolina Osorio Sánchez, Victoria Carolina Osorio Sánchez en representación de las menores Giula Farina Osorio y Fiorella Farina Osorio, Esperanza Marina Parra, Stephany Paola Wightman Urdaneta, Michell Paola Wightman Urdaneta, George Andrew Wightman Urdaneta, Yohanny Del Valle Castillo Moreno en representación de la menor Nathaly Wightman Castillo, Nathaly Wightman Castillo, Giula Farina Osorio, Fiorella Farina Osorio, Juana Doe I y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales Compuesta por Juana Doe I y José R Cintrón Colón, Los herederos desconocidos de Jorge F. Wightman Peñaranda A, B, y C, Los herederos desconocidos de Rodolfo Farina Escalante D, E, y F, G, H, y I - Compañías de seguro y/o de fianza que mantienen una póliza de responsabilidad profesional o fianza para el co-demandado José R. Cintrón Colón, y J, K, y L personas y/o entidades que informaron que la Sra. Antonella Dolores Di Lauro Rosales había retirado la suma de $32,000.00 de la cuenta bancaria de Wigthman & Farina, L.L.C. con Oriental Bank sin autorización y/o que son copartícipes en los daños causados a la Sra. Antonella Dolores Di Lauro Rosales. Se notifica a ustedes que se ha presentado en esta Secretaría

una demanda sobre Entredicho Provisional, Interdicto Preliminar, Interdicto Permanente, Sentencia Declaratoria, Difamación, Daños y Perjuicios, y Cobro De Dinero. Se les emplaza y requiere que contesten la demanda enmendada presentando el original de la contestación en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Puerto Rico y notificando copia de dicha contestación al abogad de la parte demandante:

Lcdo. Virgilio Ramos Tomasini, P.O. Box 30966, San Juan, PR 00929, Tel.: 787-203-3334, Fax: 787-767-7505, email: ramostomasinilaw@yahoo.com dentro del término de TREINTA (30) DIAS de haberse publicado este edicto, descontándomelos la fecha de la publicación del edicto. Si dejaren de contestar la demanda dentro del plazo y la forma indicada, se procedería a dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma sello del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, hoy a 21 de julio de 2023. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. Sandra J. Trinidad Cañuelas, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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FEDERAL DE PEQUEÑOS NEGOCIOS DE LOS ESTADOS ÚNIDOS DE AMÉRICA (U.S. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION)

Demandante V. FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL, POSIBLES POSEEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO Demandado(a)

Civil: GB2023CV00349. Sala:

202. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL.

(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 19 de julio 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 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 21 de julio de 2023. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 21 de julio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA ASOCIACION DE RESIDENTES DEL COMPLEJO LAS CASCADAS II, INC.

Demandante V. WILLIAM RUIZ TORRES, YEISA ACEVEDO, AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a)

Civil: TA2022CV00853. Sobre: COBRO DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: WILLIAM RUIZ TORRES, YEISA ACEVEDO, AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de julio 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 21 de julio de 2023. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 21 de julio de 2023. LAURA

I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

AWILDA MORALES

RAMOS, NORMA MORALES RAMOS, JULIO MORALES RAMOS, ELADIO MORALES RAMOS, MILAGROS MORALES RAMOS

PETICIONARIOS EX PARTE

CIVIL NUM: SL2023CV00175.

SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.

UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR.

A: Todo el que tenga algún interés, o derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito en la Petición de Dominio del caso de epígrafe, sus causahabientes, herederos, cesionarios; a las personas ignoradas o desconocidas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción que se solicita en la petición del caso de epígrafe y a toda persona que desee oponerse.

POR LA PRESENTE: Se les notifica que los peticionarios de epígrafe han presentado una Petición para que se declare probado su dominio sobre la propiedad abajo descrita y se ordene al Registro de la Propiedad que así lo inscriba a favor de ellos. “RUSTICA: Predio de terreno sito en el Barrio Quebrada del término municipal de San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, compuesto de SEISCIENTOS

OCHENTA Y DOS METROS CUADRADOS (682.00 m2) en lindes; por el NORTE con la Carretera estatal; por el SUR, con la Sucesión Rosado; por el ESTE, con un solar desocupado; por el OESTE, con la Sucesión Rosado. Sobre la misma enclava una vivienda.” Este Tribunal ordenó que se publique la pretensión por tres (3) veces durante el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que todas las personas arriba mencionadas y todas aquellas desconocidas a quienes

pueda perjudicar la inscripción o deseen oponerse, puedan así hacerlo dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la última publicación del presente edicto. Por tanto firmo expido la presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 17 de julio de 2023. Lisilda Martienz Agosto, Secretaria. Arleen Hernandez Peluyera, Sec Auxiliadora del Tribunal I.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR 903 SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY INC., POR SÍ Y COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, QUIEN A SU VEZ ES SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE POPULAR MORTGAGE, INC. Demandante Vs. SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV06199. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.

Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal la Demanda de epígrafe. En la demanda se alega que el pagaré otorgado el 23 de diciembre de 2003 ante la Notario Público Luz E. Vela Gutiérrez, bajo affidávit número 2,228, a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la cantidad de $180,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual y vencedero a la presentación, y el pagaré otorgado el 23 de diciembre de 2003 ante la Notario Público Luz E. Vela Gutiérrez, a favor del Secretario de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $180,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual y vencedero a la presentación. En aseguramiento de los Pagarés hipotecarios antes mencionados se constituyeron hipotecas voluntarias en virtud de las Escrituras número 563 y 564, sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble: URBANA: Solar número veintidós (22) de trescientos sesenta y siete punto cero cero metros cuadrados (367.00 mc) de superficie, en la

Urbanización Villa Francia, sita en el Barrio Hato Rey de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, en lindes: por el Norte, en dieciséis punto cero cero metros (16.00 m) con la Calle Lydia; por el Sur, en quince punto ochenta metros (15.80 m) con la Asociación de Maestros; por el Este, en veintidós punto noventa metros (22.90 m) con el solar número veinte (20) de la misma urbanización, propiedad del señor Pérez Morris; y por el Oeste, en veintitrés punto treinta metros (23.30 m) con el solar número veinticuatro de la misma urbanización, finca de la cual se segrega. Inscrita al folio 234 del tomo 194 de Río Piedras Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda (II) de San Juan, finca número 241. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fernando Gierbolini y/o Lcdo. Manuel Muñiz Torres; MONSERRATE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de julio de2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Idalisse Sáez Ortiz, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ALBERTO GOMEZ FLORES COMPUESTA POR

SUS HEREDEROS

CONOCIDOS OLGA

MARIA GOMEZ

GOMEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2022CV04076. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Caguas, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 20 de marzo de 2023, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 8 de junio de 2023 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar rotulado “A” radicado en el Barrio Navarro del término municipal de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de (0.596 cds) cero punto quinientos noventa y seis de cuerda, equivalentes a 2,344.068 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 55.70 metros con terrenos del Dr. Blasini; por el SUR, en 26.01 metros con un camino municipal asfaltado y en 29.54 metros, con el solar ‘B’ propiedad de Jaime García Rodríguez; por el ESTE, en 23.77 metros con la propiedad de Cruz Mercado y 36.25 metros con el solar ‘B’ de Jaime García Rodríguez; y por el OESTE, en 65.79 metros con terrenos de Carmen Cruz. Casa para fines residenciales de concreto y bloques compuesta de tres dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, un baño y balcón, mide treinta pies de ancho por treinta pies de largo. FINCA NÚMERO:

8,137, inscrita al folio 260 del tomo 210 de Gurabo, sección II de Caguas. Dirección Física: BARRIO NAVARRO, SOLAR

A (931 PR ST KM 3.4 INT LA PACHANGA), GURABO PR 00778. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 21 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $66,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día

28 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $44,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 5 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $33,000.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Honorable Tribunal dictó Sentencia In Rem, declarando Con Lugar la demanda al incumplir la parte demandada con los términos del contrato hipotecario y ordenando la venta en pública subasta del inmueble antes descrito. A tenor con la Regla 51.3 (b) de Procedimiento Civil y el Artículo 99 de la Ley 210-2015, conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”, el tribunal ordenó que el Alguacil de este Tribunal luego de haberse efectuado la correspondiente publicación de edictos en un periódico de circulación general, proceda a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor la propiedad descrita en las Determinaciones de Hechos de la Sentencia y que del producto de dicha venta, proceda a pagar en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas y honorarios de abogados según concedidos en esta sentencia, en tercer término los intereses acumulados por esta sentencia, en cuarto término los recargos acumulados, en quinto cualquier suma antes indicada como sobregiro en la cuenta de reserva y en sexto término hasta la suma de $50,959.22, para cubrir el principal pendiente de pago más los intereses acumulados hasta el día de la Venta Judicial, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá or-

denar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 21 de julio de 2023. ALEJANDRO L. URBINA ROQUE, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #997, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

Flash of anger led to a moment of brilliance for US

By JULIET MACUR

Lindsey Horan was still curled up on the field when she decided, enough already.

Enough of getting kicked by players from the Netherlands. Enough of letting the Dutch dictate the game. Enough of the U.S. women’s team, the two-time reigning world champion, not playing its best at this Women’s World Cup.

Horan and her team were an hour into a physical match against the Netherlands filled with sharp elbows and powerful shoves, and they were losing it by a goal. Now Horan, a U.S. co-captain, had just been hip-checked hard by a Netherlands counterpart, Danielle van de Donk. So after several minutes of being examined by medical staff, and another moment of being lectured by the referee for shoving van de Donk, Horan did exactly what her teammate Julie Ertz had just begged her to do.

“Just score this goal,” Ertz had whispered as they lined up to await a corner kick from Rose Lavelle, “to shut everyone up.”

And that’s just what she did. As Lavelle’s corner screamed into the penalty area, Horan sprinted for the precise spot where it would arrive. “An absolute dime,” she called the pass from Lavelle. She jumped to meet it, snapped her head and sent the ball straight into the net.

“I don’t think you ever want to get me mad because I don’t react in a good way,” Horan said. “Usually, I just go and I want something more. I want to win more. I want to score more. I want to do more for my team.”

Horan’s goal lifted the United States to a 1-1 tie with the Netherlands, with one more group match game to play for each team. At the moment, the teams are tied with four points from a win and a draw, but the United States holds a slight edge on goal difference because it beat Vietnam by three goals and the Netherlands beat Portugal by only one.

The winner of the group will be decided after the third and final matches in the group, which will be played simultaneously on Tuesday. The U.S. will

face Portugal, and the Netherlands will play Vietnam.

The United States will enter that game with a new spring in its step, and Horan is the main reason for that. All it took, it turned out, was a bit of rage.

“That’s when you get the best football from Lindsey,” Horan said of herself.

She is not the first U.S. women’s player, of course, to take it upon herself to personally change the team’s trajectory at a World Cup, to will it to victory on soccer’s biggest stage. Think Megan Rapinoe in 2019, or Carli Lloyd in the 2015 final, to take two recent examples. In each case, and in Horan’s on Thursday in Wellington, New Zealand, a key player suddenly came to personify the team’s history and legacy — four World Cup titles, four decades atop world soccer — and turn the momentum her team’s way.

On Thursday, even Horan’s teammates sensed something was about to change. Forward Alex Morgan said when she saw the referee pull Horan and van de Donk aside after the two exchanged shoves and heated words following the foul, and just before the corner kick that ensued, she “felt like something was going to happen.”

U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski said the response was typical of Horan.

“She gets fouled, kicked, hurt and obviously it’s a very difficult moment,”

Andonovski said. “And instead of crying about it, she just goes and makes a statement and basically that shows everyone in the world the direction that the game is going to take.”

Andonovski said he was especially proud that Horan and other veterans had continued to press for a winning goal after Horan tied the score, showing the younger players on the U.S. team how to take control of a game. Horan and players like Ertz and Lavelle, he said, “carried the younger ones, or in a way showed the younger ones what this game is all about.”

One of those players, the 21-yearold Trinity Rodman, said she had been impressed by Horan’s ability to “flip a switch” and go “from trash talking to putting a ball in the back of the net.”

It may have been why Andonovski chose to make only one substitution in Thursday’s game, sending on Lavelle for Savannah DeMelo at halftime to try to inject some energy into the U.S. midfield. He refrained from making more changes, he said, “because I thought we had control of the game, I thought we were knocking on the door of scoring a goal.

“We were around the goal the whole time,” he added, “and I just didn’t want to disrupt the rhythm.”

It was only after Horan’s goal, though, and after being outplayed in the first half,

that the United States began to look crisper and more determined.

Andonovski suggested the final 30 minutes, not the first 60, were representative of what he and fans could expect as the team moves deeper into the tournament, and as the connections between players young and old start to get more familiar.

“What you saw in the second half is what you’re going to see going forward, as a baseline,” he said. “I think that we’re just going to get better from game to game, and we’re going to be a lot more efficient as well.”

FIFA Women’s World Cup Group Stage

Thursday’s Results

Portugal 2, Vietnam 0

Nigeria 3, Australia 2

Argentina vs. South Africa (8 p.m., FS1)

Wednesday’s Results

Japan 2, Costa Rica 0

Spain 5, Zambia 0

Canada 2, Republic of Ireland 1

United States 1, Netherlands 1

Friday’s Games (all times Eastern Standard Time)

England vs. Denmark (4:30 a.m., FS1)

China vs. Haiti (7 a.m., FS1)

Saturday’s Games

Sweden vs. Italy (3:30 a.m., FS1)

France vs. Brazil (6 a.m., FOX)

Panama vs. Jamaica (8:30 a.m., FOX)

Sunday’s Games

South Korea vs. Morocco (12:30 a.m., FOX)

Norway vs. Philippines (3 a.m., FS1)

Switzerland vs. New Zealand (3 a.m., FOX)

Germany vs. Colombia (5:30 a.m., FS1)

Lindsey Horan of the United States sprinted away from the Netherlands defense to head in the tying goal.

A split subway series leaves both teams shrugging

By TYLER KEPNER

The final installment of the 2023 subway series — lowercase, alas — began with a nifty bit of symmetry Wednesday night in the Bronx. Brandon Nimmo, the New York Mets’ $162 million center fielder, faced Carlos Rodón, the New York Yankees’ $162 million left-hander. They fought to a draw — a full count, then a foul — before Nimmo struck out on high heat.

That number, 162, has resonance in Major League Baseball, whose teams play 162 games each season. It would seem that the two biggest spenders in the sport would win a healthy majority, yet after the Yankees’ 3-1 victory, the city’s teams were nearly even: a collective 101 wins and 102 losses.

The Mets are the more confounding underachiever, more likely to ship away veteran talent than to add it before Tuesday’s trading deadline. They are generally shaky in the field, but otherwise do nothing exceptionally well or badly. They erupted for nine runs at Yankee Stadium in Tuesday’s victory, then managed just four hits a night later.

“We are not in the best spot right now,” the Mets’ Jeff McNeil conceded Wednesday night. “So we need to play good baseball and do it quick.”

Before starting a series with the Washington Nationals on Thursday, the Mets trailed 10 teams in the National League — the three division leaders and seven others hoping for one of three wild-card spots. At 47-54, they have probably run out of time.

The Yankees, though, could hardly revel in their victory. They are six games over .500, at 54-48, but still in last place in the American League East. Up next is a three-game weekend series in Baltimore against the upstart Orioles, the AL’s best team.

“This stretch down the road — end of July, August — it kind of starts to turn a little bit,” said the Yankees’ Harrison Bader, who had three hits Wednesday.

“Maybe the swing breaks down a little bit, maybe you’re a little tired, whatever it is. The whole point is: It’s a decision from here on out — it’s a decision to come to the field with a winning mentality, it’s a decision the

night before to get your rest, to stay up on your work. All these things, it’s just a mental decision.”

Better talent, of course, would help those decisions yield better results. And while the Mets cannot count on a savior to show up, the Yankees can: Aaron Judge seems poised to rejoin the lineup for the first time since June 3, when he crashed through the right field wall for a catch at Dodger Stadium and tore a ligament in his right big toe.

Judge returned to New York on Wednesday night after playing two simulated games in Tampa, Florida. Manager Aaron Boone has been care -

ful not to specify a timeline for Judge, but teammates are eager to see him return, perhaps as early as Friday at Camden Yards.

“I think we’re getting the big guy back,” said Isiah Kiner-Falefa, the Yankees’ utility player. “We’re really excited; his presence when he’s here, even when he’s not even playing, it’s huge. To have him in the lineup, it’s going to be a good feeling.”

The Yankees have gone 19-23 since Judge’s injury. They held a playoff spot then but now stand fifth in the wild-card race; Tampa Bay, Houston and Toronto would have the three spots, with Boston just ahead of the

Yankees.

Without Judge, the Yankees have been very ordinary — like their neighbors from Queens — and last weekend’s sweep of the woeful Kansas City Royals was their only series victory in seven tries this month. Boone would not tie their plight to Judge’s absence.

“Look, I don’t think it’s black and white, either,” he said. “I think part of it was we had some guys go through some struggles. You can say that’s because Aaron wasn’t in there, which certainly could be a factor. But I wouldn’t say that’s all of it. We’ve had our share of struggles and I don’t think that’s all correlated.”

Rodón, for one, had lost his first three starts as a Yankee, with a 7.36 ERA. He missed more than three months with a forearm strain, a troubling sign for a pitcher who has never worked 180 innings in a season, even while starring for the Chicago White Sox and the San Francisco Giants.

But Wednesday was more like it: After fanning Nimmo with a 96 mph fastball in the first, Rodón used his other elite pitch — the slider — to strike out Mark Vientos. He allowed four hits, three walks and a run before Boone called for Michael King for the last out of the sixth. Wandy Peralta, Tommy Kahnle and Clay Holmes followed with a scoreless inning apiece.

“It’s easy to hand the ball over to those guys,” Rodón said. “They’ll shut it down quick.”

Relievers are notoriously unpredictable, but it is worth noting that the Astros had the best bullpen ERA in the majors last season and went on to win the World Series. The Yankees have the best bullpen ERA this season, at 3.20, which could make them a force if they reach the playoffs.

For that to happen, so much has to go right. Rodón, Luis Severino and Domingo Germán must be more consistent in the rotation, the offense must prove it can handle top pitching staffs — and, maybe above all, Judge’s toe must cooperate.

“His timeline is his timeline,” Bader said. “I’ve had some foot stuff, and it’s no joke.”

The season has been no laugher, on either side of town.

Harrison Bader had three hits and scored two runs in the Yankees’ 3-1 win over the Mets at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday.

After starting the season on the injured list, and struggling through his first three starts, Carlos Rodón looked good against the Mets, allowing one run in five and two-thirds innings.

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

You have the missing piece that people need in every situation today, Aries. Engage in light conversation in social situations, and turn your charm up high. You have the ability to make favorable impressions on just about everyone, so set the day off on the right foot. Get out of bed earlier than usual and get your blood pumping with a brisk walk around the neighborhood.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

People may want to talk a great deal, but they’re avoiding their feelings today, Taurus. Put your emotions on the back burner and let your mind take over. Deal with the facts and make sure your emotions don’t interfere with the information you receive. Things can get clouded if you don’t stay true to the communication that’s taking place. Be conscious of the impact of your words.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

You should be able to evaluate your emotions from a detached perspective today, Gemini. Use this opportunity to take action based on what you discover. Make sure your actions are based on practicality and you aren’t acting rashly in response to someone else’s hasty maneuvers. You will be amazed at the incredible things that develop if you think first.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

If you’re talking about another person today, Cancer, don’t say anything that would upset them if they were standing next to you. Gossip may run rampant, but that’s no excuse to contribute to it. Be aware that what you say has a strong impact on the people around you. It’s likely to spread to many more ears than you think.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

It’s important to take action on a day like this, Leo. Trust yourself and your instincts. Often you have the perfect counsel for everyone but you. Keep in mind that you might have to turn to others for the best advice for you. Talk things out and then take action. Hesitation will only have negative consequences. You have all the facts you need.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

You might be unfocused and confused about which way to go, Virgo. Your baffled look isn’t giving others much confidence in your ability to make a good decision. Don’t feel obliged to stay in an unhealthy situation. It may be time to let go and break some ties to things that are no longer working for you. Feel good about extracting yourself from old habits.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct

23)

You might be unfocused and confused about which way to go, Virgo. Your baffled look isn’t giving others much confidence in your ability to make a good decision. Don’t feel obliged to stay in an unhealthy situation. It may be time to let go and break some ties to things that are no longer working for you. Feel good about extracting yourself from old habits.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

You might be unfocused and confused about which way to go, Virgo. Your baffled look isn’t giving others much confidence in your ability to make a good decision. Don’t feel obliged to stay in an unhealthy situation. It may be time to let go and break some ties to things that are no longer working for you. Feel good about extracting yourself from old habits.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

You might be unfocused and confused about which way to go, Virgo. Your baffled look isn’t giving others much confidence in your ability to make a good decision. Don’t feel obliged to stay in an unhealthy situation. It may be time to let go and break some ties to things that are no longer working for you. Feel good about extracting yourself from old habits.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

It may be hard for you to get a handle on things today, Capricorn. Your focus seems to jump from one problem to the next without finding resolution. This isn’t a day to find a solution. You’re better off researching, questioning, and gathering facts. Keep your channels of communication open, and don’t try to pin anyone down for answers. You’ll accomplish a lot by keeping active and light.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

You might come across strong opposition today. Someone may seem to want to cut straight through to your heart, Aquarius. In reality, this is a message reminding you to think about things in terms of the collective, the oneness of all. Be aware of a greater perspective in which you see more than just your side of the issue. Discuss the issues with others before making any major decisions.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Act on your instincts and you won’t go wrong, Pisces. You may need to give up control and put logical thinking aside. Let the wind take you where it will. Explore your feelings and how others influence them. It will be just about impossible to solidify any plans today. You’re better off exploring options and comparing notes with others. Don’t pigeonhole yourself into one way of thinking.

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