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Island gov’t commemorates July 4 in call for ‘equality’

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he Government of Puerto Rico celebrated the commemoration of the 246th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence in Cataño on Monday in accordance with the public policy of safeguarding the democratic foundations built on the principles of freedom, justice and equal rights.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia offered his message focused on the fight for “equal” rights for all citizens of Puerto Rico.

“Together today we celebrate the principles of equality and democracy that distinguish the United States, we reiterate our pride in being part of the American nation and we raise its flag, aware that there is still a long way to go toward full equality under that flag,” the governor said. “Along this path we have obtained many privileges that we value in our daily lives.”

He added that “for 123 years the American flag has flown on our land, and for 105 years we have been American citizens.”

“And since then we have been immersed in the struggle for full democracy. Because that evident truth of equality has not yet fully materialized in Puerto Rico.”

“Those of us who are proud to have American citizenship are not willing to settle for just part of the rights and opportunities of that citizenship,” Pierluisi said. “We want total democracy; we do not accept it halfway. We fight for it for our soldiers and veterans, for our most vulnerable citizens, for our young and old, for our working class, for our companies, and to have the right to vote for the president and those who represent us in Congress.”

The governor added that “the American nation showed us that the right to equality is not ceded, it is fought for and demanded.”

The event was dedicated to the American Legion led by Cmdr. Carmen Rosario Díaz, who is the first woman in charge of the Puerto Rico Department of the American Legion. This organization is made up of veterans Gov. Pedro Pierluisi

from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with the purpose of serving veterans of American military service, improving their quality of life and defending their acquired rights and benefits. The achievements of Rosario Díaz have been decisive in obtaining several awards, the governor noted.

The American Legion was established in 1919 by the U.S. Congress as a patriotic organization of veterans dedicated to helping each other and defending the rights of those who have given their lives in defense of the nation.

Puerto Rico Secretary of State Omar Marrero Díaz, Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo and La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Noelia García Bardales along with other commonwealth government secretaries and cabinet chiefs. Also present were island senators, representatives and mayors, and representatives of the U.S. armed forces.

During the protocol acts, the secretary of state was in charge of reading the Proclamation and Dedication.

For its part, the 248th Band of the Puerto Rico National Guard, as well as the Army National Guard, presented a musical selection, and from El Morro in Old San Juan, 50 cannon shots were issued accompanied by a parade of fishermen in the Bay of Cataño.

To culminate the official acts, a parade was held with local and federal security components.

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Governor convokes extraordinary session of Legislature

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Monday summoned all legislators to an extraordinary session starting Wednesday to address Administration Bill 79, equivalent to Senate Bill 931, to create the “Law to Mitigate the Increase in the Price of Energy in Puerto Rico.”

The measure establishes the transfer of $145 million from the State Insurance Fund Corp. (CFSE by its Spanish initials) to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and $20 million to the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) to mitigate or avoid service increases.

“As I announced in the past few days, I am calling all senators and representatives to an Extraordinary Session so that they can approve this measure that seeks to provide relief to the pocketbooks of the people,” the governor said in a written statement. “The refusal of the legislative leadership to take up this bill in the Ordinary Session caused the Energy Bureau to implement an increase in the electricity bill as a consequence of the rise in the cost of fuel.”

However, the regulatory entity could reconsider that decision if we can provide the funds that the Electric Power Authority needs to meet those fuel costs,” he added. “I hope that the members of the Legislative Assembly, regardless of party colors or lines, evaluate and approve this measure in favor of the people on its merits.”

The call to the extraordinary session also includes the approval of the appointments of: José J. Monge Gómez and Waleska I. Aldebol Mora as Appeals Court judges; Rodney J. Ríos Medina and Juan M. Guzmán Escobar as Superior Court judges; Thaizza M. Rodríguez Pagán as attorney for family affairs; Lilliam Rodríguez Capó and Dr. Jorge Hess Riutort to the Health Insurance Administration board of directors; Carola Ballester Descartes to the Institute of Statistics board of directors; Héctor J. del Río Jiménez, Alberto J. Castañer Padró and Iván E. López Báez to the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority governing board; and Rebecca Rivera Torres, Mercemar Rodríguez Santiago and José Díaz Díaz to the Puerto Rico Planning Board.

Later on Monday, Speaker of the House of Representatives Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez asked the governor to add other measures to the extraordinary session.

“The [governor] … has called the Legislative Assembly to a Special Session. The country can be certain that we will respond to this call with the diligence and commitment that has characterized us,” Hernández Montañez said in a written statement. “The high cost of energy and its detrimental effect on the pockets of Puerto Ricans represent a priority issue for this House of Representatives. For this reason, we reiterate to the Governor that he amend the call and include the five measures detailed in the communication we sent him last Friday

(Senate Bill 525, SB 728, SB 813, SB 818 and SB 906) to provide real relief to the consumer and reduce the high costs of doing business that suffocate our people.”

“This reformulation of public policy, in coordination with House Bills 774 and 1383, which we approved during the closing session, are essential to make the construction of a truly stable, reliable and accessible energy system viable,” the House speaker added. “For this reason, we ask you to reaffirm the commitment provided in this call to provide relief in energy costs, stamping your signature on both [House] measures for the benefit of all Puerto Ricans and allowing them to become law.”

Speaker of the House of Representatives Rafael Hernández Montañez

Lawyers Assn. challenges constitutionality of real estate appraisal requirement added to Act 52

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he Lawyers Association, a group that has more than 3,000 members in Puerto Rico, has gone to court to challenge the constitutionality of Article 86 of Act

Attorney Ramón Rosario Cortés

52-2022, which imposes certain requirements on lawyers working on title deeds.

The suit seeks a declaratory judgment challenging the constitutionality of the new law signed by Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on June 30. Article 86 of the new law requires lawyers to obtain a real estate appraisal in any transaction involving the sale, donation, transfer, exchange, segregation, or grouping of a property as well as a title study and a measurement plan (plot plan).

The Association said the new requirement in Article 86 is unconstitutional because it was included in Act 52-2022 on the last day of the ordinary session, despite the fact that it bears no relation to the contents of the legislative measure.

Act 52 is a tax measure that seeks to replace the excise tax on controlled foreign corporations, noted the document filed by lawyers Ramón Rosario Cortés and Ferdinand Ocasio Vélez.

Ocasio said “this measure affects our notaries by imposing additional requirements for the granting of a deed on the domain of a property.”

“Act 52-2022 is a bill of the governor, Pedro Pierluisi, and the new requirements for notaries were added by the Legislative Assembly on the last day of the ordinary session without the endorsement of the Executive and without relation to the administration measure,” he said.

Section 17 of Article III of the Puerto Rico Constitution requires that the laws deal only with one subject in general.

The subject of Act 52-2022, which is a tax measure, is unrelated to appraisal requirements in the sale of real estate.

The measure has caused delays in real estate transactions.

Puerto Rico Bar Association President Daisy Calcaño López asked Pierluisi over the weekend to include in an extraordinary session of the Legislature proposed legislation that would amend Act 52-2022, because in her opinion the law has put notaries public in a position where they are doing the work of employees of the Municipal Revenues Collection Center (CRIM by its Spanish acronym).

“Our request to the governor, Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, is that he call an extraordinary session to amend Act 52 of 2022, eliminating Article 86 of the law,” Calcaño López said in a written statement. “Our call to the Legislature is to address this matter with the required urgency immediately. Waiting for the ordinary session in mid-August has an economic cost for all stakeholders, especially for the constituents.”

Calcaño López said the amendments to the Notarial Law are similar to those contained in House Bill 827. The amendments have their genesis in the move to update the real estate appraisals that the CRIM must do. Article 86 passes the responsibility of the appraisal work to lawyers when in fact it belongs to the CRIM, she said.

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Cayey mayor: Recent storm highlights vital role of towns in emergency response

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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ayey Mayor Rolando Ortiz Velázquez made an analysis of the management of situations related to a tropical depression that passed through the eastern parts of Puerto Rico over the weekend, bringing to light the importance of the municipalities in handling such an emergency situation.

“Once again it is evident how the experience, resources and personnel of the municipalities have been important in the attention to the communities and acting quickly in emergencies,” said the former president of the Puerto Rico Mayors Association in a written statement issued Monday.

Ortiz Velázquez referred specifically to the meteorological event where some municipalities in the eastern and southeastern regions received between six and eight inches of rain over the weekend.

“Although these rains alleviated the drought to some extent, some rivers reacted, some jumped their banks and my fellow mayors in the east handled the situation quickly and effectively. For this dynamic to be consistent, the necessary resources must be guaranteed,” he said. “They are services

Cayey Mayor Rolando Ortiz Velázquez

for the communities and this has been demonstrated. In fact, over the weekend wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour or more were reported in various parts of the eastern half of the island. If there was damage to homes or businesses, that

will be known in the next few hours, because when these situations happen, people go to the municipality to seek help.”

Ortiz Velázquez’s statement about municipal resources came with heightened relevance in the new fiscal year that has just begun, because with the approval of the budget provided by the Financial Oversight and Management Board, island mayors saw their demand for a two-year moratorium on the elimination of the Equalization Fund rebuffed.

The fund allocates money to municipalities through remittances from the Municipal Revenues Collection Center, commonly known by its Spanish acronym CRIM, which would disappear in 2024 according to the certified fiscal plan. The mayors asked the oversight board for a moratorium, which was not granted.

All the mayors of Puerto Rico, gathered in the Mayors Association (elected by the Popular Democratic Party) and the Mayors Federation (elected by the New Progressive Party), have been consistent in maintaining that, with the elimination of the Equalization Fund, some 24 city halls would lose between 50% to 70% of their income, and another three would stop receiving 70% or more of what they currently receive.

Among the most affected municipalities are Adjuntas, Barranquitas, Comerío, Florida, Las Marías, Maricao, Maunabo, Orocovis, Patillas and Villalba.

Fiscal board to governor: Provision in EO should have first been submitted for review

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he Financial Oversight and Management Board has scolded Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia over an executive order issued on June 7 that establishes, among other things, an expedited procurement process for reconstruction projects that use federal funds.

After reviewing the executive order and additional information provided by the governor’s office, the oversight board designated it as “Approved with Observations” in a letter dated July 1.

The observations relate to the executive order’s provision allowing agencies to develop their own procurement process for reconstruction projects when, at their discretion, the alternatives established in the executive order are not convenient.

The executive order says any agency interested in developing its own procurement processes for reconstruction projects must request a waiver from the Puerto Rico Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which will develop uniform guidelines establishing the application process, evaluation criteria and waiver authorization.

The oversight board requested that the OMB submit the guidelines for review and approval prior to issuance to ensure that they are not inconsistent with the Certified Fiscal Plan.

“Additionally, we reiterate that, pursuant to the Over-

sight Board’s Rules, Regulations and Orders Review Policy, executive orders must be submitted to the Oversight Board in English prior to issuance in order for the Oversight Board to conduct its review as mandated by PROMESA [the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act],” the board said.

The oversight board’s review is solely limited to the executive order’s compliance with the applicable fiscal plan and budget, and no other matters.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi

“Any material changes to the Executive Order must be submitted to the Oversight Board for its review and approval prior to adoption and publication,” the board told the governor. “This review was conducted on the basis of information submitted by your office. The Oversight Board has not independently verified the information included in the submission. Should the Oversight Board become aware of any inaccuracies or misrepresentations – whether intentional or not – it would re-evaluate its assessment.”

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DTOP reviewing sale of public land in Condado that was home to a community park

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ransportation and Public Works (DTOP by its Spanish acronym) Secretary Eileen Vélez Vega has requested a report on the sale of a public plot on Ashford Avenue in Condado for a mere $145,000 which residents claim was a community park and will be turned into a condominium.

“The information that we have preliminarily compiled is that it began in 2019 and the subsequent processes took place in accordance with the law,” Vélez Vega said in a statement on Monday. “In keeping with this information, I have requested that a complete review of the file be carried out immediately and that a report be submitted to me no later than Tuesday [today] afternoon.”

Manuel Calderón, a spokesman for the Popular Democratic Party in the San Juan City Assembly, said the custodian of the land is the DTOP and that Vélez Vega must be accountable to the people in the surrounding communities, including Loíza and Condado streets in the Machuchal sector.

“It has transpired through demonstrations made by several residents of Condado and Santurce, that the

Transportation and Public Works Secretary Eileen Vélez Vega

government of Puerto Rico sold some land in front of Parque del Indio that served as a passive park that was maintained and used by all members of these communities,” Calderón said.

The residents said the sale of the property was executed without consulting nearby communities.

Amaury Rivera, a resident, issued a statement saying the community woke up “to see how a private entity fenced off one of its few public parks.”

A few months ago, he said, residents of the area noticed that the trees in the park, known as Parque Borinquen, were dying and that an investigation determined that the trees were being poisoned. Then on Friday, park benches had been removed and a fence was put up around the area.

A sign posted in the area identifies the architect of the proposed projects as José Fernando Vázquez, who is the brother-in-law of Andrés Guillemart, who is married to Caridad Pierluisi, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia’s sister.

After several procedural steps, residents found out that DTOP had sold the park to Krug Property for $145,000 to develop a “casa de apartamentos,” or an apartment unit.

Ricky Martin: Domestic abuse accusations are ‘totally false’

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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uerto Rican singer Ricky Martin hotly denied accusations of domestic abuse made in an island court after confirming that a Law 54 complaint against him had been filed in which a protection order was issued.

“The protection order filed against me is based on totally false allegations, so I will face the process with the responsibility

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that characterizes me,” Martin said on his social networks over the weekend. “As it is a legal matter in progress, I cannot make particular statements. I appreciate the innumerable shows of solidarity and I receive them with all my heart.”

Martin, 50, must appear before Judge Raiza Cajigas Campbell at the San Juan Municipal Court on July 21 at 9 a.m. for a hearing on the complaint filed directly with the court without the petitioner contacting the police, according to local press reports.

“The petitioned party is warned that, if he does not appear at the adjudicative hearing, the Court may record default and grant the remedies requested in the petition or any other remedy that is appropriate by law,” reads the protection order issued last Friday morning, which the local news outlet Metro was able to review.

It is established in the same order that if a natural disaster or situation occurs that prevents the court from operating on the day of the citation, the protection order will be automatically extended for seven additional calendar days. The order issued by Judge Cajigas Campbell is valid until July 21, the date Ricky Martin of the evidentiary hearing.

The order was issued “ex parte,” meaning that neither the singer nor his legal representation was a party to the proceedings.

“The petitioner appears in his own right. The parties were related for seven months. They separated two months ago, but the petitioned [Martin] does not accept the separation.

He calls him frequently,” the order states in the fact-finding.

“In addition, the petitioner has seen him hanging around his residence on at least three occasions. Petitioner fears for his safety.”

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Army bases that honor Confederate traitors could soon be renamed for these heroes

By CHRIS CAMERON

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uring the Jim Crow era, nine Southern Army bases were named for treasonous Confederate generals who fought to preserve slavery and white supremacy.

Now a commission established by Congress has suggested new names for the bases that “embody the best of the United States Army and America.”

Fort Bragg in North Carolina would be renamed Fort Liberty, if the recommendations are approved by Congress.

The other bases would honor some of the Army’s most distinguished heroes. These are their stories: Fort Johnson (Fort Polk, Louisiana) Sgt. Henry Johnson Pvt. Henry Johnson deployed to Europe during World War I in a storied Black regiment known as the Harlem Hellfighters. The U.S. armed forces were segregated, and the Hellfighters were not allowed to fight on the front lines with other U.S. troops. Instead, the Black soldiers fought under the command of their French allies.

That put Johnson and his unit at the front lines, “against all odds — Black Americans wearing French uniforms,” in the predawn hours of May 15, 1918, as German troops swarmed his sentry post at the edge of the Argonne Forest, according to a biography provided by the naming commission.

Johnson threw grenades until he had no more left to throw. Then he fired his rifle until it jammed. Then he clubbed enemy soldiers with the butt of his rifle until it split apart.

Then he hacked away at the enemy with his bolo knife.

After the Germans retreated, daylight revealed that Johnson had killed four enemy soldiers and wounded an estimated 10 to 20. He suffered 21 wounds in combat.

For their actions, Johnson and his sentrymate on duty that night were the first Americans to be awarded the Croix du Guerre, one of France’s highest military honors. Almost a century later, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Johnson the Medal of Honor.

Fort Walker (Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia) Dr. Mary Edwards Walker Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is the only woman ever awarded a Medal of Honor. A skilled surgeon, she volunteered during the Civil War because the Army refused to commission a woman as a medical officer.

She served near the front lines at Fredericksburg and Chattanooga, and routinely crossed battle lines to treat civilians. She was arrested by Confederate forces in 1864 and exchanged for a Confederate surgeon four months later.

After she was denied an honorary military rank at the end of the war, Union generals successfully petitioned for her to receive the Medal of Honor for “patriotic zeal to the sick and wounded.”

Throughout her life, Walker proudly presented herself as a feminist who did not conform to gender norms. She refused to agree to “obey” her husband in her wedding vows

Troops at Fort Hood in Texason Aug. 12, 2020. Fort Hood would be renamed Fort Cavazos if new recommendations are approved by Congress. and kept her last name, according to the National Park Service. She wore men’s clothing during the war, arguing that doing so made her job easier. After the war, she posed for photographs in suits and a signature top hat, often with her Medal of Honor pinned to her lapel.

Fort Barfoot (Fort Pickett, Virginia) Col. Van Barfoot On May 23, 1944, in the foothills of the Italian Alps, Sgt. Van Barfoot single-handedly silenced three machine-gun nests, disabled a German tank with a bazooka, blew up an artillery cannon with a demolition charge and took 17 enemy soldiers prisoner.

In addition to everything else that day, he rescued two grievously wounded American soldiers, leading them about a mile to safety.

“Any single one of these actions could merit a high award for valor,” the naming commission wrote of Barfoot, a Choctaw soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor and extolled in the news media as a “one-man army” for his actions that day.

Back home in Mississippi after the war, he publicly embarrassed the U.S. senators from his state by rejecting their racist remarks about Black soldiers, according to a biography of James Eastland, one of the two Mississippi senators.

He served 34 years in the Army, including tours in Korea and Vietnam. Later in life he again drew national attention for successfully fighting his homeowners association to keep an American flag flying in his front yard.

Fort Gregg-Adams (Fort Lee, Virginia) Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg & Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley Fort Gregg-Adams would honor two trailblazing African American support officers, Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley. The naming commission noted the “too-often-unheralded excellence” of logistics and support units, many of which are to this day staffed primarily with Black troops.

Adams commanded the 6888th Central Postal Directory

Battalion, a segregated Women’s Army Corps unit responsible for delivering mail to American soldiers during World War II. In 1945, the 6888th was sent to England and then France — becoming the first large unit of Black servicewomen to be deployed overseas — where it processed nearly 2 million pieces of mail each month.

At the end of the war, Adams was the highest-ranking Black woman in the Army, according to a National Park Service biography.

At the height of his career, an article in The Washington Post said, Gregg was the highest-ranking Black officer in the military, serving as logistics director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as deputy chief of staff for logistics for the Army in the late 1970s and early ’80s. He also participated in the desegregation of the military installation that would partially bear his name and was one of the first Black officers to join its officers’ club.

Fort Cavazos (Fort Hood, Texas) Gen. Richard E. Cavazos Richard E. Cavazos was the first Hispanic American to become a brigadier general and the first Hispanic American to become a four-star general. He received three major military decorations for valor in combat: a Silver Star and a Distinguished Service Cross for his actions in Korea, and a second Distinguished Service Cross for an episode in Vietnam.

In February 1953 during the Korean War, Cavazos charged through enemy mortar and gunfire, with “complete disregard for his personal safety,” to retrieve a wounded enemy soldier, earning the young officer a Silver Star. Three months later, Cavazos led three separate charges on enemy positions and returned to the field five times to rescue his wounded men — earning him his first Distinguished Service Cross.

In Vietnam in 1967, Cavazos again “completely disregarded his own safety” and led a charge “with such force and aggressiveness” that the enemy fighters fled their positions, earning his second Distinguished Service Cross.

Throughout his career, Cavazos also earned other awards and citations, including two Legions of Merit, five Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart.

Fort Eisenhower (Fort Gordon, Georgia) Dwight D. Eisenhower, general of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the supreme commander of allied forces in Africa and Europe during World War II — leading the liberation of North Africa, the invasion of Italy and the D-Day landings. After the war, he was elected the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961.

Eisenhower soared through the Army ranks during the war, going from lieutenant colonel at the beginning of 1941 to a four-star general by February 1943. A year later, he became one of only five officers ever appointed as a five-star “general of the Army.”

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6 killed in shooting at July 4 parade in Chicago suburb

By ROBERT CHIARITO, ALAN YUHAS and MITCH SMITH

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massive search for a gunman turned Fourth of July celebrations across the Chicago region into chaos on Monday, after someone opened fire from a rooftop into a parade in suburban Highland Park, killing at least six people and sending two dozen more to the hospital with injuries.

Residents near the parade route were told to stay inside as hundreds of law enforcement officers fanned out across Chicago’s northern suburbs, and as communities weighed whether it was safe to carry on with their own holiday celebrations.

“Could this happen again?” Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office asked.

“We don’t know what his intentions are at this point.”

Covelli said the gunman had not been identified, and he asked nearby residents to turn over any security camera footage to investigators. Officials had recovered a rifle, he said, and SWAT teams were going door to door in the area.

Covelli said the gunfire stopped around the time that police officers reached the shooting scene. “All indications is he was discreet and very difficult to see,” he said.

In downtown Highland Park, a lakefront suburb north of Chicago, lawn chairs remained scattered along the parade route as police with rifles patrolled the streets. Mayor Nancy Rotering said first responders had rushed to render aid during the shooting, risking

Empty bicycles and chairs remain along the sidewalk after parade-goers fled Downtown Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb, after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade on Monday, July 4, 2022.

their own safety to help others.

“On a day that we came together to celebrate community and freedom, we’re instead mourning the loss, the tragic loss, of life and struggling with the terror that was brought upon us,” Rotering said.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat from suburban Chicago, said, “This scene has repeated itself over and over again because of the unfettered access to weapons of war. What was supposed to be a celebration of our freedom and unity today turned into yet another bloody massacre.”

The Lake County coroner said five of the six people killed in the attack were found dead at the scene, and the other died at a hospital. At least five of the people killed were adults.

Miles Zaremski, 73, a Highland Park resident who was at the parade, said that he heard what sounded like gunshots from an automatic rifle. “I was in the service a long time ago, so I know what that sound produces,” he said.

Zaremski said he was about a block away when he heard the “pop pop pop pop pop.”

“At first I thought it was a backfire or maybe was a firecracker,” he said, “but then all of a sudden there was a stampede of the crowd who was attending on either side of the street. So I kind of gingerly walked up, and all of a sudden I saw people bloodied.”

The shooting, he said, led to a “horrific” scene of terrified people and bloodied bodies. “I have never seen anything like it in my life,” he said, adding, “It was chaos.”

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As president, Eisenhower oversaw the end of the Korean War, created the interstate highway system, led efforts to form the International Atomic Energy Agency and enforced school desegregation with the deployment of federal troops.

Fort Novosel (Fort Rucker, Alabama) Chief Warrant Officer Michael Novosel Sr. In two tours of duty in Vietnam, Michael Novosel Sr. rescued more than 5,500 wounded soldiers as a medevac pilot, earning the Medal of Honor for one particularly heroic episode. One of those rescued soldiers was his own son, Michael Novosel Jr., an Army aviator whose helicopter was shot down in 1970. (A week later, Michael Jr. returned the favor, rescuing his father from a disabled helicopter.)

Novosel, the son of Croatian immigrants, joined the Army Air Corps in 1941 and rose to the rank of captain by 1945, flying B-29 strategic bombers. He then transferred to the newly created Air Force and remained in the reserves until the 1960s. When Novosel was denied an active-duty

assignment to serve in Vietnam, he gave up his rank as a lieutenant colonel and joined the Army as a warrant officer and helicopter pilot.

In one rescue mission in 1969, Novosel rescued 29 South Vietnamese soldiers under heavy enemy fire. He and his crew were forced out of the landing zone six times and had to “circle and return from another direction to land and extract additional troops,” according to his Medal of Honor citation.

By the end of the day, his helicopter had been riddled with bullets. In his own retelling of the episode during an interview with the Library of Congress, Novosel said he was shot in his right hand and leg during his last rescue of the day — momentarily causing him to lose control of the helicopter — but escaped along with his crew and the last of his evacuees.

Fort Moore (Fort Benning, Georgia) Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Julia Moore Many Americans know Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore as the stern and resolute Moore played by Mel Gibson in “We Were

Soldiers,” the gritty and somber war film that dramatized the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam. The general’s wife, Julia, played by Madeleine Stowe in the movie, had a significant role on the home front during that battle.

On Nov. 14, 1965, Moore led his 450 troops to the infamous Landing Zone X-Ray, where they were ambushed by North Vietnamese soldiers who outnumbered the Americans 12 to 1. Bloody hand-to-hand combat ensued, but Moore and his men held their positions for three days. Moore had vowed that he would leave no one behind. He kept his promise, and his actions earned him the Distinguished Service Cross.

At the same time, Julia Moore offered emotional support to the families of the dead and wounded at Fort Benning.

Death and injury notices were sent by telegram at the time, delivered by taxi drivers. Julia Moore began accompanying the drivers and offering her condolences to the families. Her complaints and concerns led to the creation of the Army’s casualty notification teams, and uniformed soldiers now deliver the news of death or injury to families.

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New insights into Trump’s state of mind on Jan. 6 chip away at doubts

By PETER BAKER

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e was not speaking metaphorically.

It was not an offhand comment.

President Donald Trump had every intention of joining a mob of supporters he knew to be armed and dangerous as it marched to the Capitol. And there had even been talk of marching into the House chamber himself to disrupt Congress from ratifying his election defeat.

For 1 1/2 years, Trump has been shielded by obfuscations and mischaracterizations, benefiting from uncertainty about what he was thinking on Jan. 6, 2021. If he truly believed the election had been stolen, if he genuinely expected the gathering at the Capitol would be a peaceful protest, the argument went, then could he be held accountable, much less indicted, for the mayhem that ensued?

But for a man who famously avoids leaving emails or other trails of evidence of his unspoken motives, any doubts about what was really going through Trump’s mind on that day of violence seemed to have been eviscerated by testimony presented in recent weeks by the House committee investigating the Capitol attack — especially the dramatic appearance last week of a 26-year-old former White House aide who offered a chilling portrait of a president willing to do almost anything to hang onto power.

More than perhaps any insider account that has emerged, the recollections of the aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, demolished the fiction of a president who had nothing to do with what happened. Each revelation was stunning on its own: Trump knew that weapons were in the crowd as he exhorted supporters to “fight like hell,” and even tried to stop anyone from disarming them.

He was so determined to join the mob at the Capitol that he lashed out at his Secret Service detail for refusing to take him. And he was so nonchalant about the bedlam he had unleashed that he suggested Vice President Mike Pence might deserve to be executed for refusing to overturn the election.

But when added together, the various disclosures have produced the clearest picture yet of an unprecedented attempt to subvert the traditional U.S. democratic process, with a sitting president who had lost at the ballot box planning to march with an armed crowd to the Capitol to block the

transfer of power, brushing aside manifold concerns about the potential for violence along the way.

“The innocent explanations for Trump’s conduct seem virtually impossible to credit following the testimony we have seen,” said Joshua Matz, who served as a lawyer for House Democrats during both of Trump’s impeachment trials in the Senate.

“At the very least, they powerfully shift the burden to Trump and his defenders to offer evidence that he did not act with a corrupt, criminal state of mind.”

And so nearly 2 1/2 centuries after the 13 American colonies declared independence from an unelected king, the nation is left weighing a somber new view of the fragility of its democracy — and the question of what, if anything, could and should be done about it.

To the extent that there may be a turning point in that debate, Hutchinson’s testimony proved decisive for some who had been willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt or had been uncertain that the committee had gathered enough evidence about the former president’s state of mind.

Solomon L. Wisenberg, a former deputy independent counsel under Ken Starr, called her account “the smoking gun” making a case “for his criminal culpability on seditious conspiracy charges.”

Mick Mulvaney, who served as Trump’s third White House chief of staff, said he had been defending him, but learning that Trump knew some in the crowd were armed and still encouraged it to go to the Capitol “certainly changes my mind,” he told Fox News.

David French, a conservative critic of Trump, had been skeptical the committee would produce sufficient evidence. “But Hutchinson’s sworn testimony closes a gap in the criminal case against Trump,” he wrote on The Dispatch, a conservative website. Two law professors, Alan Z. Rozenshtein of the University of Minnesota and Jed Handelsman Shugerman of Fordham University, likewise opposed prosecution until seeing Hutchinson, writing on the Lawfare blog that she changed their minds because she provided “proof of intent.”

The hearings, which will continue after Congress returns July 11 from its holiday recess, have presented only the prosecution’s side of the story. With Trump’s acquiescence, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the House Republican leader,

opted against appointing anyone to the select committee after Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected a couple of his original selections, leaving the panel composed entirely of Democrats and two Republicans deeply critical of the former president.

Neither Hutchinson nor any of the other witnesses who have testified have been cross-examined. Their testimony has often been presented in short edited clips rather than in their entirety, and no contrary testimony has been offered publicly.

In a courtroom, if it ever came to that, the case against Trump would be tested as it has not been so far.

“The committee’s presentation has been a purely political exercise, deceptively edited,” said Jason Miller, who served as a political adviser to Trump during and after the election.

Yet even outside the confines of the hearing room, Miller and others in Trump’s camp have mainly attacked the committee or tried to chip away at pieces of the testimony rather than produce much of a defense of the former president’s actions or an alternate explanation for his state of mind.

In his social media posts, Trump denied asking that armed supporters be allowed at his rally. “Who would ever want that?” he wrote. “Not me!” He focused more of his energy on castigating Hutchinson in scathing personal terms (“whacko,” “total

phony”) and concentrated on one small aspect of her testimony, namely whether he lunged for the wheel of his presidential vehicle when his Secret Service detail refused to take him to the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Throughout his time in politics, Trump has survived one scandal after another because people in authority felt unable to read his mind. Investigators could not prove that he intended to break the law when he authorized hush money to silence a pornographic film actress or when he provided false valuations of his properties to lenders or when he sought to impede the inquiry into Russia’s election interference.

Fact checkers similarly documented tens of thousands of false statements he made while in office, but were reluctant to declare that he knowingly lied.

“He learned from Dad, Norman Vincent Peale and especially Roy Cohn that you can get away with almost anything if you never back down and insist long enough and loud enough that you’re right, and he held onto that right up to the final ride” back to the White House, said Gwenda Blair, his biographer, referring in turn to Fred Trump; the author of “The Power of Positive Thinking”; and the chief counsel in the Army-McCarthy hearings, who became a mentor to Donald Trump. For Trump, “he was being completely consistent with the way he has acted his entire life.”

Former President Donald Trump is cheered at a rally in Mendon, Ill., on Saturday, June 25, 2022. Trump has weathered scandals by keeping his intentions under wraps, but recent testimony paints a stark portrait of a man willing to do almost anything to hang onto power.

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Pandemic-battered movie theaters are feeling good after strong June

“Minions: The Rise of Gru” could take in $100 million or more at North American theaters over the holiday weekend.

By BROOKS BARNES

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or two years, the film industry lived in genuine fear about the future of moviegoing, with no one able to say for sure whether cinemas would recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Sitting in the dark in a theater to watch moving images — a 117-year-old American pastime that was already in long, slow decline — may well have encountered its extinction-of-the-dinosaurs moment.

Superhero movies excepted, of course.

But box office analysts say there is now enough evidence for a clear assessment: Moviegoing in the United States and Canada is out of intensive care and headed toward something that even resembles health. “Every genre has reestablished itself, with the exception of big animation,” said David Gross, who runs Franchise Entertainment Research, a film consultancy.

The Fourth of July weekend could add animation to the list. “Minions: The Rise of Gru” (Universal-Illumination), the fifth installment in the “Despicable Me” series, could take in $100 million or more at North American theaters between Friday and the end of the day Monday, according to analyst surveys that track audience interest.

That would be a “spectacular” showing for an aging franchise, Gross said.

Ticket sales for June in the U.S. and Canada will total roughly $990 million, a decline of about 10% from June 2019, according to Comscore, which compiles moviegoing data. “This is a fantastic result — the best month at the box office since the pandemic began by far,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior Comscore analyst.

Moviegoing in May was down 26% from May 2019, for instance. April was down 44%.

June benefited from a mix of movies. “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount) collected more than $535 million in North America since arriving May 27, while “Jurassic World Dominion” (Universal) has sold about $315 million in tickets over the past three weeks. The animated “Lightyear” (Disney-Pixar) has chipped in about $100 million since its June 17 release, while “Elvis” (Warner Bros.) has taken in nearly $50 million since arriving a week ago, a very sturdy total for a musical biopic. “The Black Phone” (Universal), a low-budget horror movie, has generated about $35 million over the same time frame.

And the zany indie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) continues to chug away at art houses, collec-

ting an impressive $66.4 million since late March.

After years of delaying releases and rerouting films to streaming services, studios are stocking the multiplex shelves again. This month, 11 wide releases are planned, one more than in July 2019, according to Gross. The lineup includes “Thor: Love and Thunder,” “Where the Crawdads Sing,” “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank” and Jordan Peele’s “Nope.”

“We have consistently stated that a steady stream of diverse, compelling new film content, along with improving moviegoer sentiment, would be driving forces behind the reignition of theatrical exhibition,” Sean Gamble, the CEO of Cinemark, one of North America’s largest multiplex operators, said in an email. June was Cinemark’s highest-grossing month since the start of the pandemic.

Analysts attribute some of the June surge to movie quality (good reviews), pent-up consumer demand and the power of in-theater marketing (trailers that play one weekend increase attendance the next). There is also growing confidence about theaters as a virus-safe activity; about 85% of pre-pandemic ticket buyers — those attending at least four movies a year — feel safe going to theaters, according to polling by the National Research Group, a film industry consultancy. In January, about 65% felt safe. NRG data shows that consumers in general view movie theaters as safer than gyms, bars and restaurants.

Gross noted that his positive domestic outlook comes with one big note of caution: The international box office still seems to be lagging behind in recovery, and not just because studios have stopped releasing movies in Russia.

“There’s a malaise,” he said. For instance, “Jurassic World Dominion” is expected to generate about $125 million in China, but its 2018 franchise predecessor, “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” collected $258 million in the country. Pixar movies usually do quite well overseas, but “Lightyear” has been an exception, Gross said. (“Lightyear” was banned in 14 small box office markets in the Middle East and Southeast Asia because it briefly depicts a same-sex relationship.)

“Top Gun: Maverick” is a smash hit everywhere, but some analysts expected even more in some foreign markets.

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S&P 500 closes the book on its steepest first-half slide since 1970

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all Street closed lower on Thursday, crossing the finish line of a bleak month and quarter in what was the bleak code for the S&P 500’s worst first half in more than half a century.

All three major U.S. stock indexes ended the month and second quarter in negative territory, and the S&P 500 recorded its sharpest percentage drop in the first half since 1970.

The Nasdaq experienced its biggest percentage drop in January-June, while the Dow experienced its biggest percentage drop in the first half since 1962.

All three indexes showed the second quarterly decline in a row. The last time this happened was in 2015 for the S&P and Dow and in 2016 for the Nasdaq.

The year began with a spike in COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant. Then came Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, decades of high inflation, and aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, raising fears of a possible recession. read more “It has been a tug-of-war all year between inflation and slower growth, balancing tightening financial conditions to address inflation issues but trying to avoid open panic,” said Paul Kim, CEO of Simplify ETF in New York. “I think we are most likely already in a recession and right now the only question is how tough will it be?”

“I think it’s very unlikely that we’ll see a soft landing,” Kim added.

Economic data released on Thursday did little to allay those fears. Disposable income fell a few inches, consumer spending fell, inflation remained high, and jobless claims rose a few inches. read more “We’ve started to see a slowdown in consumer spending,” said Oliver Perche, senior vice president of Wealthspire Advisors in New York. “And it seems like inflation takes its toll on the average consumer, and that drives corporate earnings, which ultimately drives the stock market.”

The chart below shows the yearly rise in core inflation rates, each suggesting that while it appears to have peaked in March, they all continue to rise well above the Fed’s average annual target of 2%: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) fell 253.88 points, or 0.82%, to 30,775.43, while the S&P 500 (.SPX) fell 33.45 points, or 0.88%, to 3 785.38 points and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) rose 149.16 points, or 1.33%, to 11,028.74.

Eight of the S&P’s 11 major sectors closed lower, with Utilities (.SPLRCU) leading the gains and Utilities (.SPNY) posting the largest percentage loss.

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Amid war and mounting losses, a mood of resignation and little appetite for compromise

By VALERIE HOPKINS and MARIA VARENIKOVA

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n the first months of the war, Yulia Fedotovskyh found a coping mechanism to help her sleep at night: She scrolled Telegram every evening and looked at photos of burned and blown-up dead Russian soldiers.

Initially, she said, looking at the images helped her feel safer. But now as the conflict drags on, she said she feels exhausted by war. She tries to avoid the news and no longer gets gratification from the photographs.

“I would scroll Telegram every evening before going to bed, it was hard to fall asleep otherwise,” said Fedotovskyh, 32, a public relations manager for an information technology company. These days, she added, “I realize and have accepted that I can die at any moment, and so I just live my life.”

Nearly five months into a bloody war in which Russia is steadily making territorial gains, many Ukrainians remain angry and defiant about the invasion. But there is also a creeping sense of resignation as the losses mount, and the mood is becoming increasingly somber.

The fall of Lysychansk over the weekend, which handed the heavily contested

Ukrainian soldiers atop an armored fighting vehicle in an area near Kramatorsk, in the Donbas region, early this month. eastern province of Luhansk to Russia, was just the latest in a series of heavy blows including some of the worst attacks on civilian targets since Russia invaded in late February. There was a missile strike on a shopping mall in the city of Kremenchuk that left at least 20 dead. A strike on a holiday town near Odesa that killed at least 21 people. A strike on a residential building in Kyiv, the capital, that shattered that city’s fragile veneer of security.

The routing of Russian troops from the

capital at the end of March gave Ukrainians a strong sense of pride in their country and military, and a hope that victory could be swift. With the war showing little sign of abating, however, people are becoming angrier about the losses and express frustration that the Ukrainian government is downplaying the challenges ahead in a bid to raise morale.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, who has captivated the world with his determination and signature green T-shirt, continues to address Ukrainians in nightly speeches suffused with resoluteness and defiance.

“Something needs to be done about the policy of informing the population,” Sergii Neretin, a journalist and the former deputy head of the Ukrainian State Film Agency, wrote on Facebook.

He noted that Ukrainian officials had justified their forces’ withdrawal from the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk by saying it would help defend Lysychansk, its last major stronghold in the Luhansk region. Then Lysychansk fell.

“Almost every day we are given weapons, more and more powerful, and the footage shows how they coolly smash the enemy,” he wrote. “How should we perceive information about our achievements, power and supply of weapons in the futu-

re?” he asked. “Read between the lines or take them for their word?”

The war also has spurred a massive humanitarian crisis, sending millions of people fleeing their homes and severely impacting Ukrainian’s livelihoods.

Only 5% of Ukrainians report living comfortably on their current income, according to a poll released this week by the National Democratic Institute.

Still, a large majority of Ukrainians nevertheless retain a strong faith in the armed forces as well as in Zelenskyy, according to the poll.

Svitlana Kolodiy, 34, a crowdfunding expert, said she has been raising money to support Ukrainian soldiers and was resigned to the fact that the war would last beyond the fall.

And few Ukrainians are interested in compromising with Russia. Ukrainians are “demonstrably uninterested in trading land for peace,” the NDI poll found. Eighty nine percent of respondents said that the only acceptable scenario was the reclamation of all territory occupied by Russia, including the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014.

“There is no compromise with Russia,” said Mariana Horchenko, a 37-year-old dental worker from Kyiv. “Not after all the people who have been killed.”

At least 7 die in glacier collapse in Italy’s Dolomites

By EMMA BUBOLA

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t least seven people died, eight were injured and 14 were missing after a chunk of a glacier collapsed in the Dolomites in Italy on Sunday, according to Maurizio Fugatti, president of Trento province.

A deluge of snow, ice and rock on the Marmolada mountain group, the tallest in the Dolomites, overran a popular summit route, where a number of alpinists had been rope climbing, the emergency service for the Veneto region posted on Twitter.

Several helicopters were reportedly at the scene. Eighteen people were evacuated.

Walter Milan, a spokesman for Italy’s National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps, said it was the biggest accident of its kind on the mountain in decades.

Italian officials said that a partial glacier collapse in the Dolomites caused snow, ice and rock to overrun a popular summit route.

The Marmolada had experienced record temperatures in recent days, he said, amid a heat wave that has scorched parts of Europe for several weeks. The high temperatures could have contributed to the collapse by accelerating the melting of the ice, Milan said, adding that it was a very complex phenomenon with many factors

at play.

At the news conference with Fugatti at a village at the foot of the mountain, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said while the event could be attributed to some unpredictable elements, “it certainly depends on the deterioration of the environment and the climate situation.” He added that the go-

vernment must reflect on what happened and act so that it does not happen again.

The effects of global warming on the glacier on the Marmolada, known as the Queen of the Dolomites, have been unfolding for years, and it has been shrinking at a fast pace.

From 2004 to 2015 the volume of the glacier shrank by 30%, according to a 2019 study by Italy’s National Research Council and international universities. If the trend continues, the glacier will disappear in the next 25 to 30 years, the research predicted.

A few days before the accident, Carlo Budel, the keeper of a lodge on top of the glacier, posted a video of it on Facebook, saying the glacier was in bad condition.

“Poor Marmolada glacier,” he wrote in the caption. “This year this glacier is going to get such a blow.”

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In Ukraine, US veterans step in where the military will not

By DAVE PHILIPPS

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democracy came under attack. The United States saw a threat to an ally and also to the entire world order, but it feared that sending troops could spark a nuclear war. So, instead, it supplied weapons. And a small number of American Special Operations trainers started quietly working with the local military.

That was the situation in South Vietnam in 1961, a few years before full-blown U.S. military involvement, when the American presence was limited to a military “advisory group.”

It is also the situation in Ukraine today. As a bloody conflict churns on, small teams of American Special Operations veterans are training Ukrainian soldiers near the front lines and, in some cases, helping to plan combat missions.

There is a notable difference, though. In Vietnam, the trainers were active-duty troops under the control of the Pentagon. In Ukraine, where the United States has avoided sending any troops, the trainers are civilian volunteers, supported by online donations and operating entirely on their own.

“This is why I became a Green Beret,” said Perry Blackburn Jr., a retired Army Special Forces lieutenant colonel who spent 34 years in uniform in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Egypt, Somalia and Jordan. He is now in Ukraine as a civilian doing what he once did in the military: training local forces to fight a common enemy.

“To not use my talents in a real time of need would be a waste,” said Blackburn, 60, who was one of a handful of Special Forces soldiers who rode into Afghanistan on horseback at the start of the U.S. invasion in 2001 and is funding similar efforts now through thousands of small online donations from the public.

“At my age, I’ve seen enough death and I want to try to stop the bloodshed,” he said. “We need to give people the means to defend themselves.”

Whether this new type of crowdfunded military support is wise is up for debate. Some experts caution that the presence of American volunteers could lead to some kind of tragic mishap that entangles the United States in a Vietnam-style escalation. Russia says that it would treat volunteer fighters as mercenaries and that they could be executed if captured.

The United States discourages Americans from participating in the conflict. It pulled out its 150 military trainers before the war began and now relies on a few dozen commandos from other NATO countries to coordinate the flow of weapons inside Ukraine.

But the volunteers dismiss the idea that they might be stoking a larger war. Instead, they say, they are working to prevent one, by training Ukrainian fighters to put up better resistance against the Russians and deter further aggression.

Either way, Americans are in Ukraine. An unknown number are fighting on the front lines. Others volunteer to be members of casualty evacuation teams, bomb disposal specialists, logistics experts and trainers. At least 21 Americans have been wounded in combat since the war started, according to a volunteer group that evacuates them. Two have been killed, two have been captured and one is missing in action.

Blackburn and a small group of volunteers work directly

with the Ukrainian military, teaching marksmanship, maneuvering, combat first aid and other basic skills while constantly shifting locations of training camps to avoid Russian rocket attacks. They say they do all of it without any input from the Pentagon.

“We have no communication with the U.S. military, period,” he said in an interview from his home in Tampa, Florida, where he recently returned to resupply before returning to the war zone. “That’s a line they don’t want to cross. They are not going to take any responsibility for our well-being or our actions.”

Then he laughed and added, “In fact, they’d probably do just the opposite.”

Not all volunteers looking to work with the Ukrainian military come with decades of experience. Blackburn and several other veterans in Ukraine said they had encountered would-be trainers with overinflated résumés and, in some cases, no military experience at all.

In a statement, the Defense Department said it “is not affiliated with any of these groups” and recommends “that U.S. citizens not travel to Ukraine or depart immediately if it is safe to do so.”

Before the war, the U.S. military regularly deployed uniformed trainers to Ukraine. As soon as Russia invaded, the Biden administration pulled out all troops. “We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine,” President Joe Biden said.

The president vowed that the United States would continue to support Ukraine with weapons and has committed $6.8 billion in security aid. American troops are training Ukrainian forces in Poland and Germany. But Biden drew a clear line in May, saying the U.S. military would not directly fight the Russians.

The attempt to avert direct conflict, though, left a void just as the Ukrainian military’s demand for training skyrocketed. And freelance volunteers are filling it.

“We are executing U.S. foreign policy in a way the military can’t,” said Andrew Milburn, a retired Marine Corps Special Operations colonel who leads a group of volunteer veterans who provide training and advice.

Speaking by phone from a village about 15 miles from the front lines in eastern Ukraine, Milburn said his efforts supported U.S. goals while insulating the United States from involvement.

“I’m plausible deniability,” he said. “We can do the work, and the U.S. can say they have nothing to do with us, and that is absolutely true.”

Soon after the war started, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, appealed for international volunteers to join the fight against Russia. The first Americans to answer his call often were amateur adventurers and military misfits looking for action, several volunteers said in interviews.

The group focused on training tends to be older and more experienced. Many climbed the ranks of elite Special Operations units and have done similar work all over the globe.

During 31 years in the Marine Corps, Milburn held leadership positions in the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations command, including as the commander of the Marine Raider Regiment. He initially went to Ukraine as a freelance journalist but said he changed course after seeing the Ukrainian military hand assault rifles to inexperienced students,

Perry Blackburn Jr., who recently returned from Ukraine, organizes supplies as he prepared for his next trip to the country, in Tampa, Fla., on June 24, 2022. shopkeepers and other citizens before sending them to fight.

“This country has no shortage of trigger pullers. They didn’t need one more,” he said, explaining why he chose not to fight. “But I knew if I could train the trigger pullers, I could have an exponential effect.”

Milburn connected with about two dozen other Special Operations veterans in Ukraine, and soon they were calling themselves the Mozart Group — a name chosen as a retort to a private Russian military company, the Wagner Group. Through contacts Milburn and others had built years before with Ukrainian special operations troops, the Mozart Group soon set up training camps close to the fighting. Milburn said it had trained about 2,500 Ukrainian troops.

The group offers basic military instruction for soldiers headed to the front and occasional classes on how to use U.S.made weapons, like the shoulder-fired Javelin anti-tank missile.

It also provides some specialized instruction and advice for Ukrainian commandos.

Mozart would be a natural conduit for U.S. military support, he said, but when he tries to contact American military officials in Western Europe, through both official communication and back channels, he receives no response.

“Every time we reach out, we get rebuffed,” he said. “They are so afraid that something bad is going to happen and it will look like it was the purview of the government. We are persona non grata.”

But the United States is wise to be cautious, said George Beebe, a former chief of the CIA’s Russia analysis and director of the Quincy Institute, a nonpartisan foreign policy research institution.

“Just as in Vietnam, the risk is that we get inadvertently drawn deeper and deeper in, one small step at a time,” he said.

“The difference is the stakes are higher in Ukraine. It would be much easier for the United States and Russia to get into a direct conflict that could quickly turn very serious.”

Americans on the front lines say that Russia is stoking a broader conflict and that the United States has little choice but to respond. Both Milburn and Blackburn said the United States should respond more aggressively and needed to send more sophisticated, medium-range weapons.

Blackburn said he understood the caution of the United States but felt it was misplaced because caution would only encourage Russian aggression.

“They are destroying whole cities, killing civilians indiscriminately. If that’s not escalation, what is?” he said. “I don’t see this so much as being like the years before Vietnam. To me, it’s more like the years before World War II. People are going to wonder, looking back, why we didn’t do more sooner.”

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Mall shooting shocks Denmark on a joyful summer weekend

By JASMINA NIELSEN, EMMA BUBOLA and EUAN WARD

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t was a festive weekend in Denmark, as Danes cheered on the unusual spectacle of the Tour de France starting in their country, listened to the Strokes at the Roskilde music festival, and hiked, picnicked, shopped and enjoyed the summer sun.

The happiness was shattered in an instant, when a gunman entered the country’s biggest shopping mall in Copenhagen on Sunday afternoon, killing three people and seriously injuring several others, in the worst mass shooting in Denmark since a terror attack in February 2015.

The gunman, who is in custody but has not been publicly identified, most likely did not have a terrorist motive and was known to the mental health services in Denmark, a top police official in Copenhagen said Monday.

“I think we have rarely experienced such a stark contrast as yesterday,” Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a news conference Monday. “In a split second, the party and the joy stopped and the worst possible thing happened to us.”

As in most other European countries, the rate of gun deaths in Denmark barely compares with that of the United States, and the attack at the mall was a blow to a country that normally seems immune to this kind of violence.

“The whole city is in shock,” said Jonathan Schultz, 27, a musician and songwriter who lives in Copenhagen. “It reminds you of the mass shootings you see in the States. This is Denmark, these things don’t happen here.”

The suspect, identified as a 22-year-old Danish man, was carrying a rifle and had access to a pistol, both of which are legal in Denmark, but he did not have permission to possess them, Soren Thomassen, the commander of the Copenhagen police, said at a news conference Monday. It was not clear how he obtained the weapons.

“Our assessment is that these are random victims,” Thomassen said.

In a second news conference Monday afternoon, a police inspector, Dannie Rise, said the police were still searching for a motive, adding that it took 13 minutes from the time they were first informed of the attack to

Sunday afternoon’s shooting, which killed three people and seriously injured several others, was the worst mass shooting in Denmark since a terror attack in February 2015. detain the suspect.

Denmark has restrictive gun laws: Civilians are not allowed to possess automatic firearms, and private possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and handguns is permitted only with special authorization, according to a repository of gun violence data kept by the University of Sydney for Gun Policy, an organization focused on gun control and violence.

Only licensed gun owners can acquire, possess or transfer a firearm or ammunition.

Applicants must pass a criminal and mental health background check, and must establish a reason to possess a firearm, such as hunting or target shooting.

In Denmark, there are about 10 firearms per 100 people, according to 2017 data from the repository. In the United States, by contrast, the figure is more than 120.

Correspondingly, gun deaths are much rarer in Denmark. In 2018, the rate of gun deaths was one per 100,000 people, according to Gun Policy. In the United States in the same year it was about 12.

Mikkel Duus Jensen, 29, a Danish entrepreneur, said he was surprised when he heard of the shooting Sunday night after he spent the day shopping for food, going to

the gym and recovering from a hangover.

“It’s not something we expect in Denmark” he said, adding that Danes perceive themselves as a nice and comfortable people, “In Denmark you feel safe.”

He said the community was shaken by the shooting that recalled images of places like the United States, where, he said “it’s almost normal” that people shoot each other.

“I am glad that in Denmark you can’t get weapons easily,” he said. Otherwise, “you would have many more people killed like this.”

The three people killed in Denmark’s largest shopping center Sunday were a Danish man and woman, both 17, and a 47-year-old man with Russian citizenship who was living in Denmark, Thomassen said.

The four other people who were shot and seriously injured were identified as two Danish citizens, a 40-year-old woman and a 19-year-old woman; and two Swedish citizens, a 50-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl. Three other people were treated at the scene for possible bullet wounds and released.

Casper Claudius, head of the anesthesiology and trauma center at the Rigshospi-

talet, a hospital where three of the injured were taken, said two of the victims were now in stable condition and outside mortal danger, while a third remained in critical condition. A fourth is being treated at Herlev hospital and is not in critical condition, officials said.

Police said that a total of 30 people were wounded in connection with the attack, although 20 of those suffered minor injuries in the effort to flee from the gunman.

The shooting took place at Field’s shopping center, a large complex with more than 140 shops that include Danish and international fashion brands.

As the attack unfolded, people raced to leave the mall, while others tried to seek shelter inside a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, according to witness accounts and video and images posted on social media.

Mall staff members were reported to have barricaded the doors and remained there for about 45 minutes.

Videos of the suspect circulating on social media were believed to be authentic, Thomassen said, although he did not provide additional details. News reports said that videos showed the suspect posing with various weapons, making suicide gestures, and referring to antipsychotic medication that “does not work.”

Thomassen said police had questioned the suspect, who appeared in court for a preliminary hearing and was formally charged with three counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder.

“I will wait to comment on the motive, revenge or otherwise,” said Thomassen, who said that there was no indication that the suspect was working with others. He added, “There is no evidence to support a terrorist act.”

Soren Harbo, a senior prosecutor, said the police would spend nearly a month investigating what he called an enormously violent and indescribable case, with the suspect remaining in custody.

The suspect will be sent to a psychiatric ward once space is available, he said, and a mental examination will be carried out. When asked why he would be sent to a psychiatric ward, Harbo said, “It’s both his behavior, but it’s also some statements and some knowledge we have about him from our case files.”

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Keep czars far away, in Moscow or Mar-a-Lago

By BRET STEPHENS

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great-grandfather on my mother’s side had a big mouth. The trait seems to run in the family.

Ivan Grodzensky — his first name was Israel before he Russified it — was living a prosperous life in Moscow in 1914 when he was overheard at a restaurant denouncing Czar Nicholas II for getting Russia involved in World War I. The czarist secret police imprisoned him, but he got out.

Four years later, Ivan was arrested again, this time at the hands of the Bolsheviks. For what? “He was not considered reliable,” my relative Gary Saretzky, a cousin who is our family’s unofficial historian, told me.

“Either he was sent to Siberia or shot immediately. He drops out of the picture altogether.” Millions of other unreliable Russians would meet the same fate in the following decades.

Another great-grandfather, Barnet Ehrlich, this one on my father’s side, had a frame shop in Kishinev — then a city in the Russian province of Bessarabia, now the capital of Moldova — when in April 1903 a vicious pogrom swept the Jewish quarter. Gangs of armed men looted Jewish stores, burned Jewish homes, raped Jewish women and murdered nearly 50 people.

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Barnet spent the pogrom standing behind the door of his home with an ax to strike any attackers, but the house was spared. The family immediately decided it was time to emigrate to the United States. As for the Russian government, its ambassador to Washington, Count Arturo Cassini, called the pogrom an instance of “the peasant against the money lender and not the Russians against the Jews.” It’s a textbook instance of deploying an antisemitic trope to deny an antisemitic fact.

I thought of my forebears a few days ago while watching the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, give an interview to the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg. I thought of them again a few days later while watching scenes of a Russian missile attack on a shopping mall in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, which left at least 18 people dead.

Lavrov’s interview was a master class in what Joseph Conrad once called a Russian official’s “almost sublime contempt for truth.” The 2014 Maidan Revolution, Lavrov said, was a “neo-Nazi uprising.” The massacre in Bucha was a “staged tragedy.” Regarding Ukrainian civilian deaths: “I’m telling you the Kyiv regime is shelling its own citizens.” Later in the interview, Lavrov allows, “Russia is not squeaky clean,” and “we are not ashamed of showing who we are.”

The Russians deny that they struck the mall.

The mendacity is as bottomless as the cruelty; each reinforces the other.

After Ivan was taken the second time, his wife, Xenia, found a way to escape Moscow with her four children, gold coins hidden in a seam of her dress. They reached the Latvian port of Libau, moved westward to Berlin in the 1920s and fled again for Italy after the Nazis came to power. Among my mother’s earliest memories, besides the Allied bombing of Milan, is of being hidden under a nun’s habit for reasons she didn’t understand.

My mother and grandmother came to the United States after the war, penniless, as displaced persons.

With only one exception that I know of, the relatives left behind in Latvia were murdered in the Holocaust.

Barnet and his family arrived at Ellis Island in 1906.

He found a job at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for $8 a week. For them, there would be no more pogroms.

The Jews who failed to get out of Kishinev in time would not be so fortunate.

I tell these family stories not because they are unique but because they are common.

The exhausted faces you see in the Ukrainian women and children crossing into other parts of Europe; the agonized faces of the Ukrainians recovering from injuries sustained in indiscriminate Russian fire; the

Ivan Grodzensky, the author’s great-grandfather, who vanished without a trace in 1918. sunken faces of the Ukrainians who survived Russian captivity in filthy cellars — these are not the faces of strangers. For tens of millions of Americans with relatively recent immigrant roots, they are the faces of our parents or grandparents. That’s true irrespective of whether their roots lie in Russia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Iran or Venezuela.

America’s concern for Ukraine is now palpably on the wane. The war is dragging on, Kyiv isn’t winning, and the United States is in an uproar over Supreme Court rulings, Jan. 6 committee hearings, inflation, a potential recession. Problems: We have them.

But to understand the stakes in this war, it helps to personalize them. Ukraine’s fight isn’t just about its own freedom. To borrow a line from “Fiddler on the Roof,” it’s about keeping the czar “far away from us.”

It’s also a reminder of what we are struggling to keep at home. A nation that welcomes immigrants, particularly poor ones. A nation in which it’s safe to loudly speak our minds. A nation that upholds the rule of law. A nation whose leaders — current or former — can’t just get away with an “almost sublime contempt for truth.” A nation that keeps faith with those struggling for freedom abroad. A nation that won’t sit still when freedoms slip away at home.

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PR cierra con 35 medallas participación en Juegos del Caribe Guadalupe 2022 POR CYBERNEWS

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UADALUPE – La delegación de Puerto Rico que participó de los Primeros Juegos del Caribe Guadalupe 2022 obtuvo 35 medallas en cuatro días de eventos, informó la presidenta del Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico (COPUR), Sara Rosario Vélez.

“Hemos cerrado en una forma extraordinaria con la medalla de oro del evento de ciclismo de ruta con Christopher (Morales). Esto nos reafirma que hay futuro. Nuestros chicos y chicas están bien comprometidos y en buenas manos. Es simplemente seguir trabajando con ellos día a día”, dijo Rosario Vélez, en declaraciones escritas.

El ciclista Christopher Morales ganó medalla de oro en la modalidad de ciclismo de ruta, sellando de esta manera la participación de la Delegación de Puerto Rico en la justa caribeña que reunió alrededor de 800 deportistas sub-23 de 30 países miembros de la Asociación de Comités Olímpicos Nacionales del Caribe (CANOC, en inglés). Es el primer oro para Puerto Rico en un evento internacional de ciclismo.

Morales había subido al podio el viernes para ser honrado por su tercer lugar en la modalidad de contra el reloj.

Temprano en la mañana la nadadora Emma Guglielmello sumó la medalla 22 para el deporte de la natación en la disciplina de aguas abiertas. En com-

bate, el judo dio su cuarta presea de bronce en el evento de equipo mixto con Derik Rodríguez, Ettelimay Ramos, Juan Cintrón y Saicha Serrano.

“Muy satisfecha con el resultado de esta Delegación. 35 medallas, 12 de oro, 11 de plata y 12 de bronce. Un evento de buen nivel competitivo, de grandes aprendizajes y grandes enseñanzas para muchos de nuestros atletas. En su mayoría, son atletas muy jóvenes entre las edades de 15 a 18 años, que están apenas comenzando sus categorías juveniles.

Esto es un evento pensando en el futuro, no de este ciclo olímpico, sino para el que comienza después de París 2024”, indicó Rosario Vélez.

El dividendo del botín de 35 metales fue de 12 medallas de oro, 11 de plata y 12 de bronce. Un dato que el historiador y periodista deportivo, Carlos Uriarte, resaltó que 29 de 31 atletas de eventos oficiales ganaron al menos una medalla. Los atletas con mayor resultado fueron de natación con Marissa Lugo (dos de oro, dos de plata y tres de bronce) y Víctor Rosario con tres medallas de oro. En el deporte de exhibición, eSports, el grupo de seis atletas ganó cinco medallas de ellas dos oros, dos platas y un bronce. Los campeones fueron Christian Matos (Headshot en Super Smash Brothers) y Wilson Torres (Quelzo en Tekken 7). Las medallas de plata fueron de Alejandro Carrasquillo (Devil Dragunov en Tekken 7) y Ricardo Román (Mono en Street Fighter V Champion Edition). Román llegó en la tercera posición en King of Fighters XV. “Ellos han aprendido mucho de cada combate o cada juego. Han estado luciendo mejor en su rendimiento. Un número sustancial de medallas importantes con atletas que serán grandes exponentes del futuro. Se trata de darle a ellos este taller de aprendizaje para que puedan ir desarrollándose grandemente. Esperamos seguir desarrollando estas categorías juveniles y verlas competir en la segunda edición de los Juegos, que posiblemente sea en el 2025. Esto es un gran proyecto para invertir en ellos y tener una transición efectiva en los ciclos olímpicos”, añadió.

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AJAS – Una querella de agresión agravada y daños fue reportada en horas de la madrugada del lunes en el camino puerto viejo, frente a la Pizzería “Vintage Pizza” en la Parguera, Lajas.

Según la Uniformada, de la investigación preliminar

a cargo del agente Ariel Rodríguez Valentín, manifestó el querellante, José Vargas Dominicci residente en Yauco, que el señor José Rafael “Piculín” Ortiz Rijo le apuntó con un arma la cual describió, como pistola color negra.

Además, supuestamente el exbaloncelista le ocasionó daños con un marrón de goma a su vehículo marca

Mueren dos y 2,166 casos nuevos por COVID-19 según informe del DS POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el lunes, sobre 537 casos positivos confirmados, 1,629 casos probables y dos muertes.

Las personas fallecidas fueron 1 hombre de 97 años, de la región de Bayamón, sin vacunas al día; y 1 mujer de 84 años, de la región de Fajardo, sin vacunas al día.

El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 18 de junio de 2022

al 2 de julio de 2022.

La tasa de positividad subió a 33.6 por ciento.

Hay 329 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 55 están en intensivo. Mientras, 53 menores están hospitalizados y ninguno está en intensivo. 29 adultos están en ventilador y ningún menor.

Las personas con vacunas al día son 976 mil, 718 personas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,592.

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‘Demand is robust.’ Fireworks come roaring back this summer.

By JULIA JACOBS

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uring the early months of the pandemic, the Grucci fireworks business, which has operated from the United States for more than a century, saw the demand for its Independence Day shows plummet at a rate the family hadn’t seen since the Great Depression.

The business put on about a dozen Fourth of July shows in 2020, a fraction of its normal engagements as cities and towns, fearful of COVID, decided against crowding people into public parks to watch red, white and blue peonies explode.

Instead, to keep busy, the Long Island-based company, which was originated in Italy in the 19th century, focused its resources on a different kind of customer: the Department of Defense, which uses the company’s simulated hand grenades to train U.S. troops.

But this year, the demand for fireworks has come roaring back to prepandemic levels, according to Phil Grucci, the company’s chief executive, and the leaders of other fireworks outfits that stage professional shows. The Grucci company has booked more than 70 shows around the holiday — everywhere from Hackensack, New Jersey, to Hawaii — double last year’s number.

“It’s a major logistical undertaking,” said Grucci, whose family business has mounted fireworks displays at presidential inaugurations, Olympic Games and world’s fairs.

And the logistics this year became even more complicated, with global shipping delays, ballooning costs and trucking shortages. Some cities have been forced to cancel their official fireworks shows because of those challenges, coupled with labor shortages, or because of drought and wildfire concerns.

But several major fireworks companies are still seeing booming business, including Pyro Spectaculars, which has staged the Macy’s fireworks show in New York City for most of its history. The company, based in California, is back up to its capacity of about 400 fireworks shows for the Fourth of July holiday, following a 90% decline in that business in 2020.

“We’re thankful and grateful that we’ve made it through the toughest times in our family history,” said Jim Souza, its fourth-generation leader (and no relation to composer John Philip Sousa, whose music is a fireworks show staple).

For the Grucci company, which manufactures part of its inventory at factories in Virginia and upstate New York, the supply-chain challenges have been less acute than for other companies that ship the vast majority of their products from overseas.

And Grucci had a safety net to rely on: an inventory of fireworks stocked in 2019 that were left untou-

A fireworks show at Eisenhower Park on Long Island in New York, July 1, 2022. Pyrotechnic companies say they’re staging July Fourth shows at prepandemic levels, even as some cities cancel celebrations because of supply-chain and drought concerns. ched during the first two years of the pandemic.

Luckily, fireworks don’t come with an expiration date.

“You know the old saying ‘Keep your powder dry’?” Grucci said. “As long as you keep the powder dry and the products stored properly, they’ll last pretty much indefinitely.”

In the days leading up to Fourth of July, Grucci deploys about 400 pyrotechnicians to set up fireworks shows in parks and on beachfronts and barges — some not far from the company’s Bellport, New York, headquarters and others farther away, including Las Vegas.

The trucks are mostly loaded at what Grucci calls “undisclosed bunker locations” on Long Island and in Virginia, where inventories are covered with earth to keep them cool. (“We don’t advertise where our explosives are stored,” he said.) The licensed technicians meet the trucks at their assigned locations, where they lay out the wiring according to a detailed script and load the fireworks into fiberglass tubes. Each firework is marked with a number that is linked to an electronic firing system.

Before sunset, the technicians communicate with local police and fire departments to make sure

the area where the fireworks land is clear of all revelers. An average-size show will need a fallout zone of a 500-foot diameter, but larger programs might need up to a 2,000-foot diameter.

About 50 of the pyrotechnicians are full-time Grucci employees, but most of the people orchestrating the shows are part-time workers with day jobs.

“For someone who may be an accountant or a mechanic or something like that, they become a performer for that 20 minutes,” Grucci said. “And when the show is over and that audience roars, there’s nothing like it.”

For the Macy’s show Monday, Souza’s company will orchestrate the launch of more than 48,000 fireworks shells from five barges on the East River.

Although the company’s holiday business has returned to 2019 levels, it is a new kind of normal: The cost of shipping containers of fireworks from China has tripled, Souza said, and because of delays, his company is ordering next year’s supply now — several months earlier than before.

The competition for space on shipping containers has been steep, and space for potentially dangerous cargo is even more limited. The situation became so dire last fall that some fireworks companies, including Stephen Vitale’s company, Pyrotecnico, chipped in to charter their own vessels, which could ship a few hundred containers of fireworks each.

“Demand is robust,” said Vitale, whose Pennsylvania-based company is executing about 800 shows for the Fourth of July, using roughly 700 workers who mount multiple shows over the week. “People want to get out, they want to be together and go to fairs and festivals and community celebrations. The demand has outpaced the capacity that the industry really has.”

By May, Grucci’s company had to start turning away new customers requesting shows. The schedule was booked with events ranging from a yacht club in the Hamptons that the company had been servicing for nearly 80 years to a large-scale celebration at Caesars Palace on the Vegas Strip.

Most of their fireworks shows are computerautomated now, Grucci said, though some are still electrical, rather than digital — initiated by pressing buttons manually rather than clicking a mouse to start a preloaded sequence. The technology has progressed significantly: Grucci recalls that his grandfather, Felix Grucci, Sr., would often start a fireworks display with a lit cigar. Then they started using a torch, before those were phased out around the turn of the century.

Still, the process, and the nervous anticipation around it, has remained much the same since his childhood.

“As the sunset goes over the horizon and it starts turning to dark is then when the heart starts to pitterpatter,” Grucci said. “And then comes the ‘3, 2, 1, go.’”

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Betty Rowland, one of burlesque’s last queens, dies at 106

By PENELOPE GREEN

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he was known as the “Red Headed Ball of Fire,” a title given her for her stature — she was a diminutive 5-foot-1 — and her fiery hair. She found the moniker, which was often shortened to “Ball of Fire,” corny.

But Betty Rowland was a burlesque queen nonetheless. A headliner in the racy variety shows’ glory years in the 1930s and ’40s, she worked well into the ’50s.

Rowland had a languid, balletic style (hers was a gentle grind) and she often threw in an undulating stretch and drop known as a German roll. Her costumes were elegant: She favored long skirts with a side slit to the hip, bandeau tops and evening gloves. After a slow burn, she shed most of her gear; but, like most burlesque stars, she kept her pasties and her G-string on.

One of her signature pieces was called “Bumps in the Ballet,” a spoof of a ballet routine that she liked to introduce to her audience with a bit of patter: “Let’s put a little juice in the Ballets Russes, and give the dying swan a goose. In a classical sort of way, might I put a bump in this ballet?”

Rowland died April 3 at an assisted-living home in Culver City, California. She was 106.

Her death, which was not widely reported at the time, was confirmed by Leslie Zemeckis, the director of the 2010 documentary, “Behind the Burly Q,” which told the stories of Rowland and other burlesque stars.

Rowland was of an early-vintage of burlesque star: She had a preteenage vaudeville act with her sister Rozelle, performing a bit of soft shoe and tap. When vaudeville faded out and its stars migrated to the livelier burlesque shows, Betty and Rozelle went on the road as chorus girls.

Burlesque, sometimes known as “the poor man’s theater,” was, like vaudeville, a grab bag of acts — comedy, acrobatics, a little song and dance — with the added zest of a striptease or two.

Betty had her first star turn when she was just 14 and filling in for a performer who had sprained her ankle. She was so engrossed in the music that she forgot to take off any clothes.

“We teased. That was the name of the game. You become a fantasy to other people,” she told Liz Goldwyn, author of “Pretty

The burlesque performer Betty Rowland in an undated photo from her scrapbook.

She was known for her languid, balletic style.

Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens” (2006). But, she added, “people whisper, for heaven’s sake, they say, ‘Do you know what she used to do?’ And they’re saying it like I was a porno worker or something. Well they shouldn’t whisper — I was a dancer. It was the only thing I knew how to do, and I was a success at it.”

Betty Jane Rowland was born Jan. 23, 1916, in Columbus Ohio, one of four daughters of Alvah and Ida Rowland. The girls took dancing lessons, and starting when Betty was about 11, she and her sister Rozelle helped out the family financially by performing together in amateur vaudeville shows, and, later, as burlesque stars, touring a bit but mostly

based in New York City.

Betty Rowland moved to Los Angeles in 1938, a year after Mayor Fiorello La Guardia put the burlesque houses out of business for corrupting the morals of the city. Her own brushes with the law, however, were rare.

She was fined $250 for lewdness in 1939, after a trial in which a burly cop imitated her act on the witness stand, leaving the court weak with laughter. In 1952, she was jailed when a box-office worker at a theater where she was performing failed to recognize two vice squad officers who were in the habit of attending the shows for free.

As payback, they arrested Rowland and the theater manager; a judge sentenced them

both to four months in jail. A local columnist took up Rowland’s case, pointing out that the sentence was as severe as that given the perpetrator of a recent shooting, and she was released after three weeks.

In 1943, Rowland sued the Samuel Goldwyn Co. for using her stage name as the title of the 1941 film “Ball of Fire,” a screwball comedy starring Barbara Stanwyck as a mouthy nightclub singer on the run, and for breach of contract. Rowland said she had been hired as a technical adviser to Stanwyck but was never paid. Rowland received a lot of publicity for her case, but she did not prevail.

Rowland had a long-term relationship with a fellow Minsky burlesque star, a comedian named Gus Schilling — a baggy-pants top banana, in burlesque parlance. Newspapers often described the couple as married, but Rowland told Zemeckis and others that although she and Schilling lived together, he was married to someone else. Her marriage in 1956 to Owen S. Dalton, a lumber merchant, ended in divorce in 1963. She leaves no immediate survivors.

In the late 1960s, Rowland inherited an interest in a Santa Monica bar called Mr. B’s.

In the mid-1990s, she lost control of its ownership to investors, who renamed the place the 217 Lounge. She stayed on as a hostess, and was still working there in 2009, at the age of 93. She had filed for bankruptcy protection in 2003.

Rowland stopped dancing when she married Dalton. But after her divorce, she came out of retirement for a week or so in 1966, performing at a theater in downtown Los Angeles. (At the time, she told The Los Angeles Times, she was writing her memoirs, with the working title “Ham and Legs.” Sadly, no manuscript was ever discovered, said Zemeckis, who bought Rowland’s costume collection to help with her finances in her last years.)

“The theater was dingy beyond description, the band reduced to a drummer and a pianist and the midweek audience painfully spare,” The Los Angeles Times wrote of that 1966 performance. “Yet to the unsteady strains of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ came out the petite Miss Rowland, as regal and redheaded as ever, to prove that experience can triumph over youth, that grace and humor can beat the passing of time to a draw.”

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Your backyard is actually a lucrative private dog park — if you say it is

By RONDA KAYSEN

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reg Jessup likes to squeeze money out of his five-bedroom house in Wilton, Connecticut, wherever possible, frequently listing it on Airbnb. But this spring, he took a good look at the space around the house and saw its potential, too.

In May, he began listing the manicured grounds on Sniffspot, an app where homeowners rent out their yards by the hour to dog owners in search of fenced-in spaces where their pooches can play. “I’m always looking for any way to make an extra few bucks,” said Jessup, 43, a chief technology officer for a hedge fund, who charges guests $8 an hour for use of the space, and subsequently listed his swimming pool on a pool rental app, too. “If someone is going to give me a few bucks to use the yard, great.”

Sniffspot is among the latest startups designed to help homeowners capitalize on every inch of their properties. While vacation apps like Airbnb and Vrbo have long dominated the market with conventional home rentals, newer ones have crashed the party with specialized offerings — like Swimply, where homeowners rent out their pools by the hour, and Splacer and Peerspace, which turn living rooms into party venues. The uses vary, but the underlying concept is the same: A homeowner creates a profile on an app, uploads a few photographs, and presumably the bookings roll in.

Sniffspot started in Seattle in 2018 as a simple website. Now based in Boston, the company is in 1,500 cities, with 7,000 hosts logging about 10,000 bookings a month, according to David Adams, 35, the company’s founder. Guests log on, look for locations near their home, and sign up, with most listings priced at around $10 an hour for one dog or $15 for two.

Averaging about three to four guests a week, Jessup’s profit is modest after he pays the 22% commission that Sniffspot shaves off the top, plus the credit card processing fee. But as far as passive income goes, it doesn’t get much easier than hosting dogs. Jessup simply leaves guests a key to the backyard, and they come and go without any effort on his part. “Literally, I do nothing,” he said. “We have a hose.”

Some hosts are more involved, like Meghan Rabon, who rents out her acre lot in Oxford, New Jersey, a rural community of 2,500 people about 70 miles west of New York

Sniffspot, an app, is among the latest start-ups designed to help homeowners capitalize on every inch of their properties. A new generation of apps is allowing homeowners to make extra money by renting out their pools, yards and living rooms for an hour at a time.

City. “We make it a doggie paradise,” said Rabon, 37, standing in her backyard one recent Saturday. The shaded, fenced yard has a small aboveground pool with a ramp so the dogs can jump in. At the bottom of a long, gentle slope is an obstacle course with a seesaw, tunnels and puppy parkour equipment designed to exhaust any four-legged visitor. The day I visited, the birds chirped, a rooster crowed from a nearby property, and my dog was in heaven, bolting from one end of the fenced property to the other.

Rabon, who breeds Jack Russell terriers and works for a pharmaceutical lab, said most of her guests drive from New York City in search of space for their apartment-bound pups. I paid $35 for an hourlong visit, a premium for the site, but Rabon said she keeps the price high to limit usage since each booking means she may have to mow the lawn, clean the pool and tidy the equipment.

My dog had little interest in the agility course with hoops and poles to jump. He only wanted to play fetch with a squeaky, pink plastic hippo that he found in a bucket. But I imagined that if Rabon were located close

enough for regular visits, I might put the effort into training him to do circus acts.

Sniffspot positions itself as an alternative to the local dog park or even the leisurely walk. For skittish or anxious dogs, playing with other dogs can be stressful and unpleasant. For a few dollars, a devoted pet owner can secure a private dog park and expose a bored pooch to new scents and experiences. “It’s very enriching for a dog to be in a new place,” Adams said.

The biggest challenge many users face is actually finding a Sniffspot to use. Availability is still inconsistent, and concentrated in Seattle, where the company started (one-quarter of all bookings are in Washington state). Growth had “been purely word-of-mouth, organic growth, it’s just something that people need,” Adams said, adding, “To say these things take off like a rocket, that’s not actually how these things happen.”

But for dog owners like Genie Leslie, 34, a copywriter and screenwriter in Seattle, Sniffspot has become a regular routine. Leslie lives in a town house with no yard space for her dog, Darcy, to run around. Darcy, a rescue,

is reactive around people and other dogs, often making the afternoon walk a stressful grind.

Hanging out in someone else’s yard “is honestly more relaxing for us than being out with her on-leash, because we don’t have to manage her reactions,” Leslie said. Recently she found a 10-acre location about 40 minutes away. At $20 an hour, she and Darcy make the trek once a month for a two-hour visit. “She can run, play, test out some basic agility equipment, and even stick her paws in a creek,” she said.

Renting your property to an endless rotation of visitors is not without its pitfalls. Last year, one guest who booked Rabon’s property brought the dog — and seven human guests.

The group blasted music, ordered delivery food and overstayed their visit by nearly an hour. When Rabon finally asked them to go, they left behind all their trash. “They were looking for a place to party,” she said.

Sniffspot banned the user in response, according to Rabon. But she was so rattled by the experience that she stopped listing her space for the rest of the season, only reopening it this month. Other hosts have complained about guests who fail to pick up after their dogs, park cars in the wrong spots or complain about a host’s political signage.

But for a job that, for the most part, involves little more than leaving out a bowl of water, most homeowners seem content. Nandini Persaud, 43, who lives in New York City and rents out her small yard, said she sometimes comes home and realizes that her property was visited while she was gone because items have been moved around.

So what’s it like to have random people wander through your yard? Ask Stacy Couch.

She’s had more than 1,000 bookings since February 2021, when she first listed her 5-acre property outside Minneapolis. Sniffspot users have unfettered access to about 3 of the forested acres, with walking trails. Couch, 56, who owned a housecleaning service before she retired, says business is so busy in the warmer months that she has to block off times for herself. With 30 to 40 bookings a week, she would never get to tramp around her own land with her dogs, or forage the black raspberries that grow in the summer.

So she clears an hour a day for her own dogs. “My guys, they like it out there, too,” she said. But on the day we spoke, they’d missed their scheduled 11 a.m. romp. “I think tonight after 8 is open.”

20 LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ

ESTRELLA HOMES III LLC Parte Demandante Vs.

WILFREDO SEPULVEDA ACOSTA, SU ESPOSA JEANETTE MARIE LESPIER DE JESUS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ESTOS

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: ISCI201700051. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Mayagüez, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $95,934.11, de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 5.00% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma de $9,768.95 como cantidad estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar número nueve (9) del Bloque A de la Urbanización Fraternidad, sita en el Barrio Marina Meridional del término municipal de Mayagüez, Puerto rico, con una cabida superficial de Trescientos Quince punto Cero Cero metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el Norte, en catorce punto cero cero metros, con Armando Alcover; por el Sur, en catorce punto cero cero metros, con la calle número uno; por el Este, en veintidós punto cincuenta metros, con el solar número A guion diez; y por el Oeste, en veintidós

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punto cincuenta metros, con el solar A guion ocho. Enclava una casa de concreto dedicada a vivienda. Inscrita al folio doscientos seis (206) del tomo mil quinientos veinticinco (1525) de Mayagüez, finca número veinte mil setecientos uno (20,701), Registro de Mayagüez. Dirección Física: 111 Méjico St., Urbanización Fraternidad, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 4 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $97,689.52 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 11 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $65,126.34. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LA 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $48,844.76. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al

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precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 2102015). Expedido el presente en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico a 13 de junio de 2022. Calixto Rivera Ghigliotty, Alguacil #289, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Mayagüez.

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV04567.

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

A: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

LA SUCESIÓN DE MÓNICA ESTHER SIERRA RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR; RAMÓN OSVALDO CALDAS PAGÁN, POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA Y FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS

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El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento residencial en forma irregular localizado en la Tercera Planta del Edificio B del Condominio Les Jardins, localizado en la Avenida Periferal Urbanización Ciudad Universitaria, Barrio Sabana Llana, San Juan, Puerto Rico, el cual se describe en la Escritura Matriz de Dedicación al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: apartamento número: trescientos nueve (309). Área del apartamento: ciento cuarenta y ocho metros cuadrados con ocho mil ochocientos veintiséis diezmilésimas partes de otro (148.8826m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, en seis metros con ochenta centésimas partes de otro (6.80m.l.), con espacio abierto; por el SUR, en cinco metros con setenta y uno centésimas partes de otro (5.71m.l.), con espacio abierto; por el ESTE, en trece metros con cuarenta y seis centésimas partes de otro (13.46m.l.), con la pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento trescientos diez (310); y por el OESTE, en diecinueve metros con veintinueve centésimas partes de otro (19.25m.l.) (así surge), con la pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento trescientos ocho (308). Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Este, que da al área del pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que le brindan acceso al edificio y además una (1) puerta interior

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Tuesday, July 5, 2022 la cual le provee acceso al área de balcón (sliding door). Consta de sala-comedor; balcón, cocina, un área de lavandería, por el área de la sala se accesa a un pasillo que le brinda acceso a las siguientes áreas: un clóset, un (1) baño completo de uso general, dos (2) habitaciones-dormitorios cada una con un closet en su interior, y una habitación-dormitorio principal (master-room), en la cual ubican un área de “walk in closet” y un (1) baño completo.

En el área de la sala tiene una escalera en forma de espiral que accesa a un segundo nivel que contiene un área de usos múltiples, un segundo balcón que se accesa por un “sliding door”, un baño completo y un área de azotea descubierta, lo que tiene un área total de treinta y cinco metros cuadrados con siete mil quinientos quince diezmilésimas partes de otro (35.5715m.c.) (así surge), que está incluida dentro del área del apartamento. Le corresponden a este apartamento dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento identificados con los números trescientos nueve (309) y trescientos nueve A (309-A). A este apartamento le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio de punto cero cero nueve cero cero siete por ciento (.009007%). Dirección Física: Cond. Les Jardines, Apt. 309, Trujillo Alto, PR 00976. Finca 34,673, inscrita al folio 163 del tomo 1,092 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Quinta de San Juan. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso.

C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $161,245.91, más la suma de $38,058.64, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente

hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 19 DE JULIO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan, por el tipo mínimo de $183,512.00.

De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $122,341.33. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $91,756.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 14 de junio de 2022 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE RINCÓN Parte Demandante Vs.

EFRAÍN ROSADO SOTO Y SUCESIÓN DE MIRIAM H. ROSADO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y JOHN DOE (SOCIO NÚM . 11721)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AU2020CV00370.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE SUBASTA.

A: EFRAÍN ROSADO SOTO Y SUCESIÓN DE MIRIAM H. ROSADO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y JOHN DOE.

El Alguacil que suscribe anuncia y hace constar que, en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta y al

mejor postor, de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que a continuación se describe: RÚSTICA: Radicada en el barrio Pueblo del término municipal de Rincón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 712.47 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 0.1813 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con Ramal Carretera #412; al SUR, con solar #5 del plano de inscripción; al ESTE, con Gilberto Acevedo y al OESTE, con camino dedicado al uso público. Finca número 4,498 , inscrita al folio 129 del tomo 94 de Rincón, última inscripción según libro quinta. Número de catastro: 096-093-142-35-001. Sobre la referida finca existen constituidos los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la constitución de la hipoteca cuya ejecución de solicita: CARGAS Y GRAVÁMENES: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Rincón, por la suma de $80,000.00 con intereses al 6.75% anual y vencimiento en 360 meses. Constituida por la Escritura #18, el 19 de mayo de 2008, ante la notario Gloria E . Lorenzo Orellana. Asiento abreviado e inscrita al folio 562 del tomo 168 de Rincón, finca 4,498 e inscripción cuarta. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2022; A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Oficina del Aguacil en Aguadilla, la cantidad mínima a aceptarse en la primera subasta será de $88,000.00. Dicha venta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el balance que refleja el préstamo hipotecario por la suma la suma de: $77,695.02. Si en la primera subasta no se produjese la venta del inmueble antes descritos, la SEGUNDA SUBASTA se efectuará el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2022; A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Oficina del Alguacil en Aguadilla, la cantidad mínima aceptada será de $58,666.66 (2/3). Si en esta segunda subasta no se produjese adjudicación, entonces la TERCERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2022; A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Oficinas del Aguacil en Aguadilla y el tipo mínimo de subasta a aceptarse será de $44,000.00 (1/2). Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por

terminado el procedimiento y se le adjudicará al demandante la finca objeto de este procedimiento, dentro de los diez (10) días subsiguientes a dicha tercera subasta por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Para mejor información las personas interesadas pueden examinar los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Este edicto de subasta se publicará una vez por semana por espacio de dos semanas en un diario de circulación general en Puerto Rico y en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistente. Se entenderá, que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Se expresará que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. El abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, PO Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, teléfono 787-265-0334 / 787265-0335. DADA en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de junio de 2022. Miguel A. Crespo Vargas, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE AGUADILLA.

LEGAL NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, A FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK, ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS CERTIFICATE TRUSTEE OF BOSCO CREDIT II TRUST SERIES 2017-1 Plaintiff V.

SAMUEL DAVID RIVERAGUADALUPE, HIS WIFE JANET EILEEN NIEVES MELENDEZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THEM

Defendants Case No.: 20-cv-01031. (FAB).

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE.

The San Juan Daily Star NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: SAMUEL DAVID RIVERA-GUADALUPE AND HIS WIFE JANET EILEEN NIEVES MELENDEZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THEM, GENERAL PUBLIC, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE C/O THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO, TORRE CHARDON, SUITE 1201, 350 CARLOS CHARDON STREET, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918.

COPY: ASSOCIATE GENERAL COUNSEL FOR LITIGATION. OFFICE OF LITIGATION – ROOM 10258, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, 451 SEVENTH STREET, S.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20410.

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 950 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20530-0001.

WHEREAS, Default Judgment was entered on March 3, 2022, in favor of Plaintiff the aggregated amount of $185,550.92, consisting of $102,290.60 in principal; $49,127.13 in interest at a yearly rate of 7.125% (accruing daily at $19.97); $12,875.52 and $19,257.67 in other funds owed by defendants, plus $11,300.00 for costs, charges, disbursements and attorneys’ fees as agreed in the Mortgage Note in the event judicial foreclosure and collection action. On May 12, 2022, an Order and Writ of Execution were entered confirming the aforementioned Default Judgment. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder, the sale will take place at: E Street, Lot 3, Section 4, Los Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969 (Coordinates 18,369902866.1126971); this sale is regarding the following property belonging to the Defendants, located at the following physical address: Urbanización Turabo

Gardens R-11 #4, Calle F, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00727, and described in the Property Registry as follows: “URBAN: Plot four of Block R hyphen eleven of the Turabo Gardens Development, located in the Cañaboncito Wards of Caguas, Puerto Rico, with an area of three hundred sixty-seven square meters and fifty centimeters.

In boundaries: by the NORTH, in twenty-four meters fifty centimeters with the lot three; by the SOUTH, in twenty-four meters fifty centimeters with the lot three; by the EAST, in fifteen meters, with the nineteen and twenty lot; and by the WEST, in fifteen meters, with the Street “F”. Contains a reinforced concrete house designed for a family.” The property is described in the Spanish language in the Property Registry as follows: “URBANA: Solar cuatro del Bloque R guión once de la Urbanización Turabo Gardens, situada en el Barrio Cañaboncito de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos sesenta y siete metros cuadrados con cincuenta centímetros. En lindes por el NORTE, en veinticuatro metros cincuenta centímetros con el solar cinco; por el SUR, en veinticuatro metros cincuenta centímetros con el solar tres; por el ESTE, en quince metros, con los solares diecinueve y veinte; y por el OESTE, en quince metros con la Calle F. Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado diseñada para una familia. Descripción original, tomada de la inscripción 1ra.”

Dirección física: Urbanización Turabo Gardens, R-11 #4 Calle F, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00727.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof.

It shall be understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect, it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on AUGUST 5, 2022 AT 10:00 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $113,000.00, pursuant to the “Deed of First Mortgage”, Deed Number 340 of November 29, 2007, before notary public Wil-

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 fredo R. Picorelli Osorio, duly recorded at Page 187, Volume 1,718 of Caguas, 5th inscription, recording of the Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Caguas, securing a mortgage note payable to the Plaintiff, and no lower offers will be accepted. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on AUGUST 12, 2022 AT 10:00 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted will be two-thirds the amount of the minimum bid, the sum of $75,333.33. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on AUGUST 19, 2022 AT 10:00 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted will be one-half of the minimum bid, the sum of $56,500.00. 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 aforementioned office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. The files and all the documents corresponding to the procedure initiated will be shown at the court’s office during working hours. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 22 day of June 2022. Joel Ronda Feliciano, Appointed Special Master, Email: rondajoel@me.com, Tel: 787-565-0415.

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MWPR, LLC

Demandante Vs.

SUCESION DE GLORIA MILAGROS FERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ t/c/c GLORIA FERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ t/c/c GLORIA FERNANDEZ DE BALBOA COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2020CV02208.

Sala: 801. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: SUCESION DE GLORIA MILAGROS FERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ T/C/C GLORIA FERNANDEZ

RODRIGUEZ T/C/C GLORIA FERNANDEZ DE BALBOA COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto, Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 11 de mayo de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: Villa del Rey 4V1 Calle 9 A, Caguas, PR 00725. URBANA: Solar número uno (1) de la manzana cuatro guion V (4-V) de la urbanización Villa del Rey, Sección Cuarta de Caguas, Puerto Rico, barrio Cañaboncito, compuesto de doscientos treinta y nueve punto veintiséis (239.26) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con paseo en una distancia de nueve punto seis siete nueve (9.679) metros; por el SUR, con calle nueve guion A (9-A), en una distancia de nueve punto seis siete (9.679) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número dos (2), en una distancia de veinticuatro punto siete dos cero (24.720) metros; y por el OESTE, con un sendero, en una distancia de veinticuatro punto siete dos cero (24.720) metros. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 471 de Caguas, finca número 14,587 Registro de la

Propiedad Sección Primera de Caguas. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 9 de marzo de 2022 en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma de $45,884.35 de principal, $27,819.13 de intereses, $440.82 de cargos por demora, $252.00 de seguro (“FPI”), $1,928.85 de la cuenta plica (“Negative Escrow”), $1,916.84 de gastos recuperables (“Recoverables Expenses”), $4,618.00 de principal diferido (“Deferred Principal”), $4,769.48 de costas y honorarios de abogado. Los intereses se continúan acumulando, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 3 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $47,694.80.

Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $31,796.53, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $23,847.40, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el

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Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de junio de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. ****

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESION DE ROBERTO CIRILO RAMIREZ COMPUESTA POR

SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS BENJAMIN CIRILO GONZALEZ Y ANA H. CRUZ DIAZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN LA SUCESION; AUTORIDAD PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00500.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: BENJAMÍN CIRILO GONZÁLEZ Y ANA H. CRUZ DÍAZ COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ROBERTO CIRILO RAMÍREZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN. URB. CARR. 966 KM 2 INT. CAMINO LOS RAMOS BARRIO ZARZAL, RÍO GRANDE, PR 00745.

DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: PO BOX 96 PALMER, PR 00721.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo

nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYABO, PR 00970 TEL.: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Fajardo, Puerto Rico a 27 de junio de 2022. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de CAROLINA.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

SUCESION DE JORGE RAMON ROBLES IRIZARRY Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. CA2022CV00596.

SALA 403. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA . NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESION DE JORGE RAMON ROBLES IRIZARRY COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN LA SUCESION. DIRECCION FISICA: COND PLAZA DEL MAR APT 2304 AVE ISLA VERDE, CAROLINA PR 00979. DIRECCION POSTAL: PO BOX 141717 ARECIBO PR 00614

(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 27 de junio de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Co-

22 to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de junio de 2022. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 29 de junio de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA LEGAL NOTICE SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LIESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO RIAM M. HERNÁNDEZ OTEDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- RO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA LEGAL NOTICE TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TOA ALTA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

pia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de junio de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 27 de junio de 2022.

LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, Secretario(a).

MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESION DE RAUL MARTINEZ RIVERA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil: TA2021CV01195. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: EDWIN RAÚL MARTÍNEZ VILLODAS, COMO HEREDERO CONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAÚL MARTÍNEZ RIVERA; ANTONIO O’NEILL VIZCARRONDO, COMO HEREDERO CONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE PURA MARTINEZ VIZCARRONDO; “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAUL MARTINEZ RIVERA; Y “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE PURA MARTINEZ VIZCARRONDO.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de junio de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ARECIBO.

Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC. DEMANDANTE vs.

Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc., Pura Lydia Luciano, t/c/c Pura Lydia Luciano, t/c/c/ Pura Luciano, t/c/c Pura Lydia Luciano; Fulano y Sutano de tal como posibles tenedores del pagare extraviado y cuya identidad se desconoce al presente

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: AR2022CV00471.

SALA: 404 SOBRE: Sustitución de Pagaré Extraviado. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: Pura Lydia Luciano, t/c/c Pura Lydia Luciano, t/c/c/ Pura Luciano, t/c/c Pura Lydia Luciano

POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe en la cual se alega que el pagaré que a continuación se describe se ha extraviado y que no existe tenedor del de éste ni acreedor por medio de pignoración, y así han solicitado la sustitución de éste: Pagaré suscrito por la deudora Pura Lydia Luciano, t/c/c Pura Lydia Luciano, t/c/c Pura Luciano, t/c/c Pura Lydia Luciano ante la notaria Lizbet Avilés Vega y para garantizar el fiel cumplimiento de la obligación y su pago se otorgó la escritura de primera hipoteca número 250, el 25 de abril de 2013, ante la misma notaria. Dicha hipoteca consta encuentra inscrita al tomo Karibe de Arecibo, finca número 14,283, inscripción 13, y grava la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: : Solar radicado en el Barrio Tanamá, sito denominado Buenos Aires de Arecibo , de DOSCIENTOS OCHENTA Y CINCO (285,00) METROS CUADRADOS, en lindes por el Norte, en una distancia de

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veinticinco (25.00) metros, con un solar de Ramón Roldán y Santiago Cabán, por el Sur, en una distancia de veinticinco (25.000) metros, con casa de Andrés Galabert e Isabel Garcés, al Este, en una distancia de once (11.00) metros, con la calle Matienzo Cintrón de Arecibo y al Oeste, en una distancia de trece (13.00) metros con terrenos de Augusto A. Martínez.

Enclava un edificio de hormigón reforzado con cuatro de servicio y garaje anexo construido de bloques y hormigón. Finca número 14,283, inscrita al folio 192 del tomo 350 de Arecibo, Sección I de Arecibo. Se apercibe y advierte a usted como parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede accesar utilizando la siguiente dirección: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por Derechos Propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada: Leda. Miraisy Molina Ruiz, Dirección: P.O. Box 190002, San Juan, P.R. 00919, Teléfono: 787-382-0204, dentro de los próximos treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 10 de junio de 2022. Vivian Y Fresse Gonzalez, Sec Regional. Pilar H Mercado Gonzalez, Sec Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.

PARTE DEMANDANTE Vs

ANA SOBEIDA DE JESUS PEREZ T/C/C ANA S. DE JESUS PEREZ T/C/C ANA DE JESUS PEREZ, Y OTROS

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NUM.: SJ2022CV03597 (604). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI-

DOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS.

A: TATIANA BELLO RODRIGUEZ e ISAI BELLO RODRIGUEZ como MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE FRANCISCO FELIX BELLO PERALTA t/c/c FRANCISCO F. BELLO PERALTA t/c/c FRANCISCO BELLO PERALTA; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE FRANCISCO FELIX BELLO PERALTA t/c/c FRANCISCO F. BELLO PERALTA t/c/c FRANCISCO BELLO PERALTA

Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA en sus contras. Se les notifica para que comparezcan ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso.

Se les notifica que deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretarla del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia de su contestación a la parte demandante, Lcdo. Duncan R. Maldonado Ejarque, PO BOX 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221, Tel. (787) 622-7000, Fax: (787) 622-7001, Correo electrónico: ejecuciones@cm-prlaw.com, se les anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oIrseles. Se ORDENA a los herederos del referido causante a saber: TATIANA BELLO RODRIGUEZ e ISAI BELLO RODRIGUEZ como MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE FRANCISCO FELIX BELLO PERALTA tic/c FRANCISCO F. BELLO PERALTA t/c/c FRANCISCO BELLO PERALTA; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE FRANCISCO FELIX BELLO PERALTA t/c/c FRANCISCO F. BELLO PERALTA t/c/c FRANCISCO

BELLO PERALTA, a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación, ACEPTEN o REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del referido causante.

Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación deherencia, e tendrá por aceptada. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 30 de junio de 2022. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria. f/Brenda Baez Acaba, Sec Serv a Sala.

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ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. DEMANDANTE VS.

LA SUCESION DE ELEUTERIO AROCHO MEDINA COMPUESTA POR ALEJANDRO, MILDRED, JENNY Y ELEUTERIO JR. TODOS DE APELLIDOS AROCHO; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: SS2022CV00266.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACION. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.

A la parte co-demandada: A) ALEJANDRO AROCHO COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ELEUTERIO AROCHO MEDINA, a las siguientes direcciones(a) PO BOX 2557 BRIDGEPORT CT 06608; (b) HC 6 BOX 17349-4 SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685; (c) HC 2 BOX 21299 SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685; (d) BARRIO SALTOS SR 445 KM 3.4 INT LOT G SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685.

B) MILDRED AROCHO COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ELEUTERIO AROCHO

MEDINA, a las siguientes direcciones: (a) PO BOX 2557 BRIDGEPORT CT 06608; (b) HC 6 BOX 17349-4 SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685; (c) HC 2 BOX 21299 SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685; (d) BARRIO SALTOS SR 445 KM 3.4 INT LOT G SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685.

C) JENNY AROCHO COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ELEUTERIO AROCHO MEDINA, a las siguientes direcciones: (a) PO BOX 2557 BRIDGEPORT CT 06608; (b) HC 6 BOX 17349-4 SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685; (c) HC 2 BOX 21299 SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685; (d) BARRIO SALTOS SR 445 KM 3.4 INT LOT G SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685.

D) ELEUTERIO AROCHO JR. COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ELEUTERIO AROCHO MEDINA, a las siguientes direcciones: (a) PO BOX 2557 BRIDGEPORT CT 06608; (b) HC 6 BOX 17349-4 SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685; (c) HC 2 BOX 21299 SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685; (d) BARRIO SALTOS SR 445 KM 3.4 INT LOT G SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685.

E) FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ELEUTERIO AROCHO MEDINA, a las siguientes direcciones: (a) PO BOX 2557 BRIDGEPORT CT 06608; (b) HC 6 BOX 17349-4 SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685; (c) HC 2 BOX 21299 SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685; (d) BARRIO SALTOS SR 445 KM 3.4 INT LOT G SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de La Sucesión de Eleuterio Arocho Medina, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $92,792.49 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2021, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago

total de la obligación. Además, La Sucesión de Eleuterio Arocho Medina adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $9,789.60. Además La Sucesión de Eleuterio Arocho Medina se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $9,789.60 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $9,789.60 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 19, otorgada en Mayagüez Puerto Rico, el día 6 de febrero de 2019, ante el notario Dennise M. Llorens Alicea, de la finca número 18,549, inscrita al Folio 185 del Tomo 352 de San Sebastián, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián.

Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Eleuterio Arocho Medina. Los co-demandados miembros de la Sucesión de Eleuterio Arocho Medina se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del termino de 30 días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, se incluye a los herederos conocidos y herederos desconocidos de Eleuterio Arocho Medina de-

nominados Alejandro Arocho, Mildred Arocho, Jenny Arocho y Eleuterio Jr. Arocho; Fulano y Fulana De Tal, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo.

Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el período de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oirle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 28 de junio de 2022, en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Sarahi Reyes Perez, Sec Confidencial. Ivelisse Robles Mathews, Secretaria.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

RAFAEL DAVID MOJICA VELÁZQUEZ, SU ESPOSA GRISSELLE GONZÁLEZ CASTRO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; Y RITA VIVES DÍAZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2021CV03245.

Sala: 802. Sobre:· COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS

The San Juan Daily Star UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: RAFAEL DAVID MOJICA VELÁZQUEZ; GRISSELLE GONZÁLEZ CASTRO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; RITA VIVES DÍAZ. 198 SR KM 16.3 INT. CANALES SECTOR CEIBA SUR WD JUNCOS, PR 00777; PO BOX 2118 JUNCOS, PR 00777.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández Rua núm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ DIAZ & SANCHEZ, LLP 500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787)523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdslawpr.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 8 de febrero de 2022. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL INTERINA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 Demandante Vs.

SAMUEL ROSARIO NIEVES

Demandados Civil Núm.: SG2022CV00036.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 A: SAMUEL ROSARIO NIEVES.

En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los primeros días del mes de marzo de 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $47,119.73, más intereses a razón del 11.127% anual, desde el 5 de febrero de 2020, hasta el presente, más la suma diferida de $1,241.00, la cual no devenga intereses, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 36 en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Sabana Eneas del Barrio Sabana Eneas del término municipal de San Germán, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.1298 cuerdas equivalentes a 510.24 metros cuadrados. En lindes: por el NORTE, con la parcela número 37 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela 35 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la calle número 3 de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la parcela número 17 de la comunidad. Enclava una casa de madera y zinc, destinada a vivienda. Consta inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 394 de San Germán, finca número # 13,101 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Germán. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. POR LO ANTERIORMENTE INDICADO, se les emplaza y requiere que, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación

de este EDICTO, notifiquen si aceptan o repudian la herencia a: LCDA. MONICA TABALES MALDONADO; LBRG LAW OFFICE, P.O. Box 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512, Tel. 787-724-0230; apercibiéndole que, de no contestar la Demanda, radicando el original en la Corte ante el Tribunal correspondiente, con copia a la parte Demandante, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy, día 29 de junio de 2022.

LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. MAGALY BONILLA MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

ción, 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 junio de 2022.

En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 24 de junio de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JESSICA BONILLA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ZOBEIDA JIMÉNEZ SEGARRA, FERNANDO JAVIER CUEVAS JIMÉNEZ, KASANDRA CUEVAS JIMÉNEZ Y YEHLITZA CUEVAS JIMÉNEZ

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CHRISTIAN JOEL RIVERA HERNÁNDEZ Demandante, V.

lo cual redundará en que se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia para conceder el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Este edicto será publicado en una (1) ocasión en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho.

Se identificará en letra negrillas tamaño 10 puntos toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se menciona en el mismo, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, a 23 de junio de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SUBSECRETARIA.

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miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de junio de 2022. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 29 de junio de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GLORIVEE MORALES SÁEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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PUERTO RICO SUCESIÓN DE Parte Demandante Vs. ENRIQUE PAGÁN VEGA CIMIENTOS DE FE EN Demandados SUCESIÓN DE COMPUESTA POR SEAN CRISTO, INC. VS EDWIN BARRETA CARMEN RIVERA CRUZ PAGÁN, FULANO DE TAL Demandante Vs BOSQUES; SU ESPOSA GOMEZ GIL DE RUBIO, COMPUESTA POR: Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO JOHN DOE Y RICHARD JUAN SYLVIA ENID CRUZ ROSA RODRÍGUEZ POSIBLES HEREDEROS ROE COMO POSIBLES JIMÉNEZ, Y LA SLG POR ARTURO JULIAN RIVERA T/C/C ROSA CASO: N3CI201700070. SODESCONOCIDOS; TENEDORES ELLOS COMPUESTA BRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOA. RODRÍGUEZ CENTRO DE DESCONOCIDOS Partes Interesadas / TECA. RIVERA, SONIA Demandado RECAUDACI´PON DE Demandados JUAN ARTURO JULIAN INGRESOS MUNICIPALES RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA, Civil Núm.: PO2021CV02576. Civil Núm.: SS2022CV00327.

Salón: 601. Sobre: CANCELA- Sobre: GOMEZ GIL DE RUBIO, MENGANO DE TAL, INCUMPLIMIENTO Y A LOS ESTADOS CIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIA- CONTRACTUAL. EMPLAZA- 110 COND. PORTALES DE POSIBLE HEREDERO UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA DO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN- MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTARIO GRANDE, DESCONOCIDO Demandado TENCIA POR EDICTO. DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, Parte Demandada RIO GRANDE PR 00745 Civil Núm.: PO2021CV02065.

A: JOHN DOE Y EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS Y/O 110 B PORTALES Salón: 406. Sobre: EJECU- Civil Núm.: CG2019CV03826.

RICHARD ROE COMO EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE DE RIO GRANDE, RIO CIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA Sala: 704. Sobre: COBRO DE POSIBLES TENEDORES ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICA- DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRANDE PR 00745.

A: EDWIN BARRETO CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDIDESCONOCIDOS DEL NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENNARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. BOSQUES; SU ESPOSA TENCIA POR EDICTO. EL EDICTO. AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE A: SEAN PAGÁN, SYLVIA ENID CRUZ SECRETARIO(A) QUE SUSP/C LEO M. IRIZARRY DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, FULANO DE TAL Y ROMAN. P.O. BOX 188, JIMÉNEZ, Y LA SLG POR CRIBE LE NOTIFICA A USTED EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIAELLOS COMPUESTA. QUE EL 27 DE JUNIO DE 2022 SUTANO DE TAL COMO DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. JUANA DÍAZ, PUERTO TRIBUNAL HA DICTAPOSIBLES MIEMBROS AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASRICO 00795. TEL. 787- Por la presente se notifica que ESTE la parte DEMANDANTE ha pre- DO SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA 608-6814. LEOLAW2012@ sentado una Demanda cuya PARCIAL O RESOLUCION EN DE LA SUCESIÓN DE TA. El Alguacil que suscribe ENRIQUE PAGÁN VEGA; por la presente anuncia y hace GMAIL.COM. naturaleza es en la materia de ESTE CASO, QUE HA SIDO (Nombre de las partes a las que se les PARA SER NOTIFICADOS constar que en cumplimiento DEBIDAMENTE REGISTRAIncumplimiento Contractual en de la Sentencia dictada el 19 notifica la sentencia por edicto) POR EDICTO. DA Y ARCHIVADA EN AUTOS de enero de 2022, la Orden de EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- el caso SS2022CV00327. El DONDE PODRA USTED ENP/C: LCDA. YADIRA Ejecución de Sentencia del 31 cribe le notifica a usted que 10 abogado de la parte peticionaTERARSE DETALLADAMENLÓPEZ GONZÁLEZ. P.O. de mayo de 2022 y el Mandade junio de 2022, este Tribunal ria es el Lcdo. Nelson Esteban TE DE LOS TERMINOS DE LA BOX 367308, SAN JUAN, miento de Ejecución de Sentenha dictado Sentencia, Senten- Vera Santiago, P.O. Box 810, MISMA. ESTA NOTIFICACION cia del 31 de mayo de 2022 en cia Parcial o Resolución en este Moca, Puerto Rico 00676. 787P.R. 00936.

SE PUBLICARA UNA SOLA 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 representado 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 notifica-

877-3516. De ser un demandado señalado, se le apercibe que deberá contestar la demanda dentro del periodo de 30 días de haberse publicado este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte de los efectos de no contestar la demanda,

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VEZ EN UN PERIODICO DE CIRCULACION GENERAL EN LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO, DENTRO DE LOS 10 DIAS SIGUIENTES A SU NOTIFICACION. Y, SIENDO O REPRESENTANDO USTED UNA PARTE EN EL PROCEDIMIENTO SUJETA A LOS TERMINOS DE LA SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCION, DE LA CUAL PUEDE ESTABLECERSE RECURSO DE REVISION O APELACION DENTRO DEL TERMINO DE 30 DIAS CONTADOS A PARTIR DE LA PUBLICACION POR EDICTO DE ESTA NOTIFICACION,

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de junio de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representado usted una parte en el procedi-

el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 10 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera Número Uno (PR 1), Intersección PR 189, Kilómetro 0.4, Barrio Bairoa, (Entrada norte Pueblo Caguas), Caguas, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente

propiedad: RÚSTICA: Solar en el Barrio Mulas de Aguas Buenas compuesto de 491.96 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en 12.92 metros, con camino vecinal; por el SUR, en 12.92 metros, con la Carretera Estatal de Aguas Buenas a Bayamón; por el ESTE, en 28.00 metros con la finca principal de la que se segrega; y por el OESTE, en 28.00 metros con Martín Aponte Agosto. Inscrita al Folio 148 del Tomo 67 de Aguas Buenas, Finca Número 3279, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. La hipoteca consta inscrita como asiento abreviado al Folio 190 del Tomo 338 de Aguas Buenas, Finca Número 3279, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Inscripción quinta. Dirección Física: Barrio Mulas, Carr. #174, Km. 21.1, Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico 00703. Dirección Postal: HC 3 Box 14998, Bo. Mulas, Aguas Buenas, PR 00703-8316. Número de Catastro: 45-198-061052-05-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $50,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 17 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $33,333.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 24 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $25,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $40,464.87 de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma de 7.125% anual desde el 1 de febrero de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $67.36 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $5,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Sucesión de Carmen Rivera Cruz compuesta por Rosa Ro-

24 dríguez Rivera también conocida como Rosa A. Rodríguez Rivera, Fulano y Mengano de Tal, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil Número CG2019CV03826, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $40,464.87 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 8 de octubre de 2019.

Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Aguas Buenas. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 29 de junio de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, PLACA #593, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

LA SUCESIÓN DE REINALDO CRUZ GARCÍA COMPUESTA POR: REINALDO

CRUZ COLÓN, WANDA CRUZ COLÓN, T/C/C WANDA O’CONNOR, REINALDO CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, ÁUREA ESTHER OLIVERO NEGRÓN T/C/C ÁUREA OLIVERO NEGRÓN POR SÍ, EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA Y COMO HEREDERA DE REINALDO CRUZ GARCÍA

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. CG2019CV02285.

SALA: 703. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 12 de abril de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 3 de junio de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia del 7 de junio de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 10 de agosto de 2022, a las 9:45 de la mañana en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Sala Superior, en la Carretera Número Uno (PR 1), Intersección PR 189, Kilómetro 0.4, Barrio Bairoa, (Entrada norte Pueblo Caguas), Caguas, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Finca radicada en el Barrio Espino del término municipal de San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.9873 cuerdas, equivalentes a 3880.5058 metros cuadrados y en lindes por el NORTE, con una quebrada y un camino; por el SUR, con terrenos pertenecientes a Farmers Home Administration; por el ESTE, con Félix Sepúlveda y Belén Claudio y por el OESTE, con Félix Moyett. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al Folio 114 del Tomo 360 de San Lorenzo, Finca Número 17157, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. La hipoteca consta inscrita al Folio 81 vuelto del Tomo 389 de San Lorenzo, Finca Número 17157, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Inscripción cuarta. Dirección Física: Barrio Espino, Carr. #181, Km. 15, San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico 00754. Dirección Postal: HC

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30 Box 38231, San Lorenzo, PR 00754-9764. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $72,800.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 17 de agosto de 2022, a las 9:45 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $48,533.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta, el día 24 de agosto de 2022, a las 9:45 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $36,400.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $56,290.30 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.5% anual desde el 1 de septiembre de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más los recargos acumulados hasta su total pago, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,280.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Aurea Esther Olivero Negrón y su esposo Reinaldo Cruz García, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el Caso Civil Número CG2019CV02285, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $56,290.30 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 21 de junio de 2019.

Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Caguas. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea.

Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un pe-

riódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm.

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 29 de junio de 2022. Ángel Gómez Gómez, Placa #593, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

MARCIAL LÓPEZ RÍOS T/C/C MARCIAL LÓPEZ SU ESPOSA AIDA MARÍA ROJAS PÉREZ T/C/C AIDA M. ROJA PÉREZ T/C/C AIDA ROJAS PÉREZ T/C/C AIDA ROJAS Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.

DCD2015-0969 (402). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, Maribel Lanzar Velazquez, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 23 de mayo de 2022 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $112,867.63 de principal, dictada en el caso de autos el día 22 de febrero de 2016, notificada y archivada en autos el día 7 de diciembre de 2016, procederé a vender en

pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Naranjito, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Predio de Terreno radicado en el Barrio Guadiana de Naranjito, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de Mil Novecientos Dieciocho punto Cero Cinco (1,918.05) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a punto cuatro ocho ocho cero (.4880) cuerdas. En lindes por el Norte, con la calle dedicada a uso público; por el Sur, con Rio Guadiana; por el Este, con el predio número uno (1) a segregarse y por el Oeste, con parcela número seis (6) a segregarse. Consta inscrita al folio 182 del tomo 217 de Naranjito, finca número 13,122, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, cuyas cantidades son las siguientes: $112,867.63 de principal, 5.50% de intereses modificados al 3.00% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $697.68 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $15.00 por cheques devueltos; mas costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $116,581.21 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 partes del valor de la tasación, $77,720.81. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será de la 1/2 del valor de la tasación, $58,290.61.

Para el lote descrito, la primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 2 de agosto de 2022, a las 10:15 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el día 9 de agosto de 2022, a las 10:15 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el día 16 de agosto de 2022, a las 10:15 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en la Oficina

del Alguacil de Subastas, localizada en el Cuarto Piso, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón.

De Estudio de Título realizado surge el siguiente gravamen preferente: HIPOTECA: Constituída por Roberto Hernández Márquez, mayor de edad, soltero, en garantía de pagaré bajo aff. #3887 a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por $12,500.00 al 12.95% annual, vencedero el 1ro. de mayo de 2009, según esc. #25, otorgada en Caguas, el 17 de abril de 2002, ante Miguel Alfonso Cordero González, inscrita al Folio 184 del Tomo 217 de Naranjito, finca #13122, inscripción 2da..

La antes mencionada hipoteca, se solicitó su cancelación mediante Orden del 3 de marzo de 2022 y Mandamiento del 7 de marzo de 2022, dictados en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Caso Civil: BY2021CV02176, sobre Cancelación de Pagaré Hipotecario Extraviado, seguido por First Bank versus Doral Bank, por conducto del Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), como sucesor en derecho; Fulano de Tal, donde se ordena cancelar la hipoteca de $12,500.00. De Estudio de Título realizado, no surgen gravámenes posteriores, que deban ser cancelados.

Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante

horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 23 de junio de 2022. Maribel Lanzar Velazquez, Alguacil, Placa 735.

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ROOSELVELT CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY Demandante V.

JOHN DIAZ RIVERA; SONIA BERNARD ZARZUELA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JOHNAREN JOSUE DIEAZ BERNARD T/C/C JOHNAREN J. DIAZ BERNARD T/C/C JOHNAREN DIAZ BERNARD

Demandado (s) Caso Núm.: NSCI201300539.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: JOHN DIAZ RIVERA; SONIA BERNARD ZARZUELA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JOHNAREN JOSUE DIAZ BERNARD T/C/C JOHNAREN J. DIAZ BERNARD T/C/C JOHNAREN DIAZ BERNARD Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Fajardo Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecu-

tada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: DORAL MORTGAGE LLC: A cuyo favor aparece inscrito un Pagare la suma de $24,632.00, intereses al 7 ½% y a vencer el 1 de octubre de año 2018, según consta de la escritura #263, otorgada en San Juan, el 30 de septiembre de 2008, ante el Notario Ángel Omar Rodriguez Correa, inscrito al folio 223 del tomo 270de Luquillo, finca # 12,808 inscripción 3era. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO: A cuyo favor aparece una anotación de demanda de fecha el 21 de junio de 2019, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, caso civil # FA2019CV00717, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico versus John Diaz Rivera y Otros, por la suma de $22,233.30, y otras sumas. Anotado en Karibe de Luquillo, finca #12,808, Anotación A. DORAL BANK: Al asiento 2017-064678-FA01, el día 9 de junio de 2017, se presenta Demanda de fecha de 8 de julio de 2013, , en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, caso civil # NSCI201300539, KCD20152710, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía Ordinaria, seguido por Doral Bank versus John Diaz Rivera; Sonia Bernard Zarzuela y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales Compuesta por ambos; Johnaren Josue Diaz Bernard t/c/c Johnaren J. Diaz Bernard t/c/c Johnaren Diaz Bernard, por la suma de $196,056.77 y otras sumas. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 26 de mayo de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: Urb. Hacienda Paloma Calle Faisán numero #129, Luquillo, Puerto Rico 00773.

URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Hacienda Paloma, localizada en el Barrio Sabana del término municipal de Luquillo, que se describe en el plano de inscripción, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar: ciento veinte y nueve (129); área del solar:

The San Juan Daily Star trescientos noventa y nuev e punto cuarenta y ocho metros cuadrados (399.48 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de quince punto treinta (15.30) metros lineales, con el solar ciento veinte y seis (126) y ciento veintisiete (127); SUR, en una distancia de quince punto treinta (15.30) metros lineales, con la calle tres (3); ESTE, en una distancia de veinte seis punto once (26.11) metros lineales, con el solar ciento treinta (130); OESTE, en una distancia de veinte y seis punto once (26.11) metros lineales, con solar ciento veintiocho (128). Sobre dicho solar enclava una cosa de concreto para fines residenciales. Finca número 12,808, inscrita al folio 223 del tomo 270 de Luquillo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 27 de febrero de 2020, en el presente caso civil, a saber, tiene la suma de $195,232.60 por concepto del préstamo hipotecario con interés al 5.325% anual, desde el 1 de enero de 2011; cargos por demora mensuales, las cantidades adeudadas de contribuciones, e impuestos, primas de seguro contra riesgo y seguro de hipoteca hasta su completo pago más el 10% para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado según pactados en la escritura. Los intereses se continúan acumulando, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, para cubrir el principal adeudadio, disponiendose que si quedare algun remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo debera ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca.

La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $198,528.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes men-

cionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $132,352.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $99,264.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rema-

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 tante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Fajardo, Rico, hoy día 28 de junio de 2022.

Denise Bruno Ortiz, Alguacil Auxiliar #266, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Fajardo. Jorge A. Ortiz Estrada, Alguacil Regional Interino #622.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN R. ALBARRÁN GONZÁLEZ T/C/C CARMEN ROSA ALBARRÁN GONZÁLEZ T/C/C CARMEN R. ALBARRÁN COMPUESTA POR: ROSA IDALIA BERRÍOS ALBARRÁN, LIZ JANET BERRÍOS ALBARRÁN, IRIS NEREIDA BERRÍOS ALBARRÁN, JORGE LEOPOLDO GARCÍA ALBARRÁN, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, SUCESIÓN DE MARITZA BERRÍOS ALBARRÁN COMPUESTA POR: JAVIER ENRIQUE JORGE BERRÍOS, SHAIRA MARIE JORGE BERRÍOS, SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, RAFAEL ENRIQUE JORGE MARTÍNEZ, EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE MARITZA BERRÍOS ALBARRÁN, SUCESIÓN DE LYDIA HERRERA ESPINAL T/C/C LIDIA HERRERA ESPINAL T/C/C LIDIA HERRERA COMPUESTA POR: GIANNA LAUREN RODRÍGUEZ HERRERA, ÁNGEL ALEXIS, YERAY IVANNY, EVANGELIE, TODOS DE APELLIDOS MONTAÑEZ PICHARDO, POR CONDUCTO DE SU TUTOR LEGAL CON PATRIA POTESTAD, SUTANEJO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO,

KEYSA JORGE BERRÍOS T/C/C KEYSA K. JORGE BERRÍOS T/C/C KEYSA TATIANA JORGE BERRÍOS, POR SÍ Y COMO HEREDERA DE MARTIZA BERRIOS ALBARRÁN, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2021CV03494.

Sala: 408. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 31 de marzo de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 23 de mayo de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 23 de mayo de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el dÍa 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, en la Avenida 65 Infantería, Carretera Número Tres (3), Kilómetro 11.7 (Entrada de la Urbanización Mansiones de Carolina) Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno marcada como D guion Cuatro (D-4) en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Villa Caridad del Barrio Hoyo Mulas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.641 cuerdas, equivalentes a 251.91 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela D guion Dos (D-2) de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela D guion Cinco (D-5) de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela D guion Tres (D-3) de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la parcela D guion Uno (D1) de la comunidad. Inscrita al folio 85 del tomo 1022 de Carolina, Finca Número 42811, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 205 del tomo 1393 de Carolina,

Finca Número 42811, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. Inscripción sexta.

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: VILLA CARIDAD, D4 CALLE PRINCIPAL, CAROLINA, PR 00985.

Número de Catastro: 20-088078-077-55-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $49,094.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el dÍa 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $32,729.33.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $24,547.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $41,871.47 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.5% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $64.76 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $4,909.40 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Sucesión de Carmen R. Albarrán también conocida como Carmen Rosa Albarrán González, como Carmen R. Albarrán compuesta por Rosa Idalia Berríos Albarrán, Liz Janet Berríos Albarrán, La Sucesión de Maritza Berríos Albarrán compuesta por Javier Enrique Jorge Berríos, Keysa Jorge Berríos también conocida como Keysa Tatiana Jorge Berríos, Shaira Marie Jorge Berríos y Rafael Enrique Jorge Martínez, Perencejo y Sutanejo de Tal, Mengano de Tal, La Sucesión de Lydia Herrera Espinal también conocida como Lidia Herrera Espinal, como Lidia Herrera compuesta por Gianna Lauren Rodríguez Herrera, Ángel Alexis, Yeray Ivanny, Evan-

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gelie de apellidos Montañez Pichardo, Sutano y Perencejito de Tal, Keysa Jorge Berríos también conocida como Keysa J. Jorge Berríos, Departamento de Hacienda por conducto de la División de Caudales Relictos; ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2021CV03494, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $41,871.47 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 22 de diciembre de 2021.

Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Carolina. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea.

Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm.

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de junio de 2022. Manuel Villafañe Blanco #830, Alguacil, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De Carolina, Sala Superior.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

GRISSELL RODRÍGUEZ PADUA T/C/C GISELLE RODRÍGUEZ PADUA

T/C/C GRISSSELL RODRÍGUEZ PADUA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2021CV03335.

Sala: 407. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 23 de febrero de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 25 de mayo de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 27 de mayo de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el dÍa 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, en la Avenida 65 Infantería, Carretera Número Tres (3), Kilómetro 11.7 (Entrada de la Urbanización Mansiones de Carolina) Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número 609 localizado en la sexta planta del Condominio Paseo de Monteflores localizado en el Barrio Martín González del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida aproximada de 901.22 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 83.77 metros cuadrados. Colindando por el NORTE, con elementos comunes del exterior; por el SUR, con elementos comunes del exterior; por el ESTE, con el apartamento número 610 y con elementos comunes; y por el OESTE, con elementos comunes del exterior. Consta de sala, comedor, cocina, baños, lavandería, linen room, cuarto de almacenaje, tres (3) cuartos dormitorios y balcón. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está localizada en el lado Sur Este. Este apartamento tiene una participación en los elementos comunes generales del condominio de 0.005797%.

A este apartamento le corresponde un espacio de estacionamiento identificado con el número 172. Inscrita al folio 194 del tomo 1398 de Carolina, finca número 57624, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 194 vuelto del tomo 1398 de Carolina, finca número 57624, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina,

Sección II. Inscripción tercera.

Dirección Física: Cond. Paseo de Monteflores, Apt. 609, Carolina, PR 00987. Número de Catastro: 20-088-064-194-01-065.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $87,308.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el dÍa 13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $58,205.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 20 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $43,654.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $78,210.97 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5% anual desde el 1 de febrero de 2020 hasta su completo pago, más $297.75 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $8,730.80 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Grissell (así consta) Rodríguez Padua (soltera) también conocida como Giselle Rodríguez Padua y Grisssell Rodríguez Pauda, ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2021CV03335, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $78,210.97 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 9 de diciembre de 2021. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Carolina. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de

26 Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley.

Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de junio de 2022.

Manuel Villafañe Blanco #830, Alguacil, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De Carolina, Sala Superior.

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BASSAM AHMAD ASAD EL MUSA, T/C/C BASSAM AHMAD EL MUSA T/C/C SR. BASSAM EL MUSA Y MARTA IVONNE GONZÁLEZ JORGE, T/C/C SRA. MARTA I. GONZÁLEZ JORGE Demandantes V.

CITIBANK, NA; MR COOPER; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE

Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01440.

Sala: 602. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: John Doe y Richard roe, personas desconocidas que se designan con estos nombres ficticios, que puedan ser tenedor o tenedores, o puedan tener algún interés en el pagaré

hipotecario a que se hace referencia más adelante en el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez.

Se les notifica que en la Demanda radicada en el caso de epígrafe se alega que el 28 de enero de 2005, se otorgó un pagaré a favor de Citibank, N.A., o a su orden, por la suma de $68,400.00 de principal, con intereses al 4% anual, con vencimiento el 1 de febrero de 2020, ante la Notario María Vélez López. En garantía del pagaré antes descrito se otorgó la escritura de hipoteca número 8, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 28 de enero de 2005, ante la Notario María Vélez López, inscrita al folio 52 del tomo 1907 de Ponce, Finca número 59938, inscripción 4, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es la finca número 59938 inscrita al folio 51 del tomo 1907 de Ponce, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. La obligación evidenciada por el pagaré antes descrito fue saldada en su totalidad. Dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el original del pagará. El original del pagaré antes descrito no ha podido ser localizado, a pesar de las gestiones realizadas. Citibank, N. A. es el acreedor que consta en el Registro de la Propiedad.

Mr. Cooper fue último tenedor conocido del pagaré antes descrito. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

LCDO. JAVlER MONTALVO CINTRÓN RUA NÚM. 17682 DELGADO & FERNÁNDEZ, LLC PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750, Tel. (787) 274-1414 /Fax (787) 764-8241 E-mail: jmontalvo@delgadofernandez.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 28 de junio de 2022, en Ponce, Puerto Rico.

The San Juan Daily Star

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Luz Mayra Caraballo García, Secretaria. Brenda L. Santiago López, Sub-Secretaria.

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607-609 CONDADO ST., LLC. Demandante Vs.

PEDRO LUIS BETANCOURT RIVERA, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00781.

(908). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: PEDRO LUIS BETANCOURT RIVERA, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

La secretaria que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de JUNIO de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 29 de JUNIO de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 29 de JUNIO de 2022.

Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Ángela M. Rivera Hernández, Secretaria del Tribunal.

CABO ROJO

Demandante V.

JOSE JUNIOR RAMIREZ RIVERA

Demandado(a) Civil: MZ2020CV01008. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOSE JUNIOR RAMIREZ RIVERA.

(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 16 de junio de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de junio de 2022. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 28 de junio de 2022.

LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. GLORIA E. ACEVEDO SOTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO como sucesor en derecho de RELIABLE MORTGAGE; JOHN DOE y RICHARD ROE, como posibles tenedores del pagaré

Demandados CIVIL NUM. SJ2022CV05315.

Salon Num. 906. SOBRE: CANCELACION O RESTITUCION DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS LEGAL NOTICE UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIANAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA DO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSA: FIRSTBANK PUERTO TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE RICO COMO SUCESOR MAYAGÜEZ

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE

EN DERECHO DE RELIABLE MORTGAGE

1519 AVENIDA PONCE DE LEON, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00909

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. 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, entiende que procede.

MARITZA GUZMAN MATOS 14879 PMB 767, 1353 AVENIDA LUIS VIGOREAUX GUAYNABO PUERTO RICO 00966 (787) 758-3276; (787) 273-1540 mguzman@partnerslegalservices.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 24 de junio de 2022. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Sec Regional. Angela Rivera Hernandez, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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Parte Demandante Vs.

LUZ MILAGROS LORENZO PIZARRO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2021CV00996.

Sala: 303. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 17 de marzo de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 13 de mayo de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 16 de mayo de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Sala Superior, Ave. Marcelito Gotay esquina Barriada Jerusalén, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del

Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Ciénaga Baja de municipio de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, marcado en el plano de inscripción con el Número 1324 del Bloque Y de la Urbanización Alturas de Río Grande, con cabida de 315.18 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 24.00 metros, con el solar número 1325; por el SUR, en 24.00 metros, con el solar número 1323; por el ESTE, en 10.00 metros y 2.52 metros, con los solares números 1314 y 1315 respectivamente; y por el OESTE, en 13.74 metros con la Calle Número 25. Enclava una estructura tipo individual dedicada a vivienda, construida de hormigón. Inscrita al folio 261 del tomo 232 de Río Grande, finca número 10968.

Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 214 del tomo 493 de Río Grande, finca número 10968. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Inscripción séptima. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: URB. ALTURAS DE RÍO GRANDE, Y-1324 CALLE 25, RÍO GRANDE, PR 00745-3236. Número de Catastro: 22-090-084-24421-001. SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA: 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $86,900.00. SEGUNDA: 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $57,933.33. TERCERA: 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $43,450.00.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $86,900.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $57,933.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $43,450.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia por la suma de $107,048.54 de princi-

pal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.5% anual desde el 1 de mayo de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $1,382.16 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $12,898.10 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Bitácora: Al Asiento 2021-157855-CR03, el 8 de diciembre de 2021, Demanda de fecha 2 de diciembre de 2021, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el Caso Civil Número FA2021CV00996, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Luz Milagros Lorenzo Pizarro (soltera), sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $107,048.54 y otras cantidades, o la venta en pública subasta de la propiedad. Pendiente de anotación. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea.

Se le advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm.

210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de mayo de 2022. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, PLACA

#266. Jorge A. Ortiz Estrada, Alguacil Regional Interino, Placa #622, Alguacil, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De Fajardo, Sala Superior.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA.

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, como agente de FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC DEMANDANTE VS.

AWILDA CANCEL REYES

DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: CA2021CV03506.

SALÓN: 406. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. Estados Unidos de América El Presidente de los Estados Unidos El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. SS:

A: Awilda Cancel Reyes - Cond. San Tropez 6267 Ave. Isla Verde Apt 2N Carolina, P.R. 00979-7144; Alt. de Parque Ecuestre 216 Calle Ferpier Carolina, P.R. 00987; Parcelas San Isidro Calle 7- 98 A Canóvanas, P.R. 00729

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. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevinsanchezort4aw.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de mayo de 2022.

En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 11 de mayo de 2022. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodriguez, Secretaria Regional. Maricruz Aponte Alicea, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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For hurting White Sox, a chance to get better

By SCOTT MILLER

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hicago White Sox outfielder Andrew Vaughn grew up in Santa Rosa, a Northern California town best known for its wineries and as the home of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Vaughn said his father knew Schulz, the creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip, a little and spent a lot of time at Snoopy’s Home Ice, an ice rink in town.

As for himself, Vaughn said, he bypassed the rink because he did not trust the blades.

“I didn’t want to lose my fingers,” Vaughn said.

As the White Sox continue slipping and sliding through a disappointing summer, what has become readily apparent is that a team ravaged by injuries is leaning harder than ever on the good hands and unexpected production of guys like Vaughn. And the team’s best chance to regain its grip on the American League Central began Monday night, when the White Sox were to play the first of 19 consecutive games against division rivals Minnesota, Detroit and Cleveland.

Fifteen of those games are against the two teams ahead of them in the standings, the Twins and the Guardians. On Sunday, Chicago beat the Giants in San Francisco 13-4 to complete a three-game sweep heading into a stretch that seems likely to set the tone for the rest of the White Sox season.

“One hundred percent,” said Vaughn, who led the team in batting average (.301) through Sunday and was second in doubles (14) and on-base plus slugging percentage (.806). “We’ve got to go play our game, take advantage of opportunities and play well.”

“I’m excited,” manager Tony La Russa said. “We’ve got our pitching lined up.”

The pitching is no small part of the equation. Lance Lynn injured his right knee in spring training and did not make his first start until June 13. La Russa said that having Lynn, Lucas Giolito (who allowed one run over six innings Sunday), Michael Kopech, Dylan Cease and Johnny Cueto finally up and running together “is the most positive thing we’ve got going.”

Closer Liam Hendriks, who was 16 for 19 in save opportunities before straining the flexor tendon in his forearm on June 10, is close to returning.

La Russa is loath to discuss the squad’s plethora of injuries, noting that such troubles are not unique to his team after a truncated

It has not been the season Tim Anderson and the Chicago White Sox were expecting. spring training. But with the White Sox, it is not just the number of injuries, it is who has been injured. The Sox rank fourth in the majors in most money spent on injured list players ($22,578,203), according to Spotrac.

Much of the team’s drop-off can be explained by those absences.

Last season, Lynn ranked first in the AL in ERA (2.69) and opponents’ OPS (.605) and second in opponents’ batting average (.209) among pitchers who threw more than 150 innings. He has thrown only 22 innings this season.

Third baseman Yoan Moncada was third in the AL with a .375 on-base percentage last season and his 33 doubles led the White Sox. He started the season on the IL with an oblique strain, returned May 9, hurt his quad, and then went back on the IL with a strained hamstring. After going 0 for 5 with two strikeouts Sunday, he had played in only 34 games this year and was hitting .181 with a .230 on-base percentage.

Activated last Tuesday in Anaheim, Moncada, 27, showed flashes of his old self, going 2 for 5 with a double and two RBIs. Then he fouled a ball off his right foot during

Wednesday’s game, went for X-rays and finished the night with his foot wrapped in ice.

Even with Moncada’s return, the White Sox have nine players on the IL, including outfielders Eloy Jiménez and Adam Engel, catcher Yasmani Grandal, reliever Aaron Bummer and infielder Danny Mendick.

That is why Vaughn, Chicago’s firstround pick (third overall) in the 2019 draft, has been so valuable. Through Sunday, he was ranked fifth in the AL with a .348 batting average with runners in scoring position. He was also hitting .353 in road games, third in the majors. On Sunday, Vaughn went 2 for 6 with three RBIs. “Most days, if not all days, he’s as good as any hitter we have on the team,” La Russa said. “He is smart, he adjusts, he takes instruction well. He’s a hungry hitter.”

The injuries and losses have conspired to add not only frustration to the Sox season, but dashes of controversy and confusion as well.

In a surprising move for a team with an old-school manager like La Russa, the short-handed White Sox have advised Tim Anderson, Luis Robert, José Abreu and oth-

ers not to run hard on plays that appear to be routine outs. It is based on advice from the team’s training staff, who are trying to preserve the players’ legs.

It is unconventional at the very least, and an especially odd decision to publicize.

But La Russa wants the fans to understand that his guys are giving it their all, even in moments when it may not appear that way.

“If you know you’re going to be out, if you hit the ball hard to second base, you know you’re playing at the professional level and guys know how to catch and throw the ball,” Anderson said. “Skip and the training staff know what’s best for the players. We just follow their lead.”

La Russa, 77, has been under fire personally in some quarters since last month when he ordered a two-strike, intentional walk to Trea Turner during a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Trailing 7-5 in the sixth inning, the Sox watched as Max Muncy followed the intentional walk by smashing a three-run homer in a game the Dodgers eventually won 11-9. The strategy was more defensible than it seemed: Lifetime, Turner was hitting .254 in 1-2 counts against left-handed pitchers, and this season he was hitting .333 in 1-2 counts. Muncy was hitting .159 at the time.

Regardless, periodic chants of “Fire Tony!” have been heard at Guaranteed Rate Field ever since. La Russa says he likes the fans’ passion and would rather have that than apathy. White Sox players shrug it off.

“That’s why you get yourself a good set of ear plugs and don’t pay attention to it, man,” Anderson said of the excess noise that has accompanied the team’s on-field frustrations this year, from the La Russa negativity to the episode involving Josh Donaldson of the New York Yankees, who was suspended for disrespectful comments toward Anderson.

Yes, several White Sox players said, they understand the growing frustration. But they also expect to improve as key players return to active duty and they say it is too early to obsess over the standings.

“The thing is, we keep getting asked that question,” Kopech said. “How does it feel? Nobody likes to lose. We’re not happy.

We’re not winning, but nobody’s panicking.

We know we can turn it around tomorrow.”

With 15 games against Minnesota and Cleveland on deck over the next three weeks, tomorrow is here.

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Why the best hesitate to make it their last

By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY

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ost tennis professionals are retired by their mid-30s. But last week, there was Serena Williams, at almost 41, grinding against a competitor a little more than half her age for more than three hours at Wimbledon.

Venus Williams, too, is here. She played mixed doubles, with tape on her right knee and not so much spring in her step at age 42. Roger Federer, who has not played since limping away from Wimbledon last year, is angling to return to the tennis tour in September, when he will be freshly 41. Rafael Nadal is threatening a deep Wimbledon run and eyeing the Grand Slam at 36 after a medical procedure that deadened the nerves in his troublesome left foot.

To varying degrees, the biggest names in tennis keep going. Why is it so hard, with their best years behind them, to leave the stage and kick back with their millions?

And it’s not just tennis. Tiger Woods, with an estimated net worth of $1 billion, is struggling to come back from devastating leg injuries at 46. Tom Brady cannot stay away from football. Regular working people go through life believing that retirement is the endgame. Not so with professional athletes.

It is not just advances in physical preparation and nutrition keeping their bodies in the game. The changing nature of sports business and celebrity is conspiring to keep stars at it far longer than they have in the past. But there is also another element that has remained constant across the generations.

“I get it 100% why they want to keep going,” said Martina Navratilova, a longtime No. 1 and 18-time major singles champion who retired at 37 in 1994, came back to play doubles and did not retire for good until she was almost 50.

“You really appreciate it, and you realize how lucky you are to be out there doing what we do,” Navratilova said. “It’s a drug. It’s a very legal drug that many people would like to have but they can’t get.”

Serena Williams exited Wimbledon in the first round for the second straight year, far from her fittest and gasping for air down the stretch. She and Federer soon face having no ranking in the sport they

The effortless Roger Federer, from “The Master,” by Christopher Clarey. dominated for decades. Venus Williams decided at the last minute to play in mixed doubles at Wimbledon. But there have been no announcements on exit strategies; no targets for end dates.

“You never know where I’ll pop up,” Venus Williams said Friday, before she and Jamie Murray lost Sunday to Alicia Barnett and Jonny O’Mara in a third-set tiebreaker in the round of 16.

Earlier Sunday, at a ceremony at Centre Court, Federer, who has a men’s record eight Wimbledon titles but has not played a match in a year, said he hoped to play the tournament “one more time” before he retired.

It is a new sort of limbo: great champions well past their primes but not yet ready to call it a career while outsiders occupy themselves with speculation on when the call will come. Nadal, who has generated plenty of retirement chatter himself and said he was close to retiring only a couple of weeks ago because of chronic foot pain, understands the public’s quest for clarity.

Famous athletes “become part of the life of so many people,” he said after advanc-

ing to the third round of Wimbledon.

Even Nadal said he felt unsettled after seeing his friend Woods become only a part-time golfer. “That’s a change in my life, too.”

But Woods and the Williams sisters, like other aging and often-absent sports stars, remain active, not retired. There can be commercial incentives to keep it that way. Official retirement not only terminates a playing career. It can terminate an endorsement contract or a sponsorship deal and reduce a star’s visibility.

“Typically it’s black and white that when you announce your retirement, that’s clearly giving the company a right to terminate,” said Tom Ross, a longtime American tennis agent.

But there are exceptions, Ross said, and champions who are late in their careers and of the stature of Federer and Serena Williams often have deals that provide them with security even if they retire before the deal expires. Federer’s 10-year clothing contract with Uniqlo is one example.

He, like Williams, also has the luxury of time.

Nearly any other tennis player without a ranking would not be able to secure regular entry into top tournaments if they did decide to continue. But Federer and Williams have access to wild cards with their buzz-generating cachet, and can thus pick their spots.

Nike, as Federer and some others have discovered, is disinclined to commit major money to superstars close to retirement, favoring active athletes with longer runways. But Mike Nakajima, a former director of tennis at Nike, said that Williams, still sponsored by Nike, was in an exceptional position. She has her own building on Nike’s campus.

“Her building is bigger than the Portland International Airport,” Nakajima said. He added: “She’s had her hands in so many different things, so many interests, so many passions, that I think in a lot of ways it won’t matter when she stops. Serena will always be Serena.”

This week, EleVen by Venus Williams, her lifestyle brand, started a Wimbledon collection of all-white clothing that was not hurt by the fact

that Williams was actually playing at Wimbledon, if only in mixed doubles, after more than 10 months away from the tour.

“Just inspired by Serena,” Venus Williams said.

Navratilova, like many in the game, believes that Venus and Serena Williams will retire together when the time comes. If it comes. The advantages of formally announcing retirement are few: a temporary surge in publicity and an end to random drug testing. It can, in some cases, start the clock on your pension or on making you eligible to be elected into a sport’s Hall of Fame.

Retirement is perhaps more a rite than a necessity. John McEnroe, for one, never officially retired, a technicality which, in his case, did allow him to keep earning more for a time from some existing contracts.

“Well, look how well retirement worked out for Tom Brady; it got a lot of attention and then it was, ‘Oh, I changed my mind.’ OK!” Navratilova said with a laugh. She added: “Do you ask a doctor or a lawyer how much longer are you going to keep practicing? People put thoughts in your head that might not be there otherwise.”

Federer has been hearing retirement questions since he finally won the French Open in 2009, completing his set of singles titles at each of the four Grand Slam events at age 27. Venus Williams, who went through a midcareer dip partly linked to an autoimmune disorder, has been hearing them for more than a decade, as well.

“When it’s my last, I’ll let you know,” she said at Wimbledon last year.

Here she was, back for more, just like her kid sister, although perhaps even the Williamses do not know how much more.

Navratilova does not recommend giving too much notice. When she announced that 1994 would be her last season, she regretted it.

“If I had to do it over again, I would definitely not say anything, because it was exhausting; it was much more emotionally draining than it would have been otherwise,” she said. “For your own good, forget whatever it may do for or against your brand. I wouldn’t announce it until that’s it.”

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Sudoku How to Play: Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

Sudoku Rules: Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Crossword

Answers on page 30

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GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

There’s a shift in the air, as Mars your personal planet powers into Taurus and your sector of money and resources. You may notice over the coming six weeks, that your skills are more in demand, or that you are aware of a talent you’ve taken for granted, that could earn you more money. The Moon/Uranus link might inspire you to branch out and experiment a little.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

You’ll feel energized, and soon notice how eager you are to get on with things. The movement of dynamic Mars into your sign boosts enthusiasm, and encourages you to make a start on goals and plans that have been on the backburner. Need a special treat to feel good? Anything that enables you to relax and leaves you happier, is just perfect Taurus.

You truly deserve it!

Gemini

(June 22-July 23)

Getting involved in group and community activities, can be the easiest way to get things done. Linking up with those who share your interests will bring a wealth of resources to your efforts, and you’ll soon be on track to achieve your goals. Ready to get started on a personal dream? The motivation to get going might ramp-up. And the rewards could be long-lasting and worthwhile.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

Have a sizzling idea? You’ll lean towards a more practical method of making your dreams come true.

Going from your ideal to what is attainable, might mean you’ll have to tweak your plans, but the results you get will be solid and enduring. On another note, attending a social event could mean you meet someone you’ve wanted to get to know for a while.

Now’s your chance, Leo!

Virgo

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

s Mars enters Taurus and an intense zone for a six week stay, the idea of making changes to your present situation can appeal. It maybe you or another who initiates such a move, and doing so might be a step forward that will make life easier. It could also be time to abandon ideas that don’t serve or that keep you from developing your potential, so you can thrive in all ways.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Relationships get a boost, as stirring Mars moves into sensual Taurus for a six week stay. Does a key bond need some spicing up? If so, this influence can certainly assist. Solo? Opportunities may show up if you link with those who share your interests. And it could be an enjoyment of the arts, music or other creative activities, that connect you and keep you together, Scorpio.

(May 22-June 21)

A planetary shift can turn your attention to your moods and feelings. Over the coming weeks, you’ll feel an urge to get rid of emotional baggage, and drop anything that is holding you back. As Mars strides into Taurus, issues you thought were finished with might come back with a vengeance. It helps to get to the root cause, whether alone or with assistance, to resolve them.

Cancer

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Frustrated that the opportunities you seek have not come about as fast as you’d like? Today’s planetary shift encourages you to explore paths that you’re excited about. It may be that by letting go of past expectations, you’ll make space for something that plays to your skills and strengths, and that will have a beneficial impact on your life. Your beliefs could change too.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Past months may have found you exploring creative and entrepreneurial options, and discovering you have a real talent for something. As fiery Mars moves into Taurus and a more focused zone, you might want to take this further, by turning it into a side business or honing your skills. Eager to get fit?

Override any desire to indulge. With discipline and persistence, you’ll do very well.

Your love life may be about to go through a renaissance, as dynamic Mars powers into your romance zone. Thinking of getting back into dating? Then you could end up being quite competitive, especially if you have a rival, Capricorn. Connected? This sensual energy can add fresh sparkle to your bond, by encouraging you to relax more and enjoy each other’s company.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

The need for greater security could ramp-up, as Mars moves into your home zone. You may want to get work done to keep the house waterproof or damp proof, and be ready to adopt other protective measures to enhance security. There will be more action around home and family affairs, so the coming weeks can be a busy time, when a move or big visit might be on the cards.

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

With potent Mars moving into your sector of communication, you might surprise those who think they know you well, as you’ll be likely to speak your mind. And this influence may be the answer to getting your life moving in a new direction. If you always seem to do the same things, then this dynamic energy could inspire you to explore other

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