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San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo announced on Sunday the start of improvements and expansions at Dr. Hernán Padilla Central Park in Santurce and Hato Rey. The total cost of the projects will exceed $9.4 million and will be developed in three phases, the first starting today.
“After years without the necessary improvements being made and after having suffered the ravages of Hurricane Maria, the iconic Dr. Hernán Padilla Central Park will be expanded and improved for the enjoyment of all,” Romero Lugo said. “Today we start a comprehensive project of million-dollar improvements that are necessary for our Central Park to live up to what our San Juan residents deserve.”
The mayor said the first of the announced improvements will involve the total reconstruction of the main entrance, with the complete renovation of the façade, new curbs, replacement of asphalt at the entrance, lighting, remodeling of the booth entrance with new gates and bars, and remodeling of the welcome mural just after the main entrance. This first phase will have an approximate construction period of eight months.
The second phase includes the rehabilitation of existing sports and recreational facilities and the addition of new sports facilities. The mayor said the sports offer will be diversified by adding six new pickleball courts, four new paddle tennis courts and eight sand courts for beach volleyball and beach tennis. The second phase will also include the reconstruction of and improvements to existing facilities such as the reconstruction of
the racquetball courts, tennis courts, the administration building, the total resurfacing of the athletic track and improvements to the soccer field.
In addition, the complete reconstruction of the trail or jogging track was announced, which includes new lighting and improvements to the boys’ and girls’ park.
The mayor said the second phase would begin with bidding that is in process this June and the holding of additional bids during the months of June, September and October of this year.
The third phase of improvements involves the complete rehabilitation of the natatorium, the repair of the damages caused by the hurricanes, and new improvements will also be added in outdoor areas, swimming pools, stands, concessionaires, bathrooms and offices. The bidding for the third phase will take place during the first half of 2024.
“Since our arrival in 2021, we have been making improvements to the grounds of this park so that it can be used by all residents and visitors,” the mayor said. “As part of our commitment to return the sports and recreational facilities to the people of San Juan, we set ourselves the task of enabling it to reopen. Due to the terrible conditions in which it was found and the lack of improvements made, we have started this comprehensive project that will result in a first-rate facility for all our residents of San Juan and those who visit us.”
Central Park receives 60,000 monthly visitors. It has also hosted local and international sports competitions in various disciplines, in addition to receiving athletes from all over the world for whom it serves as a practice facility.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Condominium Owners Association (COA) told the judge overseeing the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) bankruptcy late last week that the utility’s proposed debt adjustment plan will have a detrimental effect on the thousands of families living in high-rise structures or walk-ups.
“As a practical matter, condominium titleholders simply cannot resort to the most common alternatives to minimize the impact of energy rate increases. Even if individual titleholders change their individual consumption of energy, the cost of energy services for the common areas is beyond the individual’s control,” the COA said in a court filing seeking to participate in the proceedings to advocate for its members. “Moreover, it is nearly impossible, both economically and often legally, to install and maintain a solar panel system, inverters, and batteries that could power a condominium in the same way the electric grid does.”
The COA educates condominium titleholders regarding their rights, conducts research and creates databases regarding the horizontal property regime (condominium law) in Puerto Rico, and advocates for the rights of individual condominium titleholders in Puerto Rico. The petition was submitted on behalf of the association by its lawyer, Judith Berkan.
In a condominium, a structure where multiple individuals and families own their individual units, title holders must share the cost of maintaining common areas that are co-owned by all private property, or apartment, owners through the payment of monthly maintenance charges.
“It is important to note that in a condominium, any increase in services, such as electricity or the purchase of renewable energy sources, if applicable, directly affects all its owners,” notes the petition filed Friday. “No owner can contribute more or less than what is defined in the master deed.”
“In this type of multifamily housing, it is almost impossible to control the use of communal electricity as one would in a single-family house,” the petition says. “In a condominium, an owner cannot decide to turn off the patio or pool lights. He or she cannot manually open gates. Nor
can the titleholder simply climb stairs to the 14th floor with groceries in hand. An aging population also highlights the fact that a number of owners have mobility issues and necessarily rely on elevators for access to their housing units.”
The impact of electrical rate increases is particularly notable in the context of a condominium, the document notes.
“Rate increases in energy service in Puerto Rico will create a domino effect where the increased costs of other service providers’ contracts will be passed on to condominium titleholders or renters as operating costs,” the petition says. “Moreover, whereas a sole owner or resident in a house, or of a rental in buildings other than condominiums, can exercise certain control over electricity usage and even invest in alternative renewable energy sources, this is rarely an option for condominium owners.”
All condominiums in Puerto Rico are legally obligated to prepare an annual budget for presentation in the required annual assembly of titleholders. Among the expenses to be paid by each titleholder, as reflected in the monthly maintenance fee, is the payment for communal electricity service, which is separate from what each owner pays for electricity consumption in his/her private apartment.
“In other words, a condominium owner pays for two electricity bills: one for their private apartment or property, where the owner has control over electricity usage, and another for the service and maintenance of the common areas, which is shared among all other owners, and over which the titleholders have no individual control,” the petition notes.
Among the most expensive budget items for condominiums is the payment for common electrical service. It is impossible for a condominium to function without electricity, which directly affects the quality of life of all its owners. Common areas include hallways, elevators, storage facilities, many rooftops, lobbies, recreational areas, and parking spaces.
There are three types of condominiums: high-rise vertical, walk-up horizontal, and mixed condominiums, which can be a combination of high-rises and walkups. And there are two categories of essential services: those necessary for
living and those related to security.
“The centrality of electrical services, as essential to life in condominiums, is not subject to serious question,” the groups said. “Importantly, electric service to condominium common areas is intimately related to water service, which is the essence of life. High-rise condominiums often rely on electric pumps to deliver water to the higher floors. Without these pumps, it is impossible for water to reach all of the building’s apartments. Condominium titleholders faced with a lack of both electrical and water service risk life-threatening conditions. Many condominiums also require and depend on air conditioning.”
Besides depending on elevators, which also depend on electricity, and security services like fire suppression systems and fire alarms, condominiums are required to have electric vehicle charging stations in parking lots if requested by titleholders.
“It is important to note that alternative energy source systems are often not a viable option,” the petition notes. “Unlike many single-family housing units, or low-rise rental buildings here, condominiums in Puerto Rico rarely can resort to alternative renewable energy sources. Several factors impact upon this situation, including the limited space and land available to install services capable of supplying the necessary energy to maintain essential services, as well as the high costs that titleholders would have to bear for the purchase and maintenance of the equipment required to keep all services running at full capacity in a condominium.”
The economic strain placed on condominium titleholders through the projected rate increases will be extremely difficult for some titleholders and impossible for others, the petitioners said.
The PREPA debt plan in essence proposes to restructure PREPA’s debt principally through an issuance of $5.68 billion of new bonds to fund partial recoveries on creditors’ claims. PREPA owns about $8.26 billion in revenue bonds, plus approximately $218 million in prepetition accrued interest on such bonds. The utility also owns $700 million in fuel line loans and projects some $246 million to $4.9 billion in general unsecured claims. It also has over $3 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.
Under the proposed plan, PREPA will pay for the new bonds over a 35-year period through revenues from a “legacy charge” to PREPA’s customers.
The legacy charge for certain customers not currently benefiting from subsidized electricity rates would be, on average, about $19 a month that will be added to the utility bill. The PREPA legacy charge, which will be used to pay bondholders, would exclude qualifying low-income residential customers from a connection fee and kilowatt-hour (kWh) charge for up to 500 kWh per month. For non-subsidized residential customers, the proposed PREPA legacy charge would be: a flat $13 per month connection fee, and 75 cents per kWh for up to 500 kWh per month of electricity provided by PREPA, and 3 cents per kWh for electricity above 500 kWh per month.
For commercial, industrial, and government customers, the PREPA legacy proposed charge would entail a connection fee of $16.25 for small business customers, $20 per month for smaller industrial companies, and $1,800 per month for large businesses proportional to their current rate.
An excessive heat warning was issued Sunday that was in effect from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. in the afternoon, along with an excessive heat watch that will be in effect through this afternoon.
According to the National Weather Service, prolonged periods of dangerously high temperatures and high humidity are expected, with heat index ratings of 112 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
Affected areas include urban and coastal areas of Puerto Rico and Culebra.
The combination of high temperatures and high humidity can lead to dangerous situations and increase the risk of
heat-related illness.
Authorities recommended taking extra precautions if working or spending time outdoors.
It is important to schedule demanding activities in the early morning or afternoon hours, the advisory said. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Wear lightweight, loose-fitting clothing when possible and drink plenty of water.
To reduce risk during outdoor work, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent breaks in shaded or air-conditioned locations. If someone is affected by heat, they should be moved to a cool, shady place immediately. Heat stroke is an emergency -- call 9-1-1.
According to the National Weather Service, prolonged periods of dangerously high temperatures and high humidity are expected through this afternoon in the urban and coastal areas of Puerto Rico, including Culebra, with heat index ratings of 112 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
The Municipality of Vega Alta on Saturday proudly celebrated the 105th birthday of Doña Ada Aguayo, who holds the honorable title of being the oldest woman in the northern town.
Mayor María Vega Pagán said that in honor of the important milestone, a special celebration was held in recognition of Aguayo’s life and legacy.
“In a gesture of joy and admiration, we surprised Doña Ada in her home and the former leader of the municipal legislature of Vega Alta for the PDP, Pedro García, serenaded her with a mobile sound unit to accompany the occasion,” the mayor said, adding that she had the honor of offering special words in honor of Aguayo.
She read a special greeting and handed over a scroll
designating Aguayo as the oldest woman in Vega Alta.
“The scroll is a testament to the respect and admiration our community has for her and her remarkable life trajectory,” Vega Pagán said.
The mayor also took the opportunity to report on the municipality’s Office of Family Affairs, which offers a broad portfolio of services especially designed to address the needs of seniors. Among the services highlighted are health care programs, wellness and recreational activities that seek to promote an active and healthy old age.
“In my agenda, I prioritize care for our beloved seniors and make sure they are given all the necessary support and attention,” Vega Pagán said. “I want to thank the community and religious leaders for their support in this feat, their constant communication and the referrals they send us to guarantee and promote the well-being of these older adults at all stages of life.”
The Financial Oversight and Management Board said the government will not implement Act 104 of 2022, which amended the Gaming Machine Act, as concerns with the law persist.
The 2022 law amended Act 11-1933, known as the “Gaming Machine Act,” and, among other things, reduced the licensing fee for gaming machines, eliminated the tax imposed on gambling winnings, altered the current distribution of revenues derived from gaming machines, and modified the requirement for the centralized computer connectivity system for gambling machines in Puerto Rico.
The oversight board made its remarks in a June 8 letter
to Alex Martínez Maldonado of Martínez Maldonado & Vientós Orta LLC. Maldonado had expressed concern on behalf of several slot machine operators and service providers regarding the implementation of Act 104. Specifically, in a letter, he had expressed concerns regarding the status of regulations required to implement Act 104 and requested that the oversight board “clarify if the [Gaming] Commission may continue with the implementation of Act 104 and/or if the concerns of the Oversight Board related to said act persist,” and requested that the Gaming Commission publicly detail its proposed action plan to comply with all terms, responsibilities and procedures duly established by the Gaming Machine Act. The oversight board has previously expressed its concerns regarding Act 104 in correspondence to Gov. Pedro
Pierluisi Urrutia. In December, the board said Act 104 decreases commonwealth tax and fee revenues without identifying any offsetting revenue increases or reductions in expenditures to account for those decreases. The board said at the time that the act is inconsistent with the Certified 2022 Commonwealth Fiscal Plan and in violation of PROMESA, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act.
“The Oversight Board continues to have concerns about Act 104, and the Government has confirmed that Act 104 may not be implemented,” the board said. “We understand your clients’ interest in the implementation of Act 104, but trust you understand the Oversight Board’s mandate to ensure the Commonwealth achieves fiscal responsibility and access to capital markets.”
An entire town was attentive to her birth and then to the delicate operation that would separate her from her Siamese twin. Since then, she has had in her a fighting spirit of survival and overcoming. Now, 23 years later, Janlean Luna Rivera, from Aibonito, obtained a bachelor’s degree in psychology, with high honors, as part of the 110th graduating class of the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus (RUM by its Spanish acronym).
The young woman, who currently works as a support facilitator at CIMA Mennonite Hospital, was accepted to continue her studies toward a doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Ponce Health Sciences University and Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus.
Neither the 10 surgeries she has had throughout her life, nor the mobility challenges of having only one leg, nor the health conditions she has had to face prevented the young woman from continuing to pursue her university education.
“I feel immense happiness for this achievement and completing this goal. It’s too fantastic!” Luna Rivera said. “I became very fond of the school. When I finished. I did not want to leave because it became my home. This graduation gives me a lot of joy and nostalgia at the same time; I suffered a lot when I was picking up to leave my lodging in Mayagüez. I lived very close to the university and it became my second home. I leave part of my little heart there.”
In fact, Luna Rivera’s move to Mayagüez represented the first time she would be away from home independently.
“The transition was challenging,” she said. “I didn’t know how to cook, I had never lived alone, so it was a challenge. The first few days my mom stayed with me and then, little by little, they released me. Later, I found
out that the first day they left me alone, my parents stayed in the area for a while because they thought I would call them.”
She was referring to her parents, James A. Luna Morales and Juanita Rivera Gómez, who along with her older brother, James A. Luna Rivera, have always supported her in her projects.
“I thank them with all my heart because despite the difficulty, they trusted me and supported me unconditionally,” Luna Rivera said. “The first months were very difficult. I did not fit in; as I adapted, I lowered my grades. However, when I decided to come to the college, although I was afraid, I was determined.”
She said she was grateful for the support she received at the RUM to overcome her mobility challenges.
“When I arrived here I didn’t have a motorized chair and the campus is very big,” she recalled. “So the drivers were quite willing to move me around [to my] classes. Everyone was very kind and always helped me.”
“Being born like this has closed doors for me, but many have also opened because I have met incredible people,” she added.
As part of her university life, Luna Rivera joined the student groups Psychology Students Association and Impacto Juventud, in which she is still active with the Chiqui Impacto program.
She said her interest in psychology was born out of her curiosity to learn more about how the brain works and decision-making.
“I always had the desire to want to know more and now that I’m done, I am fascinated,” she said.
Born in 2000, Luna Rivera turned 23 years old last Friday. Since her case became known, the community was moved and showed its support.
Luna Rivera was born attached to her twin Janlee, as ischiopagus twins, which means that they were joined at the pelvis and shared a liver, intestines, bladder and a leg. Unfortunately, her sister passed away months after her birth.
“All my conditions are stable,” she said. “As a child I had about five operations; the first was the separation and organizing the organs so that they were functional. Then, back and bladder surgeries. There have already been approximately 10.”
Having earned her baccalaureate, along with the adventure of living alone and having a job, Luna Rivera is already on her way to start her next step: her doctoral degree in Ponce, to where she will also relocate. Unlike when she started at RUM, she now knows how to drive and has her vehicle adapted and of course, as she said, “I already hold my own in the kitchen.”
Aweek before the celebration of Father’s Day, the New Progressive Party minority leader in the House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, paid tribute over the weekend to more than 20 distinguished men who have left their mark on various sectors of society.
“As part of the celebration of Father’s Day, this year we identified a unique platform to recognize the work of 23 men, all fathers, who have set an example in their communities for their work, not only professionally, but also helping in their communities. Their commitment to making a difference is cause for recognition,” said Méndez Nuñez, the House District 36 representative (Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vieques and Culebra).
The tribute, held in the Hall of Heroes in the Capitol,
was attended by former Major League Baseball star Carlos Beltrán, who highlighted the importance of volunteer work in favor of communities.
“We thank each of the parents recognized in this activity for their work and work in favor of those who need it most,” Méndez Nuñez said. “Negative news tends to monopolize the news, but his deeds in support of the communities of Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vieques and Culebra deserve gratitude and recognition; that’s why we developed this activity, to celebrate his legacy together.”
During the recognition, the former House speaker delivered congratulatory motions, while Beltrán’s career on and off the diamond was commemorated.
Beltrán, considered one of the all-time top players from Puerto Rico, began his decorated career in the majors in 1998 and retired in 2017.
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday cast both his indictments by prosecutors and his bid for the White House as part of a “final battle” with “corrupt” forces that he maintained are destroying the country.
The apocalyptic language came in Trump’s first public appearance since the 38-count federal indictment against him and a personal aide was unsealed — and in a state where he may soon face additional charges for his efforts to pressure Georgia election officials to overturn his 2020 election loss there. It was Trump’s second indictment in less than three months.
“This is the final battle,” Trump said in the speech to several thousand activists, delegates and members of the media who gathered in Columbus at a brick building that was once an ironworks that manufactured mortars, guns and cannons for the Confederate Army in the Civil War.
Trump spoke about the threats to the nation. But his escalating language also showed something more fundamental was in increasing jeopardy: his own freedom.
“Either the communists win and destroy America, or we destroy the communists,” the former president said in Georgia, seeming to refer to Democrats. He made similar remarks about the “deep state,” using the pejorative term he uses for U.S. intelligence agencies and more broadly for any federal government bureaucrat he perceives as a political opponent. He railed against “globalists,” “warmongers” in government and “the sick political class that hates our country.”
Trump also described the Justice Department as “a sick nest of people that needs to be cleaned out immediately,” calling the special counsel, Jack Smith, “deranged” and “openly a Trump hater.”
And he attacked by name Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, who is weighing criminal charges against Trump, calling her “a lunatic Marxist” and accusing her of ignoring violent crime and instead spending all of her time “working on getting Trump.”
Trump leavened an at times menacing
speech with humor, declaring at one point, “Every time I fly over a blue state I get a subpoena.”
The crowd cheered and laughed throughout, and when he mentioned Democrats, the hall was filled with boos and jeers. At one mention of Hillary Clinton, a woman started chanting, “Lock her up!”
Trump’s speech at the Georgia state GOP convention and another later in the evening at the state party convention in North Carolina were planned before he was indicted Thursday for his role in mishandling classified documents. But the appearances were quickly incorporated into an extensive public attack, in which he equated prosecutors with his political enemies and urged his followers to see his indictments as attacks on them.
“In the end, they’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you, and I’m just standing in their way,” Trump said in Greensboro, North Carolina, Saturday evening. “The baseless indictment of me by the Biden administration’s weaponized Department of In-Justice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country.”
While many politicians might have
considered pausing a presidential campaign after absorbing a devastating indictment and facing the prospect of prison time, Trump has always viewed his political candidacy and mass following as his best defense against his legal troubles.
On Saturday, in an interview with Politico, the former president went so far as to say he would stay in the race even if he were to be convicted in federal court. “I’ll never leave,” he vowed. (It’s not clear that the case would be resolved before the 2024 election.)
Trump and his advisers are keenly aware that the Republican base overwhelmingly supports him in his legal battles and reflexively dismisses whatever facts prosecutors produce. The Trump campaign team has exploited that dynamic and put their opponents in the presidential primary in a lose-lose situation: Either they begrudgingly defend and praise the front-runner or they suffer the wrath of millions of voters.
The Columbus convention crowd that Trump addressed was beyond friendly: It was devotional. While this was ostensibly a convention for the Republican Party of Georgia, a casual observer might be forgiven for thinking it was the Trump Party
of Georgia.
Trump’s name, slogans and lies about the 2020 election were proudly displayed by party activists. Women wore bejeweled Trump caps. Men wore caps reading “God, Guns and Trump.” References to the 2020 election were everywhere: T-shirts read “Trump won,” and plastered on delegates’ chests and backs were stickers bashing voting machines.
In the unsealed indictment, federal prosecutors revealed for the first time how Trump had remained in possession of some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets, showing them off to visitors. The papers Trump kept included plans for retaliating to a foreign attack and details of American nuclear programs, according to the indictment. One image displayed boxes stacked next to a toilet in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom.
“Secret,” he bragged in a taped conversation, according to the indictment. “This is secret information. Look, look at this.”
Trump was joined on his private plane Saturday by a small group of his closest advisers, including his core political aides. He was also joined by Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right congresswoman from Georgia, and by Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Several people close to Trump and his team privately acknowledged the facts in the case were damaging. But they were uncertain that the charges would have any more impact on Republican voters than a number of other scandals that did little to change public opinion.
While many leading Republicans snapped in line behind Trump the moment he revealed that he was being indicted Thursday, party strategists have concerns about how the charges will shape any potential general election matchup with President Joe Biden.
The last two midterm elections and Trump’s own 2020 loss show that his combative approach to politics — and the accumulation of allegations against him, including his indictment in April by a Manhattan grand jury — has turned off independent and swing voters.
‘This is the final battle’: Trump casts his campaign as an existential fight against his criticsJack Smith, the special counsel, delivers remarks about the indictment of former President Donald Trump in Washington, June 9, 2023. “We have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone,” Smith said in a statement after prosecutors released the details of the charges against the former president, who was set to appear in court next week.
practices, rather than foul play, gave Epstein an opportunity to end his life before facing trial on sex trafficking charges. The union for the guards blamed staffing shortages for lapses that left Epstein unattended for three hours.
The Bureau of Prisons, which houses about 160,000 inmates nationwide, has been struggling to retain and hire prison guards, along with medical and mental health professionals, who are often able to find lower-stress, higher-paying jobs elsewhere.
While the rate of suicide in federal facilities — between 300 and 400 per year — remains below that of local and state prisons, the bureau, like all other corrections systems, saw a major spike in suicides during the pandemic that has only begun to ease this year.
The Justice Department’s inspector general’s office, which has been investigating Epstein’s death for the past two years, is wrapping up its work and is expected to produce in the next few months a report that documents staff, management and oversight failures in the Epstein case.
This year, the inspector general documented a remarkable chain of administrative errors, incompetence and health system failures inside the federal prison system that led to the bludgeoning death of notorious Boston gangster James (Whitey) Bulger hours after he was transferred to a West Virginia prison in 2018.
By GLENN THRUSHTheodore J. Kaczynski, the “Unabomber,” who killed three people and injured 23 in a bombing spree stretching from 1978 to 1995, died by suicide at a federal prison medical center in North Carolina early Saturday, according to three people familiar with the situation. Emergency workers were called to Kaczynski’s cell at 12:23 a.m. at the Federal Medical Center, Butner, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Attempts to revive him in the prison and in an ambulance were unsuccessful, and he was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, officials said. He was 81.
The FBI was notified of his death. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina confirmed in an email that it conducts autopsies of deaths at the federal medical center in Butner, but offered no timetable for when
one might be completed for Kaczynski.
The circumstances of his suicide are unclear, and it is uncertain whether prison officials could have done more to ensure his safety. But the self-inflicted death of another high-profile inmate, four years after accused sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself at a Manhattan federal detention center, is certain to raise fresh questions about the quality of security, oversight and health care in the troubled, chronically understaffed federal prison system.
Epstein’s death prompted a rash of unfounded speculation that he had been murdered, even after that theory was contradicted by Justice Department officials who ruled it a suicide. The death of Kaczynski, himself a conspiracy theorist who wrote a long manifesto in a secluded wilderness cabin, is almost certain to prompt similar speculation.
Investigators determined that neglect and lax patrol
The inspector general determined that officials in the Federal Bureau of Prisons approved the downgrading of Bulger’s official medical status for the sole purpose of moving him out of a secure unit in a Florida prison to the Hazelton federal penitentiary. The move, taken after Bulger threatened a nurse, was approved even though officials knew he had a life-threatening cardiac condition.
Kaczynski, who has had health problems in recent years, was moved to the prison medical facility in North Carolina in late 2021, after serving more than 25 years at the supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado.
Kaczynski, a Harvard-educated mathematician, had declared that his goal was to bring about the collapse of the modern social order through targeted assassinations. He was arrested in 1996 at the tiny cabin in western Montana where he lived, without water or electricity, and built many of the 16 homemade package bombs he mailed to targets. Kaczynski was captured after his brother contacted authorities, suspecting he might be behind a wave of mysterious attacks that included planting a bomb that would have taken down an American Airlines flight had it not malfunctioned.
Merrick Garland, now the attorney general, was then a midlevel federal prosecutor who supervised the team that prosecuted Kaczynski.
Kaczynski rejected his attorney’s recommendation that he mount an insanity defense, and pleaded guilty to the killings. He received eight consecutive life sentences.
He is not the first high-profile inmate to die at the federal prison hospital in Butner, North Carolina. In 2021, Bernard Madoff, who had run the largest and possibly most devastating Ponzi scheme in financial history, died there at age 82 after entering the final stages of kidney disease.
Standing on a stage decorated with rainbows and speaking to a crowd that included survivors of gay nightclub shootings and transgender rights advocates, President Joe Biden on Saturday said his administration would work to counter a recent series of Republican-led bills and laws targeting the LGBTQ community.
“We’re taking on these civil rights violations,” Biden said at a Pride Month event held at the White House on Saturday afternoon, “because that’s what they are.”
At the Pride event — which had been postponed earlier in the week because of smoke from the wildfires in Canada — the president said that his administration had taken steps to protect the civil rights of LGBTQ Americans, including appointing an official within the Department of Education who will monitor and address the growing number of local bans on books with references to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people.
Neera Tanden, the White House domestic policy adviser, told CBS News that the official would provide guidance to school districts and warn them that book bans “may violate federal civil laws if they create a hostile environment for students.”
According to a fact sheet released by the Biden administration, the Justice Department and other agencies will also designate officials to work with members of the LGBTQ community on issues of concern. Federal funds will be dedicated for support programs for the parents of LGBTQ youth, police training on helping victims of hate crimes and security briefings for health care providers and activist organizations.
Since 2021, at least 20 Republicanled states have passed bills regulating the lives and medical care of young transgender people. Conservative activists and parents have led efforts to ban books about LGBTQ people and have protested outside events where drag queens read to children.
“This year’s Pride is caught between the push and pull of progress,” first lady Jill Biden said during her own set of remarks, referencing the slate of conservative bills and laws. “Outside the gates of this house are those who want to drag our country backwards.”
President Biden also assailed laws that have allowed business owners to discriminate against LGBTQ people based on their religious or personal beliefs.
“When a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, something is still very wrong in America,” Biden said.
Biden called on Congress to pass the Equality Act, which would strengthen protections against discrimination for LGBTQ Americans. The president also repeated his plea for Congress to pass an assault weapons ban, citing past mass shootings at nightclubs Club Q in Colorado and Pulse in Florida.
Both efforts have little to no chance of passing in a divided Congress.
Several Republican presidential candidates, including former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, have supported broad restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender people and on LGBTQ matters in education and public life. They have framed the measures as efforts to protect children and defend against liberal views in America’s culture wars. A majority of Americans support same-sex marriage, but the public has more complicated views on transgender rights, according to polling compiled by the Pew Research Center.
Biden and his advisers have argued that the rights of transgender people and others in the LGBTQ community should not be used as grist for culture-war battles, an argument the president emphasized at length Saturday.
“These bills and laws attack the most basic values and freedoms we have as Americans,” Biden said. “The right to be yourself. The right to make your own health decisions. The right to raise your children.
“I recognize, for a lot of folks across this country, maybe it’s not you, your kid, your family members going through whatever a transgender child and family is going through. But I think we all agree: If it were you, you’d want the space to figure it out with your family and your doctor.”
As vice president, Biden became a public supporter of same-sex marriage before President Barack Obama had processed his “evolving” views on the matter.
“I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women
marrying women and heterosexual men and women marrying one another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties,” Biden said in May 2012. Obama soon said that he supported same-sex marriage.
Eleven years later, same-sex marriage is the law of the land, and Biden is president.
“This administration has your back,”
he said to applause Saturday.
People who gathered at the White House offered a gesture of support for the president and his efforts: “Four more years,” they chanted.
“You enrich every part of American life,” Biden told the crowd. “You are some of the bravest, most inspiring people I’ve ever known, and I’ve known a lot of good folks.”
mental groups. The organization has championed elements of the Biden administration’s climate agenda that support domestic manufacturing, particularly in places hurt by globalization, automation and the decline of fossil fuels.
“Until now, the moral case and the business case did not always align,” said Ben Beachy, the organization’s vice president for industrial policy. “The IRA changes that by offering developers an airtight business case for supporting high-paying jobs and a stronger and fairer U.S. manufacturing base.”
rise to projects that wouldn’t otherwise happen, will award them only to projects not yet completed. Solar installers would have to sell the system and then wait to see if they get the credit before starting work.
By LYDIA DePILLISIn April, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Qcells, a solar panel manufacturing facility in Dalton, Georgia, to announce an early triumph of the Inflation Reduction Act: Summit Ridge Energy, one of the nation’s largest developers of community solar projects, would purchase 2.5 million U.S.-made solar panels.
Subsidies under the new law brought the price in line with that of imported panels, allowing the companies to fight climate change and promote U.S. manufacturing in one fell swoop.
A month later, the Treasury Department issued guidance that functionally would require the solar cells — not just the panels — to be made in the United States for Summit Ridge to have confidence that it will get its 10% tax credit on installations that use them. Qcells won’t be able to produce cells until late 2024, sending Summit Ridge scrambling to find cheaper components for projects currently in its pipeline.
“There’s not a single solar manufacturer who fully qualifies for this at this moment in time, which makes it difficult and is actually starting to cool investment,” said Leslie Elder, Summit Ridge’s vice president of political and regulatory affairs. “Now we have to reevaluate based on what can pencil.”
On paper, the Inflation Reduction Act is transformative for electricity generation in the
United States.
The law offers tax credits that could cover up to 70% of a renewable energy project’s cost if it checks several boxes meant to support U.S. workers and communities. A new analysis finds that those incentives more than offset the additional expense associated with using domestically produced goods and paying prevailing wages.
But guidance rolling out from the Biden administration — presaging formal rules — has raised alarm among energy companies that some of the credits might be difficult if not impossible to use, at least in the near term. The resulting frustration is emblematic of the current stage of climate action: an eye-straining haze of technical rule-making that reflects a tension between urgency and ensuring that the benefits of the energy transition are widely shared.
The analysis, overseen by professors at Princeton University and Dartmouth College experienced in modeling climate policy’s effects, finds that the incentive aimed at U.S. manufacturers makes domestic solar panels more than 30% less costly to produce than imports. With incentives claimed by clean energy developers that meet labor standards and use domestic content, the total cost of generating utility-scale solar electricity could be lowered by 68%, and onshore wind energy by 77%.
The study was funded by the BlueGreen Alliance, a partnership of unions and environ-
The impact of the climate law is already evident, with announcements of 47 new plants to make batteries, solar panels and wind turbines since it was passed, according to American Clean Power, a trade association. Other analyses — including a paper by economists and engineers at the Electric Power Research Institute, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the University of California, Berkeley — found that the law would encourage more low-emissions projects eligible for uncapped tax credits than anticipated, potentially making the costs to the government substantially higher than earlier estimates.
But the BlueGreen Alliance’s study shows significant uncertainty about the impact of rising material costs as demand for domestically sourced aluminum, steel and concrete increases, and doesn’t account for profits manufacturers might command before more competition enters the market. It also projects 4 million more jobs will be available in wind and solar energy by 2035 than if the IRA hadn’t passed — more than eight times the current employment base — but does not model whether labor supply will measure up.
“I find some of their key results to be highly optimistic, and that they likely underestimate some of the economywide costs associated with this scale of clean energy deployment,” said Daniel Raimi, a fellow at the think tank Resources for the Future who reviewed the analysis.
At the same time, clean energy companies are digesting the administration’s guidance on how the tax credits will be allocated and finding some unworkable in ways that may slow deployment.
Take the bonus of up to 20% for developers that locate projects in low-income communities (which is separate from a bonus of 10% for locating in areas struggling with the transition away from fossil fuels). The Treasury Department, wanting to ensure that credits give
“I think we will lose some development in low-income communities this year because of the way that credit has been constructed,” said Sean Gallagher, a vice president for policy at the Solar Energy Industries Association. “Either the developer is going to absorb that difference, or they’ll have to go back to the customer to renegotiate the price, or the project’s not going to happen.”
An even thornier issue is the extra 10% for using domestically manufactured components.
Manufacturers are concerned that while effectively requiring solar cells to be made in the United States to qualify for the credit, the Treasury Department did not require their foundational component — the wafer, a thin slice of silicon that conducts energy — to be domestically produced. That could allow Chinese factories to continue to dominate a key part of the supply chain.
“The prices they’re ultimately getting from the developers are undermined because the Chinese wafer manufacturers can crash the prices,” said Mike Carr, the executive director of the Solar Energy Manufacturers for America Coalition.
Developers are upset because receiving the credit will, in most cases, require a complex calculation of the cost of each component to reach the threshold of 40% U.S.-produced content, and manufacturers are loath to disclose sensitive pricing information. Many also expected a more gradual phase-in process that would allow some of the current U.S. factory output to qualify for the credit, while planning for more stringent requirements.
The Treasury Department is still taking comments on the rules for all of the credits, and industry trade associations are vying to change them. Even so, most companies say that the Inflation Reduction Act overall is a powerful force for decarbonization and that companies have a strong incentive to seek every credit it allows.
“It’s amazing how focusing this is for the mind, when people start throwing these kinds of dollars around,” said Sheldon Kimber, CEO of Intersect Power, a clean energy developer. “We’re being asked to do a hard thing, but there’s a lot of money in it for us.”
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit fresh 2023 highs on Friday as Tesla shares jumped following a tie-up with General Motors, while investors awaited inflation data and U.S. monetary policy decision due next week.
Tesla Inc TSLA.O shares climbed 5.7% after General Motors GM.Nagreed to use the company’s Supercharger network. GM shares GM.N rose 3.8%.
The benchmark S&P 500 on Thursday ended 20% above its Oct. 12 closing low, heralding the start of a new bull market as defined by some market participants.
A rally in megacap stocks, a better-than-expected earnings season and expectations that the Fed was nearing the end of its rate-hiking cycle have supported Wall Street this year despite concerns about a looming recession and sticky inflation.
“The overall tone of the market is based on the idea that the Fed will pause its increases,” said Rick Meckler, partner at Cherry Lane Investments.
“As it pauses, the broader market will start to rally and maybe catch up with the large-cap tech stocks that have led the way up until now.”
Major growth stocks including Apple Inc AAPL.O, Microsoft Corp MSFT.O and Nvidia Corp NVDA.O rose between 0.5% and 2.6%.
Traders see a 72% chance that the U.S. central bank will hold interest rates at the current 5%-5.25% range in its June 13-14 policy meeting, according to CMEGroup’s Fedwatch tool.
Consumer prices data on Tuesday will help shape expectations around further moves by the Fed, with traders already pricing in a 50% chance of another 25-basispoint rate hike in July.
“We expect the Fed to hike one last time in this cycle in July. By September, we think weakening activity and employment data will lead toward a more enduring pause, with the Fed holding at 5.5% until its first rate cut in March 2024,” economists at BNP Paribas noted.
Signs of a resilient U.S. economy and hopes of the Fed pausing its aggressive monetary tightening have pushed volatility gauges tumbling. The CBOE Volatility index .VIX, commonly known as Wall Street’s fear gauge, sank to a fresh pre-pandemic level of 13.53 points on Thursday.
At 10:00 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was up 56.85 points, or 0.17%, at 33,890.46, the S&P 500 .SPX was up 19.56 points, or 0.46%, at 4,313.49, and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was up 122.32 points, or 0.92%, at 13,360.85.
Target Corp TGT.N slipped 1.3% after Citi downgraded the big-box retailer to “neutral”, saying sales could fall further this year amid a challenging macro backdrop.
Adobe Inc ADBE.O added 5.4% after Wells Fargo upgraded it to “overweight”, saying the Photoshop software maker was poised to benefit from the generative AI boom.
Netflix Inc NFLX.O gained 1.7% following a report that its subscriptions jumped after the streaming giant’s crackdown on password sharing.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a 1.36to-1 ratio on the NYSE, while advancing issues outnum-
bered decliners by a 1.00-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded 11 new 52-week highs and five new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 45 new highs and 22 new lows.
The Labor Department reported on Wednesday that U.S. job openings unexpectedly rose in April and data for the prior month was revised higher, pointing to persistent strength in the labor market.
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, also showed layoffs declined significantly last month. There were 1.8 job openings for every unemployed person in April, up from 1.7 in March, and well above the 1.0-1.2 range viewed as consistent with a jobs market that is not generating too much inflation.
Fighting raged Sunday in at least three sectors of the front in Ukraine, as the Ukrainian military claimed its first, small territorial gains in the initial stages of its counteroffensive.
Ukraine had been silent about the course of the combat in the opening week of the military operation, which is expected to become one of the largest in Europe since World War II, but is currently seen as at a stage of probing attacks and feints.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s 68th brigade released a statement on Facebook claiming to have taken Blahodatne, in the eastern region of Donetsk, with video footage showing its soldiers raising their country’s blue and yellow flag over the village. A separate unit, the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, said it had reclaimed a nearby village, Neskuchne.
The claims could not immediately be independently verified and come as Ukrainian forces have unquestionably also suffered losses of both troops and equipment as the counteroffensive begins to take shape.
It was not clear whether either village was beyond the first lines of Russian defenses or amid them — meaning it remained to be seen whether the announcements also signaled that Ukraine had managed to break through Russian defensive lines.
The Ukrainian military had earlier acknowledged fighting in the area, near the town of Velyka Novosilka, around 30 miles west of Blahodatne, but provided no details. Further advances to the south from this location could cut rail and road links between Russia and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, an objective of the counteroffensive.
Neskuchne is directly north of Blahodatne and the volunteer unit said that it had taken the village on Saturday. The group also posted on Facebook what it said was an interrogation of a Russian soldier captured as a prisoner of war.
An influential Russian military commentator, Igor Girkin, posted on social media on Sunday that Russian forces had withdrawn from Neskuchne. There was no comment from Russia’s Ministry of Defense about the status of the village.
There was also no comment about the status of Blahodatne from the defense ministry, which has asserted that it repelled Ukrainian attacks in the first week of fighting, and has published videos of destroyed Westernprovided tanks and armored personnel carriers.
Ukraine and its Western allies have spent months preparing for the widely anticipated counteroffensive, with the United States and European nations training tens of thousands of soldiers and transferring modern battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine’s forces.
Any fighting is expected to be bloody and brutally violent, with assaults likely to result in high casualties on the Ukrainian side. Throughout the 15-month-long war Ukraine’s military has largely refrained from publicizing its own casualty numbers or losses.
U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, have confirmed that Ukrainian forces had suffered losses in the recent fight as did the Russians, but would not quantify the casualties. At least three German-made Leopard 2 tanks and eight American-made Bradley Fighting Vehicles were recently abandoned by Ukrainian troops or destroyed, based on videos and photographs posted by pro-war Russian bloggers and verified by The New York Times.
The statement on Sunday from Ukraine’s 68th brigade asserted that its soldiers, fighting in coordination with other units, had reclaimed Blahodatne, with Russian forces putting up resistance “until the last” moment.
“We are driving the enemy from our homeland,” an unidentified soldier says in the video. “It’s the most pleasant feeling. Ukraine will be victorious.”
In the video, the soldiers hang a flag from an upper-story window of what appears to be a partially destroyed school. The Times has not independently verified the video.
The assault on Blahodatne had initially stalled at the edge of the village early Sunday, according to Valeriy Shershen, a spokesperson for the military in the Donetsk region, who provided details of the fighting. Russian forces had firing
positions in the village’s school and cultural club, he said.
“They were firing from these points,” he said, preventing any advance. The Ukrainian assault group simultaneously attacked both buildings, he said, entering the cultural club unexpectedly for the Russians by blowing a hole in a wall and then climbing in to fight room to room. His account could not be in-
dependently confirmed.
In an indication of the vast volumes of ammunition required for assault operations, Ukrainian artillery teams over the past day received 1,520 orders to fire at targets in the Zaporizhzhia and southern Donetsk regions where battles attempting to break through Russian defensive lines are underway, Shershen said.
House select committee looking into strategic competition with China, said in a statement Saturday, referring to the Chinese Communist Party by its initials.
The Biden administration has been working to counter China’s continued efforts to gain a foothold in the region and elsewhere, an administration official said, chiefly by engaging diplomatically with nations that China was pursuing as potential hosts for such bases. The official added that the administration had slowed China’s plans but declined to give specifics.
eign Ministry, Wang Wenbin, said Friday in response to the reports, “The U.S. is the global champion of hacking and superpower of surveillance.”
By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN and EDWARD WONGAChinese spy base in Cuba that could intercept electronic signals from nearby U.S. military and commercial buildings has been up and running since or before 2019, when the Chinese base was upgraded, according to a Biden administration official.
The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence, said the spy base was an issue that the Biden administration had inherited from former President Donald Trump. After President Joe Biden took office, his administration was briefed about the base in Cuba as well as plans China was considering to build similar facilities across the globe, the official said.
The existence of an agreement to build a Chinese spy facility in Cuba, first reported Thursday by The Wall Street Journal and also reported by The New York Times and other news outlets, prompted a forceful response from Capitol Hill. In a joint statement, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and the panel’s top Republican, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida,
said they were “deeply disturbed by reports that Havana and Beijing are working together to target the United States and our people.”
John Kirby, the National Security Council spokesperson, denied the reports at the time, saying they were “not accurate.” He added that “we have had real concerns about China’s relationship with Cuba, and we have been concerned since Day 1 of the administration about China’s activities in our hemisphere and around the world.”
But a U.S. official familiar with the intelligence cited in Thursday’s reports insisted that China and Cuba had struck an accord to enhance existing spy capabilities.
Carlos F. de Cossio, a deputy foreign minister of Cuba, wrote on Twitter on Saturday that the latest reports on spying facilities were “slanderous speculation.”
Some of the Biden administration’s critics in Congress questioned the motives for the administration’s response.
“Why did the Biden administration previously deny these reports of a CCP spy base in Cuba? Why did they downplay the ‘silly’ CCP spy balloon?” Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., chair of the
While Beijing’s global efforts to build military bases and listening outposts have been documented previously, the reports detailed the extent to which China is bringing its intelligence-gathering operations into ever-closer proximity with the United States. Cuba’s coastline is less than 100 miles from the nearest part of Florida, a close enough distance to enhance China’s technological ability to conduct signals intelligence, by monitoring electronic communications across the U.S. Southeast, which is home to several military bases.
China and the United States routinely spy on one another’s activities, and Cuba proximity has long made it a strategically valuable foothold for U.S. adversaries, perhaps most famously during the Cold War, when the Soviet Union attempted to store nuclear missiles on the island nation during the Cuban missile crisis.
A spokesperson for the Chinese For-
The reports also surfaced at an awkward moment for the Biden administration, which has been trying to normalize relations with China after a protracted period of heightened tensions. Last year, several diplomatic, military and climate engagements between the two countries were frozen after Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan over objections from Beijing, which considers the self-governing island part of its territory.
High-level meetings, including an official trip by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, were canceled again this year, after a Chinese spy balloon was seen crossing the United States by people on the ground, and tracked hovering near sensitive military sites.
Blinken is now scheduled to travel to Beijing for meetings that begin June 18, and it is unclear if revelations of a Chinese spy facility so close to U.S. territory could complicate those plans. Other issues hover over the trip, including growing calls for China to release Yuyu Dong, a prominent journalist who has been detained since February 2022 and is awaiting trial on charges of espionage that his family members say are false. Dong, a former Nieman fellow at Harvard, met for years in a transparent manner with U.S. and Japanese diplomats and journalists in Beijing.
Four Colombian children who survived in the Colombian jungle for 40 days after their plane crashed were eager to play and asked for books to read, officials said Saturday, one day after the group was rescued.
The siblings, ages 1 to 13, were recuperating at a military hospital in Bogotá, the capital, and were said to be in good health and spirits Saturday, when they were visited by President Gustavo Petro and other officials.
The country has been captivated by the children’s story, with many eagerly awaiting news of their fate since their plane crashed May 1. The children, members of the Huitoto Indigenous community, had been traveling with their mother and an Indigenous leader from the tiny Amazon community of Araracuara, Colombia, to San José del Guaviare, a small city in central Colombia along the Guaviare River.
When rescuers reached the crash site last month, the bodies of the three adults with whom they were traveling were found, but there was no sign of the children.
Officials had said over the past few weeks that they had reason to believe the children survived the crash. When news of their survival and discovery broke Friday, the country erupted in celebration.
Carlos Rincón, the military doctor who evaluated the children, said they had survived with only mild cuts and scrapes. In photos released by the government Friday, the children appeared gaunt and the doctor said they were not yet receiving solid food. He said he expected they could be discharged from the hospital in two to three weeks.
Defense Minister Iván Velásquez, who was among the
officials to visit the children, praised the oldest, Lesly Mucutuy, 13, for ensuring the survival of the group.
“We have to recognize not only her courage, but also her leadership,” he said. “It was because of her that the three little siblings were able to survive by her side, with her care, with her knowledge of the jungle.”
Lesly’s 9-year-old sister, Soleiny, “talks a lot,” said Astrid Cáceres, director of the nation’s child welfare agency. Tien, 5, is asking for books to read, while the 1-year-old “has a
tranquility to work with the nurses that you cannot imagine,” Cáceres added.
“Lesly smiled at us, gave us hugs,” she said. “She wants to play; she is bored in bed.”
Two of the children’s birthdays passed during their time in the jungle. Tien turned 5 and the youngest, Cristin, turned 1.
“The celebration of the birthdays is overdue,” Cáceres said at a news conference. “So we invite the country at this time to celebrate.”
She added that the four children “have an assured education” because of “commitments with the president to protect and care for these children for their entire lives.”
The government has provided few details on how the children were located.
Special forces troops found the children late Friday afternoon by following footprints and traces of food, according to a military spokesperson.
The children were “very weak” he said. “I think if a few more days had passed we wouldn’t have found them alive.
“Miracle, miracle, miracle was the key word to report that they had found them,” he added.
In a coordinated search effort called Operation Hope, soldiers and Indigenous people covered approximately 1,650 miles while looking for the siblings.
After visiting the hospital along with his wife and two daughters, Petro praised the cooperation between the military and Indigenous groups and the “respect for the jungle” on Twitter.
“Here is a different path for Colombia,” he wrote. “I believe that this is the true path to peace.”
Joran van der Sloot, who has been linked to the 2005 disappearance of an American teenager, Natalee Holloway, pleaded not guilty to extortion and fraud charges in court in Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday after he was temporarily extradited from Peru to the United States.
At his appearance at the Hugo L. Black U.S. Courthouse, van der Sloot spoke only to decline the services of a Dutch translator and to acknowledge that he understood the charges
against him.
He pleaded not guilty through his lawyer, Kevin Butler, a federal public defender.
Before arriving in Alabama on Thursday afternoon, van der Sloot, 35, had been serving a prison sentence in Peru, where he pleaded guilty to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian student, Stephany Flores.
Last month, Peruvian authorities announced that they would allow his extradition temporarily to ensure that he “finally faces justice” in the United States.
“Peru was very instrumental in this process,” said George Seymore, a representative for Beth Holloway, Natalee Holloway’s mother. “They did not have to allow this process to go forward.”
Around the time of his arrest in the Flores case, van der Sloot was indicted by a federal grand jury in Alabama on charges of trying to extort Beth Holloway for $250,000 for information about how her daughter died and the location of her body, which has never been found.
He accepted an initial payment of $25,000 in an FBI sting operation and gave what he knew was false information, authorities said at the time.
Natalee Holloway was 18 when she disappeared after a
night out in Aruba on May 30, 2005, during a trip with her Alabama high school class. A judge declared her legally dead in 2012, but the unsolved case has generated public interest for years.
“Now, 18 years later, the wheels of justice have finally begun to turn for our family, and we are getting our long-awaited day in court,” Beth Holloway said in a statement. “With the felony arraignment complete, prosecution of this criminal case has officially begun.”
Holloway added that van der Sloot’s not guilty plea was “not disheartening to us” and that she was confident that federal prosecutors would gain a conviction.
Lawyers for the Holloway family expect the case to go to trial, but the timing remains unclear.
“While today’s arraignment represents a significant step forward, we must remember that the pursuit of justice is far from over,” John Q. Kelly, a lawyer for Holloway, said in a statement.
Van der Sloot was being held at the Shelby County Jail in Alabama as of Friday.
If he is found guilty in the extortion case, he will first return to Peru to complete the rest of his 28-year sentence for the murder of Flores, who was killed by strangulation, before returning to the United States for prison time.
It is hard to overstate the gravity of the criminal indictment issued against Donald Trump late Thursday by a federal grand jury. For the first time, a former president has been charged with violating federal laws, laws that he swore to uphold just over six years ago. It is the first time a former leader of the executive branch has been charged with obstructing the very agencies he led, and the first time a former commander in chief has been charged with endangering national security by violating the Espionage Act.
The indictment, unsealed Friday, accuses Trump of 37 crimes. The majority of them — 31 of the counts — are for willful retention of national defense information, each a violation of the Espionage Act. There is one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, in which Trump is accused of conspiring with his personal aide, Walt Nauta, to hide classified documents from the FBI and the grand jury investigating the case. The other charges involve withholding documents, corruptly concealing documents and making false statements to law enforcement authorities.
The potential prison sentences for Trump add up to as much as 420 years, even though conviction almost never
results in the maximum sentence. But this indictment confronts the country with the harrowing prospect of a former president facing years behind bars, even as he runs to regain the White House.
Trump and his Republican allies are already trying to politicize the indictment, insisting that the charges issued by 23 randomly chosen residents of South Florida were an attempt by President Joe Biden to demolish his rival. But the evidence compiled by the government is so substantial that it is clear the Justice Department had no choice but to indict.
The indictment says that Trump not only took from the White House classified documents that he was not authorized to possess but also that he showed them to visitors and political cronies at his country club. One of the documents involved a potential attack on another country, which The New York Times has reported was Iran. “Isn’t it amazing?” he asked one visitor, brandishing the document. During that conversation Trump acknowledged that he knew the document was “a secret,” the indictment said.
The details in the indictment make it clear that Trump knew that he was not authorized to keep national security secrets in his possession and that he played a cat-and-mouse game to conceal them from the FBI and other federal officials. At one point he suggested his lawyer take some documents to his hotel room and “pluck” out anything really bad, the indictment says. “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?” he asked his lawyers. He added, “Well, look, isn’t it better if there are no documents?” Meanwhile, he instructed his lawyers to falsely inform federal investigators that they had cooperated fully.
With these actions, the former president demonstrated once again his contempt for the rule of law, his disregard for America’s national security and his mockery of the oath he took to support and defend the Constitution.
Trump walked out of the White House with details of the nuclear capabilities of the United States and a foreign government, descriptions of support for terrorist activities by a foreign country and communications with the leader of a foreign country. It is the willful retention of this material that led to the 31 charges of violating the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime if someone deliberately retains national defense material “and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it.”
Trump’s recklessness in retaining and showing off military secrets is both arrogant and breathtaking. It put the lives of U.S. soldiers at risk. These are some of the United States’ most closely guarded secrets — so sensitive that many top national-security officials can’t
see them — and Trump treated them like a prize he had won at a carnival. These actions underscore, yet again, why he is unfit for public office.
What makes the spectacle all the more stunning is that it was entirely unnecessary. Had Trump responded to the many formal requests to return the wrongfully taken documents by apologizing and handing them over immediately, he would have avoided any confrontation with federal law enforcement. That’s what responsible public servants like Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence did when classified material was found among their papers.
The Justice Department’s role is to apply the law equally, without regard to the status or political affiliation of the accused lawbreaker. That’s what makes this indictment so necessary: Federal prosecutors have sought and won convictions in dozens of classifieddocument cases involving behavior less egregious than Trump’s. And that’s why the claims of a witch hunt are lamentable. Don’t take it from us; listen to Trump’s own former attorney general, Bill Barr.
“This says more about Trump than it does the Department of Justice,” Barr said on “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday. “He’s so egotistical that he has this penchant for conducting risky, reckless acts to show that he can sort of get away with it.” He added, “There’s no excuse for what he did here.”
It’s become common during the past eight tumultuous years to invoke the term “unprecedented” — a useful shorthand for Trump’s compulsion to upend established norms and blow past crucial democratic guardrails. But his unprecedented behavior should not obscure an equally important point, which is that the response to it has many precedents.
The United States has prosecuted dozens of former governors, Cabinet members and lawmakers. These prosecutions are essential in reaffirming the principle that no one — and especially no political leader — is above the law. To fail to bring such a case is to make it more likely that other abuses of power will occur.
L A FORTALEZA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, informó el domingo que envió una carta a la Comisión de Derechos Civiles de Estados Unidos el miércoles, en el que denunció discriminación que sufren los residentes en Puerto Rico debido a su condición colonial.
“El trato desigual que recibimos los ciudadanos americanos que vivimos en Puerto Rico es un fracaso de la democracia americana y una contradicción ofensiva de los valores de igualdad”, sostuvo Pierluisi en la misiva.
El gobernador puso de ejemplo la desigualdad en programas federales como la Seguridad de Ingreso Suplementario y el Medicaid. Pierluisi señaló que los ciudadanos que viven en los estados y en Washington D.C. reciben alrededor de 574 dóla-
res al mes de Seguro Social Complementario (SSI, por sus siglas en inglés), mientras que para los que viven en la Isla se reduce a unos 82 dólares mensuales.
En cuanto al Medicaid, a pesar de que el Congreso aumentó los fondos asignados al programa en Puerto Rico en diciembre, Pierluisi declaró que “esa asignación se queda muy por debajo de lo que sería si Puerto Rico fuera tratado con igualdad al resto de los estados”.
Pierluisi subrayó que los puertorriqueños en la Isla no tienen derecho a programas como el Programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria (SNAP) y son beneficiarios del Programa de Asistencia Nutricional (PAN), lo que marca una diferencia con todos los estados de la Nación.
Además, resaltó la ausencia de representación efectiva de Puerto Rico en el Congreso, recordando
SAN JUAN – El presidente el presidente de Southern Television Corporation (STV) Javier Morales anunció el domingo el lanzamiento del ‘teaser’ de lo que será la primera serie puertorriqueña con temática gay “G Horizon”.
“Estamos más que emocionados y deseosos de lanzar el ‘teaser’ y comenzar a rodar la serie que estará basada en la historia ‘The Horizon’ del escritor australiano Boaz Stark. Hace un tiempo logramos los derechos y con la ayuda de nuestro equipo de producción logramos darle al texto un giro más acorde con la realidad puertorriqueña. Ya hicimos el piloto y estamos en conversaciones con algunas de las plataformas de “streaming” ya que es nuestro objetivo principal poder estrenar la serie con alguna de estas
importantes plataformas. Si todo va como lo hemos proyectado, la filmación comenzará a finales de este año”, dijo Morales en declaraciones escritas “Hay que desarrollar producciones que se puedan exportar. Crear conciencia de que hay un mundo más allá de la Isla y desarrollar historias en las que se puedan identificar otras culturas y naciones”, añadió.
El ‘teaser’ de G Horizon será estrenado el jueves 15 de junio de 2023, a las 8:00de la noche, en el canal de YouTube RevistaG TV y en la web www.revistag.net.
G Horizon contó con las actuaciones estelares de Marcos Carlos, Alexander Torres, José López, Mia Blakeman, Marieli Durán, Javier Casillas y la participación especial de Angelina Bee (Ganadora de “La Drag Queen Soy Yo”), bajo la dirección del cineasta Raúl García y el equipo técnico de H Santos. El pro-
que el delegado en la Cámara de Representantes tiene voz, pero no tiene derecho a votar.
Pierluisi hizo hincapié en la discriminación y la disparidad que sufren los miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas que viven en la Isla, los veteranos y sus familias. Argumentó que estos ciudadanos “no tienen los mismos derechos bajo la Constitución de los Estados Unidos, no pueden votar por los miembros del Congreso o por el presidente y no reciben los mismos beneficios”.
Por último, el gobernador abogó por una solución definitiva al problema de estatus y por la igualdad para Puerto Rico.
“Es imperativo reafirmar los principios de democracia, igualdad y justicia de nuestra Nación, resaltando la falta de voto y derechos civiles que sufren los ciudadanos americanos que viven en Puerto Rico”, concluyó Pierluisi.
yecto también tuvo el respaldo del actor Juan Carlos y su academia JC Actor, quien tuvo a su cargo el ‘coaching’ de varios de los actores. Fue filmado en varias localidades de San Juan.
guez, envuelto en un bulto cubierto en una sábana en el cuarto al lado de la cama.
ARECIBO – Francisco “Chamarro” Rodríguez Rodríguez de 27 años fue ingresado en prisión en la noche del sábado, por no pagar la fianza impuesta por el feminicidio de su pareja que fue encontrada en su apartamento en Arecibo.
Según el reporte de la Policía, Carolyn “China” Añez Rivera de 29 años, había sido reportada desaparecida el miércoles, 7 de junio, en horas de la noche. Su cadáver fue encontrado en el apartamento de Rodríguez Rodrí-
El patólogo que trabajo el cuerpo de la joven, certificó que la causa de la muerte fue por estrangulación manual.
El juez Juan Portell Maldonado del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Arecibo, determinó causa contra Rodríguez Rodríguez y le impuso una fianza de 1 millón de dólares que no prestó. Fue ingresado en la cárcel Regional de Bayamón. La vista preliminar fue pautada para el próximo 23 de junio.
The land of the brave and home of the free has always been bearish about borders, about who gets in, who stays out. Politically we’re feeling that tension hugely now. And it’s always been evident culturally in, for example, the kind of art our museums have brought through the door.
The Museum of Modern Art’s long but sporadic pattern of collecting 20th century Latin American art offers a constructive gauge. Early in, it favored art that it seemed to view as a species of exotica: folkloric, surreal, evidence that south of the border was wild, barely modern terrain.
After World War II, with cultural exchange increasingly used as a diplomatic tool, MoMA wanted further engagement with new Latin American art, but art of a kind that looked to be made by “people like us” — that is, work that appeared to carry clear evidence of European DNA, like geometric abstraction.
Then, in the 1970s came the global recession. Art markets went bust. And in the confusion, walls began to come down as the permission-giving shake-up called multiculturalism — pro-diversity, anti-essentialist — arrived.
More and more, as that initiating episode of what is sometimes called postmodernism recedes into history, it looks to be one of 20th century art’s finest, most germinative hours. MoMA has taken a long time — decades — to get on board with this but is well along to judge by “Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond,” one the most stirring museum collection shows I’ve seen in New York in a while.
In the 1970s, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, a native of Venezuela and a longtime MoMA trustee, was already interested in Latin American art over a broad spectrum: Indigenous art; 19th-century work made by Europeans traveling there; hybrid colonial artifacts; and modernist painting and sculpture. In 2016, she gave the museum more than 100 modernist works, and there was a show. But already by then she had turned her attention to new art, and in 2019 there was an even larger gift, this one of contemporary work, including photography and video.
Some three dozen examples, most dating from the past three decades and supplemented by loans, make up the current show. And together they reflect — and critically reflect on — all the categories of Latin American art that interested her from the start.
For example, the complex history of colonialism, largely expunged from modernist abstraction, is brought into play in one of the exhibition’s earliest entries, “The Catherwood Project” by Argentine artist Leandro Katz.
In the 1840s, English artist Frederick Catherwood traveled twice to Central America and made drawings of Maya
ruins there. Published as prints, his images gave the European public a first look at these ancient monuments and established a romanticized vision of the “New World” that persists into the tour-bus present. In his “Catherwood” series. Katz considers the accuracy of those images through on-the-spot comparisons: He photographs himself holding up the illustrator’s images in front of the Maya monuments they depict. Katz notes Catherwood’s manipulations, but also understands that he is inevitably adding his own distorting 20th-century view to a layered perceptual history.
Indigenous culture, crucial to but underacknowledged by European modernism, is referred to repeatedly in the show. In 1996, Mexican-born artist Laura Anderson Barbata spent time with Yanomami people in the Venezuelan Amazon rainforest learning, hands on, how they created their graceful canoes. In exchange for this instruction, she taught them papermaking. We see the fruits of reciprocity in the show: in a photograph, which Barbata has titled “Self-portrait,” of a hand-carved boat standing upright as if it had a life of its own; and in lissome drawings of Amazonian fauna and flora by Yanomami artist Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, all done on handmade fiber paper.
Some artists make a deft, playful thing of tradition.
Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri toys with notions of value, labor and consumer culture in his loom-woven image of a supermarket receipt. So does the Puerto Rico collective called “Las Nietas de Nonó,” composed of two sisters (Mulowayi Iyaye Nonó and Mapenzi Chibale Nonó) who, isolated during the pandemic, turned their daily life into a kind of backto-basics hunter-gatherer picnic.
What’s taken seriously is something that most mainstream Western art doesn’t know what to do with anymore, but which multiculturism notably respected: spirituality. In a 2020 painting by Dominican-born artist Firelei Báez, a powerful Afro-Caribbean female deity dances across and dominates a 16th-century European map of the Atlantic Ocean.
And in pencil drawings, Colombian Korean artist Gala Porras-Kim documents hundreds of textile fragment left, centuries ago, as temple offerings to the Mayan rain god and now preserved in an ethnological museum at Harvard University. Included in the show is a letter the artist wrote to the museum’s director asking her to release the offerings from their archival prison and permit them to turn to dust as their givers intended. Their perishability, she argues, is what made them powerful.
In a 1989 photograph titled “The Two Fridas,” Chilean gay activists Francisco Casas Silva and Pedro Mardones Lemebel (1952-2015), pose, barechested and skirted, their bodies connected by IV tubing, in an AIDS-era riff on Kahlo’s famed double self-portrait.
Their picture can be read as a tribute to partnership, artistic, or affectional, or both. So can a jaunty little sculpture assembled from a music stand, a pair of garden shears, and a single rose, dedicated to a friend — a lover? — by the elusive Venezuelan polymath Claudio Perna (1938-1997).
Some fundamental tone of the show — organized by Inés Katzenstein, curator of Latin American Art at MoMA, and director of the Cisneros Research Institute, and Julia Detchon, a curatorial assistant — is distilled here: a kind of uneasy, ironic, reality-check melancholy that feels very different from the utopianism often attributed to Latin American art on the basis of the geometric abstract painting that has, until recently, defined it in many North American museum collections.
Actually, geometric abstraction has a presence, though an ambiguous one, in “Chosen Memories,” in the form of a site-specific mural painting by Brazilian artist Iran do Espírito Santo. Composed entirely of vertical lines in subtly varying shades of gray, the painting is hard to see it first, like a passing shadow, or a dark smudge. It seems both to soil the white gallery wall and to dissolve it, to be either a meditational aid or a mistake. Titled “En Passant” and commissioned for the occasion, it will physically disappear when the show is done, but stay vivid as an idea, like much of the rest of what’s here.
“Las Dos Fridas (The Two Fridas),” 1989, by the collective Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis, an AIDS-era riff on Frida Kahlo’s famed double self-portrait, from “Chosen Memories,” at the Museum of Modern Art. The San Juan Daily Star Monday, June 12, 2023 17More travelers may mean longer lines at airport security and customs and immigration checkpoints. The Transportation Security Administration expected to screen 2.6 million passengers May 26, which it predicted to be the busiest travel day of the Memorial Day weekend. That’s more than 2019, when 2.4 million travelers were screened.
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In advance of the busy Memorial Day holiday weekend, the Transportation Security Administration said that it was taking measures to speed travelers through airport security and customs and immigration checkpoints.
cards reimburse for PreCheck enrollment, which normally costs $78. Once approved, PreCheck lasts for five years. Although approval can be quick, it could take up to 60 days. For $22 more, passengers can apply for Global Entry, which includes PreCheck, is also valid for five years and expedites U.S. entry from international destinations. Many credit cards also reimburse for Global Entry. The big drawback is that approval requires an interview, and the current average wait time is four to six months, Rhonda Lawson, a Customs and Border Protection public affairs specialist, said
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If you can’t wait for PreCheck or Global Entry approval, the privately run Clear Plus offers a five-minute application and approval process. Members have their identities verified by Clear representatives and then are escorted to the front of security lines. Because users still undergo the airport’s physical screening, Clear offers maximum efficiency when used in tandem with PreCheck. Of course, the VIP treatment comes at a cost: Clear runs $189 each year. But family members can be added for $60 each, and some credit cards and airlines offer discounts.
If you don’t want to pay for these programs or don’t have the time to wait for approval, you’ve still got some digital resources at your disposal for predicting airport lines.
TSA has its own app, MyTSA, that shows security wait times. Some commercial apps, like MiFlight and App in the Air, offer crowdsourced information on the current wait times at various airports.
If you’re reentering the United States from abroad, the Global Entry passport-scanning kiosks now are paperless — no more receipts. Instead, your face will be scanned and then double-checked by a Customs and Border Protection officer.
You’ll go through a similar process even without Global Entry. In the majority of U.S. airports, the passport-scanning kiosks are gone and instead a facial biometrics system is being used, Lawson said, adding that travelers can opt out and go through the traditional process by notifying a Customs officer.
To get a sense of how long it might take to get through, consult the Customs and Border Protection airport wait time website, which tracks the average and maximum wait times in immigration lines for both U.S. citizens and noncitizens. Although it doesn’t have real-time data, by checking the previous week’s waits on the same day and at the same time as your arrival, you can get a good sense of what kind of a line you could be facing.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HATI-
LLO SALA SUPERIOR.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
ELMO MANUEL ROMAN
RODRIGUEZ T/C/C
ELMO M. ROMAN
RODRIGUEZ, WILNELIA
MICHEL PAGAN PEREZ
T/C/C WILNELIA M. PAGAN PEREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. CFCD2011-0100.
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA
POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA
SUBASTA. Yo, Luis E Roman Carrero, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, a la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 18 de abril de 2023 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $115,540.00 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 6 de junio de 2013, notificada y archivada en autos el 18 de junio de 2013 y publicada mediante edicto el día 27 de junio de 2013, en el periódico
Primera Hora; procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Hatillo, Puerto Rico, los bienes inmuebles se describen a continuación: 16 Estancias de Carrizales Dev., Hatillo, PR 00659.
URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Dieciséis (16) de ESTANCIAS DE CARRIZALES, del término municipal de Hatillo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de Cuatrocientos Setenta y Uno punto Cero Catorce metros cuadrados (471.014 m.c.), colindando por el NORTE, con el Lote número Quince (15) con una distancia de Veinticuatro punto Cuarenta y Seis metros (24.46 m), por el SUR colindando con el Lote número Diecisiete (17), con una distancia de Veintidós punto Noventa y Cuatro metros (22.94), por
el ESTE, con la calle “A” en Diecinueve punto Ochenta y Siete metros (19.87 m) y por el OESTE colindando con un uso público en una distancia en Diecinueve punto Noventa y Tres metros (19.93 m). Enclava una estructura para fines residenciales diseñada para vivienda de una sola familia, construida conforme a Planos y Especificaciones aprobada por las agencias e instrumentalidades gubernamentales pertinentes. Finca #26249 de Hatillo inscrita al tomo Karibe. Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección II. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Hatillo, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $115,540.00 de principal, $3,014.00 de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $132.48 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda, $13,100.00 para honorarios de abogado, más costas y gastos del pleito. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $131,000.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $87,333.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $65,500.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 6 de julio de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el día 13 de julio de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el día 20 de julio de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Camuy. De Estudio de Título realizado no surgen gravámenes preferentes ni 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, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Camuy, Puerto Rico, a 23 de mayo de 2023. Luis E Roman Carrero, ALGUACIL. Wilfredo Olmo Salazar, Alguacil Regional.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE
Demandante Vs. JAN E. FERREIRA RICARD
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02473.
Salón: 701. 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: JAN E. FERREIRA RICARDPO BOX 371718, CAYEY, PR 00737-1718 / BO.
VEGAS CARR 743 R 736 KM 1.1 CAYEY, PR 00736. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@orf-law. com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 03 de abril de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 03 de abril de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE CAGUAS
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante Vs. BETZAIDA GUADALUPE NIEVES
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CA2022CV03155.
Salón: 801. 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: BETZAIDA GUADALUPE NIEVES45 RES GAUTIER BENÍTEZ APT 410, CAGUAS, PR 00725 / HC 01 BOX 11357 CAROLINA, PR 00985. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@orf-law. com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de abril de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 3 de abril de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HATILLO
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE
Parte Demandante Vs. JOSE M. PEREZ PEREZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HA2022CV00018. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: JOSE M. PEREZ
PEREZ - PARC SANTA
ROSA CALLE G NUM 70, HATILLO PR 00659-1603. 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 través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Hatillo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de mayo de 2023. En Hatillo, Puerto Rico, el 10 de mayo de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SUHAIL SERRANO MOYA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
607-609
CONDADO ST., LLC. Demandante V. MILDRED EUGENIA PACINI DE LA ROSA, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandada
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00775. (903). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.
El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 10 de mayo de 2022, notificada el 11 de mayo de 2022, y publicada el 13 de mayo de 2022, una Orden de Ejecución de Embargo emitida el 1 de mayo de 2023 y un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Embargo emitido el día 5 de mayo de 2023, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, procederá a vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, y/o giro postal, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 11 DE JULIO DE 2023; A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Oficina #706. Colinda por el OESTE, en 27’ 2”, con la pared interior que lo separa de la oficina #705; por el ESTE, en igual medida, con la pared interior que lo separa de la oficina #707; por el NORTE, en 15’ 4”, con pared interior que lo separa del pasillo común; y por el SUR, en igual medida, con la pared exterior del edificio hacia su colindancia con la calle denominada “Rolan”. Comprende un área de 423 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, y tiene su entrada y salida hacia el Norte, por el pasillo común con el cual colinda por ese lado. La oficina descrita se separa del quinto piso del edificio denominado Condominio Condado. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes equivalente a un porcentaje del 0.016%. FINCA NÚMERO: 4905, inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 151 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan. Dirección física: 609 Condado St., Suite 706,
San Juan PR 00907. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente, según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por la suma de $10,046.40 de principal adeudado, más los intereses a razón de $89.62 mensuales, penalidades por retrasos al 10% mensual, intereses legales al 4.25% desde la fecha de la sentencia y aquellos intereses que se continúen acumulando desde el día 31 de noviembre de 2021, a razón de $13.23 diarios; costas y $1,000.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogados. Esta subasta no tiene fijación de tipo mínimo por tratarse de una ejecución de sentencia por embargo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable 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. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 31 de mayo de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. JUAN A. SANTANA. GARCÍA, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
RAMON LUIS RIVERA
TORRES Y MARINA
GONZALEZ ROMERO
Demandantes Vs. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, COMO SUCESOR EN INTERES DE COASTAL FENDING CORPORATION; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CT2023CV00078.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDIC-
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADOS DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE.
Por la presente se emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal la demanda del caso de epígrafe solicitando la cancelación del Pagaré suscrito a favor de Coastal Fending Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $35,600.00 con interes anual al 10% y vencimiento el 01 de octubre de 2009, habiéndose constituido por la escritura número 799 otorgada en San Juan, el 22 de septiembre de 1979, ante el Notario Público Esteban Garcia
Malatrasi, inscrita al folio 154 del tomo 60 de Cataño, finca número 2871, inscripción 2da. Representa a la parte demandante la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
ENEL M. PEREZ MONTE RUA 9019
Reina Isabel 175, La Villa de Torrimar Guaynabo PR 00969
Tel.: (787) 646-9168 lcdaenelperez@gmail.com
Se le apercibe que si no comparecieran ustedes a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, advirtiéndosele que de no hacerlo se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle.
Dado en Bayamón, a 5 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN-
TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA
REGIONAL. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA
AUXILIAR DE TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOT ICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
RIGOBERTO VELÁZQUEZ
MALDONADO EN REP.
DE HILDA MARÍA MORA
VALDÉZ T/C/C HILDA M.
MORA VALDÉZ, HILDA
MORA VALDÉZ, HILDA M.
VALDÉZ, HILDA MORA
E HILDA DE JESÚS Y JOSÉ RAFAEL GARCÍA COLLAZO
Demandante Vs SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN VALDÉS ROSARIO
T/C/C RAMÓN VALDÉS
COMPUESTA POR SUS
MIEMBROS ZULMA VALDÉS SANTANA; RAYMOND VALDÉS
SANTANA Y AGRIPINO VALDÉS
Demandado
Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01574.
Salón: 604. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
- ZULMA VALDÉS
ROSARIO, RAYMOND VALDÉS SANTANA, AGRIPINO VALDÉS
SANTANA, A SER NOTIFICADOS POR
EDICTO POR CONDUCTO
DEL LCDO. ORLANDO
CAMACHO PADILLA, PO
BOX 879, COAMO, PR 00769-0879.
- LCDO. ORLANDO
CAMACHO PADILLA, PO
BOX 879, COAMO, PR 00769-0879.
(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 5 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 6 de junio de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 6 de junio de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ
QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA
REGIONAL. GISELLE GUTIÉRREZ LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS-
TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE FRANCISCO JAVIER MERCED HERNANDEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS
HIJOS KIARA MARIA
MERCED GUZMAN, KLARA LIZ MERCED
GUZMAN, JOSHUA JAVIER MERCED
GUZMAN, KENNETH
JAVIER MERCED
FUENTES Y SEBASTIAN Y AREL MERCED
ACEVEDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil: Núm. CG2023CV00698.
(705). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: KIARA MARIA
MERCED GUZMAN, KLARA LIZ MERCED
GUZMAN, JOSHUA JAVIER MERCED
GUZMAN Y KENNETH
JAVIER MERCED
GUZMAN, POR SÍ Y POR CONDUCTO DE SU MADRE CON PATRIA POTESTAD FULANA DE TAL, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE FRANCISCO JAVIER
MERCED HERNANDEZ.
(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 5 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta
notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 5 de junio de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 5 de junio de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE HATILLO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. EDNA IVELISSE VALLE AROCHO, SU ESPOSO LUIS GILBERTO PÉREZ MARTÍNEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: AR2022CV00444.
Sala: 101. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Camuy, Camuy, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia notificado por el Tribunal el día 9 de mayo de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela radicada en el Barrio Corcobado del término municipal de Hatillo, Puerto Rico, con una área superficial de seiscientos metros (600 m), en lindes por el NORTE, en treinta metros (30) con el solar número uno (1); por el SUR, y ESTE, en treinta (30) metros respectivamente y veinte metros (20) con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega propiedad de Félix Toledo; y por el OESTE, en veinte metros (20) con la carretera Estatal número cuatrocientos noventa y tres (493). Contiene edificación. Inscrita en la finca número 9,121, al folio 176 del tomo 173 de Hatillo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Segunda Sección de Arecibo. La propiedad está ubicada, según pagaré, en: PR 493 KM 2 Corcobado Ward, Hatillo, Puerto Rico. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago sa-
ber 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:
Embargo Federal contra L. Pérez Martínez y E. Valle Arocho, seguro social xxx-xx-3757, por la suma de $1,998.71, notificación número 359147519, Certificación de fecha 10 de mayo de 2019, presentado y anotado el día 11 de julio de 2019, al Asiento 2019-005452FED del Sistema Karibe. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 14 de marzo de 2022, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, en el caso civil número AR2021CV000444, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto rico, contra Edna Ivelisse Valle Arocho y Luis Gilberto Pérez Martínez, por la suma de $76,610.75 más otras sumas, anotado el día 11 de abril de 2011, al tomo Karibe de Hatillo, finca número 9,121, anotación B y última. 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 2023, archivada en autos y notificada el 28 de febrero de 2023, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $79,610.75 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 6.5%, anual desde el 1ro de abril de 2017, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $10,300.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 1 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00
DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Tribunal Superior de Hatillo, Hatillo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $103,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una
SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS
10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Tribunal Superior de Hatillo, Hatillo, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $68,666.66, 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 AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil localizada en el Tribunal Superior de Hatillo, Hatillo, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $51,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que
los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Hatillo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de junio de 2023. WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE HATILLO.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE FRANCISCO MARTINEZ SANTIAGO COMPUESTA
POR FRANCISCO
MARTLNEZ MORENO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y LA SUCESION DE MILAGROS RODRIGUEZ CRUZ JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA POR CONDUCTO DEL FISCAL FEDERAL DE LA CORTE DE DISTRITO DE ESTADOS UNIDOS PARA EL DISTRITO DE PUERTO RICO
Demandado(a)
Civil: AR2022CV01266. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: FRANCISCO
MARTÍNEZ MORENO COMO HEREDERO DE FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ
SANTIAGO: JOHN
DOE Y RICHARD BOE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ
SANTIAGO Y JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de abril de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 5 de junio de 2023. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 5 de junio de 2023. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. SARAY SALGADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE IRIS MINERVA MARRERO
AYALA T/C/C IRIS
M. MARRERO DE MENÉNDEZ T/C/C IRIS
MINERVA MARRERO
T/C/C IRIS MARRERO
AYALA COMPUESTA
POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS
Demandado(a)
Civil: GB2022CV00807. Sala:
201. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE IRIS MINERVA MARRERO AYALA T/C/C IRIS M. MARRERO DE
T/C/C IRIS MARRERO AYALA.
(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 26 de mayo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 5 de junio de 2023. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 5 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ZENOVIA CINTRÓN
AGOSTO T/C/C ZENOVIA
PÉREZ T/C/C ZENOVIA CINTRÓN PÉREZ
Demandante V. ELBA PÉREZ
CARRASQUILLO, ET ALS
Demandado
Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV08021.
Sala: 906. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE BIENES EN COMUNIDAD. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO POR SUMAC.
A: Jaime Pérez
Hernández, P.O Box 222509 Christianted, St. Croix, US VI 00822; Sylvia Luz Pérez Hernández. 75
Montgomery Apt. 15 B, New York, NY 10002; Lydia Emilia Pérez Hernández. 90 Gold St. #8L, New York, NY 10038; Blanca Edith Pérez Maldonado. 411 Lake Park Way, Bluffton SC
29909; Emilio Pérez Jr.
P.O. Box 7850 Sunny Isle, US VI 00823; Luis Antonio Pérez. P.O. Box 6961, Sunny Isle US VI 00823.
A: Elba Pérez Carrasquillo, miembro de la Sucesión de Emilio Pérez Acevedo t/c/c
Emiliano Pérez Acevedo, sus cesionarios, sucesores, herederos, causahabientes y/o legatarios Calle Damasco
DB-8, Urb. Santa Juanita, Sección10ma, Bayamón, PR 00956;
A: Gloria Myrtelina
Morales 0rtiz tic/c Gloria Myrtelina Morales t/c/c
Gloria M. Morales 0rtiz
t/c/c Gloria M. Morales, viuda de Emilio Pérez
Maldonado t/c/c Emilio Perez Jr., con última dirección física en #8 Est. Diamond Ruby, Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I. y con últimas direcciones postales conocidas en P0 Box 7850 Sunny Isle, VI 00823 y P0 Box 6961, Sunny Isle, US. VI 00823.
EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de febrero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de esta. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 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 05 de junio de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 05 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MYRNA DELIZ VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN-
CIA SALA DE CAROLINA SAN CARLOS MORTGAGE LLC
Parte Demandante V. EMILIO ERNESTO MENDOZA AQUINO; CRISTIAN ERNANI LOPEZ BONILLA
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: FCD2013-0619. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, hago saber a la parte demandada EMILIO ERNESTO MENDOZA AQUINO, CRISTIAN ERNANI LOPEZ BONILLA y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 31 marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $127,645.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: 65 (X-3) LUNA
ST. REPARTO LOS ANGELES EXT. DEV., CAROLINA, PR 00979, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número TRES (3) del Bloque X de la Urbanización Reparto Los Angeles, Extensión número Uno (1), radicada en el Barrio Cangrejos Arriba de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área de TRESCIENTOS PUNTO CINCUENTA Y OCHO METROS CUADRADOS (300.58 M.C.). En lindes por el NORTE, en Trece punto doce metros (13.12 m.), con la Calle H; por el SUR. en Trece punto Doce metros (13.12 m.} con el Solar número Dieciocho (18); por el ESTE. en Veintidós punto Setenta y Tres metros (22.73 m.) con el Solar número Cuatro (4); y por el OESTE, en Veintidós punto Cero Nueve metros (22.09 m.) con el Solar número Dos (2). Enclava edificación. Inscrita al Folio 101 del Torno 430 de Carolina. Finca número 16,472 en el Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Primera de Carolina. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i)
Hipoteca constituida por Emilio Ernesto Mendoza Aquino y Cristian Ernani López Bonilla, solteros, en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de RG Premier Bank of P.R., o a su orden, por $127,645.00, al 6%, vencedero el 1 de enero de 2040, según Esc. #567, en San Juan, a 31 de diciembre de 2009, ante José Ruben Vélez Marrero, inscrita al folio 81 del tomo 965 de
Municipio de Naranjito AVISO PÚBLICO Declaración preliminar sobre posibles estorbos públicos
El Municipio de Naranjito, ha determinado preliminarmente que las siguientes propiedades cualifican para ser consideradas estorbo público, debido a las condiciones en que se encuentran. La acción del Municipio se ampara en la Ley Núm. 107-2020 y su Art. 4.008, conocida como el “Código Municipal de Puerto Rico”, y el Reglamento para la Declaración y Adquisición de Propiedades Abandonadas Declaradas Estorbo Público, aprobado mediante la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 2022-2023.
Casos:
Formato: Caso - Dirección o Descripción - Catastro - Dueño(a) según CRIM / Posibles dueños
NJ-1 / Casa blanca PR164 / 169-032-023-01 /
Jorge Morales Chevres
• NJ-2 / Solar baldío PR164 INT / 169-032-02323 / Esteban Rodríguez Rodríguez • NJ-3 / Casa blanca PR-164 / 169-032024-07 / Desconocido • NJ-5 / Edificio amarillo Calle Georgetti / 169032-024-01 / Carmen
B. Morales De Nieves • NJ-6 / Edifico rosa PR164 / 169-032-014-11 /
A.L.D. M. Enterprises • NJ-7 / Edificio anaranjado Calle Georgetti / 169032-014-08 / Puerto Rico Restoration Services Inc. • NJ-8 / Casa amarilla Calle Ignacio Morales Acosta / 169-021-037-03 / Desconocido • NJ-9 / Edificio violeta Calle Ignacio Morales Acosta / 169-031012-05 / Alfonso Nieves
• NJ-11 / Ruinas Calle
Georgetti / 168-030-036-
10 / Saúl Morales Nieves
• NJ-12 / Solar baldío Camino Francisco Ortega / 169-031-038-03 / ELA De Puerto Rico, Depto. De La Vivienda • NJ-13 / Edificio rosa Calle Georgetti / 169031-018-01 / Carian Management Inc. • NJ-14 / Edificio verde Calle Georgetti / 169-031-018-02 / Carian Management Inc. • NJ-15 / Ruinas Calle Pe-
Monday, June 12, 2023
dro Cid / 169-031-039-16 / Ángel L. Morales Nieto • NJ-16 / Solar baldío Calle Pedro Cid / 169-031-01708 / Desconocido • NJ-17 / Ruinas Calle Pedro Cid / 169-031-039-15 / Desconocido • NJ-18 / Ruinas en madera Calle Pedro Cid / 169-031-017-10 / Desconocido • NJ-19 / Ruinas verdes Calle Pedro Cid / 169-031-017-11 / Desconocido • NJ-20 / Ruinas amarilla Calle Pedro Cid / 169-031-017-12 / Carlos Cosme Cruz • NJ-21 / Ruinas Calle Pedro Cid / 169-031-017-13 / Desconocido • NJ-22 / Casa blanca Calle Pedro Cid / 169-031-017-19 / Desconocido • NJ-23 / Casa verde Calle Pedro Cid / 169-031-017-17 / Desconocido • NJ-25 / Casa verde Calle Pedro Cid / 169-031-017-25 / Desconocido • NJ-27 / Casa verde Calle Pedro Cid / 169-031-039-19 / Desconocido • NJ-28 / Casa blanca Calle Pedro Cid / 169-031-040-02 / José A. Figueroa, Manuel Morales Hernández, Mario Antonio Morales Morales • NJ-29
/ Casa verde Calle Pedro Cid / 169-031-040-02 / José A. Figueroa, Manuel Morales Hernández, Mario Antonio Morales Morales • NJ-30 / Solar baldío Calle Georgetti / 169-032023-31 / La Convención de Iglesias Cristianas • NJ-33 / 9 Calle Ignacio Morales / 169-031-013-05
/ Ariel Fontanez • NJ-36
/ Casa amarilla y crema PR-164 / 168-030-034-52
/ Alfonso Nieves Cátala • NJ-37 / Casa azul y blanca PR-164 / 168-030-03452 / Alfonso Nieves Cátala
• NJ-38 / Ruinas PR-164
/ 168-029-034-23 / Julio Pérez Rivera • NJ-39 / Casa crema y salmón PR164 / 168-029-034-23 / Julio Pérez Rivera • NJ-40
/ 8 PR-164 / 168-030-03424 / Jovino Quiles Rosado • NJ-41 / 71 Parcelas
Hevia / 169-047-166-03
/ Luke Nathaniel Shaw • NJ-42 / 53 Calle 1 / 169047-166-14 / Rafael Benítez González • NJ-43 / Ruinas Parcelas Hevia / 169-057-165-06 / Depto.
Vivienda • NJ-44 / Ruinas
Parcelas Hevia / 169-047060-76 / Eladio Rivera Bernard • NJ-45 / 31 Calle
2 / 169-047-164-01 / Diego Cintrón Rivera • NJ-49 / 90 Calle Amapola / 168019-064-02 / Regis Terrero Paulino • NJ-50 / 4 PR164 INT / 168-019-196-11 / Jorge Santiago Morales • NJ-51 / “Construcción in-
completa Calle Pedro Cid” / “169-031-039-17 “ / Des-
conocido • NJ-53 / “Casa
blanca y rosa Camino El Cuco” / 169-003-169-64 / Cruz Ayala Narváez • NJ-
54 / “Casa blanca Camino
El Cuco” / 169-003-169-
64 / Cruz Ayala Narváez
• NJ-55 / “Ruinas blancas
Camino El Cuco” / 169000-002-01 / Desconocido • NJ-56 / “Casa rosa
Camino El Cuco” / 169000-002-01 / Desconocido • NJ-57 / Casa marrón
y crema Camino El Cuco
/ 169-000-002-01 / Desconocido • NJ-58 / “Casa gris Calle Pedro Cid” / “169-000-001-16 “ / Sylvia Calderón Carrillo • NJ-59
/ “Casa rosa Calle Pedro Cid” / “169-000-001-93 “
/ Departamento de la Vivienda • NJ-61 / “Local gris PR-152” / “168-000005-24 “ / Cynthia Yvette
Iglesia Quiñones • NJ-62 / “Casa azul PR-152” / “168-000-005-25 “ / Juan Antonio Sánchez Morales • NJ-63 / “Casa amarilla Sec Higuillales PR810” / “168-000-005-24
“ / Cynthia Yvette Iglesia
Quiñones • NJ-64 / “Solar PR-152 “ / “168-000005-24 “ / Cynthia Yvette Iglesia Quiñones • NJ-65 / “Casa marrón Callejón
Georgetti” / “169-032-023-
10 “ / Desconocido • NJ-
66 / Casa azul Callejón
Georgetti / 169-032-023-
30 / Desconocido • NJ-67 / Casa madera Callejón
Georgetti / 169-032-023-
16 / Ana Rosa Rodríguez
Rodríguez • NJ-68 / Casa
crema Callejón Georgetti / 169-032-023-13 / Nélida Hernández Santiago
• NJ-69 / Ruinas Callejón
Georgetti / 169-032-041-
28 / Desconocido • NJ-
70 / Casa azul Callejón
Georgetti / 169-032-023-
06 / María Teresa Cosme Rosado • NJ-71 / Edificio
blanco PR-165 / 140-057-
011-24 / Sucn. Etanislao
Rivera Padilla • NJ-72 / Edificio PR-825 / 141-061-
098-22 / Héctor M. Fuentes Ortiz • NJ-73 / Casa
blanca Camino Oscar Padilla / 141-051-308-01
/ Manuel Ortega Hernández • NJ-74 / Casa ama-
rilla Camino Los Chevres / 141-000-006-58 / Edwin
J. Meléndez Rivera • NJ-
77 / Casa azul PR-167
INT / 141-072-218-01 /
Fernando Matos Rivera
• NJ-78 / Ruinas Camino
Los Chevres / 141-082-
218-10 / Fernando Matos
Rivera • NJ-79 / Casa
anaranjada Camino Los Chevres / 141-000-006-47
/ Desconocido • NJ-80 /
Casa blanca Camino Los Nieves / 141-000-007-33
/ Sucn. Pedro Santiago
Rivera, Petra Santiago
Rodríguez • NJ-81 / Casa
blanca Camino Los Chevres / 141-073-169-55 /
Francisco J. Ortega Santiago • NJ-82 / Construcción incompleta Camino
Los Nieves / 141-000-00733 / Sucn. Pedro Santiago
Rivera • NJ-84 / H147
Calle 5 / 141-065-139-13
/ Joscar Alexis Cosme Rivera • NJ-86 / Solar baldío
I 184 Calle 5 / 141-065140-01 / Carmelo Rivera Morales • NJ-87 / A1 Calle 8 / 141-075-134-01 / Sonia Ayala Nevárez • NJ-88
/ A21 Calle 1 / 141-075134-21 / Noel Hernández
Acevedo • NJ-89 / Edificio verde PR-164 / 168008-003-04 / Sucn. José Santiago Cuevas • NJ-90 / Solar baldío PR-164 / 168008-072-11 / JCN INVESTMENT LLC • NJ-91 / Edificio anaranjado PR-165 / 140-097-145-45 / Rafael
A. Rivera Morales • NJ92 / Casa azul y amarilla
PR-164 / 140-097-149-80
/ Sucn. Fermina Pacheco
Pacheco • NJ-93 / Solar baldío PR-165 / 140-000009-23 / Luis Enrique Padilla Nieves, Sucn. Rafael
Rivera Reyes • NJ-94 / Casa anaranjada y verde Camino Los Quilos / 140047-012-29 / Desconocido • NJ-95 / Casa verde
PR-152 / 168-000-010-11
/ Alejandro Nieves • NJ96 / Casa azul PR-152
/ 168-000-010-11 / Alejandro Nieves • NJ-97 / Estructura azul PR-152 / 168-099-051-10 / Juan
M. Maldonado Lozada, Pedro J. Castillo Matos
• NJ-98 / Edificio blanco
PR-152 / 168-089-050-08
/ Francisco Morales Nieves / Sucn. Frey Morales
Ramírez, Asberly Morales
Ramírez, Awilda Ramírez, Edgar Morales Ramírez
• NJ-99 / Edificio blanco
PR-152 / 168-000-010-25
/ Pedro Morales Chévere
• NJ-100 / Edificio blanco
PR-164 / 169-000-003-49
/ William Nieves Rivera
• NJ-101 / Edificio gris y azul PR-152 / 168-000-
010-11 / Alejandro Nieves • NJ-102 / Casa azul
PR-164 / 169-026-05321 / Sucn. Angel Colón
Rivera • NJ-103 / Edificio anaranjado PR-164 / 169-026-053-20 / Miguel
A. Morales Cintrón • NJ104 / Ruinas anaranjada
PR-164 / 169-026-053-23
/ Desconocido • NJ-105 / Casa anaranjada PR-164 / 169-026-053-22 / Banco
Popular De Puerto Rico
• NJ-106 / Edificio gris
PR-167 / 169-027-054-73 / PC Puerto Rico LLC., Puma Energy Caribe LLC
• NJ-107 / Edificio crema
PR-164 / 169-027-054-17 / Wilfredo Rivera Rosa
• NJ-108 / Casa blanca PR-167 / 169-056-120-14 / Inés Virgen Rosa Maldonado • NJ-109 / Casa blanca PR-167 / 169-056120-09 / Ángel E. Sostre Rivera • NJ-110 / Edificio rosa Camino Mulita / 196000-003-49 / Desconocido
• NJ-111 / Casa azul y crema Camino Mulita / 169000-008-23 / Desconocido
Si su propiedad ha sido incluida en este Aviso, usted tiene el derecho de presentar una contestación a la determinación preliminar dentro de los veinte (20) días calendarios a partir de la fecha de este Aviso, y de comparecer personal o remotamente para dar testimonio y presentar evidencia en una vista administrativa. Usted también tiene derecho de comparecer asistido de su abogado, o por derecho propio. Para solicitar una vista administrativa, o de tener cualquier duda, debe comunicarse con la Oficina de Planificación y Ordenamiento Territorial del Municipio de Naranjito a la mayor brevedad al 787-869-2200 ext. 137 o escribiendo a estorbosnaranjito@ municipiodenaranjito.com o con el Centro para la Reconstrucción del Hábitat, organización colaboradora con el programa de estorbos públicos al 833-CRH-CASA (274-2272) o info@crhpr. org
De no solicitar vista o contestar este Aviso, se procederá con la declaración final de estorbo público y el Municipio procederá conforme lo dispuesto en el Código Municipal y la Ordenanza Núm. 1. Dicha declaración podrá resultar en multas, gravámenes, demolición y/u otros remedios, según sea el caso. Se urge a toda persona afectada, vecinos y/o personas con conocimiento de potenciales dueños, que se comuniquen al número de teléfono o al correo electrónico incluido en este Aviso. Expedido hoy en Naranjito, Puerto Rico.
Myrna Santiago Morales Secretaria MunicipalCarolina, finca #16472, inscripción 16ta. (ii) Demanda radicada en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca, en el caso civil #F CD20130619, seguido por Scotiabank
P.R., vs. Emilio Ernesto Mendoza Aquino y Cristian Ernani Lopez Bonilla, donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con la hipoteca relacionada en la inscripción 16ta., reducida a $124,270.00, anotada al Sistema Karibe de Carolina, finca #16472, el 26 de mayo de 2016, anotación A y última. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 30 de noviembre de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $124,270.00 de principal, más $69,251.15 de interés al 6.00% acumulados hasta el 1 de abril de 2022 que continuarán acumulándose a razón de $16.6923 diario hasta el saldo total, más $788.00 de otros gastos, más $7,702.90 de cargos por atraso, más $8,772.45 de balance de cuenta escrow, más $12,764.50 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 31 DE JULIO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00
DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $127,645.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $85,096.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A
LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $63,822.50.
El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos corres-
pondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 4 de mayo de 2023.
HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA,
SALA DE CAROLINA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE WANDA MERCEDES VAZQUEZ RIVERA COMPUESTA
POR RUBY GONZALEZ
VAZQUEZ; FULANO Y FULANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; LA SUCESION DE PEDRO
GONZALEZ FELICIANO COMPUESTA POR
LISSETTE GONZALEZ MALDONADO, CELINES
GONZALEZ MALDONADO Y RUBY GONZALEZ
VAZQUEZ; MENGANO Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: AR2023CV00670.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte Co-
Demandada: A) FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE WANDA MERCEDES VÁZQUEZ RIVERA A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: (A)
BARRIO SABANA #101
CALLE RAMON RIVERA VEGA BAJA, PR 00693;
(B) BARRIO SABANA SECA #34 MANATI, PR 00674; (C) URB. COSTAS DEL ATLANTICO A-5 CALLE 1 ARECIBO, PR 00612.
B) MENGANO Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO GONZÁLEZ FELICIANO, A LAS SIGUIENTES
BARRIO SABANA #101
CALLE RAMON RIVERA VEGA BAJA, PR 00693;
(B) BARRIO SABANA
SECA #34 MANATI, PR 00674; (C) URB. COSTAS
DEL ATLANTICO A-5
CALLE 1 ARECIBO, PR 00612.
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 Las Sucesiones de Wanda Mercedes Vázquez Rivera y Pedro González Feliciano, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $92,852.00 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.25% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, Las Sucesiones de Wanda Mercedes Vázquez Rivera y Pedro González Feliciano 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 $10,175.00.
Además Las Sucesiones de Wanda Mercedes Vázquez Rivera y Pedro González Feliciano se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $10,175.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $10,175.00 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 10, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de enero de 2018, ante el notario Saideth Cristóbal Martínez, de la finca número 43,233, inscrita al Folio 170 del Tomo 983 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera. 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 Wanda Mercedes Vázquez Rivera y Pedro González Feliciano. Los co-demandados miembros de las Sucesiones de Wanda Mercedes Vázquez Rivera y Pedro González Feliciano se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, se incluye a los herederos conocidos y herederos desconocidos de Pedro González Feliciano denominados Fulano y Fulana de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos de la Sucesión de Wanda Mercedes Vázquez Rivera; Mengano y Mengana de Tal como posibles herederos desconocidos de la Sucesión de Pedro González Feliciano, 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 periodo de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es)
Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 6 de junio de 2023, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. EIMMY FELICIANO TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JAIME DE JESUS ABREU LEON Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2019CV01931. Sala: 504. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: MARGARITA ARRIETA CAMACHO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR CONDUCTO DE MARGARITA ARRIETA CAMACHO.
(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 11 de marzo de 2020, 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 7 de junio de 2023. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 7 de junio de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS-
TANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE MANATÍ ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. DENNIS LOZADA CÁCERES
Demandado(a)
Civil: MT2021CV00641. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: DENNIS LOZADA CÁCERES - VILLA EVANGELINA, T248 CALLE 15, MANATÍ, PR 00674-6104. (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 5 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 5 de junio de 2023. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 5 de junio de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN J. ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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LUNA
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Demandante V. SUCESION DE JUAN RIVERA PAGAN COMPUESTA POR OMAYRA RIVERA DEL HOYO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNCIPALES Y ADMINISTRACION
PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES
Demandado(a)
Civil: CR2022CV00064. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN RIVERA PAGAN. (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 4 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de junio de 2023. En Orocovis, Puerto Rico, el 7 de junio de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. NATALIA BURGOS MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO EN EL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE LUQUILLO JANICE TIMOTHEE OLIVERAS; JENIFFER TIMOTHEE OLIVERAS
Demandantes Vs. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO DEMANDADOS
DESCONOCIDOS Y POSIBLES TENEDORES DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO
Demandados
Caso: LU2023CV00118. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE HIPOTECA EN GARANTÍA DE EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL
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: 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. POR MEDIO del presente edicto se les notifica de la radicación de una demanda de cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la suma de $40,000.00 a favor de Levitt Mortgage Corp., o a su orden, en garantía de una hipoteca constituida sobre el Apartamento #140 del Condominio Playas del Yunque II, Luquillo, Puerto Rico, finca #9889 de Luquillo, inscrita al Sistema Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo, Sección I. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la Demanda radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Luquillo, y notificándole con copia de dicha contestación al abogado de la parte demandante, Lic. José
M. Castro Alvarez, 504 Ave. De Diego, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00920 Tel: (787) 378-6088; jmca5419@gmail.com dentro del término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la fecha de publicación de este Edicto. Si dejaren de así hacerlo, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia contra ustedes concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma v el sello del Tribunal de Luquillo, Puerto Rico, hoy 6 de junio de 2023. WANDA I.
SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ANA CELÍS MÁRQUEZ APONTE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE RUBEN RIVERA ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR ALEXIS, LIONELY TAYRA TODOS DE APELLIDOS RIVERA LOPEZ; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2023CV02454. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte Co-
Demandada: A) TAYRA RIVERA LÓPEZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RUBÉN RIVERA ORTÍZ, A LAS SIGUIENTES
DIRECCIONES: (A) PO
BOX 50663 LEVITTOWN STATION TOA BAJA, PR 00950; (B) CARR.
186 INT 9948 BARRIO
CUBUY SECTOR VILLA
SIN MIEDO CANOVANAS, PR 00729; (C) URB.
PASEO DULCEMAR #1487 CALLE R TOA
BAJA, PR 00949; (D) 3114
QUEEN ALEXANDRIA DR
KISSIMMEE, FL 347449108.
B) FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RUBÉN RIVERA ORTÍZ, A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: (A) PO
BOX 50663 LEVITTOWN STATION TOA BAJA, PR 00950; (B) CARR.
186 INT 9948 BARRIO
CUBUY SECTOR VILLA
SIN MIEDO CANOVANAS, PR 00729; (C) URB.
PASEO DULCEMAR
#1487 CALLE R TOA
BAJA, PR 00949; (D) 3114
QUEEN ALEXANDRIA DR
KISSIMMEE, FL 347449108.
Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una
Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de
La Sucesión de Rubén Rivera Ortíz, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $70,904.39 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, La Sucesión de Rubén Rivera Ortíz adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,760.00. Además La Sucesión de Rubén Rivera Ortíz se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,760.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $11,760.00 para cubrir cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 222, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de septiembre de 2007, ante la notario Francisco Arriví Silva, de la finca número 4,152, inscrita al Folio 126 del Tomo 48 de Toa Baja, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Rubén Rivera Ortíz. Los co-demandados miembros de La Sucesión de Rubén Rivera Ortíz se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por
consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que La Sucesión de Rubén Rivera Ortíz, se incluye a los herederos conocidos y herederos desconocidos de Rubén Rivera Ortíz denominados Tayra Rivera López como miembros de la Sucesión de Rubén Rivera Ortíz; Fulano y Fulana de Tal como posibles herederos desconocidos de la Sucesión de Rubén Rivera Ortíz, 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 periodo de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted( es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 7 de junio de 2023, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA E. COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN
JUAN
Monday, June 12, 2023
Y PRIVACIÓN DE PATRIA POTESTAD. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: REYSON JASSEL REYNOSO MATEO. SE DESCONOCE. Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda del epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere que radique en esta Secretaría el original de la contestación a la Demanda y que notifique con copia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. Marisel Barreta Viera, Urb. Crown Hills, 138 Ave. W. Churchill PMB 224, San Juan, PR 00926-6013, Tel. (787) 4399412, con el correo electrónico: mariselbarreto@gmail.com, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Si dejare de hacerlo, podrá dictarse contra usted sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a 5 de junio de 2023. SRA. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE VEGA
ALTA
ANDENO CO
Parte Demandante V. ERICKSON
HERNANDEZ VAZQUEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: VA2023CV00017. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: ERICKSON
HERNANDEZ VAZQUEZ. 84 CALLE UNIÓN INT, VEGA ALTA, PR 00692. Se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Cobro de Dinero - Regla 60. Representa a la parte demandante, el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
Brito.Legal
1607 Ave. Ponce de León
St. GM6 #232
San Juan, PR 00969
Tel. 787-705-1011
gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php./ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se presente 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. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico a 06 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ROSA CEPEDA FALU; JORGE LUIS ADORNO CONCEPCION Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandantes V. METRO PAVIA HEALTHCARE CENTERS, INC.
Demandados
Guaynabo, PR 00970-1482
e-mail:
sanchezmejiaslaw@gmail.com
Tel. (787) 963-1622
Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle más. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE
ASSOCIATION T/C/C
FANNIE MAE DEMANDANTE VS.
“Blue Sky Towers, LLC would like to place on notice the acquisition of several existing telecommunication installations consisting of the following: 1) a 161’ monopole tower known as Coabey located at 18°12’19.21” north latitude and -66°33’21.52” west longitude at near Rd. 539 Km.
0.5, Saliente Ward Jayuya;
DERISILIS
RAMIREZ GARCIA
Parte Demandante Vs REYSON JASSEL
REYNOSO MATEO
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: SJ2023RF00598. Sala: 705. Sobre: ALIMENTOS
E-mail: adrian@brito.legal
POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento. Usted deberá presentar su ale-
Civil Núm.: BY2023CV00529. Sobre: IMPERICIA MÉDICA, DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P. R., SS. A: DRA. JESSICA TORRES OCASIO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES CONSTITUIDA CON MENGANO DE TAL. Se le notifica por este medio que en el caso de epígrafe, la parte demandante ha radicado Demanda por cobro de dinero en su contra. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza, se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la dirección indicada.
Lcda. Gaudelyn Sánchez Mejías PO Box 1482
2) a 160’ (165’ including all appurtenances) lattice tower known as Palacios located at 18°20’55.95” north latitude and -66°12’10.08” west longitude near Calle 4320, Buena Vista Station Toa Alta; 3) a 120’ (125’ including all appurtenances) monopole tower known as Coamo located at 18°4’45.43” north latitude and -66°20’42.94” west longitude near Km. 1.4 PR-702, Interior, San Idelfonso y Palmarejo Ward, Coamo; 4) a 120’ (124’ including all appurtenances) monopole tower known as Fajardo Downtown located at 18°20’16.26” north latitude and -65°39’32.55” west longitude at the approximate vicinity of at near Urb Veve Calzada Calle 26 Lot W10 Barrio Quebrada, Fajardo; 5) a 42.5’ (47’ including all appurtenances) rooftop tower known as Kennedy located at 18°25’19” north latitude and -66°5’54.57” west longitude near STI-04 Avenida Kennedy San Juan Site, Carr. PR-2 KM 3.7, Ave, Kennedy URB. Montere Pueblo Viejo, San Juan. If you have any concerns regarding historic properties that may be affected by this proposed undertaking, please contact: Miles Walz-Salvador, Lotis Environmental, LLC, at Legals@ thelotisgroup.com or (314) 913-0505. In your response, please include the proposed undertaking’s location and a list of the historic resources that you believe to be affected along with their respective addresses or approximate locations.”
“Blue Sky Towers, LLC would like to place on notice the proposed construction of several installations consisting of the following: 1) a 101’ (108’ including all appurtenances) monopole tower known as Helvita del Caribe located at 18°24’5.75” north latitude and -65°58’29.66” west longitude near Carolina Helvetia Site, Villa Fontana, Street #11, Sabana Abajo Ward, Carolina; 2) a 150’ (155’ including all appurtenances) monopole tower known as Yabucoa located at 18°4’56.54” north latitude and -65°50’49.16” west longitude near PR-906 Interior, Aguacate, Yabucoa; 3) a 150’ (160’ including all appurtenances) monopole tower known as Culebra Flamenco located at 18°19’15.49” north latitude and -65°19’6.95” west longitude near PR-251, KM. 2.2, Barrio Flamenco, Culebra; 4) an 81’ (88’ including all appurtenances) monopole tower known as Combate Poblado located at 17°58’56.00” north latitude and -67°12’35.75” west longitude near Carr. 3301, Km-2.6, Calle Dr. Pagan Fernandez #33, Sector El Combate. Bo. Boqueron, Cabo Rojo; 5) a 151’ (163’ including all appurtenances) monopole tower known as Joyuda Sur located at 18°6’1.35” north latitude and -67°11’06.41” west longitude near Joyuda Sur Site, Pr-102, Km-15.6, Club Complejo Deportivo Street, Sector Joyuda, Miradero Ward, Cabo Rojo; 6) a 146’ (153’ including all appurtenances) monopole tower known as Jauca Playa located at 17°57’36.69” north latitude and -66°22’31.38” west longitude near Carr. Pr-01, Km100.6 Interior, Calle No. 6, Bo. Jauca, Santa Isabel; 7) a 150’ (155’ including all appurtenances) monopole tower known as Yeso Ponce located at 18°2’25.18” north latitude and -66°38’00.97” west longitude near Maguetes Ward, Ponce; 8) a 150’ (155’ including all appurtenances) lattice tower known as Quebrada Arenas located at 18°21’49.91” north latitude and -66°17’23.42” west longitude near State Road Pr823, Km. 4.1 Rio Lajas Ward, Toa Alta 9) a 150’ (155’ including all appurtenances) lattice tower known as Palmas Atlas located at 18°28’54.6” north latitude and -66°34’58.03” west longitude near PR-861, Barrio Palmas Altas, Barceloneta 10) a 151’ (158’ including all appurtenances) monopole tower known as Bayaney Gallera located at 18°22’29.85” north latitude and -66°47’45.3” west longitude near Hatillo La Gallera Site, Pr-129, Km-13.6, Bayaney Ward, Hatillo. If you have any concerns regarding historic properties that may be affected by this proposed undertaking, please contact: Miles WalzSalvador, Lotis Environmental, LLC, at Legals@thelotisgroup. com or (314) 913-0505. In your response, please include the proposed undertaking’s location and a list of the historic resources that you believe to be affected along with their respective addresses or approximate locations.”
total, $106.63 de otros cargos, $321.31 de cuenta escrow, $3,200.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 6 DE JULIO 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $32,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA , en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $21,333.33. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $16,000.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de 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 ins-
trumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de febrero de 2023. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #737, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE LUZ PETRA
COTTE ESCUDERO COMPUESTA POR
JOSE COTTE, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: CCD2014-0614. (404). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, 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 SUBAS-
TA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía en Cobro de Dinero dictada el 9 de marzo de 2015 y notificada el 11 de marzo de 2015, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 30 de noviembre de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 7 de diciembre de 2022, en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 21 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Arecibo, Sala Superior, 553 Avenida José A. Cedeño, Arecibo, 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 con la letra E del plano de inscripción sita en el Barrio Cotto Norte, del término municipal de Manatí, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 405.13 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: en 23.00 metros, con Isabel Sierra; por el SUR: en 22.69 metros con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE: en 17.91 metros, con la carretera municipal; y por el OESTE: en 17.65 metros, con el remanente de la finca de la cual es segregación. Enclava de una casa de concreto de una sola planta destinada a vivienda. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 150 del tomo 184, Finca 7813. Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Manatí, Finca 7813. Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí. Inscripción quinta (5ta). Dirección Física: 141 Cantera, Carr. 670 (Solar E), Manatí, PR 00674. Número de Catastro: 08-034090-218-16-001. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $62,400.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA
SUBASTA, el día 28 DE AGOS-
TO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 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, $41,600.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 5 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $31,200.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del
tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $54,255.12 principal, intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.25% anual desde el 1 de abril de 2014 hasta su completo pago, más $76.84 por concepto de recargos adeudados desde el día 1 de mayo de 2014 hasta su total pago, la cantidad estipulada de $6,240.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registra! que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar:
a. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Luz Petra Cotte Escudero (soltera) ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, en el Caso Civil Número CCD2014-0614, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $54,255.12 y otras cantidades, según demanda de fecha de 20 de octubre de 2014. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Manatí. Anotación
A. b. Bitácora: Al Asiento 500 del Diario 282, el 26 de enero de 2004, según la escritura número 358, otorgada en Manatí, el 30 de diciembre de 2003, ante la Notario Aida Enid de la Rosa Abreu, para que se inscriba hipoteca a favor de R & G Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, por la suma de $50,000.00, sus intereses a 4 7/8% anual y vencedero el 1 de enero de 2009. 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 ejecuta-
da 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 Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de mayo de 2023. DAISY LÓPEZ SANTIAGO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., POR SÍ Y COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, QUIEN A SU VEZ ES SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE POPULAR MORTGAGE, INC.
Demandante V. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE; SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO FEDERAL DE VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DE LOS PAGARÉS
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV00614. (Salón de Sesiones: 803). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.
Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal la Demanda de epígrafe. En la demanda se alega que el pagaré otorgado el 18 de abril de 2001 ante la Notario Público Luz E. Vela Gutiérrez, bajo affidávit número 1,905, a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la cantidad de $145,000.00, con intereses al 8% anual y vencedero a la presentación, y el pagaré otorgado el 18 de abril de 2001 ante la Notario Público Luz E. Vela Gutiérrez, a favor del Secretario de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $145,000.00, con intereses al 8% anual y ven-
cedero a la presentación. En aseguramiento de los Pagarés hipotecarios antes mencionados se constituyeron hipotecas voluntarias en virtud de las Escrituras número 78 y 79, sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble: URBANA: Solar número cuarenta y siete (47) radicado en la Urbanización Villa Francia de Hato Rey, Río Piedras, término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos setenta y cuatro metros cuadrados (374.00 m.c.). Colinda por el NORTE, su frente, en dieciséis metros (16.00 m) con la Calle Lydia; por el SUR, su fundo, en quince punto sesenta metros (15.60 m), finca propiedad de Asociación Padres y Maestros; por el ESTE, en veintitrés punto cuarenta y cinco metros (23.45 m), con el solar número cuarenta y seis (46) de Marcelino Alago; y por el OESTE, en veinticuatro metros (24.00 m), con el solar número cuarenta y nueve (49) de José M. Pérez Moris. Contiene una casa de una planta, de concreto, con marquesina para automóviles. Inscrita al folio 99, tomo 244 de Río Piedras Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda (II) de San Juan, Finca Número 672-B. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fernando Gierbolini y/o Lcdo. Manuel Muñiz Torres; MONSERRATE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle.
EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 06 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA
RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IRIS OLIVO NÚÑEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO MASSACHUSETTS
MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY
Demandante V. RICARDO RUBÉN
MARTÍNEZ MELÉNDEZ, MARCY LUZ CASTRO RAMÍREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: HU2023CV00165. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S.
A: RICARDO RUBÉN
MARTÍNEZ MELÉNDEZ, MARCY LUZ CASTRO RAMÍREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Queden emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto y deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual podrá 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 discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son:
Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero
T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074
TROMBERG, MORRIS & POULIN, LLC
1515 South Federal Highway, Suite 100
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Tel. 877-338-4101 / Fax: 561-338-4077
prservice@tmppllc.com /
asaez@tmppllc.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 30 de mayo de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE FAJARDO ANDENO CO
Parte Demandante V. GLEDISHA MARQUEZ BURGOS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2023CV00260. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: GLEDISHA MARQUEZ BURGOS.
105 CALLE 21, APT 5102, FAJARDO, PR 00738-5805. Se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Cobro de Dinero- Regla 60. Representa a la parte demandante, el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
Brito.Legal
1607 Ave. Ponce de León
St. GM6 #232 San Juan, PR 00969
Tel. 787-705-1011
E-mail: adrian@brito.Iegal POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php./ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se presente 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. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico a 5 de junio de 2023. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DE TRIBUNAL I.
The Miami Heat would be the first to assess their path to this late stage of the season as imperfect. Pretty much everything has posed a challenge — the injuries, the losses. Even their experience in the play-in bracket — a loss followed by a comefrom-behind win — seems apocryphal, or at least true to form, now that they are facing the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Finals.
In the process, the Heat have co-opted adversity as a part of their identity. Adversity has hardened them and made them more resilient. Adversity has fueled their postseason run. Adversity has improved them as players and helped them bond as a team. Adversity has them competing for a championship.
Bam Adebayo, the team’s All-Star center, cited the “ups, downs, goods, bads” of the season as if they were inseparable qualities, as if none could exist without the others. Coach Erik Spoelstra has taken to occasionally describing his team as “gnarly” in the most complimentary way possible.
“That’s a Spo term,” Adebayo said at a news conference earlier this week, adding: “A lot of you in here probably never thought we would be in this position right now.”
The problem, of course, is that a steady diet of adversity takes a toll, and the Nuggets are a full meal. So much talent. So much size. So much depth. And not even the Heat, who have made a habit of navigating their way out of bleak situations, could match them Friday night as the Nuggets pulled away for a 10895 victory in Game 4 that has them on the cusp of their first NBA title.
The Nuggets have a 3-1 series lead ahead of Game 5 in Denver tonight (8:30 p.m. ET, ABC).
“It’s going to be a gnarly game in Denver that is built for the competitors that we have in our locker room,” Spoelstra said, adding: “We get an opportunity to play a super competitive game in a great environment.”
Spoelstra was notably upbeat, but that was nothing new. Count the Heat out at your own peril.
“Our whole season hasn’t been easy,” Adebayo said. “It just seems like we won’t quit.”
They refused to quit after slipping into the playoffs as the No. 8 seed in the East. They also refused to quit after losing two rotation players, Tyler Herro and Victor Oladipo, in their first-round series with the top-seeded
Milwaukee Bucks. Herro broke his hand, and Oladipo tore a tendon in his knee.
The Heat wanted adversity? They flourished, eliminating the Bucks in five games.
They wanted more adversity? They nearly blew a 3-0 series lead to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals before returning from the abyss to win Game 7 and advance — in Boston, no less. Afterward, Mike McDaniel, the coach of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, sent Spoelstra a text in which he described tough times as an opportunity, not that Spoelstra needed to be reminded.
“We share very similar thoughts about finding strength in adversity,” Spoelstra said.
Now, the Nuggets are loading the Heat up with more adversity than they can handle. Before Game 4, Heat forward Kevin Love acknowledged that the team’s “room for error is so small.”
Duncan Robinson, Love’s teammate, pledged that their “urgency should be and will be at an all-time high.”
In the first quarter of Friday’s game, the Heat channeled that urgency by ditching their zone defense and matching up in manto-man, which limited the Nuggets’ outside looks while cluttering up the two-man, pickand-roll game that Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray like to run.
Before long, the Nuggets established themselves. Sensing some space between
himself and his defender, Jokic stepped back from 27 feet and sank a 3-pointer. Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon sliced to the rim.
Early in the second half, Jokic dribbled straight at Adebayo, bumping up against him — once, twice, three times — before flipping the ball up and in with his left hand. A nifty bounce pass from Gordon to Murray led to a layup, a 10-point lead and a Spoelstra timeout. Some fans left in the fourth quarter.
“Some correctable things we’ve got to do,” said Jimmy Butler, who led Miami with 25 points. “But it’s not impossible. We’ve got to go out there and do it.”
The Nuggets got something that approximated a usual effort from Jokic, who collected 23 points, 12 rebounds and four assists while dealing with foul trouble. But he got ample help from the likes of Gordon, who scored 27 points, and Bruce Brown, who finished with 21 points off the bench.
Many of the Heat’s more unsung players have struggled in the series, and that hurt them again Friday. Gabe Vincent finished with just 2 points, and Max Strus went scoreless. Miami wound up
leaning on veterans Kyle Lowry, who scored all 13 of his points in the first half, and Love, who made three 3-pointers.
Afterward, the Heat seemed cognizant of their new reality — that nearly everyone would be counting them out. Spoelstra called it “the narrative” that he said he was certain would circulate over the weekend. Butler, for his part, indicated that he did not care.
“We don’t have no quit,” he said. “We are going to continually fight, starting tomorrow, to get better, and then we are going into Monday to do what we said we were going to do this entire time and win. We have to. We have no other choice. Otherwise, we did all this for no reason.”
He added: “We’ve done some hard things all year long, and now it’s like the hardest of the hard.”
The challenge before them is great, though not insurmountable. The Cleveland Cavaliers came back from a 3-1 series deficit in the 2016 N.B.A. Finals, shocking the Golden State Warriors, who had set a record by winning 73 games during the regular season. Still, Cleveland is the only team to recover from that deep of a hole in the finals; 35 other teams have tried and failed.
Spoelstra said he told his players in the locker room “to feel whatever you want to feel” after the loss. He did not expect them to get much sleep, and that was probably a good thing. He wanted them to stew on what had happened, and then refocus themselves on the hardest-of-the-hard task ahead of them.
“Our guys love this kind of deal,” Spoelstra said.
The Heat wanted adversity? They definitely have some now.
Novak Djokovic reached the top of the tennis mountain Sunday, dominating Casper Ruud in straight sets to win the French Open men’s singles title for a third time and so much more.
With the most momentous championship of his remarkable career so far, Djokovic has staked his claim to being the greatest male tennis player in history, with a record 23 Grand Slam tournament singles titles.
Djokovic defeated Ruud, 7-6 (1), 6-3, 7-5. On his second match point, Djokovic induced Ruud into a final forehand off the court and collapsed on his back. He then knelt in prayer in the middle of the court and headed for the stands to embrace his family and his coaches.
“I feel I have the power to create my own destiny,” Djokovic said from the podium during the trophy celebration. “If you want the better future you can create it.”
Tournament after tournament, Djokovic has spent most of the past two decades chasing his rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, the two other giants who have defined this era of modern tennis. That race has come to an end, at least for now.
Djokovic, 36, surpassed the retired Federer last summer, at Wimbledon’s Centre Court on the grass that Federer had ruled for so long, when he won his 21st Grand Slam title. In January at the Australian Open, Djokovic won again. That 22nd title tied Nadal, who missed this year’s French Open with an injury.
On Sunday in Paris, with a horde of fans waving Serbian flags and chanting his name and a cast of stars on hand for the occasion, he won again, this time for the record books.
Retired NFL quarterback Tom Brady sat next to Jelena, Djokovic’s wife. French soccer star Kylian Mbappé and Swedish soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic sat a few rows above the court. American actor Jake Gyllenhaal, tennis icons Yannick Noah and Stan Smith and many French actors, singers, business owners and athletes were also in the stands.
Djokovic did it on the red clay of the Philippe Chatrier court at the French Open, which Nadal has won an astonishing 14 times. A silver statue of the Spanish champion bullwhipping his forehand stands just hundreds of yards away.
Djokovic’s journey has been anything but smooth. It has been filled with one self-inflicted crisis after another, epic battles with Nadal and Federer on the court, early and midcareer fallow seasons, some because he was injured, and some when he was forced to miss tournaments because he would not waiver from his principles. His most seemingly impossible task has been winning the hearts of tennis fans who long ago pledged them to the first two members of the so-called Big Three.
Beyond that, there was the simple matter of math.
At the end of 2010, when Djokovic was 23 and five years past competing in his first major tournament, Federer had already won 16 Grand Slam titles to Djokovic’s one. Any suggestion that Djokovic might one day catch Federer, or even Nadal, who had nine, would have been absurd.
But then 2011 dawned, Djokovic stormed the sport, winning the Australian and U.S. Opens and Wimbledon that year. He put together a 41-match winning streak and a 10-1 record against Federer and Nadal. Tennis has never been the same.
There is no one explanation for what has transpired since. A new, strictly gluten-free diet, giving up alcohol and experimentation with spending time in a pressurized, egg-shaped chamber have all gotten their share of credit along the way. So has a stretching and calisthenics routine that has turned Djokovic into a racket-wielding rubber band, likely helping to limit his injuries.
The boulder-sized chip on his shoulder that Djokovic has said he has carried since his childhood growing up during the war in Serbia hasn’t hurt either.
Goran Ivanisevic, Djokovic’s current coach, who is a Croat, has described a Balkan fighting spirit in Djokovic’s DNA that no one who has come from outside the region can match.
Boris Becker, the retired German champion who coached him for three years, said that during one period when Djokovic lost a series of Grand Slam finals, he was punishing himself for an indiscretion that neither Djokovic nor Becker has ever talked about in detail. Becker said Djokovic learned to forgive himself, and once he did that he became liberated, and began winning with abandon.
The numbers since then defy simple explanation. With his win Sunday, Djokovic regained the world’s top ranking for a record 388th week. In addition to the record for Grand Slam tournament titles, he also holds the record for Masters 1000 titles, and just in case any Nadal or Federer fans wanted to fault him for being a mere compiler, Djokovic has a winning record against both Nadal and Federer.
Any hope that Ruud, 24, a steady and determined Norwegian playing in his third Grand Slam final in 13 months, had of turning Sunday into something other than a coronation dissipated at the end of a grinding first-set battle that concluded in Djokovic’s signature fashion.
“It’s tough to explain how good you are,” Ruud said to his competitor after the match.
Andy Roddick, a former world No. 1, famously said of Djokovic that “first he comes for your legs, and then he comes for your soul.”
That was about what Djokovic did to Ruud early Sunday, on his way to history.
In the fog of all this winning, it can be difficult to remember the stretches of strife, even the more recent ones. There were those days in custody in Australia last year as Djokovic awaited his deportation hearing. But there was also that ugly time in 2021, when he accidentally swatted a ball into the throat of a line judge and was tossed out of the U.S. Open. The next month, Nadal destroyed him in straight sets in a delayed French Open final. Djokovic appeared headed for another walk in the wilderness.
Instead, he came within one match of winning all four Grand Slam tournaments in 2021, toppling Nadal at Roland Garros along the way.
He has won the first two already this year. Even after 23 Grand Slam titles, there is more history to be made.
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
Answers on page 30
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
Yes, Aries, you haven’t finished all the cleaning up that remains in many areas. You’re going to have to get your papers in order, pay off old debts, face physical or moral obligations, and fix technical problems. That’s a lot of work! Fortunately, once it’s done, your emotional baggage will be considerably lighter, enabling you to go farther and faster.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
The astral energy says there’s a time for everything. We tend to repeat certain tasks we like doing, while those we dislike we try to get out of the way as quickly as possible. It seems reasonable, but the Universe reminds you that you should make as much space in your life for what you don’t like as for what you do, because each task is related to the other in some way.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
Reality isn’t always as exciting as you’d like it to be, Gemini. But isn’t this because you interpret reality in a particular way? You rarely look at things in detail, because fundamentally, details don’t interest you. But if you look around, you will discover that the details of a truly epic event are currently unfolding before your eyes. Put some new lenses in your glasses!
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
The planetary energies are encouraging you to make some adjustments regarding your social ambitions. You may desire to change professions or your circle of friends. This is trickier than you might think, as the culture of your current world is an extension of you. You’re drawn to what’s familiar. Your natural tendency will be to go back to where you came from.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
his planetary energy is going to test your recurring desire to go to the other side of the world or have a ready exit in any relationship. You do this so you won’t feel trapped and, above all, so you won’t be dependent. This is one of your strengths, Leo, but it’s also one of your weaknesses. Throughout the next few weeks you will be pushed to involve yourself more intimately with others.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
Why do you find relationships difficult, Virgo? You know interactions with others help you learn and grow. This is the case for everyone. But for you, especially, relationships are important because they help keep you grounded. Too often you dream about reality rather than confront it. Today’s aspects are going to insist that you make a greater effort with the people closest to you.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
The end of one cycle signals the beginning of a new one. Today, you will embark on a new period of understanding that harmonizes your energies. You may have taken more risks than usual lately as you exposed emotions you normally keep hidden. Did you overdo it or could you have gone even further out on that limb? You have a period of clarity ahead to think about it.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
Have you noticed a certain strain on your emotions, Scorpio? You’re resilient, but even you have found all the recent intensity a bit too much. You can relax now. The next few weeks promise to be calmer. Sunnier skies will gradually return. Your efforts will concentrate on your love life. You know you need security and stability. If you work steadily, you will attain those goals!
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
he past few weeks may have seemed Earth shattering, Sagittarius. You may still be trembling slightly as you head into the coming weeks. Fortunately, the current astral configuration promises to be calmer, although not necessarily less intense. You will be able to apply recent decisions regarding your domestic life and finally settle some important matters.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
You may be sensitive, Capricorn, but you’re also persistent. The waves you’ve surfed in the past few weeks have only strengthened your resolve. However, you will have to be satisfied with this past period of thrills. The weeks ahead will be much quieter. Use the time to regain some control over your life and work hard to simplify your attitudes.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
Perhaps the last few weeks impressed you as one of the most intense periods yet in this year. You will certainly admit that anything related to affairs of the heart was endowed with profound and lasting meaning. It’s now time for a physical and psychological rest in order to let you fully integrate your experiences. The weeks ahead offer a calm and quiet oasis.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
The day ahead will suit you, but you mustn’t expect miracles. Now is a time of healing. In the weeks ahead you will restore harmony to your energies and regain your fitness with improved diet and lifestyle. Your emotional life gets an overhaul as well, as you find the courage to confront certain unsettling issues.
