Wednesday Jun 21, 2023

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Ex-boxer’s murder trial begins with jury selection

By THE STAR STAFF

After federal Judge Pedro Delgado rejected a request to reconsider a petition to move the murder trial against former boxer Félix Verdejo Sánchez to another jurisdiction, the trial against Verdejo for the slaying more than two years ago of Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz, who was pregnant with his child, began Monday in U.S. District Court with jury selection.

According to Telenoticias, the former boxer’s defense argued that because of the excessive publicity around the case, Verdejo will not be able to get an impartial jury.

The federal judge denied the petition and began the jury selection process.

Rodríguez Ortiz was murdered in April 2021, and the search for her body paralyzed the island after her family reported her disappearance and linked the former boxer to her death. After several days of searching, the authorities found her body in the San José lagoon.

Soon after, in early May 2021, Verdejo, a San Juanborn professional boxer who held the WBO Latino lightweight title from 2015 to 2017, turned himself in to face charges for the murder of his pregnant mistress.

Verdejo’s alleged accomplice pleaded guilty to the charges last November.

Luis Antonio Cadiz-Martínez pled guilty on two charges related to the murder of Rodríguez Ortiz and her unborn child. Cadiz-Martínez confessed to his role in the carjacking resulting in death and the killing of an unborn child in the abduction and murder of Verdejo’s former lover.

Per the terms of a months-long negotiation in exchange for a guilty plea, the federal prosecutor’s office is expected to recommend that Cadiz-Martínez serve between 30 years to life.

Rodríguez Ortiz’s sister and father arrived at the courtroom, as well as her mother, Keila Ortiz, who is one of the 30 witnesses in the case, according to the prosecutor’s office.

Verdejo’s mother, Madeline Sánchez, was also at the hearing.

“We are prepared. We have been preparing for a long time,” Verdejo’s lawyer said. “We will choose the jury. We look forward to finishing the selection process. We are confident that the jury we choose will issue its determination based on the evidence that will be seen at trial.”

Working women’s survey deadline extended

By THE STAR STAFF

The Office of the Women’s Advocate and the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics announced Tuesday that the deadline for filling out the Working Women’s Needs survey has been extended to June 30.

The questionnaire is available at the link: www. estadisticas.pr/ needs-woman and is aimed at women workers in the public and private sector, housewives, caregivers, entrepreneurs and the self-employed.

“Given the importance of knowing the needs and challenges of working women in Puerto Rico and subsequently promoting possible solutions in the short,

medium and long term, we decided to further extend the date to fill out the questionnaire,” said acting Womens’ Advocate Madeline Bermúdez Sanabria. “It’s easy to do, completely anonymous and confidential and only takes a few minutes. We urge you to please fill it out because it is a tool that will allow us to more accurately fulfill the mission of our Office for the benefit of women in all its facets.”

The questionnaire covers the following topics: current employment situation, work environment, breastfeeding, maternity, structure and needs of the house and home, quality of life, physical health and emotional health.

Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz

Businesses are advised to comply with minimum wage hike

By THE STAR STAFF

As an increase in Puerto Rico’s minimum wage will go into effect July 1, Labor and Human Resources Secretary Gabriel Maldonado González urged the business sector on Tuesday to comply with the new regulations.

Puerto Rico’s second automatic increase in the minimum wage will raise it from $8.50 per hour to $9.50 per hour. With limited exceptions, the increase will apply to all non-exempt employees covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Puerto Rico Minimum Wage Act, Act No. 47-2021, was enacted on Jan. 1, 2022.

“After more than a decade without increases in the federal minimum wage, the administration of Governor Pedro Pierluisi has taken a step forward in favor of thousands of workers with

a staggered increase,” Maldonado González said.

The next phase of the increase in the minimum wage in Puerto Rico will begin on July 1, 2023.

“Private employers must make the necessary adjustments to guarantee that the law is complied with as of that date,” the labor secretary added. “At the Department of Labor and Human Resources, we are available to advise workers who believe that their employers are not complying with the new rate.”

The increase stipulated by Act 47-2021 applies to all workers covered under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Law, except for workers in agriculture, municipalities, the federal government, executive, legislative, and the courts, as well as certain administrators, executives, and professionals in the private sector.

Employers who do not comply with the increase will face penalties and other legal remedies available to affected employees.

Cataño recognizes graduating seniors for academic achievements

By THE STAR STAFF

Amid graduation season, Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo announced Tuesday that more than 100 fourth-year graduates, from public and private schools in the municipality, have been awarded for their academic achievements.

Alicea Vasallo said Cataño is betting on the best resource it has for its future progress: its student body. The prizes consist of modern electronic tablets for the 113 students who achieved their fourthyear diploma. And the 15 students who obtained an ‘A’ average were also given an economic incentive.

“I am extremely proud of and pleased by the academic performance of this excellent sample of Catañesa youth,” the mayor said. “Each of them exemplifies the Puerto Rican youth who give their best to serve Puerto Rico. And that effort must be stimulated so that it continues to grow.”

The economic incentives were awarded according to academic average: $1,000 for students with a grade point average (GPA) of 4.0, $500 for students with a GPA of 3.80 to 3.99, and $200 for students with GPAs of 3.50 to 3.79.

The electronic tablets were given to each student who completed the graduation requirements of the fourth year, as certified by each public and private school in the municipality. The awards ceremony was held at the Cataño Convention Center.

“The academic excellence of our students is a priority goal of this administration,” Alicea Vasallo said. “We are one hundred percent committed to encouraging Catañesa youth to prepare and finish their fourth year successfully. We urge families to continue supporting their children in their studies, for which next year we will reward graduates, especially the most outstanding.”

Governor: Not possible to maintain joint regulation of permits as ordered by high court

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia insisted on Tuesday that it was not possible to maintain the joint regulation of permits of 2010 as established by the island Supreme Court, so he opted to put into force an emergency regulation basically the same as the one that had been declared null and void by the high court.

“The one that was issued by the emergency route is basically the same regulation that we had, because it is the most up-to-date,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “Going back to 2010 didn’t make

any sense, because then all the unique permits couldn’t be granted. The system has changed and other laws have changed since 2010. So we leave in application the one we have, but it is only temporary because the approval of a new joint regulation 2023 is already at the level of the final stage.” Pierluisi said the next joint permitting regulation should be ready in the coming months.

On Friday, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, declared the Joint Permit Regulations 2019 and 2020 null and void. In its determination, permits already granted under those regulations were valid, but going forward the regulations approved in 2010 had to be used.

Puerto Rico’s second automatic increase will raise the minimum wage from $8.50 per hour to $9.50 per hour.

The 113 students in Cataño schools who earned their fourth-year diploma received electronic tablets, and the 15 students who obtained an ‘A’ average also received an economic incentive.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi

TS Bret projected to pass well to the south of Puerto Rico

By THE STAR STAFF

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami projected on Tuesday that Tropical Storm Bret, which as of 5 p.m. was strengthening in the Atlantic Ocean, will pass well to the south of Puerto Rico.

On Tuesday morning the storm was 1,350 kilometers east of the Windward Islands, moving westward.

According to the NHC, Bret was moving at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour and had sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour. This general movement was expected to continue over the next few days.

On its current trajectory, Bret’s center could cross parts of the Lesser Antilles from Thursday afternoon through Thursday evening, then move across the eastern Caribbean Sea on Friday.

The NHC anticipated that Bret will strengthen in the coming days and was expected to remain a tropical storm when it reaches the Lesser Antilles on Thursday.

Tropical storm-force winds extend up to 75 kilometers from Bret’s center, and the estimated minimum central pressure is 1006 millibars.

In addition, the NHC warned about the possible rainfall that Bret could bring.

“Rainfall amounts of 4 to 6 inches, with maximum amounts of 10 inches, are possible in parts of the Lesser Antilles, from Guadeloupe south to St. Lucia,” the NHC reported. “Heavy rain could lead to flash flooding, especially in areas of higher ground. Isolated urban flooding is also possible.”

Meanwhile, the NHC issued a tropical storm watch for Barbados.

Fiscal board seeks entity to analyze healthcare workers shortage

By THE STAR STAFF

The Financial Oversight and Management Board is seeking an entity to conduct an analysis to understand and address shortages of healthcare workers in Puerto Rico, according to a request for proposals (RFP) document.

“The goal is to particularly understand the healthcare workforce supply and demand and the drivers of such, which is currently creating an imbalance in society,” the document noted. “The results will be our pointers in addressing the most acute healthcare workforce shortages in the commonwealth. Obtaining these key drivers will be the base for identifying targeted ideas to continue supporting the healthcare system.”

The selected entity must develop a survey methodology instrument to identify the healthcare workforce supply and demand imbalance, as well as what exactly are the fundamental drivers of supply and demand. The results will be used to help address the most acute healthcare workforce shortages on the island.

The selected entity will be required to conduct a comprehensive healthcare workforce survey in Puerto Rico that will include but is not limited to: design and development of survey instruments, data collection and analysis, and reporting and presentation of survey results and recommendations for workforce planning and development.

Vendors interested in submitting proposals must provide a company profile and qualifications, including relevant experience with surveys carried out in the health sector or related to the workforce; the proposed steps, timeline, milestones, deliverables, and resources required; and pricing.

The selected entity must deliver to the oversight board all data collected, not limited to raw data, data visualizations, analysis, or variables incorporated for measurement. In addition, the selected entity must include needs identified, recommendations and conclusions as part of the closure report

Interested parties have until July 14 to submit proposals to the oversight board, according to the June 15

RFP. The board will pay fees previously agreed upon with the contractor.

According to Health Department officials, more than 8,000 doctors have ceased to practice in Puerto Rico in the past 13 years. Based on those numbers, the island would have lost 46% of its doctors in little more than one decade.

A request for proposals issued by the Financial Oversight and Management Board said the purpose of a proposed study “is to particularly understand the healthcare workforce supply and demand and the drivers of such, which is currently creating an imbalance in society.”

Tropical Storm Bret was gaining strength in the Atlantic on Tuesday afternoon but was projected to pass well to the south of Puerto Rico. The National Hurricane Center issued a storm watch for Barbados.

The struggle on behalf of special needs students goes on

Service providers serve latest notice with protest at Education Dept.

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ Special to The STAR richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

Members of the Puerto Rican Special Needs Service Providers Association (APPSSRE by its Spanish initials) held a protest in front of the island Department of Education (DE) headquarters in San Juan on Tuesday morning with the intention of having their voices heard on an issue that is close to their hearts.

The organization claims that access to a public, free, and proper education is essential for the development of special needs students. However, the APPSSRE believes that it is at a crisis point with the DE because, the organization says, the agency has not been responsible regarding its obligation to provide public policies that support the optimal development of students with special needs.

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The APPSSRE believes that decisions regarding public policies must be based on scientific and ethical fundamentals that incorporate respect for the constitutional rules and the laws that govern the DE. The group also states that decisions that are made must be consulted under social justice criteria that reforms the continuous violation of rights they say is still being committed by the commonwealth agency.

On top of that, the association’s membership believes it is important to provide worthy and adequate conditions under private contracts, while it is also essential to promote conditions that offer stability to all service providers, and at the same time guarantee special needs students access to quality services that address their needs, as the federal Individuals with

Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and other local laws promote.

The main thing the APPSSRE was looking to accomplish with Tuesday’s demonstration was for the DE to ease communication with provisional remedy service providers. The companies have been more than willing to provide “private services,” for special needs students, the APPSSRE members said, yet they said they have witnessed their individual corporations become increasingly controlled by the agency.

The demonstrators expressed their genuine interest in continuing to serve the special needs student community; however, they said, an excessive number of impositions and sanctions have served to shield the DE from creating an authentic provisional remedy union. The provisional remedy union is supposed to provide the option for parents of special needs kids to choose private special needs services for their children. However, the APPSSRE believes that the provisional remedy union does not offer such justice to the special needs community, in part because the DE has total control over it.

Due to the absence of the Education secretary to continue the negotiating process that was initiated five weeks ago by the APPSSRE, the members said they decided to protest in front of DE headquarters to promote the establishment of agreements that guarantee therapy services to students in the Special Needs program through the 2023-2024 school year.

“The Department of Education has the obligation to cover the costs of student therapy on the Provisional Remedy Union private level; we are registered through Provisional Remedy, and through Provisional Remedy parents select a private provider and contract them,” Alice Dana Bobadilla, an educational therapist, told the STAR. “Our relationship is supposed to only be between parent and service provider. The

only concern the Department of Education has in this case is to pay for the services provided by these private entities. However, every year this process has become much harder; they are asking for requirements that should only be presented to entities that go in a direct contract with the department. We don’t have a direct contract with the department because we are private entities, and on top of that, the Department of Education doesn’t pay on time for the services we provide, so we must resort to loans to cover the services, because the Department of Education is not paying on time.”

The educational specialist added that she and her colleagues feel that the DE only wants to disable private providers and instead focus only on services that are directly working with the agency; however, Dana Bobadilla said, those services are not enough to meet the needs of the special needs students. That is why private entities exist, to give parents the option and the opportunity to have services provided for their children even when the DE can’t provide them immediately.

“The department not only makes it hard for service providers to offer their services, but it also makes it excessively difficult for parents to get the services their children need,” she said. “Sometimes they even have to come all the way to the Department of Education headquarters to battle so their children can get the services they need. A lot of parents don’t have the resources or transportation to drive all the way to the headquarters. It’s not fair. The Department of Education has one of the highest budgets on the entire island; they can’t possibly say that they don’t have the money to pay on time or to organize this situation.”

Dana Bobadilla added that even though the service providers have had direct communication with the provisional remedy union director, she does not have the power to make decisions that involve clear communication between the department and private entities.

Meanwhile, a mother who was also taking part in the protest told the STAR that “the Department of Education has not cared one bit about any of the claims we have been making for weeks.”

“I am personally very unhappy with … the online platform MIPPE, which is supposed to be working so that my child’s case can be processed,” she said. “My child has very specific therapies that he needs, and yet the programming of this platform does not allow these therapies to be provided the exact way my child needs them. We went to a public hearing last year in September, [where] representatives of the department even stated that the situation is due to economic issues of the department, because they save money by not paying to fix the platform and the more services they deny, the less money they have to pay. They don’t care about our children at all.”

of the demonstrators, an educational therapist, said the private entities that provide special needs services exist for the very purpose of giving parents the option to have those services provided for their children even when the island Education Department can’t immediately provide them. (Richard Gutiérrez/The San Juan Daily Star)

Federal policy on homelessness becomes new target of the right

By JASON DePARLE

The bipartisan approach that has dominated federal homelessness policy for more than two decades is under growing conservative attack.

The policy directs billions of dollars to programs that provide homeless people with permanent housing and offer — but do not require them to accept — services such as treatment for mental illness or drug abuse. The approach, called Housing First, has been the subject of extensive study and expanded under presidents as different as George W. Bush and Barack Obama. President Joe Biden’s homelessness plan makes Housing First its cornerstone and cites it a dozen times.

But Housing First has become a conservative epithet.

Republican lawmakers, backed by conservative think tanks and programs denied funding by Housing First rules, want to loosen the policy’s grip on federal dollars. While supporters say that housing people without preconditions saves lives by getting them off the streets, critics say it ignores clients’ underlying problems and want to shift funding to groups such as rescue missions that demand sobriety or employment. Some even blame Housing First for the growth in homelessness.

“No more Housing First!” said Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., after introducing a bill last month that would offer more money for programs with treatment mandates.

Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, used two recent hearings to argue that Housing First ignores the root causes of homelessness. The Cicero Institute, a Texas policy group, is promoting model state legislation that bars Housing First programs from receiving state funds. A documentary it produced with PragerU, a conservative advocacy group, cuts between critiques of Housing First and footage of people living in tents on the street and shots of drug use.

The escalating war over an obscure social service doctrine is partly an earnest policy dispute and partly an old-fashioned rivalry between groups seeking federal funds. But it is also a new ideological and political flashpoint, with former President Donald Trump and others on the right using it to promote their argument that homelessness in liberal cities is an indictment of Democratic governance more broadly.

Joe Lonsdale, the tech mogul behind the Cicero Institute, has called Housing First part of a “Marxist” attempt to blame homelessness on capitalism, and Trump, in seeking a return to office, has pledged to place homeless people in “tent cities.”

“The attack on Housing First is the most worrisome thing I’ve seen in my 30 years in this field,” said Ann Oliva, CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, an advocacy group with bipartisan roots. “When people have a safe and stable place to live, they can address other things in their lives. If critics succeed in defunding these successful programs, we’re

going to see a lot more deaths on the street.”

Until Housing First emerged a generation ago, services for homeless people were built on a staircase model: Clients were meant to progress from shelters to transitional programs, where training or treatment would ready them for permanent apartments. In practice, services were weak and failure rates high, with large numbers of noncompliant people returning to the streets.

The new approach flipped the script, offering housing first — subsidized apartments with no preconditions — and hoped that residential stability would promote further advancement. Supporters emphasized that Housing First was not “housing only”; it included services like psychiatric treatment, but on a voluntary basis.

Although skeptics feared that troubled people would leave or get evicted, early results were impressive.

After five years, 88% of the clients in a New York City program called Pathways to Housing remained housed, compared with 47% in the usual system of care. Despite the lack of treatment mandates, Pathways clients were no more likely than those in the regular system to report mental illness or substance abuse. A large experiment covering five Canadian cities achieved similar results.

Citing such studies, supporters praise Housing First as unusually “evidence based.”

Contemporaneous research also offered hopes of cost savings. While most people entering shelters were quickly rehoused, work by Dennis Culhane of the University of Pennsylvania showed that a small minority became chronically homeless and consumed tens of thousands of dollars of services in jails and emergency rooms — roughly what it cost to house them. Supporters hoped Housing First would prove “not

only more humane but for some people potentially cheaper,” Culhane said.

Housing First exploded from a model to a movement under a Republican administration. Philip F. Mangano, the Bush administration’s top homelessness official, proved relentless in promoting Housing First programs, and the approach, which initially targeted the chronically homeless, broadened to a wider range of people experiencing homelessness.

The Obama administration placed a preference for Housing First into the main federal grant programs, which now provide about $3 billion a year to local groups. From 2007 to 2016, chronic homelessness fell by more than one-third.

For social workers used to seeing people languish on the streets, a breakthrough seemed at hand.

“I can still feel the emotion — ‘Wow, we can house everyone!’” said Adam Rocap, deputy director of Miriam’s Kitchen, a social services agency in Washington. Optimism about ending homelessness ran so high, he said, some of the agency’s staff members asked if they should seek other jobs.

Since 2007, the stock of permanent supportive housing has more than doubled to 387,000 beds, while the Department of Housing and Urban Development found 582,000 people were homeless on a single night last year, and researchers estimate the number experiencing homelessness in a year could be three times as high.

Some recent studies have noted limits on what the programs achieve. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2018 found “no substantial evidence” that supportive housing improved clients’ health. Likewise, the medical journal The Lancet found “no measurable effect” on the severity of psychiatric problems, addiction or employment.

Still, proponents say Housing First has succeeded where it matters most — getting people off the streets.

“Getting people out of homelessness quickly is more important than anything, because life on the streets is so dangerous,” Culhane said. “The evidence shows that Housing First is a very successful policy. Undoing it would be a disaster.”

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People sleep unsheltered on a sidewalk in downtown San Diego, April 6, 2023. The bipartisan Housing First approach that has dominated federal homelessness policy for more than two decades is under growing conservative attack.

Rescuers estimate missing Titanic tour sub has 40 hours of air left

By MIKE IVES and JOHN ISMAY

The U.S. Coast Guard was racing against time Tuesday and facing a host of extreme logistical challenges, including crushing pressure deep below the ocean, to find a deep-diving submersible and its five-person crew in the North Atlantic.

The submersible, the Titan, had been in the area to explore the wreck of the Titanic when it lost contact Sunday morning with a chartered research ship at the dive site. At the time, the 22-foot-long vessel was more than halfway into what should have been a 2 1/2-hour dive.

The submersible is thought to be equipped with only a few days’ worth of oxygen, and as of 1 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday there was probably about 40 hours of breathable air left, said Capt. Jamie Frederick of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Frederick added that an area larger than Connecticut was being searched, but those efforts “have not yielded any results” and more ships and aircraft were heading to the site.

Even if the Titan can be located — in a remote patch of ocean where the seafloor lies more than 2 miles below the choppy surface — retrieving it will not be easy. That is partly because even the best divers cannot safely go more than a few hundred feet below the surface.

To recover objects off the seafloor, the U.S. Navy uses a remote-operated vehicle that can reach depths of 20,000 feet. But ships that carry such a vehicle normally move

no faster than about 20 mph, and the Titanic wreck lies about 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

Here’s what to know:

— Four of the five people in the craft have been identified so far. They are Hamish Harding, a British businessperson and explorer; British-Pakistani businessperson Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman; and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French maritime expert who has been on over 35 dives to the Titanic wreck site.

— The Titan submersible is operated by OceanGate Expeditions, a company that has provided tours of the Titanic wreck since 2021 — for a price of up to $250,000 per person — as part of a booming high-risk travel industry. OceanGate has described the trip on its website as a “thrilling and unique travel experience.”

— The occupants of the submersible were headed to the site of one of history’s most famous shipwrecks. The Titanic sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg while sailing to New York from Britain on its first voyage, killing about 1,500 people. For explorers, the Titanic was the holy grail of shipwrecks until it was discovered on the seafloor in 1985. Even now the level of public interest in the tragedy — and pernicious misinformation about it — remains very high.

— Many other details — why the submersible lost contact with the research vessel, and whether it is capable of transmitting a distress signal — were not clear as of Tuesday morning.

Judge in Trump documents case sets tentative trial date as soon as August

By ALAN FEUER, MAGGIE HABERMAN and CHARLIE SAVAGE

The federal judge presiding over the prosecution of former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case set an aggressive schedule Tuesday, ordering a trial to begin as soon as Aug. 14.

The timeline set by Judge Aileen Cannon is likely to be delayed by extensive pretrial litigation — including over how to handle classified material — and its brisk pace seems in

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keeping with a schedule set under the Speedy Trial Act. In each of four other criminal trials the judge has overseen that were identified in a New York Times review, she has initially set a relatively quick trial date and later pushed it back.

The early moves by Cannon, a relatively inexperienced jurist who was appointed by Trump in 2020, are being particularly closely watched. She disrupted the documents investigation last year with several rulings favorable to the former president before a conservative appeals court overturned her, saying she never had legitimate legal authority to intervene.

Brandon L. Van Grack, a former federal prosecutor who has worked on complex criminal matters involving national security, said the trial date was “unlikely to hold” considering that the process of turning over classified evidence to the defense in discovery had not yet begun. Still, he said, Cannon appeared to be showing that she intended to do what she could to push the case to trial quickly.

“It signals that the court is at least trying to do everything it can to move the case along and that it’s important that the case proceed quickly,” Van Grack said. “Even though it’s unlikely to hold, it’s at least a positive signal — positive

in the sense that all parties and the public should want this case to proceed as quickly as possible.”

But it is not clear that the defense wants the case to proceed quickly. Trump’s strategy in legal matters has long been to delay them, and the federal case against him is unlikely to be an exception. If a trial drags past the 2024 election and Trump wins the race, he could, in theory, try to pardon himself — or he could direct his attorney general to drop the charges and wipe out the case.

In public remarks after the indictment against Trump and one of his aides, Walt Nauta, was filed two weeks ago in U.S. District Court in Miami, the special counsel, Jack Smith, who oversaw the investigation, said he wanted a speedy trial.

The schedule that Cannon set in her order Tuesday clearly does that, requesting that all pretrial motions be filed by July 24.

She also ruled that the trial — and all the hearings in the case — will be held at her home courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida, a small town in the northern portion of the Southern District of Florida. Trump’s arraignment was held in the federal courthouse in Miami.

A photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions in 2021 showing the company’s Titan submersible. It is now missing.

With commuters staying home, transit agencies try to reinvent themselves

By SOUMYA KARLAMANGLA

Rush hour is now anything but at the Montgomery Street station in the heart of San Francisco.

Gone are the laptop-toting workers jostling into trains beneath the high-rise offices of lucrative tech companies. At 5:30 p.m. on a recent weekday, a woman hauling oversized shopping bags with three young girls easily secured several rows of seating.

Three years after the pandemic began, remote work endures as a way of life for many office workers, and few major transit systems in the United States have suffered worse than Bay Area Rapid Transit. The 131-mile network depends heavily on suburban residents who commute daily into San Francisco and less than other transit systems on local passengers trying to get across town.

Weekday ridership on BART is down to 32% of what it was before the pandemic began, punctuating a desperate moment for San Francisco. Without daily foot traffic, major retailers are abandoning downtown, and analysts believe the city core has yet to bottom out. Homeless encampments and open drug use have further discouraged visitors, while passengers have complained about safety and a lack of cleanliness.

BART officials are starting to come to terms with a future that no longer revolves around a downtown work culture. They are considering whether to pivot toward serving more concertgoers and sports fans on nights and weekends.

Across the United States, transit systems that have relied for decades on office workers are scrambling to avoid financial collapse as commuters stay home. Many systems are asking their local governments for bailouts as federal pandemic relief runs dry, but they are also racing to reinvent themselves.

Kansas City, Missouri; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Boston have experimented with eliminating fares. Dallas is offering subsidized Uber rides to transit users. The Washington Metro is investing in housing and retail shops at dozens of its stations.

“If anyone says that they know the way out of this difficult situation, they’re fooling themselves,” said Brian D. Taylor, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. “This is a really challenging time.”

In the San Francisco region, BART was created a halfcentury ago to alleviate congestion as more commuters headed into the city for work. Before the pandemic, the system was so popular that trains were often overcrowded. There was talk of spending $15 billion to build a second underwater tunnel to ferry even more train passengers into downtown San Francisco.

But riders who had packed BART trains have also

proved to be a liability in a post-COVID world in which tech workers and other professionals have stayed home.

BART has one of the nation’s lowest public transit rates compared with before the pandemic, according to data from the American Public Transportation Association. Other California agencies are faring better than BART’s 32% — the San Francisco-focused Muni line is at 58%, Los Angeles’ bus and train system is also at 58% and the AC Transit bus system, based in Oakland, is operating at 54% capacity. The New York City subway and bus network is at 72%.

In California, after transit agencies pleaded for help, the state Legislature agreed last week to provide $1.1 billion over three years to avoid harsh cuts in public transportation. State lawmakers also decided to redirect $2 billion from transit infrastructure to daily operations — a sign that once-bullish expansion dreams are giving way to survival needs. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who had initially proposed slashing transit funds to reduce a $32 billion state budget deficit, still has to approve the budget proposals.

In the Bay Area, saving BART is also a matter of saving San Francisco. City leaders fear that transit cuts will further discourage office workers and tourists, making recovery even more difficult and creating a “doom loop.”

BART stands to gain a sizable share of the state funding passed by the Legislature. Robert Powers, BART’s general manager, said he also hoped that changes such as shifting the train schedule to serve more leisure riders would buy the system time until it could find new funding or commuters return.

“We do think that the downtown economies in

the Bay Area are going to bounce back,” Powers said. “We firmly believe that, and we’re going to be ready. We’re going to be there for the riders.”

Other transit agencies are experimenting with incentives and services.

Next month, the Metro in Los Angeles will let passengers ride for free after they pay a certain amount each day or week.

Denver is offering free trips on its bus and rail system throughout July and August. The SEPTA system in Philadelphia is selling steeply discounted monthly transit passes to employers, including Wawa convenience stores and Penn Medicine, to discourage workers from driving.

In Seattle, children have been able to ride public transit for free since last fall, an effort to cultivate the next generation of public transportation users, said Dow Constantine, county executive of King County. The county also provides a free transit pass to anyone who sees a hockey or a basketball game at Climate Pledge Arena in downtown Seattle.

Constantine said he wanted the efforts to rebuild ridership “in what I think is a permanently changed environment.”

Large-scale changes that would increase transit use — more development near stations, congestion pricing or limiting parking in cities — generally are not in the purview of transit agencies, said Ethan Elkind, an environmental law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who wrote a book on the history of the Los Angeles subway system.

“You can put the New York City subway in the middle of Oklahoma and you wouldn’t have any ridership — that’s kind of the harsh reality for American transit,” Elkind said. “There’s only so much they can do with service and fares to lure riders back.”

In many cities, riders may need to go to the office only on Wednesdays. Or they want to pick up their children from school in the middle of the day or make a run to the grocery store.

Dallas Area Rapid Transit, which operates buses and rail in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, unveiled a bus network last year that scrapped some lesser-used routes, including a few that had been in place since World War II. DART also has increased the frequency of its more popular routes to make bus transportation more convenient for impromptu trips.

The Dallas agency has worked with Uber to provide discounted rides to customers that allow them to reach destinations that buses and trains do not. For $6, riders can purchase a day pass that covers the cost of rail, bus and Uber rides, said Gordon Shattles, an agency spokesperson.

“The only thing we couldn’t move was the rail tracks,” Shattles said.

People inside a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train during the rush hour in San Francisco, on June 14, 2023. Local transit officials are starting to come to terms with a future that no longer revolves around a downtown work culture.

Affordable housing woes paint a ‘bleak picture’

But industry setbacks have decreased the likelihood that the nation will fill its shortage of affordable homes. The gap widened by more than 500,000 homes during the pandemic, leaving a national shortage of 7.3 million homes for extremely lowincome renters, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

“Just as pandemic eviction moratoriums were expiring and resources were being depleted, the lowest-income renters entered a really brutal housing market,” said Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the housing coalition. “Rents are skyrocketing, costs across the board have increased with heightened inflation, and they have few to no resources to pay.”

Costs for materials and labor remain stubbornly high. Developers are responding by cutting back, including eliminating amenities, using cheaper materials, setting higher income cutoffs and reducing the number of affordable apartments on projects that mix affordable and market-rate homes.

Community Preservation Corp., a nonprofit affordable housing financier in New York.

The overwhelming majority of affordable housing that is built comes from private developers that team up with public agencies and tap public subsidies.

Late last year, the NRP Group was trying to rescue a deal to build Los Arcos at Vida, an affordable project in San Antonio.

Construction costs were originally $110,000 a unit in April 2021, but by December, interest rates had soared and the per-unit cost jumped to $151,000. NRP found itself $7.75 million short and in trouble, because much of its public funding was contingent on the deal’s closing that year.

“Our motto here is, time kills deals,” said Debra Guerrero, NRP’s senior vice president of strategic partnerships and government affairs. Luckily, NRP was able to close the gap through city bonds and federal funding and break ground.

By PATRICK SISSON

Erika Velez considers herself lucky. A 31year old single mother in San Antonio, she had been struggling to find a place to live since last June, when she fell behind on rent and spent months bouncing between sleeping on friends’ couches and in her car.

Then in November she received a call that brought tears to her eyes: A twobedroom house at Mirasol Townhomes, a public housing development of town houses and single-family homes, had opened up for just $675 a month. Her previous monthly rent of $950 strained her salary as a dispatcher for a home cleaning service. But now she could afford a home with money to spare for herself and her 8-year-old daughter, who plastered her new bedroom with pictures of favorite anime characters.

“There’s a lot of people in San Antonio who struggle with finding housing,” Velez said. “It’s just out of their price range.”

Her experience echoes the broad challenges created by an affordable housing shortage in the United States. Builders have been stymied since the pandemic by addi-

tional challenges, including higher costs for materials and labor, stricter lending practices, rising interest rates and supply chain hiccups.

The uncertainty threatens to further slow the process of building affordable homes. So many developments have been sidetracked or delayed that some experts expect a “production cliff” to hit in a year or so, meaning fewer new homes coming onto the market.

“When I started my career 30 years ago, the topic of affordable housing was usually limited to really lower-income clientele, industries and jobs,” said Albert Milo, president of the affordable housing division of the Related Group, an urban developer. “Now, it’s diametrically different. Most areas of the country are talking about teachers, police officers, nurses, professionals struggling to find housing that is affordable for their income.”

In 2021, 160,000 affordable homes and apartments were produced nationwide, said Benson Roberts, president and CEO of the National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders.

For affordable housing, builders and financiers cobble together different sources of public and private funding. But piecing together the “capital stack” — the complete financing package, which can include loans, tax credits and subsidies — has become more challenging.

Lenders have become skittish about investing after several midsize banks failed this year. Interest rates are climbing fast, adding to costs. Every quarter-point increase in the cost of loan can add $1 million to the cost of their developments, said Jonathan Gertman, senior vice president at the NRP Group, an affordable housing developer.

A key federal tool to finance these builders, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, has lost some of its value as interest rates have climbed, and the volume of loans issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for apartment buildings has fallen by half this year. Even operating expenses for existing buildings have risen, which means companies that run them make less money, hampering their ability to invest in new projects.

“It’s the most difficult time I’ve seen in my 30 years in business, a pretty bleak picture,” said Rafael E. Cestero, CEO of the

Developers need to navigate the same city zoning regulations and permitting processes that regulate all construction projects. The industry needs reforms of zoning codes and more federal funding, said Jenny Schuetz, a Brookings Institution researcher and housing expert. The policies are simple, she added, but the politics of making them reality are challenging.

Local governments, including in Montana and Massachusetts, have increasingly altered zoning and permitting practices to speed up building. Others have invested pots of “soft money” — long-term loans with exceptionally low interest rates.

San Antonio, the most impoverished major city in the country, according to census data, has enacted policies to help lowincome renters, including a $150 million bond issue to support affordable housing construction and a Strategic Housing Implementation Plan. Before the pandemic, the wait list for public housing in San Antonio was roughly 35,000 families, earning an average of $11,000 annually, said Ed Hinojosa Jr., president and CEO of Opportunity Home, the city’s housing authority. Today, it’s 95,000.

“The need has never been as high as it is now,” Hinojosa said. “And with the trends we’re seeing, it’s just going to keep growing.”

Marisol Townhomes, an affordable housing project in San Antonio, June 10, 2023. Developers of affordable housing have been stymied since the pandemic by additional challenges, including higher costs for materials and labor, stricter lending practices, rising interest rates and supply chain hiccups.

Wall Street ends lower, pausing rally as Powell testimony looms

U.S. stocks softened on Tuesday, closing in negative territory as investors began the holiday-shortened week by taking profits in the wake of a sustained rally amid signs of weakening global demand.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s congressional testimony Wednesday could be a potential market mover.

All three major U.S. equity indexes ended the session in the red but off session lows, with oil super-majors Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp weighing on the S&P 500 and the Dow.

The broad sell-off comes on the heels of the Nasdaq’s longest weekly winning streak since March 2019, and the S&P 500’s longest since November 2021.

Including Tuesday’s loss, the benchmark S&P 500 has advanced 14.3% so far this year.

“The market is trying to test whether these recent gains are going to stick,” said Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth in Fairfield, Connecticut. “The market runs in cycles and the most recent rally has surprised a lot of people.”

Investors now look to Powell’s two-day testimony before Congress, starting with the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, which will be scrutinized for clues regarding how long the central bank will keep its restrictive policy in place.

“The Fed hasn’t given these hikes much time to have a real impact on the economy,” Pavlik added.

“I don’t know what the Fed sees that the rest of us don’t see,” Pavlik said. “Inflation is not running as rampant as it was. We’ve seen it at the grocery stores and we’ve seen it at the pump.”

Concerns over slowing global demand loomed larger after China cut its lending benchmarks to jump start sluggish demand, which offset a 21.7% surge in housing starts, the largest monthly jump in thirty years.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 245.25 points, or 0.72%, to 34,053.87, the S&P 500 lost 20.88 points, or 0.47%, to 4,388.71 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 22.28 points, or 0.16%, to 13,667.29.

Of the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500 all but consumer discretionary stocks ended in negative territory.

Energy shares suffered the largest percentage drop, falling 2.3% in the sector’s biggest daily drop in over a month, as signs of weakening Chinese demand sent crude prices sliding.

Electric vehicle rivals Rivian Automotive Inc and Tesla Inc rose 5.5% and 5.3%, respectively, after Rivian announced it had agreed to adopt Tesla’s charging standard.

PayPal Holdings rose 3.7% after KKR & Co agreed to purchase up to 40 billion euros ($43.71 billion) worth of the payments firm’s “buy now, pay later” loans in Europe.

Nike slipped 3.6% after Morgan Stanley said it expects

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U.S.-listed shares of Alibaba Group dropped 4.5% after the e-commerce company announced Daniel Zhang would step down from his roles as CEO and chairman to focus on the company’s cloud division.

Adobe Inc fell 1.9% after a report that European antitrust regulators were preparing to investigate the firm’s deal to buy cloud-based designer platform Figma.

By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD

Russian forces opened fire on rescue workers in the flood-stricken Ukrainian city of Kherson on Tuesday, killing one and injuring eight others responding to the catastrophic effects of a major dam’s destruction.

The monthslong bombardment of Kherson, which Russian soldiers once occupied in southern Ukraine, has not let up since an explosion two weeks ago destroyed the Kakhovka dam upstream on the Dnieper River and unleashed torrents of floodwaters. Emergency workers have struggled under artillery fire to evacuate thousands of people from submerged homes while also responding to the devastation.

On Tuesday, Ukraine’s interior ministry said unarmed State Emergency Service workers in Kherson had come under “heavy shelling.” Calling the workers heroes, it said in a statement that “killing rescuers during the

elimination of one of the largest man-made disasters” was “a manifestation of fear.”

Andriy Yermak, the head of the office of

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, said on the Telegram messaging app that the Russian army had fired at rescue workers

who were clearing silt.

Aid workers have said that the active fighting in the region has created huge hurdles to delivering help, already complicated by the flooding itself. Even as the waters have receded, the consequences of the disaster have spread. Pollutants and pathogens moving downstream on the Dnieper River and into the Black Sea have prompted the Ukrainian health authorities to warn about the risk of waterborne disease.

The shelling that killed the emergency workers Tuesday was part of dozens of Russian strikes on the Kherson region over the past 24 hours. A man was killed in shelling Tuesday morning and an ambulance crew also came under fire, according to the regional military administration.

A total of 57 strikes — from mortars, artillery, tanks and rockets — hit the region Monday, it said in a separate statement, adding that five people were injured in those attacks.

Russian shelling kills flood rescue worker in Kherson, Ukrainian officials say Northern India endures a heat wave, and a wave of deaths

By ALEX TRAVELLI and HARI KUMAR

An unusually intense heat wave has swept across northern India in the past week, with some hospitals in the state of Uttar Pradesh recording a higherthan-usual number of deaths. Doctors there are convinced there’s a link between the punishing temperatures and the deaths of their patients, but officials are investigating what role the dangerous combination of heat and humidity played in the rise in mortality.

In Ballia District, population about three million, the daily high temperature over the same period has hovered around 43 degrees Celsius (above 109 degrees Fahrenheit), nine degrees hotter than usual, alongside relative humidity as high as 53%. Dozens of deaths were recorded at hospitals there on June 15, 16 and 17.

Dr. Jayant Kumar, the chief medical officer of Ballia District, near the state of Bihar, said that 23 people died in the district last Thursday. The next day, 11 more suc-

cumbed. “The number of deaths has been more than normal,” Kumar said.

He told the Press Trust of India, a news agency, that on average, eight people usually die per day. “Most of these are natural deaths,” he told The Times in a phone interview, “most of the dead being elderly people suffering from different ailments like diabetes.”

But Indian government officials have pushed back against linking the deaths too directly to the punishing heat.

Dr. Diwakar Singh, formerly the chief medical superintendent of Ballia District, told reporters on Friday night that 34 people had died of heatstroke at the main hospital under his oversight. The next day, he was reprimanded by the state government for prematurely drawing that conclusion and removed from his position.

The government has since sent a scientific team from the state capital, Lucknow, to investigate the causes.

Singh’s replacement, Dr. S.K. Yadav, took a more cautious line on Sunday, saying, “Elderly patients with comorbidities like hypertension and diabetes are expiring because of heat.”

“Still,” he added in a phone interview, “the death numbers are more than normal.” He agreed with Kumar’s assessment that the excessive heat was to blame for the high death toll, whatever the exact link.

While an extraordinary number of patients were being admitted for heat-related distress, Yadav said, “we are able to provide beds to all the patients, and we have enough doctors and medicines.”

The nightmarish prospect of mass deaths caused by a sudden rise in temperatures has become more urgent in recent years. And the phenomenon in this area of the world

may portend a warning beyond India’s borders.

The heat in this part of India has been hovering around the critical “wet-bulb temperature,” the threshold beyond which the human body cannot cool itself to a survivable point by perspiration, defined as 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit), adjusted for 100% humidity. The wetbulb reading in Ballia on Saturday reached 34.15 degrees Celsius (about 93 degrees Fahrenheit).

It is expected that more older or infirm patients than usual will die in heat waves like this one, which climate change has made more common across India’s historically scorching plains, as in most of the world, scientists say.

The shelling that killed one emergency worker and injured eight others Tuesday was part of dozens of Russian strikes on the Kherson region over a 24-hour period.

A resident painting her roof with reflective paint to keep her home cool in Jodhpur, India.

In Argentina, inflation passes 100% (and the restaurants are packed)

By NATALIE ALCOBA

Wineglasses clinked in an art nouveau culinary gem basking in its restored splendor. It was tasting night in the more than century-old coffeehouse turned restaurant at the old Buenos Aires zoo, as beet tartare, pan-seared squid and a perfect rib-eye floated out of the kitchen, chased by a velvety chocolate mousse.

“As you can see, we are betting hard on the opportunity of the food scene in Argentina,” said Pedro Díaz Flores, on a tour of the restaurant, Águila Pabellon, that he co-owns — the 17th food venture he has opened in Buenos Aires in the past 18 months.

In Buenos Aires, Argentina’s cosmopolitan capital, a world-class culinary scene is flourishing. That would not necessarily be news if it were not for the fact that Argentina is in the middle of an extraordinary financial crisis.

Inflation is at more than 114% — the fourth highest rate in the world — and the street value of the Argentine peso has crumbled, dropping about 25% over a three-week period in April.

Yet it is the peso’s downfall that is fueling the restaurant industry’s upswing. Argentines are eager to get rid of the currency as quickly as they can, and that means the middle and upper classes are going out to eat more often — and that restaurateurs and chefs are plunging their revenues back into new restaurants.

“Crises are opportunities,” said Jorge Ferrari, a longtime restaurant owner who recently reopened a historic German eatery that had shut down during the coronavirus pandemic. “There are people who buy cryptocurrencies. There are people who go toward other sorts of capital markets. This is what I know how to do.”

The boom, in a way, is a facade. Everyone appears to be out having a good time. Yet, in much of the country, Argentines are scraping by and hunger is on the rise.

And in wealthier circles, the rush to go out is a symptom of a shrinking middle class that, no longer able to afford bigger purchases or travel, is choosing to live in the here and now because people do not know what tomorrow will bring — or if their money will be worth anything.

“The consumption that you have is consumption for satisfaction — happiness in the moment,” Ferrari said.

The city of Buenos Aires, which has been trying to promote its culinary scene, has been tracking the volume of plates sold at a sample of restaurants each month since 2015. The most recent numbers, for April, show that restaurant attendance is at one of its highest levels

since tracking began, and 20% higher than at its highest point in 2019, before the pandemic began.

It is not just venerable hot spots that are thriving. In Buenos Aires, under-the-radar residential zones have suddenly become destinations for foodie influencers, which then quickly leads to new crowds of porteños, as residents of the capital city are known.

There are cocktail bars with mixology magicians, drag shows while you dine, vegan bakeries, verdant patios and fusions of global cuisines from chefs who apprenticed in kitchens all over the world. One “it” spot, Anchoita, a modern twist on Argentine fare, has no reservations available until next year.

While the devaluing currency has also drawn tourists back to Buenos Aires as the pandemic has ebbed, it is the locals who are out in full force.

The restaurant boom is a phenomenon that cuts across classes, said Santiago Manoukian, an economist at a Buenos Aires consulting firm, Ecolatina, though it is largely driven by middle- and upper-income earners, many of whom have had their earnings keep up with inflation, but have still had to adjust to the crisis.

For members of the middle class in particular, expenditures such as a vacation or a car have become largely out of reach, so they are indulging in other ways.

But even lower-income gig workers, who saw their earnings shrink by 35% since 2017, according to data gathered by Ecolatina, are dining out before their money devalues even more, Manoukian said.

“It’s a product of the distortions that the Argentine economy suffers from,” he said. “You have extra pesos that are going up in

smoke because of inflation, and you have to do something because you know the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

In an orchard in Buenos Aires next to a tennis court, Lupe García, who owns four restaurants in the city and another just outside it, reached down and broke off what looked like a miniature watermelon but was actually a cucamelon, a fruit about the size of a blackberry.

She was surrounded by lettuce, parsley, mint, alfalfa and purple shiso leaves used for tempura in one of her restaurants. The garden, owned by García and run by agronomists from the University of Buenos Aires, reflects the changing taste of locals, which García’s dining venues have helped cultivate.

She opened her latest establishment, Orno, a Neapolitan- and Detroit-style pizzeria, in February in the trendy neighborhood of Palermo.

Still, though the inflation crisis has brought more customers to restaurants, it has also added another layer of complexity to their operations.

To save on expenses, García has swapped printed menus in all of her restaurants for QR codes for websites that her team can quickly modify.

“Your provider brings you beef, and they tell you it’s 20% more,” she said, “and you have to turn around and raise all the prices.”

Nevertheless, García said, the explosion of restaurant openings makes it an exciting time to be in the business, as competitors brainstorm how to creatively bring in diners.

“It’s also in the DNA of porteños to go out every day,” she noted. “I don’t know if there are many cities where people go out as much as they do in Buenos Aires.”

At a bustling new street-food strip in an alley near Buenos Aires’ Chinatown, Victoria

Palleros was waiting for noodles at Orei, a ramen hot spot that often sells out.

“I think the generation before us thinks more about saving, but not us,” said Palleros, 29, a government worker.

Many Argentines purchase physical U.S. dollars to save, but “buying $100 is almost half of a young person’s monthly salary,” she said, adding, “And, honestly, I think you’d rather make plans like these and live well during the week, rather than live really tight every month.”

Palleros would love to be able to save up to buy an apartment, she said, but that is impossible.

Mariano Vilches and Natalia Vela, a married couple who found themselves amid hordes of people at a Sunday afternoon French food fair, came to a similar conclusion about enjoying life as much as they can despite the economic hardships.

Vela, 39, an administrative assistant, said they could no longer afford to travel, but still eat out roughly three times a month. “It also satisfies a basic need,” added Vilches, 43, a real estate agent. “You have to eat. You don’t have to buy that coat.”

As a result, places such as Miramar, in the working-class neighborhood of San Cristóbal, have remained packed at lunch and dinner. The iconic eatery, with salami dangling at the entrance and pictures of tango lyricists framed on the wall, has seen its share of financial crises since its doors first opened in 1950.

But now, even as Argentina enters perhaps one of its worst economic moments, Miramar is busier than ever, said Juan Mazza, the manager.

“I don’t know if it’s a contradiction,” he said. “The crisis is here. So with the little money that I have, I want to enjoy.”

Street-food patrons in an alley hot spot near Chinatown in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 27, 2023.

China’s rebound hits a wall, and there is ‘no quick fix’ to revive it

By KEITH BRADSHER, DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI and CLAIRE FU

When China suddenly dismantled its lockdowns and other COVID precautions last December, officials in Beijing and many investors expected the economy to spring back to life.

It has not worked out that way.

Investment in China has stagnated this spring after a flurry of activity in late winter. Exports are shrinking. Fewer and fewer new housing projects are being started. Prices are falling. More than 1 in 5 young people is unemployed.

China has tried many fixes over the past few years when its economy had flagged, including heavy borrowing to pay for roads and rail lines. And it spent huge sums on testing and quarantines during the pandemic. Extra stimulus spending now with borrowed money would spur a burst of activity but poses a difficult choice for policymakers worried about the accumulated debt.

“Authorities risk being behind the curve in stimulating the economy, but there’s no quick fix,” said Louise Loo, an economist specializing in China in the Singapore office of Oxford Economics.

China needs to right its economy after closing itself off to the world for almost three years to battle COVID, a decision that prompted many companies to begin shifting their supply chains elsewhere. Xi Jinping, China’s leader, met Monday with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an attempt by the two nations to lower diplomatic tensions and clear the way for high-level economic talks in the weeks ahead. Such discussions could slow the recent proliferation of sanctions and counter measures.

China’s halting economic recovery has

seen only a few categories of spending grow robustly, such as travel and restaurant meals. And those have increased in comparison with extremely low levels in spring 2022, when a two-month lockdown in Shanghai disrupted economic activity across large areas of central China.

The economy has been particularly weak in recent weeks.

“From April to May to now, the economy has experienced significant unexpected changes, to the point where some people believe that the initial judgments may have been overly optimistic,” Yin Yanlin, a former deputy director of the Chinese Communist Party’s top economic policymaking commission, said in a speech at an academic conference on Saturday.

Chinese government officials have been dropping hints that an economic stimulus plan may be imminent.

“In response to the changes in the econo-

mic situation, more forceful measures must be taken to enhance the momentum of development, optimize the economic structure, and promote the continuous recovery of the economy,” the country’s State Council, or cabinet, said after a meeting on Friday led by Li Qiang, China’s new premier.

China’s economic weakness holds benefits and dangers for the global economy. Consumer and producer prices have fallen for the past four months in China, putting a brake on inflation in the West by pushing down the cost of imports from China.

But weak demand in China may exacerbate a global slowdown. Europe dipped into a mild recession early this year. Rapid interest rate increases in the United States have prompted some investors to bet on a recession late this year there as well.

Beijing has taken some steps to revitalize economic growth. Tax breaks are being introduced for small businesses. Interest rates on bank deposits have been reduced to encourage households to spend more of their money instead of saving it. The latest government measure was announced Tuesday, when the state-controlled banking system reduced its benchmark interest rates for corporate loans and home mortgages.

But many economists, inside and outside China, worry about the effectiveness of the new measures.

Consumers are hoarding cash and investors are wary of putting money into China’s companies. Private investment has actually declined so far this year compared with 2022. Housing remains in crisis, with developers borrowing more to pay existing debts and to complete existing projects, even as China suffers from an oversupply of homes.

China’s housing market stands at the heart

of its troubles. Construction has accounted for as much as a quarter of China’s economic output. But would-be homeowners have been put off as developers have defaulted on their debts and failed to finish apartments buyers had paid for in advance.

Housing construction has fallen nearly 23% in the first five months of the year, compared with the same months last year. That suggests the real estate sector has further to fall in the coming months.

Chen Leiqian, a 27-year-old marketer in Beijing, started looking for an apartment with her boyfriend in 2021 after five years of dating. But they then decided to stay put in a rental apartment when they married.

“Housing prices across the country are falling, and the economy is very bad — there are just too many unstable elements,” Chen said.

Two-thirds of Chen’s co-workers in her department at an online tutoring company were laid off after China cracked down on the for-profit, private education industry in 2021. She also had a friend who could no longer pay a mortgage after losing a job in the tech sector, and lost the home in foreclosure.

The caution of middle-class families like Chen’s may pose the biggest dilemma for policymakers as they search for an effective formula for another round of economic stimulus.

“You can throw money on people but if they are not confident, they will not spend,” said Alicia Garcia-Herrero, chief economist for Asia-Pacific at Natixis, a French bank.

Although the sagging real estate sector has hurt demand inside China, exports have been flat this year and actually declined in May. The weakness of China’s normally powerful exports is particularly noteworthy because Beijing has allowed its currency, the renminbi, to lose about 7% of its value against the dollar since mid-January. A weaker renminbi makes Chinese exports more competitive in foreign markets.

More exports help create jobs and could compensate for the otherwise slack domestic economy. But it’s not clear how much China will be able to count on exports to help as some of China’s biggest trading partners have moved some purchases to other countries in Asia.

In the United States, the Trump administration imposed tariffs on a wide range of Chinese industrial goods, making it more expensive for American companies to buy from China.

Then President Joe Biden persuaded Congress last year to authorize broad subsidies for American production in categories such as electric cars and solar panels. China’s exports to the United States were down 18.2% last month compared with May last year.

Attendees at the Nio electric vehicle booth at Auto Shanghai 2023 in Shanghai, China, on Wednesday, April 19, 2023.

He’s no Jack Kennedy

By MICHELLE COTTLE

Let’s just go ahead and say the quiet part out loud: Robert Kennedy Jr. — the nephew of John F. Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy — is a bit of a crank.

This is not breaking news. The 69-year-old scion of America’s most famous political family has been peddling anti-vaccine hysteria since long before COVID-19 made it trendy, along with a spicy stew of other conspiracy theories. Notable offerings: that the 2004 presidential election was stolen by Republicans, psychopharmaceuticals are responsible for mass shootings and the CIA had a hand in the assassination of his uncle.

But now Kennedy is looking to take his screwball act prime time, challenging President Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. The troubling part is that this guy has a non-negligible degree of support.

Multiple polls from recent months show backing for Kennedy hovering around 20% among Democratic-inclined voters — not enough to pose an existential threat to Biden, but sufficient to give some in the party the jitters. The last thing Democrats want is some conspiracy-mongering fringe dweller highlighting the vulnerability of the party’s reelectionseeking incumbent. And the last thing the American public needs in this twitchy political moment is another high-profile circus act.

It’s no mystery what’s going on. The only reason anyone

cares what Kennedy thinks or says is because of his political pedigree. The Kennedy name ain’t what it used to be, but it still speaks to plenty of voters. (Sooo much Camelot nostalgia lingering out there.) In a recent CNN poll, 64% of Democratic voters and leaners said they would support or at least consider supporting Kennedy’s White House run, with 20% of those who would consider it citing his political lineage as the top reason.

This is about more than one overromanticized family. The American electorate has a long-running, if tortured, romance with political dynasties in general. We love to grumble about them. Another Bush running for office? Another Clinton? Come on. But we also love to embrace them, up and down the political ladder. Just ask the Roosevelts or the Udalls or the Sununus or the scores of other clans for whom politics has become the family business.

There is nothing inherently wrong with this inclination. In many ways, voters going with the devil they think they know makes perfect sense — but only if they avoid letting a candidate’s familiar name become a lazy substitute for a real measure of the person.

Many Americans find the whole concept of political dynasties distasteful. Legacy politicians can carry a whiff of inherited power and entitlement that seems downright undemocratic. Way back in 2013, when the political world was waiting for Jeb Bush to become the third member of his family to run for president, his doting mother, Barbara, shared her reservations: “I think it’s a great country, there are a lot of great families, and it’s not just four families or whatever,” she told the “Today” show. “There are other people out there that are very qualified, and we’ve had enough Bushes.”

This maternal wisdom proved painfully on point for poor Jeb. And, several years on, the Republican Party has gone all in on trashing “professional politicians” — or pretty much anyone with a clue about or an interest in how government works. The more ignorant and unqualified you are, the more the base loves you. (See: Marjorie Taylor Greene.)

Still, no one is entitled to any elective office by virtue of their birth. That said, there is a case to make in appreciation of candidates who hail from families that take public service seriously and who are familiar with the weird world of politics. Exhibit A is Nancy Pelosi, the most formidable and effective House speaker in more than 60 years, who learned much about her craft growing up in a local Democratic dynasty in Baltimore.

Plenty of Americans follow their families into a particular field, be it the military, law enforcement, teaching, acting or journalism. So if George P. Bush wants to run for this or that office in his home state of Texas, more power to him. And if voters choose to smack him down, as they did in the Republican primary for state attorney general last year, good on them. (Although sticking with Ken Paxton instead? Really?)

But there is a dark side to all of this. Certain dynastic players can begin to feel — and behave — as though they

are entitled to elected office, treating the honor as if it is not something to be earned so much as handed down like a family heirloom or a dry-cleaning business. That way inevitably leads to trouble.

Just as problematic, and far more common, is when voters treat a well-known political name as a substitute for seriously vetting a candidate’s fitness for office. As one poll respondent mused to CNN about the colorful Kennedy: “I liked his dad (RFK) and his uncle (JFK) a lot. I would hope he has a similar mindset.” Woo, boy. Cross your fingers that this voter does some due diligence before casting a ballot.

Being born into a political family doesn’t magically make you qualified for office. As scholar Stephen Hess, who literally wrote the book on America’s political dynasties, has pointed out, the offspring of these high-powered clans all too frequently turn out to be extremely ... problematic. At the risk of sounding harsh, for every Beau Biden, there is a Hunter.

Seriously, if you think Kennedy’s presidential aspirations are troubling — and you should — best start trying to wrap your mind around what a Trump dynasty could look like. Gov. Ivanka? Sen. Jared? President Don Jr.? Mock if you must. But spend a minute on the campaign trail with Don Jr. and it’s clear he has developed a taste for it. And voters in the Republican base love him.

As chilling as this thought may be, it points to the democratic twist that America has put on political royalty. Our dynasties are not fixed. As Hess has noted, they are forever shifting and expanding. Influential families fall out of favor even as new ones rise up. And anyone can aspire to start their own power clan. Which makes it all the more important for voters to pay attention and refuse to give an easy pass to any candidate, no matter how storied his or her family tree.

Isla Municipio de Culebra recibirá moderno Centro de Salud Primaria

CULEBRA – La Isla Municipio de Culebra contará con un nuevo Centro de Salud Primaria 330 gracias a una donación inicial de un millón y medio de dólares por parte de Direct Relief, informó la directora ejecutiva de HealthproMed, Ivonne Rivera, el martes.

“Esta inversión de dos millones y setecientos mil dólares, será un gran paso hacia la mejora de la calidad de vida de los residentes de la isla”, destacó Rivera.

El alcalde de Culebra, Edilberto Romero, mostró su entusiasmo: “Este proyecto representa y valida una vez más el verdadero compromiso de HealthproMed. Estamos seguros de que marcará una gran diferencia en la vida de nuestros residentes”.

La Comisionada Residente, Jenniffer González, resaltó: “El acceso a los servicios de salud no debe estar condicionado ni al poder adquisitivo del paciente ni a

su lugar de residencia. Por eso respaldo la labor de los centros 330 y aplaudo el trabajo de las organizaciones sin fines de lucro, como DIRECT RELIEF, para cerrar la brecha de la desigualdad”.

La nueva estructura será resiliente, moderna, autosustentable energéticamente y con capacidad tecnológica para telemedicina. Además, este proyecto creará alrededor de 30 empleos durante la etapa de construcción y asegurará unos 13 empleos entre directos e indirectos a través de la prestación de servicios, apoyando así el desarrollo económico de la isla.

“Este nuevo Centro de Salud Primaria proveerá atención primaria, bajo los criterios y exigencias de calidad clínica que nos impone el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de los Estados Unidos”, añadió la Licenciada Rivera, quien proyecta que la construcción comience en el último trimestre de 2023.

Están trancados a la banda dice gobernador sobre posición de la JCF sobre cambios laborales

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CAROLINA

– Para el gobernador Pedro Rafael

Pierluisi Urrutia, la posición de la Junta de Control Fiscal sobre la Ley 119 del año 2022 que aumenta la licencia por vacaciones de los empleados públicos es una postura ideológica.

“Hay diferencias ideológicas entre la Junta y mi Administración. Mi visión es que un período de descanso razonable para la fuerza trabajadora, al igual que un número de días de licencia por enfermedad razonable, propende, propicia mayor productividad. Esa es mi planteamiento. La Junta no está de acuerdo. Le sometimos evidencia, pero es como no están

de acuerdo con el planteamiento, pues la rechazan y piden más. Seguiremos sometiendo todos los informes que quieran, pero lo que les anticipo es que aquí lo que hay son unas diferencias ideológicas”, dijo el gobernador a preguntas de la prensa.

“Se les certificó que en este caso, que no hay impacto fiscal, lo certificó tanto OGP como Hacienda, pero pues insisten que quieren mayor detalle, mayor profundidad, pero ya te digo que lo que se nota es que están trancaos a la banda, no les agrada el tema. Ellos no ven con buenos ojos el que uno le dé un mayor número de días de vacaciones al personal público y de igual manera mayor número de días de enfermedad. Ellos ideológicamente están en contra

de eso, es una Junta bien conservadora todavía. Y en el caso de las enmiendas a la ley, a la reforma laboral, fue parecido. Ahí lo que se veía se caía de la mata, de lo que estábamos hablando eran de diferencias ideológicas, imponiendo su visión cuando realmente en aquel caso no tenía nada que ver con el gobierno, que es todavía más alarmante”, añadió.

La semana pasada, la entidad creada bajo la Ley Federal Promesa le envió una carta a Gobierno en la que ella está dispuesta a darse la licencia por vacaciones de los empleados públicos. El Gobierno expresaba que a su entender incumplieron con presentar evidencia del impacto fiscal que tendría el estatuto.

Frito-Lay realiza una retirada voluntaria de salsa de aguacate Tostitos por alérgenos no declarados

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Frito-Lay anunció el martes una retirada voluntaria de algunos frascos de salsa de aguacate Tostitos de 15 onzas que podrían contener un alérgeno no declarado de leche.

Aquellas personas con una alergia o sensibilidad severa a la leche corren el riesgo de sufrir una reacción alérgica grave o potencialmente mortal si consumen estos productos.

Aunque el frente del frasco afectado está correctamente etiquetado como salsa de aguacate Tostitos, la parte posterior del frasco está mal etiquetada con la in-

formación nutricional y las declaraciones de otro producto. Como resultado, el alérgeno leche no está declarado en la etiqueta.

El producto cubierto por esta retirada se distribuyó a nivel nacional en tiendas minoristas y a través de canales de comercio electrónico. Los consumidores habrían podido comprar los frascos a partir del cinco de abril de 2023.

No se han retirado otros productos, sabores, tamaños o packs de variedades de salsas Tostitos. No se han reportado reacciones alérgicas relacionadas con este asunto hasta la fecha. Si los consumidores tienen una alergia o sensibilidad severa a la leche, no deben con-

sumir el producto y desecharlo inmediatamente. FritoLay ha informado a la FDA de esta acción.

Los consumidores con el producto descrito a continuación pueden contactar con las relaciones con el consumidor de Frito-Lay al 1-800-352-4477 (de nueve de la mañana a cuatro y media de la tarde, hora central, de lunes a viernes).

El producto retirado específicamente es la salsa de aguacate Tostitos empaquetada en un frasco de vidrio de 15 onzas, con un código de barras UPC que termina en 05597. Las fechas de caducidad ubicadas en el borde superior del frasco son el dos de noviembre de 2023 o el tres de noviembre de 2023.

Science fiction from Latin America, with zombie dissidents and aliens in the Amazon

By EMILY HART

Aspaceship lands near a small town in the Amazon, leaving the local government to manage an alien invasion. Dissidents who disappeared during a military dictatorship return years later as zombies. Bodies suddenly begin to fuse upon physical contact, forcing Colombians to navigate newly dangerous salsa bars and FARC guerrillas who have merged with tropical birds.

Across Latin America, shelves labeled “ciencia ficción,” or science fiction, have long been filled with translations of H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson and H.G. Wells. Now they might have to compete with a new wave of Latin American writers who are making the genre their own, rerooting it in their homelands and histories. Shrugging off rolling cornfields and New York skylines, they set their stories against the dense Amazon, craggy Andean mountainscapes and unmistakably Latin American urban sprawl.

The avalanche of original science fiction is timely, arriving as many readers and writers in Latin America feel choked by the folksy tropes of magical realism and desensitized by realist depictions of the region’s struggles with violence.

“Latin America has been a region of ‘today,’” Rodrigo Bastidas said in a phone interview. He is a co-founder of the Bogotá-based Vestigio, one of a few small, independent publishers of Latin American science fiction novels. “People do not have time to think about the future because they were too busy surviving the present — civil wars, revolution, dictatorship — so a lot of our literature was realist. We had a testimonial necessity.”

The current starburst of storytelling shines a different light on the region, he said: It is emancipatory, proposing freedom from recycled stories and foreign heroes.

“We are realizing that the future isn’t something we need to borrow or take from other people,” Bastidas said. “We can appropriate it, empowered by science fiction. We can create it ourselves.”

Latin American science fiction writers are leaving behind imported landscapes and story lines and setting their tales against the Amazon, Andean mountainscapes or unmistakably Latin American urban sprawl.

The writing, in Spanish and Portuguese, is radical and idiosyncratic, teeming with technoshamans and futuristic Indigenous aesthetics while also influenced by the region’s European and African heritages. Troubled histories and the

urgency of the present inspire it, too, with themes of colonization, the climate crisis and migration.

“We need to reappropriate our future and stop thinking that we are a small, forgotten place in history, somewhere even the aliens would never come,” Colombian author Luis Carlos Barragán, a polestar for this wave, said in a phone interview. His work is Douglas Adams meets Jonathan Swift, with feet firmly on Colombian soil but head high in the cosmos.

Latin American science fiction writing goes back well over a century but has often been isolated, with less circulation than the English-language titans of the genre and no integrated regional tradition or market. Because of labyrinthine export requirements that used to make it nearly impossible to sell books outside the country of printing, editors and writers would carry their work across borders themselves, lugging suitcases stuffed with books.

Political and economic crises in Latin America in the 20th and early 21st centuries repeatedly laid waste to compensated writing and production. Few publishers would take a risk on a new or local author when Philip K. Dick was a sure seller. High paper prices and devalued local currencies made publishing even harder.

But energetic fans sustained the work, with zines passed around on floppy disks, photocopied and then read online. Increased digital access widened the space for science fiction readers and writers, and then the pandemic accelerated the sharing and discovery of what had become a sprawling and impassioned community.

“We saw that we aren’t the weirdos at the party anymore,” Bastidas said. “Similar things were happening all over the place.” Bigger publishers such as Minotauro (an imprint of Planeta) are starting to publish more original work, though small ones are still the lifeblood of the genre. Bets on little-known authors and original writing are paying off: Sales are up.

As the galaxy of local science fiction communities came into closer contact, they shared ideas and developed

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tactics: Publishers began to seek investment in book production through platforms such as Kickstarter and started to publish online or simultaneously with other imprints, aided by the expansion of book sales by Amazon in the region.

After beating their own path for years, Latin American science fiction writers are winning awards outside their borders, including in Spain and the United States, and garnering academic interest, including in North America: Yale held its first conference on Latin American science fiction in March. Writers are also pulling in a breadth of tropes and influences that are often made anarchic, feminist, queer or un-

derworldly, including noir, fantasy, Lovecraftian New Weird and punk styles made Latin American — grimy steampunk, urban cyberpunk, virtual reality set in slums or pirates flying over the Andes in zeppelins.

There is even rural “gauchopunk” complete with gaucho androids dreaming of electric emus, conjured by Argentine writer Michel Nieva in a tongue-in-cheek reference to Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

“We don’t leave anything ‘pure,’” Cuban author Erick Mota said. “We have contaminated things par excellence, and only by accepting mixture do we become ourselves and our own. There’s not a single sci-fi concept we haven’t taken and adapted to our context, turned mestizo.”

In the high Andes of Peru and Ecuador, work inspired by neo-Indigenism proliferates, casting cosmologies and aesthetics forward in time to flourish as space travel, robotics or virtual reality.

Writers in Argentina and Colombia have created a wave of body-horror-influenced science fiction known as splatterpunk, few more gag-inducing than Hank T. Cohen of Colombia or Agustina Bazterrica of Argentina, whose “Cadaver Exquisito” (“Tender Is the Flesh”) was a phenomenon on TikTok. It has been translated into multiple languages, and a television adaptation is in production.

In Brazil, Afrofuturism has taken flight, with an explosion of science fiction inspired by African heritage and culture. The works are linked closely to a rising movement against structural racism in the country, including by writers such as Ale Santos, published by HarperCollins Brasil.

In Mexico, writers such as Gabriela Damián Miravete use sci-fi to confront the epidemic of violence against women in their country. In “They Will Dream in the Garden,” which was translated into English and won the Otherwise Award, Damián gives victims a second life, building a world in which the minds of murdered women are digitally captured in holograms that “live” together in a garden.

Latin American experiences of otherness and progress

pervade the new writing, particularly the label of “developing country,” rendered meaningless in distant futures or by alien invasions. Bastidas’ wryly titled anti-colonial anthology “El Tercer Mundo Después del Sol,” or “The Third World From the Sun,” was published across the Spanish-speaking world, including in Spain, where science fiction from Latin America has rarely gained traction.

In Barragán’s telescopic satire “Tierra Contrafuturo,” or “Earth Against Future,” the United States threatens to invade Colombia to manage an alien arrival, claiming that Colombia is not up to the job. Intergalactic councils demand that Earth apply for membership. The planet fails to meet the criteria to be considered civilized, and its application is rejected.

Mota finds uncharted ground in not merely rethinking the future but rewriting the past. “Habana Undergüater” imagines that the Soviet Union won the Cold War and that Americans sought refuge in Cuba, arriving on boats to try to start new lives in rundown or flooded neighborhoods. Pushing further back, Mota’s most recent novel, “El Foso de Mabuya,” or “Mabuya’s Tomb,” envisions leviathans destroying Christopher Columbus’ expedition before it arrives in the Americas and paints the continents as united under Indigenous peoples.

“We live in a time when the United States and Europe are reconsidering their histories of slavery and of colonization,” he said. “With this writing, we can overcome some old traumas.”

Immediate crises have fed subgenres such as Latin American climate fiction, or cli-fi — speculative works concerned with the environment — including the work of Ramiro Sanchiz of Uruguay, Edmundo Paz Soldán of Bolivia and Rita Indiana of the Dominican Republic, whose books are available in English. They weave climate apocalypses, time travel and virtual reality with Yoruba mythology, Amazonian deforestation and ayahuasca-inspired psychedelic plants. Also on the rise is virus fiction born during the coronavirus pandemic; call it vi-fi. A new novel by Nieva, a winner of the O. Henry Prize, is “La Infancia del Mundo” (“The Infancy of the World”), a Kafkaesque dengue fable. And Uruguayan writer Fernanda Trías won international acclaim with “Mugre Rosa” (“Pink Slime”), a prescient combination of climate and pandemic fiction that has been translated into seven languages, in which a plague arrives on a red poisonous wind and a food crisis leaves humanity with nothing to eat but pink goo.

Short stories that play with science fiction are attracting attention in the hands of writers including Liliana Colanzi of Bolivia and Samanta Schweblin of Argentina, who is now widely translated and whose “Seven Empty Houses” won the National Book Award for translated literature last year.

Even Mars is being rewritten: Colanzi’s publishing house has, as she puts it, “one foot in the jungle, the other on Mars,” and she trod the planet in her newest collection, “Ustedes Brillan en lo Oscuro,” or “You Glow in the Dark.”

“Mars was already very colonized by Anglophone science fiction” Colanzi said. What she wanted, she said, was “to have the liberty to really create my own Martian colony.”

Whether it’s rewriting ancient worlds or conceiving new ones, the region is seeing “an explosion of imagination,” Barragán said.

“The shadow of Anglophone science fiction has been over us for a long while,” he said. “But we are rethinking what it is to be Latin American.”

The writing can bring together threads of the region’s cultures, blending Indigenous aesthetics with European and African heritages.

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Isabel Sanchis: At the top of the industry

By IRIS EDÉN SANTIAGO Special to The STAR

For 30 consecutive years, Isabel Sanchis has been dreaming, sketching and producing looks that have captivated the industry, bewitched followers and pleased critics all over the world. If I would have to guess I would say the art of creating beauty through silhouettes, color and textiles is part of her DNA. It’s in her blood. Oh. add to that the art of consistency … because we all know a fashion designer is as good as the last collection showed.

Sanchis is at the top of her game. Just recently she added a new prestigious award to her prolific career, “Best Fashion Collection Fall Winter 2023” at this year’s Madrid Fashion Week.

“This collection is strong, powerful, volumetric,” Sanchis said. “It dresses the woman we all want to be.”

Talking about the woman she has in mind when creating a collection, Sanchis is globally minded.

She explained that she designs for “all and every woman,” not a particular one.

“We think about all kinds of women, because we sell (our clothing line) in the United States, Europe, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates,” she said. “We design for all cultures and sizes; that is why we have variety in each collection, so that any woman can see herself represented in our brand.”

The gifted Spanish couturier has two signature elements that have worked magic for the brand since the beginning: flowers and volume. Her designs are feminine and powerful. Flowers are not used just to accessorize, flowers are statements. Her use volume is also fabulous.

Blouses with dramatic long sleeves, roman tic wide cuffs and

soft bows are objects of desire. Sanchis masters couture techniques of yes terday and utilizes them with a contemporary approach that results in very cool, clever, and modern pieces. Her collections, while highly polished and architectural, are wearable and functional. While per fectly worthy of being exhibited in museums, these creations are designed to be bought and worn. They belong in your closet. Her FW2024 collection is brilliant and full of favorites. Shoulder pads, cut-out waists, hardware, Swarovski ornaments and halter tops. Sanchis presented pleated and draped goddess inspired designs in her signature black, also orange, yellow, pistachio, and chocolate. Yes, imagine that. Vaporous evening gowns in one of the most forgotten and complex colors to pull off -- choc olate. And actually making it glamorous. Sheer silk dresses were accented with glittering hardware in the shape of circles, snakes and ovals for perfect Red Carpet looks. She also redefined the power suit, especially tailored suit jackets. Pleated suit jackets we all adore: sharp lines, rich textiles, and bold colors like gray, or ange and black are fantas tic. We loved the slim-fit suit jackets in houndstooth patterns, simply perfection. Add the monochromatic oversized flower on the la pel, and you have got your self a conversation piece.

By CHRISTINA CARON

In 2022, Stacy Batten said, her “whole year was on fire.”

Her husband died of cancer, and her father died after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer. And she moved across the country from Seattle to Fairfield County, Connecticut, after selling the home that she had lived in for 26 years.

In her devastation, she noticed that she felt better when she looked for the good parts of each day. So, she took a large Mason jar and turned it into a “gratitude jar,” which she now keeps on her nightstand.

Every night, she writes down a few things for which she is grateful on a scrap of paper and drops it inside. They are often as simple as “I met a new neighbor” or “I took a walk with the dog and my mom.”

“The grief is still there,” said Batten, 56. “But writing those daily notes has helped.”

Two decades ago, a landmark study led by psychologist Robert Emmons sought to understand how people benefit from gratitude, a question that scientists had rarely explored until then.

Emmons’ findings — which suggested that gratitude may improve psychological well-being — inspired a spate of addi-

tional research. To date, numerous studies have found that having a grateful outlook, “counting one’s blessings” and expressing gratitude to others can have positive effects on our emotional health as well as on interpersonal and romantic relationships.

In addition, some studies, but not all, have shown that gratitude can benefit physical health.

“Gratitude heals, energizes and changes lives,” Emmons said. “It is the prism through which we view life in terms of gifts, givers, goodness and grace.”

Here is more about why gratitude is so powerful and how can we incorporate it into our daily lives.

What is gratitude?

Gratitude is a positive emotion that can arise when you acknowledge that you have goodness in your life and that other people — or higher powers, if you believe in them — have helped you achieve that goodness.

In other words, the sources of the good things “lie at least partially outside the self,” Emmons said.

You might feel gratitude when someone is kind to you, for example.

But “feeling it is only half the equation,” said Philip Watkins, a professor of psychology at Eastern Washington University and the author of “Gratitude and the

Good Life.” Expressing gratitude is equally important to reap the benefits of this emotion, he said.

How does it benefit you?

Many studies have asked participants to write letters of thanks or to list the positive things in their lives, and then measured the effects of those acts.

The results suggest that performing these types of activities provides mental health benefits — reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety, increasing self-esteem and improving satisfaction with daily life. But some studies have noted that gratitude interventions are not necessarily more effective than other kinds of activities to enhance well-being, such as asking people to write about the details of their day. Even so, that doesn’t make gratitude activities any less useful, the experts said.

Multiple studies have shown that expressing gratitude to acquaintances, coworkers, friends or romantic partners can offer a relationship “boost” and “helps bind us more closely,” said Sara Algoe, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who has researched how gratitude aids relationships.

What’s more, when analyzing people’s dispositions, researchers have found that those who are more prone to experience gratitude in their daily lives have lower levels of depression and sleep better.

And not only does gratitude improve the well-being of the giver and the recipient, but it may also be good for those who witness it: Watching an act of gratitude between two people can cause an observer to feel more warmth and affinity toward them both.

One moment a day is enough.

The studies on gratitude don’t indicate how often we ought to express gratitude or how best to put it into practice. But many experts believe that a small dose of gratitude, once a day, is ideal.

“I think the benefits of gratitude activities truly unfold through long-term habits,” said Joel Wong, a professor of counseling psychology at Indiana University’s School of Education, who is studying whether expressing gratitude in a six-week group program can help people with depression.

To develop an enduring gratitude

habit, try linking your gratitude practice to an already ingrained routine, Wong said. He chooses to think about what he’s grateful for in the morning.

“I try to do it when I first turn on the computer at work,” he said.

Gretchen Schmelzer, a psychologist in Philadelphia who regularly incorporates gratitude exercises into her work with clients, said it could be especially useful during difficult times. Earlier this year, she fell while hiking and broke both legs, leading her to use a wheelchair for six weeks.

To avoid spiraling into negative thoughts while she continues to heal, she tells herself each day to “be thankful for what you can do — and not let yourself focus on what you can’t do,” she said.

“Gratitude allows us to look at what we do have and to feel abundance,” she added.

Finally, although many studies have shown the value of writing a letter expressing appreciation, it doesn’t have to be lengthy or time-consuming. A quick email or text can do the trick.

Be specific.

Imagine that your partner is thanking you for cleaning up the kitchen after dinner. Which statement would you rather hear?

“Thank you!”

Or: “I am grateful that you took the reins and handled all the kitchen duties tonight. I love how we take turns to give one another a break.”

Specificity matters “because it deepens our experience of gratitude,” Wong said. “It intensifies our grateful emotions and thoughts.”

Wong has created a list of 100 questions that may serve as useful prompts when thinking about gratitude in a more specific way, whether you are thanking someone else or listing the things in your life that you feel grateful for. When doing this exercise, Wong suggests putting pen to paper.

“The act of writing slows down our thinking process and allow us to ponder more deliberately,” Wong said. “By writing, we retain a permanent record of our blessings; we can return to our gratitude journaling months or years later to recall what we were grateful for.”

Giving, receiving and even witnessing gratitude can improve your well-being, especially during difficult times.

Gratitude really is good for you. Here’s what the science shows.

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Monserrate Vélez Ramírez también conocida como María

Vélez Morales, en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Portador, por la suma de $25,000.00 con intereses al 15% anual y vencimiento a la presentación

Constituida por la Escritura #4, otorgada en Mayagüez, el 23 de febrero de 2000, ante el Notario Luis F. Carlo Mendoza, e inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 1,450 de Mayagüez, finca

36,600, e inscripción octava.²

HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Añasco, por la suma de $107,000. 00 con intereses al 6.75% anual y vencimiento el 1ero de enero de 2034. Constituida por la Escritura #656, otorgada el 4 de diciembre de 2003, ante el Notario Ángel Iván Del Toro Matos. Asiento abreviado, e inscrita al folio 219 del tomo 1,536 de Mayagüez, finca

36,600, e inscripción novena. ¹ Dicho gravamen no afecta en forma alguna el trámite de ejecución de hipoteca toda vez que el mismo fue cancelado mediante Instancia presentada al Registro de la Propiedad el 20 de octubre de 2022, por haberse constituido el mismo hace más de 20 años. ² Dicho gravamen no afecta el trámite de ejecución que la Cooperativa ostenta llevar a cabo toda vez que de la propia Escritura #656 de Primera Hipoteca se desprende “que de los fondos del refinanciamiento otorgado se está pagando el balance de cancelación de la hipoteca que grava la propiedad inmueble antes mencionada objeto de esta escritura pública, mediante cheque mostrado a las partes comparecientes, con el propósito de que se cancelará dicha hipoteca. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día

1 DE AGOSTO DE 2023; A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Oficina del Alguacil Mayagüez, Alguacil, la cantidad mínima a aceptarse en la primera subasta será de $107,000.00. Dicha venta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el balance que refleja el préstamo hipotecario por la suma la suma de: 129,445.74 , de los cuales $83,618.33 corresponden al principal adeudado, $31,748.65 por concepto de intereses, $2,004.64 de escrow, $1,374.12 de recargos, $10,700.00 de honorarios de abogado que corresponden al 10% de la deuda según pactado en el pagaré. Si en la primera subasta no se produjese la venta del inmueble antes descritos, la SEGUNDA SUBASTA se efectuará el día 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2023; A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Oficina del Alguacil, la cantidad mínima aceptada será de $71,333.33 (2/3). Si en esta segunda subasta no se produjese adjudicación, entonces la TERCERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 15 DE AGOSTO DE 2023; A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Oficina del Alguacil,

y el tipo mínimo de subasta a aceptarse será de $53,500.00 (1/2). Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento y se le adjudicará al demandante la finca objeto de este procedimiento, dentro de los diez (10) días subsiguientes a dicha tercera subasta por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Para mejor información las personas interesadas pueden examinar los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Este edicto de subasta se publicará una vez por semana por espacio de dos semanas en un diario de circulación general en Puerto Rico y en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistente. Se entenderá, que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se expresará que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. El abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, PO Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, teléfono 787-265- 0334 / 787265-0335. DADA en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 02 de junio de 2023. JOSÉ M. CRESPO NAZARIO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN CPD, LLC.

Demandante V. HÉCTOR MANUEL MALDONADO ROSADO, ANA GONZÁLEZ GONZÁLEZ AND THEIR CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP / Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR ELLOS COMPUESTA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2022CV01396.

Sala: 402. Sobre: CONSENT JUDGMENT / SENTENCIA POR CONSENTIMIENTO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA,

EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia, expedido el 9 de marzo de 2023 por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Bayamón, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 5 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LA(S) 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Bayamón, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero veinticuatro (24) del bloque HS de la urbanización Levittown, radicada en el Barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos treinta y tres punto cincuenta (333.50) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en veintitrés (23.00) metros, con el solar veintitrés (23); por el SUR, en veintitrés (23.00) metros, con el solar veinticinco (25.00); por el Este, en catorce punto cincuenta (14.50) metros, con Gregorio Ledesma, según plano calle setecientos tres (703); y por el OESTE, en catorce punto cincuenta (14.50) metros, con los solares quince (15) y dieciséis (16). Enclava una casa”. Finca número 12,296 inscrita al folio 46 del tomo 200 de Toa Baja del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Bayamón. Dirección Física: 24 HS Gregorio Ledesma Street, Urb. Levittown, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico 00949. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Servidumbres a favor de Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales, Puerto Rico Telephone Company, Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, Municipio de Toa Baja, Condiciones Restrictivas de edificación y uso. Por sí: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma de $125,000.00, con interés al 7.95%, y vencedero el 1ro de agosto de 2019, según consta de la escritura número 443, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de julio de 2004, ante el Notario Público Víctor R. Núñez Arco, inscrita al folio 208 del tomo 613 de Toa Baja, inscripción 7ª. MODIFICACIÓN DE HIPOTECA: Es objeto de

esta modificación la Hipoteca por $125,000.00, que surge de la inscripción 7ª, según consta de la escritura número 113, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de abril de 2011, ante el Notario Público Melvin E. Rodríguez Torres, inscrita al folio 208 del tomo 613 de Toa Baja, inscripción 7ª (nota marginal). MODIFICACIÓN DE HIPOTECA: Es objeto de esta modificación la Hipoteca por $125,000.00, que surge de la inscripción 7ª, según consta de la escritura número 72, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de febrero de 2014, ante el Notario Público Gadiel O. Rosario Rivera, inscrita al folio 208 del tomo 613 de Toa Baja, inscripción 7ª (nota marginal).

EMBARGO FEDERAL: Contra Héctor Maldonado Rosado (5381), caso # 769057211, por $24,160.33, presentado el 31 de marzo de 2011 al asiento 5, folio 172 del tomo 6 de Embargos federales de Toa Baja. Servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta de la Finca número 12,296 la suma de $111,664.92 según acordado por las partes en la Escritura Número 113 de Modificación de Hipoteca y Cancelación

Parcial otorgada el 14 de abril de 2011 ante el Notario Público Melvin E. Rodríguez Torres. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Bayamón, el día 12 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LA(S) 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta será dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $74,443.28. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Bayamón, el día 19 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LA(S) 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $55,832.46. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a CPD, LLC., ascendente a las siguientes sumas adeudadas al 3 de enero de 2023, una suma no menor de $164,025.51, la cual se desglosa de la siguiente

manera: Nota: Nota A. Balance de Principal: $109,962.46. Intereses: $16,089.46. Cargos por demora y otros cargos: $439.84. Nota: Nota B. Balance de Principal: $37,533.75.

Intereses: $0.00. Cargos por demora y otros cargos: $0.00. Además, la Parte Demandada

adeuda la suma de $11,166.49 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado expresamente pactados por las partes. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, 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 el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables. El Alguacil 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. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en la fecha, hora y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta señalada. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 4 de mayo de 2023. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC.

Demandante Vs. SUCESION ANA ESTHER

PEREZ SERRA T/C/C ANA E. PEREZ SERRA

T/C/C ANA PEREZ SERRA

T/C/C ANNIE PEREZ SUCI T/C/C ANA ESTHER COMPUESTA POR JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION GLADYS PROVIDENCIA PEREZ SERRA T/C/C GLADYS P. PEREZ SERRA

T/C/C GLADYS PEREZ SERRA T/C/C GLADYS PROVIDENCIA T/C/C GLADYS PEREZ COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

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

Civil Núm.: GB2021CV00697. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 6 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:20 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento numero dos guion “D”’ (2-D) residencial en forma irregular en la segunda planta del Condominio Villa Caparra Tower localizado en la Calle “A” de la Urbanización Caparra en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Dicho aparta-

tamento, área de techo en tejas del tercer piso; por el SUR, con la terraza del Apartamento número “B”, Trescientos uno (8301), área del techo del edificio, área cubierta del apartamento y área de techo en “tejas” del Tercer Piso; por el ESTE, con elementos exteriores, área de techo en “tejas” del TERCER PISO y área cubierta del Apartamento, y por el OESTE, con elementos exteriores. Le corresponde a este apartamento, en los elementos comunes generales, un por ciento de participación de uno punto ochenta y ocho (1.88%) por ciento. Le corresponde el uso y disfrute de dos (2) espacios para ESTACIONAMIENTOS para los autos marcados con los Números Ocho (8) y Nueve (9) y, además, le pertenece un espacio marcado con el número dos (2) para auto de “Golf”. Finca 27874 inscrita al tomo Karibe de Río Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $312,000.00 con intereses al 6.625% anual y vencimiento 1 de noviembre de 2036. Constituida mediante la escritura 392 otorgada en San Juan el 10 de octubre de 2006 ante la notario Mariam Vélez de Montañez. Inscrita el 19 de marzo de 2021 al Tomo Karibe, Finca 27874 de Río Grande, inscripción 3ª, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 1 de octubre de 2021, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $273,950.91 de principal, intereses al 6.625% desde el día 1 de junio de 2015; intereses vencidos; gastos por demora y $31,200.00 estipulados para 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 DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 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 $312,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SE-

GUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $208,000.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE JULIO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $156,000.00. 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 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 im-

porte 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 #737, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO.

JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO. ***

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

CONDOMINIO BAHÍA

PROPERTIES, LLC

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE MARIA

A. DÁVILA SANTIAGO, COMPUESTA POR FULANA DE TAL, FULANO DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL; MARÍA

T. BERRÍOS SANTIAGO

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV03131. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: SUCESIÓN DE MARIA

A. DÁVILA SANTIAGO, compuesta por FULANA DE TAL, FULANO DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL; MARÍA

T. BERRÍOS SANTIAGO.

Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda Enmendada sobre cobro de dinero en la que se alega que la parte demandada, SUCESIÓN DE MARIA A. DÁVILA SANTIAGO, compuesta por FULANA DE TAL, FULANO DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL; MARÍA

T. BERRÍOS SANTIAGO, le

adeuda a Condominio Bahía Properties, LLC., la suma total de $6,226.59 correspondiente a las cuotas de mantenimiento del apartamento 512, por concepto de gastos comunes de mantenimiento adeudados a la fecha de la presentación de la demanda, más las sumas que se acumulen por concepto de mensualidades de gastos comunes, intereses, penalidades y recargos de los meses subsiguientes, más las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Por otro lado, se notifica que en este Tribunal se ha solicitado y aceptado una interpelación judicial de la parte demandante a SUCESIÓN DE MARIA A. DÁVILA SANTIAGO, compuesta por FULANA DE TAL, FULANO DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL; MARÍA T. BERRÍOS SANTIAGO, para que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación del presente edicto, acepte o repudie la participación que les corresponda en la SUCESIÓN DE MARIA A. DÁVILA SANTIAGO, compuesta por FULANA DE TAL, FULANO DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL; MARÍA T. BERRÍOS SANTIAGO. Si los herederos antes mencionados no se expresaren dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, ésta se tendrá por aceptada. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda Enmendada y además aceptar y repudiar la herencia esta se tendrá por aceptada, y que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, 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 anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle y se presumirá que ha aceptado la herencia de la causante, y por consiguiente, responde por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2785. La abogada de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Evelian Del Rocío Suárez Rodríguez, cuya dirección física y postal es: Cond. El Centro I, Suite 801, 500 Muñoz Rivera Ave., San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 946-5268, y su correo electrónico es: evelian@

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

bellverlaw.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ENID DÍAZ RÍOS, SUBSECRETARIA.

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MOLINA FIGUEROA

Demandante V. DAVID EMMANUEL DIAZ CASTILLO

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SJ2023RF00848.

Sala Núm.: 708 RF. Acción

Civil De: DIVORCIO POR RUPTURA IRREPARABLE.

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

A: DAVID EMMANUEL DIAZ CASTILLO. POR LA PRESENTE, queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de acción civil en su contra. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando las siguiente Dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal de San Juan, Sala de San Juan, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado. EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA Y EL SELLO del Tribunal, hoy día 15 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NYDIA I. BARRETO LASSALLE, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE GLADYS MACHADO RAMOS COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS;

HERNÁN VÉLEZ FERNÁNDEZ POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA USUFRUCTUARIA; CRIM

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02114. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: SUCESIÓN DE GLADYS MACHADO RAMOS COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; HERNÁN VÉLEZ FERNÁNDEZ POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA USUFRUCTUARIA.

LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 1 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 60 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 13 de junio de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 13 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSA MAGALY CANDELARIO CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Demandante V. ENRIQUE

CASTILLO LIMARDO

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2023CV01267. Sala: 505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (R. 60). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ENRIQUE CASTILLO LIMARDO.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de 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 13 de junio de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 13 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. IRMA LIVIA GARCÍA RÍOS

T/C/C IRMA L. GARCÍA DEPICÓN T/C/C IRMA L. GARCÍA RÍOS

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV02374. Sala: 903. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: IRMA LIVIA GARCÍA RÍOS T/C/C IRMA L. GARCÍA DEPICÓN T/C/C IRMA L. GARCÍA RÍOS. (Nombre da las partes a las qua se la notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 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 12 de junio de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 12 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MILDRED J. FRANCO REVENTÓS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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MARÍA MENENDEZ BÁEZ COMPUESTA POR SUS

ÚNICOS Y UNIVERSALES HEREDERAS

LLAMADAS: ANNAVELLA FRANQUI MENÉNDEZ; LUZ ESTRELLA FRANQUI MENÉNDEZ; ELIZABETH FRANQUI MENÉNDEZ; BLANCA MARGARITA FRANQUI MENÉNDEZ Y JUANITA ANNABELLE COLÓN MENÉNDEZ Demandante V. HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION; JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE Demandado(a) Civil: BY2023CV01772. Sala: 403. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de 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 14 de junio de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 14 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA.

KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. SUCN. DE NICOLAS ENCARNACION

VELAZQUEZ Y SUCN. DE MARGARITA ALVAREZ HERNANDEZ; JOHN

DOE Y RICHARD ROE

COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHAS SUCESIONES, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandado(a)

Civil: CA2022CV03470. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD

ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE NICOLAS ENCARNACION

VELAZQUEZ Y DE LA SUCESION DE MARGARITA ALVAREZ 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 15 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 15 de junio de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 15 de junio de 2023. LIC. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ ZAMARIE

PONCE FANTAUZZI

Peticionaria

EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV00665.

Sala: 307. Sobre: EXPEDICIÓN DE CARTAS TESTAMENTARIAS. AVISO DE ACREEDORES.

A: TODO POSIBLE ACREEDOR DEL FINADO, RAMÓN ANTONIO PONCE FANTAUZZI, t.c.c. RAMÓN

PONCE FANTAUZZI o RAMÓN PONCE, QUIEN MURIÓ TESTADO EL 3 DE MARZO DE 2023 EN MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO.

POR LA PRESENTE se le informa a cualquier acreedor del finado Ramón Antonio Ponce Fantauzzi, t.c.c. Ramón Ponce Fantauzzi o Ramón Ponce, quien murió testado el 3 de marzo de 2023, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, que si tiene una acreencia en su contra deberá presentársela a su Albacea, Zamarie Ponce Fantauzzi, con los correspondientes comprobantes bajo juramento en su dirección postal en De Diego 55 Este, Oficina 206, Mayagüez, 00680, dentro del plazo de seis meses de publicado el aviso. Quedan advertidos los potenciales acreedores del causante de que si la Albacea dudase de la validez de su reclamación la rechazará, notificándoselo por escrito, quienes quedarán expeditos su derecho para incoar la acción contra la administración del caudal ante el tribunal competente. Asimismo, que la Albacea no le será personalmente responsable a un acreedor que no hubiese presentado la reclamación dentro del plazo

aquí dispuesto por los caudales o dinero que hubiera entregado a cuentas de legítimas reclamaciones, legados o hijuelas antes de intentarse la acción, sin que ello afecte su derecho de ir directamente contra los herederos por el monto de su reclamación hasta el importe de lo recibido en pago de la herencia, si la misma no está prescrita. Arts. 594 y 595 del Código de Enjuiciamiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. §§2542 y 2543.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal hoy día 14 de junio de 2023. Lcda. Norma

G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria Regional Ii. Rebeca Medina Figueroa, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.

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Demandante V.

ANGELICA

SELLA RAMOS

Demandado(a)

Civil: GB2022CV00918. Sala:

202. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ANGELICA SELLA RAMOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de 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 15 de junio de 2023. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 15 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

LIME HOMES, LTD.

Demandante Vs. RICARDO NOGUE RIVERA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02022.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 31 DE JULIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho titulo, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 289 en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Borinquén Valley en el término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 344.74 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en 25.00 metros con el solar número 288; por el SUR, en 18.00 metros con la Calle Laja; por el ESTE, en 16.01 metros con la Calle Boulevard del Río y por el OESTE, en 16.00 metros con la Calle Yugo. En este solar está enclavada una residencia construida de hormigón armado, de una planta que consta de tres dormitorios, un baño, sala-comedor y cocina. Este solar está afectado por una servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company en toda su colindancia con las Calles Yugo, Laja y Boulevard del Río con un ancho de 1.52 metros. Consta inscrita al folio 1688 del tomo 192 de Caguas, finca 57421, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Caguas. Propiedad localizada en: 289 Yugo St Bo-

rinquen Valley, Calle Yaguez F.45, Caguas, PR 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $111,590.17, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $74,393.45, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $55,795.85, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $87,239.57 de principal, intereses al tipo pactado de 6.62500% anual desde el 1ro. de octubre 2018, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, un balance diferido que no genera intereses en la cantidad de $18,657.20, cargos por mora equivalentes a 5% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo de la deuda, los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más $11,159.17 de costas y honorarios de abogado, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y

sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de junio de2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.

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Demandante V. ROBERTO OLIVER AGOSTO

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV04131. Sala: 502. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ROBERTO OLIVER AGOSTOBO. GUARAGUAO CARR.174 K 11.4 BAYAMÓN, PR 00956 / HC 69 BOX 15922 BAYAMÓN, PR 00956. (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 8 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 Resolu-

ción, 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 14 de junio de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 14 de junio de 2023. LIC. LAURA

I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN M. PINTADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. CHRISTIAN J. MARTINEZ BARRETO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a)

Civil: AG2021CV01452. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CHRISTIAN J. MARTÍNEZ BARRETO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS. DIRECCIÓN

FÍSICA: 10 RES. LAS

MUÑECAS APT 135, AGUADILLA, PR 006036881; DIRECCIÓN

POSTAL: PO BOX 5010

AGUADILLA, PR 00605. P/C LCDO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO. P.O. BOX 71418, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00936-8518.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de 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 14 de junio de 2023. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 14 de junio de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ZUHEILY GONZÁLEZ AVILÉS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V.

RAFAEL ANTONIO

NEGRON SANTIAGO

T/C/C RAFAEL A. NEGRON SANTIAGO

T/C/C RAFAEL A. NEGRON

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2023CV02044. 702.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: RAFAEL ANTONIO NEGRON SANTIAGO

T/C/C RAFAEL A. NEGRON SANTIAGO

T/C/C RAFAEL A. NEGRON. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 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 archi-

vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 14 de junio de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 14 de junio de 2023. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE REBECCA

GAUTIER RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR: YONAEL VEGA GAUTIER; YOVAN MENDEZ

GAUTIER; FULANO Y MANGANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00464.

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

A: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento A-201 (A-doscientos uno). Apartamento residencial de forma irregular de un nivel, localizado en la segunda planta del Edificio uno (1) del Condominio Loma Alta Village. Los linderos de este apartamento son los siguientes: por el NOROESTE, con elemento exterior, en distancia de veintiocho (28) pies y nueve (9) pulgadas; por el SURESTE, con elemento exterior, en distancia de treinta y dos (32) pies y nueve (9) pul-

gadas; por el NORESTE, con elemento exterior, en distancia de cuarenta (40) pies y siete (7) pulgadas; por el SUROESTE, con el apartamento A-202 (doscientos dos), en distancia de veintiocho (28) pies y cinco (5) pulgadas. La puerta de entrada está en el lindero Noroeste, colinda y tiene acceso directo al pasillo principal. Consta de tres habitaciones con su respectivo guarda ropa, sala-comedor, cocina-lavandería, área para desayunar, dos baños, pasillo y balcón. Los baños están equipados con bañera, lavamanos y servicio sanitario. El área total del apartamento es de mil ciento cuarenta y nueve punto cero nueve pies cuadrados (1,149.09), equivalentes a ciento seis punto setenta y seis metros cuadrados (106.76).

Este apartamento tiene una participación de cero punto cinco seis seis cuatro por ciento (0.5664%) en los elementos comunes generales del proyecto. Le corresponde privativamente los estacionamientos identificados con los números sesenta y ocho (68) y sesenta y nueve (69). Inscrita al folio 58 del tomo 1463 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Sección Segunda de Carolina, finca número 60,512. Direccion fisica: Apt. A-201, Cond. Loma Alta Village, Edificio 1, Carolina, Puerto Rico.

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

C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: 1. Condiciones restrictivas bajo el Programa Mi Nuevo Hogar: Para viabilizar la adquisición de esta propiedad, la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, concedió la suma de $5,580.12 para sufragar gastos de cierre y/o para aplicar al pronto del pago y está sujeta a las siguientes condiciones restrictivas: La finca será residencia principal del comprador y no puede ser arrendada o destinada a otro uso que no sea el de su residencia principal y habitual y no podrá vender, donar, permutar o de otro modo transferir la propiedad sin el previo consentimiento de la Autoridad

para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, por el término de 10 años. 2. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario del Departamento de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda de los Estados Unidos de América, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $16,788.14, sin intereses, vencedero el día 1 de enero de 2044, constituida mediante la escritura número

1,565, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de diciembre de 2013, ante la notario Magda V. Alsina Figueroa, e inscrita al folio 215 del tomo

1,513 de Carolina Sur, finca número 60,512, inscripción 7ma.

3. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario del Departamento de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda de los Estados Unidos de América, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $13,800.80, sin intereses, vencedero el día 1 de noviembre de 2046, constituida mediante la escritura número 813, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de noviembre de 2016, ante el notario Néstor Machado Cortés, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina Sur, finca número 60,512, inscripción 9na. E. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $106,296.11, la suma de $37,784.36, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Carolina, por el tipo mínimo de $107,944.97. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $71,963.31. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2023 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $53,972.49. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 15 de junio de 2023 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. GRETCHEN M. JEREZ

SEDA, ALGUACIL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE IVELISSE HUERTAS COLON, COMPUESTA POR: EDUARDO ROSSO HUERTAS (COMO HEREDERO Y COMO DUEÑO REGISTRAL); “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE IVELISSE HUERTAS COLON, Y POR: SUCESIÓN DE DIANA ROSSO HUERTAS, COMPUESTA POR: CHRISTIAN MIRANDA ROSSO, ALEX MIRANDA ROSSO Y ALBERTO MIRANDA ROSSO; “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DIANA ROSSO HUERTAS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: PO2023CV00808.

Sala: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN DIRIGIDOS

A: EDUARDO ROSSO HUERTAS (COMO HEREDERO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE IVELISSE HUERTAS COLON Y COMO DUEÑO REGISTRAL); “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE IVELISSE HUERTAS COLÓN; CHRISTIAN MIRANDA ROSSO, ALEX MIRANDA ROSSO Y ALBERTO MIRANDA ROSSO, COMO HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESION DE DIANA ROSSO HUERTAS “JOHN DOE Y

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DIANA ROSSO HUERTAS. 300 L STREET, PERLA DEL SUR DEV., PONCE, PUERTO RICO 00731, Y 2678 CALLE LAS CARROZAS, URB. PERLA DEL SUR, PONCE PUERTO RICO 00717-0402. Por Ia presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar Ia demanda enmendada incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de Ia publicación del presente edicto. Además, en cuanto a Ia interpelación de los herederos de los causantes, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de Ia fecha de Ia notificación de Ia presente Orden, acepten o repudien Ia participación que les corresponda en las herencias de los causantes conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.PR.A. §2787, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencias, se tendrá por aceptadas. También se les APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de Ia fecha de Ia notificación de Ia presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado las herencias de los causantes y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dichas herencias conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2785. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en Ia Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de Ia parte demandante son:

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE

DEMANDANTE:

Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández

RUA Núm.: 16,393

BERMUDEZ & DIAZ, LLP Edificio Ochoa, 500 CaIle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdprIaw.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 14 de junio de 2023. CARMEN

G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA GENERAL. EREINA

AGRONT LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA BAJA

FINANCE OF AMERICA

REVERSE, LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE TERESA

BURGOS AYALA T/C/C

TERESA BURGOS DE RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C

TERESA BURGOS DE AYALA T/C/C TERESA

BURGOS, COMPUESTA

POR MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ

BURGOS, GLADYS

RODRÍGUEZ BURGOS, JOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ

BURGOS, ADA

RODRÍGUEZ BURGOS, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES

DESCONOCIDOS; AL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: TB2023CV00145.

402. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. POR

CUANTO: En el presente caso se ha dictado la siguiente Orden: “ORDEN DE INTERPELACIÓN”: Vista la Demanda presentada por la parte demandante solicitando la interpelación judicial de la Teresa Burgos Ayala t/c/c Teresa Burgos de Rodríguez t/c/c Teresa Burgos de Ayala t/c/c Teresa Burgos; compuesta por María Rodríguez Burgos, Gladys Rodríguez Burgos, José Rodríguez Burgos, Ada Rodríguez Burgos, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos, conforme al Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico edición de 2020. Se Ordena a los herederos de la Sucesión a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la notificación de esta Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante. Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que: (a) de no expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de la herencia; o (b) de no solicitar término adicional para ello dentro del término de treinta (30) días;

la herencia se presumirá por aceptada, respondiendo con ello por las obligaciones, por los legados y por las cargas hereditarias hasta el valor de los bienes hereditarios que recibe, según dispone el Artículo 1587 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020. NOTIFÍQUESE. Dada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 12 de junio de 2022. VANESSA J. PINTADO RODRÍGUEZ, JUEZA DEL TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR. POR TANTO, en vista de la Orden dictada, se libra este Mandamiento de Interpelación a ser diligenciado por la parte demandante sobre los herederos que componen la Sucesión de Epifanía Méndez Calderón. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 12 de junio de 2023. LCDA.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AMALYN FIGUEROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA

BAJA

REVERSE MORTGAGE

FUNDING LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESION ANA IDA

ORTIZ ASTACIO T/C/C

ANA ORTIZ ASTACIO T/C/C ANA I. ORTIZ

ASTACIO T/C/C ANA

I. ORTIZ COMPUESTA

POR SUS HIJOS

IVELLISE GARCIA

ORTIZ, DIXIE GARCIA ORTIZ, ANGEL SHERWIN HERRERA ORTIZ Y EL CÓNYUGE SUPÉRSTITE GUILLERMO

MALDONADO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION ROBERT

MERCADO ORTIZ

COMPUESTA POR JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO

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

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2021CV04254.

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

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

GENERAL: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja, el 3 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela Marcada con el número trescientos treinta y tres (333), en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Hoyo Hoyo del barrio Sabana del término municipal de Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil seiscientos seis punto cero cero metros cuadrados (1606.00 m/c). En lindes por el Norte, con la parcela numero trescientos treinta “A” (330-A) de la comunidad; por el Sur, con las parcelas trescientos treinta y seis (336) y trescientos treinta y cuatro (334) de la comunidad; por el Este, con las parcelas trescientos treinta (330) y trescientos treinta y dos (332) de la comunidad; y por el Oeste, con las parcelas trescientos cuarenta (340) y trescientos treinta y nueve (339) de la comunidad. Finca número 17,666, inscrita al folio 256 del tomo 284 de Vega Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 4689 del tomo 332 de Vega Alta, finca 17,666, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III, inscripción 2ª. Propiedad localizada en: COMM. RURAL HOYO HOYO, #333 CALLE VILLA LAGUNA, BO. SABANA HOYOS, VEGA ALTA, PUERTO RICO 00692. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: $226,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 1 de enero de 2091. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante

antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $226,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja, el 10 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $151,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $113,250.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja, el 17 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $103,969.10 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $20,237.27 en intereses acumulados al 29 de noviembre de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.483% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $5,273.77 en seguro hipotecario; $5,040.00 en tarifas de servicio; $500.00 de tasaciones; $160.00 de inspecciones; $615.00 en honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $22,650.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal

durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de mayo de 2023. FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL PLACA #888.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE CAGUAS

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN

PULLIZA ALMODÓVAR

COMPUESTA POR

GLADYNEL MARIA

PULLIZA VELÁZQUEZ, AXEL FRANCIS PULLIZA VELÁZQUEZ Y ALEXANDER PULLIZA VELÁZQUEZ; CARMEN GLADYS VELÁZQUEZ GUZMÁN

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02759. 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 de Caguas, hago saber a la parte demandada, SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN

PULLIZA ALMODÓVAR Compuesta Por GLADYNEL MARÍA

PULLIZA VELÁZQUEZ, AXEL FRANCIS PULLIZA VELÁZQUEZ, ALEXANDER PULLIZA VELÁZQUEZ Y CARMEN

GLADYS VELÁZQUEZ GUZ-

MÁN Y Al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 11 de ABRIL de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: Cond. Parque San Antonio II, Apt. 3005, Barrio Cañaboncito, Caguas PR 00727 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD

HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número 3005. Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la tercera y cuarta planta del Condominio Parque San Antonio II situado en el

barrio Cañaboncito del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico. El área aproxima de la tercera planta de 1096.34 pies cuadrados equivalentes 101.85 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia máxima de 40 pies 8 pulgadas con el Apartamento 2006 y con área exterior; por el SUR, en una distancia máxima de 35 pies y 4 pulgadas con el Apartamento 3006 y con área de escalera común; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 30 pies 8.5 pulgadas con área exterior y con área de escalera común; y por el OESTE, en una distancia máxima de 30 pies 8.5 pulgadas con área exterior. El área aproximada de la cuarta planta (penthouse) es de 1048.73 pies cuadrados equivalentes 97.47 metros cuadrados en el área sin techar más un área techada de aproximadamente 142.58 pies cuadrados equivalentes 13.25 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia máxima de 35 pies 4 pulgadas con el Apartamento 2906; por el SUR, en una distancia máxima de 40 pies 8 pulgadas con el Apartamento 3006 y con área exterior; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 30 pies 8.5 pulgadas con área exterior; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 30 pies 8.5 pulgadas con área exterior. La puerta de entrada del Apartamento está situada en su lindero Sur. Consta de salacomedor, cocina – “laundry”, balcón, tres dormitorios, pasillo y dos baños y con acceso y uso del cuarto nivel denominado “Penthouse”. Le corresponden dos espacios de estacionamiento, identificados con el mismo número del Apartamento. Este Apartamento tiene una participación de 1.21960% de los elementos comunes del Condominio. Finca 53862 inscrita al Folio 150 del tomo 1665 (ágora) de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor del RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico o a su orden por la suma principal de $115,000.00 con intereses a razón del 5.25% anual y vencimiento el 1 de mayo del 2039. Constituida por la Escritura #139 otorgada en Caguas el 30 de abril del 2009 ante la notario Miriam Vélez de Montañez. Inscrita el 1 de septiembre 2009 al folio 150 vuelto del Tomo 1665 de Caguas, finca número 53862, inscripción 5ª. 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 dictada el 6 de febrero de 2023, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad ascen-

diente a $92,201.24 de principal, más intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose al 5.250% hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más cargos por demora, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, 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. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 31 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de CAGUAS, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $115,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $76,666,67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $57,500.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida 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 garan-

tizados 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 CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de junio de 2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CIDRA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante Vs. MARIA N. SANTANA DIAZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: CD2023CV00020. 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: MARIA N. SANTANA DIAZBO. RIO ABAJO, CARR. 172, KM 5.9. CIDRA, PR 00739.

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, la Lcda. Natalie Bonaparte cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección Natalie.bonaparte@ orf-law.com, edwi.serrano@ 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 16 de junio de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 16 de junio de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO TRM, LLC

Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN AGOSTO DÍAZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO JUAN AGOSTO, COMPUESTA

POR WANDA AGOSTO

RIVERA, JUAN RAMÓN

AGOSTO RIVERA, MILTON AGOSTO RIVERA, MARLA

AGOSTO RIVERA, CARMEN AGOSTO

RIVERA, MARÍA AGOSTO

RIVERA; RAMONITA

RIVERA RODRÍGUEZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO RAMONA

RIVERA RODRÍGUEZ Y COMO RAMONITA

RIVERA, POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE

AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BQ2023CV00005. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S. S.

A: LA SUCESION DE JUAN AGOSTO DÍAZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO JUAN AGOSTO, COMPUESTA POR WANDA AGOSTO RIVERA, JUAN RAMÓN

AGOSTO RIVERA, MILTON AGOSTO

RIVERA, MARLA AGOSTO RIVERA, CARMEN

AGOSTO RIVERA, MARÍA

AGOSTO RIVERA; RAMONITA RIVERA

RODRÍGUEZ, TAMBIÉN

CONOCIDA COMO RAMO

NA RIVERA RODRÍGUEZ Y COMO RAMONITA

RIVERA, POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN.

El Artículo 1578 del Código Civi l de 2020, dispone: “Transcurridos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, lnc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia del causante, JUAN AGOSTO DÍAZ, también conocido como JUAN AGOSTO. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la misma se tendrá por aceptada.

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@tmpllc.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 07 de junio de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA

SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE AGUADILLA Demandante V. JESÚS RODRÍGUEZ CABÁN Demandado(a)

Civil: AG2021CV00659. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JESÚS RODRÍGUEZ CABÁN. DIRECCIÓN RESIDENCIAL: CALLE

CARDONA #104, AGUADILLA, PUERTO RICO 00603; DIRECCIÓN

POSTAL: PO BOX 1065, AGUADILLA, PUERTO RICO 00603. P/C LCDO.

RAFAEL FABRE COLÓN. PO BOX 277, MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO 00681. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de 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 15 de junio de 2023. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 15 de junio de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. NATHALIE I. ACEVEDO QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

Chris Paul found out about the Suns’ trade from his son

By SOPAN DEB

Chris Paul was on a plane to New York on Sunday, to promote his new book, when he heard the news in a text from his 14-year-old son, Chris II: He had been traded.

Paul, a 12-time All-Star, is one of the most accomplished point guards in NBA history. He had recently finished his third season with the Phoenix Suns, a run that included a trip to the NBA Finals in 2021. There seemed to be greener pastures ahead after the Suns acquired Kevin Durant in February.

But the Suns preliminarily agreed on Sunday to a trade with the Washington Wizards for guard Bradley Beal, a three-time AllStar who will turn 30 next week. Paul, 38, was included in the deal. At the moment, it is unclear where Paul will play next season.

In an interview with The New York Times, Paul repeatedly said that Mat Ishbia, who recently acquired the team, and Isiah Thomas, the Hall of Fame point guard who is close with Ishbia, “wanted to go in a different direction.” In February, Ishbia told reporters that Thomas did not have a role with the team. Representatives for the Suns and Thomas did not respond to a request for comment.

Paul talked with the Times as part of a promotional tour for his book, “Sixty-One: Life Lessons From Papa, On and Off the Court.” The book, which was due out Tuesday, is a tribute to his grandfather Nathaniel Jones. Jones was murdered in 2002, a day after Paul signed a letter of intent to attend Wake Forest University.

Paul describes Jones as a seminal figure in his life and one of his closest confidants. Jones operated what is thought to be the first Black-owned service station in the WinstonSalem area in North Carolina.

Paul co-wrote the book during the height of the pandemic with ESPN host Michael Wilbon, weaving in tales of his grandfather and his own journey — including his experiences as a Black athlete in the wake of the death of George Floyd.

The interview, which has been edited for length and clarity, took place Monday at the New York offices of the public relations firm Rubenstein. In it, Paul discussed the trade from Phoenix, his grandfather and what his plans are after his NBA career is over.

Q: You’re on the plane last night. The team that you helped get to within two games of a championship said that it intended to trade you, and your feeling is what?

A: It’s just — it’s tough. Seriously, it is part of the business, and what you realize is that no one owes you anything. No matter how you are with them or what you do, you realize that in this business, nobody owes you anything, as it should be.

But when it comes through and my son texts me, I realize that, you know, Mat and Isiah, I guess, just wanted to go in a different direction.

Q: So you found out because your son texted you on the plane? It wasn’t your agent texting you, or Mat Ishbia. What is running through your head when you get the text?

A: I showed my phone to my wife. Because, I mean, I had talked to James Jones yesterday or whatnot. [Jones is the Suns’ president of basketball operations and general manager.]

Q: And did James Jones give an indication that this was on the table? How surprised were you by that text from your son?

A: [Paul paused.]

I was surprised.

Q: I can see it in your face that you’re trying not to talk too much trash right now.

A: No, because, I mean, like I say, it is what it is. But like I said, Mat and Isiah must have wanted to go different.

Q: In your ideal scenario, what happens next?

A: I don’t know. I really haven’t had enough time to process it yet. Like seriously, because these things that happen affect more than just me.

Q: You said recently in another interview that you wanted to remain in Phoenix. What are your feelings toward the organization at

the moment?

A: Like I said, Mat and Isiah, they want to go in a different direction. But my time there has been amazing. You know what I mean? It’s been great. And so, get back to work.

Q: You could have written a book about anything. You chose to write about your grandfather. Why was that?

A: That was a huge point in my life. And being 38 years old now, I would have never imagined I would have had the opportunity to do the things that I’ve done. I was reflecting and realized how many things are the way they are because of my relationship with my grandfather.

Q: How do you reflect differently on his death now at 38 than you did when you were a teenager?

A: In doing this book, there were conversations that I hadn’t thought about or talked about in 20 years.

Q: How painful was it for you and your family to revisit the murder?

A: I actually got a few videos in my phone of some recordings. [Paul was referring to recording the audiobook.] And when I was doing it, there were a few times where I broke down and I couldn’t get through it.

Q: One of the interesting stories I read in the book was after George Floyd’s death you talk about getting pulled over in Los Angeles. Can you describe the unease you felt?

A: I was on the 405, it was during construction, so it was crazy. When I pulled over, I pulled over to the left. I think I was supposed to pull over to the right, but I think it was the nervousness and anxiety. And so I pulled it over. I don’t care what anybody

says — especially at the height of everything going on, at the time, I was just a little nervous.

Q: You’re a wealthy, famous, successful athlete, and you’re getting pulled over by cops, and you’re worried. What does that tell you about our country right now?

A: It tells you a lot.

When I’m playing in a game and I’m in an arena, all those fans are in there screaming. As soon as I leave the game, I don’t leave the game in my uniform. I could leave the game in a hoodie with a hat on. So I’m regular. I’m just like anybody else. That’s another thing, too. All people don’t know who athletes are and all this stuff. I’m not thinking for one minute that I should get some type of pass because I’m an athlete.

Q: How much thought have you given to how many years you have left in the NBA?

A: I ask a lot of questions of friends, of people that have retired, people that are in other businesses that are working. And one of the biggest things that I’ve heard just years ago is that as soon as you start thinking about when it’s over, then it’s over.

Q: And you’re not feeling that.

A: At all.

Q: What does post-playing-career Chris Paul look like?

A: I’d love to be a governor someday.

Q: A team owner.

A: Exactly. Because I just know every nuance of the league from all the years as president of the union. And I have relationships where I’ve been able to learn from these guys.

Chris Paul, a 12-time NBA All-Star, in Manhattan, June 19, 2023. Paul was on a promotional tour for a book he wrote about his grandfather and his NBA career.

With everything going wrong, the Cardinals still see opportunity

By TYLER KEPNER

Oliver Marmol wanted a bagel Saturday morning. This is New York, so it should have been easy to get one. But this is also 2023, and Marmol manages the St. Louis Cardinals. Nothing comes easily.

“It didn’t work out,” Marmol said. “The line was outrageous. The door guy at the hotel said to just skip the line and walk in. I thought about it, maybe that’s a thing. I saw the line and I didn’t think that was the play.”

The way things are going, Marmol said, he might have provoked another customer and ended up in a fight. He didn’t get a black eye, but he didn’t get a bagel, either. Just another slice of satisfaction missing from a season gone sideways.

Saturday afternoon was better for Marmol, whose Cardinals snapped a six-game losing streak with a 5-3 victory over the New York Mets at Citi Field. But it was only the third win for the Cardinals in June, and their 28-43 record was the worst for the franchise through 71 games since 1978. The Cardinals (29-43) beat the Mets again Sunday 8-7 when Nolan Arenado hit his second home run of the game in the top of the ninth inning to break a 7-7 tie.

They have the third-worst record in the National League, percentage points better than the Washington Nationals and the Colorado Rockies — a dizzying fall for a Tiffany brand. The Cardinals — second to the New York Yankees in overall championships, with 11 — have endured just one losing season this century, in 2007, and have reached the playoffs in each of the past four years.

“You see where we’re at and we’re like, ‘Whoa,’ you know?” said Arenado, the star third baseman. “We understand the magnitude of what’s going on because no Cardinal team has lost this bad in, like, 70 years. All those things we hear about, we know them and we’re trying to find a way out of

it. But it’s tough right now, for sure. The more we think about the past and all that, I think it’s hurting us.”

The past is also rejecting the Cardinals. On Saturday, the team announced that David Freese, who had won a fan vote for election to the team’s Hall of Fame, had turned down the honor. Freese, who was named the MVP for the Cardinals in their last World Series victory, in 2011, said he appreciated the votes but did not deserve a vaunted red jacket.

The Cardinals’ last active link to that era, Adam Wainwright (an 18-year veteran who was injured for the 2011 run), had his longest start of the season Saturday, working 6 1/3 innings for his 198th career victory.

Wainwright had his usual sharp-spinning curveball, which — for Cardinals fans, not Mets fans — always evokes memories of better days. He hopes more will follow.

“Usually chemistry leads to wins, and these guys in here, we couldn’t get along better,” Wainwright said. “We had an incredible dinner the other night, we’ve had great meetings, we’ve had great messages. I think we let the pressure mount on stuff a little bit too much at times, where everybody’s kind of playing stiff and afraid to make mistakes. It’s sometimes hard to get out of that when

you’re in it.”

Wainwright, 41, will retire after this season, a year after two other decorated Cardinals, Yadier Molina and Albert Pujols, said goodbye. The absence of Molina has seemed especially vexing for the Cardinals, who signed a three-time All-Star catcher, Willson Contreras, to a five-year, $87.5 million contract, only to pull him from the starting role in early May.

The move seemed rash, as if the team was blaming the new guy for its poor start. Contreras shifted to designated hitter and even took fly balls in the outfield, but he never played there in a game. He was back as the starting catcher after 10 games.

Even so, Contreras has been one of several underperforming hitters. He was batting just .198 Thursday when he got a pep talk from a mentor, retired slugger Victor Martinez, also a former All-Star catcher from Venezuela. Martinez called Contreras to offer support.

“He’s like my second dad,” Contreras said. “Everything that he says, I’m all ears. If I have any doubts or questions, I can call him anytime and he’ll pick up the phone. We message each other almost every week, but that was bigger. I needed to talk to someone.”

Contreras, who skipped the World Baseball Classic in March to learn a new pitching staff, has continued his efforts to lead. In Friday’s game, he met with reliever Génesis Cabrera at the mound, trying to boost Cabrera’s confidence while the pitcher made warm-up tosses to a backup. He

did something similar with relievers Saturday.

“In my seat, if you think about how do we get out of this nonsense, it’s going to come down to certain pieces getting to where they start doing what we think they’re capable of doing,” Marmol said.

“And yesterday, Willson was a part of that.”

Marmol, who at 36 is the youngest manager in baseball, met individually with nine players Friday, urging them to tune out negativity and, he said, “getting them to understand what’s possible for them.” Those lessons might not take hold immediately, he added, but they have to be taught.

In the short term, Marmol’s bigger concern is the team’s poor defense. Injuries to outfielders Lars Nootbaar and Tyler O’Neill have forced St. Louis to move Tommy Edman — a Gold Glove second baseman — to center, which has thrust others out of position and hurt a low-strikeout staff.

“When you have one of your best defenders playing the outfield that should be playing second, it affects a lot of other things, including our pitching,” Marmol said. “It’s a real thing. That part of it is tough because it goes hand in hand with a pitching staff that doesn’t miss bats. You’ve got a lot of balls to play, and that’s a bigger deal.”

Through Friday, the Cardinals’ outfield ranked last in turning fly balls into outs, according to Sports Info Solutions, which rated the Cardinals 27th in overall defense, ahead of only Kansas City, Oakland and Washington. The Cardinals, accordingly, were tied with the A’s and the Colorado Rockies for most hits allowed per nine innings, with 9.6.

It is jarring for a perennial contender to be on lists with rebuilding teams. That is where the Cardinals find themselves, but at least they can find comfort in the standings. The Milwaukee Brewers, who are leading the NL Central, were three games over .500 through Sunday.

“We’ve dug ourselves a hole, but nobody’s running away with the division,” Arenado said. “So there’s still an opportunity to shock some people. I think that’s what’s keeping us motivated.”

A division title for the lordly Cardinals would not have seemed shocking in spring training. Now that it does, it puts St. Louis in a rare position: underdogs. They are willing to embrace the new identity.

“Absolutely,” Arenado said. “I think that’s the only way we can think about the season, right? There’s still an opportunity there. It’s just a matter of if we want to take it.”

The St. Louis Cardinals snapped a six-game losing streak by beating the Mets at Citi Field on Saturday.

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

Focus on the simple pleasures today, Aries. Don’t feel like you have to go to distant lands or engage in expensive recreational activities to find happiness and peace. Realize that everything you need is inside. Delight in nature. Smile at the Sun, Moon, and stars. Realize that there is beauty all around and not just in expensive objects you can buy.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Focus on your creative mind today, Taurus. This is a fertile time to plant seeds that will surely grow up healthy and strong. You have the ability to be prosperous now, but it won’t come easily. The key for you now is to stay cool. Don’t overreact to the little annoyances that come your way. You’re beyond petty squabbles. Don’t waste your time with them.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

Motivation must come from within today, Gemini. The only thing that can pull you out of bed is your inner drive. Too much partying may leave you spent to the point where you don’t want to move. Remember to keep things in moderation. Be good to your body. Get outside and let your mind radiate outward like sunshine. Feel the grounding of the Earth beneath your feet.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Your mind should be clear today and communications should go extremely well for you, Cancer. Very few words will be needed to get your point across. You will connect to people on many levels. Realize that you have important information to share with those around you. Your critical, practical, grounded opinion plays a key role in the activities of the day.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Strong forces may act up today and ask you to stand up a little straighter than usual, Leo. Keep your shoulders back and be proud. Don’t think any less of yourself just because there is disagreement between you and others. Maintain respect for your opinions. Say things with confidence and don’t back down, but be prepared to defend your views.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

Feel free to take the lazy route today, Virgo. Don’t lift a finger if you don’t have to. It may be hard to get others moving, too. You can prod all you want, but if people don’t want to go, they aren’t going to go. Your flexible nature might be tested. You may find that you need to adapt to the whims of others rather than the other way around.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

Your thinking is steady and reserved today, Libra. Your mind is right in line with your ego, and you will be able to accurately verbalize what is going on inside. You might be a bit reserved in how much you tell people. It could be that others are holding back information from you. Proceed with caution and be honest in all your dealings.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Today is an excellent day to say exactly how you feel, Scorpio. Your thinking is sharp and clear. Once you start talking, you may never stop. People will listen extra carefully to your words. You have a great deal of influence, so realize how much impact you have on the environment. You will be able to accomplish a lot.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

You might find that your brain is moving in the slow lane today, Sagittarius. It may even be creeping over to the breakdown lane. You might find that it’s a bit harder to make your witty rebuttals in conversation. Take your time and make sure you choose your words carefully. Communicating with others might be a bit like pulling teeth.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

Words may not be the best way to communicate things today, Capricorn. Body language, touch, and taste will be much more effective. You will find that your senses are heightened. Let your feet follow your nose and go enjoy a good meal with someone special tonight.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Things may get quite intense today, Aquarius. There will be a great deal of information coming your way, but it might not all be that good. It seems that someone is putting a roadblock in your path, making it difficult for you to pass. Don’t let this stop you. Use your creativity to find ways around any obstacles. Experiences like these only make you stronger.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Things may get quite intense today, Aquarius. There will be a great deal of information coming your way, but it might not all be that good. It seems that someone is putting a roadblock in your path, making it difficult for you to pass. Don’t let this stop you. Use your creativity to find ways around any obstacles. Experiences like these only make you stronger.