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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia has left in the hands of the Legislative Assembly legislation that will address the issue of abortion after the decision of the United States Supreme Court to annul Roe v. Wade.

“Basically what the Supreme Court has decided is that this issue has to be addressed at the state level and in our case here in Puerto Rico. The Legislature is called to take action on the abortion issue. Our Constitution also applies.

Basically, what the Supreme Court decision indicates is that at the level of the United States Constitution the right to abortion is not going to be protected, but it allows the states to address the issue based on their own constitutions and their own laws,” the governor said at a press conference on Saturday. “If anything characterizes me, it is that I always try to find a balance. This is a very sensitive issue, it must be dealt with in a prudent and reasonable manner. Right now there is a bill before the Legislative Assembly that has already been approved by the Senate and passed into the hands of the House.”

The House leadership recognized that it should carry out a process of public hearings to discuss the pending bill in greater detail, the governor noted.

“And I see that as a good thing,” Pierluisi said. “Now, this decision of the Supreme Court affects the debate.”

“And it certainly justifies taking action on this matter at our level, at the level of Puerto Rico,” he said. “So that is what I can say, that the legislative process of the measure that is pending in the Legislative Assembly continues and in due course, if that measure is approved by both bodies, then it will come to my office, and I will make my decision.

And as I said before, I am going to ask for the recommendations of my work team, including the secretaries of Health and Justice. And I’m going to look, like I said, for a balance.

Here we have to respect each other. It is obvious that there is a diversity of opinions and positions on this issue, but we have to find that fair balance and respect each other and therefore also enforce our Constitution.”

The governor said the island Supreme Court’s 1980 decision in the Pueblo v. Duarte case, which establishes that no person who has an abortion can be criminally prosecuted, prevails in Puerto Rico at the moment.

“But this matter must be addressed by the legislative branch and I am going to count on the advice of the secretary of Justice as well as the secretary of Health to make my decision when any legislative measure reaches me,” Pierluisi said. “But it is inevitable that it will be legislated now that we do not have the decisions of the Supreme Court governing what we do.”

The alternate spokesman in the Senate for the New Progressive Party, Carmelo Ríos Santiago, anticipated that Senate Bill 693, which places restrictions on abortion after 22 weeks, will end up as a different bill. He also anticipated

a wide-ranging discussion on the subject.

“That discussion is going to take place and there is going to be a variation of the bill that we know today,” the lawmaker said. “The bill that was approved in the Senate is not a bill that prohibits [abortion], it is a bill that regulates.”

“The 20 years that I have been in the Senate shows me that there is possibly going to be what is known as a substitute [bill] because when the door opens, well, that process is already advanced and I would not be surprised if the House opens hearings and a new bill arises within what has already been approved, with versions about [the length of] gestation to what is the balance that we have to have,” Ríos Santiago continued. “And we are going to decide that in a very broad conversation. I suppose it will last for months, at least. In the end, then, we will have the consensus of what is our reflection as a society. But the important thing is that here each and every one of the visions has a space. We live in a democracy and it is going to be the people of Puerto Rico with their opinions, with their civil lobbying, that are going to establish what will be the guidelines for us as a society.

That is the important thing that we want to express today.”

Meanwhile, Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández said Sunday that the U.S. Supreme Court decision does not affect local jurisdiction so the department will not prosecute either women or health care providers over abortions.

“As I have said, Article 98 of the Penal Code of 2012 permits therapeutic abortion done by a doctor duly authorized to practice medicine in Puerto Rico with the intention of conserving the health or life of the mother, and meanwhile, in the case the People v. Duarte Mendoza, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court interpreted that all abortion prescribed by a medical doctor directed at the conservation of the physical or mental health of the mother is exempt from legal responsibility,” Emanuelli Hernández said.

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Monday, June 27, 2022

Bill replacing 4% tax on CFCs headed for conference committee

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uring the last day for the Legislature to pass bills, the Senate passed an amended version of the House bill that replaces the 4% excise tax paid by certain controlled foreign corporations, also known as CFCs, with an income tax.

Senate Treasury Committee Chairman Juan Zaragoza Gómez said “the objective [of the measure] is to provide the legal mechanism for companies that are subject to the Act 154 tax on foreign companies to transition and move to the taxes contained in the revenue and royalty code.”

“The transition is mandatory because the U.S. Treasury Department at the end of the year will no longer allow these companies to take a credit in their federal taxes for the 4% excise tax paid in Puerto Rico,” he said.

“The tax represents 20% of the general fund revenues, or about $2 billion.”

Senate Treasury Committee Chairman Juan Zaragoza Gómez

“The existence of this credit will end on December 31, 2022 and this requires changes in the law,” Zaragoza added. “This model must be yielding $1.6 billion versus the $1.3 billion that it yields now. … The difference would be about $200 million. You could say the game is tied. … We are well on our way to closing the chapter on eliminating a significant contingency from the general fund collections.”

The bill is slated to go to a conference committee that will create a single version of the bill as the House was expected to reject the changes made by the Senate.

The proposed legislation calls for the 4% excise tax, which is currently paid by firms with gross sales of $75 million or more, to be replaced with a fixed income tax rate of 10.5% on the income from industrial promotion of sales of products or services of the firms.

The measure also states that if the United States amends its Internal Revenue Code to impose an income tax rate of a least 15% on the

income of a controlled foreign corporation, those companies will then have to pay that 15% instead of the 10.5% rate. Companies that wish to remain under the regime of Law 154 can do so and remain there indefinitely.

The Senate removed certain provisions from the bill, including one that would allow any individual investors to benefit from Act 20 tax incentives.

Sen. Gretchen Hau spoke in favor of the bill and stated that “as a defender of the best well being of our [economic] development, I think it is important to promote any measure to create jobs and new opportunities.”

“With the amendments introduced we can encourage companies to continue contributing to the economy and benefiting small and medium-size businesses,” she said.

The bill also would create a tax credit manager in the Treasury Department to facilitate the administration and control of tax credits.

Senate approves House bill enabling the ‘PREPA Debt Restructuring Law’

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he Senate approved House Bill 1383 over the weekend, which would create the “PREPA Debt Restructuring Law” and establish certain conditions for debt restructuring and the issuance of bonds by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.

The most significant aspect of the proposed law is that it would cut PREPA’s $9 billion debt by 75%. The utility has been in bankruptcy since 2017.

Under the bill, the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau would

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establish the conditions that would allow PREPA to execute bond issuances.

“This law is approved pursuant to that exclusive authority of the Legislature of Puerto Rico. Both the Financial Oversight and Management Board and the United States Courts have recognized the exercise of legislative authority in debt restructuring,” the bill states. “Also, they have validated the full authority of the Legislative Assembly to regulate the functions of public corporations. This Law is approved in compliance with this constitutional and legal power.”

The measure provides that the payment of PREPA’s debt may not “go against the public policy approved for a resilient, reliable and robust energy system, with fair and reasonable rates for all classes of consumers and, more importantly, to preserve human life.”

It also specifies “the most absolute and energetic rejection of any Adjustment Plan, Restructuring Agreement or Creditor Agreement that includes an increase in the electric service bill, including any direct or indirect charge imposed on the self-generation of energy through renewable sources, for the payment and restructuring of PREPA’s debt.”

Likewise, it requires “respecting the order of priorities” so that PREPA pays its operating expenses and meets its obligation to the Retirement System of its employees before any other type of debt.

The bill rejects “any Adjustment Plan, Restructuring Agreement or Creditor Agreement that harms, threatens, subordinates or reduces pensions, annuities, benefits and other current credits

of pensioners and that undermines the rights provided in the collective agreements of the workers and their current rights as active participants in the PREPA Employees Retirement System.”

It also rejects “the intention to use” sections of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, the Bankruptcy Code, “or any other mechanism of the bankruptcy process, to impose additional cuts on retired public servants and participants in the Employees Retirement System of PREPA or reject the collective agreements of PREPA workers.”

The legislation is virtually stillborn because PREPA’s creditors are currently negotiating a new deal to restructure the debt. The Financial Oversight and Management Board represents PREPA in bankruptcy proceedings under PROMESA.

The most significant aspect of the proposed law is that it would cut the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s $9 billion debt by 75%.

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Electoral Code amendments slated for House approval in next legislative session

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eputy Speaker of the House of Representatives José “Conny” Varela Fernández announced over the weekend that Senate Bill 909, which contains amendments to the Electoral Code, will be approved in the next legislative session that starts in August.

“We received the version approved by the Senate this morning. That version, which is about 150 pages long, apparently contains substantial amendments to what had been submitted originally to us. These amendments need to be carefully evaluated and discussed with fellow representatives,” Varela, who represents Caguas, said Saturday in a written statement. “That process cannot be done in a hurry and in the midst of all the workload we have today, including consideration of the budget and related measures.

Rep. José “Conny” Varela Fernández

For this reason, we will not have to consider this matter this afternoon.”

Varela Fernández said that despite the fact that the committee he chairs had proposed a draft amendment to the Electoral Code in the first yearly session of 2021, Popular Democratic Party (PDP) President José Luis Dalmau Santiago, who is also the Senate president, introduced separate legislation written by PDP Electoral Commissioner Ramón Torres Cruz and Deputy Electoral Commissioner Jorge ColbergToro.

The Senate approved the measure last week with amendments.

“When I assumed the chairmanship of the Electoral Affairs Committee of the House, I promised that I was going to evaluate the Electoral Code responsibly, to avoid the disaster caused by the [New Progressive Party] in 2020,” Varela Fernández said. “It is my intention to fulfill that promise.”

ASSMCA brings mental health services to Las Piedras

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he head of the Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration (ASSMCA by its Spanish initials), Carlos Rodríguez Mateo, brought direct services and workshops to hundreds of residents of the town of Las Piedras over the weekend.

“I thank the mayor of Las Piedras, Miguel López, and all the municipal staff for their interest and support for the success of the ASSMCA Visits Your Community project in the east,” Rodríguez Mateo said in a written statement. “It is through direct service and contact with our older adults, youth and children that we can identify and strengthen the services we offer and manage more help for them.”

Community impact is part of the ASSMCA Visit Your Community project, through which Rodríguez Mateo and a group of human behavior professionals from the agency impact populations with the purpose of addressing particular needs or prevention in the area of mental health and comprehensive well being .

As part of the work plan in Las Piedras, human behavior professionals brought services to the La Ribera residential complex and the Arenales community through various dynamics and workshops focused on the prevention of substance use. Similarly, older adults who receive services at Las Piedras Elderly were oriented on the proper management of medications.

Meanwhile, children received services for the development, through art, of skills for managing emotions at Child Care Manitas.

Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration chief Carlos Rodríguez Mateo

Governor travels to mainland US for investment summit

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Gov. Pedro Pierluisi

ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia will participate this week in the “Choose USA Investment Summit” organized by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, which will focus on promoting investment throughout the United States.

The event, to run through Wednesday, will be held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor in Maryland.

The governor will participate in a roundtable with Raimondo and other governors. Also, he will deliver a message on a panel on sustainable infrastructure.

Secretary of State Omar Marrero Díaz will serve as interim governor during Pierluisi’s absence.

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House passes bill to eliminate presidential primaries

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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n the last day of approval of legislative measures, the House of Representatives passed a bill to establish the transition of power in the municipalities when it is outside the election process and another measure to eliminate the holding of presidential primaries.

House Bill 1272, authored by Rep. Orlando Aponte Rosario, proposes to eliminate the holding of presidential primary elections in Puerto Rico due to their fiscal impact.

The measure would repeal Chapter 8-B of the Electoral Code (Law 58-2020), which contains the provisions on such symbolic elections.

“We believe that the high cost of a merely symbolic and non-binding process could be redirected to impact public institutions that need it most or reallocated to increase the salaries of certain public employees who have recently fought for a living wage,” reads the bill’s preamble. “We believe that democracy is exercised when you have the power and the ability to choose. This Legislative Assembly believes it is

necessary and urgent to ensure the proper management of public funds and eliminate Chapter 7 and 8-B on Primaries and Presidential Elections of National Parties, the results of which have no practical effect on them.”

In its final tally on Saturday, the legislation received 27 votes in favor and 20 against.

House Bill 1385, meanwhile, authored by New Progressive Party Rep. Ángel Morey Noble, was unanimously approved. The legislation seeks to equalize the administrative transition processes in the municipalities, in the cases of death, resignation or dismissal of a mayor.

Currently, the transition processes after an electoral event have the format of public hearings, where the deponents answer the questions of the members of the Incoming Transition Committee.

“This reality serves as a legal basis for a new mayor who replaces another, to be able to appoint a Transition Committee that exercises the prerogatives, powers and faculties that the Municipal Code establishes, so that the incoming mayor can have a clear and precise idea of the physical, legal and fiscal state of the municipality over which he/she assumes the reins

Rep. Orlando Aponte Rosario and administration,” Morey Noble pointed out in the reasons for filing the measure.

“Although it is true that the Municipal Code contemplates the carrying out of transition processes, after the departure of a mayor, regardless of the circumstances, there is not total certainty about the totality of the powers that an Incoming Transition Committee has to carry out an exhaustive and rigorous investigation of the municipal situation,” he added.

The measure also clarifies that all mayors, their representatives, designated officials, as well as other municipal officials and employees, have the obligation and the ministerial duty to participate in the transition process of their municipality, including, but not limited to, appearing to testify, answer questions related to the general state of finances and the municipal administration, and to produce the books, papers, records or documents that are required.

Governor signs law to prevent minors from being left in motor vehicles

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia signed House Bill 649, which creates the Law to Prevent Minors from Being Left Inside a Car. Under the new law, which takes effect immediately, the Traffic Safety Commission (CST by its Spanish initials) is ordered to develop, coordinate, design and implement an educational campaign to prevent minors from being forgotten inside a car.

For such purposes, the campaign will include, but will not be limited to, the creation of content for dissemination through various social media such as television, radio, networks, among others. The campaign must integrate the need to implement

memory-based techniques, or tips, that help fathers, mothers

and/or guardians not to forget their children inside a vehicle.

“When a child is trapped in a car due to forgetfulness and dies due to high temperatures, it is something that shakes the hearts of all of us,” the governor said. “Therefore, it is more than necessary to develop a mass educational campaign that directly addresses situations as unfortunate as these with particular strategies. It is commendable that both the government and private companies join in this effort that is for the good of all Puerto Rican families.”

The CST may make agreements or proposals with federal, state or municipal government entities and receive, as well as request, contributions and donations from public or private entities to faithfully comply with the purposes of the law.

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Americans face new abortion landscape in wake of Roe decision

By JULIE BOSMAN

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new and rapidly shifting reality took hold across America on Saturday as abortion, a basic legal right for nearly a half century, was outlawed in some states, and the initial bursts of elation and shock from the overturning of Roe v. Wade gave way to action.

At abortion clinics across the country, providers hastily canceled appointments out of fear of prosecution, and stunned women abruptly made plans to cross state lines into places where abortion was still allowed — traveling from Missouri to Illinois, from Wisconsin to Minnesota.

In Arkansas, where a trigger law banning abortions went into effect Friday, 17 patients had been scheduled for abortions Friday at Little Rock Family Planning Services, but none were performed before the Supreme Court’s decision shut down operations. About 30 more patients had been scheduled for an ultrasound and consultation that was required under Arkansas’ previous law before women could get an abortion.

The Yellowhammer Fund, which is based in Alabama and provides financial support to women seeking abortions, has received an influx of calls in the last day from people confused about the changing laws and seeking guidance and money to travel elsewhere for abortions.

“People who had appointments for next week no longer have appointments,” said Laurie Bertram Roberts, executive director of the fund. “The person who runs the call line is very overwhelmed.”

Legal experts confronted a quickly changing landscape of abortion laws. In the newly redrawn map of the United States that was taking shape Saturday, abortion was banned in at least nine states, prompting vows of swift enforcement from officials in conservative states. Prosecutors in liberal states and counties responded with defiance, saying they would not violate their own values by pursuing criminal cases against doctors who had performed abortions.

Demonstrations continued to roil cities across the country. Americans said they were steeling themselves for a fight in the wake of the court’s decision, whether that meant pushing for still more restrictions on abortion, or working to elect politicians in the midterm elections who favor abortion rights.

On Saturday, President Joe Biden spoke of the Roe decision. “Jill and I know how painful and devastating the decision is for

Anti-abortion demonstrators outside of the Texas Capitol the day after Roe v. Wade was overturned, in Austin, on June 25, 2022. so many Americans,” he said, adding that the administration would focus on states and “how they administer it and whether or not they violate other laws.”

Some states imposed new abortion restrictions Saturday, and others tried to accelerate timelines for the bans to take place.

After the Supreme Court handed control over abortion restrictions back to the states, at least nine states that are home to roughly 40 million people quickly put bans in place.

Other abortion prohibitions that had been passed in anticipation of a post-Roe legal landscape were working their way through the courts.

In Idaho, North Dakota and Texas, officials said they would wait the 30 days stipulated in their laws for their so-called trigger laws to take effect, banning abortion.

In Ohio, a law outlawing abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy took effect after a federal judge lifted an injunction that had blocked the law for the past three years. Gov. Mike DeWine reiterated his opposition to abortion Friday, saying he believed “that the life of a human being is at stake and we have an obligation to protect that innocent life.”

Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah filed a lawsuit in state court Saturday seeking to block the state’s ban on abortion, which went into effect Friday. The lawsuit argues that the ban violates several protections

in the state’s constitution, including the right to determine family composition. Planned Parenthood in the state said that it had to stop performing abortions immediately after the ban went into effect and that it would have to cancel 55 abortion appointments scheduled for next week unless temporary relief was granted.

In many states, residents were left to grapple with a confusing array of pronouncements as local and state officials clashed over the legalities of abortion restrictions and how they would be enforced.

In Tennessee, Herbert Slatery, the attorney general, filed an emergency motion Friday asking a court to lift an injunction and allow a ban on abortions after six weeks to be made law.

“After nearly 50 years, today’s decision gives the people of Tennessee a say on what the Court called ‘a profound moral issue,’” he said in a statement.

But Glenn Funk, the district attorney in Nashville, Tennessee, said in a statement that he would not prosecute doctors performing abortions or women who choose such a procedure.

“I will use my constitutional powers to protect women, health providers and those making personal health decisions,” he said.

Officials of Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, which was the center of the case decided Friday by the Supreme Court, predicted

that conservative activists would soon seek limits to rights related to birth control and same-sex marriage.

Diane Derzis, who owns the clinic, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, said it would most likely remain open for the next 10 days before shutting its doors when a new law is expected to take effect in that state.

“It has begun,” she said. “In the next few days, weeks and year, you will see half of the states have no abortion services. We are continuing to do services. We are not laying down.”

In states where abortion remains legal, leaders promised to reinforce protections.

Governors in California, Oregon and Washington issued a joint “commitment to reproductive freedom,” saying they would welcome people who sought abortions in their states and push back on efforts by other state governments to prosecute people who did so.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, a Democrat, called for a special session for lawmakers to strengthen abortion rights, anticipating that women from other states would be flocking to Illinois for abortion services.

At a Planned Parenthood clinic in Waukegan, Illinois, just miles from the Wisconsin border, a group of about 20 anti-abortion protesters stood with signs and prayed Saturday.

The clinic was opened in 2020 in anticipation that Roe would be overturned and Wisconsin would ban abortions, said Mary Jane Maharry, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood of Illinois. “We do have enough staff to meet the needs today, and we are working at increasing our staff to meet the anticipated surge of 20,000 to 30,000 additional out-of-state patients per year,” she said.

In Charleston, Wests Virginia, the state’s lone abortion clinic ended all appointments, fearing that an abortion ban from the 19th century was suddenly enforceable again after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

One of the appointments had just been made Thursday by a 21-year-old pregnant woman in West Virginia who had weighed whether she was ready to have a child and decided that she was not.

On Friday, a clinic employee called to tell the woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she feared her parents would disown her if they knew she was planning to have an abortion, that her appointment would be canceled.

“When I went to bed, I had my appointment and everything was set,” she said, “and then today it’s like pre-1973.”

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Biden signs gun bill into law, ending years of stalemate

President Joe Biden speaks before signing into law the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in Washington, June 25, 2022.

By EMILY COCHRANE and ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS

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resident Joe Biden over the weekend signed into law a bipartisan gun bill intended to prevent dangerous people from accessing firearms and increase investments in the nation’s mental health system, ending nearly three decades of gridlock in Washington over how to address gun violence in the United States.

Final passage of the legislation in Congress came one month after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, left 19 children and two teachers dead, a horror that galvanized a bipartisan group of lawmakers to strike a narrow compromise.

“God willing,” Biden said as he put his pen down Saturday morning, “it’s going to save a lot of lives.”

The president acknowledged that the legislation fell far short of the sweeping measures he had pushed for, but he said it included some long-sought priorities.

“When it seems impossible to get anything done in Washington, we are doing something consequential,” Biden said.

For lawmakers, advocates and survivors of gun violence, the law is the culmination of decades of work, building on repeated failed efforts to overcome Republican opposition and overhaul the nation’s gun laws in response to mass shootings across the country. But the law’s enactment came the

same week that the Supreme Court struck down a New York law limiting where gun owners could carry a firearm outside the home, citing the Second Amendment.

The passage of the gun bill also provided Biden with a legislative accomplishment just before he headed to Europe for a pair of summits that will focus primarily on Ukraine. On Saturday, the president also signed a bill extending free meals and other food assistance for children.

The gun legislation will expand the background check system for prospective gun buyers younger than 21, giving authorities up to 10 business days to examine juvenile and mental health records. It sets aside millions of dollars so states can fund intervention programs, such as mental health and drug courts, and carry out so-called red flag laws that allow authorities to temporarily confiscate guns from any person found by a judge to be too dangerous to possess them.

It pours more federal money into mental health resources in communities and schools across the country, and it sets aside millions for school safety. The legislation also toughens laws against the trafficking of guns and straw purchasing, the practice of buying a gun on behalf of someone barred from purchasing one. And for the first time, it includes serious or recent dating partners in a ban on domestic abusers buying firearms, tightening what is known as the boyfriend loophole.

“I think the whole country was yearning for something real to happen after the terrible tragedies,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, said last week.

Before the Texas shooting, he had spent time in Buffalo, New York, counseling grieving families after a racist attack at a supermarket left 10 Black people dead.

Biden said he would host families impacted by gun violence along with the lawmakers who helped craft the measure at an event at the White House in July, after a Fourth of July recess, and suggested the compromise was a sign that more bipartisan efforts were possible.

For Biden and others, the compromise reflected decades of work on gun safety legislation. After 20 children were shot and killed in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, Biden, the vice president at the time, was tasked by former President Barack Obama with drafting a list of executive actions on guns. Biden also called on lawmakers to expand background checks, but an effort to pass that measure and other gun control provisions failed in the Senate.

After the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Biden called for reinstating a ban on assault weapons — a restriction he helped pass as a senator that was in effect for a decade before it expired in 2004.

Most of the congressional efforts on guns have been stymied in recent years by Republican opposition, as the party has largely united to block new gun control measures and prevent that legislation from reaching the 60-vote threshold needed for most bills to advance in the Senate.

As lawmakers reeled from the images that came out of the Texas shooting, however, party leaders offered their tacit blessing to a small coalition of senators eager to strike a compromise.

During four weeks of intense negotiations over the legislation, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Chris Murphy, DConn., joined Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., to strike a deal.

But even as Biden used a rare evening address this month to call on Congress to take sweeping action, such as banning assault weapons and prohibiting the sale of semi-automatic rifles to people younger than 21, senators focused on measures that could secure enough Republican support to allow for passage in the Senate.

They set aside calls for a federal red

flag law, instead agreeing to $750 million in federal grant funding to help states carry out those laws and fund crisis intervention programs. Lawmakers also agreed to allow the enhanced background checks for younger buyers to expire after a decade and let their successors debate extending it, a tactic that led the assault weapons ban to end in 2004.

And while lawmakers and activists have long fought to close the boyfriend loophole, negotiators also agreed that firsttime misdemeanor offenders could regain their ability to purchase a firearm after five years as long as they did not commit any other violent offense. (The ban previously applied only to domestic abusers who had lived with, been married to or had a child with the victim.)

“I have to say that this bill doesn’t do everything we would like to do,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a floor speech Friday.

But, she added, “it is a necessary step to honor our solemn duty as lawmakers to protect and defend the American people.”

Ultimately, 15 Senate Republicans supported the measure, including Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader.

Fourteen House Republicans voted for it.

A majority of congressional Republicans, backed by the National Rifle Association, opposed it as too broad, even as McConnell and Cornyn acknowledged voters’ desire for action and emphasized their success in narrowing Democratic ambitions.

Many of the supportive Republicans, particularly in the Senate, are not set to face voters this year. But having been flooded with pleas to take action, those who backed the measure appeared largely unmoved by opposition from both gun rights groups and their own colleagues.

“I know that the discussion is overwhelmingly about the politics of it, and frankly, to quote a famous movie, I don’t give a damn,” said Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, recalling that he had supported raising the minimum age to buy an assault weapon before it became clear that it was a nonstarter for most Republicans.

“The highest priority, by far, by far, is trying to reduce the shootings of children in America, particularly the mass shootings,” he added. “This bill, I believe, will help in that regard. Will it stop them? Of course not. But will it make a difference? I believe so. And for me, that’s enough.”

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Agents are blocked from using discretion in deportation arrests

By MIRIAM JORDAN

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Biden administration policy that prioritized the arrest of immigrants living in the country illegally who are considered a threat to public safety and national security has been suspended as of Saturday, rendering millions of people vulnerable to deportation.

A federal judge in Texas had ruled the prioritization policy illegal June 10, a ruling that took effect late Friday after a federal appeals court failed to issue any decision blocking it. The Department of Homeland Security said it effectively had no discretion under the ruling to set priorities for how its agents enforced the nation’s immigrant removal laws.

“While the department strongly disagrees with the Southern District of Texas’ court decision to vacate the guidelines, DHS will abide by the court’s order as it continues to appeal it,” the department said in a statement.

It said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would make enforcement decisions on a case-by-case basis “in a professional and responsible manner, informed by their experience as law enforcement officials and in a way that best protects against the greatest threats to the homeland.”

The court order leaves the government in an unusual situation. Recent administrations have set at least some priorities establishing which immigrants living in the country without legal permission should be targeted for removal, in most cases trying to identify people who have committed crimes or who pose some other threat before moving on to others. The Trump administration significantly broadened the range of immigrants identified for deportation, but even then, there was some guidance to target criminals, legal experts said.

The removal of the guidelines is likely to renew some of the fears that plagued immigrant communities during Donald Trump’s presidency, when nearly anyone without legal residence was subject to arrest, although the Biden administration has pledged to take a measured approach to enforcement even without a prioritization policy.

In a policy memo to immigration agents last year, the Department of Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, had directed agents not only to prioritize immigrants involved in crimes and security threats but also to take into consideration other factors in deciding whether to apprehend them — such as whether they had lived in the United States for many

years, were of advanced age or had U.S.born children.

This leaves nearly all of the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the country without legal permission theoretically open to arrest and deportation, although exactly who would be targeted and how is unclear.

“The problem with moving away from priorities is, there is no standardization, no rhyme or reason,” said Karen Tumlin, founder of Justice Action Center, an immigrant rights group.

“A person here 20 years who is the parent of U.S.-citizen kids could be put in removal proceedings,” Tumlin said. “Someone dropping off their child at school who has never committed a crime could be arrested.”

In the September policy memo, Mayorkas instructed immigration officers to employ “discretionary authority” in deciding who should be arrested and removed from the country.

Being present in the country without authorization “should not alone be the basis of an enforcement action,” the memo said.

“We will use our discretion and focus our enforcement resources in a more targeted way,” aiming first at those who presented a threat to public safety or national security, it specified.

“The majority of undocumented noncitizens who could be subject to removal have been contributing members of our communities for years,” the memo said, noting that the exercise of discretion by the federal government on immigration matters was a “deep-rooted tradition” that was supported by law.

The new priorities marked a shift in immigration enforcement in the interior of the country. The change was part of a broader effort by President Joe Biden to adopt what he called a more humane strategy on immigration than his predecessor, whose administration engaged in much more widespread immigration arrests.

ICE agents in the Trump era often raided homes or workplaces to arrest immigrants who had been recently identified for removal, sweeping up others who were present — sometimes mere bystanders. Agents conducted large operations in so-called sanctuary cities, making hundreds of arrests.

Out of fear that they might be apprehended, many immigrants lacking permanent legal status during that period refrained from spending time outdoors with their families and restricted their outings to necessary trips to buy groceries and go to work.

The Obama administration deported

millions of people, but it did not conduct major work site raids, and most people removed were recent border crossers. It also prioritized criminals for deportation.

The lawsuit that led to Friday’s ruling was filed by Texas and Louisiana, which argued that their states faced strains on services, such as health care, when required to provide them for large numbers of immigrants living in the country illegally. They also claimed there was a heightened risk of crime to their communities when the government did not remove people who were in the country illegally, although studies have shown that people living in the U.S. without legal permission are less likely to commit crimes than other residents.

In the lower court decision, Judge Drew B. Tipton, a Trump appointee, concluded that Mayorkas’ decision to adopt priorities was “arbitrary and capricious” and that federal law required a series of procedures before such a policy change, including a public comment period.

He also ruled that the policy violated immigration law because it “ties the hands” of agents in the field and “changes the standard” for whom they can detain and when.

The judge had stayed his ruling to allow the government to pursue an emergency appeal. But the stay expired Friday, and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had not yet issued a ruling, leaving Tipton’s order to take effect.

Immigrant advocates who supported the policy said that immigration agencies have long received guidance from the White House. They said that the Supreme Court, which is expected to be asked to rule on the current case, had previously ruled that the executive branch had discretion over immigration matters, including the removal process.

Rebekah Wolf, policy counsel at the American Immigration Council, said the court ruling “could force the administration’s hand into indiscriminate mass enforcement.”

Some of those who have advocated a harder line on immigration applauded the lower court’s decision, arguing that immigration laws should be uniformly enforced.

They said agents could not be expected to make value judgments about whether an immigrant living in the country illegally should be allowed to remain in the United States. Anyone with a good argument against deportation could make the case before an immigration judge, said Andrew Arthur, a resident fellow on law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors restricting all immigration.

David Marin, a field office director for ICE, and fugitive operations agents arrived to arrest a Mexican national in Paramount, Calif.

“Congress doesn’t allow immigration officers, nor can it expect them, to assess whether these are good fathers, coach Little League or are ushers in their local church,” he said. “ICE officers don’t have a crystal ball or magical score sheet to know everything going on in a person’s life.”

Most of the millions of immigrants living in the U.S. without legal permission have been in the country for at least a decade, often with U.S.-born children and deep ties to their communities. About twothirds of adults living in the country illegally participate in the workforce, according to the Pew Research Center.

“The ruling will lead to more fear and uncertainty among people who have lived in our communities for years and decades,” said Sirine Shebaya, executive director of the National Immigration Project.

Government lawyers argued that the policy was a reasonable use of discretion that made sense given the limited resources at the Department of Homeland Security.

Even before Biden took office, large numbers of migrants were arriving at the southern border. Record numbers have crossed this year, coming from Mexico and Central America as well as Asia, Europe and Africa, where the COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread job losses.

Those released from detention to pursue asylum claims are allowed to remain in the country until they have exhausted their legal claims in court and are ordered to leave. Others have crossed the border without pursuing the legal asylum process; many of them can be deported immediately. The Biden administration policy called for immigration agents to focus on those recent arrivals as well.

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Decades ago, Alito laid out methodical strategy to eventually overrule Roe

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

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n the spring of 1985, a 35-year-old lawyer in the Justice Department, Samuel Alito, cautioned the Reagan administration against mounting a frontal assault on Roe v.

Wade, the landmark ruling that declared a constitutional right to abortion. The Supreme Court was not ready to overturn it, he said, so urging it to do so could backfire.

In a memo offering advice on two pending cases that challenged state laws regulating abortion, Alito advocated focusing on a more incremental argument: The court should uphold the regulations as reasonable. That strategy would “advance the goals of bringing about the eventual overruling of Roe v. Wade and, in the meantime, of mitigating its effects.”

More than three decades later, Alito has fulfilled that vision, cementing his place in history as the author of a consequential ruling overturning Roe, along with a 1992 precedent that reaffirmed that decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The reversal means tens of millions of women in conservativecontrolled states are losing access to abortion.

The move has cast a spotlight on a man who has otherwise been a lower-profile member of the court’s conservative bloc since his appointment by President George W. Bush more than a decade ago. It has also drawn attention to glimpses of how he slowly and patiently sought to chip away at abortion rights throughout his career before demolishing them in the majority opinion Friday.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito wrote. “Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

Born in 1950 to a Catholic, Italian American family, Alito grew up in New Jersey.

Two conservative standard-bearers inspired his interest in political conservatism, he later noted, pointing to the writings of William F. Buckley Jr. and to Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign.

Alito became interested in constitutional law during college largely because he disagreed with the Supreme Court at the time on criminal procedure, the establishment clause and reapportionment, he has written. The court in the 1960s issued rulings on those topics that conservatives disliked, including protecting the rights of suspects in police

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote the majority opinion overruling Roe v. Wade.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” he declared. custody, limiting prayer in public schools and requiring electoral districts to have roughly equal populations.

He was a first-year law student at Yale Law School in 1973 when the Supreme Court handed down Roe. Although progressives hail the case as a momentous outcome for women’s equality and reproductive freedom, its constitutional reasoning drew sharp criticism across ideological lines — a pattern Alito stressed with apparent relish in his opinion.

Even “abortion supporters have found it hard to defend Roe’s reasoning,” he wrote.

“One prominent constitutional scholar wrote that he ‘would vote for a statute very much like the one the Court end[ed] up drafting’ if he were ‘a legislator,’ but his assessment of Roe was memorable and brutal: Roe was ‘not constitutional law’ at all and gave ‘almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.’”

Alito was quoting a 1973 Yale Law Journal article on the decision by John Hart Ely, who taught at the school at the time.

After graduation, he went on to clerk for a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, eventually landing a job as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey. Once Ronald Reagan won the 1980 presidential election, he followed the path of many young conservative lawyers, joining the administration and working in the solicitor general’s office.

Among political appointees, overturning Roe was a paramount long-term goal for the Reagan administration. It fused the desires of elite conservative legal thinkers with those of the religious right. But in 1983, over the Reagan administration’s objections, the Supreme Court instead reaffirmed Roe.

In the spring of 1985, the two cases arose challenging state laws that regulated abortion, including by requiring doctors to tell women seeking the procedure detailed information about its risks and “unforeseeable detrimental effects,” the development of fetuses, and the availability of adoption services or paternal child support.

In a memo on the cases, Alito displayed not only tactical acumen but personal passion, taking umbrage with a judge’s objection that forcing women to listen to details about fetal development before their abortions would cause “emotional distress, anxiety, guilt and in some cases increased physical pain.”

Good, he wrote: Such results “are part of the responsibility of moral choice.”

Later that year, Alito applied for another position in the Justice Department, proudly citing his role in devising a strategy for those cases. “I personally believe very strongly,” he wrote in an application, that “the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.”

Years later, when those documents were disclosed during his Supreme Court confirmation, he assured senators that although that statement reflected his views in 1985, he would approach abortion cases with an open mind as a justice, with due respect for precedent and with no ideological agenda.

“When someone becomes a judge,” he said, “you really have to put aside the things that you did as a lawyer at prior points in your legal career and think about legal issues the way a judge thinks about legal issues.”

Before Alito joined the Supreme Court, he served on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. As an appellate judge, he lacked

the power to overrule Roe. But he sometimes seemed to look for ways to whittle away at it in cases touching on abortion, dovetailing with his formative advice during the Reagan administration.

The most notable was Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the case in which the Supreme Court reaffirmed the central holding of Roe but permitted states to impose more restrictions in the first trimester. It involved a challenge to a Pennsylvania law imposing requirements before an abortion, including a waiting period, parental consent for minors and notifying a woman’s husband.

Before it reached the high court, the case came before a 3rd Circuit panel that included Alito. The other two judges on the panel voted to uphold most of the law, but they struck down the provision mandating spousal notification. Alito wrote separately to dissent from that part, saying it should stand, too.

In 2016 and 2020, he was among the dissenters when the Supreme Court narrowly voted to strike down nearly identical Texas and Louisiana laws that strictly regulated abortion clinics in ways that forced many to close.

The majority said in 2016 that the Texas law imposed an undue burden on access to abortion and said in 2020 that a challenge to the Louisiana law was controlled by the earlier precedent. Both times, Alito wrote lengthy opinions saying the challenges to those laws should have been rejected for procedural reasons.

But in 2016 and 2020, just as in 1985, a new frontal attack on abortion rights would have failed. With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg still on the bench, there were not five votes to overturn Roe. This year, there was no longer need for a restrained, slower-burning approach.

Over the objections of Chief Justice John Roberts — who agreed that a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks should be upheld but said that the majority’s “dramatic and consequential ruling is unnecessary to decide the case before us” and violated the principle of judicial restraint — the longenvisioned time for a direct assault on Roe had come.

“Abortion presents a profound moral question,” Alito wrote. “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each state from regulating or prohibiting abortion.

Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”

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Businesses are bracing for the political and social fight post-Roe

Abortion-rights demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court after Roe v. Wade was overturned, in Washington, June 24, 2022.

By EPHRAT LIVNI, LAUREN HIRSCH and JENNY GROSS

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riday’s Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade sent business leaders and employees across the nation scrambling for answers about how to react, what to say — or what not to say — and the immediate practical implications of the ruling.

‘This is the time of reckoning’ For U.S. businesses, there are pressing issues that demand fast answers, starting with: What will this mean for employees’ health care coverage? “I guarantee you that there are teams of lawyers trying to figure this out right now,” said Tom Baker, an insurance law expert at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school.

Businesses have already been battered in political and social fights in recent years and are reeling from competing demands from stakeholders — including activists, clients, consumers, shareholders and elected officials — about how to respond to the country’s bruising culture wars.

Some executives are already starting to focus on the potential for other shoes to drop: Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurring opinion raised questions about what other rights could soon disappear. The rationale that the Supreme Court used to declare that there is no right to abortion, he argued, should also be used to overturn cases establishing rights to con-

traception, consensual same-sex relations and same-sex marriage.

Local officials in states that restrict abortion are already threatening to punish businesses that help employees gain access to it elsewhere; activists who support abortion rights are calling on businesses to cut campaign donations to officials who oppose abortion.

“This is the time of reckoning,” said Sonja Spoo, director of reproductive rights campaigns at the gender justice organization UltraViolet, in a statement calling on corporations to act. She named AT&T, Comcast and Disney in particular for their political donations, and demanded that social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok ensure that people have access to accurate information about abortion.

There is also this backdrop: Many businesses are moving to lower-tax states, and many of those same states are now poised to enact near-total bans on abortion.

In the past year, Tesla moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Austin, Texas; just this past week, Citadel said it was moving from Chicago to Miami. That has been the playbook for corporate America for decades: Find a blue enclave in a red state — Austin in Texas, Nashville in Tennessee — and move there for low taxes and a more affordable workforce.

That may be much more complicated in the aftershock of Friday’s ruling.

“Texas, obviously, the economic argument was the primary argument — at least for me it was one of the primary arguments,” said Vivek Bhaskaran, CEO of QuestionPro, a technology services company that moved its headquarters to Austin from San Francisco just before the pandemic. “It definitely puts a pause on the economic argument.”

Reaffirming commitments Companies began to come out with policies on covering travel expenses for employees who need abortions when a draft opinion that was leaked in May previewed the justices’ decision in the case.

This small group includes Starbucks, Tesla, Yelp, Airbnb, Netflix, Patagonia, DoorDash, JPMorgan Chase, Levi Strauss & Co., PayPal and Reddit.

Others, including Goldman Sachs, Disney, Meta, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Condé Nast, joined them Friday when the decision became final, although most of them avoided making public statements directly referring to the ruling. Instead, the statements often obtusely signaled that the companies offered out-of-state medical services, seemingly hoping to appeal to employees without drawing the ire of politicians.

Facebook told employees not to discuss the decision on internal chat systems.

A spokesperson for JPMorgan, the country’s largest bank, with about 170,000 U.S. employees, said it was focused on equal access to health care for all its employees. She highlighted a June 1 memo alerting them that their travel costs would be covered if they needed to go more than 50 miles to receive certain medical procedures, including abortions.

But the ruling raises new questions over whether state authorities may try to prosecute businesses that offer to pay for employees to travel out of state for abortions, as lawmakers in Texas have been threatening to do.

“This kind of decision forces politics into the workplace, and employers hate that,” said Austin Kaplan, an employment lawyer in Texas.

A signal to the rest of the world Outside the United States, the Supreme Court decision is being watched closely.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain called the ruling “a big step backwards.”

In Belgium, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Twitter Friday that

he was concerned about the implications of overturning Roe v. Wade. “Banning abortion never leads to fewer abortions, only to more unsafe abortions,” he tweeted, adding that Belgium would continue working with other countries to advance reproductive health and rights.

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, said the decision was one of the darkest days for women’s rights in her lifetime. “Obviously the immediate consequences will be suffered by women in the US — but this will embolden anti-abortion & anti-women forces in other countries too,” she tweeted.

Most of the European companies contacted by DealBook declined to comment or said it was too early to say how the Supreme Court’s decisions on gun regulation and abortion affected their approach to posting employees in the U.S. But in general, most European countries have, in recent years, moved to relax abortion restrictions.

The economic impact In a Senate hearing last month, after a leaked draft decision indicated the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said an abortion ban would damage both the U.S. economy and economic prospects for women.

She added that legalization of abortion helped lead to increased labor force participation among women and that “denying women access to abortion increases their odds of living in poverty or need for public assistance.”

A 2020 working paper published in the National Bureau of Economic Research comparing economic outcomes for women who were able to access abortions with those who weren’t, found those without access experienced “a large increase in financial distress that is sustained for several years.” It also concluded that women who were denied abortions had substantially more public records, which include events like eviction and bankruptcies.

For companies that don’t want to weigh in on political or social issues, Sarah Miller, an assistant professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a lead author of the paper, said being reticent could impact their labor cost since “at some point in the pandemic, women crossed the 50% threshold for the workforce.”

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FDA orders Juul to stop selling e-cigarettes

In its heyday, Juul occupied 75 percent of the market share and employed 4,000 people.

By MATT RICHTEL and ANDREW JACOBS

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he Food and Drug Administration late last week ordered Juul to stop selling e-cigarettes on the U.S. market, a profoundly damaging blow to a once-popular company whose brand was blamed for the teenage vaping crisis.

The order affects all of Juul’s products on the U.S. market, the overwhelming source of the company’s sales. Juul’s sleek vaping cartridges and sweet-flavored pods helped usher in an era of alternative nicotine products that were exceptionally attractive to young people. The company’s initial dominance invited intense scrutiny from antismoking groups and regulators who feared the products would do more harm to young people than good to cigarette smokers trying to quit.

Although teenage vaping rates have declined during the coronavirus pandemic, public health experts and lawmakers continue to express concerns about the additive nicotine in some e-cigarettes that remain on the market, including brands like Puff Bar, whose fruity flavors appeal to young people.

The FDA’s decision did not deal with Juul’s relationship to youth vaping. Instead it was based on what the agency said was insufficient and conflicting data from the company about potentially harmful chemicals that could leach out of Juul’s e-liquid pods.

There was not an imminent health threat to consumers, the FDA said, but it did not have enough evidence to assess the potential risks.

“Today’s action is further progress on

the FDA’s commitment to ensuring that all e-cigarette and electronic nicotine delivery system products currently being marketed to consumers meet our public health standards,” Dr. Robert M. Califf, the agency commissioner, said in a statement. And he acknowledged that many of the e-cigarette products had played a role in the rise in teenage vaping.

The move by the FDA is part of a wideranging effort to remake the rules for smoking and vaping products and to reduce illnesses and deaths caused by inhalable products containing highly addictive nicotine.

On Tuesday, the agency announced plans to slash nicotine levels in traditional cigarettes as a way to discourage use of the most deadly of legal consumer products. In April, the FDA said it would move toward a ban on menthol-flavored cigarettes.

The FDA’s action against Juul in particular is part of a newer regulatory mission for the agency, which must determine which electronic cigarettes currently for sale, or proposed for sale, will be allowed to permanently remain on shelves. It has already granted permission for other companies’ ecigarettes to stay on the market.

But it could take years before some of the agency’s new initiatives take effect — if they can withstand fierce resistance from the powerful tobacco lobby, antiregulatory groups and the vaping industry.

Juul said it disagreed with the FDA’s findings and planned to appeal. The company could seek a stay from the agency or from a court pending an appeal to the FDA. The

company has not said which path it will seek but it will try to keep its products on the market during any proceedings.

“We intend to seek a stay,” Juul’s statement concluded, “and are exploring all of our options under the F.D.A.’s regulations and the law, including appealing the decision and engaging with our regulator.”

Public health groups hailed the ruling.

“The FDA’s decision to remove all Juul products from the marketplace is both most welcomed and long overdue,” said Erika Sward, national assistant vice president of advocacy for the American Lung Association.

“Juul’s campaign to target and hook kids on tobacco has gone on for far too long.”

A statement from the American Vapor Manufacturers Association, an industry trade group, hinted at the fight ahead.

“Measured in lives lost and potential destroyed, F.D.A.’s staggering indifference to ordinary Americans and their right to switch to the vastly safer alternative of vaping will surely rank as one of the greatest episodes of regulatory malpractice in American history,” Amanda Wheeler, the association’s president, said in a statement.

Broadly, the FDA is walking a fine line in remaking the landscape for nicotine products. It is trying to wean the public off traditional cigarettes while permitting less harmful vaping products that do not attract a new generation of users: The new devices must be appealing for smoking cessation but not so appealing that they lure young people en masse.

The agency’s ruling against Juul capped a nearly two-year review of data that the company had submitted to try to win authorization to continue selling its tobacco- and menthol-flavored products in the United States.

Specifically, Juul sought approval for — and the FDA rejected — a Juul vaping device and four different pods, including tobacco pods with nicotine concentrations of 3% and 5% and menthol-flavored pods with the same levels.

“It’s clear that the company was given an opportunity to address questions and concerns related to safety, toxicology and potential genotoxicity, and for whatever reason the company was unable to meet its burden and that led to a negative marketing order,” said Mitch Zeller, a former director of the agency’s tobacco center who retired in April.

He said Juul could submit an entirely

new application for a revamped product — one that presumably addressed the agency’s concerns about the leaching of chemicals.

The FDA began an investigation into Juul’s marketing efforts four years ago. Before that time, Juul had advertised its product using attractive young models and flavors such as cool cucumber and creme brulee that critics said attracted underage users.

By April 2018, the FDA announced a crackdown on the sale of such products, including Juul’s, to people younger than 21.

Use among young people had soared.

In 2017, 19% of 12th graders, 16% of 10th graders and 8% of eighth graders reported vaping nicotine in the previous year, according to Monitoring the Future, an annual survey done for the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

For its part, Juul routinely denied that it targeted young people, but it was pursued in lawsuits and by state attorneys general, with some cases resulting in millions of dollars in damages against the company. In one settlement in 2021, Juul agreed to pay $40 million to North Carolina, which represented various parties in the state who asserted the company had helped lure underage users to vaping. More than a dozen other states have lawsuits and investigations that are still pending.

The news is somewhat less weighty for the industry now than it would have been in Juul’s heyday, given the company’s plummeting market share. Once the dominant player with 75% of the market, Juul now has a considerably smaller share of the market.

But the news delivers a significant blow to Altria, formerly known as Philip Morris and the maker of Marlboro, which in December 2018 bought 35% of Juul for $12.8 billion.

Altria made the investment to counteract slowing tobacco sales, while Juul looked to Altria as an ally to help it navigate increased regulatory scrutiny.

Neither of those strategies appear to have worked out.

Altria has written down the value of its investment in Juul by more than $11 billion, to $1.7 billion. Altria, which gets about 90% of its revenue from smokable products, saw revenue fall slightly last year. Its stock is down more than 40% over the past five years, and 20% just in the past month. Juul, for its part, saw its revenue fall to $1.3 billion in 2021, from $2 billion in 2019, with about 95% in U.S. sales.

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Bruised U.S. stock investors brace for more pain in second half of 2022

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ith US stocks on track to post their worst first half in more than 50 years, investors are studying a variety of metrics to determine whether the coming months could bring relief, or more of the same.

In any case, the first half of 2022 has been challenging for investors. The S&P 500 is down about 18% so far this year, on track for its worst first half of any year since 1970, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices, as the Fed tightens monetary policy in its fight against inflation. highest in decades.

Bonds, which investors often count on to offset declines in stocks in their portfolios, have fared little better — the US bond market for its worst performance in modern history.

With investor expectations fluctuating between continued high inflation and an economic downturn triggered by an aggressive Federal Reserve, few believe market volatility will dissipate any time soon.

“We don’t expect the turmoil and volatility that we’ve seen during the first half of the year to subside,” said Timothy Braude, global head of OCIO at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

Historical data paints a mixed picture of the path markets may take in the coming months. For one thing, sharp declines in stocks have often been followed by sharp rebounds: Previous years in which the S&P 500 was down at least 15% at the midpoint saw the last six months rise each time, with a average yield of nearly 24%, according to data from financial LPL in market declines since 1932.

The S&P 500 rallied more than 3% on Friday for its biggest one-day percentage gain since May 2020, as signs of slowing economic growth prompted investors to lower expectations about how high the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates to control inflation. For the week, the index is up 6.4%.

One factor that may sustain that near-term rally is the end-of-quarter rebalancing, as institutional investors such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds draw on record cash levels to get equity allocations back on track. line with your goals.

That phenomenon could lift markets by as much as 7% over the next week, JP Morgan analyst Marko Kolanovic said in a note on Friday.

Meanwhile, several so-called contrarian indicators followed by analysts in BoFA Global Researchincluding cash allocations and investor sentiment, are showing signs of buying, analysts at the bank said in a note.

Jack Janasiewicz, Lead Portfolio Strategist and Portfolio Manager at Natixis Investment Managers Solutions, believes the second half of the year is likely to be better than the first.

He is becoming more bullish on stocks, particularly shares of big battered tech companies with strong balance sheets, such as Google parent Alphabet Inc.

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Missile strike in Kyiv rattles residents after weeks of quiet

By VALERIE HOPKINS

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lha and her husband, Roman, stood on a concrete platform, carefully avoiding debris and shards of glass, staring at the smoldering building that contained the apartment they moved into one year ago.

A group of firefighters was trying to put out a blaze that had destroyed part of the structure, while emergency workers carried a stretcher from the eighth floor down the stairway.

Olha and Roman had chosen the neighborhood of Lukianivka in Kyiv because it was known as the Ukrainian capital’s “quiet center,” said Olha, 32.

But Sunday morning, they woke to a series of explosions that jolted them — and many other residents — out of their bed and the relative sense of security that had prevailed in the city since the Russians were pushed out of its periphery in early April.

“In Ukraine, you cannot feel safe anywhere,” said Olha, who was afraid to give her last name.

Her mother, Nataliya, had recently arrived from Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine, hoping for respite from the “constant” explosions, which increased drastically there last week.

“It is like a nightmare,” Nataliya, 63, told her daughter.

At least four Russian missiles hit the neighborhood Sunday morning, a day after a barrage of missile strikes across Ukraine. The attacks came as leaders of the Group of 7 of the world’s wealthiest democracies prepared to meet in Germany, and Ukrainian officials said they believed Moscow was trying to send a message to Ukraine and its Western allies.

A 7-year-old girl was rescued from the rubble in Kyiv, authorities said. Her father was killed, and her mother, a Russian citizen, was injured. The top three floors of the nine-story building in the Shevchenkivskyi district were destroyed, they said.

Vitali Klitschko, Kyiv’s mayor, said the strikes were an act of “symbolic aggression” before a NATO summit meeting taking place in Madrid this week.

But for the ordinary people living in quiet, residential neighborhoods like Luki-

the pervading sense of “helplessness, absence of control and total horror,” saying, “that’s exactly what we can’t give to them.”

“We must learn to live in war,” she said. “Because we do not know exactly how many more incidents there will be after which we need to stabilize ourselves.”

But inside the Lukianivka apartment complex, Nataliya was feeling besieged, like she had lost her home for a second time.

“When will it end?” she asked her daughter.

Nataliya, a doctor who asked that her surname not be used, had lived in an apartment in the northern part of Kharkiv’s Saltivka region, which was under heavy bombardment by Russians.

She fled west, but several weeks ago finally decided to return to Kharkiv after Police officers navigate their way through wreckage outside a residential building Ukrainian soldiers pushed Russian troops at the site of a Russian missile strike in central Kyiv, Ukraine on Sunday, June 26, out of the city. She decided that she could 2022. get used to the sound of regular explosions, but they became “constant” last anivka, the fear and destruction are not missiles rained down across the country week, so she fled this time to her daughSaturday. But the strikes Sunday in Lukia- ter’s apartment in Kyiv. symbolic.

Oleksandra Kvitko, a psychologist nivka, a neighborhood in the very heart Nearby, Dmytro Dzhizhinski was on who lives in the neighborhood, said she of Kyiv, raised new fears in a city that has the phone with his mother, trying to calm was afraid when she heard the first ex- roared back to life since April. her down.

By the end of May, more than 2 milplosion. She took her two young children He had woken up Sunday morning to lion Ukrainians were living in Kyiv, ac- turn off the air conditioning in his apartand hid in their apartment’s bathroom.

“We were sitting in the bathroom and cording to the city’s administration. About ment. As he turned the dial and looked there comes another explosion — my half had returned from abroad or from the out of the window, his building was walls and doors were shaking,” she said. west of the country. Many restaurants, struck. He ran into the hallway to find his “I was playing word games with the chil- cafes and shops have reopened and the neighbors and to try to shelter if another dren. I could hear the walls trembling and city’s grand Khreshchatyk Boulevard has strike came. realized there is nothing I can do, so I just been thronged with people on sunny Dzhizhinski, 26, works as an analytkept saying, ‘You start with A. You start weekends. ics head in a California-based company.

On Sunday, the streets were still full, Like many in Ukraine’s well-developed with H.’” When she went back to her room, she but on social media, some residents of IT industry, he fled to the country’s west screamed into her pillow. “It really was a Kyiv expressed anger — along with in- when the war started before returning to very nervous situation,” Kvitko said. “But tense fear and also defiance.

Kyiv a few weeks ago. He surveyed the “Almost every Ukrainian from the war apartment complex, which had been built when the mother is calm, then the chilzone knows this lifehack: when you hear recently and housed residences, cafes, dren are calm.”

Russian missiles also struck Kyiv early the whistling of the rocket, you better start shops and a playground. this month, wounding at least one person. counting,” Marina Stepanska, an award“It was going to be even nicer,” he reBefore June, the last missile strike in Kyiv winning film director, wrote on Facebook. marked. “They were still finishing every“Every second is approximately a ki- thing before the war started.” had been in late April on the same apartment complex, hitting a building adjacent lometer. When it hits, you can tell if the He said he planned to remain in the to the one where Roman and Olha lived. explosion is far from you or too close. complex for now.

Both suspected that their building was hit When it’s far away, you still have time for “I think I will stay; my apartment is this time because it was near a munitions your coffee,” she continued.

OK,” Dzhizhinski said. “But we underSvitlana Royz, a prominent child psy- stand it can happen again at any mofactory. chologist, wrote of the need to overcome ment.”

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A new task for Biden: Readying allies for a long conflict in Ukraine

By DAVID E. SANGER

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hen President Joe Biden met his Western allies in Europe three months ago, the world was rallying behind Ukraine, and NATO suddenly had a new sense of purpose — its old purpose, containing Russia. There was talk of “crippling sanctions.” President Vladimir Putin was in retreat, and talk of victory was in the air.

Biden returned to Europe on Saturday night at a moment when everything about the war is harder. While Russia’s oil exports have fallen precipitously, its revenues have been on the rise, a function of soaring fuel prices. After concentrating its efforts in Ukraine’s south and east, Russia is making incremental but significant gains, as the Ukrainians, surrounded, begin to give up key cities: first Mariupol, and now, in the east, Sievierodonetsk.

So Biden must prepare his allies for a grinding conflict — a return to the “long, twilight struggle” that President John F. Kennedy talked about during the Cold War — amid shocks in the food and energy markets, and inflation on a scale few imagined six months ago. Not surprisingly, a few cracks are already emerging, as popular discontent, and coming elections, begin to worry allied leaders.

White House officials say that none of this will deter Biden from squeezing Russia even harder, and the past few weeks have included behind-the-scenes efforts to reach agreements on new ways to isolate Moscow.

John Kirby, a former Pentagon spokesperson who has moved to the White House to coordinate the messaging on Biden’s war objectives, told reporters Thursday to expect new measures to “target the Russian defense supply chain and continue cracking down on the evasion of these unprecedented sanctions” — seemingly a warning to China and India, which have continued to buy discounted Russian oil.

Kirby argued that Moscow was beginning to hurt, four months into the war. “Because of our actions, Russia is struggling to make bond payments, edging closer to default,” he said. “And our measures will only tighten the screws and restrict revenue Mr. Putin needs to fund this war.”

The White House is also planning to announce new steps to bolster NATO’s capabilities, including a new “strategic concept” for the alliance, the first in a dozen years. Back then, there was still talk of inte-

White House officials say that President Biden will continue squeezing Russia for the conflict in Ukraine. grating Russia into Europe; today that seems fanciful.

Chief among the concrete steps will be the creation of a new “cyber rapid reaction” force that can step in to help defend NATO members — and Sweden and Finland, the two countries with applications pending — against stepped up cyberattacks intended to intimidate them. Similar commitments have been announced before, but Anne Neuberger, the president’s deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, said that NATO needed to draw on the expertise and intelligence-gathering of its most skilled operators in cyber conflict.

“We’ve recognized the need for a virtual capability to respond rapidly to an incident if an ally experiences a significant cyberattack and asks for support,” Neuberger said Friday. “It really reflects the lessons learned from the Russia-Ukraine scenario — which is that if you prepare in advance, and exercise in advance, you know how to rapidly respond.”

But the looming issue will be how to deal with Putin at a moment when Russia has been recast from a fellow European power to a pariah state. His isolation will deepen, U.S. officials say. But when French President Emmanuel Macron said in May that the West should resist “the temptation of humiliation” of Putin, it was among the first public signs of a rift in the fundamental strategy of how far to push the Russian leader, short of sending NATO troops into the fight — a step that Biden and other NATO leaders say they have no intention of taking.

“Compared to the March trip, Biden faces a heightened degree of trade-offs between domestic and foreign policy objectives,” said Richard Fontaine, CEO of

the Center for a New American Security, a Washington research group. “His priority will be to increase pressure on Russia and aid to Ukraine, but to do so when the West is worried about oil and food prices, its remaining weapons stocks and a war that shows no end in sight.”

It is the new, grinding nature of the conflict that differentiates these two summits — a meeting of the Group of 7, a gathering of the world’s wealthiest large democracies, at Schloss Elmau in Germany and then NATO, beginning Wednesday in Madrid — from those that have gone before.

Two months ago, Americans were talking openly about victory over the Russians, and the reasonable-sounding hope that Putin’s forces would be forced to retreat to the positions they held before the Feb. 24 invasion. At the end of his last speech on that trip, in Warsaw, after visiting refugees who had fled across the border to Poland, Biden uttered this about Putin: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”

White House aides immediately said the United States was not seeking to engineer regime change, just as they scrambled a month later when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, speaking accurately if too bluntly about America’s strategic objectives, said, “We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.”

Biden is now more cautious in his public tone, even if his goals remain fundamentally unchanged. The question is whether he can begin to move allies from a crisis response to a sustained response to the invasion, knowing that expenses will mount and pressure will build as Putin tries to use every weapon at his disposal — like limiting gas exports and continuing to block Ukrainian grain exports — to exercise leverage over his adversaries.

“It is only natural that people and governments lose interest in conflicts as they drag on,” Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, wrote in Foreign Affairs this month.

“The world stopped paying attention to the war in Libya” after Moammar Gadhafi fell, he added later, and “disengaged from Syria, Yemen and other ongoing conflicts that once generated front-page news.” The same happened after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, he said.

“Compromising with Russia may seem tempting to some abroad, especially as the costs of the war grow,” he concluded, saying the only path was “a complete and total Ukrainian victory.”

In public, all will agree. Although Biden will not say much about it during the summits, the debate within his own administration about what to send and what to keep at home replays each week in the Situation Room.

Biden, aides say, is constantly weighing whether new weapons — like the advanced artillery that just arrived on the battlefield or the advanced drones that the White House is now considering sending — would escalate the war too fast and give Putin another justification for retaliation. But he also wants to make sure that Putin is losing ground.

Hovering over the two meetings will be this perilous moment for the global economy. Inflation has flared across the United States and Europe, driven by the supply chain disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic; a surge of consumer demand as economies have reopened; and, in recent months, a spike in food and energy prices caused by the Russian invasion. Rapid price increases have hurt workers and families across the Group of 7 nations and eroded their leaders’ standing in the polls — particularly Biden’s.

For all their calls for unity, the leaders will be hard-pressed to find quick and concrete ways that they can work together to help relieve that economic and political pain. They are set to discuss infrastructure investment and other ways to unsnarl global supply chains; new steps to counter trade practices by China that U.S. leaders and others call predatory; and a range of issues surrounding inflation. But all fear that interest rate increases could be a prelude to a recession.

Perhaps most urgently for Biden, the leaders are expected to discuss ways to bring down global oil prices — and with them, prices for drivers at the gasoline pump — including possible changes to how European nations have sought to hurt Russia’s oil export business.

The leaders are also expected to spend significant time discussing global agriculture and how to increase the world’s food supply, as the war cuts off access to critical sources of nourishment for rich and poor countries alike. So far, Biden administration efforts to find a pathway out of Ukraine for its farm products have failed.

Russia is doing what it can to tighten the noose, in what appears to be an effort to bring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s country to economic collapse.

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‘We have nothing:’ Afghan quake survivors despair over recovery

By CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM and SAFIULLAH PADSHAH

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s dawn broke over his village Friday morning, Abdul Qadir dug through the rubble of his family home desperate to find a small sack of flour buried somewhere beneath the piles of wood and dust.

Like many in desolate stretch of eastern Afghanistan, the small bag was the only food his family had before a devastating earthquake decimated half of the village this last week. For nearly a year since the Taliban seized power and an economic crisis engulfed the country, villagers could no longer afford the firewood he once collected and sold for a few dollars a day. The price of food in the local bazaar doubled. He racked up 500,000 Afghanis — more than $5,000 — in debt from shopkeepers until they refused to lend to him anymore.

Then on Wednesday, the mountains around him erupted in a violent rumble that brought the walls of his home crashing down and killed six members of his family. Looking at the remains of his home, he was at a loss.

“This house was the one comfort we still had,” said Qadir, 27. “We have no way to get a loan, no way to get money, no way to rebuild. Nothing.”

The earthquake wreaked havoc on this remote, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan, killing about 1,000 people and destroying the homes of thousands more. It was a devastating blow for a place that has seen unrelenting hardship for decades and had been desperately hoping for any sort of respite after the war ended and the Taliban seized control of the country.

The people of Geyan District saw little benefit from the American era in Afghanistan. This is among the poorest places in the country, and people survive hand-tomouth with the little money they earn collecting firewood and harvesting pine nuts each fall. Then, as now, the government was distant, and families have had to rely on one another when times get hard.

The advent of Taliban rule has not changed that here. Although government officials are scrambling to bring aid stores

to the area after the quake, it will have little lasting effect on the worsening desperation of daily life or the suffering from widespread death.

During the 20-year-long war between the Taliban insurgency and the previous Western backed government, residents were caught in grueling fighting that tore through villages across this swath of Afghanistan. Shelling from Pakistan — targeting Pakistani militants who have sought refuge along Afghanistan’s eastern border — has rained down from the sky, killing civilians and destroying homes. Nature itself has wrought its own violence with frequent floods, hailstorms and deadly earthquakes woven into the fabric of life here.

After the Taliban seized power, many residents hoped that the end of the war would bring some relief. Instead, the shelling from Pakistan continued as militants emboldened by the Taliban takeover flooded into the area. A dire economic crisis, set off by international sanctions and millions in foreign aid vanishing practically overnight, decimated people’s incomes and sent food prices soaring. Today, about half the country’s 39 million people are facing life-threatening levels of food insecurity, according to the World Food Program.

For many in these remote villages, the destruction seemed to offer a heartbreaking reminder that the violence and hardship was far from over despite the end of the war.

Two days after the earthquake, most residents interviewed by The New York Times said they had not received any aid from the government. Instead, just as they had during crises under the previous Western-backed government, in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, they relied mostly on one another.

Villagers from neighboring districts whose homes remained intact led the efforts to rescue people trapped under the rubble — digging with little more than their bare hands — and purchased burial shrouds, 20 meters of white linen, for the hundreds of people killed. They drove severely injured victims to hospitals hours away in their small, rundown Toyota Corollas. Relatives from across the province

A family sets up tents near where their house had stood in the village of Azore Kalai, Afghanistan, on Thursday, June 23, 2022. brought bread, rice and plastic tarps to build makeshift shelters. Dazed residents shuffled through the debris of their homes desperate to recover what they could: a bag of rice here, a teakettle there.

Up a winding riverbed from the aid distribution site, Sharif, 25, started sifting through the rubble of his family home around 4:30 a.m. Friday, looking for any kitchen supplies and food he could find.

Two hours later, as he pulled their freezer from the remains of one room, the wall of another came crashing down — drawing dozens of his neighbors who feared he had been trapped under the rubble.

As he shifted through the rubble, the gratitude he felt for the safety of his family was giving way to despair over what they would do now.

For two years, they had barely earned enough to eat after travel restrictions from the coronavirus pandemic prevented his father from going to Saudi Arabia for work — an income stream that sustained his family for decades. Even after those restrictions loosened, the Taliban takeover pushed up the price of obtaining a visa

beyond what his father could afford as hundreds of thousands of Afghans look to leave the country to find employment.

He and his brothers tried to make up the lost income selling firewood, but as the economy worsened, they could not find anyone to buy it. Shopkeepers stopped agreeing to give them food on credit.

He stopped spending as much time in his home; the cries of his children begging for food he did not have broke his heart, he said.

After the earthquake, he built a small tent for his family from tarps that his relatives in a nearby district brought them.

Next to it, their two cows and three goats milled about while his wife and their children sorted through the few pots and pans they had recovered from the rubble.

“After this earthquake, I totally lost control,” said Sharif’s wife, Ali Marjana, 22, sitting on the ground in their makeshift home.

“I can’t explain it. We have nothing to eat, no money, no way to find money,” she added. “Look at us. We’re living like animals now.”

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Norway mass shooting is being investigated as terrorism, police say

By HENRIK PRYSER LIBELL and MIKE IVES

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10-day Pride festival in Norway was cut short Saturday after an early-morning shooting left two people dead and at least 10 others seriously wounded outside a popular gay club in downtown Oslo.

Police are investigating the attack as an act of terrorism. But the motive of the gunman, who police said was detained within minutes, was still unclear Saturday afternoon, according to a lawyer for Oslo police.

Police were also investigating the attack as a hate crime because it occurred outside London Pub, a center of gay nightlife in Oslo.

The pub opened in the 1970s and bills itself on its website as “the most-visited gay place in Norway.”

The man they detained, police said, was a 42-year-old Norwegian citizen who was originally from Iran and had a record of minor crimes. He had been known to the Norwegian Police Security Service since 2015.

Police said that they had agreed to a request by the detained man’s lawyer for a psychiatric evaluation. The lawyer, John Christian Elden, said in an email that it was “too early to conclude whether the actions have anything to do with Pride, a hate crime or terrorism.”

The shooting, on a warm summer night that saw streets filled with revelers, came hours before Oslo was set to host big crowds for its first Pride parade since 2019.

The event’s organizers canceled the parade and the rest of the festival, which was to run through Monday, at the suggestion of police.

“We encourage all of Norway to show solidarity and celebrate Pride at home, in their neighborhoods and towns,” Inger Kristin Haugsevje, the leader of Oslo Pride, said in a statement. Despite the parade’s cancellation, hundreds of people showed up Saturday for an impromptu march along the route and a rally near the club, waving flags and laying bouquets in a show of unity.

The gunman — who police said they believed had acted alone — opened fire around 1 a.m. outside the London Pub and another nightclub, as well as a diner. The lawyer for Oslo police, Christian Hatlo, said that officers had seized two weapons, including a fully automatic one that he described as “not a modern gun.” Both weapons were unregistered, police said.

The two people killed in the attack were

Police officers near the scene of a shooting that left two dead on Saturday in Oslo. both men, in their 50s and 60s, police said.

Hatlo said that, along with the 10 people who were seriously wounded, 11 others were left with minor injuries, some caused during a panicked rush to flee the area.

Hatlo said that authorities had charged the man with murder, attempted murder and terrorism, adding that police were investigating the shooting as a terrorist attack because of the number of crime scenes and the number of deaths and injuries. In response, authorities raised the country’s terrorism threat alert to its highest level.

Shootings in Norway are rare. Gun owners must be licensed and take safety classes, and a ban on semi-automatic weapons

enacted by Parliament — a belated response to a 2011 attack by a far-right gunman who killed 77 people — took effect last year.

Witnesses to the attack said that there had been a long line to enter the London Pub, a late-night spot that closes at 3:30 a.m. and that was already packed with partygoers.

The gunman arrived at the scene with a bag, picked up a gun and started shooting, Olav Ronneberg, a crime reporter for the Norwegian public broadcaster, NRK, who happened to be in the area, told the outlet.

When the shooting began, people scrambled.

“The line dissolved in seconds,” said Sigurd Storm, an interior designer and blogger

A march on Saturday in Oslo. Some L.G.B.T.Q. people reacted with shock that such a shooting could happen in a country where gay people are widely accepted.

who had just left the club when the assault began. “I ran. I saw, to my side, a man falling.”

Storm said he escaped into a hotel, where he called his mother. “I called her to tell her I love her — in case this was my final hour,” he said, “and she is the person I care about most.”

Jonas Gahr Store, Norway’s prime minister, described the shooting as a “cruel and deeply shocking attack on innocent people.”

“Our thoughts go to those who last night lost someone they love, to those who are injured and those who today feel scared and vulnerable,” Store said.

Some LGBTQ people reacted with shock that such a shooting could happen in a country where gay people are widely accepted, safety is not seen as a major issue and rainbow flags are common in shops and restaurants. Norway, in 1993, was the second country in the world, behind Denmark, to allow same-sex registered partnerships, and samesex marriage has been legal since 2009. The Norwegian government in April apologized on the 50th anniversary of the repeal of laws criminalizing sex between men.

On Saturday afternoon, Isack Tronaas, 17, delivered flowers to a memorial about a block away from the bar, where police had cordoned off the area. He said that he had planned to attend the Pride parade, as he does every year, but he was not sure what he and other LGBTQ people in the city would do instead this weekend.

“This is a really hard situation because things like this don’t happen often in Norway,” he said, in tears. “It’s a peaceful country, but people still hate each other.

Why can’t people just love each other?”

Herman Ellegard, who said he had been celebrating Pride at a nearby bar, said that the attack had made him feel suddenly unsafe. “We only wish to celebrate love and diversity,” he said, adding that it was “gruesome that some want to ruin the celebration of freedom.”

Masud Gharahkhani, the speaker of Norway’s Parliament, condemned the shooting on his Facebook page. Gharahkhani, a Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin, said that the Parliament building had hoisted the Pride flag for the first time last Saturday to “celebrate diversity and love.”

“I am proud of that,” he said. “I have seen time after time how hate flourishes in social media when we celebrate queer diversity. That is sad and unacceptable.”

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The radical reign of Clarence Thomas

By MAUREEN DOWD

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hat is happening here?” a distraught Nancy Pelosi said Friday.

It’s a good question and I can answer it, because I was there at the start of the corrosive chain of events that led to women losing control of their own bodies.

I saw how America went from a beacon of modernity to a benighted outlier.

Over the past three decades, I have witnessed a dismal saga of opportunism, fanaticism, mendacity, concupiscence, hypocrisy and cowardice. This is a story about men gaining power by trading away something that meant little to them compared with their own stature: the rights of women.

It started innocently enough on a beautiful summer day in Kennebunkport, Maine, with the ocean sparkling and a lunch of crab meat salad and English muffins.

I was covering the first President George H.W. Bush’s nomination of a 43-year-old U.S. appeals court judge for the D.C. Circuit to take the seat of retiring Justice Thurgood Marshall. Clarence Thomas, standing in front of a weatherbeaten shingled cottage, looked uneasy as Bush defended his conservative choice.

The warnings were clear even then. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, threatened to investigate Thomas’ record on abortion, saying, “I will not support yet another Reagan-Bush Supreme Court nominee who remains silent on a woman’s right to choose and then ascends to the court to weaken that right.”

Thomas was a far cry from liberal lion and civil rights hero Marshall. He opposed affirmative action, even though it contributed to his rise, and he was championed by antiabortion activists, who were confident that he would weaken a woman’s right to choose.

George H.W. Bush and his father were New England Episcopalians with a proud history of supporting Planned Parenthood. Prescott Bush had been an early supporter in the ’40s and once served as a treasurer of a fundraising campaign. As a Texas congressman, George H.W. Bush was christened “Rubbers” by his colleagues because he was such a cheerleader for family planning in the United States and around the world.

But when Bush joined Ronald Reagan on the ticket in 1980, he adopted Reagan’s more restrictive position.

The right remained suspicious of Bush, though, and hoping to bring it around for his reelection, he appointed the ultraconservative Thomas. He also wanted to appeal to Black voters, still angry at the Willie Horton ugliness that had helped propel him to the White House.

Women’s rights had to take a back seat to reelection.

Three months later, Anita Hill told her story to Congress about her boss, Thomas, tormenting her with unwanted attention and dirty talk about the pornographic films he liked to watch. Joe Biden was the chair of those Senate hearings.

He let Hill be viciously ripped apart by Republicans and then abruptly ended the hearings, canceling the appearance of her two corroborating witnesses. Many senators on the committee — composed entirely of white men — privately thought it was an office romance gone wrong. Poor guy, they said among themselves, no point in letting his life be ruined by someone they thought, with absolutely no evidence, was a vengeful ex. Hill was smeared as a perjuring erotomaniac, and Biden, wasting a Democratic Senate majority, allowed a liar, a pervert and a sexual harasser to be elevated to a lifetime seat on the court.

Women’s rights had to take a back seat to Biden’s desire to foster bipartisanship with his conservative colleagues.

And with Thomas, those conservatives got the justice of their dreams, the first in a line of right-wing radicals.

When Donald Trump came along, trailing a history of lurid sexual transgressions, the family-values Republicans and religious right didn’t care. They knew he was the one who could bring them to Valhalla on the Supreme Court.

Mitch McConnell and his Federalist Society minions used Trump as the host body. After wrecking the rules to keep Merrick Garland off the court, McConnell jammed through Amy Coney Barrett. Trump, who had once been a pro-choice, Nancy-and-Hillary-and-Chuck loving Democrat, was happy to flip to gain the fervor of an antiabortion base.

Women’s rights had to take a back seat to Trump’s ego and ambition and McConnell’s desire for a conservative court that would pull back the reach of the government, denying protections to Americans who need or value them. They pushed through three conservative justices — one had to defend himself against sexual assault charges and one was in a weird “Handmaid’s Tale”-style sect — and that was checkmate for Roe. Neil Gorsuch and another Trump appointee, Brett Kavanaugh, are now facing accusations from senators that they dissembled to get on the court and played down their intentions to throw out Roe. “I am a don’t-rock-the-boat kind of judge,” Kavanaugh told Susan Collins, according to The New York Times’ Carl Hulse.

Thomas’ concurring opinion to the fanatical Samuel Alito’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade chillingly warned that he would apply the same rationale to contraception, same-sex marriage and same-sex consensual relations.

Back when Thomas’ nomination ran into resistance, the Bush administration sold him as a sterling example of a Black man who had pulled himself up from rough beginnings. That day in Kennebunkport, Thomas talked about being raised by his grandparents, sharecroppers from rural Georgia.

But on the court he has been cruel, pushing opinions that would grind down the poor and underprivileged.

While his wife ran around helping Trump with his coup, Thomas was the senior firebrand in a coup of extremists

on the court. They yanked power away from John Roberts and are defying the majority will in this country in ways that are terrifying.

On Thursday, in the middle of an epidemic of mass shootings, with Congress finally getting a mild victory on gun control, Thomas opened the door to more guns on the street. He wrote the majority opinion overturning a New York law limiting the right to carry a handgun in public, throwing out a requirement more than a century old.

In another ruling this past week, the justices chipped away at the First Amendment’s separation between church and state, a foundation of the Republic. And next, they will get around to removing environmental protections and gutting the government’s ability to regulate and restrict business rights.

The court is out of control. We feel powerless to do anything about it. Clarence Thomas, of all people, has helped lead us to where we are, with unaccountable extremists dictating how we live. And that is revolting.

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Cangrejeros celebrarán actividad de despedida a JJ Barea en el Roberto Clemente POR CYBERNEWS

Durante el homenaje que le tiene preparado la franquicia Cangrejera, el armador estará acompañado de sus compañeros, su familia y los apoderados del equipo.

A su vez, durante el homenaje contará con el respaldo de la fanaticada santurcina quienes lo acompañaron en sus últimas dos campañas como profesional.

Barea comenzó su carrera profesional con los Indios de Mayagüez en el 2001. Debutó con la franquicia Cangrejera en el 2006 y de ahí brincó a la NBA donde estuvo activo desde el 2006 hasta el 2020 y obtuvo un anillo de campeonato con los Dallas Mavericks.

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AN JUAN – Los Cangrejeros de Santurce le dará la despedida el lunes, al armador José Juan Barea en lo que será su último partido de temporada regular.

Barea, jugará su último partido en el Coliseo Roberto Clemente, tras anunciar su retiro del Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN) una vez concluya la temporada 2022.

El mayagüezano colaboró para que Santurce se acomode en la segunda posición del Grupo B y con la oportunidad de cerrar la temporada con marca de 18-14 si vence a los Grises de Humacao.

Le radican 40 denuncias a empleada de Walmart que supuestamente robó dinero y mercancía POR CYBERNEWS

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AYAMON – Una empleada de la tienda por departamentos Walmart de Bayamón fue acusada en la tarde del jueves por 19 cargos de Apropiación Ilegal agravada, 15 cargos por Apropiación Ilegal menos grave y 7 cargos por Ratería de Tiendas, por hechos ocurridos desde el mes de diciembre hasta febrero del 2022.

Según el reporte de las autoridades, la mujer de 21 años residente de Vega Alta, trabajaba como cajera en la tienda Walmart de Plaza del Sol en Bayamón.

Supuestamente se apropió de más de 18 mil dólares en efectivo y 2 mil dólares en mercancía del lugar.

La jueza Milagro Muñiz, determinó causa, y le impuso una fianza 19 mil dólares la cual prestó.

La vista preliminar fue pautada para el 7 de julio de 2022.

Mueren dos y 2,827 casos nuevos por COVID-19 según informe del DS POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el domingo, sobre 718 casos positivos confirmados, 2,109 casos probables y dos muertes.

Las personas fallecidas fueron 2 hombres de 72 a 87 años, de las regiones de Bayamón y Mayagüez. Uno no tenía vacunas al día y uno con las vacunas al día.

El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 10 de junio de 2022

al 24 de junio de 2022.

La tasa de positividad subió a 32.36 por ciento.

Hay 324 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 38 están en intensivo. Mientras, 49 menores están hospitalizados y ninguno está en intensivo. 17 adultos están en ventilador y ningún menor.

Las personas con vacunas al día son 969 mil, 194 personas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,529.

Intervienen con yola en costas de Rincón POR CYBERNEWS

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INCON – Agentes de la Unidad de Vigilancia Marítima de las Fuerzas Unidas de Rápida Acción (F.U.R.A.) de Añasco adscritos interceptaron a eso de las 12:01 de la madrugada del domingo una embarca-

ción con dos hombres con estatus migratorio no definido en las costas de Rincón.

Según el reporte de las autoridades, la embarcación es de unos 25 pies de eslora, color azul y blanco, con 2 motores.

El agente Carlos Rodríguez supervisado y el sargento

Marcos Vega Suárez entregaron a los detenidos y la la embarcación a personal de Patrulla Fronteriza, para su proceso de deportación.

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‘Elvis’ review: Shocking the King back to life

By A.O. SCOTT

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y first and strongest memory of Elvis Presley is of his death. He was only 42 but he already seemed, in 1977, to belong to a much older world. In the 45 years since, his celebrity has become almost entirely necrological. Graceland is a pilgrimage spot and a mausoleum.

Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” — a biopic in the sense that “Heartbreak Hotel” is a Yelp review — works mightily to dispel this funerary gloom. Luhrmann, whose relationship to the past has always been irreverent and antinostalgic, wants to shock Elvis back to life, to imagine who he was in his own time and what he might mean in ours.

The soundtrack shakes up the expected playlist with jolts of hip-hop (extended into a suite over the final credits), slivers of techno and slatherings of synthetic film-score schmaltz. (The composer and executive music producer is Elliott Wheeler.) The sonic message — and the film’s strongest argument for its subject’s relevance — is that Presley’s blend of blues, gospel, pop and country continues to mutate and pollinate in the musical present. There’s still a whole lot of shaking going on.

As a movie, though, “Elvis” lurches and wobbles, caught in a trap only partly of its own devising. Its rendering of a quintessentially American tale of race, sex, religion and money teeters between glib revisionism and zombie mythology, unsure if it wants to be a lavish pop fable or a tragic melodrama.

The ghoulish, garish production design,

by Catherine Martin (Luhrmann’s wife and longtime creative partner) and Karen Murphy, is full of carnival sleaze and Vegas vulgarity.

All that satin and rhinestone, filtered through Mandy Walker’s pulpy, red-dominated cinematography, conjures an atmosphere of lurid, frenzied eroticism. You might mistake this for a vampire movie.

It wouldn’t entirely be a mistake. The central plot casts Elvis (Austin Butler) as the victim of a powerful and devious bloodsucking fiend. That would be Col. Tom Parker, who supplies voice-over narration and is played by Tom Hanks with a mountain of prosthetic goo, a bizarre accent and a yesit’s-really-me twinkle in his eyes. Parker was Presley’s manager for most of his career, and Hanks portrays him as part small-time grifter, part full-blown Mephistopheles.

“I didn’t kill Elvis,” Parker says, though the movie implies otherwise. “I made Elvis.”

Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in “Elvis,” directed by Baz Luhrmann. The soundtrack shakes up the expected playlist, and offers the strongest argument for Presley’s relevance.

In the Colonel’s mind, they were “the showman and the snowman,” equal partners in a supremely lucrative long con.

Luhrmann’s last feature was an exuberant, candy-colored — and, I thought, generally underrated — adaptation of “The Great Gatsby,” and the Colonel is in some ways a Gatsbyesque character. He’s a self-invented man, an arriviste on the American scene, a “mister nobody from nowhere” trading in the unstable currencies of wishing and seeming.

He isn’t a colonel (Elvis likes to call him “admiral”) and his real name isn’t Tom Parker.

The mystery of his origins is invoked to sinister effect but not fully resolved. If we paid too much attention to him, he might take over the movie, something that almost happens anyway.

Luhrmann seems more interested in the huckster than in the artist. But he himself is the kind of huckster who understands the power of art, and is enough of an artist to make use of that power.

As a Presley biography, “Elvis” is not especially illuminating. The basic stuff is all there, as it would be on Wikipedia. Elvis is haunted by the death of his twin brother, Jesse, and devoted to his mother, Gladys (Helen Thomson). Relations with his father, Vernon

(Richard Roxburgh), are more complicated.

The boy grows up poor in Tupelo, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee, finds his way into the Sun Records recording studio at the age of 19, and proceeds to set the world on fire. Then there’s the Army, marriage to Priscilla (Olivia DeJonge), Hollywood, a comeback broadcast in 1968, a long residency in Las Vegas, divorce from Priscilla and the sad, bloated spectacle of his last years.

Butler is fine in the few moments of offstage drama that the script allows, but most of the emotional action is telegraphed in Luhrmann’s usual emphatic, breathless style.

The actor seems most fully Elvis — as Elvis, the film suggests, was most truly himself — in front of an audience. Those hips don’t lie, and Butler captures the smoldering physicality of Elvis the performer, as well as the playfulness and vulnerability that drove the crowds wild.

The voice can’t be imitated, and the movie wisely doesn’t try, remixing actual Elvis recordings rather than trying to replicate them.

At his first big performance, in a dance hall in Texarkana, Arkansas, where he shares a bill with Hank Snow (David Wenham), Snow’s son, Jimmie (Kodi Smit-McPhee), and other country acts, Elvis steps out in a bright pink suit, heavy eye makeup and glistening

pompadour. A guy in the audience shouts a homophobic slur, but after a few bars that guy’s date and every other woman in the room is screaming her lungs out, “having feelings she’s not sure she should enjoy,” as the Colonel puts it. Gladys is terrified, and the scene carries a heavy charge of sexualized danger. Elvis is a modern Orpheus, and these maenads are about to tear him to pieces. In another scene, back in Memphis, Elvis watches Little Richard (Alton Mason) tearing up “Tutti Frutti” (a song he would later cover) and sees a kindred spirit.

The sexual anarchy and gender nonconformity of early rock ’n’ roll is very much in Luhrmann’s aesthetic wheelhouse. Its racial complications less so. “Elvis” puts its hero in the presence of Black musicians including Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Yola), Big Mama Thornton (Shonka Dukureh) and B.B. King (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), who offers career advice. An early montage — repeated so often that it becomes a motif — finds the boy Elvis (Chaydon Jay) simultaneously peeking into a juke joint where Arthur Crudup (Gary Clark Jr.) plays “That’s All Right Mama” and catching the spirit at a tent revival.

There’s no doubt that Elvis, like many white Southerners of his class and generation, loved blues and gospel. (He loved country and western, too, a genre the film mostly dismisses.) He also profited from the work of Black musicians and from industry apartheid, and a movie that won’t grapple with the dialectic of love and theft that lies at the heart of American popular music can’t hope to tell the whole story.

Who was he? The movie doesn’t provide much of an answer. But younger viewers, whose firsthand experience of the King is even thinner than mine, might come away from “Elvis” with at least an inkling of why they should care. In the end, this isn’t a biopic or a horror movie or a cautionary parable: It’s a musical, and the music is great. Remixed, yes, and full of sounds that purists might find anachronistic. But there was never anything pure about Elvis Presley, except maybe his voice, and hearing it in all its aching, swaggering glory, you understand how it set off an earthquake.

Like a lot of people who write about American popular culture — or who just grew up in the second half of the 20th century — I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about Elvis. “Elvis,” for all its flaws and compromises, made me want to listen to him, as if for the first time.

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FBI raids Orlando museum and removes Basquiat paintings

By BRETT SOKOL and MATT STEVENS

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he FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida late last week, taking all 25 works that had been part of an exhibition on the life and work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the museum said.

An affidavit filed to secure the search warrant called the collection’s origin story, as it had been described by its owners and the museum, into question, and noted that there was reason to doubt the authenticity of the artworks.

The New York Times had previously reported that the FBI’s Art Crime Team had been investigating the authenticity of 25 paintings that the museum had said were created by Basquiat and were on exhibit there for months.

A spokesperson for the museum said Friday that it had complied with a request from the FBI for access to its “Heroes & Monsters” exhibit and that the exhibit was now in the FBI’s possession.

“It is important to note that we still have not been led to believe the museum has been or is the subject of any investigation,” the spokesperson, Emilia Bourmas-Fry, said in an emailed statement. “We continue to see our involvement purely as a fact witness.”

The Basquiat exhibit had been set to close Thursday, and the works were scheduled to be exhibited next in Italy. Museum officials said they would continue to cooperate with authorities.

According to museum employees, more than a dozen FBI agents arrived at the museum Friday morning. They walked through its front doors, presented a warrant and then promptly began removing the 25 paintings from the museum’s walls.

The museum was quickly closed to the public, as curious visitors peered through the now-locked entrance and gathered outside. FBI agents boxed up the paintings and moved them into waiting vehicles at the museum’s loading dock.

A spokesperson for the FBI confirmed that a federal search warrant had been executed Friday at the museum and said that the investigation by the Art Crime Team was ongoing.

The unsealed search warrant, which

Set-up in progress for the exhibit “Heroes & Monsters: Jean-Michel Basquiat” at the Orlando Museum of Art, on Feb. 2, 2022. the Times reviewed, was signed by a judge Thursday. The 41-page affidavit was issued on the basis that two possible crimes may have occurred: conspiracy and wire fraud. In the documents, the FBI said it was investigating the exhibition and attempted sale of 25 paintings, and said its investigation had revealed, among other things, “false information related to the alleged prior ownership of the paintings.”

Authorities also said that their investigation had revealed “attempts to sell the paintings using false provenance, and bank records show possible solicitation of investment in artwork that is not authentic.”

The paintings in the “Heroes & Monsters: Jean-Michel Basquiat” exhibition were said by the museum and their owners to have been recovered from a Los Angeles storage unit in 2012. The works were largely unseen before the show’s February opening.

A Times report published that month raised questions about their authenticity. It noted that one of the artworks was painted on the back of a cardboard shipping box bearing an instruction to “Align top of FedEx

Shipping Label here,” in a typeface that a designer who worked for FedEx said was not used until 1994 — six years after Basquiat’s death.

The affidavit for the search warrant, which was signed by Elizabeth Rivas, a special agent for the FBI, notes, “Forensic information indicates that the cardboard on which one painting was made contains a typeface that was created in 1994, after Basquiat had passed, thereby calling into question the authenticity of at least one piece.”

The owners of the paintings, and the Orlando museum’s director and CEO, Aaron De Groft, have all maintained that the works are genuine. None immediately returned a request for comment about the seizure of the paintings.

De Groft and the owners have said that the works, done on pieces of scavenged cardboard, were done by Basquiat in late 1982 when he was living and working out of a studio beneath the Los Angeles home of art dealer Larry Gagosian and preparing for a show at Gagosian’s gallery. They said Basquiat sold the works for $5,000 to a

now-deceased television screenwriter, Thad Mumford, who put them into a storage unit and apparently forgot about them for 30 years — until the unit’s contents were seized for nonpayment of rent and auctioned off in 2012. (Gagosian has said he “finds the scenario of the story highly unlikely.”)

In the affidavit for the search warrant, Rivas stated that she interviewed Mumford in 2014 and learned that “Mumford never purchased Basquiat artwork and was unaware of any Basquiat artwork being in his storage locker.”

Mumford also told Rivas that one of the artworks’ owners had “pressured him to sign documents” saying that he had owned the collection, which would help establish the paintings’ authenticity, even offering in an email to give him a “10% interest in the net proceeds.”

The affidavit says that in 2017, a year before his death, Mumford signed a declaration in the presence of federal agents stating that “at no time in the 1980s or at any other time did I meet with Jean-Michel Basquiat, and at no time did I acquire or purchase any paintings by him.”

The paintings were bought for about $15,000 by William Force, an art and antiques dealer, and Leo Mangan, a retired salesman. Pierce O’Donnell, a lawyer, later bought an interest in six of the 25 works and hired several experts who said that the works appeared genuine.

One of those hired experts, who was identified in the affidavit only as “Expert-2,” told the FBI that her work had been mischaracterized by the paintings’ owners. An associate professor of art at the University of Maryland, Jordana Moore Saggese, confirmed in an email that she was “Expert-2.”

After being paid $60,000 for her work, the affidavit notes, Saggese later contacted the museum to ask that her name not be associated at all with the exhibition. The affidavit said that the museum’s director, De Groft, had replied to her via email: “You want us to put out there you got $60 grand to write this? OK then. Shut up. You took the money.

Stop being holier than thou.” De Groft, still insisting the paintings were genuine, then threatened to share the details of that payment with her employer: “Do your academic thing and stay in your limited lane.”

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Hold onto your hats (and bags). Travelers to Europe face chaos.

By CEYLAN YEGINSU

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he summer travel season in Europe has been marred by chaos at airports and popular tourist destinations as airlines, government agencies and industry operators struggle to meet travel demand, which, in some spots, has already surpassed 2019 levels.

The mayhem is likely to get worse, travel experts warn, as more people decide to travel following the recent decision by the Biden administration to drop its coronavirus testing requirement for international air travel.

Hundreds of flights have been canceled and delayed daily at major European airport hubs over the past two weeks. At London’s Heathrow and Amsterdam’s Schiphol airports, passengers waited up to six hours in security lines, and those waiting to check in spilled out of the terminals into parking lots.

“It was just huge crowds of confused and frustrated people everywhere and no information,” said Eliza Glass, 28, who arrived at Heathrow earlier this month to find her flight to Toronto had been canceled. “After one hour of walking around in circles, I just sat on my suitcase and cried.”

In the United States, airports and airlines face labor shortages, adverse weather conditions and a rise in worker coronavirus cases, but wait times, delays and cancellations have not reached the same level. Airlines canceled more than 2,800 flights over the Memorial Day weekend and 20,644 flights were delayed, according to FlightAware, an aviation data site, and several air carriers, including Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines, are reducing their summer schedules to help prevent further disruptions.

For those planning to travel to Europe this summer, here’s a look at how they could be affected by disruptions, and some tips on how to prepare.

What is causing the chaos at European airports?

The travel industry calls it “the perfect storm” with multiple contributing factors. The lifting of coronavirus travel restrictions across Europe since April caused a sudden surge in demand and travel companies are struggling to staff their operations.

Airports and airlines laid off tens of thousands of workers during the height of the pandemic and many of them are reluctant to come back to their old jobs, many of which offered low pay and long hours. Recruiting and training new staff, particularly pilots and airport security staff, can take time and many positions are unlikely to be filled in time for peak summer travel.

Passengers queue to check in at London Heathrow Airport on June 13, 2022.

“It is a disgrace what is happening — a terrible situation for travelers, airlines and travel organizations and a result of bad planning,” said Frank Oostdam, director of the Dutch Association of Travel Agents and Tour Operators, a representative body for the travel industry in the Netherlands.

Adding to the upheaval, aviation workers in Europe have held strikes in recent weeks, demanding better working conditions and higher salaries to help ease the burden of soaring inflation. Paris Charles de Gaulle airport canceled more than 100 flights on Thursday after its union announced a walkout demanding a 300-euro monthly pay raise for all airport staff, around $320. More than 360 flights were canceled in and out of Italian airports last week after air traffic controllers and cabin crew staged a 24-hour strike. Scandinavian Airlines pilots have also threatened to walk out beginning in late June over salary disputes.

Willie Walsh, director general for the International Air Transport Association, an airline trade group, said that coronavirus policy changes by governments created a lot of uncertainty and gave the travel industry little time to prepare for the restart of travel after a two-year shutdown.

“It is no wonder that we are seeing operational delays in some locations,” he said.

I’m already booked. What could I be facing?

Be prepared for long lines, flight cancellations and delays, even after you’ve arrived at the airport for check-in, as some airlines are changing flight schedules at the last minute to manage staffing issues. Download your carrier’s app to get the most up-to-the-minute changes and for easier rebooking from your phone.

At many European airports, travel experts

are advising passengers to arrive three to four hours before their scheduled flights to get through long lines. For those traveling from the United States to Europe, try to take the most direct route to your destination and make sure there are several flights scheduled to your final destination in case you are transiting through a busy airport and miss your connection.

The staff shortages at airports have also caused baggage delivery delays with some passengers waiting up to a week to reclaim their luggage. Some travel operators are advising travelers not to check baggage, but if traveling light is not an option, then be sure to pack a carry-on with essential items for the first few days of your trip.

Peter Vlitas, the executive vice president of partner relations for Internova Travel Group, which represents more than 70,000 travel advisers worldwide, said it is important to have a contingency plan in case anything goes wrong with planned flight itineraries. “If you land in a main airport in Europe and your flight gets canceled and you can’t reschedule right away because of capacity issues or strikes, then there’s a good possibility you could take a train or a ferry to where you want to go. Whether it’s the French countryside or the Greek islands, there are other ways to get there,” he said.

Could it get worse?

Unfortunately, it could. Travel industry representatives and unions anticipate that the disruptions will get worse before they get better, particularly during the peak summer months of July and August. The Biden administration’s decision to drop the requirement for a negative coronavirus test before flying to the United States may only add to the surge in demand.

Many Americans who have put off international travel plans throughout the pandemic

are looking for spontaneous travel opportunities this summer, according to a recent study

by Skyscanner, a booking site, which analyzed Google search volume and trends across different travel-related keywords. Searches for “cheap flights anywhere” are up 600% and searches for “how to book a same-day flight” are up 200% from June 2021, according to the study.

Adrian Lee, 43, a structural engineer from Houston, said he has price alerts set up on several online travel sites so he can catch a lastminute deal for a vacation to Europe with his wife.

“At this point, we’ll go anywhere, we are dying to get out,” he wrote in an email. “We’re just waiting for the best deal to come up because everything is crazy expensive right now.”

Can anyone help?

Both American and European carriers are required to offer you a refund if they cancel or reschedule your flight significantly and you decide not to travel. But they are not required to compensate you for accommodations, car rentals or other prebooked services on your trip.

This might be the summer to consider travel insurance to cover costs tied to flight disruptions like accommodations and lost baggage, but be sure to read the fine print as policies vary and might only provide limited coverage, according to the U.S. Travel Insurance Association. When booking a trip, it is also helpful to opt for the most flexible cancellation policies at hotels and car rental companies to avoid paying extra charges if anything goes wrong.

Using a travel adviser can be useful, especially if your trip has multiple layers and destinations as the flight disruptions can have a domino effect, upending lodging reservations and any other time-sensitive bookings. The adviser can help navigate obstacles and make changes to your itinerary while you are in transit — though they, too, may face hiccups.

“It’s a real challenge because response times are really slow from hotels, concierge services and rental cars, so I’m having to reach out to general managers and other representatives to make changes for my clients,” said Tiffany Bowne, the founder of the luxury travel agency Lounge Couture. “We are dealing with these scenarios in June, which is a little terrifying in terms of what July and August will look like.”

But even travel advisers are telling their clients to “practice patience” and be openminded and flexible with any last-minute changes that may occur because of disruptions.

“If you can roll with it and be flexible to change, then you’re going to end up having a better time,” Bowne said.

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A balm for psyches scarred by war

By RACHEL NUWER

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igel McCourry removed his shoes and settled back on the daybed in the office of Dr. Michael Mithoefer, a psychiatrist in Charleston, South Carolina.

“I hadn’t been really anxious about this at all, but I think this morning it started to make me a little bit anxious,” McCourry said as Annie Mithoefer, a registered nurse and Michael Mithoefer’s colleague and spouse, wrapped a blood pressure cuff around his arm. “Just kind of wondering what I’m getting into.”

McCourry, a former U.S. Marine, had been crippled by post-traumatic stress disorder ever since returning from Iraq in 2004. He could not sleep, pushed away friends and family and developed a drinking problem. The numbness he felt was broken only by bouts of rage and paranoia. He was contemplating suicide when his sister heard about a novel clinical trial using the psychedelic drug MDMA, paired with therapy, to treat PTSD. Desperate, he enrolled in 2012. “I was willing to do anything,” he recalled recently.

PTSD is a major public health problem worldwide and is particularly associated with war. In the United States, an estimated 13% of combat veterans and up to 20% to 25% of those deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan are diagnosed with PTSD at some point in their lives, compared with 7% of the general population.

Although PTSD became an official diagnosis in 1980, doctors still have not found a surefire cure. “Some treatments are not helpful to some veterans and soldiers at all,” said Dr. Stephen Xenakis, a psychiatrist and retired U.S. Army brigadier general. As many as half of veterans who seek help do not experience a meaningful decline in symptoms, and two-thirds retain their diagnosis after treatment.

But there is growing evidence that MDMA — the illegal drug known as Ecstasy or Molly — can significantly lessen or even eliminate symptoms of PTSD when the treatment is paired with talk therapy.

Last year, scientists reported in Nature Medicine the most encouraging results to date, from the first of two Phase 3 clinical trials. The 90 participants in the study had all suffered from severe PTSD for more than 14 years on average. Each received three therapy sessions with either MDMA or a placebo, spaced one month apart and over-

seen by a two-person therapist team. Two months after treatment, 67% of those who received MDMA no longer qualified for a PTSD diagnosis, compared with 32% who received the placebo. As in previous trials, MDMA caused no serious side effects.

McCourry was among the 107 participants in earlier, Phase 2 trials of MDMA-assisted therapy; these were conducted between 2004 and 2017 and sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or MAPS, a research group that has led such studies in the United States and abroad. Fifty-six percent of Phase 2 participants no longer met the criteria for PTSD after undergoing several therapeutic sessions with MDMA. At least one year after participation, that figure increased to 67%.

A decade later, McCourry still counts himself among the successes. He had his first MDMA session in 2012 under the guidance of the Mithoefers, who have worked with MAPS to develop the treatment since 2000. He shared the video of that session with The New York Times. “I was suffering so badly and had so little hope, it was inconceivable to me that doing MDMA with therapists could actually turn all of this around,” he said.

The second Phase 3 trial should be completed by October; FDA approval could follow in the second half of 2023.

“We currently deal with PTSD as something that needs to be managed in an ongoing way, but this approach represents real hope for long-term healing,” said Rachel Yehuda, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

“What makes this moment different

from 20 years ago is the widespread recognition that we should leave no stone unturned in identifying new treatments for PTSD,” said Dr. John Krystal, the chair of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, who was not involved in the research. Although data from the second Phase 3 trial are needed, he says, the results so far are “very encouraging.”

McCourry, 40, lives in Portland, Oregon, and comes from a military family.

He joined the Marines in 2003 because he wanted to make a positive difference, he said: “When I went over to Iraq, I felt like we were there because it was for the overall good.”

But he soon became disillusioned.

Rather than fighting for freedom, he guarded convoys of oil. He regularly saw civilians killed. He survived an explosion that knocked him unconscious, and he suspected it may have caused lasting traumatic brain injury. He never received a diagnosis because the symptoms of traumatic brain injury — problems with thinking, sleeping and mood — overlap with those of PTSD, and the Army lacks tests that can objectively distinguish between the two conditions, Xenakis said.

“I just felt like I put my life in harm’s way really for nothing,” McCourry said. “I watched friends die really for nothing.”

Two months into his deployment, McCourry was caught in a firefight. Amid a hail of bullets and mortar rounds, he spotted a white truck approaching from the opposite direction. Despite signaling the truck to stop and firing a warning shot, it kept approaching.

McCourry began shooting at it. Later, he learned that the people in the truck were a father and his two daughters. The father survived, but the girls did not. “The death of those girls, it haunted me,” McCourry said.

In 2005, between tours of duty, McCourry sought help from a battalion medical officer for his sleep and anxiety issues.

When the doctor dismissed his concerns, “I kind of lost my mind and started yelling at him,” McCourry said. Shortly after, he was honorably discharged on the basis of a personality disorder — a diagnosis that was not legitimate grounds for discharge and that McCourry vehemently disputed.

McCourry tried therapy, but it “didn’t help at all,” he said. The medications he was prescribed only complicated his symptoms by causing serious side effects, in-

cluding disorientation and drowsiness — a common experience.

When McCourry first heard about MDMA-assisted therapy, he doubted it would make a difference. He met with the Mithoefers for three 90-minute preparatory sessions designed to establish trust and provide guidance on how to respond to difficult memories and feelings that might arise during treatment.

Scientists still do not fully understand how MDMA catalyzes healing. Evidence in mice indicates that the drug opens what neuroscientists refer to as a “critical period,” a window that typically occurs during childhood in which the brain is more malleable and better able to learn.

“This critical-period explanation really offers a different way of thinking about it,” said Dr. Gül Dölen, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University and senior author of the findings, which were published in Nature in 2019. “MDMA is allowing you to do a cognitive reappraisal and reformulate all of the personal narrative you’ve written around the trauma.”

McCourry emerged from his first session of MDMA-assisted therapy with what he described as an aerial map of his mind.

“It’s just been so tangled up, I didn’t even know where to start,” he told the Mithoefers.

He slept soundly that night, and his sleep problems never returned.

In one of his later sessions with MDMA, he revisited the memory of the two girls he had accidentally killed and saw that he had been harboring a tremendous amount of self-loathing for the person he had become in Iraq. He was able to replace the contempt he felt toward “Nigel the Marine,” as he put it, with compassion.

McCourry recently became a father and — after a nearly 10-year long bureaucratic struggle — successfully convinced the Navy to correct his reason for discharge to combat-related PTSD, instead of passiveaggressive personality disorder.

He still sometimes becomes overwhelmed in stressful situations and “just starts to mentally shut down,” he said. But he is now able to recognize when this is happening and to better manage his feelings.

“It’s really important for me that these experiences I’m sharing are used to show people that there is hope,” McCourry said.

“I’ll keep doing what I can to support this therapy until it’s legalized.”

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

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Sala: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 21 de marzo de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 21 de junio de 2019 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 21 de junio de 2019 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 11 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Ponce, Sala Superior, en 2150 Ave. Santiago de los Caballeros, Ponce, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Solar Rural Sito en el Barrio Almácigo Alto, carretera La Planta Interior, del término municipal de Yauco, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida superficial de 1377.9532 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.3506. Colinda por el NORTE, con la orilla de la quebrada platito que separa los terrenos de la sucesión Juan Lugo en tres (3) alineaciones irregulares de 15.56 metros, en 22.10 metros y 17.44 metros; por el SUR, con camino municipal en tres (3) alineaciones irregulares con las siguientes medidas 8.04 metros, 7.53 y 3.89 metros; por el ESTE, con terrenos de Ángel Vega Sánchez, en dos (2) alineaciones de 24.97 metros cuadrados y de 7.65 metros; y por el OESTE, en dos (2) alineaciones de 32.32 metros, con terrenos de Mon-

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serrate Rodríguez Sánchez y en 34.99 metros, con terrenos de José Ángel Vega. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 148 del tomo 541 de Yauco, Finca Número 17598, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 150 del tomo 541 de Yauco, Finca Número 17598, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. Inscripción séptima. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: BARRIO ALMÁCIGO ALTO, CARRETERA LA PLANTA INTERIOR, YAUCO, PR 00698. Número de Catastro: 60-336-090-509-28-000.

SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA: 11 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $88,563.00.

SEGUNDA: 18 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $59,042.00. TERCERA: 25 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. TIPO MÍNIMO: $44,281.50. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $88,563.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 18 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $59,042.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 25 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $44,281.50. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de Sentencia por la suma de $83,977.25 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4% anual desde el 1 de junio de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $74.12 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $8,856.30 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de

Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. David Rodríguez Padilla, Ana Maritza Moreno Corona y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, compuesta por ambos, ante el Tribunal Superior de Ponce, en el Caso Civil Número PO2018CV00419, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de la hipoteca con un balance de $83,977.25 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 31 de julio de 2018. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Yauco. Anotación A, el 13 de noviembre de 2018. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de mayo de 2022.

R. SANTIAGO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #919, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR.

CA- Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I, inscripción 3a. Propiedad loREVERSE MORTGAGE calizada en: CONDOMINIO PASEO DEFETAU, APT. C-604, FUNDING LLC. CAGUAS, PR 00725. Según Demandante vs. figuran en la certificación reRITA COLON RODRIGUEZ gistral, la propiedad objeto de T/C/C RITA GOMEZ ejecución está gravada por las RODRIGUEZ; ESTADOS siguientes cargas anteriores UNIDOS DE AMERICA o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: Demandados CIVIL NUM. CG2020CV00167. N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HI- N/A. Según figuran en la certiPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBAS- ficación registral, la propiedad TA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE posteriores a la inscripción del DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS crédito ejecutante: Nombre del EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIATitular: Secretario de la VivienDO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma A: La Parte Demandada, de la Carga: $208,500.00. al (a la) Secretario(a) de Fecha de Vencimiento: 22 de Hacienda de Puerto Rico mayo de 2088. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como y al Público General: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que bastante la titularidad de la proen cumplimiento con el Manda- piedad y que todas las cargas miento de Ejecución de Senten- y gravámenes anteriores y los cia que me ha sido dirigido por preferentes al crédito ejecutanel (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal te antes descritos, si los hubiede Primera Instancia, Sala Su- re, continuarán subsistentes. perior de Caguas, en el caso El rematante acepta dichas de epígrafe, venderé en públi- cargas y gravámenes anterioca subasta y al mejor postor, res, y queda subrogado en la por separado, de contado y responsabilidad de los mismos, por moneda de curso legal de sin destinarse a su extinción el los Estados Unidos de América precio del remate. Se establece y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Cer- como tipo de mínima subasta la tificado, en mi oficina ubicada suma de $139,000.00, según en el Tribunal de Primera Ins- acordado entre las partes en el tancia, Sala de Caguas, el 3 de precio pactado en la escritura agosto de 2022, a las 10:00 de de hipoteca. De ser necesala mañana, todo derecho título, ria una segunda subasta por participación o interés que le declararse desierta la primera, corresponda a la parte deman- la misma se celebrará en mi ofidada o cualquiera de ellos en cina, ubicada en el Tribunal de el inmueble hipotecado objeto Primera Instancia, Sala de Cade ejecución que se describe guas, el 10 de agosto de 2022, a continuación: URBANA: Pro- a las 10:00 de la mañana, y se piedad Horizontal: Apartamento establece como mínima para C guion seiscientos cuatro (C- dicha segunda subasta la suma 604). Apartamento residencial de $92,666.67, 2/3 partes del de forma irregular localizado en tipo mínima establecido origila segunda planta del edificio nalmente. Si tampoco se proC del Condominio Paseo De- duce remate ni adjudicación getau en el Barrio Cañanbon- en la segunda subasta, se cito de Caguas de novecientos establece como mínima para noventa y siete punto ochenta la tercera subasta, la suma de y un (997.81) pies cuadrados, $69,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del equivalentes a noventa y dos precio pactado y dicha subasta punto setenta (92.70) metros se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicuadrados. En lindes por el cada en el Tribunal de Primera Norte, con elementos comunes; Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el por el Sur, con apartamento C 17 de agosto de 2022, a las guion seiscientos tres (C-603); 10:00 de la mañana. Dicha supor el Este, con elementos basta se llevará a cabo para, comunes; y por el Oeste, con con su producto satisfacer a la elementos comunes. La puerta parte demandante, el importe de entrada está situada en su de la Sentencia dictada a su lindero Sur, a través de cual se favor ascendente a la suma llega al pasillo de interiores del de $115,051.18 por concepto condominio. Consta de sala, de principal, más la suma de comedor, cocina, balcón, tres $10,203.33 en intereses acu(3) dormitorios y dos (2) baños. mulados al 31 de octubre de Inscrita al folio 230 del tomo 2020 y los cuales continúan 1462 de Caguas, finca 51,032, acumulándose a razón de Registro de la Propiedad de 4.080% anual hasta su total y LEGAL NOTICE Caguas, Sección I. La hipote- completo pago; más la sumas ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ca objeto de esta ejecución se de $4,178.70 en seguro hipoteDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- encuentra inscrita al tomo Kari- cario; $5,110.00 en cargos por NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA be, finca 51,032, Registro de la servicio; $156.00 en seguro de

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la propiedad; $550.00 de tasación; $300.00 de inspecciones; $295.00 en mantenimiento a la propiedad; $2,818.90 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $13,900.00, 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 9 de junio de 2022. Carlos Delgado Cruz, Alguacil Regional. Angel Gomez Gomez, Alguacil/

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DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: TB2019CV00033.

SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. EDICTO DE SUBASTA

Al: Público en General A: SUCESIÓN DE ELSA MATILDE PUCHOLS ORTIZ T/C/C ELSA PUCHOLS ORTIZ T/C/C ELSA MATILDE PUCHOLS T/C/C ELSA MATILDE PUCHOL ORTIZ COMPUESTA POR ELSA DÍAZ PUCHOLS, JORGE DÍAZ PUCHOLS, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Yo, EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 11 de julio de 2022, a las 9:15 de la mañana, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueLEGAL NOTICE ble que más adelante se ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO describe y cuya venta en públiDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- ca subasta se ordenó por la vía NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ordinaria mediante Sentencia SALA DE BAYAMÓN. dictada en el caso de epígrafe, Wilmington Savings la cual se notificó y archivó en Fund Society, FSB, as autos el día 21 de octubre de Trustee of Finance of 2021. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al America Structured procedimiento incoado, estarán Securities Acquisition de manifiesto en la Secretaría Trust 2018-HB1 durante horas laborables. Que DEMANDANTE VS. en caso de no producir remate Sucesión de Elsa Matilde ni adjudicación en la primera Puchols Ortiz t/c/c Elsa subasta a celebrarse, se celePuchols Ortiz t/c/c Elsa brará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha Matilde Puchols t/c/c propiedad, el día 18 de julio de Elsa Matilde Puchol Ortiz 2022, a las 9:15 de la mañana,; compuesta por Elsa y en caso de no producir remaDíaz Puchols, Jorge Díaz te ni adjudicación, se celebrará Puchols, Fulano de Tal una tercera subasta el día 1 de y Sutano de Tal como agosto de 2022, a las 9:15 de la posibles herederos de mañana, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en nombres desconocidos, cumplimiento de un MandaCentro de Recaudaciones miento de Ejecución de Senten-

cia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 6 de abril de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número 2,234 del Bloque “D” de la Urbanización Levittown, Segunda Unidad de Planificación, en el Barrio Sabana Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 438.43 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en trece punto cincuenta y un metros, con la Carretera Marginal; por el SUR, en trece punto cincuenta metros, con Paseo Amapola (según plano Calle número 330); por el ESTE, en treinta y dos punto setenta y ocho metros, con el solar número dos mil doscientos treinta y cinco; y por el OESTE, el treinta y dos punto diecisiete metros, con el solar número 2,223. Finca número 5,334, inscrita al folio 66 del tomo 73 de Toa Baja. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Bayamón. Dirección de la Propiedad: D-2234 Paseo Amapola St. Levittown Dev., Toa Baja, PR 00949. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $88,820.95, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo más intereses acumulados, y los cuales continúan acumulándose anualmente; más la cantidad de $20,850.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 365 otorgada el día 31 de diciembre de 2012, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Juan Luis Romero Sanchez y consta inscrita al folio 157 del tomo 725 de Toa Baja, finca número 5,334, Registro de la Propiedad de Toa Baja, Sección II de Bayamón. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus

The San Juan Daily Star derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $208,500.00, con intereses al 5.06% anual, vencedero el día 4 de marzo de 2094, constituida mediante la escritura número 366, otorgado en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de diciembre de 2012, ante el notario Juan Luis Romero Sanchez, e inscrita al folio 157 del tomo 78 de Toa Baja, finca número 5,334, inscripción 8va., Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $208,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $139,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $104,250.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según

surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 18 de mayo de 2022. Edgardo Elias Vargas Santana, Alguacil Tribunal De Primera Instancia Sala De Bayamón.

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Carmen M. Ramos Rodríguez, t/c/c Carmen Milagros Ramos Rodríguez, t/c/c Carmen Ramos, t/c/c Carmen M. Ramos, t/c/c Carmen Ramos Rodríguez, t/c/c Carmen Milagros Ramos; y a los Estados Unidos de América

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NUM.: BY2020CV01897.

SALA: 505. SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: Público en General A: JULIA ESTHER ORTIZ CARDONA T/C/C JULIA ORTIZ CARDONA, T/C/C JULIA E. ORTIZ CARDONA, T/C/C JULIA ORTIZ Y COMO JULIA ESTER ORTIZ CARDONA; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Yo, EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 11 de julio de 2022, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 22 de julio de 2019.

Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 18 de julio de 2022, a las 9:30 de la mañana; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 1 de agosto de 2022, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la

Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 12 de enero de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar treinta y siete manzana cuatro N Lomas Verdes, barrio Minillas de Bayamón, compuesta de trescientos veinte metros sesenta y ocho centímetros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con solar treinta y ocho, en veintitrés metros cincuenta y cuatro centímetros; por el SUR, con solar treinta y seis en veinticuatro metros; por el ESTE con los solares diez y once, en trece metros sesenta y cinco centímetros; y por el OESTE, con la calle cuarenta y cinco, en trece metros cuarenta centímetros. Finca número 14,675, inscrita al folio 156 del tomo 332 de Bayamón Sur. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. Dirección de la Propiedad: 4N-37 Pacua St. Lomas Verdes Dev., Bayamón PR 00956. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $73,945.97 con interés al 3.523% anual, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo el cual incluye intereses y otros gastos acumulados al 31 de octubre de 2020, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 189 otorgada el día 24 de agosto de 2009, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Ileana Corral Lizardi y consta inscrita al folio 1335 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 14675, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón Sur, Sección de I de Bayamón. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantiza-

dos hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $174,900.00, con intereses al 3.523% anual, vencedero el día 19 de abril de 2093, constituida mediante la escritura número 190, (sin expresar lugar de otorgamiento), el día 24 de agosto de 2009, ante el notario Ileana Corral Lizardi, e inscrita al folio 1336 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 14,675, inscripción 5ta., como Asiento Abreviado extendidas las líneas el día 31 de septiembre de 2017, según la ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 12 de octubre de 2009 al Asiento 838 del Diario 1284). Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $116,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $77,733.33; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $58,300.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez

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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA 9:45 de la mañana; y en caso SALA DE BAYAMÓN. de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una terceReverse Mortgage ra subasta el día 1 de agosto de Funding, LLC 2022, a las 9:45 de la mañana DEMANDANTE VS. mi oficina sita en el lugar anSucesión de Josefina en tes indicado. Que en cumpliGonzalez Ojeda miento de un Mandamiento de compuesta por Evelyn Ejecución de Sentencia que ha Marrero González, sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera InstanJosefina Marrero González, Fulano de Tal cia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, el caso de epígrafe con fey Sutano de Tal como en cha de 6 de abril de 2022, proposibles herederos de cederé a vender en pública sunombres desconocidos, basta y al mejor postor, todo Centro de Recaudación derecho, título e interés que de Ingresos Municipales; tenga la parte demandada de y a los Estados Unidos de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad y que se describe a América. continuación: URBANA: Solar DEMANDADOS dieciséis, Manzana “D” UrbaniCIVIL NUM.: BY2020CV02314. zación Villa Contesa, Barrio SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca Pájaros y Cerro Gordo de Bapor la Vía Ordinaria. EDICTO yamón, Puerto Rico, compuesDE SUBASTA. to de trescientos treintiún meAl: Público en General tros noventitrés centímetros A: SUCESIÓN DE cuadrados, en lindes por el JOSEFINA GONZALEZ NORTE, con la Calle ochentiOJEDA COMPUESTA seis en trece metros cincuentiPOR EVELYN MARRERO cuatro centímetros; SUR, con solares veintinueve y treinta GONZÁLEZ, JOSEFINA los en trece metros; ESTE, con el MARRERO GONZÁLEZ, solar diecisiete en veinticuatro FULANO DE TAL Y metros noventinueve centímeSUTANO DE TAL COMO tros; y OESTE, con solar quince POSIBLES HEREDEROS en veinticinco metros. Contiene una casa de concreto reforDE NOMBRES zado para una familia. Finca DESCONOCIDOS, número 18,571, inscrita al folio CENTRO DE 183 del tomo 411 de Bayamón RECAUDACIÓN Sur. Registro de la Propiedad DE INGRESOS de Puerto Rico, Sección I de MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS Bayamón. Dirección de la ProESTADOS UNIDOS DE piedad: D-16 Borgona, Urb. Villa Contesa, Bayamón PR AMÉRICA. 00961. La subasta se llevará a Yo, EDGARDO ELIAS VARcabo para satisfacer, hasta GAS SANTANA, Alguacil del donde alcance, el importe de Tribunal de Primera Instancia, las cantidades adeudadas a la Sala de Bayamón, a los demanparte demandante conforme a dados, acreedores y al público la sentencia dictada a su favor, en general con interés sobre la a saber: $157,362.20, por conpropiedad que más adelante se cepto de balance de principal, describe, y al público en genemás intereses acumulados, y ral, por la presente CERTIFIlos cuales continúan acumulánCO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSdose a razón del 3.535% por TAR: Que el día 11 de julio de ciento anual hasta su completo 2022, a las 9:45 de la mañana, pago, más la cantidad de sita en mi oficina en el 4to piso, $21,750.00, equivalente al 10% Oficina del Alguacil de Subasta de la suma principal original en el Centro Judicial de Bayapactada, estipulada para cosmón, Puerto Rico, procederé a tas, gastos y honorarios de vender en Pública Subasta, al abogado; más recargos acumumejor postor, la propiedad inlados hasta la fecha en que se mueble que más adelante se pague la deuda; más cualquiedescribe y cuya venta en públira suma de dinero por concepto ca subasta se ordenó por la vía de contribuciones, primas de ordinaria mediante Sentencia seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así dictada en el caso de epígrafe como cualesquiera otras sumas el 13 de enero de 2021, la cual pactadas en la escritura de hise notificó y archivó en autos el poteca, todas cuyas sumas esdía 14 de enero de 2021. Los tán líquidas y exigibles. La hipoautos y todos los documentos teca a ejecutarse en el caso de correspondientes al procediepígrafe fue constituida memiento incoado, estarán de madiante la escritura número 128, nifiesto en la Secretaría durante otorgada el día 12 de agosto de horas laborables. Que en caso 2009, San Juan, Puerto Rico, de no producir remate ni adjudiante el Notario Público Alfonso cación en la primera subasta a Gómez Roubert y consta inscricelebrarse, se celebrará una ta al folio 1879 del tomo 1965 LEGAL NOT ICE segunda subasta para la venta de Bayamón Sur, finca número ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de la susodicha propiedad, el 18,571, Registro de la PropieDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- día 18 de julio de 2022, a las dad de Bayamón, Sección I.

efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 18 de mayo de 2022. EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMON.

26 Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $217,500.00, con intereses al 3.535% anual, vencedero el día 24 de enero de 2077, constituida mediante la escritura número 129, (no expresa lugar otorgamiento), el día 12 de agosto de 2009, ante el notario Alfonso Gómez Roubert, e inscrita al folio 1880 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 18,571, inscripción 12ª, como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 27 de octubre de 2017, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 2 de enero de 2009 al Asiento 120 del Diario 1285).

Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $217,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $145,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $108,750.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes,

si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 18 de mayo de 2022. EDGARDO ELIAS VAR-

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GAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL ral, por la presente CERTIFITRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS- CO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMON. TAR: Que el día 11 de julio a las 10:00 de la mañana en mi oficiLEGAL NOTICE na, sita en el Tribunal de PrimeESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ra Instancia, Sala Superior de DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor posSALA DE BAYAMÓN. tor, la propiedad inmueble que Finance of America más adelante se describe y Reverse, LLC cuya venta en pública subasta DEMANDANTE VS. se ordenó por la vía ordinaria Roberto Arroyo mediante Sentencia dictada en Carrasquillo, t/c/c el caso de epígrafe, la cual se Roberto Arroyo por sí notificó y archivó en autos el día y en representación 24 de marzo de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos code la Sociedad Legal rrespondientes al procedimiende Gananciales que incoado, estarán de compone junto a Graciela to manifiesto en la Secretaría duValentín Cancel, t/c/c rante horas laborables. Que en Graciela Valentín de caso de no producir remate ni Arroyo, t/c/c Graciela adjudicación en la primera suValentín; Graciela Valentín basta a celebrarse, se celebraCancel, t/c/c Graciela rá una segunda subasta para la de la susodicha propieValentín de Arroyo, t/c/c venta dad, el día 18 de julio a las Graciela Valentín por 10:00 de la mañana; y en caso sí y en representación de no producir remate ni adjudide la Sociedad Legal cación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 1 de agosto a de Gananciales que compone junto a Roberto las 10:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes inArroyo Carrasquillo, dicado. Que en cumplimiento t/c/c Roberto Arroyo; y de un Mandamiento de Ejeculos Estados Unidos de ción de Sentencia que ha sido América. liberado por la Secretaría del DEMANDADOS Tribunal de Primera Instancia, CIVIL NÚM.: BY2021CV04734. Sala Superior de Bayamón, en SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca el caso de epígrafe con fecha In Rem. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. de 29 de abril de 2022, proceAl: Público en General deré a vender en pública suA: ROBERTO ARROYO basta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que CARRASQUILLO, tenga la parte demandada de T/C/C ROBERTO epígrafe en el inmueble que se ARROYO POR SÍ Y EN describe a continuación: URREPRESENTACIÓN DE BANA: Solar marcado con el LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL número seis del Bloque “JL” situado en la Urbanización LeDE GANANCIALES vittown, Unidad de Planificación QUE COMPONE siete raya B, en el Barrio SabaJUNTO A GRACIELA na Seca de Toa Baja, Puerto VALENTÍN CANCEL, Rico, con un área de trescienT/C/C GRACIELA tos cincuenta y dos metros cuaVALENTÍN DE ARROYO, drados con ochenta y siete centímetros cuadrados. En lindes T/C/C GRACIELA VALENTÍN; GRACIELA por el NORTE, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número VALENTÍN CANCEL, siete; por el SUR, en diecinueT/C/C GRACIELA ve metros cincuenta centímeVALENTÍN DE ARROYO, tros y un arco de dos metros setecientos cuarenta y nueve T/C/C GRACIELA VALENTÍN POR SÍ Y EN milímetros, con Antonio Otero; REPRESENTACIÓN DE por el ESTE, en arco de dos metros setecientos cuarenta y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL nueve milímetros y doce meDE GANANCIALES QUE tros, con José Loza; y por el COMPONE JUNTO A OESTE, en quince metros cincuenta centímetros, con el solar ROBERTO ARROYO CARRASQUILLO, T/C/C número cinco. En este solar ROBERTO ARROYO; Y enclava una casa de cemento diseñada para una familia. FinLOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ca número 14,107 inscrita al DE AMÉRICA folio 190 del tomo 233 de Toa Yo, EDUARDO ELIAS VAR- Baja. Registro de la Propiedad GAS SANTANA, Alguacil del de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Bayamón. Dirección de la ProSala de Bayamón, a los deman- piedad: JL-6 Jose Laza St. Ledados, acreedores y al público vittown Dev., Toa Baja PR en general con interés sobre la 00949. La subasta se llevará a propiedad que más adelante se cabo para satisfacer, hasta describe, y al público en gene-

donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $128,930.04, con interés al 3.185% anual , por concepto de balance principal del préstamo más intereses acumulados, y los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $19,650.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 31 otorgada el día 15 de mayo de 2015, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Fernando E. Doval y consta inscrita al folio 172 del tomo 747 de Toa Baja, finca número 14,107, Registro de la Propiedad de Toa Baja, Sección II de Bayamón. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de El Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $196,500.00, con intereses al 3.185% anual, vencedero el día 28 de septiembre de 2085, constituida mediante la escritura número 32, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de mayo de 2015, ante el notario Fernando E. Doval, e inscrita al folio 172 del tomo

747 de Toa Baja, finca número 14,107, inscripción 5ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $196,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $131,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $98,250.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmue-

ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Subasta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cualquier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 18 de mayo de 2022. Eduardo Elias Vargas Santana, Alguacil, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Bayamon.

LEGAL NOTICE M&T 070706 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO.

CIELO VIVIENDA LLC Demandante v.

La Sucesión de María Isabel Rodríguez Gutiérrez compuesta por Fulano de Tal y Fulana de Tal denominados herederos desconocidos con posible interés, Departamento de Hacienda, División de Caudal Relicto; Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM)

Demandados CIVIL NÚM: D2CD2014-0385.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA

INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO , en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el DÍA 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LA(S) 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO , todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en 9 Calle Ramos Antonini, Guaynabo, PR 00962 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dieciséis (16) de la manzana ‘K’ del plano preparado por la Autoridad Sobre Hogares de Puerto Rico hoy Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico para su proyecto de solares denominado Zenón Díaz Valcarcel PRHA-once (PRHA11) radicado en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo, Amelia del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos cincuenta y siete (257) metros cuadrados con ochenta y una (81) centésimas de metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con la servidumbre de paso de la calle número siete (7) de la mencionada urbanización, distancia de diez (10) metros con noventa y siete (97) centímetros; por el SUR, con el solar K-veintiuno (K-21) de dicho proyecto, distancia de once (11) metros con cincuenta y siete (57) centímetros; por el ESTE, con el solar K-diecisiete (K-17) de la susodicha urbanización, distancia de veintidos (22) metros con setenta y nueve (79) centímetros; y por el OESTE, con el solar K-quince (K-15) del mencionado proyecto PRHA-once, distancia de veintidos (22) metros con noventa y siete (97) centímetros. Sobre este solar se ha construido una casa. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 205 del Tomo 246 de Guaynabo, finca número 15,152, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $35,000.00.

Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el DÍA 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LA(S) 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la

The San Juan Daily Star suma de $23,333.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el DÍA 23 DE AGOSTO DE 2022, A LA(S) 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $17,500.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 283, otorgada el día 19 de julio de 1995, ante el Notario Rita Lynne Rodríguez de la Rocha y consta inscrita en el Folio móvil del Tomo 1168 de Guaynabo, finca número 15,152, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo, inscripción quinta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $26,227.59 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.000% anual desde el día 1 de abril de 2010. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Se pagarán también los cargos por demora equivalentes a 3.000% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha vencimiento, la suma de $3,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, la suma de $3,500.00 para cubrir los intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y la suma de $3,500.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, más intereses según provisto por la regla 44.3 de las de Procedimiento Civil.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A

los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al portador, garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor por la presente se notifica, que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. A: HIPOTECA: Constituída por María Isabel Rodríguez Gutiérrez, soltera, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de R G PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO, o a su orden, por la suma de $7,500.00, sus intereses al 14.25% anual y vencedera el 1 de octubre de 2010, según escritura número 658, otorgada en San Juan, el 30 de octubre de 2000, ante el notario Alfonso Pratts Lazzarini. Inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 1168 de Guaynabo. Inscripción sexta.

B. AVISO DE DEMANDA: Pleito seguido por Scotiabank de Puerto Rico vs. María Isabel Rodríguez Gutiérrez, soltera, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, en el caso civil número D2CD 2012-0319, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca con un balance de $6,224.56 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 11 de diciembre de 2011. Anotada al folio 121 del tomo 1458 de Guaynabo. Inscripción séptima y última. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la alcaldía, el Tribunal y la colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado mediante edictos dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de JUNIO de 2022. Fdo. Frances A. Torres Contreras, Alguacil,

Monday, June 27, 2022 Tribunal De Primera Instancia M/C). En lindes por el NoresSala De Guaynabo. te, en trece punto setecientos cuatro (13.704) metros con la LEGAL NOTICE calle A; por el Sureste, en una ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO distancia de dieciséis punto seDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- senta y uno (16.61) metros, con NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA los solares seis (6) y siete (7) de dicho bloque; por el NoresSALA DE SALINAS. ESTRELLA HOMES III LLC te y Sureste, en una distancia de veinticinco punto cero cero Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE MARTA (25.00) metros, porcada lado respectivamente con los solaDE JESUS GIRAUD res quince 915) y diecisiete (17) compuesta por Tomassa del bloque. Enclava una casa.

De Jesús, John Doe Inscrita al folio cincuenta y ocho y Richard Roe como (58) del tomo cincuenta y ocho (58) de Salinas, finca número posibles herederos mil quinientos cuarenta y nueve desconocidos de Registro de la PropieMarta de Jesús Giraud, (1,549). dad de Guayama. Dirección FíADMINISTRACION sica: A-16 A A St. La MonserraPARA EL SUSTENTO te, Salinas, Puerto Rico 00751.

DE MENORES, CENTRO La primera subasta se llevará DE RECUADACION DE a cabo el día 2 de agosto de INGRESOS MUNICIPALES 2022 a las 9:30 de la mañana y servirá de tipo mínimo para la Parte Demandada CASO CIVIL NUM: misma la suma de $64,000.00 GM2019CV00408.

SOBRE: sin admitirse oferta inferior. En EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA el caso de que el inmueble a POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y CO- ser subastado no fuera adjudiBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO cado en la primera subasta, se DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, celebrará una segunda subasAlguacil del Tribunal de Primera ta el día 9 de agosto de 2022 Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala a las 9:30 de la mañana y el de Salinas, Oficina de Subasta; precio mínimo para esta sea los demandados de epígrafe gunda subasta será el de dos y al público en general hace sa- terceras partes del precio míniber que los autos y documentos mo establecido para la primera del caso de epígrafe estarán de subasta, o a sea la suma de manifiesto en la Secretaría del $42,666.67. Si tampoco hubieTribunal durante horas labora- ra remate ni adjudicación en la bles y que venderá en pública segunda subasta, se celebrará subasta al mejor postor, en una tercera subasta el día 16 moneda de curso legal de los de agosto de 2022 a las 9:30 de Estados Unidos de América la mañana y el tipo mínimo para en efectivo, cheque certifica- esta tercera subasta será la mido, o giro postal a nombre del tad del precio establecido para Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime- la primera subasta, o sea, la ra Instancia, en mi oficina en suma de $32,000.00. El mejor este Tribunal el derecho que postor deberá pagar el importe tenga la parte demandada en de su oferta en efecto, cheque el inmueble que se relaciona certificado o giro postal a nommás adelante para pagar la bre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si SENTENCIA por $51,606.91 se declarase desierta la tercera de balance principal al 8.95% subasta, se dará por terminado anual desde el primero de oc- el procedimiento, pudiendo adtubre de 2018 hasta su com- judicarse el inmueble al acreepleto pago; el 5% computado dor hipotecario dentro de los sobre cada mensualidad de diez días siguientes a la fecha principal e interés por la suma de la última subasta, si así lo de $512.66 por concepto de estimase conveniente, por la tocargos por demora desde el día talidad de la cantidad adeudada primero de noviembre de 2018 conforme a la sentencia, si ésta a razón de $25.63 mensuales fuera igual o menor que el monhasta su total y completo pago, to del tipo de la tercera subasta más la suma de $6,400.00 y abonándose dicho monto a como cantidad estipulada para la cantidad adeudada si ésta honorarios de abogado, pacta- fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualda en la escritura de hipoteca; quier licitador que la propiedad y cuales quiera otras sumas queda sujeta al gravamen del que por cualesquiera concepto Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM legal se devenguen hasta el día sobre la propiedad inmueble de la subasta. La propiedad a por contribuciones adeudadas venderse en pública subasta se y que el pago de dichas contridescribe como sigue: URBA- buciones es la responsabilidad NA: Solar número dieciséis (16) del licitador. Que se entenderá del bloque A de la Urbanización por todo licitador acepte como Monserrate radicada en el Ba- suficiente la titulación y que los rrio Pueblo sitio Las marías del cargos y gravámenes anterioMunicipio de Salinas, Puerto res y los preferentes al crédiRico, compuesto de trecientos to del ejecutante continuarán setenta y ocho punto setenta y subsistentes en entendiéndose seis metros cuadrados (378.76 que el rematador los acepta y

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

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Salinas, Puerto Rico a 7 de JUNIO de 2022. Richard Torres, Placa 067, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia Sala De Salinas.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

LILLIAM FALCÓN RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C LILLIAN FALCÓN RODRÍGUEZ

Demandada Civil Núm.: AR2019CV01292.

Sala: 102. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Al-

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guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Manatí, Manatí, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 2 de mayo de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 20 del Bloque B de la Urbanización Estancias de Imbery, radicada en el Barrio Florida Afuera del término municipal de Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 436.14 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 26.75 metros con la Carretera Estatal número 140; por el SUR, en distancia de 25.00 metros, con el solar 19-B del proyecto; por el ESTE, en distancia de 12.51 metros con entrada de Boulevar; y por el OESTE, en distancia de 18.50 metros con solar 1-B del proyecto. Enclava estructura de hormigón para fines residenciales. Inscrita al folio 21 del tomo 252, finca # 13,055 de Barceloneta. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. La propiedad ubica en: Solar #20 Bloque B Urb. Estancias de Imbery, Barrio Florida Afuera, Barceloneta, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 11 de diciembre de 2019, notificada el 18 de diciembre de 2019, por la cantidad de: $121,380.03 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 4.50%, anual desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2018, hasta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $13,470.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.

La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA subasta se llevará a efecto el día 3 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Manatí, Manatí, Puerto Rico.

Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $134,700.92 Que de ser

necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $89,800.61, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $67,350.46, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hu-

biere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de mayo de 2022. Wilfredo Díaz Quiñones, ALGUACIL #914, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ. ***

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs.

WANDA I. SÁNCHEZ SERRANO

Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2021CV04609.

Salón: 504. 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: WANDA I. SÁNCHEZ SERRANO - URB. EL CORTIJO J9 CALLE 9 BAYAMÓN, P.R. 00956-5636.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda en la cual la parte demandante alega que se le adeuda la cantidad de $5.830.93, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo.

Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@orf-law.com, y a la

28 dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de mayo de 2022.

En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 11 de mayo de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Puerto Rico, el 11 de mayo de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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CATHERINE BANCHS SANDOVAL Demandante Vs.

CITIBANK N.A; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERÉS

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV05068.

Demandante Vs. CANCELACIÓN DE PAROBERTO J. VISO ROJAS Sobre: GARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRADemandado VIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00514.

POR EDICTO. Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO A: CITIBANK NA. DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPO BOX 9438 PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO GAITHERSBURG MD ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE 20898-9838.

LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL En este caso la parte demanESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO dante ha radicado Demanda DE PUERTO RICO, SS. para que se decrete judicial-

A: ROBERTO J. VISO ROJAS COND. ASTRALIS 9546 CALLE DÍAZ WAY APT. 210 CAROLINA, P.R. 00979-1463.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.

Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

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

mente el saldo de un pagare a favor de Citibank, N.A., o a su orden, por la suma principal de Noventa y Dos Mil Dólares ($92,000.00), con intereses al siete y medio por ciento (7 1/2%) anual, vencedero el día primero (1ro) de noviembre de dos mil diez (2010), constituida mediante la escritura número doscientos dos (202), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día veintisiete (27) de octubre de mil novecientos noventa y cinco (1995), ante el Notario Público Alejandro Oliveras Rivera inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 1354 de Río Piedras Norte finca 36,912 inscripción 2nda., Registro de la Propiedad Sección Segunda de San Juan, y está garantizado por hipoteca sobre la propiedad sita en Condominio Plaza Antillana Apartamento #1004 Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00919 que se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento mil cuatro (1004) ubicado en el tercero y cuarto piso del Edificio nueve-diez (910) en su Sección Diez y en su lado derecho, cual edificio está localizado en el lado Norte del inmueble sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, conocido por Condominio Plaza Antillana, ubicado en el Barrio Hato Rey del Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, cuya entrada y salida da hacia la Avenida César González, la cual radica en el lado Oeste del inmueble; está construido de hormigón reforzado y bloque B de hormigón con un área de piso en dos niveles de mil cuatrocientos sesenta y cinco pies cuadrados

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con novecientos tres milésimas de otro (1,465.903 p/c), equivalentes a ciento treinta y seis metros cuadrados con doscientos cincuenta y siete milésimas de otro (136.257 mc). Su forma es aproximadamente rectangular y consta de dos niveles; el primero ubicado en el tercer piso y el segundo en el cuarto piso, que a su vez da acceso a la azotea. Su entrada está localizada en el tercer piso orientada hacia el Sur del edificio y da acceso directamente al vestíbulo de dicho piso que a su vez da acceso a elementos comunes generales de la propiedad a través de los pasillos, escalera y acera para llegar a la vía pública. El primer nivel ubicado en el tercer piso está dividido en los siguientes elementos: una cocina, una sala -comedor, un medio baño, un closet para lavandería, un balcón y unas escaleras que dan acceso al segundo nivel ubicado en el cuarto piso. Contiene un calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina. El tercer piso tiene una área superficial de seiscientos cincuenta y uno pies cuadrados con cuatrocientos diecisiete milésimas de otro (651.417) equivalentes a sesenta metros cuadrados con cincuenta y cinco centésimas de otro (60.55 mc), en lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y dos pies (32’), con el exterior del edificio; por el SUR, en treinta y dos pies (32’), con el pasillo del edificio, que es área común limitada, y con el apartamento mil tres (1003); por el ESTE, en diecinueve pies tres pulgadas (19’3”) con el apartamento mil ciento cuatro (1104 ); y por el OESTE, en veintidós pies siete pulgadas (22’ 7”), con el apartamento Novecientos Cuatro (904). El segundo nivel ubicado en el cuarto piso está dividido en los siguientes elementos: tres cuartos dormitorios con sus closets, unidos por un pasillo central, dos baños, uno con acceso al pasillo central y el segundo ubicado dentro del área del cuarto dormitorio principal, y una escalera con acceso a la azotea y al tercer piso. A este Apartamento le corresponde el uso de la azotea sujeto a las disposiciones de ley y sujeto a las limitaciones contenidas en la escritura de Constitución del Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal. El cuarto piso consta de un área de setecientos cuarenta y cuatro pies cuadrados con setecientos treinta y seis milésimas de otro (744.736 pc), equivalente a sesenta y nueve metros cuadrados con doscientos veinticuatro milésimas de otro (69.224 mc), con lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y dos pies (32’), con el exterior del edificio; por el SUR, en treinta y dos pies (32’), con el apartamento mil tres (1003);

por el ESTE, en veintidós pies siete pulgadas (22’ 7”) con el apartamento número mil ciento cuatro (1104 ); y por el OESTE, en veinticuatro pies once pulgadas (24’ 11”), con el apartamento novecientos cuatro (904). El descanso de la escalera que dá acceso a la azotea tiene un área de sesenta y nueve a pies con setecientos cincuenta milésimas de otro (69.750 pc), equivalentes a seis metros con cuatrocientos ochenta y tres milésimas de otro (6.483 mc). Le corresponde en forma permanente e inseparable dos espacios de estacionamiento los cuales están debidamente identificados en el plano de estacionamiento que se une a la primera copia certificada de la escritura del Régimen de propiedad Horizontal y que forma parte de los planos generales del Condominio. Los espacios de estacionamiento que le corresponde a este apartamento serán adjudicados en la escritura de Individualización y Compraventa. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales el punto treinta y ocho quinientos nueve por ciento (0.38509%).

Le corresponde a este apartamento en los gastos de operación y mantenimiento general del condominio el punto treinta y cinco doscientos sesenta y nueve por ciento (0.35269%).

Inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 1354 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 36,912, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Segunda. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria, y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se les emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Utuado, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Jorge García Rondón, de PMB 538, 267 Sierra Morena, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926 dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y

sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de junio de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ADELLE RIVERA APONTE, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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CATHERINE BANCHS SANDOVAL Demandante Vs.

CITIBANK N.A; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERÉS

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV05068.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JOH DOE Y RICHARD ROE (PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS).

En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un pagare a favor de Citibank, N.A., o a su orden, por la suma principal de Noventa y Dos Mil Dólares ($92,000.00), con intereses al siete y medio por ciento (7 1/2%) anual, vencedero el día primero (1ro) de noviembre de dos mil diez (2010), constituida mediante la escritura número doscientos dos (202), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día veintisiete (27) de octubre de mil novecientos noventa y cinco (1995), ante el Notario Público Alejandro Oliveras Rivera inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 1354 de Río Piedras Norte finca 36,912 inscripción 2nda., Registro de la Propiedad Sección Segunda de San Juan, y está garantizado por hipoteca sobre la propiedad sita en Condominio Plaza Antillana Apartamento #1004 Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00919 que se describe como sigue: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento mil cuatro (1004) ubicado en el tercero y cuarto piso del Edificio nueve-diez (910) en su Sección Diez y en su lado derecho, cual edificio está localizado en el lado Norte del inmueble sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, conocido por Condominio Plaza Antillana, ubicado en el Barrio Hato Rey del Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, cuya entrada y salida da hacia la Avenida César González, la cual radica en el lado Oeste del inmueble; está construido de hormigón reforzado y bloque B de hormigón con un área de piso en dos niveles de mil cuatrocientos sesenta y cinco pies cuadrados con novecientos tres milésimas

de otro (1,465.903 p/c), equivalentes a ciento treinta y seis metros cuadrados con doscientos cincuenta y siete milésimas de otro (136.257 mc). Su forma es aproximadamente rectangular y consta de dos niveles; el primero ubicado en el tercer piso y el segundo en el cuarto piso, que a su vez da acceso a la azotea. Su entrada está localizada en el tercer piso orientada hacia el Sur del edificio y da acceso directamente al vestíbulo de dicho piso que a su vez da acceso a elementos comunes generales de la propiedad a través de los pasillos, escalera y acera para llegar a la vía pública. El primer nivel ubicado en el tercer piso está dividido en los siguientes elementos: una cocina, una sala -comedor, un medio baño, un closet para lavandería, un balcón y unas escaleras que dan acceso al segundo nivel ubicado en el cuarto piso. Contiene un calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina. El tercer piso tiene una área superficial de seiscientos cincuenta y uno pies cuadrados con cuatrocientos diecisiete milésimas de otro (651.417) equivalentes a sesenta metros cuadrados con cincuenta y cinco centésimas de otro (60.55 mc), en lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y dos pies (32’), con el exterior del edificio; por el SUR, en treinta y dos pies (32’), con el pasillo del edificio, que es área común limitada, y con el apartamento mil tres (1003); por el ESTE, en diecinueve pies tres pulgadas (19’3”) con el apartamento mil ciento cuatro (1104 ); y por el OESTE, en veintidós pies siete pulgadas (22’ 7”), con el apartamento Novecientos Cuatro (904). El segundo nivel ubicado en el cuarto piso está dividido en los siguientes elementos: tres cuartos dormitorios con sus closets, unidos por un pasillo central, dos baños, uno con acceso al pasillo central y el segundo ubicado dentro del área del cuarto dormitorio principal, y una escalera con acceso a la azotea y al tercer piso. A este Apartamento le corresponde el uso de la azotea sujeto a las disposiciones de ley y sujeto a las limitaciones contenidas en la escritura de Constitución del Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal. El cuarto piso consta de un área de setecientos cuarenta y cuatro pies cuadrados con setecientos treinta y seis milésimas de otro (744.736 pc), equivalente a sesenta y nueve metros cuadrados con doscientos veinticuatro milésimas de otro (69.224 mc), con lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y dos pies (32’), con el exterior del edificio; por el SUR, en treinta y dos pies (32’), con el apartamento mil tres (1003); por el ESTE, en veintidós pies siete pulgadas (22’ 7”) con el

apartamento número mil ciento cuatro (1104 ); y por el OESTE, en veinticuatro pies once pulgadas (24’ 11”), con el apartamento novecientos cuatro (904). El descanso de la escalera que dá acceso a la azotea tiene un área de sesenta y nueve a pies con setecientos cincuenta milésimas de otro (69.750 pc), equivalentes a seis metros con cuatrocientos ochenta y tres milésimas de otro (6.483 mc). Le corresponde en forma permanente e inseparable dos espacios de estacionamiento los cuales están debidamente identificados en el plano de estacionamiento que se une a la primera copia certificada de la escritura del Régimen de propiedad Horizontal y que forma parte de los planos generales del Condominio. Los espacios de estacionamiento que le corresponde a este apartamento serán adjudicados en la escritura de Individualización y Compraventa. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales el punto treinta y ocho quinientos nueve por ciento (0.38509%).

Le corresponde a este apartamento en los gastos de operación y mantenimiento general del condominio el punto treinta y cinco doscientos sesenta y nueve por ciento (0.35269%).

Inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 1354 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 36,912, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Segunda. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria, y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se les emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Utuado, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Jorge García Rondón, de PMB 538, 267 Sierra Morena, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926 dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de junio de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ

COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ADELLE RIVERA APONTE, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC Demandante Vs.

PEDRO ANGEL LEON OCASIO T/C/C PEDRO A. LEON OCASIO T/C/C PEDRO ANGEL LEON T/C/C PEDRO LEON OCASIO POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; SUCESION CARMEN ELIS COLLAZO SANTIAGO T/C/C CARMEN E. COLLAZO SANTIAGO T/C/C CARMEN E. COLLAZO T/C/C CARMEN ELY COLLAZO COMPUESTA POR PEDRO ANGEL LEON COLLAZO, GILBERTO LEON COLLAZO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION HECTOR LEON COLLAZO COMPUESTA POR JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: CO2022CV00107.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION CARMEN ELIS COLLAZO SANTIAGO T/C/C CARMEN E. COLLAZO SANTIAGO T/C/C CARMEN E. COLLAZO T/C/C CARMEN ELY COLLAZO; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION HECTOR LEON COLLAZO.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de

The San Juan Daily Star la publicación de este edicto.

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

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Coamo, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de junio de 2022.

ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. VIRGEN J. HERNÁNDEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA.

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MARÍA ISABEL DÍAZ DEL VALLE Demandante V.

ORIENTAL BANK, COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE R&G MORTGAGE CORPORATION JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2022CV03005.

Sala: 701. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: JOHN DOE / RICHARD DOE.

Quedan notificados que la demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra ustedes como co-demandados en la que se solicita la cancelación vía judicial de un Pagaré Hipotecario extraviado a favor de R&G Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $44,000.00 e intereses al 6 3/4% anual y vencimiento el día 1ro de diciembre de 2014, mediante la Escritura Número 991 otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico ante el notario público Radamés Becerra González.

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Los antes descritos Pagarés hipotecarios gravan la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Lote de terreno radicado en el Barrio Minillas del término municipal de Bayamón, con una cabida superficial de seiscientos tres punto cero veinte metros cuadrados (603.020 mc). En lindes por el NORTE, con camino privado, distancia de quince punto doscientos setenta y uno metros (15.271 m) y con Domingo Rosado, en una distancia de quince punto cero diez metros (15.010 m); por el SUR, con Nelson Pizarro, en una distancia de veinticuatro punto trescientos metros cuadrados (24.300 mc); por el ESTE, con camino municipal, en distancia de veinticinco punto novecientos sesenta y cinco metros cuadrados (25.965 mc) y por el OESTE, con solar a segregarse en distancia de diecisiete punto doscientos dieciséis metros (16.216 m). Enclava una casa.

Este es el remanente de esta finca luego de descontada la segregación. Consta inscrita al folio 133 del tomo 862 de Bayamón, finca número 38,650, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón.

Se les advierte que el presente Edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y se le requiere para que contesten la Demanda de epígrafe dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto, radicando el original de su contestación en el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la siguiente dirección: LCDA. ERIKA MORALES MARENGO PO Box 9021455 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902-1455 Tel. (787) 302-0014 / (787) 239-5661 Email: emarengo@apontecortes.com Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle.

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 13 de junio de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1

Demandante Vs.

E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE INC; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01759.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, LCDA. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA A su dirección PO. Box 7970 Ponce, PR. 00732. Tel: 787~843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré hipotecario a favor de E.M.I. Equity Mortgage, lnc., o a su orden, por la suma de suma de doscientos cuarenta y seis mil quinientos dólares ($246,500.00), con intereses al siete punto noventa y cinco por ciento (7.95%) anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de abril de dos mil treinta y seis (2036), según consta del testimonio número mil ochocientos sesenta y siete (1,867) de la escritura número noventa y tres (93), otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día treinta y uno (31) de marzo de dos mil seis (2006), ante el notario Mariano S. Najeraurriola y cuya obligación está inscrita al folio veinte (20) del tomo cuatrocientos veintiocho (428) de Canóvanas, finca número diecisiete mil ciento treinta y ocho (17,138), inscripción cuarta (4ta). Dicha hipoteca se modifica de la inscripción cuarta (4ta) por la suma de doscientos cuarenta y seis mil quinientos dólares ($246.500.00), amplía a la suma doscientos setenta y cinco mil ochocientos nueve dólares con sesenta y seis centavos ($275,809.66), intereses

comenzando al tres punto uno siete siete cero uno por cientos (3.17701%) y terminando al siete punto noventa y cinco por ciento (7.95%) y vencedero el primero (1ro) de noviembre de dos mil cincuenta y dos (2052), con un último pago de por la suma de treinta mil cuatrocientos sesenta y uno dólares con cincuenta y un centavos ($30,461.51). según consta de la escritura número novecientos veintiuno (921) otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el treinta (30) de octubre de dos mil doce (2012), ante la notario Magda V. Alsina Figueroa, inscrito al folio veinte (20) del tomo cuatrocientos veintiocho (428) Canóvanas, finca número diecisiete mil ciento treinta y ocho (17,138), inscripción quinta (5ta). Que grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela identificado en el plano de inscripción como el solar número tres (3) del bloque N de I Urbanización River Gardens, localizada en el barrio Canóvanas del término municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos doce punto cero cero (312.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número dos guión N (2-N); por el SUR, con el solar número cuatro guión N (4N); por el ESTE, con calle Lirio y por el OESTE, con los solares treinta y siete (37) y treinta y ocho guión N (38-N). Enclava una casa de dos plantas. Inscrita al folio diecinueve (19) del tomo cuatrocientos veintiocho (428) de Canóvanas, finca número diecisiete mil ciento treinta y ocho (17,138) de Registro de a Propiedad Sección Tercera (3ra) de Carolina. SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 16 de junio de 2022. Lcda. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISE M. AMARO MACHUCA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

LA SUCESIÓN DE MÓNICA ESTHER SIERRA RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR; RAMÓN OSVALDO CALDAS PAGÁN, POR SI

Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA Y FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV04567.

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

A: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

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

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

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

C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $161,245.91, más la suma de $38,058.64, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 19 DE JULIO

DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan, por el tipo mínimo de $183,512.00.

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

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO ORIENTAL Parte Demandante V.

KERRYLYNN CABEZAS RIVERA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2020CV02326.

Sala: 705. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: KERRYLYNN CABEZAS RIVERA.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: AGS LEGAL COLLECTIONS, LLC Abogados de la parte demandante Lcdo. Ricardo A. Acevedo Bianchi RUA 20637 Lcdo. José R. González Rivera RUA 13105 Lcdo. Juan A. Santos Berrios RUA 9774 P.O. Box 10242 Humacao, Puerto Rico 00792 Teléfono: (939) 545-4300 Email: rab@agslegalpr.com o jrg@ agslegalpr.com POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva, con copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante, dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día su publicación. Usted deberá pre-

sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Extendido bajo mi firma y Sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de junio de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. BRENDA L. TORRES PÉREZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE ISMAEL ROSADO FIGUEROA, COMPUESTA POR ISMAEL DE ROSADO Y ROSIMAR ROSADO, COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN; “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ISMAEL ROSADO FIGUEROA; Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01253.

Sala: 409. 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: ISMAEL ROSADO, COMO HEREDERO CONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ISMAEL ROSADO FIGUEROA; Y “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO

30 POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ISMAEL ROSADO FIGUEROA. VISTA SERENA, COND. APT. O-501, TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976; COND. VISTA SERENA, 920 CARR. 175 APT. 15501, SAN JUAN, PR 00926.

Queden emplazados, notificados e interpelados, que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca de la que surge lo siguiente: Que la parte demandante ha declarado la totalidad de la deuda que origina la presente causa de acción vencida; y al día 1ro de abril de 2020, la parte demandada le adeuda a la parte demandante las siguientes cantidades: $82,408.72 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 3.75% desde el 1ro de marzo de 2019; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $9,261.60 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.

La propiedad hipotecada cuya ejecución se solicita tiene la siguiente descripción y localización: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento letra “O” número quinientos uno (O501), localizado en el quinto piso del Edificio III del Condominio Vista Serena, ubicado en el Barrio Carraizo del término Municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial aproximada de mil doscientos seis punto ochenta y ocho pies cuadrados (1206.88 p.c), equivalentes a ciento doce punto doce metros cuadrados (112.12 m.c); en lindes por el NORTE, con elemento común exterior en veintisiete pies y seis pulgadas lineales (27’-6”); por el SUR, con elementos común exterior en veintisiete pies y seis pulgadas lineales (27’-6”); por el ESTE, con el apartamento letra “N” guión quinientos dos (N-502) en cuarenta y cinco pies y nueve pulgadas lineales (45’-9”); por el OESTE, con el apartamento Letra “O” guión quinientos dos (O-502) en treinta y cinco pies y cinco pulgadas lineales (35’-5”).

Consta de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios con “closet”, sala, comedor, cocina, dos (2) baños, área de recibidor (“foyer”), área de lavado de ropa y “linen closet” en pasillo, balcón y escalera en espiral de acceso a una segunda planta (“Penthouse”).

Su segunda planta se compone de un área cerrada bajo techo y área abierta utilizable como terraza, en lindes por el NORTE, con elemento común ex-

terior en once pies con cuatro pulgadas lineales (11’-4”); por el SUR, con elementos común exterior común en once pies con cuatro pulgadas lineales (11’-4”); por el ESTE, con el asegunda planta (“Penthouse”) del apartamento letra “N” guión quinientos dos (N-502) en cuarenta y siete pies con nueve pulgadas lineales (47’-9”); por el OESTE, con elementos común exterior en treinta y cinco pies y cinco pulgadas lineales( 35’-5”). La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situado en el lindero Este. Esta unidad tiene una participación en los elementos comunes generales del condominio de punto cero cero cinco cinco uno seis por ciento (.005516%). Le corresponde como parte de los elementos comunes limitados 2 estacionamientos marcados “0501”. Inscrita en la finca número 31,491, al folio 13 del tomo 726 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Cuarta Sección de San Juan.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda enmendada incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Además, en cuanto a la interpelación de los herederos del causante, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2787. de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. También se le APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme 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 la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de

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su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ, LLP Edificio Ochoa, 500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 17 de junio de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESION DE IVAN BARTOLOME BANUCHI DOMENECH, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO IVAN B. BANUCHI, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS IVAN BARTOLOME BANUCHI GARCIA, ISABEL MARIA BANUCHI GARCIA, IVONNE MARIE BANUCHI GARCIA, INGRID MARIE BANUCHI GARCIA, IVETTE MARIE BANUCHI GARCIA, IRENE MARIE BANUCHI GARCIA, IVAN FELIX ARNALDO BANUCHI CRESPO Y VICTORIA EUGENIA BANUCHI CRESPO; IRMA CRESPO MARTÍNEZ, POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02054.

(508). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: IVAN FELIX ARNALDO BANUCHI CRESPO, VICTORIA EUGENIA BANUCHI CRESPO E ISABEL MARIA BANUCHI GARCIA, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE IVAN

BARTOLOME BANUCHI DOMENECH, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO IVAN B. BANUCHI; IRMA CRESPO MARTINEZ, POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE IVAN BARTOLOME BANUCHI DOMENECH, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO IVAN B. BANUCHI.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado· en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda Enmendada sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $81,431.42, intereses al 6.875% anual, desde el día 1ro de mayo de 2020, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $17,370.00; estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: URBANA:, Solar número Ciento Cuarenta y Nueve (149) de la Manzana “M” de la URBANIZACIÓN AMÉRICAS, en el Barrio Monacillos del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, compuesto de TRESCIENTOS NOVENTA PUNTO CERO CERO (390.00) METROS CUADRADOS; colindando por el ESTE y por el OESTE, en veintiséis punto cero cero (26.00) metros, por cada lado respectivamente, con los solares número Ciento Cuarenta y Ocho (148) y Ciento Cincuenta (150) de dicha manzana; por el NORTE y por el SUR, en quince punto cero cero (15.00) metros por cada lado, respectivamente, con el solar número Ciento Sesenta y Dos (162) y la Calle número Cuatro (4). Sobre este solar enclava una casa de concreto reforzado de una planta para una familia. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 15 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera, finca número 16,620, inscripción décimo primera. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar

su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y enviar copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuya dirección más adelante se indica. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Lcda. Adela Surillo Gutiérrez Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 70212 San Juan, P.R. 00936-8212 Tel. (787) 625-9999 Fax (787) 705-7387 E-mail: asurillo@lawpr.com Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que conforme el caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria v. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 2005 TSPR 50, Op. de 22 de abril de 2005 y a tenor con las disposiciones del Artículo 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2787), deberán aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante Iván Bartolomé Banuchi Domenech, dentro del término de treinta (30) días. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción.

Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de junio de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA HERNÁNDEZ ZAVALA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante Vs.

JUAN AGOSTO BETANCOURT, MARILYN NIEVES CARABALLO & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00681.

705. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

EN DERECHOS DE RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION P/C DE SU AGENTE RESIDENTE CT CORPORATION SYSTEM Y OTROS

A: JUAN AGOSTO BETANCOURT, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN Demandado(a) DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL Civil: CN2022CV00163. Sala: DE GANANCIALES 403. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN URB ARBOLADA C2 O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGACALLE LAUREL SABINO RÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACAGUAS, PUERTO RICO CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. 00727-1319.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD A: MARILYN NIEVES ROE (PERSONAS CARABALLO, POR SÍ Y DESCONOCIDAS CON EN REPRESENTACIÓN POSIBLE INTERES).

DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL (Nombre de las partes a las que se le DE GANANCIALES notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que susURB ARBOLADA C2 CALLE LAUREL SABINO cribe le notifica a usted que CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO el 15 de junio de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, 00727-1319.

Sentencia Parcial o Resolución

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose.aguilar@orflaw.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de junio de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 17 de junio de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. BRENDA L. TORRES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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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 17 de junio de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 17 de junio de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V.

COROMOTO J MOLINA MORROVEL

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL Demandado(a) GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV06187.

SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA Sala: 903. Sobre: COBRO DE FIRSTBANK DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFIPUERTO RICO CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR Demandante V. EDICTO.

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION COMO SUCESOR

A: COROMOTO J MOLINA MORROVEL.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de junio de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de junio de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 17 de junio de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MILDRED J. FRANCO REVENTOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

DANIEL COLÓN LEBRÓN

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV03605.

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

A: DANIEL COLÓN LEBRÓN. 1327 AVE. SAN IGNACIO, APT. 1102, COND. LA PROVIDENCIA, SAN JUAN, PR 00921.

De: BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO.

Se le emplaza y requiere 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), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Di-

The San Juan Daily Star nero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $62,766.65, más la suma de $7,726.88, que incluye intereses, cargos por demora y otros cargos, más los intereses al 5.6% 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 hipotecariamente asegurados.

Se le apercibe que si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Lcdo. / Lcda. José Antonio Lamas Burgos, Número del Tribunal Supremo 15693 221 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900, San Juan, PR 00917, Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 17 de junio de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. BRENDA HERNÁNDEZ ZAVALA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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Monday, June 27, 2022

tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de junio de 2022. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 21 de junio de 2022.

LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

CARLOS JUAN NEGRON RIVERA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01725.

(604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE ÁMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: CARLOS JUAN NEGRÓN RIVERA. SUS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: (A) 319 1/2 Demandante V. JOSÉ MANUEL TORRES N 16TH ST., ALLENTOWN, PA 18102-5616; (B) 321 N COLLAZO, DAMARIS 9TH ST FL 3 READING PA TORRES COLLAZO 19601-3106; (E) 913 RES. y EFRAÍN TORRES LLORENS TORRES #1499 COLLAZO Demandado(a) SAN JUAN, PR 00913; (D) Civil: BY2021CV04093. 401.

126 PEAR ST READING Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE COMUPA 19601-4026; (E) 408 NIDAD DE BIENES HEREDIPRINTZ ST READING TARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE PA19606-2523; (F) 1958 SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. (912) CALLE ESQUILIN A: JOSÉ MANUEL VILLA PALMERA SAN TORRES COLLAZO, JUAN, PR 00912-4035.

DAMARIS TORRES Por la presente se le(s) notifica COLLAZO y EFRAÍN que se ha radicado en la SeTORRES COLLAZO. cretaría de este Tribunal una JORGE EMILIO TORRES COLLAZO

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de mayo de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen-

Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma $21,844.57 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de febrero de 2021, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.875% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la

fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $2,100.00. Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $2,100.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $2,100.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 290, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de octubre de 2007, ante la notario Lucy Navarro Rosado, modificada mediante la escritura número 115, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de junio de 2019, ante el notario Antonio Luis Morales Vallellanes, de la finca número 9,254, inscrita al Folio 43 del Tomo 234 de Santurce Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Primera.

Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que. se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo.

Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s).

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 22 de junio de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ

COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARILY LÓPEZ MARTÍNEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Demandante Vs.

YEIMY CONSUELO VASQUEZ GUZMAN (DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO); JUAN FERNANDO GONZALEZ DIAZ, JOSEFA MARRERO TOLEDO T/C/C JOSEFA MARRERO DE GONZALEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS (TITULARES REGISTRALES) ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2022CV00550.

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

A) A LA PARTE CODEMANDADA: YEIMY CONSUELO VÁSQUEZ GUZMÁN (DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO) A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: (A) #151 CALLE AMAPOLA URB. ALTURAS DE TEJAS LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00771; (B) #325 CALLE JAZMIN DEL MAR URB. HACIENDA REAL CAROLINA, PR 00987; (C) #423 BRADLEY AVE. STATEN AVE. NY 10314.

B) A LA PARTE CODEMANDADA: JUAN FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ DÍAZ, JOSEFA MARRERO TOLEDO T/C/C JOSEFA MARRERO DE GONZÁLEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS (TITULARES REGISTRALES) A LA SIGUIENTE DIRECCIÓN: #151 CALLE AMAPOLA URB. ALTURAS DE TEJAS LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00771.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $298,497.77, por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2021, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte co-demandada Yeimy Consuelo Vásquez Guzmán adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $30,438.50. Además la parte co-demandada Yeimy Consuelo Vásquez Guzmán se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $30,438.50 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $30,438.50 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 292, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 8 de octubre de 2020, ante el notario Carlos Martínez Olmo, de la finca número 5,263, la cual consta inscrita al Folio 192 del Tomo 107 de Las Piedras, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas

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de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 23 de junio de 2022, en Humacao, Puerto Rico. DOMINGA GÓMEZ FUSTER, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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MWPR, LLC

Demandante Vs.

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

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2020CV02208.

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

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

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto, Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN

GENERAL: y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 11 de mayo de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: Villa del Rey 4V1 Calle 9 A, Caguas, PR 00725. URBANA: Solar número uno (1) de la manzana cuatro guion V (4-V) de la urbanización Villa del Rey, Sección Cuarta de Caguas, Puerto Rico, barrio Cañaboncito, compuesto de doscientos treinta y nueve punto veintiséis (239.26) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con paseo en una distancia de nueve punto seis siete nueve (9.679) metros; por el SUR, con calle nueve guion A (9-A), en una distancia de nueve punto seis siete (9.679) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número dos (2), en una distancia de veinticuatro punto siete dos cero (24.720) metros; y por el OESTE, con un sendero, en una distancia de veinticuatro punto siete dos cero (24.720) metros. Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 202 del tomo 471 de Caguas, finca número 14,587 Registro de la Propiedad Sección Primera de Caguas. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 9 de marzo de 2022 en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma de $45,884.35 de principal, $27,819.13 de intereses, $440.82 de cargos por demora, $252.00 de seguro (“FPI”), $1,928.85 de la cuenta plica (“Negative Escrow”), $1,916.84 de gastos recuperables (“Recoverables Expenses”), $4,618.00 de principal diferido (“Deferred Principal”), $4,769.48 de costas y honorarios de abogado. Los intereses se continúan acumulando, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que

si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 3 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $47,694.80.

Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $31,796.53, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE AGOSTO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $23,847.40, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda

32 aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de junio de 2022. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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minos 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 3 de junio de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 3 de junio de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NERI A. SANFELIZ RAMOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

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

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Defendants DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Case No.: 20-cv-01031. (FAB).

NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE. TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS- NOTICE OF SALE. TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TO: SAMUEL DAVID BAYAMÓN

RIVERA-GUADALUPE MARIA DE LOS ANGELES AND HIS WIFE JANET DE JESUS SANCHEZ EILEEN NIEVES Demandante V. MELENDEZ AND SENCION PEREZ TEJADA THE CONJUGAL Demandado(a) PARTNERSHIP THAT Civil: BY2022RF00298. (3005).

Sobre: DIVORCIO (R.I.). NO- EXISTS BETWEEN THEM, TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA GENERAL PUBLIC, AND POR EDICTO. ALL PARTIES THAT MAY A: SENCION HAVE AN INTEREST IN PEREZ TEJADA. THE PROPERTY. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le INTERNAL REVENUE notifican la sentencia por edicto) SERVICE C/O THE EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 3 UNITED STATES de junio de 2022, este Tribunal ATTORNEY’S OFFICE ha dictado Sentencia, SentenFOR THE DISTRICT OF cia Parcial o Resolución en este PUERTO RICO, TORRE caso, que ha sido debidamente CHARDON, SUITE 1201, registrada y archivada en autos 350 CARLOS CHARDON donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos STREET, SAN JUAN, de la misma. Esta notificación PUERTO RICO 00918. se publicará una sola vez en un COPY: ASSOCIATE periódico de circulación general GENERAL COUNSEL en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su FOR LITIGATION. OFFICE OF LITIGATION – ROOM notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el 10258, U.S. DEPARTMENT procedimiento sujeta a los térOF HOUSING AND

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Monday, June 27, 2022

URBAN DEVELOPMENT, 451 SEVENTH STREET, S.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20410.

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

WHEREAS, Default Judgment was entered on March 3, 2022, in favor of Plaintiff the aggregated amount of $185,550.92, consisting of $102,290.60 in principal; $49,127.13 in interest at a yearly rate of 7.125% (accruing daily at $19.97); $12,875.52 and $19,257.67 in other funds owed by defendants, plus $11,300.00 for costs, charges, disbursements and attorneys’ fees as agreed in the Mortgage Note in the event judicial foreclosure and collection action. On May 12, 2022, an Order and Writ of Execution were entered confirming the aforementioned Default Judgment. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder, the sale will take place at: E Street, Lot 3, Section 4, Los Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969 (Coordinates 18,369902866.1126971); this sale is regarding the following property belonging to the Defendants, located at the following physical address: Urbanización Turabo Gardens R-11 #4, Calle F, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00727, and described in the Property Registry as follows: “URBAN: Plot four of Block R hyphen eleven of the Turabo Gardens Development, located in the Cañaboncito Wards of Caguas, Puerto Rico, with an area of three hundred sixty-seven square meters and fifty centimeters.

In boundaries: by the NORTH, in twenty-four meters fifty centimeters with the lot three; by the SOUTH, in twenty-four meters fifty centimeters with the lot three; by the EAST, in fifteen meters, with the nineteen and twenty lot; and by the WEST, in fifteen meters, with the Street “F”. Contains a reinforced concrete house designed for a family.” The property is described in the Spanish language in the Property Registry as follows: “URBANA: Solar cuatro del Bloque R guión once de la Urbanización Turabo Gardens, situada en el Barrio Cañaboncito de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos sesenta y siete metros cuadrados con cincuenta centímetros. En lindes por el NORTE, en veinticuatro

metros cincuenta centímetros con el solar cinco; por el SUR, en veinticuatro metros cincuenta centímetros con el solar tres; por el ESTE, en quince metros, con los solares diecinueve y veinte; y por el OESTE, en quince metros con la Calle F. Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado diseñada para una familia. Descripción original, tomada de la inscripción 1ra.”

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

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

It shall be understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), shall continue in effect, it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on AUGUST 5, 2022 AT 10:00 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $113,000.00, pursuant to the “Deed of First Mortgage”, Deed Number 340 of November 29, 2007, before notary public Wilfredo R. Picorelli Osorio, duly recorded at Page 187, Volume 1,718 of Caguas, 5th inscription, recording of the Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Caguas, securing a mortgage note payable to the Plaintiff, and no lower offers will be accepted. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on AUGUST 12, 2022 AT 10:00 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted will be two-thirds the amount of the minimum bid, the sum of $75,333.33. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on AUGUST 19, 2022 AT 10:00 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted will be one-half of the minimum bid, the sum of $56,500.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens.

For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined

in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. The files and all the documents corresponding to the procedure initiated will be shown at the court’s office during working hours. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 22 day of June 2022. Joel Ronda Feliciano, Appointed Special Master, Email: rondajoel@me.com, Tel: 787-565-0415.

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FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC Demandante Vs.

en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de junio de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SUB-SECRETARIA.

SALVADOR LANZAR MOYA T/C/C SALVADOR LANZAR; LUZ MARIA PEREZ ROSARIO T/C/C LUZ M. PEREZ LEGAL NOTICE ROSARIO T/C/C LUZ ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO PEREZ ROSARIO T/C/C DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LUZ MARIA PEREZ SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN T/C/C LUZ M. PEREZ T/C/C LUZ PEREZ T/C/C JUAN ERUDINA ROSARIO Y LA WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT BIENES GANANCIALES SOLELY AS TRUSTEE COMPUESTA POR FOR FINANCE OF AMBOS; ESTADOS AMERICA STRUCTURED UNIDOS DE AMERICA SECURITIES Demandados ACQUISITION TRUST Civil Núm.: CA2021CV02966.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI2018-HB1 POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

Demandante Vs.

SUCESION RUBEN CACERES PEREZ T/C/C RUBEN CACERES COMPUESTA POR RUBEN CACERES GONZALEZ, CLAUDIA A: SALVADOR LANZAR CACERES CAMILLA, MOYA T/C/C SALVADOR GABRIEL CACERES, LANZAR; LUZ MARIA YVAN CACERES; JOHN PEREZ ROSARIO DOE Y JANE DOE COMO T/C/C LUZ M. PEREZ POSIBLES HEREDEROS ROSARIO T/C/C LUZ DESCONOCIDOS; PEREZ ROSARIO T/C/C ESTADOS UNIDOS DE LUZ MARIA PEREZ AMERICA; CENTRO T/C/C LUZ M. PEREZ DE RECAUDACION DE T/C/C LUZ PEREZ T/C/C ERUDINA ROSARIO Y LA INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02189.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HICOMPUESTA POR POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO AMBOS. POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI-

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

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio,

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

A: CLAUDIA CACERES CAMILLA, GABRIEL CACERES, YVAN CACERES; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION RUBEN

CACERES PEREZ T/C/C RUBEN CACERES.

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

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

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedid bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 15 de junio de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA BÁEZ ACABA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

MIGUEL TORRES

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01684.

(508). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: MIGUEL TORRES.

POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía.ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio.

El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este em-

plazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PMB 450, 400 Calle Calaf, San Juan, PR 00918-1314; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr.com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Santa María, 1905 Calle Petunia, San Juan, PR 00927; PO Box 577, Boquerón, PR 00622-0577.

EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de junio de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA BÁEZ ACABA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante v.

SUCESIÓN de JOSÉ ROBERTO RODRÍGUEZ FIGUEROA t/c/c JOSÉ R. RODRÍGUEZ compuesta por MENGANO DE TAL, posible heredero desconocido, SUCESIÓN de LUZ ESTHER CRUZ ROMERO t/c/c LUZ E. CRUZ ROMERO, compuesta por LUZ A. RODRÍGUEZ CRUZ t/c/c LUZ ARELIZ RODRÍGUEZ CRUZ, EILEEN RAQUEL RODRÍGUEZ CRUZ, SUTANO Y PERENGANO DE TAL, posibles herederos desconocidos, ROBERTO RODRÍGUEZ

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CRUZ por sí y como heredero de LUZ ESTHER CRUZ ROMERO t/c/c LUZ E. CRUZ ROMERO, su esposa AGAR PLAZA ROBLES y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA por conducto de la DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES CRIM)

Demandado(a) Civi Núm. CA2019CV03294.

407. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA.. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MENGANO DE TAL, posible heredero desconocido DE JOSÉ ROBERTO RODRÍGUEZ FIGUEROA T/C/C JOSÉ R RODRÍGUEZ; LUZ A. RODRÍGUEZ CRUZ t/c/c LUZ ARELIZ RODRÍGUEZ , COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LUZ ESTHER CRUZ ROMERO T/C/C LUZ E. CRUZ ROMERO; EILEEN RAQUEL RODRÍGUEZ CRUZ COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LUZ ESTHER CRUZ ROMERO T/C/C LUZ E. CRUZ ROMERO; Y SUTANO Y PERENGANO DE TAL, posibles herederos desconocidos de LUZ ESTHER CRUZ ROMERO t/c/c LUZ E. CRUZ ROMERO

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

Monday, June 27, 2022

de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de junio de 2022. En CAROLINA , Puerto Rico, el 21 de junio de 2022 . LCDA MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, Secretaria. f/ DENISE M. AMARO MACHUCA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE RINCÓN EN AGUADA

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE RINCÓN Parte Demandante Vs.

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

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AU2020CV00370.

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

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

El Alguacil que suscribe anuncia y hace constar que, en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que a continuación se describe: RÚSTICA: Radicada en el barrio Pueblo del término municipal de Rincón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 712.47 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 0.1813 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con Ramal Carretera #412; al SUR, con solar #5 del plano de inscripción; al ESTE, con Gilberto Acevedo y al OESTE, con camino dedicado al uso público. Finca número 4,498 , inscrita al folio 129 del tomo 94 de Rincón, última inscripción según libro quinta. Número de catastro: 096-093-142-35-001. Sobre la referida finca existen constituidos los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la constitución de la hipoteca cuya ejecución de solicita: CARGAS Y GRAVÁMENES: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Rincón, por la suma de $80,000.00 con intereses al 6.75% anual y vencimiento en 360 meses. Constituida por la

Escritura #18, el 19 de mayo de 2008, ante la notario Gloria E . Lorenzo Orellana. Asiento abreviado e inscrita al folio 562 del tomo 168 de Rincón, finca 4,498 e inscripción cuarta. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 2 DE AGOSTO DE 2022; A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Oficina del Aguacil en Aguadilla, la cantidad mínima a aceptarse en la primera subasta será de $88,000.00. Dicha venta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el balance que refleja el préstamo hipotecario por la suma la suma de: $77,695.02. Si en la primera subasta no se produjese la venta del inmueble antes descritos, la SEGUNDA SUBASTA se efectuará el día 9 DE AGOSTO DE 2022; A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Oficina del Alguacil en Aguadilla, la cantidad mínima aceptada será de $58,666.66 (2/3). Si en esta segunda subasta no se produjese adjudicación, entonces la TERCERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 16 DE AGOSTO DE 2022; A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Oficinas del Aguacil en Aguadilla y el tipo mínimo de subasta a aceptarse será de $44,000.00 (1/2). Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento y se le adjudicará al demandante la finca objeto de este procedimiento, dentro de los diez (10) días subsiguientes a dicha tercera subasta por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Para mejor información las personas interesadas pueden examinar los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Este edicto de subasta se publicará una vez por semana por espacio de dos semanas en un diario de circulación general en Puerto Rico y en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistente. Se entenderá, que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Se expresará que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. El abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, PO Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, teléfono 787-265-0334 / 787265-0335. DADA en Aguadilla,

Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de junio de 2022. Miguel A. Crespo Vargas, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE AGUADILLA.

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

ESTRELLA HOMES III LLC Parte Demandante Vs.

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

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

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

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

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

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

LIAXA MORALES AYUSO, T/C/C LIAZA MORALES AYUSO

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00575.

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

A: LIAXA MORALES AYUSO T/C/C LIAZA MORALES AYUSO.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere. para que con-

teste fa demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramnjudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda.

Marjaliisa Colon Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732-7970; Teléfono: 787843-41668. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de marzo de 2021 hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.

Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $37,666.97, el cual se compone de in primer principal por la suma de $36,774.44 y un principal diferido por la suma de $892.53, más intereses sobre la suma de $36,774.44 a razón del 7% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de In faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo $5,610.00 pactado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número ciento cincuenta (150) en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad Montebello del Barrio Ciénaga Baja del término municipal de Río Grande, con una cabida superficial de cero (0) cuerdas con novecientos ochenta y cinco (985) diez milésimas de otra, equivalentes a trescientos ochenta y siete punto veintitrés (387.23) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número ciento cincuenta y uno (151) de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela número ciento cuarenta y nueve (149); por el ESTE, con la calle número diez (10), todos de la comunidad y

por el OESTE, con la comunidad Nicolás Betancourt. Inscrita al folio ciento seis (106) del tomo doscientos dos (202) de Río Grande, finca número nueve mil ochocientos uno (9,801) Registro de In Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal cm Carolina, Puerto Rico. A 26 día de abril de 2022. Lcda.

Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Maricruz Aponte Alicea, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

DOMINGO RIVERA RODRIGUEZ

Demandado(a) Civil: MZ2021CV00820. (206).

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

A: DOMINGO RIVERA RODRIGUEZ.

(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 21 de junio de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de junio de 2022. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 22 de junio de 2022. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA M. LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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The San Juan Daily Star

Monday, June 27, 2022

The ultimate tennis disrupter faces the Wimbledon crucible

By MATTHEW FUTTERMAN

T

he British tennis-sphere gasped earlier this month.

For the third time this year, 19-yearold sensation Emma Raducanu had to quit in the middle of the match because of an injury. Just weeks before Wimbledon, her participation in the event, the most anticipated homecoming this sport has experienced in years, appeared to be in jeopardy.

A lengthy headline in The Daily Mail put it this way: “Emma Raducanu has ‘no idea’ if she’ll be fit for Wimbledon as she RETIRES just 33 minutes into her first match on grass since last summer, after US Open champion struggled through just seven games with ‘freak’ injury to her left side.” (Emphasis theirs.)

A day later, however, Raducanu put out word that she expected to be just fine for Wimbledon, which begins today. But there will still be jitters until she takes her first swings, most likely on Centre Court, and perhaps manages to win her opening match. A kingdom is dreaming.

“This is stress that is off the scale really,” said Annabel Croft, a British former professional and once-rising young star who is one of a handful of women with an inkling of the kind of pressure Raducanu is under.

Wimbledon is where it all began a year ago for Raducanu. Back then, she was just weeks removed from taking her university entrance exams, a practically unknown player with smooth strokes and an ability to glide across the court.

Raducanu cruised to the fourth round at Wimbledon, charming the fans with her athleticism and graceful style before retiring with breathing difficulty against Ajla Tomljanovic of Australia.

As it turned out, that run was just a warm-up. Two months later at the U.S. Open, she won 10 consecutive matches on her way to the title. Raducanu became the first British woman to win a Grand Slam title since Virginia Wade in 1977.

Raducanu, a British citizen born in

Raducanu shot to fame last year by winning the U.S. Open as a qualifier in September, for one of the most unlikely sporting achievements of all time. Two months earlier, she had reached the fourth round of Wimbledon, also as a qualifier.

Canada to a Chinese mother and a Romanian father, was seemingly built for the global sports stardom that has followed.

There was the Met Gala, and then millions of dollars in sponsorships from the highest-end corporations — Porsche, Tiffany and Co., British Airways, Evian, Dior and Vodafone, and on and on.

Now, when someone says “Emma” in Britain, they more likely mean Raducanu than Jane Austen. She has become the game’s ultimate disrupter.

Coco Gauff, an 18-year-old American, said in May that Raducanu had altered how she viewed winning a Grand Slam title — meaning she now believes anyone could do it, even her. Gauff made the final of the French Open early this month.

Raducanu’s unlikely path could inspire more players: developing into a Grand Slam winner while shunning tennis academy life and preparing to attend one of England’s storied universities. Winning one of the sport’s four major championships in just the second try. Doing it with a seeming immunity to pressure.

Raducanu recently announced that she had decided not to hire a full-time coach. She has been through four, and

she has determined that what she really needs is high-intensity hitting partners.

“Sparring,” as she put it recently. That will get her more used to the pace of the highest level of tennis. Playing without a coach is also something most top players just don’t do.

For this disruption to be successful, at some point Raducanu’s results will have to return to the level she reached at the end of last summer. Her record is an undistinguished 8-11 this year.

She and her former coaches have said she got tripped up by COVID-19 in December, which interrupted her offseason training. She entered the season in a diminished physical condition. That, perhaps, led to the nagging injuries and not having the season she had hoped for.

She said recently that because of the U.S. Open win and the 2,000 points it produced, her ranking (No. 11) is probably better than her game.

All of this, of course, would be fine if Raducanu were just another player just beginning her second year as a full-time professional. Raducanu is so new to this life that last month in Paris, where she played in the main draw of the French Open for the first time, she said she was

looking forward to her second full year as a pro because she would no longer be so clueless about her surroundings every week.

“I’m always asking where everything is,” she said.

And yet, Raducanu is the reigning U.S. Open champion, and the first Grand Slam champion to emerge from a qualifying tournament. She was the BBC’s sports personality of the year for 2021, and the reason the Lawn Tennis Association, which oversees tennis in Britain, reports a boomlet in participation since September.

For seven consecutive months, adult monthly participation has steadily increased, said John Dolan, a spokesperson for the organization. Women’s participation during the first three months of 2022 was stronger than it had been in the past five years. Annual participation among 16-to-34-year-olds is up 10%.

“My academy is absolutely packed with little boys and girls wanting to be the next one,” Clinton Coleman, a global scout for IMG, the sport’s top representation firm, and the head professional of a London tennis center, said of the Raducanu phenomenon. “Never seen anything like it.”

Simon Briggs, the tennis correspondent for The Telegraph, one of the major British news organizations, said that a year ago he thought he was going to have to find another line of work. Andy Murray’s career had hit its twilight, and Britain’s talent pipeline seemed out of gas.

Then Raducanu made Wimbledon’s fourth round. Briggs had to write a story on her virtually every day once she began the summer hard court season in North America. Three days after Raducanu lost in the second round of the French Open, Briggs was still filing stories about her.

“She’s got to be the biggest female sports story here since the Second World War,” Briggs said last week.

Jo Durie, a top 10 player from Britain in the 1970s who commentates on tennis for the BBC, said people who don’t even follow sports often stop her in the market to ask about Raducanu.

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A year away, a new coach and the same goal: Winning Wimbledon

By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY

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t first glance, it certainly looked like business as usual at Wimbledon on Saturday.

Two days before the start of this Grand Slam tournament, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal were practicing on adjacent grass courts with the steeple of St. Mary’s Church for a backdrop.

As the two longtime rivals trained in the English sunshine, Serena Williams took a seat under the spotlights in the main interview room as she has scores of times before.

But although this will be her 21st Wimbledon, it will be an occasion like no other for Williams. She is returning to the All England Club at 40, having not played a singles match since last year’s Wimbledon, when she tore her right hamstring after slipping during the first set of a first-round match that she was unable to complete on Centre Court.

I asked Williams how much she was motivated during her comeback by the desire to give herself a different memory at Wimbledon?

“It was always something, since the match ended, that was always on my mind,” she said. “So it was a tremendous amount of motivation.”

Centre Court, now 100 years old and still the most atmospheric showplace in the professional game, has been the stage for many a triumph for Williams, who has won seven Wimbledon singles titles.

But it was all about pain and disappointment last year. She was in tears as she tried to continue after her injury and was in tears again after being forced to stop the match against Aliaksandra Sasnovich. Although Williams was able to limp off the court, she stumbled as she left the grass and needed assistance to reach the passageway leading to the exit to the clubhouse.

“You never want any match to end like that,” Williams said. “It’s really unfortunate, but it was definitely something that’s always been at the top of my mind.”

It has taken a year for her return to the tour, withdrawing from three straight Grand Slam tournaments and sparking understandable speculation about whether she intended to continue playing tennis at all.

“I didn’t retire,” she said Saturday, picking her words with particular care. “I had no plans, to be honest. I just didn’t know when I would come back. I didn’t know how I would come back. Obviously, Wimbledon is such a great place to be, and it just kind of worked out.”

Since her last appearance at the All England Club, she has hardly been at rest: juggling motherhood — her daughter Olympia is now 4 — and business endeavors, including Serena Ventures, a venture capital firm with an emphasis on investing in companies whose founders come from historically underrepresented backgrounds.

“A part of me feels like that is a little bit more of my life now than tournaments,” she said of her interests outside tennis. “When you do have a venture company, you do have to go all in. It definitely takes literally all my

Serena Williams of falls to the ground during the women’s singles first round match against Aliaksandra Sasnovich in 2021. extra time. And it’s fun. I’m currently out of office for the next few weeks, so if you email me, you’ll get the nice ‘out of office’ reply. Everyone knows that I’ll be back in a few weeks. But it’s good.”

Williams also has split with Patrick Mouratoglou, the high-profile Frenchman who has coached her for the past 10 years. Mouratoglou is now working with Simona Halep, a former No. 1 who produced perhaps the finest performance of her career to defeat Williams in straight sets in the 2019 Wimbledon final.

Williams is now coached by Eric Hechtman, a former University of Miami tennis player who is the longtime director of tennis at the Royal Palm Tennis Club in Miami. He has known both Williams and her older sister Venus for nearly 15 years and has been coaching Venus Williams since 2019.

Now Hechtman is coaching them both, although Venus Williams, 42, has yet to play a match on tour this year and will miss Wimbledon for the first time since 2013. Hechtman said the decision to begin coaching Serena Williams was made with her sister’s blessing. Although this is his first tournament with Serena Williams, he clearly understands the goal is not simply to make an appearance and improve on last year, no matter how long she has gone without competing.

“She’s a champion, right? And she’s playing Wimbledon for a reason,” he said. “Just like I think anybody that walks into the tournament, their goal is to win the event. And that’s our goal.”

Williams made that clear as well when asked what she would consider “a good outcome” at Wimbledon this year?

“You know the answer to that,” she said, smiling.

“C’mon now.”

Still, Williams was vague by design through much of Saturday’s news conference, declining to give a precise date when she decided to play Wimbledon, saying only that she made the decision before the French Open, which began in late May. She also steered away from political topics. Some prominent U.S. women’s athletes, including soccer star Megan Rapinoe, have voiced their opinion on Friday’s Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Rapinoe has expressed opposition to the court’s decision, which removes the constitutional right to have an abortion, but Williams chose not to offer a viewpoint.

“I think that’s a very interesting question,” she said.

“I don’t have any thoughts that I’m ready to share right now on that decision.”

It was unclear why Williams chose not to respond.

She is a Jehovah’s Witness, a religious faith whose members identify as Christians and who believe that the Bible teaches them to remain politically neutral. But Williams did not cite her religion Saturday as a reason for reserving her opinion.

What she will do at Wimbledon is step back into Grand Slam tennis. Her first-round match against 113thranked Harmony Tan of France is scheduled for Tuesday, most likely on Centre Court. And although Williams, long No. 1, now has a ranking in the quadruple digits (1204), she will be the favorite on the grass despite her layoff.

She is back, no doubt. The question is for how long?

Asked if this was her final Wimbledon, Williams remained in tune with her Saturday mood: elusive.

“You know, I don’t know,” she said. “I can only tell you that I’m here. Who knows where I’ll pop up next?

You’ve just got to be ready.”

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Three Astros pitchers combine to no-hit the Yankees

By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN

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t took three pitchers, 150 pitches and 15 strikeouts, but the Houston Astros combined for a no-hitter against the New York Yankees on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, beating the best team in baseball, 3-0.

Cristián Javier got things started for Houston, dominating the Yankees for seven innings. He struck out 13 batters, and his only blemishes were a first-inning walk and a batter reaching first base on an error in the seventh.

But with Javier at 115 pitches, Astros manager Dusty Baker pulled his starter in favor of righthander Héctor Neris.

Neris and Ryan Pressly finished the job, tossing two more hitless innings while allowing two base runners on walks. The scene was reminiscent of the last no-hitter to be thrown against the Yankees, in which six Astros pitchers worked together to accomplish the feat June 11, 2003. That game was also at Yankee Stadium.

“To do it in New York, it’s the best feeling in the world,” Pressly told reporters shortly after the game.

The two combined no-hitters by the Astros — separated by slightly more than 19 years — are the only no-hitters against the Yankees since Hoyt Wilhelm threw one

Cristian Javier of the Houston Astros was electric for seven innings against the Yankees on Saturday. He struck out 13 in seven innings and did not allow a hit. against them as a member of the Baltimore Orioles on Sept. 20, 1958. Overall, the Yankees have been no-hit seven times in 120 seasons despite having played more than 18,500 games.

Saturday’s effort was the third no-hitter in the major leagues this season; previously, the New York Mets had five pitchers combine for one April 29, and Reid Detmers of the Los

Angeles Angels threw one by himself May 10.

Javier, 25, is off to a strong start in his third season. With Saturday’s win, he improved to 5-3 and lowered his earned run average to 2.73. Despite not being able to finish the no-hitter Saturday, he set career highs in pitches and strikeouts, while tying his career high in innings pitched.

The effort clearly wore on him, though,

as he was exhausted by the time the seventh inning was done.

“I feel really happy, really proud right now for this moment that God has given me,” Javier told reporters through an interpreter.

Neris, 33, was the first arm out of the bullpen, and he allowed a pair of walks. But he finished his inning strong by getting Aaron Judge, a leading candidate for this year’s AL Most Valuable Player Award, to line out to short.

Pressly, 33, who had allowed a tying three-run homer to Aaron Hicks in a 7-6 loss Thursday, was electric in the ninth. He struck out the first two batters he faced — Anthony Rizzo and Josh Donaldson — and got Giancarlo Stanton to ground out to third to end the game.

Facing Gerrit Cole, who was nearly as dominant as Javier, Houston did not score until the seventh inning, when J.J. Matijevic, a rookie first baseman, hit his second big league home run. José Altuve homered in the eighth against Michael King, and Yuli Gurriel, who entered the game as a pinch hitter for Matijevic, added a run-scoring single off Lucas Luetge in the ninth.

As a result, Cole ended up taking the loss despite allowing only four hits and one run in seven innings. He struck out eight.

Bale will join Los Angeles Football Club in Major League Soccer

By ANDREW DAS

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Gareth Bale announced on Twitter that he was joining L.A.F.C.

ver since Gareth Bale helped ensure that Wales would play in the World Cup for the first time since 1958, there has been only one question on the minds of his countrymen: For which club would he sign, and play, to prepare for the tournament?

The answer arrived over the weekend: After running out his contract with Real Madrid and flirting with a return to his hometown, Bale, 32, has agreed to join Los Angeles Football Club in MLS. The move will offer him regular playing time, plenty of sunshine and as many as five consecutive months of matches to sharpen his form before the World Cup kicks off in Qatar in late November.

LAFC teased an international signing on its social media accounts Saturday, and an MLS official familiar with Bale’s decision to join the league confirmed that an official

announcement of his signing was imminent, perhaps as soon as Sunday.

Hours later, Bale broke the news in his own post on Twitter: “See you soon, Los Angeles,” he wrote above a short video in which he was wearing his new LAFC jersey.

With his Real Madrid contract expiring this summer, Bale announced his intent to leave Spain and has been available to any team as a free transfer. A five-time Champions League winner with Madrid, which had acquired him in 2013 for what was then a world-record fee of 100 million euros (just more than $105 million), he had become an afterthought at the club in recent years, playing rarely and feuding openly with the team and its fans all while rejecting any effort to move on.

Bale had flirted with a move to Cardiff City in his hometown in recent weeks before choosing MLS, and Los Angeles, when it came time to put pen to paper.

While a return to Wales would have been popular and symbolic — Bale was born in Cardiff — his choice of Los Angeles may better suit his World Cup preparations. MLS has moved its schedule forward this season to accommodate the World Cup, ensuring Bale a steady diet of games from July through October, and then either a playoff push or a brief break before the World Cup. LAFC currently leads the Western Conference standings, and it entered Saturday with the league’s best record. Adding Bale and veteran Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini — whose introduction is set for next week — over the next month to a team that already features Mexican star Carlos Vela could make LAFC an MLS Cup favorite this fall.

Bale’s main focus, though, will be the World Cup. Wales opens the tournament on its first day, Nov. 21. Its opponent that day?

The United States.

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HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Many ideas may have occurred to you recently, and now your job is to share them with others who can help make them a reality. The Moon in Gemini aligns with Venus and Jupiter, which puts a very pleasant spin on the day, and makes it easy to hold uplifting and promising conversations. What comes out of these could bring new friendships and great opportunities.

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Gemini

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Feelings run deep, as you may find out. With Venus linking to Jupiter in a private zone, you might be surprised at the attraction between you and another, and how compelling it is. Whether this is a friendship or potential romance, avoid going into possessive mode Taurus, and let things unfold naturally as they do. Feel like you’ve known each other forever?

You could be soulmates.

As clever Mercury continues in your sign, it inspires a desire to communicate, study and connect. You may have all sorts of plans, but this inventive planet encourages you to put thoughts into action and create a strategy. With the Moon aligning with Venus and jubilant Jupiter, socializing can yield many exciting opportunities for business and romance, so make the most of it, Gemini.

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Libra

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Keen to take a developing relationship to the next level? The cosmos encourages you to be bold and see it as a new adventure, rather than something to be anxious about. If you find talking to this person brings out your best qualities and opens your mind to new ideas, then the coming days could take things to a new level. There’s a whole world out there for you to explore together.

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Have an opportunity to do business with someone?

It could result in a chance to learn more about something that is different from anything you’ve tried before. This can leave you excited at what the future holds. To make the most of this might require some dedicated effort. Be assured that the extra hours are a worthwhile investment, and the experience you gain will be invaluable.

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Invested a lot of energy into making something work? Whether it’s associated with a romance, a creative project or a new hobby, then the days ahead can be a turning point. This milestone may have been a long time coming, but your persistence and determination seem to have paid off. It’s time for a shift that could pave the way for fresh options and opportunities.

Ready to make a decision that could change your destiny? Today can be particularly upbeat, as sweet Venus in a private zone encourages you to listen to your intuition. Plus, as dynamic Mars continues in a prominent sector, this may be a golden opportunity to reinvent yourself and explore fresh ideas. Liaise and connect with like-minded others, and you’ll get vital feedback from them.

Keen to encourage communication at work? If so, having the planet of talk and thought in this sector can assist you in sharing ideas, discussing key issues and enhancing productivity. Ready to make a decision over coming days, Capricorn? Getting others involved may ease the pressure on you, especially if it’s linked to a big project that involves a lot of money or a major change.

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Are new doors opening for you? Lunar links to Venus and Jupiter, could find you evaluating an opportunity, and wondering if this is the time to explore it further. If your instincts tell you to go ahead, then why not, Leo! And with Mars aligning with Saturn, you might want to rescue an idea that someone has abandoned. You may see the potential in it and feel excited, even if they don’t.

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If ever there was a time to show off, this is it. Get ready to blow your own trumpet, as the more you are noticed, the better for you. This can be a great time to get involved in a project that requires you to use a crucial skill, especially if you have a natural aptitude for it. Once others appreciate how good you are, you’ll be in demand and things could go from strength to strength.

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

With an upbeat focus on your communication sector, the coming weeks are perfect for liaising with others on your wavelength, and making valuable connections. And as Mars moves to align with Saturn in your sign, you’ll be ready to give one idea more attention. Once you get your thoughts down on paper Aquarius, you’ll soon think up ways to make it happen in short order.

Pisces

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The current Mars/Saturn tie may inspire you to be canny with your cash, especially if you’re keen to redecorate or reorganize your place. And while lunar links encourage you to splurge, you might feel a lot more secure if you use your money wisely. There is also a strong focus on using talents that might have lain dormant for a while. Be willing to show others what you can do.

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

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Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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