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Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón won Sunday’s New Progressive Party (NPP) gubernatorial primary against Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia with strong support in the island’s rural areas, overcoming a strong showing by the governor in the San Juan and Guaynabo metro region.
Pierluisi won San Juan with solid support, 55.14% to 44.86% for González Colón, with 80.02% of vote counted and had an even greater margin of victory in Guaynabo, with 56.43% for the governor and 43.47% for the resident commissioner.
González Colón garnered 56.06% of the overall vote compared to 43.75% for Pierluisi, with 80.02% of the vote counted.
The resident commissioner won 79 precincts islandwide, compared to 10 for Pierluisi and 25 that were too close to call at press time Monday.
Only three of the island’s 40 representative districts were too close to call, within 100 votes or less, in the NPP governor’s race.
In the NPP resident commissioners race, eight of the 40 representative districts were too close to call, while Sen. William Villafañe Ramos won 26 of the districts compared to seven for Capt. Elmer Román.
As forecast, Villafañe Ramos, who is allied with Pierluisi, defeated González Colón’s ticketmate Román by 53.25% to 46.75%, a somewhat narrower margin than the gubernatorial primary.
Villafañe Ramos won 50 precincts with 14 going to
Román and 50 too close to call.
González Colón attributed her victory to her grassroots “with the people” campaign
“Keeping myself in contact with the people made the difference,” she said in a television interview Monday. “This contact with the people prompted the people to turn out and vote.”
She said she finds herself surprised to be in the position to possibly be the island’s next governor.
“I come from below,” she said. “It never passed through my mind that I would be a candidate for governor.”
González Colón said she plans to be an active candidate.
“I’m going to be out in the street,” she said. “I’m not going to be stuck behind a desk.”
Meanwhile, Villafañe Ramos said the NPP ticket will be a winning formula in November’s election.
“We will be a winning duo,” he said. “I spoke well of her during the [primary] campaign, so we are going to get along well.”
Governor conceded defeat as vote count approached 30,000
Pierluisi accepted his defeat after several hours of vote counting on Sunday night.
“When we saw that it [the tabulation of votes] was already approaching 30,000 votes, it was only fair to express ourselves to you,” Pierluisi said at a press conference. “At this moment I concede the victory that was won by Jenniffer González and congratulate her for having achieved her aspiration to be the candidate for governor for the New Progressive Party for this election.”
“For the good of Puerto Rico, I hope the resident commissioner succeeds,” he added.
The governor also sent a message to his agency heads.
“Don’t be discouraged. We have work to do,” he said in his concession speech. “It doesn’t end today; we have work ahead of us.”
“God is in charge and I accept His will,” Pierluisi added.
“Although I’m hurt by what has happened and I didn’t expect it, don’t let anyone think I’m going to slow down,” he said. “I was elected for four years and I’m going to do the remainder for Puerto Rico.”
The recently concluded primary electoral experience requires a reexamination of the severe deficiencies and setbacks that occurred in order to avoid electoral abstention and the breakdown of the democratic system that sustains it.
That assertion was made by Edwin García Feliciano, who as the ombudsman of Puerto Rico was displeased that the people perceive an apparent deterioration of the elements that must protect the vote and that the strength of the democratic institutions that have made the island proud in the past is breaking down.
“The threat that we all perceived yesterday against our electoral system demands that the governor, the Fiscal Oversight Board [sic], the legislative leaders, the mayors, and the presidents of the political parties, together with the chairwoman of the State Elections Commission, meet and establish the correct plan that guarantees our electoral exercises,” García Feliciano stated.
He pointed out that the Financial Oversight and Management Board cannot put up for public auction the credibility of the electoral system that strengthens the majority will of the people, by denying the vital resources to continue tempering it to modern challenges and needs.
García Feliciano was alarmed that insufficient allocations of
money to support resources, personnel, technical advice, and IT and physical facilities had contributed to the scaffolding that supports them collapsing yesterday, in the middle of a bipartisan contest that only mobilized half a million of voters.
The citizen’s ombudsman said that resorting at this point to counting votes through a “tally,” or marks, is confirmation that this is serious and urgent.
“The lack of foresight to handle circumstances of the lack of electricity service is inconceivable,” he said.
The ombudsman said further that if close to two million voters participated in the elections with five parties competing, it would be catastrophic if neither the State Elections Commission (SEC) nor the political parties, which are instruments of the people, could effectively manage the event.
García Feliciano said it was scandalous that voters had to take shelter under tents, that schools were threatened by flooding, that there was confusion in schools serving as polling places, that the machines could not read the ballots and that the reading programming was astonishingly slow for five ballots.
He noted that even early, absentee and confined voting was threatened.
“All planning is based on resolving emergency situations, even improbable ones,” the ombudsman said. “But predictable
By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul1@gmail.com
Former Sen. Evelyn Vázquez Nieves won a three-way New Progressive Party (NPP) race for mayor of Mayagüez in a close race that saw the margin of the vote split by the losers, handing the victory to Vázquez Nieves.
Vázquez Nieves received 1,567 votes compared to 1,313 and 412, respectively, for NPP stalwarts Tania Lugo López and 412 for Jaqueline Martínez Irrizary.
In another three-way NPP mayoral race, this one in Ponce, Pablo Colún Santiago won 3,602 votes, with 1,932 votes for Marcos Marcussi and 754 for Jorge Colón.
For district representatives, several close races will come
The Puerto Rico Police Bureau reported Monday that an overturned truck on the PR-52 expressway, kilometer 50.1, in the direction of Cayey to Salinas, near the El Jíbaro monument, caused the closure of both lanes.
The incident was reported at 9 a.m. and one minor injury was reported.
Emergency management personnel and agents assigned to the Salinas highway district of the Police Bureau were on site attending to the situation.
Drivers were urged to take alternate routes, such as highway PR-1, from Cayey to Salinas.
circumstances that are fully public knowledge cannot be addressed in an improvised way and hastily.”
García Feliciano emphasized, and in this he applied his 16 years of experience as a mayor, that it is not the Department of Education but rather the municipal executives who know with certainty which schools may face difficulties, much more so if they are in flood zones.
“It seems that the experience of the tragedy that Hurricane Maria left us was forgotten,” he said. “And the elections are in the middle of the hurricane season, which this year anticipates 25 [named storms] and up to seven of higher category. And what are we thinking about then?”
down to the wire.
In District 10, Pedro Santiago held a razor-thin lead over Marcos Vargas Padilla, 2,296 votes to 2,291.
In District 22 (Lares, Adjuntas), Joe Colón held a narrow lead in a four-way race over Juan Luis Rodríguez, 2,359 votes to 2,359 votes. Edelberto Nuñez was in third with 1,186 votes and Héctor Luis Camacho with 780 votes.
In notable NPP Senate races, Sen. Carmelo Ríos held onto his seat with 19,220 votes, but had to count on a split vote between Migdalia Padilla Alvelo, with 15,891 votes, and Mabel Vélez Romero, with 15,536 votes.
In the contest for at-large Senate seats, Sen. Thomas Rivera Schatz topped the crowded field with 15.86% of the vote, followed by Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera with 13.5%.
At least 84,131 LUMA Energy customers were without electricity on Monday afternoon, which represents 5.73% of total subscribers.
LUMA Energy on Monday afternoon reported a significant number of customers without electricity service in several regions of Puerto Rico.
According to the information provided by the private operator of the island’s electricity transmission and distribution system, at least 84,131 customers were without electricity, which represents 5.73% of total subscribers.
The most affected regions included Ponce, where 33,014 customers, equivalent to 15.54% of the region, were without service. In Carolina, 13,798 customers did not have electricity, which represents 9.74% of the customers in that region. Bayamón also faced significant disruptions with 11,760 customers affected, representing 5.43%.
Citizens were urged to report any electrical emergencies and to stay away from damaged electrical equipment.
Hermes Ávila Vázquez, the alleged murderer of Ivette Joan Meléndez Vega, waived his preliminary hearing on Monday, which resulted in the determination of probable cause for trial by Judge Elix Morales Cubero.
The reading of the charges will take place on June 25 at 9 a.m., with the trial scheduled to begin on July 18 at 9:30 a.m.
During the hearing in room 304 of the Arecibo Judicial Center, Ávila Vázquez, who was assisted by his legal representation, decided to agree to the determination of the case without proceeding with the preliminary hearing. Judge Morales Cubero verified that Ávila Vázquez’s decision was free and voluntary. Ávila Vázquez faces charges of femicide, destruction of evidence, and violations of the Weapons Law and the Vehicle Protection Law. Prosecutor Lucianne Sánchez expressed surprise at Ávila
Vázquez’s resignation, indicating that they were prepared to present the evidence. Prosecutor Juan Ayala Rivera assured that the evidence against Ávila Vázquez is overwhelming.
For his part, Alexis Alcaide, Ávila Vázquez’s lawyer,
Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández announced Monday that the Carolina Prosecutor’s Office filed charges against Alberto L. Rivera Pomales for trying to kill his wife, from whom he was separated, last Saturday, June 1, in Trujillo Alto.
According to the investigation, on Friday, May 31, the defendant intercepted and chased the victim with his vehicle, after the woman left a ball game with her children.
Subsequently, the man left and the victim went home and went to bed. In the early hours of Saturday morning, Rivera Pomales broke into the victim’s home and stabbed her multiple times in the presence of her children, some of whom were minors, who intervened to stop him.
At the same time, the man threatened to kill her, according to the investigation by agent Liz Padilla of the
Puerto Rico Police Bureau’s Domestic Violence Division. Prosecutor Ángel Pérez Sánchez, of the Specialized Unit for Domestic Violence, Sexual Crimes and Child Abuse, formulated seven charges against the accused, which include attempted femicide, the carrying and use of bladed weapons, domestic violence, in the form of abuse by threat and aggravated abuse, and abuse of minors.
“Fortunately, the victim survived the attack by her aggressor and the criminal prosecution began in just hours, because of the required evidence,” the Justice secretary said. “In addition to representing her in the judicial process, at the Department of Justice we will provide the necessary support and help to her and her children.”
Judge Wilfredo Viera Garces of the Carolina Court of First Instance found cause for arrest yesterday on all the charges brought by the Prosecutor’s Office, and set bail at $70,000.
explained that his client made the decision to waive the preliminary hearing after several meetings where the importance of the process was explained to him.
Ávila Vázquez, who was convicted of murder in 2005, was released from prison under an early release program that allows inmates to leave jail if they suffer certain terminal conditions. However, after he was released, he allegedly killed his victim. Ávila Vázquez had been diagnosed as paraplegic even though, as it turned out, he could walk. Since then, the Corrections and Rehabilitation Department has been the target of criticism for allowing his release.
In a May 1 letter addressed to the superintendent, captain and commander of the 705 prison, Ávila Vázquez requested a meeting to provide the names of the doctors and other officials who knew that he was faking his paraplegia. He said he would only speak to the Justice Department.
a shackle.
The preliminary hearing was set for June 13.
Rivera Pomales’ defense deferred to the court’s determination. The accused man posted bail but was placed under electronic supervision, which entails the placement of Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli HernándezTuesday, June 4, 2024 6
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Revolutionary hero Patrick Henry knew this day would come. He might not have anticipated all the particulars, such as the porn actor in the hotel room and the illicit payoff to keep her quiet. But he feared that eventually a criminal might occupy the presidency and use his powers to thwart anyone who sought to hold him accountable. “Away with your president,” he declared, “we shall have a king.”
That was exactly what the founders sought to avoid, having thrown off the yoke of an all-powerful monarch. But as hard as they worked to establish checks and balances, the system they constructed to hold wayward presidents accountable ultimately has proved to be unsteady.
Whatever rules Americans thought were in place are now being rewritten by Donald Trump, the once and perhaps future president who has already shattered many barriers and precedents. The notion that 34 felonies is not automatically disqualifying and a convicted criminal can be a viable candidate for commander in chief upends 2 1/2 centuries of assumptions about American democracy.
And it raises fundamental questions about the limits of power in a second term, should Trump be returned to office. If he wins, it means he will have survived two impeachments, four criminal indictments, civil judgments for sexual abuse and business fraud, and a felony conviction. Given that, it would be hard to imagine what institutional deterrents could discourage abuses or excesses.
Moreover, the judiciary may not be the check on the executive branch that it has been in the past. If no other cases go to trial before the election, it could be another four years before the courts could even consider whether the newly elected president jeopardized national security or illegally sought to overturn the 2020 election, as he has been charged with doing. As it is, even before the election, the Supreme Court may grant Trump at least some measure of immunity.
Trump would still have to operate within the constitutional system, analysts point out, but he has already shown a willingness to push its boundaries. When he was president, he claimed that the Constitution gave him “the right to do whatever I want.” After leaving office, he advocated “termination” of the Constitution to allow him to return to power right away without another election and vowed to dedicate a second term to “retribution.”
His advisers are already mapping out an extensive plan to increase his power in a second term by clearing out the civil service to install more political appointees. Trump has threatened to prosecute not only President Joe Biden but others that he considers to be his enemies. In seeking immunity from the Supreme Court, Trump’s lawyers even embraced the argument that there are circumstances when a president could order the assassination of a political rival without criminal jeopardy.
“There is no useful historical precedent whatsoever,” said Jeffrey A. Engel, the director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. “The interesting matter is not that a former president has been tried and convicted, as the founders might well have anticipated, but that he remains a viable candidate for office, which they would have found astounding and ultimately disheartening.”
1, 2023. As hard as America’s founders worked to establish checks and balances, the system they constructed to hold wayward presidents accountable ultimately has proved to be unsteady. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
The question of how to create an empowered executive without making him an unaccountable monarch absorbed the framers when they designed the Constitution. They divided power among three branches of government and envisioned impeachment as a check on a rogue president. They even explicitly made clear that an impeached president could still be prosecuted for crimes after being removed from office.
But even then, there were voices worried that the limits were not enough. Among them was Henry, the patriot famed for his “give me liberty or give me death” speech. At the Virginia convention on ratifying the Constitution in 1788, he warned of the possibility of “absolute despotism.”
Robert Kagan, a scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, warned in his new book, “Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart — Again,” that a second Trump term could result in unfettered abuses of authority.
“With all the immense power of the American presidency, with his ability to control and direct the Justice Department, the FBI, the IRS, the intelligence services and the military, what will prevent him from using the power of the state to go after his political enemies?” Kagan wrote.
To Trump’s supporters and even some of his critics, such concerns go too far. His allies maintain that when Trump makes provocative comments like being a “dictator” for a day, he is either joking or pushing buttons to get a rise out of his critics. The real crisis is not a lack of accountability for presidents, they argue, but the politicization of the justice system against Trump.
Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University who was in the New York City courtroom Thursday when the jury returned its guilty verdict, called the case against Trump “a raw political use of the criminal justice system” and a “thrill kill” by his opponents. “What happened in that room comes at a cost,” he said on Fox News. “It comes at a cost to the rule of law.”
Even some who do not support Trump argue that warnings of
an unchecked executive are overwrought. Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who wrote his own book calling Trump a demagogue who tests American democracy, said the former president was too “weak” and incompetent to execute a true dictatorship.
U.S. lawmakers have struggled to devise an independent mechanism to enforce presidential accountability without seeming so tainted by politics that it loses credibility with the public. The issue has come up repeatedly over the past half century without a consensus resolution.
Nine out of the last 10 presidents have had a special counsel or independent counsel investigate themselves or someone in their administration — the lone exception being Barack Obama. (Gerald Ford’s campaign finances came under scrutiny while he was vice president and resulted in no charges.)
Neither of the two who faced serious risk of criminal charges before Trump let it get that far. Richard Nixon escaped prosecution for the Watergate cover-up by resigning and then accepting a pardon from Ford, his successor. Bill Clinton avoided possible perjury and obstruction of justice charges stemming from his affair with Monica Lewinsky by making a deal with prosecutors on his last day in office in which he admitted to providing false testimony under oath and gave up his law license.
Mindful that Nixon fired the first special prosecutor investigating Watergate, Congress passed the independent counsel law creating a prosecutor theoretically insulated from politics. But Republicans grew disenchanted with that model after Lawrence Walsh’s Iran-Contra investigation, as did Democrats after Ken Starr’s Whitewater investigation, so Congress let the law lapse.
The special counsels who have investigated subsequent presidents, including both Trump and Biden, were appointed by the attorney general at the time. While they have considerable autonomy, they are not completely independent and therefore their investigations and conclusions have often been assailed as political, even without evidence of interference.
Having endured the Russia investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller and the current election interference and classified documents investigations by special counsel Jack Smith, Trump is hardly likely to appoint an attorney general who would allow Smith to continue his work, much less name any new special counsel to look into him.
Instead, Trump has proved that pushing ahead relentlessly regardless of scandal, investigation and trial can work for him politically — at least so far. He is on track to win the Republican presidential nomination for a third time and has at least an even chance of beating Biden to return to the White House. If he does, he will set a new standard for what is considered acceptable in a president.
“I think my biggest takeaway is how lucky we’ve been as a nation to have presidents who have mostly comported themselves with dignity, or at least respected the dignity of the office,” said Lindsay M. Chervinsky, the incoming executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library and the author of “Making the Presidency,” a book about John Adams to be published in September. “This conviction brings into stark relief how violently Trump has rejected that tradition.”
Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing two federal cases against former President Donald Trump, during the news conference announcing Trump’s indictment, in Washington, Aug.
A group of migrant families are taken by a shuttle arranged by Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego to the San Diego International Airport to catch flights to different cities, May 8, 2024. Charities that feed, clothe and shelter border crossers fear for the safety of their employees and volunteers as the election nears and the vitriol over immigration intensifies.
(Ariana Drehsler/TheNew York Times)
By MIRIAM JORDANAman posing as a pest exterminator tried to gain access to a San Diego hotel that operates as a shelter for migrant families. The next day, a woman showed up claiming to be an immigrant in need of help. Workers at the shelter, run by Catholic Charities, turned away both impostors.
Three days later, menacing calls began pouring in to the staff. Voicemail left for the CEO called him “scum” and “not really Christian.” A woman left another staff member an expletivelaced message about Catholics. She claimed that the nonprofit was flying migrants all over the country and profiting from an illegal operation.
The bogus exterminator was James O’Keefe, a right wing-provocateur who used to head Project Veritas, a group known for trying to entrap political opponents by using disguises and concealed cameras. The deluge of vitriol ensued after O’Keefe began posting videos on the social platform X in March claiming that the shelter was an illegal holding site for women and children and speculating, without evidence, that they had been trafficked.
For decades, Catholic Charities and other faith-based organizations have played a crucial role helping federal authorities and local governments manage influxes of migrants. Their work has been funded with bipartisan support in Congress, even through the presidency of Donald Trump, who often vilified immigrants.
ment,” said Pajanor, who oversees an operation that runs 20 facilities and employs 253 people in San Diego and Imperial counties.
O’Keefe did not respond to requests for comment for this article. Instead, he posted a video online in which he refers to those requests and mocks shelter workers’ complaints about harassment.
Even before O’Keefe turned up in San Diego, Catholic Charities was on alert for trouble stirred by the heated rhetoric around migrants and the border. Staff members who work with migrants completed active-shooter training two weeks before he appeared.
“I had been telling our team to be prepared for things to get tough as we get closer to the election,” Pajanor said.
In Congress and in state legislatures, some Republicans have lent legitimacy to the disinformation about the nonprofit groups by echoing it themselves.
trusted echoing it or egging it on, some people hear a call to action,” said Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a professor at American University who studies extremism.
There is also a history of anti-immigration sentiment blurring into antisemitism. HIAS, for instance, was a target of antisemitic rants posted on social media by Robert Bowers, the gunman who attacked the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 and killed 11 worshippers.
Catholic Charities and other faith-based organizations have long run pantries and homeless shelters and have assisted migrants, seniors and others in need of care across the country.
For the shelter staff in San Diego, the appearances of the fake exterminator and the faux migrant seemed like just another day in the middle of America’s political fray over immigration.
“I didn’t think much of it,” site director Cassandra Castellanos recalled.
But after President Joe Biden took office in 2021 promising a more humane approach to migration, these faith-based groups have increasingly become the subjects of conspiracy theories and targets for far-right activists and Republican members of Congress, who accuse them of promoting an invasion to displace white Americans and engaging in child trafficking and migrant smuggling. The organizations say those claims are baseless.
Much like public officials who have faced increased threats to their security, employees of groups such as Catholic Charities are now routinely targeted.
In San Diego, the threats online spawned threats in real life, as supporters of O’Keefe’s started appearing at other Catholic Charities sites, according to Vino Pajanor, CEO of Catholic Charities San Diego.
Private armed guards were posted at Catholic Charities facilities across the city, including at a shelter for homeless women and a center for Afghan refugees, after people, apparently prompted by O’Keefe’s posts, came searching for “smuggled” children.
Volunteers at the facilities were sent home, and employees who continued to work were advised to keep a low profile. Do not wear Catholic Charities T-shirts or badges outside the facility, they were told. Put on a face mask to obscure your identity, in the event that someone tries to film you.
“We had never seen this level of harass-
In April, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., berated Alejandro Mayorkas, the Homeland Security secretary, for his past service on the board of HIAS, a refugee resettlement agency formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. She claimed that the group was “not only financing the invasion of the country, but also telling illegal aliens to vote in the United States elections.”
Last year, Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., claimed during a House Judiciary Committee hearing that nongovernmental organizations working on the border “are complicit in the greatest human trafficking operation perhaps in the history of the world.”
The risk of such incendiary allegations is that they could spur threats like those against Catholic Charities and, worse, could instigate violence.
“When you have this kind of hateful rhetoric spreading, and those who are supposed to be
Three days later, O’Keefe’s video was posted on X to his 2.4 million followers and spread quickly.
In it, O’Keefe taunted security guards who denied him access to the shelter premises, and he speculated, without proof, that migrants inside the facility had been trafficked.
An early version of the video contained an image of a whiteboard listing names and phone numbers of staff members at the shelter. O’Keefe blurred the image after X informed him that the image violated its policy. But a screenshot of the organizational chart of Catholic Charities in San Diego remained on his feed.
Inundated with threats, Castellanos deleted her social media accounts.
“It only takes one person to really believe what James O’Keefe is saying, to try to hurt me to try to save the children or people we are supposedly smuggling,” she said.
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By BENJAMIN MUELLER and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the former government scientist both celebrated and despised for his work on COVID, on Monday forcefully denied Republican allegations that he sought to cover up the possibility that the pandemic originated in a laboratory, calling the accusation “absolutely false and simply preposterous.”
In a tense appearance before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Fauci read out an email from February 2020 in which he encouraged a scientist worried about the possibility of a lab leak to report his concerns to the FBI.
“It is inconceivable that anyone who reads this email could conclude that I was trying to cover up the possibility of a laboratory leak,” Fauci testified.
Republicans on the panel have spent 15
months rooting through emails, Slack messages and research proposals for evidence against Fauci. In 500,000 pages of documents and more than 100 hours of closed-door testimony, the panel has so far found nothing linking the 83-year-old immunologist to the beginnings of the COVID outbreak in China.
But the panel has turned up emails suggesting that Fauci’s former aides were trying to evade public records laws at the medical research agency he ran for 38 years until his retirement in December 2022.
Some of those emails paint Fauci as being preoccupied with his public image; one April 2021 message from an aide said that while Fauci “prides himself on being like teflon,” he appeared to be “getting worried about the brown stuff hitting the fan” over questions about research funded by his agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Over the years, the agency gave research grants to EcoHealth Alliance, an American non-
profit group that partnered with international scientists — including some at a coronavirus lab in Wuhan, China, the city where the pandemic eventually started — as part of efforts to anticipate disease outbreaks.
Fauci’s appearance Monday had all the trappings of a Washington media show. He entered the room through a back door, flanked by two burly security guards, and took his seat wearing a somber expression as a horde of cameramen pointed their lenses at his face.
In the audience sat one person wearing a “Fire Fauci” T-shirt. Others wore shirts saying, “Got Ivermectin?” — a reference to anti-parasitic medicine that Fauci’s critics have claimed, without evidence, worked against COVID-19.
Monday is lawmakers’ first chance to ask him about his agency’s record-keeping practices. For Republicans on the committee, the hearing is also the pinnacle, so far, of a long campaign against U.S. scientists and health officials who they have suggested helped start the COVID pandemic.
No new evidence for the pandemic emerging from a lab, with or without the help of U.S. taxpayer funding, has emerged in a series of high-profile hearings over the past year. In a report Monday, titled “Republicans’ Fauci Flop,” Democratic lawmakers said that the panel’s Republicans had failed to advance the case that the coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2, came from a lab leak.
“Select Subcommittee Republicans have dedicated time and taxpayer dollars to a probe of federally funded research that has failed to meaningfully advance our understanding of the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and instead inflicted significant damage on Americans’ trust in our nation’s public health officials,” the report said.
But Fauci, who spent more than 50 years in government service and advised presidents of both parties on outbreaks of infectious diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, anthrax and the flu, was always the panel’s most prized quarry. In working under President Donald Trump and then President Joe Biden, Fauci became the face of a COVID response that generated both veneration and frustration from Americans.
Appearing frequently on television, Fauci became a hero to Trump’s critics for correcting his falsehoods about the coronavirus. In the pandemic’s early days, he also downplayed the importance of masks for the general public, seeking to preserve them for
medical workers, but then later encouraged mask use — prompting his critics to say that he was flip-flopping. And he publicly celebrated the COVID shots, turning the anti-vaccine movement against him.
The House subcommittee is headed by two doctors: Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, is the chair and Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., is the ranking member. Fauci faced a polite but chilly reception from Republicans, who have studiously been trying to build a case that lab work funded by the institute Fauci used to run may have contributed to the start of the COVID pandemic.
Republicans have focused in particular on funding the institute awarded to EcoHealth Alliance that was passed on to Chinese scientists. They have accused those scientists of cooking up the coronavirus in their Wuhan lab.
“COVID-19 wasn’t created by bats in a wet market,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., asserted last year as the subcommittee’s work got underway. “It was manufactured in a lab funded by Fauci. He tried to cover it up.”
Scientists and health officials have repeatedly noted that the coronaviruses being studied at the Wuhan lab with American funding — as well as other such viruses known to be the subject of research there — bore little resemblance to the one that set off the pandemic. A National Institutes of Health official testified last year before a different House committee that comparisons between the two were like “saying that a human is equivalent to a cow.”
In closed-door testimony before the House coronavirus panel in January, Fauci said, as he has previously, that it was possible that lab research had sparked the pandemic and that he kept “an open mind” about the origins. But, he said, “Some people spin off things from that that are kind of crazy.” And he reiterated that, in his view, the weight of evidence pointed toward the virus originating from animals before spilling into humans outside a lab.
In that testimony, Fauci referred to studies relying on early cases and viral genomes as well as sampling at an illegal wild animal market in Wuhan that suggested the pandemic-causing virus leapt from animals into people there.
“When I read the papers written by an international group of highly, highly respected evolutionary virologists, I lean much more heavily that this is a natural occurrence,” Fauci said.
Republican lawmakers seized on other parts of Fauci’s January testimony in advance of the hearing Monday to attack the American COVID response. In a memo circulated Friday, the Republicans highlighted comments from Fauci about, among other things, 6-foot separation rules, masking policies and vaccine mandates.
The two-story library has Oriental rugs, shaded lamps dotting its desks and rows of hardbacks lining its walls. It is the architectural centerpiece of the offices of OpenAI, the startup whose online chatbot, ChatGPT, showed the world that machines can instantly generate their own poetry and prose.
The building, which was once a mayonnaise factory, looks like a typical tech office, with its communal work spaces, well-stocked micro-kitchens and private nap rooms spread across three floors in San Francisco’s Mission District.
But then there is that library, with the ambience of a Victorian Era reading room. Its shelves offer everything from Homer’s “The Iliad” to David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity,” a favorite of Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO.
Built at Altman’s request and stocked with titles suggested by his staff, the OpenAI library is an apt metaphor for the world’s hottest tech company, whose success was fueled by language — lots and lots of language. OpenAI’s chatbot was not built like the average internet app: ChatGPT learned its skills by analyzing huge amounts of text that was written, edited and curated by humans, including encyclopedia articles, news stories, poetry and, yes, books.
The library also represents the paradox at the heart of OpenAI’s technology. Authors and publishers, including The New York Times, are suing OpenAI, claiming the company illegally used their copyrighted content to build its AI systems. Many authors worry that the technology will ultimately take away their livelihood.
Many OpenAI employees, on the other hand, believe the company is using human creativity to fuel more human creativity. They believe their use of copyrighted works is “fair use” under the law, because they are transforming these works into something new.
“To say that this is a public debate right now is an understatement,” said Shannon Gaffney, co-founder and managing partner of SkB Architects, an architectural firm that renovated OpenAI’s headquarters and designed its library. “Though things might look like they are going in different directions, the library serves as a constant reminder of human creativity.”
When OpenAI hired Gaffney’s firm to renovate the building in 2019, Altman said he wanted a library with an academic aura.
He wanted it to be a reminder of the
It is, other employees said, a far more inspiring place to work than a cubicle. “This is why so many people choose to work in the library,” Staudacher said.
Recently, Greene began feeding lists of his favorite books into ChatGPT and asking for new recommendations. At one point, the chatbot recommended “The Book of Disquiet,” a posthumously published autobiography from Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. A friend, who knew his tastes well, had recommended that he read the same book.
“Given the trends and patterns in things that have happened in the past, the technology can suggest things for the future,” Greene said.
Gaffney argued that this blend of the human and the machine will continue. Then she paused, before adding: “That, at least, is what I hope and feel.”
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Green Library, a Romanesque library at Stanford University, where he was a student for two years before dropping out to build a social media app; the Rose Reading Room, a BeauxArts study hall on the top floor of the New York Public Library in midtown Manhattan; and the library-like bar inside the now defunct Nomad Hotel, 15 blocks south of the Rose.
“My dining room and living room at home is inside a library — floor-to-ceiling books all the way around,” Altman said in an interview. “There is something about sitting in the middle of knowledge on the shelves at vast scale that I find interesting.”
Many titles, such as “English Masterpieces, 700-1900” and “Ideas and Images in World Art,” seem like the weighty hardbacks that professional decorators place strategically inside hotel lobbies because they look the part. Still, the library is a reflection of the organization that built it.
On a recent afternoon, two paperbacks sat beside each other at eye-level: “Birds of Lake Merritt” (a field guide to the birds found in a wildlife refuge in Oakland, California) and “Fake Birds of Lake Merritt” (a parody written by GPT-3, an early version of the technology that drives ChatGPT).
Some employees see the library as a quieter place to work. Long Ouyang, an AI re-
searcher, keeps a rolling desk against the wall. Others see it as an unusually elegant break room. On weekends, Ryan Greene, another researcher, pumps his digital music through the audio speakers tucked among the hardbacks.
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Aglitch at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) triggered massive swings in the shares of Berkshire Hathaway and Barrick Gold, and trading halts in dozens of other companies on Monday, before the bourse fixed the problem.
The NYSE, owned by Intercontinental Exchange, by late morning said a technical issue had been resolved and that the impacted stocks had resumed trading.
It was the second stock market hiccup in less than a week after a glitch last Thursday affected the dissemination of realtime data for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones indexes for over an hour.
The Consolidated Tape Association (CTA), responsible for disseminating real-time trade data on stock exchanges, said Monday’s problem related to a new software release at one of its data centers.
The CTA said it resolved the issue by switching to a secondary data center running the previous version of the software.
It provided a list of 40 securities that were subject to trading pauses on CTA between 9:30 a.m. and 10:27 a.m. ET and that were potentially impacted by the technical issue.
Some of the stocks halted on the NYSE showed unusual outsized movements.
Berkshire Hathaway’s class A shares and Barrick Gold were shown to be down 99.97% and 98.54%, respectively, due to the technical issue, before those trades were corrected.
After trading resumed, Berkshire Hathaway was down about 0.3% and Barrick Gold was up 0.6%, and investors said overall sentiment was unaffected.
Berkshire and Barrick Gold did not respond to requests for comment about Monday’s technical problem.
The S&P 500 was last down 0.4%.
“I don’t think the overall market is reacting,” said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley Financial.
The NYSE and the CTA said the problem was related to limit up-limit down bands meant to prevent extraordinary market volatility and extreme price movements in individual stocks by preventing trades outside of specific price ranges
that are updated throughout the trading day.
The price band for each security is set at a percentage level above and below its average price in the preceding five minutes.
The bands were developed as part of the response by financial regulators and exchanges to the “flash crash” of 2010, which briefly wiped out nearly $1 trillion in market capitalization in a few minutes.
On May 6, 2010 when equities were recovering from the financial crisis and in the early stages of what would become a near 11-year bull market, the Dow Jones Industrial
Average tumbled almost 700 points in minutes.
Exchange outages, caused by software and hardware glitches, cyberattacks, and even hungry squirrels, have roiled markets and shaken investor confidence for decades, as trading has moved from the floors and pits of bourses to electronic systems that match trades at nearly the speed of light.
In February 2023, the NYSE said it would reimburse investors for losses due to a glitch that caused widespread confusion and resulted in thousands of trades being nullified.
The NYSE did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether it would reimburse investors potentially affected by Monday’s issue.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought Monday to keep his government from unraveling over a new Israeli cease-fire proposal, as two key rightwing ministers doubled down on threats to leave the government.
For months, Netanyahu has been trying to navigate the countervailing pressures from Israel’s allies who are seeking a halt in the fighting and his right-wing coalition partners who are pushing for a continued battle against Hamas.
Then on Friday, President Joe Biden stepped up the pressure, declaring it was time for the war to end and outlining a new cease-fire proposal that he said Israel had endorsed. The move intensified pressure on Netanyahu to bring the war to a close, but he might not be able to do that without losing his grip on power.
The domestic political difficulties Netanyahu faces became evident Monday when the far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is key to his governing coalition, declared again that he would not accept the latest proposal, if it left Hamas intact.
He said his party would pull out of the government if Israel moved forward with such an agreement. Without BenGvir’s six parliamentary seats, Netanyahu would likely struggle to remain in office.
Hamas has said it views the proposal Biden outlined “positively” but has not said whether it would accept it. On Sunday, Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, told an Egyptian channel that “the ball” was now “in the Israeli court.”
Another far-right political leader, Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister,
the latest cease-fire proposal when he spoke about the issue last week, the person at the meeting said.
In his speech Friday, Biden went into an unusual level of detail in presenting what he described as the new Israeli framework. He said it amounted to a road map to an “enduring ceasefire” and said that if Hamas abided by its terms, it would lead to the “cessation of hostilities permanently.”
Two Israeli officials confirmed that the offer shared by Biden generally aligned with the most recent cease-fire proposal that Israel had presented in talks mediated by Qatar and Egypt and supported by the United States.
threatened to topple the government if it agrees to the proposal. “If the government, God forbid, decides to adopt this proposal of surrender, we will no longer be a part of it and we will take action to replace the failing leadership with a new leadership that knows how to defeat Hamas and win the war,” he said.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, offered assurances to lawmakers in a closed-door meeting that Israel’s latest proposal would not end the war without ending Hamas’ rule in Gaza. He said it would enable Israel to continue fighting Hamas until all its war aims are achieved, including destroying the military and governing capabilities of the group, which led the deadly Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel.
“The claims that we have agreed to a cease-fire without our conditions being met are incorrect,” Netanyahu said Monday, speaking before the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, according to a statement from his office.
The prime minister expressed openness to a 42-day pause in the fighting — part of the first phase of what U.S. officials have described as the three-phase deal proposed by Israel — but rejected a complete end to the war without Hamas’ defeat or surrender, according a person present at the committee meeting, who spoke on condition of anonymity to share details of the closed door discussion.
Netanyahu also claimed that Biden hadn’t presented the “whole picture” of
Earlier Monday, an official close to Ben-Gvir said he was supposed to meet with Netanyahu to discuss Israel’s most recent cease-fire offer and review a written version. But the minister said Monday afternoon that officials in the prime minister’s office had refused to show him the document, and he made no mention of meeting with Netanyahu.
The minister said he later received a phone call from Tzachi Hanegbi, the prime minister’s national security adviser, who claimed that a written version of the proposal didn’t exist.
Shira Efron, a senior director of policy research at the Israel Policy Forum, said that although Ben-Gvir and Smotrich were in a “once in a lifetime coalition” wielding influence in important ministries, they were willing to take risks that could result in the loss of decision-making power.
“They’re true ideologues,” she said in an interview.
The Israeli military said Monday that an additional four hostages who were abducted in the Hamasled Oct. 7 attacks on Israel were “no longer alive.”
The Israeli military said it had notified the families of the four and that their bodies were being held by Hamas. It identified them as Haim Perry, Yoram Metzger, Amiram Cooper and Nadav Popplewell.
Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesperson, said at a news briefing Monday that the
men were believed to have been killed together “several months ago” near Khan Younis, in the central Gaza Strip, while Israeli forces were operating in the area.
A spokesperson for Hamas’ military wing, Abu Ubaida, had announced in March that three of the men — Cooper, Metzger and Perry — were among seven hostages who had been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
Hagari said the decision to announce the hostages’ deaths Monday was based on “additional intelligence, which had been verified recently, making it possible to determine today that the four are no longer alive,”
adding that he knew “difficult questions” would arise about the circumstances of their deaths.
In a statement demanding that the Israeli government immediately negotiate the release of the remaining hostages, the Hostages Families Forum, a support group, said the four were alive when they were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nirim and Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Oct. 7 attacks, and that there had been “signs of life” in the interim period.
“Their murder in captivity is a mark of disgrace and a sad reflection on the significance of delaying previous deals,” the group said.
Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won her nation’s elections Sunday in a landslide victory that brought a double milestone: She became the first woman, and the first Jewish person, to be elected president of Mexico.
Early results indicated that Sheinbaum, 61, prevailed in what the authorities called the largest election in Mexico’s history, with the highest number of voters taking part and the most seats up for grabs.
It was a landmark vote that saw not one, but two, women vying to lead one of the hemisphere’s biggest nations. And it will put a Jewish leader at the helm of one of the world’s largest predominantly Catholic countries.
Sheinbaum, a leftist, campaigned on a vow to continue the legacy of Mexico’s current president and her mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which delighted their party’s base — and raised alarm among detractors. The election was seen by many as a referendum on his leadership, and her victory was a clear vote of confidence in López Obrador and the party he started.
López Obrador has completely reshaped Mexican politics. During his tenure, millions of Mexicans were lifted out of poverty and the minimum wage doubled. But he has also been a deeply polarizing president, criticized for failing to control rampant cartel violence, for hobbling the nation’s health system and for persistently undercutting democratic institutions.
Still, López Obrador remains widely popular and his enduring appeal propelled his chosen successor. And for all the challenges facing the country, the opposition was unable to persuade Mexicans that their candidate was a better option.
“We love her, we want her to work like Obrador,” Gloria Maria Rodríguez, 78, from Tabasco, said of Sheinbaum. “We want a president like Obrador.”
Sheinbaum won with at least 58% of the vote, according to preliminary results, while her closest competitor, Xóchitl Gálvez, an entrepreneur and former senator on a ticket with a coalition of opposition parties, had at least 26.6%.
If early returns hold, Sheinbaum will have captured a broader share of the vote than any candidate in decades.
Speaking to supporters early Monday, Sheinbaum vowed to work on behalf of all Mexicans, reaffirmed her party’s commitment to democracy and celebrated her groundbreaking ascension to the nation’s highest office.
“For the first time in 200 years of the republic, I will become the first female president of Mexico,” she said. “And as I have said on other occasions, I do not arrive alone. We all arrived, with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our ancestors, our mothers, our daughters and our granddaughters.”
and the third-place candidate, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, to congratulate her on the victory. Shortly after Sheinbaum’s speech, Gálvez told supporters that the early returns were “not favorable to my candidacy,” and “irreversible,” noting that she had just communicated with Sheinbaum.
Sheinbaum’s experience is ample: She has a doctorate in energy engineering, participated in a United Nations panel of climate scientists awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and governed the capital, one of the largest cities in the hemisphere.
that when I get to the presidency, he’s going to be calling me on the phone every day.”
Even with the broad mandate voters granted her, she faces significant challenges when she takes office in October.
López Obrador benefited “from the invincible popularity that comes from being a very charismatic leader — something that Claudia is not,” said Paula Sofía Vásquez, a political analyst based in Mexico City.
Cartel violence continues to torment the country, displacing people en masse and fueling one of the deadliest campaign cycles in recent Mexican history, with more than 36 people vying for public office killed since last summer.
Carlos Ortiz, 57, a municipal official working for the Iztapalapa borough in Mexico City, said that such bloodshed compelled him to vote against Sheinbaum.
“I want everything to change,” Ortiz said, recalling the dozens of aspirants for public office killed in recent months. “I don’t want a country on fire anymore.”
López Obrador has directed government attention to addressing the drivers of crime instead of waging war on the criminal groups, a strategy he called “hugs not bullets.” Homicides declined modestly but remain near record levels, and reports of missing people have spiked. Insecurity was a top concern for voters.
Sheinbaum has said she would continue his focus on social causes of the violence, while also working to lower rates of impunity and building up the national guard.
On the economy, the opportunities are clear: Mexico is now the largest trading partner of the United States, benefiting from a recent shift in manufacturing away from China. The currency is so strong it’s been labeled the “super peso.”
But there are also problems simmering. The federal deficit ballooned to around 6% this year, and Pemex, the national oil company, is operating under a mountain of debt, straining public finances.
Sheinbaum said she received calls from Gálvez
Known as a demanding boss with a reserved demeanor, Sheinbaum has risen through the ranks by aligning herself completely with López Obrador, who built an entire political party around his outsize personality. During the campaign, she backed many of his most contentious policies, including a slate of constitutional changes that critics say would severely undermine democratic checks and balances.
As a result, the president-elect battled the perception among many Mexicans that she will be little more than a pawn of her mentor.
“There’s this idea, because a lot of columnists say it, that I don’t have a personality,” Sheinbaum complained to reporters earlier this year. “That President Andrés Manuel López Obrador tells me what to do,
“The fiscal risk we’re facing at the moment is something we haven’t seen for decades,” said Mariana Campos, director of Mexico Evaluates, a public policy research group.
It’s unclear how Sheinbaum would make good on a range of campaign promises — from building public schools and new health clinics to expanding social welfare programs — given the current state of public finances.
“The problem I see is that a lot of proposals are oriented toward spending and there is nowhere to get the money from,” said Vásquez.
Abell tolled on TV, signaling a shift in the results tallied so far. From their home in northern Johannesburg, the Mathivha family celebrated the latest update: with the majority of votes counted, the African National Congress had earned a mere 41%.
“Good!” said Buhle Mathivha, pointing at the television screen.
“Good,” her husband, Khathu Mathivha, echoed.
“It should continue to decline; they are too arrogant,” Buhle Mathivha said.
The couple sat in front of a cozy fire Friday evening in South Africa where it is almost winter, watching news coverage of what was to be a watershed election. For the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994, the party once led by Nelson Mandela failed to win an outright majority of the votes in a national election.
While the African National Congress, or ANC, remains the leading party in Wednesday’s election, the latest tally is widely viewed as a political defeat and a rebuke from voters like the Mathivhas who have become exasperated with the only party they have known since the end of apartheid. In the last election, in 2019, the ANC took nearly 58% of the vote. The drop to about 40% in this election has cost the party its majority in Parliament, which elects the country’s president. Now, it will have to work with smaller opposition parties, like those the Mathivhas voted for instead of the ANC.
Buhle and Khathu Mathivha, 34 and 36 respectively, broke with family convention and their own previous votes when they decided not to vote for the ANC, a party they described as “pompous” and corrupt. The Mathivhas are part of the largest cohort of registered voters in South Africa: South Africans aged 30 to 39 make up nearly one-quarter of registered voters, and those slightly older, 40 to 49, make up more than a fifth.
Voting-aged South Africans born after apartheid, in 1994, have some of the lowest registration numbers, while those who endured the worst of the apartheid regime are aging. Instead, a generation who experienced the euphoria and economic growth of post-apartheid South Africa, and then the decline and despondency that followed, have soured on the ANC.
“Maybe they had a plan to fight apartheid, but not a plan for the economy,” Buhle Mathivha said.
The couple live in the Gauteng province, the most populous and wealthiest region, where urban Black voters have grown resentful of the ANC government’s failure to provide even the most basic services. The Mathivhas, who work in banking and tech, live on a tree-lined street in what was once a white-only suburb in Johannesburg.
In the last election, it was Khathu Mathivha’s mother, a doctor, who convinced them to give the ANC one more try. As a Black South African who came of age during apartheid, there were but two medical schools she was allowed to attend. Now, her son and his wife had their pick of the best South Africa had to offer. The couple voted for the ANC in 2019, but now, as they consider their 3-year-old son’s future, they said they could not back the ANC.
Buhle Mathivha’s father worked as a security guard but made sure his daughter attended a well-resourced formerly white public school in Cape Town. Khathu Mathivha’s family moved from Soweto to the affluent north, where he attended similar schools. Today, they are budgeting for private school for their son, having lost faith in public schools. It will be an added expense in at a time of soaring inflation
and rolling electricity blackouts.
The power cuts have not only made life more expensive, but also more dangerous. By night, their street is pitch dark and empty, because the streetlights haven’t worked in months. Their home is conveniently close to shopping malls and stores, except the business district has become a no-go zone because of crime. In 2020, robbers broke into the Mathivhas’ home and cleaned them out. When they voted last week, public safety was top of mind.
“Crime is a big thing for us,” Buhle Mathivha said.
They chose the Patriotic Alliance, a party founded about a decade ago by an ex-convict turned businessman who promised to be tough on crime. Gayton McKenzie, the party’s leader, has called for the return of the death penalty for serious crimes.
Buhle Mathivha was also impressed with McKenzie’s year as mayor of a rural district in South Africa’s Western Cape province. She pointed to his efforts to bring jobs to the town, improve infrastructure and, above all, that he didn’t take a salary. It impressed Mathivha, who used to drive through the
area as a child and remembers the abject poverty she saw.
Watching the election results this week, she was dismayed that the impoverished province where her parents grew up, the Eastern Cape, still chose to vote for the ANC.
“I think they fear racism and apartheid more than they fear poverty,” she said.
In a down-ballot race, Khathu Mathivha voted for a party led by a white man, which is also the second-largest party, the Democratic Alliance.
“If the ANC had sorted out infrastructure, policing, education, the fundamentals, I probably would have voted for them,” he said.
Despite the couple’s optimism at the result, they are worried about the instability of coalition governments. Utterances from Julius Malema that his party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, would demand a role in the Finance Ministry as a condition for cooperation, scared them. The party has advocated nationalizing the country’s central bank.
“It’s so that he can control the money,” Khathu Mathivha said.
“What positive could possibly come out of that?” asked his wife.
“Nothing,” her husband exclaimed.
“Thank God you are fourth,” she said of Malema’s party.
Still, Malema’s party has made inroads among the Black middle class in urban centers. But not as much as newcomer, the uMkhonto we Sizwe, or MK party, led by the former ANC president, Jacob Zuma. Buhle Mathivha’s eyes widened as she watched the uptick that made it the third largest party. Still, like other ANC breakaway parties, she hoped the MK party would fade into obscurity.
“More than anything,” she said, “the ANC has been humbled.”
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Last Thursday, Sonia Sotomayor helped protect the country from Donald Trump, and she did it in an unexpected way — by defending the National Rifle Association. Let me explain.
Attempts to target the free speech of political opponents are often the first sign of a decline into authoritarianism. As Frederick Douglass wrote in 1860, after an angry mob shut down an abolitionist event in Boston, “No right was deemed by the fathers of the Government more sacred than the right of speech.”
“Liberty,” he went on, “is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.”
That’s exactly right, and that’s why Sotomayor’s opinion for a unanimous Supreme Court upholding the free speech rights of the NRA against a hostile attack from a Democratic official in New York has ramifications well beyond New York politics and well beyond the battle over gun rights. By upholding the free speech rights of the NRA, the Supreme Court reinforced the constitutional wall of protection against vengeful government leaders, including Trump.
Here’s what happened. In 2017, Maria Vullo, who was then the superintendent of the New York state Department of Financial Services, began investigating the NRA Carry Guard insurance program. As the court’s opinion explains, Carry Guard was an insurance affinity program in which the NRA offered insurance that “covered personal-injury and criminal-defense costs related to licensed firearm use” and even “insured New York residents for intentional, reckless and criminally negligent acts with a firearm that injured or killed another person.”
Under the affinity program, the NRA would offer the insurance as a member benefit and various insurance companies, including Chubb Limited and Lloyd’s of London, would underwrite the insurance and the NRA would take a cut of the premium payments.
This investigation was proper. It found that Carry Guard violated New York law by insuring intentional criminal acts and that the NRA violated the law by promoting Carry Guard without an insurance producer license. So far, so good. The investigation was within the jurisdiction of the Department of Financial Services, and there was considerable evidence that the NRA broke New York law.
During the investigation, however, a gunman murdered 17 students, teachers and other staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Amid the public grief and outrage, Vullo escalated her attacks on the NRA.
In a meeting with Lloyd’s, the NRA claims, Vullo told Lloyd’s that she would be “less interested in pursuing” potential legal infractions committed by Lloyd’s in other areas of its business “so long as Lloyd’s ceased providing insurance to gun groups, especially the NRA.”
As Sotomayor wrote in her opinion, “Vullo and Lloyd’s struck a deal: Lloyd’s ‘would instruct its syndicates to cease underwriting firearm-related policies and would scale back its NRA-related business.’ ” In exchange, the state would focus its investigation of insurance-affinity programs “solely on those syndicates which served the NRA, and ignore other syndicates writing similar policies.”
Vullo also published two guidance letters on department letterhead, sending one to financial institutions and the other to insurance companies. In the letter, she applauded businesses that severed ties with the NRA “as examples of companies ‘fulfilling their corporate social responsibility.’ ”
The NRA sued Vullo, claiming that her actions were coercive and aimed at the NRA because of its political stance in support of gun rights. Vullo claimed that her actions weren’t coercive at all: She was merely trying to persuade companies to stop doing business with the NRA. She claimed that the government speech doctrine — which permits government officials to express their own points of view — gave her the right to condemn the NRA, and that if companies responded to that condemnation voluntarily, then she had merely convinced them to do the right thing.
But where is the line between government persuasion and government coercion? If the government offers a deal that it will refuse to enforce its own rules so long as you comply with its demands, is that really persuasion? Sotomayor and the rest of the court provided the answer: The government violates free speech rights by coercing third parties when it engages in conduct “that, viewed in context, could be reasonably understood to convey a threat of adverse government action in order to punish or suppress speech.”
Sotomayor’s opinion doesn’t win the case for the NRA. It merely gives the gun rights organization the opportunity to continue its case in the lower courts. It still has to prove its claims against Vullo. But the case is vitally important nonetheless.
In Sotomayor’s words, “At the heart of the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause is the recognition that viewpoint discrimination is uniquely harmful to a free and democratic society.” When the government can pick sides in an ideological debate and wield its power to suppress opposing views, then you’ve laid the foundation for authoritarianism. If free speech is the “dread of tyrants,” then censorship is one of the tyrant’s greatest weapons.
Civil liberties cases can make for strange bedfellows. This one was brought by one of the most powerful conservative organizations in the country, but it was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, a far more progressive organization, and Sotomayor’s unanimous opinion reflected the will of the court, from right to left.
That’s because censorship is a universal temptation. In this case it came from Democratic officials, but we know that
Justice Sonia Sotomayor sits for a group photo at the Supreme Court building in Washington, April 23, 2021. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
MAGA is possessed by the will to power. As The Washington Post reported last November, “Donald Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term.”
We’ve seen the populist right conduct campaigns of censorship against books, ideas and corporations it despises. The new nationalist conservatism, a movement that specifically rejects the libertarianism of the Ronald Reagan right, seeks to wield the power of the state for “the rewarding of good and the punishing of evil.”
The best way to defend America against authoritarianism is to defeat wannabe dictators at the ballot box. But even when the people fail, the Constitution can still prevail — so long as courts are willing to defend liberty for all.
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SAN JUAN – El Festival Casals 2024 tendrá un cierre por todo lo alto con la presentación de la leyenda dramática La Condenación de Fausto del compositor francés Héctor Berlioz este sábado, 8 de junio, a las 7:00 pm en la Sala de Festivales Antonio Paoli del Centro de Bellas Artes de Santurce (CBA). Este espectáculo musical dramático contará con la participación de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico, dirigida por Maximiano Valdés, y la dirección escénica del argentino Marcelo Lombardero.
La pieza de teatro lírico será protagonizada por el destacado tenor estadounidense John Irvin, como Fausto, junto a un espectacular elenco compuesto por la distinguida soprano puertorriqueña radicada en Europa Melba Ramos, el potente barítono Adrián Smith y el talentoso barítono Ricardo Sepúlveda. Los coros de la pieza serán interpretados por la Coral Filarmónica de San Juan, dirigida por Carmen Acevedo. La escenografía y videos que serán proyectados están a cargo de Matías
CAYEY – El alcalde de Cayey, Rolando Ortiz Velázquez, junto a la representante por Cidra Cayey Gretchen Hau y el director del Departamento de Recreación y Deportes Municipal, Roberto Rivera, participaron del evento de abanderamiento de los jóvenes cayeyanos que participarán en los Juegos de Puerto Rico, que se celebrarán la próxima semana en Toa Baja.
“Cayey es una ciudad deportista y se evidencia en la masiva asistencia de nuestros jóvenes en la disciplinas de béisbol con 15, volleyball con 12, baloncesto con 13, atletismo con 48, boxeo con 4 y ajedrez con 1”, señaló el alcalde. Para la representante Hau, “es una gran alegría ser parte del entusiasmo que genera este grupo, donde también participaremos en tenis de campo con 6, tenis de mesa con 2, ejercicios rítmicos con 50 y volleyball adaptado con 12. En total son 163 participantes”.
Otalora, mientras el vestuario fue diseñado por Luciana Gutman. Israel Franco Müller será el responsable del diseño de luces y la dirección técnica.
Como preámbulo al gran cierre del festival, Ballets de San Juan tendrá una presentación inspirada en una escena de La condenación de Fausto este jueves, 6 de junio, a las 8:00pm en la Sala Sinfónica Pablo Casals. Este espectáculo de danza estará dirigido por Adolfo de la Toba y contará con Zulma Berrios como primera bailarina y Nashalymar Román como solista principal. El cuerpo de baile estará acompañado por Pau Pujols de la Philadelphia Ballet y Anton Joroshmanov de la Compañía Nacional de México, quienes serán los bailarines invitados. La puesta en escena presenta las coreografías “El espectro de la rosa” con música de Carl Maria Von Weber; “Noche de Walpurgis” con música de Charles Gounod de la ópera Fausto; y “Fausto”, con música de Gounod y László Du.
Los boletos para ambas presentaciones del Festival Casals 2024 están disponibles en Ticketera y la boletería del CBA.
En el evento, celebrado en las facilidades de la Casa del Cuento y la Historia Cayeyana Ramón ‘Moncho’ Gómez, se designó al joven Sebastián Brigantti Rodríguez,
de la 13 años y alumno de la Escuela Ramón Emeterio Betances como abanderado oficial. “A un año de haber comenzado en el atletismo, representó a su escuela en el evento del Departamento de Educación y quedó campeón nacional en la categoría de 1200 metros”, señaló el alcalde.
Brigantti además se ha caracterizado en los eventos de distancia, participado en los campo traviesas de la FAPUR y torneo anual de atletismo de la AAJI y a representado la ciudad en todos los eventos a nivel isla en los que ha participado junto a su entrenador Emanuel Torres Ortiz Misuri.
Para más información sobre el evento, los interesados pueden acceder a https://www.drd.pr.gov/ noticias-recientes/10ma-edicion-de-juegos-de-puertorico (https://www.drd.pr.gov/noticias-recientes/10maedicion-de-juegos-de-puerto-rico) y a las plataformas cibernéticas Cayey Ciudad Verde.
SAN JUAN – La Policía informó el lunes la identificación de un cuerpo en el Instituto de Ciencias Forenses (ICF) de un hombre que había sido reportado desaparecido. Según la Uniformada, el cuerpo fue identificado como Santiago Villalongo Morales, de 54 años.
La Policía precisó que este fue identificado por su esposa, Lucy Plaza Bonilla. Villalongo Morales había sido reportado desaparecido el 5 de abril de 2024.
Las causas de la muerte no fueron reveladas por la Superintendencia Auxiliar en Investigaciones Criminales (SAIC).
La Uniformada exhorta a la ciu-
dadanía a proporcionar cualquier información que pueda ayudar en la resolución de casos similares. Pueden llamar a la línea confidencial del Negociado de la Policía de Puerto Rico al 787-343-2020. También pueden contactar a través de X (antes Twitter) en @PRPDNoticias o en Facebook en www.facebook. com
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By DEVIKA GIRISH
This month’s picks include an Indian political thriller, a beautiful tale of coming-of-middle-age from Georgia and more.
‘Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry’
Movies about middle-aged women seeking a new lease on life are a dime a dozen, but it’s rare to find one as gloriously strange, tender and erotic as “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry,” from Georgian director Elene Naveriani. Part of the charm is the protagonist, Etero, played by a truly magnetic Eka Chavleishvili, who sports sharp, drawn-on eyebrows, piercing eyes poised between rage and childlike vulnerability, and a stout figure held upright and proud. Etero manages a threadbare convenience store in a provincial village and spends most of her time alone, chasing birds and picking blackberries. She is self-sufficient in every conceivable way, as we learn early on when she swiftly and determinedly ends her “48-years-long virginity,” making an advance at the local delivery man, who welcomes it enthusiastically.
Much of the film traces Etero’s relationships with this new lover and the other women of the village, who alternate between pitying and envying her, and our heroine’s grappling with the changes in her body: hot flashes, erratic bleeding. There are references to her troubled childhood, beleaguered by the early death of her sick mother and the suffocating grips of her brother and father, but “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry” is less interested in the past than in Etero’s present and future — all the possibilities her life still
contains, whether or not those around her can see it. (Stream it on Mubi.)
‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ If “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” were set in a narco kingpin’s palatial hideout, it might look something like “Down the Rabbit Hole,” from Mexican director Manolo Caro. The 10-yearold Tochtli (Miguel Valverde) lives with his father, Yolcaut (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), a cartel boss, and their tight-knit chosen family of servants and right-hand men in a beautiful estate where the young boy has everything he needs: a personal tutor, a zoo with exotic animals, a wall decked out with sombreros of every kind. But it’s a gilded cage. Tochtli cannot leave this home — for his own safety, he’s told — and his understanding of the larger world is cobbled together from books, movies and his father’s stray comments about gang honor codes.
Whether “Down the Rabbit Hole” is a movie for kids or adults is hard to say: It somehow manages to convey both Tochtli’s naive curiosity and the menace of his father’s world without diluting either tone. The film takes us along on the kid’s various little adventures — including a trip to Namibia to find some hippos, a la Pablo Escobar — and draws us into his tender relationship with Yolcaut, but violence constantly laps the edges of his idyll, finally exploding in a gore-and-gunshots finale. The movie is an odd little dark comedy, buoyant enough to see with the family and gritty enough to prompt some hard conversations. (Stream it on Netflix.)
‘Pada’
A real-life story inspires this brilliant, bristling drama from South India: In 1996, four men stormed a local bureaucrat’s office and held him hostage, demanding the reversal of a legislation that robbed the region’s tribal peoples of their land. Following the activists’ plan over two tense days, “Pada,” directed by Kamal K.M., moves and pulses like a thriller, deploying its message — about the oppression of India’s tribal communities, and the lack of avenues available to them for recourse — with panache and without didacticism.
The first half unfolds like a heist movie, as each of the four men make preparations and adapt to unexpected contingencies: In one set piece, they weave through a crowd, trying to confuse a plainclothes police officer, while in the background, we hear a speech from a tribal rights activist. The second half takes the form of a chamber drama, confined mostly within the barricaded office where they hold their hostage at gunpoint. Tense negotiations and conversations follow, touching upon ethical and political questions. What constitutes a righteous and moral form of protest? Is deference to the law of any use when legislation is used unjustly? Thought-provoking and timely, “Pada”
ends with archival footage that reminds us of the failed promises of democracy and the resilience of India’s tribal peoples in the face of ongoing persecution. (Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.)
‘The Sales Girl’
A coming-of-age tale from Mongolia, “The Sales Girl” is equal parts raunchy and sweet, a film that appreciates sex both for its absurd humor and its revelatory capacities. Saruul (Bayarjargal Bayartsetseg), a studious college student, is roped into taking on her classmate’s job at a sex shop when the latter has an injury and needs a reliable stand-in. Frumpy and baby-faced, Saruul cuts an incongruous figure at the shop, surrounded by dildos and sex toys and packets of Viagra. She goes into the gig with a wide-eyed innocence that is slowly whittled away by Katya (Oidovjamts Enkhtuul), the magisterial and mysterious owner of the shop, who takes Saruul under her wing and teaches her to appreciate life’s — and the body’s — pleasures.
The director, Janchivdorj Sengedorj, has a striking eye for montage and mise-en-scène, and he ekes out emotion from well-timed cuts and music cues — including a running motif where Saruul puts on her headphones and tunes in to Pink Floyd, and the world around her is transformed momentarily into something like a music video. This mix of fantasy and deadpan realism gives “The Sales Girl” its winning charm and casual profundity. (Stream it on Film Movement Plus. Rent it on Amazon Prime Video.)
This Quebecois comedy from Monia Chokri is a weird, warped yet deeply intelligent satire of the male gaze. The madness all begins when Cédric (Patrick Hivon), a young husband and father in Montreal, drunkenly kisses a female news anchor on live TV. He is swiftly suspended from his job and becomes the subject of a turbulent online discourse on harassment. Egged on by his brother JeanMichel (Steve Laplante), a self-flagellating, holier-than-thou feminist — the kind to interrupt women to loudly proclaim his respect for them — Cédric starts writing a penitent letter to the TV anchor, which soon turns into a book-length apologia for misogyny.
As Cédric and his brother devote themselves to this ludicrous project, Cédric’s wife, Nadine (Chokri herself), quietly deals with postpartum depression and child care struggles, barely registering on the two men’s radar. Enter a new babysitter, played by Nadia Tereszkiewicz, who seems to have walked out of a pinup poster in her tiny skirt and low-cut tops. Chokri uses eye-popping production design and a frenetic, ever-switching point-of-view to explore how this young, impossibly cheerful woman becomes a site of projection for each of the characters, bringing out their secret desires: Cédric’s desperation to be useful, Jean-Michel’s barely concealed savior complex and Nadine’s yearning for connection and validation. That Chokri delivers these cutting insights with a truly acrid sense of humor is the icing on the cake. (Stream it on Mubi.)
Eka Chavleishvili and Temiko Chichinadze in “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry.” (Mubi)4, 2024 17
Half a century ago, one of the hottest questions in science was whether humans could teach animals to talk. Scientists tried using sign language to converse with apes and trained parrots to deploy growing English vocabularies.
The work quickly attracted media attention — and controversy. The research lacked rigor, critics argued, and what seemed like animal communication could simply have been wishful thinking, with researchers unconsciously cuing their animals to respond in certain ways.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the research fell out of favor. “The whole field completely disintegrated,” said Irene Pepperberg, a comparative cognition researcher at Boston University, who became known for her work with an African gray parrot named Alex.
Today, advances in technology and a growing appreciation for the sophistication of animal minds have renewed interest in finding ways to bridge the species divide. Pet owners are teaching their dogs to press “talking buttons” and zoos are training their apes to use touch screens.
In a cautious new paper, a team of scientists outlines a framework for evaluating whether such tools might give animals new ways to express themselves. The research is designed “to rise above some of the things that have been controversial in the past,” said Jennifer Cunha, a visiting research associate at Indiana University.
The paper, which is being presented at a science conference Tuesday, focuses on Cunha’s parrot, an 11-year-old Goffin’s cockatoo named Ellie. Since 2019, Cunha has been teaching Ellie to use an interactive “speech board,” a tablet-based app that contains more than 200 illustrated icons, corresponding to words and phrases including “sunflower seeds,” “happy” and “I feel hot.”
An undated image from Jennifer Cunha of herself and Ellie, an 11-year-old Goffin’s cockatoo, with a children’s book. In a cautious new paper, a team of scientists outlines a framework for evaluating whether technology like touch screens might give animals new ways to express themselves. (via Jennifer Cunha via The New York Times)
When Ellie presses on an icon with her tongue, a computerized voice speaks the word or phrase aloud.
In the new study, Cunha and her colleagues did not set out to determine whether Ellie’s use of the speech board amounted to communication. Instead, they used quantitative, computational methods to analyze Ellie’s icon presses to learn more about whether the speech board had what they called “expressive and enrichment potential.”
“How can we analyze the expression to see if there might be a space for intention or communication?” Cunha said. “And then, secondly, the question is could her selections give us an idea about her values, the things that she finds meaningful?”
The scientists analyzed nearly 40 hours of video footage, collected over seven months, of Ellie using the speech board. Then, they compared her icon presses to several simulations of a hypothetical speech board user who was selecting icons at random.
“They were ultimately all significantly different at multiple points from the real data,” said Nikhil Singh, a doctoral student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who created the models. “This virtual user that we had wasn’t able to fully capture what the real Ellie did when using this tablet.”
In other words, whatever Ellie was doing, she did not seem to be simply mashing icons at random. The design of the speech board, including icon brightness and location, could not fully explain Ellie’s selections either, the researchers found.
Determining whether or not Ellie’s selections were random “is a very good place to start,” said Federico Rossano, a comparative cognition researcher at the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the research. “The problem is that randomness is very unlikely.”
Just because Ellie was not hitting icons randomly does not mean that she was actively and deliberately trying to communicate her true wants or feelings, Rossano said. She may simply have been repeating sequences she learned during training. “It’s like a vending machine,” he said. “You can learn to push a sequence of numbers and get a certain type of reward. It doesn’t mean that you’re thinking about what you’re doing.”
To further probe the possibilities, the research team then looked for signs of what it called “corroboration.” If Ellie selected the apple icon, did she eat the apple that she was given? If she selected a reading-related icon, did she enga-
ge with the book for at least a minute?
“You can hand something to a bird, and they’ll throw it or they’ll touch it,” Cunha said. “But for us it was about, Did she engage with it?”
Not all of Ellie’s selections could be evaluated in this way; it was impossible for the researchers to determine, for instance, whether she was truly feeling happy or hot in any given moment. But of the nearly 500 icon presses that could be assessed, 92% were corroborated by Ellie’s subsequent behavior.
“It’s clear that they have a good correlation there,” said Pepperberg, who was not involved in the research.
But demonstrating that Ellie truly understands what the icons mean will require additional testing, she said, suggesting that the researchers try deliberately bringing Ellie the wrong object to see how she responds. “It’s just another control to make sure that the animal really has this understanding of what the label represents,” Pepperberg said.
Finally, the researchers tried to assess whether the speech board was serving as a form of enrichment for Ellie by analyzing the types of icons she selected most frequently.
“If it’s a means to an end, what is the end?” said Rébecca Kleinberger, an author of the paper and a researcher at Northeastern University, where she studies how animals interact with technology. “It does seem like there was a bias toward social activity or activity that means remaining in interaction with the caretaker.”
Roughly 14% of the time, Ellie selected icons for food, drinks or treats, the researchers found. On the other hand, about 73% of her selections corresponded to activities that provided social or cognitive enrichment, such as playing a game, visiting another bird or simply communicating with Cunha. Ellie also initiated the use of the speech board 85% of the time.
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Countries around the globe have failed to reach consensus on the terms of a treaty that would unify the world in a strategy against the inevitable next pandemic, trumping the nationalist ethos that emerged during COVID-19.
The deliberations, which were scheduled to be a central item at the weeklong meeting of the World Health Assembly that began May 27 in Geneva, aimed to correct the inequities in access to vaccines and treatments between wealthier nations and poorer ones that became glaringly apparent during the COVID pandemic.
Although much of the urgency around COVID has faded since the treaty negotiations began two years ago, public health experts are still acutely aware of the pandemic potential of emerging pathogens, familiar threats like bird flu and mpox, and once-vanquished diseases like smallpox.
“Those of us in public health recognize that another pandemic really could be around the corner,” said Loyce Pace, an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, who oversees the negotiations in her role as the U.S. liaison to the World Health Organization.
Negotiators had hoped to adopt the treaty next week. But canceled meetings and fractious debates — sometimes over a single word — stalled agreement on key sections, including equitable access to vaccines.
The negotiating body plans to ask for more time to continue the discussions.
“I’m still optimistic,” said Dr. Jean Kaseya, director-general of Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “I think the continent wants this agreement. I think the world wants this agreement.”
Once adopted, the treaty would set legally binding policies for member countries of the WHO, including the United States, on surveillance of pathogens, rapid sharing of outbreak data, and local manufacturing and supply chains for vaccines and treatments, among others.
Contrary to rhetoric from some politicians in the United States and Britain, it would not enable the WHO to dictate national policies on masking, or use armed troops to enforce lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
Last week’s deadline was self-imposed, and some public health experts have said it was far too ambitious — most treaties take many
years — for such a complex endeavor. But negotiators were scrambling to ratify the treaty before elections in the United States and multiple European countries.
“Donald Trump is in the room,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of the WHO Center on Global Health Law, who has helped to draft and negotiate the treaty.
“If Trump is elected, he will likely torpedo the negotiations and even withdraw from WHO,” Gostin said.
During his tenure as president, Trump severed ties with the WHO, and he has recently signaled that, if reelected, he might shutter the White House pandemic preparedness office.
Among the biggest bones of contention in the draft treaty is a section called Pathogen Access and Benefits Sharing, under which countries would be required to swiftly share genetic sequences and samples of emerging pathogens. This information is crucial for rapid development of diagnostic tests, vaccines and treatments.
Low-income nations, including those in Africa, want to be compensated for the information with quick and equitable access to the developed tests, vaccines and treatments. They have also asked that pharmaceutical manufacturers share information that would allow local companies to manufacture the products at low cost.
“We don’t want to see Western countries coming to collect pathogens, going with pathogens, making medicines, making vaccines, without sending back to us these benefits,” Kaseya said.
Member countries have only ever agreed to one other health treaty, the 2003 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which strengthened control of the tobacco industry and decreased smoking rates in participating countries. But they were jolted by the devastation of the COVID pandemic and the inequities it reinforced to embark on a second.
The countries are also working on bolstering the WHO’s International Health Regulations, which were last revised in 2005 and set detailed rules for countries to follow in the event of an outbreak that may breach borders.
The treaty would be an acknowledgment of sorts that an outbreak anywhere threatens the entire globe and that providing vaccines and other resources is beneficial to everyone. Variants of the coronavirus that emerged in countries with large unvaccinated populations swiftly swept across the world.
“Nearly half of U.S. deaths came from variants, so it’s in everybody’s interest to have
President Donald Trump views models of the coronavirus during a tour at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., March 3, 2020. Countries around the globe have failed to reach consensus on the terms of a treaty that would unify the world in a strategy against the inevitable next pandemic, trumping the nationalist ethos that emerged during COVID-19. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
a strong accord,” said Peter Maybarduk, who directs Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines program.
In December 2021, the WHO established a group of negotiators to develop a legally binding treaty that would enable every country to prevent, detect and control epidemics, and allow for equitable allocation of vaccines and drugs.
More than two years into the negotiations, negotiators have agreed, at least in principle, on some sections of the draft.
But much of the goodwill generated during COVID has evaporated, and national interests have returned to the fore. Countries like Switzerland and the United States have been reluctant to accept terms that may affect the pharmaceutical industry; others like Argentina have fought against strict regulations on meat exports.
“It’s evident that people have very short memories,” said Dr. Sharon Lewin, director of the Cumming Global Center for Pandemic Therapeutics in Melbourne, Australia.
“But it can happen again, and it can happen with a pathogen that is far trickier to deal with than COVID was,” she warned.
One proposal for the Pathogen Access and Benefits Sharing section would require manufacturers to set aside 10% of vaccines to be donated, and another 10% to be provided at cost to the WHO for distribution to low-income nations.
But that idea proved to be too complicated, said Roland Driece, who is one of the leaders of the negotiations. “We found along
the way that that was too ambitious in the time frame.”
Instead, a working group established by the World Health Assembly will be tasked with hammering out the details of that section by May 2026, Driece said.
The terms of the proposed agreement have generated some confusion. In Britain, Nigel Farage, the conservative broadcaster and populist politician, and some other conservative politicians have claimed that the WHO would force richer countries to give away 20% of their vaccines.
But that is an incorrect reading of the proposed agreement, Driece said. “It’s not the countries that have to come up with those vaccines; it’s the companies,” he said. Pharmaceutical companies would commit to the system in exchange for guaranteed access to data and samples needed to make their products.
Britain will not sign the treaty unless “it is firmly in the U.K. national interest and respects national sovereignty,” a spokesperson for the country’s health department told Reuters earlier this month.
In the United States, Republican senators have demanded that the Biden administration reject the treaty because it would “potentially weaken U.S. sovereignty.”
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s director-general, has roundly criticized what he called the “the litany of lies and conspiracy theories,” noting that the organization does not have the authority to dictate national public health policies, nor does it seek such power.
The secrecy surrounding the negotiations has made it difficult to counter misinformation, said James Love, director of Knowledge Ecology International, one of the few nonprofits with a window into the negotiations.
Some proposals in the draft treaty would require massive investments, another sticking point in the negotiations.
To monitor emerging pathogens, wealthier nations endorse a so-called One Health strategy, which recognizes the interconnections between people, animals, plants and their shared environment. They want low-income countries to regulate live animal markets and limit trade in animal products — a big economic blow for some nations.
“In my view, this is the most important moment in global health since WHO was founded in 1948,” Gostin said. “It would just be an unforgivable tragedy if we let this slip away after all the suffering of COVID.”
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For years, as soon as the craving for homemade pizza struck me, it was very easy to gratify ... four days later.
My family’s favorite recipe for slow-rising dough isn’t difficult, but it does need attention on consecutive evenings and a couple of overnight stints in the fridge. Those logistics are often more than our busy household can manage, and while perfectly leopard-spotted, puffy-edged pies are well worth the wait, we’re not always that patient for pizza.
So here is the gotta-have-it-now recipe for the hungry and impatient. Based on an easy, no-knead focaccia dough, it’s simple and speedy. It requires no resting time in the fridge, and barely any shaping. The whole thing can be made in under three hours, with pantry staples you probably already have, no Italian “00” flour needed.
What this crust loses in long-risen tang and chew, it more than makes up for with a delightful bouncy-soft texture, crisp edges and a savory, olive oil-imbued character. It’s far puffier and more flavorful than any premade pizza dough you can buy, and making it from scratch is faster than defrosting that ball of dough you may have stashed in the back of your freezer. It’s become our go-to for spontaneous weeknight pizza, regardless of how harried we are.
The inspiration for it comes from Roman pizza al taglio (pizza by the slice), a rectangular pie usually sliced to order and sold by weight. Unlike the round, blistered pizzas of Naples, pizza al taglio tends to have a lighter crust that’s crunchy at the edges
and airy in the center.
What I love most about pizza al taglio are the toppings, which change seasonally and can be added either before or after the pizza is baked, opening the door to possibility. At home, this means using whatever you have on hand, whether that’s a classic tomato-mozzarella pairing; cooked vegetables (asparagus, artichokes, roasted peppers); sliced prosciutto or mortadella; salad greens; fresh cheeses (goat cheese or ricotta); tinned fish (anchovies, sardines, tuna); or some improvised combination thereof. And if there’s nothing in the cupboard, do as the Romans do: Make pizza bianca, topping the dough with olive oil and a sprinkle of flaky salt.
Still, this is not a traditional pizza crust. Streamlined and endlessly adaptable for home cooking, it’s made for the spontaneous, the seasonal and the last-minute — perfect, in fact, for tonight.
Popular in Rome, pizza al taglio is a rectangular pizza that’s sold by the slice and is often eaten on the go as a salty, savory snack. The dough tends to be crisp-edged and light rather than chewy, and the toppings, which can vary widely, are often seasonal. This quick, untraditional version can be made on a sheet
pan in less than three hours. It has a puffy, no-knead crust that’s imbued with olive oil (like focaccia) and extremely easy to make. Feel free to play with the toppings. Cooked vegetables (thinly sliced potatoes, artichokes, roasted peppers), sliced prosciutto or mortadella, olives, other cheeses, or tinned fish like anchovies or tuna can all be added after the pizza is baked.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
Total time: 2 hours 40 minutes
Ingredients:
For the dough:
2 teaspoons instant or active dry yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
7 tablespoons/104 milliliters extra-virgin olive oil, plus more as needed
2 3/4 cups/390 grams bread flour
2 teaspoons fine sea salt, more for sprinkling
1 small red onion or 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced (optional)
Dried oregano, red-pepper flakes or flaky salt (optional)
8 ounces fresh mozzarella, torn into pieces (optional)
1/2 cup fresh basil leaves or 2 cups arugula, for topping
For the tomatoes:
1 (14-ounce) can whole peeled plum tomatoes
1 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
Preparation:
1. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine 1 1/2 cups/354 grams lukewarm water with the yeast and the sugar. Let sit until foamy, about 5 minutes.
2. Add 3 tablespoons olive oil, then add flour and salt. Mix on medium-high speed for about 5 minutes, or until the dough is elastic and ropey. The dough will be very wet and sticky.
3. Grease a 13-by-18-inch sheet pan with a little oil, then line with parchment. Drizzle 4 more tablespoons oil in the pan. Scrape dough onto the pan but don’t spread it out. Leave it where it flops. Top the pan with another, overturned sheet pan to cover the dough without touching it. Let dough proof in a warm place until it spreads out in the pan and puffs slightly, about 1 hour.
4. Transfer the overturned sheet pan that was covering the dough to the oven (still overturned) to heat (if you have a pizza stone, you can use it instead). Turn oven to 450 degrees.
5. Oil your fingers, then gently pat and press the dough into an even layer to cover most of the bottom of the sheet pan, oiling your fingers as you go. Take your time with this: The dough is sticky. Let rise uncovered until dough fills the pan and puffs slightly, 35 to 45 minutes.
6. Meanwhile, prepare the tomatoes: Drain and coarsely chop them. Add them to a bowl and stir in the oil and salt.
7. Spread about 1/2 cup tomato mixture over dough in a thin layer. Sprinkle red onion or garlic over the pizza, if using. Drizzle lightly with oil and sprinkle with oregano, red-pepper flakes and flaky salt, if you like.
8. Place the pan onto the heated sheet pan in the oven. Bake pizza until lightly golden brown on top, 22 to 30 minutes.
9. Remove the pizza from the oven and sprinkle with mozzarella, if using. Return to the oven until the cheese has just melted, about 5 minutes. Top with torn basil leaves or arugula, and drizzle with olive oil before serving.
Sheet pan pizza al taglio. Toppings can be added either before or after the pizza is baked, opening the door to possibility. Food styled by Samantha Seneviratne. (Kelly Marshall/The New York Times)LEGAL NOTICE
TRIBUNAL DE SUCESIONES - CONDADO DE NASSAU. CITACION TESTAMENTARIA COMPLEMENTARIA. EL PUEBLO DEL ESTADO DE NUEVA YORK.
Por la Gracia de Dios Libres e Independientes. Expediente n.º 2010-362990.
PARA: CHRISTOPHER MARK y toda persona desconocida cuyo nombre o partes de sus nombres y cuyo lugar o lugares de residencia se desconocen y no pueden determinarse tras una investigación diligente, los herederos instituidos en el testamento, los herederos legítimos y los parientes mas cercanos de dicho difunto, Vincent O’Neill y, en el caso de que alguno de los herederos instituidos en el testamento nombrados específicamente o como grupo hubiera fallecido, sus representantes legales, cónyuges, si los hubiera, herederos y sucesores, cuyos nombres o lugares de residencia y direcciones postales se desconocen y no pueden determinarse tras una investigación diligente.
SALUDA Y HACE SABER: Habiendo sido debidamente presentada una solicitud por Barbara Curry, con domicilio en 29 Michel Avenue, Farmingdale, NY 11735, el Tribunal de Sucesiones, Condado de Nassau, ubicado en 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, Nueva York, LO CITA A PRESENTARSE el 17 de julio de 2024 a las 9:30 de la mañana para fundamentar por que no se debe dictar una sentencia en la sucesión de Vincent O’Neill (con Ultimo domicilio en 41 Harrison Avenue, Massapequa, New York 11758) admitiendo para su aprobación un testamento con fecha de 15 de julio de 2009, cuya copia se adjunta, como el testamento del fallecido Vincent O’Neill, relativo a bienes muebles e inmuebles, y ordenando que se emita una:
• Carta de autorización y designación de albacea a favor de Barbara Curry
• Otras medidas solicitadas (si corresponde): que se prescinda de fianza.
HON. MARGARET C. REILLY Jueza en materia de sucesiones
Dado, firmado y sellado 7 de mayo de 2024
Debra Keller Leimbach, Secretaria en jefe
La presente citación se le envía en cumplimiento de la ley, No esta obligado a comparecer en persona. Si no comparece, se entenderá que
with.
consiente el procedimiento, salvo que presente un escrito con objeciones verificadas al respecto. Tiene derecho a que comparezca un abogado en su nombre.
Nombre de los abogados: Kevin M. Berry, Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer Dirección: 14 Wall Street, Suite 6B, New York, New York 10005 Tel.: (212) 267-3091
DEBE ADJUNTARSE A ESTA CITACION UNA COPIA AUTENTICA DEL TESTAMENTO OFRECIDO PARA SU LEGALIZACION.
Notificación: 22NYCRR
207.7c: La prueba de la notificación deberá presentarse a más tardar el segundo día anterior a la fecha de devolución.
LEGAL NOTICE
SURROGATE’S COURTNASSAU COUNTY. SUPPLEMENTAL PROBATE CITATION. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. By the Grace of God Free and Independent. File No. 2010-362990.
CHRISTOPHER MARK and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law and next-of-kin of Vincent O’Neill, deceased, and if any of the said above distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and/or places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained.
GREETINGS A PETITION having been duly filed by Barbara Curry, residing at 29 Michael Avenue, Farmingdale, New York 11735.
YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, at 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, on July 17, 2024 at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Vincent O’Neill, lately domiciled at 41 Harrison Avenue, Massapequa, NY 11758 admitting to probate a Will dated July 15, 2009 a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Vincent O’Neill, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that
• Letters Testamentary to Barbara Curry
• Further relief sought (if any): That a bond be dispensed
HON. MARGARET C. REILLY, Surrogate
Dated, Attested and Sealed, May 7, 2024
Debra Keller Leimbach, Chief Clerk
This Citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. If you fail to appear, it will be assumed that you consent to the proceedings, unless you file written verified objections thereto. You have a right to have an attorney-atlaw appear for you.
Name of Attorney: Kevin M. Berry, Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer
Address: 14 Wall Street, Suite 68, New York, NY 10005
Phone No. (212) 267-3091
A TRUE COPY OF THE WILL OFFERED FOR PROBATE MUST BE ATTACHED TO THIS CITATION
Notice: 22NYCRR 207.7c: Proof of Service should be filed on or before the second day preceding the return date
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA BOSCO CREDIT X, LLC, BY FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION AS SERVICER
Demandante Vs. ARMANDO GUARDIA MENDIZABAL, REYNA PIMENTEL ROCHA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: FCD2015-1465. (401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y
al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 24 DE JUNIO DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: URBANIZACION VILLAS DEL SOL de Carolina Sur. Solar: G-6. Cabida: 189.924 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, en 6.976 m. con la calle Mérida. Sur, en 6.826 m. con la calle Severo Quiñones. Este, en 28.432 m. con la parcela G-1. Oeste, en 27.405 m. con la parcela G-3. Enclava una casa que mide 22-- 4” de ancho por 38’- 8” de largo y tiene en el primer nivel, portal, vestíbulo, balo de visita, sala, comedor, cocina, lavandería con despensa y escalera que conduce al segundo piso, con un patio de servicio y área para estacionar dos automóviles, ambos descubiertos, al frente de la casa. El segundo nivel consta de dos dormitorios, tres closets, balo, dormitorio master, balo master, closet vestidor y escalera que conduce al primer piso. Es segregación de la finca 51,929 inscrita al folio 154 tomo 1210 de Carolina inscripción 1ra. Consta inscrita al folio 1216 del tomo 140 de Carolina Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II, finca 52,185. La Hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 4 del tomo 1355 de Carolina Sur, finca 52,185, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II, inscripción 3ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. VILLAS DEL SOL, 702 (G-6) CALLE MERIDA, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00985. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante
antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $152,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 1 DE JULIO DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $101,333.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $76,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 9 DE JULIO DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente la suma principal $127,375.74 por concepto de principal, más intereses a razón del 5.85% anual partir del 1ro de diciembre de 2014, hasta el total pago de la deuda; recargos por demora mensuales desde 1ro de noviembre de 2014 y la suma autorizada hipotecariamente para el pago de prima de seguro contra riesgos, contribuciones y/o seguro hipotecario; más la cantidad de 10%, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado en la suma de $15,200.00, 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 inte-
resados 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 22 de abril de 2024. JOSÉ R. CRISTÓBAL ORTIZ, Alguacil Regional. Héctor L. Peña Rodríguez, Alguacil Placa #278.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. ARNALDO ACEVEDO CAMACHO; ANA MARIA CATALA GONZALEZ
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2023CV03946. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA).
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: ARNALDO ACEVEDO CAMACHO; ANA MARIA CATALA GONZALEZ.
Yo, HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 24 DE JUNIO DE 2024, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudica-
ción en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 1RO. DE JULIO DE 2024, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 9 DE JULIO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar número Dos (2) del Bloque N guion Dos (N-2), sito en el proyecto de viviendas conocido como URBANIZACIÓN VILLAS DE TRUJILLO, localizado en el Barrio Las Cuevas del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de CIENTO SETENTA Y UNO PUNTO SETENTA Y SEIS (171.76) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número Uno (1) del Bloque N guion Dos (N-2); por el SUR, con el solar número Tres (3) del Bloque N guion Dos (N-2); por el ESTE, con la Calle número Diez (10); y por el OESTE, con la Calle número Dos (2). El inmueble antes descrito contiene una casa tipo “Garden Villa” de concreto diseñada para una familia. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 179 del tomo 908 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, finca número 30,646, inscripción segunda. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción segunda, en cuanto a que se amplia en la suma de $1,357.57 para un nuevo principal que será por $88,357.57, el interés que será al 4.25% anual, vencedero el día 1ro. de mayo de 2057, según la escritura número 191, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de junio de 2017, ante la Notario Público Carla Colón Gómez, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, finca número 30,646, inscripción 3ra. Modificada nuevamente la hipoteca de la inscripción segunda, en cuanto a que se amplia en la suma de $15,073.39 para que tenga un nuevo balance por la suma de $103,430.96, se modifica el interés que será al 4.25% anual, vencedero el día 1ro. de septiembre de 2062, con un pago final adicional en la suma de $13,500.00 en concepto de “Principal Forbearance”, según la escritura número 358, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de septiembre de 2022, ante la Notario Pú-
blico Carla Colón Gómez, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, finca número 30,646, inscripción 4ta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Villas de Trujillo Alto, 2N-2 , Calle 2, Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $102,778.69 de principal, incluye la suma de $13,500.00 de principal diferido, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.25% anual, desde el día 1ro. de junio de 2023, hasta su completo pago; más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $8,700.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $103,430.96 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $68,953.97 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $51,715.48. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta 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. 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 y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, 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 para vender en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del re-
mate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, 25 de abril de 2024. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE LEO ANÍBAL HIRALDO LUGO Y SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCA SOSA
SOSA COMPUESTA POR RAFAEL HIRALDO
SOSA; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS; CRIM
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CN2023CV00185. Salón Núm.: (401). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE LEO ANÍBAL HIRALDO LUGO Y SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCA SOSA SOSA COMPUESTA POR RAFAEL HIRALDO SOSA; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS: CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separa-
do, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Canóvanas, del término municipal de Loíza, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número seiscientos ocho del bloque “R” del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Loiza Valley, con una cabida superficial de trescientos veinte metros cuadrados con cincuenticuatro centímetros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, en catorce metros cuarentiun centímetros, con los solares seiscientos treinticinco y seiscientos treintiseis del Bloque “R”; por el SUR, en doce metros ochentisiete centímetros, con la calle Buganvilla (diez y nueve); por el ESTE, en veintitrés metros cincuenta centímetros, con el solar seiscientos nueve del Bloque “R”; y por el OESTE, en veintitrés metros cincuenta centímetros, con el solar seiscientos siete del bloque “R”. Enclava una casa de una sola planta de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto para fines residenciales. Consta inscrita al folio 116 del tomo 185 de Canóvanas, finca número #828, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Loíza Valley, #R608 Calle Bugambilla, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico 00729. En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $96,900.00, constituida mediante la escritura número 15, otorgada en (no se expresa), Puerto Rico, el día 28 de enero de 2010, ante el notario Fernando Rabell Echegarray, e inscrita al folio 2765 del tomo 445 de Canóvanas, finca número 828, inscripción 10ma., como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 13 de noviembre de 2017, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 10 de febrero de 2010 al Asiento 1890 del Diario 246). La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 25 DE JUNIO DE 2024 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $96,900.00.
Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 2 DE JULIO DE 2024 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $64,600.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 10 DE JULIO DE 2024 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $48,450.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: La suma de $77,975.30, con intereses a 5.0% anual, desde el 1ro de junio de 2020, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 4% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $9,690.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, 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. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal po-
drá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 2 de mayo de 2024. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278. ***
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de KATHERINE ORTIZ APONTE, sobre la unidad A301 semana 2 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 2 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A301 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A301 and includes the right to use such unit during the 2 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 2 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club.
Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A301, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other
affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $19,410.87 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ANTHONY MICHAEL HIPSZER Y CINDY ANN HIPSZER, sobre la unidad A301 semana 11 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 11 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A301 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta.
This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A301 and includes the right to use such unit during the 11 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 11 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A301, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,056.13 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente
aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de GREGORY GUY WILLIAMS Y NANCY MARIE WILLIAMS, sobre la unidad A305 semana 42 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 42 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A305 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A305 and includes the right to use such unit during the 42 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 42 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club.
Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A305, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This
Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,973.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de BRYAN Y. IWATA Y JEANNE M. IWATA, sobre la unidad A402 semana 40 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 40 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A402 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A402 and includes the right to use such unit during the 40 week of each year until December 31, of the year
2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 40 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A402, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $3,448.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MIGUEL ANGEL MARTINEZ Y MILAGROS SOL TORRES, sobre la unidad A405 semana 21 que a continuación se describe:
Vacation Club Right: unit week 21 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A405 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A405 and includes the right to use such unit during the 21 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 21 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A405, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the
Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $32,673.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JOSE IGNACIO BOLIVAR Y GEORGINA LOURDES VEGA, sobre la unidad A501 semana 47 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 47 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A501 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A501 and includes the right to use such unit during the 47 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 47 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the
membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A501, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $12,332.34 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de JOSE ANTONIO CAPRILES Y MARILYN MERCADO DE CAPRILES, sobre la unidad A505 semana 26 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 26 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A505 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A505 and includes the right to use such unit during the 26 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 26 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A505, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso.
Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,973.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de LUAN REXHEPI, sobre la unidad A606 semana 16 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 16 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A606 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A606 and includes the right to use such unit during the 16 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 16 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A606, the use of the said
unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.”El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $4,983.10 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-
104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ANTHONY OTTOMBRINO Y JOSEPHINE OTTOMBRINO, sobre la unidad A701 semana 35 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 35 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A701 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A701 and includes the right to use such unit during the 35 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 35 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A701, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $19,206.47 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos corres-
pondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de FRANCISCO JAVIER CABAN BALAGUER Y EUGENIA RODRRIGUEZ BARRERA, sobre la unidad A703 semana 20 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 20 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A703 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A703 and includes the right to use such unit during the 20 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 20 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A703, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In
the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $5,363.61 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Asso-
ciation, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ELEANOR JIMENEZ COLON, M.D., sobre la unidad A802 semana 25 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 25 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A802 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A802 and includes the right to use such unit during the 25 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 25 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A802, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $4,419.78 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que
todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de FRANK MARK NIGRO Y ELAINE ANN NIGRO sobre la unidad A803 semana 6 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 6 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A803 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A803 and includes the right to use such unit during the 6 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 6 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A803, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world
affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $5,694.81 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de FRANK MARK NIGRO Y ELAINE ANN NIGRO sobre
la unidad A803 semana 46 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 46 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A803 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A803 and includes the right to use such unit during the 46 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 46 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A803, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $5,592.32 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al
crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de MICHAEL A. LITTLETON Y KATHY L. LITTLETON sobre la unidad A804 semana 39 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 39 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A804 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A804 and includes the right to use such unit during the 39 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 39 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A804, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve
reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,973.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de PEDRO LARREGUI VELEZ Y INOBELIA OTERO RIVERA sobre la unidad B109 semana 29 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 29 Vacation Club Right corresponding to
unit B109 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B109 and includes the right to use such unit during the 29 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 29 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B109, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,973.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda su-
brogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ERWIN MOISES
MUTIS Y JANET GONZALEZ. sobre la unidad B110 semana 41 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 41 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B110 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B110 and includes the right to use such unit during the 41 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 41 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B110, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully
described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $24,076.76 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de KENT VERNER Y LINDA JEAN VERNER. sobre la unidad B207 semana 10 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 10 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B207 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special pro-
perty right to the Unit B207 and includes the right to use such unit during the 10 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 10 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B207, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $2,973.19 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta.
Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. 301 Carr 693 Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de WILLIAM LEROY SIMMS Y ANDORA
SIMMS, sobre la unidad B310 semana 5 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 5 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B310 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B310 and includes the right to use such unit during the 5 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 5 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B310, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two
point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $18,652.45 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. LEGAL NOTICE
ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00
A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de CHARLES STANLEY JENSEN Y ANNE KATHERINE JENSEN, sobre la unidad B312 semana 45 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 45 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B312 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B312 and includes the right to use such unit during the 45 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 45 Saturday of each calen-
dar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B312, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $9,900.49 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR
OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de ANTHONY CINTRON AVILES Y JAEMIE R. RIVERA RIVERA, sobre la unidad B412 semana 28 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 28 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B412 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B412 and includes the right to use such unit during the 28 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 28 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B412, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con
dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $8,579.57 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
HACIENDA DEL MAR
ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de NORMAN BRUST, sobre la unidad B507 semana 6 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club
Right: unit week 6 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B507 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club
Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B507 and includes the right to use such unit during the 6 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 6 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in
Unit B507, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $4,325.62 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en
cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de CONCEPCION DEJESUS GARCIA Y PRIMITIVA
LAFUENTE GARCIA, sobre la unidad B507 semana 46 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 46 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B507 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B507 and includes the right to use such unit during the 46 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 46 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B507, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $16,432.97 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de
referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de PAUL LEO LARKIN, sobre la unidad B611 semana 47 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 47 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B611 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B611 and includes the right to use such unit during the 47 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 47 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B611, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the com-
mencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $19,228.52 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646
Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios
Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de AGNES BEATRIZ SUAREZ MENDEZ, sobre la unidad B705 semana 47 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 47 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B705 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B705 and includes the right to use such unit during the 47 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 47 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B705, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $11,205.09 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas
laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
LEGAL NOTICE
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
301 Carr 693
Dorado PR, 00646 Yo, Eunice Ríos, en representación de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., LP HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de la sección 13-104, de la Ley Número 204 del 28 de diciembre de 2016, según enmendada, se venderá el día 20 de junio de 2024 a las 10:00 A.M. en los Predios Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. en Vega Alta Puerto Rico, al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, el interés indiviso de 100% titularidad de EMILIO SOLE DE LA PAZ Y XAIRA LIZZETTE SANTIAGO ACOSTA, sobre la unidad B808 semana 23 que a continuación se describe: Vacation Club Right: unit week 23 Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B808 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B808 and includes the right to use such unit during the 23 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 23 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B808, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare
or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty two hundredth (1/52) of two point six three one three two (2.63132%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” El acreedor es Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., con dirección física y postal que aparece arriba en este aviso. Esta venta se hará para satisfacer el balance pendiente de $10,898.65 en concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento adeudadas por el titular de referencia, cuya cuantía será el precio mínimo del remate. Todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento de ejecución estarán de manifiesto en las oficinas de Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc. durante horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador en la subasta pública extrajudicial acepta como bastante la titulación a ser adjudicada y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del acreedor 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, para la concurrencia de los licitadores, se expide el presente aviso de subasta. Firmada en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de junio de 2024. Eunice Ríos, Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc.
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Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE FRANCES MARRERO GARCÍA COMPUESTA POR FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, FULANO DE TAL
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV03258. Sala: 908. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: SUTANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, FULANO DE TAL, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCES MARRERO GARCÍA.
Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que la parte demandada SUCESIÓN DE FRANCES MARRERO GARCÍA COMPUESTA POR FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, FULANO DE TAL, le adeudan solidariamente a Condominio Bahía Properties, LLC., la suma total de $13,101.29 correspondiente a las cuotas de mantenimiento del apartamento A-812, por concepto de gastos comunes de mantenimiento adeudados a la fecha de la presentación de la demanda, más las sumas que se acumulen por concepto de mensualidades de gastos comunes, intereses, penalidades y recargos de los meses subsiguientes, más las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírles. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Alejandro Bellver Espinosa, cuya dirección física y postal es: Cond. El Centro I, Suite 801, 500 Muñoz Rivera Ave., San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 946-5268, y su correo electrónico es: alejandro@bellverlaw.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de mayo de 2024. Sra. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Enid Díaz Ríos, Subsecretaria.
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Demandante V. MAXIMA DINELIS
RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZ T/C/C MAXIMA
RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZ; JUAN CALOS VERAS
RODRIGUEZ
Demandado(s)
Civil Núm.: KCD2009-1460. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.
A: MAXIMA DINELIS
RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZ T/C/C MAXIMA
RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZ; JUAN CARLOS VERAS
RODRIGUEZ Y AL
PUBLICO EN GENERAL:
El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, 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: AVISO DE DEMANDA: Dado en el caso civil KAC2006-8042(603), Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, según Orden de fecha 10 de enero de 2008, sobre cobro, nulidad de contrato y daños; seguido por Elionel Luna de la Cruz, Yadira Rodríguez Díaz (demandantes) versus Máxima D. Rodríguez Martínez (demandada), equivalente al 50% de participación, en la cual se solicita la terminación del contrato de arrendamiento entre las partes y la devolución de $180,000.00, más la cuantía de daños económicos. Anotado al folio 68 del tomo 1121 de Santurce Norte, Anotación A, con fecha de 30 de septiembre de 2009. ANOTACION DE SENTENCIA: Expedida el 18 de septiembre de 2023, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de San Juan, caso civil #KAC2006-8042, sobre Dolo Contractual Grave, Nulidad de Contrato y Daños por Elionel
Luna de la Cruz vs. Máxima D. Rodríguez Martínez, por la suma de $75,000.00, presentado el 21 de septiembre de 2023, Anotado el 16 de octubre de 2023, en Sistema Karibe, finca número 7,137, Anotación C. Prohibición de Enajenar, Mandamiento expedido el 8 de enero de 2024, en el Tribunal de Primero Instancia, Sala de San Juan, caso civil número #KAC2006-8042, sobre Dolo Contractual Grave, Nulidad de Contrato y Daños por Elionel Luna de la Cruz vs. Máxima D. Rodríguez Martínez, se anota prohibición de enajenar sobre la participación en esta finca que le corresponde a la parte demandada, de Amparo de las Reglas 56.3 y 56.4, presentado el 23 de enero de 2024, Anotado el 22 de febrero de 2024, en el Sistema Karibe de Santurce Norte, finca 7,137, Anotación D. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Por $14,532.78, contra E.R. Hernández Claudio & M. Rodríguez. Notificación #295925006. Seguro Social XXXX-XX-9120. Anotado al folio 99, asiento 3 del tomo 7 de Embargos Federales, con fecha de 13 de junio de 2006. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 26 de febrero de 2024 - {250 Fecha mandamiento}, 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: Direccion Fisica: 411 Del Parque Street, Santurce, San Juan, PR 00909. URBANA: Parcela de terreno en la Sección Norte del Barrio de Santurce de esta ciudad de San Juan, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 296.69 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el SUR, en 23.83 metros con Juan Hernandez Lopez y Doña Dolores Moreno; por el NORTE, en 21.05 metros, con Juan Hernandez Lopez; por el ESTE, en 16.00 metros con Pedro Perez, hoy Martin Ortega y por el OESTE, en 11.00 metros con la calle del Parque en su frente. Enclava Edificación. Consta inscrita al folio 196 del tomo 518 de Santurce Norte, finca número 7,137, Registro de la Propiedad Sección Primera de San Juan. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma de $550,204.31, cantidad que se compone de los siguientes conceptos: $425,509.91 de principal, $67,791.33 de intereses acumulados, $107.94 de cargos
por demora, $7,295.13 de “escrow”, $49,500.00 de gastos legales y $47.28 de intereses diarios; más cualquier adelanto adicional realizado conforme a los términos del préstamo, así como los intereses que se continuaron acumulando, 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 25 DE JUNIO DE 2024, A LA(S) 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el tipo mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es por la suma de $495,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 2 DE JULIO DE 2024, A LA(S) 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. Que el tipo mínimo fijado para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA es por la suma de $330,000.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE JULIO DE 2024, A LA(S) 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $247,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que
afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de mayo de 2024. Edwin E. López Mulero, Alguacil Auxiliar, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De San Juan.
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Demandante V. FULANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESION DE DIONISIO AMARO LOPEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2023CV02445. (Salón: 802). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GENEVIEVE LOPEZ STIPESLCDA.GLOPEZ@GMAIL.COM.
ILIA CRISTINA RAMÍREZ MARTÍNEZ - RAMIREZ@GLSLEGALSERVICES. COM. A: “KIKO” T/C/C KIKO DE TAL Y COMO KIKO AMARO RAMOS, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE DIONISIO AMARO LÓPEZ T/C/C PINTO-AMARO T/C/C DIONISIO PINTO AMARO. B: LUIS RAÚL PÉREZ RAMOS, BLANCA I. PÉREZ; “KIKO” T/C/C KIKO DE TAL Y COMO KIKO AMARO RAMOS, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE SUCESIÓN DE LUZ MARÍA RAMOS PUMAREJO T/C/C LUZ M. RAMOS T/C/C LUZ RAMOS PUMAREJO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de mayo de 2024, 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 28 de mayo de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 28 de mayo de 2024. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. ZAIDA AGUAYO ÁLAMO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. SUCESION HECTOR RIVERA Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: PO2023CV03852. (Salón: 406 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION
HECTOR RIVERA T/C/C
HECTOR LUIS RIVERA APONTE; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION
LUCY CINTRON DE RIVERA T/C/C LUCY ALDA CINTRON
ANTOMMARCHI. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de abril de 2024, 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 28 de mayo de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA A LOS FINES DE EMITIR NUEVAMENTE LA NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO YA QUE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE NO PUBLICO EN EL TERMINO PROVISTO POR LEY. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 28 de mayo de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SUCESORES DE SOBRINO INC., REPRESENTADO POR JOSE LUIS SOBRINO TRAPAGA Peticionaria EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: BY2024CV02604. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. (ART. 185 LEY DEL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD INMOBILIARIA Y SU REGLAMENTO, LEY 210-2015). CITACIÓN POR EDICTO A PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: FULANOS DE TAL. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a usted que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal el expediente de epígrafe, con el fin de inmatricular en el Registro de la Propiedad, a favor de la parte peticionaria, el dominio que tiene sobre la siguiente finca: RÚSTICA (A): Predio de terreno, rústico radicado en el Barrio Yeguada, de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, midiendo por el Este noventa y cuatro (94) pies y colinda con la carretera que conduce a Vega Baja; por el Oeste, mide setenta (70) pies y colinda con W.A. Griffith, antes, luego Enrique Landrón, después Carmen María Trápaga, hoy José Luis Sobrino; por el Norte, mide sesenta y nueve (69) pies y colinda hoy con la Zona Marítima, y por el Sur, mide treinta (30) pies y colinda, antes con Michael A. Davis, hoy con Rafael López. Alega la Peticionaria que adquirió el domino de la finca antes descrita por virtud de la Escritura Número 87 de Permuta, otorgada el día 29 de julio de 1983, ante el notario público Mario A. Torres Rivera. El abogado de la Peticionaria es el Lcdo. Ricardo A. Vargas Valle, con oficina en el Centro Comercial Apolo, #2098 Ave. Apolo, Local 3-A, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969. Y se le notifica a usted, que este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite para que haga oposición a este expediente de dominio, si se viere perjudicado con la inscripción que se solicita, presentando su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Se le advierte, que de no haber oposición dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a
contar desde que fuera usted notificado de esta citación, la Peticionaria podrá obtener que se apruebe este expediente y se mande a inscribir a su nombre en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, el dominio que tiene sobre la finca anteriormente descrita. POR ORDEN DEL HONORABLE
JESUS E. SOTO AMADEO, Juez de este Tribunal, expido la presente en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de mayo de 2024, bajo mi firma y sello oficial. LCDA. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia De Bayamón. Luisa I. Andino Ayala, Secretaria Auxiliar.
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Demandantes Vs. JUAN JOSÉ CRESPO RIVERA; JUAN JOSÉ CRESPO HILL
Demandadas
Civil Núm.: FA2024CV00289. Sobre: REMOCIÓN DE ALBACEA; NULIDAD DE DISPOSICIÓN TESTAMENTARIA; DIVISIÓN DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JUAN JOSÉ
CRESPO RIVERAPO BOX 486, FAJARDO, PUERTO RICO 00736. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante una demanda sobre la remoción de Albacea; nulidad de disposición testamentaria; división de comunidad hereditaria, por los hechos que se detallan en la misma, la cual puede ser examinada en la secretaría de este Tribunal. REPRESENTA a los demandantes el bufete RIVERA COLON, RIVERA TORRES & RIVERA RIOS (Lcdo. Víctor M. Rivera Torres) con dirección en Avenida Fernández Juncos #1420, Santurce, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono (787) 7275710, cel. (787) 479-2526, email: victor.rivera@rcrtrblaw. com. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece en el término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, los demandantes podrán solicitar que se dicte sentencia en rebeldía, declarándose con lugar la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO, bajo
mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 23 de mayo de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
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COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. GABRIEL RIVERA PARDO Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AG2022CV01834. 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: GABRIEL RIVERA PARDO - BDA CABAN 96 CALLE TOMAS LARRIEUX, AGUADILLA PR 00603; 4460 DEBORAH DR, ATLANTA GA 30340.
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:///www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, 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, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de marzo de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA VALENTÍN RAMÍREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ISABELA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante Vs. SERGIO CENTENO RODRÍGUEZ
Demandado
Civil Núm.: IS2023CV00084. Salón: 0001. 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: SERGIO CENTENO RODRÍGUEZ - URB. LAMELA 89 CALLE ROLITA, ISABELA, PR 00662-2380; PO BOX 742596, PONCE, PR 00734; 514 E 63RD ST JACKSONVILLE, FL 32208.
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 Isabela, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de marzo de 2024. En Isabela, Puerto Rico, el 8 de marzo de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. IRENE CURBELO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Parte Demandante Vs. JOSE J AGOSTO FELICIANO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: VB2023CV00313. 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: JOSE J AGOSTO FELICIANO - 640
CHALETS DE LA PLAYA, VEGA BAJA, PR 006939792.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda de cobro de dinero por la cantidad de $2,233.29 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:///www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de abril de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE
CAROLINA WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018 -HB1 Demandante Vs. SUCESION RAFAEL VELAZQUEZ ALICEA T/C/C RAFAEL VELAZQUEZ COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION BIENVENIDA VEGUILLA COLON T/C/C
BIENVENIDA VEGUILLA T/C/C BIENVENIDA
VEGUILLAS COLON COMPUESTA POR VICTOR VEGUILLA COLON, CARMEN VEGUILLA COLON, ELIZA
VEGUILLA; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2024CV00171.
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: CARMEN VEGUILLA COLON; ELIZA VEGUILLA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION RAFAEL VELAZQUEZ ALICEA T/C/C RAFAEL VELAZQUEZ; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION BIENVENIDA VEGUILLA COLON T/C/C BIENVENIDA VEGUILLA T/C/C BIENVENIDA VEGUILLAS COLON. 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@grnlaw.com
Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de mayo de 2024. LIC. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE CABO ROJO
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO
Parte Demandante Vs JUAN JAVIER
VARGAS ROSARIO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CB2024CV00184.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JUAN JAVIER
VARGAS ROSARIO.
Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José Francisco Giraud Mejías, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica:
https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de mayo de 2024. Lcda. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria Regional. María M. Avilés Bonilla, Secretaria Auxiliar I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PUERTO RICO, INC.; ATLANTIS INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTIES, INC.; GLOBAL INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTIES, INC.; JUAN C. NAZARIO T/C/C JUAN C. NAZARIO TORRES T/C/C JUAN CARLOS NAZARIO TORRES; CRISTINA COSTA VÁZQUEZ; Y FRANCISCA TORRES MARRERO
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2024CV01050. (401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECAS Y DE GRAVÁMENES MOBILIARIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: CRISTINA COSTA VÁZQUEZ - DIRECCIONES
CONOCIDAS: CARR. #2 KM 14 HATO TEJAS, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO; 16-12 CALLE GRANADA GUAYNABO, PR 00966; P.O. BOX 2037, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 009602037; CARR. #2 KM. 48.2, MANATÍ, PUERTO RICO 00674-1082; P.O. BOX 1028, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 009601028; P.O. BOX 602037, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 00960-2037; P.O. BOX 2037, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 00960; P.O. BOX 1028, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 00960.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda de Cobro de
Dinero, Ejecución de Hipoteca y Gravámenes Mobiliarios, reclamando unas sumas adeudadas que, al 21 de febrero de 2024, se desglosan como sigue: 1. Bajo el Préstamo I, el Contrato de Préstamo I y los demás documentos de préstamo una suma no menor de $3,053,843.63, la cual se desglosa como sigue: (i) $2,981,426.88 por concepto de principal; más (ii) $72,416.75 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a razón de $496.90 diarios. 2. Bajo el Préstamo III, el Contrato de Préstamo II y los demás documentos de préstamo, una suma no menor de $11,749,413.82, la cual se compone de: (i) $11,303,608.88 por concepto de principal; más (ii) $445,804.94 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a razón de $1,883.93 diarios. Además, los Demandados adeudan la suma agregada de $3,861,161.70 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado pactados por las partes, según se desprende de los Pagarés Hipotecarios I al XIII, y las Hipotecas I al XIII. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Luis G. Parrilla Hernández R.Ú.A. Núm. 16,736 lparrilla@ferraiuoli.com
Lcda. Ivonne Nieves Dávila R.Ú.A. Núm. 22,818 inieves@ferraiuoli.com
Ferraiouli LLC PO Box 195168 San Juan, PR 00919-5168
Tel.: (787)766-7000 Fax: (787)766-7001
Abogados de la Parte Demandante, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. 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. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en San Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 20 de mayo de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
With its athletes barred from competing in the Summer Olympics under the country’s flag, Russia has turned its fury on the Games and this year’s host, Paris.
Russian propagandists have created an hourlong documentary, spoofed news reports and even mimicked French and U.S. intelligence agencies to issue fake warnings urging people to avoid the Games, according to a report released Sunday by Microsoft.
The report details the disinformation campaign created by a group the company calls Storm-1679. The campaign appears to have accelerated since March, flooding social media with short videos raising alarms about possible terrorist attacks and stoking fears about safety.
The operation, while aimed at the Games, is using various techniques to spread disinformation that could also be employed in European and U.S. elections.
U.S. and French officials have tracked the campaign. One U.S. official said that Russian disinformation, spread by the Kremlin via social media, continued to threaten the security of the United States and its allies.
The group has also tried to goad factcheckers into examining its claims, hoping to use the attention to spread the disinformation to new audiences as it is called out.
For months, French officials have focused on the ways Russia could seek to undermine the Games. Hackers affiliated with Russian intelligence disrupted the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, and French officials are preparing for more cyberattacks this year.
France raised its terrorism warning level after an Islamic State group attack in Moscow in March and threats against high-profile soccer matches in Paris. France also has increased security for the Olympics. Neither French nor U.S. officials are warning people
to stay away from the Games, but the Russian disinformation campaign is designed to scare people into doing just that.
Researchers at Microsoft and U.S. government officials have identified a number of groups affiliated with the Kremlin that are spreading disinformation aimed at Europe and the United States.
Some are directed by aides to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Others are affiliated with Russian intelligence. Some hide behind fake nonprofit groups. Others are veterans of the Internet Research Agency, a St. Petersburg troll farm that spread election propaganda in 2016. The agency was run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of a mercenary group who led a rebellion against the Kremlin and then was killed in a plane crash last year.
Storm-1679 appears separate from those efforts, according to Microsoft. The group’s disinformation is aligned with Kremlin propaganda, but few specifics about it are known.
Bellingcat, a research group that uses publicly available data to conduct open source investigations, has been targeted by disinformation videos and has watched the campaign unfold. Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, says his group has not established whether Storm-1679 is backed by the Russian government or is inde -
pendent.
“It could be Prigozhin 2.0 doing work for the Kremlin, or an overimaginative pro-Russian blogger doing it for kicks; we just don’t know at this point,” Higgins said.
The work began in earnest last summer with the release of a fake documentary about the International Olympic Committee, expropriating Netflix’s logo and using an artificial-intelligence-powered voice impersonating Tom Cruise. The committee succeeded in having the video — a spoof of the 2013 film “Olympus Has Fallen” — removed from YouTube. The attacks have continued, though, with persistent efforts to discredit its leadership, the committee said in March, citing a campaign that used fake recordings of what purported to be telephone calls by officials of the African Union on behalf of Russia.
The group known as Storm-1679 now appears to be making shorter videos that are easier to create. It used to focus on disparaging Ukrainian refugees in the West, but after French President Emmanuel Macron began to publicly consider sending French troops to Ukraine, it shifted to the Olympics.
Microsoft estimates that Storm-1679 produces three to eight faked videos a week, in English and French, with many impersonating the BBC, Al Jazeera and other broadcasters. The group appears to respond quickly to news events, such as protests in New Caledonia, a French territory in the Pacific. Others focus on the prospect of a terrorist attack in Paris.
Most of the videos pretending to be from the CIA and French intelligence are relatively simple. They are unlike anything the CIA
has actually produced, but to unsuspecting readers online, they could appear legitimate, using the agency’s logo and stark white-onblack typography.
“They are trying to cultivate an anticipation of violence,” Clint Watts, head of Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center, said of the group behind the fake posts. “They want people to be fearful of going to the Olympics.”
A CIA spokesperson said a video that circulated online in February purporting to be a warning from the agency warning of terrorist attacks during the Games was a fabrication.
In February, Viginum, the government agency in France that combats disinformation online, identified the fake CIA video as part of a campaign it called Matryoshka, after the nesting dolls that are popular in Russia.
The campaign was also responsible for fake videos about the domestic French intelligence agency, the French government. A person briefed on the French investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence assessments, said that Viginum and the French Foreign Ministry were quickly identifying the Russian disinformation from the group aimed at undermining the Olympics.
French officials and Microsoft say one of the group’s tactics appears to be trying to get the attention of fact-checking organizations.
“Normally, when Storm-1679 posts content on Telegram, it circulates there for a day or two and then goes away,” Watts said. “The content doesn’t normally travel from one platform to another, but when their false content is fact-checked by accounts with a large following, the content gets far more views and in front of new and different audiences.”
Higgins said if baiting fact-checkers was part of the group’s strategy, it did not appear to be an effective one. Bellingcat, he said, is aware that reporting on disinformation can draw attention to the propaganda, and that is factored in when his organization factchecks videos.
“It doesn’t appear that their messages are getting amplified,” Higgins said. “Even among the usual circles who lap up Russian disinformation, we don’t see them being shared at all.”
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Stands under construction for a Summer Olympics venue at Place de la Concorde in Paris, April 4, 2024. (Dmitry Kostyukov/the New York Times)Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
Stress might be getting the better of a household member today, Aries. This person feels emotionally volatile. The least irritation could set off a temper tantrum. Try to ease the pressure by staying out of the way. Don’t offer advice, however well-intentioned it may be. This person needs to come to terms with whatever is bothering him or her. Distance yourself and do your own thing.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Friends, neighbors, and relatives could be feeling especially stressed out and explosive today, Taurus. This isn’t a good day to initiate intense communications with them. Keep your talk light and inconsequential. This is a great day to stay home and read, especially since your mind is particularly receptive to unusual ideas. The Internet, videos, and TV documentaries could be most informative.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
The economy could well take another dip, Gemini, and you might hear from people expressing concerns about financial matters. Don’t take them to heart, and certainly don’t worry about your own financial condition. The trend will probably reverse itself soon, and this time in the right direction. Take no drastic action just yet. Wait and see what happens. You’ll probably breathe a sigh of relief.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Oppressive stress on you or those close to you could cause disconcerting upsets within your relationships today, Cancer. Try to be objective and work things out rationally instead of going to pieces. Avoid being sucked into quarrels where you might say things you’ll regret. Don’t let this temporary situation get the best of you. Make the effort to stay focused and relaxed. Tomorrow all should be back to normal.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Stress could take a toll on you today, Leo. You might temporarily lose your ambition and be left wondering if it’s all really worth it. This isn’t a good day to start projects or engage in important discussions. Stay home and get some rest if you can. You might skip a few chores, but you’ll be better off in the long run. Treat yourself to a good book and some ice cream.
(Aug 24-Sep 23)
Surprising new developments in close friendships or love relationships could come your way today, Virgo. Someone might move away or perhaps move closer to you. This could prove a little unsettling at first, but you’ll be happy once you get used to the idea. Communicating with new people could also bring unexpected events your way. Be prepared for some bombshells. On the downside, expect some trouble with machines.
(Sep 24-Oct 23)
Unexpected developments might interfere with your home life or with plans to spend a quiet evening with your family, Libra. This could have you feeling a little down at first, but don’t let it get to you. Whatever you do today might open doors that will benefit both you and those close to you. Gird your loins and do whatever needs to be done. Later you’ll be glad you did.
(Oct 24-Nov 22)
You may be looking forward to talking on the phone with someone dear who lives far away, Scorpio, but circumstances beyond your control could get in the way. Perhaps you keep missing each other, or problems with computers or phones throw a monkey wrench into the works. Don’t let this dim your enthusiasm. Once you reach your friend, expect to have an exciting and emotionally gratifying conversation.
(Nov 23-Dec 21)
Although business and money matters continue to go well, some rather unsettling news regarding either your finances or the economy in general could reach you today, Sagittarius. However, don’t accept as truth anything you hear until you check the facts. The planetary energies now lend themselves to the spread of rumor, gossip, and misinformation. This is definitely the day to hang on to your objectivity.
(Dec 22-Jan 20)
You may have been looking forward to communicating or spending time with the people you care about today if possible, but circumstances beyond your control throw some unexpected obstacles in your way. Don’t panic, Capricorn. If you’re focused and objective, you can find a way to get around the obstacles and do what you want to do. If you’re involved in creative projects, you might seem blocked today.
(Jan 21-Feb 19)
Although you’ve been feeling especially strong physically over the past few days, Aquarius, today you might feel a little under the weather. You could even experience some giddiness. This is nothing to worry about, but you should try to take it easy. Don’t exercise if you don’t feel up to it. Get some rest. Even if you have to postpone some chores, you’ll be better off in the long run.
(Feb 20-Mar 20)
Emotional matters could hit the fan today at a (virtual) group meeting of some kind. Those around you communicate with are apt to be feeling especially stressed and volatile, Pisces, so be prepared for anything. Try to stay out of passionate confrontations, and don’t try to put oil on troubled waters. At times like this, such attempts only cause unwanted attention to focus on you. Stay centered.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29
