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Although the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) should be leaving bankruptcy once its debt adjustment plan is confirmed in late July, the Financial Oversight and Management Board on Thursday announced it was drafting a new fiscal plan for the utility.
PREPA has been in bankruptcy since 2017 to restructure almost $10 billion in debt.
The PREPA debt plan proposes to restructure PREPA’s debt principally through an issuance of $5.68 billion in new bonds to fund partial recoveries on creditors’ claims. PREPA owns about $8.26 billion in revenue bonds, plus some $218 million in prepetition accrued interest on such bonds. The utility also owns PREPA $700 million in fuel line loans and projects some $246 million to $4.9 billion in general unsecured claims. It also has over $3 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.
Rico’s electrical system remains highly unreliable, prone to frequent outages and voltage fluctuations. Five years ago, the oversight board set a target of achieving rates below 20 cents per kilowatt-hour by 2023 to enable Puerto Rico’s future economic vitality; average rates over the past year have been above 28 cents, however, more than double the U.S. average. Customers in Puerto Rico are shifting to rooftop solar much sooner than the board has predicted in order to escape a failing grid. Even without additional rate increases, the electrical system is not economically viable.
“This letter represents something that the [oversight board] has not been able to achieve in six years: a consensus among diverse sectors of Puerto Rican society,” said Tom Sanzillo, IEEFA director of financial analysis and a signee of the letter. “The signatories to this letter include groups that have often been publicly at odds in the past, but have united in this public declaration to say that the proposed debt deal is not viable for Puerto Rico.”
Under the proposed plan, PREPA will pay for the new bonds over a 35-year period through revenues from a “legacy charge” to PREPA’s customers. The legacy charge comprises a monthly flat fee for customers’ connection to PREPA’s power grid and volumetric charges based on energy consumption.
The oversight board determined the legacy charge by developing a view of what it deems affordable for PREPA’s customers, concluding that an affordable and sustainable legacy charge will generate only $5.68 billion in additional net revenues. The utility’s creditors, such as the Ad Hoc Group of PREPA bondholders, using their own experts, have found that the calculations are wrong.
On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who is overseeing Puerto Rico’s Title III bankruptcy cases, asked about the fiscal plan, which the oversight board says should be completed by June 30. The oversight board and PREPA bondholders are still arguing over the real size of the bondholders’ debt, which the board wants to reduce to $2.1 billion.
As all that is going on, groups are already lobbying against the plan.
The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) was the latest organization to sign its name to a letter seeking low rates.
Recently, 47 organizations and 15 individuals representing unions and other labor organizations, as well as legal, energy and finance experts, wrote to the oversight board stating their agreement that Puerto Rico cannot afford the electricity rates proposed by the current debt restructuring plan. The open letter calls on the oversight board to withdraw the plan or amend it to meaningfully reduce the unsustainable debt burden.
Six years after Hurricane Maria made landfall, Puerto
It is generally agreed that imposing an unpayable debt burden will negatively impact the economy and lead to a future electrical system bankruptcy. The current high cost of electricity, combined with unstable power service, impacts all segments of Puerto Rican society, the letter to the oversight board noted.
“The proposed debt plan will only weaken an already failing system, in addition to provoking more business closures, layoffs, and outmigration, further imperiling the island’s economic recovery,” the letter said, “and therefore it should be withdrawn or drastically amended.”
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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bondholders and the Financial Oversight and Management Board began closing arguments Thursday on the size of the bondholders’ claim.
Margaret Dale, a lawyer for the oversight board, stressed the quality of the work prepared by the entity’s experts. Bondholders are insisting that they are owed $8.5 billion while the oversight board says the amount is $2.1 billion as of 2017.
Dale said the yearly income of Puerto Rico’s households is not rising with inflation. One of the oversight board’s experts has said any rate hikes should not be more than a 6% share of the wallet of the average yearly income, which is about $24,000.
Martin Bienenstock, a lawyer for the oversight board, supported the analysis of David Plastino, one of the experts, who noted the impact of high power rates at a time when PREPA’s power sales are expected to fall in coming years.
Unsecured Creditors Committee lawyer Pedro Jiménez contested the bondholders’ idea of putting PREPA under receivership. A receiver will not be able to raise rates as all rate changes must go through the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau.
The size of the bondholders’ claim is crucial to PREPA’s restructuring. The judge in the bankruptcy case, U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain, asked for an estimation of the claim after ruling in March that
bondholders’ did not have a lien over PREPA’s revenues. The bondholders are arguing that PREPA can pay the $8.5 billion and that rate hikes will not hurt consumers.
The New Progressive Party (NPP) minority leader in the island House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, and NPP Rep. Víctor Parés Otero reiterated their rejection of the 28% increase in the electricity rate that is being discussed.
“Right now the economic future of Puerto Rico is being discussed in the courtroom of Judge Swain -- that hearing is that important,” Méndez Nuñez said. “We reiterate our rejection of the increase of around 30 percent -- after materializing all the details -- that has been discussed at that hearing. That is a very heavy burden on our people and will undoubtedly result in the collapse of many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as a marked deterioration in people’s quality of life. We uphold our rejection.”
“The numbers they indicate -- 28 percent and 40 years -- are unrealistic and not sustainable. A fixed increase of six cents a kilowatt-hour is too much,” the lawmaker added. “We urge Judge Swain to carefully evaluate the disastrous impact that this increase will have on people, not to mention the economic collapse that we will see with the closure of thousands of SMEs; this at a time when the federal government promotes renewable energy and that each month more than 3,000 structures, including residences and businesses, install photovoltaic energy systems, which at some point will reduce consumption
and place an even greater burden on people who are still connected to the traditional system.”
The debt established by the bondholders, of around $8.5 billion, its repayment and the payment of pensions for PREPA retirees, “entails an increase of almost a third of the regular bill and that cannot be allowed,” the NPP legislators said.
Popular Democratic Party President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González and Rep. José “Cheito” Rivera Madera expressed their opposition Thursday to the fact that customers of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) will be the ones to pay bondholders through increases in their electricity rates, according to discussions on PREPA’s debt adjustment plan.
“As a legislator and as president of the PDP, we reject the increase in the electricity rate that the PREPA bondholders intend to impose on us,” the lawmakers said in a written statement.
“Although we recognize that PREPA’s economic situation is delicate, imposing that burden on the people in Puerto Rico is not acceptable. It would be devastating for the Puerto Rican economy.”
They noted that the proposed plan would directly im-
pact households and businesses in Puerto Rico, imposing an additional burden on the people, who already face various economic challenges month after month.
“The proposed increase in the [electricity] bills is not paying for pensions, as some say; that is a narrative that the government wants to impose to justify the payment of an unsecured debt,” Rivera Madera said. “There is no money in the sinking fund to pay the bonds and they want to take the money out of the pockets of Puerto Ricans. It’s abusive.”
In the statement, the lawmakers added that “Governor Pierluisi must evaluate which side he is on, whether it’s the side of the bondholders or the side of the people, and defend Puerto Rican consumers emphatically and without doubt.”
“The adjustments should not be for the most vulnerable link in the chain to make, but rather should be made from the administration, especially when we talk about unsecured debt,” they said. “The government must seek a fair and sustainable solution to minimize the impact on people or businesses.”
The Puerto Rico Gaming Commission (CJPR by its Spanish initials) has authorized the island’s first online sports betting operation, beginning a new phase for the industry in Puerto Rico that will allow players to bet at any time and place through electronic devices and under the most rigorous regulations, the entity announced Thursday. With the authorization, the CJPR projects broad growth of the sector, which it hopes will contribute significantly to local economic development.
The commissioners that make up the CJPR gave the go-ahead to the internal controls and protections for players presented by Casino del Mar, which is located in La Concha Re-
With the authorization of online sports betting in Puerto Rico, the island gaming commission projects broad growth of the sector, which it hopes will contribute significantly to local economic development.
naissance San Juan Resort in Condado. The rules will govern the casino’s sports betting offerings in partnership with one of the largest
sportsbooks in the United States, BetMGM.
“From the approval issued by the Commission, players will already be able to place bets through the BetMGM mobile application (app) at the local level,” said Jaime Rivera Emmanuelli, executive director of the CJPR. “By overseeing and policing these games, the Commission ensures that companies follow the strictest regulations in their digital offerings, and the security of betting and payments is guaranteed.”
“These advanced options will encourage the growth of the regulated gaming industry, and with this, the creation of new jobs and the economic development of Puerto Rico will also be encouraged,” Rivera Emmanuelli added.
By law, those interested in placing sports
bets online must register in person at the facilities of the operators authorized to offer the modality. Once registered, they can then place their bets electronically within Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico joins Nevada and Washington as the United States jurisdictions requiring players to register physically to place mobile bets.
Casino Metro already operates the faceto-face betting modality, and the CJPR hopes that it will soon be able to offer the mobile platform of the Caesars company as well.
“We continue working on the evaluation processes of other applications to approve additional mobile and face-to-face operators, which will contribute to greater growth and solidity of this new industry on the island,” Rivera Emmanuelli said.
Due to power generation issues, LUMA Energy announced the start of temporary service outages earlier this week. The private company that operates the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) transmission and distribution system vowed through its social networks to “continue to assist the Electric Power Authority as it works to resolve this situation.”
Meanwhile, PREPA Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz inspected ongoing work to repair the boiler’s emergency transformer and feedwater regulating valve at the Aguirre Power Plant in Salinas. He said Unit 2 at Aguirre was expected to return to service
on Thursday.
As of early Thursday, the status of repairs showed that AES Puerto Rico in Guayama was continuing to work on repairing its coal-crushing system, which has limited the capacity of its units.
The situation has impacted several regions of the island. According to the LUMA Energy website, as of Thursday morning the Arecibo region had 6.53% of customers without service, Bayamón 5.29%, Carolina 9.46%, Caguas 6.39%, Mayagüez 4.38%, Ponce 1.32% and San Juan 3.02%.
The issues have caused service interruptions to a total of 72,361 energy customers, representing 4.93% of the total customers reported by the company.
Following the recent resolution of a judicial process against him in his favor, Guayama District Sen. Albert Torres Berríos said Thursday that he will take legal action against those who accused him.
The Office of the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel (OPFEI by its Spanish initials) decided to drop the case after undue interference by the lead witness, known as “John Peseta,” with the parents of the judge assigned to the case was revealed.
“What that person did is a crime,” Torres Berríos said in an interview with Red Informativa. “This is very simple. They, the employee, always put their economic interest before that of the country.”
“I spent two intense years, two years where my legislative work had been affected, since, by not having committees, it had been tarnished by two people, which yesterday was validated, that all they have done is lie,” he added. “What they have done is try to extort me from the first day.”
Torres Berríos reiterated that the aforementioned “employee” and her husband tried to destroy his political and personal
career from day one.
“They went with an agenda from day one, that was all they talked about,” the senator said.
The scandal broke out when a witness from the PFEI went to the home of the parents of the judge in charge of the case, Nerisvel Durán Guzmán, to try to unduly influence the process. As a result of that incident, the independent special prosecutor, Zulma Fúster Troche, chose to drop the case.
Torres Berríos did not appear at the San Juan Judicial Center earlier this week due to his convalescence from COVID-19 and a problem with his summons.
Players in the Municipality of Las Piedras’ Children’s and Youth Baseball League will soon be running the bases on a renovated diamond thanks to a $5 million allocation from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The $5 million will be used to repair Francisco Negrón Stadium, where fans in Las Piedras gather to support both professional players and the little ones who are making their debut in the sport. Of that sum, around $510,300 is earmarked for mitigation measures to address damage caused by heavy rains or winds.
The stadium in Las Piedras is just one of several baseball parks to which FEMA allocated over $15 million. The facilities where damage caused by Hurricane Maria will be addressed also include Santa Isabel, Villalba and Yabucoa, where the projects are already in the construction phase and will soon benefit their respective communities. The four municipalities have already received over $91 million from the agency for 116 park and recreational facility projects.
“The parks promote sports for our children and serve as a gathering point for many other events that help us to strengthen ties with the communities,” Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator José G. Baquero said. “It is a source of great satisfaction to know that these reconstruction projects will soon translate into renovated parks ready to train our future professionals.”
More than 250 players in the Pedreña Children’s and Youth League use Francisco Negrón Stadium and other parks in the communities of Las Piedras during their regular season. League president, Armando “Andy” Díaz said some former players have returned as leaders to share
what they received during their childhood and youth. During his tenure with the organization, Díaz has seen youngsters like Ángel Sánchez -- who is playing for Los Artesanos in Double-A Professional Baseball -- develop in and out of Puerto Rico thanks to the sports education provided in the town.
In Santa Isabel, meanwhile, work has already begun to rebuild the Luis Guillermo Moreno baseball park. Painting and replacement of equipment -- particularly the reconstruction of the bleachers -- is part of the work to be carried out with around $2.5 million from FEMA. That sum also includes about $183,000 to install 13
storm drains and other equipment to protect the facility from future weather events.
In Villalba, Herminio Cintrón Stadium has already been allocated over $4.6 million to repair the 1960s-era facilities. The work at the park includes the replacement of electronic equipment and other infrastructure elements. Asbestos problems will also be remedied and $530,000 will be used for mitigation initiatives to prevent erosion and other damage due to excess rainfall.
Another significant project benefiting from the FEMA funds includes several ballparks in the Guayabotas, Ingenio, Jagüeyes, Limones and Tejas neighborhoods of Yabucoa. Following an allocation of about $3 million, construction work to replace the facilities has already begun.
Rey Marte, the municipal director of sports and recreation in Yabucoa, noted that the southeastern coastal town also has sports such as basketball, soccer and softball, although he stressed that baseball is “practically a religion” there. Marte described the purpose of the Little League program, which is the largest in Puerto Rico with 27 teams, as an opportunity to develop spending time together socializing and promoting health through exercise.
“At the end of the road, if we get some star or some baseball player in the big leagues, that’s great,” he said. “But what we really want is to give children the opportunity to spend time with their peers and to have a sense of discipline through the game, so that they can use it in life, in their studies, in everything that awaits them.”
To date, FEMA has awarded around $30.5 billion for nearly 10,700 Public Assistance projects aimed at rebuilding a Puerto Rico that is more resistant to future weather events.
Acting Consumer Affairs (DACO by its Spanish acronym) Secretary Lisoannette González Ruiz announced on Thursday that the agency’s Consumer Fraud Detection Unit has uncovered a new scam that involves mobile phone accounts on the Apple platform.
“In the past few days, our inspectors … detected a new scheme aimed at defrauding the consumer. The new modality focuses on sending an email ‘alerting’ the consumer that his ‘Apple ID’ has been blocked for security reasons and urges him to review the data, within a period of 24 hours, by clicking on a link provided,” González Ruiz said in a written communication. “The email also highlights that if the ‘correction’ is not made within the term provided (24 hours), the account in this application would be permanently closed.”
The acting DACO chief said the new scheme uses language and even graphic material, such as emblems
of the computer company Apple Inc., with the purpose of confusing consumers so that they enter the link sent.
“The sophistication of this scheme is that it uses the Apple Inc. logo, its mailing address in Cupertino, California and even language that is observed in the company’s legitimate emails,” González Ruíz said. “It is a very sophisticated scheme, so we urge any consumer who has received that email to evaluate the content well, not enter the ‘account verification’ link and, if in doubt, access the official website of the company. The fraud is designed to expose your personal data to these criminal elements.”
In December 2022, DACO implemented a new fraud disclosure policy that aims to keep consumers alert to new forms of consumer-directed fraud.
González Ruiz urged consumers to be attentive to the agency’s communications through the DACO Facebook and Twitter social media pages (DACO a tu favor), as well as the agency’s website: www.daco.pr.gov.
Hard-right Republicans pressed their mutiny against Speaker Kevin McCarthy into a second day earlier this week, keeping control of the House floor in a raw display of their power that raised questions about whether the speaker could continue to govern his slim and fractious majority.
McCarthy, who enraged ultraconservative Republicans by striking a compromise with President Joe Biden to suspend the debt limit, has yet to face a bid to depose him, as some hard-right members have threatened. But the rebellion has left him, at least for now, as speaker in name only, deprived of a governing majority.
“House Leadership couldn’t Hold the Line,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., a leader of the rebellion, tweeted on Wednesday. “Now we Hold the Floor.”
After being forced for the second day in a row to cancel votes as they haggled privately with members of the House Freedom Caucus to get them to relent, leaders told Republican lawmakers on Wednesday evening that they were scrapping votes for the remainder of the week. In a remarkable act of intraparty aggression, about a dozen rebels ground the chamber to a halt on Tuesday by siding with Democrats to defeat a procedural measure needed to allow legislation to move forward, and business cannot resume until they relent and vote with their own party.
It underscored the severe consequences McCarthy is facing for muscling through a debt ceiling agreement with the White House that contained only a fraction of the spending cuts Republicans had demanded. The episode has reignited divisions within McCarthy’s own leadership team, with the speaker suggesting his No. 2 was in part to blame for the dysfunction. And it was a blunt reminder of the challenge McCarthy will face in holding together his conference to pass crucial spending bills this year, which will be required to avert a government shutdown this fall and punishing across-the-board spending cuts in early 2025.
The paralysis that has gripped the House this week — an exceedingly rare instance of a faction of the majority holding its own party hostage — recalled McCarthy’s weeklong, 15-round slog to win his post, which required him to win over many of the same hard-right lawmakers instigating the current drama.
On Wednesday night, McCarthy conceded that there was “a little chaos going on,” though he insisted that he would get the party agenda back on track.
“We’ve been through this before; you know we’re in a small majority,” McCarthy told reporters earlier in the day. “I don’t take this job because it’s easy. We’ll work through this, and we’ll even be stronger.”
But he also appeared to blame the impasse at least in part on Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the majority
leader, saying that he had caused a misunderstanding that paved the way for the spontaneous hijacking of the House floor on Tuesday.
“The majority leader runs the floor,” McCarthy said.
The temper tantrum from the right had little immediate impact other than to deprive Republicans of the chance to pass a messaging bill that was all but certain to die in the Senate. The legislation that the rebels blocked is aimed at guarding against government restrictions on gas stoves and other federal regulations.
But ultraconservative Republicans said much more was at stake, arguing that McCarthy had betrayed promises he made to them during his fight for the speakership and now had to be forced into honoring them.
“There was an agreement in January and it was violated in the debt ceiling bill,” said Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo. He said the conversations with McCarthy on Wednesday were to discuss “how to restore some of that agreement.”
In the meantime, some rank-and-file Republicans lamented the spectacle — “political incontinence,” Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas called it — and predicted a major backlash against their party in 2024 if they did not get themselves in order soon.
“We are wetting ourselves and we can’t do anything about it,” Womack said. “This is insane. This is not the way a governing majority is expected to behave, and frankly I think there’ll be a political cost to it.”
In some sense, the drama was a reset to how House Republicans have long functioned, with a speaker constantly threatened by a small group of hard-right bomb throwers who make his job impossible unless he bows to their demands. Former Speaker John Boehner of Ohio resigned from Congress in 2015 under pressure from House conservatives who repeatedly threatened to move to topple him.
But McCarthy has been set on not replicating those mistakes, trying to defang his biggest detractors by rewarding them with committee chairs and powerful positions on the Rules Committee. That approach appeared to have worked, until McCarthy, knowing that the right wing would not provide the votes to pass a debt limit bill, worked with Democrats to push through the legislation just days before a default.
“We’re back to the normal state of affairs where the speaker has to worry about this group — and that’s how it’s been for a decade,” said Brendan Buck, who was a top adviser to Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Boehner. “These guys want to be relevant more than anything else. They find a way to reassert themselves into the conversation.”
Former speakers have had to suffer the embarrassment of pulling bills from the floor because they did not have the votes to pass their legislation. But it had been almost 21 years since a procedural measure had been defeated on the House floor, as occurred Tuesday.
McCarthy had privately leaned on Republicans not to resort to such a move. In the weekly party conference meeting Tuesday morning, he said lawmakers were always free to vote against a bill they did not like, but should never take actions that turn the floor over to the minority, such as voting against a procedural motion, as many of them had done in a bid to block the debt ceiling bill from being considered, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
Hours later, about a dozen Republicans did just that, voting with Democrats against allowing the regulatory bills to come up.
Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the majority whip, called the episode a minor setback after several months of a well-functioning House, and blamed it on “an accumulation of frustration that’s been building since January.”
“Don’t expect that it’s always going to be like this,” he said. “Every team will encounter adversity at some point. That’s literally what we’re going through.”
It was not clear exactly what the members of the Freedom Caucus were demanding in exchange for surrendering control of the floor.
“They don’t know what to ask for,” McCarthy said Wednesday night. “There’s numerous different things they’re frustrated about.”
And Gaetz made it clear that demands were secondary to forcing McCarthy to make a defining decision — whether he wanted to pass bipartisan bills with Democrats or have the support of the far right.
“We’re going to force him into a monogamous relationship with one or the other,” he said in an interview on “War Room,” the podcast hosted by Steve Bannon. “What we’re not going to do is hang out with him for five months and then watch him go jump in the back seat with Hakeem Jeffries.”
Hundreds of fires raging across eastern Canada continued to spread clouds of dangerous pollution across much of the eastern United States on Thursday. Officials issued warnings about air quality in a broad swath of the country, from New York west to Indiana and as far south as the Carolinas.
Major cities including Philadelphia, Washington and NewYork woke up to unhealthy levels of air pollution, one day after New York City registered its worst air quality readings in decades. Although conditions in parts of the Northeast on Thursday were expected to be better than the day before, the noxious air was spreading across a growing part of the country.
The source of the smoke is an outbreak of blazes in Canada, which have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. About 250 wildfires burned out of control in the eastern part of the country as of early Thursday, authorities said, about 150 of them in Quebec. Some have been burning for weeks.
The smoky haze closed the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., disrupted flights and forced sudden changes of plans. In Richmond, Virginia, where Wednesday’s orange haze gave way to ashy gray skies Thursday, Laura
Holliday, a former resident of wildfire-prone California, said the smoke crisis gave her a sense of déjà vu.
“I feel like the wildfire vibe and the lingering sense of doom that it creates is sort of familiar to me,” she said. “I’m just trying to stay inside.”
The smoke that choked New York on Wednesday was expected to push southward Thursday and move west, into the Ohio River Valley, on Friday, the National Weather Service said in a forecast. It was expected to appear as a widespread haze that could dip as far south as Florida, and not the dense mass of smoke that covered New York on Wednesday.
A storm system swirling off the coast of Nova Scotia in recent days blew smoke from the fires south into the United States. Forecast models for Thursday showed that thick smoke could return to New York later in the day if sea breezes pushed smoke currently hovering off the coast back inland.
The effects of the fires are expected to be noticeable even on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists at the Climate and Environmental Research Institute in Norway who are tracking the smoke through the atmosphere said it has moved over Greenland and Iceland since June 1, and observations in southern Norway have confirmed increasing concentrations of aerosols.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier this week defended his state’s sending three dozen Latin American migrants to Sacramento on recent charter flights from the border, saying California had “incentivized” illegal immigration and ought to pay the costs.
“These sanctuary jurisdictions are part of the reason we have this problem, because they have endorsed and agitated for these types of open-border policies,” DeSantis said during his first visit to the southern border since starting his presidential campaign. “They have bragged that they are sanctuary jurisdictions. They attacked the previous administration’s efforts to try to have border security.”
Democratic officials in California, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, have said Florida’s taxpayer-funded operation to move migrants to Sacramento could merit criminal or civil charges. They said the migrants, who
arrived on Monday and last Friday, were misled into boarding the planes with false promises of jobs before being left outside a church building. In criticizing the flights, Newsom resorted to unusually personal terms, calling DeSantis a “small, pathetic man.”
On Wednesday, DeSantis took a shot back at Newsom, comparing California’s budget deficit to his own state’s fiscal surplus.
“We have a good managed state,” he said at a roundtable discussion in Sierra Vista, Arizona, that included law enforcement officials from Florida, Arizona and Texas. DeSantis was appearing in his official capacity as governor.
DeSantis has staked out a hard-line position on immigration in the Republican primary, criticizing the policies of both President Joe Biden and, to a lesser extent, former President Donald Trump, his main rival for the nomination.
“The border just needs to be shut down,” said DeSantis, who is making a fundraising trip to Texas this week. He also reiterated
his support for a border wall, adding: “Mass migration just doesn’t work.”
Last month, DeSantis authorized sending more than 1,100 Florida National Guard members and law enforcement personnel to Texas to serve at the southern border. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, had requested the assistance. DeSantis led a similar effort in 2021, when he also made a public appearance at the border.
While border apprehensions have hit record highs in recent years, illegal crossings between ports of entry along the southern border have decreased more than 70% since May 11, when Title 42, the pandemic-era health measure, was lifted, according to statistics from Customs and Border Protection.
After DeSantis’ comments in Arizona, sheriffs took turns describing crimes that they said had been committed by undocumented immigrants.
At times, the conversation felt like a campaign event, as the assembled officials,
mainly Republicans, praised DeSantis.
“I’ve worked for a lot of governors,” said Grady Judd, sheriff of Polk County in Central Florida. “Ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake about it: This is simply the best governor that the state of Florida has had in the last 50 years.”
Binance, the giant cryptocurrency exchange accused of mishandling customer funds, used two American banks to move billions of dollars around the world, the Securities and Exchange Commission said earlier this week, detailing how huge sums of cash flowed in and out of the accounts sometimes within a span of days.
In court filings, the SEC accountant, Sachin Verma, detailed a tangle of transactions that companies associated with the giant cryptocurrency exchange had made through two banks: Silvergate Bank and Signature Bank, both of which failed this year. The filing showed that Binance officials, including the company’s founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao, moved hundreds of millions and in some cases billions of dollars through the regional banks to accounts associated with companies in places like Kazakhstan, Lithuania and the Seychelles.
The SEC separately said it estimated unpaid taxes by Binance over the past four years carried an interest penalty of more than $13 million. Though it estimated that Binance earned almost $225 million from 2019 to 2023, the regulator didn’t say how much the company paid in taxes over the period, or how much it should have paid.
This week, the SEC sued Binance in federal court in Washington, D.C., accusing the company of mishandling customer funds, lying to regulators and investors
Changpeng Zhao, founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, in Singapore, on May 31, 2021. Binance, the giant cryptocurrency exchange accused of mishandling customer funds, used two American banks to move billions of dollars around the world, the Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, detailing how huge sums of cash flowed in and out of the accounts sometimes within a span of days.
about its operations and engaging in manipulative trading. U.S. regulators have asked a federal judge to temporarily freeze assets tied to Binance’s subsidiary in the United States, and Wednesday’s filing was in support of that request.
The SEC also has sued Zhao, who is better-known as C.Z., claiming he was the architect of the plan to move billions of dollars to an offshore entity that he controlled.
A Binance spokesperson said the transactions detailed in the filings did not involve customer money and the transfers of funds to various locations around the world were carried out as part of the normal course of Binance’s business operations. Binance has denied wrongdoing and vowed to “vigorously” defend itself in the SEC case.
Although Wednesday’s filings did not offer an explicit theory for why Binance’s leaders moved money this way, money laundering experts said the large, rapid transfers should have raised red flags for bankers.
Banks are required to file with federal regulators a suspicious activity report, or SAR, when they suspect a transaction may involve money laundering or fraud. The reports are confidential but can provide investigative leads to the authorities.
In one instance, in February 2022, the filings said, $20 million flowed into one of Binance’s Silvergate accounts and $19.9 million flowed out of it, all within the span of a few days, leaving the account with a starting balance of $7.6 million at the beginning of the month and $7.7 million at the month’s end.
A Binance account at Signature reported $1 billion in deposits and $1.3 billion in withdrawals all in the same month, according to the filings. The outgoing money went to Merit Peak, the company that Zhao controlled where the SEC alleges customer funds were secretly commingled.
“It is one of the more sizable cases of financial misconduct I’ve ever seen — the documentation is overwhelming,” Louise Shelley, a George Mason University professor specializing in money laundering, said, adding that she was “amazed” that the two banks had moved billions of dollars overseas for Binance for such a long period of time.
“This is just so mammoth and should be raising red flags.”
Regulators did not say whether Silvergate or Signature reported the activities in Binance’s accounts. Silvergate, which voluntarily liquidated itself in early March after suffering billions of dollars in losses from its cryptocurrency customers, closed some of Binance’s accounts in 2021 and 2022.
Both Silvergate and Signature allowed customers invested in digital currencies to quickly transfer funds in U.S. dollars around the world at any time of day. With many banks in the United States refusing to do business with crypto trading firms, Silvergate and Signature quickly developed a niche business serving that market. Both banks were among those that failed this year during a panic over small bank stability — as customers pulled deposits from the lenders. Silvergate, based in California, simply closed its doors during the mini-banking crisis in March. Signature — the much larger of the two banks — ultimately was taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the New York State Department of Financial Services on March 12.
Based in New York, Signature at one time had 40 branches in the United States and had just under $100 billion in assets when it was taken over by the regulators. In 2018, the New York regulator approved a request by Signature to begin taking deposits from crypto trading customers through its Signet platform, its specialized digital payments platform.
In an April report on the collapse of Signature, New York bank regulators said that although the regional lender was “perceived as a crypto bank,” that was something of a misnomer. The regulator said the “virtual currency businesses accounted for 18% of the bank’s deposit base as of March 2023” and the failure was an oldfashioned run on the bank by uninsured depositors.
The report did not address Signature’s dealings with firms like Binance. The New York regulator said in a statement: “As part of an ongoing review of operations and in coordination with the Department, Signature was in the process of winding down its concentration of high-risk customers at the time of the bank’s failure.”
S&P 500 advanced on Thursday, putting the benchmark index up 20% from its October 12 closing low and heralding the start of a new bull market, at least by the definition of some market participants.
Part of the uncertainty is that there is no set definition of a bull or bear market, or any sort of regulatory body that declares one, such as the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) does with recessions.
The most commonly accepted definition is a 20% rise off a low for a bull market and a 20% decline from a high for a bear market, but even that is open to interpretation.
“The problem is there is no authority of rules or regulations on there, 20% came back from the really olden days, like during the First World War, it was the first time we see it,” said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices in New York.
According to Silverblatt, there have been 15 bear markets for the benchmark S&P index, beginning in September 1929, at the end of the Roaring Twenties boom, to the current one which began on Jan 3, 2022.
Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA in New York, adds a time element to his bear market criteria, requiring a low to remain intact for a duration of at least seven months, which he believes removes the risk of a quick reversal lower after a rally of 20% or more, such as what happened during the Great Financial Crisis.
“In 2008, the S&P hit its low on Nov 20, we then advanced by more than 20% into early January only to turnaround and set an even lower low, by March 9,” said Stovall. “I just think it was a blip within a longer-term bear market.”
In a note on Monday, Dan Suzuki, deputy chief investment officer at Richard Bernstein Advisors in New York, took an even more layered approach since “it is certainly possible for this rally to evolve into a full-fledged bull market, historical precedent suggests it is far from a foregone conclusion.”
One commonality Suzuki found in bull markets is a broad participation across sectors, something lacking in the current rally as most of the more than 11% gain in the S&P 500 this year has been concentrated among a small amount of very large stocks such as Nvidia, Meta Platforms and Amazon.
“Certainly it’s a bull market in big-cap technology. I wouldn’t call it a bull market in a broad market sense, because there are only certain stocks that are really in what we would call bull market territory, and it’s just not a broad enough move to call it a sustainable bull market,” said Tim Ghriskey, senior portfolio strategist Ingalls & Snyder in New York.
Taking a different view altogether is Ned Davis Research, which the Stock Trader’s Almanac relies on for defining bull and bear markets. It says that a cyclical bull market requires a 30% rise after 50 calendar days or a 13 percent rise after
155 calendar days for the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the Value Line Geometric index, an equal-weighted index of nearly 1,700 stocks.
Ukrainian forces mounted a major attack overnight Thursday in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, as Ukraine’s army went on the offensive on multiple fronts in an operation that carries high stakes for Kyiv and its Western allies.
A senior U.S. official said Thursday that the attack appeared to be a main thrust of a much-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russia claimed its forces had withstood a Ukrainian assault involving tanks and armored vehicles, saying it had so far thwarted Ukraine’s attempts to recapture land. Kyiv remained quiet on the intensified fighting.
For months, Ukrainian officials have been mobilizing new units, gathering weapons and training for what its leaders have billed as a major counteroffensive aimed at pushing Russian forces back and retaking occupied territory.
In recent days, Russia has reported that Ukrainian forces have launched attacks on front lines in the east and south. The fighting in the east, in the Donetsk region, prompted U.S. officials this week to say that the counteroffensive may have begun.
Taken together, these attacks suggest Ukrainian forces are increasingly on the offensive, though it remains unclear whether the assaults on Russian lines are preludes to a larger push or mark the start of the much-anticipated counteroffensive Ukraine’s generals have said they have planned.
U.S. officials, including the one
who spoke Thursday, requested anonymity to discuss operational details.
The Russian defense ministry said Thursday that Moscow’s forces had repelled a Ukrainian attack near Novodarivka, in the southern Zaporizhzhia region. Russia’s defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, said that forces of Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Brigade including dozens of armored vehicles “made an attempt to break through Russia’s defense” but that Moscow’s air and ground forces repelled the attack.
The Russian account could not be verified. There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who have said they will remain silent on details of the counteroffensive for operational secrecy.
U.S. and Ukrainian officials have said the counteroffensive would involve attacks on multiple locations, as Ukraine’s forces push forward, looking for vulnerabilities in Russia’s
defensive lines.
Michael Kofman, director of Russian studies at CNA, a research institute in Arlington, Virginia, said that Ukraine had amassed Western-provided Leopard tanks and American-made Bradley fighting vehicles near Zaporizhzhia, in a possible sign that a major assault there was underway.
Pro-war Russian military bloggers, who have become a major source of information from the front lines, acknowledged an intensification of Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporizhzhia front but claimed Thursday morning that Russian defenses in the area were holding, aided by sustained strikes by the Russian air force.
“After a day of continuous fighting, there’s indirect information about insignificant puncturing of defenses, there are no breakthroughs,” former Russian paramilitary commander Igor Girkin wrote on the Telegram messaging app Thursday morning. It was impossible to immediately verify his claim.
Britain’s defense intelligence agency said in its daily assessment Thursday that “heavy fighting continues
along multiple sectors of the front.” It added: “In most areas Ukraine holds the initiative.”
Ukraine has spent months preparing for a counteroffensive, bolstered by fresh deliveries of sophisticated weapons, ammunition and pledges of support from its Western allies.
Billions of dollars worth of weapons — including German-made Leopard 2s and Bradleys — were rushed to Ukraine for use in their campaign. Crews were quickly trained; Britain, the United States and other allies trained nine of 12 newly formed and equipped brigades expected to take part in the fighting, alongside other Ukrainian units.
Western support has been solid so far but is not guaranteed in the long term. The U.S. budget for military assistance, for example, is expected to run out by around September.
If the Ukrainian army fails to break through Russia’s mine belts, tank traps and trench lines despite the outpouring of aid, support in the West for arming Kyiv’s forces could shrink — and Ukraine’s government could come under pressure from allies to enter serious negotiations to end or freeze the conflict.
But the table-flat terrain with little cover along parts of the southern front — which leaves any grouping of troops or armored vehicles immediately vulnerable to enemy artillery — and extensive Russian defenses built up over months render it a formidable task for Ukraine’s military.
Adding to the challenges for both armies is the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine this week, which has caused widespread flooding in the partially occupied Kherson region that could erode some of Russia’s defensive positions but also make it harder for Ukrainian forces to advance there. But military experts have said they do not believe that area — which is to the southwest of Zaporizhzhia — will be an immediate focus of the counteroffensive, and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has said that the dam disaster will not affect Kyiv’s military plans.
Canada on Wednesday was struggling to fight an extraordinary outbreak of wildfires across the country that sent smoke pouring over the border and forced millions of Canadians and Americans to stay indoors as skies darkened over large portions of both nations.
More than 400 fires burned in Canada, and blazes this year have already scorched roughly 9.8 million acres of forest — more than 10 times the acreage that had burned by this time last year, officials say — sending smoke billowing down the east coast of the United States, from New York past Washington, D.C., and as far west as Minnesota.
In Canada, a country known for its picturesque landscapes and orderliness, the out-ofcontrol wildfires have stoked national anxiety. They have also stretched firefighting resources in a sprawling and decentralized country where firefighting is managed at the provincial level, and made coordination more difficult at a time when global warming has intensified the wildfire season.
In Ottawa, Ontario, the capital, the feeling of a country under siege was highlighted Wednesday by the sight of a thick haze hovering over Parliament Hill and over the soaring Gothic Revival building that is part of Canada’s Parliament.
The effects from the Canadian wildfires stunned the United States. Smoke obscured the New York City skyline Wednesday, turning the outlines of its skyscrapers into ghostly silhouettes.
Across a swath of North America, commuters slipped on COVID masks to walk the streets; schools canceled field trips and some closed; flights were canceled; and officials urged mil-
lions of people to stay indoors as smoke blotted out the sun.
In Canada, the wildfires have exerted a heavy human toll, including displacing tens of thousands of people. The level of unpredictability caused by the blazes is so high that provincial wildfire authorities in British Columbia have warned local residents to have a go-bag at the ready, along with an evacuation plan.
Millions of Canadians in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal woke up Wednesday to a haze of smoke over large sections of their cities, as wildfires expanded to places that had previously felt largely immune to fires blazing in faraway provinces.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said that hundreds of soldiers had been deployed across the country to help with firefighting efforts. “Unfortunately over the past years, we’ve seen extreme weather events increase in their intensity and their impact on Canadians as well as on their cost to families, to provinces and to the federal budget,” Trudeau said.
An apocalyptic haze in shades of beige thickened over northeastern U.S. cities throughout the day Wednesday, drawing out anxieties about climate change from everyday New Yorkers and health warnings from Gov. Kathy Ho-
chul of New York and Mayor Eric Adams of New York City.
In the cities most affected, including Buffalo and Binghamton in upstate New York, thick clouds of orange plunged the area into unusually cold temperatures, as conditions worsened across the Northeast. Schools in New York City and Washington canceled outdoor activities for the day, zoos in New York closed early out of concern for the animals, and Philadelphia warned residents to stay inside.
The smoke and poor air quality also led to the cancellation of various cultural performances and sporting events, including a New York Yankees game in the Bronx and a Phillies game in Philadelphia. As smoke seeped into theaters in New York City, alarming ticket holders and performers, the Broadway production of “Hamilton” and a Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Hamlet” both canceled performances.
The hazy conditions in New York are likely to continue Thursday and Friday, and could linger over the weekend, according to Basil Seggos, the commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. On Wednesday, he told reporters that clearing the skies would take an act of God. “We’ll pray for rains up north and for winds to shift,” he said.
Much of New York state was under an air quality health advisory alert that was to remain in effect until Wednesday night.
By Wednesday afternoon, the air quality index in the broader New York City region surpassed 400, the worst since the Environmental Protection Agency began recording air quality measurements in 1999.
Such a reading indicates that the air is unhealthy for all people, not just the vulnerable, and is somewhat typical in smoggy megacities like Jakarta, Indonesia, or New Delhi. But it is unusual for New York City, where decades of state and federal laws have helped reduce emis-
sions and clear the air, especially in middle- and upper-class neighborhoods.
The scope and scale of the wildfires in Canada have underscored the challenges of fighting fires in a vast country. Wildfire emergency response management is handled by each of the 10 provinces and three territories in Canada, but hundreds of blazes across the country have stretched local resources thin, and renewed calls for a national firefighting service.
Richard Cannings, a member of Parliament with the New Democratic Party, said wildfire activity had made it imperative to keep a national stockpile of equipment, such as a squadron of water bombers, that could quickly be deployed.
Speaking with reporters Wednesday, Trudeau did not address the call for a national firefighting service, but said that his government was considering creating a federal disaster response organization. “We need to continue to make sure we are doing everything possible to both keep Canadians safe when these extreme weather events hit, but also make sure we’re doing everything we can to predict, protect and act ahead of more of these events coming.”
Firefighters from the United States, South Africa, France, Australia and New Zealand, along with members of the Canadian Armed Forces, were supporting overwhelmed local fire crews.
Over the past few weeks, wildfires in Canada have stretched nearly 2,900 miles from British Columbia on the west coast to Nova Scotia in the east, convulsing the country, causing fears about lost livelihoods, burning down properties and endangering health.
Meteorologists said they expected the plume of smoke buffeting Toronto, Canada’s largest city and its financial capital, to worsen Thursday because of winds, and Environment Canada warned residents to brace for worsening air quality.
Prince Harry ended more than seven hours of intense, sometimes confrontational, testimony in a London courtroom Wednesday, having put the ethics of Britain’s freewheeling tabloid press on trial even as he struggled to produce conclusive proof of lawbreaking by reporters.
Over two grueling days the prince spoke on the witness stand to accuse Mirror Group Newspapers of intercepting his voicemail messages and using other unlawful means to gather information about everything from his school sports injury and youthful drug use to the ins and outs of a breakup.
While the cross-examination of Harry produced no concrete evidence of phonehacking, it underscored the central question confronting the trial judge: whether a pattern of suspiciously detailed reporting of the prince’s private life amounts to sufficient proof that tabloids used illegal methods.
The newspaper group has denied the claims and insists that information in the 33 articles cited by the prince came from legal means, including other news reports, tipoffs and even official communications from Buckingham Palace.
Harry, 38, is the first prominent member of the British royal family to face crossexamination in a court in more than a century. He was challenged repeatedly to substantiate his allegations without being able to provide definitive — rather than circumstantial — evidence.
Yet trawling over the reporting of deeply personal events, the prince suggested, seemed a price worth paying in his legal
pursuit of the tabloids, which Harry has described as a force that cast a shadow over his youth and that continues to hound those close to him.
“For my whole life, the press have misled about me and covered up their wrongdoing,” Harry said when questioned by his own lawyer, David Sherborne, while looking at the judge. He said that the suggestion that he was “speculating” about the tabloids’ actions, when the defense “has the
evidence in front of them,” was baffling.
“I am not sure what to say about that,” he said.
Earlier he suggested that the decision to pursue legal action was part of a broader split with the royal family, which he has suggested is too willing to accommodate the media.
Questioned about why he chose to take the case against The Mirror, Harry said that his early conversation with lawyers focused on how to “somehow find a way to put the abuse, intrusion and hate that was coming toward me and my wife to a stop,” through a legal route “rather than relying on the institution’s way.”
The institution is Buckingham Palace, which the prince has accused of brokering deals with the tabloids — rather than calling out their excesses and defending him and his wife, Meghan.
At times, Harry clashed in court with Andrew Green, the lawyer representing the Mirror Group, in particular when he suggested that the prince’s military deployment in Afghanistan was an issue of public interest and worth reporting.
“Are you suggesting that while I was in the army that everything was available for
the press to write about?” the prince asked.
“Can I just repeat this isn’t about you asking me questions, it’s about me asking you questions,” Green responded.
Throughout his appearance, Harry has appealed to the judge — and to the wider audience outside the court — by stressing the toll that intrusive reporting took on his mental health, friendships and romantic relationships.
On Wednesday he also spoke of the impact of the trial on Chelsy Davy, a former girlfriend, who was featured in several of the stories the prince and his legal team cited. “This is a past girlfriend who now has her own family and this process is as distressing for her as it is for me,” he said.
Asked by his own lawyer about how he could back up a claim that a freelance journalist and private investigator had been responsible for a tracking device put on Davy’s car in South Africa, the prince replied: “Because we found it.”
In the afternoon, after Harry completed his cross-examination, the tables were turned as his lawyer, Sherborne, began questioning another witness, Jane Kerr, who spent two decades as a journalist at The Daily Mirror in the 1990s and 2000s.
Quizzed on whether she knew how the third parties she was working with to obtain data — including freelancers, investigators and news agencies — got that information, Kerr insisted that she did not.
“It didn’t occur to me that anything was unlawful,” Kerr added as the focus of the trial shifted onto the problematic news-gathering practices deployed by the tabloids.
However, it remains to be seen whether these accounts will convince a High Court judge that Mirror Group journalists unlawfully targeted the royal in the articles, as Harry claims they did. The verdict is likely to come later this month.
And, while the prince seemed satisfied to have confronted sections of the media he despises, his final contribution to a tense hearing suggested that his day in court had come at some personal cost.
“You’ve been sat in the witness box for over a day and a half, you’ve had to go through these articles and answer questions in a very public courtroom, knowing the media is watching,” his lawyer said, adding, “How has that made you feel?”
Harry paused for a moment before answering to the silent courtroom, with his voice seeming to slightly break: “It’s a lot.”
Campaign, recently told me, the number of signed bills is likely to move higher: “There’s 12 more that are sitting on governors’ desks, so you could be at nearly 100 new restrictions on the LGBTQ+ community by the end of this cycle.”
For that reason, on Tuesday, for the first time in its more than 40-year history, the Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ people in the United States.
rights as an opening for homophobes to erase the hard-earned gains of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals. This is not a hill they chose to die on.
But if you are queer and silent on this issue, you are betraying your own cause. Silence won’t shield you. It will only embolden your adversaries and expose your cowardice.
By CHARLES M. BLOWThis year there is a pall over Pride. As the LGBTQ community celebrates Pride Month, we are besieged by a malicious, coordinated legislative attack.
There’s been a notable rise in the number of anti-LGBTQ bills since 2018, and that number has recently accelerated, with the 2023 state legislative year being the worst on record.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, in 2023 there have been more than 525 such bills introduced in 41 states, with more than 75 bills signed into law as of June 5. In Florida — the state that became known for its “Don’t Say Gay” law — just last month, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation that banned gender transition care for minors and prohibited public school employees from asking children their preferred pronouns.
As Kelley Robinson, the president of the Human Rights
I recently spoke with several leaders of LGBTQ groups and historians who have documented the community’s history, and they all raised the alarm about the severity of what we’re seeing.
There have been other periods of backlash against the queer community, including with the passage of oppressive legislation, but this one has moved with alarming political calculation and efficacy.
“This is a terror campaign against our community,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, the president and chief executive of GLAAD, the preeminent LGBTQ media advocacy organization.
The way this kind of terrorism works is that it not only punishes expression, condemns identities and cuts off avenues for receiving care but also creates an aura of hostility and issues grievous threats. It’s like burning a cross on someone’s lawn: It’s an attempt to frighten people into compliance and submission.
The Republican politicians pushing anti-LGBTQ laws usually pretend that their principal, if not their sole, motivation is to protect children. But these laws operate in furtherance and protection of the fragile patriarchy, in perpetuation of the twin evils of homophobia and heterosexism and in reinforcement of abusive gender-identity policing.
These politicians play to a segment of the population that sees any divergence from its primitive ideals as deviant. So they build boxes. But for too many people, particularly young people, those boxes can become caskets: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 5 gay, lesbian or bisexual high school students attempted suicide in the past year. Last year the Trevor Project found that 45% of LGBTQ youths seriously considered attempting suicide in the preceding year.
These politicians have Willie Horton-ized the transgender equality movement and, by extension, the whole movement for LGBTQ equality.
And one of the saddest aspects of this episode has been seeing a small but vocal group of people who claim to be liberal — and who one would think would be allies — aid and abet the arguments of transphobes.
Some are feminists who have essentially argued that full inclusion of trans women is antifeminist — that it’s harmful to or an assault on the rights of cisgender women.
And there have been some in the queer community who have remained shockingly silent when it comes to trans rights, treating the issue as zero sum. Rather than express solidarity with the trans community, they see the fight for trans
It seems pretty obvious that the trans community is an attractive target for culture war bullies because it’s a small subset of the queer community and an even smaller subset of society as a whole.
According to a study last year by the Williams Institute at UCLA, about 1.6 million people 13 or older in the United States, or 0.6%, identify as transgender.
Furthermore, in a 2021 survey, nearly 70% of Americans said they know a gay or lesbian person. Only about 1 in 5 said they know someone who is trans. That number is up but still small. That’s about the same number who said in response to a 2021 YouGov poll that they’ve seen a ghost.
It’s in this atmosphere of unfamiliarity and ignorance about who trans people are — and are not — that hysteria and cruelty flourish. The maleficent caricature that people conjure in their minds about trans people is one of a predator or “groomer” lurking in bathrooms and locker rooms. They imagine a Frankenstein’s monster in lipstick to justify their pitchforks.
The advocates I spoke to were, in a way, reeling from this onslaught but also optimistic that they would eventually prevail and that this backlash would wane.
The problem, though, is that once laws are on the books, it can be hard to remove them. Take, for example, HIV criminalization laws and laws against same-sex marriage that still have not been repealed in some states.
As Michael Bronski, a Harvard professor and the author of “A Queer History of the United States,” put it, “I can argue all I want that this is a draconian backlash that’s not constitutional, but the laws are on the books already.” He added, “I think it’ll be decades to take them off the books.”
That could mean a near future of further bifurcation of the country — some states rushing to oppress the LGBTQ community, with others winding up as places to go to try to escape oppression — not unlike the country’s bifurcation in the Jim Crow era. In fact, you could call this era the birth of Jim Queer.
SAN JUAN – Los fiscales especiales independientes Zulma Fúster Troche, Ramón Mendoza Rosario y Manuel Núñez Corrada entregaron el jueves un informe al Secretario de Justicia, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández, detallando una posible actuación ilegal del testigo principal en el caso contra el senador Albert Torres Berrios.
“Estamos advirtiendo la posible manipulación de los procesos judiciales, algo que consideramos una amenaza seria a nuestro sistema de justicia”, declararon los fiscales en conferencia de prensa.
“Además, este caso ha costado una inversión significativa de fondos públicos, y la actuación de este testigo
ha interferido con nuestro objetivo de proteger los intereses del pueblo”, añadieron.
Este caso está relacionado con cargos de soborno, impedimento o persuasión de incomparecencia de testigos y violaciones a la Ley Número 2 de 2018, del Código Anticorrupción para el Nuevo Puerto Rico.
Los fiscales especiales subrayaron la importancia de actuar de manera firme y contundente ante estas situaciones, para preservar la integridad del sistema judicial y el interés público.
Como el testigo no está bajo la jurisdicción del Panel sobre el Fiscal Especial Independiente (PFEI), cualquier acción legal debe ser iniciada por el Departamento de Justicia.
S AN JUAN – Con el propósito de crear un marco regulador para la instalación de estaciones de recarga de energía para vehículos eléctricos en condominios y complejos ‘walkups’ , el expresidente de la Cámara de Representantes, José Aponte, estará citando a una reunión cumbre al Director del Negociado de Energía y la Secretaria Interina del Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor, así como de LUMA Energy, entre otros. Además, el líder estadista invitará a la representante Yashira Lebrón, autora de la Ley Núm. 129 de 16 de Agosto de 2020, mejor conocida como la ‘Nueva Ley de Condominios de Puerto Rico’ y al representante por el Distrito #3 de San Juan, Víctor Parés.
“Existe una problemática real en los complejos de vivienda designados como condominios la cual ha surgido ante el histórico auge registrado en la compra de vehículos eléctricos en Puerto Rico durante los pasados cinco años. Según datos de la Autoridad de Carreteras y Transportación en Puerto Rico hay sobre 4,000 vehículos eléctricos en estos momentos. Estamos seguros de que ese número va a ir en aumento en los próximos meses. Los condominios, por su particularidad de áreas comunes, tienen inquietudes singulares que en estos momentos la Nueva Ley de Condominios vigente no contempla soluciones para ellas”, dijo Aponte.
“No hay protocolos de implementación para el desarrollo-incluyendo estudios de carga y transmisión-, ubicación e instalación de estaciones de recarga de
vehículos eléctricos en condominios, tampoco una estructura de cómo se paga por el uso de estos sistemas. Esta reunión cumbre va enfocada a lograr subsanar esa laguna. El Negociado de Energía tiene a su cargo todo lo correspondiente a estos sistemas de recarga, mientras que DACO regula las operaciones en los condominios, por eso tienen que estar presentantes”, señala el Representante por Acumulación.
Aponte adelantó que estará citando en fechas posteriores a organizaciones que agrupan condominios para escuchar sus inquietudes también.
“Esta primera reunión es para establecer el problema e identificar soluciones. Tendremos otras con asociaciones de condominios, porque aquí hay una situación que se tiene que atender con premura”, concluyó diciendo el legislador.
Una estación de carga para vehículos eléctricos es un espacio de estacionamiento provisto de equipo que suministran una fuente de electricidad para cargar vehículos eléctricos. La estación puede incluir varios puntos de carga que conec-
ten simultáneamente varios vehículos eléctricos al sistema.
Aponte ha solicitado hace meses que se implemente una estructura de estaciones de recarga para vehículos eléctricos, de acuerdo a los parámetros del Proyecto de la Cámara 1121-de su autoría-con el objetivo de que toda construcción nueva o reconstrucción sustancial (50 por ciento o más) de un edificio que incluya facilidades de estacionamiento provea estaciones de carga para vehículos eléctricos.
FEI remite informe a Justicia a “John Peseta” por interferir en caso contra senador Albert Torres
counting, which caught events as they happened, is essential.
‘Tantura’ (2022)
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A flashpoint in Israel, Alon Schwartz’s documentary offers a sort of second chance for its central commentator, Teddy Katz. As a graduate student more than two decades ago, Katz wrote a thesis suggesting that, in 1948, after the Israeli Army had captured the Palestinian village of Tantura, it killed scores of Palestinians. This wasn’t merely a case of war being brutal. The implication was that the army had committed a massacre.
naged to finish a book is still a mystery. His research takes years. He sometimes writes out whole pages of adjectives just so he can find the right word, and this is for books that can run more than 1,000 pages. (His landmark Robert Moses biography “The Power Broker” was actually cut down by one-third.) Caro drafts in longhand before switching to a typewriter. He shoves carbon copies in a cabinet above his refrigerator that he says goes back about 6 feet. “Every so often I get up on a ladder and push,” he adds. He probably knows what he’s doing, but it really does look like that cabinet is about to spill, scattering the pages out of order.
By BEN KENIGSBERGThe proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose what to watch. Each month, we’ll choose three nonfiction films — classics, overlooked recent docs and more — that will reward your time.
‘The Murder of Fred Hampton’ (1971)
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The Film Group, the Chicago production company that made “The Murder of Fred Hampton,” began this documentary before Hampton, the chair of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was killed in a police raid on his apartment in December 1969.
Law enforcement’s narrative of his death was quickly contested. As Sarah Bahr explained in The New York Times in 2021 for the release of the movie “Judas and the Black Messiah,” police initially claimed they had fired in self-defense, but ballistics experts found only one shot (out of more than 80) that they attributed to the Panthers. Despite protracted legal proceedings, no one was ever convicted of the killings of Hampton and another Black Panther, Mark Clark, who died there that morning, although the federal, city and county governments agreed to pay a $1.85
million settlement in 1982.
Because of the shift in course, “The Murder of Fred Hampton,” directed by an uncredited Howard Alk (who a decade earlier had been one of the original founders of The Second City), necessarily has a raw and bifurcated feel. It begins with Hampton’s death before flashing back to show him alive, making speeches, holding meetings, and in an electrifying section, acting as his own defense counsel in court while arguing that he is not guilty of robbing an ice cream truck. The film also features lengthy speeches from other Black Panthers, including Bobby Seale (of the Chicago Eight) and future congressman Bobby L. Rush.
But “The Murder of Fred Hampton” takes an abrupt turn around the 50-minute mark, cutting from a call-and-response speech by Hampton to a moment of total silence as it returns to the scene of Hampton’s death. Much of what follows alternates between the police account of events and the Panthers’ contradictory evidence. Although the film is unabashedly pro-Hampton, the extensive analysis of bullet trajectories is portrayed as quite clearly giving the lie to law enforcement’s story.
If all you know of Hampton comes from “Judas and the Black Messiah,” which dramatized the lead-up to his death, this re-
The thesis ignited a controversy at the time. Katz was sued and signed a statement disavowing his work, although in a contemporary interview in the movie, he says that releasing the apology, which he tried to retract, was the biggest mistake he ever made. According to the film, Katz was in effect prevented from having an academic career. But Schwartz plays excerpts from the interviews that Katz conducted. He also includes fresh interviews with Israeli former soldiers and looks at other potential evidence, such as aerial photographs of Tantura over time that may or may not reveal the location of a mass grave.
“Tantura” is pretty clear on what it believes happened in 1948, but it is also a fascinating film about how history is written. One of Katz’s naysayers, Yoav Gelber, a historian at the University of Haifa, where Katz had studied, dismisses Katz’s findings because he feels the thesis relied too heavily on witnesses. “I am considered a radical on this issue,” Gelber says in an incongruously upbeat manner. “I don’t believe witnesses.” On the other side are academics like Shay Hazkani of the University of Maryland, who makes the case that David Ben-Gurion, as Israel’s prime minister in the late 1950s, sought to create what would amount to a state-certified narrative of events in 1948 — an apparent goal that speaks to the power of cementing impressions early.
‘Turn Every Page — The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb’ (2022)
Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play and Vudu.
By the end of “Turn Every Page — The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb,” exactly how Caro has ever ma-
In this documentary, viewers get a rare chance to see Caro at work on his latest Lyndon Johnson book, a tome that Robert Gottlieb, Caro’s editor since “The Power Broker,” and not a little bit obsessive himself, refers to as “volume five of a threevolume biography.” “Turn Every Page” is a portrait of both men and their eccentricities, directed by Gottlieb’s daughter, Lizzie, who is able to coax them into sharing at least slightly more about a writer-editor relationship than they would both prefer to keep confidential. They finally give her permission to film them while they edit, but with the proviso that she is not allowed to record sound — which means we don’t get to hear any of their fabled battles over semicolons. (Caro says that Gottlieb thinks he uses too many.)
Gottlieb estimates that he has edited between 600 and 700 books, and he says that the process depends on the author. “Sometimes it’s a highly emotional relationship because a transference gets made, as in psychoanalysis,” he says. It is also a wonder that Gottlieb reads as quickly as he claims. “When a writer or an agent has given me a manuscript,” he says, “I’ve read it overnight and gotten back to them the next day or at worst over the weekend.” Surely he can’t be talking about Caro-length books.
While many of the anecdotes here are not new, it is a kick to see Caro poring over holdings at the LBJ Presidential Library with his wife, Ina Caro, the only person he trusts to help him with research. And the research stories he tells — of how he got Johnson’s brother, Sam Houston Johnson, to open up; of how he came to the conclusion that Johnson had stolen the 1948 Texas senate election — would inspire any writer.
For most people, wine is a commodity on a shelf, a treat for when the mood strikes. For the mass-market companies, wine might as well be pencils or paper towels — merchandise to move. But for serious-minded producers and fans, wine has a far deeper meaning that cuts almost to the core of human existence.
Among those who understand this view of wine are autocrats and would-be dictators. Throughout history, authoritarians have sought to suppress cultural expressions that deviate from the party line, whether books, film, music, religion or wine. It is no less true in our own times.
Within the last century, dictatorial governments have routinely tried to destroy wine production, if that suited their needs. They have bent and shaped traditions to fit their own desires. They have also seen wine as a desirable commodity, looting vast amounts for themselves as the Nazis did in France during World War II.
The Soviet Union routinely sought to transform the local winemaking customs of its constituent republics, discouraging, for example, the winemaking culture of Georgia, and instead creating vast state vineyards that could supply enormous amounts of wine for the Russian market.
Likewise, in the Alentejo region of southeastern Portugal, the tradition of making wine in clay talha, amphoralike vessels, largely disappeared in the mid-20th century as the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar pushed the country into centralized wine production.
In Spain under Franciso Franco, regional methods died off as the government channeled wine into bulk production. Growers were encouraged to leave the countryside for factory work in the cities, abandoning vineyards and other agricultural pursuits.
As each of these countries became more democratic in the last few decades, local wine cultures were resuscitated. The diverse wines of Spain, Portugal and Georgia are now among the most interesting and exciting in the world.
I’ve been thinking about this history more because it’s still playing out today, in
Ukraine, in Armenia and in Iran.
In late February, I attended Vines and Threads, an event in Providence, Rhode Island, intended to raise awareness of how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatened its distinctive culture. The event included discussions and presentations of fashion and style, music, food and wine, including a tasting of the sparkling wines of Artwinery, said to be the largest sparkling wine producer in Eastern Europe.
Artwinery is in Bakhmut, which has been the center of intensive fighting in eastern Ukraine. It was originally constructed during the Stalin era when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, but since Ukrainian independence, it has been making fine sparkling wines, using the Champagne method, primarily with a blend of chardonnay, riesling and aligoté, an unusual combination for a Champagne-style wine.
As the early fighting in Bakhmut began in spring 2022, Russians bombed the city indiscriminately, except, apparently, for Artwinery.
Nathalie Lysenko, Artwinery’s export manager, suggested in 2022 that the
Russians wanted to protect the winery or the 50 million bottles that were stored in a huge network of gypsum caves deep underground so that they could steal the wine. They considered whether to destroy it, she said.
Instead, Artwinery last year began to secretly transport a sizable portion of the bottles, to warehouses in safer locations in Ukraine. The winery would not disclose exactly how many bottles were moved or where they are now. The Russians have now occupied the winery.
“As we have clearly seen from the fate of other Ukrainian enterprises in occupied territories, such as the Prince Trubetskoi winery in Kherson, Russians rob and destroy everything they can reach,” Lysenko said by email.
Ukrainian wine history dates back almost 3,000 years, she said, and has survived both Soviet centralization efforts and temperance campaigns during the Gorbachev era, during which top-flight vineyards in the Crimean Peninsula, a major Ukrainian growing region, were uprooted. Artwinery itself had to find new sources for grapes after Russia’s 2014 in-
vasion of Crimea.
Amazingly, Artwinery is planning to export 140,000 bottles to the United States this year, said Gayle Corrigan of Saparavi USA, Artwinery’s American importer.
As the war goes on and Ukrainians continue to face death and hardships, wine is not so important except as a symbol. But its role as a crucial element of cultural identity is explicit at less fraught moments when authoritarian rulers suppress or prohibit its production.
“Somm: Cup of Salvation,” a new documentary that will be released later this year, examines the role of wine in the identity of both Armenia and Iran, neighboring countries in which wine production has been interrupted by violence and autocratic government.
This fourth film in the “Somm” series, directed by Jason Wise, is different from its processors. Instead of spotlighting the hopes and dreams of sommeliers, its focus is larger, on the cultural importance of wine itself.
The absorbing film follows Vahe Keushguerian, an Armenian winemaker, and his daughter, Aimee, who works with him at their production facility, WineWorks, in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital.
Along with Georgia to the north, Armenia is part of the Caucasus region, which is considered to have been among the birthplaces of wine thousands of years ago, long before political divisions separated the region into countries. Wine was integral to Armenian culture until its 19th century subjugation by both the Ottoman and Russian empires, Keushguerian said, followed by the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottomans in the early 20th century. After a brief period of independence, it was subsequently absorbed into the Soviet Union.
“The Soviet Union said, ‘You guys don’t do wine, you do brandy,’” Keushguerian said. As he tells it in the film, the Soviets forced growers to abandon their hillside vineyards and the ancient varieties they used for wine. New vineyards were planted in the flat areas, where farming could be industrialized, with the grapes the Soviets preferred for brandy.
“The old vineyards stayed,” said Ai-
mee Keushguerian, whose birth coincided with the fall of the Soviet Union. “They were essentially untouched for 120 years. Now we’ve adopted wine as our identity.”
The Keushguerians have been reviving old vineyards and exploring the ancient varieties, among them areni, one of the oldest known wine grapes, which has become something of a symbol for the revival of winemaking in Armenia.
During the filming of “Cup of Salvation” in Armenia in 2020, war breaks out between Armenia and Azerbaijan. A key vineyard is situated directly in the line of fire, as harvest approaches. In the film, the Keushguerians must decide whether to risk harvesting the grapes or stay clear of the vineyard, losing the harvest, which would be both an economic and a cultural blow.
Finally, wearing bulletproof vests, they assess the situation and proceed, thankfully without casualties.
Iran, too, once had a thriving wine industry, particularly among Kurds and Zoroastrians. It ceased after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and hundreds of wineproducing facilities were destroyed. But some of the old vineyards survived, particularly in hard-to-reach hillside areas, with their produce consumed as table grapes.
Keushguerian wondered about these old vineyards and conceives in the film of a plan to buy grapes in Iran,
where Armenians can travel relatively freely, and bring them back to Armenia to make wine at his facility.
“I was curious about the varieties, and how they were linked to the more familiar grapes,” he told me during a visit to New York earlier this year.
In a scene depicted with dramatic flair, Keushguerian takes a trip to the north of Iran, skeletal camera crew in tow, semiclandestinely looking for old vineyards with unusual varieties. In the remote hills in the province of Kermanshah, roughly 300 miles west of Tehran, he finds what he wants: glistening purple grapes he identified as the rasheh variety.
He arranges to buy 22 tons, which he has shipped back to the WineWorks facility, where in 2021 he produced both red wine and sparkling rosé. Some of these bottles will be sold legally in the United States, under the brand Molana, referring to a nickname of Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet and scholar. It will be labeled, “Wine of Iran, made in Armenia.”
The notion of Iranian wine may seem inconsequential to many people, but not to members of the Iranian diaspora like Moe Momtazi, who, with his wife, Flora, founded Maysara winery in Oregon in 1997. As a young boy in Tehran, he remembers his father making wine in their basement, and storing it in earthen vessels. He
learned about farming from his grandfather. But in 1982, the Momtazis fled Iran. He eventually established a successful engineering firm before turning to wine and agriculture.
“In Persian and Zoroastrian culture, wine is considered a very sacred thing,” he said to Inc. magazine. “After the Islamists came to power, a lot of things were taken away from Persians. But wine stayed in our blood.” In the film, he calls it “sun’s radiance in a liquid form.”
His daughter Naseem Momtazi, the president of sales at Maysara, is more straightforward: “To see something that was so important for your family taken, it’s hard,” she says in the film.
Using recent genetic analysis of grapevine varieties, researchers have traced the domestication of wine grapes to 11,000 years ago, which would make grapes, and wine, among the first forms of agriculture. Wine may have been so important among early nomadic humans that it was a chief reason for settling into fixed communities. It was among the building blocks of civilization.
Individual bottles don’t often rise to this level of profundity. Wine may be no more than a simple pleasure for many people. But when threatened it’s also precious enough to defend, which, in a sense, makes it sacred.
The first summer on record that melts practically all of the Arctic’s floating sea ice could occur as early as the 2030s, according to a new scientific study — about a decade sooner than researchers previously predicted.
The peer-reviewed findings, published Tuesday, also show that this milestone of climate change could materialize even if nations manage to curb greenhouse gas emissions more decisively than they are currently doing. Earlier projections had found that stronger action to slow global warming might be enough to preserve the summer ice. The latest research suggests that, where Arctic sea ice is concerned, only steep, sharp emissions cuts might be able to reverse the effects of the warming already underway.
“We are very quickly about to lose the Arctic summer sea-ice cover, basically independent of what we are doing,” said Dirk Notz, a climate scientist at the University of Hamburg in Germany and one of the new study’s five authors. “We’ve been waiting too long now to do something about climate change to still protect the remaining ice.”
As sea ice has dwindled in recent decades, communities, ecosystems and economies across the roof of the world have been grappling with the consequences. But the effects extend far beyond the region.
Sea ice reflects solar radiation back into space, so the less ice there is, the faster the Arctic warms. This causes the Greenland ice sheet to melt more quickly, adding to sea-level rise globally.
The temperature difference between the North Pole and the equator also influences storm tracks and wind speed in the mid-latitudes, which means Arctic warming could be affecting weather events like extreme rainfall and heat waves in temperate parts of North America, Europe and Asia.
Over the past four decades, the far north has already been warming four times as quickly as the global average, a phenomenon that scientists call Arctic amplification.
“Our result suggests that the Arctic amplification will
be coming faster and stronger,” said Seung-Ki Min, a climate scientist at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea and another author of the new paper. “That means the related impacts will be also coming faster.”
Over the course of every year, the surface water of the Arctic Ocean freezes and melts with the seasons. The amount of ice grows in winter, peaks around March, then declines toward an annual minimum, typically in September.
The September lows have been edging downward ever since continuous satellite measurements began in 1979, leading researchers to try to predict when the ocean might experience its first summer that melts effectively all of the floating ice.
This doesn’t mean there would be zero ice on the water — icy patches are expected to remain in certain corners of the Arctic for some time to come. Instead, the threshold
scientists use is 1 million square kilometers of ice, or about 386,000 square miles. This is less than 15% of the Arctic’s seasonal minimum ice cover in the late 1970s.
Looking at both satellite measurements of ice cover and computer models of the global climate, researchers have projected that the September ice will likely dip below this level for the first time before 2050. But the exact timing has been hard to predict, partly because the computer models generally underestimate the sea-ice declines that satellites have been detecting.
The authors of the latest study, which was published in the journal Nature Communications, accounted for this issue by first adjusting the climate models to align more closely with the satellite observations. They then used the adjusted models to project future sea-ice changes under four possible scenarios for greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades.
Under three of these scenarios, representing moderate to high increases in emissions, the September ice falls below the critical threshold for the first time as early as the 2030s, about a decade earlier than previously estimated.
But the study also found roughly similar timing under the fourth scenario, in which humanity stops pumping additional heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere around 2070, something nations’ policies are not on course to achieve. Earlier research had suggested that September might stay abundantly icy in this scenario.
The Arctic Ocean’s first unfrozen September, if and when it arrives, will be an important scientific benchmark, but it won’t be some kind of turning point, said Mark C. Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Arctic started transforming into a bluer ocean decades ago, setting off vast changes to polar bear populations, shipping routes, access to natural resources and geopolitics.
“It’s already happening,” said Serreze, who was not involved in the new research. “And as the Arctic continues to lose its ice, those impacts will grow and grow and grow.”
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Yo, GERARDO MÉNDEZ VILLANUEVA, 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 1RO. DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aguadilla, en el Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, Segundo Piso, Oficina del Alguacil Regional, Aguadilla, 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 Aguadilla durante horas labora-
bles. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 8 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el 15 DE AGOSTO DE 2023, 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 134 de la Calle A, según Plano de Inscripción del Proyecto de Solares denominado Residencial Punta Borinquen, radicada en el Barrio Borinquen del Municipio de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Dicho solar tiene un área de ochocientos sesenta y dos punto cero siete (862.07) metros cuadrados y colinda por el NORTE, con el solar ciento treinta y dos, distancia de treinta y cuatro punto treinta y cuatro metros; por el SUR, con la Calle J, distancia de veintinueve punto sesenta y nueve metros y tres punto cincuenta y cuatro metro en arco; por el ESTE, con el solar ciento treinta y uno de la Calle C, distancia de veintiuno punto setenta y un metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle D, distancia de veintidós punto cero siete metros y tres punto cincuenta y tres metros en arco. Enclava una casa destinada a vivienda. Inscrita al folio 185 del tomo 636 de Aguadilla, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla, finca número 22,956, inscripción 7ma. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Res. Punta Borinquen Ramey, D-134, D St. (antes Calle A), Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $160,768.37 de principal, interés al 4.5% anual, desde el 1ro. de septiembre de 2013, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $16,528.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados y otras sumas estipuladas, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $165,280.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $110,186.67 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $82,640.00. 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 a ser vendida 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 remate, 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 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, 24 de marzo de 2023. GERARDO MÁNDEZ VILLANUEVA, ALGUACIL DEL CONFIDENCIAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.
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Rico, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que venderá en pública subasta en la Oficina de Alguaciles, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por la suma $97,791.50 y un principal diferido por la suma de $6,716.96 de balance de principal; los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal de $97,791.50, y computados al 5.00% anual desde el primero de julio de 2019, hasta su total pago y completo pago; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma estipulada $10,865.52 para honorarios de abogado pactada en la escritura de hipoteca y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento mil trescientos dos (1302) del Condominio Beatriz radicado en el Barrio Beatriz de la municipalidad de Cayey, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial d ochocientos veinte punto cuarenta y nueve (820.49) pies cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con un área común: por el SUR, con área común; por el ESTE, con pasillo área común y con pared que lo separa del apartamento mil trescientos siete (1307) y por el OESTE, con pared que lo separa del apartamento mil doscientos siete (1207. Apartamento ubicado en la segunda planta del edificio trece (13) del Condominio Beatriz, con entrada principal mirando hacia el Este, del cual consiste de un área sala-comedor, cocina, balcón, tres (3) habitaciones cada uno con ropero, un baño y un line closet. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación de punto cincuenta y cinco por ciento (.55%) en los elementos comunes del Condominio. También tiene derecho a dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento identificados con el mismo número del apartamento.
Inscrita al sistema Karibe, finca numero veinticinco mil quinientos cuarenta y siete (25547), Registro de Caguas I. Dirección Física: 1302 Condominio Beatriz, Cayey, Puerto Rico 00636. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 27 de junio de 2023 a las 9:15 de la mañana y servirá de tipo mínimo para la
misma la suma de $108,655.24 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 10 de julio de 2023 a las 9:15 de la mañana, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $72,436.83. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 17 de julio de 2023, a las 9:15 de la mañana, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $54,327.62. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus in-
tereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 25 de mayo de 2023. Eduardo Aldebol Miranda, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia Sala De Caguas.
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Parte Demandante Vs. FELICITA RAMIREZ TORRES; SUCESION DE JULIAN CLAUDIO, compuesta por Carlos Serrano Ramirez y Julián Xavier Serrano Ramirez; John Doe y Richard Roe, posibles herederos desconocidos, ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES, CENTRO DE RECAUDA CION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NUM. CG2022CV02519.
SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que venderá en pública subasta en la Oficina de Alguaciles, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del
Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por la suma de $29,860.93 de balance de principal, el cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $27,737.78 y un principal diferido por la suma de $2,123.15, más los intereses calculados sobre la suma de $27,737.78, a razón de 6.25% desde el primero de noviembre de 2020, el 5% sobre cada mensualidad adeudada, y cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada, más la suma de $7,400.00 estipulada para honorarios de abogado pactada en la escritura de hipoteca y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue:
URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villas de Castro situado en el Barrio Tomas de Castro del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número catorce (14) del Bloque “R” con un área de trescientos cincuenta y dos punto treinta y nueve (352.39) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la calle trece (13), en trece punto diez (13.10) metros; por el Sur, con el solar número siete en trece punto diez metros (7) (13.10); por el Este, con el solar quince en veintiséis punto noventa (15) (26.90) metros; y por el Oeste, con el solar trece (13) en veintiséis punto noventa (26.90) metros. Enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Inscrita al folio ciento ochenta y seis (186) del tomo mil ciento dieciséis (1116) de Caguas, finca número treinta y ocho mil doscientos nueve (38,209), Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas I. Dirección Física: Urb. Villas De Castro, R14 Calle 13, Caguas, PR 00725. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 27 de junio de 2023 a las 9:45 de la mañana y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $74,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 10 de julio de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $49,333.33. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 17 de julio de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana,
y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $37,000.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado
Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 25 de mayo de 2023. Eduardo Aldebol Miranda, Alguacil Auxiliar Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia Sala De Caguas. ***
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SALA DE PATILLAS ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante Vs. JOSÉ A.
LEBRÓN FIGUEROA
Demandado
Civil Núm.: AY2022CV00071.
Salón: 202. 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: JOSÉ A.
LEBRÓN FIGUEROA -
CALLE MONSERRATE
#49 APTO. 1 GUAYAMA, PR 00784 / HC 1 BOX 3837 ARROYO, PR 00714.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@orf-law. com, y a la dirección notifica-
ciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en PATILLAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de MARZO de 2023. En Patillas, Puerto Rico, el 30 de MARZO de 2023. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. IRIS Y. DÍAZ GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Parte Demandante, V. LUIS E. BURGOS MOLINA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BQ2022CV00100. 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: LUIS E. BURGOS MOLINA. Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la Demanda que exhibe el epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero, PO Box 71418, San Juan Puerto Rico 00936-8518, representante legal de la parte demandante, copia de su contestación a esa 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) (según enmendada), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de Comerío. Si dejare de contestar la Demanda radicando el original de la contestación a través de SUMAC y copia a la parte demandante, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Comerío para Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, a 31 de marzo de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. YARA M. RODRÍGUEZ ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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LLC
Parte Demandante V. ANGEL R. ORTIZ ORTIZ
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: BQ2022CV00088. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC-
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: ANGEL R. ORTIZ ORTIZ.
Se Ie notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría Ia Demanda que exhibe el epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a el Lcdo.
Kevin Sanchez Campanero, PO Box 71418, San Juan Puerto Rico 00936-8518, representante legal de Ia parte demandante, copia de su contestación a esa Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a Ia publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) (según enmendada), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Ia secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de Comerío. Si dejare de contestar Ia Demanda radicando el original de Ia contestación a través de SUMAC y copia a Ia parte demandante, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose eI remedio solicitado en Ia demanda. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Comerío para Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, a 31 de marzo de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. YARA M. RODRÍGUEZ ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
607-609
CONDADO ST., LLC.
Demandante V. LA SOCIEDAD INTERNACIONAL DE INVESTIGADORES PROFESIONALES, INC.
Demandado
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01381.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.
A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPÍGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace cons-
tar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 13 de septiembre de 2022, notificada el 14 de septiembre de 2022 y publicada el 23 de septiembre de 2022, una Orden de Ejecución de Embargo emitida el 15 de marzo de 2023 y un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Embargo emitido el día 17 de marzo de 2023, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, procederá a vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, y/o giro postal, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 11 DE JULIO DE 2023; A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Oficina #505. Colinda por el OESTE, en 28’ 6”, con pared interior que lo separa de la oficina #504; por el ESTE, en igual medida, con pared interior que lo separa de la oficina #506; por el NORTE, en 15’ 5”, con pared que lo separa de parte de la oficina #504 y con el pasillo común; y por el SUR, en igual medida, con la pared exterior del edificio hacia su colindancia con la calle denominada “Rolan”. Comprende un área de 443 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, y tiene su entrada y salida hacia el Norte, por el pasillo común con el cual colinda por ese lado. La oficina descrita se separa del quinto piso del edificio denominado Condominio Condado. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes equivalente a un porcentaje del 0.017%.
FINCA NÚMERO: 4921, inscrita al folio 60 del tomo 153 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan. Dirección física: 609 Condado St., Oficina 505, San Juan PR 00907. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente, según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por la siguiente suma: $9,573.72 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento vencidas y no pagadas; más la suma de $4,189.28 por concepto de intereses, más la suma de $947.99 por concepto de penalidad, para un total de $14,710.99, más las costas, gastos y una suma razonable por honorarios de abogado. Esta subasta no tiene fijación
de tipo mínimo por tratarse de una ejecución de sentencia por embargo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 31 de mayo de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN
MWPR, LLC
Demandante V. SONIA ELISA
RODRIGUEZ ESTRADA
Demandado (s) Civil Núm.: KCD2015-0265. (903). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.
A: SONIA ELISA
RODRIGUEZ ESTRADA 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 el bien hipotecado 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, que-
dando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: HIPOTECA: Subordinada a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria de PR, a cuyo favor aparece inscrito un pagaré por la suma de $9,957.57, sin intereses y a vencer el 1 de septiembre de 2013, según consta de la escritura #191, otorgada en San Juan, el 13 de agosto de 2010, ante el Notario Jose V. Gorbea Varona, inscrito en Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca #36,220, inscripción 4ta. ANOTACION DE EMBARGO: A cuyo favor aparece una anotación de embargo, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, caso civil KCD2015-0265 (903), Cobro de Dinero (Ejecución de Hipoteca), seguido por RNPM, LLC versus Sonia Elisa Rodriguez Estrada, por la suma de $155,286.39 y otras sumas, inscrito en Karibe de Sabana Llana, Finca 36,220, anotación A. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 18 de mayo de 2023, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: CONDOMINIO ESTANCIAS DE CHALET APT 1 C4 SAN JUAN, PR 00926.
URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento Uno-C-Cuatro (1-c4) del Condominio Estancias de Chalets localizado en el Municipio de San Juan, con un área superficial de mil doscientos cincuenta y dos (1,252) pies cuadrados, equivalente a ciento dieciséis punto treinta y un (116.31) metros cuadrados. Y dos espacios de estacionamiento, no contiguos con el apartamento, con un área de veinticuatro punto treinta y cuatro (24.34), para un área total de ciento cuarenta punto sesenta y cinco (140.65) metros cuadrados. Las áreas de estacionamientos se ilustran en el plano del condominio, el croquis, (plot plan) solo ilustra el apartamento en sí. Colinda: por el NORTE: con pared exterior del módulo; por el SUR, con pared exterior del módulo; por el ESTE, con apartamento dosC-tres(2-C-3); y por el OESTE; con el apartamento Uno-C-tres (1-C-3, consta de sala-comedor, dos baños, tres dormitorios, cocina y balcón, un walkin-closet y otros tres (3) closets. Tiene una puerta principal que da acceso a la escalera por donde se llega a la salida del módulo, una vez allí, por las calles interiores del Condominio se obtiene acceso a la vía pública. Le corresponde una participación de uno por ciento (1%) en los elementos comunes del condominio. Consta inscrita en Karibe de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta, finca número 36,220. El producto de la
subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, ascendente a la suma de $155,286.39 de principal; más intereses acumulados a razón del 6.125% anual, desde el 1 de noviembre de 2013, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el total pago y solvente del principal, cargos por demora mensuales, más las contribuciones e impuestos, primas de seguro contra riesgo de hipoteca hasta su completo pago, más la suma pactada de $15,850.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, disponiendose que si quedare algun remanente, luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte con derecho 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 10 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan , Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $158,500.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $105,666.67, 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 31 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $79,250.00, 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 30 de mayo de 2023. JUAN A. SANTANA GARCÍA, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
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LORRAINE TORRES VARGAS
Parte Demandante Vs. LA COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE LOS EMPLEADOS DE LAS EMPRESAS FERRE; JUAN DEL PUEBLOY JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALQUIERA PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERES EN LA OBLIGACION CUYA CANCELACION POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE
SOLICITA
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: PO2023CV00770.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: LA COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE LOS EMPLEADOS DE LAS EMPRESAS FERRE, INC.; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA COMO POSIBLE INTERES DE LA OBLIGACION CUYA CANCELACION POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA, PARA SER NOTIFICADO POR EDICTO. P/C: LCDA.
LIZBET AVILES VEGA.
URB LOS SAUCES, CALLE POMAROSA #222, HUMACAO, PUERTO RICO 00791.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de mayo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 2 de junio de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 2 de junio de 2023. CARMEN
G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOYDA
TORRES IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
SANDRA LIZZETTE
SANTANA SOUFRONT
Demandante V. CORPORACION DE RENOVACION URBANA Y VIVIENDA DE PUERTO
RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS
Demandado(a)
Civil: MZ2022CV01512. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de mayo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 02 de junio de 2023. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 02 de junio de 2023.
LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA.
JOSSIE BOBE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL
GABRIEL DUFORE
HERNÁNDEZ, T/C/C
ÁNGEL G. DUFORE
HERNÁNDEZ Y COMO
ÁNGEL DUFORE
HERNÁNDEZ, COMPUESTA POR
NIKKI C. DUFORE
WILLIAMS, JOHN DOE
Y RICHARD ROE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION DE AZALIA
MILAGROS PALMER
MARRERO COMPUESTA
POR ANGEL PALMER Y JOHN DOE Y
RICHARD ROE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y ADMINISTRACION
PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES
Parte Demandada
Caso Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV00194. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE AZALIA MILAGROS
PALMER MARRERO.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudiclal.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda.
Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de julio de 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $52,473.821 de principal, el cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $51,128.54 y un principal diferido por la suma de $1,345.28, más los Intereses sobre la suma de $51,128.54 al 5 1/4% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipo-
tecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Apartamento de una sola planta, identificado con el número ciento dos guión B (102-B), del Condominio Cristina del Mar, radicado en el Poblado de Boquerón del término municipal de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. Este apartamento se encuentra en a primera planta o el primer nivel del Edificio Norte, también conocido como Edificio B, colinda dicho apartamento por el NORTE, con el apartamento número ciento uno guión B (101-B); por el SUR, con el apartamento número ciento tres guión B (103B); por el ESTE, con el pasillo comunal que conduce a las escaleras, al área recreativa, el área de jardines centrales, área de jardines frontales, el apartamento y de la calle Muñoz Rivera de Boquerón, Puerto Rico y por el OESTE, con el área de jardines frontales que lo separan del estacionamiento. Al igual que los demás apartamientos del primer piso, éste tiene entrada tanto por su parte Este desde los pasillos comunales como por su parte Oeste desde el área del jardín frontal. Este apartamento tiene una cabida superficial de aproximadamente mil sesenta y dos punto cincuenta (1,062.50) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a noventa y ocho punto setenta y seis (98.76) metros cuadrados. Se compone de un recibidor que conecta la puerta de entrada en el lado Oeste, con el resto del apartamento a la derecha o Norte de la entrada, siguiendo con la cocina, comedor y sala, a la izquierda o Sur de la cocina tiene un cuarto dormitorio de diez por trece pies (10 x 13’) con “walk-in-closer y un baño completo, a la izquierda Sur de la sala tiene un pasillo con closet, que conduce a un baño completo y otro cuarto dormitorio. Este segundo dormitorio de una medida diez por quince pies (10 x 15’), tiene un closet a lo largo de la pared Oeste que divide el baño. Al extremo Oeste del apartamento tiene una terraza techada a todo lo ancho del apartamento. Esta terraza tiene unas medidas de veinte por ocho pies (20 x 8’) y una mira hacia el árela del jardín frontal y área de estacionamiento. Le corresponde al titular de este apartamento el dominio o derecho exclusivo sobre los elementos comunes limitados y además, una participación en común por-indiviso con los demás titulares en los elementos comunes del inmueble equivalentes a tres
punto tres uno siete tres por ciento (3.3173%) el total del valor conjunto de inmueble así como sus gastos comunes. Inscrita al folio ciento veinticuatro (124) del tomo cuatrocientos noventa y dos (492) de Cabo Rojo, finca número diecisiete mil ochocientos treinta y dos (17,832). Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de Azalia Milagros Palmer Marrero se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante Azalia Milagros Palmer Marrero y por consiguiente, responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone et Art. 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. S2785. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 30 de mayo de 2023. LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. NILDA TORRES ACEVEDO, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO FIDEICOMISO
ZORRILLA LASSUS
Demandante Vs. EUROBANK; JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE, PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERES
Demandados Civil No.: HU2023CV00762. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: EUROBANK.; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ. Por medio del presente edicto se les notifica de la radicación de una Demanda de Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado en la que se solicita la cancelación del siguiente pagaré hipotecario, que se ha extraviado, luego de haber sido saldado por el deudor hipotecario: Pagaré a favor de EUROBANK,
o a su orden, por la suma de $50,000.00, con interés al Prime Rate por el Citibank N.A. y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura número cuarenta y dos (42), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Nelson William González, e inscrita al folio 216 del tomo 571 de Humacao, finca número 11,445, inscripción once. La parte demandante solicita del Honorable Tribunal que declare Con Lugar la demanda y en su consecuencia ordene al Secretario del Tribunal que expida Mandamiento al Registrador de la Propiedad correspondiente, para que dicho funcionario proceda a cancelar en los libros a su cargo la referida hipoteca dejando la propiedad aquí descrita libre de dicho gravamen hipotecario. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Copia de dicha contestación debe remitirse al abogado del demandante, Lcdo. Ricardo J. Cacho Rodríguez, 54 Calle Resolución, Suite 303 San Juan, PR 00920 Tel: (787) 722-2242; Fax: (787) 722-2243, cachor@ microjuris.com dentro del término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la fecha de publicación de este Edicto. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 31 de mayo de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE M. MONCLOVA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE
KEYLINK LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE CELSO ORTIZ GONZALEZ COMPUESTA POR
FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS;
Demandados
Civil Núm.: PO2023CV01060.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
FULANO
ORTIZ GONZALEZ. POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentin, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no cumplir con los requerimiento establecidos en el Contrato de Hipoteca Revertida por no ser la vivienda principal del deudor, entre otras De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal de $110,369.97, más intereses a razón del 4.17% anual desde que dichas sumas fueron desembolsadas, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más adelantos para el pago de seguros hipotecarios y contribuciones sobre la propiedad, entre cualquier otro anticipo o adelanto hecho por la parte demandante, más una suma equivalente a ($13,500.00), por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente:
URBANA: Solar número 15 del Bloque “D” del plano de Urbanización, Valle Alto, radicada
en el Barrio Cerrillos de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 343.98 metros cuadrados, en lindes: por el NORTE, y por el SUR, en 13.50 metros, con la calle 8 de la Urbanización y con el Solar D-11, respectivamente; por el ESTE, en 25.33 metros, con el solar D-16; y por el OESTE, en 25.31 metros, con los solares D-13 y D-14 respectivamente. En este solar enclava una casa en hormigón reforzado y bloques, dedicada a vivienda. Consta inscrita al folio 141 del tomo 1914 de Ponce Norte, Finca# 37,760 Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección l. dirección/localización de la propiedad: 1402 Calle Cima, Valle Alto Dev. Ponce, P.R. 00730 t/c/c Solar #15 Bloque D, Valle Alto, Ponce, P.R. 00730. SE LES ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de la DE LA SUCESION DE CELSO ORTIZ GONZALEZ. De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictara sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico. A 2 de junio de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JOSÉ VICTOR RIVERA RIVERA, SU ESPOSA MILDRED SOTO ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado(a)
Civil: CA2022CV01992. 401.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOSÉ VÍCTOR RIVERA RIVERA POR SI Y POR CONDUCTO DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
QUE COMPONE CON MILDRED SOTO. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 2 de JUNIO de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 5 de JUNIO de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 5 DE JUNIO de 2023. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
MULTIPLES MORTGAGE CORPORATION
Demandante V.
PREFERRED MORTGAGE CORPORATION; JOHN
DOE Y RICHARD DOE
Demandado(a)
Civil: SJ2022CV02003. 807. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de junio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a
partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 05 de junio de 2023. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 05 de junio de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. VIRGEN Y. DEL VALLE DÍAZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO
ORIENTAL BANK
Parte Demandante V. JOSÉ VÉLEZ RODRÍGUEZ
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: NSCI201500767.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, hago saber a la parte demandada JOSÉ VÉLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 16 de septiembre de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $201,150.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación [APT 2001 COND. COSTA BONITA, CULEBRA, PR 00775]: URBANA: Horizontal Property: Residential Unit 2001 of Cluster 20, which forms part of The Costa Bonita Beach Resort Condominium Regime, located at Los Frailes Ward, Culebra, Puerto Rico. Squared shape one story unit, with a total construction area of 534.11 square feet, equivalent to 49.62 square meters. This unit shares part of the ground floor of Cluster 20 with Residential Unit 2002. The main entrance is located on the side of the unit leading to the foyer which is a limited common element of Cluster 20. Its boundaries are: by the North, with common wall that separates it from residential unit 2002 and with the foyer which is an interior limited common element; by the South, with exterior common areas of the condominium; by the West, with exterior common areas of the condominium; and by the East, with exterior common areas of the condominium.
Residential unit 2001 contains, a living/sleeping area, a kitchenette, a bathroom, a closet, an
owner’s closet, an air conditioning closet and a covered balcony area. This unit has the exclusive use and enjoyment of the following limited common elements of The Costa Bonita Beach Resort Condominium: the foyer and access stairways of Cluster 20 which give access to the units forming part of said cluster. The percentage share of this unit in and to the general common elements is 0.4494%. The percentage share of this unit in and to the limited common elements 25%. Finca 1875 de Culebra, inscrita al sistema Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituida par José Vélez Rodríguez t/c/c José A. Vélez Rodríguez t/c/c José Angel Vélez Rodríguez, en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, par $201,150.00, al 5.95%, vencedero el 1 de octubre de 2035, según Esc. #46, en San Juan, a 30 de septiembre de 2005, ante Víctor J. Girona González, inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Culebra, finca #1875, inscripción 2da. (ii) Demanda de fecha 27 de octubre de 2015, radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, en el caso civil #NSC2015-00767, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Scotiabank de Puerto Rico versus José Vélez Rodríguez, se solicita el pago de la hipoteca que resulta de la inscripción 2da., reducida a la suma de $173,035.77, anotado al Sistema Karibe, el 18 de abril de 2022, anotación A. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 27 de mayo de 2022 por este Tribunal, a favor de la parte demandante por la suma $173,035.77 de principal, más intereses al 5.95% que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total, más la suma de dinero para primas de seguro y/o contribuciones, inspecciones, más recargos por demora, y la cantidad estipulada de $20,115.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 6 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $201,150.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $134,100.00.
Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $100,575.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedi-
miento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de febrero de 2023. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #737, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE, INC.
Demandante Vs. GIOVANNIE CARDONA OYOLA, GLENDA ENID MOLINA MONTES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados Civl Núm.: CG2023CV00694. Sobre: COBRO E DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte CoDemandada: GIOVANNIE CARDONA OYOLA, GLENDA ENID MOLINA MONTES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS, A SUS DIRECCIONES
CONOCIDAS: (A) PO BOX 2819 JUNCOS, PR 00777; (B) PO BOX 238 LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00771;
(C) URB. ESTANCIAS DEL CEIBA RD 198 KM 17.3 JUNCOS, PR 0077;
(D) BARRIO CEIBA SUR RD 198 KM 18.8 INT., JUNCOS, PR 00777. Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma $65,501.60 por concepto de principal,
desde el 1ro de noviembre de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $8,542.40. Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $8,542.40 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $8,542.40 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 78, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 17 de abril de 2010, ante la notario Luis E. Andújar Moreno, de la finca número 5,806, inscrita al Folio 166 del Tomo 151 de Juncos, Registro de la Propiedad Caguas, Sección Segunda. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este dicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s).
EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con
el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 5 de junio de 2023, en Caguas, Puerto Rico. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Demandante Vs. JORGE LUIS KUILAN GONZALEZ, SU ESPOSA, SUHEILLY RIOS REYES Y LA SOCIEDSAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado(a)
Civil: AR2022CV02196. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPTECAIN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JORGE LUIS KUILAN GONZALEZ POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES. SUHEILL Y RIOS REYES POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de mayo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 6 de junio de 2023. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 6 de junio de 2023. VIVIAN Y.
FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. SARAY SALGADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE, INC.
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE EFRAIN CRUZ ROMAN COMPUESTA POR YOLANDA MARIA DIAZ LOZADA, MARK, LIZA, DEBORAH, VIVIAN Y YOLANDA TODOS DE APELLIDOS CRUZ DIAZ; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2023CV01008. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte Co-
Demandada: A) FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EFRAÍN CRUZ ROMÁN, A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: (A) URB. BAIROA, GOLDEN GATE II P-13 CALLE G CAGUAS, PR 00727-1151; (B) URB. GOLDEN GATE II P-13 CALLE G CAGUAS, PR 00727. Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de La Sucesión de Efraín Cruz Román, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $97,104.12 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de agosto de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, La Sucesión de Efraín Cruz Román adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $10,834.30. Además La Sucesión de Efraín Cruz Román se comprometió a pagar una
suma equivalente a $10,834.30 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $10,834.30 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 118, otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 7 de abril de 2017, ante el notario Jesús A. Ledesma Amador, de la finca número 48,241, inscrita al Folio 66 del Tomo 1358 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Efraín Cruz Román. Los codemandados miembros de la Sucesión de Efraín Cruz Román se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, se incluye a los herederos conocidos y herederos desconocidos de Efraín Cruz Román denominados Fulano y Fulana de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos de la Sucesión de Efraín Cruz Román, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la
Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.rmajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el periodo de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 05 de junio de 2023, en Caguas, Puerto Rico. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE ELSIE LOPEZ CASTRO COMPUESTA POR
FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV04228.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte CoDemandada: FULANO Y FULANA Y FULANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ELSIE LÓPEZ CASTRO, A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: (A) URB. VILLA PRADES #663 (MN7) CALLE FELIPE
PR 00924-2207. Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de La Sucesión de Elsie López Castro, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $57,326.73 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.875% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además La Sucesión de Elsie López Castro adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,409.80.
Además La Sucesión de Elsie
López Castro se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,409.80 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $11,409.80 para cubrir cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 174, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de octubre de 2007, ante la notario Teresa González Ferrer, modificada mediante la escritura número 278, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de mayo de 2015, ante el Notario Antonio R. Pavía Vidal, de la finca número 1,054, inscrita al Folio 161 del Tomo 25 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Elsie López Castro. Los co-demandados miembros de La Sucesión de Elsie López Castro se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su acepta-
ción o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que La Sucesión de Elsie López Castro, se incluye a los herederos conocidos y herederos desconocidos de Elsie López Castro denominados Fulano y Fulana y Fulano De Tal como miembros desconocidos de la Sucesión de Elsie López Castro, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes ala publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el periodo de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle( s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 6 de junio de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA BÁEZ ACABÁ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN HR MORTGAGE CORPORATION
Demandante Vs. SECRETARIO DEL
DEPARTAMENTO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE (POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2023CV02389. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA (HUD) POR CONDUCTO DE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES AT WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. ROOM 10258 US DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, 451SEVENTH STREET, S.W., WASHINGTON, DC 20410. Se notifica que se presentó en esta Secretaría la Demanda de epígrafe sobre Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado Por la Vía Judicial. Se le emplaza y requiere que usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Deberá notificar con copia de la misma al LCDO. JESÚS
A. LEDESMA AMADOR, PO BOX 10338, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00922, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Si dejara de hacerlo, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. El primer pagaré hipotecario objeto de esta demanda, fue emitido a favor de Urban Financial Group lnc., o a su orden, por $345,000.00, con intereses al 5.300% anual y con vencimiento 20 de abril del 2076, ante el Notario Público María G. Chévere Mouriño, inscrito al folio #8 del tomo #1902 de Bayamón Sur, finca #77504, inscripción 5ta. El segundo pagaré hipotecario objeto de esta demanda, fue emitido a favor de The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por $345,000.00, con
intereses al 5.300 % anual y con vencimiento el 20 de abril del 2076, ante el Notario Público María G. Chévere Mouriño. Dicha obligación quedó garantizada por una hipoteca voluntaria sobre el inmueble que más adelante se describe, según surge de la escritura de la escritura #300, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de marzo del 2011, inscrito al folio #8 del tomo #1902 de Bayamón Sur, finca #77504, inscripción 6ta. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera. El pago de dichos pagarés se garantizó con hipotecas constituidas sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar número uno (1) radicado en el Barrio Cerro Gordo del término municipal de Bayamón, con una cabida superficial de MIL CUARENTA Y DOS PUNTO SEISCIENTOS NOVENTA Y DOS METROS CUADRADOS, (1042.692 M.C.) equivalente a cero punto dos mil seiscientos cincuenta y tres cuerdas (0.2653 cdas.) En lindes por el NORTE, en dos alineaciones de catorce punto seiscientos veintiocho metros (14.628 m.) y diecinueve punto ochocientos setenta y seis (19.876 m) con remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el SUR, en distancia de treinta y cuatro punto doscientos sesenta y siete metros (34.267 m.) con Sucesión de Herminio Morales; por el ESTE, en dos alineaciones de siete punto ciento sesenta y nueve metros (7.169 m.) y veinticuatro punto ciento ochenta y nueve metros (24.189 m.) con Lorenza Goveo Reyes y Julio Calderón Díaz; y por el OESTE, en distancia de veintiocho punto novecientos veinte metros (28.920 m.) con Sucesión de HermenegiIdo Morales. Finca #77,504, inscrito al Sistema Karibe de Bayamón Sur. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón Sección Primera. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 30 de mayo de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA-
MÓN
MUNICIPIO DE TOA ALTA
REPRESENTADO POR SU
HONORABLE ALCALDE CLEMENTE AGOSTO
LUGARDO
Peticionario Vs. ADQUISICIÓN DEL PREDIO CON UNA
CABIDA DE: 457.42 M.C.
UBICADO EN EL BARRIO CONTORNO DE TOA
MUNICIPALES TOA ALTA, JOHN Y JANE DOE
Parte con Interés
Civil Núm.: BY2023CV00455.
Sala: 701. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JOHN Y JANE DOE, A TODA PERSONA
IGNORADA, A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LO SOLICITADO, LOS QUE
TENGAN CUALQUIER
DERECHO REAL SOBRE
LA FINCA OBJETO DE ESTE PROCEDIMIENTO.
La parte peticionaria ha radicado en este Tribunal una Solicitud para que se declare a su favor, el título mediante el proceso de expropiación de la siguiente finca: “Número de Catastro: 084-051-054-45-000.
Urbana: BARRIO CONTORNO de Toa Alta. Solar: 1. Cabida: 457.42 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, con la Sucesión de Adrián Chevre en distancia de 18.94 metros. Sur, con la calle número 4 dedicada a uso público en un largo de cuerda de 1.60 metros. Este, con el solar del señor José Ramírez y un remanente de la finca principal en distancia de 31.95 metros. Oeste, con el solar número 2, en distancia de 2805 metros. Es segregación de la finca 6730 inscrito al folio 11 de tomo 161 de Toa Alta. Consta inscrita al Folio 1, del Tomo 271 de Toa Alta, Finca 6,730. Representa a la parte peticionaria, la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono es el siguiente:
ISAMAR CORREA RUIZ (RUA 16886) Edificio San Juan Towers Ave. Ponce de León 1250 - Suite 600 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00907
Teléfono: (787) 370-1700
Móvil: (787) 452-0188
Email: icorrea.correapartners@gmail.com
Habiéndose dictado Orden por el Honorable Tribunal para que la solicitud de la peticionaria sea publicada por tres (3) veces en el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, comparezcan a alegar sus derechos dentro de los veinte (20) días de la última publicación el edicto, se les apercibe que si no comparecieren a contestar dicha petición dentro del término establecido, se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 08 de mayo de 2023. LCDA.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA E. COLLAZOFEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE GREGORIA ECHEVARRÍA CORTÉS Demandante Vs SUCESIÓN DE ALFONSO LUIS QUIÑONES LUCIANO COMPUESTA POR DENISSE LUCIANO, WANDA LUCIANO, WILLIAM LUCIANO, ALFONSO QUIÑONES, JOHANNA QUIÑONES, NANCY QUIÑONES, YOLANDA QUIÑONES, LOS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE EDWIN QUIÑONES, FULANA Y FULANO DE TAL, SUTANA Y SUTANO DE TAL Y CUALQUIER OTRA PARTE CON INTERÉS EN EL ASUNTO Demandado
Civil Núm.: PO2022CV02323. Salón: 604. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE COMUNIDAD POST GANANCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. SUCESIÓN DE ALFONSO LUIS QUIÑONES LUCIANO compuesta por DENISSE LUCIANO, WANDA LUCIANO, WILLIAM LUCIANO, ALFONSO QUIÑONES, JOHANNA QUIÑONES, NANCY QUIÑONES, YOLANDA QUIÑONES, los herederos desconocidos de EDWIN QUIÑONES, FULANA Y FULANO DE TAL, SUTANA Y SUTANO DE TAL Y CUALQUIER OTRA PARTE CON INTERÉS EN EL ASUNTO A SER NOTIFICADOS POR CONDUCTO DEL LCDO. SALVADOR MARQUÉZ COLÓN; LCDO. SALVADOR MARQUÉZ COLÓN, 485 AVE. TITO CASTRO, SUITE 102, PONCE, PR 00716-0209. (Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 31 de mayo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación ge-
neral en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representado usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01 de junio de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 01 de junio de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ
QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA
REGIONAL. LOYDA E. RIVERA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instanci Sala Superior de CAGUAS.
LEGACY MORTGAGE
ASSET TRUST 2019-PRI
Demandante vs JUAN LEON SOTO T/C/C
JUAN JOSE LEON SOTO, SU ESPOSA RITA LIZARDI LOPEZ T/C/C RITA
MARIA LIZARDI LOPEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandado(a)
Civl Núm. CG2022CV02489.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA.
NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JUAN LEON SOTO
T/C/C JUAN JOSE LEON SOTO, SU ESPOSA RITA LIZARDI LOPEZ
T/C/C RITA MARIA
LIZARDI LOPEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 DE MAYO DE 2023 este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en eI procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede esta-
blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del termino 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 esta cosa, con fecha de 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023. En Caquas, Puerto Rico, 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023. LISILDA MARTINEZ AGOSTO, Secretaria. Jannette Espinosa, Sec Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN SANDRA CARMONA MONTAÑEZ
Parte Demandante Vs SUCESIÓN DE CLARA A. BELLIARD COMPUESTA
POR: MARIANN
CARMONA BELLIARD, ISAAIDA CARMONA BELLIARD, RAYNER
MENDEZ BELLIARD, JOSE MIGUEL ANDUJAR BELLIARD; HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE CLARA A BELLIARD, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV03932. (704). Sobre: EXEQUÁTUR DE SENTENCIA DE DIVORCIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: SUCESIÓN DE CLARA A. BELLIARD COMPUESTA POR: ISAAIDA CARMONA BELLIARD, MARIANN CARMONA BELLIARD, RA YNER MÉNDEZ BELLIARD, JOSÉ MIGUEL ANDÚJAR BELLIARD, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE CLARA A. BALLIARD, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante de epígrafe ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda en su contra, sobre procedimiento de Exequátur, solicitando que se dicte Sentencia dándole entera fe y crédito a la Sentencia en el caso 1691, emitida por el Juzgado de la República Dominicana el 26 de julio de 1985. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://
unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a la parte demandante, por conducto del abogado cuyo nombre, dirección, teléfono y correo electrónico se indica a continuación: Lcda. Carmen E. Alfonso Arroyo, RUA 9654, 41 Ave Fernando L. Ribas Box 355, Utuado, P.R. 00641, Tel. (787-528-2017 E: alfonsoabogada@gmail.com. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de su publicación, presentando el original de la contestación ante este Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 25 de mayo de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Lymaris Laboy Nieves, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK
COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.
Demandante Vs. JOSE ANTONIO ROSARIO RODRIGUEZ (DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO); VIRGINIA BEATO SANTANA (TITULAR REGISTRAL)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV03353.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
(A) A La Parte CoDemandada: JOSÉ ANTONIO ROSARIO RODRÍGUEZ (DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: (A) PO BOX 1395 GUAYNABO, PR 00970; (B) URB.
FAIR VIEW BLOQ. T-716 CALLE 23A SAN JUAN, PR 00926; (C) URB. FAIR VIEW #716 (T-28) CALLE
LUIS ALMANZA (23A)
SAN JUAN, PR 00926.
(B) A La Parte CoDemandada: VIRGINIA
CONOCIDAS: (A) PO BOX 1395 GUAYNABO, PR 00970; (B) URB.
FAIR VIEW BLOQ. T-716 CALLE 23A SAN JUAN, PR 00926; (C) URB. FAIR VIEW #716 (T-28) CALLE
LUIS ALMANZA (23A)
SAN JUAN, PR 00926. Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en contra de la co-demandada la parte co-demandada José Antonio Rosario Rodríguez, adeuda a la parte demandante $137,715.44 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte co-demandada José Antonio Rosario Rodríguez adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $14,300.00. Además la parte co-demandada José Antonio Rosario Rodríguez se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $14,300.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 353, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 4 de junio de 2020, ante el notario Alejandro J. Mues Arias, de la finca número 4,120, la cual costa inscrita al Folio 151 del Tomo 113 de Río Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://
unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 6 de junio de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Griselda Roríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Brenda Báez Acabá, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
MANUEL MARTORELL CABALLERO Y JOSE ANTONIO MARTORELL CABALLERO
Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR, COMO SUCESOR EN INTERÉS DE BANCO DE PONCE; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE
Demandado(a)
Civil: GB2023CV00016. Sala: 201. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de mayo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a
usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de mayo de 2023. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 30 de mayo de 2023. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional Ii. Diamar González Barreto, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE LUIS ANGEL GARCIA PEREZ COMPUESTA
POR ZULEIKA GARCIA; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00087. Sala: 705. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 6 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS. SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en LOT 40 SR 792 KM
2.9, BARRIO SONADORA, AGUAS BUENAS, PUERTO RICO 00703 y que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Sonadora de Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, identificada con el número 40 en el Plano de Inscripción de la lotificación rural con una cabida superficial de 1807.542 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en distancia de 96.681 metros, con la parcela número 41; por el SUR,
en una distancia de 95.00 metros, con la parcela número 39; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 15.00 metros, con una servidumbre de acceso al área de parque; y por el OESTE, en dos distancias de 13.038 metros, y 9.689 metros con la
Calle D. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 33 del Tomo 204 de Aguas Buenes, finca número 9,682, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $113,298.00.
Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día
13 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS
9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $75,532.00.
Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 20 DE JULIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $56,649.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 191 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de octubre de 2019, ante el Notario Pedro J. Díaz García, la cual consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Aguas Buenas, finca número 9,682, inscripción 10ma., en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $112,774.74 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de abril de 2020, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.25% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte co-demandada, La Sucesión de Luis Ángel García Pérez, adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,329.80. Además, la parte co-demandada, La Sucesión de Luis Ángel García Pérez se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,329.80 para
cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $11,329.80 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravamen anterior y/o preferente según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de junio de 2023. Ángel Gómez Gómez, Alguacil Placa #593, Alguacil De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De Caguas, Sala Superior.
Some NBA players treat their postgame interview sessions like fashion moments. They wear styled couture outfits, bold graphic shirts or lively prints — anything to stand out.
But on Wednesday night, Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray walked into the interview room after winning Game 3 of the NBA Finals wearing an unassuming white T-shirt and baggy gray sweatpants. A few glints here and there — a glittering bracelet and large stud earrings — added a little sparkle.
Murray’s attire represented an ever-present dichotomy in his public persona. There are ways in which he seems unassuming, perhaps because he is often overshadowed by his teammate Nikola Jokic. But when you really pay attention, particularly throughout this year’s playoffs, his play sparkles through those perceptions.
“Jamal, he’s a guy that thrives, lives and excels in the moment,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. “Never afraid of it. You can’t say that for a lot of players.”
When people talk about the Nuggets, they often fixate on Jokic more than Murray. It makes sense: Jokic is the engine of the team and a two-time winner of the MVP Award. He was the team’s only All-Star this season, and he has been a matchup nightmare for Denver’s playoff opponents because of his size, strength and unique ability to facilitate the team’s offense as a center.
The depth of Jokic’s talent can cause some people to undervalue what Murray contributes as Denver’s dynamic starting point guard and second-leading scorer. But on Wednesday, Murray could not be overlooked as he outscored Jokic and helped Denver take a 2-1 series lead against the Miami Heat. With the 109-94 victory, the Nuggets reclaimed the home-court advantage they lost Sunday when the Heat won Game 2 in Denver as Murray underperformed. To win the series and a championship, the Nuggets will need Murray to excel just as he did in Game 3.
Game 4 is Friday in Miami (8:30 p.m. ET, ABC).
“I mean, we win,” Jokic said when asked what it does for the Nuggets to have Murray playing as well as he has in the playoffs. “I think it’s pretty simple. But he’s playing phenomenal.”
Part of what obscures Murray’s dynamism is his difficult journey, in addition to the grand shadow cast by Jokic. Murray
doesn’t draw much attention to himself off the court. He is from a small town in Canada and has been open about meditating since high school.
He was budding into a star during the 2019-20 season when the coronavirus pandemic threatened to interrupt his path. He was having the best offensive season of his career, averaging 18.8 points per game, when the NBA paused its season in March 2020 for several months because of the pandemic.
When the season resumed on a sequestered campus at Disney World in Florida that July, Murray was even better. He averaged 26.5 points and 6.6 assists per game in the playoffs as the Nuggets fought their way to the Western Conference finals.
Doc Rivers, who coached the Los Angeles Clippers at the time, sometimes saw Murray and Malone while getting haircuts on the campus in Florida. The Clippers faced the Nuggets in the conference semifinals and lost despite having a 3-1 series lead.
“That’s like a nightmare for me,” Rivers said in April. “He was incredible.”
A year later, with the Nuggets seeming like they would challenge for a championship, Murray tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and missed the 2021 playoffs, embarking on a recovery process that can take two full years. That was 26 months ago.
“I do think he’s headed back to that direction,” Rivers said in April, referring to Murray’s star turn at Disney World. He
added, “He’s starting to do it consistently, and that’s probably what people are waiting for, but it’s going to happen. You can see it coming.”
Murray missed the entire 2021-22 season, including the Nuggets’ brief trip to the postseason, where they lost to the Golden State Warriors in the first round. This is his first playoff run since his time at Disney World.
On Wednesday, Malone said that Murray had been “dying to get back to this setting and just go out there and put on the performance that he’s putting on.”
He has scored more than 30 points in eight of the Nuggets’ 18 games this postseason. He scored 37 points twice in four games against the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference finals. He has had 10 assists in each game of the finals.
“Jamal, he expects a lot of himself,” Nuggets guard Christian Braun said. He continued, “Those are the performances we expect from him.”
Murray had 26 points, 6 rebounds and 10 assists in Game 1. In Game 2, the Heat focused on neutralizing him. They put their best player, the indefatigable Jimmy Butler, on him and often hounded him with double teams. Murray scored 18 points in the game.
“I’m not going to tell you how to beat it,” Murray said Tuesday, referring to the Heat’s plan, “but I’ve got my ways.” He smiled as he thought about it.
In the moments after Game 2, Murray had feigned self-conviction. But over the next few days, Malone saw the truth. Murray hadn’t brushed off the loss at all. He had internalized it and blamed himself.
“I felt like I didn’t bring the intensity that the moment called for,” Murray said.
“Even though I didn’t play terrible, I felt like I could have done a lot more. Most people that have watched the Nuggets play, when I have a game like that, I’m most likely going to bounce back.”
On Wednesday night, Murray responded with 34 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. He and Jokic became the first pair of NBA teammates in any regular-season or playoff game to have triple-doubles with at least 30 points in the same game. Jokic finished with 32 points, 21 rebounds and 10 assists, becoming the first player in NBA history to have at least 30 points, 20 rebounds and 10 assists in a finals game.
“It’s greatness,” Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon said. “That’s the dynamic duo right there.”
Murray scored 20 points in the first half, making 8 of 13 shots, including 3 of 5 3-pointers. Murray made a habit of making big shots to stymie Heat runs. Miami trailed by as many as 21 points.
“Jamal set the tone for their group, and he was aggressive, assertive,” Heat guard Kyle Lowry said, adding, “It made things a little bit easier for Jokic.”
Murray scored less in the second half, but he made big plays defensively and off the ball.
“Forget the stats for a second; I felt Jamal’s presence, his energy, and he was here in the moment,” Malone said.
Murray felt burdened by the way he played in Game 2, but he didn’t shy away from the feeling.
“People ask: ‘It’s a big stage. Do you get nervous and stuff?’” Murray said. “You’re supposed to be. That’s what makes you care. That’s what makes you alive. That’s what makes you enjoy these moments.”
Amoment arrives nearly every time a younger player seizes the advantage over Novak Djokovic, with designs of toppling him from his perch at the top of tennis.
It doesn’t matter how deep a hole Djokovic has dug for himself, or how well the whippersnapper on the other side of the net might be playing.
Maybe Djokovic is down by two sets, as he was against Stefanos Tsitsipas in the French Open final two years ago and against Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon last year. Perhaps Djokovic is hobbling around the court with an injury after letting his opponent draw even, as he was after four sets against Taylor Fritz at the Australian Open in 2021, when he had torn an abdominal muscle and coughed up a two-set lead.
Then the other guy begins to think he might actually be on the verge of something grand, just as Carlos Alcaraz, the 20-yearold Spanish sensation, might do Friday at the French Open in his semifinal showdown with Djokovic, a match the sport has been yearning for since the spring of 2022.
The racket becomes a little heavier, the elbow a little tighter, as Djokovic’s foes start to imagine pulling off the win. After all these years, all these matches in the deep end of a Grand Slam tournament, Djokovic, 36, can spot it from a mile away.
He doesn’t have to. Djokovic, a 22-time Grand Slam champion, is within 80 feet, and he believes in his heart that everything is about to go his way.
It happened again Tuesday after more than two hours of struggle against Karen Khachanov in the quarterfinals. Khachanov, the big, burly Russian with a hammer-like serve and forehand and nearly a decade less mileage on his legs, had taken the first set and forced a tiebreaker in the second. He had his opening.
Or not. A perfect, 7-0 tiebreaker drew Djokovic even. A break of serve in the first game of the next set put him ahead. Khachanov was finished.
“The energy of the court shifted to my side,” Djokovic said after dispatching Khachanov.
But when Djokovic faces Alcaraz, who has taken the No. 1 ranking from him twice in the past nine months, it will be a test against youth unlike anything Djokovic has faced before. The two have played only once, in May 2022, in Madrid; Djokovic and Alcaraz kept missing each other for one reason or another in the 13 months since.
“A complete player,” Lorenzo Musetti, 21, of Italy, an Alcaraz victim this week in the fourth round, said of the player he came to know on Europe’s junior circuit.
Singular moments when one generation takes over from another can feel like the shifting of tectonic plates. Every so often, men’s tennis delivers a torch-passing match: Pete Sampras tearing through John McEnroe at the 1990 U.S. Open; Roger Federer beating Sampras on Centre Court at Wimbledon in 2001. Is another one at hand?
Daniil Medvedev, the world’s secondranked player, and the only player currently in his 20s to beat Djokovic in a Grand Slam final, said not long ago that it is nearly impossible to beat Djokovic until you have
first lost to him several times. Opponents need to get used to his shot patterns and his relentless ability to make them hit one more ball after they think they have ended the point.
Not so for Alcaraz. Alcaraz beat Djokovic in their lone meeting, in a deciding-set tiebreaker no less (albeit in a best-ofthree-sets match). So far Alcaraz has exhibited none of the fragility displayed against Djokovic in big moments by his contemporaries, or even the players a few years older than he is who were supposed to be the next generation of tennis stars.
“I really want to play that match,” Alcaraz said late Tuesday after he blasted through Tsitsipas in the quarterfinals to lock in the showdown with Djokovic. “I’m going to enjoy it.”
Maybe.
One of the age-old adages about sports in general and tennis in particular is that by the time athletes have gained the wisdom and experience necessary to truly crack their sport’s code, their bodies have betrayed them. Djokovic has been giving this idea a run for its money.
That is not accidental. He almost never drinks alcohol. He tries to sleep 8 1/2 hours a night, with a focus on his prime REM sleep hours. His postmatch gym and stretching routine sometimes looks as hard as a normal person’s workout.
It is also difficult to argue that there is a sounder, more developed brain in tennis. Djokovic long ago redrew the angles of the game, finding new shots to hit and new ways to win matches and titles, becoming the world’s top-ranked player in an era when Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray were making that
as hard as it had ever been. These days, he changes the pace and rhythm of points with ease, like a baseball pitcher mixing in fastballs, curveballs, sinkers and change-ups in every at-bat. And then he uses a serve-andvolley like a player from the 1980s, just to make sure everyone knows he can do that, too.
Approaching his 45th Grand Slam semifinal, Djokovic has become a master of the five-set format, its almost inevitable emotional dips and swings. He seems to spend the first set gathering information about his opponent. If he loses that set, as he did in the last two Wimbledon finals, or even the next one, no big deal. There’s still plenty of time.
“He’s always there, you know, he’s always pushing,” Khachanov said. “He always tries to find a way.”
Whether that will work against Alcaraz is Friday’s great mystery. Alcaraz has so far shown so many of the benefits of youth — speed, strength, power, the optimism of a player who has scarcely any bad days — and so few of the pitfalls. He plays with a kind of limitless joy and freedom that other players struggle to comprehend, in the same way they struggle to handle the velocity of his forehand and his unmatched improvisational shotmaking.
Juan Carlos Ferrero, Alcaraz’s coach, said he has always wanted to surge a step ahead. When he was playing Futures tournaments, in the sport’s third tier, he believed he was ready for Challengers, the second tier; when he was playing Challengers, he believed he was ready for the main tour.
“He is able to make any shots on the court,” Ferrero said. “If you ask him to go to the net in a match point, he is able to do it. Or if I ask to return and go to the net, he is able to do it and make the drop shot.”
He can play long points or short ones. Whatever the moment calls for.
After Tuesday night, Tsitsipas had lost to both Djokovic and Alcaraz on the court where the two will face off Friday. Like everyone else, Tsitsipas said he had sized up the match as a showdown between the game’s most advanced brain, a player who seeks to maneuver his opponent and control every shot, and the game’s purest and fastest of talents.
“One has experience, the other one has legs and moves like Speedy Gonzales,” Tsitsipas said. “One can hit huge, super big shots; and the other one prefers precision, to apply pressure and make his opponent move as much as possible.”
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Answers on page 30
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
It’s like you have to do everything at the same time right now, Aries. What you really need is an extra pair of hands and some additional hours in the day! It’s your nerves that may pay the price for this fast-paced existence. You can’t go on like this. Rather than give up on your goals, why not give yourself more time to reach them?
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Why do so many relationships seem to come with built-in booby traps, Taurus? Today you may get a particularly pressing demand from someone in your family to give of your time or money. You’re unwilling to part with either at the moment. You aren’t going to let your emotions choose for you for once. Hold onto your convictions and don’t let others influence your decisions!
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
This is going to be a day to protect your sense of space and privacy, Gemini. You may be forced into some kind of partnership with some unscrupulous people. They’re going to make you feel like your territory is being invaded. What they don’t know is that you’re prepared. This isn’t a time for people to be bothering you!
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Expect to have to make some adjustments in your love life, Cancer. You may be in a different frame of mind than your partner. Why not use the day to step back from the relationship? Spend time apart for a change. After all, there’s nothing dramatic about the fact that your needs and desires aren’t in sync. It’s only temporary.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
You may find today a bit upsetting, Leo. Your nurturing instincts genuinely want to assist the many people who ask for your help and advice, yet you can’t shake the feeling that they’re taking advantage of you or trying to make you do things you don’t want to do. Yes, it’s hard to be a good parent to others and yourself at the same time.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
How irritating to realize that those pesky problems from the past haven’t been resolved, Virgo! Today you will have the strength and awareness to put these problems to rest simply by talking about them. Ironically, the reproaches made by your partner are what spark the change in attitude that you need.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
Continue slowly and steadily, Libra. You may get all worked up over nothing because you want everything done at once! It would be a good time to prioritize what you really want to do. Be cautious of anything that distracts you. You have such a great desire to live through extraordinary experiences. Give yourself the time to completely experience them!
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
For a few months now, you’ve felt that things are accelerating in your professional life, Scorpio. Perhaps some projects have developed more quickly than you anticipated. They may have even gotten a bit out of control. Today you should let yourself distinguish more clearly what you’ve done so far. You may be in for a surprise.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
If by chance you have to speak in public soon, Sagittarius, trust that people will enjoy listening to you. Words come effortlessly to you, and you exude confidence. You willingly accept the compliments of others. Your energy level is high and you will be unstoppable. This is only fair after all of the work you’ve put in these last few months!
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
Here is just the kind of day artists dream about, Capricorn. After yet another lukewarm reception of your artwork, an influential agent shows up and offers to place your paintings in one of the most prestigious museums in the world! This is just an example of the kind of extraordinary event that could be in store for you today. Whatever your pursuits, you have a very good chance of success!
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
Here is just the kind of day artists dream about, Capricorn. After yet another lukewarm reception of your artwork, an influential agent shows up and offers to place your paintings in one of the most prestigious museums in the world! This is just an example of the kind of extraordinary event that could be in store for you today. Whatever your pursuits, you have a very good chance of success!
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
If you have ties to any therapeutic profession, Pisces, you may make a strange discovery related to the health field today. You won’t find this discovery in any book or methodology that you normally follow. Emotions aren’t so blind as rational society would have us believe! Sometimes they lead us down the road toward knowledge. That’s the case today.
