Wednesday Mar 13, 2024

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DMO denies lawmaker’s ‘pay for play’ accusation

the House of Representatives, they granted him a raise that already amounts to $285,000 and bonuses up to $359,000.”

Matos García specified that Hotelier.com is a regional tourism forum that receives donations from the DMO and the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, the main sponsors.

By THE STAR STAFF

House Majority Leader Ángel Matos García on Tuesday denounced what he said is a scheme of illegal sponsorship of events produced by direct relatives of board members of Discover Puerto Rico, the island’s destination marketing organization (DMO), in exchange for votes to increase the salary of its executive director, Brad Dean.

Discover PR issued a statement denying the allegations, noting that Dean’s salary adjustment due to inflation is in his contract.

Matos said the DMO’s board of directors voted in favor of the salary hike allowing Dean to earn a base salary of $285,000 yearly, plus bonuses and royalties totaling another $350,000.

“Discover Puerto Rico was created to market Puerto Rico as a destination in global events and markets, and not for regional talks like the Hotelier. com event, a for-profit event held in the west of the country. At this event, the municipalities that participate do so in a limited fashion, as well as people from western Puerto Rico, without major impact,” the lawmaker charged. “This event produced by the son of Tomás Ramírez, a member of the board of directors of Discover Puerto Rico, receives thousands of dollars in public funds without a waiver, without going through a board vote and in a corrupt manner, in exchange for votes in favor of the [salary] increases to Brad Dean. As recently as [Monday] and without the votes in favor by the representatives of the government and

“This ‘pay for play’ scheme costs the country money. Governor Pedro Pierluisi has to express himself if he favors it, as $385,000 dollars is the salary of five governors and dozens of teachers, and it is an insult to a country that does not even have air conditioners in the classrooms,” Matos García said. “Pierluisi cannot be complicit in this theft, so we will be referring to the relevant authorities. This scheme endangers federal and state funds, since Discover Puerto Rico does not financially support the efforts of the Tourism Company with the Puerto Rico Open, The Surfing World Cup, Fitur, and the 70k Ironman, among others, but it does give away thousands of dollars illegally to friends at home.”

Discover Puerto Rico replied that the legislator’s remarks are “an example of how a politician, with some personal agenda, wants to undermine the growth and thousands of jobs that the tourism industry has seen since the inception of Discover Puerto Rico.”

Dean’s salary inflation adjustment is part of his contract and was ratified with only one board member opposing it, the DMO noted.

“That vote count reflects how the industry values Dean’s work and the economic boom he helped create over the past three years,” the firm said.

“Discover Puerto Rico has been a fundamental piece in the rapid growth of the tourism industry in recent years,” Discover PR added. “Under the leadership of Brad Dean, passenger arrivals have increased by 44%, accommodation demand by 52%, visitor spending by 29% and room tax by 74%. It is evident to us that we have to trust and invest in the fundamental resources to continue this growth that has allowed 96,000 families to obtain their livelihood from tourism.”

Rep. Ángel Matos García (Griselle Rosario)

Housing Dept. budget hike comes mostly from federal funds

By THE STAR STAFF

The House Treasury Committee, chaired by Rep. Jesús Santa Rodríguez, heard details on Tuesday of the island Housing Department’s budget for fiscal year (FY) 2024-2025, amounting to $3.3 billion.

“This recommended budget represents a total increase of $1.9 billion compared to the one approved for fiscal year 2024,” Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez said at the hearing. “However, the increase is mainly reflected in the allocation of federal funds, specifically the Disaster Recovery programs, [and] Community Development Block Grant Mitigation programs [CDBG-MIT].”

The Housing secretary said he brought several issues to the attention of the Office of Management and Budget for consideration in the FY 2025 budget.

One of them was the Materials Assistance Program, which is part of the General Fund, and is one of the department’s programmatic initiatives.

“Although we continue to provide aid through our own revenue funds, we believe that for this fiscal year an allocation of funds of at least $500,000 is necessary so that they are not affected,” Rodríguez said.

Other items that need funding are emergency management; Continuum of Core; Community Development Block Grant (CDBG); and the state’s rental match program for veterans’ housing and housing improvements for low-in-

federal funds.

Likewise, he noted that this year’s federal funds are $3.1 million.

It should be noted that, under the Section 8 program, the AVP administers 12,878 vouchers, including vouchers assigned to particular projects, such as for veterans, and other special vouchers.

Regarding disaster recovery funds, Salgado Colón said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has estimated damage caused by Hurricane María to the housing inventory at $2.2 billion. That amount includes $635.9 million for risk mitigation measures.

“From this estimate, FEMA reduced $822 million in insurance payments, so the amount for the agency is $1.4 billion,” the official said.

come seniors.

Rep. Domingo Torres García questioned the Housing chief about the alternatives for addressing the properties declared public nuisances throughout the island. Rodríguez responded that the agency is working on it in phases.

“We have created a program through mitigation funds to identify public nuisances,” the official said. “We have a nonprofit company helping us and identifying public [nuisances] in the 78 municipalities.”

In this way, he said, once the nui-

ACUDEN administrator Pagán to direct WIC

By THE STAR STAFF

Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López announced Tuesday that the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) will be directed by Roberto Carlos Pagán, effective immediately.

Pagán, in turn, will continue his duties as head of the Administration for the Integrated Care and Development of Children (ACUDEN by its Spanish acronym), an agency attached to the Family Department.

“With this appointment, we continue to integrate leaders into the Department’s team who will serve as support to strengthen

services to the population in Puerto Rico,” Mellado López said in a written statement. “Pagán has a proven and outstanding track record from ACUDEN in favor of early childhood and families, efforts that work in parallel to integrate the assistance that childhood development needs. It is important to note that this appointment does not imply an operational expense for the Department of Health.”

Mellado López emphasized that the new WIC director will continue his vision and experience in both agencies to create an environment conducive to the growth, education and health of the child population, by focusing those services on the well-being of all.

sance property is acquired, the Housing Department can use funds from the government agency to rehabilitate it and make it available to any of the programs, meaning the Repair and Reconstruction or Relocation Program (R3) or the Mitigation for Single Family Housing.

Public Housing (AVP by its Spanish initials) Administrator Alejandro Salgado Colón, meanwhile, highlighted that the recommended budget for the next fiscal year is $740.668 million and that 99.6% of this amount comes from

He added that during the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the AVP plans to carry out recovery work in some 72 public housing projects with an investment of about $95.4 million. In addition, design work will begin for another 132 projects, with an investment of $62 million.

Santa Rodríguez stressed that the purpose of the public hearings is to evaluate the budget of all government agencies, and then sit with the Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and the Financial Oversight and Management Board to discuss numbers.

“Our goal is to approve a fourth balanced budget, which is approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate, and signed by the governor, but above all validated by the [oversight] board,” Santa Rodríguez said.

Public Housing Authority Administrator Alejandro Salgado Colón, left, and Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez (Johanna Sánchez)

Roberto Carlos Pagán, who heads the Administration for the Integrated Care and Development of Children, will now also serve as director of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC. (Roberto Carlos Pagán/Facebook)

Most experts object to PREPA debt plan as damaging to island economy

By THE STAR STAFF

Experts from different organizations objected to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) debt adjustment plan during the second week of confirmation hearings.

The experts agreed the debt adjustment plan (PAD by its Spanish acronym) is unconfirmable because of its negative effect on the island economy.

The proposed plan would reduce PREPA’s debt to $2.5 billion from the current $9 billion but would add a legacy charge to customers’ bills to pay off the debt. The plan also proposes to create a pay-as-you-go pension plan for current retirees and create a defined contribution pension system for active workers.

Agustín Irizarry, a former consumer representative on the PREPA board of directors and an expert representing environmental groups such as the Environmental Dialogue Committee, the Southeast Environmental Community Alliance, the Sierra Club Puerto Rico and the Coalition of Anti-Incineration Organizations, highlighted that the Financial Oversight and Management Board is already underestimating the pace at which Puerto Rico residents are moving to solar energy.

“The electricity increases proposed by the PAD are going to cause even more people to abandon the network, which implies that PREPA will not receive the necessary income to pay the bonds, making the PAD unviable,” he

Agustín Irizarry, a former consumer representative on the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority board of directors and an expert representing numerous environmental groups, said the Financial Oversight and Management Board is already underestimating the pace at which island residents are moving to solar energy.

said at a hearing earlier this week.

Tom Sanzillo, director of financial analysis of the

Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis and an expert for the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union, emphasized that the failure, on the part of the oversight board and PREPA, to achieve balanced budgets and the continuous cash flow issues are a significant red flag regarding a possible new bond issuance, as contemplated by the PAD.

“In fact, without the contributions from the government of Puerto Rico to PREPA in recent years, it seems that PREPA would have run out of cash,” Sanzillo said. “PREPA cannot afford to pay the inherited debt without harming its ability to provide an essential service.”

José Alameda, an expert on the PREPA Employee Retirement System, detailed in his presentation that the electricity rate increases will harm Puerto Rico’s economy, even interfering with the government’s ability to comply with other obligations under already approved fiscal plans.

“Puerto Rico’s economy is already in a prolonged period of stagnation and further increases in [the cost of electricity], as proposed by the PREPA Debt Adjustment Plan, will undermine the possibilities of future economic development,” Alameda said.

Experts from the group of bondholders who oppose the PAD argued meanwhile that the people of Puerto Rico can afford even more through the electricity rate than what the current plan proposes. The oversight board has said power rates should not be more than 6% of a household’s budget.

Electrical engineers to spotlight energy grid transformation at meeting

By THE STAR STAFF

The Electrical Engineers Institute of the Engineers and Surveyors Association of Puerto Rico (CIAPR by its Spanish initials) will hold its traditional meeting “Electro Friday 2024” next week at the Convention Center in Miramar.

The gathering of professionals with the theme “Energy of the Future: Transforming Our Energy System” will take place on Friday, March 22 with registration starting at 7 a.m. An educational exchange will take place from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and the day will conclude with a social event.

“We seek the participation of the industry to share issues of relevance and the direction of technological developments,” said Institute of Electrical Engineers President Francisco Borges Aponte. “In this way, we keep the Association at the forefront of the evolution of the industry.”

Helping shape the central theme will be top professionals in the field such as CIAPR President Faustino González Quiles; Puerto Rico Energy Bureau Chairman Edison Avilés Deliz; LUMA Energy Vice President of

Capital Programs Juan Rodríguez; Genera PR Chief Regulatory Officer Katiuska Bolaños; La Fortaleza Deputy Chief of Staff for Energy Affairs Francisco G. Berríos Portela; Dr. Agustín Irizarry of the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus, a former consumer representative on the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority governing board; and Sonia Miranda Vega, Integra Design Group’s program manager for electrical power infrastructure design.

The professional meeting of a didactic nature will be conducted in modules divided into the following topics: Microgrids, Telecommunications, Reliability in the Electrical System, Power Generation and Biomedicine.

“One of the most important professional activities that takes place in our association is Electro Friday,” González Quiles noted. “Electrical engineers have in this activity a unique opportunity to acquire knowledge and be at the forefront of topics relevant to their profession.”

The event will equate to seven technical hours for engineers, and seven general hours for surveyors. The entrance fee will include breakfast, snacks, lunch and cocktail. Registration is through the CIAPR portal, www.ciapr.org.

The Electrical Engineers Institute’s “Electro Friday 2024” professional meeting on March 22 will be conducted in modules divided into the following topics: Microgrids, Telecommunications, Reliability in the Electrical System, Power Generation and Biomedicine.

Governor participates in first 2 Gen Summit

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia participated on Tuesday in the first Summit of the 2 Generations Centers, better known as 2 Gen, along with Family Secretary Ciení Rodríguez Troche, Administration for the Care and Comprehensive Development of Children (ACUDEN) head Roberto Carlos Pagán, legislators, mayors, agency heads, and staff from nonprofit organizations.

The summit, which was also attended by members of the general public, provided an opportunity to point out the efforts being made to meet the needs of minors and their families, as well as offer training, professional development and workshops on core issues for the proper functioning of the centers.

“As governor, I reaffirm my commitment and that of my administration to continue working hard to contribute to the comprehensive development of our boys and girls, as well as their families,” Pierluisi said in a written statement. “The 2 Gen Centers follow a two-generation comprehensive development model, with an innovative and transformative approach, led by our Family Department and ACUDEN. The adoption of this model arises from the constant search for effective strategies to address the challenges that our families face, as well as the complexities of poverty and inequality.”

“One of the fundamental pillars of comprehensive development in the 2 Gen Centers is their holistic approach, simultaneously addressing the needs of minors and their families,” Pierluisi said. “With this dual approach we know that long-term success is intrinsically linked to the stability of the entire family. By providing resources and support to parents, we can create a more conducive environment for child development and establish a positive cycle that helps overcome the intergenerational cycle of poverty. Investing in the development of sustainable skills and resources creates stronger, more self-sufficient communities, decreasing dependence on social assistance in the long term.”

“Furthermore, this model recognizes that early education can have a lasting impact on social mobility, as investment in education not only increases individual opportunities, but also strengthens the family structure,” he added.

The governor noted that the 2 Gen Centers provide a range of integrated counseling services, workshops for parents and guardians, access to a virtual library, financial and economic sustainability training, in addition to child development services, which include the areas of language and communication, socio-emotional, physical and cognitive development, as well as special education.

Currently, there are 12 remodeled facilities in the municipalities of Utuado, Vega Baja, Vega Alta, Cayey, Patillas, Guayanilla,

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, left, and Administration for the Care and Comprehensive Development of Children head Roberto Carlos Pagán

San Juan, Naranjito, Toa Baja, Juncos, Coamo and Ciales, and the COSSIANI centers were recently inaugurated in Toa Baja, Naranjito and San Juan.

“We are going to continue transforming the way and manner in which we provide services to our people,” the governor stressed. “This approach is consistent with our Social Reconstruction and Violence Prevention efforts, because to the extent that we help our families, address their needs and provide them with the services that promote their development and sustainability, we will achieve a more just and equitable society, which promotes the culture of peace and respect to which we all aspire in Puerto Rico.”

“For that I count on all of you, because it is through collaborative work and unity of purpose that we will be able to build that Puerto Rico that we all want,” Pierluisi said.

Body of 2nd man who drowned off Condado is recovered

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico Police Bureau officers found the body of a second drowning victim in the ocean three miles off Condado in the early morning hours of Tuesday.

Officers assigned to the Tourist Precinct and Calle Loíza were alerted on Sunday afternoon regarding two people dragged by the sea currents off the beach located at the back of the Ventana del Mar park in Condado.

Police reportedly received a call through the 9-1-1 Emergency System reporting the incident. Personnel from the San Juan

Municipal Medical Emergency Department and the Emergency Management Bureau, along with the Coast Guard, mobilized to the scene and commenced search and rescue actions.

One of the bodies was pulled from the water later that day and transported to the emergency room at Ashford Presbyterian Community Hospital, where the doctor on duty certified that there were no vital signs. The drowned man was identified as Charles Victor Daniel Poor, 20, of Illinois.

Meanwhile, the search continued for a second man who was dragged under, identified as Fidel Cruz Llanos, 35, whose body was found in the morning hours three nautical miles north of

La Concha hotel. The body of the Puerto Rico National Guard member, who according to reports had entered the water in an attempt to rescue Poor, was recovered by Joint Forces of Rapid Action (FURA by its Spanish acronym) personnel and taken to the San Juan Maritime Unit to continue with the protocol in such cases.

Agent Yahaira Vélez Soto of the San Juan Criminal Investigations Corps Homicide Division, consulted the case with prosecutor Gracielis Vega Bermúdez, who granted permission for the removal and transfer of the body to the Institute of Forensic Sciences.

Justice issues results of probe into abortion clinics and minors

By THE STAR STAFF

Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández on Tuesday released the results of a complete investigation stemming from a Senate Committee on Life and Family Affairs referral that abortion clinics were not reporting abuse against minors seeking to end their pregnancies.

Emanuelli Hernández highlighted in a written statement that “each of the cases identified was investigated, with the

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protection of minors as a priority, as well as safeguarding their health and safety.”

The official emphasized the effort made by the Justice Department to carry out criminal investigations in two cases involving minors under 15 years of age.

“As a result of the process, criminal investigations were launched into the possible commission of sexual crimes against two minors under 15 years of age,” he said. “In this way, we try to prosecute and ensure that those responsible are penalized, to provide justice to the victims.”

Regarding the controversy over the clinics’ lack of notification, the secretary added: “We carried out a legal analysis and concluded that if it was determined that they engaged in illegal conduct, criminal action would be undertaken.”

A report from the Puerto Rico Department of Justice has shown that, of 67 suspected cases of sexual abuse of minors who underwent abortions, the clinics only made three referrals for investigation. The finding arose after an investigation requested by the Committee on Life and Family Affairs, which revealed significant noncompliance with the law that requires reporting cases of abuse.

Emanuelli Hernández reaffirmed the commitment of the Justice Department to the defense of minors and the importance of urgently and sensitively addressing any complaint of crimes against them.

“We urge citizens to watch over and protect minors, who are vulnerable to harmful behaviors that threaten their integrity and development,” he said.

Sen. Joanne Rodríguez Veve, who chairs the committee, stressed the seriousness of the situation and the need to take legislative measures to guarantee the protection of minors.

“From the above arises the need to approve legislation and amend the corresponding regulations to ensure the protection of minors aged 15 years or younger who attend abortion clinics,” she said in a written statement.

The investigation revealed, meanwhile, that in many cases the sexual conduct that resulted in pregnancy was carried out with the consent and knowledge of both parties, without the use of force or intimidation. However, there were situations in which the age difference between the girl and the boy was significant, constituting a crime under the commonwealth Penal Code.

Biden’s budget underscores divide with Republicans and Trump

By JIM TANKERSLEY

President Joe Biden earlier this week proposed a $7.3 trillion budget packed with tax increases on corporations and high earners, new spending on social programs and a wide range of efforts to combat high consumer costs like housing and college tuition.

The proposal includes only relatively small changes from the budget plan Biden submitted last year, which went nowhere in Congress, though it reiterates his call for lawmakers to spend about $100 billion to strengthen border security and deliver aid to Israel and Ukraine.

Most of the new spending and tax increases included in the fiscal year 2025 budget again stand almost no chance of becoming law this year, given that Republicans control the House and roundly oppose Biden’s economic agenda. Last week, House Republicans passed a budget proposal outlining their priorities, which are far afield from what Democrats have called for.

Instead, the document will serve as a draft of Biden’s policy platform as he seeks reelection in November, along with a series of contrasts intended to draw a distinction with his presumptive Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump.

Biden has sought to reclaim strength on economic issues with voters who have given him low marks amid elevated inflation. This budget aims to portray him as a champion of increased government aid for workers, parents, manufacturers, retirees and students, as well as the fight against climate change.

Speaking in New Hampshire on Monday, Biden heralded the budget as a way to raise revenue to pay for his priorities by raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans and big corporations.

“I’m not anti-corporation,” he said. “I’m a capitalist, man. Make all the money you want. Just begin to pay your fair share in taxes.”

The budget proposes about $5 trillion in new taxes on corporations and the wealthy over a decade. Administration officials said Monday that those increases would be split equally between corporations and the nation’s highest earners, and that Americans earning less than $400,000 a year would enjoy tax cuts totaling $750 billion under their plans.

“We can do all of our investments by asking those in the top 1 and 2% to pay more into the system,” Shalanda Young, the director of the White House budget office, told reporters.

The president has already begun trying to portray Trump as the opposite: a supporter of further tax cuts for the well-off. “Do you really think the wealthy and big corporations need another $2 trillion tax break?,” Biden asked in New Hampshire, referencing Trump — but not by name. “Because that’s what he wants to do.”

Speaker Mike Johnson and other members of House Republican leadership criticized Biden in a statement released Monday afternoon. “The price tag of President Biden’s proposed budget is yet another glaring reminder of this administration’s insatiable appetite for reckless spending and the Democrats’ disregard for fiscal responsibility,” they said.

Polls have found that Americans are dissatisfied with Biden’s handling of the economy and favor Trump’s approach to economic issues. But the president has been unwavering in his core economic policy strategy, and the budget shows that he is not deviating from that plan.

Biden’s budget proposes about $3 trillion in new measures to reduce the federal deficit over the next decade. That is in line with his budget proposal last year, which narrowed deficits by raising taxes on businesses and the rich and by allowing the government to bargain more aggressively with pharmaceutical companies to reduce spending on prescription drugs.

The budget again calls for raising the corporate tax rate to 28% from 21%, the level Trump set in the tax bill he signed in late 2017. It increases a new minimum tax on large corporations and quadruples a tax on stock buybacks, among other efforts to raise more revenue from companies and individuals who make more than $400,000 a year.

Those savings would build on discretionary spending limits that Biden and congressional Republicans agreed on last year to resolve a standoff over raising the nation’s borrowing limit. They still would leave the nation with historically high budget deficits: about $1.6 trillion a year on average over the next decade, by administration forecasts. As a share of the economy, deficits would decline in that time — but total government debt as a share of the economy would tick upward.

House Republicans released a budget last week that

seeks to reduce deficits much faster — balancing the budget by the end of the decade. Their savings relied on economic growth forecasts that are well above mainstream forecasters’ expectations, along with steep and often unspecified spending cuts.

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget called the Republican plan “unrealistic in its assumptions and outcomes.” On Monday, the group called Biden’s proposed deficit reduction “a welcome start, but a too timid one.”

Biden and his aides have repeatedly said they believed the projected deficits in his budgets would not hurt the economy. Young and Jared Bernstein, who leads the White House Council of Economic Advisers, repeated that position Monday, even after acknowledging that the budget now forecasts higher government borrowing costs over the next decade than previous budgets have.

Instead of turning toward more aggressive deficit reduction, as prior Democratic presidents have done after losing control of a chamber of Congress, Biden has leaned into the need for new spending programs and targeted tax incentives to bolster growth and the middle class.

In another key area, Biden’s proposal punts on key details: what to do about the provisions of the 2017 Republican tax law, including tax cuts for individuals, that expire in 2025. The budget calls that expiration, which was written into the law in order to hold down its estimated cost, “fiscally reckless.” But it does not specify how Biden would handle the expirations if he wins a second term.

Instead, the budget says Biden would seek to extend tax breaks for people earning less than $400,000 a year, offset with “additional reforms to ensure that wealthy people and big corporations pay their fair share.”

President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to a field office for his presidential campaign in Manchester, N.H., Monday, March, 11, 2024. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

In death penalty cases, a Texas court tests the Supreme Court’s patience

sometimes called the CCA, had seemed to defy the Supreme Court, said Jordan M. Steiker, a law professor at the University of Texas.

“The CCA has a remarkable history of treating Supreme Court opinions as optional guideposts rather than the commands of a higher tribunal,” he said. “It often remains committed to reasoning that the Supreme Court has implicitly or even explicitly rejected. And the Supreme Court on more than one occasion has had to exercise jurisdiction multiple times in the same case, not merely to clarify a point of federal constitutional law, but to reaffirm the hierarchy of courts in our federal system.”

Escobar’s lawyers returned to the Supreme Court last month to ask it to intervene again in the face of the state court’s failure to give what they said was “any deference to the considered judgment of the law enforcement officers who secured the guilty verdict.”

The central question in Escobar’s case — of what weight to give prosecutors’ confessions of error — is already before the justices. In January, the court agreed to decide whether Richard Glossip, a death row inmate in Oklahoma, deserves a new trial after a confession of error from the state’s Republican attorney general.

The justices will hear arguments in Glossip’s case in the fall. There is reason to think they may decide to have Escobar’s case argued alongside it.

Justice Neil Gorsuch is recused from the Glossip case, having heard part of it as an appeals court judge. Granting review in Escobar’s case would ensure that the court will not end up evenly divided on the question.

By ADAM LIPTAK

After a Texas prosecutor’s extraordinary concession that his office had used false evidence to secure a death sentence, the Supreme Court told a Texas appeals court last year to have another look at the case.

It is not every day that a prosecutor “confesses error,” as lawyers say, and joins a defendant in asking that a conviction be thrown out, much less in a capital case in Texas. The Supreme Court, which is generally impatient with death penalty appeals,

took notice.

It sent the case, of a death row inmate named Areli Escobar, back to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest court for criminal matters, “for further consideration in light of the confession of error by Texas.”

But that court, in a 6-3 decision, had other ideas. “While the state’s confession of error in a criminal case is important and carries great weight, we are not bound by it,” presiding Judge Sharon Keller wrote for five judges, quoting an earlier decision and clearing the way for Escobar’s execution.

This was not the first time that court,

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals — not to be confused with the Texas Supreme Court, which hears civil matters — has tested the justices’ patience in earlier cases. In 2017, for instance, the Supreme Court ruled that the state court had used the wrong standard in determining that a death row inmate, Bobby J. Moore, was not intellectually disabled. That determination made Moore eligible to be executed.

As in Escobar’s case, the justices returned the case to the Court of Criminal Appeals for another look. As in Escobar’s case, the prosecutor changed positions and sided with the inmate, saying Moore was indeed intellectually disabled. And as in Escobar’s case, the appeals court reaffirmed its earlier ruling.

When Moore’s case returned to the Supreme Court in 2019, it scolded the state court as it reversed its ruling.

“We have found in its opinion too many instances in which, with small variations, it repeats the analysis we previously found wanting, and these same parts are critical to its ultimate conclusion,” the majority said in an unsigned opinion.

Chief Justice John Roberts, who had dissented from the 2017 decision, now joined the majority. He said in a concurring opinion that the state court had “repeated the same errors that this court previously condemned.”

Moore was resentenced to life in prison. In 2020, he was granted parole.

The Texas case has other features that could interest the justices. They include the state court’s rejection of an 86-page decision from a judge who had concluded that Escobar’s conviction was based on junk science produced by a police DNA lab so riddled with problems that it had to be shut down.

In nevertheless upholding Escobar’s conviction, the state appeals court cited other evidence tying him to the 2011 murder of Bianca Maldonado Hernandez, including cell tower records and a partial fingerprint. But the centerpiece of the case was evidence from the DNA lab.

At a court hearing on a challenge to Escobar’s conviction, a juror said that the DNA evidence had been crucial.

“I was sitting on the fence, if you will, as to whether he was guilty or not guilty all the way up to when the DNA evidence was submitted to the jury and, for me, that was the sealing factor,” the juror said.

José P. Garza, the district attorney whose office had obtained the conviction, said it took him some time to rethink his position.

“But as more evidence came to light about how flawed the evidence the jury relied upon was, we had to reevaluate that position,” he said in a 2022 interview. “Although it is the instinct of every district attorney to defend convictions, our job is to see that justice is done.”

Daniel Woofter, a lawyer for Escobar, said the core issue in the case was a simple one.

“I don’t know how anyone could think that it is just to put this man to death,” he said, “based on a conviction that the prosecutor can’t support.”

The Supreme Court building in Washington, on March 4, 2024. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, one law professor says, treats Supreme Court rulings as “optional guideposts rather than the commands of a higher tribunal.” (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

Testimony fleshes out account of Trump’s demand to go to Capitol on Jan. 6

By LUKE BROADWATER

President Donald Trump had just delivered his fiery speech at the Ellipse early on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, setting in motion the attack by his supporters on the Capitol.

When he got into his armored vehicle after the speech, Trump immediately brought up a topic he often broached after his public appearances: How big was the crowd?

But within 30 seconds, his conversation with his lead Secret Service agent took a more contentious turn, according to a transcript released Monday of an interview by House investigators of another Secret Service agent who was driving the car. Trump wanted to go to the Capitol, but his lead agent, Robert Engel, said no, telling him there was no plan in place.

“The president was insistent on going to the Capitol,” recounted the driver, whose name was not disclosed. “It was clear to me he wanted to go to the Capitol. He was not screaming at Engel. He was not screaming at me. Certainly his voice was raised, but it did not seem to me that he was irate — certainly not, certainly didn’t seem as irritated or agitated as he had on the way to the Ellipse.”

But, the driver said, Trump never lunged for the steering wheel or physically accosted the agents, contradicting the most sensational and hotly disputed elements of testimony given to the House Jan. 6 committee by a White House aide. The transcript of the driver is the first extensive eyewitness account of what happened in the armored vehicle to be made public.

“I did not see him reach,” the Secret Service driver told investigators for the House panel. “He never grabbed the steering wheel. I didn’t see him, you know, lunge to try to get into the front seat at all. You know, what stood out was the irritation in his voice, more than his physical presence.”

The driver’s transcript adds detail to one of the most scrutinized episodes of Jan. 6, 2021. The transcript was never released publicly by the House Jan. 6 committee, which entered into an agreement with the Secret Service regarding 12 interviews to avoid disclosing “privacy information, for-official-use-only information, intelligence and law enforcement sensitive records and raw intelligence information.”

Republicans have suggested that the panel did not release the transcript because it contradicts portions of a public account of the incident from a prominent witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as an aide to Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff at the time. Hutchinson testified in June 2022 that she had heard about what happened from others second- or thirdhand. Republicans have faulted the panel’s decision to promote her account of Trump’s behavior in the vehicle.

A letter from Jonathan Meyer, general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, provided a reason that the driver’s transcript had not been released. The House committee requested that the department review the transcripts for sensitive information that should be protected from disclosure so that the remainder could become “part of the historical record.”

More than a year after the driver was interviewed in November 2022, the agency was still reviewing the transcripts, Meyer wrote to House Republicans in February. He said the agency determined it could release redacted versions of six interviews, including the driver’s, to Republicans who are investigating the committee’s work while looking for irregularities or signs of bias.

Republicans released a copy of their report into the committee’s work on Monday afternoon, pillorying the Department of Homeland Security for taking so long to release certain transcripts and criticizing instances in which Hutchinson changed or corrected her testimony.

“This firsthand testimony directly contradicts Cassidy Hutchinson’s story and the former J6 select committee’s narrative,” said Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., who has been leading the House GOP effort to investigate the work of the Jan. 6 committee for bias. “Although the select committee had this critical information, they still promoted Ms. Hutchinson’s thirdhand version of events in their final report.”

Former aides to the select committee counter that the panel’s final report included details of interviews with the driver and that there was no cover-up. The final report also makes reference to the testimony of Engel, even though neither transcript was

released at the time.

“Engel did not characterize the exchange in the vehicle the way Hutchinson described the account she heard from Ornato, and indicated that he did not recall President Trump gesturing toward him,” the Jan. 6 committee’s report stated, referring to Anthony Ornato, the White House deputy chief of staff and an active Secret Service agent whom Hutchinson cited as one source of the story she relayed.

The panel’s report added, “The driver testified that he did not recall seeing what President Trump was doing and did not recall whether there was movement.”

“It is difficult to fully reconcile the accounts of several of the witnesses who provided information with what we heard from Engel and Ornato,” the report concluded. “But the principal factual point here is clear and undisputed: President Trump specifically and repeatedly requested to be taken to the Capitol. He was insistent and angry, and continued to push to travel to the Capitol even after returning to the White House.”

The driver’s transcript is the most detailed firsthand account so far of how Trump behaved inside his presidential motorcade that day, traveling the short distance from the White House to the Ellipse, and it corroborates several aspects of the testimony of Hutchinson and other committee witnesses.

Trump had begun the morning in a “pretty agitated, pretty irritated” mood on his way to the Ellipse, the driver testified. The president’s voice contained a “tinge of anger” as he spoke with Engel, who rode with him in the vehicle.

The driver said Trump was angry at Vice President Mike Pence, who had been resisting Trump’s efforts to block congressional certification that day of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.

“I don’t remember exactly how he phrased it, but my recollection is that he was upset that the vice president was unwilling to not certify the Electoral College,” the driver testified.

After the speech, in which Trump repeated his baseless claims of election fraud, assailed Pence and fired up the crowd of his supporters, he got back in the armored SUV and started demanding to go to the Capitol along with the crowd to protest the congressional certification.

Trump, he said, appeared unconvinced that an unplanned trip posed a security threat, given that the crowd at the Capitol would be his supporters.

“I don’t remember exactly what prompted it or how that portion of the conversation kind of grew organically, but he was pushing pretty hard to go,” the agent testified. He added, “The thing that sticks out most was he kept asking why we couldn’t go, why we couldn’t go, and that he wasn’t concerned about the people that were there or referenced them being Trump people or Trump supporters.”

Protestors surround the U.S. Capitol as they breached the doors on Jan. 6, 2021, after a rally at which President Donald Trump spoke. Newly released testimony from a Secret Service officer adds new details to one of the most disputed episodes of Jan. 6, 2021. (Jason Andrew/The New York Times)

FAA audit of Boeing’s 737 Max production found dozens of issues

By MARK WALKER

Asix-week audit by the Federal Aviation Administration of Boeing’s production of the 737 Max jet found dozens of problems throughout the manufacturing process at the plane maker and one of its key suppliers, according to a slide presentation reviewed by The New York Times.

The air-safety regulator initiated the examination after a door panel blew off a 737 Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight in early January. Last week, the agency announced that the audit had found “multiple instances” in which Boeing and the supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, failed to comply with quality-control requirements, though it did not provide specifics about the findings.

The presentation reviewed by the Times, though highly technical, offers a more detailed picture of what the audit turned up. Since the Alaska Airlines episode, Boeing

has come under intense scrutiny over its quality-control practices, and the findings add to the body of evidence about manufacturing lapses at the company.

For the portion of the examination focused on Boeing, the FAA conducted 89 product audits, a type of review that looks at aspects of the production process. The plane maker passed 56 of the audits and failed 33 of them, with a total of 97 instances of alleged noncompliance, according to the presentation.

The FAA also conducted 13 product audits for the part of the inquiry that focused on Spirit AeroSystems, which makes the fuselage, or body, of the 737 Max. Six of those audits resulted in passing grades, and seven resulted in failing ones, the presentation said.

At one point during the examination, the air-safety agency observed mechanics at Spirit using a hotel key card to check a door seal, according to a document that describes some of the findings. That action was “not identified/documented/called-out in the production order,” the document said.

In another instance, the FAA saw Spirit mechanics apply liquid Dawn soap to a door seal “as lubricant in the fit-up process,” according to the document. The door seal was then cleaned with a wet cheesecloth, the document said, noting that instructions were “vague and unclear on what specifications/actions are to be followed or recorded by the mechanic.”

Asked about the appropriateness of using a hotel key card or Dawn soap in those situations, a spokesperson for Spirit, Joe Buccino, said the company was “reviewing all identified nonconformities for corrective action.”

Boeing did not immediately comment on the results of the audit. In late February, the FAA gave the company 90 days to develop a plan for quality-control improvements. In response, its CEO, Dave Calhoun, said that “we have a clear picture of what needs to be done,” citing in part the audit findings.

Boeing said this month that it was in talks to acquire Spirit, which it spun off in 2005. Buccino said Monday that Spirit had received preliminary audit findings from the FAA and planned to work with Boeing to address what the regulator had raised. He said Spirit’s goal was to reduce to zero the number of defects and errors in its processes.

“Meanwhile, we continue multiple efforts undertaken to improve our safety and quality programs,” Buccino said. “These improvements focus on human factors and other steps to minimize nonconformities.”

The FAA said it could not release specifics about the audit because of its ongoing investigation into Boeing in response to the Alaska Airlines episode. In addition to that inquiry, the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating what caused the door panel to blow off the plane, and the Justice

Department has begun a criminal investigation.

During the FAA’s examination, the agency deployed as many as 20 auditors at Boeing and roughly half a dozen at Spirit, according to the slide presentation. Boeing assembles the 737 Max at its plant in Renton, Washington, while Spirit builds the plane’s fuselage at its factory in Wichita, Kansas.

The audit at Boeing was wide ranging, covering many parts of the 737 Max, including its wings and an assortment of other systems.

Many of the problems found by auditors fell in the category of not following an “approved manufacturing process, procedure or instruction,” according to the presentation. Some other issues dealt with quality-control documentation.

One audit dealt with the component that blew off the Alaska Airlines jet, known as a door plug. Boeing failed that check, according to the presentation. Some of the issues flagged by that audit related to inspection and quality-control documentation, though the exact findings were not detailed in the presentation.

The FAA’s examination also explored how well Boeing’s employees understood the company’s quality-control processes. The agency interviewed six company engineers and scored their responses, and the overall average score came out to only 58%.

One audit at Spirit that focused on the door plug component found five problems. One of those problems, the presentation said, was that Boeing “failed to provide evidence of approval of minor design change under a method acceptable to the FAA.” It was not clear from the presentation what the design change was.

Another audit dealt with the installation of the door plug, and it was among those that Spirit failed. The audit raised concerns about the Spirit technicians who carried out the work and found that the company “failed to determine the knowledge necessary for the operation of its processes.”

Other audits that Spirit failed included one that involved a cargo door and another that dealt with the installation of cockpit windows.

Many of the problems found by auditors fell in the category of not following an “approved manufacturing process, procedure or instruction,” according to the presentation.

S&P 500 posts record high close as Oracle jumps, traders keep rate-cut bets

U.S. stocks ended sharply higher on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 registering a record high close as Oracle shares surged and consumer price data failed to dampen investor hopes of interest rate cuts in the coming months.

Shares of Oracle reached a record high, a day after it reported upbeat quarterly results and said it is set to make a joint announcement with chip-giant Nvidia.

Nvidia shares also jumped, and an index of semiconductors snapped a two-day losing streak.

The Labor Department reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4% last month after climbing 0.3% in January. Excluding volatile food and energy components, consumer prices increased 0.4% in February after rising by the same margin in January.

“Investors have gotten comfortable with the notion that it’s not about when the Fed will lower rates but rather by how much, and a delay - whether it happens in May like many were initially hoping or in September - ultimately doesn’t matter,” said Oliver Pursche, senior vice president and advisor for Wealthspire Advisors in Westport, Connecticut.

“It’s that they will and that a less restrictive environment is coming.”

Traders now see a 70% chance of the first rate cut coming in June, the CME FedWatch Tool showed, versus 71% ahead of the inflation report.

According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 gained 57.12 points, or 1.12%, to end at 5,175.06 points, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 244.80 points, or 1.53%, at 16,264.08. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 230.43 points, or 0.59%, to 39,000.09.

“If you look at economic data, it continues to be pretty strong,” Pursche added. “And from my perspective as a consumer, employee and investor, I’d rather have a strong economy and slightly elevated interest rates than a weak economy that requires stimulus.”

Producer price data is due later this week.

On the down side, shares of Boeing fell. Boeing told employees in a memo on Tuesday that it is adding weekly compliance checks for every 737 factory work area and additional audits of equipment to reduce quality problems.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has curbed Boeing production following the mid-air panel blowout on a new Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 jet on Jan. 5.

Also, U.S. carriers warned that their plans to increase capacity were in doubt due to jet delivery delays from Boeing.

U.S. consumer prices rose more than expected in January, amid a surge in the cost of rental housing, prompting a 1.4% drop for the benchmark stock index on Feb. 13, when the data was released.

After last month’s stronger-than-expected report, “there is certainly more trepidation regarding tomorrow’s data and this will add to the nervousness of the options market today,” said Matthew Tym, head of equity derivatives trading at Cantor Fitzgerald.

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Investors are now pricing in 94 basis points of rate cuts this year, compared to around 150 basis points they had priced in early January, according to futures tied to the fed funds. So far, however, a resilient economy, better-than-expected earnings and confidence that the Fed will nevertheless cut rates several times before the year is up have supported stocks.

According to a Reuters survey of economists, the CPI likely increased 0.4% in February, with the annual increase

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in prices at 3.1%. The core CPI is also forecast advancing 0.3%, with the year-on-year increase slowing to 3.7% from 3.9% in January.

The S&P 500 index was down 0.16% Monday afternoon and the Cboe Volatility Index - an options-based gauge of investors’ expectation for near-term stock market gyrations perked up 0.46 point to 15.20, a near three-week high.

Haiti is in the throes of an uprising not seen in decades. As politicians around the region scramble to hash out a diplomatic solution to a political crisis that has the prime minister, Ariel Henry, stranded in Puerto Rico and gangs attacking police stations, a humanitarian disaster is quickly escalating. The food supply is threatened, and access to water and health care has been severely curtailed.

Haiti’s leader, under growing pressure, says he will resign

Prime Minister Ariel Henry of Haiti at his residence in Port-au-Prince on Aug. 3, 2021. Henry, who has come under growing pressure to resign as gangs have overrun the country, said late Monday, March 11, 2024, that he would step down once a transitional council had been established, to pave the way for the election of a new president and help restore stability.

(Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)

By ANDRE PAULTRE, EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA and DAVID C. ADAMS

Haiti’s prime minister, who has come under growing pressure to resign as gangs have overrun the country, said late Monday that he would step down once a transitional council had been established, to pave the way for the election of a new president and help restore stability.

“The government that I lead will withdraw immediately after the installation of this council,” Prime Minister Ariel Henry said in a speech posted on social media. Referring to the chaos in Haiti, he said, “It hurts us and it revolts us to see all these people dying. The government that I lead cannot remain insensitive to this situation.”

But it was far from clear when Henry — who had been under growing pressure, both in Haiti and abroad, to step down — would actually do so.

Leaders from Caribbean nations, who have led the push to create a transitional council, met for discussions in Jamaica on Monday but said no plan had been finalized. Guyana’s president, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, who leads Caricom, a union of 15 Caribbean countries, said that “we still have a long way to go.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who attended the meeting in Kingston, Jamaica’s capital, announced that the United States would provide an additional $100 million in aid toward a United Nations-backed multinational security mission planned to deploy to Haiti. He also pledged an additional $33 million in humanitarian aid, bringing the U.S. commitments to $333 million.

“We can help. We can help restore a foundation of security,” Blinken said. “Only the Haitian people can and only the Haitian people should determine their own future, not anyone else.”

Henry left Haiti for Kenya in early March to finalize an agreement for the multinational force, led by the East African nation, to deploy and take on the gangs. Since then, he has been stranded outside his country while gang members wreak havoc and demand his resignation.

Henry, who has been staying in Puerto Rico, did not attend Monday’s meeting, and it was unclear if he had taken part remotely in the discussion.

After months of delays, Haiti and Kenya signed an agreement this month to move forward with the deployment

of 1,000 Kenyan police officers to the Caribbean nation. President William Ruto of Kenya said his country had a “historic duty” to press ahead because “peace in Haiti is good for the world as a whole.”

Kenya’s interior minister, Kithure Kindiki, announced Monday that the mission was in the “predeployment stage” and that all other programs and enforcement measures related to the deployment were already in place.

So far, however, there is no clear timeline for when the multinational force will deploy.

“We are deeply distressed that it is already too late for too many who have lost far too much at the hands of criminal gangs,” said Andrew Holness, the prime minister of Jamaica. “The fear of the situation in Haiti worsening to become a civil war is now a real one. We are all agreed that this cannot be allowed to happen, not in our hemisphere.”

Haiti has spiraled into a state of extreme unrest since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 led to widespread gang violence. To date, the country has no president nor any other elected national officials.

Henry was sworn in as prime minister only two weeks after Moïse’s killing. But Haitians have not yet been able to choose a democratically elected successor.

The current unrest is on a scale not seen in decades. The recent escalation of violence, gang attacks on police stations and even coordinated assaults on two prisons have left Haitians to deal with a humanitarian disaster as access to food, water and health care has been severely curtailed.

Over the weekend, U.S. forces evacuated nonessential U.S. citizen workers from the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince and added more security personnel, according to a statement from the Defense Department’s Southern Command. It said no Haitians were included in the airlift.

US to send $300 million in weapons to Ukraine under makeshift plan

By HELENE COOPER

The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it was sending up to $300 million in weapons to Ukraine, the first new aid package for the country since funding ran out in late December.

The package, pulled together from money that Army accountants cobbled from savings from contracts that came in under bid, includes air defense interceptors, artillery rounds and armor systems, senior defense officials said. It was unclear whether the measure included longer-range missiles known as ATACMs.

It is a stopgap measure at best, the officials said, but Ukraine is in dire need of air defense systems in particular, as Russia has continued its bombardment of towns particularly in the east.

The makeshift solution would keep advancing Russian

troops at bay for only a few weeks, one official said.

The Senate passed an emergency aid bill including $60.1 billion for Ukraine. But the measure faces an uncertain fate in the House of Representatives, where Republican leaders have refused to put the measure to a vote. While congressional officials say there is a critical mass of support for continuing to arm Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression, the Republican Party is increasingly turning away from its traditional hawkish posture and belief in projecting American power and democratic principles around the world.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who has opposed aiding Ukraine, must navigate a handful of ultraconservative lawmakers who have said they will move to oust him if he allows a vote on Ukraine aid without stringent immigration measures attached.

For President Joe Biden, who has led the way in calling for the West to stand up for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion and

occupation, the issue has become an embarrassing one on the international stage.

The American political paralysis has led, Pentagon officials said, to critical shortages on the battlefields of Ukraine. As each day goes by without a fresh supply of munitions and artillery, and Ukrainian crews ration the shells they have, morale is suffering.

Since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration has sent more than $75 billion in cash and equipment to the country for its defense. Most of the aid has gone to Ukraine’s military operations, keeping its government running and addressing its humanitarian needs.

The money ran out in December, and Biden asked Congress for the authority to begin a new infusion of cash and equipment that only Congress can approve. But many Republicans object to pouring more taxpayer dollars into the conflict.

A Dutch quandary offers a glimpse of a deepening problem for Europe

By CLAIRE MOSES

Just months ago, Geert Wilders was an anathema to most Dutch political parties. A disruptive and divisive force on the far right for two decades, Wilders has said he wants to end immigration from Muslim countries, tax headscarves and ban the Quran. He has called Moroccan immigrants “scum.” His Party for Freedom has supported leaving the European Union.

But then Wilders won national elections convincingly in November. Nearly one-quarter of Dutch voters chose his party, which won 37 of 150 seats in the House of Representatives, a huge margin by the standards of a fractious party system that rests on consensus and coalition building.

Since then, Wilders has become an unavoidable political force. “He is the biggest,” said Janka Stoker, a professor of leadership and organizational change at the University of Groningen, of Wilders. “They simply can’t ignore him.”

That quandary has made the Netherlands a test case for Europe as it grapples with the question of what to do with far-right forces that have advanced so far into the mainstream that they can hardly be considered on the fringe anymore.

Italy already has a hard-right leader, and the Swedish government depends on a party with neo-Nazi roots. The far right now represents significant parts of the opposition in France and Germany, forcing the question of how much longer it can be shunned.

In the Netherlands, some mainstream parties have answered by holding their noses and marching forward into the negotiating room to find a way to work with Wilders.

Coalition talks to form a new government, which have a history of taking weeks or months, broke down in February, not over anything specific Wilders said or did to further offend the political establishment, but over budget numbers.

It was a tellingly mundane obstacle that betrayed the deepening normalization of Wilders and his political acceptance by the other parties.

“His normalization has gone very fast,” said Cas Mudde, a Dutch political scientist at the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.

“Most mainstream media and politicians have treated the coalition negotiations with Wilders as normal,” Mudde said, “which seems also the view of a majority of Dutch people.”

The parties on the left have said cate-

Geert Wilders, a far-right lawmaker, during an election campaign stop in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands, Feb. 18, 2017. Wilders, a provocateur and uncompromising verbal bomb thrower, is one of Europe’s strangest politicians, not least because he comes from one of the most socially liberal countries with a centuries-long tradition of religious tolerance and welcoming immigrants. (Sergey Ponomarev/ The New York Times)

gorically that they still reject Wilders. But the question of how to govern with him is not for them; it is for parties across the rest of the political spectrum.

Wilders has been negotiating with the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, a center-right party that governed for the past 13 years; the Farmer Citizen Movement, a populist pro-farmer party; and New Social Contract, a new centrist party. Together, these four parties have 88 seats in the House of Representatives, a comfortable majority.

But the discomfort of Wilders’ negotiating partners is evident, even if they do not express it publicly.

The concerns swirling around Wilders remain such that early on in the talks, the four parties around the table took the unusual step of signing a document committing them to uphold the Dutch Constitution, something that had long been taken for granted.

The pledge, as well as the need to cobble together support from multiple parties, is expected to limit Wilders’ ability to drastically change any pillars of the Dutch government or to push through unconstitutional laws.

Signing the document also helped Wilders gain some political distance from his most extreme positions as he sought to find common ground with the other parties, lending the impression that he was moderating his views.

But Wilders’ party is built entirely around

him and has a unique structure that gives him sole authority. Its platform still includes numerous unconstitutional proposals, including a ban on mosques and Islamic schools.

Wilders has said he has not changed his opinions, and he has refused to take back comments that have landed him in hot water. Those include his question to supporters in 2014 about whether they wanted more or fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands, which resulted in chants of “Fewer! Fewer!” from the crowd.

“Our vision and criticism on Islam hasn’t changed,” Wilders told lawmakers last month.

Given his refusal to disavow his most extreme statements, and the fact that he and his party are one and the same, the country and political establishment are left with the lingering issue of which Wilders they are dealing with.

“The question is: How believable is someone who hasn’t taken the constitution seriously for about 20 years?” said Léonie de Jonge, an assistant professor in European politics and society at the University of Groningen. “If you look at his Twitter feed, then he is not less radical.”

At the same time, Wilders is a known quantity, one of the many contradictions that surround him. He is one of politics’ most familiar faces in the Netherlands and is known for blunt language. He has served in the House of Representatives since 1998, making

him the longest-sitting member.

For most of that time, he has been a fixture of the opposition. But he managed his greatest success in the last election by tying his long-standing antipathy toward immigration to other issues Dutch citizens cared most about, like a shortage of affordable housing.

To try to find a way out of the impasse around forming a government — and to avoid everyone’s least favorite option, new elections — politicians have been talking about unorthodox arrangements with little or no precedent.

Some have floated the idea of forming a minority coalition, or a Cabinet that could include ministers from other, smaller parties. It could also include political outsiders, potentially respected former politicians who would serve to create a greater buffer between the Cabinet and the parliament. But political analysts as well as politicians themselves are unclear on what that would mean in practice.

Yet even those options might only reduce Wilders’ role. They could prevent him from becoming prime minister, but in almost any conceivable circumstance, his party would have to be a part of the government. There is almost no getting around it.

During the round of coalition talks that collapsed last month, Wilders used his opportunity as the center of political attention to put his best face on and present himself as professional and constructive.

“I behaved myself as the leader of the biggest party,” Wilders said during a recent debate in the House of Representatives.

Even traditionally hostile parts of the Dutch news media have described him as reliable and professional, including a left-wing newspaper, De Volkskrant, that has long been highly critical of him.

Yet Wilders has continued to be combative on social media, a favorite platform for his most vitriolic outbursts. His behavior continues to raise questions about his ability to serve as a uniting force, a side of Wilders that has been neither seen nor tested during his time in the opposition, according to Stoker.

For now, the four negotiating parties will have to resume talking and come to a consensus about which kind of coalition structure they can support before trying to hash out a governing agreement.

Though the chances of a traditional coalition with Wilders at the helm may dwindle in a new round of talks, that option remains.

Wilders says he wants to lead the country. When asked in a recent parliamentary debate if he was still willing to become prime minister, his answer was clear: “I can’t wait.”

Zimbabwe, after expelling US officials, accuses them of promoting ‘regime change’

By JOHN ELIGON

The government of the southern African nation of Zimbabwe detained, interrogated and deported officials and contractors working for the United States government last month, and this week accused them publicly of promoting “regime change” in their country.

The incident is the latest in the Zimbabwean government’s aggressive efforts to thwart both domestic and international challenges to its authority. The incumbent government claimed victory in a chaotic election last year that several independent observer missions said lacked fairness and credibility.

But it also points to a deeper tension over the United States’ proclaimed efforts to promote democracy around the globe. Some nations, including Zimbabwe, have accused the U.S. of meddling in their affairs and attempting to impose its values — as well as of hypocrisy, given the threats at home to its own democracy. Leaders in Zimbabwe have grown closer in recent years to both China and to Russia, and have supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Zimbabwe sits on a wealth of lithium, a critical component in electric vehicles. But most Zimbabweans struggle to get by, coping with triple-digit inflation that has made their currency practically worthless. Many workers — both laborers and educated professionals — have left the country.

In a stern statement issued Friday, Samantha Power, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, said that last month, Zimbabwean authorities verbally and physically intimidated U.S. government officials and contractors. They were detained over-

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a statement about the harassment of their workers, they announced a change in the sanctions program against Zimbabwean officials and entities. Although the change essentially kept in place the same restrictions on some sanctioned individuals that had been around for about two decades, the announcement set off a wave of protest from Zimbabweans concerned that Washington was crippling its economy.

A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department said the sanctions were unrelated to the treatment of the government officials last month.

This was not the first time that U.S. officials or American citizens doing democracy work in Zimbabwe have had run-ins with the authorities there.

night, interrogated at length and transported in unsafe conditions, Power said.

The U.S. officials had been assessing concerns about democracy, human rights and governance as part of a regular evaluation of the aid programs it supports in the country, a spokesperson for the agency said in an email. They had arrived in the country in early February and had been working for 10 days before the Zimbabwean authorities confronted them, the spokesperson said.

Zimbabwe’s treatment of the officials was a betrayal of the country’s stated commitment to build a stronger democracy and reengage with the West, Power said.

“The people of Zimbabwe deserve better,” she said.

try without receiving the proper clearance. He accused them of holding clandestine meetings with opposition politicians, nonprofit organizations and diplomats from other foreign nations.

“If America thinks it has a holy mission to refashion the politics of this country after its own image of democracy, they are out for a very rude awakening,” Charamba told the Sunday Mail.

U.S. officials say that the government team had the appropriate clearance to be in the country and that the Zimbabwean authorities had been properly notified about the mission.

Two years ago, Larry Garber was dispatched to Zimbabwe for the Carter Center, based in Atlanta, to set up an election observation mission. About two weeks into his trip, he said, the Zimbabwean authorities deported him, saying that he did not have the proper visa. He was not allowed back into the country a year later for the elections.

A few months after Garber was deported, staff members with the U.S. Congress who were visiting Zimbabwe to meet with human rights activists and civil society organizations had their car surrounded and were chased by people they believed were security officials. They escaped and left the country safely.

The government did not respond to requests for comment.

But the Zimbabwean government fired back. George Charamba, a spokesperson for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, said in an interview with the stateowned media outlet Sunday Mail that the U.S. contractors had entered the coun-

The ZANU-PF party has governed Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. Its leaders, first under the nearly four-decade-long rule of Robert Mugabe, have long been accused of retaining power through oppression.

Gibson Nyikadzino, a columnist who writes about politics and international relations for the Zimbabwe governmentowned Herald newspaper, said he believed that Zimbabwe and the United States could get past their latest dispute.

Over that time, Zimbabwe has regularly clashed with the United States, which has leveled sanctions against high-level government officials, including Mnangagwa.

Since claiming victory in last year’s election, the government has been accused of ousting several opposition members from Parliament, tightening its grip on power.

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Given the global competition for Zimbabwe’s attention and its natural resources, Nyikadzino said, the United States does not want to alienate it. And Zimbabwe, facing severe economic challenges, is still keen to reengage with economically powerful Western countries, he said.

“If the USA can negotiate with China and other countries where they have different political views, it is also possible for Zimbabwe and the United States to negotiate through that,” he said.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe in his office in Harare on July 27, 2019. (Zinyange Auntony/The New York Times)

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‘People are hoping that Israel nukes us so we get rid of this pain’

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF

When President Joe Biden weighs U.S. policy toward the Gaza Strip, may he think of a gentle scholar named Mohammed Alshannat.

Alshannat is a Palestinian in Gaza who at the start of the war was working remotely on his doctoral dissertation in linguistics for Rhodes University in South Africa. He is the opposite of Hamas, for in his writing, he has criticized suicide bombings and rocket firings. He admires European democracy and argues that Arabs and Jews can live in harmony.

I have been texting him during the war, but his main outside contact has been Lindsay Houghton, a fellow doctoral student at Rhodes. With Alshannat’s permission, I am quoting from his texts to Houghton. I cannot independently verify what he writes, but it meshes with what aid workers describe. I have trimmed for length, but he wrote in English, and these are his words:

Oct. 11: The situation in Gaza is very grave. Forgive me as I couldn’t reply any sooner. I was running for my life. Pray for us please!

Oct. 25: My children are very, very sick. They are sick, hungry, thirsty and scared. My kidney stone medicine has run out and I have been drinking salty water. Please pray for my children.

Oct. 26: Last night, there was heavy bombing in our area. We run for our lives and I lost two of my children in the dark.

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Me and my wife stayed all night searching for them amidst hundreds of airstrikes. We miraculously survived an airstrike and found them fainted in the morning. Please pray for us.

Nov. 4: Please forgive me for not being able to reply to your messages as we are constantly running from one place to another. Internet connection is not stable and one has to wait three days just to charge your mobile. My children can’t move around much as we only eat half a meal a day and I can’t carry them anymore. We defecate in the open and my children defecate on themselves and there is no water to clean them.

Nov. 14: We are eating tree leaves.

Nov. 30: We were completely cut off from the world in the last 15 days. My sister needs an urgent surgery. She is dying slowly before our eyes and we can do nothing about it. Her name is Fatemah and she is a mother of four. Pray for her and us.

Dec. 1 [after a weeklong pause in fighting]: I have managed to get some flour, gas and olive oil. This will sustain us for the following two weeks. We have clean water now. We got sleep during the past seven days. Pray for us please! The war has restarted at 7 a.m. today.

Dec. 4: Fatemah hasn’t yet had her urgent surgery. The world has abandoned us. Pray for us please!

Jan. 27: My son was seriously injured on Dec. 22. A large shrapnel entered his right flank. He is 13 years old and was injured while we were running for our lives. Hospitals are out of service and I had to carry him bleeding under heavy artillery shelling for two hours. I found a doctor who was sheltering in a school, and he took a risk and saved my son’s life. He went through a complicated surgery later and still unable to walk. He is very sick and suffers from malnutrition. I am scared and bone tired. It took me 36 days just to get this internet connection to send a WhatsApp message. Please pray for us!!

Feb. 6: My sister Fatemah hasn’t yet done her surgery and is still waiting in the hospital in the south. Her children are with us in the north and keep asking for their mother. Fatemah wants to go back to the north but Israel does not allow those in the south to go back to the north. She does not want to die alone in the hospital. She wants to die surrounded by her children and family. There is no one to help us to take her to the north to die and be buried here.

I am still in the north with my family. We are in a great famine. My injured son’s health is deteriorating because of the famine. There is no milk, meat, vegetables, fruit or anything to feed him. He lost most of his weight. Medicine and other stuff completely disappeared from the markets. My mother’s diabetes medicine has run out and she is very, very sick. My children are crying from hunger all the time. People are hoping that Israel nukes us so we get rid of this pain.

Feb. 11: Rice, on which we have been living off in the last four months, has completely disappeared from the markets. Me and my wife have decided to eat a meal every two days just to keep our kids alive as long as we can. What is left

for us is hay. We have started grinding it, bake it and eat it. Because we have started eating the hay bread, we now defecate blood mixed with hay.

I lost my house, my car and my olive farm. Yesterday my cousin lost her 2-month-old baby because there is no milk to breastfeed him, because there is nothing for her to eat. He was her only and she is 45 years old. She also lost her house and her husband in December. She is a brilliant brain surgeon. She is refusing food and has not spoken a word since.

Feb. 29: When the Israeli army invades an area, we run to safer places. When they withdraw, some of the Israeli soldiers’ leftovers like tuna cans, bread, etc. remain. My cousin, Esa, thought that they have withdrawn and quickly rushed in the hope that he finds leftovers to eat.

After the Israeli army finally withdrew, we found him dead, rotten and half eaten by wild dogs. He seemed to be carrying some tuna cans. We couldn’t bury him as his body was so decomposed. We covered him with sand and left him.

His name is Esa Alshannat. He was 20 years old. He was a sophomore student in the department of computer science at Gaza university. He was a brilliant pianist who wanted to pursue a music degree in Italy. I still remember my last meeting with him. He had big dreams and was full of hope, peace and love. He was very hungry and very skinny. We were telling each other that despite what is being inflicted on us, we have nothing against the Israelis but love.

That was the last message from Alshannat.

Roughly 1% of Gaza’s people today are Hamas fighters. To understand what the other 99% are enduring as the United States supplies weapons for this war and vetoes cease-fire resolutions at the United Nations, think of Alshannat and multiply him by 2 million.

Israeli soldiers on patrol during a tour for journalists escorted by the Israeli military in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)

Gobernador califica como críticas por desinformación por controversia con voto adelantado

JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia criticó el martes lo que entiende son críticas basadas en “desinformación” sobre el voto por correo y/o adelantado.

“No deben estar criticando a base de desinformación, sino más bien informarse bien de cuáles son los procesos, cuáles son las reglas antes de emitir juicio. Pues por eso para mí me sorprende. O sea, para mí realmente es como no entiendo cuál es la intención de estar tratando de desacreditar este tipo de voto, que es muy democrático”, dijo el gobernador en conferencia de prensa.

“Bueno, mucha desinformación es lo que estoy viendo. Están hablando algunos, no me refiero al presidente de la Cámara, pero estoy viendo que están hablando sin

saber. Primero que nada, el voto adelantado por vía del correo. Ese voto está disponible para cualquier persona de 60 años o más, no importa su condición de salud. Y es una decisión voluntaria del votante. Si prefiere votar desde su hogar, enviando la papeleta por correo, tiene el derecho a sí hacerlo. Eso es lo primero”, añadió.

“Segundo, está también la modalidad del voto de los encamados. Es en ese voto. Que surge el concepto del cuidador. Y lo que establece el Código Electoral es que solamente puede haber un cuidador por domicilio. El voto encamado es diferente. Ahí, pues, uno identifica, cada candidato, cada campaña puede identificar cuáles son los encamados. Y entonces a ese domicilio va una junta de balance, si mal no recuerdo. Y en ese domicilio se le va a permitir a una persona poder votar también por adelanta-

do. Están mezclando conceptos. El voto por correo de los que tienen 60 años no tiene nada que ver con cuidadores.

Lanzan iniciativa municipal ‘Cayey Siempre Verde’ para fortalecer a las comunidades

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CAYEY – El alcalde de Cayey, Rolando Ortiz Velázquez, anunció el inicio de la iniciativa Cayey Siempre Verde, un concepto tipo feria de integración de servicios para las comunidades, donde servidores públicos municipales llegan los sábados con servicios municipales, de salud y deportes para el fortalecimiento de las comunidades.

“El pasado sábado estuvimos en Jájome Bajo de 9:00 de la mañana a 2:00 de la tarde y el evento fue todo un éxito. Particularmente importante fueron los servicios de salud preventivos, porque cuando las condiciones se tratan a tiempo, hay mejor posibilidad de éxito. Ese es un principio que en Cayey fomentamos constantemente”, señaló el alcalde.

Este próximo sábado, 16 de marzo, la feria esta-

rá en el área recreativa del barrio Matón Abajo, impactando positivamente dicha comunidad con actividades para toda la familia. Además se entregarán bolsas con alimentos y bombillas LED para promover la sostenibilidad. Para la

distribución eficiente de las bombillas LED, los interesados deben llevar su factura de energía eléctrica.

Constantemente, el Municipio de Cayey realiza todo tipo de actividades de servicios en sus 22 barrios y centro urbano, que particularmente se ha convertido en un polo comercial, turístico y gastronómico. Cayey se destaca por sus variados ofrecimientos, desde las microempresas y pequeños comerciantes, hastalas grandes cadenas comerciales

“Para todos los interesados en información adicional, las redes sociales municipales Cayey Ciudad Verde en Facebook, Twitter, Instagram y You Tube tienen información actualizada de todas las atracciones y las iniciativas que generamos. Les invitamos a acceder a ellas”, finalizó el alcalde Ortiz Velázquez.

Lanzan recordatorio fecha límite de Matrícula en Línea en el DE

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SAN JUAN – La secretaria del Departamento de Educación (DE), Yanira Raíces Vega, recordó el martes a la comunidad educativa que el próximo 15 de marzo es la fecha límite para completar la matrícula en línea del próximo año escolar 2024-2025

El proceso de Matrícula en Línea inició el pasado 14 de febrero y hasta la fecha, aproximadamente 190,015 estudiantes se han matriculado, lo que representa un 86 por ciento de participación.

“Hago un llamado a los padres para que culminen el trámite de matrícula antes del 15 de marzo. Me complace ver la activa participación de las familias en este proceso. Para aquellos que aún no lo han completado,

los invito a visitar la escuela para recibir asistencia en el proceso. Esta información es vital para determinar los recursos necesarios que asignaremos a cada plantel para el inicio de clases en agosto. Nuestras siete Regiones Educativas continúan desarrollando campañas para motivar a los padres a participar del proceso, antes de la fecha de cierre”, expresó la titular de Educación en declaraciones escritas.

Además, la Matrícula en Línea es crucial para aquellos interesados en ingresar a escuelas especializadas, Montessori, ocupacionales y técnicas, así como para conocer los diferentes requisitos para cada uno de estos programas.

El proceso de matrícula es similar al implementado en años anteriores y permite a los padres, madres y encar-

gados solicitar servicios de transportación para los estudiantes. Los interesados pueden acceder al sistema en: mimatricula.dde.pr.

Es importante destacar que los padres pueden seleccionar hasta tres escuelas de su preferencia y completar los documentos requeridos. Para finalizar el proceso, el solicitante debe tener su cuenta de acceso disponible o, en el caso de ser un estudiante nuevo, registrarse creando un perfil de usuario.

En el caso de estudiantes interesados en cursos en escuelas especializadas, Montessori, escuelas ocupacionales y técnicas, o para el Programa de Educación Especial, se les insta a comunicarse con la escuela para conocer los requisitos específicos. Para obtener información adicional, pueden acceder a de.pr.gov.

How ‘I’m Just Ken’ won the Oscars without winning an actual Oscar

By NICOLE SPERLING

Sixty-two dancers. One week of cast rehearsals. Ncuti Gatwa didn’t arrive until Friday. Slash showed up Saturday.

“I’m Just Ken” was the showstopping number of Sunday’s Oscar telecast, and it probably wouldn’t have come together in as seamless a fashion if not for choreographer Mandy Moore, who has designed dance sequences for a Taylor Swift world tour and a film musical.

“Um, it was definitely up there with ‘La La Land’ and the Eras Tour,” she said when asked about how “I’m Just Ken” ranked in terms of career challenges.

Expectations were high before the ceremony. There were reports that the backup Kens would be shirtless, and in an interview on the red carpet, Mark Ronson, who was up for an Oscar

for the song along with Andrew Wyatt, promised an “absolutely bananas spectacle.”

Although the dancers were fully clothed (and a different “Barbie” song would win the Academy Award), Moore’s troupe did deliver on Ronson’s promise. It helped that her partner in crime through the whole endeavor was Ryan Gosling, Oscar-nominated for his role as Ken in “Barbie,” who not only eagerly donned the pink sequin suit but also sang live and had clear ideas about how the number should go.

In Moore’s telling, it was Gosling’s idea to start the song in the audience, sitting behind “Barbie” star Margot Robbie as the physical representation of being No. 2, which is the focus of the song. He also wanted Ronson and Wyatt, the musicians and lyricists behind the hit, incorporated into the number along with a group of dejected Kens sitting on stairs. Gosling also suggested

jumping off the stage to involve the film’s director, Greta Gerwig; Robbie; and his fellow “Barbie” Oscar nominee America Ferrera in the action, too.

The idea of riffing on “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” from the Marilyn Monroe classic “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” was already being thrown around when Moore got involved. (Rather than have women carrying candelabras, as in that 1953 musical, men would be holding large candlesticks; they were referred to as the Kendleabras.) And adding a Busby Berkeley-style moment involving giant cutouts of Barbie’s face was both an homage to the “I’m Just Ken” number in the film, which was choreographed by Jennifer White, and is a style that has come back into vogue in recent years, Moore said.

“It’s always a reference. Every job I do, somebody wants to do Busby Berkeley,” Moore said, referring to the director and choreographer known for elaborate 1930s and ’40s musical numbers that involved complex geometric patterns.

“It is incredibly difficult to do, even in a film situation, because you have to have really clear marks, and you’ve got to practice it over and over. It’s militarylike,” Moore said. “So, you can imagine how hard it is to do on a live show.”

In the end, the troupe only worked with the cameras five times between Friday and Sunday and rehearsed it twice Sunday before the show began. Then there was the fact that the stage was circular, which added to the complexity. And the giant Barbie doll heads didn’t arrive until Thursday. “That was a really superchallenging part,” Moore said.

It was Gerwig, though, who wanted the entire audience in the Dolby auditorium up and dancing. Before the big number, a recorded video appeared inside the ballroom, urging those seated to shine their phone lights and sing along. According to Moore, on the first call with all involved, Gerwig said, “Really, my dream for this thing is just that everybody’s up and singing. That’s my only dream.”

Simu Liu, who played a Ken in the movie and joined Gosling onstage, said that from his vantage point, “this came together extremely quickly,” adding, “Mandy Moore is an excellent choreographer.”

When he first heard from Moore, he checked in with his fellow Kens from the movie, including Gatwa, Scott Evans and Kingsley Ben-Adir, who all decided to take part, although he admitted, “Nerves were running high,” and added, “There’s not many rooms that are more intimidating.”

After it was all over, he said, the Kens felt exhilarated: “Yes! I think we pulled it off.”

Ryan Gosling performs “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie,” during the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, March 10, 2024. Working off ideas from Ryan Gosling and Greta Gerwig, the choreographer Mandy Moore created the crowd-pleasing number in days. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)

What’s so funny about a naked man?

By RHONDA GARELICK

John Cena’s ‘streaker manqué’ routine at the Oscars was pretty funny. In an obvious setup, host Jimmy Kimmel asked, “Can you imagine if a nude man ran across the stage today?” upon which a seemingly undressed Cena popped his head out from behind the curtain to say, “I changed my mind, I don’t want to do the streaker bit.” When Kimmel reminded him that it was all for comedy, Cena replied with faux seriousness, “the male body is not a joke.”

But it was a joke. And soon, an entirely naked, and remarkably buff, Cena came onstage to introduce the Best Costume Design, nervously grasping the sealed Oscar envelope over his genitals, as a makeshift fig leaf. The audience howled as he inched along, hobbling sideways with painstaking little steps — trying to keep his envelope level and his private parts covered. Then, in a bit of television magic, he was draped in a toga-like, one-shouldered robe with a tasseled rope belt. Bit over, crowd delighted, and an obvious point made about the importance of costume.

The routine had deep roots in Academy history, hearkening back to a famous episode at the 1974 Oscars, when a streaker interrupted the proceedings (just as the very refined David Niven was introducing Elizabeth Taylor), but its relevance extends into the present day.

Humor happens when recognition meets surprise. We laugh when something routine suddenly transforms into something unexpected. An exactingly chiseled, naked male body onstage is only funny because it is unexpected — because, that is, it does not belong to a woman. Seeing a naked woman on stage at the Oscars could never be

John Cena takes the stage to present the award for best costume design during the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, March 10, 2024. Cena’s skit at the Academy Awards underscores an intractable gender imbalance, even as it gets legitimate laughs. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)

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funny, simply because it’s the norm to see female bodies in various states of revealing dress on the red carpet, and in movies as well. The humor of Cena’s performance actually derived from how clearly it mirrored what the women are always doing — right down to the mincing, precarious steps.

We tune into the Oscars to see spectacular women in spectacular gowns. Those gowns are also intricately made framing devices for women’s bodies, which are usually vastly more visible than the men’s. Although there is now far more diversity of style and body type welcomed at these events, most of the fashion still spotlights breasts, buttocks and thighs.

There are oceans of gleaming, bare female flesh. Skirts are slit to the waist, necklines to the navel — sometimes both at the same time. Sometimes dresses are actually transparent. Both Florence Pugh (in a silver Del Core number) and Becky G wore peek-a-boo bustiers that freed the nipple visually. It is not always comfortable to wear such clothes. They require special undergarments, body tape, excellent posture and constant vigilance to avoid what’s come to be called a “wardrobe malfunction.” Women dressed like this are exactly as nervous as Cena was only pretending to be — and for far longer than the few minutes his gag lasted.

Oscar dresses are couture, obvious works of art produced by countless hours of skilled human labor. But so too are the bodies beneath them — female flesh honed to near Greek-statue perfection by dint of meticulous diet, exercise and, sometimes, surgical intervention.

And just as Greek statues sit atop pedestals in museums, Hollywood goddesses typically perch on vertiginous high-heeled shoes, which forces them to take unnatural, overly careful steps — just as Cena did — to avoid toppling over. Here too, he was, in effect, parodying his female counterparts. (Remember Jennifer Lawrence face-planting at the 2013 Oscars as she made her way onstage in a cumbersome gown and shoes?)

An uber-fit naked man pretending to be frantic as he exposed himself at the Oscars was more than funny, it was a mini-meditation on the still-enormous gender gap at fashion’s highest level. Emma Stone would understand. Some sort of gown snafu forced her to end her acceptance speech with, ‘Don’t look at the back of my dress.”

Four years on, the mysteries of COVID-19 are unraveling

By KNVUL SHEIKH

When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was an open question: How was it spreading so quickly? How sick would it make people? Would a single bout buy you protection from future cases?

In the four years since, scientists have unraveled some of the biggest mysteries about COVID. We now know far more about how it spreads (no, standing 6 feet apart isn’t surefire protection), why it doesn’t seem to make children as sick as adults, and what’s behind the strange symptoms it can cause. Here’s a look at what we’ve learned.

Why do people’s experiences with COVID vary so widely? And are superdodgers real?

By now, most Americans have had COVID-19 at least once. While the majority of those infected have been hit with flulike symptoms, some have been hospitalized with serious respiratory issues, and others have had no symptoms at all.

Part of this can be explained by the amount of virus we are exposed to, but our bodies also play a big role. People who are older or have existing health problems tend to have more severe symptoms because their immune systems are already weakened. In some cases, the body can fight off the virus before it replicates enough to cause symptoms, or clear it so quickly that a person never tests positive. There’s also strong evidence that vaccination makes illness less severe.

Experts say that most likely, people who have never been infected are fully vaccinated, cautious about avoiding exposure (through masking and avoiding crowds) or work from home.

Scientists have been trying to investigate if there’s something biologically unique about COVID superdodgers that gives them immunity to infection. But the closest they have come is finding that mutations in the human leukocyte antigen — which signals to the immune system that cells are infected — can help clear out the virus so quickly that a person might be completely asymptomatic.

Does COVID’S spread come down to coughs and sneezes?

In the four years since, scientists have unraveled some of the biggest mysteries about COVID. We now know far more about how it spreads (no, standing six feet apart isn’t surefire protection), why it doesn’t seem to make children as sick as adults and what’s behind the strange symptoms it can cause, from brain fog to “COVID toe.” (Erik

Winkowski/The New York Times)

In the early days of the pandemic, we all thought COVID was some sort of surface-hopping ninja. We frantically wiped down groceries, washed our hands to the tune of “Happy Birthday” and tried to turn doorknobs with our elbows.

But studies have since showed that contaminated surfaces are rarely to blame for the spread of the virus. It’s more likely to spread through the air we breathe. Some of this may be through large droplets produced when someone coughs or sneezes, which is why public health officials advised early in the pandemic that we stay 6 feet away from fellow humans.

But research then suggested that the virus could also be carried by aerosols, smaller particles that could infect people from farther away.

“These particles kind of behave like cigarette smoke: They come out and float around, and they can drift in the air for a while,” said Linsey Marr, an environmental engineer at Virginia Tech. Marr and others have found that tiny particles as small as 5 microns may carry more infectious virus than larger droplets, partly because they are generated from deeper in the lungs.

Other studies have shown that the

virus is still evolving to become better at spreading through the air, said Vincent Munster, chief of the virus ecology section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Rocky Mountain Laboratories.

How long do our defenses last?

Generally speaking, an infection or vaccination protects you for several months, said Akiko Iwasaki, a virologist and immunologist at Yale University. But immunity depends on factors such as age, underlying health and whether the virus has picked up mutations that help it evade our defenses.

What’s behind the strange symptoms?

While a robust immune response is needed to eliminate the virus, a dysfunctional one may be to blame for many of COVID’s unusual side effects. For example, researchers have found that in people who develop a warped sense of smell or lose it entirely, the virus latches on to ACE2 receptors in cells that support certain nerves in the nose. This sets off a rush of immune cells, which release proteins to clear the infection. In the process, they can inadvertently change the genetic activity of neighboring nerves, disrupting the sense of smell.

Do children have a secret weapon protecting them against COVID?

Early in the pandemic, people feared that children, as notorious germ spreaders, would catch and spread the virus easily. They also worried that children would fall particularly ill, because they tend to experience some of the most severe outcomes with influenza and RSV.

But with COVID, children seem to have largely been spared from severe illness. Only a small number are hospitalized or develop life-threatening conditions like multisystem inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C.

We now have a clearer idea why that’s the case: Children’s immune systems may be better primed against COVID because they are frequently exposed to the benign coronaviruses that cause common colds, said Dr. Alpana Waghmare, an infectious-disease specialist at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Additionally, studies have shown that another defense mechanism, known as the innate immune response, is stronger in children, helping alert their bodies to foreign pathogens like the virus that causes COVID-19.

How does the virus wreak havoc on a person for months?

One theory is that, as with other rare side effects, the lingering symptoms or new complications that can occur in the months after an initial infection — known as long COVID — are caused in part an immune reaction gone awry. People who develop long COVID may have an immune system that responds too aggressively, or not aggressively enough, to acute infection, said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, the chief of research and development at the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Healthcare System. Studies have also found that the virus can hide in the body after the main infection is over, provoking a continuous, low-level immune response and inflammation.

Other evidence suggests that the virus can damage the lining of blood vessels, causing tiny clots that block circulation to various parts of the body. This may cause lingering achiness in the joints, brain fog, chronic fatigue and dizziness after standing up too suddenly.

Al-Aly said that while many of COVID’s mysteries have been solved, he fears that the public has grown weary of the virus — when in reality, he said, it’s “not in our rearview mirror yet.”

Voyager 1, first craft in interstellar space, may have gone dark

By ORLANDO MAYORQUIN

When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, scientists hoped it could do what it was built to do and take upclose images of Jupiter and Saturn. It did that — and much more.

Voyager 1 discovered active volcanoes, moons and planetary rings, proving along the way that Earth and all of humanity could be squished into a single pixel in a photograph, a “pale blue dot,” as astronomer Carl Sagan called it. It stretched a four-year mission into the present day, embarking on the deepest journey ever into space.

Now, it may have bid its final farewell to that faraway dot.

Voyager 1, the farthest human-made object in space, hasn’t sent coherent data to Earth since November. NASA has been trying to diagnose what the Voyager mission’s project manager, Suzanne Dodd, called the “most serious issue” the robotic probe has faced since she took the job in 2010.

The spacecraft encountered a glitch in one of its computers that has eliminated its ability to send engineering and science data back to Earth.

The loss of Voyager 1 would cap decades of scientific breakthroughs and signal the beginning of the end for a mission that has given shape to humanity’s most distant ambition and inspired generations to look to the skies.

“Scientifically, it’s a big loss,” Dodd said. “I think — emotionally — it’s maybe even a bigger loss.”

Voyager 1 is one half of the Voyager mission. It has a twin spacecraft, Voyager 2.

Launched in 1977, they were primarily built for a fouryear trip to Jupiter and Saturn, expanding on earlier flybys by the Pioneer 10 and 11 probes.

The Voyager mission capitalized on a rare alignment of the outer planets — once every 175 years — allowing the probes to visit all four.

Using the gravity of each planet, the Voyager spacecraft could swing onto the next, according to NASA.

The mission to Jupiter and Saturn was a success.

The 1980s flybys yielded several new discoveries, including new insights about the so-called great red spot on Jupiter, the rings around Saturn and the many moons of each planet.

Voyager 2 also explored Uranus and Neptune, becoming in 1989 the only spacecraft to explore all four outer planets.

Voyager 1, meanwhile, had set a course for deep space, using its camera to photograph the planets it was leaving behind along the way. Voyager 2 would later begin its own trek into deep space.

“Anybody who is interested in space is interested in the things Voyager discovered about the outer planets and their moons,” said Kate Howells, the public education specialist at the Planetary Society, an organization co-founded

scientists around whether Voyager 1 has actually left the solar system, but, nonetheless, it became interstellar — traversing the space between stars.

That charted a new path for heliophysics, which looks at how the sun influences the space around it. In 2018, Voyager 2 followed its twin between the stars.

Before Voyager 1, scientific data on the sun’s gases and material came only from within the heliosphere’s confines, according to Jamie Rankin, Voyager’s deputy project scientist.

“And so now we can for the first time kind of connect the inside-out view from the outside-in,” Rankin said, “That’s a big part of it,” she added. “But the other half is simply that a lot of this material can’t be measured any other way than sending a spacecraft out there.”

Voyager 1 and 2 are the only such spacecraft. Before it went offline, Voyager 1 had been studying an anomalous disturbance in the magnetic field and plasma particles in interstellar space.

“Nothing else is getting launched to go out there,” Dodd said. “So that’s why we’re spending the time and being careful about trying to recover this spacecraft — because the science is so valuable.”

by Sagan to promote space exploration.

“But I think the pale blue dot was one of those things that was sort of more poetic and touching,” she added.

On Valentine’s Day 1990, Voyager 1, darting 3.7 billion miles away from the sun toward the outer reaches of the solar system, turned around and snapped a photo of Earth that Sagan and others understood to be a humbling self-portrait of humanity.

“It’s known the world over, and it does connect humanity to the stars,” Dodd said of the mission.

She added: “I’ve had many, many many people come up to me and say: ‘Wow, I love Voyager. It’s what got me excited about space. It’s what got me thinking about our place here on Earth and what that means.’”

Howells, 35, counts herself among those people.

About 10 years ago, to celebrate the beginning of her space career, Howells spent her first paycheck from the Planetary Society to get a Voyager tattoo.

Though spacecraft “all kind of look the same,” she said, more people recognize the tattoo than she anticipated.

“I think that speaks to how famous Voyager is,” she said.

The Voyagers made their mark on popular culture, inspiring a highly intelligent “Voyager 6” in “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and references on “The X Files” and “The West Wing.”

Even as more advanced probes were launched from Earth, Voyager 1 continued to reliably enrich our understanding of space.

In 2012, it became the first human-made object to exit the heliosphere, the space around the solar system directly influenced by the sun. There is a technical debate among

But recovery means getting under the hood of an aging spacecraft more than 15 billion miles away, equipped with the technology of yesteryear. It takes 45 hours to exchange information with the craft.

It has been repeated over the years that a smartphone has hundreds of thousands of times Voyager 1’s memory — and that the radio transmitter emits as many watts as a refrigerator lightbulb.

“There was one analogy given that is it’s like trying to figure out where your cursor is on your laptop screen when your laptop screen doesn’t work,” Dodd said.

Her team is still holding out hope, she said, especially as the tantalizing 50th launch anniversary in 2027 approaches. Voyager 1 has survived glitches before, though none as serious.

Voyager 2 is still operational, but aging. It has faced its own technical difficulties too.

NASA had already estimated that the nuclear-powered generators of both spacecrafts would likely die around 2025.

Even if the Voyager interstellar mission is near its end, the voyage still has far to go.

Voyager 1 and its twin, each 40,000 years away from the next closest star, will arguably remain on an indefinite mission.

“If Voyager should sometime in its distant future encounter beings from some other civilization in space, it bears a message,” Sagan said in a 1980 interview.

Each spacecraft carries a gold-plated phonograph record loaded with an array of sound recordings and images representing humanity’s richness, its diverse cultures and life on Earth.

“A gift across the cosmic ocean from one island of civilization to another,” Sagan said.

An image from NASA/JPL-Caltech shows the Pale Blue Dot in a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)

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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL

GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI-

BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO. MIGUEL ANGEL

CABRERA TORRES por si y en representacion de sus hermanos MARIA

ALONDRA CABRERA

QUIARA; MIGUEL ARMANDO TORRES

QUIARA; ANAID MARITZA

CABRERA QUIARA; MARIA MAGDALENA

CABRERA TORRES

PETICIONARIOS EX PARTE

CASO CIVIL NÚMERO:

NG2023CV00147. SOBRE:

EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO.

EDICTO. E.U A., PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.U., E.L.A. DE P.R. ss.

A: Las Personas

Ignoradas a Quienes

Pueda Perjudicar la Inscripción Solicitada

Por la presente se le notifica que comparezcan, si creyeren conveniente, ante este Honorable Tribunal. Ello debe hacerlo dentro de un término no mayor de 20 días desde la última publicación de un edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para inscribir su dominio sobre el siguiente inmueble. Por la presente se notifica que se ha presentado ente este Tribunal el expediente arriba mencionado, con el fin de justificar e inscribir a favor de la parte Promovente el dominio que tiene sobre la siguiente finca: Rustica: Predio localizado en el Barrio Duque del Término Municipal de Naguabo con número de catastro 230-000007-10-998, compuesto de VEINTE Y CINCO MIL DOS-

CIENTOS VEINTE Y OCHO

METROS CUADRADOS CON

DOSCIENTOS SETENTA MI-

LESIMAS DE OTRO METRO

CUADRADO (25,228.270 M.C.), en lindes por el NORTE en once alineaciones que en total suman ochenta y siete metros con ciento cuarenta y cinco milésimas de otro metro (87.145 mts.) con terrenos de la Sucesión Miguel A. Cabrera; por el SUR en nueve alineaciones que en total suman ciento veinte y dos metros con trescientos sesenta y siete milésimas de otro metro (122.367 mts.) con terrenos de Roberto Rodriguez López, Camino Publico y Mercedes Cabrera; por el ESTE en 11 alineaciones que

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en total suman doscientos treinta y seis metros con ciento noventa y una milésimas de otro metro (236.191 mts.) con terrenos de Mario D. Nieves, Efraín Rodriguez García y Dinorah Del Pilar Camacho Rodriguez; y por el OESTE en siete alineaciones que en total suman doscientos veinte y cinco metros con seiscientos cincuenta y dos milésimas de otro metro (225.652 mts.) con terrenos de José L. Alvira Acosta. Está atravesada por un Camino Vecinal. No está Inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. El número de codificación o “catastro” según aparece en el CRIM es el 230-000-007-10-998 el cual es de la finca principal. No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. 1. Que la parte peticionaria adquirió la mencionada propiedad objeto de la presente solicitud de dominio Conforme a la Resolución del 14 de agosto de 2012 sobre Declaratoria de Herederos, el peticionario en representación de sus hermanos como heredero del caudal dejado por el difunto Miguel Ángel Cabrera Figueroa, es la parte peticionaria en esta Petición representando. 2. El abogado de la parte Promovente el Licenciado Julio César Osuna Guzmán, cuya dirección es:

Calle 15 N#3 Urb. Sta. Juana, Caguas Puerto Rico 00725 y cuyo teléfono lo es (787) 7447302 y su correo electrónico josunalaw@gmail.com. Y se le notifica a ustedes que este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite a ustedes, para que hagan oposición a este expediente, si se viesen perjudicados con la inscripción que se solicita; advirtiéndoles que de no hacer oposición dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde que fueran ustedes notificados de esta citación, la Parte Promovente podrá solicitar y obtener la aprobación de este expediente y su correspondiente inscripción a su nombre en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Caguas, el dominio de la finca anteriormente descrita. POR

ORDEN DEL HONORABLE:

ROBERTO E. SOTO VEGA, Juez de este Tribunal, expido la presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de diciembre del 2023. Bajo mi firma y sello oficial. Evelyn Felix Vazquez, Secretario Regional Interina. Lisa M. Figueroa Ruiz, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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LIME HOMES, LTD.

Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN MARCO

LUIS RIVERA LÓPEZ

COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS JULIA

MILAGROS MATOS

TORRES; CAROL ALEXA

RIVERA MATOS; MARCO ALEJANDRO RIVERA MATOS; FULANO Y

SUTANO DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: GM2020CV00060.

Salón Núm.: (406). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA

Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL

PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE

ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SUCESIÓN MARCO

LUIS RIVERA LÓPEZ

COMPUESTA POR SUS

HEREDEROS JULIA

MILAGROS MATOS

TORRES; CAROL ALEXA

RIVERA MATOS; MARCO

ALEJANDRO RIVERA MATOS; FULANO Y

SUTANO DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS: Y AL

PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 25 del bloque B del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Portales de Jacaranda localizado en la Carretera Estatal PR-545, barrio Descalabrado del término municipal de Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 1081.76 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con dos alineaciones

que suman 39.18 metros lineales con la Calle Numero 16 y el solar número 26 del bloque B; por el SUR, con una lineación de 5.31 metros lineales con el Expreso Luis A. Ferre; por el ESTE, con una alineación de 34.74 metros lineales con los solares número 47 y 48 del bloque G y por el OESTE, con una alineación de 56.06 metros lineales con el soler número 24 del bloque B. Afecta a este solar una servidumbre de 1.52 metros de ancho que discurre a todo lo largo de su colindancia Norte, a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. En dicho solar enclava una estructura de concreto diseñada para fines residenciales para una familia construida de acuerdo a los planos y especificaciones. Afecta a este solar una servidumbre sanitaria que discurre a todo lo largo de su colindancia Sur y Oeste. Consta inscrita al 179 del tomo 176 de Santa Isabel, Finca #7,321, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Urbanización Portales de Jacaranda, Calle Sauce 15130 (B-25), Santa Isabel, P.R. 00757. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $214,400.00, con intereses al 7.25% anual, vencedero el día 1 de septiembre de 2037, constituida mediante la escritura número 127, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 1 de septiembre de 2007, ante el notario David García Medina, e inscrita al folio 74 del tomo 193 de Santa Isabel, finca número 7,321, inscripción 4ta., como Asiento Abreviado extendidas las líneas el día 14 de mayo de 2014, según la ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 28 de enero de 2008 al Asiento 827 del Diario 634)., debidamente modificada la hipoteca por la suma de $214,400.00, cuyo principal será por la suma de $268,257.39, según consta de la escritura número 554, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de noviembre de 2012, ante la notario Aurora Montalvo Díaz, e inscrita al folio 74 del tomo 193 de Santa Isabel, finca número 7,321,

inscripción 5ta. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 3 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $268,257.39. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 10 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $178,838.26. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 17 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $134,128.69. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: La suma de $252,877.60, con intereses a 7.25% anual, desde el 1ro de enero de 2018, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, la suma principal de $7,319.96, como pago diferido y la cual no genera intereses, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $21,400.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas

y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 12 de enero de 2024. MIGUEL A.

TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL PLACA #560.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, Demandante v. MONICA

ALFARO LOZANO Demandado

CIVIL NUM.: ISCI2014-00046.

SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE SUBAS-

TA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 24 de enero de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Rústica: BARRIO PIÑALES de Añasco. Solar: MARCADO C-8 EN LA URBANIZACIÓN HACIENDA LIBERTAD. Cabida: 900.0357 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, con el solar C-9, en una distancia de veintinueve punto treinta y dos (29.32) metros. Sur, con el solar C-7. Este, con la calle dos (2), en una distancia de dieciocho punto cincuenta y nueve (18.59) metros. Oeste, con el

solar C-4 y solar C-5. Estructura residencial de hormigón armado y bloques. Consta de un (1) balcón, terraza, closet exterior, garaje doble, sala, comedor, cocina, salón familiar, lavandería, cuatro (4) dormitorios, dos y medio (2 1/2) baños, pasillo, un “Walk-in” closet. Inscrita en la finca número 13,122 de Añasco, Registro de la Propiedad de Primera Sección de Mayagüez. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 15 de enero de 2014, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, en el Caso Civil número ISCI201400046, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Doral Bank, versus Mónica Alfaro Lozano, por la suma de $258,978.19 más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 22 de marzo de 2023, al tomo Karibe de Añasco, finca número 13,122, Anotación A. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 10 de abril de 2014, notificada el 14 de abril de 2014, a saber la suma de $258,978.19 de principal adeudado desde el día 1 de mayo de 2013, más los intereses sobre dicho principal al 4.00% anual y cargos acumulados hasta la fecha de pago total de la deuda, y la suma $26,203.40 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque

certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 2 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $262,034.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la EGUNDA SUBASTA será de $174,689.33, 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 16 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $131,017.00, 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 consecuti-

vas, 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 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de febrero de 2024. Alguacil José M. Crespo Nazario, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE BAYAMÓN ASOCIACIÓN

DE

RESIDENTES ESTANCIAS DE RÍO HONDO I, INC.

Demandante Vs. OMAR MANZANO RIVERA MARÍA DEL CARMEN MARTÍNEZ RIVERA AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(A)

CIVIL NÚM.: BY2022CV05572

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (R.60). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: OMAR MANZANO RIVERA, MARÍA DEL CARMEN MARTÍNEZ RIVERA, AMBOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. FÍSICA & POSTAL: URB.

ESTANCIAS DE RIO

HONDO I, H-22 CALLE RIO BAIROA, BAYAMÓN, PR 00961

PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar:

1. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación:

“URBANA: URBANIZACIÓN

ESTANCIAS DE RIO HONDO

I de Bayamón Norte. Solar: 22 BLOQUE H. Cabida: 353.865 Metros Cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en 15.50 metros, con el solar número 1; por el Sur, en 12.00 metros, y arco de 2.749 metros, con la Calle número 12, también conocida como Río Bairoa; por el Este, en un arco de 2.749 metros, con la Calle número 10, también conocida como Río Cañas; y por el Oeste, en 23.00 metros con el solar número 21. Contiene una casa de cemento diseñada para una familia, construida de acuerdo a los planos y especificaciones aprobadas por la Junta de Planificación de Puerto Rico y otras agencias gubernamentales. Es traslado de la finca antes 48283, inscrita al folio 228 del tomo 1078 de Bayamón Sur. Finca 5807, inscrita al Folio 55 del Tomo 261 de Bayamón Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón Sección III.” Dirección física: Urb. Rio Hondo 1, H-22 Calle Río Bairoa, Bayamón, PR 00961. 2. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables.

3. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuaran subsistentes, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. 4. La propiedad para ejecutar se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. 5. Que el licitador y/o mejor postor pagará el importe de su oferta en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil de Tribunal. 6. La propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: a. Hipoteca: Afecta por sí a hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de The Money House, lnc., por la suma principal de $194,930.00 con intereses a razón del 5% anual,

vencimiento el 1ro de julio de 2041. Pagaré suscrito bajo el testimonio número: 9,267, tasada en $194,930.00, constituida mediante la escritura 327, otorgada en San Juan, el 10 de junio de 2011, ante la Notaria Laura Mia González Bonilla, inscrito al folio 55 del tomo 261 de Bayamón Norte, según inscripción 13ma. Dicha hipoteca fue modificada y cancelada parcialmente en la suma de $2,330.00 para un nuevo principal de $192,600.00 en virtud de la Escritura 80 otorgada en San Juan, el 13 de marzo de 2015, ante el notario lleana M. Quintero Aguiló, inscrito en Sistema Karibe, inscripción 14ma. Ampliada nuevamente en la suma de $21,308.96, para un nuevo principal de $213,908.96, en virtud de la Escritura 541 otorgada en San Juan, el 26 de octubre de 2018, ante el notario Maricarmen Carrillo Justiniano, inscrito en Karibe, según inscripción 15ma. b. Anotación de Demanda: Afecta por Anotación de Demanda a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $212,723.85, en virtud de la Demanda en el caso civil número BY2023CV00060 sobre COBRO DE DINERO

EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA

POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO demandante v.s.

MARÍA DEL CARMEN MARTÍNEZ RIVERA, OMAR MANZANO RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS demandado a 10 de enero de 2023, anotado en sistema Karibe, según anotación letra “B”. c. Anotación de Embargo (Judicial, Ley 209): Afecta por sí a Anotación de Embargo, (a favor de la asociación de Estancias de Río Hondo IIl, Inc., por la suma de $5,765.11, en virtud de Orden en el caso civil número BY2022CV05572 sobre R.60 ante el Centro Judicial de Bayamón ASOC. DE RESIDENTES ESTANCIAS DE RIO

HONDO I, INC., demandante v.s OMAR MANZANO RIVERA, MARÍA DEL CARMEN MARTÍNEZ RIVERA, AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, demandados de fecha de 7 de junio de 2023, anotado en sistema, según anotación letra “C”. 7. Dicha subasta se celebrará para con el importe de la misma satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma principal de $4,761.40, por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento vencidas y no pagadas al 2 de enero de 2023, más intereses desde que se dicte la sentencia al 8.00% anual ($1.25 diario), a partir de esa fecha en la cantidad de $321.63

al 14 de febrero de 2024; más $500.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado otorgados según sentencia; más $426.42 de costas y gastos según concedidos a través de resolución de fecha 27 de abril de 2023, más $950.00 por concepto honorarios del proceso de ejecución de la sentencia mediante embargo de bien inmueble, mueble y vehículo, concedidos mediante Orden de fecha de 7 de junio de 2023; más $950.00 por las costas y gastos del proceso en la ejecución de la sentencia mediante Venta en Pública Subasta, concedidos mediante Orden de fecha 31 de julio de 2023, cantidades que sumadas al principal, luego de descontados los pagos hechos por la parte demandada ($99.38) totalizan la cantidad de $7 .810.07; todo ello sin prestación de fianza por solicitarse luego de dictada la sentencia. La subasta se llevará a cabo en mi oficina localizada en el local que ocupa en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Municipal de Bayamón, el día 2 de abril de 2024 a las 10:15 de la mañana. Y para la conveniencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los lugares públicos que determine la ley. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a, 22 de febrero de 2024.

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SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA 193.

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OLMO PEREZ OSORIO

T/C/C LUIS PEREZ

OSORIO O LUIS

OLMO PEREZ PEREZ

COMPUESTA POR

GABRIELA PEREZ

SANTIAGO, LUIS OLMO

PEREZ SANTIAGO, JUAN

JOSE PEREZ SANTIAGO, LUIS GABRIEL PEREZ

SILVA Y ROSA LYDIA

SANTIAGO LOPEZ Y ROSA LYDIA SANTIAGO LOPEZ

Parte Demandada

CIVIL NUM. FA2021CV00755

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA IN REM. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vieques, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de

epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $133,876.56 de balance principal, el cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $104,986.13 y un principal diferido por la suma de $28,890.43, más los intereses sobre la suma de $104,986.13 al 5.50% anual, desde el primero de julio de 2019, hasta su completo pago, cargos por demora computados al 5% sobre cada mensualidad adeudada hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número dieciséis (16) del bloque M del plano de inscripción del Proyecto ARF guion veinticinco (ARF25) en el sector Montesanto del término municipal de Vieques, Puerto Rico. Dicho solar tiene una cabida superficial de dos mil ciento quince punto nueve mil trescientos cuarenta y siete (2,115.9347) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto cinco mil trescientos ochenta y cuatro (0.5384) cuerdas. En lides por el NORTE, con el solar diecisiete (17) del bloque M guion diecisiete (M-17), en cuarenta y cinco punto cuatrocientos cuarenta y nueve (45.449) metros; por el SUR, con el solar quince (15) del bloque M guion quince (M-15), en cuarenta y cinco punto doscientos diez (45.210) metros; por el ESTE, con la calle diecinueve (19), en cuarenta y cuatro punto setecientos cuarenta y seis (44.746) metros y por el OESTE, con el solar seis (6) del bloque M guion seis (M-6) , en cuarenta y ocho punto setecientos veintidós (48.722) metros. Enclava una estructura residencial de una planta de cuarenta y siete pies diez pulgadas (47’ 10”) de largo por dieciocho pies tres pulgadas (18’3”) de frente, de cuatro habitaciones, un baño, sala-comedor, cocina. Inscrita al folio veinte (20) del tomo setenta y seis (76) de Vieques, finca número tres mil trescientos sesenta y dos (3,362), Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Dirección física: 16 M 19 St. Montesanto, Vieques, PR

00765. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 1 de mayo de 2024 a la 1:00 de la tarde, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $137,091.06 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 8 de mayo de 2024, a la 1:00 de la tarde 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 $91,394.04. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 15 de mayo de 2024, a la 1:00 de la tarde y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $68,545.43. 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 Vieques, Puerto Rico a 23 de febrero de 2024.Firma Ilegible, #377, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VIEQUES.

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DLJ MORTGAGE

CAPITAL, INC

DEMANDANTE VS. SUCESIÓN DE EPIFANÍA MÉNDEZ CALDERÓN; COMPUESTA POR ESTEBAN SANTIAGO

MÉNDEZ, SULMA IRIS

SANTIAGO MÉNDEZ Y VICENTE SANTIAGO MÉNDEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NÚM.: CG2022CV01550.

SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca In Rem. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL A: SUCESIÓN DE EPIFANÍA MÉNDEZ CALDERÓN; COMPUESTA POR

ESTEBAN SANTIAGO

MÉNDEZ, SULMA IRIS

SANTIAGO MÉNDEZ Y VICENTE SANTIAGO

MÉNDEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Yo, Mariangely Rosado Roman, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 8 de abril de 2024, a las 9:00 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 11 de enero de 2024. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 15 de abril de 2024, a las 9:00 de la mañana; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 22 de abril de 2024, a las 9:00 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 4 de marzo de 2024, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número quinientos noventa y tres en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Celada de los Barrios Celada y Hato Nuevo del término municipal de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos veinte y seis punto diez y siete metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela número quinientos noventa y dos de la comunidad; por el SUR, con parcela número quinientos noventa y cuatro de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con área ver-

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de no urbanizable; y por el OESTE, con Calle número treinta y ocho de la comunidad.

Finca número 7,981, inscrita al folio 65 del tomo 207 de Gurabo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas. Dirección de la Propiedad: 593 38 St., Celada Comm., Gurabo, PR 00778, t/c/c Calle 38 #593, Bo. Celada, Parcelas Nuevas, Gurabo, PR 00778. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $95,601.22 en concepto de principal con interés al 3.44% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $12,000.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 284 otorgada el día 31 de octubre de 2008, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Omar Adolfo Jiménez Pacheco y consta inscrita al folio 1,149 del tomo 499 de Gurabo, finca número 7,981, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II de Carolina. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor

de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $120,000.00, con intereses al 3.44% anual, vencedero el 12 de julio de 2091, constituida mediante la escritura número 285, otorgada en (no expresa), el día 31 de octubre de 2008, ante el notario Omar Jiménez

Pacheco, e inscrita al folio 1,150 del tomo 499 de Gurabo, finca número 7,981, inscripción 2da., como asiento abreviado extendida las líneas el día 22 de noviembre de 2017, en virtud de la Ley 216 del 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 14 de noviembre de 2008, al asiento 344 del diario 642). Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $120,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $80,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $60,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re-

clamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 6 de marzo de 2024. Mariangely Rosado Roman, Alguacil, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Caguas.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

DEMANDANTE vs. SUCESIÓN DE LUIS EDUARDO MARTÍNEZ

PEREIRA T/C/C NANCY ANA PEÑA PEREYRA

T/C/C NANCY PEÑA DE MARTÍNEZ AMBAS

COMPUESTAS POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS ERIC LUIS EDUARDO MARTÍNEZ PEÑA, TANIA NANCYANTONIA DEL CARMEN MARTÍNEZ PEÑA, IVÁN CARLOS

DE LEÓN MARTÍNEZ PEÑA, AXEL EDUARDO MARTÍNEZ PEÑA, MICHAEL ELÍAS MARTÍNEZ PEÑA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES; YULISSA CRUZ Y ARLENE ROBERTSON DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NÚM.: CA2023CV00563.

SOBRE: QUIRÓS Y SUCE-

SIÓN DE NANCY ANA PEÑA

COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DEAMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS

EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE

ASOCIADO DE P.R. ss. A: SUCESIÓN DE LUIS EDUARDO MARTÍNEZ

QUIRÓS Y SUCESIÓN DE NANCY ANA PEÑA

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T/C/C NANCY PEÑA DE MARTÍNEZ COMPUESTA

POR SUS HEREDEROS

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POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale-

gación 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. Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO

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Demandante v. BENEDICTO DELGADO ROBLES Y OTROS

Demandado(a) IDAN C. FORTUÑO FAS JCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW.COM Caso Núm. : BY2023CV04903 (SALON 505). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA A: SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA SOCORRO ROBLES ADORNO; JAZ:MÍN DELGADO ARZUAGA T/C/C JAZMIN DELGADO ARRIAGA; JULIO DELGADO ARZUAGA T/C/C JULIO DELGADO ARRIAGA COMO HEREDEROS

CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JULIO DELGADO ROBLES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES

FULANO DE TAL Y SUT ANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARE A SUSTITUIR

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

EL SECRET ARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de MARZO de 2024 Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA A LOS FINES DE INCLUIR A FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 08 de MARZO de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretario(a). f/MARIA COLLAZO FEBUS, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO.

ORIENTAL BANK

COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.

Demandante v. LA SUCESION DE MIGNA RIVERA GARCIA Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE

EJECUCIONES@CM-PRLA W.COM Caso Núm.: HU2023CV01313 (SALÓN 206). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE

SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: LA SUCESION DE MIGNA RIVERA GARCIA, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL, ARNALDO

ISMAEL ALTORAN RODRIGUEZ (TITULAR REGISTRAL: DIRECCION: URB. EXTENSION VERDEMAR #840 CALLE

32 HUMACAO, PR 00791, PO BOX 54 HUMACAO, PR 00792-0054; PO BOX 54 PUNTA SANTIAGO, PR 00741-0054; URB. EXTENSION VERDEMAR #840 CALLE 32

HUMACAO, PR 00791. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 08 DE MARZO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 11 de MARZO de 2024. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 11 de MARZO de 2024. Evelyn Felix V Azquez, Secretario(A). F/Keyla Perez Figueroa, Secretario(A) Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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GOBIERNO DE PUERTO

RICO. DEPARTAMENTO DE ESTADO. NOMBRE COMERCIAL PARA REGISTRAR.

AVISO. A QUIEN PUEDA IN-

TERESAR: De acuerdo con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 75 del 23 de septiembre de 1992, según enmendada, mejor conocida como la Ley de Nombres Comerciales del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y la Sección 24 del Reglamento promulgado bajo la ley citada anteriormente, el siguiente nombre comercial ha sido presentado en el Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico para su archivo y registro.

J R POWER

SOLUTION

Número de Expediente: 254063-99-0. Propietario: José A Rosado Reyes. Dirección: HC 05 Box 6550, Aguas Buenas PR 00703. Actividad Empresarial: Electromécanico industrial, instalación, diagnóstico de todo tipo de Generadores. Renuncia a elementos no registrable: NOTIFICACIÓN: Cualquier oposición a este registro deberá presentarse en el Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este aviso.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESION DE LOURDES COLON MORALES, COMPUESTA POR CRUZ MORALES RUIZ, COMO POSIBLE HEREDERA CONOCIDA; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL Y ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM. PO2022CV02389 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, Juan R. Cruz Román, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, a la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 9 de febrero de 2024 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $113,887.39 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 20 de noviembre de 2023, notificada por edicto y archivada el 30 de noviembre de 2023, y publicada mediante edicto el día 6 de diciembre de 2023 en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star y notificada por correo certificado ese mismo dia, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso

isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico Expedido en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día, de 28 de febrero de 2024.

Carol Chalmers Soto, Alguacil Regional #526. ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR.

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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN CRUZ MARÍA FLORES FIGUEROA; RAFAEL DÍAZ ABAD, POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN

POR CONCEPTO DE USUFRUCTO VIUDAL; RAFAEL DÍAZ FLORES; MARÍA MAGDALENA VIRUET FLORES; LUIS ANTONIO VIRUET FLORES; IRIS NEREIDA VIRUET FLORES; JULIO ANTONIO VIRUET FLORES; “CHAGO”

DÍAZ FLORES; ANA DÍAZ FLORES; “YUNGO” DÍAZ FLORES Y JOHN DOE

Y RICHARD ROE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOSDE LA SUCESIÓN DE CRUZ MARÍA FLORES FIGUEROA; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN; EL HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: VA2019CV00096

SALA: 201 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL

PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU.

EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que

suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico,

hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 27 de febrero de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela marcada con el número ciento sesenta y dos (162) en el Plano de Parcelación de la comunidad rural Breñas del Barrio Sabana del término municipal de Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas, con dos mil setecientos cuarenta y ocho diez milésimas de otra, equivalentes a mil ochenta punto cero cero metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela número 115 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con calle número 3 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número 163 de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número 161 de la comunidad. Inscrita al folio 201 del tomo 175 de Vega Alta, finca # 9,319. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Bayamón. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada en este caso el $43,870.02 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 9.50% desde el 1ro de junio de 2017; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $6,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS 10:45

DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $60,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una

SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 16 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS 10:45

DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $40,000.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración

de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día

23 DE ABRIL DE 2024 A LAS

10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $30,000.00, 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 Artículo 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de marzo de 2024. Edgargo E. Vargas Santana, Alguacil Auxiliar P. 193, División de Subas-

tas Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Bayamón.

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FUNDING, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. JUAN C. ANDUJAR HERNANDEZ

Parte Demandada CIVIL NUM.: UT2023CV00330

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (Procedimiento Ordinario) EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: JUAN C. ANDUJAR

HERNANDEZ • (I) SALTO

ABAJO SECTOR EL VERDE, CARR 111 KM 0.1, UTUADO PR 006412 (II) PO BOX 1053, UTUADO PR 00641-1053

UTLTADO · R 006412.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandan e Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518 teléfono (787) 9933731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com, Expedido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal para su publicación, en Utuado, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de enero de 2024. Diane Álvarez Villanueva, Secretaria Regional. Gloria F. Rivera Fonseca, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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Parte Demandante Vs. JOSE R TORRENT BOU

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. SJ2023CV10250 SALA 903 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: JOSE R TORRENT BOU • URB COUNTRY CLUB 918 CALLE BECASINA SAN JUAN PR 00924.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de enero de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. F/Myriam Rivera Villanueva, Secretaria de Servicios a Sala.

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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE SAN JUAN

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. JOEL E MONTIJO

SANTIAGO

Parte Demandada

CIVIL NÚM. SJ2023CV07724

(503) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO

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

A: JOEL E MONTIJO

SANTIAGO • URB SANTA

ROSA 33-43 CALLE 27, BAYAMON PR 00959-6536

• COND LAS LOMAS 100

CALLE 31 SW APT 1008, SAN JUAN PR 00921.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de enero de 2024. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Carmen M. Pintado, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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Demandante Vs. EDUARDO BATISTA HERNÁNDEZ

Demandada

CIVIL NÚM.: MT2021CV00393

SALÓN: 101 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU.

EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: EDUARDO BATISTA

HERNÁNDEZ– BO

ALTAGRACIA CARR 2

KM 48.5 INT MANATI PR 00674 // EXT ONEILL, DD84 CALLE 1 MANATI

PR 00674-6161.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Gabriel Antonio Ramos Colón cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EX-

TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en MANATÍ, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de enero de 2024. En MANATÍ, Puerto Rico, el 18 de enero de 2024. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. Iris M. Miranda Núñez, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. ERIC HIGUERA

SANTIESTEBAN

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2024CV00197

SALA: 508 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL

PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: ERIC HIGUERA SANTIESTEBAN • 21 URB. PÉREZ MORRIS, SAN JUAN, PR 00917; PMB 106, AVE. LUIS VIGOREAUX 1353, GUAYNABO, PR 00966. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. 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. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Los abogados de la parte demandante son:

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE

DEMANDANTE:

Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández

RUA Núm.: 16,393

BERMUDEZ & DÍAZ LLP

500 Calle De La Tanca, Suite 209

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901

Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664

rdiaz@bdprlaw.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 22 de febrero de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. F/Brenda Baez Acaba, Secretaria Servicios a Sala.

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Parte Demandante Vs.

LA SUCESIÓN DE ISAAC RIVERA GONZÁLEZ

COMPUESTA POR

LUIS RIVERA T/C/C

LUISITO RIVERA Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; MILADIS VIRGINIA VÁSQUEZ

PEGUERO T/C/C

MILADIS VIRGINIA DE RIVERA T/C/C MILADIS VIRGINIA VÁSQUEZ DE RIVERA, POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA

PARTE DEMANDADA

CIVIL NÚM. GB2022CV00160 (201) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA

SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 22 de agosto de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 14 de febrero de 2024 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 9 de abril de 2024, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, Centro Gubernamental, Carretera Número Veinte (20) Kilómetro 5, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar que procede del número 141 en el plano de la Urbanización de la Finca de Marcos Tomás Canejas, cuya finca radica en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo de Guaynabo. El solar de este número se compone de 187.50 metros cuadrados, comprendiendo una casa de madera y techada de zinc, colindando por el NORTE, con los manglares del Pueblo de Puerto Rico; por el SUR, con el solar #142 de Florentino Arroyo; por el ESTE, con calle Marítima; y por el OESTE, finca de donde procede propiedad de Jenara Santana. Inscrita al folio 153 del tomo 13 de Guaynabo, Finca 925. Registro de

la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 156 del tomo 1389 de Guaynabo, Finca 925. Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. Inscripción undécima. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: BO. AMELIA 104 JUANCHO LÓPEZ GUAYNABO, PR 00969 • DIRECCIÓN REGISTRAL: #141 URB. MARCOS TOMÁS CANEJAS BO. PUEBLO VIEJO GUAYNABO, PR 00969. Número de Catastro: 16-062-002-034-140-00. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $83,636.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 16 de abril de 2024, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $55,757.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta, el día 23 de abril de 2024, a las 11:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $41,818.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $65,023.35 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.5% anual desde el 1 de abril de 2020 hasta su completo pago, más $370.68 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $8,363.60 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Aviso De Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. La Sucesión de Isaac Rivera González compuesta por Luis Rivera t/c/c Luisito Rivera y Mengano de Tal, posible heredero desconocido; Miladis Virginia Vásquez Peguero t/c/c Miladis Virginia De Rivera t/c/c Miladis Virginia Vásquez de Rivera, por sí y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, en el caso civil número GB2018- CV00421, sobre

cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $408,050.74 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 10 de julio de 2018. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Guaynabo. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de febrero de 2024. HUGO BASCÓ MEDINA Placa 807, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYNABO SALA SUPERIOR.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; POPULAR MORTGAGE INC. Demandante, V. FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE SANTANDER MORTGAGE CORPORATION, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, COMO SÍNDICO DE HF MORTGAGE

BANKERS; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM. CG2023CV03874

SALA 701 SOBRE: CANCELACIóN DE PAGARé EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES TENEDORES DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO DESCRITO MÁS ADELANTE:

Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado una Demanda donde se solicita se cancele el siguiente pagaré, el cual está extraviado, así como la hipoteca que garantiza su pago: a. a favor de Santander Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $56,000.00, con intereses al 8 ½ % anual y con vencimiento el día 1 de septiembre de 2022 (en adelante el Pagaré), según consta de la escritura número 58 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante la Notaria Mari Nilda Aparicio Laspina, la cual consta inscrita al folio 229 del tomo 1,381 de Caguas, finca 49019, inscripción 2da. Por la presente se les emplaza y requiere para que notifique a la Lcda. Maritza Guzmán Matos, PMB 767, Avenida Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00966, teléfono (787) 7583276, abogada de la parte demandante, con copia de vuestra contestación a la demanda radicada en este caso contra ustedes, dentro de un término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este Edicto. Por la presente se les apercibe de que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 29 de febrero de 2024. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. Eneida Arroyo Vélez, Sub Secretaria.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE MMG INVESTMENTS IV, LLC Demandante V.

OMAR MOHAMED DARHAMED; M FARIS CORP.; OMAR M. FARES, CORP.

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM. PO2020CV01691 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES POSTERIORES

YO, MANUEL MALDONADO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, al público en general, POR LA PRESENTE HAGO SABER: CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia del Secretario de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos, en mi oficina, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el día 4 de abril de 2024, a las 10:30 de la mañana, la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar con un edificio de hormigón armado, que ocupa todo su frente, de dos (2) plantas, techada de tejas de barro y zinc, en la Calle Atocha, Barrio Segundo de la Ciudad de Ponce, Puerto Rico, marcado dicho edificio con el número cuatro (4) de gobierno; midiendo el solar dieciséis (16) metros y novecientos noventa y seis (996) milímetros de frente por veintiséis (26) metros cuarenta y siete (47) milímetros de fondo; con un área superficial de cuatrocientos cuarenta y dos punto seiscientos noventa y cinco (442.695) metros cuadrados. Colindando por el frente ESTE, con la Calle “Atocha”; por la derecha entrando, NORTE, con propiedad de sucesores de Homar & Colom; por la izquierda o SUR, con propiedad de Sucesión de Luis Casals y Sucesión Villaraza; y por el fondo OESTE, con propiedad de Mario Mercado Riera. Finca 30,013 inscrita al folio 74 del tomo 187 de Ponce, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Ponce. La dirección física es: Paseo Atocha #4, Barrio Segundo, Ponce, Puerto Rico 00733. Los tipos mínimos fijados para la ejecución del bien inmueble antes mencionado lo son las sumas de $240,000.00 para la Primera Subasta; $160,000.00 para la Segunda Subasta; $120,000.00 para la Tercera Subasta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde sea posible, el importe de la sentencia dictada el pasado 17 de junio de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $180,744.21 de

principal, más $3,697.48 de intereses acumulados al 30 de septiembre de 2020, más los que continúan acumulándose a razón de $31.38 diarios hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda, más la suma de $1,403.36 en cargos por mora, más los que continúen acumulándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda; más la cantidad de $13,573.45 en seguros e intereses diferidos; más la suma de $24,000.00 por costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados pactados. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 11 de abril de 2024, a las 10:30 de la mañana, y el tipo mínimo para ésta será $160,000.00 que es las dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 18 de abril de 2024, a las 10:30 de la mañana, y el tipo mínimo para esta subasta será $120,000.00 que es la mitad del precio mínimo pactado para la primera subasta. Cuando se declare desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuere mayor. Todas las subastas deberán ser acordadas y celebradas según lo ordenado por el Tribunal. La subasta antes indicada se llevará a cabo en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. El inmueble NO consta afecto por el siguiente gravamen preferencial. El inmueble antes relacionado consta afecto al siguiente gravamen posterior: a. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 19 de octubre de 2020, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, en el Caso Civil número PO2020CV01691, por concepto de Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por Oriental Bank, versus Omar Mohamed Darhamed, M. Faris, Corp., Omar M. Fares, Corp., por la suma de $180,744.21 más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 5 de julio de 2022, al tomo Karibe de Ponce, finca número 30,013, Anotación A. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna, continuarán subsistentes; entiéndase que el rematante los acepta y quedan

subrogados en la responsabilidad del mismo sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Para la publicación de este edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana, durante dos semanas consecutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, libro el presente en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de marzo del 2024.

Manuel Maldonado, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC

Demandante V. SUCESION MIGUEL

ANGEL ARROYO

ARROYO Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDO FRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM

Caso Núm.: HU2022CV01774

(Salón 206) Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.

A: SUCESION

MIGUEL ANGEL

ARROYO ARROYO, SUCESION MARIA

MINERVA FIGUEROA

CONCEPCION, NOLGIE RODRIGUEZ

FIGUEROA, SANDRA

IVETTE RODRIGUEZ

FIGUEROA, HAYDEE MAR

RODRIGUEZ FIGUEROA, JOHN DOE, JANE DOE, JOHN ROE, JANE ROE: P/C DE LA LCDA

FRANCES L. ASENCIO

GUIDO A SU CORREO ELECTRONICO.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sen-

tencia 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 4 de marzo de 2024. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 4 de marzo de 2024. Evelyn Felix Vazquez, Secretaria. F/Karilin Morales Figueroa, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE MEDICOS Y OTROS PROFESIONALES DE LA SALUD (MEDICOOP)

Demandante Vs. ERNESTO A.

ROMERO PICHARDO Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: GB2024CV00015

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: ERNESTO A.

ROMERO PICHARDO

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO, se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero, en la que se alega adeuda la suma de $33,235.55 de principal, intereses al 8.25% anual, desde el día 18 de julio de 2023, hasta su completo pago, más un 33% del principal del Pagaré estipulado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Se le advierte que de no comparecer en autos dentro del término de los treinta (30) días siguientes a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle, debiendo radicar el original de su contestación en este Tribunal, enviando copia a la abogada de la parte demandante: Lcda. Adela Surillo Gutiérrez, Bufete Collazo & Surillo, LLC, P.O. Box 11550, San Juan, PR 00922-1550; Teléfono: (787) 625-9999. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edic-

to que firmo y sello en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 27 de febrero de 2024. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional. F/Sara Rosa Villegas, Secretaria tribunal Conf. I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN

JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DR. MANUEL ZENO GANDIA

Demandante DANIEL PARRILLA LARACUENTE

Demandado

CIVIL NUM.: SJ2023CV001396.

SALA: 1003. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS

A: DANIEL PARRILLA LARACUENTE

COND. SABANA LLANA VILLAGE 977

CALLE PEFA REYES, APT. 528

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00924-2934

O SEA, IA PARTE DEMANDADA ARRIBA MENCIONADA.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a Ia demanda. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Un término de 30 dias a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos SUMAC), aI 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 SecretarIa del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder eI remedio solicitado en Ia demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, deberá notificar su contestación a Ia:

LCDA. ANA M. CAMPOS GAVITORUA 7710

EDIFICIO DR. MANUEL ZENO

GANDIA 353 AVE. DOMENECH, SUITE 302 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918-3753

TELEFONO: (787) 751-5733

EMAIL: anamcampos1@yahoo.com abogada de Ia parte demandante cuya dirección es Ia que se deja indicada. Se le apercibe que, en caso de no hacerlo asI, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en

Ia demanda. Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 1ro de marzo de 2024. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, SECRETARIA. F/ DE LA PAZ ORTIZ, EDITH M., SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA MUNICIPAL DE CAROLINA.

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DR. MANUEL ZENO GANDÍA

Demandante vs. ROXANA RODRIGUEZ MONJE

Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: CA2023CV03697. SALA: 408. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO REGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS A: ROXANA RODRIGUEZ MONJE

URBANIZACIÓN VILLA

CAROLINA

157 14 CALLE 427

CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00985-4048

O SEA, LA PARTE DEMANDADA ARRIBA MENCIONADA.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en un término de 30 días 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. Además, deberá notificar su contestación a la:

LCDA. ANA M. CAMPOS GAVITORUA 7710

EDIFICIO DR. MANUEL ZENO

GANDÍA 353 AVE. DOMENECH, SUITE 302 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918-3753

TELÉFONO: (787) 751-5733

EMAIL: anamcampos1@yahoo.com abogada de la parte demandante cuya dirección es la que se deja indicada. Se le apercibe que, en caso de no hacerlo así, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda. Extendido bajo mi

firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 29 de febrero de 2024. Lcda.

Kanelly Zayas Robles, SECRETARIA. f/KEILA GARCIA SOLIS, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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

PLAZA CAROLINA

MALL, L.P.

Demandante, V. DEO PR RETAIL 1, LLC; RICHARD COHEN

Demandados.

Civil Núm. CA2023CV03797 (401) COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: RICHARD COHEN, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE DEO PR RETAIL 1, LLC DIRECCIONES

CONOCIDAS: AVE. JESÚS

M. FRAGOSO, PLAZA CAROLINA, LOCAL 254, CAROLINA, PR 00983, 2019 EAST 3RD STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11223.

Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda de Cobro de Dinero. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Roberto A. Cámara Fuertes

R.U.A. Núm. 13,556

Email: rcamara@ferraiuoli.com

Lcda. Elizabeth Villagrasa Flores R.U.A. Núm. 16.877

Email: evillagrasa@ferraiuoli.com

FERRAIUOLI, LLC

P.O. Box 195168

San Juan, PR 00919-5168

Tel: 787-766-7000 / Fax. 787-766-7001

Abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto Usted deberá presentar alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en Carolina, Puerto Rico, 28 de febrero de 2024. Lcda. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. F/Keila García

Soles, Sub Secretaria. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE TOA BAJA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. RICARDO MARTINEZ

Parte Demandada

CIVIL NÚM. TB2023CV00374

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: RICARDO MARTINEZ - BO INGENIO SECTOR VILLA CALMA 320 CALLE PRINCIPAL, TOA BAJA PR 00949

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kenmuel J. Ruiz Lopez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de enero de 2024. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Noelia Matias Salas, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

CARLOS DAVID RECCI SANTIAGO, RICARDO

RECCI SANTIAGO Y

JULIO RECCI SANTIAGO

Demandantes vs. BANCO POPULAR DE PR, COMO SUCESOR EN INTERES DE H.F. INC.; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE

Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: CA2024CV00576 SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE

Por la presente se emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal la demanda del caso de epígrafe solicitando la cancelación del Pagaré suscrito a favor de H.F. Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $28,800.00, con vencimiento el 01 de agosto de 2008, y habiéndose constituido por la escritura número 244 otorgada en San Juan, el 28 de julio de 1978, ante el Notario Público Raul Tous Bobonis, inscrita al folio 212 del tomo 580 de Carolina, finca número 23352, inscripción 2da. Representa a la parte demandante la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: ENEL M. PEREZ MONTE RUA 9019

Reina Isabel 175, La Villa de Torrimar

Guaynabo PR 00969 Tel.: (787) 646-9168 Lcdaenelperez@gmail.com

Se le apercibe que si no comparecieran ustedes a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oirle. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, advirtiéndosele que de no hacerlo se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Dado en Carolina, a 26 de febrero 2024. Lcda. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria Regional. Lourdes Díaz Medina, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN

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

Demandante Vs. EDGARDO GONZALEZ BURGOS

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: BY2023CV02576

SALÓN: 504 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: EDGARDO

GONZALEZ BURGOS –URB. SANTA JUANITA

D64 CALLE ESPAÑA APT 2 BAYAMÓN, P.R. 00956-4793.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza por la deuda reclamada de $1,989.76 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, Lcdo. Edwin Serrano Peña cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección edwin.serrano@ orflaw.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EX-

TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de enero de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 19 de enero de 2024. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Vivian J. Sanabria, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

LL FUNDS

ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT LLC

Demandante Vs.

SUCESION ELBA

MARGARITA VELEZ

MARTINEZ T/C/C ELBA

MARGARITA VELEZ

T/C/C ELBA M. VELEZ

COMPUESTA POR WILLMAN ENRIQUE

RODRIGUEZ VELEZ, JUAN MANUEL

RODRIGUEZ VELEZ, ELBA MILAGROS

RODRIGUEZ VELEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS

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

Demandados

CIVIL NUM. SJ2023CV11657

SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: WILLMAN ENRIQUE

RODRIGUEZ VELEZ, JUAN MANUEL

RODRIGUEZ VELEZ, ELBA MILAGROS

RODRIGUEZ

VELEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES MIEMBROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION ELBA

MARGARITA VELEZ

MARTINEZ T/C/C ELBA

MARGARITA VELEZ T/C/C

ELBA M. VELEZ

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Greenspoon Marder, LLP

Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,662

TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309

Telephone: (954) 343 6273

Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com

Expedido bajo mi firma, y el

sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de febrero de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Fernández Del Valle, Luz E., Sub Secretaria.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITONS FUND, LLC.

Demandante Vs. IVÁN G. ROMERO

SÁNCHEZ

Demandada

CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2023CV10235 SALÓN: 903 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: IVÁN G. ROMERO

SÁNCHEZ- 66 RES

LLORENS TORRES APT 1253, SAN JUAN, PR, 00913.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Gabriel Antonio Ramos Colón cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de enero de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de enero de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Ortiz Silva, Melba, Secretaria Auxiliar.

Fresh starts: Seth Lugo, Michael King show value in move from long relief to rotation

By TYLER KEPNER / THE ATHLETIC

You’ve made it to the top of your industry. The pay is great, but some co-workers make several times more than others. Generational wealth. You don’t have long to get it, though, and a lot depends on the role your company assigns you.

You would strive for a promotion. But the company’s success depends on dozens of people performing specific, sometimes thankless duties. You do not want to disrupt the delicate organizational structure. But if you do not advocate for yourself, who will?

Welcome to the world of the multiple-inning MLB relief pitcher.

At the San Diego Padres’ training camp, Michael King is enjoying his new life as a midrotation starter, behind Yu Darvish and Joe Musgrove. He is essentially replacing Seth Lugo, who is enjoying his new life, 8 miles down Bell Road in Surprise, Arizona, with the Kansas City Royals.

Lugo made 26 starts for San Diego last season with a 3.57 ERA. His ERA+, according to Baseball Reference, was 115 — that is, 15% better than the league average. That’s exactly what it was in his first seven seasons for the New York Mets, almost all of it as a reliever.

His Mets career earned Lugo a twoyear, $15 million contract in free agency with the Padres. He proved himself as a starter, opted out of the deal, and got three years and $45 million from the Royals. One season, three times the guarantee.

“Last year in free agency, there were less than five teams that considered me as a starter — and this offseason, there were close to 20,” Lugo said before a recent practice. “Teams respect me as a starter now, so that’s a good feeling.”

Only two Royals have richer guaranteed deals than Lugo’s: Salvador Pérez, an eight-time All-Star catcher, and Bobby Witt Jr., a young cornerstone shortstop. Lugo has a corner locker with an open stall adjoining it, a telltale status symbol in every MLB

what he’s doing. He’s in control. He’s really attacking with all his pitches.”

King started at Boston College and in the minors, but he sees now that his repertoire was lacking. He would carefully navigate the top of the order, where the future big leaguers hit, then dominate the fringier prospects with his sinker.

Over time, King learned a sweeping slider and gained better change-up command. The Yankees kept him in the bullpen last season, though, as a protective measure. After elbow surgery, it seemed unwise to jump from 51 innings in 2022 to, say, 150 innings in 2023. King said he appreciated their caution and the opportunity to start down the stretch.

clubhouse. At 34, he is finally part of a team’s core.

“He throws a ton of strikes; he’s an efficient guy on the mound; he’s got four pitches; he’s ultracompetitive, pretty unflappable,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “He’s resilient, and more than anything, he’s motivated to prove that last year was not just a one-off and he wants to be a good starter long-term.”

That’s also the goal for King, who was a part of the Padres’ five-player haul in their Juan Soto trade with the New York Yankees. Through King’s age-28 season, the most similar pitcher in MLB history — again, according to Baseball Reference — is Lugo. The two made themselves so valuable as relievers that starting had to wait.

King had hoped to build himself up as a starter in his recovery from a fractured elbow in 2022. When he made his case to the Yankees, he said, bullpen coach Mike Harkey crystallized the problem.

“Listen, I think with your stuff and your demeanor, you can be a top-five, top-10 reliever in the game,” Harkey told him, in King’s recollection.

“I don’t know if you could be a top100 starter in the game, because you haven’t started.”

It made sense. But then Harkey proved King’s point.

“He went on to say that, like, the 10th-best reliever probably makes the same amount of money as the 100thbest starter,” King said.

Harkey’s guess was uncannily accurate. Last season, King appeared more often in the seventh inning than in any other inning. According to Spotrac, MLB’s 10th-highest-paid seventh-inning reliever (the San Francisco Giants’ Tyler Rogers) will earn $3.2 million in 2024. The 100th-highest-paid starter (the Cincinnati Reds’ Hunter Greene) will earn $3.3 million.

King, who will be eligible for free agency after the 2025 season, is earning $3.15 million this season. But his performance as a starter late last year improved his future earning power. King had a 2.23 ERA in nine starts, with 51 strikeouts in 40 1/3 innings.

“His breaking ball is good, his fastball has a lot of life to it, he’s throwing it where he wants to,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said. “Love his tempo of

Lugo’s high-spinning curveball has always been elite. He started in 26 of his first 36 major league appearances for the Mets, who came to rely on him as a long reliever and setup man after that. Through experience — and a year with the Padres’ pitching coach, Ruben Niebla — Lugo is better equipped now to handle the mental side of starting.

“When you have a bad start and have to sit around for four or five days, it’s easier now,” Lugo said. “When I was younger, those would build up, and now I’m pitching kind of nervously, shying away from the zone, trying to be a little finer because I got hit around.

“Now, after a bad start, I know exactly what to work on. And as a reliever, it’s kind of the opposite. It’s like, ‘Well, you’re going out there tomorrow, hope it works.’”

To Lugo, the transition to starting was not about money. If he had gotten a more lucrative offer to pitch in relief, he said, he would have rejected it.

“The biggest thing for me is: How am I going to be happy playing baseball for hopefully another five, six years?” Lugo said. “It would be as a starter.”

Quality middle relievers can be rich. But reliable starters can be wealthy. Two pitchers on Bell Road changed their identities before it was too late.

Seth Lugo, then a New York Mets reliever just called up from the minors, is seen in the bullpen before a game against the Chicago Cubs at Citi Field in Queens, July 1, 2016. Now 34, Lugo proved himself as a starter for the San Diego Padres last season, and after opting out of that deal, signed for three years and $45 million with the Kansas City Royals.

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

You should wake up feeling strong and confident, Aries. Expect to receive some good news today, which will only heighten your mood. In the afternoon you could attend a party or neighborhood gettogether. You’ll have a good time talking to friends and meeting new people. In the evening, relax!

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Your outgoing and jovial nature is intensified today, Taurus, and so you’re probably going to be sought after for any parties or celebrations. Your generosity is also at an all-time high, and will take many forms, which will be appreciated by that special someone in your life. Think about taking your partner with you as you make the social rounds tonight and making him or her the star of the evening.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

Inspiration is the keyword for today, Gemini. An optimistic and enthusiastic attitude could lead to powerful imaginings, which may take solid form as plans for future projects. These could be artistic, business related, or centered around your home in some way. Whatever they are, this is a good day to put those plans into motion. All signs indicate success on any project begun or completed today.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

A group you’re associated with could bring information to your attention that puts you in a very positive frame of mind and almost has you skipping all the way home. You should enjoy socializing today, Cancer, as you’re even more gregarious than usual. Both old and new friends could seek out your company. A victory of some kind has come your way, contributing to your great mood. Enjoy your day!

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Your faithful and diligent work, Leo, in addition to a lot of sacrifices for the sake of your career, will soon bear fruit. The anticipation of a great evaluation, with possible advancement, is likely to have you walking on air all day, full of dreams and plans for the future. Enjoy this well-deserved peace of mind. Spend some time today enjoying your family. Perhaps you could plan a pre-celebration.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

Congratulations, Virgo! You’ve finally reached a goal you’ve been working toward for a long time. Success and advancement are on their way, and you should be feeling extremely enthusiastic and optimistic about your future. Some vast changes may take place in your life, but they all promise to be positive. Expect to travel and learn a lot. Make the most of these energies.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

Vivid, wonderful dreams may have haunted your sleep last night, Libra, leaving you disappointed that they weren’t real. They have a message for you, so write them down, set them aside, and analyze them later. Your psychic abilities and imagination are very sharp today. This is a great day to start an artistic project that has been in the back of your mind for some time. Enjoy your day.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Feel free to take full advantage of the very open social energies of today, Scorpio. You, especially, will feel at home in any social gathering, totally at ease talking to new people and charming the room. This would be an ideal day to meet someone new. Someone of the opposite sex may be particularly attracted to you. Feel free to be as flirtatious as you want!

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

Expect some very pleasant surprises today, Sagittarius. If you’re single, you’re likely to receive a phone call from someone who interests you romantically. This should greatly increase your level of self-confidence, and you’re therefore likely to float through the rest of the day. With these aspects, any new relationship or project begun today will have a wonderful energy behind it.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

You should be feeling especially strong, healthy, and charismatic. You’re likely to receive some invitations to exciting parties. You might be surprised at what seems a sudden increase in your popularity. Expanded career opportunities could also come your way from new acquaintances, and you could find doors opening to a whole new life - new friends, new position, and possibly a new home.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Optimism and enthusiasm for the months ahead have you feeling confident and strong. The sky’s the limit! A male visitor could have some surprising news for you. This is a great day to make investments or purchase property. If you’ve been expecting money through legal papers or contracts, it could come in the mail today. The night could bring vivid and interesting dreams. In all, it’s a thoroughly satisfying day.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Some interesting information could come to you from another state or country, Pisces. This could induce some pretty deep thinking, leading to decisions that could alter the course of your life in some way. You might be considering returning to school to advance your education. Your mood today should be optimistic and positive. You could be full of utopian schemes for the future. Wait a few days and then start to make definite plans.