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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz said Tuesday that he asked the Financial Oversight and Management Board and the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) to allow the utility to use money from its budget to meet obligations, including payment to retirees.
Colón Ortiz said he hopes the oversight board and the PREB promptly respond to his request to use $150 million in PREPA money to pay for the public corporation’s obligations, the Genera PR contract, and retirees’ pensions.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s Employee Retirement System (SREAEE by Spanish initials) informed its members in February that it may not have sufficient liquidity to pay retirement benefits starting as early as May.
As the STAR reported on March 17, PREPA was planning to seek authorization from the oversight board to amend its budget to make an additional employer contribution from operating cash on hand. The information was in a Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority status report to the federal Title III bankruptcy court filed by law firms O’Melveny & Myers and Marini Pietrantoni Muñiz LLC.
“The funds that we are requesting are funds that we have in our accounts and are the product of the work of the corporation’s employees and have nothing to do with billing,” Colón Ortiz said at a meeting of PREPA’s governing board.
“It’s a transparent matter,” he insisted.
Colón Ortiz reviewed before the governing board the progress made in repairing units in the various power plants.
For example, at the Aguirre Power Plant in Salinas, the repair of unit 1 continues, and PREPA is waiting for the materials requested from General Eléctric. The PREPA chief expects the unit to be ready by the end of April, at $18 million in repair costs.
Unit 2 at Aguirre was under repair but entered the system on March 4.
In Mayagüez, work continues on unit 3b, which was sent to a workshop in the United States. The unit should be ready by the end of April or the beginning of May, Colón Ortiz said.
At the San Juan Power Plant, workers finished the repair of unit 5, which went into service on March 2. Unit 9 is out of service and could be ready for restoration in April, while the repair of unit 7 is subject to the approval of the use of funds by the oversight board and the PREB.
“Most of these projects were committed by FEMA as part of the reconstruction and mitigation projects for the electrical system in Puerto Rico,” Colón Ortiz said.
The approval of the repair plans for units 8 and 10 at Central San Juan and unit 1 at Cambalache in Arecibo is still pending.
“We reaffirm that all three are still necessary for our electrical system,” Colón Ortiz said. “We are talking about almost 300 megawatts that would be available.”
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz said he hopes the Financial Oversight and Management Board and the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau promptly respond to his request to use $150 million in authority money to pay for the public corporation’s obligations, the Genera PR contract, and retirees’ pensions.
The presentation of evidence in the corruption case against former Guaynabo Mayor Ángel Pérez Otero ended Tuesday without the defendant’s testimony.
The jury was sent away, and today they will hear the closing arguments in the case before starting to deliberate.
The defense questioned one witness, Ramón Torres Gómez, the ex-husband of Liza Fernández, who is now the wife of Pérez Otero. Torres Gómez chaired the Auction Board of the Municipality of Guaynabo. In response to questions from defense lawyer Osvaldo Carlos Linares, Torres Gómez indicated that the former mayor did not pressure him to favor any company belonging to the main prosecution witness in the case, Oscar Santamaría, a city contractor.
According to published reports, Torres Gómez, who described himself as a friend of Pérez Otero, was fired in December 2021. The trial is taking place
in the courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Aida Delgado.
This testimony would serve, if the jury believes it, to demonstrate that Pérez Otero did not exert any influence to benefit Santamaría. Pérez Otero has said the money he received from Santamaría was to pay for campaign debt. Still, Santamaría said he paid kickbacks to the former mayor to obtain and keep contracts with the city.
Earlier in the morning, prosecutors questioned Marisol Monserrate Conde, director of the Head Start program in Guaynabo, to demonstrate federal jurisdiction in the case and also brought to the stand Abraham Espada, auditor of the Office of the Electoral Comptroller, who testified that the money that Santamaría gave Pérez Otero was not reported as campaign contributions.
Likewise, Leisa Alejandro Castro, an employee of the island Treasury Department, testified that Pérez Otero did not report the money he received from Santamaría as income.
Fraternity of Pentecostal Councils of Puerto Rico President Moisés Román Díaz asked the island Senate on Tuesday not to confirm Vilmarie Rivera Sierra as women’s advocate.
“She goes to a confirmation hearing, and there she is asked a series of questions. The vast majority of the questions that had to do with answers that obviously could clearly demarcate whether she is the right person for that position, she did not answer them,” Román said in response to questions from the press.
Prior to his announcement, Román met with Rivera Sierra and said he has no doubt about her commitment to public service. However, he said he cannot support the pro-abortion discourse and the ideology of gender perspective.
“I can’t say anything against this lady in terms of her profession, in terms of her passion, in terms of her service,” Román said. “The only thing I pointed out to her, and how good that I did, was the fact that the approach
Fraternity of Pentecostal Councils of Puerto Rico President Moisés Román Díaz, at right, met with the interim women’s advocate and said that while he has no doubt about her commitment to public service, he cannot support the pro-abortion discourse or the ideology of gender perspective.
she has presented to date with respect to the problem of women has only one instrument to work on.”
“With what we have heard so far, she represents a single sector,” the Pentecostal leader added. “Because she represents a sector
based on her answers, we cannot agree. Their answers show that they do not represent all women.”
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The Puerto Rico Association of Producers of Public Shows (CoPEP), 22 producers, and four ticketing companies sued the Convention Center District Authority and AEG Management PR LLC on Tuesday for what they claim are anticompetitive practices that negatively impact sales of local productions.
The producers contend that the Convention Center District Authority and AEG put unfair clauses in contracts that minimize the opportunities for competition in the ticketing market. As a result, they filed a suit seeking a declaratory judgment.
The list of plaintiffs includes producers Rafael “Rafo” Muñiz García de la Noceda, Josantonio Mellado González, Antonio “Tony” Mojena Zapico, Antonio Muñíz García de la Noceda, Oro Entertainment, Edwin Vázquez Ortega, César Sainz Rodríguez, Rosalis Torres Flores, Omar Moreno Taylor, Ender Vega Correa, Nelson Castro Morales, Josantonio Mellado Romero, Yolanda Díaz Sanabria, Rolando Santa Báez, Peter Cruz Pizarro and Michelle Negrón, Ticket Center, Ticket Plus, Fastender and Buy a Tix vending company.
They argued that the Convention Center and AEG are hindering competition in the ticket sales method by preventing the show promoter from selecting the ticket sales method, including, but not limited to, ticketing companies. They said they want to put a stop to the practice of forcing producers to use the vending company chosen by the “venue.”
AEG, through an administration and maintenance contract with the Convention Center District Authority, grants exclusivity in ticket vending to Ticketera.
“This practice confiscates the ability of producers to use their own [ticket] vending company, to negotiate with any other of the over 13 companies registered in the Treasury Department,
and to select the one that best represents their interests for ticket sales,” CoPEP President Roberto Sueiro said. “Among the ticket sales charges are consumer service charges.”
Ticketera has exclusivity in ticket sales with the three most essential venues in the metropolitan area -- José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, the Convention Center and Coca Cola Music Hall, all three state companies -- through a contract that has created supremacy in the sale of tickets for events whose capacity ranges from between 2,000 to 15,000 seats. The three facilities are more modern and suitable for large events, and therefore, show promoters with significant events must use the services of Ticketera, the plaintiffs noted.
According to Act 182, the plaintiffs understand that once the Treasury issues its endorsement and the producer chooses the vending company, the state public facility managed by AEG is bound to abide by the producer’s choice. The producers have
no say on fees imposed as part of the ticket price.
“We have been calling attention to this issue for years, to the administrators of the facilities and the vending companies, because we have seen how the charges for services to the consumers by these vending companies that, by having an exclusive contract, establish the price unilaterally. That is, the producer has no say or vote on this price,” CoPEP Executive Director Juan Carlos Zapata said. “In addition, we see other charges or taxes, such as the ‘Facility fee,’ ’Order fee,’ and the ‘Internet’ fee on the ticket fee. This is an unprecedented practice. The producer does not authorize these charges or taxes.”
Zapata said the additional charges included in the ticket sales impact the decision of families to attend an event as they hike up prices.
“We are receiving more and more calls from the public about this issue,” he added.
The Puerto Rico Convention Center District Authority is a public corporation created under Law 142 of 2001 that manages important infrastructure works of the government and establishments created for the entertainment industry. The Convention District Authority contracted with AEG for the administration and maintenance of the facilities of the Convention Center, José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, Coca-Cola Music Hall and the Old Casino, among other sites.
“Since its creation, the Convention District Authority or the entities contracted to manage their facilities have granted exclusivity to ticket vending companies, forcing promoters to engage in compulsory hiring to produce events in all district-run entertainment venues,” the lawsuit reads.
“According to Act 113 of 2005, the promoter of a show is the only person or entity empowered to choose your ticket vendor,” the suit notes.
Popular Democratic Party (PDP), Secretary General Luis Vega Ramos announced the appointment late Monday of former judge and former speaker of the House of Representatives Carlos Vizcarrondo Irizarry as the PDP presidential delegate in the municipality of Ponce, after an investigation carried out by the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel (PFEI by its Spanish initials) recommended that a special independent prosecutor (FEI) investigate Ponce Mayor Luis Irizarry Pabón.
“Today, the president (of the PDP) has proceeded to appoint former judge CarlosVizcarrondo, a person of great prestige and respect, to supervise the entire reorganization process, as provided for in the PDP Rules of Procedure,” Vega Ramos said in a written statement. “We took this decision as a measure to ensure the continuation of the political and electoral work of the PDP in Ponce, while the mayor attends to the referral of the FEI Office.”
With the appointment, the presidential delegate will
assume the responsibility of directing and supervising the completion of the process of reorganization of all electoral units and of configuring the new members of the PDP Municipal Committee in Ponce.
Vega Ramos noted that Vizcarrondo will report directly to the PDP Committee at the central level. The appointment is effective immediately.
The move came after the Ponce mayor was referred to the PFEI, following a recommendation from the Department of Justice, which alleged in its preliminary investigation that the evidence collected showed that the mayor of Ponce, through intimidation, managed to get his subordinates to provide economic contributions and make economic contributions for the payment of a personal loan, the purpose of which was to partially cover the expenses of Irizarry Pabón’s political campaign.
Also according to the Justice Department’s preliminary investigation, the evidence established among other things that, prior to assuming the position of mayor of Ponce, Irizarry Pabón received illegal donations that he did not
At an event called “Meeting of Microentrepreneurs” held in Guaynabo this week, the Family Department and the Administration for the Socioeconomic Development of the Family (ADSEF by its Spanish acronym) teamed up to achieve the improvement and economic self-sufficiency of island families living below the poverty line.
At the event, more than 100 microentrepreneurs were trained and economic subsidies were awarded to new entrepreneurs through the Economic and Social Development Opportunities Program (PODES), which allows participants to obtain up to $5,000 for the purchase of equipment and materials to establish their microenterprise.
In 2021 and 2022, a total of 122 entrepreneurs established or expanded their microenterprises with the support of the PODES program. So far in 2023, some 29 microentrepreneurs have begun the process to join the program.
Interim Family Secretary Ciení Rodríguez Troche said “this project is a unique opportunity for people who want to start their own business to turn their dream into a reality.”
“Programs like PODES allow our
families to start their path to economic self-sufficiency, while at the same time we strengthen our economy,” she said. “It is another mechanism to promote the value of work as a vital element to achieve a better quality of life in our society.”
The director of the Office of the Governor of Puerto Rico, Caridad Pierluisi, added: “This program is 100 percent state, so the governor [Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia] makes sure we have these funds annually for each of you.”
“We offer training in your area of interest, equipment to do your job, and $5,000 in incentives,” she said. “We make a commitment to progress together, supporting [PODES participants] for two additional years.”
“Here begins a world of possibilities and other benefits for which participants may be eligible …, such as the Work Credit program, which allows you to receive a maximum of $6,707 in funds, and the Child Tax Credit (CTC), under which you can receive $1,500 for each child,” the director of the governor’s office continued. “I share with you that, thanks to credits and programs like these, the poverty rate has dropped by 2% in 2021 and we expect the figures for 2022 and 2023 to be even higher, especially when unemployment is at 6%, the lowest percentage in our history.”
ADSEF Administrator Alberto Fradera Vázquez noted meanwhile that “through the PODES program, large projects are continuously developed, in which after a process of mentoring and accompaniment, we provide all the services, resources and opportunities that help them develop their potential to the maximum of their capabilities.”
The program is subsidized with $200,000 in state funds. During the training event, held in Guaynabo, financial aid was delivered to several PODES participants, including Jorge Ramírez Santiago, who has started a company focused on cleaning services and patio design, and Yaritza Ríos Pérez, who is dedicated to the sale of plus-size clothing.
In the six months since the Sept. 21, 2022 disaster declaration for Hurricane Fiona, more than $864.7 million in federal funds have been distributed to support the recovery of survivors and infrastructure on the island.
The collaboration between FEMA, the Puerto Rico government, island municipalities, and local and federal partners remains strong, which has been key to identifying and fulfilling disaster-related needs, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said.
“It’s been six months since Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, the first to make landfall after hurricane Maria in 2017,” the governor said. “We have
been working together with FEMA to rebuild our island and proof of our joint efforts is the announcement of the arrival of the first temporary generation units that will provide energy during hurricane season.”
FEMA’s Individual Assistance Program has provided more than $629 million in disaster grants to support the recovery of nearly 735,000 Puerto Rico households (as of March 16).
Nearly $58 million has been disbursed for housing assistance and nearly $571 for other assistance needs.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has approved over $102.3 million in disaster loans for 3,415 small businesses, homeowners, renters, and
private nonprofit organizations with losses resulting from Hurricane Fiona.
In addition, FEMA’s Public Assistance funding to assist communities by reimbursing costs for emergency work and permanent repairs has topped more than $130 million. That amount includes over $121 million for emergency protective measures and more than $2.4 million for permanent work.
The National Flood Insurance Program has closed 121 claims totaling more than $3.5 million in payments. For those covered by flood insurance, insurance payments can help restore a home to its pre-disaster condition, provide for loss of personal property and speed up the recovery process.
Republicans on Monday braced for the impact of the impending indictment of former President Donald Trump, with his allies on Capitol Hill flexing their investigative powers to target the prosecutor pursuing Trump while the leading rival for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, took his first swipe at Trump’s personal conduct.
Trump’s call over the weekend for his supporters to take to the streets in protest of what he described as his looming arrest left even some of his allies on the right fearful about what would come next. Memories are still fresh from Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in a violent riot that has since resulted in more than 1,000 arrests.
With police barricades going up outside the Criminal Courts Building in New York City’s Manhattan on Monday, prominent Republicans, including Trump’s allies, were divided over whether to encourage mass protests. Some influential voices on the right urged caution and for his supporters to stay away, particularly from New York, where any potential unrest would invite prosecution from the same official who is expected to charge Trump. Others said not protesting the indictment of a former president was tantamount to ceding their constitutional rights.
“I get that there are some fears and concerns based on what happened on Jan. 6,” said Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republican Club, which organized a demonstration in Manhattan on Monday evening that was sparsely attended, with the news media vastly outnumbering protesters. “But it’s ridiculous and pathetic and nihilistic to say that a conservative can’t peacefully protest.”
The day’s events represented an uneasy calm before an expected political and legal firestorm. A Manhattan grand jury is expected to soon indict Trump in connection with hush-money payments that kept porn star Stormy Daniels from speaking out in 2016 about an affair she said she had with Trump years earlier.
Three Republican House committee chairs made an extraordinary preemptive strike Monday against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, demanding that he provide communications, documents and testimony about his investigation, a rare attempt by Congress to involve itself in an active criminal inquiry.
Referring to the expected indictment, Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, James Comer of Kentucky and Bryan Steil of Wisconsin wrote, “If these reports are accurate, your actions will erode the confidence in the evenhanded application of justice and unalterably interfere in the course of the 2024 presidential election.”
Trump’s lawyers have quietly pushed the Republican-
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at an event promoting his new book in Davenport, Iowa, March 10, 2023. DeSantis spoke earlier this week about Donald Trump’s expected indictment, as Republicans weighed whether to heed the former president’s call to protest.
led House to intervene. Last month, a Trump lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, wrote to Jordan calling on Congress to investigate the “egregious abuse of power” by what he called a “rogue local district attorney,” according to a copy of the letter obtained by The New York Times.
The expected indictment is already roiling the 2024 campaign trail.
In Florida, DeSantis, who had faced pressure from Trump allies to speak out against the case, on Monday broke two days of silence, joining the chorus of other Republicans who have accused Bragg of “weaponizing” his office.
But DeSantis went further. The governor, who has not yet declared his candidacy for president but is traveling the country, including to key early primary states, needled Trump over the conduct at the heart of the investigation.
“I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair,” DeSantis said to chuckles from the crowd at the event in Panama City, Florida. “I just, I can’t speak to that.”
“But what I can speak to,” he said, “is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction, and he chooses to go back many, many years ago, to try to use something about porn star hush-money payments, you know, that’s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the highest-ranking member of the House so far to endorse Trump, predicted in an interview that the expected indictment “only strengthens President Trump moving forward.” And Trump did, in fact, score an endorsement from DeSantis’ home state Monday — from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who indicated that the expected indictment had pushed her to unequivocally choose sides.
“This is unheard of, and Americans should see it for what it is: an abuse of power and fascist overreach of the justice system,” Luna said in a statement to the Times.
Late Monday, Trump tried to call into a streaming “Prayers for Trump” call co-hosted by Roger Stone, his longest-serving confidant. As technical difficulties disrupted their connection, Stone called for people to be “peaceful,” “civil” and “legal” in their protests.
As House Republicans gathered this week in Orlando, Florida, ostensibly to plot their policy agenda and how to position themselves for the coming fiscal fights on Capitol Hill, the disruptive force that Trump remains for the party was on display, even as GOP lawmakers lined up almost uniformly against his prosecution.
The Republican speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, who owes his post in part to Trump’s support, was among those urging Trump supporters to stay away from protests Sunday, for instance. “I don’t think people should protest this, no,” he said.
Stefanik, one of Trump’s most fervent defenders, dissented. “I do believe people have a constitutional right of freedom of speech to speak up when they disagree,” she said.
A few hundred miles away, DeSantis was attempting his own high-wire balancing act when it comes to Trump. He criticized Bragg as “a Soros-funded prosecutor,” using the familiar language of the right to bash George Soros, a liberal billionaire philanthropist, for his indirect financial support. At the same time, DeSantis appeared to minimize the significance of a former president facing potential criminal charges.
“We’ve got so many things pending in front of the Legislature,” DeSantis said. “I’ve got to spend my time on issues that actually matter to people.”
Préstamos Personales Pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 18 de marzo de 2023
The Biden administration warned earlier this week that a warming planet posed severe economic challenges for the United States, which would require the federal government to reassess its spending priorities and how it influenced behavior.
Administration economists, in an annual report, said that reassessment should include a new look at the climate-adaptation implications of aid to farmers, wildland firefighting and wide swaths of safety-net programs like Medicaid and Medicare, as the government seeks to shield the poorest Americans from suffering the worst effects of climate change.
The White House Council of Economic Advisers also warned that, left unchanged, federal policies like fighting forest fires and subsidizing crop insurance for farmers could continue to encourage Americans to live and work in areas at high risk of damage from warming temperatures and extreme weather — effectively forcing taxpayers across the country to pay for increasingly costly choices by people and businesses.
The findings were contained in a chapter of the annual Economic Report of the President, which was released Monday afternoon and this year focused on long-run challenges to the U.S. economy. They came on a day when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of experts convened by the United Nations, reported that Earth was barreling quickly toward a level of warming that would make it significantly more difficult for humans to manage drought, heat waves and other climate-related disasters.
The White House report details evidence showing the United States is more vulnerable to the costs of extreme weather events than previously thought, while suggesting a series of policy shifts to ensure the poorest Americans do not foot the bill.
“Climate change is here,” Cecilia Rouse, the departing chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, said in an interview. “And as we move forward, we’re going to have to be adapting to it and ensuring that we minimize the cost to families and businesses and others.”
Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 18 de marzo de 2023
The report broadly suggests that climate change has upended the concept of risk in all corners of the American economy, distorting markets in ways that companies, people and policymakers have not fully kept up with. It also suggests that the federal government will be left with significantly higher costs in the future if it does not better identify those risks and correct those market distortions — like paying more to provide health care for victims of heat stroke or to rebuild coastal homes flooded in hurricanes.
For example, the report cites evidence that private mortgage lenders are already offloading loans with a high exposure of climate risk to federally backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It highlights how the federal flood insurance program, which essentially underwrites all home flooding insurance policies in the country, is at risk of insolvency.
At a time when administration officials and the Federal Reserve are struggling to stabilize the nation’s financial system, the report warns that homebuyers and corporate investors appear to be underestimating climate-related risks in their markets, which could lead to a financial crisis.
“Rapid changes in asset prices or reassessments of the risks in response to a shifting climate could produce volatility and cascading instability in financial markets if not anticipated by regulators,” the report says.
To address those dangers, the report offers components for a federal climate adaptation strategy. Its recommendations — some of them already in early stages through existing administration actions — include producing better information about climate risk, helping financial markets accurately price that risk and better protecting the most vulnerable from the effects of climate change.
Perhaps the most significant proposal, and probably the most politically sensitive, is a call for Washington to exert more pressure on state and local officials, pushing them to be careful about where and how they let people build homes, businesses and infrastructure projects.
That proposal would address a core problem that has hindered America’s efforts to adapt to climate change. When people build in places that are most exposed to the effects of climate change — along coastlines, near riverbanks, at the edge of forests prone to wildfires — state and local governments get most of the benefits, in the form of higher tax revenues and economic growth. But when flooding, fires or other major disasters happen, the federal government typically pays the bulk of the cost for responding and rebuilding.
Yet for the most part, state and local officials, not the federal government, have authority over where and how development happens — so people keep building in highrisk areas, a classic example of what economists, including the authors of the report, call a moral hazard.
In response, the document proposes using federal funds to change the behavior of state and local officials, by tying that money to state and local decisions. That approach has been tried before, with little success. In 2016, the Obama administration suggested adjusting the level of disaster aid provided to states, based on what steps they took to reduce their exposure to disasters. States objected, and the change never happened.
Administration officials said they were already trying to leverage some spending from the infrastructure law President Biden signed in 2021 to influence state and local behavior. The report suggests much more aggressive action could be necessary.
It also proposes a rethinking of the nation’s system of insuring against disasters — moving away from separate localized policies that cover fire, flooding and other events, and more toward a nationally mandated “multiperil catastrophe insurance” system that is backstopped by the federal government.
Perhaps most sobering for Washington’s current fiscal moment — when Biden is battling with House Republicans who are seeking sharp cuts to federal spending and raising anew concerns over the growing national debt — is the report’s suggestion that climate effects could subject growing numbers of Americans to heat stroke, respiratory illnesses and other ailments in the years to come. That could further drive up government costs for health programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
The Council of Economic Advisers has begun a yearslong effort to project those climate-related effects on future federal budgets, which it detailed in a highly technical paper released this month.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday was to designate two new national monuments in the Southwest, insulating from development a half million acres in Nevada that are revered by Native Americans and 6,600 acres in Texas that were once admired by writer Jack Kerouac.
In southern Nevada, Biden will protect a large portion of the Spirit Mountain area, encompassing some of the most biologically diverse and culturally significant lands in the Mojave Desert. Near El Paso, Texas, he will establish the Castner Range National Monument on a former artillery range along rugged canyons and arroyos that rise out of the desert near the Franklin Mountains.
The Spirit Mountain area, also known by the Mojave name Avi Kwa Ame, is the largest such monument Biden has designated, and only the second national monument created specifically to protect Native history.
Avi Kwa Ame is considered the creation site for Yuman-speaking tribes such as the Fort Mojave, the Cocopah, the Quechan and the Hopi. Native tribes, environmental groups and local and state leaders have been seeking the designation for more than a decade.
Castner Range, located at the Army base Fort Bliss, served as a training and testing site for the U.S. Army during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War until it closed in 1966. The range includes archaeological sites, some prehistoric, that feature cave etchings made by Native Americans and stone shelters built by ranchers more than a century ago. The terrain is filled with Mexican yellow poppies, and serves as a habitat for the checkered whip tail lizard, desert cottontail and Western desert tarantula.
It has also been littered with thousands of rounds of unexploded ordnance. Once the area is made safe for public access, Castner Range is intended to expand access to nature for the historically underserved communities bordering the range, according to a White House statement. In the 1950s, Kerouac extolled the view from the range in “The Dharma Bums,” writing of seeing “all of Mexico, all of Chihuahua, the entire sand-glittering desert of it, under a late sinking moon that was huge and bright.”
Biden is using the authority of the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish the new monuments, which will insulate them from development.
About 33,000 acres of the Spirit Mountain area were already protected under the Wilderness Act of 1964. The newly expanded monument will create a corridor that links the Mojave National Preserve and the Castle Mountains National
Monument in California to the Sloan Canyon and Lake Mead national recreation areas in Nevada and Arizona.
That would ensure a migratory path for desert bighorn sheep and mule deer, and protect critical habitat for the desert tortoises, bald eagles, peregrine falcons, western screech owls and Gila monsters that are native to the region. Some 28 species of native grasses, a number of them rare, also grow there, as well as some of the oldest and largest Joshua trees in the United States.
Biden has also used the Antiquities Act to create a national monument at Camp Hale, Colorado, and to restore three monuments that were shrunk by President Donald Trump: Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
To date, the Bears Ears national monument in eastern Utah has been the only national monument to explicitly address its Indigenous roots. (Today, the monument is jointly managed by a council made up of delegates from five tribes.) The designation of a second one appears designed by the Biden administration to send a message to Indigenous communities that have long fought for a meaningful say in the management of their ancestral lands.
The creation of the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument could spur pushback from renewable energy companies seeking to gain a foothold in one of the nation’s best regions for wind and solar power at a time when Biden has promised to speed up the country’s transition to clean energy.
But there is no wind or solar development within the proposed monument area, and much of the land was excluded from energy development under a federal conservation designation, said Melissa Schwartz, a spokesperson for the Interior Department.
There is one pending application for
a 700-megawatt solar project on part of the designated land that has been identified as an exception from the conservation designation, Schwartz said.
And a California-based solar company, Avantus, has sought access to part of the land that will be included in the expanded Spirit Mountain monument in order to use existing transmission lines and access roads from a shuttered coalburning power plant in nearby Laughlin, Nevada. But the Interior Department has not yet begun processing the company’s application.
Outside the boundaries for the proposed national monument, the federal government has identified 9 million acres of public lands in Nevada for large-scale solar development and nearly 16.8 million acres of public lands for potential wind development.
President Joe Biden issued the first veto of his presidency earlier this week, turning back a Republican effort to bar investment managers from incorporating climate and social considerations into their decisions.
The rule that the president vowed to protect is an obscure investing principle known as ESG — shorthand for prioritizing environmental, social and governance factors. It had been a widely accepted norm in financial circles for almost 20 years until Republicans recently started assailing it as “woke capitalism” that injected Democratic and liberal values into financial decisions. More than $18 trillion is held in investment funds that follow ESG principles.
The veto came amid a flurry of other presidential signings — including one that put Biden at odds with the left wing of his party — that illustrated how the president was positioning himself as a centrist in an era of divided government with an election year approaching.
On Monday afternoon, Biden signed a resolution nullifying a new crime law in the District of Columbia that reduced penalties on offenses including carjackings, which have soared in the capital in recent years. Biden, under political pressure to counter Republican attacks that he is soft on crime, had drawn in-
tense criticism from Democrats for supporting congressional efforts to overturn the law.
The District of Columbia was granted home rule in 1973, but Congress retained the power to review its laws. Both houses of Congress embraced the Republican-led effort to block the crime bill, which had drawn ob -
jections from the local police union and was vetoed by Mayor Muriel Bowser, who was overridden by the D.C. council.
Biden also signed another bill championed by Republicans that would declassify some information on the origins of the coronavirus. The legislation was sponsored by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Chinese officials had vehemently opposed it.
Biden has been under pressure from Republicans to take a tougher stance against Beijing, particularly in the weeks after a Chinese spy balloon drifted across the continent and as President Xi Jinping of China met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
“We need to get to the bottom of COVID-19’s origins to help ensure we can better prevent future pandemics,” Biden said in a statement. “My administration will continue to review all classified information relating to COVID-19’s origins, including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” a reference to the Chinese lab that worked on coronaviruses in the city where the first cases were reported.
But the array of signings Monday also illustrated the degree to which Biden is comfortable taking a battle stance against Republicans who have accused him of injecting liberal views into the federal government.
The president defended his decision to veto the effort to overturn the ESG rule by accusing far-right Republicans of doing the same thing they were accusing Democrats of doing: imposing their views on the rest of the country.
“This bill would risk your retirement savings by making it illegal to consider risk factors MAGA House Republicans don’t like,” Biden wrote on Twitter, referring to the wing of the party that supports former President Donald Trump. “Your plan manager should be able to protect your hard-earned savings — whether Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene likes it or not.”
The Senate passed the resolution this month by a vote of 50-46 after two Democrats, Sens. Jon Tester of Montana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, joined every Republican. The vote, which came the day after the House approved the measure on a mostly party-line vote, cleared the measure to be sent to the White House, where Biden’s advisers were expecting him to veto it.
Officials in Republican-led states have argued that the rule will lead to disinvestment in fossil fuel companies that provide tax revenue and jobs in their states. On Monday, Manchin, who up for reelection in a coal state next year, criticized the president’s decision to veto the measure.
“This administration continues to prioritize their radical policy agenda over the economic, energy and national security needs of our country, and it is absolutely infuriating,” Manchin, who had warned that the ESG rule could pose risks to energy security, said in a statement.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who last week held a signing ceremony to nullify the ESG rule, said Biden had sided with “woke Wall Street” over American workers. “Now — despite a bipartisan vote to block his ESG agenda — it’s clear Biden wants Wall Street to use your retirement savings to fund his far-left political causes,” McCarthy wrote on Twitter.
Democrats have accused Republicans and others who supported overturning the rule of not understanding its purpose.
“So, for instance, just as a hypothetical, if you are against investing in so-called ‘woke causes,’ you are actually laying out your own ESG criteria,” Sen. Patty Murray of Washington said this month. “And here’s the thing: The Biden administration rule would allow that.”
By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY and ERIN GRIFFITH
At a cryptocurrency conference in Denver this month, a group of singers clad in bright orange onesies took the stage to perform what one industry website later described as an anthem for the crypto faithful, a “blockchain ‘Blowin’ in the Wind.’”
The chorus was a list of crypto’s most notorious villains, from trash-talking entrepreneur Do Kwon to disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, punctuated by four-letter expletives.
“In the next bull market, we promise not to use,” the song continued, “centralized exchanges run by these toxic dudes.”
After a disastrous 2022, when a procession of prominent crypto firms imploded, the industry is angling for an audacious rebrand. Executives like Kwon and Bankman-Fried — once beloved crypto celebrities, with hundreds of thousands of devotees hanging on their every tweet — are now personae non gratae. Their former admirers argue that these crypto villains never truly embodied the industry’s core values, even before their companies collapsed.
At surviving firms, top executives are looking for new ways to market products that many consumers now distrust — and to distance themselves from former colleagues and mentors who could face years in prison. Some companies are trying to capitalize on the growing interest around artificial intelligence, with crypto schemes that feature convoluted AI tie-ins. Others are looking to replace the word “crypto,” arguing that the industry’s original nomenclature has become irredeemably tainted.
Crypto companies were “moving gradually towards changing the narrative” even before Bankman-Fried’s exchange failed in November, said Todd Irwin, the chief strategy officer at Fazer, a branding agency that has clients in the industry. “After the FTX incident, the move has been turbocharged.”
The cleansing effort is a familiar routine in an industry that has experienced repeated booms and busts over its short history. Early advocates of bitcoin
had to convince the public and regulators that cryptocurrency was more than just a convenient tool for drug dealers. A major crypto boom in 2017 was followed by a long period of law enforcement scrutiny, as exciting-sounding startups were exposed as scams.
So far, the latest round of soul-searching has done little to turn the industry’s fortunes around. Since FTX’s demise, U.S. regulators have announced fines and other enforcement actions against several major crypto companies. The abrupt failures of two reliable banking partners, Silvergate Capital and Signature Bank, have dealt a fresh blow to crypto startups, making it harder to conduct basic business operations in the United States.
And the industry is still struggling to demonstrate the practical value of its technology to an increasingly skeptical public.
“Rebranding doesn’t solve the fundamental problem,” said Lee Reiners, a onetime supervisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who now teaches at Duke Law School. “What is this good for? What problem does it solve? This is just PR.”
A year ago, the crypto industry was flush with cash. At his compound in the Bahamas in April, Bankman-Fried hosted
a weeklong conference where attendees downed Champagne and partied on the beaches. Among the guests: Su Zhu, a founder of the crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, which failed a few weeks later when a market crash sent all the major cryptocurrencies into free fall.
Now Bankman-Fried faces charges over his management of FTX that could mean decades in prison if he is convicted, and industry executives are still navigating the fallout.
Steven Saxton got on a call with a bank this year to discuss his crypto startup, Gorilla Labs, which plans to offer a stablecoin, a type of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a value of $1.
“My CTO said crypto about five times during the conversation. I was like, ‘Just say ‘blockchain,’” Saxton said. “These guys could be very sensitive to that, and it could make them very nervous.”
But even “blockchain” — the term for the publicly viewable ledger where crypto transactions are recorded — has potentially negative connotations. In January, the crypto mining company Riot Blockchain changed its name to Riot Platforms. Other companies have removed the term “crypto” from their marketing materials, turning
to vaguer words like “decentralization.”
“They’re just wearing a different outfit to the same party,” said Irwin, the branding expert.
The marketing push extends to the world of artificial intelligence, which has replaced crypto as the hot trend in Silicon Valley after the release of ChatGPT, the viral chatbot. A series of AI-themed cryptocurrencies have surged in value, and crypto firms with names like DogAI and CryptoGPT are trying to incorporate the buzzy technology into their offerings.
No crypto company is under more pressure than the giant exchange Binance, which is facing government investigations on several fronts, as well as rising concerns about its financial stability and lack of cooperation with regulators. This month, the exchange’s chief executive, Changpeng Zhao, moved to associate Binance with a more attractive trend. He unveiled Bicasso, a product that uses AI technology to make artwork in the form of non-fungible tokens, the digital collectibles known as NFTs.
For some crypto executives, ritualized cleansing is not enough. A few startups have abandoned crypto altogether in favor of different types of technology.
In late 2021, Troy Osinoff co-founded Zurp, hoping to simplify complex crypto investments for mainstream consumers. Zurp raised $5 million, built a waitlist of 120,000 people and was preparing to launch last summer when the collapse of Luna, a popular cryptocurrency, triggered a broader market meltdown.
The fallout damaged many of Zurp’s competitors, and Osinoff decided to pause the rollout because he was worried the crypto markets were not a safe place to park customer funds.
Soon Zurp shifted to a more conventional form of financial technology. The company began developing a credit card that features perks tailored to Generation Z and plans to offer it in the coming months. Osinoff said he still hoped to incorporate crypto features into Zurp’s offerings, but only once sentiment improved.
“It’s already a hurdle to get people interested in crypto,” he said. “We’re just waiting for it to normalize.”
Amazon plans to lay off 9,000 corporate and tech workers by the end of April, adding to the 18,000 roles it already cut late last year and this January, Andy Jassy, the company’s CEO, said in a note to employees earlier this week.
The new layoffs, which amount to less than 3% of its corporate workforce, will target workers in some of Amazon’s most profitable divisions, which had previously been spared, including Amazon’s cloud computing business and advertising operations. Those two segments of the business are much higher-margin operations than Amazon’s core retail business, according to financial analysts and filings.
Jassy wrote that the annual planning session the company’s leaders wrapped up had focused on streamlining costs and head count.
“The overriding tenet of our annual plan-
ning this year was to be leaner while doing so in a way that enables us to still invest robustly in the key long-term customer experiences that we believe can meaningfully improve customers’ lives and Amazon as a whole,” he wrote.
For more than a year, Jassy has been pursuing cost cuts at Amazon. The company rapidly added employees during the pandemic and put a priority on some projects that lacked obvious ways to become profitable. He has pulled back on expansion of the company’s warehouse operations, and paused work on the largest phase of Amazon’s planned second headquarters near Washington, D.C.
The company froze hiring last fall and by November had plans to lay off about 10,000 employees, a target that expanded to 18,000 in early January.
Amazon had about 380,000 corporate employees at the end of 2022, according to
a person familiar with its workforce. Most of Amazon’s roughly 1.5 million employees are hourly workers who power its warehouse operations.
The tech industry is undergoing its largest contraction since the dot-com bust of the early 2000s. Nearly every major tech company has laid off workers. Last week Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced plans to lay off about 10,000 employees, or roughly 13% of its workforce, part of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg called a “year of efficiency.” It had already laid off 11,000 workers late last year.
At Amazon, the initial layoffs last year affected employees working on the Alexa voice assistant and devices, then spread to other divisions, including teams working on plans for automated stores, drones and the company’s broader consumer retail business. Human resources employees — recruiters in
particular — were affected as well.
In the latest quarter, which ended in December, Amazon reported almost no profit, driven in part by unexpected weakness in its cloud computing business.
Twitch, the livestreaming site popular with video gamers that Amazon bought in 2014, said it was laying off more than 400 people, about 22% of its total staff. In the uncertain economy, “user and revenue growth has not kept pace with our expectations,” Dan Clancy, Twitch’s CEO, said in a blog post. Clancy took over as CEO from Twitch’s longtime leader, Emmett Shear, last week.
Amazon’s share price was down a little more than 1% at the close of trading Monday. Jassy said management had not yet determined the workers who would be laid off, but it expected to do so by mid- to late April. He said the company could still pursue some “limited hiring” in strategic areas.
By JOSHUA NEEDELMAN
Frozen organic strawberries sold at Costco, Aldi, Trader Joe’s and other retailers have been recalled after the products were linked to five cases of hepatitis A in Washington state, the Food and Drug Administration said.
The administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in partnership with state and local agencies, are investigating the cases, which included two people who were hospitalized.
“Consumers, restaurants and retailers should not sell, serve or eat recalled frozen strawberries,” the FDA said in a statement. “These recalled products should be returned or thrown away.”
Investigators found that five people who became ill and provided information about what they ate all reported to have consumed the strawberries, the FDA said.
The strain of hepatitis A is genetically identical to a strain that caused an outbreak of hepatitis A infections in 2022, which was linked to fresh organic strawberries also imported from Baja California, Mexico.
The two vendors in the latest cases, California Splendor and Scenic Fruit, sold the frozen strawberries to an array of retailers under
several brand names, including Kirkland Signature, Made With, PCC Community Markets, Simply Nature, Trader Joe’s and Vital Choice, the FDA said.
“Although hepatitis A has not been detected on this product, out of an abundance of caution, consumers should stop consuming the product and return it to their local store for a refund,” Scenic Fruit said in a statement.
Scenic Fruit said it had ceased the production and distribution of the product as the FDA and the company investigate.
California Splendor, whose products had been sold at Costco stores in Hawaii, Los Angeles and two San Diego business centers, said in a statement that hepatitis A had not been detected in its products.
Costco said hepatitis A had not been detected in the products it sold but added that consumers should return them for a full refund. Aldi said it had no reported illnesses connected with the recalled products.
Trader Joe’s recalled its organic tropical fruit mix, which included frozen strawberries as well as frozen bananas, pineapples and mangos, but not its organic strawberries as an individual product.
“No illnesses have been reported to date, and all potentially affected product has been removed from sale and destroyed,” Trader Joe’s
said in a statement. “If you purchased any Organic Tropical Fruit Blend, please do not eat it. We urge you to discard the product or return it to any Trader Joe’s for a full refund.”
Hepatitis A attacks the liver. Infection typically occurs within 15 to 50 days of ingesting contaminated food or water, and symptoms can include fatigue, nausea, vomiting, abdominal
pain, jaundice, dark urine and pale stool.
“If consumers purchased the recalled frozen organic strawberries and ate those berries in the last two weeks, and have not been vaccinated against hepatitis A, they should immediately consult with their health care professional to determine whether post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is needed,” the FDA said.
An undated photo provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows bags of Simply Nature frozen strawberries. Certain frozen organic strawberries have been recalled amid a Food and Drug Administration investigation in connection with cases of hepatitis A.Wall Street closed sharply higher on Tuesday as widespread fears over liquidity in the banking sector abated and market participants eyed the Federal Reserve, which is expected to conclude its twoday policy meeting on Wednesday with a 25 basis-point hike to its policy rate.
All three major U.S. stock indexes were bright green as the session closed, with smallcaps .RUT, energy .SPNY and financials .SPSY enjoying the most sizable gains.
A one-two punch of regional bank failures last week, followed by the rescue of First Republic Bank FRC.N and the takeover of Credit Suisse CS.N, sparked a rout in banking stocks and fueled worries of contagion in the financial sector which, in turn, heightened global anxieties over the growing possibility of recession.
But banking stocks .SPXBK bounced back on Tuesday, building on Monday’s reversal. Still, despite its recent resurgence, the S&P banks index has lost nearly 18% of its value just this month.
Both the SPXBK and the KBW Regional Banking index .KRX marked their biggest one-day percentage jumps in months.
“The stock market is coming to a recognition that the banking crisis wasn’t a crisis after all, and was isolated to a handful of banks,” said Oliver Pursche, senior vice president at Wealthspire Advisors in New York. “Both the public and the private sector have shown they are more than able to backstop and shore up weak institutions.”
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in prepared remarks before the American Bankers Association, said the U.S. banking system has stabilized due to decisive actions from regulators, but warned more action might be required.
Attention now shifts to the Fed, which has gathered for its two-day monetary policy meeting, at which the members of the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) will revisit their economic projections and, in all likelihood, implement another increase to the Fed funds target rate in their ongoing battle against inflation.
“The Fed will raise interest rates by 25 basis points and the market won’t care,” Pursche added. “It will all be about (Chairman Jerome) Powell’s statement on the economy and inflation, and if he can do a good enough job convincing the public that the banking noise” can be attributed to bad management on the part of a few banks.
At last glance, financial markets have now priced in an 83.4% likelihood of a 25 basis-point rate hike, and a 16.6% probability that the central bank will leave its policy rate unchanged, according to CME’s FedWatch tool.
Economic data released early in the session showed a 14.5% jump in existing home sales, blasting past expectations and snapping a 12-month losing streak.
According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 50.84 points, or 1.29%, to end at 4,002.41 points,
while the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC gained 181.47 points, or 1.55%, to 11,860.04. The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 313.36 points, or 0.97%, to 32,566.44.
Shares of First Republic Bank FRC.N saw their biggest-ever one-day percentage jump as JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon leads talks with other big banks aimed at investing in the lender, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Peers PacWest Bancorp PACW.O and Western Alli-
ance Bancorp WAL.N also surged.
The broader European STOXX 600 index also managed to make it into positive territory to be up 0.98%.
“Credit Suisse is our Lehman moment in Europe, but we recognise that and we are not going to make the same mistake,” Close Brothers Asset Management Chief Investment Officer Robert Alster said of the speedy action by authorities over the weekend.
He said the European Central Bank, Bank of England and others would be well aware “of the next gazelles in the chain that the lions will be hunting” - meaning other large banks with investment banking arms such as Deutsche Bank, BNP in France or Barclays in the UKand will step in with support if needed.
Earth is likely to cross a critical threshold for global warming within the next decade, and nations will need to make an immediate and drastic shift away from fossil fuels to prevent the planet from overheating dangerously beyond that level, according to a major new report released earlier this week.
The report, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of experts convened by the United Nations, offers the most comprehensive understanding to date of ways in which the planet is changing. It says that global average temperatures are estimated to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels sometime around “the first half of the 2030s,” as humans continue to burn coal, oil and natural gas.
That number holds a special significance in global climate politics: Under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, virtually every nation agreed to “pursue efforts” to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Beyond that point, scientists say, the impacts of catastrophic heat waves, flooding, drought, crop failures and species extinction become significantly harder for humanity to handle.
But Earth has warmed an average of 1.1 degrees Celsius since the industrial age, and, with global fossil-fuel emissions setting records last year, that goal is quickly slipping out of reach.
There is still one last chance to shift course, the new report says. But it would require industrialized nations to join together immediately to slash greenhouse gases roughly in half by 2030 and then stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere altogether by the early 2050s. If those two steps were taken, the world would have about a 50% chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Delays of even a few years would most likely make that goal unattainable, guaranteeing a hotter, more perilous future.
“The pace and scale of what has been done so far and current plans are insufficient to tackle climate change,” said Hoesung Lee, chair of the climate panel. “We are walking when we should be sprinting.”
The report comes as the world’s two biggest polluters, China and the United States, continue to approve new fossil fuel projects. Last year, China issued permits for 168 coal-fired power plants of various
sizes, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air in Finland. Last week, the Biden administration approved an enormous oil drilling project known as Willow that will take place on pristine federal land in Alaska.
The report, which was approved by 195 governments, says that existing and currently planned fossil fuel infrastructure — coal-fired power plants, oil wells, factories, cars and trucks across the globe — will already produce enough carbon dioxide to warm the planet roughly 2 degrees Celsius this century. To keep warming below that level, many of those projects would need to be canceled, retired early or otherwise cleaned up.
“The 1.5 degree limit is achievable, but it will take a quantum leap in climate action,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said. In response to the report, Guterres called on countries to stop building new coal plants and to stop approving new oil and gas projects.
Many scientists have pointed out that surpassing the 1.5-degree threshold will not mean humanity is doomed. But every fraction of a degree of additional warming is expected to increase the severity of dangers that people around the world face, such as water scarcity, malnutrition and deadly heat waves.
The new report is a synthesis of six previous landmark reports on climate change issued by the U.N. panel since
2018, each one compiled by hundreds of experts across the globe, approved by 195 countries and based on thousands of scientific studies. Taken together, the reports represent the most comprehensive look to date at the causes of global warming, the impacts that rising temperatures are having on people and ecosystems across the world and the strategies that countries can pursue to halt global warming.
The report makes clear that humanity’s actions today have the potential to fundamentally reshape the planet for thousands of years.
Many of the most dire climate scenarios once feared by scientists, such as those forecasting warming of 4 degrees Celsius or more, now look unlikely, as nations have invested more heavily in clean energy. At least 18 countries, including the United States, have managed to reduce their emissions for more than a decade, the report finds, while the costs of solar panels, wind turbines and lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles have plummeted.
At the same time, even relatively modest increases in global temperature are now expected to be more disruptive than previously thought, the report concludes.
At current levels of warming, for instance, food production is starting to come under strain. The world is still producing more food each year, thanks to
improvements in farming and crop technology, but climate change has slowed the rate of growth, the report says. It’s an ominous trend that puts food security at risk as the world’s population soars past 8 billion people.
Today, the world is seeing recordshattering storms in California and catastrophic drought in places like East Africa. But by the 2030s, as temperatures rise, climate hazards are expected to increase all over the globe as different countries face more crippling heat waves, worsening coastal flooding and crop failures, the report says. At the same time, mosquitoes carrying diseases like malaria and dengue will spread into new areas, it adds.
To stave off a chaotic future, the report recommends that nations move away from the fossil fuels that have underpinned economies for more than 180 years.
Governments and companies would need to invest three to six times the roughly $600 billion they now spend annually on encouraging clean energy in order to hold global warming at 1.5 or 2 degrees, the report says. While there is currently enough global capital to do so, much of it is difficult for developing countries to acquire. The question of what wealthy, industrialized nations owe to poor, developing countries has been divisive at global climate negotiations.
A wide array of strategies are available for reducing fossil-fuel emissions, such as scaling up wind and solar power, shifting to electric vehicles and electric heat pumps in buildings, curbing methane emissions from oil and gas operations, and protecting forests.
But that may not be enough: Countries may also have to remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year, relying on technology that barely exists today.
The report acknowledges the enormous challenges ahead. Winding down coal, oil and gas projects would mean job losses and economic dislocation. Some climate solutions come with difficult trade-offs: Protecting forests, for instance, means less land for agriculture; manufacturing electric vehicles requires mining metals for use in their batteries.
And because nations have waited so long to cut emissions, they will have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to adapt to climate risks that are now unavoidable.
The Biden administration vowed last month to crack down on companies that sell critical technologies to Russia as part of its efforts to curtail the country’s war against Ukraine. But the continued flow of Chinese drones to the country explains why that will be hard.
While drone sales have slowed, U.S. policies put in place after Russia’s invasion have failed to stanch exports of the unmanned aerial vehicles that work as eyes in the sky for front-line fighters. In the year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China has sold more than $12 million in drones and drone parts to the country, according to official Russian customs data from a thirdparty data provider.
It is hard to determine whether the Chinese drones contain American technologies that would violate the U.S. rules or whether they are legal. The shipments, a mix of products from DJI, the world’s best-known drone-maker, and an array of smaller companies, often came through small-time middlemen and exporters.
Complicated sales channels and vague product descriptions within export data also make it hard to definitively show whether there are U.S. components in the Chinese products, which could constitute a violation of the U.S. export controls. And the official sales are likely only one part of a larger flow of technologies through unofficial channels and other nations friendly to Russia, such as Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Belarus.
The result is a steady supply of new drones to Russia that make their way to the front lines of its war with Ukraine. On the battlefield, the hovering quadcopters often last only a few flights before they are blown out of the skies. Refilling stockpiles of even the most basic unmanned aerial vehicles has become as critical as other basic necessities, such as procuring artillery shells and bullets.
Militarily, diplomatically and economically, Beijing has become an in-
creasingly important buttress for Russia in its war effort. China has remained one of the largest buyers of Russian oil, helping finance the invasion. The two sides have also held joint military exercises and jointly assailed NATO.
As China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, meets this week with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, U.S. officials have warned that China is still considering selling lethal weapons for use in Ukraine.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday said the visit amounts to “diplomatic cover for Russia to continue to commit” war crimes.
U.S. efforts to isolate Russia from much-needed technology and cash have been complicated by China’s dominance of the global electronics supply chain.
The United States has sought to undercut some Chinese companies through export controls in recent years, but the world remains heavily
reliant on China’s city-sized assembly plants and clusters of specialized component-makers. The country’s outsize role has made it difficult to understand and control what foreign products go into basic, but critical, consumer electronics like drones, which can be made from widely available components sold in retail stores.
“It poses an export control challenge: The same model can be used by real estate people to survey property and can be used in Ukraine for intelligence purposes,” said William A. Reinsch, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and a former official at the Commerce Department who oversaw export controls.
“They’re not the most sophisticated technology in the world — it’s not inevitable that they’re going to contain American chips,” he added, pointing out that if there are no American components in the drones, shipments be -
come a political question, not a legal one.
Particularly problematic for the United States government is DJI, the maker of hovering quadcopter drones that have become emblematic of a new type of warfare in Ukraine. Sales of its drones to Russia have continued, even though it has said it suspended shipments to both Russia and Ukraine. The company is already the target of U.S. export controls.
The Commerce Department added DJI to a blacklist in 2020 that prevents American firms from selling technology without express permission. The measure has done little to affect DJI’s industry dominance, and the company’s products made up nearly half of the Chinese drone shipments to Russia, according to the customs data. A portion of them were sold directly by DJI, via iFlight Technology, a subsidiary of DJI.
In total, nearly 70 Chinese exporters sold 26 distinct brands of Chinese drones to Russia since the invasion. The second-largest brand sold was Autel, a Chinese drone-maker with subsidiaries in the United States, Germany and Italy; exporters sold nearly $2 million of its drones, with the latest batch shipping last month. On its website, the company advertises sales to U.S. police forces.
A DJI spokesperson said the company could find no record of any direct sales to Russia since April 16, 2022, and that it would investigate other firms that appeared to be selling to Russia. The company, he said, has stopped all shipments to and operations in Russia and Ukraine since the beginning of the war and has “thorough protocols” to ensure it does not violate U.S. sanctions.
“Like any consumer electronics company with products sold at many different electronics stores, we cannot influence how all our products are being used once they leave our control,” the spokesperson added in an emailed statement.
Autel said in an emailed statement that it was not aware of any sales to Russia and was conducting an internal investigation about the issue.
After returning home from his job at a car battery recycling plant in northern Mexico one evening in 2019, Azael Mateo González Ramírez said he felt dizzy, his bones ached and his throat was raspy. Then came stomach pain, he said, followed by bouts of diarrhea.
The plant in Monterrey where he worked handled used car batteries, many from the United States, extracting lead as part of the process. González, 39, stacked the batteries, he said, near large containers of lead dust.
Medical tests, González said, showed high levels of lead in his body; experts agree that no level of lead is safe and over time it can result in neurological and gastrointestinal damage.
His supervisor at the facility, he said, insisted he keep working.
The city of Monterrey, a three-hour drive from Texas, has become the largest source of used car batteries from the United States, with steady growth over the past decade in the shipment of used American batteries to Mexico, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The increase in batteries from the United States comes as a report released Monday found significantly high levels of lead at many facilities, leaving workers vulnerable to a toxic metal that poses severe risks to human health.
Soil samples taken outside six battery recycling plants in Monterrey in 2022 revealed lead levels far above the legal limit in Mexico, according to the report by Occupational Knowledge International, a San Francisco-based public health nonprofit, and Casa Cem, a Mexican environmental group.
While Mexico’s regulations stipulate that facilities must remove lead from contaminated soil and can be shut down for violating environmental standards, Mexican government records show that in recent years few plants have been closed.
Mexico’s lax environmental laws and even more lax enforcement encourages American companies to offload used car batteries to the country, where labor is cheaper and unions are weaker, according to experts in labor rights and occupational health.
“Workers in these plants are being poisoned day in and day out, and often without even their own knowledge of that,’’ said Perry Gottesfeld, executive director of Occupational Knowledge International. “They don’t get the training, they don’t get the equipment and they don’t get to operate in facilities that have adequate ventilation.”
Over the past 10 years the number of car batteries shipped to Mexico from the United States has grown by nearly 20%, according to EPA records included in the study by the two groups. In 2021, more than 75% of all used U.S. batteries were exported there, EPA records showed.
At recycling plants, lead is removed from batteries, ground up, melted and turned into ingots that are used to make new batteries.
The world’s largest car battery maker, Clarios, which is based in Milwaukee, bought two plants in Monterrey in 2019, and the report found lead levels in soil outside its facilities that were well above the legal limit in Mexico of 800 parts per million. (The samples in the report were tested and analyzed
by an independent laboratory.)
At one Clarios plant, a soil sample showed lead levels of 15,000 parts per million, while at the other Clarios facility, a sample showed 3,800 parts per million of lead.
Clarios closed its last U.S.-based car battery recycling facility, in South Carolina, in 2021, following a series of fines by the EPA for violations involving air pollution, hazardous waste and the improper transportation of lead batteries.
Shipping batteries to Mexico would save the company 25% in recycling costs, according to a filing by Clarios with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Certainly there is cost savings if you don’t have to worry about upgrading your facility to meet the standards that are in place in the U.S.,” Gottesfeld said.
A spokesperson for Clarios said the company’s facilities use “strict safety protocols and we provide our employees with state of the art protective safety gear.”
“We work with local health, safety, and environmental authorities to ensure our facilities are not only in compliance, but set the benchmark for our industry,” said the spokesperson, Ana Margarita Garza-Villarreal.
Though Mexico’s federal environmental agency has the power to shut down plants that violate environmental standards, agency documents show that officials temporarily closed parts of battery recycling plants just four times for air and soil contamination in the past 23 years.
Elizabeth Coronado was a nurse at a Monterrey plant owned by Grupo Gonher, where González had worked, and was responsible for monitoring the health of workers in high lead exposure areas.
Of the roughly 300 workers whose blood samples she tested every three months, she said a third of them had 50 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood in their system. The average for battery recycling workers in the United States in
2022 was 9 micrograms, according to a battery trade group.
Lead experts in the United States say workers whose lead level reaches 30 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood should be removed from the source of the metal.
“It’s alarming,” said Coronado, who left the plant in 2021 and now works at a local health clinic.
Coronado said the company typically gave workers with high levels of lead multivitamins and milk, neither of which experts say will do anything to ameliorate lead exposure. Instead, they say, the most effective treatments include giving patients medications that specifically target lead in the body and removes it.
Grupo Gonher did not respond to a request for comment.
Though no amount of lead in the body is safe, levels like those found in workers at the Gonher plant can have severe consequences, said Dr. Michael Kosnett, an expert on workplace lead exposure and an associate adjunct professor at the Colorado School of Public Health.
“It should not be tolerated,” he said. “Among the most significant long term adverse effects associated with blood lead in the teens or higher levels is a documented risk of death from heart disease.”
As for González, he said he had offered to curtain off containers holding lead dust. But his supervisor told him it was not a priority.
González said he was fired from the plant in 2021 as part of what the company told him was a restructuring. In his five years at the plant, he had never missed a day of work, he said, and believed he was dismissed at least in part because of the concerns he raised repeatedly about lead exposure.
González, who now works renting music equipment for private events, said friends who work at the recycling plant say little has changed.
“There is a lot of venom there,” he said.
About 43,000 people died last year from the drought in Somalia, according to international agencies and the government, which earlier this week released the first official death toll about the record dry spell devastating the Horn of Africa country.
At least half of those deaths were children under the age of 5 who had been living in south-central Somalia, the center of the drought crisis. Experts called the drought the worst in decades even before the release of the report, which was conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and released by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Somali government.
The researchers warned that in the first six months of this year, between 18,000 and 34,000 people are likely to die in the drought.
The new estimates illustrated the grim impact of the drought, which has led to massive displacement, outbreaks of disease and acute malnutrition among children — affecting millions not only in Somalia but also in Kenya and Ethiopia. The drought has wiped out millions of livestock animals that families depend on for food and income, and left nearly half of Somalia’s population of 16 million hungry.
Global warming increases the likelihood of drought, and extreme weather events, some linked to climate change, have wrecked communities across Somalia, leading to recurring droughts, flash floods, cyclones and increasing temperatures.
Farmlands have also been devastated after five consecutive poor rainy seasons, exacerbating hunger in a country already contending with sharp increases in food, fuel and fertilizer pri-
ces stemming from the war in Ukraine and the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“From the very beginning of this drought, the WHO has clearly stated that the drought is a health crisis as much as it is a food and climate crisis,” Dr. Mamunur Rahman Malik, the Somalia representative for the WHO, said in a statement following the study’s release.
“We are racing against time to prevent deaths and save lives that are avoidable,” he said.
The latest figures were released just three months after the United Nations said that Somalia had narrowly averted a famine but said there was a strong chance one could take place between April and June this year. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, an organization for monitoring global hunger, defines a famine as when 20% of households in an area face an extreme lack of food, 30% of children there are experiencing acute malnutrition, and two adults or four children out of every 10,000 are dying every day from starvation. Some experts and humanitarian workers say a formal declaration of a famine could open up more aid for Somalia.
Part of the reason that Somalia avoided a full-blown famine included the boost in funding from donors and the quick response by aid agencies and local authorities to reach those in need, U.N. officials said. But the United Nations said the situation remains catastrophic, and put out an appeal for $2.6 billion to assist the millions of people in need.
The drought is ravaging Somalia even as the country faces deepening insecurity and political instability. The central government in the capital, Mogadishu, is engaged in an all-out offensive against the al-Qaida-linked group al-Shabab, and has received backing from local militias, African Union troops and
An American aid worker abducted by militants more than six years ago in West Africa has been freed, his wife and U.S. officials said earlier this week, but the circumstances of his release were not immediately clear.
The aid worker, Jeffery Woodke, was kidnapped in Niger in October 2016 and then was believed to have been taken to neighboring Mali.
His wife, Els Woodke, of McKinleyville, California, said the U.S. government had notified her that her husband had been freed. She was told that he was in Niamey, the capital of Niger, and later spoke with him for an hour.
“He is safe,” she said in a phone interview. After she spoke with him, she said, he was in “great spirits.”
A U.S. official said Woodke, 62, was in Niamey and was being medically evaluated. Another senior administration official briefing reporters confirmed Woodke’s release, and said the United States had not paid a ransom or made other concessions. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as part of standard rules for security briefings.
President Joe Biden thanked Niger and “dedicated public servants across the U.S. government” for securing Woodke’s release. “We remain committed to keep faith with Americans held hostage and wrongfully detained all around the world, and there is no higher priority for this administration than our work to bring them
home,” Biden said in a statement.
A French security official confirmed that another hostage had also been released: Olivier Dubois, a French journalist who went missing in Mali in April 2021, and was later seen in a hostage video issued by an al-Qaida affiliate there.
Woodke’s release ends an arduous ordeal in which U.S. officials believed at times that a dangerous military operation would have been required to free him. There is no indication that the United States mounted such a rescue or was involved in the release of the two men.
But Woodke’s kidnapping played a role in a fatal ambush of U.S. troops in West Africa.
In October 2017, U.S. soldiers raced to a location in the scrubland of Niger after intelligence officials intercepted a signal from the cellphone of a terrorist known as Doundoun Cheffou, a senior lieutenant of a former affiliate of al-Qaida that had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.
Cheffou was being tracked by U.S. intelligence agencies both because of his seniority in the terrorist group and because he was suspected of having played a role in Woodke’s kidnapping.
The nighttime raid failed to find Cheffou, but hours later four of the Americans were killed in an ambush near the village of Tongo Tongo.
The senior administration official who briefed reporters said that while Woodke was captured in Niger, he appeared to have been taken across its borders. The official said Woodke was re-
countries including the United States. Al-Shabab has viciously retaliated as it lost territory and soldiers, targeting security forces and civilians, destroying wells and blowing up trucks carrying food relief.
The estimates released Monday show the death toll was higher in the first year of the drought in 2021 than during a 2017 crisis, when about 31,400 people died. But it did not compare to the devastating 2011 famine, when about 30,000 people died every month and nearly 260,000 people, about half of them children under five, died over the whole year.
Dr. Ali Haji Adam Abubakar, the Somali minister of health, warned in a statement that the country desperately needed a surge in funding for food, clean water and medical services to avoid another calamity on that scale.
If it does not, he said, “those vulnerable and marginalized will pay the price of this crisis with their lives.”
leased outside Niger, in an area to the west that includes Mali and Burkina Faso.
The official did not specify what organization had taken Woodke, calling it a hostage-taking “network.”
The official added that another prisoner captured in Niger, whom the official did not name, was released by the same network about six months ago.
Efforts to release Woodke had been underway for a long time, the official said, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who stopped in Niger during a visit to Africa last week, had “confirmed” the release while there.
The official said that France — which is Niger’s former colonial ruler and maintains ties with its government — had also played an important role in securing Woodke’s release.
Dubois told reporters in Niger that “it’s huge for me to be here, to be free,” and thanked the governments of France and Niger.
Dubois, 48, was the only known French citizen to be held hostage in Africa. He was kidnapped on April 8, 2021, in the city of Gao, nearly 600 miles northeast of Mali’s capital, Bamako, where he was based, as he was scheduled to interview a jihadi leader. Weeks later, he confirmed his kidnapping in a 21-second clip circulated on social media.
For nearly two years, Dubois’ family, French journalists and human rights defenders campaigned for his release and regularly broadcast messages on Radio France International, a state-owned station with a significant following in French-speaking African countries. Dubois said he was able to listen to the messages even after the Malian military junta suspended the radio station amid a fallout with the French government.
about parents consumed by politics. And at the extreme end, I hear stories about the impact of conspiracy theories of all kinds. Just as parents are upset about their children’s anxiety and depression, children are anxious about their parents’ mental health.
First, let’s map out the very bleak landscape. In 2021, nearly 60% of teenage girls reported feeling “persistent sadness,” Azeen Ghorayshi and Roni Caryn Rabin wrote in The New York Times. Overall, 44% of teenagers reported “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness,” according to The Washington Post, an increase from 26% in 2009. These are the familiar numbers — the scary uptick that has spawned soul-searching across the length and breadth of this land.
But let’s place them in a grim context. The same year that 44% of teenagers reported suffering from serious sadness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 41.5% of adults reported “recent symptoms of an anxiety or depressive disorder,” an increase from an already high baseline of 36.4% just months before.
So what is to be done? I don’t mean to make parents feel even more anxious about their own anxiety, but to the extent our mental health is rooted in factors beyond our immediate control — an especially salient point when considering national politics — it might be worth asking a simple question: How much fear and anxiety should we import into our lives and homes? Forget teens, for the moment. Are we proving any more capable of handling the information age?
By DAVID FRENCHThere is a depressing familiarity now to the conversations I’m hearing among parents of teenagers. After the obligatory pleasantries, talk often turns to mental health. Someone’s daughter is struggling, battling body image issues. Someone’s son is sullen and lost in video games. The parental concerns of previous generations (sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll) have been replaced by a new triumvirate: anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation.
As a parent of a teenager, I see this world every day. It’s the message I hear from my peers. So I’ve been following the discussion of rising teenage anxiety with intense interest — in particular, the role of social media, secularization and politics in immiserating our children. But there’s a factor that’s received insufficient attention in the debate over external factors in teenage suffering: What if the call is also coming from inside the house? What if parents are inadvertently contributing to their own kids’ pain?
Just as there is a depressing familiarity to parents’ conversations about their children, there is a similar familiarity to kids’ conversations about their parents. I spend much of my time traveling to college campuses, both secular and religious, and I hear a similar refrain all the time: “Something happened to my parents.” Sometimes (especially at elite schools) they share stories about parents obsessed with their kids’ education. More often I hear
Moreover, while suicide rates have gone up in the youngest cohort of Americans, they still materially lag behind suicide rates among their parents and grandparents. Deaths of despair — the name for deaths due to suicide, drug abuse or alcohol poisoning — have particularly afflicted white middle-aged men, and the numbers overall are simply staggering, especially since they started to increase sharply in 2000.
Aside from self-reported statistics about depression and anxiety or the grim toll of drug abuse and suicide, there are other indicators that the adults simply aren’t all right. Partisan animosity, for example, simply keeps rising. Adult anger and pessimism are pervasive: A recent NBC News poll indicated that a record 58% of registered voters surveyed believed that America’s best days were behind it.
And when we think about children and screens, let’s also consider the relationship between adults and their TVs and smartphones. Watch cable news (where grandparents get their news), and you’ll see a discourse dominated by fear and anger. If you spend any time at all on political Twitter (or observe the discourse on political Facebook posts), you’ll quickly see a level of vicious, personal attacks that differ little from the most extreme personal bullying a person can experience in middle school or high school.
This isn’t to say parents are the full story. I’m open to the smartphone thesis (and the secularization thesis and the political thesis) as providing the primary explanation for teenage unhappiness, but I’m not convinced that the kids will ever be all right as long as Mom and Dad suffer from their own profound problems. Helicopter parenting is potentially stifling on its own terms, but it’s got to be incalculably worse when the hovering parent is gripped by fear and anxiety.
It’s a question I honestly ask myself. I know that my experiences online drift into family life. I know that my anxiety can radiate outward to affect my kids. Our own addictions — to alcohol or drugs, yes, but also to information and outrage — can devastate our families. I think often about the poignant words of a British pastor named Andrew Wilson (that, yes, I saw on Twitter): “One of the things that has struck me in my last two US visits has been how very painful the culture wars have become for many, many people. Online, you see combatants appearing to enjoy the fight (or even monetise it). But on the ground, you see the hurt, confusion and fatigue.”
Now it’s time for us to realize that our hurt can become our kids’ hurt, and if we want to heal our children, that process may well start by seeking the help we need to heal ourselves.
SAN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia insistió el martes que de cualquier manera, las pensiones de los empleados de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (AEE) se van a pagar, independientemente la Junta de Control Fiscal permite o no que se utilicen 150 millones de dólares sobrantes de la Agencia federal de Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA) para honrarlas por lo próximos meses. “Puede salir de ahí o de otros de otros recursos que identifiquemos. Lo que estoy diciendo y va a ser la realidad, es que se va a pagar toda. No se va a recortar una sola pensión pública en Puerto Rico incluyendo las del personal de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica. Ahí hay unos problemas que se arrastran, parecidos a lo que sucedió con el Gobierno Central. Claro, hay alrededor de 850 millones de dólares que la Autoridad Energía Eléctrica no aportó a ese sistema. Qué, obviamente, si se hace esa aportación dentro del proceso del Plan de Ajus-
te eso mejorará las finanzas del sistema”, dijo el gobernador en conferencia de prensa.
“Pero dejando todo eso a un lado, pueden dar por hecho que la política pública de mí administración en es que se honren todos los pagos de pensiones públicas en el gobierno, sea de donde sea, vengan de donde venga”, añadió.
Según el gobernador, además de los 150 millones de dólares de sobrantes de fondos otorgados por FEMA, se puede procurar que la AEE abone a la deuda de 850 millones al Sistema de Retiro. Sobre ese particular, entiende que la corporación pública podrá pagar la deuda con los ahorros que se generen por el Plan de Ajuste y los cambios en su presupuesto operacional una vez se complete la transición con Genera PR.
“Pero los detalles no tenemos en este momento anunciarlo, cuando todavía no se ha resuelto el asunto de la Restructuración de la Deuda. El compromiso está ahí y lo voy a repetir cuantas veces sea necesario, todos los pensionados del Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica pueden estar tran-
quilos que vamos a honrar sus pensiones”, concluyó.
Algunos pensionados han recibido cartas en la que le dejan saber que a partir del mes de abril se recortaran sus pensiones por problemas fiscales en el Sistema de Retiro.
MOROVIS – La alcaldesa de Morovis y precandidata a la presidencia del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), Carmen Maldonado González, le pidió el martes al alcalde de Ponce Luis Irizarry Pabón, que se auto suspenda de sus funciones en lo que atiende el referido a Oficina del Panel del Fiscal Especial Independiente (FEI).
“En momentos de tanta incertidumbre en nuestro país por actos de corrupción que han lacerado una vez más, la confianza de todos los puertorriqueños, me parece prudente que el compañero alcalde de Ponce permita a la vicealcaldesa, Marlesse Sifre, que continúe con la labor y dirección del Municipio en lo que él puede atender la investigación del FEI en su contra. Las alegaciones que se presentan son muy serias además de diversas, y aunque respetando su presunción de inocencia, el Municipio de Ponce necesita estabilidad y esta situación podría afectar el trabajo encaminado”, expresó Maldonado González en declaraciones escritas.
“Al final del camino, si el compañero alcalde Luis Irizarry Pabón no fuera acusado formalmen-
te, sin duda alguna podría reinstalarse y continuar trabajando a beneficio de todas y todos los ponceños”, añadió.
Según el referido que hizo el secretario del Departamento de Justicia, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández al FEI, el alcalde de Ponce, supuestamente, mediante intimidación, logró obtener que sus subalternos proveyesen aportaciones econó-
micas y efectuaran el pago de un préstamo personal, cuyo propósito fue utilizar el dinero para sufragar, parcialmente, los gastos de su campaña política. Asimismo, la evidencia estableció que, previo a asumir el cargo de alcalde de Ponce, este recibió donaciones ilegales que no reportó en los informes trimestrales que presentó en la Oficina del Contralor Electoral de Puerto Rico, entre otras.
Pide al alcalde de Ponce que se auto suspenda para que atienda referido al FEI
Sea de donde sea, venga de donde venga se van a pagar las pensiones de la AEE, insiste gobernador
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Furious” scribe, clutters the bases with over a dozen distractions: six super-siblings at two age stages, three Greek gods, a half-dozen breeds of mythological beasties, two parents, one wizard, and one weak romance between the goddess Anthea (Rachel Zegler, who spends the running time fretfully furrowing her brow) and Billy’s brother Freddy Freeman, played by Jack Dylan Grazer, an intense, moody actor with the potential — and connections — to be a serious star. (His uncle is the producer Brian Grazer.)
Drama starts when two daughters of Atlas, Hespera (Helen Mirren) and Kalypso (Lucy Liu), storm into an Athenian history museum to steal an ancient staff that will restore their celestial ability to raze and smash. I’d credit Mirren for the flourish when her character claws at the staff’s display box like a cat pawing a fish tank, but I’m not entirely sure it was her under the pixels. Once empowered, the immortal sisters reduce the museum’s treasures (and its tourists) to rubble, having as much reverence for human artifacts as we might have for an Ikea couch. Then the pair sets out to squeeze extra god juice from Shazam and his cohorts, who are, as one might expect from untrained children, so awful at hero-ing that their hometown, Philadelphia, has nicknamed them the Fiascos. (Still, to a city that treasures misfit mascots like Gritty and the Phillie Phanatic, that name may be somewhat affectionate.)
By AMY NICHOLSONOver the next three months, Warner Bros. will release two separate blockbusters starring super-dudes who zip around in red suits emblazoned with lightning bolts. “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” a sequel that trips over its desperation to amuse, needs the running start over “The Flash.”
Not only does its lead character have lower brand recognition because of his inability to outrun a speeding trademark lawyer, he’s also spent eight decades searching for a reason to exist. In 1941, two years after he was created, the character (known then as Captain Marvel) was the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit by the publishers of Superman, who claimed that he was a knockoff with identical powers. Decades later, when he attempted a comeback, Marvel Comics stripped away his name with a cease-and-desist. Even here, within the safe space of his own overlong and clangy movies, he flails for an identity. Should he go by Thundercrack? Zap-tain America? The returning director David F. Sandberg’s one good idea is centering the character’s anxiety on his redundance — a superclone weighed down by impostor syndrome. Spin the jagged M of his lightning bolt horizontally and Sandberg could claim it stands for Captain Metajoke.
Two hours into his second movie, our hero (Zachary Levi) finally adopts the moniker Shazam!, which stands for his ability to channel the combined abilities of the gods Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury. Tweedy types, myself included, might grumble that Solomon and Achilles aren’t technically gods — and that, for consistency, Mercury should really be Hermes — but what’s the point when a guy with the supposed wisdom of Solomon opens the movie bleating, “I’m an idiot!”
The problem with Shazam! — let’s do without the spirit fingers for the rest of this review — is that the character used up his best ideas in the first movie, which came out in 2019. For his debut, Sandberg and the screenwriter Henry Gayden were graced with low expectations and a wallop of tenderness and wit. All they had to do was endear us to young Billy Batson (Asher Angel), a 14-year-old runaway who ka-pows into his magical alter ego (Levi) whenever the boy yells, well, you know. The heart came from watching the lonely child embrace his foster family and, ultimately, share his powers with five other orphans; the laughs came from the body-morphing comedy of seeing a teen in an adult-size skin suit realize that with great power comes the ability to buy booze. If the Avengers are swaggering mall cops who maintain order for the purpose of selling T-shirts and toys, Shazam is the juvenile delinquent shoplifting their dignity.
Levi boasts a dopey, roguish charm associated more with Super Bowl beer commercials than super-tights. He’s a good physical comedian, especially when he gnaws a breath mint like a bunny. Yet, as the child version of Shazam nears 18, the character can’t stay moronic forever — and there won’t be anything interesting about him once he matures. To stall for time, his character arc is merely a bunt. (As best I could figure, he has to either unite his family … or learn to let them go?)
The script, by Gayden and Chris Morgan, a longtime “Fast &
The quippy script doesn’t take much seriously. The score, by Christophe Beck, insists that we do. It’s an ungainly mishmash of tones that comes together only in one bizarre, wonderful gag when a graying wizard (Djimon Hounsou) barges into Billy’s erotic dream to deliver some very serious exposition with his head fused to Wonder Woman’s bronze-plated breasts.
Performance-wise, the film is cleaved into two camps: teens versus titans, or really, relentless wisecrackers in on the overall joke versus stern grande dames who treat the joke as sophomoric. The closest Liu comes to a smile is a twitch of anticipation just before she blasts someone with a laser beam. Mirren, looking otherworldly in white mascara and a taloned crown, only bothered to bring one expression to set, a nonemotion best described as “hypnotic cobra face.” When Mirren allows herself to be body-slammed, the shock of seeing the cinema’s queen thwacked into concrete makes it impossible to focus on the stakes of the scene. Instead of thinking about the division of god and mortal, we’re distracted by the blurring of actors and wrestlers.
Sandberg started his career in small horror films, and doesn’t seem to have much ambition to scale up. Most of the sequences are cut from medium shots strung together without much style — they may as well be a “Saturday Night Live” sketch. The fight scenes are a repetitive headache of lightning zaps and crushed cars. (Twice, a bridge gets destroyed.) One team meetup is staged, randomly, at an auto junkyard; it’s as though these serial sedan-killers want to lord it over the corpses. The look is bold and blah, either blue-gray gloom or a shellacking of amber magic-hour glow. Whenever there’s an image with visual awe — say, Shazam battling through a blaze of electricity — the movie hastily cuts away, as if embarrassed by its own aspirations. Relax, super-bro. You’re not going to get sued for striving to be more than a runner-up.
From left, Adam Brody, Zachary Levi, Meagan Good and D.J. Cotrona in “Shazam! Fury of the Gods.”Lance Reddick, a prolific actor who gained fame playing a police commander on the Baltimore crime drama “The Wire” and later had prominent roles in the “John Wick” movie franchise and the Amazon series “Bosch,” died on Friday. He was 60. His death was confirmed by his publicist, Mia Hansen. She did not say where he died or cite a cause.
Reddick was having some success as a stage actor when, in 1996, he began landing small roles on “New York Undercover,” “The West Wing” and other television series, as well as some TV movies.
Even then he was often playing law enforcement figures, and he would be doing so when his breakthrough came in 2002: He was cast as Lt. Cedric Daniels, the principled head of the investigation unit, on “The Wire,” the sprawling HBO series that was praised for its realistic and often downbeat depiction of policing, crime, education and other aspects of life in Baltimore.
The series ran for five seasons and is widely regarded as having brought a new level of sophistication to police dramas and television in general.
“Ever since ‘The Wire,’” Reddick told “The IMDB Show” in a video interview, “I’ve played a lot of intimidating authority figures that talk a lot.”
On the Fox sci-fi drama “Fringe,” which made its debut in 2008, he was Phillip Broyles, a Homeland Security agent. In the crime drama “Bosch,” which ran from 2014 to 2021, he was a police official. In the movie “White House Down” (2013), about an as-
sault on the White House, he was vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“Intensity is not something I try to do,” he told The Queensland Times of Australia in 2010. “It’s just kind of the way that I am.”
He got away from the law enforcement roles in the “John Wick” movies, the action franchise that stars Keanu Reeves in the title role. He played Charon, a hotel manager, in all four films, the first of which was released in 2014. The latest is being released this month.
In all those roles and others, Reddick was a distinctive, instantly recognizable presence, even if he was not quite a household name. His voice, too, was distinctive, as players of Horizon Zero Dawn, Destiny 2 and other video games on which he could be heard know.
“Range is always what I’m striving for,” Reddick told the Los Angeles Times in 2019.
“I never want anybody to say ‘Oh, this is who he is.’ Although the characters I play, even in all their diversity, tend to be fairly intense. But they’re all very different guys.”
Beginning in 2008 he was in a few episodes of the ABC series “Lost,” playing a character named Matthew Abaddon. The show had a wide following, and though the character wasn’t around long, Reddick said it boosted his visibility even more than “The Wire” had.
“I was living in New York at the time, and it seemed like everybody was stopping me to talk about ‘Lost,’” he told The Baltimore Sun in 2019. “I went from small, niche notoriety to being completely recognizable.”
Lance Solomon Reddick was born June 7, 1962, in Baltimore. His mother taught instrumental music, and his father was an educator and later a public defender.
Reddick attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he studied classical composition. He was a skilled pianist and in 2010 released an album of his own works, “Contemplations & Remembrances.”
By the early 1990s, Reddick was in Boston and exploring acting. He soon enrolled at the Yale School of Drama, where he received a master’s degree. He performed at Yale Repertory Theater with Liev Schreiber and other future stars.
“When I went to drama school,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 2009, “I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a Black man and I wasn’t pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.”
In 1995, at Manhattan Theater Club in New York, he appeared in “After-Play,” Anne Meara’s play about two couples who settle in
for dinner after attending the theater; Reddick portrayed their mysterious waiter. The play had a long run in New York, and in 1997 he reprised the role at the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut.
By then his television work was beginning to pick up, although he did not abandon the stage completely. In 2006 he was in Signature Theater Company’s New York revival of August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars,” putting his musical background to good use portraying a blues musician named Floyd.
“Floyd’s charisma and his anger are all the more impressive for the quietness with which Reddick renders them,” Ben Brantley wrote in his review in The New York Times.
To prepare for his role in “The Wire,” Reddick told the Australian newspaper, he did a few ride-alongs with police officers in the South Bronx.
“They were saying, ‘This section is OK, that section is bad,” he said. “What we were seeing was block and block and block of abandoned houses and drug addicts wandering around. It was almost surreal.”
Reddick was working on several projects at the time of his death, including a new version of “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.”
He is survived by his wife, Stephanie Reddick; a daughter, Yvonne Nicole Reddick; and a son, Christopher Reddick.
In a 2010 interview with The Miami Herald, Reddick said the role that particularly stood out for him was one of his smaller ones: a guest appearance on “Law & Order.”
“I played an army captain from Sierra Leone in 2001 before I was cast in ‘The Wire,’” he said, “and I had to learn the Sierra Leone accent. To this day, that’s my favorite character, the character I’m most proud of.”
By ALI SLAGLE
The universal appeal of shrimp scampi, frankly, isn’t the shrimp but the pan sauce: garlicky butter lightened with white wine and bursts of lemon, parsley and red-pepper flakes. Scampi is often tossed with pasta or served with crusty bread, but this version instead uses quick-cooking orzo. It simmers directly in the
pan sauce, imparting a starchy gloss — and soaking up the garlicky scampi flavors. Toss the shrimp with some garlic, lemon zest and red-pepper flakes to marinate while the pasta gets a head start on the stove, then simply toss the shrimp on top of the orzo to steam. It all comes together in a flash, and feels effortless. Pair this dish with Caesar salad, steamed broccoli or arugula, or bask in its simple comfort,
straight from a spoon. Yield: 4 servings
Total time: 25 minutes
Ingredients:
1 pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon lemon zest, plus 1 tablespoon juice (from 1 lemon)
1/2 teaspoon red-pepper flakes
Kosher salt (such as Diamond Crystal) and black pepper
4 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 cup orzo
1/3 cup dry white wine
2 cups boiling water, seafood stock or chicken stock
3 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
Preparation:
1. In a medium bowl, stir together shrimp, 1 tablespoon olive oil, lemon zest, red-pepper flakes, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper and half of the garlic. Set aside to marinate. (This step can be done up to 1 hour in advance.)
2. Add butter, remaining olive oil and remaining garlic to a medium skillet set over medium heat. When the butter starts to bubble, add the orzo and 1/2 teaspoon salt and cook, stirring often, until the orzo is toasted, about 2 minutes, adjusting the heat as necessary to prevent the garlic from burning. Carefully add the wine — it will bubble — and stir until absorbed, about 1 minute. Stir in water, reduce heat to low, cover, and cook until orzo is al dente, about 12 minutes.
3. Add the shrimp in a snug, even layer on top of the orzo, cover, and cook until all the shrimp is pink and cooked through, 2 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat and let sit, covered, 2 minutes.
4. Sprinkle with parsley and lemon juice, season with salt and pepper, and serve immediately.
In July, Jennifer O’Brien got the phone call that adult children dread. Her 84-year-old father, who insisted on living alone in rural New Mexico, had broken his hip.
O’Brien is a health care administrator and consultant in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the widow of a palliative care doctor; she knew more than family members typically do about what lay ahead.
James O’Brien, a retired entrepreneur, was in poor health, with heart failure and advanced lung disease after decades of smoking. Because of a spinal injury, he needed a walker. He was so short of breath that, except for quick breaks during meals, he relied on a biPAP, a ventilator that required a tightfitting face mask.
He had standing do-not-resuscitate and do-not-intubate orders, Jennifer O’Brien said. They had discussed his strong belief that “if his heart stopped, he would take that to mean that it was his time.”
Listening in on the phone while a hospital palliative care nurse practitioner talked to her father about his options, Jennifer O’Brien provided a blunt translation: “Dad, your heart and lungs are done.” The next day, he declined surgery to repair his hip.
“He was dying,” she said. “He’d either die comfortably or, with a big surgical incision, he’d die uncomfortably. Or die of something more complicated — potential infections, bowel obstructions, so many things that can happen.” Mortality rates after hip fractures, though improving, remain high.
Her father, who wasn’t cognitively impaired, had decided that surgery was “silly” and unnecessary. She supported his decision and contacted a local hospice.
Families often have to run interference in such scenarios, and a new study in JAMA Network Open helps explain why. The authors, most of them at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, analyzed five years of data from a cancer registry, nursing home assessments and Medicare claims to look at “aggressive end-of-life care” among 146,000 older patients with metastatic cancer.
They compared nursing home residents’ care in the last 30 days of their lives with the care for noninstitutionalized patients living in communities, the lead author, Siran Koroukian, a health services researcher at Case Western Reserve, said.
The team looked for commonly used markers of aggressive care, including cancer treatment, repeated emergency room visits or hospitalizations, admission to an intensive care unit, lack of hospice enrollment until three days before death, and death in a hospital.
“In all probability, hospice should have been consid-
ered” for these patients, said Sara Douglas, an author of the study who is an oncology researcher at the Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing.
Yet the majority of both groups — 58% of community dwellers and 64% of nursing home residents — received aggressive treatment in their final 30 days. A quarter underwent cancer treatment: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy.
Although studies repeatedly show that most patients want to die at home, 25% of the community dwellers and almost 40% of the nursing home residents died in hospitals.
Hospice leaders, palliative care specialists, health care reformers and advocacy groups have worked for years to try to lower such numbers. “Patients who received this type of aggressive care experience more pain, actually die sooner, have a much poorer quality of life at the end,” Douglas said. “And their families experience more doubt and trauma.”
Because the researchers used large databases, the study can’t indicate whether some patients actually opted for continued treatment or hospitalization. Some treatments the authors deemed aggressive could instead have been palliative, intended to increase comfort, like radiation to shrink tumors that might impede breathing.
Still, “these are really sobering statistics,” said Douglas White, director of the Center for Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
A lot of factors contribute to invasive actions in patients’ final days and weeks. Doctors, for example, may be reluctant to initiate difficult conversations about what dying patients want, or may be poorly trained in conducting them.
But studies also show that even when crucial discussions take place, patients and surrogate decision-makers fre-
quently misinterpret them. “Families often leave these conversations with much more optimistic expectations than their doctors meant to convey,” White said.
Sometimes, family demands prevail even over the patient’s wishes. Jennifer Ballentine, CEO of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, knew that one of her relatives didn’t want high-intensity care if he became terminally ill. But when he developed aggressive prostate cancer at 79, his wife insisted that he pursue treatment.
“He refused,” Ballentine recalled. “He kept saying he just wanted to be in hospice. She kept saying, ‘Absolutely not.’” He capitulated until, after three exhausting months of chemotherapy with several hospital stays, he died in hospice care.
When palliative care is introduced soon after a diagnosis, patients have a better quality of life and less depression, a study of people with metastatic lung cancer found. Though they were less likely to undergo aggressive treatment, they survived longer.
Palliative care doctors, skilled in discussions of serious illness, are scarce in some parts of the country, however, and in outpatient practices.
Adopting a so-called concurrent care approach to hospice might also ease these transitions. The Medicare hospice benefit requires patients to forgo treatment for their terminal illness; hospice through the Veterans Health Administration system, with more liberal criteria, allows patients to receive both treatment and hospice.
A recent study of veterans with end-stage kidney disease, who were likely to die within days if forced to discontinue dialysis, shows the impact of concurrent care. Palliative dialysis — administered less often or for shorter periods than the standard regimen — can help control symptoms like shortness of breath.
Medicare has authorized pilot studies of concurrent care, but for now, patients and families must often seize the reins to make their end-of-life wishes known and determine how best to fulfill them.
Some patients want every possible action taken to extend their lives, even briefly. For those who feel otherwise, asking about palliative care and hospice can open the door to straightforward discussions.
James O’Brien was among the latter. His daughter drove from Little Rock to Santa Fe to spend a quiet day with him. “We had some good time together,” she said. “We talked about what was going to happen.”
She was there as the hospice team provided medication to keep him comfortable and withdrew the biPAP. “It was very peaceful,” she said. “I told him I loved him. I knew he could hear me. I stayed with him until he took his last breath.”
A new study finds that most older cancer patients may not have wanted the invasive care they received in the last month of their lives.ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE NORMA JOSEFA MONTALVO RODRIGUEZ, TAMBIÉN
CONOCIDA COMO
NORMA MONTALVO RODRIGUEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS
HERMANOS DIGNA
GUZMAN RODRIGUEZ, HECTOR MANUEL
TORRES RODRIGUEZ, SIGFREDO GUZMAN
RODRIGUEZ, LUZ
MONTALVO RODRIGUEZ Y MANIS TORRES
RODRIGUEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE
INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: GB2022CV00365.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA
POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA).
EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESION DE NORMA
JOSEFA MONTALVO
RODRIGUEZ, TAMBIÉN
CONOCIDA COMO
NORMA MONTALVO RODRIGUEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS
HERMANOS DIGNA
GUZMAN RODRIGUEZ, HECTOR MANUEL
TORRES RODRIGUEZ, SIGFREDO GUZMAN RODRIGUEZ, LUZ
MONTALVO RODRIGUEZ Y MANIS TORRES
RODRIGUEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM).
Yo, ALG. HUGO BASCO MEDINA, PLACA #807, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y
personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 10:20 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Guaynabo durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 13 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 10:20 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el 20 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 10:20 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar número
Novecientos Cincuenta (950) del Bloque M guión Treinta (M-30) de la URBANIZACIÓN
LUIS MUÑOZ RIVERA de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy Calle Lopattegui, con TRESCIENTOS VEINTISEIS PUNTO TREINTA Y SEIS (326.36) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, en trece punto cincuenta (13.50) metros, con el solar número Novecientos Treinta (930); por el SUR, en igual medida, con la Avenida número Diecisiete (17); por el ESTE, en veinticuatro punto diecisiete (24.17) metros, con el solar número Novecientos Cincuenta y Uno (951); y por el OESTE, en veinticuatro punto dieciocho (24.18) metros, con el solar número Novecientos Cuarenta y Nueve(949). Sobre este solar enclava una casa de hormigón reforzado de tres cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 1378 de Guaynabo, finca número 10,600, inscripción octava. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Luis Muñoz Rivera, Solar 950, Blq. M-30, (hoy 28), Calle Venus,
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $43,262.28 de principal, intereses al 5 1/4% anual desde el 1ro. de octubre de 2021, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $6,000.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $60,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $40,000.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $30,000.00. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licita-
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dores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 23 de febrero de 2023. ALG. HUGO BASCÓ MEDINA, ALGUACIL PLACA #807, DIVISIÓN DE EJECUCIÓN DE SENTENCIAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA
ESPACIO
RESIDENTIAL LLC
Demandante V. MIGUEL ANGEL RAMOS
ALICEA T/C/C MIGUEL
A. RAMOS ALICEA Y ELIZABETH GONZALEZ CARABALLO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandada
Civil Núm.: GCCD2007-0010. (303). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, LITZY M. CORA ANAYA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #247, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Centro Judicial de Guayama, a los demandados 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 de epígrafe con fecha de 6 de mayo de 2022 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $67,754.95 de principal, dictada en el caso de autos el día 16 de enero de 2009, notificada y archivada en autos el día 11 de febrero de 2009; procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Patillas, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: A-03 Portales de Jacaboa, Patillas, PR 00723.
URBANA: SOLAR MARCADO CON EL NUMERO TRES DEL BLOQUE A (“A-3”) EN EL PLANO DE INSCRIPCION DE LA URBANIZACION PORTALES DE JACABOA, RADICADA EN EL BARRIO JACABOA DEL TERMINO MUNICIPAL DE PATILLAS, PUERTO RICO, CON
UNA CABIDA SUPERFICIAL DE DOSCIENTOS SESENTA Y DOS PUNTO CUARENTA Y CUATRO METROS CUADRADOS (262.44 M.C.), EN LINDES POR EL NORTE, EN UNA DISTANCIA DE DOCE PUNTO CINCUENTA METROS (12.50 M.) CON LA AVENIDA SAN JOSE; POR EL SUR, EN UNA DISTANCIA DE DOCE PUNTO CINCUENTA METROS (12.50 M.) CON SUCESION PEDRO VAZQUEZ; POR EL ESTE, EN UNA DISTANCIA DE VEINTIUNO PUNTO CERO CERO METROS (21.00 M.) CON EL LOTE CUATRO DEL BLOQUE A (A”-4”) Y POR EL OESTE, EN VEINTIUNO PUNTO CERO CERO METROS (21.00 M.) CON EL LOTE DOS DEL BLOQUE A (“A-2”).” ENCLAVA UNA ESTRUCTURA DE HORMIGON PARA USO RESIDENCIAL. FINCA 11674, INSCRITA AL TOMO KARIBE DE PATILLAS, REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE PUERTO RICO, SECCION DE GUAYAMA. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, cuyas cantidades son las siguientes: $67,754.95 de principal; 5.95% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; la suma de $598.86 por concepto de otros gastos y la suma de $330.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $69,451.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 partes del valor de la tasación, $46,300.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será de la 1/2 del valor de la tasación, $34,725.50 Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 2 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 9 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de
Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guayama. Del Estudio de Titulo realizado no surgen gravámenes preferentes ni posteriores que deban ser cancelados. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término 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. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. 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 de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Guayama, Puerto Rico, a 1 de marzo de 2023. LITZY M. CORA ANAYA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #247.
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE MARIANO ALVARADO
VEGA T/C/C MARINO
ALVARADO VEGA, COMPUESTA POR
FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE DOLORES LABRADOR
VEGA, COMPUESTA POR SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; JOSUÉ
ALVARADO LABRADOR, ELVIN MARIO ALVARADO
LABRADOR, ALEIDA
MARÍA ALVARADO
LABRADOR Y ELUID
ALVARADO LABRADOR, HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESION DE MARIANO ALVARADO
VEGA T/C/C MARINO
ALVARADO VEGA Y DOLORES LABRADOR
VEGA; ENID ALVARADO
LABRADOR T/C/C ENID MARÍA ALVARADO
LABRADOR POR SÍ
Y COMO HEREDERA DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARIANO ALVARADO
VEGA T/C/C MARINO
ALVARADO VEGA Y LA SUCESIÓN DE DOLORES
LABRADOR VEGA
JUNTO A SU ESPOSO
JOAQUÍN CABRERA
ZARATE POR SÍ, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA
DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES
RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: CA2019CV04220. (403). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA-
DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia Sumaria dictada el 10 de enero de 2023 y notificada el 12 de enero de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia 23 de febrero de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 24 de febrero de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 4 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, en la Avenida 65 Infantería, Carretera Número Tres (3), Kilómetro 11.7 (Entrada de la Urbanización Mansiones de Carolina) Carolina, 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 marcado con el Número 142 del Bloque F en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Vistamar situada en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 320.96 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: en 13.22 metros con terrenos propiedad de Insular Housing Corporation del mencionado plano de inscripción; por el SUR: en 14.69 metros con la Calle denominada “Calle J” del mencionado plano; por el ESTE: en 23.00 metros con el Solar Número 143 del mencionado plano; y por el OESTE: en 23.00 metros con la Calle L del mencionado plano de inscripción. Enclava una casa. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 106 del tomo 46 de Carolina Norte, Finca 1855. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 63 del tomo 949 de Carolina, Finca 1855. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. Inscripción octava (8va). La escritura de modificación consta inscrita al folio 63 vuelto del tomo 949 de Carolina Norte, Finca 1855. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. Inscripción décima (10ma). Dirección Física: Urb. Vistamar, F142 Calle Valladolid, Carolina, PR 009831840. Número de Catastro: 20-064-033-169-15-001. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $78,700.99. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, e día 11
DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 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, $52,467.32
De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 18 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $39,350.49. 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 $77,429.27 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.625% anual desde el 1 de octubre de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $1,014.14 recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,870.09 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Joaquín Cabrera Zarate, Enid Alvarado Labrador también conocida como Enid María Alvarado y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, Mariano (así consta) Alvarado Vega también conocido como Marino (así consta) Alvarado Vega y Dolores Labrador Vega y la Sociedad de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ellos, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2019CV04220, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $77,429.27 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 30 de octubre de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Carolina. 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 los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de marzo de 2023. GRETCHEN M. JEREZ
SEDA, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE TOMÁS BOBONIS
VIZCARRONDO, COMPUESTA POR:
GLADYS BETANCOURT
MANGUAL, POR SÍ, Y POR CONCEPTO DE USUFRUCTO VIUDAL, Y DE SUS HEREDEROS:
DARA SOFÍA BOBONIS
BETANCOURT; EDRID
TOMÁS BOBONIS
BETANCOURT; Y NADJA
GLADYS BOBONIS
BETANCOURT; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01051.
Sala: 402. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚ-
BLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 13 de enero de 2023 por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 33 del Bloque Q del Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Loma Alta Turn Key MCI2 & MCI2-A, radicada en el Barrio Martín González, del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 260.40 metros cuadrados y con las siguientes colindancias: por el NORTE, en 21.70 metros lineales, con el solar número 32 del Bloque Q del referido Plano; por el SUR, en 18.20 metros lineales, con la Calle número 6, extensión del referido plano; por el ESTE, en 8.50 metros lineales, con un arco de un largo de 5.50 metros, con la calle marginal C del referido plano; y por el OESTE, en 10.50 metros lineales, con el solar número 1 y en 1.50 metros lineales, con el solar número 2 del Bloque Q del referido plano. Inscrita en la finca número 48,360, al folio 141 del tomo 1112 de Carolina. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Carolina. La propiedad ubica según pagaré:
Q33 22 St. Loma Alta, Carolina, PR. 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: a. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 5 de abril de 2022, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el caso civil número CA2022CV01051, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Sucesión de Tomás Bobonis Vizcarrondo, compuesta por Gladys Betancourt Mangual, por sí, y por concepto de usufructo viudal y de sus herederos: Dara Bobonis Betancourt; Edrid Tomás Bobonis Betancourt y Nadja Gladys Bobonis Betanocourt, Centro de
Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM), por la suma de $86,428.04 de principal más otras sumas, anotado el día 19 de julio de 2022 al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 48,360, anotación A. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 2 de agosto de 2022 y notificada el 3 de agosto de de 2022, y publicada en periódico de circulación general, The San Daily Star”, el 9 de agosto de 2022, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $86,428.04 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 5.5% desde el 1ro de abril de 2020; 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 $11,363.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente (“Sentencia”). 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 MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $113,630.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $75,753.33, 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 MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $56,815.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como
“Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de marzo de 2023. HÉCTOR L.
PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITIONS TRUST 2019-HB1
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CRUZ
OLIVO OTERO, T/C/C CRUCITO OLIVO OTERO, CRUZ OLIVO
COMPUESTA POR
JOSEPHINE OLIVO, MARÍA OLIVO, DENISE OLIVO, CRUCITO OLIVO, EVELYN CRUCITO, TATIANA OLIVO, CRUCITO JR. OLIVO, NORMI OLIVO, ROSA OLIVO, TATY OLIVO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE SILVIA DIAZ CHERY, T/C/C SILVIA DIAZ CHERIS COMPUESTA POR JOSEPHINE OLIVO, MARÍA OLIVO, DENISE OLIVO, CRUCITO OLIVO, EVELYN CRUCITO, TATIANA OLIVO, CRUCITO JR. OLIVO, NORMI OLIVO, ROSA OLIVO, TATY OLIVO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS. CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2019CV05393. (505). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESIÓN DE CRUZ OLIVO OTERO, T/C/C CRUCITO OLIVO OTERO, CRUZ OLIVO COMPUESTA POR
JOSEPHINE OLIVO, MARÍA OLIVO, DENISE OLIVO, CRUCITO OLIVO, EVELYN CRUCITO, TATIANA OLIVO, CRUCITO JR. OLIVO, NORMI OLIVO, ROSA OLIVO, TATY OLIVO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE SILVIA DIAZ CHERY, T/C/C SILVIA DIAZ CHERIS COMPUESTA POR
JOSEPHINE OLIVO, MARÍA OLIVO, DENISE OLIVO, CRUCITO OLIVO, EVELYN CRUCITO, TATIANA OLIVO, CRUCITO JR. OLIVO, NORMI OLIVO, ROSA OLIVO, TATY OLIVO,
FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS. CENTRO DE
Yo, EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 25 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad 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 19 de julio de 2022. 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 2 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 9 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 30 de junio de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: UR-
BANA: Solar número dos del Bloque “YY” de la Urbanización Santa Juanita, radicado en el Barrio Minillas de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, que comprende de un área de trescientos noventa y ocho metros y sesenta y dos centímetros cuadrados. Colindado por el NORTE, con Levittown Corporation, en trece metros y cincuenta centímetros; por el SUR, con la Calle número veintitrés, en trece me-
tros y cincuenta centímetros; por el ESTE, con solar número tres del Bloque “YY”, en veintinueve metros y cuarenta y cuatro centímetros; y por el OESTE, con solar número uno del Bloque “YY” y en veintinueve metros y sesenta y cuatro centímetros. Contiene una casa residencial de hormigón y bloques para una sola familia” Finca número 16,120 inscrita al folio 133 del tomo 362 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. Dirección de la Propiedad: YY-2 23 St. Santa Juanita Dev., Bayamón PR 00956. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $116,024.79 adeudada por concepto de principal e intereses vencidos al 31 de julio de 2021, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación; la cantidad de $2,892.00 por concepto de valoraciones e inspecciones; la cantidad de $20,072.29 por concepto de seguros y/o contribuciones y MIP; más la suma de $16,950.00 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 57 otorgada el día 18 de febrero de 2013, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Jan Luis Romero Sanchez y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 16,120, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón Sur, Sección I de Bayamón. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador 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 honora-
rios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $169,500.00, con intereses al 5.060% anual, vencedero el día 14 de marzo de 2096, constituida mediante la escritura número 58, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 18 de febrero de 2013, ante la notario Juan L. Romero Sanchez, e inscrita tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca numero 16,120, inscripción 4ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $169,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $113,000.00; 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 $84,750.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en con-
tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 08 de marzo de 2023. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO-
LINA
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 4 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS
9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación:
y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $208,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 11 DE MAYO DE 2023
Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de febrero de 2023. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
LEGACY MORTGAGE
ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1
Demandante Vs.
FEDERICO REYES T/C/C
FEDERICO CARDONA
REYES, DORCAS
NOEMI ROSADO
LOPEZ T/C/C DORCAS
N. ROSADO LOPEZ, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS Y CENTRO DE RECUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2020CV00720.
URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 303-A de la Urbanización Villa Margarita radicada en el barrio Canovanilla del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 400.00 metros cuadrados. En linderos NORTE, en una distancia de 25.00 metros con el solar número 304; SUR, en una distancia de 25.00 metros con el solar número 302; ESTE, en una distancia de 16.00 metros con los solares número 305 y 306; OESTE, en una distancia de 16.00 metros con la Calle Orquídea de dicha urbanización. Contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia Consta inscrita al folio 245 del tomo 1153 de Carolina, finca número 49923, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Carolina. Propiedad localizada en: Urb. Ciudad Jardín, 303 Calle Orquidea, Carolina, PR 00987. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada cargas anteriores o posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores,
A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $138,666.66, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $104,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 18 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $184,570.83 de principal, intereses al tipo del 2.50000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1 de agosto de 2019 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $20,800.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, sİ esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC.
Demandante Vs. SUCESION MARIA TERESA BELFORT RODRIGUEZ T/C/C MARIA BELFORT RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR MARIA VICTORIA ORTIZ BELFORT, LUZ MERCEDES ORTIZ BELFORT; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02592.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 3 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número ocho (8) del Bloque “AH” de la Urbanización Caguas Norte situada en el Barrio Bairoa de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos treinta y uno punto veinte metros
cuadrados (331.20 m/c). En lindes por el NORTE, en catorce punto cuarenta metros (14.40m), con la calle número veintiocho (28); por el SUR, en catorce punto cuarenta metros (14.40m), con solares número trece (13) y catorce (14); por el ESTE, en veintitrés punto cero cero metros (23.00m), con el solar número siete (7); y por el OESTE, en veintitrés punto cero cero metros (23.00m), con el solar número nueve (9). Enclava una casa. Inscrita al folio 100 del tomo 927 de Caguas, finca 31,390, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Propiedad localizada en: URB. CAGUAS NORTE, AH-8 CALLE QUEBEC, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00725. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $205,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 1 de abril de 2082. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $205,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 10 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $137,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $102,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 17 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandan-
te, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $135,125.29 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $27,173.58 en intereses acumulados al 31 de agosto de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.89% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $5,877.09 en seguro hipotecario; $5,635.00 en tarifas de servicio; $1,665.32 en seguro; $525.00 de tasaciones; $540.00 de inspecciones; $12,229.50 en preservación; $1,860.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $20,550.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de febrero de 2023. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593. ***
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE JUANA DÍAZ
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. HÉCTOR L. COLÓN
SANTIAGO
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: JD2022CV00314. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO.
SANTIAGO - HC 1 BOX
44031 JUANA DIAZ, PUERTO RICO 007959002. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose. aguilar@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de febrero de 2023. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 16 de febrero de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. MARÍA C. COLÓN SANTIAGO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE EDNA
IRIS NALES PEREZ COMPUESTA POR
PEDRO EMIR ROSA NALES, EDNARIS
MAIRIM ROSA NALES Y JANICE ANDREA
FUENTES NALES COMO ÚNICOS Y UNIVERSALES HEREDEROS Y MIEMBROS DE SU
SUCESIÓN
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2018CV04191.
Salón Núm.: 505. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA
VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha del 21 de junio de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Bayamón en relación con la Sentencia Sumaria en Rebeldía dictada en 28 de junio de 2019, notificada y archivada en autos el 28 de junio de 2019, y publicada la Notificación de Sentencia Por Edicto en 3 de julio de 2019, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Edificio uno punto uno (1.1)
Apartamento: uno guión dos cero uno (1-201). Propiedad
Horizontal: Apartamento de una (1) planta, tres (3) habitaciones en el Condominio Bosque Sereno, situado en la Avenida Las Cumbres, en el Barrio Cerro Gordo, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área de mil cuarenta y siete punto cero cero (1,047.00) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a noventa y siete punto treinta (97.30) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con pared exterior; por el SUR, con pared exterior; por el ESTE, con pared exterior; y por el OESTE, con la pared medianera que comparte con el apartamento uno guión dos cero dos (1-202) y escalera. Tiene puerta de entrada en el lado Oeste que conduce a un pasillo común y tiene puerta en el lado Sur, que conduce al balcón del apartamento. Consta dicho apartamento de sala comedor, cocina, closet de alacena, closet de calentador de agua, balcón, closet de lavandería, un (1) baño, dos (2) dormitorios con sus respectivos closets, un (1) dormitorio principal con su closet y baño. A este apartamento le corresponden punto cincuenta y siete (.57%) de titularidad en los elementos comunes. A este apartamento le corresponden los estacionamientos números ciento once (111) y doscientos setenta (270). Consta inscrita al folio 98, del tomo 1875 de Bayamón
Sur, finca número 77,303, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. Condiciones
Restrictivas a través del Programa Bono de Vivienda: La Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, ha concedido a los compradores la suma de $7,950.00 para gastos de cierre, por lo que impone las siguientes condiciones restrictivas: No podrá vender, donar,
permutar o de cualquier otro modo transferir la propiedad sin el previo consentimiento de la Autoridad dentro de un periodo de 10 años a partir de la fecha de la escritura relacionada en la inscripción primera. Por su procedencia está afecta a: a. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. b. Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico. c. Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de Bayamón. d. Servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. e. Condiciones restrictivas. Dirección de la propiedad: Condominio Bosque Sereno, Apartamento 1-201, Bayamón, Puerto Rico 00956. Se apercibe a los licitadores para que procedan con la inspección física del inmueble objeto de ejecución previo a la celebración de las subastas. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la propiedad anteriormente descrita y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 17 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍ-
NIMO: $154,969.00. SEGUN-
DA SUBASTA: Se celebrará
24 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $103,312.66.
TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará 1 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $77,484.50. Las subastas se llevarán a cabo para satisfacer al Banco demandante de las siguientes sumas de dinero adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la Sentencia dictada, a saber, la suma de $140,365.98 adeudada por concepto de principal e intereses vencidos al 25 de septiembre de 2018, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, los cargos por demora vencidos que a igual fecha ascienden a $499.20, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, las sumas adeudadas por concepto de seguros y/o contribuciones, la suma de $139.25 por concepto de adelantos (Corp Advances), más la suma de $15,496.90, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Tribunal de Bayamón, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento
luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses acumulados hasta la fecha de la subasta según pactados hasta su total y completo pago, en cuarto término, las sumas establecidas para el pago de recargos por demora hasta la fecha de la subasta y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada. Disponiéndose, que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. El inmueble anteriormente descrito se encuentra afecto al siguiente gravamen posterior: ANOTACIÓN PREVENTIVA DE DEMANDA radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, Civil Número BY2018CV04191 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria de fecha 16 de noviembre de 2018, seguida por Firstbank Puerto Rico (Demandante) Vs. EDNA IRIS NALES PEREZ (Demandada). Por la misma se reclama el pago de la suma de $140,365.98, más intereses y otras sumas, o en su defecto la venta en pública subasta, anotado al Tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 77,303, Anotación A, el cual se refiere al caso del epígrafe en la presente causa de acción. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, toda vez que el precio de remate no se destina a su extinción.
La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, durante horas laborables. Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de
circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 14 de febrero de 2023. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. SUCESION DE ANA LUISA CARRASCO TORRES COMPUESTA POR ROBERT JOHN WALLEN, JUDE ROBERT WALLEN Y ETHAN WALLEN
Demandados CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte con Interés
Civil Núm.: FA2023CV00119.
Sobre: INTERPELACIÓN, COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: SUCESIÓN DE ANA LUISA CARRASCO TORRES COMPUESTA POR ROBERT JOHN WALLEN, JUDE ROBERT WALLEN Y ETHAN WALLEN. 2 CALLE B URB. EXT. MELENDEZ, FAJARDO PR 00738-4312. Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la 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. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernán-
dez Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. Oriental Bank ha presentado una Demanda en su contra en la cual se reclama que la parte demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato Hipotecario al no pagar la mensualidad vencida el día 1 de junio de 2022 y las que han vencido subsiguientemente, por lo que la parte demandante ha declarado vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a vencida el día 1 de junio de 2022 y las que han vencido subsiguientemente, por lo que la parte demandante ha declarado vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a $62,520.16 de principal, más $2,136.08 a intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más $125.30 a cargos por demora y otros cargos, más $118.07 a escrow, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. El inmueble entregado como garantía de la hipoteca antes descrita es: URBANA: Solar número 2 de la Urbanización Melendez, Segunda extensión en el Barrio Quebrada de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 405.45 metros cuadrados. Colindando por el NORESTE, en 25.00 metros, con el solar número 3; por el SUROESTE, en 23.80 metros, con el solar número 1; por el SURESTE, en 19.00 metros, con la calle B: y por el NOROESTE, en 15.00 metros con terrenos de puerto Rico Industrial Development. Contiene una casa de concreto. Finca 5295 inscrita al Folio 247 del tomo 157 de Fajardo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. Se dicta Orden de conformidad con el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020, antes Art. 959 del Código Civil de 1930, se dicta Orden para que expresen si han de aceptar o rechazar formalmente la herencia de la causante ANA LUISA CARRASCO TORRES en el término de treinta (30) días, dispuesto en ley. Se advierte a los miembros de la Sucesión de Ana Luisa Carrasco Torres, que al haberse presentado el pleito en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en contra de la causante antes mencionada, de no recibirse contestación en el término de treinta (30) días a partir de la notificación de esta orden, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada y los herederos responden por la deuda reclamada. DADA en FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, a 8 de marzo de 2023. WANDA I.
SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA
REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs. HECTOR LUIS RODRIGUEZ ACEVEDO
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00133. (705). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: HECTOR LUIS RODRIGUEZ ACEVEDO.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $66,929.50, intereses al 6.50% anual, desde el día 1ro de mayo de 2022, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $7,575.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Ciento Sesenta y Cuatro (164) en el plano de inscripción del Proyecto UM guión Siete (UM7) denominado “BUNKER” del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de TRESCIENTOS ONCE PUNTO SEIS CUATRO CUATRO CERO (311.6440) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes: por el NORTE, con los solares números Ciento Sesenta y Uno (161) y Ciento Sesenta y Cinco (165), distancia de cuatro punto doscientos cincuenta y dos (4.252) metros y cinco punto seiscientos tres (5.603) metros, respectivamente; por el SUR, con la Calle Bolivia, distancia de dieciséis punto quinientos veintiuno (16.521) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número Ciento Sesenta y Seis (166), distancia de veintidós punto trescientos cincuenta y cinco (22.355) metros y con el lote número Ciento Sesenta y Cinco (165), en distancia de uno punto quinientos treinta y cinco (1.535) metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número Ciento Sesenta y Tres (163) y el solar número Ciento Sesenta y Dos
(162), distancia de trece punto trescientos ochenta y nueve (13.389) metros y doce punto seiscientos cuarenta y cuatro (12.644) metros, respectivamente. Enclava una estructura. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Caguas, Sección Primera, finca número 40,193, inscripción novena. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva la través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. 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. La dirección postal del abogado de la parte demandante es la siguiente:
Lic. Baldomero A. Collazo Torres Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC
P.O. Box 11550
Sau Juan, P.R. 00922-1550
Tel. (787) 625-9999
Fax (787) 705-7387
E-mail: bcollazo@lawpr.com
Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 13 de marzo de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P¡UERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA MUNICIPAL / SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN MANSIÓN DEL MAR HOA, INC.
Demandante V. ALMA ENID GARCÍA
ROSADO, EDGARDO
JAVIER ALLENDE REYES, AMBOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2023CV00521. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (R. 60). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda contra usted(es), solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Demanda de COBRO DE DINERO, por concepto de cuotas de mantenimientos vencidas y no pagadas por la suma de $2,564.82 al 23 de diciembre de 2022. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
LCDO. MELVYN E. FONTAN LOZADA Colegiado Núm. 15768, RUA: 14519 PO Box 124, Bayamón, PR 00960-0124 Tel. 787-340-6604 Fax 787-261-9168
e-mail: melfonloza@live.com, melvynfontan@gmail.com
Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deje 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. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 09 de marzo de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
GUAS
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC
Demandante Vs. RAMON GARCIA JR.
T/C/C RAMON GARCIA
MARTINEZ; ELSA
LUISA CASTELLANO
LUNA T/C/C ELSA
LUISA CASTELLANO
SANTOS T/C/C ELSA
LUISA GARCIA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS; ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00315.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO
POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS
UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE
ASOCIADO DE PUERTO
RICO, SS.
A: ELSA LUISA
CASTELLANO LUNA
T/C/C ELSA LUISA
CASTELLANO SANTOS
T/C/C ELSA LUISA
GARCIA POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES QUE COMPONE CON RAMON GARCIA JR.
T/C/C RAMON GARCIA MARTINEZ.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.
Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Greenspoon Marder, LLP
Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622
TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309
Telephone: (954) 343 6273
Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com
Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 07 de marzo de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA.
ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESION ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ BACALLAO COMPUESTA POR
ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ
PORTAL, CARIDAD
RODRIGUEZ PORTAL; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS;
MAYRA A. PORTAL DE RODRIGUEZ T/C/C
MAYRA ALEIDA CARIDAD
PORTAL CAMEJO POR SI
Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: GB2022CV00932.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDIC-
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: MAYRA A. PORTAL DE RODRIGUEZ T/C/C
MAYRA ALEIDA CARIDAD
PORTAL CAMEJO POR SI
Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA,·
ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ PORTAL, CARIDAD RODRIGUEZ
PORTAL; JOHN DOE
Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION ORLANDO
RODRIGUEZ BACALLAO.
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. El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Transcurridos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia del causante ORLANDO RODRIGUEZ BACALLAO. Se les apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada.
Greenspoon Marder, LLP
Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622
TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309
Telephone: (954) 343 6273
Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com
Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de marzo de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA
PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT REO, LLC
Demandantes V. WILLIAM PAGÁN DE JESÚS; TAMARA BERRÍOS MONTAÑEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: G3CI2015-00107. (202). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE SUBASTA.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO DE
PUERTO RICO, S.S. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia, expedido el 16 de febrero de 2022 por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Patillas, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 11 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LA(S) 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Guayama, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno compuesto de 196.3881 CUERDAS, equivalentes a 77 hectáreas, 18 áreas y 68 miliáreas, sita en el Barrio Jacaboa del término municipal de Patillas, Puerto Rico. En lindes por el NORTE, en diferentes distancias con el Río Jacaboa y con terrenos pertenecientes a la Sucesión de Domingo Rodríguez, Sucesión de Eloy Mercado, la Sucesión de Miguel Rodríguez y los Hermanos Merle en dos colindancias; por el SUR, con terrenos de la Sucesión de Reparada Casals, antes Magdalena Santiago viuda de Casals y los hermanos Merle; por el ESTE, con terrenos de la Sucesión de Luciano Stella, antes, Constantino Recio; y por el OESTE, con terrenos de la Sucesión de Luciano Stella, antes, hoy, terrenos de los hermanos Merle, Obdulio Detrés y la Sucesión de Luciano Stella, antes, con Roque Stella. Consta inscrita al folio 184 del tomo 228 de Patillas, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama, finca número 7,499. Dirección Física: PR-7755 Km. 0.3 Int., Jacaboa Ward, Patillas, PR 00738. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Libre de Cargas.
Por sí: SERVIDUMBRE: De paso sobre una faja de terreno con un ancho mínimo de 8 metros, construida a perpetuidad, según consta de la escritura #71, otorgada en Patillas, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de junio de 1984, ante el Notario Público Sixto Pabón García, inscrita al folio 58vto del tomo 169 de Patillas, inscripción 2ª. CONTRATO DE REFACCIÓN AGRÍCO-
LA: Sobre la cosecha de frutos, 26.00 cuerdas de plátano en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Farm Service Agency, Agencia de Servicios Agrícola, o a su orden, por la suma de $30,000.00, con interés al 3.75%, y vencedero 13de marzo de 2018, según consta de la escritura #28, otorgada en Pon-
ce, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de marzo de 1998, ante el Notario Público Efraín Bermúdez Rivera, inscrita al folio Movil del tomo 214 de Patillas, inscripción 10ª. DECLARACIÓN DE FINANCIAMIENTO: De fecha de 22 de diciembre de 2005, donde se expresa que el Banco de Desarrollo Económico para Puerto Rico posee un pagaré hipotecario a su favor o a su orden, con vencimiento el día 5 de enero de 2036, con intereses al fijo a un 8% durante los primeros cinco años. Luego dicha tasa se revisará según cambie la tasa primaria a base del 1% sobre ésta, fluctuando concurrentemente con cada fluctuación en dicha tasa primaria, por la suma de $297,505.00 otorgado el 21 de diciembre de 2005 ante Yasmín M. Santiago Zayas, bajo affidavit 3,776 garantizado con una hipoteca sobre la finca de 196.8331 cuerdas localizada en el Barrio Jacaboa de Patillas. El acreedor garantizador es Banco de Desarrollo Económico para Puerto Rico. Inscrita al folio 184 del tomo 228 de Patillas, inscripción 14ª. HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de Banco de Desarrollo Económico para Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $297,505.00, con interés al 8%, y vencedero el 5 de enero de 2036, según consta de la escritura #162, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de diciembre de 2005, ante el Notario Público Yasmín M. Santiago Zayas, inscrita al folio 184 del tomo 228 de Patillas, inscripción 15ª. HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de Farmers Home Administration, o a su orden, por la suma de $54,150.00, con interés al 37/8%, y vencedero 7 años de la fecha de este pagaré, según consta de la escritura #6, otorgada en Guayama, Puerto Rico, el día 7 de febrero de 2008, ante la Notario Público Livia E. Rovira de Fuster, inscrita al folio 184 del tomo 228 de Patillas, inscripción 16ª. MODIFICACIÓN DE HIPOTECA: Es objeto de esta modificación la Hipoteca por $54,150.00, que surge de la inscripción 16ª, según consta de la escritura #52, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 18 de mayo de 2015, ante el Notario Público Efraín Bermúdez Rivera, inscrito al tomo Karibe de Santurce Norte, inscripción 17ª del 12 de marzo de 2019. Servirá como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta en ejecución de la primera hipoteca objeto de este caso que grava el inmueble antes descrito, la suma de $297,505.00, conforme a lo estipulado en la Escritura de Hipoteca número 162, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 22 de diciembre de 2005 ante la Notario Público Yasmín Santiago Zayas. De no
adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Guayama, el día 18 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LA(S)
10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta será dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $198,336.67. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Guayama, el día 25 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LA(S)
10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $148,752.50. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT REO, LLC ascendente al 9 de junio de 2021 a la suma de $292,358.35, desglosado en $239,920.85 de principal, $52,437.50 de intereses acumulados, más los que se continúen acumulando hasta el saldo total y completo de la deuda a razón de $44.99 diarios. Además de la cantidad de $14,081.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables. El Alguacil procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en la fecha, hora y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley
para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta señalada. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Guayama, Puerto Rico, a 23 de enero de 2023.
LITZY M. CORA ANAYA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #247, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE GUAYAMA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
RJY DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING CENTER, INC.
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ALICE NIDIA GARCÍA TORO
T/C/C ALICE N. GARCÍA TORO T/C/C ALICE
GARCÍA TORO T/C/C
ALICE NIDIA GARCÍA DE SÁNCHEZ; COMPUESTA
POR JUAN JOSÉ
SÁNCHEZ DE JESÚS
T/C/C JUAN J. SÁNCHEZ DE JESÚS T/C/C JUAN
SÁNCHEZ DE JESÚS
POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO
A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; GERARDO SÁNCHEZ
GARCÍA, GLEN
SÁNCHEZ GARCÍA, CÉSAR ARMANDO
SÁNCHEZ GARCÍA, JUAN JOSÉ SÁNCHEZ
GARCÍA; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL, A, B, Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO
Demandados
Civil Núm.: FCD2012-0981.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA - IN REM. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia, expedido el 10 de enero de 2023 por la Secre-
taría del Tribunal de Carolina, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 13 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LA(S) 1:15 DE LA TARDE, en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Carolina, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villa Carolina, situada en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número Treinta (30) de la Manzana Veintisiete (27), con un área de SEISCIENTOS VEINTINUEVE PUNTO OCHENTA Y NUEVE METROS CUADRADOS (629.89 m.c.). En lindes, por el NORTE, con el Solar Número Veintinueve (29), en una distancia de veinticuatro punto cuatrocientos cincuenta y cuatro metros (24.454 m.); por el SUR, con parque pasivo y área de juego, en una distancia de seis punto cero once metros (6.011 m.); por el ESTE, con el Solar Número Treinta y Uno (31), en una distancia de treinta y seis punto setecientos sesenta y cuatro metros (36.764 m.) y con la Calle Número Siete (7), en una distancia de diez punto ciento setenta y nueve metros (10.179 m.), con un arco; y por el OESTE, con el Solar Número Uno, Dos y Tres (1, 2 y 3), en una distancia de treinta punto trescientos veinticuatro metros (30.324 m.c.). Enclava una casa. Consta inscrito al folio 46 del tomo 386 de Carolina, Puerto Rico, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Segunda, finca 15,142. Dirección Física: #27-30 Street 7, Urb. Villa Carolina, Carolina, PR 00985. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales; Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados; Servidumbre a favor del Municipio de Carolina; Condiciones restrictivas de edificación y uso. Por sí: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de Centro Hipotecario de Puerto Rico, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma de $300,000.00, con interés al 8.95%, y vencedero el 1 de octubre de 2014, según consta de la escritura #697, otorgada el día 19 de octubre de 2004, ante el Notario Público Luis Fernando Castillo Cruz, inscrita al folio 136 del tomo 1351 de Carolina, inscripción 11va. ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA: Es objeto de esta anotación la Hipoteca que surge de la inscripción 11ª por la suma de $300,000.00, en
MARYS ALCÁNTARA FÉLIX, Secretario (a) Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO
IGLESIA DE DIOS PENTECOSTAL M.I.
Demandante V. EX PARTE
Demandado(a)
Civil Núm.: AR2021CV01848.
404. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: LAS DUEÑAS ANTERIORES LAURA
ACEVEDO, ELIZABETH
ESTELLA MATOS Y ALICIA ESTRELLA MATOS Y SUS SUCESORES; A TODO
AQUEL QUE TENGA
ALGÚN DERECHO REAL O INTERÉS SOBRE EL INMUEBLE OBJETO DEL PRESENTE EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO; A LAS
PERSONAS IGNORADAS A QUIENES PUEDA
PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN, A LOS ANTERIORES DUEÑOS Y SUS SUCESORES Y EN GENERAL A TODA
PERSONA QUE QUIERA OPONERSE.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de febrero de 2023. En ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, el 15 de febrero de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. EIMMY FELICIANO TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. CARLOS RAFAEL
FIGUEROA DESJARDINS, T/C/C CARLOS
FIGUEROA DESJARDINS; SU ESPOSA LISMARY SANTOS VALENTÍN, T/C/C LISAMARY SANTOS VALENTÍN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: DCD2015-2253. Sala: 503. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, 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 28 de febrero de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar número 22, Manzana F, Urbanización Campo Alegre Extensión, Barrio Cerro Gordo de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, compuesto de trescientos veinticinco metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle número 16, en trece metros; por el SUR, con McDonald de Puerto Rico en trece metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 23, en veinticinco metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número 21, en igual medida. Contiene una casa de concreto para una familia. Inscrito al folio 39 del tomo 619 de Bayamón Sur, finca número #28,702, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Bayamón. La propiedad según pagaré ubica en: F22 16 St. Campo Alegre, Bayamón, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada 2 de mayo de 2022 y notificada en este caso el 13 de mayo de 2022, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $110,739.19 por concepto de principal; $531.93 por concepto de intereses acumulados, $96.20 por concepto de cargos por demo-
ra los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito; y la suma $11,485.81 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 25 DE ABRIL DE 2023 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 $114,858.10. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 2 DE MAYO DE 2023 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 $76,572.06, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día
10 DE MAYO DE 2023 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 $57,429.05, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo
104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción
del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
EXPIDO, el presente EDIC-
TO, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de marzo de 2023.
EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS
SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Demandante Vs. MILAGROS IVETTE CARRION RODRIGUEZ Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00091.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A LA PARTE CODEMANDADA:
MILAGROS IVETTE CARRIÓN RODRÍGUEZ, A SU DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: M-6 BUZON 1306 CALLE AMARILYS URB. EL ENCANTO, JUNCOS, PR 00777.
Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Se-
cretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma $93,807.70 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de abril de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte co-demandada Milagros lvette Carrión Rodríguez adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $10,010.10. Además la parte co-demandada Milagros Ivette Carrión Rodríguez se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $10,010.10 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $10,010.10 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 282, otorgada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de junio de 2018, ante la notario Jesús A. Ledesma Amador, de la finca número 14,097, inscrita al Folio 41 del Tomo 374 de Juncos, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado ta es sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez e un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo.
Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 16 de marzo de 2023, en Caguas, Puerto Rico. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE. INC.
Demandante Vs. ALEXANDER RIVERA LOZADA, KIMBERLY BARREIRO ROSADO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS (DEUDORES HIPOTECARIOS); ARBOLEDA, S. E. (TITULAR REGISTRAL)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: HU2023CV00228. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte CoDemandada: ARBOLEDA, S.E. (TITULAR REGISTRAL) A SUS
ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES
CONOCIDAS: FÍSICA Y
POSTAL: J-160 CALLE 11, URB. ARBOLEDA
HUMACAO. PR 00791; (B) #3 KM 88.0 BARRIO CANDELARIO ABAJO
HUMACAO, PR. 00791. Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro ele Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en contra de la co-demandada la parte co-demandada Alexander Rivera Lozada, Kimberly Barreriro Rosado y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, adeuda a la parte demandante $112,590.90 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de agosto de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado
de 3.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte co-demandada Alexander Rivera Lozada, Kimberly Barreriro Rosado y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00’% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas. gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,757.50. Además la parte co-demandada Alexander Rivera Lozada, Kimberly Barreriro Rosado y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,757.50 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $11,757.50 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 105, otorgada en Humacao Puerto Rico el día 30 de junio de 2020, ante e l notario Heidy Aleyi Ortiz Rodríguez, consta presentada al Asiento 2010-043913-HU01 del Sistema Karibe y se segregará de la finca número 28.656, la cual costa inscrita al Folio 145 del Tomo 6 15 de Humacao, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento. y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el,Pagaré. el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ej arque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel
(787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001. Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndoles que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 17 de marzo de 2023, en Humacao, Puerto Rico. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEYLA PÉREZ FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN DE JUNCOS SALA DE CAGUAS WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST
2018-HB1
Demandante Vs. TEODORO PIÑERO CAY; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandados Civil Núm.: JU2021CV00301. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: TEODORO PIÑERO CAY; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. Yo, ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Juncos, 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 20 DE ABRIL DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Juncos, Juncos, 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 1 de febrero de 2023. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no
top-level pitchers. Several cited injury concerns or the physical toll of ramping up earlier than usual before a six-month regular season. Some interested players, including Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers, simply could not get the needed clearances to participate. (Players are required to be covered by insurance to participate.)
Some of the fears expressed by teams were confirmed, in part, when Edwin Díaz, star closer of the Mets, sustained a season-ending knee injury while celebrating one of Puerto Rico’s wins. Then, José Altuve, a star second baseman for the Houston Astros, sustained a broken thumb when he was hit by a pitch during Venezuela’s game against the United States on Saturday.
to spend time around rivals-turned-teammates or pick the brains of other standouts has been fruitful.
“Watching their routines and seeing how they go about their business, you understand why they are the best in this game, and I really enjoy that part,” Arenado said of being around Trout and Betts, who have four MVP awards and 16 All-Star appearances between them.
By JAMES WAGNERJeff McNeil, a star second baseman and outfielder for the New York Mets, is an exceptional hitter with a standout ability to make contact. He won the 2022 National League batting title with a .326 average over 148 games. His average over his five major league seasons is .307. Over the winter, the Mets rewarded McNeil, 30, with a four-year, $50 million contract extension.
Yet, before a season in which the Mets have outrageously high expectations, McNeil has barely been playing. As a member of the United States’ stacked World Baseball Classic roster — which includes other stars capable of handling his positions, such as Mookie Betts and Tim Anderson — McNeil has logged only 11 plate appearances during the two-week tournament. Only three U.S. players have had fewer.
“Obviously, you wish you were playing more,” McNeil said while standing in the dugout at loanDepot Park in Miami on Sunday, before the United States toppled Cuba, 14-2, to advance to Tuesday’s final against Japan, a 6-5 winner over Mexico on Monday in the other semfinal. But McNeil was not exactly complaining when he uttered those words.
“That’s just how good this team is,” he said, citing Anderson, a Chicago White Sox shortstop who shifted to second base for
the tournament. “We’re playing good baseball right now and we’re facing a lot of lefthanded starting pitching as well. T.A. has been doing great out there, so keep rooting for him. The overall experience has been fantastic.”
That, ultimately, is what has given McNeil perspective throughout the WBC. Sure, he might not be playing as much as he is used to or the Mets may want, but McNeil said he had still learned from his time in pressure-packed games in which he was surrounded by stars.
“All of these games — especially the Mexico game and Venezuela game — have been somewhat what I imagine the World Series would be like with the kind of atmosphere,” he said. “You see that and get used to playing in that, and I think it helps down the line.”
There is an underlying predicament in accepting an excused absence from your MLB club to participate in the WBC, especially for a country with a lot of stars: You get to represent your country, but you might lose playing time. For players from places such as the Dominican Republic, Japan, Puerto Rico or Venezuela — where the WBC matters a lot more than it does in the United States, and television ratings have sometimes broken records — that was often a no-brainer.
Although the United States attracted many star position players, it struggled with
Despite all of those factors, McNeil wanted to play. In fact, he sought out U.S. manager Mark DeRosa to express interest, and was asked to join when Boston Red Sox second baseman Trevor Story had elbow surgery in January. McNeil had to alter his usual preparation for the season, but he insisted he was happy.
“I’ll be fine,” he said, and then pointed to the 2022 preseason shortened by a labor stoppage. “We had three weeks of spring training last year, and I won a batting title. I don’t need that much time.” When he returned to the Mets, he said, he might go to the back fields at their spring training facility in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and get extra at-bats in simulated or minor league games.
Overall, McNeil, like many of his teammates who took part in the WBC, has found the tournament rewarding. Firsttime participants such as pitcher Adam Wainwright, outfielder Mike Trout and Betts have gushed about the event. Betts has looked reenergized, and Wainwright and Trout have said that this has been the most enjoyable baseball experience of their careers.
“I knew going in it was going to be a fun time, but I never knew it was going to be this fun,” Trout said last week. Betts added: “I encourage those who are watching, come join, come play for Team USA, because this is a lot of fun.”
Two players loved their 2017 WBC journeys so much that they signed up to come back: Paul Goldschmidt, the St. Louis Cardinals first baseman who was named the 2022 NL MVP, and his perennial AllStar teammate, third baseman Nolan Arenado. Players have also said that getting
But it’s not just the players. The United States coaching staff is full of former stars, including five-time World Series-winning pitcher Andy Pettitte and Hall of Fame outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. So, although McNeil had only 19 plate appearances over six spring training games with the Mets before he left for the WBC — and has had even fewer since — he said he valued working on his hitting with Griffey, who is serving as the team’s hitting coach.
McNeil said he had talked to Griffey about a few minor things in his swing and later felt “really good” during batting practice and in the batting cages. “We’ll see if they translate to a game,” he added.
Despite the potential downsides, perhaps more players will be willing to take the plunge and play for the United States in this quadrennial tournament going forward.
WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
TUESDAY’S FINAL (loanDepot Park, Miami) USA vs Japan (7 p.m. ET)
SEMIFINALS (loanDepot Park, Miami)
MONDAY Japan 6, Mexico 5
SUNDAY USA 14, Cuba 2
QUARTERFINALS
SATURDAY (loanDepot Park, Miami) USA 9, Venezuela 7
FRIDAY (loanDepot Park, Miami) Mexico 5, Puerto Rico 4
THURSDAY (Tokyo Dome) Japan 9, Italy 3
WEDNESDAY (Tokyo Dome) Cuba 4, Australia 3
The sun was setting in the desert, and dark clouds were gathering, but Carlos Alcaraz was walking jauntily down a hallway in Stadium 1 at the BNP Paribas Open.
He had finished before the storm and everything else on his way to the trophy in Indian Wells, California, securing the title without losing a set, not even against Daniil Medvedev, the hottest hand in tennis, in an unexpectedly lopsided final Sunday.
His 6-3, 6-2 victory — full of exquisitely disguised drop shots, lunging volley winners and other dazzle — did not only stop Medvedev’s 19-match winning streak in a hurry. It also earned Alcaraz a return to the No. 1 singles ranking Monday, displacing Novak Djokovic, the Serb who is not allowed to enter the United States because he remains unvaccinated for the coronavirus.
Djokovic, a five-time singles champion in Indian Wells, is the most successful men’s hard-court player in tour history. But his decision to forgo vaccination has caused him to miss a string of significant events, including last year’s U.S. Open, which Alcaraz, a Spaniard, won to ascend to the top spot in the rankings for the first time at age 19.
“Look, the truth is I’m a player, but I’m also a fan of tennis,” Alcaraz said in an interview Sunday. “And in the end, having the best players in each tournament and being able to compete with the best is always good. Nobody wants to see people missing tournaments, especially me. I wish Djokovic were in every event and I could play against him and share the locker room with him and learn from him up close.”
It is the tennis duel that many would most like to see, and it did not happen in January at the Australian Open, which Djokovic won for the 10th time. Alcaraz missed it because of a leg injury incurred after lunging for a shot in practice shortly before he was scheduled to leave Spain for Australia. He had already missed the end of the 2022 season because of a torn stomach muscle.
“That was rough: to miss Australia, a Grand Slam I really wanted to play and thought I would have my chances to win,” Alcaraz said. “But it made me learn from the things I wasn’t doing right. You can be on court for two or three hours a day, but it’s also about how you take care of yourself outside the court: to rest, eat well, take the right supplements.”
While the leading men have yet to all gather in the same spot this season, the leading women reunited in the desert and produced a repeat of the highvelocity Australian Open final between the 6-foot power players Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus and Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan by way of Moscow.
While Sabalenka won in a threeset classic in Melbourne, Rybakina prevailed Sunday, 7-6 (11), 6-4, saving two set points in a nervy opening set that had even the self-contained Rybakina struggling to keep a poker face.
Sabalenka’s stumbling block was a familiar one: double-faults. They spoiled much of her early 2022 season, but she worked her way through the problem with help from a biomechanist and served well under duress in Australia. On Sunday, she regressed, making 10 double-faults — all in the first set and three in the tiebreaker — and was clearly unsettled by it.
“There will be some days when old
habits will come back, and you just have to work through it,” she said of what she had learned from the defeat.
Rybakina, the reigning Wimbledon champion who is now No. 7 in the rankings, has beaten the No. 1, Iga Swiatek, twice this year, including overwhelming her in the semifinals Saturday.
For now, Alcaraz and Djokovic have played each other just once, with Alcaraz winning on clay in three tight sets on his way to the title in Madrid last May. It is hardly Alcaraz’s fault that they missed each other here in the desert even if it is, to some degree, his problem because he is back at No. 1 under unusual circumstances. Djokovic received no ranking points for winning Wimbledon last year after the tours stripped the venerable tournament of points because of its ban on Russian and Belarusian players, including Medvedev.
Monday also brought bad news for Spanish tennis with Rafael Nadal dropping out of the Top 10 for the first time since April 25, 2005, ending a record streak of nearly 18 years. It is hard to imagine Alcaraz or anyone else matching that kind of consistency, but Alcaraz is clearly an incandescent talent: an acrobat in sneakers capable of dominating and mesmerizing.
That is a rare combination remi-
niscent of Roger Federer, the 20-time Grand Slam champion and serial crowd pleaser whose photo was once in Alcaraz’s bedroom at his family’s home in Murcia, Spain. Like Federer, who retired last year at 41, Alcaraz is a fabulous and feline mover who likes variety and the element of surprise with his abrupt changes of pace and fast-twitch forays to the net.
“I think he’s a lot more like Roger than Rafa,” said Paul Annacone, a Tennis Channel analyst who coached Federer. “Because Rafa couldn’t take the ball early like this when he was 19, and Rafa couldn’t come forward like this. Roger could always stay on the baseline and always look like he had time, and that’s how this kid looks.”
Neither Federer nor Nadal (nor Djokovic) was No. 1 as a teenager. For Annacone, Alcaraz is “the most complete 19-year-old men’s player” in memory, with consistency and decision-making not typically seen in young players.
“The interesting thing for me is watching someone who is this athletically talented with his running, jumping, explosiveness and flexibility, but also has the hand-eye coordination to be able to take the ball early on the rise, come forward and volley,” Annacone said. “He also can back up and change pace. He can do everything.”
Medvedev certainly looked outmanned on this blustery Sunday: unusually erratic from the baseline and often late to react to Alcaraz’s tactical shifts and to his bold returns from inside the court.
Alcaraz served and volleyed effectively but also beat Medvedev at his own game — baseline tennis — with his powerful groundstrokes and deft touch (he hit three straight forehand drop shot winners late in the match).
Next stop in this sunshine swing on American hard courts: the Miami Open, which begins Friday and where Alcaraz will need to successfully defend his title to keep Djokovic, still in absentia, from reclaiming the No. 1 spot.
Their rematch will have to wait for the European clay-court season and hopefully no later than that.
who finished with 22 points, and Aaliyah Edwards, who scored 19.
UConn appeared to be in hot water in the third when Edwards had to sit with her fourth foul. Jaden Owens, dancing nimbly from one side of the paint to the other, tied the game for Baylor with five minutes left in the quarter, and the Bears kept things close for a time, with Ja’Mee Asberry finding openings and leading her team with 15 points.
But the Bears began to lose steam, and UConn’s confident core pounced to break away for a rout. The Huskies had built up their lead to 12 going into the fourth.
“If we could have ended the game at 25 minutes in, I think it was a really, really good battle,” Baylor coach Nicki Collen said. “Obviously they won the battle of the paint.”
Part of that was spurred by Aubrey Griffin, who sparked the Huskies with 12 rebounds in 19 minutes. UConn outscored Baylor 36-12 in the paint.
UConn coach Geno Auriemma said he worried during the first half that his team was in “big trouble” on defense. But by the second half, he added, “there was never a time I didn’t think we were going to win the game.”
The Huskies played before a sellout crowd at Harry A. Gampel Pavilion that included former UConn great Maya Moore and her husband, Jonathan Irons.
By OSKAR GARCÍAFor the first time since 1998, the Sweet 16 in the women’s NCAA Tournament will be played without two of its No. 1 seeds.
No. 9 seed Miami, after blitzing Indiana early then holding on for dear life during an onslaught led by Mackenzie Holmes, will instead head to the tournament’s second weekend for the first time since 1992, two years before the bracket-defining expansion that built up the tournament to 64 teams.
Miami’s Destiny Harden shook off a defender with an up-and-under move to gain enough space for a bucket inside with four seconds left for the 70-68 win on Monday at Bloomington Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. Her basket came moments after Indiana’s Yarden Garzon had tied the game with a step-back 3-pointer, her second tying 3 in the final minute.
A final, panicked attempt by the Hoosiers to avoid missing the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2019 ended with the ball being stripped near the top of the key. That sent the Hurricanes across the floor to hug each other in triumph, touching off a celebration that carried into the locker room and resonated throughout a sport in which home-court advantage has often been a major factor early in the tournament.
“It stings. It hurts. But it should if you’re competitors and it means anything to you,” Indiana coach Teri Moren said. She added: “Like I told them, if they didn’t have tears and they weren’t emotional, then I would wonder what all the hard work was for.”
Indiana, slated behind only reigning champion South Carolina when the 68-team field for the tournament was revealed, tied the game at 60 with three minutes left after
building up most of its comeback in the third quarter. That was when Holmes, the leading scorer this season for the Hoosiers, took over with a series of driving layups and tough shots that reversed a frustrating first half in which she scored only 4 points.
Indiana fell into its deep hole almost purely because of its poor shooting, with Holmes missing seven of her first nine shots. Miami started hot and led 41-29 at halftime.
“We came into this game saying that we were down 30,” Harden told ESPN after the game, adding: “We came into this game knowing that we had to play defense to win.”
After facing Holmes, Miami will have another big shooter to defend in its Sweet 16 matchup Friday, with Villanova boasting Maddy Siegrist, the top scorer in Division I.
Indiana was stunned on its home floor one night after Stanford lost in similar fashion 54-49 to Mississippi, giving the tournament a highly unusual pair of No. 1s ousted during the first weekend.
Before this season, the last time a No. 1 seed missed the Sweet 16 in the women’s tournament was in 2009, when Duke lost to Michigan State in the second round. It also happened in 2006, when Ohio State lost to Boston College, and 1998, when Texas Tech lost in the second round and Stanford lost in the first, to No. 16-seeded Harvard.
UConn erased an early deficit to advance again.
In a physical game that repeatedly sent players scrambling to the floor for the ball, Connecticut beat Baylor 7758 to move on to the Sweet 16, its 30th such appearance in program history.
UConn quickly erased a 6-point first-quarter deficit as Nika Mühl regularly drove the floor to set up Azzi Fudd,
UConn’s fans had plenty to celebrate — the team made its latest Sweet 16 in a long string of them. The Huskies haven’t missed this stage of the tournament since 1993, two years before the team won its first national championship under Auriemma.
With UConn’s men’s also in its Sweet 16, both teams advanced to their regionals together for the first time since 2014. The men will play Arkansas on Thursday, and the women will play Ohio State on Saturday.
— REMY TUMINNo. 6 seed Colorado overcame Duke in overtime.
It took an extra five minutes, but No. 6 seed Colorado became the latest underdog to advance to the Sweet 16, with a 61-53 overtime win against No. 3 seed Duke.
Duke scored the first point of overtime on a free throw by Shayeann Day-Wilson, but Colorado scored the next 7, including two layups from Aaronette Vonleh, and held the Blue Devils to just two more free throws to end the game.
The Buffaloes had raced to a 10-point lead after the first quarter before Duke clawed back on its home court. But neither team could pull away in the fourth, shooting a combined 8 for 24, and the game went to overtime tied at 50.
Each team had a chance to end the game in regulation. When Colorado’s Jaylyn Sherrod hit the game-tying layup with 34 seconds left, she was fouled but couldn’t convert the free throw. Duke’s Day-Wilson then missed a 3-pointer with five seconds left.
“We’ve worked so hard to get here, put Colorado back on the map,” Sherrod said on ESPN after the game. As she reflected on her decision to go to Colorado — her only offer from a Power 5 conference, she said — her teammates leaped toward her and shouted her name to playfully disrupt her interview.
— SARA ZIEGLERFill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Answers on page 38
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
Ready to initiate a new phase, Aries? With a New Moon in your sign, the coming days are excellent for kickstarting projects, embracing new and helpful habits and taking on challenges. If you’ve been planning on making a big change for a while, the lingering tie to Pluto can give you the extra push you need. Something may click into place, and you’ll be ready to let go of the past.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Powerful insights could encourage you to turn over a new leaf. A potent influence in a subtle sector of your chart can coincide with a breakthrough, enabling you to find closure on a key issue. And making a start now could leave you more at peace. In addition, you may be very persuasive Taurus, making this an excellent time to garner support for a personal project.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
An upbeat encounter could coincide with an offer or provide you with an opportunity. And with a New Moon on the cards, the coming days can see you taking advantage of this phase to instigate new activities. Someone you connect with at this time, may help you to see possibilities you might never have noticed. Being around them could be a game changer.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Over the days ahead, opportunities can come your way from more than once source. Friends and loved ones may be in a generous mood, and keen for you to take advantage of something they sense might be good for you. There could also be doors opening regarding personal ambitions or career plans, with the potential for an unexpected offer that will ring in positive changes.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Get ready Leo, as a blend of influences can gift you with promising options. Today though, with a lively New Moon on the go, you could get excited about an offer. You may spot an opportunity or be alerted by someone in the know. Either way, following through might find you very excited by the openings ahead of you. Going on vacation? Things can get very passionate.
Today’s potent lunar phase in an intense zone, could inspire you to turn over a new leaf in a relationship, and healing past hurts can be the key. And you might be enthused by a discussion that enhances a good friendship or working partnership. Ready to increase your income? Investing in something that will increase in value may see you making positive gains over time, Virgo.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
Expect the unexpected but welcome it too, as events over coming days could kick off a friendship or a budding romance, or perhaps encourage you to take an association to another level. With a New Moon in your sector of relating, an encounter might prove enchanting. And if you nurture this relationship, it can support you in so many ways. You’ll be right at home with them, Libra.
If productivity has been an issue, the lunation in your lifestyle sector could be a call to do something. You may be more motivated to get to the root of the problem, and find a way to resolve it. Plus, it’s an excellent time to set up positive habits that enhance wellbeing, Scorpio. Talks and discussions can yield positive results, with good news on the horizon.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
This looks to be an action-packed time, when a suggestion or bright idea could inspire you to find a new interest. If you do, it might be the start of a hobby that leads you in a fresh and exciting direction. On a worldly level, you may be drawn to a scheme that brings in extra cash or perhaps a contract or job that offers something quite substantial. Trust your instincts, Archer!
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
Today’s New Moon could coincide with a decision, that might see you striking out in a new direction, especially regarding domestic matters. Whatever you’ve been considering may be disregarded to make way for something quite refreshing. Thinking about taking friends or family for a break, Capricorn? You can be surprised at the good things that emerge from this.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
News or information could act as a catalyst that inspires a new beginning, or encourages you to get moving on an idea or plan. A potent lunar phase in your sector of communication, may see you ready to share your message with the world or to liaise with another to work on an idea. Deeper stirrings can also inspire you to consider what you really want on a very soulful level.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
You may be tempted by something that could be a positive addition to your life. If it gives you scope to do more of the things you love, then acquiring it might even be something of a breakthrough. In addition, with a New Moon on the scene, this is the time to set financial goals for the coming months. Don’t make them too big, just enough to see a positive difference.
