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The Financial Oversight and Management Board has issued a notice of violation with noncompliance points on the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company’s (PRIDCO) 2023 fiscal plan, according to a letter.
The oversight board gave PRIDCO until May 12 to submit a revised fiscal plan, the April 28 letter said. Robert F. Mujica, the board’s executive director, told Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia that after reviewing the submission, the oversight board has determined certain revisions to the proposed plan are required to meet the certification requirements of Section 201 of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA. The notice of violation contains details on the proposed plan’s primary points of noncompliance, recommendations for revisions, and requests for additional supporting information.
Plan set aside $15 million in demolition reserve to address 23 of those demolition projects. Accordingly, the proposed plan must provide a detailed plan to execute the 16 demolition projects for the structurally unsafe properties but not targeted for divestment. For the 17 properties marked for divestment in the Divestment Study, the entity must provide a schedule of estimated proceeds from divestments.
The oversight board also sought explanations as to why the proposal changes the total sale forecast for fiscal year 2023-24 from $9 million as required in the 2022 fiscal plan to $6.5 million.
Historically, PRIDCO’s delinquency rate has averaged 7.6%. The 2022 fiscal plan included a measure to reduce the delinquency rate to 5.0%.
The lower rate was phased in by 0.5% each year until achieving the 5.0% target.
For instance, the letter asks PRIDCO to incorporate the findings from both the Expanded CapEx Study and the Divestment Study, which highlight critical repairs and improvements to PRIDCO’s portfolio of buildings and potential divestment of PRIDCO’s non-rentable properties.
Additionally, PRIDCO and the oversight board identified 33 properties within PRIDCO’s portfolio deemed structurally unsafe to enter. The 2022 PRIDCO Fiscal
“Please align FY22 and FY26 delinquency rates presented in the Proposed Plan document with the data presented in the Proposed Plan model. The documents do not align,” the letter notes.
The proposed plan also increases the cost of early retirement programs under Act 70-2011 and Act 2112015 even though those programs are closed and retirees are transferring to the PayGo pension benefit plan, the oversight board said.
Completing the 2023 fiscal plan is critical for PRIDCO’s long-term planning and sustainability, the letter notes.
The supply of available corpses for medical students is low, according to information provided Monday at a hearing of the House Community Impact Committee, chaired by Rep. Lydia Méndez Silva.
The committee is holding hearings on the donation of human bodies to universities in Puerto Rico as part of the process of training health professionals.
Darah Fontánez, associate dean of medical sciences at Ponce Health Science University (PHSU), advocated for identifying the necessary resources to continue promoting the cadaver donation process.
“Corpses are key to deepening the study of the human body and advancing science, taking into account the anatomical variations that make medicine or the medical approach increasingly important,” the professor and anatomist said.
Fontánez noted that the institution annually receives complete bodies and organs, such as brains, that enable education and contribute to the academic training of doctors, nurses, psychologists and dentists.
In turn, resident doctors from nearby hospitals use corpses at the PHSU facilities to train in new surgical procedures
that, the dean said, improve the quality of health services provided to patients on the island.
“The dissection exercise allows us to appreciate the normal variations or anomalies in a corpse. In this way, we improve the surgical process in living patients,” Fontánez said. “With dissection, we study the effect of aging since chronic diseases leave a mark that improves the understanding of anatomy for those who study it.”
Fontánez said the donation process begins when a living human being decides to make a commitment to the
training of future health professionals. PHSU collaborates in this process by receiving people interested in completing the necessary documentation and facilitating communication with the Anatomical Donations Board.
After contributing to the education of health professionals, the studied body is returned to the donations board, which then proceeds to fulfill the donor’s desire for final disposition. Finally, at the end of the academic year, School of Medicine students, faculty and other guests pay tribute to the donors through an appreciation ceremony.
In the activity, Fontánez said, the students share a song, a poem or some expression that allows them to thank the donor for the “altruistic act,” and they can reflect on the learning experience with their “first patient.”
“The importance of the hearings [in the House of Representatives] is that people don’t know what happens after the body leaves the universities,” Rep. Lisie Burgos Muñiz said. “It is important that people know that there are already some instructions that the donor gave, and then they go through that process. Yes, dignity is given until the last moment.”
Fontánez pointed out during her presentation that, at the moment, the
donations board has limited personnel to continue with the “titanic effort” of preparing the donations of corpses that they receive at PHSU.
In response to questions from Burgos Muñiz, the dean noted that the institution receives between eight and 10 corpses a year for use in the PHSU facilities. However, the ideal number would be to receive 12 corpses due to the number of students enrolled in the Medical Education Program.
“The Board needs more resources. They definitely need resources that can help them not only continue their work, but also educate,” Fontánez emphasized. “Educate and explain why we use cadavers in the teaching process of the students.”
“Through the institutions I believe that we can help, but we can also help from an angle,” she added. “Of course, we cannot do much more, since our job is to educate. And we educate our students and in certain activities give to the community, but we need to increase that effort.”
Méndez Silva announced at the end of the public hearing that she will soon be conducting a visual visit at PHSU as part of the investigation conducted through House Resolution 874.
At-large Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera is continuing to promote the creation of a Special Committee on Initiatives to Mitigate Demographic Decline in Puerto Rico with a series of meetings with professors at the University of Puerto Rico, among other entities, who are experts on demographic issues.
“Last April we proposed the creation in the Senate of a Special Committee on Initiatives to Mitigate the Demographic Decline in Puerto Rico, given the great demographic challenges we are facing as a society, including the lowest birth rate in the world (0.90 per 1,000) and the decrease in the population of the island of 0.6 percent in recent years,” Riquelme Cabrera said in a written statement. “There is a real problem, and from the Senate we must act on it proactively.”
The senator said the new special committee will address measures and initiatives directly related to demographic
issues and will have the power to develop concrete and viable proposals to address the problem.
“The Legislative Assembly has created special committees before to address specific issues and then, due to their nature, they become permanent joint committees between the Senate and the House of Representatives, as is the case with the Joint Committee for the Revision and Reform of the Civil Code of Puerto Rico, among many others,” Riquelme Cabrera said. “This committee that we have proposed has a function that exceeds the four-year period, which is why it must be evaluated to make it permanent. Part of our effort to get approval for the committee will be meeting with experts on the demographic issue, because this issue is vital for the future of Puerto Rico.”
On April 19, Riquelme Cabrera filed Senate Resolution 772, which creates the Special Committee of the Senate of Puerto Rico on Initiatives to Mitigate Demographic Decline in Puerto Rico. The bill is currently before the Senate Internal Affairs Committee.
Hundreds of demonstrators representing unions and political groups gathered a block away from the offices of the Financial Oversight and Management Board on Muñoz Rivera Avenue in Hato Rey on Monday as part of International Workers’ Day Protests.
The only incident reported was when, early in the demonstration, three union leaders were arrested for trying to access Ponce de Léon Avenue, where the oversight board office is located, and in doing so crossed the blockade separating protesters from police. The three were processed and released later in the day (see story below).
While most of the demonstrators represented unions or other labor organizations, a small group from the Puerto Rican Communist Party held sway over one end of the blocklong demonstration with a large speaker truck belting out leftist chants below a large red flag bearing the hammer and sickle of the defunct Soviet Union.
“We are here to protest the exploitation suffered by the international working class and the oppression workers are subjected to,” Communist Party spokesman Gilberto Amigo said.
Amigo said he was expecting more people to turn out to the Communist Party rally.
“But it’s not the quantity, it’s the quality that matters,” he said of the red-flag-waving turnout.
At the other end of the block, an equally large speaker truck blared out speeches from labor organizations protesting wage and pension cuts under the oversight board-approved fiscal plan.
“We are out to defend our pensions and call for a new pension system, a trust for all the retirees of Puerto Rico with the purpose of giving everyone a dignified retirement,” said Otilio Rosado, 77, who worked as a teacher for 36 years and retired 16 years ago.
Theodore Muñoz, 75, a Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) retiree said he was protesting the possibility that the PREPA pension fund will become insolvent this month.
“We are going to be without pensions this month while they sit on $900 million,” Muñoz said.
Reynaldo Santos, 68, a retired PREPA worker who said he worked for the authority for 30 years, said the plan to cut pensions violates the workers’ rights.
“They say that starting this month there will be no more money,” he said. “I worked for PREPA for 30 years, putting money into the pension fund every month, and now they say there is no money. It’s not fair.
Dalila Luyanda, a spokeswoman for the Rehabilitation Counselors Professional Association, said she was protesting a plan to implement wages of $2,020 per month on the
counselors.
“In our organization, we have professionals with master’s degrees and members of the Association,” she said. “Their plan is incoherent; we want to be paid on scale 12 of $4,000.”
Also among the May Day demonstrators was Horatio Cordero, 86, who said he worked for the Treasury Department for 21 years.
“I’m here to protest against LUMA,” said Cordero, referring to the often maligned private operator of PREPA’s electricity transmission and distribution system.
Demonstrators at a separate rally at the Minillas Government Center in Santurce at one point marched to the Minillas tunnel, blocking and backing up traffic on Baldorioty de Castro Avenue for about a half an hour.
Union leaders Joselyn Velázquez Rodríguez, Eva Ayala and Josué Mitjá González were placed under arrest Monday during May Day protests in San Juan’s financial district after crossing a perimeter set up by police and blocking passage to Ponce de León Avenue.
Protesters and police officers clashed on Juan Ponce de León Avenue at the intersection with Roosevelt Avenue in Hato Rey. Police officers positioned themselves at the intersection, preventing the passage of protesters who wanted to reach the Seaborne building on Luis Muñoz Rivera Avenue, which is where the office
of the Financial Oversight and Management Board is located.
Mitjá González is president of the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union (UTIER by its Spanish acronym), Velázquez Rodríguez is the general coordinator of Jornada: Se Acabaron Las Promesas, and Ayala is the president of Educamos.
Police officers warned the protesters that they could not pass in front of the Liberty building on the Golden Mile, a route for which the protesters claimed the right of way as they had used it in the past for marches to the Seaborne Building.
The detainees were taken to the Hato Rey Oeste police station, where they were processed and later released.
On the occasion of International Workers’ Day, various organizations marched from the Department of Labor and Human Resources in Hato Rey in the direction of the oversight board’s offices on the Golden Mile.
Francisco Santiago, a legal representative of Mitja González, reportedly said the Puerto Rico Police Bureau had not informed him regarding where the detainees were located during the demonstration, despite information indicating that they were at the Hato Rey Oeste barracks.
Santiago insisted that police were violating the rights of both the UTIER president and the other detainees by denying them access to the legal representation to which they are entitled.
The protesters left the intersection where the arrests took place to take another street in the direction of the Seaborne building. An individual in a green van made a close approach
to the barricades placed by police, but eventually backed down. In addition to the aforementioned, other organization participating in the protests included the Puerto Rico Teachers Association and Puerto Rico Teachers Federation, Puerto Rican Association of University Professors, General Workers Union, Brotherhood of Non-Teaching Exempt Employees, Puerto Rican Workers’ Syndicate, UNETE and Colectiva Feminista en Construcción.
Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández announced Monday that Judge William Machado Aldarondo of the Mayagüez Superior Court sentenced Daniel Ortiz Torres to serve five years in prison, in addition to the payment of $3,300 in fines, after he pleaded guilty to having run over, in a state of drunkenness, Laura Pérez Hernández and Giovanna López Albino on Sept. 27, 2020 at Guanajibo Homes in Mayagüez.
Pérez Hernández lost her left leg in the accident.
The defendant’s defense tried unsuccessfully to challenge the pre-sentencing report so that the conviction would be limited to a home restriction. The Justice secretary’s office, represented by prosecutors José Arocho Soto and André P. Lartigaut Rivera, objected and argued that due to Ortiz Torres’ criminal record, he represents a danger to himself and to society. The court declared that the defense’s request was inadmissible.
“The worst thing about making mistakes is not learning from them,” Arocho Soto said. “Negligent conduct that has no consequences is bound to be repeated. This is the fourth conviction of Daniel Ortiz Torres for driving under the influence of intoxicating beverages. He had previously been fined and offered therapy. He has been
given enough opportunities. The accused poses a risk to himself and to society. That is why we ask the court for the maximum penalty; the consequence has to be jail.”
The defendant was also sentenced concurrently to serve three years in prison for the crime of driving under the influence of alcohol, three years for a less serious offense for causing bodily harm to Lisette Hernández Pecunia, mother of victim Laura Pérez Hernández, three years for negligent driving and $1,100 in fines.
In addition, his driver’s license was canceled for the next five years and he was fined $200 for the misdemeanor of driving a motor vehicle without proper authorization (Art. 3.23).
“Justice was finally done for Laura Pérez and Giovanna López,” Emanuelli Hernández said. “We hope that they will also have peace and can heal the pain they have suffered from the negligent and criminal conduct of a person who did not consider the consequences of drunk driving and today will have to pay locked up in prison for his recidivist behavior. We hope this case will serve as a deterrent to other lawbreakers. Our solidarity for both victims and their families.”
The Mayagüez Prosecutor’s Office, led by District Attorney Blanca Portela Martínez, also requested a restitution sentence in favor of the victims. However, the court granted an evidentiary hearing,
scheduled for May 24 at 2 p.m., in which the damages suffered by both victims will
Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón joined U.S. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), along with Reps. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Terri Sewell (D-Ala.), Susan Wild (D-Pa.), and Brian Fitzpatrick (RPa.), to introduce H.R. 2480, the Postpartum Outcomes Optimization Act.
The legislation seeks to improve maternal health after childbirth by directing the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue guidance on pelvic health physical therapy (PHPT) coverage for postpartum mothers under the Medicaid program as laid out in Title XIX of the Social Security Act.
Quality postpartum care for mothers is vital to their long-term health and well being, but many women suffer from pelvic floor dysfunction and diastasis recti, conditions that can be very painful.
The condition is treatable with pelvic health physical therapy; however, many women are unaware of the ther-
apy available to them. When working with a pelvic health physical therapist, women receive a treatment plan to improve muscle control and mobility, aid in tissue repair, and recovery from C-sections.
“As a husband, father and grandfather, I recognize the importance of supporting women in postpartum,” Bacon said. “Our care for women should extend to postpartum recovery, to ensure they live without pain or discomfort, especially when available therapy is highly effective.”
HR 2480 would be a step toward making quality postpartum care available to all women. With some 3 million births in the United States each year, there are 3 million women who could benefit from pelvic health physical therapy in their recovery.
“H.R. 2480, the Postpartum Outcomes Optimization Act, co-led by my colleague Rep. Bacon, would expand health care services for postpartum women by improving awareness campaigns, treatment, and postpartum care options,” González Colón said. “Specifically, the bill promotes pelvic health and physical therapy for women
after childbirth; this represents a great step to facilitate the recovery period and prevent other postpartum-related complications for women.”
The bill has the support of health professionals and physical therapists, including the American Physical Therapy Association, and the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs.
In its second year since the pandemic, the dinner has mushroomed into an even more splashy spectacle. Like the wedding of a wealthy family, it has now replicated into multiple events spread over five days, with the first pre-dinner parties and receptions starting Wednesday night and the last post-dinner brunches scheduled for Sunday.
The Wall Street Journal’s new editor-inchief, Emma Tucker, mingled at a pre-dinner reception Saturday hosted by the paper’s publisher, Almar Latour. Attendees wore #freeEvan stickers, referring to Evan Gershkovich, its reporter imprisoned in Russia and accused of espionage, which the Journal and the U.S. government have denied.
their reports “fake news.” But Biden gingerly acknowledged his own reluctance to engage with the reporters who cover him other than in passing. He has given fewer news conferences per year than all but two presidents since Calvin Coolidge and fewer interviews than any modern president. Alluding to this, Biden said his dinner speech would be like his press interactions: “I’ll talk for 10 minutes, take no questions and cheerfully walk away.”
By PETER BAKER and KATIE ROBERTSONWhatever news gods decided that cable television stars Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon should be fired the same week that President Joe Biden was scheduled to give a funny speech ribbing the news media certainly were generous in providing fresh material. And Biden took advantage on Saturday night as he gleefully mocked some of his favorite foils.
In his annual appearance at the blacktie White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the one night a year that a president is expected to play a stand-up comic, Biden made the most of the opportunity with some timely skewering of those who usually skewer him — most notably Fox News, which fired Carlson on Monday just days after settling a defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million.
“Last year, your favorite Fox News reporters were able to attend” the dinner “because they were fully vaccinated and boosted,” Biden said, in a nod to his coronavirus response strategy. “This year, with that $787 million settlement, they’re here because they couldn’t say no to a free meal.”
“And hell, I’d call Fox honest, fair and truthful,” he told the crowd gathered in a cavernous ballroom in Washington as well as a national television audience watching at home. “But then I could be sued for defamation.” When some groaned, he quipped,
“It
nothing compared to what they do to me.”
Biden also went after CNN. Just five days after the financially struggling network fired Lemon following comments that a woman in her 50s is past her prime, the president ribbed, “CNN was like, ‘Wow! They actually have $787 million? Whoa!’”
At another point, Biden managed to jab both Fox and CNN while deflecting questions about his age as he seeks reelection. “You might think I don’t like Rupert Murdoch,” the 80-year-old president said of the 92-year-old Fox impresario. “That’s simply not true. How can I dislike a guy who makes me look like Harry Styles?
“You call me old?” Biden went on. “I call it being seasoned. You say I’m ancient? I say I’m wise. You say I’m over the hill? Don Lemon would say that’s a man in his prime.”
He said age was a legitimate issue. “It’s on everybody’s mind,” he said. “And by everyone, I mean The New York Times. Headline: ‘Biden’s Advanced Age a Big Issue; Trump’s, However, Is Not.’”
The dinner came at the end of a chaotic week for the media as the chattering classes descended on Washington for their annual ritual of schmoozing, drinking and gossiping. The industry is reeling from a steady drumbeat of layoffs and closures, but it was the firings of the two high-profile, millionaire cable personalities that had everybody talking.
Biden opened his act with comments about Gershkovich and other Americans held overseas. “Everyone in this hall stands with you,” the president said, addressing Gershkovich’s family, who was in attendance. “We’re working every day to secure his release, looking at opportunities and tools to bring him home. We keep the faith.”
He also mentioned Austin Tice, a journalist held in Syria for nearly 11 years, and Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine serving a 16-year prison sentence in Russia on what the United States says are fabricated charges of espionage. Biden pointed in the audience to Brittney Griner, the WNBA star freed in a prisoner swap in December after being detained for nearly 10 months in Russia. “Boy, I can hardly wait to see you back on the court, kid,” he said.
Biden’s supportive comments about a free press contrasted sharply with those by former President Donald Trump, who constantly called reporters “enemies of the people” and
He made a few passes at Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, his would-be Republican challengers. Biden joked that he had created 12 million jobs “and that’s just the lawyers” defending Trump. As for DeSantis, the president said, “After his reelection as governor, he was asked if he had a mandate. He said, ‘Hell no, I’m straight.’”
Biden went after congressional Republicans as well. Telling dinner attendees to be safe, he said, “If you find yourself disoriented or confused, it’s either you’re drunk or Marjorie Taylor Greene.” Noting that his approval rating stands at 42%, he said, “Kevin McCarthy called me and asked me, ‘Joe, what the hell’s your secret?’”
Biden ended on a serious note, discussing the case of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black boy whose brutal murder in Mississippi in 1955 galvanized the civil rights movement. Biden, who hosted a showing of “Till,” a feature film about the case, at the White House, finished with a plea to fight for democracy.
“We know in our bones and you know it, too, our democracy remains at risk,” he said. “But I’ve also made it clear, as I’ve seen throughout my life, it is within our power, each and every one of us, to preserve our democracy. We can, we must, we will.”
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In a speech to the Air War College in 2008, Robert Gates, then the secretary of defense, said the number of unmanned aircraft in service with the U.S. military had increased to more than 5,000.
Stations for the network were soon established at Air National Guard bases in Indiana and at Otis, where Teixeira’s stepfather made the transition from the 102nd Fighter Wing to a post at the newly christened 102nd Intelligence Wing.
Today, there are 27 DCGS stations in the United States and two foreign countries, according to Air Force documents. But the original five are the busiest, operating nonstop yearround, the retired officers said. Each of those sites is supported by a corresponding Air National Guard unit.
The unit in Germany is currently in great demand because it serves the U.S. European Command, and, by extension, America’s support of Ukraine in its war with Russia. The Ramstein station is backed up by the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Joint Base Cape Cod, the officers said, which is supported by the 102nd Intelligence Support Squadron, where Teixeira is stationed.
By 2019, when Teixeira joined the Air National Guard, the U.S. military was operating more than 11,000 drones, according to the Pentagon.
By JOHN ISMAYOn an Air National Guard base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, more than 1,200 military service members and civilians maintain one of the largest support systems for Pentagon drone missions around the world.
One of the workers was Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old accused of posting top-secret military reports online.
Why such a young, junior-ranking service member on Cape Cod had access to sensitive intelligence, including battlefield updates on the war in Ukraine, has to do with the vast expansion in military drone operations in the post-9/11 wars that was made possible by better satellite communication networks. It is also the result of a drastic reorganization in the Air National Guard that left small, far-flung air bases in need of new responsibilities. The one on Cape Cod and many others became intelligence outfits.
His arrest and subsequent Justice Department disclosures shined a light on a little-known Air Force mission that began in the 1990s and grew rapidly, eventually spreading to the base on Cape Cod. Called the Distributed Common Ground System, it is a vast computer network that handles the immense amounts of data generated by surveillance drones, spy satellites and other sensors — information that intelligence analysts pore through and pass along to troops on the ground.
Usually referred to as DCGS, it carries top-secret information, and working on it requires an equivalent security clearance.
The system is now a worldwide network, but accord-
ing to the Air Force, it started small at just three Air Force bases — Langley in Virginia, Beale in California and Osan in South Korea — and expanded in the early 2000s as the U.S. military placed more communication satellites in space and demand for airborne surveillance surged.
In 2001, according to Pentagon leadership, the U.S. military had about 200 drones in service. In the years that followed, commanders in Afghanistan and later in Iraq wanted more of them. Many more.
The network soon expanded to two more bases: Ramstein, in Germany, in early 2003 and Hickam, in Honolulu, in late 2004, Air Force documents say.
According to two retired Air Force intelligence officers with direct experience in the system, a key decision by Congress at that time freed up a large labor pool to serve at new sites.
In 2005, the Pentagon’s Base Realignment and Closure commission made recommendations that affected most of the Air National Guard’s aviation units, with 14 of them losing their flying mission, the Government Accountability Office reported. The move left thousands of air guardsmen without jobs, the officers said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of their continuing work for companies that do business with the federal government.
One of those units was the 102nd Fighter Wing at a base called Otis on Cape Cod.
Men and women from that Air National Guard wing and other former flying units began training to work on the DCGS, learning to run its computers and analyze intelligence from spy planes and the ever-increasing numbers of drones flying in combat missions overseas, the retired officers said.
In 2021, his top-secret clearance was approved, Justice Department charging documents said, allowing him entry into the facility, which has an operations floor filled with computer terminals and flat-screen televisions showing live video feeds from classified drone missions. Some sites have operations facilities many thousands of square feet in size, the officers said. Cellphones are not allowed inside.
Small teams of airmen at the units typically talk to pilots flying high-altitude U-2 spy planes and RQ-4 Global Hawks as well as MQ-9 Reapers and MQ-1 Predators over combat zones.
Airmen like Teixeira typically fix hardware and software problems and conduct routine maintenance for hours at a time in what is essentially an IT support shop while others collect intelligence that they can transmit to ground forces around the world, the officers said.
According to his messages on Discord, Teixeira alternated between working eight-hour shifts five days a week and 12-hour shifts for three or four days at a time followed by three or four days off.
How the intelligence reports were allegedly removed from secure spaces remains unclear.
President Joe Biden has instructed officials to get to the root of why Teixeira “had access in the first place,” and Pentagon leaders are reviewing how intelligence is shared and who will have access to certain reports in the future.
The Air Force announced April 18 that it had temporarily shut down the 102nd Intelligence Wing’s missions, which have been transferred to “other organizations” in the service.
In the most recent fallout, two of Teixeira’s superiors at the wing have been suspended pending the completion of an internal investigation by the Air Force inspector general, the service said.
Their access to classified information has been temporarily blocked, a spokesperson added.
As a man who lost his wife and son in a shooting rampage in Texas wept so loudly that his sobs were audible over a choir singing “Amazing Grace” at a vigil Sunday evening, the suspect remained at large.
The suspect, Francisco Oropesa, who is accused of killing five people, had been shooting his gun in his yard in Cleveland on Friday evening when his neighbor Wilson Garcia approached him and asked him to stop so that his baby could sleep.
Instead, authorities said, Oropesa, 38, retrieved an AR-15 rifle from his house and walked over to Garcia’s home, where he killed his 8-year-old son, wife and three other people.
“I have no words to describe what happened,” Garcia said in Spanish at the vigil, where dozens of people surrounded him and the other survivors of the shooting, joining them in prayer. “We are alive but there is no life,” he said. “I was able to escape by a miracle.”
Earlier on Sunday, law enforcement officials conceded that they did not know the suspect’s whereabouts, adding that they considered him to be a threat.
“We do not know where he is,” James Smith, the special agent in charge of the FBI in the Houston area, told reporters at a news conference. “We do not have any tips right now as to where he may be. Right now, we have zero leads.”
Authorities said that more than 200 officers, including state troopers, were looking for Oropesa. They have offered an $80,000 reward for information leading to his capture.
Sheriff Greg Capers of San Jacinto County said that there were 10 people inside the house at the time of the shooting. He said that Oropesa had been drinking when Garcia asked him to stop firing his gun. Capers said that Oropesa responded, “I’ll do what I want to in my front yard.”
Capers said authorities believed that they had recovered the AR-15 used in the shooting, but that Oropesa could still be carrying another weapon. Authorities said they had found additional guns in his home as well as a phone.
The FBI identified those killed as Garcia’s wife, Sonia Guzman, 25; Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Juliza Molina Rivera, 31; Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18; and Daniel Enrique Laso, 8.
Two of the women were killed while protecting Garcia’s baby and 2-year-old daughter by embracing them and covering them with clothing, Garcia said at the vigil.
He said that when Oropesa refused to stop shooting in his yard, he warned him that he would call the police, and did so five times. The police, he added, said that they were far from the neighborhood, but that they were on their way.
Around 10 to 20 minutes after speaking with Oropesa, he began shooting, Garcia said. After one woman saw Garcia’s wife being shot, she urged Garcia to jump out a window, he added, “because my kids were without a mom already and needed at least one parent.”
Authorities said that three people were taken to hospitals after the shooting. The victims were all from Honduras, officials said. Gov. Greg Abbott’s office said that Oropesa and Garcia and his family were all in the United States illegally.
“My heart is with this 8-year-old little boy,” Capers said Sunday. “I don’t care if he was here legally. I don’t care if he was here illegally. He was in my county.”
Authorities had initially identified the suspect as Francisco Oropeza, but Sunday afternoon the FBI said that going forward his surname would be spelled as Oropesa “to better reflect his identity in law enforcement systems.”
An “incorrect” image of Oropesa had been “mistakenly disseminated,” the agency said on Twitter on Sunday. The FBI said it had since removed the image from its social media accounts and asked that others not share it.
According to authorities, Oropesa had a history of shooting his rifle in his front yard, leading neighbors to call law enforcement on other occasions. They said that
a smart-home doorbell equipped with a camera had captured him approaching the neighbors’ front door with his weapon Friday, and that they had interviewed his wife.
Court records show that Oropesa had been charged with misdemeanor drunken driving in Texas in 2009 and convicted. The sentence in that case was not immediately available.
In response to questions about whether Oropesa could legally fire his gun in his yard, Capers said it depended on the size of the property and where the weapon was pointed.
Rene Arevalo, who lives in the neighborhood where the shooting took place, said that people in the community would often shoot for sport, and that it was not unusual to hear gunshots, but that he had never witnessed any arguments involving weapons.
Arevalo, who lives with his wife and 21-year-old son, said that he had considered building a fence around his home. Now, he added, it was a necessity. “It’s just concerning,” Arevalo said, “not knowing who your neighbor is.”
while the S&P 500 was poised for a flat open.
“First Republic was known to be the main item of remaining unfinished business from the bank stress in March,” said Krishna Guha, head of the global policy and the central bank strategy team at Evercore ISI. He said that his expectation, given that the seizure was widely expected, was that “this will not result in large spillovers in financial markets.”
The $30 billion cash infusion helped calm broader fears about the banking system but did not put to rest concerns about the viability of First Republic. The lender, founded in 1985, was the 14th-largest bank in the United States at the start of this year. Its shares lost nearly all of their value after a relentless series of steep declines that began as Silicon Valley Bank was teetering.
The end of First Republic came after weeks in which the bank and its advisers sought either to save the bank or find a buyer outside of a government takeover. But the efforts fell flat: Other banks were reluctant to buy it or pieces of the bank without assurances that they wouldn’t be left with billions of dollars in losses. By last week, after an alarming earnings report in which the bank disclosed that customers had withdrawn more than half of its deposits, it became clear that there was no option outside a government takeover.
By MAUREEN FARRELL, LAUREN HIRSCH and JEANNA SMIALEKRegulators seized control of First Republic Bank and sold it to JPMorgan Chase on Monday, a dramatic move aimed at curbing a two-month banking crisis that has rattled the financial system.
First Republic, whose assets were battered by the rise in interest rates, had struggled to stay alive after two other lenders collapsed last month, spooking depositors and investors.
First Republic was taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and immediately sold to JPMorgan. The deal was announced hours before U.S. markets were set to open, and after a scramble by officials over the weekend.
Later Monday, 84 First Republic branches in eight states were to reopen as JPMorgan branches.
JPMorgan will “assume all of the deposits and substantially all of the assets of First Republic Bank,” the FDIC said in a statement. The regulator estimated that its insurance fund would have to pay out about $13 billion to cover First Republic’s losses. JPMorgan also said that the FDIC would provide it with $50 billion in financing.
“Our government invited us and others to step up, and we did,” said Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s chief executive. He said the transaction was intended “to minimize costs to the Deposit Insurance Fund.”
The acquisition makes JPMorgan, already the nation’s
largest bank, even bigger and could draw political scrutiny from progressive Democrats in Washington.
First Republic failed despite having received a $30 billion lifeline from 11 of the country’s largest banks in March. JPMorgan said the $30 billion would be repaid after the deal closes. Overall, First Republic will go down in history as the second largest U.S. bank by assets to collapse after Washington Mutual, which failed during the financial crisis of 2008.
The government’s takeover and sale of First Republic comes seven weeks after the government took control of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, whose failures sent a shock wave through the industry and raised fears that other regional banks were at risk of similar runs on deposits.
Many banking experts said First Republic’s travails were a delayed reaction to the turmoil in March rather than the opening of a new phase in the crisis. Investors and industry executives are optimistic that no other midsize or large lenders are at risk of imminent failure. As First Republic’s stock plunged anew last week, other bank stocks barely budged.
Even so, the U.S. financial system has plenty of problems. The recent bank failures and rising interest rates have forced banks to rein in lending, making it harder for businesses to expand and individuals to buy homes and cars. That is one of the reasons that the economy has been slowing in recent months.
JPMorgan shares rose about 3% in premarket trading,
Late last week, the FDIC reached out to other financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, PNC Financial Services and Bank of America, seeking bids for the First Republic. Bidders had until noon Sunday to submit their offers. As part of the bidding process, banks were also asked what parts of the bank they wouldn’t accept.
Like the other two failed banks — Silicon Valley Bank and Signature — First Republic collapsed under the weight of loans and investments that lost billions of dollars in value as the Federal Reserve rapidly raised interest rates to fight inflation. When it started becoming apparent that those assets were now worth much less, First Republic’s affluent customers, most of whom live on the coasts, began pulling their money out as quickly as they could and investors dumped its shares.
Last Monday, First Republic revealed that clients had pulled $102 billion in deposits in the first three months of the year — well over half the $176 billion it held at the end of 2022. It also said it had borrowed $92 billion, mostly from the Fed and government-backed lending groups, effectively acknowledging that it had to turn to the financial industry’s lenders of last resort to keep the doors open.
The bank’s grim financial statement only fanned the worst fears of investors — that the FDIC would have to take over the bank.
By Thursday night, First Republic and its advisers were aware that it was out of options aside from a government takeover. The FDIC worked with the financial advisory firm Guggenheim Partners on the process, according to three people with knowledge of the situation.
U.S. stocks ended little changed on Monday as investors took in the weekend auction of First Republic Bank and braced for this week’s expected interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve.
The KBW regional banking index dropped 2.7%, while shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co, which won the auction of failed lender First Republic, rose 2.1%.
JPMorgan will pay the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp $10.6 billion to take control of most of the regional bank’s assets.
Investors have been on edge about the banking system’s health following the collapse of two other regional banks in March.
“Hopefully this is sort of the last of the banking crisis, but something else might surface at some point,” said Tim Ghriskey, senior portfolio strategist at Ingalls & Snyder in New York.
Market watchers also digested the latest economic news, which suggested to some that the Fed may need to stick to its tightening cycle for the near term. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said on Monday its manufacturing PMI rose last month from March.
The Fed, which has been raising rates to cool inflation, is expected to hike rates an additional 25 basis points on Wednesday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 46.46 points, or 0.14%, to 34,051.7; the S&P 500 lost 1.61 points, or 0.04%, at 4,167.87; and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 13.99 points, or 0.11%, to 12,212.60.
Energy was down the most of the major S&P 500 sectors, falling 1.3% as crude oil prices declined .
Recent earnings, however, provided some lingering optimism for investors, Ghriskey said. First-quarter results from S&P 500 companies have mostly beaten expectations, easing economic concerns.
“We’ve had good earnings relative to expectations. Analysts for now have backed off of lowering estimates,” he said. “If we could have rates at this level ... and corporate America continue to deliver, it’s very positive.”
Recent upbeat earnings from Alphabet Inc, Microsoft Corp and Meta Platforms Inc helped the benchmark S&P 500 notch its second consecutive month of gains on Friday.
The S&P 500 technology index climbed 0.2% on Monday, offsetting some of the day’s weakness.
Volume on U.S. exchanges was 10.24 billion shares, compared with the 10.37 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers on the NYSE by a 1.36-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.17-to-1 ratio favored decliners.
The S&P 500 posted 35 new 52-week highs and one
new low; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 88 new highs and 188 new lows.
Wall Street indexes were struggling for direction as the dollar gained with Treasury yields after investors digested Monday’s data while they waited for the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates as well as key upcoming economic data and quarterly earnings reports.
Crude oil prices were lower as investors waited for the Fed’s rate announcement on Wednesday and com-
mentary on its potential next steps. Also, weaker Chinese manufacturing data was outweighing support from OPEC+ supply cuts slated for this month.
U.S. Treasury 10-year yields were higher after falling on Friday with an increase right after the release of economic data. U.S. manufacturing pulled off of a three-year low in April as new orders improved slightly and employment rebounded, but activity remained depressed amid higher borrowing costs and tight credit.
Also, U.S. construction spending increased more than expected in March, boosted by investment in nonresidential structures, but single-family homebuilding remained depressed.
French workers marched across the country Monday, as the annual May Day demonstrations in France coincided with smoldering anger over an unpopular pension overhaul that President Emmanuel Macron pushed through last month.
From Le Havre in the north to Marseille in the south, some 800,000 people took to the streets, according to French authorities, with violent clashes in some places. Unions gave a much higher figure, 2.3 million.
The protest culminated in the afternoon with an enormous march in Paris against the government’s decision to raise the legal age of retirement to 64 from 62, an effort that led to the biggest political threat in Macron’s second term.
Laurent Berger, the leader of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor, the largest union in the country, told reporters at the march in Paris that the protests were a way to continue the fight against the pension overhaul and “to say no again to retirement at 64.”
Berger’s defiance reflected a broader truth confronting Macron: Although he was able to push through the pension overhaul, he did so only by turning to a constitutional measure that allowed him to sidestep a full vote in parliament, and the protests served as a stark reminder of the residual fury.
“All those who were against the overhaul continue to vent their anger — it’s good, necessary and legitimate,” said Angelina Meslem, 45, who marched in Paris with a sign criticizing Macron’s use of Article 49.3 of the French Constitution to ram through the bill.
Still, the pension overhaul was approved by the country’s Constitutional Council and officially signed into law, so while Macron will not find the issue easy to leave behind there is little chance the protesters will be able to persuade him to reverse his decision.
“Macron is trying to move forward no matter what, but people are standing still,” said Antoine Bristielle, the head of the polling department at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès research institute. “About 60% of the population say they don’t want to move on from the pension reform.”
Macron’s decision to raise the legal age of retirement was based on his conviction that the pension system was unsustainable and that changing the program, with its
generous benefits, was essential to France’s economic health.
In doing so, he struck a nerve in a society that considers retirement an important stage of one’s life, while failing to convince large numbers of French people of the potential benefits of the change for the country’s economic development.
France has been convulsed for months by regular strikes and protests that have drawn millions into the streets. Monday marked the 13th day of nationwide protests since January, and the first time in more than a decade that the country’s labor unions, usually divided, formed a united front for the traditional May Day demonstrations.
“The mobilization will not stop until this reform is withdrawn,” Sophie Binet, the head of the General Confederation of Labor, France’s second-largest labor union, told reporters Monday. “We see that the anger has never been so strong in the country.”
But Macron has insisted that he would not yield on the pension changes, which will gradually come into force starting in September, leaving his opponents with few options.
An opposition group has submitted a bill in the lower house of parliament that would return the legal age of retirement to 62, but it remains unclear whether it will garner a majority of the vote from the fractured opposition.
Macron’s opponents are also clinging to a request they have filed with the Constitutional Council that would allow a referendum on the issue. The council is expected to rule on the request’s validity Wednesday, but it already rejected a similar request last month.
Even if it were to rule in favor this time, the procedure would be long and complex — involving the collection of the signatures of at least 10% of voters, or roughly 4.8 million people, over nine months — and would not automatically lead to a referendum.
The marches on the French equivalent of Labor Day will provide an indication of what lies ahead for the protest movement. They might give it a new impetus or symbolically mark its last stand.
“It’s not a last stand,” Berger told reporters, adding that his union would respond favorably if the government invited it to talk, as was suggested by the labor minister Monday morning.
The march in Paris had all of the hallmarks of a typical May Day demonstration in France. Participants swayed to hit music blasted from loudspeakers; left-wing activists handed out leaflets calling for an end to capitalism.
The march started from the central Place de la République, where a giant bronze statue of Marianne, the woman who embodies the French Republic, had been
adorned with a large yellow vest that read “Macron, resign.”
It ended on the eastern Place de la Nation, where another Marianne statue was enveloped in clouds of tear gas fired by police while loud bangs from firecrackers rang out in the background.
Violent clashes between black-clad protesters and armor-clad police officers erupted on the plaza, and part of a building caught fire, sending large billows of dark smoke into the sky. Gérald Darmanin, the interior minister, said that more than 100 police officers had been injured, including one seriously injured by a Molotov cocktail, and that nearly 300 protesters had been arrested.
Monday’s protests maintained some degree of pressure on the French government, which is trying to figure out a path forward after the heated debate on a divisive issue.
In a televised address to the nation last month, Macron gave himself 100 days to deliver a handful of crucial overhauls to improve the working conditions and salaries of the French, as well as to tackle illegal immigration.
But last week, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced at a news conference that the immigration bill Macron was counting on would be pushed back to the fall because “there is no majority to vote such a text.”
And two days later, the rating agency Fitch downgraded France’s credit rating, citing concerns that the political upheaval over the pension law could limit its ability to make changes and bolster its public finances in the future.
That came as a blow to Macron, who had suggested that the pension overhaul was intended, at least in part, to reassure financial markets about France’s economic health.
Bristielle said the French government hoped the protest movement would die down in the coming weeks. But he added that the monthslong battle had produced “a kind of widespread resentment against Emmanuel Macron and the political institutions” that would be fertile ground for any future protest movement.
Gilles Boisaubert, 67, who was marching in Paris, said Macron’s ramming through of the pension overhaul had “set a very unfortunate precedent” that would have lasting consequences. “It’s more serious than just a pension issue.”
Paraguayans elected Santiago Peña, a 44-year-old conservative economist, as their new president Sunday, keeping the South American nation in the control of the right-wing Colorado Party that has run the country for all but five of the past 76 years.
The result means that Paraguay, a landlocked nation of 7 million people, has resisted the leftward shift across Latin America in recent years. Instead, Paraguayans delivered victory to a right-wing candidate who made vague promises to add jobs, lower energy prices and clear drug addicts from the street.
Peña had 43% of the vote with 99% of the ballots counted, defeating two challengers who split the opposition vote.
His election could complicate Paraguay’s relationship with the United States, a close ally.
Peña is a political protégé of a former Paraguayan president, Horacio Cartes, who is one of its richest men and the president of the Colorado Party. In January, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Cartes over accusations that he had doled out millions of dollars in bribes to pave his way to power and that he had built ties to the Islamist militant group Hezbollah.
In his victory speech Sunday night, Peña stood next to Cartes, hugged him and thanked him first. “Your contribution, president, can only be paid with the currency of respect, of appreciation and approval,” Peña said. “Thank you for this Colorado victory.”
Peña’s victory shows that his party has retained a firm grip on Paraguayan society decades after the fall of the dictatorship of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, a Colorado Party regime that ruled from 1954 to 1989.
The Colorado Party’s powerful political machine was on display on Election Day, with a dense network of political operators fanned out across the country. They monitored voting stations, bused Indigenous people to the polls and pressed voters to elect Peña.
That organization appeared to make up for the difficult sales pitch Peña had to make to voters. During the campaign, he presented himself as a fresh face — despite being Paraguay’s former finance minister and a prominent figure in the nation’s dominant political party, which was founded in 1887.
Peña also tried to distance himself from Paraguay’s current leader, President Mario Abdo Benítez, who is also from the Colorado Party. Benítez, who cannot run again because of term limits, is one of Latin America’s most unpopular leaders because of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to opin-
ion surveys.
But Peña’s trickiest challenge was his close ties to Cartes. The U.S. government has accused Cartes of “a concerted pattern of corruption,” alleging that he paid up to $50,000 a month to lawmakers while president and that he conducted some of his illicit business at events held by Hezbollah.
Cartes has denied the accusations, dismissing them as politically motivated. He declined requests for an interview.
One political opponent, Efraín Alegre, who finished second Sunday with 27%, seized on the allegations during the campaign, calling Cartes the “Paraguayan Pablo Escobar” and saying that Peña was Cartes’s “secretary.”
Peña said in an interview on Friday that he believed Cartes was innocent and that he could not understand how the United States could have gotten it so wrong.
“I think this is going to be one of the great mysteries, along with: Could it be that man reached the moon? Or who assassinated President Kennedy?” he said. “Those unsolved mysteries that we can never know.”
On Sunday night, as he stood next to his men-
tor, Peña led his victory party in a chant of “Beloved Horacio, the people are with you.”
Peña’s ties to Cartes were on the minds of some voters.
“He’s a good leader, but if he wins, it won’t be him that governs, sadly,” said Mariano Ovelar, 39, who waits tables and plays the keyboard in a truck-stop restaurant in Paraguay’s rural north.
Peña, a former International Monetary Fund economist in Washington, largely focused his campaign on the economy, promising to create 500,000 jobs, offer free kindergarten, decrease fuel and energy prices, and get more police officers on the street.
His only explanation for how he would pay for those promises was to expand the economy by eliminating red tape and keeping taxes among the lowest in the world. “Para-
guayans understand that we can be the most developed nation in the world,” Peña said.
Paraguay is one of South America’s poorest nations. A quarter of its population lives in poverty, schools are rated among the worst in the region and hospitals are short on basic medicines.
Peña attributed Paraguay’s underdevelopment to its crushing defeat in a war against its neighbors that ended in 1870 and wiped out most of its male population. “The conflict made us miss the train of development,” he said.
His answer to those problems is to streamline the government and make Paraguay more welcoming to businesses.
Peña appears to be aiming to appease the United States, most notably by pledging to keep Paraguay among the club of 13 countries — mostly small island nations — that maintain diplomatic relations with Taiwan rather than China. Paraguay and Taiwan sealed ties in 1957, when both were led by dictators, and Taiwan has since paid for Paraguay’s modernist congressional building and donated its presidential jet.
But as a result, Paraguay’s farmers face obstacles in exporting soybeans and beef to China. Peña said in an interview that close economic ties with Taiwan would leave Paraguay in a better long-term position than building its economy around selling commodities to China.
Cristaldo Tabares, 65, a builder who lives in a riverside suburb of the capital, Asunción, said he voted for Peña, but reluctantly. “I like Efraín more than Peña,” he said, referring to the No. 2 finisher.
Tabares wanted to cast his ballot for Alegre because he represented change, he said, “but I couldn’t.” That was because the Colorado Party had employed him as a polling station official and he felt he should vote for his employer.
Asked what he thought of Paraguay’s potential future under Peña, he shrugged and laughed: “Nobody knows what’s going to happen.”
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Russia launched a broad predawn aerial assault at targets across Ukraine on Monday, the second wide-ranging attack in four days, as fighting appeared to intensify before an anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Two people were killed and 40 wounded in Russian strikes on the central Ukrainian city of Pavlograd, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address.
“For every such attack, the Russian invaders will receive our response,” he said.
Serhiy Lysak, governor of the Dneprotrovsk region, which includes Pavlograd, said dozens of buildings, including schools and homes, were damaged in the strikes, which set off a massive fire that lit up the night sky.
The sounds of explosions also echoed above the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and other parts of the country before dawn as Ukrainian air defenses shot down 15 of 18 Russian cruise missiles, according to the Ukrainian military. Monday’s assault also included bombing runs by Russian aircraft, including one that killed a 14-year-old boy in the Chernihiv region, Zelenskyy said.
Herman Galushchenko, Ukraine’s energy minister, said the overnight strikes — described by Russia’s Ministry of Defense as an attack on “Ukrainian military-industrial complex facilities” — had caused “significant damage” to power distribution networks in and around the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine, cutting off scores of people from the power grid.
The missile barrage came as Ukrainian forces have stepped up their own efforts to strike Russian targets behind the front lines before what is expected to be a significant counteroffensive in the near future, carried out with the support of newly delivered, powerful weapons from Western allies.
The Ukrainian military said Monday evening that its aircraft had carried out four strikes on concentrations of Russian troops, while artillery and rockets had hit targets including an ammunition depot. Residents of the occupied southern city of Berdiansk reported overnight that a strike hit a Russian airfield, according to Ukrainian media and Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the exiled mayor of the nearby city of Mariupol. The claims could not be independently verified and the extent of any damage was unclear.
Russian-appointed officials in the occupied Crimean peninsula said air defenses had
fended off a drone attack, two days after a drone was blamed for an explosion at an oil depot in Sevastopol, the home to the Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet. A spokesperson for Ukraine’s southern military command previously said the depot fire was part of the preparations for a coming “full-scale offensive.”
Ukraine’s defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, said in an appearance on national television Monday that the military was “reaching the finish line” in those preparations. Military commanders, he said, would decide “how, where and when” the counteroffensive would be carried out.
Both sides have reported escalating attacks in recent days.
The governor of a Russian border region on Sunday accused Ukraine of cross-border shelling that killed four people, and on Monday two civilians were killed by shelling in Russian-held territory in the Zaporizhzhia
region that occupation officials blamed on Ukraine, the Russian state news agency Tass reported.
After Ukrainian officials said Moscow’s forces hit an apartment block in central Ukraine on Friday, killing at least 23 people, regional authorities across the country reported a continued bombardment over the weekend. Over the course of 24 hours, regional officials in Ukraine’s north, east and south reported Russian artillery, mortar, rocket or drone strikes in 11 regions, killing at least three people and destroying more than 100 residential buildings.
The flurry of strikes from both sides could signal the start of a shift in a conflict that has for months settled into a grinding war of attrition, with tens of thousands of soldiers killed and wounded in heavy fighting across eastern Ukraine but little territory being gained by either side.
But any coming Ukrainian counteroffensive will have to deal with Russian forces that have moved into defensive positions, according to Ukrainian and Western officials.
Britain’s defense intelligence agency said Monday that Russian forces had “constructed some of the most extensive systems of military defensive works seen anywhere in the world for many decades.” Those efforts, the agency said, include not only near the front lines but also “deep inside areas Russia currently controls,” with particular effort taken to fortify the northern border of Crimea.
In a Twitter post, the agency said the extensive network highlights “Russian leaders’ deep concern that Ukraine could achieve a major breakthrough.”
Thousands of people have descended on a port city in eastern Sudan in recent days, fleeing the violence in the capital and trying to secure their escape aboard vessels heading over the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia.
The coastal city of Port Sudan — the country’s biggest seaport — has been transformed into a hub for those displaced by the war, with people using cloth and chairs to construct makeshift tents, packing a local amusement park for shelter and waiting for help in three-digit heat.
Saudi Arabia has played a central role in the evacuation, extricating more than 5,000 foreigners from Sudan since the fighting erupted just over two weeks ago bet-
ween the forces of two rival Sudanese generals. Saudi Arabia is one of the closest countries to Sudan — less than 150 miles across the Red Sea — and has the means to manage a large-scale evacuation.
The operation also fit efforts by the kingdom’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to position Saudi Arabia as a rising global power and neutral mediator. Saudi officials have relationships with both of Sudan’s warring generals, and Saudi Arabia is a member of the four-country group that tried and failed to steer Sudan to civilian-led rule.
Although international evacuations are now focused on Port Sudan, tens of thousands more people have fled by land into Chad, Egypt and South Sudan since the con-
flict erupted between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group.
At least 50,000 people have left Sudan since the fighting began, according to the United Nations, and the violence has killed more than 500 civilians, according to the World Health Organization. The true number of casualties is likely much higher.
The conflict has thrust Africa’s third-largest nation into chaos, with many people displaced but unsure of how to escape the violence. A three-day extension to the latest cease-fire was announced Sunday, but heavy fighting was still reported in the capital, Khartoum, including an accusation from the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, that the army was shelling its positions.
Last week, Said bin Brahim bin Umran Bakush was released from detention at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and returned to Algeria, his home country. Suspected of being a low-level fighter for al-Qaida, at age 52 he was in his 21st year of detention in the prison, had no charges filed against him and stopped speaking to lawyers about five years ago. Bakush’s release leaves 30 men, of the 780 held there over the years since 2002, still imprisoned at the U.S. naval base whose name has become synonymous with American shame.
President Joe Biden said at the outset of his administration that he would seek to have the detention center closed, and he directed the Defense Department to study how best to do so. But at the rate these cases are moving, resolving them could take several more years. Biden wisely avoided the kind of highly public pledges to close down the prison that President Barack Obama made and could not keep. But to achieve the goal of finally ending the extrajudicial detention of prisoners at Guantánamo — and its disgraceful violations of fundamental human rights and abandonment of the right to due process — requires more of Biden.
Clearing out the remaining prisoners requires cutting through a tangle of laws, policies, procedures and bureaucratic secrecy. These are not simple tasks, but they are well within the power of the White House to
accomplish if the process is given a far higher priority. Biden can use his authority to order the departments of Defense, Justice and State; the intelligence agencies; and other agencies involved to coordinate their efforts and direct their resources to make it happen, as quickly as possible.
The moral imperative and the ethical case for doing so has only gotten stronger with time. As long as there are people held in detention at Guantánamo, America’s condemnations of brutal detention centers in China and Syria will ring hollow. And there is a particular cruelty inflicted by time. On April 21, a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross issued a rare public call for the U.S. military to provide better care for prisoners, because they are “experiencing the symptoms of accelerated aging worsened by the cumulative effect of their experiences and years spent in detention.”
The window for this administration to act may be closing. As the 2024 presidential campaign season begins, Republicans are more likely to label any efforts to close Guantánamo as soft on terrorism. Victory by Donald Trump or a like-minded candidate could well end any such efforts, as Trump did when he was in the White House.
There are two concrete and urgent tasks before Biden’s government: The first is to find countries willing to take 16 men who, like Bakush, are deemed to pose no terror threat and have been cleared to leave but have not, usually because their home countries are in chaos and no other country has been found to take them.
defined rights to health care, lawyer visits and other conditions. Rather than allowing federal agencies to continue to discuss the policy principles, Biden could direct them to reach a consensus, speeding up the resolution of the remaining cases.
Congress imposed a ban on allowing any of the Guantánamo detainees to ever enter U.S. territory, whether for trial, detention or even medical treatment. So there is virtually no other place to imprison those who do reach plea bargains, and while their cases drag on and the prisoners’ health deteriorates, teams of doctors and surgeons must regularly be flown out to the island to treat them.
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The second is to clarify the “policy principles” that would open the way for plea bargains for those cases in which convictions are no longer possible. There are 11 men who still have active cases before special military commissions, including five charged with having roles in the 9/11 attacks. None of them can be convicted, because they were subjected to torture and other maltreatment in detention. With three other detainees, the government simply needs to decide what it wants to do.
The president has full authority to clear these hurdles and either repatriate the remaining prisoners or get them to a plea bargain. He has already appointed a special envoy for Guantánamo’s closing, Tina Kaidanow; Biden needs to ensure that the task has the highest priority.
The Biden administration has also made some efforts to reach plea agreements with the remaining prisoners. But the plea bargain talks with the five prisoners accused in connection with 9/11 — including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is accused of conceiving the plot — are bogged down. Since the plea talks opened more than a year ago, the military judge has canceled every scheduled session while the administration evaluates its policy principles guiding the terms under which the men would continue to be held at Guantánamo once they accept a plea bargain. Those terms include clearly
If Congress lifted the ban, these prisoners could serve out their sentences after a plea bargain in a maximumsecurity prison in the United States. As long as the ban is in place, the only option is to keep the detainees on Guantánamo at a cost of $13 million per man per year, multiples of what it would cost to hold them on U.S. soil. Once these cases are at last resolved, Guantánamo as a legal black hole would cease to exist.
The ability to function outside the normal constraints of law and human rights is why this legal black hole was devised in the first place. The prison was established after the 9/11 attacks as a secret detention camp for especially dangerous prisoners, and the U.S. government at first deemed that it operated outside U.S. legal jurisdiction. This gave the CIA and other agencies the legal cover to conduct “enhanced interrogations” that amounted to torture and to subject prisoners to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.
“At the heart of the commissions’ problems is their original sin: torture,” Brig. Gen. John Baker of the U.S. Marine Corps, who was chief defense counsel at Guantánamo for 6 1/2 years before his retirement in December 2021, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The time to expect justice through the legal process has passed. As Baker testified, “The best that can be hoped for at this point, more than 20 years after the crimes were committed, is to bring this sordid chapter of American history to an end. And that end can only come through a negotiated resolution of the cases.”
Biden has the power to help reach that end and an obligation to do so.
SAN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi
Urrutia anunció el lunes un acuerdo con la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR) para ofrecer internados remunerados a estudiantes de los once recintos.
El programa estará disponible durante junio y julio, con pagos de hasta 6,000 dólares en total.
“Mi administración reitera su compromiso con la Universidad de Puerto Rico como nuestra principal institución educativa y el centro de formación de excelencia que representa el futuro de Puerto Rico”, sostuvo Pierluisi Urrutia en declaraciones escritas. Explicó que se espera la participación de hasta 300
estudiantes a través de 25 agencias y departamentos gubernamentales.
El presidente de la UPR, Luis Ferrao Delgado, destacó la importancia de esta experiencia en el sector público para el desarrollo profesional de los estudiantes. Los costos del programa, 1.8 millones de dólares, provendrán de fondos asignados por el Gobierno de Puerto Rico a la UPR para adiestramientos y servicios técnicos.
Asimismo, el gobernador agradeció a Ferrao y a los funcionarios gubernamentales por su colaboración en este esfuerzo para apoyar a la juventud y prepararlos adecuadamente para un futuro lleno de oportunidades.
SAN JUAN – La Alianza Correccional Unida Local 3500 realizó el lunes, un piquete frente al Capitolio, Día Internacional de los Trabajadores, en exigencia al aumento legislado de 746 dólares y la aprobación del Proyecto del Senado 533 que los eximiría de pagar contribuciones por horas extras.
“Hoy estamos aquí exigiendo se cumpla con el aumento legislado de 746 dólares que aún no se nos ha reflejado en los cheques y el Gobierno se está haciendo de la vista larga con el mismo”, dijo la presidenta de la ACU, Jessica Martínez, en comunicación escrita.
Martínez también mencionó la impor-
tancia del Proyecto del Senado 533, autoría del Senador William Villafañe, que eximiría a los Oficiales Correccionales y de Servicios Juveniles de pagar contribuciones por ingresos de horas extras. “Este proyecto es sumamente importante, ya que las horas extras representan un sacrificio para el trabajador que dobla turnos”, expresó.
El proyecto Proyecto del Senado 533 fue aprobado en el Senado y ahora espera evaluación en la Cámara de Representantes. La unión asegura que “no descansarán hasta lograr justicia salarial para el oficial correccional”.
POR CYBERNEWS
VIEQUES – El alcalde de Vieques, José ‘Junito’ Corcino, anunció el lunes que el municipio evalúa un cobro de hasta dos dólares por estacionamiento en el área del balneario Sun Bay, exclusivamente para turistas del exterior.
“A finales de 2021, el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, propietario del balneario, cedió su administración por un período inicial de cinco años al Municipio de Vieques. Estamos desarrollando una infraestructura dirigida a atender las necesidades de los viequenses y turistas que nos visitan”,
explicó Corcino en declaraciones escritas.
“Lo único que se evalúa es un incremento en la tarifa del estacionamiento del balneario Sun Bay para turistas del exterior únicamente, para apoyar el desarrollo del balneario como incubadora de negocios para nuestros residentes”, añadió el alcalde.
Sun Bay es conocido por su arena blanca, aguas cristalinas y paisaje natural. “Estamos reacondicionando las facilidades para apoyar actividades como el campismo y otras desarrolladas por nuestros pequeños y medianos comerciantes”, concluyó Corcino.
the emotional approach to “Peter Pan & Wendy,” Lowery drew on the eclectic tone of “Temple of Doom” as well as its juvenile sense of humor.
When creating the pirate hideout Skull Rock, Lowery tried to evoke the underground mines, in a cavernous space illuminated by lava, where the film’s Temple of Doom was located. “There’s also one shot in particular of Tiger Lily, the Lost Boys and Wendy looking down as John and Michael are about to be executed that is a direct homage to Indy, Willie Scott and Short Round looking down into the temple as the poor gentleman is about to be sacrificed to Kali,” Lowery explained.
Andrei Tarkovsky
duced the idea that he dyes his hair. “He wants to maintain his youth as an affront to Peter,” Lowery explained. The inspiration came from Luchino Visconti’s “Death in Venice”: In the Italian director’s historical drama, an aging composer played by Dirk Bogarde colors his hair and wears makeup to appear younger. “At the end, when he’s on the beach, the hair dye just starts running down his face, exposing the deceit at the heart of Bogarde’s character,” Lowery said.
Bill the Butcher and ‘Candyman’
By CARLOS AGUILARIt was “E.T. the Extra-Terrestial” that turned David Lowery into a lifelong fan of “Peter Pan,” specifically the scene in which a mother reads the section about Tinkerbell’s possible death to her daughter while the friendly alien hides in the closet. “You just watch E.T. listening to that story, and it’s so emotionally resonant that it hooked me to ‘Peter Pan,’ no pun intended, more than any film version of it did early on,” Lowery said.
For his second live-action retelling of a classic Disney film — following “Pete’s Dragon” (2016) — Lowery imagined his own variation on Neverland in “Peter Pan & Wendy,” with young actors Alexander Molony and Ever Anderson in the title roles and Jude Law as the villainous Captain Hook. Initially, however, Lowery underestimated the task.
“When I first took the job, I thought, ‘It’s Peter Pan, how hard could it be?’ It turned out to be the hardest but most exhilarating creative endeavor I’ve done to date,” he said. The difficulty, he thinks, stemmed from his desire to introduce a new shade to a fairy tale while honoring the story’s legacy.
The original J.M. Barrie novel about Peter Pan and Wendy as well as the numerous film adaptations — Steven Spielberg’s “Hook,” P.J. Hogan’s “Peter Pan,” Joe Wright’s “Pan” and, of course, Disney’s 1953 animated rendering, among them — all swirled in Lowery’s mind as he reconsidered the boy who never grows up.
Speaking during a recent video inter-
view from Cologne, Germany, Lowery, 42, laid out some of the less obvious influences for his re-imagining of “Peter Pan & Wendy,” now streaming on Disney+.
Peter Pan’s Flight at Disneyland
To remain faithful to Disney’s take on “Peter Pan,” Lowery closely observed Peter Pan’s Flight, one of the original rides at Disneyland based on the 1953 film. The attraction, he said, “represents the movie distilled into a physical experience.” Although stunningly crafted, some the animated film’s defining iconography, most notably the image of Captain Hook straddling the jaws of the crocodile, has a greater impact on younger audiences when they see it immortalized in three dimensions in Peter Pan’s Flight.
That the old-fashioned theatrical illusions the ride employs, like the use of forced perspective for London’s skyline, could still elicit wonder even in an age of digital effects, impressed him. Lowery rode Peter Pan’s Flight while preparing to shoot “Peter Pan & Wendy,” and hearing the excited reactions of children and adults alike reminded him of how beloved the animated version is. “Seeing this film condensed into a theme park ride, I realized the weight that these stories, as told by Disney, have in popular culture,” he said.
‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’
Lowery first watched the Steven Spielberg action adventure at the tender age of 7, and it immediately ignited his creative aspirations. “It’s a real kitchen-sink experience,” he said. “It’s a musical, it’s a drama, it’s a romance, it’s a horror film.” For
Lowery sought to reconceptualize how Peter Pan and Tinkerbell are introduced to the Darling children. As he wrote the sequence in which Tinkerbell sprinkles Wendy with pixie dust, ostensibly to float her all the way to Neverland before she wakes up, the image of the sleeping woman levitating in the Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky’s surrealist “Mirror” (1975) came to mind. He added a screen grab of that moment to his look-book and then replicated it with Wendy.
‘Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World’
To differentiate his movie from traditional pirate films, including Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, Lowery looked to Peter Weir’s 2003 high-seas saga, which informed how he thought about Captain Hook and his crew. Instead of mere scoundrels, Lowery saw Captain Hook’s men as pirates playacting as soldiers and Hook himself as a decaying version of Captain Jack Aubrey (played by Russell Crowe in “Master and Commander”).
“I thought, ‘What if Captain Hook at some point commandeered a Napoleonic vessel and executed all the other soldiers on board and he and his pirates took over this ship and he now thought of himself as an admiral on the HMS Bounty?” Lowery said. To help the actors, the director brought in consultants to teach them how to realistically operate a ship. One bit of unexpected synchronicity: John DeSantis, who plays Bill Jukes in Lowery’s fantasy, also appeared in Weir’s Oscar-winning film.
‘Death in Venice’
Since Captain Hook is horrified at the notion that he has grown up, Lowery intro -
For Captain Hook’s image, Lowery drew from multiple sources. When he first pitched the project to the studio, he edited a hook for a hand onto a photo of a mustachioed Daniel Day-Lewis in 19thcentury attire as Bill the Butcher in Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York.” “That became the Captain Hook I saw in my mind while I was writing the script,” he recalled.
With the hook itself, Lowery wanted to stay away from the precise, shiny devices used in other adaptations, like Spielberg’s “Hook.” The one Jude Law would wield in “Peter Pan & Wendy” had to look like a less refined, “pugilistic instrument of violence.” Lowery gave the prop department an image of actor Tony Todd in Bernard Rose’s 1992 horror film “Candyman,” about a ghostly killer with a hook for a missing hand. “We want it to be rusty,” Lowery added, “and to feel like it was a piece of metal that he pulled from the boat and had a blacksmith hammer into a barely usable form.”
There’s a vivid montage near the end of Lowery’s movie that shows Wendy’s adult life. She overcomes nostalgia and embraces the potential that lies ahead. “I wanted to capture the idea that growing up could be a beautiful thing,” he said. The montage is an allusion to a sequence, known as “Dream of the Future,” in the offbeat Coen brothers comedy “Raising Arizona,” in particular the shot where the kidnapper H. I. McDunnough (played by Nicolas Cage) imagines himself and his wife in old age with their large family gathered around a table. “As someone who is still in the process of growing up, it’s really helpful for me, on a therapeutic level, to see a character look at the future with a sense of wonder and anticipation,” Lowery said.
Alexander Molony, left, Ever Anderson, Joshua Pickering and Jacobi Jupe in “Peter Pan & Wendy.”When Anna Winger, co-creator of the new Netflix series “Transatlantic,” relocated to the vibrant French port city of Marseille last year, she found a dilapidated villa awaiting her. The “relic,” as she called it, was ideal for her purpose: the re-creation of the Villa AirBel, where early in World War II a dapper American named Varian Fry oversaw an extraordinary rescue operation for artists and writers, most of them Jews, hounded by the Nazis and the Vichy government of occupied France.
Arriving in Marseille in mid-August 1940, determined to help those in danger after witnessing the abuse of Jews in Berlin in 1935, Fry had to battle not only French authorities and Nazi ideology but also his own risk-averse U.S. Consulate in Marseille.
Improvising at a time when the United States had not yet entered the war, Fry, a rebel in a suit, navigated a narrow path until his forced departure in late August 1941. He was determined to secure safe passage and overseas visas for the thousands of “foreign undesirables” who soon came knocking on his door.
Among the estimated 2,000 people he rescued were artist Max Ernst, political philosopher Hannah Arendt and German novelist Heinrich Mann.
In his book “Assignment: Rescue,” written after the war, Fry wrote of Nazism that “I could not remain idle as long as I had any chance at all of saving even a few of its intended victims.”
For many years, Winger had been obsessed with the story of “this man alone doing something very brave,” she said in an interview. In 2018, she started working on the project, and in 2020, she optioned Julie Orringer’s novel “The Flight Portfolio,” which became the basis for the fictionalized events in the series.
Winger, who created the shows “Unorthodox” and “Deutschland 83,” lives in Berlin, where “as a Jew you think of these stories all the time,” she said. Her parents, both anthropologists, were Harvard professors, and “a lot of people in the generation above them were refugees from Europe.”
The show captures not only the life-or-death seriousness of Fry’s mission to save refugees of another war but also something of the louche, living-on-the-edge drama of a city that has always been a crossroads, and in 1940, unlike the northern half of France, was not directly occupied by German troops.
The Marseille that Fry and his motley team of driven young anti-fascists encountered had something of the freewheeling intrigue captured in “Casablanca,” another story of people suspended by war in a foreign place, aching in limbo for love and visas. Inevitably, money and sex — the currency of clandestine escape — have their place in “Transatlantic.”
“We try to be true to the history but also make fun by working with it in a heightened way,” Winger said.
The degree of fictionalization in the series has already caused controversy; Sheila Isenberg, the author of a book on Fry, called the show a “travesty.”
Much of this pushback has focused on the decision to depict Fry as having a gay relationship. In 2019, James D. Fry, his son, wrote a letter to The New York Times stating: “My father was indeed a closeted homosexual.” He was responding to a Times review by Cynthia Ozick of the Orringer novel that said of Fry, “there is no evidence of homosexuality,” contrary to the novel’s portrayal of him.
“We consider the letter from his son, James Fry, to The New York Times to be the last word on the subject,” Winger said via email.
In the show, Fry, played by Cory Michael Smith, works closely with Mary Jayne Gold (Gillian Jacobs), an American heiress who brings her money, energy and connections to the mission, as well as with Albert O. Hirschman (Lucas Englander), a German Jewish intellectual who would become a distinguished U.S. economist.
Their activities meet the stern disapproval of the U.S. consul general in Marseille, Hugh S. Fullerton (renamed Graham Patterson in the show), who is played by Corey Stoll. Fullerton, hewing to the then-neutral State Department line, wants to keep the United States out of the war. His vice consul, Hiram Bingham IV (Luke Thompson), thinks otherwise and quietly helps Fry with travel documents, some of them fraudulent.
Fry and Gold may be on the same side, but they bicker a lot. To play the central character, “I spent a lot of time reading about Fry, going to Columbia University, where all his papers are,” Smith said in an interview in Marseille. “He was unassuming and demure, which I appreciate, yet he burned with a contrarian courage that led him to row against the tide.”
A literary journalist enamored of European writers and artists, Fry was 32 when he arrived in Marseille. He had been sent to France from New York by the newly formed Emergency Rescue Committee (the forerunner of the International Rescue Committee), established by American and
German intellectuals. With him he brought a list of people to rescue, including Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, André Breton and Alma Mahler, who would eventually escape across the Pyrenees carrying Symphony No. 10, the last work of her former husband, Gustav Mahler.
Fry thought he could get the job done quickly. But as Alan Riding wrote in his book “And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris,” Fry found himself in a “no man’s land of Gestapo spies, corrupt French police and refugees galore.”
Initially installed at the Hôtel Splendide, Fry quickly gathered a talented team of volunteers. Continuously hounded and detained for several days in late 1940, Fry faced off with Fullerton, the U.S. consul, who repeatedly advised him to leave or face arrest, and in January 1941 refused to renew Fry’s passport unless he returned to the United States.
To the U.S. authorities at the time, Fry was a troublemaker, his effort to protect Jews and anti-Nazis a renegade operation undermining official policy.
The events portrayed in the show are many-faceted, Smith said, but a core truth is inescapable: “There were civilian heroes before our government was ready to step in.”
Jacobs, who plays Gold, a sometime pilot of impetuous courage, said she found the part fascinating for its multiple dimensions. Gold makes mistakes, and her relationship with Fry is sometimes tense. He “views her as too impulsive, while she sometimes thinks he is too cautious,” Jacobs said, yet Gold’s moral core is clear: “She knows what she does is the right thing to do.”
Englander, the Austrian actor who plays Hirschman, another of Fry’s volunteers, said in an interview on set that filming the show made him reflect on his family’s own history.
“We never spoke of our Jewish past,” he said. “Grandpa had to run away — that was all we said in my family.” When Englander came to lines in which Hirschman speaks about his past before fleeing Germany, he said: “I felt my grandfather so strongly. I needed minutes of crying and coffee and cigarettes to recover. Now, I feel a compulsion to give something to life and help today’s refugees.”
Fry never ceased in his search to find ways out, until he was hounded out of the country after 389 days.
He was told by the Vichy police, with the apparent backing of the U.S. consul general, that he had “gone too far in protecting Jews and anti-Nazis,” Riding wrote in “And the Show Went On.”
Back in the United States, Fry wrote a groundbreaking article for The New Republic in 1942 titled “The Massacre of the Jews.” It had little effect. The slaughter continued, with Western powers doing their best to look away.
Writing and teaching, Fry lived out the rest of his life in relative anonymity and died at the age of 59. It was only in 1967 that France honored him with a Légion d’Honneur, the country’s highest order of merit.
Michelle Allen is still learning how to cope nearly three years after her only child, Nicholas Isaac, 23, was shot and killed inside a bike store in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
Her son, known to his friends and family as Nico, was a painter and tattoo artist who had recently purchased his first electric bike, Allen said. On a hot day in July, he got into an argument with a man at the bike store. The man eventually left, but later returned — this time with a gun. He shot Isaac multiple times.
“It’s hard,” said Allen, who was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and now prefers to avoid social gatherings. “I just feel like being in my home is safer for me.”
Her story is one of more than 600 responses we received after asking readers whether the threat of gun violence has affected their mental state or the way they lead their lives.
Some readers said the sheer number of shootings in America had left them numb or resigned. A more sizable group described feeling frustrated, angry and helpless. Some said they now avoided crowded events and public transportation, scanned public venues for nearby escape routes or stayed at home more often. A handful said they had moved to different cities or even to another country to try to escape the threat.
Fear was a unifying thread, regardless of whether someone had directly encountered gun violence.
In 2021, homicides and suicides involving guns reached their highest rates in three decades — deaths that disproportionately affect Black and Hispanic communities. Mass shootings, though only a fraction of the number of gun murders nationwide, are also on the rise. And guns are now the No. 1 cause of death among American children and teenagers.
The emotional toll is hard to quantify. One survey, conducted by the Harris Poll for the American Psychological Association, found that more than 7 in 10 adults cited gun violence as a significant source of stress. Women, Latinos and Black people were most likely to give this response.
The comments here, edited and condensed for clarity, do not represent the full picture of how Americans feel today, but they tell a story of people who are grappling with a
weighty threat, both real and imagined. VOICES
“As a gay man, the Pulse nightclub shooting greatly affected me. I never have been much of a bar person, but ever since then, when I am in a gay establishment, I look for the nearest way out in the event of a shooting. Even at work, I wonder if my desk would provide enough space for me to hide — or should I just make a run for it?”
PATRICK HAMILTON, Palm Springs, California
“I live in Texas, so it’s not an exaggeration to say I think about gun violence every time I leave my home. I doubt I’ll ever go to a very large gathering ever again. When I go to church, I think about the safest place to run or hide in the sanctuary.”
JULIE, 65, Austin, Texas
“Gun violence is no longer on my mind because we left the U.S. The reality of gun violence was a primary motivation to leave. We lived in Tucson when the mass shooting occurred and had personal connections to those victims as well as to first responders. We also have family in El Paso who had connections to the victims of the shooting there. Since Sandy Hook, I have developed a sense of apathy. I am not proud of this. And if nothing changed to protect our children, then
nothing will change.”
SHARI GOETTEL, 59, Bombarral, Portugal
“Luckily, our town hasn’t experienced a mass shooting. Yet. In the last week alone there were two instances in which students brought guns to my sister’s school with the intent to ‘shoot it up.’ Multiple schools in the county went on lockdown. I’m absolutely terrified, and our quaint little country town is forever shaken. Every morning I wake up and ask, ‘Am I next?’ or even worse, ‘Is my little sister next?’”
HALEY D’OLIER, 15, Santa Rosa, California
“I don’t go into Kansas City anymore unless I absolutely have to for medical care. I am very conscious in stores. I travel with a handgun on my trips back and forth to our second home in Colorado. I have biometric gun safes in several places in my home so I can safely access a gun without fear of my grandkids gaining access to it.”
ROBERT CARL BRENNAN, 64, Louisburg, Kansas
“I am consumed by the worry and threat of gun violence. As an Asian American psychologist, and with the rise of anti-Asian hate, it has been a very personal concern but also a professional one. Scores of my Asian and Asian American clients have experienced racial-bias-related verbal and physical assaults. I am also a mother of a 19-year-old, and so my worries are even more compounded. I have been more overtly protective with my child and have role-played what to do if suspicious people are encountered. My husband
has been thinking of the possibility of buying Mace as our child studies in NYC now.”
NICOLE BENEDICTO ELDEN, 51, Westchester County, New York
“What happened in Uvalde, Texas, had me losing sleep for weeks. I have two small kids. One is in school. What worries me the most is gun violence happening at her school. To cope with those thoughts and feelings, I talk with my family, cry sometimes and just try to move on with my day.”
TESSA MARTINEZ, 27, Phoenix
“When it comes to gun violence, we often see or hear about the victim and the person who did it, but not much more. I think we need to be looking more at the root causes.”
REV. GEOFFREY GUNS, Norfolk, Virginia
“My 23-year-old son was shot and killed in broad daylight in a commercial business. Coping is difficult, and I am still figuring out my triggers. I feel helpless, like how come I couldn’t save my only child? And why is his killer not caught? I also feel guilty if I am laughing or just having a good day. Sadness, anger and depression are daily battles. I was diagnosed with PTSD, so daily activities are hard to complete. I struggle to fall asleep and have gained weight by finding solace in food. I rarely leave the house and will just leave to go to work or participate in a community event to bring awareness to gun violence. I no longer care about my appearance. Most of the time I just wear my son’s sweatpants or his T-shirts.”
MICHELLE ALLEN, New York City
As my quest for baked crispy tofu perfection continues, it’s led me down an untrodden path — one paved with Parmesan.
Of course, I’ve seen the recipes for tofu parmigiana, typically topped with mozzarella and tomato sauce, and baked until melty. And plenty of vegan-Parmesan-crusted tofu recipes exist around the web. But it only occurred to me to try a dusting of the real cheese, naturally, as I was recently gearing up for a trip to Parma, Italy.
I was making one of my go-to tofus, whisking together the cornstarch and oil that, when roasted at high heat, creates a golden, crunchy crust. This simple, brilliant technique, which I learned from cookbook author Jenny Rosenstrach, has become the standard play of my sheet-pan tofu game. Not only do the tofu cubes roast up gorgeously bronzed, but the technique also leaves room on the tray for seasonal vegetables — tomatoes or zucchini in summer, Broccolini or Brussels sprouts in winter, cauliflower or mushrooms in fall — to make it a one-pan meal.
This was an evening in early spring, so I had laid out sugar snap peas and red onions.
I was about to sprinkle some grated Parmesan over the vegetables, but as the fluffy wisps of cheese collected in the pan, visions of frico danced in my head: the sort of browned, shatteringly crisp disks that I can’t stop eating. I emptied the Parmesan container over the tofu, stuck the pan in the oven and hoped for a tofu grail.
Half an hour or so later, the kitchen smelled heavenly, a little like pizza.
What emerged from the oven was everything I had hoped. The tofu cubes were deep golden on top, and even browner on the bottom where the Parmesan met the hot metal of the pan. The sugar snaps and onions were caramelized and slightly charred. I squeezed on a little lemon juice and then ate where I stood, gobbling the tofu cubes like handfuls of hot buttered popcorn.
I’ve since made plant-based versions of this dish, experimenting with both vegan Parmesan and an equal amount of nutritional yeast — perfect options for anyone avoiding cheese.
After all, the quest for any sort of perfection can take
strange and unexpected turns. But for this easy weeknight dinner, Parmesan was the right hero at the right time.
Adding grated Parmesan to a coating of cornstarch and oil makes for especially crispy tofu with a fricolike crust. Here, the tofu is roasted on a sheet-pan alongside sugar snap peas and onions, which become tender and caramelized. It’s a colorful spring dish that can be varied endlessly depending on the season. Try broccoli or mushrooms in winter, cherry tomatoes in summer or butternut squash in fall.
Yield: 2 to 3 servings
Total time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Ingredients:
1 (14- to 16-ounce) package extra-firm or firm tofu, cut into 1-inch-thick slices
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt (such as Diamond Crystal), plus more as needed
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more as needed
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon cornstarch
5 tablespoons grated Parmesan (see Tip; or use vegan Parmesan or nutritional yeast), plus more for serving
1 large red onion, cut into 1/4-inch wedges (about 2 cups)
12 ounces sugar snap peas, trimmed and halved crosswise
1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice, plus more for servin
1/3 cup chopped fresh mint, cilantro or dill (or a combination), for garnish
Preparation:
1. Arrange tofu slices on a clean kitchen towel or paper towels. Cover with another kitchen towel (or paper towels), and place a flat cutting board or baking pan on top. If your cutting board is lightweight, stack a few cans or a skillet on top to weigh it down (or use a tofu press if you have one). Let tofu drain for at least 15 minutes and up to 45 minutes.
2. Heat oven to 400 degrees and line a rimmed sheet pan with parchment paper.
3. Transfer tofu slices to a cutting board and cut into 1-inch cubes. Pat them dry with paper towels and season both sides with 3/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper.
4. In a medium bowl, whisk together 1 tablespoon oil and cornstarch. Add tofu to the mixture and gently toss until evenly coated. Place tofu on one side of the prepared sheet pan. Sprinkle with 4 tablespoons Parmesan.
5. In a large bowl, toss together the red onion wedges, sugar snap peas, lemon juice, remaining 3/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Drizzle in remaining 2 tablespoons oil, tossing to combine.
6. Arrange vegetables on the empty side of the prepared sheet pan and sprinkle with remaining tablespoon Parmesan. Bake until tofu is crisp and golden brown and the vegetables are soft, 25 to 35 minutes. Halfway through baking, use a spatula to flip tofu and toss vegetables while keeping separate.
7. To serve, sprinkle with herbs and a little more Parmesan, and drizzle with more lemon juice and olive oil.
Tip: Most Parmesan is made with animal rennet in processing, but some are made with vegetarian enzymes. BelGioioso, a cheese brand available at major grocery stores across the United States, makes a vegetarian Parmesan that is labeled as such, and Organic Valley grated Parmesan lists vegetarian enzymes in its ingredients.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL, INC.
Plaintiff V. WILSON ALFREDO WILCHEZ-QUINTERO, KENIA ENID OCASIOMARTINEZ, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP WILCHEZOCASIO Defendants
Civil Action Num.: 16-cv-2657. (RAM). Matter: FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: WILSON ALFREDO WILCHEZ-QUINTERO, KENIA ENID OCASIO - MARTINEZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP WILCHEZOCASIO: AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC:
WHEREAS: On February 8th, 2023, Default Judgment was entered and grated on same day, in favor of Plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal amount of $142,668.90, plus interests at a rate of 6.875% per annum since April 1, 2016, which continues to accrue until the debit is paid in full, late charged on the amount of 5.00% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment is due, all advances made in accordance with the mortgage note including, but not limited to, insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($11,352.50) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the Court, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property
described in Spanish: URBANA: Solar número treinta y dos (32) del Bloque “D” del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Los Robles radicada en el Barrio Hato Nuevo del término Municipal de Gurabo con un área de trescientos punto treinta (330.30) metros cuadrados. En lindes, por el NORTE, en trece (13.00) metros, con Cementerio de Gurabo; por el SUR, en trece (13.00) metros, con la calle número tres (#3); por el ESTE, en veintitrés punto diez (23.10) metros con el lote número treinta y uno (#31); y por el OESTE, en veintitrés punto diez (23.10) metros, con el lote número treinta y tres (#33). Enclava una casa de una sola planta construida de concreto y bloques para una sola familia. The property is identified with the number 8,822 and is recorded at Page number 122 of Volume number 230 of Gurabo, in the Registry of Property of Caguas. The deed of mortgage is recorded on Page 124 of volume 230 of Gurabo, land # 8,822, second inscription. The deed of modification # 115 of September 9, 2013 is recorded as 3rd inscription, property # 8,822. Property address: Urbanización Los Robles, Calle 3 D-32, Gurabo, P.R. 00778. The deed of mortgage recorded on Page 124 of Volume 230 and the modifications recorded at the Karibe volume of Gurabo, Property Registry of Section II, Caguas, Second Inscription. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens described:
Senior Liens: Notice of Lis Pendens, issued by the Federal Court for the District of Puerto Rico, in the civil case number 02-1453HL, by United States of America, for the amount of 31,772.72, annotated at page 124 of volume 230 of Gurabo, property number 8,822, 2nd inscription, as an Abbreviated Entry on July 17, 2012, by virtue of Law number 216 of December 27, 2010 (Filed for record on April 9, 2002, at Entry 240 of Daily Book 508). Junior Liens: NONE. Other Liens: NONE. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be
applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 16TH DAY OF MAY OF 2023, AT: 9:15 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $148,022.28. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 23RD DAY OF MAY OF 2023, AT: 9:15 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $98,681.52, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 30TH DAY OF MAY OF 2023, AT: 9:15 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $74,011.14, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The undersigned Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHE-
REAS: Said sale to be made by the undersigned Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 10th day of April of 2023. Pedro A. Vélez Baerga, Special Master, 787-672-8269. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SALÓN DE SESIONES
404
EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV04582. Salón: 504. Sobre: ADMINISTRACIÓN JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
VÍCTOR A. PERALTA PICCO.
Vista la moción presentada por la parte demandante sobre publicación de edictos en cumplimiento con el Art. 594 del Código de Enjuiciamiento Civil Sec 2542, en el caso de epígrafe se les notifica a los acreedores, si alguno de Víctor A. Peralta Picco que se notifiquen con la Administradora Judicial Jacqueline Frances Rapale Burgos a la siguiente dirección en un plazo no mayor de sesenta (60) días. P. O. Box 20083 San Juan, P. R. 00928-0083 Dada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de marzo de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA LEVY RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL INC.
Demandante V. GRACE MONGE LA FOSSE T/C/C GRACE MONGE LA FONSSE
Demandados
Civil Núm.: KCD2014-1875.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo. Pedro Hieye González, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, 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 4 de abril de 2023, y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $397,583.89 de principal, dictada en el caso de autos el 10 de marzo de 2021, notificada el 11 de marzo de 2021, 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, 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartament number 2-C, located on the second floor of the Condominium Solemar at the Condado Section, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. lt has a private area of approximately 1.190.00 square feet. lts boundaries are as follows: on the North, with stairway, incinerator and corridor to elevators; on the East, with wall facing open concrete terrace, the Atlantic Ocean and Presbyterian Hospital: on the South, with exterior wall facing entrance ramp and visitors parking and, on the West, with wall facing open concrete terrace and extension of Washington Street. This apartment consists of living dining room, two bedrooms, one bathroom, kitchen, laundry, one vestibule, one linen closet, one utility closet and one compartment for air conditioning This kitchen is equipped with kitchen cabinets an electric range, hood, and garbage disposal unit. The apartment is located genarally toward the South end of the building and its principal entrance leads to the hallway which gives access to the elevators. The kitchen door leads to the stairway. The above described property has a right of exclusive use as an annex to the right of private ownership of said property to use a duly marked and numbered space located on the basement of the building for the purpose of parking a motor vehicle. Corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales una participación igual a 2.5225% y en los elementos comunes limitados corresponde a este apartamento una participación igual a 33.7440%. Finca 18752, inscrita al folio 206 del tomo 517 de Santurce Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección l. Que 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 Superior de San Juan. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $410,400.00, 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, o sea $273,600.00. 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, o sea $205,200.00. Para el lote descrito, la primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 24 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 1 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 8 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 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 San Juan. Del Estudio de Titulo realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes preferentes los cuales podrán ser asumidos: HIPOTECA: en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Firstbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por $102,600.00 al 6.750% anual, vencedero el 1 de septiembre de 2020, según Esc. #254 en Carolina el 30 de agosto de 2005 ante Yvannie Arroyo Casillas, Inscrita al folio 158 del tomo 1124 de Santurce Norte. finca #18752 inscripción 8va. AVISO DE DEMANDA: dictado el 2 de junio de 2009 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, caso civil #KCD-2009-2189 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca seguido por Firstbank de Puerto Rico mediante la cual se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con las hipotecas de las inscripciones 7ma y 8va reducidas a $397,583.89 y $99,182.76 respectivamente o la venta en pública subasta, anotado en virtud de la Ley #216 del 2010 al folio 1173 del tomo 1235 de Santurce Norte el 17 de noviembre de 2017 finca #18752 inscripción 9na. AVISO DE DEMANDA con Prohibición de Enajenar dictado en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de San Juan sobre Interdicto sobre Cobro de Dinero caso civil #SJ2020CV046413 seguido por la Junta de Directores del Condominio Solemar vs Grace Monje La Fosse, mediante la cual se reclama el pago de $6,384.89 por concepto de deuda con la póliza de seguro, según Orden del 3 de mayo de 2021 y Mandamiento del 11 de mayo de 2021, anotado al tomo Karibe finca #18752 de Santurce Norte, el 28 de junio de 2021 anotación “B”. EMBARGO ESTATAL contra Grace Monge Laffosse (así surge) seguro social #XXX-XX-1644 por la suma
de $40,135.86 en concepto de Ley #210 del 2015, según Certificación expedida por el Departamento de Hacienda de Puerto Rico el 13 de julio de 2022, anotado al asiento 2022006686-EST el 21 de julio de 2022 en el Sistema de Embargos y Sentencias Karibe. 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. 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 en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación 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 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, a 17 de abril de 2023. PEDRO
HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL SUPERVISOR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR SAN JUAN.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA
BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante vs. SUCESIÓN DE MONICA SIERRA RODRIGUEZ también conocida como MONICA ESTHER SIERRA RODRIGUEZ compuesta por sus hijos ALFREDO MANUEL
REAL SIERRA y la menor VALENTINA ISABELLE MILAGROS CALDAS SIERRA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION SOBRE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES “CRIM”
Demandados CIVIL NÚM: AY2019CV00124 (303) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL
A: Sucesión de MONICA SIERRA RODRIGUEZ también conocida como MONICA ESTHER SIERRA RODRIGUEZ compuesta por sus hijos ALFREDO MANUEL
REAL SIERRA y la menor VALENTINA ISABELLE MILAGROS CALDAS SIERRA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION SOBRE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES “CRIM”
Yo, LITZY M. CORA ANAYA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #247, 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 7 de junio de 2023 a las 11:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guayama, Guayama, 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 Guayama 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 14 de junio de
tifica 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 de marzo de 2023. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #888.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO.
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC.
Demandante vs. SUCESION ELENA
GARCIA PEÑA T/C/C
ELENA GARCIA T/C/C
ELENA GARCIA DE ZAYAS COMPUESTA
POR LAURA ZAYAS
GARCIA, MARIA ISABEL
ZAYAS GARCIA, PEDRO
ZAYAS GARCIA, JUAN
DIEGO ZAYAS GARCIA, GUADALUPE ZAYAS
GARCIA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS;
SUCESION LUIS ZAYAS
ROSADO COMPUESTA
POR LAURA ZAYAS
GARCIA, MARIA ISABEL
ZAYAS GARCIA, PEDRO
ZAYAS GARCIA, JUAN
DIEGO ZAYAS GARCIA, GUADALUPE ZAYAS
GARCIA; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. GB2021CV00698.
SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HI-
POTECA EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA 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 Guaynabo, 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 Guaynabo, el 6 de junio de 2023, a las 11:00 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: APARTAMENTO DOCE GUION A (12-A): Apartamento localizado en el piso número Doce (12), de forma irregular situado en el centro del lado Norte del Edificio denominado CONDOMINIO TORRIMAR PLAZA (ANTES ALTOMAR), y que consta de sala, comedor, tres (3) cuartos dormitorios con sus respectivos “closet”, sirviendo uno de ellos como vestidor, tres (3) cuartos de baño, dos de los cuales tienen el lavamanos fuera de la paredes del área del baño, cocina con espacio de lavandería, plafón lumínico colgante, además de un “closet” de almacenamiento ocupado parcialmente ocupado parcialmente por el calentador de agua, un balcón con espacio para la unidad de condensación del aire acondicionado central del apartamento, en los pasillos hay tres (3) “closets”, uno de los cuales es para el evaporador del aire acondicionado central de Apartamento, en otro de los “closets” se encuentra un conducto de ventilación cuya área no se incluye en el área del Apartamento, todas las dependencias del Apartamento se comunican interiormente.
Este Apartamento tiene acceso a través de un pasillo y un vestíbulo de uso común que se comunica directamente con la sala. Tiene un área aproximada de MIL SEISCIENTOS
SETENTA Y OCHO PUNTO
CERO CERO PIES CUADRADOS (1,678.00 P.C.), equivalentes a CIENTO CINCUENTA
Y CINCO PUNTO NOVENTA Y CONCO METROS CUADRADOS (155.95 M.C.). Colinda; por el NORTE, con área verde del patio posterior que separa el edificio de la servidumbre de paso de la Carretera Estatal número Ciento Setenta y Siete (177); por el SUR, con el pasillo de uso común limitado, con una
conducto de ventilación y con el “closet” de teléfono; por el ESTE, con pared que lo separa del espacio libre; y por el OESTE, con pared que lo separa del Apartamento número Doce guion B (12-B). Le corresponde el espacio de estacionamiento marcado con el número Noventa y Uno (91). Noventa y Dos (92) y Ciento Dos (102). Le corresponde un porcentaje de uno punto cuarenta por ciento (1.40%). Inscrita al folio 270 del tomo 532 de Guaynabo, finca 22,090, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 160 del tomo 1430 de Guaynabo, finca 22,090, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo, inscripción 5ª. Propiedad localizada en: 40 CALLE 10, COND. TORRIMAR PLAZA APTO. 12-A, GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO 00969. 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: $412,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 25 de julio de 2086. 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 $275,000.00, 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 Guaynabo, el 13 de junio de 2023, a las 11:00 de la mañana, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $183,333.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $137,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guaynabo, el 20 de junio de 2023, a las 11:00 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 $238,053.86 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $40,610.63 en intereses acumulados al 6 de mayo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.285% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $10,532.66 en seguro hipotecario; $5,390.00 de cargos por servicio; $1,233.85 en seguro; $425.00 de tasaciones; $420.00 de inspecciones; $2,340.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $27,500.00, 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 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de marzo de 2023. Frances Torres Contreras, Alguacil Regional. Alf. Hugo Basco Medina #807, Alguacil.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN EDUARDO COLÓN RIVERA
Parte Demandante Vs. JOSÉ ANTONIO MATOS LORRA, su esposa FULANA DE TAL, y la SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES compuesta por ambos; ADMINISTRACIÓN DE COMPENSACIONES POR ACCIDENTES DE
AUTOMÓVILES (ACAA); ASEGURADORA X, Y, Z; FULANO DE TAL; ASEGURADORAS A, B,C; ENTIDADES 1,2,3 Partes Demandadas CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2022CV11236. SOBRE: ACCIDENTE DE TRÁNSITO; DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. SS.
A: JOSÉ ANTONIO MATOS LORRA, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. AVE. RAMÍREZ DE ARELLANO URBANIZACIÓN TORIMAR GUAYNABO, PR 00969.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la demandante ha radicado una Demanda sobre Accidente de Tránsito y Daños y Perjuicios. Habiéndose ordenado la publicación de un Emplazamiento por Edicto para emplazarlo a usted, durante el término que establece la Ley, en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. POR ESTE MEDIO, se le emplaza por Edicto y requiere a usted, la parte con interés, para que notifique al: LCDO. RICARDO M. PRIETO GARCÍA, a su dirección postal 6 CALLE CELIS AGUILERA S, SUITE 201-A, FAJARDO, PUERTO RICO, 00738, Tel. (787) 860-0875, y/o a su email: prietolawoffice@yahoo.com, con copia de su contestación a las alegaciones de la Demanda en este caso, las cuales podrá usted examinar en la Sala de Fajardo, del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sección Superior, dentro de los treinta (30) días contados desde el siguiente día a la fecha de la publicación de este Emplazamiento por Edicto con la advertencia a los efectos de que si no contesta la demanda presentando el original de la Contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente, Con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotara la rebeldía y se dictara Sentencia para conceder el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. “Usted Deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando La siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.” Extendido bajo mi Firma, y el sello del Tribunal
en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de abril de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Brenda Rodríguez, Secretaria de Servicios A Sala.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
JUAN BAUTISTA APONTE VÁZQUEZ; MILAGROS
MÉNDEZ CALDERÓN
Demandantes Vs. MALVIN ROMÁN CAMACHO
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CG2022CV03195.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE SUBASTA.
A: MALVIN ROMÁN CAMACHO.
El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 1 de febrero de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la siguiente propiedad [CAMPO ALTO SUR SOLAR #6, BARRIO SONADORA, AGUAS BUENAS, PR 00703]: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Sonadora de Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, identificada con el número seis (6) en el plano de inscripción del caso número ochenta y tres guión cuarenta y cinco guión “G” guión ciento sesenta y cinco guión “KPL” (83-45-G-165-KPL) de la Administración de Reglamento y Permiso; con una cabida superficial de tres mil quinientos sesenta y seis punto veintiséis metros cuadrados (3,566.26 mc), equivalentes a cero punto nueve mil setenta y tres cuerdas (0.9073 cdas). En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos de Huertas y González y terrenos de Juan B. Aponte; por el SUR, con solar número siete (7) y camino dedicado a uso público del mismo plano de inscripción; por el ESTE, con solar número cinco (5) y por el OESTE, con terrenos de Huertas y González. Consta inscrita al folio ciento treinta y tres (133) del tomo trescientos uno (301) de Aguas Buenas, finca número once mil ochenta y uno (11081), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda (11) de Caguas. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 30 de noviembre de 2022 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $22,977.75 por concepto de
principal, recargos e intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.00% de interés anual desde el día 1ro de abril de 2022 hasta su total y completo pago, más $142.81 por recargos acumulados por demora equivalentes al 5% de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendario de la fecha de vencimiento, así como la suma adicional de $2,750.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, $2,750.00 para cubrir intereses además de los garantizados por ley, $2,750.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que pueda hacerse bajo la hipoteca, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posteriores 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. 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 de 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 15 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $27,500.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 22 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $18,333.33, 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 30 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $13,750.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Cuando se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima convenien-
te. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Todas las subastas deberán ser acordadas y celebradas según lo ordenado por el Tribunal. 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 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 remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, durante las horas laborables, todo esto en virtud del artículo 102 de la Ley Número 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 mejor conocida como la Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Puerto Rico. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de abril de 2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS-
TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
DDR RÍO HONDO LLC, S.E.
Demandante V.
DANNY & DANIELS MANAGEMENT LLL H/N/C CASA MONFONGO; CARLOS DANIEL AYALA NIEVES
Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2022CV05942. Sala:
701. Sobre: DESAHUCIO SUMARIO Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
(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 26 de abril de 2023, este
Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia
Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de abril de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA E. COLLAZO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AÑASCO ROBERTO TALAVERA SOTO
Peticionario EX PARTE
Caso Núm.: AÑ2020CV00088. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUESTO RICO.
A: PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUEDA
PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA O
QUE ESTIMEN QUE SE LESIONA SUS
DERECHOS TITULARES O REALES POR
DICHA INSCRIPCIÓN Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL, ASÍ COMO A
CUALQUIER PERSONA
CON INTERÉS, DUEÑOS O POSEEDORES ANTERIORES
DESCONOCIDOS O SUS HEREDEROS Y/U
ORGANISMOS PÚBLICOS AFECTADOS.
DE: ROBERTO TALAVERA
SOTO P/C DE LA LCDA. MARGGIE RODRÍGUEZ PÉREZ, RAMÓN EMETERIO BETANCES
#182 SUR, MAYAGÜEZ, PR 00680.
POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado una Petición de Expediente de Dominio donde el peticionario solicita se declare a su favor justificado el dominio de la propiedad que se describe a continuación y se ordene la inmatriculación de la propiedad en el Registro de la
Propiedad: Rústica: Parcela de terreno radicada en el barrio
Quebrada Larga del municipio de Añasco, Puerto Rico. Con una cabida superficial de cero punto siete mil trescientos dieciséis cuerdas (0.7316 cdas.), equivalentes a dos mil ochocientos setenta y cinco punto seis mil seiscientos veinticinco metros cuadrados (2,875.6625 m2), en lindes al Norte, en tres alineaciones continuas sumando setenta y tres punto dos mil trescientos cincuenta y ocho metros lineales (73.2358 m.) con Evelyn García, Eric García y Marielise García; al Sur, en una sola alineación continua de setenta y ocho punto seis mil trescientos treinta y cuatro metros lineales (78.6334 m.), con la Sucn. Otilio Soto Muñiz; al Este, en seis alineaciones continuas que suman cincuenta y cinco punto cinco mil trescientos ochenta y cuatro metros lineales (55.5384 m.) con quebrada la cual separa a los terrenos de la Sucn. Rafael Crespo Rodríguez y al Oeste, en cuatro alineaciones discontinuas y tres arcos discontinuos que suman setenta y seis punto cuatro mil noventa y un metros lineales (76.4091 m.) con la carretera municipal nombrada Salvador Pérez. Se les concede un plazo improrrogable de 20 días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación a fin de que comparezcan si quieren alegar lo que en derecho proceda mediante alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. El Honorable Tribunal releva a la parte peticionaria de presentar prueba de diligenciamiento. Se les apercibe que, de no contestar en el término provisto, este Tribunal, luego de evaluar la prueba podrá declarar, sin más trámite, justificado el dominio de la propiedad a favor del pe-
ticionario y ordenar su inmatriculación, así como cualquier remedio que en derecho proceda.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de abril del 2023. LIC. NOR-
MA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II.
NILDA TORRES ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE SAN JUAN ESTRELLA HOMES III
LLC.
Parte Demandante Vs. LUZ MICHELLE VICENTE
MARQUEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV06072.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA.
El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $119,382.17, de balance principal, los intereses vencidos sobre el principal computados al 5.75% anual desde el día primero de abril de 2016, hasta su total pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad por concepto de cargos por demora desde el primero de mayo de 2016, hasta su total y completo pago; más la suma de $12,400.00 garantizada de la hipoteca para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado del acreedor demandante, más cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquier concepto legal se devenguen hasta el total y completo pago de esta sentencia hasta el día de la subasta.
La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal- APARTAMENTO NÚMERO SEISCIENTOS SIETE (607). Apartamento residencial de forma irregular, localizado en el sexto (6to) Nivel del CONDOMINIO MILLENIAL PARK, radicado en el Barrio Monacillos Urbanos, del término municipal de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. El área aproximada del
apartamento es de seiscientos sesenta y cuatro punto sesenta y nueve (664.69) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a sesenta y uno punto setecientos setenta y cuatro mil ciento sesenta y cuatro (61.774164) metros cuadrados. Son sus linderos, por el Norte, en una distancia de treinta y dos pies con dos y media pulgadas (32’21/2”) con elementos comunes generales; por el Sur en una distancia de treinta y dos pies con dos y media pulgadas (32’21/2”), con espacio común aéreo; por el Este, en una distancia de diecinueve pies con cero pulgadas (19’0”) con el apartamento número seiscientos ocho (608); y por el Oeste, en una distancia de veintidós pies con dos pulgadas (22” 2’) con espacio común aéreo. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Norte. Consta de: una sala-comedor, una cocina, un pasillo principal en el cual están localizados un “closet”, un baño, y tres (3) habitaciones con “closet”. Le corresponde a este apartamento un espacio de estacionamiento para un vehículo de motor el cual está identificado con el numero ciento uno (101). Este apartamento tiene una participación de cero punto cinco ocho seis cero uno ocho ocho cuatro cinco porciento (0.586018845%) en los elementos comunes generales del condominio. Inscrita al folio setenta y ocho (78) del tomo novecientos cincuenta y nueve (959) de Monacillos, finca número veintisiete mil trescientos dieciséis (27,316), Registro de San Juan III. Dirección física: Cond. Millenia Park, Apt. 607, San Juan, PR 00925. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $124,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $82,666.66. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 21 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $62,000.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se de-
clarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.
210-2015). Expedido el presente en San Juan, Puerto Rico a 24 de abril de 2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ASOCIACIÓN DE RESIDENTES RIO HONDO II, VALLE VERDE I Y II, INC.
Demandante V. LUZDALIA COUVERTHIE SIERRA, ALEJANDRO RODRÍGUEZ IRIZARRY, AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2022CV05586. Sala:
504. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (R. 60). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: LUZDALIA COUVERTHIE SIERRA, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ELLA Y ALEJANDRO RODRIGUEZ IRIZARRY. (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 8 de abril de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de abril de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 24 de abril de 2023. LAURA
I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRE-TARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO RAFAEL DIAZ DELGADO Demandante V. ANTONIO COSTA SEMIDEY, PURIFICACION LEON Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS, ET. AL Demandado(a)
CIVIL: AI2018CV00056 SOBRE: REANUDACION DE TRACTO ART. 183 LEY 2102015. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: ANTONIO COSTA SEMIDAY, PURIFICACIÓN LEÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS; LA SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO COSTA SEMIDAY Y PURIFICACIÓN LEÓN, COMPUESTA POR ALMA L. COSTA LEÓN, ANTONIO COSTA LEÓN, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; ALMA LUZ AGÜERO COSTA, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ALMA L. COSTA LEÓN; MARÍA LUZ AGÜERO COSTA, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ALMA L. COSTA LEÓN; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ALMA L. COSTA LEÓN; FULANA DE TAL, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO COSTA LEÓN; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO COSTA LEÓN; SUCESIÓN DE LUIS
ANTONIO AGUERRO COSTA COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; SUCESIÓN DE ALFREDO
MIGUERO AGUERRO COSTA COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; ARMANDO PASSALAQUA, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO
PASSALACQUA COSTA Y CASILA ALONSO; RICARDO PASSALAQUA,
COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO
PASSALACQUA COSTA Y CASILDA ALONSO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO
PASSALACQUA COSTA; JOSEFINA MARTÍNEZ Y/O LOS MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSEFINA MARTÍNEZ; GLORIA MARÍA
RODRÍGUEZ PADILLA, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA MARÍA PADILLA COSTA; MARÍA MILAGROS SUSANA RODRÍGUEZ BALBÁS, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA MARÍA PADILLA COSTA; MARÍA EUGENIA RODRÍGUEZ BALBÁS, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA MARÍA PADILLA COSTA; MARÍA MILAGROS BALBÁS, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA MARÍA PADILLA COSTA; RICARDO RODRÍGUEZ PADILLA, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA MARÍA PADILLA COSTA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA MARÍA PADILLA COSTA; ÁNGELA ROSENDA PADILLA COSTA Y/O LOS MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGELA ROSENDA PADILLA COSTA, COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; MARÍA COSTA SEMIDEY Y/O LOS MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA COSTA SEMIDEY, COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; LUIS FELIPE PIETRI PADILLA, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES PADILLA COSTA; OCTAVIO PIETRI PADILLA, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES PADILLA COSTA; NORMA PIETRI PADILLA, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES
PADILLA COSTA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES PADILLA COSTA; HÉCTOR SALLABERY CARPENTER, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA MAGDALENA PADILLA COSTA; CORALIE SALLABERY DE FERRANDIZ, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA MAGDALENA PADILLA COSTA; CAROL SALLABERY CARPENTER, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA MAGDALENA PADILLA COSTA; WALTER SALABERRY
CARPENTER, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA
MAGDALENA PADILLA COSTA; ANA DELIA
LÓPEZ COLÓN, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA
MAGDALENA PADILLA COSTA; MARÍA DE LOS
A. RIPOLL SALLABERY, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA
MAGDALENA PADILLA COSTA; JOHN DOE
Y JANE DOE COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA
MAGDALENA PADILLA COSTA; JULIO ANTONIO PADILLA MARTÍNEZ Y/O LA SUCESIÓN DE JULIO ANTONIO PADILLA MARTÍNEZ, COMPUESTA
POR JOHN DOE Y JANE
DOE; ANA SEMIDEY Y/O
LA SUCESIÓN DE ANA SEMIDEY, COMPUESTA
POR JOHN DOE Y JANE
DOE.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de abril de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos
de la Sentencia, Sentencia
Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de abril de 2023 . En AIBONITO, Puerto Rico, el 26 de abril de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ
RIVERA, Secretaria. ANGÉLICA COLÓN NEGRÓN, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JOSÉ FRANCISCO
ACEVEDO RODRIGUEZ
T/C/C JOSE ACEVEDO RODRIGUEZ
Demandado(a)
Civil: MZ2022CV00588. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOSÉ FRANCISCO
ACEVEDO RODRIGUEZ
T/C/C JOSE ACEVEDO RODRIGUEZ.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de febrero de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de abril de 2023. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 27 de abril de 2023.
LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANACRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO
AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE MASSACHUSETTS
MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (MASS MUTUAL)
Demandante V. ERNESTO MOJICA
ALVAREZ T/C/C
ERNESTO GERÓNIMO
MOJICA ALVAREZ
T/C/C ERNESTO G. MOJICA ALVAREZ, ARLENE HERNANDEZ
TORRES T/C/C ARLENE
MOJICA ALVAREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandado(a)
Civil: BY2022CV03958. Sala:
505. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR
EDICTO.
A: A LA PARTE
DEMANDADA: ERNESTO
MOJICA ALVAREZ T/C/C
ERNESTO GERÓNIMO MOJICA ALVAREZ
T/C/C ERNESTO G; MOJICA ALVAREZ, ARLENE HERNANDEZ
TORRES T/C/C ARLENE
MOJICA ALVAREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS, A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES
CONOCIDAS: URB. LA PROVIDENCIA, 1P29
CALLE 9, TOA ALTA, PR 00953-4535, 3017
STRONG ST., HIGHLAND, IN 46322-1443, 1637 E 33RD AVE., HOBART IN 46342-1211 Y URB LOMAS
VERDES, 3K16 CALLE CLAVEL, BAYAMÓN, PR 00956-3304 Y AL CORREO ELECTRÓNICO: e.mojica@live.com.
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 24 de abril de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 24 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESION DE ERNESTO LAMBERTY GALARZA COMPUESTA
POR JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESION; SUCESION DE HELEN TORRES COLON COMPUESTA
POR JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESION; CESAR ANTONIO CRUZ COLON, Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandado(a)
Civil: MZ2022CV01029. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: SUCESION DE ERNESTO LAMBERTY GALARZA COMPUESTA
POR JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO
CESAR ANTONIO CRUZ COLON. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de marzo de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de abril de 2023. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 26 de abril de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. NILDA TORRES ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ AIDY MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ SANTOS T/C/C HAYDEE MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ
Demandante v. EX PARTE
Demandado(a)
Civil: JD2022CV00118 Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO.
el 20 de abril de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de abril de 2023. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 25 de abril de 2023. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria. Doris A. Rodríguez Colón, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE CAROLINA
NICHOLE BERRIOS BENÍTEZ
Demandante Vs. SUCN. DE DON PEDRO BERRIOS Y DOÑA MATILDE RIVERA
T/C/C MATILDE RUIZ, COMPUESTA POR: SUCN. DE SERAFÍN BERRIOS
RUIZ, SUCN. DE JORGE BERRIOS RUIZ, SUCN. DE LUIS BERRIOS RUIZ, SUCN. DE CRESILDA BERRIOS RUIZ Y SUCN. DE CONCEPCIÓN
BERRIOS RUIZ; SUCN. DE SERAFIN BERRIOS
DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S.
A: La Sucesión de Don Pedro Berrios y Doña Matilde Rivera también conocida como Matilde Ruiz, compuesta por: Sucesión de Serafín Berrios Ruiz, Sucesión de Jorge Berrios Ruiz, Sucesión de Luis Berrios Ruiz, Sucesión de Cresilda Berrios Ruiz, Sucesión de Concepción Berrios Ruiz; Sucesión de Serafín Berrios Ruiz compuesta por: Sucesión de Héctor E. Berrios Benítez, Sucesión de Jaime I. Berrios Benítez, Sucesión de Eddie S. Berrios Benítez, Sucesión de Luis R. Berrios Benítez, Efraín O. Berrios Benítez, Edwin W. Berrios Benítez; John Doe y Jane Roe, como posibles herederos de las Sucesiones antes mencionadas y/o terceros quienes también puedan tener algún derecho o reclamación sobre la propiedad, de los cuales se desconocen sus nombres y domicilios y/o las personas ignoradas y desconocidas a quienes pudiera perjudicar la Demanda de Usucapión, Reanudación de Tracto Registral, e Inscripción a favor de la parte demandante en el Registro de la Propiedad de la finca que más adelante se describirá y a toda persona en general que con derecho para ello desee oponerse a esta solicitud.
IRIZARRY,
SECRETARIA NILDA TORRES ACEVEDO, SE-(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de abril de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE DICHA SUCESION; SUCESION DE HELEN TORRES COLON COMPUESTA
POR JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES INTERESADOS QUE INCLUYE A COLINDANTES DESCONOCIDOS, ANTERIORES DUEÑOS DESCONOCIDOS, MILLA FIGUEROA Y POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE DUEÑOS ANTERIORES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA PROPIEDAD. P/C LCDO. RUBÉN ROMÁN TORO PARA SER PUBLICADA POR EDICTO. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que
RUIZ, COMPUESTA POR: SUCN. DE HÉCTOR E. BERRIOS BENÍTEZ, SUCN. DE JAIME I. BERRIOS BENÍTEZ, SUCN. DE EDDIE S. BERRIOS BENÍTEZ, SUCN. DE LUIS R. BERRIOS BENÍTEZ, EFRAÍN O. BERRIOS BENÍTEZ Y EDWIN W. BERRIOS BENÍTEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE ROE.
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM: CA2022CV-04177
SOBRE: USUCAPIÓN; REANUDACIÓN DE TRACTO REGISTRAL ART. 183, LEY NÚM. 210-2015. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE
POR LA PRESENTE: Se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto, a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en la acción promovida por la parte demandante de Usucapión, Reanudación de Tracto Registral, e Inscripción a favor de la parte demandante en el Registro de la Propiedad sobre la siguiente finca: Rústica: BARRIO LAS CUEVAS de Trujillo Alto. Solar: F guion seis (F-6). Con una Cabida de: dos (2.00) Cuerdas equivalentes a setenta y ocho (78) áreas, sesenta (60) centiáreas y siete mil novecientos doce (7912) diez milésimas de área. Colindante al NORTE,
con las parcelas cinco (5) y diez (10); por el SUR, con la Sucesión Juan Hernández y Enrique Umpierre; por el ESTE, con la parcela número quince (15); y por el OESTE, con Fermín Ramos. Dentro de la parcela descrita se encuentra enclavada una casa de concreto reforzado, tipo tres A, de veintiún pies guion cuatro pulgadas (21’-4”) por diecinueve pies guion cuatro pulgadas (19’-4”), con divisiones interiores de concreto, construida por la Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration. Finca número dos mil quinientos cuarenta y seis (2546), Demarcación Trujillo Alto del Registro Inmobiliario Digital del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. La referida propiedad no aparece tasada para fines contributivos por el Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales (CRIM). La referida propiedad se encuentra localizada en Barrio Las Cuevas, Calle Adelina Hernández 187, Carretera 181, Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico 00962. Debe presentar el original de su escrito a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior Sala de Carolina, PO Box 267 Carolina PR 00986-0267 y notificar copia del mismo al representante legal de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Ramón A. Pérez González, 6 Calle Hatillo, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; Tel.: (787) 646-2100. Se le advierte además, que el Tribunal señalará vista en este caso en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la demanda. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar a partir de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte demandante, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 03 de abril de 2023. Lcda. Marilyn Aponte Rodríguez, Secretaria Regional. Keila García Solís, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SABANA GRANDE ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante Vs. JUAN C SEDA RIVERA
Demandado
Civil Núm.: GY2022CV00178. Salón: 1. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JUAN C SEDA RIVERA. URB BDA GUAYDIA, 136 CALLE B FRANCESCHINI, GUAYANILLA PR 006561224.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema
Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
José Aguilar Vélez
R.U.A. 20,607
P0 Box 71418, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518
Teléfono (787) 993-3731
Email: jose.aguilar@orf-law.com
Extendido bajo mi firma y Sello del Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 29 de marzo de 2023.
CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL.
DAISY QUIÑONES VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
SUJER ORTIZ ARVELO
DEMANDANTE V.
FÉLIX J. JEAMBATIS OXEMA
DEMANDADO(A)
CIVIL NÚM. SJ2023RF00155.
(702) SOBRE: DIVORCIO R.I. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN-
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de abril de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de abril de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 20 de abril de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Malliam Collado Huertas, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN CANDIDO TORRES
RAMOS
Peticionaria
EX-PARTE
Civil #: BY2023CV01244. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. (605). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS
EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A
QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA
EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA
QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA
PERSONA EN GENERAL
QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.
POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica para que comparezcan,
si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación e este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de casos (SUMAC)1 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 en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, PR 00969-5650, Teléfono 787-7209553. RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno en el barrio Sonadora del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 0.75 de cuerda equivalentes a 2947.797 metros cuadrados.
En lindes por el NORTE: con terrenos de Pascual Nieves; por el SUR: con terrenos de Higinio Nieves; por el ESTE: con carretera municipal y por el OESTE: con terrenos de Emeteria Nieves. Enclava estructura para fines residenciales”. Según mensura se describe del siguiente modo: ‘’RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno en el barrio Sonadora del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 0.3427 cda equivalentes a 1347.0205 metros cuadrados.
En lindes por el NORTE: con terrenos de Pascual Nieves, hoy, Sucesión de Pascual Nieves, por el SURESTE y por el ESTE: con carretera municipal la Marquesa y por el OESTE: con terrenos de Emeteria Nieves, hoy Sucesión de Emeteria Nieves. Enclava estructura para fines residenciales”. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes
citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término Improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación el edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 24 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE FRANCISCO JAVIER
MERCED HERNANDEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS
HIJOS KIARA MARIA
MERCED GUZMAN, KLARA LIZ MERCED
GUZMAN, JOSHUA
JAVIER MERCED
GUZMAN, KENNETH JAVIER MERCED
FUENTES Y SEBASTIAN YAREL MERCED ACEVEDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2023CV00698. (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: KIARA MARIA MERCED GUZMAN, KLARA LIZ MERCED GUZMAN, JOSHUA JAVIER MERCED GUZMAN Y KENNETH JAVIER MERCED GUZMAN, POR SÍ Y POR CONDUCTO DE SU MADRE CON PATRIA POTESTAD FULANA DE TAL, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE FRANCISCO JAVIER MERCED HERNANDEZ. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda Enmendada sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $84,668.72, intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.00% anual, desde el día 1ro
de junio de 2020, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $9,200.20, 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 H guión Uno (H1) del plano de inscripción del Proyecto de Viviendas a Bajo Costo denominado VBC guión Setenta y Nueve (VBC-79), radicado en el BARRIO TOMÁS DE CASTRO de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de DOSCIENTOS OCHENTA Y CUATRO PUNTO SESENTA Y SIETE (284.67) METROS CUADRADOS; en lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle número Uno (1); por el SUR, con solar número H guión Dieciséis (H-16); por el ESTE, con solar número H guión Dos (H2); y por el OESTE, con la Calle número Dos (2). La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Caguas, Sección Primera, finca número 36,636, inscripción séptima. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y enviar copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuya dirección más adelante se indica. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente:
Lcdo. Baldomero A. Collazo Torres Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC
P.O. Box 11550
San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550
Tel. (787) 625-9999
Fax (787) 705-7387
E-mail: bcollazo@lawpr.com Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que conforme el caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria v. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 D.P.R. 689, 696 (2005) y a tenor con las disposiciones del Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021), deberá aceptar o repudiar la herencia del causante Francis-
co Javier Merced Hernández dentro del término de treinta (30) días. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de abril de 2023. 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 SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR 903 ASOCIACIÓN DE RESIDENTES DE LAS CALLES EUGENIO
D’ORS, FRAY GRANADA, CONCHA ESPINA, AZORIN Y EDUARDO BAZA, INC.
DEMANDANTE vs. IRMA LIVIA GARCÍA RÍOS
T/C/C IRMA L. GARCÍA
DEPICÓN T/C/C IRMA L. GARCÍA RÍOS
DEMANDADA
CIVIL NUM.: SJ2023CV02374
SOBRE: Cobro de dinero Regla 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: IRMA LIVIA GARCÍA, T/C/C/ IRMA L. GARCÍA DEPICÓN T/C/C IRMA L GARCÍA RÍOS. 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 mantenimiento.s vencidas y no pagadas por la suma de $9,324.084 al 31 de enero de 2023. 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 009600124 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. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 18 de abril de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Jessica Soto Pagan, Secretaria de Servicios a Sala.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE JUANA DIAZ ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante vs. CRISTÓBAL FRANCO CRUZ
Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: JD2022CV00670. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: Cristóbal Franco Cruz
- URB VALLE COSTERO 3863 CALLE ALGAS
SANTA ISABEL, PUERTO RICO 00757-3220 / HC 5
BOX 13708 JUANA DIAZ, PUERTO RICO 00795. 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 en-
tiende 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 12 de abril de 2023. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 12 de abril de 2023. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria. Doris A. Rodríguez Colón, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS ORIENTAL BANK Demandante Vs. HECTOR LUIS
RODRIGUEZ ACEVEDO Demandados
CIVIL: CG2023CV00133. (705) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: HECTOR LUIS
RODRIGUEZ ACEVEDO. (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 25 de abril de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de abril de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 25 de abril de 2023. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria Regional. Marta E. Donate Resto, Secretaria Auxiliar.
The Golden State Warriors prepared for the finale of their first-round playoff series with the Sacramento Kings by gathering for an off-day film session Saturday on an upper floor of Chase Center, their home arena in San Francisco, with a panoramic view of the bay.
Coach Steve Kerr likes to stage his film sessions there when the space is available. Otherwise, he said, the team is stuck “in the dungeon down below,” outside its locker room. He was grateful for the open space, especially ahead of Sunday’s Game 7. It was a therapeutic experience.
“I do think there has to be a sense of perspective,” Kerr said, “even if it’s just a nice view and some sunshine and a chance to breathe and relax between games. That can make a difference.”
Something else can make a difference, too: Stephen Curry. No one seemed more Zen on Sunday than Curry, who led the Warriors to a series-clinching 120-100 victory by skewering the Kings in every conceivable way on his way to 50 points — an NBA record for a Game 7. He sank parabolic 3-pointers. He drove for layups. He toyed with defenders. And he sent scores of Kings fans streaming into the streets of Sacramento before the game had ended.
“Sublime,” Kerr said.
“Total domination,” Warriors forward Draymond Green said.
“A joy to watch,” guard Klay Thompson said.
Curry, Thompson and Green have spent years demolishing opponents as one of the NBA’s most celebrated cores. The Kings, on the other hand, were making their first postseason appearance since 2006. They had youth and energy. The Warriors have championship DNA.
“It was a great time to put it all together,” Curry said. “There’s still nerves and anxiousness and anticipation before a big night. But when we get out there, our experience takes over.”
Curry, who arrived at the Golden 1 Center in an all-black ensemble, as if dressed for a wake, shot 20 of 38 from the field and 7 of 18 from 3-point range. He also had eight rebounds and six assists.
“What an incredible all-time performance,” Thompson said.
Golden State, the No. 6 seed in the Western Conference, will face the seventh-seeded Los Angeles Lakers in a conference semifinal, starting in San Francisco today (10 p.m. ET, TNY). The Lakers eliminated the second-seeded Memphis Grizzlies in their first-round series Friday.
“To do this for a decade, it’s incredible,” Kerr said of his core players. “The energy that it takes to fight off challengers year after year, and have to prepare and win games, and do it over and over — there’s a reason these guys are Hall of Famers and champions.”
The Warriors and Kings franchises have long been based
less than 100 miles apart, but for much of the past decade they have produced very different brands of basketball — opposite brands of basketball, in fact.
As the Warriors busied themselves by winning championships (four), playing in NBA Finals (six) and reengineering the way basketball is played thanks to the Splash Brothers (Curry and Thompson), the Kings spent the past decade-plus scuffling through a desert of futility that had them bordering on irrelevance.
Their overhaul began last season when they acquired Sabonis, an All-Star center, in a deal with Indiana. It continued over the offseason when they signed reserve guard Malik Monk in free agency, traded with Atlanta for Kevin Huerter and hired Mike Brown, one of Kerr’s assistants, as their coach.
Sure enough, led by De’Aaron Fox, their All-Star point guard, the Kings went 48-34 during the regular season, christening each victory by shooting a beam of purple light from the roof of their arena. “Light the Beam!” became a rallying cry, helping to bury — if not completely erase — the dysfunction of years past.
As for the Warriors, their roster seemed to constantly be in a state of flux during the regular season. Curry injured a shoulder and sprained an ankle. Andrew Wiggins, their starting small forward, left the team in mid-February citing personal reasons and missed the final 25 games of the regular season.
Kerr, meanwhile, struggled to strike a balance between securing a playoff berth (no sure thing) and developing young players like Moses Moody, Jonathan Kuminga and James Wiseman, who was eventually traded midseason. Ultimately, Kerr kept leaning on the usual suspects — Curry, Thompson and Green, a defensive stalwart — as the postseason came into sharper focus.
The Warriors welcomed Wiggins’ return for the start of
the playoffs, then lost their first two games, which presented a new obstacle: Curry, Thompson and Green found themselves trailing in a playoff series 2-0 for the first time in their careers. Perhaps they needed a fresh challenge.
On Sunday, Sacramento led 58-56 at halftime, which is when Golden State — a team known for years for eviscerating teams in the third quarter — went about its usual business. Curry sank a 3-pointer. He sliced through a mix of defenders to scoop in a layup. He drained a floater.
“You can tell when he’s locked in or laser-focused,” Green said.
By the time Kevon Looney, the team’s starting center, scored off an offensive rebound, Golden State led by 9.
The prevailing mood of the Kings fans inside the arena was not necessarily panic, but there was certainly angst. Curry had already been in this sort of situation on so many occasions, and none of it — not the hostile environment, not the pressure of a Game 7 — appeared to bother him. In fact, he was feeding off it.
“This is one of the best players in the history of the game,” Kerr said, adding: “The resilience and the work that goes into that, the focus, it’s incredible to watch.
As Golden State’s lead swelled in the fourth quarter, the crowd’s angst turned to resignation.
Looney capped a terrific series with a double-double, 11 points and 21 rebounds.
“The guy is a flat-out winner and a machine,” Kerr said. The stage, though, belonged to Curry, which was no surprise. Another one awaits against the Lakers. After Sunday’s game, Curry was asked if anyone could stop him.
“Hopefully, we never find out,” he said.
The New York Knicks walked off the court at Madison Square Garden on Sunday afternoon with their shoulders slumped. The energy that gripped the arena at the start of the game against Miami had dissolved into a mélange of people shuffling out, Heat fans boasting and a few Knicks fans shouting insults, mostly at the game officials and the Heat fans. Perspective is difficult to have in a moment like this.
“I was horrific,” said Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson, who scored 25 points but missed all seven of his 3-point attempts.
On Sunday, the Knicks lost to the Heat 108-101 in Game 1 of the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals. They lost even though Heat star Jimmy Butler didn’t have the kind of scoring explosion he used to knock off the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks in the first round of the playoffs.
But despite the dour mood that engulfed the Garden after the game, it would be unwise to bury the Knicks for their performance. In some ways, everything the Knicks are doing in the playoffs is a bonus. Perhaps more important, there is still time for them to survive this series.
Game 2 is tonight at 7:30 at the Garden (TNT).
“I don’t think anyone thought this game was going to be, or the series was going to be, won or lost in the first game,” Knicks guard Josh Hart said. He added later: “I don’t think there’s an opportunity that we let slip away. It’s going to be a tough, physical series and every game’s different.”
Neither the Heat nor the Knicks were expected to last very long in the playoffs.
The Knicks finished the regular season as the fifth seed in the East, facing a Cleveland Cavaliers team that had traded for the star the Knicks wouldn’t — Donovan Mitchell.
The Heat faced even longer odds as the eighth seed against a Bucks team expected to compete for the championship and led by Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is a finalist for this year’s MVP award.
Instead, the Heat and the Knicks easily dispatched their first-round opponents, each needing just five games to do it. Miami benefited from an injury to Antetokounmpo and the dynamism of Butler. Butler scored 56 points in Miami’s Game 4 win against the Bucks and 42 in the series-clinching win two days later.
That meant containing Butler would be critical for the Knicks, a team driven by its defense and depth.
The Knicks had home-court advantage and a tactical advantage in that coach Tom Thibodeau knows Butler well. He coached Butler with the Chicago Bulls for Butler’s first four seasons in the NBA, and again when Butler played for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
On Sunday, Butler had 25 points, 11 rebounds, four assists and two steals. More critically, the attention he commanded on the court made things easier for his teammates, many of whom have thrived under playoff pressure before.
The Knicks’ shooting was also particularly damaging for them. Brunson wasn’t the only one who struggled from 3. Overall, the Knicks made only 20.6% of their 3-pointers, including just 3 of 16 in the first half.
With 5 minutes, 5 seconds remaining, Butler struggled to rise from the court after turning his ankle while tangling with Hart. He refused to leave the game. With Butler hobbled, the Heat relied on guard Kyle Lowry and extended their lead to 11 points from 3.
“That certainly is inspiring that he would not come out of the game,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “And to be able to finish the game just infused a bunch of confidence to the rest of the guys that we have to finish this off.”
Historically, when the Heat and Knicks
have played each other in the playoffs, the battles have more closely resembled boxing matches than basketball games. Their physicality was legendary in the 1990s, with the Knicks’ Patrick Ewing and Miami’s Alonzo Mourning, both of whom were at Sunday’s game, going at each other in the paint.
Sunday’s game was higher scoring than those contests from a quarter-century ago, but was similarly physical.
“I wouldn’t just assume that each game is going to look like this,” Spoelstra said. “We’ve played these guys four times during the regular season. Two of the games were in the mud like this, the throwback Heat and Knicks that you would expect. And then we had two shootouts.”
But he also said he expected the series to be a “cagefight.”
What the Knicks have done already this postseason is cause for optimism for their future.
They were not supposed to make a deep playoff run this year even with Brunson, who was a finalist for the league’s Most Improved Player award. The Knicks are widely considered to be one superstar away from being championship contenders. If they win this series and get to the conference finals, they will have surpassed most expectations.
They have avoided the kind of ridiculous drama that characterized the decadelong desert they wandered through until creating a stable environment with Thibodeau at the helm.
The Knicks beat the Cavaliers soundly, justifying their unwillingness to gut their roster in order to trade for Mitchell.
Their depth propelled them against Cleveland. It is why they have often succeeded even when playing short-handed.
On Sunday, the Knicks were playing without Julius Randle, who is out with a sprained ankle. Thibodeau refused to use that as an excuse for why they lost the game.
“We have more than enough,” he said after the game.
The Heat were also missing a key player — guard Tyler Herro, who broke his hand during the first round and is expected to be out for several weeks.
Butler did not address reporters after the game, and Spoelstra said he didn’t know the status of Butler’s injury. But if it is serious, it could change the complexion of the series. Still, the Knicks saw what the Heat did in the first round against the Bucks and know how difficult they can be.
“They’re never going to give up,” Knicks forward RJ Barrett said. “That’s one thing I personally enjoy about this series. It’s going to be hard-fought. It’s going to be tough. You’ve got to go out there and kind of take it.”
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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
Teamwork could be in flux today when alchemical Pluto goes retrograde in Aquarius and your communal eleventh house until June 11, then backtracks through Capricorn and your professional arena until October 10. If you’ve been collaborating on a group endeavor or navigating a bureaucratic system, mind your p’s and q’s. And reconsider before dropping out of any long-term—but potentially lucrative—projects. Is someone slacking off, even after countless warnings? You might need to show them the door.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Slow down, Bull. As metamorphic Pluto pivots retrograde in Aquarius and your ambition corner, career progress won’t be so easy to come by. Don’t worry! Between now and June 11, you have an opportunity to fortify your quest by networking behind the scenes. It’s possible that a challenging coworker will throw a wrench in your plan, and rather than going toe to toe, try quietly watching and waiting until you hit on a solid solution.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
You have a lot on your plate, Twin, but are one or two of those incredible projects about to slide off? As relentless Pluto goes retrograde in your exploratory ninth house today, you’re compelled to examine your undertakings with a keen eye. If you’ve bitten off more than you can chew, start trimming the fat wherever possible. You could be preoccupied with a serious case of wanderlust, but that restlessness might lead you astray until the dwarf planet reverses into Capricorn and your soulful, sultry eighth house.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Commit…or quit? As intense Pluto pivots retrograde—first in Aquarius and your intimate eighth house until June 11, then back through Capricorn and your partnership zone until October 10—you could reconsider a specific bond. Take your time figuring out what you want and deciding whether your priorities and values mesh. If you’re already all in, you might require more alone time during Pluto’s five-month reversal.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
The green-eyed monster could take up too much space in your head while jealous Pluto rolls retrograde through Aquarius and your relationship realm until June 11. If you’re feeling abandoned, stop and ask yourself whether that’s the reality. It may be difficult to maintain a clear lens on certain connections—and if things start to spiral, you might explode in anger and go off on a rant. You’re much too proud to seem so possessive and don’t want to represent your regal sign, find ways to manage those intense feels.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
Thanks to your stellar organizational skills, it’s tempting for you to take control of every plan, Virgo. But are you doing too much for others? As Pluto pivots retrograde in Aquarius and your helpful sixth house today, take inventory of everything you’re juggling. Have you taken on too much? During this slowdown, which lasts until October 10, don’t shortchange your pet projects in favor of busy work. Reshuffle your priorities so the most rewarding projects are at the top of the list.
Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)
Do you have Champagne wishes on a Prosecco budget? Regardless of your financial status, tighten the purse strings when powerful Pluto turns retrograde today in Aquarius and your pleasure-seeking fifth house and then backs into Capricorn and your security-craving fourth from June 11 to October 10. Over the course of the next five months, DoorDash deliveries and lazy Uber rides could be off the table. But you don’t have to live like a monk, Libra.
Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)
Order in the Scorpio court! As your galactic guardian Pluto turns retrograde today, it will reverse through two signs— Aquarius until June 11 and Capricorn until October 10. Shift your attention to home sweet home for the next two months. It’s not a great time to attempt a reno, but you might relocate to a more suitable space or reconfigure your abode to enhance solitude and efficiency. Savor some peace and quiet and then start reconnecting with people you miss.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
How many people do you really need to keep in touch with, Sagittarius? Today, private Pluto goes retrograde, first reversing through Aquarius and your communication court, then backing into Capricorn and your money zone from June 11 to October 10. Keep your contact list short and sweet for the next couple of months. You’ll spread yourself too thin and may wind up neglecting your inner circle if you try to add interesting outsiders to the rotation.
Do you have way too many balls in the air, Capricorn? As alchemical Pluto pivots retrograde today, first in Aquarius and your money chamber until June 11, you might have to rein in a few income-generating commitments. Be smart and only sign on to the most vital endeavors between now and June 11. While the dwarf planet reverses through Capricorn, you’ll need plenty of whitespace on your calendar so you can concentrate on personal growth.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
Pump the brakes! Today, metamorphic Pluto, who’s been causing tremors in your sign since March 23, goes retrograde until October 10. This reversal starts in Aquarius and your first house of identity, then the icy dwarf backs into Capricorn and your mystical twelfth house from June 11 to October 10. Try your best to be patient, even if that means temporarily shelving a handful of your pet projects so you can concentrate on more pressing matters.
Should you speed up or slow your roll? It could feel like you’re stuck in stop-and-go traffic while turbulent Pluto reverses through your reflective, healing twelfth house until June 11—and then backpedals into your inventive eleventh for the rest of its retrograde until October 10. During this murky period, what seemed like a slam dunk could be put on hold, while fresh opportunities show up out of left field. The best approach for surviving this unpredictable period is to accept that you can’t control much and just go with the flow.
