Wednesday May 3, 2023

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Comptroller’s report details delays in redevelopment of former naval base

By THE STAR STAFF

The Local Redevelopment Authority for Roosevelt Roads (LRA) has yet to do much to develop the former U.S. naval base, while spending millions of dollars and creating fewer than 500 jobs, a Commonwealth Comptroller report issued Tuesday has found.

In May 2013, the LRA obtained title to 3,400 acres for redevelopment from the U.S. Navy by completing a transportation economic development agreement. Soon after, the LRA updated the land use plan and reorganized the master plan into nine development zones under the 2014 Master Plan Development Zones.

The comptroller’s report notes that the former naval station facilities are deteriorated and not being used.

“Nine years after the transfer of three parcels to the Authority, and investments of $30.7 million and a debt of $24.4 million, it only had 14 projects with 17 tenants occupying a third of the acres of the Authority’s land,” the report found.

The comptroller issued a qualified opinion on the fiscal operations of the LRA. A qualified opinion is issued when the individual or aggregate non-compliances are significant but not widespread.

The report reveals that the LRA did not require timely work itineraries and progress reports on lease contracts formalized from 2015 to 2018 for the operation of the shipyard and a dry dock, for the manufacturing of metal and plastic parts, or for developing a residential rental resort community. Compliance with those contractual requirements occurred up to four years later with schedules and up to two years later with

progress reports. The comptroller said the situations require the LRA to make it possible to control work status or supervise contract compliance.

In addition, the report said, the LRA needs to maintain a technical file per project. The LRA board should have provided for examination evidence that the executive director has presented three of the five work plans, and six budgets,” the comptroller’s report said. “In this way, the LRA needed help to exercise adequate file control. Furthermore, the inspection work of the auditors of the Comptroller’s Office is made difficult, the report added.

The audit indicated that the LRA has yet to appoint a records administrator, has not complied with preparing an inventory of inactive records, nor does it have an updated record retention plan.

Meanwhile, the LRA had not hired a master developer, after an evaluation of eight proponents in 2014, and after incurring expenses in this regard for $459,455, the report said.

In addition, after formalizing a contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a loan of $4.9 million and receiving a grant of $666,200 to improve the drinking water system, the LRA is just starting the tender process, the comptroller pointed out in the report. As of June 2021, only 392 jobs had been created, according to Department of Economic Development and Commerce reports.

The audit recommends that the governor and the Legislative Assembly take the appropriate measures concerning the delay in the redevelopment of the land and facilities of the former naval station.

A comptroller’s report notes that nine years after the transfer of three land parcels to the Local Redevelopment Authority for Roosevelt Roads, “and investments of $30.7 million and a debt of $24.4 million, [the Authority] only had 14 projects with 17 tenants occupying a third of the acres of the Authority’s land.”

Senator accuses LUMA of ‘lying’ with projections

By THE STAR STAFF

Senate Strategic Projects and Energy Committee Chairman

Javier Aponte Dalmau on Tuesday accused LUMA Energy, the private operator of the island’s electric power transmission and distribution (T&D) system, of “lying” regarding its budget and expenditure projections.

“There are a lot of questions and LUMA evades the answers and what they have done is ask us for time. … It has been a great opportunity to request information, give them a week to produce it and evaluate it …” Aponte Dalmau told reporters. “What we are seeing is that the outlook for this contract is one in which the information that was released to make the projections was false information because what they allege about inflation, cost changes in prices, all of this was foreseeable and in the contracts, they are adjustable. Now the projections are based on what they based this contract on and, now that they are not being fulfilled, were undoubtedly projections that were not true.”

José Pérez Vélez, a representative of LUMA Energy, gave assurances that the company continues to work with the same budget level requested for the first three years and to date they have not requested an increase. He said that when the company began to operate the T&D network in 2021, initial budgets were submitted that would last three years and are still valid at the moment. He insisted that LUMA has not submitted a different request and reiterated that “for the three years that

the initial budgets were going to last, they were not going to see changes.”

Along the same lines, Puerto Rican Independence Party Sen. María de Lourdes Santiago Negrón raised concerns about

a request from LUMA Energy for a higher budget, according to what was reported in the press about a letter sent to the Public-Private Partnership Authority. Pérez said he has no idea of such a communication.

Santiago Negrón also questioned the LUMA official on the alleged suspension of the contract for vegetation control works. Pérez replied that the work was carried out at the beginning of the year.

Aponte Dalmau, meanwhile, asked several questions on the subject of renewable energy and questioned the withdrawal of four projects due to their facing “challenges” in the process of interconnection to the transmission network. David Monasterio, LUMA Energy’s regulatory officer, responded that the processes that the company is managing for this tender are interconnection studies, after the contracts are effective. He added that LUMA will perform the interconnection construction, which should be completed by June of this year.

Aponte Dalmau also addressed the expectation of a delay due to the loss of the aforementioned renewable energy contracts. Monasterio said that now the variables have changed, while Pérez noted that those contracts were not made by LUMA.

“The fact that Phase 1 has not taken place does not imply that it is LUMA’s responsibility,” he said.

Regarding its current number of employees, the LUMA representatives said that as of February, it had close to 4,000 employees. Of those, 1,451 people work in the area of field operations.

By THE STAR STAFF

In order to protect those accused of crimes during pregnancy and safeguard the maternal relationship with the child after childbirth, Sens. José “Chaco” Vargas Vidot, Thomas Rivera Schatz and Joanne Rodríguez Veve filed Senate Bill 1183 on Tuesday.

“With this measure, we seek to protect the mother in three stages: bail, sentence, and administrative correction, with the purpose of protecting the pregnancy and the bond of mother and child for a period of at least three years,” Vargas Vidot said. “What we want to safeguard is that this child goes through a process with the mother until the age of three, recognizing that, despite the circumstances, the child deserves to create that bond with its mother.”

Rodríguez Veve, the spokesperson for Dignity Project, recognized the importance of striking a balance between fulfilling one’s debt to society and protecting the child, something the bill intends to accomplish.

“Without prejudice to the responsibility of a convicted mother to fulfill her debt to society, this measure adopts the necessary mechanisms to mitigate the damage to which a baby would be exposed as a result of an order of imprisonment of the mother,” she said. “Through this bill we seek that the mother faces the rigor of our penal system, while guaranteeing the best welfare of the innocent child during the first months of life, a vital time for its healthy development.”

Currently, Article 70 of the Penal Code of Puerto Rico (Deferral of the Execution of the Sentence) grants the court the power to defer a sentence “when a woman in a state of pregnancy or less than six months has elapsed since delivery.” With the approval of the measure, instead of being left to the court’s discretion, the deferment would be automatic.

“It is clear that prison and the restrictions of alternative programs are not the right places for, nor do they meet the needs of, a pregnant woman and her child,” reads the bill’s preamble.

“Although the responsibility of the state is to ensure faithful compliance with the rules of social coexistence, it is inescapable

to recognize that the state also has a duty to protect the life, security and privacy of people.”

Puerto Rican Independence Party Sen. María de Lourdes Santiago Negrón

Sen. José Vargas Vidot

Bill seeks to protect children when women are accused and/or convicted of crimes when pregnant

Ports, shipping sector seek $41 million grant for improvements at San Juan cargo docks

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico Ports Authority Director Joel A. Pizá Batiz announced Tuesday that he and the island’s maritime industry sector have submitted a request for a $40.8 million federal grant for four projects aimed at modernizing and improving the safety, efficiency and reliability of the Port of San Juan (PSJ).

Pizá Batiz said the PSJ plays an essential role in supplying food, fuel and manufactured goods to the people of Puerto Rico, as well as serving as a key point on the maritime route between the Panama Canal and the Atlantic Ocean. Therefore, following the public policy of Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia to take advantage of all available federal funding opportunities, the request for funds was submitted to the United States Department of Transportation Maritime Administration’s Puerto Rico Port Infrastructure Development Program by Ports in conjunction with the companies Crowley, Puerto Rico Terminals LLC and Luis Ayala Colón & Sucrs.

“With this request for $40.8 million, we intend to make multiple improvements to modernize and strengthen the

security, efficiency, and reliability of the Port of San Juan, through which 80 percent of food is received, along with other important products,” Pizá Batiz said. “This is the fourth request that we have submitted in order to improve the port infrastructure and sea lanes to meet the necessary permanent improvements. Two have been approved and we are waiting for the rest.”

The four projects presented in the proposal include two microgrid projects, one in the container cargo terminal operated by Crowley in Isla Grande, and another in the container cargo terminal in Puerto Nuevo. The purpose is to provide resilience and energy stability during an emergency or blackout, giving business continuity to a critical containerized cargo transportation infrastructure that

provides essential supplies for the island’s sustainability, the Ports chief noted.

The project at the Crowley terminal consists of the installation of a 500-kilowatt (KW) generator for normal operations and two 2-megawatt (MW) diesel generators to balance the maximum demand.

The project in Puerto Nuevo consists of the installation of an 8-MW internal combustion engine and 2-MW ultra capacitors/batteries for storage. It also includes a project to improve the pavement of the Puerto Nuevo Terminal to maximize the vertical storage of cargo containers, benefitting the use and safety of some 12 acres of container stacking area. That action would allow for easier and more efficient movement of cargo when emergency efforts are needed.

The fourth project involves improvements to the pavement in the unloading area (Laydown Area) at the Isla Grande Terminal. It involves demolishing and removing an abandoned warehouse building for seven acres of cargo storage, as well as repairing the mooring dolphins used by the three-story barges, thus restoring them for safe and reliable vessel mooring.

VOCES, UPR form alliance to help build health database

By THE STAR STAFF

The Coalition for Immunization and Health Promotion of Puerto Rico, VOCES, announced on Tuesday its alliance with the Comprehensive Cancer Center

Hospital of the University of Puerto Rico at the inauguration of the Healthy Communities Center in a collaboration that seeks to promote participation in the All of Us precision medicine study in Puerto Rico.

“The participation of Latinos is critical in studies for future vaccines and disease treatments,” said a spokesperson for VOCES during the inauguration at Plaza Las Américas.

Those interested can start registering at the Healthy Communities Center after receiving orientation and viewing the research exhibit.

The All of Us program, promoted by the National Institutes of Health, seeks to recruit one million participants in the United States to create the largest and most diverse health database in history. Precision medicine studies genes, proteins and other personal factors to improve disease diagnosis and treatment.

To participate, applicants must register, conduct interviews, consent to biological and physical sampling, and complete health surveys. Participants will receive free genomic reports, including a pharmacogenetic and other reports on inherited disease risks.

For more information or to participate in the All of Us study, visit the VOCES PR Healthy Community Center at Plaza Las Américas, write to allofus@vocespr.org or call 1-800-981-0084.

Ports Authority Director Joel A. Pizá Batiz said that with the grant request, “we intend to make multiple improvements to modernize and strengthen the security, efficiency, and reliability of the Port of San Juan, through which 80 percent of food is received, along with other important products.”

The All of Us program, promoted by the National Institutes of Health, seeks to recruit one million participants in the United States to create the largest and most diverse health database in history.

Resident commissioner seeks to affiliate Fort San Gerónimo with National Park System

By THE STAR STAFF

Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón announced Tuesday that she has filed House Resolution 359, which seeks to convert Fort San Gerónimo del Boquerón in San Juan into the first area in Puerto Rico to be affiliated with the National Park System (NPS), and the 31st in the nation.

“Nothing in this section authorizes the Secretary (of the Interior) to acquire property in the affiliated area or assume managerial or financial responsibility for the operation, maintenance, or administration of the affiliated area,” the measure says.

By being designated as an affiliated area, the NPS could provide technical and financial assistance for the site’s preservation.

The resident commissioner said she has teamed with entities such as the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, the State Office of Historic Preservation and the organization Friends of Fort San Gerónimo to preserve the historic structure, which

is included in the National Register of Historic Places of the United States.

Built in 1796, Fort San Gerónimo del Boquerón is the last

waterline fortification in its original state in the Americas, as well as the most threatened property in the military heritage of San Juan, especially after the impact of Hurricane Maria.

Property titles turned over to residents of Rincón, Añasco

By THE STAR STAFF

Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez turned over 49 property titles to residents of the Cerro Los Pobres community in Rincón on Tuesday, as part of the results of the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Fund (CDBG-DR) Title Authorization program.

Similarly, eight property titles were delivered in the special community of Hatillo in Añasco. With the deliveries, the Housing Department surpassed 700 property titles delivered since January 2021.

“Obtaining a land title is an important moment in the lives of many Puerto Ricans who long for the security this document offers,” Rodríguez said. “We are proud to make this dream a reality and we remain committed to

continuing to streamline processes so that more people can receive their title deeds. Today we celebrate with these communities of Rinnón and Añasco to continue making similar announcements in other parts of Puerto Rico, thanks to the recovery funds and the direction established by Gov. Pedro Pierluisi.”

In 2003, the Municipality of Rincón ceded to the Housing Department a farm by deed of 6.45 acres where the Cerro Los Pobres community is located.

“We immediately came to direct the Department and began to address the pending requests and expedite all processes, which has resulted in achieving the ownership that we grant today,” Rodríguez said.

Rincón Mayor Carlos López Bonilla said “the delivery of their Certificates of Ownership of real estate property to this first group of 49 residents of Cerro Los Pobres of our municipality of Rincón represents an act of justice for those who have resided in the place throughout their lives as did their predecessors.”

“It is a great satisfaction for me, and all of us with whom we have, since 2003, worked hand in hand, to carry out this project that contributes to improving their quality of life and offering the security of a home,” the mayor said. “It is an important step toward empowering this community.”

The beneficiary families had access to the program funds, which allowed them to obtain necessary documents such as declarations of heirs, sworn statements, title studies and plans of their respective land plots, among other benefits.

Those who seek more information regarding the delivery of property titles can access the cdbg-dr.pr.gov page or call 1 833 234 2324.

Fort San Gerónimo del Boquerón

Forty-nine property titles were turned over to residents of the Cerro Los Pobres community in Rincón, and another eight titles were delivered to residents in the special community of Hatillo in Añasco on Tuesday.

White House will end most COVID-19 vaccine mandates

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and NOAH WEILAND

The Biden administration will end most federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week, rolling back a vast assertion of government power that helped bring an end to the worst public health threat in 100 years but roiled American politics in the process.

The White House announced the shift in policy Monday, roughly three years after the start of a pandemic that eventually prompted the United States and nations around the world to require hundreds of millions of people to be vaccinated against the fast-moving and rapidly changing coronavirus.

But May 11, those requirements will end for federal workers, international travelers, contractors, Head Start employees and health care workers at many hospitals.

“While vaccination remains one of the most important tools in advancing the health and safety of employees and promoting the efficiency of workplaces,” the White House said, “we are now in a different phase of our response when these measures are no longer necessary.”

The short, four-paragraph statement closes one of the most contentious chapters in recent American history, in which vaccine mandates became a centerpiece for a vitriolic battle between Republicans and Democrats across the country.

That battle was stoked by former President Donald Trump, who initially championed the creation of the COVID vaccines, and his supporters, many of whom recoiled against the idea that the government was telling them what to do.

Starting May 11, the government will no longer do so. Officials said that since January 2021 — about the time that the vaccines started becoming available — COVID deaths in the United States had declined by 95%, and hospitalizations were down almost 91%.

That mirrors the trend around the world, where deaths from the virus are at their lowest levels since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the White House.

Medical experts, many of whom were fierce advocates of government vaccine mandates throughout the pandemic, largely agree that the need for such requirements has diminished as the threat from the virus has faded.

Dr. Paul Auwaerter, clinical director in the infectious diseases division at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said the Biden administration’s move Monday drew it closer to current international strategies to contend with the virus.

The vaccines still help in reducing the chances of hospitalization and death, he said, but are no longer effective at preventing transmission of the virus. The decision about whether to be vaccinated will once again be largely between a doctor and patient, not the government, Auwaerter said.

“People have developed their own sense of risk assessment and need for immunizations,” he said.

Other COVID vaccine mandates have already been relaxed by colleges, local and state governments, and private companies. But the end of federal vaccine requirements will have an immediate impact on tens of thousands of Americans, as well as foreigners who travel to the United States.

Among them is likely to be Novak Djokovic, the Serbian professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in the world in men’s singles but who has been banned from coming to play in the United States because he will not confirm that he is vaccinated.

The lifting of the vaccine requirement for international travelers will most likely mean Djokovic will be able to play in the U.S. Open, which is scheduled to take place in New York in August and September.

The vaccine requirements will be eliminated on the same day that the Biden administration ends the COVID public health emergency, which was declared by the Trump administration on Jan. 31, 2020, shortly after the initial discovery of the respiratory disease in China.

On May 11, a separate set of COVID policies will begin to unwind as well, marking an unofficial end to the most intense phase of the federal government’s pandemic response.

Americans with private health insurance and Medicare plans will no longer be eligible for eight free at-home coronavirus tests each month.

Medicare recipients might also face some cost-sharing for virus tests administered at health providers, while those with private plans might face the same for PCR tests. Some people with private plans may also pay for costs tied to out-of-network COVID vaccinations.

Hospitals will also no longer receive higher Medi-

care payment rates for treating COVID patients. And the Department of Health and Human Services will no longer be able to require that labs report COVID data.

But few things about the pandemic were as controversial as the federal government’s effort to slow the spread of the disease by forcing certain Americans to receive the vaccine.

As cases and deaths spiked across the country, so did the resistance to a vaccine, which many conservatives and supporters of Trump’s attacked as an affront to their personal freedoms.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., called the mandates “absolutely unconstitutional.” Tucker Carlson, who was recently dismissed by Fox News, compared the mandates to “Nazi experiments” and called them immoral and unethical policies of the Biden administration. Trump railed against the mandates after he left office.

“I have to tell you, you can’t mandate it,” Trump said. “You can’t force it. And I don’t think it’s going to be necessary because this thing is going to eventually go away.”

Biden, by contrast, pushed forcefully for a federal vaccine mandate, saying in September 2021 that the reluctance of some Americans to be vaccinated was hampering the government’s efforts to eradicate the disease.

“We’ve been patient,” Biden said. “But our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us.”

But for all of the fierce debate that consumed American politics for years, the end of the administration’s vaccine mandate was delivered with little fanfare, and with none of the drama that surrounded its initial announcement.

Biden did not give a public address, choosing instead to rely on the short statement from his staff to defend both the initial decision to impose the requirements and the move to end them.

“Our COVID-19 vaccine requirements bolstered vaccination across the nation, and our broader vaccination campaign has saved millions of lives,” the White House’s statement said. “We have successfully marshaled a response to make historic investments in broadly accessible vaccines, tests and treatments to help us combat COVID-19.”

But, the statement added simply: “These measures are no longer necessary.”

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A pop-up vaccination event for seniors in Maywood, Ill., Sept. 13, 2022. The Biden administration said on Monday, May 1, 2023, it will end most federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week, rolling back a vast assertion of government power that helped bring an end to the worst public health threat in 100 years but roiled American politics in the process.

US could run out of cash by June 1, Yellen warns

have much impact.

“That, in combination with less-than-expected receipts through April, means that the Treasury’s extraordinary measures will be exhausted sooner than we previously projected,” CBO Director Phillip Swagel wrote in an analysis posted on the agency’s website.

White House officials had not expected the date of possible default to arrive so soon, and the accelerated timetable could scramble Biden’s approach to the potential crisis.

Biden has continued to insist he will not negotiate directly over the limit, saying Congress must raise the cap without conditions.

House Republicans passed legislation in April that would raise the debt limit in exchange for deep spending cuts and roll back recent climate legislation that Democrats passed along party lines. Biden has blasted that bill, saying it would hurt working families while benefiting the oil and gas industry, and he has accused Republicans of putting America’s economy on the line.

On Monday, Biden called on Republicans “to make sure the threat by the Speaker of the House to default on the national debt is off the table.”

“For over 200 years, America has never, ever, ever failed to pay its debt. To put in the capital — in colloquial terms, America is not a deadbeat nation. We have never, ever failed to meet the debt,” Biden said.

By ALAN RAPPEPORT and JIM TANKERSLEY

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said earlier this week that the United States could run out of money to pay its bills by June 1 if Congress does not raise or suspend the debt limit, putting pressure on President Joe Biden and lawmakers to reach a swift agreement to avoid defaulting on the nation’s debt. The more precise warning over when the United States could hit the so-called X-date dramatically reduces the projected amount of time lawmakers have to reach a deal before the government runs out of money to pay all of its bills on time. The new timeline could accelerate negotiations among the House, Senate and Biden over government spending — or a high-stakes standoff between Biden and the House Republicans who have refused to raise the limit without deep spending cuts attached.

In response to Yellen’s new timeline, Biden on Monday called the top four leaders in Congress to ask for a meeting

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May 9 to discuss fiscal issues. Biden reached out to Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the minority leader, along with Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader.

Economists have warned that failure to raise the debt limit, which caps the total amount of money the United States can borrow, threatens to rock financial markets and throw the global economy into a financial crisis.

Because the United States runs a budget deficit — meaning it spends more money than it takes in — it must borrow huge sums of money to pay its bills. In addition to paying Social Security benefits, along with salaries for the military and government workers, the United States is also required to make interest and other payments to the bondholders who own its debt.

The Treasury Department had previously projected that it could run out of cash sometime in early June, but the new estimate raises the alarming prospect that the United States could be unable to make some payments, including to bondholders, in a matter of weeks.

“Given the current projections, it is imperative that Congress act as soon as possible to increase or suspend the debt limit in a way that provides longer-term certainty that the government will continue to make its payments,” Yellen said in a letter to Congress.

The Congressional Budget Office also warned Monday that time was running out more quickly than previously thought. The nonpartisan budget office said tax receipts from income payments that were processed in April were smaller than it had anticipated and that future tax payments were unlikely to

Republican Senators reacted to the news Monday by emphasizing the onus was now on Biden to negotiate to avoid economic calamity.

“It is very scary,” Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and a member of GOP leadership said of the looming crisis. “President Biden needs to step it up and get to the table. Kevin McCarthy and the folks in the house, they did their part.”

Some expressed optimism that the approaching deadline would force action.

“Washington’s at its best when it has a deadline to respond to,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C.

Schumer and Jeffries urged Republicans to lift the limit immediately with no strings attached. “We do not have the luxury of waiting until June 1 to come together, pass a clean bill to avoid a default and prevent catastrophic consequences for our economy and millions of American families,” the lawmakers wrote in a joint statement Monday.

Although markets have broadly remained calm about the prospect of a default, there are some signs that investors are becoming nervous.

They have sold government bonds that mature in three months — around the time policymakers have said the United States could run out of cash — and snapped up bonds with just one month until they are repaid.

In a separate report issued by the Treasury Department on Monday about the risks facing the economy, Eric Van Nostrand, the acting assistant secretary for economic policy, laid out the dire consequences of failing to raise the debt limit.

“A default by the U.S. government — including the failure to pay any of the United States’ obligations — would be an economic catastrophe, sparking a global downturn of unknown but substantial severity,” Van Nostrand said.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks to reporters in Washington on April 11, 2023.

Fugitive accused of killing 5 in Texas was deported several times, officials say

By JESÚS JIMÉNEZ

Immigration officials revealed earlier this week that a fugitive Mexican national accused of killing five neighbors over the weekend had previously been deported four times. Even as he remained at large and the target of an extensive search, the case seemed sure to reignite bitter national debates over immigration policy and gun control.

It began Friday evening with a type of noise complaint not uncommon in rural Texas. Authorities said the suspect, Francisco Oropesa, was shooting a gun in his yard in Cleveland, Texas, when a neighbor, Wilson Garcia, approached him and asked him to stop so that his baby could sleep.

Oropesa, 38, responded by getting an AR-15 rifle from his house and walking over to Garcia’s home about 11:30 p.m., where he killed Garcia’s 8-year-old son, wife and three other people, authorities said.

Two women who were killed were shielding a 6-week-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. The gunman then chased Garcia, who escaped through a window and ran.

An official with U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday that an immigration judge had ordered ICE to deport Oropesa to Mexico in March 2009. He illegally returned to the United States, and he was caught and removed by ICE in September 2009, January 2012 and July 2016, the official said.

It was unclear what had led to his initial deportation order, but the immigration official said Oropesa was later convicted in Montgomery County, Texas, for driving while intoxicated in January 2012 and sentenced to jail.

Even while the FBI and several Texas law enforcement agencies sought the fugitive, attention turned quickly to the immigration status of the suspect and his victims.

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, a frequent critic of federal policy, said Sunday that the suspect was in the country illegally but on Monday walked back part of his initial comments that the victims were “five illegal immigrants.”

“We’ve since learned that at least one of the victims may have been in the United States legally,” Renae Eze, a spokesperson for the governor, said in a statement Monday. “We regret if the information was incorrect and detracted from the important goal of finding and arresting the criminal.”

ICE officials did not immediately respond to an email about the immigration status of the victims who were killed, all of whom were from Honduras. If survivors were in the country illegally, they would be eligible to apply for a special visa designated for witnesses of a crime.

Before Abbott walked back part of his comments,

the League of United Latin American Citizens, a civil rights organization, called for him to apologize for his remarks about the victims.

“LULAC firmly believes that every human being, regardless of their immigration status, deserves to be treated with dignity and respect,” said Rodolfo Rosales Jr., the Texas LULAC state director.

Gun-control advocates, meanwhile, were quick to point out that the suspect had used an AR-15 rifle, the weapon of choice in many shootings, which critics call a weapon of war designed to kill as many people as possible.

It was not known where the suspect had obtained the gun, which authorities said had been discarded and found after the killings. It was possible, they said, that he had a second weapon.

Authorities have offered a total reward of $80,000 for information leading to the capture of Oropesa, and on Monday posted signs in Spanish in Cleveland and elsewhere in San Jacinto County seeking help in finding him.

The search Monday briefly extended outside Cleveland, Texas, which is about 45 miles northeast of Houston, when authorities in neighboring Montgomery County received two reports that a man who possibly matched a description of Oropesa had been seen in the area, prompting some schools to secure their campuses.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office asked residents to stay indoors while deputies, dogs and heli-

copters scoured the area, but officials did not find him.

On Sunday, 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.”

Adding difficulty to the search, authorities had initially identified the suspect as Francisco Oropeza, but on Sunday 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.

Sheriff Greg Capers of San Jacinto County said 10 people were inside the house at the time of the shooting. He said that Oropesa had been drinking when Garcia asked him to stop firing. Capers said that Oropesa responded, “I’ll do what I want to in my front yard.”

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.

“I have no words to describe what happened,” Garcia said in Spanish at a vigil Sunday evening, 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.”

A photo provided by the FBI shows Francisco Oropesa, 38, a Mexican national who the authorities say murdered five neighbors in Cleveland, Texas. Immigration officials revealed on Monday, May 1, 2023, that Oropesa had previously been deported four times; officials are offering up to $80,000 for information leading to his capture.

Hollywood writers go on strike, halting production

go dark immediately. Reality series and some international shows, which are not covered by the guild, will be aired in heavy rotation.

It would take a long strike before there is a slowdown in the arrival of new TV shows and movies, because the production process for them can take months or more than a year.

A prolonged production shutdown could also prove damaging to local economies, particularly the workers who help support productions, such as drivers, costume dry cleaners, caterers, set carpenters and lumber yard workers. When the writers last went on strike, for 100 days in 2007, the Los Angeles economy lost an estimated $2.1 billion.

Seth Meyers, the host of NBC’s 12:30 a.m. late night show, alluded to the devastation of the last strike in a segment late last week.

definition of a miniroom. But in one example, studios convene a small group of writers before a show has been given an official green light to compose a script. But writers are often paid less to work in minirooms, WGA officials have said.

Writers have also said that the sudden growth of minirooms has also disrupted the decadeslong art of learning how to make a television show. Mike Schur, the creator of “The Good Place” and co-creator of “Parks and Recreation,” said that when he was a young writer on “The Office,” he learned how to write a script, rewrite, edit, work with actors and became familiar with specialized crafts like set design and sound mixing.

“This is not stuff you can read in a book,” he said. “This is stuff that you have to experience.”

By JOHN KOBLIN and BROOKS BARNES

Hollywood’s 15 years of labor peace was shattered Tuesday, as movie and television writers went on strike, bringing many productions to a halt and dealing a blow to an industry that has been rocked in recent years by the pandemic and sweeping technological shifts.

The unions representing the writers said in a statement, hours before their three-year contract expired at midnight Pacific time, that they had “voted unanimously to call a strike.” Writers will begin walking picket lines Tuesday afternoon.

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of Hollywood companies, said in a statement that its offer included “generous increases in compensation for writers.” The organization added that it remained willing to keep negotiating.

The primary sticking points, according to the studios, involve union proposals that would require companies to staff television shows with a certain number of writers for a specified period of time “whether needed or not.”

The unions representing the writers, the East and West branches of the Writers Guild of America, said “the companies’ behavior

has created a gig economy inside a union workforce, and their immovable stance in this negotiation has betrayed a commitment to further devaluing the profession of writing.”

Chris Keyser, a co-chair of the WGA negotiating committee, said in an interview that “philosophically, and practically, we’re very far apart.”

The dispute has pitted 11,500 screenwriters against the major studios, including old guard entertainment companies like Universal and Paramount as well as tech industry newcomers like Netflix, Amazon and Apple.

The WGA painted the dispute in stark terms, saying that the ascendance of streaming services and the explosion of television production have eroded their working conditions. It has described this as an “existential” moment, and that “the survival of writing as a profession is at stake in this negotiation.”

Entertainment companies, which had previously said they were approaching the talks with “the long-term health and stability of the industry as our priority,” are confronting a rapidly changing business as network and cable television viewership plummets.

For viewers, the most immediate effect will be felt on talk and sketch shows. Late night shows like “Saturday Night Live,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” will likely

“It doesn’t just affect the writers,” Meyers said in the web-only video. “It affects all the incredible nonwriting staff on these shows. And it would really be a miserable thing for people to have to go through, especially considering we’re on the heels of that awful pandemic.”

The writers have raised numerous grievances. In a very of-the-moment twist, the writers are seeking to put significant guardrails around the use of artificial intelligence. But the most pressing issue to them is compensation.

Over the past decade, a period that is often referred to as Peak TV, the number of scripted television shows broadcast in the United States has risen sharply. Writers, however, said that their pay has stagnated.

In the network television era, a writer could get work on a show with more than 20 episodes a season, providing a steady living for an entire year. However, in the streaming era, episode orders have declined to eight or 12, and the median weekly pay for a writerproducer has gone down slightly, the WGA said.

The writers want to also fix the formula for residual payments, which have been upended by streaming. Years ago, writers could receive residual payments whenever a show was licensed — into syndication or through DVD sales. But global streaming services like Netflix and Amazon have cut off those distribution arms, and pay a fixed residual instead.

The unions have taken particular aim at so-called minirooms, which have proliferated over the past decade. There is no one

Studio executives have said privately that they have their own share of problems, and this is not the best time to be giving significant raises.

For several years, Wall Street rewarded media companies for investing in their streaming services at any cost in order to grow their subscriber pool. But investors soured on that philosophy last year, prompting studio executives to find a way to turn their moneylosing streaming services into profit engines.

The fallout has been brutal. Disney is in the process of laying off 7,000 employees. Warner Bros. Discovery laid off thousands and shelved titles last year as it tries to pay down a debt load of around $50 billion. Other media companies have adopted similar cost-saving measures.

With that said, executives have also contended that they can weather a strike. Last month, David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, said, “We’ve got ourselves ready, we’ve had a lot of content that’s been produced.” Two weeks ago, Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO of Netflix, suggested the streaming service would be better protected than his competitors because of how many unscripted and foreign series it has in production. “We could probably serve our members better than most,” he said.

Still, he conceded the consequences from a strike would be significant.

“The last time there was a strike, it was devastating to creators,” Sarandos said. “It was really hard in the industry. It was painful for local economies that support production and it was very, very, very bad for fans.”

Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. The dispute has pitted 11,500 television and screenwriters against the major studios, including old guard entertainment companies like Disney and Paramount as well as tech industry newcomers like Netflix, Amazon and Apple.

Recession talk tapers off on latest quarterly conference calls

While Wall Street frets that the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes will tip the U.S. economy into a recession, discussions on recent quarterly conference calls hint that corporations and analysts have become a bit less concerned.

Terms related to an economic downturn have been uttered less on quarterly earnings calls in the past few weeks than in the previous few reporting seasons, according to a Reuters analysis of S&P 500 conference call transcripts.

Reports for the first quarter broadly point to shrinking profits for the U.S.’ largest companies but less than analysts feared.

“There was a lot of pessimism going into the quarter, mostly because of the substantial increase in interest rates, but also because of the softening economic numbers that have come out,” said Peter Tuz, president of Chase Investment Counsel in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“Companies have been able to handle a downturn in demand pretty well because of higher prices and costs not rising as much as they were able to push prices,” Tuz said.

With first-quarter reports over half way through, analysts on average see aggregate earnings per share for S&P 500 companies declining 1.4% year over year, according to Refinitiv I/B/E/S. Before companies began to report at the start of April, Wall Street had been bracing for a 5.1% drop.

Discussion about economic downturns appears to have been relatively limited on recent quarterly analyst conference calls.

The terms “recession,” “downturn” and “slowdown” were used on the calls in a variety of ways, not all of which point to bad news. For example, On Semiconductor in its quarterly call on Monday said demand for its chips for electric cars and energy infrastructure remained healthy despite “a broad-based macroeconomic slowdown.”

Aggressive interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve to contain decades-high inflation have fueled speculation that a recession is likely, while the recent collapse of First Republic Bank and the March failure of two other regional banks have added to concerns.

The Fed is widely expected to raise interest rates by 25 basis points at the end of its two-day meeting on Wednesday, in the latest escalation of the central bank’s fastest rate hike campaign since the 1980s.

In another recent report, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd sailed past estimates on Monday, with CEO Harry Sommer telling analysts he sees a “healthy demand environment.”

“Even with the banking-sector-driven financial-market volatility in March, we did not experience any unusual booking or cancellation activity across any of our brands,” Sommer said.

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Terms related to “recession” have been mentioned on 41% of conference calls held in recent weeks by companies in the S&P 500. That rate is marginally lower than the fourth quarter but down significantly from a peak of 59% of calls held during last year’s full second-quarter reporting season.

With reporting season over half way through, the three recession-related terms have come up a total of 253 times on calls, or about 0.9 times per call. That compares to 535

mentions on analyst calls for the entirety of the previous quarterly reporting season, equivalent to 1.1 mentions per call.

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.

Sudan’s warring generals agree to weeklong truce, says South Sudan

By ABDI LATIF DAHIR

The two rival generals fighting in Sudan agreed to a seven-day truce starting Thursday and will name representatives to peace talks, according to the Foreign Ministry of South Sudan, which has been working with other neighboring countries to negotiate an end to a conflict that has sent more than 100,000 refugees pouring across their borders in a few weeks.

There was no immediate public confirmation, however, that an agreement had been reached from either side in the conflict between the Sudanese army, led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, led by Lt. Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo. And no date has been set yet for negotiations to begin, South Sudan’s Foreign Ministry added in a statement.

The United Nations has also been pressing for peace talks, and a spokesperson, Farhan Haq, was cautious about South Sudan’s statement Tuesday. Haq, deputy spokesperson for the U.N. secretary-general, said at a briefing: “We would certainly welcome any lasting meaningful truce. First, of course, we will have to see whether this is accepted by all the parties and whether it is implemented by the forces on the ground.”

The fighting has persisted despite previous cease-fires and threatens to undermine regional stability. More than 300,000 people have been internally displaced, in addition to the more than 100,000 who have fled, mostly into Chad, South Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia and the Central African Republic, according to figures released by U.N. agencies Tuesday.

The U.N. refugee agency also warned that more than 800,000 people could try to escape Sudan by the end of this year to the seven nations bordering the northeastern African country — many of them already reeling from their own economic, political and refugee crises.

More than 500 people have died and more than 4,000 have been injured in the latest conflict in Sudan, according to the World Health Organization.

Neighboring South Sudan was one of the first countries to offer to arbitrate between the two warring sides, with President Salva Kiir offering to host along with his Egyptian counterpart, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. South Sudan is part of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, an eight-nation regional bloc that includes Sudan. And Sudanese political factions have in the past convened in South Sudan for talks on sharing

power and ending the long-standing conflict in Darfur and other regions.

On Tuesday, the regional bloc said in a statement that it was “particularly happy” to see that both Burhan and Dagalo “are persuaded that dialogue is the best and only option to address grievances and not war.”

The outbreak of violence in Sudan has dashed whatever hopes residents had of achieving a transition to civilian democratic rule, which was scuttled by a military coup in 2021.

On Tuesday morning, residents in parts of the capital, Khartoum, reported intense clashes and heavy shelling throughout the night before. Many residents are without electricity and worried about dwindling food and water. Given the deteriorating situation, the United Nations said it was preparing for

a mass exodus from Sudan, a nation of more than 45 million people that was already facing dire humanitarian crises before the latest fighting.

“We hope it doesn’t come to that,” Filippo Grandi, the high commissioner for the U.N. refugee agency, said in a statement, “but if violence doesn’t stop, we will see more people forced to flee Sudan seeking safety.”

More than 334,000 people were also internally displaced in 14 of Sudan’s 18 states, the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday.

The U.N. predictions that more than 800,000 could flee over the rest of this year were published after consultations with the governments of the seven nations surrounding Sudan — the Central African Republic,

Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya and South Sudan.

So far, more than 30,000 people have arrived in Chad, which was already hosting 400,000 refugees from Sudan, many of whom fled fighting in the western region of Darfur. More than 20,000 people have also arrived in South Sudan, said Raouf Mazou, the assistant high commissioner for operations at the U.N. refugee agency. Egypt had also taken in about 14,000 people since the fighting began April 15, Mazou said.

The fighting has been most intense in major cities like Khartoum and Omdurman, but has also spread to Darfur. Many Sudanese worry that the clashes will intensify in major cities as foreign governments finalize evacuation plans for their citizens and diplomatic staff.

Sudan was hosting 1.3 million refugees from several neighboring countries as well as Syria before the latest violence broke out. Many were gravitating to major towns and cities seeking work and help from aid agencies. But a prolonged fight means aid agencies will be forced to halt or limit those operations.

Several aid agencies have already suspended operations in the country or have left their local staff members running slimmeddown outfits. On Monday, the World Food Program said it would resume its services in Sudan, weeks after it halted operations following the killing of three staff members.

The United Nations has predicted that a majority of the refugees fleeing the violence in Sudan would be Sudanese nationals, but more than 200,000 South Sudanese refugees are also expected to return home to even more difficult circumstances, the agency said.

Humanitarian organizations have begun preparing contingency plans to receive refugees in neighboring countries. But aid officials say the locations face significant challenges, including volatile security and difficult supply chains.

As the number of refugees grows, aid agencies will also need increased funding, personnel and relief supplies, said Allison Huggins, the deputy regional director for Africa at Mercy Corps, a nongovernmental organization.

“This conflict would not only have catastrophic consequences for Sudan but also for neighboring countries,” Huggins said. “Any prolonged period of insecurity would have far-reaching consequences for the region, impacting the economy and the growing refugee population.”

Refugees from Sudan in Chad on Sunday. Many of Sudan’s neighbors are reeling from their own economic, political and refugee crises.

Smoke rising above buildings in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, on Monday. The conflict has been most intense in major cities like Khartoum.

By CAROL ROSENBERG

AU.N. human rights panel has urged the United States to immediately release Abu Zubaydah, a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay and the first detainee waterboarded by the CIA after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention also said that after studying other cases at Guantánamo over the past 15 years, it had seen a pattern that could “constitute crimes against humanity.”

The prisoner, whose real name is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Husayn, was captured in a raid in Pakistan in 2002 and has been held at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba without charges since 2006.

The United States has argued that its basis for holding him indefinitely in the war against terrorism is that, although he was never a member of al-Qaida, he helped jihadis reach Afghanistan for training before the Sept. 11 attacks.

The body, which has no enforcement mechanism, also found that Abu Zubaydah had been denied a meaningful review of his detention and so was being unlawfully held. “The appropriate remedy would be to release Mr. Zubaydah immediately and accord him an enforceable right to compensation and other reparations, in accordance with international law,” the group said in an opinion.

He was the first prisoner of a CIA “black site,” a global network of overseas, secret prisons that held more than 100 men beyond the reach of U.S. law and the International Committee of the Red Cross from 2002-06.

Two CIA contract psychologists devised a torture pro-

gram of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” specifically for use on him in an agency prison in Thailand, in which he was waterboarded, deprived of sleep and confined in a coffinlike box.

In 2019, Abu Zubaydah drew sketches of how he was tortured. His lawyers made the drawings public, with the face of an interrogator redacted behind a black box.

The report criticized five other nations where the United

States held Abu Zubaydah — Afghanistan, Thailand, Poland, Morocco and Lithuania. In 2018, the European Court of Human Rights censured Lithuania and Romania for their complicity in the CIA program.

The U.N. also denounced the “complicity” of Britain, whose intelligence agencies had U.S. interrogators question the prisoner at black sites despite its knowledge of his “extreme mistreatment.”

It was the latest in a series of condemnations of the United States released since the U.N. group, which is based in Geneva, adopted the 19-page opinion in November. The document was made public Friday.

Other U.N. human rights investigations have been sharply critical of U.S. military health care at the wartime prison and a policy that considers detainee artwork the property of the U.S. government.

Abu Zubaydah’s lawyer, Lt. Col. Chantell M. Higgins, a U.S. Marine, said the condemnation should provide “a greater incentive for the United States to find a place for him to go, and release him.”

Although born in Saudi Arabia, Abu Zubaydah is a Palestinian with no immediate country to receive him.

Helen Duffy, an international human rights lawyer who brought his case before the U.N. body, said Monday that Abu Zubaydah “has a well-founded fear of further violations if sent to Saudi, and we hope to engage with the United States and other states on alternative sites of relocation.”

Higgins suggested that Qatar might be a suitable location, noting that the country “has been generous and successfully taken in foreigners detained at Guantánamo.”

UN body demands release of Guantánamo prisoner who was tortured by the CIA White House says 100,000-plus Russian fighters died in past five months

By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS

At least 100,000 Russian fighters have been killed or wounded in Ukraine in the past five months, the White House said earlier this week, the latest measure of the vast human toll of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.

John Kirby, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, said the figure included 20,000 Russian fighters who had been killed in action. About half of those were mercenaries for the Wagner group, the paramilitary force founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin that recruited heavily from Russian prisons to bolster its ranks and carry out a brutal campaign around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

In November, Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reported that 100,000 fighters on each side had been killed or wounded since the war began in February 2022. But U.S. officials believe the losses have grown for Russia as it has sent waves of poorly trained recruits and convicts to the front lines in Ukraine’s east, where months of intense fighting has engulfed the area around Bakhmut, a city that has been central to Putin’s goal of seizing the Donbas region.

While both sides have fought bitterly over Bakhmut, mili-

tary analysts have suggested that control of the city has more than symbolic power than strategic importance.

“Russia’s attempt at an offensive in the Donbas largely through Bakhmut has failed,” Kirby said. “Russia has been unable to seize any real strategic and significant territory.”

Estimating casualties is notoriously difficult. Moscow is believed to undercount those killed or injured on the battlefield, and Kirby did not provide specific details on how the United States had calculated Russia’s losses, except to say it involved corroborated intelligence.

A trove of leaked Pentagon documents disclosed in April included an American estimate that as of February, Russia had sustained between 189,500 and 223,000 casualties, including up to 43,000 killed in action. The document also estimated that Ukraine had suffered 124,500 to 131,000 casualties, with up to 17,500 killed in action.

Kyiv has also been reluctant to disclose wartime losses and Kirby did not provide any updates on Ukrainian casualties Monday.

“They are the victims here,” he said. “Russia is the aggressor.”

A group opposed to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay protests in front of the White House in Washington, Jan. 11, 2023.

Drone operators prepare to deploy a drone during training exercises outside Kyiv, Ukraine, May 2, 2023.

Scotland’s coronation day: Charles souvenirs, anti-monarchy rallies and shrugs

By STEPHEN CASTLE

As co-leader of the Scottish Green Party, Lorna Slater attended three official ceremonies honoring the death of Queen Elizabeth II, including her state funeral. But she won’t be going to the coronation of King Charles III.

Paying last respects to a widely revered queen was one thing, she said, even if the funeral seemed at times “like a film set from ‘Game of Thrones.’” But a lavish coronation ceremony for Charles, Slater said, is “absolutely repellent when you have families who can’t afford to feed their kids.”

With the crown passing from Elizabeth to her less popular son, Britain’s monarchy faces a test throughout the country, but nowhere more than in Scotland. Pro-independence sentiment has long simmered there alongside ambivalence about the royal family: affection in some quarters, frustration in others and, maybe most troubling for the monarchy, a growing indifference.

In one poll, almost three-quarters of people questioned in Scotland said they did not care about the coronation, and less than half thought Britain should continue with a monarchy. In interviews, some Scots echoed Slater’s worries about the cost-of-living crisis rippling through British homes. But while some lamented the inequality symbolized by the crown, others said the royals were part of national heritage and helped drive business.

According to John Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde and

Britain’s leading polling expert, surveys in Scotland show support for the crown around 10 to 15 percentage points lower than in England, in part because of the country’s big, polarizing constitutional debate over Scottish independence.

“Scotland is different, and a nontrivial reason as to why Scotland is different is that people who are in favor independence tend to be opposed to the monarchy,” he said.

“The crown is a British institution and people who don’t want to be part of the United Kingdom tend to say, ‘No, we don’t want that, thank you very much,’” he added.

Scotland does not appear close to another decision about independence. In 2014, Scots voted to remain part of the United Kingdom, and prospects of a second referendum — one

that might open the door to an independent republic — have receded recently, amid a financing scandal engulfing the pro-independence Scottish National Party, which leads the government in Edinburgh.

Still, there are signs of a debate stirring. Addressing around 70 opponents of the monarchy at a recent event, Slater said that on coronation day, Saturday, she would attend a rally for a Scottish republic in Edinburgh alongside her party’s other co-leader, Patrick Harvie.

At the same event he, too, spoke about spurning an invitation. “I told them I was washing my hair,” the shaven-headed Harvie said to loud applause.

Even Kate Forbes, the more socially conservative runner-up to Yousaf, sounded ambivalent in a TV debate in March. Asked whether she would prefer Charles or Andy Murray, the Scottish tennis star, as head of state for an independent Scotland, she said, “In the long term I think that’s a question for the people of Scotland but I’m a big fan of Andy Murray.”

The royal family retains strong ties to Scotland, however, and when Elizabeth died at Balmoral Castle, an estate in the remote and spectacular Scottish countryside that she loved, some believed that she chose to end her days there to help bind her realms. Tens of thousands of Scots paid their respects as her coffin traveled to Edinburgh, where it lay in state before being flown to London.

Royalists in Scotland consider the monarchy just as Scottish as English. In 1603, following the death of Elizabeth I, James VI of Scotland succeeded her, becoming James I of England. A formal union took place a century later in 1707.

In Ballater, near Balmoral, several events are planned to mark the coronation, including a ball, a concert, a pipe band performance and a picnic.

Wendy Cobban, who runs the Brakeley Gift Room with her husband and has helped

organize the celebrations, said the royal family took an interest in the community and were vital to its economy. “They keep us all in a job, let’s face it, either working in Balmoral or the estates or those who benefit from the tourism that it attracts,” she said.

Across the road at H.M. Sheridan butcher’s, co-owner John Sinclair was selling a commemorative coronation sausage, with pork, plums, ginger and hoisin sauce.

“It’s got a sweetness, but it’s got a kick with the ginger at the end, so it’s a nice sausage,” said Sinclair, who supplies Balmoral Castle, has met many royals, including the king, and counts Princess Anne among his occasional customers.

“She’s partial to a smoky pork sausage,” Sinclair said.

Locals tend to leave visiting royals relatively untroubled. “If they do come, I just treat them as normal, I am not up for bowing and scraping,” said Delane Morrison-Wallace, the manager of Treehouse gift shop. She said she had reservations about the monarchy but saw benefits, too: “I get that it’s a ridiculous concept — of course I do — but I do see that they do a lot for charities and causes and little places like this.”

In Glasgow, the mood is mixed, reflecting generational divides and the city’s history of religious differences, which are still expressed to some extent in support for rival soccer teams: Celtic (traditionally Roman Catholic and antimonarchy) and Rangers (Protestant and favoring union with England).

At the Bristol Bar, where many Rangers fans gather, owner Greg Wylie plans to encircle the building with giant British flags on coronation day.

Wylie said that sectarian divisions had greatly diminished over decades, but that the team retains a distinctive identity. “We are a British club, which doesn’t make us any less Scottish — we oppose all talk of independence,” he said. “Charles has taken over, we will just continue, we will have a day for his coronation and take it from there.”

A few miles away at a city center mall, William Russell, a retired landscape gardener, praised the king as an ambassador for the nation and said he planned to watch the coronation, expecting “a spectacular event.”

But outside, Charlize Ellis, a 19-year-old student, said she had little time for a monarchy, calling it irrelevant to her generation.

“I don’t care that much for the royals,” she said, adding that there was a glaring contrast “when you see things like the king’s coronation while people are struggling to heat their homes.”

Asked about her coronation day plans, Ellis was unable to say. “I don’t even know when it is,” she said.

A knitted King Charles III and Camilla, his queen consort, on top of a post box in Ballater, Scotland, near Balmoral Castle, on April 24, 2023.

Disney v. DeSantis: How strong is the company’s lawsuit?

By DAVID FRENCH

To understand why Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida should lose in his quest to punish The Walt Disney Co. for the high crime of publicly disagreeing with Ron DeSantis, it is first necessary to talk about tow trucks. Specifically, it’s necessary to discuss a case about tow trucks and the First Amendment and how it answers a key question: If the government offers some person or entity a benefit, can it also take it away?

The tow truck story begins in the early 1990s in Northlake, Illinois. For decades the city had maintained a list of tow truck companies available for use by the Police Department. The list worked simply enough — when police needed towing services, they simply went down the list before each tow, with the next towing company receiving the next call. While towing companies didn’t have a right to be on the list, once placed on it, the city’s policy was to remove companies only “for cause.”

In 1993, John Gratzianna, the owner of O’Hare Truck Service, declined to support the campaign of the incumbent mayor of Northlake, backing his opponent instead. The mayor then removed Gratzianna’s company from the towing list, and Gratzianna sued.

The case was one of many to raise the constitutional question of when the government is allowed to take away benefits it was never obligated to provide. Let’s take, for example, public employment. Being hired for a government job isn’t a right. It’s a privilege.

But if the government isn’t obligated to hire me, does that

mean it can fire me for any reason? Absolutely not. Antidiscrimination laws and constitutional principles prevent it from firing me or punishing me because of my race, sex or religion, for example. And even if I’m a public employee, the First Amendment is going to prevent the government from punishing me when I speak as a private citizen on matters of public concern.

This restriction on the government is a very good thing indeed. There are approximately 20 million government employees in the United States. Government-orchestrated campaigns of censorship and reprisal against its own employees would not just distort the public square but would also disrupt the democratic process itself, inducing real fear whenever employees refused to support incumbent politicians.

But that’s employment. What about government financial benefits? How many strings can public officials attach to their immense financial resources? And that brings us back to O’Hare Truck Service. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for a 7-2 majority, quoted case law and reaffirmed a clear constitutional principle: “If the government could deny a benefit to a person because of his constitutionally protected speech or associations, his exercise of those freedoms would in effect be penalized and inhibited.”

“Such interference with constitutional rights,” he added, “is impermissible.”

Not only is this a correct statement of constitutional law; it’s also a necessary statement. America’s federal, state and local governments control immense resources. Total government spending is more than $9 trillion annually, and those are just direct expenditures. The government also controls the ability to enact tax breaks and other financial incentives for individuals and businesses. And while there are good arguments against governments providing economic inducements and incentives to private corporations, those inducements and incentives cannot then depend on an implied requirement that the corporations agree with the government on matters of public policy. Otherwise, governments could use the power of the purse to create a two-tiered society, granting and withholding government largesse on the basis of political agreement.

Make no mistake, the Florida government’s actions against Disney were directly motivated by the company’s disagreement with a policy pushed by DeSantis. Disney’s legal complaint, filed in federal court in the Northern District of Florida, is chock-full of evidence that the governor and other Florida officials targeted the company for one overriding reason: It put out a statement objecting to House Bill 1557, the Parental Rights in Education Act, which sharply restricted instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida public schools.

Statements from DeSantis and other Republican state officials are remarkably brazen. DeSantis said he thought Disney’s mild opposition — it mainly consisted of a public statement and a phone call from the former Disney CEO Bob Chapek to DeSantis, moves that a number of LGBTQ activists considered inadequate — “crossed the line,” and he promised to “make sure we’re fighting back.” He accused Disney of “pledging a frontal assault on a duly enacted law of the state

of Florida.”

So what? Laws are not holy writ, and if the First Amendment protects anything, it protects our ability to object to the laws passed to govern our states and our nation.

But those statements were just the tip of the iceberg. State Rep. Spencer Roach said, “If Disney wants to embrace woke ideology, it seems fitting that they should be regulated by Orange County.” This statement refers to the initial punishment chosen by DeSantis and Florida Republicans — the planned dissolution of an entity called the Reedy Creek Improvement District, one of more than 1,800 special tax districts that dot the Florida landscape.

Reedy Creek “oversees land use and environmental protections” in the district, which encompasses Disney World and various adjoining properties. Its Disney-appointed board governed the district, and it helped empower Disney World’s remarkable growth. Florida’s Legislature ultimately yanked control of Reedy Creek from Disney, renamed it the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District and handed it to a board appointed by DeSantis.

Disney responded, however, by working with the outgoing board to pass a development agreement and restrictive covenants that would greatly limit the authority of the new DeSantis board.

This action led to Florida’s next round of reprisals against Disney. The new DeSantis board voted to nullify the new contracts, and DeSantis himself mused at how the state and the new board might wield its power to punish Disney: “People are like, ‘Well, there’s what should we do with this land?’ So you know, it’s like, OK. People have said, you know, maybe create a state park, maybe try to do more amusement parks. Someone even said, like, maybe you need another state prison. Who knows? I mean, I just think the possibilities are endless.”

The motivations could not be clearer: The state of Florida is targeting Disney because of the company’s constitutionally protected expression. Or, as Rep. Randy Fine, a Republican, stated: “You got me on one thing — this bill does target one company. It targets the Walt Disney Co.”

At the beginning of this piece, I said that DeSantis should lose, not that he will lose. Court outcomes are never completely certain, but this much is correct: A Disney defeat would represent a dangerous reversal in First Amendment jurisprudence and cast a pall of fear over private expression. In its complaint, Disney wrote, “In America the government cannot punish you for speaking your mind.” That is true now and will remain so if Disney wins its case. If Disney loses, on the other hand, America’s first liberty will be at risk, and the culture wars will escalate out of control.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida at a news conference about his punitive measures against the Walt Disney Co., in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., April 17, 2023.

Senado devuelve a Comisión nombramiento de Nannette Martínez a PRITS

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SAN JUAN – El presidente del Senado, José Luis Dalmau Santiago, solicitó el martes, devolver el nombramiento de Nannette Martínez, como directora ejecutiva de la Oficina de Innovación y Servicios de Tecnología (PRITS) a la Comisión de Nombramientos.

Dalmau Santiago expuso en un turno de mociones previo a los actos de invocación: “Para presentar una Moción de Reconsideración del Informe presentado de la designada directora ejecutiva de PRITS, Nannette Martínez”.

Añadió: “Para que dicho asunto sea devuelto a al Comisión de Nombramientos”.

Acto seguido, el portavoz del Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), en el Senado, Thomas Rivera Schatz, secundó la Moción, a la que se le unió varios integrantes de esa delegación.

El pasado martes, el nombramiento de Martínez recibió 12 votos en contra del PPD y 12 a favor de otras delegaciones políticas. Al ser un empate, Dalmau Santiago anunció la derrota del nombramiento.

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MOROVIS – En la noche del lunes, en el servicarro de un restaurante de comida rápida en el centro comercial Manatí Plaza, se registró un nuevo intento de carjacking, donde dos individuos comenzaron un forcejeo con su hijo de la conductora, que iba de pasajero. Sorprendentemente, un empleado salió al estacionamiento y los individuos se marcharon del lugar sin ocasionar daño físico a los perjudicados. “Lo de ayer fue otro caso más donde los asaltos de este tipo continúan y las autoridades federales, teniendo un campo de acción muy amplio y recursos de investigación, personal, equipo e inteligencia estratégica, deberían producir resultados con la celeridad que requiere la ciudadanía”, señaló la alcaldesa de Morovis Carmen Maldonado.

La primera ejecutiva municipal hizo un llamado al fiscal federal para el distrito de Puerto Rico, Stephen Muldrow, a que se fortalezca la labor investigativa en estos casos. “Sabemos de su compromiso con la seguridad de la ciudadanía, pero los casos de carjacking siguen en aumento y la colaboración tiene que ser total con las policías estatal y municipal. De igual manera, la colaboración ciudadana es vital”.

Sumado el caso de ayer en Manatí, también el Negociado de la Policía reportó que un hombre y su acompañante sufrieron anoche un carjacking frente a un teatro en la calle Del Parque en Santurce, San

Juan, a eso de las 12:30 am. Los asaltantes despojaron a ambos de sus celulares, dos juegos de llave, $25 en efectivo y el vehículo de motor, cuya tablilla es IZD-026.

Según los propios informes del Negociado de la Policía, el 20 de abril pasado, un ciudadano fue víctima de un carjacking a punta de un rifle durante la noche mientras transitaba por la carretera PR-982 en la entrada hacia el barrio Demajagua, en Fajardo. El pasado 23 de abril, una mujer fue amenazada esta madrugada con un cuchillo durante un carjacking reportado en el estacionamiento de Villa Blanca Apartments en la avenida Luis Muñoz Marín, en Caguas. El día 24 de abril, se reportó que hombre despojó a una mujer de su auto a eso de las 1:45 am en un puesto de gasolina ubicado en la PR-167 en Bayamón, informó la Policía.

“Uno de los casos que más atención recibió de la prensa, fue el registrado el 18 de abril en Caguas, cuando cuatro delincuentes armados lanzaron al piso un asiento protector con una bebé de seis meses de nacida que se encontraba en el interior de una guagua la cual estaban robando mediante la modalidad de carjacking en el centro comercial Plaza Centro, en Caguas, frente a la sucursal del Banco Popular”, añadió Maldonado González.

Reportes de prensa indican que el pasado 19 de abril, una mujer fue agredida por un delincuente durante un robo mediante carjacking en la zona ur-

bana de Naguabo. El 28 de abril, dos delincuentes cometieron un carjacking durante la madrugada de ese viernes en la calle Borinquen de la urbanización Santa Rita, en Río Piedras. El 19 de marzo, la prensa local informó que dos hombres despojaron a una persona de su vehículo en las inmediaciones del Tren Urbano de Bayamón durante esa madrugada de domingo. Mientras, el 16 de marzo pasado, un hombre de 51 años fue apuñalado con un arma blanca durante un carjacking frente a la entrada del condominio Laguna Garden 2, en Carolina, reportó la Policía.

Federales deben poner más recursos ante nueva ola de carjackings, reclama la alcaldesa de Morovis

Gordon Lightfoot, hitmaking singer-songwriter, dies at 84

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian folk singer whose rich, plaintive baritone and gift for melodic songwriting made him one of the most popular recording artists of the 1970s, died Monday night in Toronto. He was 84.

His death, at Sunnybrook Hospital, was confirmed by his publicist, Victoria Lord. No cause was given.

Lightfoot, a fast-rising star in Canada in the early 1960s, broke through to international success when his friends and fellow Canadians Ian and Sylvia Tyson recorded two of his songs, “Early Morning Rain” and “For Lovin’ Me.”

When Peter, Paul and Mary came out with their own versions, and Marty Robbins reached the top of the country charts with Lightfoot’s “Ribbon of Darkness,” Lightfoot’s reputation soared. Overnight, he joined the ranks of songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton, all of whom influenced his style.

When folk music ebbed in popularity, overwhelmed by the British invasion, Lightfoot began writing ballads aimed at a broader audience. He scored one hit after another, beginning in 1970 with the heartfelt “If You Could Read My Mind,” inspired by the breakup of his first marriage.

In quick succession, he recorded the hits “Sundown,” “Carefree Highway,” “Rainy Day People” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” which he wrote after reading a Newsweek article about the sinking of an iron-ore carrier in Lake Superior in 1975, with the loss of all 29 crew members.

For Canadians, Lightfoot was a national hero, a homegrown star who stayed home even after achieving spectacular success in the United States and catered to his fervent fans with constant cross-country tours. His ballads on Canadian themes, including “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” pulsated with a love for the nation’s rivers and forests, which he explored on ambitious canoe trips far into the hinterlands.

His personal style, reticent and selfeffacing — he avoided interviews and flinched when confronted with praise — also went down well. “Sometimes I wonder

why I’m being called an icon, because I really don’t think of myself that way,” he told The Globe and Mail in 2008. “I’m a professional musician, and I work with very professional people. It’s how we get through life.”

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was born Nov. 17, 1938, in Orillia, Ontario, where his father managed a dry-cleaning plant. As a boy, he sang in a church choir, performed on local radio shows and shined in singing competitions. “Man, I did the whole bit: oratorio work, Kiwanis contests, operettas, barbershop quartets,” he told Time magazine in 1968.

He played piano, drums and guitar as a teenager, and while still in high school wrote his first song, a topical number about the Hula-Hoop craze with a catchy last line: “I guess I’m just a slob and I’m gonna lose my job, ’cause I’m HulaHula-Hoopin’ all the time.”

After studying composition and orchestration at the Westlake College of Music in Los Angeles, he returned to Canada. For a time, he was a member of the Singing Swinging Eight, a singing and dancing troupe on the television show “Country Hoedown,” but he soon became part

of the Toronto folk scene, performing at the same coffee houses and clubs as Ian and Sylvia, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen.

He formed a folk duo, the Two Tones, with a fellow “Hoedown” performer, Terry Whelan. The duo recorded a live album in 1962, “Two Tones at the Village Corner.” The next year, while traveling in Europe, he served as host of “The Country and Western Show” on BBC television.

As a songwriter, Lightfoot had advanced beyond the Hula-Hoop, but not by a great deal. His work “didn’t have any kind of identity,” he told the authors of “The Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western Music” (1969). When the Greenwich Village folk boom brought Dylan and other dynamic songwriters to the fore, he said, “I started to get a point of view, and that’s when I started to improve.”

In 1965, he appeared at the Newport Folk Festival and made his debut in the United States at Town Hall in New York. “Mr. Lightfoot has a rich, warm voice and a dexterous guitar technique,” Robert Shelton wrote in The New York Times. “With a little more attention to stage personality, he should become quite popular.”

A year later, after signing with Albert Grossman, manager of Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary, Lightfoot recorded his first solo album, “Lightfoot!” With performances of “Early Morning Rain,” “For Lovin’ Me,” “Ribbon of Darkness” and “I’m Not Sayin’,” a hit record in Canada in 1963, the album was warmly received by critics. Real commercial success came when he switched to Warner Bros., initially recording for the company’s Reprise label. “By the time I changed over to Warner Brothers, round about 1970, I was reinventing myself,” he told the Georgia newspaper Savannah Connect in 2010. “Let’s say I was probably just advancing away from the folk era, and trying to find some direction whereby I might have some music that people would want to listen to.”

Lightfoot, accompanying himself on an acoustic 12-string guitar, in a voice that often trembled with emotion, gave spare, direct accounts of his material. He sang of loneliness, troubled relationships, the itch to roam and the majesty of the Canadian landscape. He was, as Canadian writer Jack Batten put it, “journalist, poet, historian, humorist, short-story teller and folksy recollector of bygone days.”

His popularity as a recording artist began to wane in the 1980s, but he maintained a busy touring schedule. In 1999, Rhino Records released “Songbook,” a four-disc survey of his career.

Lightfoot, who lived in Toronto, is survived by his wife, Kim Hasse, six children — Fred, Ingrid, Miles, Meredith, Eric and Galen — and several grandchildren, according to Lord, his publicist. His first two marriages ended in divorce. His older sister, Beverley Eyers, died in 2017.

In 2002, just before going onstage in Orillia, Lightfoot collapsed when an aneurysm in his abdominal aorta ruptured and left him near death. After two years spent recovering, he recorded an album, “Harmony,” and in 2005, he resumed his live performances with the Better Late Than Never Tour.

“I want to be like Ralph Carter, Stompin’ Tom and Willie Nelson,” Lightfoot told the CBC in 2004. “Just do it for as long as humanly possible.”

Gordon Lightfoot in 2012.

In ‘A Small Light,’ an ordinary woman resists the Nazis

By CLAIRE MOSES

Two days after the Gestapo’s 1944 raid on the annex where Anne Frank and others were hiding, Miep Gies, a seemingly ordinary secretary, and her colleague walked into the hiding place and encountered a chaotic scene left behind by the Nazis.

Years later, Gies described what she saw that day as a mess of books, newspapers and other everyday items. “And then we started searching. For what, I don’t know, but we were looking for something,” she said in a 1958 interview. Among the items, she found a red plaid diary. Gies grabbed it and put it in a drawer in her office.

She had just saved one of the Holocaust’s most famous accounts: Anne Frank’s diary.

That moment, and much more about Gies’ life and heroism, is at the center of “A Small Light,” a new eightpart series that tells the story of Gies (Bel Powley), her husband, Jan (Joe Cole), and their involvement in Dutch resistance efforts during World War II. The show premieres May 1 on National Geographic, and comes to Disney+ and Hulu the following day.

Work on “A Small Light” began six years ago, after its showrunners Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, a married couple who used to be producers and screenwriters for “Grey’s Anatomy,” visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Walking around the museum and listening to tour guides, they learned that many people don’t really know the story of the Frank family anymore, let alone the story of the people who helped them, Rater and Phelan said in a recent video interview.

Since then, they said, the moral question at the heart of Gies’ story — whether to do the right thing, the wrong thing or nothing at all — has only become more important, given how war, nationalism and antisemitism have once again been spreading across Europe.

“When we started this project,” Phelan said, “it certainly didn’t feel as

relevant as it feels now.”

While the show opens with Gies, who wasn’t Jewish, trying to dodge a Nazi checkpoint, the first episode quickly takes the viewer back to 1934, when Gies was single and living with her adopted Dutch family. She finds employment with Otto Frank (Liev Schreiber) — a stern, fellow Germanspeaking immigrant — and meets her future husband, a social worker. Much of the first episode follows Gies living life as a modern young woman, meeting friends and going out dancing.

Rater and Phelan wanted to give the show a contemporary feel by focusing “A Small Light” not just around war, but also around ordinary people’s ordinary lives being suddenly interrupted.

“Period pieces for me sometimes feel a bit sepia-toned, and that makes you feel distanced from them,” Powley said. But “A Small Light” didn’t feel that way. “It didn’t feel like I was wearing a costume,” she added.

“These people, they had washing machines and toasters. They were living in a modern world and they couldn’t believe, in this modern world that they were living, that these things could happen,” Rater said.

While the story of Anne Frank

and what happened to her is well known, Gies — who died in 2010 at 100 — largely stayed out of the limelight. She published a memoir, “Anne Frank Remembered,” in 1987 and was involved with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, but much of her story stayed private.

“When we started digging, we started putting together these pieces that I don’t know that anybody had ever put together before,” Phelan said. In the course of their research, with the help of a local researcher in the Netherlands, Rater and Phelan discovered that Gies and her husband also helped people hide in their own home, including two nurses.

In the show, we see nurses help save babies from being killed by the Nazis, and instead sending them to live in the Dutch countryside. One memorable scene shows how nurses swapped babies for dolls, telling Jewish mothers to lose the dolls on their way to concentration camps.

“It is such a fascinating, heartbreaking, hard to believe story at times,” Cole, who plays Gies’ husband, said in a video interview.

When in 1942, Otto Frank asked Gies to help hide him, his daughters, Anne and Margot, and his wife, Edith,

in an annex at their office, Gies didn’t hesitate before saying yes.

“She had no idea what she was saying yes to,” Rater said. “And then she had to keep saying yes for two years.”

This was until a warm day in August 1944 when Nazis raided the office and found the eight people — the Frank family and four others — hiding in the annex.

In “A Small Light,” Gies’ decision to help despite the dangers and disruption this posed to her life (she kept the secret, brought food and books and more), her unwavering spirit and her reluctance to be seen as a hero makes the viewer ask: What would I have done in that situation? The show’s title is taken from a quote by Gies: “Even a regular secretary, a housewife or a teenager can turn on a small light in a dark room.”

The show “is about your personal dynamics that are interrupted by the war,” said Schreiber who recently spent time in Ukraine raising money for humanitarian aid. “That’s part of what I saw in Ukraine. These people’s lives have been interrupted and they try to continue.”

“A Small Light” was shot in the Netherlands — in Amsterdam and Harlem — and Prague, where the interior scenes were filmed in a threestory replica of Otto Frank’s Amsterdam office, where the annex was hidden behind a bookcase. (The original building, on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, is now the Anne Frank House.)

While “A Small Light” has moments of levity and snippets of life’s mundanity despite the war raging outside, the episodes gradually become more intense, leading up to the inevitable betrayal that doomed all the people in the annex except for Otto Frank.

Schreiber, who is Jewish, said he was often asked to play roles in Holocaust films. “I hate the narrative that we went like lambs to the slaughter,” which is common in such movies, he said.

“But this felt different,” he added.

In “A Small Light,” Miep Gies (Bel Powley), left, hides her employer Otto Frank (Liev Schreiber), center, and his family from the Nazis.

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Casa de los Famosos,” the reality television show, a Spanish-language adaptation of “Celebrity Big Brother.” The popular show kept her living with two dozen strangers for 98 days locked up in a house in Mexico with no communication with the outside world. During that time, with participants being filmed around the clock, she became known for several phrases in broken Spanish, espe cially for asking beauty expert Osmel Souza (another competitor in the reality show), “Tu recuerdas de mí” (Do you remember me?). She is still working on her Spanish.

The win got her a $200K cash prize and reportedly multiple job offers from cli ents and sponsors in Puerto Rico, the United States and even Latin America. But, more than anything, it got her the approval and “blessing of her people,” as she calls it. The model, influencer, actress and singer has

said publicly that this is her time to shine, and she is carefully analyzing every offer coming her way before deciding the next move in her career, which will definitely be in show business.

By IRIS EDÉN SANTIAGO Special to The STAR

At the verge of turning 28 years old, Madison An derson is living the best season of her life.

Four years after almost being crowned Miss Universe (she represented Puerto Rico in 2019), the first runner-up of the global beauty pageant is finally reaping the fruits of her hard work and sacrifices.

Even though she never got the coveted beauty crown, she now feels rewarded with the love and ad miration of Puerto Ricans on the island and those living on the mainland. It is because of their votes that she won Telemundo’s “La

At 5 feet 10 inches tall, the svelte Anderson is every fashion designer’s dream muse. She has modeled locally and internationally, and is a fan of Chanel and Jimmy Choo. She admires global model and icon Naomi Campbell and is very vocal about local fashion designers: “There is so much talent here, (in Puerto Rico).” Anderson

“The most important part of fashion is not what you’re wearing but how you wear it, your essence, your grace,” said Madison. “I’m a very girly girl, very feminine. I believe my style is a little bit of everything. But overall? Classic, timeless classic looks -- I love classic looks that I can wear in today’s fashion or 10 years (from now).”

‘The godfather of AI’ leaves Google and warns of danger ahead

By CADE METZ

Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer. In 2012, Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for the AI systems that the tech industry’s biggest companies believe is a key to their future.

On Monday, however, he officially joined a growing chorus of critics who say those companies are racing toward danger with their aggressive campaign to create products based on generative AI, the technology that powers popular chatbots like ChatGPT.

Hinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, so he can freely speak out about the risks of AI. A part of him, he said, now regrets his life’s work.

“I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have,” Hinton said during a lengthy interview last week in the dining room of his home in Toronto, a short walk from where he and his students made their breakthrough.

Hinton’s journey from AI groundbreaker to doomsayer marks a remarkable moment for the technology industry at perhaps its most important inflection point in decades. Industry leaders believe the new AI systems could be as important as the introduction of the web browser in the early 1990s and could lead to breakthroughs in areas ranging from drug research to education.

But gnawing at many industry insiders is a fear that they are releasing something dangerous into the wild. Generative AI can already be a tool for misinformation. Soon, it could be a risk to jobs. Somewhere down the line, tech’s biggest worriers say, it could be a risk to humanity.

“It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for

bad things,” Hinton said.

After the San Francisco startup OpenAI released a new version of ChatGPT in March, more than 1,000 technology leaders and researchers signed an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of new systems because AI technologies pose “profound risks to society and humanity.”

Several days later, 19 current and former leaders of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a 40-year-old academic society, released their own letter warning of the risks of AI. That group included Eric Horvitz, chief scientific officer at Microsoft, which has deployed OpenAI’s technology across a wide range of products, including its Bing search engine.

Hinton, often called “the Godfather of AI,” did not sign either of those letters and said he did not want to publicly criticize Google or other companies until he had quit his job. He notified the company last month that he was resigning, and Thursday, he talked by phone with Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet.

He declined to publicly discuss the details of his conversation with Pichai.

Google’s chief scientist, Jeff Dean, said in a statement: “We remain committed to a responsible approach to AI. We’re continually learning to understand emerging risks while also innovating boldly.”

Hinton, a 75-year-old British expatriate, is a lifelong academic whose career was driven by his personal convictions about the development and use of AI. In 1972, as a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh, Hinton embraced an idea called a neural network. A neural network is a mathematical system that learns skills by analyzing data. At the time, few researchers believed in the idea. But it became his life’s work.

In the 1980s, Hinton was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University but left the university for Canada because he said he was reluctant to take Pentagon funding. At the time, most AI research in the United States was funded by the Defense Department. Hinton is deeply opposed to the use of AI on the battlefield — what he calls “robot soldiers.”

In 2012, Hinton and two of his students in Toronto, Ilya Sutskever and Alex Krishevsky, built a neural network that could analyze thousands of photos and teach itself to identify common objects, such as flowers, dogs and cars.

Google spent $44 million to acquire a company started by Hinton and his two students. And their system led to the creation of increasingly powerful technologies, including new chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google Bard. Sutskever went on to become chief scientist at OpenAI. In 2018, Hinton and two other longtime collaborators received the Turing Award, often called “the Nobel Prize of computing,” for their work on neural networks.

Around the same time, Google, OpenAI and other companies began building neural networks that learned from huge amounts of digital text. Hinton thought it was a powerful way for machines to understand and generate language, but it was inferior to the way humans handled language.

Then, last year, as Google and OpenAI built systems using much larger amounts of data, his view changed. He still believed the systems were inferior to the human brain in some ways but he thought they were eclipsing human intelligence in others. “Maybe what is going on in these systems,” he said, “is actually a lot better than what is going on in the brain.”

As companies improve their AI systems, he believes, they become increasingly dangerous. “Look at how it was five years ago and how it is now,” he said of AI technology. “Take the difference and propagate it forwards. That’s scary.”

Hinton said that when people used to ask him how he could work on technology that was potentially dangerous, he would paraphrase Robert Oppenheimer, who led the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb: “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it.”

He does not say that anymore.

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Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, an artificial intelligence pioneer, at his home in Toronto on Monday, April 24, 2023. Hinton is leaving Google so that he can freely share his concern that AI could cause the world serious harm.

What’s going on with COVID right now?

By DANA G. SMITH

Deaths from COVID-19 in the United States are the lowest they’ve been since March 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s data tracker. Case rates have similarly plummeted, though infections have become harder to track because of the widespread availability of at-home rapid tests; many of the monitoring systems that were set up at the beginning of the pandemic have also been wound down.

Is this finally the beginning of the end of the pandemic, or just another spring ebb before a new variant initiates a summer wave? (For the past two years, numbers have fallen between March and June, before rising in July.) The New York Times spoke with public health researchers and infectious disease experts to gauge how they’re thinking about this particular juncture in the pandemic — what the risk is right now, what precautions they’re continuing to take, who is still getting severely ill and dying, and what the future may bring.

Spring reprieve

Experts agree that the risk from COVID-19 right now is low, and spring 2023 feels different from previous years.

“We’ve reached a stage of stability where people are making choices to return their lives to something closer to normal,” said Dr. Robert Wachter, the chair of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. “And I think that makes sense. Cases are relatively low; deaths are relatively low.”

The biggest reason for this improvement is that virtually everyone in the United States has some form of immunity now, whether from vaccines, a previous infection or both. Medications like Paxlovid have also significantly reduced the risk of serious illness.

Dr. Taison Bell, an infectious disease physician at the University of Virginia, said that in his intensive care unit, “we will see an occasional COVID-19 case, but we’re not seeing a lot of cases that are leading to people being on the ventilator.” Now, most of the people Bell is treating for COVID are older and either have preexisting conditions that compromise their immune systems or lung function, or they haven’t been vaccinated. It’s essential, he said, that people who are at high risk for severe infection get a bivalent booster if they haven’t already (a second dose was also recently authorized for this group).

Another reason things are different this spring is that there have been no new, game-changing variants — “no new Greek letters,” as Wachter put it — for the last year and a half. Variations of omicron that have some immuneevading properties, such as the current dominant strain, XBB.1.5, have emerged, but Paxlovid and vaccines are still effective against them.

Despite the good news, experts are still taking some precautions. Because while the numbers are headed in

the right direction, roughly 100,000 Americans are still being infected with COVID-19 every week, and more than 150 are dying from the infection every day.

Where, and why, experts are still being careful Wachter continues to wear a mask in most crowded indoor settings, like on an airplane or in a museum, he said, but not if he needs to pop into a store quickly.

His main motivation is wanting to avoid long COVID. “Unlike the way I felt two or three years ago, I have no fear that I’m going to die of this thing,” he said. “But I think long COVID is very real. My wife has a mild version of it, so I see it up close and personal.”

Caitlin Rivers, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who has young children, said that she stopped wearing a mask at the grocery store or in the office, though she still dons one on public transportation. She said that the disruptions COVID and other respiratory infections caused this winter, like missing school and work, were worth avoiding.

The experts especially urged people to keep taking precautions, such as masking and testing before big indoor gatherings, if they or a loved one are at high risk.

“I think we have to do what we can to mitigate risk, not just for ourselves, but also we live in a community,” said Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious disease physi-

cian who still tests herself before going to events. “I don’t know if the person next to me is immunocompromised, and I don’t want to give them COVID.”

Things could change quickly

The experts cautioned that it’s always possible for a new variant to emerge and start another wave.

Kuppalli said that she was watching omicron subvariant XBB.1.16, also known as Arcturus, which is driving a surge in India. XBB.1.16 currently accounts for about 10% of cases in the United States and comes with a new symptom: conjunctivitis.

Rivers is paying attention to another new subvariant, XBB.1.9.1, which makes up about 8% of U.S. infections right now. She expects cases to start rising again as the weather warms, driven by either these variants or one like them. “We generally see a quiet spring followed by a summer resurgence that starts in the South” because people are more likely to gather indoors when it gets too hot, she said.

And this, experts say, is likely our new normal. “The stage where we are now is probably a version of a stage we’ll be in a year from now, maybe two years from now, maybe five years from now,” Wachter said. “It could get a little worse, in which case I think people and societies change if they’re being rational. I think it’s unlikely to get much better.”

People on park benches at Washington Square Park in New York, July 27, 2021. Experts agree that the risk from COVID-19 right now is low, and spring 2023 feels different from previous years.

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Civil Núm.: NSCI201600086. Salón Núm.: 302. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.

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Auxiliar del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha del 3 de junio de 2022, por la Secretaria del Tribunal Superior de Fajardo en relación con la Sentencia Sumaria dictada el 22 de junio de 2016, notificada el 1ro de julio de 2016, publicada su Notificación por Edictos el 8 de julio de 2016, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Parcela de terreno localizada en la Urbanización Villas del Pilar del término municipal de Ceiba, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de CUATROCIENTOS TREINTA Y UNO PUNTO VEINTICINCO METROS CUADRADOS (431.25 M.C.); localizados en la manzana A, solar número tres (3); en lindes por el NORTE, en veinticinco punto cero dos (25.02) metros, con el solar dos guión A (2-A); por el SUR, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros, con el solar número cuatro guión A (4A); por el ESTE, en diecisiete punto ochenta (17.80) metros, con la finca de Mariano Arroyo y por el OESTE, en diecisiete punto setenta (17.70) metros con la Calle Santa María. Enclava una casa de hormigón de tres (3) dormitorios, dos (2) baños, sala, cocina-comedor, balcón y marquesina para automóvil. Consta inscrita al folio doscientos treinta y cinco (235) del tomo cuarenta y seis (46) de Ceiba, Finca Número Dos Mil Ciento Once (2,111) de Ceiba, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Dirección de la

propiedad: Urb. Villas del Pilar A-3, Ceiba, Puerto Rico 00735. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la propiedad anteriormente descrita y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como

sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $103,224.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 13 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $68,816.00. TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el 21 DE JUNIO DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $51,612.00. Las subastas se llevarán a cabo para satisfacer al Banco demandante de las siguientes sumas de dinero adeudadas por la parte demandante conforme a la Sentencia dictada, a saber, la suma de $86,899.73 por concepto de principal e intereses vencidos y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, los cargos por demora vencidos que a igual fecha ascienden a $127.86, y los que se continúen acumulando al tipo pactado hasta el pago total y completo de la obligación, más la suma de $9,384.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Tribunal de Fajardo, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto obtenido en dicha venta, el Alguacil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados hasta la suma convenida, en tercer término los intereses acumulados hasta la fecha de la subasta según pactados hasta su total y completo pago, en cuarto término, las sumas establecidas para el pago de recargos por demora hasta la fecha de la subasta y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada. Disponiéndose, que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría

del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, toda vez que el precio de remate no se destina a su extinción. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, durante horas laborables.

Y PARA LA CONCURRENCIA, de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta por espacio de dos semanas y en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 9 de enero de 2023. JORGE

A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ

TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #737, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

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Demandante V. SUCESION DE JOSE

M. RODRIGUEZ ORTIZ T/C/C JOSE

MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ

ORTIZ POR MAGALY

DELGADO POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL

USUFRUCTUARIA, JOSE

ALBERTO RODRIGUEZ

DELGADO T/C/C JOSE A.

RODRIGUEZ DELGADO

T/C/C JOSE RODRIGUEZ

DELGADO, ALANIS

SOPHIA RODRIGUEZ

DELGADO T/C/C

ALANIS S. RODRIGUEZ

DELGADO T/C/C ALANIS

RODRIGUEZ DELGADO

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Civil Núm.: E2CI20130180. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, a la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 9 de marzo de 2023 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $216,554.19 de principal, dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 23 de mayo de 2022, notificada y archivada en autos el 17 de noviembre de 2022, y publicada mediante edicto el día 23 de noviembre de 2022 en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, 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 haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Juncos, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: #183 Rd. Km. 14.9, Sect. Wito Mulero, Valenciano Arriba, Juncos, PR 00777. RÚSTICA: Solar marcado con el número TRES (3) en el plano de inscripción radicado en el Barrio Valenciano Arriba, Juncos, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de uno punto cuatrocientos cuarenta y nueve (1.449) cuerdas, equivalentes a CINCO MIL OCHOCIENTOS SETENTA Y TRES PUNTO DOSCIENTOS VEINTISIETE (5,873.227) METROSCUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela a dedicarse a uso público y con los solares identificados con los números Cuatro (4), Cinco (5), Seis (6) y Siete (7), en el plano de inscripción; por el SUR, con Wito Mulero; por el ESTE, con el solar identificado con el número dos (2) en el plano de inscripción; por el OESTE, con

el solar identificado con el número cuatro (4) en el plano de inscripción y con Miguel González. Consta inscrito al folio ciento treinta y ocho (138) del tomo doscientos cincuenta y seis (256) de Juncos, finca número nueve mil ochocientos noventa y tres (9,893), inscripción primera en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $216,554.19 de principal, intereses a razón del 6.75% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $452.44 de cargos por demora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a un 10% del principal del pagaré. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $240,000.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $160,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $120,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 15 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 22 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 30 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 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 Caguas. De Estudio de Título realizado, surgen los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca constituida por Jose Miguel Rodriguez Ortiz, mayor de edad, soltero, en garantía de un pagare a favor de Sana Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por $30,000.00 al 6 ¾ % anual, vencedero el 1 de diciembre de 2019, según Esc. #77 en San

Juan a 30 de noviembre de 2004 ante Ginessa I. Martinez Hernandez, inscrita al folio 21 del tomo 354 de Juncos, finca #9893 inscripción 4ta. Aviso de Demanda dictado el 1 de octubre de 2012 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Lorenzo caso civil #E@ CI2012-0601 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca seguido por Doral Bank vs Jose Miguel Rodriguez Ortiz donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con la hipoteca de la inscripción 5ta reducida a $216,554.19 o la venta en publica subasta, anotado al folio 21 del tomo 354 de Juncos, finca 9893 Anotación “A” el día 23 de octubre de 2013. Aviso de Demanda dictado el 22 de agosto de 2014 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de San Lorenzo caso civil #E2CI2014-0607 seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs Jose Miguel Rodriguez Ortiz donde se solicita el pago de la deuda garantizada con la hipoteca de la inscripción 4ta reducida a $26,590.52 o la venta en publica subasta, anotado al tomo Karibe el 12 de enero de 2021 finca #9893 de Juncos anotación “C”. 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, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal 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 bas-

tante 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. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 18 de abril de 2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593.

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

TRIANGLE CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY 2

Demandante Vs. LUIS JAIME MEAUX VÁZQUEZ T/C/C LUIS

J. MEAUX VÁZQUEZ; CERTENEJAS

INCORPORADO H/N/C/ CERTEJENAS, INC.

Demandado TPI NÚM.: KDC2016-2350. (806). Sobre: SENTENCIA POR CONSENTIMIENTO. AVISO DE SUBASTA.

A: AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; LUIS JAIME MEAUX VÁZQUEZ

T/C/C LUIS J. MEAUX VÁZQUEZ; CERTENEJAS

INCORPORADO H/N/C

CERTENEJAS INC. Y A LOS ACREEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES

ANTERIORES Y/O

POSTERIORES A LOS QUE SE EJECUTAN.

Yo, ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, Alguacil del Tribunal de Caguas, al Público hago saber: En cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 21 de junio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título,

derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad perteneciente a la parte codemandada Certenejas Incorporado, la cual se describe a continuación: Finca #3,091: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno en el Barrio Bayamón del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, compuesta de nueve cuerdas con ochenta céntimas de otra de terreno, equivalentes a tres hectáreas ochenta y cinco áreas, diez y siete centiáreas y noventa y dos miliáreas; en lindes por el SUR, con Margarita González y Ciprián Morales; por el ESTE, en terrenos de la Sucesión de Fructuoso Fernández; por el OESTE, con los de Ciprián Morales y las de Tomás Cotto González; y por el NORTE, con el camino que conduce al Barrio Bayamón de Cidra, Puerto Rico. Inscrita al folio 25 del tomo 62 de Cidra. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas. El propietario registral lo es Certenejas Incorporado, quien lo adquirió según la escritura número 2, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de junio de 2005, ante el notario público Luis Morales Steinmann, e inscrita al folio 181 del tomo 447 de Cidra, finca número 3,091, inscripción 25ta. La hipoteca, según inscrita, que grava la Finca 3,901 y cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto es la siguiente: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Westernbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $9,900,000.00, con intereses al 6.99% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 351, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de junio de 2005, ante el notario Gary E. Biaggi Silva, e inscrita al folio 181 del tomo 447 de Cidra, finca número 3,091, inscripción 26ta (la “Hipoteca A”). Además, existe un gravamen preferente a la Hipoteca A que grava la finca número 3,091 que se interesa ejecutar, según descrito a continuación: Por sí está afecta a: Servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico, según Certificación de fecha 29 de enero de 2002, e inscrita al folio 181 del tomo 447 de Cidra, finca número 3,091, inscripción 24ta. La finca 3,091 también se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la Hipoteca A que se interesa ejecutar, según descritos a continuación:

1) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Westernbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por

la suma principal de $500,000.00, con intereses al 12% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 81, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 8 de abril de 2008, ante la notario Nydia Galarza Rosario, e inscrita al folio 181 del tomo 447 de Cidra, finca número

3,091, inscripción 27ma. 2) Aviso de Demanda de fecha 8 de abril de 2008, expedido en el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número KCD090151 (905), sobre Sentencia por Consentimiento, seguido por Westernbank Puerto Rico versus Jonathan Corporation, Inc., haciendo negocios indistintamente como Jonathan Corporation, Jonathan, Inc. y como Jonathan Corp.; Luis Jaime

Meaux Vázquez y su esposa Marta Ivette Muñiz Meléndez, también conocida como Marta

I. Muñiz Meléndez y como Marta Muñiz Meléndez y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos; Rojoazul Hotel, Inc.; Certenejas Incorporado, haciendo negocios indistintamente como Certenejas, Inc. y Silvernugget Development Corporation, haciendo negocios indistintamente como Silvernugget Development Corporation, por la suma de $40,330,201.25, anotado el día 22 de noviembre de 2021, al tomo Karibe de Cidra, finca número 3,091, Anotación “B”. 3)

Embargo Federal contra Certenejas, Inc., seguro social patronal xx-xxx8682, por la suma de $194,268.03, Notificación número 419860920, anotado el día 11 de diciembre de 2020, al Asiento 2020-005768-FED del Sistema Karibe. 4) Embargo Federal contra Certenejas, Inc., seguro social patronal xxxxx8682, por la suma de $64,541.71, Notificación número 429263021, anotado el día 30 de abril de 2021, al Asiento 2021- 02507-FED del Sistema Karibe. 5) Embargo Federal contra Certenejas, Inc., seguro social patronal xx-xxx8682, por la suma de $16,690.16, Notificación número 454799422, anotado el día 30 de junio de 2022, al Asiento 2022-006282FED del Sistema Karibe. 6) Embargo Federal contra Certenejas, Inc., seguro social patronal xx-xxx8682, por la suma de $62,334.39, Notificación número 450546222, anotado el día 21 de marzo de 2022, al Asiento 2022-002684-FED del Sistema Karibe. PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 15 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas. TIPO MÍNIMO: $9,900,000.00. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una

segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 2/3 partes del valor de la transacción. SEGUNDA

SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 22 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas. TIPO MÍNIMO: $6,600,000.00. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo 1/2 del valor de la transacción.

TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 30 DE MAYO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina de Alguaciles del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas. TIPO MÍNIMO: $4,950,000.00. La dirección física de la finca #3,091 lo es: Carr. PR-172, Km. 7.5, Barrio Bayamón, Cidra, PR 00739. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer en todo o en parte a Triangle Cayman Asset Company 2 el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente, al 13 de mayo de 2022, a una suma no menor de $18,377,943.69 correspondiente a $8,803,058.42 en concepto al principal adeudado;

$8,771,744.93 por concepto de intereses acumulados que continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda;

$679,561.57 por concepto de cargos por mora y $123,578.77 por conceptos de gastos legales y seguro. Conforme a todo lo anterior, se ordena a Triangle Cayman Asset Company 2 a notificar la venta pública a los demandados y a los acreedores con créditos anteriores y/o posteriores inscritos conforme a las disposiciones aplicables de la Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Puerto Rico y su Reglamento y la Regla 51.7 de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V. La representación legal de la parte demandante lo es la licenciada Carolina Velaz Rivero, de Marini Pietrantoni Muñiz LLC, con oficinas sitas en el número #250 de la Avenida Ponce de León, Hato Rey, Suite 900, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918. Para propósitos de la venta judicial, el Alguacil que suscribe no aceptará que ningún postor efectúe su pago en otro método que no sea en dólares estadounidenses o cheque certificado, excepto por el acreedor ejecutante, quien tendrá el derecho de ofrecer sus créditos como licitación (incluyendo cualesquier créditos hipotecarios que graven la propiedad aquí descrita en rango inferior al gravamen ejecutado), en la medida que estos sean iguales o mayores que los tipos mínimos requeridos. De conformidad con lo establecido en la Regla 51.7 de

Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, según enmendada, previo a la fecha de la subasta se estará publicando este aviso mediante edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez a la semana por un periodo mínimo de dos semanas consecutivas, y por un periodo de dos semanas en tres lugares públicos como la alcaldía, la colecturía, el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de los Municipios de San Juan, Caguas y Cidra. Además, se notificará el aviso por correo certificado con acuse de recibo dentro de los primeros cinco (5) días de publicado el edicto a los deudores por sentencia y/o deudores hipotecarios a sus últimas direcciones conocidas y a los acreedores posteriores a la Hipoteca, cuya ejecución se solicita. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes a los créditos del ejecutante, si alguno, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad subastada será adjudicada al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas. El mejor postor deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto de la adjudicación y remate, excepto por el acreedor ejecutante, quien podrá acreditársele en todo o en parte el monto de su crédito, de conformidad con las disposiciones aplicables de la Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Puerto Rico, aunque deberá no obstante satisfacer la diferencia, si alguna, entre la postura ofrecida y el importe de su crédito más los intereses, teniendo que pagar dicho remanente en el acto de subasta, tal como se le exige a los demás postores. Artículos 105 y 106 de la Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria de Puerto Rico. Otorgaré la escritura del traspaso al licitador victorioso, según corresponda, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. El Registrador de la Propiedad cancelará, libre de derechos, todos los gravámenes posteriores a las fechas en que se otorgó la hipoteca sobre la propiedad que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscripción de la venta a favor de los compradores en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción. Se notifica a to-

dos los interesados que, para más detalles sobre este procedimiento, los autos y récords del presentado caso podrán ser examinados en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, durante horas laborables. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de abril de 2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE CARMEN DELIA MELENDEZ ALICEA COMPUESTA POR WANDA IVELISSE GOMEZ MELENDEZ Y ROBERTO LEVIS MELENDEZ; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO posibles HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS de la SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION de INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2022CV02208.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A La Parte CoDemandada: FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION CARMEN DELIA MELENDEZ ALICEA, A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: (A) URB.

JARDIN DE TRUJILLO ALTO A-15 CALLE 1 TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976; (B) URB.

JARDINES DE TRUJILLO

ALTO A-15 CALLE 1

TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria

en contra de La Sucesión de Carmen Delia Meléndez Alicea, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $66,380.46 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de febrero de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además La Sucesión de Carmen Delia Meléndez Alicea adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $8,742.30.

Además La Sucesión de Carmen Delia Meléndez Alicea se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $8,742.30 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $8,742.30 para cubrir cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 332, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de noviembre de 2010, ante la notario Ivonne González Medrano, de la finca número 11,820, inscrita al Folio 85 del Tomo 240 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Carmen Delia Meléndez Alicea. Los co-demandados miembros de La Sucesión de Carmen Delia Meléndez Alicea se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en tomo a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la noti-

ficación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que La Sucesión de Carmen Delia Meléndez Alicea, se incluye a los herederos y herederos desconocidos de Carmen Delia Meléndez Alicea denominados Fulano y Fulana De Tal, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicil.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el periodo de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 01 de mayo de 2023, en Carolina, Puerto Rico. KANELLY RAYAS ROBLE, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Caso: DJV2017-1271. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

LAS

PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION SOLICITADA EN LA DEMANDA Y HEREDEROS DE ANGEL MORALES FERRER. EL SECRETARIO(A) QUE SUSCRIBE LE NOTIFICA A USTED QUE EL 21 DE ABRIL DE 2022, ESTE TRIBUNAL HA DICTADO SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCION EN ESTE CASO, QUE HA SIDO DEBIDAMENTE REGISTRADA Y ARCHIVADA EN AUTOS DONDE PODRA USTED ENTERARSE DETALLADAMENTE DE LOS TERMINOS DE LA MISMA. ESTA NOTIFICACION SE PUBLICARA UNA SOLA VEZ EN UN PERIODICO DE CIRCULACION GENERAL EN LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO, DENTRO DE LOS 10 DIAS SIGUIENTES A SU NOTIFICACION. Y, SIENDO O REPRESENTANDO USTED UNA PARTE EN EL PROCEDIMIENTO SUJETA A LOS TERMINOS DE LA SENTENCIA, SENTENCIA PARCIAL O RESOLUCION, DE LA CUAL PUEDE ESTABLECERSE RECURSO DE REVISION O APELACION DENTRO DEL TERMINO DE 30 DIAS CONTADOS A PARTIR DE LA PUBLICACION POR EDICTO DE ESTA NOTIFICACION, DIRIJO A USTED ESTA NOTIFICACION QUE SE CONSIDERARA HECHA EN LA FECHA DE LA PUBLICACION DE ESTE EDICTO. COPIA DE ESTA NOTIFICACION HA SIDO ARCHIVADA EN LOS AUTOS DE ESTE CASO, CON FECHA DE 24 DE ABRIL DE 2023. LIC. CABÁN DÁVILA, DELIA I. DELIALIBRO@YAHOO.COM. EN BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO, A 24 DE ABRIL DE 2023. LAURA SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN PINTADO NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE MISAEL

RODRÍGUEZ MARTÍNEZ Y SUCESION DE ARCELIDA

RODRÍGUEZ PÉREZ, AMBAS COMPUESTAS

POR SUS HEREDERAS

CONOCIDAS MARISELA

RODRIGUEZ, SANDRA

RODRIGUEZ Y DENISSE

RODRIGUEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: SS2021CV00394 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS. A: MARISELA RODRÍGUEZ, SANDRA RODRÍGUEZ Y DENISSE RODRÍGUEZ COMO HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MISAEL RODRÍGUEZ MARTÍNEZ Y LA SUCESIÓN DE ARCELIDA RODRÍGUEZ PÉREZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES. URB. COLINAS VERDES 9-A CALLE 1 SAN SEBASTIÁN, PR 00641. DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: MARISELA RODRÍGUEZ: 43 COMLEY PLACE BLOOMFIELD, NJ 07003; SANDRA RODRÍGUEZ: 29 STOCKTON ST. BLOOMFIELD, NJ 07003 Y DENISSE RODRÍGUEZ: 28 BERKELEY AVE. BLOOMFIELD, NJ 07003. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su 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. Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Repre-

senta a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P.

LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416

PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970

TEL: 787- 751-5290, FAX: 787-7516155

E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law. com

En San Sebastian, Puerto Rico a 26 de abril de 2023. SARAHÍ

REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA

REGIONAL. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR I.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V.

LUIS OMAR OLMO

RODRIGUEZ, LEN MARIE

SANTIAGO HEREDIA

Y LA SOC. LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS COMPUESTA

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: UT2022CV00440.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LUIS OMAR OLMO

RODRIGUEZ, LEN MARIE

SANTIAGO HEREDIA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 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 25 de abril de 2023. En Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, el 25 de abril de

2023. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA. WANDA I. RIVERA PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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CYNTHIA GARCÍA RODRÍGUEZ

Demandante v. LYDIA ESTRELLA BURGOS

Demandado(a) CIVIL NÚM. SJ2022CV06531 SALA 903 SOBRE: DIVISIÓN DE COMUNIDAD. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LYDIA ESTRELLA BURGOS. (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 21 de abril de 2023. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 21 de abril de 2023. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MILDRED J. FRANCO REVENTOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

MONSERRATE PEREZ SANABRIA Y OTROS

Demandante v.

ARTICULO 214 DE LA LEY DE REGISTRO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: PEDRO JUAN ORTIZ SEPULVEDA.

(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 26 de abril de 2023. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 26 de abril de 2023. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRIGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ISIDRO MENDOZA DE LA ROSA

Demandante v. GIANELSI LEE HALL

HERNANDEZ

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022RF01004 3001

Sobre: DIVORCIO (RI). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: GIANELSI LEE HALL

HERNANDEZ.

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

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. DIANA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL INC.

Plaintiff V. DAMARIS GONZALEZ BONILLA

Defendant

CIVIL NUM.: 17-CV-2199 (ADC) RE: COLLECTION OF MONIES FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF JUDGMENT BY PUBLICATION. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO.

TO: DAMARIS GONZALEZ BONILLA. LAST KNOWN ADDRESSES: 34 E Laurel St, El Plantio Dev., Toa Baja, PR 00949 / 13730 Phoenix Drive, Orlando, FL 32828.

WHEREAS, in the above caption case, plaintiff, DLJ Mortgage Capital Inc. obtained judgment on November 30, 2022.

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SINDICO DE DORAL BANK, DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION T/C/C/ DORAL MORTGAGE, LLC, JOVITO MIRO ALVARADO, ELIZABETH RIVERA ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE Demandados(a)

Civil: HU2022CV01207. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

Puerto Rico, el 25 de abril de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. JOSÉ JULIÁN

RODRÍGUEZ NEGRÓN; YAHAIRA GONZÁLEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: UT2023CV00037.

NERAL. YAMARIS ESTRONZA MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs LUIS V. PEREZ BADILLO, WIZELLYS GONZALEZ VARGAS

Demandado (a)

Civil Núm.: SS2022CV00564

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LUIS V. PEREZ BADILLO

CENTRO DE RECUADACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES PARTE CON INTERÉS

Demandado(a) CIVIL:

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 16 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

WHEREAS, upon Motion filed by Plaintiff, the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico has entered an order authorizing the publication of said judgment. THEREFORE, the publication of the judgment is ordered within the next 10 days on a newspaper of general circulation in Puerto Rico. IN WITNESS THEREOF, I set my hand and seal in San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 28th day of April, 2023. ADA I. GARCIARIVERA, ESQ. CLERK OF THE COURT. ANA DURAN, DEPUTY CLERK.

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BANCO POPULAR DE

A: JOVITO MIRO ALVARADO, ELIZABETH RIVERA ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE; DIRECCION: URB SAN ANTONIO, E12 CALLE 5, HUMACAO PR 00791-3701. (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 21 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 Humacao,

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: YAHAIRA GONZÁLEZ POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON JOSÉ

JULIÁN RODRÍGUEZ NEGRÓN, POR ELLA MISMA Y POR CONDUCTO DE JOSÉ

JULIÁN RODRÍGUEZ NEGRÓN.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 009366603. Tel. (787) 919-0073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 13 de abril de 2023. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA GE-

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 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 San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 25 de ABRIL de 2023. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SECRETARIA.

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Demandante v. SUCESION DE ANA LUISA CARRASCO TORRES COMPUESTA POR

ROBERT JOHN WALLEN, JUDE ROBERT WALLEN Y ETHAN WALLEN

DEMANDADOS

CIVIL: NÚM. FA2023CV00119. SOBRE: INTERPELACION COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. A: SUCESION DE ANA LUIS CARRASCO TORRES COMPUESTA POR ROBERT JOHN WALLEN, JUDE ROBERT WALLEN Y ETHAN WALLEN, 2 CALLE B, URB EXT MELENDEZ, FAJARDO PR 00738-4312. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de 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 FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, el 25 de abril de 2023. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE OF FINANCE OF STRUCTURED SECURITIES

ACQUISITION TRUST 2018 HB1 Demandante V SUCESIÓN DE RAÚL GELY GELY COMPUESTA POR MARGARITA RODRÍGUEZ, EVELYN GELY, RAÚL GELY, GLYDEN SMITH, ARLEEN

GELY, RENÉ GELY Y MELVIN GELY; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAÚL GELY GELY; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: PA2021CV00224.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESIÓN DE RAÚL GELY GELY COMPUESTA POR MARGARITA RODRÍGUEZ, EVELYN GELY, RAÚL GELY, GLYDEN SMITH, ARLEEN GELY, RENÉ GELY Y MELVIN GELY FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01 de noviembre de 2022. En Guayama, Puerto Rico, el 27 de abril de 2023. MARISOL ROSADO

RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUZ M. GUZMÁN

SANTIAGO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante Vs.

RAFAEL

DE LA CRUZ SANCHEZ, ETC.

Demandados CIVIL NUM. KCD2017-0200 (903) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. A: SUCESIÓN RAFAEL DE LA CRUZ SANCHEZ: YADRIEL RAFAEL Y LISSHA MASSIEL DE LA CRUZ PÉREZ, FULANO Y MENGANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y CON INTERÉS; SUCESION

VIRGINIA PAULINO

MERCEDES: FANNY CHARITO, ZUNILDA ALTAGRACIA Y VIRGINIA DEYANIRA PEREZ PAULINO; SUTANO Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y CON INTERÉS; DIRECCIÓN

POSTAL: URB. COUNTRY

CLUB, CALLE DURBEC 928, SAN JUAN, P.R. 00924.

AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar; A- Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento fechado 25 de julio de 2019, librado por este Honorable Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender en pública subasta, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Centro Judicial de San Juan, al mejor postor y por dinero en efectivo o cheque certificado, todo título, derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA:

Solar Veintitrés (23) del Bloque O de la Urbanización Country Club, radicado en el Barrio Sabana Llana de Río Piedras, hoy San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área de Trescientos Setenta y Nueve punto Doce (379.12) metros cuadrados y colinda por el Norte, en once punto setenta y siete metros, con la calle número veinte; por el Sur, en quince punto veintisiete metros, con el solar número veinticuatro del bloque O; por el Oeste, en veintiuno punto cincuenta metros, con la calle trece de dicha urbanización; por el Noroeste, en forma de arco, en cinco punto cincuenta metros, con la intersección de la calle número trece y calle número veinte; y por el Este, en veinticinco metros, con el solar número veintidos del bloque O. Inscrita al folio 196 del tomo 102 de

Sabana Llana, Sección Quinta del Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, finca número 4315.

B- Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C- Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D- Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen anterior; Ninguno; Gravamen posterior; Ninguno. E- La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $108,997.15; desglosados en $93,658.08 de principal e intereses acumulados al 8.50% anual, hasta su total y completo pago; $4,300.29 de recargos; $2,538.78 en deficiencia de cuenta de reserva, mas la suma de $8,500.00 pactados para el pago de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, intereses vencidos acumulados y en cantidad asegurada por adelantos. Se fija como tipo mínimo para la primera subasta la cantidad de $85,000.00. La primera subasta se celebrará el día 1ero de junio de 2023, a las 10:00 de la mañana, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan, por el tipo mínimo de $85,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha primera subasta, se celebrará en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, una segunda subasta el día 8 de junio de 2023, a las 10:00 de la mañana. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 del tipo mínimo correspondiente fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, $56,666.66. De declararse desierta esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrara en el mismo lugar, una tercera subasta el día 15 de junio de 2023, a las 10:00 de la mañana, con el tipo mínimo de la mitad del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, $42,500.00. Y PARA QUE ASI CONSTE, para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de dos(2) semanas en los sitios públicos conforme a la Ley, expido el presente bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 19 de abril de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ ALGUACIL.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYAMA

ROSE MARY COLON PEREZ

Demandante V. AUDBERTO UREÑA BERRIOS

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM: GM2023RF00040 SOBRE: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE) EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: AUDBERTO UREÑA BERRIOS

Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal ROSE MARY COLON PEREZ, ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre: DIVORCIO RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. Se le notifica que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), a 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 Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Guayama y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Amergie Enid García Santiago, Calle Francisco G. Bruno #22 Oeste Guayama, Puerto Rico 00784, Teléfono 787-864-4090, amergiegarcia@gmail.com abogada de la parte demandante. Se le apercibe y notifica que, si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citarle, ni oírle. Expido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 25 de abril de 2023. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

VIRGEN DE JESÚS LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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ALTA REINALDO LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ, WILMA IRIS COLLAZO RODRÍGUEZ, y la COMUNIDAD DE BIENES POST GANANCIAL compuesta por ambos

Demandantes V.

UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES

REAL ESTATE, Inc., UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES REALTY GOVERNMENT SERVICES, LLC., ANDRÉS R. REYES VÉLEZ

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM: CZ2023CV00016

SALA: 201 B SOBRE: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: ANDRÉS R. REYES

VÉLEZ 3008 CALLE MARGINAL OESTE, PISO 2 LEVITTOWN, TOA BAJA, PR 00949. Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Toa Alta, el Caso Civil Núm. CZ2023CV00016. Se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva 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), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se requiere que notifique a la LCDA. IVETTE ROSSANA GARCÍA CRUZ, a la siguiente dirección: PO BOX 373151, CAYEY, PR 00007373151. Teléfono 787-286-9900 Email: garciacruzlaw@gmail. com, Abogada de la Parte Demandante, copia de sus alegaciones y/o contestación a la demanda. Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 19 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA

ALTA REINALDO LÓPEZ

RODRÍGUEZ, WILMA IRIS

COLLAZO RODRÍGUEZ, y la COMUNIDAD DE BIENES POST

GANANCIAL compuesta por ambos

Demandantes V.

UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES

REAL ESTATE, Inc., UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES

REALTY GOVERNMENT SERVICES, LLC., ANDRÉS R. REYES

VÉLEZ

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM: CZ2023CV00016

SALA: 201 B SOBRE: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO.

EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE, INC. 3008 CALLE

MARGINAL OESTE, PISO 2 LEVITTOWN, TOA BAJA, PR 00949. Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Toa Alta, el Caso Civil Núm. CZ2023CV00016. Se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva 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), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se requiere que notifique a la LCDA. IVETTE ROSSANA GARCÍA CRUZ, a la siguiente dirección: PO BOX 373151, CAYEY, PR 00007373151. Teléfono 787-286-9900

Email: garciacruzlaw@gmail. com, Abogada de la Parte Demandante, copia de sus alegaciones y/o contestación a la demanda. Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 19 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA REINALDO LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ, WILMA IRIS COLLAZO RODRÍGUEZ, y la COMUNIDAD DE BIENES POST

GANANCIAL compuesta por ambos

Demandantes V. UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES

REAL ESTATE, Inc., UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES

REALTY GOVERNMENT SERVICES, LLC., ANDRÉS R. REYES

VÉLEZ

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM: CZ2023CV00016

SALA: 201 B SOBRE: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES REALTY GOVERNMENT SERVICES, L.L.C. 3008

CALLE MARGINAL OESTE, PISO 2

LEVITTOWN, TOA BAJA, PR 00949. Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Toa Alta, el Caso Civil Núm. CZ2023CV00016. Se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva 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), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se requiere que notifique a la LCDA. IVETTE ROSSANA GARCÍA CRUZ, a la siguiente dirección: PO BOX 373151, CAYEY, PR 00007373151. Teléfono 787-286-9900

Email: garciacruzlaw@gmail. com, Abogada de la Parte Demandante, copia de sus alegaciones y/o contestación a la demanda. Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 19 de abril de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA

SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Peticionario vs. EX-PARTE Civil Núm.: GY2023CV00055 SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, a todo el que tenga derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito en la Petición de Expediente de Dominio, a las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción solicitada, así como los colindantes, causahabientes o herederos y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse. Por la presente se le notifica que comparezca, si creyera que le conviene, a este Honorable Tribunal, dentro de veinte (20) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, el cual se publicará por tres (3) veces y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por el peticionario para adquirir el dominio de la siguiente propiedad: URBANO: Solar número Quinientos Cincuenta y Seis (556) de la Calle José Belén Gotay de Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, antes Calle Palma Número veintinueve (29), tiene un área de CIENTO VEINTICINCO METROS CON VEINTIOCHO CENTIMETROS CUADRADOS. Colinda por el Norte con Alma Quiles antes hoy su sucesión, teniendo una longitud de doce metros; por el Este con José R. Figueroa antes, ahora Noel Morales Orta, que mide doce metros de largo; por el Sur con la Calle José Belén Gotay, por donde mide nueve metros de frente; y por el Oeste con Residencial Los Flamboyanes, por donde mide doce metros. Enclava en dicho solar una estructura residencial construida en hormigón armado y bloques. Debe notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal del promovente, Lcdo. Joseph Brocco Santiago, P.O. Box 608, Peñuelas, Puerto Rico 006240608, Teléfono 787-836-3020. En Yauco, Puerto Rico a 25 de abril de 2023. Carmen Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria. Delia Aponte Velázquez, Secretaria Auxiliar I.

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TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL

OSVALDO CARRERAS

ISOBAT COMPUESTA

POR: OSVALDO CARRERAS DÍAZ;

VENUS CHRISTINE

CARRERAS DÍAZ; ADLYN

ESTHER CARRERAS

MALDONADO; OMAR CARRERAS

MALDONADO; RICARDO

JUAN CARRERAS

MÁRQUEZ; RAQUEL

CRISTINA SOTO

VÁZQUEZ POR SI

Y COMO CONYUGE

SUPERSTITE; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS; CRIM

Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: AI2022CV00450.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS, OSVALDO CARRERAS

DIAZ; VENUS CHRISTINE

CARRERAS DIAZ; ADLYN

ESTHER CARRERAS

MALDONADO; OMAR CARRERAS

MALDONADO; RICARDO

JUAN CARRERAS

MÁRQUEZ; RAQUEL

CRISTINA SOTO

VAZQUEZ POR SI Y COMO CÓNYUGE

SUPERSTITE DE LA SUCESIÓN MANUEL

OSVALDO CARRERAS ISOBAT.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de 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 Aibonito, Puerto Rico, el 27 de abril de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. ANGÉLICA COLÓN NEGRÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V.

VÍCTOR LUIS MERCED

RODRÍGUEZ, POR SÍ, CARMEN DELIA VEGA

OQUENDO, POR SÍ Y

LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a)

Civil: LP2022CV00067. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR

EDICTO ENMENDADA.

A: VÍCTOR LUIS MERCED

RODRÍGUEZ, POR SÍ, CARMEN DELIA VEGA

OQUENDO, POR SÍ Y

LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS. A SUS DIRECCIONES

CONOCIDAS URB. LOS

ROSALES, E1 CALLE 2, HUMACAO, PR 00791; 46593 VALLEY CT. #1490, LEXINGTON PARK, MD 20653; 3266 S. BELL AVE. #2, CHICAGO, IL 60608; 9-F (143) CALLE

NILO, URB. BRISAS DEL PRADO, LAS PIEDRAS, PR 0071. P/C LCDA. MARICELI PEREZ GONZALEZ.

(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 7 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 26 de abril de 2023. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 26 de abril de 2023.

IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V.

JOHN DOE Y RICHARD

ROE COMO MIEMBROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN

MILAGROS LÓPEZ COLÓN; JORGE LUIS LÓPEZ

COLÓN, JOSÉ RAMÓN

LÓPEZ COLÓN, MARTÍN COLÓN LÓPEZ, REY FRANCISCO SIERRA

LÓPEZ, VANESSA LÓPEZ TORRES, RAMSUE

LÓPEZ TORRES, MELISA LÓPEZ RIVERA, YELITZA LÓPEZ RIVERA, JOSUÉ LÓPEZ RIVERA, JONALYA LÓPEZ

MIRANDA Y JOANYS

LÓPEZ MIRANDA COMO MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN CARMEN MILAGROS LÓPEZ COLÓN Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00903.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Al-

guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, hago saber a la parte demandada JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN MILAGROS LÓPEZ COLÓN, JORGE LUIS LÓPEZ COLÓN, JOSÉ RAMÓN LÓPEZ COLÓN, MARTÍN COLÓN LÓPEZ, REY FRANCISCO SIERRA LÓPEZ, VANESSA LÓPEZ TORRES, RAMSUE LÓPEZ TORRES, MELISA LÓPEZ RIVERA, YELITZA LÓPEZ RIVERA, JOSUÉ LÓPEZ RIVERA, JONALYA LÓPEZ MIRANDA Y JOANYS LÓPEZ MIRANDA COMO MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN CARMEN MILAGROS LÓPEZ COLÓN y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 23 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $84,991.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: 105 RUIZ BELVIS, CAYEY, PR 00736, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: URBANA: Solar o predio de terreno con una cabida de 192.00 metros cuadrados, en el Barrio Toita, de Cayey, Puerto Rico, y colindante por el frente o Norte, en 12.00 metros con la finca principal, hoy prolongación de la ca/le Ruiz Be/vis de Cayey; por el Este, en 16. 00 metros con solar de dona Angelica Duchesne, por el Sur, en 12. 00 metros y por el Oeste, en 16.00 metros con la finca principal de que se segrega propiedad de Santiago Aponte Andino. Finca 4801 inscrita al folio 148 del tomo 555 de Cayey, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituida por Carmen Milagros Lopez Colón, soltera, en garantía de un pagaré, aff#.958, a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria P.R., o a su orden, por $84,991.00, al 3.50%, vencedero el 1 de agosto de 2042, según Esc. #30-B, en San Juan, a 27 de julio de 2012, ante Gioakim Alessandro Murati Fernández, inscrita al folio 148 del tomo 555 de Cayey, finca #4801, inscripción 12ma, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 18 de agosto de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de

$79,624.05 de principal, más interés al 3.50% anual, que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total desde el 1 de enero de 2020, $76.32 de cargos por atrasos, $8,499.10 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 30 DE MAYO DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $84,991.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $56,660.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE JUNIO DE 2023 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $42,495.50. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los

hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de abril de 2023.

ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.

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TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE SAN SEBASTIÁN

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE RINCON

Demandante Vs MYRNA E. VARGAS

PEREZ

Demandada

CIVIL NÚM: MO2022CV00073

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO.

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MYRNA E. VARGAS

PEREZ

EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 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 San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 26 se abril de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante v.

LUIS E. SANTIAGO

ABRAHAM Y ANA CELIA ABRAHAM LÓPEZ

Demandado(a)

CIVIL: AR2019CV02071 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LUIS E. SANTIAGO

ABRAHAM Y ANA CELIA

ABRAHAM LÓPEZ. (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 28 de abril de 2023. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 28 de abril de 2023. Vivían Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. Carmen J. Rosario Valentín, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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Demandante v. OCTAVIO COLON OTERO; JANET SOFIA COLON CINTRON; LUIS ANEUDY COLON CINTRON

Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV04119 SALA 403 Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO

A: OCTAVIO COLON OTERO; JANET SOFIA COLON CINTRON. (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 28 de abril de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 28 de abril de 2023. LCDA, LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. KATHERINA SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

Passionate baseball fans and (very) thin air let Mexico City shine

By JAMES WAGNER

Aday before Major League Baseball played regular-season games in Mexico City for the first time, Nick Martinez, a pitcher for the San Diego Padres, had an idea. Accompanied by a few teammates, he visited the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Friday, which was a day off for both the San Francisco Giants and the Padres.

On the way to the church, Martinez noticed several shops selling pinatas. He bought a few, hoping they could be smashed by the player of the game after each of the contests.

“Being in San Diego, Mexican culture is very much a part of our culture,” Martinez said. “And being here in Mexico for this series, the pinatas were an opportunity to keep that Mexican culture in our clubhouse.”

So, after the Padres defeated the Giants, 16-11, on Saturday, in a slugfest made possible by the conditions of Mexico City, Padres designated hitter Nelson Cruz donned a sombrero in the colors of the Mexican flag as he struggled to break open a Buzz Lightyear pinata. His teammates cheered him on while wearing Mexican lucha libre wrestling masks. And after a 6-4 Padres win Sunday, first baseman Matt Carpenter sent candy flying onto the clubhouse floor when he busted open a pinata in the shape of a star.

“It was a real short bat,” Cruz explained later of his pinata troubles. He eventually gave up and ripped it open by hand. “If it had been a normal bat, it would’ve been done with one swing.”

For two days at Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú, the MLB games were a celebration of Mexico and its love of baseball. The league had previously played regular-season games in Monterrey in 1996, 1999, 2018 and 2019. Exhibition contests were played in Mexico City in the past, but playing games that mattered in the country’s capital was different.

MLB wanted to do so in Mexico City sooner, but the $166 million stadium, which holds 20,000 fans, wasn’t completed until 2019. The facility is home to the Mexican League’s Diablos Rojos, a

Mexico City is one of the largest cities in the world, a metropolis more populous (22 million) than New York City (20 million) and 2,000 feet higher in altitude than Denver, which is home to MLB’s Colorado Rockies and is famously a mile above sea level. Mexico City is also the largest city in North America without a franchise in the region’s four major men’s professional sports leagues (NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB).

Soccer may be the biggest sport in Mexico but baseball has a strong foothold, particularly in certain regions of this country of 127 million people. Given how the Toronto Blue Jays are the MLB team for all of Canada, baseball officials and fans have dreamed about the potential of an expansion franchise in Mexico City.

“It would be a great experience,” said Juan Soto, a star outfielder for the Padres who is from the Dominican Republic. “It makes me think of soccer, where those players live traveling from city to city.”

Even though MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has praised the business prospects of Mexico City and the Mexican market as a whole in the past, he recently said that he had “never been close to the idea of Mexico as an expansion op -

portunity.”

“The challenges are facility based,” he said last week. “Even the stadium that we’re playing in this weekend is probably not big enough for a permanent home for a major league club. And then, of course, our season is so long. I have a union issue there that would have to be bargained to get players to live for that long of a period of time in Mexico.”

The current goal for Mexico, Manfred said, was to improve MLB’s relationships with existing professional baseball leagues there and to have the country become a North American equivalent of Japan, with “vibrant, domestic professional play” and “star players given the opportunity to come and play Major League Baseball.” He said having more Mexican players in MLB would help baseball appeal to the large Mexican American audience in the United States and create more broadcast interest in Mexico.

Based on the weekend of games in Mexico City, there was indeed an appetite for the sport. The scenes in the stands and on the field reflected a spirited baseball culture. The tickets for the games sold out quickly in November. About 20,000 fans attended each game, but it sounded like more.

Mexican food — including micheladas, tacos, aguachile and churros — was

sold in abundance. A mariachi band played throughout the games, performing a rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during the seventh-inning stretch. Hundreds of fans lingered outside the stadium after the final game to send off both teams with cheers and waves.

“It was awesome,” said Manny Machado, a third baseman for the Padres whose family is from the Dominican Republic. “What most impressed me was the fans and how passionate they were, especially for us Latinos who play with a lot of passion and energy.”

After each of the seven home runs they hit over the weekend, the Padres, the MLB team closest to the Mexican border, put a sombrero on the head of the player who smashed the ball over the fence. Fernando Tatis Jr. bought it Friday during a trip to the famous canals of Xochimilco in Mexico City. When Padres relievers walked out to the bullpen, they did so in lucha libre masks gifted to the team by Mexican American professional wrestler Rey Mysterio.

“It means a lot,” Tatis said of playing in Mexico City. “For us Latin Americans, it’s something beautiful to play in front of our people and taking the game to the kids who don’t normally see us play in the U.S.”

Roughly three-fourths of the tickets sold online were purchased in Mexico, according to MLB, while the remaining tickets were purchased in the United States, primarily in California. But walking the stands, it felt like more Padres fans were visiting from the United States and several said they bought their tickets online through secondary-market resellers in Mexico.

In the left field bleachers, Felipe Pérez, 44, said he met many fans from the United States but also several Mexicans who had traveled from throughout the country. He was one of them; he said he took a seven-hour bus ride Saturday from Veracruz, a city on the Gulf of Mexico coast, and arrived in Mexico City just in time for the 4 p.m. game. He returned home at 11 a.m. the next day.

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team owned by Mexican billionaire Alfredo Harp Helú, also a part owner of the Padres.

Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú, a 20,000-seat ballpark that opened in 2019, hosted the two-game series between the San Diego Padres and the San Francisco Giants.

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All that effort was worth it, Pérez said, because he loves baseball. He added in Spanish: “I’m happy. To see a big league game here, it’s the best.”

Pérez had been waiting for these games. He and his family bought tickets for the April 2020 series in Mexico City between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Padres that was erased by the pandemic. He marveled at the atmosphere around him Saturday as he nursed a beer.

“Mexicans have a way of enjoying shows and life,” Pérez said as fans stomped their feet for Tatis at the plate. “People get behind a team. Look at how people are cheering.”

In recent years, Mexican baseball has improved on the international stage. On MLB’s opening day rosters this season, there were 15 players born in Mexico, the highest total since 2005. In March, the Mexican national team finished third in the World Baseball Classic, its best showing in the tournament. And the most powerful fan in Mexico is its president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who hosted a breakfast Sunday at El Palacio Nacional for, among others, Trevor Hoffman, a Hall of Famer who starred for the Padres; Sergio Romo, a reliever who won three World Series titles with the Giants; and Harp Helú.

Romo, who is Mexican American, said he didn’t think the hurdles for Mexico City as a future MLB home were as big as some may think. He said plenty of Eng-

lish was spoken in the international hub and that there was lots of tourism and history here.

“I do feel that Mexico does have a little bit of a bad rap in terms of, like, safety and whatnot,” he said. “But here in Mexico, you’re safe. There’s a lot of really cool things going on, and obviously, every city has their neighborhoods you don’t want to go to. But this place has so many other spots that are so welcoming and open.”

Regular-season games, at the very least, are expected to return to Mexico City. As part of its overseas push in recent years, MLB played games in London for the first time in 2019, expanding a world tour that already included Japan, Puerto Rico and Australia. In the latest labor agreement, MLB and the players union agreed to more regular-season games in London, some in Paris in 2025 and yearly trips to Mexico City from 2023-26.

The altitude and the turf in Mexico City will present some ongoing challenges — or advantages — to players. On Saturday, the ball zoomed through the thinner air and the teams combined for 11 home runs and 30 hits. Defenders said the ball skipped off the ground and rocketed past them.

Pitchers said their pitches didn’t move like usual, clarifying that it was even more of an issue than it is at the Rockies’ Coors Field. After running the bases Saturday, Cruz said he felt more out of breath. Padres pitcher Yu Darvish said umpires told him he could call for a trainer during his start Sunday if he was feeling too winded. Alex Cobb, a pitcher for the Giants, said his

team’s training staff provided more fluids and electrolytes to avoid dehydration.

But for a team expected to contend for the playoffs, and which had been previously struggling at the plate, a memorable trip to Mexico City might have been exactly what the Padres needed.

“I’d love to stay here another week,” said Machado, who homered twice.

“It means a lot,” Fernando Tatis Jr., right, said of playing in Mexico City. “For us Latin Americans, it’s something beautiful to play in front of our people and taking the game to the kids who don’t normally see us play in the U.S.”

San Juan high schooler wins gold in discus throw at Penn Relays

By THE STAR STAFF

Nathan Villegas Reyes won a gold medal in the discus with a throw of 62.49 meters (about 205 feet) at the 127th edition of the Penn Relays track & field competition held late last week at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

The teen athlete, a student at University Gardens High School in San Juan, punched his ticket to represent the island in the high school boys division at the historic athletic event after launching the longest throw in the qualifiers held by the Department of Recreation and Sports’ (DRD) “School Sports” program.

“Seeing the success of young sports prospects fills us with more enthusiasm to continue offering them the most complete sports programming,” DRD Secretary Ray Quiñones Vázquez said in a written communication. “I congratulate Nathan and the other young men who are representing us at the Penn Relays and urge them to continue their sporting careers with a firm step. At the DRD we

will always be there to help them fulfill their dreams.”

Villegas Reyes emphasized the significance of his achievement, especially when last year he tried to qualify and almost failed. “This triumph represents a new stage in my life,” he said. “I never thought it would go this far! It was a good experience that I will cherish for the rest of my life.”

He was quick to thank his family, his coach Jimmy Velázquez and the DRD School Sports program for the opportunity to represent the island.

In the javelin throw, Diego Vázquez Dávila, a student at Eugenio Guerra Cruz High School in Salinas, stood out by reaching the final round.

This is the second consecutive year that Puerto Rico has had a presence at the Penn Relays, which are held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. This time around, 25 male and female students represented the island in the discus and javelin throws, 4X100 and 4X400 relay, long jump and distance running.

Nathan Villegas Reyes’ winning discus throw at the Penn Relays was over a half-meter longer than the second-place throw.

Sudoku

How to Play:

Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

Sudoku Rules:

Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Crossword

Answers on page 30

Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

A heightened sense of idealized romance could hit you today, Aries. If you aren’t currently involved, beware! That wonderful new person you’ve just met may have a well-hidden side. If you’re currently involved, expect a simultaneous high from romantic exhilaration and insecurity that maybe your beloved doesn’t love you anymore. Either way, try to forget it. You will be more objective tomorrow.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Something you feel you desperately need right now is missing, Taurus, and it’s very well hidden. You may search the house for it and drive yourself crazy in the process. Do you really need it that badly? If so, sit for a moment and try to collect your thoughts. If you can’t, leave it for now. You may find it by chance or through a sudden insight. Relax and hang in there!

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

Don’t listen to gossip today, Gemini. Any rumors that are spreading are likely to be based on false assumptions and totally outside the realm of reality. Yet someone who loves to talk is very convincing! Take anything you hear that you can’t immediately verify with a grain of salt, if not the whole shaker. There’s definitely something weird going on. Avoid it!

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

A luxury you’ve been craving could seem very tempting today, Cancer. Make sure you’re really ready, willing, and able to spend the money to get it. Think about it carefully before whipping out your credit card. Do you really want it that much? Is the expense feasible right now? If so, go for it. Luxuries aren’t always a waste of money. They can do wonders for your self-esteem!

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Emotional turmoil may overwhelm your usual objectivity and good sense today, Leo. Family problems could weigh on your mind, as communication between you and family members may be lacking. You might not feel in touch with what’s going on. Try to encourage them to talk to you. If they won’t, move on. Sometimes people want to deal with their troubles on their own. It’s their choice.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

Your imagination should fly high today, Virgo. Whether you’re into writing, music, or dance, make the most of your creative inspiration. If you don’t, your ideas may vanish as soon as they appear. If you’re too busy, at least make time to jot down your insights and any possibilities for developing them. Then you will have a record you can return to at a future date.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

Doubts about a friend may plague you today, Libra. Did this person borrow money? Promise to do you a favor? Can you depend on this person? The best way to judge is by their track record. If they’ve been undependable in the past, chances are they might be again. It might be best for you to turn to someone else. Today, at least, your friend is best left in the clouds.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

Confusion might get in the way of anything you hope to accomplish today, Scorpio. You may feel like you’re walking around in a daze, uncertain of your actions. Try to stay focused and be your usual practical, objective self. It might not come as easily for you as it usually does, but you can do it. Have some coffee and make a list of what needs to be done. Sometimes that’s all it takes.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

Spiritual and metaphysical concepts may seem murky to you today, Sagittarius. Ideas that friends accept as matters of course might feel strange. Don’t get into an argument. Ask about books, websites, or magazines that you can consult for more input and, hopefully, clarity. Find out about future lectures on the subject. It should all come together eventually. You just need to be patient!

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

A strange, bothersome feeling could plague you today, Capricorn, as if you can’t remember something you need to do. Don’t drive yourself crazy over this. Chances are you haven’t forgotten anything but had a rather irritating dream. If you can’t seem to shake the idea, try asking your subconscious to pull up the dream. Write it down. Once you know what it’s all about, you will probably feel free again.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

Is a romantic partner having trouble communicating with family, Aquarius? If so, be prepared to hear about it today. Be a good listener. Your understanding and objectivity will be greatly appreciated. Your beloved probably isn’t seeing the real facts and needs an outside party to point this out. However, avoid the temptation to patronize. You could end up in the same doghouse!

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Listen carefully when you receive instructions today, Pisces. Your mind may not be as sharp as usual. If you aren’t careful, you could get on the wrong track and end up having to start all over again. Don’t be too shy or ashamed to ask questions. It’s always better to ask a question than make an unnecessary error. Proceed slowly and methodically and you will get through the day!

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