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A ‘Simple Call’: ‘Get Vaccinated’ Health Dept. Declares Flu Epidemic, Calls for Vaccination as Fatalities Reach 42 Since Start of Season P3

Justice Chief Evaluates Appealing Probation Determination in Fatal Hit-and-Run Case

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or the first time since 2017, the island government on Thursday declared an influenza epidemic after a sustained increase in the number of cases and fatalities.

Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López, chief epidemiologist Melissa Marzán and chief medical officer Iris Cardona announced this week that the number of flu-related fatalities had risen to 42. As of Thursday morning there were 903 hospitalizations and 25,900 reported cases in the influenza season, which began in July.

“This epidemic declaration is to alert and inform citizens about the actions we must take. This is not the time to be alarmed, but to prepare to help prevent the increase in the spread of this virus,” Mellado López said. “Health providers are already working with measures to reduce the spread and prevent the virus. Fortunately, we have enough detection tests, vaccines and treatments required to deal with influenza cases and they are all accessible and distributed throughout the island.”

The Health chief added that there are guidelines for concrete actions to confront the spread of this virus.

The pediatric population between 0 and 19 years old has been the most affected this season, with 13,666 cases reported. Adults ages 20-59 with influenza amounts to 9,656 reported cases, while 2,578 cases were recorded among older adults. The sustained increase in influenza cases has occurred for 12 consecutive weeks.

Last year’s season (2022-2023) closed with 31,710 cases of influenza, 1,224 hospitalizations and 15 fatalities.

According to the historical summary of influenza seasons, 2016 was the year in which the most cases were recorded, at 53,708. However, in 2015, 25 fatalities were recorded, while in 2018, some 2,407 hospitalizations were recorded, the highest number of reported hospitalizations.

“The current influenza season began above the alert threshold early and has recently shown epidemic behavior with 5.7 times more cases compared to last season at this time,” Marzán said.

The epidemic declaration is based on a methodology that occurs when the reporting of cases exceeds the alert threshold for at least four consecutive weeks and represents close to 50% of the total cases recorded for the current flu season. In addition, cases must be identified in all health regions of Puerto Rico, and there must be an incidence level higher than 100 cases per 100,000 people, or the monitoring system of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reach a red status, Marzán said.

Cardona stressed that “the call is simple: get vaccinated.”

“Vaccination is the main shield against some dis-

eases; everyone over six months of age is eligible for it,” she said. “It is available around the island at vaccination providers, community and chain pharmacies, and at vaccination activities organized in shopping centers. We are also vaccinating in schools.”

Along with the respiratory disease prevention measures that citizens have practiced over the past three years, the vaccine will help stop the influenza virus, the officials said. Citizens must wash their hands, disinfect frequently touched surfaces, and stay home if infected.

“If you have fever, chills, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches, tiredness, vomiting or diarrhea, it could be influenza,” Cardona said. “Get tested, and if it is positive, seek to be evaluated by a doctor.”

The Health Department aims to vaccinate as many people as possible before Christmas.

“We already have the experience of how to combat the disease,” Mellado López said. “We know that influenza has a period where transmission is usually high. If we do our part, get vaccinated, and protect ourselves, we will stop the disease.”

Vaccination events are scheduled at the following shopping centers: Plaza las Américas (Nov. 24, 25 and 26), San Patricio Plaza and Plaza del Caribe (Nov. 17 and 18), Laguna Gardens Shopping Center (Nov. 17) and Mayagüez Mall, and The Outlets at Montehiedra and Las Catalinas Mall (Nov. 18). Influenza vaccines are free of cost.

Urging vaccination, island health authorities said the number of flu-related fatalities had risen to 42. As of Thursday morning there were 903 hospitalizations and 25,900 reported cases of influenza since the flu season began in July. Last year’s season closed with 31,710 cases of influenza, 1,224 hospitalizations and 15 fatalities.

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Fiscal board warns Legislature not to pass labor reform again

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he Financial Oversight and Management Board has once again warned the Legislature against passing labor reform.

The House passed House Bill 1651, which would repeal certain portions of Act 4-2017, the Labor Transformation and Flexibility Act (LTFA), to reestablish many of the labor restrictions that existed prior to passage of the LTFA, as well as to create new labor restrictions. The bill is virtually identical to Act 41-2022, which was recently nullified under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), the oversight board said in a letter to legislative leaders on Wednesday.

“We understand that the Bill is currently pending in the Senate and may be passed by the Legislative Assembly before the current session ends on November 14, 2023,” the oversight board said in the letter.

“In addition, on November 1, 2023, the ‘Report on the Fiscal Effect of House Bill 1651’ was prepared by the Budget Office of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico. It is also our understanding that the Governor and AAFAF [the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency

In a letter to legislative leaders, the oversight board said it wishes to avoid further disruption in the labor markets, as occurred when the Legislature and the governor disregarded the board’s concerns in enacting Act 41, which resulted in litigation and the nullification of the law six months after it took effect. and Financial Advisory Authority] have commissioned an economic analysis of the Bill. As set forth below, the Oversight Board has significant concerns with respect to HB 1651. Notwithstanding those concerns, the Legislature seems determined to pass this

legislation for a second time.”

In the letter dated Nov. 8, the oversight board said it wishes to avoid further disruption in the labor markets, as occurred when the Legislature and the governor disregarded the board’s concerns in enacting Act 41, which resulted in litigation and the nullification of the law six months after it took effect.

“To avoid similar disruption and uncertainty in the labor markets, the Oversight Board urges the Legislature to engage with the Oversight Board to analyze fully the impact of this Bill on the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico – before passing it,” the letter said.

Following an analysis, the Board determined that Act 41 would discourage new hiring and reduce labor market flexibility in direct contravention of the Fiscal Plan, which in turn would “(1) negatively impact Puerto Rico’s dismal labor force participation rate; (2) reduce economic growth and market competition; (3) deprive the Commonwealth of the revenues associated with such revenue growth (including by reducing the effectiveness of the Earned Income Tax Credit); and (4) increase the Commonwealth’s public assistance burden.”

“In summary, Act 41 would not only render Puerto Rico less attractive to new investors by increasing costs and litigation rather than allowing the free market to determine employee compensation, but also would hinder and diminish the economic growth PROMESA promotes, and the Government should want to encourage,” the letter added.

“Given that HB 1651 is substantively identical to Act 41, all these determinations apply to the Bill. At bottom, the Oversight Board believes that the proposed changes to the labor laws in Act 41/HB 1651 will undermine Puerto Rico’s competitiveness and its ability to achieve sustainable economic growth,” the oversight board said. “Under these circumstances, including that HB 1651 is directly inconsistent with the 2023 Fiscal Plan and in light of the Board’s prior determinations about Act 41 pursuant to PROMESA, adoption by the Legislature of the Bill would violate PROMESA.” “Given this context, we urge you to take a different approach this time,” the board added. “Specifically, we encourage the Legislature to engage with the Oversight Board prior to passing the Bill and delivering it to the Governor to avoid violating PROMESA.”

Rep. Méndez proposes bike path for former Ceiba base

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he New Progressive Party minority leader in the island House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, proposed the creation of a bike path within the grounds of the former Roosevelt Roads naval base in the eastern municipality of Ceiba.

The veteran lawmaker also promoted the creation of a bicycle lane in the section of highway PR-3 from Río Grande to Fajardo, as well as the PR-187 from Loíza to Río Grande, along with safety signage and the creation of an accident prevention and road safety media campaign for cyclists.

“The safety of people who practice cycling is important to us, and for this reason, after a meeting with several cycling groups, we have decided to promote the creation of a bike lane in the Roosevelt Roads area, a unique area for road cyclists to exercise in a safe environment,” said the District 36 representative (Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vieques and Culebra).

“I have a friend who practiced the dis-

cipline of cycling and unfortunately he was run over, so we are going to establish the parameters for safe cycling in Puerto Rico, particularly in the eastern part of the island where this discipline has turned into a boom,” Méndez said. “We are going to call a meeting with the mayor of the municipality of Ceiba, Samuel ‘Samy’ Rivera, the executive director of the Port Authority, Joel Pizá, and the cyclist groups to outline the parameters of this bike path at the Ceiba base, which also includes signage.”

The former House speaker’s remarks in the lower chamber were made during a meeting to which he had invited members of the Puerto Rico Cycling Association, Stick Sports, and cyclists Angie Herrero, Pedro Ortiz, Glenda Liz Oquendo and José “Joe” Urbina, among others. Also present were Highways and Transportation Authority (ACT by its Spanish initials) Executive Director Edwin González Montalvo and staff from the Traffic Safety Commission.

The minority leader asked the ACT chief for a work plan for the cycling safety signage

on the aforementioned sections of road, in which projects for bicycle lane safety zones in those sectors would also be outlined.

“Next week we are going to make a work plan for the signage, according to your initia-

tive,” González said. “We are going to work with the entrance of the [former] naval base to see how a program of safety signs for cyclists in that area can be developed in anticipation of what is to be done at the base.”

A meeting at the Capitol hosted by Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez was attended by members of the Puerto Rico Cycling Association, Stick Sports, and cyclists Angie Herrero, Pedro Ortiz, Glenda Liz Oquendo and José “Joe” Urbina, as well as transportation officials.

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PREB approves adding 430MW in battery storage capacity

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he Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) has given the green light to add 430 megawatts (MW) of battery storage capacity that will last four consecutive hours to make the power grid more resilient.

The resolution issued by the PREB on Wednesday details the implementation of advanced battery energy storage systems (BESS) that will offer essential services, such as frequency regulation and power reserve, to maintain the continuity and reliability of the electrical supply on the island at a time when consumers are enduring blackouts daily.

The battery units will be placed in Daguao, Yabucoa, Jobos, the Aguirre Power Plant, Costa Sur Power Plant, Cambalache Power Plant, Vega Baja, Palo Seco Power Plant, and San Juan Power Plant, according to the PREB resolution.

The PREB agreed to the battery system after Genera PR, the private operator of the island’s power plants, made a request on Oct. 27. The approval is conditioned on obtaining authorization from the Federal Emergency

Puerto Rico Energy Bureau Chairman Edison Avilés Deliz

Management Agency and the Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency.

Genera said the intention is to incorporate BESSes with existing conventional generation

units, peakers or baseload, at each location to maximize the electrical injection capacity available without overloading existing grid capabilities.

The systems, whose total cost has been estimated at $630 million, will enable the integration of renewable generation and will provide a rapid response capacity against unforeseen fluctuations in demand or generation, thus strengthening the stability of the network in the event of occurrences that may put the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s interconnection system at risk, according to the PREB. PREB Chairman Edison Avilés Deliz stressed that “the incorporation of these electrical storage systems is a critical component to modernize our infrastructure and to achieve the goal of 100% renewable energy by 2050.”

“These will not only improve the quality and reliability of electricity service, but also represent a step forward in our ability to manage energy demand and reduce polluting emissions efficiently,” he said.

The systems are also designed to offer distributed generation service and help mitigate demand peaks without overloading the existing grid or compromising system integrity.

Senate candidate calls on Senate leader to confirm Education secretary

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r. Marcos Fabián González Barreto, a New Progressive Party candidate for the Senate in 2024, called on Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago on Thursday to “put aside the ‘cheap politicking,’ which so many of our citizens condemn on a daily basis, and attend to the appointment of Secretary of the Department of Education Dr. Yanira I. Raíces Vega, who has all the requirements necessary for her to occupy such an important seat permanently.”

“It is time for the Puerto Rico Senate to tighten its belt and work promptly and seriously,” the candidate said. “Thus we call on the upper chamber to consider and act on the appointment of the secretary of the DE, Yanira I. Raíces Vega.”

“While it is true that she has the endorsement of the senators of the New Progressive Party (NPP), in order to be confirmed, it is also true that she also has the blessing of

leaders of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), including the mayor of the Municipality of Loíza, Julia M. Nazario Fuentes, the mayor of the Municipality of Comerío, Josean Santiago, and the mayor of the Municipality of Juana Díaz, Ramón ‘Ramoncito’ Hernández Torres,” González Barreto said.

“There is no reason why Raíces Vega should not be confirmed,” he said. “Sadly, the government of Pedro Pierluisi, throughout the current four-year term, has tried, unsuccessfully, to confirm several secretaries of the DE. …

At this point, that is, only a year and a half before the end of the four-year term, we don’t have a confirmed secretary yet. That’s a disgrace!”

“As long as we don’t have it, the recovery process of our schools and the educational plan for our children will be halted,” the candidate added. “It’s time for them to … work for the good of Puerto Rico. … They continue to play cheap politics!”

Dr. Marcos Fabián González Barreto (Facebook photo)

More flooding, landslides reported Thursday

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high-altitude trough that moved over Puerto Rico during the past three days produced heavy rain again on Thursday, causing flooding and landslides in the northeastern part of the island for the second day in

a row, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

The trough was expected to move away from the island Friday and produce less and lighter rainfall moving into the weekend, said NWS forecaster Lee Ingles.

A landslide occurred at mile 3.5 on highway PR-983 in Luquillo on Thursday morning, and the Manatí River

in the northern part of the island jumped its banks on Thursday morning as well.

Flooding was also reported in Fajardo, Luquillo and Vega Alta.

Landslides were also recorded in Luquillo on Wednesday afternoon.

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Justice chief evaluates appealing probation determination in fatal hit-and-run case

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ustice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández said Thursday that he is evaluating an appeal following the sentence imposed on Carlos Julián Maldonado Dávila in a fatal hit-and-run accident that took the life of a young woman last year.

Natalia Nicole Ayala Rivera (Facebook photo)

“The Department of Justice is evaluating whether the sentence imposed by the Judge on Carlos Julián Maldonado today was issued correctly in law and to determine whether an appeal is appropriate,” Emanuelli Hernández in a written statement.

Earlier in the day, Emanuelli Hernández expressed his disagreement with the sentence handed down to Maldonado Dávila for the death of Natalia Nicole Ayala Rivera, arguing that it does not do justice to the victims or their families.

“With all the respect that the court deserves, this sentence does not do justice to the victims and their families, especially when the intentional and reckless actions of Carlos Julián Maldonado Dávila were demonstrated after taking the life of Natalia Nicole and causing physical harm to Carlos Adhil,” Emanuelli Hernández said in a written statement.

“Nor does it represent a deterrent for those people who, due to their clear negligence and reckless driving, as proven in court, cause the death of other citizens on the roads,” he added.

The Justice secretary highlighted the work of prosecutors Ángel García and Fabiola Acaron in proving the guilt of Maldonado Dávila, but pointed out that in the justice system the sentence is up to the judge. He said the Department of Justice did its job responsibly by presenting all the evidence and achieving the conviction.

Maldonado Dávila was sentenced to a 10-year suspended sentence for the accident that caused the death of Ayala Rivera and injuries to Carlos Adihl Sosa Bigio. Judge Nerisvel C. Durán Guzmán determined that the convicted man will not serve jail time.

The incident occurred on Jan. 5, 2022, when young Ayala Rivera was changing a tire on her vehicle and was hit by an SUV driven by Maldonado Dávila, who did not stop to offer help or inform the authorities.

Durán Guzmán is also the presiding judge in the case of the Nov. 21, 2021 drunk-driving death of Justin Santos, brother of rapper and singer-songwriter Austin Santos -- who performs as “Arcángel” -- caused by Mayra Enid Nevárez Torres.

PDP’s motivation for eliminating the Office of the Special Independent Prosecutor is questioned

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ew Progressive Party Rep. José Aponte Hernández on Thursday questioned the motivation and insistence of some members of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) delegation in the island House of Representatives to eliminate the Office of the Special Independent Prosecutor (FEI by its Spanish initials) Panel.

“It is highly questionable that the PDP brought down for a vote yesterday the measures to eliminate the FEI Office just a few days after a case was found for a trial against the mayor

of Mayagüez, as well as that of Ponce, both members of the Popular party,” Aponte said. “Our delegation does not believe in eliminating this anti-corruption filter and we made it known. The figure of the FEI was born from the Watergate scandal that cost Richard Nixon the presidency and led to his closest advisors, as well as two former justice secretaries under his administration, to be found guilty of illegal acts. We rejected such [legislative] measures in the past and we will continue to do so.”

“Our priorities are with the public policy endorsed by the people of Puerto Rico at the polls during the 2020 general elections,” the veteran lawmaker added. “That includes work

in favor of the admission of Puerto Rico as a state of the union, and the fight against corruption in all levels and spheres, among others. Our delegation has filed more than 30 measures in this four-year term against corruption and the PDP has not paid attention to them.”

“The FEI is a structure that is needed in Puerto Rico,” Aponte added. “In fact, it was a Popular Party governor that established this office. Since then, we have tried to reinforce it, tempering it to the new realities. We will continue to identify real alternatives to support OPFEI, as well as other platforms to combat the terrible social evil of corruption.”

Economic Development Bank tops $200 million in grants awarded

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for Puerto Rico, reaching all 78 municipalities and supporting more than 28,000 workers,” he Economic Development Bank (EDB) EDB President Luis Alemañy González said in for Puerto Rico announced this week the a written statement. awarding of $200 million in grants to small With 4,143 grant deals closed to date, the and midsize businesses, marking a significant EDB has distributed the majority of funds under advance in the island’s economic recovery. the current administration, boosting various “The Small Business Financing Program has economic sectors from agriculture to tourism. been a beacon of hope and economic stability The effort has generated 15,052 new jobs and supported many more, Alemañy noted.

Collaboration between the island Housing Department and the EDB has been essential to the success of the program, which provides grants and loans for business recovery and expansion. “We are committed to economic reconstruction and providing a big boost to our small business owners,” Economic Development Bank President Luis Alemañy Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez said.

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Both officials stressed that interagency work continues to be a pillar for economic progress, providing comprehensive support for the island’s entrepreneurs.

“Our work with CDBG-DR [Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery] funds shows our commitment to Puerto Rican entrepreneurship, Alemañy said.

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Congressional split on immigration hangs over year-end spending fights

By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN

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here is growing consensus on Capitol Hill and at the White House that any deal to fund foreign wars, and possibly the entire government, must include significant new measures to address the U.S.-Mexico border, but Republicans and Democrats are deeply split over what changes to make.

President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress — who had previously resisted the idea of tougher immigration policies as a price for a spending deal — have pivoted in recent weeks and are now considering concessions as part of an emergency bill to provide aid to Israel and Ukraine. And Republicans, who have been agitating for months for strict new border measures, are demanding a host of policy changes, including an overhaul of asylum laws.

The discussion, taking place before a government funding deadline in just over a week, reflects how fraught the politics of immigration have become for Biden and Democrats.

The party’s liberal base, which opposes most of the stricter GOP-backed initiatives, was already angry at the president for embracing some of the Donald Trump-era measures he campaigned against, such as border wall construction. But polls have also shown deep dissatisfaction with how the Biden administration has handled a recent surge in migrants, and many Democrats fear a voter backlash if they do not accept at least modest changes.

“I’d like to bridge the divide,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, said Tuesday on the Senate floor. “Our caucus would like to see some kind of common-sense border policies done, and the president would like to get something done.

“But,” he added later, “Republicans need to actually work with us on realistic border policies.”

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader, said he told Biden and Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary, on Monday that “it would be difficult to get the package across the floor of the Senate without a credible border solution.”

Senate Republicans have proposed a border plan that largely mirrors a severely restrictive bill that Republicans pushed through the House in the spring over unanimous Democratic opposition. It would reinstitute Trump-era policies requiring migrant families to be detained at the border and forcing people who cannot be housed in detention facilities to wait outside the country until their cases are processed.

It would also dismantle a number of the Department of Homeland Security programs designed to streamline entry procedures for migrants fleeing in large numbers from uns-

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) looks on as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) questions Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 8, 2023.

table countries, such as Venezuela, Haiti and Ukraine. Administration officials argue that the removal of those legal pathways to immigration would increase the number of attempted illegal border crossings.

The proposal would also make it more difficult for migrants to apply for asylum, which is designed to allow people fleeing persecution or violence in their home countries to seek refuge in the United States. Republicans are pressing to raise the bar for migrants to claim a “credible fear of persecution” — the legal standard for an asylum application — so that they would have to show that their persecution was “more likely than not” if they returned home, instead of the current requirement that they believe persecution is a “significant possibility” if they were to be sent back.

Democrats have been reluctant to consider changing asylum rules, which many immigration advocates regard as unacceptable. But in recent days, some Democrats have indicated they might be open to modifications.

While the changes Republicans are proposing would be significant, they would likely affect only a small percentage of the more than 2 million migrants arrested yearly by Border Patrol officers. Over the past year, about 178,000 migrants were put through expedited removal proceedings that involve credible fear interviews, and only about two-thirds of those claimed to be concerned about persecution if they were returned.

“It is worth discussing,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., who has spent the past year debating various immigration proposals with Republicans. But he added that it would be hard for many Democrats to swallow. “We may well be at the very beginning of an exceptionally difficult series of negotiations by leaders of both parties,” he said.

Coons and other Democrats have argued that the border security spending Biden has proposed is a more reasonable starting point for negotiations. The president requested $13.6 billion for building new detention facilities, hiring more Border Patrol officials, filling vacancies in the immigration courts and combating fentanyl trafficking.

Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, promoted those changes Wednesday in testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee.

“We need the funding that we are requesting immediately,” Mayorkas told senators, arguing that the department was in need of resources, not policy proposals that might hamper passage of a spending bill. He added that the administration would otherwise “fully endorse the need for policy changes, not in piecemeal form but in a comprehensive form.”

Republicans have rejected the

administration’s framework as wasteful and insufficient to stanch the flow of migrants into the United States.

“It’s abundantly clear that the solution to the administration’s border crisis is by replacing bad policies with sensible ones,” McConnell said Tuesday. “Even Secretary Mayorkas admitted last week that ‘policy changes are needed.’” He added that Biden’s request was “much less focused on fixing policy than on throwing money at the problem.”

McConnell’s insistence on sweeping border security measures reflects a shift in position among Senate Republicans who are strong proponents of continuing to fund Ukraine’s war against Russia. They previously pushed back on the demands of their counterparts in the House, who are much more hostile to aid to Ukraine, that border security and asylum measures be included as the price for continuing to supply military assistance to Ukraine.

Bazaar tradition continues at Union Church!

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or over six decades, Christmas in San Juan begins the second Saturday of November with The Union Church of San Juan Annual Christmas Bazaar. This year we are celebrating again and will feature different artisans, vendors, thrift shopping at the Thrift Boutique, food and the highly sought after Pecan Pies made by our loving volunteers, the Holly Rollers.

You can have your picture taken with

Santa, activities for children, raffles as well as a Silent Auction which has been organized

by Jean Cornelius, longtime volunteer and chairperson of the Bazaar efforts this year.

Jean is well known for going around businesses and securing excellent value items for this silent auction.

We hope you will join us on Saturday, November 11th from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at 2310 Laurel Street, Punta Las Marias, San

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A spirited debate on the issues, with little discussion of Trump

By JONATHAN WEISMAN

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he third Republican presidential debate devolved at times into brutal personal attacks as the five candidates onstage tried to discuss high-minded issues from the fate of Social Security to the role of America abroad between cutting asides and provocative insults.

But the winner, once again, was the prohibitive frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, who did not show up and went unscathed and unchallenged.

The debate in Miami came a day after voters across the country rebuked the Republican Party, especially over abortion rights. But that issue, which drove voters to the polls in Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and elsewhere Tuesday, did not appear until an hour and 40 minutes in.

Once it did, the candidates showed the party’s divide.

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina emphatically expressed support for a federal ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said it should be up to the states. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy spoke of “sexual responsibility for men,” suggesting that widely available paternity tests could be used to force men to take responsibility for pregnancies that should not be terminated.

And former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley sought

a conciliatory position.

“I don’t judge anyone for being pro-choice, and I don’t want them judging me for being pro-life,” she said, adding, “Stop the judgment. We don’t need to divide America over this issue anymore.”

Voters in Iowa will cast the first votes of the Republican primary season in little more than two months, yet the debaters continued their competition for second place rather than training their fire on Trump.

For the third time, Trump did not bother to show up, instead counterprogramming at a simultaneous rally in nearby Hialeah, Florida. Aside from a few harmless jabs at Trump, the five candidates who did attend saved their harshest attacks for one another.

The most heated exchange came over the unlikely issue of TikTok. After Ramaswamy bragged about using the Chinese-owned social media network to broadcast his message, he turned to his nemesis, Haley, and mocked her daughter for using the app.

“Leave my daughter out of your voice,” she snapped, muttering into the microphone, “You’re just scum.”

But the debate did address weighty issues: whether a soaring budget deficit required a higher retirement age for access to Social Security and Medicare, how the United

Gov. Ron Desantis of Florida and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy during a break of the third Republican presidential debate at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023.

States should back Israel against Hamas and Ukraine against Russia, and how a president could immediately address the strain of inflation.

It even strayed into stultifying territory, as conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, one of the moderators, demanded to know exactly how many new ships should be added to the U.S. Navy to confront China.

But in the end, it was unclear how the five candidates onstage could catch Trump if they would not directly answer the question that started and ended the debate: Why should Republican voters choose them over Trump?

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At nearby rally, Trump makes clear he doesn’t regret dodging debate

By MICHAEL GOLD

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ormer President Donald Trump was onstage at a rally in Hialeah, Florida, for nearly 25 minutes on Wednesday night before he mentioned the Republican debate that his rally was meant to overshadow.

He called the debate a waste of time.

He denigrated his Republican opponents — who minutes earlier had been asked to explain why they would make more suitable presidents than him — as weak, ineffective and unwanted.

Then he paused and surveyed the crowd of thousands who packed into the soccer stadium where he was speaking.

“So,” he asked them, “do you think we did the right thing by not participating?”

They affirmed him with a resounding cheer.

Trump’s event was staged about 30 minutes down the road from the debate, but it might as well have been a world away. For those gathered here, Trump’s position as his party’s standard-bearer was not in question.

“We want Trump, the MAGA-dor to kill the goddamn bull,” actress Roseanne Barr, who was one of several speakers at the rally, said from the stage.

Over the last several months, Trump has largely delivered speeches at smaller events or gatherings hosted by others.

His campaign has billed many of those appearances as “remarks” rather than rallies, denoting smaller-scale events with less verve and production value.

The event on Wednesday was a kind of return to the full-scale political rallies that marked his first two campaigns.

Trump largely hewed to familiar themes, though he tailored his speech to

the home crowd in Hialeah, a solidly Republican, working-class enclave outside Miami, where 94% of residents identify as Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Early in his speech, he compared President Joe Biden’s administration to “Communist Cuba,” noting the number of “great Cubans” in the audience.

He went on an extended riff that compared Biden’s America to Fidel Castro’s government, concluding by accusing Biden, who is Catholic, of persecuting Catholics.

The Republican National Committee debate was the third Trump has dodged. During the first, he took part in a livestreamed interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. During the second, he spoke at an auto parts factory in Michigan, the day after Biden had visited a picket line with striking autoworkers.

The Wednesday evening rally resembled a kind of Make America Great Again festival. Food trucks lined the periphery of the stadium. Vendors sold Trump look-alike rubber ducks and Tshirts with his campaign slogans.

And the former president made it clear that he did not regret skipping the debate, even as some of his primary opponents have accused him of lacking the gumption to exchange words with them onstage.

Trump referred to that criticism at one point during the rally.

“Well, listen, I’m standing in front of tens and thousands of people right now, and it’s on television,” Trump said. (His crowd estimate could not be confirmed.) “That’s a hell of a lot of harder to do than a debate.”

A supporter of former President Donald Trump poses with cardboard cutouts prior to a campaign rally at the Ted Hendricks Stadium in Hialeah, Fla., Wednesday, Nov, 8, 2023. Trump was holding a rally as a counter programming event to the Republican presidential debate in Miami.

Supporters of former President Donald Trump buy books prior to a campaign rally at Ted Hendricks Stadium in Hialeah, Fla., Wednesday, Nov, 8, 2023.

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With the strikes over, the mood in Hollywood is decidedly mixed

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riters have been back at their keyboards for a month, having negotiated a strike-ending deal so favorable that it seemed to leave even them a bit gobsmacked. On Wednesday, the actors’ union said it had negotiated a tentative contract of its own, all but ending its 118-day strike and clearing a path for the film and television business to roar back to life for the first time since May. Champagne for everyone!

Instead, the mood in the entertainment capital is decidedly mixed, as celebratory feelings compete with resentment over the work stoppage and worries about the business era that is coming.

“People are excited — thrilled — to be getting back to work,” said Jon Liebman, co-chief executive of Brillstein Entertainment Partners, a venerable Hollywood management firm. “But they are also mindful of some sobering challenges that lie ahead.”

Analysts estimate that higher labor expenses will add 10 % to the cost of making a show, and studios are expected to compensate by cutting back on production.

“Companies are not going to increase their budgets accordingly,” said Jason E. Squire, editor of “The Movie Business Book” and host of a companion podcast. “They will compensate by making less. The end.”

Hulu, for instance, expects the number of new shows it makes in 2024 to fall by about one-third from 2022.

The Directors Guild of America also has a new contract that guarantees raises. And two more union contracts, both covering crews, come due in the next few months. Studios will either have to pay up or risk another shutdown. “READY for our contract fight next year,” Lindsay Dougherty, lead organizer for Teamsters Local 399, recently said on X, formerly known as Twitter. Her branch represents more than 6,000 Hollywood workers, including truck drivers, location managers and casting directors.

Even before the strikes, Hollywood was swinging from boom times to austerity. Peak TV, the glut of new programming that helped define the streaming era, ended last year as Wall Street began pressuring streaming ser-

vices to put a priority on profit over subscriber growth.

TV networks and streaming platforms ordered 40% fewer adult scripted series in the second half of 2022 than they did in the same period in 2019, according to Ampere Analysis, a research firm.

Put another way, 599 adult scripted series were made last year. Some analysts predict that, by 2025, the annual number will be closer to 400, a roughly one-third decline.

Even the most modest series employs hundreds of people, including agents, managers, publicists and stylists, who in turn fuel the broader economy.

“With the strike over, we’re all staring down the barrel of a painful structural adjustment that predates the strike,” Zack Stentz, a screenwriter with credits like “X-Men: First Class” and “Thor,” wrote on X. “A lot of careers and even entire companies are going to go away over the next year.” (He added, on a glass-half-full note: “This is also a time for clever little mammals to survive and even thrive in the new landscape. Your job is to be a clever mammal.”)

The streaming profitability problem remains largely unsolved. Netflix and Hulu make money, and Warner Bros. Discovery has said its Max service will turn a profit by the end of the year. But Disney+, Paramount+, Peacock and others continue to lose money. Peacock alone will bleed $2.8 billion in red ink in 2023, Comcast said last month.

Most analysts say that there are too many streaming services and that the weakest will ultimately close or merge with bigger competitors.

The entertainment industry’s underlying cable television and box office problems also remain dire, in some cases growing worse during the five months it took to restore labor peace.

Fewer than 50 million homes will pay for cable or satellite television by 2027, down from 64 million today and 100 million seven years ago, according to PwC, the accounting giant. In July, Disney announced that it was exploring a once-unthinkable sale of a stake in ESPN, the cable giant that has powered much of Disney’s growth over the past two decades. Paramount Global’s oncevenerable cable portfolio, centered on Nickelodeon and MTV, has also been pummeled by cord cutting; Paramount shares have dropped nearly 50% since May. The film business is also unsettled. Movies now arrive in homes (either through digital stores or on streaming) after as little as 17 days in theaters, compared with about 90 days, which had been the standard for decades.

Audiences have finally started to tire of Hollywood’s prevailing movie business strategy — endless sequels, each more bloated than the last — with lackluster results for the seventh “Mission: Impossible” film, the fifth “Indiana Jones” installment and 11th “Fast & Furious” chapter as evidence.

Theaters are not dead, as blockbuster turnout for “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” “Bar-

Analysts estimate that higher labor expenses will add 10 percent to the cost of making a show, and studios are expected to compensate by cutting back on production. bie” and “Oppenheimer” has shown. But ticket-buying data suggests a worrisome trend: People who were going to six to eight movies a year before the pandemic are now going to three or four. Even the most ardent fans of bigscreen entertainment are paring back.

Everywhere you look in Hollywood, or so it seems, businesses are trying to cut costs. Citing the strikes and “volatile larger entertainment marketplace,” Anonymous Content, a production and management company, laid off 8% of its staff last month. United Talent Agency also trimmed its head count, as did several competing agencies.

DreamWorks Animation recently eliminated 4% of its workforce, and Starz, a premium cable network and streaming service, is reducing head count by 10%. Netflix is restructuring its animation division, which is expected to result in layoffs and fewer self-made films.

Consider what is happening at Disney, which is widely considered the strongest of the old-line entertainment companies, partly because it is the largest.

Before the strikes, Disney had about 150 television shows and a dozen movies in production. But worries about streaming profitability and the decline of cable television have battered Disney’s stock price. Shares have been trading in the $80 range, down from $197 two years ago. Sorting out ESPN’s future is Disney’s first priority, but the company is also selling holdings in India and weighing whether to part with assets including ABC, the Freeform cable channel and a chain of local broadcast stations.

Disney is so vulnerable that activist investor Nelson Peltz has made it known to The Wall Street Journal that he intends, for the second time in a year, to push for board seats. Disney fended off Peltz in February, partly by saying it would cut $5.5 billion in costs and eliminate 7,000 jobs. On Wednesday, Disney said that, in the end, it had cut $7.5 billion and more than 8,000 jobs. It added that it would continue to tighten its belt.

Phil Cusick, an analyst at JPMorgan, said of Disney in a note to clients in late September, “The company plans to make less content and spend less on what it does make.”

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Wall St Wavers as Markets Await More Policy Cues U

.S. stocks struggled for direction on Thursday as investors awaited further policy cues from central bank officials, including Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, as well as a raft of economic data next week.

Softer-than-expected monthly jobs data and the easing of the Fed’s hawkish stance at its last meeting pulled U.S. Treasury yields down from multi-year highs, helping equities stage a stellar comeback from their October lows.

The S&P 500 index eked out marginal gains on Wednesday but managed to extend its winning streak to the eighth session.

If the benchmark index ends higher on Thursday, it will post its longest streak of gains since 2004.

“The market today is digesting a pretty epic move in the last week and a half,” said David Russell, global head of market strategy at TradeStation.

“This week is kind of a dead zone for economic news, but next week we are going to have CPI (consumer prices), PPI (producer prices) and retail sales. People might be waiting for some more clarity on those.”

A majority of traders are betting that the Fed will keep interest rates unchanged this year, with odds of a cut of at least 25 basis points in May standing at nearly 46%, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch tool.

Several policymakers this week have pushed back against rate cut expectations, with some stressing on a data-dependent approach to monetary policy.

Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin on Thursday said that while there’s been “real progress” on inflation, it is yet unclear if the U.S. central bank will need to push its policy rate higher to finish the job Fed Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to speak at an International Monetary Fund (IMF) conference at 2 p.m.

ET (1900 GMT). He had refused to comment on monetary policy at another conference on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, a Labor Department report showed jobless claims edged lower last week to 217,000.

The yield on the benchmark ten-year Treasury note rose to 4.5609%.

Among major movers, Nvidia shares rose 2.9% as local media reported the chip designer is planning to release three new chips for China.

Tesla fell 4.0% as HSBC initiated coverage of the EV maker with a “reduce” rating.

Walt Disney advanced 7.3% on a quarterly profit beat and as Hollywood actors reached a tentative agreement with major studios.

Five of the 11 major S&P 500 sectors traded higher, while healthcare shares were a drag, down 1.4%.

At 11:38 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 21.79 points, or 0.06%, at 34,090.48, the S&P 500 was up 1.09 points, or 0.02%, at 4,383.87, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 19.14 points, or 0.14%, at 13,669.55.

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Israel agrees to daily combat pauses to let civilians flee, White House says

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srael has agreed to put in place regular daily four-hour pauses in its relentless assault on Hamas in selected areas of the northern Gaza Strip to allow civilians to flee, the White House announced Thursday, culminating days of pressure from President Joe Biden as the casualty toll mounts.

The agreement formalizes and expands on what Israel has been doing in recent days as its forces have allowed people to evacuate northern Gaza for several hours at a time along a single corridor south. The White House said a second corridor for evacuations would be opened along a coastal road and that the daily pauses would be institutionalized to include advance notice of at least three hours.

“We have been told by the Israelis that there will be no military operations in these areas over the duration of the pause and that this process is starting today,” John Kirby, a White House spokesperson, told reporters on a conference call. “These are good steps in the right direction,” he added, saying the White House hoped the pauses would continue “for as long as they’re needed.”

Kirby said the daily pauses would not only provide a greater opportunity for civilians to escape the fighting but also permit the delivery of more humanitarian supplies and possibly facilitate the release of some of the more than 200 hostages held by Hamas, including a handful of Americans.

He noted that 106 trucks of humanitarian aid crossed into Gaza on Wednesday, toward a U.S. goal of 150 trucks a day.

“We need to see more and need to see more soon,” he said.

In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that his country’s forces were permitting safe passage to the south of Gaza, adding that 50,000 Palestinians had taken that route on Wednesday alone. “The

Israeli military personnel and tanks with a unit that a small group of journalists were permitted to accompany in northern Gaza for a few hours on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. fighting continues and there will be no cease-fire without the release of our hostages,” the statement said, adding, “We once again call on the civilian population of Gaza to evacuate to the south.”

Israeli authorities seemed most intent on making clear that the pauses were limited in time and area, not a broader, sustained halt in their military operations meant to dismantle Hamas. “There is no cease-fire,” the Israeli military wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “There are tactical, local pauses for humanitarian aid for Gazan civilians.” The military added: “Our war is with Hamas and not with the people of Gaza.”

The announcement of the daily pauses in two corridors came after days of efforts by Biden and his team to persuade Israel to do more to minimize civilian casualties.

Biden asked Netanyahu during a call Monday to pause its assault on Hamas. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed the case during a visit to the region, and other officials, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Jake Sullivan, the president’s national security adviser, lobbied their counterparts.

“I’ve asked for a pause longer than three days,” Biden told reporters Thursday before a trip to Illinois. Asked if he was frustrated that Netanyahu took so long to agree, the president hinted at some impatience. “It’s taken a little longer than I hoped,” he said. As for the fate of the hostages, he said, “We’re still optimistic.”

But Biden has not joined the calls by some in his party and around the world for a full cease-fire, reasoning that Israel has a legitimate interest in destroying Hamas after its Oct. 7 terrorist attack killed more than 1,400 people. He ruled out the prospect of a cease-fire again Thursday, saying: “None. No possibility.”

Kirby argued that a cease-fire would not be wise, saying that “Hamas benefits from it.”

“Frankly, a cease-fire at this time would in all practicality legitimize what they did on Oct. 7, and we simply aren’t going to stand for that at this time,” Kirby said.

He made a point of expressing sympathy for Israel’s military challenge in taking on Hamas while avoiding civilian casualties.

“It’s fighting an enemy that is embedded in the civilian population, using hospitals and civilian infrastructure in an effort to shield itself from accountability and to place the innocent Palestinian people at greater risk,” Kirby said. “At the same time, Israel has an obligation to fully comply with international law. And we believe these pauses are a step in the right direction, particularly to help ensure that civilians have an opportunity to reach safer areas away from the act of fighting.”

CIA and Mossad chiefs said to hold talks with Qataris on Israeli hostage deal

By JULIAN E. BARNES and EDWARD WONG

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he CIA director and the chief of Israel’s spy agency met with Qatari officials in Doha on Thursday for discussions on a deal to release some hostages held

by Hamas in exchange for a short pause in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, according to a U.S. official and another official briefed on the discussions.

William Burns, the CIA director, has been traveling throughout the Middle East for talks with intelligence officials and political leaders about the Israel-Hamas war and the issue of the hostages. Qatar, which hosts Hamas’ political leadership in Doha, has been a mediator in the hostage talks.

Discussions have been underway for Hamas to release a small number of hostages, including some Americans.

Proposals have shifted in recent days, but the discussions Wednesday and early Thursday revolved around a proposal for Hamas to release 10 to 15 prisoners. They would

include some Americans and other foreign nationals taken

by Hamas on Oct. 7, as well as Israeli women, civilians and children, an official said.

Hamas has asked for a three-day pause in the fighting across Gaza.

On Thursday, Burns had a group meeting with David Barnea, the chief of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, and Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, the prime minister and foreign minister of Qatar, the officials briefed on the meeting said.

Burns also had separate meetings with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and with the country’s intelligence chief, an official said.

Burns did not meet directly with Hamas officials, according to people briefed on the talks.

One official described the talks as positive and said good progress had been made.

While U.S. officials have not confirmed details of the proposal, they have publicly endorsed the idea of releas-

ing hostages in exchange for a temporary pause in hostilities.

In recent days, U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was in the Middle East last week, have intensified their push for “humanitarian pauses.”

U.S. officials and others briefed on the discussions said Hamas had previously made an offer to release a group of hostages. Those conversations took place right before the Israeli military entered Gaza. But Israeli officials doubted Hamas’ sincerity and went ahead with their ground operation.

U.S. officials said discussions continued even after Israeli forces surrounded Gaza City.

Qatar has been deeply involved in the hostage negotiations. The political leaders of Hamas have offices in Doha and live part-time there and part-time in Turkey.

The Qatari government has regular discussions with Israel, Hamas and the United States.

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US strikes Iran-linked facility in Syria in round of retaliation

By ERIC SCHMITT and HELENE COOPER

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or the second time in nearly two weeks, the United States carried out airstrikes against a facility used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and its proxies in eastern Syria early Thursday, ratcheting up retaliation for a steady stream of rocket and drone attacks against American forces in Iraq and Syria.

The strikes by two Air Force F-15E jets against a weapons warehouse in Deir al Zour province in Syria, came after U.S. airstrikes Oct. 27 against similar targets in eastern Syria failed to deter Iran or its proxies in Syria and Iraq, which the Biden administration has blamed for the attacks.

Not only have the attacks continued — there have been at least 22 more since the American retaliatory strikes last month — but Pentagon officials said they have become more dangerous.

Iran-backed militias have packed even larger loads of explosives — more than 80 pounds — onto drones launched at American bases, U.S. officials said.

“This precision self-defense strike is a response to a series of attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by IRGCQuds Force affiliates,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement. “The president has no higher priority than the safety of U.S. personnel, and he directed today’s action to make clear that the United States will defend itself, its personnel, and its interests.

“The United States is fully prepared to take further necessary measures to protect our people and our facilities,” he added. “We urge against any escalation.”

The strikes also came after the Pentagon said a U.S. military MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drone was shot down over the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen on Wednesday by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

The downing of the drone, the mainstay of the American military’s aerial surveillance fleet, was another escalation of violence between the United States and Iran-backed groups in the region.

The episode underscored the risks that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas could spiral into a wider war.

Biden administration officials have been trying to calculate how to deter the Iranian-backed Shiite militias from attacking U.S. troops in the region without

Air Force F-15E jets carried out the strikes. sparking that broader conflict, said three administration officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning.

“The attacks, the threats coming from militia that are aligned with Iran, are totally unacceptable,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Iraq on Sunday.

The Pentagon said Wednesday that there had been at least 41 attacks on U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq since Oct. 17 and that at least 46 U.S. service members had been injured, 25 of whom had suffered traumatic brain injuries. The United States has 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria, mostly to help local forces fight remnants of the Islamic State group.

In meetings to select targets, U.S. officials try to game out what response each strike will bring, one official said. Military officials at the Pentagon’s Central Command and in the U.S. intelligence community have a good idea where many militia leaders are, two officials said, and have, in the past two weeks, considered the possible blowback if targeted airstrikes were to kill those leaders.

The effort to calibrate retaliation is inexact, the officials acknowledged. The strike against the weapons warehouse early Thursday was aimed at “disrupting and degrading” the abilities of the militias to carry out attacks against U.S. troops, a senior Pentagon official told reporters after the strike.

But the strike was carried out late at night in Syria when the chances of hitting

any Iranian personnel or militia fighters were small, Pentagon officials said.

The Biden administration also uses a “deconfliction” line with Russia to try to manage escalation in Iraq and Syria, two officials said. Russia has troops in Syria, and U.S. officials say they expect that telling Russia before a strike in Syria, as officials did before the latest U.S. strike, is the same as telling Iran, because Russian officials often inform Tehran of what is coming.

Some congressional Republicans have criticized the administration for what they have said was a weak U.S. response to the steady stream of attacks

by Iran-backed militias.

“Pin prick strikes against ammo

dumps in the desert won’t do a damn thing to stop Iran from attacking our troops,” Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., a former Army Green Beret, said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, after the latest airstrikes.

The United States has been shifting military assets since Hamas’ surprise attack against Israel on Oct. 7 to try to prevent a regional war.

It has deployed one aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean near Israel and another now in the Red Sea heading south, as well as dozens of additional warplanes to the Persian Gulf region.

The Pentagon has also rushed additional Patriot anti-missile batteries and other air defenses to several Gulf nations to protect U.S. troops and bases in the region.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has repeatedly pledged to destroy Israel and repel U.S. military forces from the region, and the leaders of militant groups in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Gaza view Khamenei as a powerful ally, often seeking his advice and consulting with him on strategic issues.

Despite the often fiery rhetoric from Iran, U.S. officials assess that Israel’s adversaries are not seeking a wider war.

“We assess Iran, Hezbollah and their linked proxies are trying to calibrate their activity, avoiding actions that would open up a concerted second front with the United States or Israel, while still exacting costs in the midst of the current conflict,” Christine S. Abizaid, the leader of the National Counterterrorism Center, told a Senate panel last week. “This is a very fine line to walk.”

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Central America’s answer to a tide of migrants: Bus them north

By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and DAVID BOLAÑOS

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iranda Villasmil guided her daughter and son past hundreds of huddled migrants, many still muddied and swollen from their trek here to Costa Rica from South America. The family of three carried just two grocery bags of their belongings from their past lives in Venezuela.

When they reached the row of shuttle buses that would carry them to the Nicaraguan border, Villasmil was so overwhelmed with relief that she texted her relatives back home who were also considering fleeing. The Costa Rican government, she wrote them, was willing to provide “safe passage.”

“We move forward,” Villasmil told her family in Venezuela.

Villasmil is one of thousands of migrants taking advantage of new busing programs adopted by Costa Rica and other Central American countries trying to contend with a historic tide of migration passing through their borders.

More than 400,000 people have crossed into Costa Rica from Panama this year, according to Panamanian officials, doubling the number of crossings from last year and leading to a massive tent encampment along Costa Rica’s borders, complaints from business owners and a rise in abusive smuggling operations.

In October, the Costa Rican government declared a national emergency and formed a plan with Panama to shuttle migrants from its southern border to its northern one. Costa Rican officials say the busing program has removed the encampment, as well as alleviated the strain on border communities and provided people a safer alternative to paying human smugglers.

Similar busing programs have also emerged in parts of Honduras and Mexico.

But the strategy has raised alarms in the United States, which has called on its Latin American allies to deter people from making the treacherous journey north by encouraging them to apply for refugee status closer to their home countries.

Instead, the shuttles seem to be forming a fast lane for them to race north.

“The United States wants to contain the people,” said Dr. Marta Blanco, the executive director of the Cadena Foundation, a nonprofit humanitarian organization currently assisting migrants in a bus terminal in Paso Canoas, Costa Rica, near the border. “This is to keep sending people, to just keep the flow going.”

Biden administration officials, who were not authorized to speak on the record, say they

Migrants, mostly Venezuelans, on a bus that left Paso Canoas, Costa Rica, for Nicaragua, Oct. 11, 2023. Costa Rica and Panama are busing migrants through their countries to ease the concentration of people along their borders, which Biden administration officials fear will encourage more people to travel to the U.S. border. have brought up their concerns behind closed doors with the governments of both Costa Rica and Panama, while publicly commending both countries for collaborating on other security and immigration agreements. President Joe Biden even hosted President Rodrigo Chaves of Costa Rica at the White House in August before dispatching $12 million to the country to bolster its immigration policies.

But the U.S. officials have also argued that the busing routes only incentivize more migrants to flee their homes and make the dangerous journey to the U.S. border. Their Central American counterparts argue that migrants are already set on traveling to the United States and that the busing system is making the journey less dangerous.

“This migration flow couldn’t be stopped, it can’t be prohibited, but it can be administered,” Jose Pablo Vindas, a Costa Rican migration police coordinator, said in an interview from the migrant bus terminal, which had once been a pencil factory.

Roughly 30 buses, each carrying 55 migrants, come in and out of the facility each day.

The numbers can spike; in one week more than 14,000 people were bused from Panama to Costa Rica’s northern border, according to Costa Rican officials.

“It’s not a question of allowing, motivating or deterring this travel,” Vindas said. “It’s about giving safe conditions for the people who are doing it, because otherwise they would be exposed to trafficking or to hazardous conditions.”

But some families said they had encountered those very conditions in the bus terminal.

The busing program is not free, and has

added one more fee to the many that migrants are confronted with on their costly journey north.

It can also be dangerous. Earlier this year, at least 39 people were killed when a bus ferrying migrants through Panama fell from a cliff. Last month, 18 migrants died in a bus crash in Mexico and a crash in Honduras left four dead and a dozen injured.

In Panama, each person must pay $60 to be bused to Costa Rica’s main terminal. They then must pay another $30 to board a shuttle that will take them to the Nicaraguan border.

The fees are collected by the bus companies, which are licensed by the governments.

On a recent October day inside the terminal, dozens of frantic families lined up outside a money wiring office to receive funds from relatives for a bus ticket.

Travelers can only leave the facility on a bus, Vindas said. They cannot simply walk out of the facility.

In a nearby building, bunk beds and military cots were set up for about 380 people, but they had been full for days. Vindas said the facility normally held more than 1,000 people and that on a recent day it had housed up to 1,800, with hundreds sleeping on the ground.

Jose Diaz and his family had been traveling for 20 days when they arrived at the bus terminal. They were relieved to just climb aboard one of the government-provided shuttles in Panama that would transport them northward.

But soon he found out he needed more bus tickets — and he had spent his last $120 in Panama, just to get here.

The Diaz family had two options, a ter-

minal employee said: A relative could transfer them money, or they could wait in the dark underpass of the bus terminal, along with dozens of other families, and sleep on concrete in minimal light. With the terminal brimming with people, Diaz prepared his daughters to make their way under the building.

“We feel like prisoners — prisoners, prisoners, prisoners — because we cannot get through to the outside,” he said. “They think you have a lot of money. Rather, one comes to secure their future.”

Down below in the darkness, families huddled on sheets on the concrete floor or leaned on loose plastic construction barricades. There was one frame for a bunk bed but no mattress. Toddlers in diapers ran around dazed adults. Parents desperately tried to find staff members to aid their ill children.

Some migrants said they were not provided regular meals and that when they asked for water, they were told to drink rain water dripping from the floor above. Many said the only way they could get enough money was to leave the facility and work — something the authorities had banned.

In an interview, Marta Vindas, the migration director for Costa Rica, rejected comparisons of the bus terminal to a detention facility, noting that the migrants had access to bathrooms, meals and numerous humanitarian organizations on site.

“This is a transit zone; that is the reason they are there, so that they can flow to the other border,” Vindas said.

Before the busing program in Costa Rica, migrants crossed that country’s southern border without much of a challenge, before settling temporarily into a tent camp on a fairground in the town of Paso Canoas while searching for short-term jobs.

“At least this bus system gets the problem elsewhere rather than keeping it here,” said Rubén Acón, president of Canatur, Costa Rica’s national chamber of tourism. He said the country was facing “the same situation” as New York City, where Mayor Eric Adams has said his resources have been exhausted by the surge of migrants arriving in the city.

From the street outside the bus terminal, Kimberly Salas, 43, of Venezuela, and her son, Pedro Zerpa, wondered if they should enter.

While traveling from Panama they had heard about the new busing program that could speed their journey north. But as they considered it, they spotted a person in the window of the building waving them to stay away.

“It’s OK,” Zerpa said. “We can walk.”

They next day they were spotted hiking under the blazing sun along a highway heading north to the United States.

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Meet the champions of nuance and empathy we need

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF

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y columns from Israel and the West Bank over the past few weeks have been depressing, reflecting my fear that we’re on a bloody, downward spiral that will make everything worse. So let me share what I saw as an ember of hope.

I didn’t expect to find such a thing. On this trip, I met with civil society organizations that have toiled for years to bring Israelis and Palestinians together, but frankly, I was skeptical of their efforts.

Some good that did, I was thinking. All those feelgood programs, often U.S.-funded, to build bridges — and today we’re engulfed in war.

But let me tell you about an Israeli woman I met, Meytal Ofer: A couple of weeks ago, I sat down with her in Tel Aviv — 10 years to the month after two terrorists from Hamas murdered her father with 41 blows of an ax.

“How could they do that?” she wondered aloud to me. “You need so much hate in your heart to do that.”

Ofer pondered where that venom came from. In the aftermath of the murder, she wondered about demolishing the killers’ houses, as sometimes happens in Israelioccupied territories. She concluded that would not help.

“It would just grow the cycle of revenge,” she said.

After her father’s murder, she joined Parents Circle — Families Forum, a joint Israeli and Palestinian nonprofit made up of people who have lost loved ones to the

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conflict. They hold dialogues, bonding in grief with those on the other side of the chasm, and give talks together aiming to end the escalating bloodshed.

I expressed my skepticism: Is this actually accomplishing anything?

“I think there is no other choice,” she said.

“This is my home. I don’t want to give up my home,” she added. “I don’t want to go, and Palestinians will not go anywhere, either.”

So she persists. “We have to do something,” she said.

“You cannot stop violence with violence. We tried it for 100 years, and it’s not working.”

Hearing from bereaved Israelis and Palestinians together is “mind-blowing” for children, she said, because many of them have never thought much about losses outside their own group. One indication that these talks are effective: The far-right government this year banned Parents Circle from public schools.

Bassam Aramin is sometimes the Palestinian speaker in these Parents Circle appearances. Imprisoned by Israel as a 17-year-old for belonging to a then-banned Palestinian organization and possessing a weapon, he spent seven years behind bars. Then, in 2007, his 10-yearold daughter, Abir, was killed outside her school by an Israeli soldier firing a rubber bullet.

Instead of turning to bombs, Aramin turned to reconciliation. He studied the Holocaust in a master’s program, learned excellent Hebrew and tried to see the humanity in Israeli soldiers at West Bank checkpoints.

A process of mutual dehumanization has led each side, he said, to regard the other as morally inferior. He noted that Israelis often suggest that the problem is that Palestinians don’t love their children and are ready to sacrifice them for the struggle, while Palestinians traffic in a similar stereotype about Israelis.

“We don’t see each other as human beings,” he said, and he told me of the Palestinian mother of a teenage boy killed by Israeli soldiers who reluctantly came to a Parents Circle meeting, still fuming at Jews.

“She believed that they were animals,” he recounted, quoting her as saying, “They don’t have hearts like us; they hate their kids because they send them to the army.”

But she met an Israeli mom who told of losing her child to a Palestinian, and soon they were both sobbing and embracing.

Aramin is outraged at what he sees as Israel’s quotidian mistreatment of West Bank Palestinians, including women, at checkpoints, but he sees the humanity in the soldiers there.

“They look like killing machines, but they’re scared of us,” he said. Aramin added that the day before I spoke to him, he and his wife had driven to visit their children, taking a mountain road to bypass delays and humiliation at Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank. But he said they were stopped by four Israeli soldiers who angrily told them to return and threatened to seize their car. Aramin

Bassam Aramin and his wife at a memorial on Jan. 21, 2007, for their 10-year-old daughter, who was killed in the West Bank by an Israeli soldier. said he spoke calmly in Hebrew, recognizing the soldiers’ fear, and they soon got to talking. In the end, the soldiers still turned them back but apologized for doing so.

I noted to Aramin that these organizations promoting mutual understanding mostly date from the Oslo peace process, when two states were expected to emerge side by side. Now that process is in hibernation, if not dead.

It’s nice that Parents Circle holds camps for Israeli and Palestinian children to get to know one another, but how is that saving lives on either side of the Gaza border?

The arc of history is long, he replied. Germany once tried to wipe out Jews and now exchanges ambassadors with Israel. Someday, Israel and Palestine will coexist as states, he said, and the question is simply how many corpses will pile up before that happens.

“We must share this land as one state or two states or five states,” he said. “Otherwise, we will share this same piece of land as the graveyards of our kids.”

I’m not sure that these efforts at understanding will get anywhere, and the Hamas attacks and Gaza war have added to the fear and trauma. Even Yuval Rahamim, an Israeli director of Parents Circle, acknowledges that the group is swimming against the tide.

“When I interview new employees, I ask them, ‘Are you ready to be frustrated every day?’” he said. “Because we don’t see success. But things will eventually change.

Because there is no other option.”

After talking to Rahamim, Ofer, Aramin and others, I’m grateful to them for providing moral leadership that so many presidents and prime ministers have not. I don’t know if they can actually succeed in blazing a path to peace, but we need such champions of nuance and empathy if we are to have any hope of moving forward.

As we Americans increasingly find ourselves caught in toxic or bigoted battles on our own turf, echoing those in the Middle East, we should learn not from the arsonists but from these firefighters who demonstrate the human capacity for conciliation, healing and progress.

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Juez desestima demanda de ‘mandamus’ que ordenaría detener proyectos de energía renovable POR EL STAR STAFF

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AN JUAN – El presidente de la Junta de Planificación (JP), el planificador Julio Lassús Ruiz anunció la desestimación por parte del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de la demanda de ‘Mandamus’ de varias organizaciones que solicitaban que se detuviera la aprobación y construcción de proyectos de energía renovable en terrenos agrícolas.

“Los demandantes intentaron detener el asunto prioritario e impostergable de continuar con el desarrollo de la política pública energética que impacta a toda la ciudadanía y el desarrollo económico de la isla. Para tener un desarrollo que responda a las necesidades sociales, económicas y de infraestructura actual, es necesario continuar ejecutando la política pública energética legislada, que redundará en beneficio de nuestro medioambiente”, indicó Lassús Ruiz.

Explicó que “La JP sostuvo su posición por el posible impacto negativo en la importante política pública energética, que está por encima de intereses particulares. La determinación es fundamental para continuar ejecutando la política pública energética del gobierno. Conscientes de la relevancia de este asunto, la Junta de Planificación tomó el rol de coordinar los trabajos y argumentos con las demás agencias, en este caso, liderado por el di-

rector legal de la JP, el licenciado Héctor Morales. El tribunal emitió sentencia favoreciendo a las agencias de gobierno y desestimando el recurso presentado”.

“Es claro, que es vital y de mayor utilidad social porque mejorará la calidad de vida de los puertorriqueños. No asumir nuestro rol en este asunto, hubiera sido en detrimento de nuestra sociedad”, sostuvo el presidente de la JP. En el recurso de “mandamus” los demandantes solicitaban que se prohibiera al Negociado de Energía, la Junta de Planificación (JP), la Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos (OGPe), al Departamento de Desarrollo de Económico y Comercio (DDEC) y al gobierno de Puerto Rico, la aprobación de proyectos industriales de energía en áreas de reservas agrícolas.

En su determinación el juez Anthony Cuevas expresó que “debemos recordar que, nos encontramos ante una solicitud de ‘mandamus’, el cual es un recurso extraordinario discrecional y altamente privilegiado que solo procede cuando el Estado no está actuando según el deber ministerial que alguna ley establece”.

“Al tratarse de un asunto jurisdiccional y de un recurso altamente discrecional, entendemos que procede desestimar la acción presentada para que estos procedan por el trámite administrativo ante el

Negociado de Energía. Por lo tanto, este Tribunal carece de jurisdicción sobre la materia, puesto que la Asamblea Legislativa le ha concedido la jurisdicción primaria y exclusiva al Negociado de Energía.

Adicionalmente, aun si la Asamblea Legislativa no hubiese sido clara en cuanto a la jurisdicción, no procedería que emitamos el ‘mandamus’, puesto que existe un recurso adecuado en ley en el proceso administrativo que ya hemos establecido”, reza la sentencia.

Dayanara Torres es la nueva embajadora del Aeropuerto Luis Muñoz Marín POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – La ex reina de belleza y Miss Universe 1993, Dayanara Torres, fue nombrada embajadora del Aeropuerto Luis Muñoz Marín, anunció el jueves el presidente de Aerostar, Jorge Hernández.

“Dayanara Torres refleja la calidad humana y el espíritu de los puertorriqueños”, dijo Hernández en declaraciones escritas.

Torres dará la bienvenida y despedida a los pasa-

jeros mediante mensajes audiovisuales, destacando los atributos culturales de Puerto Rico. La iniciativa acompaña una inversión de 300 millones de dólares en mejoras a las instalaciones del aeropuerto.

“Representar a Puerto Rico como embajadora del aeropuerto es un orgullo”, expresó Torres.

La campaña incluirá un mensaje grabado por Torres y una galería con imágenes de su trayectoria.

Este esfuerzo forma parte del programa “Embajador o Embajadora del Aeropuerto Luis Muñoz Marín” de Aerostar.

ASSMCA lanza plataforma digital para salud mental y adicción POR CYBERNEWS

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AYAMÓN – Carlos Rodríguez Mateo, administrador de ASSMCA, anunció el jueves una nueva versión digital del Observatorio de Salud Mental y Adicción para mejorar la toma de decisiones y el desarrollo de programas de prevención y tratamiento.

“Esta herramienta digital ofrece una visión clara y organizada de los datos de salud mental y adicciones

en Puerto Rico”, explicó Rodríguez Mateo en declaraciones escritas.

La plataforma contiene datos y estudios sobre salud mental y adicción, permitiendo fácil integración de nuevos datos y retroalimentación de usuarios. Presenta estadísticas por municipio, año y sexo, facilitando la identificación de áreas y demografías afectadas.

Rodríguez Mateo destacó la colaboración con varias agencias gubernamentales para enriquecer la platafor-

ma. El Observatorio también presenta informes estadísticos sobre sobredosis, despacho de medicamentos controlados y tendencias de llamadas relacionadas al suicidio.

La plataforma está disponible en http://www.observatorio.assmca.pr.gov/, y forma parte del esfuerzo de ASSMCA para combatir el mal uso y abuso de sustancias y prevenir sobredosis, alineándose con la política pública del gobernador Pierluisi.

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Edel Rodríguez isn’t afraid to live with the consequences

By BENJAMIN P. RUSSELL

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he hardest thing about making political art, Edel Rodriguez said, isn’t technique but judgment: knowing just where to stick the “tip of the knife” so that audiences feel provoked without crying foul.

He isn’t always sure he has hit the mark. At times while drawing what would become some of the most provocative images of the Donald Trump presidency — magazine covers of a faceless orange figure screaming into the void, decapitating Lady Liberty or draped in a Ku Klux Klan hood — Rodriguez wondered whether he was being unfair. At least, for a moment.

“Occasionally, I thought, ‘This might be too much,’” Rodriguez said recently over Zoom from his home studio in New Jersey. “And then three weeks later he does something, and I figure out: ‘Oh, OK, that wasn’t so crazy.’”

The origin and evolution of Rodriguez’s judgment as an artist are at the heart of his new graphic memoir, “Worm,” published by Metropolitan Books on Tuesday. Told through roughly 1,000 evocative drawings of Rodriguez’s journey from Young Pioneer in Fidel Castro’s Cuba to artist making his way in the “glorious mayhem of Manhattan at midday,” the book is at once a touching tale of immigration and a challenge to easy political narratives about Cuba, democracy and our collective response to authoritarianism.

“The whole book is a bit of a trap,” Rodriguez said of the tension between the memoir’s condemnation of the right-facing Trump and of the left-facing Cuban regime. “I wanted you to come in with your prejudices and realize this is not what you thought it was.”

“Worm,” whose title refers to a moniker Castro used to describe Cubans who sought to leave after the revolution in 1959, illustrates in fine detail the contrasts of Rodriguez’s youth on the island: playing in the sugar cane fields that surrounded his small town, about an hour south of Havana, black smoke swirling from a nearby refinery; marveling at his grandmother’s spooky bedtime stories; seeing his parents drive to the edge of town to discuss their future without anyone listening in.

In one drawing, we see the young artist in a revolutionary red bandanna, the ubiquitous silhouette of Che Guevara looming behind him. Rodriguez’s father pushed the family to leave — which they did in 1980, in the Mariel boat lift — in large part because he felt his children were at risk of no longer being his own. He didn’t want the revolution to become their upbringing.

Rodriguez’s family arrived in Miami when he was 9, but his childhood in Cuba — where surveillance and shortages were the norm, and government persecution often arbitrary and petty — left a mark. In the United States, he found that ideas about life on the island, and the merits of its government, often fell along political lines. He views “Worm” partly as a corrective for the idealization of figures like Guevara and Castro that he has encountered

The political artist Edel Rodriguez, who drew some of the most provocative images of the Trump presidency, at his home studio in Mount Tabor, N.J., on Oct. 13, 2023.

“Worm,” his new graphic memoir of emigrating from Cuba to the U.S., skewers the powerful once more. among the political left.

“Your hero is my oppressor,” Rodriguez said. “At the end of the day, any dictatorship is not a good thing. I don’t know how people support dictatorships just because they align with their politics.”

Indeed, Rodriguez’s upbringing attuned him to the fragility of democracy, whatever direction the threat is coming from. That’s partly why he chose what he calls “caution-sign orange” for his drawings of Trump.

“The enemies of the people, quotes about the media, encouraging audience members to beat other people up — in the U.S., it was kind of entertainment. It was, ‘Oh, that’s crazy,’ and I was, like, ‘No, this is exactly what has happened in Cuba, in Venezuela, at times in Germany during World War II,” Rodriguez said. “It works on you in a very slow way, and it’s appealing to a lot of people.”

In 2015, hearing Trump, as a candidate for president, echo Castro’s talking points, Rodriguez felt the need to sound the alarm. He published drawings online and shared them on social media, hoping that magazines or newspapers would pick them up. One editor who did was Klaus Brinkbäumer, who at the time was editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel, the German weekly that would publish some of Rodriguez’s most boundary-testing work.

“Edel is one of the very few artists who brilliantly manage to simplify complicated matters while never drifting into clichés,” Brinkbäumer said. When Rodriguez sent Der Spiegel a draft of a cover featuring Trump as a meteorite headed toward Earth shortly after his victory in 2016, Brinkbäumer published it unchanged. “I just had to add the text: ‘The End of the World.’”

Rodriguez jokes that when he’s not drawing he likes to draw, and not all of his work is political. He has created movie posters and playbills, produced a wide variety of paintings and written and illustrated his own children’s

books as well as contributed artwork to many others. For the cover of “Island Treasures,” a collection of stories by author and educator Alma Flor Ada about her own childhood in Cuba, Rodriguez drew the face of a young girl, the flowers in her hair blending into the green of a lush Cuban landscape.

“Without being explicitly a portrait, it is the portrait of an essence,” Ada said.

Fittingly, the first image from “Worm” that Rodriguez finished, around 10 years ago, was of the book’s cover: the young Rodriguez in red beret and bandanna, looking languidly out at the reader. Life, politics and procrastination, Rodriguez said, slowed the inside of the book from taking shape. Art provides feedback in the moment, he said, whereas writing is more akin to “torture.” He asked writer friends when the process would start getting fun, he said, and they replied, “It won’t.”

Rodriguez isn’t sure when, or if, his family in Cuba will get to read “Worm.” He is worried about what could happen if they were caught with it, especially after a series of protests against the government in 2021 led to a continuing crackdown on dissent. Artists and musicians have been a particular target. In 2022, two founders of the San Isidro Movement — a group of rappers, artists and intellectuals who oppose limits on free expression — were sentenced to several years in jail for “defaming the country’s institutions” and “insulting national symbols.”

“The authorities realize that if you give people a microphone or a paintbrush, anything can happen,” Rodriguez said.

Does that reality give him pause about publishing and promoting his own work, especially work that is as critical of the Cuban revolution as “Worm” is? No, Rodriguez said without hesitation. Part of exercising his judgment means living with the consequences.

“If I don’t speak,” he said, “what’s the point in being an artist?”

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Piper Laurie, reluctant starlet turned respected actress, dies at 91

By ANITA GATES

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iper Laurie, who escaped the 1950s Hollywood starlet-making machinery to become a respected actress with three Oscar nominations and an Emmy Award, died Oct. 14 at a nursing facility in Los Angeles. She was 91.

Her manager, Marion Rosenberg, confirmed the death, but did not specify the cause.

Laurie’s first Academy Award nomination was for best actress in “The Hustler” (1961), in which she played a lonely alcoholic who hooks up with a dissolute pool player played by Paul Newman. After a 15-year break from making movies, she earned a comeback nomination for her performance as the deranged religious mother of a telekinetic teenager (Sissy Spacek) in “Carrie” (1976). She received her third nomination for her role as the estranged mother of a young deaf woman (Marlee Matlin) in “Children of a Lesser God” (1986).

Just before that, she had won an Emmy for “Promise” (1986), an acclaimed CBS movie about schizophrenia in which she played James Garner’s helpful ex-girlfriend. She received eight other Emmy nominations, including for her roles as the vengeful paper-mill manager on the original “Twin Peaks,” Rachel Ward’s sympathetic married friend in “The Thorn Birds” and the comically vicious mother of a coldhearted psychiatrist on the NBC sitcom “Frasier.”

Laurie, whose birth name was Rosetta Jacobs, was 17 when Universal-International signed her as a contract player and gave her the screen name Piper Laurie — a change about which she had mixed feelings. It was the era of publicity gimmicks, an attempt to brand new performers, especially starlets, with fabricated, sometimes outrageous histories or habits. The studio was looking for an angle that had not been used before. A publicist on the set of a movie she was shooting observed a scene that involved putting flowers in a salad. The publicist decided to position her as the girl who ate flowers — orchids, rose petals, marigolds. And so she did, dutifully, for photographs and interviews. (“They didn’t taste so bad,” she told a United Press International reporter in 1991.)

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Piper Laurie in 2016. Tired of the Hollywood starmaking machinery early in her career, she took a 15year break from it. In her comeback, she earned a second Oscar nomination.

Piper Laurie in the movie “Carrie” in 1976 playing the deranged religious mother of a telekinetic teenager. ents were Jewish immigrants, from Poland on her father’s side and from Russia on her mother’s.

When Laurie was 6, she was sent to accompany her older sister, who was asthmatic, to a sanitarium in Southern California. Laurie wrote in her 2011 memoir, “Learning to Live Out Loud,” that she never understood why she had to go too. Her parents told her it was to “keep your sister company,” but in hindsight, she wrote, “They must have been suffering in ways they believed we couldn’t understand” and just couldn’t deal with parenthood at the time.

Three years later, their parents moved to Los Angeles and had them released.

Although Laurie hated those years in the sanitarium, she eventually saw them as having benefited her. “My exile had cultivated an imagination that grew like a giant, sheltering flower,” she wrote in her memoir. “It was a lifetime gift.”

Laurie was unusually anxious about public speaking, so she was given elocution lessons. Those led to small acting roles, and with her mother’s encouragement she found a part in a play presented by a low-profile theater company in Los Angeles, won a screen test in a local contest (but did badly on the test itself), took part in comedy sketches at a

resort and eventually found an agent. She and another newcomer, Rock Hudson, signed seven-year movie contracts on the same day.

Universal cast her in “Louisa” (1950), a romantic comedy in which she played Ronald Reagan’s teenage daughter. (They dated after filming was over.) Over the next four years, she appeared in a dozen films, including “The Prince Who Was a Thief” (1951), “Son of Ali Baba” (1952), “The Mississippi Gambler” (1953) and “Francis Goes to the Races” (1951), in which one co-star was a talking mule.

After moving to New York in the mid-1950s, Laurie acted in off-Broadway stage productions and television dramas. But she did not make her Broadway debut until 1965, when she starred as the fragile teenage heroine, Laura, in a revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie,” with Maureen Stapleton and Pat Hingle. She returned to Broadway only once, in 2002, as part of the ensemble cast of “Morning’s at Seven.”

Laurie had a long romantic relationship with director John Frankenheimer, who directed her in the original live television version of “Days of Wine and Roses” in New York, but they never married. While promoting “The Hustler,” Laurie was interviewed by Joe Morgenstern, then an entertainment reporter for The New York Herald Tribune and later a film critic for Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal. They began dating and married in 1962.

They stayed together for two decades and lived in Woodstock, in upstate New York, for much of that time. She did a handful of guest roles on television in the first years of their marriage, then disappeared from the screen altogether in 1966 until “Carrie” — which she originally thought was meant to be a comedy — came along a decade later. In between, she focused on her marriage; sculpture, which she studied at the Art Students League in New York; and a new daughter, Anna.

“Being a mother and a stone carver really helped me to find my voice,” she told The Hollywood Interview, an entertainment blog, decades later. She and Morgenstern divorced in 1982. Survivors include a daughter, Anna Grace Morgenstern.

Piper Laurie and Ronald Reagan at a Hollywood party in 1950. They dated for a time.

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Want to marvel at next year’s total solar eclipse? Book now.

By STEVEN MOITY

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n just about five months, a total solar eclipse will blot out the sun across a wide swath of North America for the first time since 2017. If you want to catch a seat at the show, you might want to book your room now — and be prepared to pay a premium.

In Erie, Pennsylvania, a Hampton Inn studio with two queen beds that usually goes for as little as $210 a night was commanding $1,188 this week. A studio with two twin beds at the Extended Stay America Suites in Amherst, New York, (near Buffalo) was going for $1,164 instead of less than $150, a typical nightly rate. Some other hotels have already sold out.

The eclipse, on April 8, will begin in Mazatlán, Mexico, and sweep across 13 U.S. states, from Texas to Maine. In some places, total darkness could last up to 4 1/2 minutes. Cheering crowds are likely to fill the streets, as they did in 2017, and the sound of car horns will fill the highways as giant traffic jams also make a comeback.

“It’s a little bit like going to a big sporting event where people take their time getting in but everybody wants to leave at the same time,” said Scott Katsinas, a travel adviser at Katsinas Travel Consultants in Tucson, Arizona.

Texas, Arkansas and portions of southeastern Oklahoma will be prime destinations because the weather in those states is likely to be clear, said Michael Zeiler, a solar eclipse cartographer at GreatAmericanEclipse.com, a website that provides information about solar eclipses around the world.

Hotels in those three states have been filling up for months, and the prices of rooms in places such as Indianapolis have nearly doubled. Midwestern and Northeastern states such as Ohio, New York, Vermont and Maine, where clear skies are less guaranteed in early spring, have so far been less squeezed, but demand is growing.

‘OK, so I better actually book this’ Chris Dancer, 63, a freelance electronics engineer from Bentham, England, and an experienced eclipse chaser (this

will be his seventh chase), booked his trip in June. Even then, with the eclipse still about 10 months away, he noticed that people in several eclipse-focused Facebook groups were struggling to find places to stay.

“I thought, OK, so I better actually book this,” Dancer said.

He and his wife, Diane Dancer, 61, reserved a cabin in Wickes, Arkansas, from April 7-9, for about $130 a night; as of this week, rooms and Airbnbs around Wickes started at around $375 a night.

Major hotel chains say demand has jumped in the eclipse zone. Some properties owned by IHG Hotels & Resorts, which includes brands such as Hotel Indigo, InterContinental and Holiday Inn, are sold out in Bloomington, Indiana, said Brian Hicks, a senior vice president at IHG. Finding accommodations is hardly easier for those banking on home-sharing services such as Airbnb and Vrbo, with some guests saying that they have been pressured to accept higher prices after booking a rental for the eclipse.

Joanna Carina, 50, a professional photographer from St. Paul, Minnesota, said she lost out on a Vrbo booking in Arkansas after the owner tried to raise the price to $750 from $250 soon after she booked, forcing her to cancel and find a different location.

Carina, who is planning to spend a long eclipse weekend joined by her husband, two children, and another couple and their child, started making arrangements nearly a year early and reserved two rentals, one via Airbnb in Port Clinton, Ohio, and a second via Vrbo in Arkansas. Carina explained that she wanted a backup in case of poor weather in one location.

She still has the Airbnb in Port Clinton but rented a different place on Vrbo in Heber Springs, Arkansas, after the unexpected price change.

Vrbo announced a new policy this month, penalizing hosts in the United States who cancel bookings, said Melanie Fish, head of public relations at Expedia Brands, which includes Vrbo.

They will incur a fee based on the total cost of the booking and when the can-

Eclipse traffic on Interstate 25 near Orin, Wyo., in 2017. Millions flocked to areas of the United States that were in the path of totality, and they are expected to do so again next year. cellation was made. If an owner cancels less than 30 days before the reservation, the fee will go up, and it will be at its highest if the cancellation occurs within a week of the reservation.

It’s not too late, but hurry All this might seem overwhelming, but it’s still possible to book an eclipse trip, travel experts say. One thing they agree on: Do it now.

Reasonably priced hotel rooms in the eclipse zone are still available, if you look beyond the major destinations. For example, this week, the Quality Inn & Suites Watertown Fort Drum, in Calcium, New York, had one room left, starting at $115 per night. The Pear Tree Inn, in Sikeston, Missouri, had rooms starting at $270 a night. And the Motel 6 in Lima, Ohio, had rooms starting at $111 per night.

Campsites may also still be available along the zone of totality, but they are booking up fast.

In Indiana, some campgrounds around Monroe Lake, near Bloomington, are already full, but campsites with a view of the eclipse are still open in a few other state parks, said Ginger Murphy, deputy director of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Mi-

nimum reservations are for that Sunday night and Monday night, she added.

Mounds State Park, northeast of Indianapolis, for example, has some sites starting at $20 a night.

In Texas, recreational vehicle sites at the Waco RV Park were still available for $37 a night. Campsite reservations at Texas state parks may be made five months in advance — meaning early November for the eclipse weekend — and normally start at around $20 a night.

If you are planning to book more than one location to have a backup for bad weather, carefully check hotel cancellation policies, because they might be stricter for that period, warned Eric Hrubant, president and founder of the CIRE Travel agency.

Katsinas, the travel adviser in Tucson, also recommended looking for accommodations about an hour’s drive away from the path of totality, preferably in a big city, where more options are available. But if you do that, remember that traffic could snarl your plans.

Finally, take advantage of local tourism websites. Many, including eclipsespecific sites in Vermont and Austin, Texas, offer specific resources to help find lodging, events and other resources.

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LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff V.

ANGEL LUIS OYOLA MERCADO, LYMARI COLON MARTINEZ, THE CONYUGAL PARTNETSHIP COMPOSED BY ANGEL LUIS OYOLA MERCADO AND LYMARI COLON MARTINEZ; DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY OF PUERTO RICO

Defendants Civil No.: 16-03093-JAG. Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: ANGEL LUIS OYOLA MERCADO, LYMARI COLON MARTINEZ, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY THE TWO, DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY OF PUERTO RICO AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $253,938.03 of principal balance, plus interest at a rate of 6.50% per annum since March 1st, 2015. Such interes will continue accrue until debt is paid in full in accordance with the tenets od 28 U.S.C. sec 1691. An additional deferred balance of $30,294.18 does not accrue interest at this time. In addition, the defendant owe Plaintiff late charges in the amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. Defendants also owe Plaintiff all of the advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. Defendant also owe the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% ($27,500.00) of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees. The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by accessing the electronic court records by internet accessing https://ecf.prd.uscourts.gov.

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WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at the Hallway benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Desarrollo El Valle, Segunda Fase Residencial Prados Urbanos, localizado en el Barrio Cañabon del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción con el número, área y colindancias a continuación. Solar número 28 del bloque K, área del solar 412.50 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con terrenos propiedad de Los Prados Urbanos S. en C. por A., S.E., en una distancia de 15.00 metros; por el Sur, con la calle Paseo de la Palma Real, en una distancia de 15.00 metros; por el Este, con el solar número 27 del bloque K, en una distancia de 25.70 metros; y por el Oeste, con el solar número 29 del bloque K, en una distancia de 25.70 metros. En dicho solar enclava una casa construida en concreto y bloques de hormigón para fines residenciales, la cual consta de cuatro cuartos dormitorios, dos y medio baños, doble marquesina, sala, comedor, cocina, family room y demás dependencias.

Servidumbre Telefónica. Franja de terreno de un metro con cincuenta y dos centímetros de ancho por quince metros de largo por su colindancia Sur. The property is identified as land number 58075, recorded at page number 63 of volume number 1699, in the Registry of the Property, Section of Caguas I. Physical Address: Los Prados (Desarrollo El Valle) K-28, Caguas, PR 000725. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following junior liens and/or attachments described in English: Mortgage: As guarantee of promissory note to benefit of Doral Bank, or on its order, for the amount of $68,750.00, interest ay 6 ½ % annual, due date on February 1, 2036, as stated deed number 7, authorized in San Juan, on January 17, 2006 before Lisa Margarita Santiago Ruiz, Public Notary, registered at page 63 of volume 1699 of Caguas, land 58075, inscription 3rd. Tax Lien:

In favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Department of Finance, for the amount of $58,340.93, constituted by Certification dated January 24, 2008, presented on March 10,2008 and annotated to page 63 of volume 1699 of Caguas, land 58078, Annotation A, and also annotated at page 95, order 368, of the book 44 of Tax Liens of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Tax Lien: In favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Department of Finance, for the amount of $47,402.03, constituted by Certification dated August 13 2009, presented on September 15, 2009 and annotated to page 63 of volume 1699 of Caguas, land 58078, Annotation B and also annotated at page 120, order 471, of the book 44 of Tax Liens of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof.

It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior lien. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH , 2023, AT 2:30 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $275,000.00. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 13T, 2023 AT 2:30 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $183,333.33.

If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 20TH, 2023 AT 2:30 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $137,500.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens that are attached to the property referred to above.

For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment en-

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tered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th of October 2023. Beatriz Vazquez Solis, Special Master.

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LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff V.

JUAN SANTANA GONZALEZ, MADELINE ROSA FIGUEROA, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTERSHIP COMPOSED

BY THEM

Defendants Civil No.: 17-1927. JAG. Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE IN REM. NOTICE OF SALE.

TO: JUAN SANTANA GONZALEZ, MADELINE ROSA FIGUEROA, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTERSHIP COMPOSED

BY THEM , AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $174,873.74 of principal balance of the mortgage note, plus interest at a rate of 7.00% per annum since January 1st, 2015, over said balance. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full in accordance with the tenants of 28 U.S.C. sec 1691.

In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant also owes Plaintiff pursuant to the provisions or dispositions of the all of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees. The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by internet accessing https://ecf.prd. uscourts.gov. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging

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Friday, November 10, 2023 to Defendants will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 15 del bloque VI-AK de la Urbanización jardines de Country Club, situado en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área de 300.38 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con 22.25 metros con el solar número 14; por el SUR, con 25.25 metros con el solar número 16; por el ESTE, en 13.50 metros con la calle número 41; y por el OESTE, en 13.50 metros con el solar número 2.

Contiene una casa de concreto armado y bloques para fines residenciales. The property is identified as land number 10,074, recorded at page number 183 of volume number 262, in the Registry of the Property, Section of Carolina I. Physical Address: AK – 41 St. Jardines de Country Club Development, Carolina, PR 00983. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at the Hallway benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: WHEREAS: For the purpose of the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH, 2023, AT 3:15 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale

is the sum of $176,758.90 and no lower offers will be accepted. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 13TH, 2023, AT 3:15 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $117,839.26. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 20TH, 2023, AT 3:15 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $88,379.45. WHEREAS: The sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th of OCTOBER 2023. BEATRIZ VÁZQUEZ SOLIS, SPECIAL MASTER.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

BENITO ROSARIO OLIVERA Y SU ESPOSA YOLANDA BAEZ BAEZ Peticionarios

EX-PARTE

Civil #: BY2023CV05968.

(605). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: OBDULIO ROSADO BAEZ Y/O LA SUCESION PRESUNTA Y DESCONOCIDA COMPUESTA POR A, B Y C; Y LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE POR LA PRESENTE: se les

notifica para que comparezcan, si Jo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación e este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal.

Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, PR 00969-5650, Teléfono 787-7209553. “RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno de forma irregular, radicada en el barrio Mamey del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 1374.035 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 03496 cuerda.

En lindes por el NORTE: EN 6 ALINEACIONES QUE SUMAN 52.71 metros con calle municipal; por el SUR: en 4 alineaciones que suman 37.42 metros con Sucesión de María Rosado; por el ESTE: en un largo de arco y una alineación que suman 26.89 metros con calle municipal y por el OESTE: en 3 alineaciones que suman 35.46 metros con José Antonio Rosado Cancel. Enclava una estructura para fines residenciales.” Esta finca se formó por agrupación de las dos (2) fincas que se describen a continuación: “RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno sito en barrio Mamey, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico de CUATROCIENTOS SETENTA Y CUATRO METROS CUADRADOS CON TREINTA Y CINCO MILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (474.035 m/c). En lindes por el NORTE con camino municipal; por el SUR: con terrenos de Obdulio Rosado Báez; por el ESTE: con terrenos de Sucesión Maria Rosado y por el OESTE: con terrenos de José Antonio Rosado Cancel.”

“RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el barrio Mamey

de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, compuesta de NOVECIENTOS METROS CUADRADOS (900 m/c). En lindes por el NORTE: con Camino municipal; por el SUR: con la sucesión de María Rosado; por el ESTE con Camino Municipal y por el OESTE con Conrado Báez Rosado.”

Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación el edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 23 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN MILAGROS LÓPEZ COLÓN; ET ALS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00903.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 23 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA:

The San Juan Daily Star 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 calle Ruiz Belvis 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. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 18 de agosto de 2022 y notificada el 20 de enero de 2023 en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma de $79,624.05 de principal, más interés al 3.50% anual, que continuaran 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 adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA subasta se llevará a efecto el día 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $84,991.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $56,660.66, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina/ Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA escalera. La segunda planta se CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA- compone de un pasillo provisto GUAS SALA SUPERIOR de un closet, tres dormitorios provistos de un closet cada uno ORIENTAL BANK y un cuarto de baño. Sus colinCOMO AGENTE DE dancias son: por el NORTE, en SERVICIOS DE THE una distancia de 22’4” con aceMONEY HOUSE, INC. ra y calle de uso común general Demandante Vs. del condominio; por el SUR, en JOHANNA DÍAZ una distancia de 21’10” con el área de uso común limitado E; COTTO (DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO); 1212 por el ESTE, en una distancia REALTY CORP. (TITULAR de 24’9” con pared medianera que comparte con el apartaREGISTRAL) mento E-2 y en una distancia Demandados de 10’0” con la entrada de Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02170. marquesina del apartamento Sala: 701. Sobre: COBRO DE E-2 y por el OESTE, en una DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE distancia de 34’9”con área HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). común general del condomiEDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alnio denominada “Area Verde guacil que suscribe por la preNúmero Dos”. PORCENTAJE: sente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y Elementos Comunes Generahace CONSTAR: Que en cumles: 3.134%. La propiedad anplimiento de un Mandamiento tes relacionada consta inscrita de Ejecución de Sentencia que al Tomo Karibe de Caguas, le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil finca número 63,484, en el que suscribe por la Secretaría Registro de la Propiedad de del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA Caguas, Sección Primera. El INSTANCIA CENTRO JUtipo mínimo para la primera DICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA subasta del inmueble antes SUPERIOR, en el caso de epírelacionado, será el dispuesto grafe procederá a vender en en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es pública subasta al mejor postor decir la suma de $60,877.00. en efectivo, cheque certificado Si no hubiere remate ni adjuen moneda legal de los Estadicación en la primera subasta dos Unidos de América el día del inmueble mencionado, se 28 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, celebrará una segunda subasta A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en las oficinas del Alguacil que en su oficina sita en el local que suscribe el día 5 DE DICIEMocupa en el edificio del TRIBUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:15 DE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LA MAÑANA. En la segunda CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAsubasta que se celebre servirá GUAS. SALA SUPERIOR, todo de tipo mínimo las dos terceras derecho, título e interés que partes (2/3) del precio pactado tenga la parte demandada de en la primera subasta, o sea la epígrafe en el inmueble de su suma de $40,584.67. Si tampropiedad que ubica en APARpoco hubiere remate ni adjudiTAMENTO E-1, CONDOMINIO cación en la segunda subasta VILLA NUEVA APARTMENTS, se celebrará una TERCERA CAGUAS, PR 00725 y que se SUBASTA en las oficinas del describe a continuación: PROAlguacil que suscribe el día PIEDAD HORIZONTAL E-1: 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, Unidad de vivienda de forma A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. rectangular ubicada en el EdifiPara la tercera subasta servirá cio E dentro del Condominio Vide tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del lla Nueva Apartments, sito en el precio pactado para el caso de barrio Turabo del término muniejecución, o sea, la suma de cipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, $30,438.50. La hipoteca a ejecon un área total de 116.98 cutarse en el caso de epígrafe metros cuadrados, equivalenfue constituida mediante la este a 1259.22 pies cuadrados. critura número 536 otorgada El área total del apartamento en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día está distribuido en 99.83 me30 de noviembre de 2018, ante tros cuadrados de área de esel Notario Jesús A. Ledesma tructura equivalente a 1074.60 Amador, la cual consta inscrita pies cuadrados y un área de al Tomo Karibe de Caguas, finentrada de marquesina, acceso ca número 63,484, inscripción a la unidad y área verde en la Segunda., en el Registro de la parte delantera del apartamenPropiedad de Caguas, Sección to de 17.15 metros cuadrados, Primera. Dicha subasta se lleequivalente a 184.62 pies vará a cabo para con su procuadrado. La entrada principal ducto satisfacer al Demandante está localizada en el lado Norte total o parcialmente según sea del apartamento con acceso a el caso el importe de la Sentenella a través de una acera de cia que ha obtenido contra la uso común del condominio. parte demandada ascendente La estructura del apartamento a la suma de $60,877.00, la consta de dos plantas. La priparte demandada, Johanna mera planta se compone de un Díaz Cotto, adeuda la suma balcón, una marquesina para de $60,176.67 por concepto un automóvil, sala, comedor, LEGAL NOTICE de principal, desde el 1ero de cocina, área de “laundry”, escaESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO octubre de 2019, más intereses lera que conduce a la segunda DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUal tipo pactado de 4.75% anual planta y un closet debajo de la

para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $42,495.50, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de octubre de 2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

Friday, November 10, 2023 que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada, Johanna Díaz Cotto, 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 $6,087.70.

Además, la parte demandada, Johanna Díaz Cotto, se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $6,087.70 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $6,087.70 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate.

La propiedad no está sujeta a gravamen anterior y/o preferente según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad.

Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en ge-

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neral se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de octubre de 2023. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS.

NANCY ELIZABETH GUARDARRAMA RIVERA t/c/c NANCY E. GUARDARRAMA RIVERA t/c/c NANCY GUARDARRAMA RIVERA y SENAIDA FELIZ DELGADO

PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. SJ2023CV03363 (604). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 1 de agosto de 2023 y notificada el 3 de agosto de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 22 de septiembre de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 4 de octubre de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 30 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:00 de la mañana en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, en la Avenida Muñoz Rivera, Esquina Coll y Toste, Parada 37, San Juan, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBAN: Apartamento Número D-307. Jardines De Berwind: Residential apartment of irregular rectangular shape located at the third floor in building D of

Jardines de Berwind II Condominium, which is in turn located at kilometer four point four (4.4) of the 65th Infantry Highway at the Río Piedras Ward of the Municipality of San Juan, which property is located in the Southern portion of the Berwind Country Club Main Farm, property of the Urban Renewal and Housing Corporation. The apartment has a total private area of 1049.37 square feet, being its lineal measurements 31’ by 29’ 11” inches on one side, 9’ 2” by 11’ 7” on another, and 4’ 7” by 3’ 5” on the other side, comprising the total area.

This family unit consists mainly of the following: a combined living-dining area, 4 bedrooms with closets, a balcony facing North, one bathroom with wash basin, water closet and bathtub, an interior hall with linen closet, a laundry area and a kitchen with sin, electric range, oven, refrigerator and hot water heater.

Its boundaries are as follows: by the NORTH, with the exterior yard; by the SOUTH, with the common corridor; by the WEST, with apartment D-306; and by the EAST, with the common interior corridor. Le corresponde a este apartamento un porcentaje en los elementos comunes de 0.0046307%. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 7 del tomo 503 de Sabana Llana, Finca 20033. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 167 del tomo 1000 de Sabana Llana, Finca 20033.

Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Inscripción novena (9na). Dirección Física: Cond. Jardines de Berwind II, 1500 Ave. Los Romeros. Apt D-307, San Juan, PR 00926-7012. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $26,400.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 7 de diciembre de 2023, a las 9:00 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $17,600.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta, el día 14 de diciembre de 2023, a las 9:00 de la mañana en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $13,200.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia

por la suma de $9,577.97 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6% anual desde el 1 de octubre de 2022 hasta su completo pago, más $17.28 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $2,400.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores que afecta la propiedad que se pretende ejecutar: a. Hipoteca: Constituida por Nancy Elizabeth Guardarrama Rivera (soltera), en garantía de un pagaré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $15,000.00, sin intereses y vencedero el 15 de noviembre de 2002, según la Escritura Número 208, otorgada en San Juan, el 15 de noviembre de 2002, ante el notario Mario Voungh Di Frisco Pérez, inscrita al folio 167 del tomo 1000 de Sabana Llana, finca #20033, Inscripción decima (10ma). Nota: Sujeta a condiciones por un término de 8 años. b. Anotación de Embargo en Ejecución De Sentencia: Seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Nancy Elizabeth Guardarrama Rivera, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil Número KIC 2006-4300, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, para que se anote embargo y prohibición de enajenar, por la suma de $15,604.96 y otras cantidades, según Orden de Embargo Enmendado de fecha 3 de abril de 2012 y Mandamiento de fecha 4 de abril de 2012. Anotada al folio 206 del tomo 1127 de Sabana Llana. Anotación B. c. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Nancy Elizabeth Guardarrama Rivera también conocida como Nancy E. Guardarrama Rivera y como Nancy Guardarrama Rivera y Senaida Feliz Delgado, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el Caso Civil Número SJ2023CV03363, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $9,577.97 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 21 de abril de 2023. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana. Anotación B (así consta). Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea.

22 Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de octubre de 2023. Juan A. Santana García, Alguacil Auxiliar, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR. ***

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

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC. Parte Demandante Vs.

TANIA Y. REYES CRESPO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV06027.

Salón: 603. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: TANIA Y. REYES CRESPO. 924 WAGNER AVE. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19141.

Por Ia presente, se le emplaza y se le notifica que debe contestar Ia demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de Ia publicación del presente edicto. Deberá presentar Ia contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y

Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.poderjudicial.pr/sumac, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentarla ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, con copia a los abogados de Ia parte demandante a Ia siguiente dirección: LCDO. KENMUEL J. RUIZ LOPEZ P0 BOX 71418 SAN JUAN, PR 00936-8518 TEL. (787) 993-3731 Kenmuel.riuz@orf-law.com y a Ia dirección notificaciones@orf-Iaw.com Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo, se le anotará Ia rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de Ia parte demandante sin más citarle ni oIrle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de septiembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEREN OLIVERAS PADILLA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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

MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT PUERTO RICO, LLC COMO AGENTE DE MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs.

LUIS E NEGRON

su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law. com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA I. BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HATILLO

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1 Demandante Vs.

SARA E. SOLER MONTEQUIN T/C/C SARA ERCILIA SOLER MONTEQUIN T/C/C SARITA SOLER MONTEQUIN T/C/C SARI SOLER TERRAZA T/C/C SARA SOLER MONTEQUIN T/C/C SARI S. TERRASA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: NJ2023CV00047.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, Demandados EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIACivil Núm.: HA2022CV00225.

DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOA: LUIS E NEGRON TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. URB LA PROVIDENCIA, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ1P-38 CALLE 10, TOA RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE ALTA PR 00953/ HC 71 LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL BOX 2158, NARANJITO, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

PR 00719-9737.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: 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

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Friday, November 10, 2023

A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Hatillo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala

de Camuy, el 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar “H” cuatro (H-4) de la URBANIZACION COSTA NORTE, radicada en el Barrio Carrizales de Hatillo, con una cabida de CUATROCIENTOS DIECISIETE PUNTO VEINTICINCO METROS CUADRADOS (417.25 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con solar “H” tres (H-3); por el SUR, con solar “H” cinco (H-5); por el ESTE, con calle número ocho (8); y por el OESTE, con solar “H” once (H-11). Contiene una casa de cemento. Finca número 24,571, inscrita al folio 137 del tomo 410 de Hatillo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 138 del tomo 410 de Hatillo, finca 24,571, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección II, inscripción 5ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. COSTA NORTE, H-4 (114) CALLE PALMAS (8), HATILLO, PUERTO RICO 00659. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $307,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 24 de julio de 2097. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $307,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, el 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $205,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido original-

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SURE, y ESTE, en treinta y seis SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECI- punto ciento cuarenta y nueve BO metros lineales (36.149) con el REVERSE MORTGAGE solar C-seis (C-6) y por el OESTE, en cuarenta punto ochoFUNDING LLC cientos noventa metros lineales Demandante Vs. (40.890) con los solares C-uno SUCESION ERASMO (C-1), C-dos (C=2), C-tres (C-3) FIGUEROA NUÑEZ T/C/C y C-cuatro (C-4). Contiene una ERASMO FIGUEROA residencia de dos plantas consCOMPUESTA POR SU truida de concreto y bloques para una sola familia. Finca núVIUDA ROSA MARIA SANTOS PADILLA T/C/C mero 10,505, inscrita al folio 70 del tomo 230 de Ciales, RegisROSA M. SANTOS tro de la Propiedad de Manatí.

T/C/C ROSA SANTOS La Hipoteca Revertida consta PADILLA; JOHN DOE inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca número 10,505 de Ciales, ReY JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS gistro de la Propiedad de Manatí, inscripción 2ª. Propiedad DESCONOCIDOS; localizada en: URB. MONTE ROSA MARIA SANTOS REY, C-5 CALLE 1, CIALES, PADILLA T/C/C ROSA PUERTO RICO 00638. Según M. SANTOS T/C/C ROSA figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de SANTOS PADILLA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE ejecución está gravada por las cargas anteriores AMERICA; CENTRO DE siguientes o preferentes: Nombre del TiRECAUDACIONES DE tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: INGRESOS MUNICIPALES N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: Demandados N/A. Según figuran en la certiCivil Núm.: AR2022CV01279. ficación registral, la propiedad Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- objeto de ejecución está graTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. vada por las siguientes cargas ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- posteriores a la inscripción del RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE crédito ejecutante: Nombre del LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL Titular: Secretario de la VivienESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma DE PUERTO RICO, SS. de la Carga: $169,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 4 de ocA: LA PARTE tubre de 2093. Se entenderá DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la proHACIENDA DE PUERTO piedad y que todas las cargas RICO Y AL PÚBLICO y gravámenes anteriores y los GENERAL: preferentes al crédito ejecutanCertifico y Hago Constar: Que te antes descritos, si los hubieen cumplimiento con el Manda- re, continuarán subsistentes. miento de Ejecución de Senten- El rematante acepta dichas cia que me ha sido dirigido por cargas y gravámenes anterioel (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal res, y queda subrogado en la de Primera Instancia, Sala Su- responsabilidad de los mismos, perior de Ciales, en el caso de sin destinarse a su extinción el epígrafe, venderé en pública precio del remate. Se establece subasta y al mejor postor, por como tipo de mínima subasta la separado, de contado y por mo- suma de $169,500.00, según neda de curso legal de los Esta- acordado entre las partes en el dos Unidos de América y/o Giro precio pactado en la escritura Postal y Cheque Certificado, en de hipoteca. De ser necesaria mi oficina ubicada en el Tribu- una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por nal de Primera Instancia, Sala declararse desierta la primera, de Ciales, el 28 DE NOVIEM- la misma se celebrará en mi BRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal LA MAÑANA, todo derecho títu- de Primera Instancia, Sala de lo, participación o interés que le Ciales, el 5 DE DICIEMBRE corresponda a la parte deman- DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE dada o cualquiera de ellos en LA MAÑANA, y se estableel inmueble hipotecado objeto ce como mínima para dicha de ejecución que se describe a segunda subasta la suma de continuación: URBANA: Solar $113,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo número cinco (5), bloque “C”, mínima establecido originalsegún Plano de inscripción del mente. Si tampoco se produce proyecto denominado, Urbani- remate ni adjudicación en la zación Monte Rey, radicado al segunda subasta, se estableBarrio Hato Viejo del término ce como mínima para la TERmunicipal de Ciales, Puerto CERA SUBASTA, la suma de rico. Dicho solar tiene un área $84,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del de quinientos sesenta y tres precio pactado y dicha subasta punto novecientos cuarenta y se celebrará en mi oficina, ubiseis (563.946) metros cuadra- cada en el Tribunal de Primera dos y colinda por el NORTE, en Instancia, Sala de Ciales, el LEGAL NOTICE una distancia de treinta punto 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO cero uno metros (30.01) con A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑADE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- la calle número uno (1); por el NA. Dicha subasta se llevará mente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $153,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, el 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $198,469.09 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $40,985.44 en intereses acumulados al 3 de enero de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.250% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $13,858.44 en seguro hipotecario; $4,350.00 en tarifas de servicio; $4,336.89 en seguro; $450.00 de tasaciones; $660.00 de inspecciones; $5,985.50 en adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $30,750.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Camuy, Puerto Rico, hoy 29 de septiembre de 2023.

LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ELVIN A. LÓPEZ ROMÁN, ALGUACIL PLACA #178.

a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $54,197.47 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $21,768.11 en intereses acumulados al 26 de octubre de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.164% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $9,667.28 en seguro hipotecario; $1,266.00 en seguro; $525.00 de tasaciones; $180.00 de inspecciones; $1,027.50 en honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $16,950.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de octubre de 2023. WILFREDO OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. JORGE L. AYALA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL PLACA #856.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

JAVIER ENRIQUE AGUILAR PEREZ Y SU ESPOSA ARLEN MALIA MENDEZ ESTRADA, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO ARLIN MALIA MENDEZ ESTRADA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE

The San Juan Daily Star

BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CCD2014-0320.

(401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: JAVIER ENRIQUE AGUILAR PEREZ Y SU ESPOSA ARLEN MALIA MENDEZ ESTRADA, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO ARLIN MALIA MENDEZ ESTRADA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO- DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA, POR TENER EMBARGOS ANOTADOS A SU FAVOR POR LAS SUMAS DE $33,587.33;$134,425.61; $148,497.28; $36,023.19; $150,027.13 Y $157,857.12; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, POR TENER EMBARGO ANOTADO A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $20,686.19.

Yo, EFRAÍN CARDONA VEGA, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Arecibo durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar

antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Solar marcado con el número Solar Cuatro (4) en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Jardines del Green, localizada en el Barrio Dominguito del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de SEISCIENTOS NOVENTA Y NUEVE PUNTO CERO SETENTA Y TRES (699.073) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de treinta punto setecientos setenta y siete (30.777) metros con área verde; por el SUR, en una distancia de treinta punto novecientos veinticuatro (30.924) metros con el solar número Tres (3); por el ESTE, en una distancia de veintidós punto quinientos sesenta y tres (22.563) metros con calle municipal y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veintidós punto setecientos cincuenta y ocho (22.758) metros, con los solares I guión Seis (I-6) e I guión Siete (I-7) de la Urbanización Valle Colinas. Enclava en este solar una casa de hormigón y bloques. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe, finca número 54,410 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera, inscripción segunda. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Jardines del Green, Lote 4, Jardín, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $169,058.78 de principal, intereses al 5.00% anual, desde el día 1ro. de noviembre de 2013, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $18,000.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $180,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $120,000.00 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $90,000.00.

Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y

Friday, November 10, 2023 que todo licitador acepta como suficiente la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública Subasta se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Javier E. Aguilar Pérez y Arlin M. Méndez Estrada, seguro social número xxx-xx-7567 y xxx-xx-7214, por la suma principal de $33,587.33, Embargo número ARE-12-1821, Certificación del día 18 de enero de 2012, anotado el 30 de octubre de 2012, al folio 84, Orden 69545, del Libro Número 67 de Arecibo (Ley 12), Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Javier E. Aguilar Pérez, seguro social número xxx-xx-7567, por la suma principal de $134,425.61, Embargo número ARE-12-1820, Certificación del día 18 de enero de 2012, anotado el 30 de octubre de 2012, al folio 84, Orden 69546, del Libro Número 67 de Arecibo (Ley 12), Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Javier E. Aguilar Pérez, seguro social número xxx-xx-7567, por la suma principal de $148,497.28, Embargo número ARE-12-8068, Certificación del día 20 de noviembre de 2012, anotado el 29 de noviembre de 2012, al folio 131, Orden 69734, del Libro Número 67 de Arecibo (Ley 12), Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Javier E. Aguilar Pérez, seguro social número xxx-xx-7567, por la suma principal de $36,023.19, por concepto de Contribución sobre Ingresos, Embargo número ARE-16-0416, Certificación del día 15 de febrero de 2016, anotado el 24 de febrero de 2016, al Asiento 2016-001662-EST del Sistema Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Javier E. Aguilar Pérez, seguro social número xxx-xx-7567, por la suma principal de $150,027.13, Embargo número ARE-177567, Certificación del día 6 de junio de 2017, anotado el 12 de julio de 2017, al Asiento 2017005307-EST del Sistema Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera.

Embargo Federal a favor de los Estados Unidos de América, contra Javier E. Aguilar Pérez,

seguro social número xxxxx-7567, por la suma principal de $20,686.19, Notificación Número 218676816, Certificación del día 24 de junio de 2016, anotado el día 22 de julio de 2016, al Asiento 2016-006867FED del Sistema Karibe, Fecha límite de Renovación el día 17 de junio de 2025. Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Javier E. Aguilar Pérez, seguro social número xxx-xx-7567, por la suma principal de $157,857.12, Embargo número ARE-18-7567, Certificación del día 4 de abril de 2018, anotado el 24 de abril de 2018, al Asiento 2018-003340EST del Sistema Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo, Sección Primera. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 26 de octubre de 2023. EFRAÍN CARDONA VEGA, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO.

EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. IAN ALEJANDO LEBRÓN WARD IANLEBRONWARD@GMAIL.COM

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 de octubre 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 01 de noviembre de 2023. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 01 de noviembre de 2023.

WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

ANGEL ALBERTO Y CARMEN MARGARITA DE APELLIDOS RODRIGUEZ FLORES, HEREDEROS LEGAL NOTICE DEL CAUSANTE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO FERNANDO RODRIGUEZ DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUBELGODERE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 307

Demandantes Vs.

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Civil Núm.: BY2022CV04179.

Sala: 505. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES Y DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA Y DAÑOS. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: ALBERTO GALARCE FOURNIER. PARTE DEMANDADA

Por la presente se le notifica para que comparezca ante éste Honorable Tribunal, si creyere que le conviene, dentro de Treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de éste EDICTO y exponer su posición a la solicitud de la parte demandante de liquidar la comunidad de bienes entre ella y la Sucn. Noris Rubén Perales González, de la cual Ud. es único heredero, y adquirir su participación en la comunidad de bienes por el precio de $26,284.91, aproximadamente. Aún quedan bajas por incluir que pudieran modificar esta suma. Dentro de los DIEZ (10) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto se le enviará copia de la demanda y emplazamiento mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección conocida en Cra 43A #27ª Sur 86, Oficina 1111, Centro Ejecutivo La Casona, Envergado Antioquia, Colombia 055422. Este caso fue presentado a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC). Deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través de la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar cualquier documento relacionado al caso en la secretaria del tribunal; con constancia de haber servido copia de la misma a la abogada de la parte demandante o a esta si hubiere comparecido por derecho propio.

La abogada de la peticionaria es la Lcda. María Jiménez Vargas, dirección postal PO Box 10231, San Juan, P.R. 00922, Tels 787 781 3585 y 787 783 3784, licmariajimenez@yahoo. com. En Bayamón, San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 6 de noviembre de 202. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

ELSIE ESTHER CAMINERO MILAN, VIUDA, ZULMA FRANCISCO MORALES MILAGROS RODRIGUEZ LEGAL NOTICE ROSA Y OTROS CAMINERO, FERNANDO Demandante V. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO OSCAR RODRIGUEZ ESTADOS UNIDOS DE CAMINERO Y FERNANDO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA AMERICA ACTUANDO LUIS RODRIGUEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROPOR CONDUCTO DE FLORES Y ALBERTO LINA LA ADMINISTRACION GALARZA FOURNIER, LEGACY MORTGAGE DE HOGARES DE HEREDEROS Y ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 AGRICULTORES Y LEGATARIO DEL Parte Demandante Vs. OTROS CAUSANTE FERNANDO SUCESIONES DE JOSÉ Demandado(a) RODRIGUEZ CARMONA CORREA Y DE Caso Núm.: FA2023CV00740.

BELGODERE ELISA ORLANDO COLÓN Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O Demandados COMPUESTA POR SUS RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ

POSIBLES HEREDEROS ESTE, trece punto cincuenta y siete metros (13.57 m.) con el DESCONOCIDOS solar número veintinueve (29) FULANO Y SUTANO del Bloque B de la urbanizaDE TAL; ISAAC RÍOS ción; y por el OESTE, en trece RODRÍGUEZ COMO punto cincuenta y siete metros CONYUGUE SUPÉRSTITE (13.57 m.) con la calle número dos (2) de la urbanización.

Y HEREDERO este solar enclava una UNIVERSAL DE ELISA Sobre casa de concreto reforzado, ORLANDO COLÓN destinada a vivienda para una

Parte Demandada familia. Consta inscrita al folio Civil Núm.: CA2022CV04107. 146 del tomo 1,343 de CaroliSalón Núm.: (403). Sobre: na Sur, finca número #49,670, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Registro de la Propiedad de Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDIC- Puerto Rico, Sección II de CaTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS rolina. La propiedad objeto de UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ejecución está localizada en PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA- la siguiente dirección: Parque DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE Ecuestre, 225 B4 CAL, CaroliASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. na, P.R. 00987. Se informa que

A: SUCESIONES DE JOSÉ la propiedad a ser ejecutada se CARMONA CORREA Y DE adquirirá libre de cargas y graELISA ORLANDO COLÓN vamen posterior, una vez sea COMPUESTA POR SUS otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y POSIBLES HEREDEROS Mandamiento de cancelación DESCONOCIDOS de gravamen posterior. (Art. FULANO Y SUTANO 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación DE TAL; ISAAC RÍOS a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de RODRÍGUEZ COMO CONYUGUE SUPÉRSTITE licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $92,699.99, según Y HEREDERO acordado entre las partes en el UNIVERSAL DE ELISA precio pactado en la Escritura ORLANDO COLÓN: Y AL de Hipoteca #283, otorgada PUBLICO EN GENERAL: en Carolina, el día 30 de abril El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Alturas del Parque Ecuestre del Barrio Canovanillas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número, área y colindancia que se relacionan a continuación. Número del solar: 25 del Bloque “B” (B25). Área del solar: doscientos setenta y ocho punto diecinueve metros cuadrados (278.19 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, en veinte punto cincuenta metros (20.50 m.) con el solar número veinticuatro (24) del Bloque B de la urbanización; por el SUR, en veinte punto cincuenta metros (20.50 m.) con los solares número veintiséis (26) y veintisiete (27) del Bloque B de la urbanización; por el

de 2005, ante el notario Félix R. Figueroa Cabán, inscrita al folio 124 del tomo 1,355, finca #49,670, inscripción 7ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $92,699.99. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $61,349.99.

Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $46,349.99. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: La suma de $68,987.70, con intereses a 5.004% anual, desde el 15 de junio de 2021, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma principal diferida por la cantidad principal de $1,298.79, más los cargos por

24 demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $18,539.99, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables.

Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 7 de noviembre de 2023. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #274.

notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 de septiembre de 2021, 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 3 de noviembre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 3 de noviembre de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. SHEILA RIVERA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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LIZZETTE RÍOS RODRÍGUEZ Demandante Vs.

POPULAR MORTGAGE INC, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2023CV03188.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA presente edicto que se ha preSALA SUPERIOR DE CAsentado en este tribunal una GUAS demanda en solicitud de canceCOOPERATIVA DE lación de un pagaré extraviado AHORRO Y CREDITO a favor de POPULAR MORTORIENTAL GAGE, INC., o a su orden, Demandante V. por la suma de $45,000.00, con intereses al 6 5/8% anual, WILMARIE según consta de la escritura GARCÍA FONTÁNEZ número 113, otorgada en San Demandado(a) Civil: JU2020CV00002. Sobre: Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA de julio de mil novecientos 60). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN- noventa y nueve (1999), ante la Notario Público Yasmín M. TENCIA POR EDICTO. Santiago Zayas. Inscrita al folio A: VILMARIE 10 del tomo 926 de Caguas.

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NA: Solar marcado con el #5 de la manzana “J” del Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Santa Elvira, situada en el Barrio Tomás de Castro de Caguas, con una cabida superficial de CUATROCIENTOS DIECINCUEVE PUNTO CERO CINCO (419.05) METROS CUADRADOS, en lindes por el Norte, con la Calle #11, distancia de diez punto treinta y un (10.31) metros y un arco de dos punto setenta (2.70) metros; Sur, con la Urbanización Caribe Gardens, distancia de dieciocho punto doce (18.12) metros; este, con el solar #6, distancia de veintiséis punto ochenta y tres (26.83) metros; Oeste, con el solar 34, distancia de veintisiete punto setenta (27.70) metros. Enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Finca #28,921, inscrito al folio #15 del tomo #865 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera.

CATASTRO NÚMERO: 225048-439-42-001. Por la presente se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de 30 días contados a partir del diligenciamiento del emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia.

Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda. Deberá enviar copia de su alegación responsiva a la abogada de la parte demandante, cuya información es la siguiente: Lcda. Lisdaira Serrano Martínez RUA 17356 273 Ave. Ponce de León Plaza 273, Ste. 700 Hato Rey, PR 00917 Iisdairaserrano@gmail.com Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del tribunal, hoy 30 de octubre de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESPADA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV01462.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARICELI PEREZ GONZALEZ NOTIFICACIONES@ GARCIACHAMORRO.COM MELISA FIGUEROA CASTRO MELISA.FIGUEROA@GMAIL.COM

A: EDGARDO ORTIZ ESPADA, DIADINA RODRIGUEZ MERCED Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de noviembre 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 03 de noviembre de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 03 de noviembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARTHA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

LA SUCESION DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ELSIE LOPEZ CASTRO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUCOMPUESTA POR NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA FULANO Y FULANA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN DE TAL COMO JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE POSIBLES HEREDEROS SAN JUAN SALÓN DE SESIODESCONOCIDOS DE LA NES SALÓN 508 CIVIL SUCESION; CENTRO BANCO POPULAR DE DE RECAUDACION DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. INGRESOS MUNICIPALES EDGARDO ORTIZ (CRIM); ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV04228.

Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA).

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: URBANIZACION VILLA PRADES, #663 (MN7) CALLE FELIPE GUTIERREZ, SAN JUAN, PR 00924-2207 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número siete del Bloque “MN” de la Urbanización Buenos Aires hoy conocida como Villa Prades, sitio Sabana Llana del Barrio de Río Piedras de la ciudad de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área de doscientos cincuenta y dos metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en doce metros con terrenos de Carlos J. Torres; por el SUR, en doce metros con la Calle “K” de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, en veintiún metros, con solar número ocho del Bloque “MN” de la Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en veintiún metros con Solar número seis del Bloque “MN” de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa de concreto de una planta, con techo de hormigón de dos aguas que tiene tres dormitorios, sala-comedor, cocina, baño y balcón. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 161 del Tomo 25 de Sabana Llana, bajo la finca número 1,054, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $81,563.96. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 9 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo

mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $54,375.97. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el 17 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $40,781.98. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca 174 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de octubre de 2007, ante la Notario Teresa González Ferrer, inscrita al folio 73 del tomo 1,024 de Sabana Llana, inscripción Undécima (11ma), modificado en cuanto a su principal que será de $81,563.96, en cuanto al interés que será de 3.875% (3.75%, según allonge), en cuanto a su pago mensual de principal e interés será por la cantidad de $383.54; en cuanto a su vencimiento que será el primero (1ro) de abril de 2045 (Según Escritura de Modificación); el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta en caso de ejecución será la cantidad de $81,563.96, según consta de la escritura de modificación de hipoteca número 278, otorgada el día 12 de mayo de 2015, en San Juan, Puerto Rico ante el Notario Público Antonio R. Pavía Vidal, la cual está inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, inscripción Décimo Tercera (13ra), ambas escrituras se encuentran bajo la finca 1,054, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $57,326.73 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2022, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.875% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte co-demandada, La Sucesión de Elsie López Castro adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,409.80. Además, la parte co-demandada, La Sucesión de Elsie López Castro se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,409.80 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una

suma equivalente a $11,409.80 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate.

La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad.

Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesa el gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relaciona a continuación: GRAVAMEN POSTERIOR: Aviso de Demanda 3 de agosto del 2011, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil Número KCD 2011-1729, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Elsie López Castro, por la suma de $112,204.11 más intereses o la Venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 17 de agosto del 2013, al folio 73 del tomo 1,024 de Sabana Llana, finca número 1,054, Anotación A. GRAVAMEN POSTERIOR: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Programa de Préstamos de Emergencias para Propietarios de Vivienda a favor United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $50,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 147, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de febrero de 2012, ante el notario Fabiola Ansotegui Blanco, e inscrita al folio 39 del tomo 1122 de Sabana Llana, finca número 1,054, inscripción 12ma. GRAVAMEN POSTERIOR: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario del Departamento de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda de los Estados Unidos de América, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $31,603.07, sin intereses, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 279, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de mayo de 2015, el notario Antonio R. Pavía Vidal, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca número 1,054, inscripción 14ta.

GRAVAMEN POSTERIOR: Comparece Secretary of Hou-

sing and Urban Development, consiente, autoriza y ratifica la Modificación de Hipoteca por Inscripción a favor de Banco Popular De Puerto Rico, que resulta de la inscripción 14 y reconoce su rango prioritario.

La Hipoteca que surge de la inscripción 12 se subordina a la modificación antes mencionada, según la escritura número 32, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de febrero de 2018, ante el notario Carlos O. Bermúdez Monroig, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, finca número 1,054, nota marginal 12.1. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/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 del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de noviembre de 2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

ORQUIDEA MARIA CASTILLO MARCANO T/C/C ORQUIDEA M. CASTILLO MARCANO Y NORVEN ECHEVARRIA PIÑEIRO

Demandado Civil Núm.: CN2023CV00370.

(404). 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.

Friday, November 10, 2023

Demandado(a) LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV00584.

DE GANANCIALES Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HICOMPUESTA POR ÉSTE POTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE Y MADLYN I. VELÁZQUEZ GUZMÁN Y OTROS SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANDRÉS SÁEZ MARRERO Demandado(a) PRSERVICE@TMPPLLC.COM Caso Núm.: SG2019CV00888.

A: LA SUCESIÓN DE Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN GLADYS MARTÍNEZ PASTRANA, TAMBIÉN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA CONOCIDA COMO LAWOFFICES. GINAFERRERMEDINA@GMAIL.COM GLADYS EMILY

ADALBERTO VARGAS MADERA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2023CV02816.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZ RDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM

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A: SUCESION DE MARCIAL ANDINO DELGADO, T/C/C MARCELIN, FULANO DE TAL, CARMEN MONSERRAT RIVERA ALVAREZ, ZUTANO DE TAL, DIRECCIÓN: HC 1 BOX 17422, HUMACAO, PUERTO RICO, 00791.

A: ADALBERTO VARGAS MADERA, SANTA (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) A: MANUEL A. IRIZARRY ARACELIS SANTIAGO MARTINEZ Y COMO CORALES, JOHN DOE, EL SECRETARIO(A) que susRIVERA POR SÍ Y EN GLADYS EMILIA le notifica a usted que el MARTINEZ, COMPUESTA REPRESENTACIÓN DE PARA SER NOTIFICADO cribe 02 de noviembre de 2023, este POR EDICTO. LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL POR LESLIE MARTINEZ Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, (Nombre de las partes que se le DE GANANCIALES SÁNCHEZ, ISALAS Sentencia Parcial o Resolución notifican la sentencia por edicto) COMPUESTA POR MARTÍNEZ OLIVENCIA, EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- en este caso, que ha sido debiÉSTE Y MADLYN I. FULANO DE TAL Y cribe le notifica a usted que el damente registrada y archivada VELÁZQUEZ GUZMÁN, 31 de octubre de 2023, este en autos donde podrá usted enFULANA DE TAL COMO terarse detalladamente de los A: NORVEN POSIBLES HEREDEROS MADLYN A. VELÁZQUEZ Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, términos de la misma. Esta noECHEVARRIA PIÑEIRO. Sentencia Parcial o Resolución GUZMÁN POR SÍ Y EN DESCONOCIDOS Por la presente se le emplaza en este caso, que ha sido debi- tificación se publicará una sola REPRESENTACIÓN DE damente registrada y archivada vez en un periódico de circulaCON INTERES EN LA y notifica que debe contestar la LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL en autos donde podrá usted ción general en la Isla de PuerSUCESION. demanda dentro del término de (Nombre de las partes que se le DE GANANCIALES treinta (30) días a partir de la enterarse detalladamente de to Rico, dentro de los 10 días notifican la sentencia por edicto) publicación del presente edicto, los términos de la misma. Esta siguientes a su notificación. Y, COMPUESTA POR ÉSTA EL SECRETARIO(A) que susradicando el original de la connotificación se publicará una siendo o representando usted cribe le notifica a usted que el Y MANUEL A. IRIZARRY testación ante el Tribunal y sala sola vez en un periódico de una parte en el procedimiento RIVERA. 02 de noviembre de 2023, este sujeta a los términos de la Senque se menciona en el epígrafe (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 de octubre 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 02 de noviembre de 2023. En San Germán, Puerto LEGAL NOTICE Rico, el 02 de noviembre de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO 2023. NORMA G. SANTANA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUIRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LYDIA SANTIAGO MORALES, LEGAL NOTICE CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL ESTADOS LIBRE ASOCIADO JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE TRIBUNAL. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUSAN JUAN SALÓN DE SESIONAL DE PRIMERA INSTANLEGAL NOTICE NES SALÓN 508 CIVIL CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CASCADE FUNDING ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR MORTGAGE TRUST-HB2 DE SAN GERMÁN SALÓN DE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Demandante V. SESIONES SALÓN 0200 CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONSUCESION DE GLADYS BANCO POPULAR DE CE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONMARTINEZ PASTRANA PUERTO RICO CE SALÓN DE SESIONES T/C/C GLADYS EMILY Demandante V. SALÓN 602 CIVIL SUPERIOR de este edicto con copia a la parte aquí demandante. 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. 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. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Lcda. Melisa Figueroa Castro, 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, VIG Tower, Suite 706, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907, Tel. (787) 919-0073, Fax (787) 722-1932. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 25 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MYRIAM I. FIGUEROA PASTRANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

MARTINEZ Y COMO GLADYS EMILIA MARTINEZ Y OTROS

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 02 de noviembre de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 02 de noviembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARTHA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

MANUEL A. IRIZARRY RIVERA POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

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 03 de noviembre de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 03 de noviembre de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. LOYDA TORRES IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

tencia, 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 03 de noviembre de 2023. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 03 de noviembre de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEYLA PÉREZ FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CALEGAL NOTICE GUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO CAGUAS SALÓN DE SESIODE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- NES SALÓN 703 BANCO POPULAR DE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUPUERTO RICO MACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE Demandante V. HUMACAO SALÓN DE SESIOJOSE EDGARDO NES SALÓN 206

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESION DE MARCIAL, ANDINO DELGADO, T/C/C MARCELINO ANDINO DELGADO Y MANUEL ANDINO DELGADO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HU2023CV00254.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. XANA M. CONNELLY PAGÁN

SANTIAGO CRESPO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2023CV01781.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZ RDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM

A: JOSE EDGARDO SANTIAGO CRESPO COMO TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARE, THE MORTGAGE INC. Y JOHN

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DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL A: PAGARE.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de octubre 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 01de noviembre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 01 de noviembre de 2023.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ. SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 604 CIVIL SUPERIOR

ANGEL RAFAEL BILLOCH VEGA Demandante V.

JOHN DOE YOTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2022CV03161.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. WENDELL W. COLÓN MUÑOZ COLONLAWOFFICE@YAHOO.COM

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS A SER NOTIFICADOS POR EDICTO.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de noviembre 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 OROZCO FONTANEZ. circulación general en la Isla (Nombre de las partes que se le de Puerto Rico, dentro de los notifican la sentencia por edicto) 10 días siguientes a su notifica- EL SECRETARIO(A) que susción. Y, siendo o representando cribe le notifica a usted que usted una parte en el procedi- el 23 de agosto de 2023, este miento sujeta a los términos Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, de la Sentencia, Sentencia Sentencia Parcial o Resolución Parcial o Resolución, de la cual en este caso, que ha sido debipuede establecerse recurso de damente registrada y archivada revisión o apelación dentro del en autos donde podrá usted término de 30 días contados a enterarse detalladamente de partir de la publicación por edic- los términos de la misma. Esta to de esta notificación, dirijo a notificación se publicará una usted esta notificación que se sola vez en un periódico de considerará hecha en la fecha circulación general en la Isla de la publicación de este edic- de Puerto Rico, dentro de los to. Copia de esta notificación 10 días siguientes a su notificaha sido archivada en los autos ción. Y, siendo o representando de este caso, con fecha 03 de usted una parte en el procedinoviembre de 2023. En Ponce, miento sujeta a los términos Puerto Rico, el 03 de noviem- de la Sentencia, Sentencia bre de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ Parcial o Resolución, de la cual QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. puede establecerse recurso de HILDA ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, revisión o apelación dentro del SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicTRIBUNAL. to de esta notificación, dirijo a LEGAL NOTICE usted esta notificación que se ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO considerará hecha en la fecha DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- de la publicación de este edicNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA to. Copia de esta notificación CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA- ha sido archivada en los autos GUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE de este caso, con fecha 31 de CAGUAS SALÓN DE SESIO- octubre de 2023. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA LA NES SALÓN 701 REVERSE MORTGAGE NOTIFICACIÓN, POR ORDEN DEL JUEZ BENICIO SANCHEZ FUNDING LLC LA COSTA. En Caguas, Puerto Demandante V. Rico, el 31 de octubre de 2023.

SUCESION MARIA LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, FONTANEZ CASTRO SECRETARIA. ENEIDA ARROY OTROS YO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUDemandado(a) XILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. Caso Núm.: CG2023CV00826.

LEGAL NOTICE Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RE- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO SIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ENMENDADA. CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDO JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE FRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM SAN JUAN SALÓN DE SESIOA: MARIA EUGENIA NES SALÓN 604 CIVIL

OROZCO FONTANEZ, LEGACY MORTGAGE CONFESORA OROZCO ASSET TRUST 2019-GS5 FONTANEZ, HECTOR Demandante V. LUIS OROZCO CARLOS JUAN COLON FONTANEZ, JOSE MIRANDA T/C/C POR SI Y ANTONIO OROZCO LA SLG QU Y OTROS Demandado(a) DIAZ, CARLOS RUBEN OROZCO DIAZ, MARITZA Caso Núm.: SJ2021CV03012.

COBRO DE DINERO OROZCO DIAZ, DAISY Sobre: - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOOROZCO DIAZ, JESSICA TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA OROZCO PASTRANA, POR EDICTO. MARICELI PEREZ GONZALEZ JACQUELINE OROZCO NOTIFICACIONES@ PASTRANA, JOHN DOE GARCIACHAMORRO.COM Y JANE DOE COMO A: CARLOS JUAN COLON POSIBLES MIEMBROS MIRANDA, ELBA DORIS DESCONOCIDOS RIVERA CRUZ POR SI Y DE LA SUCESION LA SLG. (Nombre de las partes que se le MARIA FONTANEZ notifican la sentencia por edicto) CASTRO, JOHN ROE EL SECRETARIO(A) que susDESCONOCIDOS cribe le notifica a usted que el DE LA SUCESION 03 de noviembre de 2023, este MARIA FONTANEZ Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, CASTRO, JOHN ROE, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debiJANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted DESCONOCIDOS DE LA enterarse detalladamente de SUCESION PASCUAL los términos de la misma. Esta

26 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 06 de noviembre de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 06 de noviembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. RAQUEL DÍAZ LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR BAYAMÓN

ALBERTINA GONZALEZ FLORES EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV02357.

Salón: 705. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO BAJO EL ART. 13 DE LA LEY 118, PROCEDIMIENTO EXPEDITO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: INMEDIATOS ANTERIORES DUEÑOS., HEREDEROS, DENOMINADOS FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL., Y LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca

que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal.

Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Sabana Seca dentro del término municipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, compuesto de TRESCIENTOS ONCE PUNTO SIETE TRES SIETE SIETE (311.7377 m/c) metros cuadrados equivalentes a punto cero siete nueve cero (0.0793) cuerdas. En lindes al NORTE: con la Calle Turquesa; al SUR con la Calle Safiro; al ESTE con Eugenio Rosario y Julia Carmona; al OESTE con la Carretera 867. Número de catastro: 060-020-001-09. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es la Lcdo. Ernesto Rovira Gándara, PMB 767, 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, PR 00966; Tel. (787)-758-3277; Email: erovira@partnerslegalservicespr.com. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el N/A de N/A de N/A, a las N/A, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de treinta (30) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 30 de agosto de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Friday, November 10, 2023

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA cuya pared continuará sirvienSALA SUPERIOR DE SAN do a esta estructura y perteneESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO JUAN ce en común proindiviso en DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUBANCO POPULAR DE toda su actual extensión y esNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA pesor, al propietario de esta PUERTO RICO SALA DE TOA BAJA edificación y al propietario de la Demandante V. ISLAND PORTFOLIO colindante. Finca SUCESIÓN DE RAMIRA edificación número 3,703, inscrita al folio SERVICES, LLC. REYES T/C/C RAMIRA 85 del tomo 100 de Rio Piedras COMO AGENTE AYALA T/C/C RAMIRA Sur. Registro de la Propiedad GESTOR DE FAIRWAYS de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de AYALA REYES ACQUISITIONS FUND, COMPUESTA POR SU San Juan. Dirección física: C-3 LLC. HEREDERA CONOCIDA; Calle Azucena, Urb. Rivieras de Demandante Vs. Cupey, San Juan PR 00926. La JOSE A. VISALDEN ORTIZ ANA ELBA GONZALEZ finca 3,703 está gravada con la AYALA; FULANO(A) DE siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecuDemandado TAL Y SUTANO(A) DE ción se solicita en la subasta Civil Núm.: TB2022CV00591.

Salón: 504. Sobre: COBRO TAL COMO MIEMBROS objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENDESCONOCIDOS Y/O en garantía de un pagaré a fade Popular Mortgage lnc., o TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS PARTES CON INTERÉS vor a su orden, por la suma princiUNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL EN DICHA SUCESIÓN; pal de $88,000.00, con interePRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTAESTADOS UNIDOS DE ses al 7 1/2% anual, vencedero DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIAMÉRICA; CENTRO a la presentación, constituida BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. DE RECAUDACIÓN DE mediante la escritura número A: JOSE A. VISALDEN INGRESOS MUNICIPALES 25, otorgada en San Juan, ORTIZ – BO CAMASEY (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO Puerto Rico, el día 28 de febrero de 2006, ante la notario MaP198 CALLE ESTEVEZ, DE HACIENDA ría l. de Mier Pérez, e inscrita al.

Demandados SABANA SECA, P.R. folio 5 del tomo 694 de Rio PieCivil Núm.: SJ2021CV06177. dras Sur, finca número 3, 703, 00952; P.O. BOX 494 Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- inscripción 6ta. La propiedad SABANA SECA, P.R. TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. está afecta a los siguientes gra00952.

LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE vámenes: A. Hipoteca RevertiPOR LA PRESENTE se le AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE da en garantía de un pagaré a emplaza por la deuda reclaDE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO favor del Secretario de la Vimada de $6,684.37 y requiere LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER- vienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a para que conteste la demanda TO RICO, SS. Yo, EDWIN E. su orden, por la suma principal dentro de los treinta (30) días LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL de $88,000.00, con intereses al siguientes a la publicación de AUXILIAR, Alguacil del Tribunal 7 1/2% anual, vencedero a la este Edicto. Usted deberá preSuperior de Puerto Rico, Sala presentación, constituida mesentar su alegación responsiva de San Juan, al público HAGO diante la escritura número 26, a través del Sistema Unificado SABER: Que en cumplimiento otorgada en San Juan, Puerto de Manejo y Administración de de un Mandamiento de Ejecu- Rico, el día 28 de febrero de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede ción de Sentencia que se me li- 2006, ante la notario María l. de acceder utilizando la siguiente bró con fecha de 6 de octubre Mier Pérez, e inscrita al folio 5 dirección electrónica: https:// de 2023, por la Secretaria de del tomo 694 de Rio Piedras unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo este Tribunal, en el caso de epí- Sur, finca número 3,703, insque se represente por derecho grafe, venderé en pública su- cripción 7ma. B. Aviso de Depropio, en cuyo caso deberá basta y al mejor postor con di- manda de fecha 22 de septiempresentar su alegación responnero en efectivo, cheque de bre de 2021, expedido en el siva en la secretaría del tribugerente y/o giro postal a nom- Centro Judicial de San Juan, en nal. Si usted deja de presentar bre del Alguacil del Tribunal o el Caso Civil número su alegación responsiva dentro letra bancaria con similar ga- SJ2021CV06177, sobre Cobro del referido término, el tribunal rantía, todo título, derecho o in- de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipopodrá dictar sentencia en reterés de la parte demandada de teca, seguido por el Banco Pobeldía en su contra y conceder epígrafe sobre la siguiente pro- pular de Puerto Rico; versus el remedio solicitado en la depiedad perteneciente a la parte Sucesión Ramira Reyes, tammanda o cualquier otro sin más demandada, la cual se describe bién conocido como Ramira citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en a continuación: “URBANA: So- Ayala y como Ramira Ayala Reel ejercicio de su sana discrelar marcado con el número C- yes, compuesta por su heredeción, lo entiende procedente. El tres del Plano de Inscripción del ra conocida Ana Elba González sistema SUMAC notificará coProyecto de vivienda a bajo Ayala, Fulano(a) de Tal y pia a los abogados de la parte costo denominado VBC veinti- Sutano(a) de Tal como miemdemandante, Lcda. Natalie Bosiete, radicado en el Barrio Cu- bros y/o partes con interés en naparte Servera cuyas direcciopey Bajo del término municipal dicha Sucesión; Estados Unines son: P.O. Box 71418 San de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, dos de América; Centro de ReJuan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, con una cabida superficial de caudación de Ingresos Municiteléfono (787) 993-3731 a la ciento noventa y nueve metros pales (CRIM) y Departamento dirección natalie.bonaparte@ cuadrados con cincuenta centí- de Hacienda, por la suma de orf-law.com y a la dirección nometros de otro metro cuadrado $145,257.45, más intereses y tificaciones@orf-law.com. EXen lindes: por el NORTE, solar otras sumas adicionales o en TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el número C-cuatro; por el SUR, su defecto la venta en Pública sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, solar número C-dos pared me- Subasta, anotado el día 14 de Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de sepdianera; por el ESTE, solar nú- diciembre de 2021, al tomo Katiembre de 2023. En Bayamón, mero B-catorce; y por el OES- ribe de Rio Piedras Sur, finca Puerto Rico, el 27 de septiemTE, con calle número siete. número 3,703, Anotación “A”. bre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. Enclava una estructura dedica- La venta se llevará a cabo para SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECREda a vivienda, sobre la cual con su producto satisfacer a TARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, existe una servidumbre por sig- Banco Popular de Puerto Rico; SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. no aparente establecida por la por la hipoteca de $88,000.00 Corporación vendedora en a total o parcialmente. 1. La venta LEGAL NOTICE pared que divide dicha estruc- se llevará a cabo para con su ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO tura de la escritura enclavada producto satisfacer a Banco DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUcon el solar número C-dos,

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Popular de Puerto Rico, total o parcialmente el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 24 de julio de 2023, notificada y archivada en autos el 4 de agosto de 2023. El importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, asciende a las siguientes cantidades: $145,257.45 por concepto de principal al 30 de septiembre de 2023. Cantidad que continuará acumulándose a razón del 7 1/2% de interés hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, en la escritura de hipoteca, las partes pactaron la suma de $8,800.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, una suma equivalente a $8,800.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, y una suma equivalente a $8,800.00 para cubrir intereses adicionales a los garantizados por ley. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $88,000.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $58,666.66.

TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $44,000.00. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, 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, 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. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas o gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se le apercibe a los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquiera derechos que tengan sobre el inmueble, deberán comparecer a la subasta, pues de no hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancelación de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de

cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal Jo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre cada publicación. Se fijará además, en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección que obra en autos. Una vez efectuada la correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspaso al licitador victorioso, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanzamiento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta. 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 o ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. El Registrador de la Propiedad cancelará, libre de derechos, todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 26 de octubre de 2023.

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NFL, on lookout for growth, finds open arms in Germany

By KEN BELSON

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bout 60 hard-core fans of the NFL piled into the party space at Der Player, a fancy eatery, on a chilly evening in Hamburg, Germany, last month. Wearing jerseys and hoodies of teams like the Chicago Bears, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders, they grabbed seats to watch a taping of “Prime Time Football Live,” which attracts thousands of viewers on YouTube.

At 7 p.m., Patrick Esume, a former coach and now the commissioner of the semipro European League of Football, warmed up the audience before leading them in a countdown: “Drei, zwei, eins, Football Bromance!” He then introduced his panelists: former coach Andreas Nommensen; Mika Kaul, a television commentator; and Kasim Edebali, who played six seasons in the NFL. For the next 90 minutes, they reviewed the latest games; peppered the audience with questions, like whether Patrick Mahomes is one of the five best quarterbacks of all time; and dissected a four-game suspension that Denver Broncos cornerback Kareem Jackson received. Phrases like “bang-bang play,” “hard-nosed linebacker” and “field possession” were tossed around with ease.

Esume kept the show light and moving, and he leaned on Edebali for his expertise as a linebacker. At points, they stood together to demonstrate legal tackling techniques, and they talked in detail about how to study opposing offenses. Afterward, the audience crowded around the panelists and took a group photo.

“To sit next to them while we talk football, it’s so interactive,” said Jenni Gayk, who wore a Chiefs jersey and has been watching NFL games on German television since 2015.

“You can feel that the NFL is getting much more popular.”

Long the largest league in the United States with more than $20 billion a year in revenue, the NFL has been looking for new ways to grow, including overseas. And nowhere is the league growing faster than it is in Germany.

The audience’s knowledge and enthusiasm at the taping — some traveled from as far away as Austria — was a sign of the NFL’s rising stature in a country whose sports landscape is ruled by soccer. Football remains far behind the national sport, but 3.6 million Germans say they are avid NFL fans; that’s 25% more than in Britain, which has hosted regular-season games since 2007.

Interest soared last year when the NFL

The audience’s knowledge and enthusiasm at a taping last month of “Prime Time Football Live” was a sign of the N.F.L.’s rising stature in Germany. played its first-ever regular season game in Germany. Tickets sold out in minutes, as they did this year for the two games to be played on consecutive weekends in Frankfurt, starting Sunday when Kansas City meets the Miami Dolphins.

Ben Hensler, who has followed Kansas City since Joe Montana led the team in the early 1990s, tried to buy tickets online but discovered there were more than 1 million people ahead of him. Desperate, he paid 3,000 euros, or $3,175, for VIP tickets for him and his two teenage godsons, who sold their PS5 game console to raise money.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing because we’re not going to go to Kansas City to watch a game,” he said. “Years ago, no one would know who the Chiefs were, and now they are the biggest team in Germany.”

Hensler’s godsons, he said, are typical of the younger generation of fans who grew up on video games and social media and enjoy the NFL’s high-octane entertainment. Soccer feels slow and traditional to them, while football “seems to be a modern sport, and despite all the breaks in the action, it seems faster, especially on social media,” he said.

The NFL is trying to capitalize on that interest. In October, the league opened an office in Düsseldorf, and five NFL teams were awarded exclusive marketing rights in the country.

One of those clubs, the New England Patriots, hired Sebastian Vollmer and Markus Kuhn, two Germans who had played for the team, to work as German-language commen-

tators. Their time as Patriots is a big reason the team has 13 fan clubs in Germany and several more in Austria and Switzerland, said Robert Kraft, the team’s owner. The team has two employees working full time finding new sponsorships in Germany.

After years of rapid growth, the question now is whether the NFL can keep up with its own hype. The excitement around the games in Munich and now Frankfurt is real. But like the annual games in London, they may become routine.

This season, the league’s new media partner, RTL, will show more than 170 regularseason games, though its ratings so far have been mixed. According to Fanatics, Germany is the largest market for NFL licensed merchandise outside North America, though a 10% rise in sales this year is smaller than in recent years.

Football was introduced to Germany by American soldiers after World War II, and the first semipro league began play in 1979. The country was home to some of the strongest teams in the NFL’s European league, before it folded in 2007.

The arc of Edebali’s journey has largely paralleled the growth of football in Germany since then. Edebali, 34, joined a flag football team in Hamburg as a 9-year-old and fell in love with the energy, strategy and camaraderie of the game.

He made a simple yet seemingly improbable vow: to make it to the NFL. At 15, he joined the Hamburg Huskies tackle team, which is when he realized how much harder

he needed to work.

Bjorn Werner, who would become the first German player ever drafted in the first round, told Edebali about USA Football’s International Student Program, which placed him in a high school in New Hampshire.

“I thought I had won the lottery,” Edebali said.

After receiving a scholarship to play at Boston College, he was signed as an undrafted free agent by the New Orleans Saints. After three seasons there, he spent parts of the next three years with the Broncos, the Detroit Lions, the Cincinnati Bengals and the Raiders.

As happens to many players, NFL teams stopped calling, so Edebali returned to Hamburg in 2021 to play for the Hamburg Sea Devils in the newly formed European League of Football. He realized that he was something of a folk hero to German football fans, who viewed him as a pioneer for making it to the NFL. “He managed to find his way in a world where there wasn’t really an obvious pathway for international players to get into the league,” said Alexander Steinforth, the manager of the NFL’s operations in Germany.

With the NFL ramping up its activities in Germany and fans hungry for more content about the league, Edebali leaned into his experience and went to work as a commentator for ProSieben, which had the rights to show NFL games.

Edebali also joined Werner, Esume and other football veterans at Football Bromance, a content company that promotes the league and game. The group’s sponsor has rented a 5,000-seat theater in Frankfurt for the Friday before the Indianapolis Colts and the Patriots play so they can interact with fans at an event called Bromania.

“It’s almost like football is a language,” Edebali said. “Obviously, native speakers speak it the best, but in Germany, we speak it, too.”

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November 10-12, 2023

Jill Ellis still wants to win

By CLAIRE FAHY

million in revenue, including three that were founded in the past three years: the hen Jill Ellis stepped back from Wave, Angel City and the Kansas City coaching after winning back- Current. Across the league, attendance is to-back World Cups in 2015 up 32% compared with last season, and and 2019 with the U.S. women’s team, the Wave leads all teams with an averher wife, Betsy Stephenson, thought the age attendance of more than 20,000 fans number of soccer matches watched in per game, breaking the league’s singleseason record. their house might decrease.

After posting the league’s best regShe was wrong.

In 2021, Ellis became president of the ular-season record, the Wave played San Diego Wave, an expansion team in OL Reign, of Seattle, last Sunday with a the National Women’s Soccer League. chance to do what no expansion team The couple and their daughter relocated has done in its first two years: win the to Southern California from Florida, and NWSL championship.

Things didn’t go the Wave’s way in the TV in their living room remains tuned that match, with the Reign winning 1-0 in to all-day soccer marathons.

On a recent Saturday, Ellis, 57, to advance.

But win or lose, the Wave’s perforscrolled through streaming apps, watching competitors as well as her own team, mance is personal for Ellis. After she left all while offering commentary on lineups, the U.S. women’s team, she began conplayers who had promising futures and, sulting for billionaire investor Ron Burkle, of course, calls by referees that she did who wanted to start a new NWSL club.

As she listened to him describe the type not agree with.

“What my journey has highlighted of team he wanted to create, she realized to me is, if you have the belief in some- she could be the one to do it. thing being great, it can be great,” Ellis “I was like, ‘Ron, you know, I didn’t said. “It has been an incredible journey go to Wharton,’” Ellis said, referencing to this point for me to see this, but we’re the business school at the University of not done yet.”

Pennsylvania. “But I think I can build a After spending years guiding the U.S. club, and I want to run the whole dang women’s team to the apex of internation- thing.” al soccer, Ellis is now fully focused on her So instead of pacing the sideline and work in the NWSL, which — following analyzing opponents for vulnerabilities, two failed attempts to establish a wom- Ellis is watching games from a suite, sizing en’s league — has reason for long-term up attendance figures and weighing how optimism, 11 years after its founding. much fans should have to pay for parkThe Wave joined the league at the ing. Ellis has embraced the more logistisame time as Angel City FC, a team cal aspects of her new job, receiving a based in Los Angeles. Both organiza- crash course in terms like “dynamic prictions are run by women, with owner- ing” and “digital marketing,” and decidship groups willing to invest substantial ing if the Wave’s uniform shorts should amounts of money into the clubs. And be pink or white (she went with pink). She each has found a devoted fan base in its proudly points out that it was her idea for community. there to be a wave motif passing through This year, four of the 12 teams in the the uniforms’ numbers.

NWSL are on track to bring in over $10 One thing Ellis didn’t need to learn, though, is that the key to the franchise’s overall success would be wins on the field. The first player she signed was someone she knew very well: Abby ACEPTAMOS LA MAYORIA DE LOS PLANES MEDICOS Dahlkemper, a defender •MEDICARE ADVANTAGE • PLAN VITAL TIGER MED whom Ellis recruited to the University of California, Horario: Lunes a Viernes de 7:30 am a 4:00 pm Los Angeles, coached at the 2019 World Cup and Tel: 787.665.6570 decided to build the Wave Ave. Gautier Benitez Consolidated Mall Suite 70 Caguas, P.R. roster around. For the

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Jill Ellis, the president of the San Diego Wave, chats during a video meeting at her office in San Diego, Calif. on July 11, 2023.

Wave’s second signing, Ellis went with Alex Morgan, the face of American soccer. Neither of them needed much convincing.

“Anything Jill is involved in, excellence is included in that,” Dahlkemper said.

When it came time for Ellis to find a manager, she was committed to hiring a woman. Another club president told her that there weren’t many good female coaches in the hiring pool, prompting Ellis to inform him that he had clearly been looking in the wrong places. She hired Casey Stoney, a former England player, who was named the league’s coach of the year for the 2022 season.

It was part of Ellis’ plan to make the Wave an example of how a franchise run by women could succeed.

“Respectfully, when you’ve been to Mount Everest a couple of times with the World Cup, it’s like, I want to do something different,” Ellis said. “It was less about sport and more about, What can we do to make this better?”

In 2020, Ellis and U.S. Soccer, the national governing body for the sport, started the Jill Ellis Scholarship Fund to provide financial aid and mentoring to women who were pursuing coaching licenses. Amy Rodriguez, who played for Ellis on the U.S. women’s team, was part of the first class of active players to get a coaching license covered in part by the scholarship. She was recently named head coach of the Utah Royals, which is set to join the NWSL next season. Rodriguez, who previously coached at the University of Southern California, said Ellis was quick to reach out with her congratulations and offer support.

“She’s such a helpful mentor in that

way,” Rodriguez said. “She said multiple times: ‘I want to see you succeed at this.

I want you to do well. We’re so excited for you.’”

Ellis knows firsthand how influential a successful team can be. During her tenure, the U.S. women’s team became an international symbol of inclusivity. That was meaningful to Ellis, who said that she was closeted for the early part of her adult life and suffered from depression as a result. Watching her players be themselves — such as Abby Wambach kissing her wife after the United States won the Women’s World Cup in 2015 or Megan Rapinoe’s defiant stance toward President Donald Trump during the team’s 2019 run — was as rewarding to Ellis as their on-field achievements.

“I think it was destiny,” she said. “It was inspiring to see the players living who they truly are, and being proud of that and supportive of each other.”

Last year, her daughter presented her with the news that Ellis would be inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Earlier in her career, before she was open about her sexuality, Ellis avoided award ceremonies for fear of what people might say or think. This time, she didn’t shrink from the honor or hide parts of herself while accepting the accolade.

As she stepped up to the lectern to give her speech at the induction ceremony in May, Ellis thanked Stephenson.

“I never had a teammate in life,” she said, “until I met my wife.”

“Women’s soccer would not be where it’s at today without Jill Ellis,” Dahlkemper said. “I think it’s hard to find a coach that is a great soccer coach, but also a great manager of people and players as well.”

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November 10-12, 2023

(Mar 21-April 20)

Today you might seek to expand your knowledge of the arts. You could decide to explore galleries, attend a concert or play, or look into the latest best sellers. A friend could accompany you.

Make a day of it! Books, antiques, or other fine objects might be especially appealing now. Try to avoid shopping. You’ll discover a lot of items you like and want to buy!

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

News about the plight of the world’s disadvantaged might have you toying with the idea of doing more than you are to make a difference.

This is a laudable goal, but you’re more apt to see the romantic side of helping the needy than the harsh realities of the situation. Before deciding to tackle any new ambition today, consider it from all angles. You might change your mind.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Today you might seek to expand your knowledge of the arts. You could decide to explore galleries, attend a concert or play, or look into the latest best sellers. A friend could accompany you. Make a day of it! Books, antiques, or other fine objects might be especially appealing now.

Try to avoid shopping. You’ll discover a lot of items you like and want to buy!

Practical, scientific, or spiritual ideas of all kinds are your life’s blood. Today you might expand your knowledge. Much of what you learn may be based on technology such as telescopes or particle accelerators. You’re only scratching the surface today. Much of what you learn may be confusing, but stay with it. It will make more sense to you later.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Today you might enlist the aid of friends to increase your computer skills. You may be interested in the artistic side of computers and want to experiment with computer graphics or animation. Video journalism could also be of interest.

You might receive some unexpected good news about a possible increase in income, though it might be delayed.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

A new romance could come your way. An old friend could suddenly seem like more to you, sending the relationship in an entirely new direction. The opposite could happen, too. An old love could reappear and resurrect the intellectual side of your relationship, making a new friend out of an old love. Circumstances around you are changing and so are you.

Virgo

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Insights that well up from deep within you could put your imagination into overdrive. Perhaps ideas for essays, poems, paintings, or music flow into your mind in waves. You may want to stay home to develop them, though you may take one friend, or perhaps your partner, into your confidence. Keep the ideas coming! They might mean more to you later.

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Have you ever longed to be a movie star or participate in some way in the film industry? Today you might get your chance or at least learn some of the technical skills required. You might take some time to learn about computer graphics or the ins and outs of camerawork. You could also meet some people involved in this industry.

You’ve been exerting yourself a little too much over the past few days and might feel a little listless. Nonetheless, your mind is still active, and you may seek stimulation through books, TV, or lectures of some kind. You should find whatever you learn exciting. It could set you off in a new direction. Today you could turn into an armchair traveler!

You could have some very strange yet beautiful dreams today. Write them down. They’re trying to tell you something. You could also make an off-the-wall plan to increase your income that may or may not work. Consider all the aspects of your plan and get in touch with the reality of it before delving too far. It might be workable but not in the ways you think now.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Today you may start to see your friends in a new light. Perhaps their accomplishments have aroused your admiration. A special person could seem more perfect than ever, and you could suddenly view your friend through a romantic haze once more. Bear in mind that your view of these people only mirrors your view of yourself.

Recognize your merits as well others’.

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

You might feel a little under the weather today, but mentally you’re flying high. Ideas could keep popping into your head, sending you into flights of fancy that excite your creativity. This is a great day to read or watch documentaries or otherwise feed your intellect. Whatever you learn could be of great practical use to you later.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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